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He made jokes about raping children. Despite this he's been rehired https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...

... in mice.

I'm sure that there are subtleties here that I'm missing by being an American

Not very subtle - its simply not "trial in secret" by any stretch of the imagination. Journalists can and do report factually on trials in progress. Here's a random example. Just strict rules on what can be reported while the trial is in progress (e.g. no interviews with witnesses, speculating on the outcome, no photography in the courtroom etc.). The facts of the trial are a matter of public record.

...this one just hasn't really made the news in the UK yet.

I'm sure that there are subtleties here that I'm missing by being an American

Not very subtle - its simply not "trial in secret" by any stretch of the imagination. Journalists can and do report factually on trials in progress. Here's a random example. Just strict rules on what can be reported while the trial is in progress (e.g. no interviews with witnesses, speculating on the outcome, no photography in the courtroom etc.). The facts of the trial are a matter of public record.

...this one just hasn't really made the news in the UK yet.

Nice to see the Huawei apologies are still running wild /sigh

"Huawei caught spying on Pakistan's CCTV network"

An exposure by the BBC's flagship current affair documentary, but hey, let the idiocracy run rampant.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/...

Caroline Farrow investigated for misgendering someone in a tweet. It happened. Seriously. That's the UK - apparently calling someone by the wrong gender can get you investigated by the police. And it is not just Mr. Sturzenberger - a sign condemning Islam will get you a 1000 euro fine, in Germany.

There is no freedom of speech in most of the world.

> There may one day be sharp speed limiters on all cars that force the cars to obey the speed limit, as referenced on GPS, maps, something.

'One day' is not very far away: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47715415

I disagree, but I do respect her for presenting an hour after discovering she'd had a miscarriage.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...

You are an idiot.
All your claims are wrong.

To make you an less idiot, I link the first hit of "how does the EU work" for you: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsroun...

It's been all over the news n and off and you act like it never happened. No wonder you support Brexit: reality just doesn't fit your worldview.

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

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

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

https://www.electoralcommissio...

Now I'm sure you'll either uiently slink away and pretend you never commented ot tell me why electon fraud is jsut fine really and we should honour the results of a tainted election.

What is the EU and how does it work? An un-dated explanation by the BBC. (Before the end of 2017.)

Got a reliable source for the amputation thing? Because I've got one here for you for the insulin thing.

Seems okay.

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

Can't you just google it yourself though?

From the first line in your link:

Nick Sandmann (left) and Nathan Phillips (right) both said they were trying to defuse tensions

From the actual video: Nathan Phillips went right up to Sandmann, clearly inciting him.

That article is trying to spin it as "no one really knows what happened", with every single eyewitness quoted in that article saying the kids started it. The actual video shows the kids as the victims, and the blacks and Indian groups as the aggressors.

That is not a balanced article: they show the snipped video that makes the children look like the aggressors, but don't even link to the whole video which shows the blacks and the Indians as the aggressors.

Seems okay.

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

Can't you just google it yourself though?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Huawei
Interesting article. Here's some snippets:

"The African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa is a shiny spaceship-like structure that glistens in the afternoon sun.

In 2006, Beijing pledged $200m to build the headquarters. Completed in 2012, everything was custom-built by the Chinese - including a state-of-the-art computer system.

But in January 2018, French newspaper Le Monde Afrique dropped a bombshell.

It reported that the AU’s computer system had been compromised.

The newspaper, citing multiple sources, said that for five years, between the hours of midnight and 0200, data from the AU’s servers was transferred more than 8,000km away - to servers in Shanghai.

Being a regular on /. I've noticed that any negative comments about Huawei are always responded to with angry denial, accusations and even threats. They really don't like their inability to apply censorship outside of their own country.

The sad truth is that it's already happening https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_camps

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

If the takedown notice wasn't retracted after YouTube removed the copyright strikes, The Verge would have been obligated to go to court and probably lose due to the H3H3 decision that upheld fair use for reaction videos.

Rich of TechReviewUSA, the other person that The Verge went after, speculated that the takedown notice was a trial balloon to see if the removals would work before requesting ALL the reaction videos be removed from YouTube. If The Verge have went after all the reaction videos at the same and not the two most popular videos they didn't like the most, they might have had better success.

