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Name something fun that doesn't pollute the planet in one way or another? Unless you are sitting in a cold dark cave beating a rock against the wall for fun, you are polluting the planet.

Noodling.

Fresh oil and chips!

Somewhat bizarre road sign to see if you don't know what it is.

Chump Change. 45 million is 0.01% of our military budget, and it is a waste of time to worry about it. This is a distraction from budgetary issues that do matter, such as the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on the F35.

I have no problem with the military going around red tape to get communication satellites up faster. If we go by the general idea that a life is worth $9 million dollars, then these satellites going up faster only need to save 5 lives and they have done their job.

Spend your attention wisely; don't quibble about the theft of a penny by a child while your bank account is being emptied by your brother.

Meet "The Deck" - The Deck.

AGMs are perfectly fine aboard aircraft.

I don't pay any attention to advertising at all unless I am proactively seeking a product in a store, virtual or otherwise, and then only to specific instances that are relevant.

I don't watch broadcast television, I don't read billboards, I completely ignore banners and side-column ads

Modern marketing techniques are designed for people like you. They're specifically made for people who don't pay attention to ads.

Nobody who lives in any community more dense than the human population of Kobuk Valley National Park is immune from the impact of modern marketing techniques. And I find it's the people who believe they are immune from advertising who are least prepared to defend themselves from its effects.

The only way they'll actually get my attention is with a sexy lady, and as the industry's kowtowing to political correctness has caused them to divest themselves of that particular tool

Wow, is that really what you think?

https://www.google.com/search?...

I don't watch broadcast television, I don't read billboards, I completely ignore banners and side-column ads, I don't open mail that isn't from a lawyer, a utility or some faction of the government, and I neither care what people want to put in ads nor am I affected by said content.

Then how the fuck would you know about the "industry's kowtowing to political correctness" causing them to divest themselves of sexy women in ads? Were you lying then or are you lying now?

Did you even know that Ridged Tools still publishes it's calendar of sexy ladies every year? Sports Illustrated still makes with the camel toe every February. I just watched a few minutes of the British Open on CBS and there was an ad for Mercedes with an entire line of supermodels in skimpy outfits.

Friend, instead of imagining what the "PC Police" are doing to your eye-candy, you might want to take some time out to evaluate your strategy for "ignoring" advertising, because the people who are involved with modern advertising techniques are smarter than you and me and Neil Degrasse Tyson when it comes to getting people who "don't watch broadcast TV" to respond to their campaigns. They know what they're doing and they know that it works.

You'd be better off accepting the effect that advertising is having on you, being aware of it, and actively subverting it. Adbusters is a good place to start. Otherwise, you'll still be reaching for the brand name and not knowing why.

What I expect is the relevant gender difference here is that men are more varied. With a wider distribution, men make up most of the top and bottom joint distribution. a bunch of charts showing this effect for IQ

There are a couple of evolutionary causes of this: Men can get higher evolutionary payoffs when a gamble comes out right (Successful men can have more children than successful women). Tribes can recover population faster after unsuccessful (dead) men than women.

Based on this, you should expect most of the top individuals at anything thats not gender correlated to be men. Men should get lots of academic scholarships and special ed money.

It might or might not also be true that men are better at math, but that's not needed to get this effect.

they can and do refuse service dogs (against their religion) with no statuary legal repercussions

https://www.google.com/search?... dogs

Two otherwise-identical people of different genders doing the same job are paid almost exactly the same, at least on a population level and with moderate-size or larger companies. To do otherwise is super-dangerous because it is an open-and-shut lawsuit and the information is all discoverable. (Of course individuals may have minor differences due to experience or negotiation at hiring, which generally goes away with tenure - if the company is smart.) You can look at any of the company stats of salaries for like-for-like positions and they're incredibly close to 100%.

