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I actually saw this headline first:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

ROFL, talk about a load of crap. Even their own story mentions it was unknown at the time of publishing whether the car was in autopilot or not. Of course, it was super effective... the comments are full of crap about how autopilot is a crap feature that is killing people in a car prone to explosive burns.

Meanwhile, actual facts intrude:
http://www.afr.com/technology/...

Car was travelling at 155km/hr and autopilot was not on.

Sam

Lets see.. Wikipedia: "Many social scientists including economist Michael Zweig and sociologist Dennis Gilbert contend that middle class persons usually have above median incomes."

Right now we're getting somewhere. See how it works now?

Or a study that shows middle class incomes average ã47k : http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
Median income in the UK? ã22k
No fucking relationship at all.

Except what you have cited is just opinions. Because the point I was going to make, until you went full retard, is that "middle class" has no scientific definition (The Daily Mirror is not a scientific journal last time I checked). It can mean what ever you like. You must know this because it says so on the Wikipedia page you referenced. Yet you still went there. Awesome stuff. Thanks for playing.

You truly are a fine advertisement for incompetent fucking ignorance.

Lets see.. Wikipedia: "Many social scientists including economist Michael Zweig and sociologist Dennis Gilbert contend that middle class persons usually have above median incomes."

Or a study that shows middle class incomes average £47k : http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Median income in the UK? £22k

No fucking relationship at all. This is a discussion forum, on which stupid ignorant people unwilling to educate themselves deserve all the ire they receive, and you're top of the fucking list of complete knobstains incapable of even using a search engine.

Reddit? Shit, even Reddit is beyond your intellect. Go back to myspace.

I couldn't find a video of the actual explosion, but the Mirror has some footage and pics of the aftermath:

Guess you'd need pretty strong muscles to do that with the usual ping-pong balls, but it's not entirely implausible.

(Absolutely *not* SFW).

LOVE ME!
http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incomin...

Lots of people like to place the odd bet. That's not the problem. The problem with gambling are the scams, and this is nothing unique to online activites.

Consider sports - let's take the specific example of tennis. The players at the very top can live off of their winnings and their sponsors. Then comes a long list of hundreds of players who are up-and-coming, or down-and-going, or just wannabes. They need to travel to tournaments, they need to pay a coach, they need good equipment, and train too much to work a normal job. This is where the betting - and the scams - happen. A match comes up between two no-name players. Some goon comes up to the one with the better ranking and says: "I'll pay you $10k to make sure you lose the second set". Then the betting house hypes the game, and start taking bets. After the better player wins the first set, the odds for the second player get long. The betting house pushes betting on the next set - knowing that the lower-ranked player is going to win, this is where they rake in the dough.

This kind of stuff is almost impossible to detect, much less prove. It's no different in the realm of electronic games and e-sports: there are gambling sites that specifically focus on this area..

Should one even try to squash this? There's something wrong with writing unenforceable laws, after all. Maybe we just just let suckers lose their money.

If we do want to try to keep gambling sites honest, we need some way to detect cheating and scams. But how?

Here is a photo of Guccifer confessing: http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incomin...

and a photo of me: http://vignette3.wikia.nocooki...

You misread the AC. The AC claims that Clarkson was at the time stressed out by a potentially serious medical issue (a cancer scare); not that the 'medical issue' was the late meal itself.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/ce...

I'm not saying that excuses him, but assuming its true, it would have been a source of major stress.

Wait, it's iCurrentYear, why would we be giving any weight to gender in sentencing? Men and women have equal rights, yes? So why should say, someone who raped a teenager over 50 times get off scott free just because of their gender?

By the way, here's how the opposite case goes down:

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

5 1/2 year sentence, sex offender registry, prohibited from working with children for life.

Yes, people can complain about the Brock Turner sentence. But the Brock Turner thing is an anomaly -- the beneficial sexism for women in our legal system is systemic and widespread, and NO ONE cares because won't someone please think of the women?

Wait, it's iCurrentYear, why would we be giving any weight to gender in sentencing? Men and women have equal rights, yes? So why should say, someone who raped a teenager over 50 times get off scott free just because of their gender?

How cute, the democratic result didn't go our way so we'll make a new referendum with skewed option balance. This surely will make our way the only way!

Well not really, the petition states:

We the undersigned call upon HM Government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60% based a turnout less than 75% there should be another referendum.

