LOBBYISTS!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-allowing-donations-from-federal-lobbyists-and-pacs/2016/02/12/22b1c38c-d196-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html
>>22827
Hillary Clinton adds insult to injury by saying she'd be a better version of Bernie Sanders: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article59976061.html
>>22827
Why does this dude constantly look like the nursing home assistant said he couldn't have another cup of pudding?
>>22875
That could be why he's running!
>James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, told lawmakers Tuesday that governments across the globe are likely to employ the Internet of Things as a spy tool, which will add to global instability already being caused by infectious disease, hunger, climate change, and artificial intelligence.
>"Smart devices incorporated into the electric grid, vehicles—including autonomous vehicles—and household appliances are improving efficiency, energy conservation, and convenience. However, security industry analysts have demonstrated that many of these new systems can threaten data privacy, data integrity, or continuity of services. In the future, intelligence services might use the loT for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials," Clapper said
Surprise, Surprise! The IoT is being used to collect more information at the price of convinces. Who would've guessed! Is privacy even worth fighter for, it's impossible to win. Just like Peter Sunde said 'I Have Given Up'
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/us-intelligence-chief-says-iot-climate-change-add-to-global-instability/
>>22754
Wasn't Clapper the guy who lied to Congress about the NSA?
Oh yeah....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-clapper-says-he-misspoke-didnt-lie-about-nsa-surveillance/
I think it's ironic that this is a much bigger story in the right wing clickbait press than it is on libertarian sites like reason.com or on the usual liberal blogroll where they freak out every time Edward Snowden confirms what Clapper says.
I mean, you get what you pay for. With Google and other stuff you don't pay a dime for, theyre selling your information to everyone.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/
I hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but comparing its development initiatives to that of an imperial power? Maybe I could give that some credence if it, y'know, had an army or a navy.
Facebook is a great boogeyman in many respects, upon which all sorts of causes routinely heave criticism, but the analysis in this article is slipshod. Search for the examples of how Super Mario World and even Wikipedia are colonialist. The former is just ridiculous; the latter shows post-colonial critics seeing an enemy in what should be a friend. All of Wikipedia is user-generated and freely available; the fact that proportionally fewer articles are geo-tagged to Africa is a reflection not of institutional bias against developing countries, but of the user base itself.
Any thoughts on this development initiative of Facebook's and, I guess, the continued viability of post-colonial discourse in an age when even Wikipedia is seen as patronizing?
>>22680
Should I read this, or save my braincells? Also, screencap it and give an imgur link, so I don't give them clicks.
As an Indian citizen I find this infuriating and I am appalled my Gov. hasn't served a legal notice to facebook's establishments in India for disrespecting our national idols which is mind you a capital crime in India punishable on the same level as treason.
If not else i know one of the fringe nationalist groups would beat up and ransack facebook's employees and establishments on our soil respectively and that'd be justice served.
Jai Hind! Goro ke ma ki chuth.
Yes, it's a shitty article. It never even connects the facts it presents with actual reasons why Facebook's Free Basic is imperialism. Not to mention there are many holes in logic and presentation. For example:
> In the global context of today’s digital knowledge economies, these digital absences are likely to have very material effects and consequences.”
No, further elaboration was given as to how these "very material effects and consequences" take form. It even uses the weasel word "likely" because the author knew she couldn't write that sentence without that word.
Then there's the Super Mario quote:
>Representations of colonialism have long been present in digital landscapes. (“Even Super Mario Brothers,” the video game designer Steven Fox told me last year. “You run through the landscape, stomp on everything, and raise your flag at the end.”)
Again, no elaboration here. It's just thrown in as if this example means anything.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35524440
>>22740
I'm not sure many people here understand the gravity of this discovery.
I myself have yet to read through the papers but I'm excited to!
>>22816
>gravity
Anon
> For the travelling executive in need of intimacy or the long-distance couple seeking to let off steam, relief will be found in hi-tech goo. With a few judicious squirts of a bio-gel containing billions of nanobots and a wi-fi connection, mutual orgasm is reached via a layer of shape-shifting ectoplasm.
> Of course, the partners at each end of the gel-based romp will only be with each other as the result of a DNA analysis which helpfully narrowed down their choice of a compatible mate to a dozen-strong shortlist. The lucky winner was then selected with the help of a holographic date and a virtual reality snog.
> It might sound like the product of an over-excited Silicon Valley brainstorm, or the terrifyingly unerotic plot of the latest Hollywood dystopia, but this is how human love may well look by the middle of the century, according to organisers of a blue skies technology festival to take place in London later this year.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/sex-of-the-future-a-brave-new-world-of-hi-tech-goo-and-virtual-reality-a6865881.html
>>22613
Scary to think what weird ways this technology might be used 20 30 years from now.
>>22625
> Accidentally inseminate your cat from afar without even touching it.
See how it will work?!
