Less people who are unable to write a short article, use Google, and use their brain for thinking.

But oh these drop is in the US? Too bad. So no change here.

Too much sugar is bad for you. Hidden sugars in your meat which hase been put there to trigger an insulin reaction are a example. Sugar as such is not dangerous. But science never said do not eat sugar. Only diet "experts" say such shit. I eat cheese all day and I am not fat. Obviously it is not that much cheese which is wrong.

The most important thing about food is: Do not see it as a combination of nutritional supplements, see it as an cultural and social event. Focus on what you are eating and that you are eating. Try to enjoy it without rushing it.

The real problem are people over interpreting science results. The truth is when you eat more joules than you need you become rounder at the edges. Foods which contain a high amount of energy could lead to obesity, but it is not necessary. If you eat things which trigger fat storage processes it is harder to resist to eat more. Now when Mr. Adams is confused because of a new book, he should go in and try to differentiate between documented effects, corelations, and their total impact. Cheese might be fatty, but it is something different than a burger (containing sugar which causes a heavy insulin reaction). Traditional foods are often less dangerous if you also work in a traditional job. Fast food is designed to trigger you to eat more based on the science he is not so sure of. And it works.

The best thing about food is: Eat responsible. Meaning eat real food. Don't think in nutritions and supplements. Eating is a social, cultural task as much as it is necessary to supply you with necessary nutirtional resources.

Companies do customer assessment for a long time. This is no new development. Credit companies and banks do it, and when you have a bonus card then a couple of companies are profiling you. So what else is new? Ah yes, Uber the overrated taxi killer and exploiter of drivers is doing it too. I would rather walk home in a Blizzard than ever using their service. Why is that news? Because they are sooooo in or is it because they pay some extra? Either way it sucks. The best thing for all of us would be to ignore that company. Even if the taxi business is doomed the day autonomous cars are available.

Your government is what sucks not you. Actually it us not the administration itself, but your lobby driven ggovernment.

Its the same shit which has been established by the EU through EU commission.

Trust is a required ingredient for any business. While it is true that in human history not everyone has behaved trustworthy. Otherwise we would not have ever required something like police and laws and regulations. It is also true that a certain amount of trust is necessary. For example, on a flee market (as an IRL type of craiglist) people can trade goods in the open and normally you don't get ripped off. When we sell items over ebay 'small ads' people normally come by and pic it up and from personal experience the pay either via a bank transaction or money at the door step. So far we never had a problem with the money and I didn't hear from anyone who have been payed in counterfeit money or acquired broken goods. However, I would not exchange anything on a parking lot in the night.

Anyway, it looks like that people around here or people I am dealing with are trustworthy (so far) and that this is not so much the case in the areas portrait in the article. And it is not good for business if you cannot trust your business partner. For example, if I am an manufacturer for, let say, custom cooling devices. Normally we make an contract and then it is considered that I am delivering the device and the buyer is paying me after deliver. Beside the contract, I have to trust the buyer that he is able to pay, that he will pay, and he must trust me that I am delivering the device as promised. The contract only provides some protection. The rest is based on trust.

After the last banking and economic crisis the main problem was the mistrust among bank which hindered immediate recovery. So trust is important for business.

Such police guarded "flee market" is only necessary if you have to assume that it is very common that people try to rip you off.
How broken must a country be that the police has to provide something like that? That implies that you generally cannot trust anybody (beside the police). For a society which requires cooperation and trustworthiness to function, this is a big crisis. And you should fix it. However, it might be helpful that the police tries to provide grounds where such trust can be developed, again.

As we a ruining Europe right now. This is also a warning sign that when we fuck up our countries (as we are currently doing) we will also end up with a society where no one trusts no one.
     

My observation is that in France ghetto forming processes have not been disrupted in the past. However, there might be new initiatives which try to achieve smaller city structures which result in a better mixture of groups with low and middle income. This could be used in way so that kids in school have classmates from different cultures including the host culture.

To your point where to draw the line. This line has not been moved by these acts of terror. The key cornerstones of the age of enlightenment are freedom, equality, and fraternalism, which means we can wear what we want, say what we want, and go to school, even if kids sometimes don't want.

I don't live in France, I live in Germany. I cannot assume that the situation is identical to France, but from my point of view we have already a majority of immigrants which are conservative, but not in opposition to general freedom rights. however, they have views in context of women, homosexuals etc. which are similar to classic German conservatives. So these conservative groups only need to progress from 1950s to the 21st century.

To prevent terrorism two major things must happen. First, we have a large and complex inner Islamic process going on in the Middle East which has similarities to the 30 year war in Europe, but of course the context and environment is different so we cannot assume that it will result in an equal development. In that area we need to support those who propose an open Islam without harming their reputation, which is difficult, as we largely do not understand the involved cultures (yes there is more than one).

Second, we have people living in Europe who convert to radical Islam. They just arrested two of them in Germany. One of them with a "normal" German background. The real problem is that young people without an perspective for life are vulnerable to radical ideas. We had our share of terrorists in Germany, e.g. Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), which came from a peaceful background, but radicalized. One main problem at that time was the lack of communication between the elites and parts of the populations which had big issues with the direction of politics, as they where observed to be antisocial.

