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May get my citizenship revoked, but ~~I don't feel it's right to~~ you can't lie on /r/OutoftheLoop.
It's a /r/NewZealand joke that started a while ago when /u/WhynotSmeagol asked if it was legal to have a garden in NZ.
The subreddit has a long history of deadpan trolling, so everyone tacitly decided to go with it and make it a thing.
Spinoff.co.nz ran an article about it without ever hinting it was satire, giving us something to reference; and coincidentally there was a legitimate, quirky news item in the Guardian regarding the Avocado shortage, that added credence to the joke.
EDIT: Sources added
>but the fact that only 16% of the critics thought it was a passable film is...terrible.
>"The prospect of a predominantly white, European realm being invaded by foreign, primitive, darker skinned hordes (they are actually called the Horde) might set alarm bells ringing in our current climate of immigration anxiety. Is this a veiled Ukip broadcast? Or a pro-Trump one? Nobody suggests the orcs are there to steal Azeroth’s jobs or exploit its benefits system, thankfully, though they are intent on overrunning their adoptive country and sucking the souls out of all its living creatures."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/25/world-of-warcraft-the-beginning-review-end-already-nigh
Speaks for itself on the qualifications of "professional" reviewers.
> I do not think many of these in app opportunities have value in any real sense and they are either relying on addiction or stupidity to get purchased.
I'm a developer and I cannot stand mobile games as they are right now. 99.99% are stolen outright or as you point out, are maliciously designed from the ground up to trap people with addiction and gambling problems.
The idea that one of these little 'games' (I really don't want to call most of them games because.. they're not games, just colorful storefronts) can cost you orders of magnitude more than purchasing, A) a real game at 60$, or B) an entire new bleeding edge smartphone is disgusting and predatory. Frankly their design should be illegal or at least be forced to follow the same regulations a casino does and all in app purchases made by someone under the age of contractual consent should be void. ( i don't care that this would be rife with abuse and difficult for the devs, they brought it on themselves with this shitty, unchecked behavior)
edit: holy crap over 100 replies, haha I'll try to response to what I can. Clearly this is an interesting issue worth discussing.
edit 2: hopefully this isn't a cross post faux pas but this is interesting and relevant.
edit 3: so I have gotten Pixel Dungeon as recommended but in doing so proof about how shady mobile games are was made rather apparent. I searched by Pixel Dungeon and ended up with 3-4 pages of Pixel Dungeon, each one using the same icons and style of the original with a word or letter of the title changed, each one done by a different group, with only one of them being the real one. I literally had to go to Wikipedia to find out who the real maker of the game was before downloading.
> "I was bending down to ask him if he liked the dress's colour," he said. His legs gave way as it dawned on him that Elliott would never answer.
They're not the only one..
>British army creates team of Facebook warriors.
>US spy operation that manipulates social media.
Edit - Three cheers for Gold.
> At this stage we have three separate named witnesses who say the attacker shouted "Britain First" during the incident.
EDIT: BBC is now reporting...
> One eyewitness told the BBC they heard her attacker shout "put Britain first" at least twice beforehand.
EDIT 2: The Guardian is reporting it
>Graeme Howard, 38, who lives in nearby Bond Street, told the Guardian he heard the man shout “Britain first” before the shooting and during the arrest.
> “I heard the shot and I ran outside and saw some ladies from the cafe running out with towels,” he said. “There was loads of screaming and shouting and the police officers showed up.
> “He was shouting ‘Britain first’ when he was doing it and being arrested. He was pinned down by two police officers and she was taken away in an ambulance.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-west-yorkshire
The Mosul Dam. Formerly known as Saddam Dam, it is one of the largest water reservoirs in the Middle East. Built on karst foundation, it's literally crumbling apart. If it fails, it will kill ~1.5 million people on its way down to Baghdad. Problem is it's too close to the battle front and no workers want to go there.
Monica Lewinksy. Nothing good came of that for her. Her life was ruined from age 24 to her early 40's, to the point she couldn't even get a position volunteering. Her parents made her shower with the door open because they were worried she was suicidal. She describes her relationship with Bill Clinton as a mutual romance and yet she's just known for blowing the president. Now with Hillary running and likely to win, there is a whole new wave of Monica jokes.
I just read this article and I have so much respect for her now. I'll never laugh at another Monica joke again.
In 2012, BP's annual profit was $25bn. That's $68,493,150.68/day in profit. In 2012, the fine would have been equivalent to 2.56 days of profit, if my math is correct. Edit: as you said, it'll cost BP nothing in the end.
It's noteworthy that Bandcamp had reached $100m in payment to artists in 2015 and is generating $3.5m for artists every month.
Pretty awesome.
Nestle will sue the US and Oregon under TTIP rules saying this ruling has cost them profit and unfairly advantages the people.
Good.
It really seems like Russia holds the entire world in contempt. The behaviour of the Russian hooligans at the Euros last week, and the messages of support by top Russian officials like Igor Lebedev, a politician and board member of the Russian Football Union, say it all. They should be banned from a lot more than the Olympics.
