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What do you mean by "vampires"?

I have an interest in forums, but I'm not familiar with that "category".

"Erdogan dreams of bringing Turkey back to its Ottoman glory and is willing to exploit religion (and abolish Laicism) to do so."

I don't know if this is true, it may as well be that he caters to the majority in current Turkey.

Things are a mess in Turkey, but I'm not sure that is Erdogans fault. He's got ISIS, Russia and an aggressive West to deal with, along with a divided nation.

I'm all for an open democracy, but I don't think that would work in Turkey in this horrible situation. A measure of safety does come before democracy, a reality we are quick to forget in the more peaceful parts of the world.

IIRC, his political opponents had their chance and blew it in a spectacular manner, so that even more people voted for Erdogan. What good is a military coup, if the current government is the least of the possible evils?

I don't know much about Turkey, but I feel we may be guilty of judging Erdogan out of true context.

I'm sure conditions are exactly the same in Turkey right now; who'd dream of taking guard-duty seriously there?

And yeah, I'm sure the western intelligence-agencies are as sure to plant moles in anti-nuclear movements as in the rapidly deteriorating Turkish military high command.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but c'mon.

That was cool.

For me, it doesn't run well on FF, but neatly in Chrome. Huge difference.

That was profoundly disheartening.

Unless there exists _any_ kind of unemployment - in that case people will travel for a ridiculous amount of time just to have a job, thus ruining their chances of a decent private life.

Things do not just adjust themselves as in the theories, weaker people are just squeezed harder. When they can't be squeezed any more, things _may_ change - but when is that?

The working poor are a pretty good example of this.

Thank you

As a European, I don't find US media a good measuring stick.

Democracy works just fine, but it needs _some_ responsibility or bad stuff happens.

These last 5-10 years have been horrible for the EU. On the hight of this current migration crisis, the UK decides to hold their election.

If I didn't know Cameron was pro EU, I'd see it as a completely UKIP-skewered dickmove. The UK is letting go, just as the "tug-of-war" gets even more hairy.

There's a lot to be critical about with the EU, but going our separate ways isn't the solution for Europe vs the world. And at the height of this crisis it is just... cowardice? I don't know.

How should the ordinary UK citizen know anything solid? Their newspapers are downright bonkers.

So, Lucas has fallen, and the vultures are out to pick the bones. Pointing out what went wrong is a good way to make yourself look smart and it gives publicity. After all, Star Wars still sells. Just don't forget to say how much you love SW and George Lucas while you rip.

This piece is garbage and it shows in the very first section. I've now watched the interview for a second time. The quote about white slavers was an obvious attempt at a joke, but it keeps getting repeated and abused. Why? Because shock-effect at clickbait. It even gets stuff like this on hackernews!

But don't get me wrong. I also don’t think Mr. Robertson is trying to deceive us. I truly believe that he believes in every word he says.

It certainly isn't just link-material for his principles and www.willpowered.co website...

Bothering individual FBI-employees seems like a silly idea.

Reading this thread, it seems some people think the problem is that it is legal to record stuff in the open. IMHO, that is the wrong take on it.

Let's take license-plates. I don't mind that a police officer is able to see it and note where I am at a given time. But it becomes something quite different when we have surveillance-systems recording where every car is all the time. I do mind that.

It is the systems that are scary and ripe for abuse, not individuals.

You really should have read the article before posting.

*half-swording

Ah, yes - the FULL BRIDGE rectifier-man :D

I may have seen him doing covert advertising on reddit.

That is roughly equivalent of the farts of 6 mill cows, just standing there.

Just saying for comparison, not for some "don't eat cows" agenda.

Cow fart source: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054212/collecting-cow-farts-the-...

(208l of methane farts = 135g/day. 120 days = 16.2kg. 97 x 10^6/16.2 = roughly 6 x 10^6.)

Just smell that dairy air...

Whoever wrote that piece need a serious spanking.

My mind is just blown with the possibilities of a software-layer on our real world, slowly growing from this initial piece of hardware. I want to be a part of this.

And then they put THAT picture, with the selling-point being games, 3D tours and Skype. This is just horrible.

Do they even care?

Indeed. IMHO, the only antidote to this is teaching people (and scientists) to be very, very sceptical whenever someone doesn't care if one of their arguments are refuted.

Well, it is still a variation "On Bullshit" (Harry Frankfurt's excellent article). If someone in science is more interested in a position than whether the presented arguments individually holds up or not, that person is unscientifically invested and we should have some kind of mental allergic reaction to that.

The "Publish or Perish" has made Gish Gallops much harder to catch and almost impossible to punish.

"Of course, if you look too disruptive they'll probably just buy you with their mountain of cash."

Woe! :P

I just want to mention (as I've done elsewhere in this thread) that this is within the ordinary system. If you're considered exceedingly dangerous that's just crazy. Better give you a treatment-sentence. That means a REAL life sentence.

Denmark had a guy who killed 4 policemen. They let him out 33 years later on a pardon; by then he was 71 and had server about 33 years.

I just want to mention that this is within the ordinary system. If you're considered exceedingly dangerous that's just crazy. Better give you a treatment-sentence. That means a REAL life sentence.

Denmark had a guy who killed 4 policemen. They let him out 33 years later on a pardon; by then he was 71 and had server about 33 years.

I read an article once with a professor who claimed that all his interesting and good work was done as procrastination from his proper duties.

While I disagree with "free scans" and "evil", I think you're hitting pretty close to the mark.

Back then, Google's Chrome was still an exciting new thing being discovered by many non-techies, fast and simple. Google seemed like a company dead set on being the good guys.

Things have muddled since, IMHO.

To some extent true, but the thing is that you couldn't say it out loud in public without being labelled a conspiracy theorist by the masses.

The masses are pretty important in discussions about what kind of society we ultimately want.

Socialism works pretty well in Scandinavia (understatements may be present).

Lot's of dictatorships have called themselves "socialist", maybe you are confusing the term?

Capitalism and socialism works exceptionally well hand-in-hand.

You simply need to be more precise with your language.

The terrorists desperately want this to be about religion. They want this to be about Muslims vs the rest. If they can make it that, if we in the west will believe that THAT is it, the terrorists can speak directly to all the 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and recruit from them. They will justify their horrible actions vs other Muslims with the reasoning that they did it for all Islam which was "threatened".

It is a political struggle within Islam. Every western nation is walking on eggshells to keep it so. Don't support the terrorists by saying "They said Allahu Akbar, it's religious".

Want to dishearten Daesh? Challenge them and spit in their face, show them their actions is for nothing? Walk with Christian if you're Muslim and a Muslim if you're a Christian (or atheist or whatever).

And this is exactly what the terrorists aim for.

If the western world starts feeling it is at war with Islam, Muslims will unite under those terrorist's banner and we're in for a very long, shitty haul.

The worse we treat Muslims in our own countries, the easier simple individuals will be to turn to the terrorist course.

If we attack a Muslim country, hordes of Muslims will travel there to fight for the Prophet.

These attacks are all desperate attempts at starting an avalanche. Don't let them play you, talk with your friends, stay calm.

He is not missing it, he is addressing when it does not fit the situation and points out that this is one of those moments.

There's a sweetspot with weighing planning and doing.