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Which, in turn, brings up a possible explanation: Could this be the result of radiation hormesis?

In which case, "radiation workers" should have a lower incidence of cancer than the rest of the population. Statistical populations already exist, and have been studied.

General aviation aircraft (think light aircraft) already are being equipped with parachute systems which are deployed if the aircraft is unrecoverable. And they are used. And they save lives. But general aviation is a *lot* more accident prone than commercial aviation, so there is no reason to foist this on commercial aviation.

More than that, they do not scale upwards very well. The founder of BSR (the leading company in the whole plane parachute business) believes we'll some sort of airline parachute system in the future, but it will probably require shedding weight as the pod system effectively does. He's quoted in a pretty good BBC article on the subject:

To safely bring down a big commercial airliner such as a Boeing 747 with about 500 people on board, there would have to be 21 parachutes each the size of a football field, says Popov. “It takes about a square foot (0.1sq m) of material to bring down one pound (0.5kg) of aircraft.”

BTW, an oddity about Cirrus airplanes (which pioneered the use of ballistic chutes) is that their safety record isn't much different from non-equipped, similar planes. This appears to be due to pilots not being willing to essentially destroy their plane by pulling the handle; and they fly into fatal crashes instead. The survival rate of those who do choose to pull is excellent, with the only fatalities occurring when the chute was deployed well outside of its rated operating limits (deploying while going too fast or too low).

Anything else I missed?

3. Russia realizes, its "spiritual legacy" lies in the North rather than (or in addition to) the South, and occipies the entire Scandinavia in a couple of months.

As long as Russia remains a mad dog, money and efforts should be spent on putting it down, unfortunately, not on the niceties, that only excite and attract it.

Wow, the cynicism of Greenpeace knows no bounds. The international Rice Research Institute has had nothing but positive attitude towards Golden Rice. What's more they often decry the destructive actions of Greenpeace, an organization that may have been behind the destruction of the Rice Institute's Golden Rice test fields (although that is just a speculation) and now they dare to put these words in the Institute's mouth?!

Truly despicable.

Any respect that I might have once had for Greenpeace is gone.

A surge is not related to a percentage of absolute, but rather a previous value to a new value.

Well, we'll see at the end of the year how many racist hate crimes took place then because I can tell you, so far the actual acts over where I live have gone down for this year.

And quite frankly the surge of racism in the UK has been bad enough to severally drop people's opinion of the British in the past 2 weeks is disgusting.

Of course, nobody was reporting really on racism at all in Britain until after the vote. I know for a fact that in my city, during Battle of the Boyne, you'll see something closer to 80 cases of it happening; but you won't see that reported in the news.

Yeah it's just a bunch of pre-existing racists high on the idea that their views are now legitimate, and there's no more racists in the country now than before, but frankly this legitimisation is bad enough.

Quite frankly, this legitimisation is being fuelled by the media showing it's 'wide-spread' (but isn't), the remain campaigners who tried to make it that leave was about that etc. Yet nobody wants to actually point at those responsible and instead blame 'brexit' generally. The remainers and the media are significantly to blame for what happened and rather than take responsibility and deal with it, they'd rather just point at the leavers and go on about how they did this.

The legitimization is literally only being portrayed by the remainers and some racist individuals because pretty much everyone in the leave campaign are saying and have been saying since the start that we're not going to be sending masses of people who are already here, away and doing so would be crazy.

You don't even understand regular news here, which makes the impact of the news reporting this more significant. Our regular news on reporting acts that are caused by a minority is not mention the minority connection at all, for example, look at this article, these three men all have a well known belief system and a common background that has nothing to do with Oxford, but the media won't actually report that. The media is very happy though to report how racist people are in Britain since Brexit though where before they wouldn't even put a blurb up about it. You miss a lot of facts about what goes on here and the media clearly manipulates a narrative if you just spend a little bit looking at all the media stories from any one provider.

It's popular on Slashdot to loudly pronounce that strong AI is impossible. This is different from years past. I take the change to mean that it's coming very soon. As it seems more inevitable people who don't want change (whether out of fear, distrust, or sour grapes) will decry AI more.

