Kinda creepy if you ask me. What about all the people that didn't get the news about the death?

Hope's this helps you understand my point and offers an alternative. I also mention the governmentless Belgium period as I lived it, and understand it, some politics already talk about directe democratie here.
http://mouseion.weebly.com/blog/dear-europe-09-jan-2016

We have had a friend whose child was diagnosed with ADHD at age 5. Let that sink in... He was a boy, lots of energy, the school system no longer has a gym class or recess program, his concentration is not long, none of that describes adhd. It describes a young child with no outlet for their energy. The put him on meds at the schools suggestion, now he is a zombie and emotional. The school once said that my son was kind of the same way and I said "He is a 7 year old boy. What do you expect?" . And before you ask I do not have Adult ADHD, I am just immature. My wife will vouch for me.

Your Honor, my client just went doo-doo in his pant's. I ask for a recess to clean this matter up.

Let me explain how the world works

Here it comes.

if you live by the sword you die by the sword.

Nope, no cult-like, deeply-ingrained brainwashing here.

What does this mean to a mindless social justice warrior?

A rote-memorized phrase by which you mean someone that’s not a bigot.

when you fight racism and say people should be judged on their actions and not by their skin

Notice, here, that racism is assumed to be the normal state of affairs. At least until someone got all uppity about it.

or that women should be judged by their accomplishments and not put down by their gender

Did somebody once tell you not to demean and degrade women just for the sake of it? You poor thing. There, there.

you can't tell us to stop hating people because of their skin color, but to love them for it.

Note, again, the presumption that racial hatred is the natural way of the world. Moreover, that feeling anything other than racial hatred is somehow being forced on the natural born bigot by outside forces.

The same goes with gender: women ask for equality, but get mad when guys don't throw their coats in the puddles anymore, or are debated and treated like a man.

You may meet an actual woman someday. When you do, you won’t be able to hide attitudes and ignorance like this. Nor will you be able to conceal bigotry like this from people that know and care about you, like friends and family. The best you can hope for then will be their pity. Quiz yourself: Has a woman ever asked you for equality? Has any of that other drivel ever happened to you personally? No? Shocker.

Either you want a world of equality where all burdens are shared the same, or you are delusional and should expect to be called out on you crap when you riddle your argument with basic logical fallacies.

False dilemma, Genius. You’re in deep enough, maybe stop digging now. Someone having a race or a gender is not carte blanche for you to be a dick.

Let me tell you something that is going to be hard for you to learn in life, but we should just rip the bandaid off quick: all feelings are invalid.

You accused me of psychoanalyzing you before. When, in point of fact, I simply concluded you’re struggling with an acute case of bigotry. Go on serving up weird little platitudes like this, and one might be tempted to read something into it. All I read into it, though, is that you got this out of The Turner Diaries or some other bigotry-outreach material somewhere. This is likely to be you parroting someone else’s sociopathically-analytical lack of emotional affect. Where do you get this stuff?

This is the biggest thing BLM and feminism don't understand about white men-we operate on logic alone.

Imagine that. People of your particular combination of race and gender turn out to be creatures comprised of pure logic. What’re the odds?

White man can be subdued with feelings and sorrow for moments, but we always wake up to present the logical extrapolation of what people are saying.

Nope, you’re not racist. Or the product of any racist indoctrination. Good thing, or you’d be making my skin crawl.

Right now people like you are mindless

Cults usually have ‘terms’ for cult-outsiders like this. You’ve resorted to this one a few times so far. You ought to get new material. Maybe you should try and trade tower guard duty at your rural Idaho compound for one of the supply missions into Couer d’Alene. Get out a lit...

I don’t know about any of that. Seems to me like, maybe, you may’ve taken the piece the wrong way, a ’lil bit.

You appear to believe that the point of this piece is to make you feel a given way. You use the word ‘concern’ but I’m taking that to mean something more like ‘guilty.’ Doesn’t much matter which you meant, though, because the underlying failure here is thinking this is about you. It’s not about you.

