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So you did nothting to help the West defend itself or to defeat Soviet and Nazi power? And you think that is a good thing?

I judge those that came to the wrong decision poorly.

Pride in poor judgment is it?

I wasn't alive at that time and the world was a very different place. These days, if you live in Europe or America you are more likely to have your talents directed towards ill advised wars for the wrong reasons. If you were a French engineer developing missiles you would have found them being used against your NATO allies, casting doubt on the alliance.

The world is asymmetric. Not all choices are morally equal.

I don't know spread the cliche of Italians being good lovers but I bet he was Italian. If anything Italians are handsy but definitely not the best lovers. I did a quick search to see if anyone had studied the topic and I found this study. Italians came out third somehow...

Also Fench cuisine is all about hype, Italians/Greeks/Tunisians cook better food. I know it's not the point you're trying to make but man I'm tired of those false stereotypes.

Actually, in many cases it does. Ask the people who psted their stories (not anonymously either) on twitter under the tag #beenrapedneverreported.

Keeping stuff like this private tends to have serious long-term consequences. Going public is about self-affirmation, prevention of recurrences, and getting help. Stigma and the tendancy of people to think such things should be kept private hurts the victims and encourages the perps.

Read more here and here. Or read the thousands of stories at #beenrapedneverreported.

1. The Franklin Cover-Up by John Decamp
2. Cornwall Ontario Sex Abuse Scandal
3. Marc Dutroux
4. Ted Gunderson
5. Conspiracy of Silence
6. The Finders
7. Elm House
8. Jimmy Savile

You do realise the investigation into the deaths is related to a Tory MP from the 80s, don't you? It has no relation to the palace or Jeffrey Epstein.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Your comment shows how badly this Anonymous campaign can go (if they actually bother to do it) - people find it a lot easier just to fling accusations around with no attempt to even do a simple fact check.

There are guerilla wars, insurgencies, or even open warfare, going on across the world by Islamic extremists to impose their view of society, including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, the Phillippines and many other places. What makes you think Europe is immune to this?

16% of French Citizens Support ISIS, Poll Finds

One in six French citizens sympathises with the Islamist militant group ISIS, also known as Islamic State, a poll released this week found.

The poll of European attitudes towards the group, carried out by ICM for Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya, revealed that 16% of French citizens have a positive opinion of ISIS. This percentage increases among younger respondents, spiking at 27% for those aged 18-24.

Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK

Ignorance and denial are a poor basis for public policy, although they are often the fodder for moderation.

Yep, it looks to me almost like a games industry Ratner moment

Freedom is *far* more at risk from our own governments than it ever was from terrorists.

Really? How many newspapers feel free to publish cartoons featuring Mohammed as a character? Is it the government that causes that fear? There has been a recent terrorist attack over this resulting in a dozen deaths, with more threatened. And that isn't the only problem from this vector.

Oxford University Press bans use of pig, sausage or pork-related words to avoid offending Muslims
Salafist Muslim Group Forms 'Sharia Police' Patrol in Germany
Anti-gay, anti-alcohol: London's "Sharia patrol"
Swedish Police Release Extensive Report Detailing Control Of 55 ‘No-Go Zones’ By Muslim Criminal Gangs

Like most problems I'm sure this one will get better by simply ignoring it, or even better, pretending that measures to solve it are the cause of it.

Because terrorism is a red herring, and this looks like a shiny new power they can grab without much hassle from the rabble. Fear is a great vehicle for stripping away liberties.

Fear is a great vehicle? You mean like fear of government, the same governments that provide universal health care in Europe that everyone claims is the very height of civilization? So you can't trust government when it comes to stopping people with a demonstrated and announced desire to poison, shoot, or blow you up, but you can trust them to pump your body full of chemicals, with the power of life or death over you, to decide if you get food or water when you are too sick or weak to take care of yourself? Given the persistent confusion on these points this will probably not end well.

And your .sig? Pay attention to the bold: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Those that pay no heed to their security are unlikely to remain free.

Until the 1990s, Iraq had perhaps the best university system in the Middle East...

And what happened in August, 1990?

Anyone? Anyone?

Iraq invaded Kuwait, which lead to the destruction of most of the Iraqi Army, massive damage to the economy and infrastructure, and harsh international sanctions

What happened was that, after Iraq invaded Kuwait with U.S. approval, the U.S. invaded Iraq, with destruction of the economy, and international sanctions. This was directly caused by the U.S.

