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Just another opium war... gotta keep the pipeline open

in this case it's being done for a very positive reason, which is that it's known to reduce the transmission of AIDS

Nope, the preponderance of evidence say the transmission of AIDS is either unaffected or enhanced by circumcision.

Almost any claims that circumcision protects from AIDS quote the infamous Camp Orange/Orange Farms study. That study consists of an egregious list of scientific misconduct. For example, the circumcised group had received sexual education while the control group did not -- so it's not surprising that men who had a downtime and were taught safe(r) practices will have less AIDS. The researchers' bias was so strong they immediately destroyed the control group "so they can benefit too" before even the data was tabulated.

Let's take a look at other studies:small increase of risk; no effect; large increase. Or for gay men: UK, US, Scotland.

On the other hand, there's a significant increase of MtF transmission.

But, if a study is funded by the Gates Foundation, it will be stopped early "because of futility" of protection, while in fact the preliminary data show a strong increase of risk.

Or, papers outright lie about the conclusion: "Declining Rates in Male Circumcision amidst Increasing Evidence of its Public Health Benefit -- in all categories other than one the "benefit" is negative, and the only category where circumcision slightly wins (heterosexuals with syphilis) had a sample of 6.

(though I'm circumcised, as are most American men, and I don't consider myself "mutilated"

I'm sorry for you. Alas, people who suffer from some malady tend to have a strong bias that "it's the right thing to do". For example, the strongest driver for female circumcision are older women who were circumcised themselves. Same for the deaf.

even if it does (theoretically) reduce a little sexual pleasure

"theoretically", "a little"?!? While you're unable to make this test yourself, you can ask an intact friend: wear regular underwear (ie, not commando, not boxers), retract the foreskin, try walking. For extra bonus, do it where there are people around so you can't adjust (this randomly happened to me a couple times). The chafing is so strong it's a pain. If penises get so calloused such chafing is not noticeable, there's hardly any feeling left.

Different world. In the UK..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisda...

South Africa does too, only thing holding them back is that 90% of the farms given to blacks fail.

A fine effort to instantly derail the thread.

Here in the UK we've had quite enough of that already.

Glad nobody was seriously injured.
Is it just me, or is this happening more frequently since May has been in charge?

A fine effort to instantly derail the thread.

Here in the UK we've had quite enough of that already.

Drink some Green Tea Beaver Buzz. Almost 400mg of caffeine https://www.amazon.com/Canadia...

But watch you don't accidentally kill yourself.

What you've said is that if a more qualified woman or black person applies for the job, an employer is in no way obligated to accept a while, male candidate.

No, that's not what I said. Oh, and here's a reference for hiring women purely on the grounds of their gender:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Here's one where the BBC are defending and claiming legality for offering paid work to people that must be non-white:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ente...

OTOH, there is no law stating a less qualified candidate who is not white or male must be accepted. You're pretty much trying to do what Damore did in his memo, insinuate a conclusion and lie by omission.

No, I'm just better informed than you and able to back up my statements with references. You merely throw around insults.

White males are not discriminated against in any way

Except the ways I mentioned in my original post, none of which you've been able to disprove.

Not even the Guardian tries to say that white men are evil, that shit is entirely the DM's area.

No one is attacking you for being white or male

Well, since you mentioned the Guardian, even they acknowledge that "In America, as in Europe, older, white men are the only group that liberals can abuse and exclude with impunity."
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

you're being attacked because you spout a lot of bullshit and the rest of us are sick of it

When even the fucking Guardian acknowledges the issue I think it shows that you're either ignorant, in denial or maliciously trying to prevent conversation.

So call bollocks on whatever the fuck you like, but do try and provide some fucking evidence next time.

In and of itself? No.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/417...

I may or may not be profoundly disturbed. I'm also aware of the meaning of justice, and prejudging someone's guilt and imposing a penalty based purely on their clothing is not justice.

I think that's coming from this kind of discussions:

(judge said, don't get too drunk, others said, it's rape victim blaming)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...

Actual link to real content from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/u...

If any of the things you insist are "obvious" were actually true, then it would be easy to support them with actual data ... yet you can't.

Research has suggested a causal link for years.

Weird. But then I've also never really understood the speculation going on in stock markets and futures and commodities and whatnot.

If you're like me, you do, but rejected the correct answer because it seemed so silly.

It's explained reasonably well by analogy with the Parable of the Ox Explained here on the BBC's excellent "More Or Less" radio programme/podcast, but if you prefer to read here's the author's post.

Demographically, yes, things are going that way. The protestant population is on the decline.
Census figures: NI Protestant population continuing to decline

Are you implying "professional" brewers do know exactly what's in their beer?

