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I don't follow. It appears that when you use the word consequences and I use the word consequences we are talking about different things.

You are correct on both points. Snowden is facing the consequences of his actions, he will be for the rest of his life - he made it clear that he knew that from the start. You see only the legal consequences, and I doubt you see them clearly (whether out of optimism or naivety I don't know).

It's possible Snowden could have just leaked the documents and kept his name out of it. He has discussed the reasons why he did not (it would be the act of a coward, it would have less effect, he'd be unable to influence the carefully vetted and staggered release of the documents). The idea that it was an option seems credible - if you trust some of the what the government reaction has been (we don't know what he took). It's almost certain that there are other, anonymous NSA leakers. So he may have even gotten away with an anonymous dump.

This is nothing new. The administration has been saying this all along, and the stupidity of it has been pointed out by the people they lionize as having "done it right" in the past.

Read this: http://www.theguardian.com/com...

The timing and purpose of this ban seems rather draconian, even for New Zealand. I mean, they pretty much just nuked any future independent movies from being filmed there, because it's going to be ridiculously expensive to secure permission to fly camera drones over public parklands. (You either close the park to the public, or get permission from everyone visiting on that particular day.) I suppose if they have the big bucks for a helicopter, that'll still be open.

But like I said, this seems ridiculously excessive. It makes no sense! It's a small, easily handled problem, and they just hit it with a pile driver.

Or...is it really such a "small" problem? I guess the interpretation of how small it is, depends greatly on how much money you paid for your ultra-secret air-strip in the middle of nowhere.

With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in peopleâ(TM)s mind, the worldâ(TM)s super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. "I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway," he said.

That's not Alex Jones or some other wooby-woo-woo-alien-Elvis-JFK-love-triangle website, that's The Guardian.

I imagine someone who paid $20 million dollars to have a D7 Caterpillar flown 50 miles into the middle of nowhere and carve out a secret airstrip would be pretty upset if some weekend drone pilot with a backpack and a mountain bike spoiled their little secret.

You can't expect to have a clue about what's going on in the United States if you don't follow the British press. (Here in the Land of the Free, we've got the best media that money can buy.):
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

Hillary Clinton email inquiry not linked to criminal wrongdoing, official says
Despite reports to the contrary earlier on Friday, investigation isnâ(TM)t criminal Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill criticizes New York Timesâ(TM) âfalseâ(TM) claim

The sources are in German. The first on is on the topic of effects of East German wind power and the effects for the polish network http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/...

On the whole energy concept of Poland
http://www.welt.de/politik/aus...

And the projects in building new gas and coal plants:
http://www.gtai.de/GTAI/Naviga...

While they plan to build new plants, they also have a problem due to low prices on the European electricity exchange (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Energy_Exchange) and other trading places. Therefore, many projects might be be realized.

Tennet a large energy net company shows that electricity prices on the market have declined making coal less profitable: http://www.tennet.eu/nl/news/a...
While coal prices may get lower due to Chinas reduced imports, running coal plant still cannot keep up with solar and wind power (onshore). http://www.theguardian.com/env... (sorry from last year).

Hope that helps.
 

No, you have Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail, so I think consider the source is alive and well.

She's the Alfred E. Neuman of why the bees collapsed in the first place. What, me worry?

In this very article, she's right up there with Ronald Reagan saying "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do."

Do trees pollute the atmosphere?

In hot weather, trees release volatile organic hydrocarbons including terpenes and isoprenes - two molecules linked to photochemical smog. In very hot weather, the production of these begins to accelerate.

True, but it's all part of a long-term biological equilibrium that didn't seem horrible until after industrial-scale human pollution was added to the mix as a driving factor. I don't recall Cicero damning the trees.

Here's Wente:

The biggest threats to bees appear to be natural pathogens and varroa mites.

Once again, natural pathogens which the bees have presumably been contending with for thousands of years. I also don't recall Cicero orating on missing bees, or Shelley's ode to a collapsed colony.

If there was a forcing factor, it was probably the dang pesticide, which after all was explicitly designed to kill insects, selectively if possible, but that might be easier said that done.

Her entire piece is written in distractor mode, touching on who is cranky with whom laced with speculation about nefarious or misguided agendas, while she can't even bother herself to distinguish (possible) industrial forcing terms from established biological baselines.

Yes, indeed, consider the source.

http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-d...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Those charts are more realistic in terms of salaries, the top end of which are more than double your initial quote.

Doctor's don't 'go private', they do private work as well as working for the NHS.