To piggyback on this, human breasts are an exception in the animal world. Primate females only develop breasts when feeding younglings, whilst human females have permanent breasts (with size differences during breastfeeding). https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/14/breast-size-evolution
Think of it the other way around. Humans should not have breasts. The apparition of breasts (of any size) has been selected in humans (probably sexual selection unless proven otherwise) and that's why our species females have breasts. Size is secondary to its mere existence.
Besides this, breast size seems to be a complex trait governed by several polymorphisms with variation between populations http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22747683
FYI, this is the same woman who did the "The Artist is Present" exhibit at MoMA a few years back, which featured Abramovic sitting at a table, while audience members were invited to simply sit across from her. During that exhibition, her former lover and artistic collaborator—a german man who goes by the name "Ulay"—showed up as an audience member unannounced and took part, which resulted in her breaking down for the first and only time in the exhibit.
Very sweet clip, but don't let yourself get too sucked in. Ulay is suing Abramovic for allegedly breaching a contract between them and trying to take sole credit for work he claims they created jointly.
Ah, love and war....
There was at least one instance of it being awarded posthumously. The scientist died hours before his family was notified of the win and his death hadn't been made public yet. They did the right thing and gave him the award still.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/oct/03/nobel-prize-awarded-dead-scientist
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/may/14/breast-size-evolution
No he hasn't. Humans are the only primates whose females keep their breasts when they are not suckling young. Scientists theorize that walking erect minimized the sexiness of the booty, and that early human males selected for permanent breasts in their sexual partners as a show of fertility.
"When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we’ve had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts" – Harry Kane.
Edit: adding source
Atleti have a name associated - el pupas - the jinxed ones - which they have been trying very hard to shake off. It seemed like Simeone would change things after he won the Copa del Rey and La Liga in tense situations, but they failed at the biggest stage. They had some misfortune (the Ramos goal) and choked hard. Two (almost surely) good penalty takers, Koke and Filipe Luis - broke down just before the shootout.
It's sad to see and I hope Simeone manages to rectify it, but I suspect that he may not be able to. This was his best chance, vs. their gigantic city rivals they have been in the shadow of for the last 60 years, and they couldn't capitalize.
His Atleti have succeeded by adopting a small-club mentality, but sometimes that very same mentality comes in the way.
EDIT: For those who are not aware, in the 1974 CL final, Atleti conceded a goal vs Bayern in the 120th minute, a freaky goal from 40 yards out. This is an article by Sid Lowe from 2005 for English readers -https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/dec/19/europeanfootball.sport1
Just to point out that though this is true, it's soooo unlikely to happen.
A recent case where a 21 year old woman was tried under the Offence Against the Person Act resulted in a 2 month suspended sentence - she didn't even go to prison. She had taken abortion pills purchased online when she was 19 and her roommates contacted the police.
The judge at the time noted that there were no guidelines or similar cases to compare it to as there had been zero other prosecutions under the same piece of legislation.
He also recognised that the legislation was 150 years old and had been adequately amended in the rest of the UK, acknowledging that had she been able to, she could have travelled elsewhere in the UK and had it done legally. This was his justification for no jail time, and very lenient sentencing.
It's shitty legislation and sucks even more that the judge had to sentence her at all but I'm sick of people making out that my country is a backwards shithole because we have antiqued laws. Yes on paper it sounds horrific but in reality N.I - or rather the people of N.I are no more "backwards" or less progressive than those in the rest of the UK.
Also, fuck the DUP - this is their fault.
Some articles about it - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/04/northern-irish-woman-suspended-sentence-self-induced-abortion
Played the South Korean anthem instead of the North Korean in 2012.
Totally an accident
Ninja edit: my mistake, that was getting the flags mixed up
> is the backlash causing Linux to grow faster?
No. People are content with Win7 and Win8, (solid and stable) and the programs they run on WinX--they just don't want the windows 10 ads, privacy invasion--
>I can deduce the updates are annoying but I don't think this is new to 10, is it?
This is a new low for microsoft:
Apparently, in Oklahoma, face fucking a girl, without her consent, because she is passed out plastered beyond all recognition. Link
There have been quite a few well publicised examples.
A guy was arrested for tweeting the following
>I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said 'Nothing to do with me'. A mealy mouthed reply.
Another guy was arrested for tweeting:
>So a bin lorry has apparently driven in 100 people in Glasgow eh, probably the most trash it’s picked up in one day
A guy was arrested for making jokes about April Jones, a young girl who went missing, for example:
>Who in their right mind would abduct a ginger kid?
The horrible thing about Eritrea is that even if you flee the country you're not safe from the regime.
http://www.dw.com/en/eritrean-translators-intimidating-refugees-in-germany/a-18591144
In that respect, it really is worse than North Korea.
I mean it would be nice if that was true, but the Polish government is led by conspiracy theorists who are dismantling the country's democratic institutions.
According to section 27.03 of the rules for the competition:
> If an association is disqualified during the competition, the results of all of its matches are declared null and void, and the points awarded forfeited.
And in section 18.03:
> The four best third-placed teams are determined according to the following criteria applied, in the order given, to the final tournament group matches:
a. higher number of points obtained;
...
