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Are people still dumb enough believe they can force anyone to abandon nuclear weapons research or that's even what was agreed to.

Why not? It's happened before. It's clear that Iran's nuclear weapon program can be stopped, the only question is at what cost.

Both he and his wife will be paying tax: Zuckerberg defends his new philanthropic initiative.

What's that you say? The NYT reporting sensationalist untruths? Where did I leave my monocle...

What about universal fire fighting service? Which is probably more relevant, since the BBC article references two fires in two weeks in London due to these devices.

Three fires in London over ten days in October:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

The BBC article on this subject makes clear that these are cheap, unbranded Chinese and East Asian knock-offs with a documented history demonstrating that they (and specifically their chargers) are a fire risk. That BBC piece really should have been TFA.

There are some oddities around these "hoverboards", in the UK, though. Specifically, it's illegal to operate one on either a public road or a pavement, meaning that they are legal only for use on private land. Technically, I think, the same is true of Segways.

This is pretty much what university students in the UK have had since the early 2000's, but without offering different terms for different fields. Instead, some career paths, e.g. nursing, are incentivised with bursaries.

It comes at a cost though. The UK government believes that around 45% of university graduates will not earn enough to repay their student loans. Of course almost all will pay some, and a lot will pay most of it - but there is an outstanding bill. In the UK the government (i.e. taxpayers) underwrites student loans and will pick this up ,,, I'm not sure what will happen in the USA - or if they will just charge a lot more to those who earn more to make it cost neural.

Yes, I am am in the extreme minority. It means nothing, aside from from the apathy of the lazy majority, they simply accept all the press releases as face value. The majority proves itself wrong with every election. The war is about profit (specifically opium in Afghanistan, the taliban cut off the flow, read up on the opium wars, this is the same thing), nothing else. Get off your stupid high horse. Don't be the empire's useless idiot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Mr Erdogan spoke of Turkey's "rage" at the decision to shoot down the F-4 Phantom on 22 June and described Syria as a "clear and present threat".
"A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack," he said. The Turkish jet was on a training flight, testing Turkey's radars in the eastern Mediterranean, he said.

"A short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack," Erdogan said.

indeed, this is the feeling in parts of Scotland (which is a separate country within the governance of the United Kingdom) where the BBC played a huge part in last years independence campaign. Unsurprisingly, the state broadcaster, funded by the tax payer, took the side of the "no" campaign instead of being unbiased in their reporting and this is causing huge ruptures in Scotland right now and calls are being made to revolutionise the BBC in Scotland. There has been a lot of reporting on this situation here and even before the referendum here and here.

Many in Scotland think that the BBC was a major force in swinging the vote in the final days before the referendum vote when both sides were close to 50/50 of the vote. This caused quite a few protests at BBC Scotland (although, these were played down by the state media).

Whilst it is obvious what the role being played by the BBC in NK and Eritrea is; bear in mind that it is a state broadcaster and will even attempt to exert power over residents within the UK.

"In a preview of what the U.S. may one day face with cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid, Ivan Nechepurenko reports at the NY Times that power lines in southern Ukraine that supply Crimea have been knocked down by saboteurs, leaving millions without electricity."

Except the power supply was knocked out by explosives blowing up the pylons and cyberattacks were not involved. And who in this day and age still connects their SCADA units directly to the Internet. Have a look at this from 2003. I do realize bureaucracy moves slowly but this is ridiculous.

I found the original source. Here's a summary here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/hea...

I remember where I heard it now. It was a doco by Dr Robert Winston called Superhuman, and was covering the experience of military surgeon Professor James Ryan.
I found a summary of the episode here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/hea...

"Russia is fine provider. Soviet Union or Russia have kept contracts as signed over the terms and time of the contract, built pipelines into the West as planned and agreed on. Russian gas flowed as expected, offered and paid for. If your nation stops paying mid contract or takes gas in transit, contract is recreated to reflect new costs or currency changes. Russia is not difficult to deal with for a gas pipeline contract. Price is set, product flows as paid for."

So how much does the Kremlin pay you to spout this nonsense?:

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Obviously you're completely and utterly full of shit. Please stop shilling so blatantly and at least put some effort into it if nothing else.

Oh wait, don't tell me "All those instance were legitimate because gas was being stolen, or wasn't being paid for blah blah blah". Yeah that's exactly the fucking reason why Russia isn't a trustworthy gas supplier, because when it feels like price gouging you it can. Unfortunately though the instances of shut off all happened to coincide with periods where Russia-Ukrainian political relations were being strained because Ukraine had dared to vote in someone who wasn't pro-Russia as a leader. Funny that eh? What a coincidence?

Meanwhile we can pull in gas from places like Norway or Qatar, where this kind of thing never happens. So much for Russia being reliable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/...

