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Oh please, the Peace Prize is the popularity contest of the Nobel Prizes [...]

So, you are saying, Obama could still be wrong despite having won the prize? Are we facing something organized, however loosely (and thus possibly predictable), or just random hate-crimes and work-place violence?

We are suffering from self-radicalized lone-wolves according to our President. And he must be right, or else the enlightened Europeans would've never honored him with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Don't like those statistics? Then lobby Congress to remove the ban on funding for actual dedicated research of gun violence.

After all, what have you got to lose? If you're right and the current statistics are completely wrong, then actual dedicated statistics research and collection should prove that.

The US government, motivated by the gun lobbyists, do not want real research on gun violence because they already know the result is ugly. They did the preliminary studies already.

Most gun violence in the US is suicide. It is the white elephant of gun ownership. Estimates put suicide as far more the likely use of a firearm over other uses.

Even the man in the recent gay bar shooting killed himself at the end.

No, regardless of what firearm salesmen or government thugs want to believe, there is no a quiet militia of people polishing their firearms waiting to murder you and your children.

There are a few hurting people - fellow blood and flesh humans - who cannot get the help they need.

But Western society stigmatizes illnesses of the mind worse then skill color, gender, race or creed. The names themselves are derogatory. People aren't ill they are 'Sick in the Head.' Nutters. Crazies. Sickos. Wackjobs. People who work on mental health issues aren't doctors, they're shrinks. You don't have anxiety problems you're just a "head case."

And this hurts us directly elsewhere besides the gun ownership debate. The lack of recognition makes these sufferers distance themselves from general society. The delusions make the mentally unstable easy candidates for recruitment by fanatical organizations with fantastical promises. It is rarely the Supreme Leaders of the terrorists that are blowing themselves up. Their foolish footsolders with the illusions of rewards that do not exist are strapping themselves into the suicide vests.

No, we don't need a 'technical solution' to prevent shootings. We need to fix society.

That means changing the ideas in people's heads about what's in their heads.

Could there be a technological solution to the problem of mass shootings?

There will never be a machine that fixes the shooter problem or the gun violence problem. Both of these are people problems and fixes need to start and end with people.

Western Society needs to realize that broken minds are broken legs. You don't ask someone with a broken leg to run a marathon, you call an ambulance. You don't tell someone with depression to stay away you're a downer, you offer to listen. Otherwise these sufferers will turn on their own to what help they can. That help may be a pill or a rope or a gun.

Or it could be someone who says 'pray to my God who says kill the infidels and all your problems will be solved.'

And they will believe them. Because there's nobody to tell them otherwise. (That would be bad for sales.)

Trump also suggested creating a government list of which residents of the country are Muslim. That’s some scary shit. Until ... you realize the government already has that list. You know they do, right?

Adams, whose cartoons seemed to find nuance in everything, ignores the nuances of the "Leader" of a country announcing that the government will now create a list of members of a specific religious group. I'm sure that you are familiar with the term "chilling effect". While our intelligence services may know who is what, Trump's suggestion is tantamount to announcing that henceforth Muslims will be required to wear a yellow star-in-crescent on their clothing. I don't think that he is tone deaf on the issue, which leaves the much less savory conclusion.

As for why his violent reactions haven't previously made the news, I'd be willing to bet (and I am not a gambler) that the victims have been carefully paid off with instructions to remain silent or be financially ruined afterwards. His former wife Ivana accused him of violently attacking and raping her after a "scalp reduction" surgery he had went wrong:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/he-raped-me-when-donald-trump-was-accused-of-sexual-assault

"Your doctor fucking ruined me!" Donald allegedly yelled, before tearing out Ivana's hair "by the handful, as if he is trying to make her feel the same kind of pain he is feeling." ... He rips off her clothes and unzips his pants. Then he jams his penis inside of her for the first time in more than sixteen months.

Ivana is terrified. This is not lovemaking. This is not romantic sex. It is a violent assault. She later describes what The Donald is doing to her in no uncertain terms. According to the versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, 'He raped me.'

And then there's that little thing about law and order loving Trump's selection of an array of mob (Mafia) run construction associates:

http://www.newsweek.com/truth-about-trump-mob-454053

To help build his first big Manhattan project, the Grand Hyatt New York on East 42nd Street, Trump had chosen a notorious demolition company secretly owned in part, according to the FBI, by a top Philadelphia mobster who doubled as crime lord of Atlantic City.