In the UK if you see a private doctor you still need a referral from your NHS GP, everything has an involvement with the NHS somewhere along the way.

Some private doctors may be better and more specialised in their fields but they'll be working from the NHS too mostly on consultant referrals.

One of the biggest and primary benefits of private medical insurance in the UK is the screening. For example, we have some very advanced technology and cancer treatment in the UK, but we have a trailing survival rate see here, because the amount of time and money to constantly screen everyone hasn't traditionally been prioritised or funded accordingly, leading to deaths from advanced stages of cancers that would otherwise have been easily curable.

This is changing slowly, the government just announced pumping an extra £400m into guaranteeing diagnosis within 4 weeks but that, IMO, will do little to help if you still can't get a GP appointment quick enough (there are sometimes waits of 2 - 3 weeks just to see a GP unless it's an absolute emergency.

The NHS is stretched to its limits, people come here on 'health holidays' for free treatment but that's also changing, you'll be required to provide your proof of residency / nationality very very soon.

The site, which encourages married users to cheat on their spouses and advertises 37 million members, had its data hacked by a group calling itself the Impact Team. At least two other dating sites, Cougar Life and Established Men, also owned by the same parent group, Avid Life Media, have had their data compromised.

"Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customers' secret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses, and employee documents and emails. The other websites may stay online," the group's statement reads.

The hackers' main point of contention is with the fact that Ashley Madison charges users a fee of 15 pounds to carry out a "full delete" of their information if they decide to leave the site. Although users have the option of permanently hiding their profile free of charge, the company's advertisements claim that the full delete service is the only way to completely remove their information from the servers.

But the hackers say that that claim is âoea complete lieâ.

"Users almost always pay with credit card; their purchase details are not removed as promised, and include real name and address, which is of course the most important information the users want removed," they allege.

Transport? Small transactions? Way behind the times Europe.

In México, the presidency was bought with prepaid supermarket cards.

Cue rabid mud-slinging between fossil-fuel addicted Morlocks and nuclear-power fearing Eloi.

I weep for the future.

You insensitive sod. Don't expect an outdoor heater from me this Xmas.

Sincerely, Tony Abbott - I'm the Prime Minister of Australia - didn't you know?
Buy more coal - it's good.

The recent scandal at the American Psychological Association, with psychologists participating in the torture of US prisoners, is worth considering in regard to this story.

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

Maybe the government is being subtle and hopes the hassles will make her stop returning to the US.

Why would she need to be kept outside the US? If anything, you would want her to feel comfortable returning periodically so that you could arrest her if she were actually suspected of wrongdoing.

I am surprised that she ever returns to the US and risks being arrested for aiding and abetting the theft of US government property.

I'm surprised you ever return to the US. Or perhaps I'm being presumptive, and just making up conjectures about your motives and desires.

People such as her walk a fine line. On one hand they claim they are working for the public good. On the other hand they tailor the release of the information to support their political ideology. Even the Snowden data has been mis-represented in some cases. One example would be the spying on the German Chancellor. The only evidence to support this claim was a cell phone number a database. There were no call records or any other evidence to support the accusation.

A simple google search shows that this is now true. There is much more evidence.

What is funny is that back before the Ukraine upheaval someone wiretapped and released the calls of US diplomats from within the embassy and I am pretty sure it was not the work of the NSA. This took place at the same time people were decrying NSA spying. It's ironic that Snowden ended up in the country most likely responsible for wiretapping the US Embassy.

Russia is expected to wiretap a US embassy. Russia does not take the diplomatic moral high ground. The US is not expected to wiretap the embassies of its allies. The US claims to cherish freedom of association and privacy against unwarranted searches as a universal right. The irony is that Snowden can enjoy more freedom in Russia than in the US, and that says more about the US than about Russia or Snowden.

It's almost like free speech is more of a social justice value than a meathead one.

*snort*

http://thoughtcatalog.com/andr... :

God help us if we have to rely on conservatives to defend free speech.

