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7921  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Real Life in Texas 70 miles north of the Border... on: September 18, 2014, 04:45:16 PM


Four Terrorists Captured on US Border on September 10 – Day Before 9-11 (Video)


Congressman Jason Chaffetz broke this shocking news Wednesday that four known terrorists were apprehended at the US border in Texas on September 10 – the day before the 13th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.

Chaffetz questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on whether he is “aware of any apprehensions of suspected or known terrorists.”
Johnson dodged the question.

Tonight, Rep. Chaffetz told Megyn Kelly there were four terrorists arrested crossing the US border in Texas on September 10.

“There were actually four individuals trying to cross through the Texas border, who were apprehended at two different stations, that do have ties to known terrorist organizations in the Middle East.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkWsD2K8No

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/breaking-islamist-terrorists-captured-on-us-border-on-september-10-day-before-9-11-video/

7922  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dawkins: Immoral Not To Abort Down’s Syndrome Child on: September 18, 2014, 04:35:00 PM
He's got a point, ya know. It's not just an issue of the child's rights, either, it's an issue of responsibility. Most parents can't afford to pay for the medical costs of raising children with certain disorders, yet choose to have them anyway knowing full well they'll be a tax burden on society. I kind of have a problem with that.

Some people have a problem with sex change operations paid by society too.


7923  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Real Life in Texas 70 miles north of the Border... on: September 18, 2014, 04:29:29 PM





http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/09/feds-el-paso-rep-orourke-called-ban-contact-jw/



7924  Other / Politics & Society / Re: IRS claims it has LOST two years' worth of emails from former official Lerner on: September 17, 2014, 11:53:57 PM


Koskinen: ‘Hard Drive Crashes Continue As We Speak’


Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner John Koskinen testified Wednesday that the IRS did not save any of the information on Lois Lerner’s destroyed Blackberry and that there is no outside system to store agency emails.

“Hard drive crashes continue as we speak,” Koskinen admitted at a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing when asked if any computers had recently crashed under his watch.

Koskinen admitted that destroying records would be an act “not consistent with the law,” but maintained that there’s no evidence that the IRS intentionally destroyed records.

“Ms. Lerner’s Blackberry was replaced in February 2012 as part of an ongoing Blackberry update….it was disposed of under standard procedures at that time,” Koskinen said.

Koskinen claimed that information from Lerner’s Blackberry could not be transferred to her new model because “Our Blackberries only display email that is displayed by our employees’ Microsoft Outlook emails, which is maintained on IRS servers.”

Koskinen also said that there’s no outside system to save IRS employees’ emails.

“There is no system outside the IRS, government or otherwise, that the IRS uses to back up or store emails,” Koskinen said.

Koskinen didn’t mention that the IRS terminated its years-long contract with its email archiving company Sonasoft shortly after Lerner’s computer crashed.

“It is not clear that there are backup tapes that have any information on them,” Koskinen said. “I never said they disappeared, I said they were recycled.”

But the IRS could have easily saved all records, information, and history on Lois Lerner’s Blackberry, according to a Blackberry user guide.

“If you have installed the BlackBerry® Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using the BlackBerry Desktop Software. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software,” according to Blackberry.

“If your email account uses a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, you might be able to restore synchronized organizer data to your smartphone over the wireless network. To restore synchronized organizer data over the wireless network, you must have an activation password. For more information, contact your administrator,” the Blackberry manual continues.

Koskinen said that if the agency destroyed records then “that was an act not consistent with the law” but said, “There’s no evidence that there were records destroyed.”

Koskinen also admitted that IRS employees routinely use personal email accounts to conduct agency business but maintained that “they do it inadvertently.”

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/17/koskinen-hard-drive-crashes-continue-as-we-speak/


7925  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dawkins: Immoral Not To Abort Down’s Syndrome Child on: September 17, 2014, 07:38:58 PM
I'll say having children period is immoral, your bringing them into a world where they will feel pain, where their labor will be taxed away at every turn. Better not to have children at all, gives more wealth to the people already living.

Not everyone were born in a test tube, without parents like you... Roll Eyes Wink Roll Eyes



Now, now. Be gentle. Full Spectrum doesn't realize that he isn't as full as he thinks he is.

