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Its funny you mention blackberry - they are still on the slide down:

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

All of their phones have always been "lets do xyz really well" (speakerphone, camera, battery life etc) but totally ignore all the other features of the phone. Nokia had this issue as well - awesome battery life or camera, but shit memory and shitty software.

You need to read both:

-Accusations that climate science is money-driven reveal ignorance of how science is done
-No climate conspiracy: NOAA temperature adjustments bring data closer to pristine

Microwave oven to blame for mystery signal that left astronomers stumped

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Good job "working within the system" to prevent bad things happening so far....

Nobody thought killing the Archduke Ferdinand would unleash a world war. Nobody. Hell a month after it happened the markets hadn't moved yet. But a LOT of historians and scholars between 1910 and 1914 warned that the web of alliances and treaties in Europe were causing a highly unstable situation where a single wrong move could unleash a cataclysmic chain of events - more than one warned it could cause a world war if the wrong thing happened, they couldn't tell what that thing would be - but it was visible to those who knew how to look that the world was tense enough to make it happen.
World war 2 was even more obvious - it was predicted in detail by several scholars as early as 1919. They could see the inevitable outcome of the Versailes treaty would be to ultimately push Germany to elect a dictator and rise up against the world.

Now as it happened, inside the government of the Weimar republic there were a lot of people like you - who also saw that risk, and believed they could prevent it arising by "working within the system". For a while they succeeded - but there were things they couldn't control. Most critically - they couldn't control the US election of 1928. That election gave republicans both houses of congress and the white house (just like right now ahem) and the *same* republican economic plans that they always push were now able to be unleashed at full force. We call it "trickle down" economics (I know republicans pretend that isn't what it is but their claim is built on nothing more solid than 'we never use that phrase' - they do nothing to call the accuracy of their description into question) back then it was called "Horse and Sparrow" economics (feed the horses well and the sparrows can eat the seeds they drop on the road) - as one commentator at the time remarked "The great thing about it is, it admit straight up that under republican ideals the poor are expected to eat shit". Notice how incredibly alike these things are.

The big thing about that election is - in 1929 it led to the complete collapse of Wall Street (there is NO doubt that republican deregulation campaigns caused black friday). It didn't end there. You see this isn't widely known but the stock market collapse was short-lived. Wall street was back to 1928 levels before January 1930 and back to 1929 levels before October. The stock market recovered almost instantly !
So why did the economy keep falling ? Another great republican idea: cutting government spending. Austerity in a great recession caused the great depression. As massive deflation hit, the republicans refused to spend - and the money just kept getting worth more and more. While nobody could sell anything. Agricultural prices dropped by 66% from January 1930 to January 1931 ! And with the cheapest food in history - people were starving, because nobody could buy the food. Those who had money hoarded it - because the money got worth more the longer you didn't spend it.
Meantime the farmers kept cutting prices to try and sell - but too many people were without an income, they still didn't sell enough - so they had to cut staff to survive, which means there were now MORE people without an income so htey had to cut prices more. And so on and so forth. The depression wouldn't end until Pearl Harbour FORCED the government to start spending money - so SOMEBODY was spending money. Because everybody's income is somebody else's expense, and if nobody is spending then nobody is earning either.

But all this hit Germany really hard. The costs of Versailes on their economy had forced them to borrow heavily, they were okay - they

Oh, I looked at your "damning" links - and not one of them cited a relevant or useful study. What I saw instead was a lot of "here's a graph, here's another graph - they're different in a way I don't like - therefore, it must be deliberately faked". No attempt was made to find out why the data was adjusted, no evidence that the adjustments made readings less accurate instead of more, and no challenge to the peer-reviewed methodology of the corrections. Instead they leaped immediately to the conclusion that it was a hoax and a conspiracy - just as you are. No contrary evidence of your own, no studies, no science, just "I don't like the results so that science must have been faked". That's the very soul of denial.

Why just the 1970s? If they go further back, it disproves what they're trying to indoctrinate you with. They'd have you believe that bad storms never happened before. Hogg wash. In fact HOGG Island, NYC.

If you bothered to read the paper you'd see the data they present goes back to 1930, and only the recent increase in intensity starts in the 70s. And maybe you'd care to explain how a single storm from 1893 somehow disproves a peer-reviewed statistical analysis about storms getting stronger a hundred years later?

Likewise, please explain where the original "cold snap" study claims that Greenland before 1300 was "MUCH warmer" than today. Please explain how ice cores from two lakes in Greenland somehow mean that the average temperatures for the entire globe were warmer at that time, when no reconstruction places them anywhere close to modern levels. You think the Medieval Warm and Little Ice Age periods are unknown to climatologists? But you're already convinced it's all a scam, despite the evidence directly contradicting your claims.