A list of such censorship is basically endless, so I will have to suffice with a not-so-brief list of some of the more egregious examples:

• A student at Purdue was found guilty of "racial harassment" for reading a book called Notre Dame Vs the Klan. (The Klan is the bad guy in the book.)
• A candidate in the European elections was arrested in Britain for quoting a passage from Winston Churchill about Islam.
• Gert Wilders, a politician in the Netherlands, was tried on five counts including "criminally insulting Muslims because of their religion."
• Both Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant were dragged in front of the Canadian Human Rights Commission for being Islamophobic.
• Conservative radio host Michael Savage was banned in Britain.
• The group Women, Action and Media convinced Twitter to allow them help report and censor harassment and hate speech. Twitter subsequently suspended the accounts of the anti-feminist Youtubers Thunderfoot and Mykeru (they were later reinstated). Both of them are liberals, by the way.
• Adam Weinstein at Gawker wants to "Arrest Climate-Change Deniers."
• Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla for opposing gay marriage. Another guy was fired because someone eaves dropped on his joke about dongles.
• A group called Color of Change was able to get Patrick Buchanan fired from MSNBC for expressing his incorrect opinions (that have been pretty consistent for the last 50 years) in his book Suicide of a Superpower.
• Allegedly, a man was banned from an Oregon college campus for "resembling a rapist."
• The "Pickup Artist" Julien Blanc was barred from entering the UK for making sexist comments.
• The mayor of Massachusetts banned the word "illegal" when referring to, umm, immigrants who came into the United States without going through the proper, legal channels. The Associated Press did

So that's something like 1% ^ 3, minus some overlap -- what part of US or global society do you have to be to make use of this?

Sheiks and Saudi royalty, Russian oil barrons, Larry Ellison, anyone who owns an apartment in this building or this neighborhood, all of whom would rather not have to breathe the same air as the proles and riff-raff in so-called first class in a plane built for normal people.

Read it and weep (or make-believe you're gonna win the lottery some day).

I would concur with that, at least structured programming. OTOH, young people do quite well with Logos and derivatives there of.

Apparently they do much better with tablets than legos or building blocks. Swiping is more important than constructing these days.

I was referring to the various programming languages for young children that have been around since the late 60s.

As for swiping versus building things, it's too soon to tell how that will developmentally manifest itself in the adult population. "Building things" is prevalent in many cultures and is probably an inherited trait in the human genome. Even other primates exhibit the trait to some degree. So, substituting tablets will be an interesting social experiment.

I would concur with that, at least structured programming. OTOH, young people do quite well with Logos and derivatives there of.

Apparently they do much better with tablets than legos or building blocks. Swiping is more important than constructing these days.

No one is researching the bias leading to medical schools with 90% women.

Actually there are people researching that. Lack of male nurses is a problem. The American Assembly for Men in Nursing offers support and scholarships in the US, for example.

No one is researching the bias leading to 99% male construction workers, or garbage men.

I spent five seconds searching for this on Google and it turns out that actually there is plenty of research and academic discourse on this subject, as well as newspaper articles and the like:

http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/p...
http://www.academia.edu/634834...
http://www.equalityhumanrights...
http://www.theguardian.com/sus...
http://www.theguardian.com/sus...

People do care, you are just too lazy to even type a few words into Google.

No one is researching the bias leading to medical schools with 90% women.

Actually there are people researching that. Lack of male nurses is a problem. The American Assembly for Men in Nursing offers support and scholarships in the US, for example.

No one is researching the bias leading to 99% male construction workers, or garbage men.

I spent five seconds searching for this on Google and it turns out that actually there is plenty of research and academic discourse on this subject, as well as newspaper articles and the like:

http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/p...
http://www.academia.edu/634834...
http://www.equalityhumanrights...
http://www.theguardian.com/sus...
http://www.theguardian.com/sus...

People do care, you are just too lazy to even type a few words into Google.

I wonder how the oil companies will feel about "Global Warming" if they are asked to do everything they can to accelerate it.

“Corporations are interested in environmental impacts only to the extent that they affect profits, either current or future. They may take what appears to be altruistic positions to improve their public image, but the assumption underlying those actions is that they will increase future profits. ExxonMobil is an interesting case in point.”

They have increased their primary budget surplus purely due to borrowed money.

Do you even know what a primary budget surplus is? It means they can pay all running expenses with the tax income.

You are falling into the No True Scotsman Fallacy the EU leaders have been pushing. Regardless of how well Greece did at meeting their dictates for them, if there is a problem, it is always because Greece did not follow orders. Look at this chart Krugman made:
http://interactive.guim.co.uk/...

I look it from this article:
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

Then keep telling me austerity is sound economy policy. There is a trend in that chart and it doesn't matter which country you are looking at. Austerity is economic cannibalism. That is what it is.

And your comment about number of civil servants is a LIE. Germany has more civil servants per capita than Greece. You don't know WTF you what you are talking about:
http://www.dgaep.gov.pt/upload...

Read the chart at the bottom of page 9. And that chart was produced before Greece started firing public servants because of the Troika demands. Germany has done no such thing.

