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Sure, he could take a boat...

Are you unaware of who we're talking about here? It's this guy. Even though they seized a lot of his assets, I think he's still outside of the "take a boat" class of wealthy. Yacht? Sure. Private sea plane? Yes.

During his confirmation hearing, he agreed that human activity “absolutely” contributed to climate change, but sparred with Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, over whether it was “a contributor” or the “primary cause.”

Scientists believe that it is extremely likely that most of the observed increase in global average surface temperature over the last half century was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together. In fact, some studies put the human contribution higher than 150%. That is, non-anthropogenic factors have had a net cooling effect. Human factors have caused all observed warming and also masked that cooling effect.

Mr. Bridenstine is promoting an extremely fringe position that isn't supported by the evidence. I'm not sure why we should celebrate that.

The main motivation for Chinese to want to go abroad is to escape the hot smoggy climate, and move somewhere cool and green. They love the UK for this reason. When they can't see the skies for the pollution, the government has no option to act. Just do an image search for pollution in China. Those pictures look like something out of a dystopian futureworld.

http://static4.businessinsider...

http://www.museumofthecity.org...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/ima...
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/stati...

On a clear day:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi...

let's face it, this http://rebellioustimes.com/wp-... was the only reason Carry Fisher became a legend.

yeah, yeah, yeah...

This has nothing to do with factory emissions, this is about growth in renewable production capacity. The IEA says China's growth in renewables last year was highest in the world. Guardian is UK not US newspaper idiot. Also look here for simple chart that doesn't require as much literacy to understand. See the big bars? The US isn't one of them, in any year.

A Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement that an "unidentified individual" shouted "gun" in the audience, though no weapon was found after a "thorough search."

We now have photographs of the person who shouted "gun".

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media...

Look, first up, this isn't personal. There's this dumbass thing common in the UK and US that fat == morally bad. It isn't. It's more often than not bad for one's health, but even then that's not guaranteed.

Look at my picture. I'm not a butterball.

Uh... I mean sure you have muscle mass. But your neck is wider than your head in that photo and it's a big fat roll. And there are at rolls of fat at your elbows and wrists. Also with your arms out, your chest is out past your arms: muscle doesn't do that, fat does. You do seem to have a quite unusual distribution of fat though. Anyway here's what some very strong men look like:

Hulk Hogan (very little fat, 303 lb)
https://wrestlingrecaps.files....

Geoff Capes (fatter, 360lb, hard not to find pictures completely obscured by a beard)
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

If you want more examples, people in the worlds strongest man contest are usually good choices because they are enormous, incredibly strong men with huge amounts of muscle, but are generally non pro, not ripped either and have a bit of far too making them somewhat normal in that regard.

Everything you have written is a lie. The Brits handed equipment? Evictions? Resettlings..!? The day "the minority got military control"? An open air prison? What parallel universe are you living in? Sorry, but Arabs have been butchering Jews at every opportunity for centuries. This started long before Israel was created, even long before Britain was even in the picture. You are clueless.

open air prison pictures:
Palestinian parliament https://i.guim.co.uk/img/stati...
http://www.whyisrael.org/wp-co...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Bank_Of_Palestine_-_Ramallah.jpg
https://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/1/1288603238635/M-venpick-hotel-in-Ramall-006.jpg
http://www.jerusalemdiaries.com/photos/large/204.jpg
http://www.pamolson.org/IMG_0376.jpg
proposed palestinian presidential palace http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/u...

It is ugly and impractical. Look at how low the wheel covers go. You wouldn't be able to go over the slightest bump or incline in that piece of shit.

Also the story lies when it says there is no steering wheel. From the interior picture, you can clearly see a steering wheel.

If you want a ugly logo look up the new cbbc one. Unless you're in the uk and have little kids you probably won't have come across it

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media...

I'll let you guess which is which.

The Guardian has been running a live counter of people killed by police in the US. The site is pretty haunting... showing a picture of the deceased as a normal smiling person before they died. While statistics can be projected so as to further any agenda, even a racist one as you rightly state, the raw data - without any biased analysis or interpretation - speaks for itself: 1145 people were killed by police in the US last year, and if you were black, you were 2.5 times as likely to be killed by the police as a white person.

