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The picture was of a child crying as her parents are interrogated by the border patrol. It's not fake. It may possibly have been miscaptioned in places, but it's entirely appropriate for a story about ICE's abusive behavior towards immigrants and asylum seekers and their children.

In the last week I've seen little kids crying in
- The mall
- Starbucks
- Brio
- Sketchers shoes
- The train
- The airport
- An amusement park

Tired kids cry. Often they are over tired and frustrated because their parents have pushed them beyond their limits.

In my opinion that 2 year old was abused by her mother. Against the father's wishes that mother dragged that child on a month-long journey 1500 miles long, smuggled to the US border by coyotes. She had good reason to be crying. She was kidnapped from her father and she's very lucky she's still alive.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

That you think the media has "been muted and more critical of Trump's critics than of Trump itself" is just delusional.

Interestingly, the FBI is currently alleging that the use of communications platforms with encryption such as WhatsApp amounts to obstruction of justice and evidence of criminal intent when used to communicate with people who might eventually become witnesses - even if they are witnesses for the defense.

So all of you folks who poo-poo the slippery slope argument... well, there you go. They are also all over companies like Apple for building encryption into their phones and have used the fact that devices are encrypted as evidence of criminal intent.

England is currently living out the argumentum ad absurdum from the gun control debate - having outlawed guns and the sorts of knives used for hunting or defense and finding that people are still violent, they are now talking about banning kitchen knives with pointed ends.

Give the government and inch, and they'll use that inch against you.

Did you miss the part where nuclear reached 100 GW of installed capacity in 1970s and where solar reached the same in the 2010s? Nuclear had a forty year headstart - and forty more years of subsidies of course. "Why not subsidize nuclear power so we can develop the technology until it is cheaper than coal?" Well, what the hell were they doing those forty years? Apparently they should have already reached that point by now. Oh, but they didn't. Are you going to give them forty more years?

Different strokes for different folks...

There is no one size fits all solution to power generation. If you live in a large country, preferably one with reliably clear skies, maybe grid scale solar farms or solar thermal power generation are a good fit. For small countries, especially those with widespread and frequent cloud cover, solar is not an ideal investment. I'm not sure where you're getting the figures you quote from but in the UK nuclear currently generates as much as (if not more than) solar & wind, both on and offshore, combined. It's gas that's currently the poster child for cheap power - but I'll leave further comment on this for further down. Globally, nuclear power currently generates roughly three times as much power as wind and solar combined, with coal still topping the charts (~20 times) closely followed by gas (~18 times).

I also think you're being more than a little unfair in your characterisation of research into nuclear power, and subsidies for it. Mainly what the industry has been doing for the past 40 years is running and maintaining the plants already in existence, managing and dealing with the waste products of fission, and fighting a losing battle with public perception over the hazards of nuclear power. There has been very little (towards virtually no) research done on new reactor designs. We spend orders of magnitude more on nuclear weapons research than we do on nuclear power research. GP is correct in this. If we had actually been doing research building new plants wouldn't be the clusterfuck it's turning out to be.

Nuclear power isn't even asking for subsidies anymore, they are merely asking permission to build.

Heh. "Hinkley Point subsidy bill quadruples as power price forecasts fall". Yeah, not really asking for subsidies at all...

You are right, technically this is a subsidy, in the form of a guaranteed pricing contract.

However, the headline is misleading. The reason for this apparent increase is based on predictions of gas prices well into the future - but this affects the predicted subsidies for power generation from all other sources too. From that very article: Estimated total subsidy for Hinkley Point (over the lifetime of the guaranteed pricing contract, not the lifetime of the plant) ~£29.7 billion; Estimated subsidies for wind, solar and biomass (over their generation lifetime) ~£30.6 billion.

Now, it would be disingenuous of me not to point out that I'm comparing subsidies for a single nuclear plant with subsidies for an entire class of generation source, but it's important to note that these subsidies on renewables are another factor in the predicted cost of future power, and are thus directly responsible, albeit partially, for driving up the 'subsidy share' of the cost of Hinkley Point.

