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"Hands up, don't shoot" was well covered. Took months and an actual trial to learn it never happened.

Neither did this but I never see you complaining about that one. Of course, the trial has a prosecutor who allowed perjury to occur, so who knows what really happened? That prosecutor's conduct does not inspire confidence.

Of course, you could have read the Report on the Ferguson Police Department as a whole, and tell us what you think is important about it.

Yeah, about that

You're kinda expecting us to have no insight into your words. Trump's been a racist bigot for years, he couldn't even find a better man than Ben Carson for his cabinet, and what happened there? Oh he put him in a post he has no experience with, which is only slightly worse than DeVos and Pruitt.

But hey, do you think Trump has learned that Frederick Douglass is dead yet?

Did you miss The Guardian view on famine: sitting by as disaster unfolds? 20 millions may starve to dead within 6 months if we don't donate 4.4 billion dollar.

There is also the news about Morocco beating down protest in the Rif with violence and the talks about letting those Rif people move to Europe as 'refugees'. This while Morocco is looking to replace its economical ties with the EU with economical ties with Russia and China. Another potential open border is in the making while the EU doesn't show any leadership and will haply let NGO's with ferries import all those refugees while waving the finger at people who protest and letting the amount of people voting for extreme right parties grow in number.

Then there is Erdogan in Turkey who is starting his European campaign to demand European Turks to vote him as dictator. The last time he came on a campaign he ordered Turks to never integrate and to keep an eye on other Turkish people to keep them in line (social control). Next week he will probably talk a lot more aggressive. There have been a lot of problems between Turkish people already. Several stores and schools were destroyed last summer (Turkish stores and schools destroyed by other Turks). Erdogan also wants non APK supporting Turks to be arrested and extradited to Erdogan's Turkey. He is very popular among European Turks and many will blindly follow his commands. Knowing European leaders they will say 'free speech ', 'don't be islamophobe', 'don't be racist' and just let Erdogan speech hatred in front of 80,000 people again.

Of course the main news is only about Donald Trump and his tweets and the tweets of some celebrities I've even never heard off against Trump. It seems that the only thing that happens in the world is Trump sending a tweet, and if my European country already neglects other world news in favor of stupid tweets, I guess in the US it's even worse.

I thought Buzz Aldrin celebrated a holy communion on board the Apollo 11.

A religious astronaut... What a sham. Only atheists deserve space travel. Because we know better.

Well said. Dishonesty in the news isn't only about getting the facts wrong. It's is also about what facts you don't include. I.e. Lies of omission are a big problem.

If all you do is report on one side of an argument is it really surprising that anyone on "that side" think of you dishonest? The best example I can think of is immigration. The argument has been framed as "racists hate immigration" and "immigration helps everyone". It is not the full story even if the "immigration helps everyone" is true. What is missing is "illegal" and what it means to allow immigration from places that have violent ideologues. It is just crazy especially when you consider that we (even with the temporary ban) allow more immigration than any other nation.

Couple that with extreme political correct speech and it becomes infuriating to be on the counter side of any main stream media position. This isn't' a new phenomenon. It has been around for years and before Trump. Romney is sexist because 'binders full of women". McCain is racist because reasons.

I thought Buzz Aldrin celebrated a holy communion on board the Apollo 11.

Before Armstrong and Aldrin stepped out of the lunar module on July 20, 1969, Aldrin unstowed a small plastic container of wine and some bread. He had brought them to the moon from Webster Presbyterian church near Houston, where he was an elder. Aldrin had received permission from the Presbyterian church's general assembly to administer it to himself.

"I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the one-sixth gravity of the moon the wine curled slowly and gracefully up the side of the cup. It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements."

Interesting to note how much Google is spending on bribing (aka "lobbying") the EU.
Not to mention the US.

But of course, both Microsoft and Google should be publicly shamed for using their users and leaching them of their private lives.

No it wasn't. They tested it unmanned. Then they tested it in LEO multiple times. Only then did they send it around the moon. Apollo 8 most likely would have been a failure if not for the earlier testing.

