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Huffers2
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Comment #43002877
I still laugh occasionally when I remember an army career video I saw in school which featured (among other officers) a "Major Richard Head".
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Comment #40473868
For at least the last fifteen years I've believed my ICQ account was lost forever, however seeing your post now I decided one last time to try logging in by guessing the password. …
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Comment #37917331
This is hilarious, but I think the most mature thing to do would have been to detect if the site is inside an iframe and if so add a polite link saying "click here to go to sqword.…
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Comment #30344145
My wife interviewed someone who tried it (she noticed), so people at least do attempt this.
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Comment #28894609
Doesn't seem particularly surprising, since poof is (was? I haven't heard it in decades) a derogatory term for a gay man.
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Comment #28761762
Just that an article saying "group did evil thing X times" doesn't say anything good or bad about the group to me if I don't know how many times you would expect from any other sim…
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Comment #28761692
> Or you could be outraged regardless of the ratio That's a fair point.
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Comment #28758743
216,000 sounds like a lot. Does that make French Catholic priests more or less likely historically to be abusers than the average adult male? Can't get outraged until I find out.
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Comment #28222215
Sorry, I was trying to satirise the argument for why it should be Argentinian, where the fundamental (but generally unsaid) reason is "because it's close to us".
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Comment #28219202
Falklands is much closer to Argentina though - they should belong to Argentina by right of proximity.
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Comment #27026654
You're right. Opera had tabbed browsing before Firefox existed, and Firefox had tabbed browsing before Chrome existed.
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Comment #26547045
Sorry, I edited my comment at the same time you posted your comment - leading to yours to not have the proper context. (For the record I wrote something about things that happen fr…
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Comment #26546474
If true, I think this would be the first ever case of a novel virus ever being developed in a lab and then accidentally released. If false, then it's yet another viral mutation / s…
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Comment #26315471
Agreed entirely. I inherited a system with 50k lines of unreliable shell scripts. I figured out ways to unit test them, do mocking, and pushed developers to unit test their scripts…
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Comment #25515690
Does clean living and healthy lifestyle help much with malaria and starvation?
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Comment #25236945
It may be an odd thing to pick up on, but I'm sure the concept of murder-by-exploding-cow didn't come from Savage Run. For one thing a character is murdered the same way in the fan…
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Comment #23334396
That made me laugh so much back in the day. But what was ridiculous back in the early 2000s is now a practically everyday event. My wife frequently uses a "find my phone" app to fi…
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Comment #13799663
I've never understood this. If I gather evidence against somebody illegally, and it proves their guilt, shouldn't we both go to jail?