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I've had the opportunity to work as a cyber security assessor for a nuclear power plant that is part of a fleet. I have never seen such a concentration of deliberate, careful, and conservative people across so many skill sets. There are plenty of times where they fall into the "too smart for their own good" category, but they know EXACTLY forces they are dealing with every-single-day. I haven't met a single "Homer Simpson." I even had the opportunity to meet some of the engineers from Fukushima Daini (Daichi's neighbor 5 miles south) to hear first-hand accounts of their harrowing story and their lessons learned form the 2011 Tsunami. If they are flying these guys around the US to discuss lessons learned, they are taking their work seriously in a way few others can really appreciate.

That doesn't mean that the don't have their own problems. The industry is extremely insular. It's a mix of both intentional reasons and unintentional consequences. These power plants are pretty far out of the way from major population centers and they can be easily mistaken for other power plant types if you don't know what to look for. There are ONLY 68 running Nuclear Energy Sites in the country and, because of 9/11, they have surveillance and buffer zones that make it hard for casual onlookers to even get close. Essentially, they become out-of-site/out-of mind. Case in point: NONE of my New Orleans neighbors realize there is a nuclear power plant less than 10 miles away! (Waterford 3 is not the one I've worked at).

The next problem is the US's abysmal investment in infrastructure in the last 40 years. The last site's construction finished in 1990 (started 1978) in the US. The new AP1000s just started construction within the last 5 years... and there are only 4 of them! MEANWHILE, Canada, China, the UK, Japan, and the like have been regularly innovating and investing in nuclear power that makes our old system look broken and decrepit.

Finally, the biggest failure on the commercial side of nuclear energy is the whole-stock abandonment of Breeder Reactors. Because the Navy had plenty of water to cool their ship reactors and there were increasingly more availability of uranium, these safer and more efficient reactors never made it to market. But little was done after the 60's to push the tech and it is only now being rediscovered This is tantamount to you driving a brand-new car with only 1970's technology under the hood (no computers, catalytic converters, etc)... you may have a nice shell, but good luck getting the power, fuel economy, or dependability (100k mile warranty anyone?).

Then there is the elephant in the room: FUSION. Lockheed Martin claims that they will have a fusion reactor by 2024. Germany has this freaky-looking stellarator that, by the test conducted in February, will be able to sustain the 100 MILLION Degrees Celsius heat needed for fusion to occur with its next upgrade. China apparently did something with something to ensure people knew they were in the race.

The bottom line is that renewable energy will not whole-stock replace our needs for a consumable fuel given any of our current scientific knowledge. It will not replace our needs in space exploration nor in deep water. Nuclear may take a long time to get places, but it is consistent and predictable and transportable in a way that no other energy generation currently can be. We have the most good science on how to make nuclear energy work for us in a way other fuels cannot and we should not leave it on the side-lines because we have limited ourselves to an in-the-moment mentality about how to save ourselves and the world around us.

Sigh:

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

He's probably never written a line of code in his life.

Dear Anonymous Coward,

My only political comment in the past here at /. was a report about the reaction in Brazil against Rede Globo. Globo is kowingly a long-time supporter of authoritarianism and corruption. They even attempted to apologize for supporting the dictatorship that ousted President João Goulatr, in 1964. Brazil has a so terrible media landscape that Reporters Without Borders called it “the country of 30 Berlusconis”. The fact that Globo and Brazilian media are attempting to oust President Dilma Rouseff and prevent Lula from running for president in 2018 is blatantly clear. The irony in this story is that while Lula is being accused of hiding property the Marinho family, owners of Globo attempts to conceal the luxury house that they illegally built in a natural preserve in Paraty, state of Rio de Janeiro.

"one healthy mother completely lacked a gene called PRDM9 that is involved in shuffling chromosomes during the formation of eggs and sperm. Mice lacking the gene are sterile."
The researchers might need to take another look at that woman; she might be a "chimera", whose reproductive organs don't have the same DNA as the part of the body responsible for a more-easily-tested substance (usually blood or saliva).

