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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Interesting legal point. We never declared war on "al Qaeda" since it's a ultimately just a logo and the combatants could be labeled criminals.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I am presuming an even darker scenario. GPS signals would not be jammed by the enemy but rather satellites would be obliterated wholesale as a result of a limited nuclear exchange. Thus sailing the old fashion way: Sextant, watch, and maps
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
The Geneva Convention is pretty clear and the United States signed on. Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Library: Article 2 & 5: "...Prisoners of war are in the power of the hostile Power, but not of the individuals or corps who have
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Time for war crime trials. Blatant violation of Article 2, United Nations Convention against Torture, United States Signatory 18 April 1988, ratified 21 October 1994. To be proven by ACLU: "...For more than a month, Suleiman endured an
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I live in L.A. and Sunset Blvd would be so very dull without oversized billboards featuring super models, new albums and the latest movies. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-11/west-holly...
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
In other words it suggests penalties trump rewards. It seems to work that way with addictions too: http://medcitynews.com/2015/05/to-quit-smoking-turns-out-pen... . That is to say: I suspect the "penalty&quot
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I agree, it's merely bravado since Apple is now building a car concept. ( I suspect Apple may buy a car company or perhaps write a $50-billion check for VW with their $200-billion in cash reserve. Idea inspired by this article: http:
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
The planet has lost a profound majority of it's water and consequently it is ostensibly dead or dying a slow death. Whatever microbes are alive there one must suspect that is probably less diverse than it once was when Mars had an ocea
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Luxury brands demand iconic founders: Cartier, Versace, Tesla, Ralph Lauren et al. Laws of luxury branding from L2 Digital, Scott Galloway Professor NYU Stern: "...Apple: Apple has the pillars of a luxury brand: craftsmanship, an iconi
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Woz' and Isaacson are pretty damn credible. If someone attacked Bill Gates for being a "bully' or a "jerk" it really wouldn't wash for his humanitarian achievements from education, farming, immunizations, on ad
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Know your animal targets really well comes to mind for a full months worth of meals and/or viable shelter materials could disappear instantly due to a bad throw or lousy trap.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Though dated (2009) that was an extraordinarily generous read. If were an ebook I would have paid for it.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Ooops, I forgot about that. Though per that link they are definitely heavily invested in here. In the long run they don't have a choice or Macy's will beat them. (Each store here is now a fulfillment center.)
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Amazon has five fulfillment centers in California: Moreno Valley, Riverside, Redlands, Tracy and Patterson. Here are their fulfillment centers nationally: http://www.amazonfulfillmentcareers.com/amazon-fulfillment/l...
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Thank you for the reminder. If culture framework is defined as traditions, value systems, myths and symbols that are common within a given society. (I cheated and looked it up) Then I double down on my opinion. ;-) An interesting exercise I
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
That is a brilliant. IMHO a reversed out guilloche graphic like the one on the spacesuit is to hard to duplicate or draw.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Los Angeles is listed as part of "El Norte" which on their map is mostly all Mexico. That is absolute hyperbole. Though Los Angeles (GDP $800-billion) along with the rest of Southern California have a huge immigrant population the
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
I just posted three artworks. I hope you are for real.
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
That story has so shaken me. Just learned now that these Payday loan ops charge on average 391% to 521%. http://www.responsiblelending.org/payday-lending/tools-resou... Clearing a bank account could obviously lead to m
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
At least we are talking, visiting, and respecting each other in public. An article posted here a day or two a go titled: "The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. and China Headed for War? — The Atlantic" pretty much summed up that alien
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Just wait till they have kids. I bet they will be called NSA parents!
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Then we are due for an ArkStorm or Atmospheric River. From the USGS: "...This document summarizes the next major public project for MHDP, a winter storm scenario called ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1,000). Experts have designed a la
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
...Or have Frank Geary build a "fryscraper" and really show those shadows a thing of two: "...It was soon discovered that one of Gehry's trademark enormous abstract geometries [The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles] was
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
William Gibson said it best: "All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data." https://en.wikiquote.org&
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Respectfully this is why I called it active. Much like a weather report here is a seismic map of northern and central California: http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Thank you, I go to San Francisco every year. I had no problem with financing the Oakland Bridge but the subway a subway has present danger and high costs. GDP Distribution per Brookings Institute numbers: Los Angeles: $860-billion San Franc
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
San Francisco, as well as L.A., are located on one of the most active fault lines in the USA. http://www.wired.com/2008/10/five-us-earthqu/ Even Tokyo has most of it's trains above ground. See Yamanote l
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
When you represent a spherical world on a flat map perspective gets distorted. The map used is Mercator’s map: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mariasherm/every-world-map-youve-eve... I chose buzz feed because they use illustra
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by SCAQTony 11y ago
Drag Greenland onto Australia or Mexico and watch how much it shrinks. Australia just swallows greenland.
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