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Wow, what a total moron here's what she's said recently:Anyone know how to prevent people from posting on the comments on a company Facebook page? I know how to prevent people from posting on our page just not commenting on our posts. -- Julia Cordray

Yes. Yes they can. That is what has happened in the UK.

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

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.c...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Liberals cannot admit that humans are evil, and guns are merely a tool that can be used for good or for evil. Most liberals I encounter are scared of guns, and so because they are scared, everyone else should be scared of guns and be forced not to have them. The desire to ban guns is rooted in cowardice and fear.

Not to contribute to the racism of the programmer, but the Syrian refugees aren't exactly saints.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Throwing rocks at police for the audacity of refusing you entry to their country is no way to make friends.
The police response seems pretty tame in comparison; rocks can kill, teargas just forces people to move.

Probably because of this, it's been making the rounds all over by people of that mindset.

I don't even need designer shoes, or a special car.

Driving around in a 1984 Renault doesn't sound all that special to me. And this Pope doesn't wear designer shoes.

was not aware of any, but a quick google of news stories and right to be forgotten turned up this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

i have no issue if it's your own content you want removed. And you should already have all the tools necessary to do so, and if you don't, going after google to delist isn't the proper venue for that.

some of these are pretty relevant to future hiring/dating

claims that were thrown out of court, ruled fabrications, false rape charges etc.
some are more innocuous.

The Saudis are forcing OPEC to keep producing oil because they have the cash reserves to operate at a loss for a good while and are trying to drive the US oil producers-who rely on fracking-out of business. The problem with that strategy is that fracking is becoming more efficient, which lowers the break-even point. Basically the Saudis are playing the long game in order to try and shore up their monopoly status.

That's 2007 thinking, and likely incorrect.

1 - The Saudis have already lost the battle to prevent US frackers from drilling. Even if no new wells are drilled and nobody touches the significant fracklog of drilled-but-not-fracked wells there is more than enough surplus production to last through 2020 when:

2 - The Saudis don't have enough cash reserves to hold out more than ~5 years at current spending levels and $60 bbl oil. At current prices (and look at the futures market) they're going to run dry early.

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

And note how futures prices have decreased even more since.

http://www.cmegroup.com/tradin...

Thus they are not playing the "long game" they are playing a very very "short game" of "spend on the military so the ruling class doesn't get beheaded and hope we can hold on".

They got caught with their dick in the pig. You damn right he's apologizing.

... a Talking Barbie ...

This is not the first internet-connected talking toy. The Cayla doll appeared 10 months ago. It has already been hacked.

It's about fraud. Widespread organised fraud. Should that really be legal in your opinion? Or should it be legal if they do it "for the party", since it's fraud for the sake of politics? The entire reason we've got all this shit is because of some donors setting the agenda and turning science denial into a political point of difference between two parties when both used to consider reality previously. Do you deny science for The Party comrade? Papers please.

Assuming the global warming warners are correct, the reason we have this issue is the people doing the warning have made several huge mistakes.

1. They have not lived as though they believed their warnings. The Democrats supposedly believe the world is going to be very messed up, and yet it is way down on their list of priorities. World leaders who presumably have good access to intelligence don't seem very concerned. Al Gore flew around in carbon spewing private planes while living in heavy carbon footprint house.

2. They have discredited themselves by setting themselves up to make a profit from the hysteria. Exhibit A is again Al Gore with his investments: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...

3. Al Gore becoming the first major spokesperson was a huge mistake because he's clearly a partisan and had just come through a brutal campaign. He was bound to make half the electorate skeptical. If George W. Bush had lost the election and immediately started talking about global warming then it would be the Democrats claiming the whole thing was a host and yet another example of "the politics of fear".

4. Using words like "denier" and saying "the debate is over" as a way to shout down and shut down debate rather than trying to convince people. We need fewer articles that threaten and insult skeptics and more articles that respectfully explain both sides of the debate. Everytime the word "denier" shows up in print it reinforces the idea that the global warming believers know they can't make a case and have to result to poisoning the well attacks.

