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China Is Engineering Genius Babies
It’s not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower, is it? While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world’s natural resources. But now, not content to simply laugh and make jerk-off signs as they pass us on the geopolitical highway, they’ve also developed a state-endorsed genetic-engineering project.
At BGI Shenzhen, scientists have collected DNA samples from 2,000 of the world’s smartest people and are sequencing their entire genomes in an attempt to identify the alleles which determine human intelligence. Apparently they’re not far from finding them, and when they do, embryo screening will allow parents to pick their brightest zygote and potentially bump up every generation’s intelligence by five to 15 IQ points.
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The Most Ridiculous Law of 2013 (So Far): It Is Now a Crime to Unlock Your Smartphone
Derek Khanna Jan 27 2013, 10:31 AM ET
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When did we decide that we wanted a law that could make unlocking your smartphone a criminal offense? The answer is that we never really decided.
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Reuters
This is now the law of the land:
ADVISORY
BY DECREE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
IT SHALL HENCEFORCE BE ORDERED THAT AMERICANS SHALL NOT UNLOCK THEIR OWN SMARTPHONES.
PENALTY: In some situations, first time offenders may be fined up to $500,000, imprisoned for five years, or both. For repeat offenders, the maximum penalty increases to a fine of $1,000,000, imprisonment for up to ten years, or both.*
That’s right, starting this weekend it is illegal to unlock new phones to make them available on other carriers.
I have deep sympathy for any individual who happens to get jail time for this offense. I am sure that other offenders would not take kindly to smartphone un-lockers.
But seriously: It’s embarrassing and unacceptable that we are at the mercy of prosecutorial and judicial discretion** to avoid the implementation of draconian laws that could implicate average Americans in a crime subject to up to a $500,000 fine and up to five years in prison. (Read more)
French Muslim extremists in tear gas gay club
Five Muslim extremists attacked a gay club in Paris beating the bouncers and spraying some attendants, including the vice president of IDAHO, with tear gas (Read more)
Outrageous plan for $264 billion mega-city in Korea
Investment, resources, aspirations, dreams all flow toward economic liberty.
TAKE that, Dubai!
It may look like something out of Star Wars, but this is actually Korea’s latest tourism project, set to rival the extravagance on show in Dubai.
At $264 billion, the ambitious plan would see the creation of a gigantic city on the islands of Yongyu-Muui in the port of Incheon, close to Incheon International Airport.
Ha! “Importace of Tax Return Accuracy”
What backs the dollar? — an illustration
Army Efficiency :)
Michael Taylor works for both, the FDA and Monsanto
These are the people “protecting” the public from corporate abuses.
1985 Headline: “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace”
Reagan meets with Taliban “heroes”
$80,000 bullets in endless “global” war
Swedish IRS films pro-tax ad in Estonia to avoid paying Swedish taxes
If you Google translate this article, you’ll see that the Swedish IRS filmed a series of pro-tax ads in Estonia in order to avoid paying the higher Swedish taxes!
Politics & Science
Liberals (like Marxists) love to claim science is on their side. In the US, they deride Conservatives for having less faith in science. Interestingly, in Europe and Japan, it’s the left who is more skeptical of science. It all depends on whose sacred cows are threatened by the men in white lab coats.