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Would U.S. troops obey presidential orders to deploy against the American people and take away our freedoms?
There is no doubt about it. Of course they would, especially if the president told them that our ‘freedom and national security’ depended on it, which he would.
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-The Troops Don’t Defend Our Freedoms (via marco)
Or to put it more simply: that’s their job. This is the armed forces we’re talking about. You’re taught to follow orders, not to question them (and for good reason). If the morally-active soldiers you see in movies like Avatar were in the real army, they’d be out on their arses pretty quickly, because stopping to think about or question what you’re doing can genuinely get people killed. The chain of command exists so that the people up the top do the thinking.
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CSS3 Box-Shadow with Inset Values:
GirlieMac takes a look at the inset flag for CSS3 box-shadows, which provides an easy way to add highlights or shadows to buttons. It unfortunately doesn’t work on Safari 4, though it is in the WebKit nightlies.
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it's raining like Seattle here in Hong Kong. I guess we brought the weather with us.
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Levellers - One Way, Live at Glastonbury 1993
The Levellers. These guys used to OWN the festival circuit in England, before the government decided to make such activities a criminal offence, essentially relegating bands to only playing the few large commercially-backed festivals each year.
You can see why they were so popular here. This was their second year at the Glastonbury festival, on the main stage this time after the previous year’s fantastic performance. They leap about the stage with wild abandon, energy pouring from every note. And of course we can’t possibly ignore the addition of Steve Boakes (then the band’s chief tour caterer IIRC) on didgeridoo for the first time, lending an already iconic song an earthy, brooding presence.
Of course, they’re still around(iTunes Link), sometimes listed as ‘The Levellers’. Go buy their stuff. Now.
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12 hours of solid drinking from bucks night. going home to prepare for massive hangover
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off to a Bucks night that seems to be starting in the AM. Sounding trashy already
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Human Giant: Rise to the Challenge “A motivational video series for CEOs who have the ability to levitate.” -
Glowen by Uribaani An accurately-titled wallpaper. Includes iPhone versions. (Submitted by Dick Skattberg.)
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“In a civil procedure on a technical matter, it amounts to blackmail; the cost of defending one of these things is reckoned to be £10,000. You can get away with asking for £500 or £1,000 and be paid on most occasions without any effort having to be made to really establish guilt. It is straightforward legal blackmail.”
-House of Lords: Record Companies have been harassing innocent users : DigitalWrong
Gawd bless the House of Lords sir. Gawd bless ‘em
Aside: This is why I’m heavily opposed to the House of Commons trying to abolish the House of Lords. The House of Lords doesn’t give purely political answers to things. They don’t have to obey the party whips.
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I might argue that Flash takes the mobile ecosystem back to the dark ages, but then that would be two rants against Adobe in one week.
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Adobe's CTO implies that HTML5 would take us back to the dark ages. http://j.mp/bS2M5D #FUD
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beginning Seattle to Hong Kong to New Zealand today (with stops in San Francisco and Fiji along the way)
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finally saw Lost. confused as ever
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There are more people in costume in the streets than not #rugbysevens
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hmm, I feel an interesting design contest brewing... Photoshop vs HTML/CSS (no image manipulation whatsoever)