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by plugger 8y ago
Yes, I understand what government subsidies are and how they work. But if I'm not the one subsidising the product then I don't understand how me benefiting from that is a bad thing for me personally. The US subsidises gasoline qui
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by plugger 8y ago
Incorrect, I live in Australia. This kinda reminds me of the conversation I had with my brother in law regarding the likes of SingAir, Emirates, and Qatar and just how much better they are when compared to US carriers that charge more on th
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by plugger 8y ago
> Whoever thought it would be advantageous for packages from China to cost less to ship than equivalent packages within the USA, is beyond me. As a consumer I think it's advantageous. I'd much prefer to pay no shipping when com
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by plugger 8y ago
Rice paddy fields also produce a significant amount of methane as well.
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by plugger 8y ago
> Yea I don't know if I can take someone serious who thinks a party focused on recreational hunting and gun rights is some fringe far right party. Are you Australian? The shard in your username makes me think you might be.* Regardle
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by plugger 8y ago
But the flip side of that coin is that to my understanding he disclosed the information to only a handful of journalists and not the entire world. Sure, his decision wasn't ideal, but no situation was given the position he put himself
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by plugger 8y ago
And that's why I've never used a real name of facebook.
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by plugger 8y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to judge given the lack of detail. It's entirely possible given the relatively recent adversarial diplomatic back and forth between China and Australia that this could be an APT style attack. Anecdotally I d
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by plugger 8y ago
According to the quote in the article, yes. The flaws “might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails you sent in the past,” Sebastian Schinzel, a professor of computer security at Münster University of Applied S
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by plugger 8y ago
A blue water Navy, not proximity, is what is required to invade and control Australia. India and Indonesia are a non-starter given that prerequisite, and China is probably 10-20 years away from being able to accomplish this (if they chose t
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by plugger 8y ago
+1. I start each morning in the office by firing up my RSS aggregator. Have been since the early days of Google Reader. I can skim through my feeds in minimal time, especially when compared to any other alternative.
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by plugger 9y ago
Thank you. This has been a great interaction from my perspective, I really appreciate your comments about the issue. Obviously there's much more I need to learn but your comments have given me some excellent info to pull apart further.
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by plugger 9y ago
> This is true but slightly exaggerated. This problem is not really hard to resist and mitigate if you want (sad thing many people don't want as they have no other feel-good things in their lives. there also are some people that are
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by plugger 9y ago
From how I understand it meth floods the dopamine receptors in the brain and prolonged use effectively fries them, or at least they become dependent on the artificial dopamine rush that meth provides. And correct me if I'm wrong, but a
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by plugger 9y ago
I disagree, the major problem with meth is cheapness, availability, and that it is highly addictive. I live in Australia where we've been suffering under a massive meth epidemic for over a decade. I'm chuckling about the thought o
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by plugger 9y ago
> Sigh...half a century later the Tet offensive is called "an enormous attack by North Vietnamese forces". > How about an enormous attack by "South" Vietnamese forces, like the National Liberation Front? In fairnes
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by plugger 9y ago
If Lamo's testimony regarding Assange assisting Manning with exfiltrating the Iraq and Afgan War Logs, Collateral Murder, and State Cables is correct I can easily understand why he's fighting this. I would too as I rate his chance
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by plugger 9y ago
Yea, his thorough reporting on Anna Politkovskaya's murder really supports your statement. /s
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by plugger 9y ago
My conclusion is that you've got no idea what you're talking about! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_program
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by plugger 9y ago
Oh, so you're privy to the classified intel the IC has on the matter? Just because the evidence isn't in the public domain doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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by plugger 9y ago
direct from Rocket Lab. https://www.rocketlabusa.com/latest/rocket-lab-successfully-...
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by plugger 9y ago
I thought it was registered as a US firm for ITAR purposes. From their website. > Rocket Lab is an American company with headquarters in Los Angeles and a wholly-owned New Zealand subsidiary.
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by plugger 10y ago
Instead couldn't you just whitelist the online banking sites and intercept everything else?
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by plugger 10y ago
I think you misspelled Assange.
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by plugger 10y ago
Exactly. Clinton's impeachment passed the House majority hurdle but never got the 2/3rds majority of the Senate required for the conviction. Agreed on the Republican majority. I suspect the best the US can hope for is a Republican
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by plugger 10y ago
Did you watch Collateral Murder?
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by plugger 10y ago
What happens if the US accepts his offer, extradites him to the US, and then immediately extradites him to Sweden at their request? It would effectively blow up his continual insistence that the Swedish extradition is nothing more than a sm
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by plugger 10y ago
It's analysed and stored in Melbourne, Victoria. The SKA Pathfinder is in Western Australia outside of Geraldton. Hence the data transfer statistics as the two sites are roughly 4,000km from one another.
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by plugger 10y ago
"ridgeguy" - yep, username checks out!
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by plugger 10y ago
I think the NY to France link would be good for the simple fact that it would make it much harder for the GCHQ to mirror internet traffic locally as they apparently do with fibre that terminates in the UK.

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