China improves their forests by deforestating other countries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/837...

Uhm, there are a lot of things going on in China that's fsck up.

For example:
China's hidden camps
Organ harvesting in China
Mass sterilization in China

Just go to google and start typing china forced to see the common theme.

But we can do all that. There are already floating farms, although clearly open ocean isn't going to be practical even if some oil platforms do come close to the required stability and environmental endurance. We can also recover deserts into arable land, and even the ancient Egyptian figured out large scale irrigation if there's a ready source of fresh water nearby. The sticking point isn't lack of ability, it's the fact that it's still experimental, so hugely expensive, and for de-desertification it can take a lot of time to work through all the stages necessary to turn sand into loam.

you just keep spreading lies.

Do tell!

Afghanistan is an opium war.

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

Their fraud system sees that the account belongs to a woman and flags it up when it things a man is calling.

Our loss of privacy was handed away gleefully, as if we were kids given candy.

Literally.

And you believe China's numbers? Did you know gullible is not in the dictionary.

Do you think the Chinese numbers include the internment of Uighurs?

I didn't realize we lock up hundreds of thousands without trial and "re-educate" them about their wrong thinking... And good luck going to China and posting on WeChat something critical of the Government or President Xi. Here in the US, you can protest all you want; in China if you protest the Government. They love to arrest and lock up journalists who speak out against the Government. If the same was in the US, Jim Acosta would have been in prison most of the last 24 months...

Outsource it, baby - like everything else. Get the 6 Million Rupee Man: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm...

Kind of related, but there are currently no $1T companies after the stock market tumbles of the last year or so. According to the chart in this article on Apple's update, all the FAANG companies are now firmly below $0.8T, and Apple now has the US' fourth largest market cap, behind (in order) Microsoft, Amazon and Google, having fallen somewhat more sharply than the rest.

Nobody has been harmed by Fukushima radiation (not even the case where they 'legally' attributed a death with no medical basis

ahem

Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant died after suffering radiation exposure.

The man, who was in his 50s, died from lung cancer that was diagnosed in 2016.

Japan's government had previously agreed that radiation caused illness in four workers but this is the first acknowledged death.

Funny definition of "nobody" you have there.

Or the dead people they found in the generator room.

But the nucKooks will just move the goalposts to preserve their "No one"

Wrong!

Nobody has been harmed by Fukushima radiation (not even the case where they 'legally' attributed a death with no medical basis

ahem

Japan has announced for the first time that a worker at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant died after suffering radiation exposure.

The man, who was in his 50s, died from lung cancer that was diagnosed in 2016.

Japan's government had previously agreed that radiation caused illness in four workers but this is the first acknowledged death.

Funny definition of "nobody" you have there.

Cambridge Analytica is dead – but its obscure network is alive and well “The company’s executives have formed a web of linked companies, suggesting its work will continue”

Cambridge Analytica and SCL: How I peered inside the propaganda machine

Cambridge Analytica staff set up new firm

“we must look first at Cambridge Analytica, LLC .. is a Delaware Limited Liability Company that was formed in June of 2014 .. the larger the database Cambridge controls, along with its ability to demonstrate the value proposition for its analytical tools, the greater the likelihood Cambridge will be retained by political entities.”

Open Society Foundations

Yeah, Buba! you tell'em!! Fighting for human rights - like the LGBTQFAGS - and health issues like AIDs (more fags), education (who needs that!), women's rights around the world, and other things for the better of society and everyone. Doesn't he know that the World is just for us white heterosexual men!

- Ferguson

With you on that. Craig Ferguson ain't that funny.

- BLM

Yeah, what's his problem with Bowel Lower Management.

- Ready For Hillary Super PAC

Damn straight there! We are lucky that we have Trump who is waging these trade wars that are bankrupting the very farmers who voted for him, signed a tax bill that rewarded Republican donors and will straddle the USA with another trillion dollars in debt and ...I'm waiting for the promise of that Trillion for infrastructure but I guess that's after the wall.

- Causing financial crises in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia

Yeah those globalists **cough**Jews**cough** are ruining our lives! But I support Israel and the trillion dollars we dumped into the Middle East for FREEDOM!!!