>I swear I don't know how I got pregnant Honey. I must have been hacked!
Doesn't Cruz know Jeb Bush already tried this?! Well, here's the ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGWqKkzmJXw
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-2016-attack-ad/index.html
Bamp.
Final bump.
Blamp
http://news.yahoo.com/rabid-bats-kill-12-children-peru-141425919.html
>Lima (AFP) - At least 12 indigenous children in Peru have died from rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, which locals at first blamed on witchcraft, health officials said.
>The children aged between eight and 15 died between September and February in two indigenous communities in the Amazon region of Loreto, regional health official Hermann Silva said.
"From the symptoms and medical reports it was determined that the 12 children from the Achuar ethnic group died from an outbreak of wild rabies," Silva told AFP.
>"The victims were bitten by blood-sucking bats, animals that drink blood, in the Yankuntich and Uncun communities in the jungle" 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) north of the capital Lima.
>She said indigenous local authorities told health workers that "the community thought the children's deaths were due to witchcraft, and that was why they didn't report the outbreak in time." The latest death of a child from rabies was reported on Wednesday. Two other patients, a boy of nine and a woman aged 22, were recovering from the illness.
>Peru's health minister Anibal Velasquez said on television that the government had declared a health emergency to get medical aid to the region quickly. Silva said vaccination teams had been sent urgently to the remote region.
>>22659
Is this not a commonplace event? Bats and humans in have coexisted in Peru for a few thousand years at least.
>>22712
Then the Peruvians are lucky that rabies seems relatively rare in bats. And unlucky to still believe in witchcraft :-(
Why the fuck is there a pig on thephoto?
>Harry Potter is back for another round of magic, struggles with the darkness and parents.
>This time, Harry's the dad, struggling with his own son.
>The eighth installment of the Harry Potter series, the two-part play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," will be published as a book this summer, author J.K Rowling announced on her Pottermore website Wednesday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/10/entertainment/harry-potter-part-8-publish-summer-feat/index.html
She's really milking that cash cow
>>22436
She should just make a new story in the same universe, no more harry please.
>>22436
holy shit, everyone but hermione looks fucking terrible
they're gonna make neville look even hotter in comparison now
>A woman who just turned 18 was sentenced to 2 years of prison in Québec, on Tuesday, for inciting young girls to prostitute themselves.
lazy translation summary: A runaway girl who had turned to prosititution ended up setting up her own porn / prosititution ring by picking up girls from the youth center she used to stay at. Despite being a minor at the time, judge decided to give her an adult sentence.
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2015/02/10/elle-incitait-des-mineures-a-se-prostituer
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/quebec/2015/02/10/004-proxenete-peine-melina-beaudoin-jeunes-prostituees.shtml
>>22756
The judge sounds like he is a classic outraged moralfag.
>>22758
It's about time we stood up to minors and started giving them REAL sentences like all others who commit crimes as well.
The fbi is storming compound currently no article on msn just banner
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/my-toxic-relationship-with-fitness-wearables/ar-BBpmtpq?ocid=spartanntp
I will update when MSN actually post article and its not just a banner wonder what k will have to say
op here found article
http://www.kiro7.com/news/real-time-updates-fbi-moves-in-on-last-refuge-occupiers/71901393
The link I posted is a live stream update have fun reading it.... Most entertaing shit iv seen whish I was a kick ass fbi operator
![963746_2_0210-arctic-ice_standard[1].jpg_alias=standard_600x400.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qYiVmu9.jpg "963746 2 0210-arctic-ice standard[1] alias=standard 600x400")
http://news.discovery.com/earth/arctic-warms-antarctic-ice-shelves-weaken-160209.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0210/What-s-going-on-with-polar-ice-sheets
>With the Arctic and Antarctic experiencing below average, if not record-low, sea-ice coverage, climate and polar researchers are scrambling to quantify how ice-loss could effect global sea levels.
>http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ice-703354-antarctica-shelf.html
>In 2014, scientists revealed that key parts of remote West Antarctica, may have been destabilized by warm ocean waters reaching the bases of vast submarine glaciers and melting them from below. West Antarctica, as a whole, contains nearly 11 feet of potential sea level rise. And last year, research hinted that a similar vulnerability may exist for the truly gigantic Totten Glacier of East Antarctica.
>Now, in a study in Nature Climate Change, researchers provide a new way of looking at how vulnerable Antarctica’s ice is - and the approach, unfortunately, largely reinforces the conclusions of the prior studies.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/a-full-catalog-of-the-antarctic-ice-shelves-that-should-terrify-us/
http://www.lighthousenewsdaily.com/arctic-sea-record-low/4470/
>According to a recent report by National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic Sea ice hits record low level this year, averaging 1.53 million square kilometers.
