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If the US thinks it can make everything it needs, or currently gets from China and other such countries, I think it's sadly mistaken.

Cisco manufactures in China and Russia. Apple does. Ford just took a huge hit because most of their stuff is outside the US.

You've basically just added a "US jobs tax" on everything you buy, from critical network infrastructure to consumer goods to automobiles. And it'll work. Once. What will happen is that it won't CONTINUE to work, even if you could survive that and bring everything "in-house".

Similarly, China's will just reverse that situation and do the same back to you, like they do with trade deals. So everything you make in the US, other countries aren't as interested in buying any more.

It's fine so long as you can make everything you need for yourself and don't need to sell outside the US. There isn't a country in the world that's that closed on trade and comes out smiling about it.

Go look at how much stuff you BUY from China, and how much you sell back to them.

https://www.census.gov/foreign...

You buy four times more from them than you ever sell back to them. Decreasing that is cutting off your nose to spite your face. People buy from China because the US stuff is too expensive, your plan is to make everything yourself under US law, US wages, US supply chains. Literally at the moment, you're "abusing" foreign labour... when you stop doing that, everything's going to rocket in cost:

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It costs as much as 25 times more to pay a US worker than a Chinese one.

What you're saying is "Let's make all our own mops in-house, that'll be cheaper than buying them from the home-store." It isn't going to be cheaper than saying some kid in China to sit and make them for you. It's gonna be 25 times more expensive.

You just cut trade with the world's largest economy. And pissed off the largest lender to the US.

And when those Chinese companies just move all their manufacturing out of China to avoid your silly tariffs (like they are already doing to Vietnam, etc. that aren't affected)... you'll still be in the same position.

"Britain is significantly increasing its ability to wage war in cyberspace..."

Translation: "to fuck up the Internet"

The Conservative conference is about to start and the UK government is desperate for anything to distract them from the Brexit catastrophe. This is why a group of people who have regularly compared the EU to the Nazis are suddenly getting upset about a photo with no cherries. The real translation is "please don't notice the puppeteer .

One conspiracy theory suggests that it might be, although the same article does provide some pretty compelling arguments why it probably isn't as well. Specifically, while "Lodestar" is an unusual word used by the author and also on multiple occassions by Mike Pence, the author also claims to use idioms used by other staffers to obfuscate. Quite brilliant really, given how mercurial and suspicious Trump can be, as lashing out at Pence would only serve to further the authors objective of showing how disfunctional they think Trump's inner circle is.

Either way, if it does come to the 25th, Trump's supporters are going to go *nuts* about a coup if it succeeds and Pence takes the oath. Never mind buying popcorn, I'm going to be buying stock in popcorn *suppliers*.

I agree with what your saying and I'm not saying it was Apple. I will say that when I've noticed it the topics were so unique there has to be something more to it then randomness. With the college example, it wasn't an ad, it ended up being a week of ads plastered everywhere.

As Tim Cook said recently, "It is really creepy when you look at something on the internet, and all of a sudden there are ads for it everywhere." And in fact, I seem to remember that Apple is putting something in Safari to try and stop that (I don't know how, though). So, I really don't think it is Apple.

But I agree: That is VERY odd...

Here's the Slashdot Article about what the real Tim Cook (;-) ) said:

https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...

..and here's an article about Safari using ML to block those ads:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co....

And since the HuffPost article was from a year ago, one would assume that has already been added to Safari; since I believe Apple has already released its "Core ML" Machine-Learning Framework. In fact, it is already at "Core ML 2":

https://developer.apple.com/ma...

He's not in the least bit incompetent. He is doing the thing he knows how to do best: Enrich himself through corruption. ZTE had nothing to do about politics. https://www.huffingtonpost.co....

5 days. That's all it took. 5 days from May 9th where Trump helped kill ZTE, to getting a major investment from the Chinese, to Trump helping bail ZTE out tweeting about his concern for Chinese jobs.

ZTE has to embed NSA spyware into their US-market devices... or maybe all of their devices.

Don't be daft. Trump is in this for personal gain not to prop up the NSA: https://www.huffingtonpost.co....

anti-Hollywood story (that Democrats hate).

