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16501
« on: August 28, 2014, 11:32:04 AM »
Using that logic both France and the UK lost WW2.
Spoiler It's not meant to be serious <.<
16502
« on: August 28, 2014, 10:33:33 AM »
That war that the UK did not win?
>Westminster status: Unburned >Whitehouse status: Ashes We won alright .-.
16503
« on: August 28, 2014, 10:13:11 AM »
This is too good. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-28958365Spoiler Four male college students at the North Carolina State University are developing a new kind of nail polish that changes colour in the presence of date-rape drugs, like GHB and Rohypnol. The goal of their company, Undercover Colors, is "to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves," specifically against sexual assault, they said on their Facebook Page. "With our nail polish, any woman will be empowered to discreetly ensure her safety by simply stirring her drink with her finger," they said. "If her nail polish changes colour, she'll know that something is wrong." Undercover Colors initially garnered praise, with hundreds of thousands of likes and shares across Facebook and Twitter. "There are already bulky devices that can be used to test drinks for date rape drugs," writes Adam Clark Estes for Gizmodo . "But it's not necessarily easy to carry these things around on a night out and whip them out at bars." However, the inevitable internet backlash came from a surprising source - anti-rape advocates. Tweet: Rape prevention nail polish sounds like a great idea but I'm not sure how you're going to get men to wear it. (@andreagrimes)  "I'm appreciative that young men like want to curb sexual assault, but anything that puts the onus on women to 'discreetly' keep from being raped misses the point," writes Jessica Valenti for the Guardian. "We should be trying to stop rape, not just individually avoid it." Valenti argues that promoting products like Undercover Colors is not only ineffective, but also can lead to "victim-blaming," if women don't take all the suggested precautions. Tweet: How about women don't have to wear a special nail polish and dunk thier fingers in every cocktail not to get raped (@lindywest)  "Women are already expected to work hard to prevent themselves from becoming the victims of sexual assault," writes Tara Culp-Ressler for Think Progress. "Now, remembering to put on anti-rape nail polish and discreetly slip a finger into each drink might be added to that ever-growing checklist-something that actually reinforces a pervasive rape culture in our society." Additionally, date-rape drugs are not necessarily a factor in the majority of sexual assaults as much as alcohol. Tweet: This new nail polish that can detect the date rape drug is great if you think women aren't trying hard enough not to get raped. (@kellyoxford)  Writing for Jezebel, Erin Gloria Ryan says that improving education around sexual assault could prove more beneficial than colour-changing manicures. "Teach men that having sex with women too incapacitated to consent is rape," she writes. I've embedded the whole article and the pics/tweets in the spoiler so you don't have to go to the site. The tl;dr is that 4 students invent a nail polish that changes colour in the presence of date rape drugs, the idea being that women can discreetly check their drink for anything untoward. Then the Tumblr harpies start on about how rather than this being a good idea it's better to teach men not to rape. I mean, it's not like every human on the planet has to be taught that rape is bad is it? That just generally goes without saying. Same with Murder or Arson, telling everyone again and again that it's bad isn't going to stop it from happening ._.
16504
« on: August 28, 2014, 09:59:54 AM »
I've been a little skeptical of it <.<
Does JonCJG support it? >.>
16505
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:30:36 PM »
£15m must be pocket change to them though ._.
16506
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:21:24 PM »
It was a tactical retreat.
You mean a strategic advance in a backwardly direction?
16507
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:15:56 PM »
....so how do they keep their jobs again?
Give it a week for public opinion to lynch them.
16508
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:15:07 PM »
Prison grapes?
Contraction of Gang. A prison GRape A Grape ._.
16509
« on: August 27, 2014, 08:07:44 PM »
I'm genuinely interested to know how the fuck they can live with themselves.
They let 1400+ children suffer through hell because they were too chicken shit to tackle this problem. Now they are shuffling the blame off onto a PC culture. Yeah, no shit that PC culture is bollocks and contributed but it's their gross negligence that allowed this to happen.