Want me to continue?

No need for me!! I've friended you on facebook and I like the same Russian feeds or this guy in the USA. because we Conservatives KNOW that whatever is posted on facebook and liked by our brethern is the TRUTH!

True, but learning doesn't generally create structural changes so large that they're physically observable in an MRI. A little conservatism is warranted here.

On the contrary that's exactly what learning does, and we've known that it does this for at least the last seven years.

Cool link, thanks. However, the fact that we've observed one other case hardly makes this common. If differences in education commonly created gross structural changes in the brain, this study wouldn't be news.

True, but learning doesn't generally create structural changes so large that they're physically observable in an MRI. A little conservatism is warranted here.

On the contrary that's exactly what learning does, and we've known that it does this for at least the last seven years.

as you ask.. the ex CEO of Ted Baker apparently..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bus...

I made a two-hour (or so) loop tape that started with generic elevator music, then after an hour or so slipped in the Lallakiss battle song. Then elevator music for awhile, then the battle song again. After that it came up with increasing frequency until it was just the battle song on loop play.

May have dropped the Horst Wessel Song in there at some point as well.

And then there was the Morbid Angel CD as hold music...

I've been watching the UK Brexit politics with bile fascination. The sheer incompetence of it is what we Germans call "Realsatire" - something so absurd and ridiculous it can only be satire, but nevertheless happens in real life.

I've been watching it up close and personal and let me tell you it's no any better. Like every day. Take this little nugget from just yesterday!

Take Dominic Raab and ardent Brexiter and now, minister for Brexit where he's been taking a hard line since June. Apparently yesterday he only just realised that you know a lot of stuff goes across the channel at Dover and it would be quite astoundingly bad if it stopped:

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

How the fuck could he not of known that? He's the fucking minister what the ever living fuck?

And this was just yesterday!

Found it:

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

And my comment:

A GBP1bn wind-farm.

"It can generate 659 megawatts"

Current price paid on the energy markets per megawatt-hour: GBP65.36 (Source: https://www.apolloenergy.co.uk... - year ahead electricity price for 2018)

GBP1bn will therefore take 1,000,000,000 / 65.36 =

15,299,877 hours to pay back, at full generative capacity. 15,299,877 hours = 637,495 days = 1,746 years.

So... if this windfarm is able to run at full capacity, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, until the year 3764, without any further ongoing costs, then it might just pay back the amount it cost to build.

You forgot to divide by the 659 MW, which changes things to a 2.65 year payback at 100% capacity factor. At a more realistic capacity factor, the payback period is probably between 5 and 7 years. That's on par for most power plants. The maintenance will start to really hit at the 8-10 year mark though, and may make continued operation nonviable without subsidies.

Found it:

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

And my comment:

A GBP1bn wind-farm.

"It can generate 659 megawatts"

Current price paid on the energy markets per megawatt-hour: GBP65.36
(Source: https://www.apolloenergy.co.uk... - year ahead electricity price for 2018)

GBP1bn will therefore take 1,000,000,000 / 65.36 =

15,299,877 hours to pay back, at full generative capacity.
15,299,877 hours = 637,495 days = 1,746 years.

So... if this windfarm is able to run at full capacity, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, until the year 3764, without any further ongoing costs, then it might just pay back the amount it cost to build.

I was hired on a fairly short contract at a company whose product was for Microsoft Windows, but they needed a unix guy to do a quick little port of something so they could sign off on a contract. That was me, so I wasn't there too long, and didn't learn much about their main product, but apparently it was something pretty sexy for office management and this company was a pioneer in that area.

One day my boss there told me why he despised Microsoft. He said Microsoft was attracted to their product and offered to be partners. It seemed like a good deal, hey partners with Microsoft! What MS did was send a couple of reps over to learn everything they could about this company's product and then drop them and start a competing product of their own.

Another thing (since I'm talking about Microsoft), back in the 80s, I remember a lot of people talking about how WordPerfect was a great word processor, better than Microsoft's Word, but, because of bundling and maybe other things, Word finally won out. Microsoft was accused of making changes in their Operating System that only they knew about that would give their in house products an advantage.

