We know some details about the nurse that was infected in spain: She touched her face with her hands before disinfecting them.

Yes, protocol wasn't followed. But here's the point: You need to follow protocol 100% of the time to be safe. You only need to make one mistake to be infected. For a virus with such a crazy lethality rate, that's not good. Treating an ebola patient is a lot like playing russian roulette.

Very few of the people who are now dead licked it. Yes, the media loves fear stories and it's overblown, but you're underblowing it.

Who thought that bringing Ebola patients into countries not yet infected was a smart idea? Apparently, the thought of an american dying in Africa like all those niggers was too much for someone to stand, yes? Newsflash: The virus isn't racist, it doesn't give a fuck if you're a rich american or a starving african.

We have the same in Europe. At least one health care worker here has been infected and will probably die because someone thought it's smart to bring people infected with a 90% lethality virus home for treatment. Good job.

We cannot contain these viruses, and our assumption that we in the west are better than those primitives in Africa and we will certain contain it to the hospital wards has been smashed. Like basically anyone who's not an idiot could have guessed.

(and for the mentally challenged readers: Of course my use of "niggers" and "primitives" is to outline the very hubris I criticise. If you think I'm a racist, you're projecting too much of yourself into my words...)

The moment I get spam about Kickstarter projects, I'll delete my account there. Who else?

Kickstarter is a cool concept, but one of the things that made it cool is that at its core, it has this idea of presenting your idea and letting people come to you. The more you reverse it, by "reaching out" (marketing speak) aka spamming (real human speak) people with your project, the more it is simply and advertisement platform. And nobody gives a flying fuck about advertisement platforms, as we can see from the absence of the Internet equivalent of the shopping channel.

I'm from Germany. Ever since it was leaked that the NSA was spying so extensively on our government that by international standards it could reasonably be considered an act of war, I wonder what it'll take for our USA-lapdog chancellor to grow a spine and do more than giving Obama a stern talk.

And here I was watching from Europe thinking that this question had been settled years ago. Nobody else in the world is taking the polygraph seriously, it's a leftover from the time shortly after WW2 when too optimistic pseudo-scientists (mostly, some scientists as well) thought very soon now technology will solve every problem of the human race.

We're not talking radio-controlled. These drones use networking technology, and if their IP address is pingable from your location is not exactly the major point.

Given that many drone victims are civilians, in a conflict that is not officially a war, the only difference left seems to be that the murderers are not civilians. That's one of the flimsiest excuses ever to call something by a different name.

It's not yet successful (hearing in 2015), and anyone can bring a lawsuit for any stupid reason. But if they succeed, I'll lose what's left of my faith in humanity.

Mod parent up. The first "online murder" happened the day they put weapons on a drone. TFA is just the usual news-that-try-to-scare-you bullshit.

Let me know when you've succeeded to sue a company in court for some marketing statements they made to the press.

I'm not surprised at all.

If they put it in writing, you can probably sue them on it. If I were operating in the USA, known for having more lawyers than mosquitos, I would avoid absolutely anything that has the slightest chance of landing me in court.

IOW, if I planned to make a promise to my customers, but without giving a free "sue me" card to some asshole who wants to lawyer-abuse me because one i wasn't dotted or one t wasn't crossed, then a public CEO announcement would be exactly what I'd do, especially if my CEO had such a good reputation. To any reasonable person, he's honour-bound to stand true to his word, but the ambulance-chaser, he can tell to fuck off and die.

Frankly speaking, the whole thing is total bogus.

If you fly your car from airport to airport anyways, why not use the car transport train concept? Drive your car into a transport plane together with 20 other cars, fly to your destination, drive off. And yes, the chances of a terrorist attack (50 dead on average, few terrorists would bother) are much lower than the chances of crashing on the highway while driving the old way.

But no, we have our "personal transport". All for the glory of having total freedom - of standing in a traffic jam. But hey, at least you sit in your own car instead of a bus or train...

Meanwhile, in the real world, the trend is rapidly moving away from personal transport vehicles. Short-term rental cars that you pick up in the street next door are already replacing cars for people living in the center of cities. Now if the regular rental companies would stop being total fucktards, I would use them a lot more often, too.

As someone living in the city, I barely see the need for a personal car anymore, why would I want a personal plane?
Put the money into improving car rentals and air traffic. When you fly in a private jet, you arrive at the airport 10 minutes before take-off, drink a coffee and walk straight into your plane. If you are unlucky, the metal detector is in use that day and it adds 30 seconds to your boarding time.

Comfortable, convenient air traffic is absolutely possible. Airlines simply haven't figured out how to manage it, mostly because we as customers are fucked up in the mind and accept all the torture. Someone who figures out how to satisfy all the regulations while providing an experience more like private jet travel, at a price not too much above regular air fare would instantly destroy the airline business world.

Flying car, on the other hand, was a revolutionary idea in the 50s. Today, it's worth a yawn.

Look at the takeoff video. It looks tiny compared to a fucking Chessna, and it looks a lot more fragile. Flying that thing is for the very daring. From what I see in the video, how it's moving shortly before taking off, even a moderate crosswind will make it the most dangerous flight experience you've had in your career.

This is another part I don't get. Unless you're doing kid movies, everyone in your audience has seen enough human being naked to know exactly what to expect. What's so special about nude scenes in movies, nude picture and all this skin fixation? Is it another american prude thing that us europeans will never understand?

Depending on the situation, but in general: Yes.

I've learnt enough martial arts to understand that if you are attacked, you defend yourself, from the go and without holding back. Until you know the capabilities of your opponent, assume the worst. If you don't, you might not have time to regret it.

But I still wouldn't start a fight with a woman, even in situations where I would initiate violence against a men. I'm fairly pacifistic, so those aren't many.

So raping women in video games is cause for alarm, but all the men that get beaten, tortured and killed, often brutally, is just business as usual, yes?

What's so special about rape to single it out? Yes, it's a horrible crime. So is cutting off someones hands, for example, which was common practice in several african civil wars. Make a Google search if you want to see pictures that you will never forget in your life.

That's just the old "violent games turn players into killers" argument, re-hashed. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now.

Actually, it is hard to believe. All the lone straight men I know are either terrified of women (the geek stereotype) or longing for a woman (the more mainstream type). Men who hate women exist, but so do women who hate men and if you claim either of those has anything whatsoever to do with video games, the burden of proof lies with you.

As the famous quote goes: You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Parts of these claims can be checked for and verified or falsified. So far, research has shown that this "behaviour shown in books/movies/games (pick, depending on the century you were born in) translates into thinking and/or behaviour in the real world" is at best a long shot.

No, it shows that you're a coward. Freedom is this thing you occasionally have to defend, even if it means a bit of discomfort to you. People died to establish this freedom for us, the least we can do to respect that is to use it without fear.