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Comment This is not coming from any black organization (Score 1) 285

This is how attempts to fight inequality die in social media era.
  1. 1. Actual inequality is pointed out, nothigh has bee done, ager spoild over over some incident. Movement steps into a symbolic phase (this is important short step).
  2. 2. People outside the movement want to participate and show support. They are much larger group and they have no motivation to move into the next phase (organizing the movment) or really participate in other way than signalling. For example, Hollywood celebrities streaming crying videos over how they are not tolerating any bad words from their guarded neighbourhoods is just posturing.
  3. 3. Fight to end inequality becomes a yet another way to do moral signalling to your peers and avoiding to become politically active. Companies react to this demand of singalling.
  4. 4. Movement is never growing out of the signalling phase, because signalling is way of fulfillment for the masses. The movement been effectively nullified by well meaning but apathetic people.

Comment This is not going to work. (Score 1) 166

Cruptocurrencies can't overcome government regulation any better than foreign currency, foreign money accounts or cold coins can. Getting the money between crypto and real economy is where traditional laws enter the picture. Any real world business dealing with money can't just say 'it's crypto' I don't know where it came for. They need to produce receipts and in some cases there is reverse burden of proof. Just read the anti-money laundering laws of you country and you realize that law enforcement and tax authorities have been doing this for 100s of years. Accounting is one of those miracles of the modern world.

Comment Meh. (Score 3, Insightful) 880

It's not the World Trade Center, and it's not Bali. It's a single cafe and a maximum possible body count than your typical school shooting in the US (which can hardly hold the news media's attention for more than a week any more).

This news wouldn't have made it out of Australia (if even NSW) if it weren't for the Islamic bogeyman angle.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 271

What does any of that have to do with the story here? The tracking device wasn't added by the police or even at the behest of the police, but by the buy-here-pay-here dealer, operating a business of the same respectability as payday lending and rent-to-own stores, who expect their customers to default. This wasn't done for cops but for repo men.

By all means complain about a violation of privacy, but it isn't by the state. Rather this is the result of a financial system that promotes, aggravates, and profits off of poverty.

Comment Re:It's made of plated steel (Score 1) 54

known for its superb conductivity of heat

Exactly: pinpoint heat sources will see that energy rapidly disbursed throughout the entire suit rather than stay concentrated in a hot spot.

Water's heat conductivity, its ability to spread heat out into meaninglessness, is one of the reasons why it's effective at extinguishing fires.

Comment Re:Given current tensions, ... (Score 1) 157

I think they would be very happy if the rest of Europe were utilizing GLONASS, a system they can shut down or manipulate if they need to.

But they themselves can't get it to work, as was highlighted in the link I posted. So why would a Europe unable to deploy Galileo use GLONASS instead of GPS?

And it certainly isn't like Europe doesn't have its own space launch capabilities.

Russia has absolutely nothing to gain and much to lose by trying to fuck with this launch.

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