http://www.salon.com/2013/09/26/study_everyone_hates_environmentalists_and_feminists_partner/


Why don’t people behave in more environmentally friendly ways? New research presents one uncomfortable answer: They don’t want to be associated with environmentalists.

That’s the conclusion of troubling new research from Canada, which similarly finds support for feminist goals is hampered by a dislike of feminists.

Participants held strongly negative stereotypes about such activists, and those feelings reduced their willingness “to adopt the behaviors that these activities promoted,” reports a research team led by University of Toronto psychologist Nadia Bashir. This surprisingly cruel caricaturing, the researchers conclude, plays “a key role in creating resistance to social change.”

Writing in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Bashir and her colleagues describe a series of studies documenting this dynamic. They began with three pilot studies, which found people hold stereotyped views of environmentalists and feminists.

In one, the participants—228 Americans recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk—described both varieties of activists in “overwhelmingly negative” terms. The most frequently mentioned traits describing “typical feminists” included “man-hating” and “unhygienic;” for “typical environmentalists,” they included “tree-hugger” and “hippie.”

Another study, featuring 17 male and 45 female undergraduates, confirmed the pervasiveness of those stereotypes.

http://youtu.be/G880gxjj9dI

So a business is running for 4 years without an issue and openly stating what it does. The word GUN is part of its business name. An insane dude on meds kills in a school. Then an online campaign runs to shut them down for not other reason they don't like what they do. They broke no laws. The part about them (the CC company) being an obama campaign contributor is a simple after thought. This thread is nothing but propaganda.

No story here. No facebook campaign.
Too bad their name was not Barrilla Pasta Guns & Sauce for a bigger online boycott.

I don't believe you can have your guns shipped to you via FedEx. You need to go to the shop in person, with a background check done while you wait. That would take a few minutes. When you buy your gun online they ship it to the gun store nearest to you if they don't have the model you want in stock.

I am not a gun owner so I could be wrong.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/visa-subsidiary-cuts-off-nations-largest-gun-store-for-selling-guns/article/2536417


***BitPay and others! Your move!***


A subsidiary of Visa, a key Obama campaign donor, that specializes in credit card transactions has abruptly stopped servicing the nation’s largest gun store after four years because the store sells guns, a fact the owners never hid.

Hyatt Gun Shop of Charlotte, N.C., told Secrets that the subsidiary, Authorize.net/CyberSource, simply sent an email to owner Larry Hyatt to announce that it was suddenly breaking off the business relationship. The reason: “The sale of firearms or any similar product.”

The company email said that gun sales violated a section of the service agreement the two signed over four years ago and after Hyatt went into detail about its sales and products -- and name.

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Justin Anderson, Hyatt’s marketing director. He said it took a week and thousands of dollars to line up a “gun friendly” credit card processor for online sales.

Perhaps, perhaps...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24135021


The number of Americans giving up their citizenship has rocketed this year - partly, it's thought, because of a new tax law that is frustrating many expats.

Goodbye, US passport.

That's not a concept that Americans contemplate lightly. But it's one that many of them seem to be considering - and acting on.

The number of expatriates renouncing their US citizenship surged in the second quarter of 2013, compared with the same period the year before - 1,131 cases to 189 in 2012. It's still a small proportion of the estimated six million Americans abroad, but it's a significant rise.

The list is compiled by the Federal Register and while no reasons are given, the big looming factor seems to be tax.

A new law called the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (Fatca) will, from 1 July next year, require all financial institutions around the world to report directly to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) all the assets and incomes of any US citizens with $50,000 (£31,000) on their books. The US could withhold 30% of dividends and interest payments due to the banks that don't comply.

This is an extra "dimension" thread to other "popular threads" hot right now. I thought this should need its own err... space.

You will feel pretty proud reaching all the way up (or down, or sideways) to the understanding of the 7th dimension. Don't worry if you feel like being into an Inception like movie. And don't worry if you don't like math or into string theory. I thought he did a better job than others visualizing all of it.
1 hr and 44 min long. Give yourself some room and relax before and while the whole thing runs. A nice pillow helps.


http://youtu.be/gg85IH3vghA

100 000 credits for being born. I like your idea. I work at an abortion clinic. Can I claim all those unused 100 000 credits for myself? I will make sure with the help of my sanitized screwdriver there won't be any double spending...

Back in the old age of Atari ST, Amiga 1000, we use to exchange our games in shoe boxes from all over Europe. The shoe box was the unit of floppies the "big nodes" would use and copy. It was almost a full time job for them. You only had one (expensive) machine.
NK is pretty bleak no matter who's in charge.

“In school, if we copy a friend’s answers on a test or homework assignment, what happens?”

You end up like this dude?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

https://i.imgur.com/LTW2qh3.png

Hope people can see it this time :-)



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The Fix is in... the coin?

Poverty and Misery are big business on this planet and work well together. Are you willing to let all those asylum directors' and prison guards' children go hungry? How about all those 911 phone operators? They have children too. How about all those people "feeding the children" by sending "80 cents a day" while looking at those sad, sad black & white videos of slumps on TV? They need a way to justify their 50inch flat screen TV. Taking away their 80 cents a day donation will make them feel bad and sorry for themselves, creating Misery and surely more Poverty.