I read the BMJ and Lancet every week, 2 British medical publications. Many of their readers were Iraqi doctors, because Saddam sent a lot of doctors to the UK for medical training. So they were getting a lot of direct information on the situation in Iraq, from doctors who mostly hated Saddam, but were concerned about the welfare of their patients back home.

The Wall Street Journal also had lots of reporters in Iraq who gave first-hand accounts, which were consistent with what the BMJ and Lancet were writing.

that Saddam magnified the effect of by diverting money intended for food and medicine to buying weapons and building many large, expensive palaces.

The problem wasn't with money, it was the embargo. Doctors were complaining that they couldn't give radiology treatments for breast cancer, because the embargo prohibited them from getting medical radiology sources. The WSJ sent somebody over to a border inspection station, and he said that they were turning back imports of toy cars, because the cars had batteries in them.

The medical journals estimated that the embargo caused 100,000 deaths, mostly Iraqi children, because the embargo prohibited the import of chlorine and other chemicals used it water purification. They died of infant diarrhea, which is what happens without clean water. The U.S. also bombed power plants that were needed to run water purification plants. These facts are uncontested.

Saddam wasn't "diverting" money from food and medicine, any more than the Bush Administration was diverting money from food and medicine to our military (the Iraq war cost $3 trillion, according to Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz). Saddam had real military needs, since he was fighting with Iran (with U.S. encouragement) and he had to keep the Islamists under control.

From your article:

Iraqi universities began their decline in the 12 years after the 1991 Gulf War. As the international sanctions regime cut off journal subscriptions and equipment purchases, academic salaries fell precipitously, and 10,000 Iraqi professors left the country. Those faculty who remained were increasingly closed off from new developments in their fields.

The terrible situation Saddam created was made even worse by the Islamists and insurgents.

Killings lead to brain drain from Iraq - 17 Apr 2006

You're mixing up your dates. Iraq in general, including the university and health care system, was having problems during the embargo. (But Saddam had a good social welfare system, and he took care of peoples' basic needs.) According to the BMJ and Lancet, they were still delivering good health care up to GWB's invasion.

The killings you're talking about took place after 2003, after Saddam was killed and when George W. Bush was the dictator of Iraq. Is somebody complaining that the Islamists and insurgents are killing people? Well, what do you know, when you invade a country and take over its government, you have Islamists and insurgents moving in and you have to know what to do about them. Bush and his war-wimp advisers had no idea this could happen, and when it did happen they had no idea what to do about it. Bush has to take full responsibility for this.

The other thing Bush did to destroy the Iraqi health care

Until the 1990s, Iraq had perhaps the best university system in the Middle East...

And what happened in August, 1990?

Anyone? Anyone?

Iraq invaded Kuwait, which lead to the destruction of most of the Iraqi Army, massive damage to the economy and infrastructure, and harsh international sanctions that Saddam magnified the effect of by diverting money intended for food and medicine to buying weapons and building many large, expensive palaces.

From your article:

Iraqi universities began their decline in the 12 years after the 1991 Gulf War. As the international sanctions regime cut off journal subscriptions and equipment purchases, academic salaries fell precipitously, and 10,000 Iraqi professors left the country. Those faculty who remained were increasingly closed off from new developments in their fields.

The terrible situation Saddam created was made even worse by the Islamists and insurgents.

Killings lead to brain drain from Iraq - 17 Apr 2006

The head of Arabic studies at Baghdad University was shot 32 times when his car was ambushed on the way to work.

Abdul Latif al-Mayah was murdered after he had appeared on al-Jazeera television. Police described the killing as "professional".

In Ramadi, the president of the university, Abdul Hadi Rajab al-Hitawi, was dragged from his home and bundled into the boot of a car. A ransom demand was received a few days later.

  Both men are among the growing number of intellectuals to be targeted in Iraq, a phenomenon that is resulting in an unprecedented brain drain as those who can move abroad increasingly do so before they or their families join the list of their colleagues killed or kidnapped.

At least 182 academics have been killed since the invasion in 2003 and there have been many more kidnappings and murder attempts.

And it is not just university professors who are being targeted. In the past four months alone 331 school teachers have been murdered and nine medical workers were killed in a single day in the northern city of Mosul last month.