Oh, just to show how common these things are, look here. "...623 power disruptions caused by squirrels, 214 by birds, 53 by raccoons, one by a Hannah Montana balloon, and a handful of other incidents caused by everything from snakes to slugs."

(Improperly and irreverently cited from this story)
AGING MIDDLE SCHOOL SHUT DOWN BY UNSAFE MILEY CYRUS BALLOON, NUCLEAR POWER TO BLAME

MIAMI, Nov. 11 2008 (UPI) -- Authorities blamed a 'Hannah Montana' balloon and some birds for causing a power outage for hours around a Miami middle school. "That's just like them," an anti-nuclear demonstrator in front of the school quipped. "It's a whitewash fronted by corrupt corporate interests intended to convince the public that nuclear energy is safe, when we all know it isn't. No amount of balloons or birds will ever convince us."

A helium balloon bearing the image of young "Montana" star Miley Cyrus collided with some power lines near Jose De Diego Middle School at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, scaring away a flock of birds, WFOR-TV Miami reported Tuesday. The sudden weight shift from the fleeing birds caused the electrical lines to dislodge and fall to the ground, electrifying a nearby fence. The school ran on a backup generator while officials shut down the power grid, but dozens of residents lost power for a period of hours. Nuclear skeptics hope this is the wake-up call they've been waiting for. "These things don't just happen. Where did the balloon come from? And it had to be a Miley Cyrus balloon too, didn't it? Do they think we're stupid? What were the birds really fleeing from? Never mind falling electrical lines hitting a fence next to a school, things like that happen all the time. What we need to realize, though, is that if it were not for people like us who speak their minds nuclear energy might some day power the whole world, and things like this will happen all the time."

When asked how things like this happening all the time would be any different if they should happen all the time, he replied, "Are you trying to trick me? It won't work. We know what we stand for."

The anti-nuclear demonstration had been organized because the school had been in the news several times recently due to plumbing problems, which also plague nuclear energy, which is a death sentence for the planet. None objected when the National Guard was mobilized last year when it was discovered that a small amount of urine had leaked into the surrounding environment. "It's just a precautionary measure," the Governor explained. "The amounts are measurable but hardly significant, actually less than the background urine we are exposed to all the time. If you wash your hands every day you have nothing to fear."

Oh, just to show how common these things are, look here. "...623 power disruptions caused by squirrels, 214 by birds, 53 by raccoons, one by a Hannah Montana balloon, and a handful of other incidents caused by everything from snakes to slugs."

but they still happen.

Between the war on drugs, the socialisation of risk and privatisation of profit, uncapping of political donationa and corporate protectionism masquerading as free trade, working class people are pretty much being oppressed.

And the oppressing class is convincing them that they're really being oppressed by those dark-complexioned people over there.

You talk a good talk - link to your assertion above?

And feminists, of course, because nothing says "jack-booted oppressor" like some college girl who doesn't shave her armpits.

Link?

When Donald Trump says, "I love the poorly educated", he gave a glimpse into the mindset of the people who mean us absolutely no good.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

You should perhaps reexamine why such an objectionable person is rising to power. Sure, constant name-calling is hardly "oppression", but it doesn't win you any friends when (for example) you punish people for saying #AllLivesMatter.

Arming the women YPG fighters would be far more effective. Frankly, in my limited understanding of the region, the women YPG fighters are the only normal people in the whole region.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Between the war on drugs, the socialisation of risk and privatisation of profit, uncapping of political donationa and corporate protectionism masquerading as free trade, working class people are pretty much being oppressed.

And the oppressing class is convincing them that they're really being oppressed by those dark-complexioned people over there. And feminists, of course, because nothing says "jack-booted oppressor" like some college girl who doesn't shave her armpits.

When Donald Trump says, "I love the poorly educated", he gave a glimpse into the mindset of the people who mean us absolutely no good.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

can be sued (maybe by your next-of-kin)

Good point. Whereas with Wifi, you'll be able to do the suing yourself. Indeed, the worst that could happen with free Wifi is that your weird orange-haired-wankpuffin fetish comes to light, but there's no danger to life-and-limb.

