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You are incorrect. That particular smutpocolypse already happened in 2010. What they are going after now is things which are perfectly legal which seem "bad" -- and it's all being driven by some right-wing rag in Great Britain (you know, land of the page 3 girls...). If you are getting your news from the BBC, you are already a little late to the story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2452404/Obamacare-website-cost-634MILLION-doesnt-work.html

"Mistakes were made"

meanwhile
Hillary Clinton ordered U.S. diplomats to spy on UN
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333920/WikiLeaks-Hillary-Clinton-ordered-U-S-diplomats-spy-UN-leaders.html

You are quite right about the wobble effect used to help find candidates. It's extremely difficult to get direct pictures, however we have done it. Since it sounds like you have some interest in the subject I'll provide some links for you to read on. Interestingly enough the planet first planet we directly pictured had been captured by Hubble and overlooked for years as we didn't have the technique for combing through the data at the time!

http://www.universetoday.com/26353/new-technique-allows-astronomers-to-discover-exoplanets-in-old-hubble-images/

I like the list of habitable exoplanets, as this is where the future of humanity has to go someday.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/bad_astronomy/2012/11/exoplanet_pictures_astronomers_have_photos_of_alien_planets.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2452217/A-lonely-planet-Giant-gas-world-sun-orbit-floating-space.html

http://www.google.com/imgres?biw=1920&bih=963&tbm=isch&tbnid=kjlHVn7dUiT4lM:&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3453478/First-direct-pictures-of-planets-outside-our-solar-system.html&docid=WY-uZHkJtvY5FM&imgurl=http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01113/HR_8799_1113907c.jpg&w=460&h=288&ei=qp5aUonvOYnM9QTa1IHICw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:89,s:0,i:354&iact=rc&page=3&tbnh=178&tbnw=284&start=76&ndsp=38&tx=85&ty=84

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/nov/13/first-bona-fide-direct-images-of-exoplanets

> This is actually something *very* new.

Is it? How long has your phone had a camera?

2008: http://gizmodo.com/5092582/digital-photos-act-as-unique-fingerprints-in-finding-criminals-with-digital-cameras

2006: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/digital_cameras.html

Doesn't seem very new, most phones have pictures they took already on them, those that don't, its not terribly hard to make them snap photos usually. In fact, other malware apps have been developed to do exactly that:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2211108/Could-phones-camera-secretly-taking-pictures-right-Hackers-use-lens-steal-private-data--build-3D-model-home.html

Yes I better rethink my comments about MI5, MI6, BND and GCHQ.
All organs of the State are doing glorious work.
I will not longer recall http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/spy-scandal-german-intelligence-officers-detained-in-kosovo-a-592298.html
and have already forgotten http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434435/Ministry-Defence-urged-make-repatriation-ceremonies-low-key-reduce-body-bag-syndrome.html

About what GCHQ and MI5 and the NSA are going to end up doing to the Guardian editor and journalists? This is not the end of their troubles.

After the smear campaign the UK government and their willing accomplices at the Daily Fail are running I'm glad they're actually beginning to ramp it up instead of backing away:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450291/The-Guardian-produced-handbook-help-fanatics-strike-will.html

I studied your pix and was intrigued by one that seemed out of place... In six months, when Verizon shuts down the innovation centre after if fails to return 1 bajillion dollars for every thousand poured in, they could rent the room to this lady: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2236215/Woman-51-spends-15-hours-day-a-Faraday-cage-claims-intolerant-modern-technology.html At least then she'll have what is likely to be a real Faraday cage.

OK, then explain Canada. Very similar to Australia demographically...lots of land, with 90% of the population living on something like 5% of the land. I live in a relatively out-of-the-way part of BC, and I get rock solid 25Mbps down, 5Mbps up for less that $70/month. Many of my friends in densely populated parts of the US can't get that.

