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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

Schneier on Security: The Limitations of Intelligence: 

"We recently learned that US intelligence agencies had at least three days' warning that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was preparing to launch a chemical attack on his own people, but wasn't able to stop it...

The NSA's belief that more data is always good, and that it's worth doing anything in order to collect it, is wrong. There are diminishing returns, and the NSA almost certainly passed that point long ago. But the idea of trade-offs does not seem to be part of its thinking. The NSA missed the Boston Marathon bombers, even though the suspects left a really sloppy Internet trail and the older brother was on the terrorist watch list. With all the NSA is doing eavesdropping on the world, you would think the least it could manage would be keeping track of people on the terrorist watch list. Apparently not. I don't know how the CIA measures its success, but it failed to predict the end of the Cold War. More data does not necessarily mean better information..."

Roppongi’s Golden Arches Crushed In The War Dance? McSayonara After 30 Years : Japan Subculture Research Center: 
"Let’s start with the obvious answer: it really is against the law to dance after midnight in most venues in Japan. This is well explained in the book Odotte wa Ikenai Kuni, Nihon (Japan: The Land Where You Can’t Dance) . The Adult Entertainment Laws originally were revised after WWII to clamp down on the infamous “Dance Halls” which were thinly disguised venues of prostitution. Several decades later “Dance Halls” have been replaced by clubs, discos, and bars with dance floors; they are not proxy brothels. The places people dance have changed, as have the customers; the laws have not...

One unofficial answer from the police is this: “It’s much easier to raid a dance club on violations of the AEL than it is to get a warrant for a drug search. Dance clubs are hotbeds of drug activity.” Maybe, that’s partially true. At some dance parties, there will be people using ecstasy (MDMA). There will also be people getting so drunk that they get alcohol poisoning. There will also be people just dancing. Should the rest of us be banned from the dance floor because of a few reckless people?

...The hardline enforcement of forgotten laws may make the police look good. It is a nuisance for everyone else. It hurts the business of legitimate clubs. It discourages people from staying out late, making nightlife boring. If there’s no place to dance after midnight, than many people will go home. It’s bad for tourism as well. “Tokyo: The City That Always Sleeps Before Midnight”—try attracting people to Japan with that slogan. Ultimately, it hurts the economy and encourages corruption. Clubs relying on late-night traffic will go out of business. Clubs that want to stay in business will pay bribes and protection money to avoid the raids."

RAWIllumination.net: Jesse Walker on Illuminatus!: 

Pic via Chapter37 on deviantART:

"The great thing about that book, which is in  my book -- People sometimes say it treats every conspiracy as true.  It might be more accurate to say that it treats every way at looking at the world as equally true and equally absurd, and then sort of sees what it can tease out from that.  Those two, particularly Wilson, represent what I call in the book the ironic style of political paranoia, or the ironic style of conspiracism, I should say. 

That's people who, they're not interested so much in talking about conspiracy theories to debunk them, or to say hey this is one that I think that is true, although sometimes they might do that their own merits,  but just to have fun with them, to explore them.  They're this big mutant mythology. Let's find what kind of laughs we can find in there. Let's find what kind of social insights can be found in there."

Dedroidify: He-he: 

Bruce Lee was cooler than you are.

Best thing you'll watch all day - "I've been around more corners of the internet than I feel comfortable admitting and though it's, yes, mostly just absolutely devastated me in a profound way, it's also let me stumble upon a few uplifting gems...  Also, we get to watch Mr. Rogers breakdance."

Via Dedroidify: 4 Awesome Videos That Make You Happy to Be Alive: 

"like you don't know, you stud, you irreplacable fucking hero." lmao"

Czech Republic sounds magical - Krauser's PUA Adventure: 

"Today’s czech mainstream media article on the most credible and popular portal idnes.cz( also most popular serious newspaper) – women’s section, written by a woman.(!) “What men desire?” 1) Attraction – men are very visual. 2) Femininity – in behaviour and in appearance. 3) Chemistry – nice parfume, sending sparking(?) signals, rest is nature 4) Positive approach to life 5) Active approach to life (Appreciate his ideas!) 6) Woman tinier than man. For many men she has to be skinny or normal, not fat or “unhealthy” thin. 7)Real partner – sharing daily trouble and fun, cuddling, you have to appreciate him for details 8) Sense for family, tenderness, empathy – Traditional role divison had and has it’s meaning. 9) Not dominant woman – even successful women should be “cool” at home. Men fight at work, they don’t want to fight at home as well. Main thing is not to piss him off! 10) Smile. Banal but magical...

Btw some gems from the discussion under the article: Woman: I though they wanted deaf nympho with big tits who owns a brewery and a fishing boat:D Woman: If man remembers colour of your eyes after first date, it means you have small tits. Man: 11. Swallow ."