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Chongqing is perhaps better known as Chungking (in the old Wade-Giles system).
And the name is clearly a reference to the legendary Chungking Mansions " in Hong Kong.
What better metaphor for the Gnome code-base?

Eyesore, ghetto, jungle, goldmine, little United Nations. These are all words that have been used to describe Chungking Mansions, a building complex that is seen as both a foreign island in Hong Kong and an important part of the Chinese city's identity.

From the outside, Chungking Mansions looks like a single, imposing concrete block - 15 identical residential floors on top of a neon-lit, two-storey mall.

Past the front, it is like a maze - there are in fact five separate blocks, 10 lifts and multiple old, twisting stairwells filled with swathes of electrical cable, crumbling concrete and graffiti in multiple languages.

The complex began life as an upmarket residential estate in the 1960s, but has since become a hub for traders from developing countries, backpackers and asylum seekers in Hong Kong.

It seems likely the construction of the bottle had something to do with it.

Oldest message in a bottle found on Western Australia beach

Sand dunes in the area are quite mobile during storm events and heavy rain, so the bottle could have been subject to "cyclical periods of exposure" which could have led to the cork in the bottle drying out and becoming dislodged, "while the tightly rolled paper along with a quantity of sand remained inside preserved".

"The narrow 7mm bore of the bottle opening and thick glass would have assisted to buffer and preserve the paper from the effects of full exposure to the elements, providing a protective microenvironment favourable to the paper's long-term preservation," the report added.

I don't think it's a bad thing that someone is talking about morals...

You could probably just leave it right here at this and this post would be good.

What if someone made a video game that allowed you to simulate raping people?

Oh you sweet summer child... That game has been around for many years now: it's named "Rapelay".

Society is advancing in morals in some respects but declining in morals in others.

Define "advancing".

For example, women have decided that it is time for men to rediscover respect for women - that can't be anything but good.

Oh, women have decided this have they? That sort of arrogance and condescension is utterly unacceptable. Respect is earned, not demanded-- no matter what one's sex is.

Do people need magazines that allow them to shoot 15 rounds without reloading? Nope.

This is just your opinion. And it's a bad one.
The big magazines and "high powered uh-salt rifles" are there to make sure the government fears the will of the people in this country. Because the alternative is an American holocaust, holodomor, gulags, stasi, etc.

Bump stocks are an attempt to turn a rifle into a toy.

No, bump stocks are an attempt to get around an unconstitutional law. And yes, I think citizens should be allowed to own fully automatic weapons-- explosives even.

I don't think semi-autos should be banned, but high capacity magazines turn these things into indiscriminate tools for butchering crowds of people

So you're the person that always says "a little more won't hurt" and thus we slide further toward tyranny.
Also: guns aren't necessary to kill large numbers of people but they are a very handy way to defend against violence.

I hope we end up with a reasonable compromise that saves lives and allows sportsmen to continue to be sportsmen.

I say, tut tut and cherio, old boy. Let us all be good sports, wot?
Look, fool, the world is dangerous. Your hand wringing and "good sportsmanship" doesn't protect anyone. You're just weak, ignorant, and foolish. Dangerously so.

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/tec...

(a) It's "fewer" not "less"

(b) Those worker would probably get laid off anyway when the EU adds tariffs on Levi's jeans in retaliation to Trump's Steel/Aluminum tariff's -- though, I (and others) are speculating that he will reconsider imposing them just after the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th District (which has some steel/aluminum mills) on March 13.

It's interesting, though, that Levi's will go directly to using automation with the lasers rather than using sharks.

Here you go. Looks like it's been banned and 'legit' jeans companies don't allow it, but it's hard to control and there are illegal "jeans sand blasters" because it's so much cheaper to do it that way.

If we're discussing costs here, the thing is even the very rare nuclear accidents are incredibly expensive. Estimates of the cost of cleaning up Fukushima run between US$180 - US$600 billion.