Not saying that matches the reaction indicated, but at least gives you enough info to dig further.

"Harry Bradbury .. has been given licences by the government to drill for and extract gas from massive coal reserves under the sea and off the North East coast."

"Under the North Sea there are vast deposits. We're talking about two billion tonnes of coal off the coast here. Now, to give you some measure of that, two billion tonnes has more energy in it than we've ever extracted from the totality of North Sea gas since we began." link

From the summary:

Japanese/European nuclear plants built in the UK are also expected to contribute

No, we're getting Chinese ones. I think our politicians must be among the most easily bought.

I saw this movie.... it doesnt end well!

The apes are actually American niggers and thanks to welfare and SJW bleeding heart liberals they out-breed us all with each morbidly obese single mother having at least seven or eight fatherless gangsta thug bastard babies and soon the once proud nation is reduced to a bunch of hulking apes screeching at each other, pointing guns sideways for some stupid fucking reason, throwing gang signs, and hitting each other with sticks!

Isn't it strange the way Detroit didn't go straight to hell in every imaginable way until after it was over 80% black and you had nigger voters voting for nigger leaders and nigger community organizers crying about any effort to improve the city calling it "gentrification"?

Starting with Babylon every single nation that tried multi-culturalism ended up sorely regretting it. But hey, fuck facts, fuck history, we have a political agenda to feel good about, that's what really fucking matters!

Oh did you know that white folks living near the Mississippi River have experienced massive flooding a lot like what happened to New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina? This didn't make major news even though it has happened more than once. Why? Because when that happens to white people they band together and help each other and they pull through. They don't all go ape-shit, loot everything, pillage everyone, and have total fucking lawlessness where even the fucking cops are doing the looting and rioting too. So you see it's not considered newsworthy in any national sense. "If it bleeds, it leads" as the news people say. Isn't that odd the way white people act civilized when disaster strikes and black people really show us how savage they can be as usual? Coincidence I am sure.

That majority black people do this to other majority black people is OBVIOUSLY because of white racism, somehow, even though this goes completely against the well-established social dynamic of "us against them" proven again and again by sociology, because even though it's demonstrably false, that failed idea fits the libtard narrative of "blacks as victims" and certainly never "hold blacks responsible for the choices they make, just like whites, because that would be true equality". Just like feminists want women to be equal, oh, except for that Selective Service/draft thing, no they don't want to be quite THAT equal, thanks. We're supposed to pretend not to notice such "inconsistencies" in their philosophies, of course.

If anyone is offended by this post and has the guts to actually talk about it instead of blindly hating me for the way I use my free speech, I challenge you with this: name just one majority-black city you would like to relocate to. Detroit, Harlem, South Central are a few good candidates.

Most people understand and accept the risks of accidental deaths for the sake of modern conveniences, like driving in cars, flying commercial airliners, and of course, taking trains like this. The reason we react the way we do to terrorism is because it's a deliberate, cold-hearted act of barbarity that takes the lives of innocent people

You've not driven much, have you? Crashes are about 95% human error. Deliberate errors are most of those. The act of running the red was quite deliberate. The act of speeding while doing it. The act of hitting the other car may not have been deliberate, but then, if you point a gun and fire at someone, nobody assumes it was unintentional until proven otherwise, but with cars, it's the opposite. But the large number of insanely poor drivers allowed on the road, killing a 9/11 worth of people every month for 30 years proves people don't care about death.

The tragedy of the Paris attacks is not that so many people died. As you point out, probably more people died in traffic accidents that day in Europe. The tragedy is that those people died so needlessly.

No, it's that so many white people died. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl... People don't care if Africans die in the same numbers in terrorist attacks. Black lives matters is that people don't care when the Africans die, but white people die, and it's 90% of the news for weeks.

Christians conveniently forget that their god started much of this mess when He told GWB to invade the middle east

It reqiures some magical thinking to believe that Christianity doesn't have blood on it's hands, but I guess that just goes with the territory.

There are a vast number of victims - of the order of hundreds or the low thousands. The cases dealt with so far have dealt far less than 100 perps http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

Here's one:

A guy gets 8 years jail for defending himself against a home invasion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...

Funny how the UK police have enough time and resources to create entire new departments for the express purpose of policing the internet - ostensibly to protect the children - and yet they've got such a backlog on actual child abuse investigations that they can't get around to them for years.

The HHGTTG Text adventure > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

I think that you are the one flunking math, science and need a eye test. Have a look at this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl... and you will see the alternative pipeline from Port Arthur, Texas, through Steele City, Nebraska to Hardisty, Alberta. It may be a longer pipeline but it doesn't mean everything has to go by truck and rail.

