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With Spotify looking to launch a smart speaker in the not-too-distant-future, the decision to purchase a smart speaker has become all the more difficult.

The decision is as easy as it always was: Don't!

Seriously, after talking about the dangers of eavesdropping and the big brother, having the computer's camera covered, who would possibly pay money to have a permanently-connected microphone installed in their dwelling?

You may think, you can turn it off, but you can not be certain. If the criminals and intelligence agencies manage to break into your computer, why would they not break into your "smart speaker"? Police too may find it much easier to gain the cooperation of the device's manufacturer to listen on you, than to get a warrant and then wire your house without you noticing.

Just say no and control your music the old-fashioned way — as we all did only a few years ago.

The ruling class want FacebookGoogleTwitterEtc regulated to stop "populism." Here is Soros using fear to justify putting government minders in control, complete with scary images of eyeballs controlled by corporations and warnings of a Trump dictatorship.

Everywhere you look leftists and statists are using fear to put themselves in control of the Internet.

The rape allegation isn't about non consensual condom removal. It's that he work someone up having sex with them without a condom when they had previously consented to sex only with a condom.

https://www.theguardian.com/me...

The following day, Miss W phoned Assange and arranged to meet him late in the evening, according to her statement. The pair went back to her flat in Enkoping, near Stockholm. Miss W told police that though they started to have sex, Assange had not wanted to wear a condom, and she had moved away because she had not wanted unprotected sex. Assange had then lost interest, she said, and fallen asleep. However, during the night, they had both woken up and had sex at least once when "he agreed unwillingly to use a condom".

Early the next morning, Miss W told police, she had gone to buy breakfast before getting back into bed and falling asleep beside Assange. She had awoken to find him having sex with her, she said, but when she asked whether he was wearing a condom he said no. "According to her statement, she said: 'You better not have HIV' and he answered: 'Of course not,' " but "she couldn't be bothered to tell him one more time because she had been going on about the condom all night. She had never had unprotected sex before."

The police record of the interview with Assange in Stockhom deals only with the complaint made by Miss A. However, Assange and his lawyers have repeatedly stressed that he denies any kind of wrongdoing in relation to Miss W.

In submissions to the Swedish courts, they have argued that Miss W took the initiative in contacting Assange, that on her own account she willingly engaged in sexual activity in a cinema and voluntarily took him to her flat where, she agrees, they had consensual sex. They say that she never indicated to Assange that she did not want to have sex with him. They also say that in a text message to a friend, she never suggested she had been raped and claimed only to have been "half asleep".

Police spoke to Miss W's ex-boyfriend, who told them that in two and a half years they had never had sex without a condom because it was "unthinkable" for her. Miss W told police she went to a chemist to buy a morning-after pill and also went to hospital to be tested for STDs. Police statements record her contacting Assange to ask him to get a test and his refusing on the grounds that he did not have the time.

Despite Assange's lawyers making 'a sophisticated argument' that this would not be rape in the UK, UK courts repeatedly ruled it was :

http://jackofkent.com/2012/06/...

The position with offence 4 is different. This is an allegation of rape. The framework list is ticked for rape. The defence accepts that normally the ticking of a framework list offence box on an EAW would require very little analysis by the court. However they then developed a sophisticated argument that the conduct alleged here would not amount to rape in most European countries. However, what is alleged here is that Mr Assange "deliberately consummated sexual intercourse with her by improperly exploiting that she, due to sleep, was in a helpless state". In this country that would amount to rape.

Which meant he could be extradited to Sweden. Once the Supreme Court ruled that and he'd run out of appeals he fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition and remains there to this day.

Actually if he'd agreed to have an HIV test when Miss W asked him after the whole 'waking her up having unprotected sex' thing, he could probably have pre-empted her going to the police. But he said he was too busy because he's a massive asshole. So now he's stuck in the Embassy, probably indefinitely.

When I read this, I immediately wondered why it was even possible to build a 1,100 ft tall wooden building, more than eight times taller than the current record for the tallest wooden building. This Guardian article goes into more detail about the engineering of tall wooden buildings, and cites this Canadian Wood Council case study for some of its information. In short, the wood materials to be used are highly specialized fireproofed laminate composites. Calling the finished product wood is like calling Splenda sugar; just because it's a derivative of the original doesn't mean it's the same thing.

