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I saw a few comments here suggesting it was a Jewish thing. Seemed odd, so I did a quick google search and... turns out they were right.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Looks like the outbreak is indeed centered in the city's Orthodox Jewish community. That really is odd, as the objections seem to be based on false scientific claims, not superstitious or moral objections.

I don't see anything to connect is to immigration though. The Independent suggests the outbreak strain was brought back from Israel, but by tourists who went there for a festival and returned home with the virus incubating.

Are you considering the resources it takes to replace that working appliance? Some estimates place one smartphone to consume an average of 1 gigajoule of energy and 13 tons of water to manufacture.

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

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

The only valid reason for the UK to leave the EU is to stop blocking sensible directives, like this one:

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

The UK is a crappy EU member and de Gaulle was right to veto the British membership back in the day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/he...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

drug deaths per year in the UK: 247 in 2015 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34...

alcohol deaths per year in the UK: 5,843 deaths in 2017 https://www.independent.co.uk/...

number of kids having died from the fortnight dance: none.

*the total count of entitled celebrity pseudo-rulers riding the coat-tails of an increasingly wasteful and arrogant theatrical monarchy into the apocalypse of Brexit remains uncounted, yet is at least 1.

With conspiracy hat on: maybe they were going after bigger fishes while working with the government or local law enforcement. So instead of targeting a possible suspect directly, they employed a kind of 6 degrees of separation.

The primary suspect (or suspicious person or one with a low "social credit": remember, even Apple reads emails now to determine a Trust Score[0]) would normally be more guarded.

> why take peoples' email passwords?

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/...

I am a pilot although not type rated in 737. This is a pilot training issue primarily. Secondary there appears to be a failure to fully explain the behavior of the new MCAS trim mode so it can be differentiated from runaway trim. The response to the problem would be the same as runaway trim, turn off trim power, re-trim the aircraft manually. Indication of this new MCAS trim problem is almost identical to runaway trim. The difference is MCAS runs briefly and will repeat until it reaches its limit, whereas runaway trim will run continuously until it hits the stops. Turning off trim and manually re-trimming restores normal flight control in both cases.

On the other hand, out of single-digit cases of this failure happening, nearly all of them resulted in loss of AF. If the extra training after the previous crash had resulted in this problem being successfully mitigated by pilots with that extra training several times before the next loss, then maybe I could see this as a training problem, but it seems like the only successful mitigation was in the one rare case where there happened to be a third pilot on board who was able to assess the problem without the burden of having to fly the plane at the same time.

This suggests to me that there's a good chance that no amount of additional training would be enough to recognize and fix this failure in the heat of battle for some reason — possibly because of how far off-center the system in question is able to push the trim coupled with the fact that this tends to fail at takeoff, while flying at low altitude.

Of course, additional training might actually solve the problem; these crashes might just be a fluke involving multiple pilots whose training was subpar, coupled with higher-quality or better-maintained AoA sensors used by companies that don't cut costs on pilot training. It's hard to say for sure without more data (i.e. without this failure occurring more often). In the interest of safety, though, we have to assume at this point that pilot training won't fix the problem, because if we assume in the other direction and a third Max aircraft goes down before a few hundred successful pilot mitigations are logged, that would pretty much be the end of Boeing, not to mention the FAA for certifying it.

I would also argue that airline cost-cutting is at least partially to blame. In Lion Air, the difference between having two people actively involved in flying the plane while trying to diagnose a problem and having a third person whose sole responsibility was to watch and diagnose the failure made the difference between a plane landing safely and crashing with all hands lost. One of the reasons that aircraft historically had a third pilot (or otherwise trained flight engineer) in the cockpit was precisely so that there would be an extra set of eyes who wasn't actively flying the plane in any way.

These days, flights routinely fly with only two people, and Boeing is trying to push that number down to only one. If this failure had occurred on a plane with only a single pilot, the odds of survival would be poor, at best, unless the pilot immediately recognized that the trimming was wrong, knew the cause, and disabled the system. However, if pilots aggressively do that, then I suspect that they will disable it unnecessarily often enough for that to be a problem in its own right (because, after all, it is not certified to fly in that configuration).

