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by madaxe 13y ago
It's owned by LandSec. They don't give two hoots what they build, or how they build it, as due to their "special status", they make great gobs of cash for anything they build, regardless of whether it's commercially
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by madaxe 13y ago
They were doing so well until the flash video at the end. :(
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by madaxe 13y ago
Computers are easy, and those weird bearded guys in the basement create all the problems. If it weren't for them, it'd all just work. We should fire those guys, because I only ever see them in the context of problems, which means
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by madaxe 13y ago
"Smart people realise we're doing bad shit, so will resist it. Therefore, we can only hire unquestioning idiots." This is why the government is now entirely run by unquestioning idiots.
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by madaxe 13y ago
What's the difference between an h1b worker and a domestic worker? The h1b worker knows he's a slave.
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by madaxe 13y ago
That, and chaotic runaways we can't even pretend to understand yet.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Almost certainly. They even say so in the article. Most glacial melt flow is subsurface - disappears down a moulin and flows out under the overhanging shelf, accelerating melt. Feedbacktastic.
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by madaxe 13y ago
This is pretty old news (has been the case for years and years with DHL), however by grabbing those signatures, you've just put yourself in Weev's shoes.
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"Bomb Syria, even if it's illegal"(nytimes.com)
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by madaxe 13y ago
We have "radio-decay batteries" - RTGs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen... They can be miniaturised, using the photoelectric effect, alphavoltaics or betavoltaics. We do not use t
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by madaxe 13y ago
This isn't just about developers and hiring practices. This is about systemisation and bullshit metrics being used to make opaque and life-changing decisions. This is about the same kind of shitty thinking that results in surveillance
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by madaxe 13y ago
Debate cogently rather than reverting to childish "go back where you came from" type "arguments"?
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by madaxe 13y ago
No no, you see, the Germans were EVIL and were knowingly doing terrible things because they enjoyed them. Hitler was drinking the blood of children while the wehrmacht paraded guns around going "BLITZKREIG! BLITZKREIG!", and every
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by madaxe 13y ago
> Note the discussion currently going on about us intervening in Syria. There is no discussion to be had. International law is perfectly clear as to what actions should be taken. The Chemical weapons angle just blows my mind . The US
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by madaxe 13y ago
You seem to be forgetting the bevy of gentlemen "awaiting trial" at Guantanamo, ostensibly for 9/11, among other things. I do not see what other proof there is, and basing LAWS on "well, it was probably these guys"
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by madaxe 13y ago
That's not a strange point. That's the way it should be. The military represent the people. The government represent the people. The police/law enforcement agencies represent the state-sanctioned violence of the governmen
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by madaxe 13y ago
Really? So you'd argue that we should sentence people, and pass judgment on groups, without any legal basis? Without a trial, there is NO VERDICT . The entire point of the judiciary is to adjudicate - and without their judgment, in le
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by madaxe 13y ago
> The government isn't crazy like Deputy Minister Helpmann in Brazil. Who said Helpmann was crazy? He's perfectly sane and rational, from his frame of reference. So are our governments. The issue arises when the subjective re
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by madaxe 13y ago
You mean, names of agent provocateurs infiltrating peaceful protest groups? You see, the thing is, as soon as you say "well, clearly X needs to be secret", you open the avenue for all of the unintended, unforeseen uses of said sec
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by madaxe 13y ago
We already have thought crime. See the several groups of chaps who were all locked up for life for talking about making a bomb last year.
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by madaxe 13y ago
* > I think any reasonable person would agree that there is information states legitimately need or want to keep secret. * Such as? Why should the state have a higher expectation of privacy than its citizens, if it's representative
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by madaxe 13y ago
Sorry, which known terrorist groups? If you say Al Qaeda, you're forgetting that there's still not a single attack in the west which has, in a court of law, been shown to be their doing. "The Terrorists" are "The Re
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by madaxe 13y ago
We're not in 1984 . We're not in Brave New World . We're not even in Zamyatin's We . We're in bloody Brazil . INTERVIEWER Deputy minister, what do
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by madaxe 13y ago
It's extremely simple. You just pull your finger out and do it. I've hopped continent four times so far in my life, and have no intention of stopping. Sure, family, ties, etc., but it's not like you can't visit them, and
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by madaxe 13y ago
> an aggressive response in most. The word you're after is defensive . If you've been ripped off, you are not the aggressor.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Fracking will end when the gas is gone, the planet is uninhabitable, and we're all dead or living underground.
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by madaxe 13y ago
> Or, maybe it's more sinister than that, and we only truly recognize authoritarianism in retrospect. Bingo, you get it. Put a frog in a pan of cold water, bring it to the boil. It'll stay there, perfectly content, until it c
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by madaxe 13y ago
Vaterland is "Fatherland". It's the same semantic meaning - although I now note that the NSDAP didn't actually ever use it, and it was allied propaganda that set this in perpetuity in the non-german world. Did not know.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, and I don't think that a mass consensus is in any way relevant to determining whether something is an authoritarian regime or not. There was never a mass consensus in the USSR that it was authoritarian, because it was not permitted
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by madaxe 13y ago
I'm white, not religious, had a car spray painted with maltese crosses and puerile jokes. We stopped and chatted for a few minutes on the border from Russia to Kaz, and they let us go on their way. No in-depth search, no bribes, no not

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