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Indeed.

Wait, what was that sound? Ahhh yes, the clue train! Here it comes...

Dell and Go Daddy threaten to follow Google out of China - Maybe not for the same reason, but the result is the same!

Takes a Mac-head to equate browser == iPad.

Get over your orthographically challenged iPad, sure the media machine will sell it as the end all be all of tablets, and it will beat in sales superior products already miles ahead in functionality.

But. It will not change the web.

Google's extensive integration of everything into the browser has more potential to change the web than the iPad, Heck, even Mozilla's Weave and Prism have more potential to change the web. And then there's Flock.

And of course, none of these will run in the iPad. the iPad has already cemented its non-relevance for the future of the web.

And back on topic, the Brit. Navy is actually sending two warships over to the US to pick up people. I think that's pretty impressive.

I don't think so. The British Navy is sending ships to Spain to help transport stranded passengers from there to the UK. Brits in the US still have to get to Spain.

But police and school officials decided no harm, no foul.

Pity it doesn't apply in all cases.

I guess embarrassing a school board over lax security is less serious than embarrassing the Pentagon over a complete absence of it.

In the UK the government can now open your postal mail.

Err, yeah, but there's a world of difference between "punching a senator" in the face, and cracking jokes about him. Sorry, but that's just a ridiculous comparison and makes no sense.

And let's not spread fallacies here - the Lese Majeste law isn't really about threats, but also about anything that's considered disparaging in general. It's about violating the *dignity* of a sovereign or head of state.

Quite frankly, I'm going to get out there and say I think it's just plain ridiculous, and shows how backward and outdated Thailand is (and before you cry claims of racism, racism, my family is from SE Asia). I can make a website senatorconroy-is-an-idiot.com.au, and put anything I want there (within reason, of course - say, no child porn or hate speech), and nobody's going to be kicking down any doors.

I mean, look at this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/6498119/Student-throws-shoe-at-former-Australian-PM-John-Howard.html

Some hippy idiot throws a shoe at John Howard. Admittedly, the man's throwing abilities is an embarrassment to aussies everywhere, but even then, Howard laughs it off, and says "he's never be on my team (i.e. cricket). Even George Bush brushed off the whole shoeing thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeing

With your second point, I have no love for Thaksin, but I don't really find him much worse than any of the other tin-pot dictators in the region. And the last few leaders in Thailand have all been outsed for corruption or various other crimes. Sorry, but basically, they're all wrong, ok, so trying to paint the current regime as anything other than militarily-imposed dictatoriship is just dishonest.

Cheers, Victor

this -> "The European Union has a population larger than the United States and yet it manages just fine."..past history man, I'm talking about going forward. I really suggest you take the blinders off and LOOK at some in depth economic analysis, get beyond the headlines and read some contrarian economists. Oh heck, here's one, the darlingest of your ultra far left rich dudes, soros, argue with him why doncha about the future status of your dream welfare union.. the EU is right behind the US with the debt bomb realities. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-09/soros-says-greece-needs-cheaper-loans-to-avoid-death-circle-.html

More recent events and analysis

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/markets-rally-as-greek-debt-crisis-eases-1943155.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/7583304/Euphoria-over-Greek-rescue-fades-as-first-cracks-appear.html

Here is a short overview of the US debt situation as it is today

Let this one sink in a bit...

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article18393.html

These are the outright thieves "in charge" of our economic situation

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32906678/looting_main_street/print

really, ^^^^ those dudes right there run things. In and out of government, the musical chairs with thieves and liars in government, in the Fed, back to their Wall Street gangster lairs, lather rinse repeat, and it hasn't mattered a whit which imperial leader or group of goofballs in our congress we have had, D or R next to their name, it's those same dudes always *really* in charge behind the scenes....

Now see why we aren't going to be having any welfare state here, or even a credible economy soon? The system is already broken, we've been "corporate raided" on a huge scale, and even the "change" government is just more of the same tired old BS.

Your central banker pigs are just as much thieves as ours have been, you'll see... just wait. Your welfare states are going to be crumbling because you don't understand simple basic math, plus time travel, you can't live in the past and expect that to be the future or..along those lines, ain't happening. What was then, was then, in the future.....? I am old enough to remember when the US had a very decent real economy, we were the largest creditor nation, not the biggest borrower, and healthcare was cheap, affordable for most people. Even the crappiest jobs had free or cheap coverage, or you could buy it on the side for cheap. But then the corporate looting really began, along with the ludicrous expansion of government based on lying promises of something for nothing...now 35 years later, poofed, gone, we are sunk without borrowing money all the time, and we have no credible plans to pay back what we have already borrowed.

