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3401  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Mother allegedly trafficked daughter to drug dealer for heroin on: March 28, 2015, 01:17:28 AM
If you want to understand how a parent could possibly do something this awful, read In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

That sounds like it will depress the hell out of me.
3402  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Mother allegedly trafficked daughter to drug dealer for heroin on: March 28, 2015, 12:50:44 AM
Wow, that's one of the sickest things a parent could do to their offspring. However, this is the drug war in action. The woman can't afford the heroin because the illegal market drives the prices up so the addict either has to steal, prostitute themselves, or in this, case abuse their own daughter to get high. If heroin was legal, it's price would be similar to that of tylenol or aspirin and then the addict can get all they need and not abuse anyone else to fulfill their habit. Both of these conspirators should be locked up til death. And, God help this daughter have some sort of normal life down the line but my guess is she won't be able to.

I agree with you to an extent, but I don't think you can blame prohibition for this. Prohibition is not an excuse for enabling the rape of your child. Full blame rests with the woman, regardless of whether drugs should or should not be legal. It's just so terrible to think about the betrayal that child must feel.
3403  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 28, 2015, 12:35:12 AM
A very interesting read:

The Germanwings tragedy: inside the mind of a pilot (by Michael Bloomfield)

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/27/germanwings-tragedy-pilot-psychiatrist-psychological-evaluation-andreas-lubitz

<< French prosecutors have reported that first officer Andreas Lubitz appeared to want to destroy the aircraft carrying 149 innocent people aboard Germanwings flight 4U9525. As a qualified pilot and a psychiatrist, I have since repeatedly imagined nightmare scenarios in that cockpit. Although we will never know what was truly going through Lubitz's mind as the aircraft plunged, one of the many alarming aspects of this tragedy is that his depression is being quickly blamed. Obviously depression cannot be the sole cause of a likely mass murder. Understanding this could yield many important lessons, and for now, the black box flight recorder will continue to yield vital information. (...) >>

(Michael Bloomfield is a research fellow in psychiatry at Imperial College London)




I agree with this notion that we don't know enough. There is very much a lack of information to establish motive, and in that absence, the media rushes to report and connect dots. Then the more it gets reported, the more it's cemented in the public's mind. They keep bringing up his past mental state or torn up sick notes, and this draws an implicit link for motive where one may not exist. We don't know why he crashed the plane. Everything is just speculation driven by the 24/7 news cycle.
3404  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Protect yourself against Civil Asset Forfeiture on: March 28, 2015, 12:27:49 AM
That's right!   They can seize your bank accounts, cars, house but can't take Bitcoins.  

Didn't they take Silk Road owner's bitcoins? Seems if they are determined to take your stuff, they will.
3405  Other / Politics & Society / Mother allegedly trafficked daughter to drug dealer for heroin on: March 27, 2015, 06:30:37 PM
This is one of the most horrifying things I've ever read: a mother offering the rape of her daughter for drugs.

Child sex for heroin allegation 'sad, but not surprising'

A Warren County woman allegedly traded her 11-year-old daughter to a Cincinnati drug dealer for sex in exchange for heroin.

On numerous occasions, she allegedly went to the 41-year-old man's apartment in Camp Washington, dropped her daughter off, left and came back several hours later.

The 41-year-old man then allegedly had sex with the girl, sometimes videotaping it.

On one occasion, the mother allegedly injected her daughter with heroin.

Those are the upsetting details of an indictment announced by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters Monday morning.

[snip]

Thirty-year-old April Corcoran of Pleasant Plain has been charged with 27 felony counts, including complicity in rape, complicity in gross sexual imposition, endangering children, human trafficking and corrupting another with drugs.

The man, Shandell Willingham of Cincinnati, has been charged on 26 similar felony counts.

If convicted of all charges, Corcoran could face life in prison, Deters said.

The crimes allegedly occurred between Feb. 15 and June 6 in 2014, DeWine and Deters said.

More: http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/23/ohio-attorney-general-county-prosecutor-announce-joint-prosecution/25214981/

3406  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 27, 2015, 05:51:36 PM
Own jetpack won't work at extreme height, too cold and no oxigen, but the whole plane might be possible to first eject slowdown parachute at tail then lots of parachute/airbag around the body, thus ATC can override with an emergency brake and shutdown the engine

I think you're underestimating how much parachute you'd need to slow down a jetliner traveling at 600 mph. And a parachute to slow down an entire plane, assuming this was physically and mechanically feasible, would ostensibly be deployed from the cockpit, which makes this a solution that wouldn't have worked in this case, since the co-pilot locked out everyone who didn't want to crash the plane.