Anyways, the reason nobody works on these is probably because our existing antibiotics already work really well, likewise it wouldn't be terribly practical to develop more.

No! No! Bacteria have been evolving antibiotic resistance and things are getting quite desperate, especially in hospital settings. Newer and more potent antibiotics are urgently needed. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) and multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are well-known examples of superbugs. The latest are NDM-1 bacteria that have acquired the ability to defeat carbapenems, the antibiotics of last resort when all else fails. And these are failing too. There is an ongoing arms race between bacteria and antibiotics and it has always been so since the introduction of penicillin. The bacteria are getting ahead and we need new antibiotics since yesterday.

This bill is supported by both Labour and Conservative. So that means at least 44% of voters voted for the "asshats". And a further 33.9% didn't care either way so I don't see why their opinion matters.

Alan Johnson didn't even know what it says. Watch from 11 mins: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e...

If we switched to proportional representation, then we'd have a Conservative/UKIP coalition. Is that what you'd prefer?

Only if people voted exactly the same way (which they wouldn't) and we didn't use an electoral system that asks the voters about their opinions on all the candidates eg STV.

The deposition and testimony provided by Garry Norris - IBM's chief negotiator with Microsoft before and after the introduction of Windows 95 - has provided a cornucopia of fascinating evidence in the Microsoft trial. Much of it was previously unknown or unconfirmed. His evidence showed how Microsoft effectively controlled IBM's PC hardware and software businesses by making the price of Windows considerably higher than for other comparable PC makers. Mr Norris described in detail to Philip Malone, counsel for the Department of Justice, five cases where Microsoft had succeeded in modifying, or had attempted to influence, IBM's choice of ...

Forgot to link the source of that quote: here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...

About the same number of accounts, a couple of thousand against the millions that Vodafone and British Gas must have. BG say it wasn't their systems that were breached. Sounds as if there's another database that's leaked, and some people who have re-used passwords across multiple accounts are having their credentials tried out across multiple sites.

With the new powers being asked by the terrorist Theresa May, there's no need to even look at a person's laptop or data, they simply go to the ISP, Google, and Facebook for all your data and associates and browsing history.
Forget Tor, it's full of spying nodes setup by GCHQ and NSA.

Unless you're using end-to-end encryption like Apple's iMessage or Pidgin for transferring all your data and comms, it's simply not possible to not leak any information over the air, either through Tor or by going directly through your ISP.

Assuming we're being told the truth, it could have been used as a distraction from the main attack. But apparently the hackers got hold of some third-party login credentials using social engineering and used these to leverage access to the customer database. What this unencrypted database was even doing accessible from the Web just beggars incredulity. Are they teaching them anything in computer school nowadays.

It's been on the BBC news. TalkTalk apologized for the hack, not that they hacked themselves - they've not apologized for their poor security. They also said they didn't give a shit about costomer's security, I mean, they said they'd been "far too complacent", presumably this was about around the time their shares dropped 10% in value.

The Sinatra estate had Frank Sinatra on stage starting in 2006, using archival footage rescued by Keith Robinson (Frank was a pack-rat, and saved all of his movie and TV rushes, so there is lots of material). They are bringing the Frank Sinatra stage show back to London, so you can see it too if you want. (This has a live orchestra to give it some interactivity.)

Perhaps not, but there is apparently a significant amount of overground cabling in London, which is why they're making a tunnel to replace it.

Well it depends where you live, I don't have data for Japan but in the UK winter, the peak electricity usage is at 5pm, when there's no useful light (it's either dark or going dark)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci...

Renewable stations take up a lot of land for the energy they produce, and are unreliable. They can be part of the solution but to claim that you can replace 45 (reliable, predictable, compact) coal stations with magic renewables is... unlikely.

The elderly, infirm and the very young have a tendency to die in heat waves. Heck you don't even need to be any of those either, just take the SAS training debarcle back in 2013.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-w...

It's called heatstroke. I would also suggest that it is way easier to heat a cold building than cool a hot one.

How about The bloggers law

If you mean for your requirements to be different

They are different, but even if cnaummann sincerely misunderstood them to be much more lax, than I intended, well, he did not offer a list anyway.

To clarify, the 80% would apply to the predicted changes. For example, if somebody predicted in 2005, that by 2015 the oceans will rise 10 cm, I would consider a rise of 8 cm as confirmation of the prediction.

Not at all predictions are quantifiable — statements like "Arctic will be ice-free by 2013" or Scotland's ski-industry will be bankrupt would've been acceptable too. But neither he nor you, nor anyone else, apparently, can find successful predictions to list...

Islam is now the largest criminal prison gang in the UK. Muslim rape gangs run riot, and they openly target the military. Is it any surprise that we want to keep an eye on them?

Okey dokey.