From an engineering perspective, a skyscraper undergoes incredible stresses. The building has to be capable of supporting itself and all the weight within it. It has to withstand the tremors of earthquakes, the forces of wind and water, and not lose its strength over time, even as it's exposed for decades to UV rays. The building materials need to have a unique combination of sheer strength, tensile strength, and compressive strength. A combination of steel and concrete give you all three. But natural wood is inconsistent. Flaws like knots and cracks in the grains weaken its sheer strength. Wood has great tensile strength in the direction of the grain, but is very weak against the grain. And it works the opposite way with compression. The only way to overcome these weaknesses is with laminates, which are very expensive (currently, due to the lack of demand) to produce.

Not to mention wood burns much easier.

My personal opinion is that there are some architects trying to get name recognition by coming up with something unique. I hope anyone considering to fund such imaginations take a lesson from the Spruce Goose and use wood when it's advantageous, not avant garde.

If you're trying to set up a Conservative friendly social media or video sharing service his politics are actually a plus.

The interesting thing is that Sam Altman is probably a libertarian type too.

http://blog.samaltman.com/e-pu...

You can't tell which seemingly wacky ideas are going to turn out to be right, and nearly all ideas that turn out to be great breakthroughs start out sounding like terrible ideas. So if you want a culture that innovates, you can't have a culture where you allow the concept of heresy-if you allow the concept at all, it tends to spread. When we move from strenuous debate about ideas to casting the people behind the ideas as heretics, we gradually stop debate on all controversial ideas.

This is uncomfortable, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics. Of course we can and should say that ideas are mistaken, but we can't just call the person a heretic. We need to debate the actual idea.

Political correctness often comes from a good place-I think we should all be willing to make accommodations to treat others well. But too often it ends up being used as a club for something orthogonal to protecting actual victims. The best ideas are barely possible to express at all, and if you're constantly thinking about how everything you say might be misinterpreted, you won't let the best ideas get past the fragment stage.

I don't know who Satoshi is, but I'm skeptical that he, she, or they would have been able to come up with the idea for bitcoin immersed in the current culture of San Francisco-it would have seemed too crazy and too dangerous, with too many ways to go wrong. If SpaceX started in San Francisco in 2017, I assume they would have been attacked for focusing on problems of the 1%, or for doing something the government had already decided was too hard. I can picture Galileo looking up at the sky and whispering "E pur si muove" here today.

I.e. what the SJWs who infest Google and FB (and Reddit, whose board Altman was on) are scared of is that the people who have haven't drunk the Koolaid and may - horror of horrors - fund people who want to start companies who challenge their control of The Narrative.

Odd really, I always thought Altman's politics were like those of the average Redditor. However read that blog post and it's clear they're not. The dude is OK.

Also The Guardian mentioned him negatively in a hit piece on Thiel :

https://www.theguardian.com/ne...

If you're interested in the end of the world, you're interested in New Zealand. If you're interested in how our current cultural anxieties - climate catastrophe, decline of transatlantic political orders, resurgent nuclear terror - manifest themselves in apocalyptic visions, you're interested in the place occupied by this distant archipelago of apparent peace and stability against the roiling unease of the day.

If you're interested in the end of the world, you would have been interested, soon after Donald Trump's election as US president, to read a New York Times headline stating that Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, considered New Zealand to be "the Future". Because if you are in any serious way concerned about the future, you're also concerned about Thiel, a canary in capitalism's coal mine who also happens to have profited lavishly from his stake in the mining concern itself.

Thiel is in one sense a caricature of outsized villainy: he was the only major Silicon Valley figure to put his weight behind the Trump presidential campaign; he vengefully bankrupted a website because he didn't like how they wrote about him; he is known for his pu

Name a piece of information, known by Christopher Steele to be false, spread as if it were true.

AC, I hereby accuse you of being a goat-fucker. I don't know that this information is false, as you could actually be one of those rare, rare people who engage in goat fucking. Now is this a fair framing of how assertions are supposed to work - or is it total BS? You're also ignoring the fact that it's impossible to prove a negative - it's impossible to prove that Trump hasn't been peed on, much less that Steele lied about it. Which is why it's the job of the person making the assertion to back it up.

