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We've surrounded Iran with dozens of military bases, crashed their economy and currency with sanctions, illegally threatened them with military force, and committed multiple acts of war on a country over the....nuclear weapons program both the CIA and Israelis admit they don't have.

So when does Iran get to threaten the United States for being in "material breach" of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which requires disarmament for countries already in possession of nuclear weapons?

Here's the citations, I'm sure you left them out by accident...

Michael Chertoff, George Soros

Ok as long as King George is involved.

Here's the citations, I'm sure you left them out by accident...

Michael Chertoff, George Soros

http://current.com/news-and-politics/89142818_bush-to-attack-iran-suspend-elections-and-declare-martial-law.htm supposedly quotes a named congress critter. That one source was referenced by a fair number of sources. That's a cut above an unamed DHS whistleblower. Frankly, I find all such claims place the person making the claim dangerously close to timecube guy. I've been hearing wingnut/moonbat claims to that sort of thing about every president since I started paying attention to politics.

Since I lost my original TXH1138 account and wasn't allowed to have it back, I guess someone figured out the significance and didn't want to upset George, I have seen things drop to the lowest common denominator. I don't have an axe to grind here and am not holding a grudge. It is a legitimate gripe. The slashdot is so far behind the curve that I would rather spend my effort on Spiceworks and Reddit helping people.

Of course I am old and you should all stay the hell off my lawn etc. If anyone has a replacement for this site please do tell. I will read at -1.

Humans already caused climate change once. Specifically the huns with Genghis Khan burning down forests all over Asia and Europe. He not only left a trace in our DNA by having many "wifes" making a fair share of Eurasians descendents of him, he also had a measurable impact on the climate on that time.

Wicked! Some src for claims.

There was a time when Android executed every single keystroke you typed as root in the background. No platform can lay claim to being perfect. What matters is exploits that are out there in use in the wild.

I was not aware of that, but after some googling it would appear you are correct. Here is a story, with sources listed

The Netherlands.

http://current.com/news-and-politics/88877763_dutch-man-jailed-for-insulting-the-queen.htm

In other words, you said "please spoonfeed, I don't know how to find information."

This is the first official statement of occupy wallstreet. Since it is the FIRST, and OFFICIAL, I would expect someone of your cantor to have read it by now:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021956/-First-official-statement-from-Occupy-Wall-Street

Here is Keith Olbermann reading the statement for you, if you can't read or need it presented by some media mouth to understand:

http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/special-comment-keith-reads-first-collective-statement-of-occupy-wall-street

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Now that you know, you can quit saying you don't or that the facts haven't been shown to you.

And if the points made in that statement aren't immediately clear and simple for you to understand, I'll sum it up in three short points (that every OWS protester would agree with me on).

1) Corporations have advantages over people and private business that have led to massive exploit: remove the advantages.
2) Banks and wall street are deregulated to the point that exploit is evident across the country: regulate to the degree that most Americans can do well.
3) Possibly as a byproduct of 1&2, the politicians, and the legal structure they produce, in the US have been biased to drive benefit to those in the elite financial class: structure our country so that it economically makes sense for most Americans to find benefit.

It's not like you haven't heard a thousand times that politicians are bought and sold. Or that corporations are running this country. Or that corporations have advantages that have led to the blatant lack of free-market, and the abusive oligopolies/monopolies we face. You read Slashdot. You've heard these points and seen the facts for a long time, I hope.
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Or you can keep pretending that millions of protestors world wide have no idea why they 'agree' with the people that are with them... and that 36% of Americans that support the goals of OWS have no idea what those goals are (because you claim they have none).

Now you know.

