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Dyson himself has said that he doesn't know much about the technical details (he's a physicist, not a climatologist), only that he feels that the climate is very complicated, and that there's too much expert reliance on the models. That's fine as an opinion, but proves nothing.

Of your linked list, just looking through the names shows mostly qualifications in physics, geophysics, paleogeophysics, chemistry, botany, ecology, geology, biogeography - and the ex-Greenpeace guy. Compare that to the hundreds of actual, practicing climatologists who contributed their data to the IPCC reports, and the thousands more who have published studies explicitly or implicitly confirming climate change.

There's no alarmism there, only reams of scientific evidence showing that the earth IS warming, and will in all likelihood continue warming at even faster rates (as it has been doing for 150 years). There are also numerous studies demonstrating that, unchecked, this will be very expensive for us to adapt to (those that can).

What we DO about that is an entirely separate question. "Alarmism" could certainly apply to some proposed responses (mostly to the wilder, straw-man suggestions like "destroy the economy"), but there are also plenty of sane, well-reasoned proposals that will have a long-term net benefit to the economy, even without considering the avoided costs of climate change adaption. I leave it to the political debate as to which to choose - but that is entirely orthogonal to the science.

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

How much different is it than this?

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

She pretty much exemplifies today's online reviewer culture.

RESTAURANT: communicate negative experience, get free meal.
AMAZON: give positive reviews on line, get free stuff.

Sometimes they fight back. This guy was essentially a walking Internet ad agency posing as an independent reviewer when it suited him. The online world is full of people who tap into existing social traditions (eg, independent restaurant reviews) and try to give them a 'new modern edge' with no clue that there are established rules of conduct, such as paying for your meal (or) acknowledging in the review that it was comp'd... and they're all butt-hurt when someone exposes their inconsistent behavior. It's perceived as an attack by people who think we should all just get along, that harsh words are baaad, and do not recognize that trust-based systems and traditions are fragile, deserving of protection.

How anyone in the 21st century can say the word 'blogger' without grimacing is beyond me. What a horrid word. Sounds and looks like 'booger' or 'bugger'

Wind power has actually become cheaper than coal or gas. And we've just ordered solar panels for our house that will pay themselves back in less than 10 years, without subsidies of any kind.

But I still agree we need more nuclear power for when the wind is not blowing and the sun isn't shining. And theres only so much land we can use for wind turbines. Instead of extending the life of old nuclear plants (which then blow up, like Fukushima), we should be building new ones that are more efficient and safe. Not "safer" but actually "safe". Yes, they do exist, but we're hardly building any because "nucular is dangerous". So we keep extending the older ones. Way to go.

Dyson doesn't believe that humans are contributing to atmospheric CO2 or that the Earth is warming. These are not things that can be reasonably denied. - http://www.independent.co.uk/e...

After doing a lot of reading about this man, I have come to this conclusion about his views: Basically he has said "you're {climate scientists} all wrong because I don't like your models and if you try to ask me about specific technical flaws in those models I will defer to my status as a physicist and not a climatologist" So which is it? Are the models flawed, and if so, how? OR are you just a contrarian old codger whose views on climate science are about as reliable as my plumber's opinions on thermonuclear generators? Here is an interesting exchange

"With their exclusive rights protected by the Public Carriage Office, and their rivals held back, London black cabs behave like any cartel — they squeeze their advantages for all their worth." http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea...

Uber is cheaper and quicker than black cabs: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

In the age of GPS "The Knowledge" is a needlessly hard test which keeps most people out. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

London drivers say "The Knowledge" is better than a GPS http://www.theguardian.com/wor... but even before the age of GPS, most cities on the planet regulated taxi without such a test. Doctors do something similar with entrance boards which decide how many new doctors can enter a field. http://wallstreetpit.com/5769-... Rudimentary economics: any profession which restricts their numbers can charge more. Imagine if nurses, paramedics, firemen and cops set up their own mandatory boards what it could do for them.

Most cities restrict taxi numbers usually by restricting the number of licenses issued.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6... FRANCE $270,000
http://globalnews.ca/news/1780... CANADA Was $360,000
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cost... AUSTRALIA Was $425,000
http://www.scmp.com/business/m... HONG KONG $1M
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... USA $1.2M

The US dropped 1600 bombs just in March of this year just against Daesh.