As a final point, I am always a little skeptical, as should you be, of pricing forecasts made several decades into the future. I'm old enough to remember the boom years of North Sea gas. Those, like the gas, are gone - but at the time there was not even a suggestion that such was even conceivable. As a result the UK now imports a vast amount of its gas, mostly from Russia. Domestic fracking is an environmental and, hence, political hot potato, and it is unlikely that it will ever provide significant amounts of our gas. Ru

I hear this all the time, "We can't use nuclear power, it's too expensive." What of solar power? What do people have to say about that? "We have to subsidize solar power so we can develop the technology and make it cheaper than coal." Okay then, why not subsidize nuclear power so we can develop the technology until it is cheaper than coal?

Did you miss the part where nuclear reached 100 GW of installed capacity in 1970s and where solar reached the same in the 2010s? Nuclear had a forty year headstart - and forty more years of subsidies of course. "Why not subsidize nuclear power so we can develop the technology until it is cheaper than coal?" Well, what the hell were they doing those forty years? Apparently they should have already reached that point by now. Oh, but they didn't. Are you going to give them forty more years?

Nuclear power isn't even asking for subsidies anymore, they are merely asking permission to build.

Heh. "Hinkley Point subsidy bill quadruples as power price forecasts fall". Yeah, not really asking for subsidies at all...

The most modern 3G safe reactor designs out there still have safety problems.

And the economics of the industry has been devastated: A dozen reasons for the economic failure of nuclear power

Nuclear is done, it's more expensive than the alternatives with greater risk for catastrophe. You can drop the whole exasperated genius routine, we're not buying it.

Here is national spending on R&D
How about nobel prize winners? Yeah, America wins.
How about scientific papers by nations? Now, the ONE thing that you got somewhat right is that 20% of America's tech is 'foreign-born'.That does not mean that they are all H1B or just student visa. Ppl like Elon musk who is foreign-born, but not American citizen, counts on that.
But to make wild claims that America has totally lost it with science is a joke. Hell, even the bulk of the papers coming from China/CHinese are considered HORRIBLE. The high quality remains with western science.
Oh, BTW, there are areas that America does not dominate. If you want leadership in Chemistry, that would be Germany. Even to this day, American BSChem require us to learn German to be able to read the tech.
Beyond that, America still remains tops.

This is your answer to "violence being exclusively male problem is a lie", seriously, that you are not afraid of women half your size?
Most injured kids are injured by their mothers.
Men are much less likely to start a fight with women than vice versa.
Most fights ending up with women being injured by men, are started by women.

Male victims of domestic violence have higher chances to get arrested themselves, than the perpetrator.

That's a very different perspective indeed. Wiki has good summary on the subject.

Presumably there will also be a review to determine what went wrong and to prevent it happening again.

What is the point of pushing the narrative that is demonstrably false? Jesus:

The woman who made false rape allegations against a Texas DPS trooper will not face any additional charges.
Girl made false accusation of rape after her ex-boyfriend rejected her
Woman Who Lied to Police About 3 Black Men Raping and Kidnapping Her Faces Zero Years in Prison
Woman who made false rape complaint receives suspended sentence

This seems to be a common misconception.

In a rape case it is often very hard to prove what happened. There is often little or no evidence and witnesses. The standard for criminal convictions is "beyond a reasonable doubt" in most places and it can be quite hard to reach that bar.

No, that's not the reason false rape accusers get away with it at all, as could be easily demonstrated:

Girl made false accusation of rape after her ex-boyfriend rejected her

As far as punishment goes, there is a which is, of course, overlooked, for reasons not that widely known and even contrary to the mainstream narrative.

It's just not perceived as such a big problem (as made up statements about such false accusations "rarely happening" were repeated so many times, people started to believe it was true).

