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"Every major OS includes a web browser these days, BUT a web browser cannot on its own extract any usable data from the raw blockchain binary blobs."

 
Every major browser can not on its own open raw jpeg files either. They need a DLL or equivalent to do so.
 
Given how gun ho some USA prosecutors are when it comes to showing how "tough on crime" they are around election time, or just because they are assholes who think they ARE the law I would not be so quick to disregard this. I mean they prosecuted some guy for possession of child porn over a manga image (SFW).

your driver is a doctor from the Caribbean

No thanks. I think I'll pass on that one.

After all, we have the best government money can buy.

Sure - just ask Hillary!

Oh wait.

Must do wonders for your self-esteem to know that you're only getting some because of your bank balance. lol. Each to their own I guess.

Its a hellava hit on the old ego. But yes, men are disposable utilities. You don't think that that bank balance isn't attracting the love of your life soul mate woman? Life is what it is, make the most of it.

As some wag once wrote, "If I had a dollar for every woman that found me unattractive, pretty soon, they'd find me attractive." And on that note: http://beforeitsnews.com/media...

read this, it shows how insane things have gotten.
http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/20...

I think you've underestimated the preparations of the Dutch. This image was recently taken at a secret location near Eindhoven. City of lights, indeed.

Except Bigelow papers and the like on aliens and what not.

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bigelow ranch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Bigelow and NASA:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/a...

Other links:
http://www.educatinghumanity.c...
http://beforeitsnews.com/paran...
http://www.michaelleehill.net/...

You are a shill, trying to associate the decades long venerable industry of weather manipulation with "crazy tinfoil hat conspiracies"?
Here's some undeniable video of actual weather engineering.
  Here you are again, on another site, trying to "poison the well". There are several places slight modifications to your gibberish have been posted:
From the link:

you call this ‘weather’?

continue to add immeasurable amounts of MISinformation, rhetoric & fluff, & there you have IT? that’s US? thou shalt not oh forget it. fake weather (censored?), fake money, fake god(s), what’s next? seeing as we (have been told that) came from monkeys, the only possible clue we would have to anything being out of order, we would get from the weather. that, & all the monkeys tipping over/exploding around US.
the search continues;
google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=weather+manipulation
google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bush+cheney+wolfowitz+rumsfeld+wmd+oil+freemason+blair+obama+weather+authors

meanwhile (as it may take a while longer to finish wrecking this place); the corepirate nazi illuminati

Since shills are out in force, this should be required reading (esp. in election years): The Gentelperson's Guide to Forum Spies.

And lets not forget about people being charged because they have Anime images on their computer. And I'm not talking about the Hentai tentacle stuff.

http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/20...

About a 5th of the way down is a good example of how insane the situation has become. If a person can get convicted by the picture in article what could a DA with an agenda do to you with the pictures you have of your kids in the bath tub?

you slaughtered that straw man.

But it was not a straw man — look at CronoCloud's post below, for example. According to that, we should be seeing something posts rebutting Weev like this:

This Weev is an idiot, you don't support a political philosophy by breaking the law and accessing a huge number of networked resources you don't have authorization to use.

See? Though the words are right, they are lukewarm and hatred and passion are missing. CronoCloud is not calling Weev "Communist", for example, which you have to be to really support Bernie Sanders, for example. Not even "Socialist" (a.k.a. Communist-lite), which Sanders calls himself.

And, certainly, no SJW would call Weev "racist" or "homophobe" in that case — which is what I actually predicted.

Yes, Bernie Sanders is a Communist. And that particular article came out before he started to run for Presidency. The "Socialist" label he prefers is hardly better (Socialism is nothing but Communism-lite), but he was and remains a member and supporter of openly Communist organizations. As recently as 2014 Bernie Sanders was hailed by Democratic Socialists of America — a "New Left" organization comprised of what was left of the Socialist and Communist movements of the "Old Left". And he was not merely endorsed by these assholes (the way, Trump was endorsed by Duke) — Sanders was a distinguished speaker at a DSA gathering that year. On the same page the Senator is also called "DSA member".

