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I don't know if you know many rich people, but any established wealthy person is not going to taint themselves with this junk. The likely market will be teenage kids of rich people, and new and upcoming rappers/football players.

That's "many rich people." What you're describing are self-made entrepreneurs, who maybe break 1-2 million of net worth -- a small subset of all rich people, almost by definition -- their spouses and children outnumber them without even counting athletes, celebrities, successful startup (i.e. Facebook) employees, and lottery winners (but I repeat myself), actual and pseudo-royalty throughout the world (especially the middle east), and successful criminals with gaudy taste (loan sharks, bookies, etc.). And many self-made entrepreneurs are still subject to ostentatious displays of wealth. Never underestimate the allure of the status symbol, regardless of practicality. Where do you think high heels came from?

Google "map shows most racist people on earth";
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Diverting 93% of the water to grow lettuce in the desert since 1920 had nothing to do with it.

Also, ignore the arctic ice that's been increasing for three years, the antarctic ice that's always grown and hit a new record in 2014, snow in Hawaii, and the great lakes that have frozen early,and that have frozen over compete the last two years. Ignore Niagara falls that has frozen over two years in a row and ignore all the record cold around the country. Ignore the fact we kill killed half the worlds trees in the last 100 years and where we do theres drought and ignore the fact the IPCC did not admit trees ate CO2 until 2010. Ignore the fact NAS falsified the CO2 hypothesis in 2010 and ignore the fact the climate models now have 95% error.Ignore the fact corals have genes that upregulate to ignore acidification and warming and ignore the fact pollution (I'm especially looking at you big oil) has gotten worse while we're distracted by this nonsense. Ignore the fact not a single IPCC prediction ever came true.

And especially ignore NAA/NOAA when they say "there has been no warming this century"

Creation science, social science, climate science... if you have to add "science" to a word to give it legitimacy, it's not science any more than the Democratic People's republic of North Korea is a democracy. Real sciences yield natural laws to quote Feynman.

Instead, look at 01% of a country that is 2% of the world.

Refs:
1) Ice
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/201...
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...

2) records:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/vide...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
http://www.staradvertiser.com/...
https://www.facebook.com/video...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/febru...
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

3) Trees:
http://www.pri.org/stories/201...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
http://www.agu.org/news/press/...

This may be what you are looking for..from one of the above posts.

Ahh...so now we come to the Face Painting Homer part.

I say YOURS is wrong.

Unlike in US, rape is a "hate crime" in India;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

leads to:

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

132.5foot = 40.4meters, that's a bit more than 0.9m or 12m. Normal waves can reach 10m in many places.

Perhaps you should 'shut-up' and check your facts.

And for good measure:
Pakistan-earthquake-2013-creates-new-18m-high-island-Gwadar-coast-Arabian-Sea

And
https://books.google.co.uk/boo...
""The trading towns of Pasni and Ormara, Pakistan, located 100 km away from the epicentre, were flooded by a ~15.0m high wall of water""

Still think it's a good place to put a nuclear reactor?

Hereâ(TM)s what a robot has to do.

Very close solution already:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
All but picking up dirty clothes, taking them to the washer, and putting them in. Heck, it was folding mixed clean clothes from the dryer five years ago. :-)

Find the pile of dirty laundry, distinguishing it from other clutter that might be in the room.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
* But note: It IS the daily mail so grain of salt. Lol.
This is possible now. But.. an easy mitigation is to require throwing the laundry into a basket or into a laundry hole.
        Pick up each item in the pile. (Uncertainty: itâ(TM)s unclear how many objects the robot will have to pick up.)
http://www.hammacher.com/Produ...
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Ro...

        Put each item in a laundry basket.
        Navigate to the washing machine. (Because of where the robot has to hold the laundry basket, it can obstruct some of the its sensors which means it receives less information and cannot adjust its movements as precisely.)
        Depending on the type of machine, pull or lift the door to open it.
        Transfer clothes into the machine.
        Add detergent and/or fabric softener.
What is this "fabric softener stuff"?
Preloaded "push button" dispenser detergent has been around for 50 years.
        Close the washing machine door.
Trivial. Especially with the internet of theme providing a clear "door is fully closed"
        Choose the appropriate wash cycle (Delicate, Permanent Press, Heavy Duty) and start the wash.
        Remove the clothes from the washing machine and transfer to the dryer. (Uncertainty: the robot doesnâ(TM)t know beforehand how many times it will need to reach in, grab the clothes, and remove them in order to get them all.)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
        Choose the type of drying cycle and start it.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...

