Non-IT News Thread
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Nigerian city of Maiduguri 'attacked by five girl bombers'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34423311The girls were as young as nine.
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Victor Navarro dead: Colombia kills most wanted drug lord
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@scottalanmiller And now somebody else gets promoted to most wanted drug lord.
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@dafyre Yep, so who's number 2 in the region?
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@DustinB3403 They're not number two any more, lol. I have no idea. types madly into phone . Quick. Hide that moonshine boys!
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller And now somebody else gets promoted to most wanted drug lord.
Pretty much instantly.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@dafyre Yep, so who's number 2 in the region?
Whoever was number three yesterday!
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$5 million is a big incentive to just drop a bomb on someone's house.
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Hopefully the Columbian government manages to collect on the reward.
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Guatemala mudslide leaves hundreds missing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-34431285 -
New York Jets NFL team ship 350 toilet rolls to London
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Dianna Duran: New Mexico Secretary of State Facing Identity Theft Charge Along With 64 Other Charges
Duran is facing 64 charges related to fraud, embezzlement and money laundering. The 65th charge, identity theft, was added Friday after an interview with her former colleague.
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McGraw-Hill Education: Publisher to Rewrite Textbook After Portraying Slaves as 'Workers'
Roni Dean-Burren posted a video on Facebook Thursday criticizing the publisher for depicting slavery as immigration and calling slaves "workers" in a textbook. The company responded Friday.
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@scottalanmiller said:
McGraw-Hill Education: Publisher to Rewrite Textbook After Portraying Slaves as 'Workers'
Roni Dean-Burren posted a video on Facebook Thursday criticizing the publisher for depicting slavery as immigration and calling slaves "workers" in a textbook. The company responded Friday.
Huh, I thought everyone was thinking like this these days - revisionist history seems to bee the norm. Next thing we'll see is that America is evil for doing the Boston Tea Party and Revolutionary War.
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@Dashrender said:
Next thing we'll see is that America is evil for doing the Boston Tea Party and Revolutionary War.
We are, ask the British.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Dianna Duran: New Mexico Secretary of State Facing Identity Theft Charge Along With 64 Other Charges
Surprised she was not the Governor. Oh wait, that was my state (Illinois) that sent the last two of them to prison..
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Dianna Duran: New Mexico Secretary of State Facing Identity Theft Charge Along With 64 Other Charges
Surprised she was not the Governor. Oh wait, that was my state (Illinois) that sent the last two of them to prison..
You are thinking of Arizona, I think
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@scottalanmiller said:
You are thinking of Arizona, I think
Nope, and this is old news.
Illinois Governors In Prison: 4 Of State's Last 7 Governors Were Convicted, Imprisoned
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The Best Little Porno Movie on the Internet [Very NSFW]
http://gizmodo.com/the-best-little-porno-movie-on-the-internet-very-nsfw-1734350782Wittiest line from said article IMO
Seriously, you try to time your orgasm to four other people’s, after three hours of physically demanding work, while two people film you, one directs you, and a nerdy tech blogger sits there tapping out notes on her laptop.
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@Dashrender said:
Next thing we'll see is that America is evil for doing the Boston Tea Party and Revolutionary War.
We fought a war to avoid paying our taxes. The Boston Tea Party was an attack on a basically innocent shipping company that was not the party responsible for the taxes that people didn't want to pay (which were to finance their own defenses that they were not paying for.) There is really very little defense for the Revolutionary War from an ethical perspective. Do wars need to be defended? Perhaps not, to the victor go the spoils and all that. But to think that a voluntary war over taxes rather than over rights, freedom, protection, etc. is ever not evil is really not an option. Killing people over a tax dispute that was equal for all (people in England could come to the US voluntarily and vice versa and have their tax status be the same as everyone else in that location) isn't just in any way.
The Revolutionary War was fought by a few ultra-rich elites who managed to leverage the war into their own private fortunes while using the war as a means to enslave and oppress the bulk of the population. Were there upsides? Sure, we think, although who really knows how things would have gone. The bad crap coming from England was rapidly rectified on their side too. The US ended up being a non-free slave country a lot longer than it likely would have been had the Revolution not happened and protected slavery for another century.