.... SO why the ISIL is still strong, right!?? and U.S still lectures Russia how to kill terrorists??

5) Most of civilian deaths source is SOHR (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Rami Abdulrahman's UK based SOHR has been cited by virtually every western news outlet since the beginning of the uprising.
The United Kingdom-based SOHR is run out of a two-bedroom terraced home in Coventry by one person, Rami Abdulrahman,[3] a Syrian Sunni Muslim who also runs a clothes shop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Who is behind Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? http://www.rt.com/news/317372-...

Many contradictions because of many lies.

"Sending them back to their nation of origin would work fine, and requires no killing."

In the case of Syria, no matter which side the civilians come from, there's generally not much to go back to.

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

People don't usually risk their lives going somewhere unless where they're coming from is pretty awful.

Basically - and hear me out here - a bunch of Muslims are trampling each other to death in order to pay homage to their magical sky-god.

Here in the US, we have the good sense to trample other countries to death in order to pay homage to our magical sky-god.

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

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".

Ask, and ye shall receive.

Did you read from the link you posted? Where does it show that 'snow would be a distant memory'? Viner is talking about a very specific location. And he provided data to show the number of snowfall days there has gone down. In fact your link supports what Beck_Neard is arguing.

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".

Ask, and ye shall receive.

You know, my fear is these people would be just as stupid without the camera.

I've got to agree. How many people die from similar stupid stunts minus the camera aimed at them? The running of the bulls one seemed highly dangerous but easily documented so I checked and found this article that said 7 people were killed at running of the bulls ceremonies in a one month period. I'm guessing one might be our selfie-taker but what about the other 6 then?

I'm not saying that selfies aren't stupid at times. That guy who whipped out a selfie stick on a Disney World roller coaster ride was just asking to hurt someone. (Great work on Disney's part to shut down the ride quickly and confiscate the stick.) There are times when selfies are harmless. I've taken them from time to time. But, like any other activity, you need to be aware of where you are and what your safety margin is. If I was standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon, you can bet I wouldn't be leaning over to get a better selfie shot. But when I was in a pool with my kids during a recent cruise (with my phone in a protective water-proof casing) without my wife nearby to take photos? I took a few selfies with my kids along with photos of just my kids. (I also had fun with my kids without involving photography, but I enjoy taking photos.)

Are we really going to sit here and talk about Great Britain without mentioning the fact that the Prime Minister actually and literally fucked a pig?

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

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

http://www.express.co.uk/news/...

What has happened to Slashdot?

And, it's getting worse every day:

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

This thing is so poisonous, that I get queasy just seeing it's photograph.

All things considered, I think I'd rather take 2-3 weeks on a cruise ship to get the Australia.

I'm not going back there until they get rid of all the death adders.

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

I had a nice time when I was there last, but I didn't realize then that every form of wildlife in Australia wants to kill you. Now I know better. Even the pigeons have venom that will make you die a slow, painful death.

Well, according to every MRA member who has ever defended why there are more men in STEM fields, it's because boy's are more interested in them.

Weird how that gets tossed out the window in the hysteria over women dominating other fields, isn't it.

But don't worry! Men may be a minority in biological sciences, yet they still manage to dominate the field.

Calling this issue "WikiGate" reflects a rather single-minded focus.

A few days ago, we learned that there was an extortion ring operating in Wikipedia – see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... or http://www.independent.co.uk/n... and many others.

A few months ago, we learned that a hoax article had survived for ten years on Wikipedia, and that its content had come to be cited in numerous places, among many other hoaxes: https://www.washingtonpost.com... see also http://wikipediocracy.com/2014...

A few weeks prior to that, we learned that an administrator had managed to manipulate Wikipedia's articles on a bogus Indian business school over a period of years, with an Indian journalist estimating that Wikipedia had messed up thousands of students' lives by lending its brand's supposed credibility to the school's misleading propaganda: http://www.newsweek.com/2015/0... and http://scroll.in/article/71429...

