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Yes yes, exposing the DNC and all that Clinton corruption was the work of that "MRA" Julian Assange http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2... Because anyone against Hillary Clinton is a racist, sexist, mra, gamergater, and just kicks children, everybody knows this! Even "berniebros" were just misogynists who hated women and so instead supported an old communist jew!! Yes that's the ticket! The fact that he blew the lid open on DNC corruption, press collusion and Clinton Foundation shennigans, well why look into that, lets just call people names. Never mind the whole thing about the DNC staffer being murdered, and now fingered as the leaker.... "trump's the real danger" https://twitter.com/magnifier6... Funny how both attack/assassination attempts were on Trump, not Clinton. Most every attack/attempt to shut down a rally is by rabid leftists. Just in the last two days a man was beaten with a crowbar for wearing a Trump shirt. Anyways, things which matter The Clinton Foundation Exposed | Charles Ortel and Stefan Molyneux https://youtu.be/ZFcEnRu-hY8 Emails reveal Hillary’s shocking pay-for-play scheme http://nypost.com/2016/08/09/e... Clinton's private server held emails about nuclear 'spy' executed in Iran: Aides discussed scientist 'friend' and his decision to return home after defecting to the U.S. for $5m http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://thefederalist.com/2016/... https://youtu.be/8acghuIfLTE Julian Assange exposes Google's political ties to Hillary Clinton & Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?... http://theralphretort.com/bust... http://theralphretort.com/bust... Its no surprise people so smug get their information from 20 minute comedy news shows these days....

You don't get out much do you? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Expense doesn't play into this. If it were too expensive, it simply wouldn't be built. That it's being built means customers are willing to pay for that expense, and it's worth doing.

First, you have to understand why this happened. It's unrealistic for a private company to string up cables or run pipes throughout a city. There's just too much private property, and it would take forever to negotiate for access rights with each property owner, never mind the few loonies who will never grant those rights regardless of price. In response, the government sets up easements - a narrow strip of land which slices straight through private property where service providers are allowed to string up cables or bury pipes. Legally the land remains the property owner's, but the government has the right to grant access to that land for certain limited purposes.

Once the government has the easement, they don't want to grant access to just anybody running a utility or cable company. That can result in unsightly and dangerous wiring. It makes more sense to select a single provider, and grant them sole rights to offer service for an entire area. That way you minimize the number of cables that need to be put up. But giving a single company a monopoly creates a lot of problems - you're stripping away a lot of the protection mechanisms that a free market provides (like lowering prices). So you create a public utilities commission which monitors consumer complaints about the service and has the power to require changes or institute fines. Many of them also have the power to view the company's internal accounting books and have to approve price increases before they can be rolled out. Along the way, the government also decided to add some other conditions, like requiring coverage of poor areas (otherwise unprofitable). In the somewhat corrupt city I used to live in, the government also required the cable company give them kickbacks ($x from each customer's monthly bill was sent to the city treasurer to pad the city's budget).

Why select a private company? Why doesn't the government build the cables? Because back in the 1980s and 1990s, we didn't know the best way to implement cable TV and later cable Internet service. Do you run the cables using a star topology? A ring? A grid? A combination of these? What sort of equipment do you use? How do you encode the signals? How much do you allocate to download vs. upload bandwidth? These are the sorts of questions the government is really bad at answering (government workers lack incentives to improve things), but the market is very good at answering. So different communities allowed different cable companies to implement different systems. The ones which didn't work so well went bankrupt. The ones which worked well thrived and grew, bought up the contracts for the bankrupt cable companies, and implemented their successful cable networks in these other communities.

That brings us to today. We're down to about a half dozen successful cable companies, all of whom use the exact same system (standardized to allow the use of the same cable boxes and DOCSIS cable modems across different networks). Looking towards the future, it looks like fiber to the home is the end game here. Now that the market has found the optimal solution and there are no foreseeable changes on the horizon, that's when it's time for the government to step in and take over and convert this into a utility. They should grant a cable maintenance contract to a single company which lays down and maintains the cable, but is not allowed to sell any content over those cables. They make all their money from the government contract. Any cable TV and Internet service provider is allowed to buy access to these cables f

In (old) related news: A best man took matters into his own hands by installing a device that live tweets newlyweds activities in bed. Including duration, end time, and "Frenzy Index".