This is a fact and is true today. Look at it another way - if a company could get the same work for 77% of what they pay a man, wouldn't they far prefer to hire women? People in companies could be wildly sexist, but they'd fail - that's just too much money left on the table! The 77-cents-on-the-dollar thing is an absolute lie. I'd link to actual articles, but there's too many. It makes me so angry to hear otherwise-intelligent people (like the President!) repeat it - are they that cynical, or do they really not get it? (It's got to be the former - when someone pulled up the WH workforce stats, they were quick to reply that it wasn't fair to compare across titles and experience, which is exactly how the 77c number was fabricated.)

So what's going on? Well, there is undoubtedly a motherhood gap, because mothers generally take time off to be with the new child, which puts them behind their non-childbearing peers of any gender. Some women, of course, don't ever come back, but are still included in the stats. Of those that do, well in some industries it's particularly difficult to take a leave of absence (for any reason) - academia and tech are prominent examples. If I as a man took 6+ months off to go hiking in Asia, I'd be in the same boat.

This isn't that complicated. The question is, what do we want to do about it? Well, it's an unavoidable fact of taking time off. We can incentivize anybody who take time off for any reason by negating the setback with an opposite incentive - this seems highly risky and undesirable. Alternatively, because procreation is a societal good, we can incentivize specifically mothers in this fashion. I trust that women wouldn't just have kids to get this benefit, and who pays for it is an open question, but it still seems like a perverse incentive - and in any case it may not be legal to do this. Regardless, such a change should be an open debate - but trying to fix it by erasing the symptom of the 77c lie would just be sneaking through the back door.

The only alternative I see is to accept that having kids is a life choice like any other, and it has downsides and upsides. The downsides are easier to measure, but maybe not important. I personally don't know many women, including my own very successful mother, whose joy about being a mother is tempered by "but it has reduced my lifetime earning potential by X%". People do things for reasons other than money.

This whole thing smacks of the nasty phase of old-style feminism where women berated mothers for being unenlightened and choosing to have kids. I thought we were past that...

I prefer Mighty Mouse's ally, the bat who dresses up as a bat. Bat-Bat.

How about a wombat that dresses as Batman and is idolized by Pit? Captain N called it Wombatman.

The summary says Langdon has patented a 'new strain' he has been growing for the past 15 years. The strains aren't new in the plant breeding sense, they are existing natural strains of the seaweed grown in isolation, here is the patent. I fail to see what is patentable here; just a description of various naturally occurring strains of dulse and their comparative growth rates. So, if I were to collect the seaweed from the Pacific coast and 'isolate' the same strains, I'd be infringing a patent? What a joke.

I can see Beavis and Butthead saying "Dude! Let's strap a PISTOL to this DRONE and make it SHOOT. Heh heh heh." That shit is so obvious as to be scarcely newsworthy, let alone eyebrow-raising. To make it shoot they use... a solenoid, right? Well Gosh Lolly Good Golly!

If it's man-threatening eyebrow raisin' tech yer interested in, analyze the motion on multiple axes of this Breast Massaging Robot and also Patent CN102058466A for a similar device that has more useful functions and methods than the Mozilla Web API:

The invention discloses a Chinese massage robot, relating to the field of Chinese massage mechanical and automatic devices. The Chinese massage robot is characterized by comprising a bed body (16), a spatial six degrees of freedom main body mechanism and a massage hand (15) and can realize a palm-rubbing technique, a scrubbing method, a pushing manipulation, a wiping manipulation, a pressing manipulation, a pointing method, a finger-nail pressing method, a clapping method, a striking method, a rebounding method, a rolling method, a palm-kneading method, a finger-kneading method, a tremble manipulation, a shaking manipulation, a holding method, a kneading method, a plucking method, a pushing method, a twisting method, a pulling and turning method, a stretching method and other general single-hand and dual-hand massage methods. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, high rigidity, small size, light weight, low cost, large motion space, sensitive and quick action, favorable decoupling, real-time and dynamic response characteristics of system control, and the like.

Let goofballs who are easily amused play with guns and drones. We cannot afford to lose our lead on this technology front.

Let us not forget that any disagreement is being postulated by paid shills and astroturfers regardless of merit.

