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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:12 pm

Why?
The same fucking $Reasons! such bullshit ALWAYS HAPPENS!
Politicians not listening to specialists but to the lobbyists instead -.-
They made a ruling "for net neutrality!" but included a Backdoor big enough to drive the USS Enterprise through. In the form of "special services" which allow just such nonsense. "Special Services" has been the term used by ISPs arguing AGAINST net neutrality so they can make more money for months. And it is not even specified what exactly constitutes such special services. Hence the fucking bullshit the Telekom is spewing over here already. And Vodafone seems to agree with them as well . .
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Josh_Kablack » Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:22 pm

> nockermensch wrote: But what would be the point of that? (other than "Likud is a genocidal party"). Despite the Rightist conspiratard constant cries about the Leftist Zionist Media!!!1 in the Real World the actual alliance seems to be mostly between Likud and the Republicans. Wouldn't Israel doing an extra dose of bad then just help the Democrats?

That used to be true, but things are shifting currently. While the American Republican party insiders skew very strongly pro-Israel, the actions of the Likud continue to alienate large numbers of more moderate-to-left American Jewish voters:
New Republic Opines
Of course the divisions come also along religious subdivisions Antoher New Republic Piece
Washington Post with some 2013 poll results
So far this shift in attitudes hasn't translated to changes at the ballot box, let alone policy, but if Netanyaho and his bloc continue to alienate the US voting public Gallup Poll, changes in policy become more likely.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Post by Ancient History » Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:46 pm

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisisthat/best ... -1.2843300
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Post by Koumei » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:08 am

It's still hard to imagine that Kinder Surprise are banned in America as a "danger to kids", considering I can't remember the last time someone took one into a school and killed a whole bunch of people with one.

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Post by erik » Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:50 am

Heh, maybe we should get a fake news thread.
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Post by Prak » Thu Nov 05, 2015 9:37 am

Um.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by erik » Thu Nov 05, 2015 12:01 pm

Hey, I said maybe. =-p
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Post by Ancient History » Thu Nov 05, 2015 12:48 pm

http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/11/04/ ... w-existed/
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Post by erik » Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:43 am

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2 ... -morality/
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Post by PhoneLobster » Sun Nov 08, 2015 8:32 pm

Worth noting that over the last couple of months thanks to a series of "unrelated" events and a general doom spiral of the situation at our Australian Concentration Camps for Ocean Traveling Brown Refugees we now get to have news stories that open with...
"In the latest of a string of deaths in Australian detention centers"
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That Time I reviewed D20Modern Classes
Stories from Phonelobster's ridiculous life about local gaming stores, board game clubs and brothels
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Phonelobster's totally legit history of the island of Malta
The utterly infamous Our Favourite Edition Is 2nd Edition thread
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Post by Longes » Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:34 pm

http://bignews2day.com/en/news/video-na ... -ritualami
So, Estonia held police exercises recently targeted at handling the refugee-caused disturbances. The policemen representing the refugees had their faces painted and were eating bananas, and participated "in a strange ritual" to show that the foreigners' culture is different from Estonian.
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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Nov 13, 2015 2:23 pm

http://www.news.com.au/technology/innov ... 7607425272
intercontinental nuclear torpedo.
max 1000m depth, 10.000km reach, 185km/h top speed. 100megatons of boom.
You don't even need submarines anymore. Which is good, because the torpedo is about a third the size of a submarine appearantly . .
What's the time on the Doomsday Clock nowadays?
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by Prak » Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:23 pm

> Longes wrote:
> http://bignews2day.com/en/news/video-na ... -ritualami
> So, Estonia held police exercises recently targeted at handling the refugee-caused disturbances. The policemen representing the refugees had their faces painted and were eating bananas, and participated "in a strange ritual" to show that the foreigners' culture is different from Estonian.

If a US outlet reports on this, I think the segue should be something like "and now in news that makes you feel slightly less bad about our country's racism..."
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

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> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by hyzmarca » Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:58 pm

> Stahlseele wrote:http://www.news.com.au/technology/innov ... 7607425272
> intercontinental nuclear torpedo.
> max 1000m depth, 10.000km reach, 185km/h top speed. 100megatons of boom.
> You don't even need submarines anymore. Which is good, because the torpedo is about a third the size of a submarine appearantly . .
> What's the time on the Doomsday Clock nowadays?

We already have ICBMs.
The point of submarines is second-strike capability. You have a crewed ship loitering in the water for months at a time which is extremely difficult to locate and can fire even after its home country is neutralized. This torpedo doesn't have second strike capability, it still has to be launched. Therefore, it's really less effective than just targeting coastal cities with ICBMs.
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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:15 pm

aside from it being much harder to detect. and no missle defence system that can shoot down things in 1000m depth. and they are planning to hav submarines transport them. just not inside the submarine, but basically slung under. kinda like fatman and smallboy were transported under their planes.
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by angelfromanotherpin » Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:28 pm

> Stahlseele wrote:and no missle defence system that can shoot down things in 1000m depth.

