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In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave

90% of the 43% of the population who voted in a referendum that had been declared illegal by the Spanish government. Given that the separatists are far less likely to respect the view of the Spanish government than the loyalists, I think that probably skews the results more than a little.

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

While it's true that the numbers are very likely skewed as you say, the moment the Spanish government declared it illegal there was no clear way to get accurate numbers. And your poll basically shows that if Spain had done nothing but let the vote happen and say "it was illegal so we'll ignore it", the "unionist" side would have won, so they were incredibly stupid to have sent the National Police in and beat people to collect their ballot boxes. If such a poll were taken now I'd guess that many people would be disgusted with the ham-fisted response and anyone on the fence about it would be more on the side of independence.

In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave

90% of the 43% of the population who voted in a referendum that had been declared illegal by the Spanish government. Given that the separatists are far less likely to respect the view of the Spanish government than the loyalists, I think that probably skews the results more than a little.

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

The former stockbroker, who spent nearly two years in prison for fraud and financial scams

That's the problem! Two years? Viatnam knows what to do with corrupt bankers and brokers.

This is exactly the sort of thing that would have been caught during the rigorous, diligent, inherently skeptical peer review process.

But seriously, no wonder most studies can't be replicated by others -- the odds are high that either the cells in the original study, the attempted follow-on, or both were screwed up.

And as we all know, that war was crucial otherwise Vietnam would have become a communist state and it woud have been the apocalypse (now).

Oh wait...

Vietnam, a one-party Communist state, has one of south-east Asia's fastest-growing economies and has set its sights on becoming a developed nation by 2020.

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

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-311...
2.5 years old.

Good to show who UKs real bosses are though.

Politifact is a blatantly biased organization at this point and a shill for the alt left fascist progressives.

Americans killed by guns in recorded history: 0

Americans murdered by other people with guns in 2012: 60% of all US homicides or about 8300 or about 0.0036% of the population.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

If you remove young black males, who make up less than 4% of the US population, that number is cut in half to 4150... and puts the US per capita murder rate roughly on par with European countries. On a side note, concealed carry warning and brandishing probably stops that many robberies, rapes and murders in a week... (There are about 16,000,000 concealed carry permits in the US right now).
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t...

Americans killed by medical mistakes each year: about 250,000
http://www.npr.org/sections/he...

Americans killed by antibiotic resistant bacteria each year: 23,000
https://www.cdc.gov/drugresist...

Clearly guns are not that big a threat unless you are an alt left fascist progressive looking to dominate and subjugate the American people. Every dictator in the last 100 years from Stalin to Mao on down the line disarmed their people first and then murdered millions of them. Guns are in fact inanimate objects controlled by their wielder, which is why every LEO in the country carries one. Any group that uses "gun deaths" are political shills with no interest in truth. Gun deaths usually include suicides (who just use different methods in gun free countries), criminals shot by police or citizens, and other justified shootings that are actually a good thing for society and end up saving lives.

One is to cool the magma, by drilling a grid of holes and pumping water into them. (Use the heated water or steam for electric power plants.)

I really like this idea. There must just be stunning amounts of energy down there that surely could power a significant part of the state. The BBC did an interesting article on this a few months back: http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

I think you've missed the real pattern on this one. Let me outline this.

First, our current POTUS is all for the exploitation of our natural resources by the megacorps.

Second, there is a massive amount of energy that could be exploited beneath Yellowstone, but doing so would almost undoubtedly destroy much of the uniqueness aboveground and has been heavily resisted for that reason. So to counter the public backlash, you must utilize the number one tool for manipulating the American people, their carefully cultivated fears.

Third, on August 17th the BBC published a story indicating that NASA has a plan to prevent a Yellowstone eruption. As soon as I saw that, I knew someone was preparing to exploit Yellowstone's resources.

Now, we have an article pushing the fear so that people can say, "but NASA says we can fix that", not that I saw any clear indication that the August 17th statement was an official NASA one versus an employee acting on his own.

I guess it is about time now for someone to publicly link the two. Whether it will be a company offering to utilize a geothermal energy plant to extract the energy or a politician or scientist for hire suggesting it is yet to be seen.

The disturbing thing is that I don't see evidence that we know whether cooling the magma would harmlessly stop movement or force earlier earthquakes and explosions as the pressure builds behind the premature dam. But, whatever. Don't worry, be happy.

It's a top intelligence service operated by a state mafia. There will be probably be no smoking gun.

http://www.bbc.com/news/electi...
"It is not our business to determine his merits, that is up to US voters," Mr Putin told reporters after his annual televised news conference. "But he is the absolute leader in the presidential race."