But this is only part of the story... the Guardian counter allows you to click a link in the image of each person killed by the police to read about the circumstances under which they were killed, and it is clear that the vast majority of these people (regardless of race, ethnicity or sex) were out looking for trouble when they met their demise - criminal intent knows no racial or genetic boundaries - and maybe many of these people got what they deserved.

I think that the issue that many people take umbrage of is the clear disparity in which police handled the 226 unarmed people they killed in 2015. Once again, many of these so-called unarmed people were not innocent in their endeavours at the time they had their untimely encounter with the police. However, what the facts tell us is that if you were an unarmed black person and had a violent encounter with the police in 2015, you were 3.8 times as likely to be killed by the police as a white person. This includes people such as Keith Childress who failed to drop an object in his hand when instructed to do so by the police - the object turned out to be his cell phone, and one might understand why he might have hesitated flinging that onto the floor - as well as Leroy Browning who allegedly reached for a deputy's firearm during a physical struggle, prompting officers to open fire; Keith did not deserve to die while Leroy probably got what he deserved.

So they are admitting that they are so fucking stupid that they don't even bother to monitor ISIS's own public magazine where the mastermind of the Paris attacks was basically terrorist of the month? I think Admiral Michael Rogers is becoming a bit too much like General Buck Turgidson

Sorry Ms but you don't even come close to this, http://www.thatericalper.com/w... and any attempt to do so just comes out looking like this https://static-secure.guim.co....

The Prophet Mohamed was a dick, by the way. And Muslims, Scientologists and Mormons are all idiots for following "religions" founded by cruel scam artists.

You left a few out:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/stati...

https://desertpeace.files.word...

Propaganda versus actual evidence... http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix... http://www.parikiaki.com/wp-co... http://usvsth3m.com/wp-content... http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i... http://www2.pictures.zimbio.co...

Neither the Arctic ice extent (area), nor volume, is roughly equal to the mean of the last few decades.
I really don't get what either of you is arguing, you're both making false claims.

The infamous death spiral graph, showing monthly volume from 1979 to 2015:
http://skepticalscience.com//p...

Summer ice extent from July to September (the minimum period) from 1870 to 2014 (as mention above, 2015 is the 4th lowest extent, in between 2011 and 2008):
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

Average monthly extent from 1979 to 2015:
https://polarbearscience.files...

ice volume trend graph 1979-2014:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/...

no, the arctic is not rebounding.

2013, 2014, and 2015 minimum ice extents were all higher than 2012...but that does not mean it is rebounding, especially when they are still part of a continuing downward trend as shown when graphed:

The 10 lowest minimums have all occurred in the last 11 years.
This year, 2015 is the 4th lowest minimum on record.
The lowest is 2012.
2015's MAXIMUM ice extent is also the lowest maximum on record.

In order the lowest minimums are:
1st: 2012
2nd: 2007
3rd: 2011
4th: 2015
5th: 2008

Relevant graphs to help you picture it:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...
http://skepticalscience.com//p...

They have increased their primary budget surplus purely due to borrowed money.

Do you even know what a primary budget surplus is? It means they can pay all running expenses with the tax income.

You are falling into the No True Scotsman Fallacy the EU leaders have been pushing. Regardless of how well Greece did at meeting their dictates for them, if there is a problem, it is always because Greece did not follow orders. Look at this chart Krugman made:
http://interactive.guim.co.uk/...

I look it from this article:
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

Then keep telling me austerity is sound economy policy. There is a trend in that chart and it doesn't matter which country you are looking at. Austerity is economic cannibalism. That is what it is.

And your comment about number of civil servants is a LIE. Germany has more civil servants per capita than Greece. You don't know WTF you what you are talking about:
http://www.dgaep.gov.pt/upload...

Read the chart at the bottom of page 9. And that chart was produced before Greece started firing public servants because of the Troika demands. Germany has done no such thing.

As usual you drone off LIES you hear elsewhere and never bothered checking the facts yourself.

An amazingly schizophrenic site
When they are "explaining" they say things like what you posted

When they report the facts they say things like this.
http://www.livescience.com/374...