Now weak AI isn't just coming. It has arrived. And Moore's law was supposed to have stopped years ago but supercomputers and video cards are still on a logarithmic slope for performance and price. The human brain is estimated to calculate between 100 petaflops and 1 exaflop. I know that's not a good metric but for this purpose it suffices. But as performance keeps doubling and doubling it becomes more evident that even the highest estimates are a question of a few more doubling periods. And the highest estimates assume direct one-to-one simulation of each neuron. Consider how many neurons are used for breathing, processing vision, and other things that either aren't needed in a machine or have already been done at a much lower computational cost on silicon.

It's true we don't know everything about how the human brain works. But recent progress is undeniable in terms of success stories. Jeopardy. Go. Commodity trading. Corporate resource balancing. Piloting. To keep shouting that strong AI is impossible is to only betray one's own insecurity. You are not special. Your brain doesn't run on quantum magic. You have no soul. Fucking deal with it.

Yes! And, the link provided in the summary to support the statement is not about the Paris attacks. This is like me saying "Scientists have reported that neutrinos do not change flavor." (The link is to an article confirming that they do change flavor.)

The EU ruling was about life insurances: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine... [bbc.com]

And yet, it does mention "notably car insurance". Likewise, contrary to your (apparent) claim that this ruling is biased in favor of women, the article mentions that the premiums for car insurance and life insurance for women are likely to rise significantly as a result of this decision.

What's that got to do with the likelihood of wrecking a car?

The EU ruling was about life insurances: http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

The example I brought up has nothing to do with car insurances, right, although here there is lots of age based discrimination you can do for car insurances.

The young people are likely to do accidents due to missing experience and lots of self esteem. The elderly drivers might cause accidents because they are senile or have limited senses (eyesight, etc).

Wait, it's iCurrentYear, why would we be giving any weight to gender in sentencing? Men and women have equal rights, yes? So why should say, someone who raped a teenager over 50 times get off scott free just because of their gender?

By the way, here's how the opposite case goes down:

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

5 1/2 year sentence, sex offender registry, prohibited from working with children for life.

Yes, people can complain about the Brock Turner sentence. But the Brock Turner thing is an anomaly -- the beneficial sexism for women in our legal system is systemic and widespread, and NO ONE cares because won't someone please think of the women?

And the pound had lost 1/3 of it's value during last Friday.

Even without the apostrophe that's a total load of garbage.

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

Wouldn't that mean that if this new rule is implemented, a new referendum vote would require at least 75% voter participation and 60%+ voting to Remain, in order to override the previous referendum vote where a plurality of voters chose to Leave? By those standards, only Scotland would just barely vote to overturn this referendum vote. London only hit 59.9% Remain, North Ireland 55.8% - both would fail to reach the new 60% threshold.

Why modded Troll, this is absolutely true.

This is why you can't trust anyone over 30, they are prone to be invested in the status quo.

How do you reconcile this with the fact that 27% of 18-24 year old voted to leave, and 73% voted for the status quo?

See: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028/

Also, of the 65+ age group, 60% voted to leave.

If appears that reality has some disagreements with what you think. Now, unless you're Steve Jobs, you can't distort reality.

Interesting graphs

If you look for "overall result" you see a yellow blue map for leave/remain. Scotland is pretty much all Yellow (remain).

Wait...the "right-wing press" fabricated incidents like this?

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

Got it.

I know. What is with the UK deciding what happens to the people of Gibraltar?

I hope they enjoy their upcoming Spanish invasion. The Spanish government has called for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the EU.

I've found this BBC coverage to be very helpful
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887

What happens now?

For the UK to leave the EU it has to invoke an agreement called Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.

Cameron or his successor needs to decide when to invoke this - that will then set in motion the formal legal process of withdrawing from the EU, and give the UK two years to negotiate its withdrawal.

The article has only been in force since late 2009 and it hasn't been tested yet, so no-one really knows how the Brexit process will work, according to BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman.