17-December-2015 A grinning putin made this odd statement to the press. I guess he's just a lover of democracy right?

I noticed that many shitty right wing blogs were registered by russians.
This was all before I'd heard any mention of russian plots or before anyone seriously thought trump could be president. It's not like there wasn't a weekly story about russia or china hacking us... practically every week for the past decade.

But you're right we don't have any hard evidence and probably never will.
I've gotten tired of trying to change anyone's mind and have decided it's time focus harder on getting rich so my children can be "on the right side of history" hopefully you can do the same or else your kids will be whores and servants at best once we finally get what we deserve.

Sorry, this cracks me up each time I see this. Yet the BBC doesn't get the same treatment.

Made possible by Royal decree and is funded by forced taxes. Honest question, why doesn't the BBC doesn't qualify as "state run media" ?

Although arguments can be made either way here, the way to determine this is to look at the
actual coverage of the government in power.
For example, look at this recent article on May's disastrous speech:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol...
which concludes with:
"The conference was meant to be about restoring Theresa May's authority. It may prove instead to have been further undermined."

What you've described is a sleep disorder.

No, what I describe is normal genetic diversity.

It actually could be either one.

Since discovering the DEC2 mutation, a lot of people have come forward claiming to only sleep a few hours a day, says Fu. Most of these had insomnia, she says.

In addition to Alain's comments about the UK customers, there was also 100K Canadians affected: http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Also, while no one was known to be affected, Argentina's Equifax employee portal was found to be gated by the username/password admin/admin: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

A bank head was just sentenced to death for a fraud involving less money than this guy's payout. "Dozens" of former employees of the bank have received long jail terms.

  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Now on the one hand, while Vietnam is on one of its periodic anti-corruption sweeps, this is mostly about the guy being a political opponent.

But, really, it's the very idea of the senior officials of a bank showing up in a criminal court at ALL, receiving jail time at ALL (rather than the bank paying a highly-affordable fine) that's the remarkable sight, here. Western culture can offer no comparable example.

It seems inevitable that security holes will be in modern systems. We can argue about the why, or how this system is better than that system. But there is seemingly no end to vulnerabilities simply because of the complexities of modern systems. Too many variables, and it only takes one hole in the fence for the raptors to get through.

Equifax Argentina was hacked by using a very old UNIX method, Admin, Admin
http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

But I do agree with you. The way I see it now, nobody is safe from being hacked and this on a personal level. I've come to trust the users online on my system more than any other way. If more than one, well we'll see.

This sounds great until you think of the ramifications of more expensive solar panels

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

Quite a lot of solar adoption is driven not by a commitment to fighting global warming or pollution in general but by savings. Make the panels more expensive and adoption rates will drop significantly.

Where do I get it?
CNN,

US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe. Exclusive: US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman

Mother Jones

A pair of news reports dropped Monday evening that indicate that the investigation into Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort might be reaching a boiling point, with CNN reporting that Manafort was subject to government wiretapping before and after the presidential campaign, and the New York Times reporting that Manafort has been directly told by government investigators that he should expect to be indicted.The New York Times and CNN Just Published Bombshells About the Trump-Russia Investigation

BBC

Back in March Donald Trump was widely derided for tweeting that President Barack Obama "had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory". Now some Republicans are crowing that the latest revelations vindicate Mr Trump's accusations.

That's not exactly the case. Paul Manafort was the target of the surveillance, not Mr Trump - although the former Trump campaign chairman has an apartment in Trump Tower. And if Mr Trump spoke with Mr Manafort, then it's entirely possible those conversations could have been recorded. FBI wiretapped Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort - reports

(emphasis mine). You know since Trump owns the building, and it was his campaign Manager targeted, the definition of "my" is certainly broader in that context than in normal usage.

Brooks agrees with me. Blazing Saddles was so non-PC there is no way it could get made today. Too many SJW snowflakes would be hurt...

Are those same Democrats also going to suggest legislation to make it illegal for the US government to interfere and try to influence foreign elections? Things we have been doing as a nation for decades? Things which Obama openly did?

Our elections are our business and I'm all for keeping foreign money out of them. But we have no pedestal to preach from considering our history of meddling.

No shit.

Why do you think Putin wanted HilLIARy! to lose?

Note the date on this Washington Post story (before HilLIARy! snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and managed to lose to Donald Fucking Trump):

The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere

So, what particularly pissed off Putin about HilLIARy!?

