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As far as I'm aware, nobody has denied that Trumps (not the US president at the time) phones were tapped as part of an investigation into his shady links with Russia.

James Clapper did.
FTA:

The director of national intelligence at the time of the US election has denied there was any wire-tapping of Donald Trump or his campaign.
James Clapper also told NBC that he knew of no court order to allow monitoring of Trump Tower in New York.

James Clapper? Really?
Oh, wait, you were sarcastic. Right?

As far as I'm aware, nobody has denied that Trumps (not the US president at the time) phones were tapped as part of an investigation into his shady links with Russia.

James Clapper did.
FTA:

The director of national intelligence at the time of the US election has denied there was any wire-tapping of Donald Trump or his campaign.
James Clapper also told NBC that he knew of no court order to allow monitoring of Trump Tower in New York.

Collective Narcissism.

Something-something golf course something-something Scotland.

Because racism is being made more socially acceptable in certain subgroups

This is true, but only because of what that poster was saying: people are saying "yeah, I guess I'm racist now. Whatever" and thus the taboo is weakened in "certain subgroups", and it's due primarily to the broad over-application of the term. I've termed this phenomenon the ongoing catastrophic failure of Operation Conflation: Progressives trying to fight back against a rise in visible racism by inflating the definition of the term is having the opposite effect as intended by weakening the taboo against real racism, yet the more this tactic backfires the harder they push.

It used to be people would make racist jokes or comments and no one would call it racist because their friends had similar views, and even if they were offended it's extremely awkward to call someone racist to their face.

It used to be that there were terms like "insensitive" or "crude" used to describe people who used words and ideas in blunt, offensive or stereotype-reinforcing ways without their usage actually supporting racism/sexism/antisemitism/etc. This middle ground has mostly disappeared. Nazi and Holocaust jokes, once thought to be merely distasteful, are now called antisemitic even if the evidence strongly indicates otherwise.

Any reference whatsoever to an ethnic custom or stereotype is now deemed racist. I've listened as perfectly intelligent-sounding people tried to explain that the sound of a gong playing when a Chinese character walks on-screen is blatantly racist. Because... what now? What's the implicit logic behind that analysis; what's the implied (and supposedly racist) meaning? That Chinese people have no sense of musicality? That they have an irresistible racial impulse to play gongs? That the peace and quiet of wholesome white neighborhoods is being disrupted by the raucous 3 a.m. gong-playing of inferior barbarians? It's an extremely stupid thing to utterly equate cultural observation/parody and actual racism, but this is not a fringe interpretation of the concept. Give it another decade, and I wouldn't be surprised if people are arguing it's racist to ever show a Mexican eating a taco.

(And not only that: it will be racist cultural appropriation / fetishization to show a non-Latino enjoying a taco.)

The same exact thing is happening with sexism. Jerry Seinfeld's daughter called her mother sexist for suggesting that in a couple years, she'll probably want to hang around boys more often. Not, "you're definitely going to do this" or "I insist that you do this", just that this seemed like a probable course of events. And after Jerry mentioned this in an interview (the context being how the youth of today doesn't understand what actual prejudice is), I saw dozens of progressive-types defending his daughter's characterization of her mother's words. And not a month ago, I had an exchange on Slashdot where I basically said "She [some woman complaining about sexism] sounds like a cunt. Ok, now, *that was a joke* and the *only* reason why I make this joke was to ask whether you think that this self-conscious usage is sexist." And the person said yes, I was sexist for using the word. This is the world we live in now. Four-year-old level tattletale-ing has replaced all reflection and nuance. It doesn't matter at all that I'm a gender egalitarian.

but I think "racist" still means that you believe a race is inferior

We're going to see "(archaic)" next to this definition in the dictionary if things continue as they have been.

Sugars stimulate the same brain centers that cocaine and heroin do, triggering a similar craving/reward cycle that drugs have.

