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Dudes helping out other dudes.

OK I am addicted to these stupid things.

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Relevant.

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Still one of the funniest Family Guy clips ever.

"When a user sends a picture or document, it will be encrypted, digitally “shredded” into thousands of pieces, and temporarily stored in a “Secure Cloud Broker” until it is transmitted to the recipient. Silent Circle, which charges $20 a month for its service, has no way of accessing the encrypted files because the “key” to open them is held on the users’ devices and then deleted after it has been used to open the files. Janke has also committed to making the source code of the new technology available publicly “as fast as we can,” which means its security can be independently audited by researchers."

This is the most awesome thing I have read in a while. #ndaa violates the 1st amendment.

Just got certified Website .NET Developer Certification for #Sitecore CMS 6.5! Woot.

I don't think anyone objects to companies producing things. The objection is to corporatism. We can all have iPhones without corporatism.

This reminds me of the old socialist "you use our roads" argument. You can have roads with or without goverments.

Ralph Nader: “Libertarians like Ron Paul are on our side on civil liberties. They’re on our side against the military-industrial complex. They’re on our side against Wall Street. They’re on our side for investor rights. That’s a foundational convergence,” he exhorts. “It’s not just itty-bitty stuff.”

Interventionism.

In a letter announcing its sponsorship withdrawal, Philips wrote that it was concerned the commission's work "may appear to support bi-partisan" instead of "non-partisan" politics. YWCA similarly wrote that it was dropping out because it is a "non-partisan" women's organization.

Impressionism

Mitt Romney's economic plan for America is to literally talk about how much Obama sucks.

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Good Guy Vader

In the unlikely event he wins, he'll have something in common with the man who imprisons him. How fun!

This is the funniest thing I found on the internet today.

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Why is Obama continuing Bush's foreign policy?

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Question for the Occupy Wall Street people -

Why aren't you protesting the two WARS we are in?

Why aren't you demanding the immediate withdrawal of all US forces from Iraq and Afghanistan?

Why aren't you demanding an immediate END to these wars?

Just curious.

If I could muster a few thousand people for a protest.... the ONGOING support of these wars would be on the top of my list of things to protest....

Trying to list some of the more interesting political posters on here for a friend new to G+ to start following: +Eddie Boss

Who are some of your favorite political posters on here? Feel free to suggest.

+Christopher Cantwell
+Ian Geldard
+Rick Jones
+Matthew Desjardin (Mox)
+Finnian Cornelison
+Jeremy Dahl
+Paul Lagle
+Michael Moore (no, not the filmmaker)
+Miles Dunn
+Joshua Roy
+Darrell Loudermilk

This is a fairly amazing conversation, illustrating two clearly contrasting point of views (points of view?) on American foreign policy with global implications.

Insulting language will no longer be a criminal offense in the U.K.

Hell Yes

Gary Johnson now polling at 6% nationally, and is suing the two parties for debate access.

"If the lawsuit is successful, this year's CPD-sponsored debates will either expand to include the Libertarian candidates as well as the Green Party ticket of Massachusetts physician Jill Stein and Pennsylvania anti-poverty advocate Cheri Honkala, or be canceled."

Bernanke making it rain up in this!!!!!!!

‎"Where you do think Paul Ryan diverges from libertarians?"
"On every position."

Awesome app shows real near real time wind patterns in the US.

Check out New Orleans.

Self-sculpting Sand

New algorithms could enable heaps of ‘smart sand’ that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.

The Pirate Bay is "going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air. This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war."

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Did the 13 year olds come up with this word or was it some lame adult?

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Interesting reddit thread on how a deaf person thinks.

"I'm deaf.....So, to answer your question, I think in ASL (American Sign Language). I guess deaf people's thinking process is little different from hearing people. When I think, it's like I'm seeing myself signing from either my point of view or third person view and when I'm imagine a hearing person speaking, I imagine him/her actually signing instead of speaking because I can understand him/her that way."

The GOP Then and Now

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OK that's good.

If I had to pick only one thing Steve Jobs did that was remarkable, I would say it was transforming the Dalai Lama, Einstein and other iconic figures into spokespersons for Apple. Usurping their cultural and social value for profit was a really nasty trick, and in my opinion not only not admirable but in fact contemptible and slimy.

In which the dogs please the pigs by explaining to the sheep that they are dicks.

