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Can't happen? Zero fucking times. Prove me wrong with a link.

From the Independent on a system Intel made to ensure the impossibility of fault by self-driving cars:

self-driving vehicles can't cause accidents

They may have come up with the name "Slow TV", but not with the Idea of slow tv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's a more recent example, but unlike the previous examples, it is an actual movie with a story (taken fromn Shakespeare) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

(yes, there is a slow TV wikipedia article that cites some earlier stuff, but unlike watching a sleeping guy or this https://www.independent.co.uk/... there is stuff that people actually want to watch)

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

You can say that's different, but I'd argue it's just a little farther up the slippery slope.

You got lucky then. It could've gone much much worse for you..
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

How is Amazon addressing this?

By taking a picture of the package on your doorstep and decreeing that anything after that isn't their problem.

See, that way they can say "hey, we delivered it and left it out completely unattended, if it got stolen we can't help you".

Awesome, isn't it?

Remember the good old days when you needed to sign for a package to be sure it was delivered to you? Now parcel delivery is pretty much reduced to "abandon it outside and forget about it".

OMG! Satellites cannot "see' below the top 30 cm of soil. Deep aquifers! How are even allowed on this site? Do you work for that lying Scottish firm that claims this nonsense?

Sometimes, I do hate it when I've got mod points. I have to read idiots like this.

Watch the documentary, it had details on how it work. Here is a link to a article that has some details on the process.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/french-geologist-alain-gachet-says-new-water-divining-technique-could-alleviate-drought-all-over-the-a6796516.html/

'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves

"What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?"
- @RichardDawkins - 6:15 AM - 3 Mar 2018

https://twitter.com/RichardDaw...
https://archive.fo/kSmgi

"Lab-grown 'clean' meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer"
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

"'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves"
https://www.washingtontimes.co...

and:

https://www.nationalreview.com...

'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves

"What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?"
- @RichardDawkins - 6:15 AM - 3 Mar 2018

https://twitter.com/RichardDaw...
https://archive.fo/kSmgi

"Lab-grown 'clean' meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer"
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

"'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves"
https://www.washingtontimes.co...

and:

https://www.nationalreview.com...

And "hate speech", which seems to be any "offensive" post in the U.K., with over 2,500 people arrested for "offensive comments" on twitter and Facebook http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Hey. If the Chinese people have any backbone they'll stop this from happening. It's not like they'll be gunned down, run over and turned into a flesh pie if they object.

Last year I heard Trump was Hitler and going to start up concentration camps, now Democrats want us to disarm.

Let's be clear: if there's any situation where who has guns matters, the Democrats will have already lost since they have far fewer weapons and far less understanding of them (witness for example the repeated statements about "assault weapons" like it is a real category of weapon).

As for climate change? They may "believe" two different things but they both live the same lifestyles. Show me how much you "believe" in climate change by how you live, not how you vote. I don't give a fuck what some dickhead says about CO2 emissions if they're driving a SUV, living in a large house and eating meat.

I agree that lifestyle changes are important. I don't own a car and use public transit for that reason, and while my wife and I aren't 100% vegetarians, our house is vegetarian- pretty much the only times we ever meat is on occasion when visiting a friend or relative. But even given that, lifestyle changes aren't the only thing that matters the Democrats generally favor policy differences that will matter. For example, both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton favored large-scale programs to increase solar and wind power as well as more use of electric cars, whereas we now have a President who has the stated goal of "bringing back coal" even in a country where there are already far more people employed in renewable energies than with coal http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-solar-power-employs-more-people-more-oil-coal-gas-combined-donald-trump-green-energy-fossil-fuels-a7541971.html, and where coal is being largely beaten down not just by renewable energy sources but also largely because natural gas is so cheap. And coal isn't the only example of this: Trump has actively encouraged further oil drilling off the coast https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/trump-is-said-to-open-door-for-oil-drilling-off-u-s-east-coast (although not off of Florida because he and the governor there get along well apparently https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-says-no-drilling-off-florida-coast/2018/01/09/91981160-f5a8-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?utm_term=.7322b1e2b3b5 when we shouldn't be producing more oil in general.