Tell me how many Democrats you count here:

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

Notice they were mentioning movies and TV as well. And during that event, the republicans were saying "It's just a video game." Something they've always been saying, since well before it was considered related to gun control. And this all started because somebody told Joe Lieberman that there was a "scantily clad" woman shown in Night Trap, a game that practically nobody heard of until this, and then most people forgot about it afterwards.

The very progressive state of California passed a law to ban violent video games in 2011, until SCOTUS shot it down:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06...

Oh and then there's Hillary's stance on violent video games:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Obama threw a lot of money at the topic when pushing it towards a gun control issue (which is pretty much where this became a gun control topic):

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

And I think every gamer remembers Jack Thompson who tried to get Doom banned after Columbine since the shooters were big fans of Doom and even commented that their spree would be just like Doom. Of course, he didn't stop there.

I kind of doubt Trump's base is pushing towards this. Maybe, but it's most likely that Trump, having been born without a filter, just randomly came up with it, just like everything else he does and says.

This is actually a huge issue.

Yep.

If you really want equality and not just some token feelgood bullshit, let's start with eliminating "maternity" leave and turn it into "parental" leave, with mandatory equal times for husband and wife.

This is something that will most likely benefit men as well as women.

It's also something feminists have been going on about for quite a while.

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"Sir Scott Baker Review Of Extradition Treaty Find UK-US Treaty Not Biased Against Britons"

> Is there evidence supporting the claim that the loss of the verified mark was related to their opinions and not an ambiguity in who was actually posting

One easy-to-find case:

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Milo, of course, went on to be completely banned by twitter at a later time. But there was ABSOLUTELY no question than he was who he said he was: there was no ambiguity. So there's your "evidence supporting the claim". Because he was later banned, it definitely fits the idea that they unverified him as a may of adding meaning to the check mark of "this check mark denotes twitter approves of this", and therefore removing the check mark is a statement of political disagreement.

This event was not missed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

So this means that the blue mark removal was being received by both left and right as being an editorial statement about the person, and not a "guaranteed to be the person" mark.

as recently as January this year it published an article saying that Hitler escaped the bunker in Berlin

Also covered by The Huffington Post.

you are right it doesn't see: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

1. 80 Gbps of raw, multifunctional I/O bandwidth. Nearly TWICE that of any other Laptop, regardless of brand, regardless of price.

If it had a port to check my car's tire pressure that would also be a feature that no other laptop has, at any price. In other words: so what?

This falls into the category of shit I don't need and can't use with any equipment i own or am likely to own this year. The multifunctional i/o bandwidth available in other laptops is fine. Apple going to 11 on this feature is all fine and dandy but it lacks the features users actually need and want.

You, sir, are an unmitigated moron.

What you fail to see is that USB-C is truly coming, and coming fast. How long do you think people will keep their 2016 MBP. Well, contrary to the Haters' Claim that all Mac users MUST Upgrade each and every chance they get, because "Ooh, shiny!", most Mac users KEEP their Laptops for an average of five to seven years.

How many USB-A devices do you think will be on the market at that time?

2. 5k Internal Display on 15" model (I think the 13" is 4k?) I believe that is UNIQUE relative to any other Laptop, regardless of brand, regardless of price.

UNIQUE yes. UNIQUELY pointless. Its just more "Innovation" nobody cares about. Do you have 5k content? No? So who cares? At 15" will it look any better than 4k display? No? So who cares?

Ah, the old "My Use Case is EVERYONE'S Use Case" meme. Glad to see you!

This is a PRO Laptop, made for PROs. Guess what? Some of them actually DO 4k/5k video editing and other PRO-level and CPU/GPU intensive-tasks at this point. And again, since Mac users KEEP their computers (because they aren't plastic shitboxes that fall apart after a year), how much 4k and 5k video do you think will be around by THEN???

What a Slashtard.

