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Hilarious but not entirely sarcastic.

1,516 mass shootings in 1,735 days
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Learn something.

I'm having a hard time choosing between spending my $1000 on an iphone or this.
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
I guess I have more money than sense.

Not at all biased! Do your numbers take in to account the number of users? And nevermind that overall Londoners help subsidise Yorkshire in general: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

Your entire argument demolished, all you have left is arguing over spelling? Seriously? Not even semantics?

Something tells me, you were among those, who believed the ancient shamans in Tasmania, who explained the sea-rise by the sins of their flock. Lit too many fires you did, fools, and the snows melted! Let's kill these criminals, or else we all drown!

Several years ago, the Murdoch-owned Mirror Group newspapers in the UK became embroiled in a really nasty [sinister] story when it became known that a whole host of celebrities were being subjected to phone hacking, with their SMS messages and voicemails being intercepted. When the full implications became apparent - and it was clear that the scale of the illegal acts had the potential to put senior management in a *very* difficult position, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair started to offer advice to the then Mirror Editor Rebekah Brookes.

In emails which subsequently came to light in discovery during an investigation and trial, Blair advised Brookes and Murdoch to "hold an internal enquiry". There is an interesting explanation of that here:-

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

The key point about Blair's advice is that he advocates a "Hutton-style" inquiry. This was a judicial inquiry, run by Lord Hutton, into the death of MoD scientist Dr David Kelly. The inference in Blair's advice to Brookes is to set up an *internal* inquiry, staffed by people who might look independent but would be loyal to her, then direct them to go and find the answer that Brookes wanted them to find. In other words, do something which looks official to outsiders, but which in reality can be a complete sham.

I am reminded of that episode in this context, because this is starting to look for all the world as though Equifax management are hoping that any further accusations of wrong-doing can be stopped at the feet of those who have already left the company. Right now, the worst possible outcome for them would be a wide-ranging SEC or Federal investigation that looked at their own internal controls relating to such things as the sale of shares.

Disclosure - I've worked for a major US financial institution who, through caution regarding this specific issue, regularly implements "share blackout" windows to literally *prevent* staff from trading shares in the run-up to the reporting of quarterly figures. In other words, I've seen some of the lengths that some companies are willing to go to in order to demonstrate that they are "squeaky clean" with nothing to hide. This latest from Equifax looks for all the world as though the Board are now worried that the SEC might sanction more of them, even further, if it can be shown that their internal financial and governance controls are wanting.

The idea would be to implement this bogus review and find issues which could then be "fixed".

There are several advantages to this for Equifax:-

1. It is an attempt to persuade the SEC that their own internal controls do not require additional sanction for other directors/employees - i.e. a last-ditch attempt at damage limitation...
2. If they find issues and implement changes to address them, the changes will be of their choosing and not imposed on them by an outside third party.
3. It is an attempt at a public message to major shareholders that the company still takes their fiduciary duty seriously. As if anyone would believe them at this juncture.

Of course, the thing to bear in mind here is that this is complete and utter tosh. If the company wanted to "do the right thing", they would either wait for the SEC to finish, or the board of directors would appoint a firm of outside auditors, given them wide ranging authority to go where the evidence took them, and arrange for discussions on the findings to be held with major shareholders in the room. That last would be important given the implications that any wrong-doing might include directors themselves...

The fact that Equifax *aren't* going to the trouble of implementing an externally-led inquiry really tells you everything you need to know about the validity of what they are doing...

Since the Truman Doctrine was instituted (you know, Democratic President Harry Truman), Democratic and Republican Administrations

Yes, bipartisan, right-wing imperialistic warmongers. What about them?

have both made containment a cornerstone of their dealings with the Kremlin

Yes, containment. On one side you have a country that overthrew dozens of democracies during the Cold War and got six million people killed just between the Korean and Vietnam invasions....and over there was the USSR.

Even in the post-Soviet era, while cooperation increased, the US still sought to maintain and even enlarge NATO.

And them some people scratch their heads when the US overthrows another democracy, this one right on Russia's doorstep.

