On the topic of anecdotal RSI cures, I was symptom-free after starting a strength training program focusing on heavy compound lifts and olympic lifts. No rest periods or ergonomic quackery required.
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He could have done this a while ago, but he didn't.
He could have relaunched fully, under a new entity, but he didn't.
He chose NOW, to relaunch for only 72 hours. Why?
It's far more likely that Levison has been bullied into 72 hours of snooping to avoid contempt than that he's suddenly decided, months after shutting down, for no reason at all, to open up a window for users to grab their emails.
Probably best to tell this AG to go piss up a rope privately and dispense with useless press releases like this.
The bigger question is why GenY thinks a simple fever is cause for helping to overcrowd our emergency rooms even further. A thermometer costs $20 and will help determine if the fever is severe enough to require medical intervention.
Do you not wear your glasses and/or contacts when working? I don't follow.
Which is why "modern" frameworks like bootstrap still encourage grid layouts using explicit width classes like span3?
Face it, we haven't gotten any better since Mosaic.
As to the risk of repeating history: Anyone positing the holocaust didn't happen is competing in a marketplace of ideas where the evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary. Not to mention fierce competition from the European equivalent to K-12 education.
It seems to me akin to criminalizing street vendors selling hot dogs made of ( sterilized, to minimize health counterarguments ) toe jam and ear wax. Very very few people are going to become customers. Except it's much worse, because you are criminalizing ideas.
Anecdotally: I've been programming for over 20 years. I am a fast and accurate typist, but I never learned to touch-type and as a consequence, I need to see my fingers relative to the keys occasionally. I cannot do this in the dark without backlit keys.
You should probably not assume that everyone who uses computers is a touch-typist.
Huh? I am wracking my brain trying to figure out how, biomechanically, a short keystroke can cause pain.
The second option is equally unpleasant, but for different reasons. We would require a total and catastrophic economic collapse, such that bread and circuses can no longer be affordably provided and such that the populace becomes sufficiently uncomfortable to actually start giving a shit. THIS solution is also not advisable, since such scenarios don't offer options to guide who is elected in the place of the devil we know. The transition from the Weimar to the Third Reich offers a valuable, and scary, precedent here.
Since both of the above are unpalatable, my solution is to drink heavily and bitch endlessly on the internet while still enjoying my comfortable life.
It's naiveté at the highest level to think that any meaningful proportion of the electorate cares, and that a single thing will change. If anything, the State now has tacit permission to press even further down the road of dystopia.
We live in a highly insular world in which our ideas are echoed by like-minded people. In such a world, it's easy to make the mistake of assuming that the broader populace is similarly like-minded. The reality, however, is that so long as sufficient bread and circuses are provided, nobody will care nearly as much as you or I do.
Why would this be a tactical mistake? The general public DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. The government(s) know(s) this quite well.
If you think for a second that detention of associates of political enemies matters to an electorate far more interested in the minutiae of Kanye West's baby, you're living in a fairy land of your own making.
This was tried. It was called The United States of America. The 9th and 10th amendments to the constitution delegated an enormous amount of powers to the states to try their own experiments, with the federal government standing by to adjudicate interstate disputes and maintain standards of currency and commerce.
Then Lincoln came along.
Out of curiosity, why? Where I live, finding real life interactions with people in tech is quite rare, and I wish it were different.
Grass is greener.
As a first time customer, you are not being "cheated". You are just a lot more expensive.
When 50% of the membership of AARP is using GPG and having key signing parties, then we can talk.
In a democracy, complacency guarantees that nothing will change and in fact will likely get worse.
For those of us to whom privacy actually matters, we need to recognize that we are in the vast minority, and as such, our voice will be completely incapable of effecting political change. Technological tools then become our only option.
Then there's the issue that even IF political action had a chance, it would still be ineffective. Case in point: voting for "the other guy" HAS ALREADY FAILED everyone who actually bought Obama's lies about reducing the police state.
Until today I had no idea he even had a sister, let alone that she also went into physics.
It's far, far, more likely that you've had friends who drank too much and then assumed, in the absence of an actual toxicology report or other corroborating evidence, that they were drugged.
Ref: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/case-studies/burgess-spiking...