The funny part is, most of his defenders would dispute — often angrily — the "Communist" label while also disagreeing, there is anything wrong with being a Communist. So, before going any further, please, state for the record, whether you are one of such people... Thanks!

While Fascism/Nazism is largely extinct from public life (though, sadly, not from government), Socialism/Communism — the far more murderous school of thought — is rearing its even uglier head... And not only on Slashdot.

Tor was created by the US government, not for privacy but for freedom of political and cultural speech under oppressive regimes.

No. Tor was created to let CIA use public infrastructure without being detected. More data and this interview

An undercover spook sitting in a hotel room in a hostile country somewhere couldn’t simply dial up CIA.gov on his browser and log in — anyone sniffing his connection would know who he was. Nor could a military intel agent infiltrate a potential terrorist group masquerading as an online animal rights forum if he had to create an account and log in from an army base IP address.

The United States government can’t simply run an anonymity system for everybody and then use it themselves only. Because then every time a connection came from it people would say, ‘Oh, it’s another CIA agent.’ If those are the only people using the network.

Quickly realized that only technically anonymizing traffic was not enough — not if the system was being used exclusively by military and intelligence. In order to cloak spooks effectively, Tor needed to be used by a diverse group of people: activists, students, corporate researchers, soccer moms, journalists, drug dealers, hackers, child pornographers, foreign agents, terrorists — the more diverse the group, the better the spooks could hide in the crowd in plain sight.

So what's Tor for

• It's original goal: Cloaks the online identity of government agents while they are in the field. And the rest of this stuff — the online protection of activists, dissidents, journalists, criminals, etc. The more diverse the group, the better.
• A, a trap, a honeypot for other countries intelligence, but they are not that stupid, so finally it's a honeypot for activist against USA.
• A way to allow activists against non-friend governments.
• Friend oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Morocco,new Egyptian Regime etc , get information about dissidents from Tor thanks to USA's Tor honeypot.

Wait, but they are known to be benevolent. Why would they wish to stop us?

These muslim "activists" pull this shit all the time to get people to be sympathetic to them. It's a tactic they stole from the Jews. Take a look at this story. Paints the whole "I'm just an innocent immigrant who was treated poorly for no reason, boo hoo" picture, then you find out the woman and her husband are activists and affiliated with the muslim brotherhood. Calls the validity of the entire story into question. Was it embellished? Was it provoked? Did it even happen at all?

This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last. Any time one of these stories comes up, people need to do a bit of digging instead of just buying into the lies and propaganda.

Hmm, "solid scientific conclusions", you mean the data the has been subpoenaed by the House and they (NOAA) are refusing due to confidentiality? This is the exact reverse of your argument that Conservatives assume all people are stupid. The correct answer would be "here is the data that we came to our conclusion". This would allow for the verification of the data from other scientific sources.

Creationism, hmm, I never blindly accept any ideology that can not be proven scientifically. To me that is just another unknown at this point that need further investigation.

First, your citation as to the hazards of DU consists solely of a heart-string tugging google image search. In short, at best you have some coorelation there,

Well let's examine that correlation. That DU is used as munitions in Iraq is common knowledge.

It's properties, DU is pyrophoric, which means it ignites when used as a projectile and burns into a ceramic ash. As it decays it undergoes spontaneous combustion as it increases it's radioactive emissions ten or so times momentarily. It's ash is an inhalant but IIRC it is also water soluble. Oh, and it can cause some quite nasty birth defects. That's probably not common knowledge, if you want to check it out.

but also a lot of images of birth defects that have nothing to do with Iraq, photoshopped images, fakes, and normal birth defects that happen in any population, especially when nutrition isn't that great and pre-natal care is relatively primitive.

Indeed, it represents a remarkable co-incidence, I'm sure they are not related.

And you complained about me posting a yahoo news link?

Who would you suggest is the most credible source of information we can rely on for information coming out of Iraq?

You mean this photograph that was shopped to include the mythical tat?

That's weak trolling even for /.