It wasn't a Saturn V they tested it on. Apollo 8 was the first manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. https://www.theguardian.com/sc... Here's a nice story on the matter. They were taking a pretty big gamble.

Regardless it was a time when we didn't cower in our closets and saferooms because a UPS man was at the door. We did stuff.

You clearly didn't RTFA. She has extensive email and chat records to back up her claims. Yes, I am taking her word for it.

Considering that in Trumperican Kingdom, current first "lady" is suing a foreign tabloid for calling her a prostitute and thus preventing her from a "unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" to cash in on her position of a first "lady" - you betcha you should take her word for it.

Only a complete idiot wouldn't keep a paper/electronic trail while making public accusations in the Land of Litigation.
Which goes double for someone working for a company involved in so many lawsuits.

The case you cite in Mexico, there are a few things you should know about Mexico. It is basically a lawless state with every official and police officer corrupt and run by the drug cartels. Anyone who was not corrupt was systematically murdered over the last 20 years. US border patrol is ROUTINELY fired at by Mexican nationals who are running drugs and people across the border from the Mexico side. This teenager and 3 male friends attempted to enter the US illegally, they fought with border patrol agents and Sergio managed to break free, resisting arrest and he was shot while fleeing. I find it very telling that the video you link to is clipped together with only a few seconds and only the audio of the gunshot? What happened before that? Oh the Mexican "authorities" didn't make any more publicly available? Gee I wonder why.

I am sorry, I don't have that much sympathy for Sergio. The same thing routinely happens at Mexico's southern border with zero world outrage. Worse things happen to Australian illegal aliens. So yes, the US will not allow a federal agent to be extradited to the incorporated drug cartel of Mexico over a shooting that occurred during the commission of a crime. US police and federal agents are allowed to shoot fleeing suspects when they feel that they are a continued threat to US citizens. This little thug was probably a drug smuggler. The border agent should be reviewed and potentially disciplined depending on the totality of the events as they are available, with zero credence give to any testimony from the suspects Mexican national family or the Mexican "authorities" who are both corrupt and criminal. If the facts warrant, maybe even charge the agent in the US with gross negligence or manslaughter, but certainly not murder, which requires ill intent and malice. The border agent did not initiate the criminal activity or resist arrest, which escalated the incident. $10 says the boy who was shot had a bunch of drugs on him that were removed by Mexican police and returned to the cartel. Or they were acting as a diversion while the cartel ran drugs somewhere nearby.

Regarding Germany, both guards were convicted of manslaughter (not murder) for shooting someone trying to escape a fascist regime, not trying to enter a country illegally and assaulting a federal officer. Those guards were acting under explicit orders from East Germany. And their sentences were suspended, meaning they served zero time. Hardly justice for murdering a truly innocent person. A few decades before that, Germany murdered a few million Jews simply for being Jewish, so they are hardly the gold standard on how to treat people, thank you very much for playing...

And where is the outrage over the several thousand illegal aliens who are being detained by the Australians under conditions so bad that they are setting themselves on fire? Stop hating on America for doing what every other country on the planet does and protecting it's border from unlawful entry. https://www.theguardian.com/au...

"[...]Trump adopted a highly unusual defence, known as 'force majeure'. He claimed that the 2008 economic crisis was a 'once-in-a-century credit tsunami', an act of God that was equivalent to an earthquake.

Since it couldn't have been anticipated, and it wasn't his fault, he wasn't obliged to pay Deutsche anything. It wouldn't get the $40m or the outstanding $330m, his writ said.

He went further. Trump claimed Deutsche Bank had actually helped cause the crunch. Therefore it owed him. Trump demanded $3bn from Deutsche in compensation."

Some skills.

Yeah sure they are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/20...

>>You lose asshole.
Compared to you? Nope. with a dick attitude like that, you lose at your whole life.

Still trying to get over your Obama Derangement Syndrome?

You know, if you weren't so deadset on repealing the Affordable Care Act, you'd be able to get treated for it.

What about Mattel's Hello Barbie doll?

