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by cobrausn 13y ago
No, it's not. Hence the 'U.S.A.' addition to the title. They are two different islands and stories. The link to this one was probably inspired by reading the first.
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I always thought curved or arced monitors ( http://www.desktopreview.com/default.asp?newsID=868 ) would be a really good way of innovating desktop displays, but the price tag is extremely steep right now.
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This is the worst (although power tripping cops are also pretty bad). Imagine you are driving 5~10 mph over the limit for a long time, distracted by life and generally unaware. How many tickets do you think you would get? You were never
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Seriously, go read the article. You might find him more likable and his reasons for the story a bit different from what you are envisioning.
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He actually addresses that in the interview. He says he was not influenced by OWS in any way when making the film. But Blomkamp insists Elysium isn’t some sort of filmic Paul Krugman op-ed piece. It’s important for him that his movies gra
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The slums in the movie are supposed to be Los Angeles, circa 2154.
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I don't quite read it the same way - it means they, as a company, have little incentive to parse your email for choice bits and serve you advertising based on the results, because they don't make their money that way. The people m
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser Oddly enough, Intellectual Ventures invented this.
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As an aside, I think this is the first time in a while I read 'un-American' and didn't roll my eyes, even though I don't actually know if being able to face your accuser in court is actually an American original idea.
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It looks like they decided to patch this 'feature' out of the game. http://kotaku.com/patch-will-give-jailbroken-deus-ex-players...
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The Fall jams your gun on jailbroken iOS devices(joystiq.com)
60 points by cobrausn 13y ago|60 comments
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In regards to the first point, yes, there are more guns. I don't think the percentage of the population that owns 1 or more firearms has increased significantly.
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Making exceptions for exceptional people(nabeelhyatt.com)
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America has always had that many guns, but the police weren't always militarized. In addition, the amount of crime and number of police killed in the line of duty has steadily decreased over the years. The devil's advocate in me
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Nuclear power is proven technology. Solar and renewable sources continue to ask for decades of research and funding to hope to be nearly as capable of providing as much power. As an aside, having one does not exclude using / researchi
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In regards to points 4 and 5, 'flat' hierarchies still have nodes that are more connected than others and wield greater influence than others. These have the same failings.
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This sounds like an incredibly bad idea. This pushes even more responsibility onto the person operating several thousand pounds of metal, assuming they will make the correct snap judgement when a bike they didn't see rides out in fron
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Worship? Hyperbolic bullshit. The automobile, and the high mobility it affords, is the primary cause for a lot of social and economic progress over the past century for the average person.
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It is absolutely colorblind to be calling out America specifically as 'unethical' because it spies on foreigners. Every government ever spies on foreigners - some just do it more than others. Hell, Germany just convicted a Rus
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James Clapper Apologizes For 'Clearly Erroneous' Congressional Testimony(forbes.com)
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Is “double hashing” a password less secure than just hashing it once?(stackoverflow.com)
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My dear father [...] you can come here boldly with my dear mother and all the other Acadian families. They will always be better off than in France. There are neither duties nor taxes to pay and the more one works, the more one earns witho
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Well, you made through three quarters of the comment before typing 'sheeple'. That's gotta count for something. Your first statement I tend to agree with, though 'tyranny' is a strong word often implying rule by a
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Ecuador Spikes Halts Snowden's Asylum Because Julian Assange Is a Fame Hog(theatlanticwire.com)
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So, theoretical surveillance state nightmare for an average citizen: You violate some law online (knowingly or unknowingly, doesn't matter), and the NSA records it and flags it for later review based on some pattern matching. Upon rev
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I would be very surprised if the sequence of events that lead up to that was a sarcastic remark after being called 'insane' followed by 'lol jk'. Context is everything. Not only that, I could even go so far as to see th
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Scott Adams (Dilbert fame) actually had a few interesting things to say about it. http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/the_paula_deen_context/
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Having only seen the 'wheel of justice' grind people up from a distance, I'm not really sure, but my intuition is that prosecutors make careers out of getting successful convictions, and they absolve themselves of any respons
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Have you ever been to 4chan? Is the real problem here that he made a stupid remark on facebook instead of anonymously in the depths of the internet? He was obviously trying to make a joke about how 'insane' he is, and came up wit
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If you think an 18 year old needs therapy, community service, and probation for a poor-taste sarcastic comment (the kind of thing teenagers do all the time ), you are actually a horrible person. EDIT: Sorry for the personal insult. This r

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