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I remember reading a blog post from someone who defended these drawings. You might be interested in reading it.

Though it hasn't yet lived up to its potential (Nanopore sequencing has been Next Year's Big Thing for several years now) it is rather incredible what can be done with such a small and cheap piece of kit. It still has major problems with accuracy, but is starting to find a niche in applications where speed, portability and long sequence reads are required. Here's a nice piece from a fan of the technology that has a bit of history and an appraisal of where it stands in 2016: http://omicsomics.blogspot.co....

Popular news: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lg...

Geek news: https://hackaday.com/2013/11/2... (also consider the blog entry linked in that story http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.... )

And this is only about that particular company's products, other smart tvs from other companies spy as well.

> http://technewsreporter.blogsp... works for me.

The Referrer Control for Firefox it links to bears no relationship to the screenshot above it. Its icon is a green square, not a blue globe. Its only options are "skip", "remove", "source host", "source domain", "target host", "target domain", and "target url". Checking any of them has no affect on the Forbes ad-blocker detection. Its Rules Preferences box is a blank window with only Close and Help buttons with no way to enter information. The Help button leads to a page with somewhat cryptic descriptions and no instructions.

Does anyone know how would I set it up on Firefox to bypass Forbes? Thanks.

Every time a governing body gets involved, things get more complicated

Every time a governing body is lacking, things get more complicated. And then one emerges anyway.

The question always ends up being: in whose interest do those with effective governorship act?

I promise you,

Donate $10/month and I promise you Paradise.

it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this.

Do you mean "cooperate" or "compete"? Democratic government is a form of cooperation, you realise? one citizen, one share.

This isn't an anti-enterprise post, just an anti-anti-government one. Pure ideology (e.g. "free market!" and "command economy!") is for modellers, storytellers and fanatics. The modeller knows they're simplifying the problem. The storyteller knows they're making things up completely. The fanatic, unfortunately, realises neither.

From someone who was 10 years old and was inspired by this speech that is oft forgotten and belittled in the bejeweled halls of anti-government fanatics like some of todays right wing sudo nazis and especially assholes that spout anti-government nonsense. They really need to have their motives and agendas closely scrutinized by the electorate again. What we need is someone like a Kennedy again to step forward and roast these assholes over the coals in public debate the way Nixon was exposed in 1960.

Great leaders inspire great things for mankind, the current group of anti-government leaders are an oxymoron! To quote Mr. Trump's most used bit of bullshit leadership technique, we all need to say in one voice "YOUR ALL FUCKING FIRED!" The way we did with Nixon if we ever catch on to what these so called business people are really up to with a blatant attempt to buy another Presidency the way they did with Reagan. Do they really think people are that stupid all of the time? Not that the rest of the Republican ticket is any better this time around either, yes they had once had a real leader in Lincoln, but how the once great in spirit have all fallen to the allure of the coin!

It is not the time to hold back on the future and live in an oil and blood soaked past. I can only pray that soon a time will come when someone again inspires the cooperation ventures like space exploration, a change to a real environmental economy, with the technology to eliminate waste and most of all great science ventures in all the fields that made landing on the moon possible!

Politics is being abused by those who have lead by deliberately inciting economic terror and other tactics like the ones used by Dick Chaney and Co. Even George Bush senior is finally starting to realize the real problems that these money driven assholes are creating for the economy and the world in the long term. At least the not so great actor Ronald Reagan, who became a president and asked Mr Gorbachev to "tear down that wall" admitted that it was economically important to do science right and it was this that made us great, even as his supporters ripped and tore up Nasa!

Unfortunately what I envision happening instead is a secret state visit to the international space station by both Putin and someone like Jeb or Trump to carve up the world economy in secret as they nuke the Chinese and a few other states that get in the way of their friend's enterprises. Dick Chaney can tag along, I am sure him and a few others will all be doing something in the background to oversee the talks!