Estimating US$400 billion, and wikipedia's claim that about 2 PWh of nuclear energy is produced per year, we get a cost of $200/ MWh year, so substitute in how often you think it's reasonable to assume these things happen somewhere in the world (once every 30 years? Gives $6/MWh), and compare to the latest contracts being signed for dispatchable solar (solar with storage) costing less than $50/MWh. It's a significant proportion of the overall cost, not overwhelming, but should not be discounted. And solar costs are coming down fast.

Cleanup costs:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/01/national/real-cost-fukushima-disaster-will-reach-¥70-trillion-triple-governments-estimate-think-tank/

Contracts being signed around US$50/MWh:
US$55/MWh in South Australia, including storage
US$30/MWh in Arizona, not including storage

EVs are better in the cold weather than fossil cars.

Huh???

Diesels are lousy when they're cold. Most of the pollution from a diesel engine comes from the few minutes when it's warming up.

In fact, one of the factors of the diesel scandal was that the manufacturers shut down the pollution controls when it got cold. https://www.envirotech-online....
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

Gasoline cars aren't great when they're cold, either.

The funniest part of this saga is the decades that Americans had to listen to Europeans going on and on about how their clean diesels were infinitely superior to the American gas guzzlers.

Well, it's not funny any more for folks in Germany who own diesels . . . about 46% of passenger cars there.

A German high court just put a nail in diesel's coffin with a judgement allowing bans of diesels in cities:

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

Of course, the fat lady hasn't sung yet, and the government and auto industry are working frantically to think up a solution which won't end up in pitchforks and torches. The German police have already stated that they do not have the resources to enforce a ban.

So basically, if you own a diesel, its value has just dropped from a few thousand Euros to zero. And actually diesel owners will probably be required to get their cars refitted with cleaning devices, which will cost a serious amount of money. So the value of your diesel is negative now. A lot of folks will not be happy about that. The Green Party, who was the main backer of the ban, is already back-peddling, stating that it is the government's and auto industry's fault, not the end consumer.

But at the end of the day, instead of "Pin The Tail On the Donkey," they will have "Pin The Bill On The Taxpayer."

> The most popular geoip service, Max mind, claims 90 percent accuracy when
> nobody is trying to be tricky. That's their marketing claim for their own service;
> the real number is probably closer to 80 percent when no proxies are involved.

You mean THIS MaxMind http://www.bbc.com/news/techno... that decided to geo-locate "unknown" US IP addresses somewhere near the geographical centre of the USA? Unfortunately for the inhabitants of a farm located at those co-ordinates, that meant a constant stream of visits from all levels of police, not to mention a few vigilantes who wanted to take the law into their own hands.

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yes. Facts are unintentionally misleading in this era of too much information.

Urban legend has it that the weight of all the ants on earth is greater than that of any other species, yet science seems to indicate they're approximately the same.

Our livestock and pets alone dwarf the #2 life form.

Thanks to an former Canadian PM, bare arms have been in the news too.

Complete BS.

Making your products recyclable would be a start.

Let alone making them easier to repair.

Back in 2012 San Francisco actually banned purchasing Apple products since they were so hard to repair/recycle:

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

(not sure what San Fran's current policy is)

As if we dont know how this will turn out. 'whats your is mine'.

http://www.laht.com/article.as...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
http://www.scmp.com/news/world...
http://news.abs-cbn.com/overse...

Science has a Replication problem

This is not really the same issue. Replication failures in the physical and social sciences are difficult to fix, since they are can be caused by small differences in data collection, experimental procedures, and statistical analysis. It is a hard problem.

Fixing the replication problem described in TFA is drop dead easy, since it has exactly two causes: closed data, and closed source. The fix? Reject any paper for publication if full source and data is not available. Science is based on openness, not secrets.

Science has a Replication problem

People may be walking into glass, which indeed seems problematic, but that is only a symptom of the real flaw in Apple's approach.

And that critical design flaw is open plan seating. And Apple employees know it, and hate it.

https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

Collaboration and productivity are not improved in the slightest by this. They are, in fact, degraded:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/sto...

The only thing that is increased, then, aside from tempers, are the number of beans the bean counters get to count. It is, after all, cheaper to pack sardines into a can than it is to individually wrap them.

