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7141  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Does anyone have time to summarize/'translate' this crazy article? on: January 24, 2015, 05:27:07 PM


If even you gave up before the end, what are you expecting from us exactly?  Grin
I stopped reading when I saw madonna. The author should turn this into an E-book. At 99 cents for kindle he would have made a small fortune.


7142  Other / Politics & Society / Re: New police radars can 'see' inside homes on: January 24, 2015, 05:19:16 PM
This seems kinda cool, I'm not one of those freaks that care about their "privacy".
I believe that those who are innocent and have nothing bad to hide shouldn't care about this.
If you really believe this, then you won't mind if I discuss your pornography preferences with your mother.

You're tryin' to say you are his father?   Grin





7143  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: January 24, 2015, 05:16:20 PM
The modern feminist movement was started by the US Central Intelligence Agency through their financial support of Gloria Steinem. Yes she was a paid government stooge.

Why you may ask? What would make the CIA want to be involved in such matters? The answer was simple. The social engineers in government saw that the traditional family unit of the man being the bread winner and the mom being a housewife was under-utilizing the tax base. Through the 'empowerment of women' they got out of the home and got jobs and paid income tax. Yes income tax - the driving force behind the feminism.

Telling this to a Femnazi gets their panties in a bunch. When they find out it's the truth their head explodes.

EDIT: Figured I had better leave proof of this before someone calls bullshit.

https://www.google.ca/#q=Gloria+Steinem+funded+by+cia



Bullsh.....!!!!!!.. Smiley  I have to play devil's advocate in my own thread as no feminists will come and call you out or have some kind of back and forth.

It must be the high level of cryptonite they believe exists here... Cheesy


7144  Other / Politics & Society / FCC looks at routing US 911 calls through Russian satellites on: January 24, 2015, 05:03:30 PM



Here’s a disturbing idea whose time is about to come:

Emergency first responders across the United States may soon be relying on Russian satellites to plot the location of the mobile American distress call.

This is not an Onion story.

The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to deliberate next week on a plan to use Russian satellites over other competing satellite systems for tracking the exact location of U.S. emergency 911 calls from mobile phones, the source of most emergency calls.

The plan is backed by major U.S. telecommunications giants like Verizon, Sprint, AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA, along with the Association of Public Safety Communications.


http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/012315-735953-fcc-plan-to-route-911-calls-through-russian-satellites.htm




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That is the same group of people deciding, in secret, what the net neutrality laws will be...


7145  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: January 24, 2015, 05:01:07 AM



Margaret Sanger: The Greatest Sin is Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Or7OgiQ5JU


Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's Racist Founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEja-1emRic





http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm



"Especially non white children"



 Cheesy Grin Cheesy





that's some fucked up shit. what's so funny though is that American liberals support planned parent hood but clearly don't understand the history of its founder.


When I found out about it I could not believe this to be true. And yet, she is on video, saying it as you could see.
People don't have to believe me. When you have numbers and statistics regarding the number of abortions and who is doing it the most, it is not a myth. Very strange reaction to laugh at numbers I have to say...  Cool

I have to disagree with liberals not knowing the life and the writings of sanger. You are witnessing how propaganda works. You saw it with someone telling me I was rewriting history. Any liberal who is more than 40 knows how evil that woman was.


Hard to say sanger is rewritting history when she is on video, vomiting her hellish bile...


Smiley

7146  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: January 23, 2015, 10:40:01 PM


1,700 PRIVATE JETS FLY TO DAVOS TO DISCUSS GLOBAL WARMING





A squadron of 1,700 private jets are rumbling into Davos, Switzerland, this week to discuss global warming and other issues as the annual World Economic Forum gets underway.

The influx of private jets is so great, the Swiss Armed Forces has been forced to open up a military air base for the first time ever to absorb all the super rich flying their private jets into the event, reports Newsweek.

