thataccount

5 ms·

1.
by thataccount 7d ago
Cool. Can you link me to them?
2.
by thataccount 7d ago
Well, there is another angle here from the Defense sector. Lotus Notes had a big ole backdoor in it: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html The same problems keep being solved, and then nation-st
3.
by thataccount 7d ago
Nothing new about that desire. Only thing different is the technology has caught up with the desire such that some technocrats can make living in that hell a reality.
4.
by thataccount 8d ago
>Religious stories about the Buddha were readily and literally coopted into Christian lore by early Church writers. That's just another assertion of "They copied it!" Where is the evidence that this is so beyond an inferen
5.
by thataccount 8d ago
Ya know, the Divine sometimes works in mysterious ways. While it is possible these two fellas were a ripped-off Buddha story, it is also possible that they were actual people who lead these lives so that people who were Buddhists had some e
6.
by thataccount 8d ago
This is the way!
7.
by thataccount 8d ago
The diversity of Roddenberry is a different animal from the imposed diversity of the modern left that NPR is trying to stoke the fires of with this article. For one thing, last I knew, there are no versions of Star Trek on the air that are
8.
by thataccount 8d ago
Why I Like Reading About Bugs by Bertrand Russell
9.
by thataccount 8d ago
I stopped worrying about getting indexed by Google around 2008ish when it became apparent they were trying to impose their own rules on the internet and how things were found. Nowadays, I'm content to not have google index anything at
10.
by thataccount 10d ago
They left out the part where they profit. Otherwise, it checks out.
11.
by thataccount 11d ago
I still have a modem that looks like that, I just can't easily use it anymore. I also remember all the talk about taxes, and then how taxes in different states were applied to e-commerce and still are. The issue with all discussions ar
12.
by thataccount 11d ago
This is a weird project. I'm not sure what the point of it is, exactly. Whole point of webrings was that they were not generated and were made by real people.
13.
by thataccount 11d ago
I bet after all this time, it still doesn't have a glossary function.
14.
by thataccount 12d ago
They are if the world doesn't stop trying to control how you have children and in what way you want to educate them, and how to look after their health.
15.
by thataccount 12d ago
>Are you saying that senior military leadership has earned the right to a little light graft? I'm saying graft isn't the only explanation at this point.
16.
by thataccount 12d ago
There are a couple of ways of seeing this. One is that there is a conflict of interest. The other is that there has been a conflict of interest in the military for years, and this guy has proven himself to be useful in fighting it such that
17.
by thataccount 12d ago
It's like the Word of God succeeded where everything else failed. Probably some specific lessons to be learned there.
18.
by thataccount 12d ago
Uh, what? I'm not sure where you are pulling that accusation from. I said very succinctly that I was not talking about what was the majority in Africa. I think you are confused.
19.
by thataccount 12d ago
>It's news because it's the handoff of man to machine being the best at a particular thing. That's a way to see it. Another way to see it is that for any given event in a zero sum game, one of two outcomes, where two playe
20.
by thataccount 12d ago
>Photoshop showed up in 1990 and the people retouching photos by hand had every reason to be worried, because it took that work. It didn't take photography. Thirty-odd years on it's open on every photographer's machine and
21.
by thataccount 12d ago
>'cultures'. That's interesting, because I don't really think of a "culture" as smaller than a "civilization". I think of a culture being a necessary thread that runs through a civilization and wit
22.
by thataccount 12d ago
> for any reasonable definition of "large portion." I'm sure those relatively voiceless cultures will appreciate your minimization of their contribution to the peoples of Africa.
23.
by thataccount 13d ago
I'm not arguing for what is a majority. I'm talking about the large portions of Africa that still live in a hunter-gatherer situations in mud huts.
24.
by thataccount 13d ago
I don't know what the fascination with these AI versus human tournaments is. I'm old enough to remember the whole "Deep Blue" vs Kasparov exhibition, and I didn't really understand the fascination with all that eith
25.
by thataccount 13d ago
Poe's life had many complications due to poverty and jealousy that made his being a literary genius almost irrelevant. Researching his death produces even more questions than answers, as a strong case could be made that he was made to
26.
by thataccount 13d ago
And also China. Never rule out China.
27.
by thataccount 13d ago
Easy solution: Stop buying whatever it is that Sony is trying to sell. Watch definitions radically shift.
28.
by thataccount 13d ago
Those are all reasons to like Florida.
29.
by thataccount 13d ago
>How does the article you linked support your point that mail-in voting is abused or rife with fraud? The absence of outrage on one issue concerning the Postal Service, and the presence of it for another. How come you couldn't under
30.
by thataccount 13d ago
>Moving here after living in NYC for a decade was a breath of fresh air. I had forgotten that competent governments exist. Kinda sad since even though NYC was always iffy, it was never flat out as useless as it is now.

More ›