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Here's one spotted at a local mall: https://twitter.com/isonno/sta...

0 cases seems remarkable given that two years ago, the ECDC said that only "99% of malaria cases [in Europe] are travel-related".

Most of this was a big (relatively speaking) and anomalous spike in Greece.

  "For instance, Greece had managed to remain malaria free between 1974 and 2009, but in 2010 three locally acquired malaria cases were reported, followed by 40 in 2011, 20 in 2012 and three in 2013".

http://www.euro.who.int/en/hea...

0 cases seems remarkable given that two years ago, the ECDC said that only "99% of malaria cases [in Europe] are travel-related".

In our system of Cartel Capitalism - there really isn't a difference between the government and the large companies that buy influence.

That's just populist mind-killing tripe.

There's a significant difference. The US Gov has to pretend to follow the US Constitution (don't forget that many of those working in Gov still believe that too) and other "nice stuff". The Large Corps don't.

Where's your 2nd amendment in Disneyland? Where's your freedom of speech in Facebook? Good luck using the Freedom of Information Act on Apple. And you can't even pretend to vote for/out the CEO of Monsanto.

Your beloved Bill of Rights and Constitution may become more irrelevant once you stupid folk get the Small Government many of you keep asking for. Obsessing over quantity instead of quality.

Anyway back to the topic: http://www.independent.co.uk/l...
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
The tech industry seems rather fond of Hillary Clinton.

See also: http://gizmodo.com/facebook-em...

So you don't care about a decade long series of heat waves that caused the dust bowl. Which resulted is massive repeated crop failures that then resulted in the Great Depression. If your "models" conveniently ignore all data prior to 1960 so that they don't have to explain an actual disaster what credit should be given to predicting worse events in the future? As for your referenced "data". I didn't say there wasn't more CO2, and the chart from the Mauna Loa Observatory is cute. How about the Optical Depth data that shows the SO2 light reflection that is relevant to what I claimed, and to what the article claims to have found. Or how about the GHCN dataset which if you dive in and pull out the Precipitation, and Evaporation you have some interesting problem with Global Warming. One 'Claim' from Global Warming is the increase in heat increases evaporation, increasing humidity, thus increasing rain and Precipitation. The problem is you get this nice little graph that I'm sure you're going to ignore because all these lovely scientists cant possibly be wrong. It doesn't even matter to you that NASA predicted that cycle 24 would be particularly bad. If my analysis is correct, which it is, and nasa's prediction was correct, which it was, then there is a serious problem. It means that the Pan Evaporation mesurments were sensitive enough to pick up a nasty level of solar activity, but not sensitive enough to pick up your phantom global warming since 1950 when the US Geologic Survey fine tuned the measurement process because they needed to know how much evaporated off of lake mead that the prior data was so variant it was unusable. If I'm right, which I am, then that means Global warming from 1950 to 2010 is nothing compared to what the CME's have been doing to us. And this all brought to you by the Sun's northern field deciding to take some time off. So yea your 25% increase in overall CO2 since 1960 is pretty meaningless in the scope of the overall data because if it was It should have moved the evaporation long before 2010.

Awhile back, someone installed some sensors on his friend's bed after the friend was married. The sensors detected "movement," measured the length and intensity of said movement and then automatically tweeted about it. At no point was the friend or his bride a) notified or b) identified. This went on for awhile until the guy started realizing that eventually his friend would find out and likely wouldn't take kindly to it. He shut down the twitter account. I'm not sure if he was able to remove the sensors or if his friend/friend's wife ever found out.

I was just about to post this but then found the Twitter page: newlywedsontjob. Sample tweet: They’re off the job! #14 – Action concluded at 22.34GMT. Duration: 12m.41 s. Frenzy Index: 8 (scary). Judge’s Comment: "GADZOOKS!"

https://twitter.com/ChrisDudle...

Things have been warming up for about 10,000 years

Where do you get this stuff? The Holocene Thermal Maximum was 8000 years ago. We've been cooling since then - up until about 150 years ago that is when the trend took a turn for abrupt warming (just at the same time CO2 took a similar abrupt change in trajectory). - http://phosphorus.github.io/ap...

I have some bad news on our bet by the way. The director of the NASA institute for space studies says this about my chances of winning: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfG...