Alex Jones has fans? The troof

https://sites.google.com/site/911guide/truthersexposed, Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas, and Jason Bermas is obviously a Jew, and a 100th degree Mason. Plus - Jason is a woody word.

No shortage of American buildings either...

Yeah, I get that the name implies it operates at ham frequencies. However, the articles all say 900 Mhz.

From here, you will see that the 33cm amateur band runs from 902 to 928MHz, with all modes (except "pulse") authorized for all classes of amateur licensee except novice.

If you want to see what is allocated where, then this chart might be handy. Or this table may be more readable.

If the confusion is that you think a reference to "900 MHz" in marketing documents means 900.000 MHz only, then you should know that, in general, a reference like this means "an allocation somewhere around 900 MHz" and not the exact frequency. For example, when a ham says he's operating on "2 meters", he doesn't mean he's on 150.000 MHz (2 meter wavelength in free space), he's somewhere between 144 and 148 MHz. Likewise, when a public safety agency says they are operating on "700 MHz", they don't mean 700.000MHz, they mean in the allocation for public safety users up near 700 MHz (which actually extends into the 800's.)

Yeah, I get that the name implies it operates at ham frequencies. However, the articles all say 900 Mhz.

From here, you will see that the 33cm amateur band runs from 902 to 928MHz, with all modes (except "pulse") authorized for all classes of amateur licensee except novice.

If you want to see what is allocated where, then this chart might be handy. Or this table may be more readable.

If the confusion is that you think a reference to "900 MHz" in marketing documents means 900.000 MHz only, then you should know that, in general, a reference like this means "an allocation somewhere around 900 MHz" and not the exact frequency. For example, when a ham says he's operating on "2 meters", he doesn't mean he's on 150.000 MHz (2 meter wavelength in free space), he's somewhere between 144 and 148 MHz. Likewise, when a public safety agency says they are operating on "700 MHz", they don't mean 700.000MHz, they mean in the allocation for public safety users up near 700 MHz (which actually extends into the 800's.)

If it's anything like their buildings...

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO has this to say about a new Maunder Minimum: https://www.google.com/url?q=h... or, for the more scientifically literate: http://opensky.library.ucar.ed... The original hype would, therefore, appear to be pseudo-science.

Developers offering products within another category [but Games] of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except:

where payment is solely for physical products; or
where payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g., buying songs that can be played on other music players).

And yes, Google Play In-app Billing for digital products also is to be used for "Subscription services, such as streaming music".

So even if Google doesn't want a share of the profits (yet), they most certainly require apps on the Play Store to use their In App Purchase processing service. Something which you want to deny Apple.

That seems likely.

The Macon-Bibb Fire Department gets 13 thousand calls per year and has to respond to all of them.

I don't see that number anywhere in the link you provided.

What I do see is that it has a population of 156,462, over 266 square miles. The FD has a budget of $25.6 million. None of that seems unreasonable.

13,000 fire calls, though? Detroit, Michigan is blatantly famous for its ongoing and recurrent structure fires with its population of ~688,000 [citation]. Even Detroit only sees 30,000 fire calls a year, of which 7,000 involve fires that are actually fought.[citation]

Give me a citation that actually supports your claim, or GTFO.

The Macon-Bibb Fire Department gets 13 thousand calls per year and has to respond to all of them.

I don't see that number anywhere in the link you provided.

What I do see is that it has a population of 156,462, over 266 square miles. The FD has a budget of $25.6 million. None of that seems unreasonable.

13,000 fire calls, though? Detroit, Michigan is blatantly famous for its ongoing and recurrent structure fires with its population of ~688,000 [citation]. Even Detroit only sees 30,000 fire calls a year, of which 7,000 involve fires that are actually fought.[citation]

Give me a citation that actually supports your claim, or GTFO.

Having recently run into this, use &force=webgl or &force=canvas in the URL to enable/disable that.
More details:
https://productforums.google.c...

But yes, this really should be a switch/checkbox/radiobuttons/something..somewhere.

