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> Installing drivers are not automatic, like the are for most devices under Windows today.

Windows Update automatically installed new drivers for webcams... which made the webcams useless... oops. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec... And if you manage to revert the update, the next update will re-install the bad driver. Ask yourself... unless there is a security fix or a genuine feature improvement involved, ***WHY*** do you need constant driver updates?

We're all from Africa, so I guess according to his logic we need to all go back there.

Or not.

Perhaps we all need to go back to Europe!

From the first comment on another shameless piece of propaganda:

This phase of Burbo Bank has an installed capacity of 252.4 MW, a capacity factor of 32.5%, an 'Expected Life' of 25 years, occupies an area of 40 sq km and costs £800 million.

Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant has an installed capacity of 3,200 MW, an availability factor of 90%, a 'Design Life' of 60 years, occupies an area of 0.69 sq km and costs £18 billion.

84.2 Burbo Bank-sized offshore wind farms would have to be built to deliver the same amount of [intermittent] electricity as the [24/7] electricity HPC will deliver.

84.2 Burbo Banks would cost £67.36 billion and would occupy an area of 3,368 sq km - that's 58 km x 58 km. Hinkley's site measures 830 metres x 830 metres.

Add to the £67.36 billion the cost of the dedicated gas-fired back up plant for the regular and sometimes prolonged periods when "...the 260 foot blades spans an area the size of the London Eye..." don't have a whoosh in them, and it would be fair to say, we could get 4 Hinkleys and therefore 4X more low-carbon [24/7] electricity for the same money.

It's quite pathetic how renewables supporters like Jillian Ambrose apply nauseous levels of pure propaganda to articles such as this. No attempt whatsoever of presenting any element of the substantial downside to offshore wind.

HPC isn't nearly as expensive as the alternatives being pushed. Countries that aren't drowning in anti-nuclear hysteria propagated by tools like you actually have inexpensive nuclear, and better technology will only tip scale further. Dismissing the most effective tool, and helping to maintain artificially inflated costs makes you a traitor to your supposed cause.

The only winners in your fantastical renewable-only scenario are those harvesting the subsidies, and those supplying the fossil fuels which will continue to provide the bulk of the energy.

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

It appears the authorities were warned on five (!) separate occasions about this boy being mentally unstable and embracing terrorism by people who knew him personally. They ignored it.

To be honest, they might have thought the suspect was just a buffoon. You can't go round arresting every loony you find. But what you can do is pay such people a visit (you can even use social workers for that if the police has a capacity problem) and/or interview them at the police station, have a mental assessment done, and see who they're connected with.

Well, now is the time to improve procedures instead of outlawing encryption and introducing Internet censorship..

Because departments run by LGBTQ and similarly "disadvantaged" people produce such high levels of scholarship:

http://www.skeptic.com/reading...

That white men should just quit- just get out of the way of people of color, whom they are repressing :

http://www.dailywire.com/news/...

Look in a money and resource limited environment, we have to make hard decisions about what and who is important and what and who is not:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Because feminists have sooo much to offer science, so much keen insight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That it would be a pity to let the entire social justice left be excluded merely on the basis of their inability, their differently abledness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Like the Revivvalism of the turn of the century and Scientology today, social justice is a literal cult. Unfortunately it's a cult that threatens the rational and scientific basis of Western civilization and if left unchecked, which it largely has been, will reduce the West to Feminist Lysenkoism and a and ethnic and gender-based totalitarianism.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/L...

The time for passivity and tolerance in the face of civilization-deconstructing psychosis is past. It's civilization or it's the race hatred, gender-cidal cult of social justice. It won't be both. I know I have re-engineered my career to effect the total, permanent and irreversible extermination of this disease and I enjoin anyone of good will- man woman white black brown gay or straight- to join me.

There are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

No, of course not. All those freshly dug graves of Russian soldiers suddenly appearing and reporters being attacked investigating the sudden increase in dead Russian soldiers mean absolutely nothing.