Who is Christopher Steele? From Wikipedia: Not exactly some fly-by-night amateur

Nah, just a torturing, murdering, kidnapping piece of imperialist shit:

In 2003, Steele was sent to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan as part of an MI6 team, briefing Special Forces on "kill or capture" missions for Taliban targets

The kinda guy who should be in prison for war crimes.

Page had been on the radar long beforehand

People keep saying this as if its supposed to mean something. Past surveillance - that resulted in nothing as he was charged with nothing - does jack to justify future investigations without probable cause.

Intelligence courts generally presume by default that sources have some sort of motive, because as a general rule, people who aren't motivated don't act as sources.

Neat way of sidestepping the fact that one general election candidate digging up opposition dirt on her opponent was used as the basis for spying on said opposition candidate.

The Pentagon calls it Nuclear War. The Brits agree.

We know where the Russians and Chinese hackers are located. It is simply a matter of time before their facilities are razed.

Hey, there is some good news: 'The Trump slump': Remington files for bankruptcy as gun sales tumble - now that they are sure nobody is going to take their guns away, at least they don't buy new ones.

So unless you buy the enterprise edition of Windows (Cost: $84 per PC, per year, minimum 5 licenses), or are attending a university that will enable you to obtain the Education edition on windows (Cost: averages about $9,970 per year) you can't even do what you suggest. Windows explicitly ignores the settings that turns this functionality off.

Actually the reason you can't really control Windows is because Windows is proprietary software. No amount of registry changes, config file changes, or changing one's practices with Windows will place Windows under the user's control. That's the same for any variant of Windows no matter how much one pays or if the software bears the name "enterprise".

Microsoft has a universal backdoor in Windows. Even disconnecting the Windows computer from the network won't place that computer under the owner's control. What the article complains about isn't new: tricking and forcibly pushing users into switching to Windows 10, privacy controls that ignore the user's settings and rat on the user regardless, and dropping support for processors Microsoft doesn't want to support instead of letting the users do the work are all part of the same theme—this is what non-free software can do.

North Korea punishes people to talking to the South

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

The nature of the revised punishments provides a stark reflection of the regime's anxiety at the nature and scale of cross-border activities, the source explained. A minimum of five years "re-education" or the death penalty can be decreed for those caught communicating with the outside world, a minimum of 10 years re-education is the maximum punishment for simply watching South Korean media or listening to foreign radio, and a minimum of five years reeducation is possible for drug smuggling.

We all need to listen to Frank Drake (founder of SETI) on this one. We are not ever going to detect any alien communications (unless they are specifically targeted at us with that intent). We have a hard enough time talking to Mars: that whole 'Sun' thing makes for a terrible SNR. Not only that, but broadcasting high-energy analog signals is extremely wasteful. Humanity had about a 50-year period where we did this. Now, as you say, we use waveguides. We also don't send anything in analog form any more. Digital data that you don't know how to decode tends to look an awful lot like noise, even without being encrypted or compressed.

What SETI is doing is completely pointless, even compared to cryptocurrency mining.

Nice ....!

We all need to listen to Frank Drake (founder of SETI) on this one. We are not ever going to detect any alien communications (unless they are specifically targeted at us with that intent). We have a hard enough time talking to Mars: that whole 'Sun' thing makes for a terrible SNR. Not only that, but broadcasting high-energy analog signals is extremely wasteful. Humanity had about a 50-year period where we did this. Now, as you say, we use waveguides. We also don't send anything in analog form any more. Digital data that you don't know how to decode tends to look an awful lot like noise, even without being encrypted or compressed.

What SETI is doing is completely pointless, even compared to cryptocurrency mining.

The same NSA employees who turned off Kaspersky protection to install a keygen tool. https://www.theguardian.com/te...

China already emits more CO2 than America. And the climate, if it cares at all, cares about total emissions not per capita emissions

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Immunotherapy to cure peanut allergies involves using peanut proteins to build tollerance and reprogram the immune system.
https://www.theguardian.com/au...

