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by finid 10y ago
I find websites that use font colors against a background that makes them difficult to read particularly annoying. What's the point of a yellow font color against a light-gray background?
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by finid 10y ago
> Steve Ballmer was stuck in his dinosaur thinking and couldn't see the writing on the wall. How can you see the writing on the wall when you're busing laughing at the competition with your eyes closed. I recall that he even la
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by finid 10y ago
> It used to be more common to purchase restaurant food, and home-cooked meals were a luxury for the rich a few hundred years ago, but income and sales tax have imposed higher transaction costs, and made restaurant food more expensive. T
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by finid 10y ago
Nop! They are secret because those involved don't want us to know the exact nature of the dangerous chemicals they're pumping into the environment. And I don't even want to get into the associated earthquakes.
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by finid 10y ago
So in your view, it was illegal, but immoral, right?
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by finid 10y ago
> I am just glad we are finally getting a mainstream press group to admit the Middle East is the fault of European colonialism instead of the last fifteen odd years blaming Bush. Even with the fault of European colonialism, they were doi
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by finid 10y ago
> But the real problems occurred in the disastrous power vacuum and complete lack of a plan that occurred after the war was won. No, the real problem was invading a country that posed no threat to us. That was the real crime. The power v
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by finid 10y ago
> The initial execution was not beautiful It was "beautiful" because you were watching it on TV and marveling at how we manage to drop bombs from a distance through a building's smallest opening. For the men, women and chi
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by finid 10y ago
I haven't read that myself, but even in the absence citation, you have to believe it is true, given her Middle East affiliations. Hint: She and her husband are in bed with the House of Saud. Her (their) deep commitment to Israel is unq
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by finid 10y ago
> The invasion of Iraq was stupid. It was likely illegal, I agree that the invasion was stupid, but it was not "likely illegal," it _was_ illegal.
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by finid 10y ago
> Drinking water samples near industrial sites, military fire training areas, wastewater treatment plants have highest levels of fluorinated compounds Areas around fracking sites must be even worse.
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by finid 10y ago
As noted in that article, you have to be a special case to be affected by parts of the mango tree. From my experience, you really have to be a special case.
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by finid 10y ago
> The point of 'taste' is generally to find things safe to eat. Well, there were coconuts and mangoes around too, but our "medical" person chose to sample the only one he didn't know anything about. Alaskans have
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by finid 10y ago
Traveling in a foreign country, a "medical" person found "some green fruits among the scattered coconuts and mangoes lying on the beach" and proceeded to eat the only one (s)he has never eaten before. Fast forward a deca
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by finid 10y ago
> In fact, the United States is the only country ever to launch an actual cyberwar -- when the Obama administration used a cyberattack to destroy thousands of centrifuges, used for nuclear enrichment, in Iran. This was an illegal act of
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by finid 10y ago
At least try googling before making a comment like that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sudan_airstrikes . They have also used drones to kill militants in Egypt.
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by finid 10y ago
I think he was referring to engaging with armed drones.
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by finid 10y ago
Now I recall that Israel has operated and used drones to take out a suspected shipment of Iranian arms somewhere over North Africa or East Africa. I don't have the source, but goolging should help you, if you're interested.
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by finid 10y ago
Care to point me to a Russian drone- strike report? They do have UAVs for surveillance, but I've not seen any report of them using them for targeted killings. I think only USA and Israel have such a program, that is, used atively for t
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by finid 10y ago
When countries we don't like begin to carry out their own drone strikes, expect to hear something like, "Civilized nations don't carry out justice like that in the 21st century. This has to stop now."
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by finid 10y ago
> Brazil is an incredibly unequal society, with oligarchical elites who disdain the poor, mourn for a lost military dictatorship, and don’t particularly care for democracy (all attractive traits to the IOC when looking for an Olympic hos
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by finid 10y ago
I do find it interesting that we (humans) think we are "more special" than we actually are. People just forget or don't know that the same spark that powers our physical bodies also powers the physical bodies of other living
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Chinese free to film police – as long as they don’t interfere(scmp.com)
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by finid 10y ago
What was (is) he? A spy? Mole? Enemy combatant?
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by finid 10y ago
> There has never been a period in history with fewer wars and proportionally lower fatality rates due to violence. How long is your time frame? Many more people have died after Sep. 2001 than in the decades prior. > The existence of
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by finid 10y ago
> The people with the real power (Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve) are not elected. My brain is in a slow mode today. Are Senators not elected?
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by finid 10y ago
Dude, without the USA, the world will do just fine. Sure, there will still be wars, but when are men not fighting over one thing or the other? Have you asked the people of Libya, Iraq and Syria what their world would be like without the USA
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by finid 10y ago
Nice! That same exceptionalism thing, eh! Sure, we're not jailing Twitter dissidents, but do you know what we do to whistleblowers? One of our whistleblowers has been forced to take up residence in Russia. Of course we're not snip
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by finid 10y ago
You forgot Libya. Nicolas Sarkozy saw Libya as his chance to top what Bush did in Iraq.
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by finid 10y ago
For the athletes, the Olympics isn't about money. It about the glory of being an Olympian. And they are willing to sacrifice everything to get there. Most are already making more than enough before the Olympics comes around, so whateve

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