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The 700 Billion Dollar Question
By loteck in MLP
Tue Sep 23, 2008 at 07:30:43 AM EST
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Those who spend their weekends doing things other than watching the news woke up Monday morning to a proposed 700 billion dollar bailout of the broader US financial system. The response to the most devastating financial crisis in modern history is surely a complex web of legal and technical intricacy, tied together with thick ropes of incomprehensible financial jargon and heavy-laden with the legislative double-speak inherent to all bills, right?
Nope. It's only 2 pages long, and written in near-layman's terms. You would read it, if you were paying attention.
If you had read it, here's a section that might have struck you:
"Section 8: Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency."
Full Story (109 comments, 417 words in story)
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Delicious, delicious irony
By debillitatus in Meta
Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 09:17:50 AM EST
Tags: k5, demise thereof (all tags)
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One of our more prolific users, localroger, recently posted a diary about how this online community of ours has failed. In and of itself, this is not ironic or even remarkable; the perennial breast-beating that our community is dying is perhaps one of the more notable signature memes of our community.
No, the irony is in the fact that he based his claim around an essay which is actually an exegesis of the strengths of k5 --- a laundry list of what we are doing right.
To borrow a metaphor, yes, k5 is full of alligators, but they're in the moat guarding the castle.
Full Story (152 comments, 1023 words in story)
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HOWTO: Avoid your civic duties, write a self-indulgent missive about the experience
By debillitatus in Meta
Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 03:32:53 AM EST
Tags: I AM SO FUCKING IMPORTANT, THE RULES OF SOCIETY DO NOT APPLY TO ME (all tags)
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I didn't understand. Every time I've ever been asked to contribute to society, I simply wrote some bullshit excuse to weasel out of it. Contributing is for other people, not a precious important snowflake such as myself. So I'd pen some dishonest and dishonorable excuse and whine my way out of it. They'd always let me know that I was excused because, let's face it, if there's anything drearier than a court employee's having to track down some selfish and self-centered asshole and get him to make even the minimal contribution to our common polity, then I don't know what it is. So I'm not worth their time, and they always let me slide, until now.
But this time, they actually had some serious shit brewing. They were going to make me come in and prove to their faces that I valued my convenience above my honor.
Full Story (73 comments, 1591 words in story)
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California Medical Marijuana: My Doctor Says I Need Weed to Get High
By QuantumFoam in Culture
Wed Sep 03, 2008 at 03:05:02 AM EST
Tags: THC, Marijuana, Weed, Pot, Chronic, Dank, Crong, Grass, Skunk, The Purpose of My Life (all tags)
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I've been a chronic smoker for the last eight years, but had recently abstained for 111 days due to a job situation. I read this and many articles like it through this bleak dry period, coming up with all sorts of schemes to beat drug tests, but I never had the balls to follow through. But, at the end of the 111 days, I found myself without a need to produce clean urine and decided to indulge in the freedom offered by my new home, California.
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The Invention of the Christian Videogame
By Delirium in Culture
Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 08:54:42 PM EST
Tags: videogames, religion, Christianity, business, carrots (all tags)
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With the widespread success of Christian-themed videogames like Left Behind, apparently created for combinations of monetary and religious-proselytization-of-our-bizarre-take-on-apocalyptic-Christianity reasons, the subgenre of "Christian videogames" is now pretty well entrenched. Less well known is that the first Christian-themed videogame was created only in the late 1980s, and in fact the genre was invented by an obscure, not very successful, formerly secular, and vaguely scofflaw 1980s NES developer pretty much solely as a way of getting around Nintendo's licensing rules.
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Ultralight Backpacking: The "Why" and the "How"
By JackStraw in Meta
Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 05:37:25 PM EST
Tags: backpacking, ultralight, hiking, nature, howto (all tags)
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Are you out-of-shape? Neurotic? Feel like society has cornered you into a prescribed job where you cannot express your creativity? Welcome to K5.