3. UNIQUE, Custom, Apple-Designed SSD Controller with the highest Read/Write performance in the industry.

I'd far rather a COTS module I can replace in 2 years for $200 for with a 4TB one. I'm willing to give up a few % points of performance for that. My 2011 Macbook pro is still useful to me (my family at least) because I was able to upgrade the RAM and SSD. This new one? Sure its a few points faster ... but its stupidly overrpiced for the marginal improvement in speed, and you're stuck with whatever capacity you get today forever. I don't object to the existence of this tech as an option for people who want it... but does apple give you the option? Nope. If you want an MBP you have to have this overpriced tech whether you want it or not, whether you need it or not, whether you'd be happier with COTS SSD or not.

It's not "just a few points". It's nearly DOUBLE even last year's model, which was already much faster than any SSD you could put in your 2011 MBP. Do I wish it were replaceable? Yeah, sure. But I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Next!

4. Ability to natively drive up to FOUR 4k external displays, plus its internal 5k display, or up to TWO 5k external displays, plus its internal 5k display, more than any other Laptop, regardless of brand, regardless of price.

But no native ability to connect to even one HDMI projector in the customer or hotel meeting rooms without carrying a bag of accessories. Swing and a miss.

Again, you're a unmitigated MORON.

Go to Amazon. No need to carry "a bag of accessories". Just buy something like THIS, or

I heard this morning that Apple wants to start making movies

I hope they're not going to try to edit those on a new Macbook "Pro"

Why? I have heard it handles 4k (actually 5k!) video editing smooth as glass.

They were given the figures on immigrants being less likely to claim benefits then natives, but ignored them.

Figures I've seen were largely based on Eastern European immigration. What you're ignoring is the relatively recent massive influx of Muslims, and any statistics I find on that group are appalling. The most unemployed, the most claiming disability, the most on public housing, the most in medical costs. And this is hardly unique to the UK.

Here's a recent left-wing source:

"The high proportion of the Muslim prison population (13%) and the proportion of Muslims in social housing (28%) is also a "cause for concern", the report's author said."

Here's an older source, and things have surely gotten worse since then:

"Muslims households were the least likely to be homeowners (52%) and are the most likely among all religious groups to be living in accommodation rented from the council or housing association (28%); 4% live rent-free. [..] 63% contained at least one dependent child, and 25% contained three or more dependent children. [..] Muslims between the ages of 16 and 24 had the highest unemployment rates at 28%; 11% of Muslims over the age of 25 were unemployed. [..] Muslims were most likely to be unavailable or not actively seeking work due to reasons such as disability, being a student, or looking after the family and home. 31% of working-age men were economically inactive, as were 69% of working-age women."

Not only is the massive Muslim immigration into the West a security risk, it's a massive failure economically.

Fucking read this if you're even literate you fucking idiot.

Then for the Clinton emails, they didn't even pretend they were trying to act responsibly and directly dumped everything as fast as they could.

I'm pretty sure they actually dumped them in deliberate staggered batches with announcements in between to maximise publicity rather than as fast as they could. As far as I can tell that's their explanation of what they were doing as well as how it looks.

Maybe one day someone will leak all Assange and other members of Wikileaks emails and we'll know the truth though...

This exactly. Previously the major criticism of Wikileaks was they were leaking unsanitized information, putting innocent people in repressive regimes at risk.

But this election they went in with a very clear goal of attacking Clinton by maximizing the political damage of whatever information they had. They even made a poll endorsing crazy health conspiracy theories.

The thing is I'm not sure exactly what Assange's plan is, does he plan to retire once he gets his pardon? Trump is infamous for hostility to the media, how does Assange think he'll react when Wikileaks dumps something from President Trump's administration?

I think it's cute and all that you've linked to the legal theories of a bunch of organised Brexiter bigwigs (literally, Queens Council; knighthoods and all), and strongly suspect that neither of us are qualified to comment (IANAL). We'll just see how the Supreme Court ruling goes, won't we? It does smack of elitism though; are Brexiters for or against that?

By contradictory I meant your position on Parliamentary Sovereignty; a flip-flop apparently performed by many Brexiters. Apparently Brexiters like to "win by any means", even if it means scorching the principles you pretend to hold. However, we all know that the real ugly reason behind Brexit is xenophobia and racism, everything else is a thin veil to mask the unspeakable.