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One of the definite values of Google Plus is how many photographers/artists are on here, adding so much beauty and perspective to the stream. Here are some good photographers I like following. What photographers do you follow?

+Ranjan Saraswati
+Jason Hill
+Aya Sakaguchi
+Mike Spinak
+Thorn Button
+Thomas Hawk
+Leanne Staples
+Mark Forman
+Vincent Zegna
+Mahmood Syed Faheem
And, +Helminadia Ranford:

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Took a trip last year to Lake district area...it was cold...but amazing place for sure :)

“This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information.”

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It's like a merry-go-round. Weeeeeeeeeee

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#Monsanto   #Obama   #GrowFoodNotLawns   #Organic  

Information we need to know and share with everyone!

We need to grow and buy organic!

Obama Puts Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultural Trade Relations.
"The group has lobbied to allow pesticides to be tested on children"

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2010/siddiqui-03-28-2010.html

Obama Puts Michael Taylor as Deputy Commissioner of FDA.

I went through the top search results for "SEO Predictions for 2013" and summarized the results. I thought the group might be interested:

"Google responded to 88% of government orders in the U.S. and turned down 12%. Twelve percent is a scary number because it means Google believes the requests are illegal. This begs the question as to how many companies have the courage to deny the government’s request for user data or have a strong enough compliance department to even distinguish between a lawful and an unlawful request for user data."

Weird.

Cool little utility that lets you optimize your DNS lookups. By using Google's public DNS I had 50% average performance gains.

The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and parking lots so there's not much arable land and the soil is contaminated. So Maundu doesn't use soil. Instead he's growing plants using fish and circulating water.

It's called aquaponics- a gardening system that combines hydroponics (water-based planting) and aquaculture (fish farming). It's been hailed as the future of farming: it uses less water (up to 90% less than traditional gardening), doesn't attract soil-based bugs and produces two types of produce (both plants and fish).

Americans pay four times as much as the French for an Internet triple-play package—phone, cable TV and Internet—at an average of $160 per month versus $38 per month.

Jury nullification advocacy win. Defense attorney advocates nullification thanks to a new New Hampshire law and the jury agrees.

Oops. I guess when your political platform is bought you can't just go around saying things. Lesson learned by the obedient pawn.

Oh you need 5 states? Let's change it to 8 then.

Some mind-blowing concepts going on here.

"Scientists have been eyeing up DNA as a potential storage medium for a long time, for three very good reasons: It’s incredibly dense (you can store one bit per base, and a base is only a few atoms large); it’s volumetric (beaker) rather than planar (hard disk); and it’s incredibly stable — where other bleeding-edge storage mediums need to be kept in sub-zero vacuums, DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage."

As it should be. The more decentralized the better.

Mitt Romney's statements taken apart pretty soundly by "Guns, Germs, and Steel" author Jared Diamond.

These two sides will argue this classic discussion until they are blue in the face and neither will get what they want because there is only one state. That means that at any given time, only a single implementation will be forced upon everyone. And that single implementation is neither capitalist or socialist, it's some kind of disgusting authoritarian corporate state that nobody wants.

Taxing individuals who don't buy private health care is not socialized medicine. The only people who won yesterday are very large health care corporations.

It absolutely blows my mind how unscrupulously phony Romney is.

"Not forever," said Jerrodd, with a smile. "It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase."
"What's entropy, daddy?" shrilled Jerrodette II.
"Entropy, little sweet, is just a word which means the amount of running-down of the universe. Everything runs down, you know, like your little walkie-talkie robot, remember?"
"Can't you just put in a new power-unit, like with my robot?"
The stars are the power-units, dear. Once they're gone, there are no more power-units."
Jerrodette I at once set up a howl. "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down."

A very in-depth review of #Google vs. #Bing search results in light of recently announced changes to Google's search algorithm.

Netflix +1

Pirates are pissed at torrent sites and plan to take their business elsewhere.

Wallace Monument, Stirling, Scotland

The only reason to fear social is if you have a crappy product.

In my opinion, starting a global nuclear war over the fact that we're pretending Iran wants to build one nuclear missile is a really smart move.

Tomorrow will be the most productive day evar.

Look at how chained down the US market is. This subsidy peels off, but underneath is the fact that many states mandated or created market incentives around ethanol as fuel. So policy built around market manipulations is now terrible policy and fuel prices will go up because of it.

