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by madaxe 13y ago
Patents on seeds are particularly worrying as a result of The Patent Box ( http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ct/forms-rates/claims/patent-box.htm ) in the UK. Basically means income from patented "inventions" is
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By 2017, Monsanto will pay no tax in the UK(hmrc.gov.uk)
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Alright, you tell me how you do it then.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, they knew he had none. So did the UK. They even went so far as to off a few scientists and bureaucrats who were leak risks.
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I'd wager they've a dinky device that snaps onto a fibre (once it's unshielded), bends it a few degrees just enough that it leaks light ever so slightly, and have a photodiode within the device to amplify and relay the interc
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by madaxe 13y ago
Your press isn't free - and it's not so much what they gain but what they stand to lose by not toeing the line.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Very low. Ergo Snowden is of more interest as a political football than as an intel source - he likely knows nothing the FSB doesn't already.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Nah, it's propaganda. Careful use of biased words throughout. The vast majority of print and broadcast news in the US is now propaganda - it's painfully obvious to an outsider, but if you're embedded in it, it's harder t
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by madaxe 13y ago
Except, you can view this in another light. Yes, there's a 1-2 year timescale - but after those 1-2 years we won't necessarily see a SCOTUS judgment. There's nothing to stop complete martial law being imposed in the interim d
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We've been here before (McCarthyism)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by madaxe 13y ago
A wild scape-goat appears! Good ol' distractionary (although OSX thinks I mean "discrattionary" for reasons I can't fathom) tactics.
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Seniors don't riot.
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by madaxe 13y ago
http://www.glassdoor.com/Bonuses/Booz-Allen-Hamilton-Bonuses...
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by madaxe 13y ago
The vast majority get their news from local news broadcasts. http://www.mpopost.com/most-americans-rely-on-television-for...
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99.99% of Americans will not see that video. 99.99% of Americans will see their local TV news slamming the guy on any character assassination angles they can come up with.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Once you take into account a ~30% annual bonus (normal for BAH), a company car, and relocation expenses - all of which you can be sure he had, as they're also de rigeur for NGO contractors, that $200k figure is about right.
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by madaxe 13y ago
So, they don't do it like google etc. don't do it? Encrypt your disks. Only allow https. Don't let their support anywhere near your kit. Although then again they could stick a physical intercept in a box.
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by madaxe 13y ago
This is the smear they're running already - have seen him referred to as a "Chinese spy" a couple of times already. I'm sure they'll get Greenwald on charges of being his cohort for China. Diplomatic incident ahoy!
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by madaxe 13y ago
We have two justice systems in the UK, one for you and me, one for people with more money than god.
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by madaxe 13y ago
> Survivor bias. 1) So if you went to disney and came home safe, that's survivor bias? 2) You don't have rape in the US? Way to go! > Someone asked to see your ID? 1) Yes, and they didn't like it ("what state is th
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by madaxe 13y ago
Ever been to Congo? Either one? It's fine. And this is coming from a white man who spent a week hitchhiking and walking around with zero security. I get hassled a lot more by LE in the US on trips there than anywhere else. Hell, I ma
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by madaxe 13y ago
They've been busily locking folks up over here in the UK for the last year or so for life sentences, just for talking about plots - no action whatsoever. Precrime is already here and nobody is batting a damned eyelid.
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by madaxe 13y ago
A riot where you obey the authorities isn't much of a riot.
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by madaxe 13y ago
My uncle tried this argument. I proposed that he post a photo of himself naked on his facebook wall. Funnily, he demurred.
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by madaxe 13y ago
But, but, he's a rapist! So we should all denounce him. This is the view now held by most about Assange, sadly. On the note of Greenwald, it looks like it's already started: Gabriel Schoenfeld, a national security expert and senio
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by madaxe 13y ago
Absolutely they will, as they have in other similar cases. They may or may not succeed, but they already have a track record of going after journalists, so I don't see why this should be any different. If they don't push for prose
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by madaxe 13y ago
Did this years ago by grabbing the local time on the user's system clock (as many don't set their TZ correctly), rounding to the nearest 15 mins, and then guessing their TZ from this. 15 mins because Nepal and a few others of that ilk.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Not every business in London is a bank?
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by madaxe 13y ago
Erm, no. Red Bricks are ex-polytechnics or newbuild universities, generally specialising in quality degrees like urban forestry and golf course management. Oxford BROOKES is an example of a red brick. But not Oxford.
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by madaxe 13y ago
It could of course also just be a good old-fashioned mass driver, based on his descriptions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver

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