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.... did we ever get to the bottom of where Saddam Hussein hid his Weapons of Mass Destruction?

ISIS Likely Captured Iraqi Chemical Weapons, New York Times Confirms
Isis storms Saddam-era chemical weapons complex in Iraq

The jihadist group bringing terror to Iraq overran a Saddam Hussein chemical weapons complex on Thursday, gaining access to disused stores of hundreds of tonnes of potentially deadly poisons including mustard gas and sarin.

Say good night, dick.

ever noticed that the tallest buildings in the world are in Muslim countries, or in China. The obvious reason is that if you build one in the West the muslims will be queuing up to destroy it. Only Islamic countries, or countries which recognise and deal with the threat of Islam decisively get to have these buildings. The same will go with hyperloops. This is why it is likely that there will be one between Dubai and Abhu Dabi before anywhere in the West. And if we did have one there would have to be airline-like baggage checks and security, and it would have to be sufficiently deep to make it difficult for the muslims to dig to without being noticed.

If any of the things you insist are "obvious" were actually true, then it would be easy to support them with actual data ... yet you can't.

Research has suggested a causal link for years.

Things are not on track to change. The situation is truly disheartening.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/snoopers-charter-bill-becomes-law-extending-uk-state-surveillance

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/5105519/Internet-records-to-be-stored-for-a-year.html

You got me. It was a membership request that they dropped and yes I apologize for the factual error. Project Fear among other campaigns were certainly social issues, as was the additional debt they would have acquired by joining the EU. here Greenland leaving had some to do with what you claim they benefit from, which is fishing rights. Also we have the expansion of the EU into local politics including banning indigenous people's livelihood (A concern Canada has with EU also).

Of course people claim that they want to rejoin the EU, just like people in the UK started making the same claims right after the leave vote. Media has a funny way of promoting certain ideologies no matter how big or small just to push an agenda. In terms of voters, more Polish and Hungarian people want to leave the EU than people in Greenland and Iceland want to join by way of percentages. That won't get lip service though, because it fails the agenda.

Your guess is completely wrong. Perhaps you should at least read the summary before you make wild guesses based on the title.

"The hope is ... the project will be able to to identify and recommend strategies, tools, and technology to protect democratic processes and systems from cyber and information attacks."

We already have insecure electronic voting machines and at least one successful attack. While the changes from that attack were detected and reverted, it's just a matter of time before someone succeeds and isn't detected.

The US government has shown no interest at all in developing secure systems for elections, so none of this is going to change without outside groups like the one discussed in this article forcing change.

According to this the fuel cost is about 3% on a short haul flight. Even if it's 6% on long haul, that would be $90.

Jeff Bezos is not as bad as Donald Trump, but Bezos says and does things that show he isn't thinking carefully.

Remote control over drones can ALWAYS be eliminated or hijacked by radio frequency interference.

Technology ALWAYS has failures, like those at Three Mile Island, Fukushima Daiichi, and Chernobyl.

Amazon drone delivery: nine ways it could go horribly wrong (March 26, 2015)

I don't want drones near where I live. Will drones be allowed near where Jeff Bezos lives?

If drone flyers had acted responsible, this would not be necessary.

They didn't, and now it is. Do not complain droners, you made your own bed to sleep in.

in fact, the world's first -- active laser weapon.

No, is not the first active laser weapon.

Russian ships deployed laser weapons since 1980's.

New generation are we must say far more capable :)

Obviously anecdotes differ since I doubt our kids go to the same schools. That said, this isn't just a "Fox" thing, or even a MSNBC thing. There is ample evidence to back my anecdote as "normal" especially in CA's system. They are incredibly easy to find. I know that the Telegraph is a notoriously right wing site (sarcasm should be obvious), but here is one of literally thousands of articles that come up with a simple Google search. In addition to mandatory classes being forced on men, we have curriculum injecting ideology and leftism. A Marine biology course last semester spend 2 lectures talking about the 70 genders and was part of the finals. Not psychology, sociology, or a course where it may make more sense, but _marine_biology.

If your kids don't experience the same, that's great for them. Lets not deny that it exists when example after example can be seen and found.

Why would AI be any different?

Because it doesn't have a messy evolutionary history.

