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Re: Heat wave-related rotating power outages hit Bay Area

th_in_gs — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 01:47:15 -0000

It's possible that all the people being at home means more power used because many are cooling individually, rather than more efficiently at fewer locations like workplaces and schools.

Re: Introducing Magic Contact data for KickoffLabs Landing Pages

th_in_gs — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:36:48 -0000

Could you explain how this works, and how it jibes with your privacy policy?

Re: British admin for download links database may be first extradited to US for copyright charges

th_in_gs — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:31:19 -0000

To properly attribute this, I didn't know how to find it myself, I found it in njs12345's comment on the Hacker News comments for this article http://news.ycombinator.com...

Re: British admin for download links database may be first extradited to US for copyright charges

th_in_gs — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:10:23 -0000

The ruling an be found here: http://www.judiciary.gov.uk...

It's written quite plainly (and, I have to admit, reading it changed my opinion somewhat).

Re: TOMS Wearers vs. Right Wing Christian Missionaries - National - The Atlantic Wire

th_in_gs — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:10:27 -0000

Focus on the Family, on the other hand, only wanted to provide fashionable canvas shoes for those in need. And even if they hate gays and science, shouldn't they be able to do some good, too?

Would Focus on the Family only be providing shoes or would they, at the same time, be proselytising to the recipients? I think that in many peoples minds, the answer to that would decide how they'd answer the question you pose.

Re: Losing the AV referendum: a personal view from the Conservative Yes Campaign

th_in_gs — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:54:31 -0000

You say "In the next five years there is likely to be another referendum of one sort or another on electoral reform" rather categorically. Are you referring to something specific?

Re: Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Andy Warhol Paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga (via...

th_in_gs — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:06:32 -0000

You should check out the book "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" by Brian Bagnall (http://www.amazon.com/Edge-....

If I remember from the book correctly, the Amiga engineers were on the edge of their seats during that demo when Andy started using the menu bar: Flood fill was know to crash the computer after every two uses, and Andy had been requested not to use it. Miraculously, it worked perfectly on stage.

Re: Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: When I talk to each person about these behaviors,...

th_in_gs — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:42:59 -0000

I definitely do the described compulsive highlighting behaviour when reading web pages, so much so that I get annoyed when web pages override it. I noticed this recently on a news site that started popping up "more like this" type links whenever you highlighted something on the page (I thought it was the New York Times, but looking now it doesn't seem to be happening - either it's some other site or they've stopped using it). Very (unreasonably) frustrating.