“Decision-makers meeting in Davos must focus on ways to reduce climate risk while building more efficient, cleaner, and lower-carbon economies,” former Mexican president Felipe Calderon told USA Today.



http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/20/1700-private-jets-fly-to-davos-to-discuss-global-warming/



7147  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say on: January 23, 2015, 08:52:40 PM

... Until the next discovery inside another cave somewhere.
When we believe we know something, we freeze the flux of reality to make sense of the now. The computer will help make better humans now, risking freezing the flow of our future genetic reality forever.





If I wanted something practical, I'd get married. But this is way too poetic.

Smiley

Let the flux of reality flow...

7148  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The NSA is reportedly able to access offline computers thanks to radio wave tech on: January 23, 2015, 08:46:13 PM
It seems like we (as a society) haven't taken any steps to defund the NSA... maybe that's just a utopian fantasy anyways.

Republicans would never let that happen!


Democrap GOP lawmakers demand FCC make proposed Internet regs public


Leaders in Congress want the public to see new net neutrality regulations before they become law.

Currently, people aren't expected to see the Federal Communications Commission's new regulations for Internet service providers such as Comcast until the agency's five commissioners vote on them on Feb. 26.

That’s concerning for Republicans leaders of the House and Senate Commerce committees, especially since the regulations are expected to exert bold authority over the Web by reclassifying Internet service to treat it like a utility.
“Given the significance of the matter and the strong public participation in the commission’s proceeding to date, we believe the public and industry stakeholders alike should have the opportunity to review the text of any proposed order or rules prior to commission action,” Senate committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), House committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) — the head of the House Communications Subcommittee — said in a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Thursday.

“Limited access to information is beneficial to no one — not to the consumers directly affected by commission action, not to the industries regulated by the rules and not to the commissioners seeking to make information decisions taking public feedback into consideration," they added.

The FCC almost never releases the text of its regulations before the agency’s five commissioners vote on them during open meetings. Wheeler does have the power to release them ahead of time, however, which the lawmakers point out.

They told Wheeler that releasing the text of the new rules would make sense now, given the nearly 4 million public comments on the FCC’s rule-making process — far and away an agency record. 

An FCC spokeswoman, Kim Hart, said that the commission had received the letter and was reviewing it.


http://thehill.com/policy/technology/230507-lawmakers-demand-feds-release-web-rules-before-vote


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 Smiley



7149  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: January 23, 2015, 08:37:31 PM



Margaret Sanger: The Greatest Sin is Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Or7OgiQ5JU


Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's Racist Founder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEja-1emRic





http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm



"Especially non white children"



 Cheesy Grin Cheesy



7150  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: January 23, 2015, 08:18:24 PM
So much ignorant hate on this thread I'm gagging.


I agree 100%. Here is another case of intolerance. Totally gag inducing!



‘Liberal,’ ‘Tolerant’ Vanderbilt Muslims Seek To Bully Black Professor Into Silence



A black Vanderbilt University professor’s op-ed critical of Islamic terrorism has touched off a wave of protest by Muslim students and other critics.

The op-ed author is Carol Swain, a longtime professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt and a self-proclaimed political conservative. Her op-ed, entitled “Charlie Hebdo attacks prove critics were right about Islam,” appeared in The Tennessean (Nashville’s main newspaper) on Jan. 15.

Swain, who opposes burqas and advocates stronger efforts at assimilation for American Muslims, argued that radical Islam “poses an absolute danger to us and our children unless it is monitored better than it has been under the Obama administration.”

In response, Muslim students, led by Vanderbilt undergraduate Farishtay Yamin, took great offense.

Yamin told The Vanderbilt Hustler, the campus newspaper, that she “could not believe her eyes” when she read Swain’s column. The student also quickly labeled Swain’s opinion as “hate speech.”

She then used Facebook to set up a “Campus-Wide Protest Against Hate Speech Published in the Tennessean” on Saturday afternoon.