And when you look at the overall Antarctic ice graph

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

It seems to be growing despite volcanoes under western Antarctica.

So indeed who knew ?

You fucking moron. All youre doing is spreading that myth that because there was more in 2013 than 2012, that it is growing. 2012 was the LOWEST EVER, PERIOD, breaking all expectations. 2013's minimum was higher then 2012, BUT IT WAS STILL THE 6TH LOWEST EVER RECORDED.

Here are the real trends:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

It melts and regrows every year.
Minimum is reached in roughly mid-september.
Maximum in about mid-March.

The problem is its melting more, and regrowing less, every year.
Which is its thinner and younger, and lost significant volume.

And here's just a month ago:
2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/content/g...

Just fuck off.
Seriously, Skeptical science is actual science backed by actual fucking measurements.
You are just a cherry picking asshole who wished he had as much "legitimacy" as Natural News.

You fucking moron. All youre doing is spreading that myth that because there was more in 2013 than 2012, that it is growing. 2012 was the LOWEST EVER, PERIOD, breaking all expectations. 2013's minimum was higher then 2012, BUT IT WAS STILL THE 6TH LOWEST EVER RECORDED.

Here are the real trends:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

It melts and regrows every year.
Minimum is reached in roughly mid-september.
Maximum in about mid-March.

The problem is its melting more, and regrowing less, every year.
Which is its thinner and younger, and lost significant volume.

And here's just a month ago:
2015 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Annual Extent Is Lowest On Record (NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/content/g...

Just fuck off.
Seriously, Skeptical science is actual science backed by actual fucking measurements.
You are just a cherry picking asshole who wished he had as much "legitimacy" as Natural News.

I love the Canadian paper voting method and I hope it never changes. However, there are some differences between the Canadian System and the US system. In Canada, we usually only have one thing on the ballot. Either it's a federal election and you vote for your MP. If it's a provincial election you vote for your MPP. If it's a municipal election, there maybe be three things you can vote for, like mayor, city councillor, and school board trustee. But that's about as complicated as it gets. Compare the US election ballot with a Canadian election ballot. You could see why they might want to use a computer so they can lay things out a little more clearly. Ask one question per screen and it becomes a little less daunting. However, I think that if they are going to use computers to make the voting easier, it should really just be used to enter and print out your ballot, which is then deposited into the ballot box and counted manually.

Really though, I don't think computers should be used at all. I've heard too many stories of polling locations not having enough machines and people having to wait hours in line to vote. The greatest part about the Canadian system is that It's never taken me more than 10 minutes to vote, and I've never had to travel more than 10 minutes to vote. I usually just stop by on my way home from work. I once lived in a highrise apartment that had it's own polling station. They basically have one in every school. It's so effortless. And yet we still don't have enough people voting.

Well it isn't like NSA Director Mike Rogers isn't a caricature of General Buck Turgidson....

Well shit we're fucked.

It seems he is getting to be more like General Buck Turgidson or Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper every day. I'm now just waiting for him to start spouting off about a mine shaft gap.

Are there 100,000 DVD players or PCs in private hands in North Korea? This doesn't seem like it is likely to have much effect.

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-6...

They don't even have electricity... so I doubt it.

I think I see an animal in there...

You're right. It's a (now nearly extinct) Babirusa or ‘pig-deer’:

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-6...

...and it's actually a very accurate representation:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GScX...

They do a good job of cleaning it up in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I didn't think Bush Sr. was a sociopath

Old boy was head of the CIA during all the ugliness in Central America. Remember "School of the Americas"? I don't think there's ever been a head of the CIA who was not a sociopath. It's part of the job description, after all. And I'm not joking.

I don't really think Obama or Biden are sociopaths either

Well, they have sociopathies, such as extreme narcissism and dissembling behavior. If they're not full-blown sociopaths, they're definitely well along the spectrum.

they're career opportunists, but occasionally one of them does something that suggests there's an actual human being underneath

That's how sociopaths do. They learn very early on how to manipulate people to get what they want. Maybe not so much Biden, because I've seen pictures of him washing his own Trans Am. He seems like an old school good government politician. It's possible that he's not a sociopath.