People were poor 3000 years ago. 10 years is maybe short. Give yourself a bit or more rooms.

But good luck!

Lots of ideas using children were virtual projects for years. I believe the political climate and the "lack of motivation" from the Media to make those kind of stories front page help big time now. Now they realized they have lots of test subjects to try stuff out without much bad publicity.

My personal view is if this forum is as libertarian as it is supposed to be you should never feel the need to apologies to the people in advance, people who do not share your views. They will mock you anyway. So have fun and share away.

link?

1.618 is a fluke.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/mpaa-school-propaganda/

Listen up children: Cheating on your homework or cribbing notes from another student is bad, but not as bad as sharing a music track with a friend, or otherwise depriving the content-industry of its well-earned profits.

That’s one of the messages in a new-school curriculum being developed with the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America and the nation’s top ISPs, in a pilot project to be tested in California elementary schools later this year.

A near-final draft of the curriculum, obtained by WIRED, shows that it comes in different flavors for every grade from kindergarten through sixth, to keep pace with your developing child’s ability to understand that copying is theft, period.

“This thinly disguised corporate propaganda is inaccurate and inappropriate,” says Mitch Stoltz, an intellectual property attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who reviewed the material at WIRED’s request.

“It suggests, falsely, that ideas are property and that building on others’ ideas always requires permission,” Stoltz says. “The overriding message of this curriculum is that students’ time should be consumed not in creating but in worrying about their impact on corporate profits.”

The material was prepared by the California School Library Association and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition in conjunction with the Center For Copyright Infringement, whose board members include executives from the MPAA, RIAA, Verizon, Comcast and AT&T.

Each grade’s material includes a short video, and comes with a worksheet for teachers to use that’s packed with talking points to share with students.

In the sixth-grade version, (.pdf) teachers are asked to engage students with the question: “In school, if we copy a friend’s answers on a test or homework assignment, what happens?”

The answer is, you can be suspended from school or flunk the test. The teachers are directed to tell their students that there are worse consequences if they commit a copyright violation.

“In the digital world, it’s harder to see the effects of copying, even though the effects can be more serious,” the teacher worksheet says.

The material is silent on the concept of fair use, a legal doctrine that allows for the reproduction of copyrighted works without the rights holder’s permission. Instead, students are told that using works without permission is “stealing.”

“Justin Bieber got started singing other people’s songs, without permission, on YouTube. If he had been subjected to this curriculum, he would have been told that what he did was ‘bad, ‘stealing,’ and could have landed him in jail,” says Stoltz.

“We’ve got some editing to do,” concedes Glen Warren, vice president of the California School Library Association, the non-profit that helped produce the material with the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and industry.

The Internet Keep Safe Coalition is a non-profit partnering with various governments and some of the nation’s biggest corporate names like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Target, Xerox, HP and others.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/tea-party-fec-socialist-treatment-96988.html


A national tea party group is asking for permission to keep their donors secret — just like the socialists.

Citing a long litany of harassment examples, the Tea Party Leadership Fund is asking the Federal Election Commission for the same right granted to the Socialist Workers Party to shield the names and information of their donors from the public.

In a new request to the FEC shared with POLITICO, the group argues that tea party donors and activists are being targeted for harassment by government officials and private groups — and they cite derogatory comments by politicians and overbearing government investigations as evidence.

“Nobody likes the communists and really for good reason,” said Dan Backer, the attorney for the group who wrote and filed the complaint. But, Backer said, the same legal principle that grants left-wring groups the right to hide their donors should also cover tea party groups.

“As we very thoroughly document at almost three times the length of the socialist request, tea party supporters are subject to an unprecedented level of harassment and abuse,” Backer said.

If the tea party request is granted, the decision could open the floodgates to outside groups, candidates and political parties who want to hide their donors with the government’s blessing.

“This will be the beginning of a conversation about the burdens and the perils of disclosure,” Backer predicted.

Obama is a pussy and that was not a surprise from someone who voted present most of his politician life. The Russians and Mr KGB want their glory back, something that never existed for the people at large. Not under Putin, not under Soviet regime, not under the Tzars.
When someone is responsible for the killing of your wife or family or putting you in jail I would guess it is a bit normal those "6 groups" fill a little "annoyed" by how Putin "took" care of them.

That say I confess I am fascinated by Russia and Putin and how they deal with the bad guys. Some terrorists take a cinema and everyone inside hostage? Gas the whole theater, hopefully some will survive. Some Somalian pirates keep on attacking Russian ships? Let some come on board and make sure the ones on their little boats see how their comrades bodies are used for fish bait and their blood washed away with hoses from the deck. Hey! Some ex FSB double agent is double (or is it triple?) crossing you in the UK? Make sure his dies from a strong dose of polonium very slowly. I mean how can you not find all of these badass? In your face Stupid UN!
Then you realize no freedom of press, no 2nd amendment, no freedom of speech make all of those cool badass actions possible in Russia.