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discojesus

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    Comment #1010956

    awesome things like making it illegal to sell Word and therefore Office How about just making your open source alternative to Word and Office that much better and competing with th…

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    Comment #1010433

    "I had in mind that all things being otherwise equal and being occupied with more or less the same stuff for the duration of the existence of said list." Fair enough. "And I don't …

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    Comment #1010349

    I don't think this is the criterion you want - if I won the lottery, for example, my to-do list would explode with all the new possibilities presented before me; however, if that h…

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    Comment #1010342

    ""This does not work"? It works for me." Inheriting money might make someone a millionaire - that doesn't make "Have a rich uncle" a viable financial plan. "Having a rich uncle" th…

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    Comment #1009966

    "Honestly if you were to work like this you may as well work for a big corporation where you can save yourself the hassle of having to audit your time – as some jerk of a manager w…

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    Comment #1007744

    Are they crazy? They could have made an awful movie with that money!

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    Comment #968266

    Taking out the trash is not intrinsically pleasurable, like playing Call of Duty, or masturbating. Or masturbating while playing Call of Duty. You take out the trash, study instead…

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    Comment #967865

    "Arrange your life around what you like. That’s it! You’re done. You’ll be happy forever." Who would have thought that heroin addicts had the secret of life? Not everything is plea…

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    Comment #943283

    I know what a screen reader simulation is - perhaps you should google "joke."

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    Comment #943072

    This has inspired me to launch my own service. Here is how your site looks to someone that is just plain blind: http://imgur.com/ToRW6.jpg

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    Comment #883824

    or it's all part of some grand scheme...

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    Comment #882688

    If the customers act honestly and do pay exactly what they would pay if the manufacturer had set the prices I think you should be more explicit in step two. http://blog.stackoverfl…

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    Comment #877946

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Dominique_Bauby This man wrote a fucking BOOK by BLINKING HIS LEFT EYE . After reading his story, you might find it easier to do your homework.

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    Comment #864276

    You might argue that employment is optional, but this is not the case in practice especially if you have a family to support. OK so let's engage in a thought experiment - we make e…

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    Comment #838241

    and saying "there aren't enough [insert gender/race/other meaningless criterion] in here, so let's add some" is a great way to be full of shit.

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    Comment #823882

    MacGuyver is pleased.

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    Comment #812148

    OK how about this for a name - "Data Without Borders"? or maybe the Lewinsky Club ("I'm going to say this again: we DO NOT have relations.") http://www.instantrimshot.com

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    Comment #812144

    I dunno about a name, but how about this for a slogan - "You can sign up, but don't ever JOIN."

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    Comment #805207

    and yet at the same time, they get offended if you try to check their readyState - you can't win!

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    Comment #804790

    I went out on a javascript date once. Didn't get a callback. :( Hiohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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    Comment #803039

    But you should see how clean and maintainable the code is.

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    Comment #802876

    Eric Sink, author of a competing non-distributed version control system? yeah he's only interested in promoting Vault. Except he didn't mention Vault at all during that exchange on…

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    Comment #802860

    I'm pretty sure you just made that up. Sorry, I'm going to go with Eric Sink's opinion on this over yours (nothing personal). It seems pretty obvious to me that subversion's progra…