A plague that wipes out 30-60% of the human race (if it could start with the "1%ers", that'd be great

Do you take home over $34K after taxes? If so, congratulations, you're a 1%er on this planet. Your plague would wipe out most first world countries and be very bad for many second world countries as well. But don't' worry, the third world countries should have a much easier time getting their hands on the unguarded weapons in those countries. Just think how much better the world will be once some warlord in Somalia gets a couple of nukes. At least that'll lower the population even more. Plus all of the additional particulates in the air will help cool the planet too.

AC they would be using a device like a dirtbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
.."mounted on aircraft all over the U.S., to detect and locate cell phones and thus collect information, and can be used to jam phones."
The tech has been around for many years, just nows its cheap enough to collect it all on a federal police budget per event.
Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities from 3 August 2008 shows what can be collected in a domestic setting after an aircraft is upgraded to capture all aspects of a cellular network
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"They are attempting to identify suspects using ‘voice prints’"
"which can monitor computer and mobile-phone communication and long-wave radios"
Voice prints, phone mapping over time is the real prize, a release of images just helps hide other details from any FOIA request.

The ads are no longer up, but:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.breitbart.com/londo...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Note those are from May. More recently:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

BBC are racist cunts, and the fuckwits modding me 'troll' can go chew on a brick.

Why aren't people afraid of spoons, then?

It was never meant to be such.

BMI is a 95% accurate predictor of obesity in men and 99% in women. IOW if you pick a random member of the population, measure their BMI and body fat percentage 95-99% that BMI says you're obese, the fat percentage will agree (and also BMI will miss quite a few). And bear in mind of those 5% wrong, some number will be merely overweight rather than obese. So if you take an obese BMI to mean "should I lose weight", if it says "yes" it's going to be wrong way under 5% of the time.

That's pretty bloody good. A lifetime spent smoking is a less good predictor that you will die from smoking related diseases than BMI as a predictor of obesity.

So, it's an accurate predictor as these things go and it is very easy to measure correctly without specialist equipment unlike more accurate techniques like body fat percentage or waist measurement (which is hard to measure correctly).

Fit athletes can have a high BMI, it's mass (muscle is heavier than fat) against height.

Fit athletes can, but even then it's not as common as you might think. Here's a paste from an earlier post of mine on the topic (the tone was directed at the person I was having a "discussion" with back then, not you):

I doubt most of them are. I just picked one, "Andy Murray". A very fit, muscular chap. 1.9m tall, 84 Kg. Well into the OK band for BMI. A bulkier one like Usain Bolt? Upper end, but still in the "OK" band. Most recent olympics marathon winner? Wow quite underweight! Hm let's try another. Ronaldo. Nope, also OK. More footballers? How about the first 5 from this list (my patience is limited) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/spo... Huh, one is juuuust into the overweight band and the rest are right in the middle. How about a swimmer? Let's say Phelps. Nope, ALSO OK. See the pattern here? That's a nice sampling from tennis, running, football, swimming

some of those are pretty big blokes. Even for pro athletes, you have to be on the bulky end to get on the wrong end of BMI.

You could make a really cool history-of-air-interceptors poster by showing everything that has intercepted a TU-95 "Bear" over it's long history of pulling this shit.

You could make an equally cool posters by showing all the countries that have had actual bombs dumped on them by B-52s, and how many deaths they caused. Starting with the more than 7 million tons dropped on Vietnam alone (more than four times the weight dropped on Nazi Germany in the whole of WW2). And not forgetting the really cool episode when they dropped four thermonuclear bombs on Spain. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Bears have hardly ever dropped bombs in anger. They just fly around to remind forgetful people that Russia does have thermonuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them. (N.B. Not Bears any longer).

"I assume everyone who disagrees with me is a racist. This makes it much easier for me to assume a moral high ground and dismiss their opinions and experiences out of hand without engaging." -everyone who voted to stay

I can see why you people do this. It's very easy and conveinient!

