It probably has less to do with screen re-drawing and more with memory usage; on a loaded server, vi would feel smaller for this reason. Even vim is much smaller than emacs.
Another pro-vi observation is that it's on virtually every machine out there - out of the box. That's a big plus.
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Right on. There's lot's of reasons to be suspicious and cautious, but membership might buy you an extra day to fix your servers and keep the internet from going pppppphhhhhhhht.
On the other hand, if they silently fix security holes, leaving unwitting users at the mercy of better-informed kiddies, they will deserve the flogging they will get and it will be fork time. But nothing I read in that FAQ leads me to think that will happen (although the distinction between 100,000 zones and 1,000,000 seems arbitrary; how many companies do you think fall in between?). And if it does, the code will probably fork and it will be obvious which lifeboat holds the smart folks.
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I can't think of one important benefit. I use text-only email, and it's never been a problem or an obstacle. Even your granny can understand and use emoticons in 5 minutes or less, and she'd probably love it if you showed that to her instead of putting img tags in html mail and trying to explain why that's better than sending the picture.
Even Hatelook (tho not Shitmail) knows to include plain text version and put the HTML mail as an attachment. And since I don't include attachments by default in a reply, I won't be forwarding this bug at all (unless I get it from a Hotmail account, which now has HTML only by default, in which case it DOES get forwarded... to/dev/null.
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Dumb fuck. You idiots whine because you can't remember where you put shit so you need it all on your desktop like the mess in your pants. If you actually read the article and thought for a while you'd understand that OS X is a big step forward and away from tired old GUI tropes, and that you are clamoring to stay in the dark ages. Getting icons off the desktop is like not shitting where you sleep, and you don't want to go that way.
Troll yourself.
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You have a directory of files with a ".mpa" extension. The extension should be ".mp3". You want to change all the files in one operation. As far as I know,
impossible under not only Windows Explorer, but ALSO under UNIX shells! (Scripting as always does not count, only basic shell commands.)
I can do this with a simple UNIX shell command:
for i in `ls *.mpa`; do mv $i ${i%.mpa}.mp3; done
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Your point is well made, but the dichotomy of expectations between you and those users illustrates perfectly why this article has a point - and where it falls short.
The difference is that you are using linguistic constructs to effect an action; UNIX command shells have a syntax approaching that of a simple yet powerful language. On the other hand, most people deal with computers through mechanical constructs, e.g. "Press this button", and the GUI/OS edifice merely serves to confuse them, especially those who can't visualize operating system constructs (files, directories) into internal representation of physical objects. They simply press a button "download this" and don't understand what happened to the file. They expect a concrete, finite amount of knobs and tools that produce a finite, limited amount of results.
So for those users, the idea of a magic box with magic buttons that just do what they want it to do is in fact what they really want. I fully expect that for this reason, we will see a simplified PC where applications are no more complex (or piratable) than a springboard module for the Visor. Such a device will be hugely popular; it also avoids the mistakes of the "network appliance" or.NET models. People expect and want concreteness and physical availability.
These devices are more likely to run linux in some embedded sense than anything else. It's a perfect toolkit to produce these machines, eventually.
But for those of us who use these devices for any reason outside the 90% that most people do - cutting edge gamers, programmers, people who work with databases, etc, the flexibility of a multi-purpose device is paramount. It must do magic, and we will learn the proper incantations. The PC will not die, but it will become ossified and optimized into such devices to such a degree that most will no longer need to be aware of it's inner workings - and in my experience, they close their eyes to it already.
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Umm... I think you'd be hard pressed to explain how California's disastrous power situation stems from knee-jerk environmentalism. The problem is not that there isn't enough power, but that the power companies are broke because poorly-though out deregulation has led to them getting gouged by suppliers.
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The Super Bowl doesn't have a large pre-teen girl audience, which is exactly why they brought in the boy bands, so that they could increase their ratings among
those demographics. The hard core football fans are going to be watching anyway. It's the same reason why the networks ruin their sports coverage by giving us
all those sappy personal profiles — it gives the female audience that normally wouldn't turn in a reason to watch
That's not really true. I know some of the people who make those sappy personal profiles and they make them because the network bigshots think you are too stupid to enjoy sports without them.