Human babies are known to be racist. This makes some level of evolutionary sense: favour your own.

If an AI is racist, it's for a different reason: it's picking up on inequalities (whether or not caused by society itself) that really do exist in the world today.

Besides, we as their creator are flawed beings so inherently, our creations will be also flawed.

No, this isn't what's happening at all.

An AI showing racial bias doesn't reveal racism on the part of the AI's designers, it shows that the data fed to the AI reveals politically-incorrect inequalities in society. An AI will detect these patterns, unless it's specifically designed not to.

In the EU, car insurance companies are specifically forbidden from factoring in your gender when deciding what price to offer you. That law is in place not because it's irrational to discriminate on gender (profit-wise, that is). If it were irrational, insurance companies wouldn't do it anyway. No, it's because it's seen as an unpleasant/immoral thing to do.

Female drivers really do get into fewer traffic accidents, but society sees it as unfair to penalise men just for being male. We see the same situation here with the AI.

Even if apple were to give me the next iPhone for free, or pay me $1,200 to take it, I wouldn't. I never really liked the iPhone. I never really liked apple products. Well, mainly apple OSs - their choice of hardware is normally pretty good, even if it if overpriced.

That said, I'd have to seriously consider paying out that amount of money for an Android phone. In the past I've paid around $800, and that was also a fairly serious consideration. Having paid out that amount, I expect the phone to last me many years before I need to upgrade. The hardware is still good and I've no issues there -- however, if I want Android O then I'll need a new phone. If I had to pay $1,200 or more, I would expect it to last several more years, and for the OS to be upgraded for many more years. And that's probably not likely for either OS.

apple do have a better track record for updating old devices, so apple people may be more likely to pay out that amount. Plus, historically, apple people have been more inclined to pay bigger bucks for the devices -- even to the point of selling a kidney to get one. So I'd almost wager that they could set any price on it and the majority would pay it to upgrade -- even if this year's model was only a minor improvement over last year's. The iPhone could end up being a textbook case of a Giffen good (where demand rises with price).

I'm reminded of a story, but I can't find it online, where a shop owner asked the assistant to mark down several ugly statues from $15 to $10 in order to sell them out. The assistant made a mistake and priced them all at $100, and they all sold out that day. Many people will associate higher prices with a better product, and will see identical products differently depending on the price.

And don't forget about Smurfication.

One is either very brave, very naive, or suicidal to run against, or even speak up against Putin. He's pure liquid KGB. Russia is a democracy in name only.

I'd be curious if there's any relationship between a society's "openness" to sexuality and its rates of child sexual abuse.

Japan made possession of child pornography illegal in June 2014; up until then possessing kiddie porn in Japan was 100% legal.

In 2016 child abuse and child pornography cases both reached record highs. I'm not saying that the two are definitely linked, but it's very interesting that child abuse went through the roof right after child pornography was banned.

Hillary was endorsed by the KKK in California. One of Trump's children is Jewish, and he has Jewish advisors. Trump has reached out to the Black community and appointed non-whites to important and visible government positions. Think about that.

Trump signs order supporting historically black colleges

These Charlotte kids named their rocket Trump and went to DC. Guess who took notice?
closer look

Meet the Jews in Donald Trump’s administration

Who is Nikki Haley, America's ambassador to the United Nations?

Don't be an ass.

Your Google Fu is weak. Pay attention to the Youtube video where you can watch Charles Bolden, NASA Chief under Obama, state unambiguously that he was directed to reach out to the Muslim world to make them feel good about their contributions to science and engineering.

"an old analogue tape" is not a reference to a master tape. It's referring to one of these: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/con...

Along with "binary gender". going from discreet values to more values than you can express in Unicode.

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

Hint: the ones who won't actually do any work, but will burn all your company's resources making themselves feel "empowered" and eternally discovering some other nuance of social injustice, should never be allowed in the door. And from harsh expeience, they need to be fired as soon as they open their mouths. You can trace them on Facebook, and it shows up in their resumes. They complain, and cite injustice, but they don't run for office to *do* the work, they don't put real money and time into actually helping people out of poverty or helping anyone with their kids or problems, they just hit "like" on Facebook a lot and turn up at local trendy coffee houses.