Not what I was getting at with my initial comment though. People with healthy immune systems don't tend to develop allergies.
To have a healthy immune system, you need to be exposed to a variety of things, both good and bad. Some things are genetic defects, most things aren't.
If parents sterilise everything their children touch,don't let them play outside, and wash them with antibacterial soap, they get sick more often.

Because it's a language that has some structure and meaning but we don't know how to decipher it, which is a challenge for cryptologists.

Linguists have identified the structure of the language as Hebrew written by a monk and the original language as one of the Aztec dialects. Botanists have identified 37 out of 303 pictures of plants. Astronomers have identified some of the constellations in the pictures. Both tie in to a particular region in that continent.

The idea is that it's a guidebook for medicines. One of the plants mentioned are a source of vitamin C. From natural homeopathy many plants have many uses. The viola bicolor is one that was identified.
https://www.theguardian.com/bo...
http://www.americanvioletsocie...

So, when the white guy struggles to differentiate black people with an "you all look the same to me" statement, it's automatically construed as racist and derogatory.

It is? News to me, mostly because you're inventing outrage.

Even the Grauniad doesn't say it's racist.

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.

1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book

2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime

3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama

4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say

5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family

8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined

9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’

10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering

12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room

13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign

14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report

15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal

16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king

17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich

18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,

Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.

1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book

2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime

3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama

4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say

5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family

8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined

9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’

10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering

12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room

13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign

14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report

15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal

16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king

17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich

18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,

I thought it was funny when Gaddafi fell and a load of millennials found out what the .ly in vb.ly stood for.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

That follows the abrupt enforced shutdown of vb.ly, a "link shortening" site run by Ben Metcalfe and Violet Blue, after it was declared that the content of the site was "against Sharia law".

An image of Violet with bare arms, drinking from a bottle of lager, was emblazoned across the front page of the site when the government-owned Libya Telecom & Technology got in touch earlier this month. "Pornography and adult material aren't allowed under Libyan law, therefore we removed the domain," the letter said, adding: "The issue of offensive imagery is quite subjective, as what I may deem as offensive you might not, but I think you'll agree that a picture of a scantily clad lady with some bottle in her hand isn't exactly what most would consider decent or family friendly at the least."

But other moves made by the ministry could threaten the business of another web startup, bit.ly, which has had millions of dollars of investors' money poured into it - including funding of $10m (£6.3m) received earlier this week - following the announcement in June by the Tripoli regulator for domain registry that domain registrations with fewer than four characters were restricted for use by registrars "having presence" in Libya - that is, based in the country - where they would be under local Sharia jurisdictions.

I.e. it turns out that 'respecting' cultures on the other side of the world that you know nothing about by denying that they are in any way different from yours is not a good idea. Who'd have thought it?

promotes such a toxic workplace...

I would hasten to add that toxic workplace is as most subjective as can be, and that this is *your* opinion. There are a lot of external references to Uber's toxic workplace. Try google searching Uber+toxic+workplace. A few hits I could dismiss as "a few haters", but I get 443 thousand hits.

Here are some of the top few. It looks pretty toxic to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... https://thinkprogress.org/trav... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://theconversation.com/fix... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.theguardian.com/te... https://qz.com/1010986/a-timel...

Maybe Alphabet doesn't believe that Google's results are accurate. ;-)

Strangely, I just ran the same search in Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Google: 157,000 hits

Bing: 3,690,000 hits

Yahoo: 21,000,000 hits

The case of Gottfrid Svartholm makes bad liars out of all the concern trolls working on behalf of American Hegemony. Sweden goes to great lengths to extradite someone from a non-extradition country, and immediately throws him in a cell with no contact for weeks, interrogated for a case in another country, and deported to said country.

Get lost, dipshit.

Manning betrayed the US military, making many of them very angry with him.

Not the neocons who lied them into not one but two wars costing trillions of dollars and 8,000+ American lives? GFTO, dipshit.

There is only one real solution: Nuclear.

[citation needed]

Not your grandfather's nuclear, TODAY'S nuclear.

