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> You don't understand the language

Then why does my day job of writing WebGL apps for Smart TV's run at 60 fps then if "I don't understand the language" -- I guess these shaders just magically wrote themself ! And all those rendering optimizations just "magically" appeared in our code base !! Holy Shit !!! Ghosts are real -- shhh, don't tell the retarded Chinese Cult Politics party! (Yes, I know CCP doesn't official stand for that.)

Don't assume. You look like an tool when you do.

> Slashdot is full of incompetent developers like you,

I know I shouldn't feed the Arrogant Cunt trolls, but since you you started with the ad hominem attacks, you're proof is _where_ again??

But then again I wouldn't expect much from a coward too ashamed to hide behind an anonymous name. I guess you don't want the world to know stupid you really are.

> Since when is a pragma a "shitty hack"?

Are you really that fucking stupid? Wait, that was a rhetorical question -- we already know the answer to that.

a) The FACT that this is enabled by default for ECMAScript's 6 modules should tell you that this was a HACK.

b) Do you actually understand _anything_ about type safety and misspelling, at all?? Maybe if you had spent 30 years programming you would understand the importance of compile-time error detection and type safety? Gee, things that make our job of programming easier Go figure!

c) Why do you keep making excuses for a shitty designed language?

> My favorite is NaN != NaN.

Straw man fallacy. Did I complain about isNan(x) ?? No, so quit changing topics because you've simply read What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

The bigger problem is the retarded "EVERY number is a double / float64" type crap.

Gee, in ECMAScript 2 float and double are reserved word but not used. Oh wait, They are no longer in ECMA Script 5+. Make up your fucking mind !

Never mind the fact that converting from a string to a var will OVERFLOW and NOT be EXACT.

var s = '9223372036854775808', n = parseInt(s); console.log( n ); // 9223372036854776000 // *facepalm*

Oh, look we have Number.isSafeInteger() but, gee thanks, for a mostly useless function as this _still_ doesn't solve the problem of needing an int64_t type.

var s = '9223372036854775808', n = parseInt(s); console.log( Number.isSafeInteger( n ) );

var n = (1 << 63); console.log( n ); // -2147483648; // *facepalm*

I need an _exact_ native int64_t and uint64_t type -- WHEN will this be supported? Why do I have to use stupid hacks like "a | 0" to cast to an int??

Javascript broken == operator is so fucked up it is laughable. WTF is the point of even having '==' when every smart programmer will use '===' instead???

The four biggest reasons Javascript is a such as piece of shit:

1. Automatic type conversions will get one in trouble:

if( 0 == "0" ) console.log( "equal" ); // equal // WTF!?

2. How about the inability to actually _include_ .js files like, you know, a concept that (almost) EVERY-other-programming language has???

3. When Javascript does stupid shit like Automatic Semicolon Insertion (

You do realize that there are groups of poor people who are not black, right?

And those groups of poor people commit crimes against each other.

Latinos
Asians
Italians
The Irish

There is zero evidence that race is cause of crime. There is tons of evidence that crime is caused by poverty in any country.
England
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Russia
China
Canada
India
Mexico

India has been trying to support it's nascent cell phone manufacturing industry. They just told Apple no on selling Used phones there.

A cynic would see this as a ploy to help the local industry, making a hardware button specific for a single market. For a local producers who only sell to India, the single market requirement isn't much of a handicap. To international companies this is more of an issue for supply chains and all.

Of course this is not the reason, it's really to protect the women. Which is why they fully support cell phones for women because they cause rapes... wait...

Too lazy to google?

http://www.globalpost.com/disp...
http://www.theatlantic.com/int...
http://www.npr.org/2013/07/28/...

