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by alan_cx 13y ago
What is your definition of good desktop speakers and price? In the UK we can get this sort of thing: http://www.richersounds.com/product/standmount-speakers/camb... Which are great desktop speakers at £80GBP Nothi
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I guess I look at things differently.... I was actually expecting.... hoping for someone suggesting that if we focused our technological development on defending against hypothetical aliens, but more realistically start with something to de
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by alan_cx 13y ago
What, google is now the standard of privacy? Its OK because Google do it or something similar. Yeah, beginning to want off this planet.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, that whats you have been taught to believe, sure. See, how do you know you dont think that because of decades of the media tell you to think that? Not just that but American culture is gun culture rooted in the Wild West way of things
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yeah, but by then, 24 had become a cartoon. I watched it as though it was a slapstick comedy. As a big dumb cartoon, 24 made sense to me. If I took it seriously, it just made me angry. I came to absolutely love it as an outrageous joke.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Timing, channel, and political back drop.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
For me, that is one of the best episodes of the best TV show ever made. I say that because its not just the episodes its self, which is brilliant, its the fact that by the time you get to that episode it really means something. There is a h
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by alan_cx 13y ago
IIRC, season 4 was the torture season. It actually laid it on so thick, it became cartoon funny. Pretty sure that season caused some controversy and after that they toned it down a bit.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
The US exports exactly how many centrifuges to Iran? Or Nukes don't vaporise cities, the man with his finger on the button does? So, free trade with Iran and let everyone have nice safe nukes, right? Oddly enough, that would be my posi
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You know.... just to help you in future... Your post might have done better if you had gone at it this way: "Hey guys, PG and his minions are probably flat out on a couch somewhere, breathing many sighs if relief, and slinging back a w
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"Important"? Really? Obviously Im a fan of the site, etc, etc, but "important"? On what level? Im not even sure I'd call Facebook or Twitter important. Banking, yes. Weather warnings, yes. Things like that, sure. Bu
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, I know it took me ages to get my half decent hobby lathe (Myford) perfectly setup for my own hobby use, which is possibly the least accurate form of machining out there. (No, Im not making bombs, I'm making parts for silly, RC us
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Ah yes, that was another point in the book. Its took them ages to very slowly and precisely machine the material to a very high tolerance. IIRC, the tools didn't last long at all.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Cards on table... My main knowledge of , er, building nukes (hello GCHQ) comes from the widely accepted to be well researched book by Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears. Apparently it is a very good account of how to make a nuke, but with som
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I might be missing a huge point here, but aren't very high precision, high end cnc machines virtually vital for the production of nuclear devices? If thats the level of machine we are talking about, I can well understand this.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, if we in the UK are some how responsible for Euro spying on behalf of our US masters, then presumably GCHQ is the centre for all spying on all US citizens who come to Europe. I kinda think its almost a silly question. Of course we are
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Perhaps one way all of us can make the point here is that when we want to speak to our elected representatives, we insist on doing so face to face, explaining that we don't want a digital 3 way with the NSA.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"so leaving is cutting your nose off to spite your face." Well, according to the article..... "It has been nearly two years since the Amazon decision and I can proudly report that our company is still alive, well, and prosper
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I am sorry to say this, but I have been trying to move to DDG for a while now. Its currently my default search where ever I can make it a default search, and frankly, for me, it's pretty much useless. Most results point to US sites, an
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Depends on one's definition of "cost".
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by alan_cx 13y ago
This is so stupid on so many levels, its actually a work of genius. Im impressed.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Why does no one care how many men are in hairdressing, finger nail painting, child care, teaching and so on?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Being a programmer does not make you a hacker. In fact, being a brilliant programmer does not make your a hacker. I suppose its like being a driver does not make you a racing driver. Hacking existed long before computers and programming.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I love to see figures on the size of the "being seen to be doing something" market. Im willing to be my entire fortune of 50 great british pence that its bigger than the video games market.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Bullshit. That phrase is down there with "what have you got to hide?". Its a disgusting attempt to hide reality, with diversionary language. An
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I never thought I'd see ATS referenced on HN...
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I reckon a way of getting through this, if you are up to no good (well, I say no good, I mean no good in their terms, so like Snowden), is to look a bit like a perv, and have a few iffy pics and vids on the laptop. Maybe a bit of perv brows
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Do people here have girlfriends? I'll get me coat....... ;)
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Why? Why not just put any data you are worried about on a very small storage medium? Hide that and smuggle it through. Concealing a small SD card must be a lot easier than buggering about with elaborate, and there for suspicious, schemes. L
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Totally off the top of my head.... Like you say, there is little a spot check could easily and quickly find. Therefor, IMHO there must be another reason. So, what if they are not looking for anything? What if its just to put people under pr

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