To pour concrete for the new hotel, Trump picked a firm run by a man named Biff Halloran who was convicted a few years later for his role in what prosecutors dubbed a mob-run cartel that jacked up construction prices throughout the city.

For the carpentry contract, Trump settled on a Genovese family–controlled enterprise that was central to another mob price-fixing racket, as found by a subsequent federal probe.

So, yeah, not that I want to be alarmist, but your "mild-mannered" Trump may turn out to be "so nice, so polite, so quiet" like the next door neighbor who is found to have a freezer filled with human body parts. I hope that's not the case, especially if he becomes our next president, but I don't expect it to turn out well at all.

It is possible to believe in both, even the pope has said that evolution doesn't conflict with the bible.

http://www.newsweek.com/pope-f...

Heck, that article even talks about how non controversial it was to Catholics, as it has been the position of the church for a long time.

Just don't do it in Russia. That can get you arrested for 20 days. http://europe.newsweek.com/rus...

They'll investigate Clinton for operating an email server, but not Rice or Powell, who also operated their own email server.

Rice and Powell used private email accounts. Powell had an aol address... I forget what Rice had. http://www.newsweek.com/colin-...

You can argue about whether Clinton did anything illegal, but it is not at all the same as what Rice and Powell did. She has used exactly that verbiage in speeches around the country(private email account). Most voters don't understand the difference... let's try to be better here.

It is actually worse then that. The article mentions:

Liberty Reserve fell into the U.S. government's sights, because it ran such a huge operation without oversight. In the post-9/11 world, law enforcement was keen to keep track of every dollar to avoid it ending up funding terrorists.

The US government is the biggest hypocrite; they themselves have become terrorists, having directly and indirectly funded ISIS:

* http://www.newsweek.com/2014/1...
* https://www.quora.com/Is-it-tr...
* http://thefreethoughtproject.c...

Maybe this is part of the reason BitCoin creator's Satoshi Nakamoto won't publicly come forward? He doesn't want to get charged with "domestic terrorism" (sic.)

I can't pull your head out of your ass if you're so desperate to be up there.

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

http://www.newsweek.com/war-wo...

Look, I'm trying to make sense not advocate for a political position. You are trying to advocate. I don't care.

http://www.newsweek.com/begley...

The irony is that the above was written in 2009, when CO2 levels were 386 PPM, now they have passed 400 PPM and show no signs of stopping.

Two viewpoints:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the causes, magnitude and impacts of global warming, said in 2007 that "currently available" technologies and those on the cusp of commercialization can bring enough zero-carbon energy online to avoid catastrophic climate change. And I regularly get reports from renewable-energy and environmental groups arguing that off-the-shelf technologies, fully deployed, can get us there.

And on the other side:

In the opposite corner is the Department of Energy, which in December concluded that we need breakthroughs in physics and chemistry that are "beyond our present reach" to, for instance, triple the efficiency of solar panels; DOE secretary Steven Chu has said we need Nobel caliber breakthroughs.

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In short:

That is also the view of energy chemist Nate Lewis of the California Institute of Technology. "It's not true that all the technologies are available and we just need the political will to deploy them," he says. "My concern, and that of most scientists working on energy, is that we are not anywhere close to where we need to be. We are too focused on cutting emissions 20 percent by 2020â"but you can always shave 20 percent off" through, say, efficiency and conservation. By focusing on easy, near-term cuts, we may miss the boat on what's needed by 2050, when CO2 emissions will have to be 80 percent below today's to keep atmospheric levels no higher than 450 parts per million.

Worth noting is that 450 PPM is 100 PPM higher than the Club 350 people want to keep it at and say is the "safe level".

So is that possible? Here is a 12 step program from someone who says it could be done. And perhaps in a fantasy world, it could. Most of this list is completely silly stuff.

http://sustainabilityadvantage...

1. Mandate net zero energy (NZE) residential and commercial buildings. - Well that sounds nice for new construction, but what do you plan to do with existing buildings? People don't tear down and rebuild stuff every 10 years. This will also raise the price of new buildings making it harder to afford them.

2. Design walkable, bikeable communities - That works for future communities, but not the ones already built. It also really only works for places that have expensive land or are boxed in by mother nature to small areas. In places that have lots of cheap land, it simply makes no economic sense.

3. Stabilize the population - Talk about a political minefield. Go see if the Pope is going to start supporting birth control.

