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Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2017?

Posted by takyon on Sunday March 05 2017, @05:56AM (#2251)
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U.S. Space Corps

Posted by takyon on Wednesday March 01 2017, @06:15AM (#2247)
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3 Times Trump Promised to Leave Legal Weed to the States

Posted by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:22PM (#2246)
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News

In a television interview on July 29, 2016 with KUSA-TV in Colorado, Trump said: "I wouldn’t do that [using federal authority to shut down recreational marijuana], no … I wouldn’t do that … I think it’s up to the states, yeah. I’m a states person. I think it should be up to the states, absolutely."

In a radio interview with WWJ Newsradio 950 in Michigan on March 8, 2016, Trump said "I think it certainly has to be a state — I have not smoked it — it’s got to be a state decision … I do like it, you know, from a medical standpoint … it does do pretty good things. But from the other standpoint, I think that it should be up to the states."

At a campaign rally in Sparks, Nevada on Oct. 29, 2015, Trump said: "The marijuana thing is such a big thing. I think medical should happen — right? Don’t we agree? I think so. And then I really believe we should leave it up to the states. It should be a state situation ... but I believe that the legalization of marijuana – other than for medical because I think medical, you know I know people that are very, very sick and for whatever reason the marijuana really helps them - … but in terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state-by-state."

He Lied:

"There is still a federal law we need to abide by in terms of when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Feb. 23, 2017. "I do believe that you'll see greater enforcement."

Are food is poison... and no one cares!

Posted by Gaaark on Sunday February 26 2017, @03:25PM (#2242)
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/dev/random

From the i-dunno-what-to-eat-anymore dept.

I was thinking about this kind of thing:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170213131150.htm

And was thinking: the article is saying "Go gluten free and increase your chances of getting cancer!"

What it really should be saying is "WTF? Our food supply is killing us because we are tooooooo stupid to not poison our food supply?!?!"

Kind of surprised me for some reason: i've looked at articles from various sides before (Hey, Hillary vs. Trump articles!!), but didn't at first look at this one except from the "it was probably sponsored and written by someone in the bread industry" point of view.

We are poisoning our food, and the best we can do is: don't go gluten free... it will kill you, just like all the other food we are poisoning but ignore that elephant behind the curtain.

Humans are so stupid: i guess we DESERVE to die as we chase after that Dog almighty dollar. I guess if i ever get RICH, i'd better create a food biome: somewhere i can have uncontaminated soil and air to grow my food supply in.
Maybe that's why there's such a rush to Mars: rich people need a place to grow food in an uncontaminated environment (that is until they find they can make an extra dollar by contaminating it).

open-label placebos

Posted by butthurt on Thursday February 23 2017, @05:34PM (#2241)
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Black Guns Matter

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 19 2017, @08:55PM (#2238)
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Tesla Driver Saves Volkswagen Driver, gets free repairs

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:43AM (#2237)
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Tesla Owner Who Sacrificed His Model S To Save Another Driver Gets Surprise From Elon Musk

Mmmh, that sweet good publicity. It's even better than bad publicity.

Chevy Cruze peak range: 702 miles on 13.5 gallons of diesel

Posted by takyon on Friday February 17 2017, @07:20PM (#2235)
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Hardware

New diesel Chevy Cruze can go an estimated 702 miles on a single tank of fuel

The 52 mpg highway fuel economy numbers apply to the six-speed manual transmission diesel Cruze, which gets 30 mpg on city streets. The car also comes in a 9-speed automatic transmission version, which returns 47 mpg on the highway and 31 mpg in the city with start-stop technology regulating the engine.

Good Lord, have you seen /. lately?

Posted by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 15 2017, @06:25PM (#2234)
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Slash

Not to take potshots at the "other site" but damn.

I had mostly stopped checking it because the comment signal-to-noise ratio had become so bad. But now they're running these giant floating ads that cover half the comment-text so you can't actually read them anyway.

Why does the U.S. still let 12-year-olds get married?

Posted by takyon on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:27PM (#2230)
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Mod journal flamebait!!!

Why does the United States still let 12-year-olds get married?

This is an opinion piece in WaPo written by the founder of a nonprofit. archive.is link because I figured out WaPo has a 5 article/month limit paywall.

While most states set 18 as the minimum marriage age, exceptions in every state allow children younger than 18 to marry, typically with parental consent or judicial approval. How much younger? Laws in 27 states do not specify an age below which a child cannot marry.

Unchained At Last, a nonprofit I founded to help women resist or escape forced marriage in the United States, spent the past year collecting marriage license data from 2000 to 2010, the most recent year for which most states were able to provide information. We learned that in 38 states, more than 167,000 children — almost all of them girls, some as young 12 — were married during that period, mostly to men 18 or older. Twelve states and the District of Columbia were unable to provide information on how many children had married there in that decade. Based on the correlation we identified between state population and child marriage, we estimated that the total number of children wed in America between 2000 and 2010 was nearly 248,000.

Turns out R2D*2pa$tramimacaronomy is doing just fine stateside, for the moment...