You have to make money to spend it, FIRST, on welfare or whatever, and no, running printing presses is not making money. You can't keep pouring six gallons of stuff from a five gallon bucket, and accounting and bookkeeping tricks only work so long. You don't make money by exporting jobs, them other fellas make the money then. And you certainly don't make money by letting your central casino bankers run rampant and steal everything that ain't nailed down, and especially when you run those thieves in and out of official government positions where they get to *set policy*.

Now some of the nations there in the EU just might squeak by over the

Honestly, insightful?

From a quick google search on NASA inventions:

Ten NASA inventions you use every day

Top 15 NASA inventions

Polimide Foam

NASA Inventions benefiting our daily lives

Highlights from those links include kidney dialysis, CAT scans, various types of insulation, efficient water purification tech, cordless tools, modern designs of microchips, satellite tech (you know, it deleives a great deal of your communications....), scratch resistant lenses... And there's a *lot* more, a great deal of modern tech comes from NASA is one way or another.

Even if you have a problem with exploration and a search for knowledge and understanding of the universe, you have to admit the space program and its SCIENCE have yielded *massive* results on earth in technology. I'm also pretty sure there were luddites like you when the first ships were being built, the first submarines, the first plans, hell, the first time someone said "I'm going to wander 50 miles that way and see what's there".

Yes, Wikipedia seems to indeed have a category for pedophilia-related articles, describing such things as the Catholic scandal, child grooming, various kidnapping cases and related stuff. I'm a bit unsure what makes this "child pornography" - does Mr. Sanger perhaps become turned on reading about the activities of less savory Catholic priests? Dunno what images he's referring to, either - the only ones I found were photographs of Greek vases. As for "lolicon", AFAIK it's legal in most countries due to it being cartoon not related to real people in any way.

Perhaps this case itself should be reported under pedophile hysteria, or, more cynically, barratry.

_All_ governments want to restrict some information, and a lot of that is valid. Some sensitive information about military operations, and covert agents, for example should be censored and restricted IMO, at least while they are operational. The question is firstly which information should be witheld, and secondly (and most importantly) : how can we set up government withholding of information so that they do not withold information they have no right to?

No one has got even close to answering that second question. Basically all current major governments have the ability to withold any information that they see fit, whether it be sensitive or in the public interest to know. There should be no need for websites like wikileaks (at least in terms of governments, companies are different beasts) - _anything_ that does not potentially compromise current or future operations that is owned by the government should be released. No quibbles. No matter if it shows someone in a bad light.

The trouble is the nature of governments, and the nature of people. No one ever wants anything released that makes them look bad, and governments very very rarely relinquish powers they gain.

Having said all that, by _far_ the best thing that New Labour did for us in the UK was introduce the Freedom of Information act, which Labour has been bitten itself by in a couple of cases, and which is what actually was used to expose the entire expenses scandal recently. That is a very important piece of legislation, and a great one, though I'll wager now they wished they never introduced it. Unfortunately the FOI act only applies to information about governmental institutions, and not about privately held stuff. The data protection act is a pretty good act too - it allows any individual to request of _any_ organisation any information that they hold on that individual. Though I personally didn't know they essentially had to pass that legislation to come into compliance with the EU until just now.

I'm not saying those laws are perfect - far from it, there are exceptions to the FOI act, and it can be vetoed by government ministers (which has happened twice). They do need to go further. However, before their implementation, there was basically no formal requirement for information transparency at all in the UK... Hopefully, some future government will give the FOI act a few more teeth (though it has already been proven very useful).

I'm not a New Labour apologist by any means, detention without trial is 100% wrong in my opinion. The Surveillance State is getting worse. The DNA database for people who have not ever been convicted of a crime is utterly wrong, and is truly questionable even for those (like myself) who have been convicted of minor offences. And for me, personally the absolute worst thing, especially coming from a "Labour" government, is that the wealth gap has become far worse. The wealth gap is a very good indicator of societal happiness in western societies : bigger gap = more unhappiness. This was a major pledge, to narrow it, from New Labour, and they've widened it. Anyway, I just started this paragraph to show I wasn't a Labour apologist, and I've ended up ranting. Oh well...

