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I saw this earlier today:

Locally made robots wait tables at Kathmandu restaurant

Note the kids trying to block the robot (~0:26) and even better the little girl who yells at it to go backwards. Maybe if she were to yell just a little louder the robot would "hear" her.

Hopefully those kids will grow tired of it before they grow into adults.

Right now, however, the environment is so warm that adding the waste heat would push temperatures above acceptable levels, killing the local ecosystem.

Something that is in fact already happening

Because while we're busy fighting amongst ourselves, we're barely paying attention to what our betters are doing in attempts to pass pro-globalist treaties such as the TPP, and laws that turn "fair use" into "fair pay".

That warm, wet feeling on your leg really isn't the Bilderberg elites pissing on you, with all the money that goes towards the NGOs and PACs that actually fuel the activist groups and astroturfing agencies that drive most of the chaos, discord and divisiveness. No, it's Russia making it rain with twitter trolls and facebook ads!

FYI, May was a Bremainer. http://www.euronews.com/2016/0...

May is merely implementing the result of the referendum.

In reality, May took up the post of Prime Minister after the Brexit vote, because she was willing to pretend to be all gusto for the referendum. After it was tallied. Beforehand? As the other fellow said, she waited for the wind to blow before she set her sails.

The Brexit-Bremain split is largely orthogonal to the Tory-Labour split. One of the strongest Brexit areas is the South Wales valleys, a working class, Labour supporting, former coal-mining area.

Yeah, the poor, angry, and resentful. Always exploitable, just give them a target. They'll rush the trenches, and it's a win-win, since you didn't want to do crap for the suckers anyway.

I am a Brexiter and I don't particularly support the Tories, not since that Thatcher bitch destroyed most of British manufacturing, nor Labour since that Blair bastard destroyed the rest. All the main parties are now Thatcherite. I vote for smaller parties, UKIP last time.

Great, that sure impresses me with your ability to judge responsibly. Like picking the one-eye horse at the Derby. Don't get me wrong, there are crazier tards than Nigel Farange, but he's still the kinda fellow I wouldn't trust with used toilet paper. Screaming Lord Sutch would be a more considered choice.

Yeah, I get it, you're bitter and unhappy, but all the King's Horses and all the King's Men, can't put things back to the way they were again. And some changes you might fiercely resist, are better for you in the end anyway.

[Brexiters will] fall all over themselves contorting into some explanation as to why they support a totalitarian wannabe like May, just because they'll get their precious withdrawal from the EU.

FYI, May was a Bremainer. http://www.euronews.com/2016/0...

May is merely implementing the result of the referendum. The Brexit-Bremain split is largely orthogonal to the Tory-Labour split. One of the strongest Brexit areas is the South Wales valleys, a working class, Labour supporting, former coal-mining area.

I am a Brexiter and I don't particularly support the Tories, not since that Thatcher bitch destroyed most of British manufacturing, nor Labour since that Blair bastard destroyed the rest. All the main parties are now Thatcherite. I vote for smaller parties, UKIP last time.

For the moment, the only thing that is real is that Le Pen is a cheater and she have got Russia a giant debt to Russia. There are no doubt about that. And there is no need for a leak, she is an awful person.

The choice for the french is :

- Le Pen, a proved dishonest and awful person ;
- Macron, an honest person until proven dishonest.

PS: No everything is not equal. The source always matter when a leak is unbalanced. Until now nobody found anything big in the document - maybe the reason, it is released so late in the process, not time to analyze but enough to ingrain some doubt. The bank account really seems like a fake news.

Wow, someone who wants to race to the bottom even quicker. Then again, what can you expect from an AC?

Technically if they had configured the security there wouldn't be a problem.

Provably false, because it is impossible to anticipate every security problem, especially since you're trying to hit a moving target. Never been done, can't be done within the heat death of the universe.

Web enabled is inevitable

Only if you're someone who wants to really screw over users, with things like all-time connections required, downloadable content, adware, etc. Local networks did just fine for a LONG time for all sorts of business applications, and both standalone and local networks for things like games and other forms of entertainment. You show the lack of imagination given by not knowing history. The internet is a symptom, and has caused more harm than good for the average person. Fake news wouldn't be possible without stupidity like Failbook and Twithead.

Honestly the economy sucks, jobs are scarce and the web offers the possibility of breaking barriers by giving the average joe global reach

First, there is a limited demand for internet-enabled jobs, and already far too many people trying to fill that demand, which is why most intenet-based jobs pay less than minimum wage by the time you account for everything. Second, we're seeing the beginning of the bursting of the second internet bubble. You can't eat virtual pizza, your bitcoin is a terrible form of currency (as seen by the 18% drop in value in 5 days, the vast majority of "App developers" still make far less than the minimum wage and that has always been the case, and always will be, because people always hope that they will be the exception.

If you want to compete with developers in India, you'll end up with their standard of living - which means a country where, like India, there are so many people without a toilet (indoor OR outdoor) that they could literally form a line from the earth to the moon - something that will NOT change over the next 40 years because poverty is both ingrained in the corruption and class structure, and because the reservoir of poverty is just too large - and of course it doesn't help that India will have more people than China in 5 years.

