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A huge part of Viking wealth derived from slavery -- they'd enslave anyone, anywhere, including other Vikings, though they mostly focused on Great Britain, Ireland, and Slavs.

And yes, "slave" derives from "slav".

the issue of mass political censorship, population-wide surveillance, and social control, is not JUST due to Google, or Facebook, or the others. It's systemic, from the loss of control over the core mechanisms of personal computing which has been happening drip by drop since the 1980's or early 90's.

How was that control lost? People just... gave it away. One drip at a time. Without a care in the world because they got to think just a little bit less.

There was a war over personal computing and it has been lost by the good guys. Now people around the world are starting to pay for it.

Good job, Facebook and Google customers. Nicely done "cloud computing" supporters. Slow clap.

How dare anybody accuse Google of being non-partisan and interfering in elections. They would never do that. And neither would Twitter, the idea is preposterous!

And Facebook, what a bunch of angels!

What's more the fact that london now has a higher crime rate and murder than NYC is further proof you are wrong.

Fucking moron.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

It was slightly above in Febuary and less every other month this year and the yearly rate is well under half.

I should have worded it better, but there's still a weird double standard. Consider the Kendrick Lamar incident: He was able to perform a song with the forbidden word in, but when a white fan tries to sing exactly the same words she was immediately stopped due to crowd anger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/new...

Like I said before, you're a fucking idiot. Rather than parroting some boring rehearsed anti-youth propaganda, maybe you'd spend your time better actually finding out what the problem might be.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared...

Or does that gap not mean anything to you? Yes it's just the stupid millenials! That's much more likely!

In Jan 1919, 50,000 Spartacists rebelled in Berlin, led by the Communists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Leibknecht.
In 1919, communist workers' councils seized power all over Germany, and a Communist People's Government took power in Bavaria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/g...

Even before the constitution had been drawn up there was a serious challenge from the left. Many hoped to see a Russian style revolution in Germany. The left wing Spartacus movement led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg began a revolt in Berlin in January 1919. They seized building throughout the city. The government fled the city.

http://www.historyhome.co.uk/e...

If you didn't know about it already, this is an interesting article about mains frequency and how it can be used to timestamp electrical recordings:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...

I never hear about the diversity problem in nursing or preschool school teachers where men are effectively absent from the workforce, or how women want diversity in construction jobs or automotive repair.

Only because you don't listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/edu...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

https://www.womeninconstructio...

http://womeninautomotive.com/

etc.

Good question. Fortunately, in this case Wikipedia has a citation. We can look at it, and it seems piracy does not have a huge impact. The biggest risk seems to be people using old, rusty ships that are no longer particularly sea-worthy.

Medical bills & chance of being bankrupted by sickness or denied treatment - zero.

Hah, you wish. People are literally dying from the delays in treatment as the NHS is completely oversaturated with patients, more and more people are being driven to private health insurance every year, and nurses/doctors in the UK keep getting longer hours and less pay, which is why you hear about an NHS strike every few months. Over 70% of healthcare workers in the NHS end up doing unpaid overtime each week because they actually care about the patients and helping their coworkers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...
https://www.theguardian.com/so...
https://www.theguardian.com/he...

The NHS is collapsing and open boarders, along with hundreds of thousands of refugees (of which most don't work even after being there for 4 years), is only speeding it up.

University education - not cheap but a helluvalot more affordable than your 'freedom' prices.

Not exactly useful when degrees are nothing more than expensive toilet paper now. Unless you're a genius in some field, go to trade school instead.

Actual consumer protection laws so you can expect your purchases to function.

The US has the most amazing and generous return policies I've ever seen, it's far easier to justify a return in the US than in the UK.

You'd think that, but you'd be wrong. 30 minutes at 375 (celcius) is required to confidently kill MRSA

I always welcome corrections; I'd rather learn the truth than continue to believe something mistaken. However, I just did a Google search and I have not found a reference to support the above numbers.

Could you please provide a link documenting your numbers?

Here's an article about a test using a commercial steam vapor cleaner. I'm having trouble understanding it... the conclusion is that a steam vapor cleaner is a practical way to kill MRSA and other bacteria, but reading the text it seems to suggest that it took over 7 minutes, and I don't think anyone applies a steam cleaner to the same spot for over 7 minutes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600216/

This BBC article says that 150 to 180 degree C steam vapor can kill MRSA in two seconds. I think that is practical with a real steam vapor cleaning machine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6919473.stm

And here are some claims from companies that want to sell you steam vapor cleaners.