I agree with reading about it on the Internet. I like RSS, but I've found it homogenizes my content so that things don't jump out at me and the really interesting stories get buried with all the mediocre ones. So I keep the following list of bookmarks to check on a weekly basis:

ABC (Australia) Science, ABC (US) Science, Air & Space Magazine, ARKive, Ars Technica, BBC SciTech News, CBS Sci-Tech News, Chet Raymo, Cosmos News, Current: Science, Discover, Discovery News, Edge, Economist Science, EurekAlert!, Flyp media, Futurity, h+, Inkling Magazine, LiveScience, Massimo Pigliucci, Mother Jones Environment, MSNBC Science News, National Geographic News, National Public Radio (US), Natural History Magazine, New Scientist, New York Times Science, New Yorker Science, Newsweek Science, Orion, PhysOrg, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, R&D Magazine, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Science Daily, Scientific American, Seed Magazine, Science Cheerleader, Science News, Schrodinger's Kitten, Slashdot Science, Smithsonian, Space.com, The Technium, Time Magazine Science, USA Today Science, US News & World Report Science, Wired News, World Changing

Kill It, Cook It, Eat It. The rabbit episode 'stars' the most ignorant, uninformed, assholic vegetarian I've ever seen: Francesca. Sadly, I can't find video of her on the show.

From the comments on their site:

Where in the world did you find that ignorant, ill-informed, small-minded twit Francesca?
"Let the scientists figure something out [to solve the rabbit overpopulation problem] - I'm not a bloody scientist".
On being anemic and malnourished - "Why can't I get a multivitamin from the chemist's shop - it's natural."

She's not only a typically clueless vegetarian but a sad example of a human being.

Kill It, Cook It, Eat It. The rabbit episode 'stars' the most ignorant, uninformed, assholic vegetarian I've ever seen: Francesca. Sadly, I can't find video of her on the show.

From the comments on their site:

Where in the world did you find that ignorant, ill-informed, small-minded twit Francesca?
"Let the scientists figure something out [to solve the rabbit overpopulation problem] - I'm not a bloody scientist".
On being anemic and malnourished - "Why can't I get a multivitamin from the chemist's shop - it's natural."

She's not only a typically clueless vegetarian but a sad example of a human being.

Because it took control of the money supply away from congress and by extension We, The People, and instead handed it to a nice little cabal of insiders (Mostly Goldman Sachs elite, but a few others as well) and when you compare the USD to what is was Pre Fed you are looking at a dollar that is worth one half of one cent compared to the USD that existed in 1912.

To quote one of the Rothschilds ""Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws" and no truer words have been spoken, because while leaders come and go the power elite still have their hands on the throat of the country thanks to control of the currency.

I bet some clansman ax-murderer would love to have one of them to represent him.

Amusingly, even the KKK wants nothing to do with Westboro. When even the Klan thinks you're nuts, you must be doing something special. The KKK is not down with Westboro

Open letter from Anonymous to the UK Government

They probably wouldn't prosecute you for $20 dollars, because it isn't worth it. However, for a case more applicable to this one, see http://current.com/news/92888249_bank-error-in-your-favor-go-to-jail.htm

I am looking forward to seeing what comes out of this: http://current.com/shows/bar-karma/

And now for reality : http://i.current.com/images/asset/904/964/04/44ceT2.jpg. Nukes can't destroy the world. All the nukes in the world can destroy ONE city, one small metropolis (say 1/4th of New York). That's it.

If I were a super-villain, I'd only need enough nukes to contaminate all the arable land.

And now for reality : http://i.current.com/images/asset/904/964/04/44ceT2.jpg. Nukes can't destroy the world. All the nukes in the world can destroy ONE city, one small metropolis (say 1/4th of New York). That's it.

And even then not everyone in that area will be dead, and a few thousand will escape with both their lives and without any radiation exposure.

Sure, nukes are no joke, but they're nowhere near as dangerous as they're reputed to be.

http://current.com/1kuq54c

"UPDATES: Reports of the raid and confiscation of equipment are most likely a hoax or an elaborate social engineering scheme to capitalize on current news events.

Details are still few, and sympathizers should exercise caution before donating funds allegedly for "attorney fees".

The original text requesting donations, as quoted below, and the corresponding link have been deleted from the "suspect" site.

The "suspect" site is no longer available for viewing at the URL provided - but the "suspect" Twitter account is still active.

More Details to follow as soon as they are available. "

*Content copied from website*

Here's more information on Bar Karma - Just got posted officially it looks like. http://current.com/studios/

There was this. Granted, that's in an advertisement, but still...

And I'm not hypocritical. I despise all of the major news services, something I indicated in my OP.

