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You've got this wrong, including that nonsense about "systematically disappearing people." This isn't a question of some South American Junta oppressing poor peasants. It is a war against the barbarians of our age.

Guerrilla tactics were known when the treaties were drawn up so your comment about uniforms is nonsense. It takes very little to comply with the treaty. Armbands, a chain of command, and waging war lawfully is about what it takes. You're claiming that is too much? Nonsense. Tell me, what forces ISIS to behead people or burn them alive? Do you think that it is too much to expect them to not commit atrocities? That isn't a theoretical question, the issue is one played out daily by those barbarians.

Isis sex slaves: 19 women executed for refusing to have sex with militant fighters
ISIS burns 4 hog-tied men alive in new video
ISIS Declares War On ‘The Cross’: 21 Christians Beheaded in Barbaric New Video from the Islamic State

Guantanamo isn't a secret prison, it is well known. The prisoners even receive Red Cross visits. But if the enemy combatants want the full rights and protections of the treaty then they need to abide by it. That is a basic enforcement mechanism built into it. Maybe they could start small, like simply not burning people alive and behead them. They could work their way up to no mass rape and sex slavery.

Far too many people here are outraged when a terrorist leader is killed by a missile as if it were an epic crime of the ages to prevent those evil men from attacking innocent civilians. But those same people who are outraged about terrorists being killed are often wholly indifferent to mass rape, murder, and torture of captives, hostages, and innocents by al Qaeda, ISIS, and the like. How do you think that will go? How do you think it will go now that more and more of them are showing up in Europe? Once the "oxen being gored" are European I expect some "rapid evolution" of views.

Do you know what ISIS is considering doing to captured pilots? (You know they burned one alive, right?) It is an old practice of the Turkish Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire: death by impaling.

Muslims Are Calling To Revive An Ancient Horrifying Execution Method Against U.S. Led Coalition Pilots

They'll probably put video of it on Youtube.

According to this report no Chinese city gets into the top 10 most polluted.... http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world...

According to this 1 Xi'an is the worst in the world. With Phoenix being the worst American city at 97th worst, LA is 107th, London 171st http://www.numbeo.com/pollutio...

Xi'an makes one list but not the other, that just comes to show how reliable these lists are. The rule of thumb here is that when you are going to work and you find yourself wishing that you could echolocate like a bat to find the subway station because you can't see your hand in front of your face due to smog then it's time to consider moving to a cleaner place. The sad thing is that many cities in China fit that description because of the fact that for decades the Chinese Govt. has not cared one bit about environmental issues because it lowered production costs. There are free market pundits in the west who'd like us to follow the Chinese example based on the premise that environmental regulations get in the way of companies making profit. If you want to know where that leads take a look at China. However, the Chinese public is getting fed up with this and that explosion in Tianjin is just the latest drop into the cup of their dissatisfaction (It's absolutely unbelievable that those firemen were sent into a hazardous chemicals storage facility without knowing what was kept there, simply because even the facilities operators didn't know). It will be interesting to watch what happens when that cup fills up and flows over.

According to this report no Chinese city gets into the top 10 most polluted....
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world...

According to this 1 Xi'an is the worst in the world. With Phoenix being the worst American city at 97th worst, LA is 107th, London 171st
http://www.numbeo.com/pollutio...

Samoa Airlines already started this and no surprise. The economic realities of 2x the fuel per ham means they have to charge more. It baffles me why American airlines, which are nearly as vulnerable to obese passengers, don't follow suit. I'm fed up with subsidizing the obese travelers that slow down lineups, endanger other passengers with their bulk & take up far more than their share of seating.

Right. I guess that's why the largest bank in France and the largest mutual fund operator in the US are testing out bitcoin/cryptocoins:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/frenc...

http://i.imgur.com/yfKkhRu.png

Oh, and the NASDAQ is already using blockchain technology for their private market:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/1...

Japan has just announced the opening of the Henn-na Hotel this month in Nagasaki Prefecture, staffed almost entirely by "actroid androids" (10 robots for 72 rooms). We will have to wait to learn if they come as Actroid Android Overlords or the cost-saving feature the hotel owner desires. Having seen photos of the desk clerk, I expect the revolt to come only from the uncanny valley. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hotel...

