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Islamic state claims Las Vegas shooting, says attacker recent convert to Islam

Most states publish results as they are tabulated and recorded, providing these to media outlets.

Whatever most States do, it is enough for one (or two) of them to be sufficiently close to warrant a recount or a legal action, and the national results may be delayed by days and weeks.

Unless, of course, the fix is so in, even any of the above eventualities will not matter. Given Google's being deeply and solidly in tank with one of the candidates, this may be more probable than is healthy for the democratic process...

Can't speak for the first one, but the second one, Deia Schlosberg, was caught trespassing with a group of individuals that were intending to "take matters into their own hands" but shutting off a valve on an in-service pipeline. (No matter your stance on the issue, this is an idiotic idea.) Here is one link. (Hard to figure out which ones are legitimate news sites, this may or may not be. When a website has a URL like "trust.org" I tend to do the opposite, but this one appears to be Reuters related.)

Yes, there is growing evidence. If the oceans became anoxic in past global warming extinction events, then it stands to reason that anoxia is a risk in the anthropocene.

And that temperature risk is on top of the acidification risk which is already being felt.

http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
http://news.mit.edu/2015/ocean...

You have to be in deep denial to think the oceanic (or land-based) food chain "seems just fine". It is anything but.

There is no "do nothing" option. We have the choice of continuing current biosphere-damaging industrial processes (the real extreme here) or switching to processes that stay within ecological limits that the biosphere is able to handle.

Are you so sure?

Things that have been blamed on global warming:

Two headed frogs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews...

Teenage prostitution.
http://www.trust.org/item/?map...

Everything has been blamed on climate change at one point or another. The idiotic conflations of issues to make climate change relevant are endless.

So saying "well auditing Al Gore can't cause global warming"... I ask you... how do you know? If climate change can cause an endless series of things that it obviously can't... then why not something else it obviously has nothing to do with?

Ehm?

Intellectual integrity and self consistency... Do you have any?

The guy already apologized to the cops. http://www.trust.org/item/2015...
Yeah, streetwise. He knows to keep his head down.

Your currency is one for criminals.

Wait, I thought the USD was the preferred currency of criminals?

They still see everything that happens, and that too is BY DESIGN.

Agreed. Bitcoin died when they refuted Zerocoin. We won't return to the founders' ideals of currency with Bitcoin. Of course, many here would quickly characterize our founders as 'criminals' (and legally they would be - George Washington would be put away for life by the BATF on several counts).

He should really work on banning the USD. It's used for commission of trillions of dollars worth of crimes every year and there's no real means of enforcement for [bona fide] money laundering operations.

I wonder if his office knows that bitcoin isn't really anonymous?

I am reasonably sure that Germany would exit the EU if such a program was installed.

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too

When OP says "Germany", he means "German citizens", not "German government".

Same is true for France. They say that France is one of the few countries who does democracy right.

France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law

See above.

Just because European governments have been complicit doesn't mean European citizenry is, so blow your authoritarian suckupishnesshit out your ass.

I am reasonably sure that Germany would exit the EU if such a program was installed.

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too

Same is true for France. They say that France is one of the few countries who does democracy right.

France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law

Hell, in France they will burn an entire city over a small issue.

You're getting warm.

Some 1,067 cars set ablaze across France on New Year's Eve
France's Less Joyous New Year's Tradition

More than 40,000 vehicles are burned each year in France...

Any ideas on what might be going on? (I don't want to issue a spoiler just yet.)

CSEC Admits It 'Incidentally' Spies On Canadians

So, go to Europe then. Oh, that's right.

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law

Why is this going on? Is there some sort of pattern that could explain it?

Iran’s fingerprints in Fallujah
Report: Canadian Terrorists Planned Truck Bomb Attack
At Least 4,000 Suspected of Terrorism-Related Activity in Britain, MI5 Director Says
Dutch Arrest 12 Somalis on Terror Suspicions

As I understand it, SOP is to build an on-site water-filtration system, since water cannot become radioactive, and keep cleaning and filtering until it's done.