Oh go for crowd pleasing upvote clicking, social justice easymode retort shy of any actual facts. Sir, take your '"you people" and feck off!

Any campaign run on Xenophobia, fear of immigrants and refugees is racist and since the vote the country as enjoyed a huge surge of racially motivated incidents, as if this vote has given license to be a dick.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
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It's a problem, due to there being absolutely no guarantee that the UK will spend the money it currently sends to the EU on all the EU supported projects - science, agrigulture, business development. It's not a guarantee, because a lot of the money will go to funding the extra costs Brexit will incur, such as outsourcing trade negotiators, border security costs (visting EU nationals), vetting of EU nationals wanting to work in the UK, amongst others.

This likely cut in funding was almost immediately obvious when areas such as Cornwal & Wales immediately realised that by voting Brexit, development funds from the EU would be likely to be stopped. Cornwall, for example is wanting assurances about how it will be funded

Alternate sources, if you're not keen on the Grauniad:
Cornwall demands £500m to replace lost EU cash
Cornwall votes decisively for Brexit - then seeks 'assurances' that it won't lose the £60million a year it gets in EU subsidies

You mean like this fellow

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Chinese billionaire tied to 1990s Clinton fundraising scandal arrested for lying about how he used $4.5MILLION cash he brought into the U.S. aboard private jets

I assume Mr. Ford has not been around enough heavy equipment to that you consider it live unless you can see the lockout.

Harrison Ford was self-taught professional carpenter. This was probably his best paying, consistent job as he was trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. So you would think he would know about the potential dangers of machinery, but maybe he mostly used hand tools. Maybe he's gotten soft and careless.

As a side note, it seems that with its emphasis on practical effects, real sets, and locations, that The Force Awakens was a dangerous film to work on. Mark Hamill almost fell to his death off of the island Skellig Michael shown at the end of the film.

Likewise what you think of as "capitalism" - given that the USA (and other) governments have repeatedly stepped in to prevent capitalist monopolist oligarchies forming (the railway and oil robber-barons being one example) or break them up when they've managed to establish a toehold(**). There's a new set emerging which have managed to get further than than the last few times, but the reality is that unfettered capitalism leads to abject misery for most and lack of progress for all.

Or create them. There's a centuries long history of government-created monopolies. The railway and oil robber-barons are such examples since strike breaking and market cornering was routinely done with government assistance. I note that many of the examples you gave later on are monopolies due to government interference. AT&T is a particularly notorious example.

(****) the biggest risk associated with atmospheric CO2 spikes and methane breakouts levels isn't ocean level rises. It's anoxic dieoffs resulting in the extinction of pretty much every land animal larger than 40kg.

Unless, of course, your assertion is wrong. Then it's not. That's the problem with asserting things without support from reality. They can be right, they can be wrong.

(*) Communism requires a surplus of production and of labour, such that there isn't enough actual work for people to do. This is close to what we now have in western countries - which without adequate backstops in place leads to large amounts of un(der)employment and the political need for "make work" schemes(***) (In the old days unemployment used to be hidden by hiring people into government service or moving them workseeker to sickness allowances. These options are frequently less available thanks to the breach of the social contract that started with Ronald Reagan's welfare slashing efforts in California in 1970 and gathered pace with California's voting in of proposition 13. That malaise has spread far and wide since then, with the rich getting richer and the poor increasingly being systematically disenfranchised through institutionalised racist and classist policies.)

That's a funny way to say that the US and other countries are competing poorly with cheaper labor from the developing world. The obvious point to make in all this is that labor remains valuable. If there's not enough work to go around, then it's because of systemic failures of the society, not because we've achieved some wonderful state of economy where a few people can do all the work.

Rather than touching a system which relies on labor failure in order to operate, how about we make employment easier so that we can get back to doing useful stuff?

(***) If you start with the notion that a basic allowance will allow creative types to flourish, accept that some people will piss it against the wall and somehow address the raging anti-intellectuallism that's destroying the USA and other countries so that people _want_ to learn, then there's a lot of mileage in it.