Once you're on the plane, you at least know where the pilot and co-pilot are most of the time.

You might know where they are, but you don't know where they should be. Namely in sick-leave...

and you absolutely won't like the Trojan they leave behind after the full cavity search.

That's not a trojan, that's a femidom!

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

While still not having the cojones to post under your own name. Guess what... that's dishonest. When you have an account but hide behind Anonymous Coward.

Fascinating. If Jane/Lonny weren't a psychopath, he might be able to recognize that not logging when debating someone who desperately tries to suppress speech he doesn't like is (at least) less dishonest than a man logging in as a woman and trying to convince everyone that he's a woman. But Jane/Lonny can't recognize that, can he?

"The psychopathic tendency to not care about the consequences of their actions, no matter how badly they affect others, can be linked to their "remarkable ability to rationalize their behavior,"

And why do you feel it necessary to lie? You still haven't answered that question. Strange, isn't it? 4 years ago someone else accused you of lying by "quote-mining" out of context. It is very clear that is exactly what you did. And there is no doubt it was you, because it's the same Blogger account and others referred to your account here on Slashdot by name.

That's not what I referred to. The comment I referred to was on a different site.

Where? Link?

What you SEEM to fail to understand is that there is a difference between criticizing someone, and libel. Libel is a deliberate untruth. I have demonstrated many times that you intentionally post public lies about people.

Do you really believe that? If so, you're even further gone than I thought. Here's a hint, Lonny. Try to provide a link to back up your accusation. As usual, you'll find that you can't even provide a single example. If you think about it long enough (with a therapist), you'll eventually realize that you're just projecting your own behavior onto others. You're intentionally posting public lies about people. Every time I show you evidence of your lies, you run away like a snivelling coward.

As much as reasonably possible I tell fact- and evidence-based truth. Am I wrong sometimes? It happens. But not intentionally, and when I've found that it has, I correct myself. You don't.

Again, do you really believe that? Lonny, you recently insisted that you don't need to correct yourself even though you gave your word that you would. And here you brag about doing something that you actually refuse to do in reality? You have a remarkable ability to rationalize your behavior.

Yet again, a claim that has no basis in reality. I wrote nothing of the sort. I take responsibility for my cussing. But that doesn't change the fact that it's prompted by reprehensible behavior on the part of others.

You're making a distinction with no difference. Either you're responsible for your own cussing and can recognize that it's uncivilized and that you have the power to stop, or you blame others for your own uncivilized behavior and refuse to stop. You seem to keep choosing the second option. Why?

and recall "iPhone has secret software that can be remotely activated to spy on people, says Snowden" ( 21 January 2015) http://www.independent.co.uk/l... ".. published files from the NSA showed that British agency GCHQ used the phones UDIDs — the unique identifier that each iPhone has — to track users."

Well, that software obviously needs the user to type in his passkey to be used, else the FBI could just use it, no?

danheskett "carriers and manufacturers" should give a hint about a root or hardware way in.
The "manufacturers or providers of handsets for regular commercial use" is getting more interesting and is why I said "(CALEA) like".
The older laws should show what the US gov historically expected from generations of devices connecting to wider US networks.
What is a "manufacturer" now in 2016 with huge production lines been in China vs designers in USA? Low taxes in the EU?
The result will be total access for the US government for a product sold in the USA and connected to US networks.
The quoted "any phone conversations" has also moved to VOIP as was shown with the kind of support that was given in other areas by OS makers. Recall the help PRISM got?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29#PRISM_overview
Chat – video, voice, stored data, file transfers
and recall "iPhone has secret software that can be remotely activated to spy on people, says Snowden" ( 21 January 2015)
http://www.independent.co.uk/l... ".. published files from the NSA showed that British agency GCHQ used the phones UDIDs — the unique identifier that each iPhone has — to track users."
"has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him, that’s why on security grounds he refused to have this phone."
CALEA support was public and people can now draw more information.