Simple. We piggyback on the connectivity that the US has built up. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to run trunk lines over land than it is over oceans...this added to the fact that "an estimated 75% of Canadians live within 161 km (100 miles) of the U.S. border" adds up to (theoretically) very low cost-per-bit data rates for us Canucks, even in the more remote areas. The fact that we generally have less people per square km competing for the same local tubes as compared to the U.S. doesn't hurt, either.

This map illustrates the undersea cable situation pretty well, despite being a couple of years out of date.

Just wait until this gets into the hands of asshole headmasters in the UK.

Actually it wasn't all that much about jellyfish as much as what the fuck we're doing to all sea life, sea bottoms, wild life in general, insects, forests, our water, the climate.

The comments about how this and that have to go always come from people who benefit on the death of those individuals either by direct usage and sales or by getting rid of competition.

But it's very obvious who the biggest issue is, who's the largest predator, the one who really throw ecological systems out of balance, poison the planet and so on.

The fishing fleets are way over-dimensioned and I kinda wish someone just sank every ship they saw but that wouldn't be environmental friendly so I'd rather see they got confiscated / all usage of them as far as fishing goes was banned.

Over here in Sweden the Naturvårdsverket (Natural care ministry) always decide that we need LESS of the predators and how half of the current amount of wolves and less when what we had just a few years ago when they started to shoot some to try to get support for bringing wolves from other countries here to solve the inbreeding within the population. They think 170 is enough. Others say 700. And still some hunter organization (?) think it should be split into one for nature preservation and one for hunting because they don't take care of the hunters interests..

Damn idiots for all I care.
Take this picture for example:
Facebook group picture - shoot wolves
"One family... murdering another. And they call it ''sport''. It is murder. Please, stop the killing!"

How sane is this person?
Another facebook group picture - tortured mouse
Daily mail link

This is what humans do:
Facebook group picture - 36.000 elephants killed last year
There was some other picture about the last rhinos in some reserve having been shot to, there was 300 or so there a short while ago but now they are gone. Good job idiots!

More dead wolves:

Reminds me of a picture of some chick with a dead giraffe around her neck. Yeah, you're so awesome! Managed to kill the exotic prey. How amazingly good you are!

People = shit:
Facebook group picture - burned dog

Off topic as fuck but damn. Worry about a few manets?
Because those are the problem?

And yeah, in some Swedish lake they kinda dredged a lake.. For fish. Because they wanted to get rid of the "crap fish" as they viewed it because the lake had little oxygen. Yeah, but how was that situation created? Where did all the predator fish go?

It's disgusting to send out freaking robots to kill of sea life just because you consider them too many / have messed up the balance of the seas. It's going after the symptoms rather than the cause.

I kinda get frustrated than the Bill Gates foundation make a post about how many people manage to survive what earlier killed them. But then again (as I may have already said?) it seems like humans who become richer (survive better?) get less children so I don't know what's worst. But then again rich people do the most damage to the planet so ...

Was some TV show about sand and how we're kinda running out and take it up from the seas but when you take up sand outside the shore of some place other sand will fall down to fill its place. Anyway the problem is

After the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing that killed "241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers" Areas of high security have barriers put in place so you have to weave, no more straight shots.

But using Google Earth I get pillars that autos can't get between
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/82858047?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

For a car to set them off defeats their purpose. Her cars front end wasn't damaged, even after the chase
her front end looks to be fully intact, and these pillars are seen as well in the pictures of the event.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html

Yet they still refer to it as a ramming. "The Connecticut woman who rammed a White House barrier with her young daughter in the car before being gunned down by police was suffering from postpartum depression after giving birth last year, her mother has revealed."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html

Beirut Barracks bombing:
The 19-ton Mercedes-Benz truck then passed between two sentry posts, passed through an open vehicle gate in the perimeter chain-link fence, crashed through a guard shack in front of the building and smashed into the lobby of the building serving as the barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (BLT). The sentries at the gate were operating under rules of engagement which made it very difficult to respond quickly to the truck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

After the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing that killed "241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers" Areas of high security have barriers put in place so you have to weave, no more straight shots.