As for the fuel companies, do you really think that? You think that they won't adapt?

You really think they'll happily wave goodbye to trillions of dollars without a care in the world? You're quite wrong. They'll adapt if they're forced to, but you can be certain they'll do whatever they can to exploit the reserves they have first - there's plenty of evidence of them spending hundreds of millions to confuse and delay the issue as long as they can - just like the tobacco companies did.

Instead, you're harping on about Al Gore - who's not even a scientist. Nobody cares what he says - we care what the climatologists say. They saw the problem long before Gore made a movie, and why would they care if he made money from it? Is Gore paying climatologists to falsify evidence? The ones doing that are the oil companies. Frankly, your efforts to claim that Gore somehow orchestrated the whole thing to make a buck are laughable in the face of the evidence - all the more so when you're so keen to ignore the FAR bigger amounts being made by those who benefit from ignoring it.

True. Doesn't mean that there aren't some that will still go for it, damn the consequences.

John Maynard Keynes was a famous economist from the 1st half of the 20th Century. I vaguely remembered reading a remark he made about a shorter work week, a little googling and I came up with this from https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/01/economics:

Back in 1930, Keynes predicted that the working week would be drastically cut, to perhaps 15 hours a week, with people choosing to have far more leisure as their material needs were satisfied

So, as productivity increases, why haven't we just started having a shorter work week? It seems to me that Parkinson's law trumps Keynes's vision. (Named after C. Northcote Parkinson) that work expands to fill the time allotted. I find it very depressing myself. On the one hand, you have unemployed people, on the other hand, you have people employed in a lot of 'busy work'.

Bitcoin mining is helping people in Venezuela avoid the problems of hyperinflation, thanks to state subsided (although likely illegally used) electricity:

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

Global political attacks on cash (India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl..., Pakistan http://www.financialexpress.co..., Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/wo..., Euro http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...) and gold (India gold ownership limits http://www.indianjobs4u.com/go...) and Euro currency (Italian bank bailout worries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...), US (geopolitical uncertainty from Trump, interest rate hikes http://abcnews.go.com/Business...), brexit (UK in or out of Europe http://www.express.co.uk/news/...) are all bullish for Bitcoin into 2017.

..instead of having the US join hands with Russia and Turkey to crush Isis.

The Russian interest at play here is not to crush Isis, but to crush the economic sanctions against Russia for invading Crimea and trying to take over Ukraine. These sanctions are crippling the ability of the Russian Oligarchy to enjoy their wealth and amass more.

Do you think Paul Manafort was advising Trump on how Russia could join hands to help the US destroy ISIS, or do you think he was telling Trump about how all the Russian oligarchs would love him if he were to remove these annoying sanctions?

Trump has a track record of championing making money over punishing wrong-doers. Consider this episode where he wanted a convicted rapist to avoid prison time so his casino could profit off of his boxing match--

Trump and Tyson are old friends who did business together in the late 1980s, when the real estate mogul promoted and hosted several of Tyson's fights at his Atlantic City casinos and even fashioned himself for a time as the boxer's "business adviser." And in a largely forgotten episode, Trump came to the boxer's aid during one the darkest moments of Tyson's careerâ"his 1992 conviction for raping a beauty queen. To save the champ from being locked up, Trump pitched a highly controversial proposal that would have essentially allowed Tyson to buy his way out of prison.

The burden of proof is on the one making allegations of Russian hacking. We know what nation state level hacking looks like thanks, ironically, to Snowden. We know the NSA can intercept your new router in the mail and install a durable backdoor on it that will survive everything you do to it. We know the NSA has TEMPEST vans that can snoop on your screen and keyboard.

The idea that a nation state is left to rely upon low level phishing scams seems laughable at best. Just look to past examples to see that they had better stuff than this.

Here are a few past examples of real hacking. Note how much more sophisticated these attacks were:

* Theremin's bug
* MI6 spies on Russia with fake rock

Please tell me again why Russia has fallen back to kiddie level phishing scams? Remember, the burden of proof is on the people saying "it's Russia" and I'm not going to let anyone shift that.

When some people tell me that Russel's teapot is in orbit and others say it's not, I'm going to wait for evidence. I can't just average them out and conclude that a teacup or possibly a saucer is up there flying around, if not a whole teapot.

Study finds cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, and that premature deaths are most often caused by prolonged spells of moderate cold

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/21/moderately-cold-weather-more-deadly-than-heatwaves-or-extreme-cold

Prison without trials:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Indefinite solitary confinement:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/res...

Spying on all citizens:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Current government supports executions of whistleblowers:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://www.washingtontimes.com...

Executing citizens without a trial:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Just to name a few.

Trump is taking credit, but he had nothing to do with it, the investment in question has been in the works for a long time.

