Joakal

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by Joakal 7y ago
This is a different one: > As a “Lawman” crew filmed the raid Monday, deputies serving a search warrant blew out the suspect’s windows and leveled his gate, frightening neighbors. Jesus Llovera, who was convicted last year of attending a
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by Joakal 8y ago
My favourite two ideas for the future. Currently, most places, the news is funded by ads, subscriptions or gov funded agency. So this idea would replace above with voters. Done via a change to the government system to have two people in sam
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by Joakal 8y ago
Simple solution: make producers take back the waste as a condition for selling. External cost now internalised. In fact, new companies that are environmentally friendly (refills, product last years, etc) would be on a competitive level with
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by Joakal 8y ago
It wouldn't be implemented. There's also demand for cheap labour. Talent shortage, also known as cheap labour shortage. Did you know that in Australia, overseas people are hired to deliver mail? https://www.smh.com.au&#
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by Joakal 8y ago
Would putting all monitors in warm/night mode be sufficient?
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by Joakal 8y ago
Well, that sucks. Surely there's oil rigs, etc outside of EEZ, does that mean anyone can set it up without approvals?
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by Joakal 8y ago
On a tangent, there's a lot of overfishing leading to depletion. Sooner or later, countries need to start banning big wild fishing. Another reason to ban is that it's hard to monitor catching practices. Some catching practices wip
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by Joakal 8y ago
They could be on land: http://www.uarahfisheries.com.au/
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by Joakal 8y ago
Killing mites on their body is a common explanation or maybe it's fun. How about this video, are they playing? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C59YIwMcg3Y
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by Joakal 8y ago
US government extradited an Australian citizen from Australia to USA. A country he had never been to. After his release, he was arrested for being an illegal alien. Then deported and banned from USA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by Joakal 8y ago
Store closes shop. Your "purchases" turn out to be for a game licence that only works if the shop servers are up. I've been burnt by this, most commonly with multiplayer games that only work with bankrupt company's serve
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by Joakal 8y ago
Make the producers take back garbage that's not recyclable/biodegradable as condition for selling. Market externality now internalised. Imagine garbage bins gone from streets, only green/recycable bins. Yes, consumers have to
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by Joakal 8y ago
There's two ways: - 3D printing + open/royalty free - Modular car, speaking to a car designer, they said it'll cost a lot, there's safety issues and laws (ie cage)
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by Joakal 8y ago
Reduce quantity too.
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by Joakal 8y ago
I don't think the rest of the tech world 'cares' that much about the government actions here due to relatively small market. The cynic in me thinks that they can still employ/host stuff here because more barriers have be
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by Joakal 8y ago
Join a political party or support them, one was formed due to copyright: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party EFF is a lobby/political group that tackles copyright issues: https://www.eff.org&#x
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by Joakal 8y ago
Under most copyright laws, lets assume worst case scenario for real life example of broken laws. If you send 100 wedding photos to your grandparents without paying photographer for copyright release. That's 100 instances of crime of co
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by Joakal 8y ago
Appreciate that you have more rights. Look at the Huawei saga where the CFO was able to sue for false imprisonment in Canada and compare it to those Canadians arrested/affected by Chinese government in retaliation for Canada arresting
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by Joakal 8y ago
Why does it need to be military? IIRC, Australia sent police, specialists as part of post Iraq war efforts. US could send in fact send non military; engineers, etc, but it will viewed with local suspicion and may make things worst (assaults
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by Joakal 8y ago
And? Just because they read non-Epic game files without consent and do nothing, doesn't mean they're not going to pull a facebook.
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by Joakal 8y ago
Alternatively, ban non recyclable/biodegradable garbage. Make the suppliers take back refuse as condition for selling, no longer can suppliers think of the waste as externalised cost. Quickly, distributor countries would solve garbage
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by Joakal 8y ago
Not OP, but on a tangent, if I find chemicals renamed, I get extremely suspicious about the other ingredients. Some obvious examples, aqua = water, sucrose = sugar, or one of the many numbered ingredients etc. It indicates to me that the su
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by Joakal 8y ago
In NSW, Australia, there's many millions for stadium repair. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/29/glady... For child abuse for poor people? Budget cuts. https://www.abc.
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by Joakal 8y ago
I funded both major party candidates in your area to be anti-darkhorn. Other people in your seat agree that anti-darkhorn is a bad thing but they fear their vote won't be counted if they support any third party. So, all your friends, f
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by Joakal 8y ago
Hush? It's an airplane. Shouldn't the same models be grounded? Of course, it didn't help if Boeing blamed the pilots (if it was true?). This would imply to other pilots that everything is ok with the planes.
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by Joakal 8y ago
Civilizations probably ended because it's hard to control their own populations. Imagine a society where population is set to 5 billion, the limit only increased when capacity is increased. This is compounded by: 1) a lot of planets ar
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by Joakal 8y ago
Well, having trillions of dollars go to one person instead of defeating a bill because a politician wants to cling to power. That's.. unrealistic. In fact, if I offer 1 billion dollars to each politician that votes for my bill of 1 tri
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by Joakal 8y ago
This already happens in most countries. No one votes for a lone representative's crazy proposal. I notice something, with your proposal one person can keep proposing 100 to 1000 votes to make all taxes go to them, effectively killing t
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by Joakal 8y ago
China and North Korea are democracies, even if they effectively have one party. Would USA's effectively having a two party system be better definition of democracy? Meanwhile, most other democracies have multi-party systems.
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by Joakal 8y ago
For those that are developers/programmers, you might like OpenSCAD where models are generated from code. I prefer it over knowing where/when to use menu items. As a bonus, the exports work with 3D printers. Source: Printed parts o

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