The petition does not state how the new referendum should be phrased. What is most interesting is that this petition was started a month ago by an ex political student who supports Leave. This is not the only Leave supporter to suggest a second referendum if the vote was close. Of course now they have got the result they wanted, suddenly no more are needed. ;)

The leave side suggested many things like taking back control of our borders, sovereignty and saving money but there is no plan and no definition of what leaving the EU means. When people realise that immigration will be about the same, that things cost more and the short term financial volatility harming the UK. They may feel that the Leave campaign "promises" were a bunch of wishful thinking

Show me a US mosque where they actually encourage murdering homosexuals.

Now I'll show you Westboro Baptist and New Hartford Word of Life.

Here you go:

Orlando gunman tied to radical imam released from prison last year, say law enforcement sources

Robertson, who recently spent four years in prison in Florida on illegal weapons and tax fraud charges before being released by a Florida judge one year ago, has openly and enthusiastically preached against homosexuality. The targets of Mateen’s bloody rampage were members of the gay community of Orlando, 120 miles from the 29-year-old’s home in Fort Pierce.

Here's ANOTHER .

These ISLAMIC guys actually do go out and kill gays - all across the ISLAMIC world:

Horrific moment ISIS kill four gay men by throwing them from a roof

And guess what all the countries that punish homosexuality by death have in common?

You got the stones to answer there?

Naaah, you got no balls.

So I'll tell you: Every country that punishes homosexuality by death is ISLAMIC.

How many people have Westboro Baptist Church members killed? Oh, and Fred Phelps, leader of that church? He was a DEMOCRAT. You dumbass.

Now, do YOU have the BALLS to say how many people murderous Christians slaughtered over Piss Christ?

Do you?

Or are you still just an ignorant chickenshit blowhard too spineless to answer a simple question that demonstrates your strawman out to be a farce?

So, again, because you're GUTLESS:

NOT ONE CHRISTIAN KILLED ANYONE OVER PISS CHRIST

You need to grow a fucking brain. And once it's functional enough to enable you to become non-sessile, you can go fuck your stupid self.

Collar for the dog with transponder.

You get microchips for cats and dogs. Use the collar on the kids instead.

Better to use them on the parents of the 4-year-old who was lest to climb into the gorilla enclosure. The worst part is that the edited video that makes the rounds makes the gorilla look aggressive, whereas it's clear in this video that's not the case. A copy of the video had been turned over to the zoo and police, so which one made the edited version?

I think what GP may be referring to is the actual underlying story here, which the BGR article linked seems to have wrong. Omar Famuyide was in fact brandishing a gun and pointed it at the victim's head, and said gun was found abandoned in the car (a white BMW) two days later.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

He also fired a shot inside of a massage parlor:

http://www.birminghammail.co.u...

And in case you consider those two sources to be somehow less reliable than BGR, here's a third source:

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

So yeah, he did in fact commit these crimes while brandishing a gun, and there are even a few photos of said gun.

GPS, up-link, and power-supply would be only accessible by ground crew.

Pilots (and airlines) have some real problems with power sources that they cannot disconnect in the event of fire.

Hmmm, I do see you point; I hadn't thought of the legal proceeding costs. I knew they were there and that things seemed to drag on forever but hadn't combined the two together.

So I'll Godwin the thread myself. Here's a guy who assisted with murder a few times -- 170,000 times. He didn't do it by himself by any means, he was ordered to, and I imagine was scared and went along with the flow.

So now fantasy land -- he did it all by himself; HE'S the one responsible, and will be found guilty. (Fantasy, remember?) So, same thing -- it's too much to prosecute him, so lets let him live out his life in prison?

It's either yes or no (assuming that he is found guilty.) We put him in jail for the rest of his life, feed, clothe him, keep him dry, way, and healthy? I'm sure his victim (or their 169,999 friends) would have liked have that opportunity.

OTOH, if you say "Off with his head" then you're indicating that some crimes are worth the cost and effort. Hell, where I live that's the entire population of my city: Every Single Person.

I really don't know. Costs and expenses are important, treating someone humanely is important too. But weren't those lives he terminated important too and need a response more than locking him in a room? Or could you (really) rehabilitate him? More importantly, how could you tell? You'd have to trust his actions monitored by trusted counselors and hope they're correct.

I guess it boils down to "punishment for the crime", whatever that is. It's not the same person to person so we depend (allow, expect) our governing system to handle it for us, at least mostly getting it right.