Yes, the Democrats aren't perfect. Yes, some of them are pretty hypocritical. That doesn't stop them from being a far, far better option on climate issues.

Given his recent accomplishment, the best Elon Musk can do is to launch a Triumph rather than Trump...

A sexual emergency is the defence for raping children.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Note that despite losing the retrial (see http://www.independent.co.uk/n... ) it's still relevant because his conviction was overturned on the grounds his sexual emergency outweighed the right of a 10 year old to not be fucked by an adult.

In the UK girls overtook boys in maths at school over a decade ago.

Exactly when they stopped testing accrued competence in 2000. When they returned to an objective competency test in 2017:

A-level results 2017: Boys overtake girls in top grades for first time in years

Some 43 per cent of male maths candidates scored an A or higher, compared with 41.1 per cent of girls.

The left oppose the notion of originalism. E.g. Roe v Wade decided people had always had a right to abortion because of an invented 'right to privacy'.

Nope, the right to privacy was not invented, it's natural.

The SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage was based on the notion that it was an inevitable consequence of Due Process under the 14th Amendment.

The SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage was actually based on the pattern of discrimination that had been demonstrated by the opponents of same-sex marriage.

Even though the people who wrote the original documents didn't believe in a right to abortion or a right to gay marriage.

They're dead. How exactly do you know what they'd believe, and why should we care anyway? Did I miss some declaration where we subsumed ourselves to their eternal dictatorship from beyond the grave?

Judicial activism is always about allowing your political views to alter the way you read the law. It's a sort of 'ends justifies the means' approach to law. If you agree with the ends, then the means
- twisting or inverting the meaning of the actual words in the law or inventing new rights that aren't actually there - doesn't matter.

That's actually original-ism, as found in numerous instances.

This is in of itself a good reason to distrust the US left. E.g. look at the gay marriage case. Both Obama and Clinton run on a platform of opposing it, but Obama set up a case which would legalise it and then celebrated. Even if left wing politicians say they won't do something, they may appoint judges who will twist the law to do it and then celebrate the result.

Both Clinton and Obama were wrong to take the cowardly position they did on same-sex marriage, and were roundly condemned for it, they set back civil rights for over a decade.

Now I'm not all that fussed about gay marriage. However even there you can see that the left will use it as a cudgel to beat the right - e.g. Christian bakers will be asked to bake a "I support gay marriage cake" and sued if they refuse.

Actually, it's the right that's upset that they can't get Confederate Cakes.

By the way if Gorsuch ruled in a way that you didn't like would you say "Well he's just interpreting the law. You can't say he's allowing his political beliefs to get in the way"? I'm guessing not, because he's an originalist and not a believer that the role of a judge is to invent new rights. if someone's political views explicitly include a different method of how to interpret law - e.g. 'Improving rights' vs 'Originalism' then those political views obviously alter how they'd rule when they were a judge.

That's because Gorsuch would allow his political beliefs to get in the way.

Look at the SC

Oops, that link should have been this one.

the Trump administration is proposing significant cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) and hopes to eliminate the jobs of 248 weather forecasters

Geez, who rained on his parade?

It was his inauguration that got rained on. And then the stupid weathermen didn't back him up when he claimed he was so divinely blessed that the rain itself stood still until he took the oath of office.

There was a recent story of a woman who tried to commit suicide, and killed some guy who was driving by below her.

Here is a similar story from Virginia, but I'm sure I saw another last month.
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

You'll fucking love these then:
http://reason.com/blog/2017/04...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

The regulations don't deal with the core destructive and problem-causing issues which are also massively profitable. All regulations which have any teeth are walked back by politicians. See "How Wall Street defanged Dodd Frank". Now, Dodd-Frank was a joke for a lot of reasons, but the big reason was its intentional complexity and incompleteness and its unwillingness to deal with core issues. But even the pieces of Dodd-Frank that had small teeth were defanged.

Back in 2008, the big issue was lenders not having 'skin in the game' - they could make loans and shed all repayment risk when they sold off the loan to investors or the government. It's a license to print money and a perverse incentive to create bad debt. If you google "QRM safe harbor and risk retention", you'll get some history (QRM = qualified residential mortgage). There was an attempt to make lenders retain some small portion of repayment risk, instead of the government taking all of it, but that was walked back, as the above search will tell you.