I'm not aware of a missile defense system that can stop current missile technology either.
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Post by name_here » Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:44 pm

The US has been working on it, and as far as I've heard it looks like it'll work, though we're a hell of a long way away from actually having anywhere near enough even if the attackers kindly mailed us their target list six months in advance. There's ground-based missile defense systems, the airborne antiballistic laser prototype, and a warship once blew up a satellite in a decaying orbit.
That said, this kind of feels like a bluff. It's supposed to go at 100 miles per hour for ten thousand kilometers and also avoid acoustic tracking? I could maybe believe the range and speed, but there's no way it could do that in dead silence.

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Post by Chamomile » Fri Nov 13, 2015 6:09 pm

> name_here wrote:The US has been working on it, and as far as I've heard it looks like it'll work, though we're a hell of a long way away from actually having anywhere near enough even if the attackers kindly mailed us their target list six months in advance. There's ground-based missile defense systems, the airborne antiballistic laser prototype, and a warship once blew up a satellite in a decaying orbit.

I'm never sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, if a nuclear war happens I'll be happy to live in a world where it results in a dark age instead of total apocalypse. On the other hand, mutually assured inconvenience seems like it'd be an awful lot less effective at deterring nuclear war than mutually assured destruction.
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Post by Stahlseele » Fri Nov 13, 2015 6:32 pm

> angelfromanotherpin wrote:

> > Stahlseele wrote:and no missle defence system that can shoot down things in 1000m depth.

> I'm not aware of a missile defense system that can stop current missile technology either.

why do you think the ruskis are working on this torpedo?
because the us are trying to improve the anti missle system around russia by building more stations in germany, turkey and other countries around it.
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it'll probably use some form of electrical engine. maybe even small scale nuclear reactor. it's gonna be a VERY BIG torpedo. 30-40m or so in length and several meters thick. basically, it's less a torpedo but more a submarine drone with a nuke in it as well as all other systems to make such a thing work.
An ICBM in all aspects, aside from the fact that it is a torpedo, not a missle.
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by hyzmarca » Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:01 pm

> Stahlseele wrote:

> > angelfromanotherpin wrote:

> > > Stahlseele wrote:and no missle defence system that can shoot down things in 1000m depth.

> > I'm not aware of a missile defense system that can stop current missile technology either.

> why do you think the ruskis are working on this torpedo?
> because the us are trying to improve the anti missle system around russia by building more stations in germany, turkey and other countries around it.
> @name_here
> it'll probably use some form of electrical engine. maybe even small scale nuclear reactor. it's gonna be a VERY BIG torpedo. 30-40m or so in length and several meters thick. basically, it's less a torpedo but more a submarine drone with a nuke in it as well as all other systems to make such a thing work.
> An ICBM in all aspects, aside from the fact that it is a torpedo, not a missle.

Assuming that they are working on it, and the general wasn't just reading something from the stupid ideas pile.
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Post by name_here » Fri Nov 13, 2015 8:11 pm

Yeah, I'm extremely dubious that they could manage to hit the speed goal and the quiet goal. Modern nuclear subs have top speeds estimated at around half that (the exact numbers being classified) and aren't exactly undetectable when running at full power. Hardly the craziest nuclear-related proposal to get considered, either.

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Post by ishy » Fri Nov 13, 2015 11:02 pm

Heard there are at least 60 people are in dead in Paris from shootings and explosions (suicide attacks) according to local media.
Here is a BBC article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34814203

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Post by Stahlseele » Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:20 am

Yeah, that won't give the french right wingers a boost at all . .
and appearantly, it's now more than 140 dead.
the impacts are getting closer. from there's not that far to here at all.
watching it on tv news.
alahu akbar screams in a concert hall with 1000+ people in it, explosions and the such . . that is kinda scary to be honest . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_ ... is_attacks
the borders have been closed.
France is now as close to war as is possible without actually being at war.
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> > TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
> > Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.

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Post by AcidBlades » Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:07 am

Prepare your anuses guys.
Because this is going to be a wild ride.
Make sure that you are on my side.
Cause this lube isn't going to let it slide inside.
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Post by Occluded Sun » Sat Nov 14, 2015 8:55 pm

> Stahlseele wrote:Yeah, that won't give the french right wingers a boost at all . .

Nice to see your priorities are set right. [/sarcasm]
France went past the point of no-return some time ago. But no one's been able to guess when it would actually go over the edge of the cliff. This might - might - be the moment where the tipping point is reached.
I must say, I am amused by all the pundits who imply this is all the fault of the objecting people who disagree with them - do they really think that if opposition were silenced this wouldn't be occurring? Other than in the most trivial sense that war can be avoided by surrendering without conditions.
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