Posting as AC means you likely won't get my response. But here goes:

ICM Poll: 20% of British Muslims sympathize with 7/7 bombers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

NOP Research: 1 in 4 British Muslims say 7/7 bombings were justified
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
http://www.webcitation.org/5xk...

I call BS. I specifically do work in my community in de-radicalisation efforts, and also liaise with other efforts internationally. I seek out people like this, and I have to tell you, they're pretty hard to find. Admittedly, I'm in Australia, but if there are anything like double digit percentage chunks of our community who sympathize with bombers, I'd know about it. I'd be surprised of the number of Muslims who condone terrorism is above 1%.

People-Press: 31% of Turks support suicide attacks against Westerners in Iraq.
http://people-press.org/report...

The mosque I usually attend is mainly a Turkish community. My wife is Turkish, and I've spent time there specifically discussing global politics with them. Once again, there's no way almost 1 in 3 support suicide attacks in any form against anyone. Suicide attacks are, in any Islam 101 class, specifically ruled out, and the fact that brainwashed youngsters are conned into it doesn't change that fact. No mainstream Muslim who has had a modicum of Islamic education would condone a prohibited act. ...

Looking down the rest of these "surveys", I can only speculate that they are the result of very skewed research, or perhaps loose interpretation of the answers to leading questions. Also, looking into the actual paper referenced in the one that states "World Public Opinion: 61% of Egyptians approve of attacks on Americans" I found that the actual research results showed that only 8% of Egyptians approved of attacks on Americans in America, and 7% approved of attacks on Americans working abroad (I'd have thought it'd go the other way, but meh). I was not able to find 61% approval of attacks anywhere.

At this point, I shall terminate evaluating that site, it's clearly (and I'm being charitable with my wording here) badly mistaken in the facts it is presenting.

he law does not force your spouse to open their legs for you.

It does inflict heavy fines if you don't drop your pants for her though. Poor, poor women.

She had stomach cancer, didn't she? Hmmmm....

Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment

Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks

What a relief, stomach isn't on that list.

You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare.

You don't say? Live and learn, I guess. Or is that live and don't learn? What do you think the Veterans Administration is in the US? Hint: State healthcare - fully government owned and operated healthcare. It has been a source of major scandals for years, and manages to kill people in the process. Of course the NHS does make the news from time to time, doesn't it?

Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment

Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks

Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders

New NHS spending scandal: £3.3 billion wasted on agency doctors

Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS

Up to 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff fail to diagnose a treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs the death toll from superbugs like MRSA

The US healthcare system would probably stand a chance if it weren't for the so called "Affordable Care Act" passed by the Democrats. Big problems are coming.

You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare.

You don't say? Live and learn, I guess. Or is that live and don't learn? What do you think the Veterans Administration is in the US? Hint: State healthcare - fully government owned and operated healthcare. It has been a source of major scandals for years, and manages to kill people in the process. Of course the NHS does make the news from time to time, doesn't it?

Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment

Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks

Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders

New NHS spending scandal: £3.3 billion wasted on agency doctors

Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS

Up to 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff fail to diagnose a treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs the death toll from superbugs like MRSA

The US healthcare system would probably stand a chance if it weren't for the so called "Affordable Care Act" passed by the Democrats. Big problems are coming.

You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare.

You don't say? Live and learn, I guess. Or is that live and don't learn? What do you think the Veterans Administration is in the US? Hint: State healthcare - fully government owned and operated healthcare. It has been a source of major scandals for years, and manages to kill people in the process. Of course the NHS does make the news from time to time, doesn't it?

Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment

Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks

Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders

New NHS spending scandal: £3.3 billion wasted on agency doctors

Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS

Up to 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff fail to diagnose a treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs the death toll from superbugs like MRSA

The US healthcare system would probably stand a chance if it weren't for the so called "Affordable Care Act" passed by the Democrats. Big problems are coming.

You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare.

You don't say? Live and learn, I guess. Or is that live and don't learn? What do you think the Veterans Administration is in the US? Hint: State healthcare - fully government owned and operated healthcare. It has been a source of major scandals for years, and manages to kill people in the process. Of course the NHS does make the news from time to time, doesn't it?

Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment

Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks

Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders

New NHS spending scandal: £3.3 billion wasted on agency doctors

Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS

Up to 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff fail to diagnose a treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs the death toll from superbugs like MRSA

The US healthcare system would probably stand a chance if it weren't for the so called "Affordable Care Act" passed by the Democrats. Big problems are coming.

Islet cell neuroendocrine tumor has very long average survival time if caught early (like Jobs' was) and treated properly (which Jobs' wasn't). Not just a couple years - over a decade. And that's for regular folk, not for people who count among the wealthiest individuals on Earth and can afford the best care on the planet. These tumors are so passive that 10% of autopsied patients in the general public are found to have had a gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor without ever knowing, and 30% of the tumors are so good at maintaining their original function that there's debate over whether to even call them "cancer". Insulinomas are anything but a virulent form - but they can spread if left to fester. Jobs' cancer was caught very early on, and by all standards he should have had a very long life expectancy had he actually gone with actual medical treatment advised by his doctors (as well as his friends and family). Instead, he committed "suicide by woo", letting it fester until it become something actually bad and hard to remove completely. Something that he deeply regretted later.

The ridiculousness is not limited to the Labour party; the Conservatives actually put a deluded believer into an *actual*, not shadow, ministerial position and to top it all it was minister for health.

The UK press has been full of negative comments about Corbyn, more so since he became leader this weekend, so why is Slashdot joining in? Why don't you run articles on the front pages of the Daily Mail, The Sun, etc. for today and yesterday? During the leadership campaign it wasn't just the right-wing press either since many Labourites didn't want him since they think that they can only regain government by being more like the Conservatives to the point that they are now frequently referred to as the "Red Tories".

Personally, I didn't care about the Labour leadership election because I think that the sooner Scotland can get away from the rest of the UK the better.

Corbyn also blames the Ukraine crisis on the west and ticked off Poland by saying that they never should have been allowed into NATO and instead "should have gone down the road Ukraine went in 1990". He thinks Britain should leave NATO, but recently backtracked, saying that there's no "appetite" among the public to do so at the moment and he'll respect that. Russia basically endorsed him today.

Recognizing that is not necessarily degrading. What's degrading is treating someone as less than a total human being, which includes both the animal behavior and the advanced cognitive stuff.

Most people recognize of course that reducing someone to nothing more than an object of animal behaviors is degrading. But there is something degrading in a lot of high pressure employment too, which is reducing someone to their intellectual capacity to transform information inputs to into product outputs. But we're also animals who evolved to live in medium-sized social groups, and need family and social interactions centered around feeding, grooming and (yes) reproduction to be healthy. We need family, friends, and social novelty. We need to have a personal story that extends beyond our economic outputs.

Now as to whether this particular corporate arrangement is degrading, it could well be. However I doubt that in the current Chinese context that it is. There's a lot to this situation that doesn't necessarily fit into Western assumptions, and one of the biggest factors is the unexpected ways China's one-child policy has altered the status of women. As you'd obviously expect given the Chinese cultural value of extending the male bloodline this has skewed Chinese population male -- 1.18 :: 1 at birth. And paradoxically this has actually raised the status of Chinese girls as individuals, upending thousands of years of cultural tradition.

Young, attractive, talented women have immense opportunities in modern China; they don't have to accept any treatment they find degrading. This is a good thing, but the fact that it is ultimately rooted in the messy biological imperative to propagate the species is something that many people will be deeply ambivalent about. I think we'd be a lot better off if we just accepted our animal nature and use it to make everyone's lives better; or at least developed the ability to have a good laugh at ourselves. The kind of earnest, priggish, knee-jerk reaction something like this immediately evokes is rooted in deep discomfort with human nature, as well as cultural parochialism.

Don't make assumptions, I happened to live in a borough where the largest ethnic group was Bangladeshis, and it was a rather central location. While what you say about distributions may be valid for London or Greater London, there are a lot of boroughs where Muslims are above 20-30 percent, and the demographic trends point toward rapid increases. A more minor point is that Indians doesn't mean non-muslim - there are quite a few muslims in India. Another point is that there's a commonality between hindu people and muslims that their culture differs more from that of the host country than the traditional cultural and religious differences in Europe, e.g. Roman Catholic vs. Protestant; I believe people from India, irrespective of their religion, also have a higher birth rate than Caucasians.

