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edgarallenbro
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Comment #9228607
We're talking victimless , not harmless . With drugs, there is no victim, because the person making the purchase is making a conscious choice to buy something to put into their bod…
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Comment #9047739
Google's way of handling accounts is infuriating. I have multiple g-mail accounts. One of them is my primary personal one, and another one I use is a shared account that my band us…
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Comment #8961210
Looking at sales as an indicator of the success of a product is warped and silly. The fact that it is considered the right way is a shining example of the fundamentally flawed natu…
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Comment #8735015
> I'm sorry, but downloading entertain is not a human right. Yes, it is. You know why? Because innovation is essential to humanity. Like the apes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, we are t…
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Comment #8705034
>Rovio's expansion into animation and merchandising continued to hit its profits hard, leading to today's 110 redundancies. I wouldn't say they grew the company too fast. I can def…
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Comment #8630212
This is great, but why is the Australian translation called 'upside down pseudoalphabet'?
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Comment #8591584
No, shit like this isn't helping. You are talking out of your ass about something you clearly know nothing about. Marijuana is as addictive as potatoes. The fact that you even ment…
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Comment #8569679
This is what happens when your production facility is on an Indian burial ground...
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Comment #7778066
Anyone else have trouble reading the upside down text?
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Comment #7591935
Make your hand into a fist Starting at the left, each knuckle and the space in between counts as one month. Count all the way across and when you get to the end of your fist, start…
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Comment #7566611
I am generally anti-feminist, but I support this. There is a serious lack of women in the tech industry, and it isn't (as some in the slashdot comments suggest) solvable just by en…
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Comment #7565870
Nope. At this point, people have either forgotten about Iraq or just come to accept it. The gay marriage issue is a current one. It's a fight that's being fought right now. Protest…
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Comment #7559833
Those things are very far off from the point. If you buy Purina, you're paying for dog food. If you donate money to a proposition that opposes gay marriage, you are paying for a pr…
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Comment #7559327
Isn't that what a CEO is supposed to do? Left hand: Complains that CEOs/politicians don't listen and are out of touch Right hand: Complains that CEOs are pandering ...what?
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Comment #7553195
$25,000 for a single projectile is "affordable"? Why do I feel like I'm living in a madhouse?
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Comment #7515328
>was given access to a website that listed dozens of carefully worded questions on events of interest to the intelligence community, along with a place for her to enter her numeric…
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Comment #7430512
Yeah, it will definitely be better off being released well after its had time to have been polished and, you know, has games
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Comment #7429215
This. Compare it to other things, say for example, musicians. When a band goes on tour, it could be looked at like they're putting in 168 hours a week. Really though, they're doing…
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Comment #7425341
As a dev who also sings for a cover band, this post so completely describes my life its scary. But, I have a bit of a different philosophy. I think that if you really love somethin…
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Comment #7424780
Its really, really not that bad. I used to get mad about unwanted e-mails too. I used to keep a separate e-mail to sign up for websites because of all the crap they sent me. Turns …
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Comment #7357177
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys Thanks for sharing this! I hadn't seen this outlined like this before and I can see it being really useful
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Comment #7355747
The problem is that you said you're an introvert, and the author explicitly said, in the title, that he is NOT an introvert. Going to the social gathering wasn't the problem. The p…
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Comment #7290861
The last line, where it says "And another line here."
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Comment #7218342
Yeah I liked a link that Upworthy posted once and so I fell for the "SUBSCRIBE!!!1" trap. Eventually I realized that it was turning my e-mail inbox into the internet version of cab…