Frankly, the dude I feel sorry for was the poor bastard who survived after we nuked him twice

The fact that you can "earn" a million dollars per month by divorcing a rich spouse shows how arbitrary incomes can be. It makes a mockery of honest work.

Oh please. Jews are not a race, black is a race, white is a race. It's a fucking religion, nothing more. Try this: go and find some DNA that shows Jewishness, or a Jew gene. You can't. They don't exist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7346496/View-from-the-Lab-Who-is-a-Jew-DNA-can-hold-the-key.html Haha ... moron. Just because you think something, doesn't make it true.

China manufactures much of our electronic equipment and IT infrastructure, has very competent hackers, trained some in military programs (it was fairly proud of it during the dotcom bubble). It is clear that a backdoor can be built into many equipments. In the recent wave of attacks, everyone talked about Google but medias forgot quickly that ~20 US companies were targeted. There are people to do it, means to do it, all that is lacking is a motive.

I honestly think that every sane country should keep, even at loss, a microchip fab to produce its sensitive hardware, military or not.

When Boeing produces a personal airplane for the Chinese prime minister, the CIA puts microphones and spying devices into it (source) why do you think China would hold to return the favor ?

Bottom line is - there is a more-or-less one-to-one correlation between
the sets of people who:

    1. outright violate copyright on a grand scale.

    2. are poor earners, social misfits...

What a post. I'm reminded of O'Reilly, in conversation with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart: "You got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night. 87% are intoxicated when they watch..."

Tell me, do you find that outright manufacture of statistics is generally an effective mechanism in successfully debating complex issues? If you do, do you find that this mechanism is:

a) a good thing, because you get to win arguments based on totally uncited shit you pulled out of your ass, or
b) seriously concerning, because entire areas of governmental policy are set via arguments based on totally uncited shit that lobbyists pull out of their asses?

Your post is an example of extremely lazy ad hominem argumentation, and possibly also extremely lazy thinking as well. Here are some statistics for you. Given that this is a story about filesharing activities in the UK, here's a stat from the UK:

Harris Interactive conducted research among the UK general public aged 16-54 from February to March 2009, which gave a 23% incidence of music file-sharing using peer-to-peer networks in the UK population aged 16-54, or 8.3 million file-sharers based on ONS population data. This number omits people under 16 completely.

Additionally, Jupiter Research conducted consumer research on behalf of the BPI in August 2007, which predicted 6.7 million peer-to-peer file-sharers during 2008, and 7.3 million for 2009.

Source: http://www.theunsignedguide.com/news/795/facts-about-file-sharing/

It is not impossible that 23% of individuals in the UK all share the same characteristics (poor earning, social misfits, highly vocal complainers) - although if that is the case it is surprising to me that only 20684 emails (rather than the expected 7-8 million) have been sent to MPs regarding the Digital Economy Bill. But can you really characterise 23% of the population as 'a minute fraction'?

• BBC
• Reuters
• Guardian
• Telegraph

Wikileaks also recently released CIA "Red Cell" files on how they will manipulate public opinion to keep countries around the world supporting the Afghanistan war this summer, a time when casualties are expected to rise and they say "public apathy will no longer be enough" to guarantee support for the war.

The pictures I've seen show half of Florida underwater in 2100.

Sea rise is at ~2mm/year, or so. Actually, land rise and subsidence overpowers a possible "global sea level change" everywhere we look.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5067351/Rise-of-sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html

they might theoretically have this capability...

They do.

I've never seen it invoked.

I can't think of a specific example with the iPhone, but I can think of one on the Kindle -- it was 1984, actually. I see no compelling reason I should trust Apple more than I trust Amazon.

A derp-a-derp-derp.
Would help if I actually linked what I discovered.

From TFA, I followed a link over to a blog at the Telegraph that contained links to the Netposti interface (link set to english. På svenska, Suomeksi are options for .fi, .se).

What shows up after logging in, I have to leave to someone who actually has a login for the service. It'd be an expensive, expensive trip overseas just for me to get an answer (passport, plane, time off from work, sedatives, rental vehicle, ...), so I'll leave it to someone who might just be able to walk down the road and get set up.

It's tough at times finding a product not made in China

Indeed, but "Made in China" often actually means "Assembled in China". Our global economy often makes your decision difficult.
For example, according to this article, What the iPod tells us about Britain's economic future, out of the $190 captured value for every iPod (made in China) sold in the US, China actually only earns $4. The rest of the captured value goes to countries where the retailer, product developer and high value component manufacturers are located, primarily the US and Japan.

