I find it depressing that the on-going drone strikes are not considered a scandal. Or the lack of action over spying and people lying to congress.

You'd be right except you're not infringing copyright by running Popcorn Time, and you're not infringing copyright by creating Popcorn Time.

You're only infringing once you USE it, unless a court deems otherwise, and so far only one court in one jurisdiction has.

I thought AJAX was for cleaning toilets. Are we taking about becoming a janitor?

So you are in your 30s now? Then you are too old. They want graduates who will work 50+ hour weeks for low pay. Around age 28 a little red light starts flashing on their hands and they are replaced before they start wanting s career or work-life balance.

Actually you are kinda showing your age in your post. The kids abandoned facebook, there are too many old people on there. To be honest I've lost track myself... Do they still use Snapchat?

that's where the statement came from. Nobody is liberal on economic issues, and the environment is just another economic issue in disguise. This is where the disconnect is. If you were socially conservative you'd notice more and the phrase "liberal media" would resonate with you.

most of the real bad pollution was moved to China in the 70s & 80s. Because of this it's hard to get people to buy into the whole "poisoning everything" mantra. Also the only people who have a shot at any change are the middle class; the poor's voting districts are so gerrymandered and corrupt they're basically voiceless. But the middle class live in the suburbs and don't really feel the pollution. That limits our options.

Climate change, for whatever reason, resonates with the middle class. It's about the only thing that draws any attention. You don't win elections based on logic and reason. People vote with their 'gut'. I wish they didn't, but that's just the way it works.

I doubt the other allies would have allowed Germany to be nuked. Too close to their own borders, unknown effects from the fallout. Japan was far enough away from anywhere that the US or its close allies cared about to use as a testing ground.

It's got nothing to do with offence. Making credible threats is illegal, and for good reason. Making credible threats can have extremely negative consequences for the person or institution being threatened. Do they do nothing and take an unknown risk, which leaves them open to being blamed (and probably sued) if something does happen? Do they cancel their event, stay at home with a loaded gun and put their life on hold? Not to mention the stress which can affect their health.

Defining what is credible is the tricky part. I'm not sure this is, but it's probably enough to warrant an investigation to see if the person had the means to carry out an attack. It's a difficult line to draw.

On the other hand things that are clearly jokes, like the guy in the UK who was eventually cleared of posting a tweet joking about blowing up an airport if his flight was cancelled, should not be investigated or prosecuted. I'm sorry I can't give you the exact limit, but that's the nature of life. Speech is imprecise.

This. Many of the UK citizens who have gone to fight in Syria did so because they are disillusioned with UK society. No job prospects, muslims in general feel that the rest of the nation is turning against them, no acknowledgement that the UK's military adventures have mostly been about killing muslims etc.

I think most non-muslims don't realize what it is like. I have an Islamic surname and when people find out about it they sometimes react quite negatively. Not open abuse most of the time, more like micro-aggressions. Sometimes they nervously ask if you are a muslim, as if it is any of their business (I'm not, but sometimes I'm tempted to say I am just to see what happens). I can imagine how living with that, and seeing the videos that glamorize the fighting in Syria, could push people towards going there.

The Charlie Hebdo attacks were very well planned and executed. They were obviously idiots on a philosophical level, but also well trained soldiers with a well laid plan.

Similarly, ISIS or IS or whatever they are called are not doing too badly. It's not often one group manages to establish a new state by force, but they have pretty much managed it. Who knows if it will last but the west doesn't seem to be able to stop them, or the countries they have partially conquered.

There are lots of idiots among them, but don't underestimate them all.

Could this be the first company whose business model is to break the law, i.e. a criminal enterprise with VC funding? Of course other companies have broken the law, but Uber's specific business model is to break the law and hope to get away with it or get the law changed.

It's kinda bizarre. Maybe VC firms feel a bit uneasy about investing the maffia due to the level of violence, but Uber sounds kinda legit and has a lot of willing customers so is somehow okay. Maybe it sounds more like the kind of white collar rich person illegal-but-only-a-slap-on-the-wrist crime that they are used to, or have even engaged in themselves, like tax dodging or a bit of investment fraud.

Man if you were a union leader in the 70s unions won't even exist anymore.

Since when is it childish to stage a mass protest?
Since when is it childish to show to the world that you are not afraid of radicals who will kill because of a picture?
What would be less childish? Saying "I'm sorry" to someone who would not only persecute you but kill you for your beliefs?

Eddie: They're armed.
Soap: What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?
Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!

Just doing my job, or just doing a job?

Are you vilifying a man who went out of his way to marry an underage girl?

Or are you vilifying a man who married a girl, taking into account that the concept of underage didn't not even remotely exist at the time, and that marriages at that age were not out of the ordinary?

People adapt their social normals to their current society. American's have a mortal fear of seeing someone else's genitalia in public and many European nations mock them for it. None the less what is normal in some countries will get you put on the sex offenders register in America right now.

Make no mistake, your great great great grandkids will think of you as somekind of a monster.

That you can easily hospitalise people who don't expect to suddenly be shot at.
That when police respond to a shooting they are ready to deal with people who have guns.

If you're reading any more than that into it then you're really stretching your imagination.