Yeah, "false alarm".
Ignore the rats leaving the ship.
Nothing to see here, move along...

If you haven't figured out that all politicians are very similar and horrible people, I'm sorry for you.

Fuck your false equivalence nihilism. Nobody is perfect, even Gandhi was a racist and a molestor.

Everybody is graded on a scale and some people are so horribly incompetent that they should not be anywhere near the reigns of power.

Thanks -- yes, let's hope for the best!

On poor quality clothing:
"Used clothes: Why is worldwide demand declining?"
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
"Manufacturers know that customers are more interested in low prices than durability, because they increasingly expect to wear their clothes just a few times and throw them away. "So the quality's not as good, so when our customers get [an item] they're not getting two or three hundred wears out of it - they know it's only going to be a couple of uses," he says. That means, according to Fee Gilfeather, head of marketing for Oxfam's trading division, "more [clothing] is getting incinerated than there used to be.""

Also on that:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
"For decades, the donation bin has offered consumers in rich countries a guilt-free way to unload their old clothing. In a virtuous and profitable cycle, a global network of traders would collect these garments, grade them, and transport them around the world to be recycled, worn again, or turned into rags and stuffing.
Now that cycle is breaking down. Fashion trends are accelerating, new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade. Without significant changes in the way that clothes are made and marketed, this could add up to an environmental disaster in the making."

I agree that we could be a lot happier with less stuff. It's an abundance mindset though -- to stop feeling the need to hoard.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose needs and desires were few relative to their skills and the abundance of nature relative to their populations lived more in that mindset of abundance:
http://www.primitivism.com/ori...
"Hunter-gatherers consume less energy per capita per year than any other group of human beings. Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied. To accept that hunters are affluent is therefore to recognise that the present human condition of man slaving to bridge the gap between his unlimited wants and his insufficient means is a tragedy of modern times. ...
Above all. what about the world today? One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an [institution]. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger in. creases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture. This paradox is my whole point. Hunters and gatherers have by force of circumstances an objectively low standard of living. But taken as their objective, and given their adequate means of production. all the people's material wants usually can be easily satisfied.
The world's most primitive people have few possessions. but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilisation. It has grown with civilisation, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation that can render agrarian peasants more susceptible to natural catastrophes than any winter camp of Alaskan Eskimo."

For example:
http://marcinequenzer.com/crea... FIELD OF PLENTY
"The Field of Plenty is always full of abundance. The gratitude we show as Children of Earth allows the ideas within the Field of Plenty to manifest on the Good Red Road so we may enjoy these fruits in a physi

The Washington Post article links to a BBC article containing the following:

And of course, there's always that one person that has all the answers.

The total weight of 26 sheep and 10 goat is 7,700kg, based on the average weight of each animal," said one Weibo commenter.

In China, if you're driving a ship that has more than 5,000kg of cargo you need to have possessed a boat license for five years. The minimum age for getting a boat's license is 23, so he's at least 28.

Since the Ukrainian vote to join the EU, Russia has gone on an all-out propaganda offensive with the intention to split the west and weaken NATO. Russia regards the Ukraine as its "home-turf" and buffer against perceived NATO "aggression", and it regards the EU as the gateway to NATO membership for eastern European countries that were formally part of the Soviet Union.
Russia feels as if NATO is encroaching on its sphere of influence and waging an "underhanded" war of political expansion. Looking at a map you will see how one by one, former Soviet republics have been converted into NATO countries.
Russia also feels that this NATO expansion is a violation of a promise made to Gorbachev at the dissolution of the Soviet Union, that NATO would not expand to the east.
For this reasons Russia has decided to go on the offensive and start fighting NATO. Not by military means, since it does not have the means to seriously compete with NATO, but by information warfare, taking full advantage of the traits of our open societies, such as freedom of speech and of the press. Using fake news and trolls that sow discontent and dissent, it intends to cause a rift between our countries and institutions.
Russian agents already provided plenty of cannon fodder to the Brexit crew and succeeded in swaying public opinion. Everything that causes a rift through the EU and NATO is good for Russia.
Russia is very active in spreading fake news and inciting discontent around far-right groups in Europe, using the refugee crisis to full effect (fake news about rapists, terrorists and other criminals among refugees) to strengthen the far-right and to politically destabilize European nations, especially Germany and France. Fortunately these activities have only had marginal success thus far, with the far-right Front National in France and the AfD in Germany gaining some votes, but not enough to pose a serious threat to the political establishment.
It had resounding success in the U.S. were it just so managed to tip the scale in favor of Trump, the weaker candidate, and the US government and especially foreign policy is practically paralyzed and ineffectual at the moment. If you want some information or evidence on these activities, it's really only a good google search away.
Russian activities in Germany and Europe:
https://www.nato.int/docu/Revi...
http://time.com/4889471/german...
https://www.politico.eu/articl...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

