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by wnight 15y ago
BTW Your quotes are unclear. > I'm not allergic to facts you just haven't cited any Right. I've only mentioned them and left it to you to do some research. >> "Your country has killed millions in wars of aggression." > Cite
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by wnight 15y ago
> If you've downloaded it already you're depriving them of the right to control their own data. If you don't forget them between meetings you're trampling their right to a fresh impression. If you remember that tune you're infringing on
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by wnight 15y ago
Your phone number and email address were never meant to be secret. That only provides security by obscurity and leads to exactly this problem - you, a user, being upset when the security you were led to expect doesn't align with reality. If
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by wnight 15y ago
People "liked" your anniversary? This is why Slashdot has multiple reasons for +1/-1 mods. More flexibility. Congrats might be appropriate, but should that count as a +1 making your update more visible? It's hard to say. Perhaps it should d
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by wnight 15y ago
This is why I'm not keep on the apps phenomenon - I'm still getting rid of DRM and I don't need more. I'm sure there are a lot of good programs I'm missing, but (from a Debian-user's perspective) nothing is worth that sort of hassle. The mo
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by wnight 15y ago
> EDIT: Downvotes are not how you disagree on HN. Well thought out replies are. Well thought out posts get well thought out replies. For one, we're talking about foreigners here and you're saying they aren't deprived of due process - th
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by wnight 15y ago
It's important to note though, that Microsoft only accomplished that by bundling it with their OS (which they'd gotten to near monopoly status through a long series of dirty tricks). Then they tightly integrated its code to prevent removal.
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by wnight 15y ago
No, your president Lex Luthor did. Let me guess, you deny the existence of the NSA, right? For someone supposedly so concerned with fact you're hilariously incapable of looking anything up. You know all those HN stories about that Google co
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by wnight 15y ago
You're allergic to facts. Whenever I use them you blank out the entire section. Note how you never ask if anyone wants you to help, or what they'd rather you did to help. All you do is harp on this supposed help you provide whenever anyone
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by wnight 15y ago
The world is full of people who haven't made war and enslaved others for their own gain, but is short on countries that have not. But the complicity of other countries in no way lessens the fact that much of the USA's wealth, and thus succe
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by wnight 15y ago
Not to golf your code or anything, but that's around the point where I switched to Ruby. It's almost a drop-in replacement, you can be coding in minutes with all the handy shortcuts non-PERL coders don't know they're missing. name = args[:
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by wnight 15y ago
> Yeah because not intervening in one marginal conflict invalidates all the good America has done in WWI/II, Israel, Korea, Thailand, Philippines, Kosovo, Africa and the fact we already do more than the rest of the world... The Philippi
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by wnight 15y ago
> Comical. You think the USA is wiretapping all phones everywhere? How does this work? How has this massive conspiracy not been exposed? Not all, everywhere. Just most, most everywhere. And it has been exposed, and been lost under Britn
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by wnight 15y ago
> the Greeks know perfectly well they are on the hook for the money they spent on themselves You mean they're more able to influence their politicians than we are? Because I certainly don't spend the money my politicians take from me, o
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by wnight 15y ago
> Military intervention should only be used when our nation's interests are at risk. Or when you caused threat to others and now need to take care of it. Or where you'd want others to help you, and thus should help them. But yeah, it's
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by wnight 15y ago
> America is not obligated to topple every dictator around the world. Just the ones you installed and supported. > You sound exactly like the same people who would angrily criticize them for doing so even if they did and accuse them
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by wnight 15y ago
> Come on, how much influence do you think the USA carries in Syria? Short of military intervention what do you expect? For the USA to promise to provide logs from their worldwide wiretapping to an international war-crimes tribunal. Tha
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by wnight 15y ago
> In other words: Nobody would have spend the money to make movies like Lords of the Rings, or whatever you fancy. Sure. Like how nobody would write encyclopedia articles, operating systems, fiction, manuals, textbooks, etc, for free.
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by wnight 15y ago
If we wanted to help inventors we'd help inventors. If people found a started using a new thing we'd track it back and reward the creator, those who popularized it, teachers, etc. And we'd make education free. But instead we have a system t
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by wnight 15y ago
It is. But because it's not enshrined in law it'll be enforced by the market. What skills do you really mean to ask for? If you waste time asking for things you think imply those skills other people will be out-recruiting you.
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by wnight 15y ago
If not for loaded terms like 'Bank' and 'Exchange' people would think about this rationally and demand that all services buy comprehensive insurance to cover situations like this. Unfortunately they've been lulled to sleep by things like bl
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by wnight 15y ago
The problem is that in ditching gold they went straight to faith-based currency. Even if gold was ugly and useless it'd still be a better base for currency than nothing because of its scarcity. It's too easy to create more money. We don't e
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by wnight 15y ago
The point though is that these vague promises to unDRM products are probably not permitted even if they thought about it and had the patches ready. And this isn't just a Valve thing, id software said something similar when Quake3 first requ
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by wnight 15y ago
So, you do agree though, right?
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by wnight 15y ago
We've screwed them over in war, taken land, and forced them to accept unfair treaties. While that's not all that's happened to them, it is enough. Like Iraq. It may crawl back to where it was before the attack but only at ten times the effo
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by wnight 15y ago
No, at least today's immigrant is living at peace with you - not killing you for your place in line, as our country's founders did for their place in line. I feel an honest refugee would be a better neighbor than someone who'd hold the lac
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by wnight 15y ago
Yeah, I should have said creditors. It's more to the point.
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by wnight 15y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I find the secret ban system to be odious.
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by wnight 15y ago
> See that crew of criminal alien hispanic landscapers? See the unemployed American blacks in your city? Think really hard and try to connect the dots... Repressive government policies. Exactly. We're supposed to believe the free market
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by wnight 15y ago
> But such is the case. If Jose or anyone else wants to change this inherent unfairness they can do that. Many undocumented immigrants are. They're ignoring it. And, if you do catch and deport them, at great cost, you're just cutting on

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