Oh, yeah: Ukraine crisis: Putin adviser accuses US of meddling

Sergei Glazyev said the US was spending $20m (£12.3m; 14.8m euros) a week on Ukrainian opposition groups, supplying "rebels" with arms among other things.

Accusing the US of ignoring the Memorandum on Security Assurances, he suggested Moscow could also intervene.

The American embassy in Kiev declined to comment on his accusations.

...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is due to meet Mr Putin on Friday in Sochi, on the opening day of the Winter Olympic Games there.

He held talks in Kiev with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Thursday, at which he said he favoured dialogue and compromise with the opposition.

Meanwhile, an audio recording has been posted online, which is purported to be a hacked phone conversation between Ms Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, in which the female speaker dismisses EU efforts to resolve the crisis, using an expletive.

Remember "Fuck the EU"?

Who was Secretary of State for THAT?

Oh, yeah. HilLIARy!

Paybacks are a motherfucker, eh?

Imagine the Russians fomenting a coup in Mexico that put into power fervently anti-US groups willing to go to war to reclaim parts of the US Southwest that used to be parts of Mexico. Imagine pretty much every other country in North and South America working to prevent such a thing from happening. Imagine a Putin lackey being caught saying "Fuck the OAS".

Or is it rather 300,000 accounts from people who were not politically correct?

Nope, terrorism.

And by slap on the wrist, you mean years in jail?

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

http://indianexpress.com/artic...

I'd bet that it's overall related to the fake news plague originating in places like Macedonia. At least, that seems like a more likely scenario than stealth-takeover-of-a-country-by-buying-Facebook-ads.

NASA has proposed no such solution. This story has gone viral, even though it's essentially fiction. This is all based on one article published by the BBC. An interview with Brian Wilcox, an advisor on NASA's Near-Earth Object Planetary Defense council. Which has nothing to do with volcano's. The BBC story link is below. I've been unable to locate any reference to this project on NASA sites. All news stories that cite a source end up coming back to this one story. Apparently fact-checking is passe. aHEMagain http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

Link:

When the cars were operating under controlled laboratory conditions - which typically involve putting them on a stationary test rig - the device appears to have put the vehicle into a sort of safety mode in which the engine ran below normal power and performance. Once on the road, the engines switched out of this test mode.

Once manufacturers deployed their "fixes" to current vehicles on the road, the result was a significant loss of power and worse fuel consumption.

As for their ad campaign, I'm surprised you never saw it. The even hired the Mythbusters crew at one point to plug it.

Where exactly do you get your information on "antifa"? You are aware that there is an active movement right now by pro-Trump trolls running fake "Antifa" twitter accounts, don't you? Even the pro-trump troll who created the "declare antifa a terrorist group" White House petition claims to have twitterbot armies of his own stoking the fires.

Antifa is not a "movement". It has no "ideology". It simply means "anti-fascist". Anyone who considers themselves anti-fascist can (or not) adopt the label.

The game is broken if there is one player refusing to respect the rules.

From the article:

Prof Lomonossoff told the BBC: "In an experiment with a Canadian company, they showed you could actually identify a new strain of virus and produce a candidate vaccine in three to four weeks.

Suppose the bird flu mutated, so that it spread easily between humans. Would making "a candidate vaccine in three to four weeks" be fast enough to prevent a disastrous pandemic?

How about Russia today, where 40% of computer programmers are female?
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

I think your general conclusion isn't warranted by the specific data points you picked.

A country where homosexuality is a crime. A bastion of egalitarianism.

So, when there is no strong economic incentive and no social norms to push women away from CS (assuming there ever was), you can expect around 15% of CS majors to be female. Unless you think the women are more free and equal in Iran and China of course.

How about Russia today, where 40% of computer programmers are female?
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

I think your general conclusion isn't warranted by the specific data points you picked.

Well Iran is sort of already doing it, only it's because men are gay.

Russia's forced version of egalitarianism didn't allow people to choose the course they found most fulfilling. It largely assigned them roles based on the system's evaluation of their talents and abilities. It also distorted their thinking about what they should want by bombarding them with ideological messages that deliberately negated old gender stereotypes -- regardless of whether or not those stereotypes were what people actually found fulfilling.

I think you're conflating the communism-era Soviet Union (with its forced egalitarianism) and current-day post-communist Russia (which abandoned that forced egalitarianism). Nevertheless, the percentage of women entering science and technology in Russia *today* is vastly higher than in Europe+US.
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...