The current Wall Street economic model is "privatize the profits and socialize the losses." Not a thing was done to address that. "Too big to fail" was never addressed - the biggest banks are even bigger today than in 2008 ("In the US, since the crisis, the six largest US banks now control nearly 70 per cent of all the assets in the US financial system, having increased around 40 per cent (against overall asset growth of only 8 per cent). JP Morgan, the largest US bank, has over $2.4 trillion in assets, larger than most countries." -- The Independent)

So. Instead the regulations are along these lines: Instead of just outlawing robbing people, they outlaw robbing people at 12 Noon. The rest of the day is fine. But then they add, 'well you can't rob people at 3 PM either'. And so on. They refuse to deal with the core issues (i.e. "you can't rob people"), instead nibbling ineffectually around the edges.

"Complexity breeds loopholes." That's the point of complex regulations - to breed loopholes. It's fantastic because it keeps competitors out of the business, because you need vast legal and accounting departments to stay abreast of the regulations. And it does little to stop the destructive behavior.

Or, maybe, your very premise is incorrect and Trump does not, actually, want to be an authoritarian despot?

Who you gonna believe, mi, or Trump's own words.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

https://www.theatlantic.com/po...

1. Change the clutch on my car.

If AI can drive a car, which we seem to be getting close to, the demand for car repair is likely to be significantly diminished, since car ownership will eventually stop making economic sense for most. The trend is already moving in this direction. Fewer young people of the age to become licensed drivers are choosing to do so.

2. Fix my home's AC.

That will probably be true for quite some time for many home repairs. However, smart home systems integrated into appliances and things like HVAC may be able to assist in diagnosing problems and make repair efforts more efficient. Or catch potential problems earlier, so that minor maintenance or small repairs can be done before reaching the level of full system failure.

3. Trim my trees.

The knowledge of how much and where to trim may exceed the capabilities of AI for a while yet, but you might start seeing robots that can do the dirty work, so to speak, under the supervision of a human who marks where the cuts should be made.

4. Talk to me about my investments.

So-called robo-advisors are already a growing trend. It's probably only a matter of time before they are consistently better than their human counterparts.

5. Diagnose my illness (without a doctor as the interface)

Actually, this is probably one of the first areas of medicine where AI will have a big impact. Developing individualized treatment plans are where you're more likely to work with a doctor. But we're quickly moving toward letting AI take much of the load in diagnosis.

6. Teach my kids.

Teaching AIs are already happening at the college level. And there are lots of reasons that AI teachers will add a lot of value at all levels. I think there are strong reasons to keep human teachers as well rather than going 100% (or nearly so) automated, but some educators seem to think it will happen, and sooner rather than later.

7. Police my neighborhood.

Perhaps not. But having law enforcement that has no biases, never gets tired or frustrated, etc... will be a big step forward. AI will very likely play a role in solving crimes, and perhaps in adjudicating them, or at least deciding whether they should be pursued in the criminal justice system or not.

8. Put out a house fire.

Not sure about this. Seems like an automated system could be better than humans at identifying the hottest spots, and focus fire suppression on them with greater precision. Or maybe AI controlled, integrated fire suppression systems will interdict small fires much more quickly before they become big enough to call for fire department deployment.

9. Rescue someone.

Depends on the context. Seems like an AI could do better at a human at scanning an area (e.g. pool or shoreline) and identifying people in distress. Actual rescue might be effected by a human lifeguard, though.

10. Get elected and participate in government.

I really don't know if that would be a good or bad thing.

In the near term, AIs may not entirely do any of the above, but they will likely play a role in doing many of them better and more efficiently. That may mean a few jobs are obviated in those areas by automation, or a significant proportion. And while some of the above comments pertaining to advanced smart home systems, etc.. may be a bit future-y, we will probably see things along those lines in the coming decades.

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case collapsed because accuser lied

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

Case dropped

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

This one is particularly appalling

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

As is this

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s...

That's 5 in the space of 6 weeks. There was at least one other. The problem of rapists getting away with their crimes is not going to be solved by throwing innocent men under the bus.