I understand the apparent paradox; however you forget that Parliament has held secret sessions in the past, and can do again. You're throwing up a false dilemma.

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It would be nice if that story was real.

"I assume everyone who disagrees with me is a racist. This makes it much easier for me to assume a moral high ground and dismiss their opinions and experiences out of hand without engaging." -everyone who voted to stay

I can see why you people do this. It's very easy and conveinient!

Oh go for crowd pleasing upvote clicking, social justice easymode retort shy of any actual facts. Sir, take your '"you people" and feck off!

Any campaign run on Xenophobia, fear of immigrants and refugees is racist and since the vote the country as enjoyed a huge surge of racially motivated incidents, as if this vote has given license to be a dick.
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This is indeed a bad day when a hate-filled post like this gets modded +5 Insightful.

Historically, the "good" ones are silent when Islamist terrorists act. How many mosques have you seen speak out against ISIS and Islamist terrorism?

Yeah, they speak out all the time, though you wouldn't know it by reading the mainstream media. Every major terrorist event is generally followed by loads of denunciations by prominent Muslim leaders. And then there's stuff like this, where 70,000 Muslim clerics have issued a fatwa against terrorist acts.

The Islamist terrorist activities are encouraged by their "holy" books. .... I encourage everyone to read the Koran.

I'd encourage people to read other sacred texts written over a 1000 years ago when violence was much more common and compare. For example, have a look at the stuff in the Bible. Just one of those verses from Leviticus motivates dozens of killings of homosexuals every year, for example. But you don't tend to hear as much about them, because they tend to be individual killings. The main difference between Christianity/Judaism and Islam in terms of "holy" books (as you put it) is that the former tend to ignore the tenets of their scriptures more these days... compared to say a few centuries ago when they happily went around killing people in God's name too. (Heck, even in the 20th century you had genocides partially motivated by Christian sectarianism.)

The Western world has been shielded from this truth for too long. We can share a planet. We cannot share a country with these folks.

And it's people with views like this that are playing directly into the hands of the terrorists -- and by terrorists, I mean actual terrorist leaders and those motivated by political/religious ideology, not this numbnuts in France who from recent reports appears to be far from motivated by ideology. The reports are still early, but if recent media stories and interviews with family members and neighbors are to be believed, this guy was just a whackjob with a previous arrest for road rage and whose personal life had self-destructed. He doesn't appear to have been religious at all, drinking, doing drugs, eating pork, never attending services, etc.

So what about the reports that he shouted "Allahu akbar!" during the killings? Well, if he did, he was probably playing into the "terrorist" fantasy world you're putting him into.

If you don't mind, I'm not going to dignify him by calling him a "terrorist" -- that's insulting to actual politically motivated folks who feel the need to act violently in the name of an ideology. I'll just call this guy "Numbnuts," which is the level of respect he deserves.

From recent reports, it appears that Numbnuts was a depressed loner. In the past, some idiotic coward afraid of dealing with his own life might have quietly offed himself with a gun to the head in his own house, or maybe jumped off a bridge or something. Or maybe he would have "gone postal" and killed some family or coworkers just to take some of the people he hated with him. (Note that term go postal, remember that? Dozens of incidents of postal workers shooting up people over a decade, and I don't remember anyone calling for them all to be deported... sure no incidents on this scale, but still.)

Anyhow, Numbnuts here doesn't sound like a terrorist. He was just a screwed-up lunatic with a death wish. And if he shouted some Muslim phrase at the end, it's probably because he read some BS on the internet and people like you af

The Brexit campaign was largely divisive, vile and based on outright lies and deception, a significant portion of the Brexit voters was (is still) under the impression that rags like The Sun and the Daily Mail are newspapers printing valuable information.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

Another section of Brexit voters are from the English establishment and see advantages in getting rid of those pesky European regulations re. their tax advantages, maximum working hours of their personnel etc.

While I generally agree that this is mostly navel-gazing that I don't care much about there have been some testable hypotheses: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

How many? Well, it depends where you live.

Well, in the US, it takes only a few nutters committing a bad crime for the country to decide it's war, because war is one of the few things that people in the United States think they understand.

