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by squozzer 13y ago
It's easy to view this event in isolation but the years since 2001 have brought forth several unsettling revelations. 1) Abu Ghraib 2) Gitmo 3) Torture and certain shell games (renditions, black sites) to keep culpability at arm's
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by squozzer 13y ago
I'd engage in some schadenfreude, but a good bit of that stuff will be lurking over LA none too soon.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Let's say we find it, what then?
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by squozzer 13y ago
Sun Tzu believed in spies. And what respectable HN groupie doesn't have a copy of The Art of War, next to a dog-eared copy of The Prince? Then there is the tale of the Lucy spy ring discovering the impending German attack at Kursk. Fin
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by squozzer 13y ago
I gather from the article there was a lot of contact between the chemist and various prosecutors. That should stop. Maybe we should consider evidence-gathering a judicial function instead of an executive one.
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by squozzer 13y ago
The article is absolute drivel - almost. The last paragraph saves it. "Technologies should adapt to our needs and values." Period. Off to research how education dealt with the horseless carriage and the flying machine back in the
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by squozzer 13y ago
Three conditions would make life extension practical for me. 1) Cost of living becomes negligible or earning a living is still possible at 100+. 2) The additional years are healthy ones. 3) Breeding is reduced or resource availability is in
728.
by squozzer 13y ago
A very interesting piece, revealing a cultural side-effect I had not expected. The stereotype we hold in the West about Japan is that conformity is the norm, which for the most part holds. But not in housing it seems. They have my admirati
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by squozzer 13y ago
I dug into the professor's work a little deeper and he does not assume periodicity for his observations in general but goes on to say they have periodic tendencies.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Wild-ass guesses: 1) Someone at the NSA 2) Barack Hussein Obama 3) Me I hope the national-security apparati have a handle on this -- wouldn't want the evidence of a smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud...
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by squozzer 13y ago
Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Sorry mate, off to the gas chamber with you. Genetics is destiny, and we have to think about national security, the children, and what the insurance companies think.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Keep in mind the problem aren't the elites, their success in reproduction which causes the imbalance between their numbers and the number of (suitable) positions available to them. After all, a core tenet of The American Dream™ states
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by squozzer 13y ago
I enjoyed reading his story -- not the actual sequence of events obviously, but in the telling. It bears some similarities to "The Jerk" and "Life Stinks" but it could be a worthwhile movie (hope I didn't jinx it.)
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by squozzer 13y ago
I've held as a belief it would raise prices - because more more would become available to basic consumers and would be spent on basic consumption. Can such a hypothesis be proven false?
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by squozzer 13y ago
It's quite possible the purpose of the criminal justice system is to remove the young male (and dare I say black?) population from the breeding cycle. Is that a falsifiable hypothesis?
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by squozzer 13y ago
>"What does it take for a rich, white guy to have to go to jail?" Ripping off other rich white guys, e.g. Bernie Madoff.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's an American thing, but I smile because I want people to like me, or at least not kill me.
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by squozzer 13y ago
>I call this coping strategy the John Stewart method. Amen. And I love Daily Show and Colbert Report. But laughter is no substitute for action.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I think (s)he meant, "Praying to god it doesn't break down on me again" while driving.
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by squozzer 13y ago
As an American who grew up during the Cold War, this article really isn't news. We were always accusing the Commies of hyper-sensitivity to international perception. And yes, the US denies entry to "radical" figures. Academic
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by squozzer 13y ago
It's naive to think either politics or technology, by themselves, will change anything. Sunde nibbles at the solution when he advocates a fundamental declaration for digital rights. But he fails to mention that fundamental rights emerg
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by squozzer 13y ago
Recently on TV John Bolton said something in a similar vein -- that everybody spies on each other but no one talks about it and it's the people (such as Snowden) who leak that are the problem, not the program itself. But it seems to me
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by squozzer 13y ago
Amen.
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by squozzer 13y ago
"She said, 'I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,'" Kehaly said." Lesson: Never give a sucker an even break.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I doubt the Chinese have a bigger bystander problem than the US. Exhibit A - Good Samaritan laws that both require and legally protect attempts to aid.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Despite some of the obvious problems, the matter of "taste" provides the biggest challenge / opportunity. By "taste", I mean something similar to what plagues wines especially, but also beers and single malt scotche
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by squozzer 13y ago
too bad the word "slime" is already used by a text editor.
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by squozzer 13y ago
It depends on what's at risk. So far he hasn't asked me to meet him in a cornfield or other out-of-the-way location.
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by squozzer 13y ago
She's a beauty.

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