>The sea ice extent observed by satellites was much lower than the 1981-2010 average of 402,000 square miles. Experts believe that this situation was caused by high air temperatures travelling over the Arctic Ocean and a powerful negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation during the first few weeks of January.
http://nhv.us/content/16024255-arctic-and-antarctic-ice-extents-decline-january-2016
http://www.albanydailystar.com/science/climate-changing-destabilized-antartic-ice-shelfs-risk-sea-level-rise-16254.html
>>22468
>tfw last true wilderness will be destroyed in my lifetime
Well... fuck.
earth gets warm sometimes who cares
just another place to get oil
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/zimbabwe-pleads-1-5bn-food-aid-prevent-mass-starvation-1542917
>Zimbabwe is seeking $1.5bn (£1bn) in food aid to avoid mass starvation in the country. As the drought worsens, nearly a quarter of the population in the landlocked southern African nation face the risk of starving to death.
From the country once known as the breadbasket of Africa
Tis a shame.
But you made the bed.
Time to lie in it.
No regional help at this rate.
>>22400
After what they did to proud Rhodesians, I hope they all die slowly and painfully. Not a single cent should be given to them. On the contrary, they owe reparations to displaced Rhodesians.
Reparations which should take the form of the ownership of the land, and the negroes living on it.
>As tensions in Germany continue to rise over the refugee crisis, a left-wing group in Berlin has launched a massive campaign urging residents to overcome the “dark side” and embrace new arrivals
>Six hundred giant billboards are expected to go up across the country, and 20,000 stickers and 45,000 postcards will be distributed as part of a campaign launched by a left-wing group called Show Your Face! For an Open Germany.
https://www.rt.com/news/332203-germany-refugee-billboards-merkel/
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Is that a fat snoop dog
>>22719
REMOVE THIS IMAGE
http://www.cnnmoney.mobi/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2Fmobile%2Fjson%2F2016%2F02%2F11%2Finvesting%2Fdow-jones-oil-stocks-nasdaq.json
Todays Market News
>oil below $27, down another 5%
>DOW drops 300 points; similar index's lose another 1.5% as well
>euro banks lose 12% today
>oil set to reach lowest point in 13 years tomorrow
Though sharp declines are scaring investors, most speculate that we are not seeing a stagnation in the markets, but simply a surplus in oil that is sending ripples through industry. Supply has skyrocketed past demand in the last year with help from Saudi Arabia refusing to stem their flow. America and Iran are also starting to export crude now. Saudi Arabia and Iran also proposed cooperation between OPEC and Persian oil companies which will only serve to lower oil futures even more.
>>22652
Texas & North Dakota BTFO
>>22654
well that is why they're doing it
>>22654
Oil is still there, both states will come online if the price gets that high again. Saudis are still being buttfucked by their own desperation. I can't wait until that entire Arabian Peninsula becomes a giant cashless humanitarian crisis.
Having been recently laid off from job in the coal mining and energy field, I contacted my retirement provider (along with a couple hundred others recently laid off). Some of the people send in their requests nearly 5 months ago for something that should have taken 2-3 weeks (max one month) as stated by the bank itself!
So, needless to say, I faxed all the proper docs and "verification" bullshit requested. Five phone calls will be placed between then and today's date. Today makes six.
Fast forward 118 days (today, 2/11). I called Prudential for the SIXTH time and finally spoke to a very kind young lady (Chandra (sp)) who stated that not only were WE not getting our money (ever!) but the bank itself HAD NO MONEY LEFT to pay out!! She advised me to immediately withdraw any money I had from any bank before it was too late! Too late for what!?!?
Does anyone have any idea what is going on>? I googled this, and could only find old and/or crazy sounding articles written about this.
has anyone else dealt with prudential or any bank related to it? Although from what she said it shouldn't just be prudential. So, I have no idea. But any information at ALL would be appreciated!
Apparently this can actually happen to banks? What in the fuck. https://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/IndyMac.html
I'M COMMANDEERING THIS THREAD
Dr. Christian Mootson, a recent graduate of QUT had been volunteering as a doctor in Syria. On the 9th of February, he was gunned down by the so called Islamic State, for his work in campaigning the legalization of same-sex marriage in Australia. This tragedy happened just days after ISIS killed 4 homosexual men, who were caught having bareback anal sex in Raqqa.
Dr. Mootson had been in Syria for just 2 weeks, and was scheduled to return home for his mother’s birthday on the 16th. His brother has been contacted and said in an interview
“Chris was a humanitarian by nature. During his time at uni, he volunteered constantly at homeless shelters across Brisbane. As well as that, he developed a website, where people across the globe could go to interact on important issues such as LGBT Rights and fun topics such as anime and video games, a place they could call home. In between med school, his volunteer work and his website, he campaigned across Asia for gay rights, spending 4 months in a Pakistani prison before the Australian government stepped in.”
This tragedy is seen as another act of brutality by the so called Islamic State, and the Australian government is working to recover his body. More on this topic as it develops.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jackpatterson/isis-execute-australian-doctor-269r6
>>23385
reported