That is, up until the current *Republican* Administration.

Yes, because if you don't support starting World War 3 over issues entirely of your own making, you must be a Putin fanboy. Because reasons.

The con artist has repeatedly praised his buddy Putin at every opportunity, even going so far as to apologize for Putin's military deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians in Syria, and Russia's support for the dictator Assad.

It is well known Putin doesn't like or tolerate dissent. In Crimea, which Russia stole from the Ukraine, Russia troops went door to door in the Tartar community and rounded up anyone who spoke out against the takeover. They shut down Tartar schools and the only Tartar radio station, and forbid the teaching of the Tartar language. Just recently, Russia jailed a Tartar leader because he led protests against the Russian invasion of Crimea.

Witness now in the U.S. what the con artist is trying to do. His fragile ego can't stand anyone saying a single bad word about him and so he does this. He's only following the lead of his buddy Putin.

That using the power of the government to go after people who exercise their First Amendment rights should even be an issue speaks volumes about this administration.

/ Are you retarded? The US government is going after violent thugs. How rosy must your glasses be to overlook every other act, but the speech.

The con artist has repeatedly praised his buddy Putin at every opportunity, even going so far as to apologize for Putin's military deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians in Syria, and Russia's support for the dictator Assad.

It is well known Putin doesn't like or tolerate dissent. In Crimea, which Russia stole from the Ukraine, Russia troops went door to door in the Tartar community and rounded up anyone who spoke out against the takeover. They shut down Tartar schools and the only Tartar radio station, and forbid the teaching of the Tartar language. Just recently, Russia jailed a Tartar leader because he led protests against the Russian invasion of Crimea.

Witness now in the U.S. what the con artist is trying to do. His fragile ego can't stand anyone saying a single bad word about him and so he does this. He's only following the lead of his buddy Putin.

That using the power of the government to go after people who exercise their First Amendment rights should even be an issue speaks volumes about this administration.

The oligarch probably made sure he wasn't using the same building as Putin does for his army of social network trolls spewing their lies

Considering that in 50 years the climate is projected there to become LETHAL to a normal, healthy adult in the shade, I think this is the only way that these countries will continue to exist.

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

Actually, this solution may work, grandiose as it is, for the rich cities like Dubai (assuming they can live off their oil derived fortunes). Unfortunately for those who cannot afford to live in round the clock air-conditioned environments, like the entire country of Yemen, they'll DIE.

Or they'll join the hundreds of millions of refugees from that just that part of the world. (It doesn't include the more than HALF A BILLION people living in similar areas in South Asia). Or the hundreds of millions from other countries including East China and even parts of the U.S.

http://news.nationalgeographic...

Of course, they'll try to find a cooler climate to live in, UNDER PAIN OF DEATH. How the world will handle this, when the (tiny by comparison) six million refugees from the Syrian war has tightened borders everywhere, does not inspire hope.

The future may be a very very horrific place for much of humanity

There's a good few smaller tectonic plates underwater. It is also suspected that a couple other continental sized plates ended up being crumpled up inside the mantle layers.

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

https://confit.atlas.jp/guide/...

Germany has not replaced nuclear power plants with coal.
Nuclear power is more or less completely replaced by wind.
Keep in mind that half of our reactors are still running.

I did not check your other links.
But I seriously doubt anyone is _replacing_ a nuclear plant with a coal plant, except perhaps Japan.

France, Germany, Japan, and USA have all built significant numbers of coal plants in the past few years to meet growing demand and to make up for retired nuclear.
That is your interpretation. But it is wrong.

See: https://1-stromvergleich.com/s...
Scroll down to: DER DEUTSCHE STROMMIX 2007 â" 2016

The fraction of coal and lignite is constantly dropping ...

Sorry, no idea why you always claim things about stuff where you clearly have no clue about.