Mr Cameron, who has said he would be stepping down as PM by October, said he will go to the European Council next week to "explain the decision the British people have taken".

EU law still stands in the UK until it ceases being a member - and that process could take some time.

The UK will continue to abide by EU treaties and laws, but not take part in any decision-making, as it negotiates a withdrawal agreement and the terms of its relationship with the now 27 nation bloc.

Got it, you're an idiot. That's all you have to say.

"It suggested far more people felt left behind and untouched by the economic benefits of five decades of EU involvement being trumpeted." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol...

That's it in a nutshell.

That's interesting and not surprising at all. Older people tend to vote for nation-first, less immigration etc...
Besides, other aspects of the results are also interesting, and show the real difficulty of a referendum where everyone has a vote: expect the less informed people to comprehend economic and world strategic notions in order to choose knowingly, while it's so tempting to take a decision based on more basic arguments like the current immigration, unemployement (...) situation.

I see you didn't click any of the links. For starters, the this one clearly explains that these "drive-bys" are not, in any way, shape or form, mutually exclusive with traditional diplomacy. They're a tool for enhancing traditional diplomacy. This link explains the legal nuances of the freedom of navigation operation in much greater detail, and describes the legal and diplomatic needle the operation was threading. Sailing a single destroyer past an island is hardly a flexing of military muscle. Flexing muscle is when you sail an aircraft carrier battle group through the strait of Taiwan. As for the hacking, please note the lede paragraph of this story:

Chinese state-backed hackers have carried out a string of cyber espionage attacks on U.S. companies, violating a pact signed by the two countries to stop carrying out this kind of activity, according to a cybersecurity company.

The two-way street you suggest has already been attempted, and it has sadly resulted in jack diddly. Attempts to bridge these gaps by inviting China to participate in the major US-and-allies annual pacific naval exercises were similarly undermined by the Chinese sending an uninvited spy ship.

You see, there is no lack of diplomatic effort being made regarding American-Chinese relations - but time and again the Chinese have declined to reign in their aggressive efforts to enrich themselves at the cost of others. It is only natural that the United States has been taking measures to re-assert their commitments; (diplomatic, economic, and defense-wise) to their many regional allies in the face of ever-more-bold Chinese demonstrations of military power and diplomatic hardball.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe7e...

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

http://top500.org/news/china-t...

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6...

http://www.netlib.org/utk/peop...

Or my (rejected) submission at https://slashdot.org/submissio...

Trump is not self-funded.

You are thinking of FaceTime. And when Apple tried to open the protocol they got sued and forced to switch protocols to one that they couldn't open. iMessage has some history with supporting the open Jabber (XMPP) protocol from back when it was iChat, at least on Macs but not under iOS.

Every decade or so since the 1970s there have been ultrasonic mosquito repellents sold. my parents bought one back then. didn't work. and any competent
entomologist will tell you it won't and can't work

sneak little tiny diesel generators

I'm Femke van den Driessche, Volkswagen's all-electric new model-of-the-spokes, AMA!

Actually, no, that chart doesn't prove otherwise. It shows that the gun death rate is dropping while the number of guns is increasing, but it does not prove that increasing the number of guns resulted in the decrease in gun deaths as you imply. It could just as easily be true that the increased number of guns resulted in more deaths than would otherwise have occurred, but that this was overshadowed by the sharp decline in gun deaths caused by a general reduction in crazy people, a general increase in incarceration of dangerous felons, or even the reduction of lead in gasoline.

For this reason, if you wanted to prove your theory correct, you would need more than just a vague inverse correlation in a single graph. You'd have to start by comparing the rate of gun ownership increases in various areas and the rate of decrease, to determine whether those two numbers are correlated in some way, and if so, in which direction.

Unfortunately, even that won't really prove your point one way or another, because there's every possibility that the increase in gun ownership could be caused by the increasing violence in an area. So a proper study would have to factor in the timing of changes in the slope of those lines over a long period of time at a fine-grained level.

