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>By Tuesday, the president had issued a statement on Facebook, in both English and Icelandic:

> “I like pineapples, just not on pizza. I do not have the power to make laws which forbid people to put pineapples on their pizza. I am glad that I do not hold such power. Presidents should not have unlimited power. I would not want to hold this position if I could pass laws forbidding that which I don’t like. I would not want to live in such a country. For pizzas, I recommend seafood.”

>The seafood suggestion did not help matters.

>“Pineapple-pizza-gate,” cried Iceland Magazine. “President backtracks ‘I can’t dictate pizza toppings!’ Then encourages people to put fish on their pizza.”

>While shellfish may not have been such a controversial selection — see Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana’s legendary white clam pie in New Haven — the president used the word “fiskmeti” in the Icelandic-language version of his post, which translates as fish-products, rather than seafood.

>Contrary to conventional wisdom, pineapple-topped pizza did not originate in Hawaii, but in Canada in 1962, when restaurateur Sam Panopoulos decided to mix ham with canned pineapple on his pie to see how it would turn out, according to according to Atlas Obscura.

>“People said ‘You are crazy to do this,’ ” Mr. Panopoulos told the website in a 2015 profile.

>The topping has since become a longstanding source of contention, with its own Know Your Meme subject page and a 2014 worst topping ranking by the website Thrillist.

>Despite stepping into this controversy, Mr. Johannesson’s approval ratings have remained high.

>A former history professor at the University of Iceland with a laid-back style, he has turned down a 20 percent pay hike, donated 10 percent of his pretax salary to charity, and holds the distinction of being the first president to march in a gay pride parade.

Not sure Iceland has room to judge when their native dish is Kæstur hákarl.

>gut a shark and marinate it in human urine
>bury it in a shallow grave for 3 months
>dig it up and hang to dry for 5 months
>perfect on pizza

why would people put pineapple on pizza?

http://www.strawpoll.me/12396254

>This company isn’t the only one to make the change from humans to robots, especially not in China where the Made In China 2025 initiative aims to apply technological advances to production, which includes using robotics.

>It’s unclear what this shift means for factory workers in the nation, but it’s not looking positive for those demanding fair working conditions and wages. The change to robotics comes at a time when the climate around factory workers is becoming volatile, even inciting strikes in several different areas. While quality and production are great for those purchasing the products, humans need jobs and they deserve to work in a humane environment. As more robots take the place of human factory workers, one can only hope that those workers turn to a more stable job where they can’t be replaced and they aren’t mistreated.

>>107762
Chinese Middle-class uprising on the horizon.

>>107828
>implying the middle class have shitty factory jobs

Because you didn't search for 'Shooting' you searched for a /pol/ meme.

Most of the reports are less than an hour old.

Be less retarded next time you lost

Sage

>>122316
dont be a faggot nigger. kys.

>>122317
You're on the wrong board. You have to be 18+ to post here.

>>121860
>Ian Rosenblum, the executive director of the New York office of the Education Trust, a nonprofit that advocates for high achievement for all students, called the literacy test "a 12th grade-level assessment" -- something a high school senior should be able to pass.
>Several education professors told The Associated Press the test doesn't measure anything that isn't covered in other exams students must take, including subject matter certification tests, the SAT, the GRE and tests that are part of their coursework.
>Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said that eliminating the literacy exam because of minority candidates’ performance on it was the wrong response.
>“What we are effectively doing is perpetuating a cycle of underperformance,” ... “People are showing a tremendous amount of weakness by just backpedaling because they feel like it’s the politically sensible thing to do,” she said.
>Even before Monday’s actions, the Regents had backed off the tougher requirements, instituting safety nets that allowed candidates who failed the edTPA to try to pass an older test to qualify, and allowed those who failed the ALST to show through their coursework and grades that they had the skills that the test measures.

welp

Best timeline

>>120907

bump

>>120907
Nobody gives a fuck about polaks anyway. Polaks are literally the fucking Mexicans of Europe.

What's up with the rusky propaganda in here these days

>>120599

With its "Vault 7" release on Tuesday, WikiLeaks accused the CIA of exploiting vulnerabilities in software from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung, while keeping those holes secret so it could continue using them to spy on devices. CNET is unable to verify whether the documents are real or unaltered.