"We can censor you but you can not censor us, we can hide info to you but you can not hide info to us." --United States of America

Probably just another CIA "Red Cell" style case of manipulating public opinion similar to this case. Only In this example its just basic old Reverse psychology: Your citizens overwhelmingly do not want filters. If the US says don't do it, your citizens will rally against foreigners telling them what to do - and so be more open to implement filtering. Childish, but it probably works on some.

"That's awful and those people should be in jail."

Are they in jail? I don't think so. Why not? Because, of course, the Israeli government and the judicial system don't care enough about no Israeli lives to prosecute an Israeli "good ole boy".

Ahhhh, you ask, ""America doesn't value non-American lives"?"

The answer, of course, is both yes and no. We DON'T care, as a nation, for non-American lives, in general. On the other hand, we care enough to imprison our soldiers who commit crimes similar to what happened at the Golan heights.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/5293821/Former-US-soldier-guilty-of-rape-and-murder-of-Iraqi-girl.html

What of that? you might ask.

Well, the US has it's faults, and the US really doesn't value foreign lives as much as it probably ought to. But, quite obviously, Israel has a long way to go to catch up to our present deplorable state.

"In short, presenting Israel as a monolithic entity with a single view on settlements or with a uniform view attributing no value to non-Jewish lives is absurd."

The US is represented overseas by a single monolithic government, just as Israel and all other countries are. You will note that I have not stated that "every Israeli is a swine who places no value on any lives that aren't Jewish". I referred to the government. Of course the government does NOT represent every single point of view in Israel, any more than the government of the United States represents every single point of view in the US.

As for the aid sent to devastated areas outside of the mideast - we can view a lot of that just as we are forced to view a lot of United States' foreign aid: propaganda opportunities. The publicity surrounding rescue teams sent to disaster areas is very cheap, all things considered.

Call me a cynic. But, often enough, aid of any kind is intended to purchase certain results for the donor.

> Assuming extradition is not enforced, that person would only be labeled criminal when in Saudi Arabia's borders.

That already happens now - it's how the laws already work. If that's all you want, it's already done, so what your point? See Dmitry Sklyarov.

As for "diplomatic ties", that's also already done and being done. There are many countries that have "harmonized" their laws with the USA for the sake of diplomatic ties (often whether their citizens like it or not).

> How do you think citizens from the country you are exploiting feel?
> Do you think they are endeared by your actions?

Far fewer citizens have really been exploited by copyright infringement by P2P etc, than the number of artists and stars that have been exploited by the labels[1] and the programmers that have been exploited by their companies (e.g. EA etc). And how about the people were who rooted by Sony's rootkit (which is technically considered hacking in many countries)? Who went to prison for that hacking?

If the artists and creators are already getting ZERO $$$$ from the labels they can't lose any more to P2P. In fact the smarter ones have realized they might as well encourage distribution of their stuff and then make money via tours - otherwise they're not going to get anything (it's all taken up by the "middle man").

If you feel so strongly about exploitation, go bark up that tree instead.

And if you're actually from one of those Big Media Companies and trying to promote their agenda, take this message to your handlers: "FUCK YOU".

The ordinary citizen in the USA has little to worry about from "piracy", it does practically nothing to them.

The media companies actually make money, they just use hollywood accounting to pretend they don't, when it suits them.

[1] directly:
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/735096--geist-record-industry-faces-liability-over-infringement
Or via Hollywood accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
See also: http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2002-11-13-stan-lee-sues-marvel_x.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1578440/JRR-Tolkiens-estate-to-sue-New-Line-Cinema-over-Lord-of-the-Rings-trilogy-profits.html

Aside from the critical acclaim and the plethora of Oscars and other awards, the complaint claims that they have grossed over $6 billion (£3.07 billion) worldwide through box office receipts and DVD and merchandising sales.

However, the suit filed by the Trust claims that, apart from $62,500 (£32,000) paid upfront before production began, "not one penny" has changed hands.

p.s. Not related but assuming you are a US citizen, just for some perspective go divide the trillions your Government has spent bailing out ill-deserving companies by the number of US citizens. Google for Federal Reserve trillions.

"Buy land. They've stopped making it." -- Mark Twain.

Addendum: They're deleting it now too.