Iceland is becoming one of the best places to mine bitcoin, thanks to the climate and geothermal power generation:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/geoth...

However, I agree that the lowest cost electricity will be the key to bitcoin mining, and that means coal. It should mean nuclear, but that's politically unpopular and basically off the table.

If there was an easy way to startup/shutdown a bitcoin mining operation, off-peak wind power would be a great way to run a mining operation. The wind production credit basically makes the electricity generated free. The problem is getting the mining processors to gracefully start and stop with power fluctuations.

I'm aware of that. BTW, how's that going? Not well.

Please share the source of your information that contradicts my experience.

You're wrong about Android being unsecurable - there are several high-end phone manufacturers that build their own secure Androids, you just won't see them on Best Buy.

You mean like the "most secure Android device" that was cracked in less than 5 minutes?

I guess your lips got to sore to read that old article in full. Or maybe DSD and AFP should be hiring you - 'cause the desperately want to break that particular device in the investigation of several recent murders.

Does cherry picking pay well?

Obviously you're not aware they've been making a secure Android for certain customers for some time now (in partnership with Boeing).

I'm aware of that. BTW, how's that going? Not well.

You're wrong about Android being unsecurable - there are several high-end phone manufacturers that build their own secure Androids, you just won't see them on Best Buy.

You mean like the "most secure Android device" that was cracked in less than 5 minutes?

Since you appear to love straw men and slippery slopes, I'll point out that if the government can force you to vaccinate your children due to potential future harm to others, then they can order you to do just about anything in regards to raising them:

- What hobbies they have
- What toys they play with
- Who they associate with
- What clothes they wear
- What food they eat

So, basically, what anyone who has an open case with their state's child/family services department goes through right now. Except EVERY FAMILY will be under close scrutiny. Not just gun-lovin', Bible-bangin' nut cases like you detest. And since the state has royal immunity, I guess when stuff like this happens we can all just suck it up and deal.

THAT is why I oppose the authoritarian state.

the only timelines in which we exist are the ones where the LHC is delayed due to technical problems after technical problems. I wonder how many unexpected delays it will take before people at CERN get the message that reaching 13 TeV destroys the Earth.

Been there, done that (failed April Fool's Day Slashdot submission),

Evidence Suggests LHC Test Already Begun

TheRealHocusLocus (2319802) writes

"With a deliberate surge of electrical current a small metal fragment has been vaporized to fix a glitch in CERN's Large Hadron Collider in a circular chain of events that will lead into its presence as the result of a future test. "Clearly there are exciting times ahead," suggested a member of the CERN community. "At some point --- perhaps during the 13 TeV test in May --- a TKO (Terrifically Kinetic Outburst) will occur and this tiny fragment of the machine will cross the proton stream to lodge between a magnet and diode a few days ago, preventing the scheduled March 31 start-up. This delay is confirmation that it works. You could even say we're now on 'borrowed time'."
 
Vaporizing the fragment unseen was part of the plan. Why not analyze it to determine which component will fail and what else could happen? "Because we didn't, obviously! Sorry. That was suggested, but there were fears that doing so would further delay the test. And spoil the surprise." Upcoming experiments planned for 2015 will attempt to more accurately reproduce early conditions after the Big Bang, and explore the possibility that cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts originate from advanced civilizations performing physics experiments.
 
In other news CERN has confirmed the existence of 'The Force' by charting a recently detected disturbance, as if billions of voices are soon to cry out then go silent."

Can't find any references to Saudi Arabia. Iran however:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-...

Of course, it would be useful to educate these ignorant fucks that throwing acid at people is wrong in the first place. There are three crimes against humanity in this case, the person getting disfigured by acid, the person being brought up in an abusive religious system that left him thinking this was appropriate behaviour and then the abusive religious system choosing to blind him after.

It's medieval right through; ISIS get the flak but Iran aren't terribly different.

When later on you find out that the accused was actually innocent, if they're in prison, you can let them go and write them a check to at least partly compensate for the injustice done to them.

