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by starbeast 8y ago
In the UK, we have had a government filled with people from the Bullingdon Club, an Oxford society that initiated members by having them burn money in front of the homeless. Homelessness has then rocketed under these people's reign, so
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by starbeast 8y ago
I never underestimate humanity's ability to come up with shit that is as weird as it is ridiculous, especially when it comes to tribal initiations. We get bungee jumping from the tribal initiation of the Bunlap people of Vanatu, so unl
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by starbeast 8y ago
I've known several people associated with masonry. One got kicked out after doing a 'mason in distress' sign at a judge to get his drug trial stopped. Another, who has held several senior positions within lodges, has a second
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by starbeast 8y ago
I got the shivers from this as well. It is not only absolutely fucking stunning in and of itself but considering what it took to be able to see this image, all of the people responsible are utterly magnificent bastards. Also I have had a th
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by starbeast 8y ago
>“Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all’s the same in death.” As much as being fans of the Illuminati (and who isn't?) they might also be fans of Diogenes of Sinope. >"I am searching f
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by starbeast 8y ago
This site is still up.
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by starbeast 8y ago
What if I try to sell you on the notion that getting high quality is extremely unlikely by definition, otherwise it would be called average quality?
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by starbeast 8y ago
Ahh yes, well it is a jolly little number that, but be aware not to discuss it with your colleagues until you are well out of department. We don't want it coming up in committee, now do we? You don't want it becoming a wash.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Well, I think you have bias on this 'scandal', or should I say scandal. It is a scandal and also to claim loss of market value from the scandal is equivalent to some sort of fine or other legal punishment is beyond ridiculous (and
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by starbeast 8y ago
Yeah, but everyone has a plausible case to play victim if the evidence threshold is 'scary things that could exist that we currently have no evidence either way for'.
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by starbeast 8y ago
There's a popular idea that it is bad to judge others. I disagree. I think we will judge others whether we like to admit it or not and also that many of the people I have met who claim not to judge anyone have also happened to have bee
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by starbeast 8y ago
Laws generally follow the calls for moral condemnation or the relaxation of those calls. And those calls are part of the debate on what should or shouldn't be law. Asking for moral judgment to be removed from discussions because thos
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by starbeast 8y ago
I think you have your dependencies muddled.
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How come nearly everybody saying pretty much this exact thing on every FB thread recently also emphasizes that they are not trying to imagine a conspiracy here? Now, I am not trying to imagine a conspiracy here...
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by starbeast 8y ago
>I sometimes think that if/when Britain becomes a dictatorship it'll be a brutally-enforced version of Middle England, with death sentences for people who don't put their bins out properly and so on. You just reminded me o
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by starbeast 8y ago
We took bids from a variety of suppliers and it turns out that bespoke and competent totalitarianism in Orwell's '1984' model is rather expensive and will restrict how much money will be available for the minister to spend on
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by starbeast 8y ago
The value of that intangible asset is called 'goodwill' and the market gives it a value. Worldcom had to slash around $80 billion dollars in lost 'goodwill'.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Why don't we go and look? We do have the internet. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/sanctions-on-syria https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctio... Well, there is nothing a
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by starbeast 8y ago
Which is great for politeness, but largely rubbish for working out what people might be up to, given that people not only regularly disguise malice as stupidity, but in some cases find it highly entertaining. Hence the existence of - https
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by starbeast 8y ago
Sounds vaguely related to this tech - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03787... 'Direct NaBH4/H2O2 fuel cells' "A fuel cell (FC) using liquid fuel and oxidizer i
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by starbeast 8y ago
0 - you must play the game 1 - you can never win 2 - you can only break even on a very cold day << f.n. 3 - it never ever gets that cold ---- f.n. >> the maximum efficiency of the work that can be extracted from a heat cycle is
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Tumblr's Porn Filter Flags Its Own Examples of 'Permitted' Nudity(gizmodo.com)
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by starbeast 8y ago
Caveat Emptor - Chandelor v Lopus (1603) edit - there is a core difference in definitions of trust going on here and it is basically the difference between the list of people you would lend money to vs the list of people you would buy somet
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by starbeast 8y ago
I think that for anyone paying attention, Facebook has been a continual shitshow since inception. The idea that they will ever learn to have a sense of civic responsibility towards their general userbase is simply delusional, for the simple
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by starbeast 8y ago
If there is, then it is being laid down on top of several feet of actual turf.
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“In after-years he liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was in the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown up, sat on a branch of
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by starbeast 8y ago
"But he who thinks that in the written word there is necessarily much which is not serious, and that neither poetry nor prose, spoken or written, is of any great value, if, like the compositions of the rhapsodes, they are only recited
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by starbeast 8y ago
NASA
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Ahh yes, that homogeneous block known only as 'Themedia'.
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by starbeast 8y ago
Some things will seem very innocent though. Having a video call with a family member while sending out data under the noise floor.

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