When you are taking a car driving course, your instructor can always step on break and stop the car.  Air Traffic Control can not do this to an airplane because of safety concern, but if the plane can be safely parachuted, the control of plane can be overridden by ATC, the pilots will have no control over the plane when ATC take over

In fact if ATC can override, parachute is not needed, it can just autopilot the airplane to land on any nearby airport. You only need to code a specific emergency landing sequence in the airplane computer and trigger that sequence when something is wrong. But parachuting is easier than autopilot since it could also solve other problems like computer/engine/gear failure etc...

The amount of engineering this would require relative to its utility keeps this from being a worthwhile endeavor. (In my opinion.)
3407  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Boko Haram HQ Gwoza in Nigeria 'retaken' on: March 27, 2015, 05:47:59 PM
The timing is interesting. No one can independently verify the army's claims atm, and there is an election just a few days away. I hope the claims are accurate and not politically motivated.
3408  Other / Politics & Society / Disgraced Rep. Schock Leaves Office on: March 27, 2015, 05:41:31 PM
Compares his adversities to Lincoln's.  Roll Eyes  Lincoln's adversities weren't caused by fleecing constituents and stealing campaign funds.

WASHINGTON — Embattled Rep. Aaron Schock said Thursday he is leaving Congress with sadness and humility and vowed to work "tirelessly" to make amends to constituents and others he has let down.
In a farewell speech, the Illinois Republican said his departure from Congress "is not the end of the story, but rather the beginning of a new chapter" in his life.

Schock, 33, announced his resignation March 17 following a monthlong cascade of revelations about his business deals and lavish spending on everything from overseas travel to office decor in the style of "Downton Abbey."

The Justice Department is investigating Schock's congressional expenses and business deals, and FBI agents have begun issuing subpoenas to witnesses, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press.

Schock said he is inspired by another Illinois Republican, Abraham Lincoln, who left Congress after just one term and went on to become president.

"Few faced as many defeats in his personal business and public life as he did," Schock said of Lincoln. "His continual perseverance in the face of these trials — never giving up — is something all of us Americans should be inspired by, especially when going through a valley in life."

Schock voted for the final time Thursday as Congress prepares for a two-week recess.

"I believe that through life's struggles we learn from our mistakes," Schock said. "I know that God has a plan for my life."

Here's too new chapters! (Hopefully his next one involves prison stripes.)
3409  Other / Politics & Society / Re: School placed on lockdown after pack of girls start massive brawl on: March 27, 2015, 03:25:04 PM
I wish they'd mention more specifics about the demographics involved here and whether this was gang related. I mean, you don't lock down a school for teenage valley girls bickering at each other.


How are demographics relevant at all? A brawl is a brawl. If it was gang members bickering at each other, they wouldn't have locked down the school either. It wasn't locked down because of the demographics of who was fighting. It was locked down because it was brawl.
3410  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Senator Ted Cruz to announce presidential bid Monday 3-23-15 on: March 27, 2015, 03:21:09 PM
Ted Cruz recruits from the Iowa Liberty Movement

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, whose path to the Republican nomination requires a breakout performance in Iowa, has quickly recruited more than a dozen party leaders for his statewide campaign, who are to be announced in coming days, according to people told of the choices.


Most significantly, Mr. Cruz has peeled away three leaders of the Libertarian faction in the state, known as the Liberty movement, who are the base of Senator Rand Paul’s support in Iowa. They included state Senator Jason Shultz, who endorsed Representative Ron Paul for president in 2012; and two former members of the state Republican Party’s central committee, Joel Kurtinitis and Chad Steenhoek.


“The assumption of lot of people has been that the Liberty movement would roll over and support Senator Paul,’’ Mr. Kurtinitis said. “We’re a movement probably more than anything that’s noted for critical thinking and a rebellious streak.’’

He said Mr. Cruz, who announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Monday, appealed to three important constituencies in Iowa: evangelical Christians, Libertarians and Tea Party activists. His wife, Kelsey Kurtinitis, a board member of Personhood Iowa, an antiabortion group, is also joining the Cruz campaign, as one of 15 or so volunteer leaders who will most likely take the title of state co-chairman and co-chairwomen, Mr. Kurtinitis said.