You only think you're kidding.
https://www.google.com/webhp?q...

So that's something like 1% ^ 3, minus some overlap -- what part of US or global society do you have to be to make use of this?

Sheiks and Saudi royalty, Russian oil barrons, Larry Ellison, anyone who owns an apartment in this building or this neighborhood, all of whom would rather not have to breathe the same air as the proles and riff-raff in so-called first class in a plane built for normal people.

Read it and weep (or make-believe you're gonna win the lottery some day).

In the gig enonomy, you no longer work for a boss who controls you. Instead, you choose from what automated service to purchase the management work which he/she formerly performed.

The so-called "gig economy" replaces inflexible and inefficient management and regulatory structures with flexible, competitive, efficient and inherently fair and safe automated services. It is the continuation of two trends: automation and the transition to a more efficient horizontally-integrated economy away from a vertically-integrated economy. Now the workers can choose ad hoc services which were traditionally performed by management, choose as an automated electronic service rather than committing to employment under a fixed management and regulatory structure. Computing as service (cloud computing) and the earlier transition to shipping as a service away from in-house shipping departments are two other examples of horizontal restructuring. Eventually everything except core expertise associated with your business identity will move out-of-house and be purchased as a service.

Both customers and workers benefit from replacing the costly and clunky managers and regulators with a competitive, cheap, safe and fair automated services. It is old-style management and government which is useless and burdensome and it is those interests who Hillary appeals for political support. The gig economy is a power-to-the-people trend which Democrats inherently despise. Their own ideologies are power to the politicians, power to the union bosses, power to the trial lawyers, power to the MPAA, Export-Import bank, medicial insurance companies and any other big-business interest will buy their votes. Power to the bureaucrats and regulators, certainly yes. But not power to the people, never to those poor, stupid common people who must be kept under the thumb of their bosses who are, in turn, controlled by the government.

There is an even more insidious problem for Democrats with the gig economy which is that it exposes the many actual workers directly to the massive taxation and regulatory burdens imposed the federal government. And those workers are aghast and horrified by what they now see. A substantial role of business management is as intermediaries between the government and employees, exposing the insane and massive regulatory and tax burdens to relatively few managers at large corporations while shielding the relatively many workers under them from full knowledge. Now when Democrats attempt to apply the burdensome fines, fees, taxes and regulations directly to many small business and individual workers in the gig economy, there is massive public outrage. Democrat politicians are freaking out. For example:

- Chicago just enacted a lunatic Cloud Tax. The liberal entrepreneurs who previously supported Democrats who enacted that tax are furious.

- from Bloomburg, about Bill DeBlasio :

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio presents himself as a champion of the technology industry. The industry says he’s trying to smother progress one app at a time.

  The mayor’s plan to require Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other ride-hailing services to get city approval for upgrades to the user interface on smartphone apps — and to pony up $1,000 each time they do — has rankled a broad swath of companies, with 27 signing a letter protesting his plan. It’s also raised questions about whether the mayor is siding with taxi and limousine owners who helped finance his 2013 campaign.

Expect the same sorts of things from Hillary if she is elected.

The only important reason it failed is because it was incredibly impractical and expensive to operate. Yes it was a marvel and all that, but you couldn't make money off it.

My understanding is that Concorde's unprofitability was mostly myth. There were problems in the beginning because fear-mongering in the States left only JFK as a destination, but once things settled and the ticket prices were reset to ultra-high class, things settled out just fine.

Had the Concorde really not been profitable, it would have been terminated long before the crash over Paris. That's just how business works. The problem was simply that the planes were aging, no replacement models were being made, and the operators were left to scavenging parts from other Concordes. With the Paris disaster, they had more expenses reinforcing the fuel tanks to try and prevent the disaster from occurring again. These things ultimately tipped the scales to grounding the program.

But is there a demand for crossing the Atlantic in 3 hours? Is there demand to cross the Pacific in 5 or less? Hell yes. If they build it, people will pay the ticket price (and enjoy the view of the curvature of the Earth through the window).

