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Enki wrote:The USA should just withdraw unilaterally from the middle-east and central Asia. Let the post collapse governments know we are always interested in trade.

Another convert!

Is it just a little possible that because of the constant destruction of privacy we can't have heroes any more?

And that we never really had them in the first place?

Not to be Mr. smug but Thorium Liquid Salt Reactors do not need coolant water and can burn existing nuclear waste down to a fraction of its current mess.

So often we hope for a bang and all we get is a series of barely audible whimpers.

It's obvious in hindsight, that everyone would try to cannibalize the social network through specialization and gimmicks. Add another “Instagram of video” app to the bandwagon. Keek , a smartphone-based social video application, announced on Tuesday that it raised $7 million in a second round of fi...

Alexis wrote:I won't copy the picture here, since this is a family-friendly forum.

Not all of it.

Sorry, put that there before I saw it here. I'm going to try to make it the go-to meme of the week!

If the US govt not only removes all military presence in whatever form but also stops all economic and military aid to all countries in the region included Israel , it would be interesting to speculate on how the power map would look like. Assuming that the free market is not disturbed by governmen...

noddy wrote:in wonder what that means for israel.

Israel does not need foreign troops on the ground and never has.

Did not have a chance to check the thread first, apologies if this has been posted. This struck me, from Wikipedia: On September 11, hours before the attacks, in response to the promotion of the film and in anticipation of protests, the US Embassy in Cairo issued the following statement: "The ...

My mistake, apparently the below is the full trailer. One can expect its location to be in some flux for the next while! mjoa3QazVy8 I find it intersting the degree to which stories that mention this movie do not give details, even the movie's name! I imagine they are trying to pander to the censors...

The journalists seem to have fallen down on the job with regards to the movie in question. The movie is called "the Innocence of Muslims" and here is the trailer.

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Alexis wrote:The madman was obviously an Anglophone, given his accent when shouting in French.

Yes, you are right.

And he obviously wasn't an Anglophone.

The only way transistor counts are doubling these days is by adding more cores; this won't be productive indefinitely, partly due to limitations in the efficiency of parallel computing, and partly due to the laws of physics, which Moore's Law, unfortunately, cannot trump. It may take breakthroughs ...

Moore's Law keeps going, with no end in sight. This alone can turn us all into Homeric Gods within a decade.

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I posted a fictitious video of a mini drone weapons system earlier. Here is a video of a genuine research project that has the goal of weaponizing these little cuties!

As I understand it, they are to be loaded with an explosive to be detonated when they 'perch'!

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This is going to shake up the corpulent ISPs, that means almost all of them! When MS introduced MSN is almost forgotten now. This is a similar move that I think will be even more disruptive to the dinosaurs. Home| Portfolio| Market Currents| Investing Ideas| Dividends & Income| ETFs| Macro View...

Thank you Very Much for maintaining the Forum, Typhoon & Ymix. Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts says, “The last thing the banks want is a rise in interest rates that would drive down the values of their holdings and reveal large losses masked by rigged interest rates.” The...

Spengie keeps saying that all this was necessary in order to stop the banks collapsing.

He does not ask the question, what if they did? I'm not convinced that such a collapse would be worse for us than the present situation.

Frankly, no, I don't care at all. I feel sorry for the guy and I can't understand why they attacked him like that, but I don't really care. :) Well, I think its a precursor to a lot of violence in the world. It isn't just this guy being attacked. It's this sort of visceral revulsion to the idea of ...

Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:The crap continues.........

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Yup.

Medical complications are always possible in surgery. In large studies of infant circumcision in the United States, reported inpatient complication rates range from 0.2% to 2.0%, according to the CDC. For populations numbering in the hundreds of millions, that's not a trivial amount, especially giv...

:D Thank you Very Much for the Thread, Hoosier Norm. If someone else brought this up already, my apologies/hat tip/scoop to you.......... If it's OK to abort a male baby before birth for the convenience of the parents, why the big deal about circumcision 7 days after birth......... What a silly poi...

It's worth saying here at that earlier today a friend of mine made the 'abortion argument' in favor of allowing circumcision on infants.

IOW, if we don't have legitimate circumcision offered on infants in hospitals, there will be back alley circumcisions.

I think he's got a point.