That's pretty much what the guardian is reporting.

That's something you'll need to backup with facts. In the past 10 years where I've lived various governments have caved under pressure to let kids get their L plates at an earlier and earlier age.

With the reference to L plates, perhaps you're British? Here is a Guardian article with some statistics in the first paragraph about decline in licensure among 17-to-20 year olds, as well as 21-29. Here's a similar set of statistics for the US.

That would have a lot to do with very little information being passed onto them and people complaining about it everytime they do. How they would love to know how many hours you spend behind the wheel, as you already alluded to :-)

So we're in agreement - without that data they can't do much more than average across the population. But that unfairly (for some definition of "fair") benefits some people while punishing others, assuming you believe in some notion of the intrinsic safety of a driver

Not only did it count for me, the insurance company promoted the classes and I was able to claim back the cost of the class from the insurance company.

This wasn't a class the public could take - it was a class about emergency driving, with lights and siren. It did involve going on a skid pad and learning how to drive through a loss of traction, as well as slalom and reverse-slalom as well as general situational awareness (there's no rear window so you have to track where nearby cars are). Most useful to me was learning driver "psychology" as it were, learning how people in aggregate respond to unusual situations and seeing lots of examples of the ways drivers can screw up given a surprising event means I'm rarely surprised by what someone on the road does. I've had to take evasive action several times to avoid an imminent crash and it's certainly helped to know the limits of the vehicle performance, the road surface, and what the other driver(s) are likely to do given the circumstances.

I don't expect the insurance company to promote or pay for such a class, and in fact they would have no business doing so, but if they took it into consideration it would be a sign that they were willing to individualize their notion of driver risk. But they aren't interested.

Really to be fair, flying a plane is a very different skill set than driving a car. It is a much more refined skill with a metric shitload of inference based on information provided by instrumentation. Where looking out the window becomes important a lot of information is incredibly subtle (at height the landscape can appear almost unmoving) By comparison one of the biggest problems with new drivers is they spend too much time looking at instruments in a scenario where pretty much anything can jump out infront of their windscreen at any moment. It's a very different kind of situational awareness, and personally I don't believe that being a pilot would make you a better (or worse) driver on the road but I would be happy to see some stats to correct me.

The biggest problem with new pilots is that they spend too much time looking at instruments, too. Most private flying is done visually and "seat of the pants", and a flight instructor will commonly cover up all the instruments if a new student is fixating on something (usually the artificial horizon) to try to fly the plane without a "feel" for it. We don't typically fly high enough for the landscape to seem still; it's typical for me to fly at 3500' or 5500' and I spent a lot of time lower than 2500'.

I never said that they were exactly the same skillset, and I don't have any data, but becoming a pilot forces you to become very very good at multitasking, risk management, planning ahead (both before you get in the p

You (apparently) started off making some legitimate points. I'm an independence-inclined Scot and Remainer with zero need or inclination to apologise for Little Englanders who want to go back to the 1950s and still act (and think) with delusions of grandeur like the British Empire hasn't been over for well over half a century.

This doesn't change the fact that by the second paragraph, it's obvious that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. I'm guessing you formed your half-baked idea of the United Kingdom from reading a few isolated scraps and filled in the rest with guesswork and misleading stereotypes.

The "1MBit" Internet speed thing has already been debunked, but your assertion that Cornwall "maybe" ranks along London as the most prosperous part of the United Kingdom shows how much you're pulling out of your arse.

Yes, London's service-based economy *is* undeniably prosperous for those working in it- at the expense of unbalancing that of the UK as a whole. (The flip side being that ludicrously expensive- and rapidly increasing- housing prices and high cost of living are making London virtually unliveable for anyone who *isn't* in the type of jobs that pay such inflated salaries).

Cornwall, though? You don't have a fucking clue. Cornwall is actually one of the poorest parts of the UK.

Not that I have much sympathy for them since they voted to cut their own throats. But Cornwall prosperous? Get a ******* clue.

I lived in Cornwall. Too expensive for locals to live there properties are worth a fortune David Cameron's favourite haunt and lots of retired actors. Edward Woodward was living on the coast there before his death his actresss wife still lives there. Nice weather in Cornwall you get very few council properties in Cornwall they are all privately owned properties.. So quiet and laid-back love it! I just cannot afford the prices.

Poland nobody wants to live in Poland not even the Polish. Hungary Hungarians college professors get paid less than a U.K. roadsweeper I spent almost a year there. I wished Cornwall was poor just so I could afford the prices and I am not poor. I did manage to live in Devon, Newton Abbot a stone throw away from Cornwall for 4 years.

Well, arguably some of them voted to add £350 million / week to the NHS budget. Some of people voted to reduce the influx of low-priced Continental labor into the UK.

