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What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.

hillary was beloved by republicans back when. “I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09... "Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi... “Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor... “I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the ... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/... “I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2... "She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p... "I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...

Nope. But I know how to read, do you?

http://www.todayszaman.com/new...

Besides Assad's allegations, some of Erdoan's followers have also called him a caliph. In 2013, Atlgan Bayar, an advisor to the pro-government news station A Haber, wrote that he recognized Erdoan as the caliph of the Muslim world and expressed his allegiance to him. In one of her recent tweets, Beyhan Demirci, a writer and follower of Erdoan, also wrote that Erdoan is the caliph and the shadow of God on Earth. Some of his followers have gone even further and said things like, “Since Erdoan is the caliph, he has the right to use money earned through corruption for his political goals.”

Tayyip Erdoan isn't stupid. In fact he's one of the better recent Turkish leaders, but he's a conservative [not crazy] Muslim.

He's not following events in Egypt. When Hosni Mubarak saw all the excitement about Twitter messaging, he banned Twitter to stop the tweets. So the tweeters did the best thing to get the word out. They left their homes and businesses to rally in the streets--real, not virtual interaction--since virtual contact was shut down.

That was the beginning of the "Arab Spring" and the downfall of Mubarak. Erdoan needs to be more confident about the future and stop listening to the religious conservative extremists, so he won't make all the same mistakes as Mubareak. Turkey is more forward-thinking than that, or at least it was, until Erdoan got spooked [stupid]. http://www.todayszaman.com/new...

Fethullah Gulen has a huge following in Turkey. His disciples have invaded the police forces. They became buddies with Turkey PM to reach their anti-secularist agenda. They crippled the Turkish army using their pawn police and pawn judges.

The economy looks strong and religious zealots are praising the PM and this is getting to his head. He forgets that it is Fethullah that actually controls everything in Pennsylvania and he openly started fighting Fethullah by banning prep schools, which is the main source of fresh meat for Fethullah. (there must be other behind the scene issues, but we dont know them yet). That link is the Zaman newspaper, which is also owned by Fethullah

So now Fethullah/CIA is tired of PM's shit and they are unveiling what was already known for who knows how long. Interesting things are unfolding if you are Turkish.

Although having 72 percent of the world's known boron reserves and being the biggest producer of boron in the world, Turkey has no monopoly on the global boron market. Total boron reserves in the world amount to as much as 4 billion tons. But the amount of boron minerals used as chemicals in industry is no more than 4 million tons a year. This means boron reserves, even when excluding Turkey's supply, are adequate to provide the world with enough boron minerals for almost 300 years.

Going a step further, it looks like Turkey's deposits account for at least 2.88 billion tons of the total 4 billion tons in reserves around the world...definitely enough to keep us running for a while. Considering that we're already using 4 million tons a year for other industry and accounting for future growth (let's throw a random number at it and say 150% for a total of 10 million tons a year), then adding the current power requirements of the world, we get 10.0008 million tons a year of usage. Even using those numbers (and the 80% extraction rate), we're at 319.97 years of boron resources left.

And shitballs...looking at Eti Maden's site, I just found the following that makes me wonder about my previous source:

In the world, Turkey, USA and Russia have the important boron mines. In terms of total reserve basis, Turkey has a share of %72.20, the other important country USA is %6.8.
Total world boron reserves on the basis of B2O3 content are 369 million tons proven. 807 million tones probable and possible, as a total of 1,176 million tons. With a share of %72.20, Turkey has a total boron reserves of 851 million tons on the basis of B2O3 content .

I don't know if the first article is believable or not so I'll just say that we have between 94.07 and 319.97 years of power and industry in Boron...which isn't amazing but it isn't bad either.

While the US is sitting in rusting cold war transport networks and wondering who to blame ...
Your highways where built for troops and war... and getting your political elite out of cities ...
ie very efficient transportation - just not for you.
China is funding a rail system in Turkey for $35 billion.
http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=277360
Long term thats China to Spain and England by rail. No roads, no shipping.

Probably an S with some sort of diacritic on it. The summary has Çavdar while the article has Cavdar, indicating that the name in the summary may have been copied from a source other than the article, such as the Today's Zaman article.

The whole thing sounds terribly weird. Where do you find a person who, acutely, loses all four limbs? If it's traumatic, then the chances of them surviving the accident or whatever are pretty slim, much less four limb reattachments. If it's congenital then why do all four at once? Maybe you think you have a good donor (although it seems like that is wrong, FTFA)?

Searching the Internet and avoiding Fox News and the Daily Mail, I found this link which shows a picture of the patient - he's in a wheelchair and he clearly has some deformity in his hands, so this may well have been congenital. The donor (a motorcycle accident victim, remember that fellas, in the industry we do call you all 'organ donors' for a reason) also donated his face to another transplant.

Just hope to hell he had a clear understanding of what he was getting into.

Reading about it, if you don't make a selection then you are in the "standard" filter, which is the same a what is currently available. However some sites are currently already blocked so would continue to be blocked in the "standard" package.
The guy pushing this, there is also some disagreement over if it is constitutional is doing on the basis that the free market has failed in this and the government needs to make sure that the filter options are provided and followed.

