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Don't wonder why you are so fat then, creimer.

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the population problem seems to be self correcting

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Tried getting a charger, everyone else had iPhone's,
These TV pods go through the hospital exchange. To stop anyone using the hospital telephone system to make free personal international calls, they simply block those calls - an employee has to get permission from an authorizing manager. Many hospitals are funded using PPP (Private-Public Partnerships). Things like medical treatment are public sector funded, but others things like car parking, shops and cafes (Starbacks, Costa, Nero) are privately run and pay rent.

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Where an unarmed lynch mob (however, in this case, "right" they were) killed a guy, in India, who tried to kidnap a girl at gunpoint.

Your guns do not stop lynch mobs. They merely amplify the situation, not solve it. You *hope* that you amplify it out of bounds to mutually-assured destruction and that all parties recognise that. That's NOT always the case, and NOT always possible, and NOT always better than the outcome otherwise.

Now, if the lynch mob had managed to get hold of incorrect information and done the judge-jury-and-executioner part ON THE WRONG MAN, then a gun still wouldn't have helped him against an unarmed crowd. And if the crowd had had guns, it would have been *even worse*.

You can't justify the use of guns on the basis that "nobody would ever", because it's just not true. Provide them enough incentive (money, drugs, getting your gun off you, etc.) and they'll happily rush towards you anyway and make that weapon useless very quickly.

I realise I'm actually posting a counter-example here - where the lynch mob were "right" for once. It's a very, very rare exception.

My point though: You having a gun won't stop a lynch mob, even if they don't have them.

You having a gun and THEM having a gun certainly won't.

They should just use the Richter Scale as it is right now, given this startling fact that's really true and not a conspiracy theory at all and I have proof I swear.

locked/reinforced cockpit doors.

Everything is a trade-off

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Here is one candidate I would like to nominate for this scheme : https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/... No information here about sentences handed out, but I've never read of any derisory sentences being handed out. We generally hold our police officers to account.

I've never heard of a case where a Nazi was prosecuted for just saying horrible things.

Let me help you out, then: an Austrian man will be serving six months in prison for simply having a bottle of wine in his house with a picture of Hitler on it. He didn't say anything, nor was he selling or distributing the bottles. There's no evidence that the man was a Nazi sympathizer, or held racist views in any way. He simply bought some bottles as a joke souvenir on a trip. And for that, he's going to prison.

America certainly has it's faults, but whenever I see a news article like this about Europe, I practically hear Lee Greenwood.

There are plenty of examples of people crashing with normal cruise control for example see this.

It's a dead platform because you couldn't get the tools you needed to get stuff done? Well than you for your decision, King Greer. Since my Windows Phone does everything I need, do I have to give it up, too? May I keep using it, even though you've designated it to be a "DEAD PLATFORM"?

No it's a dead platform because fewer and fewer new apps are being made for it as noted even by MS. It's a dead platform because current app developers are abandoning Windows Phone to focus on Android and iPhone which the vast majority of their customers are using. It's a dead platform because MS said it will no longer focus on new features or hardware but will still provide security updates and patches. If you want to keep using your phone, go ahead. But the day is coming soon where you won't be able to get new hardware or features from MS at the same time your app developers stops updating your favorite apps and no new apps can replace them.

If you do not like slavery, don't buy at Amazon....

We are human beings, not slaves and animals: Brutal conditions inside Amazon warehouse

Timed toilet breaks, impossible targets and workers falling asleep on feet: Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse

That's sounds awful! Paying ~150% minimum wage for a hard job. To think it is still legal to force people into chains and work in a warehouse. What? They volunteered and applied for those jobs? Hmm. Seems like laws and/or workers need to change then, not Amazon.

If you do not like slavery, don't buy at Amazon....

We are human beings, not slaves and animals: Brutal conditions inside Amazon warehouse

Timed toilet breaks, impossible targets and workers falling asleep on feet: Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse

They don't have to care about the conservation of resources, and yet, they do.

nope, it's 'green washing' to make themselves look good and distract from the awful treatment they deal to their workforce...

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Monstrous working conditions. SCREW AMAZON!

The point was to show the potential for violence by mobs.

But now you've raised a question: in your mind, gangs attacking with hammers and bats can be relied on to do little or no harm? You think there was never the potential for deadly violence - death by hammer, by beating? Is that a bet you would make ahead of time if you were the intended victim?

Things could easily turn out different:

Gang of thugs beat man to death with baseball bats and flee the scene sparking huge manhunt

You seem to not be able to imagine an intended victim defending himself with a firearm, only criminals imposing violence on the innocent victim. Intended victims use firearms to defend themselves successfully with regularity in the US, as in this case. There are many, many others.