I don't think it's irrelevant to his legacy that the Clinton years coasted by relatively smoothly with a strong economy and uncontested superpower status.

"Uncontested superpower status" is pure sociopathy. Clinton was a serial liar and willing to let the globalists run stuff while he was getting his freak on. He stays in my sociopath category, as does George Bush, who got up in front of a joint session of congress, on national TV and told what he knew to be a complete lie ("Yellow Cake!") so that we'd go fight a war. He's a sociopath. Maybe it has elements of "wet brain" from his years of drinking and drugging, but whatever self-caused organic damage he may have suffered manifested itself in sociopathic behavior.

So, OK. I'll take out Biden. He's just an old full-of-shit politician. On his own he probably wouldn't do much damage. Bush Sr - definitely a sociopath. Clinton, Bush Jr. You bet. Al Gore has more complicated pathologies, probably stemming from growing up the scion of a powerful political family and having great pressures put on him. After all, he married Tipper.

Thank you for pointing out Biden. Here's some evidence of normality:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

http://www.theonion.com/images...

And yes, I've checked it out, those are real photos, undoctored. The Onion had some fun with them, but didn't alter them at all. I figure a guy who's got a gut and old Navy tattoos and puts on shorts and goes outside to wipe down that beautiful hunk of Detroit iron is probably OK in my book. I don't think he does it regularly, but he seemed pretty unselfconscious about it. Yeah, he's vain with the hair plugs and capped teeth, but that's also part of the job description. If he wanted to show normalcy, there are plenty ways to do it without exposing your humanity in that manner. That's my two-bit psychoanalysis. Worth every penny.

Stalin youth pictures: http://www.menshairforum.com/t...
Tsarnaev brothers: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

All came from the Caucasus where the semites escaped to after the Romans killed their brothers at Masada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

Romans, how they dealt with the people they wanted to conquer who resisted them (traian's column): http://textbookformypillow.fil... from http://textbookformypillow.wor...

Hitler, who 5 years after the Stalinist purges started his attack: http://assets.nydailynews.com/...

History keeps repeating itself. For every action there are consequences.

Danger, to a large part, is about perception. Coal and NG kills only a few people at a time, which is highly preferable for politicians, whereas nuclear tends to come in very few and far between big events, so everybody is scared shitless, despite in absolute numbers the threat being negligible (think, by analogy, driving and flying, which has less fear surrounding it and which is safer in actual fact).
As for a comparison between nuclear, wind and solar, it gets kinda murky. For one, wind & solar don't (typically) kill innocent bystanders but people working in the industry of their own volition (usually by falling from roofs or elevated platforms). For another thing, they can't cause large-scale pollution of their operating sites, though you could point to massive industrial pollution being caused by things like rare earth mining (like these "sweet" ponds of nitric acid), which are a significant part of their high-power generators and much of modern solar panel electronics. Again though, here the public only sees the shiny clean plants and ignore what's happening abroad - who cares about brown people anyway, right? Sarcasm aside, to a degree it's part hypocrisy and part irrationality and it takes huge amounts of work to educate the wider public on what the reality of the situation is, but I'm hopeful. In general, reasonable people are willing to listen and they intuitively understand that there's no such thing as a free lunch, neither in physics nor in environmental concerns. There's always a cost-benefit that needs to be done.

People want to read something like "The iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA!!!". Anything much longer than that will never be read or understood by most people.

It's hopeless. Ask 100 people who have heard of this and 95 of them will tell you that it is proven now that the iPhone has a secret backdoor for the NSA over which all data can just be read by them.

(And I'm not even saying that it has NO such backdoor. Maybe it has. But this isn't it. This just isn't designed for mass surveillance, it needs a cooperating user and individual access to a device the user has connected his iPhone to. Maybe it's a side door for law enforcement and/or forensics additionally to a debugging tool.)

Except for the fact that Apples handing all of your data over to the NSA anyway. Apple has a very cozy relationship with the US federal government.
http://cdn.bgr.com/2013/11/app...

But at least Apple held off for longer than some of the others:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

Long story short? The NSA doesn't need this backdoor, it's a lot easier to just go strait to apple.

