The Linkielist

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Drugs in Portugal: decriminalisation works!

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Robin

That and offering free health care support to get off the drugs has lowered the useage of drugs dramatically as well as turned Portugal into a much safer place.

Navy Robots

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Robin

The Moray Eel Hunter is a drone that seeks out single swimmers closing in stealthily on your coast at 8 kts. Once it finds you it lights up, makes noise, sends signals and swims around you.
So how long before it gets armed?

how eBay stops Graverobbers

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Robin

Oddly enough, it turns out that eBay has helped reduce the amount of tomb raiding. This is because there has apparently never been that much money in it for the actual tomb raiders looking for artifacts: the high cost of artifacts has to do with middlemen: fences, transport, bribes, authenticators, etc.
So it’s cheaper (and safer) to get into the high quality knock-off market and build cheap fakes to sell on eBay. This means that collectors can get high quality versions of the artifacts and don’t need the actual artifact itself, lowering the price of the original artifact on the market. As this price lowers itself, grave robbers are less likely to incur the costs and risks for a shrinking profit margin.

Germany again: You may have an opinion…

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Robin

… but only if it is the same as ours!

Germany’s largest social networking site has allowed all political parties a special page indicating it’s an organisation, but the Pirate Party wasn’t allowed one. So they set up a personal page, which got deleted summarily, because it was an organisation and not person.

Seig Heil to the One Opinion