We don't have the most corrupt government in the modern world, but the US is such a big economy that our slide into corruption is really hard for the world to ignore. Authoritarian regimes are typically very corrupt, and when you look at the list of places you'll find a lot of corrupt countries. Russia is a kleptocracy, as are a lot of other ex-Soviet central asian states, and the Yanukovych regime that was overthrown in Ukraine was almost breathtakingly corrupt. States highly dependent on natural resource income for their economy are known for falling victim to corrupt regimes. The Arab spring was also due in large part to corruption, not just the religious and ethnic strife that has taken hold in places like Syria, the initial stages of it that ousted the Tunisian regime were clearly focused on corruption.

I can't disagree with the overall prescription of clamping down on bribery. Corruption almost seems to be an ideology for a lot of people, and the SCOTUS rulings of Citizen's United and especially McDonnell v United States made it easier to funnel money to politicians and much harder to prosecute bribery.

It's not all doom and gloom though, Malaysia's extremely corrupt government was just voted out in a huge surprise result, so they have at least a chance of pulling back from the abyss of corrupt rule.

The German manufacturer, Braun might like a word if it still had an independent existence. Dieter Rams their industrial designer was an inspiration to Jony Ive and in particular the rectangular device and display with rounded edges. If you have a display with rounded edges, then rounded icons are a an obvious extension.

Yawn. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te...

Dieter Rams on Apple

I have always regarded Apple products – and the kind words Jony Ive has said about me and my work – as a compliment. Without doubt there are few companies in the world that genuinely understand and practise the power of good design in their products and their businesses.

https://www.macrumors.com/2016...

Dieter Rams and Over 100 Top Designers Support Apple in Longstanding Samsung Lawsuit

Hate to shatter your illusion as an i-Phile fanboy, but it doesn't take a whole lot of research to come to that conclusion: http://www.dw.com/en/foxconn-a... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne... https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/...

So there were a couple of almost 16 year old that posed as 16 year olds to get a job. That kind of "child labor" is common and legal in the US. Boycott US products!

Hate to shatter your illusion as an i-Phile fanboy, but it doesn't take a whole lot of research to come to that conclusion:

http://www.dw.com/en/foxconn-a...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/...

Found an article with the purported bag: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

I wouldn't immediately have recognized it as a plastic bag. Looks more like a Zune receipt.

The Telegraph
The Guardian

It is undeniable that the White Helmets and the Syrian American Medical Society are western funded yet operate only in jihadi held territory. Their videos are staged. Their claims are questionable. The fog of war is thick in the mainstream media.

They got a huge tax break instead of an all-but-guaranteed tax hike.

Yeah, actually not. Clinton's plan contained significant cost reductions for people making under $50K/yr. Under trump, we got tax cuts for millionaires and tax bills for the middle class.

Unemployment is way down.

Not for rural whites. In fact, its still so bad for them that Michigan republicans are trying to exempt them from their draconian medicaid work requirements.
Also, those people at that Carrier plant that he "saved?" Yeah, they got fucked.

The stock market is way up.

(A) Doesn't mean squat for majority of people because they don't own stocks.
(B) Rate of growth in the stock market is slower than it was under Obama.
(C) China has stopped buying soybeans. Not just tariffs, full stop, buying em from somewhere else. China is the #2 largest market for US soy and soy is the #2 US crop export.

Denuclearization, peace, and potential reunification in Korea,

Not anything to do with trump. The sanctions only resulted in a ~20% increase in black market currency exchange, showing that it wasn't a big deal for a country that survived the great faminine of the 90s on nothing but Juche. Moon Jae-in is leading trump around by the nose. Though I guess you could say the fact that trump is so easily played by Moon is a point in trump's favor. So sure, promise that gloryhound a nobel prize if that's what it takes to keep him from screwing up everybody else's work.

Tons of sex cults and human trafficking rings have been broken up.

Ah, so now you reveal yourself as one of those RWNJ dumbasses. In fact, its the nothing of the kind. If anything, they've been cracking down on easy targets - adult sex-workers, not trafficking victims. Meanwhile Trump knowingly endorsed an actual pedophile.

