palmer_eldritch

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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> rename it santa-mas If you really want to go that way, it would be a good idea to also get rid of the -mas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_(liturgy) )
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Just wait until they're teenagers. But you might not find it that exciting then, having teenage kids has its own drawbacks.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
I wouldn't want someone driving me to be sedated.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
No, they did the work, he earned the money.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Since autoplay is the default right now, you could expect a fair amount of people to think youtube's broken if you changed it...
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
It wouldn't be that bad if he wasn't the fire chief and there was already four bodies. These two facts make things a little worse imo.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> The fire chief entered the cistern wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus. After reaching the plank platform, he removed his face mask to shout instructions to those on the surface and he, too, was instantly overcome. Now that o
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> Winning the War on Climate Change It's not a war, it's not a contest. There are no "sides" and there's nothing to "win". It's just adapt or die. And there are many ways to adapt, it can mean chan
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
So... did the guy selling that to us get the implants? They don't say anything about it in the article.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> Alcohol is far worse because you can become dependent on it in a way marijuana doesn't really allow. Well, I've seen more people become dependent with hash/pot than with alcohol. I'd say that's because it'
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> But maybe heroin wasn't common in Germany and therefore oxycodone was pre- in Germany? Heroin was first marketed by Bayer, a German pharmaceutical company in 1898. That's where the name 'heroin' comes from so oxycod
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Oh, so you've got a collection of pictures of people relieving themselves in the streets? Nothing strange at all, congrats!
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Oh, shi- I forgot: /sarcasm
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Well, it's just a theory after all...
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
"à la baguette"
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
From DanBC above: At will, secret, testing is banned. Parents can get court orders if they want a paternity test. The "labs lobbying" comment was kind of tongue-in-cheek: making fun of the "crazies" being paranoid abou
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Yes, if you really want to be paranoid about it: it's probably more a result of accredited labs' lobbying than crazy feminists.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> So not really what you would expect from a union in the west Oh, you know, these days in the West, the big unions are more partners with the governments/employers than they are on the side of the workers. Many unions have become t
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Yeah, but when they confiscate food in poor countries it's to maintain the elite in their luxury, regardless of how much everyone else is starving.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Or, what if I learn to touch type?
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> Except when it is. Given sufficient downvotes, a post will fade to the same color as the background, making it easy to scroll past and not see it. It doesn't change anything. The content is still available for anyone to see if the
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Downvoting isn't equal to censorship. The content remains available for anyone with an account. The commit history of this project remains available too... however, they forbid the authors to use the word in the live version if they wa
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
I'm not sure they'll find a buyer... they managed to ruin them pretty badly. Now, for slashdot, the slashdot crowd definitely has some responsibility. Still, they did pretty much anything they could to antagonize them (although, I
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> One of the most well known examples was when the FBI used a FireFox 0-day to target and eventually dismantle a child pornography ring. Funny... that's when they took down Freedom Hosting right? If I recall correctly, they didn&
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
> I don't think anyone is expecting to wear a VR headset for 24 hours straight. I'm pretty sure some people expect to do just that, especially in the gaming community. Although, I'm not sure it's going to be worse tha
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
What if amphetamines (or some other stimulants) were to become a thing in the IT industry and that workers had no other choice to take some to meet standard performance or be unemployed? All for the benefit of the employers? That's pre
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Fugitive + command line.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
And in english too, to rob = to steal. Still the context is important. When talking about some machine, it's obvious that it's meant for robot, not to say it's going to rob you - even if it's what it actually does.
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
Yeah, I think it's the responsibility of the user to bring his own child porn to plant on his victim's computer. Any tool you can use to upload files on a remote system can be used for that. Hacking Team's tools certainly all
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by palmer_eldritch 11y ago
I think the main problem is that people are looking for some kind of silver bullet diet that will make them healthy and live long. So, since there's demand, there are other people providing them with it. Of course it's just air, t

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