Don't forget the Russian special forces soldiers captured in Ukraine, the Russian officer captured while transporting ammunition and supplies, the Russian soldiers who have dropped the pretense they're not fighting in Ukraine while others have quit the army because they don't want to fight in Ukraine like their comrades. Then there are the terrorists themselves who fully admit Russian soldiers have been fighting for them.

So yeah, no evidence whatsoever of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.

Regardless this is still a sign of the US isolationism causing it to fall in status and capability despite the growing need for information security response. Expense and effectiveness are different things. The French mission in Mali has succeeded through well organized management and brought greater stability and safety to the region. It started 4 years ago and continues even now as a unilateral mission, and the French have a military budget less than 2% of their GDP. That article is about the need to increase it to 2% over a few years. With much smaller budget France maintains its own nuclear powered aircraft carrier, nuclear arsenal, and expeditionary military force fighting across multiple fronts and producing measurable gains. Largely this is through ferreting all corruption out of military procurement, and if similar efforts are made then the US could achieve comparable results for cost and do more with the same budget.

Have you read about this Cage group? There seem to be many shadows around them http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... For Cage is no collection of isolated loonies. As The Telegraph will describe here, it is part of a closely connected network of extremists relentlessly — and successfully — lying to young British Muslims that they are hated and persecuted by their fellow citizens in order to make them into supporters of terror. Cage has an active outreach programme in mosques, universities and community groups. Even more disturbingly, it continues to be treated as a credible partner by respected and respectable organisations, including Liberty and Amnesty International.

Correction: it was drugs that did it:

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

and according to this article:

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

that happened to Sacks himself experimenting with LSD.

From up above, if you're interested:

Read about Emma Lawton's Parkinson Disease: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wel... [telegraph.co.uk]

Read about Emma Lawton's Parkinson Disease: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wel...

as relevant as your reply to the topic of what people think of Germany

http://fortune.com/2014/10/22/...
http://greece.greekreporter.co...

Oh look. I'm entirely on fucking topic regarding the sharing of wealth. So sorry for breaking your shitty false narrative.

By a democratically appointed parliament made of members of the nation states?

Sure. Remind me, who democratically elected Juncker?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Shit, if you want to list good things the EU has achieved then by all means do that. But at least try including some basic checkable fucking facts.

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

"SPAULDING!!!"

Owww poor little baby http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...

If we go by the colloquial whims of the day, we'd start spelling "you are" as "your" and "ur" and believe that humans — uniquely among mammals — have not two, but 71 sexes...

No, it is FORTRAN... As in FORmula TRANslator.

You're making the common mistake of conflating real Feminists with the man-hating, power-seeking, vengeance-driven SJW ersatz, who don't want equality, they want supremacy. Real Feminists just want to be treated fairly.

That's the only right kind of feminist is the first type these days. Otherwise you're excommunicated, and viciously attacked by them as a women hater. The same garbage that you see in subs like /r/feminism is the same type of stuff that's pushed in schools from Canada and the US to Australia. Everything is men's fault, it's all the fault of the patriarchy, society is ruled by the patriarchy, etc, etc, etc. If you refuse to believe that you're a misogynist/sexist/etc. It's this same type of bullshit that's given birth to MRA's, Men's Rights Movements, MGTOW, and so on. There's an absolute fear of standing up to them as well, because they'll bring out the "you're a rapist, you commit sexual assault, etc" garbage and will attempt to ruin a persons life to boot. And if you refuse to fall in line with that? Or if you refuse to follow the 3/4 women will be raped/sexually assaulted/etc? Well you're a rape apologist now.

Ask those 2nd wave feminists who've been saying the 3rd/4th wave bullshit is literal bullshit for decades now. Take someone like Camille Paglia or C.H. Sommers, they're "not real feminists" according to the modern orthodoxy. Or ask those women who say they're not feminists, and are viciously attacked by those batshit insane feminists, the media, and so on. The current brand of feminism can fall into one of two categories depending on your view. It's either a religion, or a cult.