I hear you like links. So we link to an article that links to articles. I take a different approach. Let's save a level of linking and get you directly to the information sources with videos and everything: http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-... http://99percentinvisible.org/...

That was my first thought and the summary has " These include missile approach warning detectors ".
Seattle supposedly came within range as of NK's previous missile test. The most recent one is thought to cover the whole of N.America.
Then there was also the news headline last week of "We're not your enemy," by Rex Tillerson

This looks really good, tbh.

I'm interested in seeing how Elon Musk's solar powered batteries turn out. If they work well (and cheaply enough) then suddenly solar becomes a viable alternative to nuclear.

But you have to pay someone to clean up the shit in the parking lot.

Or just stop hiring people who shit in the parking lot in the first place. Or you can pay them to crap in toilets.

This apparently coincides with a crackdown in China. The BBC is running a story about Apple pulling VPN's from its app store.

Yes. It could be a coincidence, or there could be a causal connection. Impossible to tell from public statements.

This apparently coincides with a crackdown in China. The BBC is running a story about Apple pulling VPN's from its app store.

... all they had to do is spill a few of these secret meetings and it could have changed the election.

It would not be the first time something like this has happened.

The BBC version of this story actually discusses the sample bias, and the director of the CTE center is quoted fully acknowledging that there's enormous bias.

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

His mother was 100 percent white.

Nope.

He called himself black http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04... to race-bait and pander.

Yes, yes, blame the black man for being black. He should have told us he was as white as a lily.

Probably the most racist thing he accomplished during his presidency was to deny his white ancestry.

But he didn't. In fact, he accepted a certificate of them.

So how the heck is his blackness part of why could couldn't achieve his goals?!?

Ask the people who resisted anything and everything he did, including the Birther in Chief. You do realize that it was not about Obama, but about them.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-196...

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

if the people of Havana overthrew their government that would not be [an invasion].

How is the Cuban people's hypothetical uprising relevant to whether or not American action is an invasion or not?

If Cuba was overthrown by anti US rebels that were busy murdering US citizens the US would reinforce Guantanamo.

If that were to happen, the US would've evacuated the endangered citizens. If an invasion were necessary to conduct such an evacuation, they would've invaded. They would not have annexed the country, however — certainly not with a hasty fake referendum. For example, Puerto Rico conducts a referendum every 10 years on whether to remain an American protectorate, to become fully independent, or to join the US as the 51st state...

There was no invasion, it did not happen.

Foreign troops, that weren't in a country before, went in there to take over the country's infrastructure, government buildings, and military installations. Khm, if only we had a term that describes such an action... Oh wait, I know! English has a word for this: "invasion".

If Russia left they would be out of work and overrun by Svoboda Nazis.

Dude, you are too embarrassing even for a Russian... You can not — not in the same post, anyway — deny the very fact of invasion and explain, how it protected people.

There was no fake referendum

A referendum on loyalty to the occupying power is meaningless — unless you also accept 100% of North Koreans adoring Kim and 100% of Iraqis electing Hussein. Moreover, the "referendum" took place mid-March, whereas the invasion began at the end of February. Even if we were, contrary to all precedent, grant the populace the power to decide to switch countries and accepted the "referendum" as genuine, Russia's action was still an invasion because it took place before this "expression of popular will".

But do remember this conversation, when polite German-speaking blonds without insignia organize theirs in Königsberg and (just as polite) Asian-looking men — in Kurills. Oh, and Tahanrog would, no doubt, elect to return to Ukraine, when polite guys from the Right Sector take it over.

Why would you think that Russian troops would be needed to invade a Russian population?

Troops don't invade populations. "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!" Troops invade countries. In 2014 Russian troops invaded Ukraine. That was the beginning of the end of Russia as we knew it. Good riddance. After centuries of Orda-induced hiatus, Kyiv is once again rising as the center of Eastern European Slavs. Brush up on your Ukrainian, you'll need it.

Wow, nice spin job. Did you get those words from your handlers in St. Petersburg?

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and supporting terrorists therein, Russia hasn't been able to produce helicopters because the engines came from Ukraine. Even though Russia now claims it can produce the parts, it's only for a limited type of aircraft.

Same for their icebreaker. It was supposed to be launched this year, but because of the sanctions, and the testing for the turbines being in Ukraine, the launch has been put off until 2019. If even then.

Ukraine has been exporting more agricultural products since it got out from under the boot heel of Russia. Hardly a recipe for "inedible". Speaking of which, is Putin still destroying food being imported into Russia while shelves go bare just to make a statement?