15-Year-Old Defends Sister From Burglars With AR-15 Rifle

Which is TOTALLY why you get things like http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

If your idea was valid, the concert would be filled with scalper-buyers, because 'free market invisible hand balance the demand supply'. How about 'whales and the desperate feed the scalpers, while the fans that buy the albums have to do without'? How some artists do do free concerts? That there is a wide line between 'souless capitalist' and 'charity works', and some artists want to be in that spot, but it isn't readily feasible? That scalpers are N.V.A. parasites, and not indicative of the 'health of a capitalistic endeavor'?

My original submission included making the point that only an idiot plugs in a found USB but this has been removed in the edit and my scepticism has been lost.

The reported fact that this was found on the street amongst fallen leaves is highly unlikely and suspicious. It does provide plausible deniability for the journalist over their source, but my money is this will be revealed to be a hoax.

The newspaper that published this story, offers to pay for stories. My belief is that there is a very good chance this will be revealed to be entirely a hoax. A assembly of public source data to get a reward/story bounty from the newspaper.

It is possible, but unlikely this could be a honey trap for the journalist, or anybody with the USB including attack code intended to compromise their PC/Network. This is how STUX worked.

You lost the battle with the loo.

A peek into creimer's mental functions.

German has stopped even trying to prosecute rape of the offender isn't white. More countries will probably follow.

The UK does it too.

"Paedophile gang's abuse lasted 16 YEARS as authorities feared being labelled racist if they tackled it"
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and again:
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re "physical access prevention"
"Margaret Thatcher ordered troops to shoot intruders on sight after protesters boarded nuclear-armed Navy sub
The PM was livid when three demonstrators broke into the control room of vessel carrying Polaris missiles, newly released files show"
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US Military example. The Germans too, they even had a sort of video phone prototype in the 1930s, although probably wasn't commercially viable.

Sizing obviously played a big role. No one is gonna carry around vacuum tubes as a civilian. The transistor was first invented in 1947 and the first transistor radios was around 1954. They were a big deal among kids back then, just like the walkman in the 80s and the ipods in the 00s. Nevermind microprocessors and miniaturized circuitry. The 1980s cell phones were still huge bricks.

Just look at early pagers from the 1950s-1970s, big. Like the Motorola Pageboy II.

This isn't figuring pathetic batteries and the like. The simple convergence of multiple technologies weren't there yet. Simple as that.

She's probably after the hunt saboteurs. And quite right too, dirty horrid little oiks who would prevent us following our traditional Christian ways of hacking defenceless animals to death!

Yeah god forbid people spend money on making something real that sometimes creates a whole new industry. I mean look at all those other failures. Damn them for creating businesses that provide gainful employment and research into something new.

I mean there's so many better things to spend money on.

I'm confused, the discussion was on weird sexual practices and you've replied with a bunch of random photographs that don't even qualify as sexual, let alone weird.

You don't think getting a lap dance from your teenaged daughter is a weird sexual practice? You need me to spell it out. OK.

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"Of course you can, as I stated if you look beyond public transport as you only transport option. I live more than 45 public transport minutes from my office, but I cut that travel time in half by riding a motorbike. By doing this, I get a bigger house, and you could too."

Right, but that means giving up the ability to do anything on my commute, so it's already causing a difference in terms of quality of life meaning we're no longer comparing like for like. Even outside of public transport though there are still major issues with traffic in Auckland.

"The average house size in Britain outside of London is only 89m2: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
I don't even know how you squeeze 3 bedrooms into 89m2. "

Well you've failed at reading comprehension here - the article says the average size of a new build three bedroom home is 89m^2. That ignores the fact that there are also plenty of 4 bedroom and upwards new build homes that are much larger coupled with a vast amount of existing housing stock that is also much larger. You've gone from using misleading stats, to now completely and utterly mis-representing stats. New build three bedroom homes are small because the government has been creating massive financial incentives for house building companies to build "affordable housing". The fact that building companies have then gone on to take those incentives and build "affordable housing" shouldn't really surprise anyone. It still says nothing about the average house size outside the UK's high density cities like London though which is drastically higher as evidence by my very own plot, the price I paid for it, and the price it's worth now.

"As I said in my original response, do you have examples you could provide? Because I think your opinion is not based on reality."

Yes, I provided one, the fact you choose to ignore it doesn't make me wrong, it makes you wilfully ignorant. I pointed out that I have a 5 bedroom detached house (we don't work on m^2 in the UK so I've never bothered to measure it, but it's like any decent sized detatched 5 bedroom house - good size kitchen, utility room, living room, dining room, double garage, en-suite, bathroom, study, sizeable attic for storage etc.). To move to Auckland to get an equivalent standard of living I can only get a 3 bedroom single floor detached house for the same money. This isn't just some guesswork or something, this was based on an actual plan to move coupled with thorough investigation of the housing, work, and commute options, before discovering this reality, that I wouldn't actually be able to have the same standard of living by moving there. A move to NZ is great for relatively unskilled workers because you can just move to rural New Zealand where they need plumbers, brick layers and so forth and get a massive increase in the standard of living, but for people like me with a very specific, sought after but in limited geographic areas, well paid skillset, I can't do better by going to New Zealand, I have to downsize, or pay substantially more.