So if Russia were disqualified then their matches effectively didn't happen so no points were awarded from them which puts the rest of the group at a disadvantage for the four best third-place spots. Yet another problem with this stupid 24 team format.
Because men are better at it. Both genders try to kill themselves as much as the other. EDIT: Getting hella downvotes so: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/suicide-gender-men-women-mental-health-nick-clegg "7% of women and 4% of men had attempted suicide at some point in their lives." Don't just downvote stuff that doesn't help your argument.
i dont know if you mean something like this "We have known for about a century that inner speech is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx, detectable by a technique known as electromyography"
This may sound ridiculous. But i always found that the voice in my head that helps me solve problems or remember stuff works like a kind of search engine in my memory database. You think about a problem and your brain uses your knowledge and memories to solve it or come up with a new idea. But then again, you are your brain and the voice in you brain and..... this is where i get the same existential crisis another user had.
> UN safety standards
Weren't those shown to be more lax than the EU's in 40% of cases?
EDIT:
The US is also proposing new articles on “science and risk” to give firms greater regulatory say. Disputes over pesticides residues and food safety would be dealt with by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Codex Alimentarius system.
Environmentalists say the body has loose rules on corporate influence, allowing employees of companies such as BASF, Nestle and Coca Cola to sit on – and sometimes lead – national delegations. Some 44% of its decisions on pesticides residues have been less stringent than EU ones, with 40% of rough equivalence and 16% being more demanding, according to Greenpeace.
Interesting fact: that poster was produced but never used during WW2. It was discovered and reused by a graphic designer in 2008. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/08/keep-calm-and-carry-on-posters-austerity-ubiquity-sinister-implications
> The reason behind wanting to leave is that the EU has increasingly more control over the nation. There are a bunch of rules imposed on the nation, and they pay a lot in membership fees or whatever for little in exchange.
That simply isn't true. Large parts of the UK (mainly Scotland and Wales, iirc) were given EU-subsidies to enhance the economy there. The UK Government even fought tooth and nail for farm subsidies that benefited the rich.
Apart from that, the UK has paid less (relatively) to the EU than other countries. They had an exception for years that other countries didn't have.
I'm not saying the EU is a great and flawless institution, but like in most other EU-countries politicians love to impose their own domestic political agenda through the EU and then blame the EU. That's exactly what happened here.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/07/muslims-britain-france-germany-homosexuality
Read this. Not one muslim thinks gay acts are acceptable.
Not. One. Let that sink in for a moment.
Gay rights (and womans rights) are NOT compatible with Islam and Sharia law. That survey was done in 2009, yet those were their beliefs a thousand years ago, and will be their beliefs a thousand years from now.
The World of Darkness MMO that CCP was working on.
Now I'm just gonna have to wait until someone makes a proper Bloodlines sequel.
EDIT: Link to playtest manual
Avocados are in such high demand that people are not only taking the risk of cultivating them privately but going out and stealing them from legal commercial growers.
James Hansen's latest doomsday paper falls flat on its face
It's a revised version of a 2015 paper that failed to obtain peer review; the AP refused to do a story on it
"would claims paper conflicts w/ "mainstream understanding" of climateΔ mean it's a work of climate doubt? cc: @JustinHGillis"
"@notjoeverruni If you are referring to Hansen paper, I ran it by several climate scientists; Result: it didnt merit AP story
https://mobile.twitter.com/borenbears/status/712368320922722304
Even Michael Mann who is a devoted believer in Man-Caused-Climate-Change has doubts about this paper
"Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, said the revised paper still has the same issues that initially “caused me concern”.
“Namely, the projected amounts of meltwater seem … large, and the ocean component of their model doesn’t resolve key wind-driven current systems (e.g. the Gulf Stream) which help transport heat poleward,” Mann said in an email to the Guardian.
“I’m always hesitant to ignore the findings and warnings of James Hansen; he has proven to be so very prescient when it comes to his early prediction about global warming. That having been said, I’m unconvinced that we could see melting rates over the next few decades anywhere near his exponential predictions, and everything else is contingent upon those melting rates being reasonable
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/22/sea-level-rise-james-hansen-climate-change-scientist
> Thibaut Courtois has reaffirmed his commitment to Chelsea, declaring he is “100%” certain to stay, despite speculation linking the goalkeeper with Paris Saint-Germain.
One tweet from that idiot Duncan Castles does not warrant so much doubt of Courtois' loyalty I'm seeing on reddit.
Yes.
At a random traffic stop, illegal plant seeds are found in your possession along with a book on hydroponics that you don't remember buying. Because of (some law) you are charged with intent to start a grow-op. It is during this investigation when your connection to the above number is "discovered" even though authorties are already aware of you due to government monitoring. It'll seem like a coincidence, but it was a planed all along. The traffic thing is an excuse to get access to you. The drug thing is done in case the number law thing doesn't stick. They all stick. See you in 5-20.