But n'stink? Yah, right, that's what goes together, 13yo girls and drunken superbowl fans. And I can see that Budweiser, EDS, and E*trade really need to reach out to 13yo girls. Great.
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Besides that, anyone who is trying to "write a single check" as their main goal is doing (at best) a questionable job of serving their company and their users.
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Japanise Anime not as fluid as american animation?
This is one of those things that does betray a shallow understanding of the genre. Japanese animation styles were originally based on doing a lot of things that made animation cheaper, but as anime became more sophisticated, a lot of techniques were retained for stylistic reasons even as the animation got expensive. Anime often does things for style, like a rack-focus shot - where narrow depth of field puts some things in focus and other things out, then changes the focus to bring different objects into focus - that aren't technically necessary but provide a certain feel. The same applies to a lot of cheapo techniques when employed in high-quality anime, including shots with a bunch of freeze-frame moments. It's useful for cheap animation, but it can be stylistic when done in an expensive way. Dunno, maybe the Japanese are less hung up on these things than Americans, who complain when something "looks low budget", a stupid comment that dooms American entertainment to bland corporate (but expensive!) tripe.
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Have you ever taped a CD so you could listen to it somewhere else? Have you ever taped a TV show so you could watch it later?
The attack on DeCSS is a very thick end ("blunt instrument" comes to mind") of an even thicker wedge to make you pay every time you enjoy music or movies - even the things you bought.
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Re:Microsoft == bad partner, no multimedia savvy
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No one sane doubts Microsoft's ability to hire extremely talented programmers and engineer great results from them. And, WMP kicks ass over Real Video. Due to the usual market leverage, WMP will eventually crush Real, although a real standard may yet crush them both (streaming media, like instant messaging, is useless until standards and interoperability acheive the same quality as e-mail). And yes, skins are "fun", but who really cares.
But let's looks at "savvy":
Leading video editing software: Avid, for Mac.
Leading audio editing software: ProTools, for Mac.
Leading photo editing software: Photoshop, for Mac
I could go on, but I do note a lack of success correpsonding to their alleged savvy.
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Bullshit? The problem is that their terms _used_ to say they were only collecting aggregate information, not that you get any notice of this when you see their ad, and then they planned on using the Abacus database to correlate their information with real names and addresses.
There are a lot of things involving purchases that include your name and other info in query strings. This is a nasty bait-and-switch and downright dishonest.
On the othe hand, it isn't such a big deal. I'm already getting junk mail related to purchases I make in the offline world. Furthermore, considering the flaky connection between browser cookies and actual users, I think they will find it harder to sustain the big claims they (and the rest of the internet advertising industry) are making about their ability to target individuals and their interests. I give the industry two years before they change their methodology to some scientific-sounding term to dress up the fact that you can't really correlate the data they get to real individuals the way most people outside the industry seem to think. They'll call it a "psychographic cyber map" or something and their stock will go up for a while and lots of executives will give them big contracts. Big whoop.
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What legislation do you think will "allow the net to be used for profit making ventures?" From what I can see, any failure to make profits so far can be attributed to running businesses poorly or having bad business plans in the first place, and the biggest "theft" by far is the pump and dump by the venture capitalists, who neither need nor would be hindered by legislation. And those who got caught holding the bag have only themselves to blame for believing inflated claims and not knowing which way the wind blows.
Gee, it's nice to see you show your true colors; you talk a big capitalist game, but really what you want is more legislation to rig markets in favor of already big businesses.
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First, many companies have been shamed into action based on their use of GPL code - technocrat.net is going down (hey, Bruce, I know what it's like to have a kid around), but Bruce Perens deserves credit for being the shamer on more than one occasion.
Second, it's sad how frequently a simple "strings" on a library file will give all sorts of interesting things, some of which could be easily hidden if the Bad Guys weren't so lazy about hiding it. And if they weren't why wouldn't they look at your code, get ideas about how to do it better, and do it? And isn't that kind of progress the real point? If not, why not remain a medieval guild of dyers keeping secret dyeing secrets about how to dye cloth? Clearly, many think that's an attractive option, but that means little: who's name do you know, Isaac Newton, or Horst Farber of Ulm, d 1567?
so-crates.
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Corporate types have been trained and trained and trained to think that information is equivalent to money.
