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Please, turn this series into a podcast. If done well, it would be as compelling as Serial. It would be a compelling character study.
Why does everything have to end up in a podcast?
No but really turning a long text into podcast can really add to a work. Just Look at something like Serial.
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Yes but from a teenager in Krugersdorp? And South Africa did not have such easy access to the international telephone market. The country was in the middle of economic sanctions at the time - international calls had to be placed through a switchboard with the government run telecom monopoly provider - Telkom. They also cost a literal arm and a leg for a couple minutes and were heavily monitored by the Apartheid regim…
"They also cost a literal arm and a leg for a couple minutes" Really ? Honestly, that's even more interesting than the truecrypt/arms dealer story ... Pictures ?
In this case it even seems there are two copies to be found in Harare because there is a stamp that says Causeway Building which means the birth was most likely registered in Harare during the hyperinflation period hence the odd $200 dollar fee instead of the stamps that were used in the very old days. The birth also does not have a red streak line which means although it is typed instead of hand written it is not computerized.
It is even possible there is an even earlier copy of the record BDH/1421/72 means the original birth was recorded way back in the Original Rhodesian days somewhere in Bulayo (BDH).
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OK, but there are lots of them, and they're all hard on foreigners.
I am not arguing that murder is OK. But I do suspect that Paul Le Roux is being railroaded. I also suspect that Barack Obama, who clearly has far more blood on his hands, will never face trial.
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Ugh, American Exceptionalism rears its ugly head yet again. Your constitution is not the epitome of justice or democratic ideals, and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level.
and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level. I can accept that it has flaws, but on the fundamental level? It seems pretty solid at that level. The creators thought through the problems and difficulties of government more deeply than most.
Most modern constitutions also need all the procedures, of course, but they put certain "inalienable rights" square in the middle of it all. The procedures are merely there to support those rights.
Different times, different mindset.
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OK, but there are lots of them, and they're all hard on foreigners.
Use the Bible. That's something a third of the world agrees on, and the whole west is founded upon it. But seriously, murder being bad is pretty much a human moral universal. You'll find that basic idea wherever and whenever you look (+/- various caveats).
http://www.haaretz.com/grounds-for-disbelief-1.10757
Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus. Sorry, that authority is impeached.
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Start here: https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/
Ugh, American Exceptionalism rears its ugly head yet again. Your constitution is not the epitome of justice or democratic ideals, and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level.
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read the article before flaming. The author lays out a very well supported case for concluding that PLR wrote the E4M code then was hired by SecurStar to turn it into a commercial product. Also claims PLR was one of the TrueCrypt programmers, so yes, the title is accurate as far as what the author is claiming in the article.
Can you please quote the exact part where we can see that PLR was one of the TrueCrypt programmers? I somehow missed that what you claim while (admittedly) speed-reading, namely, I've got only this in the article: "Indeed, even today the question of who launched the software remains unanswered . “The origin of TrueCrypt has always been very mysterious,” says Matthew Green". And also as Mahn writes: https://news.ycomb…
I surely don't dispute that PLR wrote E4M....
Why was it changed from 'TrueCrypt'
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