You jest, but Belarus does have a slacker tax:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

• Congo had its first post-independence leader assassinated by the Belgians
• Rwanda's civil war was due to the racism between the Hutu and Tutsi groups, which was introduced by German colonists in a divide-and-conquer strategy.
• Nigeria's ails are mostly due to immense corruption fuelled by oil companies, most of which based in the same countries that used to colonise the continent.
• South Africa... apartheid, anyone?

The effect of classic and neo-colonialism on Africa is unequivocally disastrous, on a scale that makes the Holocaust look like a walk in the park.

Again. That's the difference between journalism and fake news, journalists do make mistakes, but, when it's done right, they correct them. Fake news, on the otehr hand, doesn't even pretend to try to get facts right; fake news simply lies right from the start.

I'm not sure what your anecdotes is intended to demonstrates. If you have to go back to 1932 to cite an example of uncorrected news reported from a major newspaper, I'd say that proves my point.

Here's one now - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/us/politics/leaks-donald-trump.html

Interesting link to an article pointing out that until the leaks were about him, Donald Trump loved leaks. Not fake news, since the facts seem to be correct. At best you could say it's a case with some editorializing in the body of the article. But fake news is making up facts, not expressing opinions about facts.

Here are a few other sources that appear to say the same thing:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/15...
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

"Churchill’s scientific papers reveal an even greater politician than we thought" (17 February 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
"Churchill will also have benefited from his reading of Olaf Stapledon’s science-fiction masterpiece, Last and First Men, which was published in 1930."

The western, romanticized image of Churchill is of the stoic rock that beat the Nazis in WWII, bravely leading the British people to oppose fascism while America dithered.

The rest of his bio is rounded out by his fond nostalgia for shooting "savages" in Africa - i.e. blacks not yet subjugated by European colonialism. And the post WWII crushing of Kenya's rebellion against British rule, where you'd have a hard time looking at the treatment of prisoners and thinking you weren't hearing descriptions of a Nazi concentration camp. Shit like shoving sand in anuses with metal rods, crushing men's testicles and shoving glass into women's vaginas. "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes" was a real knee-slapper, too.

Churchill wasn't opposed to barbarous tranny, as long as it was coming from his own country.

The western, romanticized image of Churchill is of the stoic rock that beat the Nazis in WWII, bravely leading the British people to oppose fascism while America dithered.

The rest of his bio is rounded out by his fond nostalgia for shooting "savages" in Africa - i.e. blacks not yet subjugated by European colonialism. And the post WWII crushing of Kenya's rebellion against British rule, where you'd have a hard time looking at the treatment of prisoners and thinking you weren't hearing descriptions of a Nazi concentration camp. Shit like shoving sand in anuses with metal rods, crushing men's testicles and shoving glass into women's vaginas. "I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes" was a real knee-slapper, too.

Churchill wasn't opposed to barbarous tranny, as long as it was coming from his own country.

This is great, technically speaking. However, here's a little article from the BBC on the current space junk problem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie... Just look at the statistics at the bottom of the article.

We've managed to fill near-earth with almost as much rubbish as the surface, the actual atmosphere and (more recently reported) the depths of the sea: https://www.theguardian.com/en...

I love tech, but we need urgently to work on its by-products.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/ea...
No, strike that. Always fucking was. Labeling the political movement toward the combat of said phenomenon from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" was invented by Republican Frank Luntz to give Republicans a way to refer to the "controversy" without acknowledging the painfully descriptive label.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

You dumb shills are so fun to toy with, where do I even begin:

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, 1,625 UN and US inspectors spent two years searching 1,700 sites at a cost of more than $1bn. Yesterday they delivered their verdict
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
bush admits there were no WMDs in IRAQ
Report concludes no WMD in Iraq

And this is from fucking 2014:
No, There's Still No Evidence There Was an Active WMD Program in Iraq

Saddam was killed because he wanted to sell oil in Euros, which was a direct threat to the petro dollar system.
Just like Gaddafi was killed because he wanted to create a gold backed African currency, which was also a direct threat to the petro dollar system.

If you people are really that stupid and ignorant, then America really deserve to fall.

I'm asking for citations where the predictions were way off.

These are a dime-a-dozen. The Internet is full of such lists assembled. But they don't necessarily disprove anything — it is normal for a scientific discipline to fail sometimes. This article even analyzes different ways of detecting and dealing with such failures.