Attendance at the fairly brief event was in the low hundreds, The College Fix reports. Students who showed up brought signs emblazoned with slogans such as “Better a brat than a bigot.”

Yamin, who is the publicity chair for Vanderbilt’s Muslim Student Association, told the audience in no uncertain terms that a black female professor’s speech must be restricted if she says “these kinds of things” in the future.

“What I’m really trying to show her is that she can’t continue to say these kinds of things on a campus that’s so liberal and diverse and tolerant,” Yamin declared.

Swain “used a platform of murdering people to gain publicity,” Yamin charged.

“There is no way the students here are going to allow further attacks on their own peers,” the Muslim undergrad also threatened, according to the Fix.

“And if the university respects us as human beings, it has to come out and condemn these statements and promise us that it’s not going to happen again in the future.”

Mark Bandas, the dean of students at Vanderbilt, also got into the act. He appeared at the “Campus-Wide Protest Against Hate Speech” to offer encouragement.

“Ensuring that this campus is welcoming to, and supportive of, all of our students” is important, he told the assembled dozens. He also urged students to “engage in dialogue” when presented with “polarizing speech.”

Exhibiting an understanding of the First Amendment roughly at the level of Yamin’s, eccentric tea party favorite and 1980s-era “Saturday Night Live” cast member Victoria Jackson also attended the Vanderbilt event — carrying a “ban Sharia” sign. She was with some guy holding a red, white and blue guitar.

This two-person counter-protest fizzled dramatically.

Swain, a professor at prestigious, pricey Vanderbilt since 1999, was once both a high school dropout and a teen mother. Since then, she has earned multiple degrees from fancypants schools and written a number of scholarly books published by leading presses, notes Inside Higher Ed.

The price for one year of undergraduate tuition, room and board and mandatory fees at Vanderbilt is about $54,600 (not including a $704 “first year experience fee”).

The ritzy school’s endowment of over $4 billion equates to $317,179 per student and is larger than the entire annual gross domestic product of Belize and Liberia — combined.

Vanderbilt receives significant amounts of state and federal money each year.

The school has been a hotbed of interesting news lately. This spring, philosophy professor Lisa Guenther is teaching an undergraduate course this spring semester called “Police Violence and Mass Incarceration.”

The course involves discussions of recent violence in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City and how the elite, well-off students feel about allegations of police brutality in the deaths of two black men, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Course readings include the writings of philosophers such as John Locke as well as musings by a bunch of contemporary bloggers.


http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/21/vanderbilt-muslims-seek-to-bully-black-professor-into-silence/





7151  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say on: January 23, 2015, 06:03:12 PM
Personally, I like the idea that Bitcoin Talk allows same name threads. Imagine a full page in a forum with 20 separate threads, all having the same name.

I wonder if they will allow us to personally start 20 threads with the same name. Imagine! A full page of "'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say" all by Wilikon!

Smiley

EDIT: Think of the possibilities. Imagine a hospital full of unrelated designer babies, all born to different parents, yet all exactly the same, simply because they had been designed that way.

Is that why there are two threads with the same name? I wouldn't put it past Wilikon to have one of his buddies start a second, "designer" page, just like his designer baby page, at least in title, simply to make a point, or, to get some laughs.

"All by Wilikon" Grin Cheesy

As a reminder to all, I do not have any buddies on bitcointalk. I cannot prove to you I am telling the truth though. The 'Trust no one protocol' is still in place, all the time, in my mind.

Secondly, I never forget posting on bitcointalk is a privilege, not a human right. I try to keep disturbing links and images to a strict minimum. When I have already developed a thread for a particular subject, I'll try to keep it updated as long as I am alive.

Most of us here are mature adults, no matter how different our political views are. That could be one of the reason your idea of infinite cloning of threads with the same titles hasn't taken root yet...  Smiley


My apologies, for suggesting that you have buddies here. But we are all a little inter related, especially if we have been posting right along side each other for a long time, aren't we?

