firefax

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Comment · 2 hours ago
i love that book -- i once rolled into an in school suspension with a copy of "eichmann in jerusalem" in my backpack, as i was a troll from an early age.

(happy halloween, orange site.)

Comment · 10 hours ago
>I really resent pictures of human bodies being presented to me.

It's devil's night.

Comment · 11 hours ago
You believe in a singular Satoshi?
Comment · 2 days ago
i had a woman i met at a policy conference confide that many bad people made it through both the nazi period and the east german times -- there's a type of sadist who maliciously complies with the rules in any way they can to the detriment of others who i despise and saw much too much of in the policy context.

i haven't been there in a long time, but this hacker looking across the pond, it looks like germany has changed...

i worry too many hackers have not sufficiently studied history.

Comment · 2 days ago
a friend found it when fucking around with a DNS enumeration tool a while back.

lite.cnn.com is also useful on slow connections

(i post using tor.)

Comment · 2 days ago
I like how your website renders well with javascript disabled :-)
Comment · 5 days ago
>Here in Oslo, the local elections some years ago was decided by six votes

Sometimes it's not about "the numbers" -- it's about sending a message. As the article mentioned:

>Kariv is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet, Israel’s intelligence agency, but he has been horrified by recent events

It's my understanding it's rare to state that publicly, and even rarer to pair it with a political call to action.

I am not Israeli, but soon I too will physically stride into a polling place (rather than mail in a ballot).

I will do this because while I think vote by mail is important sometimes it is also important to teach a certain personality that voter intimidation will not be tolerated.

Comment · 8 days ago
I see I aligned myself well when I joined the Star Alliance.

I had a professor give me sage advice when I enrolled in my PhD program: one hotel chain, one airline program, and hoard those points for your honeymoon... or your elopement.

(Fuck a big wedding... I wanna make a call from one of those fancy plane phones to announce sitting hand in hand we're not coming back for a very long time.)

Comment · 8 days ago
Thanks to everyone who commented -- I'm not German so I'm not going to wade into the discussion on this particular thread.

Good luck comrades!

Comment · 8 days ago
Wikivoyage is a useful alternative to those expensive Lonely Planet books, though they got a little manic about having each district of a city have it's own page in some smaller areas.

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