Smiley

As long as he realizes he had to be alive, feel pain and pay taxes to let the world knows everyone else should stop procreate after his birth AND share their wealth (to him who else). Of course if he was born without a navel in a Martian lab then I stand corrected  Smiley


7926  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: September 17, 2014, 07:27:32 PM




http://www.aol.com/article/2014/09/15/global-warming-likely-to-cause-colder-and-snowier-winters/20962706/?icid=maing-grid7



7927  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dawkins: Immoral Not To Abort Down’s Syndrome Child on: September 17, 2014, 06:21:18 PM
I'll say having children period is immoral, your bringing them into a world where they will feel pain, where their labor will be taxed away at every turn. Better not to have children at all, gives more wealth to the people already living.

Not everyone were born in a test tube, without parents like you... Roll Eyes Wink Roll Eyes

7928  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: September 17, 2014, 03:08:46 PM
Good news from Sweden!

The rabidly anti-male party, Feminist Initiative has failed to clear the 4% threshold in the Swedish parliamentary elections.  Grin They were hoping to play the king makers there. On the other hand, the right wing anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats more than doubled their votes to 13%.



I actually went what in my head a few times thinking this is a legitimate political party ^^
Then thought the men should have made a counter party to see how that goes hehe (anti-female party) Masculine Initiative Tongue

Anyways just thought I'd come by since I saw a sign up sheet for a radical feminist group today and only four people signed it in a building with thousands of people Tongue

You are all welcome here. Anytime  Grin

 
7929  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: September 17, 2014, 03:02:03 PM
Myself I'm willing to donate to her to show my support. The shit I hear about her being a con artist is just ludicrous. It is simple hate speech, not a serious argument. Most of her "critics" are unserious and don't provide any arguments. Some say stuff that go off-topic. Cause they know Anita has a point, they don't. Thus the shitstorm.


All of her critics are serious and have a great point. Anita is a double-talking scammer, full stop. We have provided many good arguments in this thread, and you continue to ignore them and throw insults.

You'll go down with the sinking ship that is SJW fascism.

The SJW's Jedi mind tricks are breaking down... Or should I say Sith Lord's mind tricks?

My personal experience was I got a private invite to participate in this thread. The invite was polite. My participation was polite. If the OP believes there is a need to delete and censor any of my posts then my point about not trusting funding anita's project will be made 10 fold (to me as no one else would have seen it).




7930  Other / Politics & Society / Obama administration forcing new gun buyers to declare race, ethnicity on: September 17, 2014, 02:45:48 PM


The Obama administration quietly has been forcing new gun buyers to declare their race and ethnicity, a policy change that critics say provides little law enforcement value while creating the risk of privacy intrusions and racial profiling.

With little fanfare, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2012 amended its Form 4473 — the transactional record the government requires gun purchasers and sellers to fill out when buying a firearm — to identify buyers as either Hispanic, Latino or not. Then a buyer must check his or her race: Indian, Asian, black, Pacific Islander or white.

The amendment is causing a headache for gun retailers, as each box needs to be checked off or else it’s an ATF violation — severe enough for the government to shut a business down. Many times people skip over the Hispanic/Latino box and only check their race, or vice versa — both of which are federal errors that can be held against the dealer.

Requiring the race and ethnic information of gun buyers is not required by federal law and provides little law enforcement value, legal experts say. And gun industry officials worry about how the information is being used and whether it constitutes an unnecessary intrusion on privacy.

“This issue concerns me deeply because, first, it’s offensive, and, secondly, there’s no need for it,” said Evan Nappen, a private practice firearms lawyer in New Jersey. “If there’s no need for an amendment, then there’s usually a political reason for the change. What this indicates is it was done for political reasons, not law enforcement reasons.”

ATF said the change came about because it needed to update its forms to comply with an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reporting standard put into effect during the Clinton administration. The ATF declined to comment on why race and ethnicity information are needed in the first place or what they are used for. On its prior 4473 forms, the bureau had been collecting race data.

“OMB’s race and ethnicity standards require agencies to ask both race and ethnicity in a specific manner (as done on [Form 4473]), and agencies may not ask for one without asking for the other,” wrote Elizabeth Gosselin, a spokeswoman for the ATF, in an emailed response to The Washington Times. She did not say why the agency suddenly made the change in response to a rule that was more than a decade old.

For ATF to ask for a purchaser’s race and ethnicity is not specifically authorized under federal statute, and since a government-issued photo ID — like a driver’s license — and a background check are already required by law to purchase a gun, the ethnicity/race boxes aren’t there for identification reasons, Mr. Nappen said.

