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by kahirsch 16y ago
> I haven't heard a decent argument on how Wikileaks isn't a terrorist organization, and why the principal members aren't enemy combatants. Terrorism involves violence or, at least, the threat of violence.
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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_To_Spend_2_Bln_Doll...
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The patents that start with "D" are design patents, not utility patents. I don't really know how big a problem they are. It seems like it would be pretty easy to avoid them if you knew about them, although how you would know about them all
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by kahirsch 16y ago
No, it's not all electromagnetic. Alpha, beta, and neutron radiation are not electromagnetic radiation. There's also a very big difference between radiation and radioactive isotopes, which can be inhaled or ingested.
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by kahirsch 16y ago
How to recognized the leader of Libya: $name =~ m/M[ou]'?amm?ar ([aAEe]l[- ])?(Q|[GK]h?)a(d|dd|dh|dhdh|th|zz)afi/
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by kahirsch 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "property." The 1709 Statute of Anne, which provided for a limited term of copyright, specifically used the words "property" and "proprietor" in regards to it. There are different kinds of property and limited-
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by kahirsch 16y ago
Treating the intangible as property was long established in common law, not just with regard to patents and copyright, but many other things. Blackstone lists, for example, ten kinds of "incorporeal hereditaments": http://ebooks.adelaide.e
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by kahirsch 16y ago
The BMJ article is open access and written for a general audience: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5258.full
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Which is also not extortion.
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> For many people, like me, Twitter has replaced most of the functionality of a reader. I still get the same information, but it's pushed to me, nicely curated, by people I follow. I'm completely baffled by comments like this. I've trie
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by kahirsch 16y ago
This quote apparently came from this satire: http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Communist_Reeducation.html
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by kahirsch 16y ago
There are so many bugs in Google Group search! It should be an embarrassment for a company which was founded on search and still has the best web search. I had assumed that Google had just written off Groups as a loss and moved all the deve
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by kahirsch 16y ago
For the U.S., there are breakdowns by race available. The detailed stats are only available on one of the big categories at a time (math in 2003, science in 2006, reading in 2009). For 2003, the math scores by race are here: http://www.nce
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by kahirsch 16y ago
A nitrogen-filled container would be more practical than a vacuum. Lowering the temperature would definitely help, although too cold could be bad.
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by kahirsch 16y ago
There are a variety of studies related to what is called the "Pygmalion Effect". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect Not all the studies show an effect and in those that do, the effect is usually not large. Here's a recent
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by kahirsch 17y ago
Everything you say is a little wrong. There's nothing unusual about bills passing just before a recess. The Federal Reserve Act was big news at that time. Extensive hearings were held on it and it received overwhelming support from Democra