Slashdot edited the headline--thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. :)

I guess it comes from my experience reading Cracked.com, which is notorious among its commenters for posting an article with an unfitting title and then changing its title.

He might mean banning apps where the service provider isn't involved in the crypto and thus can't decrypt messages on demand. Like Skype for example - it's basically secure crypto-wise, but since everything goes through Microsoft servers they can (and do) eavesdrop on any conversation they like.

A weak implementation of crypto is just as bad as week crypto, though. In the case of Skype, for instance, Microsoft can force clients to (silently) downgrade from p2p crypto to server-mediated crypto for eavesdropping. Even if you consider the Russian and Chinese governments (who have access to this capability) to be good guys this MITM capability is always at risk of being used by others.

Also there's little they can do about plugins like OTR: they don't need to access a server so they can't be blocked, it's difficult to force OSS projects to silently weaken their crypto and there's bugger all the IM provider can do to decrypt them or limit their usage.

Firefox and other browsers (and Flash) had 0-day security exploids like forever, but nobody recomends to just stop using the Internet. Also, you can chose to run the Java Applet in a sandbox. There are tons of very useful Japa Apples still there, why should I deactivate Java and stop using them now? How is that 0-day exploid going to affect me in any way? It isn't and it won't, especially because Java Apps ask for permission to be run.

https://sites.google.com/site/...

Still more reliable than an optical disc. The real backup is on RAID6

RAID isn't backup.

Yes and no. Black face is the issues surrounding it is much much more geographically local than WWII. Slavery is something that is touched upon by education systems in Australia but I doubt to anywhere near the degree it would be in the US.

But of course! After all, it's not like Australia has dark skinned minorities, or unequal treatment or depictions of them! Oh noes!

Neither does Europe, of course!

https://google.com/?q=jessica+... - hmm nope
https://google.com/?q=anil+das... - nope
https://google.com/?q=jezebel+... - nope but there's some amusing stuff
https://google.com/?q=themarys... - more nope

Sorry, as an anti-racist, I'm already used to this accusation, and it's a stupid fantasy. While I'm sure that there are actually a few people who genuinely "hate white people", it's a straw man argument to set this up as the position of the author or defenders, when none have expressed it. It's just a way to easily dismiss anti-racist sentiment without actually talking about its genuine motivations.

https://google.com/?q=jessica+... - hmm nope
https://google.com/?q=anil+das... - nope
https://google.com/?q=jezebel+... - nope but there's some amusing stuff
https://google.com/?q=themarys... - more nope

Sorry, as an anti-racist, I'm already used to this accusation, and it's a stupid fantasy. While I'm sure that there are actually a few people who genuinely "hate white people", it's a straw man argument to set this up as the position of the author or defenders, when none have expressed it. It's just a way to easily dismiss anti-racist sentiment without actually talking about its genuine motivations.

https://google.com/?q=jessica+... - hmm nope
https://google.com/?q=anil+das... - nope
https://google.com/?q=jezebel+... - nope but there's some amusing stuff
https://google.com/?q=themarys... - more nope

Sorry, as an anti-racist, I'm already used to this accusation, and it's a stupid fantasy. While I'm sure that there are actually a few people who genuinely "hate white people", it's a straw man argument to set this up as the position of the author or defenders, when none have expressed it. It's just a way to easily dismiss anti-racist sentiment without actually talking about its genuine motivations.

https://google.com/?q=jessica+... - hmm nope
https://google.com/?q=anil+das... - nope
https://google.com/?q=jezebel+... - nope but there's some amusing stuff
https://google.com/?q=themarys... - more nope

Sorry, as an anti-racist, I'm already used to this accusation, and it's a stupid fantasy. While I'm sure that there are actually a few people who genuinely "hate white people", it's a straw man argument to set this up as the position of the author or defenders, when none have expressed it. It's just a way to easily dismiss anti-racist sentiment without actually talking about its genuine motivations.

