thenewkid

Great quote when asked for an alternative to Facebook.

"My alternative to a nasty system is I just don't use it"

What proof do you have that the Russian government controls RT?

Are you suggesting that any organization which receives state funding of some sort is controlled by the state?

Scroogled!

Amazing, literally within seconds of replying, I get a downvote.

How can you thank the moderator?

The new title "Retired Senior Microsoft Manager Dies In Phuket" while strictly factual, removes any context relevant to recent news.

Got any tinfoil?

Cliff was found dead on July 1st, the same day that the SF Chronicle ran an article "Interview with NSA expert James Bamford".

A comment on the article suggests - without evidence - that Cliff and James might be brothers.

http://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2013/07/01/interview-with-n...

This is shocking stuff.

"An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary.

[DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles.

...

This [DELETED] identified the exploitation of the Occupy Movement by [LENGTHY DELETION] interested in developing a long-term plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire."

The OP is nit-picking.

At the end of the day, it only matters if a person puts their name behind a statement or not.

So will everyone who is nit-picking over grammar also be demanding that politicians write their own speeches and statements?!

Yes, except it would be self-exile.

Here's an enterprising journalist!

"Surreal 21 hour adventure of reporter who deliberately got sequestered at Moscow airport in the hope of finding Edward Snowden"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351686/Trapped-tran...

Perhaps your friends are not able to prioritise?

Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

What good is it to have the right to abortion, gay marriage, immigration amnesty etc. if tomorrow you can be taken away and locked up for the rest of your life, without any due process, all because of an email you wrote?

Don't worry, $1.25m buys a lot of pivots.

DigitalOcean is nothing special, don't know why they get so much hype.

Droplets are just another marketing gimmick, another layer of abstraction which developers don't really need.

If you want a bare box to play with, try the companies at LowEndBox.com.

Will children be able to draw rainbows free of political and cultural symbolism? Or will the appropriation become permanent, much like the word "gay" which has lost its original English and French meaning?

"The rainbow flag made its debut in 1978 at San Francisco's Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade... The original flag had eight colors, two more than its customary version, each representing an aspect of gay life: red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, blue for harmony, and violet for spirit."

"In 2006, a straight family in Kansas had to defend flying a rainbow flag at their bed and breakfast from some angry townspeople... Understanding the wider symbolism, the owners nevertheless chose to fly the flag because their young son said it reminded him of the movie The Wizard of Oz, evoking the movie's signature song, Over the Rainbow."

http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=7007

"large population of gay people in tech"

Any citations to back this up? How did you come to this conclusion?

The lawsuit targets the Irish subsidiary because that's where the money is. If they move they will probably pay higher taxes. Quite clever!

The group’s complaint draws on the precedent set in 2006, which found that a mass transfer of data to the US authorities was illegal under EU law... The Swift case was closed when the company moved its data centre from Belgium to Switzerland.

Michael Hasting's friend was just interviewed on TV:

"His friends and family that know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma, so that right there doesn't seem like something he'd be doing, there's no way that he'd be acting erratic like that and driving out of control"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIjna7672Q

So what is his full name?

"The name used in US government diplomatic documents was Edward James Snowden, the US Department of Justice referred to him as Edward J Snowden, and Hong Kong’s Immigration Department had him recorded as Edward Joseph Snowden...

I couldn’t say the three names were consistent, so we needed further clarification. Otherwise, there would have been legal problems with a provisional arrest warrant"

Don't forget Egan-Jones!

"The trouble for the firm started on July 16, 2011, when Egan-Jones downgraded the U.S.’s sovereign debt by one notch, to AA+ from AAA... Two days later, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations contacted the firm seeking information about its rating decision...

on Oct. 12, Egan-Jones received a call from the SEC notifying the firm of a Wells Notice, an indication that it was being investigated.

On April 5 of this year, Egan-Jones again downgraded the U.S. sovereign debt, to AA from AA+. On April 19, leaks started emanating from the SEC that it had voted to start an “administrative law proceeding” against the firm. And on April 24, the SEC filed its complaint."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-30/sec-sues-the-one-ra...

The petitions are a good way to gather a list of names for analysis at a later date... just saying!

The SCMP is the main English language newspaper in HK. It's been around for years and has reporters on the ground.

So what's a more "reliable" source? CNN? HuffingtonPost? Buzzfeed?

The Guardian is focusing on stories related to the UK, while the SCMP is focusing on stories related to HK and China.