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by zaqokm 13y ago
> it's a cert that requires you to own a car. a mazda biante here cost around $150k SGD, not sure about other countries though. The price of car ownership is no doubt extremely costly in Singapore. But that is to offset the cost of
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> This is a company whose presentations have used the word “fuck” on more than one occasion Hey I understand your position, but she is criticising the "bullies" (whom I gather are audience members) in that statement, not the co
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> That post is more about audiences who, when men and women talk and cuss the same, are shocked, wilting like flowers. They expect the women to be sweet, dainty and lady-like. I understood the context may be that or made out to be that,
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by zaqokm 13y ago
going by that post it seems that for some reason she thinks it is appropriate to use the word "Fuck" on stage and inappropriate for people to complain about it. That seems a little backwards to me.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> Pot, kettle, black[0] While I am not trying to be an apologist for Facebook, I would like to point out that the majority of issues with Facebook are because people are members. It is easy to opt out of Facebook. I would like to see you
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by zaqokm 13y ago
You should have stayed in Thailand :), outside of Bangkok the environment is reasonably safe.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
My 2 cents :) The trouble is that there are little or no real alternatives. There are plenty of hacks like dropbox, simple note, etc but nothing with the complete functionality and cross platform capabilities which Evernote.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
The rich may be reducing their tax, but look how the government spends their own tax revenue, not much will change when the government spends trillions on their war effort.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> Microsoft should follow Apple move and make its latest Windows 8.1 operating system free to all Windows users Apples operating system is not free, you have to purchase an over price computer aka a mac to get it for free.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> I object to his suggestion you should always take blind intros for coffee, and it's not because i'm full of myself, it's because I'm pragmatic. In business, this is how a lot of business is done aka "I know a g
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by zaqokm 13y ago
I have a feeling many of the peopel who are complaining will end up sitting their child in front of the TV in years to come. A product like this may be useful as a entertainment device for the child and can be combined with parental involem
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by zaqokm 13y ago
and here I was thinking I was the bitter cynic :)
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by zaqokm 13y ago
most of the things which most people do are socially worthless.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> 5 gigs for free with dropbox and icloud isn't enough. I see this as a loss leader for dropbox, they offer you 5 gig for free and then try to convert you to paid services. The internet isn't free you know, companies need to ma
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by zaqokm 13y ago
that sounds fine until you want to share data between applications as well as people.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
Nothing more than a bit of political posturing.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
People who commit fraud, register their devices in their real names :) ? I think the sentence "A quick check had revealed that the iPad Tesco believed was in the box had already been activated.", needs to be written so it may not
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by zaqokm 13y ago
I wouldn't say that Indonesia is a smaller nation than Australia, and by GDP ranked by countries they appear close to each other. Australia has had a strange relationship with Indonesia, for example Whitlam's involvement in Indone
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by zaqokm 13y ago
Like him or not, the documents were dated 2009 so at least part of this took place during the Rudd era. So I gather that makes Rudd, Dick Cheney ;).
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by zaqokm 13y ago
> Got sucked in. there is no way around. I know the following will not win me too many friends, but there is a way to around this, and that is to stop using their products. They are a commercial entity and making money for the company a
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by zaqokm 13y ago
Fortunately we missed it here in Manila also, this is very devastating for the country and it is going to be that way for some time. People without housing, food, water, and daily requirements.
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by zaqokm 13y ago
I agree, however I think it is very credible that a lot of people involved in this were not fully aware or complicit in regards to what was happen. I do not think they were stupid, but just didn't see the entire picture, or were never
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by zaqokm 13y ago
William Binney in an interview suggested that the tech he built for spying on foreign countries was simply retrofitted and used to spy internally. I am gathering not a lot of people actually knew what was happening at the beginning, and the