4. Put a price on carbon - You can do this, but in the short term it will just push a billion people into poverty. Do it enough to actually matter and you may end up with riots. You ALSO have to do it world wide, or it doesn't matter.

5. Capture CO2 - This is an easy suggestion to give, I'd like to see the worldwide pricetag for paying for it. Technically possible things are not always affordable.

6. Electrify transportation - Even if you banned gas car production tomorrow, at current car production rates it would take nearly 15 years to replace the gas cars in the world with EVs, and that assumes that people will have the money for them, have a place to charge them, and that power plants can somehow produce enough power for a billion cars cleanly. Since you can't actually ban gas cars tomorrow, you might phase this in over a decade or two, at best, but in reality you're looking at multiple decades before even half the car fleet is EV.

7. Create a national, smart elect

The research funding dictated who had a voice.

And those with the voice, can get more research funding. Is not it nice, when the government is picking winners?

Climate science has a harder problem to address, but is as rigorous as is reasonable in the circumstances.

I wonder, what you mean by "rigorous" here. Lysenko, for example, rigorously persecuted adherents of the reactionary Mendelian genetics. And, when their activities endangered the favor he held with the government, denounced them as "enemies of the people".

Something that could never happen in a free country. Right?

Is it really a reliable scientific theory, if police are called on to silence its opponents?

Huge numbers of americans are creationists (about a third). about a third cannot give an explanation for seasons (they think its because we are closer to the sun). Plenty of people believe in homeopathy, astrology (remember Reagan?), and lots of other BS.

50% sounds about right. Also see this. It's different though, because it's a poll about whether they exist, not whether they have visited.

My money's on the NSA.

But whoever it is, I believe they knew they had this option all along.

They had the best experts in the world telling them that it could be broken, but they pursued the matter in the courts instead.

Richard A. Clarke has stated so publicly.

If they can get the courts to give them the keys and the source code, what good would it do apple to release a new version of IOS with new signing keys? The government would just compel them to release it again... and the 2nd iteration, they'd have a precedent.

Which is really what the FBI wants - precedent. It's already been stated that the NSA could (probably) crack the phone, but the FBI isn't interested because they want a legal precedent - presumably to decrypt any phone any time for any reason...

From http://www.newsweek.com/former...

Richard Clarke (former U.S. counterterrorism official and security adviser to the president) said Monday in an interview on NPR's Morning Edition that he believes that if the FBI asked, the National Security Agency “would have solved this problem” of opening the encrypted iPhone of the San Bernardino, California, shooter.

When asked by NPR anchor David Greene what he would have done if he was still in government, Clarke said he would taken the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, which is at the center of a national debate over encryption, to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Clarke believes the FBI is holding out in an attempt to set a legal precedent to facilitate decrypting smartphones in the future.

Not to mention: Navy pays 9.1 million dollars a year for them to continue supporting their installations of WinXP

You're also assuming that she did anything really wrong with her email server. That's being investigated currently, and I'm withholding judgment until I know some of the facts. Obviously some of that information should not have been on that server, but beyond that things get murky.

Here' the thing. I already know some of the facts.

1) The server created a large security breach even if it never held classified information. While probably not a criminal act, it does right there show poor judgment.
2) Using her own private server instead of a government one has already allowed her to evade FOIA requests. It also hid her emails from the rest of the Obama administration. And if it can be shown that she constructed this email server in part to evade FOIA requests, then that is a felony.
3) There was plenty of classified information being passed on her server including stuff that was originally marked as classified (BTW, it doesn't have to be marked as classified to be classified). It's a felony to knowingly move classified information onto systems which are not approved for storage or distribution of such information.
4) We have an email where Clinton instructs an aide to strip classified headers off of a document before emailing it. That is a felony as well.

This stuff is "murky" only because you aren't paying attention. As a final observation, the FBI conducts the investigation, but it is Obama's decision whether to prosecute or not.

Hell no.. omg what if the enemy could record the way we treat them? That can't get out to the world. Just look at the numbers: http://www.newsweek.com/gaza-a...

Newsweek: Google and Microsoft Back Apple on Encryption Battle With FBI

Let's be fair about it. By definition, it's only the homosexual or bisexual priests that are diddling the little boys.

Except for the ones who are diddling little girls.

http://www.newsweek.com/sex-ab...

My apologies, this ended up being way longer than I anticipated it would be. However I think it's all important.