Hell take all those feminists who say "well if men want help on their own issues, they should make their own movement." And so they did...you guess what happens? They're attacked, their meetings are disrupted, and so on. Ask yourself why those same feminists who say "it's about equality" attack men who've been raped by women. Try to get men's shelters shut down. Try to block successfully in many cases to get rape laws changed so they're gender neutral. Ask yourself why feminists have their panties in such a twist over the documentary "The Red Pill" by Cassie Jaye. That they go as far as to attack her in the media and lie. Lie and threaten theaters who were showing it, force them to not show it. Say it's all rape apology, sexism, and so on. Disrupt private events from showing it. Ask yourself why feminists fight so hard against getting male suicide labeled an epidemic. It is. 80% in some countries are men, but the help they're able to get is close to non-existent in some cases. 83% of suicides in my own backyard are from men in the 16-40 range. There's two programs that exist to help men, there are 73 programs for women.

Then ask yourself, why so few people actually call themselves feminists. And why so many people see what the GP said, is believed by so many.

This is the exact opposite of what has happened - in fact the EU already prevented the UK from liberalising such rules, as it wanted a tax on blank media or similar as per other EU countries. Guardian link on the same subject if you prefer.

The UK was ahead in recognising format shifting, but was slapped back by the copyright lobby demanding payment for format shifting and working that angle via the EU.

There's no chance in hell that Turkey will be able to join the EU and the chance is decreasing rapidly.

Exactly. Turkey has been pushing to join the EU for decades now, and it has (of its own- or rather of Erdogan's- own volition) been moving further away from meeting the requirements to join.

Even a few years ago, before things got this bad, it was generally seen as clear that Erdogan was not interested in joining the EU- let alone meeting the conditions for membership- but only in exploiting it for political capital... particularly when they were rejected so he could blame them for anti-Muslim bias, say they had no intention of letting them in in the first place, and use it as an excuse to bolster his own autocratic regime.

It'll also be noted how Erdogan exploited the Syrian refugee crisis in an attempt to extort concessions from the EU by threatening non-cooperation and effectively swamping the EU with refugees coming via Turkey. With freedom of speech- let alone expression- being cracked down on to the current extent, with the state shamelessly exploiting its power to push its own message while persecuting and suppressing any opposition, Turkey has- like Russia- become a mockery of a democracy.

Erdogan got his way- regardless of whether the Turks themselves are decent people, this is not a country- in anything like its current state- it would be acceptable or remotely workable to have within the EU. But then, there was never a cat's chance in hell of this happening anyway (and now it's more like a snowman's chance).

If I'd thought there was *anything* like a realistic prospect of Erdogan's Turkey being allowed to join the EU, there's no way I'd have voted "Remain". (Spoiler; I voted "Remain".)

Of course, that didn't stop self-serving scum like Boris Johnson- the guy who shifted his allegiance to improve his own prospects of becoming Prime Minister- using this as a scaremongering tactic to promote the Leave case, and in an utterly shameless display of hypocrisy, once they'd won, saying they were going to help Turkey join the EU. What a piece of shit.

They can't - there's a housing shortage. Giving one group of workers prices the others out of being able to afford a home. Housing quality in many areas is rather grim. There''s not enough space in front of each house for more than one car, roads aren't wide enough for cars to park on either side and have more than a single truck or ambulance get through. Driveways are "shared" between homes so that different garages actually open onto the same driveway. Some homes are only sold as leaseholds (you own the house but lease the land for 99 years, and pay rent each year) rather than freeholds (own both house and land).

In the USA or Canada, the federal government owns all non-developed land, and so they can sell it off as and when needed. In the UK, all the undeveloped land is either owned by private estates or farmers. We have to take land used for food production out of operation in order to build more homes. UK already imports 45% of food. Married couples are being forced to house share with a room each because of the shortage in the South East. There's now the problem of beds-in-sheds-to-rent in back gardens and communal rooms in London.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/art...