UN says US violating international law, calls for closure of Guantanamo
US Attack On Syria Violates International Law
US drone strikes violate international law, harm civilians: Amnesty and HRW (VIDEO)
NATO Violates International Law
US: Prolonged Indefinite Detention Violates International Law
UN says US drone war in Pakistan violates international law
The Military Admitted Force-Feeding Gitmo Detainees Violates International Law and Medical Ethics
US violates int’l laws; moves USS Enterprise into Pakistani water near Balochistan
International community concerned America violating international law by striking Syria
Americans Abandon International Law

Whether they realize it or not, Americans are increasingly embracing policies that undermine the international rule of law, with self-identified liberals, in particular, seemingly reversing their positions on matters such as the Guantanamo prison camp, extrajudicial assassinations and arbitrary detention.

A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, for example, found that 70 percent of the American public approves of the U.S. government’s decision to indefinitely keep the Guantanamo prison open, despite widespread international condemnation of this policy.

Are you fucking stupid or have you been living under a rock? Yes, it absolutely is legal for a husband to rape his wife in India.

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/15/marital_rape_is_officially_legal_in_india_partner/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/140512/marital-rape-officially-legal-india
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10824964/Rape-in-marriage-not-a-crime-Indian-court-rules.html

Go read and learn something, kid.

Ideally, you have to source all your equipment through third parties to disguise who is buying it which reduces the possibility it will be tampered with in the first place.

Once you do that, you might want to xray enclosed components that you cannot directly observe.

As to what I am doing? I am telling you that the NSA has used screen capture systems built into monitor cables. That isn't me just making that up. They do have such devices and they do use them.

So how do you deal with that? The Russian FSB went back to typewriters.

http://www.globalpost.com/disp...

So what does that tell you?

Undercover of helping immigrant agricultural workers who have long needed a break in America, the American technology sector - lead by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - has seen fit to heavily lobby Congress to increase H1-B and other worker visa permits, vastly increasing H1-B visas at a time when very good research shows that there is no shortage of tech workers in America. Zuckerberg has so far succeeded, in the Senate. What is motivating the claim for more H1-B visas?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

previously

One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem and Two H1-B's walk into a Bar: More on the H1-B visa problem

One of many examples of what goes on behind closed doors: an immigration attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers.

H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg; there are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas.

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on the H1-B and foreign worker visa problem. Matloff claims that Hi-B abuse has cost Americans $10Trillion dollars, since 1975. Inc. Magazine weights in Professor Matloff's Webpage

Mother Jones weighs in:How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers

Marc Zuckerberg and other wealthy tech scions - including large immigration law firms and corporation who profit from importing H1-B's continue to perpetuate this trend

How H1-B malpractice hurts the American economy

Most of the new crop of H1-Bs is coming from one of the most corrupt university systems in the world.

Indian government officials are not happy that the universities that they collude with might have some limitations placed on the abuses that have enabled them to "sell" their product to the American IT sector.

How the new immigration bill could ignite a trade war with India

How to underpay an H1-B worker

That is complete nonsense, there never was any protective law to prevent car imports. It would be against any "fair trade" agreement anyway.

Typical German delusion. The truth is free trade for you, concede in things like apparel, footwear and other things you scarcely manufacture in the first place and screw anyone trying to get into your automotive and machine tool markets.

http://www.autonews.com/articl...
http://europe.autonews.com/art...

First it was the informal quotas - 'voluntary' agreements that lasted for decades and kept Japanese car sales in western Europe capped at 10 to 15 percent of the market.

In other words the Japanese had their sales capped at 10 to 15% of the market in Europe for years.

When they built UK transplants in the late 1980s and early 1990s their share seemed certain to grow. Who knew that the pound would strengthen and that Britain would weaken as an industrial base?

In other words the Japanese were then FORCED to build plants in the EU to be able to sell cars in the EU.

Then there are the tricks companies like Volkswagen play in the European market. Where they finance car sales via their own bank which has lower interest rates than the rest of the Eurozone and can do this without currency transfers or bank transfer fees like an Asian manufacturer would need to do. In other words they sales are being inflated by German interest rates.