The raw data shows the same warming trend. And the adjustments are there for a good reason - otherwise the deniers would be complaining even more about the heat island effect and siting / instrumentation problems than they even are today (oh, and to head people off, the warming trend gets even stronger when you outright remove the "bad", "artificially hot" meteorological stations the deniers complain about). And all of the adjustments are cross-checked by a variety of peer-reviewed verification methods. For example, the heat island effect on stations is (among other methods) cross-checked by comparing windy days with still days, as wind greatly reduces the heat island effect.

In short, to anyone who thinks they've got some killer reason why the adjustments are wrong, simply write a paper, go through peer-review like everyone else has to do, and viola, you're part of the actual scientific debate and I'll take you seriously. Until then...

I'll admit Hollywood and artists have given us some wonderfully scary imagery of the killer robots of the future:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...
http://ockhamsbeard.files.word...

But I suspect the real future will be more like:

http://www.wired.com/images_bl...

Or the much less vulnerable and maintainable:

http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2...

Coupled with thermal imagery, a simple AI to identify sneaking human patrols, and (at least at first) a go/no go command from some Private Tentpeg hunkered down in a bunker or OP somewhere. Trust me on this: I've BEEN that Private Tentpeg .. and later, his supervisor. It isn't far, in the front lines, from a tripwire connected to a hand grenade" to a much more complicated (and even more lethal) machine. How much "intelligence" will be vested in that machine is just a quibble. Trip wires aren't smart at all, yet we've never hesitated to use them.

Clearly, religion is the key to happiness:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-i...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/i...

http://media.dumpert.nl/foto/4...

You can't attribute the drop in violent crime over 20 years so a single cherrypicked variable. Why do I call it cherrypicked? Because if you thought the probability of a household or individual owning a gun deterred you from robbing it then crime should have gone up since the number of households with guns has decreased. (I'd like the numbers on how many people are concealed carrying but I couldn't find them). How to explain the soaring sales? Existing owners buying multiple guns. They also suggest that more guns have led to fewer suicides when there's very good evidence to suggest the opposite.

Note I'm not sure I'd claim the drop in crime is correlated to the dropping gun ownership rates since I think the data is simply too messes. I'm also not sure that state level gun control has much impact on gun crime since the criminals that commit the bulk of crimes can easily bring in guns from out of state. But I think there's strong evidence that guns decrease safety.

Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills

In the week that Uruguay legalises cannabis, the 78-year-old explains why he rejects the 'world's poorest president' label

Jonathan Watts in Montevideo
The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013 13.37 GMT

Article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica
Author: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanwatts

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Image: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/12/11/1386784118202/Jos--Mujica-009.jpg

José Mujica, the Uruguayan president, at his house in Montevideo. Photograph: Mario Goldman/AFP/Getty Images

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"If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is José Mujica, Uruguay's president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his salary to social projects, flies economy class and drives an old Volkswagen Beetle.

But the former guerrilla fighter is clearly disgruntled by those who tag him "the world's poorest president" and â" much as he would like others to adopt a more sober lifestyle â" the 78-year-old has been in politics long enough to recognise the folly of claiming to be a model for anyone.

"If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me," Mujica said during an interview in his small but cosy one-bedroom home set amid chrysanthemum fields outside Montevideo.

The president is a former member of the Tupamaros guerrilla group, which was notorious in the early 1970s for bank robberies, kidnappings and distributing stolen food and money among the poor. He was shot by police six times and spent 14 years in a military prison, much of it in dungeon-like conditions.

Since becoming leader of Uruguay in 2010, however, he has won plaudits worldwide for living within his means, decrying excessive consumption and pushing ahead with policies on same-sex marriage, abortion and cannabis legalisation that have reaffirmed Uruguay as the most socially liberal country in Latin America.

Praise has rolled in from all sides of the political spectrum. Mujica may be the only leftwing leader on the planet to win the favour of the Daily Mail, which lauded him as a trustworthy and charismatic figurehead in an article headlined: "Finally, A politician who DOESN'T fiddle his expenses."