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

Kaby Lake CPUs didn't come out at all until October 2016 and, when they did, all of the quad-core SKUs supported 64GB of RAM. That's irrelevant, though, as the Kaby Lake CPUs aren't what's in the 2016 MBP. The two prior generations (at least) supported 32GB. That includes the i5-6360U in the lowest-end 2016 MacBook Pro.

So, what's the excuse, again?

So, I went back and re-read some of the articles that came out at the time the 2016 MBPs were launched, and it turns out that I was sort of right; but not exactly right.

The real issue was that (if I got this right, synthesizing from a couple of different articles) the CPUs that were due to come out, but didn't, were due to support LPDDR4 (low-power DDR4) RAM, and when they didn't come out as promised by Intel, Apple chose to use a memory controller that supported LPDDR3 RAM (because that's all the CPU would support?), but limited it to 16 GB due to concerns with battery-life.

And that is a legitimate concern; because, if you visit the product-forums for the laptops that do support more than 16 GB of RAM, you will find scores of complaints about hideous battery life, whereas, Apple just got praised for being the only laptop manufacturer who actually generally meets or exceeds their battery-life claims.

While I agree this one definitely looks like a useless toy, it looks like it should fly the same over land or water. If I was that pilot, I wouldn't want to try that over land, though. It doesn't look like a very stable design when it comes to balance. Of all the "flying car" footage I've seen, I like this one the best so far:

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

The only video I'd really like to see of this "Kitty Hawk" is one that shows how the boaters react when it flies directly over them.

Just two things how she and her campaign did things...
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Impotent rage, eh?

Yep. Dismissing the opponent as "crazy" and other ad hominem attacks is a sure sign of not having rational arguments. Normally people just do not reply in such situation — unless they are enraged and feel compelled to type something up, such to denounce the opponent's person, rather than his argument.

lefty WaPo of all places in fact say the exact opposite

It does not. Quote:

I’ve long argued that Obama’s most ardent supporters should not ascribe racial motives to the president’s critics when none exist.

Why would the article's author have "long argued" against a phenomenon, if the phenomenon didn't exist — or was rare? Of course, it existed — and was awfully common-spread. And the same exact verbiage would've gotten recycled for eight more years with "racism" replaced by "sexism". We all know it, including yourself — the sooner you come out of your denial, the better.

And er you don't really understand sarcasm that well. Or logical fallacies.

Your impotence is showing once again. We are done.

The GNU Project told us about Microsoft malware long ago, including what is accurately listed "Microsoft Windows has a universal back door through which any change whatsoever can be imposed on the users" pointing to a mainstream media news reference from 2007 and another link indicating when this was used, and a pointer to a Condé Nast article talking about the (apparently ongoing) forced Windows Updates. Microsoft is also the first PRISM partner with the NSA joining on September 11, 2007, according to an internal NSA document so they have quite a long history of being untrustworthy but the underlying power they're leveraging comes from proprietary software.

Other proprietors are no more trustworthy. Apple didn't fix an intentional back door for 4 years, Apple didn't fix an iTunes backdoor through which others could have gained control of systems running the software. Apple joined PRISM in October 2012. Other proprietors with names you know (Yahoo, Facebook, Google, YouTube, etc.) joined in between the Microsoft and Apple partnerships.

The theme remains the same: it doesn't matter who the proprietor is (Microsoft in this case), proprietary software is always untrustworthy and this doesn't change even after applying lots of updates from the proprietor. Just because a new version is out, or a patch released does not mean the back door is shut or that you can verify their work (or even get someone more technically skilled to verify it on your behalf).

Now we have more confirmation of how the threats come from other directions, not just the proprietor, and that the threat is more organized than we commonly knew. Evidence like this immediately advances the discussion beyond the distraction of calling someone a 'tinfoil hat wearer' or other such nonsense, as did the Snowden documents. And WikiLeaks maintains their perfect record for authenticity in their publications—as far as we can tell these documents are what WikiLeaks claims they are. Proprietary software is always a threat. Software freedom is no guarantee of safety, but you're better off having software you can inspect, run, share, and modify (AKA control) than not. You simply can't trust proprietors to do right by you and all computer users deserve software freedom.

