Posts by Martin Lindberg
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I'm kinda interested in how many people on this thread started university at age 16. Was/is that common? I can't help thinking of Doogie Howser M.D.
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Some interesting development on the Wikileaks story. They have posted a new file on their site called insurance. It's encrypted so it can't be read, but there's speculation that it may contain the remaining material.
More about it here (Wired.com)
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Yep, hotel internet is such a rip-off. I guess the hotels are trying to recoup some of the money they can't make from guests using their phones anymore, now that everyone has a cellphone.
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..Daniel Quinn's argument
I had to look that up to make sure it wasn't some kind of Paul Auster identity confusion performance art. After reading some of the Ishmael site I'm still not sure. (No pun intended)
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Also,
A friend just told me that, if I asked him who he was, he would say Afghani as an individual, As to the country, it is Afghan, which is the name of the people and istan is the place of living hence Afghan (people) istan (place).But only in English, right? ;-)
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I don't expect someone from Fielding to die to make me feel better about women's rights in country we've got no right to be in.
It's not about your feelings.
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Maybe it's fiction?
We're not allowed to be annoyed by fiction that doesn't make sense?
Of course. But your reasoning as to why it does not make sense requires some extrapolation not supplied by the show. You are then supplying your own reasoning in a way that annoys you.
I immediately went with Emma's supplied explanation (or something like it):
The doors use the kinetic energy of their own motion to charge themselves up for the next time they have to open.
So it made perfect sense to me.
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Transportation does use a lot more energy than lighting.
Yeah. But if energy is so restricted that it effectively functions as money, wouldn't electric opening doors be pretty much non-existant?
Maybe it's fiction?
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Gizmodo on multi-touch and mice:
Apple Magic Trackpad: The Beginning of the End for Mac OS X
Because this is Steve and Co. way of telling us that the future is multitouch, and the mouse is death.
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turns out I'm a massive snob when it comes to bad movies, and have no time for this sort of cinematic slumming
Here's a story just for you Aging Gen-Xer Doesn't Find Bad Movies Funny Anymore
Well, it describes me pretty well anyway.