Unproven. The jury's still out: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-29126872

UK political leaders are pushing for diversity in the security services.
"Why GCHQ needs to fix its diversity problem" (22 November 2016)
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-379...
The GCHQ will have to become culturally enriched with lots of new staff.
Questions of security, merit and skill will no longer hold any applicant back from getting a job in or been rapidly promoted within the UK security services.
Once staff who are loyal to a cult or only their faith advance up in the UK security services the US will have to rethink any and all sharing with the UK.
If Canada, Australia and NZ keep on sharing US material with the UK questions about the role of Canada, Australia and NZ will have to be considered by the USA. NATO could see the same staffing issues as the UK. Translators, experts hired with few questions in the EU would rise up the EU ranks, reporting on any US material they find.
The UK/NATO/EU security services will be as useful and trust worthy to the USA as the UK was in the 1940-60's.
The only way around this politically motivated hiring policy by the UK security services is for the US to look inward and expand the domestic role of the FBI and NSA. Digital collection will be expanded as it is the only method generations of US officials understand.
Expect ever more internet tracking as the security services in the US have to protect their own gov staff from the UK gov and its lack of security due to changes in UK staffing policy.
The staff issues can be seen in the UK for the need to collect everything. The UK cannot trust its own staff so it has to collect on the entire UK population by default to try and find any self/radicalization.

Such hiring issues might not have reached the more secure parts of the US mil/gov but the US gov had relaxed the legal conditions to apply for entry into the US bureaucracy.
Issues surrounding criminal records, a criminal past, security issues might not always remove an applicant from consideration for working in some enter level role in the US gov.
People with no past, no papers, just been made US citizens for some reason, might also be be granted access to some US gov work.
More cult members, people loyal to their own faith and not the USA will attempt to enter and move up in the US gov over the decades.
Ever more domestic raw material will have to be gathered in the USA for domestic court use as more people trying to infiltrate the US gov and mil are discovered.
The lack of any background information been considered normal will allow a lot of interesting people to enter the US gov, UK security services.
The only reaction to that by the US security services will be more digital collection. The methods perfected by the Soviet Union to place human spies in the UK, and US mil/gov over decades is now been attempted by faith groups and cults.
Unlike Soviet spies the need to meet a Soviet diplomat or easy to track hander is not an issue.
Their faith or local community is the only contact needed. A full generational support network within the US or UK. Digital methods will not uncover any issues due to human contacts been used.
The long term role of the FBI, CIA will have to be expanded to track a lot of new gov workers in the US and UK.
That might take funding, political access away from the now expanded role of the NSA. Expect more leaking as party political operatives talk to the political motivated press. Operatives from one US agency enter another US agency to leak information to the press to ensure political access is reduced or funding removed.

The article makes the claim "Some 70% of box office comes from abroad, which means that studios must traffic in the sort of blow-'em-up action films and comic-book thrillers that translate easily enough to Mandarin." This is not the first time I've seen foreign audiences blamed for the lack of creativity and ambition we are seeing in recent Hollywood productions. Another example.

The percentage given (70%) seems accurate, depending on the types of films chosen maybe a bit high, based on checking the box office of some major films from recent years at random, but overall I am unable to find much to support the claim that audiences abroad were more into the mindless action sequels or simplistic thrillers than the american audiences. The example given in the BBC article (Battleship, 78,4% foreign) is clearly to be a notable exception, but the other film given (Fast and Furious 6) actually falls short of the given average of 70%, although not by much. Taking some other examples like The Pianist (73% foreign), The Tree of Life (75,5% foreign), The Avengers (59% foreign) or Batman v Superman (62,2% foreign) somewhat suggest the opposite.

Yes, the examples given above are very random and clearly you can find several examples of different behavior. But the question still remains, is there truth to the statement or not?

Going through something live "top 100 critic choices for year 2015" it is true that many of the smaller films were much bigger successes in the US than abroad, with the caveat that they were never released in theaters anywhere outside the US. It is therefore hard to say whether not releasing them is the reason or the consequence?

The part that I do find plenty of evidence to support is that comedies in the style of let's say Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller or the Wayans brothers are generally not popular outside of US, but I am not sure I am willing to accept the language-barrier as the explanation.

The Sudan.

Wrong. The name of the country is Sudan. The Sudan is a name of a geographic region . Face it, your English really sucks and you are most uncultured.

The Netherlands.