German car sales are no miracle. If the protections came down their sales would come down as well.

http://www.globalpost.com/disp...

During the five-day talks -- a key session before the European Union's review in April of whether Tokyo has made progress in eliminating trade barriers -- abolition of EU tariffs on Japanese automobiles was also a main topic of discussion.

The review, a year after the negotiations began, will be conducted to decide whether to continue the free trade talks based on how much effort Japan has made to eliminate nontariff barriers, especially in the railway sector.

The two sides agreed earlier to exchange proposals on scrapping or lowering tariffs at an early date. A senior Japanese government official has said that they were striving to exchange offers by April.

Japan, which wants to expand its auto exports to the European Union, plans to propose scrapping tariffs on EU wine in stages so it can draw a concession from the 28-country bloc in the automobile sector.

Once they've solved that tiny transmission and storage issue. Until then they can only work in conjunction with fossil fuel plants and play a minor role, so much so in fact that building wind today equals cementing coal & gas into the mix.

This is even worse than the situation in China where it's reported there are 122:100 men to women.
http://www.globalpost.com/disp...

If they treat him the same as HSBC, he'll be OK. Slap a minor fine on him (5 weeks-worth of profit) and the government take their cut of the proceedings.

Now, the government wouldn't treat individuals charged with wrongdoing differently to multi-million/billion dollar businesses, would they?

You are full of it. The prices are set by speculators on Wall Street. We have farmers plowing under their crops to "stabilize" the prices. The market is saturated with surplus. Save your propaganda for the believers. There are plenty of them, just like you. GMOs will do nothing to mitigate the corruption in the supply chain. They are a gimmick to create dependency on those who own the patents. The market uses food as a weapon and blackmail. This is what happens when you let a small handful of people control our natural resources. You sound like one of those Ayn Rand types.

Food aid is a poisonous gift. You might feed a bunch of people, but it undercuts the livelihoods of local farmers, and just creates dependency on handouts. Disaster relief is one thing, but without a transition plan towards self sufficiency it is almost worse than nothing.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/commentary-dependency-hinders-development

I saw a documentary about the aid industry in Haiti, and it was quite disgusting. Local builders and plumbers living in tattered tents without proper sanitation, just living on hand me downs from aid agencies whose interest was already focusing on the next disaster. Real aid would help the locals help themselves, not pay for aid industry fat salaries and materials manufactured in the donor countries.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/09/opinion/where-does-aid-money-really-go/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9545584/Poverty-barons-who-make-a-fortune-from-taxpayer-funded-aid-budget.html

That's the only tapping she's going to get.

I saw that 60 Minutes report (and other similar one they did on the dump kids of Brazil). It's sad how many people in this world live in (and off of) the toxic trash dumps of wealthier people. It's hardly uncommon in the third world, sadly.

Er exactly like Chernobyl but contained better, sort of, at least in the air.
20k limit...Chernobyl only has a 30k radius, without even having ocean to dump it into.

Chernobyl - Meltdown
Fukushima - Meltdown
You'll see they share the same word.
Chernobyl's cooling system failed to prevent a chain reaction too.

Key differences - Chernobyl did not have an ocean nearby to cool it / dump radioactive water everywhere.
It's like saying you were in a car crash. If you crash at 10 kmh/mph or 30 kmh/mph, you still crashed.

Chernobyl's radioactive crap was blasted into the air when it blew off a 1000 concrete seal.
Fukushima was dumped into the ocean.
Literrally. They even admit they believe it drained out into the ocean.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/130722/fukushima-radioactive-water-leaking-pacific-ocean

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/05/fukushima-meltdown-manmade-disaster
3 reactor meltdown.

So hopefully less damaging by spreading out the radiation through the ocean, hopefully the dillution prevents any adverse affects.

