What on Earth is going on in the world today? It's gone mad

[Murat B.]

It is the 50th. anniversary of the civil rights protests in Selma today. I am very confused as to how meaningful improvement is ever going to be achieved when the centrepiece of the protests, the bridge, is still named after the grand dragon of Alabama KKK.

 

[calitennis127]

It is the 50th. anniversary of the civil rights protests in Selma today. I am very confused as to how meaningful improvement is ever going to be achieved when the centrepiece of the protests, the bridge, is still named after the grand dragon of Alabama KKK.

The main problem is that all of this marching and protesting is just a movement for making the government an entirely intrusive monster that forces equality of outcome and destroys human freedom in the name of "democracy".

 

[Murat B.]

The Germanwings crash is another horrific and puzzling tragedy.

No distress call? Steady decline for 8 minutes?

Condolences to the family and friends of the perished. Even the black box was mangled so obviously nobody had a chance...

 

[Murat B.]

Well , it turns out the co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit, did not let anyone in and crashed the plane. What can one say to that?

 

[tented]

Well , it turns out the co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit, did not let anyone in and crashed the plane. What can one say to that?

My true thoughts would require a bunch of words which would just be filtered out anyway.

Ultimately, it's a terrible tragedy. Why do that to all of those innocent people? And why didn't they adopt the same policy as the US after 9/11, of not allowing only one person to be in the cockpit? This could have been avoided.

 

[DarthFed]

Anyone following the Aaron Hernandez case? It is mercifully coming to an end soon and hopefully with a guilty verdict.

 

[Murat B.]

Anyone following the Aaron Hernandez case? It is mercifully coming to an end soon and hopefully with a guilty verdict.

I would not hold my breath on that . Had he been charged with accessory after the fact, most likely. With murder, I am afraid there might be a couple of jury members that might not be satisfied with just circumstantial evidence. I hope I am wrong.:s

 

[Murat B.]

Hernandez guilty, murder 1. Comes with mandatory life without parole.

 

[DarthFed]

Glad he was found guilty. It's pretty clear he was but that little detail they call beyond reasonable doubt made it a serious possibility he would walk. Also, the fact they deliberated for 7 days made me think there was a chance for a hung jury.

I was shocked that the defense admitted he was at the scene at the time of the murder and the jurors apparently noted that to be a big reason they found him guilty. Without that you have a crazy amount of circumstantial evidence but no witnesses, no murder weapon, and no concrete motive. You don't need all or any of those (clearly) but when you factor it all in I didn't ever see this as a slam dunk case.

Even if he was found innocent here he wouldn't have been going anywhere. Good ol' Aaron will now be tried for a double murder in Boston. No death penalty in Massachusetts so it barely matters, I guess the only thing it could do is add a bit of insurance in case this guilty verdict is overturned on appeal for some reason.

 

[calitennis127]

Apparently 14 Christians were thrown off a boat in Italy last week, and a few more were beheaded in Libya. I don't know by who though. I wonder if Jon Stewart would bring this up on the Daily Show as a counter-balance to his satire of anti-Shariah law Alabamans though? We all know he is very open-minded and balanced in his views.

 

[Front242]

The EmDrive, an experimental propulsion device, may be producing a warp field.

According to posts on the NASA Space Flight forum, when lasers were fired into the EmDrive resonance chamber, it was found that some of the beams were travelling faster than the speed of light.

If this is true, then it would mean that the EmDrive is producing a warp field or bubble. A forum post says that "this signature (the interference pattern) on the EmDrive looks just like what a warp bubble looks like. And the math behind the warp bubble apparently matches the interference pattern found in the EmDrive."

Nothing has been confirmed yet, but it could mean that NASA is one step closer to achieving faster than light travel. This will be especially useful if there are any developments in its renewed search for extraterrestrial life.

http://me.ign.com/en/tech/105570/news/nasa-may-have-invented-a-warp-drive

 

[Kieran]

The EmDrive, an experimental propulsion device, may be producing a warp field.

According to posts on the NASA Space Flight forum, when lasers were fired into the EmDrive resonance chamber, it was found that some of the beams were travelling faster than the speed of light.

If this is true, then it would mean that the EmDrive is producing a warp field or bubble. A forum post says that "this signature (the interference pattern) on the EmDrive looks just like what a warp bubble looks like. And the math behind the warp bubble apparently matches the interference pattern found in the EmDrive."

Nothing has been confirmed yet, but it could mean that NASA is one step closer to achieving faster than light travel. This will be especially useful if there are any developments in its renewed search for extraterrestrial life.

http://me.ign.com/en/tech/105570/news/nasa-may-have-invented-a-warp-drive

Warp speed, as in, Star Trek? Incredible times we live in...

 

[Federberg]

What a fantastic election result! Better than my wildest expectations.

I thought this article neatly summed up the Labour parties problems..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politics-blog/11591320/Why-did-Labour-lose-this-election-It-never-tried-to-win-it.html

 

[Kieran]

The pollsters called this one wrong all along. It was still within the margins for error, but on the outside edges, and the Tories decimated the Lib Dems, which is no loss for Britain, and the SNP obliterated Labour in Scotland, which is an interesting riposte to the independence referendum.

I'm glad Cameron won, he's a responsible leader and he's taking the right course with regards to the bureaucratic tyrants in Berlin, aka The EU. He has a strong hand there, and since Britain is our biggest trading partners in Ireland, I hope that whatever caged he rattles over there helps wakes us up too...

 

[britbox]

An SNP/Labour coalition would have been the worst imagineable scenario for the UK so glad the Tories won this one. Bit surprised at the scale of it though - I didn't think they'd get an overall majority.

 

[Federberg]

An SNP/Labour coalition would have been the worst imagineable scenario for the UK so glad the Tories won this one. Bit surprised at the scale of it though - I didn't think they'd get an overall majority.

I was shocked. I had gone to bed and was about to turn the lights off when I looked at exchange rates one last time and I saw that the pound had jumped massively. It was obvious that the exit polls had come out hugely in favour of the Tories so I switched on the beeb and stayed up for hours. I had a really busy day the next day helping clients get out of their 'fear trades'. It was a happy day on one hand, but an extremely difficult and exhausting day on the other! :clap

I've been saying it for months, when voters enter that poll booth, it's hard to imagine that many won't be put off by electing Miliband as PM. It's the Kinnock effect all over again

 

[Murat B.]

Here is an article that might stir up some feces and it is getting a lot of air time:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

 

[Federberg]

Jeepers! It's like war and peace! I've read about a quarter of it, as my lunch time treat. I'll have to tackle the rest later. With these things it's always tough to find out what the actual truth is. I wouldn't be shocked if this was the truth, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Obama-truth is the actual truth. After all it's in the interests of the Pakistani intelligence services to create their own counter-narrative that puts them in a better light.

 

[Murat B.]

For this article to be correct, so many different countries and intelligence services have to lie it is not even funny...

 

[Federberg]

^Agreed!