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Broad group naysayers

There are many critics of the Skycity and broad group:

  • political allies of other builders who would lose business if broad group had runaway commercial success with construction methods that are faster and lower cost
  • workers who would lose work to a more efficient pre-fabrication process
  • city officials could see fewer payoffs for buildings that are put up in months instead of years
  • china critics who want to see china fail and who want to view the construction of an audacious skyscraper as a sign that china has overextended

Don’t Get Sucker Pumped

maybe this will get the cc companies to finally fix security instead of making bleating noises about identity theft.

Increasingly, pump skimmer scammers are turning to bluetooth-enabled devices that connect directly to the pump’s power source. These skimmers can run indefinitely, and allow thieves to retrieve stolen card data wirelessly while waiting in their car at the pump.

Dance your PHD

The dreaded question. “So, what’s your Ph.D. research about?” You take a deep breath and launch into the explanation. People’s eyes begin to glaze over… At times like these, don’t you wish you could just turn to the nearest computer and show people an online video of your Ph.D. thesis interpreted in dance form? Now you can.

MILF victory

very little reporting on this.

Did you know the US was at war in the Philippines? MILF, perhaps sensing doom in a continued struggle, pounced on the offer. The rebel group renounced its ties to Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah, sparking at least one gun battle between MILF and its former allies. In February this year Aquino visited the rebel stronghold in Mindanao to finalize a peace deal. The treaty promised to finally deprive terrorists of their safe haven in the Philippines.

With the signing of the peace deal, America could tentatively claim victory in its Philippines shadow war.

Memory Manipulation

a mild version of this would make for interesting entertainment: slip into someone else’s life for a few hours.

Neuroscientists have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of mice. They also found that many of the neurological traces of these memories are identical in nature to those of authentic memories.

The opposite is also possible:

Chinese scientists were able to use a chemical – the protein alpha-CaM kinase II – to successfully erase memories from the minds of mice.