Whether you want to listen to my anecdote or not is really irrelevant, it doesn't change the reality. Bask in wilful ignorance if you want by denying that reality, but that's not really my problem.

I'll give you a hint though, if New Zealand was this perfect wonderland, where everything is unquestionably better, then why are they working so hard to get people like me over and have been for decades? If it was so clear cut they'd have closed their skill shortage long ago - they haven't because people like me realise the dream falters a bit when it collides with reality. If you want to keep on dreaming though, then go for it. I haven't given up completely on the idea of moving to get out of this increasingly shit country, but whether it's New Zealand or somewhere else is now a lot more up in the air - when I first thought about it New Zealand was the clear cut choice until I looked into the reality of it.

I don't think you can realistically de-link the two,

Of course you can, as I stated if you look beyond public transport as you only transport option. I live more than 45 public transport minutes from my office, but I cut that travel time in half by riding a motorbike. By doing this, I get a bigger house, and you could too.

That's all I was taking issue with - the idea that you'll inherently get a bigger house by moving to New Zealand - sure, if you live in London or some similar high density UK inner city area, but there's the whole of the rest of the country outside of London so it's an astoundingly ignorant comment to make.

The average house size in Britain outside of London is only 89m2: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
I don't even know how you squeeze 3 bedrooms into 89m2.
As I said in my original response, do you have examples you could provide? Because I think your opinion is not based on reality.

That's more up Putin's alley, but maybe he could convince Trump to go with him.

That's mostly as bad as it gets.

Are you sure? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/volcanic-ash-cloud-may-have-killed-10000-215101/

You're not an American, so it's not a shock that any number of terrorism-related American deaths is no big deal to you. However, those of us that are Americans, or even just live here, would like to keep the number as low as possible. What we do to effect this will not be dictated to us by someone who sits on their hands while thousands of inbred, third-world savages rape a million little girls because you're so terrified that someone might think you're a racist if you do anything about it. Fuck you and your cowardice, you disgusting piece of shit.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/...

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I don't see rioting from conservatives at all. I am not sure what news you are seeing, but these riots are from people "protesting" Trump and his policies (without even having a basic understanding of the policies). The day before the inauguration, the protesters torched a limo. Ironically, the limo was owned by a muslim man who didn't like Trump either. Protests at U C Berkeley turned violent over Milo Yiannopoulos, and the recent executive orders that were implimenting policy passed by the previous administration. Portland Oregon protests turn violent over Trumps (illegal!) immigrant stances.

There were some non-violent protests, such as the women's protests the Saturday after the inauguration, but that is hardly the norm right now.

FYI, I live 30 minutes outside DC, I hear about all the crap going on down there, and it isn't pretty with all the violence coming from these people.

The AC you replied to before my first comment explicitly mentioned "violently rioting in the streets and punching people". Your examples are two non-violent, although both abhorrent and obnoxious, incidents. On the other hand, we had riots after the election and riots for the inauguration, all by anti-Trump people. I assume the "punching people" bit was a reference to when a racist asshole got punched on live TV by one of the anti-Trump rioters in Washington DC -- an act that was praised by a lot of other Trump critics. Would you like to try again, and explain why you think violent crime is predominantly committed by Trump supporters?

The Emoluments Clause is short: "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." What is the clear violation? Did Vladimir Putin tell Russia to write a big check, payable to Donald J. Trump, that Trump then deposited?

- Green-card holders included in ban.
- Muslim travellers turned away from US after Donald Trump's ban as Google 'recalls overseas staff'.
- President Trump's Muslim ban excludes countries linked to his sprawling business empire.
- Donald Trump bans citizens of seven Muslim majority countries as visa-holding travellers are turned away from US borders.
- In Twitter, #muslimban has been quite active during the whole day (although its worldwide trend status is a bit unstable).

Without coming into the assessment of all this (including media coverage), my point is that things can happen very quickly and with the sole participation of Trump.

I have already written a lot (other comments in this thread) and think that my position is very clear. So, I hope that you will not mind me stopping the chat here.

An engineer is a person who takes responsibility for what he delivers.

You're a fucking moron.

Here you go, all the way from the 70s, and yeah, they got the shit sued out of them.

"They" in this case means the company involved which "settled out of court" whilst nobody even mentioned the specific "software engineers" involved because they all knew they weren't real engineers.

As for engineers in jail, cite?

