That must be why he snubbed the largest demonstration in French history, refusing to attend, refusing to even send the vice-President (isn't that what he's for?) Je suis Charlie indeed.

"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly

It's a good thing that not all the world is that crazy. The USA is solidly NOT Charlie. Nobody of any importance showed up at the "world leaders link arms" show of force, and this was no accident. It is consistent with US policy.

Was this really an attack on free speech, or the predictable result of pointless provocation? Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile. Baiting extremists isn't bravely defiant when your manner of doing so is more significant in offending millions of moderate people as well. And within a climate where violent response however illegitimate is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: its pointlessly all about you. USA condemns those heinous killings, but IS NOT CHARLIE.

"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly

Because that would give information to a potential attacker! You don't make security problems easy to diagnose! Just give the user enough information to know that permission was denied, and that's quite enough already. We don't need to help the crackers do their job.

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This is to distinguish them from police who work desk jobs. There's a difference. Good job on you immediately projecting your fear onto the phrase and then accusing the other of intentionally triggering you. This is called "psychological projection" and is a big problem among people who are not aware of their condition. I suggest you educate yourself, pronto, otherwise you'll jump to conclusions without a mat.

America is dominated by elites who exclude from power anyone who didn't go to elite universities.

Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters -- speaking the "in" language -- serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America's ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.

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South of the USA??! wtf dude your racism is showing. South of USA is where all the black people live, you're shitting all over them and got modded up to +4 that is some bullshit.

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If he were a leftist, the story would have been buried and not given wide publicity. Confirmation bias. It would be in the same bin with all the stories where citizens defend themselves with firearms. Seen one of those lately? Yeah, that's what I thought...and yet they happen all the time.

Thus do the media fulfill their narrative purpose. If the facts don't fit the narrative, the facts get discarded - we all saw that with Ferguson.

Would it tempt you if I told you someone has gone into the .exe of Master of Orion with an assembler and fixed a ton of bugs, making the game more challenging and closer to the designers' original intent? The computer opponents in particular work according to intent now. Dare ye click and play MoO again, but an improved experience this time?

That is a ton of writing to express butthurt. The idea that an American might one day feel superior to a European of any kind is anathema, isn't it? Didn't even take the opportunity to make the genocide jab when the Navajo was mentioned...boo...poor form.

Nah, that's a canard propagated by deliberately misleading sources. It's sad to see that so many educated people have fallen for such a transparent lie. It's like the Reichstag fire...a bullshit event that was used for the benefit of the ruling party. Truly tragic to see that happening in USA 2015, I thought people were more progressive than that today.

Derision that opposition has the nerve to exist, check. Desire for a one-party system, check. Wants money out of the pockets of the people and into the government, check. I am hearing more and more of these fascist posts these days and it is starting to scare the hell out of me. What is wrong with people who want the voices of dissenters and gadflies silenced?

Wow, someone has got some serious butthurt from having her preconceptions challenged. Ever had Birra Poretti or Stella Artois? It doesn't make Europe any less superior to admit that shitty beer is popular the world 'round. Don't feel bad by admitting it, there are still many other areas in which you can validate your self-esteem by feeling superior to those filthy commoner Americans.

Physicians don't do diagnoses like they used to. They look at you, consider your condition for all of 5 seconds, and prescribe whatever will get you out of their hair. They don't diagnose, they don't think, they don't care. When I had my condition a couple of years ago, one of the doctors actually asked me what tests I wanted to run. I was like, what the fuck, how the fuck should I know? But that's how it is. So what is there to do? Do your own research on the internet and become your own pathologist. :( And unfortunately there are tons of spammer optimized-for-google pages out there for every medical condition in the world. They all have a few paragraphs of useless copy and tons of ads inline. Go to a forum? It's all the same, pages of questions and few answers. So you have to spend tons of time learning about your symptoms from the ground up, and then try to guess what you might have, and then go ask a doctor for those tests. Good luck diagnosing yourself, because doctors don't do that shit any more.