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by irixusr 11y ago
The problem with the word "Christians" is that it is a very vague term. For baptists, the term would include the likes MLK and Jimmy Carter but also the Westboro church (which is irrelevantly small, but gets a lot of publicity). I
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The most decorated soldier in american history is Smedley Butler. Two medals of honor. He wrote a book, "war is a racket" where he comes to the conclusion that his entire career was to further the interests of big money and elites
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NOx emissions are tricky. They're created by high temperatures (the reaction is endothermic). Conversely, the hotter the engine runs the more efficient it is. To a first approximation NOx is inversely related to CO2 emissions and l&#x2
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Careful, increasingly the governments expect you to agree they have a right to whatever they claim.
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Well the "why are they are entitled to it" is because they have a monopoly on power. Why they regulate is to finance themselves.
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"the government is given final rights" Well not according to the US' citizenship test which states that the constitution is the top law whilst defining the rule of law as no entity, including the government, being above the l
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Why?
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The artificial scarcity argument is interesting, but I don't think it applies here. I'm not proposing paying a third party to send me email. You'd be paying me for my scarse resource - my time and inbox space
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Love it. But seriously, does it still fail if I have a local filter were I strongly prioritize emails of ppl who show up on the BC ledger? If ppl in high tech start doing this to lower their own email burden, I can envision normal business
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You're assuming people want to be contacted by people in their address list :D For me there's an annoying aunt who periodically send the latest get-mad-at-this email. Or, how many times do we receive a mass email from friends who
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A few years (almost two decades!!!) when the filters weren't as good I read a proposal to make an email system that charges $0.01 to the sender. Spammers would be bankrupt. It was difficult to implement and up against an already entren
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And it's worrying that the police can't differentiate a device with no explosives from one with wire going into a block of goo.
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Police in Texas arrest Muslim teenager for DIY clock(bbc.com)
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To disconnect I got a blackberry curve. Still has email and wifi feathering if I need it. Other than that it sucks and I love it. I might replace it with a "tomorrow m5" phone; a feature phone the size of four stacked credit cards
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Thermostat: Warmer or Colder? How about less intense? At the office I bring a sweater in the summer and so sometimes strip to my undershirt in the winter....
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Snowden files, 2013-2014. The nastiest example is probably hacking into petrobrass, the oil company of a third world country. Industrial spying on a third world country? That's like punching a cripple.
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Pot meet kettle.
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I don't know about the rest-of-Canada. I stayed in Ontario (Mississauga) last year for six mo. and I was on Rogers, capped at 80 Gb/month. My alternative was Bell. Same price. Same cap. Week-long activation date. I was paying what
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In canada that's a big concern
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Me too
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Your third point is dead on. Otherwise, why do surveillance on private (foreign) corporations?
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False dichotomy.
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Recording of Greek FM on having to hack his country's tax computers(omfif.org)
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Incredible.
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If you live south of San Francisco you don't need a heater, and north of LA you don't need a AC. When I lived in Santa Barbara I didn't have AC or heating. And it was lovely. In Atlanta we all need heat pumps (which are effic
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About the differences w/ UK, some regulators force you to use wind if its available (i.e. Germany. Ontario too, I think)
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Before I rant; I dunno the specifics about Denmark, but as a maritime nation they have a unique advantage for windpower. Off-shore windpower is far less stochastic than on-shore windpower (see last paragraph for why). So all the problems be
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I cringe at the thought this will work. My first thought when I first heard about this a few months ago was comment in bad taste I had made to a Libyan about why Italy would never get rid of Berlusconi he'll never die; he'll just
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The question never was can wind generate enough power - just build more windmills. The question is can it be reliably integrated into a stable electrical system? Unfortunately, largely no. At least not still. Without getting into technical
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Well said. Good luck.

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