P.S We got radio active snow / ice on the west coast of Canada now, northern side. Not anywhere considered lethal or suspected to be harmful, but uh, yeah.
P.P.S Or you can say 'We detected an increased level of radiation in the snow' Vs whatever levels they are normally at from previous incidents/natural sources.

It makes perfect sense that Chinese groups are attacking the military of the Philippines since China is paving the way for aggression. China is trying to claim sovereignty over islands claimed by many of its neighbors. The age old quest by China to establish its hegemony continues.

Philippines Protests Renewed Chinese Pressure in South China Sea
China And The Biggest Territory Grab Since World War II
The Philippines and Japan want U.S. help in dealing with China’s aggression
Philippines upgrades military to end China "bullying" in S. China Sea
Japan Will Sell Ships To Philippines To Fight China’s “Bullying”

Biomarkers and "predispositions" to behaviors are going to be used to pre-judge individuals. This is inevitable.

Or to get early treatment, or preventative genetic repairs.

Go look at european healthcare systems, they do not charge extra for any of those things.

Or we could look at Japan.

I forgot to add:

Hong Kong currently allows indefinite stay for anyone petitioning for asylum, no questions asked.

Read this, and ask yourselves what your country has become

You seem confused, so I'll help you sort it out.

the US with its imprisoning of more people (by absolute numbers and percentage of population) than any other country

They are imprisoned for what are recognizable as ordinary criminal offenses, such as drug offenses. People in the United States are not imprisoned for things like singing songs that insult the president, such as this.

Indefinite detention

You are referring to Prisoners of War. Completely legitimate and a recognized standard. You can keep POWs in detention until the end of the conflict. Unfortunate that they made a bad choice of fighting for Al Qaida.

torture

The US waterboarded a total of three people, the most recent of which was 10 years ago. The US has waterboarded at least thousands, or tens of thousands, of military pilots and special forces personnel both before and since in the same way. It is certainly a form of coercion. But torture has a legal definition, and waterboarding under those circumstances didn't meet that at the time. Or would you claim that the US actually tortured its service members?

summary execution

Killing people on the battlefield or in the theater of war isn't summary execution, but simply killing, and in no way illegitimate. The people killed were in the same status as these people shot dead by the US Government without trial or warrant.

Yeah. The US has credibility when it comes to human rights.

Yes, it does.

Venus has a giant vortex constantly at its pole.

Not something I normally search for.. but.. this contest would just make Kim Jong even madder! http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/penis-size-world-map

Because their ventromedial prefrontal cortex is not functioning as it should:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/120823/old-people-are-really-easy-to-scam-say-scientists

Great for drug dealers! Drone comes with money, replace money with drugs, and off it goes!

If only it were so easy...

Ideally, you'd want something capable of travelling over rough terrain, has more than three legs for stability, has a homing instinct, can scavenge for food, and can travel in groups for safety. Like a donkey train ...

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/drug-mules-caught-transporting-marijuana-donkey-lesotho-south-africa

The only disadvantage is that at some point, a human has to collect the cargo.

At least Germany does the full-scale switch to renewables.

This is happening because the oceans are warming:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/121203/lobster-cannibals-caused-warm-seasons

"'We've got the lobsters feeding back on themselves just because they're so abundant,' said Richard Wahle, a marine sciences professor at the University of Maine, who is supervising the research. 'It's never been observed just out in the open like this,' he said." Abundance caused by populations of their predators collapsing.

owing to the increased temperature in the oceans... owing to global warming.

This is what happens when you inadvertently screw with the predator-prey relationships which have worked themselves out over millions of years.

Just wait 30 years and the FTFY will be :

"'We've got the people feeding back on themselves just because there's so little food' "It's never been observed just out in the open like this,' " We have overpopulation relative to collapsing food supply caused in turn by the collapse of the ecosystem, starting 30 years ago in the oceans..."

They're saying this happened because the storm system was blocked from going into the Atlantic because of the melting ice in Greenland.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/was-sandy-caused-years-record-ice-melt

Thing is, we knew this was going to happen. NASA said so a month or so ago:

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html - 07.24.12
"Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time," says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data."