The US is 3 times worse than the UK for health outcomes vs expenditure

I will admit... leaving patients out in the parking lot in an ambulance is a fantastic way of reducing costs... though do their turning for the worst end up counting in the final figures you claim to cite?

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/heal...
https://www.theguardian.com/so...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/heal...

Which, strangely, doesn't seem to be helping with their birth rate problem.

That's a ridiculous thing to say. Criticizing China outside of China is not the same as going to Sweden and raping someone.

This is the "rape" account according to the victim:

“The complainant ‘AA’ said in her statement that Mr Assange ripped off her clothes and at the same time broke her necklace. She tried to put her clothes on again, but Mr Assange had immediately removed them again. She had thought that she did not really want to continue, but it was too late to tell Mr Assange to stop as she had consented so far. Accordingly she let Mr Assange take off all her clothes. Thereafter they laid down on the bed naked with AA on her back and Mr Assange on top. Mr Assange wanted to insert his penis into her vagina, but she did not want him to do that as he was not using a condom. She therefore squeezed her legs together in order to avoid him penetrating her. She tried to reach several times for a condom which Mr Assange had stopped her from doing by holding her arms and bending her legs open and trying to penetrate her with his penis without a condom. Mr Assange must have known it was a condom AA was reaching for and he had held her arms to stop her. After a while Mr Assange had asked AA what she was doing and why she was squeezing her legs together; AA told him she wanted him to put on a condom before he entered her. Mr Assange let go of AA’s arms and put on a condom which AA found for him. AA felt a strong sense of unexpressed resistance on Mr Assange’ s part against using a condom.”

Basically he is investigated because he allegedly made resistance when asked to use a condom, even though he actually used it.

SW and AA were victims of violence, and the Swedish and British legal systems are doing the right thing in prosecuting Assange.

So right that the UN ruled that JA is under arbitrary detention by Sweden and UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

http://volokh.com/2013/05/03/l...

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

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

https://www.theguardian.com/la...

https://www.cnet.com/news/lond...

https://www.amren.com/news/201...

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

https://www.thenewamerican.com...

The dumbest thing about it is that the EU cheered on Erdogan's attempt to curtail the power of the military because of 'freedom and democracy'.

http://www.washingtoninstitute...

On August 8, 2003, the seventh European Union (EU) reform package went into effect in Turkey, significantly curbing the role of the military in politics. This legislation, passed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government on August 4, follows six previous packages adopted since February 2002. Collectively, these reform measures have vastly liberalized the country's political system, facilitating Kurdish broadcasting and education, abolishing the death penalty, and subjecting Turkish courts to the European Court of Human Rights. Turkey now has laws guaranteeing freedom of speech, and the military is no longer the kingmaker in Ankara. As a result, AKP -- a self-styled "conservative democratic" party with an identifiable "Islamist pedigree" -- anticipates that Turkey will pass muster when Brussels reviews its candidacy for EU membership in June 2004. Ankara hopes that the EU will establish an accession calendar, opening the way for Turkey's eventual entry into the union, perhaps within the next decade. These developments are crucial to Turkey's future. Which path will the country take now that the military is stripped of its role as a decision making body? Will the EU open its doors to Turkey?

Of course the EU turned down Turkey's membership.

Then the coup happened and the EU condemned it

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Erdogan used the excuse of the coup for a full on crackdown of critics of his regime, and even convinced EU countries to arrest EU citizens

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ger...

And then threatened to unleash a wave of refugees on the EU unless Turks get free movement

http://nationalpost.com/news/w...

And big pile of cash.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

The basic problem is that the EU and the West push freedom and democracy and do things like push Turkey to curb the power of the military. But the government curbing the military in Turkey won't lead to a democratic government in charge because Turkey is fundamentally different from EU countries. Traditionally the main counter balance to Islamism has been the military having a coup every few years.

The EU have removed what was essentially an authoritarian check on the political aspirations of the Islamists and not replaced it with a more democratically correct one.