Mr. Cruz, as of this week, had only a single paid staff member in Iowa, Bryan M. English, a former aide to Representative Steve King. Mr. English was hastily adding dates to the calendar for Mr. Cruz to appear in Iowa, where he has visited less often than other 2016 hopefuls and has done almost no retail campaigning.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/24/cruz-recruits-some-rand-paul-supporters-in-iowa/?_r=2

This is why I don't want him running, but if he 'steals' some votes from Scott Walker that is fine.
Rand Paul needs to make a strong showing no matter how large the field, but we don't need too many economic conservatives fighting each other.

Any "libertarian" who joins Cruz's campaign was never a TRUE SCOTSMAN to begin with!
Compared to most of the other republican Senators, Cruz does pretty well on fiscal matters which some would say are libertarian leanings these days rather than just 'conservative' leanings - that in the past have always went status quo or democrat lite. He's about as far removed from libertarianism that I could live with supporting and voting for, given the alternatives. If Bush, Rubio or any of the rest of the brady bunch get the nomination, I'll vote LP.

Cruz is your standard liberty except for people I disagree with republican. If it's not liberty for all, it will never be good enough for me to vote for. Fiscal matters are only half the equation.
3411  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 27, 2015, 03:14:03 PM
Own jetpack won't work at extreme height, too cold and no oxigen, but the whole plane might be possible to first eject slowdown parachute at tail then lots of parachute/airbag around the body, thus ATC can override with an emergency brake and shutdown the engine

I think you're underestimating how much parachute you'd need to slow down a jetliner traveling at 600 mph. And a parachute to slow down an entire plane, assuming this was physically and mechanically feasible, would ostensibly be deployed from the cockpit, which makes this a solution that wouldn't have worked in this case, since the co-pilot locked out everyone who didn't want to crash the plane.
3412  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Leave Facebook if you don't want to be snooped on, warns EU on: March 27, 2015, 03:02:51 PM
Facebook doesn't have access to any information you don't give it. It's perfectly avoidable.
Actually Facebook collects data in the background processes of your computer even when you aren't signed in. You agree to this in the TOS.

Why did anyone sign up for Total Information Awareness book anyway?

Actually, you're right. I guess it's perfectly avoidable if you don't sign up is a more accurate way of putting it.
3413  Other / Politics & Society / Re: USA to be dismantled by internal & external threats on: March 27, 2015, 02:15:09 AM
Also it seems to me you are likely a young, liberal punk with no respect for a fellow patriot who is older and wiser than you. I am nearing 50 years old and I have watched my country slide into a pit of corruption and malfeasance.

Perhaps I am mistaken about you being a government propaganda agent, yet I see you are not willing to put credibility behind your opinions by putting your personal reputation on the line. I have put my real name and identity at stake.

Mate, I was responding point by point which I have now deleted in the hopes of finding a less hostile way to converse with you. First, I am not liberal or conservative. I have liberal values, and I have conservative values. I cannot be placed into an either/or box, no matter how convenient that is for dismissing me. Your assumptions on my age and disposition ("a young, liberal punk") are quite off though, and really seems to have colored how you respond to me, as if you can't stand to have someone you perceive to be younger/dumber than you not respect your life experience. (That's my conjecture, btw.) Taking that baggage into a conversation isn't productive. Opinions are a two-way street, but I've noticed that the more I fight with you to express mine, the more entrenched I get into them. That's also not productive for dialogue. I think more than anything else, it has to do with the brash and dismissive nature in which we both communicate with each other. I would guess based on your responses, you are the same way; that the more you express an opinion that is challenged, the more entrenched you get in forcing the other side to validate them. That's more conjecture, I suppose ultimately it's not important why these conversations aren't productive, only that they aren't.

As for this government propaganda agent, it's just ridiculous. That's fine if you're good with putting your identity on the internet. (I don't know who you are, I have no way of verifying if you actually have. Ultimately, I don't care and it's not important to me.) But I'm not inclined to do so. The thing I find revolutionary about bitcoin is the decentralized anonymity of it. I value privacy (the stripping of it, incidentally, is one of my biggest complaints against the government). I further don't see how putting your name down on the forum will have any consequence whatsoever. So what if you put your name down and are proven wrong? Is anyone going to care? Is that going to mark some shift in your life in some way because you put your name behind an idea that didn't come to fruition? It seems very odd to me that someone would ask for that. I'm not inclined to give up my anonymity, and the stated reason for me to do so is not compelling.

In any event, I don't think our interactions are productive, and I don't think that will change. I'll take an equal share of the blame on that. Hell, assign me more if you want. I honestly don't think either of us is open to considering the other person's perspective, as each of us immediately dismisses the other side, often with insults. I'll bow out for that reason.