Unless, of course, that sort of policy has the opposite effect and encourages more raging anti-intellectuallism. For example, I steer you towards the example of protest culture which has as examples of anti-intellectualism: sloganeering, naked pursuit of self-interest, disturbing and irrational mob behavior ("snapplause" for speech that the mob likes, shouting down of speech the mob doesn't like), careers consisting of tilting at imaginary windmills, and pointless disruptions of parts of society unrelated to the grievance at hand. Having a basic income would of course, make this annoying hobby more prevalent.

Strange, I thought it was hating the headscarf because it's a means of coercive punishment

All headscarves are evil and unpatriotic. See, for example:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...

There's a flaw in your logic: Skynet is already a time-traveler.

Who is making it "volatile high stress" ??

That implies a conspiracy level manipulation, which I'd reject. What, is a better choice of interrogatories.

Regular Americans tired of people like BLM rioting,

And the BLM are rioting where now? Besides, it helps to recognize why there have been protests, and that riots are few and far between, and may well be blamed on outside forces, including excessive police action.

But the "Regular Americans" being "fed up" is nothing new, that's been true since it was Abolitionists and Indian lovers, Suffragettes and Prohibitionists.

cities like Chicago getting shot up daily without a peep from the "Black Leaders",

Except you've apparently never listened to Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan or Barrack Obama.

All of whom have tried to get a handle on it. But then you look at the recent DOJ report on the Chicago PD, and you ask how that happened.

cops getting shot in ambushes

Yeah, except the ambushers have so far been lone wolf actors, not part of any organized groups. That raises a lot of questions, such as how to respond to the problem.

or ... liberal idiots shouting "Hands up, don't shoot" (didn't happen), "pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon" (BLM) or some racist asshole targeting "Cracker" cops ?

And conservatives never shout or say anything offensive? Including some cops.

ALL you have against Trump and his supporters is stupid words.

Ahem, your last three concerns are entirely about words. Did you not notice?

IMHO actions speak much louder and you probably should be paying closer attention to how things are ACTUALLY proceeding, rather than listening to the idiot talking heads who know nothing.

Ok, so when are you going to start demonstrating that you've been paying attention? Have you looked at how very few cops have actually been shot, and how despite frantic claims that there is some widespread pattern of calling for violence against cops, it's really been a few scattered individuals, nothing near a concerted effort? Have you noticed how BLM have been demonized, attacked, and accused, yet not connect to any actual violence? Have you not noticed that cops have killed far more people than cops have been killed?

Then there's Trump himself. Have you noticed his tendency to embellish the truth? Have you noticed his pattern of conduct, say, in regards Trump University?

Straight to it then. The similarity measure this researcher used has not been shown to be what humans use when they, for instance, falsely identify someone in court or mistake two people on clear video.

The similarity measure she used is designed to detect the differences between very specific and quantifiable points on the human face (interpupilary distance for instance). These landmarks are (largely) immutable over time and anyway amenable to analysis by computers scanning hi-res images.

However, these quantifiable landmarks have not been shown to be the same as the features humans use to distinguish two faces. It's not just likely, but 100% certain, that two faces which are virtually indistinguishable to humans - "my god, it's the same person!" - would be clearly distinguishable to a computer.

At least in this context, ourb cultures definition of doppleganger is up for grabs. Is it two faces so similar that they look the same to humans - a low and easily met criteria - or is it two faces so similar that a computer cannot tell them apart.

There is a real moral issue at stake here and that is what shall we let pass into general consensus regarding this new concept of facial "doppleganger"? Because if it comes be an accepted fact, thanks to this study or others like it, that dopplegangers don't exist then that has consequences. For instance, it is much more likely that false eye-witness identification will be accepted by prosecutors asnd juries and much harder to claim misidentification .

That's why I say the characterization of this study is misleading. In fact, I'll go further and say this Guardian (sorry, rag) headline downright dangerous.

Numerically, we have dopplegangers in exactly the number of people whose faces are practically indistinguishable to our own- as judged by other people. We know for a fact they exist, and they probably for exist everyone.

It's even more complex than that, since the judger is very heavily influenced by their familiarity with the race of the judged. How many Chinese of Japanese or Korean faces would the average caucausian confuse with each other even with a sincere, best effort in the best of circumstances ?