First let me start of by saying - yes, things are getting warmer. They've been getting warmer for over thousands of years with some brief cold spells. Check out sea water rise here - http://www.giss.nasa.gov/resea... . So this is far and beyond man if you look at the scale in years. Another sign they're wrong - put people in jail - http://www.newsweek.com/should... . Some might call this typical leftist fascism. I was a bit surprised, I googled - "global warming skeptics in jail". No free speech, other than what they want. Where have we heard that before?

Bullshit. There is a mountain of proof - even though because you can't even begin to understand it you are suspicious.

Mountain of proof. So you should have no trouble showing me this mountain. Science isn't hard. There's the scientific method. I have no doubt you're familiar with it, I'll include it here for other people just as my comment before about moding me down was to other people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Here are recent co2 levels - http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/c...
Here we have them trying to explain a decade of problems - https://www.climate.gov/news-f...
Then we have the hottest decade in the 20th century - the 1930s. This was embarrassing to Mr. Hansen (Mr. MMGW himself) as he had to admit he lied, of course he blamed it on a y2k error (it was a mistake, not a lie!) - when he claimed the 1990s where the hottest decade of the 20th century. I called full BULSHIT on that. I don't understand how a y2k bug could change his data and I'm a guy that used to fix those problems.

Don't say I don't understand it, it's likely you don't understand it. The above concerns break the scientific method, therefore it's almost certain it's not CO2 causing it. Not with a big rise in CO2 and when temperatures stop rising. Remember Algore's prediction that we'd be roasting in Washington DC in 2015 with desert like temperatures? Yea, not so much. Same old hot summers we've always had. Remember his predictions about more and stronger hurricanes after Katrina? Yea, not so much either. I bet he would be howling if Hog Island happened today - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Remember "Super Storm Sandy", yea, what crap. It was just a run of the mill hurricane. Nothing super about sandy.

As for the scientists - good luck conducting a study that disproves MMGW. Right now you're about as likely to get a grant proving that as say (not that I believe this, to illustrate the point - ) white people are superior to black people. That is, forget about it and don't come back. Only people that look at the data and say - hey, wait a minute. The bitch is, I may convince you and I've convinced hundreds over the years. They are making true believers every day in schools.

We do, for example, know that CO2 is a gas which does cause heat to be trapped in our atmosphere. As far as I know, aside from you and a small group of moronic skeptics, no one is saying otherwise.

A lot of people conclude when you resort to name calling, you've lost the argument. Otherwise, you'd state your case instead of calling someone names. Just so you know. Did you know there are definitions of what a moron, idiot, imbecile are? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

It's not a small group, otherwise Kyoto, Paris, etc would have proceeded a whole lo

... low morale, long hours and of the psychological impacts stemming from killing people remotely.

If one can't celebrate risk-free mass murder, in the name of patriotism and duty, with a couple of medals, then the job isn't worthwhile. It makes the medals handed out for disobeying orders and mass murdering unarmed men and women, seem cheap and hypocritical.

It's turning into Where's Waldo

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/0...

> The CIA had proof, right?

The CIA got pushed, hard, to support excuses to invade Iraq, and was under tremendous pressure from the White House to support a war. Examine the recently released interviews with former CIA analyst Ben Bonk, at http://www.newsweek.com/2015/0...

These guys are running a solid business.

The overwhelming majority of their revenue is acquired through theft.

I'd hardly call that a "solid business."

Wall Street would beg to differ!

These guys are running a solid business.

The overwhelming majority of their revenue is acquired through theft.

I'd hardly call that a "solid business."

PS: Here's an interesting article on the topic a few years old:
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/0...

It's partly their fault, especially Saudi Arabia for pushing their puritanical form of Islam with all their money. In fact, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar are actively funding ISIS and al-Qauda.

It's not surprising most of the hijackers of 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. They've also screwed up places by building madrases to help push their fundamentalist puritanical version of Islam. Boys who go to these madrases for their education learn little except the Saudi brand of Islam along with hate for the west.

Just google ISIS funding.

Ever since 9/11 I've done whatever I can to stop supporting middle eastern countries and wean myself off of using oil. The fact that most of the 9/11 hijackers and their ringleader came from Saudi Arabia made me realize I don't want any of my money to go to fund these countries that promote terrorism.

Yes, but yes.

Note also that 16% of French people support ISIS. That's better than some of Hollande's own poll numbers, as he preps for the 2017 election in which Le Pen and Sarkozy are set to hand him his ass. A little Palpatine-during-emergency might improve Hollande's polling tremendously.

