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There is no group the current elites hate more than the middle class. The middle class pays enough attention and has just enough power to make them uncomfortable when they do nasty…

POSIX text files have lines terminated in a newline and so the POSIX text files always end in a newline. Source files are text files so they end in a new line.

idk, I love being an ass and disliking things.

*prohibit you from legally distributing it (which makes it difficult to profit from.) Also everyone way overestimates how hard it is to re implement all this crap.

It should be fairly obvious that taking a side is part of the PR stunt they planed for it.

Well I've just had the weekly "why can't you come here" call with my forign gf, failed to deliver on the couple tickets I have open at work, and posted my daily "barf into ~/stuff/…

Humans are social and sexual by nature. That's where religion and the rest of civilization that reductionists take for granted came from. Don't forsake it or you will live hell on …

'fun' so often means climbing the mountain. Something we will do no matter how poor we are. Google's goal is to harness that to use it against all their users. I'll tell you now I …

I've read the silmarillion and my father read me the trilogy and the hobbit to go to sleep at night. At university my professors mentioned the significance of Tolkien's work. None …

The invasion of privacy compared to the degree of crime in SF is incredible. Will people question the principles that led to this or do they still think there's some inconsistency …

Software is just the smell of other computer users. Some smell nice, most smell terrible, it's nothing special either way. You can rewrite anything in an afternoon if you're in the…