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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/
Companies can put whatever shit they want to in their EULAs but it won't hold in court.

Congratulations on your location. Where I live, major contenders for the highest elected office in the country deny evolution. Nearly half of my countrymen believe in creationism and a minority in evolution (well, according to that poll, which probably exaggerates, but it's bad enough).

Well similar articles appear in US media whenever some kid has early success in science or technology. As evidenced by the fact that this piece of news has even made it to Fox.

I would agree in general that Germany doesn't suffer quite as much from anti-intellectualism as the US, but it's not a black and white scenario, either.

Can you eat meat you buy from the store?

Both grass fed beef and free range chicken are available in many areas.

Can you flip on the light switch in your home and consume electricity?

Many electric companies are offering sustainable options, wind power is gaining prominence, and solar cell panels are reaching a price parity with liquid fossil fuels.

All these things show what can be done with consumer and society pressure. While the solutions are not perfect (e.g. cost) an increasing awareness is clearly apparent. The point of this story is that consumer electronics is a black hole that no one really cares about.

That said, there are mentions of supply chain problems in the trade publications, and there will be increasing public awareness in light of the recent problems with widespread electronic part counterfeiting.

There has been news stories about working conditions at the large manufacturer Foxconn.

So while electronics may be escaping scrutiny for the moment, awareness does lead to alternatives, if not change in order to remain competitive.

As a suggestion to somewhat mitigate these problems, a consumer can find information about some electronics (e.g. things made in South Korea and Taiwan might be a better choice might than China). Also, buying something used locally will partially displace the effects of a possible new purchase.

And finally, no matter what you think about current politics, write your representatives about these problems.

Yeah, but who cares about Iran's puny booster, when they've developed flying saucer technology!

Another go-nowhere project from Microsoft's social research group Fuse Labs, following in the footsteps of Live Labs, a previous group that disbanded in 2010. Anyone remember Pivot? Deepfish? Listas? Photosynth? And about 10 other discontinued products.

We all know this will be swept under the rug and forgotten faster than you can say "Google Wave", but it's amusing seeing Betteridge's Law of Headlines at play in the coverage, such as this gem from Fox News: "Is this the next Facebook? Microsoft unveils so.cl social network" The best part is that the article spends its first six paragraphs definitely answering its own headline with a no. Mainstream tech coverage is barely above tabloids.

The MPAA is totally out of control. What we need is some Congressman, Senator, or other 'man of the People' to run the shop and keep them honest. "On March 1, 2011, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that Senator Chris Dodd will head that organization." --- Well %@#$!

Dodd threatens to cutoff donations to Obama campaign
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/19/exclusive-hollywood-lobbyist-threatens-to-cut-off-obama-2012-money-over-anti

MPAA at Cannes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/christopher-dodd-extends-mpaas-reach-at-cannes/2012/05/21/gIQANSDJgU_blog.html

And the greed and corruption continues.

NASA really has conducted several Muslim outreach type of events. NASA.

Outreach such as that actually is one of NASA's many lesser job functions and it's not just focused on Muslims. That whole controversy comes from a Bolden fumble (the current NASA administrator) during a visit to the Middle East (and probably a result of some higher up, say Obama, telling him to say nice things while he was on the trip).

In any case, Bolden doesn't to my knowledge say such things any more which seems to have fixed that particular problem.

even minute, the Italian government can arrest the engineers and scientists, just like they did to the seismologists who failed at correctly predicting an earthquake that killed hundreds of people.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/27/italian-scientist-charged-manslaughter-failing-predict-earthquake/

Oh, I forgot - this is where people somehow don't realize that there is an actual difference between the West and actual tyranny and oppression in the world.

If you're talking about the US, I fail to see where the difference is. The current President of the US authorized the assassination of a US citizen overseas without due process: http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/ and now he's dead. [1]

Worse, to this day even the head of the FBI doesn't know whether or not this applies to US citizens on US soil: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/07/mueller-have-to-check-with-holder-whether-targeted-killing-rule-is-outside-us/

How, exactly, is this not tyranny and oppression? It appears to me that all the President has to do is point a finger and say "daveschroeder is a terrorist and I have credible evidence proving it." You'll never know what, if anything, that evidence is, because it's protected by "National Security", you know.

