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Only one lawmaker has been given a death sentence recently: https://www.theguardian.com/uk... Now if there were more people willing to go that far to protect the notion that the government is there for the citizens of the country then you might be able to call this poor ruling a death sentence.

Using the no-fly list to keep bad guys from guns is a terrible idea, here is why:

• 1. The government can place anyone on the no-fly list for any reason at any time. They could easily just place everyone on the no-fly list banning everyone from buying/owning guns. Only the bad guys will have guns.
• 2. You say that won't happen? Innocent people are placed on that list all the time, and you cannot be removed:
  1. Woman on no-fly list.
  2. 8 year old American on no-fly list.
  3. 6 year old Canadian on no-fly list.
  4. Others including Cat Stevens and Senator Kennedy.
• 3. I could be placed on the no-fly list for writting this, chilling free speech. You could be placed on it for having read it. Don't believe me?
  1. Reporter writing a story about Homeland Security has home raided by the Coast Guard, seizing guns and her research/work at 4:30AM in body armor, weapons drawn.
  2. CIA uses 3 degrees of separation when spying on terror suspects.
• 4. What exactly is the no-fly list for? To keep foreign bad guys out of the country, or to keep bad guys from blowing up planes? What does either of those things have anything to do with gun control? It is already against the law for non-resident aliens to possess firearms and ammunition. What does blowing up a plane have anything to do with guns? So the only reason to use the no-fly list as a means for gun control would be to keep American citizens from possessing.

  None of the shooters in any of the mass shootings were on the no-fly list.

It's just a bad idea that can and will be abused to keep law abiding citizens from possessing guns, which the federal government has no legal power to do.

If you actually want to solve the mass shooting problem, and not just use fear to remove freedoms from individuals with thunderous applause, this is what I propose:

Let guns be in schools. As part of P.E. or even on its own, students will be in a firearm safety course. They will be target practicing. They will be tearing their guns down. They will be cleaning their firearms. They will be using hand guns, and rifles, and shotguns, etc. They will be taught that they are tools just like the circular saw or the welder in shop class, or knives and scissors in art class and home economics. They will take this class every year they are old enough to hold a weapon safely.

Just like at 16, when they are given a license to operate a tool that "kills" on average 3,287 people per day, at 18 they will take a test and if passed they will get a concealed carry license issued by their state of residence. The CCL will be valid in every state and territory of this nation. All of our children will be taught to not fear guns, and if they so chose they will be armed. That way the next time someone decides to bring a semi auto rifle to a night club to kill innocent people, that person would potentially be staring down a hundred barrels of trained good guys.

There will be no fear for the government to use to tighten gun control. People will not fear guns and will know how to use them. There will not be a gun control problem. Who knows, if everyone is armed, perhaps people may be more respectful to each other.

@Anonymous Coward: "Edward Snowden talked about the fourteen eyes .. I'm free to criticize Obama heavily without fear of government retribution"

Tell that to Julian Assange. Getting framed in a honeypot sting can hardly be called no government retribution.

"The fourteen eyes aren't actively cracking down on human rights and political dissidents."

Since the Cold War is over, what do you think they spend their time doing?

Indymedia server seized in raid

"British police have admitted that undercover officers have infiltrated at least 460 political groups since 1968"

See here, the state security apparatus framing an environmental group: Activists walk free as undercover officer prompts collapse of case

@Anonymous Coward: "Edward Snowden talked about the fourteen eyes .. I'm free to criticize Obama heavily without fear of government retribution"

Tell that to Julian Assange. Getting framed in a honeypot sting can hardly be called no government retribution.

"The fourteen eyes aren't actively cracking down on human rights and political dissidents."

Since the Cold War is over, what do you think they spend their time doing?

Indymedia server seized in raid

"British police have admitted that undercover officers have infiltrated at least 460 political groups since 1968"

See here, the state security apparatus framing an environmental group: Activists walk free as undercover officer prompts collapse of case

@Anonymous Coward: "Edward Snowden talked about the fourteen eyes .. I'm free to criticize Obama heavily without fear of government retribution"

Tell that to Julian Assange. Getting framed in a honeypot sting can hardly be called no government retribution.