“There is nothing [in ATF or OMB’s website links addressing the change in policy] that supports the requirement that ATF collect race-based information. The OMB guidance merely describes what categories of race should look like if information is collected,” Laura Murphy, the American Civil Liberties Union director for legislative affairs in Washington, said in an emailed statement.

In addition, Mrs. Murphy notes, the OMB guidance was supposed to be implemented by 2003; there’s no information given why ATF decided to make this change almost a decade later, she said.

“If there is a civil rights enforcement reason for the ATF to collect this data, I have not heard that explanation from ATF or any other federal agency,” said Mrs. Murphy.

Both the NAACP and the National Council of La Raza — the nation’s largest national Hispanic civil rights group — declined comment.

Access to the form

The 4473 form is supposed to be kept in a gun retailer’s possession at all times — allowing ATF agents to inspect the form only during the course of a criminal investigation or during a random audit of the dealer. The form is to be kept out of the hands of the government, hence the distinction between “sales/transaction form” and “registration form.” But that isn’t always the case, gun rights advocates say.

“We’ve been contacted by several dealers saying ATF is or has been making wholesale copies of their 4473 forms, and it’s just not legal,” said Erich Pratt, spokesman for Gun Owners of America, a gun advocacy group. “If this is what they’re doing somewhat out in the open, what’s going on behind closed doors? Are these names and demographic information getting phoned [in and] punched into a government computer? Do they ever come out?”



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/16/obama-white-house-forcing-new-gun-buyers-to-declar/


7931  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Mohamed and Homosexuality on: September 17, 2014, 02:29:05 PM


Egyptian police use dating sites to hunt down gay people


Though homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, police have been using social media and smartphone applications to hunt down and arrest gays and lesbians. Two gay Egyptians, who hide their sexuality and live in fear of being arrested, tell us their story.

A week ago, seven men were arrested after they appeared in a video showing a marriage ceremony between two men. The footage showed a gay couple exchanging vows and rings under a traditional canopy on a boat on the Nile, in the presence of a small group of friends. The footage was shared across social media and was picked up by the local press, who condemned this ceremony.

At the beginning of the week, the public prosecutor’s office ordered the two men featured in the ceremony to undergo “medical tests” that were supposed to be able to determine if they were homosexual. However, after the men were “tested,” the authorities admitted that the results showed that they had not engaged in homosexual relations.

Homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt. Despite this, numerous people have been arrested while taking part in festivities celebrating gay unions and accused of “debauchery.” In May, for example, four men were arrested during a party organised in Nasr City, located east of Cairo. One of them was sentenced to 12 years of prison, the heaviest sentence ever given to an LGBT person in Egypt.

According to accounts given by numerous witnesses, police are using gay online dating sites, such as Grindr, to hunt down LGBT people. Egyptian gay rights activists have published numerous messages warning members of the community to refrain from using these applications.

According to several gay rights activists, at least 77 LGBT people have been arrested since October 2013.

http://observers.france24.com/content/20140916-egyptian-police-dating-sites-gay

7932  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dawkins: Immoral Not To Abort Down’s Syndrome Child on: September 17, 2014, 03:35:35 AM
Hitler was either carrying out Eugenics, or he was following the Bible (The word "Holocaust" comes from the Bible, and translates from Hebrew to "A sacrifical burnt offering")

I did not know hitler himself not only had named his own death plan "The Holocaust" but also could have been following the Bible, a book mostly about... Jews? Interesting. Yeah, I have the feeling he was carrying out his eugenics vision into reality....

Funny you mention hitler. Did you know he was not a fan of Down syndrome babies? He found a way to deal with them.
What Would Dawkins Do?



Argumentum Ad Hitlerium

Funny you mention hitler... Again. I guess you agree with dawkings and his position regarding DS babies if you keep talking about anything but him.



7933  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Dawkins: Immoral Not To Abort Down’s Syndrome Child on: September 16, 2014, 11:16:44 PM
Hitler was either carrying out Eugenics, or he was following the Bible (The word "Holocaust" comes from the Bible, and translates from Hebrew to "A sacrifical burnt offering")

I did not know hitler himself not only had named his own death plan "The Holocaust" but also could have been following the Bible, a book mostly about... Jews? Interesting. Yeah, I have the feeling he was carrying out his eugenics vision into reality....

Funny you mention hitler. Did you know he was not a fan of Down syndrome babies? He found a way to deal with them.
What Would Dawkins Do?

