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Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by curun1r » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 6:14 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #44

EGreg wrote: post #41

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Yeah, @dang this is what I've been saying. How do you resubmit the same link though? You tack on &attempt=55 to the end?

One trick is to append a period after the TLD. So for the link above, it'd be http://www.independent.co.uk./news/world/americas/i-fell-in-... Notice the period after ".co.uk" and before the "/" E.g. "Example.com./" Having a period after TLD is a valid URL. But rarely seen.

This is part of DNS.

Having a period after the domain tells DNS not to search any search domains setup on the system. If your system was setup with the search domain example.com, www.independent.co.uk could also be evaluated as www.independent.co.uk.example.com (if it had a DNS entry) by your system whereas www.independent.co.uk. can't.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by discordianfish » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 6:19 PM UTC

tebruno99 wrote: post #50

Everyone is of course titled to their own opinion but for me personally I feel like Love doesn't mean what this person thinks it means.....

How do you define love? Isn't the whole idea that it's beyond reason and moral?

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by ShabbosGoy » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

thret wrote: post #21

jacquesm wrote: post #17

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The two biggest mistakes people tend to repeat are thinking that (1) it can't happen here and (2) if it does happen here I'll be different.

It's our society that is better, not our people.

Society cannot erase the demons of our nature. At best you achieve a level of control that is fleeting.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by ShabbosGoy » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 6:44 PM UTC

kstenerud wrote: post #33

"But what happens if your new girlfriend has a much darker and more sinister secret than having slept around a bit?" And what, exactly, is wrong with "having slept around a bit?"

Nothing wrong with it per se.

Personally, I use # of sexual partners as a signal for how successful the relationship will be. It's an indicator of how stable the person is in their romantic relationships.

Of course there are counterexamples, i.e. a virgin who ends up a terrible partner and a promiscuous person who ends up being the love of my life.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by abandonliberty » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 7:00 PM UTC

pmarreck wrote: post #10

A good story, if not fantastically-written. I'd advise not flipping through the photos until you read it, though. Spoiler alert. Some of those should have been left for the end.

I followed this advice. Highly recommend it.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by cuckcuckspruce » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 7:19 PM UTC

LordKano wrote: post #45

make3 wrote: post #29

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Thinking only sociopaths can do really terrible things is likely very wrong. Normal people can decide over some time to switch off empathy, or to work against it. This needs to be understood.

Anger, pain or desperation will make otherwise normal people do some very abnormal things. Even in the most "civilized" and wealthy of western democracies, 1 week of no food, water and electricity would lead to absolute bedlam. Three months of that kind of desperation would lead to otherwise normal people killing and robbing strangers. When the crisis abates, they'll be able to rationalize away their behavior because…

The most dangerous person in the world is someone with nothing to lose. If you have nothing left to lose then you aren't constrained by worrying about tomorrow.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by ablation » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 7:37 PM UTC

greekyogurt21 wrote: post #28

ablation wrote: post #13

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Maybe The Independent could have found a human to work on his copy with him?

2edgy4me

Nice throwaway, pal.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by luord » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC

As a Colombian who remembers how things were nine years ago (I was sixteen and just starting college)[1], I have to admit that the thing I found most shocking was that he wasn't just kidnapped by the rebels. That non-sequitur of mine aside, good story.

[1]: Although that's for the publication of the article; the events described happened before then. But that's even more understandable as the closer one gets to the nineties (and the actual nineties), the worse the painting of Colombia is.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by LordKano » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 8:49 PM UTC

silverbax88 wrote: post #60

cl0wnshoes wrote: post #54

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He definitely had some issues as well. For sex he let assassinating informants and others (non-militant?) slide. It seemed like he still tried to keep the sexual relationship going even after she told him she did some side work cutting a body into pieces, though it was harder and eventually led to him moving on. All around no bueno.

Nobody is the villain of their own story.

THIS!

I'm sure that she's the victim in her own story.

Re: I fell in love with an assassin (2008)

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Post by greekyogurt21 » Fri, Aug 04, 2017, 10:15 PM UTC

ablation wrote: post #67

greekyogurt21 wrote: post #28

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2edgy4me

Nice throwaway, pal.

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