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Comment Re:The mention of Valentina Tereshkova is ridiculo (Score 2) 200

I don't think that the USSR were making any particular statement about gender politics. They were simply looking to score another 'first'.

There's also a suspicion that their statement was that their space industry was so advanced, that they could send up even a woman. So the exact opposite of a positive gender equality message.

Comment Re:So what qualifies? (Score 1) 489

Are you really unable to see the difference between expressing an opinion (however controversial), and threatening to assault someone?

Your definition of trolling is also totally skewed. It is either;

* voicing an opinion (that you may not actually hold) for the sole purpose of getting a rise out of someone
* threatening people online

The second definition is relatively new and an invention of media, but we're stuck with it. But either way, trolling is not expressing an opinion that others may disagree with.

Comment Re:Trading Freedom for Security? (Score 1) 264

I'm really looking forward to the date when a politician makes a speech regarding the end of these temporary "for some time to come" shifts.

Happily, we have reached the point where the authorities no longer need these measures. So we will be putting and end to what we always suggested was only a temporary inconvenience. We are freely relinquishing these powers and the balance between freedom and security is restored."

Somehow I doubt this will ever happen and I can't remember it ever happening before. Funny that, isn't it?

Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 1) 367

The purpose of testing is to collect data about the system itself and how it operates in end user environments; this is collecting information about the end users themselves rather than just the machine

The end user is part of the end user environment. Some would even say they're the most important part of it.

This is a non-story. If you don't want your Windows 10 use to be monitored then maybe don't enroll in a program for testing Windows 10, and don't use it for your everyday computing.

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Obama Presses China On Global Warming 261

HughPickens.com writes: The NY Times reports that President Obama spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Summit and challenged China to make the same effort to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions and join a worldwide campaign to curb global warming. Obama's words were directly focused on putting the onus on China, an essential partner of the U.S. if a global climate treaty is to be negotiated by 2015. The U.S. and China bear a "special responsibility to lead," said Obama. "That's what big nations have to do." The U.S., Obama said, would meet a pledge to reduce its carbon emissions by 17 percent, from 2005 levels, by 2020 — a goal that is in large part expected to be met through proposed EPA regulation.

There were indications that China might be ready with its own plan, although many experts say they will be skeptical until Chinese officials reveal the details. A senior Chinese official said his country would try to reach a peak level of carbon emissions "as early as possible." This suggests the Chinese government, struggling with air pollution so extreme that it has threatened economic growth, regularly kept millions of children indoors and ignited street protests, was determined to show faster progress in curbing emissions. In recent years, the Chinese government has sent other signals about addressing carbon pollution, some of them encouraging to environmental experts. "Five years ago, it was almost unimaginable to discuss China putting a cap on carbon, but now that is happening," said Lo Sze Ping, chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund's office in Beijing. "Chinese leaders have seen that it is imperative to move toward a low-carbon economy."

Comment Re:This is bullshit from start to finish (Score 1) 494

but it would certainly be rational for us to impose one to pay for the cost of maintaining roads to enable good to travel to and from Scotland.

Well this has to be the stupidest idea here.

Does France charge Spain for the cost of maintaining roads to and from Spain? Or do they maybe realise that roads go both ways, as does the goods on it.

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