The New Place

Doc wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 12:10 pm

http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and- ... cle/525055

Will blockchain replace the web?

Once again, Betteridge's Law of Headlines is proven correct. ("Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.")

"US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council" http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/us-withdraws-from-un-human-rights-council-10449488 A good start . . . Once the US has subverted the UN in the way it did the League of Nations, we may expect the same consequences... By "subverted" I guess you mea...

I wish people would stop seeing Russia as a threat. Russia is much less of a threat than a trigger happy US. But one shouldn't threaten Russia by keeping building NATO bases around Russia, or by trying to subvert Russian interests in its near abroad. The attempt at having the Ukraine expelling Russ...

Having a reliable picture of North Korea is not easy. It's actually pretty easy to see the accounts from people who have escaped from there. But you've long since proven capable of ignoring anything that doesn't support an anti-American narrative and believing anything that does, no matter how gull...

And for all that, some parts of the West Indies are actually upper income. Bermuda and the Caymans are wealthier than, say, Australia. On paper? Nope. Bermuda is like if you put Beverly Hills on a rock in the middle of the ocean. Bermudians are so well off that they have to import people from elsew...

cassowary wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 3:15 pm

One by one the snakes are leaving the swamp. Drain the swamp.

The alligators may change, but the swamp remains the same.

cassowary wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:23 am

I must remind my black liberal Friend who is always reflexively complaining about discrimination. The only groups facing institutional discrimination are Asians and whites.

Well, until you look at police brutality statistics.

neverfail wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 17, 2018 12:08 am

US politics attracts some truly grubby characters, doesn't it?

Yes, although "US" is a needless qualifier there.

Mr. Perfect wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:37 pm

We need a big stack of Democrats in jail. Jails full of Democrats.

That's what drug prohibition is for, so I suppose there's a precedent.

No, never fail. Populism means promising popular policies regardless whether it is good for the people. Who decides what is "good" for the people? Intellectualy superior people like you?... :D That's why the wise Greeks decided that people would be chosen for office by lottery, and could only stay ...