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U.S. ends long Google probe with only mild reprimand
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...9020HK20130104
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The call complaints went through the roof asking what country the call center had been outsourced to. No one could understand the phone operators.
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2013-01-04, 04:30 | Link #25583 | |
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NASA might go where no one has gone before and try to moon the moon
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I can think of a few other things it can be used for. Mining resources relatively close to Earth. Testing projects for future exploration missions outside Earth's orbital plane. Threating everyone with global destruction....
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2013-01-04, 04:39 | Link #25584 | |
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2013-01-04, 04:47 | Link #25585 |
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Better source material for that article I guess:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ons-orbit.html Their target is a 7 meter wide asteroid. That doesn't sound worth it to me, though it isn't really dangerous (the small article doesn't give that little bit out so it brings out all the bad thoughts about mile wide asteroids planet killers) On the other hand that is about the size of a small house I suppose. I just could be off because I don't generally messure things in meters. At least not in the single digits. I use feet for that.
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2013-01-04, 06:45 | Link #25588 | |
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Swiss bank Wegelin to close after guilty plea
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2013-01-04, 07:27 | Link #25590 | |
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Space Lab + More Resources. 7m is about the distance between 2 rubber trees in a rubber plantation. If we spin it at a high enough speed (possible due to the lack of air resistance) maybe we can create a portal.
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2013-01-04, 10:39 | Link #25591 | |
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Looking to the next debt-ceiling fight, Nadler proposes a trillion-dollar coin trick
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/articl...ion-dollar-coi Quote:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/how...ins-seriously/
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2013-01-04, 11:39 | Link #25593 |
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Exactly. If you want to crash the economy, go ahead. All of a sudden a dollar today is worth crap tomorrow. The rich are still rich, just not as much. The middle class becomes the poor, and the poor become... ultra poor? Zombies? I don't know.
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2013-01-04, 16:09 | Link #25596 |
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Hagel likely to be nominated for Defense Secretary next week
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...next-week?lite The guy is a Republican than isn't a pro-Israel, right ?
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2013-01-04, 16:47 | Link #25598 | |
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George Lucas Engaged to DreamWorks Animation Chairman Mellody Hobson
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