Every time a governing body gets involved, things get more complicated

Every time a governing body is lacking, things get more complicated. And then one emerges anyway.

The question always ends up being: in whose interest do those with effective governorship act?

I promise you,

Donate $10/month and I promise you Paradise.

it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this.

Do you mean "cooperate" or "compete"? Democratic government is a form of cooperation, you realise? one citizen, one share.

This isn't an anti-enterprise post, just an anti-anti-government one. Pure ideology (e.g. "free market!" and "command economy!") is for modellers, storytellers and fanatics. The modeller knows they're simplifying the problem. The storyteller knows they're making things up completely. The fanatic, unfortunately, realises neither.

MiHsC has no adjustable parameters, and predicts cosmic acceleration and galaxy rotation without dark matter.

Be warned, the author's blog "Physics from the edge" has some quite good reads:

• • An Introduction to MiHsC
  • Debate on the facts.
  • MiHsC vs 29 anomalies
  • Resisting the end of physics
  • ...

MiHsC has no adjustable parameters, and predicts cosmic acceleration and galaxy rotation without dark matter.

Be warned, the author's blog "Physics from the edge" has some quite good reads:

• • An Introduction to MiHsC
  • Debate on the facts.
  • MiHsC vs 29 anomalies
  • Resisting the end of physics
  • ...

MiHsC has no adjustable parameters, and predicts cosmic acceleration and galaxy rotation without dark matter.

Be warned, the author's blog "Physics from the edge" has some quite good reads:

• • An Introduction to MiHsC
  • Debate on the facts.
  • MiHsC vs 29 anomalies
  • Resisting the end of physics
  • ...

MiHsC has no adjustable parameters, and predicts cosmic acceleration and galaxy rotation without dark matter.

Be warned, the author's blog "Physics from the edge" has some quite good reads:

• • An Introduction to MiHsC
  • Debate on the facts.
  • MiHsC vs 29 anomalies
  • Resisting the end of physics
  • ...

Proposed experiment: arXiv:1510.01696.
More detailed theory: arXiv:1510.01262.
See also blog post.

Climate scientists have been caught out telling bald-faced lies for financial gain many times. Let us assume that shaking down government for research funds and selling books counts as financial gain. So I'm not sure where you think this should all end.

I kinda agree with this sad summation:

"You mightn't have noticed, and probably don't care, but some note should be made of the death of the video arcade: peacefully at home, aged about 30, dearly missed by his millions of illegitimate, misguided children. Donations, in 10p coins please, to Atari and Namco corporations..."

MRAs literally had absolutely nothing to do with this,

If yo've been following any of this, it's quite clear Vox Day and his ilk espouse much the same in the way of toxic views as the MRA/RedPill/MGTOW/etc crowd. MRA is as convenient a label as any since they all behave in more or less identical ways.

As with many things, the puppy campaign had a kernel of truth: but then this is not surprising as half truths are always the most virulent.

Apart from being a thoroughly awful person, from what I've read, Benjanun Sriduangkaew's writing is utterly terrible and goes into ludicrous amounts of floweryness which it seems some people confuse for literary. I also hated the 2014 short story winner who's only distinguishing characteristic was that it had a gay protagonist (who was also very wet) and was otherwise stunningly mediocre.

For some reason, some people liked that stuff. I don't really know why, but there you go.

And the puppies had perhaps a kernel of a point which is that that awful stuff was pushing out other, good stuff. Trouble is of course it turned out that the puppy stuff wasn't being not voted in because it was politically inexpedient, it was not being nommed because it was TERRIBLE. Seriously go and read the nominations. They are not very good, and certainly not award quality.

The thing is just because some other unworthy crap got awarded, doesn't mean YOUR crap is worthy of an award. The thing is this was the one big chance for the puppies to show the rest of the sci-fi world what they're missing. Apparently what we're missing is ham-fisted christian allegories with deep sexist overtones (John C. Wright) at worst and at best a soup of mawkish pathos which verges into the syrupy (literally). (Totaled, Kary English).