I know that people call him racist, but he has been against "illegal" (which is not a race) and urges caution in terms of Islam (once again, not a race, but a religion that creates more than 90% of terrorists).

Has he said something else that I have missed?

Donald Trump: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." So being a Mexican immigrant means you're either a drug dealer or a rapist according to Trump. That's racism.

Donald Trump: "But you have people coming in and I'm not just saying Mexicans, I'm talking about people that are killers and they're coming into this country." And that's xenophobic.

Donald Trump: "Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border." Linking a community with disease. Where did I hear this before?

Donald Trump: "I’ll take jobs back from China, I’ll take jobs back from Japan. The Hispanics are going to get those jobs, and they’re going to love Trump.” Treating hispanics like dogs he can throw a bone to, that's racist too.

Donald Trump: "No surprise that China was caught cheating in the Olympics. That's the Chinese M.O. - Lie, Cheat & Steal in all international dealings." Note how he said it's the "Chinese modus operandi", not the "Chinese *government* M.O.". Claiming 1+ billion people are liars, cheaters and thieves, just for their ethnicity or the country they live in is racism.

Has Trump ever actually issued a call for violence? If so, I must have missed it.

Well he certainly did against protestors at his rallies.

But more importantly, "Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." and "Donald Trump said that he would 'absolutely' institute mandatory registration." So he says he will use the force of law to discriminate on the basis of religion. In other words he is against freedom of religion and against the bill of rights.

While those are not direct threats of violence, it's already too much for someone who wants to be the chief of the world's most powerful army.

Also, do we all know about @SwearengenCD? He goes a long time between tweets sometimes, but his backlog is hilarious. And close to home some days.

Sure it's possible that it has an effect. Effect size is still kinda important since the Japan Tsunami caused a significant and abrupt change in the Earths wobble. However, until someone can adequately explain our enhanced rainfall that started in 2010 that is clearly caused by enhanced evaporation in 2010 I'm in the Global Warming is dubious camp. Heck I suspect I can see that Japanese Tsunami in the Evaporation data, but the sample size is just too small to be sure. If it's global warming why doesn't the evaporation change significantly before 2010? If Global Warming Causes the evaporation to remain flat by increasing the humidity then why does it move after 2010 in a very disturbing way. It's easy to see it's caused by the last solar cycle, but then why didn't the other cycles have the same effect? It's easy enough to find out why by doing some searching on some disturbing differences in cycle 24, but you can't get past the Bad Astronomer comparing counter Global Warming evidence to holocaust deniers.

Ha! That's laughable that you use Twitter as the example of a non-PC policed space. Nothing could be further from the truth! Twitter absolutely censors and encourages censorship of views that don't fit the typical SJW/PC vocabulary. I guess you missed their Trust and Safety Council. You should read up on it. I think you'd be interested in the subject matter and who is and is not on the council.

Don't forget, Panama Papers is just a subset of data that was released. Heavily edited. Conveniently, not a single US politician mentioned in the released data. Also, Putin's name isn't there either, just his "childhood friend". Yet in all the newspapers it was reported that Putin was directly implicated. So, what else would you expect him to claim? Also, he actually wasn't the first to come to the same conclusion:
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"US govt funded #PanamaPapers attack story on Putin via USAID. Some good journalists but no model for integrity."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"#PanamaPapers: If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged 1% journalism by definition."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"In total, Guardian has released, 2 #PanamaPapers documents. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 0 documents."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"3 days to go: With 86,987 votes counted over 95% demand full disclosure of #PanamaPapers"

WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Should we release all 11 million #PanamaPapers so everyone can search through them like our other publications?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"US govt funded #PanamaPapers attack story on Putin via USAID. Some good journalists but no model for integrity."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"#PanamaPapers: If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged 1% journalism by definition."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"In total, Guardian has released, 2 #PanamaPapers documents. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 0 documents."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"3 days to go: With 86,987 votes counted over 95% demand full disclosure of #PanamaPapers"

WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Should we release all 11 million #PanamaPapers so everyone can search through them like our other publications?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"US govt funded #PanamaPapers attack story on Putin via USAID. Some good journalists but no model for integrity."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"#PanamaPapers: If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged 1% journalism by definition."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"In total, Guardian has released, 2 #PanamaPapers documents. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 0 documents."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"3 days to go: With 86,987 votes counted over 95% demand full disclosure of #PanamaPapers"

WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Should we release all 11 million #PanamaPapers so everyone can search through them like our other publications?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"US govt funded #PanamaPapers attack story on Putin via USAID. Some good journalists but no model for integrity."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"#PanamaPapers: If you censor more than 99% of the documents you are engaged 1% journalism by definition."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"In total, Guardian has released, 2 #PanamaPapers documents. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 0 documents."