*ALL NEW* coal plants in Germany replace old coal plants. They started building them *LONG BEFORE* the exit from nuclear was *AGAIN* decided. (Remember, we originally decided to exit from nuclear power around 2000/2002, but then the Merkel Government extended the runtime of the power plants for another 30 years or so, and finally turned around after Fukushim and proclaimed the exit again)

Bringing Italy in shows that you really live behind the moon, Italy exited from nuclear power just after Chernobyl, after all it was the first western country hit by the could, due to unusual wind properties. Except for an oversized "research reactor" they never had any notable nuclear power.

France is shifting to wind and solar. They need a few coal plants for faster reaction to changing demand. Never dug into it, how much coal power they have. Can not be much though.

In UK there is actually no real change in nuclear power usage, but a massive drop in coal:
https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

While I agree that Dyson's politics regarding Brexit are pretty bloody stupid, I think it's important to point out that he in fact opposes the government's desire to expel foreign students upon graduation.

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

Guardian proudly sponsors a campaign for foreigners to interfere in the 2004 election

"I'm taking the liberty of asking you, a citizen of a country built upon the principles of democracy but whose very might is in danger of disenfranchising the rest of the world, to use your right to vote, and to vote with all your heart and your mind, in your own name but also in the name of all those millions of people who will be looking to your decision in two weeks' time."

Translation: Think of us first, and the needs of your own country last. F off foreigners, stop trying to influence our votes. Oh, but it was OK when they did it.

Sophisticated, you're kidding, they logged in using an administration account that didn't use two-factor authentication.

why should some narrow-minded parents restrict what is taught to my child, in school?

Because you and those like you support the government's monopoly on children education. And now the same monopoly is creeping into higher education too:

1. "Title IX" lets Federal government control, what can and can not be said by the students.
2. The recently-introduced monopoly on college-loans allows the government to decide, at any moment, where the would-be students can (and can not) take spend tuition loans.
3. Profit: thought the 1st Amendment is still, ostensibly, the law of the land, the government can already control, what the students — and their professors — are allowed to say. And teach... And read

It happened to public schools years ago, it is happening to colleges right now.

Cataluña has no reason to secede.

If the ongoing suppression and censorship is not sufficient reason, I don't know what is.

Nationalists, who are basically localist fascists

Catalan society is inclusive and anything but xenophobic, let alone fascist. Catalan national feeling is like Scottish in that it is “civic”, non-violent, opening impatiently to the new global world. It’s unlike Scotland – and more “ethnic” – in its passionate emphasis on Catalan language, history and culture.

I read an article in The Guardian where a security expert recommended that uses (in the UK) put a "Notice of Correction" on their Experian(UK) file (and others):
Jamieson sent a notice of correction to the three main credit reference agencies. It states: “I, Jamie Jamieson, of [his address], do hereby declare that when my signature is required for any financial product or service, I will authenticate it with my thumbprint. Failure by me to comply with this direction should result in the service or product being withheld. Any application without a thumbprint should be considered fraudulent. I will inform you in writing, signed and thumbprinted, of any changes to this notice of correction.”

https://www.theguardian.com/mo...

This would seem to be a good solution. A fraudster would not necessarily know about the thumbprint requirement and when asked for a thumbprint would be reluctant to put his own thumbprint on a document. If they did, they could be traced by the thumbprint. It wouldn't require the creditor to check the thumbprint unless there was a problem.

Would this work in the US?
(The US credit bureaus allow you to add a "Statement" to your account.)
(I know that fingerprints can be copied and faked but this would probably stop a lot of opportunistic fraud.)

there are usa cases where a sperm donor is required to pay child support, so its indirectly answered here as well...

Talk about a whatever could go wrong decision. Who on earth would donate when you could be held responsible for child support under those circumstances. In England, they are haking some issues. Just 9 donors

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

In true men are at fault for everything fashion, they are resorting to manshaming to try to cue yet another abuse of the patriarchy. Of course, anonymity has been stripped from sperm donors since 2005, so you know damn well that these terrible men who in true selfish fashion, donated sperm, will be eventually required to give their money to these poor children. I wonder if they will have to pay a sort of alimony to the sperm's mother too? It's a losers game.