On Russia's overall strategy and interference in the US:
https://www.newyorker.com/maga...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

That should be a good start to get an idea.

and raise you an NPR Article and a BBC one too.

Our health care sucks, particularly in rural areas. And you can't blame that on the US being spread out. Look at Canada. Better outcomes and just as if not more spread out population centers.

How about the darling of NRA comparisons; Switzerland. They have no concealed carry and discourage storing guns ready to use. Ammunition is controlled and cowboys aren't strolling around with one in the pipe like all the CC dumb-asses I know.

They did. I don't know why that's not the news here.

Wow. It would sure suck if you had this disability and had to take tests such as these:

According to China Youth Daily, students at the Sichuan Vocational College of Culture and Communication were handed papers with photos of seven people during their exams, and asked to select their teacher and write their name underneath.

Those who were able to identify their teacher did not get any extra marks, but students were severely penalised if they answered incorrectly, having 41 points deducted from their final score. China Daily says that the identity test accounted for 30% of their overall grade.

Source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...

*Cough* NATO and half the other countries not in NATO...

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

Worth a read if you are interested in this topic. The strange link between the human mind and quantum psychics

Now, FBI investigators have released the results of their investigation claiming that the blunt force trauma all over his body was self-inflicted.

“Mr. Lesin died as a result of blunt for injuries to his head, with contributing causes being blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities, which were induced by falls, with acute ethanol intoxication,” the report states.

In other words, the FBI is claiming that Lesin got so drunk that he repeatedly and violently fell on things until he killed himself.

If you don't think a Russian can get drunk enough to kill himself by falling all over the place, you've never gotten drunk with a Russian.

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

Also, you messed up your link, comrade.

No, not really. If he'd fled the country instead of to the embassy. (which in many respects is the same thing), then he'd simply be beyond the reach of arrest unless and until he came back. This is pretty elementary; thousands of people have outstanding warrants who have fled the country; and unless the crime rises to a level where its worth pursuing international warrants; and he happens to hide in an extradition treaty country -- then fleeing a country and living in exile has always been something one can get away with for small crimes. The police don't normally spend a lot of time worrying about it.

He fled Sweden and the Swedes issued an european arrest warrant. I'm sure if he'd fled the UK they'd have issued one for him. And if he was outside Europe they could issue an Interpol notice.

And actually Interpol have confirmed the existing Interpol red notice is still outstanding, so all the paperwork is in place.

https://www.interpol.int/News-...

LYON, France - INTERPOL confirms that its Red Notice, or international wanted persons alert, issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Sweden's request in November 2010 remains valid.

Confirmation that Mr Assange's Red Notice status remains in force follows Thursday's decision by authorities in Ecuador to grant asylum to Mr Assange, two months after he took refuge in its London embassy while fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden where authorities want to question him in connection with alleged sexual offences.

A Red Notice status is a request for any country to identify or locate an individual with a view to their provisional arrest and extradition in accordance with the country's national laws.

Many of INTERPOL's member countries consider a Red Notice a valid request for provisional arrest, especially if they are linked to the requesting country via a bilateral extradition treaty. In cases where arrests are made based on a Red Notice, these are made by national police officials in INTERPOL member countries.

