merryandrew

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by merryandrew 7y ago
But states can be wrong. That's why it makes no sense.
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by merryandrew 7y ago
Agreed. As you realized, though, the point is that copyrighted work should not be used without compensating the creator.
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by merryandrew 7y ago
This makes no sense. Imagine that SpaceX took a photograph on the moon, and then a university freely used the image in its marketing materials. Would that make sense? Would it make any more sense if the university had a space program? No.
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by merryandrew 10y ago
> "you guys" I don't know what group you're imagining me to be a part of, but you have no idea who I am, clearly. That's fine.
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by merryandrew 10y ago
Both you and pdog have made interesting observations, I suppose, but as I said, neither book described our reality accurately. Our reality is far more complicated. As you point out, millions have protested, but tens of millions haven’t. As
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by merryandrew 10y ago
1984, followed directly by Brave New World. Our world resembles a lot from each of these books. Much like in 1984, we have devices and companies constantly monitoring us (iOS, Android, Facebook, etc.), we have “news programs” and websites s
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by merryandrew 12y ago
After just now hearing about Amazon Echo, I positively, absolutely cannot be the only person who immediately thought of this show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Humans Also known as Äkta människor
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by merryandrew 12y ago
view-source: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by merryandrew 12y ago
Got it streaming on the Mac now. Was not working on Win8, laughably.
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by merryandrew 12y ago
Thanks. Still waiting for the live broadcast online at 9:50
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by merryandrew 12y ago
Is anyone seeing the live broadcast? I am not, as of 9:44
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by merryandrew 12y ago
From the terms, here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
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by merryandrew 12y ago
Related: http://www.quora.com/Do-my-heirs-inherit-my-Kindle-ebooks-or...
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by merryandrew 13y ago
If this ever actually happens, delivery theft will be rampant.
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by merryandrew 13y ago
Agreed.
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Breathe New Life Into Old PC -- Lubuntu 12.10 Released(help.ubuntu.com)
2 points by merryandrew 14y ago|0 comments
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by merryandrew 14y ago
"Amazon should hire a world-class book designer to serve as product manager for the Kindle." I think this comment is just about right. The Kindle team really needs to focus on making the Kindle as good as traditional books, when applicable,
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by merryandrew 14y ago
Encouraging young people is essential--even/especially when their ideas are incredible. The reply letter was just right.
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by merryandrew 14y ago
I did the same and feel the same. Even DuckDuckGo does better than Bing when it comes to indexing my site.
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Never Tell Me the Odds(blog.redfin.com)
1 points by merryandrew 14y ago|0 comments
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by merryandrew 14y ago
In addition to deserving that huge apology, Dixon deserves monetary compensation from Josh Linkner. Words don't write themselves, and so Linkner had to realize he was using someone else's work without permission -- even if he didn't know wh
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by merryandrew 15y ago
See "I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account."
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by merryandrew 15y ago
Yeah, I got to hear a really sweet Alanis Morissette tune. :) :/ :(
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Thoughts? Search for Hacker News on Google - Where is the +1?
2 points by merryandrew 15y ago|0 comments
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by merryandrew 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_Landscapes Awards: Best Documentary – 2007 Genie Awards[1] Best Canadian Film – Toronto International Film Festival[1] Best Canadian Film & Best Documentary - Toronto Film Critics Association
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Chinese Labor - watch the first 34 minutes at least(youtube.com)
5 points by merryandrew 15y ago|1 comments
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1%(forbes.com)
2 points by merryandrew 15y ago|0 comments
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by merryandrew 15y ago
nice
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by merryandrew 15y ago
The plugins may be even more useful: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/sopa
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by merryandrew 15y ago
You might simply remove "503: Service Unavailable"

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