What's wrong with burning a flag?

It can be hazardous to your health... http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/120918/pakistani-protester-dies-smoke-inhalation-after-b

It's only Americans who think it should be for profit and that "those of modest means" are on their own [emphasis added] if they don't have the money.

Seeing as how Americans are (in general) the most charitable people in the world [ http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111220/charity-us-most-generous-country-world-giving-index%5D, I don't see how you arrive at this.

Most charitable to non-Americans, perhaps.

It's only Americans who think it should be for profit and that "those of modest means" are on their own [emphasis added] if they don't have the money.

Seeing as how Americans are (in general) the most charitable people in the world [ http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111220/charity-us-most-generous-country-world-giving-index%5D, I don't see how you arrive at this.

America has been making weapons-grade nuclear material for somewhere near 70 years now so I am sure they know how to keep it safe and out of the hands of the bad guys.

But not 82 year old nuns apparently

Nah, they've had it already. One election and done. MB in charge, with no further need for those pesky campaigns or democracy. Just pure Islamic jurisprudence from now on. They're already replacing America with China is the main foreign sponsor as they don't like the strings that come with American foreign aid (i.e. "bribes"). Whatayagonna do? The people apparently genuinely support the MB.

another guy accused of rape

Julian Assange has not been charged of anything by any authority of any kind. He is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct Source

leaves the country when his lawyer tells him that he is wanted for questioning

Before leaving the country he consulted with the judge, who decided there was nothing holding him there and he could leave Swedish soil.

caught in Britain

Not caught, he turned himself to the police after it became clear that the illegal (or at least illegitimate) Interpol red notice was not going away. This, in the hope of resolving the matter.

then disappearing into some embassy

He did not disappear, he sought asylum. That's quite a difference.

in breach of his bail conditions

Because it was the only choice he had left to avoid being ultimately handed over to a country where he would be tortured or executed, thus breaching the Geneva Conventions

which _does_ make him a criminal in the UK

He has not been charged nor convicted of any crime by any government yet, not Sweden, not the USA, not even the UK as far as I can tell. (prove me otherwise)

On the other hand, Augusto Pinochet, charged by Spain for the killing of 3000 Chilean people, and torturing 30 000 more, including the raping of political prisoners with trained dogs, was not only not extradited by the UK but often drank tea with Margaret Tacher


This just goes to show you how much lies we are being fed by governments and medias alike. It's fairly easy to hear officials make the same mistakes as you did.
Not because they are ignorant. Then know very well the details of this case. They're not stupid. They just choose to deliberately lie.

You can agree or disagree with the importance of what Wikileaks does, and the importance of what Assange and Manning do for our society, but that doesn't make your claims any less WRONG

What most people doesn't realize is how oppresive and unfair is Correa's government. This entire asylum provision is nothing more than a political strategy from Correa to make look the 'yankees' bad and post himself as a martyr of a sovereign nation. Correa is pairing up with Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Evo Morales (the one that wants to legalize coke in Bolivia) and so on. This is a new wave of communist / socialists that have done nothing but oppress the population and press. If you guys investigate a little bit, you will see how Correa has put in jail and fined ridiculous fees to newspapers executives that speak wrongly about his government. Most interesting scandal is that one of "El Universo", one of the most popular diaries of my city, Guayaquil. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/120224/ecuador-libel-case-rafael-correa I guess it will be interesting seeing Assange's reaction once he arrives to a country that is currently crippled by oppresive laws which are silencing the press and population in favor of a corrupt government.

We will all die from lack of health care

Don't be willfully obtuse. The United States is alone in the industrialized world in rationing health care based on the ability to pay. Case in point: a 24 year old man who died from a freaking toothache because he didn't have money to pay for a dentist until it was too late.