(Mosul? That rings a bell: Isis executioners 'kill gays by hurling them off roofs' in Mosul )

Professionals Fleeing Iraq As Violence, Threats Persist - January 23, 2006

Exodus is not new to the country. Iraqis who could flee Saddam Hussein's repressive rule did: Poor Shiite Muslims sneaked across the border into Iran, and Sunni Arabs crossed the mountains into Syria or the desert to Jordan. People often waited years for permission to attend a seminar or do business in another country and then would disappear there. Hussein began holding such people's families hostage to guarantee their return.

Many of those émigrés flooded back into Iraq when Hussein fell. But the country's instability and daily regimen of violence have made some reconsider their return. Others who stayed throughout Hussein's rule are finally saying goodbye to their homeland now.

It wouldn't. The images really are pretty detailed and more importantly, they have a model for why the images look the way they look.

Look at the last 20 seconds of this video which borrows from old simulations of the Beagle 2 probe deployment which folded out the solar panels in a particular order. The fold-out deployment shown in the video, if prematurely halted with two panels to go, exactly matches the image. I'd say that ten pixels are more than enough in this case. Plus, they've also imaged other parts of the system, parachute (suspected) and rear cover nearby - which lends credence to the probe landing successfully on the surface.

Those rubber stamps are ridiculous. China and India put out waves of certified idiots. What do you expect when you have a system where the majority of students cheat, and are permitted to do so? There are loads of articles on this topic because the tests and applications and such are so frequently cheated.

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

They push the buttons of everyone, hence the lack of reaction from Marine Le Pen.

Say what? This shit plays perfectly into her hands - for those who don't know, she is the leader of the anti-immigrant "national front" party.

Marine Le Pen condemns 'murderous ideology' in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo shooting

It is not "political correctness" to differentiate between ordinary Muslims and terrorists who are Muslims

Hmm no!

It's PRECISELY because of Poltical Correctness that the Islamic Barbarism movement has sprouted

Those who subscribe to Political Correctness will label people who dare to call a spade, a spade, such as identifying the barbaric tendency amongst many Muslims "Haters"

Precisely because of Political Correctness no one dare to voice out when things started to go wrong

And when no one voicing out when things started to go wrong, the things that went wrong went MORE wrong, and those things grew and grew, until we have ...

* The Boston Marathon Bombing, the
http://www.cbsnews.com/feature...

* The Murder and videotaping of an 8-year old girl in Toulouse
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012...

* The Hostage taking and murder saga at Sydney
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

The list could go on, and on, and on, and the one common thread, apart from the Islamic barbarism is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

If it wasn't because of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS all those barbaric fuckers would have been flushed out long before they carried out their dastard acts

Those motherfucking Islamic barbarians hide behind the curtains of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and thriving

Their number is growing, and they are everywhere

Thanks to the motherfucking POLITICAL CORRECTNESS more and more bloody episodes of Islamic Barbarism will happen on the Western soil

More and more innocent people will be needlessly butchered, and we have POLITICAL CORRECTNESS to thank for !

You took the words out of my mouth. I'm surprised that the Slashdot editors didn't jump on the opportunity to continue the witchhunt and pin this on gamers. Or at least shift the blame to the dreaded mysoginistic White Man, who, of course, is the root of all evil. If all else fails, we could always blame the jews, or has that been declared sooooo 2014 by the Tumblerists?

Anyway, concerning the US media, have they reported at all on the 5 muslim attacks in France last month?
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Concerning French victories, they kicked some very nasty people out of Mali recently.

You took the words out of my mouth. I'm surprised that the Slashdot editors didn't jump on the opportunity to continue the witchhunt and pin this on gamers. Or at least shift the blame to the dreaded mysoginistic White Man, who, of course, is the root of all evil. If all else fails, we could always blame the jews, or has that been declared sooooo 2014 by the Tumblerists?

Anyway, concerning the US media, have they reported at all on the 5 muslim attacks in France last month?
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Concerning French victories, they kicked some very nasty people out of Mali recently.

According to this link referenced in the article,

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

“From 1972 to 1979, at least one second was added every year. Leap seconds were added six times throughout the 1980s. But there will only have been four leap seconds added since 1999.”