Of course, it works the other way also. One of the complaints of the father of a friend of mine who is first generation American and of Middle Eastern descent is all Americans men look exactly the same to him. It's amusing when you're the target of such confusion, like a parlor trick in reverse: "Wow, you can't do that. Are you serious? "

  When I was 16 a friend of mine from another town insisted that I looked, talked and walked EXACTLY like a friend of hers. Of course I had to meet that person and, even by my own standards, it was shockingly true. I had the thought at the time that I hoped he was well behaved or at the very least, inclined to lawfulness.

We are very easily fooled depending on the context and we are fooled even outside of any judgement compromising context:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Future direction for reaseachers could productively include:

Just how different can two faces become before humans finally pick up on the it?

How do the landmarks used in this study relate - or not- to the features humans use when recognizing faces?

How do computers fare when using only those landmarks which humans use?

There are people, maybe a lot of them, that look exactly like you. They are your "dopplegangers". It would take a computer to tell you apart. You should hope they are well-behaved.

There are even more, perhaps multitudes, that are very very very similar. It's mostly an entertaining fact, but in some contexts, someone's life and freedom may hang in the balance.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

215,000 british pounds for a hamburger.

Almost no one is even 2x your weight let alone 4x.

The Internet disagrees with you on 2X.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034839/The-worlds-fattest-woman-700-pound-California-woman-enters-record-books.html

Here's a 3X reference.

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a703/esq0806wifl-114-4/

There was this article from back in 2011 which a woman in Oregon claimed it was her Uncle, who had died in 1999. I don't know if it was ever proven or not.

A single gay wedding cake case was decided in Oregon.

http://aclu-co.org/court-rules...
Colorado had one too.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...
The opposite happened too, a guy is being charged by a gay bakery owner that he asked to make a anti-gay cake. They refused and hung up, he posted a video of it, and a bunch of people harassed the baker (which is what has happened in these other bakery cases).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Also Northern Ireland.

I'd strongly suggest that people not trespass in the deep south of the US, as you can be legally shot and killed for that.

Oh shut up. You cannot be legally shot and killed for trespassing alone.

Um-huh. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Um-huh http://wbt.com/greenville-man-...

In Texas, Property is more valuable than human life - like it or not, it is codified. http://nation.time.com/2013/06...

Specifically, acquittals were provided for people who shot and kiled another person over a guy who was looking for a hooker on Craigslist, she didn't put out, os he followed her to her car and shot her from behind, which led to her death - verdict - acquittal.

Other justifiable homicides in Texas, as proven in the courts, include stealing a 20 dollar tip jar, 13 year old child breaking into a house, stealing a 6 pack of beer.

None of the actions by the dead are justified - although there was no apparent crime being committed in the first example, but in Texas, if you can bring a pretty good case that someone was trespassing or stealing, you are allowed to shoot them. You are not even required to be in personal danger, as a case involving a gentleman who killed two people who had robbed his neighbor.

Sorry coward - you are incorrect.

I'm also expecting the first of many lawsuits any day now, as users fall in ditches and rivers, and wander onto interstate Highways.

There is a big fat disclaimer on the game saying, PAY THE FUCK ATTENTION TO THE WORLD.

This is America. The end-around for what you assume to be a catch-all is that no printed disclaimer ever protects a manufacturer from gross negligence. Whether or not it even exists, they can be sued for gross negligence.

These are millenials, folks - people who have never been outside by themselves before - you can't expect them to be used to that situation immediately.

Go shut up old man. Get back to telling those damn kids to get off your lawn.

The problem little Coward, is that millenials don't often go outside. They have been under adult supervision their whole lives and don't know how to act. So now that Pokemon Go has tricked them into coming out of the basement, they are like baby squirrels, and don't know how to act in the big wide world.

