AkThhhpppt

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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Correction: they're legally required to give it to you - if you ask.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Counterpoints: http://en.velib.paris.fr/ http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx http://www.citybikes.se/en/ http://www.dublinbikes.ie/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
It might be possible: it doesn't cost anything to publish to the Little Printer, anyway. Publishing app specification dox here http://www.bergcloud.com/download/Little_Printer_Publication...
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
All of you talking about this as a printer appear to have missed the point very slightly. This isn't a general purpose printer, its more like a personalized newspaper producer. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nVVdwa3bs
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
You're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Note: I am NOT claiming this is easy. It's incredibly hard. But nothing else works .
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Well in that case, you've got big issues with the science curriculum, and that might be a better place to start...
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
I said he was one of the commanders of a guerilla army committed to the destruction of a country he now is Deputy Prime Minister of. If he is no longer a member of the Army Council (he denies ever being so, with as much believability as C
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Well, history says different, and how things actually happened tends to have more weight than theoretical speculation about a perfect employment market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Ballistics is occasionally interestingly counterintuitive, but perhaps that was overkill. Bully for you. But it's the idea of prioritizing what is essentially a technician's job (yes, we call ourselves engineers; in reality, most of us are
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Point of information: the world population is currently predicted to peak at 11 billion, due to the rest of the world going through demographic transition. So not ever-growing - though 11 billion is definitely enough to cause problems... (
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
So you think schools should teach programming over fundamental science ? As a very learned person said, "[physics] runs the shit that runs the shit that runs the shit that runs your shit!" If you don't know physics, you don't know why ther
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
When a terrorist hate group is the elected government of the Palestinian Authority, we expect you to deal with them as the elected government. Not to like it, but to do it. Martin McGuinness, former member of the IRA army council, is Deputy
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
What about biological production of plastics? Or bioinfomatics or computational biology, where they're understanding current biology, not engineering new stuff? You've discarded all of fundamental science, in favour of teaching your kids pr
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
It's a Red Queen Race: everyone's running as fast as they can to stay in the same place - and burning cash by the ton to do so. Red Queen races tend to be good for advancing the state of the art, but they're wasteful. And if you're trying t
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Accepting "education is for a job" in the first place: you're lining your kids up to chase the biggest growth area of the last 20 years, when biotech is likely to be the most successful area in the next 20?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Why do you think the world hates them, then? (aside: There's a long distance between "please stop allowing or encouraging your government to treat other human beings in this terrible, terrible manner. Please think about the crimes done to t
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Thus the confusion. ",)
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Was this not previously titled "first panorama...," or am I losing grip on reality? I admit to either being possible.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
I am being paid a number of arbitrary denominators of value per time period. Government declares that the arbitrary denominators of value now buy half the number of a different arbitrary denominators of value they did previously. Because I
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Nope: http://www.amazon.com/Mars-Uncovering-Secrets-National-Geogr... published by the National Geographic from Pathfinder images in 1998.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Well, it would signal seriousness about a two-state solution (how is this http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/westbank.... ever supposed to be a country? It's been almost completely Balkanized) and stop the theft of Palesti
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
It's the expansionism, and the dispossession of Palestinians that requires, that gets all activists of my acquaintance _really_ het up. Why exactly all the settlements in the West Bank, outside the Wall? Are they "correct" according to Zion
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
You want pithiness AND accuracy? What next, blood? :-) But yes, you're entirely correct.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
You have access to infinite payphones just outside your door? More seriously: what's wrong with asking developers to think about what their creations are enabling?
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
It's in the interests of Zionists to conflate "Jewish" and "Israeli" with "Zionist," then react to anti-Zionist sentiment as if it was anti-semitism.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
Yeah, but in that case the RIAA/MPAA had sold off the collections rights to organised crime. This is the _cops_.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
No, landlords would NOT be poorer, they're taking in exactly the same as before devaluation. Devaluation directly effects ONLY imports (more expensive) and exports (cheaper): it effects the local economy only based on how much it depends on
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
No, it's raising tariffs on imported goods by stealth. <em>The currency only matters at the border</em>, so if the thing or person under consideration doesn't cross the border, devaluation doesn't matter.
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by AkThhhpppt 14y ago
If Drachmes are devalued, labour in Greece is cheaper than labour in Germany - workers get paid the same number of Drachmes as before devaluation, but they're paid less Euros.

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