Do you desire to rid yourself of it all, move back to a more simple, pure existence, at least for a few days?
Do you want a vacation that you can't find on TripAdvisor?
Do you know that the answer is wilderness backpacking, but don't want the pain and expense that comes along with it? Or, do you love efficiency and the idea of streamlining your material existence? Then, I give here the experience of 6+ years of painful experimentation, hoping that you can build upon my learnings.
This story is about ultralight backpacking: exploring the wilderness with an extreme minimum of equipment.
Full Story (90 comments, 2173 words in story)
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Presenting... MichaelCrawford's Ideal K5 Diary
By User 71708 in Meta
Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 01:39:49 PM EST
Tags: Venal linkwhore, vainglorious procrastinator, chinos of falsehood. (all tags)
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Announcing: WakeRiteTM Alarm Clock
by MichaelCrawford in MichaelCrawford's Diary
Sun 08, 2008 at 07:16 PM EST
Tags: MichaelCrawford, WakeRiteTM, Sleep, Alarm Clocks, Geometric Visions, Ogg Frog, GoingWare, Schizoaffective Disorder (all tags)
Good news everybody! In my ongoing quest to manage my sleeping patterns, I have discovered a utility called an 'Alarm Clock', browsing a free software site. This application, and applications like it, work by emitting a loud sound when the clock's internal timer coincides with a time value of my own choosing. This timely emission of noise disrupts the user's slumber, waking them up.
Full Story (65 comments, 1745 words in story)
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Why You Need to Vote on Stories
By givemegmail111 in Meta
Wed Aug 13, 2008 at 12:16:47 PM EST
Tags: kuro5hin.org (all tags)
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We look like them, but there's a difference...
Kuro5hin.org looks like a lot of other weblogs you see in your everyday clicking. But there is one important difference in how we operate here, that you may not be familiar with, or even, at this point, aware of.
You see, Rusty and the other editors do not pick what stories appear on the front page here. Really. Sure, they can, but in practice, they very rarely do.
So how do stories get posted? You post them! Yes, really. The readers evaluate and decide which stories they think "fit" and which ones are just filler.
Full Story (32 comments, 514 words in story)
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Russia did the right thing in Georgia
By sausalito in Politics
Sun Aug 10, 2008 at 06:29:43 PM EST
Tags: armchair political scientist, politics, war, incompetent, pontificating nullo (all tags)
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So the first analyses of the Russia-Georgia tussle over South Ossetia are being published.
Don't be fooled by the Western - especially French and German - media consensus (for example, this article on the ever dumb Times screaming OMG Russian invasion!): this time the Guardian's view that this was a Georgian aggressive gamble is absolutely correct.
According to almost all independent reporters, the operations were kickstarted by the Georgians launching a massive co-ordinated attack that started with artillery shelling and aerial bombing of the independentist militias positions around Tskhinvali at 1:50 of Friday morning, a few hours after cease-fire talks had broken down (see this excellent timeline of the events - in French). Before that there had been only a few weeks of minor border skirmishes. You don't start such an operation without weeks of planning, do you?
Full Story (229 comments, 974 words in story)
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 The Spoils of... MUST?! (45 comments)
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Sunday, July 20th
Patent Status of MPEG-1,H.261 and MPEG-2 (20 comments)
Thursday, June 5th
Brewing your own hobo-wine on todays subprime mortgage budget (33 comments)
Tuesday, June 3rd
Real Education Reform (105 comments)
Monday, May 26th
A Runner's Primer (114 comments)
Friday, May 23rd
Brewing Beer on Today's Subprime Mortgage Budget (58 comments)
Wednesday, May 21st
Regarding "Serpents, Serpents Everywhere" (35 comments)
Monday, May 19th
Serpents, Serpents Everywhere! (31 comments)
Thursday, May 8th
The Freewinds Are Carcinogenic (30 comments)
Wednesday, May 7th
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