BearOfNH

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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Soon your webcam will be sending its pictures to various police agencies Wow, that was quick: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134022
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Incredible! Coloring is very 1970s. I'd like to get a T-shirt with some of the later patterns. The ending is not to be missed.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
matter could not accelerate to the speed of light That was Kevin Spacey's claim in the movie K-Pax . For all I know, we're falling through time at the speed of light.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Whatever you think of Oracle the company or Oracle the product, you have to admire what Larry has accomplished. Especially considering his humble origins, if Wikipedia is to be believed.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The Internet is becoming the Police State's favorite bogeyman. The unprecedented volume of information freely available to all quickly turns into a vast number of potential crimes from which the Police State must protect the peeple. It's no
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Are these numbers based on page fetches or unique visitors? It's obviously easier to count page fetches but the article implies it's broken down by visitor, without being explicit about it.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Well, there was that SNL skit about the Sodom city council plotting how to compete with the more successful Gomorrah. Sorry, can't find it on YouTube but here's a .RAM file: http://cip.law.ucla.edu/ramfiles/i_love_sodom.ram (Bill Murray d
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
as long as there is enough energy left to start the printing presses Intuitively this makes sense but in reality it is not practical. As soon as investors hear the presses crank up (metaphorically speaking) they can predict what's coming
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I have read [no citation available :-( ] the actual crime rate is somewhat correlated with the number of young men -- say, aged 13-30 -- in the population. This would explain an increase in the 1960s followed by a decrease in the 1990s and
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
One of the few movies where I consider the (1997) remake to be superior to the original. With the absolutely creepy scene where a conversation is punctuated by insects getting bug-zapped. Neither movie contains anything explicit beyond ki
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Books^2: When I buy a paperback novel to read on a plane (or while waiting to get on a plane :-) I often finish it in some distant city and leave it someplace where somebody else can find it. Just too much work to sell for a pittance, and t
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I don't know much astrology so I'm not able to address that issue, but decades ago I studied handwriting analysis. I realized there were "opposites", but they were always described in a positive manner. For example, long endings on a script
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Would The Pirate Bay be welcome there as well?
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I once hired a professional to draw a caricature of a friend of mine, based on internet photos and some biographical info. He did an outstanding job in a short time: http://www.rickscartoons.com/ I am not affiliated with Rick, but would u
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
1. Casablanca 2. Chinatown 3. The Maltese Falcon They don't make 'em like they used to ...
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Would it be considered "cruel and unusual punishment" to inflict brain surgery upon habitual violent criminals? Almost sounds like something from the Soviet era, or earlier.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
If IBM can't pay the pensions that it promised, IBM pensioners take the hit. Have you heard of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation?
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
all we need to do is repudiate all the debt that China currently owns At which point every other holder of U.S. Treasuries will wonder "Am I next?". This will lead to a massive sales of U.S. debt instruments around the world, and would no
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
it's a joyless wasteland of big box stores and cookie cutter urban development Fair enough. But one man's joyless wasteland is another man's cheerful paradise. There's no accounting for taste. At least, I hope not.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Sounds like something Tyler Durden might have said.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
It's very difficult to find developers that have never installed the Adobe software ever Kids -- by which I mean anybody under 18 -- cannot enter into contracts. An Adobe EULA cannot be enforced against somebody so young. In lawyer-speak
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
CO2 actually is considered a pollutant by the EPA A political decision, not a scientific one. Made recently by the current administration, and likely to be dropped by the next administration. I agree on the "natural" bit though. Hell, cya
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Why Climate Science Is On Trial(blogs.the-american-interest.com)
17 points by BearOfNH 17y ago|21 comments
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
It would be nice if there were a nutrition label for the entire package. Until then I can use Wolfram Alpha, which has quite a good database. And I agree with you on the fructose. It is bad stuff, at least in the concentrations found in pro
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
That adjusted-for-inflation line on the first chart didn't seem right to me so I looked up some official data. The CPI-U price levels for January 2008 and 2009 both read about 211, while for January 1985 the same price level was 105.5, mean
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I'm sure we can look at the numbers and come up with a conclusion. A long, long time ago I read an article comparing the increase in the cost of college education vs. the published inflation rate. They were roughly the same. Really. But t
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
one can greatly increase their income with other strategies Of course those "other strategies" have a different risk profile. You might be right about not considering income, but then you should also ignore risks. All of them. If I were i
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Does one necessarily have to make a purchase prior to payment? Couldn't this concept include a "wallet" as well? Just tell the Qwacker "Bill me $10", take the $10 coupon and $10 cash to the 7/11 and get credited with $10. As an option, poss
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
let two observers in different locations see the same event simultaneously [...] So ... what if observer B does nothing while observer A (a long, long ways distant) measures something. Can B then "see" the corresponding wave function coll
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I have a little book of things I want to open-source before I die. So do I. And I'll be retiring in a few years, if you get my drift. Where are good places to deposit stuff? Things that may not be worthy of (say) SourceForge? Things that

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