A:When it's 2 1/2 years old.

Sure, I'll buy that, yeah , alrightythen.

Actually, smoking leading to lung disease is a religion. A small portion of life lpng smokers will ever get lung disease but a large portion of people with lung disease smoked and signs point to unique qualities associated with lung diseases caused by smoking.

There are even sets of people and genetic markers identified that will not show negative effects of smoking at all in the lungs.

http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

It seemed pretty effective in the 2008 olympics.

http://www.independent.co.uk/s...

The West didn't sell Saddam chemical agents, Iraq manufactured them by itself.

Iraq's 'hidden' chemical weapons: US 'covered up' discovery of chemical weapons after 2003 invasion – with many are now in Isis’s hands

According to the Times, the reports were embarrassing for the Pentagon because, in five of the six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been “designed in the US, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies”.

[Powell] seems to mention chemical weapons a lot

Iraq's 'hidden' chemical weapons: US 'covered up' discovery of chemical weapons after 2003 invasion – with many are now in Isis’s hands

It was also reportedly embarrassing for the US government that had found chemical weapons – but not of the kind that they had claimed existed.

The West didn't sell Saddam chemical agents, Iraq manufactured them by itself.

Iraq's 'hidden' chemical weapons: US 'covered up' discovery of chemical weapons after 2003 invasion – with many are now in Isis’s hands

According to the Times, the reports were embarrassing for the Pentagon because, in five of the six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been “designed in the US, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies”.

[Powell] seems to mention chemical weapons a lot

Iraq's 'hidden' chemical weapons: US 'covered up' discovery of chemical weapons after 2003 invasion – with many are now in Isis’s hands

It was also reportedly embarrassing for the US government that had found chemical weapons – but not of the kind that they had claimed existed.

*COUGH!* Boy, that line of yours just never gets old, does it?

Iraq's 'hidden' chemical weapons: US 'covered up' discovery of chemical weapons after 2003 invasion – with many are now in Isis’s hands

“'Nothing of significance' is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present when more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets were found in a single compound in 2006.

Jarrod Taylor, a former Army sergeant who witnessed the disposal of mustard shells that burned two members of his company, told the Times the public has been misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

If cows sense a threat to their calves they will approach the threat, knock it over and jump on it until that threat has gone.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

The next time you see them grazing peacefully in a sunny green field, just remember they are probably plotting to take over the world.

There is an interesting side effect going on that I suspect you don't know about.

Saudi Arabia is going to start a war with Iran now. Saudi Arabia cannot allow Iran to get nukes, they are mortal enemies, and they always assumed the US would prevent that. Since there is literally nothing stopping Iran now, there is no verify in the agreement, Saudi Arabia has been doing nearly everything possible to start a shooting war with Iran, including destroying their embassy in Yemenni about a week ago by "accident".
Story

Everyone expects it to be Israel to start trouble, and the anti-semites are all getting giddy hoping that happens so the US can turn against Israel and finally with no allies they will be wiped off the face of the planet (and I assume that is your hope). What is going to happen instead will be a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran and a question of if Saudis will ask for Israeli help (I suspect not) and what side the US will then take.

Don't worry, Saudi Arabia can defeat Iran by itself if everyone else stays out, but that won't happen and everyone else will jump in. That war will have been caused by Obama and Hiliary's actions and become the #1 debate point if she wins the nomination.

I'm can't believe you are happy that all out war is going to happen in the middle east. If you didn't know that, you are stupid and shouldn't be supporting deals that you know nothing about.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

"Based on its est reserves & a (conservative) valuation of $10 p barrel, #Aramco cld be worth more than $2.5 tr. 4 times the size of Apple"

Okay thanks for the clarification but I have to disagree.

While the Indian government puts a premium on protecting girls (perhaps because of the gender imbalance), perspective parents evidently do not.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indep...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/...
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...