Yep, they've got one of those, and it's not working. So they're going to get another one. Which also probably won't work.

But the water itself actually is also radioactive. Tritium has a halflife of 12 years, so it'll go away eventually, but you don't want to drink this stuff. The fish aren't getting a choice, though.

Let me help you guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act

The SEC and DOJ have stated that they are going to be more actively pursuing this. That public statement, combined with whistle blower rewards makes it a ripe environment for these kind of investigations. Some prosecutions will come out of them. Most of them will end with settlements. Practically every Fortune 50 corporation will face some form of FCPA action over the next five years.

Just to give the Apple haters something to work with, look... Apple got dinged too.

http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/tag/apple#

Here's an article about the SEC's increased interest in FCPA litigation.

http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/fcpa-and-extraterritorial-regulation-becoming-bigger-issues-for-financial-institutions-conference-hears

News for nerds? There's an app for that. There is good money in offering SaaS based FCPA compliance programs to major international corporations. Sure they could build it in house, but who is going to trust a corporation to keep themselves out of trouble? And besides, why would they take the risk that they miss something? It is much easier for them to offload the risk and cost of running the program to a third party.

Sounds like a dumb idea, until you realize that Chuck E. Cheese and similar businesses have, for decades, been using a similar tactic to avoid running afoul of gambling laws: You're not playing for gifts or money, you're playing for worthless tokens!

I doubt the Feds would allow Japanese style Pachinko gambling, where one business sells/buys the steel balls and another has the gaming machines.

Maybe you could do something online, with a non-US company selling/buying Entertainment Bucks and online casinos accepting/paying out with the same.

The Feds would probably call it all money laundering and make your life hell.

I suppose the thing to do, in that case, would be to start a bank.

If this is what you are talking about, it doesn't look to me like it wound up in the street.

There is nothing new that we can learn from Iran. Hyperinflation is what governments create with their top down economies, central banks and printing presses.

People have no problem figuring out what to use as money. After the Anti-Communist Civil War in Somalia the currency that the country used to have is still being used, except it's not used in single bills, people roll a bunch of bills together into stacks and use that. It works because nobody is printing the old Somalian currency and so the supply doesn't change and it's easily recognisable.

News flash. Women want to have children

When we gave women access to contraception, and the ability to get an education and a decent job rather than simply being housewives and mothers, family size dropped to the replacement rate or below. In the US. In Canada. In Europe. And the same trend is very clear in developing countries. Women want to have a reasonable number of children. Population growth happens when women are disempowered.

Contrary to the Malthusian view that population will grow to the limit of however many kids can be fed, in fact parents choose to have enough kids to give them a high chance that several will survive to support them as they grow old.

(Bill Gates/Gates Foundation) (Also relevant: Bill Gates' TED Talk)

Evidence shows tackling high death rates leads to smaller families and the stabilisation of national populations, according to its report, ‘The World at 7 Billion’.

...“In the poorest countries, where parents are often petrified that their children will die and leave them to fend for themselves, it’s understandable that they would choose to have larger families," [Brendan Cox] added.

...Save the Children points to the example of Botswana where three decades ago women had an average of six children. The average is now three, following long-term investment in healthcare which has helped to nearly halve child mortality.

(Trust.org reporting on Save The Children's report)

Healthier and wealthier babies make for smaller families.

(The Solution To Global Population Growth is Saving Children) (Contains two talks by Hans Rosling using stats to show this. Look at the first video starting at 6:30 if you're impatient)

Well-designed programs can bring down growth rates even in the poorest countries. Provided with information and voluntary access to birth-control methods, women have chosen to have fewer children in societies as diverse as Bangladesh, Iran, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

...A trial by Harvard researchers in Lusaka, Zambia, found that only when women had greater autonomy to decide whether to use contraceptives did they have significantly fewer children....

(New York Times reporting on a UN report)

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has deployed itsnew Emergency Information Service (EIS) to Haiti. An experienced team of Foundation journalists was sent to the country on Wednesday with the goal of seeking out, collating and disseminating life-saving information to the people.