"The fourteen eyes aren't actively cracking down on human rights and political dissidents."

Since the Cold War is over, what do you think they spend their time doing?

Indymedia server seized in raid

"British police have admitted that undercover officers have infiltrated at least 460 political groups since 1968"

See here, the state security apparatus framing an environmental group: Activists walk free as undercover officer prompts collapse of case

Something has chained the supply down so it can barely increase.

True, but in some cases that's just the fact that it's just at reasonable capacity! In SF, sure, they could build higher, in Manhattan, kind of hitting some limits - the point being SF doesn't want to hit those limits (and maybe living in a 50+ story apartment in an earthquake zone, you don't either...)

As people move in, there are plenty of greedy developers who would build to satisfy...if they could.

Yes, but is that REALLY the best idea in SF?

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

Careful what you wish for...

"WOMEN DON'T FUCKING LIKE STEM STOP TRYING TO IMPLY YOU KNOW WHAT THEY NEED TO DO AND FUCK OF"

The 1950s called, they were looking for more archaic closed-minded dumbfucks... I'd be happy to provide a reference for you.

I work in education (teaching robotics and programming after working in the industry for 20 yrs). I
have girls/young women in my classes, don't fucking tell me girls/women don't like STEM you total fucking moron. Girls are some of the better ones in my class.

It's asshats like you that I have to contend with in getting more young women interested, and people like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

If the science is in, then why haven't the acceleration of emissions stopped?

Sorry but the facts are,

Global emissions of carbon dioxide stood at 32.1 billion tonnes in 2015, having remained essentially flat since 2013. Decoupling of global emissions and economic growth confirmed

emissions are not accelerating

Didn't everyone agree? Isn't it settled science? Or are you saying that everyone who drives a car is a denialist? Money talks. People don't REALLY believe in AGW.

If you look at the Map you'll easily see that the most CO2 is in the Sahara Desert, followed by the Indian Subcontinent and South-east Asia. None of these places are where Evil(tm) white people live. Australia where they whine the most about reducing CO2 emissions is actually a CO2 sink!

It's not getting warmer, it hasn't for 18 years, CO2 isn't going up except for a little out-gassing from the ocean due to the recent El Nina, the Alarmist narrative is coming apart at the seams. They should pull an Obama move, and declare victory and just walk away with their tails tucked.

:D Thanks for remember this! https://www.theguardian.com/te...

To be honest, the "I think any free-tiered service is not fair." quote gives the game away here; it's not stolen content Reznor is concerned about, it's free content.

Get out of here, dude. It's just coincidence.

Remember the story where a Russian immigrant stole trade secrets from Goldman Sacs? Turned out it was open source code and it was uploaded to work on it from home?

Though the Xu was trying to sell it, I have a feeling that this is probably more of the anti-China that Slashdot has rather than really taking the time to talk about what is really going on.

And, National Health and Family Planning Commission in China? What is the link to that agency and the code?

Did you know, Facebook are soon going to make you pay unless you click this link before the 1st of June/July/August/September?

Truth is stranger than fiction. Facebook will delete your backed-up photos if you don’t install Moments app.

First, that's not a real quote. It's one of many that people paraphrase or flat out make up. Which is strange because he says enough controversial stuff you would think people with have to make up stuff.

It's amazing the lengths that the press is going after Trump by flat out lying or at least playing word games.

This is one of my favorites 'You were born in a Taco Bell': Trump's rhetoric fuels school bullies across US If you read the article, you will see a few paragraphs in that Trump never used that phrase; it was one of the kids there.

And Obama is pretty restricting on the press. You don't hear about it as often because they put up with it since they support his policies.

https://cpj.org/reports/2013/1...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

go and do your school home work, your mum is getting your dinner ready

Kinda hurts when the facts that keep coming out totally bitch-slap your head-up-your-ass "he wasn't a radical Islamic" claims, doesn't it?