Regards,

dj

Notes:

[1] And you know what? I don't care whether or not he was a "bad person", as many claim. What I care about is that our President ignored the Constitution, deprived a US citizen of their rights and had him killed without being arrested, without be charged and without a trial.

Remember that someone who lives out the rest of their life starting to colonize Mars, even if highly successful in his or her work and providing great benefit to later colonizers, will be "killed" by the mission. Just like if they stay on Earth and retire, they will eventually be killed by old age on Earth. I have no problem "killing" Astronauts by sending them to Mars to start a successful colony there, and like other posters here I'm sure we can find willing participants willing to do it. You almost can't not sign them up: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/10/space-volunteer-way-mission-mars/

we could treat him like a human and see how he does. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494067,00.html

Or we could leave wild animals in, I don't know, the wild perhaps. I don't have a problem with using animals for justified medical/behavioral experiments. Or herd animals for food for that matter. But primates do not make good pets and are, for the most part, too intelligent to stick in cages for their entire life simply to entertain humans.

we could treat him like a human and see how he does. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494067,00.html

It's easy to say "never", but we all could come up with scenarios where it might save lives to cut off service.

It's easy to say it's to "save lives".

No doubt, some violence would have been prevented if the video of the Bart cop shooting an immobilized man in the back wouldn't have made it to youtube (although, the Bart police did try their best to confiscate all the cell phone images for "evidence"). And perhaps, the LA riots would have been prevented (or at least reduced) if there had been a media black out about the Rodney King beating.

In those cases, a cell phone blackout, or a media black out, could have saved some lives (may be), but really, is this really what we want? Do we really trust the government to be able to shut down that media/communication infrastructure at will -- when for some people their cell phones and their cell phone cameras are really their last line of defense against a poorly trained government agent, or a rogue local government agency.

Do we really want to become that kind of country? Where we are video recorded by the police to be held accountable, but where no one is allowed to video record the police or publicly broadcast the video of the police -- except for the police themselves.

Who determines the cost of injuries to third parties, especially for something global like this? The government.

Or researchers like the ones at California State University-Fullerton who found that dirty air costs the economy up to $1,600 per person annually.

Sorry, but their record of "efficiency" gives me zero faith that they could carry this out, or that there would be no detrimental effect on the economy in the process.

We would have cleaner air, less asthma and other respiratory problems, fewer premature deaths and fewer nonfatal heart attacks, people would miss fewer days of work, and children would miss fewer days of school every year. Surely these things would benefit the economy?

Where have you been? Fucking mars?

I found those in about 5 seconds with google. Thats 100% first page results. WHAT THE FUCK DUDE? Completely fucking blind much? We've got in there convictions, tens of thousands of out-of-state residents voting, and so on? What the fuck?

This news is at least 2 years old, and it could be as old as 5 years or more.

I know you don't RTFA, at least google the story a bit or follow a wikipedia reference or two. It's not that someone will duplicate your scoop in the few moments it takes to at least try to verify the story.

If it doesn't have the support of Facebook, Obama will not be in favor of it too.

http://nation.foxnews.com/facebook/2011/02/17/obama-meeting-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-secret

Well, let's see — not only is Iran Times is not state-owned, it is published in the US. It is also just repeating a Washington Post story. Further, the fact that the US is continuing to fly drone missions over Iran unabated runs counter to the Iranian government's narrative that they have the capability to "take down" a US drone in the first place.

Is FOX News a better source?

How about:

Stars and Stripes
Business Insider

The American propaganda system is the best in the world.

Case in point:

Bin Laden died in late 2001:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Bin Laden "killed" by Seal Team 6 in 2011:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/bin-laden-killed-cia-led-seals-team-death-hailed-blow-al-qaeda/

We now return you to your regularly scheduled televised karaoke contest.

The American propaganda system is the best in the world.

Case in point:

Bin Laden died in late 2001:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Bin Laden "killed" by Seal Team 6 in 2011:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/bin-laden-killed-cia-led-seals-team-death-hailed-blow-al-qaeda/

We now return you to your regularly scheduled televised karaoke contest.

