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by yaix 15y ago
Yes, as I say, the photo is great for campaigning. Only a few years later, half a million people was massacred with knifes(!) in Rhuanda, and nobody in the West really cared. So, the photo didn't really change anything. Its just good to lob
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by yaix 15y ago
How did Tank Man change the world forever?? Here in China, hardly anybody has ever seen the picture or heard of him. Unfortunately, he seems to be just a good campaigning picture in the West.
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by yaix 15y ago
What is impressive of "facing bullets" if there are smarter and more effective ways? In Tunisia they down'd the gov't, that is what matters. Judging, from the comfort of one's sofa, what is a more "impressive" way to do it, is hardly helpfu
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by yaix 15y ago
Replace Libya with Egypt and Gaddafi with Mubarak, if it helps you to get the point.
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by yaix 15y ago
The article did not talk about a click but only about the display. They are only trying to access the displayed click count number directly via PHP.
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by yaix 15y ago
Half of the farm land in Europe is unused because of over production, dude. And if they wanted to use "Greek islands for farmland" (LOLOLOL) they could just buy it. That's not a matter of sovereignty. "A company in charge of collecting taxe
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by yaix 15y ago
Thanks, good info. And even more funny that they messed up including the GA code and tried to use some "async hack" to paste it.
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by yaix 15y ago
"Loses access"? It sounds more like they let it expire on purpose. And to me it sounds like a strong message to Twitter and everybody, that G is really serious about G+. "We don't need Twitter, we have our own stream pretty soon."
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by yaix 15y ago
Nobody in France or Germany will be remotely interested in "taking over" Greece. Its like saying "hey, I got here a bucked of problems, want them?" Well, no, thanks! The sovereignty of all European countries is "weakened", that's the whole
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by yaix 15y ago
"Overrunning". WTF dude? They kicked communists (usually agents of the Stasi, the secret police) out of government jobs, most of those had gotten the job because they were party members. That is hardly "nasty". The other way around would ha
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by yaix 15y ago
About law, actually. If a law is stupid and was only made to get some politicians re-elected by a histerical crowd, then... you pay the consequences.
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by yaix 15y ago
Yes, we have. Germany took over Eastern Germany just 2 decades ago and paid huge amounts of money to get the East to a more or less equal level. The result is that the old communists that had destroyed Eastern Germany, today still get over
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by yaix 15y ago
And humans have been endowed with brains to get around instinct controlled behavior that is not useful.
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by yaix 15y ago
That's from Google? Nah. Anybody had a look at the end of the source, they used a copy-paste code for the Analytics but forgot to actually put in their own GA number. >> var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']]
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by yaix 15y ago
Not really surprising. Rehabilitation and re-socialization are common for treatment of other criminals in Europe too. It makes much more sense than "getting revenge" by locking people up to "punish them", especially if the crime they commit
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by yaix 15y ago
A calendar application is a bit different, since the whole subject of the application is time, time zones, etc. Still I'd store all in UTC along with the user's time zone (you'd have to store the time zone anyway with localized time too).
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by yaix 15y ago
That would not solve the problem. Greek would still not pay they money back to the French and German banks they took it from. The EU has to get Greece on track, and this is a good moment to do it. Greece has lied (falsified financial data)
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by yaix 15y ago
Really, again? When I have an own opinion here that does not follow the mainstream, I just get downvoted without any arguments. Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the w
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by yaix 15y ago
Seriously: who cares? If I'd had the exhibitionist inclination to publish my jogging and TV watching habits, I would not mind having the duration of my sexual activity published as well. Who cares? It's not like having sex is something top
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by yaix 15y ago
A few good reads on the topic are F. Fukuyama "Trust: Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity" and P. Collier "The bottom Billion" and "Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places".
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by yaix 15y ago
>>A lot of the problem is users' reluctance to upgrade off of XP to Win7 Yes, that's old news and the reason Andrioid and iOS have "marketplaces" that update automatically and reliably. Windows still doesn't. >>I'm not sure
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by yaix 15y ago
That is no Windows bashing. But whining about "Windows bashing" does not help to make the product better. Its the same as Linux trolls replying every critique with "but its free". It does not help! What is the "market penetration" of Androi
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by yaix 15y ago
Actually, its the other way around. Don't even dare to mention stability or you get lynched in the West. Ask people in Rhuanda/Burundi what happened when their dictator president got shot down. Or in Somalia. Or how the real situation in Ir
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by yaix 15y ago
I think the main reason that Western Social Networks are blocked in China is, to give Chinese web companies time to grow a Chinese rip-off version of the Western site. Looking forward to "百度圆圈" (Baidu Yuanquan) or Sina加一 or similar. In Goog
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by yaix 15y ago
When you buy it, it is usually around 90°C. Same when you take it from a coffee maker. Ever noticed the small heating plate below the coffee can? Who cares. Just be careful with hot stuff. And if you fail to do so, sue somebody to avoid bla
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by yaix 15y ago
Wow, you all are really discussing this? If "hot" may mean "hot" or just "hot" and if the fact that hot coffee is hot is common knowledge? Thanks, now I understand why it is so important to write obvious things on products in the USA. Maybe
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by yaix 15y ago
The real problem are operating systems with long known problems in their fundamental security architecture. The result is that any script kiddie can click himself a botnet together in half an hour. If Windows had repositories ("markets" how
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by yaix 15y ago
Yes.
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by yaix 15y ago
How do you heat liquid water to more than 100°C? Coffee is supposed to be just below 100°C when you brew it, or it is not good. Goes for home made or McD coffee. Whatever, maybe in some parts of the world, the laws of physics don't apply an
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by yaix 15y ago
Very good comment with some really good observations, thanks!

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