This means that something very fishy is going on because this can add up to a very large error over time. In only seven years from 1972 to 1979 seven seconds were added! This means that at this rate of change, 13,797 seconds would have to be added to the day at the beginning of year 1. That comes to 3.83 hours in time of Christ! I cannot envision that the Roman’s day was almost 4 hours longer than ours! I suspect that the Earth’s rotation does not change by anywhere near that much if at all. Atomic clocks are extremely accurate short-term, but it seems from this data that their long term accuracy leaves a lot to be desired.

For a security sensitive place, like the US govt, I think lack of networking, and using floppy disks to transfer files is a good thing. It is harder to sneak out large amounts of data undetected. Doesn't the Kremlin use typewriters now?

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

A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service (FSO), which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the return to typewriters has been prompted by the publication of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, as well as Edward Snowden, the fugitive US intelligence contractor. The FSO is looking to spend 486,000 roubles – around £10,000 – on a number of electric typewriters, according to the site of state procurement agency, zakupki.gov.ru. The notice included ribbons for German-made Triumph Adlew TWEN 180 typewriters, although it was not clear if the typewriters themselves were this kind.

The service declined to comment on the notice, which was posted last week. However an FSO source told Izvestiya newspaper: “After scandals with the distribution of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the exposes by Edward Snowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listened in on during his visit to the G20 summit in London, it has been decided to expand the practice of creating paper documents.”

Unlike printers, every typewriter has its own individual pattern of type so it is possible to link every document to a machine used to type it.

Let's see who you're going to bat for:

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag
North Korea 'testing chemical weapons on political prisoners'

I find you extraordinary.

"Slavery" is not just in South Korea. For example, a recent report on the problem here in Britain from the right-wing Daily Telegraph on 29.November.2014. (I mention that it is right wing to avoid any impression that this is an issue raised only by bleeding heart liberals.) Theresa May is the British Home Secretary (political head of the Home Office, the department responsible for law and order, security and immigration) and is a member of the UK Conservative Party, again on the right of British Politics.

Theresa May says tens of thousands held as modern slaves in Britain "As many as 13,000 people in Britain are being held in conditions of slavery, four times the number previously thought, it has been revealed. In what is said to be the first scientific estimate of the scale of modern slavery in the UK, the Home Office has said the number of victims last year was between 10,000 and 13,000. They include women forced into prostitution, domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats. ... outlining the strategy for government departments, its agencies and partners, Home Secretary Theresa May said legislation was 'only part of the answer'. The 'grim reality' is that slavery still exists in towns, cities and the countryside across the world, including the UK, she said. ..."

If you're suggesting that the slavery problem in South Korea is in any way comparable to what's happened recently in North Korea, some information:

A 17-minute BBC TV Newsnight report from 2008 Risking lives to escape N Korea Hundred of thousands of North Koreans are fleeing their country illegally, crossing north into China. A camera team from South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper spent the past 10 months filming activity at the border. The BBC's Olenka Frenkiel was given exclusive access to their material.

"Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" - a book by Barbara Demick

A 2011 lecture by the British politician David Alton North Korea – A Different Approach – Cambridge University Lecture which has useful background on the history of Korea (the Japanese occupation, the Korean war), and has two sections on "4. Human Rights" and "5. Humanitarian Situation".

For example, from "4. Human Rights": ... My own interest in North Korea began through an encounter with an escapee, Yoo Sang-joon. A North Korean Christian who had escaped from the country and came to see me at Westminster. His story was harrowing and disturbing. He told me how he had seen his wife, and all bar one of his children shot dead by Kim Jong-Il's militia. He subsequently escaped across the border to China with his one remaining son. The boy died en route. He encouraged me to read the prison memoirs of Soon Ok Lee. In them she describes in detail the brutality and barbarism of the system in North Korea. 'Eyes of the Tailless Animals' is Soon Ok Lee's account of the sham judicial system, the show trials, the starvation, the forced labour, the degradation, humiliation and rape of prisoners. Through her eyes we get a glimpse of this corrupt, paranoid and tyrannical regime.

... Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, the previous United Nations Special Rapporteur on North Korea, told me that he estimates that 400,000 people have died in North Korea's prison camps in the last 30 years. Vitit Muntarbhorn ... has described North Korea's human rights record as "abysmal" due to "the repressive nature of the power base: at once cloistered, controlled and callous." The exploitation of

Yes, the National-Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) was a socialist party.