Also, while there may be nitpicking along ways of segmenting places geographically - down to the street level, where a lot of people still live among those who are close to them in terms of heritage, or one can look at the entire Britain, France and Western Europe and determine that transcontinental immigrants and their offspring are still a minority overall, it masks the trends and the fact that a lot of parts of even London are markedly non-European, or resembling some third world place.

Here's an interesting article from 2009, no less, that describes e.g. the duplication of muslims in Europe over just 30 years. History isn't always written in just a couple of years, and the Western civilisation traces its roots to 2-3k years, mainly back to the Greek civilisation, so it's understandable that if someone is concerned about the loss of Western values in its very home territory, then those people don't just look at today's statistics, but also project clear trends, such as demography, and the remarkably slow uptake of European values and customs, and perhaps mass defiance, indifference and antagonism by migrant communities.

Bad idea. You're making the assumption these things work. The idea is well intentioned, "oh those poor people that have no access to modern western medicine".

Pity the poor Baku in the coastal forest of west Gabon who have a natural immunity and cure for Ebola (There are tribes of Indians in the amazon in Bolivia too. Why? Riddle me this: what does the soil in Bolivia have in common with Senegal? That's the key to Gabon. Wouldn't you rather that than 40 years of trying to make a vaccine that at it's best is 25-75% effective. Note the death rate outside africa. Other than 2 (3?) we didn't hear about, or heard about when their liver had turned to soup, nobody else died of a disease that's up to >99% fatal (WHO).

http://en.ird.fr/the-media-cen...
I think its safe to say it's no longer a "possible" immunity. There's more than one way to skin a cat, and immunization technology from 1720 from the school of homeopathy ("like protects against like"; this remains unacknowledged but unverifiable) is one way but not the only way.

"29 January 2015 Last updated at 00:55 - We've now seen several cases that don't have any symptoms at all, asymptomatic cases," said Anavaj Sakuntabhai who suggested the virus might be mutating.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

Giggle. The virus didn't change. People did.

British nurse cured of Ebola credits new drug - and strawberries
"Back in Britain, the decision to try MIL 77 was not difficult. “I said ‘I have Ebola, so, yes, I’d rather have that than high-dose vitamin C,’” she said"
"“I reckon I’ve had 10 punnets,” joked Corporal Anna Cross, who smiled nervously as she talked for the first time after her treatment at the Royal Free Hospital in north London." (10 punnets would be about equal to two 1000mg injections a day)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

April 2015 - semen found infected after 175 days, twice the previous record.
http://io9.com/ebola-survivors...

The Ebola outbreak in Liberia is over
9 May 2015 -- Today marks 42 days since the last confirmed case of Ebola in Liberia was safely buried — the period of time set by WHO to declare an outbreak over. WHO now considers Liberia free of Ebola transmission.
http://apps.who.int/ebola/libe...

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - Ebola Not Mutating Beyond 'Normal' Rate, Scientists Say
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medline...

28 May 2015 | Did real-time epidemic modeling save lives in West Africa?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...

Ask yourself what might have happened on October 17 2014.

"Pity the tribes in South America and North America who never suffer the effects of influenza.
"Folklore of past civilizations report that for every disease afflicting man there is an herb or its equivalent that will effect a cure. In Puerto Rico the story has long been told "that to have the health tree Acerola in one's back yard would keep colds out of the front door." 1 The ascorbic acid content of this cherry-like fruit is thirty times that found in oranges. In Pennsylvania, U.S.A., it was, and for many still is, Boneset, scientifically called Eupatorium perfoliatum 2. Although it is now rarely prescribed by physicians, Boneset was the most commonly used medicinal plant of eastern United States. Most farmsteads had a bundle of dried Boneset in the attic

I have never heard of someone turning off the baby monitor when it isn't in use.

This is the big deal:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

It has happened, it could happen to anyone. But this is a two way monitor, when my kids were little they were audio only and one way.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

It even made nationwide news when it happened to some non techies.