Speaking of... I'm pretty sure the idea that this is going to lead to nuclear explosions is presented sincerely here: http://beforeitsnews.com/envir...

To those who doubt that strong AI is possible, I'm gonna quote a previous post I made (anonymously - I guess I truely am an Anonymous Coward):

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Watch closely those two companies in the few years to come: Deepmind & Vicarious - especially the later. Watch the early talks of Numenta about sparse representations. If you have a machine learning background, what these guys are trying to do is pretty clear - they are trying to create a self-evolving, sentient artificial consciousness. And I personally believe that they have a good chance of doing it: we are at a point where AI is overcoming its previous disappointing results and becoming exponentially more and more powerful, and flexible; simply because we're throwing enough hardware and data at it and doing it with a few insights obtained from basic computer vision research and the like those past decades.

Will this lead to strong AI ? perhaps not, but if it doesn't, I believe their research will soon enough (in - at most - a few decades, and probably before that). Elon Musk believes that too (albeit with a pretty pessimistic POV), and he has insider insight on those two companies as an investor. This is not the 70s - we are at a point where we have a pretty rough idea of how to develop networks that automatically develop and adapt to any task presented to them, and where we can have "meta" neural networks creating and organizing those "simple" networks and contextualizing them to sensory inputs.

Yes, the brain is extremely complex - and yet, computers can compute stuff thousands of times faster than us and have been capable of that since the 60s. A plane is relatively simple, but it can accomplish the same thing as a bird simply because it was explicitly, intelligently designed to do so instead of being the result of random mutations over thousands of years from analog, biological components. There is no reason to believe that consciousness cannot be achieved in a much more "simpler" fashion than evolution did, as well. In any case, time will tell :-)
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And to finish on a less serious note, a good clip by an artist on the subject: Steve Aoki - Singularity.

Watch closely those two companies in the few years to come: Deepmind & Vicarious - especially the later. Watch the early talks of Numenta about sparse representations. If you have a machine learning background, what these guys are trying to do is pretty clear - they are trying to create a self-evolving, sentient artificial consciousness. And I personally believe that they have a good chance of doing it: we are at a point where AI is overcoming its previous disappointing results and becoming exponentially more and more powerful, and flexible; simply because we're throwing enough hardware and data at it and doing it with a few insights obtained from basic computer vision research and the like those past decades.

Will this lead to strong AI ? perhaps not, but if it doesn't, I believe their research will soon enough (in - at most - a few decades, and probably before that). Elon Musk believes that too (albeit with a pretty pessimistic POV), and he has insider insight on those two companies as an investor. This is not the 70s - we are at a point where we have a pretty rough idea of how to develop networks that automatically develop and adapt to any task presented to them, and where we can have "meta" neural networks creating and organizing those "simple" networks and contextualizing them to sensory inputs.

Yes, the brain is extremely complex - and yet, computers can compute stuff thousands of times faster than us and have been capable of that since the 60s. A plane is relatively simple, but it can accomplish the same thing as a bird simply because it was explicitly, intelligently designed to do so instead of being the result of random mutations over thousands of years from analog, biological components. There is no reason to believe that consciousness cannot be achieved in a much more "simpler" fashion than evolution did, as well. In any case, time will tell :-)

Yeah. I'm a cable cutter w/ Amazon Prime and I'm quite happy with the video content. I don't watch much TV, but when I do I enjoy the commercial free content, even if it is a bit older. If you never watched it, it's all new to you.

Commercials are like cigarettes. Every one you watch takes five minutes off the end of your life. Of course, just sitting and watching TV does that, too, I'm just saying.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alter...

Gotta go for a walk now. :)

Good to see somebody doing, what ACLU used to do...

Generally, the ACLU does in meat-space what the EFF does in cyberspace. They have similar general goals, but the ACLU generally doesn't do as much of the computer stuff. Their current list seems to involve plenty of LGBT issues right now, for example, but these are active court cases.

Many times you don't hear about either organization as much because they get a lot of it sorted out via quick letters, especially at the smaller-scale level. A good letter from EFF or ACLU to a school district or county board, for example, usually never gets to a court level.

