Silly. No one's actually benefitted from working in IT, since the 90's!
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Glad you didn't say Y2K17...
as someone with a background in Electronic Engineering, it used to wind me up when it was popular to write the date like that in the early 2000s.
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as someone with a background in Electronic Engineering, it used to wind me up when it was popular to write the date like that in the early 2000s.
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Because, it's a common shorthand in electronics to represent values of certain things by replacing the decimal point with the indicator of magnitudinal order...
So a resistor with a value of 4,700 ohms would usually be referred to as 4.7k ohms, or 4k7 for short.
So, by that means of representation, Y2k17 would mean the year 2170.
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So a resistor with a value of 4,700 ohms would usually be referred to as 4.7k ohms, or 4k7 for short.
So, by that means of representation, Y2k17 would mean the year 2170.
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Do you often find yourself saying "Just try turning it on and off again"?
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That lasts about 1 second,
Before the unobtanium custom 3000 ball FPGA releases the magic smoke.
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Before the unobtanium custom 3000 ball FPGA releases the magic smoke.
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Do you?
Can I get some free IT advice...
I'm hacking a ATX power supply to run a 3D printer and some bits.
If I take one of the 5 volt lines and wire it to a usb socket will that work?
Or will I 'spload my phone. USB's 5 volts right?
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Can I get some free IT advice...
I'm hacking a ATX power supply to run a 3D printer and some bits.
If I take one of the 5 volt lines and wire it to a usb socket will that work?
Or will I 'spload my phone. USB's 5 volts right?
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Not really IT-related, but yeah, that'll work OK
providing the voltage it outputs is within the USB range (4.75-5.6v), even with a low current draw.
Be aware that the 5v line of an ATX PSU can output 10s of amps, so could potentially seriously fry something connected to it (or at least trip its internal protection, which could be a pain to fix) if it has a fault -- you could stick a 2.5A fuse between the 5v line and the USB port to minimise the risk.
Also note that some devices will only charge if the USB port enumerates the device (which would require a USB driver circuit), but I think that tends to be older devices made before USB charging became mainstream.
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providing the voltage it outputs is within the USB range (4.75-5.6v), even with a low current draw.
Be aware that the 5v line of an ATX PSU can output 10s of amps, so could potentially seriously fry something connected to it (or at least trip its internal protection, which could be a pain to fix) if it has a fault -- you could stick a 2.5A fuse between the 5v line and the USB port to minimise the risk.
Also note that some devices will only charge if the USB port enumerates the device (which would require a USB driver circuit), but I think that tends to be older devices made before USB charging became mainstream.
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Me too.
It would have to be better than the TV mini movie......I hope.
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It would have to be better than the TV mini movie......I hope.
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I don't normally think remakes work as well as the original
That didn't seem too bad at all though. As long as they got someone who can play a good pennywise they may pull it off.
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That didn't seem too bad at all though. As long as they got someone who can play a good pennywise they may pull it off.
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The original Mini Series had a lot wrong as well as right (Pennywise - good, Giant Spider thing - crap)
So there plenty of scope for this not to be just an imitation of the first version but with cgi.
Bet it doesn't have the sewer gang-bang from the book either.
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So there plenty of scope for this not to be just an imitation of the first version but with cgi.
Bet it doesn't have the sewer gang-bang from the book either.
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Yet another cultural icon of which I know nothing
Should I bother?
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Should I bother?
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Searchable and downloadable library of pictures and videos courtesy of NASA
You can finally change your Pamela Anderson Baywatch desktop.
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You can finally change your Pamela Anderson Baywatch desktop.
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Terry May severs ties with EU
Crude but effective. I do like the supporting cast.
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Crude but effective. I do like the supporting cast.
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It's all Ed Miliband's fault.
An amusing reductio ad absurdum polemic. Well, I thought it was funny.
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An amusing reductio ad absurdum polemic. Well, I thought it was funny.
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Has anyone actually verified all those new labour members actually exist?
