absentbird

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by absentbird 14y ago
And fives are just (x*10)/2
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by absentbird 15y ago
Does that make the copyright lobbyists Don Quixote?
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by absentbird 15y ago
Well Wikileaks didn't have copyright infringement claims against it and it has suffered massive blows to funding and traffic. TPB exists because people care about it. People care about it because it provides something relevant to them.
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by absentbird 15y ago
It was for racial purity. At the time eugenics was a big deal, it stated that some genes which were exhibited as external traits were superior. Hitler was attempting to create a better world by performing artificial selection. As much as hi
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by absentbird 15y ago
To the poster below me: he is selling $2500 machines. The people he sells the machines to sell the $.25 napkins but the machine can make 1000 napkins a day. One machine properly worked could turn a gross profit of $91,250/year. He has sold
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by absentbird 15y ago
> The western world can afford high-tech solutions to clean up water, but the developing world cannot. You might be surprised what the developing world can put together with electricity and a foot pedal.
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by absentbird 15y ago
Well there are also people like Jonathan Coulton (the guy who sings "code monkey") who started with nothing and built a fan base. Also he did the ending song for both Portal games.
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by absentbird 15y ago
I am not sure what Google pays in dues but I am willing to bet it is in excess of $100,000 and probably closer to somewhere in 10 digit range. That is a financial blow that would put pressure on them to stop alienating progressive businesse
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by absentbird 15y ago
I remember hearing an anecdote many years ago that when food supplies where being dropped over Afghanistan it was the pop-tarts and peanut-butter that were the most popular. I just looked into it and I the only information on their populari
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by absentbird 15y ago
alt + f will also skip the song you are on and play the next one.
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by absentbird 15y ago
Sadly, one of the primary reasons that blips will never re-enter the mainstream.
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by absentbird 15y ago
This seems like a very low power way to manage network access to a small cluster of external hard drives.
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by absentbird 15y ago
Dillo would be the smallest but Opera would be the best for features per KB of RAM. I would personally use Dillo because it just seems more suited to the environment and would fulfill it's purpose (looking up documentation) without cripplin
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by absentbird 15y ago
This is how I come up with passwords; I find a phrase that I can remember without too much trouble then I use the first letter of each word to make a password. Phrase: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords
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by absentbird 15y ago
That is what was said. Yes.
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by absentbird 15y ago
I think the reason they used so many colors in their bombastic website is to demonstrate non-typical contrast solutions.
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by absentbird 15y ago
I think it is handled the same as the horizontal scroll on normal mice. Here is a relevant stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2842041/jquery-horizontal...
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by absentbird 15y ago
From what I have read System76 is a linux only computer vendor that has very strong hardware support.
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by absentbird 15y ago
Am I missing something? Why can't they just produce a Micro-SD card that can run in card emulation mode? Wouldn't that allow a lot of people to use this without new phones?