Europe actually understands war, so it would require a hostile attack from a recognised country. If it helps, remember that the IRA caused more deaths and damage in Europe than ISIS could ever dream of, and the UK never really considered itself to be at war. The UK knows what war is, and it's not that.

I don't want to downplay ISIS, who are definitely destroying the lives of people in the (thankfully shrinking) areas that they control. As murderous despotic regimes go, they're up there. But when it comes to terrorist attacks in Europe go, they're playing in the minor leagues. Separatist organisations are a far worse threat.

Pick some pacific island paradise high enough MSL to avoid global warming .if you're a skeptic, consider it an insurance policy just in case you're wrong, because no true libertarian makes absolute declarations otherwise they wouldn't believe in the need for free speech, yes? Buy it outright or take it and be prepared to defend it. My nom nom nominations: http://whenonearth.net/15-unin... http://mentalfloss.com/article... http://webecoist.momtastic.com... http://www.touropia.com/uninha... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

How could this possibly be? How could we assume that he is an orwellian Big Brother, conpiring with the USA to build an orwellian, fascist surveillance scheme?

Because of reports like this? https://theintercept.com/2015/...

Because there is nothing holding back the GCHQ from intersepting everything including porn use to denounce any resistance? Because the GCHQ has already infiltrated legal NGOs to undermine and control those "terrorist" NGOs like Amnesty International?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-...

Because after laying waste to the middle east he leaves the refugees to the other european countries?

Because he already annnounced that if the european human right standards might hinder his orwellian fantasies, he considers abondoning these standards and replace them with his british version?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

Because he does not even think that UN human right standards might also apply to his government?
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Under which rock have you lived since the release of the Snowden files?

Every european country installed an orwellian surveillance scheme. But this government and his system to me as a foreigner seems to be by far the worst. They stop at nothing.

That is why I highly doubt he will be able to really compromise. He uses 1984 as a how to manual, even going to war with changing coalitions to keep the system going. But even George Orwell was not foreseeing a time when people buy their bugging devices and waiting in line to get their bug.

.. spout some degenerate knuckle-dragging nonsense that condemns over 1.6 billion people with a single sentence, .

You make it sound like there is a small minority when 7% on Muslims in the UK or about 200,000 support ISIS and 27% sympathised with the charlie hebdo and Jewish supermarket attacks. I suggest you read the Qur'an some day instead of just believing the lie that it is all love and peace.

Here's your fucking Nazi

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Always happy to help! :)

No such thing happens with islam. Every day atrocities are committed in name of islam. There's a billion muslims out there who could stand up and show disgust for the atrocities. Doesn't happen.

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Like fuck it doesn't happen. Get your head out of your ass.

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First few links from the search engine typing in "why are election polls often wrong"...

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Shut up. Just close your stupid mouth. Sit down. And don't speak again until addressed. You're an idiot. It has been officially noticed.

Personally I've run into very few women at work who cried when criticized... but no men.

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Hopefully they wont pay this guy: "Saudi Cleric Reveals The Sun Rotates arround the Earth" http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

Indeed. It was a Chinese patient, I think it's because the donor was from Congo.

Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u... and http://www.shortnews.com/start...

nothing in Catholicism insists nor mandates the sort of things they've done.

Not true. Catholicism has a long history of promising a trip to heaven for its followers who fight in "holy" wars, and there were a lot of Catholics who believed that the IRA were doing God's work by fighting against Protestant rule. Canon law defines holy war as being a good thing (same as Islam).. And on the opposing side, there were many Protestants who believed that the Pope was the anti-Christ. It was a common view: Watch The Moment Ian Paisley Called Pope John Paul II 'The Antichrist' "I refuse you as Christ's enemy and Antichrist with all your false doctrine." (Reverend Ian Paisley was a Protestant religious leader who was elected First Minister of Northern Ireland).

"Whoever joined the ranks of the crusaders gained spiritual immunity, Pope Urban II promised forgiveness of all sins to whosoever took up the cross and joined in the war. While there were additional motivations for taking up the cross—opportunity for economic or political gain, desire for adventure, and the feudal obligation to follow one’s lord into battle—to become a soldier for Christ was to express total devotion to God."