But using Google Earth I get pillars that autos can't get between
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/82858047?source=wapi&referrer=kh.google.com

For a car to set them off defeats their purpose. Her cars front end wasn't damaged, even after the chase
her front end looks to be fully intact, and these pillars are seen as well in the pictures of the event.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html

Yet they still refer to it as a ramming. "The Connecticut woman who rammed a White House barrier with her young daughter in the car before being gunned down by police was suffering from postpartum depression after giving birth last year, her mother has revealed."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442703/Miriam-Carey-Woman-killed-outside-Capitol-Hill-trying-ram-gates-White-House.html

Beirut Barracks bombing:
The 19-ton Mercedes-Benz truck then passed between two sentry posts, passed through an open vehicle gate in the perimeter chain-link fence, crashed through a guard shack in front of the building and smashed into the lobby of the building serving as the barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (BLT). The sentries at the gate were operating under rules of engagement which made it very difficult to respond quickly to the truck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

You haven't read the latest news reports:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9819096/Two-million-quit-Britain-in-talent-drain.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/1000-knife-crime-victims-in-london-each-month-shocking-new-figures-show-8681511.html
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jun/12/workers-deepest-cuts-real-wages-ifs
http://rt.com/op-edge/osborne-scheme-property-market-crash-434/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2438168/Half-maternity-wards-turn-away-women-labour-Report-says-lives-risk-units-bursting-seams.html

The UK is going the same way as the USA. Everyone is fighting and clawing each other to get that "home in the catchment area of the good school" unless they can afford a private school. Which by the way is only affordable to company directors and senior government employees. Anyone who can't achieve that goal has no option but emigration.

Just a room in the edgier parts of London rents for £200/week.

So, how big of a media platform do you want to give these guys?

Well, from my knowledge of cold war spying activities - knowledge I admit is entirely gleaned from books and films and tabloid media - 'honey trap' activities is a well known means to obtain information from a target.

'course government have hot spies to do this activity in person, no grainy webcam needed.

Yes, we see the same behavior daily from Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus...

Wellll, maybe not exactly daily, but since you insist... yes, yes, and yes (I'm just mad about saffron, she's just mad about me...), we do...

Loose lips sink ships

Are you referring to Costa Concordia and the captain's girlfriend? ;-)

Pretty sure about that, yes. Sanctions on Iraq were imposed by the UN, not the US, and it was Saddam that was responsible for the actions of the Iraqi government, including the theft of oil for food program money that took money intended for food and medicine to build dozens of palaces and buy weapons. As to Vietnam, you did notice that it was an actual war, right? Even then the numbers aren't that large. You need to be thinking at least 10 million to be even in the ball park.

Why don't you take 10 minutes out of your life and watch this snippet of an award winning documentary. (And I would certainly encourage you to watch the whole thing sometime.) Then find me an example of the US doing something like that to its own people on a similar scale. If you want, try to find the US doing it elsewhere. I'll tell you now that it will be a futile search.

You're saying that Microsoft considered the number of people who would buy an XBone first, manage to hook it up by hunting around behind the tv, then purchase another console, and decide not to hunt around behind the tv, find the lag annoying but not too annoying to search online for answers, and as a result spend less time online with the competition, will bring in more money than whatever it would take to optimize the pass-through.

That they balanced the choice of fixing or not fixing, and it was these few people who swayed the decision.

It's more likely that a fundamental re-design would be needed, and that tiny number of people wasn't enough to make it worthwhile.

This explains why Apple would sign charging cables. Just search for "apple charging cables fire" for more. They cut the price and have a trade-in program to try to get rid of all of the counterfeits. Signing alone might have been suspicious, but there are pretty good reasons, like not setting your customers on fire.