Nope not even close.

The 1980's started this mess due to an insane Right wing British prime minister "Mrs Thatcher" seeing global warming as a good excuse to close Coal mines to kill the power of the Mine workers Unions.

end of story..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com... - errm, yeah.

Sigh. When someone has something to say about your superstitious beliefs, it doesn't automatically mean they are making stuff up: you could start here..

Now, in fairness, in 2014, German CO2 emissions fell quite significantly, but that is very, very hard to tie to energiwende, since the entire CO2 emission drop can be explained by a dramatic reduction in energy consumption in 2014. Now, this energy consumption reduction can be tied directly to a mild winter, so 2014 is, most likely, an anomaly. You can read more about that in this very eco-friendly publication. It's cool to see how they wriggle and worm to try not to put the "blame" of the 2014 CO2 emission reduction on the lower energy consumption.

There are other articles covering some of this also.

Currently, most renewable alternatives are, as the Tesla home batteries, woefully inadequate for the task at hand, at least in large parts of the world. Oh, and the Tesla home battery stuff is a sad, sad, sad joke.

I wonder if the analysis period could be extended by something like this: Doctors graft hand to mans leg for a month to keep it alive

Having a lung in your leg might require something more complicated, though.

> Actually India receives a lot of financial aid (Hundreds of millions of pounds every year)

"Hundreds of millions" is a "peanut" as the Indian finance minister put it and said India does not want it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Millions are nothing in terms of national budgets. US aid of $91m to India (2014) is less than roughly 0.005% of India's GDP (>$2T nominal). Most of it is used to exert influence via NGOs, not actually help the poor. UK does more, but is equally inconsequential... and unwelcome. The idea that India is running on the charity of the West is absurd and laughable.

> some of the worst poverty in the world

It's PPP GDP is $8T, almost half of US. India is like European Union. Different states, run semi-independently with different policies, and very different economies co-exist. There are states in India with sub-saharan development, while others produce elite that can almost rival US/European work force. The idea that any country should stunt the productivity of its most productive citizens, because the development is uneven is also silly. You have people who can understand nuclear physics and then you have people who have trouble learning to read and can only do subsistence agriculture. You let everyone do what they can for the country (what do you suggest? - that the state should decide what people should pursue? Sounds like communism). Pouring money into places without the foundations to absorb it is a waste of resources. It was already tried in India and lessons were learnt. Development is a slow, generational process - you increase education, gradually in each generation, and people will take care of everything automatically. You can't instantly install it with money. If you could, Iraq and Afghanistan would have been Israel by now.

> polishing your Porsche whilst your kids are starving to death

Also uninformed is the notion that Indian space program is a vanity project, it isn't, its state capitalism. With the launch vehicle, India has declared its capability to provide launch services in *every* segment of the launch market... and it can do so for much cheaper than *everyone* else. ISRO is Bangalore... for SPACE. It has already been making a profit for a while now. This is how India earns money, to fund welfare for its poor states. Its best resource is inexpensive knowledge workforce, not oil. That should be admired, not criticized.

You need to put that in context of the size of India's economy. Most of that "aid" is about buying influence via NGOs. India says that it does NOT want aid and calls it "peanuts".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain’s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money"
"We do not require the aid. It is a peanut in our total development spending."

US aid to India is even smaller - about a third to a sixth.

HA!

You see the couch as a threat, while ignoring the true enemy in our midst .... SLIPPERS!

Pretty scary stuff. I tripped over last weekend when a slipper fell off when I was going up stairs. I now realize this was a MURDER attempt by the slipper-people... nobody is safe....

in the UK, there's one police force who only turn up to even numbered houses when burglaries are reported... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

The US military is the only entity that has actually ever carried out attacks like this

I would say his concern is well founded.

And your claim is nonsense. Consider the case of Vasili Blokhin, for instance. General Vasili Blokhin pressed a "button" (trigger) and killed the Polish army officer corp. (Admittedly he pressed that "button" repeatedly.) This was around the time that the Soviet Union confiscated food from the Ukraine to artificially create a famine and kill 7,000,000 people by the slow death of starvation. (Death was quicker for the people that walked into the grain fields to pluck some grain to eat - they were shot on the spot.)