IIRC, one of them did have a gun.
The UK has a population of ~66 million yet TOTAL police shootings in the past few decades is in the dozens where CA or TX rack up that number in weeks or a few months.
The city of London, England had ZERO fatal police shootings between 2011 & 2014

They're far from perfect and the tendency to withhold the identity of officers who opened fire is worrisome - but the *relative* rarity of police shootings in the UK ( and most of Europe) makes me wonder why American cops are so quick to transform into executioners

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

I'll see your few scholarly research papers, and raise you several violent protests that you have missed. Even leftists have to worry about leftists, as I stated.

Further, I can show that leftist people and groups support the protests.

Well, one way to reply to a post calling out confirmation bias ... is to double down on the confirmation bias.

You have a funny term to refer to what would properly be labeled as 'observation of leftists, on social media and in real life'.

Apparently I get to represent all liberals now

Only if you are unable to parse my phrase, "Should I follow suit, ...", which limits the following phrase to a hypothetical question. But I guess such subtlety is wasted on leftists. (See, that is using your inability to read to claim all leftists are ignorant as well.)

(or at least the ones you don't like, with that bit of no-true-scotsman mixed in under cover of "I didn't mean everybody").

I'm not allowed to clarify my point that you have such a hard time understanding? Considering my original post was simply comparing attitudes and actions of nondescript left-wingers and right-wingers in the post I replied to. Since I wasn't the one who established the general groups under discussion, I certainly feel I have the right to make that clarification. Sorry if that upsets you.

Let's get back to your original claim, which can be distilled to 'liberals conform more than conservatives'.

Oh, wait a minute. I begin to see your problem. After writing all that above, I realize upon re-reading this line, that you simply are trying to argue the wrong claim. You think it is a discussion of whether one group or the other conforms to the expected norm. But that wasn't Ungrounded Lightning's argument, nor mine. UL said that those on the left "apply social pressure to each other to conform", and in response to (I assume) your question about right-wingers, I voiced my support of UL's argument, and provided an example.

I stand by my claim that leftists do much more to force their views on society, even on other leftists, than rightists do. That has nothing to do with whether right-wingers (AKA conservatives) by their nature want to keep things the way they are (also known as 'to conserve', funny how that is implied in the label 'conservative').

You are arguing the wrong case.

Not sure if BLM is a movement with leaders or something more like Anonymous. More than likely those BLM supporters who want to kill cops are the minority.

Seriously? There are founders, leaders and members of BLM that have been assaulting people and another, at least one for running a under-age prostitution ring and under-age sex trafficking, the one from Toronto has repeatedly said "they wanted to kill white people" and then at the protest in Toronto they brought out more anti-police, anti-white rhetoric.

Yeah really, these are self-professed members acting in violent, criminal and in general scum like ways. There's no real difference between them and the ye olde racists of yesteryear.

Really though, more whites are killed by police then blacks in the US by a huge number. But there's zip on the media about that. You heard about the last two blacks, how about the last two white guys who were gunned down that literally happened a few days/weeks before that.

wile_e_wonka wrote: Actually, no, she is objectively, factually attractive

You might change your mind if you check out the 2nd picture from the top (with the caption "Past visit: Mayer, 41, attended the conference in 2014...") of the Daily Mail article at this url:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3675276/Ouch-Marissa-Mayer-NOT-invited-annual-Sun-Valley-mogul-fest-struggling-Yahoo-boss-left-list-billionaire-summer-camp.html

(Full citation in case the URL is modified: " Ouch! Marissa Mayer is NOT invited to annual Sun Valley mogul fest as struggling Yahoo boss is left off the list for billionaire summer camp", by Chris Spargo, July 5, 2016, Daily Mail )

1. Facebook paid no UK corporation tax in 2012. 2. Google's UK tax deal is a joke at our expense. 3. Microsoft pays no UK tax on £1.7bn of online revenues. 4. Apple pays just £12m UK tax on £2bn profit.

Yes, the church did some horrible things throughout history,

They still are:

One case, and another, and a few more, and a few more, just for good measure. Even down under boys aren't safe. Nor are dogs.

Even the UN called out the Vatican for its systemic adoption of policies allowing priests to rape and sexually abuse tens of thousands of children.

But as always, these are just isolated cases.

The reason the Freddy Gray cops want a judge and not a jury trial is that a judge isn't going to be swayed by the irrelevant bullshit being tossed around the the utterly incompetent Baltimore prosecutors.

