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US court allows lawsuit by American victims of Mr. Bush's torture programme advance. Two undercover FBI agents, both known to be FBI undercover agents investigating corruption by US contractors, were held and tortured for months. A third American was also held and tortured for months. Frankly, I'm surprised they've been allowed to proceed this far; Mr. Obama has managed to stop all the other cases. Perhaps there's enough FBI pressure on this one to counterbalance some of the political weight of the American torture establishment.
GM OnStar spies on you after you cancel your subscription. You can opt out, but you have to know to do that.
TLS is fucked. V1, anyway. V1.1 and 1.2 aren't vulnerable, but there's been very little support for them so far. Everybody watch this change fast!
This is just kind of pathetic, really. Creationist "science" textbook tries to explain electricity, gives up. It's a MYSTERY! Also, go check their sample chapter on the formation of the moon. It's ... sad.
What Facebook's new OpenGraph means for you. Which is to say, how it gets as much information about you together as possible.
US court allows lawsuit by American victims of Mr. Bush's torture programme advance. Two undercover FBI agents, both known to be FBI undercover agents investigating corruption by US contractors, were held and tortured for months. A third American was also held and tortured for months. Frankly, I'm surprised they've been allowed to proceed this far; Mr. Obama has managed to stop all the other cases. Perhaps there's enough FBI pressure on this one to counterbalance some of the political weight of the American torture establishment.
GM OnStar spies on you after you cancel your subscription. You can opt out, but you have to know to do that.
TLS is fucked. V1, anyway. V1.1 and 1.2 aren't vulnerable, but there's been very little support for them so far. Everybody watch this change fast!
This is just kind of pathetic, really. Creationist "science" textbook tries to explain electricity, gives up. It's a MYSTERY! Also, go check their sample chapter on the formation of the moon. It's ... sad.
What Facebook's new OpenGraph means for you. Which is to say, how it gets as much information about you together as possible.
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Date: 2011-09-24 07:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-24 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-24 05:06 pm (UTC)"Fire, water, air and dirt / Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?"
— Insane Clown Posse
Also, go check their sample chapter on the formation of the moon.
"Tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain it."
— Bill O'Reilly
"Retrograde evolution, winding down, down, down!"
— Mark Mothersbaugh, "What I Know" (Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob")
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Date: 2011-09-24 07:14 pm (UTC)That has what I've been thinking constantly since I saw that post. FUCKING MAGNETS HOW DO THEY WORK actually tells you no less than their introductory paragraph.
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Date: 2011-09-24 08:05 pm (UTC)from someone who would know
Date: 2011-09-24 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 03:41 pm (UTC)edit 11:43. Jinx! (gives
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Date: 2011-09-25 01:21 am (UTC)"Water is all around us. But what is water? It's an interesting question because water is almost impossible to describe. One could ask the same about birds. What are birds? We just don't know."
*head. on. desk.*
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Date: 2011-09-25 04:08 pm (UTC)