But a big part of it is the rabid puppies are in fact a bunch of raving mysoginists who hate anyone who is't a straight, whte, Chriatian male. Their fearless leader (Vox Day) holds those views loudly and proudly. He's never tried to deny it and frequently makes such comments. See here for his own views in his own words on homosexuality for example:

http://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2...

Make no mistake: Benjanun "Requires Hate" is a thoroughly awful person, but shoehorning the thing into a ridiculous bi partisan issue and siding with the other side is idiotic. And if you really think this is still the case, then explain why the blogger who outed RH and documented her awfulness got a Hugo for her efforts.

That's your opinion and you're welcome to it

"But it's all subjective!"

Something who enjoys something you don't like is not automatically worse than you for it.

Nowhere was this argued.

Why can't the GPU do the work? Or do video codecs require special kinds of processing that GPUs are bad at?

All video codecs require very specialised processing. It's rather trivial if the GPU is designed to do it, and quite awful if it isn't. Have a look here for example for the deblocking filter in h.264:

http://mrutyunjayahiremath.blo...

It doesn't require any very complicated hardware. But it requires hardware that does _exactly_ what the h.264 spec says, and if the hardware doesn't provide that, you're in trouble.

Not so sure about that, it could become like Berkshire Hathaway where a single company controls multiple companies, each with their own publicly traded stock

Except that it couldn't be clearer:

"Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights. Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."
From the blog post

Which is exactly what Spy Handler said.

showing yet again the poor science perpetrated by the warmist lynch-mob

Actually that shirt was designed by a woman as a nostalgic cultural reference.
https://www.alohaland.com/pinu...

Academic feminist battleaxes, please keep your microaggressions on campus, where they won't disturb anyone in the real world.

Better link:
http://ellyprizemanupdate.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/decisions-and-comments.html
Cheers.

You're incorrectly assuming that adding CO2 increases temperature. Let me help you understand.

Matthew Dodkins, a software architect at Bluefruit says the biggest gains are in code merges.

Is this THE Matthew Dodkins? The Matthew Dodkins who runs the popular The Agile Dream blog, read by millions of readers around the world?

Really? Let me introduce you to the United Kingdom. It is a fairly small country, but it does have its charms.

I think it would be fairer to say that what Assange is alleged to have done would not qualify as rape in any first world country except Sweden

Your story is dated 2011, and I regret to inform you that the facts seem to have changed under your feet. There have been three court cases in the UK, going all the way to the UK Supreme Court, that have upheld the charges against him as rape even in the UK.

I also think it is a bit of a mistake to rely solely upon the views of Assange's barristers/lawyers even if the story was up to date.

Legal myths about the Assange extradition

Whenever the Julian Assange extradition comes up in the news, many of his supporters make various confident assertions about legal aspects of the case.

Some Assange supporters will maintain these contentions regardless of the law and the evidence – they are like “zombie facts” which stagger on even when shot down; but for anyone genuinely interested in getting at the truth, this quick post sets out five common misconceptions and some links to the relevant commentary and material. It complements a similar post on the leading Blog That Peter Wrote.

One: “The allegation of rape would not be rape under English law”

This is flatly untrue. The Assange legal team argued this twice before English courts, and twice the English courts ruled clearly that the allegation would also constitute rape under English law.

(See my post at Jack of Kent for further detail on this.)

Those two English court decisions have been backed by the UK Supreme Court. It's rape he is accused of, even if it was in the UK.

It's a mini bluetooth headset which you can plug normal headphones into, I'm surprised it's not more popular but it's weekness is the clip, where it's faaaar to easy to loose the spring... Found that mini pegs are perfect...

http://keyboardwritescode.blog...

Shovel Knight has pixel graphics, but they're either displayed stretched or there's a post processing pass that distorts the clean pixels. You can't turn this off, which is absolutely bamboozling to me.

