I just got back from it and it is a Mad Max movie. There is a shitload of Mad Max. There are other characters also, so if you watched the first Mad Max, and were upset by there being other characters ("I didn't pay to see Goose!") then maybe don't go.

Seriously though, I don't see the level of cooperation required for this project persisting long enough to pull it off.

Of course given history, there will be disruptions, but it'll work out in the end. They are easily startled - but they'll be back, and in greater numbers.

Please see my original post:

They're not going to work as cops ever again.

And they're not going to get hired as security guards in the U.S., either. Would you hire someone that you already knew, 100%, had violated someone's civil liberties so egregiously? Of course not: your shareholders would can you for hiring them. If you hire people you know are a discipline problem, you're just begging for a lawsuit when they fuck up again while working for you.

If you think the people who hire cops don't bother to check with previous employers and do Google searches on new applicants, you need your head examined. These two are done. They're not going to work as cops ever again.

So another country wants to develop space capability, and this is what Slashdot has to say about it? A bunch of half-assed racist remarks? It's not just shameful, it's lame. Of all places, here we should be celebrating people choosing to take part in scientific progress, not getting involved in ethnic or regional pissing contests.

So the main complaint seems to be that admitted Asians have significantly higher test scores than their counterparts. This would be slam-dunk evidence if really good SAT scores were all it took to get into Harvard, but they aren't and never have been. They are going to have to go into a lot more in-depth with their analysis to prove their point.

Also, to echo a point made on Reddit, haven't we been saying for years that standardized test scores are not good indicators of performance? Why in this case are we suddenly acting like they are the only criteria that matter?

'Twere an obvious play.

Hey, man: it's your unintelligible variant upon my metaphor. You can remain inscrutable or not, at your pleasure.

I think Dinesh D'Souza's portrait, while served with a conservative slant, still offers a relatively compelling theory of his motives. And that without veering into conspiracy theories, though a DNA test against Frank Marshall Davis could provide a surprise (to the extent that I really care fig #1).

They're everywhere.

Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock.

While at the same time, the house science committee cuts funding for NASA to continue important space-based biogeochemical research of earth systems:

http://news.sciencemag.org/funding/2015/04/controversy-awaits-house-republicans-roll-out-long-awaited-bill-revamp-u-s-research

WHAT A GOOD THING.

Actually, in addition to a couple of real keys, a little flash drive and a Yubikey NEO (for my GPG keys), I have a tiny little knife on my keyring.

TSA has bugged me about extra camera batteries, a little bit of water left in a bottle, hotel shampoo that wasn't in its proper ziplock bag, even nail clippers... but not once about the knife on my keyring.

If the flask represents the society/country, emptying it would mean a diaspora, I suppose.

I thought it drove home a fine point. YMMV.