Could be. I've read somewhere that Häkkinen was the only driver whose criticism Schumi listened
EDIT:
>There appears even to be a curious competitive bond between them. After this year's Belgian grand prix, where Schumacher squeezed his rival on to the edge of the circuit at 190mph as they battled for the lead, the Ferrari driver listened intently as Hakkinen gently chided him immediately after the race. It was almost as if Hakkinen was the only man whose criticism meant anything to him.
It's a bit rich to see Phillip Davies talking about democracy and claiming he's a strong believer.
Let's take a look at Phillip Davies's past and see how strongly he believes in the democratic process. A man that has so much contempt for democracy that he promised to campaign for carers to have free hospital parking, instead he actually voted against them having free parking. A man that uses filibustering to prevent legislation he disagrees with going through.
Ah yes, Phillip Davies truly believes in the democratic process. Perhaps it's only great and glorious democracy when it goes your own way.
We have exactly the same problem in London. A significant increase in properties being bought (usually off-plan from new developments before they are even marketed in this country, as they market in wealthy overseas countries first) by offshore individuals, usually through companies registered in tax havens.
This is the first time I had heard of this, so I went looking.
> I have never read a single one of his books and I never plan to. Life’s too short.
>No offence, but Pratchett is so low on my list of books to read before I die that I would have to live a million years before getting round to him.
What a monumental fucking dick. I love Terry's books, and no, I don't consider them a "high literary achievement" but who fucking cares?
"but muslims simply want everyone who is not muslim dead"
that is so ignorant it pisses me off so bad, I have multiple muslim mates who are fucking awesome.
they literally think all 1.6 billion muslims are gay hating terriorists
~
Also here is a great quote from Muhammad Ali last time trump was saying this.
"I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world, True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion. They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody. Speaking as someone who has never been accused of political correctness, I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/09/muhammad-ali-responds-to-donald-trumps-muslim-ban-plan
the ignorance is crazy
Yes, not only is this not the common takeaway from the speech (BBC headline: "Sanders 'to work with Clinton' to beat Trump", Guardian headline: "Bernie Sanders says he will work with Hillary Clinton to stop Donald Trump", CNN headline: "Sanders vows to help Clinton fight Trump" etc etc) but the post itself is editorialised and breaks the submission guideline that post titles must be exact headline or exact quote: "refuses" is a loaded term that does not appear at all in the article.
Come on Reddit, you used to be so useful. Stop voting shitspreading and biased opinion-pieces to the front page; I come here for information. And cat photos.
If it makes you feel any better, when the crew realized just how hard it was for McKellen they threw him a "Gandalf appreciation day".
^^(I ^^can ^^barely ^^imagine ^^just ^^how ^^draining ^^that ^^must ^^have ^^been ^^for ^^him.)
Meanwhile, Microsoft wants more H1B workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg0wCam2oDc
So do Warren Buffet and Marc Zuckerberg.
Propaganda have successfully brainwashed many americans into worshipping billionaires and thinking workers rights groups are evil. It's really time american workers start standing up for themselves. No one else will. Certainly not corporate boardrooms or crooked politicians.
France still has quite a few issues to deal with. It's net debt is way too high. It needs to do a much better job on employment.
But by and large, I have always chuckled when I've read Western neoliberals attacking France and demanding that they go through somekind of Thatcher-ite revulsion, even if the IMF(!) of all people have thrown cold water on the agenda.
Let's not forget that the French worker is one of the most productive in the entire OECD, significantly more so than the British one.
It also has lower poverty, a much better current account deficit etc. Sure, the French economy needs its reforms like any other, but it is fundamentally a sound, diversified and modern economy.
The last time we thought we were receiving messages from space it was the microwave in the observatory's interference
Have you tried using an Xbox One or PS4 controller, or otherwise? There are specialty controllers built for disabilities, and it may be that there is one that can help with your tremors (I didn't find one in my brief search just now). At the very least, it may be easier to manipulate than a mouse/keyboard, though even for an able-handed person it can take getting used to!
My family had a short layover in Beijing this past December. We go to a developing country, the Philippines, every year but this was our first (and last) layover in mainland China. When we landed it was in the low 20s Fahrenheit but there was the thickest "fog" you could imagine outside. We were there during this. The airport itself smelled like sulfur. I'll skip over some customer service experiences that are bad by design. After finally getting to our gate which seemed to be about 2 KM away from the security checkpoint we took a bus onto the tarmac. We were made to walk about a football field's length from the bus to the stairs to get onto the airplane. What they do for the handicapped, I don't know. My eyes, throat, and lungs burned from being outside and the air inside the plane wasn't any better since the door was open to the outside. They had no masks to give away, not even for the babies that were on the plane. Totally disgraceful...
Now how is the United States, which has some of the strictest environmental regulations in the world, supposed to compete with that country? Never mind all of the other factors like the disparity in wages, how are we supposed to compete with a country where that kind of pollution is OK?
Free trade is unfair trade when we our trading partners do not have standards anywhere near ours!
This... ARPA (the more friendly side of DARPA) apparently made a huge breakthrough with industrial scale battery storage using iron-oxide... here's a link, its pretty fucking exciting:
http://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=slick-sheet-project/iron-air-rechargeable-battery
http://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=slick-sheet-project/iron-flow-battery
It's not the map that's new, it's the extra notes in green ink and pencil.
