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Trump's lies:

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Sexual abuse:

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.

8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)

Choosing weak people to be leaders:

Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)

Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."

Profiting personally:

Trump has now spen

It turns out that these new methods of attack affect AMD x86 CPUs, and ARM non-x86 CPUs as well,
so it's a multi-platform weakness that the only hardware safe against are essentially iPad and iPhone.

Yeah, about that...
Meltdown and Spectre: All Macs, iPhones and iPads affected

Links about Trump

Trump's lies:

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Sexual abuse:

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.

8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)

Choosing weak people to be leaders:

Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)

Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."

Profiting personally:

Trump has now spe

Found the article:

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

I remembered wrong - there is a decline in happiness around 70-80 yrs and your sexual desire lingers on for longer than I though. Still it is interesting....

The graph linked shows only China mismanaged over 5 Million tonnes of plastic waste.
http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

No. To be guilty of murder, you need to show intent to kill.

This is America, where the police kill tourists who report rape and throw flashbangs into cribs with babies in them. SWATting does show intent to kill.

the only way you can argue that he had any intent to kill is to argue that everybody should accept that whenever the US police shows up somewhere, there is a decent chance that they will kill an innocent

That's correct. A reasonable person would know that there is a "decent" (some might call it indecent, if they were actually against police shooting innocents, as you appear not to be) chance that someone they have SWATted will be murdered by overzealous police who do not do their jobs correctly or intelligently. The standard is a reasonable person, and no person can reasonably not know this today. It's in the news constantly.

The police officer did. When you unload your gun on a guy, you intend to kill. And when you do so being a trained professional whose job is to maintain law and order,

A very, very poorly trained professional. We have the least pre-hiring police training in the western world, and it shows. We also have some of the least stringent hiring requirements. Someone can be fired from department after department and still keep getting jobs. Try that in any other career. If you get fired as a house painter just two or three times, you're probably going to have to become a carpet layer or something. If you get fired two or three times as a cop, even with evidence of wrongdoing you will still be able to get hired as a cop again, by someone who has looked into your record and decided you are just the right kind of person to do the job in their town.

Literally everything is wrong with policing in America, starting with police unions. Just another case where the people get fucked by unionization, which is only even necessary because of our shit labor laws and our general unwillingness to protect the worker.

I'm genuinely curious about this analysis. Iran had an election in 2013 where the moderate candidate won with just over 50% of the votes with the US and UK reacting relatively positively and neither denouncing the election as unfair.

This makes Iran one of the most democratic countries in the Middle East (admittedly, it's not up against stiff competition for that title). Certainly, when you compare it to our "ally" Saudi Arabia who promote terrorism in Europe, fight alongside al Qaeda in their brutal war in Yemen and has an appalling record of human rights abuses, Iran does not appear to be the greatest threat.

Could it be because "the Obama administration has offered to sell $115bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia over its eight years in office, more than any previous US administration"? (Note that Trump is no better).

If Iran pumped billions into the US and UK economy, they might not be quite so high on our shit list.

I'm genuinely curious about this analysis. Iran had an election in 2013 where the moderate candidate won with just over 50% of the votes with the US and UK reacting relatively positively and neither denouncing the election as unfair.

This makes Iran one of the most democratic countries in the Middle East (admittedly, it's not up against stiff competition for that title). Certainly, when you compare it to our "ally" Saudi Arabia who promote terrorism in Europe, fight alongside al Qaeda in their brutal war in Yemen and has an appalling record of human rights abuses, Iran does not appear to be the greatest threat.

Could it be because "the Obama administration has offered to sell $115bn worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia over its eight years in office, more than any previous US administration"? (Note that Trump is no better).

If Iran pumped billions into the US and UK economy, they might not be quite so high on our shit list.

Just this week, did you catch the fake news about cutting down a 200 year old tree at the White House?

I did. Didn't look particularly "fake" to me, what with the reasons for the removal being stated right there in the article and all.