As usual you drone off LIES you hear elsewhere and never bothered checking the facts yourself.

Dude - bees have a much more immediate and far larger problem than some speculative "Oh Noes teh Hooman iz changings teh Climatez!" correlation:

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

I bet if you fix that, you'll see the populations rebound. 'course, stopping idiots from spraying neurotoxin-based pesticides is nowhere near as sexy as the magic words "Climate Change", but you know? I think it'd help the bees out a hell of a lot more, and a hell of a lot faster...

Show me someone from the open source community who has helped and donated more towards charities than Bill Gates. Uh huh, that's what I thought.

Bill - is that you? Don't forget to lodge your claims for charitable donations - we filed it under "the spit shield fund".

the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. Both entities are tax-exempt private foundations that are structured as a charitable.

One good thing Bill Gates has done. Though not everyone agrees.

So Bradley Manning was treated in accordance with existing US laws while being tortured and without access to counsel? Come on. In the information age, the powers that be can't afford more Snowdens. Snowden saw what happened to Manning and knew how previous whistleblowers were treated. It's up to you to prove the government follows the law.

"I really have no idea why you tried the ole cold war propaganda routine, but it does not make any sense here at all."

I would imagine the fact that Tsipras has had numerous face to face and phone meetings with Putin in both Greece and Russia in the last 6 months alone:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

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

http://rt.com/business/265210-...

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

Tsipras loves the soviet leftism of old, and he's been trying to cozy up with Putin because he incorrectly believes Putin stands for that (whilst many of Putin's actions in recent years look like those of old soviet leftism, Putin's tends much more firmly far right e.g. the anti-homosexuality stance)

"I really have no idea why you tried the ole cold war propaganda routine, but it does not make any sense here at all."

I would imagine the fact that Tsipras has had numerous face to face and phone meetings with Putin in both Greece and Russia in the last 6 months alone:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

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

http://rt.com/business/265210-...

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

Tsipras loves the soviet leftism of old, and he's been trying to cozy up with Putin because he incorrectly believes Putin stands for that (whilst many of Putin's actions in recent years look like those of old soviet leftism, Putin's tends much more firmly far right e.g. the anti-homosexuality stance)

> If people don't trust banks with their money, they'll end up with mattresses full of cash.

People don't trust banks anyway. They just know the government will bail them out if the bankers act irresponsibly, which relieves people of the need to choose their banker responsibly.

> I know that if I put my money in the bank, unless the whole country turns to shit, I will get it back, with interest.

Granted people (at least those trying to keep pace with inflation e.g. me included) need somewhere safe to stash their cash - but you yourself say you want *interest* too. The greater the return the greater the risk. Take the UK pension funds who sent their cash to Iceland which was offering too good to be true returns. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_... and http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

Problem is banks get that money cheap, and businesses never say "because I got that for cheap, I don't need much profit." Nope. They'll always try and get the greatest return from it. This was the problem with the US S&L scandal. You can try and regulate the bankers to act responsibly, but they inevitably lobby the government to take off the controls and get into bed with the regulators.

Federal bank insurance is a bit different from what's happened to Greece. Doesn't get around the fact you shouldn't lend someone money if they can't pay it back, and if they walk from the debt, that's on your head. Why should the government pay for your bad judgment? If you say, yes, "for the integrity of the financial system," that works both ways.

“In extremis, it has been possible to read someone’s letter, to listen to someone’s call, to mobile communications The question remains: are we going to allow a means of communications where it simply is not possible to do that? My answer to that question is: no, we must not. The first duty of any government is to keep our country and our people safe.”

That was none other than David Cameron, shortly after returning from a pro-free-speech demonstration in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo murders.

Sensible, you say?

(Captcha: "iniquity". Indeed.)

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
They are very good at sucking money from their audience. It will probably net far more then facebook.

It doesn't help that Greece was forced into an austerity plan in their last bailout. Essentially that kicked off a death spiral. Austerity has already been well discredited (see here, here, and here. Original paper here) yet it keeps being foisted off on citizens everywhere.

I'm not suggesting that Greece should spend money like a drunken sailor on leave, but following a faith based economic theory even after it has been disproven (even to the satisfaction of the writers of the original paper) is not the answer.

"Lawrence would, I assure you, get along swimmingly," said Tony Blair.

