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Comment #41397566
I don't know your case, but the term "rape" has been legally expanded a lot from what we might imagine when we hear the word "rape" (forceful sexual act). Legally it can mean a cas…
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Comment #16864767
I don't know it it helps but one of the reasons that the nra was against banning guns from people on the no fly list was that there was no legal process to get in or off the list. …
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Comment #16820138
And after clicking that small hard to see button, get ready for another popup if you want to watch a gif
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Comment #16796971
If you want a good alternative try xmpp. It is basically email but for chat. Completely free, open source, distributed. And, you can have as many as you want with no need for a pho…
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Comment #16793282
Ability to view my friends information or public stranger's information without them being notified about it.
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Comment #16763997
Except it doesn't. Situation a: Facebook knows what I did last night. Result: I get ads tailored to what I did. Situation b: Mom and Dad knows what I did last night. Result: I get …
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Comment #16762194
Do you dry yourself before putting your pants on? If so how?
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Comment #16746710
imgur is another reason to want that feature.
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Comment #16726704
Wait until you go abroad and instead of saying "find the street signs" it says something in Japanese with no way of changing the language.
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Comment #16705216
The title of this linked article is "NASA Wants To Probe Uranus In Search Of Gas "
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Comment #16685185
FYI they do not support RTL languages yet https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/19
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Comment #16670733
I don't know what the NRA is doing but it looks like it is working. Here is a graph showing a long term decline in gun deaths in America. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
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Comment #16655626
I don't know how to say it kindly but there is a difference between "what" type of people the car killed. If the fatality was another rule abiding driver on the road or a pedestria…
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Comment #16646577
A lot of German sites have two buttons. One with no tracking that pressing it causes the "follow up" script to run, and then the "follow us" script that tracks you.
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Comment #16646483
Can you elaborate how you sandboxed tabs in Firefox? I use incognito when using Google or sites that use Facebook commenting on order to lower the tracking ability, but sandboxing …
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Comment #16636633
You are right, a better analogy would be if a person tried to cross in the middle of a random track segment. The woman didn't cross at a crosswalk so that part of road was not desi…
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Comment #16635857
Train tracks are also shared at train crossings. Yet if a car went there after the warning lights went on, the car would be to blame.
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Comment #16635423
I assure you that if you jump in front of a moving train you will be killed. How is this different?
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Comment #16572490
I wonder why other competitors don't copy the idea of having a sturdy bulky laptop with hardware switches, lots of keyboard buttons, trackpoint, and but battery. Is the market real…
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Comment #16552104
That other suggestion isn't good either. Let's say there is a train that leaves at a certain time. They will have to provide the exact GPS coordinates for someone to know when they…
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Comment #16551106
Is there a way to go to a phycologist on the condition that all of the notes and recommendations are kept secret and after all of the treatment the records are destroyed? There wou…
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Comment #16540338
email is an open protocol and works great. you can add pgp on top of it if you want security
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Comment #16524390
Thank you for the information. I don't understand legalese that well (many colloquial things mean something different in legalese) so I will take your word for it. That changes my …
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Comment #16500291
Maine's law is pretty weak. All one has to do is register more than a day before the election and then they don't need an ID. I don't know how easy it is to register in Maine, but …