        Remove clothing from the dryer. (Uncertainty: how many times will it have to grab the clothes to get them out? Is there a sock still clinging to the inside of the machine?)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
        Fold items depending on the type of apparel.
http://research.universityofca...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/autom...
        Puts garments away in a dresser or closet.
Can't find this-- but it's reasonable that everything "alike" could be put together on the table or hung so a human could finish the job easily. At a minimum- you'd probably have to tag the laundry in some way to identify it's target drawer or closet.

It looks like the solution is a quarter million dollars now. So 10-20 years before it's down to under five grand.

Did you know that over 90% of those in prison for violent crimes are men? Men are evil! But wait - 99% of men have never had and will never have a conviction for a violent crime, so saying men are evil is flat out bigotry as bad as any Klanner roaming the backwoods with a length of rope and a shotgun.

When you project the crimes of a miniscule minority onto much larger groups, you're a bigot.

A similar principle applies here. Let's take for example this article which claims a woman is raped in India every 20 minutes. While it goes without saying that any rape is too much rape, this makes it sound like India is the world's rape capital. Once every 20 minutes, my god!

Except the population of India is 1.25 billion, so counting the number of 20 minutes in the year we get around 26297. Divide 1.25 billion into that and look, we get 0.00002, or two per hundred thousand, which is considerably lower than most western countries. A very different picture emerges. Yes, scumbags and psychos exist in India the same as everywhere else. No that's not an indictment of Indian society, and what they're trying to do is protect their national reputation in the same way they're prioritising a space programme over indoor plumbing.

What happens when hysterias like the feminists and other carrion creatures manufacture for fun and billions in profit take hold is people suffer and die, torn to death by mobs without trial or due process. Trying to spin this call for a ban into the government protecting rapists is just more of the same - the government is acting in a confused and not terribly intelligent manner, but it doesn't want the country painted in a bad light.

And that's before we start talking about dowry law abuses, domestic violence law abuses, and maintenance law abuses, of which there are a great many. A quarter of all male suicides in India are directly attributed to family problems.

So, we have well provisioned westerners sitting behind their screens, tut tutting at the dastardly H1-B dudes roaming the halls scaring off all teh wimminz, suckling at the teat of hyped up outrage, squinting myopically through their little electronic rectangles at a world they've never experienced and have little understanding of, proudly touting the merits of skepticism in their signatures while massive human suffering goes unnoticed.

Still, that outrage feels good though eh?

So we can have stories like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
and this
http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

At least they had a gun and were safe....

Anyone want to share a story about when a civilian with a gun really saved the day?
I've asked before so please dont post stories about the "authorities backing down" because squatters were armed, or other such posts.

Just a story about Bad guy with gun, good guy with gun and the story ends well.

CRU is the climate research unit from University of East Anglia who refused to provide climate data used to push the global warming narrative when requested by people they considered hostile to their cause. Accusations of this were made several times and denied but someone hacked into the email servers and released a bunch of email showing them discussing withholding the information. Now it is said that the original raw data does not exist any more nor does the methods and processes used to correct irregularities of it.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://jennifermarohasy.com/20...

Now, I know you are a global warming pusher and have your own beliefs but this is not about you in the slightest. All that I'm a believer bullshit you just posted is irrelevant to what was said. Let me repeat that in less convoluted terms in case it was too difficult for you. What kind of grand conspiracy would you be tilting at instead of windmills if the data and process were made available early on when the notion of anthropogenic global warming was being introduced instead of hiding it because of fears that people would pick it apart? I would be more than 80% of the so called deniers- the ones who actually believe there is long term warming but either do not believe humans are the chief architect of it or that there are agendas hidden within the claims so the so called solutions should not be trusted would not be questioning anything right now. But you go on stating how you was always a believer and the appearance of improprieties did nothing to shake that belief.

No,

Pilots are still there because autopilots can fail.

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

Congratulations, you just cited the daily fail, while also failing to understand the article which leaves whose fault the incident was up to question

Do pilots still need licenses in the age of autopilot? Well yes because machines aren't infallible.

Not quite. It's "yes" because most people would be unable to get over their fear of flying in an entirely autonomous plane, not because we need heroic pilots to override the computer when things go wrong.

