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>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."
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.
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.
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.
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 -[link]
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?
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: [link] "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"
from here: [link]
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. [link]
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
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
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
> 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.
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.
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
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!
>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: [link]
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.
> 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?
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:
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.
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.
> Why doesn’t this cocksucker use quotation marks?
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: [link]
Commence downvoting and claims of cover-up now.
>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.”
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.
Relevant [link]
Although the embargo doesn't force any EU countries to stop selling Arms...so nothing more than paying a lip service to human rights
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.”
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: [link]
"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.”"
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
[link]
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.
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?
The Guardian today is trying to push Stephen Hawking's wisdom as a reason to not vote for Trump. Or for Brexit. Hawking's comments on Trump:
>"He’s a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator."
Personally I think people are a little tired of being told their valid concerns about globalisation, free trade, US foreign policy & mass immigration are "the lowest common denominator." Being sneered at like that is one of the main reasons people are voting for Trump.
On getting things slightly off, I found this pretty interesting:
>When Hidetaka Miyazaki was a child, he was a keen reader, though not a talented one. Often he’d reach passages of text he couldn’t understand, and so would allow his imagination to fill in the blanks, using the accompanying illustrations.
That's not free speech, any more than tobacco companies telling people that cigarettes were safe while internal studies said they weren't.
It's not only disgustingly dishonest, but it's going to cost the world untold billions to fix. People have and will continue to die because of them. They have blood on their hands and they should get the absolute shit sued out of them.
There are tech companies in California that are currently working on: (a) allowing a doctor to remotely perform an abortion procedure - a similar technology already exists, i.e., "telesurgery"; and, (b) further down the road, having an A.I. or robot that can perform abortion procedures, i.e., "autodoc".
So what will Okahoma do when either technology become widely available? Now clinics and hospitals certainly has strong incentives to adopt the technology much sooner - because it is a way to overcome anti-abortion obstructions.
If a doctor is located in California, and he remotely performs an abortion on a woman in Oklahoma - what will Oklahoma do? We all know the liberal California will never extradite the doctor to Oklahoma. Will Oklahoma send their cops to California to abduct the doctor back to Oklahoma to face a trial?
If the doctor is located outside the US and performs an abortion on an woman in Oklahoma, (which could happen very soon, certainly in our lifetime,) how will Oklahoma try to enforce its religious law on the doctor on foreign soil?
What will Oklahoma do with the A.I. abortion doctor? Will Oklahoma put the A.I. in prison for performing abortions on women?
It is a stupid law that will become outdated by technology soon enough. With all the stupid red states passing all the stupid anti-abortion laws, tech companies have never had a stronger incentive to work on telesurgery and autodoc for abortion procedures.
Wait, $13,000 is enough to buy & build a telescope that's powerful enough to test this? That's super cool. I don't know much about the telescope time market - I would have imagined that the kind of telescopes you buy time on were not the kind of telescopes you might be able to purchase & build yourself.
Edit: This guy looks increasingly suspicious. Someone questioned his claims and credentials in the comments and he briefly appeared only to duck out. Guardian comment links seem to be flakey - here's the comment I linked: >"But time is not on his side for using an existing radio telescope – they are all booked out." >That is not true. There are several major facilities for which observations in January 2017 can still be applied for, and there is not a single one for which you can even yet apply for observations in January 2018. If his idea was good enough, he could submit it to the normal telescope time allocation committees. It looks like he himself knows it's not. And there is not even any reason to wait for the comets to be in a particular part of the sky. Just observe them, or any other comet, at any time, to see if they emit at that frequency. >He published his idea, but not in an academic journal. The "Washington Academy Review" does not appear in the Web of Science list of journals; it's no more than a magazine. >He also has no scientific track record at all. NASA's Astrophysics Data System contains no publications by him. >I also absolutely don't believe that you can build a high quality radio telescope in four months, even if you do have a good scientific idea and an academic track record. This sounds like it's verging on fraud and I am disappointed that the Guardian links to his money grabbing campaign without checking the facts.
I can't believe no one yet has posted this fantastic article about the man by Jonathan Wilson: [link]
An absolute must read!
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>Searches for “nigger house”, in a global view of the world, and for “nigger king”, when focused on in the Washington DC greater area, return with the home of the US president Barack Obama as either the primary search result or one of three.