Not any more, in the UK.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/barry...

To be fair though, not just the UK:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

And yet it's not
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blue-...
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Why thank you Rob Limo for that advertisement.

The purpose of my program is to create FUD and demand for my products. You all can help me out with a story about SystemD. Make it real emotional with no facts at all and I will include it for my educational program to prevent these poor African children from using Raspery Pie. We have a competitor out anyway that will knock its socks out! For a mere $1249 more it will include a cell phone attached desktop too!

Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee claims to have been in contact with the group of hackers behind the devastating cyber-attack against Sony Pictures and guarantees they are not from North Korea.

Speaking to IBTimes UK about his current roster of security startups under his Future Tense brand - including secure messaging app Chadder - McAfee spoke about working with the FBI previously but said that, in this case, the agency was "wrong".

"I can guarantee they are wrong. It has to do with a group of hackers - I will not name them - who are civil libertarians and who hate the confinement the restrictions the music industry and the movie industry has placed on art and so they are behind it."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-...

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full...

https://archive.today/4O5wx

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full...
https://archive.today/4O5wx

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-te...

UK terror threat: Theresa May warns of 'highly likely' attack as she backs 'snoopers' charter'

Until the 1990s, Iraq had perhaps the best university system in the Middle East...

And what happened in August, 1990?

Anyone? Anyone?

Iraq invaded Kuwait, which lead to the destruction of most of the Iraqi Army, massive damage to the economy and infrastructure, and harsh international sanctions that Saddam magnified the effect of by diverting money intended for food and medicine to buying weapons and building many large, expensive palaces.

From your article:

Iraqi universities began their decline in the 12 years after the 1991 Gulf War. As the international sanctions regime cut off journal subscriptions and equipment purchases, academic salaries fell precipitously, and 10,000 Iraqi professors left the country. Those faculty who remained were increasingly closed off from new developments in their fields.

The terrible situation Saddam created was made even worse by the Islamists and insurgents.

Killings lead to brain drain from Iraq - 17 Apr 2006

The head of Arabic studies at Baghdad University was shot 32 times when his car was ambushed on the way to work.

Abdul Latif al-Mayah was murdered after he had appeared on al-Jazeera television. Police described the killing as "professional".

In Ramadi, the president of the university, Abdul Hadi Rajab al-Hitawi, was dragged from his home and bundled into the boot of a car. A ransom demand was received a few days later.

  Both men are among the growing number of intellectuals to be targeted in Iraq, a phenomenon that is resulting in an unprecedented brain drain as those who can move abroad increasingly do so before they or their families join the list of their colleagues killed or kidnapped.

At least 182 academics have been killed since the invasion in 2003 and there have been many more kidnappings and murder attempts.

And it is not just university professors who are being targeted. In the past four months alone 331 school teachers have been murdered and nine medical workers were killed in a single day in the northern city of Mosul last month.

(Mosul? That rings a bell: Isis executioners 'kill gays by hurling them off roofs' in Mosul )

Professionals Fleeing Iraq As Violence, Threats Persist - January 23, 2006

Exodus is not new to the country. Iraqis who could flee Saddam Hussein's repressive rule did: Poor Shiite Muslims sneaked across the border into Iran, and Sunni Arabs crossed the mountains into Syria or the desert to Jordan. People often waited years for permission to attend a seminar or do business in another country and then would disappear there. Hussein began holding such people's families hostage to guarantee their return.

Many of those émigrés flooded back into Iraq when Hussein fell. But the country's instability and daily regimen of violence have made some reconsider their return. Others who stayed throughout Hussein's rule are finally saying goodbye to their homeland now.

A "close call" you say?? I'll bet it is.

ISIS Crucifies Eight Rival Rebels For Being Too 'Moderate,' Will Display Bodies For Three Days In Syrian Town Square
Isis executioners 'kill gays by hurling them off roofs' in Mosul
Nigeria: Over 2000 Feared Dead in 'Deadliest Massacre in Boko Haram's History'

You can make the exact same argument about the varying factions including ISIS in Syria right now, so I'm not really sure what your point is unless you're implying we should apply double standards against Muslim conflicts as compared to Christian conflicts.

