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Submission + - Rand Paul Begins Filibuster Of PATRIOT ACT Renewal (dailycaller.com)

SonicSpike writes: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is filibustering the Patriot Act on the Senate floor, and it doesn’t look like he’s going to stop anytime soon.

The Republican presidential candidate took control of the floor Wednesday afternoon at 1:18 p.m., simultaneously explaining on Twitter that he is filibustering the renewal of the Patriot Act because of the National Security Agency’s program that collects bulk phone record data of American citizens.

The ongoing filibuster can be watched live here: http://www.c-span.org/video/?3...

Comment Re:Sue Storm has always been powerful (Score 1) 228

Another that gets forgotten is the Scarlet Witch, magneto's daughter.

In one arc her powers run amok and completely change the whole of reality for nearly everyone, including most mutants.

*Begin Spoiler*


* Spoiler: It's not 100% her fault. A retcon in Children's Crusade revealed that she meddled with forces beyond her control to try and recreate her children. Those forces caused her to attack the Avengers in the Disassembled arc and eventually House of M.


*End Spoiler*

Comment Re:Power Creep Unless Proven Otherwise (Score 1) 228

Power over the story itself? Blonde Phantom, She-Hulk, and Squirrel Girl. All three have comic awareness and can use that to their advantage (She-Hulk usually just threatens the writer or penciler, whereas Squirrel Girl defeats Bi Beast, Dr Doom, Deadpool, Galactus, MODOK, Thanos, and Wolverine). Their only male counterpart with this ability is Deadpool.

Comment Sue Storm has always been powerful (Score 2) 228

Invisible Woman has almost always been one of the most powerful and versatile superheroes in Marvel. She can knock out the Hulk. She can kill Wolverine. She can redirect a gamma bomb blast, saving the lives of all the other superheroes who have gathered (in that canon issue, her husband was already dead).

Comment Re:And OP is retarded. (Score 5, Insightful) 335

Precious metals are only worth something because other people want them. Because they think the metals are worth something because other people want the metals because they think they're worth something because... They're pretty, they're partly lasting and they're rare. Until they're not: aluminum used to be a valuable metal. Now I coat my armpits with it every morning, and half the metal objects I own are aluminum.
If you're expecting a big crash, you're better off purchasing items of utility or improving your land for raising food.

Comment Re:Ad networks that "hack" are immoral. (Score 1) 618

This is exactly the model newspapers and magazines use. TV and radio also use it when they aren't rebroadcasting national broadcast as a local affiliate. These media, no matter how small the companies involved, seem to have a way to communicate with advertisers. This is also the way we did web business 20 years ago. One of my jobs as a webmaster back then was to switch banner ads with a directory of images from the graphics guy. Five seconds with a script, complete with image renames. Easily automate-able. Of course vetting the images for security vulnerabilities might take slightly longer these days. Might be easier to process and resave them with imagemagick than run them through various security software (as long as imagemagick doesn't have a known exploit).

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