Each of those would have deserved the title WikiGate more than this non-issue, which if anything actually helps improve Wikipedia's reliability.

Waiting for the protests from the folks who believe Sunscreen actually causes cancer (chemicals in the lotion vs the sun's rays).

[John]

If you water it down, it blocks 130% of all UV rays.

In other news, Homeopaths in Germany have "accidentally" taken hallucinogenic drugs at a conference

FTA

Broadcaster NDR described the 29 men and women "staggering around, rolling in a meadow, talking gibberish and suffering severe cramps".

These are homoeopaths.... How did they tell they were on drugs from that.

What has Notch programmed lately, other than the security code for his fabulous mansion?

After you get a $2.5 Billion payday, how hard will you work?

The Marine Biological Association in Plymouth should buy a 1904 shilling (on eBay around $13) and send it to the German couple.

From TFA:

True to their word, the association sent a shilling to the couple as the promised payment.

Yale professor:
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/...

From the Rutgers Dean of Students:
"There is no such thing as Free Speech"
http://deanofstudents.rutgers....

Santa Clara University is telling students to call 911 over "bias incidents".
http://www.scu.edu/provost/div...

Idiot progressive says that computers can be racist as well:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Idiot progressive accuses people of being racist when in fact the stupid bitch confuses her own search history for racist topics suggested by twitter. The cow was LOOKING for racist stuff about herself... didn't find it apparently... then saw her search history and said "oh there's the racism I was trying to find"... Morons.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

You think this is hard, shithead? Easiest thing in the world. All I'm doing is walking outside and pointing at the Sun. Its right there. See it?

You're wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

This one do? Okay, that is a fair chunk of Christians covered right there, not sure where the rest stand.

Honestly, I think Guaranteed Income would be a better system over Basic Income.

Guaranteed Income ensures that everyone at least has X income per, say, month.
If you have incomes from other sources, it will eat out of this until your income is no longer funded by the welfare system.
However, it is still open to corruption if there is any Honor system in place. In other words, people are trusted to be honorable in declaring income.
The whole system needs to be completely automated to remove this sort of abuse.
Basic income, on the other hand, gives everyone an extra X per month, which has been shown to make people generally happier since they have more money and stability.
But this is mainly true only of those who have a small income in general, whereas people that are in richer wouldn't really notice it all that much.

Both systems in small experiments around the world have shown to actually help employment numbers because people don't feel victimized, harassed by the system or government in some cases, and improves overall happiness.
There were a few of them listed on the wikipedia article for it last I checked. Yeah, here we go..

So that is why I think Guaranteed Income is a better system since it would be felt better by those in vulnerable situations.
And it would also mean more money could go towards the system in the first place, more efficient use of taxes.
Having a reasonably minimum income can only help improve a persons situation and lead to them improving quicker whereas having a horribly restrictive welfare system only leads to people being STUCK in the welfare system permanently.
I've seen people be stuck in the welfare system for decades simply because they are ill and incapable of dealing with the stresses of the welfare system constantly harassing them to find a job.
Punishing welfare systems are not a solution. (likewise with punishing prison systems vs reforming prisons, which are shown to be massively superior in lowering crime re-occurrences)

I am glad one country is being sensible about this.
Here in the UK, the stupid Conservative government are cutting even more of the welfare budget because of blatant lies by the DWP over the welfare budget, complete lack of logging their budget and SO MUCH corruption it hurts. The entire damn system needs to be scrapped and replaced by an automated system.
Every time I see that balding twat talking about the DWP and welfare, I want to punch the screen.
The Conservatives are going to destroy the UK. They are already destroying the NHS and it was rated one of the best healthcare systems in the world, behind only 2 other nations who spend MORE money per head. (yet the healthcare system they are trying to emulate, the US system, is one of the worst and most expensive of the modern world, GENIUS!)
They killed plans to export healthcare to the rest of the world, killed the superhead project which would have seen successful hospitals leaders take control of poorer hospitals and tell their head what to do, and instead completely re-arranged everything and led to several hospitals declaring emergencies after it was done. Then they go and accuse the NHS of being lazy! After the changes THEY made!
I honestly think they are trying to destroy it just to justify selling it off. Fuck all of them. They need to be imprisoned, not dethroned. Same with anyone that voted them in. Damn morons.