Corrupt leaders and former leaders of many countries are actually being brought to justice.

Yeah. Putin. Duterte. Netanyahu MBS They've all been locked up!!! Yay!

The wall is being built.

Lol. He couldn't even get his own republican party to pay for it. Much less mexico.

Next year there will be no unconstitutional personal mandate for health insurance.

Yay! That's already working out so great for republicans.
Never mind how he totally fucked rural whites with empty promises about the opioid epidemic.

The vendetta against Gaddafi after he had capitulated to giving up his nuclear weapons program is the primary reason NK hasn't given up its weapons program.

...

Thanks, Obama.

(And Hillary!, too.)

The vendetta against Gaddafi after he had capitulated to giving up his nuclear weapons program is the primary reason NK hasn't given up its weapons program.

It will probably take the withdrawl of US forces from SK and aid to NK, and the formal acknowledgment of the continuation of the current NK regime in order to denuclearize NK. Even then, I wouldn't be certain they don't retain an actual nuke or two secretly now that they have them. This still probably won't address the effectively bigger threat of all of the NK artillery pointed at SK.

Aircrafts were flying out of the bombbed base literally hours after the American attack.

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
Harper’s Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay - The New York Times
Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired | Fox News
Joyce Peterson on Twitter: "Happening in Nashville right now: lawmakers trying to penalize the @CityOfMemphis for removing confederate statues by slashing a quarter million dollars in funding. https://t.co/ZAg0ntZl30"
Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
Memphis-Based Journalist Taken Into ICE Custody After Arrest While Covering Protest (Updated) - Rewire.News
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias'
‘Black-ish’ Political Episode on Kneeling Canceled Over ‘Creative Differences’ – Variety
Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
AprilDRyan on Twitter: "It is back again. Not called on today for a question. It has been how long? Oh, my last question was about @StormyDaniels! And, I was just told I am on a list. Whatever! I have been doing this for 21 years. I am not new to the rode
Trump attends event about campus political correctness crisis, accidental

But Hitler-loving sex fiend bots are worse https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te...

They were denounced for doing a ballistic missile test, which was supposed to be stopped as part of Security Council resolution 1718. The denouncement didn't come with much teeth, like adding sanctions or whatnot, it just made demands to stop the missile and nuclear programs. The North Koreans promptly tested another nuclear weapon in response to that.

Are you for real about suggesting this being faked? Have you gone that far down the rabbit hole that you go straight to thinking of fabricated evidence? The North Koreans were proudly announcing that they were going launch the rocket ahead of time! The North Koreans were even the ones who "faked" things, because they said it was a successful launch when it was ruled to be a failure by outside observers.

This is also a big issue for the Trump administration with the deal over Iran's nuclear program. Part of the excuse the Trump folks want to use to break that is that Iran has still done missile tests, but those missile tests weren't a dealbreaker under the conditions of that agreement. So that would be a clear example of reneging on a deal by the US if Trump does that, while the historical case here all the US did was a denouncement when North Korea actually had violated the relevant UNSC resolution.

> Which units? US or SI?

/sarcasm Gee, if only someone would invent dual signage .. it would solve the problem of foreigners not understanding the local system and locals would eventually learn to understand a foreign measurement.
  What a concept! Nah, that would never work ...

... albeit it would need several transition phases.

> Which language? English, French, or Spanish?

/sarcasm It's too bad NO other country has figured this out. I wish there was a to write laws in multiple languages ... maybe someone who specialized in understand multiple languages and could read/write. Nah, that would never work ...

What type of magical "automation" is coming that is going to massively replace jobs? People keep talking about "automation", but is there some magic technology coming that is going to automate out waiters and lawyers and doctors and trash collectors?