Nor is it about making you to feel any given way. This is someone’s story. You take the gist here to be an attempt to emotionally manipulate you with one, very particular, aspect about that person, that bothers you. You mind her being described as black. You take a description that includes her race to be racism.

Asked about it, you make out as if you’d naturally sympathize with the best figure skater, but if they were simply the best figure skater of a certain race, then that description itself would be racist. I disagree. I’m perfectly comfortable with the story’s subject being real. Something about them may have to do with race, be racial, without that being racism.

If you were to ask me, I’d say the fact you’re uncomfortable with this piece this way shows you’re struggling with a personal problem. Other times you’ve stepped up in comments to tsk, tsk any mention of sexism as bitchiness, or learning about racial discrimination in school as racism. That’s messed up. Judging entirely from your comments on Snapzu, you’re through the looking glass right now around bigotry, your opinion is wrong and your feelings are invalid.

Apple themselves probably know that they will get literally all the positive PR for 'protecting privacy,' but if you ask me, deals are probably being made behind closed doors. And thats beside the fact, that if they do get the phone unlocked by apple, they will then have the legal precedent that they so desperately want - unlock one phone, all the phones get unlocked.

Quantum computing. We've basically reached the 'silicon limit' or whatever the technical name is. Basically, it means that shits so small that we can't make it any smaller and therefore we'd either have to go back to the first sort of computers - the huge things, or we explore a different type of computing, namely, quantum computing.

Edit: heres some reading material:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20100329/1206118767.shtml

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/97469-is...m-the-end-of-the-road-for-silicon-lithography

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2836233/ibm-preps-for-a-post-silicon-world.html

To be very clear: I’m not talking about subjective tastes that have a genuine moral component. I understand that there are moral issues with, for instance, food (eating meat or not?); consumer items (were they made by exploited laborers?); choice of transportation (does it pollute?); and lots of other examples. I’m also not talking about subjective choices that actually do immediately infringe on other people, like playing loud music at three in the morning and keeping the neighbors awake. And I’m not talking about making our own aesthetic judgments, and mouthing off about them. Of course we’re free to like or dislike any food, art, or entertainment that does or doesn’t strike our fancy—and we’re free to say so.

I’m not talking about any of that. I’m talking about making character judgments about other people, making assumptions about people’s lives, their values and relationships, even making moral judgments about them based on their tastes in music, food, art, entertainment, or other activities that are entirely subjective and consensual. I don’t get it. Why do people do this?

OK. Let's break it down. Partially it is because subjective tastes rarely don't have a "genuine moral component".

Professional athletics - exploitation of and health risk to participants (drug enhancers, brain damage, paralysis and death in case of motorsport). The entertainment value clearly pales in comparison to the risk it carries - indeed, it enhances the spectacle for some spectators because that entertainment value is measured in billions of dollars annually for sponsors, clubs and organizers.

Fashion - rarely do we see fashion which is not tainted with controversy of self image mental disorders, sweatshops, child labor, slave labor, animal rights while all it provides is purely aesthetic value vis-a-vis vanity. The items of clothing are never novel in any technological breakthrough sense. New lines do not differ from old lines because they supply superior fabrics which save on climate warming fuel in production or maintenance (e.g. don't need washing, mending). The production is of a disposable item which will be discarded once the thread is beyond repair and its replacement will be exactly the same except the color and cut (and perhaps a zipper instead of buttons - because those are sooo last year).

Entertainment - popular music and film are routinely abused to promote commercial and political agenda yet young people are the number one consumer demographic of these. Subgenres are about specifics: pop music is far less likely to be crypto-racist than country music but far more likely to be crypto-sexist and in any case - given the quantity of material produced and consumed - should we not consider genre as a predisposition to be bigoted in one way or another? I ask this as a fan of both Michael Jackson and Johnny Cash.

They claim all league profits are not really profits because they are split back up amongst the teams and distributed out, the teams are then supposed to pay taxes on that. Either way the fans and even non-fans are the ones getting ripped off by the teams when they ask for billions and then before that's ever paid off are asking for more to get a new stadium and threaten to leave if they don't get it. It seems like horseshit all around to me.