Seriously, what kind of disgusting gutter bastard would say to a child 'nah it's not our problem, who gives a shit?' or to say that it was 'consensual'.
Fucking scum.
16510
« on: August 27, 2014, 08:04:16 PM »
Congrats tumblr keyboard warriors, look
You know this was happening before Tumblr was even created right? But it's a fair enough point, it's idiots like the SJWs that have led to things like this.
16511
« on: August 27, 2014, 07:44:04 PM »
What the hell is going on here?
It looks like a flame war ._.
16512
« on: August 27, 2014, 05:53:49 PM »
It's kind of funny that whenever kinder opens his mouth in Serious it turns into a full on prison grape.
The downside of course is how it tends to derail everything.
16513
« on: August 27, 2014, 05:47:52 PM »
:^)
16514
« on: August 27, 2014, 04:21:59 PM »
What? The OP made it seem much more militant than that. I can definitely agree with asking why people are traveling there in the first place, but I don't think it's necessary to arrest everyone who doesn't want to disclose that information. As long as you're not bringing home a bomb (which is incredibly easy to check), or obviously aiding terrorism, this seems like a situation where a few idiots are messing up the system for everyone.
I think it did but it's also important to know that this is a column run by the mayor of london who is known for being a bit... loopy. This isn't actually being implemented and it's simply what he would like to happen. That being said, arresting everyone who's been to syria/iraq/the middle east is excessive to the point of retardation. Asking them to notify Customs/Borders that they are going out there beforehand will make it easier to keep tabs on them, which whilst it might not be ideal is far better than them simply being allowed to wander in and out of the Caliphate in the making. They of course wouldn't bring bombs back with them, but the knowledge of how to make/hide/operate them would be easy to bring through customs. If you know how to make explosives from household chemicals without googling it, then that has the potential to cause some serious damage. Even if only twenty of them come back like this, and the rest died. They could still kill hundreds with an attack in london and preventing that is important for the obvious reason and the less obvious reason. If yet another terrorist attack by muslims happens in the west, it's going to throw more and more support behind skinhead thugs who want to kill them all. I'd prefer it if the UK didn't end up being run by rightwing nutters (har har at the present government though) and people got along somewhat more easily. ._.
16515
« on: August 27, 2014, 04:12:22 PM »
Both.
Oh right, I've seen a few of the monitors floating around but who got bumped up to mod?
16516
« on: August 27, 2014, 04:00:32 PM »
All the new mods are community forum/private group fags. Many of those circle jerkers have been wanting to take down the flood for years so I have no doubt that they're using their new found authority to "clean house" so to speak.
New mods or monitors?
16517
« on: August 27, 2014, 03:55:49 PM »
Because while it's true that anyone can be a terrorist, that applies to everything. Anyone can be a serial killer. Anyone can be a rapist. That doesn't mean that we have to assume that everyone is. Should more detail and suspicion be put onto people returning from those areas? Of course. Should they be automatically arrested, and presumed to be a terrorist? No, that's idiotic. The fact of the matter is that an extremely slim percentage of Brits going to those areas are actual ISIS supporters. The vast majority aren't terrorists. And that being said, there's far easier ways to combat British terrorist defectors than this method.
It's not so much of an automatic arrest and presumption of guilt as a check on people going out there in the first place. If they are going out there with a good reason, all they have to do is state it and possibly provide evidence of their claim. This is exceptionally poor wording and possibly implementation but the reasoning behind it at least makes sense.
16518
« on: August 27, 2014, 03:24:08 PM »
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
The actions of a few individuals doesn't represent the whole and it's fucking scary that some group of people think they have power to tell others where they can and can't travel to. People talk about how certain things is fear mongering yet these actions is what REAL fear mongering is; it's brain washing people into thinking that somebody wanting to keep things private is automatically a suspicious terrorist. It's no different than the thinking that people who oppose the NSA are suspicious. People have a natural right to privacy and it needs to be respected
Don't compare this to disease. That's just stupid. ANYBODY can get sick bit not anybody can be a terrorist
>Quoting a dead guy to seem profound Check. >Government power is scary Check. >Equating monitoring sceptics of the NSA with monitoring potential terrorists Check. >Natural rights Check. >Rounding it off with a good old dose of stupid Check. 5/5 Bretty good.