In some cases, the unions simply have enough force. Part of their "collective bargaining" is to bargain that nobody gets to hire non-union employees. So even though there may be no real legal prevention, there is effective prevention. Join or you get no work in that field. In other places, there is legal protection. In non "right to work" states if a given field is unionized, membership is non-optional. You work in that field, you MUST join the union by law. You get situations like where the UAW is forcing independent daycare providers to pay dues. See the UAW represents daycare workers in that state, and membership is non-optional. So they are forcing it even on people who are working for themselves, and thus a situation where a union has no relevance. See: http://current.com/news/92664102_day-care-workers-are-now-uaw-workers.htm.

All of this is just the legal reasons who joining unions is often non-optional. There are also less savory cases of intimidation and violence.

They also work hard to keep it that way. For example right now there's a measure coming up on the ballot here to force all union votes to be secret ballot. Just like actual election votes, and most other votes, the identity of people voting would be protected, you wouldn't know who voted what way. The unions are fighting it extremely hard. Now why would they do that? What reason is there to not want a secret ballot? That system is well established.

The reason, of course, is pressure. If you know how people voted, you can pressure them to vote the way you want. That's the whole reason we use secret ballots in political elections is so that can't happen. However the unions are concerned if it happened, people could vote to disband the union and they'd not be able to pressure them out of it.

If it was just as simple as "Don't join if you don't wanna," it wouldn't be nearly such a big deal. However it isn't.

Intentionally spreading a fatal disease gets you jail time in Canada.

The Islamic world wasn't the whole of his examples, just an afterthought thrown in there.

Look at any Digg story about rape. Or any article that drifts into whether abortion should be legal in cases of rape.

Then there are stories like this http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10211/1076338-455.stm where every mention of rape is assumed to actually be consensual sex (in other words, she asked for it).

Or these pamphlets that aim to spread the message everywhere http://jezebel.com/5482688/you-make-men-want-to-be-sinful-blaming-the-victim-religious-pamphlet-edition

Or http://jezebel.com/5478360/she-knew-what-would-happen-if-she-started-drinking-blaming-the-victim-princeton-edition

This shows that it isn't just a small nutball collective: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251040/Rape-Its-fault-victims-say-50-women.html?ITO=1490&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+dailymail/home+(Home+|+Mail+Online)

The boys aren't to blame because she drank a bit: http://current.com/1db6i4c

Here's what rapists think about it: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/04/15/why-dont-we-accept-victim-blaming-from-rapists/

There are a whole host of weirder cases, too, that imply that rape victims actually gave consent. Remember how Whoopi Goldberg ranting about how Roman Polanski's drugging and raping an unconscious child wasn't really rape? I'm not sure what she was getting at, but if it wasn't rape then it stands to reason that Whoopi thought something about the unconscious, drugged girl gave consent to Polanski.

But if you can produce mainstream commentators...

You are moving goalposts and putting them someplace strange and unnecessary. This isn't about political commentators blaming the victim, it's about members of the public blaming the victim, all the time. Fair enough that you can find a lone person with an insane definition of anything, but this is hardly a rare viewpoint.

I don't believe guns cause fights, bank robberies, or anything else. That's all human nature. But what they do sometimes is turn a stare-down or a fistfight into a homicide. Even cops wind up murdering people sometimes [1] [2]. That said, the horse is well and truly out of the barn, you won't see people banned from keeping a shotgun around the home for self defense and I'm fine with that. But no, I do not favor forcing banks to allow customers to be armed.

Steve Jobs lying? It can't be!

That's unpossible! Steve Jobs always tells the truth even when he lies, that is what the reality distortion field is for.

But what is Steve Jobs missing? He does not even look very healthy anymore, but John Lithgow has some advice for him, He's got to have pep! Just wear orange prison colored baggy pants, suspenders borrowed from Larry King, and a wacky Hawaiian shirt with blue and white flowers on it. Plus a mini me and some kids and dancing lessons. Don't forget to look angry while doing all this so you let you know your agent you are upset this was the only job he/she could get you and they fired Barny because even he wanted too much.

First things first. I don't own a gun and know like, two people who do. Second, I expect them to show up and find out what's going on, not break the door down and shoot the dog.