Sometimes they even work together, such as this Tennessee story.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alter...

Not exactly a very good source since the text is cut off on the right. Has it even been proof-read, let alone peer reviewed? None the less, you can only create clones with female DNA, which would be an evolutionary dead end. Human females simply do not poses the full set of DNA information. You can however create offspring from male only DNA (the CBC is an actual real source): http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol... Thanks to the magic of extra-corporeal pregnancy, one day (very soon http://beforeitsnews.com/scien...) we'll be able to eliminate all the birth defects caused by mothers drinking and smoking during pregnancy by simply transplanting the fetus to an artificial womb. Abortion will become obsolete. Don't want to be a mom? Fine, but that baby will still develop into an adult one day that will come to resent you. And eventually women won't even need to be involved in the process. We'll be able to start with sperm alone.

I heard the v2.0 Google glass would have the transceivers built in. *pple users will have to make do with a handheld dongle.

While I get your sarcasm, I feel inclined to point out that the US government, at least since the early 20th century, has had little to no reservation about doing horrific things to large populations of people, just to see what happens.

Purposefully infecting people with STDs and spraying Americans with radioactive material being two examples that stand out in my mind.

Presumably nobody is being dumb enough to sell a gallon of water for 50 cents and then buy it back for a dollar. So who the fuck cares?

Because these are not market forces at play, they are government forces.

It's so bad that government gangs will send men with guns to your house to haul you off to prison (or kill you if you resist) if you collect rainwater from your roof for irrigation or fire protection.

Especially in the Colorado River basin, because "that's California's water." So people who live in the deserts there can have lush shubberies tended by Mexican servants and grow alfalfa for Asia. Have you ever walked down a street in, say, Palm Springs, and noticed the landscaping difference on a vacant lot? It's quite impressive.

If there were strong property rights and markets at play here, then, sure, let the prices fall where they may, but that is entirely not the situation at hand.

You know, I'd go with "citation needed", but how about I just bust this myth right here and now.

Put up yer dukes, them's debatin' words!

Thorium reactors require uranium

A Two fluid LFTR requires a small amount of fissile to bootstrap a sustaining thorium reaction. It is mixed into the salt .

They are not any safer than conventional reactors on this basis.

Wrong. Your statement merely indicates that you have a zero-tolerance attitude towards the use of uranium, not that you have insight into LFTR. You are comparing a few pounds of fissile to seed a one-time LFTR startup with tons of uranium a light-water reactor consumes (actually 99.5% wasted) in a year.

A shorter explanation of just how much of a pipe dream thorium reactors are is here

A longer and more intellectually satisfying explanation of the LFTR concept is can be found here

along with the caveat that dropping a bomb on one would be a very messy affair.

...with effects and hazards confined to the radius of the blast itself, where the radioactive salts will go sub-critical and just sit there, not reacting with water or air until they can be gathered, contained and eventually recycled. Which would be soon. That is a best possible solution. But really, how does this scenario compare to anything else on the scales of energy production today?

How would you compare a bombed LFTR to the same bomb setting alight an entire oil depot, a pipeline, massive piles of coal, or a seam of coal underground? Or taking out the LNG tanks that could level the port of Houston? Or going straight to for the source, the 1991 fires of Kuwait? Attitudes are choices after all and if you're on Slashdot, chances are you've chosen civilization. Seems to me that LFTR would offer a terrorist a poor bang for the buck. It would be merely taken out of service, generate lots of overtime until it's cleaned up. No one over the ridge need evacuate.

To obtain gigawatts of carbon-neutral electricity that could go on for thousands of years, cheaply, how could you possibly beat that?

The plug as at the bottom, and heat rises. Impurities could slowly build up, the plug could fail to melt away due to corrosion, etc.

This passage mystifies me most of all. The 'frozen' plug is comprised of the same salts as the rest of the loop. It is being actively kept 'just' cool enough by a refrigeration unit. Extreme runaway heat from too much fissile would melt it quickly, as would shut-down of the refrigeration unit. There are no real 'moving parts' here to jam or be subject to corrosion.