Perhaps in the Saudi palace but not over the countryside he once roamed. The cultural understanding and respect and the diplomacy of Lawrence would not help him much in an environment where being a local moderate muslim can be a death sentence. Re-read your Seven Pillars. The fundamentalist herecies that periodically occurred were normally put down by the local moderates before they caused much trouble. Plus the protection of the Saudi king doesn't carry the weight it used to in the region. Things are completely different today in so many ways.

"Lawrence would, I assure you, get along swimmingly," said Tony Blair.

I am tolerant

Tu le rant, en effet

... of alternate views but you sockpuppets really should just go somewhere else. your cover is blown ...

You like people to agree with you. When they do not: "sockpuppet!" I seldom agree with you, hence the outrage. Nothing has changed in 10 years.

yes - I am quite sure that there are many paid and unpaid (not directly) people who are doing all they can to discredit those who are the real heros.

On the contrary, I honour real heros ....

French Resistance heroes inducted into Pantheon in Paris
Veterans to receive French Legion of Honor for World War II service
'British Schindler' Sir Nicholas Winton dies aged 106

. . . and call others to justice ....

Julian Assange Demands Rape Case Files Before Sweden Questions Him

It is Independence Day in the United States. Do you celebrate, or mourn?

Assange was publicly exposed as a jerk long ago. These aren't even the really choice stories.

WikiLeaks rival plans Monday launch after internal split, founders say

Another former WikiLeaks staffer said he had brought up his discontent with Assange, but that the WikiLeaks founder had not wanted to listen.

"Eventually this ended with me arguing with Julian about basically his dictatorial behavior, which ended in Julian saying to me that if I had a problem with him I could just 'piss off,' I quote," Herbert Snorreson said.

Lifting the Lid on WikiLeaks: An Inside Look at Difficult Negotiations with Julian Assange

For some time now, Julian Assange has been sparring with New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller. ...

Keller describes the stormy relationship with WikiLeaks founder Assange, comparing the Australian to a character straight out of a Stieg Larsson thriller, "a man who could figure either as a hero or villain." Keller claims that the journalists who worked with Assange saw him as a "source," a man who "clearly had his own agenda," and was not a "partner or collaborator."

Keller goes on to describe Assange as being "elusive, manipulative and volatile." He also writes that Assange's relationship with the New York Times became "openly hostile," and, in the end, the Australian wanted to exclude the newspaper from publishing any further WikiLeaks documents in the future.

The treachery of Julian Assange
Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their Founder Is a Megalomaniac?
The Sexual Demigod: Wikileaks Founder Worshipped By Christian Women

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

http://www.nature.com/news/why...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/18/...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/a...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.mysterypollster.com...

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/general...

http://www.outsidethebeltway.c...

http://nautil.us/blog/why-were...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...

http://articles.economictimes....

First few links from the search engine typing in "why are election polls often wrong"...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-pol...

http://time.com/3558932/pollin...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/08/...

http://www.kansas.com/news/loc...

Shut up. Just close your stupid mouth. Sit down. And don't speak again until addressed. You're an idiot. It has been officially noticed.

Without the typo:

How long will it take for UK's porn filter will be UK's porn AND encryption tools filter. My guess is not long.

How long will it take for UK's porn filter will by UK's porn AND encryption tools filter. My guess is not long.

To scare people into thinking that the FBI is necessary for stability? It's not that weird. After all, we have evidence that this very same department encouraged unstable individuals to carry out terror plots so that they could stop them, presumably to confirm that terrorism is a persistent threat in the US and thereby justify their own jobs.

I'm not saying that's the case here, just that I wouldn't be surprised if it's discovered that undercover FBI agents are helping root out these "domestic terrorists" who are "threatening critical national infrastructure"....

The coup was a counter-coup. The Iranian PM was the one that overthrew the government, faked an election, dissolved parliament, was ruling by decree, and caused the Shah to flee.

That's not even close to true.

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

The government of Iran had been overthrown by the Prime Minister who faked an election, dissolved parliament, and was ruling by decree while ignoring the Shah as constitutional monarch. (You know, the traditional head of government being responsible to head of state?) Not even Stalin faked elections as brazenly as the Iranian PM. The Shah fled for his own safety. The US and UK helped restore the Shah to power, not install him.

That is 100% false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://partners.nytimes.com/li...

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

See here where some crook gets his own Wikipedia entry delisted from Google:

Google removes Wikipedia link to former criminal ‘the Monk’

Wikipedia swears to fight 'censorship' of 'right to be forgotten' ruling

I don't think this will happen quickly with nudity, and we have religion (for the most part) to thank/blame for this.

