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Additionally, overthrowing the lawfully elected government of Iran to save the oil interests of Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP) from being nationalized. This is the source of th…

> What is the point of all of this technology? It is the over-reaction to 911. The 3-letter agencies were all traumatized by not knowing in advance that they pushed every single an…

A password is considered (by courts) to be testimony. Face, gesture or fingerprints are considered things like keys which you can be forced/compelled to turn over when commanded by…

It also had (has?) articles that were (are?) informative. There are a few photo spreads of naked women. Also some bawdy jokes that appeal to boys of all ages. Disclaimer: my parent…

Years ago, I read a book titled How Would You Move Mount Fuji? [0] about the cult of Fermi Questions [1]. These are questions where you're looking for an order of magnitude. The cu…

This sounds like the "360 contracts" that record companies require bands to sign. When bands are touring and getting an audience, they frequently sell CDs and T-shirts. The "360 co…

My state, like many others, offers rather large tax credits to make films inside this state. > the entertainment industry's economics are brutal A large part of those economics are…

> What worries me much more is backdoors from the foreign companies and governments that can be pre-installed at the factory to collect intelligence information. The Snowden leaks …

The streaming services have fractured and taken so many movies off their service so much that it is too hard for most people to figure out where that show/movie can be found. From …

The office I worked in back then subscribed to lots of business journals. The one I remember the most was Harvard Business Journal. I'm certain that the articles were based on a Mc…

I remember a big push by business journals back in the 2000s with claims that "executives who offshore work get 18% greater bonuses than executives who don't".

There's a box being sold called "SuperBox". It claims to be able to stream any movie/video. The claim is "just pay $300 and you won't need to subscribe to any streaming service any…

I think this policy is another case of projection: "we" are doing this to other countries and we are afraid someone will do it back to us - which is both unfair and illegal.

This is one of those crimes where the accusation is the conviction.

Yep. We've broken lots of things. Expensive things. Some days, when I remember the (frequently dumb) things I did as a youngster, I am surprised that I still have all 10 fingers an…

I've seen some YouTubes where lawyers were complaining about high bill rates and showing actual bills. One large firm billed the senior lawyers at $2500/hour and even the paralegal…

> pattern doesn’t affect lawyers is because they tend to be the ones writing ... the regulations in the first place In my state, the people hired to write new bills (if passed beco…

Hackers would do it from the operating system level - stop the database executable, then delete the files used to store the database. Likewise, many organizations store the backups…

It isn't fast enough for mortgage backed securities. Each transfer of ownership of the mortgage requires a separate transfer fee paid to the registry. Moving from a paper registry …

Afterwards, you have to make an appointment to see them in person. Until then, you can order them online or via snailmail.

Plato (who came long after Homer) complained about "kids these days" not memorizing poetry (like the old farts did) and using that new fangled technology called "writing".

> No single author has defined how America speaks and writes the way Dante did for Italian No English language version of the Bible - prior to the King James Version - contained de…

Along with lack of cooling, the cost to launch hardware means that "servers in space" can never recover startup costs.

> Do you think people look in the mirror and say “I’m going to be a terrible person today?” There are plenty of people who are motivated by hurting/harming their "enemies". You may…

> would go about preserving a problem like homelessness My state chose to outlaw homelessness [0] and to make it illegal for cities & counties to offer places to lawfully camp unle…