ManInTheIvoryTower
Sorry missed this direct msg! Thanks for the thoughtful response... some related recent coverage: http://news.streetroots.org/2016/07/06/portlanders-seek-city-hall-overhaul
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As an observer of the process a couple of times, that decision seems so much braver to me than going with the needle. Kudos.
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@MirandaJuly worst part is that mom thought she did me a favor since now "we don't have to worry about epilepsy." Who is this "WE" mom you got a mouse in your pocket?! Glad to be of service, and also that I didn't go (too) overboard. As you can tel…
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When I was in high school I got pretty sick once and fainted in the bathroom and my mom found me laying there and claims I was twitching. So we went straight to the ER and because she's a nurse the doctor took her very seriously when she said the wo…
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How about a zig-zag river forestry cabin? I've been eyeing those for years. There are laws against subletting forestry leased land so airbnb is probably out but might be able to list it as a vacation rental on the DL. Or just treat it as a UrHo time…
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IMO it's not what he did (or failed to do) originally, it's his borderline crazy behavior this week. When your bizarre antics drive away your closest political ally (state senate maj leader) and a member of your own cabinet (Kate Brown) and invite r…
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Contributions I can handle. But directly lobbying the FCC with a memo written by a Comcast lobbyist and signed/sealed by her office after accepting those contributions? Not so much. http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/26/7878239/comcast-twc-fcc-merger-l…
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Google "frottage"
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Have I mentioned the tip about toliet tank water yet?
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Anyone got a T-mobile or unlocked GSM phone (takes a sim card) I could buy/rent as a loaner?
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Interior doors are normally a simple pressure pin in the knob, others you will need a thin flathead screwdriver to turn clockwise in order to pick. If more complicated you can pick up a Brockhage pick gun for under $30 these days, I would recommend…
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Its full of stars? UncleBoatShoes has it right sorry got carried away there. Been watching too much of that prepper tv show. This happened a few years ago to NYC didn't it? Check in and let us know how yer doin owly
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Fill up a bathtub full of drinking water while you still can (and remember the toilet tank in an emergency, lots of water in there!). Probably too late but you could look at a kerosene or gas catalytic space heater. Or if you have some winter sleep…
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Nah nm I should probably find one on the west coast. :)
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Can I get a referral for your structural engineer?
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Backups work by looking for the difference between what has already been backed up and what is on your computer. So the first time you backup yeah everything is copied over. But if you only work on a single document this week then only that file wil…
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OK now I feel bad for my smart alec remark about external hard drives.
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Really good points @joey, I would just add that the ninja turtle terrorists are getting their indoctrination online not in training camps. I have built a sphere of liberal tech hipster Portland doucheness in which to live my virtual life, but it's j…
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CLink
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I'm on the 40Mbps plan and almost exact same speednet throughput as my 50Mbps Comcast plan but with a snappy 2ms latency. Too bad I'm not a twitch gamer. And it's $37/mo modem rental included. So tempted to jump to 1000Mbps for a while. It's about …
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I didn't mean to hijack the thread, I just disagree that fundamentalism is spooky or to be feared. It's a ebbing tide. We passed peak fundamentalism a long, long time ago. > It wasn't like one lunatic having a mental breakdown and going into the…
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No no no... external hard drives are from the 90s. Now if you bought your first cloud (clown) storage service then maybe we could talk.
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> I am scared of the future. Of ISIS. Nothing particularly scary about fundamentalism. Cops are shot in their patrol cars and outside their barracks. Kids are shot at schools and summer camps. Employees are shot in their offices and cubes. Very …
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fucking Erdogan man, that guy is such an asshole. aaaaaaaaaand now we're blocked in Turkey
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I often walk by the downtown Apple church on my way home, and at least half the time I hear someone complaining about this exact issue on the ivory steps outside the door. Once it was about U2, but mostly about iMessage.
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Android user here, primary reason I was run off the Apple ranch was due to a misunderstanding with iTunes. I can report that Google Hangouts multi-modal messaging works flawlessly and I can access my phone as a raw USB drive and upload files to my h…
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Right, but the slow creep of technology will entrench that system deeper and deeper into human behavior. It seems unlikely that people will resist it, because it will be easier to just go with the flow and follow the prompts you get from your Google…
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> it's just that, your average ordinary individual human person would, if she found > herself driving around the scene of a calamity, most likely VOLUNTEER her > car/time/phone/whatever, in the moment Your average ordinary person won't be…
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> I know, I don't get why he would make the switch. IIRC late night has been a dream for Colbert for a long time, to the point his contracts with Comedy Central were always synced up with Letterman's CBS agreements.
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I hope John Oliver can pick up the baton but I feel the same way as Fish. His satire cuts right to the quick in a way that Stewart's preachy false equivalence never did for me. It's weird he seems to think taking over for Letterman is a bigger deal…
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The Uber Sydney thing is not that big of a deal, they haven't made a secret of surge pricing and it's a (somewhat) clever idea for managing capacity. When there is a active shooter situation that will of course cut down on the number of drivers in t…