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pacman2

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    Comment #38975387

    If someone uses wine, would you be so kind to post here for what programs? Wine would be interesting for Photoshop due to the GIMP CMYK problems. I run Photoshop on Wine many years…

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    Comment #37634317

    Could you please elaborate? I had infomaniak email with external (non infomaniak) domain. They don't seem to offer plain email hosting anymore. Please advise.

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    Comment #37574125

    So whats bad about it? Screamers anyone? Bladerunner? Natural City? Alien Resurrection? I take them all! Why the downvote. To which of the artificial ladies would you say no?

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    Comment #37562247

    I was told publishers dont promote a good book anymore these days. They ask how many instagram followers do you have? Maybe the self-publishing and BoD will decline in the long ter…

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    Comment #37549780

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/4527204

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    Comment #37521011

    Agreed. A plain number as an answer could give you zero points. It is always UNITS UNITS UNITS. 10 what? Kg? Apples? kW? I remember actually a chemistry test where I did not use un…

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    How to recover (digitally) when you are out of prison?

    This is not a joke. I have been in prison abroad for nearly two years. A total nightmare. I have nearly lost everything. Not made CC payments in 2 years etc. The US embassy was of …

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    Comment #37493456

    I will re-post later. Please understand that I am still very confused and that I want to keep many things private. And while I understand your curiosity, this is not an AMA. No, no…

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    Comment #29058615

    Well, we all know these houses a in bad shape and require a major investment but I don't think this is a problem. Fact is, you will create a tax liability there since most of this …

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    Comment #29057538

    This "old version" is alive and well and has been since many many years. It is my daily driver on my laptop and my desktop. It is extremely lightweight, snappy and beautiful. There…

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    Comment #29057027

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

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    Comment #29056275

    Exactly. This is why I use the Moksha Desktop.

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    Comment #29047444

    How about ordering from China? https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Foldable-Supportive-T... Any danger with chemicals?

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    Comment #28944871

    "Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this." Well I wont. I will look for an accumulator replacement for my Pixel one. 700 USD every few years? Quite a bit of money. Screensize? We …

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    Comment #28916267

    "The test for patent-worthiness is: “would it be non-obvious to someone who is skilled in the art?” " Well, nothing is harder to say than if something is "obvious". Locking backwar…

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    Comment #28792611

    I don't know about the Panama Canal, but the rest is true (mainly UK). " ... transporting porcelain and whatever other goods China exported at the time." China exported Silk, porce…

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    Comment #28716911

    The FireBee is a new Atari-compatible computer http://firebee.org/fb-bin/index

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    Comment #28663948

    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices "Bishop De Landa, a Franciscan monk and conquistador during the Spanish conquest of Yuc…

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    Comment #28663860

    Not long. Lets assume we lose the ability to manufacture modern IT equipment. How long do we have? Estimated live expectancy of HDD, SDD and tapes? Most digital data would be lost …

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    Comment #28663840

    Were they thinking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...

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    Comment #28663167

    Good idea for the wrong product. Does not make sense to make food out of it, at least not on earth. "carbon dioxide is reduced to methanol by an inorganic catalyst" The methanol ca…

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    Comment #28655079

    PS: Forwarded it to my buddy (Professor). Quote: "interesting but approach wont work"

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    Comment #28654859

    For Twitter I use this Bridge to get RSS https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge Just saw, it works also with other websites like youtube. But I have never tried this.

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    Comment #28643311

    Exactly. And I doubt that this device is used in any lab, except in a clinical lab setting. I have seen it in clinical trials. Focus on the word "arterial blood", this gives you an…