Fortunately, a team of Stanford law professors have done that study. Unfortunately for you, they found precisely what the GP said—that every action that made it easier for people to own guns resulted in a statistically significant increase in the amount of gun violence without increasing the probability of bystanders preventing crimes.

Honestly, is the case really that much different from this one:

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

just because Hulk Hogan is a celebrity doesn't make it suddenly ok to post a sex video of him without his permission.

The opportunity to influence events and control destiny is irresistible. And it should be expected, anticipated, and so diminished and ultimately defeated.

Hillary is plainly an unindicted felon, a reasonable conclusion given the public statements made so far by so many credible sources. While it may disrupt the election and cause much chaos politically if she were in fact indicted, and worse if she were convicted, more likely she will be either pardoned or merely escape indictment. No action will bring all of the involved institutions into disrepute, but most of them already enjoy terrible reputations with the public, so there is little lost there. And the powers that support her are without shame or conscience, either believing they are in the right to implement their agendas, or they will take power by any means. No one should be surprised if she escapes judgment and stands for election. You who would challenge my assertion that the public record is sufficient to find her at least under substantial suspicion of criminal acts should avoid trolling me on this - my mind is made up, and if you have not already examined the record, you are not likely to do so now, and I understand. Hillary can win in November if she gets enough Berners to give in and vote for the lesser of two evils - Corruption v. Not Liberal.

Trump is, first, not a Republican. No, he is not. But he is much less a Democrat, and if he planned to run an insurgent campaign from the beginning, he certainly would not oppose Hillary with a party in total accordance with her candidacy. He has been masterful in his campaign, but that is not a good thing for the GOP. His appeal is only heightened by the abject failure of GOP leadership to actually function as an opposition party in Congress. Whatever the reasons, the GOP leadership has abdicated that role, and are now merely figureheads maintaining their personal power, prestige, and wealth. Trump is being the authentic Donald Trump, a creature New Yorkers know well, and he has mixed business acumen with instinct and opportunistic actions to wear down his opponents. Successfully. he is invincible if he can navigate the next 5 months without a major gaffe, and if he can successfully isolate Hillary and paint her with her own brush. Maybe.

The GOP primary was decided when Trump stated on Fox News that "His (Ted Cruz) father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous", and no one, virtually no one challenged such an unsupportable, plainly fantastic and questionable claim, I don't doubt that Ted Cruz met with his advisers and essentially asked why, in a campaign where the truth no longer matters, should he try to run on a platform of anything rational when Trump can say literally anything without being called on it.

The only question for the general election in November seems, now, to be which side the media will choose, since that is the side that will win. And Google, Facebook, et al are the new media, same as the old media.Of course they will exert their influence and control to their own advantages, severally and individually. How do we, individuals, survive this? By being as suspicious of all media as we are of all politicians and business. They are all out to manipulate us. Know this when you read or listen or watch them, always.

Sure it does, it also stagnates and goes down. http://www.bbc.com/news/busine... Here's an article talking about US inflation being negative.

LIAR! Only GOOGLE reads your chat history and email! Microsoft would NEVER do that!

Polls show the Swiss will overwhelmingly reject the idea.

UBI isn't about efficiency, it's redistribution of wealth. As others have already pointed out - it can only last until the wealth has been drained from those carrying the burden.

It is believed that the video was broadcasted as "an attempt to demonstrate North Korea's nuclear threat as a senior DPRK official meets with China this week."

First, "boradcasted [sic]"? Really?

Anyhow, since they're trying to impress China, they should splice in movie clips, like China does. Maybe cut to Kim Jong Un, cut to stock footage of a Minuteman missile launching , back to Kim Jong Un smiling, then the clip from Independence Day when the White House blows up.

So you're saying increasing the minimum wage would increase per person productivity and make it so fewer people are wasting their lives flipping burgers... I don't really see the downside. As long as technology keeps getting cheaper/better and people stay the same price automation WILL happen where it can happen eventually. The question is only "when it will happen". If we try to slow automation then that just give places like China who will automate every chance they get a greater comparative advantage than they already have. Yes in the short run fewer people will have jobs but that issue is also solvable by automation.

