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There is concern amongst countries in the area. There are many territorial disagreements. Both that and pressure to host bases etc in exchange for secure access to US markets. The …

What the article didn't mention was that the US has pirated (ahem) "commandeered" Iranian oil tankers as well. This is an ongoing dispute between these two countries. Iran violates…

See reddit.com/r/keto to start.

Make robots pay the equivalent income tax as the people they displaced.

I think that people must move past the belief in "heroism" as a job function and understand that many companies (not all) are parasitic creatures which finagle to charge economic r…

Not an economist but B.A. Econ here. (Comp sci degree/career came later.) The difference is the product. In the products these companies sell, especially for us, with web based sof…

I would refine "globalism and capitalism" to just "corporatism". It really is socialism for companies and capitalism for you and I. Patent laws suit big Pharma. Trade law and healt…

Whenever relations with nuclear powers are concerned, trust between these governments is an important issue for everyone. I don't think anyone has claimed that there was a conspira…

That's the also the foundation of the political system. Whomever is behind these ads (may well be the Russian government, or may not) should get in line far behind everyone else.

The Wikileaks style organization would have to vet the results and deem them as legit before any release. And then release to relevant authorities.

How about a system where accusations are entered and kept encrypted until enough actual people enter similar ones and the info is released (maybe to a Wikileaks type organization f…

A difficult thing to describe. Joy Division was a product of a man tortured by his internal demons. To me, their music was never really about the usual topics. It was about the a d…

I wonder how much the Trump administration's insistence that NATO allies spend the full 2% of GDP on defense is so that these planes are within budget? For the US, I'd bet the prim…

Would it be possible to copyright our names and use DMCA takedown notices? Just a random thought.

Armchair medical advice here: 1) see a doc. While there, along with other checks, check for diabeties and insulin resistance. The tests that don't require testing glucose levels af…

I think that their desire for safety is not valid either. If an immigrant population believes they are unwanted by the majority, they'll tend to have "no skin in the game" for the …

I think that there is a second assumption which is overlooked: Hypothetically, let us assume that the Russians did break in and steal emails etc. Governments do so all the time so …

I appear to have them under control now. I have been on a Ketogentic ( Not saying others will have the same experience but Keto is one treatment for various neurologic issues. I ce…

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/15/m... Is child poverty an issue or is it not? Is it left to the schools to correct? Finland is the best in the world for c…

I don't think there needs to be war. I don't think government is the enemy--it is the corruption within government. People fighting the state directly will only accomplish a bloody…

While we, the techno intelligencia, discuss how to manage technological change against the powerful security state, it is probably the case that the more desperate will just start …

There are other costs outside of the US also: Given that the NSA is so aggressive (all pipes being suspect now) the changes politically demanded will: -lessen convenience of all so…

IM(Paranoid)O, it puts the "inadvertent" collection of SSIDs while driving down every street taking pictures for Google View into a new context. They gave a simply implausible expl…

I would have thought that it would worsen big business yet be great for independent consultants setting up their clients' own private email and file sharing operations. A net posit…

?The last thing society needs it his talent being co-opted. His software is a clever little tool and helps to strike a balance between overarching security organizations and the ci…