I'm not sure how "new" they actually are though. All the extra place names that the video showed are already included on the updated map which I believe appeared in Unfinished Tales and most subsequent editions of LOTR. Apart from that there are also some other notes e.g. which animals live in various places.
Overall this video is badly lacking in information. It doesn't say when this map was discovered or if it has been known about by fans for a long time. It doesn't say when or where this map is going on display for one day.
Which is today, also extended to tomorrow, at the Weston library in Oxford. The Guardian has a bit more information on it.
>do we really have the moral high ground when we tell them to mind their own business?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
As summarized in a email to The Guardian in 2004:
>The US presidental election isn't just about foreign policy, it's about healthcare, taxes, education, transportation, natural resources and all manner of issues with little to no impact on the people of Britain.
>We live in a globalised, interconnected world. If China shuts its borders to US imports, you better believe American companies, shareholders and workers are affected. Should US citizens therefore have a direct say in Chinese policies? No - Americans should demand that their own elected leaders address the issues with their Chinese counterparts. The British have a similar voice in US policies - through your own elected representatives who have any number of diplomatic, economic and military tools at their disposal. You vote for your leaders and we'll vote for ours. Your problem is with your leaders, not ours.
I disagree so much with this: horses are full of facial expressions (if you know what to look for) and as a bonus they are quite good at reading ours too - likely because reading faces (each other's and ours) is adaptive. Their eyes/eyelid position has plenty to say, to say nothing of nose mouth ears. In fact a horse's eye shape and other facial "expressions" are used in vet medicine as an index of pain. I have no idea how to make links work but: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/05/researchers-compile-directory-horse-facial-expressions
I agree that we are bad at reading their faces when we assume they make the same faces we do, but it doesn't take much to learn their expressions.
He claimed this before. The FBI investigated it and found that it was bullshit.
>The FBI interviewed Mateen on two occasions in 2013 related to his purported connection to the Tsarnaev brothers, the first known time Mateen drew the attention of federal law enforcement. Ultimately, bureau investigators determined that Mateen had invented the connection and did not pose a security threat.
This guy had a history of making stuff up about connections to Islamist terror, I'd suggest to seem tough to those around him, but that part is still speculation.
> All Dyson products are made in the Far East
Lets not forget that when he moved production out of the UK, he claimed that Britain's failure to join the single currency forced him to do it. In reality, it was part of a strategy of reducing every possible production cost, that eventually destroyed Dyson's former reputation for quality.
So now German vacuum cleaners are outselling his Malaysian-built crap, because they don't fall apart when you look at them funny. Surprise surprise, he's suddenly a staunch eurosceptic, claiming the European vacuum cleaner rating system has been rigged by the German government. It's BS; he knows trade barriers are his only hope of reclaiming the UK market from foreign brands that are simply better.
EDIT: Reddit is being weird. First it lagged out so much that I double-posted, then I deleted the duplicate, and now I can't find this comment in my comment history... can anybody else even still read this?
Russia and Syria have bombed MSF hospitals so many times that MSF is no longer saying where the hospitals are because they think the attacks are deliberate.
I'm not sure if the French police are non-existent because it's against the English, or if they are just totally unprepared to stage this tournament.
After several terrorist attacks in France, and the direct threats from ISIS, you would've thought the stadiums would be some of the most secure places on Earth. Yet they allowed the Russians to somehow bring explosives into the stadium and many English fans reported that they were barely padded down.
> Assistant chief constable Mark Roberts said the attacks were the most serious and coordinated he had seen in 10 years specialising in football violence. He told how British police spotters saw some Russia fans “tooling up” with gum shields, fingerless martial arts gloves and bandanas.
EDIT: Here's one of the explosions that happened at the end of the match on Saturday. Which is an eerily similar sound to the suicide bomb attack that happened earlier this year in France. How are the French authorities allowing the Russians into the stadium with these explosives?
He basically did the same with a much better team. Took over a team fighting for Champions League and moved them down to relegation spots until he was sacked. A team with Villa, Silva, Albiol, Vicente, Joaquin, Marchena, Mata... He froze out club legends like Canizares, Albelda, Angulo and both Villa and Silva is said to have asked to leave if he wasn't sacked.
Read this if you want more:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/apr/21/europeanfootball.sport
> Not that they'll be able to afford its upkeep.
Yeah, it's not like universities are primarily funded based on research (source: I'm an ex-researcher), and we've just wrecked research funding... oh, no it's exactly like that: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/24/brexit-big-blow-to-uk-science-say-top-british-scientists?CMP=fb_gu
Interestingly the Guardian ran a similar story... under the headline of "Research reveals huge scale of social media misogyny."
"Internationally, more than 200,000 aggressive tweets using the same words were sent to 80,000 people in the same period – and according to the study, more than half of the offenders were women." - buried halfway through the article, aaaand back to my soggy knees.
E: Little bit of research - there are about 500 million tweets per day. So over a three week period in April. There would be ~10,500 million tweets. Of which globally 200,000 aggressive tweets contain the words "slut" and/or "whore". So approximately 0.002% of all tweets.