7934  Other / Politics & Society / FBI facial recognition system at “full operational capability” on: September 16, 2014, 10:58:54 PM


Bureau says database is for "utilizing biometrics as an investigative enabler."


The Federal Bureau of Investigation says its facial recognition project that stores millions of mug shots and other photos is out of the pilot stage and is at "full operational capability."

The Next Generation Identification system, combined with criminal fingerprints, "will provide the nation's law enforcement community with an investigative tool that provides an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities," the FBI said in a statement Monday.

The full deployment of the program comes three months after James Comey, the bureau's director, announced that the agency was "piloting the use of mug shots, along with our fingerprint database, to see if we can find bad guys by matching pictures with mug shots."

Under the facial recognition program, law enforcement agencies will be able to cross-check images with those in other criminal databases.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, under the Freedom of Information Act, obtained records from the bureau showing that the database will have as many as 52 million images by next year and include pictures of innocent people. The database is expected to flourish in numbers. There were more than 12 million arrests in 2012, according to the latest FBI figures available. That's one arrest every two seconds.

The power of facial recognition technology was underscored in August, when the FBI announced that a US fugitive on the lam for 14 years in connection with child sex charges was apprehended in Nepal after authorities scanned his FBI "wanted" poster with facial recognition tech. The arrest of Neil Stammer was a result of the State Department testing facial recognition software to detect passport fraud. The department scanned into the biometrics database of Stammer's most-wanted poster. Stammer's face matched a person with a different name on his passport, and the fugitive was easily traced to Nepal.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, citing FBI documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, said the technology could fail 20 percent of the time, which the group said could lead to innocent persons becoming the subject of police investigations.

The Next Generation Identification system kicked off in 2011, when it focused on enhancing fingerprint technology, the FBI said.
"The NGI system has introduced enhanced automated fingerprint and latent search capabilities, mobile fingerprint identification, and electronic image storage, all while adding enhanced processing speed and automation for electronic exchange of fingerprints to more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies and other authorized criminal justice partners 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," the bureau said.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, meanwhile, said the FOIA documents it obtained from the bureau show that it's not just mug shots that will be included in the database.

One of our biggest concerns about NGI has been the fact that it will include non-criminal as well as criminal face images. We now know that the FBI projects that by 2015, the database will include 4.3 million images taken for non-criminal purposes.


http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/fbi-facial-recognition-system-at-full-operational-capability/

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I wonder how long it will take to be outlawed based on our BMI....




7935  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feds Developing Technology to Detect Obesity from Your Picture on: September 16, 2014, 08:04:12 PM

But if you bill people for being drunk aren't you punishing and criminalizing victims of alcohol addiction?  Wink
 

And by sending rapist to jail we punish the poor guys who can't get laid in the normal way? Right?

You can go drunk , have your fun , get drunk again , I won't care but when out of your own stupidity you cost taxpayers extra money , they pay up.

the status quo is what feeds society. How are we going to keep our jail from being empty? Who is going to buy our prescriptions?Alcohol taxes help feed the children.....

Again I'm not against drinking or getting drunk but against overdoing it and bringing harm to others by doing that.
As for the tax money , if they don't buy alcohol they will buy chocolate or pretzels , so the tax money will still be there/

... thus becoming obese. But at least society will get the taxes from those sales too...



Have them eat some bellpeppers then , that might cure obesity...



She is on the case...
http://eagnews.org/looks-more-like-a-piece-of-paper-than-a-sub-roll-new-york-schools-drop-michelle-os-lunch-program/

7936  Other / Politics & Society / Al-Qaeda Has Appealed To ISIS To Release British Hostage Alan Henning on: September 16, 2014, 08:01:56 PM

 Shocked Shocked Shocked

Al-Qaeda appealed to Isis to release the British hostage Alan Henning because it believed he was an innocent aid worker who was genuinely trying to help suffering Muslims, it can be revealed.

In evidence that the depravity exhibited by Isis is now repelling Muslims of all views and backgrounds, even the terrorist group behind the 11 September attacks on the US in 2001 decided that kidnapping the aid-convoy volunteer was a step too far.

Mr Henning, a taxi driver from Eccles, Salford, was so moved by the plight of Muslims in Syria that he decided to miss last Christmas with his wife and two children and travel 4,000 miles to deliver medical equipment to refugees holed up in the town of Al-Dana.