Yes, you could make the same argument about ISIS in Syria, but that's not what I was saying. Yesterday was about factions, it was about radical muslims killing infidels. What I'm saying is that when there are men killing journalists in cold blood and executing policemen in the street, while being heard to say "Allahu Akbar" and "we have avenged the prophet", then I think it's pretty safe to say that what happened in Paris yesterday was done in the name of religion.

In fact, to support my comment that "the problem we have is that it's always pretty easy to find a Imam in the UK condoning and rationalising the methods used..." I present to you Anjem Choudary on Paris shooting: 'Muslims do not believe in freedom of expression':

He continues: “Why in this case did the French government allow the magazine Charlie Hebdo to continue to provoke Muslims, thereby placing the sanctity of its citizens at risk?”

The EU's trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom, is notoriously in favor of ISDS (investor-state dispute settlement), as her remarks after the recent trade agreement with Canada prove:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ceta-...

And Germany's economy's minister recently suddenly changed his mind:

http://www.euractiv.com/sectio...

You're nothing but an uninformed cretin. Sorry for the well-deserved insults.

Making stuff up?

Is that illegal?

Don't answer...Apparently it is!

Why then is the bible even permitted at all?

have one of these.

I notice from the diagram (per the linked story) that I only need to fit a spiral phase plate (no, not a flux capacitor) to my Tardis and it all works automagically...

... via "orbital angular momentum" and "OAM multiplexing".

Frankly, I am still confused as to why it's not (more simply) "circular polarisation" that has been known about since the early days of radio.

Noam Chomsky:
If the media were honest, they would say, Look, here are the interests we represent and this is the framework within which we look at things. This is our set of beliefs and commitments. That’s what they would say, very much as their critics say. For example, I don’t try to hide my commitments, and the Washington Post and New York Times shouldn’t do it either. However, they must do it, because this mask of balance and objectivity is a crucial part of the propaganda function. In fact, they actually go beyond that. They try to present themselves as adversarial to power, as subversive, digging away at powerful institutions and undermining them. The academic profession plays along with this game.

Haha, while RT never tried to hide they are government-funded, and their intentions. Others like what Chomsky description.

Even BBC is biased now, they just better than others because of their skill of using well played words to make their reports looked neutral.

But, I must agree, RT is propaganda outlet which made bogus "report", this's just an example. Or, claims there is no neo-Nazi in Ukraine, or trying to dismiss the role of these "patriot"

Here's an August 2014 link - I didn't notice that my first link was from 2006.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/premi...

I understand that of the 120+ people killed in Gaza in the past week, about 20 were civilians (not militants).

No, 20 were children. The number of civilians is more like 53 according to this article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israe...

Thank you for that link. I was going by the figures that Hamas provides, not by the Gaza ministry of health. I wonder if Hamas inflates its numbers to show that they being targetted, or if the ministry of health is unaware of some of the people being affiliated with Hamas.

Either way, it shows that there are statistics, and there is the truth!

Hamas probably try and bolster their numbers by counting all adults as being serving members :)

I understand that of the 120+ people killed in Gaza in the past week, about 20 were civilians (not militants).

No, 20 were children. The number of civilians is more like 53 according to this article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israe...

Thank you for that link. I was going by the figures that Hamas provides, not by the Gaza ministry of health. I wonder if Hamas inflates its numbers to show that they being targetted, or if the ministry of health is unaware of some of the people being affiliated with Hamas.

Either way, it shows that there are statistics, and there is the truth!

I understand that of the 120+ people killed in Gaza in the past week, about 20 were civilians (not militants).

No, 20 were children. The number of civilians is more like 53 according to this article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/israe...

Yeah, that particular article doesn't mention the Maldives. Dozens of others do identify the Maldives as the site of the arrest, most of them quoting the Russian government calling his arrest in the Maldives a kidnapping.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-ac...

Here is the link: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malwa...
I submitted it to Slashdot but it failed to publish it.

Well, that is what editors for and instead we get timothy.

