With even various EU countries now being put on the blacklist, they sure are doing everything they can to make it attractive for the EU to join the BRICS and create a global competitor to NVIDIA.

Based on what it says on gimp.org, Gimp 3 doesn't seem to have been released. In fact, it missed its predicted release date in June. It doesn't look like there has been an RC release and the latest development snapshot says that it "might be one of the most unstable releases in the 2.99 series".

I find it quite surprising that so many comments seem to think it is entirely OK for the US to spy on the entire planet and that Julian Assange has been locked away for this long to expose the war crimes of the US and its allies - without there being any reasonable grounds for it. That the US should have any grounds for getting Assange for having shown what they have done to civilians around the world is quite absurd. We all know what this means for any future whistle blower: You will be locked away for more than a decade, losing some of the most important years of your life. What Sweden, the UK, and the US have done here will continue to hurt freedom of the press and freedom of speech for decades to come.

Those are two different categories. Watching sex and having sex (with another person) are not the same.

What is the point of avoiding creating sexual images? I get that celebrities don't want to be portrayed in sexual poses. But what is the problem of having completely fictional characters show nudity or have sex? Would it not help to cut down on abusive relations within the porn industry? Is this just Anglo-Saxon Puritanism run amok or is there some good explanationon why to avoid this?

The point here is "short term". The storage of the nuclear waste for thousands of years will translate into a constant usage of power.

That poilcy doesn't work in other languages. Try searching for "Hillary Clinton kri" in Germany and one of the suggestions is "Hillary Clinton Kriegsverbrecher" (war criminal). Same in Norwegian with general secretary of NATO: "Jens Stoltenberg kri" gives both "krigsforbryter" (war criminal) and "kriminell" (criminal).

Apparently that is an urban myth. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M...

Check out the list of reasons for why certain publishers are on the list: http://scholarlyoa.com/other-p... They include things such as: "Very few editorial board members from the west despite claiming to be International'" "Much of the authors’ guidelines is copied from other sites." "The journal has a very broad coverage to attract more author fees, and there are already many journals with a similar coverage — there is no authentic need for this new journal. It’s just being done for the profit." "There no indication of the journal’s digital preservation policies." Just to mention a few.

Not by Science Mag, but by others. Had you included the link to your cited text this would have become apparent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... Also I have sent my draft in to a journal on Mr. Beall's list and received a reasonable, although not super-informed response, so I let the text be published in that journal. Of course expensive western journals and editorials would prefer if everyone only accepted them and was willing to continue financing their own scheme. If one open access journal has published crap, it is proof that this particular journal doesn't have the right procedures in place, not that this is the case for all open access journals, or even all open access journals from India or from the third world. It seems like an extension of cultural and economic imperialism to insist on first world journals being the only thing valid.

Venezuelan government's response: The telephone company is to blame. This happened in several Latin american countries. http://www.telesurtv.net/artic... Makes sense if you think about it: Why would one want to only censor Twitter images? Will Slashdot come out openly in favor of a coup d'etat in a European country if they have temporarily internet connection problems?

You should check out BookJS ( http://sourcefabric.github.io/BookJS/ ). It's made so you can design book pages in the Chrome browser and create PDFs using the browser's print-to-pdf function. it can handle footnotes, floats, margin notes, etc. . It's being used in Fidus Writer ( http://www.fiduswriter.org/ ) and Booktype ( http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/ ). However, going on with Fidus writer, I am less sure that book editing can be directly done woith HTML, without a large amount of Javascript, basically because the contenteditable feature is so broken in most browsers. I have filed tickets with Chrome and Firefox.

You are welcome to program that part as well. One main problem is that firefox is even more broken than Chrome/Safari when it comes to many editing issues.

and yes, I will look into fixing my h key. ;)