Actually, the reason is because judges typically load up on the bullshit and give the cops what they want, which is an acquittal, while a jury of citizens who has to live with the consequences of an unaccountable police force, don't.

It's hard enough finding a prosecutor willing to put the police to answer for their crimes, a judge, who can pretend to be fair and neutral, all while disadvantaging the public in the favor of a police officer? Almost impossible.

And don't pretend to me that judges aren't used to bullshitting, that's not the case at all.

Seriously - in the last Freddy Gray-associated trial that ended in acquittal across-the-board a couple of weeks ago, the prosecutors were trying to use the fact that the police wagon made a wide turn and rolled a stop sign as evidence for a deliberately rough ride. WTF?!?!?! If you're a driver trying to give a passenger a rough ride, that's the OPPOSITE of what you'd do - you'd jam on the brakes at every stop sign and come to a COMPLETE and HARD stop, and you'd turn as sharp as you could.

Really? I come to a different impression, that they're driving irregularly, as you'd expect in a rough ride situation. Your reasoning isn't persuasive.

And the Baltimore prosecutors also said they based charging the officers in the Freddy Gray situation on an investigation done by the Baltimore County (IIRC) Sheriff's office. The Baltimore County Sheriff's response to that was, "What investigation? We didn't investigate that situation at all."

Yeah, that's another twisting of the facts for you. Well, the media you're relying upon. The state prosecutors didn't make the claims you (and that story) portrayed, and the response you're talking about from the Sheriff's office was to dismiss a Civil Lawsuit against them. All you should get out of it is that they're trying to cover their own asses.

And the prosecutors also withheld evidence that the ME originally felt Freddy Gray's death was an accident, along with the testimony of another passenger in the police van that said Freddy Gray was deliberately bouncing himself off the walls of the van in order to injure himself and then cry "Police brutality!!!!" (Yeah, you KNOW that shit does happen. Yes, you do.)

LOL, and we also know that the police DO commit brutality, then claim they never did any such thing, they get other officers to lie for them, they get other officials, and YOU KNOW IT. Don't you? You should, since it has happened. Not just in Maryland, but also in Louisiana.

But hey, all you're showing is that the police were incompetent if they allowed him to injure himself that way. So even believing your story, you're showing they are incompetent. That'a almost worse than malice.

If that's who was prosecuting you, you'd want to do a bench trial in front of a judge too.

Especially if I thought that the judge would ignore all of the potential culpability I might have.

How about a kidney.

Yo ass-hole:

"None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail." http://nypost.com/2016/07/05/f...

"The Espionage Act prescribes lengthy prison terms for government officials who cause classified material to be moved to an unsecured location, either willfully or through 'gross negligence." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Could it be that he was forced by the BBC to leave after it was announced that the police were going to investigate him for sexual assaults in the 1990s? This story has spread in the UK a lot and seems to push to a bigger reason why he left. OR it could just be more of a smear campaign; but his leaving sure does let the BBC off the hook with him and Top Gear. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Protip, if you want any kind of credibility don't link to the daily fail. Every thing on there is misrepresented at best.

Google already solved this one. Pipe in enough outside air to draw off the heat at a reasonable cpu temperature.

So it just takes a fan? Do not think so. Hot air from the servers is moved to a cooling unit using cold water. Depending on the location it might be machine chilled waters, or in Finland they use the gulf of Finland waters for cooling http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Check out the photo of the Dulles Oregon server farm - see the mist? Guess what that is? This isn't the typical air conditioners we are used to but they are air conditioning none the less.

Their cooling ponds do grow nice gators though https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

In short, 99.9 percent of server setups aren't going to be able to use such a huge air conditioning system. We don't have handy oceans nor enough real estate to build cooling ponds.

Could it be that he was forced by the BBC to leave after it was announced that the police were going to investigate him for sexual assaults in the 1990s? This story has spread in the UK a lot and seems to push to a bigger reason why he left. OR it could just be more of a smear campaign; but his leaving sure does let the BBC off the hook with him and Top Gear. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

He's a loud mouth idiot who was screaming right up until last week

If they want to stick with the formula, I believe Nigel Farage is now available.