I do not believe that India's caste system is the main reason of their national underdevelopment. Remember Japan's own caste system: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... The answer lies in their manufacturing sector that still today, falls short of meeting international quality standards: https://www.mckinsey.com/busin... Notice how politely Pete Lau (OnePlus CEO) mention this in an interview: "One of the toughest challenges with India smartphone manufacturing is maintaining the same level of quality as China since the manufacturing environment in the country is not the same" https://tech.economictimes.ind...

What is the secret of Burton snatch? — 2016

"Part of the enjoyment is is smelling the beer without drinking it," he says.

Going AC to preserve moderation, but rats too are being used to detect land mines in Cambodia and Africa.

When the West does IT?.
"British army creates team of Facebook warriors" (31 Jan ‘15)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
"Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare?" (Feb 1 2017)
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
"So, Why Does the Air Force Want Hundreds of Fake Online Identities on Social Media?" (Feb 19, 2011)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...
"BBC World Service gets funding boost from government" (23 November 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entert...
The new "Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

An perhaps useful bit of context is that in bij 2020 the Chinese government want to implement the Social Credit system, which will give every citizen a single score that represents how well behaved they are, and which will influence the ability to get a job with the government, get a cheap loan, etc. Both Tencent and Alibaba group have been running large scale reputation scoring pilots. Alibaba's version is called "sesame credit" and is based more on your purchase data, while Tencent's version is based more on what you say and share online.

This would be a logical continuation of that development, and is another signal that the Chinese government is using their mega companies as a testing ground for things that will eventually become state operated.

I do doubt that this will be anything more than a pilot, although a large scale one. In the end the Chinese government will want to run this system themselves, as they do with the credit system.

Sources:
- Planning document for the social credit system: https://chinacopyrightandmedia...
- BBC on the Sesame Credit pilot: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

An perhaps useful bit of context is that in bij 2020 the Chinese government want to implement the Social Credit system, which will give every citizen a single score that represents how well behaved they are, and which will influence the ability to get a job with the government, get a cheap loan, etc. Both Tencent and Alibaba group have been running large scale reputation scoring pilots. Alibaba's version is called "sesame credit" and is based more on your purchase data, while Tencent's version is based more on what you say and share online. Over 100.000 Chinese have been boasting about their scores online. This would be a logical continuation of that development, and is another signal that the Chinese government is using their mega companies as a testing ground for things that will eventually become state operated. I do doubt that this will be anything more than a pilot, although a large scale one. In the end the Chinese government will want to run this system themselves, as they do with the social credit system. Sources: - Planning document for the social credit system: https://chinacopyrightandmedia... - BBC on the Sesame Credit pilot: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Sure, let me DuckDuckGo that for you:

a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html'>NY Times? Guardian? BBC?

The US is both the most generous country in the world in terms of official foreign aid giving, and it also has the most generous private NGO givings. What Russia does with all that money behind closed curtain is to breed tonnes and tonnes of Anthrax so that even they have trouble handling the Anthrax properly.

It helps to have the correct perspective so we don't ask stupid questions.

So you think what happened when the public tried to identify the Boston Bombers from surveillance footage is a good thing? It basically became a modern-day Salem Witch Hunt. While police corruption is certainly possible and needs to be rooted out, we've given police the task of criminal investigations precisely because we can then train a handful of investigators of these fallacies and how to avoid them, instead of having to train the entire public. It's a protective mechanism we've developed to prevent witch hunts. Opening up all cameras to the public short-circuits that protection.

Unfortunately, our basic psychology makes us easily fall for things which sound right but are wrong. Investigators reviewing surveillance video footage have at least some training to avoid falling for the most common of those fallacies when identifying a suspect. If you throw a bunch of random untrained people from the public into that role, they'll usually end up falling for groupthink and confirmation bias leading them to the wrong conclusion. (Releasing the footage after the investigation is done via a court order or FOIA can still be done.)