Bin Laden died in late 2001:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Bin Laden "killed" by Seal Team 6:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/bin-laden-killed-cia-led-seals-team-death-hailed-blow-al-qaeda/

Seal team members killed to cover the lie:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/

The American public is SO owned...

Bin Laden died in late 2001:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Bin Laden "killed" by Seal Team 6:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/bin-laden-killed-cia-led-seals-team-death-hailed-blow-al-qaeda/

Seal team members killed to cover the lie:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/

The American public is SO owned...

Bin Laden died in late 2001:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html

Bin Laden "killed" by Seal Team 6:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/02/bin-laden-killed-cia-led-seals-team-death-hailed-blow-al-qaeda/

Seal team members killed to cover the lie:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/

The American public is SO owned...

Sudan
Pakistan
Honorable mention (didn't burn the children, just made them witness their mother being raped and their father being burned): Pakistan again

Funny that you need to redefine the term "weather" to mean a 15 year period when faced the debacle of a series of failed predictions...

I only remind the reader's of NASA's Foremost mission to make a point.. that NASA loses credibility when they stray from putting rockets into space or inventing Tang...

Just the other week: Richmond woman finds Civil War-era cannonball in her garden (and I have no idea as to why this was posted in the crime section)
 
And from a few years ago Virginia Man Killed In Civil War Cannonball Blast
 

Sorry, but in the USA you don't have left and right. You have right and further-right. (On a world scale, anyway.)

Americans are often derided for their perceived or actual ignorance about the world, but this time it looks like the shoe is on the other foot. The United States does indeed have a genuine left, including hard core dedicated Communist movements. The difference is that in the United States most people tend towards the center to center right. They tend to shy away from the extremes so popular in Europe and other places.

Internationalist Socialists - AKA: Communists
Nationalist Socialists - AKA Nazis - far weaker than they were 60-70 years ago.
Fusion: American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘
Naked protests

Shying away from Communism is the smart and right thing to do . . . if you value your life.
Why Doesn't Communism Have as Bad a Name as Nazism?

Obama actually campaigned on doing exactly that, but Republicans think it's a tax conspiracy and refuse to do anything useful. ::sigh::

Are you kidding? That's downright diplomatic for Dodd.

Did you forget about him Calling out the government for not doing what they were told?

don't use them at all.

Why does this not happen? Because the viable alternatives can't be metered or work to well.
i.e. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/07/wind-power-companies-paid-to-not-produce/
http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/

There are no witnesses who reliably tell that. The only potential eyewitness says: "While the witness said he was not able to see who was on top of the other as the two scuffled, he said "there wasn't a lot of movement" immediately before he heard a gunshot.". Oh, and the whole fight happened on the grass.

On: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/29/trayvon-martin-witness-casts-doubt-on-shooters-self-defense-claims/ - and that's from as a non-NBC source as it gets.

Besides, the police let him go BEFORE there were any eyewitness reports. So a dark alley without witnesses would do just fine.

Except it looks like, to my surprise, Fox News actually did the right thing.

NBC pulled a scam and real people suffered for it.

this article disagrees

"As a State Senator, Huppenthal helped pass Arizona’s HB 2281, which banned public school courses that advocate the overthrow of the United States, promote racial resentment, or treat students as members of an ethnic group rather than as individuals. The law targeted Tucson’s Mexican American studies program specifically. "

ZT is idiotic, in my opinion. Sure, when you allow human judgment into the picture, you also allow for biases and selective enforcement. Those are both problems, and I would be wrong to argue otherwise. ZT, though, leads to suspensions and arrests ibuprofen to school, or suspending first graders for bringing Cub Scouts gear to school.

The policies themselves were not designed with ZT in mind. The policies are human-designed, and intended to be applied by humans, with human reasoning, to human situations. ZT effectively turns them into hard computer programs without actually requiring the policies to be fully elaborated to account for all the extenuating circumstances under which they might be applied. I argue that in most cases, that simply isn't possible. At the very least, it is very far from likely unless you spend considerable effort. If it were easy, we wouldn't have a court system (complete with appellate courts).