Ladybug company cites a study

Vapamore company cites a study

An article that reads like an advertisement for Ladybug brand cleaners with "TANCS".

Quote: "...even strong chemical disinfectants such as bleach when allowed 20 minutes of dwell time did not achieve the same degree of kill that the TANCS(R)-equipped unit accomplished in 3 seconds."

This company claims two of their machines are "certified" to kill MRSA (no reference to support the claim).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

Ah, okay, so basically anyone not voting for UKIP is voting for the boot to the neck in your opinion. You could have just said that to start with instead of making us guess.

So, in bizzaro-Mashiki-land, can you explain how UKIP's policy of, for example, banning Muslim headscarfs is not putting the boot to the neck? At the last election they also wanted to hire a lot more prison officers, as if they suspected many more people would be going to prison or something...

Not to mention their immigration policies. Reducing net migration to zero would mean a lot of families ripped apart, a lot of British citizens separated from their kin by force. How about refusing prisoners access to religious services provided by people whose views they deem to be "contrary to British values" (i.e. contrary to UKIP values). Issue compulsory purchase orders for poor quality houses in multiple occupation.

Their 2017 manifesto page is 404 now, but the BBC still has a summary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ele...

They sound like a fairly oppressive bunch, not at all shy about using forcing people to accept their definition of morality. They want to use that power to re-shape society. Actually they sound like SJWs.

They very likely are CT scanners as the bbc news article about Heathrow installing some says that Schiphol already tested them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

Also Amsterdam Schipol is a very well run airport and the Dutch are an exceptionally well mannered people with a solid work ethic. I've been though hundreds of airports and the only departing Customs or Immigration officer who ever asked me if I enjoyed my stay was at Amsterdam.

Will Elon Musk call me a pedo too?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

It's almost harder to find a metro/subway/underground tunnel that didn't find interesting archaeology, provided that archaeologists were allowed in.

Just hope that your new subway project doesn't run into an old plague pit.

Multiple sources say that Facebook confirmed that the message is real.

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

I guess you have a Pastebin or a blog or something that says otherwise... But rather than argue, it might be easier to wait until his trial to see what evidence is presented. Doubtless Facebook will have provided logs etc.

You do know that the BBC receives £254 million (approximately $400 million) directly from the UK government, right? (See their own report here, p19).

Now, the BBC is not bad compared to all the other media outlets but almost half a billion dollars directly from the British Foreign Office compromises its claim to impartiality.

... because International trade is not a zero sum game, trade barriers harm American interests. Then I don't expect his base to understand that, but they will understand the mass unemployment that is coming their way as a result of his and your ignorance of Economics 101.

While the targets, such as the EU, Japan, the rest world with trade more with each other.

EU signs its biggest free trade deal with Japan

While there is some hysteria surrounding this and the fact it is unfathomable doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

There will always psychopaths that will seek to exploit these things for their own sick reasons.

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

See on the BBC

Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem'
By Brian Milligan
Personal Finance reporter
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bus...

Way ahead of you. There have been lots of schemes to encourage more men to get into nursing, and lots of research to understand the problem.

Here are some overviews:

https://journals.lww.com/ajnon...

https://minoritynurse.com/more...

Same with teaching. It's particularly bad in primary level, where children need male role models. The BBC is a good starting point:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

And these guys if course:

http://www.malesinteaching.com...

Firefox and it's more usable cousin, PaleMoon, both support RSS as live bookmarks. I use that for all my news. BBC World, CBC World, CBC Canadian, CNN Latest, and CNN World. You don't need a dedicated RSS reader to enjoy RSS. It also lets me laugh at people who (still today) get caught by fake stories on social media sites. People who get their news through social media deserve what they get, I think.

Dude, no offense but you're definitely approaching wealthy. I don't even make half what you do, but consider myself comfortable. If I can survive with my salary without economic anxiety, you're doing EXTREMELY well at $140K a year.

Try not to lose perspective. It's perfectly okay to be successful, but remember that many make do with far less than what you have and at least be willing to admit that you're wealthy.