You should feel badly about what you wrote. Not "death in the family" bad, but maybe "farted in the elevator with that dude or chick I was going to chat up and it smelled like burnt sick" bad, or "I thought your puppy was a rat so I kicked it to death but it survived and your vet bills are going to be ridiculous" bad.

wrong link, here's the right link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2370130/iPhone-charger-puts-Beijing-man-30-coma-electric-shock-days-air-stewardess-died-charging-Apple-mobile.html

Well that explains some other things, like the cult of global warming; and their desire to cover up anything that isn't contrary to what's actually happening in the world.

Read along a little further - he wasn't licensed to drive the cab.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002666/More-half-U-S-inmates-convicted-drugs-offences.html

First hit on a search. Why do so many people demand citations when it would be hard to conceive of a relevant Google search that didn't present the answer?

Nope, it isn't. In fact this summer sea ice extend in the arctic was much higher (60%) than 2012. Do you call that decline?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html

"Sorry that is just nonsense. The laws of physics are the same on every scale."

No, what is nonsense is your argument. There are FAR more issues than just "scale" involved.

Showing that an effect exists in a small, closed system does not prove that it has a major effect on a much larger, open system. And you are just reinforcing one of my points: current models (according to peer-reviewed papers I linked to here yesterday) do not account for convection in the atmosphere.

So sorry yourself, but no. You can't just say "Look, it happens in this box" and then extrapolate it to the entire global atmosphere. It's far more complicated than that, and denying it just shows that you don't know what you're talking about.

"Regarding "predictions" ... so far I find the predictions pretty conservative and in that frame accurate."

That's hilarious.

"Do you know any particular prediction (made by creditable scientists) that was later revised?"

Pretty much everything in the latest IPCC report. Temperature is not predicted to go up as far as they said before. They've pretty much dropped any claim that "global warming" will make hurricanes worse (in fact they're saying it isn't even mentioned in the new report). Etc.

The "science" in the IPCC reports has been continually revised, and it has been revised downward in each successive report.

There is no pause. Please inform yourself - it's embarrassing.

Some information for you: Scientific American: Is the Pacific Ocean Responsible for a Pause in Global Warming?

NPR: A Cooler Pacific May Be Behind Recent Pause In Global Warming

USA Today: Pacific Ocean cools, flattening global warming

But maybe the UK Met Office admitting it's been flat for 16 years, or just looking at the HADCRUT4 data would be a better source?

The logical fallacy of that should be obviously: whether a particular solution is right or wrong has no logical bearing on whether the science-- that human-generated carbon dioxide contributes to temperature according to well-known models-- is correct.

I don't believe I have seen anyone argue that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. The arguments are over the "feedbacks" and the "forcing factors" in the models, which predict dire heating from CO2, and yet we are about to bust out of the 95% confidence level from the models. CO2 is much higher than 15 years ago but temperatures remain pretty flat.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294560/The-great-green-1-The-hard-proof-finally-shows-global-warming-forecasts-costing-billions-WRONG-along.html

Also, according to this, the warming contribution of CO2 tails off asypmtotically.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to back them up, and the claims that global warming due to CO2 will be catastrophic don't seem to be proven. For example, the "hot spot" seems to be missing.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/16/about-that-missing-hot-spot/

I am not a climate scientist, but I am open to explanations of why any or all of the above sources are not correct.

Of course I hope global warming is overrated, because the world is still dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. If the consequences really will be dire, we will find out.

"Point is: the question about CO2 and its warming effect is known since ages."

YOUR point is.

Yes, we have known for a long time that a "greenhouse effect" exists... in small, enclosed systems. I can easily demonstrate it myself with an aquarium, a light bulb, a CO2 source, and a thermometer.

But that is a VERY long way from showing that it is a significant driver of global warming. Modern climatalogists did not start making that assertion until the 1990s. Before that, in the 70s and 80s, they were warning us of global cooling. While some younger people have (hilariously) tried to tell me that didn't happen, I WAS THERE, and I had to put up with the seemingly endless BS about it in the news and consumer "science" magazines.

And even now, in order for it to be a theory of any value, it would have to be of some use for predicting actual warming to be worth a damn as a scientific theory, since science says the ability to predict is the whole measure of what a theory is worth.