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/...
"3 days to go: With 86,987 votes counted over 95% demand full disclosure of #PanamaPapers"

WikiLeaks @wikileaks
Should we release all 11 million #PanamaPapers so everyone can search through them like our other publications?

Because, you know, it's not as if they couldn't just use one-time pads to transmit in the clear over Twitter

Am I doing it right? https://twitter.com/1timepadhe...

I work a few blocks from the proposed HQ site and there are construction cranes in all directions, & there is plenty of demand for office space in Fort Point and excellent freeway access due to Big Dig exit at convention center. We already have enough Internet of Things meetups believe it or not.

Muckrock and the Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism tried to raise $1700 demanded by the mayor's office for reproducing the GE emails. But who needs emails when the charm offensive has begun? BINJ did a five-part series on the scheme.

These crony style one-off deals are always terrible economics. The "free market" certainly will fill that space very soon. There is no lack of demand, instead tons of local money already develops this area. In Jan 2015 a parking ramp in Fort Point sold for $56 million or $106,500 per spot!

As noted above many in the population are furious #MakeGEpay protesting in the freeze of last weekend's clipper. (Mayor Walsh was elected with 52% on 38% turnout). The schools are facing a $50 million shortfall, students walked out just a few days ago partially protesting this.

In this deal they don't have to pay regular taxes, instead they get to muck around in the local school system with all the purse strings attached as the press release makes clear. Instead of letting the city get normal tax revenue and the School Board allocate money for programs GE gets to basically do what it likes, as the press release clearly specifies.

Sen. Sanders said they are "destroying the moral fabric" of the USA. Boston Magazine reported in January:

"GE isn't exactly a shining model of corporate conduct. The company is one of most notorious abusers of offshore tax havens, with $119 billion stashed away across 18 overseas locations as of 2015. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders once named GE the nation's top corporate tax avoider. From 2002 to 2011, GE eliminated a fifth of its U.S. workforce while its offshore profits multiplied sixfold to $92 billion."

Do you really think that some of these Beacon Hill luminaries haven't been looking forward to a taste of that offshore $119,000,000,000?? The centralization of decisionmaking in the schools, by withholding program revenue, is unfolding in parallel to this incredible offshore tax scam. Maybe they want Ft Point Channel access to float in barges of cash, why not? I am disappointed none of this important info is in the story summary.

Which is hilarious considering that you'd think everyone would remember what happened to Rhode Island when they tried the same thing (albeit with a different company). Massachusetts ducked a $180 million loan that Rhode Island is now on the hook for.

There have been quite a few protests over this, the average Massachusetts citizen does NOT want them to get those hand-outs. As I'm search anyone who's seen a TV recently knows it snowed over the weekend, people were out protesting IN THE SNOW over those tax breaks. Just check out #makeGEpay - this is NOT a popular move.

That's the one thing the Internet was designed to resist the most.

Unfortunately, it was not designed to resist Donald Trump.

Here's a photo of Donald Trump as he would look without all the fake tan applications:

https://twitter.com/thisjenlew...

You will notice that he looks like a plastic bag filled with sheep intestines on which someone has drawn a face. Yes, I admit it, I am helpless to the Donald Trump Internet Fascination.

Obviously: Floridian refugees moving into your town. Do you want florida man living in a van near you?

It's at 200k now: https://twitter.com/elonmusk

Your source is an ex-Apple engineer who worked on iPhone security: https://twitter.com/JohnHedge/...

The Secure Enclave doesn't have "firmware updates" because it doesn't have nonvolatile firmware memory. Its firmware is loaded on every boot, and is part of the overall firmware of the phone. The Secure Enclave has no control over what firmware runs on it other than ensuring that it is signed by Apple, and it has no persistence of its own - it's a completely state-less CPU that depends on external EEPROM and Flash memory that can be externally tampered with and rolled back/replayed.