>First off, Germany doesn't have "over a million" Syrian refugees. At best estimates, it has between 600,000 and 700,000. This article:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Says Germany's official tally for net new refugees in 2016 was 890,000. The article was written in September of 2016. It's now September of 2017. I would say a million+ refugees is probably a fairly safe extrapolation.

>Second, nobody in Germany ever claimed that they were "vital to the economy". You just made that up out of whole cloth.

https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

See, this is why normal people fucking hate the left. You are all liars. IMF has made that argument, Merkel and her henchmen have made that argument. Multiple times. Of course it's bullshit, just like your claim that no one is making it. That's what you guys do, get caught in a lie, move to another lie.

>Third, 86% of the population of Syria is literate. I haven't seen any study of how the refugee population differs from the population at large in this respect, so the most reasonable assumption is that approximately 86% of the refugees are also literate.

LOL. So you believe those official government statistics published by Syria on literacy rates, eh? Here you go:

http://www.zeit.de/2015/47/integration-fluechtlinge-schule-bildung-herausforderung

>I get that you need to demonise the Left so that you can safely hate them and not listen to their arguments. Really, I understand. But don't spread your bullshit here.

Blah blah blah, anonymous coward ends with: "I don't have the energy to lie any more, so I'll just do an ad hominem attack to close..".

But that isn't what lost them their license, the bad part is that they haven't been responding to criminal activity in their vehicles, whether by their employees (the UK isn't buying that contractor malarkey) or by the passengers.

That's actually not true. Uber was reporting the alleged incidents to Transport for London, the very governmental body that just took its license away. The logic TfL is employing (as far as I can make out, that Uber should have gone straight to the police when somehow neither TfL nor, more importantly, the passenger in the Uber seemed to think that was necessary) seems very strained and results-oriented.

So basically you've just backed up what I said.

They failed to respond, TFL is not the place to report crimes, TFL would have told them to report it to the police and Uber failed to do so. So actually it is true.

But that isn't what lost them their license, the bad part is that they haven't been responding to criminal activity in their vehicles, whether by their employees (the UK isn't buying that contractor malarkey) or by the passengers.

That's actually not true. Uber was reporting the alleged incidents to Transport for London, the very governmental body that just took its license away. The logic TfL is employing (as far as I can make out, that Uber should have gone straight to the police when somehow neither TfL nor, more importantly, the passenger in the Uber seemed to think that was necessary) seems very strained and results-oriented.

Yet another deluded fanboy...

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

Wait, I agree with a '+5 Insightful' post, even thank him when we usually disagree on many if not most topics, and I get modded 'Troll'?

Well, I would say it was a butthurt Hillbot with modpoints, but I'm still sitting at a +2, so who knows. But it sounds like we can agree on her being a loathsome person, so I will raise a glass and toast to her sharing Kristian Saucier's fine accommodations, and for the same reasons he did.

TLDR: Your employees are shit because they're not college graduates and they often lack the interpersonal skills needed for projects of extended duration.

My employees? Not quite certain where I was talking about my employees.

I have a Philosophy degree. ("hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt"? You don't know what you're talking about on that one, Ol.)

Just so you know, http://blog.readyforzero.com/h... , https://www.theguardian.com/mo... , and there are more that you can google. 100K is higher than the average debt, but as a philosophy major, surely you can parse my post, and not pick out of it that I was saying everyone was 100,000 dollars in debt? Notice the difference between the apparent belief on your part that I said that everyone graduates with 100 K in debt, with the more accurate reading - based on teh exact words I wrote: "it's a terribly broken system when a person can come out of college with a degree in Philosophy or Women's Studies, over a hundred thousand dollars in debt,

I'll leave it up to you to expound on the various meanings of can. One does not have to delve into Clintonesque definitions of "is" to understand that "can" is more related to possibilities, or perhaps a metal device to hold matter in. But if I was not clear to you, I used the word "can" in the manner of "it is possible" or "might" when "can is used as an auxiliary verb.

College should absolutely not be about preparing people for the workforce.

Then they should work very hard and diligently to disabuse almost everyone's notion that they are.

