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    Comment #32258214

    Video is nicely sequential and eminently suitable for spinning disk service. What's really confusing me is the 10G lan configuration because it's leaving little headroom above unco…

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    Comment #32258091

    Equally it's a sorry indictment of our economic times that the meaning of unlawful has been hammered into a understanding that non prohibition is permission. This aggressive and pu…

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    Comment #32257992

    Sadly I think that the value of Wikipedia in this lamentable example of judicial laziness and professional under funding is the web just happens to be more easily searched than LEX…

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    Comment #32257943

    Hang on, doesn't deliberate manipulation of the consumption of counterfactual legal precedent by a sitting judiciary (withholding with measurable effect the countering case referen…

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    Comment #32237861

    I'd like to recommend a shelf of great to read erudite and intelligible financial history and financial social history and technicality, from which you'd recognize the simulacra, b…

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    Comment #32237608

    I'm guessing that the VC premium pays for privileges like lock up and preferred terms. VC buying - aka VC selling to greater fool LPs, with purported guarantees trails a wake of re…

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    Comment #32235723

    In the UK movie screening used to be and probably still is decided at the smallest municipal level of town councils, see The Life of Brian.

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    Comment #32203297

    Don't smoke heroin, try Oxycontin! Sorry for the snark but I'm nursing a hangover created in the company of a important friend who's promising to quit drinking after moving state n…

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    Comment #32202671

    I think that all the analysis I've found with a quick search isn't very helpful. The seller had to sue to either obtain payment or void the contract or else spend energies and time…

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    Comment #32194947

    >There's no form of marketing that I "like" or actively reward, at most there's marketing that I fell for. For very high value software licensing agreements there's huge financial …

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    Comment #32151631

    In the UK the 1980 banking act introduced formerly excluded commercial banks to housing loans and simultaneously increased the statutory maximum loan value from 3* single wage earn…

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    Comment #32148884

    I don't know when I first heard students boasting about these scare away intro lectures [0] but it was noticeable by the early eighties. I've a few unsubstantiated hypotheses why: …

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    Comment #32115870

    Drexel was shut down by order of one certain ambitious NY Assistant AG by the name of Rudy Giuliani. The indictment? Criminal prosecution for statutory civil offences of two counts…

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    Comment #32114213

    And the fines fund the pseudo regulatory bodies in reward for not regulating.

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    Comment #32107315

    It's Rota's 10th point, on ageing, that's ringing in my ears. I'm the oldest person in the room far too often (and the population growth of recent decades serves to increase the ef…

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    Comment #32100355

    >Ukraine can choose whatever allies it damn pleases. If only it was so easy then this would have been over as soon as it started. Edit: forgot to quote context

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    Comment #32100320

    We did but according to anecdotal evidence self preoccupied boomers forgot to pass it on.

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    Comment #32084451

    I think that corporate sponsorship of education needs of to be outlawed. We've had at least three generations of exponential feedback of antisocial principles dominating business e…

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    Comment #32081837

    I intuitively understand that we're using the whole of our brains in the same way that we use the full capacity of NNs and discard the majority of results. In other words the"unuse…

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    Comment #32080046

    3M sell a range of security film for after market application. Also IR/UV blocking films. Former external latter internal. Worth looking at the energy savings because which can be …

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    Comment #32078007

    Reading this man's homepage he comes across as a insufferable egotist. I couldn't find any trace of didactic value among the self aggrandizing rhetoric not possible to convey with …

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    Comment #32077910

    Is enabling the same as normalization? Surely normalization is acceptance into culture whereas even in dysfunctional organizations the individual actors all think that they're solv…

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    Comment #32075041

    That's nothing I watched Oracle pump Oracle 6 all down route 101. Edit: see the shareholder suits that followed. Customers were also buying bits and a promise ^h^h support and gett…

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    Comment #32074885

    Precisely because of the minimal gfx world I can't imagine it ageing. Ironically I think it's possible only Disney of the major studios could have understood the necessity as well …

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    Comment #32074748

    EVFs can be better than the Fujifilm you have and especially Nikon is (currently giving theirs better signal than other makes. I cannot agree more about low light photography. The …