This is a typical tag-wall. Here graffiti writers put up their tags, in a non organized manner and not tactically chosen spot. When I go for a night of tagging (or just a strawl through the city), I always try to pass one of these spots. To check if my own tag(s) is(are) still fresh and to check for others, sometimes a specific person. You can see who's new or passing through, new styles are tested there, it's where writers gather without seeing eachother in person. I see it as a hub to meeting people, how silly that may sound. Example: when I meet a writer for the first time, I always ask for their handles. By knowing those spots, I then know what he/she is about and start the conversation from there, along the likes of "Yeah, I saw that name a few times on those spots. You were crossed pretty quickly. Got some beef or is it a matter of style?" It breaks the inevitable ice pretty quick. :-)

Looking at the photo (and knowing Brussels), I know now there's zero beef, a few alliances and a lot of newbies crying for attention. At least in that part of town. :-) The wall serves this purpose for quite some time also, looking at the faded tags, but refreshed regularly, looking at the new tags. The letters in the upperright corner (yellow fill in, dark outline) are the next big thing on this wall: to emphasize your name, you need to stand out. According to this wall, you just can see a fine example of how graffiti evolves. :-)

Great post and a nice question also. :-)

If you ask me it was a brilliant marketing campaign. Now in Japan if you think about Christmas food you think KFC.

From Dr.Jeff Master's blog. "If the present storm ends up toward the highest-end projections, we may have to go back to colonial days for a historical precedent. In his book “Early American Winters,” eminent weather historian David Ludlum chronicled the Washington-Jefferson Snowstorm of Jan. 27-29, 1772. The District of Columbia hadn’t yet been created, but future president George Washington measured snow at Mt. Vernon, VA, that was “full three feet deep everywhere.” About 100 miles to the southwest, another future president, Thomas Jefferson, called the accumulation “the deepest snow we have ever seen. in Albemarle it was about 3 [feet] deep.” Ludlum also cites the Maryland Gazette (Annapolis): “tis’ supposed the depth where not drifted is upwards of three feet, and it is with utmost difficulty people pass from one house to another.”

What about those of us who still have the "old" licenses even in states that have RealID valid licensing now. I called the DMV a couple of weeks ago when all this came out just to ask and was told that I had to wait until 180 days out from the expiration date on my current ID to get a new/renew one. Even if I was to "lose" my current license they would just send me a copy of it until my renew time period begins.

How many young people really watch the news? I don't really have any younger family members that care for the news, my brother used to always ask why do you watch that, it's depressing and always the same crap everyday. The entire news industry must be worried, not just NPR. CNN and company are down in ratings too and most news radio has moved to AM radio now, at least in my area.

I really enjoy this man's blog.

It’s the little things that trip you up when you comment without having read the article. It wasn’t a politician that decided to save <~$36K by racking up a ~$1.5B+ disaster. A politician would have to answer for that. No, this was emergency managers. You know, dictatorial strongmen that answer to no one. Someone put in place of any elected representative by higher ups. People that, at best, get paid the same whether people get widespread irreversible brain damage and lethal, easily-prevented disease outbreaks or not. My suggestion for you is to take all the time you need to read the article, ask yourself what you should be taking away from having read it, know something about what you’re talking about and, I promise, you’ll be glad you did. Couldn’t hurt to edit, some, either.

She has reason for that focus. What she’s dealing with here is more basic, more common, and more anthropologically honest than some John Updike idealization of polyamory. The context here is more Wahhabism than key parties.

By the by, I’m curious so I thought I’d ask you — did you notice the other content modules in the snap? I’m getting the strong impression that main links just whiz people right past more involved snaps nowadays.

That's about 20 min to long if you ask me. I didn't get through the whole video.

What is your point, here? The reason I ask is because all I can make of this is a longing for the institutions of slavery, hunger and Confederate white supremacy.

