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by bananacurve 13y ago
By your definition the Soviet Union wasn't a superpower.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
100% success if you have physical access. You certainly do not need to be the NSA for that.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Europe outsources a good deal of their defense and intelligence to the US, and for good reason, why spend money on redundant systems when the West is working together. http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Apple's statement: "Apple has never worked with the NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone. Additionally, we have been unaware of this alleged NSA program targeting our products. We care deeply about our
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by bananacurve 13y ago
From the article you link to: "In 1993, the European Union added 20 years to the term of European copyrights. Under European law, American authors would only enjoy longer copyright terms in Europe if the United States followed Europe&#
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Yes. Our governments may act like asses, but we don't have to. Happy New Year.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Not quite. http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...
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by bananacurve 13y ago
The problem with liars is not that they lie, it's that sometimes they tell the truth.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Steady comrade.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Yes. You have to register at the Police station when you move and hospitals have to report if patients are illegal aliens. Very advanced.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
This is intellectually gratifying. /s
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Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins(independent.co.uk)
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by bananacurve 13y ago
grellas posts are particularly buried because they often don't subscribe to the hivemind, but they are always enlightening.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Law is not some unicorn that you can make whatever color you like. It is flawed like all creations made by man, and only what we make it.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
People who haven't been broke recently often forget what it is really like. I mean how can you be worried about something as ethereal as investment risk when you can't pay your bills. This is premature optimization, there is no pr
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by bananacurve 13y ago
> it's entirely possible not everybody else is doing it. Only to the extent that intelligence has been outsourced to the US, at least in the West. http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...
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Denmark is one of the NSA's '9-Eyes'(cphpost.dk)
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>And you may have noticed now that your iPhone supports background processing it reboots a lot more often? Are phones spontaneously rebooting?
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Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley(bloomberg.com)
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Rosetta Code(rosettacode.org)
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>Today, Rockstar employs once-proud Canadian engineers to work as high-tech ring-wraiths in service of its American trolling operation. At least they didn't oversell it.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
So is Switzerland a bad place for educating him or only when it's America?
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>kidnap them like they usually do Although that would be impressive, I'm sure you know you are full of shit, but other people don't.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
If we had evolved with only eight fingers we would be much better off. Also sometimes you do use a hammer to set a screw so it won't move when you go to drive it.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
"The operator subsequently managed to take back control of the infected computers and then used them to attack Defence Intelligence, a Canadian security firm helping the FBI. However, in doing so Netkairo appeared to have revealed his
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by bananacurve 13y ago
This is an infomercial for a service that monitors piracy.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
And signed and ratified by all those poor helpless victim countries.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>You should ask someone who lives in China. Specifically, find a college aged kid and ask them what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Do they really not know or are they just saying what the gov wants to hear to avoid difficulties? A
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Yes. NZ's incompetence may save his dumb ass.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
I take it you mean Rosetta Stone? All emails I get now from Livemocha are pitching them. The thing is it actually works. Hell just from the demo CD years ago I can still say "The horse is white" in Welsh!

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