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Comment Re:Look at who they appoint to the SCOTUS. (Score 1) 1576

There's no CCTVs in most residential areas here, FYI. The only places I've seen CCTVs on the street in Singapore are the crowded shopping areas. If you come to Singapore you'll realize a lot of the draconian stuff here is basically just show-business, which is pretty sad, actually. I laughed when I saw the CCTV thing - because AFAIK the police here are so lazy they wouldn't actually go out and nab people even if we actually had a CCTV for every house. They basically have an iron rice bowl, given that the majority seems to find policing as a job below them and, as Gibson put, everyone here already has a policeman in their heads.

Comment Re:Drinking water (Score 1) 141

Living on an island of only about 700 square kilometres, I'm pretty sure a large part of our population would be very worried about a local nuclear plant unless it was built offshore under the ocean or something. That said, the government is reportedly considering it, and they have a prominent history of doing what they believe best regardless of polls or popular sentiment, for better or worse.
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The Jet Fighter Laser Cannon 464

fahrbot-bot sends in a Register piece about DARPA issuing the penultimate contract for what is intended to be a jet-mounted laser cannon. The Reg outdoes itself in a BOTEC involving downsizing to shark scale. "The US military will shortly issue a brace of contracts for 'refrigerator sized' laser blaster cannons. One of the deals will see a full-power ground prototype built which will be the final stage prior to America's first raygun-equipped jet fighter. ... If it scales down far enough, this would seem to put handheld HELL-guns within an order of magnitude of the striking power offered by conventional small-arms. A 9mm pistol bullet has about 750 joules muzzle energy: a 5kg portable HELL-ray weapon would put out this much energy in a blast less than a second long. ... A dolphin can carry a human being weighing up to 100kg along for a ride. A thoroughbred shark in good training can surely match this. Thus, we seem to be looking at practicable head-[laser] output in the 20-kilowatt range."

Comment Malaysia's targeted food isn't even their own (Score 1) 330

Much of the food that Malaysia is trying to copyright include dishes that Singaporeans have considered all along to be their own. For example, Hainanese chicken rice (which was apparently created by a guy from Hainan who set up shop in Singapore), "all kinds of laksa" (essentially noodles in spicy soup with prawns) and even chilli crab, which is apparently the dish the island is best known for (and never Malaysia). Many Singaporeans here believe this to be a response by the Tourism Minister to recover her country's injured pride after having been given a kicking by Indonesia over the dance incident.

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