Makes piracy irrelevant, and gets around most Regulatory BS. Smart.

Though the war is basically won, they're gonna have an insurgency for several years, looks like. That said, I've heard reports that the Qaeda guys in idlib will be at least as difficult to roust out as Daesh was in mosul, so expect at least a year before that one's done.

BONUS: The qaeda guys are upset about no more CIA backing and sent a delegation to Washington in order to beg for more gunz.

BONUS II: Turks2NATO: Syrian Invasion time!

Goading all the international community into withdrawing from the empire is one way to shut it down. Funny that all it takes is big words, and not the horrendous actions of the past century to make them figure out the USG ain't the kind of folks you want to suck up to.

Just in case anyone thought USA wasn't the evil empire, see above DEA badge.

[Parallel Construction] In particular, is employed by a part of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) known as the Special Operations Division (“SOD”), at least part of which has been nicknamed “the Dark Side” and which the evidence suggests is responsible for passing tips to various law enforcement bodies with the expectation that those tips will not be revealed in court...

As usual they're dreaming up graft projects, the more people it hurts the better.

It's pretty obvious -- it overcomes most of the difficulties encountered with prior chopper taxis.

Case dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct, like Ross Ulbricht's trial should have been. Cliven's sons antics at Malheur are yet to be resolved.

Reversible logic on silicon through usage of probability. Makes many problems thought only solvable through quantum means solvable, and will allow faster numeric compute due to reversible logic.

WAISTBAND

I believe in both Texas and Oklahoma it's actually unconstitutional to force anyone to buy products or services such as insurance. They get around this by making it illegal to not have "proof" you are insured on you while operating vehicles. Which de minimis means you just carry a placard claiming to be proof of insurance. No way a license plate scanner can detect this; I can guarantee you every one of these citations will be color of law and invalid.

Postmodern philosophy is a sewer of nonsense.

From ETH Zurich. Looks super useful; gMaps could use this to flesh out their 3D models.

errbody and their mama buying puts with 4x leverage

It's making us look bad!

Banana Republic makes Banana Republic.

They finally figured it out. A shame most of the clowns using cryptos haven't.

I guess the pentagram figured they need african terrorists to serve as an excuse to further oppress the uppity blacks here at home.

Just like in Linebacker II, the goal is to disrupt the Afghan equivalent of the "ho chi minh" trail -- e.g. any of the mountain passes and so forth normal people use to travel to get things like medicine and food for their kids. Way to make friends as usual, pentagram.

Google actually admits it this time, funny enough. They've been doing this stuff for years.

Got arrested this time! He's probably causing trouble for Tymoshenko. Ukrainian politics are a complete farce.

wut

See, they're not a sovereign nation so it's OK to bomb and kill them. Kind of how the USG treats every other country, yanno?

But the round they made for it is a winner:

In 2015, SCO realized that the HVP, originally conceived as a specialized shell of the railgun, was just as effective when fired from a conventional powder cannons like the Army’s 105mm and 155mm M109A6 Paladin self-propelled howitzers and the Navy’s deck-mounted Mk 45 5-inch guns. A May 2016 report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment found that large caliber guns could fire an HVP between 10 and 30 nautical miles at Mach 3, faster than conventional unguided rounds.

Just wait until it gets miniaturized into an AT rifle round. No armor will be safe.

With a shitcoin called the 'Petro'.

instead of a cryptocurrency, perhaps Maduro meant to unveil the world's first kleptocurrency instead?

Supposedly a big pow-wow in July told him of all the glorious fruits of empire. I'm sure they neglected to point out that the Cost pro-rated across taxpayers exceeds their gross margins, which would make any competent businessman cringe. Nevermind the fact that the NPV of the empire is negative. The only appeal that can be made is "hey did you know you are immune to insider trading laws like congress???"