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PotD 18 October 2015

Piling on

Warning: spoiler. Matt Damon doesn’t die. My small contribution to the scientific errors of The Martian that took me out of the movie: duct tape just doesn’t work in those temps. Unless there’s some special NASA-grade low temperature duct tape that isn’t available in the 171 stockroom [1]. There is tape that’s good to -4 […]

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PotD 13 October 2015

Justified

The cops found two people [1] to say that it was okay to kill a 12 year old boy carrying a toy gun at a park in a state with legal open carry, two seconds after arriving on the scene.  If you think that’s okay, maybe you shouldn’t be a cop. It’s not okay. It […]

Thanks, NSA!

Yet more proof that the slow-rolling Internet breakage caused by the NSA’s illegal activities continues. Was it worth it? Total up the damage to the hardware companies, from organizations that will no longer by Cisco routers or American airliners, or use Google or Amazon web services, to cloud companies that are going to have to […]

PotD 10 October 2015

PotD 9 October 2015

Don’t be posting up about that

Christ, what an asshole.  

PotD 8 October 2015

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PotD 6 October 2015