I do not have an opinion on quality of Russian military hardware, but in 2007 Syria did not have S-300. News from 2013 Syria claims Russia has started delivering S300 missiles

Ford. Price to Earnings ratio of 9.95, Earnings per share of 1.15. Revenue of $151.8 billion in 2016.

Tesla. Price to Earnings ratio of -63.79 (they lost money). Earnings per share of -4.68 (Tesla lost 4x more per share than Ford made). Revenue of $7 billion in 2016.

Basically, for Tesla to be priced where it is (assuming a "reasonable" P/E ratio of 10), you're betting that its earnings are going to reach $16 billion/yr. If you go by the average 5% profit margin for major automakers, this means you expect Tesla to become a $320 billion/yr revenue company. Or the third biggest company in the world after Walmart and China's national power company.

Good luck with that bet. The Chevy Bolt has set a really high bar for the Tesla Model 3 to meet. If you're one of those people expecting the Model 3 to give you Model S quality and features at a Bolt price, you're going to be in for a major disappointment.

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

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

I'm sorry about your schizophrenia. It's a devastating condition which ruins many lives. I'll be praying for your recovery.

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

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

From the big corporates

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

I don't claim to know what's going on in jolly old England, but I occasionally hear about NHS doctor shortages:

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

Doctors in the US have incentive to go through a very expensive and time consuming education process, because they are some of the highest paid people in our country.

Are doctors in the NHS system similarly incented?

Significant numbers of Indians, Pakistanis and peoples of ex-colonies and British commonwealth countries like South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago were welcomed into the UK in WW2 and after, both to fight and help rebuild. Many that are in the UK today have been there for multiple generations already.

I am quite aware of that, but here we have some numbers from 2015: The top country of origin was China (46,000 arrivals). Second place is shared by Spain and India, at 33,000 a piece. A further 11,000 came from Pakistan, 29,000 from Australia, and 20,000 from the USA. Yes, the UK could not do anything about controlling the flow of Spaniards, Poles, Germans, and other EU nationals - but it could have accepted the Chinese in triple digits if it wanted to, not in the tens of thousands. Ditto for the Indians.

Furthermore, here it says that EU nationals accounted for 49% of non-British inflow in 2015 - meaning that a majority of immigrants to the UK in 2015 - 51% - were not EU citizens, i.e. the decision to admit half the immigrants was completely under British control and these people were admitted purely under the discretion of the UK government. It was rather disingenuous of the Brexit camp (esp. UKIP) to blame immigration on the EU, when most of it was a result of UK government policy that had nothing to do with free movement.

Well considering:
      - 49% of eligible Brits said 'no'
      - Another portion indicated they didn't really want to exit, and was using this as a protest vote
      - Brits outside of the UK for more than 15 years weren't allowed to vote
      - The younger portion of the population generally voted to stay (ref)
      - Financial institutions may move their HQs, with some having started (ref)
      - Airlines such as Easyjet will need to move their HQs to benefit from the European continent (ref)
      - This may be the trigger for Scotland to have another referendum (ref)

With the above I am wondering who will really be happy? Maybe those who were living in a bubble and reading tabloids? I am not saying the EU doesn't need some fixing, but being a non-team player may really hurt.

After so many aborted attempts, NASA engineers believe that this time Samsung will succeed in putting a Galaxy 8 into orbit around the Earth.

Climate change is happening, whether or not you believe that extremes are anecdotes. Physics doesn't care about your trivial politics.

Bro, do you even read?

I never refuted climate change or questioned physics.

Yes, climate change is a thing. Yes it's gonna get worse before it gets better. I'm already braced for record breaking climate based phenomena thanks.

