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2019-04-17 at 1:06 AM UTC in We have a moral obligation to stop eating meat
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2019-04-17 at 12:34 AM UTC in what's the last thing you bought?Cool hwip!
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2019-04-17 at 12:16 AM UTC in jedi World OrderFrom my point of view, the jedi are evil!
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2019-04-17 at 12:15 AM UTC in I'm willing to bet some of u niggas strangle hookersIf your pimp hand is strong, you don't need to strangle them.
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2019-04-17 at 12:07 AM UTC in The Odroid Go
Originally posted by Lanny I have to give props to google for making and keeping Android open source.
Thank the original terms of sale, which included the condition that Android always remain OSS. They started open to it because they wanted other vendors to support it and help them secure Google Search, their main revenue stream.
But now that Android rules the world, they want to control it and they're trying their best to defocus OSS development. Stock AOSP is now basically just shit. It gets the newest base developments as necessary but most AOSP apps have been completely abandoned and a large amount of new functionality they tout at their nerd concerts is added through proprietary, closed source Google apps.
They're probably going to switch to Andromeda in the coming years and transition smoothly to keeping app compatibility while locking down the base software, and leaving Android behind to a skeleton crew for some years before abandoning it like most of the shit chat apps they release. -
2019-04-16 at 9:21 PM UTC in Ever since I was a wee lad, I have always hated the moon
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2019-04-16 at 8:48 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro EditionCa$per
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2019-04-16 at 8:48 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro EditionCASHPA
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2019-04-16 at 8:42 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro Edition
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2019-04-16 at 8:41 PM UTC in Ever since I was a wee lad, I have always hated the moon
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2019-04-16 at 8:39 PM UTC in ASSANGE TO GET FUCKED LIVESTREAM
Originally posted by Eval/Apply Well to be honest I'm not all that concerned with the distinction between spies and whistleblower here. Disclosure to the public as opposed to a specific state seems like a distinction which makes the whistleblower more noble but the spy and the whistelblower alike work against american hegemony.
And do you believe enemy spies are working towards a nobler goal than the American hegemony? Do you support their goals, or do you believe we all have some responsibility to forward our own goals, whatever they are?Frankly I imagine spies have an easier time of it. Like sure, the MIC will go after them but how much effort is put into extraditing spies once they've left the region they were operating in and delivered their intel? Capturing Assange and putting his head on a pike has no military significance, it's about sending a message to other would be whistleblowers.
Lolno. You never hear about spies because nobody is supposed to be doing it, that's why spies are even a thing. Doing the illegal shit is their job description. If you want to retrieve a spy, you don't go through extradition, you send your own team to get them.
My point really is, if you think we have any sovereignty at all as a nation, any right to defend our military personnel, then we can and should treat whistleblowers who leak information that endangers them the same as we would spies, the difference is only whether or not the information was made public, it literally doesn't matter as far as what should be done about it. Whistleblowers should be responsible with the information they leak. If they feel no responsibility towards endangering them, I see no reason why the government and military should have any concern for their welfare.
If it's about sending a message, then that message is being sent to irresponsible whistleblowers: don't leak shit that could get our people killed. -
2019-04-16 at 7:09 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro EditionJunior Jacon Jizz Jurger
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2019-04-16 at 6:59 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro Edition
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2019-04-16 at 6:49 PM UTC in Watch Notre Dame burn live, it's almost completely gone
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny 1. just a fraction of what disneyland pulls in a year.
Disneyland is pretty historically important too and draws bucks from a different market than the type of people who visit 900 year old cathedrals.2. locals that dont exist anymore as their being replaced. and that was 800 years ago.
The Paris of 800 years ago is what caused the Paris of today.3. what and how does understanding the evolution of architecture benefits humanity?
Uh, how does the study of architecture affect current and future architecture, and how does architecture benefit humanity? At minimum it's aesthetically pleasing to people, which is on various levels all that benefiting humanity is.4. and like i asked earlier, what culture ? whos past ? french ?
Whatever culture is relevant to the buildings. The pyramids tell the tale of civilizations long past. -
2019-04-16 at 6:41 PM UTC in Watch Notre Dame burn live, it's almost completely gone
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2019-04-16 at 5:43 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Malice Metro EditionI read Bukowski as bukkake
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2019-04-16 at 5:41 PM UTC in Watch Notre Dame burn live, it's almost completely gone
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny haha.
but srsly, how are they important ?
- Big draws for tourism, focal point for local economies.
- Central to the history of their locales. The process of designing, funding and building these projects are hugely central events to their surrounding communities. For example the builders that established some of the most historical buildings in Chicago are what caused the city's explosion of growth because those workers are the ones who populated the city, creating demand for new businesses, and so on.
- Integral to understanding the development of architecture throughout history and what informs modern design, and how it will evolve.
- Culturally significant. Many of the world's greatest buildings have influenced culture both locally and internationally. A movie like "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" doesn't just use the setting, the story is rooted in the nature of the structure, its famous bells, its gargoyles and masonry, its connection to theocracy and politics.
- Most importantly of all, buildings are a real connection to the past, and our way to connect to the future. You can actually go stand right next to the pyramids. It's part of what separates story books from history books. Without them, the past might as well be a myth. What was the nature of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? We'll never know the truth from fiction, nor ever experience its supposed spectacular beauty. -
2019-04-16 at 5:25 PM UTC in Watch Notre Dame burn live, it's almost completely gone
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2019-04-16 at 4:38 PM UTC in Watch Notre Dame burn live, it's almost completely gone
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2019-04-16 at 4 PM UTC in Possible kundalini rising