Anyway. I should have posted a grinning smiley, because I was joking (somewhat); I thought it was obviousish.

Smiley

EDIT: I wonder if it is possible to design unisex babies that, after they have grown up, can reproduce more of their own kind without having a sex partner. This might be something that is built into the genes in such a way that it could never happen naturally. But we just might be able to "tweak" the genetics enough to start it happening.

I am not sure if we are smart enough to understand the millions of years of survival of the fittest paradigm yet. Everything we imagine is locked with us on this planet forever. Good or bad. Cloning exists in multiple forms in nature already. Although none of those living creatures seem to be on a evolutionary path to create the next bitcoin protocol, even if we wait a billion years.

It is not by chance we do what we do. Even if you only believe in chance and pure randomness of nature, you know this little insect, no matter how many times it will roll the dice of evolution, won't fly all the way to the moon, unless being a parasite stucked in some human being gloves...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7eRGHVx3p0


We may take the risk of limiting ourselves genetically for long, multi generation star trekking...



With the help of computers, we just might be able to engineer anything we want. The problem in our thinking is that there are so many variables around, that we can't tell much about the past. The best we can do is to determine the near past, and to understand the things that we see happening.

Until we get a practically operating time viewer, we are not really going to know what happened in the distant past. We see what exists now. We can extrapolate somewhat, according to experience. But the further back we go, the greater the chance is that we missed an important event or two that affected everything.

The best we can do regarding the past is to interpret the writings of those people who recorded the ancient past as it unfolded in their lives. We have inscriptions on walls, ancient scrolls, and all kinds of handed down traditions. It amazes me that scientists don't take the history of the Bible more seriously. After all, it is some of the best written history, with some of the best tradition regarding its authenticity, that exists today. In fact, it is way beyond anything else tradition-wise. The Dead Sea Scrolls show that the Old Testament of the Bible is absolutely the most powerful historical writing that exists.

Smiley

... Until the next discovery inside another cave somewhere.
When we believe we know something, we freeze the flux of reality to make sense of the now. The computer will help make better humans now, risking freezing the flow of our future genetic reality forever.



7152  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: January 23, 2015, 05:48:24 PM



Aborting black America



The ‘black lives matter’ slogan excludes the unborn





[...]
Today, on the somber anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, it’s time for black leaders to face up to the real danger threatening black lives in America. It isn’t the police. According to an anti-police brutality organization, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, 313 blacks were killed by “police, security guards and vigilantes” in 2013. It isn’t even black criminals, who, as Rudy Giuliani famously pointed out on “Meet the Press,” are responsible for 93 percent of violent deaths among blacks. Sources estimate that between 6,000 and 8,000 blacks are murdered each year.

No, the greatest danger to blacks is found precisely where we ought to be safest: in our mothers’ wombs. In 2010, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 138,539 black babies were aborted.

Thankfully, abortion is on the decline in America, down 3 percent between 2007 and 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Strikingly, the number of surgical abortion clinics has plummeted, from 2,176 in 1991 to 551 today. Nevertheless, the CDC report that in 2010, a staggering 765,651 abortions were performed in the United States. Black women continue to have the highest abortion rate of any ethnic group, with a gruesome 483 abortions for every 1,000 live births.

The bottom line? I’ll say it again: 138,539 black babies, nearly one baby in three, were killed in the womb in 2010. According to the CDC, between 2007 and 2010, innocent black babies were victimized in nearly 36 percent of the abortion deaths in the United States, though blacks represent only 12.8 percent of the population. Some say the abortion capital of America is New York City. According to LifeSiteNews, the city’s Department of Health reported that in 2012, more black babies were aborted (31,328) than born (24,758). That’s 55.9 percent of black babies killed before birth. Blacks represented 42.4 percent of all abortions.