FBI 'highly confident' Orlando killer was radicalized

FBI Director Comey: "highly confident" Orlando shooter radicalized through internet

Orlando shooting: attacker appeared to be self-radicalized, says Obama – live

You can either pull your head out of your ass and realize this loon was an ISLAMIC homophobic loon, or you can keep living on a planet that doesn't have a blue sky.

Because right now reality is laughing at you.

You can either grow up and start living in the real world or you can remain deliberately blind.

First, let's not hysterically confuse momentary tragedy with durable long term trends.
Violence and violent crimes in the US have gone DOWN significantly, more or less consistently, for DECADES, and continue to fall:
http://www.statista.com/graphi...
One might note that this decline has happened since the 90s, which was right about when the US saw widespread revision to make conceal-carry easier.
This of course could be simple coincidence.

Second, while it's convenient to say "it's the gun lobby" the fact is that tens, if not hundreds of millions of Americans believe that it is an intrinsic right of an individual to provide for their own self-defense and that the government has no right whatsoever to impinge on that as long as the person is of sound mind and no criminal record. That is precisely why I own a firearm. I never concealed-carry (although I have the permit), and don't hunt.

I'd recommend this interesting article from the Guardian from 2013 about the crazy-quilt of US gun laws: https://www.theguardian.com/wo... - for example, Alaska and Idaho PROHIBIT *any* registration of firearms. If gun ownership were intrinsically dangerous, you'd think those places would be free-fire zones with many gun deaths; in fact, they're 26th and 42nd respectively for most gun-murders per 100k people.

And, forgive me for saying so, but considering the US Constitution has formed the structure of (debatably) the longest-existing functioning and most successful modern democracy on the planet, I'm going to go with their ideas in every single case over the outrage-fueled maunderings of some internet poster. If the US population wanted to remove the 2nd Amendment, they could; the process is really rather simple.

I understand that the US system is a difficult one for non-Americans to comprehend. Frankly, due to our crappy educational system, I daresay a majority of Americans don't really understand how it works. The fact is that the Founding Fathers were essential humanists: they believed that while a government was necessary in a Hobbesian sense, it should never be allowed to be more important than the rights of the individual.

I would argue that the culprit here is endemic, chronic, systemic narcissism ENABLED by the easy access to firearms. "Taking away the guns" wouldn't really fix the problem.

Two words:

Ban. Guns.

Problem solved. You are welcome.

(I know Americans like their guns. But guns -- especially guns in the hands of violent, disturbed people -- are the problem. More guns is not the solution).

There, feel free to mod me down now.

Wow. I'm not on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram, but I do have a twitter account. Which I only use for following porn stars and for trolling. Guess I won't be renting via any agency that uses this service ;).

In all honesty, I highly doubt this will stand up. In connection with employers asking for social media passwords of employees;

A spokesman for the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office] said: "The UK Data Protection Act clearly says that organisations shouldn't hold excessive information about individuals, and it's questionable why they would need that information in the first place." [...] "In the UK, however, it would potentially put employers in breach of the Data Protection Act because it would constitute "excessive" information about an individual, the ICO indicated. "We would have very serious concerns if this practice was to become the norm in the UK," (article).

If that's true for employers, I'd say it's way more true for landlords and letting agencies, so I'd expect the ICO to have a few things to say on this. Seems like a probable violation of the Data Protection Act.

Don't forget to thank Secretaries Powell and Rice and also George W. Bush. Or is it only bad when a democrat does it?

They outlaw cash, so there's no reason to have civil asset forfeiture. http://www.reuters.com/article... https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

OK, so I know about Assange and now Appelbaum.

Who else has been accused?

Well there was that IMF chairman who thought it would be a smart move to challenge the supremacy of the U.S. Dollar.

Spoiler alert: In a twist ending, it turned out that this was not, in fact, a smart move.

The CIA discovered a long time ago that character assassination was just as effective, and much less messy, than the kind with a bullet. They used it on Julian Assange and many others, My favorite is a certain IMF chairman who made the very stupid mistake of challenging the supremacy of the U.S. dollar. Big mistake. At least with that one they dropped the charges the same week his successor took office. That sucessor was suddenly oddly quiet on the topic of introducing a new global currency to compete with the dollar (imagine that).