I am on the record as saying I don't believe a global war/pandemic is likely in 2017-2019. If it comes true, come back and gloat. I'll still be here under this screen name.
3414  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Saudi Arabia attack Yemen on: March 26, 2015, 08:59:07 PM
But it's not an attack on Yemen (as the topic title suggests).
The terrorists or fighters or whatever are not endorsed by
the Yemenite government..

They have entered the territory of Yemen.  It feels a bit pedantic to quarrel about if they have attacked or are invading, or attacking groups inside Yemen.

Anyway that wasn't really the intent of my post.  I thought it would be interesting to have a thread about the situation regarding Saudi Arabia and forces in Yemen being involved in military operations, with updates from different sources, as things can change quickly. Is that more acceptable?

From what I understand about this, which isn't much atm, there is significance in the fact that it's another Sunni-Shiite conflict, which is why Iran is protesting the attack. Is that fair? I don't understand the tensions between the two groups, other than there is a long history of abuses by each side against the other that is still prevalent in situations like this.
3415  Other / Politics & Society / Re: USA to be dismantled by internal & external threats on: March 26, 2015, 08:40:06 PM
with your deep reverence of conspiracy theories

Perhaps you haven't noticed that one of the articles I linked in the opening post on this threat on the EMP threat comes from the Wall Street Journal. Are you asserting that reputable newspaper publishes conspiracy theories?

No, I'm asserting you conflate an opinion piece published by a reputable news organization with disreputable sources and believe them all regardless of credibility. Were you confused as to which part of your post was a conspiracy theory?

As an aside, I signed back up to the forum to share some wild conjecture about how the USA might fall into chaos instantly due to an EMP attack by Russia and a military coup that might be lurking already.[/size]

The ETA is 2017 to 2019 for start of full blown war, chaos, and a global pandemic also. Armstrong's reliable cyclical models are all pointing to this.

I believe the powers-that-be have orchestrated these future conflicts as a sort of false flag to bring about a new world order (and one world reserve currency) wherein we are enslaved by the totalitarianism of oligarches in Russia, China, and the USA. In the linked post above, I link to an Armstrong blog post wherein he continues to promote the top-down debt restructuring of for example China as good development. Armstrong would drive us straight into the global Technocracy that the powers-that-be have planned out, bringing us to a 666 world of top-down enslavement. He mischaracterizes this top-down planned circus (remember Kissinger and Nixon were traveling to China!) as "creative destruction".

That's funny, the credible news source didn't say anything about a military coup in the US or a cyclical model predicting a global pandemic or a new world order. That was all your conspiracy theory. But I guess because you prefaced a ridiculous conjecture on an actual news report, the conclusions are completely justified!
3416  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Leave Facebook if you don't want to be snooped on, warns EU on: March 26, 2015, 08:33:47 PM
Well facebook is notorious for data prying already
So this is not something out of the blue the bigger question is how to connect with other people over social media when everyone and their grandma is still on facebook, without a good alternative

Facebook doesn't have access to any information you don't give it. It's perfectly avoidable. I think all social media companies, that are free to use, are going to deal in information as an asset. They're businesses, and if you're not paying them, they have to sell something to someone else to operate. That happens to be your information to advertisers in most cases. Any alternative to the free model will require people to pay for the service in exchange for not selling or tracking your data while you use it. I think people will prefer the free model, which is why there is no pay-to-use alternative that will approach Facebook's ubiquity. People just need to know that it still comes at a cost.
3417  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Leave Facebook if you don't want to be snooped on, warns EU on: March 26, 2015, 07:42:03 PM
Nothing ironic about it, The Guardian was one of the news outlets involved in the initial publication of the Snowden leaks...

Are you really defending the actions of this guy? He worked for the NSA and sold their intel to the media / Russia instead of changing the way the NSA is gathering information as an employee...

You think one analyst can change the way the entire NSA operates? Snowden is a national hero for blowing the whistle. It's the only thing that could have changed anything. Without him, the NSA would still be operating in total secrecy, and who knows what else they'd be getting away with. It's only the public disclosure that has forced them into any kind of oversight at all.
3418  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Leave Facebook if you don't want to be snooped on, warns EU on: March 26, 2015, 07:20:17 PM
Seriously? I'd rather give my personal details to Facebook than The Guardian. Who thought it was a good idea to publish this story? The Guardian is one of the most irresponsible news outlets when it comes to dealing personal information.

Good luck with that what you would rather do Smiley

Facebook where do i start, the moment you sign up you are just a extra $50 for them for marketing purposes nothing else, then you go and put your favorite 'family' pictures on there (guess what?) they no longer belong to you they are now property of facebooks hidden agenda. When you write a update/status the moment you publish thats right it no longer belongs to you.

