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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

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Close. It’s from someone that a 15 year old high schooler might be assigned to read.

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Remember Valentine’s day 2004, when San Francisco county started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?

Thousands of couples showed up. Some from the other side of the planet, some from the other side of town. The County Clerk was overwhelmed and there weren’t nearly enough wedding officiants to keep up. So they put out a call for volunteers to be deputized by the Clerk as county marriage commissioners. I volunteered and officiated at dozens of ceremonies at city hall.

Still have my official commission hanging on my wall.

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These would be ‘rebel’ states are among the poorest and most heavily dependent on federal subsidies. They need the US more than the US needs them.

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SSL/TLS, the “S” in HTTPS, and other network encryption protocols such as SSH, use a technique called a Diffie-Hellman key exchange. This is a mode of cryptography where each side generates two keys: a public half and a private half. Anything encrypted with the public half is only decryptable by the associated private half (and vice versa).

You and Youtube only ever exchange the public halves of your respective key pairs. If someone snoops on the key exchange all they can do is insert spoofed messages, not decrypt real ones.

Moreover, the keypairs are generated on the fly for each new session rather than reused. This means that even a future compromise of youtube won’t unlock old sessions. This is a concept called forward secrecy.

Message spoofing is prevented by digital signatures. These also use the Diffie-Hellman principle of pairs of public/private keys, but use separate longer-term key pairs than those used with encryption. The public half of youtube’s signing key, as presented by the server when you connect to it, has to be digitally signed by a well-known public authority whose public signing key was shipped with your web browser.

How much does a creator's worldview influence whether you use their tech or consume their media?

Watching the drama around kagi unfold and it has me wondering how much you take into consideration a creator’s view on things like homophobia, sexism, racism, etc. when deciding to use a product. I think most of us have a bar somewhere (I would imagine very few on this website would ever consider registering on an altright...

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I refuse to use the Brave browser, and I was prepared to abandon Firefox, over then-CEO Brendan Eich’s $1000 donation in support of California’s proposition 8 (banning same-sex marriage). I will never forgive the supporters of that proposition. I will not knowingly support their businesses.

I’ve lost all respect for Scott Adams (of the Dilbert comic strip) and Kelsey Grammar (Frasier actor). Their continued support for Donald Trump is damning.

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My problem is with Brendan Eich.

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tl;dr: The users’ comments say that a certain ISP is pirate-friendly. Studios want to use the comments against the ISP (not the users).

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I just thought “pirate-friendly” was concise.

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Chakotay once used the TPD as an excuse to not answer a question from Janeway.

And she just accepted it.

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The closest I can think of–at least as far as multi-generation epics–would be Wilbur Smith novels.

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Right? It’s obviously an orchard, not a forest, and obviously the apples are one of the popular commercial cultivars rather than some wild natural variant.

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https://y.yarn.co/9b46839d-e05d-45d7-8e31-ed87b845a19e_text.gif

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I was framed for assassinating a politician and sent to Rura Penthe. Gowron got me $5,000!

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It’s an extraordinary example of Hodgkin’s Law of parallel planetary development that the Ferengi symbol for “bars of gold pressed latinum” is also the ancient Earth dollar sign.

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That’s kind of the point.

Clementine originally forked from Amarok 1.4 because Amarok 2.0 changed too much.

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You don’t go out looking for a job dressed like that do ya? On a weekday?

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What does this mean for shows and movies that I purchased? Will they have ads unless I pony up? If I cancel Prime will I lose access to them?

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I’m not interesting enough to worry about people being unduly interested in me.

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I would be deeply confused.

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Alternate future Admiral Janeway doesn’t qualify.

Prime timeline Admiral Janeway might qualify if only because we never see her do anything.

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It just goes to show how empty and dishonest racist rhetoric really is.

Unfortunately, the Goran'Agar Rehabilitation Clinic actually has a very low success rate (i.postimg.cc)

[Image transcription: A “Doctor’s hate him” style meme titled “The Founders HATE Him” about Goran’Agar. The side text reads “He beat his ketracel-white addiction in less than 35 days using this simple trick. FIND OUT HOW”]

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The fact that he didn’t realize he’s not addicted until stranded suggests that few Jem’hadar ever personally experience withdrawal. They receive regular doses and then die in combat, so it rarely comes up. Almost everything they know about the effect of white withdrawal is received knowledge.

If it weren’t canon that they need white to survive, then my headcanon would be that that they could totally survive without it and they’ve just been lied to all along. Like that episode of TNG.

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https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-01-2015/tiAV2E.gif

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The spork is the cement of our civilization, with which we escape from hunger, using IFIC as our guide: Infinite foods in infinite combinations.

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Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

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