College already produces people who make better employees than someone with the same "real world" experience.

Oh my sphincter! Sorry, This is hilarious, As a philosophy major, if you even had the experience of graduates in completely unrealated fields being superior employees based on them having spent 4 years in college, studying anythiing at all, versus a person without who has actually made a living already, by actually doing the needed work, they must be teaching some hella good stuff in philosophy.

What is NEEDED is for business to align itself with reality. Your employees are shit because they're not college graduates and they often lack the interpersonal skills needed for projects of extended duration.

Well first, as a philosophy major, you are using a lot of straw man arguments. And unless you are remarkably different than the philosophy majors I am personally familiar with, interpersonal skills are pretty far down the list of their qualifications. I'll enjoy an afternoon of chatting and no doubt, but not one would work for me, they have a certain ability to not be very motivated, rather intractable in their opinion, and enjoy disagreeing with you and chatting for the afternoon rather than getting work done.

Relative to real time over years of use for any system, network.
Enigma, DES should have been the warning from history.
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security (6 September 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"..to have cracked the codes used by 15 major internet companies, and 300 VPNs."
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages (12 July 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
".. agency already had pre-encryption stage access.."
"..helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns .."
US allies should have learned from
SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05

Relative to real time over years of use for any system, network.
Enigma, DES should have been the warning from history.
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security (6 September 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
"..to have cracked the codes used by 15 major internet companies, and 300 VPNs."
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages (12 July 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
".. agency already had pre-encryption stage access.."
"..helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns .."
US allies should have learned from
SISMI-Telecom scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...–05

No, it's because GP is correct. Hillary's campaign mostly catered to upper spectrum socioeconomic democrats, while ignoring the wants of practically all of the states that she lost, while at the same time referring to them as "deplorables" and "angry white men", with the media (especially pop-culture talk shows like the view, the daily show, etc) and the democratic political elite doing the same. I see the democrats talk about how we need to protect marginalized groups all the time, and it seems that their solution to protecting them is by marginalizing another group. (European politicians are doing the same thing on a large scale lately, by the way, and they wonder why there's a sudden dramatic rise in the number of people voting for far, far right parties.)

You yourself are beholden to this exact same hypocrisy.

Hillary's loss was well deserved. Besides, I distinctly recall during the 2004 election when the Democrats were praising foreign intervention:

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

Not that I support Russian intervention, mind you, nor do I support Trump, nor am I a conservative.

Why don't the Democrats take an example of the British Labor party. They simply want to take away the right to vote from trolls. Even Trump would have lost the right to vote is such a thing was a reality.

Sure, cities will have no problem buying enough busses to have two charging for every one on the road. Why don't people think things through?

There was a time when practically every big city in the US had an all-electric public transportation system. And it was profitable. It was killed off by a conspiracy involving Rockefeller, Standard Oil and General Motors. They were even convicted of the conspiracy in court.

http://americanhistory.oxfordr...

https://www.theguardian.com/ci...

Without agreeing to or objecting to the specific number of deaths per year attributable to cheating on environmental testing compliance, it would appear that Brad Kuhn (former Exec. Dir. of the Free Software Foundation, current Distinguished Technologist at the Software Freedom Conservancy) was right in his article "Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Your Security Through Obscurity Kills People":

I heard a talk today from a company representative of a software supplier for the automotive industry. He said during his talk: "putting GPLv3 software in cars will kill people" and "opening up the source code to cars will cause more harm than good". These statements are completely disingenuous. Most importantly, it ignores the fact that proprietary software in cars is at least equally, if not more, dangerous. At least one person has already been killed in a crash while using a proprietary software auto-control system. Volkswagen decided to take a different route; they decided to kill us all slowly (rather than quickly) by using proprietary software to lie about their emissions and illegally polluting our air.

Meanwhile, there has been not a single example yet about use of GPLv3 software that has harmed anyone.

This is the time to cite the cheating scandal as a reason why car owners should actually own their car including the complete corresponding software for the car and the software build instructions. We know what happens when the manufacturers are allowed to use the power of a proprietor. It's time we get vehicles that respect our software freedom.