"By the pontificate of Urban II Western churchmen had in principle embraced the concept of holy war and viewed warfare as a positive value in the Christian life. "Such is the history of society," wrote Cardinal Newman, "it begins in the poet and ends in the policeman. " And one might paraphrase his observation by saying that the history of the medieval Church begins in the Gospel and ends in the Military Orders."

Fine, here's another: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

He was egged by in irate local resident not a yes campaigner. Jim Sillars got egged, he suggested that he hand it in to a food bank next time and carried on.

Fucking Google the other 400 references yourself you lazy bigoted blinkered twat.

Ok, i tried Google and I got

Here's a No campaigner arrested for kicking a woman in the stomach

80 year old Yes campaigner had his arm broken

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What was that you were saying about personal attacks. You epitomise the No campaign, playing the victim when it is you who are the aggressor.

Fine, here's another: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

He was egged by in irate local resident not a yes campaigner. Jim Sillars got egged, he suggested that he hand it in to a food bank next time and carried on.

Fucking Google the other 400 references yourself you lazy bigoted blinkered twat.

Ok, i tried Google and I got

Here's a No campaigner arrested for kicking a woman in the stomach

80 year old Yes campaigner had his arm broken

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

What was that you were saying about personal attacks. You epitomise the No campaign, playing the victim when it is you who are the aggressor.

Fine, here's another: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

Fucking Google the other 400 references yourself you lazy bigoted blinkered twat.

"As a Scot living through the referendum, it has been a sea of optimism and YES flags and events. Many people, including myself woke up this morning very disappointed but also wondering how did this happen:"

I can explain it to you, but like most yes voters you probably wouldn't get it, but here, I'll try anyway.

Those of us sat outside of Scotland, not caught up in the sea of supporters here and there and who bothered to look at the polls - not just the headlines, and that paid attention to events not just in a single locale but across the country, especially in the last few weeks saw something slipping through. We saw the ugly side of nationalism finally shine through, and we saw the impact that was having.

You see dear rapiddescent, all those yes flags, all those events, coupled with the things you'd probably rather not hear about or deny ever happened such as militant yes voters physically attacking no campaigners and even splitting up families and neighbourhoods, telling people they weren't true scotsmen if they voted no. All those things - they weren't a sign you were winning, you'd overwhelmed the opposition sure, all anyone could hear was yes because they'd either silence or out-shouted no at every turn, no, they were simply a sign that you weren't letting people with opposing opinions have their say.

So whilst you were busy silencing and out-shouting the opposition you missed something important- the importance of actually winning the arguments.

Along comes polling day, and guess what? all those people you'd silenced, shouted over, and prevented from expressing their opinion as vocally as you did got to have their say in the ballot box, a place you couldn't silence them, couldn't harass them, and guess what? that's where your weakness of focussing on a a blitzkrieg of yes spam rather than actually putting forward good ideas and rational arguments let you down.

That dear sir, is why the streets were full of yes campaigners, why all you could see and hear was them in the streets, on social media, and in classic media, but why when it came to, you still lost. You militantly silenced the majority, but the silent majority still got to have their say in the end.

The media wasn't biased in it's reporting, most media outlets didn't declare a preference, and those that did largely only did so in the last week or so (it was actually the pro-independence media that declared and actively backed first). You may wish to tell yourself that you've been cheated out of something, that you've been hard done by, that the media was against you, that vested corporate interests stopped it, but none of that is true. You lost simply because a majority were smart enough to see that your arguments didn't stack up, and were put off by your vile nationalist tendencies that kept slipping out from under your mask (like say, when Jim Sillars stood alongside Alex Salmond said post-independence they'd nationalise foreign companies in a revenge act for not supporting independence: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...).

Well
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There is no good side in this conflict and when it comes to censorship Ukraine isn't much different to Russia.

The Peaceful Middle East

The newest country on Earth

Civil society in the West

I am not a pessimist, but I will say that we are a far cry from being a "success".

