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So where do you join this gang of 1400 fantastically well coordinated thieves?

Not sure how much good it'll do you but I suppose you can start here.

Has anyone counted the lifeboats and done the math?

When I first saw the images, I couldn't help but count the lifeboats. 9 on each side. "6,780 passengers and 2,100 crew" = 8800 souls on board (not counting pets). 8800 / 18 = 488.9 bodies per lifeboat. Damn! And of course if she is going down with a severe list, cut that in half.

Can we spell "Titanic", hmmm?

http://www.theguardian.com/env...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This review has a much smaller passenger size (5479); donno which is correct.

http://www.cruisecritic.com/re...

Probably using this lifeboat design, or something similar:

http://www.royalcaribbeanblog....
http://www.rina.org.uk/mega-li...
http://www.rclcorporate.com/oa...

Which is totally inadequate, holding only 370 persons best case, a total of 6600 for the 18 on Harmony of the Seas.
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Nope, I think I'll pass.

Even worse, some (most?) cruise ships use bunker fuel, according to my research. http://www.theguardian.com/sus... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Most cruise ships are powered by bunker fuel, an extremely low-quality, high-polluting fuel blend. Carnival first experimented with scrubbers several years ago, installing a system on a Holland America ship, Tom Dow, Carnival's vice-president for public affairs, explains. However, it took up too much space and released large amounts of polluted wastewater. Carnival scrapped the program. No, cruise ships predominately use bunker fuel. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/sus...

https://news.vice.com/article/...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Here you go. There is more if you actually bother to look it up.

I mean honestly, if there is one thing we know, it is that the police would never violate our right to privacy.
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I cannot imagine them logging onto random "hot girl" cams to monitor their "safety".
Knock knock... Are you OK miss?
Yes, but how did you know I slipped in the shower?

I thought it was some Spanish bloke who'd had is home repossessed.

The test case privacy ruling by the European Union's court of justice against Google Spain was brought by a Spanish man, Mario Costeja González, after he failed to secure the deletion of an auction notice of his repossessed home dating from 1998 on the website of a mass circulation newspaper in Catalonia.

EU court backs 'right to be forgotten': Google must amend results on request

It's an incredibly popular thing in Europe at the moment - censoring factual information. See the ludicrous ruling yesterday in the UK upholding a certain famous individual and their paddling pool related sexual antics. Something that is allowed to be published in Scotland (and of course the rest of the world), but not England and Wales. I have no interest in what people get up to, but the moment they try using their wealth and status to suppress information, then I'm going to make an effort to find out who it is. Celebrities don't understand the Streisand effect, but apparently their lawyers know how to use it to milk every penny from their clients.

It's not, or at least it's aimed at the wrong people. The young muslim who wasted his time in faith schools ...

...by and large isn't joining ISIS. The young Muslim who got a higher degree, has trouble getting a job using that degree, feels dissociated from the culture he's currently living in, and doesn't actually know much about Islam itself, that's who's joining ISIS.

The plane was on its fifth journey of the day and made a stop in Tunisia before flying to Paris. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

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

Russian guard service reverts to typewriters after NSA leaks

Yeah, nothing at all surprised Russia about the leaks, they changed to typewriters and couriers because of their normal paranoia.

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/oct/16/cia-torture-water-dousing-waterboard-like-technique

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

But that's beside the point. I never claimed it was a lot of people. Only that the people who were waterboarded were waterboarded repeatedly: dozens, even hundreds of times.

Nobody drowned.

Drowning is defined as respiratory impairment from being in or under a liquid. Drowning doesn't need to result in death.

Withstanding waterboarding is part of Seal Training.

Your point? Even SEALs have come out and said that its torture.

And they've also pointed out that their training was in very controlled circumstances, and that they *knew* they would be ok, how long it would be, when it would be over, and that they'd be taken care of. And that comparing it to what goes on in a CIA secret prison is ridiculous.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

There were millions of hits for my google search, so I just grabbed the top two. How many would you like, and why are you unable to use Google yourself?

Millions of hits does not equal multiple incidents or a trend. It just means one story got posted many times.

The first link is an incident in Wyoming.
You're from Texas and you just committed the most serious crime a Texan could make: confusing Texas with another state.
However, I am certain that you didn't read the article because it is about debunking the story that the murder was a gay hate crime.