Pro-tip: If you're doing something the U.S. government doesn't like, don't assume that the girl who's all over you at the bar or who shows up at your hotel room telling you she's DTF is into you for your stunning personality. Don't let your ego or your dumb dick be used as a weapon against you.

Of course DPRK wants to publicly endorse Trump to discredit him.

We hear this whenever someone awful endorses Trump. From the KKK to neo-Nazis to Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.thedailystar.net/wo...

"Oh please!", and hyperbole, does not make you correct. Nor does the fact that the few who are, get the majority of media attention because otherwise it's not "newsworthy". There certainly are some, and studies that point it out, but "requirement for the job"?...Oh please!

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
https://leb.fbi.gov/2012/novem...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

We laugh at the Egyptians, but the European Union is pushing to outlaw EU 500 notes and all cash transactions over EU 5000. With fiat currencies debased so much these kinds of controls usually happen in regimes that fear hyperinflation and massive withdrawals from banks once debts are seen as unserviceable.

Citation: from the usually pro-EU/pro-Collectivist Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

When cash disappears so does your privacy. The Orwellian State is made possible in a cashless society where Big Brother knows your every move.

Of course, this being sold as "combating terrorism" - yet the European Union is letting potential jihadi terrorists flood in unvetted by the hundreds of thousands. Banning cash looks more like a move by technocrats to control the existing tax slaves.

They think that roads are built for cars and not transport in general,

To be fair, that is why a huge number of them were built.

False.

Son of NHS.

Did you forget about Benin City? It was "discovered", in Nigeria, by the Portuguese in 1485. It could have been of interest to anyone curious about fractals, if only Europeans had known what fractals were at the time.

The following is from The Guardian:

"The early foreign explorers' descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy."

"At the height of its greatness in the 12th century - well before the start of the European Renaissance - the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings' and dignitaries' great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

'These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,' wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. 'Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.'"

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Not sure how all of this relates to release date delays.

Trump is a vote for "something different" versus "more of the same." Recall Deez Nuts getting 9% of the vote in the August 19th, 2015 North Carolina presidential poll.

Now... if The Bern runs on the Green Party ticket with Jill Stein, in a 3-way race, he could actually become president. At a minimum, he could accuse Hillary of siphoning votes from him instead of vice versa, if he gets a larger percentage of national votes.

UNESCO had drawn up a list of world heritage sites that were in danger from climate change, and Australia had the reefs removed because it would hurt tourism.

It looks like they spent 400,000 in lobbying efforts to keep the reef off the list. Money well spent? The environment minister recently tweeted: "Under Labor, the Great Barrier Reef was on-track to be listed as 'in danger'. It came off the 'watch list' under us."

Responses were on the order of "are you fucking high mate?" - The https://www.buzzfeed.com/robst...

The potential to take away the job of censor is very much a good thing. No reasonable person would object to automating filtering of child porn for example.

The potential to define as offensive is ripe for political abuse. For example in the last couple days the Guardian has called for 'misogyny' to classified as hate speech. No such call is made about misandry showing the double standard and political leaning of those who would define the standard.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...
http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

Take the guardian example, who gets to define misogyny? What is classified as misogyny? The redefining of everything from rape to sexual assault has shown that definitions have changed for political purposes. Unfortunately these definitions can have very large life changing impacts on their victims.

For years Google didn't even have a definition for misandry. Think about that, it was inconceivable to one of the world's largest and most influential companies that hate did not fit a single mold. Are you ready to have your speech censored by algorithms defined by people with political agendas?

Well, now I'm gonna state that I think you're stretching the truth in a few places.

1. I highly doubt that you've ever met "a fair number American political refugees". Let me rephrase that. They were more likely to have committed a crime, and fleeing prosecution, and making the claim that it was for "political" reasons.... http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...

2. Dual citizen or not, Americans abroad have long been required to pay taxes on money earned overseas. Myself included, which I did for over 12 years. It's hardly just taking their money. There's a rather large "Foreign Earned Income" exclusion, which exempts about the first $100k of income. https://www.irs.gov/individual...