Consider that about half of all aviation accidents are traced to pilot error. The percentage of crashes caused by autopilot error is zero.

No,

Pilots are still there because autopilots can fail.

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

You didn't hear about this 4 years ago because no-one died... Thanks to some quick thinking by the "error prone" lumps of meat in the cockpit.

Palpatine? Hmm. Well, this one is spot-on:

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

It's worse than not caring. After the IRS Commissioner testified before Congress that Lois Lerner's emails were lost and gone forever, the Inspector General located the backup tapes easily -- and we learn that THE I.T. GUYS HAD NEVER EVEN BEEN ASKED TO RETRIEVE THE BACKUPS. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

You laugh, but rumors are she was involved in a plot to keep him there.

Ya, because fear of a neocon president sure scared him away from invading Georgia.

Once again, this is a case of "bad vs. awful". Our reaction (both military moves and economic sanctions) to Georgia back then was not enough to push Russians out completely, but it kept Russia from entering Tbilisi and vanquishing the little country for good — as they were poised to do.

But when, instead of ratcheting the sanctions up, the current nincompoop sent the ignominious "Reset" button to Moscow and dropped — only two years later — what few sanctions there were in the hope, Russia will help pressure Iran, Putin was encouraged... For Russia can certainly weather two years of sanctions — a small price to pay for the jewel of Crimea.

It seemed to me that "Yahoo was stagnating for years" not because of employees working from home, but, overall, because of poor and insufficient management.

After Terry Semel, and before Marissa Meyer, there were 5 Yahoo CEOs who stayed less than 2 years each.

Nothing has changed, apparently. Marissa Mayer's second-in-command 'leaves with $109m' on being fired from Yahoo after just 15 months. The rapid changes in management continue, that time with a $109,000,000 loss for Yahoo. (What management arrangement allowed a poor manager, someone who was so bad he was fired, to make $7,266,666 per month?)

When Google stopped paying Mozilla Foundation $300,000,000 each year, Mozilla Foundation took money from Yahoo to sneakily "update" Firefox so that it uses "Yahoo search". Yahoo search is actually Microsoft's Bing search. A quote from Marissa:

"I'm thrilled to announce that we've entered into a five-year partnership with Mozilla to make Yahoo the default search experience on Firefox across mobile and desktop," Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said in a blog post Wednesday. "This is the most significant partnership for Yahoo in five years."

Now, somehow, the Firefox and Thunderbird user interfaces have been degraded. Firefox no longer allows making a duplicate tab from a tab; it is necessary to right-click on a web page to make a duplicate; that doesn't work well because it is necessary to find a place on the web page that is not a link.

Thunderbird and SeaMonkey composer now have the Save-As bug.

So, Microsoft paid Yahoo. Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to trick users into using Microsoft's Bing search engine. And now Mozilla Foundation is apparently allowing the degradation of its products. Apparently Microsoft wants Firefox and Thunderbird to be degraded that so there will be more users of Microsoft's browser and email software.

The sneaky tactic is not working: American Firefox users dump Yahoo and go back to Google.

Now: Yahoo's Incredible Shrinking Profitability In Its Core Business (Forbes, March 1, 2015).

Well bugger....

Since you only have 68 days to live after you get there ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci... ) it's sure going to suck, dying just as you're getting used to the new daylight...

I loved his acting as much as anyone, but I disagree that it was necessarily a sad day. He was, after all, 83 years old. He beat the average life expectancy in this country by a wide margin. He made an impact on a huge number of people, as well. He was ready to check out and move on. Really, what could you reasonably expect an 83 year old man to do beyond this point anyways? I'm happy for him and all he's done.

Dying old beats dying young I guess, but dying sucks overall. The only ones "ready to die" are those where age or illness has already sucked the life out of them. I'm not going to chase the singularity or cryogenics or any other mumbo-jumbo promising eternal life, but heck I hope I'll be like this when I'm 89.

It's amazing. Mexicans who can't legally work in this country have no problem finding jobs here but many citizens do.

Try this on for size

The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, showing a dramatic shift as many illegal workers are moving back to Mexico from the U.S. because there are so few job opportunities.

The new analysis comes amid renewed debate over U.S. immigration policy as the Supreme Court hears arguments this week on Arizona's tough immigration law.