And they don't, by *god*, help their relatives. Find me *one* of these who actually talks to their parents without their hand out for another "assistance with their career". They're worse than the British single housewives on the dole.

Clearly men sleeping less is an important gender issue and I can't wait for all the social justice kids to start writing 8 articles a day about how women are clearly sexist and things need to change. After all, feminism and social justice isn't anti-male.

And since "Air Conditioning is Sexist":

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

Why can't sleep be?

Why should they know better? Because when they were younger they had more examples of normal-weight kids around them. Their perceptions are like the frog sitting in a pan of progressively hotter water.

It's the same with kids opinions about their being overweight or obese. Many kids just don't see it. They think of obese as normal. And why wouldn't they - they see it everywhere now, so being overweight or obese has been normalized.

A fifth (20 per cent) had a BMI in the overweight category and seven per cent were categorised as obese.

Of these, around 40 per cent thought they were about the right weight.

And it's not getting better.

f parents are to be part of the solution to childhood obesity then parental recognition of overweight and obesity must be improved, they said. Dr Angela Jones, who carried out the study, said that part of the problem was that their had been a shift in what was considered "normal" weight in the last few years.

Only extremely overweight children were recognized as having a problem. The findings were mirrored by a study in the Netherlands which found three quarters of parents did not recognize their children as overweight and half of those with children that were obese.

Why do you think you're seeing all these ads now telling both adults and kids that they're perfect even if they're obese? And the whole "don't body-shame" thing? Shaming works. It worked with tobacco addiction, where smokers over the decades went from being normal to being pariahs, and nothing less will work with obesity. As long as everyone keeps pushing the message that it's okay, people won't feel the pressure to change. It's the "new normal."

Yes, if you sit with your legs too far apart, you are part of rape culture.

In New York, manspreading is a crime. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men...

In madrid Spain as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Anyhow, it's an interesting DDGo search. I can't get some people to look this stuff up, but the links are there, and there are more of them.

Well, that's what they say, but real life says they are wearing a lot faster. And in fact, wind turbine blade repair and replacement from normal wear-and-tear is a new and upcoming industry.

... not all Muslims, so far as I'm aware, throw homosexuals off of buildings.

True, it is mainly the ones that are in Islamic countries under Sharia law. Of course even Turkey isn't completely receptive at present either.

Turkish riot police crack down on banned Pride parade

Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds

Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK

Half of the Countries Where Same-Sex Acts Are Prohibited Are Islamic; Death Penalty in 13

What can you say about this?

Not that devout Muslims clearly don't have issues with homosexuals, but then again, I can go to a conservative Catholic forum and see the same anti-gay vitriol.

I doubt that you do, and to the extent that you could in a Catholic forum it wouldn't be consistent with church dogma which I expect will be more along the lines of homosexuality is an error, and disordered - hate the sin but love the sinner.

Fucked up the source for the quote. Fixed.

Sorry about that.

Americans are still provincial enough to believe that an English accent of any kind lends sophistication and cachet

No, we think anyone speaking in an English accent is a villian. Given how many countries England has invaded over the years there may be some truth to that assumption.

Americans are still provincial enough to believe that an English accent of any kind lends sophistication and cachet

No, we think anyone speaking in an English accent is a villian. Given how many countries England has invaded over the years there may be some truth to that assumption.

or you could switch to LED bulbs

Sure, you could do that...

I don't recall seeing a "Google is your friend" comment recently, so searching on yoga+unchristian gives the following top two search items:
todayschristianwoman.com
telegraph.co.uk
A little futher down is item by a Christian criticising the first articlechristianitytoday.com, so yoga isn't universally condemned by Christians.
Addressing your precise point, searching on yoga+evil gives this 2011 news report (I use the term loosely - it's from the English Daily Mail): ... Father Amorth, a colourful and often outspoken personality, said:'Practising yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil.' He added:'Yoga is the Devil's work. You thing [typo is in the online article] you are doing it for stretching your mind and body but it leads to Hinduism. All these oriental religions are based on the false belief of reincarnation.' ...

You know, a McDonalds won't be around long without a burger flipp

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/09/genius-burger-flipping-robot-replaces-humans-first-day-work/ - doesn't spit on you burger either, so no more "special sauce".