You need to show substantial benefit from that health care spending

This was proved decades ago by the rest of the industrialized word with socialized medicine. Not only does it provide better care, it does so for less money. Which is why wingnuts resort to hand waving crap like "we all die from lack of health care" rather than citing stats showing the US having superior stats for less cost.

Else, I merely point out that people will die from the allocation of wealth to health care (people who give more to taxes have less to spend on their own well being). Also, more demand for health care means higher health care costs (that supply and demand thing).

Tautologies with zero basis in reality. If you could, you'd be showing how the US has a lower infant mortality rate than Japan while spending less money on maternal and pediatric care. If you could, you'd be showing how the US has a lower rate of fatal heart disease than France while spending less money on prevention and care.

You don't because you can't. Like the jury in To Kill A Mockingbird, you know perfectly well what the facts are. You just choose to ignore them because sticking to your storyline is more important.

On technology and civil liberties issues, Ryan has generally voted along party lines. Ryan opposed net neutrality bills; voted to extend the Patriot Act’s roving wiretaps and to immunize telecom companies from legal liabilities for cooperating with warrantless government surveillance. He co-sponsored a ban on internet taxes. Ryan initially approved of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which WIRED editorialized would “usher in a chilling internet censorship regime,” but backed down in the face of a pressure campaign from the internet-freedom supporters. Activists on Reddit cheered Ryan’s reversal on SOPA — and appear to have reactivated the Ryan thread now that Romney has tapped him to be vice president.

Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/paul-ryan-vp/

Voted YES on terminating funding for National Public Radio.
Voted YES on retroactive immunity for telecoms' warrantless surveillance.
Voted NO on establishing "network neutrality" (non-tiered Internet).
Voted YES on increasing fines for indecent broadcasting.
Voted YES on promoting commercial human space flight industry.
Voted YES on banning Internet gambling by credit card.
Voted YES on allowing telephone monopolies to offer Internet access.
Ryan co-sponsored permanently banning state & local taxation of Internet access
http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Paul_Ryan_technology.htm

> Couldn't possibly be that.

Are you kidding? The United States initially helped Saddam Hussein invade Iran, in a decade-long conflict that eventually claimed a million Iranian lives. The U.S. and other European powers even helped the Iraq use WMDs against Iran. And, get this: when Iraq attacked Iranian forces with chemical weapons, Iran did not retaliate in kind, despite possessing the technical capacity to do so. On top of all that, Saudi Arabian leaders claim they could acquire nuclear weapons in mere weeks. (regardless of the conditions under which they claim they would do so, the Saudi acknowledgement of their capability, is, itself, a nuclear threat -- on top of the threat already posed by other regional actors, who posses nuclear weapons.)

Now, you don't think *these* are plausible reasons for why Iran might want to develop a latent nuclear capability?
(note that "latent capability" is different from "fully functioning and deployed weapons.")

> History repeats itself.

Exactly, but not the way you describe. That repeating pattern is more like colonialism -- with its concomitant historical pattern of racism and white supremacy -- and not, as you claim, Antisemitism. Those tin-pot dictatorships that are (or were) all over the region? Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Hosni Mubarek, etc...? They are *overwhelmingly* propped-up by European powers and/or the United States. Make no mistake: the Saudi regime is *brutal.* ( it can be argued that basic freedoms are far more curtailed in Saudi Arabia, than in Iran.) Heck, Saudi Arabia essentially operates a eugenics program, designed to breed more "Al-Saud" family members. Such policies are not in the interests of most Saudi citizens, and, in fact: they are robbing the people blind. But these policies are in the interests of the Al-Sauds, and their colonial benefactors.