So I would argue that this is a design issue first, personnel cost-cutting second, and a pilot training issue only tertiarily. But even if I'm wrong, we have to assume that I'm right, because the alternative could be very, very bad. :-)

There's been a continuous stream of "fuck you" proposals from the EU.

From here it looks mostly like the Irish border is the only real gamestopper. The EU has a duty to the Republic of Ireland, who is a member, and wants to stay that way. They have no duty whatsoever to Britain, who really no longer matters at all.

Really quite shocking nobody apparently thought of this before.

The end result will almost certainly be a "no deal" Brexit. Everyone agrees that's the worst possible situation

The worst for Britain, but why should the EU care about that? Some people in the EU will be hurt to be sure, but they are also gaining all those jobs and capital that are fleeing the UK in droves.

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

The UK has never had any winning cards in their hand. Completely amazing if anyone thought they did.

Reminder: Donald Trump is an anti-vaxxer.

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

The wife of Bill Shine, Trump's communications chief of staff, is also an anti-vaxxer.

https://www.usnews.com/news/po...

Rand Paul is an anti-vaxxer.

https://thehill.com/policy/hea...

Which crimes are those?

Take your pick:

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

And there is a massive push by the Chinese government to 're-educate' the ethnic Uyghur Muslims in western China, at an unprecedented scale.

80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes â"14 times the average. (Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)

If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur.

Vast majority of serial murderers are also created by single mothers abusing their kids.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Again: If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur. The man would be around to ensure that the kids were brought up correctly.

Women have no responsibility or culpability in any of this.

If that statement is true, what does it say about women? That women are powerless and helpless. They are entirely victims of their environment.

These are just ephemeral thoughts floating through a bizarre mind. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. :)

P.S. and certainly don't interpret this as attack on women, saying that they are responsible. This is literally just random musing on thoughts put forward by others at one time or another.

80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes –14 times the average. (Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)

Vast majority of serial murderers are also created by single mothers abusing their kids.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Funny how that is rarely mentioned in those PSAs.

No it wasn't [a good commercial]...

Here's some interesting reporting. (it's biased of course, coming from Gillette/P&G, but it's the only data I could find).

https://www.independent.co.uk/...
sales following the ad’s release remain largely unchanged, revealed Jon Moeller, chief financial officer at Procter and Gamble (P&G), which owns Gillette...
a survey of 2,000 American adults conducted by brand intelligence firm Morning Consult found that 61 per cent of viewers reacted positively to Gillette’s ad...
71 per cent said they shared the brand’s values after watching it.

https://morningconsult.com/for...
Before watching the commercial, 42 percent of consumers said they agreed Gillette “shared their values.” After watching, that figure jumped to 71 percent...
Asked to rate how positively they felt about the ad... 61 percent gave it high marks, 23 percent were more neutral and 17 percent gave the commercial low marks. Gillette customers were slightly more likely than the average consumer to have a positive reaction...
Harry’s and Dollar Shave Club customers are more likely to buy Gillette after watching.

Given the background -- that in the previous years Gillette had been badly losing market share to Harry's and Dollar Shave Club, and had been forced to cut prices to stay in the game -- then it seems like this commercial squarely hit the mark for what Gillette wanted to achieve, and without downsides.

It's also very clear that the 10-1 ratio of dislikes to likes on youtube isn't representative of (1) the general population, (2) Gillettte's customers, (3) Gillette's target market. This ratio reflects badly on youtube, making youtube seem dangerously out of touch. I'm not surprised youtube want to do something to safeguard their image.

I believe you are arguing with a figment of your imagination and not me.

Uh huh. Except after you say that yet go straight to proving my point:

The existence of the Air Force though is just an extension of the powers to raise an Army.

The USAF is explicitly not a part of the Army since they split in '47. You can say the Marines are constitutional as they are a part of the Navy, but nowhere does the Constitution allow for an air force, nor has an Amendment been passed to allow for it. By the same token, every single spy agency that's not Army or Navy Intelligence is just as "unconstitutional". Yet Randians and strict constitutionalists never ever complain that the CIA/NSA are against the founding document.

Lots of things exist because of government investment in times of war.

The Manhattan Project was to produce nuclear weapons, not nuclear power. Nuclear power, which wouldn't exist without government investment, is a different enchilada.