You can see that clearly on this screenshot (from super adventures).

How is Windows not fragmented being that there are multiple versions out there from XP up to Windows 8?

Because MSFT provides a stable base API which changes rarely/slowly. All extra bells and whistles are separate APIs. One can still compile natively 20yo Win32 WinAPI application and it would run without any problems.

That's also a part reason why Windows is relatively bloated: there are multiple APIs/API versions available simultaneously for backward compatibility.

That's what makes Window not fragmented: lots and lots and lots of hard work on part of Microsoft.

In comparison, the Google is like a spoiled child: grabs new toy, plays with it for a minute, breaks it, throws it away 'cause it's broken and moves on to the next toy.

Google on On Android Compatibility

The article is 5 years old, which is in the Google universe is like couple millennia. They have changes pretty much everything since then.

How is Windows not fragmented being that there are multiple versions out there from XP up to Windows 8?

Google on On Android Compatibility

I don't think the linker does that sort of inlining. It would require complex compiler optimization.

It does, and it does. Well, actually the linker is a fake. GCC writes out ELF object files with the normal object code as usual and also some intermediate representation which can more or less be loaded by the compiler. It then loads up all the intermediate code and runs the optimizer on it, before spitting outthe final object code.

It's a pretty complex process, especially when multiple compiler versions exist which is why it took from 4.5 when it deuted to 4.9 before it was any good.

I believe the GOLD linker has plugin support and so when linking .a archives, the plugin can call back to gcc to start up and do the linking.

http://hubicka.blogspot.co.uk/...

They are.

The two sentences which all the "news" articles are based on - but which nobody links to - from Google's "announcement" of the change:

Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results.

It would be very useful to be able to control what the search engine thinks I'm actually searching for. Taken from: http://unqualified-reservation...

A more intriguing question is whether the Graffiti approach can be applied to full-text search. Many modern search engines, notably the hideous, awfully-named Bing, are actually multiple applications under the hood - just like WA. If Bing figures out that you are searching for a product, it will show you one UI. If it figures out that you are searching for a celebrity, it will show you another UI. It may also switch algorithms, data sets, etc, etc. I'm sure Google has all kinds of analogous, if more subtle, meta-algorithms.

While generic full-text search, unlike generic data visualization, remains a viable application and a very useful one, specialized search might (or might not - this is not my area of expertise) be an even more useful one. If the user has an affordance by which to tell the algorithm the purpose or category of her search, the whole problem of guessing which application to direct the query to disappears and is solved perfectly. A whole class of category errors ceases to exist.

My guess is that if there is any "next thing" in search interfaces, it will come not from smarter UIs, but from dumber ones in which the user does more work - the Graffiti effect. If a small quantity of user effort can produce a substantial improvement in user experience (which is a big if), the user will accept the bargain. Hey, it made Jeff Hawkins rich.

I appreciate some of your points. I had to look up how many days it rains here (not easy to guess) and it turns out to about 30% of days (reference).

I can't give stats for everyone in the country but in my house, with 2 people, we each cycle a lot and take a shower every day with at least one bath a week. We do a couple of loads of laundry and all the normal washing/cooking/toilet flushing you expect. We collect rain for usage in the garden but importantly we have plants adapted to the local climate. We use 60L/person/day i.e. less than one sixth of a Californian. If I had a moderate pool (say 5x3x2m i.e. 30,000L, 8000 US gallons or 24 milliacre feet), that means that I could drain it and re-fill it completely every 2 months and still come in under a Californian usage. Surely most pools don't need much maintenance water provided they are covered when not used?

Was that really the goal of the "SJW" group? This quote from TFA is spot-on:

Wherever they emerge, social-justice warriors claim to be champions of diversity. But they always reveal themselves to be relentlessly hostile to it: they applaud people of different genders, races, and cultures just so long as those people all think the same way. Theirs is a diversity of the trivial; a diversity of skin-deep, ephemeral affiliations.