And of course the EU screwed Turkey - it forced a bunch of reforms on Turkey as part of the price of EU membership. Turkey made the reforms and then the EU welched on the membership. And Turkey knows the EU is dependent on it to stop another wave of refugees

And the cherry, the US, the Country FOUNDED on the principles of freedom, drops to 21....well done....
http://theweek.com/speedreads/... [theweek.com]

I have a hard time taking any analysis that ranks Germany, Canada, and the UK above the US. Hate speech laws. Arrests for tweets and facebook posts. Compelled speech... Not exactly bastions of personal freedom and civil rights. Any report that thinks countries that employ those laws are free are delusional and fundamentally flawed in their analysis.

I honestly would not trade my citizenship of the US for with any other nation on Earth. The US has it's problems no doubt but the protections for individual liberty are still foundational. I can say what I want and I can defend my right to say it myself without the government.

This is the time when more of humanity is healthier, happier, wealthier...

How's life in the 1% treating you ?

ah, little Troller Boy is still upset in defense of, again, the perennial martyr of the Right, the Great Sarah Palin, the least contributory of all of the losing VP-candidates throughout history, the one who all you have to say about is over the mean liberals and leftists who say such harsh words.

How Sad that that's ALL you can offer about her. Or her drones.

It's ok, we know you have nothing. No leadership. No integrity. It's trolling all the way down for Dumb-Ass-Troll.

Where are the gangs of Brits roaming the cities across the nation, hunting down foreigners and assaulting them? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

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

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

http://www.dw.com/en/britain-s...

Where are the managers and company owners refusing to hire foreign workers? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

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

Where are the people demanding forced repatriation of anybody not born in the UK? They're meeting in small pub rooms, decried by the general population, gaining no traction politically.

Pants on fire.

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

Where are the gangs of Brits roaming the cities across the nation, hunting down foreigners and assaulting them? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

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

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

http://www.dw.com/en/britain-s...

Where are the managers and company owners refusing to hire foreign workers? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

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

Where are the people demanding forced repatriation of anybody not born in the UK? They're meeting in small pub rooms, decried by the general population, gaining no traction politically.

Pants on fire.

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

Where are the gangs of Brits roaming the cities across the nation, hunting down foreigners and assaulting them? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

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

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

http://www.dw.com/en/britain-s...

Where are the managers and company owners refusing to hire foreign workers? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

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

Where are the people demanding forced repatriation of anybody not born in the UK? They're meeting in small pub rooms, decried by the general population, gaining no traction politically.

Pants on fire.

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

Where are the gangs of Brits roaming the cities across the nation, hunting down foreigners and assaulting them? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

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

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

http://www.dw.com/en/britain-s...

Where are the managers and company owners refusing to hire foreign workers? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

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

Where are the people demanding forced repatriation of anybody not born in the UK? They're meeting in small pub rooms, decried by the general population, gaining no traction politically.

Pants on fire.

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

Where are the gangs of Brits roaming the cities across the nation, hunting down foreigners and assaulting them? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

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

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

http://www.dw.com/en/britain-s...

Where are the managers and company owners refusing to hire foreign workers? They don't exist.

Liar.

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

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

Where are the people demanding forced repatriation of anybody not born in the UK? They're meeting in small pub rooms, decried by the general population, gaining no traction politically.

Pants on fire.

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

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

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

Tech leaders had some insight into what tech, social media is and does. ... Was a Low-Tech Parent (10, 2014)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...
.. "strictly limited his children's use of technology" http://www.independent.co.uk/l... (24 February 2016)
.... raised their kids tech-free (October 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

Tech leaders had some insight into what tech, social media is and does. ... Was a Low-Tech Parent (10, 2014)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...
.. "strictly limited his children's use of technology" http://www.independent.co.uk/l... (24 February 2016)
.... raised their kids tech-free (October 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

A lot of the pollution in Beijing comes from the Gobi Desert. It is a fairly regular thing for fine desert dust to be an appreciable amount of the pollution. That seems worthwhile in terms of filtering - and it's a 100% natural source of "pollution" (which is more than just man-made stuff).

Natural in the sense of a result of actual physics? Sure. As a result independent of human behavior? Nope, not 100%, in fact, as various ill-advised land management usages in the Gobi Desert have had severe results on the stability of the soil surface, much the way the Dust Bowl did back in the 1930s or the poor cultivation techniques in Africa(some also fostered by China). Hence the need for a long-standing program to reverse the problem created by human acts, though of course, said program may not be entirely effectual or beneficial.