In addition to lumping everyone on the right to demonize them, you make a claim that Islam is less extreme because other religions are factioned and less extreme. I don't believe you. Studies show that a significant number of Muslim support extreme, violent, fascist positions. This could explains why wherever they go, they bring violence and extremism with them.

40% want Sharia Law. How much is enough to complain for you fools?

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

Look at the Saudi Soccer team. They refused to stand in silence for the British Terror victims. These people hate us. Get your brainwashed head out of your rear end, moron. Go look at the people standing for the victims after an attack. It's only white people. NO Muslims. There are no Muslim supporters of the west against terror. They hate the west and only support their own people, because EVERYONE is racist. That's why you can't just dump millions of FAKE refugees from Africa all over Europe. Because THEY are the RACIST ones. They hate the west. They want to destroy the west. They Hate women. There's NOTHING racist about having borders and letting them inhabit their OWN land. Let them stay in Africa and rape and stone women and gays to death and have 8 wives and twelve children and rape children and slaves and rape little boys, etc. Let them stay in their own savage country.

Jesus Christ, you brainwashed morons. People on the left have been shown that they only care about one thing: Compassion, at the expense of everything else. People like that are naive to the point of their own extinction out of failure to recognize signs of predatory behavior. I used to be very far on the left, myself. I understand this disease. But western civilization is under attack and the Globalists are deceiving you. Wake Up.

If you don't like it done to you then don't do it to others.

Aside from all the elections America has interfered in, the US recently targeted its allies and hacked the phone of the German leader.

I'd trust anyone who could drive at 3, and win yacht races at 9. Or anyone that could write 1,500 books in 3 years while attending University. He truly is history in the making.

His family is all sorts of incredible. There's pro-golfers that - in their first game - scored 15 points on an 18-hole course. Who wouldn't trust someone like that?

1 in 5 CEOs are Psychopaths Not the murdering kind, of course. But the lack of empathy, the willingness to manipulate, and the self-aggrandizing are big things. Artists are often (but not always) polar opposites of the first two. Oh, and "writing code to be an art" is why a lot of code is a shitshow. Good art is rare. It's why there's so much more of a push towards science. Then the "art" is perfecting the application of science instead of it being 99% "creativity" and just enough science to get code to compile.

Either you're a liar or an idiot. I'm not sure which, but there's a reason why The FIRE exists and there have been multiple court cases on this across the US. Here's an example from my own back yard. And the "micro aggression" crowd going after people for "cultural appropriation" and yoga mats. Now we can get into the UK the US, and some more of the US. And one can really keep going. FYI west coast universities, and universities in Southern Ontario are the worst in North America right now for this garbage.

Bonus article, about students in favor of banning free speech in the UK to protect feelings.

Either you're a liar or an idiot. I'm not sure which, but there's a reason why The FIRE exists and there have been multiple court cases on this across the US. Here's an example from my own back yard. And the "micro aggression" crowd going after people for "cultural appropriation" and yoga mats. Now we can get into the UK the US, and some more of the US. And one can really keep going. FYI west coast universities, and universities in Southern Ontario are the worst in North America right now for this garbage.

Bonus article, about students in favor of banning free speech in the UK to protect feelings.

Christians might tell you that you're going to hell and say offensive things to you, but they're thankfully not killing people like the Muslims are.

"One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I am driven with a mission from God'. God would tell me, 'George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did.""
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"Tony Blair viewed his decision to go to war in Iraq and Kosovo as part of a "Christian battle", according to one of his closest political allies."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

She said that "her Christian faith helps her make difficult decisions", so unfortunately she the one who's created that association. I would guess - based on her feeble understanding of technology - that your encryption would be safe because it's used for good, but encryption used for bad would be back-doored.

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

I agree though - I know Christians (and atheists) who loathe her policies and see her conduct as very "unchristian". I also know Christians (and atheists) who thinks she's great and completely support tearing up human rights laws.

I'll apologise in advance for this. My experience is that the louder a person is about their Christian beliefs, the less Christian their actions are. The people who walk the walk don't do it for the Kudos so they're often under the public radar. That's a trend I've seen - I don't view it as a rule.

