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Something to think about
I have two sets of ingredient lists for you (one a little more detailed than the other). These are not quite comparable, because the first is a liquid product, and the second is a powder to be made up with water.
Here's list one:
Water, Corn Syrup Solids, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, and/or Cottonseed Oil, (Adds a Trivial Amount of Fat), ( Read more... ) -
If there was ever any doubt...
If there was EVER THE SLIGHTEST DOUBT that Congress operates on a money-for-laws basis as a matter of course to such an extent that large corporations have come to view it as a natural entitlement, this should lay it to rest. Former Senator Chris Dodd, now head of the MPAA, went on Fox News to openly threaten Congress for not staying bought.
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Inclarity on the concept
I just finished reading The Tuloriad last night, by John Ringo and Tom Kratman, and for the first time I find myself having to fervently disagree with the authors. I believe they made a serious mistake in the ending of the book, which they then compounded in the afterword.
First of all, let's start with a capsule summary of the afterword. Ringo ( Read more... ) -
Odd dreams
I had an odd but interesting dream last night.
It started out with me someplace in the desert Southwest, maybe Arizona or New Mexico, dinking around with a bunch of salvaged/surplus hardware and stuff I'd built myself, and, well, basically I built an energy cannon. I don't know how it worked, but it was hot enough that it fused sand under the ( Read more... ) -
Climatophobia
We still hear a lot about consensus about climate change, and yet when you talk to people at large, it's still pretty clear there is none, outside of a few scientific circles.
One of the big problems, I think, is that the debate has become polarized into two political camps - "Of course it's all anthropogenic" and "Nonsense, it can't possibly be ( Read more... ) -
Fallout
Specifically, fallout from our government having spent close to every day of the last ten years since 9/11 telling us to be afraid. No, more afraid than that. Come on, let's see some FEAR here! ...What do you mean, you're not afraid? You some kinda commie pinko ay-rab muslim jihad turrrrist or sumthin'?
As Bruce Schneier keeps saying, REFUSE ( Read more... ) -
hacking is
A while back, Microsoft dumped a whole lot of outdated DeLorme mapping packages via Amazon for something like $15 each.
Well, sure. The MAPS go out of date. But the included GPS receiver doesn't, and the entire principle of GPS relies on having incredibly accurate time sources. This time source information is available both in the GPS NMEA data ( Read more... ) -
On the pork barrel
Pork barrel politics is, simply, the art of buying your constituents' votes using their own money, and hoping that they never catch on.
The depressing part about this is how often it works.
This entry was originally posted at http://unixronin.dreamwidth.org/820133.html. That post currently has
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Steganographic challenge
One of the oldest known examples of steganography is the "shaved slave", as in the example of Histiaeus. You shaved a slave's head, tattooed a message on it, waited for his hair to grow back, and then sent him off to carry your message, hoping that he wasn't intercepted and your recipient at his destination knew what to do with him.
Of course, ( Read more... )