I suggest watching the whole thing some time: The Soviet Story

Liberal Fascism

Benito Mussolini was a socialist and earned the title “Il Duce” as the leader of the socialists in Italy. When he founded the fascist party, its program called for implementing a minimum wage, expropriating property from landowners, repealing titles of nobility, creating state-run secular schools and imposing a progressive tax rate. Mussolini took socialism and turned it in a more populist and militaristic direction, but remained a modernizing, secular man of the left.

The Nazis too were socialists, “enemies, deadly enemies, of today’s capitalist economic system,” in the words of the party’s ideologist Gregor Strasser. The party’s platform sounded a lot like that of the Italian fascists. The Nazis wanted to chase conventional Christianity from public life and overturn tradition, replacing them with an all-powerful state. Both Hitler and Mussolini were revolutionaries, bitterly opposed to “reactionary” forces in their societies.

Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism

On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased, Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver “der echte Sozialismus”: real socialism.

Goebbels never doubted that he was a socialist. He understood Nazism to be a better and more plausible form of socialism than that propagated by Lenin. Instead of spreading itself across different nations, it would operate within the unit of the Volk.

So total is the cultural victory of the modern Left that the merely to recount this fact is jarring. But few at the time would have found it especially contentious. As George Watson put it in The Lost Literature of Socialism:

It is now clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Hitler and his associates believed they were socialists, and that others, including democratic socialists, thought so too.

. . . . Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, a Prussian who briefly worked for the Nazis before rejecting them and fleeing the country, that he had admired much of the thinking of the revolutionaries he had known as a young man; but he felt that they had been talkers, not doers. “I have put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun,” he boasted, adding that “the whole of National Socialism” was “based on Marx”.

Marx’s error, Hitler believed, had been to foster class war instead of national unity – to set workers against industrialists instead of conscripting both groups into a corporatist order. His aim, he told his economic adviser, Otto Wagener, was to “convert the German Volk to socialism without simply killing off the old individualists” – by which he meant the bankers and factory owners who could, he thought, serve socialism better by generating revenue for the state. “What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish,” he told Wagener, “we shall be in a position to achieve.”

You are correct. ""the company continues to make the same mistake over and over. Google's mistake" is not a mistake.

Look:

"IBM Just Bet $3 Billion Of Its Research Budget On The Death Of Moore's Law" http://www.forbes.com/sites/al...

From "Microsoft, the world's best kept R&D secret" http://www.techhive.com/articl... :

"In 2011 alone, Microsoft's R&D budget reached a record high of $9.6 billion (yes, with a "B").", "Blending touch and touchscreens" "Windows 8 will be a success"

Ok, I made up the last one.

Still, of course Google sees this as a long-term potential, perhaps decades away, or less. Volvo has the same thing, on the road:

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


There's a scene in the cult 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger film Total Recall in which our hero jumps in a driverless taxi, part of a fleet that ferries passengers around a nameless city, using unspecified technology to safely navigate traffic and pedestrians.

The sci-fi film is set in 2084. But the world's first fleet of self-driving city vehicles is almost here, 70 years ahead of schedule and courtesy of Volvo. The Swedish car maker is to unleash 100 of them on the public roads of Gothenburg in a two-year project.

It's called Drive Me, a joint initiative between the manufacturer and various local agencies. It's backed by the national government and designed to discover the benefits to society of autonomous driving. Positioning country and company as pioneers in the subject won't hurt either.

For now, five prototype Volvos have been let loose as the technology is perfected ahead of the January 2017 launch.


So, Google is perfectly in tune with the zeitgeist.

What would you think if NK released a movie about killing a US president?

They've released propaganda films about nuking us. We didn't mobilize the cyber or real armies over the matter; I guess that's the difference between a modern nation-state and one held together with a pygmy's cult of personality....

Maybe your clues are wrong.

North Korea faces famine: 'Tell the world we are starving'

More than a decade after North Korea was struck by a famine that killed up to a million people, the country's poorest are once again facing starvation, reports Peter Foster in Yanji

Pyongyang’s Hunger Games

... during the great famine of the 1990s, between 600,000 and 2.5 million people died of hunger. According to the commission’s report, the North Korean regime, then headed by Kim Jong-il, obstructed the delivery of aid to the hungriest regions until 1997, and punished those who tried to earn, buy, steal or smuggle in enough food to survive. The regime was “well aware of the country’s deteriorating food situation” as it stocked airfields, reactors and palaces, rather than food stores.