SJW of all stripes have one thing in common: a relentless drive for conformist groupthink on the issues they fight for. Few people are as scary and dangerous as the ones who are convinced that theirs is a righteous battle, and are prepared to fight it, whether their belief flows from religion or from ideals. And what appears to make the SJW crowd more belligerent is the fact that often they are right, in that there are still plenty of inequities and social injustices. Compared to other "noisy" groups like extreme right wingers, these are the noisiest, most exclusionary, and indeed most violent. And the really scary part is that because the issues they attack are real, this mindset is percolating into the mainstream. Writers being excluded from an association or from an award because they have the wrong ideas. Or in my home country, where no one so much as blinked when a school official stated that "if you have the wrong ideas or are a member of the wrong political party, perhaps you shouldn't be a student or a teacher here". Remember Churchill: "The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists".

You seem like a reasonable, open minded person, but you have to learn not to believe anything rightwingers tell you without checking the primary source: which in this case does not exist, in that Churchill apparently never said that, at least anywhere where it could be recorded, written down, or heard by enough people to remember it. Particularly ironic when you're talking about how groupthink based on belief is the province of lefties.
A version of that quote, which maligns "Americanism" rather than antifascism, was stated by the Rev. Dr. Halford Luccock of Yale in a rather fiery antifascist sermon on 11 September 1938, as reported in the New York Times (a pdf is visible without a paywall at http://standuptohate.blogspot....).
If you want to see what Churchill actually said about fascism, it was "What a man! I have lost my heart! If I were Italian, I am sure I would have been with you entirely from the beginning of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passion of Leninism. Your movement has rendered a service to the whole world.", to Mussolini in 1927. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F...

Ah, here's an article and great video that demonstrates the ZX spectrum's interlacing:

http://whatnotandgobbleaduke.b...

So this is telling me that the apps that Google "Features" currently are not inspected or analyzed by any humans before they become featured. "Featured," to my way of thinking, means recommended. So, currently, are algorithms recommending apps, not people? And if so, how long before algorithms recommend movies, books, music? (Currently, Wikibooks notes that "Featured books are books that the Wiki community believes to be the best . . .")

No. "Apps featured in Google Play" isn't the same as "Featured Apps in Google Play". Neither phrase was from Google, either, but from the summary.

The summary is wrong in others ways, too. It says that Google is going to begin screening apps. The actual announcement says that this has been going on for several months. It also says that the process is "human-based", which the announcement doesn't say, just that the process "involves a team of experts who are responsible for identifying violations of our developer policies earlier in the app lifecycle." This leaves open the possibility that the team in question automates the actual screening, which is obviously much more normal for Google.

Really, your best bet is to ignore the summary and the linked article and just read the post from Google: http://android-developers.blog...

No... maybe. It depends.

Amdahl's law is in full force here. There comes a point where increasing the bandwidth of an internet connection doesn't make pages load faster, because the page load time is dominated by the time spent setting up connections and requests (i.e. the latency). Each TCP connection needs to do a TCP handshake (one round trip), and then each HTTP request adds another round trip. Also, all new connections need to go through TCP window scaling, which means the connection will be slow for a few more round trips. Keep-alive connections help a bit by keeping TCP connections alive, but 74% of HTTP connections only handle a single transaction, so they don't help a great deal.

Oh! by the way, not everybody's connection is like yours, specially over mobile networks.

Mobile networks (and, yes, satellite) tend to have high latency, so round-trips are even more of the problem there. Also... when people shop for internet connections, they tend to concentrate on the megabits, and not give a damn about any other quality metrics. So that's what ISPs tend to concentrate on too. You'll see them announce 5x faster speeds, XYZ megabits!!, yet they don't even monitor latency on their lines. And even if your ISP had 0ms latency, there's still the latency from them to the final server (Amdahl's law rearing its ugly head again).