Also, your "ground breaking technologies" are not. Most of the "new technologies" are shit, same as ruby used to be the latest hotness. Anything based on javascript is inherently worse than Flash - at least flash doesn't need a web browser to run in, and can be easily confined either to the local machine or local network. It also requires far less ram and cpu to do the same job. This is the problem with so many of the "new technologies" - holier than swiss cheese, layered upon other layers that are also full of bloat and rot (even Flash was bloat, but nowhere near as bad as, say, chrome or firefox).

We can exist fine without the internet. Specialized networks with limited access, non-interchangeable protocols, devoted to specific tasks, are going to happen, if only because the current internet is defective by design when it comes to security - the original goal was to be as failsafe as possible, no matter how much of the intervening network was destroyed - but that also means that any node can always attack anyone and everyone. Heck, it was possible at the dawn of the internet to take Microsoft down with a dial-up modem and a 386.

Society started failing when trickle-down economics and both the left and the right started ignoring economic disparity (which includes the Clintons even before he became president, having helped dismantle some of the new deal economic protections that actually allowed the economy to grow by growing the base instead of feeding the rich - a policy Obama continued by, among other things, bailing out the car companies and

Hmm, some thing not right here in your comment. Did you reply me?
I sought an example of "blaming Russians", and "don't believe in Russian fakes/propaganda" anytime when someone did something wrong! Here is, Polish nationalist shouted "Kill all Ukrainians", "Death to Ukrainians", etc.
It's an example of "Fake news is likely to be on the both side" as the OP.
Oh, if you know history, you must know that Bandera's UPA massacred Polish in WWII, so my comment is reasonable here. It explained the action of Polish nationalists.
I don't care about Czech did what to Roman women here, are you trolling?

PS: I don't know why you mentioned Right Sector and LDPR, but by the way, Right Sector is a bandit rather than party. Also, look at another far right "MPs" do their job (this case Svoboda):
Violent video: Ukraine TV boss beaten up, forced to resign by far-right Svoboda MPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
In this video, the man who beat the TV boss was ironically, the deputy head of Ukraine’s committee on freedom of speech. And, how dare such a small "party" could do this? The general prosecutor at this time was also Svoboda member.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Russian version of Trump.
Comparing either Right Sector or Svoboda to LDPR is nonsense!

He has no respect for the rule of law, except as he defines law. Yet he thinks he can shoehorn his country into the EU. If that's not delusional, then it's an awfully good imitation.

The recent coup attempt: given the speed with which he reacted, and the precision with which his government identified and arrested tens of thousands of people...is it just possible that the entire coup was a false flag operation? Perhaps it was planned and instigated by Erdogan, as a means to justify this massive cleanup operation?

Posting AC, because I live in one of the seven countries where calling Erdogan delusional is, quite literally, a crime.

So, on October 2nd the countries, where it is Ok to block the entire populace from foreign Internet-resources, where "hate speech", "blasphemy", and mocking the president or king are criminal offences — they will all have more say in how the network is operated than before. Yay!

Yeah, France would know about colonizing people.

To get around such restrictions, they simply extend the work day and create a more "flexible" environment. Problem solved.

Russia didn't invade at all. It was a part of Russia and Russia *gave* it to Ukraine. There's a bilateral treaty between the two nations whereby Russia can have up to 25,000 troops there and Russia has had 16,000 troops there. They were there last month, they were there last year. Plus nearly everyone there is Russian. Who just gave a 96% mandate to rejoin Russia and GTFO of Ukraine which is in the middle of a Kosovo/Sarajevo style civil war with (hundreds of) Ukranians being killed by other Ukrainians - leftists, being killed by neo-Nazis and outright fascists. The Crimeans want out and who could blame them? Nobody has died in Crimea and they want to keep it that way, and then there's the Chevron fracking deal with the Ukraine that Crimea won't have to suffer through. How could this possibly be called an invasion? Read the background on Crimea, Russia and the Ukraine here and here.

Here is a *partial* list of US invasions:

The list does not include the 1801-1805 US Marine Barbary War operations against Barbary pirates based in Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Libya , and also ignores massive US subversion of virtually all countries in the world.

(1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013).

Things that led up to this:
The IMF
http://www.euronews.com/2014/0...
"austerity" to pay ba

And shortly after I type out the answer, here's the evidence:
http://www.euronews.com/2014/1...

Quote:
"The French charity Fraternity in Iraq says that, since August, 120,000 Christians — but also Muslim Yazidis, Kakaïs and Shabaks — have fled ISIL, among them 18,000 children.

They became refugees when ISIL seized control of the area around Mosul on the 10th of June — helping themselves to everything that was left behind.

ISIL threatened the Christians with death unless they paid a tithe for their religion or embraced Islam within a month."

This is today's news from one of the more reputable sources in mass media. Their report is in direct agreement with my point, as bold line shows.

look at the Ukraine and this

http://www.euronews.com/2014/0...

Unfortunately, Hungarian is so hard to understand that even with Google Translate I can't follow their newspapers and columns, so we are at the mercy of second-hand journalism and skimpy stuff such as TFA, but indeed this looks like one of the laws enected to be used selectively against well defined targets.