However the unspoken corrollary of "Brexit means Brexit" is that Brexit means none of those other things people were voting for.

You (apparently) started off making some legitimate points. I'm an independence-inclined Scot and Remainer with zero need or inclination to apologise for Little Englanders who want to go back to the 1950s and still act (and think) with delusions of grandeur like the British Empire hasn't been over for well over half a century.

This doesn't change the fact that by the second paragraph, it's obvious that you don't have a clue what you're talking about. I'm guessing you formed your half-baked idea of the United Kingdom from reading a few isolated scraps and filled in the rest with guesswork and misleading stereotypes.

The "1MBit" Internet speed thing has already been debunked, but your assertion that Cornwall "maybe" ranks along London as the most prosperous part of the United Kingdom shows how much you're pulling out of your arse.

Yes, London's service-based economy *is* undeniably prosperous for those working in it- at the expense of unbalancing that of the UK as a whole. (The flip side being that ludicrously expensive- and rapidly increasing- housing prices and high cost of living are making London virtually unliveable for anyone who *isn't* in the type of jobs that pay such inflated salaries).

Cornwall, though? You don't have a fucking clue. Cornwall is actually one of the poorest parts of the UK.

Not that I have much sympathy for them since they voted to cut their own throats. But Cornwall prosperous? Get a ******* clue.

I was looking for an update yesterday and found https://www.theguardian.com/cu...

From her brother:

But he later clarified his comments. “It’s not fair to say ‘stable’. I am not saying she is fine, or not fine,” he told Reuters by telephone. “She is in the ICU.” But in a subsequent interview he said many details about her condition or what caused the medical emergency are unknown.

The Washington Post is no authority on Shariah.

And you are even less of an authority.
The Wapo article quotes well known islamofoe Daniel Pipes and even his interpretation isn't has crazy as yours.

In all these countries (in India, Muslims having their own separate civil law, since they are a minority), civil laws are laid out according to the above list

Hello, McFly civil laws. Civil laws, by definition do not apply to crimes. Its 99% about contracts.

As for Rwanda, that was a well known tribal civil war b/w Hutus and Tutsis. Neither side invoked Christianity

Incorrect. The catholic churches were heavily involved.

might be the other side of the ISIS coin if I thought that my religion should be supreme throughout the world. Yet, I have nothing against Christians, Jews, Taoists, Buddhists, Shintos, Rastafarians, Scientologists or anyone else. So your attempt at a tu quoque falls flat

::rolleyes::
Surely you can't be that stupid. Please tell me you are deliberately trying to throw up bullshit to avoid admitting your collaboration.

Here, i'll spell it out for you:
ISIS: Islam means killing all the infidels
You: Islam means killing all the infidels
All other muslims: ISIS are a bunch of fucking assholes who don't speak for us

See? You and ISIS are the exact same thing.

Also tu quoque does not mean what you think it means.

San Francisco passed a solar mandate for new bldgs under 10 stories this April
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Replying to the false narrative Russia keeps putting out:

I guess they would be defending Crimea and other Russia territory from attacks over the border.

There was nothing to defend since it isn't their territory. It's Ukrainian soil and Ukraine wasn't attacking Russia, let alone even threatening Russia.

However, since the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea there has been wholesale arrests of Crimean Tartars, the television, radio and other Tartar news sources have been shut down, and their businesses stolen.

Got Crimea back,

There was nothing to get back. It wasn't Russia's to begin with.

got involved in Syria and seems to have resolved it

By deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians, yes, that is one way.

and installed his choice of leader in the White House.

Agreed. Putin did a fantastic job on the gullible rednecks in the U.S. which shows how far this country has sunk.

while removing sanctions and doing deals to boost the Russian economy.

Also agreed. That is what Russia needs most right now because with oil prices still being low, Russia just might run out of money in the coming year. We know the sanctions have been have been having an effect so Putin had to do whatever he could to make sure Hillary Clinton didn't get in since she would have increased sanctions as well as possibly provide military support to Ukraine.

Replying to the false narrative Russia keeps putting out:

I guess they would be defending Crimea and other Russia territory from attacks over the border.

There was nothing to defend since it isn't their territory. It's Ukrainian soil and Ukraine wasn't attacking Russia, let alone even threatening Russia.

However, since the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea there has been wholesale arrests of Crimean Tartars, the television, radio and other Tartar news sources have been shut down, and their businesses stolen.

Got Crimea back,

There was nothing to get back. It wasn't Russia's to begin with.

got involved in Syria and seems to have resolved it

By deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians, yes, that is one way.

and installed his choice of leader in the White House.

Agreed. Putin did a fantastic job on the gullible rednecks in the U.S. which shows how far this country has sunk.

while removing sanctions and doing deals to boost the Russian economy.