Here's a tweet that shows a sudden change in orbital period. That could be consistent with an impact pushing it slightly closer to the planet. That's a small change, I think the Y axis on that graph is orbital period in minutes, so it only represents a change of about 2 seconds. Even so, it's obviously noticeable. Although it's a little odd that it didn't keep changing that quickly. If an impact pushed it into a slightly lower orbit it wouldn't just stop there, it would keep falling. Although maybe the impact came from the rear and it just slightly sped up the satellite. If the speed slightly increased then that should result in a 1-time drop in the orbital period.

I think an anti-satellite missile would result in more than 5 pieces. Although the tweet referenced in the summary states 2 breakup events, one resulting in 5 pieces and the other in 21 pieces. And for some reason it seems to conclude that the 2 events are unrelated. While it would be interesting if it were struck by either a natural object or debris, it sounds like the events are actually related and that it experienced an onboard failure. Or, the second breakup event could have also been caused by the first.

Wow, I'm going to Make America Great Again!

For a while we've seen attempts like this in the open source world. Want to muscle your way into an OSS project, despite lacking the talent or skill (or willingness) to contribute anything other than drama, identity politics, and an insatiable urge control others (or remove them if they don't fall in line)? Force a Code of Conduct (which is often explicitly racist and/or sexist, dismissive of merit, and vague enough to be selectively enforced) down its throat! It even works on the largest projects, and lets you dictate developers' behavior on unrelated corners of the web!

Makes sense that they would like even more to impose a Code of Conduct on life, starting when you're a kid.

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Ladies and gentleman, the next President of the United States.

Really? He might be the final POTUS then, before the country splits up.

Find out for yourself

Eliminating carbon as a fuel source world wide is not. There is nothing really different now about people in this regard.

Once upon a time, Republicans believed that CO2 was an energy retaining gas. Now? Denial of science is a party platform.

Just as a point of edification to whoever marked this post as "Troll".....

In 2008 The Republican Party platform listed global warming a a national problem, and cited Human activity among its causes.

citation: http://www.latimes.com/opinion...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

Now, here is the specific text HArd core Republicans might want to stop reading at this point, because this is going to get really uncomfortable instantly. From the 2008 platform

Addressing Climate Change Responsibly

The same human economic activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. While the scope and long-term consequences of this are the subject of ongoing scientific research, common sense dictates that the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today to reduce any impact on the environment. Those steps, if consistent with our global competitiveness will also be good for our national security, our energy independence, and our economy. Any policies should be global in nature, based on sound science and technology, and should not harm the economy.

The Solution: Technology and the Market

As part of a global climate change strategy, Republicans support technology-driven, market-based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.

To reduce emissions in the short run, we will rely upon the power of new technologies, as discussed above, especially zero-emission energy sources such as nuclear and other alternate power sources. But innovation must not be hamstrung by Washington bickering, regulatory briar patches, or obstructionist lawsuits. Empowering Washington will only lead to unintended consequences and unimagined economic and environmental pain; instead, we must unleash the power of scientific know-how and competitive markets.

Now let us fast forward to today, Here is your 2016 presidential candidate Donald trump on global warming

http://www.inquisitr.com/10836... specifically his tweet: “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice”

https://twitter.com/realdonald...

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More tweets

Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet! They don't believe it $$$$!

It’s snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?

Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!

Your other possibility, another person who represents the soul of the republican party, Ted Cruz Has this to say about global warming:

“Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of

The most interesting question, though, would be to know which service providers went under. I am on Mobile Vikings, an MVNO that resells the BASE network. I had no issue sending or receiving calls, texts or data all day, even though I avoided it; the guy next to me on Mobistar lost service around 10.00. We were in the downtown area around 1KM from Maelbeek. I've heard other people on the outskirts of the city lost all service from 8.30 until late this evening. My hypothesis is that since BASE has fewer subscribers but a similar infrastructure to Mobistar and Proximus, they can actually handle the traffic if everybody calls at once.

Anybody else got any reports or know more about how cell technology works?