"Feel"? The various candidates spent almost $7 billion on propaganda in 2016 alone. The other day the BBC was complaining about how Russia spent 97 fucking cents on facebook ads to "influence" brexit.

First of all, OP isn't talking about injecting frequency. He was merely clarifying that the Australian grid runs at 50 Hz in case Americans are confused since the US grid runs at 60 Hz. Comprehend first, criticize second.

But if you're so much smarter than everybody else, including the experts cited in the article, then maybe you can explain how everyone else is wrong.

Since the London police are using variations in the grid frequency in their forensic work, you could even get some people out of jail. After all, if frequency fluctuations are impossible---as implied by you---then clearly their experts are deluded, and they are convicting people unjustly.

I encourage you to reach out to the Dr Cooper quoted in the article at http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

Please straighten him out and get those innocent men set free.

Plenty of news sites/publications have an "on the lighter side" section. These are stories that are generally of little importance but people often find them amusing. In this case, many find it amusing to see the lengths a flat earther will take their beliefs and for those of us with any science education it's seeing the 101 glaring problems with his plan. It's an amusing distraction.

As an example: http://www.bbc.com/news/also_i...

If you don't get it that's fine, feel free to be outraged. That's what it's doing on slashdot and in the news though.

The article in post fails to mention the New York Times story which has DOD video from an F-18 sensor recording of a UAV they are tracking.

The BBC article posts a link to the CIA declassifying 13 million documents under the CIA's CREST archive.

Enjoy!!

<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/av/42341736/what-is-net-neutrality-and-how-could-it-affect-you">Link!</a>

In what way does fighting in Afghanistan give us freedom?

Initially it would have been to go after Osama Bin Laden, the guy who planned the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

However, when, for two days, Bush refused every single request by troops on the ground for more troops to block Bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora because troops weren't available as he was preparing to invade Iraq, that issue went by the wayside.

Working with a vet is often mentally demanding, as you see death and grieving families every day.

Being a waitress on your feet all day is not fun and http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-422...

BBC has a short video about a farmer in Belgium who started a movement which had a significant impact on a number of farms there after his daughter had issues with a superbug - http://www.bbc.com/news/av/mag...

I would agree that the claim of a cure that the article speaks of seems rather silly, as it's been known for a long time.

Also it just pushes the problem back into the realm of body weight regulation, which is another matter that doctors can't exactly explain yet.
What is known is that (by medical standards) dieting doesn't even really work to control weight permanently, the failure rate over ten years of people who regain most of the lost weight is something like 80%.
And binge dieting is often observed to be the worst of the dieting methods used; people tend to regain weight lost during binge dieting the fastest.

The intestinal microbiome seems to hold some promise, but it's not very well understood yet. Here's another fun BBC story:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

...And it still doesn't explain why only some overweight people get the problems of high blood pressure and type-2 diabetes, when others do not.
Being able to say for certain why that happens is part of the 'rigorous proof' mentioned.

These 'healthy practices' you speak of tend to vary by region and most have been found to be without merit (Jamaicans eating dirt, Indians drinking urine, Europeans beating epileptics, and so on...).

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

Your room and its contents says a lot about you. This data can be used by databrokers to update thousands of reputation scores about you. Deep learning algorithms could seek correlations with (mental) health, poverty, ambition, etc by comparing your room to that of others whom they know more about.

It doesn't matter that these are spurious correlations, or that they are wrong a lot of the times. As long as it allows some risk to be managed, then their clients will happily pay for these 'opinions' about you, which they will treat as fact.

The same thing goes for your face. They will claim they can read your BMI, sexuality and even if you're a criminal from just your face.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.031...
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
https://www.rt.com/news/368307...

As a Google CTO put it in 2012: "all data is credit data, we just don't know how to use it yet".