Some countries have a long name and a short name. The article is not used in front of the short name. The Kingdom of The Netherlands is the long name, Holland (no "the") is the short name.

Like Germany, Ukraine has no "long name" — since it stopped being merely a region of the delightfully dead USSR and became and independent state, the "the" in front of it is inappropriate although frequently used to insult by the Russian assholes. Which is exactly what you did — and are.

There's no real possibility of ever getting any proof.

You do realise that a former US Attorney General is heading up an investigation into this and related allegations, along with a member of Uber's Board of Directors, don't you?

The man is on the run from a rape accusation. I don't know of many countries that will help you out with that.

Given that the "rape accusation" is utterly fabricated, every country should. The rape issue was created to give cause to punish him for leaking information that hurt the U.S.. An interesting timeline. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Look at how casually Trump deals with state business. He is still in both the tycoon mode, and campaign mode at the same time.

See how he discusses critical world issues in the open, without any care for the documents or the matters at hand ...

Unbelievable ...

BBC: What do we learn from photos of US patio diplomacy?.

That neither link actually leads to the essay.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38985425
Dr Livio told BBC News that there were no firm plans to publish the article because of issues surrounding the copyright. However, he said the Churchill Museum was working to resolve these so that the historically important essay can eventually see the light of day.

Wakeup call UK to end financial aid to India by 2015 - http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol...

I'm asking for citations where the predictions were way off.

These are a dime-a-dozen. The Internet is full of such lists assembled. But they don't necessarily disprove anything — it is normal for a scientific discipline to fail sometimes. This article even analyzes different ways of detecting and dealing with such failures.

Trouble is, successful ones are so hard to find...

With the pace of global warming increasing, some climate change experts predict that the Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.

It is now 2017, but snow is still plentiful in Scotland. Indeed, the 2014 was the snowiest since 1945. Do you think, the 2004 prediction will come true by 2024?

“you can argue that may be our projection of [an ice-free Arctic by 2013] is already too conservative.”

Whether or not Arctic sea ice is at "record low" or not, the Arctic Ocean is decidedly not "ice-free" today.

Yet you've provided zero. Odd.

I made no claims requiring citations. I merely pointed out, that folks claiming "science is settled" typically disappear, when asked for successful prediction of their favorite science.

Nope. If you actually believe in science, I have to provide you with successful ones that survived peer review and replication

That may be too onerous a requirement in the case of Climate Science — the experiments take many years, so any replication is difficult.

Yep.

And Stephen Hawking, too.

Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

Left-leaning people and other opponents have mobilised quickly, but they're expecting the administration to react the way they would react. They think that public shaming, legal action and political activism will drive Donald Trump's administration back. I fear they're wrong. They will be seen as traitors and subversives, and they'll be treated accordingly, through formal and informal means. They don't realise that their resistance will ultimately have to be physical. They should be reading up on their Thoreau right about now....

Left-leaning people are mobilizing in other ways, as well. They just don't get emphasized quite as much in the media, but it's happening:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/25/...

I am a moderator for one of Facebook "gun club" type groups for liberals. Our membership is through the roof, with dozens of people joining every day. Most of them ask about things like which gun is best for self-defense, how to train etc. But some also ask if there are any left-wing militias to join.

Well, what do you know. There are some now. More are being organized. We try to keep it out of the original gun groups, because the majority still doesn't want that kind of talk, but there are several new ones specifically dedicated to armed resistance by the left. Their member count seems to be going up steadily as well.

So if things do come to that, make no mistake: we can, and will, shoot back.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Meanwhile over 100+ people killed in Paris from refugees from Syria, but you all are claiming since it hasn't happened in the US then there are no terrorist with the refugees, despite OVERWHELMING evidence in Europe of the opposite.

According to the BBC, none of the attackers were actually Syrian refugees. It is suspected that two of the attackers posed as Syrian refugees when they travelled to France, but they weren't from Syria and the majority of the attackers were either French or Belgian citizens. It seems likely that had Europe and/or France implemented a ban on travellers from Syria, those two attackers would have simply used different fake identities.

"And by getting Apple to set up in Karnataka, he hopes says it should help promote to region's ambition to become a location for high-end manufacturing." http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

So it's already in Ireland? That should make it easier.

