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insanecanadian  ·  4638 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Adobe:
Agreed, to the point where I believe that you're being a little nice on those asshats. Now all we need is for somebody to come along and develop an alternative, which is taking a confusingly long time.
insanecanadian  ·  4756 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You Want to Track Me? Here You Go, F.B.I.
Though what he did with informing them about his flight as a heads-up makes sense, considering the circumstances, compiling a website full of all of the information about your life seems fairly excessive and possibly even dangerous.
insanecanadian  ·  4756 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jesus fuck the UK scares me.
It gets even worse:

> If appropriate, South Wales Police will consider requesting such systems are a condition for any new licence application or where a premises licence is up for review.

insanecanadian  ·  4781 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: RIP Mr. Jobs
So sad to see him go. He really was one of the greatest innovators of a generation.
insanecanadian  ·  4815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Statistical numbing: Why millions can die and we don't care
Ah, thanks for the correction.
insanecanadian  ·  4815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Statistical numbing: Why millions can die and we don't care
I think that the Stalin quote meantioned in this post puts it perfectly: "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

Thanks for an interesting read!

insanecanadian  ·  4815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Official Google +1 Chrome extension out
To be fair, they've known a lot since they added the web search history feature.
insanecanadian  ·  4815 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How much land do you need to live completely off grid?
Thanks for the informative image. To be honest, I was thinking "crap, that is a lot of space". Then it said that it worked out to two acres. I kinda felt stupid at that point.

Also, did you make this yourself? I really couldn't tell from bad screen I read it on.