Someone's been borrowing their definition of huge from Trump.
Just FYI, but in the basic income experiments in India and Namibia where again everyone got the same amount, it had greater effects on the disabled.
From the India UBI experiment:
>First, it had strong welfare, or “capability”, effects. There were improvements in child nutrition, child and adult health, schooling attendance and performance, sanitation, economic activity and earned incomes, and the socio-economic status of women, the elderly and the disabled.
> Second, it had strong equity effects. It resulted in bigger improvements for scheduled caste and tribal households, and for all vulnerable groups, notably those with disabilities and frailties. This was partly because the basic income was paid to each individual, strengthening their bargaining position in the household and community.
At most prisons, you have to buy them. And prison labour doesn't pay enough to cover them.
"But most inmates can’t afford to buy pads ($2.63 for a 24-pack) when they’re spending the 75 cents they earn for a day’s work on other necessities like deodorant (which costs $1.93, three days' pay), toothpaste ($1.50, two days' pay), or food that’s more edible than what’s offered in the dining hall. At some prisons, prices are higher, with eight tampons costing $4.23 thanks to a privatized commissary. But even when inmates have the money to buy feminine hygiene supplies, commissaries routinely understock and women are left waiting for a week or two, rendering the pads irrelevant for another month. Toilet paper is also rationed, so crafting homemade toilet-paper pads means forgoing wiping." http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/06/menstruation-can-become-humiliation-in-prisons.html
" At York, each cell, which houses two female inmates, receives five pads per week to split. I’m not sure what they expect us to do with the fifth but this comes out to 10 total for each woman, allowing for only one change a day in an average five-day monthly cycle. The lack of sanitary supplies is so bad in women’s prisons that I have seen pads fly right out of an inmate’s pants: prison maxi pads don’t have wings and they have only average adhesive so, when a woman wears the same pad for several days because she can’t find a fresh one, that pad often fails to stick to her underwear and the pad falls out. It’s disgusting but it’s true." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/prisons-menstrual-pads-humiliate-women-violate-rights
Teachers are against a educative reform, they've been protesting around the country since 2013. This past few day it got worse in Oaxaca, violence got out of control, federal police used fire arms and opened fire leaving 6 people dead
More info: Violence at Mexico teachers' protest leaves six dead, officials say
Pandas have been known to have pregnancy symptoms after a miscarriage or failure to conceive. Countless other mammals do this, including humans, but it's only pandas that we make clickbait headlines about because the internet has a weirdly specific anti-panda circlejerk.
Could it be the Archimedes Palimpsest? ^[1][2]
The Archimedes Palimpsest was a 10th century Bzyantian Greek copy of an otherwise unknown work of Archimedes and other authors. It was overwritten with a Christian religious text by 13th-century monks.
Apparently, working in the third century BCE, Archimedes consider the concept of actual infinity - a very important mathematical idea thought only to be developed in the 19th century - and anticipated calculus.
> Why doesn’t this cocksucker use quotation marks?
I've found a few in other countries.
At least 9 gay men have been murdered in recent years in South Africa. The killer is alledged to have met the victims online and kills them after being invited into their homes.
IIRC that's Andreas Kornmayer, one of Bayerns fitness coaches. He'll join Klopp at Liverpool next season - i'm serious.
Just to offer an opposing view: this (60 minutes) is the same "news" organisation that paid for the kidnap of a child from a foreign country to get a headline.
The whole case rested on the allegations of a single accuser ('Nick') who was discovered my 60mins\exaro. It was investigated pretty extensively by the Met and has collapsed pretty embarrassingly on them, with no supporting evidence and no suspect charged: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/last-living-suspect-harvey-proctor-vip-paedophile-ring-inquiry-will-face-no-charges
Commence downvoting and claims of cover-up now.
AFAIK there was no paper that was retracted. However there was enough material written to publish a couple of papers, but George Levick judged that the scientific community was not ready for necrophiliac tuxedo snowmen.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic
>If Russia were to be disqualified from the tournament, an emergency panel would convene to decide what would happen to the team’s results in the tournament. As things stand, Group B could be thrown into turmoil due to Article 27 of Uefa’s regulations, which states: “If an association is disqualified during the competition, the results of all of its matches are declared null and void, and the points awarded forfeited.”
To be fair, he does have significant links with mental health services.
There will be an inquest into whether the last doctor who saw him thought he was a danger to the public and whether that was acted upon.
What? Banks are being more regulated. Risk and Compliance departments are now being heavily invested in and the FCA have been cracking down on the companies and individuals.
Individuals are now required to abide by the nice and vague "act with honesty and integrity" as a catch all for people who don't break any laws. Example being the train ticket dodger who worked for Blackrock.
The FCA fined a JP Morgan employee almost £800,000 in relation to the London Whale scandal.
Unless you're in the industry you're unlikely to see the day-to-day effects but there has been significant pressure from the FCA to not only prevent more shit from happening but to also go further to improve the image of the banking sector.