Humans place a premium on their own life but we aren't talking about suicide here.

Modern science isn't conducted by rubbing two sticks together and seeing what happens, it requires complicated equipment.

Sometimes it's not much more complicated than rubbing two sticks together, no complicated equipment required.

I had no idea David Bowie died until I read it here on Slashdot! How come the mainstream media didn't report on this at all in the last 16 hours since it was formally announced?

I don't know where in the world you are. But in my part of the world the media have been talking about little else since early this morning.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

You realise the Australians do exactly that - intercept modern factory fishing boats - just as much as "rickety old things".

Good for them. But Oz isn't England.

And no, they don't want to hand Gibraltar back to Spain, quite the opposite in-fact...

This is old, but I bet the same attitudes still exist in the Foreign Office.

Conspiracy theories are interesting, but let's just skip to the facts:

http://www.truthandaction.org/...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/t...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

You can go on growsing about who borders on what with whom and Russia wanting to trash talk or whatever else now.

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from the british newspaper The Independent

The paper submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office asking for Home Secretary Theresa May’s browsing history for the last week of October (excluding any information relating to security matters).

Their argument being: if Theresa May wants extensive access to the general public’s browser history under the new legislation, can we also have access to hers?

Unsurprisingly, the request was denied by the Home Office, which said that the Independent was being vexatious – which is one of the key reasons to deny an FoI and in legal terms means “an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant”.

Right, except to be a bigot, I'd have to be again implying that the whole culture or similar is guilty of this, yet only you and the GP are making that association.

The fact that the two of you believe that any suggestion of theft by a certain community implies the whole community is involved in fact shows a disgusting amount of bigotry on your behalves.

For me to be prejudiced in this respect, you would need to show that there are no roma gypsy gangs engaging in widespread theft such that I've made an invalid association. The problem is, we know that isn't true:

http://www.northamptonchron.co...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Thus, the only bigotry here is being performed by you and the GP.

I'm a firm believer in the EU in large part because I'm not bigoted, because personally I feel no greater emotional attachment to the guy down the street I've never met than I do to someone part way across the world I've never met, where we're born is merely a matter of randomness and circumstance and I'm lucky to have been born, brought up, and to live somewhere that is relatively incredibly stable, safe, and wealthy. Even the particular criminal groups I mentioned I somewhat get, they ultimately just want the standard of living we have, and whilst I believe theft is a lazy route to get there, I can understand full well what drives them.

But that does not mean that we should pretend that such groups with specific identities do not exist, to do so ignores reality, and makes a complete and utter mockery of any argument based upon it. Folks like you crying "racism!" every time someone raises a legitimate and valid point are the reason actually fascist groups like UKIP are on the rise, because it's kickback by those more easily swayed by their arguments being fed up of being told they're racist just because they said something that's neither racist, nor false - you are the problem, the associations you make and then project onto others are the problem. Would you have even batted an eyelid if I instead chose "South London chav gangs?" as an example? "What about overprivileged rich white kids who want a taste of the wild side"? I doubt for a second you would, though it would make no practical difference and such groups are currently slightly less relevant in this context.

So like all over zealous SJWs, you seem to have gone so far left that you've come all the way round again to the far right, by in yourself making hypocritically bigoted associations, and by helping drive others into the arms of the far right. You're no better than idiots like Corbyn whose solution to an overly aggressive right wing responsible for many of the worlds current geopolitical ills, is to start hugging and defending real actual terrorists. Or whose solution to sexist pigs who molest women on trains is to segregate women into women only carriages, rather than, you know, deal with the actual problem - the sexual predators themselves by dealing with them as the criminals they are using the CCTV that's already prevalent on the trains in question.

Quit with the idiot think and start being a bit more realistic and rational before throwing around terms you don't understand and yet are guilty of yourself please. I doubt you will though, because apparently you like to accuse others of being Daily Mail readers whilst apparently being one of those Ban the Burqa types:

http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

Let's focus on truly man made emissions, you know shit coming out of cars, coal plants, etc and stop trying to figure out how much a cow farts or how much is generated by eating lettuce. What a waste of time and money. All of the cows and lettuce eating people on the planet pail in comparison to one coal plant.