INTERPOL cannot compel any of its 190 member countries to arrest the subject of a Red Notice. Any individual wanted for arrest should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

I.e. even if he left the EU he'd still be wanted man. Basically he'd need to flee to a country which would ignore the Interpol notice and refuse to extradite.

Ronnie Biggs for example spent 36 years in Brazil which didn't have an extradition treaty where he made some rather likeable records with the Sex Pistols.

"Ronnie Biggs was doing time until he done a bunk
Now he says he's seen the light and he sold his soul to punk

God save Martin Bormann and Nazis on the run
They wasn't being wicked God that was their idea of fun
God save Myra Hindley God save Ian Brady
Even though he's horrible and she ain't what you call a lady"

However collaborating on a good song doesn't buy you immunity from judicial process.

Brazil eventually signed an extradition treaty with the UK but refused to extradite Biggs

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

Brazil had no extradition treaty with the UK before the late 1990s, allowing Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs - who had escaped from Wandsworth Prison in 1965 - to enjoy the sun and sand of Rio for decades. Even if there had been a reciprocal treaty, Brazilian law prohibits the father of a Brazilian child from being extradited. In 1981, Biggs was kidnapped in Rio by a group of former British soldiers working for a security firm and ended up in the Bahamas, where it was hoped the government would extradite him to the UK. The country's high court, however, sent him back to Brazil. In 1997, Brazil and the UK signed a treaty, but Brazil still reject

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

http://volokh.com/2013/05/03/l...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

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

https://www.theguardian.com/la...

https://www.cnet.com/news/lond...

https://www.amren.com/news/201...

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

https://www.thenewamerican.com...

The dumbest thing about it is that the EU cheered on Erdogan's attempt to curtail the power of the military because of 'freedom and democracy'.

http://www.washingtoninstitute...

On August 8, 2003, the seventh European Union (EU) reform package went into effect in Turkey, significantly curbing the role of the military in politics. This legislation, passed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on August 4, follows six previous packages adopted since February 2002. Collectively, these reform measures have vastly liberalized the country's political system, facilitating Kurdish broadcasting and education, abolishing the death penalty, and subjecting Turkish courts to the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey now has laws guaranteeing freedom of speech, and the military is no longer the kingmaker in Ankara. As a result, AKP -- a self-styled "conservative democratic" party with an identifiable "Islamist pedigree" -- anticipates that Turkey will pass muster when Brussels reviews its candidacy for EU membership in June 2004. Ankara hopes that the EU will establish an accession calendar, opening the way for Turkey's eventual entry into the union, perhaps within the next decade. These developments are crucial to Turkey's future. Which path will the country take now that the military is stripped of its role as a decision making body? Will the EU open its doors to Turkey?

Of course the EU turned down Turkey's membership.

Then the coup happened and the EU condemned it

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

Erdogan used the excuse of the coup for a full on crackdown of critics of his regime, and even convinced EU countries to arrest EU citizens

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ger...

And then threatened to unleash a wave of refugees on the EU unless Turks get free movement

http://nationalpost.com/news/w...

And big pile of cash.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

The basic problem is that the EU and the West push freedom and democracy and do things like push Turkey to curb the power of the military. But the government curbing the military in Turkey won't lead to a democratic government in charge because Turkey is fundamentally different from EU countries. Traditionally the main counter balance to Islamism has been the military having a coup every few years.

The EU have removed what was essentially an authoritarian check on the political aspirations of the Islamists and not replaced it with a more democratically correct one.

And of course the EU screwed Turkey - it forced a bunch of reforms on Turkey as part of the price of EU membership. Turkey made the reforms and then the EU welched on the membership. And Turkey knows the EU is dependent on it to stop another wave of refugees

Yes, it's rather embarrassing this is being posted now 4 months after his trial and 2 weeks after his sentencing as reported by the mainstream media.

Yes, it's rather embarrassing this is being posted now 4 months after his trial and 2 weeks after his sentencing as reported by the mainstream media.

Yes, it's rather embarrassing this is being posted now 4 months after his trial and 2 weeks after his sentencing as reported by the mainstream media.