According to one expert witness testimonial before the commission, the North Korean regime, at the height of the famine, could have closed its food gap by importing between $100 and $200 million worth of food each year, which is just 1 to 2 percent of its national income. Yet rather than using foreign food aid to supplement its own commercial food imports, the commission found that Kim Jong-il used aid “as a substitute for” them, cutting back on commercial food imports when more aid arrived. By contrast, the State Department estimates that in 1997, at the peak of the famine, North Korea’s annual military budget was $6 billion.

Sony hack: Obama considers 'proportional response' against North Korea

The White House calls the hacking of the Sony studio a "serious national security matter," while Hollywood stars compare cancellation of The Interview to Neville Chamberlain's'appeasement of Adolf Hitler and a second film called Pyongyang is also pulled.

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

That's why there were raids at 149 locations this morning in Australia too. It's only one...yep. And that's why if you go look at the studies on "who supports fundamentalism" and "jihad to install islam" you'll find that in western countries 8-25%(sometimes more) support the use of violence to do so, that includes suicide bombings.

Just a few links:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
http://pewresearch.org/assets/...
http://www.pewforum.org/upload...

Free clue.

I expect there are plenty of places you don't go that maybe you should.

The rest of the AC's argument is as stupid and ill-informed.

As is yours for trying to claim that the German National Socialist party wasn't socialist. The National Socialists took the other path Marx outlined. The Communists created socialism and exterminated various economic classes, the National Socialists created socialism and exterminated various social/ethnic groups or nationalities. Marx and Engles call for both.

So yes, the National Socialists were in fact socialists.

On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased, Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver “der echte Sozialismus”: real socialism.

Goebbels never doubted that he was a socialist. He understood Nazism to be a better and more plausible form of socialism than that propagated by Lenin. Instead of spreading itself across different nations, it would operate within the unit of the Volk.

So total is the cultural victory of the modern Left that the merely to recount this fact is jarring. But few at the time would have found it especially contentious. As George Watson put it in The Lost Literature of Socialism:

It is now clear beyond all reasonable doubt that Hitler and his associates believed they were socialists, and that others, including democratic socialists, thought so too.

The clue is in the name. Subsequent generations of Leftists have tried to explain away the awkward nomenclature of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party as either a cynical PR stunt or an embarrassing coincidence. In fact, the name meant what it said.

Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, a Prussian who briefly worked for the Nazis before rejecting them and fleeing the country, that he had admired much of the thinking of the revolutionaries he had known as a young man; but he felt that they had been talkers, not doers. “I have put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun,” he boasted, adding that “the whole of National Socialism” was “based on Marx”.

Marx’s error, Hitler believed, had been to foster class war instead of national unity – to set workers against industrialists instead of conscripting both groups into a corporatist order. His aim, he told his economic adviser, Otto Wagener, was to “convert the German Volk to socialism without simply killing off the old individualists” – by which he meant the bankers and factory owners who could, he thought, serve socialism better by generating revenue for the state. “What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish,” he told Wagener, “we shall be in a position to achieve.” -- Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism

Anyone who counts the Nazis as leftists has just invalidated everything they have to say, much like seriously supporting the tooth fairy. News from the real world - Hitler lied! Guess you didn't know that.

There may be a gap or two in your knowledge. Maybe three .

Looks like they are using hand me down software from the US from the 1960s written in a language called Jovial.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"Prof Thomas said the NAS system was written using a now defunct computer language called Jovial, meaning Nats has to train programmers in Jovial just to maintain the antiquated software."

Yeah, two sides of the same coin, eh? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Our media is allowed to criticize the government.

Well, they came in second...

http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Or she just did not have the money to pay the fare. But of course, this is misogynistic. Something like that NEVER happens.

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

Let's take Uber at its word and accept that the "full range of safety mechanisms" was truly applied, and those mechanisms comport with contemporary acceptable standards for background checks in India.

I don't think we can do this easily. India is a different sort of place:

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

An Indian male can apparently be turned into a rapist by merely seeing a clothing store dummy. How on earth can they be expected to control themselves when a real live woman is in a car with them?