But the man who is best known as Pepe says those who consider him poor fail to understand the meaning of wealth. "I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live," he said. "My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress."

He shares the home with his wife, LucÃa Topolansky, a leading member of Congress who has also served as acting president.

As I near the home of Uruguay's first couple, the only security detail is two guards parked on the approach road, and Mujica's three-legged dog, Manuela.

Mujica cuts an impressively unpolished figure. Wearing lived-in clothes and well-used footwear, the bushy-browed farmer who strolls out from the porch resembles an elderly Bilbo Baggins e

Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills

In the week that Uruguay legalises cannabis, the 78-year-old explains why he rejects the 'world's poorest president' label

Jonathan Watts in Montevideo
The Guardian, Friday 13 December 2013 13.37 GMT

Article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/13/uruguay-president-jose-mujica
Author: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathanwatts

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Image: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2013/12/11/1386784118202/Jos--Mujica-009.jpg

José Mujica, the Uruguayan president, at his house in Montevideo. Photograph: Mario Goldman/AFP/Getty Images

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"If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is José Mujica, Uruguay's president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his salary to social projects, flies economy class and drives an old Volkswagen Beetle.

But the former guerrilla fighter is clearly disgruntled by those who tag him "the world's poorest president" and â" much as he would like others to adopt a more sober lifestyle â" the 78-year-old has been in politics long enough to recognise the folly of claiming to be a model for anyone.

"If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me," Mujica said during an interview in his small but cosy one-bedroom home set amid chrysanthemum fields outside Montevideo.

The president is a former member of the Tupamaros guerrilla group, which was notorious in the early 1970s for bank robberies, kidnappings and distributing stolen food and money among the poor. He was shot by police six times and spent 14 years in a military prison, much of it in dungeon-like conditions.

Since becoming leader of Uruguay in 2010, however, he has won plaudits worldwide for living within his means, decrying excessive consumption and pushing ahead with policies on same-sex marriage, abortion and cannabis legalisation that have reaffirmed Uruguay as the most socially liberal country in Latin America.

Praise has rolled in from all sides of the political spectrum. Mujica may be the only leftwing leader on the planet to win the favour of the Daily Mail, which lauded him as a trustworthy and charismatic figurehead in an article headlined: "Finally, A politician who DOESN'T fiddle his expenses."

But the man who is best known as Pepe says those who consider him poor fail to understand the meaning of wealth. "I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live," he said. "My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress."

He shares the home with his wife, LucÃa Topolansky, a leading member of Congress who has also served as acting president.

As I near the home of Uruguay's first couple, the only security detail is two guards parked on the approach road, and Mujica's three-legged dog, Manuela.

Mujica cuts an impressively unpolished figure. Wearing lived-in clothes and well-used footwear, the bushy-browed farmer who strolls out from the porch resembles an elderly Bilbo Baggins emerging from his Hobbit hole to scold an intrusive neighbour.

In conversation, he exudes a mix of warmth and cantankerousness, idealism about humanity's potential and a weariness with the modern world â" at least outside the eminently sensible shire in which he lives.

He is proud of his homeland â" one of the safest and least corrupt in the region â" and describes Uruguay as "an island of refugees in a world of crazy people".

The country is proud of its social traditions. The government sets prices for essential

So from this article I take it I'm supposed to track down aredhead and have her make my password for me?

She looks like she has a trustworthy face.

We do, and we destroy the livelihoods of everyone who lives in these agrarian societies. It's called dumping and these bags represent one of the largest contributors to poverty in the third-world. Those bags do not represent a leg-up but a boot smashing them back into the mire.

Nuclear

Non-nuclear

Have you been in Vermont recently? I'd love to live there, if there were any jobs.

Now, who really thinks iphone users have a net worth three times that of Android users?

That's a great question and exactly the right one to ask. As it turns out, an average iOS user is worth roughly 4-5x more than an average Android user, at least in terms of what they're willing to spend on apps, which admittedly isn't the worth that we're talking about in this context, but is about the closest indication we can get to the relative worths of users on the different platforms, absent of having data on what the street value is for a compromised device of each variety.