Five seconds on google searching "bridge collapse jail" would have saved you embarassment:

• In the Maccabiah collapse five people including the engineer were jailed
• this even happens in places like India notorious otherwise for rich people avoiding jail
• or in China
• Gas Engineers too

Sure, you'll run around like a needledick citing cases where engineers covered up malfeasance and went to jail, but NEVER will you cite a situation where an engineer actually went to jail without mitigating circumstances of a crime.

I'd smack you, but shit splatters.

That word, mitigating, I do not think it means what you think it means. But I do apologise because you make me so afraid.

Wait, there's VR porn?

Yes, there is. If you don't know, there was a convention in Japan earlier this year. You may take a look at here and here

Wait, there's VR porn?

Yes, there is. If you don't know, there was a convention in Japan earlier this year. You may take a look at here and here

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger iPad fire

So to show us "Apple battery fires", you link us to stories about "(chargers (supposedly) from Apple fire (or in one case more of a smolder)"

"iPad Fire" (read the post)

iPad charger fire - understand the post. There was no fire damage on he iPad, only a cracked screen from the idiot dropping it on the floor. The only other damage was a molten connector/cable (quote: " It's almost on FIRE!") How the hell was that an "iPad" fire? Heck, how was that a fire at all? Like I said, a smolder

Anyway, even if either actually were an iPad fire, both fires required a charger to be used - can you show any mention of a charger being onboard flight MS804? Yeah, thought so.

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger
iPad fire

So to show us "Apple battery fires", you link us to stories about "(chargers (supposedly) from Apple fire (or in one case more of a smolder)"

"iPad Fire" (read the post)

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger iPad fire

So to show us "Apple battery fires", you link us to stories about "(chargers (supposedly) from Apple fire (or in one case more of a smolder)"

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger
iPad fire

Wow, Apple censor team is active today.

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger
iPad fire

Why don't you post a link to The Mirror as well? At least they don't dance around and call it a lost Nazi UFO base right away.

What the fuck is going on with this site?

I am really hoping the "customization" is the inclusion of a leader that is basically already an Angry Bird in mentality and shape.

Just for you I'll explain.

Those financial firms (many of them US banks) cater to the EU rather than Britain. While Britain was in the EU it made sense to set up shop in London. Good place to live, they speak English over there, good timezone, good communications, adequate and halfway familiar legal environment, sufficient critical mass of a raft of supporting firms, relatively liberal trading rules (for Europe), their customers just a phone call or a 1-3 hour flight away, and zero complications doing business with anyone else in the EU. That's what the EU was designed for. Life was good.

Various other EU countries might have preferred the seat of all that financial service to be in their own country instead of London. Financial firms provide high quality jobs and have a high (taxable) turnover. Only they couldn't do shit about it. EU guarantees free exchange of services and the most influential players (US banks) happened to prefer London. Not in the last place because London and the UK really listened to industry demands (knowing full well what they stood to lose if they didn't). So London it was. End of story.

Enter Brexit.

Brexit means the UK leaves the EU and has to negotiate terms on which to continue trading. The most basic terms of free trade (WTO--level) ensure free movement of goods but NOT free movement of services. Which EU membership guarantees, only that's what Britain is ending. So Britain is very much the asking party here.

Anyone prepared to bet that other EU countries (like Ireland) will be eager to let Britain keep all that yummy taxable business? And those jobs? When they can simply negotiate away London-based firms' comfy access to the EU, grab the jobs and (part of) the revenue? Really?

Those financial firms sure aren't. The incoming US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross (see http://www.npr.org/sections/th... ) isn't (see http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u... ). I wouldn't either.

People who bet that Britain will keep providing financial services to Europe surely aren't picking the best odds here.

Waddaya mean, funny hair?
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If that isn't worth murdering someone over, I don't know what is.

Discounted toilet paper. Only in America. Oh, wait...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-black-friday-fight-breaks-9331697

I'm just glad that this "study" treats a crash of a YouBook app as a "failure" the same as if the phone explodes and embeds shards of glass in your eyes.

Right, or electrocutes you while it's charging.

You're literally comparing mild overheating on the Apple notebook with the Samsung product that the FAA has asked removed from planes because it's a danger to passengers.

You Apple cultists really break me up. How about comparing Samsung battery fires to Apple electrocuting kids in their sleep? Sure, Apple blames it on knockoff chargers, but Apple can't deny providing the deadly conductive path from battery to case that made these (multiple!) electrocutions possible.

Hey, did Apple ever take out a full page ad to apologize for that? (Rhetorical question.)

Overall, I find it amusing how many Remainers want to redo it because of the relatively narrow margin, but would be screaming bloody murder if the Leave camp had wanted another one if the vote had gone the other way.

Do you find this just as amusing? It's Nigel Farage saying that if remain won at 52% he'd want another referendum.

Amusing?

I believe it's the inevitable consequence of Brexit - the next US president is really a hostage to the referendum results.
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