Being the timely "annexation" of Crimea when Ukraine was in discussion of joining the EU

Uff, the annexation of Crimea by Russia was made possible by many stupid decisions of the "revolutionary" parliament of Ukraine, that passed a bill to remove the Russian language (and other minority languages) from the list of the official regional languages, while there are regions of Ukraine where a large part (or even the majority) of the population identify themselves as Russian (or some other minority). That was one of the reason of the counter-revolution in Ukraine, that was then exploited by Russia.

the invasion of Georgia

Same situation. Saakashvili, then president of Georgia, tried to deflect the attention from his own failures as a politician by militarily occupying South Ossetia, which was an autonomous region of Georgia under the control of a peace keeping force monitored by the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe). Again, Russia exploited the situation "helping" South Ossetia, but you can say that Saakashvili had it coming.

Then we have proof that Russia has created Facebook groups creating dueling protests to reinforce Americans divides and stresses, there is a problem with racism in the US, so they bring up fake news or exaggerated news to play on these feelings of uncomfortable and turn it to fear.

Don't be naive, not just Russia. What about Saudi Arabia? Qatar? Israel? Corporations? The American government? They are all investing in the fake news business, and they are all, singularly, investing much more than Russia. The sum of their investments dwarfs the Russian investments. If you somewhat fear Russian fake news, you should accordingly be scared to death by your establishment fake news.

One just needs to look at how Jordan Peterson was treated by the SJW controlled social media to understand that using AI to punish thoughtcrime and stifle dissent is inevitable. The corporations that assume the role as institutions in society will dictate the terms for our participation as merely being something as simple as trying to appease a complex and obfuscated algorithm.

To get a glimpse of this wonderful future waiting for us, have a look at what China is already doing with their own social credit system, that will punish you for dissent.

The Democrats sold our strategic uranium supplies to Russia. The last Democrat president bowed to foreign kings. President Trump is renogiating trade terms with China, for the benefit of the US. And somehow it's the GOP that is wrong? Who's the fucking shill now?

coupled with the usual chatter about how American democracy is really an aristocracy.

I see the Chinese are accurately perceiving how the US really works. Although the more accurate term is an oligarchy.

Russia might not have the most open and free system of legal justice, but the US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, including North Korea. You might want to roll the dice and see if Russia will at least attempt to be reasonable

Plus, I hear you get all the free tea you can drink on the flight to Russia.

TFTFY.

today you'll learn something about cultures...
"The report estimates 1,400 children were sexually exploited over 16 years, with one young person telling the report's author that gang rape was a usual part of growing up in Rotherham." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

Why would they suddenly start caring?
They didn't care about the betrayal of 1,400 children. Why would they care now?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

Here's an article that has a few paragraphs of his followup tests in the weeks following the injection.

He opened the documents sent from the lab and frowned slightly as he read. Then he laughed.
"Alright, so - yeah, this was not what we were hoping for."

According to the test results, Roberts' viral load rose from 28,800 on week two to 36,401 on week three - still low levels, but not the desired results. His count of CD4 helper T-cells - the immune system cell that HIV attacks - was higher than he'd ever seen it, but there was no way to know what that meant.

"More data is necessary," Traywick chimed in from off-camera. Then he sat down next to Roberts, joking: "We didn't kill you."

I was unable to find evidence of Nazi's rising.

All hate groups are growing. You clearly didn't even try. This is not merely an American problem, either. Neo-Nazis are actively recruiting and the downtrodden are ever easy targets.

Even in an alternate world awash with Nazis it still wouldn't justify intolerance.

Nazis are not just pro-murder, pro-racism, they actively perpetrate abuse. Acceptance of abuse is not tolerance, it is only abuse. Nazis are actively doing harm not just by promoting genocide, but by actually engaging in violent and antisocial acts. Anyone who suggests that we accept that is, not to put too fine a point on it, a complete and total piece of shit.

Look at this story from Fiji. It's only going to get worse. We'll start seeing many such stories from US East and South coast soon enough.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/wor...

Damore's arguments are exactly the same ones Google is going to use to defend itself from sexual discrimination claims levied against it by women working there who don't get paid as much as men.