Oh, so that's why 16% — one in six — of the French support ISIS, you despicable Islam apologist! http://www.newsweek.com/16-fre...

Yep.

So, how much are you being paid to post this bullshit?

What bullshit? I asked you some questions. Important questions, given your extraordinary claims.

You've been ranting and raving about all over the comment section of this article about how Anthropogenic Global Warming is a hoax perpetrated by the climate change scientists. I'm asking you why you are making these claims. I hope you'll understand that I'm a little confused about your claims since Shell, BP, and Chevron all acknowledge that climate change is real, and they have billions of dollars at stake. So, I'm curious why you don't believe in climate change, while virtually all of the experts do.

Even the U.S. Army considers climate change to be real and a potential threat.

well think again...

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/ww...

you forget the rednecks

Notice all these shootings seem to be happening in "gun free zones"?

You might be suffering from confirmation bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/...
http://www.newsweek.com/second...

To me it looks like the scapegoat and business as usual thing is currently what we do. What happened after 2007? Did the top management from Lehman Brothers get touched? Or any other bank? They didn't even have a scapegoat. And it doesn't end with private industry. There is clear and conclusive evidence that the Abu Ghraib abuses were directed by knowledgeable people that had at least the rank of generals:

http://www.newsweek.com/roots-...

But they found scapegoats. And everything went on business as usual.

Saturn was a hunk of shit, and to the grandparent's 'ooh, 132k KM on it.. big fucking deal. My ex-wife's Subaru has over 320k KM on it and it's still kicking ass.

The Japanese were, in fact, a little worried. "We felt they had the opportunity to heal a lot of [GM's] wounds," recalls Gary Convis, a former senior U.S. manufacturing executive for Toyota, "and to be a very successful company." But when Honda engineers bought a Saturn and disassembled it, their fears abated. The dashboard had overlapping plastic panels that made it look cheap, and a harsh-sounding engine that stemmed from inferior motor mounts. The plastic-polymer doors, billed as a unique feature that wouldn't get dinged in parking lots, fit poorly. Again and again the surprised engineers exclaimed shinjirarinai, a term that means "unbelievable."

- How GM Crushed Saturn

Isn't that just a bit of regurgitated propaganda, assuming facts not in evidence (i.e. that liberal arts majors, dogs and Republicans would follow the rules)?

Here is what happens in real life:

manipulation in the service of commercial agendas,

hoaxes,

malice, and

blackmail,

along with "skewed information, unattributed material, and potential copyright violations".

Wikipedia throws such people out today, and they're back tomorrow, with a new pseudonymous sockpuppet account.

Wikipedia lists over 70,000 blocked sockpuppeteers, and that list does not include some of the most serious cases, where individuals have used literally hundreds of sockpuppet accounts. (For reference, the English Wikipedia has around 3,000 steady contributors making at least three or four content edits a day.)

As we've seen over and over, the ones who have real power at the local level are the police and their buddies in local government; not even the Federal government can overrule them, or else we would have seen some measures to reel in this police abuse that's become so blatant.

Ha! They don't want to reel in any abuse. The feds are militarizing the police forces by giving military surplus to police. Between this, the overreach by the TSA, NSA, FBI, whatever other three letter agencies you want to add, what you see is a creeping increase in regulation and control over more and more aspects of our lives.

Police in small towns in Michigan and Indiana have used the 1033 Program to acquire “MRAP armored troop carriers, night-vision rifle scopes, camouflage fatigues, Humvees and dozens of M16 automatic rifles,” the South Bend Tribune reported.

And police in Bloomington, Georgia, (population: 2,713) acquired four grenade launchers through the program, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Given the proliferation of military weapons and military training among America’s police departments, the use of military force and military tactics is not surprising. When your only tool is a hammer, after all, every problem looks like a nail.

Update: Missouri DPS Communications Director O'Connell on Thursday morning sent the following e-mail confirming that St. Louis law enforcement agencies also received 12 5.56 millimeter rifles and six .45 caliber pistols as part of 1033 Program.

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

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

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

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

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

majority of affordable housing within driving distance lies in an area known for its high crime rate

Dude, like, be nice about it. Embrace the local disadvantaged kids — they didn't have mommy and daddy provide them with computers and nice schools growing up, so what's left for them to do but robbery and selling drugs?