Mexican immigrants make account for nearly 60 per cent of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. and last year there were 6.1million in America. That number was down from its peak in 2007 when there were 7million confirmed in the U.S.

That drop was the biggest one in modern history, with the Pew Hispanic Center noting it was believed to only be surpassed in scale by losses in the Mexican-born U.S. population during the Great Depression

I just found this article, I don't know if it can be of any help:

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

I found this article just today, I don't know if it can be of any help:

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

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

I think some workers get free beers in Germany and definitely are allowed to drink it during lunch:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.german-way.com/hist...

Elsewhere: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
But I suppose that's Carlsberg after all ;).

but for the most part, the developed world is going to weather any "total collapse".

How about the millions of people in Africa that are trying to get to Europe ? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Here's an article about how your listed height can affect your chances. There's a "ceiling" for women and a "floor" for men, according to this study (though that link is Daily Mail, so don't bet your life on this info.)

Boy, 10, dies after his brother accidentally shoots him in the head with a BB gun at close range: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... http://www.sciencedirect.com/s... http://www.gloucestershireecho... BB gun accident takes life of a 20-year old boy: http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/...

You can surely find a lot more googling a little. I also recommend taking a look at Google image-search. The thing is, if you shoot someone in the head with a BB-gun there actually is quite a risk of bodily harm (torn eyes etc.) and loss of life. They're unlikely to kill you if you fire them somewhere other than the head, but they certainly are dangerous items and they can still cause damage to internal organs, depending where the shot lands and its angle. I have a BB-gun that's capable of easily piercing an aluminum can and I certainly wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of the barrel.

Just about anything can be used in some way to kill a person. That doesn't make everything a deadly weapon. I think "deadly weapon" ought to be redefined as something that it's actually practical to use to kill a person. Otherwise, we may as well criminalize butter knives, lawn darts, paintball guns, and sling shots.

There really has to be some sanity here: the weapon must be able to cause grievous bodily harm in order to justify heavy sentences. A BB gun doesn't qualify

Boy, 10, dies after his brother accidentally shoots him in the head with a BB gun at close range: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
http://www.gloucestershireecho...
BB gun accident takes life of a 20-year old boy: http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/...

You can surely find a lot more googling a little. I also recommend taking a look at Google image-search. The thing is, if you shoot someone in the head with a BB-gun there actually is quite a risk of bodily harm (torn eyes etc.) and loss of life. They're unlikely to kill you if you fire them somewhere other than the head, but they certainly are dangerous items and they can still cause damage to internal organs, depending where the shot lands and its angle. I have a BB-gun that's capable of easily piercing an aluminum can and I certainly wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of the barrel.

Yes, BB guns can be dangerous and they should not be treated as toys, but so are a lot of things are are not counted as deadly weapons, like the weapons the OP mentioned.

There really has to be some sanity here: the weapon must be able to cause grievous bodily harm in order to justify heavy sentences. A BB gun doesn't qualify

Boy, 10, dies after his brother accidentally shoots him in the head with a BB gun at close range: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...
http://www.gloucestershireecho...
BB gun accident takes life of a 20-year old boy: http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/...

You can surely find a lot more googling a little. I also recommend taking a look at Google image-search. The thing is, if you shoot someone in the head with a BB-gun there actually is quite a risk of bodily harm (torn eyes etc.) and loss of life. They're unlikely to kill you if you fire them somewhere other than the head, but they certainly are dangerous items and they can still cause damage to internal organs, depending where the shot lands and its angle. I have a BB-gun that's capable of easily piercing an aluminum can and I certainly wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of the barrel.

a terrorist event could be considered a "success" just from emptying an AK magazine into a crowd at a mall, even if the attacker(s) were killed immediately after opening fire.

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

Such fucking stupidity it's allowed into Europe.

In the case of France as I've understood it there was no escape plan. Of course there will be others with similar ideas who will still think it was a success and good.

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

Don't understand why we have to destroy our countries. Guess the good part which can come from it is that more of them actually like the freedom and rather than the agenda they want to pull that "west is struggling to uphold its values" or whatever it will be the Islamic majority countries which will lose their fundamentalistic ways and go secular and humane or whatever.

Who knows.

Crap.

Said all that, what do you propose men do when their height is low?

Surgery.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/hea...