Perhaps Hannibal Lecter type restraints are needed for Indian men?

> somehow I don't think he's actualy selling it because he needs the money.

In his own words, "I have no income apart from my academic income."

After the big bang and evolution big bombs the Pope just laid out this past summer/fall (he believes in them), I wonder what his take on this would be. Seeing as how this stupid woman used 'being a catholic' as an excuse to do it. There are some hints already that he thinks contraception is not necessarily a bad thing. Granted he didn't get all he wanted at this years synod, but he is a relatively young Pope and if he can avoid being poisoned, or some other "sickness" from schemers (I don't doubt they would resort to this in their still medieval world and power structure), I bet there is a good chance it will be revisited. He is also against using religious beliefs and the catholic church as a means to achieve political power; which from what I understand has pissed off a lot of Bishops and Cardinals who likely have profited from using this as a tool for their "success".

An interesting article, given that the linked government statistics do not include any comparison of pricing whatsoever and I wasn't able to find any on the "open government" gov.uk either:

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

Citation needed, by all appearances EDF was still turning a profit in 2013. It looks like some of their foreign holdings outside of Europe are problematic for them, but that just goes to show their core business of selling nuclear power to Europeans is profitable enough to offset losses from other investments. Hardly a condemnation of the economics of nuclear power.

As the press release indicate, they have both a large debt and a negative cash flow something they want to improve in the 2014-2018 period (by massive price hikes).

Basically EDF are producing electricity above market prices and is selling below cost to consumers. In order not to collapse, they will have to rise prices:

http://www.thelocal.fr/2013070...

Here is their debt stated as 39bn Euros in 2013 and that the company is in trouble:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...

On top of that, the aging fleet of EDF nuclear reactors will soon have to be either replaced or rejuvenated, which will mean a huge need for cash, and is highly likely to mean even further price increases for consumers.

As for 'free market solutions' I hadn't realized that when we discussed emissions reductions that a solution must be rejected because it is or is not capitalist enough in nature.

Well, that was the premise for the Google engineers article. They wanted to make renewable energy at prices competitive with gas/coal, and found out it wasn't possible.
That nuclear power can't compete on price is also why the free market have rejected it.

Personally I think it is a market failure that cheap but CO2 polluting fossil fuels are allowed to be used, and that a national energy plan must have it as priority to drastically reduce CO2 output.

Yes, the rhetoric for this week's episode of "Theresa May had an idea" has been particularly silly.

The statistics trotted out over the past week or so make for interesting, if depressing, reading.

For example, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, a very senior officer with counter-terrorism responsibilities, says they've been prevented on average one terrorist attack per year but so far this year it's been 4-5 already. (It's not clear whether this was in the specific context of "lone wolf" attacks, though.)

Just hours apart from that, we have Theresa May herself saying that almost 40 major terrorist attacks have been foiled since the 7/7 bombings, giving an average of about four per year. This means, she says, that the UK is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history, which might be surprising to anyone who was around during the worst of the troubles with the IRA not so long ago. There are plenty of scary messages played over the PA system when you go through any major London railway station these days, but not frequent closures due to actual bomb threats and the like.

Also on Monday, there was a statement from Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley citing 271 arrests resulting from counter-terrorism investigations so far this year. Their Commissioner seemed to be implying in the above statement that all of these had led to charges, too. What they don't seem to have mentioned anywhere in this week's PR campaign is how many such arrests ultimately lead to convictions, nor how many of those convictions (or the arrests or charges themselves) are actually for terrorism offences.

The combined budget for our security services reportedly remains somewhere around the £2B mark, not counting additional funding for counter-terrorism units within other organisations such as the police.

In other news, in 2013 (the last full year for which stats are available) there were 1,713 people killed on our roads, and a further 21,657 seriously injured, not to mention damage to the economy estimated in the £15-30B range as a result of the disruption due to incidents on the road. Would anyone like to guess what's been happening to the annual road safety publicity budget in recent years?

This is how the British press views the situation:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com...
As Americans we tend to focus on the narrow issue of gun rights as an explanation for the lower home invasion rate in the US (10% of burglaries) vs the 50% rate in the UK, but it's a deeper problem than that. While in the US there is a generally accepted right to self defense, the legal theory in the UK is that fighting crime is the police's job. In Britain, retaliating with a knife or even an incidental household object is likely to result in legal trouble for the homeowner. Thugs know this, which leads to home invasions not being just a problem in bad neighborhoods. The article above refers to an invasion in one of the finest sections of London.