Also agreed. That is what Russia needs most right now because with oil prices still being low, Russia just might run out of money in the coming year. We know the sanctions have been have been having an effect so Putin had to do whatever he could to make sure Hillary Clinton didn't get in since she would have increased sanctions as well as possibly provide military support to Ukraine.

Replying to the false narrative Russia keeps putting out:

I guess they would be defending Crimea and other Russia territory from attacks over the border.

There was nothing to defend since it isn't their territory. It's Ukrainian soil and Ukraine wasn't attacking Russia, let alone even threatening Russia.

However, since the Russian invasion and occupation of Crimea there has been wholesale arrests of Crimean Tartars, the television, radio and other Tartar news sources have been shut down, and their businesses stolen.

Got Crimea back,

There was nothing to get back. It wasn't Russia's to begin with.

got involved in Syria and seems to have resolved it

By deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians, yes, that is one way.

and installed his choice of leader in the White House.

Agreed. Putin did a fantastic job on the gullible rednecks in the U.S. which shows how far this country has sunk.

while removing sanctions and doing deals to boost the Russian economy.

Also agreed. That is what Russia needs most right now because with oil prices still being low, Russia just might run out of money in the coming year. We know the sanctions have been have been having an effect so Putin had to do whatever he could to make sure Hillary Clinton didn't get in since she would have increased sanctions as well as possibly provide military support to Ukraine.

Daily Mail is a tabloid.

But even that is better than the "usual media outlet" used by Craig Murray (and most of the right-wing blogs "reporting" his words) - Alex Jones Bitch! Two days BEFORE the Daily Mail interview.
You know... the inter-dimensional baby-sacrificing lizard-men guy.

Which is where that Craig Murray story started in that form - where it's a talk about him being center stage, claiming everyone else is wrong.
Back then they still had to cherry pick the actual Guardian article where Murray's stance was mentioned as an "opposing view" to the title and the core of the article.
CIA concludes Russia interfered to help Trump win election, say reports

Isn't it great that now tabloids are giving time directly to Murray, so you can quote a rag without linking to the article where he comes off as profanity slinging loon?
Or better yet! His blog.
Where he rants about the conspiracy to remove that Guardian article (while begging people to buy his book) from the Guardian's front page.

While the article was not taken down, the home page links to it vanished and it was replaced by a ludicrous one repeating the mad CIA allegations against Russia and now claiming â" incredibly â" that the CIA believe the FBI is deliberately blocking the information on Russian collusion.

Apparently, Murray doesn't understand the concept of a dynamic web page.
But he sure as hell leans towards conspiracy theorist way of thinking, doesn't he? Can't find that link... must be a conspiracy to hide it from you.
Just like when you spam people with your conspiracy theories and no one rushes to your blog - it must be Facebook conspiring against you.
Good thing that "calling out Facebook" still works. Or as some might call it - asking his followers to spam his link around.
All 650 of them, which by his math means his blog should get 200k+ hits. But he'll clearly settle for a dozen or so.

And while we're talking about his blog... do notice how his claims change over time.
First he, in his own words, "met the person who leaked them" while talking to the Guardian and quoting himself from the same "hidden" article.
By the time he talks to Daily Mail - it's "leakers" and "sources" and "identities" (Oh my!).
And he's gone from "I've met the person who leaked them" to this:

Murray said he retrieved the package from a source during a clandestine meeting in a wooded area near American University, in northwest D.C.
He said the individual he met with was not the original person who obtained the information, but an intermediary.

Apparently, now he DIDN'T actually meet the person who leaked them. Or was that persons?
It's kinda hard to keep up with all the... how does Murray put it? Ah yes... Utter bullshit.

BUT WAIT! THAT'S NOT ALL!

As a good pal and collaborator of Julian Assange he's coming to Assange's defense once again.
Cause if what CIA claims is true - Assange is nothing but a "useful idiot" to Putin. Which makes Murray into a... what exactly?

Funny thing is... Last time he came to Assange's defense like that he publicly outed one of the women who were accusing Assange of sexual assault.
This time he does no such thing while admonishing "truly execrable" journalists for treating "the US government, for goodness sake" (actual quote) as a credible source.
While HE and Assange ARE credible because "I have a reputation for inconvenient truth telling" (another actual quote).

And yet he doesn't out the source he claims t

The car in the video is not a Tesla, it's an Uber self-driving car. These seem to not be driving very well as they are also known to drive on the bicycle lane. Uber is denying the red-light issue but says they are working on the bicycle lane one, thus acknowledging there are problems with their self-driving software.

Remember, they've already used this feature to remotely disable a Tesla of an owner that posted a negative tweet about Elon Musk.