And, it doesn't even save you from capriciousness. Instead it leads you to amplify the whims of children. For example, in one of the links above, the student was "caught" because some other kid claimed she had a knife. The likelihood someone gets ratted out (and thus subjected to the worst effects of ZT) varies based on the attitudes and decisions of the fellow classmates, not the now supposedly immune administrators. That just sets the system up for worse outcomes, because a big lever of the system (detection/reporting) is left to the kids, and enforcement is automatic and uncontrolled.

Furthermore, if an administrator does notice something punishable, but lets it slide silently because nobody else notices, who would know? ZT only applies once its obvious to everyone that there's an infraction. The system isn't even airtight at that level, since the decision to let something slide undetected is an individual decision on the part of that administrator, and they can later claim (usually) to not have noticed the infraction.

Explain to me again how the sliver of legal protection offered by ZT isn't idiocy compared to these awful, stupid outcomes?

My boss just sent me a link to an article about this. However, it's a Fox News link, so I feel sort of dirty even clicking on it and even more so for posting it. Please don't mod me down, since it's the only link I can find.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/30/visa-mastercard-warn-massive-security-breach-report-says/

* Partisan opinion: Solar Power Is Booming â" Obama administration is killing it

* Partisan opinion masquerading as fact: Solar Power Is Booming â" Why Do We Want To Kill It?

Is this the new Slashdot TV: Fair and Balanced?

Or you know... murder anyone that's sitting on top of you beating you in the face and smashing your head into the ground.
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/03/27/witness-reportedly-saw-trayvon-martin-beating-george-zimmerman-shooting

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-563099/The-amazing-pixie-dust-pigs-bladder-regrew-severed-finger-FOUR-weeks.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353636,00.html
there we go, easier to find than I thought.
Now, this guy only lost about 1/2 inch of his finger, but I wonder what would happen if bone was involved...
Still speaks to your comment of "you grew the leg once...".
-nB

Fox News: "The number of factories Daisey visited in China was listed incorrectly, for example, as well as the number of workers he spoke with"

Ira Glass: "Daisey admits to fabricating these characters .. that he met underage workers at Foxconn, and that a man with a mangled hand was injured at Foxconn making iPads (and that Daisey's iPad was the first one he ever saw in operation)"

Talk to Rabbi Rosenbaum. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534838,00.html

The military has now also gone "corporate" (and been infested with Bible Thumpers) such that the old "work hard, fight hard, play hard" attitudes are muted.

I guess you don't keep up with the news: Military Chaplains Mull End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

I'm pretty sure that "Bible thumpers" weren't involved in the normalization of open homosexuality in the Armed Forces. I think the phrase you are looking for is "political correctness".

Now our opponents AND clients are religious fanatics who BOTH hate "freedom".

Try reading Bin Laden's Letter to America. His demands before his followers would stop trying to slaughter Americans are that Americans convert to Islam, and that the Constitution be replaced by Sharia law. Most Americans would consider forced religious conversion on pain of death, loss of the Bill of Rights, including the 1st Amendment, the treatment of women, the fact that a woman's testimony in court could only be treated as at most half that of a man's, the execution of homosexuals, the prohibition of alcohol in addition to all drugs, and many other consequences of Sharia to be a significant loss of freedom. The Islamists literally do hate American's freedoms as an offence to their values. There is no corresponding movement of any significance to impose that type of law in America by Americans, all fantasies and polemics aside.

Maybe letting homosexuals serve openly will chase off some of the religionists. It should improve Sub Sailor recruiting! (I kid! I kid!)

I'm sure, I'm sure.

Homosexuals constitute approximately 1.7% of the general population. Something like 80-90% of Americans are religious. You would have to work that gay 1.7% pretty hard to make up for any significant loss of religious Americans due to institutional hostility to their faith. But cheer up! I'm sure that the Omama administration finally putting women on nuclear submarines, the navy's diversity policy, and open homosexuality can only combine to make the independant launch capable nuclear submarine force ever more capable and reliable in the hands of its diverse, navy chosen future leadership.
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I love conspiracy morons :) You always brighten up my day!

Tell me, were you this way BEFORE taking LSD? Or did this behavior only manifest afterwards?