Well, I'm not sure where they get all that "training," unless you mean "belief system indoctrination and re-inforcement by anal-oral contact," but they DO think that inventory is money, and the content they have in the can is inventory to them.
And it's been said elsewhere, but they DO think the information in your head is their property. That's why, when I worked for one of those evil companies, I was careful not to think or absorb information. That's what they get. As a professional of ANY kind, the information in your head is money. Any employer who claims to own that information is no better friend of civilization than a Mongol warlord who chops the hands off his master craftsmen and kills the architects after completion of the palace.
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I still find it surprising that Jobs has, er, matured enough to make these compromises.
Though after using a NextStep-derived window manager for a while, I will happily say that saving things to the desktop - one of the things they are putting back IN to OS X is for weak minds, sloppy thinking, poor organization, and folks who spend lots of time and money on tools they are too lazy to understand.
"Where are my files? Where are my aliases? Where is my underwear?" It still amazes me that people think you have to be some kind of computer genius to understand "system files go here, applications go there, documents go here or with the application" and refuse to learn those things after a decade of working with computers. I mean, do they go calling the office manager looking for the stapler because there isn't a note taped on top of the desk telling which drawer it's in? But they have no problem calling tech support and spending half the day screaming that they can't work because some desktop alias to their favorite application got trashed. I guess some of it is age of first exposure to computers, but it's much more fun to pretend that it's all stupidity.
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AC parent has a good point. It's not the taxes themselves were the issue, but people being cut away from the Powers That Be in a way that enraged them.
Likewise, the right to play legally purchased DVDs on legally purchased hardware may not seem important on its own, but in the current historical context, and in the context it will be seen 20 years from now, this small freedom represents the ability of consumers to buy technology and use it in their own homes as they see fit, without needing to seek approval from cartels. And its effect on copyright represents the right of the consumer to have access to their own culture without the interference of racketeering middlemen.
If the MPAA et al are allowed to wield technology AND the law to impose a draconian copyright scheme on the consumer, what's to prevent them from claiming copyright to works you create with their "licensed" camcorder? The "market" won't save you if they all act together.
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I found that same problem while using an earthlink account on the road from my bsd laptop.
So much for getting an earthlink account for those situations.
You can, however, send mail to anywhere using whatever you want for your address. Presumably this is a spam prevention measure, enabling them to track spammers and have logfile evidence for quickly cancelling their accounts. On that note, I can't say I blame them entirely - of course there are other solutions that involve sniffing port25 and doing filter-based stuff on the output a la Carnivore. Which I could do with a perl script.
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Re:the USA should _NOT_ decide TLD issues...
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I agree with you in general BUT...
The US does not control the domain name system because of litigation but because of technology and much of it being invented and deployed in the US. You might as well complain that it's unfair the US international telephone country code is "1".
Fortunately, this should never become an international issue because country codes are controlled by each nation - don't like the litigious ways of US corporations with domain names? Fine, pass different laws in your country of Freedonia United, and let them rot whining about nike.fu. Dot-biz too expensive for rural agrarian Freedonia? Fine, milk.fu is available for cheap, if your nation has its act together.
Unfortunately, your idea of pushing all non-country-code gTLDs into the.us domain isn't practical due to the immense cost of recoding applications; it's the right solution in most ways. It's NOT "fair" for the US to have privileged access to the no-country-code space, but, well, to the victor the spoils. Had France invented the internet, I'm sure we'd all be complaining about something else equally as arbitrary, like free speech implications. The only people who can't escape the consequences of the gTLDs are those in the US, who have to use dot-com et al, since dot-us isn't commercially available, or else subject our domains (and therefore our businesses as well) to the possibly arbitrary and unknown laws of a foreign nation.
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Another pro-vi observation is that it's on virtually every machine out there - out of the box. That's a big plus.
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You're either stupid or a poor troll...
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On the other hand, if they silently fix security holes, leaving unwitting users at the mercy of better-informed kiddies, they will deserve the flogging they will get and it will be fork time. But nothing I read in that FAQ leads me to think that will happen (although the distinction between 100,000 zones and 1,000,000 seems arbitrary; how many companies do you think fall in between?). And if it does, the code will probably fork and it will be obvious which lifeboat holds the smart folks.