Don't be no hater and give them your money and iPhone voluntarily and be sure to attend all community meetings resisting the evil money-grabbing developers intent on gentrification of the area for profit — it raises the rents for everyone, hitting women and the poor the worst, of course.

Ah, and never miss a chance to flip a birdie to the police while filming them doing their jobs. Every time — they are the ones, you do not have to be nice to.

To dispense with the jargon of chemistry in favor of the delightful aphorism of Richard Feynman, "Nature is screwy," so-called organic molecules can have left and right handed "threads". He introduces handed-ness or chirality, in his his lecture on symmetry in physical laws [youtube.com] as he describes a simple experiment where sugar is dissolved in water... (astoundingly, almost precisely!) only abut half of it is taken in by bacteria.

Point of clarification oops --- Feynman is referring not to natural sugar here that is a result of biological process such as beet or cane sugar, but artificial sugars built in the laboratory from constituent carbons, hydrogens and oxygens. The mixture has roughly even numbers of (R) and (S) molecules so it does not 'block' one polarization of light.

Other interesting snippets on chirality: a great 2006 student term paper, How did protein amino acids get left-handed while sugars got right-handed? which gives an overview of the physics and fronts the possibility of biological evolutionary advantage... and a recent Newsweek article that introduces 'Allulose' one laboratory creation of Feynman's "wrong-handed sugar" --- the stuff bacteria doesn't eat --- as the perfect sugar substitute. "Exactly why allulose doesn't have as many calories as fructose isn't completely understood, but studies show that rats don't gain any weight when fed a diet of allulose, but do when given the same amount of fructose. When humans eat it, we basically piss most of it out. They said 'piss'! Heh heh. Then "Allulose has already passed a review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which deemed it "generally recognized as safe" in January 2014, making it eligible for use in food."

So... why would they say "why allulose doesn't have as many calories as fructose isn't completely understood"? A journalist picking up on a scientific hedge? Biologically actionable calories as opposed to mere energy potential? Unexplored effects of recombination in the liver? Inquiring minds aware of Thalidomide horrors would do well to tread carefully with industrial-scale production of 'wrong'-handed organic molecules.

Pointing out that the (R)(S) notation of handed-ness is R=right=Rectus, S=left-Sinister, it is revealed that chemists are insensitive clods.

Well, how else should the propaganda artists fallaciously link climate change with the eating of meat? They want us all to be eating insects someday, after all. Of course, by 'all' they mean us commoners. I am sure the wealthy elite ruling class will still have their steak, regardless of party and regardless of country.

Last century, we tried the national socialist we're-better-than-everyone-else tact to cajole people into slavery. Now we're going for the self-loathing, guilt tripping INTERnational socialism that replaces educated, intelligent, successful and free societies with masses of uneducated, easily indoctrinated, socially dependent, easily enslaved immigrants! Hurrah Comrades! Now eat your mealworms and like it. Those who resist must check their privilege.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.nature.com/scitable...
http://www.newsweek.com/why-en...
etc ad nauseum

Gamergate was originally about ethics in video game journalism.

Not according to the data.

http://www.newsweek.com/gamerg...

"So, is GamerGate really about ethics in journalism? Newsweek asked BrandWatch, a social media analytics company, to dig through the more than 2 million tweets about GamerGate since September 1 discover how often Twitter users tweeted at or about the major players in the debate, and whether those tweets were positive, negative or neutral. BrandWatch sampled 25 percent of tweets—what it considers a reflective amount of data—on the hashtag #GamerGate from Sept. 1 to Oct. 23."

September 1 to October 23 is right at the beginning of the GamerGate phenomenon. So no, it wasn't "originally about ethics in video game journalism".

Nobody noticed the so-called study was sponsored by Yelp, who is suing Google in Europe? So many news web sites reported Google screwing your search result, but so little mentioned who sponsored this.

The article I read pointed it out, they pointed out the study was funded by Yelp
http://www.newsweek.com/google-search-hurting-yelp-finds-study-funded-yelp-348299

The article also points out that Yelp are launching a browser extension to "fix" search results. So it seems Yelp is trying to do exactly what its accusing Google of doing. This "study" is an exercise in astroturfing for a browser plugin that at best manipulates search results (I think that assuming it will also collect data on the user is not a paranoid delusion).

Personally I dont blame Google for demoting Yelp search results. I've never found anything useful on there and having some friends in the hospitality industry, their tactics in extorting money out of hotels and restaurants would make the Mafia blush.

