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Believe me, the residents did stand for it.

They did stand for it, until they started Falling Down.

Bill Foster: What are you doing to the street?
Construction Worker: We're fixing it! What the Hell does it look like?
Bill Foster: Two days ago it was fine. Are you telling me the street fell apart in two days?
Construction Worker: Well, I guess so.
Bill Foster: Pardon me, but that's bullshit. You see, I don't think anything's wrong with the street! I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets! I know how it works! If you don't spend the projected amount this year, you don't get the same amount next year! Now, I want you to admit, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STREET!
Construction Worker: Hey, fuck you, pal.

Also, somebody teach this idiot how incredibly difficult it is to adjust data retrieval algorithms is*, especially on Google's scale.

Actually, the algorithms adjust themselves, in real time, all the time, based on trending searches.

That is why they are so successful. They are crowd sourced.

Everyone thinks they are so unique and individual and different from everybody else. They are totally shocked to find out they have exactly the same thought patterns as a large percentage of other people. I often see something on TV, reach for my tablet and google a couple words, only to have auto complete suggest almost exactly the next few words I was going to enter. 60 million other viewers saw the same thing, and decided to do the same search, and at least half are faster than I am. Its worked this way forever, and without it I'd still be clueless about who Amanda Witherspoon is.

In 2007, hunters shot an Alaskan bald eagle in the face and left her for dead, but she was then found by Jane Fink Cantwell, a bird conservationist. The bird’s entire upper beak had been shot off, the equivalent of losing a limb for birds that use their beaks for feeding and preening feathers, and clearly a death sentence for this majestic creature. Janie and her small volunteer staff at the Raptor Chapter kept the bird alive through liquid tube-feeding until mechanical engineer Nate Calvin was able create a prosthetic beak using a 3D printed nylon-based polymer. This magnificent bird of prey has since recovered to full health and has been named Beauty, and most deservedly so. http://birdsofpreynorthwest.org/beauty-and-the-beak-project/ This work was much more of an effort to increase the quality of the bird's captive life, rather than facilitate a release back into the wild with a new beak, but that should not restrict future projects. Contrary to initial thoughts, the beak actually needs to be ‘weaker’ not ‘stronger’ since the limitation is the connection points and the purchase available at those attachments. A new design is in the planning stages which will have ‘give points’ designed to allow the beak to flex before damage can be done at the connection points. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/y5BYcu1glK4/0.jpg The success of this project has led to the consideration of how 3D printing can be applied to the rehabilitation of other animals afflicted with similar damage. With the financial rise of the Chinese has also come a growth in the black market trafficking of endangered species body parts. These most famously include shark fins and tiger penis, sometimes for consumption, sometimes for pseudo-scientific medicine. One of the most horrific trends is the growth in illegal poaching of rhinos for their highly prized horns. A single specimen can now command up to $500,000 from Chinese buyers. In the most recent cases, well-funded poachers with high powered rifles and night vision goggles have been flying night raids into nature reserves by private helicopter. Upon immobilising these magnificent creatures, they proceed to hack off the horns, either with machetes or chainsaws. Unsurprisingly, few of the rhinos survive, situations quite similar to enormous sharks killed simply for a single fin. Printing a replacement horn for a rhino is obviously many magnitudes more difficult that printing a beak for an eagle, but this is a project that is being pursued. Designing a replacement is feasible from a mechanical standpoint, but has some incredible challenges from a practical viewpoint (controlling the animal during and after the procedure, limiting/assessing a ‘typical’ use/load scenario after attachment). Excerpted from "3D Printing - The Next Techologoy Goldrush"

You are totally full of crap.

Just about every modern large commercial aircraft uses outward opening doors.

Airbus A320 does. Watch it on youtube. Don't believe me? Just ask Cpt Sullenberger. (If the rear door had opened inward, probably everyone aft of first class would have drowned because they would not have been able to close it against the water pressure).

New Airbus 380 does.

There hasn't been a single report of a cabin door failure in flight on any modern passenger jet.

Given that all Jerusalem (assuming you mean the old city) and Vatican city are large extremely heavy stone structures sitting atop rocks ... not much would happen. All the detonation energy would be used up in vaporizing a layer of that rock, damaging buildings and statues and roofs and windows and what have you, but there will not be sufficient energy to completely vaporize them. Anybody who is in a location where they can directly see the nuke without a window between them and it would probably be dead, everyone else would be fine. That is unlikely to be very many people, either in Jerusalem or Vatican city. Few, if any, buildings would collapse.

And of course, the average American atheist would gloat about how wonderful all this death and destruction would be.

Mecca however is a very recent implant of modern buildings (even the -current- Kaaba is a construction nobody who's seen it believes to be more than 10 years old, same goes for everything inside it) built with substandard materials which would have had relatively slim margins had it been built with the correct materials. They regularly collapse with the only shockwaves coming from feet on stairs and cars on the street. Everything around it is as you would expect everything in a horrible hellhole dictatorship to be : mostly tents and extremely weak buildings, all of them flammable, which would probably be set ablaze by a nuclear detonation even if they fired it at the wrong city, resulting in a disaster. Furthermore, medical facilities there, due to their racist laws and very few saudi doctors, are substandard. The only advantage it more or less has is that it is right next to a massive trade channel, so help would arrive quickly.

And of course, the average American atheist would gloat about how terribly racist this particular atom bomb was. Let's hope whoever fires that particular bomb doesn't paint it white.