Leaving those holes unpatched -- never mind any actual secret snooping -- flies in the face of the security that hardware and software makers strive for in the products it sells. Tech giants like Apple and Google put a high priority finding bugs, offering up to $200,000 to hackers who find and report exploits.

The CIA has not confirmed or denied the documents' authenticity, but said it was doing its job by having "cutting edge" technology.

The strained relationship between Silicon Valley and US spies might have already hit rock bottom.

"I don't think this does anything to make it any worse, because I don't think it can get much worse," said Paul Rosenzweig, founder of cybersecurity company Redbranch Consulting and the former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the US Department of Homeland Security.

WikiLeaks said it would be handing over the exploits to tech companies so they could patch the vulnerabilities, which Apple and Google said they've already done.

Petraeus was the CIA's director from 2011 to 2012. He resigned in a scandal over an extramarital affair, in which he communicated with a lover through draft emails.

FIN

>>120599
Everyone sane: CIA hurts Silicon Valley, American industry, compromises security.

Indeed.

>But as Aboriginals were colonizing Australia, something relatively unusual happened. While some people wandered, others stayed behind and founded communities. And these communities lasted for tens of thousands of years in roughly the same locations, relatively isolated from each other. The people in these communities developed distinct languages, cultures, and physical features, leading to an extremely diverse population whose traditions are often startlingly different. Indeed, these differences led many scientists to suggest that Australia was perhaps colonized by several unrelated groups over time.

>That's not what the genetic data tells us, however. As Cooper put it in a statement:

>> Amazingly, it seems that from around this time [of colonization] the basic population patterns have persisted for the next 50,000 years—showing that communities have remained in discrete geographical regions. This is unlike people anywhere else in the world and provides compelling support for the remarkable Aboriginal cultural connection to country. We’re hoping this project leads to a rewriting of Australia’s history texts to include detailed Aboriginal history and what it means to have been on their land for 50,000 years—that’s around 10 times as long as all of the European history we’re commonly taught.
...

>Haplogroups and the Stolen Generations

>Cooper and his colleagues came to this conclusion by studying genetic differences between the people who were descended from that original group. Mitochondrial DNA mutates at a fairly regular rate over time, and this creates populations who share a common ancestor but have diverged into what are called "haplogroups," or people with a common mutation in their DNA. In Australia, these haplogroups are found in specific geographical regions, suggesting populations that settled down in one place and never left. The haplogroups known as P, S, and M42a are mostly found in the east, while O and R are found in the west. There is also an area in southern Australia where O and S are found together, perhaps the result of the two migrations meeting there after centuries of separation.

>One of the biggest hurdles to studying the genetic history of Aboriginals in Australia is often called simply the "Stolen Generations." Government policies in the twentieth century forced Aboriginal groups to relocate, often forcibly removing children from their homes to teach them English in residential schools. Many children of the Stolen Generations today don't know who their ancestors are or where they lived. And that makes it very hard for geneticists to trace a connection between the deep history of these groups and geographical locations in Australia.

>Luckily, the University of Adelaide has what the researchers describe as "a remarkable set of hair samples and detailed ethnographic metadata collected with permission from more than 5,000 Aboriginal Australians" between the 1920s and '70s, from groups who were not yet part of the Stolen Generations.
...

related:
>Aboriginal Australians represent one of the longest continuous cultural complexes known. Archaeological evidence indicates that Australia and New Guinea were initially settled approximately 50 thousand years ago (ka); however, little is known about the processes underlying the enormous linguistic and phenotypic diversity within Australia. Here we report 111 mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from historical Aboriginal Australian hair samples, whose origins enable us to reconstruct Australian phylogeographic history before European settlement. Marked geographic patterns and deep splits across the major mitochondrial haplogroups imply that the settlement of Australia comprised a single, rapid migration along the east and west coasts that reached southern Australia by 49–45ka. After continent-wide colonization, strong regional patterns developed and these have survived despite substantial climatic and cultural change during the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. Remarkably, we find evidence for the continuous presence of populations in discrete geographic areas dating back to around 50ka, in agreement with the notable Aboriginal Australian cultural attachment to their country.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature21416.html

>>118742
>>118742
>The much-discussed New York Times piece from January 19 is a perfect example of this. It begins by matter-of-factly confirming the existence of the wiretaps everyone in Obamaworld is now swearing are a figment of Donald Trump’s imagination. Mountains of innuendo about connections between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence have been spun out of what these abruptly non-existent intercepts contained, according to the anonymous leakers who currently drive almost 100 percent of mainstream media coverage.