I had a short contract at Netscape, (Those were the days, I felt like Travis McGee, taking my retirement in bits where when the money ran out, I'd look for more work). Netscape, for you whippersnappers, was the pioneer of browsers, and the managers there were terrified of Microsoft because they knew when Microsoft decided to bundle their own browser, they'd be in trouble, and that's what happened. Do a search on the browser wars, here's a sample:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/business/2000/microsoft/635689.stm

what happened to the constitutional guarantee of a trial?

IANAL, but I doubt, enemy combatants are covered by that guarantee — certainly not if they are outside of the US proper. And what crime would you accuse them of?

Why is that not an option?

I don't know. But, as the already-cited case of Somali pirates shows, it is not — and not only in the case of the blood-thirsty AmeriKKKan goon$, but for the gentle Canadians and enlightened Europeans as well...

Why don't you stop blaming America for a second, and direct your query to the Canadian, Spanish, and French governments? Whatever they tell you about trying pirates will apply to trying the Guantanamo inmates as well. And as long as are contacting all these nice, benevolent non-American governments, be sure to ask India, why their Navy never bothered to look for survivors of its "battle" with "pirates" 10 years ago.

How is this not an act of war?

It is an act of war, just as killing people in other countries is war. But: we just don't talk much about it if it is done by countries that we like, or do a lot of business with; or even if done by our own country.

How is this not an act of war?

It is an act of war, just as killing people in other countries is war. But: we just don't talk much about it if it is done by countries that we like, or do a lot of business with; or even if done by our own country.

IBM - I can't find their development group, think it shut down.
SGI - Whole business shut down
HP - Their development group is AWOL. Since they own SGI, SGI's OSS is AWOL too
BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensourc... - Still there but Dirac is missing

NASA isn't a business and their open source is horrible.

So really, although open source has a lot of followers in companies, that doesn't extend to management.

Not really. The same facial features can be found in almost any one of East European descent, and a lot of those migrated over a hundred years ago.

The reason is simple and has to do with how slowly things change and DNA migration.

https://dna-explained.com/2017...
https://phillipsdnaproject.com...

Here's the physiological result:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blo...
http://realhistoryww.com./worl...

As you can see, the migration path cuts through Mongolia and Siberia, on its way to North America via Beringia. The consequence, unsurprisingly, is that people on that route have some (but not all) characteristics found in North Americans.

You cannot know, from simple observation, whether it's an import via Eastern Europe (a lot, especially Poles, migrated in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, but are still migrating today) or native.

What we can say is the tribe rejects his claim. Until he takes a DNA test, that's all we know.

Enjoy the fruits of what your government sowed.

Ah, the irony.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

Russia lost 24 million people because they used their soldiers as cannon fodder. Literally.

Right now Putin is desperately trying to pretend Russia has global significance while acting like a tinpot dictator of some shitty African or South American state.

Actually, I take that back. They wouldn't pose for homoerotic calendars. Putin appears to like the boys fancying him.

That's what I thought before I knew anything about psychology. (That swearing is just like any other word.) But when you read that swearing reduces pain or increases pain tolerance, argument falls flat in the face of empirical results.

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

If we had a Martin Luther for Linux then 93 of the items nailed to the door would be "Systemd is shit".

Doubtful. It is said that Martin Luther formulated his complaints while he was constipated. For him, being able to shit would have been something positive!

US has tens of millions of people in poverty

In 2016, 21.6% (13.4 million) of Brits lived in poverty by UK standards, whereas only 12.7% of Americans did in 2016. The US poverty rate has been below 20% since the early 1960's.

But the actual situation is a lot bleaker because "poverty" is measured relative to median income, which is considerably lower in the UK. If measured against US standards, 40% of the UK is low income. On top of that, the US has numerous benefits for people "in poverty" that aren't counted against their income. The upshot is that the US poverty rates actually greatly overestimate actual poverty.

US populace is so brain-washed it can't tell fake news from real news.

Having lived on both sides of the big pond, it's clear that it's Europeans who are brainwashed. You illustrate that with your absurd beliefs.

Brits in particular are so brainwashed that they actually trust the BBC. At least, as the same survey shows, they are not trusting their government anymore.