Kiribati is going underwater. Does anyone else care? *sigh*

It's been well publicised and a long time coming and no one gives a shit -> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Criticising a story is not criticising the existence of climate change. That's just you being trigger happy.

The story is just another alarmist anecdote about climate change.

Your true colours show through at last.

Yeah, about that beige..just stop for a moment and imagine a plane crashing to the ground; this plane is one of many and their fate is in question but this specific one is crashing and that cannot be altered. Yelling out how the plane is reaching the ground and is closer than ever is anecdotal and alarmist drivel.

This does not refute that the plane is crashing. It does not refute physics. It does not actually refute anything. Kiribati will be underwater and there is nothing that will change that.

Colour blind people can see shades of grey just fine. I think your analogy insult needs work.

If you failed to "get it" that's not because I take issue with climate change or due to my political persuasions nor my understanding of physics. That's just you.

You are factually incorrect as per the above and the analogy of colour blindness rings true. Shades of grey is demonstrably no substitute to the ability to observe the visible colour spectrum. You missed several.

Maybe you're right and my analogy still needs "work"...you know because there's a way to restore original colour from old black and white (read shades of grey) film.
TL;DR - If the sentences in bold do not appear in red, green or blue colour just assume you are without error and I'm still hard at work...

Because it's SO difficult for someone to write a new app with no backdoors. Britain can't stop this; they can pass all the laws they want. But terrorists really don't care what the law says by definition. Plus it is a proven fact that British police can't stay within the lines when it comes to information like this.

Christians aren't killing people or threatening to use nuclear weapons on people who disagree with them.

Exactly, that's why they're not the ones with their dirty fingers on the red buttons. Oh, look, they are!

In Britain, apparently quoting the Bible can get you locked up for a hte crime. Even if (like me) you think that the Bible is a bunch of hooey, that's not the way free societies ought to function.

So, sure, Google needs to conform to British cultural norms if they want to do business there. But a good deal of skepticism is in order whether this actually about "hate-filled videos" or simply bizarre British preferences. That is, US media shouldn't just repeat such statements without qualification because the term "hate-filled" seems to mean something very different over there.

What year would that Nobel Peace Prize have been awarded? I can't seem to find him anywhere on this list nor on this list (in case Wikipedia has been vandalized).

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

1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Not as previous poster misspoke: "Peace" prize.

What year would that Nobel Peace Prize have been awarded? I can't seem to find him anywhere on this list nor on this list (in case Wikipedia has been vandalized).

The reason trafficking is so common is that there's a supply problem. There are indeed people who want to work in prostitution, but their numbers do not correspond to the demand. People can make large amounts of money by trafficking in women from poorer countries to help meet demand.

Legalizing prostitution unfortunately starts a race to the bottom by creating a competitive market that puts pressure on sex workers to compete via lower prices and committing more uncomfortable or dangerous sex acts than they're comfortable with, as well as spawning big businesses that try to extract as much profit out of them as they can. It also opens up a huge can of worms on the distinction between contract violation and rape.

About two years ago. Which is sad, because I consider modern Judaism the most progressive abrahamic religion. Especially this deserves a lot of respect.

"So is the rest of Europe as bad as the UK, or are we to believe that the UK is somehow a big exception in Europe?"

The UK is definitely an exception. No constitution to guarantee basic rights for the populace, so government intrusiveness and general unpleasantness is missing an important constraint. Look at the UK libel laws: Uniquely among Western countries, truth is not a defense against libel in the UK.

"And what we're seeing in Turkey isn't looking too hot either, and the Europeans have long been trying to make Turkey out to be a European nation."

The EU has never wanted Turkey to join. Turkey has been pressing for membership for ages (and the US has also supported Turkey's membership), but the EU keeps putting them off. The EU has been trying to avoid a flat-out "no", because Turkey is in a position to be a total PITA. For example, Turkey is currently sitting on a couple million refugees, whom they could easily push out their western border into Greece.