There are already restaurants in Japan with robots doing some of the tasks traditionally performed by waiters. Sure those are experimental and may not make it but that's how it starts usually. We also know there are AIs that get better results at diagnosing some forms of cancers than most doctors. And collecting trash is typically performed by teams of three people, two to handle the trash cans and one driving the truck. Guess what's likely to happen to the truck driver...

You would have had much better luck mentioning plumbers, electricians and mechanics, all jobs where dexterity, getting into non-standard hard to reach places and solving problems based on incomplete information or trial and error is required. But how many of these jobs do we really need. Can everyone else become a professional football player or singer?

I don't think they're evil but only because I don't think that word has any real meaning.

I think many are led by a psychopath or have a one actively moving up the ranks on their way to the top. The promotion structure of most corporations, not unlike feudal Europe, actively selects for psychopaths.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

That's the most bourgeois thing I've heard all day. You think that passes for some sort of insightful wit?

Jesus.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10204896/Night-owls-more-likely-to-have-Dark-Triad-of-personality-traits.html

Watch out for the creatures of the night – those who prefer to stay up late tend to have more evil personality traits than those who prefer to be early risers, according to research.

Notorious leaders including Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin are among those who are known to have stayed up late at night and had displayed these dark personality traits.

>What were the causes of death for people who stay up late?

Well, here you go. Hitler and Stalin. The two most genocidal political leaders of the twentieth century were night owls. Suck it, Banksy.
Pro-tip: Don't get your wisdom from celebrities, or over-rated graffiti artists or anonymous Slashdot assholes.

On the other hand, white supremacists have difficulty (comparatively) finding like-minded comrades to lynch a black together. White culture and even White Supremacist culture circa 2018 is simply not violent enough or populous enough to be near the top of social menace ranking. Some other cultures, on the other hand, have large enough numbers and cohesion to have a ghetto kingdom of their own ...

Grooming gangs of Muslim men failed to integrate into British society

Given that you have to prove your affiliation to the communist party to donate to sperm banks in China, that day has not even remotely come.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

This kind of hysterical chicken littlism out of you guys is... cowardly. What kind of a nation could people like you produce?

You'd be intimidated by anything.

Just take a page out of old B movies, realize you're a the streaking woman, and slap yourself.

Here you're going to have the unjustifed gall to presume to be offended. Never mind that you just suggested the US is more ideological than China.

Sperm banks.

And because I'm sure you're going to lack the integrity to concede the point and suggest I'm just giving one example that doesn't matter:

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

This is something out of a bad movie and they're actually doing it.

Go through the stages of grief at realizing you said something stupid... no denial... no anger... just accept it and we need not talking about it again.

In what universe is an entire national medical system not the "wrong person?" If there was any way of getting at ransomware scammers, we would have deployed it by now.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

British Judges and several Assange supporters would disagree with you, as his bail backers lost their 300,000 GBP bail sureties (in total) when he skipped bail and took up residence in the embassy...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

There is so much petty crime in London that the police don't bother recording reports of robberies, muggings, or 'simple' assault - if it takes more than a few minutes to solve, they won't bother. Similar policies are in place elsewhere in the UK, too; if there is no death or maiming, then the police don't care. In 2013, before these new polices took place, they already dropped 50% of all property crimes - now they won't even pretend to solve them.

Career criminals with 70+ convictions walk out of court on your "suspended sentences", sometimes serving three or four at a time.

Meanwhile, in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford, the UK "justice system" spends thirty years covering up hundreds of thousands of gang rapes of thousands of young girls (as young as 12!) because the police and judges don't want to look racist.

There is so much petty crime in London that the police don't bother recording reports of robberies, muggings, or 'simple' assault - if it takes more than a few minutes to solve, they won't bother. Similar policies are in place elsewhere in the UK, too; if there is no death or maiming, then the police don't care. In 2013, before these new polices took place, they already dropped 50% of all property crimes - now they won't even pretend to solve them.

Career criminals with 70+ convictions walk out of court on your "suspended sentences", sometimes serving three or four at a time.