'You' (the public) are interested in this story. A ""collage professor"" was gunned down? Why were they targetted? A ""White guy"" killed himself after the crime? Why did he do that?

Because he was a Muslim and had a kill list to carry out his Jihad. That's why. Now, you won't find this in the liberal media, but it's the truth. Instead you'll be distracted by shit like TFA instead of the truth. The shooter was also a migrant on a student visa. You're meant to focus on this one kill rather than the fact that police discovered this Jihadi lone wolf killed a woman on his list before this professor was gunned down.

That's the real reason the story is here. We're supposed to believe the guy was just a "crazy white male", when he was a Muslim immigrant with a hit list who had already killed and has now killed again. TFA is disinformation / deflection from the truth / propaganda. The best disinformation has a morsel of truth that baits you into flawed conclusions.

Oh sure. In south tyrol there are 315K german-speakers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), roughly 0.5% (ZERO-POINT-FIVE percent) of the Italian population (60 million people). Is that the kind of evidence that was supposed to prove that nations don't exist? LOL! I never denied that tiny minorities can exist, in my first post I wrote "one MAJORITY people", read it again.

And the basques in Spain have always been seeking independency, just like the catalans very recently: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
They ask for more nations, not fewer, which proves exactly the opposite of your point.

What an own goal! Have fun in the Landfill of History.

Ex-Miss Turkey sentenced for insulting Erdogan

A Turkish court has convicted a former Miss Turkey of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving her a 14-month suspended prison sentence.

Merve Buyuksarac, 27, was found guilty of insulting a public official for postings she made on social media. She denied insulting Mr Erdogan.

And these fuckers want into the EU?!?!

Will Europe grow a spine?

Neither Trump nor Clinton are progressive, except in the definition you'd find on a drunken Glenn Beck's chalkboard.

Wrong. Clinton and Trump are crony capitalists. At least Trump is upfront about it. Clinton lies through her teeth while she gets richer, her business friends get richer, and we all get screwed. And by the way Clinton is most certainly a Progressive.

I think what GP may be referring to is the actual underlying story here, which the BGR article linked seems to have wrong. Omar Famuyide was in fact brandishing a gun and pointed it at the victim's head, and said gun was found abandoned in the car (a white BMW) two days later.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

He also fired a shot inside of a massage parlor:

http://www.birminghammail.co.u...

And in case you consider those two sources to be somehow less reliable than BGR, here's a third source:

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

So yeah, he did in fact commit these crimes while brandishing a gun, and there are even a few photos of said gun.

So Greece laying about the budget deficit when joining EU was not Greece fault?

Isn't it true that Stefanos Manos (former Greece minister of finance) said " the Greek national railway was so poorly run and its public employees so overpaid that it would be cheaper for the state to shut down the railway entirely and give every customer taxi fare to their destination." ?

Isn't it true that Tassos Giannitsis (former minister of labor) said "When I told my colleagues in the cabinet about the reforms I was proposingâ"which mind you were not the toughest availableâ"the attitude I got was that I was spoiling the party, They were, like, âeverything is going great right now, why are you bothering us with a problem that may implode in a decade?"

Isn't it true that "the retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters, musicians, and on and on and on" and "the Greek public-school system is the site of breathtaking inefficiency: one of the lowest-ranked systems in Europe, it nonetheless employs four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest-ranked, Finland's"

The last thing especially is a breathtaking reading. Greeks should not point fingers at anyone until they admit that they screwed up themselves too. Sure it was the upper class that screwed you, the little people. But who voted them in?

The low fat part being debunked is also BS, or at least highly misinterpreted data. People read what they want to read from scientific studies.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

Nobody cares if Taliban wants to call school teachers terrorists, because we know, and they know that's bullshit. We just care what they DO, and what they do is try to scare people into conducting their lives the way their religious say they should. Beard police! No dancing! Fly kites and die!

Indeed, a better example of relevancy probably comes from western perspectives about brainwashing in public > schools.

