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Forget Binary Clocks. Heres One For the Ultra-Geeky

If it takes a minute to change from :09 to :10 which is one replace and one flip, it must take more then a minute to change from :19 to :20 which requires two replaces. Can this thing even keep up with the time?

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How to crack an apple in half w/ bare hands!

>> ^ashes2flames:
I bet he couldn't do this if he wasn't holding it against his leg.

When I tried this the apple didn't snap until I held the tips of my fingers against my leg. I did not have to apply much force. With practice it can probably be done while standing/walking against any convenient body part.

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| 1 day 5 hours 54 minutes ago | CH

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How to crack an apple in half w/ bare hands!

Nice, I just added this to my list of fruit snapping skills, now I snap apples, peaches and bananas in half, any other fruits we can do this with?

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| 2 days 2 minutes ago | CH

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"Am I Being Detained?"

The police are used to "asking" people to ignore their rights, if even 10% of the population would be assholes, when called for, the police would be forced, through simple pragmatism, to obey the law they are supposed to uphold.

Stopping people, at some place other then the border, without reasonable suspicion, is a violation of the rights that everybody in the US ,citizen or not, has by law. Not being able to assert probable cause without the assistance of the driver, the officer has no legal recourse except to let them go.

Nobody in the US is ever legally required to tell an officer anything. Courts can compel testimony on pain of contempt or obstruction, but officers have no such right.

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| 3 days 17 hours 6 minutes ago | CH

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The Large Hadron Collider : Big Bang v2.0

I look at the scale of this thing and think : what if they run the first experiments, discover something unexpected and say "We need one just a little bit bigger."?

I'm also struck by the though : What if ever 15B years or so some life form builds one of these, miscalculates the consequences, and big-bangs themselves out of existence, only to be replaced by lifeforms doing the same thing the next time the universe cools?

After wiring our planet to self destruct it would be a bit of a lark to take the whole cosmos with us while we are peacefully cooperating in the search for knowledge.

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| 3 days 18 hours 6 minutes ago | CH

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Obama has been to HOW MANY states during his capaign?!?

Was this intended as a joke? He gets a laugh, whether he slipped 50 for 40, or was trying to get a chuckle is not entirely clear from the clip.

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| 4 days 5 hours 24 minutes ago | CH

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Hooray! USA Income taxes are voluntary!

>> ^Crosswords:
A bartering squatter?

A scavenging squatter.

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| 5 days 17 hours 55 minutes ago | CH

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Hooray! USA Income taxes are voluntary!

>> ^Kreegath:
Eating is a voluntary sustenance system.

This analogy sounds good, but it is fundamentally flawed, income and property are not REQUIRED for life.

The US government provides two fundamental economic services, property and currency. If you choose not to use these services you will not be required to pay for them, I did that for a number of years while living in the US and Canada, and not only did I survive, but I had a standard of living better then the majority of the population of the planet.

The librarian dogma that property is something other then a service works in the world of sound bites, but does not stand up the the briefest of scrutiny.

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Barbra Walters interviews Sean Connery on smackin' b*tches.

I have been slapped by women for being ornery in the manner which Connery thinks justifies a slap, nobody came to my defense.

I have had female friends who could kick my ass, and male friends who could not, how do genitals effect the appropriateness of the use of physical force to settle disputes?

There is a point at which using "I'm female (read weak) so you can't hit me" can be used as a tool for emotional abuse. The possibility of physical altercation does serve to keep many conflicts civil, claiming immunity is pretty damn annoying, anybody who does it should be prepared if their bluff is called.

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| 1 week ago | CH

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Needy or Greedy: Professional Panhandlers

Yet another reason why I don't give a cent to anyone in the office/cubicle - especially if they are able bodied.

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Most of what people in the white collar world do is non-productive, why is freelancing an equally unproductive activity such an issue for people?

Begging is a job, and unless you are young and female, it's not nearly as lucrative as shown here. She has turned her young-femaleness into a good paying job without having to be sexually objectified in the process, good for her. If people are willing to pay her for the egoboo of "doing good" then she s providing a service, and like many services, deception is part of the product.

I never made more then $10 a day when panning, and as for labor ready, the tag line should read "come sit in the office for a week waiting for a job until you get on the staffs good side and then they might give you a job, which they will attempt not to pay you for your full hours, then you can use their "cash machine" which takes a cut of your measly check!"

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| 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Spiderman Web Gun- non--lethal, fun for the whole family!

From the demos it does not look like this will do much to stop the perp from shooting up whomever is in site, though it may stop him from getting away.

Any info on how the net stands up to a razor-sharp knife?

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| 2 weeks 2 days ago | CH

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Obama press conference concerning Rev. Wright (4/29)

While I find Wright a bit nutty, I have not heard anything he has said, that when taken in context, should give offense.

While I see that Obama would be annoyed that Wright said he was playing politics, I have to admit that I thought the same thing.

What's with the public pissing match between these two?

Does Obama really believe that the US is so chronically racist that it can't see that Wright isn't even as crazy as most of the white preachers who have political connections?

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| 2 weeks 2 days ago | CH

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small boat OWNED by giant anchor (12 seconds)

The fact that the small boat still floats is pretty impressive.

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| 2 weeks 2 days ago | CH

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Penn and Teller: Reparations are Bullshit

>> ^JAPR:
The problem is, people need to stop bitching about something that happened to their ancestors and start living for themselves, today.

The problem is that the results of the racist system of slavery in the US are still with us. Having dark skin in this country is as socio-economically disadvantageous as having done time in prison, and that is not even taking into account the added problem of unequal treatment by the judicial system.

The US is not a post-racist nation, it takes a good amount of intentional blindness to act as though it is. P&T seem not to be aware of their own issues on this one.

My great great great grandfather owned cotton gins, which put my ancestors through college, the past has not gone anywhere, it's all around us.

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| 2 weeks 4 days ago | CH

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The Neo Cube - 216 Individual High-Energy Sphere Magnets

I will not leave the NeoCube next to my laptop.
I will not leave the NeoCube next to my laptop.
I will not leave the NeoCube next to my laptop.
I will not leave the NeoCube next to my laptop.
I will not leave the NeoCube next to my laptop.

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| 2 weeks 5 days ago | CH

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