This is no joke. Much of the world's most valuable real estate is on the world's coastlines, which are now being eroded by global warming. We're talking trillions of dollars here. Who bears the cost? You perhaps? Governments around the world are spending a lot of money on sea walls, restoring beaches and buttressing cliffs.

I can see both sides, since beachfront property owners are no more personally responsible for global warming than anybody else is. However, since it is a slow process, I believe there should be a gradual (e.g. 10 year) transition from public to private liability. This will give global warming believers and doubters a chance to put their money where their mouth is by selling or shorting coastal real estate :)

I was more impressed when that bunch of Catalan Highschool Students did the same thing. They also had some fairly impressive photos as well.

Here's an article in the local press of March 19th:

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2010/03/19/syphilis-cases-rise-400-on-teesside-84229-26067098/

No mention of Facebook.

There was then an article on the 24th in The Daily Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7508945/Facebook-linked-to-rise-in-syphilis.html

Again, no direct claim that Facebook was responsible, just an unsubstantiated paragraph stating that

Case have increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular.
[sic]

There was another instance recently where Facebook are threatening to sue the Daily Mail

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/11/facebook-daily-mail

after the Mail took some general research into unnamed social networking sites and attributed the dangers specifically to Facebook.

I would think it far more likely that AdultFriendFinder or GetItOn would be responsible for any increase in STDs, and that it's bad journalists seeking to sensationalise stories, by trying to make them more familiar and relevant to their readers, who are using Facebook as a synonym for any social networking site.

> if everyone jointly pays for healthcare and everybody gets treated health costs go down.

Only for those who already pay for insurance, and only assuming that the insurance companies will pass on the savings to you, which they won't. Except, they won't get any savings, because:

> This is because no one puts off going to the doctor because of expense.

When people don't have to pay for doctors, they go more often, raising the overall health care expenditures and cancelling any savings you may have incurred for increasing the insured pool. So, if anything, your rates will go up, and MUCH higher.

> Cancers are caught sooner, infections are treated before the victim starts coughing up blood.

Cancer screening is not
good for you. Yes, early detection can be helpful for some cancers, but false positives and
unnecessary treatments can cause a great deal of harm. Prostate cancer, which you mention, is an
excellent example. Very few men die from prostate cancer, treated or not, because it grows so slowly
that you are much more likely to die from other causes before it kills you. In most cases, treating
it will just cause you lots of misery that chemo and radiation create.

Even when you have some other cancer, you need to realize that with the exception of breast and
testicular cancer, nearly all of them are fatal. You might buy yourself a few years with treatment,
but you'll die anyway. It might be worth taking a hard look at your own life and see if you really
want to have an extra few years at the cost of pain and suffering that chemo will give you. (In
socialized health care, other
people may make this decision for you)

Other infections are also frequently overtreated. Your body really is very very good at fighting
diseases. Give it food and water, and it will kill the infection all by itself. For centuries,
people have got by just fine without ever seeing a doctor, and you would do well to try to do
the same. Doctors often cause more harm than not and avoiding them really is good for you.

> What selfish libertarians like yourself don't realise is that a persons health is mostly unrelated
> to their choices. No one chooses to get prostate cancer, no one chooses to get bitten by a rabid dog.

On the contrary, health is very much related to your choices. Smoking and obesity are both personal
choices and are the most damaging things you can do to yourself. Nearly all diseases, cancers, and
heart problems are manyfold more likely if you make these choices. Then there's the impact of
stress), which damages your
immune system and contributes to many disorders, possibly including cancer.

UK has very low cancer and heart disease survival rates.

That's because it's a National Health Service, i.e. it works for the good of the nation. Sick and weak individuals must be purged from the gene pool.

You have been misinformed.

A descent proxy to define a "good" health care system would be survival rates of life threatening diseases like cancer and heart disease. These are the leading causes of death in most countries and require much more time within the health care system then many other diseases.

UK has very low cancer and heart disease survival rates. Here's another article about both or you can simply google something like "cancer survival rates by country"

You'll also notice that the US comes out far ahead of the UK.

I rather think "survival" is a better way of assessing a health care system then whether or not you have to pay a co-pay.

And yet, the 'rationed' socialist healthcare here in Britain is still a metric fuckton better than what you get in the US.

