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Healthy Food Combinations

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It turns out that eating certain foods combined is much better than eating them seperately.

* Tomatoes & Avocadoes
* Oatmeal & Orange Juice
* Broccoli & Tomatoes
* Blueberries & Grapes
* Apples & Chocolate
* Lemon & Kale
* Soy & Salmon
* Peanuts & Whole Wheat
* Red Meat & Rosemary
* Turmeric & Black Pepper
* Garlic & Fish
* Eggs & Cantaloupe
* Almonds & Yogurt

These are very powerfull combinations. The article explains why.

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

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Basically by shooting atoms through a nanoscale pinhole on a mask at a substrate on the other side, researchers have found that they will create a smaller version of the reflected structure – a cheap and easy way to make a nanostructure. What’s more, it’s scaleable: they can make loads of pinholes and shoot atoms through them and they’ll make loads of nanostructures which don’t overlap, so mass production becomes an option.

Logitech’s Force Feedback Flight System

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It’s been a long long while since anything new has come out for military flight sim enthusiasts, and this looks like it is just what the doctor ordered. Since Vista dropped support for the gameport – and thus for my F-15 inspired Suncom set up (no longer for sale, but definitely the best stick / throttle setup I’ve ever seen!) there’s been not much, excepting the odd Thrustmaster setup.

Allthough not based on a reall stick, the setup looks solid. It’s fully programmable, has about the right amount of buttons and offers force feedback as well as toe brakes on the rudders.

Stolen RAF files are blackmailer’s dream

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It turns out that the UK government is absolutely fantastic at keeping your data secure! Not only were the 2 harddrives that went missing last year September with all the RAF’s personell information on it unencrypted; it turns out they contained details of extramarital affairs, drug problems, financial problems all with names and details. The records were used to track personell with potential problems in gaining security clearances!

MPs’ expenses: it’s getting ridiculous now

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So this guy gets a house from parliament: yes, UK MP’s are allowed to live in a tax payer paid house. NL MP’s are too.
He likes his garden, so he does it up – on tax payer’s expenses. Because he gets them as per the law. He owns ducks, so he makes an island for them. Not only will it look nice, it’ll protect them from foxes. This costs £1,645. Because the media hits it with ‘duck island’ he’s forced to resign.

Another cited case here is this guy who made an administrative error on which property he was collecting morgage interest from. The amount doesn’t make a difference, but the location on the form does. Up in arms! As though no-one else ever makes a mistake or even properly cares about their administration.

This witch hunt has got to stop!

UK Gov wants big brother, Lords doesn’t

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Quite surprisingly, the heriditiary rules of the UK, the House of Lords, is fighting vigorously for the UK populace’s right to privacy. Probaby because they know the first people the government will go after is them. The Government isn’t having any of it. They say that we can trust them to treat the data securely and safely. Like they’ve shown many times they can’t.

Hitler Jugend makes it to the UK

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Children as young as seven are being recruited to tattle on their neighbours. They are being taught how to collect evidence unseen as well as being given a special action pack complete with all the information and items you need to spy on your community in order to prosecute legally. They are calling themseslves ‘Street Champions’. My suggestion for a better name? ‘Cowardly Narc Pawns’.

UK Launches db of EVERY CHILD in the UK

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Well there it is: every baby will be stamped with a digital prison tatoo at birth. Only *cough* 300.000 childcare professionals – who are especially trustworthy technically adept people who will NEVER compromise the integrity of the database and leak data to anyone else, just like the UK government never does – will have full, unfettered access to every detail of your spawn’s life.