The Katyn Massacre

In March 1940, General Blokhin personally executed all 8,000 of the captured Polish officers on 28 consecutive nights in a basement execution chamber at the Soviet secret police headquarters in Kalinin. The soundproof room was specially constructed for the murders, with a sloping concrete floor and a hose to wash away the blood.

One at a time – 250 a day – each of the Polish officers was led into the room in handcuffs, where Blokhin awaited in a butcher’s apron, cap and shoulder-length leather gloves. Each prisoner was then turned around to face a log wall, and Blokhin would shoot him in the back of the head . . .

The other 14,000 Polish intellectuals captured during the Soviet invasion met a similar fate, although not directly at the hand of General Blokhin.

Admittedly this is only a drop in the bucket of the 100,000,000 people killed by Communist regimes, but it is revealing.

Space cows come back Pittsburgh Rare

Speaking of ISIS, they have instituted complete gun prohibition for those who are not their thugs:

See here

No public gathering other than those organised by ISIS will be allowed at any stage. No guns will be allowed outside of its ranks.

The ringleader of the cryptolocker gang is Evgeniy Bogachev, aka "lucky12345" and "slavik". He's praised as a hero back home.

The simple facts are that most of these programs trace back to organized crime in Russia, which takes advantage of the fact that Russia shelters them from extradition.

Now, do I even need to go into any of the absurdity that you posted? Meh, let's do it for fun.

1. Malware != advertising spam

2. Advertizing spam is spread by botnets with service purchased from the operators of the botnets. The companies whose products are being plugged are not the same people who compromised or run the botnets (the latter two which can also be separate entities)

3. The most common currency to ask for in advertizing spam is US dollars because it's the most universal currency on the planet (the second most common spam currency to see is euros). It's the same reason that most spam is in English. However, some spammers do tailor their spam lists by region.

4. The US has never been against an extradition treaty with Russia - the US always seeks bilateral extradition treaties where possible. Russia is always against extradition treaties - not just with the US, but with everyone. Extradition is a violation of article 61 of the Russian constitution: "A Russian citizen cannot be sent beyond the borders of the Russian Federation or given to another state"

5. The UN inspection team did have the rights to go into any company in Iraq, under resolution 1441 - which was introduced and highly sought after by the US.

6. The US never vetoed any resolutions related to Iraq.

7. The US did not have any chemical companies operating in Iraq at the time of the inspections. Iraq was under sanctions.

You are correct on one aspect, however: The US does in all extradition treaties require exemption of US soldiers for actions involved in armed conflict.

Nobody said that macs are immune to viruses

Plenty of fan boys have, actually (including you, 2 posts up). And Apple certainly tried to make that implication, with lines like "immune to PC viruses" in their sales pitches. While it's true that Macs don't execute Windows code (wow, really?), Apple still didn't have a problem with blurring that technical line in their advertisements aimed at non-technical people. The reason why there are so many results for "are Macs immune to viruses", and why it looks like the vast majority of results for "are PCs immune to viruses" are articles about Macs, is not because "nobody said that macs are immune to viruses."

macs are not vulnerable to the types of malware that antivirus software could protect against

So if antivirus software protects against viruses, and you're claiming that Macs are not vulnerable to that type of malware, then aren't you claiming that Macs are immune to viruses? Are you just using the same kind of doublespeak that Apple used in their marketing?

Here's a question: if Macs are not vulnerable to viruses, then why are there antivirus programs for Macs? What exactly are those programs protecting against if not viruses? Do they "scan" the machine against an empty threat database and then say it's all clear?