The second link is about a black man being dragged by white supremacists. I'm not seeing the gay murder in there.

Gods I'm so glad to see you saying that.

War Hero John McCain runs... we can't let him win or lose, we'd better say he's waging a WAR ON WOMEN and is SEXIST!
http://inthesetimes.com/articl...

Romney runs, a governor with a reasonably liberal history, especially regarding women's issues? One who wants to be SURE that women get representation in his possible future administration that he gets started, early, on the task of making a list of qualified women? That becomes "binders of women". Romney is waging a WAR ON WOMEN and is SEXIST!
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

So, there's no longer any benefit to being a Republican who isn't sexist. Liberals will call every Republican sexist, no matter fucking what they do. Just go ahead and remove "is not overtly sexist" from the requirements list for being a Republican.

These people have been BEGGING for Trump. Refuse to compromise. Call everyone a bigot who doesn't agree with you. Insist it is your radical SJW bullshit way or the highway. Deny any voice at all to moderates and conservatives alike. Make no room for them at any table, wage a goddamned war. Richly deserved IMO.

Dare I ask what our Sunni friends must think of these heinous atrocities? Will they cross the border to rescue them? Have no fear, damsels in distress! Help is on the way

Anna Nicole Smith still dead?

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

There were millions of hits for my google search, so I just grabbed the top two. How many would you like, and why are you unable to use Google yourself?

I agree with you about the US being most productive.
However, the inequality issue is not a separate discussion. It is the core issue.
The problem is that all of the benefits of productivity go to the owners, not the workers and the owners continually try to drive down worker wages with scams such as the H1 visas. The US should not be in a "race to the bottom" with the rest of the world.
Here's an interesting take on the issue (and the source of my numbers):
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

a global end to poverty-related suffering

There's far too much profit in poverty for that to happen.

. . . .which is no defender of the Right (as it prides itself as Progressive), the argument of objectivity and algorithms pretty much fails.

To wit:

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

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

See third 'before and after' photo here:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/10/china-pearl-river-delta-then-and-now-photographs

The pollution, on the other hand, is indeed hazardous. And those are GMO mosquitoes from 2012 onward that are causing the microcephaly and miscarriages, not the virus.

And the locations of Woolworths stores were decided with the help of aliens...

If you paid attention to actual time scales in actual published scientific papers instead of sexed up headlines you wouldn't be saying that.

The predicted high rate of warming from the early work of NASA and the IPCC has already been falsified. This is why more recent IPCC reports forecast much lower rates of warming (while still predicting catastrophe).

For instance observed sea level rise has always been faster than predicted in any of the IPCC reports.

The sea level is hardly rising at all right now; it is plain to see from the actual data that a massive acceleration in the rise would be required to fulfil the predictions of flooded cities and so forth. Moreover, those dramatic predictions come from sensational numbers like 7 meters, but these days the IPCC is predicting a rise of less than 1 meter over the next century, which would be more than usual, but still not terribly exciting in the grand scheme of things.

I'm not going to make an exhaustive list, but I will offer a few sources.

1) The predictive record:

a) Temperature and CO2: James Hansen - one of the most prominent climate scientists in the world, and former head of the NASA Goddard Institue for Space Studies - gave highly influential testimony to the United States Congress in 1988 based on his efforts at numerical modeling of future AGW. The actual increase in temperature is approximately that of his best-case scenario, in which he assumed far lower CO2 emissions than have actually occured; the actual increase in CO2 since that time has exceeded his worst-case scenario.

(Despite this unambiguous falsification of his models, Hansen continues to prophesy CO2-induced doom real soon now to this day - and the media still takes him seriously.)

The temperature predictions of the early IPCC reports have also been falsified; over time the group has gradually lowered their estimation of the climate's sensitivity to CO2, while maintaining that doom is as imminent as ever (or more so).

b) Sea level rise: "A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of "eco-refugees," threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program." - San Jose Mercury News (June 30, 1989)

2) Vague, mutually contradictory models: Amusingly, this very thread contains a fine example about sea level rise - phantomfive's "real, peer reviewed scientific paper" predicts seven meters of sea level rise in the near future (and I have seen other papers predicting even larger rises), but both the Guardian article he linked, and the Solomon Islands paper in the OP have other climate scientists are predicting a rise of less than one meter.