Depends where you live. In the Bay Area, for example, he’d be barely above poor.

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

There is an imminent threat (which appears to have been today reiterated that they are expecting this to start tomorrow) from more rain flooding the area of the caves they are in ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor... paragraph 8) he was delivering air tanks TO the area they are trapped in ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor... paragraph) , because the air in the cave complex section they are trapped in is running short of oxygen so this is something which they may have to increase the rate of ( same article, paragraph 6). In short, things are not looking exactly rosy. I stand by saying they're in imminent danger.

There is an imminent threat (which appears to have been today reiterated that they are expecting this to start tomorrow) from more rain flooding the area of the caves they are in ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor... paragraph 8) he was delivering air tanks TO the area they are trapped in ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor... paragraph) , because the air in the cave complex section they are trapped in is running short of oxygen so this is something which they may have to increase the rate of ( same article, paragraph 6). In short, things are not looking exactly rosy. I stand by saying they're in imminent danger.

Frustrating? Take this example from today. Vote Leave found guilty of breaking 4 laws during their campaign, not accused of, this is the verdict and the very top thing is vote leave's guy offering up excuses and complaints about the process which are also intermingled with the article itself.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

And that's just one small thing among many. Don't even get me started on Kuenssberg.

I personally don't care much for the idea, but I also didn't confuse my personal preferences with expert knowledge, either. Instead, I did some research. And it turns out that there is considerable scientific debate regarding the likely effects of marriages between first cousins on their offspring and, in particular, whether they're sufficient to merit banning such unions, which, I must admit, surprises me.

And I said nothing about Islam being a "race"--you did. This has little to do with religion in any case, and lots to do with cultural and ethnic groups. Likewise, it seems, with aversion to the practice.

The BBC has long since addressed this error. Quit wasting your time--or at least quit wasting ours.

There is also the case of the guy that flew from New Zealand to the US to attack teenage girl, and was shot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

The muzzies have got a hand in it

Depends which lawyers you speak to I guess. How about this opinion from another employment lawyer:

Alan Lewis, employment partner at law firm Irwin Mitchell said the decision was not a "game changer" and that cases would continue to be argued on their specific facts and, for businesses that rely on self employed contracts, that means further uncertainty.

"This decision is not necessarily a win for 'gig economy' workers seeking to challenge their employment status."

Pimlico Plumbers does "not operate a gig model and the implications for Uber, City Sprint, Deliveroo etc may be limited, although the publicity around this case may encourage other 'self employed' contractors to challenge their legal status," added Mr Lewis.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bus...

A more relevant story, if only from the workers' rights perspective:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bus...

There's an old saying that oaks take three hundred years to grow, three hundred years to live, and three hundred years to die.
(mentioned e.g. here)

I'm sorry to hear that yours may not last that long.

The thing is, we've had a succession of Secretaries of State asking for the same thing going back to at least 2002: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/101... (first "national ID cards', and now a less all-encompassing 'internet ID card').

This guy can just go to the back of the queue of stupid politicians who mostly don't go anywhere important. Theresa May is only PM because so many other people stepped out of the way the party got desperate.

The government is hanging by a thread - Brexit will keep them entertained enough to keep this at bay, although it'll come up again in a year or two. Then again a year or two after that until finally they manage to sneak it in.

As Richard Feynman so clearly pointed out, if your model does not fit data, then it is wrong. The model proffered says that CO2 drives our climate. However, we see that even Phil Jones, lead researcher of the IPCC (and the IPCC itself) admit that the same heating occurred from 1975 to 1998, as occurred in 1910 to 1940 (very low CO2 output) and from 1860 to 1880 (essentially no CO2 output). So if the temperature changes are the same for essentially zero, very little, and a lot of CO2 output, then can we conclusively state that CO2 is the driver of temperature change?

Feynman has another great segment on this very thing where you make a vague and unverifiable model, and thus you cannot be proven wrong; but the model should be discounted entirely to begin with.

The Holocene climatic optimum was a period 8–5 kyr ago when annual mean surface temperatures in Greenland were 2–3C warmer than present-day values... For all the simulated icesheet histories, the ice sheet is approaching a steady state at the end of the 20th century

. So it was considerably warmer back in the time of the Pharaohs, and at least the Greenland ice sheet is approaching a stead state of size at this time. That would imply that things have changed significantly - cooler - over the last 5 to 8K years, no?