Well at least we can now distinguish protest from celebration, because it seems that in France, setting your neighbors car into a blazing inferno is a sign of celebration.

http://europe.newsweek.com/940...

So there you have it:

Car flipped, somebody is angry.
Car burned, somebody is happy.

The sad thing is that what is basically the twitter feed of Patrick/Ken at Popehat keeps getting carried as real news. This article should be captured in this addendum: http://popehat.com/2014/12/20/... and http://www.newsweek.com/interv...

More importantly, we have the math. You can't outlaw math.

Oh, really?

nor could the department legally require officers to have sex as part of their job.

I'm sure they could find volunteers.

The second scenario is plausible except that you assume that the LEOs have as much or more "firepower" than the gangs.

True but I'm assuming the entire gang isn't going to show up for every incident (unless it's quite a small gang to begin with). I guess if the police started doing this regularly, they might.. on the other hand, they might also just cut their losses and stop hassling people who don't pay because it's not worth getting into a surprise gun fight with professionals over $50 (or whatever).

On the other hand, for a big drug deal where a lot of armed criminals really might show up... well we keep hearing about how police departments are getting all this surplus military equipment for next to nothing, so I'm not sure looking at the pure dollar figures tells you that much. For instance according to http://www.newsweek.com/how-am...

Police in Watertown, Connecticut, (population 22,514) recently acquired a mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle (sticker price: $733,000), designed to protect soldiers from roadside bombs, for $2,800.

I guess the real reason isn't that cops are idiots or greedy, it's that they have to weigh the benefit against the risk to their lives. Confronting a john who tries to hire an undercover cop as a prostitute poses little risk if the officer is armed. Little compared to waiting for the enforcer anyway. Busting a guy trying to buy weed is little risk compared to setting up a sting with a big gang and showing up in your MRAP and getting into a fire fight. Is it worth risking your life to put a negligible dent in the drug trade or the sex trade? Maybe not.

I don't have polling data, but it does pass the sniff test to assume that one form of magical thinking, inculcated from birth, would tend to make the personality more at-risk of accepting other magical-thinking proposals.

Well, there are some studies which suggest what you say is true, but there are other scientists and psychologists who have claimed that supernatural beliefs and superstitions are "hard-wired" into humanity. Many anthropologists have argued that some sort of supernatural beliefs were necessary for the foundation of complex societies, but there's disagreement about the exact role or types of beliefs and their effects.

On the other hand, regardless of upbringing, there seem to be specific psychological traits that are highly correlated with religiosity, such as lower intelligence or various personality traits. There have been literally hundreds of studies on this stuff, and your proposal that various superstitious thinking may be related to and/or substituting for religious thinking has been studied for close to 40 years.

There seem to be no clear answers and a lot of contradictory studies about whether paranormal/supernatural beliefs are basically innate or mostly affected by psychological traits or intelligence, or whether nurturing children affects those tendencies in significant ways.

The only thing I can say is that people have believed weird nonsense throughout history, and even if you expunge various myths and bogey men, people will find other weird nonsense to believe -- whether it's aliens or conspiracy theories or whatever. You can even look at demographic stats and polls for other countries -- participation in institutional religion is very low in Europe, and many countries have relatively high numbers there of people who are nominally atheists, but various other types of occult and superstitious elements are exceptionally popular.

Bottom line: decreasing religious indoctrination of youth may have some impact on overall belief in "magical thinking," but many people will still find various weird things to buy into as adults. Aside from natural cognitive tendencies of humans to "ascribe meaning" to random or natural phenomena and such, religion is historically about defining social groups as well as beliefs, and there's a lot of evidence that people will buy into all kinds of weird crap if it seems like the stuff that most of the people around them are into.

That's why Aleynikov has been hounded for the past several years and no banking executives have been criminally prosecuted for their role in causing the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression.

That's why a single trader is being held for causing the flash crash, doing things that the big companies do, but making the mistake of not having political connections.

This is not about fair market competition. This is about winning at all costs, with the referees (politicians) are paid off by the wealthy players.

The leaks prove the whole "North Korea" thing was bullshit.

It was all made up. North Korea never threatened Sony. The President was dragged out and an international incident started, and it was all because of a fake Popehat twitter account and Sony spinning the opportunity like a neutron star.

But it's all gossip yeah, lol. Assange is such a loser too. And a rapist. He's totally not likable and Wikileaks is a joke guys. Pshhaww! . Line B is the answer btw.