Another good example of the self-contradictory nature of the "settled science", is the myriad efforts to explain away the unpredicted 15+ year long "pause" in statistically significant global warming that has occured since about 2000 (although the strong El Nino this year may finally end it, at least temporarily): there are now 50+ official excuses, ranging from "the missing heat is hidden in the oceans" and "excess volcanic dust is dimming the sun", to "the pause isn't real; it's just an error in the measurements". Many of these excuses are mutually contradictory - the pause cannot be just a measurement error and also have a real physical cause.

(Suspiciously missing from the above, is any serious consideration of the possibility that the models were just wrong about the magnitude of the climate's sensitivity to CO2.)

3) Low quality data: There are two main problems with the data sets upon which modern climate science is based. The first is that claims about the long-t

Rather than look to SciFi for what it might look like, why not look at history? Oxford historian Adam Curtis did a series of documentaries looking at the promises of self-organising systems in general and computer/data driven systems in particular: "All watched over by machines of loving grace" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_%28TV_series%29) Well worth a watch if you can get it. Here's a preview on the Guardian's website: http://www.theguardian.com/cul...

We're doomed, actually, check out this study that predicts seven meters of sea level rise by the end of the century. That is not a joke: it's a real, peer reviewed scientific paper.

Indeed. "Tough on crime" does not work, or rather it has the opposite of the intended effect. That has been known reliably for a long, long time. Criminals do not expect to be caught, and hence penalties do not figure in their motivation.

That's not "settled science":

1) Sentence Enhancements Reduce Crime

2) Longer prison terms really do cut crime, study shows

Here's a simple thought experiment on deterrence. In each of the following scenarios, do we get a) More crime, b) less crime, c) no change?:
1) If we actively rewarded crime?
2) If crime had no state-imposed penalty?
3) If crime had state-imposed minimally inconveniencing penalties?
4) If crime had harsh state-imposed penalties?

You're suggesting deterrence doesn't work because no offender thinks he'll be caught. I don't think that's true. The possibility of capture likely has some place in the offender's risk analysis. Hence many criminals' actions to minimize their possibility of capture.

I admit that deterrence will not deter everyone. But it is safe to say it will deter at least some. And we should take what we can get.

There's only one religion that has as its central figure a murdering, lying and stealing pedophile.

The Mormons?

There's only one religion that is trying to spread itself by the sword, right now. Not 400 years ago, now. RIGHT NOW.

Nobody's using Swords, they have guns now. Lots of people use them. Don't believe me? Ask Anders Behring Brevik.

But most use lies and trickery, it's rather common.

There's only one religion that has, in the states that have adopted it as the basis for their laws, decreed the death penalty for homosexuals, apostates and atheists. Not 600, 400 or 200 years ago. RIGHT NOW.

Thank God nobody does that in the United States.

And while a link won't be available, I was just around two guys yesterday who were going on and on about how terrible it was that Obama was interfering with the North Carolina law and then went on about how they were going to protect their granddaughters, but wouldn't even consider the most likely persons to sexually abuse children were to be found among school teachers, church and camp counselors and relatives. Not random bathroom encounters.

And they were frenetic about it.

People like you make me sick.

Sorry dude, but like it or not, there's a lot of people who should sicken you. But you don't have the balls to say anything about them.

Personal preference, but I don't think you should name ships after living people, even ones who rock.

I'd have voted for "Katherine Giles" http://www.theguardian.com/uk/...

"the first being ISIS. The terrorist group is scary by design, relying on propaganda videos and ultra-violent attacks to spread fear and project power."

The self same ISIS that US policy effectively incubated in the Middle East. link

But I guess that's ok, he did invent the internet in Australia, LOL.

I'm not talking after-tax income, I'm talking wealth:

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

I'd guess the 1% has 99% of the disposable income because huge amounts of cash are hoarded by them instead of spent, while the rest of us spend most or all of what we earn on relatively basic stuff that's required to function in a modern society.

I for one will not vote for that woman. If that means President Trump, then so be it. We can survive 4 years of Trump,

*You* can survive four years of Trump. Not everyone is so lucky. Carry on you high-horse.

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

Tofu isn't always beneficial for the environment either... The is a lot of GM "RoundUp-Ready" soy grown in Argentina. Millions of acres of the stuff. So it's a nasty monoculture when it's veing grown, then there's the "food miles" of shipping it to vegans around the world. I don't have the numbers to verifiy exactly how "bad" this is relative to locally-grown meat or eggs, but this idea of tofu as a substitute for meat protein is not without its drawbacks either. All things in moderation!