Yet AGW has actually been terrible at predicting .

So while the basic greenhouse effect has been known (for small enclosed systems), it is still very much in question whether it has any significant effect on global climate.

Ugh.

So people have bought then, hook, line, etc., the total lie that Assad used gas on his own people. He didn't.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1958

http://rt.com/news/turkey-syria-chemical-weapons-850/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418378/Syrian-hostage-Domenico-Quirico-overheard-rebels-blame-Damascus-chemical-attacks.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/504735/20130909/syria-chemical-attack-assad-rebels-blame-hostage.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/08/syria-chemical-weapons-not-assad-bild

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/06/syri-j13.html

http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/06/obama-warned-on-syrian-intel/

http://www.voltairenet.org/article180149.html

http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-military-and-intelligence-officials-to-obama-assad-not-responsible-for-chemical-attack/5348576

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/29/verify-chemical-weapons-use-before-unleashing-the-dogs-of-war/

Bombs left over from WWII are still killing people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1283273/WW2-bomb-kills-G-ttingen-experts-attempt-defuse-it.html

My parents' house was flooded a few months ago and they did the same thing for the kitchen appliances, just to be safe. Then the flood reached a height of 2m (~6.5 feet)...

So this guys is wasting one of humankind's most precious resource on a useless stunt to promote his company. That's real slick, that.

Note to self: never do business with Accenture.

There's plenty more helium in our very own solar system. Just ask that big yellow thingy in the sky for some.

So this guys is wasting one of humankind's most precious resource on a useless stunt to promote his company. That's real slick, that.

Note to self: never do business with Accenture.

>the RM has already been broken up and sold off in stages, each made worse:
> PO Telephones became British Telecom became British Telecom Plc. in the '80s.

No. BT were a joke. I'm using a competitor. Cheaper and better.

Royal Mail are useless. I emailed Amazon begging them to use other people to deliver, not Royal Mail. This happened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6768983.stm

You're not claiming they did that because of you are you?

They lied about posting stuff which didn't turn up; cards appeared at my door saying `you were out` when I was not out etc.

The Royal Mail aren't unique in that respect. Pretty much every delivery firm - or more correctly, their employees - does that sometimes.

Get rid of them, and introduce competition.

If you want competition, surely it would be better not to get rid of them. However, when it comes to delivering a letter, I doubt you can do better than next day (probably) delivery anywhere in the UK for 60p, which is the price of a first class stamp.

I don't need the mail much, but when I do, I want it to turn up on time, not end up lost (stolen, let's be honest)

Do you have evidence for that? Why would anybody want to steal your mail?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-188892/Quarter-million-letters-lost-week.html

The Daily Mail is the worst newspaper in the UK. The article is a blatantly dishonest spin on the situation. The headline says 280,000 a week lost. The small print says "lost or significantly delayed". The small print says that's 0.07% lost or significantly delayed or one letter in every 1,500. That doesn't seem quite so bad considering that 8 million letters a day are posted without a post code or with the wrong post code.

>the RM has already been broken up and sold off in stages, each made worse:
> PO Telephones became British Telecom became British Telecom Plc. in the '80s.

No. BT were a joke. I'm using a competitor. Cheaper and better.

Royal Mail are useless. I emailed Amazon begging them to use other people to deliver, not Royal Mail. This happened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6768983.stm

They lied about posting stuff which didn't turn up; cards appeared at my door saying `you were out` when I was not out etc.

They expect overtime when they finish their shift early (they're paid by the hour).

Get rid of them, and introduce competition. I don't need the mail much, but when I do, I want it to turn up on time, not end up lost (stolen, let's be honest)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-188892/Quarter-million-letters-lost-week.html

India's Godrej company ended production of manuals in 2011. For millions of rural Indians the ticket out of poverty has been typewriting and shorthand certificates. My dad used a portable Remington to pound out inspection reports. He stopped using it once he became a superintendent and got his own stenographer. I used it as a toy and kept it going for long time. Lacking a proper machine shop all my repairs were done using bent paper clips and bits of nylon strings. These machines are indestructible. Eventually it was sold for scrap for a few cents per pound. Sad, I miss the smell of metal and oil and the ink and the ribbon.

