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Here's an article documenting the release: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/defiant... …

Thanks for the link, I had never seen that one before. Through link jumping, I managed to find a blog written by a guy who had a similar experience: http://web.archive.org/web/20040401192741/www.send…

Agreed. It's largely a class marker, and class registers as credibility, depending on the subject matter.

Don't people commit crime in North Korea? Or is it just a nation of activists and saints?

Simply a lie.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leet-key/

I'm not sure if that's fair. If you produce a labor-intensive product of such variable utility (engineers), then you would expect the utility to drop to reach a price equilibrium. If there wasn't a de…

The truth of that depends on the accuracy of the title of: Violence is a curvilinear function of temperature in Dallas: A replication. Rotton, James; Cohn, Ellen G. Journal of Personality and Social P…

For me, the entire point of Wikileaks is that it is a secure way to leak anonymously designed by a crypto theorist and expert. The security involved with this WSJ thing is opaque, and sounds loosey-go…

And no one has ever played music for free.

Definitely drkoop.com. Its market cap at one point was around 1.3 billion. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/business/technology-briefi... …

There is something suspicious in itself about ordering laboratory glassware. When clandestine chemists buy, they use shell buyers, dodgy distributors, false letterhead, and/or squirrel purchases acros…

According to Pyrex, they made the switch to soda-lime glass in America over 60 years ago. http://www.pyrexware.com/index.asp?pageId=30#TruthID6 and according to STATS.org: "[...]the industry as a wh…

I don't want to disagree with your opinion of the cause of your friend's psychosis, as you observed the process and I didn't, but as a general statement I'd like to put out there that the time of life…

What's been working for me over the past year is Swedish snus. It has definitely broken me of the 20 year addiction to the process of smoking cigarettes. It's amazing how much of the addiction was t…

It becomes easier to pay off your debts, which won't rise in response to the unexpected inflation like your wages will.

The average consumer is in a huge amount of dollar debt, and those dollars will become weaker too. It's people who are owed money (the wealthy) who are generally the inflation fighters.

I don't relate to this. I finally pulled out of social networking altogether based on the fact that it made everything too significant, not too insignificant. Most of what is posted on twitter or on f…

But drugs get you high. Bitcoins aren't an actual commodity.

famous case: http://www.itworld.com/waste-management-sues-sap-080327 "At that meeting, SAP AG executives and engineers represented that the software was a mature solution and conducted a demonstrati…

My disagreement with this perspective is that demand is measured in dollars, not desire. The perception of a problem in the supply pool is a problem with the quality expectation (or need) per dollar o…

I think that it really may have to do with being from the South, because those standard greetings IMO seem more honestly given. I've gone back and forth between Chicago and the South throughout my lif…

You're frontloading the question. What if it was: A) Make a million dollars a year doing something you love that nobody will know about or care about OR B) Make no money doing something you hate t…

I've never seen log^2 x mean (log x)^2. Common notation?

If you ignore that he's talking about cars or planes, and his point.

Because when something happens, it's always because a majority of people want it to.

The UN Gini numbers: Japan: .249 US: .408 Haiti: .592 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ... Aside from media exaggeration of looting, which is almost instant aft…

In regards to #2, I'm not sure how moving the location of secret meetings with lobbyists is "working in the right direction." As to #3, how can you claim that "the guy's links actually say the opposit…