Well, when the country you are supposed to pay it to refuses to accept it, that is a pretty big problem. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

BTW, why is a failure to meet a Jan. 3rd deadline suddenly in the news? Even the EU bureaucracy isn't that slow.

Interesting tidbit: if they dumped the money in front of the Irish treasury as 500 Euro bills, that would be over 29 metric tons of paper, with a volume of about 34 cubic meters. It seems that would be slightly more than fits into a 20' shipping container - but you would need at least two anyway, because of the weight limit on trucks. So yeah, they could do that - if they can find somebody to sign the receipt. (http://www.fondations.net/weight-from-500-euro-note-informative/)

The Chinese aren't very fond of Trump, but already recognise the golden opportunity his isolationist policies might well present them with.

Are you in the UK? All series 1 to 4 of The Good Life are available on the BBC Store, either individually or in pairs. https://store.bbc.com/the-good...

Like the way the Chinese communists are about to start blaming Trump for their own economic problems...

They don't like him very much, but may well end up being grateful for the opportunity he looks poised to present them with.

While I'm sorry for what happened to your niece, you're not winning this argument any better than known_coward_69. Can either of your provide statistics for how high the risk is of SIDS?

In the 1980s, in the UK and US, about 1 live birth in 500 ended in SIDS.
Today, thanks to better knowledge and education on the topic, that number is down to about 1 in 5000.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

(that news story alone doesn't directly provide the numbers I cited. I also looked up other data sources e.g. for the number of live births in the UK, and I relied upon my memory that US and UK were broadly similar in this respect).

Strange that the discrete 800 degree heating units haven't been integrated AFAIK. However, 250 degrees in an oven for a day fixes most of them.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20579077

Heat has long been known to help heal degraded materials in old flash memory. But because the heat healing process meant baking the memory chip in an oven at 250C for hours, few saw it as a practical solution... Briefly heating those locations to about 800C returned damaged memory locations to full working order.

"Does waterboarding work? Seven questions about the controversial interrogation technique" More fear mongering anyone?

Here's Mr Trump saying "absolutely I feel it works" a few hours ago - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Fears that it will be used again are legitimate.

Isn't that what FCC has been *trying* to do, but has been blocked at every possible avenue, if not by corporations, then by congress, who have stated that FCC is exceeding it's authority?

Yeah, kinda like how Obama wanted to give us universal health insurance, but the Republicans in Congress wouldn't let him because it was "too Socalist", and the compromise was forcing everyone to become customers of for-profit insurance companies. But now Trump is in office and he's going to give health insurance for all.. And he can't do it by amending the ACA, because then the Republican's can't talk about how they repealed that miserable failure Obamacare and gave us this new insurance for everyone (that somehow isn't Socialist when they do it).

Food is subsidized, you have to keep food cheap or people will get angry.
Clothing/Textile is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions.
Furniture is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions.
Electronics is the result of horrible 3rd world working conditions. (See suicide net comments)
Gas prices are all over the place, I will let you draw your own conclusion.

So let's ask the following questions.

1. Do you need a college education? Yes
2. Can college debt be discharged in bankruptcy? No
3. Do you need insurance? Yes
4. Are you forced to buy auto, home, and medical? Yes
5. Do you have to pay property taxes and fees? Yes
6. Can you grow your own food? Yes
7. Can you buy resale furniture or make your own? Yes
8. Can you walk, ride a bike, or take public transportation? Yes
9. Can you live without your cell phone? No, not if you are a hipster or millennial. It is more important to snapchat or tweet from a protest march than it is to vote as evidenced by the pathetic voter turnout rate for the last election. 55% really?
10. Can you save enough money for retirement? No.

So in conclusion, the numbers you accused me of Cherry Picking matter an awful lot more than cheap furniture and cheap electronics. The numbers I listed are things YOU HAVE TO BUY, most are mandated by law like INSURANCE.

The future is significantly less secure for young people today due to wage stagnation and lack of good, long-term stable jobs with benefits. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling a free-trade agreement. They will say stuff like, "Oh there will be some losers with the agreement, but many will be better off." What has this brought us? An economy where 40% of the workers exist in the service economy with few full-time workers or benefits.

