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EdHominem
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About EdHominem
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Comment #13715987
Isn't it amazing that you're in all the racist threads. Oh yes, I'm sure you have so much interesting stuff to tell us about why you're a racist. Here I was thinking you're a norma…
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Comment #13710636
Right, which is why you hate immigrants, and now we see jews as well - because they lie about you. Oh well, I didn't understand you were only racist because you were the victim of …
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Comment #13710105
Branching out from your usual immigrant-hatred for a change, or is this the norm for you?
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Comment #13700154
> Having a perpetual license is basically an infinite future expense even if the cost is trivial. It's a one-time expense if budgeted properly. Buy a perpetuity to cover it. If you…
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Comment #13698229
Working in a cloud company all of us are pretty conscious of the cycles we consume in our architecture and the resources we consume on our client's machines. If we accidentally ran…
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Comment #13697455
I think that's precisely the trump issue... "Reality" TV costs peanuts and gets more views, even if everything in it is staged.
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Comment #13696982
You're the one who thinks you're informed, and that a judge would overrule the DA if they got out of hand, so I suggest you go find out. I'm pretty much in the camp that the DA wou…
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Comment #13694021
The DA is the one who offers you a plea bargain, or not, and decides how many counts they charge you with. And recommends charges. But yeah, after that it's all the judge.
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Comment #13692703
So can we simply bulk-send registered letters to everyone involved so they know and we know they know?
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Comment #13692356
If that's the case it's your responsibility to go over their head, all the way if necessary - as it would be for an engineer whose boss said to use Balsa wood for a support instead…
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Comment #13691739
> Saying the US citizens are involved with that decision is, again, wrong and offensive. How's that defense working for an ISIS funder? "Oh, I didn't send the money for bombs, I se…
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Comment #13691719
It can be 67 years at the whim of the DA. The maximum punishment is very real and they're just itching to use it. If it was an unbiased roll of the dice that would be one thing, an…
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Comment #13689951
The managers of this hypothetical software company would surely complain if their cars were remotely disabled because the manufacturer wanted to sell a new model. Similarly their c…
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Comment #13689884
I've been around NB a fair bit, but never seen the monks. > > "When the dishes are clean, we can talk." > That's addressing a very different issue. That's the generic answer to peo…
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Comment #13689833
No, this isn't. If that was your worry you especially wouldn't use proprietary software where the issue is much more prevalent. As others point out, you could pay FOSS maintainers …
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Comment #13689598
It's not a religious question - the same thing would come up if you wanted to setup a large electric train set, or hold a dance class, or anything, and then refused to return the s…
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Comment #13689118
Did you use a geiger counter to verify the dust was hot? Would something large enough to cause problems with the ram be large enough to detect?
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Comment #13681930
They don't really, not ones that they won't delete when they want the problem to go away. Using corporate forums for problems is a losing game. Yes, this letter should probably ref…
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Comment #13657216
Hah, the party that actually tries to make healthcare available is ignoring people... Sure. You're just clinically suggestible and have fallen for the "Only I know what you need" l…
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Comment #13645356
> Do gyms have womens-only sections because women are not as good as men at going to the gym?! "Infringes on your ability" never was the question. There always were many clubs open…
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Comment #13633164
Says who? Neither of us saw it, so we can't know. There's a procedure though that we use to determine the likelihood of someone's guilt, based on evidence and legal arguments. Woul…
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Comment #13621762
I think a lot of people say these grandiose things about smart people because they don't want to consider that they simply spent 30+ years doing little but their work/passion and a…
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Comment #13620537
> I assure you my daughter is very real and ceased to be a hypothetical about a year ago Heh. "Hypothetical child or children of unspecified gender". > Calling it "weakness" to gra…
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Comment #13618830
It's not non-public information, it's non-public insider information, upon which you cannot legally trade. "illegal insider trading requires that you not only trade on the basis of…
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Comment #13618754
Why are you going to tell your hypothetical daughter that it's fine for her to have gender-segregated events and tell your son that it's a bad thing for him to do so? (Because pres…