If costs become a limiting factor then in effect you've got a filter. You take total court expenses and look for ways to produce the largest savings, reducing somewhat the more extensive and time-consuming cases and possibly even refusing to prosecute low-level "gadfly" cases.

I don't know -- "Justice" limited or driven by cost savings just seems to leave a bad taste in my mouth. OTOH, "mob justice" -- although easy, cheap, and fast -- doesn't work either. "Having the sentence fit the crime" is the ideal; I'd never really thought about the implementation costs.

I'm still not-at-all convinced that ?always? minimizing (or just limiting) costs is the best way to go. I'll have to brood on it some more, thanks.

Really? I didn't know that pine coffins were so expensive.

There's something wrong with your reply on the surface. I haven't looked at the costs, but that "it (routinely) costs more to execute someone than not?" Assumptions, cost measurements, or what: SOMEthing's wrong with that line. Doing a Google search now. Ahh, phrasing: you mean the cost of the legal proceedings, long and drawn out as they are for kill vs non-kill cases while I literally mean the cost to kill them, period; not the previous "set up" costs that must be incurred. Good point, they are different.

If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole*, which costs millions less and also ensures that the public is protected while eliminating the risk of an irreversible mistake, the money saved could ...

I hadn't considered that. And it does solve the 100% sure thing, as you don't kill someone, you just effectively "take their life away over a long period of time."

So we'd need more jails if (as?) we get more permanent jail residents. Oh, and don't forget health care, even if they want to change their sex. And visitation rights, and guards, alarms, upkeep, training, and what-now.

Vs an "Escape from New York" setup.

So you take someone, put them in "The Big House", locked up with bars everywhere, ordered around all of the time, take care of them (not being sarcastic here) for as long as they live? I originally was going to say THAT sounds like "cruel and unusual punishment," just like living on death row for 20 years -- see Nathan Dunlap. But Food, AC, heat, dry, bedding, security, and medicine all provided? The more I think about it the more I think I want to go there myself -- everything's all done and provided for me. All I have to do is be there and complain if I'm bored. And as a bonus I even get to take out someone that I absolutely abhor? Depending on who it was: forget being regretful about it, if it was the right person I could have nice dreams about that every night.

So once I cross some magic threshold all you can do to me is lock me up and feed me? For someone serving concurrent or even sequential life sentences: maybe that's all the judge can do, but it's ridiculous non-the-less. So James should have shot more, more "bang for the buck" as it were, right?

And that permanent "without parole" line is so harsh, shouldn't we think of the poor victimized prisoner in the years to come?

Taking someone life against their will should NEVER be an easy, dried and cut thing. That doesn't mean that you don't do it, though. And: let's ask the opinions of their victims. Oh wait, we can't. Their life was cut short -- do we "owe" them anything?

Not all of them would agree with me, though. She's a better person than I.

Then again you've got mob rules, but that's no good either.

Hmmm ... Santa keeps a list of people, I guess I'll have to ask Jason if he's keeps one as well.

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NO I'm not going to go out and kill anyone. I don't hate anyone that much. If they do irritate me I just usually get away from them, or irritate them enough so that they move away from me.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Even if is "cheaper" and nicer to keep most killers alive, it still seems l

It's even richer to assume I'm American.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

You use "horror" in a weird way all the time.

The 160,000 Grand Tour. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-...

1978 was due to women entering the workforce in large numbers

Workforce participation by women, actually, declined less in recent years, than that by men. That is, quite indisputably, a sign of decline. Because, contrary to all the talk of "equality", women remain the only sex capable of giving birth — an activity, which takes months and years away from employment. If, despite this, their withdrawal from the labor is slower than that by men, we are in trouble.

the U.S. is lower than nearly all major industrialized nations

None of those "major industrialised nations" can afford to defend themselves from the likes of Russia without our help. Sad but true. Because Socialism sucks — and the more of it there is in a country, the worse off the people.

If corporations returned more of the revenue to the workers

Yeah, sure, blame corporations... Sitting in their corporation buildings, acting all corporationy...

Except the experts on things like delusions [...]

You must've missed my original request, so I'll repeat it. Define the terms. What does the term "man" mean? Thank you.

I didn't miss it, I ignored it as its a nonsense attempt at a semantic trap. Language hasn't caught up with the reality of what transgendered people go through.

It is something that is really wrong with someone, and which is appropriately treated in many cases not by medication or counseling but sexual reassignment surgery.

Such as by attaching a furry tail, whiskers, and retractable claws?