Those cow farts are pretty much just as man made (and damaging) as your car when you look at a typical cattle (or chicken or hog) farm and the amount of mechanization that goes into turning grain and other feed into the meat in your supermarket.

http://www.independent.co.uk/e...

But in almost every case, the world's 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.

Anonymous declares war on city of Orlando (28/Jun/2011)
Anonymous vs. Zetas: Hackers Taking On The Drug Cartel (02/Nov/2011)
Anonymous wages war on Westboro Baptist Church (17/Dez/2012)
Anonymous Declares War on Singapore (06/Nov/2013)

Given the fallback on the last weeks hoax declaration of war on ISIS by Mexican cartel leader 'El Chapo' the media is showing that the powers of "the fourth state" given to them is not being used to inform the public but to entertain them, distracting from more important issues (and of course, to sell advertisement).

Los Angeles has the very same issues?

Yeah, they're breathing Chinese smog too... And some of the bad weather can also be attributed more to the smog than to climate change.. Chinese smog is a global issue, quite a mess...

His main office is in Lapland, but apparently he's bankrupt due to unpaid tax so you might not be able to visit this year.

This always cracks me up how wage slaves erm people continually fall for this.

Foundations are the biggest tax dodge ever. In fact, since Zuck is opening up a foundation he can "donate" his shares to an organization he wholly controls who can then sell that stock capital gains tax free. The best part is he can use that f*ck all amount as a tax write off on his future earnings as well.

Then with whatever the obscene amount of money he can pay some small group of people to manage it. His daughter when she comes of age can then become a "director" or some other BS title and get paid $350,000 or more for the privilege of doing so. His family can then live off of this foundations free cash from being properly managed for the remainder of time. It's how the Rochefellers and Rothchilds continue their wealth without doing any real work.

He's smart to be doing this now before the next big dip in the market which should be coming soon enough.

Except this isn't a registered charitable foundation but a limited liability company:

To do this, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have set up the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limited liability company - not a charity or charitable trust. Legal filings show that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is owned and controlled by Zuckerberg.

A spokesperson has confirmed to Buzzfeed that as a company, the Initiative can spend its money on whatever it wants - including private, profit-generating investment.

So all of the criticisms you just made don't actually apply.

I don't see why everyone is trying so hard to find the bad side or hidden motive in this. Most likely Zuckerberg realized 45 billion is a ridiculously large amount of money and there's no way for you and your children to spend more than 0.45 billion and retain their sanity. So he decided to designate the extra 44.55 billion for future charitable work in the easiest way possible while leaving himself the future option of pulling some back if FB stock has an epic collapse at some point.

It's still a huge gesture on his part of course, saying you'll give away that much wealth must be extraordinarily difficult.

In fact, it seems it isn't a charity at all:
"Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have set up the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limited liability company - not a charity or charitable trust. Legal filings show that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is owned and controlled by Zuckerberg.

A spokesperson has confirmed to Buzzfeed that as a company, the Initiative can spend its money on whatever it wants - including private, profit-generating investment."
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

This BS screams for a cynical response! Zuck's "chairty" foundation is an L.L.C., not a charity. How generous of Zuckerberg to give himself $45B!!! That isn't philanthropy... that is greed.

Damn! I forgot to mention, they got some good drugs, too, in case you're into that sort of thing. Now, if you have any further doubts, feel free to ask, thankyouverymuch

The sad truth is that after four years of war in Syria there are few moderates left and those that do exist lack military strength. The Free Syrian Army was always a mosaic of factions and is now largely ineffectual.

The FSA, could be considered the most "moderated" group, actually showed that they are extremists, if not terrorists. Their commander ATE heart of Syrian soldier, or accused of allegedly trafficking in human organs. By no means, this organization is fighting for DEMOCRACY or FREEDOM.