I'm looking around, but I don't actually see any of today's nuclear. But what I do see actually being installed today is wind and solar. We should have been ramping up solar in the 1970s, since even the PV panels of those days would repay their energy investment in less than seven years, and most of those panels would still be functioning today. But people like you fought that tooth and nail, and now here we are today, with people like you clamoring for something which doesn't exist: safe nuclear power. There is no such thing, which is why the private sector can not and will not ever insure one. Decommissioning costs are always multiples of estimates and we still have no viable plan for dealing with nuclear waste. Even reprocessed fuel leaves waste behind, and the waste from that is spectacularly nasty. The solution for nuclear waste isn't to double down and produce worse nuclear waste. It's to stop producing it at all, because it's wholly unnecessary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lawyers for the 33-year-old, who lives in Suffolk, had argued that Love should be tried in Britain for allegedly hacking into US government websites and that he would be at risk of killing himself if sent to the US.

Before blowing that off as outlandish, Sweden is known for keeping suspects incommunicado for weeks without even charging them, and then deporting them to other countries to face other charges. Obama had Chelsea Manning tortured with solitary confident for months - yes it's torture and it causes permanent damage after a couple weeks - and she eventually attempted suicide.

Wells Fargo was a banking giant out of the midwest with solid values you could trust. Until they started getting a bit greedy and merged with East Coast bank titan Wachovia back in 2008. Talk about fruit of the forbidden tree.

Wachovia corrupted them from the inside out.

And you wonder why these flyover states are so hesitant to trust things from the two coasts.

Someone else here wrote about their money laundering services, and that is no joke. Wachovia was chock full of snakes, and now Wells Fargo is infested, and they're going to be shaking snakes out their pant legs for some time to come.

The rape allegation is a rape allegation. You appear to be very willing to throw accusations out if you like a guy.

You appear to be willfully obtuse, in that you're ignoring the entire point here: if this is about a rape allegation....let it be about a rape allegation and not a pretext for U.S. extradition. And again, even if you think Assange is bluffing about returning to Sweden in return for a promise not to be handed over to the U.S., such a guarantee would mean Ecuador would no longer have a reason to grant him asylum.

The Swedish Government can't actually give assurances against extradition without writing a new law. That's a judicial matter.

Countries deny extradition requests all the time, even for known terrorists. Sweden would have perfectly valid reasons in denying extradition to a country known for using the death penalty and torture.

Do you have two examples of Sweden allowing CIA kidnapping?

If you were wanted by a country known for using torture, kidnapping and throwing whistleblowers in prisons for decades, how many examples would you need of third party complicity?

You have provided no support for the idea that the US wants him in the first place.

That's like asking for evidence that Obama is black. You're really asking if the U.S. has interest in getting a man into custody who has published dirt and war crimes for multiple administrations. Really?

U.S. officials have openly joked about having him assassinated for years, Obama persecuted more whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined times two, and a sealed indictment has been an open secret for years.

As far as I can tell, Assange likely raped a woman

Based on the fact that neither woman made a rape allegation and Assange was cleared by Swedish investigators to leave the country?

I see no reason for him to fear torture.

After I mentioned how Chelsea Manning was tortured with solitary confinement for months on end? Then you're willfully blind. The real nail in the coffin of your imperialist apologia is the case of Gottfrid Svartholm. Sweden goes to great lengths to extract a Pirate Bay founder from a non-extradition country, then as soon as he lands in the country he's held incommunicado for completely separate charges for a completely separate country. Which means that interrogation and extradition were planned in advance. And was then deported to said country.

Geo-engineering projects often sound good on paper, but, who is on the line for damages if they screw up or have unintended consequences?

Case in point: https://www.theguardian.com/en... "A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July (2012)" - The idea being that the algae absorbs carbon dioxide, eventually dies of, and that carbon sits trapped at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. Catch is, algae also consumes oxygen.

There's plenty of evidence today that Ocean Deoxygenation is a real problem and linked to algae blooms:
https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/07/05/another-threat-to-the-ocean-deoxygenation

Other examples include fake groups like "Antifa Boston". If you search Slashdot (google with site:slashdot.org is a good option) you can see quite a few people on here complaining about them, and influencing others.

@SouthLoneStar is another infamous one on Twitter, spewing fake news that went viral such as a photo supposedly showing a Muslim woman ignoring a terror attack victim. That's a good one to google as a starting point in your research.