Yes. Where 'knowing' can range from buying yeast from expert companies that may even have done the DNA sequencing (the big boys), to (for many craft beers) at least doing everything they can to keep the yeast population they have used in the past happy and stable. See (or, more accurately, listen to): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

Quote from the programme:

Dr Bill Simpson is the Managing Director of a company in Leatherhead that has hundreds of samples of yeasts, old and new, frozen in liquid nitrogen. By preserving different yeasts from around the world his team are able to recreate ales and lagers from the past.

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

The reason it's in the current news (at least on the BBC) is that the BBC have recently published the salaries of many of their top earners for the first time. The discussion has arisen because many are earning in the millions and are effectively paid from the public purse (well, licence fee but all the same in the end...).

Original article

I note that Will Gardner (Childnet CEO) says: "Protecting children from exposure, including accidental exposure, to adult content is incredibly important, given the effect it can have on young people,".

So will he also be pushing to protect children from other types of web site that can have effects on them ? I am thinking of religious sites. The views expressed on these can cause considerable trauma; think of the effect of seeing the views expressed about homosexuality on a young gay boy ? Or how about the views expressed about people of different, or no, faith ?

If you work in a group environment and you play your music loud enough that other people can hear it copyright crusaders considers you a pirate.

What are you talking about? The crisis in Venezuela barely has something to do with oil.

Excuse me, but an economy where roughly 50% of GDP is based on oil as are 95% of it is not at all diversified and is bound to fluctuate a bit like the oil price. Source: http://www.economicshelp.org/b...

While it is true that Venezuela has also a lot of political and historical problems, a lot of the current crisis seems to come from lack of economic diversity and large dependence on oil price.

There's a nice podcast about the current crisis in Venezuela (about 30 min) which I recommend:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

Oh for fucks sake. Learn how to use fucking Google.

Lets start with a female friendly publication of alleged repute:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

But lets go straight to a feminist national newspaper:
https://www.theguardian.com/li...

Note 'unwanted verbal advances'. That was in the notice published on the Nottingham police website, which sadly they've since hidden from view:
http://www.nottinghamshire.pol...

Of course, I've never harassed a woman in Nottingham, although I've been harassed by a man and assaulted by a woman. The police don't give a flying fuck about that though, no, it's just fucking misogyny is a hate crime and spending money on training police officers to be androphobic.

Enough references for you? If not, do your own fucking google searches.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blog...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

I refuse to work for a manager that can't use Google, keep your fat fucking job.

"I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous" - Well, before December 1941 the US with Franklin D. Roosevelt as President was doing quite a bit of prodding the Axis (rightly, in my British view), for example:

• Lend Lease "...This program effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality and was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy, which had dominated United States foreign relations since 1931 ... In December 1940, President Roosevelt proclaimed the U.S. would be the 'Arsenal of Democracy' and proposed selling munitions to Britain and Canada ..."
• Battle of the Atlantic "... By 1941, the United States was taking an increasing part in the war, despite its nominal neutrality. In April 1941 President Roosevelt extended the Pan-American Security Zone east almost as far as Iceland. British forces occupied Iceland when Denmark fell to the Germans in 1940; the US was persuaded to provide forces to relieve British troops on the island. American warships began escorting Allied convoys in the western Atlantic as far as Iceland, and had several hostile encounters with U-boats. ..."
  Escort Duties: ... From May 1941 the US Navy became a British ally in the struggle in the Atlantic. By taking over escort duties in the western Atlantic, it became involved in a shooting war with Germany, and on Halloween 1941, the inevitable happened. While escorting a British convoy, an American warship, the destroyer Reuben James, was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine U-562. This was at a time when Roosevelt still faced fierce opposition from isolationists within the USA, and escort duties in the Battle of the Atlantic had so far been the most that the President could do to bring the USA into the war on the British side. However, eventually this undeclared German-American naval war probably played a role in Hitler's decision to declare war on the USA - in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. ...
• US aid to China: ... In 1940 and 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formalized U.S. aid to China. The U.S. Government extended credits to the Chinese Government for the purchase of war supplies, as it slowly began to tighten restrictions on Japan. The United States was the main supplier of the oil, steel, iron, and other commodities needed by the Japanese military as it became bogged down by Chinese resistance but, in January, 1940, Japan abrogated the existing treaty of commerce with the United States. Although this did not lead to an immediate embargo, it meant that the Roosevelt Administration could now restrict the flow of military supplies into Japan and use this as leverage to force Japan to halt its aggression in China. After January 1940, the United States combined a strategy of increasing aid to China through larger credits and the Lend-Lease program with a gradual move towards an embargo on the trade of all militarily useful items with Japan. ...

Let's just hope they are using different approach to the one which Starbucks et al seems to be using. (It's probably a good idea to finish your coffee before clicking!)

I wonder if anyone has managed to make a violin shape by pushing some individual atoms around with an STM yet, because that's the only way there would be one small enough to properly express how little I care for their troubles.

