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Kindi

some zones already do that. like in SM-inv.....

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i said SM-inv. threefist, snarrl, king obould. i didn't think i needed to give actual names of the mobs for it to count...... tho honestly i have no opinion on the whole 'rescue person mob' thing so whatever

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SM-inv has several fights like that

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now they want to add the scanners to the washington monument. bruce schneier thinks we should just close it instead "...Let it stand, empty and inaccessible, as a monument to our fears. An empty Washington Monument would serve as a constant reminder to those on Capitol Hill that they are afraid...

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he's just trying to help reduce the size of govt! "These leaks are not specifically about the war(s) at all, and most seem to simply be a broad swath of the everyday normal secrets that a security state keeps from all but its most trusted hundreds of thousands of people who have the right clear...

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1860 is still after a lot of the founders were dead. the main point is, it wasn't a core part of the union, and doesn't really matter

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in god we trust is pretty recent (1955 for paper currency and 1956 for motto)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust

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economic strength but cultural weakness. (note i agree with corth despite saying that)

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also note the calls for assassination

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... hacked.ars

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professional grade old man mask:

http://www.singularityhacker.com/2010/1 ... uture.html

tho it doesn't take masks to have super crappy eye-witness evidence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-race_effect

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if i want ice cream, but someone licked it, i still want ice cream, but i'm not going to take it

govt needs to take its tongue off my ice cream

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japanese writing is not the same as english writing

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... MlTQO0IlOw

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they defused "national opt-out day" (weds) by putting more screeners into service than at any previous time in history, and by turning off the new scanners and pushing everyone thru the old form of security without even thoroughly checking them. just goes to show, between security and abil...

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on loaning ebooks: the Nook has the capability to loan a book to another Nook user, for 2 weeks. the publisher has to turn the feature on, and they also get to set how many times you can loan it. (good luck!) the kindle is coming out with loan features too, where you can loan the book to another per...

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i don't know enough about the current state of our financial system to make a full analysis, but all the analyses that everyone says are the 'most accurate' don't come from the government, and reinforce the idea that things would have been Very Bad. could be a global CYA maneuver, but not worth time...

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apparently TSA goons aren't allowed to wear radiation dosimeter badges which are standard for ppl working around radiation equipment.

and also apparently one defense against search is constitutional rights. (imagine that)

http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounter

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prices are set to what the market will bear. my favorite is when the ebook is more expensive than the paperback, even when including shipping. honestly tho, i wouldn't suggest buying e-format textbooks. ebooks are much better if they're purely linear material like novels. i'd really hate to have to ...

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don't forget deflation rather than inflation

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Corth wrote:The part I don't think anyone should forget is where the government bailed out the private sector banks with taxpayer dollars instead of letting them fail for their poor market performance.

can't let them fail if they take the entire world economy with them. talking about houses of cards...

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Unless it's coded some SUPER obscure way, that's adding a multiply by 1.5 coefficient in a proc in the code, takes 5 minutes to fix and compile. Anyway, since noone seems to agree, nevermind. from what i've heard ranged combat code is completely messed up. i agree that crossbows should get more lov...

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oh i thought you meant today. obviously there are thresholds where it becomes economical in the future

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Teflor Lyorian wrote:Biofuels can work for certain applications.

not economically or at-scale. we use a lot of gasoline and tiny little mom & pop biofuel projects can easily cost more than they save, on average, especially with a lot of costs being hidden in time/labor

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wasn't very firm if they changed their minds. sounds like the right thing to do, to update based on new testimony. could be titled 'scientists do science; make the right decision after looking at all the evidence'

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george bush liked biofuels too. so do many big corporations who vote GOP. daily show had a montage where they showed every single president going back to lyndon b. johnson saying on TV we need to get off foreign oil and onto clean, renewable energy, and several mentioned biofuels i'd say the real ca...

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anyone who really follows green-energy knew ethanol was a joke solution which only benefits the corn industry nukes are where it's at in the short term, while we build up solar / wind / battery technology, but nobody wants to repeal regulation which makes them nearly impossible to build, since "...