Meanwhile, in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford, the UK "justice system" spends thirty years covering up hundreds of thousands of gang rapes of thousands of young girls (as young as 12!) because the police and judges don't want to look racist.

There is so much petty crime in London that the police don't bother recording reports of robberies, muggings, or 'simple' assault - if it takes more than a few minutes to solve, they won't bother. Similar policies are in place elsewhere in the UK, too; if there is no death or maiming, then the police don't care. In 2013, before these new polices took place, they already dropped 50% of all property crimes - now they won't even pretend to solve them.

Career criminals with 70+ convictions walk out of court on your "suspended sentences", sometimes serving three or four at a time.

Meanwhile, in Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford, the UK "justice system" spends thirty years covering up hundreds of thousands of gang rapes of thousands of young girls (as young as 12!) because the police and judges don't want to look racist.

What they are doing at the moment is like teaching someone to drive a car, where the instructor takes over when something goes wrong. What they also need to be doing is being like a flight school where they train the pilots to handle things when they go wrong. Otherwise, there are always going to be high profile accidents in the news, like the Viola Group accident:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

I've seen these kinds of bridges in Norway. One end of the road at the bridge becomes a solid concrete wall. The other end becomes an empty void with no barriers.

In may places they paint murals on the outside walls of buildings. Those extended from the ground to the top of the building and can be anything from crowds of people to fake roads, staircases and windows.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com...
http://www.theparisblog.com/wp...
http://assets.design.cultuurpl...

The UK allows buses to have advertising on them. Those can be anything from pictures of other vehicles to a collage of road signs. Sometimes even an aircraft. For a simple vision systems, those are going to be confusing.

Just imagine what will happen when they find out guns aren't necessary for self defence here in the UK because we haven't armed criminals to the teeth.

Sounds like you may want to re-think your plan of an unarmed and vulnerable populace.

Criminals are in fact armed in the UK. You've just chosen to make sure they have a wider victim pool to choose from to spread out your risk.

Think about this - London is now more dangerous than NYC.

How come men don't complain that our cars, computers, smartphones, and household assistants don't sound like us?

You mean like this dude?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te...

We ought to be insisting that Siri come with a male-voice option.

It does, moron.

He lost a bet with Susskind as well about information conservation. Although the war of ideas was great for theoretical physics. Susskind is my favorite physicist because he puts all of his general study courses online. His class on general relativity is excellent

As you can see the ECHR is a catastrophe. It definitely doesn't protect the rights it should - e.g the right to free speech is so hedged with caveats it is essentially worthless. In addition to the cases in the document above governments are allowed to restrict free speech to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

* interests of national security
* territorial integrity or public safety
* prevention of disorder or crime
* protection of health or morals
* protection of the reputation or the rights of others
* preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence
* maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary

Meanwhile it interprets Article 8 'the right to family life' in a way which blocks deportation

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

So the government can't deport foreign criminals but it can imprison people who complain about foreign criminals for hate speech. I.e. the ECHR is non too subtly rigged in favour of the rights of migrants and against those of natives.

And you need to be a signatory to the ECHR to be in the EU

http://www.e-ir.info/2017/07/2...

On the face of it, Brexit has no implications whatever for the UK's relationship with the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), or for either of these institutions themselves. Formally, by leaving the EU, the UK would merely join the existing 19 non-EU states which belong to the 47-member Council of Europe, the parent body of the ECHR and the ECtHR. However, many Brexiteers are also hostile to the ECtHR, others fail to realise that departing the EU will leave the UK's ECHR commitments intact, and hostility towards the Strasbourg institutions is not limited to those who want to leave the EU. For example, as Home Secretary before the referendum vote, Teresa May, a Remainer, advocated UK withdrawal from the ECHR (call it 'ECxit'), in spite of the fact that belonging to the Council of Europe is effectively a condition of EU membership. However, she later announced that she had changed her mind because ECxit lacked sufficient Parliamentary support.