No violins that I'm aware of yet but here's a really small harp for the swan song...

(Especially a "miracle worker" that spends his working hours on Slashdot whoring his Amazon spam and shitty ebooks!)

And spending my off hours filing takedown requests that Christian Burns of Slashdot has to spam the Internet with my pics, dick pics with my name, email address and URLs, and WannaCry viruses.

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

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand what you are saying here. Perhaps your references are a bit too ... hermetic?

A self-proclaimed Instagram douchebag verbally abusing security guards at VidCon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40403881/instagram-model-verbally-abuses-security-guard-at-vidcon-in-california

(even just jaywalking) then the maximum punishment of the law should be immediately applied and afterwards (assuming the offender wasn't executed for, say, murder) the offender must be deported

Talk about going off the deep end...

look, if you're concerned about your personal safety then carry a weapon

I realise we're teetering on the gun debate rabbit-hole, but: it's hardly clear that arming thousands of untrained civilians reduces violent fatalities.

You know why the Borough Market attackers used knives? British gun control.

no violence, even in self defense, is acceptable... unless you're a muslim, then do whatever you want.

That's not the impression I've been getting. I mean, Corbyn said that shooting terrorists dead is mean, but I don't think anyone's saying violence is ok if it's muslims doing it.

This head-in-the-sand approach that Western governments are currently taking is pathetic and ineffective

Tentatively agree.

Is there a fourth option that I'm missing which actually addresses the problem here?

Yes: emphasising the root causes of Islamic terrorism, supporting organisations like Quilliam who promote moderate liberalised Islam.

A necessary first step is to stop politely pretending that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam.

If they start taking to each other then they going to start doing what traffic police do when they get bored - play snooker:

If your a pedestrian wearing red or black you should start worrying...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/422...

who is having evolution removed from school text books because it is too ''controversial''. He wants ''all classes are to be taught in a more religious context'' — translation: ''I want future generations to make decisions on the basis of whatever fantasies that I want to promote; make them incapable of rational evaluation of evidence.''.

This can only result in a more unstable future world. We should eliminate religion from all politics; however I can't see that happening.

Source

The Register article has got BetaArchive a fair amount of attention this evening. They claim, and I quote âoe32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak onlineâ.

First of all let us clear up a few facts. The âoeShared Source Kitâ folder did exist on the FTP until this article came to light. We have removed it from our FTP and listings pending further review just in case we missed something in our initial release. We currently have no plans to restore it until a full review of its contents is carried out and it is deemed acceptable under our rules.

The folder itself was 1.2GB in size, contained 12 releases each being 100MB. This is far from the claimed âoe32TBâ as stated in The Registerâ(TM)s article, and cannot possibly cover âoecore source codeâ as it would be simply too small, not to mention it is against our rules to store such data.

At this time all we can deduct is that The Register refers to the large Windows 10 release we had on March 24th which included a lot of Windows releases provided to us, sourced from various forum members, Windows Insider members, and Microsoft Connect members. All of these we deemed safe for release to BetaArchive as they are all beta releases and defunct builds superseded by newer ones, and they were covered under our rules.

If any of this should change we will remove these builds from the FTP and we will happily comply with any instructions to do so by Microsoft.

With regards to the BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech... about two Britons that have been arrested following an alleged Microsoft hack, we donâ(TM)t believe there is any connection with this alleged âoeWindows 10 core source code leakâ.

Update 09:58 GMT 24/06/2017 A spokesperson for Microsoft contacted The Register and said: "Our review confirms that these files are actually a portion of the source code from the Shared Source Initiative and is used by OEMs and partners."

There's a TV show in Britain called http: //www.bbc.co.uk /food /programmes /b0520lz9 .

They call the program "b0520lz9"?

There's a TV show in Britain called http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/prog... . They take a family and swap some of their expensive brands for generic articles (and disguise the packaging so they can't see). A lot of the time they actually prefer the cheaper stuff, at least when they don't know about it.

and that is why marketeers invented branding.

There's a TV show in Britain called http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/prog... . They take a family and swap some of their expensive brands for generic articles (and disguise the packaging so they can't see). A lot of the time they actually prefer the cheaper stuff, at least when they don't know about it.

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

Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
The DUP is in favour of Northern Ireland leaving the EU but says that Brexit does not mean "leaving Europe".
It adds that it will prioritise maintaining the CTA between the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Aims:
frictionless border with the Irish Republic; assisting those working or travelling in the other jurisdiction
Northern Ireland established as a hub for trade from the Irish Republic into the broader UK market
comprehensive free trade and customs agreement with the EU
arrangements to facilitate ease of movement of people, goods and services

Comprehensive free trade and customs agreement, ease of movement of people, goods and services doesn't sound hard brexit to me.

Check out this handy guide from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/g...

Like all green plants, CO2 and water are reacted to produce a kind of sugar and oxygen.