And USA is the only country in the world that didn't ratify https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities.. it is the United States" --Mandela
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A treaty doesn't dictate reality. The US and Israel pretend Palestine is a seperate country when it suits them, but do everything possible to prevent it in reality. Look at how bent out of shape they got when Palestine wanted a seat at the UN. It's a part of Israel in reality governed by Israel and totally subject to Israel's rule, but they have no vote.

Read this and tell me why Gaza is the terrorist state.

I will leave this right here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

And this more controversial one:
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I will say I'm a fan of female scientists, there are some with biochemical and chemical degrees in my family (who have long since abandoned the field for hearth and home, a decision of their own choosing), but I see a lot of men who are promoting it simply trying to make women in their own image. Maybe they are dads with only one child, daughters, which is very common now or what not. But actively steering them away from traditional female disciplines just because it offends our modern senses of "diversity" and conflating equality with equal results is just as wrong imo.

Obviously, no.

Teacher, Mark Berndt, Pleads Guilty To Feeding Students Semen-Laced Cookies In Los Angeles School

Case against ex-Miramonte teacher Martin Springer dismissed

http://nypost.com/2014/05/13/notorious-pedophile-teacher-gave-victims-drug-laced-oreos/

Girl was victim of both teachers charged in L.A. child abuse cases: report

Mark Berndt: Profile of Perversion

Mark Berndt's $40,000 Payoff

LAUSD Molestations Spark Grim Federal Complaint

Berndt allegedly kept a jar of Vaseline on his desk which he used to masturbate in class, and sometimes wore a "freakish" Mickey Mouse costume with women's tights, the parents say. They claim the school's principal Martin Sandoval walked into the classroom as Berndt was videotaping students but let him off with a verbal warning. The parents claim LAUSD ignored those red flags and other instances of "freakish behavior." "LAUSD ignored multiple prior student complaints about Berndt and a district attorney investigation. LAUSD ignored parent complaints and failed to detect the massive number of lewd acts committed by at least three active child predators on one small campus for years," the complaint states.

Anderson Cooper 360 reports on why Teachers' Union killed a bill that would make it easier to fire SEXUAL PREDATORS in the classroom.

Just In: CA Ballot Initiative to Target Sex Abusers in Schools

Teacher puzzler: Part-time porn star fired, semen-feeder paid off

Here are some news which mentioned that the reason why UK wanted to have secret trials seems to be mainly because it wants to avoid revealing scandals like involvement in crimes against human rights:

http://www.theguardian.com/law...

http://iengage.org.uk/news/207...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

last Christmas.

It's similiarly specced to the HP. Something like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

To be honest, it kinda sucks compared to an iPad but makes for good presents. What makes it suck is android more than the hardware, tbh. Android and software bloat by the manufacturer. HP won't be any different going by past computer purchases.

Can you give me a size reference in school buses, swimming pools or football fields? And not those European ones, Gridiron please.

how about giving size references in equivalent to a certain number of fat fucking American assholes :P

Nah, use Mexicans instead. Mexico is fatter than the US, so the number will be smaller and easier for your simple mind to understand.

Privacy protection, government run health care, Mediterranean climate, keeping religion in check - why am I still in the US?

Wut?

Theo van Gogh disagrees.

Well, he would, but he was murdered by religious fanatics. In Europe.

And if you Google "youths riot in france" you get over 12,000,000 hits. Ever wonder what religion those "youths" espouse?

Religious law in England? Say it ain't so!

"Keeping religion in check"? My ass.

"The most likely cause was one of a the pilots going insane,", A more likely outcome is that the a radicalized pilot of MH370 decided on course murder/suicide after attending the sham trial of Malaysiaâ(TM)s opposition leader a few hours before takeoff.

Seams to me, if one were to make a simple assumption that the plane was on auto pilot for the last few hours(pilot suicide, anoxia), the Geostationary SAT ping times from those previous fixes would narrow the search scope considerably. I.E. Mathematically wise, one data point, verses five or six data points, would make a huge difference.

Because...

"Being Religious or Spiritual Is Linked With Getting More Depressed"

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

So, as usual, pick your side and go with it.