That does explain why pet food made in China keeps killing dogs and cats and noone can understand why

Actually, that's because there was a point several years back when some Chinese manufacturers adulterated foods with melamine to raise protein measurements by nitrogen decomposition. It was a huge problem, and the Chinese government quickly cracked down on it when it became known. Two executives from the main offending producer were actually executed for this.

China has been refactoring itself for a couple decades. The Chinese government isn't as experienced with regulation as the EU and the US; they are, however, highly intolerant of things which tarnish the international image of China--a problem which, as you can imagine, they are quite sensitive to since it just won't go away.

Cheap goods that are less durable and less capable of being repaired only tacks on to the externalized costs

We know that. The problem is American companies demand lower cost, and press down on the quality. That lets them get low, low prices. The Chinese are capable of--and frequently do--producing some of the highest-quality manufactured goods on the planet at surprisingly low costs; practically nobody wants that. All of their clients want them to produce it cheaper. Even mid-range producers want that mid-range cheaper than the same quality coming out of Germany or America.

That chinese peasants are finally choking to death on smog and they are having to deal with it now rather than a decade later, is no argument for having such unfair and unconscionable trade practices from the onset.

With natural growth, it wouldn't be that they would do what they're doing today later; it's that they'd be pumping out old-tech, dirty-coal and dirty-oil emissions longer, unable to sustain their economy if they go expending their resources on smokestack emissions scrubbers which produce nothing of value. They can't sell clean air; it's an immediate cost. Clean air only buys you long-term stability: your healthcare and environmental resources don't fall apart and create extreme costs sometime down the road. When poor, developing nations just shrug and let that be a problem for later.

China has been forcing new environmental controls and getting this stuff retrofitted, catching up to countries like the United States. That's been going on for a few short years now. Imagine if they were rolling coal and talking about maybe getting some environmental controls in 2080, instead of working on becoming the world leader in solar energy and electric cars (China's behavior suggests they want to go in this direction, which is self-reinforcing: cleaner air means better solar generation).

Because China is such a global manufacturing superpower, they have the economic basis to do all of this stuff now, instead of generations down the line.

Archaic union contracts are the problem for public sector transit, and to a certain degree commuter rail, but not private sector freight.

I'm afraid, you are overly optimistic. Luddites, empowered by bundling together, have been holding humanity's progress for centuries. The most recent battle was against Uber et al (would somebody think of the taxi drivers!) may have been lost already, but new ones are ahead.

Paying two guys to babysit it is literal chump change.

I'm not sure... But, perhaps more importantly, humans suck at driving. If, as /.'s favorite genius predicts, some day driving a car will be illegal for a human, operating a train should already. Because we can automate trains with today's software. And, indeed, the cause of the recent train-wrecks was just that — a human error.

and when done in the correct order he can talk to someone?

Yes which is why it took so long to get the information out. Calling individual media outlets is an incredibly inefficient way of disseminating information. For better or worse in any emergency twitter will get the information to a wider audience and will be picked up by the media faster than anything else these days.

I heard there's a tsunami warning in the USA.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... : Count 1 official Twitter source
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... : Count 1 semi-official Twitter source, 2 unoffical twitter sources.
https://www.theguardian.com/us... : Count no link to Twitter, but a quote in the article from an official's twitter account.

I think the Russian Facebook ads are what got the public aware. But the problem runs older and deeper than that. "Fake news" isn't just about Russian propaganda. It includes American propaganda. I've had acquaintances and family members passing around articles about Bill Gates' secret eugenics mission, various causes of autism, cures for cancer, proof Obama was born in Kenya, etc.

Oooh! I just found this article on the history of fake news.

Some time ago Slashdot linked to a study showing that users "like"d articles and shared them with others without ever even reading them. That's how the fake news goes viral. I am just glad that people are finally figuring it out.

our system actually works,

Does it? Who does it work for? You should have a look at this study.
Also, The Economist Intelligence Unit thinks you have some problems, so my opinion is not really what counts here.
The point I was trying to make is that you have exactly the same system you had in 1776. Maybe it's time for a look at it.
Also, I'm unsure why you think I'm in the UK, I never said I was. My country actually overhauled our voting system about 20 years ago, because we got sick of first-past-the-post governments being able to rule with 38% of the vote. We went with a proportional system, which has been a huge success.