Although the embargo doesn't force any EU countries to stop selling Arms...so nothing more than paying a lip service to human rights
NATO used cluster bombs during bombing of Yugoslavia in '99, effectively killing civilians.
It's a bit hypocritical of the west to criticize the actions of Russia when they used the same practices in their campaigns. Nevertheless cluster bombs are awful shit and i hope in the future years every nation will ratify the treaty for the sake of "humanity".
Ok I will also answer your point seriously.
Take this article from The Guardian.
Which sites the same study as the article we're discussing in this post.
Except in The Guardian the headline is... "Research reveals huge scale of social media misogyny"
And the photo at the top of the article is a comic with men stood up and the captions "LOOK OUT! A WOMAN IS ABOUT TO HAVE HER SAY!"
Now sneaked in to the article a little later is this line... "and according to the study, more than half of the offenders were women."
But the entire article is set up as though men are abusing women online.
I'm a left wing Guardian reader. A perfectly nice and reasonable chap and so far as I know I have never sexually or verbally assaulted a woman nor have I ever treated a woman any differently based on the fact that she is a woman.
I am honestly getting so tired of this shit. You can't have the political beliefs and read the news I read without feeling like some how my mere existence is a pain to the world. I grew up on a council estate, most of the women complaining about how hard their life is and how hard it is being a woman are middle class, university educated... Some of the most privileged humans ever to have existed.
I'm just so fucking tired of this bullshit.
There isn't going to be a studio and there isn't going to be a 'base'. The new show will be a 'series of TV films' so I really doubt we will see a test track or lap times at all.
And a few months ago they delivered ransomware through their ads.
>Mainstream websites, including those published by The New York Times, the BBC, MSN, and AOL, are falling victim to a new rash of malicious ads that attempt to surreptitiously install crypto ransomware and other malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors, security firms warned.
>A number of major news websites have seen adverts hijacked by a malicious campaign that attempts to install “ransomware” on users computers, according to a warning from security researchers Malwarebytes.
But who cares, right?
Usually I would trust The Guardian over Sky News but I saw this a little after I posted the Sky article. It has a little more info, namely > “Much like chemotherapy and radiotherapy, it’s not going to be a save-all,” Riddell said of the new therapy, adding: “I think immunotherapy has finally made it to a pillar of cancer therapy.”
I'll believe it once the coach is announced.
Not to mention that they're not running on consoles but on super high end PC. The engine that they're using might also have all sorts of features, like special lighting systems that won't make it into the game. To be fair, all of this is done before the game is optimized. So even the devs aren't sure what the game will look like. Will they need to cut that tree out or will it fit into the polygon budget after all? These things can be very hard to know.
Here's Ubisoft speaking out about the WD demo controversy: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/06/ubisoft-chief-mistakes-watch-dogs-yves-guillemot
"as a first generation release on the new PS4 and Xbox One console, Watch Dogs would have been largely developed on high-end PCs with only an approximation of the final machine specifications.
Nevertheless, Guillemot said that reactions to the Watch Dogs demo had re-shaped the company’s approach to showing off pre-release games. “With E3 2015 we said, OK, let’s make sure the games are playable, that they’re running on the target machines. When we show something, we ask the team, make sure it’s playable, make sure gamers can immediately see exactly what it is. That’s what we learned from the Watch Dogs experience – if it can’t be played on the target machine, it can be a risk.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/22/devil-and-jose-mourinho
I think this explains it quite well. It's not that they hate each other as people, but they represent polar opposites in football ideologies. Guardiola sort of looks down on Mourinho for his style of play, whereas Mourinho has completely rejected the traditional Ajax/Barcelona school of possession football, and the holier-than-thou attitudes than go with it.
Since they're probably the two best at their respective styles, and were on opposite sides of El Clasico, it turned into a bit of a rivalry. Mourinho also holds a bit of resentment for Pep getting the Barcelona job ahead of him, despite having virtually no experience.
When have SJWs ever stood up to radical islam?
Well, truthfully told they once did stand up to muslims at their conference on whether it is OK for husbands to beat their wives, but I guess they've found out in general that it is much easier to attack scientists wearing scantily glad women on their shirts and get them to cry and apologise, than to take on those who actually do massive harm to women.
Think of poor Michael Collins' fate, I'm sure nobody remembers him at all. Here is an incredible article about the man who didn't land on the moon.
I didn't get too excited until it was confirmed Gaiman wasn't taking a back seat.
I think, in kpop, a large part of this ideology comes from the fact that the victim in kpop-related rape cases almost always takes back the claims. This is usually after a company with mob ties talks to the victim and there's usually no counter-suing or false accusation charges, so... False accusations do happen, but it's crazy to think people have such a hard time believing rape happens when one in five women will be raped in their life time in the United States. People need to remember South Korea is a very patriarchal society with a binge drinking culture. Which doesn't excuse rape no matter how hard they try.
I think I read somewhere someone shouted something about that, so it's possible, yes.
That's a lot of somes, I'll look for a source.