It's also worth pointing out that you've made the false assumption that iOS has to offer a value that's equal to or greater than Android's before iOS would be a logical target, completely dismissing the fact that the black hats may very well be interested in iOS, even if it only offered half or a quarter of the value of attacking Android, simply because there are other considerations at play (e.g. big fish in small pond, diversifying their products for more stable profit, etc.). Even if their users were equal in value and Android had 4.7x more users, that'd still mean that Apple had about 18% of the market, which is a sizable portion to target and well worth at least some of the malware developers' time. As such, you'd expect to see that they're getting hit fairly often.

Instead, that link above indicates that Android gets 79% of malware, iOS gets 0.7%, and Blackberry and Windows Phone each clock in at 0.3%, despite the fact that their market shares are even more diminutive than Apple's. And don't forget Symbian, which only had 19% of the malware, despite the fact that its installed userbase was comparable to Android's at the time that the study was conducted.

As for the rest of what I said, which you largely dismissed as irrelevant, I'll repeat some of it regarding this trend being expected, given the designs for the various OSes. Android is designed to be configurable and modifiable by manufacturers and carriers, as well as more open to developers, which naturally means that it's a harder product to secure, given that the surface area for attack is much larger and the changes that are being made are not always being as heavily scrutinized. In contrast, Apple, Microsoft, and Blackberry each only need to secure one OS that they have full control over, so it should come as no surprise that there's less malware for them, not merely because of market share, but also because of design considerations of this sort. If they didn't have disproportionately less malware, that would be an indication of a major failure on their part to secure their OS.

So, once again, your security through obscurity argument is full of holes, and there are perfectly obvious reasons for why iOS has less malware than Android. That you're ignoring them is astonishing, considering the reasons they exist in the first place are the reasons that the Android ecosystem is able to thrive.

No warming for 17 years

See 17 years in a 40 year context and in the 130 year temperature record.

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the railroad engineer who for some reason chairs the IPCC

The same Dr. Pachauri who was the director of the energy and resource institute of India, chancellor and fellow at several the universities in several countries, chairman of the agriculture foundation, chairman of climate board at Colombia University, senior advisor at Yale, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, advisor to several oil companies, manufacturers and banks?

Yeah. Sure. It is creepy. Just like the cameras that are under the mall ceiling or on the street poles. If people don't like video being taken of them, I suggest they do it everywhere and every time. You know, just being consistent.

Definitely fishy...these are GCHQ documents...British Government...not NSA...

here's one: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/6/16/1371408003314/GCHQ-ragout-1-002.jpg

They look like more powerpoint slides...maybe that's his trick, his only real *new* info is some ppt slides from a conference he managed to swipe while setting up a workstation...

Then his narcissism and idiocy take over...

If it isn't China it's the military/industrial complex...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/gallery/2008/11/03/water1.jpg

I do wonder if this document is authentic. It looks like it was created by a teenager. Look at the PRISM logo, for example, which looks like it was made on MS Paint. Why are the list of companies bizarrely represented on a graph with one axis?

Also, what about the cost? $20 million a year is nothing. In government, that's probably the total cost to buy a laser printer. I can't imagine a massive data mining operation costing less than a few hundred million a year.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not blindly saying it isn't authentic either. I'm saying it *may* not be authentic. Since we don't really know anything except for newspaper reports based on one very sloppy looking document, I think some skepticism is healthy.

It could also be NSA disinformation of course. Or disinformation from another agency or country! It could be a legit program presented as an unauthentic looking document to spread skepticism!

If it is true, the question is how to stop the bastards from doing it. If it is true, I hope they're as woeful at gathering data as they are at displaying it in Powerpoint presentations.

I do wonder if this document is authentic. It looks like it was created by a teenager. Look at the PRISM logo, for example, which looks like it was made on MS Paint. Why are the list of companies bizarrely represented on a graph with one axis?

Also, what about the cost? $20 million a year is nothing. In government, that's probably the total cost to buy a laser printer. I can't imagine a massive data mining operation costing less than a few hundred million a year.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not blindly saying it isn't authentic either. I'm saying it *may* not be authentic. Since we don't really know anything except for newspaper reports based on one very sloppy looking document, I think some skepticism is healthy.