I'm afraid that argument was lost when "they" decided corporations are people, and more recently created a ruling that allows corporations to run for office. I happen to agree with you, but there it is.

There's actually a corporate policy that prevents me from naming my employer publicly (LOL) but they shamelessly and regularly plug their PAC via company e-mail trying to raise donations. But frankly what's in the best interest of any large corporate is rarely in the best interest of the consumer; most corporations simply want to suppress the competition and dominate their respective markets to maximize profitability... economics 101 but the consumer pays when these corporations "win" and dominate their markets.
We live in interesting times when an entity is required by the document that creates it to conduct itself amorally, and by that I mean that ponderous bromide "maximize shareholder profits" which is used to justify all kinds of corporate misbehavior that would never be tolerated in individuals.

I'm not lumping everyone into "the other side." That was not my term to begin with. The enemy combatants in the area around Baghdad at that time were, principally al-Qaeda in Iraq and Jaysh al-Mahdi. They both did things like that, but many of them were not Iraqi; your use of nationalities precisely demonstrates how little understood that conflict has been. It would be more like Republicans and Democrats fighting each other in Mexico while fighting against the Brazilian Army, too, but with bigger language differences. They would still be fighting the same, though; it's what they know.

Oh, and by the way you may want to see this. No one is innocent.

Thankfully I'm back to ground beef--because red meat tastes better.

For what it's worth, you're a lot better off buying chunks of beef and grinding it in a food processor than buying packaged ground beef at the stores unless you're REALLY short on cash. A lot less likely to have illness-causing bacteria or even intentionally mixed with ammonia-infused green slime as a filler to cut the price. Plus it tastes better.

I don't know which one he might be refer to, but this was a pretty cool failure: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/12/10/spiral-light-over-oslo-norway-mystery-solved/

I think you mean this

...this?

http://current.com/items/91149842_black-kids-computer-desk.htm

video http://www.courthousenews.com

It's the most visible because it's the only one that gets advertised by the media

It's most visible because it was radically different from other platforms and single-handedly changed the market. Go ahead, show me 3D gaming on phones before the iPhone. For that matter, look at phone interfaces, capabilities, and internet usage on them before the iPhone. The iPhone raised the bar, and very little has caught up with it yet. State of the art used to be Windows Mobile 6 and PalmOS - yes, Palm OS. Windows Mobile has blown it ever since, LiMo never went anywhere, and Google Android and Palm Pre very likely would not have been developed if the iPhone hadn't radically changed the market. It gets recognition for that, and it's well-deserved.

sales figures show a different story

Really? It's at 23% in the US, and 14% worldwide. And it only came out two years ago, with its famously limited capabilities at the time.

Personally I'd much rather to see a future that continues with multiple companies (of which Apple can be one), with choice, and most importantly, compatible standards so that I can release an application that Just Works on all phones

Yeah, that worked out so well on Windows and the PC world. Multiple vendors never makes things Just Work - it's the antithesis of it. Protocol incompatibilities, inconsistent hardware support, no platform direction.

Look at Apple. For example, they want to support something like OpenCL. They make sure their hardware has the proper GPU's, the OS supports it, GrandCentral is created, the compiler toolchain adds blocks, and oh yeah, they've been working on LLVM/Clang for years. NONE of that happens when you have a heterogeneous environment and no one is coordinated. Apple wants to get rid of legacy ports and bus systems - so they do it. In two years, Apple abandoned floppies, SCSI, ADB, serial, NuBus, etc. Here we are over ten years later and PC's STILL have PS/2 ports and serial ports, right next to USB 3.0. Such progress.

Note that all phones can run so called "apps". Running applications on phones has been common on all but the most basic phones for at least 5 years, and note that the market of Java smartphones is estimated at two billion.

I'm sorry - you can't possibly compare Java Midlets to iPhone applications. Nice that it has two-billion phones. I'd bet that a fraction of a percent of those users have ever cared that it's there, and those that have used it (like I used to on my PalmOS Treo - KMaps and Opera Mini) can easily see what crap it is. Ugly, slow, non-native, battery-hungry, low-performance - that's Java on a phone, and one of the reasons it's not on the iPhone. Ditto for Flash, really.