Would be very cheap for Russia to buy several hundred memberships and gain control of a major political party and install a sympathetic leader.
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Would be very cheap for Russia to buy several hundred memberships and gain control of a major political party and install a sympathetic leader.
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Or install a complete fuck-nugget, thus ensuring the success of the right
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i find it hilarious that you fund such shit by clicking on it.
and then you spend your time reading it. and then feeling it necessary to post here about it. ha.
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and then you spend your time reading it. and then feeling it necessary to post here about it. ha.
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you make a lot of
challenging, often critical, usually contrary comments that feel like they're posted to start an argument
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challenging, often critical, usually contrary comments that feel like they're posted to start an argument
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Almost exclusively films of the superhero / comic book / animated / sci-fi genres it would seem.
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nope, mainly weird stuff that doesn't go down well on here (like the ghost thing yesterday)
so I try to stick to only posting the crowd pleasing nonsense trailers that everyone can have a laugh/moan about
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so I try to stick to only posting the crowd pleasing nonsense trailers that everyone can have a laugh/moan about
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I saw the film Life yesterday.
It's not the kind of film I'd usually go to the cinema to see and it was interesting to see that reflected to a certain extent in the trailers shown.
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It's not the kind of film I'd usually go to the cinema to see and it was interesting to see that reflected to a certain extent in the trailers shown.
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I always wonder what drives people who say "Just saying" after they just said something.
I mean it`s pretty obvious that is what they just did, I wonder if they pointlessly narrate their own life in other areas as much.
"Just walking down the street, just walking into a shop" etc
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I mean it`s pretty obvious that is what they just did, I wonder if they pointlessly narrate their own life in other areas as much.
"Just walking down the street, just walking into a shop" etc
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A very literal chap, challenged by even the least nuanced vagaries of discourse, aren't you?
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I like where the soundtrack's going.
I wonder if there's a story.
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I wonder if there's a story.
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story is obvious from the trailer
find the macguffin and the protagonists are also macguffins.
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find the macguffin and the protagonists are also macguffins.
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I fail to get excited over Luc Besson anymore.
Yes, he's been involved in some absolute corkers (Leon, The 5th Element, Nikita) but he's also had his hand in a lot of shite.
Much the same way I used to get excited by Guillermo del Toro putting his name to things until I realised most of it is toss.
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Yes, he's been involved in some absolute corkers (Leon, The 5th Element, Nikita) but he's also had his hand in a lot of shite.
Much the same way I used to get excited by Guillermo del Toro putting his name to things until I realised most of it is toss.
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Can't help thinking that lots of that looks familiar.
0:20 - Oh look, it's the Millennium Falcon
0:30 - "I wonder if it'll make friends with me"
0:58 - Bet she's a Replicant
1:06 - Aren't Avatars supposed to be blue?
1.30 - Oh look, it's an X-Wing
1:44 - Someone's been watching Babylon 5
Not to mention a bunch of bits that look to have been lifted clean out of his own previous work.
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0:20 - Oh look, it's the Millennium Falcon
0:30 - "I wonder if it'll make friends with me"
0:58 - Bet she's a Replicant
1:06 - Aren't Avatars supposed to be blue?
1.30 - Oh look, it's an X-Wing
1:44 - Someone's been watching Babylon 5
Not to mention a bunch of bits that look to have been lifted clean out of his own previous work.
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Um - are you kidding? I can't tell.
Valerian is a massively influential series of comic books. The Falcon was accused of being a rip off of its ship design. Beson's been a fan since he was a kid, so he's totally been influenced - so it's only natural that his earlier films should have a load of those elements (geddit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valรฉrian_and_Laureline
sequart.org/magazine/28602/valerian-spaceships-simulacra-and-star-wars/
www.coolfrenchcomics.com/valerian.htm
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Valerian is a massively influential series of comic books. The Falcon was accused of being a rip off of its ship design. Beson's been a fan since he was a kid, so he's totally been influenced - so it's only natural that his earlier films should have a load of those elements (geddit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valรฉrian_and_Laureline
sequart.org/magazine/28602/valerian-spaceships-simulacra-and-star-wars/
www.coolfrenchcomics.com/valerian.htm
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Well, just add that to the list of things that I didn't know before.
