Absolute bollocks. From around 1998 to 2004 the country experienced a massive influx of sub Saharan Africans, for the first time ever people were actually immigrating here. Almost immediately after that, the country's population increased by about 15% over the course of three years due to Eastern European economic migrants.

Race riots? None. Right wing parties emerging? None. Public unrest and disturbances, widespread racist incidents? None. Actually there was one "secret" right wing neo nazi rally but that runed out to be some Polish lads.

Show me another developed western country that can say the same.

The kids playing happily together outside my window come from every corner of the planet, and their parents get along fine too. So spare us the slurs like a good (wo)man.

I found that comment to be as ridiculous as anything else he'd said. Ireland is possibly the least racist country on earth, and has been for a long time. This weird impression a lot of Americans have of Irish people being racist, as opposed to say the English, seems to arise from the way Irish immigrants were treated in the US, ie worse than black people. To distinguish themselves they appeared to have "gone native".

Widely accepted only among braindead yanks, who seperate the world into black, white, brown, yellow, and the race of Islam.

I've read the comments and even, blasphemously, the article, and I still have no clear idea what's going on here.

Leftists quit because the publication was going right wing?

Talented editors quit because whatever (gawker?) wanted to turn into clickbait?

Nobody seems to talk about what actually happened here.

"loves to manufacture "facts" or omit actual facts when it suits them"

And you've just described feminism.

Antimatter is relatively straightforward to produce close to a star.

And don't forget

5) They could just be really frickin alien. Who knows why a lipid in methane based life form with thought processes that take years to complete would ignore us.

Yeah, except most of the universe is missing from our theories and nobody can figure out where it went.

Yup, we've got it allll wrapped up with a bow tie on top.

Anyway the speed of light isn't a major barrier to interstellar exploration. Antimatter engiens, perfectly possible, could get us to the nearest star in maybe a decade or so. Even if we don't harness those kinds of energies, there's no reason to believe that human lifespans in the future will be going anywhere but upwards.

Interstellar exploration is very feasible.

This is gibberish, just build antimatter production stations near the sun. We're drowning in energy.

Cha the last week alone I had to uninstall Chrome from three seperate machines, it was crashing and opening multiple windows with no good explanation why, and no fix that actually worked.

You can always go back to IE I guess.

Plus he has a net worth of over $12 million, he'd get more from the interest than all the rest of that stuff put together.

It's about time. Google has become the de facto gatekeeper for the web and have no real competition. That makes Google a problem.

Also hahaha at the people saying Europe should be blacklisted, in other news, Google just lost access to a market of a half billion wealthy consumers.

Antimatter engines which can bring us to a significant percentage of the speed of light are an engineering problem, there's nothing theoretically impossible about them.

Space has lots of good stuff. Those millions of inhospitable cold rocks are chock full of easily extractable metals of all sorts. The millions of inhospitable cold rocks are often also covered in ice, which can be turned into lots of things. And luckily someone left a giant nuclear reactor sitting in the middle of it all that we can use to take advantage of this insane abundance. Also, nobody cares about pollution in space.

Where does Bennett stand on the MyCleanPC vs telemarketer controversy...?