Now that Mueller is running the biggest criminal investigation in world history (Russia and Trump's coup), and that Russia's criminal aggression and deceit is coming out, I expect arrests.

Swiftboating. Pure, undiluted Swiftboating. Criminal interference in other countries is what you fuckers do. Bullshit invasions, regime change, overthrowing democracies, kidnapping & torturing people to death.....it's. all. you.

Besides all the other plotholes in the Russiagate McCarthyism, we're supposed to believe that Putin was clever enough to dig up dirt on Hillary (which all happened to be true) to swing the election, but at the same time was so stupid as collude with someone as stupid as Trump. Which means the NSA, the CIA and the FBI would know all about said collusion. As would President Elect Hillary, as the race was still hers to lose until she decided to take the Rust Belt for granted and not campaign in that region of the country, because reasons. The same Hillary that campaigned on shooting down Russian jets in Syria.

And as I see there's already one "go home Boris" asshole in this thread, do show how you guys have more evidence than the antivaxxers, the Birthers, the chem trailers, or the people who think the Clintons had Arkansas State Troopers running heroin for them throughout the state when he was governor. The same jackasses who accuse anyone of being on Putin's payroll because they question any of this bullshit are the same people who ran around in 2003, accusing anyone who questioned the Iraq lies of being in love with Saddam.

You were full of shit then, and you're full of shit now.

Not exactly the same but almost

Indeed. Between this and Alexa/Google Home, we've installed what are the potential eyes and eyes of Big Brother into homes without realizing it. Even Mark Zuckerberg puts a sticker on his laptop's camera.

What makes you think corporations becoming larger than the government will happen? That's one of many things that anti-competition law is designed to prevent.

Are you sarcastic? I'm sure you are!

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295938213_Multinational_corporations_A_new_global_dimension_-_Corporations_bigger_than_governments
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/51/corporations-and-human-rights
• https://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research
• https://archive.skoll.org/2011/02/21/corporations-are-more-powerful-than-governments/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1
• https://business.time.com/2012/01/27/are-companies-more-powerful-than-countries/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-myths-about-big-business-vs-big-government/
• https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16598-focus-monsanto-protection-act-proves-corporations-more-powerful-than-government
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/54/tax-avoidance-and-havens-undermining-democracy
• https://makewealthhistory.org/2014/02/03/the-corporations-bigger-than-nations/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
• http://www.confrontcorporatepower.org/how-corporations-influence-the-government/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/

South Korea is also known as "Republic of Samsung":

• http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung25
• https://ipezone.blogspot.com/2008/04/dismantling-of-republic-of-samsung.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-s-korea-the-republic-of-samsung/2012/12/09/71215420-3de1-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

So despite knowing that Microsoft is an early NSA collaborator, forcing and tricking users into "upgrading" to Windows 10, distributes proprietary software (all of which is untrustworthy by default which prevents even technical users from fixing problems and distributing improved software to others), and Microsoft blatantly disregarded user choice and privacy, shipped with bad defaults for privacy, got caught lying to users about how Windows 10's euphemistically named "privacy controls" worked, you believe the headline that Microsoft "will soon give users more control over app permissions" and therefore want to talk about this in the context of the rose-colored vision of the past for Windows users? Microsoft has made so many choices against "giving users more control" over anything there's no reason to believe they'll ever make such choices, just like any other software proprietor.

Forget the past, history begins now.

> this entire russia thing is the epitome of fake news

No it isn't. But the Russians have their own sophisticated troll and fake news factories. They probably don't need to rely on some freelancers in Macedonia.

That is the net result of government interference, no matter how well these laws are meant.

What you need to consider is the net result of government non-interference.

The business burns the workers (figuratively), so the workers burn the boss (literally).

Things work much better when they don't need to escalate to that point.
And that is very easy to accomplish with simple regulation.

And, ironically, today is the day JP Morgan's boss suddenly decides that bitcoin is a fraud that will blow up, and is only fit for use by drug dealers, murderers and people living in North Korea and that he would fire 'in a second' anyone at the investment bank found to be trading in bitcoin.