Legalized abortion is working out exactly as Margaret Sanger intended. Sanger, the founder of the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, was part of the eugenics movement back in the 1930s. Her goal was to use abortion to cull what she considered inferior races from the human gene pool. According to Sanger, “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” She opened her first abortion clinics in inner cities, and it’s no accident that even today, “79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s abortion facilities are located in black or minority neighborhoods.”


[...]
Some black leaders are still acting as Judas goats today. LifeSiteNews cites black pro-life activist Ryan Bomberger: “Back in 2005, the NAACP praised the high black abortion rate as compared to the percentage of the population at a NARAL fundraising gala. When more black babies are aborted than are born alive in NYC and the NAACP responds by supporting Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo’s radical abortion expansion via the misnamed ‘Women’s Equality Act,’ one can understand how the targeting of minorities continues unabated.”

Abortion is the greatest threat to black lives in America today. People who claim to represent the black community while also abetting the black holocaust — abortion — are hypocrites. Any “civil rights leader” who genuinely believes that “black lives matter” should be working to see that every black baby is accorded the very first civil right — the right to life.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/21/j-kenneth-blackwell-black-abortions-a-crisis-in-am/







7153  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do islam hates people? on: January 21, 2015, 07:59:47 PM



Morgan State University Dean: It Should Be Illegal To Mock Islam Because It “Incites Violence”…





Charlie Hebdo has gone too far.




In its first publication following the Jan. 7 attack on its Paris office, in which two Muslim gunmen massacred 12 people, the once little-known French satirical news weekly crossed the line that separates free speech from toxic talk.

Charlie Hebdo’s latest depiction of the prophet Mohammed — a repeat of the very action that is thought to have sparked the murderous attack on its office — predictably has given rise to widespread violence in nations with large Muslim populations. Its irreverence of Mohammed once moved the French tabloid to portray him naked in a pornographic pose. In another caricature, it showed Mohammed being beheaded by a member of the Islamic State. […]

The most current issue of Charlie Hebdo again has Mohammed on its cover. This time, he appears crying under a headline that reads: “All is forgiven.” Well, apparently not. Ten people have been killed during protests in Niger, a former French colony. Other anti-French riots have erupted from North Africa to Asia. In reaction to all of this, Pope Francis has said of the magazine, “You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”

The French, of course, are no more bound to accept the findings of the bishop of Rome than they are to be guided by the Supreme Court’s rulings on our Constitution’s free speech guarantee. But given the possible ripple effects of Charlie Hebdo’s mistreatment of Islam’s most sacred religious figure, at least people in this country should understand the limits America’s highest court has placed on free speech.

In 1919, the Supreme Court ruled speech that presents a “clear and present danger” is not protected by the First Amendment. Crying “fire” in a quiet, uninhabited place is one thing, the court said. But “the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.”

Twenty-two years later, the Supreme Court ruled that forms of expression that “inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace” are fighting words that are not protected by the First Amendment.

If Charlie Hebdo’s irreverent portrayal of Mohammed before the Jan. 7 attack wasn’t thought to constitute fighting words, or a clear and present danger, there should be no doubt now that the newspaper’s continued mocking of the Islamic prophet incites violence. And it pushes Charlie Hebdo’s free speech claim beyond the limits of the endurable.

DeWayne Wickham, dean of Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communication, writes on Tuesdays for USA TODAY.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/01/19/charlie-hebdo-cross-line-free-speech-covers-islam-limits-wickham/21960957/

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Translation: All muslims cannot control themselves, so you need to help them by limiting your speech. What an insult to muslims!  Smiley




7154  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The NSA is reportedly able to access offline computers thanks to radio wave tech on: January 21, 2015, 07:51:45 PM

Don't let a valet from LA read this or it will end up in the next Mission: Impossible  Smiley


Yes, but. Edgar Edward (Doc) Smith wrote science fiction in the first half of the 1900s that described many kinds of fantastic electronics, in reasonable detail. If he could write like that back then, just think of what government researchers, with their almost unlimited funding, might have been able to do for real by now.

Smiley

It's kinda slow today. Otherwise I would have expected someone to have corrected me by now.

