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by squozzer 13y ago
Here's a snippet from the carefree happy days of the previous century, before 9/11 and the New Earnestness -- Baumholder, Germany, 1986. The daily march to the motor pool. Yes, I was in the Army. A little later than usual for reas
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by squozzer 13y ago
Grunka Lunka Dunkity Dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Two words -- West Virginia.
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by squozzer 13y ago
25 questions can only paint broad strokes. Given that it's on pbs.org, it's probably best at gauging how much exposure to "archetypical" America the PBS / NPR demo possesses.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Cheers!
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by squozzer 13y ago
So are CSPAN, NPR, and most media outlets. Duh.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I might try for 30 minutes, but maybe I'm just stubborn.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Said another way, "Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
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by squozzer 13y ago
What's in a name? Perhaps your intended targets. Can't wait to see Project Auschwitz.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Oops. Nevermind.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Correction -- radioactive batteries -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
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by squozzer 13y ago
Not bad, but had to laugh at his statement, "All earth will be a single choked Manhattan by A.D. 2450 and society will collapse long before that!" Uh, a collapsed society could not support a growing population, Dr. A.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Blessed are those who have a smattering of enemies, for they shall them a (s)hero.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Glad to see someone fulfilling my dream -- I called it "the money moat". I submitted an idea like this to my previous job (phone company) -- it was not popular (what a surprise.) Apparently toll-free solicitation calling is consid
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by squozzer 13y ago
Sad but predictable. Maybe the gullible deserve their fleecing.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Chris Matyszczyk sounded a bit condescending. But I had to laugh at his last line, "However, can we truly trust ourselves? We are, after all, the bright sparks who voted in the current Congress." I would extend that line of questi
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by squozzer 13y ago
Political defiance is not a blitzkrieg -- if it were everyone would do it. A loss does not dictate surrender. I'm still pretty new at the political defiance game, but reading a few PDFs at aeinstein.org has opened my eyes a little - th
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by squozzer 13y ago
And Hamilton's argument was (partially) countered by the 10th Amendment. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the p
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by squozzer 13y ago
"[T]here is no doubt about the nature of China and Russia." Forgive my indolence, but I'm not that worried about the nature of China and Russia -- I can read a history book, assuming anything in them is true. I worry about th
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by squozzer 13y ago
My favorite quote from the piece -- "There is no longer good reason to keep secrets about such a critical episode in our recent past. The basic facts are widely known to every school child in Iran. Suppressing the details only distorts
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by squozzer 13y ago
I would extend the author's arguments to include loyalty to an entity whose interests aren't exactly aligned with one's own -- for example, a nation-state. Not saying that loyalty in itself is bad, but blind loyalty is -- a s
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by squozzer 13y ago
I think the author makes a good point, to which I would add a couple of thoughts - 1) The danger of too much free time isn't because all of that brainpower would somehow figure out how to topple the system or at least replace its'
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by squozzer 13y ago
Facebook in some ways is the ultimate HS or college party. Everyone has a front to present. So it's not surprising that it might make a lot of people feel bad because the reader is seeing everyone's outside and comparing it to the
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by squozzer 13y ago
Having worked a little in the industry, tips should be abolished. Generally people tip the same unless the service was terrible (not necessarily slowness, but demeanor). For the most part, the amount of the tip is outside the server's
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by squozzer 13y ago
I could go into permanent Godwin purgatory for listing crimes against humanity that were codified into law not all that long ago.
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by squozzer 13y ago
The frequency and engagement model seems to have merit. I might add to the other concept described -- Core vs Circumstantial Relationships -- a notion of Aspirational -- under which following a celebrity might fall.
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by squozzer 13y ago
Yeah, let's burn our bras, I mean smartphones. Or donate money to whatever -- so far that hasn't worked. I doubt EFF with a 10x increase in budget could accomplish 10x objectives. Even if they could, that wouldn't give us 10x
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by squozzer 13y ago
Expect more revelations, as the "cross-border" criterion for information capture disappears from the debate. All communication will be captured all of the time. The upshot -- we have the best excuse in years to begin purging our r
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by squozzer 13y ago
The answers to that game are obvious -- Oddjob and the laser.
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by squozzer 13y ago
I think we're going to have to minimize our traffic over established links for such a system to work. Three types of media come to mind -- 1) Open-air (e.g. radio but possibly IR, optical, etc.) 2) Electric lines 3) Water pipes or othe

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