You mean this: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear... ?

Timely,

Google, Facebook, and the NSA government are nothing more than competing Panopticons. They all want as much of your personal information as they can collect, and they all want to keep it as long as they can.

If one of these organizations is legally battling the other, then you can be sure it is because they feel they should more of your data than the other, not because of a moral imperative.

This is about people who don't like using computers. Many non-technical people see computers as a hindrance to performing their job. Complaints go to what is simplistic to grasp. This is usually the OS. When Munich switch over to Microsoft many of the same users will then complain about Microsoft.

This isn't about complaints, it is about Microsoft lobbying Munich to make those complaints an issue.

Only a matter of time before Rightscorp gets sued. No one will get their $20, but the lawyers will win and Rightscorp will end up with a nice bill.

Diversity quotas, affirmative action, is about opportunity, not entitlement.

Apple doesn't give two shits about the color of the skin or gender of who it hires. Like every other tech company, Apple is looking to hire educated, motivated, and intelligent people. Unfortunately, there tends to be a racial bias on the "education" part of the equation... Blame our society for this, not Apple.

Pastafarianism is readily historically verifiable as being deliberately conceived of as a fake religion for the express purpose of satirizing other religious beliefs,

All that readily "historically verifiable" evidence, just like these fossils, was staged.

Soylent Grey is mice.

Still waiting for that Ebola vaccine....

This is nonsense. The WHO doesn't sell flu vaccines. It does purchase and distribute vaccines to places that can't afford them. Long live rock.

Ebola is real if you live in one of the countries in Africa that has and Ebola outbreak. But for most of the rest of the world, "Worldwide Outbreak" sounds a bit like hyperbole. More like "Continent Wide Outbreak". But it is the WHO, not the CHO, so you get what you get.

Wrong. The fossils were put there by a noodley appendage.

This is rubbish. China has more slaves than US has prisoners.

The US has very few prisons which operate as factories. Nearly all that do, pay wages. These prisons are usually more desirable for prisoners because it allows them learn skills and to bank money while incarcerated. China just has forced labor, no pay. They call it "re-education".

There are a lot of sources. The one is quite credible credible: http://www.globalslaveryindex....

The global slavery index only includes people that are known to be slaves. This doesn't include the mass amounts of dormitory employees that, due to economic conditions manufactured by the government, work for nearly nothing and can't afford to live outside their factory camps.

So you are saying that slave labor is OK because China's economy isn't as big as the US and EU?

Have you been to China and seen what those factories look like? They too have automated systems, its just the people setting it up are working below US minimum wage. China can get people to work far cheaper. The Chinese can duplicate just about anything designed and built in the US or anywhere else. The materials are cheaper because China has far less concern for how they treat the environment, and the supply chain also has equally cheap labor and, essentially, vertical integration.

There is no trick. It is simply a race to the bottom. And North America is being led into this race by a Communist country who for years had stated it was bent on destroying capitalist systems. We'd be best to leave China alone. Unfortunately, greed (Walmart profit margins) and some skewed dogma about "specialized labor" is making it difficult for most to see the big picture here.

I urge anyone that gets the chance to visit factories in China to take it. It really is an eye opener and will change your opinion, if you are one to think US manufacturing is safe because we "work smarter".

So you are agreeing with me, just with a side of attempted insult?

If you think this is about memory or knowledge, then you kind of missed my point: The TSA isn't necessary to stop hijackings. As you went all internet flamebait to explain, hijackings were already being stopped by the security we had. Yes I agree, that was my point.

The TSA isn't going to stop anything new. It is theater - in the most facist sense.

“It would be devastating if one of our major banks was hit, because they’re so interconnected.”

Is that NSA for "It be a shame if you had trouble with the health department in this fine establishment"?

Seriously? Aside from the obvious event that justified this nonsense, I don't remember a lot of planes getting hijacked in the US before the TSA showed up. And we didn't need the TSA to stop those 9/11 fuckers - we just needed some FBI agents to put down their donuts and respond to reports of shady characters learning to fly planes while not giving a damn about landing them. Better cockpit doors and armed pilots would also have stopped them...

Doubtful the TSA would have done much to stop the "terrorists that want to take our freedoms" on 9/11. But the TSA has gotten real good at the "take our freedoms" part.

Reminds me more of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...