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    Non-fiction reading - What books are you tackling?

    George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia - recollections of fighting in the trenches and in the streets of the Spanish Civil War. Down and Out in Paris and London - recollections of being destitute and homeless. The Road to Wigan Pier - investigations of living conditions of northern English...
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    Jimquisition: Fee-to-Pay and the Death of Dignity

    The tragedy is when the bubble bursts, the executives and marketing people who pushed for putting microtransactions in everything will get pay rises and bonuses, and the good people in these companies, who tried to convince them it was a bad idea, will be the ones who suffer. And the companies...
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    can one's beliefs be held apart for from one's achievements?

    Demonstrates there is no such thing as good people and bad people, just good acts and bad acts. OT: Arthur Conan Doyle believed in psychics and fairies, and Isaac Newton spent the greater portion of his life studying the occult, alchemy, numerology, doomsday prophecy, etc. so yes, it does...
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    The Tale of M and S

    16.5in x 6.8in x 13.9in = 1559.6in3 12.5in x 3.27in x 10.15in = 414.9in3 12.8in x 3.8in x 10.8in = 525.3in3 The difference is 1034.3 cubic inches, or about 10 inches cubed. (Because 10in x 10in x 10in = (10in)3 = 1000in3) You're welcome.
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    Doctor Who: where to start?

    All the TV Doctors have done good episodes and bad episodes, so I wouldn't write off any of them as beyond bothering with, but the Tom Baker era was the most consistently good of the colour episodes, and accounts for over 70 hours of screen time. But if it's coverage of the lore that you're...
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    NSA Harvests Facebook, Google, Apple User Data, Secret Files Claim

    If you really care about the rights enshrined in the US Constitution, you should wish for those rights to be extended to all persons, not just your own citizens. This is the point that Gene Roddenberry made in 1968 when Captain Kirk said "They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing!" in...
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    Privacy - Short counters to nothing to hide, nothing fear arguments.

    What, nobody reads Orwell any more? Or knows anything about the history of the 20th century at all?
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    NSA Harvests Facebook, Google, Apple User Data, Secret Files Claim

    LOLWUT. The Guardian is not a tabloid.
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    EA Exec Claims DRM Is a "Failed Dead-End Strategy"

    What is this, opposite world?
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    LoadingReadyRun: Frank Miller's SimCity

    Wow. Just remembered I dreamt that I met Kathleen last night. And I told her that I wanted to see more of those NASA conspiracy characters.
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    Dreamfall Chapters Takes a Turn for the Cyberpunk

    So glad I decided to skim the Escapist news tonight. Woo! Dreamfall Chapters!
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    Montreal Transit Threatens Lawsuit Over Counter-Strike Map

    Because most people don't pay attention when governments invent stupid rules about abstract concepts (e.g. copyright).
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    GOG Uploads System Shock 2

    It's not holding me back. Deus Ex is my all time favourite game and I disagree with the widely held belief that it has not aged well. I bought SS2 as soon as I heard the news. Oh hell yeah
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    GOG Uploads System Shock 2

    And people say Deus Ex hasn't aged well. *roll eyes*
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    Dead Space 3 Review

    Haha, someone's an MST3K fan.