The whole anti-F35 argument rests on the report that one (1) F117 was shot down by Serbian forces using VHF technology. Otherwise, they are only talking about the possibility of long range tracking... not fire control radar. And in the case of that F117, there was no mention of the effective RCS.

The Serbs simply demonstrated that you could use radar equipment from the '70s to shoot down modern "stealth" aircraft. All these proxy wars are a testing ground for military technologies, not only Americans, but also Russians and Chinese gather information on the performance of the new weapons and begin to design countermeasures, like the new Chinese radar drone. The idea is to combine long range with fire control: you fire a missile, you guide it with VHF until it is near the objective, at that point the objective is not so stealth and you can use more accurate pointing systems.

The arguments about dependency on forward bases is destroyed by VTOL capability, a fact that was not even touched on in the discussion. Similarly, while it was mentioned that the F18 could drop external fuel tanks in combat, no mention was made of the fact that the F35 could drop (or fire) external munitions in a similar situation.

I don't know what you're talking about here. The article says that the F-35 is designed to operate on internal fuel (because otherwise it loses its only advantage, that is stealth) and so has a bigger combat radius than an F-16 or an F-18, however an F-16 or an F-18 could use external tanks to match or exceed the F-35 combat radius and then drop them before combat to greatly exceed the F-35 combat capabilities. A loaded F-16 has better acceleration, thrust, manoeuvrability than an F-35 relying only on its internal load: an externally loaded F-35 is painfully worse than an F-16 or an F-18 at everything and it is _not_ stealth.

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

In 85 years we'll have flying cars, submersible habitats, colonies on the moon, we'll be terraforming Mars and flying around in spaceships.

Course, all that was supposed to have happened - well, now According to the "experts".

If you consider writers of fiction to be experts. Which might explain why you believe the lies of climate science denialists.

You're right. Let's listen to Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, instead.

He said, in March 2000, snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event.

register their bank account/debit card

Because no child can copy (or photograph) the text written on a credit card.

Alas, demanding children be given more protection, while simultaneously running a government that denies such protection to known sexual assault victims, is a minor plank in the Tory platform:

... Meanwhile, legal aid is disappearing and with it those public-minded legal professionals who often act in the public interest rather than their own. And just to be in the safe side, there is the review of the Freedom of Information Act which has been much too effective at producing embarrassing information about our rulers.

Whole article

The Man wants to track more than your health: Woman wears during sex

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.

http://news.sky.com/story/1298...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...

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

http://www.yourlocalguardian.c...

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

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

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

No, you're spot on. This poll is totally bogus.

He told The Independent: “The NSPCC and Childline, organisations that exist for the protection of children, are quite deliberately using an atrocious study to feed into moral panic, and it’s clearly been coordinated with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.”

Mr Barnett said that regulators had been using porn for several years to justify internet censorship and “create a case for turning Britain back into a digital island”.

Source: NSPCC accused of risking its reputation and 'whipping up moral panic' with study into porn addiction among children

compared to the current £32 billion (way under estimated) budget for HS2 between London and Leeds / Manchester http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

"Mongol" or "Mongoloid" used to be the term for someone with Down's Syndrome. The term was more common a generation ago, and was coined and perpetuated largely in ignorance and racism in the 1860s. Those with Down's Syndrome were simply classified as "idiots", and some European doctor thought they looked like ethnic Mongols. He later discarded those beliefs, but the name stuck. Nowadays you don't hear it too much except in less-than-savory company, like with our AC friend above.

BTW, it's really best to ignore the trolls. I'm sort of breaking my own rule by responding at all, but I thought it was worth knowing where that term comes from.

âoeIn our country, do we want to allow a means of communication between people which we cannot read? My answer to that question is: 'No, we must notâ(TM).â - David Cameron, PM, UK, Jan 2015

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

Look, I get that these guys are trying to do something new. And for that I applaud them and their efforts. However until there are new laws supporting the sort of things they're trying to do they need to follow the current laws especially regarding employment.

Like say threats?