Edit: it was "Britain first!", so it's very likely if that is true. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/16/labour-mp-jo-cox-shot-in-west-yorkshire
Every single "wacky" news story that apparently originated in China is bullshit. Every single one. Western news sites know no one can read their "source" so they can just print whatever makes the catchiest headline and no one will call them on it until it's too late
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/pennsylvania-officer-acquitted-murder-david-kassick
The guy keeps moving his hand to where she can't see it. It almost looks like he might be reaching into his jacket for something (a gun?). Although he clearly should not have been shot, it was an incredibly tense situation where the officer may have been easily shot within seconds if he really did have a gun on him. Still a tragic event and the taser truly should have been enough to stop the guy. if she had been more clear with her instructions instead of screaming "get on the ground " over and over he would still be alive today.
Edit:
A lot of people are making really good points about how inept this police officer was.
Its true that a police officer should be able to stay at least somewhat calm and level headed in a situation like the one we are discussing. Its true that the situation also should not have escalated to the point where it required any force at all. Its true that a police officer should know when to stop tasering someone and how they react to being tasered.
With all that being said, the officer clearly should have been at least kicked off the force, and being fully acquitted was crazy.
All I was doing was answering the question how how she was acquitted. I never said it was a good reason to be acquitted.
You're thinking of this story, which is different than the WOW signal.
The WOW signal might have been from a pair a comets, but there isn't any consensus on the idea yet.
What?
No the bloody New Zealand Warriors beat the Sydney city Roosters. Bloody kiwis an their skills. Good game but.
The legendary Vinland of the Viking sagas is now considered to have been Newfoundland by many.
Carthaginians practiced blood sacrifice, including that of children. Evidence has been found to support the idea; it had previously been considered just propaganda from the Greeks and Romans, much the same as accusations of cannibalism have been used throughout history. There are still many who argue against Carthaginian child sacrifice, however.
The platypus and silverback gorilla were both considered myths for some time.
> lunatic
Hey hey. They always call it mental illness when it's a white guy. If it was a muslim you'd call him a terrorist. Let's call it what it is: Leftist terrorism. It's not strange, when people are bombarded with messages about Trump being literally Hitler that some will act on that info. I hope certain preachers of extremism will take a long hard look at what they're doing and how it affects people.
The 62 wealthiest people in the world have as much money as the poorest 3.5 billion. Source
> The prospect of a predominantly white, European realm being invaded by foreign, primitive, darker skinned hordes (they are actually called the Horde) might set alarm bells ringing in our current climate of immigration anxiety. Is this a veiled Ukip broadcast? Or a pro-Trump one? Nobody suggests the orcs are there to steal Azeroth’s jobs or exploit its benefits system, thankfully, though they are intent on overrunning their adoptive country and sucking the souls out of all its living creatures.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/25/world-of-warcraft-the-beginning-review-end-already-nigh
What a shit review
There's an interview with a "Russian Hooligan" returning in Moscow where he basically says the same. Something like he was surprised that the French police didn't seem interested in getting involved, and they just stood and watched.
Combine that with the complete lack of police presence in the stadium, the god-awful tournament organisation, and fact that senior British police are saying that the French failed to act on Russian intelligence, IMHO it points to UEFA and the French police seriously dropping the ball.
I think Russia may get a serious sanction from UEFA that will just be used to cover up the failings of UEFA and the French police.
If anyone quibbles on whether or not this was violated (since rebels did the actually killing) consider the following:
It was a US drone, along with a French fighter jet, that struck Gaddafi's convoy fleeing from Sirte, and allowed the rebels to interdict them in the first place. And if you're firing on a foreign leader's convoy with a Predator drone or a Rafale, your intent is indeed to kill him.
So, Obama and his administration most certainly had a hand in killing Gaddhafi, a foreign head of state who posed no threat to the United States. But he is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, so who cares, right?
FURTHERMORE:
The Libyan rebels who interdicted the convoy tortured and summarily executed 67 members of Gaddafi's retinue, a war crime.
Ironically, (alleged) torture and summary executions by Gaddafi's armed forces were cited by the US/NATO as a reason for declaring a no-fly-zone over Libya in the first place, in UN Security Council Resolution 1973. The authority of this resolution was totally exceeded by the US and NATO, by the way. Making the Libya War not only illegal under domestic law (because Obama exceeded the limit for no Congressional approval under the War Powers Act), but international law as well.
The Libya War was a complete mess folks. It was a legitimately evil action undertaken by the US and NATO, by an evil administration. And for what?
We totally broke that country, which destabilized the whole region, fueled the Syrian conflict (with the regime's weapons flowing there), and unleashed the migrant crisis on Europe (Gaddafi was a helpful partner in stopping the boats).
From the article: > The prospect of a predominantly white, European realm being invaded by foreign, primitive, darker skinned hordes (they are actually called the Horde) might set alarm bells ringing in our current climate of immigration anxiety. Is this a veiled Ukip broadcast? Or a pro-Trump one? Nobody suggests the orcs are there to steal Azeroth’s jobs or exploit its benefits system, thankfully, though they are intent on overrunning their adoptive country and sucking the souls out of all its living creatures.
What the actual fuck? Is the Warcraft lore about UKIP/Trump? Err...no?