Yeah and guess what genius? The shareholders with majority voting control in Google are the same two geeks that founded it and that have a passion for causes like education:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129234/Google-stock-split-founders-Larry-Page-Sergey-Brin-lifetime-control.html

In Google's case, the shareholders that get to decide how the company works aren't some mystical unknown investment company that controls the company from the shadows but the very two people that founded it.

You say "control" as if people there didn't actually want him in power. This is a problem you guys have, just because you despise someone, doesn't mean everyone else has to, especially people living there. The rebels, are still a minority.

The Assad family have a history there, and they do have support.

But you are correct that is outright silly to think the controlling power had to resort to use chemical weapons on their own land, even less the capital. Why would they? They have the army to fight the rebels, with plenty of conventional weapons.

The rebels on the other hand, are seemingly outnumbered and outgunned; also add religious beliefs (Jihadists vs a more secular Assad) and you might have a recipe for a stupid act with dangerous chemicals.

Whatever Putin offered, its certainly better than having their cities bombed, which was Obama's "solution", a "limited" strike. Of course, a "limited" strike was how the invasion of Libya started, and God help them for daring defend from bombs falling on their land. It is a lame way to escalate into full invasion, neighbor Iraq style.

The parallels to Libya are way too close. Gaddafi was also winning before NATO entered, the country would have soon been pacified but the foreigners intervened, also over land with mercenaries and what not from neighboring monarchies, whom also seem to be deeply involved in the current Syria situation.

The mess that the rebels caused in Libya, the mass killings and other atrocities were swiftly censored once they killed Gaddafi and took control; not to mention rivalries between the tribal factions; not unlike Iraq...

The actions in Libya also showed the world a clear message: Comply with "western" demands, and you will only hasten your end. Yet another reason for North Korea to keep their rhetoric.

It is always interesting to show the "double standard" the "western" (USA) treats other nations, see Israel:

Terrorism: Bombing of King David hotel while under UK jurisdiction, check
Mass/ethnic murders: Sabra and Shatila massacre, check.
Air Strikes against civilians, check.
Use of banned chemical weapons in urban population: check.

So... where is the "western" outrage against this nation?
If Israel has the right for self Defense, so does Syria.

It is biologically possible and actually not difficult at all to rape a man.

From a very quick google.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013870/Robber-broke-hair-salon-beaten-black-belt-owner-kept-sex-slave-days--fed-Viagra.html
http://www.policymic.com/articles/33593/canadian-man-sexually-assaulted-by-four-women-showing-rape-goes-both-ways
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/06/chicago-woman-charged-with-raping-a-man-at-gunpoint-stealing-his-iphone/
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/07/four-women-wanted-in-alleged-sex-assault-of-19-year-old-man-in-downtown-toronto/

There are also a number of stories I know from an all female residence at the university I went to where girls get a guy drunk at university part and take turns having sex with him when he's passed out. It's a frosh week hazing ritual of sorts, but it's not rape of course because guys don't get raped so afterwards they'll always make a joke of it and act macho, but essentially he has sex with multiple partners without his consent. I can see people laughing already saying to themselves, "yeah like he didn't want it."

First, it is widely know cheap and state projects don't go hand by hand.

Like I said, the government already owns the land from way back when it was cheap to acquire. It's been acquired. There is no evhul gubbmint big project to worry about.

In my opinion, it is a slap in the face to give free housing to the upper poor/lower middle class who work till death to pay their housing.

So you'd rather those people are homeless or relegated to massive crime ghettos of poverty requiring expensive policemen?

And I am not even talking about extreme situations http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Ah, a daily fail quite. Fail's on you, mate.