Sadly, the only thing in your post that made any sense was that Apple should be more open. And it's "should", as in it would be nice. The market has shown that they certainly don't "need" to.

That was not a made up story, though I wish it had been):

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/britain-to-put-cctv-cameras-inside-private-homes/

http://current.com/items/90587783_uk-plans-to-monitor-20-000-families-homes-via-cctv.htm

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736/Sin-bins-for-worst-families

Ok then, EXPLAIN THIS: http://current.com/16d9e4c
If they are not stating the intentions they have WHAT are they doing?
Do you always keep your head in the sand like that? Your fingers in your ears and your eyes covered refusing to believe what they would otherwise prove to you?

You have got to be kidding me!

Then again, I'm in Philadelphia and have no idea what whale blood looks like

Now you know.

http://www.fija.org/docs/JG_Jurors_Handbook.pdf

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Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, put it like this: "I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."

John Adams, our second president, had this to say about the juror: "It is not only his right, but his duty...to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court."

http://www.ibiblio.org/fija/fijaintr.htm

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http://current.com/items/90078288_jurors-rights.htm

Anyone know of any court cases involving Japanese sex games? I know they get pretty obscene..

There's been a lot of talk and grandstanding for banning games like "RapeLay" but I don't think there's been a court case or decree. It's pretty difficult to get a hold of through a major outlet though. And I think Japan's version of the ESRB is passing new standards preventing the publishing of games like this. No court cases on US soil regarding this title to my knowledge. From what I've read, it seems to be the most explosively controversial title out there right now.

"It would be like me going out and punching random people in the face just because I can."

No - people don't do that. They do however throw rocks, eggs or rotten tomatoes at cars from the highway overpass. There's your analogy.

Yeah, I'm absolutely certain that no one would ever consider randomly punching anyone on the street or otherwise.

like to point out that the Top Gear review "breakdown" was a faked. It didn't break down or anything. They purposefully "demonstrated" what would happen if you ran out of power. And pushed the car away... I could think of a 10 different ways that could have been done without pushing the car.

http://current.com/items/89645624/top_gear_lie_about_the_tesla_s_performance_on_their_track.htm

Here is a beginning.

http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm

Too hip? May be I am too 'dumb' to use it?

In any case, I think this video summarizes it very well. http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm

Yet actual studies have found Marijuana reduces rates of all cancers - including lung cancer. Smokers who also smoke marijuana have a lower rate of lung cancer than smokers who only smoke cigarettes.

http://current.com/items/89590938/study_finds_marijuana_smokers_have_lower_cancer_risk_than_tobacco_smokers_norml.htm

Care to try again?

If you want actual human studies - there are 4 grandfathered medical marijuana patients in the United States who have been smoking daily for 25 years now. Not one has shown any adverse health affects.

There are even more dirty tricks than you might expect.

If you've got some gaming cred, then you may have seen the short feature The Gamers from Dead Gentlemen Productions. They also did a short feature called "Campaign Ad." (You can see it here.)

They depict some of the dirty pool used in campaign ads ("Our opponent is shown in choppy black-and-white, while our candidate is depicted in saturated color!"), and was enough to make me reach for the channel changer during election seasons if I didn't need any other reasons.

You might want to watch the story of Brazil's petroleum independence and almost total conversion to ethanol:

http://current.com/items/89112645/the_world_s_sugar_daddy.htm

I also really hate the notion that Americans are war-mongers.

Perhaps not the American people, but the American government (with the consent of the people) certainly seem to be war mongers.

Look how much money they US spends on war compared to the rest of the world (more than the next 45 highest spending countries in the world combined!)

Have a look at the number of countries with a US army base (willing hosts or otherwise).

These is not really the actions of a peaceful country.

The US is no better or worse than the majority of nations in history, past or present. We are amongst good company... if you don't believe me, go to your local library and checkout a history book.

In terms of the US as war mongers, I don't know if I completely disagree with you. I will say that the American government has only been operating with the consent of a slim majority for the last 8 years.

It is too bad that that slim majority happens to represent the worst of America.