Trouble is, successful ones are so hard to find...

With the pace of global warming increasing, some climate change experts predict that the Scottish ski industry will cease to exist within 20 years.

It is now 2017, but snow is still plentiful in Scotland. Indeed, the 2014 was the snowiest since 1945. Do you think, the 2004 prediction will come true by 2024?

“you can argue that may be our projection of [an ice-free Arctic by 2013] is already too conservative.”

Whether or not Arctic sea ice is at "record low" or not, the Arctic Ocean is decidedly not "ice-free" today.

Yet you've provided zero. Odd.

I made no claims requiring citations. I merely pointed out, that folks claiming "science is settled" typically disappear, when asked for successful prediction of their favorite science.

Nope. If you actually believe in science, I have to provide you with successful ones that survived peer review and replication

That may be too onerous a requirement in the case of Climate Science — the experiments take many years, so any replication is difficult.

This may come as a shock to you, but we nerds have eclectic interests. Sure we love tech, but we also love science fiction and fantasy. Two subjects that crop up here a lot. Some of us enjoy sports, art, and literature, and other subjects that crop here from time to time.

And some of enjoy discussing politics. Particularly when we have, without a doubt, the worst president in history. A man who is a climate denier and anti-vax. A president who releases classified intelligence on his phone in a country club for all and sundry to see. Whose political aides are so stupid that they can't even find a damn light switch. I fear I don't have time to document this administration's mistakes as they create even bigger gaffes in the time it takes me to write this.

46% of Americans want him impeached, and it was 43% last week. Also using the term SJW marks you as a bumbling entitlement warrior bravely trying to drag the world back to an era that never existed.

Buy two of the same books. Learn how to use a one time pad.
Take a holiday or sabbatical and give one book to the person you want to communicate with.
Teach that person about the use of a one time pad on paper. Don't encode or decode the message on the computer.
Take up landscape photography. Any digital camera will do.
Include a small banner ad like landscape image with every email.
Learn steganography and hide a short one time pad like message in every small landscape image in every normal email.
Set some constrained writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... in the text of the message to show that a real message is in the image.
One time pad use should keep the message safe, if not reused or decoded or created on a computer.
Sending an image with every email sets up a pattern that is not new later when really needed.
The constant use of a one time pad message over the years build up a pattern, but if none are real, years of everyday tasks will get tracked by some gov or contractor.

Anonymity would need a numbers station. Years of been watch for no result might induce cost savings that would see more interesting people tracked.
The ability to trust any computer crypto from an OS, as software is low given the help US brands offer with decryption to 5 eye nations and other nations.
"Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages" (Friday 12 July 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
FISA, NSL, and new laws make all US domestic data part of collect it all.
"NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information" (1/13/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

perhaps it could be standardized with some automatic key exchange mechanism

And there's your problem, key exchange is the hardest (most expensive at least) part of PKI.

It's a serious weakness in things like Signal, somewhat ameliorated by letting you know someone's key was changed, but unless you're communicating via some other channel while doing the key exchange you can't really know the key is valid.

These key signing parties aren't just an excuse to earn frequent flier miles: https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Many years ago, local governments would dredge river channels every so often, so they wouldn't flood. Good. Then Britain joined the EU. Along came unelected Eurocrats, who imposed ridiculously punitive/expensive standards regarding the disposal of the dredged up mud/silt. Result... * local authorities couldn't afford to dredge river channels * river channels silted up * rivers flooded

Well... like... duhhhh. To add insult to injury, the flooding was wrongly blamed on global warming. It was crap like this that contributed to the Brexit vote result.

Except it had nothing to with the EU. In the UK we should be looking at our own national politicians, especially the Conservative Party. From TFA:

"Cameron cannot say he was not warned: he has ignored red flag after red flag, right from the start of his premiership. In the first year of the coalition, he cut capital spending on flood defences by 27% year-on-year. That was despite the 2008 Pitt Review – a systematic analysis of major floods in 2007 – concluding that much more funding was needed."