First, it is widely know cheap and state projects don't go hand by hand. Second, we pay the bill, and pay it dearly. In my opinion, it is a slap in the face to give free housing to the upper poor/lower middle class who work till death to pay their housing. Besides the housing, the government often also exempts or helps them to pay the utilities bill. And I am not even talking about extreme situations http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-541598/Meet-families-ones-worked-THREE-generations--dont-care.html

From tfa I read, "As a result, the expectation is that park rangers can pinpoint the location of poachers and intervene immediately, the firm said." As I understand it, Kenyan park rangers intervene by shooting the people they think are poachers on sight. Interesting that UK doesn't extradite if the person to stand trial might get the death penalty, but exporting this stuff that facilitates the death penalty without trial is ok. I suppose it's the same as exporting firearms - or rather, firearm optics.

Also, no: I don't know better than the people in Kenya about how to solve their poaching problem, although I have to wonder if horn farming wouldn't reduce the economic pressure.

And similarly to this guy, you can wind up dead doing dangerous activities you love.

And just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with people dieing doing the things they want to do. Whether it's rock climbing, wing suit gliding, piloting, surfing, etc., you should have the right to engage in dangerous activities. With minors, its a bit different obviously, but this guy was 19. A bit young but he is still an adult.

That being said, I think there are way too much uncontrollable variables in RC helicopter flying to wiz one by your head. It would be off the acceptable risk radar for me personally, but I am not going to set that line for others. Now, if the guy took out an innocent bystander, that's a different story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-hotel-death-ray-leaves-guests-severe-burns.html No, building engineers need to be VERY CAREFUL about how concave-shaped buildings are oriented, relative to the sun. They still haven't learned, see link above.

They???

No... One guy, both cases!

That being said... what was the council's planning department doing the day those plans turned up? Oh yeah... Planning departments are all pencil-pushers, not engineers, so they'll rubber stamp anything without giving it any serious consideration! Didn't even check the architect's track record and query if he'd made sure he didn't repeat the same mistake! And they wonder why many of us in the UK do not see our Council Tax as value for money?!?

Yeah, I can linkspam too http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113410/US-soldier-kills-16-Afghan-civilians-deadly-shooting-rampage.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-soldier-describes-thrill-kill-innocent-civilians-afghanistan/story?id=11732681 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/20soldiers.html?_r=0 You know, if I were in that position, I would do whatever it takes to kill the bastards that invaded and possibly killed members of my family just for being in the wrong location at the wrong time (see collateral murder). And no, you are not protecting some fancy idea of freedom or some other bullshit, you are thugs, criminals, the scum of the world. The world would be better off if your country was nuked from orbit and every piece of it destroyed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315978/Las-Vegas-hotel-death-ray-leaves-guests-severe-burns.html No, building engineers need to be VERY CAREFUL about how concave-shaped buildings are oriented, relative to the sun. They still haven't learned, see link above.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1316444/Las-Vegas-death-ray-hotel-leaves-guests-badly-burnt.html

What kinds of idiots are designing these things? What other idiots are approving the plans and issuing permits? Quality is going downhill in everything.

As the Telegraph does not actually have any primary sources in this case, I would take the whole thing with a grain of salt.

Indeed. The Telegraph is just echoing an earlier story planted in the Mail by 'a Government source':

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408012/Britain-fights-EUs-Big-Brother-bid-fit-car-speed-limiter.html

Both are right-wing 'Eurosceptic' papers, and this story is just the sort of thing their readers, who are also the core constituency of the Conservative party that leads the current Government, love to be 'outraged' about. From the Mail story:

"Last night, a Government source said Mr McLouglin had instructed officials to block the moves because they were a 'violation' of British motorists' freedom...The source said: 'This has Big Brother written all over it and is exactly the sort of thing that gets people's backs up about Brussels. We are about getting a better deal for Britain, not letting EU bureaucrats encroach further into people's lives.'"

In other words, 'We are standing up to those interfering Eurocrats and their silly ideas, so please vote for us instead of UKIP'.