>But if you read that New York Times article carefully, it admits the communications intercepts may not exist, and if they do, no one can confirm what they actually say (emphasis added):

>American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said.

>The continuing counterintelligence investigation means that Mr. Trump will take the oath of office on Friday with his associates under investigation and after the intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government had worked to help elect him. As president, Mr. Trump will oversee those agencies and have the authority to redirect or stop at least some of these efforts.

>It is not clear whether the intercepted communications had anything to do with Mr. Trump’s campaign, or Mr. Trump himself. It is also unclear whether the inquiry has anything to do with an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computers and other attempts to disrupt the elections in November. The American government has concluded that the Russian government was responsible for a broad computer hacking campaign, including the operation against the D.N.C.
...

>>118743
>Whatever President Trump’s intentions were in using Twitter to touch off this firestorm, one of the immediate effects has been letting the gas out of all those speculative Trump stories. The Democratic media is now furiously working to prove all of its own previous coverage of the Trump-Russia allegations was little more than idle speculation, every bit as lacking in hard evidence as Trump’s accusation that Obama was tapping his phones.

>After months of unfounded allegations and badly sourced speculation intended to cripple his administration, maybe Trump wanted to prove that only one side of the partisan divide is permitted to make “wild allegations.” Obama’s plants in the Deep State can leak whatever they please, law and truth be damned. They can get an avalanche of hostile coverage moving with a few phone calls or emails. The media feels no contrition when the story turns out to be exaggerated or completely false, eagerly turning to the same Obama holdovers as sources for the next big phony scoop.

>No one on Trump’s team, including the president himself, is allowed to reciprocate in kind. We are meant to feel bottomless outrage that Trump would level unsubstantiated allegations against Obama, but apparently, Obama’s minions can launch a constant barrage of unsubstantiated allegations against Trump.

>Intentionally or accidentally, Trump just forced the press to admit how weak the bulk of those allegations were. The wiretapping timeline that has drawn so much attention since Saturday night was largely based on mainstream media reporting. The media is effectively saying, “Hey, wait, we were just blowing smoke. We didn’t think anyone would take those reports seriously and build a case that Obama was wiretapping Trump. We just wanted to make Trump look bad by pumping up vague rumors that he and his campaign might have been under observation!”


WHAT. THE. FUCK. This is some 1984 shit. Can't wait to see libtards defend this one now...

>mods deleted my shitty thread
>i'll just repost it lel

With 1,231 different mobile phone models in his possession, Stefan Polgari is still trailing behind the owner of the world’s largest mobile phone collection, a German man named Carsten Tews. In 2010, Guinness Book of Records reported that he had 1,563 different mobile phones in his collection. However, it’s worth mentioning that Polgari is solely interested in vintage mobile phones.

The Slovakian’s collection features mobile phones of 14 different brands: Alcatel, Sagem, Siemens, ZTE, Ericsson, Samsung, Trium, Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Mitsubishi, Bosh, Sony-Ericsson and Philips. You won’t find upstarts like HTC or Blackberry at his museum.

Not a valid news source. Post news articles, not youtube propaganda.

>>122346
"Neonazis" propably means patriots

>whatcha doing rabbi?

You know that holohoax kikes are constantly bitching about so they can play the victim card? The world needs something like that to happen for real. Gas them all!

>>122002
Fascinating how the people who push the 'holohoax' meme are also the same people who argue for Round 2. Why not just go the whole hog and admit it happened before, and they want to finish the job? It's not like they still care about acceptance from normies anyway.

>It is not clear if the device could have exploded.

HAhahahaha amateurs.

look past the propoganda and the real story starts to come out

>>122050
So post the original piece. It's not really news except the situaltion in the White House is probably unsustainable.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069?cmpid=sf

>The CIA and other elements of the Deep State/foreign actors are actively trying to undermine and destroy the Trump admin and this republic

>wonders why there is a literal civil happening begind the scenes in "our" beauracracy

RIDF in 3-2-1.....

cool, do you have a source for that claim?

