XalvinX

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by XalvinX 8y ago
According to the Bible, well over 900 years.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
He's not the first to come along to receive this kind of attention and even accolades from the general public, and naturally from other climbers who sometimes do this, or would like to...including, I suppose, me. Most of the ones that
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I strongly suspect that all the armchair naysayers about this and things like sasquatch, yeti, and so forth, have not spent much time in the great outdoors. I have. There are many wild places in the world and most creatures in it are fair
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by XalvinX 8y ago
There are something like 50,000 mountain lions in California alone (and many more throughout North America) yet they never end up as roadkill..unheard of. Some animals are smarter than others.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Your "extinct from inbreeding" theory is not likely. There are many examples of animals coming back from groups well under 100, and doing fine. Such as the sea otter of California which was down to somewhere between 25 and 50 an
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by XalvinX 8y ago
> drug manufacturers pay most of the FDA budget. That’s by design Do you happen to know what law congress passed or otherwise how this became "by design"? News to me. Doesn't the government have enough money to fund thes
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I didn't read the article (yet) but this quote "drug companies commit to researching how well their drugs work after going on the market" means (correct me if I'm wrong here) that drug companies get to use the market as
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Related article some may find interesting: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Man is that bad art...almost like it was made by committee.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
12 years later and nothing changed. The SCOTUS killed the lawsuit and Congress let everyone involved off the hook. Since there are rarely, if ever, any consequences for breaking the law or the Constitution, why would they stop?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Anyone remember this from 2006? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A I guess they just expanded, but the basic facts here are not new. "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I think you are talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Exposed in 2006...it was a fucking huge deal at the time.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Yup, at least in part to fund our military operations in S.E. Asia (Viet Nam, etc.)
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I feel so safe and protected. NSA should give out branded teddy bears to kids. (edit: added>> Oh, wait, the apparently already have them!! http://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/files/2016/06&#x
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by XalvinX 8y ago
How could they? It was just their job. One of my brother's college friends ended up as a USAF bomber pilot in Iraq and over some beers one night he described his job. It sounded much like a video game. On the screen where many small
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Who is to say what is going on inside an insect's head? Did anyone ever talk with one?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Well, you know, they were either "not human" (or 3/5 in some cases) or "terrorists" or "reds" (those millions in Laos and Cambodia must have fell in that category, one would hope) or something like that.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I've been searched well within the country (probably 70 miles from the Mexican border) by some kind of border patrol/immigration officials, who randomly stopped me and kept me there for over an hour. Their reason? My car was rid
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Nobody is going to stop doing business in California. If California was its own country it would rank sixth in the world by GDP – ahead of France, India, Italy and Brazil. Besides that, it's cultural power is also a force to be reckon
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by XalvinX 8y ago
What's not to like?
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I'm sure if you dug down a little, you would see that you have supported companies that are involved in building weapons for the US...some of those conglomerates have tentacles in everything, all over the world.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Well, it's not "all for" opium, but let's face it, it is an important trade......
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by XalvinX 8y ago
The one time our country was attacked in recent memory was on 9/11/2001 and despite our ridiculously large "defense" we couldn't even get a F-16 or two scrambled to protect our biggest and richest city after the fir
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by XalvinX 8y ago
FWIW, Eric Schmidt is a member of the Bilderberg Group....AND the Trilateral Commission too.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
That damn Newton and his laws....mass murdering bastard that enabled all kinds of weapons to be developed. And ol' baby-killer Franklin should have never flown that damned kite of his either... some people, i'll tell ya' w
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I'm proud of them for taking this stand.
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I would agree about the need for small (or "micro") payment system. There needs to be a way for people to transfer amounts down to even one penny without incurring fees or other issues. This would empower a whole new economic mo
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by XalvinX 8y ago
Yeah, but is an "inch" even a thing in dimension #18? And this smallness aspect wouldn't disprove what I originally theorized here anyways...these subatomic particle are fucking small as shit, aren't they?????? lol....s
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I guess I was just thinking out loud, but then I did read the article and have read many other like it over the last 30+ years. I can see it must be fun to speculate, but also seemingly profitable for some of these guys too, eh? I wonder h
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by XalvinX 8y ago
I can see you are a True Believer and I'm not going to respond to this comment. Good day to you.

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