The first thing that usually blows people mind is when they visit Google GPS location history page at https://maps.google.com/locati... - even though they weren't aware of it, every move they've made for months has been tracked down to the minute by Google.

Except that on the 4th page of the setup when you first turn on it explains location services to you and offers you the ability to turn it off. So the only people who get their mind blown are those who don't actually read any of the screen when they first turn their phone off.

You can "turn location history off" on that web page, but the GPS is so baked into the OS that this cute web page checkbox is almost guaranteed not stop the continuous GPS gathering.

So turn it off on the device. The checkbox is not available only on the first start of the device. It's an option in the settings.

In fact, after blocking location access by GPS, you get a stern warning "enable location services for gps", and the "do not ask again" is greyed out if you do not allow it, you will get nagged regularly.

Funny that. Phone with features that require location services to work prompts users when the features aren't enabled. In other news my phone asks me to switch flightmode off when I turn wifi on. Unacceptable I say, how dare it!

Your phone is essentially rooted. If it can ring remotely, be located via GPS and be disabled by "find a phone" features, it is not you that has root on the OS. It is the company that can employ that at any time.

So you linked your phone via a fundamental feature of the OS to an account held by a third party for the purpose of integrating with the phone, and then you're surprised when some of the features work?

The Google intrusion is multifaceted once you start digging in, dozens of different components of the OS that make contact with external servers without documentation. Spending massive time disabling their access to your personal data one by one will usually result in a borked phone. One of those back doors is going to get your data even if you think you turned everything off.

Remind me again why you even bothered syncing your phone with a Google account if you want to turn all the benefits off?

Then we have the Samsung apps that are in full intrusion mode. The health app? Wants your contacts and location. The keyboard software? Wants your contacts and location.

It is of course impossible to use these devices without your entire contact list, phone and text engagement, password list, etc, being scarfed up and sent to the cloud. Any single OS library that has network access can act as a gateway to other components that look like they are otherwise behaving when they access your clipboard, screen, etc.

Funny enough not all of us want to manually setup locales and then add the spelling of every single of our friend's names into the autocorrect dictionary. I'm glad this shit disappeared with location awareness. By the way it's a Samsung device. If they wanted to covertly suck the data away they could do it in far less obvious ways than permissions in apps.

The biggest problem is not that every aspect of your life is tied together by a corporation, who has recordings of your voice, keystrokes of everything you've typed,

Stop man, you're going full retard.

pictures of you that are run through facial recognition, etc. It's that this is all going over the wire to a corporation that is too big for one government to reign in. A corporation that has had their internal communications tapped by the NSA. A corporation that "plays ball" with law enforcement by giving them their own handy web portal to data. And of course is all behind one password that can be hacked and cracked on by the entire world of hackers f

/Oblg. Captain Picard WTF is this shit?

I have a Galaxy S5, and have encountered the same types of problems with the baked-into-the-OS Google services. I have rooted the phone, installed app-ops (useless Google window dressing), and then xposed framework and xprivacy. The level of intrusion and data capture is simply stunning.

The first thing that usually blows people mind is when they visit Google GPS location history page at https://maps.google.com/locati... - even though they weren't aware of it, every move they've made for months has been tracked down to the minute by Google. You can "turn location history off" on that web page, but the GPS is so baked into the OS that this cute web page checkbox is almost guaranteed not stop the continuous GPS gathering. In fact, after blocking location access by GPS, you get a stern warning "enable location services for gps", and the "do not ask again" is greyed out if you do not allow it, you will get nagged regularly.

Your phone is essentially rooted. If it can ring remotely, be located via GPS and be disabled by "find a phone" features, it is not you that has root on the OS. It is the company that can employ that at any time.

The Google intrusion is multifaceted once you start digging in, dozens of different components of the OS that make contact with external servers without documentation. Spending massive time disabling their access to your personal data one by one will usually result in a borked phone. One of those back doors is going to get your data even if you think you turned everything off.

Then we have the Samsung apps that are in full intrusion mode. The health app? Wants your contacts and location. The keyboard software? Wants your contacts and location.