Also, the entire settler/colonist process in Israel, itself, is far more akin to classic, race-based colonialism, than it is akin to resistance to racism (which includes: resistance to Antisemitism). You can even ignore the treatment of Palestinians to make this case:

1. 1.) Israel helped the Apartheid South African government acquire weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. Israel did this, despite the fact that the South African state was maintaining preparedness for a genocidal war of annihilation against Blacks, eg: they even went so far as to research the creation of bioweapons that would selectively-kill Blacks in the "race-war" that their leaders imagined could happen.
2. 2.) Israel helped supply arms, training, and logistics to the Ladino/White Guatemalan regime, in the 1980s to 90's. It is widely acknowledged that this regime committed outright genocide against indigenous Mayans, during that county's civil war. Some estimates say that at least 200,000 Mayans were murdered or disappeared. Logistics included a computerized "passbook" system, that was used to limit the movements of Mayan Indians, in their own country. A similar system was supplied to South Africa, enabling the Apartheid regime to limit the movements of Blacks.

Now, before you claim "Israel (or other western powers) would never use nuclear weapons, first" -- consider the above two points: Israel has already helped other countries commit, or potentially commit, genocide. Not to mention: the United States, and many of the European powers active in the region, already have their *own* relatively recent history of mass-murder and genocide.

So, who should be trusted? Who will keep the peace? Iranian leaders

Minor mistake on the statistics. It's four in ten women in turkey, not one in four. That's 40% of women. And those who think this is limited to muslims in "those" countries -- sorry. 6 out of 10 Imams in Sweden were recently found to be giving out illegal advice on domestic abuse. And that's according to Swedish state tv. I don't see why so many in the west insist on shoving their heads in the sand in the name of "tolerance" (as if domestic violence was something that deserved tolerance). If a holy book tells people to do something, there is a pretty good chance they will.

A: Traffic system can be hacked (from inside but these days how hard could it be?)
B: CCTV can be used to track cars and most likely people
C: CCTV solves and/or prevents almost 0 crime (See Wiki)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/united-kingdom/090328/living-under-the-cctv-gaze

Now what I propose is that I (70) and all other over 65 show up at the airport in a bathrobe and slippers (nothing else) send your belongings ahead via FedEx or UPS, and before entering the screening area, kick off the slippers and take off the bathrobe, REMEMBER, OVER 65 ONLY! Insist on a hand search (I've got some hiding places I want explored)!

Please do

John Brennan (no, not the Deputy National Security Advisor, a different one) did so, and getting more people doing it will raise attention and debate in the media.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/naked-tsa-protest-portland-man-john-brennan-takes-cloths-

Thats primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa not the Arab world.

wrong, wrong, wrong.

Case in point:

They were more like the fuzzy down of a modern baby chick than the stiff plumes of an adult bird,” Xing Xu, a researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, said in a news release

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/120404/t-rex-cousin-sported-downy-feathers

How easy was it to find work in Denmark without speaking Danish?

I'm seriously considering moving elsewhere in Europe. There's no legal obstacles for me, I'm British, so the only question is how easy it is to find a job.

(However, I do quite like the job & friends I have here at the moment.)

From what I've been reading lately, we're a lot more likely to encouter fascism in Europe than the US. Hungary is on the verge of enacting a completely fascist constitution. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120329/eu-takes-on-extremism-can-it-win-echoes-hitler-pt-4 EU is having to battle fascist uprisings left and right. Some would argue the EU itself has fascist leanings, especially in light of its entirely unelected leadership. Do a lot of reading before you decide...that's pretty much what I'm doing. All those austerity measures being pressed is just business and government screwing the people there. The people are entirely against most of what's happening all over EU. So we move from here and have a real, more mature battle there. Might be better to just stay here and try to change things on the inside. Plus, what if all the thinking people do leave the US and it does become ultra right wing fascist? Then we've got the most powerful army in the world going (more) nuts all over. The current reality all over the world isn't real pretty. The only place to go is maybe someplace that doesn't matter and has few people.

The EU is having to battle fascist uprisings left and right?!?!?!?

Since when? You must be reading an American-centric paper, HQ'd in the US and written in English.

That article is laughable and sensationalist, at best. 7%, oh no!