I don't remember that. I remember Elon Musk canceling a blogger's order. Was there a separate incident in which an owner's car was disabled?

we will never be rid of fake news.

It's far too useful to some folks when they need to sway public opinion on something. The truth be damned.

fake news... What is it?

Is it a new thing entirely? Is it just a new word for propaganda or is it simply lies? Could it just be a more extreme form of the baseless "opinion piece"?

Whatever it is, I'm already getting sick about hearing it. If someone doesn't like a news story they label it as "fake news" regardless of whether it is or not. Once that happens, we're all fucked because nothing is true any more. As that writer succinctly points out — don't play chess with pigeons: even if you win they'll just upset the board and shit on it. I'm not sure where the pigeons come from, but the analogy makes more sense than a lot of other stuff right now.

the Ukraine

There's no "the" there. It's just Ukraine. Congrats, you've already discredited yourself. Let's see what else you have to say.

those people are ethnically Russian and that segment wants to be part of Russia.

During the last census (2001), only 17% of Ukraine was ethnic Russian. That figure has declined since then. Polls by Russian sociologists contradict your assertion that Ukrainians want to be part of Russia.

For Syria, it's the USA that started the whole mess

Disturbing that you so wantonly deprive Syrians of agency.

Just how many times has the last hospital been destroyed, anyhow?

Do you deny that Russia has conducted a campaign of bombing Syrian hospitals? Médecins Sans Frontière confirms that they are doing so, and stopped giving Syrian hospital coordinates to Russia for that reason: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

I'd much rather be on Russia's side

Something tells me that you already are. Here's an ironic fact - you are severely ill informed, and you think you're compensating for it simply by being contrarian. You haven't said anything of substance, and have denied basic facts. I know that acquiring information (i.e. actually learning about something) requires effort, and that it's much easier to rail against the "MSM" (as if it's one monolithic thing, instead of a set of competing commercial entities), but you're actually making youself more gullible, more naive, and more ill-informed by doing this.

. . . .it's not like Apple has a good record on SSL/TLS. Heck, other reports are noting that the Apple Store itself re-directs https connects to vanilla http connections.

This is NOT Rocket Science. . . .

Indeed, I used to work for a company whose app's downloads got blocked in various countries because the URLs were sent in the clear. My snarky comment was that app developers will care about web security as soon as Apple does.

But the big reason the ATS mandate was absurd is that lots of apps have to be able to download arbitrary content from arbitrary URLs, and web views aren't necessarily involved. And even when they are, developers often need to work around limitations in iOS WebKit by using custom NSURLProtocol subclasses to manipulate web view traffic on its way out (e.g. adding custom headers, authentication credentials, etc.). With ATS enabled, doing that becomes impossible.

So yeah, mandatory ATS was never going to fly, and lots of us said so almost immediately after the announcement. I'm glad they finally got the message.

. . . .it's not like Apple has a good record on SSL/TLS. Heck, other reports are noting that the Apple Store itself re-directs https connects to vanilla http connections.

This is NOT Rocket Science. . . .

Obviously, they had significant grumbling from the Dev. community.

But this is like when they pushed-back the Sandboxing requirement a few years ago: It will happen.

How about a little less negativity, and a little more support for Apple at least attempting to drag Devs. into using more robust security?

. . . .it's not like Apple has a good record on SSL/TLS. Heck, other reports are noting that the Apple Store itself re-directs https connects to vanilla http connections.

This is NOT Rocket Science. . . .

Complete neutrality isn't an option, if you don't enforce rules then the community will be overtaken by its most hostile members, and then Twitter really will be in trouble.

Twitter is already in real trouble. The community is already overtaken by its most hostile members. They did not enforce the rules equally.

Twitter allowing a virtual and very public lynching when someone said #allLivesMatter in aid of a charity very clearly displays that Twitter considers a minority ideology more important than the maintaining a mass of users.

Twitter allowed itself to be steered by a vocal minority and is likely going to get punished for it by the silent majority. Same as recent US election.

They're all fake now. Multi-source your news and do some research. I can't find anything US-based that resembles unbiased journalism anymore. This really sucks being unable to trust any of them.

Bias is not the same thing as fake.

Fake news is an outright shameless lie that's designed to spread confusion and polarize debate. Of course you can achieve a similar effect with an "opinion piece", but fake news is a step further since it creates its own "facts". All news outlets everywhere are biased in some way. It varies in degree, but it's always there. If you don't see the bias, then that's probably just because the slant jives closely with your worldview. Bias is not an inherently bad thing, but it's problematic if it's extreme because then it shuts out other reasonable viewpoints. I agree that good things should come of reading more widely. The Guardian recently ran a piece honestly encouraging its readers to sample some more conservative news sources.