If Germany can do it, the USA can do. Good education, strong worker protection, world class products, and strong exports.

I say this to anyone. If the playing field is level America can compete. If the playing field is not level and the American worker is competing with someone who makes $2/week, then no, we can no compete and win. If we are going to have free-trade, there has to be work-protection and and an adjustment factor for standard of living.

If not, the race to the bottom will continue. More laws will get passed forcing you to pay for things you have to have (money to go to college, auto, property, and health insurance) and can't afford while the standard of living plummets.

This must stop.

I agree completely, according to this: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966 it will actually take at least 10k jobs away from the US after they are done.

Overseas pharmacies ignore IP protected drugs by using a loop hole in the international trade pacts that allow country claiming a national medical emergency and then go on to create their own generic copies.

You mean overseas countries like the Netherlands, Canada and UK not to mention all the other European countries are 'ignoring trade pacts' with the US? Huh?

Yes, unlicensed manufacturing is going on in places like India, but the fact of the matter is that the drug companies are charging insane amounts of extra in the US because they can. After all, they seek to make profit, so to them, the price is set carefully to the point that allows them to extract the most profit out of any given economy. The pharmaceutical industry is in a position in which people often have to buy their products or they will die. This is what allows them to ask prices that are way beyond what their actual R & D costs are. Look at the chart from this article outlining the costs and profits of the largest drug manufacturers. All of them spend more money on marketing than R & D and all if them have large margins, with Pfizer making as much as 43 % proft. These numbers are unheard of in any other industry, and they're solely the result of the american medical system's private nature which robs hospitals and states of effective ways to buy drugs cheaper. Instead of the Federal government or a state buying drugs in bulk, each private hospital chain has to buy them separately. This, combined with the fact that insured individuals don't really care how much the price is as long as it's covered by their insurance is what's put the US so far behind other developed nations in drig-polices and allowed the pharmaceutical industry to become the most profitable industry in the US.

There's no way for example European economies to 'force' these companies to sell to us at a loss. The prices they get selling their drugs to us are still profitable to them, butt because most non-US economies use differing forms of collective bargaining among other sensible policies, we're able to negotiate the prices down. A lot. The common counter-argument to this is that if the US started limiting drug companies' abilities to make as much profit as they currently do, they'd stop R & D and we'd run out of new drugs, but this is false. All of the companies can afford to sell the drugs much cheaper than they currently are being sold in the US and still make solid profit.

A few states? A few states? What crack are you smoking?

http://www.bbc.com/news/electi...

Hillary decidedly took 4 states. That is a few states. She won 21 "states" (including DC which isn't a state, but is treated as one for the election). Out of the 51 "states", he won a plurality of the states.

On the rest of your post, things are bad, those decreased unemployed are mostly underemployed. Also, salaries have stayed stable, and not increased with inflation for the past 8 years (at least), this means we are all making less than we were before the recession. If you think this is a true recovery, you must work on Wall Street.

For the first time I can remember, we've elected a President with no political experience, but a lot of business experience. Ross Perot got somewhat close in 1992 I suppose. It could spell doom, or, we might discover that most politicians are as full of shit as we always joked or suspected that they were, and things actually get better with a non-politician in charge.

There actually is a very recent example of an incredibly wealthy businessman involved in media and other businesses, questionable morals, and no prior political experience was elected to the most powerful position in government: Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi .... It did not end well. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

We'll see.

Yes, we shall see.

I see everyone talking about this as a Chinese bid to slow global warming but I just see that as a highly unlikely motive for them. Far more likely is that it is an attempt to reign in their truely massive domestic polution problem and thus avoid the social unrest that could come from it. Currently, due to their polution problem in general, many Chinese citizens are exposed to air quality in their own homes equivalent to smoking several packs a day unless they can afford air filters (which cost far more than quite a few can afford) http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... . Let that run long enough and people will start getting pretty upset when they start getting lung cancer in their 40s.

To put it another way, China only does things that might slow economic growth a bit (like cancel 100 very cheap to run coal plants) when the problem is very immediate. They've let the air quality drift to such a massively degraded level in some regions that I find it hard to believe that a problem like global warming, whose symptoms are really only now starting to be felt, is anywhere on their radar.