It's not though, that's a myth. Survival rates for most major diseases are much higher in the US than in the UK. For example cancer: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00643/news-graphics-2007-_643378a.gif For certain types of cancer the gap is much greater. For heart attack, 30 day survival is much higher in US as well, can't find a nice graph. It all depends on what you compare. Most generalized comparisons of health systems by country you see, such as WHO's, place a very high emphasis on access so a country with universal access can appear high on the list but in reality the health care may be very poor, just equally poor for everyone. So you get absurd things, such as Costa Rica or Morocco being above the USA. Btw, since you are such a big fan of NHS, would you go to for example Malta, Greece, Portugal or Oman for health care? They all rank above UK.

The system in the US is still crap, just not sure that moving towards NHS types system is going to improve it. Taking the government out and allowing real competition might.

Actually, most sane people already suspected that the global warming scam might be a hoax, and the brighter people were sure of it. Those CLU papers just add a little bit of credibility to the suspicions.

I thought most of it was just sophomoric trash talk, but the influencing of who got published was pretty damning. OBTW did you know that if the US signs a carbon cap and trade the WWF will be holding $60 Billion in carbon credits in the amazon forests?

Wouldn't it be easy if you had one card for ID, public transport, payments, building access, getting your treatment, etc?

If you are willing to give up essential liberties for mere convenience, you don't deserve those liberties. Go ahead and apply for the card. Just don't complain when your life gets turned upside down when something goes wrong.

I'm terribly sorry, but I'm afraid your information is out of date. We have no Jedi here, because after the government conducted a census for which everyone was legally required to provide information, the Powers That Be decided they knew better anyway and everyone who declared their religion as Jedi was just making it up.

Also, I am amused by the people who think we have an "atheist" state when there are still people sitting in the House of Lords with the power to legislate just because they hold high office in a church. No, really, there actually are.

On a more serious note, TFA is now slightly out of date as well. The House of Lords approved the Bill. Clause 17 (the three strikes provision) is still gone, but it looks like most of the rest made it through. Lord Clement-Jones, the Lib Dem peer who originally proposed the controversial amendments, seems to think that what went through was a good thing. Go figure.

Actually it was in the paper recently:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7415082/French-bread-spiked-with-LSD-in-CIA-experiment.html

However, it appears likely that the author of the book of the book, is overplaying his hand and it was in fact, ergot poisoning and not a CIA LSD experiment, at least according to some random poster who sounds reasonable here:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/12/cia-doses-french-bread-with-ls

So, make what you will of it.

It made the news recently, of course not everyone buys it.

Check out this article about where the profits go from the sale of a single $299 iPod. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100002310/what-the-ipod-tells-us-about-britains-economic-future/
Most of the manufacturing profits go to countries that make the high tech, high cost components like the hard drive and screen. Those countries are Japan and the US. Chinese companies that assemble the final product and stamp "Made in China" on it actually get very little of the profits generated.

I'm sorry, but a vaccine that gives people autism is pretty much the definition of 'defective in design or manufacture.' Not that there is such a thing, but if there were, the company that produced it would be at fault.

Well let's see

Andrew Wakefield (born 1956) is a British-born surgeon and researcher best known for his discredited work regarding the MMR vaccine and its possible connection with autism and inflammatory bowel disease.[1] Wakefield was the lead author of a 1998 study, published in The Lancet, which reported bowel symptoms in twelve children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, to which the authors suggested a possible link with the MMR vaccine. Though stating "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described," the paper tabulated parental allegations, and adopted these allegations as fact for the purpose of calculating a temporal link between receipt of the vaccine and the first onset of what were described as "behavioural symptoms". Andrew Wakefield

His "test subjects" were attending a birthday party hosted by a lawyer suing drug company over immunizations causing "autism". Wakefield was one of the last authors of the paper published in the Lancet, 10 of the 12 Co-Authors had had their names removed from the paper and finally the Lancet took the almost unprecedented action of officially retracting the paper.

In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were “consecutively referred” and that investigations were “approved” by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record.
The Editors of The Lancet The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK

Furthermore the British General Medical Council detremined that Wakefield was dishonest, irresponsibile and showed callous disregard for the distress and pain of children.
Autism Spectrum Disorders are genetically based and the rates of diagnosis are increasing long after thimersol has been discontinued in vaccines. It's just coincidence that the symptoms of profound Autism become unavoidably obvious at the same time the MMR is given to toddlers.

http://xkcd.com/558/
The difference between a white toy with an orange tip and a black can't-buy-in-this-country fake gun is the difference between a sip of wine and 30 seconds with your daughter and a bottle of gin and a night with her.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7396358/The-end-of-the-road-for-Barack-Obama.html

My favorite line from the article:

"Mr Obama benefited in his campaign from an idiotic level of idolatry, in which most of the media participated with an astonishing suspension of cynicism."

