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talmand

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    Comment #21225646

    That's not the reality of the story being told; that's the embellishments of the narrator when telling the story to the second wave of soldiers the night before battle.

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    Comment #20227658

    I always understood that Section 508 applied only to US Federal agencies and any third-party products they make use of.

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    Comment #19719410

    Or just about any year of your choosing. Today it's phones, before then it was newspapers, before then it was the town square, before then it was the village crier, before then it …

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    Comment #19719365

    >> Speech without thought isn't free speech. That's a rather strong opening to limiting free speech. Who gets to decide that my speech was without thought? Is there an approval pro…

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    Comment #19615159

    >> The obvious answer seems to be moving to somewhere nearby that's cheaper and roomier. But people seem very resistant to this for some reason. Because that requires money.

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    Comment #19516580

    I, for one, listen to everybody I'm allowed to listen to.

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    Comment #19503872

    At what point do such things change into a public discourse problem? Do we wait until it can be shown that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. influenced elections be…

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    Comment #19321131

    A simple, yet clearly unsympathetic, view to take is that a business does not hire you to make sure you are happy. That your needs to meet a fruitful and positive life are actually…

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    Comment #18915434

    It's not like paper in boxes don't have their own maintenance costs.

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    Comment #18433071

    When I point out obvious problems such as that I'm told to stop being negative.

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    Comment #18312476

    Speaking of the alleged problem as reported is not necessarily a comment on the UX, it can be simply a reporting of the problem.

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    Comment #18114110

    A horse was the result of the Design an Animal for Traveling Through the Desert Planning Committee.

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    Comment #18114063

    For anyone who hasn't seen it... First, go watch it before the rumored Ryan Reynolds remake. It's a fun movie and holds up fairly well. Second, when released for home they rolled a…

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    Comment #18033464

    What determines a "spy"? What prevents every other contact from being a "spy"? What prevents a foreign US agent approaching a target to have them tagged as a "spy"? The whole thing…

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    Comment #18033420

    Just two would qualify it as cross platform.

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    Comment #17982246

    Clearly no modern person has the moral high ground on anything when looking through the lens of history. I'm surprised the world hasn't fallen into total anarchy since no one can s…

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    Comment #17733672

    Personally I find the idea of a bank supporting such an outdated browser disturbing on a security level.

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    Comment #17733647

    What are IE developers?

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    Comment #17617977

    Well, considering there are devices out there for the purpose of signing names repeatedly, I would say your example doesn't necessarily work. Totally depends on the situation. And …

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    Comment #17617922

    Well, it could be. As long as #foo exists on the page at the time that line is executed. If you inject #foo into the page after load then the click event won't work. The jquery exa…

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    Comment #17601902

    Except for Mississippi.

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    Comment #17601803

    I don't think I would agree with the usage of the word "lazy" to describe coders that want to rewrite entire chunks of code. They may have their invalid reasons for wanting to do s…

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    Comment #17575445

    Interesting things people are saying in that forum thread. Claims that deleting the related file causes the game to no longer launch. Why is that necessary for marketing tracking o…

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    Comment #17515023

    I'd be very happy with the 32GB at this point, but sadly my company just got me the previous new model with 16GB and I doubt I can convince anyone to reduce my refresh cycle to mer…