The number for nuclear seems right, as the UK government has agreed to guarantee a price of £89.5/MWh for new nuclear plants, but the current wholesale price for electricity in the UK is £44/MWh (from the same source). Given that that's half the cost of all of the generation mechanisms that you describe, I wonder what most of the power is coming from and noticing that oil is conveniently absent from your list. If oil prices keep going up over the next 10 years, then it looks as if nuclear will become a lot more attractive, which is why the government is guaranteeing the price (they're betting that £90/MWh is going to seem cheap by the time the new plants are online).

If this is not about starving people Why would people reject food during a famine?

Why don't you make the same case with bandages, antibiotics, pesticides, fertilizers, construction equipment, medicines, doctors, clothes, shoes or anything that extends life? You know why, it all costs money. To your specific example, is there a precedent for the government taking a patent (that has not expired) from a private entity to release in the public domain? I have not heard of it. If you were a company doing GM RnD, why would you continue that investment if there were a strong possibility that the government would take your patent away and the profit you expected to pay back investors and continue other RnD efforts? If you have a better idea that would keep companies investing in that RnD (it is very expensive) for patent law while servicing more people, lets see it.

Monsanto does some crappy things(I think below in the thread talks about that more and better), but that doesn't undermine the utility of GM (the point of this thread). The utility of GM to stop people starving is there regardless of the actions of the entity that currently markets them. The real harm is the misinformation spread about GMO,

It is the failure to do something like this which makes people extremely suspicious.

It has more to do with FUD and you know it. GGGP made arbitrary lines in taxonomy to promote his political agenda because he doesn't understand species. GP misunderstood endogenous retroviruses and how much of our DNA is from "foreign" sources or how much DNA we share with other species not even closely related to us.

While they are comfortable with full bellies spreading misinformation about GM, that crap influences governments all around the world to reject GMO all this despite the good they can do to the environment and farmers.

The BBC reports

The EU forbids personal data from being transferred to and processed in parts of the world that do not provide "adequate" privacy protections.

So, to make it easier for US firms - including the tech giants - to function, Safe Harbour was introduced to let them self-certify that they are carrying out the required steps.

More than 5,000 US companies make use of the arrangement to facilitate data transfers

self-certify that they're completely above-board and that no privacy is being invaded.. says Google and Facebook.

I guess all that will happen is that these companies will open EU offices to scour though all our stuff instead of sending it to an American datacentre. Plus ca change!

For Turing, breaking Enigma was only one of his accomplishments. His contributions to the start of the computer age overshadow everything he's done during the war. Welchman's post-war work was more in the shadows.

The BBC did a hour-long documentary on Welchman recently.

With up to 9000 personnel, plus key suppliers like Tommy Flowers and his group at Post Office Research (who built Colossus), and Harold 'Doc' Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company (who built the bombes), there's plenty of unsung heroes at Bletchley Park.

The proof is you are the only first world country with this problem.

Or, you know, keep your head in the sand. That might help.

The California Vehicle Code requires that all automobile drivers YIELD to pedestrians in the road, but as pedestrians do not have a permanent right-of-way, they can still be cited for jaywalking.

Ah yes, 'jaywalking' a crime invented by the motoring industry and heavily lobbied for to put the blame for the carnage onto the pedestrians and not the new-fangled motor cars that were charging around the roads.

How the motoring industry invented jaywalking

Maybe you should rethink your HuffPo talking points and educate yourself: http://www.inquisitr.com/12548...

Violent crime has been reducing in many western nations over the last few decades. Much of this reduction is probably due to the removal of lead from petrol/gasoline, and the subsequent reduction in neurotoxic effects that can cause violence.

All we're left with now is the true nutters, who shouldn't be near a gun. And with your lax gun controls, guns and ammo are easy and cheap to get hold of.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

I think you will find that people have been jailed for the Libor scandal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

There are further trials in the pipeline. Much of what happened in the U.K. at least prior to 2008 which was not strictly illegal at the time is now illegal, so if they do it again they will be going to jail.

Your premiss that nothing changes is wrong. Unfortunately what is done is done and changing laws retrospectively is generally held to be wrong.

Chocolate teapots have their uses. Main one is that if you're hungry you could eat it. Also, these guys would have it that you can even use one for brewing tea

A 3D printed clock though - plenty of examples. Usually using other materials for the pendulum, but I imagine nowhere near as consistent or useful at sea as Harrison's clocks.

Those damn tardigrades though. Ain't nobody messin with them. Not even entropy.

Cute little devils too. I've got a lot of them living in my roof gutters.

Dunno if you saw this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/12...

http://serc.carleton.edu/micro...

Since they've already survived in space, I suspect Mars would not be too difficult. I'm just not certain how much oxygen they need.

Sorry missed the link for that last comment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...