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by powertower 14y ago
What opiates are you mostly buying? Unless you are ordering Heroin, which is very expensive on SR, at that spending rate you are probably buying Oxys or Opanas. This might surprise some, but there are much simpler and better-priced places t
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by powertower 14y ago
If you are going to buy bitcoins, don't use BitInstant (at least not until they get their operation together). Read the nightmare thread here were some people are filing police reports to get their money back, while others just give up - h
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by powertower 14y ago
The described LSD "thumbprint" sounds more like 10-30mg to me. As a grain or two of table-top salt is about 1mg (*but this of course depends on the density of the substance). Either way it sounds like a horrifying experience for anyone that
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by powertower 14y ago
The question I have after reading the article is - when all purchasable soybean seeds on the market end up being composed of seeds that originated from Monsanto's genetically modified stock (apparently they already mostly are in grain silos
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by powertower 14y ago
This may very well be a way to intentionally hurt or change USPS for the benefit of UPS and FedEx, or some other business interest (via corporate lobbyists). Or is being done for leverage. Because it's the only way this all makes sense. And
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by powertower 14y ago
It's intresting to note that something like 15% of Mexico's entire population has moved into the USA. I'm note sure I've seen such a massive exodus like that before.
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by powertower 14y ago
Tagged by how they made their money - first mover advantage, hard work and insight, theft, unfair practices, cheating, destroying the environment, war profiteering, rackets, bribery, political corruption, pure luck, ovarian lottery, etc, wo
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by powertower 14y ago
random wiki website vs. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=5&material... And that's just for a quick bite. See the slideshare for more relavant info.
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by powertower 14y ago
> None of this has done much to improve the fundamental energy storage densities of the underlying chemistries. The LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) field is really hot right now. COPs of 6-20x (and sometimes more) are being reported
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by powertower 14y ago
My thoughts exactly at first. There is something nonsensical about this whole matter (as reported by the blogs) that triggers a flag for me. More info - (tl;dr; the peering traffic between Cogent and Orange are too imbalanced; Cogent hand
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by powertower 14y ago
You might be right but... I've seen too many anti-Microsoft cnet submits hit the front-page for cnet to have anything but a positive weight on HN. Also duplicates and shorts and blog-spam hits front page all the time. And I don't see anythi
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by powertower 14y ago
> sometimes people get hell banned that probably don't deserve it. Speaking about that... There are also accounts that have their comments show up just fine, but all their submits get "hell banned"... That is, you think your submit is s
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by powertower 14y ago
Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business. "Free" and "Alternative" are valid comparison terms if you are thinking of industries such as Shared Hosting and use-cases of PHP. There is a r
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by powertower 14y ago
Hold on! Microsoft has a Windows Server edition (not to be confused with the Hyper-V feature itself) called "Hyper-V Server 2012" that is free (runs the Core role and is CLI only), and you can virtualize it (with itself) to as many VMs as
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by powertower 14y ago
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/ebooks
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by powertower 14y ago
Still operational - http://www.paxfire.com/ And is suing people that filed suit for 50 million - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxfire
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by powertower 14y ago
Now that I think about it, you're right, it was the Netherlands judge story. My fault.
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by powertower 14y ago
Most of the stories I see that claim how the US is some type of a corrupt police state are selectively filtering and misreporting reality. There was a story that made the rounds a while ago… A felon flees police in a car, and later specific
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by powertower 14y ago
I tried to follow the "fact" that the legal counsel was forcibly subjected to DNA registration, and the link went to the Wikipedia entry for the Pirate Bay raid. Which then linked out the reference for that specific "fact" to a blog that no
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by powertower 14y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I wasn't suggesting that the "Is a solution reproducible via logical steps?" rule to be a validating rule... It only invalidates patentability if found to be true. Otherwise, nothing.
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by powertower 14y ago
Yes, if the solution takes "dozen experts and millions of dollars", it should be possibly patentable. But if the solution is reproducible by an average or good programmer leading by logical steps , then it shouldn't be patentable at all.
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by powertower 14y ago
Software patents are here to stay. Don't fight a battle you can't win, the Patent Office is not going to throw away the billions of dollars they make on this... But you can make it so they get to keep their revenues, but we get to add rules
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by powertower 14y ago
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed
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by powertower 14y ago
"Stuart had about 20 clients, all of them outside the U.S. in Costa Rica, Panama, Australia, Jamaica, the UK, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere." Sending Cashier's Checks by mail is pretty much what you'd want to do in the above cases. V
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by powertower 14y ago
> so what is "from a German perspective"? The video details the world events at that time that question if Germany was really the aggressor the Allies made it out to be, or if it was instead provoked into a war step-by-step.
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by powertower 14y ago
I'm curious about your view as a German who has formed a strong opinion on WW2... Someone once said the following, what do you think of it? Quote - History is always written by the victors. Considering the absolute defeat of Germany during
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by powertower 14y ago
> Evil is a BS theological notion. I wish people would stop perpetuating it. History is written by the victors. This is a plain-and-simple fact, and the only fact you'll find in History. Everything gets re-written to fit the winner's po
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by powertower 14y ago
So you won't define this social contract that you (you somehow also representing the society) are holding me to (the contract I'm supposedly violating or ignoring somehow by disagreeing with something you said, or having a different P.O.V.)
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by powertower 14y ago
> He is saying that you have a responsibility to society to be better with it than to say "fuck you, I've got mine." As a citizen of the USA I agree that I have a responsibility to my country and society. I just don't agree that you get
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by powertower 14y ago
> The idea that you can inherit money but not obligations is dysfunctional. The idea that white people come from old money that gets passed down from generation to generation is not based in reality. Many whites came here from the peasa

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