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by tod222 13y ago
The involvement of a conspiracy in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came up in a HN thread about Edward Snowden. [1] Although I posted this information to that discussion, since it's not widely known that a 1999 court ca
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The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis [2000](ratical.org)
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by tod222 13y ago
In 1999, the King family conducted a civil case to consider the existence of an assassination conspiracy. The suit (for wrongful death) mentioned only Loyd Jowers by name, but also alleged government involvement. The jury–six blacks and
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by tod222 13y ago
You and only a few other commenters have recognized the abuse of power here: > They said sorry - you need to use this software - there is no other way. It would have been easy for Apple to work with entities such as CD Baby to whip up an
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by tod222 13y ago
Awesome? That opinion isn't universal. I've read perhaps 75% of the 505,040 words (87 chapters) of MoR, and while it was somewhat interesting at first, before long it grew quite tedious. Much of the tedium is due to the length—it&
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by tod222 13y ago
Shades of the old USENET trend of including "NSA Food" lines in signatures. I never saw the point since it would so easily be ignored. Sample USENET post from December, 1987 with an "NSA Food" line in the signature (and
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by tod222 13y ago
One reason for this edit may be that Drudge's link to the story reads "NYT: He has lost all credibility..." This is just below a link reading "Fournier: Obama's Police State..." [Note, I support everyone highlighting this issue, even Drudge
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by tod222 13y ago
You may also be interested to read his Wikipedia entry [1] as he's quite accomplished for his age. He's been awarded a Thiel Fellowship. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Wilson
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by tod222 14y ago
> The emotion behind rationality is humility. That's beautiful. May I quote you?
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by tod222 14y ago
Last time I checked, Pandora's catalog was far too limited to be valuable to me for discovery. It was easy to come up with a half a dozen artists I like that Pandora had no clue about. To me the word "discovery" means finding unknown works,
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by tod222 14y ago
Okay, how about SPI, Service Programming Interface?
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by tod222 14y ago
| Suburban flight in the US didn't occur until long after cars became ubiquitous. It seems you're not acquainted with the concept of "streetcar suburbs" [1]. The Wikipedia article goes into some detail; I recommend it for the curious who'd
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by tod222 14y ago
Absolutely. Folks, read this one. It starts off with an anecdote about how greed torpedoed the meeting of industry leaders to deal with the health issues presented by their products. From the article, an extraordinary admission by one of th
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by tod222 14y ago
Note: > Sorry! This demo requires WebGL and Web Audio support. Please use Google Chrome to view it.
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by tod222 14y ago
The article's subtitle calls Lanier the "visionary behind virtual reality" and tempers that slightly in the body text calling him "...a pioneer and publicizer of virtual-reality technology..." and stating "...he helped make virtual reality