Doc Smith's name was Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D.

Doc Smith's sci-fi Lensman series (pre-1950) and Skylark series explain a whole lot of things about the way radio might work. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Lens_%28novel%29 for info about his Children of the Lens novel.

Spacehounds of IPC is a single novel that holds a lot of electromagnetic info in simple layman's terms. Some of the info is outdated. But much of it is right on. Some of it is still in the theory stage.

How much of this kind of "stuff" have the many technologically minded people, companies and governments secretly developed?

Smiley



No one would have dared correcting you. Your word is the gospel on bitcointalk...  Wink


7155  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say on: January 21, 2015, 07:48:21 PM
Personally, I like the idea that Bitcoin Talk allows same name threads. Imagine a full page in a forum with 20 separate threads, all having the same name.

I wonder if they will allow us to personally start 20 threads with the same name. Imagine! A full page of "'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say" all by Wilikon!

Smiley

EDIT: Think of the possibilities. Imagine a hospital full of unrelated designer babies, all born to different parents, yet all exactly the same, simply because they had been designed that way.

Is that why there are two threads with the same name? I wouldn't put it past Wilikon to have one of his buddies start a second, "designer" page, just like his designer baby page, at least in title, simply to make a point, or, to get some laughs.

"All by Wilikon" Grin Cheesy

As a reminder to all, I do not have any buddies on bitcointalk. I cannot prove to you I am telling the truth though. The 'Trust no one protocol' is still in place, all the time, in my mind.

Secondly, I never forget posting on bitcointalk is a privilege, not a human right. I try to keep disturbing links and images to a strict minimum. When I have already developed a thread for a particular subject, I'll try to keep it updated as long as I am alive.

Most of us here are mature adults, no matter how different our political views are. That could be one of the reason your idea of infinite cloning of threads with the same titles hasn't taken root yet...  Smiley


My apologies, for suggesting that you have buddies here. But we are all a little inter related, especially if we have been posting right along side each other for a long time, aren't we?

Anyway. I should have posted a grinning smiley, because I was joking (somewhat); I thought it was obviousish.

Smiley

EDIT: I wonder if it is possible to design unisex babies that, after they have grown up, can reproduce more of their own kind without having a sex partner. This might be something that is built into the genes in such a way that it could never happen naturally. But we just might be able to "tweak" the genetics enough to start it happening.

I am not sure if we are smart enough to understand the millions of years of survival of the fittest paradigm yet. Everything we imagine is locked with us on this planet forever. Good or bad. Cloning exists in multiple forms in nature already. Although none of those living creatures seem to be on a evolutionary path to create the next bitcoin protocol, even if we wait a billion years.

It is not by chance we do what we do. Even if you only believe in chance and pure randomness of nature, you know this little insect, no matter how many times it will roll the dice of evolution, won't fly all the way to the moon, unless being a parasite stucked in some human being gloves...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7eRGHVx3p0


We may take the risk of limiting ourselves genetically for long, multi generation star trekking...

7156  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say on: January 21, 2015, 07:34:22 PM
Personally, I like the idea that Bitcoin Talk allows same name threads. Imagine a full page in a forum with 20 separate threads, all having the same name.

I wonder if they will allow us to personally start 20 threads with the same name. Imagine! A full page of "'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say" all by Wilikon!

Smiley

EDIT: Think of the possibilities. Imagine a hospital full of unrelated designer babies, all born to different parents, yet all exactly the same, simply because they had been designed that way.

Is that why there are two threads with the same name? I wouldn't put it past Wilikon to have one of his buddies start a second, "designer" page, just like his designer baby page, at least in title, simply to make a point, or, to get some laughs.

"All by Wilikon" Grin Cheesy

As a reminder to all, I do not have any buddies on bitcointalk. I cannot prove to you I am telling the truth though. The 'Trust no one protocol' is still in place, all the time, in my mind.

