>Yeah, but how far can you make it in FUCKING LOS ANGELES

Probably a lot easier since the roads aren't FUCKING CATTLE PATHS THAT GOT PAVED OVER.

Crikes, you're stupid.

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I'm an urban cyclist.

I can make it from Arlington MA to Downtown Boston no problem, down Mass Ave, one of the most traveled roads anywhere.

And I don't feel like it's suicidal at all. Then again I don't bike like a moron and I pay attention to traffic laws. Clipless pedals help a lot.

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It /is/ walkable.

4 miles is 1 hr 20 minutes at normal walking speed.

2 hours by car? No, just no. That kind of time spent in a car going nowhere is just maddening.

Fer crissakes, it's 1 hr 20 minutes from here to Boston's South Station, and I'm in Concord NH and even during rush hour, it's not two hours. And once you're in Boston or Cambridge, you honestly don't need a car.

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FTFA:
Killeen said her four-mile commute to UCLA, where she teaches a public relations class, can take two hours during rush hour.

>4 miles
>Sunny LA

GET A FUCKING BICYCLE!

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Ok, so Ford is going to be Deckard again.

He is quite a bit older now. Since Replicants live short lives, and Deckard is a Replicant, how is this going to be reconciled in the movie?

I don't see how. Not unless we stick Ford into one of Larry Niven's autodocs.

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This needs to be modded up.

Encryption doesn't need to be "perfect"

It just has to be convenient and ubiquitous enough to make the government do actual work to get your stuff, forcing agencies to spend money from their budgets. It's assymetrical enough to drain those budgets given enough strength.

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If this were true surely the US legal system would not impose ludicrous fines and prison sentences for computer-related and other non-violent crimes.

Aaron Swartz, Jammie Thomas-Rasset and Joel Tenenbaum suggest that justice is not the primary consideration in many cases. The courts seem willing to impose penalties so egregiously severe as to create a climate of fear.

>If you don't like advertising on you favorite site. Then you better find them a business model where they can keep running (as it isn't free for them) and feed their family's.
>Otherwise just suck it up as the cost of having free access to their data.

Oh hay look, the old "if you don't like ads and block them you're stealing from the mouths of the children" argument.

It would be fine if I could trust the ad networks to not serve up malware, but even my own favorite sites have hosted malware from their ad networks from time to time.

Blocking ads is a much more of a security issue more than a convenience issue.

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>So why give up a morally superior position to "fight" people who pose almost no threat to anyone outside their own countries?

Money.

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1. Learn how to make a goddamned paragraph.
2. Your entire argument is wharrgarbl
3. You've missed the entire point of what I've said.
4. Fuck off.

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It matters because without privacy you have no power.

Everyone has a skeleton. Nobody is perfect. This is about archiving everything and using search technology to create instant dossiers on people who have influence on more than a handful of people. In other words, anyone who wants to effect change will be prevented/discredited.

It is a direct attack on democracy itself. It is an attack on the public at large.

Whether it's done by private corporations or the government, the effect is the same. It should be condemned in all cases.

And it's people like you that give this all a pass. You and your ilk disgust me.

Good day, sir.

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> I wonder if they'll drop POP support before lowering the boom? I have so very much data in there.

What, exactly, is preventing you from archiving what you have /right now/? What is preventing you from setting your IMAP/POP client to continually store in local folders?

Been using Tbird to access Gmail for years now. I don't see your problem.

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>> Getting rid of this shit-for-brains UI is the best possible bugfix that gedit could undergo right now. But will it be accepted? Of course not! The hipsters can't possibly be wrong about the UI.

>Substitute 'Firefox' or just about any other open source program in place of 'Gedit' and you have a perfect description of what is wrong with open source today.

Substitute Microsoft Word or just about any other closed source program in place of 'Firefox' and you have a perfect description of what is wrong with closed source today.

Fixed.

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It actually hurt my brain to read your reply.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

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Moreover, if Nokia wasn't run by absolute incompetents, they'd still be a huge player in the smartphone market.

But they farted around with OSes, libraries, and waffled and couldn't decide themselves out of a wet paper bag being while pushed off a cliff. To top it off, the board decided to welcome Microsoft's cukoo-egg into their nest because "OH MY GOD A BILLION DOLLARS."

Google is where it is because a lot of companies are run by boards that are more interested in feathering their own nests instead of what they largely give lip-service to - "innovation"

Look at Yahoo. Go ahead, look at 'em. Point And Laugh. They deserve it.

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