>>119339
Where is the proofs?

I do not see this published on Wikileaks. In fact, Assange has published indiscretions of NSA, not goodhearted true American flag waver Trump.

>In a message to the campus community Friday, Middlebury President Laurie L. Patton said her administration plans to respond to the “clear violations of Middlebury College policy” that occurred the night before without providing more specific information. Patton — who was on hand Thursday night — said she was “deeply disappointed” by the events she witnessed and called the night “painful” for many at Middlebury, a top-tier liberal arts college with about 2,450 undergraduate students.

>“Today our community begins the process of addressing the deep and troubling divisions that were on display last night,” her message said. “I am grateful to those who share this goal and have offered to help.”

>“We must find a path to establishing a climate of open discourse as a core Middlebury value, while also recognizing critical matters of race, inclusion, class, sexual and gender identity, and the other factors that too often divide us,” the statement added. “That work will take time, and I will have more to say about that in the days ahead.”

>The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled Murray a white supremacist and a eugenicist who uses “racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor.”

>“Murray, a statistically minded sociologist by training, has spent decades working to rehabilitate long-discredited theories of IQ and heredity, turning them into a foundation on which to build a conservative theory of society that rejects equality and egalitarianism,” the SPLC states.

>Murray bristled at the SPLC’s characterization of him and blamed it for provoking protests among college students who have failed to scrutinize his work.

>“White supremacist?” he said Friday. “Let’s see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn’t that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?”

>Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was not invited to Middlebury to discuss “The Bell Curve,” but instead to talk about his latest book: “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.”

>His lecture was co-sponsored by Middlebury’s Political Science Department. The other sponsor was the AEI Executive Council at the college, an outreach program by the Washington-based group that operates on dozens of campuses.

>“Our goal was not to create a controversy, but to start a discussion and a dialogue,” said Alexander Khan, a member of the AEI Executive Council. “Many members of our own club here don’t agree with everything Dr. Murray has to say, but we still believe in the importance of robust discussion and the free exchange of opinions.”

>“That is a cornerstone of what it means to receive a liberal arts education,” he added.

>The Associated Press reported that more than 450 alumni signed a letter calling Murray’s visit “unacceptable.”

>“In this case, there’s not really any ‘other side,’ only deceptive statistics masking unfounded bigotry,” the letter said.

>“Both students and other community members came out to show that we are not accepting these kind of racist, misogynistic, eugenist opinions being expressed at our college,” Elizabeth Dunn, a student protest organizer, told the AP. “We don’t think that they deserve a platform because they are literally hate speech.”

>Video from the lecture in Wilson Hall showed hundreds of students turning their backs to Murray once he took the stage and began speaking.

>Chants including “Hey hey, ho ho, Charles Murray has got to go” and “Racist, sexist anti-gay, Charles Murray go away” followed as Murray remained at the lectern for close to 20 minutes. The students held signs that said “No Eugenics” and “Scientific racism = Racism.”

>Anticipating that the lecture might be interrupted, administrators attempted to relocate the event and a Q&A with Middlebury professor Allison Stanger to a location where the exchange could be live-streamed. Some of their discussion was recorded, but the dialogue was cut short by loud protesters who slammed chairs, chanted and periodically pulled fire alarms, which shut down the building’s power, according to Middlebury spokesman Bill Burger.

>“It became very difficult to hear in there where they were recording,” Burger said. “Nonetheless, there was a principle at work in that we were determined to continue the event. Both sides felt like they were standing for principle.”

>Murray said he felt like students were protesting a perceived persona more than a person, one they’d labeled “a racist, sexist pseudo scientist.” Asked why he thinks he continues to arouse such passion 23 years after “The Bell Curve” was published, Murray said he could only speculate.

>“I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and — as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my disapproval of Trump — I can sympathize with that.”

>“But if you have someone that they can say, ‘This is one of those people who is the problem,’ then they latch on to that person,” he added. “That’s who I was to them.”

>Burger said Stanger’s hair was pulled before she reached the car, twisting and injuring the professor’s neck. Burger said she later went to a hospital and was fitted with a neck brace. (Stanger could not be reached for comment.)