We getting rid of Northern Ireland then?

Reportedly a majority of Northern Ireland voted "remain in the European Union". Once Britain exercises Article 50, I anticipate a referendum to rejoin Ireland gaining support.

... get a nice little bonus ...

Originally, someone who planted evidence for profit was called a 'witch-pricker'.

What country would that be, I have heard of no country that doesn't have anyone getting shot. Australia, an Island with strict gun laws still has gun crime:

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

Heck, even the UK, the bastion of zero firearm crimes has some firearm crime:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

This is Slashdot, you have to hope that one of the comments will take pity on you and give you a link:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170101-a-new-tomb-for-the-most-dangerous-disaster-site-in-the-world

http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

I actually remember reading a few articles back when the 3DS was released with a warning about children not using it and others pointing out there was no medical basis for that.

There was also one interesting instance where a man who could not see in 3d watched a 3d movie and it fixed his normal vision, weird - http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

Saying that bitcoin is not subject to capital controls and loss of purchasing power is something that the guy running Silk Road would strongly disagree with. He was one of several people who have lost their bitcoin's purchasing power following government controls - in this case seizure. Here's another in Australia.

It's like anything else - if yu can own it, someone else can take it away from you. "New asset class" my arse.

build a $8.8 billion (61 million yuan)

Your Slashdot editorial staff at work. TFA has it right.

1 USD is worth aproximately 6.94 RMB

Actually, 1 USD - 6.94 yuan. Renminbi is not the proper unit for that currency.

We don't have our heads so deep in our butts. It's known history that the US did a lot of regime change stuff.

Guess who overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii? Many Chileans still remember their 9/11. And the Iranians remember what the US and UK did.

At least the Russians aren't as big hypocrites. The US Gov spouts bullshit about _defence_ and Russian/China aggression when it's US aircraft carriers that are poking their noses into places halfway across the planet (and how about those missile bases? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
When the USSR tried a similar thing in Cuba the USA got really upset).

Look from the point of view from the Russian Gov and you'll see that while they're evil bastards you shouldn't trust, they spout a lot less bullshit than the US Gov.

So when the US Gov complains about the Russians hacking their systems, I'm more like "So you're confirming those leaks are true?". And whoever it is that's doing those hacks, keep it up, keep unearthing the dirty secrets of the US Gov and their friends.

You wouldn't want Putin ruling the world, but with US playing the world's corrupt cop it's good if more and more of its dirty deeds are exposed.

Since you refuse to look at the evidence for yourself, the eight major investigations that cleared CRU of any scientific misconduct include:

  - House of Commons Science and Technology Committee: "the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact"

  - Independent Climate Change Review: "we find that their rigour and honesty as scientists are not in doubt."

  - International Science Assessment Panel: "We found absolutely no evidence of impropriety whatsoever"

  - Pennsylvania State University first panel and second panel: "Dr. Michael E. Mann did not engage in, nor did he participate in, directly or indirectly, any actions that seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community"

  - United States Environmental Protection Agency: CRU critics came to "faulty scientific conclusions" and "resorted to hyperbole."

  - Department of Commerce: "We did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data or failed to adhere to appropriate peer review procedures"

- National Science Foundation: "We found no basis to conclude that the emails were evidence of research misconduct or that they pointed to such evidence."

What the article didn't say

"Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, said in a statement that despite the measures being overdue "it is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia"."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

So until the U.S. Congress figures out how to crack down on telcos taking rural Internet subsidies and pocketing them

Or you know, let people do the job themselves.

I love how the writer relays the message that said woman is "amazing", without qualifying it. Is she a CEO? The principal violinist for a symphony orchestra? A celebrated archaeologist? An oncologist?

It is unfortunate, and it is a real problem. And it stems from the inculcated idea that man = Evil, and Woman = Pure. Note that it is damn near impossible to even broach that without powerful memes being brought out. Not too long ago, it was a rallying cry for many women about "not needing a man in my life", to now the increasing susurrations that men have lost interest and are remaining forever infantile, not wishing to grow up and marry/reproduce/ with women. No freakin kidding. Its like a major discovery has been made that if you marginalize someone long enough, they quit playing the game. Who knew?