I keep hearing [about] "Russian Hackers"

Because their main competition, the Nigerian Prince, has already been caught.

So I looked at the video in the article
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

1) It's a one-way street, and the crosswalk has SIX red lights. one over each lane, two at the sidewalk before and after the crosswalk. How did the sensors miss all those lights? Was it looking at tree and decided "Green? Keep going ..."

2) There is a pedestrian stepping into the crosswalk and the Uber drove past him. In Ga, all traffic must stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk, and I'm quite that sure Ca's law is even more strict.

3) The uber passes a car already stopped for the red light at the crosswalk. I don't know California law, but in Georgia it is also illegal to pass a car stopped for a pedestrian at a crosswalk. It's also common sense - you can't see if the car was stopped for a child/short person/wheelchair attempting to cross, so you should stop first and look second in that situation.

4) the light turned yellow at the 2 second mark in the video, and the Uber went though at 11 seconds, so it's not even close.

5) common sense that people have: If I'm coming to an intersection and other cars are stopping, I slow and look around; I know something is happening.
maybe the light changed while I was dozing, or maybe a passenger is going to open the door in front of me.
It appears that the Uber lacks this sort of situational awareness, but I don't know if the human was given an alert and ignored it in this case.

Nope!

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The Guardian?!?!?! Got a responsible source?

Why are you falling for FAKE news?

Nope!

Turkish school's Christmas 'ban' a misunderstanding, says Germany

Reports that a German-backed international school in Istanbul had scrapped Christmas festivities briefly caused outrage on Sunday and Monday, before the German foreign office said there had been a misunderstanding and that the school was allowed to teach Christmas traditions after all.

Set up in 1884, Istanbul Lisesi is a Turkish-German bilingual state school attended solely by Turkish students but partly backed by the German government. Thirty-five German teachers at the school are paid for by German taxpayers, but the headteacher is nominated directly by the education ministry in Ankara.

According to Spiegel Online, several teachers at the school said they had been told to no longer teach about German Christmas traditions in their classes, as well as being told to remove advent calendars from the classrooms.

“We don’t understand the surprising decision by the management of the Istanbul Lisesi,” said the German foreign ministry in an initial statement. “It is too bad that the good tradition of pre-Christmas intercultural exchanges at the school with a long German-Turkish tradition has been suspended. We are of course taking this up with our Turkish partners.”

The school denied the ban, which was first reported by the respected German news agency dpa and followed up the media in Germany and abroad.

“The reports in German media about restrictions on Christmas festivities of German teachers do not reflect reality,” it said. “A concert was cancelled by the German teachers in question without explanation. There is no question of the school or its management placing an obstacle in its way or prohibiting it.”

Mustafa Yenerolu, an MP with the ruling AKP, also denied the claims, saying “such false reports do nothing for Turkey-Germany relations”.

A spokesperson for the German foreign ministry said on Monday afternoon that there was no “ban” on teaching Christmas at the school after all and that “hopefully all misunderstandings have been resolved”. By then, many German politicians had reacted with fury to the initial reports.

Julia Klöckner, a deputy chair of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic party, said the incident was a sign of Turkey closing itself off from the outside world: “Those who want to restrain free thinking in this way are so ignorant, they must be capable of worse.”

Sevim Dadelen, a politician with Germany’s Left party, told Tagesspiegel the government must “immediately summon the Turkish ambassador and send a note of protest to Ankara”.

The Greens’ education policy spokesman, Özcan Mutlu, said the reports were “simply shocking”.

Andreas Scheuer, the general secretary of the CSU – Merkel’s Bavarian allies – said the reports were “new proof that [President Recep Tayyip] Erdoan’s Turkey is burning all bridges with Europe”.

Christmas is part of Germany, and that applies too for a German school abroad, Scheuer told the Funke regional media group.

Relations between Ankara and Berlin have been strained in the wake of the failed military coup in July, with Germany repeatedly expressing concern over the scope of a massive crackdown on Erdoan’s opponents.

Developments in Turkey have a strong resonance in Germany, home to a 3-million-strong ethnic Turkish population, the legacy of a massive “guest worker” programme in the 1960s and 70s.

Like I said, you're really behind the times. MDMA is on the way to becoming legal for treating PTSD

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to phase three trials of MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, the final phase of validation required to turn the party drug into a legal medicine.

“Moving from phase two to phase three shows we have strong scientific reason to believe that MDMA is an effective treatment for PTSD in therapy. The fact the FDA is ready to move forward with phase three signals that they agree,” said Brad Burge, from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps), a not-for-profit based in Santa Cruz, California, that has spearheaded efforts to turn MDMA into a medicine.

+1. The US is responsible for almost 30% of all the historical emissions :
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

They need to buy magical Holland fairy dust? Or did you have specifics in mind?