But Thomas Keeper, 36, disagrees. A Canadian estate agent, he was 5ft 6in and had the operation two years ago to make him 5ft 10in. After his operation, he met Maggie, 26, who is 5ft 8in, via an internet dating site. By the time they met in person, he was 2in taller than her. They are now married and Maggie gave birth to their first child before Christmas.

'When I told my wife about the operation she said she would never have been interested in a guy shorter than her,' says Thomas.

'Being short is a pain because the world treats you differently. 'Look at the way people mock Tom Cruise and Nicolas Sarkozy.'

That should be familiar to any Oliver fans and hardcore critics alike. For those in neither camp, Barbecoa was Oliver's butchery that was shut down last June after receiving an "A Hazardous" rating from the Food Standards Agency following complaints of food poisoning form several of his restaurants that also received poor FSA ratings for general hygiene. Oliver was also fined £17,000 over this scandal, consisting of just one specimen charge of violating the Food Safety Act, which is pretty fucking disgusting after his ironically calling the US fast food industry out for unsafe kitchen practices. He should have been shut down altogether. Oh, semi-insider info: I have it on very good authority that his restaurants have a higher staff turnover than practically every other sector. They are hellish places to work in. Certainly not worth the wage slavery. The management expect new staff to already know how it all works (in Oliver's eclectic kitchen system!?), training is not only nonexistent it's an inside joke that "training" is a curse word. Most of his staff are school leavers. The only ones over the age of 18 are upper management.

[ citation needed ]

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

The US doesn't have to 'prove' anything. Pick up an extradition agreement with the US, read it through and come back to us. It is entirely procedural, as in, if he's indicted in the US, he's kidnappable from all countries that have such agreements. And such agreements are sold to the other party as the proverbial trinkets that bought Manhattan -- in exchange for the 'good will' of the US. There is virtually no reciprocity. Which is why you haven't heard a lot about people extradited from the US.

Here, ejucate yourself: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Buckyballs have to be the most dangerous thing known to man (recently) as they are both tasty and highly magnetic. It is important that we recall them all and make one giant cube that will attract planes flying over the area.

Warning, do not use as cake decoration.

You shoot yourself in the foot with your own arguments.

First you say people only need a browser and an office suite to do business work, then you claim people need PC hardware because phones aren't powerful enough. Powerful enough for what, running a web browser? Working on a spreadsheet and some word documents? Please. Forget that the average consumer phone outclasses any computer I had access to 10 years ago, which were perfectly fine for doing "real business tasks" on until the OS & Application bloat caused us to move on.

As for people not wanting to use Android or iOS as a desktop environment, you mean Administrator/Power Users maybe, most general people are fine with the simplistic App button and not worrying about file directories or control panels.

People already do plenty of real work on tablets & phones. Like recording albums, shooting movies, and more.

Considering that Chinese are able to surprise a US carrier group with a *diesel* sub, perhaps we need an even braver face? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Psychopaths do not fear punishment;
Caste system created millions of Psychopaths in India;
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

But seeing as you want to use the 70s, how many females are prepared to sit at home and learn to code? Not many. Girls / woman have just as much access to the same tools, tech and information as those born with a penis, they choose not to access it.

In the '70s nobody had a PC. The original PC - the IBM 5150 - was only released in 1981. Before that, most consumer computers were pretty much sold as expensive toys. So pretty much NOBODY was learning how to do serous coding except at the universities. There was no Internet, and CompuServe was expensive at $10/hr (more like $30/hr In today's terms) for 1200/2400 baud dial-up. So the vast majority of the population had zero access to sit at home with a computer and learn programming in the '70s.

So spare us your stereotyping bullshit. Five decades of school, college and business data shows us the choices made by most females is that they aren't interested in learning how stuff works, and how to pull it apart, change it and rebuild.

So all the female surgeons who patch people together just don't exist? Female doctors? They'll outnumber men in a couple of years. They make a mistake, you can die. A programmer makes a mistake ... oh well, it's not a mistake, it's a bug, and we'll patch it - maybe. Or you can buy the new version in a month.

Also, in the 70s, the gender divide in uni computer classes wasn't that big. Ditto for programmers in industry - it was a woman who gave me a copy of the manuals for the IBM 360 she programmed at work. Yes, programmed. Not "operated." You know, assembler, a real programmers language?

