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Those were military not CIA. The distinction really matters!

The US doesn't even kill foreign leaders. Our intelligence service doesn't have the skills or appetite, let alone citizens. The resulting scandal would make the Church commission l…

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It's not about existence it's about what drives the flows. People are born, work and save, and retire. Part of the savings enters as institutional money, and is consumed in retirem…

The institutions exist for people to do things like retire.

Anubis sucks because CPU is cheap for scrapers and hard for humans.

Don't forget driving in the bay area. Google maps will happily recommend entering 580/880/80 at Emeryville and going on 580 east instead of the much better entrance at 36 street th…

They did not get vaporized in the fireball. We have survivors at the hypocenter. Intense burns and radiation poisoning killed most plus conventional blast damage mechanisms. Half t…

The US is always going to slap a JDAM kit on for better effect.

And yet they do more good than the moral critics do.

The compiler declares them UB because very useful transformations would change the semantics of races. Races are ok with specially marked variables!

Physical DVD is the way. Praise Criterion

If only the Alpha had hung on.

Autotools on little endian Linux is the biggest waste of CPU time imaginable.

They use cyclotrons with some regularity and advanced imaging techniques.

Transporting forty-five tons of this stinking liquid far enough offshore won't be cheap.

Trading the underlying to offset your derivative position isn't fraud.

"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" - prior failure of intuitively appealing disposal option.

The hardware security module does not need to change to support tying to a credentials. I showed how to do this years ago and the theory was known long before. Its just that the EU…

They don't invest in Japanese companies because Japan is horrific for corporate governance. Huge cash holdings, cross investments, etc.

There was extremely limited contact between them until thousands of years later, and no real cultural exchange until the era of exploration.

Sanskrit is not an ancestor of English. Sanskrit is a satem language English centum. Proto Indo Iranian diverged long ago.

Because Congress doesn't work if an issue becomes partisan.

If you told them this was the problem and they would still have a job if they failed probably. The reasons people don't go head on these problems is career incentives and psycholog…

You have chronology backwards. Lisp predates C by 14 odd years. Pascal was contemporaneous.