Well, they've already failed.
The only way they could protect people now is moving it, which it looks like that isn't going to happen, so I expect further failure to happen in the form of everyone not used to swimming in foreign sewage getting horribly sick.
You aren't supposed to drink the water of countries you're a visitor to because of bacteria and viruses, I can't imagine the level of magnitude worse drinking the raw sewage would be.
They were quoted in an interview saying "We've destroyed the games industry according to Total Biscuit"
Ofc this like every other thing they have said is completely baseless projection. TB never said anything similar to that.
An Arab guy was charged for rape by deception for lying about being a Jew and then having sex with a Jewish woman. Not in US though.
Fucking WOW. As if I didn't already dislike the fat bastard enough for being an unapologetic rapist...
This dude is descending to Steve Harvey levels of douchery.
>Although the majority of our regular opinion writers are white men, we found that those who experienced the highest levels of abuse and dismissive trolling were not. The 10 regular writers who got the most abuse were eight women (four white and four non-white) and two black men. Two of the women and one of the men were gay. And of the eight women in the “top 10”, one was Muslim and one Jewish.
>And the 10 regular writers who got the least abuse? All men.
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"
> "Florida senator Bill Nelson has just clarified his remarks about thinking of FBI intelligence officials, saying that some officials believe there is a link to "radicalism", an not necessarily the terror group Islamic State."
sigh Why isn't there some sort "please wait a minimum amount of time /before/ you start mentioning details"?
I'm a scientist (academic in a university). Science would suffer if we leave the EU; the vast, vast majority of our grant funding comes from Europe. While arrangements could be made, there's no real reason to believe they would.
Government spending on science is only falling, and we're currently spending the least of any G8 country as a fraction of GDP. The UK punches above its weight in science, but be under no illusion, the government does very little to support this, while the EU does a huge amount. Government spending would inevitably increase post-Brexit, but the sector would suffer massively.
Please send an email to the... editor at the Guardian, the person who is higher up than the moderators. It is highly likely that the manager is unaware of how the moderator is brutally censoring the comments. I did that somewhere last year and the manager obviously changed either the moderator or the moderating policy, because after that, gender critical comments were staying up.
I also included the very polite and very factual comment which had been removed, as an example of the kind of thing deemed too horrible to publish by the transgendered moderator.
Better article here: [link]
These were terminal patients, chemo had failed. This should be obvious for such an experimental treatment.
This appears to be a ridiculous success story.
I disagree. If you need laugh tracks to get 'real' laughs in the living rooms, your jokes are weak.
Laugh tracks have one simple function: They tell you when to laugh. And I can't help but feeling manipulated as a viewer.
My brother used to pretend he was a dinosaur. If he wanted our attention or didn't like what we were doing he would head-butt like a triceratops. On the plus side, he was usually a herbivore and mom could get him to eat his greens.
He eventually grew out of it, I think from interacting more with other kids who didn't want to be dinosaurs.
This was between ages 2-5 (approximately).
He transitioned from being a dinosaur to playing with realistic replicas of dinosaurs instead.
Now he's a mostly functioning adult graduating from college early and studying artificial intelligence and everything.
It will be okay.
EDIT: I told my husband about this thread and he lovingly sent me this link.
Again, collisions are harder and more frequent in American football than in Rugby. In Rugby, the majority of hits are to the lower body with the goal being to knock the opponent to the ground. In American football, 21 of the 22 players are colliding with 200-400 pound guys every single down, with these hits often being of the "head to middle of the chest" variety. Not saying American football players are any tougher than rugby players, or visa versa, but the idea that American football is just rugby with pads is just plain wrong. It takes a lot of grit to play rugby and deal with the rugby level of punishment, and it also takes an equal amount of grit to run head-on into a 330-pound man at 20 mph, even in full pads, in American football. a good article by the guardian
It absolutely has!
An average gorilla penis is only 1.25 inches long, erect. Humans and chimpanzees have much larger penises because, unlike among gorillas, females select their mating partners.
Ah - can it come under 60,000 euro in Germany? So close:
> The money will be disbursed on a first come, first served basis for cars priced no higher than €60,000, said finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble.