And their current plans to promote the construction of one million new houses while refusing to implement legal requirements for new developments to include sustainable drainage aren't helping either.

Many years ago, local governments would dredge river channels every so often, so they wouldn't flood. Good. Then Britain joined the EU. Along came unelected Eurocrats, who imposed ridiculously punitive/expensive standards regarding the disposal of the dredged up mud/silt. Result... * local authorities couldn't afford to dredge river channels * river channels silted up * rivers flooded

Well... like... duhhhh. To add insult to injury, the flooding was wrongly blamed on global warming. It was crap like this that contributed to the Brexit vote result.

Except it had nothing to with the EU. In the UK we should be looking at our own national politicians, especially the Conservative Party. From TFA:

"Cameron cannot say he was not warned: he has ignored red flag after red flag, right from the start of his premiership. In the first year of the coalition, he cut capital spending on flood defences by 27% year-on-year. That was despite the 2008 Pitt Review – a systematic analysis of major floods in 2007 – concluding that much more funding was needed."

And their current plans to promote the construction of one million new houses while refusing to implement legal requirements for new developments to include sustainable drainage aren't helping either.

Travel / tourism to US is plummeting.
The size of the effect varies by source:

6.5% - http://www.reuters.com/article...
17% - http://time.com/money/4662727/...
25% - https://www.theguardian.com/tr...
50% - http://ttgnordic.com/interest-...

I am European.
I have been to United States tens of times, both on company budget and on my own.
I won't come back, unless pressed really hard by my employer.
Why should I?
The world is full of wonderful places.
Why should I choose a country which is openly hostile to visitors?

In Oracle's 155-page appeal on Friday, it [...] said "Google reaped billions of dollars while leaving Oracle's Java business in tatters."

It seems to me that it was Oracle that left Sun's Java business in tatters.

To be fair, it was Sun (specifically MyLittlePony) that drove all of Sun's business into the ground.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...
https://www.theguardian.com/me...
And from NYU http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/apps...

"No cross-traffic"

It's human nature to make assumptions, assumptions that then get programmed into autonomous car systems. And then someone dies.
Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode | Technology | The Guardian

Perhaps an older article will help bring you up to speed:
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Even better for your sake - due to it's age you can use it to blame Obama if it's introduced under Trump!

I haven't watched the numberphile video but here's a related pedophile link: https://www.theguardian.com/au...

According to https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/nov/18/goldman-sachs-blankfein-sorry,

"The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,"

.

Who knows what sophisticated and perfectly-executed levels of depravity might be perpetrated by Golden Sox' robot traders? Hookers and blow may well be involved but not in a fun Benderesque sense.

And yet they have more wealth than 1/2 the rest of the world's population: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

In Brazil, it's already common for the rich to commute by helicopter. So yes, we have "flying cars" already. And I'm guessing it wouldn't be too hard nowadays to create a navigation system, so massive numbers of helicopters can fly without crashing into each other.

But you know what the problem with helicopters is? They're LOUD. Just one helicopter can be heard easily from kilometers away. If you had tens of thousands of helicopters descending on a business district each morning, the noise would be beyond intolerable. All aircraft - whether relying on rotors, jet engines, or rockets - are extremely loud, and when you burn enough energy to reverse gravity, this loudness is probably unavoidable.

So in short, the masses will never use flying cars.

China has already hit its peak coal consumption and it's now in decline.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.carbonbrief.org/an...
https://www.eia.gov/conference...

The voters in the last election were undereducated white Evangelical Christian women in goddam Rust Belt

Trump also appealed to many women who feared downward mobility and poverty, winning a majority of women without college degrees, as well as rural women. He denounced the trade deals that they felt had wrecked their economies, and vowed to create jobs by rebuilding America’s decaying infrastructure. Meanwhile, Clinton partied with her funders in the Hamptons. She represented an out-of-touch elite, and many women felt that deeply and resented her – or simply didn’t care about her campaign.

The only "code" dey hab id ind der dose.

What is the difference between Microsoft and Google?

Apparently Microsoft sells information to secret U.S. government agencies. One story: Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages.

It doesn't matter, apparently, what a judge rules. It's being done anyway.