Sounds like what I was saying in early 2007, but no one wanted to listen. Now a foreign observer, much more impartial than our own media, is saying exactly the same thing. Gee, I thought Obama was going to usher in a new era of global peace and prosperity. What happened? I would venture to guess that it has something to do with the fact that he has never run even so much as a convenience store, and now his naivete and inexperience are catching up to his vacuous rhetoric.

You've quickly gone from forum member to party leader in about half a year. It appears your background is graphic arts and music, not politics. How do you plan to convince your voters that you are competent and qualified? On top of that, your site only lists three core policies. Voting (to me) shows more than support. It shows I am confident in that person or group as leader of my country. As if by voting for you, I genuinely hope you are to be the next Prime Ministers, replacing Gordon Brown. Right now, privacy and copyright are important issues but possibly more important are things like foreign policy that might govern how you feel about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars or about the social programs in the UK. Could you extrapolate on your core issues to give us an idea of how you stand on the other major issues that will be debated among the more popular parties? I agree with you on your stated issues but being a one issue voter can result in disaster for the whole country, do you mind giving yourself more depth than just privacy and copyright?

No. First of all, animals raised in human company are pretty much permanently stuck in a juvenile state. They have not been taught to fend for themselves and the urban and suburban environments aren't the same thing as "the wild" - available resources are far more restricted. Don't think that because your cat occasional brings a bird to the stoop that it could live a healthy life without any human support.

I think we should do an experiment. Release pets into the wild and see what happens.

Nature always finds a way.

That's a very interesting article - thanks for sharing.

There were two parts that I think are very important. The first is about his inventive process:

Inventing is a Dangerous Business

What really sold me on Dr. Nakamats was when I came across the following passage from some German interview. The question was one the author has probably asked hundreds of times--"so, where do you get your ideas?"--and Nakamatsu has the last answer anyone but him would ever suspect:

(picture of person holding their breath underwater)
Is there a secret to becoming an inventor? How do you come up with new ideas?

        I am teaching philosophy at the University of Tokyo. The base for everything is a strong spirit, followed by a strong body, hard studies, experience and finally leads to a "trigger" experience. You "trigger" a bullet which contains spirit, body, study and experience - and finally that releases the actual invention.

How do you "trigger" an invention?

        A lack of oxygen is very important.

A lack? Isn't that dangerous?

        It's very dangerous. I get that Flash just 0.5 sec before death. I remain under the surface until this trigger comes up and I write it down with a special waterproof plexiglas writing pad I invented.

Do you do that a lot? Putting yourself in that kind of situation to come up with a new invention?

        Of course. This is the Dr. Nakamatsu method.

U.S. Creativity expert Win Wenger, PhD talks about the mammalian diving response as a way for anyone to increase blood flow to the brain, thereby increasing one's intelligence. When the Co2 concentration in a mammal's blood rises, arteries to the brain open up so that the brain doesn't starve to death. With repetition, the arteries become permanently enlarged.

I myself have spent some time holding my breath underwater at the pool. I haven't done the full 30-day protocol, but at one point I built up to over 2 minutes underwater. This is not a lot (the record for free diving is over 19 minutes), but many people can only hold their breath for 15 seconds...

Furthermore, we had a pool in our backyard when I was a kid (before I turned 5), and I remember doing held-breath underwater swimming then. I'd dive down to pick stuff up off the bottom of the pool, and swim through underwater rings.

Furthermore, I had a VHS copy of Star Trek IV, and I repeatedly tried to hold my breath for the entire time that Captain Kirk (or was it Mr. Spock?) held his breath to release the whales, after the bird of prey crashed into San Francisco Bay... I was never able to do it, but I now think the effort was good for something.

I don't know that I'm a genius now, but I think I do pretty well.

According to Dr. NakaMats' research, the unhealthy body has a poor blood circulation to extremities resulting cold feet. This is the same state with the stressed body in which your sympathetic nervous system took over parasympathetic nervous system. Sympathetic nervous system anticipates your body for "fight-or-flight" situation.