Secondly, I never forget posting on bitcointalk is a privilege, not a human right. I try to keep disturbing links and images to a strict minimum. When I have already developed a thread for a particular subject, I'll try to keep it updated as long as I am alive.

Most of us here are mature adults, no matter how different our political views are. That could be one of the reason your idea of infinite cloning of threads with the same titles hasn't taken root yet...  Smiley


My apologies, for suggesting that you have buddies here. But we are all a little inter related, especially if we have been posting right along side each other for a long time, aren't we?

Anyway. I should have posted a grinning smiley, because I was joking (somewhat); I thought it was obviousish.

Smiley

EDIT: I wonder if it is possible to design unisex babies that, after they have grown up, can reproduce more of their own kind without having a sex partner. This might be something that is built into the genes in such a way that it could never happen naturally. But we just might be able to "tweak" the genetics enough to start it happening.

No worry about 'offending me or my image'. I love caricatures  Smiley

I did not take what you say wrongly. Sadly I have to remember a lot of people on the net can't understand the art of irony without the help of a yellow  Smiley Wink Cheesy Shocked Shocked Tongue Cry Embarrassed

Not everyone understands the subtleties of the english language...




7157  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The NSA is reportedly able to access offline computers thanks to radio wave tech on: January 21, 2015, 05:59:14 PM
It's clear now that we need open-source hardware as much as we need open-source software. In the future we'll use something like Maidsafe as internet, with open-source routers independent from ISP, with open-source CPU's motherboards and GPUs, potentially even 3d printed at home.

Then maybe, maybe we can talk about privacy.

Some people are trying hard to do just that.

http://2014.oshwa.org/


List of open-source hardware projects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects


7158  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The NSA is reportedly able to access offline computers thanks to radio wave tech on: January 21, 2015, 05:55:10 PM
Do you think that the police with their new see-inside-homes radar can access computers that are offline? Maybe they can even trace the circuitry on a powered down computer enough so that they can mimic a turning hard drive, and read what's on the hard drive... you know, by spinning the radar like a tornado.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=930124.0

Smiley







Don't let a valet from LA read this or it will end up in the next Mission: Impossible  Smiley




7159  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say on: January 21, 2015, 05:47:12 PM
Personally, I like the idea that Bitcoin Talk allows same name threads. Imagine a full page in a forum with 20 separate threads, all having the same name.

I wonder if they will allow us to personally start 20 threads with the same name. Imagine! A full page of "'Designer babies' debate should start, scientists say" all by Wilikon!

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EDIT: Think of the possibilities. Imagine a hospital full of unrelated designer babies, all born to different parents, yet all exactly the same, simply because they had been designed that way.

Is that why there are two threads with the same name? I wouldn't put it past Wilikon to have one of his buddies start a second, "designer" page, just like his designer baby page, at least in title, simply to make a point, or, to get some laughs.

"All by Wilikon" Grin Cheesy

As a reminder to all, I do not have any buddies on bitcointalk. I cannot prove to you I am telling the truth though. The 'Trust no one protocol' is still in place, all the time, in my mind.

Secondly, I never forget posting on bitcointalk is a privilege, not a human right. I try to keep disturbing links and images to a strict minimum. When I have already developed a thread for a particular subject, I'll try to keep it updated as long as I am alive.

Most of us here are mature adults, no matter how different our political views are. That could be one of the reason your idea of infinite cloning of threads with the same titles hasn't taken root yet...  Smiley





7160  Other / Politics & Society / CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CLOSED CHILDREN BRANDED BIGOTS FOR NOT KNOWING WHAT A MUSLIM IS on: January 21, 2015, 05:27:45 PM


Inspectors have labelled pupils at a Christian school bigots and forced it to close after a young boy gave the wrong answer when asked what a Muslim was. Teachers at the school say he referenced terrorism in his answer, but argued that one child’s throwaway answer was no ground for closing the whole school.