And that's a red herring. You managed to cut out the point where the mental health professionals diagnose gender dysphoria as an actual condition, not a delusion, not a belief.

Further, the condition is not a mental disease or disorder. Its not something that can be treated with medication or therapy (though therapy and medication are often used to manage the symptoms caused by the condition while the therapist works through the issues to determine if its really gender dysphoria and if surgery or hormone therapy is really needed).

There's no "species dysphoria".

Except the experts on things like delusions [...]

You must've missed my original request, so I'll repeat it. Define the terms. What does the term "man" mean? Thank you.

It is something that is really wrong with someone, and which is appropriately treated in many cases not by medication or counseling but sexual reassignment surgery.

Such as by attaching a furry tail, whiskers, and retractable claws?

biological basis for transgenderism

I don't know, what such "biological basis" can possibly mean.

There is no potential whatsoever for my body to turn into a zebra.

What a bigoted thing to say! Seriously, a few more revolutions in science, and it might become possible — but that's irrelevant. Any male body is much closer to Napoleon's, than it is to a female body — yet, people claiming to be Napoleons are usually locked up...

The "crazy" starts with the very rejection of who you actually are and continues into demanding to be made into and/or treated as something else. In that sense, my analogy is perfectly valid. I apologize for the term "crazy", but the earlier-used "confused" certainly applies.

If religious beliefs manifest themselves in how a person conducts his or her own life, that's completely fine. But if the beliefs are pushed onto others via public policy [...]

I contend, that "his own life" and "pushed onto others" are inseparable, if formulating and/or executing public policy is the person's very job.

And it is just that for most office-holders, which is why I accused you of wishing to ban the religious from public office earlier.

BTW, you are yet to explain, why you single out Evangelicals so fervently? Abortions are very illegal in Catholic Ireland and Mexico, for example, and don't even get me started on "Pride" parades in Muslim Jakarta and Tehran, or even in Hinduist Delhi.

Likewise, your claim of facing high risk visiting a wrong bathroom because of Evangelicals remains unsubstantiated.

You'd probably get a real hoot out of the article linked from this story (which I'm assuming may be NSFW)

Some in the EU do care about privacy but not everyone here does.
Google has had more access to Downing Street than any other company in the past 20 years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

You want one that looks, feels, and moves like a human?

Evidently, plenty of men are willing to settle for what is already available.

should be in production by 2028 at the latest...

Sorry to have disappointed...

"Daesh" is considered by many to be an offensive word, because it is an acronym that is a near homonym to multiple Arabic insults. Claiming they don't care about what they are called is a claim from you, not from them. Why do you speak for them, are you the new Daesh Spokesperson? No? Then maybe let them speak for themselves. If you think they don't care what people say about them, I guess you never heard of the controversy around offensive cartoons? It is a thing, look it up.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

Secondly, not all people who would commit such an act are dumb enough to publicly flaunt illicitly acquired wealth.

But some are. This just happened yesterday:

A police spokesman said the two suspected Dutch traffickers - arrested at stunning five-star Santiago de Compostela hotel Hostal Dos Reis Catolicos on the city’s famous Obradoiro Square - had drawn attention to themselves by “throwing 500 euro notes around as if they were water.”

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Two people were fired because the wife of a man exposed his affair with a married women, both worked at Shell. So, getting someone fired because you don't like something they said or did is SJW, right? Even if they did it? How about Bill Cosby? 50 accusations of rape. So they are all SJWs? How about those who told on Lance Armstrong? Getting someone fired because you don't belive in what they did. All SJWs.

No, it's all "no true scotsman'd" down to SJW means "someone I don't like". No more, no less.

If not, define it, and I'll look for counter examples. If there are more exceptions than ones fitting the rule, there's no point in having the rule.

Please expand upon that. I'm curious as to what you think their motivation is if it isn't ideological in nature or based on their religious belief?

Gee! You tell me! Abu Khaled, like other ISIS members, was paid $100 per month, in U.S. greenbacks, not Syrian lira, despite the latter being the coin of the realm in al-Bab. Currency exchange houses exist in the city where ISIS employees can take their salaries for conversion, although they scarcely need to, given the freebies that come with ISIS employment.

"I rented a house, which was paid for by ISIS," Abu Khaled told me. "It cost $50 per month. They paid for the house, the electricity. Plus, I was married, so I got an additional $50 per month for my wife. If you have kids, you get $35 for each. If you have parents, they pay $50 for each parent. This is a welfare state."