Google really stepped in it when they claimed Damore was full of shit, and then doubled down on the SJW bullshit that all pay differences between men and women are the result of discrimination.

Well, now Google has to defend itself from the women who work at Google and get paid less than the men there.

Google is screwed either way. If Damore is wrong, Google owes a lot of women a shitload of back pay. And if Google uses anything like Damore's arguments to defend themselves from sexual discrimination claims, they wrongfully fired Damore and owe him both money and likely some serious punitive damages.

Couldn't happen to a better bunch of SJWs.

Even 'better'... http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

Yeah, it's off topic but how often does the U.S. Navy draw a penis in the sky?
http://www.bbc.com/news/420326...
Moviepass? WTF?

Now, watch the news. If you start seeing more and more of these kind of stories about scary things NK is doing that's when you start worrying, because it means our media is gearing us up for war with them. Go look back at media coverage before Iraq/Afghanistan if you doubt me.

So, in your mind, the coverage of North Korea has nothing to do with the fact that they are building and testing ICBMs (including shooting them over other counties), exploding nuclear weapons including thermonuclear weapons (AKA hydrogen bombs), threatening the first atmospheric nuclear weapons test in decades, and have explicitly and repeatedly stated that they intend to attack and destroy the United States? And you refer to "these kind of stories about scary things NK is doing" as if there is no genuine reason for concern?

Doubt you? How could that even be possible?

Shouldn't the media in a democracy at least make a token effort if a self-declared enemy nation at war with you states their credible intent to destroy your country and effectively end your civilization? Might the voters have some interest in that?

The fact that we can read stories about it means NK isn't very good at it.

If they got the data they wanted then they are pretty good at it. If they succeeded in ransomware attacks they are pretty good at it. If they succeeded in a denial of service attack then they are pretty good at it. News reports suggest they are pretty successful.

North Korea 'hackers steal US-South Korea war plans'

How is being able to pay for ads having "all the say"?

Paying for the ads is not the problem in the US electoral system, the problem is industry groups and lobbyists funding politicians campaigns, then writing their policies.
You could start here.
Here's a summary
Here's a quote to help:
Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But we believe that if policymaking is dominated by powerful business organisations and a small number of affluent Americans, then America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened.
Let's not pretend you, or any other ordinary US voter has any influence in how your government acts.

https://constitutioncenter.org...

In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the question before the court is if a state can constitutionally enforce a civil rights law against a bakery whose owner declined, for First Amendment free speech and religious reasons, to make a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding party.

Jack Phillips and his wife own a business in Colorado, where as a cake artist Phillips designs cakes. In their court petition, Phillips' attorneys note that due to his beliefs, Phillips has also declined to make cakes that celebrate Halloween, anti-American or anti-family themes, atheism, racism, or indecency. When approached by a same-sex couple about making a cake for their wedding, Phillips declined to design a cake with that message, but he offered to make any another cake for them that didn't conflict with his beliefs.

Similar case in the UK

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-nor...

Ashers Baking Company was founded in Newtownabbey in 1992. Run by the McArthur family, the Christian-owned business operates six shops in Northern Ireland.

The bakery came to wider prominence in July 2014 when it emerged that it had declined an order in its Belfast branch from a gay rights activist.

He had wanted them to make a cake that included a slogan that said "support gay marriage" along with a picture of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, and the logo of the Queerspace organisation.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has not passed a law to introduce same-sex marriage

The cake was being commissioned for a civic event in Bangor, County Down, to mark International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Staff at the bakery passed the order to its head office, which considered it to be "at odds with our beliefs".

Another bakery agreed to accept the order.

The BBCs news site has gone drastically down hill in recent years - it used to be my go-to site, but their recent design update basically reduced actual news content on the front page to around 30% of content. The rest of the space is taken up with "most read", "most watched" lists (both 10 item lists, which are styled to take up the same space as the news content blocks around them), "Full Story" magazine style human interest, which has an equal space dedicated to it as the top news block, "Must See" content promotion, again given equal space etc etc.

