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One of the early What If? comics Marvel put out was about Jane Foster finding Thor's Hammer instead of Don Blake. There is a hilarious summary of it here. Not sure if it's the earliest example of Thor as a woman but's its gotta be close!

John Adams or Ronald Reagan.
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Reagan also had a thing about regulations.

The only real disappointment for the president in his relations with Fahd was when the king tried to give Reagan a gift of four Arabian horses.
He complained in his diary, "I couldn't accept them as a gift - due to our stupid regulations."

doesn't the author/drawer of Dilbert understand that women have breasts and its OK to represent this like every other drawing/comic does? All the DIlbert female characters - flat as a board.

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The pictures are online here and here and here. From those pictures it is obvious they are selfies. So the "someone else's repugnant behavior, is, infact, her own repugnant behavior.

The pictures are online here and here and here. From those pictures it is obvious they are selfies. So the "someone else's repugnant behavior, is, infact, her own repugnant behavior.

The pictures are online here and here and here. From those pictures it is obvious they are selfies. So the "someone else's repugnant behavior, is, infact, her own repugnant behavior.

She's on quite the fishing expedition. Here is another lawsuit filed by her, from 2012, suing Pinkmeth (again), Katz Global Media (for the crime of providing anonymous hosting), and Verisign. Yeah, she sued Verisign. Maybe that suit didn't work out so well, so she thought she would try her hand against Tor. Not exactly the best way to make a name for herself as a criminal justice major. I suspect that pursuing suits like these will serve is much more of a "loss in earning capacity" than a porn picture ever would. She might also be interested that her Facebook profile is open for the world to see. Here she is.

Maybe she's just trying to clog up the Google search results for her name with information about lawsuits instead of her actual pictures. You have to go to page 4 to find this one (which is not Pinkmeth), page 6 for this one (also not Pinkmeth), and page 8 for this one (again, not Pinkmeth).

I'm assuming she has no proof that would allow her to sue the person actually responsible for distributing the pictures (you know, other than her). Life lesson learned, I suppose. Try not to clog up the justice system.

She's on quite the fishing expedition. Here is another lawsuit filed by her, from 2012, suing Pinkmeth (again), Katz Global Media (for the crime of providing anonymous hosting), and Verisign. Yeah, she sued Verisign. Maybe that suit didn't work out so well, so she thought she would try her hand against Tor. Not exactly the best way to make a name for herself as a criminal justice major. I suspect that pursuing suits like these will serve is much more of a "loss in earning capacity" than a porn picture ever would. She might also be interested that her Facebook profile is open for the world to see. Here she is.

Maybe she's just trying to clog up the Google search results for her name with information about lawsuits instead of her actual pictures. You have to go to page 4 to find this one (which is not Pinkmeth), page 6 for this one (also not Pinkmeth), and page 8 for this one (again, not Pinkmeth).

I'm assuming she has no proof that would allow her to sue the person actually responsible for distributing the pictures (you know, other than her). Life lesson learned, I suppose. Try not to clog up the justice system.

She's on quite the fishing expedition. Here is another lawsuit filed by her, from 2012, suing Pinkmeth (again), Katz Global Media (for the crime of providing anonymous hosting), and Verisign. Yeah, she sued Verisign. Maybe that suit didn't work out so well, so she thought she would try her hand against Tor. Not exactly the best way to make a name for herself as a criminal justice major. I suspect that pursuing suits like these will serve is much more of a "loss in earning capacity" than a porn picture ever would. She might also be interested that her Facebook profile is open for the world to see. Here she is.

Maybe she's just trying to clog up the Google search results for her name with information about lawsuits instead of her actual pictures. You have to go to page 4 to find this one (which is not Pinkmeth), page 6 for this one (also not Pinkmeth), and page 8 for this one (again, not Pinkmeth).

I'm assuming she has no proof that would allow her to sue the person actually responsible for distributing the pictures (you know, other than her). Life lesson learned, I suppose. Try not to clog up the justice system.

Nothing different or special about us? Humans and their livestock and pets make up 98% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass. There are hundreds of millions of people and trillions of dollars in infrastructure just a meter or two above sea level. Our civilization will be massively disrupted if sea levels rise by just a meter and we experience bad droughts. Sure, the planet will survive, but we're fucked!

Be aware that, NSLs and FISA request are the same thing, go figure, so by releasing the number of NSLs they are at the same time hiding the number of FISA request which could be any number

Actually, no they are not. If you add the FISA requests, it jumps by almost 2000 more. The FISA requests represented there are the warrantless "probable cause" uses where a FISA warrant is not gotten first. FISA is typically handled outside the FBI which is what the 19,000 number is supposed to represent.