Perhaps by 'impurities' you are imagining some sort of solid crust that might build up on the plug itself. I don't know the chemistry well enough to answer that. But existence of the plug does not preclude other ways of manually draining the loop. Anyway it just sounds like a case for good engineering and vigilance.

Poor maintenance is as much as hazard for them as any other.

As any other what? Now you are taking a zero-tolerance position for any technology that relies on any sort of maintenance at all. It is an absurd place to stand, and places you among those who honestly believe that when unexpected hazards present themselves, people will run like terrified rabbits into the forest to hide.

History does not support that idea. There are smart and brave people attending gigawatt reactors, and you cannot solve the world's energy problems with a Play-Doh Fun Factory.

And as a bonus... they're about 50 years away from being feasible anyway.

That's just a nope. You're jousting us with windmills.

Thorium reactors by design are meltdown proof.

You know, I'd go with "citation needed", but how about I just bust this myth right here and now.

Thorium reactors require uranium and/or other fissile material. They are not any safer than conventional reactors on this basis. A shorter explanation of just how much of a pipe dream thorium reactors are is here along with the caveat that dropping a bomb on one would be a very messy affair.

And they are not meltdown proof; if the safety controls fail. Thorium reactors are so-called "meltdown-proof" because they have a plug in the bottom of the reactor that will disintegrate and drop the core into a large holding tank. As the molten salt that acts as the coolant is now spread out, the theory is this is safer. But it all depends on that plug giving way, and this is only a theoretical model.

Meltdowns are one possible failure mode of a reactor. They aren't even the most common, nor most dangerous, depending on the design. A thorium reactor can still fail catastrophically if the piping becomes plugged. Think about this for a second; the primary coolant is molten salt. What happens if it becomes too cool or solidifies in places; The plug as at the bottom, and heat rises. Impurities could slowly build up, the plug could fail to melt away due to corrosion, etc.

Thorium reactors are not meltdown proof; Poor maintenance is as much as hazard for them as any other. And as a bonus... they're about 50 years away from being feasible anyway.

Thank you for playing though... now kindly stop spreading bullshit.

It's insane because they are cherry-picking the areas that have the most public visibility in an attempt to minimize the apparent damage, but knowing that the bills will fail. They have yet to pass a bill funding any of the social programs so, for example, kids don't get nutitional assistance. Almost no one (except the kids) are impacted by this, but whether you like it or not, it's a program the government put in place and so should fund. Ditto for the EPA, Natioinal Labor Relations Board, etc. etc. etc.

Nonsense. The house passed bills that would provide funding for specific interests but that doesn't make those funding bills not sane. What makes them not sane if you intend to hold that concept is the fact that the democrats refuse to take them up and insist on a single all inclusive bill that only does what they want it to do.

If the House doesn't like a program, there's a procedure. You pass a bill removing the program, get the Senate to pass the bill and the President to sign it. If you can't get that support, you shouldn't try to subvert democracy by the econmic equivelent of strapping a bomb to your chest.

Actually, not funding something is a valid procedure too. It has been used several times in the distant past as well as the recent past. Here is an article describing the more recent events concerning the ACA.

http://beforeitsnews.com/healthcare/2013/08/guess-what-congress-has-already-defunded-parts-of-obamacare-2449918.html

The rhetoric of claiming it is terroristic or comparing it to strapping a bomb to your chest is just childs play to anyone who is actually paying attention. I know it sounds good in ideological circles but repeating it shows how armature those participants really are. Thomas Jefferson, as president, ended up with a similar issue of a law being passed and not being funded. He also ended up creating an impoundment of existing funding in order to secure new generation gun boats for the Mississippi river. To think this is all something new and never done before is like ignoring history ever existed. Granted, I can understand why you might not know some of these things as the interweb doesn't list unlimited sources of it like it seems to do for anything post 1999. But rest assured that all of history that has happened pre1999 is still history and still relevant.