Durham Free School, which currently educates 94 pupils aged between 11 and 13, was praised by former education secretary Michael Gove when it opened in September 2013, the Daily Mail has reported.

But inspectors visiting the school last November, after the new guidelines encouraging inspectors to rate schools on how they promote ‘British values’, deemed the school to have failed on a wide range of factors. “Standards are low and progress is inadequate. Students’ achievement is weak”, inspectors wrote.

The school will now close at Easter as the current education secretary, Nicky Morgan has withdrawn funding. But teachers say that they were unfairly penalized for placing a Christian ethos at the heart of the school by inspectors who wanted to demonstrate that they were promoting the Government’s diversity agenda.

In their report, the schools inspectors concluded: “Leaders are failing to prepare students for life in modern Britain. Some students hold discriminatory views of other people who have different faiths, values or beliefs from themselves.”

But teachers say that this view was based solely on the words of one 12 year old boy who, whilst taking part in a group discussion, was asked about Muslims. His answer made reference to terrorism.

“It feels like the school has been made a scapegoat. Durham is primarily white British so knowledge of other cultures is not as prevalent. But I don’t think the children are bigoted,” said Petrina Douglas, a parent governor.

The school’s acting headmaster Julian Eisner said: “The pupil’s reply displayed a very disappointing level of ignorance but, in the context, did not provide evidence of a discriminatory attitude.”

In a statement on the school’s website, John Denning, the Chair of Governors said he believed that there were “a number of irregularities” in the government’s decision to withdraw funding, adding that the school is “taking professional advice”. He thanked parents who had “rallied round”, and urged them to tweet and email Nicky Morgan urging her to keep the school open.

Meanwhile, nearby Grindon Hall, another Christian school, has been placed in special measures despite achieving the best school leaving exam results in the area. The school’s head, Chris Gray, made an official complaint to inspection group Ofsted following their most recent inspection, in which pupils were asked whether they knew what lesbians did, and whether their friends felt trapped in the wrong body.

The line of questioning angered parents, with one mother reporting that her daughter was “disturbed” and “upset” by the “wholly inappropriate” manner of questions asked.

Mr Gray also drew attention to a paragraph present in the draft report, which was subsequently omitted from the final report issued, which read: “The Christian ethos of the school permeates much of the school’s provision. This has restricted the development of a broad and balanced approach to the curriculum.”

He said the statement revealed “unwarrented skepticism on the part of the inspection team” regarding the Christian ethos of the school.

In a statement posted on the school’s website, Mr Gray slammed Ofsted and the Department of Education for “playing politics” with “British values”, which he said was damaging his schools and others like it.

He wrote: “Pupils, parents and staff are deeply concerned that, because of the widely reported breakdown of trust between the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofsted, schools like Grindon Hall are being caught in the crossfire.

“Playing politics with the new regulations on ‘British values’ is not acceptable and does little to help our children prepare for life or achieve good exam results.”

And added that Ofsted’s approach to the school was “negative at every stage, as if the data collected had to fit a predetermined outcome.”

Colin Hart, Director of The Christian Institute, responded to Mr Gray’s statement saying: “For Ofsted to give the best performing state school in the area its worst possible rating defies common sense. Removing a statement slamming the school’s Christian ethos from their final report tells us all we need to know about what is really behind the downgrading of the school.”

His colleague Simon Calvert added: “The Government’s British values regime is twisting Ofsted’s priorities out of all proportion. Inspectors are asking all kinds of invasive questions and then issuing reports that the parents whose children attend the school don’t recognise.”

Prebendary Rod Thomas of the Reform Council said the plight of the two schools was disturbing.

“When the future of entire schools can be prejudiced on the basis of what appear to be a few conversations with individual pupils, it raises very serious concerns. These two cases highlight important issues about how Ofsted are interpreting the guidance they have been given.”



http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/21/christian-school-forced-to-close-as-inspectors-brand-children-bigots-for-not-knowing-what-a-muslim-is/







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