The UK was hit quite hard too. @DavidJo52951945 or "David Jones" was claiming to be an ordinary British citizen and had over 100,000 followers, but was exposed as a Russian troll.

The media frequently re-posted some of these tweets. The guardian investigated if you are interested.

...by the Scientific calisthenics required derive a working AGW theory, that hasn't been show to be true by any empirical evidence.

The basic global circulation model incorporating the effect of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (what you call "AGW theory") has been around for fifty years now (the peer-reviewed publication was in two papers by Manabe and Wetherald, in 1967). That's long enough for the predictions to be compared with measurements.

Guess what? Over fifty years, the theory is pretty well matching measurements.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/15/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly/
https://climategraphs.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/evaluating-the-prediction-of-manabe-and-wetherald-1967/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972

Anytime some authority insist that you give up freedom or money and the best they can do to justify it is to say, "It's complicated and you wouldn't understand, Trust Us", you know that something isn't right.

As it turns out, climate scientists have published extensive explanations of what they do, how they do it, how the models work, and all of the source code for their models. They don't say "trust us", they say "here's all the work we did, take a look at it."

As a starting point, look here: http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1 and then for the actual details, start reading some of the thousand references cited.

Please provide evidence of your assertion.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://business.financialpost....
https://www.denverpost.com/201...
https://money.usnews.com/money...
https://www.moneywise.co.uk/ne...
https://mashable.com/2014/11/2... (a bit off, but works for boomers just as well)
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/i...
https://www.buxtonco.com/blog/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...
https://www.amazon.de/Boomer-N... (don't worry, not a make-me-rich link)
https://www.bisnow.com/nationa...

And so on, but I think that should suffice. Pick the publication you are the most inclined to not cry "fake news" about.

Not a chance. This is the new reality. Enjoy.

Time’s Up and #MeToo leads Manchester Art Gallery to remove John William Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 painting, to 'prompt conversation'.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!!
Yes, sleazy publishers have always screamed their headlines to sell newspapers. For some reason, remnants of this marketing practice continue in the internet age. It's a delicate balance; trying to appeal to the unwashed masses who have some reading ability without offending the educated reader with crass commercialism. In which group are Slashdot readers?

"Judges Say the UK's Digital Surveillance Program Snooper's Charter Is Illegal"

After reading that headline 4 times and failing to make sense of it, I tried to read TFS. Eventually I understood a bit more. Why Does Every Word Begin With A Capital? Let's try this again:

"Judges say the UK's digital surveillance program Snooper's Charter is illegal"

Now we see that 'Snooper's Charter' is a thing, and the rest are ordinary words. Notice that in this century, many forward thinking publishers no longer scream their headlines. Here are some:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
https://www.cnbc.com/ ...

Well, short of making them illegal,

That is exactly what is happening in the UK. As of 2040 new ICE vehicles are no longer allowed to be sold in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/po...

The US is 3 times worse than the UK for health outcomes vs expenditure

I will admit... leaving patients out in the parking lot in an ambulance is a fantastic way of reducing costs... though do their turning for the worst end up counting in the final figures you claim to cite?

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/heal...
https://www.theguardian.com/so...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/heal...

"According to the FCC account, the night supervisor started the drill by calling the day shift warning officers, who had not been told their was to be an exercise, and pretending to be US Pacific Command. The supervisor played a recorded message which began and ended with the words “exercise, exercise, exercise”. However, the main text of the message was not the same as that used for a routine drill, and instead followed a script used for an actual alert, including the sentence: “This is not a drill.” Somehow, one of the day shift warning officers heard “this is not a drill”, but not the words “exercise, exercise, exercise”, and “therefore believed that the missile threat was real.” The officer who had misheard was sitting at that terminal used to send out alerts, and chose to send a live alert from a drop-down menu. A prompt appeared on the screen saying: “Are you sure that you want to send this alert?” and at 8.07 am, the officer clicked ‘yes’, sending out an all-capitals text message to mobile phones all over the state, saying: “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”"

So the guy is not warned about the exercise and is given a recorded message, that states both that this is exercise and that this is not a drill. Even if he heard it correctly, what was he supposed to believe and how was he supposed to act? If I were him I would also send the actual warning, because if there was an actual missile attack sending out a timely alert is critical. It is another question that the Hawaii population is unlikely to know what to do and there may actually be very little they can do but panic.