Just like it warms my Heart when Obama appoints someone he once demonized to some post or another.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/09/obama-appoints-former-bain-capital-exec-to-top-post-2762156.html

There appears to be much evidence that it was in fact the rebels that used the chemical weapons which were supplied by the Saudis,

1) Video evidence of Chemical weapons being launched.
2) Photographic evidence of the weapons being Saudi.
3) Testimony from Syrian rebels from the faction that had the weapons and admitted they didn't know what they were doing with them.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-shows-rebels-launching-gas-attack-in-syria/

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-30/dont-show-obama-report-about-who-really-behind-syrian-chemical-attacks

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/08/rebels-admit-responsibility-for-chemical-weapons-attack-chemical-weapons-supplied-by-saudi-arabia-not-syria-forwarded-by-erasmus-of-america-august-31-2013-905-am-2751942.html

And anyway, what is American Military going to do, team up with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah to attack Syria and kill hundreds of thousands more people in the middle east?

If we mine on the dark side we might piss off the aliens that have bases there.

'crook' as in he is 'crooked'...

here's what I mean: He should have done the professional journalist move and **release Snowden's info anonymously**

Greenwald and the Guardian would then assume the risk. The US government could subpeona him to reveal his source, and if he refused he would be jailed for up to 6-9 months...but then he'd be let go. Source intact....with major book deal and street cred.

And Snowden would have been able to keep his job, just like Deep Throat from Watergate

Instead, it seems like Snowden was duped (or fooled himself) into thinking he was a people's hero and he went public.

There are reports that Greenwald is shopping around a Snowden exclusive interview for 7 figures. They haven't been directly denied by Snowden's team but he did release a statement.

It's stinks to high heaven! Greenwald is a villain in this...at the least he's a smarmy bottom feeder journalist who mislead Snowden for his own career gain.

Losses from early NASA days 40 years ago illustrate the problem.

One was to the decision to use Apollo-like (moonshot) rockets and capsules to replace the space shuttle. There were some blueprints and museum pieces and personal souveniers from that era, but not complete working models. And the original engineers were dying off fast. The did successfully revive a museum piece for study.

The other losses were computer tapes and films from the early space years. Many were misplaced. Or re-recorded because they were valuble. Or the manetic tapes are fragile and decayed. They are recommended recopy every decade or could lose them. Here is sage of the moon-landing video.

just ask mayor bloomberg
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/06/mayor-bloomberg-insists-on-statewide-ban-on-sparklers-2671754.html

You meant Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi doesn't exist? Or that he was never suspected of anything? True he wasn't actually arrested, but his visa was revoked and he's being deported.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. There is a lot of backtracking going on over that. "He's going to be deported; oh wait, maybe not".

"Now, it seems that the man is completely innocent of any wrongdoing."

The police also water cannoned a number of suspected bombs that turned out to be nothing. When I heard the reports of "other bombs" being water cannoned I knew it was the normal over protection.

Yeah, I realized the wording of those reports was completely clueless. I hardly think the procedures were "over protection", but clearly all that was being done was figuratively poking stuff with a long long stick to see if it would blow up - in an abundance of caution - SOP.

There are already people working on this.

How To Kill A Drone

Pick any three liberal pro-gun-ban politicians. They all have armed guards, whether they're the secret service, the police, or private security. Here's an article that states Dianne Feinstein, author of the 1994 'assault' weapons ban has a concealed carry permit.

Try a Google search instead of propagating something not true. Here is one story, and here is another. These are what we know for sure, there are 20,000 more cases being investigated allegedly.

Than Iranian UFOs

The hypocrisy here is thick enough to cut with a knife. Every minute of every day US corporations (from Microsoft to Monsanto to Chevron and thousands of others) and the US military break the law in over 100 countries, heedlessly and without accountability or redress. Yet the FBI has the astonishing chutzpah to make a statement like, "Foreign firms that choose to operate in the United States are not free to flout the laws they don’t like simply because they can’t bear to be parted from their profits".