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NSL letters are not secret court orders. They are extrajudicial orders for records information kept by businesses. The FISA orders can actually do more then that and actually intercept communications but only for a limited time before a FISA warrant is needed and a FISA warrant is needed before the information is supposed to be legally used in a case. You can find more about the FISA orders issues with it's annual reports to congress. Just select the reports then the year.

http://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/...

It should be noted that if no US person is involved or likely to be involved, no warrant is actually needed in the surveillance according to FISA. So the numbers should only reflect where it is possible that a US citizen is somehow part of the target for the FISA order.

You're displaying an astonishing lack of understanding of ./ culture -past or present, which leads me to ask the obvious question:

How much did you pay for that 240k UID account? Did you cop it off ebay?

Curious geeks want to know!

Also, you're approaching your question entirely wrong; fuck the golden age, go by series and read what's recommended by comic geeks: http://comraderecs.tumblr.com/

Are you really that dense?? Gee, does Biology use Physics to explain the world, or does Physics use Biology??

Biology is built on top of Chemistry.
Chemistry is built on top of Physics.
Physics is built up on top of Physics.

Maybe you need to actually think about the Hierarchy of Knowledge for a change.

While Physics is of the King of Science, Math is the Queen of Science.

As xkcd lapooned ...
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One of the transcripts, from an earlier competition. About as bad as always. http://parsely.tumblr.com/post...

They did serve a tour in Japan. "It’s the Curies! We must flee!"

Snowden did try to go through channels, See http://icontherecord.tumblr.co.... Snowden claims there was more, and that the NSA is trying to spin this sort of matter by concealing much o the correspondence and records: given the text of this sort of letter, I can believe it.

I'd be curious to learn more about his "training as a spy": it's difficult to dig through the newspaper reports for his actual sentences, instead of just the juiciest sound bites.

...dem radioactive urine-packin' kittehz.

Yeah Kittehz!

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They had a different taste...sometimes. Some things really never change. (That might have something to do that humans in all time periods are...humans!) I was surprised to see some works by Vivant Denon. What could have possibly moved the diplomat, writer, artist, archaeologist, and leader of Napoleon's scientific entourage in Egypt to paint huge penises? (Besides being a Frenchman, of course!)

she has virtually no control of any part of her body. She can't breathe on her own, and the only things she can move, ever so slightly, are her lips, eyelids and eyes

My condolences to your sister-in-law, her and your families, and congratulations on a healthy new baby. This is a terrible situation for everyone. I have some idea as my wife died of a brain tumor (GBM) that herniated her brain stem in January 2006, just 7 weeks after diagnosis (Remember Sue...) Thankfully, we had that time together and were able to discuss and finalize her wishes. (We even had one last kiss and "I love you" before she, unexpectedly, became unconscious.) Have you asked her what she wants to do and if she already has a DNR, advanced health-care directive and/or health-care proxy?

I know she is only 28 years old and may, over time, possibly recover further, but she may not and may get worse (soon). Please take this time as if it were your last together, just in case. Consider and prepare for the alternatives and unexpected. I'm sorry I cannot offer more.

Go on....

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No, the prophecy has been fullfilled!

You are surely not naive enough to think that your locked phone cannot be unlocked by certain people do you?

No, but probably not in time to notify next of kin while you die.
Trust me, a last kiss, "I love you," and goodbye is important - I know. Remember Sue...

the systemd init may be brilliant, if it would be isolated. But its mixed up with udev, syslog and even gnome to some extent. This cannot be an good idea, because stuff like init needs to KISS.

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Here.

OH! Here's a heap of examples!

Then there's the whole Rush Limbaugh tough on drug abusers except when blowhard radio personalities take so much non-prescribed oxycontin their ears quit working. Why hasn't he had himself locked up? (just Google, there's far too many references to link)

Then there's these.. Here too. Even some (former) Republicans agree.

If you give police the location of your phone, it's probably less than an hour's worth of work for two of them to track it down and get it back.

See Plumpergeddon for an example. He not only had the exact location, he had ongoing daily photographs of the thief. Hundreds of them. He had screen shots of him apparently perpetrating fraud. Cops never cared at all.

I would expect Lawrence Lessig's MAYDAY SuperPAC could solve this.
As far as I can see, it aims to set up congressmen who will take money out of governing, and I bet it will also wipe out FCC corruption and reset pointers to net neutrality as a consequence of where I expect it will go.
https://mayone.us/
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Here: http://icanhazdigitalsecurity....

The question is what can you GET for them... Right now? Not much.