You should not tell anyone what to ware, within the bounds of the law.

Other than (perhaps) AC's, no one on slashdot tells other people what to wear. Maybe you should direct your outrage towards cases where people have been punished for what they wore instead of complaining that many developers are into necrophilia with no evidence other than your outraged opinion over something that doesn't exist (many developers being into necrophilia, that is).

There's a lot of stockpiling going on. One man managed to stockpile 15% of the world's total 12 years ago which was about 200,000 tonnes meaning there was a fair amount over a million tonnes being stockpiled back then.

In my opinion, the most obvious and interesting theory [maxkeiser.com] is that Putin's plane was near the same air space close to the same time as MH17 ...

Your sense of what is "obvious" might be a bit off.

Web evidence points to pro-Russia rebels in downing of MH17 (+video)

Igor Girkin, a Ukrainian separatist leader also known as Strelkov, claimed responsibility on a popular Russian social-networking site for the downing of what he thought was a Ukrainian military transport plane shortly before reports that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 had crashed near the rebel held Ukrainian city of Donetsk.

MH17 disaster: Social media posts, phone recording used to blame Russian separatists

Social media posts by pro-Russian insurgents - most of them hastily removed - suggest the rebels thought they had shot down a Ukrainian army plane before realising in horror that it was in fact a packed Malaysian airliner.

Ukraine and MH17: Who are the separatists?

On Thursday evening a Russian social media page linked to the rebels announced they had knocked down a Ukrainian An-26, adding, “We warned them – don’t fly ‘in our sky’”. The post – which was accompanied by distant video-shots of smoke rising after an apparent crash – was later removed, but it has stoked suspicions that pro-Russian militiamen shot the Malaysian Airlines jet by mistake.

The evidence that may prove pro-Russian separatists shot down MH17

Deadly Ukraine Crash: German Intelligence Claims Pro-Russian Separatists Downed MH17

Putin's plane was an hour away.

This could have been a simple, yet tragic, case of mistaken identity.

It was, but not as you apparently intend. It wasn't the Ukrainians trying to shoot down Putin and being mistaken but rather the "separatists" shooting at what they mistakenly assumed was a Ukrainian aircraft.

I had to google "shirtstorm" to see what you're talking about... holy shit there is no hope left for society.

Business Insider posted compare-and-contrast photographs of the live-streaming Matt Taylor in his lingerie tee-shirt and tattoos and his female counterparts in the control room for India's Mars landing.

The only thing needed to complete the picture was Google Glass.

Rosetta Scientist Pisses Off Twitter With A Shirt Covered In Half-Naked Women

It's quite clear in this video that Taylor knows he screwed up badly here. Rosetta mission scientist Dr. Matt Taylor cries during apology over 'offensive' shirt

Already been done on an asteroid. already collected comet dust and returned to earth

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

http://www.space.com/26832-sta...

Heck, armed teenagers would solve this problem.

So, arm the kids.

Why? We should ignore it as a decision they chose to make.
Or possibly look to benefit from it, if they're attractive.

What the fuck is it to you whether someone chooses to have zero, one or a thousand partners.
Mick's clearly a slut: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...

He doesn't sound terribly ashamed of it. Sounds reasonable to me.

is more important than the right not to be offended.

I'll let more eloquent persons explain this :

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

I would argue that so called 'mainstream economists' are doing great damage by spreading misinformation on the topic of economics, probably because such a huge number of them actually don't understand it themselves at all. I think they are causing more damage than an earthquake. At least with the scientists in this situation it was not deliberate, in case of 'mainstream economists' I think large problem is that they are political beasts first of all and are there to push certain propaganda that the governments want to be pushed.

For example most 'main stream economists' agree that inflation is what is needed in the economy and that without at least 2% inflation the economy will be in trouble (a magic number pulled out of ass of-course).

Few people that talk about the reality of the situation are considered 'fringe'.

Very few laymen can understand the real nature of what is happening in the economy and the so called 'economists' are to blame for this and the damage that is done in this case is many orders of magnitude greater than that of an earthquake to the entire human race. How about suing the people who are doing this type of damage deliberately?