It is of course impossible to use these devices without your entire contact list, phone and text engagement, password list, etc, being scarfed up and sent to the cloud. Any single OS library that has network access can act as a gateway to other components that look like they are otherwise behaving when they access your clipboard, screen, etc.

The biggest problem is not that every aspect of your life is tied together by a corporation, who has recordings of your voice, keystrokes of everything you've typed, pictures of you that are run through facial recognition, etc. It's that this is all going over the wire to a corporation that is too big for one government to reign in. A corporation that has had their internal communications tapped by the NSA. A corporation that "plays ball" with law enforcement by giving them their own handy web portal to data. And of course is all behind one password that can be hacked and cracked on by the entire world of hackers from lawless nation states. Soon coming to a Windows 10 computer near you.

Unless there's some sort of game they play with "continuations" of patents to keep them going forever (like at least one of the remaining patents around .mp3 encoding) it seems like most of these sorts of patents should expire before there's even a working prototype. Is this just parasitism by company IP lawyers and associated corporate baggage trying to justify their pay?

(From the link above:)"This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/650,896, filed on May 17, 1996, (now abandoned) which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/519,620, filed on Sep. 25, 1995, (now abandoned) which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/977,748, filed on Nov. 16, 1992, (now abandoned), which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/816,528, filed on Dec. 30, 1991, (now abandoned), which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/640,550, filed on Jan. 14, 1991, (now abandoned), which was a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/177,550, filed on Apr. 4, 1991, (now abandoned) as international application serial No. PCT/DE87/00384, filed Aug. 29, 1987, claiming priority to foreign appl. No. P3629434.9, filed Aug. 29, 1986."

Wasn't there a rainbow chart around here for that... I know I had the link somewhere. Oh! Here it is:

https://www.google.com/search?...

I use https://play.google.com/store/... (Internet Speed Meter Lite), it runs up the top left of your notification bar, and tracks your wifi data/mobile data usage (separately), and also displays your current speed

"SJW" doesn't mean anybody who is for social justice. I'm for social justice! I want people to stop hating and harassing each other.
"SJW" is the term for those who do bad things in the name of social justice.

I have tried to trace the use of SJW ("Social Justice Warrior") as a pejorative.

It seems to be entirely a geek creation and all but unknown before 2011. But one that has proven very useful to the bloggers of the National Review and those farther to the right.

Well as I'm sure you've figured out, ''sjw'' stands for social justice warrior. Back when I and a few others started this tumblr several years ago, ''sjw'' seemed, to us, to be more of a criticism on people who used social justice to further their own bigoted ends, push already marginalized people out of their own spaces, and dominate discussions with bigoted rhetoric.

In the years since this blog died out, ''sjw'' came to stand for anyone who supports social justice, a favorite go-to insult for white male nerds/libertarians/redditors. This blog is now followed by people with that attitude, and still gets asks of that nature. Hence the (partial) reason why I no longer update, even though I've somewhat returned to tumblr.

vice-ci7y asked

Google Trends: social justice warrior

You call a 20% drop a little?

I too am very interested in your closely held Canadian secret to recovering from death in such a short time period. In the rest of the world we haven't even figured out how to recover from death *at all*, let alone in weeks or months like you claim is possible.

Stating that swatting isn't a big deal falls flat on both ends of the argument.

In 2008 an investigation into no-knock swat raids showed that 80% of such raids in the previous 10 years were based on factually wrong information. Of the 146 no-knock raids during that year, only 49 or about 33% resulted in any charges what so ever, and of those 49 only 2 (TWO) resulted in a conviction and prison time.

Of those two, one was due to the officers finding 50 grams of weed in the swatting victims home, while the original charges were that the person had shot hostages.
The other of those two was the famous Marvin Louis Guy case, who is in prison for shoot three of the swat officers who invaded his home and shot at him and his wife first.
The prosecution has sought the death penalty against him and is still on death row to this day.