This article says Remicade costs the UK NHS on average £1500 ($1900) per patient per year.

"About 100,000 NHS patients are treated with it at a cost of approximately £150m per year."

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

I think there is actually supposed to be SOMETHING to prosecute.

Intent != crime.

So far, I haven't seen a single actual thing that was a result of this astonishingly inept (yet continuous?) collusion. Just...an administration communicating with the country's main geopolitical opponent (or one of them).

Because, you know Clinton's team met with Russians as well, right? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

*that is, aside from the actual millions of dollars deposited with the Clinton Foundation immediately before Ms Clinton as Sec'y of State approved the massive sale of US uranium reserves?

Remember when the CIA planted logic flaws in some pipeline management software because they knew the Soviets would steal it? This led to the gigantic explosion of a Siberian pipeline:

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

Those people have suddenly become immensely skilled hackers?

It's cheaper to insist the tech companies do something, than reinstating all the police jobs, the conservatives have destroyed.

Even the Daily Telegraph (one of the most right wing papers in the UK) are reporting on the drop and the security risks. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Didn't say that, go back and read. When you're finished you can read this as well. Now when you're done, you can think on this. Why is it that the UK is more interested in denying entry to someone like Pamela Geller, but can't detain people who are on video saying they want to kill the kafir.

A British Transport Police officer didn't have a gun.

This is also subject to international ridicule. In my country (central Europe), every police officer on duty carries a gun (except for police investigators and other office-only workers). This includes municipal police. Hell, you can see even private security personnel commonly carry a weapon.

But in the UK, they have decided that weapons are bad, and instead of using them to at least gain some respect, they start "girl fights" with Muslims, which ends up with Muslims dragging cops on the ground or even just scaring them away with shouting.

I can receive UK TV channels at my home (with a huge sat dish) and it was an absolute shocker for me to see (in a reality TV show) that a car with police interceptors was blocked in a narrow street by a group of thugs and the only thing they could do was to call for reinforcements, which would have some actual guns and some respect (as a result of that).

These people are heroes:

1) A British Transport Police officer didn't have a gun. Instead of running away, he fought the terrorists with his baton.

2) As people were escaping out of the back of a restaurant, a woman stayed at the front of the restaurant. She stayed there to block the front door closed with her body, as the terrorists were trying to force their way in. Her blocking the door saved about 20 people, by giving them time to escape. After the terrorists overpowered here and forced their way in, she was able to escape.

I sometimes wonder how unselfishly brave I would be, if I were in a situation like that. I hope I'd unselfishly brave, like those two people.

He was reported on multiple occasions. Those people don't seem to have been afraid.

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

"he Manchester suicide bomber was repeatedly flagged to the authorities over his extremist views, but was not stopped by officers, it emerged Wednesday night.

Counter Terrorism agencies were facing questions after it emerged Salman Abedi told friends that âoebeing a suicide bomber was okayâ, prompting them to call the Governmentâ(TM)s anti-terrorism hotline.

Sources suggest that authorities were informed of the danger posed by Abedi on at least five separate occasions in the five years prior to the attack on Monday night."

By the way, what is that Rotterdam bullshit you just made up? Got any shitty blogs to cite for it?

At least with breathalysers and radar guns, the algorithm is known. (Parts alcohol per unit of blood, or a doppler formula calculation, or time to travel a certain distance). People have succesfully challenged these. This is worse. Even with access to all the same data, you can't query the result.

At the very least, they could reveal the algorithm used to determine the risk. If that's a trade secret, it calls into serious question how accurate it actually is.

Your fat sticks out 90 degrees sideways above and below the waist. That's because the elastic is far too small. If you do a Google Image Search on "Belt too tight" you can see just about the same thing.

From The Telegraph:

In 1998, Mr Kessler was in fact convicted of racial discrimination in relation to his efforts to prevent the lifting of a ban on shechita, a Jewish religious method of slaughtering animals for food in order to produce kosher meat. However, the court ruled that it does not mean he can be accused of racism without current proof some 20 years later, and the defendant was handed a suspended fine.

You prudish Americans. Actually its the opposite.

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

https://www.bustle.com/article...

http://www.webmd.com/food-reci...