You really need to update your anti-Bitcoin propaganda. Between Bitcoinstore, Overstock.com, TigerDirect, Fancy, eGifter, and Gyft you can get quite a bit for a bitcoin these days, and that's not counting all these other merchants:

Trade page at the Bitcoin Wiki

Make your living wills now.

Get the funeral (or lack of one) that you want.

Technically a "Living Will" only applies while you're alive specifying health care directives should you become incapacitated. It terminates when you do. Your "Will" would be the place to specify your funeral wishes.

People in the US can setup/register and maintain a Living Will at the U.S. Living Will Registry for a small fee (I think $5) - or free if submitted through a local hospital. You get a registration card for your wallet and the document can be accessed and maintained online.

My wife had a Living Will when she was dying of a brain tumor specifying her health care wishes (with a DNR) and me as her proxy - to make decisions not specifically documented in her Living Will (generally, the proxy cannot circumvent specific directives). After she died, according to her verbal wishes, I donated her body to the Virginia Anatomical Society (I donated her body to science). A year later her body was cremated by the medical school and her ashes scattered out near the school in Blacksburg VA. (There was no cost to me.) See: Remember Sue...

Umm... I have to wonder, if you replace everything about a tool over time, is it still the same tool?

I think there's a famous quote in there somewhere....

http://fuckyeahterrypratchett....

Here's a thought. Maybe the sport as a whole -- and the PGA in particular -- could take a look at the many many country clubs that are still whites-only, and think about whether tolerating overt racism in your sport is the best way to market it.

No matter how cute the 'Flo' ads are, here is what drove me to never consider them: http://mattfisher.tumblr.com/p... I do understand what you said about insurance but I think the reality of what happens behind the curtains is more revealing... and disturbing.

Personally I wish they would move tax day to October 31st. Talk about a scary byzantine nightmare, so it would be a fitting day. I thought I had complex taxes but I guess there are a few circles of hell that are still worse than the one I am stuck in.
This also puts tax day right before election day so maybe something could be done about it. I would prefer a much simple cleaner system that doesn't play favorites. On this topic this is one of my personal favorite editorial cartoons which happens to be the venerable Dr. Seuss.

Facebook's ads are questionable, and the company will be toast when people figure it out. Sleazy-to-the-core won't last forever.
Facebook Fraud
Facebook CPC - Don’t Waste Your Money

You keep talking about "rights", but I don't see any "rights" involved. I see a privileged class getting tax deductions and a standard contract of asset ownership, estate transfer, and limited power of attorney.

Boycotts are the societal-scale equivalent of not feeding your kid. You're not "harming" them, you're just not "supporting them with money or labor." In this case, a boycott of Mozilla would cause collateral damage to Mozilla Inc due to their association with Eich; this would then show the industry that they need to not support Eich, making him less hirable. If we took it out to completion, we could boycot McDonalds if he ends up as a burger flipper; this would soundly tell the industry not to hire him, because WalMart doesn't want a quarter of 8 billion dollars of lost revenue for this dude etc. Then he would die on the streets alone.

The action is defensive in the same way that a sanction against North Korea is. We make it harder for those who work to harm us to get the resources they need to do so, until they decide they no longer want to harm us. Any harm they suffer is just a side-effect.

By that logic, I have a strong incentive to boycott OKCupid and you personally. You are harming my right to participate in the political process.

I believe, based on rational economic analysis, that supplying higher education (college, vocational training) to everyone as a default societal benefit is wrong. Firmly wrong. I believe this comic is fundamentally incorrect in many assumptions. Panel 5 especially: "Free education reduces social inequality, and benefits both individuals and society in the long run." I believe this is fundamentally backwards: Free education increases social inequality, and harms both individuals and society in the long run.

The equal supply of free education to all individuals creates a huge societal problem: when a particular vocational skill is in demand, a lot of people invest years of their time into developing that skill. The work force saturates, and these individuals find that the demand for hundreds of thousands of computer programmers or nurses or accountants is still there... but there are now millions of programmers, or nurses, or accountants. Thus they cannot get jobs, and the i.e. 1 in 10 who can get jobs are paid a paltry salary. In the interim, their employment opportunities were limited to unskilled labor--which we can replace with machines (hotdog and hamburger prep machines, automatic checkouts, janitorial robotics), and probably will when the minimum wage gets high enough and the cost of such automation becomes lower.