There are parallels to the radicalization process of young Europeans who are also outcasts or at least feel that way. In Germany they join either Nazi-like groups which has also resulted in terrorism by the NSU in Germany with multiple attacks on society (however, police did not recognize them as racist attacks for 10 years), they get in contact with radical Islam, or (however this is a very small group and they only tend to destroy cars and railway equipment) they become left wing extremists.

So my proposal is to address the issues these young people have with their acceptance into society and their crushed egos. this can be achieved through social workers who have direct contact the those people on the streets (not in an fancy office) combined with programs to help them succeed. Also we have to work on the bias of many teachers and company owners who dismiss job applications with foreign sounding names only on the basis of these names. Study have shown that there is indeed a big bias there in Germany. Especially in smaller companies.

What is obviously not an option is adapting a society like in Saudi Arabia. Iranian immigrants in Germany would not like such an development, nor those people fleeing from Boko Haram.

However, to solve our problems we also need patience. A lot of patience. And we should not freak out over every attack. Look at the Spanish how they acted on the attacks on their trains 10 years ago. They cleanup the mess and used the trains the same way. No extra laws were established. If you want to defend human rights (all of them not only freedom) then you have to live be them and discuss them with everyone. It is definitely not an option to diminish them.

True. If they could blow one up. You could prevent this by shutting them down. You could start with Fessenheim, as it has enough malfunctions already without any sabotage. ;-) You could also try to switch from nuclear to regenerative sources, like Denmark or Germany. Even if that sounds ridiculous.

However, I do not think that their potential attack vectors would result in a Chernobyl like accident. It would be more like Fokushima. And if you do not mess up. It could be even cleaner.

However, if Islamic terror would blow up one nuclear plant in the EU. They would encounter real bad press around the globe weakening their position. Even in their home countries. Because presently their actions are labeled retaliations for western attacks. Mass murdering and polluting the planet is what they say we do. When they start doing the same thing. People will move away from them.

If you think that these figures are correct then we should the hell start talking to the people. Killing will not solve the problem. In contrary it will increase these numbers. Also it states that in France 84% of Muslims reject the views of IS.

For the UK, I recently heard a discussion in Deutschlandfunk about Islam and Sharia. According to different imams and theologians there are different kinds of Sharia and they differ greatly. If the telegraph asked Muslims do you want Sharia law in the UK then the conservative Muslims would most likely say yes as they want to keep their behaviors and culture. Anyway, it means that 60% decline Sharia.

But same as in France. Lets start really talking and listening to these people. We messed up with integration so far, as we put these people in ghettos. Now it is time to fix it.

I make an analogy so that you can understand what kind of difference that is. Yes you have to go back in time for such things in Christianity. You do not have to go that far back on the topic of racism. While a certain amount of being proud of your own nation is ok, it can also be something like in Nazi Germany, pre WW2 Japan, Franco Spain, etc. My point is about the difference and distance between the believes both groups. My statement is not about Christianity today or anything of that dip shit.

It is possible to revert such ghetto structures. It has been done in Germany (in a few places). However, we should prevent the development of such structures. In Paris that would mean that the Banlieues must be restructured and developed. Furthermore, local activities to foster integration (which implies make a whole society out of different parts) must be supported by activities in other world regions where our present economic targets hamper local development.

BTW: There is a war going on inside Muslim cultures similar, but not identical, to the 30 years war in Europe. What we see in France or Spain are only minor incidents compared to what happens in their own domain.

Islam as such is not incompatible with our "Greek-based" culture of enlightenment. However, it requires the transformation of Islam form an ideology to an religion. The majority of Muslims in Germany made that transition to some extend, while others especially young people fall victim to hate ideologies. For "native" Germans that are racist groups and for immigrants it is fanatic Islamism. If we are able to give people an perspective, a real perspective not one on paper, then they will not go down that road.

You should learn to distinguish between Islam, the religion, and their followers called Muslims, and Islam, the ideology, and the Islamists. It is the same different as between normal Christians and those who burn people on crosses. If you are unable to differentiate then you are either frightened by Islam which means you should investigate that religion (not to convert necessarily, but to understand), or you are just a racist moron, then you should reflect on that and try to understand why you started with that strange believe.

No it is not. However, most people are unable to distinguish between islamists, islamistic terrorists and normal muslims. While the first and second make and ideology out of their religion, the third (most muslims) do not. If you want to fight the problem then you have first to understand the problem. The problem is that people become fanatics and try to use force to push their ideology onto you. So why do people become fanatics? We had our share of fanatics in Europe in context of different ideologies. For example, the Red Army Fraction (RAF) in Germany and Basque terrorists. The RAF was fought with police methods and their support was diminished by starting a dialog with those people who sympathized with them. Resulting in an integration and dialog. If this dialog had been established in the beginning , the radicalization would not have taken place at all. Most of those terrorists where from religious (Christian) background and loved peace. However, they felt that the system was oppressive and must be overthrown. The felt helpless and radicalized. We know from research that similar processes cause radicalization of people into islamists. War is never a good solution, if you want to reduce violence.

There is no F******G war going on. 20 people where killed, 17 by terrorists. We have a problem with equality and participation and integration in Europe. However, we are not on war with a part of our own population. And while 17 dead people is horrible, we have more dead people in traffic related accidents 3250 per year or smoke or germs in hospitals everyday. So get that in perspective. Yes we have to address terrorism. We have to do this with police work and social work and a good integration strategy which does not put immigrants in ghettos and throw away the keys.