Meanwhile, in an imaginary world where people pay real prices for things the actual value of the commodity would be set and we'd all be dealing with a realistic and sustainable market.

‎"...victimless crime constitutes roughly 86% of the federal prison population."

"When a man is put behind bars he is obviously incapable of contributing anything to society. He becomes a complete burden to society while producing nothing in return for the expenses he creates."

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In my opinion, the root of this problem is the United States and their war on drugs. The cartels derive all of their power from the fact that the markets are black.

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Great infographic, or greatest infographic?

+Benzodiazepine Hammer I used to be an adventurer like you...

Economics 101: if you create demand, costs will increase.

‎"Ron Paul — fraudulent populist, friend of the oligarchy"

This article is totally fraudulent.

Have you seen the oligarchy's contributions to Paul's campaign?? None. I think Google is his biggest contributor at a few grand. Here's Romney's contributors (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BofA, typically bankster 1%ers):
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286&cycle=2012

Obama's a little better, Microsoft, Comcast, Universities, not exactly the 1% but still Goldman Sachs, duplicitous as ever, makes an appearence.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00009638&cycle=2012

Ron Paul, mostly the armed forces (whose lives he intends to save, big surprise) and individual contributions harvested by his "Ron Paul for Congress Cmte")
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00005906&cycle=2012

Yoda conditions, Pokemon exception handling, Heisenbugs and Higgs-Bugsons. These are awesome if you have done any type of coding in your life.

I don't think Ron Paul necessarily "wins" this argument. The post 9/11 world is a place where there are a lot of people who are OK with the Patriot Act and proactive security measures. It just comes down to whether you think they will work or not, because they certainly erode our individual liberty. Are you OK with that tradeoff?

For me, if someone is crazy and wants to hijack a plane, there's actually nothing you can do about it. You can carry sharp sticks onto planes that function as knives. And you can get complex bomb devices and other fear capturing devices onto planes relatively easy.

But the flip side is having someone listen to your phone calls and pepper spray you when you protest. One person has the right to use force over or spy on another without due process. Who is the actual terrorist here? And why should anyone trust a bureaucrat to keep them safe?

Kevin Carson discusses the potential impact of counter-economics in contrast to the occupy movement.

This is damn cool.

"The aim of the GVCS is to lower the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing. Its a life-size lego set that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, or in the developing world."

I agree with +Stefan Molyneux. But the problem for me (and I think some of the OWS protesters) is that while it may originate with the state, I don't think it's just the state any more. We're not talking about Starbucks here, we're talking about Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, Exxon and Wal-Mart. These companies and others like them literally write legislation. The difference is becoming blurred.

Yes, the state enables them to do this, but at some point the balance of power shifts from the kings to the kingmakers. Not sure if we are there yet, but it's worth considering.

The #occupywallstreet protesters have shut down the Brooklyn Bridge.

Here is some photography from my friend +yerma meena. A lot of really fantastic urban shots around the Belfast area.

Check some of these out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yermaaaaaa/5512568102/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yermaaaaaa/5062224881/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yermaaaaaa/5462784752/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yermaaaaaa/5468324700/

He is more on flickr than Goggle+ but if enough people circle him maybe he'll come over and post regularly.

Not much needs to be said.

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Nothing for me to add, this is just a stunning picture.

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A stunning shot by Daniele Romagnoli
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29159485@N06/2833802668/

Because blowing up cars releases liquidity traps.

"The rise of the Pirates to a record 9 percent in a poll today, putting them within reach of their first parliamentary seats in the city-state’s Sept. 18 elections, caps a year in which voters punished Merkel’s coalition over its handling of the debt crisis."

Golden Gate Bridge construction. Mid 30's, I don't know the exact date of this picture.

HistoryPorn
http://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/

:D

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Living Rock – Massive Monuments Carved In Situ ~ Kuriositas - http://goo.gl/Ovp9J

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Erupting volcanoes photographed from space
An image taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) of a large plume of smoke, steam and ash erupting from the Sarychev volcano on the Kuril Islands, Russia. It is thought that the eruption has caused a hole to form in the cloud layer above it.

Is there a Glenn Greenwald article out there that doesn't nail it?

Whoever created glitter should be shot.

The Obama administration admits it is seizing private data from Verizon - also known as spying on everyone in the United States.

Also they want you to know that it is totally OK.