"This is why a lot of people are joining," said Abu Khaled. "I knew a mason who worked construction. He used to get 1,000 lira per day. That's nothing. Now he's joined ISIS and gets 35,000 lira—$100 for himself, $50 for his wife, $35 for his kids. He makes $600 to $700 per month. He gave up masonry. He's just a fighter now, but he joined for the income."

But then, there is trouble in paradise ...Three years ago IS was paying several hundred dollars a month more than al-Qaeda and other rebel outfits.

And I hope you're getting paid for your work doing your little propaganda thingy here, too. I mean, after all, it is working for the most part. So, keep up the good work, I guess....

As far as the spying, Israel has 'em beat by far, but I'm sure more people believe you than me, so of course, you win the internet

If ISIS wants to survive, it has to pay a livable wage like anyone else... We can drop the religious bullshit any time now...

The shah was not overthrown. He was sick and going to die. I won't say the US is nearly as responsible as the UK and Europe, which have much deeper interests in the region. There's a lot of *wagging the dog* going on. Yes, keeping the communists out was and is paramount. The "radical Islamists" are doing what they are hired to do. I hope you don't think they work for free! Russia's market share is down significantly.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

http://crimefeed.com/2014/04/f...

http://crimefeed.com/2014/08/c...

http://nypost.com/2015/02/24/i...

Your nation's made itself a prime target for hostile invasion. You have a completely unarmed populace.

So what you're saying is, my firearm's license doesn't exist and the weapons I have at home don't exist?

Think your enemies don't think thus?

The only 'enemies' I am particularly concerned about are certain nationalists that would have us secede from the union through the use of certain methods that guns can't help with.

You get outta line, do you really think those 'rulers' won't come out with guns to take you out?

Considering how soft touch enforcement is around here when it comes to using projectile weapons, I'm not really seeing a vicious problem you're implying. The only people I really see out of line in the UK tend to be murderers and such (arrested without needing to carry a projectile weapon too), not a guy driving away in a car.

You're long past being "iron men in wooden ships" and more like tinfoil men in balsa wood toy boats.

Wow, you have some wild imagination as to what people think. Most people (sadly) in the UK are thinking about what's in HEAT or the dailymail has to say for gossip, I doubt anyone is thinking this rubbish you're coming up with.

Women do lots of unpleasant and dangerous jobs. Let's look at the most dangerous jobs, shall we?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/featur...

Teachers, librarians and estate agents all make the top 10. There are plenty of female farming staff as well, of course, although less than there used to be due to automation. Going back further women's work used to be extremely dangerous, e.g. working in cloth making factories with primitive machinery.

There reason there isn't much effort to get more women into mining because no-one is trying to force people into jobs they don't want. I know it's a common straw man argument against these programmes, that they are forcing women into STEM when they just want to play with ponies and become nurses and hair dressers, but actually there are women saying they want to study certain subjects but find that there are gender based barriers. So in response to that there are efforts to correct the problem.

If you can find some women who want to become miners but find gender based barriers in their way, you can expect support for their cause.

if it takes seconds to pop the magazine out (and in) then why not pop the magazine out before you put your gun away for the night? just-in-case one night you forget to lock the drawer/gunsafe/whatever and a toddler young enough to need a responsible adult's supervision to keep them safe hurts someone with it? seems like murphy's law to me.

Let me quote myself in reply to your first question:

[...] there's always those douches who thinks that pulling the magazine means it's unloaded.

Odds are that what you're saying is the sort of thing the people who left their guns where their toddlers could get at them thought, which is also why the adults I was around went with the more proactive measure of making sure I knew better in the first place and, if there'd been guns in our house, odds are that they'd have been kept quite outside of my reach, making it entirely beside the point if the thing locked or not.

However, 'responsible adult' probably here would include checking the chamber after pulling the magazine, so...

The thing that concerns me here is that the reaction to toddlers firearm accidents is out of proportion to how people are about other, equally-preventable risks, such as the toddler getting at the kitchen knives and household chemicals. Consider how widely something like "One-Year-Old Tries to Drink Oven Cleaner" would be getting splashed on the media if he'd done the equivalent with a firearm--and how the demands for improved safety measures would vary between the two...

http://journalstar.com/news/lo... http://www.nydailynews.com/new... http://www.nola.com/crime/inde... http://www.derbytelegraph.co.u... http://www.local10.com/news/mi... http://thenationonlineng.net/c... http://www.wowt.com/home/headl... http://www.nydailynews.com/new... http://ktla.com/2015/07/23/pol... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u... http://www.theage.com.au/victo... http://kdvr.com/2015/03/16/wom...

at least, they have stabbing spree, not too long ago... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Of course the quotes are in the original article.