BTW, BMW, Daimler, and VW funded the study. https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

That was the best they could do. Their design emitted high NOx because that wasn't a priority. But they went ahead and built millions because of the money.
London reaches legal air pollution limit just one month into the new year

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Fortunately they skipped all of that ethical nonesense and proceeded directly to human testing

Would it have been better to test it on humans in some third-world shithole?

No that's racist. Instead they tested on humans in New Mexico. Interesting that the CNET article left out this minor detail.

VW condemned for testing diesel fumes on humans and monkeys

That's what the preview button is there for...

They did test it on 25 humans in university clinic of Aachen https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

Also the usual /. headline is as usual: crap. EUGT did all this, which is a lobby organisation by BMW, Mercedes and VW. They all are responsible, not just VW alone.

Mass immigration was intended to suppress wage growth - Mervyn King said it was policy during the Blair years.

King pressed the case to open the labour market without transition on the grounds that it would help lower wage growth and inflation

We know that a much increased supply of workers mean employee benefits reduce or disappear because businesses do not have to compete to attract the best workers - in many cases this doesn't just mean wages, but things like training disappear. IIRC McDonalds used to offer remedial education classes to attract workers - by 2005 those programmes were gone, cheaper to just employ a migrant (and thus those who didn't do well at school saw one route to some sort of productive life closed)

As an example, a TV prog I saw about minimum wage jobs had a Polish immigrant recount that she had worked at a place for nearly a decade and asked her boss for a pay rise or career progression - and his response was "no, and if you don;t like it, you can quit. There is a queue of people out there willing to do your job, I'd have you replaced by the afternoon".

So I don't know about Brexit, but the idea that Brexit means we can control our immigration and population issues is a strong reason for it. Whether the stupid politicians will do anything is another matter, one for another day after Brexit happens.

In the U.S. workers have to go on strike just to have their benefits not be cut by corporations enjoying historic profit levels. Whereas in Germany, a union responded to automation not by agreeing to job cuts but by demanding a 28 hour work week with no loss in compensation.

Which is how it should be.

Are you trying to claim Trump is more coherent than Obama? Trump loses his train of thought mid-sentence all the time when giving speeches.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/op...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv...

I love this example of a Trump speech:

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

https://www.snopes.com/donald-...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv...

Here are some more examples:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

Are you trying to claim Trump is more coherent than Obama? Trump loses his train of thought mid-sentence all the time when giving speeches.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/op...

https://www.theguardian.com/tv...

I love this example of a Trump speech:

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

https://www.snopes.com/donald-...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv...

Here are some more examples:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and...

Or maybe Heinlein was just an actual fascist when he wrote Starship Troopers?

No, this is the rape

https://www.theguardian.com/me...

The following day, Miss W phoned Assange and arranged to meet him late in the evening, according to her statement. The pair went back to her flat in Enkoping, near Stockholm. Miss W told police that though they started to have sex, Assange had not wanted to wear a condom, and she had moved away because she had not wanted unprotected sex. Assange had then lost interest, she said, and fallen asleep. However, during the night, they had both woken up and had sex at least once when "he agreed unwillingly to use a condom".

Early the next morning, Miss W told police, she had gone to buy breakfast before getting back into bed and falling asleep beside Assange. She had awoken to find him having sex with her, she said, but when she asked whether he was wearing a condom he said no. "According to her statement, she said: 'You better not have HIV' and he answered: 'Of course not,' " but "she couldn't be bothered to tell him one more time because she had been going on about the condom all night. She had never had unprotected sex before."

He knew she didn't want sex without a condom and yet he woke her up by having sex with her without a condom. Which the UK courts ruled would be rape had he done it in the UK and was hence an extraditable offence.

"Redefine?" Um, no, the problem is defining it in the first place - aka: THE hard problem for neuroscientists and AI researchers. Folks like Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris write whole books on the topic, and still can't nail down a firm definition.

The effort to answer that question may seem eccentric or even pointless, but it's not stupid.