Michelangelo painted plenty of nudes, but the Catholic Church did a literal cover-up. *sigh*

Saying that this launch failure has certainly

Not saying it is a certainty — but rather a possibility, which should not be ruled out.

Russia today is proudly claiming legacy of the country and organization, which once sent agents to kill John Wayne — for trying to drive Communists out of Hollywood. Compared to that, crippling an enemy's space program is a perfectly normal and even noble thing to do.

Scientist Tim Hunt responds to criticism of 'girls in labs' comments

Transcript of BBC 4 "Today" clip. 10/6/2015

''I did mean the part about having trouble with girls,'' he said.

''It is true that people - I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that in a lab people are on a level playing field.

''I found that these emotional entanglements made life very difficult.

''I'm really, really sorry I caused any offence, that's awful. I certainly didn't mean that. I just meant to be honest, actually.''

Tim Hunt's version of events changes a little even before a friendly interviewer.

His brief remarks contained 39 words that have subsequently come to haunt him.

'''Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticise them, they cry,'' he told delegates.

''I stood up and went mad,'' he admits. '' I was very nervous and a bit confused but, yes, I made those remarks --- which were inexcusable --- but I made them in a totally jocular, ironic way. There was some polite applause and that was it, I thought. I thought everything was OK. No one accused me of being a sexist pig.''

[Hunt's wife] clutches her head as Hunt talks. ''It was an unbelievably stupid thing to say,'' she says. ''You can see why it could be taken as offensive if you didn't know Tim. But really it was just part of his upbringing. He went to a single-sex school in the 1960s. Nevertheless he is not sexist. I am a feminist, and I would not have put up with him if he were sexist.''

The next morning, as he headed for Seoul airport, Hunt...recorded a clumsily worded phone message [for "Today.''] ''It was a mistake to do that as well. It just sounded wrong.''

Tim Hunt: ''I've been hung out to dry. They haven't even bothered to ask for my side of affairs''

The audience at the conference was expected to be about 40% Asian. "If you don't know Tim..." as well as his wife? No in Seoul could be reasonably be expected to know him that well. No one in the audience for Radio 4.

Its like waking up a laptop, yes it wasn't really asleep because it doesn't dream. Its called language, learn to use it motherfucker.

Google would beg to differ. It's called language, learn to use it motherfucker.

Me and Rush Limbaugh are both wondering, just how is the American flag any better? It, likewise, flew over slavery, the subsequent racism, and was (still is!) used in imperialist wars. It covered — still does at times — sexism and parochial bigotry.

Whatever you can say against the Confederate flag, can also be said about the American. Yeah, the latter may have been used for some good, but the sheer period of its usage (over 2 centuries and counting), makes it much worse than the former, whose country only existed for what, four years? Five?

Can it get any worse? Yes it can! A recent study has shown, that simply seeing the flag can cause a hitherto innocent victim to vote Republican! And even a single exposure can last for up to 8 months!

As soon as we are done with KKKonfederate rag, we must turn our energies onto the AmeriKKKan one.

In fact, why wait? Let's act NOW!! .

Maybe, those misunderstood ISIS warriors destroying the symbols of defunct states that practiced slave-ownership are onto something, huh? I for one have always doubted Pythagorean Theorem — what can a long-dead White slave-owner possibly know about any hypotenuse?

Amen to that.

If we are gonna claim to be serious about cutting emissions, France has already proven the technology to do so has already existed for a long time.

Too bad it fails when it gets too hot - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/jul/30/energy.weather, http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120815/nuclear-power-plants-energy-nrc-drought-weather-heat-water. Kinda sucks when you are dealing with Global Warming.

At least death star works on known tech, to build hover bike you have to learn to hover first

From what I can tell, it's using essentially the same tech as a quadcopter:

The hoverbike, remote-controlled versions of which are already flying, is heavily based on drone technology, powered by four bladed fans in protective casings. The design is intended to provide stability, speed and, the company hopes, the same range as a small helicopter.

Whether or not it's going to be useful remains to be seen, but, really, quadcopters already can hover.

Which means it's a lot less Star Wars than the headline suggests.

Ya, it did, at least the unencrypted part.

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

Ya, it did, at least the recording private conversations part.

http://www.cnet.com/news/samsu...

Yes, I said it.

Welcome to the Mark Levin Show.

Yes, I said it. It is a non-existing problem. And until you can find and post here a set of materialized predictions of the Global Warming "scientists", it shall remain non-existing.

http://www.universetoday.com/9...

https://theconversation.com/20...

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