...as seen here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... BUT they did this to us too, and the rest of the world... "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Co, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." nhjournal. com

A coalition of scientists, animal-rights activists, and philosophers are in agreement: dolphins, second only to humans in terms of mammalian intelligence, should be considered "non-human persons" and granted due protection under law, reports The Telegraph. Petition: http://www.cetaceanrights.org/ At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver, the group, led by Dr. Thomas White, was canvassing for support of their "Declaration of Cetacean Rights." "The similarities between cetaceans and humans are such that they, as we, have an individual sense of self," said White, an ethics expert at Loyola Marymount University, to The Telegraph. "Dolphins are non human persons. A person needs to be an individual. If individuals count, then the deliberate killing of individuals of this sort is ethically the equivalent of deliberately killing a human being. The science has shown that individuality, consciousness, self-awareness is no longer a unique human property. That poses all kinds of challenges." Dolphin research has shown that the creatures are more intelligent than chimpanzees, they recognize their reflections in a mirror, and can even think about the future. The scientists originally proposed the ten Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans two years ago at a conference in Helsinki. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...

Well, but according to the grandparent article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... reffered to in this article, this article is bullshit "Research suggests that road accidents have risen by 20 per cent in areas where street lights were switched off." So a twenty percent increase in car accidents, so shit for brain austerity fuck wit has simply shifted the cost from the rich back to poorer tax payers driving back home from work in the dark or driving to work in the dark. Hey, 20% increase in car accidents, death, dismemberment and permanent disability, so the fuck what, as long as the rich pay less tax and he sleeps better. How well are those 20 percenters sleeping after their car accidents, how many as sleeping permanently. How much would sane countries spend to reduce car accidents by 20%?

"The 5.5-inch OnePlus One was sold at £229 for 16GB of storage and £269 for 64GB respectively, and ran open source CyanogenMod software based on Google's Android" ref

Are they paying the Microsoft Android tax?

... but New Zealand's CAA have gone right over the top and imposed what amounts to a virtual death-sentence on a hobby that has provided endless, safe fun for people of all ages for more than 50 years.

Drone pilots should be subject to the same restrictions as flying model aircraft pilots.

FMA pilots have to be certifiied. FMA pilots have to pay Public Liability Insurance as part of their aeroclub membership. Interesting fact: the Public Liability Insurance is the *MAJORITY* of aeroclub membership costs, often more than 80%! The Public Liability Insurance only covers them for FMA operations at registered FMA fields. Sure, you can be a cowboy and go flying at the local park or a gliding slope by a road... but your insurance isn't going to cover you. There isn't a weekend goes by that an FMA pilot somewhere isn't having their finger sliced open or even sliced off. Or worse.

Five minutes Googling will find you plenty of news articles about people (usually *not* the pilots) getting killed by flying model planes and helicopters:

• Toy helicopter slices off top of man’s head, http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/m...
• Girl, 14, killed by model plane after near-misses, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
• Model plane death 'an accident', http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...

You're being completely disingenuous by implying that piloting flying model aircraft, and by extensions drones, is a safe hobby. It's far from safe.

Where did we use it recently to intervene for our own interests? Tell me more... I'd love to hear your ignorant babble on the issue. :)

As to Israel's powerful military... that relates to the weapons we both give, sell, and sell at a deep discount to them.

As to Ukraine, the only thing holding Russia back at this point is the US. Putin goes far enough to get something but no so far that the US will send troops.

Remove the US from the equation and the amount he can take before he gets a response increases to what it would take for France to go to war with Russia.

How much of Eastern Europe would have to fall before France got involved?

Exactly. You are on ignorant little monkey.

As to starting wars... which war do you think we started? Lay a few at our feet. I'm curious where you think the US started out as the aggressor. the only example I can think of off the top of my head in modern memory would be the second Iraq war and that only happened because of worries about nuclear containment.

Which is an issue so serious that it is baffling you people are ignorant of it.

As to what we should do... we're not your slaves. Tell you what... why don't we just leave... pull out EVERYWHERE. Leave NATO... Leave Israel to fend for themselves. Leave china to do whatever it wants. Just go home and let you morons eat each other.

Do you realize my nation is bordered on two sides by great oceans and all our American cousin nations are either harmless or friendly? We can pull back to our island and watch you idiots burn.

*gets extra big bucket of popcorn with extra butter* :-D

My grand father's generation went to war out of a sense of fear, horror, and rage.

My father's generation went to war out of a sense of honor, duty, and obligation.

My generation grew up listening to you ingrates and frankly we're increasingly happy to just go home and masturbate to the carnage on tv.