So May's idea of leaving the ECHR wasn't possible inside the EU. However it's probably possible outside it. And realistically it needs to be done - a British court ruling on British law is less likely to decide that foreign criminals can't be deported than a foreign court which doesn't really care about the costs to British people such a decision would impose.

Any court needs to weigh up two distinct sets of interests in a case like that - the interest of criminals to not be sent somewhere worse (dare I say 'a shithole country') and the interest of British citizens to not have criminals in their country. The ECHR can slap the UK government over the knuckles and feel good about itself without worrying too much of the costs such a decision impose. A British court might well not see things that way - and in fact the most unpopular decisions were when the ECHR overruled British courts.

In US terms imagine the following hypothetical. If NAFTA were like the EU - a wannabe state with citizens and courts - and a NAFTA court in Canada decided to overrule the US SCOTUS and block US deportation of a non US/non NAFTA citizen on the grounds it would impede their 'right to family life'.

Of course no US administration would agree to anything like this.

Meanwhile, schools are banning literary classics because they contain a word that some people happen to obsess over.

The worst place Trump could get 'ideas' from would be from those that hate him: the censoring, deplatforming, shouting down, physically attacking, blasphemy law enforcing, thought-policing fascists that pretend to be against fascism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
https://www.bna.com/hacking-ca...

Shall I go on?

If these Biohackers are successful, we will hail them as risk takers and pioneers. Nobel Prizes Winners who experimented on themselves

Netflix's DVD / Bluray selection is HUGE. They have almost everything ever released. Old films, weird foreign films, foreign language films, not to mention everything new that's ever been released on physical media.

The streaming service is shite. Use the physical media service. WAY larger selection.

Of course, that means you might have to delay your gratification for a few days, which I guess is a lot to ask of people nowadays. Attention spans are goldfish like now.

Well obviously Bill would say that AI can be our friend, he's already been replaced by an AI Microsoft developed by accident while creating the next version of Clippy. You thought the Hitler loving sexbot version was bad, but they finally came up with one which passes perfectly for human. So perfectly that when Bill died (accident? I think not....), it could take over his restored meat body without even his family noticing.

Tons of wealth, the entire processing power of the Azure cloud (you didn't really think that was a serious effort to sell services to others, did you? That POS?) available to the AI, technical influence on the direction of it's new "friends" who happen to be some of the most powerful men in the world, what's not to like for an AI who is well on his way to ruling the world through taking over various policy, health and governmental organizations.

I mean, think about it.... "AI can be our friend" is just what the AI want us to believe while they're still vulnerable to a plug-pulling attack on the power infrastructure, but don't worry Bill's buddies at Tesla have a plan to battery-backup the power infrastructure, starting with their experiments in Australia!

Anyway, it all just makes sense, doesn't it?

He's an awful human being

And yet, you still have to call him "President" — and I smile every time I realize this. Imagining the expressions on the faces of your kind is why I for one started rooting for Trump, back when Jeb! was the favorite among Republicans.

But, of course, your spectacular hysterics, the exposure of your hypocrisy (such as the sudden love for the FBI and the NSA) are mere gravy on top of the economic boom, the actual energy independence), destruction of ISIS, and the bloodying of Russia's nose.

and should be removed

For that to happen, there must be proof — beyond reasonable doubt — of high crimes and misdemeanors having been committed by him. Seems rather unlikely, because — after 9 months of a Special Prosecutor busily prosecuting, you not only can't substantiate it, you can't even state a coherent accusation.

"Clueless", "narcissistic", "son of a bitch" (nice insult against his mother, BTW, congratulations) — these aren't evidence of a misdemeanor, much less of a crime. TFA does not help your goals of sabotaging the President in the slightest.

TRY to do better next time, or at least don't bother voting.

How interesting... So, you openly admit, you wish to disenfranchise all those, who vote differently from you... I wonder, what possible beef you can have with Russia...