I can suggest:
http://www.euronews.com/tag/hu...

Not a huge quantity of Hungary-specific articles, but the journalism is good and generally low-level enough to pick up on things the international English-language services don't.

here

You lie just as badly as Obama does. Easy to prove you are a liar.

Bonus:
Executive Orders

I can teach you to use Google if you really are too stupid to do it yourself.

Uh, how about Italy? You have a former PM, convicted of Tax Evasion threatening to break the coalition government because he wants to throw a tantrum.

I'm not trying to deflect from the current situation in the US but we don't have a lock on stupid. Also you'll find out as well that usually members of Congress will still get paid or will have their back pay paid in any deal that goes forward.

Nope, you need to go deeper. They're reporting it from Euronews:

http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/14/peru-discovers-whale-fossils-in-desert-dating-back-40-million-years/

True, Assange may have fallen victim to bad luck and a couple of women scorned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11949341
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
http://www.euronews.com/2012/08/16/julian-assange-and-wikileaks-timeline-of-events/

The sex happened less than a month after the public release of Afghan war documents, and the warrant for his arrest was initially canceled the day after it was issued (20-21 August 2010), for the implied reason of lack of evidence.

Within 10 days, the case is taken over by a different Swedish prosecutor (Marianne Ny), who reopens the case, Assange is questioned by police in Stockholm (31 August 2010) and 3 months later (20 November 2010) an international arrest warrant is issued for his arrest in the UK. Marianne Ny) tells AFP that overturning another prosecutor's decision was "not an ordinary (procedure), but not so out of the ordinary either".

Then we have had all the bureaucratic shenanigans in the UK with Assange handing himself in, appealing to the high court, getting bail subject to house arrest, and then acquiring political asylum with Ecuador but no actual way out of the country.

There is suggestion, but not proof, that "US diplomatic pressure" was brought to bear behind the scenes to have the case reopened by a different prosecutor. The recent release of the Afghan War Diaries would at the very least have made Assange, and those around him, an active CIA observation target.

Regardless of the morality or legality of his actual actions, my point is that due to his "political crime" of wikileaks, it behoves US interests to have the man behind bars, regardless of what he is actually charged with, or in which country. There is also the question that if it where not for his fame/infamy, that the case may never have been reopened. My suggestion is that if Assange was just an unknown average Joe, there is a reasonable probability that in practice the case would have been dropped and he would now be free. But "Assange + Afghan War Diaries" means he his now effectively under house arrest in the Ecuadorian embassy.

The difference in theory is the addition of the "political crime" and the difference in practice is that he is effectively imprisoned.

Anyone who cares to know understands that both Al Qaida and the Taliban take refuge in Pakistan. From there they rest, rearm, and return to the fight in Afghanistan. They are attacking targets in Pakistan with growing frequency. They are fighting against the Pakistani army in the tribal terratories where they threaten and oppress the local Pakistanis. They try to destabilize nuclear armed Pakistan in the hopes that the government will fall, they'll seize control, and thereby acquire nuclear arms. They train visiting new members in the techniques of terrorism before they return to the many different countries from which they came, including European nations. They even attempt to strike directly at the United States from Pakistan.

Against all this, you somehow think it is illegitimate for the United States to strike at their mutual enemies with the approval of the government of Pakistan. You want sanctuary from the United States for it's enemies to continue unmolested in their campaigns of terror, murder, violence and hate.

So, if you fancy yourself a "friend" of the United States, what kind of friend are you? You might be the sort that only shows up at your "friend's" funeral, savages the reception buffet, drains the liquor, and leaves, having offered no assistance to the deceased in life, and no comfort to the survivors in death, other than the assurance that it all would have been better if only he had listened to you. Mmmm, no thank you.

Perhaps this cause needs some help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3007228.stm

'Half of the fish species in the Baltic are at levels below the critical biological level, while pregnant Swedish women are being warned not to eat herring - a staple diet - because of dioxins. There is little dispute that St Petersburg - Russia's second-biggest city - is the Baltic's single biggest polluter, and behind many of the problems.'

http://www.euronews.com/2010/02/10/baltic-nations-take-action-on-sea-pollution/

'Northern European nations have been discussing pollution in the Baltic Sea at a conference in Finland. The Baltic is considered one of the most polluted waterways in the world. [...] “Today some of the richest and most environmentally-conscious countries on earth live on the shore of one of the world’s most polluted seas. What a tragedy. It is clear that something has to be done and quickly.” [...] “Today we are also facing a historic international challenge, which I would like to point to as as the issue of chemical and conventional weapons dumped into the Baltic Sea.” [...] Almost enclosed, very shallow, and fed by numerous rivers, the Baltic is a vulnerable sea. 90 million people live around its shores, many of them depending on the sea in some way or other for their livelihoods, but waste from industry, agriculture and daily life ends up in the sea. One of the biggest resulting dangers is too much algae. Excess growth of it robs the water of oxygen suffocating other species.'

etc.

Maybe the Chinese still can change this tide, err, that brown tide.

http://www.euronews.com/2012/07/02/shoe-designed-to-win/