I want the government out of regulating nuclear power and leaving that to the state governments.

So which state do think would be the first to have a Chernobyl after those pesky rules (regulations) are removed?

making nuclear power the safest and cheapest it can be

Nuclear/safe/cheap. Like good/fast/cheap cars, pick any two.

I believe that capitalists are humans too.

Ones ruled by a profit motive. The officials at Chernobyl were incompetent at their jobs and created a disaster that will last for millennia - but they didn't have a personal financial incentive to make it happen. As opposed to every capitalist everywhere who stands to profit if corners are cut.

I also believe that global warming is too important to leave for the government to solve.

Government is the only entity that can solve it. Again, capitalists would be happy selling dually pickup trucks as passenger vehicles and building F-35 fighters until the world burns.

I want term limits.

Term limits are like trying to treat a ulcer with Drano: the cure is far worse than the disease. You limit a politicans career, and the first thing he's going to look out for is his next career. And what's going to set him up with a better career: serving the interests of his constituents (i.e, you) or monied entities that can compensate him for services rendered?

people are far less racist than they used to be

Yeah, about that:

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

From the time I was born until I finished grad school, neo-Nazis were in the news at most once or twice. Once when they marched in Skokie, Illinois, and maybe when George Lincoln Rockwell died. Today, white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other "third way" types are in the news every single day. And not just for some ridiculous display or meaningless statements, but for killing people, rioting and getting elected President.

So no, I'm not sure how you can say people are less racist than they used to be.

Here is a sitting Republican from Iowa asking publicly how "white supremacist" ever got to be seen as a bad thing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/h...

And here is an article about the rise of white supremacists in local police departments:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...

No, they revoked their developer certificate. That has huge ramifications.

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

No tech company can truly know, for sure, that their product is secure. Shouting this from the rooftops (in this case, pretty much literally) was only ever going to end one way.

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

Pride comes before a fall and all that!

While true, the problem remains that being rich around here still means you outlive someone being poor around here by almost a decade. Of course, if you compare it to hellholes with an infrastructure we have surpassed a century ago, you will find there the life expectancy we had a century ago. That's a given.

But we also have a gap here. Where we claim to be developed and have the relevant infrastructure in place.

Why is debt necessarily shameful?

Because the point of children in China is to support their elderly parents in retirement. How can they do that if instead of saving, they are taking on debt? That is selfish and disloyal to their family.

Chinese culture takes family loyalty very seriously. On a Chinese law exam, one question asked if both your mother and GF were drowning, which would you save? If you chose your GF, that was the objective legally WRONG answer, and you lost points.

All the comments on here debating whether debt is 'good' or 'bad' or not, are totally missing the point. The point is that this system allows the Chinese government to set social norms, 'moral goals' and whatever else they want remotely - across the whole population - very easily.

Sure this example is about debt. But if this is 'successful' (however the hell they measure that), why don't we trigger notifications when you're passing a homosexual, an immigrant, or ... I don't know ... an actual Muslim , if you can imagine such an atrocity.

This system lets the government decide what is good, and what is bad. I have absolutely no idea why the Chinese population have simply rolled over and let this happen - what they're doing there is arguably worse than some of the 'regimes' that the West have felt compelled to invade.

NYT, WaPo, Guardian

That's all you need to know.

Decade over decade, those three outlets have proven to be reliable, and when they've gotten it wrong, they've been held accountable. They print retractions, corrections. There is much to criticize with those outlets, but the answer is not to get all your news from "eaglefreedom.ru" or "breitbart.com". You know where you don't see retractions or corrections? Fake news sites.

I know we've had a few years now of the right-wing corporate media working overtime to convince everyone that no facts can be trusted, and you shouldn't believe your own eyes. Don't be fooled.

'What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening' -- Donald J. Trump, July 24, 2018

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

For example protesters might want to display photos of aborted foetuses, which might make a lot of other people not want to or even be unable to participate.

Interestingly, Marine Le Pen (sometimes called France's "Trump") was prosecuted for doing almost exactly this (posting pictures of ISIS victims in discussions about ISIS and Islam).

I'm curious to see where the line actually settles for this in the Western world.