You are essentially saying that 16 months of jail time is TOO MUCH for being directly responsible for at least 23 instances of attempted murder.
Being the direct cause of having loaded weapons pointed directly at another human being who did no harm or crime to anyone, where only the purest of chances resulted in missing, is something that should not be taken lightly.

http://reason.com/archives/200...
http://thefreethoughtproject.c...
http://xbradtc.com/2014/08/08/...
https://www.google.com/search?...

This will be short, as this post is way late - but given that the organization seeking independence for Macedonia from the Ottoman Empire called itself the " Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization", clearly your claim that this is an invention of Tito is nonsense. IMRO fought the Ottomans under the slogan "Macedonia for Macedonians", and for about a decade managed to maintain a sort of semiautonomous region before being nearly wiped out; they only then switched courses to trying to get Macedonia taken over as a region of Bulgaria to get away from the Ottomans (a region still to be called "Macedonia"). When there was later talk of trying to partition up Macedonia, they reacted by assassinating the Bulgarian prime minister (eventually the Bulgarian army wiped out IMRO).

Of course Tito took advantage of and encouraged Macedonian identity. But it existed long before that; the folk tales of the area have always talked of their connection to ancient Macedonia (which, by the way, is supported by the genetics - the speakers of the southern Slavic languages don't have significant amounts of any of the so-called "Slavic genes", such as haplogroup R1a; genetically, they're mostly "locals", and more to the point, the (largely immigrant) residents of Greek Macedonia have even more of the haplogroup!)

And for what it's worth, you should probably be aware of what a "Bulgarian" is to begin with - given that the Bulgars weren't Slavic, they were Turkic (both genetically and linguistically), and not from Bulgaria, but Ukraine (most closely related to the Crimean Tatars today). They "took over" the people in present-day Bulgaria and beyond, and I put that in quotes because there's no evidence that the locals at all resisted their "conquest"; they had been heavily taxed by the Byzantines. But rather than imposing a turkic language and culture on the locals, the turkic language and culture of their new leaders steadily died out over the course of about 200 years.

The short of it is, "Bulgarians" just means "the locals who were already in the area at the time Bulgar raiders freed them from the Byzantines". Thraco-bulgarians were the people of Thrace (now Bulgaria) so conquered. Macedono-bulgarians were the people of Macedonia so conquered.

There's a lot more that could be written, but I'll leave it at that.

I use AFWall+, which is an update of the abandoned DroidWall, which is just a front end for Linux iptables. It lets me pick and choose which apps are allowed to transmit over cellular, wifi (LAN), and/or wifi (Internet). Most of the apps which have no business using data and are probably using it to send back tracking info, I simply prohibit from ever transmitting any data. I have an unlimited data plan so I use this for privacy reasons, not limiting data. But I typically only use about 150-300 MB/mo unless I do something like stream a video over cellular.

It requires root. I see in the similar apps section of the above link that there are other firewall apps out there which don't require root, though I have not tried them. Also, the latest version of AFWall+ is nearly a year old and has a bug with Lollipop which makes it fail to connect to wifi networks. You have to disable it (use the widget), connect to wifi (use WiFi Manager's widget), then re-enable it. Kinda annoying and digging through xda forums it seems someone already came up with a fix for it, it just hasn't been integrated into the baseline code yet.

Try uBlock Origin; Chrome is using considerably less memory on OSX than it was when I was running ABP (anywhere from 15% to 25% less).

https://chrome.google.com/webs...

I know that Caspar was active in the Qubes OS community and he is credited with introducing Qubes to the European Parliament before they recommended it as a mitigation against mass surveillance. He also served as a Director for the Tor Project.

Computing UK has posted an obituary here.

I had heard the saying 'Good thing all the criminals are dumb'
Who would use a mercury switch if it gets you on a watch list?
There are hundreds of different sensors out there with much more accuracy and redundancy if you want to tamper-proof a bomb. google
And of course you can make our own sensor without mercury, You could use Iron powder or even ball bearing balls in a tube. retarded criminals and law enforcement agencies result in this.