There is also this little bit of data which is what led Phil Jones, Director of the CRU of East Anglia and a primary contributor to the IPCC, to agree that:

according to the global temperature record used by the IPCC, the rates of global warming from 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 were identical

. So if the heating over those periods - two well before the rapid rise in CO2 - are the same as the "big trigger" that caused the whole IPCC/global warming issue in the first place, then how do we know that it's because of CO2?

Facebook is doing as much as it can to avoid privacy or any sort of accountability relating to privacy. So much so that they are moving their data centres so that they wont have to abide by GDPR legislation. This alone is good enough reason for anyone to be suspicious of Facebook. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech... I certainly wont be allowing any company that doesn't comply with GDPR to hold my personal dfata.

Yeah, that barely known regional publication the New York Times gets read by nobody at all. Much like this niche website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/w...

Giving home to homeless people worked in a city in canada. There's a discussion on this in this BBC podcast (30 min length): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm...

Exactly what could the Russian government do to a private citizen who will likely never step foot on their soil?

Errr, attempt to poison them? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

murder rate in London is higher than NYC and this is considering that London is the socialist utopia with free mental health & no guns.

For 2 months, it is higher. Don't think its yet something to draw conclusions from. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4...

Iran wants Israel to strike them.

didn't they already do that ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

US National Security Adviser John Bolton is reported as saying that European companies doing business with Iran will have to finish within six months or face US sanctions.

Iran nuclear deal: Powers seek to save agreement after US exit

According to everyone including Netanyahu, they were not building nuclear weapons. I guess you must be smarter than all of Mossad and the CIA put together.

I have no opinion on this issue specifically, but it is indeed possible that the person you are talking to could indeed be smarter than all of Mossad and the CIA put together. And you probably are, too. Any organisation which actively rejects public scrutiny can very easily be far stupider than any single person who works for them.

In the lead up to the Iraq war, our intelligence services were convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The "evidence" that they presented in public was laughably stupid, but many (including me) figured that they had better information but couldn't tell us because that would give away stuff like exactly how they got it.

What nobody (including me) seemed to question was the premise that our spies knew what they were doing and had some understanding of how the world worked. It turns out that they knew shit. They did not have any information that the rest of us didn't have. That laughably stupid "evidence" was literally all they had, and they convinced themselves anyway.

I've seen a lot of films and TV shows presenting a fictionalised account of MI5, the British agency responsible (amongst other things) for finding foreign spies. Do you know how many foreign spies they have actually discovered since it was created a century ago?

You probably know the answer already by my tone of voice: The number is exactly zero. Even the ones who worked for MI5. Everyone MI5 "caught" by their own devices was not a spy, and every one who was an actual spy was caught by someone else or they turned themselves in.

The assumption that our intelligence services know more than you do, or understand the world better than you do, is a fatal one. This is, if you like, the anti-conspiracy theory. "They" are not suppressing information, "they" are not arranging atrocities, "they" do not possess secret knowledge that you do not, "they" are not secretly running the show. In reality, "they", more than likely not, are incompetent weirdos who live in a fantasy world.

Direct high speed transport can be effective like many of Japan and Euros high speed trains, but these share infrastructure with lower speed rail.

No high speed trains don't generally don't share infrastructure, but can when it is advantageous like getting into city centres instead of unloading miles away like airports do. In many cases the high speed routes are entirely new, in other cases there are quadruple (or more) tracks, two for lower speed trains and two for higher speed trains.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That was another big story from a few years back. They blocked investigation of the charges until the last documented parliament member with ties to the sex abuse had died, because MI5 had been using 'protection' for the ring of them to get favorable financing passed through parliament.

http://yournewswire.com/britis...
https://www.express.co.uk/news...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://listverse.com/2015/09/0...
https://www.pri.org/stories/20...
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/1...

You can read and decide for yourself.

On a month by month basis in the very recent past then this is true. However, looking at such a short time scale probably isn't useful. For example, in January there were 18 killings investigated by the NYPD and 8 investigated by the police in London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4...

Like the UK that just convicted someone of hate speech for rap lyrics from a Snap Dogg song she posted on Instagram to pay tribute to a boy who died in a car crash?