When big money becomes that openly dismissive you know some shiat's gonna go down.

"It's just worked as well or better than any government on this planet."

Ha ha, by what fucking metric?????????

Read this and learn something.

I think the number 13.2 is reasonable. For one thing, sleep time isn't counted as part of the time for inactivity. The article says,

... participants were inactive for 12.3 hours of a 16 hour waking day ...

(The article says "12.3" for the average number of inactive hours, and then compares the health results of "13.2" to 11.5.)

Also I don't think most people sit down for an hour for each meal.

No, just Russia that invaded and annexed half of another country, breaking the promises it made when that nation voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons.

Russia hasn't invaded shit, your braindead tool. Years of pictures posted to social media from your literal neo-Nazi pals in Ukraine, but not a single photo from a U.S. satellite or drone showing Russian troops in Ukraine or invading Crimea. The latter of which had an existing agreement for a Russian naval base - does the U.S. Army "invade" Germany whenever troops are sent to one of the existing bases there? - and voted overwhelmingly to joint Russia, in no small part due to your literal neo-Nazi pals in Ukraine and their xenophobia.

But even if all your bullshit on Russia and Ukraine was completely true, it would still be more justified than any American "intervention" you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the elected government of Ukraine.

Go back to gargling Cheney's balls, shitbag.

There was no "lack of hurricanes" in the last decade.
It was more or less like always, except for the 5 hard hits the US got. Andrew, Katrina, Sandy etc.
Now they get hit 2 times in a row ... and btw: Irma is 4 times a big as Andrew was.

However the most astonishing thin in international news is, no one is talking about stuff like this: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

I would hardly call heavy makeup for a man a 'subtle' clue...

Anyway, 91% accuracy is complete disaster. While there is a common feeling that 10% of population is gay, more realistic studies (like ones referenced at https://www.theguardian.com/po...), claim between 1.5% and 6%. Even taking highest percentage into account (one provided by pro-gay organization), of 6%, I can write simple gaydar app which will tell 'straight' 100% of time and it will be right 96% of time.

You cannot take a single measure with x% of error to gain meaningful information about things which occur x% of time. It can be a screening test, but not a final answer. Simple example is machine which detects some rare disease and is wrong only 1% of the time. If disease happens for 1 person in million, when machine says you are ill, you have only 0.1% chance of being actually ill and 99.9% of chances that machine was wrong. What you can later do, is to put these 10000 people for more expensive/detailed/invasive tests, but not to start treating them for that disease outright.

Actually, they make a crap load of money, on merch. Less on the actual entertainment.

They make a lot on both. 2016 was ridiculous.

Lets jump to conclusions. Please! Earthquakes are caused by Global Warming!

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

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whataboutery
• don't talk to this guy about his stupid dead cat

Close. It's actually a big pile of bollocks. There are lots of opinions flying around about strong AI right now. It's a good time to have the conversation because it's still a good way off.

Sure, right now we should have a calm measured discussion about realistic consequences of bad AI. What part of "OMG KILLBOTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL" is a calm measured discussion about realistic consequences of bad AI? Because that's what Musk is doing, and you can call my saying that "bollocks" as much as you want, it doesn't change the fact that this is what he's doing.

Or perhaps you're agreeing we should be all OMG KILLBOTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL, in which case lie down, take a pill, and stop fucking up the calm, measured, discussion the rest of us want about the realistic consequences of bad AI.

If it does get created, you don't want Dear Leader Putin to have it first. Seriously.

Probably not, but that would imply that Musk's aim is to ensure the US gets Ultron... uh, I mean Killbots, rather than the baddies... uh, I mean Ruskies... sorry, I mean Russia.

That doesn't appear to be the intent, rather it's to wave hands hysterically screaming "OMG KILLBOTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL."

Oh, police kill BAME people here too - it's just that cos' we don't hand a firearm to anyone capable of reciting the oath of office they have to be more ...creative... about it
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...