The iconic example of US corporate intransigence might be Union Carbide/Dow's all-but-deliberate poisoning of Bhopal, India, where tons of toxic, unstable nerve poison, improperly and carelessly stored in an American pesticide plant, killed 8,500 horribly in one night, and permanently injured 100,000s. No proper reparations have been made and nobody has been held to account.

In the Amazon, Chevron has committed one of the largest environmental crimes in US history - and thousands of US companies are doing the same every day.

More recently, the behaviour of Blackwater has illustrated that indiscriminate murder of foreign citizens is now just an accepted part of American corporate practice. Countless Iraqi citizens killed and injured by Blackwater (and other mercenary firm) employees have not seen justice.

Another example from this morning's timeline.

Here's another: Indonesia is just one of many countries now being flooded by a tsunami of toxic electronic waste from the United States.

Funny thing about karma...

doobie evil? I though Zuckerberg was a friend of the peace pipe...

Historically, the economy has always done well with a Republican congress and a Democrat president...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/245/982/Divided_we_make_money:_Why_the_stock_market_wants_a_Republican_victory.html

That's an interesting argument, but I'm definitely taking it with a grain of salt, considering that the recommended stories at the bottom of that page were "Crawling with Aliens: The REAL Reason Why They Haven't Been Back to the Moon" and "Very Bizarre Sea creature Explodes!".

Anyway, I think the premise of the argument is faulty, though. The growth of the economy this year depends on fundamentals that were in place 1-5 years ago, not to mention the business cycle in general. Correlating the economy with whoever is in office today is a lost cause, because you'll never completely disentangle all the variables that led to it.

Having said that, I think it's no surprise that Wall Street likes a divided government. Congressional gridlock means more opportunities for companies to make money when nobody is paying attention.

Historically, the economy has always done well with a Republican congress and a Democrat president...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/245/982/Divided_we_make_money:_Why_the_stock_market_wants_a_Republican_victory.html

A more data-based representation:
http://cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm

I halfway agree. The economy just seems to do pretty well with a Republican congress, but to be fair, it was slightly better under Clinton with a Repub congress than Bush with a Repub congress. I say that because the current Democratic congress has been a disaster, regardless of which party controls the WH.

My prediction: Expect the economy to improve and Obama take the credit. I believe we are about to see a repeat of the Clinton WH after Newt became Speaker of the House. Recent history has shown that the president has little effect on the economy. It's all congress.

Historically, the economy has always done well with a Republican congress and a Democrat president...
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/245/982/Divided_we_make_money:_Why_the_stock_market_wants_a_Republican_victory.html

A more data-based representation:
http://cedarcomm.com/~stevelm1/usdebt.htm

"We've been wondering how they can get away with that legally and it turns out an obscure section of the DMCA concerning the "safe harbor" noticing proceeders requires that in order for a website to qualify for "safe harbor" and thus require a copyright complainant to first give the webmaster notice and time to take down the material before suing them, requires (amongst other things) that each website register their contact information with the United States Copyright office.."

Saudi Killer Chip

Not to be dramatic, but never has it appeared that the future could so easily go either way. Maybe people have always felt this, that they were living in such a time, but they didn't have "the curve" of accelerating technology to deal with.

Might save a trillion dollars a year in health care costs. Especially for indoors-mainly slashdoters:
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
Technology stock implications here:
    http://beforeitsnews.com/story/14046/What_Vitamin_D_Means_to_Your_Technology_Profits.html
"The scientific consensus that has held sway for four decades regarding both exposure to the sun and vitamin D has collapsed. What has emerged in place of the old settled science is the knowledge that most people in America are seriously vitamin D deficient or insufficient. The same is true for Canada and Europe, and the implications are staggering. Simply put, unless you are one of the few people with optimal serum D levels, such as lifeguards and roofers in South Florida, you can cut your risks from most major diseases by 50 to 80 percent. All you have to do is get enough D. This also means we can significantly reduce healthcare costs by taking a few simple steps. ... Behind the scenes even as I write today, the NIH is looking for a face-saving way to change positions on vitamin D without taking too much blame for having resisted those who have urged reassessment for decades."