You can quibble and say that the soil particulates that become dust are "natural" Perhaps, but nonetheless, you can't argue it's not a man-contributed problem. But to give you benefit of the doubt beyond what you merit, you should revise your statements to specify what you mean.

A lot of the pollution in Beijing comes from the Gobi Desert. It is a fairly regular thing for fine desert dust to be an appreciable amount of the pollution. That seems worthwhile in terms of filtering - and it's a 100% natural source of "pollution" (which is more than just man-made stuff).

Looks also wasn't as important, used to be ugly singers.

Oh, please. Here is a photo of one of the top pop stars in the world right now:

https://static.independent.co....

There is no reason to doubt our esteemed intelligence community. When they implore us to trust them because the evidence is too dangerous to show to the public, it is every patriotic citizen's duty to trust them. Spies are lurking in every corner, even on our beloved Slashdot, so we must remain vigilant against efforts to undermine faith in government. Faith keeps us strong, strength crushes enemies. Have faith.

That's a very valid concern.

But also consider the other side. A few months ago Trump bragged to the Russian Ambassador about getting intelligence about a laptop bombing plot out of a specific city in Syria. That initial leak basically led to the entire operation being exposed (and the Israeli bug being useless).

Now consider the NSA. How do they know about the Russian's using Kaspersky? Is it a mole in Kaspersky? A mole in Russian intelligence? A backdoor into Kaspersky or Russian intelligence? They hacked someone's email account? etc, etc.

Any piece of information you give out jeopardizes your ability to gather intel in the future. Just exposing the fact they knew the Russians were responsible was probably the cause of a big debate.

It was quite well covered here in the UK by the BBC and others:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
http://www.independent.co.uk/v...
https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

It seems Catherine Deneuve has made a name for herself with this - just typing her name into Google turns up some of these links.

Dubai. Israel. Desalination is a solved problem.

Not really, no.

South Africa is going through rough times - serious economic and social stresses, the sort of racial tensions the progressives imagine exist in America.

If you want to talk about America, instead of uselessly lambasting progressives over a strawman, why not bring up examples like Flint, Michigan, CopperHill, Tennesse, or Jackson, Missippi? Or Georgia's perennial struggles to claim its alleged water rights from bordering states?

It's a solved problem, but desalination is also somewhat expensive - tough for SA in its current economic climate.

So in other words, it's not actually a solve problem, because in the real world, you can't just hand-wave a solution, but have to pursue a long-term effort. And in fact, contrary to your statements, both countries you named have problems.

Name a single thing in recent years that has proven to be a lie (not simply "other officials publicly denied it, without providing any supporting evidence for their denial") and for which no retraction was issued. Officials from an administration that publicly lies on average six times per day.

It was recently attempted to trick the Washington Post into posting face news against Republicans, so that they could be denounced for putting a "vendetta" over truth. It failed miserably due to WP's fact checking and investigative reporting.

"Pledge to spend one day in January 2018 accessing the Internet only on your mobile device to tell them that's not OK."

To prove what? To accomplish what? How will the [FCC | ISP | Anyone] know what you did? How exactly does this influence the FCCs decision?

This will be even less effective than Hashtag Activisim, like #BringBackOurGIrls - at least with hashtag activism you can see how many people support you.

Ummm...OK.

It does, but an ageing population (especially problematic is the wave of baby boomers, called that for a reason) puts a lot of extra strain on all European countries. It's a struggle to find solutions that work and considering that the conservative approach in the UK has been "You're not getting more money, deal with it", the story you mentioned is the result:
- http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
- http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

See also:
- https://www.ineteconomics.org/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It does, but an ageing population (especially problematic is the wave of baby boomers, called that for a reason) puts a lot of extra strain on all European countries. It's a struggle to find solutions that work and considering that the conservative approach in the UK has been "You're not getting more money, deal with it", the story you mentioned is the result:
- http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
- http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

See also:
- https://www.ineteconomics.org/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The officers (they were not SWAT) yelled at him to raise his hands and to walk toward them, and shined bright light at his eyes. 3 seconds later, he drops his hands and the cops shoot him.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/innocent-gamer-shot-dead-kansas-wichita-swatting-andrew-finch-a8134521.html