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Bribing? Surely not. I think such payments are known as 'commissions' in the Middle East. From the NY Times: Quote:
ETA Have a look at the 'Corruption allegations' section of this Wiki article: Link
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05-17-2019, 10:28 AM | #3812 |
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Pics from inside an BDSM adult movie studio
Outside of a juggy, trussed up statue, it's surprisingly safe for work. YMMV
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05-17-2019, 11:44 AM | #3813 |
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05-21-2019, 05:06 PM | #3814 |
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Ah, Grav found pics of the old kink.com studios, while they were moving locations.
I have seen most of those sets in one video or another. Interesting to see them minus the "stuff" and performers. |
06-02-2019, 12:09 AM | #3815 |
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I discovered the website of the New England Historical Society and was surprised it's loaded with short quick reads on historical New England.
I discovered the Cod Fish started the revolutionary war. One of the top 25 worst US tornados was in Worcester MA. The Scots-Irish immigrants, were really Scots who moved to Ireland for 60 or 70 years then came to the US, kept MA from takeing over NH. http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/
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06-15-2019, 01:00 PM | #3816 |
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So, I'm watching the folks @ JPL build the Mars 2020 rover, LIVE...
...and I can't help thinking it looks like nothing if not a Daft Punk concert, especially when the two workers are side-by-side at the cart on screen right. I make me laugh sometimes.
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06-18-2019, 01:43 AM | #3817 |
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06-18-2019, 08:59 AM | #3818 |
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Part of a group of essays, from the year 2000, on "What is today's most important unreported story?"
It's fascinating, because they are mostly wrong. People wrote about what they knew, what they figured was important. Nobody wrote about Islamic terrorism, and nobody wrote about the weird financial instruments being created to game the financial system. Nobody wrote that the Internet was about to end half of retail. Nobody wrote that fracking was about to wildly change the game on energy and the US would become energy-independent. Nobody wrote about the rise of China, or the drop in global absolute poverty. John Gilmore got it the closest with "The World Isn't Going to Hell". Rheingold got it mostly right, and I enjoyed this, "While all eyes are on e-commerce, relatively few know about public opinion BBSs, cause-related marketing, web-accessible voting and finance data." Public opinion BBSes are about to take over! Everybody get ready! Okay we'll just say the Cellar was a first shot at it while social media found its legs. |
06-18-2019, 09:27 AM | #3819 |
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Opening salvo...
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06-19-2019, 02:18 PM | #3820 | |
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Quote:
And I missed it.
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06-23-2019, 12:20 AM | #3821 | |
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How Will The Internet Influence Democracy?
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07-04-2019, 02:36 AM | #3822 | |
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Your Surgeon’s Childhood Hobbies May Affect Your Health
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07-04-2019, 06:44 AM | #3823 |
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It'll all be done by robots soon anyway...
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07-04-2019, 06:59 AM | #3824 |
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OR, stop all surgery and just grind them up for Soylent Green.
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07-16-2019, 12:41 AM | #3825 |
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If you have an interest in WW II aircraft nose art you can download an epdf of the B-17 Nose Art Name Directory.
Pages 7 to 48 + 65 to 91 list the name, group, squadron, and serial#, about 125 per page. I'm amazed how many repeats there are, for instance 11 Umbriago, 12 Stinky(jr), 17 Queenie, 11 Old Ironsides, 17 Liberty Bell(e), 12 Impatient Virgin, 12 Fearless Fosdick, 16 Boomerang, 14 Bad Penny. I didn't even try to count the ones starting with Texas, Big, or Heaven. There's about 15 pages of photographs but they are very poor quality.
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