The amount of actual *news* on the front page has been reduced from 100% to less than a third.

Their new design has also pushed the "breaking news" ticker to a 10% overlay at the bottom of the screen, which requires interaction to dismiss and nearly always links to a story stub which just consists of the story title.

Also, a lot of the magazine content they push doesn't actually work on mobile due to the fancy page designs - a lot of the Travel and Future articles have their centrepiece content missing with just the lead in article stub showing - an example here , just view it on an iPad or something: http://www.bbc.com/travel/stor...

Oh, and the fucking survey overlay, which I get (and dismiss) multiple times a day. I've answered the survey multiple times, and yet there is no way to dismiss it permanently.

The BBC News site *sucks* these days - I'm gradually moving to other sites, it's only habit which makes me load the BBC site.

if it was my data they wouldn't even let it onto their network!

You don't really understand how it works, do you?
 

if you want it to be "your data" then you run it on your servers.

That's naive, simplistic and, unfortunately, wrong. Running your own servers isn't enough - Google is collecting much more data than what users intentionally put into their systems, and therein lies the problem. Google is collecting data even if people have no direct interaction with Google or their properties. Are you checking Slashdot? Well, Slashdot reports you to Google, via calls to google-analytics and gstatic. Were you notified of this? Heck, no. Can you opt out? Only by not using Slashdot, or thousands of other sites. Are you using some WIFI somewhere? Chances are they use Google DNS, and Google will record your queries and correlate your patterns of use until they know it's you.

Even if you decide to give up on the whole internet thing and only live off-line, Google's eye is still on you. Are you using your credit card at some brick and mortar store? Google knows, because they buy your credit card transaction history. You haven't consented to any of this pervasive data slurping, you aren't notified, and you can't opt out. Even if you don't have any Google accounts, even if you never go to any of Google's properties, and don't even have an Android phone, you WILL be tracked.

"You cannot give a mathematical proof of something in the physical world. At most, you can give a mathematical proof that something is true in some model of the physical world."

Thanks for saying that. This Slashdot story is about a nonsense article with a click-bait title.

Any theoretical model of biochemical aging must include all facts that have already been gathered, such as these:

Longest-living animal species

400-year-old Greenland shark 'longest-living vertebrate'

Longest-living mammal: Bowhead whale. Quote: "... over 200 years."

These are exactly similar to all those advertising. Each portion of the content discloses only a part of the fact but never state it in full, or audiences would find that it is false.

The wall is about to go up, and nobody can stop it.

What was the full promise again? Yes, Mexico will pay for it. Hmm... Really? Are you that stupid dumb f**k who still believes that part too? No, you don't believe that part but rather intend to ignore it, or you would have included this portion in your post. Well, you voted for him, then you will PAY for it (including all other innocents).

Illegal aliens *will* be deported. If you're illegal, you should have straightened that out long ago.

You are not only stupid but also ignorant. Deporting illegal aliens happened in many other presidents including the one you and your overlord are accusing. There are many sources if you just really use your brain to do some googling. Oh wait, you aren't capable of doing that, I forgot.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol...
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

You had plenty of warning. Trump is the FIRST politician to ACTUALLY do what he SAID he would.

No, he is the same as all politicians that DO WHAT THEY SAID IN PART and COVER OTHER PARTS THEY DIDN'T DO. The only difference is that he always attempts to CLAIM ALL CREDITS THAT ARE FOR OTHERS.

On the other hand a recent opinion poll showed that 41% were in favor of independence and 49% opposed (source).

Lies and statistics...
I'm not offering an authoritative opinion, but I did drive through Barcelona and Catalonia not long ago and the number of Catalonian flags absolutely_everywhere blew me away. I was of the opinion they had already separated such was the ubiquity of Estelada Blava.