Here's one link, plenty more if google "GM soy Argentina." https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

2) You could download apps for all sorts of things, and you could write your own apps.

A lot of people forget, but you could NOT originally write 3rd party apps for the iPhone. Apple originally intended to write all the apps for it, and figured any 3rd party applications would be web-based. It was only after tremendous pressure did Jobs finally relent and open up the SDK to external developers. Any success you attribute to the original iPhone really can't have anything to do with 3rd party apps - although it certainly contributed to later successes.

This post by The Guardian, titled "Social media is harming the mental health of teenagers. The state has to act", explains it all. In contrast, the use of social media and internet in general can be really helpful, various hard working doctors run Q/A's on their blog and many at times unique solutions to various health issues like, alternative thyroid remedies are found time to time over the internet.

This post by The Guardian, titled "Social media is harming the mental health of teenagers. The state has to act", explains it all. In contrast, the use of social media and internet in general can be really helpful, various hard working doctors run Q/A's on their blog and many at times unique solutions to various health issues like, alternative thyroid remediesare found time to time over the internet.

This post by The Guardian, titled "Social media is harming the mental health of teenagers. The state has to act", explains it all. In contrast, the use of social media and internet in general can be really helpful, various hard working doctors run Q/A's on their blog and many at times unique solutions to various health issues like, alternative thyroid remedies are found time to time over the internet.

In places like Dubai, regular summer temperatures could be around 117 degrees in the summer. In places like Kuwait City they could be as high as 140 degrees. That's by 2070.

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

I'd say even 117 is pretty fucking hot, and 140 is beyond even the maximums recorded at Death Valley.

The EFF has a great write up on how the TPP (the trans pacific partnership, another one of these shitpile laws) will affect anyone even remotely interested in technology. It's a great link to send around to anyone who's thinking "I'm not in manufacturing, why should I care?"

It's bad, folks. And even worse because in summer 2015, before the election, before both the GOP (!) and Dem candidate came out against the TPP, Obama fought and beat back his own party to get fast track authority for approval, meaning now it's way easier for it to get approved, with no ability to strip out the bad parts or filibuster against it.

• Water pollution
• Corruption
• REDRUM

The lapdog media tells us that Brazil is a multicultural paradise, but in reality, it's a third world abyss.

Too bad, because they have some great metal bands: Sarcofago, Sepultura, Vulcano...

Or perhaps ... we could be their pets?

Remember this?

Apple's got a security feature where the phone verifies all components of the fingerprint-security system installed on the thing today are the ones that were installed yesterday since iOS9, much to the chagrin of the poor fuckers who got some part of the system repaired by non-Apple shops prior to iOS9. They fixed that on 9.3, but I doubt hacking the system is actually non-trivial.

On the other hand, to get a warrant all you need is a) a limited area to search (such as a phone), b) a reason to search it (aka: "probable cause"), and c) a LEO to swear that b) is true to a Judge via "oath or affirmation."

Or Trump University. For professional papers, try the online journal that published a submission from David Mazieres.

Nor is insulting the monarchy. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Unless you live in the US, where you can insult the monarchy. And in Switzerland, you can share copyrighted works.

In another article, it's made clear that he thinks it's worth $240, but sold for about $125.

bubble

Shhh its not to be called like that until it bursts!

But really, if giants like calr icahn sell off their stocks, the burst is not far away, isn't it.

Not exactly. This is Wired covering the story - the same story that The Guardian covered two weeks ago showed up here on the 18th of this month.

It's the same story essentially. If you follow the research back far enough you'll find the same sources. But Wired does, IMHO, a far better job of covering it.

(Too bad they jumped on the anti-adblock bandwagon. Their reporting has always been top notch.)

Please show me where methane is much less of an effect than CO2.

Methane has about 28 times the global warming potential. The rest of what you've said is conspiracy nuttery though. "Once in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide can continue to affect climate for thousands of years. Methane, by contrast, is mostly removed from the atmosphere by chemical reaction, persisting for about 12 years. Thus although methane is a potent greenhouse gas, its effect is relatively short-lived." Even still, CH4 is hardly ignored.

By the way, guess which one of us this scientist is backing on our global warming bet. You may be surprised!