So, another unscrupulous narcissist hijacks clickbait farms to attract attention to a pointlessly-idiotic stunt.

In what universe is this even arguably "News for Nerds?"

Is there any "nerd" anywhere who takes flat-eartherism seriously?

Seriously?

This attention whore was never a flat-earth advocate - until he figured out that they're dumb enough to be willing to bankroll his stupid, steam-powered suicide machine. Now he's suddenly a passionate proponent of an idea so fundamentally idiotic, so stubbornly anti-scientific, so willfully blind to all the scientific evidence since at least as early as the 13th century that only aggressive dimwits like Atlanta rapper B o B take it seriously?

I'm not even going to facepalm or shake my metaphorical finger at /.'s so-called "editors" over this non-story, because all the evidence to date leads to the inescapable conclusion that such reactions only encourage them to post still more of this kind of horseshit. I am going to say that such blatant manipulation of the click-hungry meda - including /. - becomes progressively more tiresome with each iteration.

Downvoting crap like this is exactly what meta-moderation is for, folks ...

which are much better systems of Democracy. Our system was built from the ground up to protect the interests of the wealthy (especially land owners, but mostly because at the time being wealthy meant owning lots of land). We're not really a democracy. We've got dozens and dozens of systems in place to make it so we look like one but at the end of the day the laws don't reflect popular opinion. Heck, our head of State lost the popular vote by 3 _million_.... And that's just one example. There's our Senate, built from the ground up as a buffer between the population and wealthy land and slave owners. There's Gerrymandering. There's all manner of flavors of voter suppression. I could go on but the depressions making me want to stop...

Take a look at the job stats here (third graphic down). It seems like there's a consistent trend rather than an uptick in job creation.

Unless you are voting Republican next time around her mental state IS definitely an issue.

More important than Trump's like reboot said? No. Also, "testing mental state" is pretty generous for this.

Have you actually heard some of the things she has said?

Compared to DJT? Talk to this guy.

That will happen right after Pelosi takes the same mental exam Trump took

Want to try? They didn't test his IQ. Even Devos could pass.

as per the polls. Comparing polls to policy in a Republic is how you gauge how Democratic your Republic is. Ours is pretty much an oligarchy.

These drone attacks came not long after a mortar barrage at the same base in Hmeimim, Syria. In that attack, two Russian soldiers were killed and seven Russian jets were either damaged or destroyed, with another report saying up to ten planes were hit. Of those confirmed damaged, only two returned to operational service.

Whoever is behind these attacks has a high level of sophistication and operational awareness. With the ease of making and using drones, expect to see more such attacks and in even greater numbers.

I guess you're the last to know.

What we know about North Korea's missile programme

Well, isn't that why rich people vote Republican; to get their lifetimes of tax cuts and elimination of regulations that cost them money to comply with?

You act like it is a blessing and give out from the Govt to let people KEEP more of their own hard earned money, rather than give it to the govt???

You do realize that that money belongs to the PEOPLE first, not the Govt.

Taxes are given to the govt, but the money belongs first to the people, letting them keep more of their own is they way it should be.

As far as regulations coming down...that too is usually a good thing, as that the more govt stays out of business, the more business can thrive and guess what, more business means more jobs for the populace.

And is it wrong for the more wealthy to get a bit more break on their taxes? Well, considering that half the populace pays no net federal taxes, its no surprise that if you don't pay fucking taxes, you don't get a break on them.

In the cases you listed, the more wealthy are NOT getting anything from the govt, they are having the govt TAKE LESS...that is not the same as giving.

I was merely challenging the idea that the poor vote Democrat so they can get free stuff (essentially the GP's point), by pointing out that rich people also vote to get what they want from government. And it has been shown that wealthy special interests are much better at getting what they want from government. So the idea that the lower class is somehow mooching off the success of the wealthy, and using government to do it, is not accurate.

To your point about money, it does not belong to the people. It belongs to the Federal Reserve; says so right on the note. We are just borrowing it.