3. Renouncing citizenship isn't difficult. What could be an issue for someone is if they're trying to do so to escape debts, taxes owed, or military service. This is from the State Dept's site:
E. TAX & MILITARY OBLIGATIONS /NO ESCAPE FROM PROSECUTION
Persons who wish to renounce U.S. citizenship should be aware of the fact that renunciation of U.S. citizenship may have no effect whatsoever on his or her U.S. tax or military service obligations (contact the Internal Revenue Service or U.S. Selective Service for more information). In addition, the act of renouncing U.S. citizenship does not allow persons to avoid possible prosecution for crimes which they may have committed in the United States, or escape the repayment of financial obligations previously incurred in the United States or incurred as United States citizens abroad.

Pay attention, fuckwit.

Hmm, is that why the Australia government quietly released a report on Christmas eve 2015 showing a 1% increase. I'm sure they were hoping no-one was watching.

http://www.theguardian.com/aus...

Dude, I grew up in Detroit.

We had plenty of criminals. Nobody cased a house for anything like days. The biggest problems were a) one gang of idiots whose entire "casing" strategy seemed to involve verifying the people inside the house were not black (on the apparent theory that non-blacks would be unable to tell black people apart, it failed miserably because yes we can do that, and hilariously one of their victims turned out to be a light-skinned black dude), and the super-genuis who robbed every house on the block except his mom's in a six month period.

In theory the rest of your argument makes perfect sense. In practice there's no evidence that increasing the number of firearms in the general population reduces crime, largely because the people who say that it does have banned all research into the practice; which strongly implies that gun rights advocates themselves think that actual research into the problem would result in their entire premise being disproven.

What there is quite good evidence for is that gun bans reduce supply, thus increasing the price of guns.

Moreover you're badly mistaken on self-defence in the UK. You can't walk around with a 1796, but keeping one at home where you can use it is fine, and more hard-core then any weapon a criminal is likely to transport on the streets; assuming you can convince the police that it's not a Samurai sword you'll even get the damn thing back.

UNESCO had drawn up a list of world heritage sites that were in danger from climate change, and Australia had the reefs removed because it would hurt tourism.

To top it off, Australia has just gutted the research arm that studies this.

See no evil. Hear no evil.

UNESCO had drawn up a list of world heritage sites that were in danger from climate change, and Australia had the reefs removed because it would hurt tourism.

Between this and WHO saying there's no real risk to spreading zika so please go the the Olympics, it's obvious that it's all about the money.

Global warming is a real issue, obviously, but in this case, wrong environmental issue to be going after.

There's at least some merit in laying blame on both:

The current fires in Alberta are unlikely to have been exacerbated by suppression, said Spies. Boreal forests differ from the temperate forests further south in that they have a longer fire cycle, lots of fuel and tend to burn intensely. But their occurrence in the normally wet month of May is highly unusual and “consistent with what we expect from human-caused climate change”, according to a local scientist.

Had he gone through channels, that public service would never have occurred.

Exactly, and that's not armchair theorizing. We have several clear examples of people who tried to go through channels and got slapped down hard for it. And by "slapped down" I mean "Home raided by armed agents, arrested, indicted, prosecuted on unsustainable charges and rendered unemployable". Hell, we know that a man whose job it was to work with whistleblowers under the law was forced out for trying to do his job in the face of illegal actions by his superiors.

What Snowden did was necessary and it was the only way it could be done.

And, sadly enough, it appears that it was insufficient.

So you're saying that change through political means will result in a better outcome than technical ones?

Good luck with the upcoming election, I've got a hunch Trump's gonna win :)

I know you're being facetious regarding "secret plans to rule the world" and it made me chuckle, but let's bring it back down to earth with a more realistic example:

Here in the UK the home secretary is trying to pass legislation that would give the local police unrestricted access to all home internet access records kept by the ISPs. I can see the logic as to why they want this power, but in my opinion it is too much power for the national intelligence agencies, let alone the local police. It's mind boggling to think that a Cold War (risking MAD of all things) was fought over the right to "privacy" and "freedom" (or at least that's what came out of the propaganda machine in the West) and there was much ado about protecting the privacy of library book loan records at the time, which is in my opinion the simplest comparison to the privacy of online internet records.

