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With 3 and a bit years of downtime to sort out the crud and weirdness between uses.

If Google slyly becomes America's fibre wholesaler like that, I will tip my hat to them.

If done by private enterprise, the spectre of blackspots in non-revenue generating areas that would entrench rich/poor district disadvantages is what I'm concerned about.

Did they intend for it to be a formal contract?

I feel that for every major, an introduction to business/contract law unit should be undertaken if only to educate people on the formal rules that surround the contracts everyone enters in to during their lives.

While 我一点儿回看中文 I hope you appreciate that a poorly referenced Chinese wikipedia article isn't really a contribution to this conversation.

I feel if this ancient Chinese wisdom were accurate, you could substantiate it with some kind of study, and the "Ancient Chinese wisdom" part would be merely an amusing anecdote relevant to the data.

> Richards should be absolutely commended for what she did, documenting and publicizing the abuse against her. It’s extremely hard to do, and it’s incredibly valuable to the community.

From what I understand, she wasn't subject to abuse until after the tweet went live. She overheard some slightly lewd jokes not directed at her and decided to use a public forum to shame the jokers instead of more appropriate means.

My absolute first question: will you ship overseas? Every fashion startup I want to try seemingly refuses to ship to my country, even at cost to me.

I've never been able to stomach telling the truth to myself about my procrastination, let alone letting anyone else in on the anguish.

Is there anyone out there that would like to try an experiment of daily correspondence on the topic? Tell me what you achieved today, what you plan to achieve tomorrow, what your upcoming deadlines are etc. I'll do the same in return. Send me an email - <<myhnusername>>@163.com

For me, I have no problem running my own contacts/calendar server with calDAV/cardDAV support. I really hate running email servers though - and it's really nice to have your contacts and calendars integrated with your webmail.

Will google now follow through and remove H.264 support from chrome?(1)

(1) http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/01/google...

Heh, I opened it, enabled flash and nothing happened... assumed it wasn't working (Australia also)

Youtube link for internationals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieO0I6xJ_zQ

He didn't say "and achieve the same results" he said "and nobody could tell the difference". I'm listening to the song on my macbook right now, there is no way I could tell the difference on this thing, ditto to most people.

The difference is that stores can't preemptively detect I'm going to steal something and bar my entry. Websites can.

As far as I'm concerned anything you send to my web client I can display or choose not to display in any way I want. If you don't like that then do not send it to me - block me. Is it also "theft" if I am blind and use a screen reader?

I also take issue with your use of the word "steal" in the same way people equate piracy to theft it is flawed.

Sites are free to block me from access if they detect I am using adblock, there will be no hard feelings.

This is crap.

> I’m not sure what your assumption was all along when you started using this free service. My assumption was that when I posted the information to Instagram’s servers that I was trading utility

> for control (because I pay nothing for this service, I expect that it could go away at any moment.)

Yeah, we did trade utility for control - but now the control part of the bargain has changed, and that is why people are angry. It was predictable, but that doesn't make people's sense of betrayal any less real.

The Australian government is paying for my education in the manner described above - when I graduate and hopefully get a well paying job I will attribute part of my success to society helping me out with my education.

And be more than happy to pay high taxes.

Details?

There does seem quite a lot of work involved though, I wonder how long it takes him to make one.

Windows Phone needs to support cardDAV and calDAV already.

That sounds like a different Nitin Gupta (but it's interesting to hear of this guy operating in my home state!)

Be careful, I had my domain with outlook.com's predecessor, then when moving to a hosted exchange option made the mistake of trying to close the account instead of simply moving my domain records and leaving be.

I can never, ever, use me@mydomain.com as a Microsoft account ever again.

That's not exactly a sterling asset.

> I was going to write that Twitter is a one-to-many medium that, in my opinion, does not promote the sort of intimate conversation that Facebook does.

I had the same assumption, but realized after I began using it that I have lots of one or two person conversations.

That twitter hides @replies from your stream that refer to people you don't also follow obscures just how much back-and-forth conversation there is.

Plenty of other things use GPU other than games.

Please refute what he said then.

Why don't you make it to me directly.

I don't envy it. Nor fear it. Nor hate it. That's an extremely arrogant statement you just made.

My country had women's suffrage before yours. My country had a great transformation from a primarily racist white society to one where all have equal rights. I too can openly criticize my government and people aren't disappeared off the streets. I won't be saying which country I'm talking about as it is irrelevant.

Everything in social justice the United States has achieved my country also has, with our different free speech values.

I don't presume to say one is better or worse, but I do consider it totally arrogant the attitude Americans display when talking down about other country's free speech values.

Which are different. Not necessarily worse.