Erdogan, meanwhile, is busily dragging Turkey back into the dark ages, and has utterly destroyed any goodwill that Turkey may have had. He is currently held in check by the tatters of the Turkish constitution. If his "reform" passes the popular vote, he'll pretty much have eliminated that last obstacle. Ask the Germans and Dutch what they currently think of Erdogan and the Turkish government. If it is possible for support for Turkey's membership to be negative, Erdogan has achieved that.

...it sounds like the app was putting fake people into cars and directing the driver elsewhere...

To further confuse the issue, here are a couple of articles on Uber "Ghost Drivers" that give us a definition that doesn't really work here. In those articles, "ghost drivers" are people that post gruesome pics on their profile to scare customers into canceling. That can't be right unless Uber has gotten weird.

You're probably right, although that's not very subtle. I assume the regulator would book a ride and then the ghost driver just wouldn't show or would cancel?

So yeah that happened. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

5g won't be rolling out anytime soon, most probably. My understanding is that the costs are pretty high, and the increase in market penetration isn't there. So providers aren't that keen.

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

My point was, that the companies screaming the loudest are Facebook, Google and Microsoft. I agree that H1-Bs drives down the costs by introducing unqualified diploma mill replacements. I make a pretty good living un-fucking projects where a team of unqualified H1-Bs and their counterparts in Asia have done the million monkey march to developing a system. Contrary to popular belief the works of Shakespeare are not produced by this model and you wind up paying more in the end.

North Korea appears to be super-unstable right now. The chubby one can't get along with his Chinese masters, and lacks a good understanding of what is important. His underlings don't respect him, understand that the outside world is better (at least, the high-ranking ones do). He keeps them in line by killing them but that doesn't work for very long.

Interesting recent news article about treating prostate cancer by 'cycling' testosterone levels

No, you're supposed to acknowledge that 3D TV is a failure because the TV manufacturers are no longer making new models that have 3D support. (see articles all over the place). This means that the number of people making 3D content will also disappear.

Success would be something that continues to be made. The automobile is a success. The TV generally is a success. The Cuecat is a failure. 3D TV is a failure.

The amount of Anonymous Cowards posting the same couple lines makes it obvious. This thread is being astroturfed.

Women are making more money than men for the same job and same amount of work today, especially in cities. Stop reading a bogus 30 year old paper crafted for a narrative and check current reports. or This or This or This and of course This Interestingly most of these are LEFT leaning sites, not Right/Conservative.

PolitiFact has given you the nuts and bolts about the 77 cents statistic -- you can read the two most important works in this area here and here. Basically, there is a wage gap, but it tends to disappear when you compare women and men in the exact same jobs who have the same levels of experience and education. (emphasis mine)

The wage gap gets smaller when you control for job and experience, it doesn't disappear. And it's not certain you should be controlling for those things.

The stat about unmarried women in the 22-30 range earning more is part of it. For one those articles are from 2008-2012 when uneducated males were probably the hardest hit demographic, I'm not sure that stat would be true today.

Also, as they get older that gap is likely to reverse as men move out of apprenticeship positions (in labour or medicine) and as they start moving into management.

Do men get promoted into management because women make different career choices, or because we tend to view men as leaders? The answer to that question affects whether you view the wage gap as legitimate.

Just like 60% of all College students are women, 56% of all College graduates with advanced degrees are women. Yet we continue to hear that we need more women in college.

I'm an egalitarian, not a MRA. I also happen to believe in Socrates' definition of Philosopher, who must seek truth even at their own peril. Sadly the left avoids all truth and distorts everything they can for division and agenda.

More women in College isn't necessarily a sign of equality, women need degrees because uneducated women don't have the same job opportunities as uneducated men in skilled and unskilled labour. I think Iran, hardly an example of gender equality, also has more women in University.

Besides, you're arguing a straw man. The thing you actually year is not "we need more women in college", it's "we need more women in technical fields". There are a lot of well paying fields like software and engineering that women don't pursue, that's also responsible for part of the wage gap. It also leads to the creation of hostile dysfunctional workplaces like the one described in this article.