That would also be a big middle finger to Germany's government, which may have chosen that limit on purpose to exclude Tesla. I'd love for Tesla to price it at 59,990 euro :)
It's important to recognize that the New Yorker , like many bourgeois media outlets, will attempt to distort or change topics entirely when it comes to class politics. bourgeois media would much rather have the debates centered around identity politics (or social justice issues) rather than economic ones.
It is important to recognize that millennials increasingly see themselves increasingly as 'working class . it is important to recognize that millenials went through their formative years during a housing meltdown and years of 'recovery' that didn't actually see recovery for the large majority of us. There is a class base eager for something beyond the status quo - something beyond the parameters that american political system would rather have us debate and discuss around.
The Sanders campaign demonstrates this well. Sanders' policies are around typical 'social democrat' party issues: increasing wages, free tuition, expanding health care. Things that social democrats have said that workers need in order for capitalism to continue to work. Sanders' largest demographic of support has been in the younger generations.
I am really glad you asked. That was the year after 9/11. Congress wasted no time taking the opportunity (“Through my tears I see opportunity.” — George W. Bush, September 20, 2001) of a disaster happening to implement and consolidate the loss of power of the people in the United States. The patriot act coupled with the illegal invasion of IRAQ (most vets agree that this is a war that should have never happened) turned public grief and outrage into righteous rage. We are still dealing with the repercussions of this foolhardiness to this day. Loss of rights (Snowden revelations, which the people in power wanted no part of) and a middle east that hates us with a passion.
Mission accomplished! Except it wasn't Bush's mission, it was Osama bin Laden's mission. The 1% agree wholeheartedly with keeping the people in fear of their lives on a daily basis (just watch fox news, which opened up the door for Trump's fearmongering candidacy) so that they can take our attention away from the bullshit they WRITE for congress to pass.
It all comes down to the dollar bill. The oligarchy is pleased. When they are, you shouldn't be.
>The Romans lined their aqueducts with lead for example.
...and their water was full of lead as a consequence.
The person in this article had a somewhat different experience:
> She was sent first to sit through a group PowerPoint presentation, promising five steps to “improve your mood”; then she received CBT from a therapist and, in between sessions, via computer. “I don’t think anything has ever made me feel as lonely and isolated as having a computer program ask me how I felt on a scale of one to five, and – after I’d clicked the sad emoticon on the screen – telling me it was ‘sorry to hear that’ in a prerecorded voice,”
I am gay, and I think Islam has major issues. Everyone is so quick to jump on the "but Christianity too" gun but I dare you to do a Pride parade in Norway/France/UK/Canada/America/Whatever vs a Pride parade in Syria / Iraq / Somalia/ whatever. Then tell me Christianity is as bad as Islam.
I try to judge the muslims I know individually as persons. But Islam has major fucking issues atm and are soooooo far behind in human rights departments.
Islam has became this sacred thing that isn't allowed to be critized at all, but it really has to be. Islam is not perfect at all, far from it.
Also, everyone keeps bringing up the KKK as the Christanity ISIS. But Muslims also so many more terror groups apart from ISIS. Let's not forget Boko Haram, Al Qaeda and more. Islam just breeds hatred on a bigger scale atm.
50% of UK Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal [link]
This is in UK, one of the most liberal places. In Syria it's probably close to 100%
Sorry for the rant, but I am so tired of people defending Islam when it HAS to be reformed.
Many people in the medical field were very upset about that, actually. Pakistan and Afghanistan are members of a very small number of countries where polio remains a public health concern.
> id he do?
He just sold his art on the corner and some people just walk by like it's nothing because they think it's just some cheap unassuming art.
This actually did kind of happen. The dog was rescued by Michael Bay after not being adopted for 6 years. It's in the hopes that it will adopted after the movie. Not sure on the actual number but it has been a few years unadopted.
Greece (source) and Croatia on the Balkans, and Spain/Portugal in the west. Outside of the EU, Japan is growing really fast.
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Tak for jeres tid.
Edit: Denne video er virkelig relevant i denne sammenhæng: [link]
Oh of course - giving up powers to the worst nest of corporate lobbying in the world is something I'm sure most left-wingers are up for.
My point was that the electorate can make their decision in 2020 in the full knowledge that the actions of both sides won't be overruled or superseded by the Commission, on something like TTIP, or refugee policy, for instance.