turbojerry

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by turbojerry 12y ago
Would it be possible to transfer the name initially to a front company, resell it on to the intended company with a clause that says it cannot be clawed back and then bankrupt the first so creating a legal firewall?
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by turbojerry 12y ago
Or just make a 3D ivory printer and flood the market undercutting the poachers.
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by turbojerry 12y ago
I enjoyed these books by Charles Stross, Accelerando, Halting State and the follow up, but not sequel, Rule 34, and of course The Rapture of the Nerds, co-written with Cory Doctorow. Also I've enjoyed his non cyberpunkish books especia
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by turbojerry 12y ago
Iran's Supreme Leader: "Using Nuclear Weapons is Un-Islamic" - http://www.dw.de/irans-supreme-leader-using-nuclear-weapons-... 'Mr Bush expresses anger that US intelligence agencies played a role in remo
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TRO LLC (weevs hedge fund)(startjoin.com)
8 points by turbojerry 12y ago|2 comments
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by turbojerry 12y ago
"To Arendt’s mind, Eichmann willingly did his part to organize the Holocaust — and an instrumental part it was — out of neither anti-semitism nor pure malice, but out of a non-ideological, entirely more prosaic combination of careerism
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by turbojerry 12y ago
For those that may not get the joke the 555 is a timer chip. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC
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by turbojerry 12y ago
This reminds me of ELOP from Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears by William Hertling, except rather than being a single system we have a bunch of competing bots.
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by turbojerry 12y ago
Gross inequality is not a feature of capitalism per se, it is the feature of our current implementation, specifically the current banking system. This is due to a number of factors, the main ones being bankers being the first in line to obt
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by turbojerry 13y ago
This is already happening in Ukraine with the far-right having a lot of power now- http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-g...
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by turbojerry 13y ago
In many of these cases politicians are engaging in unlawful activities that a non-politician would be prosecuted for. If we had a way to challenge these unlawful activities in court that might help. Also if convictions result then all the c
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by turbojerry 13y ago
I really enjoyed Halting State, and Accelerando, and also the MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood as well as Philip K. Dicks works, Valis in particular.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Try Tsung for stress testing, it can use multiple IPs and therefore you can open up as many connections as you like - http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
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by turbojerry 13y ago
This is actually the opposite of the current circumstances. "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini So the merger of the State with investment
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by turbojerry 13y ago
The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate is where the Iran information originated, nothing has changed in the subsequent years. 'Mr Bush expresses anger that US intelligence agencies played a role in removing the option of military acti
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by turbojerry 13y ago
My point was that there are things that are not worth arguing against as there is a prima facie against them. So those arguing for those positions are either ignorant of the prima facie case or are trying to deceive, sometimes themselves as
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by turbojerry 13y ago
I'll start with the articles bullet points - 1. We can all stipulate: the expert isn’t always right. All humans are fallible, including "experts", such as Albert Einstein, who famously rejected Quantum Mechanics. 2. But
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by turbojerry 13y ago
I have been using Goldring NS1000 headphones for the last 3 years and would highly recommend them.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Technical Illusions might be interested- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/casta...
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by turbojerry 13y ago
I would posit that the reason there is no debate in Parliament is that MPs are afraid of what GCHQ / NSA / etc. might leak about them. What I find more worrying is that there is absolutely no debate about a) the fact British intel
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by turbojerry 13y ago
It sounds excellent, like a cross between PKD and Charles Stross, please let us know when it's published.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
The query language for RDF is called SPARQL[1] pronounced "sparkle" which might cause some confusion in conversation. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
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by turbojerry 13y ago
US bombed al-Jazeera in Baghdad http://rense.com/general36/camm.htm US bombed al-Jazeera in Kabul http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/17/warinafghanista...
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Market ticker forums- http://tickerforum.org/ Zerohedge- http://zerohedge.com
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by turbojerry 13y ago
That would be... people, e.g. the Good Guy Greg and Good Girl Gina memes, you could I suppose do a RL version, GGG t-shirts with individual QR codes for up voting people.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
For those who don't know about Daisyworld- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gVERGAieng
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by turbojerry 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Every security / defence researcher and consultant in the country will now be labeled a terrorist, making their work harder and the country less secure.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
Libel and blackmail from an MP, why am I not surprised. Does anyone know if Kickstarter allows funding of legal actions? I would be willing to donate some money into putting her in the dock for this.
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by turbojerry 13y ago
I have a trick too, ask about a worst case scenario, in the case of the NSA spying it might go as follows- Given that throughout history every intelligence organization has been penetrated by those hostile to it, having a system like PRISM

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