Easier said than done. Down that path lies madness. People are making a go of it, but good luck finding recipes without at least spices in them. What am I, supposed to eat plants with my algae, like some kind of animal? Of course, Spock, that paragon of vegan virtue doesn’t usually have this problem. He uses replicators to make his algae soup.

I see. So your plan all along has been to cite source after source after source that directly and specifically contradicts you. Sources that, as with your more dubious and crackpot sources, you know better than to read yourself. Have to admit, that’s a diabolical plan. Never saw that coming.

However, it may not be working out for you as well as you think. For instance, you claim that this quote from your own source says that “carbon foot print is a lie“:

The lag proves that rising CO2 did not cause the initial warming as past ice ages ended, but it does not in any way contradict the idea that higher CO2 levels cause warming. [Emphasis mine.]

Can you spot the contradiction? What do you make of it?

I hate their damn"Like what your reading" popup that obscures part of the page...Why do they do this? I just activate my FF reader so i don't see those things. Anyway,my favorite blog there is Godless In Dixie. I have been reading it for over a year. I feel xmas is a children's holiday,so I don't celebrate it. I also hate xmas music so much,I arrange everything so i do not have to go shopping till the day after xmas when the retched old moldy music that's older than me stops.

Ask Bill Maher.

Sources? Okay, let’s have a look at this factual basis.

1. The source is The Daily Express, a down-market British supermarket tabloid not known for moderation. The astonishing news in sporadic all caps here is that: anonymous, threatening notes were left for literally dozens of people, including Muslims, in some other country, citing sources like the Arabic version of Russian state propaganda; that there had been a disturbance in a refugee camp that one time; and that serious allegations were being investigated to do with someone thought to’ve sneaked into Europe by riding his bike across the Arctic Circle.

2. Here we find that, exactly as you claim, there is an immigrant crime wave and the police are helpless. Mind you, the source is an Islamophobic so-called think-tank founded by  Nina Rosenwald, run by Yosemite Sam celebrity impersonator John Bolton and all-time greats like Alan Dershowitz. Citing secret reports, confidential this, classified that, and a certain head of a policemen’s union in-the-know, we are told of shocking offenses like that one time those two Muslims tried shoplifting in Freiberg, and sundry and various crimes commited, we are told, by people with “black hair,” “a dark skin type,” “brown skin color,” and, most damningly of all, “in broken German.”

3. Not content relying on the modern day version of Soviet Tass before, now we’re treated to the work of another state-owned Russian ‘known agency.’ Or, rather, what they’re prepared to say was reported as having been leaked to The Telegraph and what they have on absolute authority was said by a certain head of a policemen’s union to someone else. Despite this, they are able to articulate a policy idea: separating immigrant communities by gender, ostensibly to prevent sexual assault, though one does get the impression that’s not the main idea.

4. Now, this is a 100% genuine fake news site. Which you would’ve known in an instant, if you’d bothered to even look at this linkjacked, clickbait blogspam.

5. Here we are told that a certain head of a German policemen’s union has some very sharply-worded things to say. Though, since this is an actual article, we also find that there are no details, no official figures, swirling rumors, unfounded suspicions being countered by the Interior Minister, and hearsay allegations supposedly from unnamed “women’s rights groups” about the huge numbers of sexual assaults that are, actually not, being reported. When the headline is about accusations of downplaying accusations, we’re getting further away from primary sources, aren’t we? I’m sympathetic to the need to read between-the-lines in news accounts, but fifth- and sixth-hand hearsay? Please.

6. Because when you look to establish the facts of a situation, the first place you look is Islamphobic contributors to Fox News and Pam Gellar’s blog. What’s next, separately citing every single fading echo?

7. All right. We’re going to use the core of Islamophobia in America to substantiate reasons for Islamophobia. Great. And we’re going to base that on the number of sexual assaults in Sweden. Super. Some things to know, though. For one, Sweden distinguishes levels of sexual assault all the way down to claimed later regret for consensual sex. Moreover, this very broad definition is an aspect of a Nordic willingness to both discuss and report ostensive ‘sexual assault,’ and a policy that charges every instance separatel...