mseebach2

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by mseebach2 14y ago
You could design them with frosted windows or blinds that obstruct passengers from looking at downwards angles, so they could still see the horizon and the sky. I think I've read about a train being build through a city somewhere, where it'
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The way the "trapped" situation is solved for large Ferris wheels is a secondary spool of cable that you can attach to a truck and propel the system for long enough to evacuate it. That strikes me as applicable here.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
I think the distinction is between software and hardware DRM. DirecTV controls the entire hardware chain. This means they can do various proper encryption schemes (public/pre-shared key etc) that are actually near impossible to crack and
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Well, Ubuntu's unwavering pragmatism in getting GNU/Linux on the desk- and laptops of reasonably regular people has had a big impact. But being right (even very right) in the 80s and 90s doesn't make you automatically right forever after;
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The conspiracy theories generally hold that 9/11 wasn't perpetrated by "terrorists", regardless of their benefactors. E.g. WTC towers were brought down by explosives, not planes crashing into them, Pentagon was hit by a missile, not a plane
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Wouldn't it be a factor that On2 isn't/wasn't in the search space at all? Only after the Google acquisition did duck.com come to be associated with search, and then only by virtue of Google redirecting it to their main page.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
There is a certain chance that this is not, in fact, an example of bad password management. This service ("MilFlip") could be an internal service on an internal, secure network (the kind of networks that, if someone was to penetrate it, you
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by mseebach2 14y ago
You can never avoid this, but take an approach like ZipCar: http://www.zipcar.com/how/faqs/how-are-cars-cleaned In almost two years of being a ZipCar client, I've never had any issues. Yes, the occasional coke can or candy wrapper left be
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Despite the fact that nominally conservative parties implement such policies does not make those policies 'conservative' in any meaningful political-history/ideological sense. Just like Obama renewing the Patriot Act doesn't make it liberal
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by mseebach2 14y ago
In what ways do you consider Sweden a conservative country? It is very socially liberal and while it's finances are run mostly sanely, it has a huge re-distributive welfare state.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
You can be arrogant if you're brilliant - not the other way around. As a junior engineer (in the 'not much experience', not 'pay grade' sense), you're probably not brilliant enough to be arrogant.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
I don't agree with your comments about arrogance. You can be right and strongly opinionated without being arrogant. Junior or senior -- making anyone , boss or not, look bad anywhere, but especially in front of a client is a perfect way of
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by mseebach2 14y ago
It bears mentioning that you obviously have a shitty boss and that you should leave at the earliest possibility.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Ah, I was thinking of a Gatling gun ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_cannon ), not a rail gun. The concept of rotary tubes seemed to mesh with OP's vision.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
"Rail gun" could illustrate the way carriages are added to and remove from the loop.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
I meant anti-discrimination as the law that keeps the GP from being fired for admitting he's gay. As for the number of Brits being religious, I think it's easy to conclude that more than 35% of Brits celebrate Christmas. Given the origin of
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Since then, the city noticed that it has been far from ideal to use only OpenOffice for digital correspondence. Microsoft Office for instance is the standard for external communication, the council said. Well, ur doin it wrong. There are
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Most of the negatives you mention are perhaps styled in the language of religion, but they're underpinned by deeper causes. The Middle East isn't solely a religious conflict, it's very much an ethnic one as well. Oppressive countries are op
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by mseebach2 14y ago
That's not political correctness, that's anti-discrimination. Political correctness is "Seasons Greetings" instead of "Merry Christmas" for fear of offending non-Christians. It's idiotic because for those not celebrating Christmas, indeed t
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by mseebach2 14y ago
> Hate speech and anti-discrimination laws have drastically improved the lives of millions of people in the UK. Cause and effect, dude. This happened in the same time frame in virtually every single developed country on earth with diffe
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by mseebach2 14y ago
No, nobody is an atheist when they're born. Atheism is the conscious rejection of the existence of god. Agnostic, more likely. Yes, religion is by definition irrational. Humans generally aren't very rational beings. Love is irrational, it m
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by mseebach2 14y ago
I meant that sentence to make good atheists distinct from bad ones (such as various brands of communists). In general, I agree with you. It's incredibly hard to separate out religion from history - almost everything that happened in the wor
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by mseebach2 14y ago
The point is that "app" means application. "What does an application cost?" - well, is it a CLI that prints the current time in the terminal? Or is it Microsoft Word? You can get a fully functional well polished fart button app for both iOS
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by mseebach2 14y ago
It's a meaningless question. How would a world without religion come about? By flipping a switch, and everybody becomes well educated, peace loving, hyper-rational atheists? In that case, probably yeah, it'd be better. On the other hand, if
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by mseebach2 14y ago
It's a set of guiding principles. But you can either be pragmatic, go for the good rather than the perfect and make continuous small steps in the direction of your goals. Or you can sit back and refuse to vote for anything that isn't a pure
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Yes, if you can get other people to pay for it.
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Not on it's own, no. At most, is shows that fraud wasn't widespread enough (or equally widespread on both sides) to skew the election away from the will of the people. Also, fraud is much more effective in smaller races - of which there are
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by mseebach2 14y ago
I don't agree that having only bad candidates is "an edge case which only happens in thought experiments". It's easy to get blinded by the all-to-common sports team approach to party politics (My team good! Other team bad!), but issue for i
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Yes? And there are plenty of immoral laws. Morality and legality often intersects but neither implies the other. FWIW, I consider compulsory voting an immoral law, even though I generally consider voting a moral obligation. A democratic gov
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by mseebach2 14y ago
Wow, you've really really drunk the kool-aid.

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