I can Karma-Whore and google for you, but you'll need to do the actual reading:

GP's Point 1 - http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/iran-inks-deal-to-send-enriched-uranium-to-turkey-20100517-v8uc.html
GP's Point 2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaiMjAULWn0&feature=player_embedded#!
http://libertypundits.net/article/paid-mercenaries-on-turkish-flotilla-ship-and-more-censored-footage-of-violence/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkish-paper-releases-censored-photos-of-beaten-israeli-commandos-1.294443
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_O'Keefe
http://trueslant.com/charlesjohnson/2010/06/06/another-cropped-reuters-photo-deletes-another-knife-and-a-pool-of-blood/
GP's Point 3 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Turkey_relations
GP's Point 4 - http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/columnists-164310-turkey-hamas-relations.html
GP's Point 5 - RTFA, what we're discussing in this /. post.

If you don't see Turkish Islamist policy driving this and the bigger picture this fits into (radical Islam, oppressive regimes vs new-internet-driven-world-order, middle-east mentality and its differences from western mentality, arab nation politics, Turkey's NATO/european membership, Turkish internal right-left struggle and dirty laundry, Turkish history (murder/slaughter of 1,000,000 armenians last decade, try mentioning that on Turkish media), you're just another one of those people who just can't get geopolitics and need an oversimplified model - namely, a little demonizing circle drawn around one of the participants of an equation (typically ends being one of Iran, Al-qaeda, USA, Israel, George W, etc) with an "evil" sign pointed at it. If only the world were that simple. Fox and Al-jazeera do it equally well, depending on direction the guys with the remote wants the arrow pointed in.

I have a demonizing-circle detector. Every time I get someone draw me one (whether Erdogan from Turkey, Benjamin Netanyahu from Israel, Ismail Hanniyeh from Hammas, Al Jazeera or Fox, I immediately know I'm being told a half-truth. Big problems don't fit in little circles, and the root causes are way more complex and way more distributed.
If complexity can be equated to pain with people who can't grasp it, I'll invoke the following:
"Life is pain, your highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something."

One of the main problems with this solution is your still limited to authentication. It doesn't have a lot grow to meet any new threats or contain features such as digital signing etc. I agree with you that it's certainly cheap and easy. Try looking at http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-200405-105-visa-kicks-off-pilot-of-passcode-generating-card.html for a credit card that VISA is implementing. It contains a keypad on the back as well as a display. This has the advantage that you can enter the amount you wish to transfer, the account number and your PIN. It will then give you a unique code to authorise this transaction.

Why are we cutting sciences yet throwing hundreds of billions of dollars towards the military still

Because much of American (conservative) politics are based on anti-intellectualism. See

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=154008&bolum=109

Lets hold out some (false?) hope that it does not get as bad as the International Olympic Committee host country "Selection" process corruption
I felt really sorry for all the French waiting out on the streets to celebrate London Vs Paris 2012 Olympic host "Selection" - it was so damn obvious they would not get it from the start. Your country defiantly don't get to host the Olympics for vocally opposing the Rape of Iraq - call it a political knuckle lashing punishment for not bending over, if you will. "Surprise. London won." (How about that FOX news story sarcasm, surprise indeed).

But Turkey have played good little lap dogs, pulled their weight in the war effortS though. And Surprise, guess who won the news rights to their blood-money-reward^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Successful Olympic Host Bid , why its Bush families close friend, Ex-Australian con Rupert Murdoch of Fox news fame Fox TV wins Olympic TV rights in Turkey for 2016 games

Anybody who thinks this is not all about backroom deals, political reward and punishment is just too damn naive.

It is all nice to claim that Youtube is standing up to freespeech but they are really only doing so in limited cases. Most glaringly Youtube is working with Turkey to make a new version of Youtube that is censored according to Turkish law. See http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=149182&bolum=105 Turkey cannot handle even minimal criticism of Ataturk and Youtube is giving them exactly what they want. I understand what Youtube is doing here. One can make the argument that exposure to the freespeech will eventually lead to less censorship. Also, Youtube obviously has its own financial incentives. But let's not pretend that Youtube and its parent Google are great champions of freespeech. They fight when they know they are very likely to win but don't otherwise.

Its always the same story when "any" news gets published about Turkey. The subject somehow comes to Armenians and Kurds. I know that many comments are specifically targated to stretch the subject to those areas, but I believe some slashdoters are interested in some Turkish POV.

I (like most of the Turks) know many things are wrong with our country. I know many of you have opinions likewise about your own countries. Our democracy is not as well established as western nations. We recovered from a theocratic empire and an European invasion some 80 years ago. Most of the people in Turkey are working really hard to improve democracy despite many barriers.

Unlike some ignorant comments above, Turks are not so defensive about the alleged Armenian Genocide. Turkey, as an official position, accepts that many Armenians were killed - along with many Turks - during the Russian-Ottoman wars, but denies that the term genocide is technically applicable. There were many other Armenians living in other parts of the Ottoman Empire that weren't at all oppressed, and some were even holding official positions in the empire. So its really very very different from the Jewish Genocide during the Nazi Germany. The killing of Hrant Dink is something very marginal in Turkey. There are many comments that references the incident to state the point "If you talk against the genocide in Turkey, you get killed", but no one is looking what happened after the incident. Thousands of people rallied to protest the killing, carrying this favorite slogan: "We are all Hrant Dinks! We are all Armenians!" (see here). There is no plural hatred against Armenians or defenders of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. The hatred is against people who looks at only one side of the coin.