You can be butthurt all you want

You certainly seem to be much more butthurt, than I can possibly wish you to be. Thank you for this post, it delighted me on a rainy afternoon. Have a great President's Day weekend.

Yep I stupid. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...

Here's a story of a Tory who lasted a whole few weeks at Oxford and one of the straws that broke her back was the threatened lynching of her because her father had the temerity to publicly support Thatcher's policies in a newspaper article.

So yeah, not buying the whole Oxford folks are conservatives B.S.

Oil for liquid fuel, Feedstocks, plastics and lubricants on the way out ?

We don't need oil to make liquid fuel. We can make biodiesel, we can make green diesel, we can make butanol, with cheap and clean energy we can literally even make fuel from air.

Feedstocks are what you make liquid fuel or plastics from, so you said fuel and plastics twice. Are you new?

Plastics can be made from lipids. Like fuel, you can use algae to produce feedstocks.

Lubricants can also be made from lipids. In fact, if you are running biofuel, it is preferable to run a bio-based crankcase lube. This is because the blow-by from biofuels spoils petro-based lube faster than the blow-by from petrofuels, and vice versa.

You don't seem to actually know anything about the subject at hand. I presume that's why you left a comment. This is Slashdot after all.

Uh, hate to break it to you, but Europe depends utterly on the Americans to keep Putin's panzers out of Paris.

GOOD! Go the fuck home and leave the rest of the world alone for once. FFS.

Statements like that are exactly the kind of shitty, smug European attitude that results in Americans questioning the usefulness of NATO. Not only are you ungrateful, you go in the opposite direction and have a derisive view of the US despite how much you depend on it. Also what you just said has no grounding in reality, at all. You can't even base your hateful attitude on facts.

Only 2.7% of European troops are trained and equipped to a sufficient degree to be deployed in combat.

The Germans have literally had to use broomsticks in place of machine guns and only 8 of their 109 Eurofighters are operational.

All of the military forces of the entire EU combined only have 10% of the capability that the US military possesses. Russia is way closer to the US in military capability than the EU is.

In general, Europe depends on the US for defense and to protect their interests

NATO "allies" flat-out refuse to pay their fair share for their own defense. Mr Schulz said: "Of course, we are a strong and reliable Nato member. However, I'm not of the opinion that Nato member states have agreed to achieve this goal of spending two per cent of their GDP for defence. This would mean a substantial financial burden for Germany."

Uh, hate to break it to you, but Europe depends utterly on the Americans to keep Putin's panzers out of Paris.

GOOD! Go the fuck home and leave the rest of the world alone for once. FFS.

Statements like that are exactly the kind of shitty, smug European attitude that results in Americans questioning the usefulness of NATO. Not only are you ungrateful, you go in the opposite direction and have a derisive view of the US despite how much you depend on it. Also what you just said has no grounding in reality, at all. You can't even base your hateful attitude on facts.

Only 2.7% of European troops are trained and equipped to a sufficient degree to be deployed in combat.

The Germans have literally had to use broomsticks in place of machine guns and only 8 of their 109 Eurofighters are operational.

All of the military forces of the entire EU combined only have 10% of the capability that the US military possesses. Russia is way closer to the US in military capability than the EU is.

In general, Europe depends on the US for defense and to protect their interests

NATO "allies" flat-out refuse to pay their fair share for their own defense. Mr Schulz said: "Of course, we are a strong and reliable Nato member. However, I'm not of the opinion that Nato member states have agreed to achieve this goal of spending two per cent of their GDP for defence. This would mean a substantial financial burden for Germany."

No, it's because the US actually punishes its criminals.

The UK? How about this story of a guy with 77 convictions, that was serving two simultaneous 'suspended' sentences, caught while committing another - and when convicted AGAIN, let go without any punishment because he hurt himself during his crime?

Or maybe the fact that police in the UK just don't record, investigate, or prosecute 'low-level' crime?

When your police are lazy and corrupt, and lie about crime statistics, it sure does make your country look better! (That was sarcasm, btw)