rogersmith

Even better startup idea, concentrate people into camps, make them pay with labor

pm if you want to be CMO on this one

Parent comment expresses incredulity at Obama's comment on the topic being discussed in the thread.

I point out said comment is perfectly in line with the policies implemented by Obama and his administration during his two terms and OP's incredulity is unwarranted.

Not sure how that's OT or inappropriate but furry muff, HN works in mysterious ways.

Feel free to share your sources establishing the shooters of both the Paris Hebdo and Bataclan attacks received external support.

What about Columbine (multiple shooters, conspired in advance to commit the attack), terrorism, mass shootings?

Right, because if some crazy asshole shoots people randomly it's a mass shooting but if he happens to be muslim it's terrorism. Sorry, keep forgetting about that memo.

France may have more guns per inhabitants but it's mostly hunting rifles/sports gun.

Swiss gun laws are definitely not as strict as France's. Look it up.

Then on the other hand we have:

Exhibit A) Switzerland, 25 guns for 100 inhabitants, two mass shootings in the last 100 years

Exhibit B) France, extremely restrictive gun laws, two mass shootings in less than one year

So there's that...

I know right? It's almost as if the purpose of this whole farce wasn't actually to save lives and to protect our freedoms (for which they hate us). Wow, who'd have guessed...

Disappointing with regards to the rest of his track records? re: Guantanamo, reining in Wall Street, cracking down on whistleblowers, widespread use of drones to perform extra-judicial assassination?

If after 8 years you still think Obama is the Nobel peace prize wielding progressive philanthropist you've been fooled into thinking he is, joke's on you tbh.

"It doesn't take a genius to figure out people will just keep cash at home if you impose negative interest rates..."

Hence why the alleged benefits of a cashless economy are being pushed across the board at the moment.

Cue the "if you insist on holding cash, you must be a terrorist" rhetorics.

"Is this seriously the America that exists today?" Not denying they have taken it up a notch, but FBI has always been some borderline Gestapo institution from it's inception. You heard of Edgar Hoover right?

" a government has a large amount of power to dictate money flows within the country, but very little power to compel terms of trade overseas."

Isn't the petrodollar system precisely the historical exception that allows the USA to have a lot of power when it comes to "compel terms of trade overseas"?

edit: obviously the other side of that ability to "compel terms of trade overseas" being the US formidable military power that allows them to further twist other countries arms when they refuse to play by the petrodollar system rules (see Libya, Iraq, etc)

Article reads like paid advertisement for Uber tbh...

"They are asking about a job. I am thinking about identity, community, purpose – the things that provide meaning and motivation. I am talking about my life."

Wow, leaving aside the complete "first world problem" approach that makes this relevant for like maybe 1% of the world population at best, this guy didn't just drink the Kool Aid, he's literally douching with it.

So I go to the sauna for a few hours right? Reach abnormal temperature for a statistically insignificant period of time wrt to my expected lifetime, then a few minutes later after I left the sauna my temperature is back within average expectations.

What was your point again?

To clarify: my point is, even only taking into account only the period during which it has been inhabited by mankind, Earth has probably reached hotter and colder averages than what we've experienced over the past half century. Mankind did fine.

"The global surface temperatures across land and ocean in February were 1.35C warmer than the average temperature for the month, from the baseline period of 1951-1980."

Earth having been around for millions of years, how statistically significant is a 29 years period in the grand scheme of things?

"Don't underestimate the role of a crappy jobs and bad bosses" This a 1000 times.

As someone who's done his fair share of shit jobs before working in the relative comfort of the "tech industry", this was a valuable lesson in what is the reality of any work relationship (that is: "I work x hours and you give me x monies", that's really all there is to it...).

Lots of tech companies wouldnt get away with their "We're all a big family so you have to do unpaid overtime because we're all a family" bullshit if their employees went through dishwashing or other menial jobs before.

(Simplifying a lot for emphasis, but you get my drift)

MH370 = MH17

You do realize the American public is probably (a tiny bit) more sheltered from the abuses of NSA/CIA/(insert your favorite alphabet agency) surveillance that non US citizens, right?

Also, the legislative process is just as opaque and undemocratic everywhere else... (TTIP anyone?)

First they came for the nazis...

Speaking of oppressing muslims, for a government that fully supports the ethnic cleansing policy implemented by the Likud (which let's face it, makes the platform of any european right-wing party pretty mild in comparison), the German .gov sure seems to have peculiar standards of what is morally acceptable for a political party to do or think...

As the second part of my comment pointed out, I see this being used to also outlaw parties becoming too overtly anti-EU (which in case you didnt notice, is conveniently conflated with "populist right wing parties" a la UKIP, FN usw).

As the economic and social situation deteriorates, I see anti-EU sentiment becoming waaaaaaaaay more prevalent than it has been during the 70 years post WW2 period you're on about.

On the plus side, it sets a nice precedent for governments to ban any party whose opinions they don't like.

It's entirely unlikely that the anti-EU sentiment that fuels the rise of remarketed right-wing parties all over Europe will persist much longer.

"They will also seek to prove the NPD is creating a “climate of fear” in Germany and “shares essential characteristics” with the Nazis."

Like most governing political parties all over the world then?

No we don't. Most legal system have some concept of aggravating circumstances if the victim of a particular offense is a certain age, a certain profession, etc

tl;dr: "i engage in wishful thinking because i didnt get the memo that moore's law is close to reaching its limits"

So everyone agrees LinkedIn is shit and should be abandoned if only because every clickable icon in there is booby-trapped, yet the consensus seems to be "I'll keep using it because peer pressure and network"?

Apt summary of the perverse aspects of the so-called "network effect" if i've ever saw one...

OT but arguably, the world could possibly be a better place if we didn't have prisons or banks at all.

yet downvoting me won't make that kool aid taste less bitter :)

"the freedom of an individual to control his or her own mental processes, cognition, and consciousness."

if this is a real thing, most of what passes for "education" these days tramples this right extensively.

Non EU European countries are actually included mind.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_European_Constitution_r... und so wieder...

Please entertain me with tales of how democracy in EU is alive and well... Not even going to touch democracy in the US, current presidential campaign speaks for itself...

They didnt include EU and US because democracy there is dead and buried.