Joakal

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by Joakal 10y ago
Olympics in Sydney was a money pit. An expensive legacy. I'm not sure if the events followed since then had allowed recovery. http://theconversation.com/hosting-the-olympics-cash-cow-or-... http://economicst
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by Joakal 10y ago
I was pointing out that China and North Korea are monopolistic. Of course they don't allow more than one party with the system they set up. Look at USA, it's duopolistic due to the system set up. There's only republicans and
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by Joakal 10y ago
You do realise that in USA, people mostly vote for republicans or democrats despite some hating them? Rest of world have multi-party governments. Many more choices. So much for an example that puts people on defensive instead of raising awa
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by Joakal 10y ago
It's also worth noting the first past the post system encourages duopolistic government (Almost China and NK's monopolistic government ;) ) People vote against their sincere choice by voting for one of the two most popular candida
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by Joakal 10y ago
Programming is an ongoing feat. You wouldn't take a drug to finish off a project and risk obvious health issues. Why? You're like an artist, as you do more work in future, the better. Olympics is an one-off feat. You may take a dr
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by Joakal 10y ago
The first 3 star wars movies was made mostly with props (miniatures). The next 3 were CGI. http://themovieblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/lucas-gre...
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by Joakal 10y ago
Farm Cheetahs. Look at cats and dogs not going extinct. Of course, it's not 'wild animal' friendly.
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by Joakal 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths This Australian never been to USA. After doing a similar piracy outfit, they got extradited to USA and prosecuted, jailed. Then when released they got jailed again fo
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by Joakal 11y ago
An Australian who never been to USA was extradited and subsequently jailed for breaking USA law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Griffiths Afterwards, he was banned from USA.
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by Joakal 11y ago
I have not read the laws but mostly likely this applied to commercial use already for years and they wanted it applied to private use. However, it's a racket. To give an example, the happy birthday song is illegal to 'broadcast wi
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by Joakal 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_austral... Look at the history, collectively, it got Labor/Liberal support from Federal and State governments as far back as 1995.
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by Joakal 11y ago
"The Coalition has never supported mandatory internet filtering. Indeed, we have a long record of opposing it," the statement said. "The policy which was issued today was poorly worded and incorrectly indicated that the Coali
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by Joakal 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori ?
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by Joakal 13y ago
The father believe his son is committing treason for revealing government corruption and to stop exposing it further: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/17/exclusive-father-... The father prejudiced
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by Joakal 14y ago
Inspired by the African parrot's speeches in past, I had often considered raising an African Grey parrot with human teachings from a young age, akin to gorillas. It would certainly be exhausting with learning how to teach and teaching it. A
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by Joakal 14y ago
One person compiled a list of resources in response: https://pay.reddit.com/r/evolutionReddit/comments/11sr28/er_...
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by Joakal 14y ago
Obama responding on Internet Freedom question on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obam...
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Why does MPAA approve both parties’ stances on Internet freedom?(dailydot.com)
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by Joakal 14y ago
Not when it comes to politics or copyright. Two known events: CIA extraordinary rendition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Sweden The Pirate Bay Pirate Bay Judge Exposed as Member of Pro-Copyright Groups http://www.w
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by Joakal 14y ago
Swedish law says that Assange can very well be interviewed over video link, police station and embassy (Even Ecuador offered). Despite this, the Swedish prosecutor is adamant that he should be on Swedish soil to be questioned. If they did c
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by Joakal 14y ago
If you want to start somewhere: http://phys.org/news/2010-12-sahara-aims-power-world.html
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by Joakal 14y ago
Isn't the reason that silicon is cheap to process is because there are high-silicon sands at Silicon Valley and other places? By the way, would a solar furnace be feasible to replace your first step, eliminating CO2 result?
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by Joakal 14y ago
Actually, there's a way to make thinner silicon sheets; A particle accelerator bombards these wafers with hydrogen ions: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122231-solar-panels-made-...
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by Joakal 14y ago
> Police say Dotcom posed "low threat." Dotcom says they beat him anyway. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/helicopters-guns-... You can see the video in that article too.
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by Joakal 14y ago
They already belong to USA with a cold war protectionist law: ITAR. That's why Russia, China, Europe, Copenhagen suborbitals, etc, are all going into space without USA's help. To put it in perspective, it's illegal for any American to expla
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by Joakal 14y ago
Actually, it's twitter is giving government the power to refuse tweets that topple government as of this year[0]. Google followed suit shortly. [0] Twitter to selectively 'censor' tweets by country. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canad
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by Joakal 14y ago
There's also the aspect about law, allowing warrantless wiretapping of anyone, or, everyone[1]. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-int...
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There's more said here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-28/hackers-asked-to-help-... "He held firm that the internet defences could be ramped up without sacrificing privacy or civil liberties." However, he seems to be a staunch pro-IP
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www.puzzlepirates.com
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by Joakal 14y ago
Actually, it's going to the people. The government is representing the people. However, the children inheritances will still far above average after rich inheritance taxes.

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