So, anyway, while I have written letters to Ms May and my local MP, and I have voted in all of my elections, there is actually nothing else more that I can do. ...except implement technical means to circumvent the snooping: just using a very simple VPN to another country allows me to "shift jurisdiction" as to who has my internet browsing records, and the worst case is that it is now a different police force than the one that can barge into my home at 5am with their weapons drawn.

Of course I'm now technically breaking the law, but in my case I think my actions are just. But even that's not really appropriate for the end game, and I fear that after pushing on for some time trying to change the system through peaceful lawful means, my only other option will be to leave and find somewhere else to live. There is no way a rebellion here in the UK could succeed, and I've read too much to know that even uttering any desire to start one is a very bad idea. The whole situation sucks.

Not really, no. I had programs for voice-control of my PC back in the late 90's. They were more trouble than they were worth: voice commands work wonderfully on Star Trek, because television demands dialogue rather than silent typing, but in real life it's generally easier to use a keyboard and mouse than to talk your way though most tasks. Things like Echo can control your lighting or tell you the weather, but you can flick a switch or click a mouse and get the same (and, for the weather, without having to take the time to listen to a spoken statement). Echo doesn't really solve a problem.

It does, however, give Amazon a $200 beachhead (and microphone) inside your home. For some people, the faddishness of pretending to be on Star Trek and talking to the computer (or the cylinder that sends your commands off to some server in Utah to process) is worth having a microphone that could always be triggered by mistake or be backdoored to listen for conversations of interest.

http://www.theguardian.com/com...

I know you're taking the piss, but The Guardian published an opinion piece which more or less argued this exact thing.

"Give them strength to resist sexual harassment and bullying, to face down body-image tyranny, to stand up for themselves and one another and you can break the cycle of misery they deflect onto each other"

It's a darn awful shame I never reveal my full hand when discussing thing such as these, it makes it far more fun later when the less informed opt to challenge me.

She often used the phone.

Phones, plural... and the iPad.

Anyhow, until somebody finds direct evidence of deletion, it's hearsay. Gaps are only curiosities, NOT direct evidence. You don't seem to know the diff.

It is acknowledged, a block of ~31,000 emails which Hillary directed to be deleted which she deemed as 'personal'. It is also acknowledged that she turned over some 55,000 pages of emails were turned over in printed form which were deemed 'work related'.

Even if we ignore the multiple demonstrably false statement she has made with regards to her server usage (most of which you ignored out right, and one you were wrong on (more on that later))... we need to trust that she was honest and turned over all work related emails.

Did she?

Reports say no:

http://www.politico.com/story/...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

At the very least, that's perjury given she certified that she had turned over everything... worse if the FBI's recovery attempts turn up additional work related emails which she failed to turn over... something you or I don't have access to, but that available info is supportive of and you have federal felony charges under the Federal Records Act.

Are you that confident in your use of the delete key? I'm not when 10 years per document is the potential result.

There's been no direct evidence that her server was actually hacked during her tenure. Sorta kinda looked like is still sorta kinda. (Could have simply been a DOS or mass spam attack, based on some of the symptoms I've read about.)

Knowing for 100% sure that they were successfully hacked is not a requirement, only that it *may* have happened. Given the emails reported by the IG, again we see Clinton and her team were negligent with regards to not reporting the potential incident.

Re satellite photos, the articles from reliable sources merely say that information "obtained FROM satellite photos may have made it's way" into her emails. It's indirect and speculative.

Reliable sources not cited... seems to be a trend with you.

How much does being a Clinton shill pay? Because if you actually read up on the subject you'd know this was false, even a year ago.

Most seriously, the inspector general assessed that Clinton’s emails included information that was highly classified—yet mislabeled as unclassified. Worse, the information in question should have been classified up to the level of “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN,” according to the inspector general’s report.