Here's a real mind blower, and rather a headache to read. The effects of massive multi-genderism on Wellsley, a Women's college. I don't think that one has to be an alt-right Pepe' to acknowledge that this is kind messed up. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/1...

But mandatory in a world where assuming one's gender is a reason to go apeshit on the person who commits that crime.

I'm not in the least worried about People who have personal gender issues. I'm not in the least concerned with gay marriage.

But one does not have to be some social conservative to understand that maybe a gender system based upon marginalizing the other gender is going to have some implications, especially when biological urges occur, yet you are still supposed to hold the other gender in contempt. Which brings up another issue. The urge to reproduce is present in different amounts between people, but is generally stronger in the females. So when beat down, many males are fully capable off deciding that they don't need to reproduce, yet the females who have been inculcated as being able to do anything they put their mind to, yet likewise that the male is evil, end up with a real dilemma on their hands. So it might just be off to the sperm bank for you dear. However, it is worth noting that after a year of the UK national sperm bank opening in order to solve a sperm shortage, they had just 9 donors. http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

What to do? The experiment in male hatred which came along with the great self-esteem movement, is going to be difficult to undo. And third wave feminism, which boils down to enraged women yelling at men, isn't helping a bit. Especially when supporting some social systems that treat women as property, while yelling at the memvers of the evil and insufferable patriarchy. Men? Sorry, we're are out riding our motorcycles or playing with our new game console. Have fun.

I'm not certain, but I suspect that parthenogenesis is the answer. Where females can reproduce with only their own genes, or with another female partner. At that point, the only reason to keep males around will be in order to have someone to blame stuff on. That's a joke. Then, the male of the species will become endangered, then extinct. That's not a joke.

And yet there is no insurgency in Crimea

It's a side effect of the fact that discontented people in Crimea have a habit of disappearing, with the help of the FSB. Since the Russian occupation, Crimea has become by far, the most repressive place in Europe.

Crimeans all happily took Russian passports.

Crimean Resistance to Giving Up Ukrainian Citizenship Seen Forcing Moscow to Make Concessions Russia repeatedly had to move back the date by which residents had to take Russian passports, because so many residents were refusing to take them. People finally started taking Russian passports to avoid being harassed by the Russian occupant authorities, and in order to avoid being denied social services.

. Zero people died taking Crimea.

False

Sounds like a textbook occupation to me

Which is why the international community recognizes it as such: http://euromaidanpress.com/201....

If Russia isn't invading and attacking Ukraine, as Putin has been saying for over two years now, why would Russian artillery be targeting Ukrainian artillery in Ukraine?

I guess when you've lost over 2,000 soldiers during your invasion, and the weekly shipments of cargo 200 keep crossing into your country, it becomes time to drop the facade of the charade and just admit the truth you've been denying.

UN GA just days ago adopted a resolution finally admitting that Ukraine is a victim of the Russian military aggression.

For better or worse, the part of the United States' electorate, to whom you want to appeal, view the United Nations with skepticism. So, instead of appealing to a questionable authority, try the following argument...

Imagine, Americans, Mexican government declaring Trump's election "a coup", his assemblage of generals — a junta, which placed the Latinophobic Nazi in power, contrary to the wishes of most Americans. Out of concern for the brotherly nation, Mexican government is encouraging volunteers to cross into California, Arizona, and Texas to help the local Spanish-speaking "self-defense" militias protect themselves against the White English-speaking bigots, who've persecuted the Spanish-speaking minority for years. In places stolen from Mexico before, these polite volunteers in military uniforms without any official insignia are already organizing a referendum to leave the US and join Mexico.

Patriotic Americans attempting to resist the invasion are denounced as racists and shot at with military-style efficiency. Although officially Mexico is not a party to this "civil war", its troops are regularly encountered on the battlefields — all of them are then found to have been "on leave" from their units. Artillery bombardment of American forces seems to originate from across the border, but no one can say for sure.

Would you still say, it is a civil war — Americans fighting other Americans?