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M.C. Escher: Adventures in Perception
This is a 20-minute Dutch documentary released in 1971 that displays the work of artist M.C. Escher (1898โ1972)
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This is a 20-minute Dutch documentary released in 1971 that displays the work of artist M.C. Escher (1898โ1972)
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Lovely wee film. Good to see the man at work, but I found the background music somewhat sinister.
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It was around a lot then
They must have thought music with no music, beat, tempo, or other characteristics of music was `edgy`
I always thought it was shit.
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They must have thought music with no music, beat, tempo, or other characteristics of music was `edgy`
I always thought it was shit.
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Disappointed...
I was expecting to see someone wee on the back of their own head from upstairs...
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I was expecting to see someone wee on the back of their own head from upstairs...
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Flippant comment above aside,
although I was already somewhat familiar with his more well-know works, a book of his works I discovered in a second-hand book shop in my early teens had a profound effect on me.
I really liked the background music too (love the early drum machine sound).
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although I was already somewhat familiar with his more well-know works, a book of his works I discovered in a second-hand book shop in my early teens had a profound effect on me.
I really liked the background music too (love the early drum machine sound).
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"Every time my 9 year old asks a question about Brexit I start crying when I explain. Which isn't helpful.2
Your 9 year old must think you are as soft as shite.
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Your 9 year old must think you are as soft as shite.
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perhaps if some kind of plan or description of how this will benefit the UK beyond "newts and lightbulbs" had been handed out
people wouldn't be so worried
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people wouldn't be so worried
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oh look, Lloyds are moving
that's Lloyds ofLondon Brussels
www.cityam.com/261920/lloyds-london-moving-eu-business-brussels-after-article-50
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that's Lloyds of
www.cityam.com/261920/lloyds-london-moving-eu-business-brussels-after-article-50
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this is giving a hilarious insight in to your musical knowledge
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It's going to be just like how everyone lost their job and the economy was destroyed when we didn't join the Euro currency. Benny.
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You can stop fretting now.
Lloyds have just been interviewed on the radio box and said the amount of jobs going to Brussels will be in the 10's out of it's current 1000 employees.
95% of it's business will still be done here.
It's just so they can still get the required EU certifications.
Now don't you feel better?
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Lloyds have just been interviewed on the radio box and said the amount of jobs going to Brussels will be in the 10's out of it's current 1000 employees.
95% of it's business will still be done here.
It's just so they can still get the required EU certifications.
Now don't you feel better?
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Well that's what the next two years are all about.
Everyone's got their own ideas of what they want but this is when we actually start seeing where it's going.
Which is why parliament oversight is crucial.
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Everyone's got their own ideas of what they want but this is when we actually start seeing where it's going.
Which is why parliament oversight is crucial.
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and the people concerned that a plan wasn't put in place before the wheels were set in motion are the ones being mocked
Freedom!
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Freedom!
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Well any plan that could be made was the one in mays little speech before the article 50 vote.
What we actually get is to be decided over the next two years of negotiations.
We could plan to get free unicorns and kittens for all but that's no guarantee that will materialise.
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What we actually get is to be decided over the next two years of negotiations.
We could plan to get free unicorns and kittens for all but that's no guarantee that will materialise.
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look over there! a squirrel!
odd how many column inches have been filled with and the amount of broadcast news time devoted to all this speculation as to what brexit may or may not actually mean eventually. one wonders what else our lovely government have been up to in the meantime.
*hmmm: hansard.parliament.uk/
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odd how many column inches have been filled with and the amount of broadcast news time devoted to all this speculation as to what brexit may or may not actually mean eventually. one wonders what else our lovely government have been up to in the meantime.