It could also be NSA disinformation of course. Or disinformation from another agency or country! It could be a legit program presented as an unauthentic looking document to spread skepticism!

If it is true, the question is how to stop the bastards from doing it. If it is true, I hope they're as woeful at gathering data as they are at displaying it in Powerpoint presentations.

Install Collusion add-on into your Firefox browser and monitor it while surfing. After visiting a few web sites you will see links forming to ten other sites. etc...
It becomes apparent that everyone is telling everyone else about you.

looks like this...
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/4/13/1334309538603/Collusion1.jpg

in relation to the Zimbabwe dollar of old:

here

Seriously, nobody has the right to stop people trading in btc's but like owning a load of bank stocks when a property collapse hits, you don't want to be holding this when the music stops, and everybody else is sitting in their chair with real wealth: gold, silver, land, food, water, knowledge, books, musical instruments, musical talent ..

I'm confused, are you saying that's a common response or that you're actually criticizing China in that way. If it's the first, I've never seen that suggested before. If it's the second: the US is a bigger contributor to global warming with less than 5% of the world's population. Which might be why I've never seen anyone suggest that here before.

My circle of closest friends and exes contain lots of strippers and more than a handful of people who have done porn either amateur (ie, online) or "professionally". Some are really messed up (by life, which perhaps led them into the profession -- not by the profession itself). Others are very happy and have enjoyed their work and are rather ambitious and in control of themselves and their careers. Of everyone I know, only one ultimately seems to have regretted their choice (that's a far better ratio of satisfaction than anyone I know in any other career, including my own).

Absolutely none of them were forced into it. Nor were *any* of them even coerced (at least, certainly not more than the attempt to persuade during any average date). For every Shelly Lubben nutjob out there proselytizing to/harassing women in the porn industry and going around telling everyone that they're forced into the trade by vile threatening men and then kept there by abuse and drugs, there are dozens who are or were in the industry and are grateful for the opportunities it presented. The people I know who truly hate their jobs and feel exploited are as far away from the sex industry as possible, in other shitty jobs that just happen to be more socially acceptable.

Unfortunately, the only thing really surprising to me about all of this is that it is from Iceland, which is a land I've come to know as being more progressive and enlightened than most.

Oh, and that one person who states they do regret it afterward? We saw each other for awhile. Lost touch for a few months. Next thing we know, she's part of Shelly Lubben's crew, pimping Jesus to girls at trade shows as they try to convince the girls that they're victims and need to come join the Pink Cross. She was always the sort of person who threw herself into one thing completely and had to have something be "that thing" at all times. When porn didn't work out for her (she did it for about a decade, but never really had a "break through"), she eventually decided to go to the other end of the spectrum and you couldn't talk with her for more than two seconds before Pink Cross or Jesus took over the whole conversation.

Perhaps people like her who regret their career is more common in porn than that. I only have anecdotal information. I just have an overwhelmingly positive sense about the whole thing, directly from those who have been doing it for various lengths of time. Perhaps there are some people who are in it due to unscrupulous manipulation by managers or other persons in the industry. Then we address those persons and those parts of the industry. What you don't do is invalidate an entire industry and everyone in it who benefits from it, because of a few jackholes. If that *is* what we do, then we might as well get started with the banking industry, first.

PS: Prof. Gail Dines (photo here), advocating against porn in this submission, is an American who is an aforementioned Shelly Lubben buddy and has tended to be consistently controversial (which I'm sure doesn't harm the sales of her several books). According to Wikipedia, the following is her general position -- she strongly tries to associate porn with sex trafficking. Because, you know, all those Vivid girls are obviously part of the white-slave trade or whatever. Ugh. Repulsive.

Dines's view is that pornography distorts the user's view of sexuality and makes more difficult the establishment of real-life intimate relationships with women. Dines maintains that modern pornography is cruel and violent, unlike earlier forms of pornography with which the general public may be familiar, and has the effect of tending to generally degrade the position of women in society. She also advances the position that the prevalence of hardcore pornography is a contributing factor in increasing "demand" for sex trafficking.

It's disappointing. The women I know already have to deal with the whole "