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Even Hatelook (tho not Shitmail) knows to include plain text version and put the HTML mail as an attachment. And since I don't include attachments by default in a reply, I won't be forwarding this bug at all (unless I get it from a Hotmail account, which now has HTML only by default, in which case it DOES get forwarded... to /dev/null.
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Dumb fuck. You idiots whine because you can't remember where you put shit so you need it all on your desktop like the mess in your pants. If you actually read the article and thought for a while you'd understand that OS X is a big step forward and away from tired old GUI tropes, and that you are clamoring to stay in the dark ages. Getting icons off the desktop is like not shitting where you sleep, and you don't want to go that way. Troll yourself.
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for i in `ls *.mpa`; do mv $i ${i%.mpa}.mp3; done
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The difference is that you are using linguistic constructs to effect an action; UNIX command shells have a syntax approaching that of a simple yet powerful language. On the other hand, most people deal with computers through mechanical constructs, e.g. "Press this button", and the GUI/OS edifice merely serves to confuse them, especially those who can't visualize operating system constructs (files, directories) into internal representation of physical objects. They simply press a button "download this" and don't understand what happened to the file. They expect a concrete, finite amount of knobs and tools that produce a finite, limited amount of results.
So for those users, the idea of a magic box with magic buttons that just do what they want it to do is in fact what they really want. I fully expect that for this reason, we will see a simplified PC where applications are no more complex (or piratable) than a springboard module for the Visor. Such a device will be hugely popular; it also avoids the mistakes of the "network appliance" or .NET models. People expect and want concreteness and physical availability.
These devices are more likely to run linux in some embedded sense than anything else. It's a perfect toolkit to produce these machines, eventually.
But for those of us who use these devices for any reason outside the 90% that most people do - cutting edge gamers, programmers, people who work with databases, etc, the flexibility of a multi-purpose device is paramount. It must do magic, and we will learn the proper incantations. The PC will not die, but it will become ossified and optimized into such devices to such a degree that most will no longer need to be aware of it's inner workings - and in my experience, they close their eyes to it already.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Umm... I think you'd be hard pressed to explain how California's disastrous power situation stems from knee-jerk environmentalism. The problem is not that there isn't enough power, but that the power companies are broke because poorly-though out deregulation has led to them getting gouged by suppliers.
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But n'stink? Yah, right, that's what goes together, 13yo girls and drunken superbowl fans. And I can see that Budweiser, EDS, and E*trade really need to reach out to 13yo girls. Great.
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Not that I disagree with you, necessarily, but I find it amusing that no one notices the irony of "freeloaders" among warez traders.
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Besides that, anyone who is trying to "write a single check" as their main goal is doing (at best) a questionable job of serving their company and their users.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
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The attack on DeCSS is a very thick end ("blunt instrument" comes to mind") of an even thicker wedge to make you pay every time you enjoy music or movies - even the things you bought.
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But let's looks at "savvy":
Leading video editing software: Avid, for Mac.
Leading audio editing software: ProTools, for Mac.
Leading photo editing software: Photoshop, for Mac
I could go on, but I do note a lack of success correpsonding to their alleged savvy.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
There are a lot of things involving purchases that include your name and other info in query strings. This is a nasty bait-and-switch and downright dishonest.
On the othe hand, it isn't such a big deal. I'm already getting junk mail related to purchases I make in the offline world. Furthermore, considering the flaky connection between browser cookies and actual users, I think they will find it harder to sustain the big claims they (and the rest of the internet advertising industry) are making about their ability to target individuals and their interests. I give the industry two years before they change their methodology to some scientific-sounding term to dress up the fact that you can't really correlate the data they get to real individuals the way most people outside the industry seem to think. They'll call it a "psychographic cyber map" or something and their stock will go up for a while and lots of executives will give them big contracts. Big whoop.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
What legislation do you think will "allow the net to be used for profit making ventures?" From what I can see, any failure to make profits so far can be attributed to running businesses poorly or having bad business plans in the first place, and the biggest "theft" by far is the pump and dump by the venture capitalists, who neither need nor would be hindered by legislation. And those who got caught holding the bag have only themselves to blame for believing inflated claims and not knowing which way the wind blows.