Sounds good to me, why should people who don't have as much weight in their luggage or their stomachs have to subsidize those that do?

Because this is the English speaking world where everyone should be very rightly scared all of the time!

Because terrorists, pedophiles, drugs, climate change etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Of course the quotes are in the original article.

Sounds good to me, why should people who don't have as much weight in their luggage or their stomachs have to subsidize those that do?

Sorry, you have to pay more under the smug asshole provision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Of course the quotes are in the original article.

Sounds good to me, why should people who don't have as much weight in their luggage or their stomachs have to subsidize those that do?

Huh? In the last 5 years there have been a total of about 5 people killed on commercial flights in the US. In the same time there have been about 200,000 killed in car accidents.

There are a lot more car miles that air miles traveled in the US per unit time.

The most recent 2013 data

If you consider the risk per trip, it is higher for planes, but less per mile. So don't drive to Europe from the US. It won't end well. The difference isn't big and it may be the other way around right now because planes have had a good few years. But I don't have 2014/2015 data.

But as far as risk goes, these are small numbers. There are things that are much more likely to kill you. Cars and planes don't even make the top 10.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastat...

And you aren't going to fly to work, unless you're this guy..

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/...

Parental neglect laws don't apply when you are the Prime Minister, though...

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incomin...

I mean, what kind of person leaves their 8-year old behind in the pub because they forgot about them?

It is not a minority. A poll shows that 1.5 million Muslims on the UK support the Islamic state. That works out at 55%, a majority.

you are quite right. Dave420 is a notorious pot-head who doesn't realise that what he calls "Islamist" is the mainstream teaching of Islam.

It is not a minority. A poll shows that 1.5 million Muslims on the UK support the Islamic state. That works out at 55%, a majority.

http://www.theguardian.com/com...

http://www.nature.com/news/why...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/18/...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/a...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.mysterypollster.com...

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/general...

http://www.outsidethebeltway.c...

http://nautil.us/blog/why-were...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

http://articles.economictimes....

First few links from the search engine typing in "why are election polls often wrong"...

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

http://time.com/3558932/pollin...

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

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/...

http://www.kansas.com/news/loc...

Shut up. Just close your stupid mouth. Sit down. And don't speak again until addressed. You're an idiot. It has been officially noticed.

Guess what, licensed taxi drivers do that too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-s...
http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/03/...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Then there was the case in Dublin where a woman was dropped of by a taxi driver (after first dropping of the guy she was with), driving around the block and raping her. It turned out the taxi was sublet by the plate owner.

Seen any suspicious rainbows lately? This might fill you in on what the governmen is doing I hear it targets Christians:

Actually, there was a big stunning double rainbow over Dublin last week as the people of Ireland rejected the teachings of the Church and approved same sex marriage.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

Texas, on the other hand, outlawed gay marriage and got deadly floods and tornadoes.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/26/...

Coincidence?

I think it would be fascinating to spend an evening at the pub with you while you explain your thinking on this (over a few pints). Consider... During the Blitz, when German bombs were falling on British cities, who was being screwed? Was it the British government, or the ordinary Britons under the bombs? During the Troubles, when the IRA set off bombs in Britain, who was being screwed? Was it the British government, or the ordinary Britons near the bombs? During the 7/7 attacks who was being screwed? Was it the British government, or ordinary Britons near the suicide bombers? In coming years, when the Security Services are unable to read messages sent by those who plan to kill Britons, and as a result are unable to disrupt those plans as they have been able to in the past (resulting in many arrests and convictions), who is it that will be screwed? Will it be the British government or ordinary Britons near the bombs? Could you be one of those ordinary Britons?

Are your values such that it is ok for other ordinary Britons to be slaughtered en mass, just so long as it doesn't inconvenience you?

The security services are like a dam holding back waves of trouble. The head of MI5 has previously stated that they can barely keep up. That was before Snowden's theft and leaks had much direct impact. Now the leaks are having an impact and the security services are likely to be breached on a more frequent basis. When that occurs, who will be screwed? The dam holding back waves, or the Britons living "down stream"?

Snowden royally screwed Great Britain.

Speaking of royalty, as a patriotic citizen of the UK, can I get a "God save the Queen!" from you?

Shall we have Jerusalem ?

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