Ugh. Original Post from The Verge: A show of force Last year Japan's parliament put a measure into place that made downloading copyright material a criminal offense — and the country recently announced a crackdown that resulted in the arrest of...
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Original Post from Ciro Villa: The Vortex Garbage Many, maybe most of you might have seen this "Solar Vortex" gif going viral in the last few days..now I am not an eloquent writer and I am also a bit lazy when it comes to going into lengthy explanations. So as a good ol' developer, I leverage "re-usability" so in this case I let this blog by PHD Physicist, former Google engineer and FoursQuare engineer +Mark Chu-Carroll speak for itself... It pretty much sums up what I and others think about the "Vortex garbage" that has been circulating as of late and its "agenda" many of you are not even aware of... http://scientopia.org/blogs... A reader who saw my earlier post on the Vortex math talk at a TEDx conference sent me a link to an absolutely dreadful video that features some more crackpottery about the magic of vortices. http:/......
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Original Post from Godless: The Christian Right is referred to as the American Taliban by those of us with the guts to say it and the sense to understand why. ~JD 601557_492231754176368_1072512896_n.jpg
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Original Post from Amanda Johnson: AFP – No wall plaque honours the victims of Josef Stalin's purges, who met their end in the execution cells of headquarters of the feared Soviet security services on Lubyanka Square in central Moscow....
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Original Post from Jesus H. Christ: Doesn't bother me, but I'd just end up sending you back to Google anyway, so it's easier to skip the middle man. midget.jpg
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Original Post from The Stream: The extraordinary science of addictive junk food Read more: http://ow.ly/ibO8u “As a culture, we’ve become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.” Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share.”
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Original Post from Jennifer Hodges: I'll just leave this here in case anyone needs to watch a baby scoot backwards on a tile floor in their jammies. 2013-03-03_08-03-14_687.mp4
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This was the one thing I never could get out of my mind growing up about this holiday. Original Post from Alan Williamson: Passover 387774_10151475320470155_642532664_n.jpg
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Original Post from Sai: If you know lawyers in California, Massachusetts, or federal practice who specialize in ADA / Rehabilitation Act, 4th amendment (especially 1983 or Bivens actions), and/or FOIA, please put me in touch ASAP. I'd appreciate a personal referral if possible; unfortunately, contacting general help lines usually gets a brushoff IME. :-/ tl;dr: I want to sue the TSA for systemically violating both their own official policies and very clearly established law. The TSA has a de facto program of violating the rights of disabled travelers like me, and I'm fed up with it. I will be going the administrative route first, to give them a chance to fix their fuckups, but I expect that it will require a lawsuit sooner than later, and I want to have legal representation before the administrative appeals stage (because of the requirement that one make all one's legal arguments there). Context: 1. BOS TSA conducted an illegal search of my xray-cleared documents (probably motivated...
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Original Post from Robert Patton: "They found that women who achieved success in male-dominated environments were at times likely to oppose the rise of other women." http://online.wsj.com/article... Women who reached positions of power were supposed to be mentors to those who followed, writes Peggy Drexler—but something is amiss in the professional sisterhood.
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Original Post from Evernote: Important: Evernote just implemented a service-wide password reset. Please read our post for details and instructions. Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset. Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinat...
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Original Post from Adam Flanczewski: We are the 2%! Woooooo! #Linux#Gaming Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, distribution screenshots, interviews, and computer hardware tests.
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Original Post from Kirsten Crippen: It is hard to overstate the importance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. At the heart of the law that ended decades of disenfranchisement in former Confederate states is Section 5, the "preclearanc......
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YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks +Jennifer Detkowski Original Post from Wesley Roach: Cnsocjsocjwozkvoabxkf ABC's late-nineties, early-aughts spin-off of the British improvisational comedy show Whose Line is it Anyway? has been off the air for nearly ten years. Repeats and myriad online clips have helped Wh...
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