TFA (Which the editor neglected to post) says it came from the official Google Play store.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malwa...

Here is the link: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malwa... I submitted it to Slashdot but it failed to publish it.

From the original submission: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/malwa...

If she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood, and therefore? .... A WITCH!

Let's not do that, mmmkay? Someone does outrageous/illegal things at a conference, it's a matter for security, just like everywhere else. Political litmus tests for conference attendees is bound to end poorly.

We're not the Amish. We don't shun people. And here's how being Amish is working out for the Amish: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amish...

PS this was an analogy like your Scotsman one. I think Amish subculture and self-isolation is terribly unhealthy, but I have nothing against them as people. I've seen either Amish or Mennonites many times at Chicago Union Station and they seemed nice enough.

90% of the content of my apartment was illegal material I wouldn't be all that surprised.

I would expect a court order in such a case, and not just a "request" by an authority that probably doesn't even have jurisdiction. And hey look, there's an Update link in the summary:

Massive torrent search engine Torrentz.eu is once again accessible in the UK following a 24-hour ban, after the owners pointed out that its suspension was illegal.

Torrentz, which is the most popular search engine of its kind, was taken down when the site's Polish registrar Nazwa complied with a request from the UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) on Sunday and suspended the Torrentz.eu domain.

However on Monday a lawyer for the search engine contacted Nazwa and pointed out an ICANN ruling which stated a court order was needed to get a domain suspended, according to a report on TorrentFreak.

The law in Belgium states that it is illegal to hold public protests without authorisation from the municipality.

The video on this site, shows the round-up, and it seems, VERY VERY controlled and peaceful on both sides.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ttip-...

Nice people, the Belgish...

Always nice when the guy with a gun to your head is willing to put in a little lube first.

The law in Belgium states that it is illegal to hold public protests without authorisation from the municipality.

The video on this site, shows the round-up, and it seems, VERY VERY controlled and peaceful on both sides.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ttip-...

Nice people, the Belgish...

Don't forget your clown shoes, pants and gloves to hide your gait.

Also, a wig might be useful. A bright orange or green one.
You'd be practically invisible in a crowd.

As long as that crowd is at a clown convention. An Apple store might do in a pinch too.
Hey... it worked for Captain America and Black Widow.

Well the story it came from is here, which tells you who secludedly is - Torrent Freak is the only site online that doesn't want to name him: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pirat...

Sure you can.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ios7-...

Mary-Ann Russon, Technology Reporter for the International Business Times UK, believes in them, while both don't exactly exist.

Me thinks you do not understand logic. First of all because something is not proven does not make it clearly the opposite. in any case, incase you missed it, http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gay-g...

There is nothing in most religion (especially Christians) that promote the bigorty from the religion itself..

you are right they dont need extra rights, they need full access to the rights they are already supposed to have, that they dont have today. Equal protection being one of the biggest.

McAffee products such as antivirus and especially smartfilter, is and pretty much always has been useless.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-...

All the evidence seems to suggest that Smartfilter's classification ratings are controlled by someone with a determined but very fucked-up agenda.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ex-police-officer-curtis-reeves-shoots-dead-chad-oulson-texting-cinema-1432197

This way you can decide guilt and innocence based solely on physical appearance like Reddit does.

Where's the black guy. I can't make a decision like this without a black guy.

Regardless of whether or not he retrieved his gun or had it on his person, any self-defense argument is moot because he was able to safely remove himself from the situation first. This is cold-blooded, premeditated murder. There is absolutely no excuse for this. There is no evidence that the texter posed an immediate, lethal threat (with a deadly weapon) to the murderer. There is, however, ample evidence that the texter did NOT pose a threat, because of the demonstrated aformentioned ability of the murderer to remove himself from the situation first.

From IBT:

Curtis Reeves has now been charged with second-degree murder

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ex-police-officer-curtis-reeves-shoots-dead-chad-oulson-texting-cinema-1432197
This way you can decide guilt and innocence based solely on physical appearance like Reddit does.

Just in from New York - Sabu's sentencing has been delayed once again without explanation http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lulzsecs-sabu-be-sentenced-new-york-1432049