Why look to an outside group that is widely dismissed already, when you have ones here at home pushing their own message? The question is, who is full of bullshit?

PS, don't worry about the Colonies not having representation in the British Parliament, inhabitants of England didn't, even the rotten boroughs weren't eliminated for another few decades and true suffrage was even longer in developing.

Of course, the US has its own problems with representation today.

We just care what they DO...

With all the money and weapons you send them, you have a funny way of showing it. You can stop the charade any time you want, you know..

Sure, religious conversions almost always follow tribal, caste, racial, social, or economics (or some combination!) divisions.

I'm by no means an expert on the West African jihads, but I don't think you can just boil them down to a proxy for tribal conflict. There were certainly economic motivations as well--the slave trade was huge in, e.g., Sokoto. From what I do know, though, you would be very hard-pressed to make the case that those jihads were not driven by a desire to spread Islam.

As a counter example, in India today, many Muslims are the descendants of Muslims (Arabs, Turks, Persians, and others who invaded the subcontinent at various times). Many Muslims who are converts (or rather, whose family converted at some point in history) came from the lowest castes of Hinduism. The same thing goes with Christianity (minus the descendants of invaders). Many--if not the majority--of Indian Christians in India today came from low castes. Another interesting phenomena in Indian Christianity is that 50-60 years ago, across most of India (and ignoring areas like Kerala), almost all ministers and priests would have been of Western descent. Today, that's rate, and almost all religious organizations, etc., are run indigenously.

In India, many Muslims and Christians alike converted to their new religious precisely because their new religion was seen as more egalitarian.

Here's a fascinating article I read recently that illustrates the point:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36220329 (Why are many Indian Muslims seen as untouchable?)

There it is AGAIN. A leftist, making excuses for Islamists, and trying to deflect the blame and say the whole thing is the West's fault for being so kind and admitting these people. How many Syrian refugees have Islamic countries taken in? How about a word about them? What is *with* the left-wing alliance with Islamists? Why is there always one to jump right up and defend them? You know they execute homosexuals and legally allow spouse abuse?

Liberals defend Islam because the largest critics of Islam are Christian conservatives--the liberals' biggest boogey-man. If conservatives oppose something, liberals feel compelled to defend it. Additionally, there is the liberal commitment to cultural relativism & multiculturalism. If Muslims want to execute homosexuals, abuse their spouses, or arrest women for not wearing hijabs in photos on the internet, it's because those things are their cultural norm, so who are we to judge?

Not necessarily. Every year, it seems like somebody in the U.S. decides to do the old "Santa dangling precariously from the chimney" gag. To my knowledge, nobody has ever gone to jail for it, though in some cases, after about the twentieth 911 call, they've asked them to take it down. And in the U.K., there was this gag, where folks staged a fake murder for the Google Street View cameras. The police thought it was funny.

http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
"The pair had a suitcase containing a ticking clock which they showed to members of the public before running off."
""We were shocked that Danh was charged with it," spokesman Light told the BBC."

^^ From their earlier bomb hoax, not the smartest bunch. Kinda hard to be surprised more of them have been arrested.

Japan has had recessions from
1991-1993
1997-1999
2001-2002
2004-2005
2009-2010
2012-2013
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...
and
2015-2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

See also.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/bus...

Japan's essential problem is that their GDP caught up with everyone else. Japan's GDP is about $45k (USD) (roughly the same as Germany, France, the U.S., etc. depending on the exchange rate).

Google "Japan bbc recession" for a variety of news articles on japan's various recessions. If you add a year you can get details on a particular recession (like "japan recession 1998".

The same fate awaits china in about 20 years and india in about 40 years.

It may affect parts of india much sooner since the country is so bifurcated.

A two-year-old gelding destined to race in Australia has been saddled with the name Horsey McHorseface. (pun intended by editors)

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

... one fateful day last summer i watched a documentary that claimed sugars in our food were to blame but it actually had the science to back it up. Sugar is a drug, addictive and causes food cravings.

Of course, there is also science supporting that sugar is not addictive, but I'm not in a position to say which studies are of higher quality.