And that's just an early version of the report. Again, clearly you haven't read this weeks.

I guess I don't have common sense then.

Clearly not, you read as if you've spend quite a bit of time as an unsuccessful defense attorney, ie "isn't it perfectly PLAUSIBLE that my client was on the planet Mars at the time of the shooting?".

I've read her explanation of the "remove headers" event several times and it's a perfectly PLAUSIBLE explanation. We in the public don't have the actual "results" of that changed version yet, so I will give her the benefit of the doubt until it's directly proven she did someth

Conservative women can be just as toxic as the cave-men

Somehow, I don't imagine this woman is a conservative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

From what we know of TrigglyPuff, she's not either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

and yes they're still caught up in their male dominated society that can fairly be called a patriarchy.

In some places in the middle-east for example? Sure... yet that's not where we usually hear screams of patriarchy from/about.

Some are even so damaged as to be Trump supporters.

What then of the women supporting Sanders 'for the boys'?

And in related recent news, Adidas will be moving shoe manufacturing to Germany and the US by replacing USD $1 to 3/hr workers in Asian factories with automation. (Estimated wage - the BLS data is only as recent as 2009.)

Here is the text of a Bloomberg article from 2013 (since going to the website itself didn't load for me) discussing "Asia Soaring Wages" where people make USD $226/mo in Indonesia and USD $10/day in Thailand which is apparently a significant increase (or not, depending on who the article author talked to.) China factories outsourcing to Indonesia and Thailannd factories is discussed. The drive to automation is discussed.

Automation is certainly not anything new. Even without minimum wage increases it's still an inevitability.

Because clearly 1.56 million people who are homeless (1 in 200), likely due to addiction or other mental disorders, is equivalent to a 640 million Indians (1 in 2) without running water.

http://www.theguardian.com/soc...

https://www.theguardian.com/te... ...sorry, you were saying?

And just one day later:

  http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

Very senior DoD official was finally pushed out of his own job, protecting whistleblowers, because he kept, you know, trying to protect whistleblowers. He's now testifying that multiple senior officials broke the law in at least three ways to abuse and ruin Thomas Drake, the guy whose fate caused Snowden to practice civil disobedience.

what does not make sense is to go it alone, fire 200 people, and push to deliver a film solely by yourself. Unless,you're taking a page from some of the more cutthroat entities of US Capitalism. Yes, in the short term, doing this can net you a few million in revenue taxed at a very favourable US rate. However, you canned most of your game staff so now what? This was just one film.

They don't need a big game staff to be a one-hit wonder, which they clearly are, just like most studios. *cough*Mojang*cough* How many programmers and artists do you think they need to keep shoveling out new editions of the same game with different graphics and sounds?

Blockbuster teams like Weinstein and Warner crank out 4 sequels a year and thats sometimes with recurring losses baked in. those sequels exist only to sell toys and shirts and food. Unless you plan to focus on franchising which takes way more money sunk into branding and advertising, im afraid you just sold the company down shits creek.

Angry Birds is aggressively merchandised, and the movie should provide a very strong boost in that area. They don't need to let the franchise out to other players. They control the IP completely because they made the movie themselves, so if the franchise is successful, they stand to collect all of the profit, coming and going.

The films marketing consists of a billboard on la brea with a cryptic phrase and a billboard on la cienega with three birds and a charred facade but no mention of the film, its opening date, or even that its a film...

To me, angry birds are when an endangered citron cockatoo bites you in the face, about two inches from your eye. Or when we threw some lettuce out for the quails, the ravens decided it was for them, and started eating the cat food out of spite because they only want ribs and other awesome leftovers. Or when a Selasphorus rufus won't let any of the other hummingbirds drink even though we have two feeders out. But in spite of not giving one tenth of one shit about one of the most mediocre successful mobile games in history, I still know already that an angry birds movie is coming out. A billboard with some angry birds on it would make it pretty obvious that a movie was coming.

Or, you know, maybe the whole thing is just a tax dodge. It works for Hollywood.