At least we know what the Russian talking points on Ukraine are. Anything to distract from Russian regions which are running out of money, not to mention Russia itself. Then again, when Russian workers aren't getting paid for months, that tells you all you need to know.

Considering Ukraine is working with Western companies and actively seeking out advice on how to upgrade its industry and make it more efficient, that speaks volumes about its leadership. Compare that to Russia where Putin steals people's property and gives it to his oligarch buddies, or siphons off millions for his personal use, then whines how it's someone else's fault Russia is in such a sorry state of affairs.

Propaganda works by citing a Russian invasion of Crimea that never happened

During 2014, maybe, it was excusable to believe this lie.

But when, a year later, Russian TV broadcast an entire movie celebrating the invasion — and Putin's direct involvement in it — the excuse vanished. In particular, during the interview, that is part of the film, Putin says:

I ordered Minister of Defense, why hide, under the guise of reinforcing our military installations in Crimea, to transfer forces of GRU there, marines, and paratroopers. [...] Our advantage was that I was personally involved. Not because I did everything right, but because the country's top people are involved, things are easier for the operators on the ground".

The cat's been out of the bag since March 2015. Your continuing to lie about it does not help Russia — it just exposes you as an asshole.

Lie to people often enough and they eventually believe it.

Yep, this is generally true. But it will not help you here.

Here's a different take on the question: cash stockpiles can be vulnerable if your government decides to reissue currency or eliminate certain bills. The recent Indian currency crisis is the most recent example: the Modi government came in and banned the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes and placed strict controls on the amount you could covert to smaller denominations. A lot of people lost huge amounts of savings overnight as the money they had been stockpiling (sometimes good for things like weddings, sometimes more illicit like criminal activities or bribery) suddenly became worthless. More details here.

"Nothing to see here folks.. Move along."

Actually in this case, its more emblematic than anything. From the BBC article:

"What is the significance of the calving?

In and of itself, probably very little. The Larsen C shelf is a mass of floating ice formed by glaciers that have flowed down off the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula into the ocean. On entering the water, their buoyant fronts lift up and join together to make a single protrusion.

The calving of bergs at the forward edge of the shelf is a very natural behaviour. The shelf likes to maintain an equilibrium and the ejection of bergs is one way it balances the accumulation of mass from snowfall and the input of more ice from the feeding glaciers on land. ...

But Larsen C today does not look like its siblings. Prof Helen Fricker, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told BBC News: "The signs we saw at Larsen A and B - we're not seeing yet. The thinning we saw for Larsen A and B - we're not seeing. And we're not seeing any evidence for large volumes of surface meltwater on the order of what you would need to hydro-fracture the ice shelf.

"Most glaciologists are not particularly alarmed by what's going on at Larsen C, yet. It's business as usual.""

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

Obviously its great to have massive events like this to draw attention to the cause, and keep climate change at the front of peoples minds, but it seems like this isnt that big a deal. It isnt raising sea levels or single handidly causing giant problems by its calving alone.

Just part of the program these days.

Moscow didn't do anything, and the only reason Russia rolled into Crimea was after Ukraine adapted a law making Ukrainian the sole official language, thereby making life potentially difficult for Russian speaking Ukrainians.

Didn't do anything? LOL.

Other than sending troops, weapons and equipment, passing a vote to annex... of course, nothing. Also, you might want to review your understanding of the time line.

Waymo have an agreement to pursue self-driving cars with Lyft, the main Uber competitor. Uber have fired their principal self-driving car engineer. Meanwhile Uber is in disarray due to alleged toxic working place conditions.

The objective of this lawsuit is not for Waymo to win a settlement, they probably don't care so much about the money, it is to win time and mindshare by burying Uber in this corner of the market.

Personally I think self-driving cars are coming but the engineering challenges are still formidable, perhaps these fights are premature.

Well it looks like he just published a new book! Can't wait for the next one! :)

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

"There's a simple solution to this - tax profits in the country where they originate. If a multinational wants to trade in a country, they pay her taxes. End of."

Actually, this is already the case. The problem is that the companies are designed to minimize their profit by moving the money between various legal entities in other countries. For instance "Starbucks reportedly paid just £8.6m in corporation tax in the UK over 14 years and nothing in the last four years - despite sales of £400m last year ... As part of its tax affairs, the firm (i.e. Starbucks UK) transferred some money to a Dutch sister company in royalty payments, bought coffee beans from Switzerland and paid high interest rates to borrow from other parts of the business." ( http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol... )