And it's not like everything is just peachy with immigration in the Netherlands. They have gang problems and a growing resistance to immigration.

I highly doubt the way a government runs a country or manages immigration can be considered fairy dust. But while you're talking about peachyness note that the gangs well and truly predate this migration. This has been a problem for many MANY years. As for the growing resistance that's a general right issue which is getting power not only in europe but all over the world right now. The anti-establishment in this case is represented by the Freedom Party and it's riding the same wave that Trump did. You don't really think 49% of Americans are racist assholes do you? Anti-immigration is just one of the Freedom Party's platforms and that provokes a few extremists to come out of the woodworks.

Of note is that the links you provided show a rally of 1500 people. That's nothing in a country of 20million sitting on a postage stamp. The links also don't fit your narrative. A few people complaining against immigration rather than immigrants causing trouble.

Or maybe I should be a good afraid little citizen and gobble up the right wing media bullshit like I'm supposed to. Nah I prefer to hear what the leaders have to say about it.

So just how is someone under 65 going to survive on $500 a month? Or someone over 65 on $750? You would have to also bring in universal healthcare and pharmacare with no deductibles, no co-pays, no insurance premiums. Otherwise, you've signed the death warrants of honest people, while the crooks will always manage to survive and even prosper.

And saying "death warrants" is not an exaggeration.

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Remember, 26% of the US population will experience at least one depressive episode in their lifetimes. Economic distress doesn't help.

So just how is someone under 65 going to survive on $500 a month? Or someone over 65 on $750? You would have to also bring in universal healthcare and pharmacare with no deductibles, no co-pays, no insurance premiums. Otherwise, you've signed the death warrants of honest people, while the crooks will always manage to survive and even prosper.

And saying "death warrants" is not an exaggeration.

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Remember, 26% of the US population will experience at least one depressive episode in their lifetimes. Economic distress doesn't help.

So just how is someone under 65 going to survive on $500 a month? Or someone over 65 on $750? You would have to also bring in universal healthcare and pharmacare with no deductibles, no co-pays, no insurance premiums. Otherwise, you've signed the death warrants of honest people, while the crooks will always manage to survive and even prosper.

And saying "death warrants" is not an exaggeration.

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Remember, 26% of the US population will experience at least one depressive episode in their lifetimes. Economic distress doesn't help.

So just how is someone under 65 going to survive on $500 a month? Or someone over 65 on $750? You would have to also bring in universal healthcare and pharmacare with no deductibles, no co-pays, no insurance premiums. Otherwise, you've signed the death warrants of honest people, while the crooks will always manage to survive and even prosper.

And saying "death warrants" is not an exaggeration.

Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Remember, 26% of the US population will experience at least one depressive episode in their lifetimes. Economic distress doesn't help.

They need to buy magical Holland fairy dust? Or did you have specifics in mind?

And it's not like everything is just peachy with immigration in the Netherlands. They have gang problems and a growing resistance to immigration.

The Taliban in Afghanistan admitted to hosting and supporting Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

They also offered to hand Bin Laden over if the Bush Administration bothered to back up their claims.

They didn't bother.

Somewhat similar in that regard Turkey wants the U.S. to hand over a cleric it blames for the coup attempt but so far the Obama Administration hasn't been given enough evidence to hand Gulen over to Turkey.

Therefore, Turkey should bomb the shit out of the United States, overthrow its government, offer bounties to throw people into island prisons, torture hundreds of them to death, and plan on occupying our country for the next 30 years at least.

Just apply the Clinton rules. Even if there's zero evidence of any wrongdoing, she must be punished for something, because surely she did something wrong.

Uh, no. If she were anyone else, she'd be looking at a few centuries in combined prison time, for sending emails through an unsecured, unauthorized server plus obstruction of justice for deleting them. Just as the sailor server a year in prison for having a handful of selfies on an unsecured, unauthorized cell phone.

Not sure about that actually being "fake news".

The Guardian is reporting it.

Fox News is reporting it

As are numerous other news outlets, both respectable and not so respectable.

Perhaps you've just assumed it was "fake" or perhaps you're helping to disseminate your own version of "fake news".

Hey, it's not so bad that he messed it up. He can blame auto-correct (although unpresidented is not a word any auto-correct should recognize).

The bigger issue is that he's involving himself in international affords before assuming office.

Well, that didn't take long...

Donald Trump accuses China of 'unpresidented' act over US navy drone | US news | The Guardian

" President-elect makes spelling error in belligerent tweet
        China says negotiations âbetween two militariesâ(TM) are ongoing
President-elect Donald Trump has risked further inflaming US relations with China, after he used Twitter on Saturday to accuse China of an âoeunpresidented [sic] actâ in its seizing of an unmanned American submarine this week."