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by sdurkin 16y ago
“Meetings are an addictive highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Changing the policy of a large corporation is like turning a tanker ship at sea. To avoid upsetting the balance, one has to go verrrry slowly. This was a load and clear signal that Youtube knows full well that the time of HTML5 is coming so
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by sdurkin 16y ago
When they start trying to outlaw you, you know you've made a big dent in their bottom line.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/kagan-in-the-w...
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Then they'd stop using email. One of the nice things about email is that a lot of the time people don't realize they're on the record.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Thanks for running it down. I was mainly referring to the value of the commentary. Infowars ain't exactly the Economist.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Purely illegal and unconstitutional. I admire the spirit, but this is the sort of thing that wouldn't make it past a District Court judge.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Because the symbols are hard to decipher, of course.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
First, [credible citation needed.] Second, we've already given President Obama a kill switch that shuts down the entire world.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
My comment was not simple machismo. The United States has no need to seize any assets. We simply stop defending the roads, at which point the insurgents will begin seizing any convoy that attempts to get through. My statement was not one of
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Nice thing about those roads, as long as we secure them, we own them.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Do not count on continued US complicity, especially if the "synergy" is unintentional. Remember that the United States and the Soviet Union did joint surveys for petroleum exploration in the Persian Gulf. It did not exactly herald a period
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Within a reasonable degree of certainty, John Perkins is mentally unstable.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
The Soviets did preliminary mapping. The Chinese "private" sector did more detailed charts, which were undoubtedly intercepted by NATO intelligence in country. I must embarrassingly say that you're wholly correct, the United States was rath
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by sdurkin 16y ago
It goes by various names: the Resource Curse, Paradox of Plenty, the Dutch Disease, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse Finding tremendous mineral resources usually encourages corruption, collapses immature democratic institu
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Excellent points. Knowing the probable future of actions of the Chinese, there's a strategy the United States can play here. The brief is this: 1. The most dangerous threat to the United States is not the continued rise of China. 2 .The mos
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by sdurkin 16y ago
You are incorrect. Review the precedent. The argument that economic linkage would prevent warfare was first raised prior to World War I. Global and Continental trade failed to prevent proxy conflict in Africa, the Baltics, and all out confl
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by sdurkin 16y ago
You're absolutely right. It won't be PRC tanks rolling against NATO. It will be proxy warfare, in the manner of the Great Game or the Cold War. Even today, Chinese companies sell a great deal of weaponry to the Taliban and other insurgent g
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Interesting you should mention this. Chinese mining companies have been quietly performing exploratory studies in the north for the past few years. It was the Chinese activity that actually tipped us off that there could be significant copp
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Excellent point. Perhaps it should have been obvious that I was joking. By referencing the somewhat deragatory nicknames used by soldiers in WWII, I was calling to mind our nations' shared heritage of the British Common Law. When I see Comm
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by sdurkin 16y ago
More realistically, how about a Constitutional amendment that designates the Vice President, in his role as President of the Senate, to be the titular Head of State for all functions ceremonial?
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Dear Aussies and Limies, Regarding your internet and privacy policies: Get it together. Most Sincerely, the Yanks.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
In addition to Dunbar's number, there's a few other magic numbers that crop up in the statistics of human societies over and over again: 2 - The most basic. Think romantic relationships, best friends, business partners, etc. 6 - The "group.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
Actually, its a watered-down reinstitution of some Depression era measures. It cannot and will not prevent future financial crises. It represents a colossal failure of vision on behalf of the leaders of both parties. It fails to address the
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by sdurkin 16y ago
I agree. I have a US Army surplus entrenching tool in my basement right now, folding serrated edge and everything. My dad used to use it when my siblings and I were younger to dig holes at the beach. :) Ingenious design? Absolutely. Notewor
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by sdurkin 16y ago
They're the ones who got hacked, and they're giving the guy a chance to avoid charges, all while having fun. I understand your point, but I also get why TC's doing it.
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by sdurkin 16y ago
I can't be the only one disturbed that the standard for graphics online is roughly the same as the standard for graphics on the desktop twenty some years ago. Oh, sweet, a moving square.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
It's also almost like it would be logistically inefficient to stockpile enough product ensure 100% availability on launch day.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Adolescent common chimpanzees form bands of males that stay up later than the rest and patrol the group's perimeter. I'm guessing human teenagers are genetically programmed to be the night watch. (Reposted from below :)

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