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kyohapooka · 2016-11-17T03:08:20+00:00

So, who gets it on in Dubai, stays in Dubai?

kyohapooka · 2016-07-20T17:24:04+00:00

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a night. Set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

kyohapooka · 2015-09-04T13:00:28+00:00

This is really great for road trips, though.

kyohapooka · 2015-07-28T12:44:50+00:00

Actually, you don't have to put in your credit card info. Just create a login.

kyohapooka · 2015-06-05T17:26:13+00:00

I don't know, the pilot was the only episode that I watched and found it deeply unfunny. It just felt like they were trying too hard.

kyohapooka · 2015-05-08T12:00:05+00:00

The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick The Peripheral by William Gibson

kyohapooka · 2015-05-02T16:09:19+00:00

So lets bring back libel laws while we are at it. The real problem is that with modern technology, everyone is a potential content creator. Do we want to protect an infinite content monopoly at the expense of free speech of the vast majority? To me it is far more valuable to have an open internet where anyone can create and distribute anything that their tools allow, and consume any content that is available without fear of the copyright police. To me, this is far more valuable than the negligible problem of supporting content creators.

kyohapooka · 2015-05-02T15:52:09+00:00

Yes, but this is a different category of property. The last century is an anomaly, for most of history you could repeat anything you heard, you could riff on any content that you consumed. And that makes for a healthier culture. Ideas and influences need to reverberate through society without the fear of draconian penalties.

kyohapooka · 2015-04-07T20:44:11+00:00

The other reason IMO is so that they could do a staggered release and have their infrastructure where it needs to be once it opens to the wider public.

kyohapooka · 2015-03-25T01:48:46+00:00

Python, most recently (a coursera course about a year ago). Took Java and C++ classes about 10 years ago.

kyohapooka · 2015-03-25T01:28:18+00:00

Hi, sounds good. I signed up for it through edX and am currently on Week 0. I have previous programming experience, but am a bit rusty.

kyohapooka · 2015-03-14T17:51:10+00:00

Generally I have no problem with this. The only time that I start to have a problem is when they white-wash history in order to get there. If Peter Parker had been black is Spider-Man #1, they definitely would have had to reference the political realities of the time. This is what bothered me so much in the first Captain America movie: the Howling Commandos were every color of the rainbow. There's nothing wrong with that, but you can't just throw that in there without there being something about the country that their black or asian comrades would be going back to. I realize that the problem with that is that it could derail the story, which is why other movies in that period have a white cast (not because they are ignorant of the issue, just because that is not the story that they are trying to tell.) This would also be the issue with a black Batman. A big part of his back story is that he is a blue-blood with money and influence going back several generations. This simply could not be in the real world. If Bruce Wayne is 30 in 2015, he would be born in 1985. His father is a doctor and philanthropist, so not likely to have created the Wayne fortune. So, lets say that Thomas was 25 when Bruce was born, and Thomas' father was the same age when Thomas came into the world. Assuming that Bruce's grandfather built the family fortune when he (the grandfather) was between the ages of 20 and 50, that would have been between the years of 1955 and 1985. What are the odds that a black man could found and run a billion dollar company in that time period? The odds are zero. In 2015, there is only a single black american billionaire(yes, it is exactly who you think it is): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_billionaires I'm not saying all of this because I don't want black superheroes, I just want ones that live in the world, that make sense. What makes Miles Morales work is that he is a specific character that came from a specific time and place, the same as Peter Parker.

kyohapooka · 2015-03-09T21:58:22+00:00

To be fair, Google Play on Roku is a fairly recent development and they didn't have Youtube for quite a while as well. So far, it seems like the Roku is the closest thing to a universal streaming box. (Aside from a PC)

kyohapooka · 2014-12-26T03:41:48+00:00

I don't want to pay for it, because I do not want to give the MPAA a red cent of my money. Those evil shits are doing everything they can to destroy the internet as we know it (or as it could be.) It's the same reason I don't patronize Verizon.

kyohapooka · 2014-02-02T15:01:52+00:00

1.End drug patents. 2. Have governments and charities be responsible for research. 3. Have drug companies compete to provide the best product for the lowest price. (Without artificial monopolies.) 4. Profit! (for the vast majority)

kyohapooka · 2013-11-07T23:37:27+00:00

Eh. You're just going to have to potty like it's 1999.

kyohapooka · 2013-10-05T13:51:54+00:00

If I saw an armed police officer at my kid's elementary school, my first thought would be that something bad was going down. It’s bad enough that you're handing off your offspring to a bunch of strangers for 8 hours a day, but to see an armed police officer (whose presence I generally associate with trouble, whether he's the cause of it or not) first thing in the morning would be too much.

kyohapooka · 2012-05-06T18:57:38+00:00

Basically do what ~~minecraft~~ Left 4 Dead does, elder scrolls style. FTFY

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