Both Jerusalem and Vatican city have people behind them and believing in them that have capable militaries and working economies, which would have to sacrifice a lot, but not their very existence to attack others. Mecca has neither a capable military, and it's surroundings have an internal economy besides oil that the average North Korean city would find depressingly bad, and as far as intellectual performance goes : the cultural output of all muslims worldwide (books, movies, videos, ...) roughly equals that of Luxembourg, and that of Saudi Arabia doesn't would have trouble matching the publishing prowess of the average middle american village.

The world economy, of course, is running on margins so thin that any war involving any major trading partner would destroy it. Doesn't really matter which one. That means only one thing, of course, like any system that can be taken out by a fly, it has a limited shelf-life.

Let's not forget who's the organized crime here!
Who is "selling" information as if it were tangible commodities, not moving a single finger for that copy, but taking money, and then having the audacity, to call *us* "thieves"!!
Not to forget, the original work wasn't even done by them, but by some poor schmuck who got ripped off *exactly* the way they accuse us of acting. (Well, I guess they are the experts on it. ;)

The content Mafia is!

Also: Please tell me how this will stop decentralized P2P file sharing...
And how about darknets?
Hm?

For instance, you might have the whole "going to dinner parties with the wife" thing in order to maintain a social norm. Meanwhile, you'd rather be in your garage tinkering with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino or something in your garage and making an anti-squirrel turret for your backyard.

As I'm getting older I'm realizing more and more that the hobbies I find intellectually satisfying are rarely something that can be plugged into a social component. As good (and intelligent) as my friends are, most of them wouldn't want to spend an afternoon learning something interesting in Perl or building a robot for the fuck of it. We go out for drinks or to a diner or something like that. I'm finding that I have to divorce "intellectually stimulating" from "social interaction" more and more every day.

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When socialising becomes boring, just as you describe - I can relate to that, btw. - it's because today people rarely have any time or interest in cultivating social forms of engagement. It's still a relatively thin wholy educated layer of demografic that does these things, if at all.
If you want something stimulating to do that you do with other people it would be making music together, singing in a choir, staging a play or something like that.

4.5 years ago I discovered Tango dancing. And while I actually do have a diploma in performing arts and did that professionally in the 90ies (although not for a living really, you can't live off that), I never would have thought that I'd be doing that. I basically discovered Tango by accident, because a friend of mine asked me to come with her as her partner. Since then it's been like a drug. I go out 3 or more times a week at times and it only takes a little nudge to overcome the notion of just staying at my desk and doing a little programming or something.

Seriously, once you find a social activity that is stimulating beyond sitting together and chatting and getting slightly drunk, you're heading the right way. You can't dance while drunk, and you wouldn't want to, because you're having a ball (quite litterally at times :-) ) giving the ladies and girls a good time and improving your dancing skills. Just Tuesday I came back from Heidelberg with my feet hurting from dancing to much again. With a ladies/guy ratio like that (note the background), a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do, ... I guess. :-)))

Bottom line: Find a higher cultivated social activity than drinking and clubbing, such as the above mentioned, and going social won't be so one dimensional anymore. A few years ago it was Aikido for me, but since I've discovered Tango, I think I've found my contrast programm for the rest of my life.

My 2 cents.

> this device was quite much copied from Nokia's symbian phones

Even though we have remote controls today, and clicking on the article link no longer requires you to get your ass out of your chair, you can still make a fool of yourself by being too lazy to read it and discover that the first remote control was invented in 1955, long before there was Symbian, or mobile phones.

He must be of the same intellectual quality as the persons that, back during mid '90-ies, carried a remote and mocked speaking on a mobile in an attempt to fool others into believing they owned one (granted, some early Ericsson models have had some resemblance).

It was Italian. Windows running on Italian automotive electrics just seems like the kind of car you'd rent in Hell.

Last thing you want is your brakes to BSOD and your car to decide it needs to reboot after installing updates while you're belting down the autobahn at 200kph!
Although if it ran Linux the sound wouldn't work and you'd be constantly rebuilding libengine.so to make it work with the new version of libsteering.so.2.3.2.1.
Then again if it came from Apple then putting your hands on the steering wheel would short the electrics and you'd have to drive like this, anything else would result in a 'just don't drive it like that'.

I must know who makes it.

I found the flexon ad with a google image search:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yXCz2fVmFC8/0.jpg

obligatory:

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fwNvIM2W9Aw/0.jpg

I just set Opera Preferences to Cookies=OFF Flash=OFF ReferrerLogging=OFF GifAnimation=OFF.
Then i Edit Site Preferences to only allow things when i want.
Like youtube.com FlashOn and CookiesOn to allow autologin.

More Privacy and faster browsing for me!

urlfilter.ini
[exclude]
http://www.google./*.ico
http://www.google./images/*
http://images.google./*.ico
http://images.google./intl/*
http://video.google./*.ico
http://video.google./img/*
http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/master-vfl*.png
http://intellitx/

Basic system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 adservices.google.com
127.0.0.1 www.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 ad.yieldmanager.com
127.0.0.1 ads.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 www.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 3.adbrite.com
127.0.0.1 4.adbrite.com

TODO JavaScriptOFF...

But there still remain many Cookies to block.
Especially good stable settings for n00bs that cant defend
themselfs. I'm unsure if that's possible though...