16519
« on: August 27, 2014, 02:26:56 PM »
I can barely even get on that site at the moment.
Everything loads incredibly slowly and frequently just crashes. Then there is a glitched out popup bar on the bottom right of the screen that won't go away. I'm not even going there once a day at the moment ._.
GG bungie, you utter fuckwits.
16520
« on: August 27, 2014, 02:25:29 PM »
dat slippery slope
A person can have multiple reasons to travel. Major one being is that it's their business to do so and not the business of anybody else, especially the government. What proof does a person have that some guy wanting to travel is a terrorist? There is none and all this shows is the government trying to restrict a person's free will and pass laws based on flawless concept to appealing towards emotion in order to better their retarded objectives
Slippery slope =/= hundreds of british citizens becoming battle hardened islamic militant psychopaths and then returning home when the war in syria is over. Mhm, I'd rather that these fuckers all died over there but some will inevitably slip through the net. Presumption of guilt is a dangerous concept, no doubt about that. But when it's easily dispelled by registering/informing customs of your intent then it's not a big deal. If you are going to be all secretive about why you want to travel to a warzone, then it's just down right suspicious and the government would be failing in their duty to protect the citizens of their country if they simply let people go there willy nilly. It's not 'muh infringement of rights' when they introduce quarantine/scanners at airports for people who have visited a country with an ebola epidemic going on, it's common fucking sense.
16521
« on: August 27, 2014, 12:57:42 PM »
Spoiler #Economics
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Wait...
._.
16523
« on: August 27, 2014, 11:52:48 AM »
Also, Britain has a constitution? Serious question.
I don't think there is a single written document like the USA or France, but there are several acts/laws/documents that add up to one. Things like the Magna Carta IIRC.
16524
« on: August 27, 2014, 11:50:48 AM »
What the fuck is Sentinel?
Watching over something, groups of people or projects for example. Leading from the rear but not in the tail between the legs way <.< Shepherd would be an analogy I think.
16525
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:28:55 AM »
There's more Australians fighting for terrorist organizations than any other nation.
I didn't realise that the Koala Liberation Front was now a terrorist organisation <_<
16526
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:21:23 AM »
At first glance it really looks bad, but can you think of a reason why you would go to syria at the moment?
Or why it would be a reason that you can't tell the authorities first?
Or do we wait until these shitheads come back home and start more bombings?
16527
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:14:44 AM »
16528
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:11:52 AM »
ISTJ
Turbulent
Sentinel
The sentinel part is very accurate <.<
I do tend to slide between INTJ and ISTJ but it could be either really. I think the deciding factor must be down to 1 or 2% and depends on how I feel when I take the test >.>
16529
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:02:28 AM »
I would really like it if you reworded that.
The way it sounds now implies that morality stems from religion, especially abrahamic religion, and that without it one can have no ethics. You and I know that's not true, but there ARE people on this forum who honestly believe that, and the last thing we need to do is make them feel like we agree with them.
Yeah this is what happens when you post late at night after a long day <.< I basically had my foot in my mouth all night lol. Of course morality and ethics aren't solely derived from abrahamic religions, but the morals and ethics they teach are widely spread throughout the western populations. It''s hamstrung and hindered science for a long time with the phrase 'playing god'. I'm not exactly anti-religion, but I am of the mind to keep it the fuck out of science labs. Cloning was the example that half came to mind last night, the west has basically pussied out on it while China is (figuratively) screaming balls to the wall and cloning everything short of people. I expect they'll clone them soon enough as well. So whilst their lack of/different set of ethics (Mostly from Confucian thinking iirc) allows them to launch themselves forwards in areas like science, they are lacking the whole socialist humanitarian approach. Life is cheaper than food in China ._. Hopefully that's better <.<
16530
« on: August 26, 2014, 10:08:54 PM »
 Suffer.
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