Given all that, I think I'm justified in saying that the main problem with page loading times isn't the amount of data but the number of round-trips required to fetch it. Reducing the amount of data is less important than reducing the number of, or impact of, the round-trips involved. And that's the main problem that HTTP/2 is trying to address with its fancy binary multiplexing.

(Now, if your connection is a 56k modem with 2ms latency, then feel free to ignore me. HTTP/2 isn't going to help you much.)

I am by no means an expert in those databases, but I am fairly certain they can be run with very little difficulties on FreeBSD.

Here is an install of Oracle in a Debian jail on FreeBSD. I do not know if Oracle would support such an installation however.

The DB/2 client certainly works.

Sybase ASE for FreeBSD is available on this download page.

Whether it would be advantageous to you or not is a different question.

http://velvetgloveironfist.blo...

The [lack of health benefits] claim is based on the fact that most of the risk reductions in the latter two tables are not statistically significant, except for women aged 65 and over. But there is a simple reason for this which some cynical people would call a trick. A relatively small sample has been taken and then split into different age groups, sexes and consumption levels to create dozens of even smaller samples. This, combined with the fact that there are relatively few never-drinkers to use as a reference, makes it very difficult to generate statistically significant results from any individual group.

If you combined the age groups, the reduction in mortality would reach significance. If you combined the genders, it would reach significance. If you combined the various different drinking levels and simply compared those who drank moderately with those who never drank, it would reach significance.

...he has a terrible track record on real world predictions of global financial events from the housing bubble to the state of the EU...

If by "terrible track record" you mean "extremely good" and "the best in the business" then yes, otherwise no.

Though humorously put this is a nice summary of his very good prognostication record.

I perused a number of sites claiming to show his "errors", but mostly they either (like you) have no specifics about these "errors", or else if consists entirely of made up stuff. Krugman is not always right about everything in economics, but when he is wrong he admits it and analyzes why he erred, and thus he learns from his mistakes (unlike so many others).

But he is an unabashed liberal, and you hate that - I get it. You've made an emotional commitment to hating him, and thus have no use for actual facts.

Quick question: In what way is the user targeted? They aren't. The app itself is targeted. They are not disabling WhatsApp accounts, they are not leaving users high and dry. ...

Actually, at least some of the users of Mitakuuluu, the native SilafishOS client, got their phone number banned.

Libertarians? As in opening the borders and turning the country into a circus at our expense? Fuggetaboutit! Libertarian basically means "Socialist ends by free market means".

There are, fortunately, other alternatives
Start here Why I Am Not a Libertarian

or here

An open letter to open-minded progressives

and just to keep up to date, go here.

Go was developed in large part by Rob Pike

Indeed, and I find it surprising. He seems to think that the reason C++ programmers haven't switched over to go is because it's just too awesome and C++ programmers are too stuck in their ways.

http://commandcenter.blogspot....

I do find it disappointing that someone with such an excellent track record would say something so astonishingly ignorant. But I suppose in his mind the cause for not getting C++ programmers must be the fault of C++ programmers, not Go.

Don't get me wrong: Go seems excellent for doing the things it was designed to do, which is having large groups write internet servers of some sort or another. But it is entirely inadequate for all sorts of other application domains.

In the two sorts of things I do, namely deep embedded (the Arduino environment rnus C++) and scientific computing, C++ is pretty much the best language out there. In the first case Go simply cannot do that. In the second case, the lack of generics or good builtin containers for vectors, matrices and images makes Go just plain horrible to use.

Also we C++ programmers have got used to not having to type extra code (like those funny defer lines) or wading through morasses of error checking on the main flow control path.

"He ends his post by agreeing with a Slashdot comment where someone is basically saying that SteamOS is done" ..

'I don't agree that SteamOS is done just yet', Rich Geldreich

.. 'and that we will never get our hands on the Steam Controller'

That bit came from the slashdot commentator and *not* Rich Geldreich.

