deanb Posted January 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2015 It seems like a decent summing up of the whole thing to me. often when you go to a news website you have to read half a dozen articles to get the whole story as each one just give info on the latest occurrence. Pretty much one of my main complaints of BBC News, if you come to an event a day, or even a few hours, late then it's whatever the current info is and rarely like a recap or hub page except for a handful of stories. Can make it hard to follow or find out what's up apart from working out from context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 I say that's a good response to what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Wow, apparently France is even more willing to go full-on police state at the drop of a hat than the US is... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/france-terror-crackdown_n_6469726.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Well, it is France we are talking about. Despite the surrendering stereotype, historically they're actually pretty hardcore... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Bonus points for noticing Turban+Chin and Eyeballs + Nose = Crudely Drawn Penis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Well, it is France we are talking about. Despite the surrendering stereotype, historically they're actually pretty hardcore... Yeah, I recently learned they have the 5th largest military budget in the world, which blew my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 France is home of the Foreign Legion, which remains hardcore. Foreigners who join and are wounded or killed are immediately made French citizens under the concept that they are French for having spilled blood for France. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I truly wonder about the American national curriculum sometime. I assume they teach you about the proxy war France had with British back in the day? Anyway in the wake of a relatively large terror attack, one where it's quite unlikely being lone agents, it makes sense to have a blast around and make sure they don't let any one else carry out much the same attack within a few weeks of the first. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I'm not saying it doesn't make any sense why you would want to do those things, but Jesus Christ, convicting and sentencing people to years in prison within a couple of days of their arrest? How could they possibly have had an adequate opportunity to defend themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I'm maybe not reading the article closely enough, but where was anyone sentenced? It just says 54 were arrested. Likely majorty already on lists to begin with, just no prior actions taken because previously there wasn't a reason to think they'd do much actively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 The Justice Ministry said the 54 people included four minors and several had already been convicted under special measures for immediate sentencing. Inciting terrorism can bring a 5-year prison term -- or up to 7 years for inciting terrorism online. Emphasis added. Yeah, I have no problem with arresting a bunch of people, provided they have adequate evidence to support it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 See I'm reading that as them being repeat offenders, as in they had ...well "already been convicted". But IANAL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 lol, well neither is whoever wrote that for the Huff Post, but I think the part about "under special measures for immediate sentencing" at least heavily implies that it's referring to new convictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Could be that they have pleaded (pled?) guilty. That would mean you can jump to sentencing right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hp632 Greece had their general election and have a new party in, and the guy tipped to be their finance minister is Yanis Varoufakis, previously the economics advisor for Valve. The guy who came up with most the ideas for the market place, trading cards, and others (though I think hats were there before him). http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/author/yanis/ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2015 http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/ Quite an insteresting little article on how Google Maps is displayed around the world, taking into account border disputes and such. Bit of a shame the images are so small/don't zoom. I wonder what Cornwall looks like from inside Cornwall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Would love to see ones for the Falklands, Jerusalem and the Gaza strip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Well I see it as "Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)", but in Argentina they see it as "Islas Malvinas" It's kinda weird we get the Argentinian name in brackets, but they don't get ours. I suspect (given it's the exact same name in the "CIA Factbook") we're seeing the US's "we're neutral on this dispute" map rather than a UK "we're pretty biased on this" map. As for Gaza and Isreal that whole area is dotted n dashed lines for me: (I post this so others might maybe post there's. That includes an NA view of Falklands) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 26, 2015 Report Share Posted June 26, 2015 Here's the US views. Looks pretty much the same: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/explosion-chinese-port-city-tianjin So big ass explosion in China. I imagine it'll be some time before we fully find out the cause, and the eventual causality toll (it was 7 when I went to bed, 17 here and 50+ last I checked, with hundreds injured). So far it sounds like it was a fire at a petrol station (there's a bunch of VW's nearby so I imagine it's used to fill up cars and port vehicles), which then set an explosives cache on fire and explosives do what explosive do. Thankfully it seems that due to being at 4AM the port was pretty much empty at the time, given the size of the explosion and images of the destruction around if it was mid-day then there would be a lot higher death toll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Well, you don't have to die to have your and your love ones lives to be royally fucked up. The injuries are going to be bad, maybe to the point that I would pity that they survived. Like come on, look at how close some of those high rises are to the explosions. The first explosion would shatter most if not all the windows. Not too sure how and if I want to know what can happen during the second explosion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 17, 2015 Report Share Posted September 17, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34275604 Landmines is one of the most shittiest weapon known to man so to see it (as far as record show) cleared from an entire country is unbelievably awesome. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 The EPA says Volkswagen diesel cars sold in the US between 2009 and 2015 had special software that would only activate their emission control systems when the vehicles were being tested to ensure they complied with regulations, then turn them off during regular driving. VW admitted it after they were discovered. That's just... holy shit. That is some next level flagrantly illegal activity right there. When the emissions controls are turned off the cars can emit as much as 40x the legal level of pollutants into the air. The EPA can impose a fine of $37,500 per vehicle sold in violation of the regulations, meaning the total fine could be $18 billion (something tells me it won't be that high). VW's CEO has apologized: "I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public," Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen's CEO, said in a statement. "We will cooperate fully with the responsible agencies, with transparency and urgency, to clearly, openly and completely establish all of the facts of this case." Read: "We would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling regulatory agencies." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mr. GOH! Posted September 21, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 (edited) Hope the EPA and DoJ bring down the hammer. VW essentially defrauded every person who bought a a car with a TDI engine over the past five or so years and the resale value of those sorts of cars will bottom out quickly. With this, VW has fucked over its customers, the public, its investors, and its innocent employees. Edited September 21, 2015 by Mr. GOH! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 21, 2015 Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 Yeah, I would love to see an $18 billion fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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