We're pushing Japan to rearm so they can take over.
We're pushing for the middle east to take care of its own security situation.
We're trying to get the eastern europeans ready to face off against the Russians man to man because god knows the western europeans are eunuchs.

And once that is in place... We're going bounce. You morons think we want to be the world police? You think we like this? We hate it.

Our grandfathers went in because they saw that left to their own devices the europeans would destroy themselves and were incompetent to take care of their strategic affairs.

Our fathers went in because we felt at the time that if we didn't do it than the world would fall to the soviets and that would be our fault as much as theirs.

My generation is tired of this... we're done with you. You hate us? Fine. Have fun with the various psychopaths of the world. And expect that without the US making military buildups pointless... powers you thought of as harmless will quickly have militaries that you can't handle.

Europe couldn't even handle Serbia by itself during the Kosovo war. Do you even begin to realize how pathetic that is? And more recently the combined forces of NATO without the US couldn't handle Libya.

But it gets worse:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Tell me more about how much money you're saving... :-D

You learned NOTHING from WW2. And your weakness proves it.

When authorities do get legal ability to shoot down drones, it seems in practice very difficult to do. Small moving target like back in the days of multiple rapid fire machine guns and flak artillery. Maybe CalFire can get a few of these to add to their fleet of vehicles, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

First this is a better ranking:
https://www.cia.gov/library/pu...

As you can see, the US is rated number 9 in the world. Not even in the top five. What you should know is that countries ranked highly on this list all have to take care of themselves. With no relevant exceptions, if the shit hits the fan... no one is coming to save any of these countries... they're on their own. And their spending reflects that.

You can't include first world countries in that ranking either except for the US because the US has treaty obligations to defend all first world countries. So naturally other first world countries spend less because we are obligated to protect them.

Its like would you build a pool in your backyard if your next door neighbor said you could use his anytime you wanted? Assuming that worked for you, then you'd just use his pool. Which is exactly what most first world countries do.

The only exception on the list might be Israel. The rest of the first world powers shamelessly mooch off the US.

Remember the recent Libya war. The French were much more gung ho about it than we were. We tried to stay out of it. But the europeans committed to it... and then they realized "oh wait, we don't have the logistics to support a military campaign even as close as north africa"... and that meant the US had to come to offer carriers, inflight refueling airplanes, and if we're doing all that we might as well just blow the shit out of Gadaffi's bullshit and end the whole farce as quickly as possible. The alternative was watching the Italians and French play with themselves.

Without the US, the combined forces of Europe could not take on so much as Serbia. Remember the Kosovo war? The combined forces of Europe could not breach Serbian airspace. Why? Because they had some old soviet AA missiles and the Serbs are tough fucking fighters. You want to defeat them... you need to do more than send strongly worded letters to them. And that required the US.

So what do you want here? You want the US to be as useless as the Europeans?

Look at this shit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

I mean... are you fucking kidding me? Fucking broomsticks. Let me tell you, in some shit hole third world country they'd not show up to training with fucking broomsticks. But in Germany in the 21st century... this is what we have to work with. And you suggest the US spend like them?

Your entire argument is wall to wall foolishness.

Yeah, this guy has done just terribly out of the NHS. I don't know which country your ancestors emigrated to, but I hope they were "compatible replacements" for the natives.

At first read I though it might be a new Love Hotel - many of which already have no visible human staff (the low-rent US equivalent is usually rented hourly and you'd be well advised to don a full-body condom before entering). The Japanese versions are clean and classy, though often a little cramped (sex is not something sinful, or to be ashamed of in Japan). If it was it might of backfired as discrete guests scamper from the hordes of invading geeks wielding video cameras and selfie sticks. An amusing image.

A better article is here.

I'd bet that Zukerberg dreams of being his own ISP that only provides Facebook.

I thought they were already working on that in Africa:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
(Disclaimer: No particular attachment to this news source, just happened to be the first relevant link in ddg)

ok, so starving people today is not a compelling example that food sharing doesn't happen, how about this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06...
Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Food hoarding by governments keen to keep prices low is pushing prices higher

http://www.scmp.com/business/c...
Memories of 2008 food crisis push Asian countries to hoard grain