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Comment · 9 months ago
"It's easy to be a saint in paradise." Cmdr. Sisko, ST:DS9
Comment · 2 years ago
Just FYI this is illegal in many areas.
Comment · 4 years ago
The worm at the core.
Comment · 6 years ago
Fear is a big one. Getting you in these emotional states makes it easier to influence your way of thinking.
Comment · 6 years ago
I remember years ago getting mysql, php, nginx, dovecot, postfix and horde to work together to get ActiveSync to my android. Took a long time and lots of reading but in the end it felt great. Then a week later a horde update broke it.

In hindsight it's probably better to spend the money on a hosted solution.

Comment · 7 years ago
Oh yea. Mostly weed and some opium. In my company over 50% of us smoked weed.
Comment · 7 years ago
Just an anecdote of mine. I'm sure there was plenty of drug use in other provinces but my personal experience was in the Helmand. I try not to talk about other places and units I don't have experience in.
Comment · 7 years ago
Drug use by Marines, Taliban and Afghan police/army during the Helmand province campaign needs its own study and book.
Comment · 7 years ago
A lot of this was used in Ramadi the year before.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is what we do with climbing rope, fold it.
Comment · 8 years ago
Wow I didn't know it turned out so bad. Even then reddit isn't much better either. Damn the internet has turned into a cesspool or maybe I don't remember it was a cesspool 20 years ago too.
Comment · 8 years ago
About a decade ago I found this out the hard way... Damn dog missed over a hundred pounds of HE under its nose.
Comment · 9 years ago
Wow that is a name I haven't read or heard in years. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, father of modern anarchism.
Comment · 9 years ago
Like all tech it's a double edged sword.
Comment · 9 years ago
That wouldn't work because mining blocks also validates transactions.

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