He wasn't always screaming - sometimes he was throwing up due to motion sickness after driving around in a fast car. That doesn't seem like someone who should host a show about fast cars.

Disclaimer: I haven't watched the show. Not interested.

Prison on the other hand was a scary place with many more problems and is essentially run by gangs. Why the powers that be would allow things to devolve so far is beyond me though bleeding heart judges play a big role in it.

To be fair his experience is probably easier than most since he was a pretty big guy.

My takeaway from talking with him was that both prison and jail are hopelessly broken and should be improved. Work should be mandatory, none of this playing cards and watching TV all day. And since many (most?) of the rapes in the US happen in jails and prison that should be fixed also. Although people like to joke about the occasional jerk getting his due this way I'm confident that far more innocents are involved.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

gender-imbalanced offices/teams/companies have a higher probability of disfunction

FTFY. Having too many women is not likely to be an issue for a tech company, but it's still worth noting. (Though I suppose you could argue that the problems in that case arose more from the fact that it was intentionally all-woman, which probably wouldn't attract the most healthy applicants...)

Rob

Do you even read the news? You ignorant moron!!
Here's some news for you illiterate moron:
http://www.dw.com/en/austria-a...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

As for the rest of it, you learn some economics 101 and some money and banking 101. Its futile talking to an ignorant moron.

If you mean Northern Ireland, there is little impetus there to change what people are seeing as peace. Factions on the far sides might want to play it that way but it's basically not going to happen.

Nope, no one wants to change the situation in Northern Ireland. Oh, wait -

"Sinn Fein calls for a referendum on Irish reunification"
"Northern Irish people are scrambling for Irish passports after Brexit"
"Brexit: The same recklessness that has tipped us out of the EU could cause Northern Ireland's departure from UK"

In case anyone wants a citation:

Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-w...

Cornwall http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Translation:

Oshit! you mean leaving the EU means we might not get all the money the EU was giving us?!!??! Shit!!! Give us the money!!!

All over Britain at this point:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

I'm just going to leave this here:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/0...

The 2009 recession saw the biggest ever fleet sitting idle off the coast of Singapore. There were a huge number of contract disputes as shipyards tried to force their clients to pay for the ships they were already building, and keep their sub-contractors busy. Today many shipyards are still facing bankruptcy or folding. There is still a massive oversupply of shipbuilding, as well as an oversupply of ships.

Sending all the niggers back to Africa would fix that. That would keep them busy for years! Just think of all the jobs it would create. Obama could use that fact alone to sell it to the public! Oh, wait...

The 2009 recession saw the biggest ever fleet sitting idle off the coast of Singapore. There were a huge number of contract disputes as shipyards tried to force their clients to pay for the ships they were already building, and keep their sub-contractors busy. Today many shipyards are still facing bankruptcy or folding. There is still a massive oversupply of shipbuilding, as well as an oversupply of ships.

the MAFIAA gets another digit of the nuclear launch codes

You mean 0?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

True about 00000000, although I would recommend against ever citing The Daily Mail (Daily FAIL) as a source – which in its article cites a blog. Far better is Eric Schlosser's somewhat recent book "Command and Control." It's a scary read, detailing how close we were to accidental nuclear Armageddon, and many more times than you think. All in the book is thoroughly backed up by citations and de-classified documents.

the MAFIAA gets another digit of the nuclear launch codes

You mean 0?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Let's start by toning down the hyperbole. No one is advocating that everyone be armed. Please stop repeating this.

As long as there's people with guns and people without guns, there'll be situations where people without guns get mowed down by people with guns. And every single time the solution is more guns to more people in more places. Where does it end? Do you think a bunch of drunken people at a night club armed with guns is a good idea? You think 6-8 years olds with guns is okay? You think 9yos should be firing Uzis? There is no end for some people, not until every toddler and up is armed 24x7. Unless they don't want to, but then they're naive for not wanting to since they can't stop the bad guys. Yes, there are those who want to push guns into the hands of all that are reluctant too, just like they won't eat broccoli.

Boobs have never killed anybody

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