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by razakel 10y ago
>You probably have no idea the degree to which the IT people in and around the military maximize their belief that those simpleton sailors not in the IT circle of trust are sheeple, and that they, the IT gods are, each and every one, the
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by razakel 10y ago
The takeaway: 25% of the working-age population can't complete a task as basic as "delete this email". I'm honestly flabbergasted.
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by razakel 10y ago
>Force the ACLU and legislatures to enact laws allowing for forcing adults into mandatory detox and/or mental/rehab programs based on their drug use. I'm very uncomfortable with the notion of forcing someone to accept medi
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by razakel 10y ago
>While it sounds good, it's pretty bullshit to say the war on drugs is about financing dictators. You're missing the point. Drug sales can be monopolized by the powers that be to generate off-the-books revenue streams. This can
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by razakel 10y ago
>System of a Down It's almost like a band that literally exists to raise awareness of the Armenian genocide are actually quite politically astute.
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by razakel 10y ago
>In the US, ex post facto laws cannot be made. Yeah, well, in the UK the government is trying to justify sweeping constitutional and case law changes based on a non-binding referendum barely passing.
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by razakel 10y ago
>When I was more naive I used to believe that papers reported the news - now I realize that they apply their political bias to spin news. This has now happened with Twitter. Papers never reported the news. They exist to create the news.
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by razakel 10y ago
I'm going to hazard a guess that the drug he was promoting was an antidepressant. There's certainly an issue with overprescription of these; often to people who have nothing physically wrong with them and would benefit more from t
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by razakel 10y ago
>So is black metal music racist? Well, there are a lot of racist black metal musicians.
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by razakel 10y ago
>At the end of the day, you randomly select say 1% of all the machines and hand count all the ballots inside, making sure the counts and votes match. If they do, then you can be reasonably sure it wasn't tampered with, and if they d
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by razakel 10y ago
>Workforce automation created millions of unemployed people in places far away from economic hubs, with no hope of employment in their hometowns or re-skilling for the new roles, leaving them desperate. So did the Industrial Revolution.
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by razakel 10y ago
Just a reminder that anyone in the UK or with an interest in UK politics should subscribe to Private Eye. Ian Hislop likely has the distinction of being the most-sued person in English legal history - almost entirely by people seeking libel
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by razakel 10y ago
>Can you find a meth/heroin movie like the 'Hangover' movies? Well, there is Trainspotting, but that's a much darker form of comedy...
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by razakel 10y ago
>Huh. Someone should tell my phone; it still displays 'emergency calls only' when it is unable to connect to my own provider's towers. That's emergency roaming. You can call emergency numbers provided there's sig
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by razakel 10y ago
>The UK has an open land border with another EU country - Ireland - and so far the Brexit campaign have been very unclear about whether this would continue It would - see the Ireland Act 1949. >what implications that might have for &q
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by razakel 10y ago
>That doesn't stop it communicating with the mobile network. At least in the UK, you can still call emergency numbers (999, Childline, Samaritans(?)) without a SIM. You haven't been able to do this since 2009. It was changed du
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by razakel 11y ago
>Is bulk data collection government regulated? Meaning, is it legal for a person to start building and sharing databases about other people e.g. about the same people working for the organizations mentioned in the article, MI5, MI6, GCHQ
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by razakel 11y ago
>There is a part of me that loves these stories about serendipitous discoveries. The discovery of LSD is a fascinating example of this. Hofmann experienced some sort of altered state of consciousness after first synthesising it. The inte
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by razakel 11y ago
It's 3dfx, a long-defunct graphics hardware company.
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by razakel 11y ago
>Has anyone else wondered why Stephen hasn't upgraded his voice? Maybe it is his signature of sorts. That's exactly what he's stated publicly - it's so widely recognised it's part of his identity.
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by razakel 11y ago
Check your certificates. I saw this when I installed a Fiddler root certificate.
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by razakel 11y ago
You're basically describing the Semantic Web.