And I forgot to even mention the islamofascism you're all having to deal with. Far more risks in the EU.

How easy was it to find work in Denmark without speaking Danish?

I'm seriously considering moving elsewhere in Europe. There's no legal obstacles for me, I'm British, so the only question is how easy it is to find a job.

(However, I do quite like the job & friends I have here at the moment.)

From what I've been reading lately, we're a lot more likely to encouter fascism in Europe than the US. Hungary is on the verge of enacting a completely fascist constitution. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120329/eu-takes-on-extremism-can-it-win-echoes-hitler-pt-4 EU is having to battle fascist uprisings left and right. Some would argue the EU itself has fascist leanings, especially in light of its entirely unelected leadership. Do a lot of reading before you decide...that's pretty much what I'm doing. All those austerity measures being pressed is just business and government screwing the people there. The people are entirely against most of what's happening all over EU. So we move from here and have a real, more mature battle there. Might be better to just stay here and try to change things on the inside. Plus, what if all the thinking people do leave the US and it does become ultra right wing fascist? Then we've got the most powerful army in the world going (more) nuts all over. The current reality all over the world isn't real pretty. The only place to go is maybe someplace that doesn't matter and has few people.

The EU is having to battle fascist uprisings left and right?!?!?!?

Since when? You must be reading an American-centric paper, HQ'd in the US and written in English.

That article is laughable and sensationalist, at best. 7%, oh no!

How easy was it to find work in Denmark without speaking Danish?

I'm seriously considering moving elsewhere in Europe. There's no legal obstacles for me, I'm British, so the only question is how easy it is to find a job.

(However, I do quite like the job & friends I have here at the moment.)

From what I've been reading lately, we're a lot more likely to encouter fascism in Europe than the US. Hungary is on the verge of enacting a completely fascist constitution. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120329/eu-takes-on-extremism-can-it-win-echoes-hitler-pt-4 EU is having to battle fascist uprisings left and right. Some would argue the EU itself has fascist leanings, especially in light of its entirely unelected leadership. Do a lot of reading before you decide...that's pretty much what I'm doing. All those austerity measures being pressed is just business and government screwing the people there. The people are entirely against most of what's happening all over EU. So we move from here and have a real, more mature battle there. Might be better to just stay here and try to change things on the inside. Plus, what if all the thinking people do leave the US and it does become ultra right wing fascist? Then we've got the most powerful army in the world going (more) nuts all over. The current reality all over the world isn't real pretty. The only place to go is maybe someplace that doesn't matter and has few people.

And if you want to bother with fringy sources like "shadowstats.com" or "truthistreason.net" go for it, but there's no way I'm wasting my time critiquing conspiratorial crap.

Shadow stats is far from "fringy", but why you feel the need to throw out ad hominems is beyond me, when all the information I posted has multiple sources for confirmation. Are you claiming that it's NOT true about the Libyan rebels oil company and central bank? It's general knowledge and there are many other sources. Sorry if that fact blows away the approved narrative that you were buying into before.

As for the inflation, the commodities graph of inflation that I posted is the same time period that the Federal Reserve distributed $16 trillion in fiat money around the world, so that's the correlation.

Yes, oil is up because we (or our proxies in the Middle East) are going to war with Iran. At least you acknowledge that it's a done deal and there is no amount of protest or outrage that will stop the elites from making sure that war happens. But that's not only an intentional move, but mostly a short-term blip with less influence than the long-term trend caused by MASSIVE INFLATION that will eventually become hyperinflation once the other major economies (Europe, China, etc.) have divested themselves of US reserve currency and start trading commodities instead, just like has already started happening.

If you really believe that the inflation numbers quoted by the Federal Government are accurate, you are truly naive. Not even Ben Bernanke himself believes it, although he doesn't come out and say so, he certainly won't defend those numbers.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business-tech/technology-news/120127/top-eu-official-kader-arif-resigns-protest