...and you seriously believe that charge wasn't cooked up then do you?

Have you read the "evidence" and the background on the case and the witnesses? I seriously suggest you do.

It seems clear from the way that Juilian Assange is being fucked over by the UK and Sweden on behalf of the US, that the US gov already has their hand far enough up the arse of significant western countries to make them their puppet.

What makes anyone seriously think that Irish won't also just bend over for the NSA as readily?

From http://www.smh.com.au/national...:

Newman has long sold himself as an intellectual maverick and independent thinker. "He gets mileage out of his climate scepticism," says a former senior Liberal. "It suits him to sustain it."

Newman's assertions - climate scientists call them "zombie arguments", because they keep on popping up - have all been comprehensively debunked, repeatedly and in detail, by national academies of science around the world, including the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Society of London and the Australian Academy of Science. Andy Pitman, a climate scientist from the University of NSW, tells me that, "Newman's arguments are so wrong they are inconsistent with some fundamental laws of physics."

>> What's NOT the solution is importing cheap, disposable labor from overseas...That does nothing but help the rich get richer

Agreed but unfortunately it is exactly those guys that are making these descisions and to add insult to injury they are getting rich from it.

As a Brit now living in the US it boggles my mind how such short-term thinking remains so prevlent in the US and even more counter-intuitively, how it succeeds so much.

Perhaps its because apprently nearly all Amricans view literally everything as being short-term and throwaway. I don't know if its cause or effect since compared to the rest of the world, hardly any product or service you buy in the US is all short-term too. Nothing has any quality, or iis done if it just improves the future, or is built to to last beyond the point of sale. For example, I noticed that compared to living in the EU, in the US you very much more often have to return things becuase they're faulty or broken, and many companies blatantly treat their own customers as inconvenineces. I suppose growing up in that environment makes Americans just think that what would be unacceptably low-quality anywhere else is actually whats normal, and that effects US companies thinking too.

I honestly can't see how as a business model that thinking is even sustanable let alone successful, yet it really must be since it wouldnt be so prevalent otherwise.

Don't blame the tool for your mistakes. There's nothing in C that forces anyone to write hacks.
If you can only write write hack-free code when there's a garbage collector then you need to be looking for another profession.

yeah and if (even one of) their engines stop, planes immediately drop out the sky like a rock.

>> the capsule separated cleanly, propelled itself to a safe distance, deployed its parachutes, and lowered gently down to a water landing, where it remained floating.

Wait, the author of the article thinks the fact that it floats is the most amazing part?

I for one welcome the opportuniy for big corps to save money by reducing the need to hire skilled drivers to control the 40 tons of metal travelling at 60+MPH sometimes inches away from other cars. What could possibly go wrong!

It already seems like yet another item destined to be quickly relegated to my already-full cupboard o' crap.

Ugh you appear to be one of those many dudes that just do web stuff but try hard to make it sound much cleverer and more important than it really is by using a bunch of crapspeak.

For example self-healing software sounds very AI but its just crapspeak for fault-tolerant, which is pretty much how any _good_ software engineer would intuitively design a system without even thinkng twice about why. I remember when it was just called common sense and experience.

Working in niche areas is great while it lasts (I know because I do too), but there's always a high chance that something new will entirely invalidate your niche's entire reason for existence within a year or two, especially if is all based around knowledge of one particularly obscure tool or technology.
Enjoy the ride but stay fresh with other more geneally marketable skills too, so that when the bubble inevitably bursts you're still employable for youir other skills

if its academic or for fun, yes.
If its just to get a job then no, unless you want to gamble with the chance of getting a job in a niche market.

Because not one of its components is a mug of hot tea. Where are they going to get the source of brownian motion from otherwise?

>> it doesn't excuse Clinton's behavior by saying that everyone else is corrupt. That's just a cop out.

I agree and actually didn't (intend to) say that. I was more lamenting the lack of choice than anything else.

>> I think that there are some honorable politicians but once they get to the top of the heap all the morals are left behind.

I see ith the other way actually. I think that its only after they have gotten so high there's nowhere left to go that they stop fucking people over and start worring about their sould/legacy/image/payback.
Most 2-term presidents do some token thing close to the end. Bill Gates is a perfect example of an absolute bastard who fucked over many people, now trying to get perceived as a good guy (while still actually fucking people over).

You're not trying to suggest that there's any such thing as a US politician that isn't corrupt are you?

The system itself is making sure there can't be... politicians have to "play the game" in order to get anywhere in the first place, so the system is actually weeding out the really honest guys (i.e. the guys that we actually want to run) by making sure they can't even get a start.

This is also why all the parties get involved in dirt-digging and mud-slinging... they all know there's no way any candidate can be actually clean. You may have to dig to find it, but the corruption must be there somewhere.