*hmmm: hansard.parliament.uk/
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Did you mean to link to a particular page?
Now about this Squirrel....
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Now about this Squirrel....
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I nearly got attacked by a red squirrel in Vienna...
vicious buggers, keep 'em over there!
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vicious buggers, keep 'em over there!
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Well the Dear John is done, to the divorce courts!
I hope we get to keep the record collection.
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I hope we get to keep the record collection.
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the Beano, Whizzer and Chips and Bunty can't be trusted
Bloody Remoaner Propaganda the lot of 'em
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Bloody Remoaner Propaganda the lot of 'em
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RT and Brietbart are very reliable
InfoWars for sport 'n' tits
MSNBC is good if you're into unattainable lezzers
Daily Express for the latest dead-Di gossip and Maddie pics to Barclays over
Other than that just follow President Trump's twitter feed - he's the only one you can really trust to tell the truth
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InfoWars for sport 'n' tits
MSNBC is good if you're into unattainable lezzers
Daily Express for the latest dead-Di gossip and Maddie pics to Barclays over
Other than that just follow President Trump's twitter feed - he's the only one you can really trust to tell the truth
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You forgot the Canary and The Daily Stormer.
They have very different views on everything except one thing. They have very similar views about Jews.
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They have very different views on everything except one thing. They have very similar views about Jews.
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nice bit of animation for one of those shooty games that the kids like
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The version if you work in an office run by non sweaty mormons
youtube.com/watch?v=yLWoFt7lgRA
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youtube.com/watch?v=yLWoFt7lgRA
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"The world's spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey in any given year. "
That's some pretty vague calculations.
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That's some pretty vague calculations.
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Well, weighing all those flies takes aaaaages. Plus, it's really boring.
Much easier to just weigh two or three and then make an educated, yet cautious guess. If statisticians were paid hourly, we'd probably have a far more accurate figure.
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Much easier to just weigh two or three and then make an educated, yet cautious guess. If statisticians were paid hourly, we'd probably have a far more accurate figure.
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I assume it's pretty easy to come with with a reasonably narrow confidence interval for how much mass a single spider consumes given it's species..
I think the reason these figures are so vague is it's nearly impossible to come up with an estimation of how many spiders there are in the world and the proportions of species.
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I think the reason these figures are so vague is it's nearly impossible to come up with an estimation of how many spiders there are in the world and the proportions of species.
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I think they should have
stuck with measuring everything in Titanics, as per the infographic.
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stuck with measuring everything in Titanics, as per the infographic.
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They can't be worse than the cuntish meatbags running things now.
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It's a heat pump water heater.
I dropped one off a forklift once. That was over $2000 out of the company pocket that day.
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I dropped one off a forklift once. That was over $2000 out of the company pocket that day.
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Robo Boiler
The story of a lonely robot who keeps losing friends due to his habit of getting overexcited and causing third degree burns. Together with an unjudgemental little girl he embarks on a journey to find a thermostat.
( , Wed 29 Mar 2017, 8:13, Share, Reply)
The story of a lonely robot who keeps losing friends due to his habit of getting overexcited and causing third degree burns. Together with an unjudgemental little girl he embarks on a journey to find a thermostat.
( , Wed 29 Mar 2017, 8:13, Share, Reply)
Not quite that
but this is a rather nice short animation about a little girl and a robot.
( , Wed 29 Mar 2017, 11:33, Share, Reply)
but this is a rather nice short animation about a little girl and a robot.
( , Wed 29 Mar 2017, 11:33, Share, Reply)
When will US police get it into their thick heads?
They are civilians too, albeit just barely.
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They are civilians too, albeit just barely.
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Note to self, when in America don't threaten to shoot the police.
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^ This.
Or anyone who could kick your ass, for that matter.
I'll admit that's the first time I've heard of techdirt.com
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Or anyone who could kick your ass, for that matter.
I'll admit that's the first time I've heard of techdirt.com
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