"An Uber driver left a woman a voicemail message threatening to "cut [her] neck" if she cancelled a taxi with him again."
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

They have been suspended, whatever that means in Uber world.

"A Jubilee study has shown that since 2010, the IMF, European governments and the European Central Bank has lent €252 billion to Greece. Over the same period, €232.9 billion has been spent on debt payments, bailing out Greek banks and paying ‘sweeteners’ to speculators to get them to accept the 2012 debt restructuring. This means less than 10% of the money has been used for anything else.

Back in 2010, nearly all government debt was owed to private entities such as banks. Today 78 per cent is owed to the public sector, primarily people in other Eurozone countries, but also throughout the world through the IMF’s loans"

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

If almost all government debt was held by private entities in 2010, but only 22% today, that says to me that the money was originally lent by bankers, who were then bailed out by public institutions, with very little going to Greece itself.

That's Moral Hazard: Encouraging bankers to make high-risk loans because they know the public will bail them out if it goes bad, and their customers get the cream if it goes good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The alternative is to let the banks go bust so in future customers think twice before loaning their money to reckless bankers, and jail the bankers as criminals: http://www.independent.co.uk/n... because bailed out bankers go on to do the same thing. And why wouldn't they? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

We still have a picture of that event, as to be expected from that era it's in black & white:
http://www.independent.co.uk/i...

Uhh, Cameron himself said he wants to scrap the European Human Rights Act.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
This European Convention on Human Rights has nothing to do with the European Union and pre-dates it by decades. Its institutions and courts are completely separate.

The Act covers all the rights included in the European Convention.

These rights are: Right to life, right not to be tortured or subjected to inhumane treatment, right not to be held as a slave, right to liberty and security of the person, right to a fair trial, right not be retrospectively convicted for a crime, right to a private and family life, right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, right to freedom of expression, right to freedom of assembly and association, right to marriage, right to an effective remedy, right not to be discriminated against, the right to the peaceful enjoyment of one’s property, and the right to an education.

The European Convention on Human Rights was the brainchild of Conservative Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Its chief author was the right-wing Scottish Conservative lawyer Sir David Maxwell Fyfe.
Churchill needs no further introduction. Maxwell Fyfe is otherwise known in history for his forensic cross-examination of Goering at the Nuremberg trials, and for declining to intervene (when Home Secretary) in the hanging of Derek Bentley in 1953.
It is surely one of the most bizarre turns in politics that it is right-wing Conservatives who now oppose a treaty which their direct political predecessors created. There is nothing left-wing, excessively liberal, wet (or whatever) about freedom from arbitrary arrest, freedom from government expropriation of private property, the right to due legal process and all the rest of the treaty.

Freedom from state oppression is not an exclusively, or primarily, left wing credo.

Doing away with this 'horrible' act will in my view fit nicely with the ideas Mrs. May is voicing in the name of the Cameron government.

I don't know who you are because you're posting AC, and your post doesn't make much sense because I've frankly no idea what the fuck you're on about regarding Blair and being one of those people, one of what people? What are you talking about?

But no, I'm not trying to sneakily imply that 72% were in favour, what I'm saying is that whilst you can legitimately argue that AV was democratically rejected, you cannot say that FPTP is democratically supported because there wasn't a big enough turnout to give FPTP a legitimate democratic mandate, but there were more people willing to turn up to say no to AV than there were to say yes to it.

In fact, all the evidence shows that FPTP is not democratically supported, the problem is that AV had even less support. What people really want is something like STV but the Tories made sure that wasn't an option because they knew they'd likely lose the referendum and lose the benefits they personally gain from FPTP as a result:

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

And the slightly more biased:

http://www.electoral-reform.or...

Keep in mind also that these are polls on PR, so a large majority of people (even if you distrust polls after the election the gulf is so wide here that it's hard to suggest there isn't majority support) want PR, something that wasn't an option in the AV referendum. Of the 39% that don't want PR it is still perfectly reasonable that whilst they want to maintain local representatives, they don't want them elected under FPTP, some may even be AV supporters.

