If this news is reliable (there have been other polls which show more support for Assad regime than for rebels), it is woth to notice that majority of Syrians seem to support Assad regime instead of the rebels, many of which are foreign islamists:

http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/05/31/nato-data-assad-winning-the-war-for-syrians-hearts-and-minds/

And it was Saddas regime which suggested solving the conflict by having elections, but the rebels refused this offer. I wonder why...

And it is worth to remember, that the illegal attack by USA to Iraq caused the death of hundreths of thousands of people (perhaps even a million) and Iraq might have been better of with Saddam, as evil as he was. I don't think Syria needs that kind of "help".

Didn't some rebels in Turkey get caught with some dangerous chemicals quite recenly? And since spring, there has been rumours about doing a false flag operation by using chemical weapons in Syria.

Have you considered that it could be a false flag operation and that military action by foreign countries may just cause even more difficult problems and even genocide against minority groups, like Christians by the rebels?:

http://cdn.storyleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/yahoo-news-syria-chemical-attack.png

If prosecutor is allowed to present secret evidence to the judge, the defence lawyers should also have the right to present their own secret evidence that the prosecutor will not be able to see/hear. I wonder how fair they would find it...

For example, in genetical studies sex is often important information. It is also used as a quality control measure. If the recorded sex doesn't match with the results of genetical testing, it can cause a lot of trouble. There may be a "witch hunt" to check if somebody has mixed up samples or sample information and the results of whole families may have to be thrown out, if there is suspicion that there is some kind of sample/pedigree mix up. However, it is typically possible to have other values than just male or female as the sex. Typically allowed values are "unknown" and "don't want to tell you".

And there are other valid reasons for recording sex, like doing statistics where you want to do comparision between sexes. And I personally wouldn't like to receive advertisements that are targeted for women as I am unlikely to be interested in them and they just waste my time. However, I think it is good to give the option of not giving the sex, if you don't want to give it. Many people oppose saving any unneccesary personal information, including sex, to different databases, web sites etc.

In Finnish there is no tradition of replacing "Ã" with "oe" and it looks very odd. If it is too hard to write YlÃnen, I would prefer Ylonen over Yloenen.

In most cases you are able to understand/guess the Finnish words correctly even if you write "a" instead of "Ã" or "o" instead of "Ã" -- especially if they are in a sentence that has many words giving more context. However, there are (possibly dangerous) exceptions, like "ala" (= begin/start) and "ÃlÃ" (= don't).

I wonder how much of the news and comments was more or less direct propaganda work by USA and Israel. And attacking Iraq, had been the plan of Project for the New American Century for several years. Something similar seems to be happening to Iran at the moment.

In practise, fighter plane has to "see" the enemy plane in order to to attack it. If radar is jammed and optical sensors are blinded by using laser, the drones might lose even against World War II fighter planes. On theory, you could use laser to blind fighter pilot as well, although there is a treaty against deliberately causing permanent blindness using laser.

What is wrong/unpleasant in that video? I didn't watch the entire video as it is so long, I watched only random parts of it, but IMHO he sounded quite pleasant in it.

Maybe this is some kind of cultural thing, because I am Finnish. On the other hand, I find that sometimes he uses a bit too harsh language on mailing lists.

It will be interesting to see what the price will be for the tablet. I am quite interested having Linux on my devices instead of Android or Windows, which both have privacy issues and lack of total user control of the device.

Devices like this. is something that other continents need as well. It hope this starts new trend which helps to grow market share of (pure) Linux devices.

If the food doesn't have very high caloric "density", normal body should at some point start signalling that you have eaten enough. First hunger disappears and if you still force yourself to continue eating, you will start feeling nauseous and if you ignore that, at some point you start vomiting. However, some foods don't trigger that reactions fast enough compared to the calories they contain and there are sick people, like bulimics or persons with Prader-Willi syndrome, where this mechanism doesn't seem to work well enough, which cause them to eat extreme amounts.

And before eating anything else, you should start by eating vegetables with low amount of energy, like cucumber, lettuce etc. And do it without pouring enormous amounts of fatty salad dressings on top of them.

And you should stop eating before your stomach is full. It is enough to eat as much to take away the hunger. And you should use small drinking glasses, plates etc, because it helps to keep the amount of food you eat lower.

And if this doesn't help, start calculating calories and changing the content of food and drinks to something that has less calories (and take smaller amounts of them). Laws of nature guarantee that you lose weight if you just cut enough the amount of calories you get from your food and drinks. It is just question of making this more pleasant, by choosing right kind of food, that helps take away your hunger without a lot of calories.

Being obese or uneducated are things that people are typically able to change. Very poor people in third world countries might not have possibility of going to school, having libraries etc, but even they can choose to just eat less and lose weight.

Human body cannot get energy out of nothing. Human body has to maintain body temperature which is usually above the surrounding temperature and this takes constant energy. And if you eat nothing or just little, the body has no other choice than start getting the energy by burning fat and other human tissues.

However, it is worth to notice that excessive eating doesn't always has to cause obesity. For example, if you have malabsorption, a large portion of the energy that would have been available in the food, just goes directly through your intestine. That is not against laws of nature. However, getting energy out of nothing, is against laws of nature. You cannot store more energy as a fat, than the amount of energy your food has (and in reality your body has to create heat etc and cannot store all that energy as fat).