For what it's worth, I don't think we need to worry about this any more. The crisis is over, it's 10:00 at night, the city is as quiet as Christmas eve. The Crisis Center is still recommending that you avoid telephoning, to be sure, but that post has been up for 12 hours now and they've knocked off for the night. They've been recommending SMS, by the way, since it's not saturated.

iMessage leaves all kinds of forensic evidence behind AFTER a message is deleted. Including records of when it was deleted...

https://twitter.com/JZdziarski...

Or a strong contender, at the very least.

Or it would be if Obama's head were down just a bit lower and to the right

It is dropped: https://twitter.com/BrendanSas...

It is cancelled: https://twitter.com/BrendanSas...

You obviously don't take 100 selfies every day, like the majority of iPhone owners do!

Uh, no. The only time I get a selfie on the Internet is when the Google Map Car drives by the bus stop (see pic link below).

https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/705604128198635520/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Or a strong contender, at the very least.

It seems that AlphaGo suffers from the horizon effect, meaning that when it is ahead, it becomes blind for wining sequence that starts with an unusual move. It is great that Lee Sedol has won this game, because it shows that humans still have a better understanding of the game. Relying on a mental vocabular for reasoning about the game, has some weaknesses, it might still prove superior when reasoning about very complex situations like the one encountered in this game. It seems that Lee Sedol took most time to think about this move. Later on in the game, AlphaGo, played some bad moves, probably because its winning percentage had dropped.

It seems that AlphaGo suffers from the horizon effect, meaning that when it is ahead, it becomes blind for wining sequence that starts with an unusual move. It is great that Lee Sedol has won this game, because it shows that humans still have a better understanding of the game. Relying on a mental vocabular for reasoning about the game, has some weaknesses, it might still prove superior when reasoning about very complex situations like the one encountered in this game. It seems that Lee Sedol took most time to think about this move. Later on in the game, AlphaGo, played some bad moves, probably because its winning percentage had dropped.

https://twitter.com/notapolice...

Ha, that's not even close to the worst.

See what the gov't did to Lavabit.

Scroll down a little & read in chronological order the details of what came out this week. 4th amendment denials, among other things. Secret courts are TOTALLY worth it. /s

https://twitter.com/JZdziarski

The real news story is how lavabit was abused in closed court. And they fought back - a bit. Sent the required SSL encryption keys(!) as 4point 11 page document rather than .pem files.

https://twitter.com/JZdziarski...

Read all the other bullshit that the government AND the court/judge got away with behind closed doors.

Well, the government can always just force you to turn over the keys and access ALL of your customers' info that uses them for encryption.

It's what they did to Lavabit.

https://twitter.com/JZdziarski...

Because...well, because it's the DC Metro and it's run by horrible people.

The only thing they seem to actually care about is how much money they can make, while pushing things to the absolute limit in terms of customer service and equipment.

I spent 6 years using the system to get back and forth from NoVA to downtown DC every day for work....and if I had to move back there now, I would be driving and paying for parking, absolutely no hesitation, even though it'd probably be at least twice the cost.

See https://twitter.com/unsuckdcme... for many, many examples.

DC's metro system isn't that bad. You should try coming to Perth, Western Australia where not only does Transperth take 3 times as long as driving but they also claim that weather shut down one of their lines on a perfectly clear spring day... That is if you're lucky enough to be in an area serviced by Transperth.

After a month or two on Perth's public transport system you'll go back singing the praises of the DC Metro.

Also come to England and experience the wide open spaces of London's tube stations.

You should see what they did to Lavabit under the guise of security.

Holy fucking shit.

https://twitter.com/JZdziarski

They were literally denied their 4th Amendment rights by a FUCKING FEDERAL JUDGE.

Because...well, because it's the DC Metro and it's run by horrible people.

The only thing they seem to actually care about is how much money they can make, while pushing things to the absolute limit in terms of customer service and equipment.

I spent 6 years using the system to get back and forth from NoVA to downtown DC every day for work....and if I had to move back there now, I would be driving and paying for parking, absolutely no hesitation, even though it'd probably be at least twice the cost.

See https://twitter.com/unsuckdcme... for many, many examples.

Going to a 1000 machines doesn't make that much difference - the distributed version only wins against the single-machine version 75% of the time.

What did you expect?

He expected that. by the time he had fired his git client,
Ryan would have already release a "ioSeriousEngine" branch, completely ported to SDL2 + Vulkan + OpenAL.

Worst part? It's not that far from being plausible.

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