spurtrenolds

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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
Of course they are not aimed at people! See the comment below regarding concerns of misalignment, limit stops & containment for beams with the power to cause permanent blindness. I'm sure some venues handle this safely [1], but p
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
> Should we also pronounce the K in knight the way we used to? The K in knight appears to have turned up in the American pronunciation of "schedule".
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
Ohhh! That's almost as good as typing "wargames" on the BSD command line. Shall we play a game?
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
Ummmm Can you explain why giving a complete list of URLs you visit to the worlds largest advertising and data gathering company isn't dodgy? If you can't see why, then you appear to have drunk the SV Koolaid. tldr; If millions of
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
Seconded. One would be far more likely to hear "Oi, cunt, the salt" here in Blightly than in the USA.
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
What a ridiculous comment So much of our technologies have been built or adapted to enhance and/or fulfil our desires, including sexual desires, it is puzzling to me why you think women are somehow excluded from this. Your post smacks
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
> People in this country were up in arms when this was first suggested ... Very strongly disagree with this. Yes there was some grumbling from the usual attention seeking (read 'shit-stirring') pundits in the right wing media,
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by spurtrenolds 5y ago
> by modem (this was 2008, not 1998) I'm mildly amused you consider modems obsolete. Here in the OT world and where systems need to be air gaped [1], modems are absolutely used to provide separated, secured links and non-IP links. T