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by madaxe 13y ago
If a dude with a boxcutter can, surely a bumblebee could. Hell, rats can. http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/brain-dish-flies-pla...
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by madaxe 13y ago
What? Yes. Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED) has some pretty compelling explanations at a "basement" level as to how this works. Also, light does not propagate through glass in a straight line, it diffuses, refracts, and reflects.
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by madaxe 13y ago
This is only part of it. A rather larger part, which is being masked by this, is automation. Sounds like a very ludditish stance, but we (developers) are the ones who are fuelling this, by replacing white-collar jobs with software, and bl
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by madaxe 13y ago
When you keep borrowing from the future (which our economies have been doing since Bretton Woods, pretty much), you eventually have to pay off the debt. You can't keep pushing it back and back. No economist or politician seems to under
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by madaxe 13y ago
That's a nice dream, but the reality is that the jobless masses who can't afford the output will simply be: a) forgotten about b) subjugated (camps, eugenics, media control) c) property Or all or some of the above.
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by madaxe 13y ago
And 0.0001% earn more than the planet's GDP in 1968, inflation adjusted. At this point, the picture isn't going to change without a complete collapse/overthrow of the plutarchy.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I was going to say this too. Drove over it. Amazing place.
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by madaxe 13y ago
My girlfriend makes natural scrubs. Struggles. Natural stuff is objectively better in blind trials, and cheaper, but people see natural products as "supplemental" to their "beauty regime" (fuck I hate that phrase), secon
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by madaxe 13y ago
And it's a relatively short runway. Mercury, cadmium, lead and friends have taken and are taking decades to phase out.
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by madaxe 13y ago
What I don't understand is why anyone would want to rub their face down with BPA. My girlfriend makes and sells 100% natural face and body scrubs - sea salt, natural oils and bases, no additives. My skin has never been so good. Oh, and
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by madaxe 13y ago
You can/do/might use actual prisms for a variety of reasons, however, such as if you're trying to get a frequency-multiplexed set of signals off a single fibre broken down as their constituent components - i.e. bulk data coll
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by madaxe 13y ago
Secrecy is like copyright - keeps on getting extended, or the documents just get "mislaid" long before the declassification date.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Because it has someone's personal data in it, and the Guardian respects privacy - unlike the NSA, who use it in presentations. That's the only reason they've redacted anything, if you look at where the slides sit in context.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Around about the time when people started rolling out SSL as standard. That'd make sense, as they'd need to move their beam-splitters (prisms!) to behind the SSL endpoints. I think PRISM is just the public-private partnership aspe
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by madaxe 13y ago
> Why would Google (or anyone) link to them directly? with fiber no less! "They have no direct access to our servers" I wonder what a beam splitter consists of. Oh. A PRISM.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Way back... I still use a good old GPO rotary phone. Only thing you sometimes have to retrofit is the capacitor on the ringer circuit, as they're usually dead, or not big enough for today's lower voltage lines.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Ah, but the important question is: was the beam pink?
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yeah, as I said, the farmland is within no-mans-land. It's farmed by permit holders who are allowed to go within there - usually subsistence farmers, some (no official figures, but met a few) of whom are stateless and have been trapped
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by madaxe 13y ago
Apart from having fucking been there, and having photos of such, no. Admittedly, my experiences have been Ukraine/Russia, Belarus/Russia, Kaz/Russia, Latvia/Russia, and in each and every case there's been an exclusi
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, I knew exactly where I was, each and every time I drove into Russia. Pretty hard to confuse with the USA.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I'd suggest you go there and see with your own eyes? I'm not sure what your point is. Feasibility isn't really something the USSR ever factored in.
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by madaxe 13y ago
If you've ever been near a russian land border, you'd know sneaking ain't an option - they're still very much into their 30 foot razor wire fences, and mile wide minefields. AFAIK, the only borders which aren't dema
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by madaxe 13y ago
Do they now. Was this bought to you by Fox News? Iran fund the reprehensible republican guard, and have horrors like Ashraf on their hands, but Iran stick to Iran.
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by madaxe 13y ago
If nukes are the problem, why is Israel not sanctioned to hell and back? Have nukes, refuse to sign NPT. Because nukes aren't the problem. Protecting US interests by destabilising Iran is the problem.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Nice, hospitable, open people, good standard of living, great skiing. And a despotic government with no interest in war, just the subjugation of their own - and they'd still be a democratic secular republic if it weren't for the C
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by madaxe 13y ago
>1 Who will decide what counts as ‘pornography’, and how? >Pornography is everything that gives a politician, cleric or judge a boner. So, everything then. The ruling classes have the most profound and perverse paraphilias one can ima
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by madaxe 13y ago
Hm. Interestingly, I was taught at school that it was a false flag op by Karl Ernst's SA thugs, who framed Van der Lubbe. This appears to no longer be believed. Good old revisionism to suit the current political clime, I suppose. Don&#
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by madaxe 13y ago
But I'm guessing you'd say in the same breath that Wade v. Roe is unconstitutional, because it disagres with your politics?
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by madaxe 13y ago
Drill baby, drill? Oil may be cheaper in terms of immediate dollar costs, but by using it you sell our future down the river.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I hear he's a godless traitor with a personality disorder! By which I mean he's a good, well intentioned, honest man.

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