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by plugger 7y ago
No, because it's comedy. If people are getting what they consider "news" from late night comedy they don't understand the purpose of the show. I'd say the same thing about the Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, etc. The
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by plugger 7y ago
Currently there are three names that are repeatedly doing successful high alt two stage projects. Curt von Delius, Kip D, and Jim Jarvis. Kip's two stage flight from last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdkqZV4Rir
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by plugger 7y ago
In fairness I've been across these attempts for years. I was at BALLS when the initial Traveler CATOed, I watched it from Bruno's. Today is the first I've heard of this USAFA launch. The Wired article author is most likely mu
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by plugger 7y ago
From how I read the indictment, Manning had finished dumping what she could with her level of access and then Assange urged her to do more. Then Assange provided the live Linux Distro and the process for dumping the admin password hash. Man
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by plugger 7y ago
> Espionage is not a political offense in either the US or the UK. But it is in Sweden. That fact is conveniently forgotten when people were and continue to push the narrative of "Assange shouldn't be extradited to Sweden becau
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by plugger 7y ago
That's incorrect. Assange was trying to brute force the administrator password on a DoD system to give Manning elevated access on the host that she didn't have at the time. It wasn't an obfuscation exercise, it was an attempt
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by plugger 7y ago
From the Drive link. >(At the time of this writing the rocket and payload had not been recovered.) Normally to claim these sorts of records recovery of the vehicle is required. USC RPL's Traveler III was "thought" to have
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by plugger 7y ago
USC RPL was referring to CSXT, not the USAFA.
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by plugger 7y ago
> But I still think he should be protected from U.S. charges by the First Amendment, regardless of whatever minor "assistance" he provided to Chelsea Manning. Did you read the indictment? Do you honestly believe Assange supplyi
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by plugger 7y ago
And to be honest a reasonable portion of that team was made up of aerospace professionals. You kinda expect to win your local basketball comp if you have a team with more than one NBA player slumming it for the love of the game.
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by plugger 8y ago
> It looks to me that Australia, in particular, is the testing ground for FIVE EYES censorship efforts. Australia recently passed a draconian anti-encryption law [2] which will impact a number of multi-national companies. Other members o
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by plugger 8y ago
Nortel was Canadian, not American.
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ESPECIALLY in Five Eyes locales.
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by plugger 8y ago
I also find Huawei's position quite rich given they built their product stack from stealing Nortel IP in the 2000s.
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by plugger 8y ago
I can get behind this. I've been to Black Rock twice for BALLS, the premiere high altitude launch event for hobby rocketry in the states (in 2012 and 2013 respectively). It always takes place a few weeks after BM. I've had many a
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by plugger 8y ago
Yea nah. In theory I agree with you. In practice I don't believe Taiwan has much time left on the clock. My expectation is that sometime in the 2020s Taiwan will be Crimea'd.
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by plugger 8y ago
Defamation laws in Australia are quite severe, much more so when compared to the US.
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by plugger 8y ago
> Neither of those links says that US intelligence agencies passed information to US companies, either. From the first link: "But a report published by the European Parliament in February alleges that Echelon twice helped US compani
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by plugger 8y ago
It is true though. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820758.stm I can't find a link for it but during Clinton's presidency in the 90s he setup a government office to disseminate NSA collected econom
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by plugger 8y ago
I could be incorrect but I don't think camping is popular with people who live in the 3rd world. That's what I was trying to allude to here, hence my inclusion of the first world.
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by plugger 8y ago
No.
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by plugger 8y ago
> I remember reading an article in the New Yorker about a retreat where people would go to participate in extended fasts. It struck me you need to come from abundance for the idea of recreational starvation to be appealing, and I think s
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by plugger 8y ago
Isn't that exactly what has happened here? IIRC there was a Five Eyes get together not too long ago where they all decided this was the direction they should follow and Australia would take the lead. https://www.arnnet.com.a
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by plugger 8y ago
Definitely not sarcasm. I'm sure it would be fun initially but after doing it for a decade plus I would definitely get tired of it. And I'm a huge lover of wine and a pretty avid collector.
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by plugger 8y ago
I think what gets me about Gary V's "hustle porn" ethos is that most people don't realise he had a career for AGES selling wine for his family wine business and making wine tasting videos for over a decade on youtube. He
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by plugger 8y ago
I can comment on this as I'm kinda that guy at my rocket club as well. Basically many RDF or GPS Trackers in the hobby rocketry community operate over 70cm and require a license for legal operation. Add to that many people buy trackers
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by plugger 8y ago
But doesn't that quote refute "We already know that self proclaimed aficionados can’t tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine." assuming aficionados would be considered expert wine consumers?
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by plugger 8y ago
> But do the more expensive wines really give any more pleasure, or have people trained themselves to find it pleasing? From my perspective, yes. A truly great wine is one that you want to sit with and follow from a palate and aromatic p
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by plugger 8y ago
The flavor profiles of cheap and expensive wines don't really correlate so this argument is flawed. 2 Buck Chuck and other cheap bottles have flavor profiles that tend to be sweeter and less acidic when compared to more expensive bottl
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by plugger 8y ago
I used to be an underpaid 457 for nearly a decade until I got PR. Just because someone is an immigrant on a work visa doesn't mean they're incompetent. And organisational culture is a top down process, not a bottom up one. So blam

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