Yeah, FDA corruption is a HUGE conspiracy. Nothing credible has EVER been released about the FDA and their shady practices. In fact, they are the most perfect government body ever formed for protecting the American consumer ever conceived of.

Thanks for pointing it all out to me. Now that you have enlightened me, I think I will go sulk in a corner and reflect on my views of the FDA, which are all obviously conspiracy theories.

FoxNews is covering the story:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/08/blogger-shows-world-how-to-sneak-anything-past-tsas-nude-body-scanners/

I'm impressed.

``He's a rockstar,'' a New York-based hacker with close ties to WikiLeaks said recently. ``All the girls, you buy them a drink, but all they want to talk about is Sabu, Sabu, Sabu.''

``And what really sucks is he really is that good.''

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/exclusive-inside-lulzsec-mastermind-turns-on-his-minions/?intcmp=obinsite

The original link to the Fox News website is a little thin on details, but there's a bit more flesh here

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/06/exclusive-inside-lulzsec-mastermind-turns-on-his-minions/?intcmp=related

Yet, they haven't shot at anyone.

Unlike certain free country which is pillaging and burning things around the world, both militarily and politically.

Stop that fucking nonsense, ok?

Since what you wrote is false, how about you first?

State Sponsors: Iran

Iranians 'targeted Israeli diplomats' - Published: 15/02/2012 at 04:35 PM

Thai authorities charged two Iranians on Wednesday over an alleged bomb plot against Israeli diplomats, officials said, piling pressure on Teheran over accusations of a terror campaign against the Jewish state.

Authorities said they had laid criminal charges against two Iranian suspects accused of involvement in the three blasts in central Bangkok yesterday.

One of the men -- named as 28-year-old Saeid Morati -- lost both legs after he hurled an explosive device at police while fleeing an earlier blast at a house in the capital. The satchel containing the bomb, which he threw at a police vehicle, bounced off another vehicle and exploded at his feet.

A second Iranian suspect, Mohammad Hazaei, was detained trying to board a flight out of the country at Suvarnabhumi airport. A third Iranian suspect is believed to have fled to Malaysia, officials said.

"These three Iranian men are an assassination team and their targets were Israeli diplomats including the ambassador," a senior Thai intelligence official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Their plan was to attach bombs to diplomats' cars." . . . .

Israel accused Iran of orchestrating attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia on Monday.

An Israeli diplomat in New Delhi suffered grave shrapnel wounds when a motorbike assailant attached a bomb to her car on Monday.

Experts: Iran's Quds Force Deeply Enmeshed in Iraq

U.S. blames Iran for new bombs in Iraq

Iran’s Quds Force was blamed for attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq

Iran's Quds Force: Supporting Terrorism Worldwide

Leader of Iran’s Al-Quds Forces Says Iraq and Southern Lebanon Are Under His Control

Iran threatens to close Strait of Hormuz over EU oil sanctions

Iranian weapons seized in Afghanistan

One more, then I'm going to stop since this could easily turn into a seemingly never-ending story. I've hardly touched on Iran's activities around the world. I've hardly even scratched the surface of Iran's involvement in Lebanon, and with Hezbollah, and the massive amount of arms that they've been providing. You do know that Hezbollah, aiming at the desturction of Israel, has 50,000 rockets now, right?

Simon Wiesenthal Center: Iranian Calls to Destroy Jewish People Unparalleled Since Nazi Germany

Frankly, I'm baffled by how people miss this. I guess it doesn't come up at the "anti-Zionist" meeting

I assume you realize that your high gas prices are the result of high taxation and not natural market forces.

Natural market forces are unable to pay for the negative externalities of gasoline usage, such as air pollution which costs up to $1600 per person annually.

Correcting that market failure may very well push the USA's gas prices to the level of Europe's. And that would be a good thing because it would make the market more efficient, even though the improved efficiency would not be due to "natural market forces."

Ya know what? I was wrong. FOX did cover this after all. Of course, they put their own spin on it. They didn't cover the documents, they covered the theft of the documents. The docs themselves get covered, but not after lavishing column-inches on the ethical lapse of an environmental scientist, and how dangerous this is to the donors of the Heartland Institute.