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by huffmsa 8y ago
Your opinion on if it's good or not is inconsequental. It's been good enough to get FISA warrants for surveillance and executions. We might see that it's obviously flawed, but the people we've elected disagree.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
You'd rather this forum be a hugbox of agreement rather than one of actual discussion? That never leads anywhere. Good ideas can stand up to criticism. Strong opinions necessarily must be defendable. You don't get that with a hugb
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by huffmsa 8y ago
For the record, I agree with you. I'm personally opposed to this line of thought, I'm just devil's advocating what the executive branch and legislature has and will argue.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Human trafficking is quite illegal. I don't think anyone would have a problem with a database of possible human traffickers
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by huffmsa 8y ago
It's the same answer used by Mr Holder and Mr Obama to justify dropping hellfire missiles in a dozen countries.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
The House and Senate vote to reauthorize the war every year. Have you called your Representative to express your opinions? Have you voted for politicians who oppose the reauthorization? There's a system in place to stop this, you'
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Part 2: who did you vote for as your representative and senator last cycle? Let's see what their track record of opinion on the AUMF and the southern border is.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
I'm not implying anything. The Cretaceous was 10-15°F warmer than current temperatures. There was lots of life. ~1000BC was 2-4°F warmer than today, and there were plenty of humans doing just fine.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
You assume my nationality? How do you know I'm not Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani, Palestinian, Egyptian, Libyan, Yemeni, Ukrainian, Somali, Chechen, Georgian, Venezuelan, or Mexican? Get out of here with your racist assumptions that this foru
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by huffmsa 8y ago
> protect themselves from the highly unlikely. Tyrannical governments are unlikely?
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Stop reading doomsday cult prophecies on the internet and go outside and get some sun. Seriously.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
> How near? About a decade. Okay Al. Still waiting on that dramatic increase in frequency and ferocity of hurricanes, but I guess I'll add this one to my calendar. > ou only needed to step outside during the record-breaking he
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Not sure about the down boats here. The program caught and/or stopped precisely 0 (ZERO) terrorists. It also failed to harvest any data regarding "Muh Russians". It and many other NSA projects are about as effective as the TS
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by huffmsa 8y ago
The lack of trust in these comments is heartening. "Shutting down this program" != "No longer collecting and analyzing this data" NYT continues it's path to full mouthpiece for MiniTruth.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
It doesn't. Mine paperweighted itself last week.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Yeah old ships isn't as good an example as I thought after thinking about it a bit. I was only thinking of the ~100 year old dingy I have that seems nearly indestructible with little maintenance.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Going back and re-reading the excerpt that does appear to be what they're doing.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
We do have a bit of a sample bias. We only see the things which have survived. But planned obsolescence was the norm. Technology advanced too slowly for a producer to assume they'd have a new model to sell in the near future.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Old things are typically built to last. Because the cost of redoing them was prohibitively expensive. If it were shit craftsmanship, it wouldn't still be running. See: - Roman architecture - Browning designed firearms - Savile row tail
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by huffmsa 8y ago
> We do not save the videos or images beyond this processing. So they're just going to magically improve their models with zero real-world data? I can hear the noses growing.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
> In 1980, the highest-earning men actually worked fewer hours per week than middle-class and low-income men, according to a survey by the Minneapolis Fed. But that’s changed. By 2005, the richest 10 percent of married men had the longe
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by huffmsa 8y ago
I tried mobile site only hut they quickly became as bad a habit. As much fun as arguing on Twitter is and seeing those analytics go 1+, it's not improving my life, skills or earning potential.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
I've just setup a new phone and have decided to leave all of the dopamine triggering apps off of it. I installed one thinking "it won't be that hard to moderate" but my fingers were immediately flipping it open and scrol
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Yes. The system is designed to be difficult to ditch. For a lot of people, the little thrill of an unread notification badge is like mainlining heroin. It's a dump of happy chemicals right to their brain.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
You think that evolution on another planet isn't going to put the most efficient killer species at the top of the ladder? All the evidence available to us (Earth) suggests that the best killer on the planet will be the dominant species
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Some poor alien is going to come across this rock in a few million years and think it's been weaponized.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
I fully expected this to be a resident of The Land of Misfit Animals, AKA Australia. Quite surprised it's not. Indonesia is close enough that it might have escaped it's confines, though.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
iTunes appears to have stopped getting updates around 2012. The long description for podcasts appears in a tooltip bubble ~20 characters wide. It's unusable. Ive must have burnt out.
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by huffmsa 8y ago
It's definitely a two way street, but there's less incentive now for the US to stay involved. We're a net petroleum exporter now, Texas of all places is adopting renewables like crazy (proving their viability), highly autonom
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by huffmsa 8y ago
Or make that data available to your insurance company on a grey market. The phones might be cheap, but the bill will come due eventually.

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