Never needed this article you just need to read the terms of service lol

Did you even understand the point of the article? It's not about what Facebook does with your information. It's implicit that when you put your stuff on Facebook, you consent to Facebook having access to that information. That's the trade off, that's in the TOS, that part is obvious. The point of the article is that EU safe harbor laws do not protect EU citizens from the prying eyes of the US spying agencies. You may not consent to sharing your information with the NSA, but EU laws can not protect you because the NSA is not bound by them. The point of the article is that the only way you can protect your information from the NSA is not to put it on Facebook.
3419  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 26, 2015, 07:10:07 PM
Germanwings flight 4U9525 deliberately flown into mountain, says prosecutor

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/26/germanwings-flight-4u9525-deliberately-flown-into-mountain-says-prosecutor

<< The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing 150 people, appears to have deliberately flown it into a mountain after locking the flight captain out of the cockpit. During the last eight minutes of the flight, the co-pilot "voluntarily" carried out actions that led to the destruction of the aircraft, Brice Robin, a French public prosecutor, said at a press conference in Marseille.

Citing evidence from a cockpit voice recorder recovered from the Airbus A320, Robin outlined the last moments of the doomed plane in a chilling account of the actions of the co-pilot, whom he named as 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz. Robin said Lubitz could be heard breathing right up until the point of impact, suggesting he had not lost consciousness. However, he failed to respond to increasingly desperate calls from the captain trying to break down the cockpit door, or to air traffic controllers. Passengers could be heard screaming just before the crash, Robin said. >>



Is there any indication if it was religiously motivated?

Updated: 26 March 2015

MARSEILLE, France -- Barely a day after the New York Times reported that the voice recorder of Flight 9525 revealed the pilot banging on the door to get back into the cockpit, authorities have released the name of the presumably suicidal co-pilot, and happily, his first name is not "al-".

French prosecutor Brice Robin said that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 29, was initially "courteous," though when the captain asked about going for lunch after the flight, Lubitz gave a cryptic reply about preferring virgins.

Evidently, the pilot left for the toilet (für gepißßing) and the co-pilot locked the door, hardened cockpit doors being an innovation adopted after the last time a plane was intentionally crashed. The Airbus A320 is designed with safeguards to allow emergency entry into the cockpit — which can never be used by anyone who does not belong inside to begin with — but the override code is disabled in the case of a co-pilot desiring to commit mass murder and suicide.

Standard U.S. operating procedure is not to leave the co-pilot alone in the cockpit but to put a stewardess inside, because she is never a jihadi, as of course the co-pilot is not either.

Mr. al-Lubitz was a veteran flier who had flown thousands of flights without ending any of them in the side of a mountain. But Mr. Robin refused to disclose the co-pilot's religion.

Yeah, it'll most likely shape up into yet another Allah Akbar.

I'm confused by your "updated" post. Are you satirizing, speculating, or something else?
3420  Other / Politics & Society / Re: USA to be dismantled by internal & external threats on: March 26, 2015, 05:05:47 PM
Jaysabi predictably did not accept my challenge for both of us to provide our real names and permanent contact info. Instead he did a weasel words reply asserting that I expected the recent Obama takeover of the internet to have an instant effect which is obviously never what I said would happen.

I am pretty well convinced that Jaysabi is a paid shrill of the government and that is why he will not provide verifiable contact information. I for one would call and speak to him personally, because I would love to have a live debate with him. I would destroy him intellectually and he knows it and thus hides from me.

Beliathon & galdur, you must distinguish between usury model "capitalism" of the industrial age with the knowledge capital of the fledgling Knowledge Age. Stored money is not the real capital in an economy, thus I think you misplace blame on capitalism when in fact what we have now is not capitalism rather socialism or collectivism. I explained this in great detail throughout the One-World Reserve Currency thread and the Economic Devastation thread.





Hold on, lemme just post my personal information for some whackadoo on the internet.  Roll Eyes

Come at me with all your intellect bro. You're making an epic case for how superior it is with your deep reverence of conspiracy theories and your confusion of the word "shill" (noun: an enthusiastic hawker of ideas) with the word "shrill" (adjective: high pitched and piercing). URSOSMRT! Or best yet, your conclusion that anyone who doesn't agree with you or post their personally identifiable information on the internet must obviously be a government agent.  If that's the level of intellect I could expect to encounter in a debate with you, I'll gladly pass up the opportunity to waste my time. Grin
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