Slightly related;
Lcamtuf writes that that running strings over a maliciously crafted file can probably result in code execution on your system.

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/psa-dont-run-strings-on-untrusted-files.html

The big picture is nothing new, when you use software, particularly software which is written in C/C++, to process data from untrustworth sources there is a reasonable chance of hard to spot security vulnerabilities.

That means about 1% of the public thought it was worth commenting on. That's not enough to make a lot of waves unless that 1% is planning to make a lot of campaign donations or something.

Or if they are fucking nutters. This is larger than the percentage of Muslims in the USA but look at all the concessions they get.

Having not used a Microsoft product since DOS 6 upgrade, this is a reason I can not buy an android phone. However, I have a excellent Jolla phone so not a major problem. http://stevesstats.blogspot.co...

Microsoft should sue Google if they believe they are being hard dun by, and not blackmail.

Why? Google's including Microsoft patented technologies in Android isn't a big deal to Microsoft because Google doesn't sell Android. It's the selling the using and the selling that's protected by patent law. Device manufacturers are selling it, so they need to license it. Google's also a seller, but they're small time in that regard, so less important to sue. And if they're paying their license fees or have cross-licensing agreements, all is well for Microsoft.

Having not used a Microsoft product since DOS 6 upgrade, this is a reason I can not buy an android phone. However, I have a excellent Jolla phone so not a major problem. http://stevesstats.blogspot.co... Microsoft should sue Google if they believe they are being hard dun by, and not blackmail.

http://oldrunningfox.blogspot....

enough said.

http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.u...

You seem good at that Hail Hitler thing, you must've had a lot of practice under Putin.

Tell me, one last question, if you're so adamant that people should have the freedom of choice, why are you not protesting Putin's consistent prevention of Chechnya breaking free from Russia as it wants?

What's that? you love suppression of democratic will and civilians? Thought so- at least you're consistent though, you neither want the people of Eastern Ukraine, nor the people of Chechnya to be able to break away from Russia, you just want fascist mother Russia to rule over all.

P.S. That's not a Ukrainian military column masquerading as a medical convoy, it's very clearly a Ukrainian military medical convoy, that's why they have green trucks and red crosses, it's kind of exactly what that means. What is a breach of the Geneva convention though is your far right Hitler loving fascist soldiers in Eastern Ukraine.

I'll give you a hint, there's a reason why Europe's far right parties like Frances National Front, Denmark's Party of Freedom and Hungary's Jobbik party and Putin are best of friends- because like those parties, that are the modern day incarnations of the Nazis, so is Putin, and so are you, because you support the far right with your ideals, so fuck off Nazi, we have enough of your shit in the 30s and 40s, we killed most of you off then and we'll do the same if we have to. There's no room for your Jew hating, nationalistic, homophobic, dictator lovers in Europe.

You see, on one hand, we have the Ukrainian election results:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/f...

(Note the source- do you really think Israel of all countries full of Jews would defend Ukrainian election results if Ukraine actually voted for Nazis? - if Israel doesn't see Nazism in the Ukrainian regime then no one with any sense would) On the other, we have Putin with his favourite neo-Nazi biker gang:

http://ukraineinvestigation.co...

http://climateerinvest.blogspo...

Yet you keep telling yourself there are magical invisible nazis in Ukraine, all the whilst you're supporting not just people who look like nazis, act like nazis, but people who are real actual nazis. You keep telling yourself you're the good guy for supporting Nazis, we'll keep laughing at you and supplying arms so that your nazi friends keep getting shot as they deserve all whilst you sit in a country with an economy that's being driven into the ground by your favoured nazi loving regime.

Totalbiscuit has posted an excellent piece in which he makes this point, as well as the equivalent point that the other side has done much the same thing with the label "MRA". Mostly, it's a call for everyone to just chill out and stop demonising each other. Read it here.

Don't be silly. There are at least 30 different versions of "what scientists think" about this issue. In other words they don't know. That isn't settled science is it.