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by steve19 13y ago
This does not sound right. I would genuinely like to see a source where they use time of flight, a range finding technique, to detect tanks at long range in daylight when you could instead use active radar or passive thermal technology (foc
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by steve19 13y ago
Probably not going to happen. The organizers require (or used to require) a percentage of all revenue made from professionally taken photos [0] [0] http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/burningman.html
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by steve19 13y ago
In the case of an all out nuclear war, a handful of high altitude nuclear EMP devices will be the least of our problems!
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by steve19 13y ago
Wow! I love that sidebar. Thanks for the build.
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by steve19 13y ago
> I don't understand why people keep buying this company's god damn products. I mean, holy shit. Hyperbole much? Because they make very decent phones that can easily be made to run alternative Android operating systems that all
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by steve19 13y ago
I imagine that the supporters are equally emboldened. If they can get away with this, what else can they get away with?
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by steve19 13y ago
One family member expressed concern to me about his death. (Note: concern , I am not claiming there was some conspiracy theory)
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by steve19 13y ago
Can't someone just file a FOIA request to get a copy of the entire website? (Just in case archive.org or other archivers missed some of it)
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by steve19 13y ago
Bullshit. Blackwater (now called Academi) is a shadow of its former self. At its high point Blackwater had a fixed-wing airforce and a navy. Now it provides training services to US law enforcement and the military. There is nothing nefariou
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by steve19 13y ago
Is there an equivalent popular/influential book for modern fiction?
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by steve19 13y ago
I got to play with a prototype simulator at a Navy base where a Kinect was used to allow cross training of helicopter pilots and those signaling guys who direct the helicopter from the deck of a ship. The signaling guy stands in front of a
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by steve19 13y ago
I find it hard to believe it is worth $500,000. Jason is going to be making some easy money.
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by steve19 13y ago
I wonder if the people signing this would also boycott anything run or owned by Middle Eastern royalty where laws that Card promotes both exist and are enforced.
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by steve19 13y ago
That system us actually a (usually) government mandated subsidy. Think about it: when you pay for power you pay not just for generation but for distribution as well. When you feed it back and your meter runs backwards the power company shou
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by steve19 13y ago
Amazon purchased The Book Depository in 2011.
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by steve19 13y ago
Ammunition is pretty obvious on xrays. It would be just as easy to smuggle in a real metal single shot pistol (designed for the purpose) as it would be to smuggle in a plastic gun. Any single shot pistol is going to be a useless weapon. Les
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by steve19 13y ago
He is not stateless. He is a US citizen being pursued by US Law enforcement. Stateless people do exist and they really have it hard.
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by steve19 13y ago
Right up till the 11th hour I held out hope that Google would give Reader a last minute stay of execution. A sad day indeed.
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by steve19 13y ago
I love Android, but Google has a terrible record with these kind of devices. Google TV is a pretty poor system, it really should be more simple and look more like XBMC, and the (original) Nexus Q speaks for itself.
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by steve19 13y ago
Many countries have abandoned corks and go with twist tops instead, except when they export to countries that associate corks with quality. I hate corks, I can't wait for the whole world to adopt twist tops.
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by steve19 13y ago
I don't think he was saying that Bush or Republicans are better, rather the opposite. Back when GWB was in power he was widely deride as a tyrant (especially online) and the worst thing to happen to American foreign relations ever. Yet
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by steve19 13y ago
Are you saying there are programmers in Somaliland earning $50-$100k? They must be living like kings! I don't think you should worry that you are not earning as much as you could be in Europe or the USA. You would be spending a lot mor
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by steve19 13y ago
"in a perfect world" is an English phrase. It means, in this context, "if this worked perfectly". It is not a statement about the world in general.
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by steve19 13y ago
There are many people who are allergic to penicillin. That does not make it any less useful to the rest of the population. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin_drug_reaction
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by steve19 13y ago
How are telegrams sent these days? By email or a phone call between post offices?
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by steve19 13y ago
This DRM actually changes the content by rewriting the text, not unlike Microsoft Word's grammer checker/corrector tool. I would be very surprised if publishers and authors would go for this. Clumsily changed sentences could ruin
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by steve19 13y ago
Somewhat disingenuous to suggest swapping sim cards to avoid being tracked. This myth is one that law enforcement love. They just track phones with IMEI numbers.
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by steve19 13y ago
A few weeks ago I was on a navy submarine. They explained the escape procedure and I asked how survivable it was. Apparently nobody has much faith in it, but its better to try than certain death by drowning. ... I did wonder how painful a f
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by steve19 13y ago
Uhhh, so it was ok for Disney to take the stories of the Brother Grimm, who in turn took them from people all over Western Europe, to remix and then copyright them, but it is not ok for someone to remix Micky Mouse? Why? http://e
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by steve19 13y ago
I am asking for downvotes, but I really don't see how Manning was fighting against domestic enemies. He leaked a dump of data about foreign operations and foreign governments. He could not have even known what most of it contained. I w

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