So yes, absolutely AV was rejected legitimately and democratically, but that doesn't automatically mean that FPTP has a democratic mandate. The thing that likely has an actual legitimate democratic mandate wasn't on the ballot, hence the 41% voter turnout, and that's why you can't claim legitimacy of FPTP - neither AV nor FPTP were able to command support of over 50% of the electorate.

If you think that's bad try one of the lines from the linked article

Such fatalities are rare as robots are generally kept behind cages to prevent contact with humans, however the worker was reportedly inside the safety cage when he was injured

The robots aren't kept in cages to keep them away from the humans. The cages are to stop the humans going near the robots.

... officials believe that human error was to blame for the incident, rather than a problem with the robot.

Prosecutors are now considering whether to bring charges, and if so, against whom ...

They don't say it out-right, but it really does feel like their implying charges could be brought again the robot.

Got it. Bugs in the airplane's airflow decrease fuel economy, but aren't considered a safety concern.

Safety my first thought, but in respect to the stealth aircraft, and it's pilots. Missions launched from the U.S. to say Iraq, they should accumulate a lot of bugs, - I did check, Hemolymph being a copper-based protein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., not so stealthy when they arrive at their destination. I know they also fly patterns to avoid areas known to have radar coverage, but those times they are in an area of radar coverage.

"May Berenbaum says pilots have long known insects can fly very high." http://www.npr.org/sections/kr... with the bumblebees as high as 18,000ft, so many that from China to the U.S. "They are likely to be burning a ton of energy to maintain flight." http://www.independent.co.uk/n... (Kool picture of a Bumblebee about to get high).

So maybe it's already been done (finding a way to reduce bug splatter), but would be a security risk if revealed, as anything to do with the Stealth aircraft is.

As for the idea that he was taken out of context, the linked article which is supposed to support that idea quotes him as saying:

False, you did not read the Independent article. You simply reposted the original quote. Read it thoroughly, here is the relevant context submitted by the EU official :

"He allegedly continued: âoeNow seriously, Iâ(TM)m impressed by the economic development of Korea.

âoeAnd women scientists played, without doubt an important role in it. Science needs women and you should do science despite all the obstacles, and despite monsters like me."

I'll give you a pass, the Independent's article is formatted in a way you might not have noticed that the first 3 paragraphs are not the entire article, it continues after the image. I suggest giving a 2nd read through, fully :

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/sir-tim-hunts-claims-that-remarks-on-girls-in-science-not-sexist-backed-by-leaked-eu-report-10341309.html

What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions?

Let's see... How about blocking the roadways? Very illegal. Even worse are the violent assaults.

And, unlike Uber's own illegality, the blockings and assaults are malum in se whereas Uber is guilty of merely malum prohibitum.

The idle rich like you

Welcome to Bill Maher show. Save your class warfare rhethoric until 2017, for the centennial celebrations of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

The "idle rich" don't care, whether a ride costs €20 or €40. It is the rest of us, for whom such trifle sums matter.

So we need to get Michael J. Fox on this thing, wearing a pair of these: http://www.independent.co.uk/l... (Nike self-lacing trainers)

We have 4 months to make this happen, people. chop chop!

(Anyone got a spare DeLorean parked in their garage?!)

"Shoppers could be facing huge amounts of junk mail which specifically targets their internet browsing habits, under plans being trialled by Royal Mail.

The firm is to deliver personalised letters to potential customers, advertising products that they have previously viewed online." ref

Don't know how to do this, you say? WELL FIGURE IT OUT!!

Or just look at some Lego advertising pre-1985: https://www.google.co.uk/searc...

Notice how many of the images feature boys and girls playing with the same toys. They believed in what they were doing: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Unfortunately in the 1980s Lego changed their policy and tried to corner the boy's toy market: http://www.womenyoushouldknow....

Interestingly the 1980s were also the peak for women in engineering studies.

I can imagine the "double taps" where they first attack a target and then hit it again when rescuers move in adds a certain level of stress to the soldiers...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/outrage-at-cias-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-8174771.html

They 'only' make millions of dollars, but are basically enslaved? I don't think the word slave means what you think it does...

They could join forces with poor Cristiano Ronaldo, who was a 120 000 GBP/week slave in Manchester United.