Mark_Book

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by Mark_Book 16y ago
"I'm honestly surprised (& pleased) he would say that outright. I'm not particularly familiar with the workings of the U.S. justice system but a disparity of 100 to one sounds fairly unjust." You sound prejudiced against American justic
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
I suspect a lot of Toyotas problems have to do with the standards in their overseas factories not living up to those on Japan My father has driven toyotas for 30 years without a single breakdown. I have had 2, I had trouble with one of them
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
"Traditionally, if you produce something of value, people will pay for it" but if there's better value elsewhere that's where they'll go. In this case the best value of all is FREE ie no flattr account.
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
what's the incentive to set it up in the first place if you're not a content creator? Non content creators will mentally file it in their 'something virtuous to do when I have enough money' aka never_never. The content creators who end up b
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
replying to ugh and steveklabnik: I guess I'm a cynic but I can't see people just sticking a meaningful amount of dosh in this every month for no marginal gain. Museums have tried similar methods with voluntary contributions instead of entr
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
AFAIK 'donate' buttons have never proved successful. People don't like paying for stuff they can have for free
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
I can't see the sense in it. It's analogous to a situation where a newspaper's only paying customers would be other newspapers. The content creators send each other money and the only net beneficiaries are Flattr and the vast mass of intere
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
The above comment of mine received a fair number of votes with the majority being negative. The comment was intended to be humorous and in my view if people downvoted because they were offended on behalf of Italians they need to lighten up.
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
well as there are probably not many venetians present you might as well translate 'xe un mona' for us
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
And their best player at the world cup, David Villa's name is correctly pronounced Dabid Biya
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
yessa de rest spoka de broken english
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
Can someone tell me when did english people start pronouncing sixth with a k instead of an x. I've only noticed this phenomenon this decade. It's almost as irritating as pronouncing 'three' as 'free' which at least has the merit of being ea
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
Wikipaedia says 13.3 million crossed east to west europe between 1950 and 1990, 75% of this movement was sanctioned so that makes for 4 million irregular crossings or about 100,000 per year. Currently the US is estimated to have 11.5 millio
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
It's not the will to shoot illegals that's needed, simply the will to implement the law as it stands by putting in the necessary resources into border policing and deporting those illegals who are discovered. Almost all illegals into the UK
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
The fatwah against Salman Rushdie, the reaction to the Danish cartoons made it feel to people in western countries that muslims were trying to impose their values here, by extreme means if necessary. Not for the first time has an attempt to
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by Mark_Book 16y ago
Please excuse my ignorance but can someone explain to me what message is being given to developers? Is it to develop in Java (for Android) or to develop in HTML/css/Javascript combo?