Or possibly this is an excellent forum in which to discuss the flaws inherent to the study and the idiocy of the conclusions some may draw from it, so that their subsequent politically motivated actions can be appropriately derided and requests for actual supporting evidence provided.

Evidence such as https://www.independent.co.uk/... which indicates that gender is not a factor in abuse received. Oh sorry, did I just break the narrative?

We don't see any examples of banned terms, and no comparison and in fact completely ignoring all other aspects of media that indirectly induce this sort of thing. How many of these terms are really 'promoting' this?

Agreed, very annoying. I googled a bit and this article from last year is much more informative:
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

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

So they want us to upload nude photos to stop revenge porn, then they allow access to all these other photos. Ho boy.

Iran hostages come very quickly to mind.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/...
https://www.chinalawblog.com/2016/11/foreign-executives-arrested-in-china-please-do-not-look-away.html
https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/07/04/world/detained-americans-fast-facts/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://wset.com/news/nation-w...


Sadly, it goes on ALL the time. Normally, the west does NOT do this. We are normally above it. Sadly, W, and now trump, are showing that America's morals are plummeting. It needs to stop.

Zuckerberg told his executives to not use iphones. newspaper article

It seems likely that he was concerned that Apple could be watching them, perhaps a realistic concern.

The insect population is declining worldwide. I am talking about 70 to 80 percent.

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

I donâ(TM)t think that draught is the reason for a worldwide problem.

Don't forget that solar panels drain the sun at the same time. Sustainable energy, my ass.

I recall Zuck was also eager to kiss comrade Xi's behind. Learned Chinese, asked him to name his child (Xi refused, because WTF: https://www.independent.co.uk/...). Didn't go anywhere. Comrade Xi ain't giving the control over the Chinese propaganda machine to some lizard humanoid hybrid. Apparently Mr. Pichai was more successful.

Legalizing isn't washing your hands of it, it's merely the start of being able to truly help.

Keeping such drugs illegal is washing our hands and then using our clean hands to dig a large hole into which we place our heads so we cannot hear the screams of the damned.

If we tried what Portugal did 14 years ago, maybe we'd have similar success...

Don't forget we could still go after dealers of really dangerous stuff, it would juts make small quantities illegal.

every other place on Earth is dirty, that's not so good

Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Seriously, we're back to just pointing out you're spending too much time sucking Trump off to be anything more than a complete fucking idiot when it comes to reality.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

https://www.newsweek.com/north...

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

That is not what peace looks like, except maybe to a sociopath or some worthless piece of shit that's never served.

G. Bush allowed (this is well documented, BTW) allowed the Chinese to assassinate a dissonant reporter on U.S. soil.

The phrase "this is well documented", posted without any documentation, can be translated as meaning "this is not documented; I heard it from some conspiracy paranoid on the internet somewhere".

China does execute more people than rest of world combined

I'm pretty sure that feature was an attack vector for collecting information from profiles. So while it could be used to check up on the level of information that was displayed, it could also be used to extract information from random peoples profiles. Relevant article:

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

Hillary was co-President with BIll, they used to talk about a two-for-one deal if he was elected!

This is the same guy who promotes SJW gender woo and who denies that gender has anything to do with chromosomes.

Bill Nye isn't a real scientist. He's a showman and a charlatan. Nobody should use him as an authority on any matter. Shame on Slashdot for giving this asshole oxygen.

Inconceivable.

You must be joking.

Wind turbines could power Scottish smelter and steel plants

In May this year, reports emerged to warn of new, un-traced pollutants that were extending the damage to the ozone layer, particularly in the southern hemisphere.

See here.

Now, barely 5 months later, we have this very different perspective. Not being a climate scientist, I'm not sure how we can discern which of these two articles carries the most accurate reporting. (In that it seems unlikely that new damage observed in May could be healed this quickly).

I am a little concerned that the more recent of these two articles (carried in the BBC and linked in this slashdot piece) seems to make no reference of the concerns raised earlier this year. Very interested to know if anyone can shed light on this apparent disparity.

Hmmm... You can choose to believe theology, where there's zero evidence of a supreme being, or you can choose to believe science. But your claim isn't always true.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.space.com/24054-ho...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Do you have something to refute or are you blowing a lot of hot air again?