Why, the West continuously claimed, Russian is bombing "moderated groups", they unintentionally reveal, BEFORE the Russian bombing, there are only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, by top general, many were deserted, or hand the armors, weapon to Al Quaeda. Or AFTER the bombing, eventually, the Defense Secretary of U.S Ashton Carter said:

However, the moderate Syrian forces “have not come under attack by either Assad’s forces or Russia’s forces.”

The Pentagon explicitly admitted their 500 million program to train "moderated" rebel is FAILED.
Where is the hell "Western-backed rebel forces" is bombed!?

those of us who aren't sociopaths

Easy with the name-calling. Please, don't hate.

Glass ceilings are a real thing.

Whether that's true or not, there is not one in Linux (nor FreeBSD) project. And yet, the ratio of females there is even worse, than at Microsoft.

People don't have to be enslaved for a workplace to be a very bad place.

If the free people willingly choose to work somewhere, then it can not be that bad.

there is clear and unambiguous evidence that if we allow discrimination based on those criteria that the results are bad both for society and for the individuals

Such a claim sounds rather hollow without citations. Got any?

Your "anti-discrimination" (poorly) fights symptoms, not the problem — which only gets worse because of your efforts, as we are forced to wonder, if a protected minority occupying an important post really deserved it, or got it thanks to the color of his skin. Racial relations today are worse than before — with Blacks especially alienated.

Your approach demonstrably failed. Decades ago we surrendered an essential liberty to your kind in exchange for a promise of harmony, and now we have neither the liberty nor the harmony. Look at Baltimore — despite having Black mayor and Black police commissioner, it still got racial tensions like nowhere else... It is such an egg on your face, your wisest now blame lead paint!

You are a pathetic failure. And yet, instead of pulling back to reflect on what went wrong, your kind doubles and triples down with new charges. Today even the belly-dancing or yoga are off-limits to the Whitey.

Constitution is junk to you — you may preach "tolerance", but wish to ban "hate speech". And that includes everything that makes you uncomfortable.

The market demonstrably cannot fairly deal with this problem.

Because it is not a market problem. In fact, I am not convinced, it is a problem at all. But, if it is, you and yours are the least qualified to address it.

indeed, this is the feeling in parts of Scotland (which is a separate country within the governance of the United Kingdom) where the BBC played a huge part in last years independence campaign. Unsurprisingly, the state broadcaster, funded by the tax payer, took the side of the "no" campaign instead of being unbiased in their reporting and this is causing huge ruptures in Scotland right now and calls are being made to revolutionise the BBC in Scotland. There has been a lot of reporting on this situation here and even before the referendum here and here.

Many in Scotland think that the BBC was a major force in swinging the vote in the final days before the referendum vote when both sides were close to 50/50 of the vote. This caused quite a few protests at BBC Scotland (although, these were played down by the state media).

Whilst it is obvious what the role being played by the BBC in NK and Eritrea is; bear in mind that it is a state broadcaster and will even attempt to exert power over residents within the UK.

ISIS is in very large part made out of meth heads:

here

Meth heads high on delusions of grandeur are not the most logical minds you will find...

• Looting antiquities and selling them on the black market
• Kidnapping and extortion

In the latter case, I don't see bombing helping at all, and in the former I suppose it might help, but would essentially be a crime against humanity.

You're just uninformed: The great Arctic economic time bomb
Methane meltdown: The Arctic timebomb that could cost us $60 Trillion

Apart from the Syrian and Egyptian passports - from that notoriously right wing source "The Independent":

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Well, listening to CNN right now . . . I heard the story of a guy who dragged out a bloodied teenage girl out of the concert . . . is this what Islam is all about!? Any Muslims are encouraged to answer!

You are a complete idiot. STFU.

Seriously, just STFU. And go and read about Ahmed Merabet. That guy was a courageous Frenchman.

Oh wait, you are probably too stupid to read anything that's not on Fox News. My Bad, Carry on being an idiot.