I have seen that happen with my country's flag.

Apparently muslims don't like the Saudi flag on soccer balls:

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

Not quite what you asked for but this series of podcasts are quite good value to have:

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

Admittedly a radio show (which I am loosely calling a documentary) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...

The ones I particularly liked were Vilayanur S. Ramachandran: The Emerging Mind: 2003 and Trust and Transparency - Onora O'Neill: A Question of Trust: 2002.

I found it good interesting listening while driving.

You mention Part P so clearly are in the UK where the term "Architect" has lots of legal protection, yet the fuck wits that are "Architects" who will all be first against the wall when my revolution comes get away with manslaughter.

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

Let me incompetently design a building that if there is some wind blowing will generate gusts at street level that blow vehicles over crushing pedestrians to death.

Personally I would put the Architect responsible for that building behind bars for corporate manslaughter and insist on the building being torn down.

Then there is 20 Fenchurch Street otherwise known as "The Walkie-Talkie" in London, that some moron of an architect designed as concave and there is the wonder that it melts things when it is sunny. Worse it was the second building this moron had designed with the same problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So being regulated can mean jack shit if you are an architect.

Somewhere, there is probably an IT guy who has been begging for the budget to upgrade some old machines, or move the services onto a cloud provider and was ignored.

On the contrary, that IT guy was probably made redundant in 2016. As the BBC article notes:-

The GMB union says this meltdown could have been avoided if BA had not made hundreds of IT staff redundant and outsourced their jobs to India at the end of last year.[..]

"BA in 2016 made hundreds of dedicated and loyal IT staff redundant and outsourced the work to India... many viewed the company's actions as just plain greedy."

Let's hope BA continues to reap as many "savings" from that outsourcing as they did today. :-)

He's crying today.

Going by the likely response of the laid-off employees to the predicament of BA, I guess he *would* have tears coming out of his eyes.

I originally saw Emma's watch as part of the BBC 2 Series, The Big Life Fix with with Simon Reeves http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... http://www.bbc.com/news/av/mag... My father has Parkinsons, so I am hoping a commercial version of the Emma watch will become available within the next couple of years.

And they will eventually ban my terrorist watch :(

None. Zero. They could all go bankrupt and it would be business as usual for me after some slight adjustment.

As soon as the tech giants learn that people couldn't live without them (despite whether it's true or not), that's when they always start creeping into nefarious territory with their policies to push their profits higher.

I'd also like to add that Facebook was caught performing psychological experiments on their users that included attempting to make users extremely sad.

Fuck Facebook. I left them YEARS ago and haven't looked back. Now when I talk to friends I meet up with, we have something to talk about because they have no idea what I've been up to AND I have no idea what they've been doing lately.

Other than Facebook I'm indifferent to every other large business. I'll buy products that have high quality longevity and are a value to me. The second they tamper with the quality, I lose trust in them and move on to some other product.

I've exited entire markets of products just because none of the offerings were valuable to me. My wallet thanked me for that.

Most users are expected to know 22 paswords

Seriously, fuck you, to any site admin who contributes to this.

Real people can remember 2 or three passwords and that is all they will bother to remember. They will have maybe 2 long term secure passwords for things they personally value (and guess what, work isn't one of those things) and they will reuse the same password or variants of it on every single other system they use. No user will memorize a new password if they are expected to change it regularly. They will create the easiest password possible that meets the systems requirements.
This is universal and everyone knows it. The previous company I worked for was a well trusted security company with a policy of passwords that had to change every 90 days, use an uppercase letter, lower case letter, number, symbol and had to be at least 8 characters. I did a survey. Over 2 thirds of engineers and 6 out of 6 in HR admitted their password was a common 6 letter English word, first letter capitalized, a symbol and a number that they incremented.

I think that the thousands of people dying from infections they caught from the designated shitting streets are a bigger problem than the few who may die by car-based pollution.
Then again it might not be as glamorous for the government to announce as making every car electric.

And no this is not racism, out-door defecating is indeed a huge problem in India:

http://www.planetcustodian.com...

http://theplanetd.com/india-is...

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

I know! India can either have electric cars or they can have sanitation. They can't have both! We need to tell Prime Minister Modi and Bill Gates:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Indias-War-on-Human-Waste

I think that the thousands of people dying from infections they caught from the designated shitting streets are a bigger problem than the few who may die by car-based pollution.
Then again it might not be as glamorous for the government to announce as making every car electric.

And no this is not racism, out-door defecating is indeed a huge problem in India:

http://www.planetcustodian.com...

http://theplanetd.com/india-is...

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

"Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer."

You mean they want your money and will do anything to get it? Shocking, simply shocking.

How about a train ride for ten grand?

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

They are indeed invasive since they aren't native to the continent. And someone cares enough about them to shoot thousands of them from helicopters.