They have a carbon tax, they could just extend it to include tax on imports from countries based on their CO2 output levels. More on Sweden's policies:

Swedes get a 10,000 kronor (£860) rebate when they buy a green car, ie a car that consumes less petrol, or runs on biofuels or natural gas.

Stockholm introduced congestion charging last year. Cars going into or out of the inner city zone pay 10, 15 or 20 kronor, depending on the time of the day (the busier it gets, the more you pay).

The government hiked the carbon tax by 2.6% in January to 2.34 kronor per litre.

A climate change bill will be presented in September, which could include measures to promote freight transport by rail at home and a possible increase to the green car rebate. "We will be focusing on the transport sector," says the Swedish environment minister, Andreas Carlgren. In Sweden, most oil and gas is used for transport.

Sweden gets all its electricity either from hydroelectric power or nuclear plants.

The Swedish government concluded last week a 1bn kronor (£84m) contract with China to develop wind power there.

First off, that's a horrible chart to be referencing, as it's a prediction output from a simple climate model. But let's look at it anyway. At 2000Gt of CO2, we have about 1.2C. double the output to 4000Gt (although I don't know if that will double the concentration in the atmosphere) and we get around 2.4C. Double that agian to 8000Gt, and that puts us up around the 4C mark. So even though this chart is talking about human CO2 output and not the concentration in the atmosphere, it is still giving us roughly 1.2C per doubling.

There are numerous sources for this value, including the IPCC. They give a value of 3.7W/m^2 for a doubling of CO2. You can derive the Stefan-Boltzmann equation and calculate the temperature increase.
References to 1.2C per doubling found using a quick google search:
http://www.nuceng.ca/refer/cli...
http://www.climate-skeptic.com...
https://judithcurry.com/2010/1...
https://climateaudit.org/2008/...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
http://www.thegwpf.com/matt-ri...

Who are they? It probably depends on where you live.

Isn't all of SV SJW? I just heard that story from peter thiel who almost was kicked from the facebook board (even though he was an early investor) just because he endorsed an anti SJW presidential candidate and went to RNC [1] [2] [3]. He was the first openly gay man to speak at the RNC! Apparently thats not SJW enough for SV. Or github which nukes entire repositories just for using certain words [2]. So Mozilla isn't the only SJW company in SV, its part of their style.

[1] : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...
[2] : https://www.theguardian.com/te...
[3] : http://time.com/4417679/republ...
[3] : https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

A force that used its powers to target journalists' phones has been told off by the UK regulator on the issue.

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

So long as the glut continues, you're not going to be making a lot of people rich, and where the oil is more expensive to get at, like oil sands in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Dakotas, or even North Sea oil, you're finding production falling off because the lower prices reduces the economic argument for grabbing the oil. That's the real problem here. Cheap oil is great if you're a consumer, it's probably pretty damned good if you're a refiner as well, but if you're a producer it sucks really bad, and while technology has indeed allowed cheaper access to some sources like shale oil, all in all low oil prices have actually had a pretty shitty effect, to the point where Shell is selling its North Sea assets.

It's the great irony of oil production that it seems it is low prices, rather than high prices, that are causing the industry problems, and may in the medium term lead to more development of renewables. The Saudis, at least, seem to know this, which is why they've set up their massive sovereign wealth fund. They're going to grab the money while they can, because they know in the long term, fossil fuels are a dead end.

If Apple is forced to pay the $13 billion, Ireland is unlikely to see any of it. Firstly, other EU countries would go after Apple for a share and also Apple could declare the tax in the US instead.
https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

LSD was also a strong influence on Bill Wilson in his search for a cure to alcoholism. The story goes that Bill Wilson eventually split with AA over AA becoming a completely anti-drug organization, and he still wanted to experiment with LSD and alcoholism.

Meanwhile - vinyl hits a 25 year high in sales. https://www.theguardian.com/mu...
I'm sure music cartels would LOVE a model you can only listen to ONCE and never share with anyone, similar to the direction digital books were going - with only a pittance going back to the content creators.
I think people are wising up and actually want to own something and do with it what WE as consumers choose.