So what happened between 1970 and today that made the field unattractive to women? Deteriorating work conditions, the "macho" attitude of new entrants into the field, worsening pay discrimination, the toxic "death march" that has become the norm ... no wonder most women leave the field by 40.

The interesting thing is that men are now experiencing the same "out by 40" problem thanks to ageism and cheap younger workers eager to do whatever it takes to "live the dream."

"literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm." This is not a poem, it is a collection of words assembled according to the algorithm. It may resemble a poem but it is definitely not an expression of feelings or ideas.
Virtual monkeys with typewriters reproduced the complete works of Shakespeare. Does that pass the Turing test?

They later went bankrupt. OFC it's Dailyfail, so take it with a grain of salt.

... data point.

Of course, there could be a difference between 'run by' and 'employing only'.

Several cases of assault by drivers and even a rape in india are documented occurances in the Uber ecosystem that seem to be shrugged off by the company as "isolated incidents."

In fairness, they are pretty isolated. How many Uber rides have you read about where nothing happened? One of my friends here was getting a ride and she asked her driver how her experiences have been . She once got a passenger who had her go out to an isolated area then tried to drag her out of her car and into hell, but she was able to escape (and continued driving, actually). What you're describing, people being violent towards each other, is not something unique to Uber. Believe it or not, but assaults and rapes have actually been occurring since before Uber was a thing. The fact that they still occur doesn't mean that Uber failed, it means that we still have sociopaths among us who are willing to victimize other people. And it's not as if drivers attacking passengers are limited to Uber.

But, in the case of the Uber drivers attacking people, or in the cases where passengers attack the drivers, with Uber at least you know exactly who your attacker was (unless they stole someone's phone or carjacked someones car and decided to turn on Uber) which is going to lead to an arrest, but even without violent crime or the police getting involved the rating system should (in theory) remove the abusers from the system. I don't see any flamebait or troll comments on Slashdot, for example, but that's not because they aren't here. I just have my settings configured so that the system doesn't even show me them.

In Uber, there is no palpable consequence for driving a family of 4 to a corn field instead of Disney land because once hes finished his negative review of you, you're now stranded somewhere without a taxi and locked out of uber.

A single negative review doesn't lock you out of anything. But, even so, let me know when you come across a story of an Uber driver abandoning a family of 4 in a corn field.

And before you bring up Chernobyl and Fukushima, that's exactly the point! Chernobyl was an inherently unsafe design. Fukushima was a more modern design, and despite that EVERYTHING that could go wrong did go wrong: It withstood a massive 9 on the Richter scale earthquake, over 60 aftershake earthquakes that we're all over 6 on the Richterscale AS WELL as a tsunami and guess what: No meltdown, no thousands or even hundreds of dead. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/deb...

A dictionary is out of context.

Top members of hacking group Anonymous arrested after LEADER 'betrays them and works with FBI for six months'

1. The Franklin Cover-Up by John Decamp
2. Cornwall Ontario Sex Abuse Scandal
3. Marc Dutroux
4. Ted Gunderson
5. Conspiracy of Silence
6. The Finders
7. Elm House
8. Jimmy Savile

... to be sure.

The group is calling on volunteers to help with the ongoing work, which has been divided into three steps. The first is about collecting "all the factual information,"

So how will we know the difference between the Anon. warriors for justice and any other paedophile collecting material?

That's not how it works. These countries aren't poor because bad ol' whiteys keeping them down or Imperialism a century and a half ago, they're poor because they have shitty corrupt governments. The president in South Africa taking aid money to build his private palace, the looting of aid to the Philippines after Haiyan, whatever. Nothing will change until the people in these countries put an end to governmental corruption, whether that's the bent cop taking bribes to let you off a traffic ticket or the leader of the nation looting its coffers.

NASA seems to think that climate change is being caused by human activities and they back it up with a lot of references to studies on the matter. IMHO, we're never going to convince people to change their behaviors or give up their luxuries. If we want to make a difference we need to develop the technologies that make it more advantageous to adopt the renewable solution (like kick-ass cars and cheaper home energy).

The Nasa climate scientists (Gavin Schmidt) who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true.

That NASA?

31,000 extra deaths due to cold weather and the flu in 2013:

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

584,000 deaths due to malaria in the same year:

http://www.who.int/features/fa...

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, which rely on warm weather to live. And that's just one warm weather related cause of death that will go up as the planet warms. :. A warming planet will be a deadlier planet than a cooling planet.