madaxe

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by madaxe 13y ago
Yup, just said the same as you. Hobbes and Hayek both anticipated this. Revolution is the only way out.
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by madaxe 13y ago
No, it isn't, but it appears to be the endgame of representative democracy. I'd suggest reading Hobbes' Leviathan, or perhaps Hayek's Road to Serfdom, if you haven't already, as both anticipated this exact malaise.
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by madaxe 13y ago
"Responding officer"? You mean, the phone drone whose job it is to go "sir, burglary is a civil matter, you will need to pursue it yourself"? Already have.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Politicians have always run the police - a police force is the government's visible threat of violence and method of control over the population. They're not there to protect you. They're there to protect the establishment.
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by madaxe 13y ago
The police are there to: - Do you for speeding. - Protect the establishment. - Threaten violence. - Prop up the prison-industrial complex for the benefit of private corporations. They are categorically not there to help you. They never ha
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by madaxe 13y ago
Fighting fraud which loses them money. Fraud which makes them money is fine, because it's not fraud, it's "for your convenience".
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by madaxe 13y ago
The UK is sadly becoming increasingly like defective ex-soviet states, where doing things in the "right, open and upfront" way is no longer possible, as one is actively punished for honesty. Had a fascinating chat with a Latvian c
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by madaxe 13y ago
Software development, metalwork, carpentry, all have the same base skills, of planning, patience, and perseverance. I do all, and many more such engineering/mechanical/creative type things, and I know many developers who are as ad
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by madaxe 13y ago
I've a friend who principally for a living shoots things - pigeons, rabbits, and other such pains-in-asses for farmers. In the UK, there's a fairly complex framework as to where you can shoot, how much you can shoot, and when you
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yes, my petrol engine wakes me up with coffee whenever I'm unconscious.
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by madaxe 13y ago
S3's horrendous drivers cost me months of my life, trying to get XFree86 to run on a Toshiba laptop in about '95.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Britain is equally broken - and as you say, the whole west is complicit, and all, to varying degrees, suffer from the same malaise.
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by madaxe 13y ago
2) Is very true. I crashed my first car aged about 7 on a friend's farm - old volvo estate, slammed it diagonally into a tree doing about 30, and rolled it down a bank. Terrifying, but a very, very valuable lesson in terms of just how
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by madaxe 13y ago
They also gave the NSA and co. front-door access, and probably knew about the back-door access, but couldn't do anything about it.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yes, you're right, it's racist to oppose NSA spycraft. > They can start by asking nicely. "Can you please kindly, stop perpetuating your morally bankrupt spy-state?" Gosh. That achieved a lot.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yeah, but US citizens vote for their government, so are therefore accountable. I don't see you out in the streets with pitchforks, so you're as culpable as the primary perpetrators.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Sorry, that's the funniest thing I've read all week. An American president with a moral backbone? Give me a break. That's like expecting it to rain candyfloss. The presidency is a hollow man, a figurehead - it's all just
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by madaxe 13y ago
500m LOC?! I smell bullshit, unless the entire thing is procedural and so not DRY it's not funny.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Interesting. I apologise incessantly for everything and everyone, to everyone. I've never put much thought into why I have this behaviour, but it's possible I stumbled on the same phenomenon as these folks purely due to pressure.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Also stratification and artefact context.
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by madaxe 13y ago
To be fair, he's eminently forgettable.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yeah, but I've absolutely no wish to hand my DNA over to the NSA, so until I can sequence at home, it's out of the question!
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by madaxe 13y ago
Hey, I have those abnormalities. Missing M1s, and missing ribs. And I have Austrian ancestry. Damn, if only I could sequence my genome at home.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Why is 0 not a valid input? I mean, I know it makes it somewhat pointless to even fill in if one never sees ones parents, but either way, 0 is a valid, if sad, answer.
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by madaxe 13y ago
But... by buying coal, you're supporting their interests. Much of congress has an incentive to blow up Appalachia.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Much worse in terms of nanoparticulates, yes - I'm not disagreeing with that - but with wood you're releasing carbon that was currently extant in the biosphere, rather than carbon which was sequestered hundreds of millions of year
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by madaxe 13y ago
This sounds like my day-to-day. We run the tech for a number of large eCommerce merchants. Not a day goes by when one of them doesn't do something odd/unpredictable, and send us down the rabbit-hole, only to find that a temp in
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by madaxe 13y ago
You don't pay stamp duty if you structure it correctly. The trick is to not buy the title, but instead buy the holding company that holds the title. Buying a company also incurs stamp duty, but it's readily dodged by declaring the
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by madaxe 13y ago
Wood fire? There is nothing worse for the environment Although the carbon you release by burning wood was recently sequestered by the tree, rather than Ga ago, as with petrochemicals, so the net carbon shift is relatively neutral. Point t
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by madaxe 13y ago
Unless they land for very brief moments to rest - as I've seen swifts do... in west africa. Sample rate is everything. Look - this lady can fly!!! (Neat photos, to boot...) http://kotaku.com/this-lady-appears-to-be-floa

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