Even though you don't like reality doesn't mean you get to assert alternate "facts".

Pentagon is still preparing for global warming even though Trump said to stop
Climate change threatens half of US bases worldwide, Pentagon report finds
The Pentagon erases ‘climate change’ from report drafted during Obama administration

That last one shows how an ill-informed leadership can steer misinformation to suit a political message, even at the risk of our national defense.

Yes, there are incidents at some protests. But one side has a real problem with more than just idiots and vandals, it has people convinced that there is a literal war and that they are soldiers in it.

Yes, indeed. Luckily the authorities took notice.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...

I guess because it's "conservative" that it's automatically bad. Meanwhile, Antifa (an actual domestic terrorist group) still has a Facebook page and there's no hue and cry about that. I guess some terrorists are bad, others are good - all depending upon what virtue you want to signal.

This is the same AC who argues that knowing that 27 states in the United States have child marriage laws that could permit a legal marriage between a child as young as 11-years-old and a much older adult makes you a pedophile.

When New Jersey passed a bill to outlaw marriages under the age of 18, the Republican governor vetoed the bill for infringing on religious freedom.

A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception. Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and someone who has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said such a ban would conflict with religious customs. He did not specify what religions he was referring to. Reuters said underage marriage is widespread in the US, where about 170,000 children were wed between 2000 and 2010 in 38 of the 50 states where data was available.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-jersey-chris-christie-child-marriage-ban-fails-religious-custom-a7735616.html

We as a society need to outlaw child marriages. Anyone who argues against outlawing child marriages is probably a pedophile.

So far as he knows them, sure. Practically the first thing he did was expose a bunch of Israeli intelligence assets to the Russian ambassador in an Oval Office meeting.

A meeting. In a room. As in, not over a phone...

And:

"âoeAt no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed,â he said. âoeThe President did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known... I was in the room. It didnâ(TM)t happen.â"

It was only later the source was revealed to be Israel.

Bu regardless, as Trump said, he had the right to share that intel if he thought it was important for Russia to know. That is absolutely the call any president can and do make. It is INADVERTENT disclosure we are talking about here.

So you're theory is that Trump is a genius 11-dimensional chess player.

Here's the thing. Compared to normal people? No. Compared to his haters, and it would seem every Democrat that exists? Absolutely.

And is fooling people by leaking false information something that Trump would not enjoy bigly? Come on, admit that is right up Trump's alley.

Trump isn't stupid. He's stupid for a president.

The end political results are indistinguishable from Trump being a genius 11-dimensional chess player, since Trump keeps winning and all critics mysteriously keep self-immolating. So how again is Trump "Stupid for a president" when he keeps accomplishing goals?

"The opposing soccer team was a bunch of idiots!" the player exclaimed, still wondering how his team lost 27-0.

I fully agree he is un-filtered and loves taking risks, but to claim Trump is stupid in any way is absurd in the face of history, and in more than a few cases I think comes somewhat from a place of bigotry because of how Trump speaks (I have seen others look down on New Yorkers simply because of accent).

I'm not a fan of Trump either. However I am a fan of studying tactics and Trump has done quite well there even when most people were saying he was not doing well at all.

Name one freedom you no longer have in the US. And be specific. Show some intelligence in your answer.

A specious way to pose the question. But since you asked, it's not so much a matter of what freedoms you no longer have, but rather what freedoms are under attack.

Here's a sample. Google can find you others.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.axios.com/united-n...
https://www.axios.com/trump-ad...

Educating girls does reduce birthrates, and it's been know for decades..
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/press...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
http://www.earth-policy.org/da...

Take your pick.
Pennsylvanians receive mysterious letters promising to expose them if they do not vote
Mailers attempt to 'embarrass people into voting' by revealing voting history to neighbors
GOP Mailer: We’ll Tell Your Neighbors If You Vote Democratic
Sleazy voter shaming letters coming by email, too, and some are inaccurate
A mysterious group is publicly shaming Pennsylvania residents with their voting records

And Minnesota too.
Creepy but legal: 'Voter shaming' letters showed up in Minnetonka mailbox

You do know how to use Google, right?