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i mis-heard. lilithelle says they fire 3 when used, but ID on test mud says 4. might be a bug they haven't caught since no "real" hand crossbows exist i think SM was the first time they added any good bolts for less-than-heavy, and the only good light crossbow is gnomish bolt thrower, whic...

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heavy crossbow is 2 bolts, light crossbow is 3 bolts, hand crossbow is 4 bolts. nobody's really made any good light/hand crossbows

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huge roundup of stories posted by Bruce Schneier: "This video provides tips to parents flying with young children. Around 2:50 in, the reporter indicates that you can find out if your child has been pre-selected for secondary, and then recommends requesting "de-selection." That doesn'...

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I am aware of it. I've been sacrificing fixing little things like this to focus on a framework that will eliminate these kinds of issues and allow non-coders to address them in the future. I didn't have embodiments on the initial Powers list, but I'll take a look this weekend and see how hard they'...

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Ragorn wrote:Jesus you guys post a lot. Seriously, go outside.

i have a sprained ankle and it's cold out

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do you really want to group water boarding in the same class of "torture" as being gang raped, electrocuted, or having fingers and bones broken? Lets stop parading around here like water boarding was real torture. It may technically be torture, but its a far cry from actual torture. john ...

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i like alcohol

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should have handed them over to the Iraqis and Afghanis after questioning for relevant war info. at least that way the mock trials would be on them instead of us. and i'm simultaneously scared of and very happy for the drone-assassin programs we have going. that's the real way to deal with tiny band...

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Some mistakes are made, but I believe that there are very very few non radicals and terrorists that are detained for long periods of time. Sure a platoon rolls into a village and rounds up a bunch of guys and interrogates them for a few hours, but we aren't plucking goat herders off of pastures and...

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Teflor Lyorian wrote:
Kindi wrote:then be direct. it's not my job to understand your mind (god help me), it's your job to explain. are the ppl in guantanamo our enemies?

Are you talking about the US Marines or the other prisoners?

the prisoners.

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then be direct. it's not my job to understand your mind (god help me), it's your job to explain. are the ppl in guantanamo our enemies?

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i think both the Supreme Court and the Congress are failing to uphold the US constitution in many ways, this being one of them It is possible. Our enemies certainly aren't getting very much liberty from us. But our government is not established to be a moral perfection, but to defend our liberty. i...

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Teflor Lyorian wrote:But does that excuse them from practically having caused it?

wall street and the banks caused it.

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i think both the Supreme Court and the Congress are failing to uphold the US constitution in many ways, this being one of them

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i like them and was planning on wearing everything except the cleric mace, if i ever complete the quest

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i agree, most of these trials (when they happen at all), and the way both administrations have handled them, are very underhanded and shady. i'd rather they give the whole thing a big American-Justice cleaning and airing out, but i doubt it'll ever happen

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so a nun in her habit, a muslim in her hijab, and a scotsman in his kilt walk into the airport screening area.... tell me if you've heard this one before

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daily show spends over 16 minutes on glenn beck/george soros and it's hilarious

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episod ... -k--howard

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Corth wrote:Warren Buffet is wrong.

yeah, him and all the other stupid "economists"!

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i think that's what the constitution's for

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i don't really consider the military tribunal thing a 'trial' since they weren't given lawyers, weren't told the "evidence" against them, weren't run by judges, stuff like that. they're trials-of-a-sort, but they aren't American-Justice trials, and yes Obama sucks for continuing them. don'...

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So are we celebrating our dependence on a government overlord, or are we celebrating the fact that we can no longer do these things for ourselves? Or are we celebrating, really and potentially, that the very entity that caused the meltdown bumbled into what it thought was a solution and then claime...

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I think the real reason is that its one of the few functions of commerce that can be easily manipulated with very little effort. The people who fly are of little significance. Three guys, a cargo van, and a couple of jackhammers could smash up metropolitan commutes for DAYS by driving around and ra...

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most people aren't objecting to the health risk of the radiation. They are objecting to the invasion of their privacy whether by radiation or by my hand between your wife's thighs. Remember, the supreme court found that there is a right to privacy, its the underpinning of roe vs wade. I found the s...

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