My hands were cold as ice for a long time... Then I built a "radial appliance", which is said to balance the body's parasympathetic nervous system. My hands are now warm.

I think my website (above) links to the radial appliance stuff... This is kooky esoteric shit, so don't bother clicking if you just want to scoff...

Anyways, thanks again for the link!

I'm disappointed that you've assumed all kids in the UK are like some from a rough bit of Liverpool.

Unfortunately my subjective experience was not good; I was attacked two times, once, someone threw a fruit or something from their car, fortunately not hitting me; the second time, a motherf1!@$!@ kid threw a can with "vimto" from a double-story bus while it stopped at the bus stop where I was calmly waiting for my bus.

However if you look around you will see that my subjective views and assumptions are not so far from the objective truth. You can take a look at this: What is wrong with British youth? or a more scientific report: Make Me a Criminal:Preventing youth crime

The UK suffers from two related problems that define the terrain within which youth crime is debated. First, evidence seems to show that we experience higher and more sustained levels of youth crime and anti-social behaviour than culturally similar countries. Second, the UK public experiences more fear of crime and concern about youth misbehaviour than citizens elsewhere.

In general, I enjoyed a lot my stay in the UK; almost everything was great. Liverpool itself is a great city with a lot of culture and places to go out nearby; and the fact that they have Manchester airport close is great. However, the children are a real treat. I remember one of the first things I was told in my first meeting with the "Mexican society" in Liverpool was "Beware of the kids, if you see a group of two or three kids walking in the street just walk into the other side of the road", and "do not dare to enter into a park when a bunch of kids/young guys are there".

According to my ASL instructor, lip readers are rarely more than 50% accurate. Which makes me wonder about the alleged capabilities of this software, honestly.

You might want to look at this.

I don't think this technology is THAT new... or that it's that inaccurate.

On a side note, I'm hearing impaired (car engine exploded a bit too close to my head). I *CAN* hear -- and that supplements the lip reading I *DO* do... and asking my friend who is totally deaf (and on AIM as I type this), I think that 50% estimate is way low...

Sorry, but whatever fantasies you may have that the NZ police are limited to strong language and stern looks are somewhat inaccurate. Granted you apparently have to start shooting indiscriminately before the lethal force comes out, but the do, in fact, have the discretion to use it.

The UK takes drastic measures to prepare for the coming storm when immigrants and natives start the final countdown. The writing's on the wall for several years now and they are starting to shit their pants.

English Defence League got arrested, left in prison for a few days to be beaten to a pulp by Muslim prison inmates. Hate speech laws now apply to numerical truths. CCTV cameras are everywhere. Multicultural apologists are fighting harder and harder to keep the lid on, but I doubt it will take much more than 5-8 years for sustained and open fights in some quarters of London.

They are now shooting with AK47 rifles at the police in Brussels and Paris:
http://www.libertiesalliance.org/2010/02/02/ak47-discharged-on-the-streets-of-belgium-yet-the-mayor-of-brussels-seems-to-pour-cold-water-on-effective-remedies/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/henrysamuel/9846869/French_police_under_Kalashnikov_fire_early_riot_warning/

We have several years to prepare for our own, nice, friendly, peaceful homemade Intifada.

Expect open WiFi to be cut, with anonymous Internet cafe access next. After that, it's passports. Then passports to be carried on person, all the time. And then it's IngSoc.

But the Ummah will explode before that.

The thousands of pages of "peer reviewed" "settled" "science" by "thousands of" "scientists" in WG1 are one pile of biased studies linked by circular references, carefully selected by a small team to obtain a desired alarmist outcome.

36,000 physicists are worried.

CAGW is dead, the deceivers are being exposed while the deceived march on, for now.

>>>there are base principles like freedom of speech, freedom of information, and other human rights.

My "country" of Pennsylvania has a constitutional, legal right to free speech and security from warrantless police searches, but that didn't stop the U.S. from passing the Patriot Act that violates both. This is why I don't see what's holding back the EU Parliament from doing the same.
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>>>britain actually, shouldnt have been in eu in the first place, for they are not compatible with anything eu represents.

???. Britain had a Bill of Rights (1600s) before any other EU country had one. It was the basis of the U.S. Bill of Rights. I don't understand how you can say it's not compatible with other EU states.

Britain is also holding its very first "tea party" this weekend, demanding that politicians be accountable and stop taxing the citizens to death - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100027366/british-tea-party-movement-to-launch-on-saturday/