Gee, it's nice to see you show your true colors; you talk a big capitalist game, but really what you want is more legislation to rig markets in favor of already big businesses.
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First, many companies have been shamed into action based on their use of GPL code - technocrat.net is going down (hey, Bruce, I know what it's like to have a kid around), but Bruce Perens deserves credit for being the shamer on more than one occasion.
Second, it's sad how frequently a simple "strings" on a library file will give all sorts of interesting things, some of which could be easily hidden if the Bad Guys weren't so lazy about hiding it. And if they weren't why wouldn't they look at your code, get ideas about how to do it better, and do it? And isn't that kind of progress the real point? If not, why not remain a medieval guild of dyers keeping secret dyeing secrets about how to dye cloth? Clearly, many think that's an attractive option, but that means little: who's name do you know, Isaac Newton, or Horst Farber of Ulm, d 1567?
so-crates.
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ObSubheadlineTroll: Taco's ass just declared a continent!
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And it's been said elsewhere, but they DO think the information in your head is their property. That's why, when I worked for one of those evil companies, I was careful not to think or absorb information. That's what they get. As a professional of ANY kind, the information in your head is money. Any employer who claims to own that information is no better friend of civilization than a Mongol warlord who chops the hands off his master craftsmen and kills the architects after completion of the palace.
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Use lsof. Shouldn't be forever until it's ported.
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I'm looking FORWARD to the day when it's not the best browser out there, but so far, it is.
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Though after using a NextStep-derived window manager for a while, I will happily say that saving things to the desktop - one of the things they are putting back IN to OS X is for weak minds, sloppy thinking, poor organization, and folks who spend lots of time and money on tools they are too lazy to understand.
"Where are my files? Where are my aliases? Where is my underwear?" It still amazes me that people think you have to be some kind of computer genius to understand "system files go here, applications go there, documents go here or with the application" and refuse to learn those things after a decade of working with computers. I mean, do they go calling the office manager looking for the stapler because there isn't a note taped on top of the desk telling which drawer it's in? But they have no problem calling tech support and spending half the day screaming that they can't work because some desktop alias to their favorite application got trashed. I guess some of it is age of first exposure to computers, but it's much more fun to pretend that it's all stupidity.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
Likewise, the right to play legally purchased DVDs on legally purchased hardware may not seem important on its own, but in the current historical context, and in the context it will be seen 20 years from now, this small freedom represents the ability of consumers to buy technology and use it in their own homes as they see fit, without needing to seek approval from cartels. And its effect on copyright represents the right of the consumer to have access to their own culture without the interference of racketeering middlemen.
If the MPAA et al are allowed to wield technology AND the law to impose a draconian copyright scheme on the consumer, what's to prevent them from claiming copyright to works you create with their "licensed" camcorder? The "market" won't save you if they all act together.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
So much for getting an earthlink account for those situations.
You can, however, send mail to anywhere using whatever you want for your address. Presumably this is a spam prevention measure, enabling them to track spammers and have logfile evidence for quickly cancelling their accounts. On that note, I can't say I blame them entirely - of course there are other solutions that involve sniffing port25 and doing filter-based stuff on the output a la Carnivore. Which I could do with a perl script.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
The US does not control the domain name system because of litigation but because of technology and much of it being invented and deployed in the US. You might as well complain that it's unfair the US international telephone country code is "1".
Fortunately, this should never become an international issue because country codes are controlled by each nation - don't like the litigious ways of US corporations with domain names? Fine, pass different laws in your country of Freedonia United, and let them rot whining about nike.fu. Dot-biz too expensive for rural agrarian Freedonia? Fine, milk.fu is available for cheap, if your nation has its act together.
Unfortunately, your idea of pushing all non-country-code gTLDs into the .us domain isn't practical due to the immense cost of recoding applications; it's the right solution in most ways. It's NOT "fair" for the US to have privileged access to the no-country-code space, but, well, to the victor the spoils. Had France invented the internet, I'm sure we'd all be complaining about something else equally as arbitrary, like free speech implications. The only people who can't escape the consequences of the gTLDs are those in the US, who have to use dot-com et al, since dot-us isn't commercially available, or else subject our domains (and therefore our businesses as well) to the possibly arbitrary and unknown laws of a foreign nation.
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Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.