A local commander – or emir – of Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, visited his then-allies in Isis four days after Mr Henning, 47, was captured. The emir confronted the kidnappers, arguing that their actions were “wrong under Islamic law” and “counter-productive”, according to a journalist who interviewed the man immediately after the encounter.

Mr Kareem said: “I spoke to the emir from Jabhat al-Nusra after he came back. Initially, he was confident that Henning would be released because that is what Isis was saying. But then Henning was removed from his prison in Al-Dana and never heard of again.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/alan-henning-alqaeda-appealed-to-isis-to-release-british-aid-worker-following-kidnap-9734598.html

7937  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feds Developing Technology to Detect Obesity from Your Picture on: September 16, 2014, 07:15:20 PM

But if you bill people for being drunk aren't you punishing and criminalizing victims of alcohol addiction?  Wink
 

And by sending rapist to jail we punish the poor guys who can't get laid in the normal way? Right?

You can go drunk , have your fun , get drunk again , I won't care but when out of your own stupidity you cost taxpayers extra money , they pay up.

the status quo is what feeds society. How are we going to keep our jail from being empty? Who is going to buy our prescriptions?Alcohol taxes help feed the children.....

Again I'm not against drinking or getting drunk but against overdoing it and bringing harm to others by doing that.
As for the tax money , if they don't buy alcohol they will buy chocolate or pretzels , so the tax money will still be there/

... thus becoming obese. But at least society will get the taxes from those sales too...

7938  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: September 16, 2014, 07:13:45 PM
Good news from Sweden!

The rabidly anti-male party, Feminist Initiative has failed to clear the 4% threshold in the Swedish parliamentary elections.  Grin They were hoping to play the king makers there. On the other hand, the right wing anti-immigration party Sweden Democrats more than doubled their votes to 13%.



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/14/pharrell-williams-support-feminist-party-leader-sweden-gudrun-schyman

 Grin

7939  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feds Developing Technology to Detect Obesity from Your Picture on: September 16, 2014, 07:08:15 PM

But if you bill people for being drunk aren't you punishing and criminalizing victims of alcohol addiction?  Wink
 

And by sending rapist to jail we punish the poor guys who can't get laid in the normal way? Right?

You can go drunk , have your fun , get drunk again , I won't care but when out of your own stupidity you cost taxpayers extra money , they pay up.

the status quo is what feeds society. How are we going to keep our jail from being empty? Who is going to buy our prescriptions?Alcohol taxes help feed the children.....
7940  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Anita Sarkeesian - Feminist Frequency - Donating in Bitcoin on: September 16, 2014, 06:47:51 PM
Myself I'm willing to donate to her to show my support. The shit I hear about her being a con artist is just ludicrous. It is simple hate speech, not a serious argument. Most of her "critics" are unserious and don't provide any arguments. Some say stuff that go off-topic. Cause they know Anita has a point, they don't. Thus the shitstorm.

Anyway if this thread's number one goal was to push the bitcoiners to know more about the "anita brand" I believe it was a success.
Find out what the Bitcoin community's stance on if they are "hateful"/"loveful" or neutral on if Anita Sarkeesian would start accepting Bitcoin. If they would be positive or neutral, in that case would they like to donate to her or find the option desirable. If they would not like to donate, where are the arguments? I mean arguments, not just "I hate her, I hate her, I hate her". Cause that's not an argument Cheesy

Wilikon, it was soooo important for you how she looks? Maybe that makes you feel better about yourself. Nobody will ever say to you the following? "Wilikon's a real sexy guy, that's why I watch his vids where he talks about computers, just watch those sexy lips"


My lips are seriously sexy... But what can I do... I was born this way... And yes, according to Darwin and his theory of evolution I am not responsible for looking at a lady's ass or tits. This is Nature telling me the probability of reproduction and keeping my gene pool alive for many generations goes up when a lady looks healthy. I shall be disappointed if I learn Lauren from Tasty PC had a sex change in the past for example.

But what can I do? I am a victim of Mother Nature's Matriarchy...  Wink

Regarding anita, the free bitcoin market will chose to help or ignore her. If she wants to perpetuate the image of the crying damsel in distress stuck in a castle who needs magic coins to save her from a rapist looking donkey kong (that would be "every single male ever in existence") then that will be up to her and will be remember as such. A Forever victim... Unlike Lauren from tasty tasty...tasty..tasty PC... Cool


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