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About markman
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Comment #44706862
I wish I could say that my lack of understanding the contents of this article was just ignorance but unfortunately it makes my brain want to explode. There is a back ended complime…
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Comment #42038192
I get it now: Jorge had laced its pages with poison, correctly assuming that a reader would have to lick his fingers in order to turn them. Nice pull.
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Comment #42038110
Well I'm glad. I remember when ipods had no power button. I distinctly remember saying, "This is not good. Soon there won't be any buttons. Thanks Steve Jobs." Boy was I right. The…
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Comment #42038081
This thread is so long. It started with tactile buttons being back yet it's mainly about opening plastic bags. I like that. I think that's funny.
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Comment #36641544
You built it? You personally? That's your web page Langley AI? You're charging quite a bit of money. It's more than Netflix.
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Comment #21698135
I'm probably going to regret asking this and I apologize for my ignorance but I thought .org's were all government and nonprofit. I didn't think anybody owned it nor that the entir…
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Comment #19214125
Probably the single smartest decision the founding fathers made was to separate church and state.
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Comment #19159342
Did you come up with that all by yourself? Aren't you the clever one? Full of balderdash and Tom foolery!
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Comment #15314753
Yeah but a taxi driver can buy a home and put a kid through college, perhaps even take a vacation once a year. An uber driver may have 6 or 8 months of economic boom but eventually…
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Comment #15314585
I'm unfamiliar with uber in London or if it's any different than in the United States. I think it's only a matter of time before it gets shut down here and perhaps even have a clas…
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Comment #13946570
Exactly.
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Comment #13407742
I like Obama OK but saved the American car industry? He handed GM a check. Those funds didn't come out of his account. GM should have filed for bankruptcy, trimmed the fat and hunk…
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Comment #13185099
Duh I'm sorry I thought that that was an "i". I kept thinking is that some Latin form of pluralizing the word. Oops. Where's my coffee...
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Comment #13185070
Yes and no. A few years ago I realised my digital bathroom scale's calibration was out of whack so like anyone whom might have lost the instructions I google the make and model of …
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Comment #13184724
I'm still lost?
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Comment #13090391
It has to do with collusion between driver and passenger. It protects everyone involved. It prevents a passenger from getting in the vehicle and saying, "I told the app I was going…
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Comment #12587200
What are your thoughts or impression of OPERA? It has private browsing etc. They really restructured their whole browser several years ago specifically to switch to the chromium pl…
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Comment #11176568
Wait, are you saying you trust apple yet not Microsoft or more than?
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Comment #11144073
Definitely presentation is a huge factor. Presidential elections are great examples. If a good orator says something enough times, with conviction in a nice package people will bel…
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Comment #11141852
I think apple should tell the court/gov to f k off!
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Comment #10901902
Why was this quote posted? To show that Bowie was a moron like Al Gore? In 2002 everybody knew the above quote. Honestly some people...
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Comment #10674641
I'm reading these comments somewhat in disbelief. Put the torches down people. You know it took me the better part of 40 years to realize that if one is the greatest guy in the wor…
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Comment #9911339
That is a true statement. Yet privacy is a freedom that must be held onto with white knuckles. Who is to say that tomorrow your private poems about butterflies doesn't associate yo…
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Comment #9911243
Ahhhh you said probe.
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Comment #9536227
Really? I didn't know that. That flight out of New York where "Captain Sully"? made the first successful water ditch of a commercial airliner in the history of aviation had a flame…