Without this supply or any government backing, businesses would suffer. Without skilled labor, they would pay excessively high salaries to hire experienced skilled labor--and then fail to support their business strategy, because another firm would poach their labor with higher salaries. The only way to escape this is for businesses to hire entrants to offset their skilled laborers, shifting the less-skilled tasks onto the entrants so the skilled laborers can apply themselves more effectively, while simultaneously training the entrants on the job and by paying their education. These entrants would become the new crop of skilled laborers, gaining modest salary increases above living wage.

Can you imagine if I were CEO of Mozilla Inc, having openly campaigned against the United States providing any sort of economic benefit to encourage education? No funding of universities, no government-backed loan program, no grants. You want school? Pay for it, either from your own funds or by employer sponsorship.

I would be burned alive.

There would be massive media backlash against Mozilla Inc. I would be forced out by the board as CEO to save the company. Nobody would hire me. Even in engineer-level or middle management positions, interviewers would recognize me as "that anti

I do watch Netflix but whenever I need to take a movie seriously (I write about films for part of my work) I do have to watch the other non Netflix versions just in case http://whatnetflixdoes.tumblr.... No affiliation with the site by the way

So in other words, you want your juries to be vigilante posses, who determine guilt not by impartial facts, but by prejudice and bias, simply repeating the verdict handed to them by the Court of Public Opinion. You'd be right, though. With that kind of jury, you don't need to have any legal education to argue a case. You just have to slander the other guy convincingly enough while confirming the jury's prejudice.

1. Clearly, making a violent video game is worthy of punishment, because all the parents on the jury can see the connection between their teenagers' gaming habits and their recent distant attitudes.
2. Obviously, this man is not a rapist because the woman accepted his offer of a drink. As all the barflies will affirm, that's a binding social contract.
3. This white man should go free, because setting a black man on fire is free expression guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Where exactly do you draw the line regarding which biases are acceptable? Which school of thought regarding "constitutional law" are jurors allowed to know about? After the complete injustice of the Zimmerman trial, would a similar trial have any chance of justice, were it tried on preexisting "knowledge" rather than the facts of the case?

Frozen is just the same sexist shit all over.

... Lets say there are enough specialized teams to treat 1,000 glioblastoma patients per year and they successfully treat 80% of patients. 800 saved hurray! But, for the same price, Watson could develop treatments for 10,000 patients, saving 4,000 of them.

The idea of "saved" in this case is overly optimistic.

From Glioblastoma Multiforme and Glioblastoma:

The median survival time from the time of diagnosis without any treatment is 3 months, but with treatment survival of 1–2 years is common.

For adults with more aggressive glioblastoma, treated with concurrent temozolamide and radiation therapy, median survival is about 14.6 months and two-year survival is 30%. However, a 2009 study reported that almost 10% of patients with glioblastoma may live five years or longer.

My wife died of this in 2006 just 7 weeks after diagnosis Remember Sue....
Though perhaps with Watson many more people could be, at least, helped.

... for the Commodore PET. http://pettil.tumblr.com/ But now my code is better than it was in 1979, and by now I have used dozens of other languages and operating systems. Am I "expert"? No. I take the approach of learning the minimum I need to accomplish the mission (usually delivering maintainable code) plus whatever else I become curious about along the way. What usually works best is to combine a new project with a new set of tools, so I'm learning the new tool while trying to finish the project. I describe the approach as "You are here and you want to get there." or "Lewis and Clark" approach. If you started with Perl, learning Ruby. Consider learning something old school, like Forth. Install Linux on your desktop. Force yourself to live in it by deleting Windows first. In short, become uncomfortable. The best learning occurs in that space.

wonderful http://fakeui.tumblr.com/

While exploring space is many people's dream. The cost is enormous and the US has so much debt now, should we really be investing in our dreams
vs repairing roads and bridges?

O RLY? http://costsmorethanspace.tumb...

Being a person who was born and raised on the Los Angeles ares, I came to know the awful smog that once existed there. People sometimes would wear gas masks when the sky was very black. It's interesting how the Chinese have failed to learn from history. The air in Los Angeles is wonderful these day. It's still polluted, of course, to a certain extent but nothing like like it was in the 1950-1980 period and nothing like what you see in China now.

Yes it did melt down.

In London, the actual proper Daemon, I know its BSD licence but that was a bit of a shocker. Oh this is about Linux?

The BSD girls have got Linux geeks balls to the wall always has always will! Nothing sexy Linux geeks or penguins for that matter unless you are really kinky.

***It's usually a good rule do thumb to never buy the first iteration of any computer software or hardware product at all, especially software.***

Not hardware -- only the Apple fanboys make such statements about hardware, because Apple has such a terrible history of problems.

By the way, you're holding it wrong!

And so does everybody else

If budgets come in to play at all, it might be a close one.

I am so confused right now...

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