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>>81509
I recognize your post. You've done this before, repeating the same lines randomly.

Stop that.

Also, farts aren't concentrated enough to cause that large of a burn, or else fart fires would be much more common among welders, firefighters, etc.

>>81512
Sorry about that need to proof read before I post threads.

>>81489
I know some astronomers that feel bad about the proliferation of telescopes in the area, yet they can't bring themselves to be against this sort of expansion. Funny how a lot of them brag about their stance on social justice and then go on to support these sorts of things.

Why is half this board retarded?

How hard is it to post a real news source instead of a youtube video?

>>81459
If we had mods and janitors this would not be an issue.

>>80868
poveri noi
che vogliono veramente fare con questa allora? lo scopo vero?

English, spics

>>80882
>lo scopo vero?
there is no particular reason to go full tinfoil-hat, the point of this reform is probably to pretend they are actually doing something useful and gain more consensus.. like basically any other demagogical bullshit politicians say to get more votes

Rebekah DeHaven, the senior attorney and associate director of humane law and policy at Alley Cat Allies, which promotes trap-neuter-return programs, commended the center’s efforts to classify the cases. But she said the study did not go far enough.

“From the information shared in the study, there is no way to know how many of the mammals or birds labeled as having been subject to interactions with cats were either ill or injured, by misfortune or by another predator, prior to being found by a cat, leaving open a wide range of other possible ailments that would have led to their death even without a cat’s presence,” she said.

Cats’ proximity to people, she argued, also means attacks to wildlife that occur near humans might be overrepresented in the data.

But the number of animals actually killed by cats is likely much higher, McRuer said. Many of the animals admitted to the center with unknown causes of trauma had injuries consistent with cat attacks but weren’t counted because cat interactions were not observed, he said. And cat predation also extends to reptiles and amphibians, which weren’t part of the original study but whose admission records McRuer and other researchers are examining now.

“It’s not surprising,” said Peter Marra, co-author of the recent book “Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer.” “It’s really just the tip of the iceberg that we’re seeing in this paper.”

Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, said rehab centers all over the country find the same thing. “The numbers of animals that are brought into rehab centers pale in comparison to those that never make it,” he said. “The evidence against cats and their impact on biodiversity is just overwhelming and yet we still allow them to persist on the landscape.”

Marra co-authored a 2013 study that found cats killed at least 1.3 billion birds and at least 6.3 billion mammals every year in the United States. Some critics have questioned the accuracy of those numbers, saying they were based on studies of smaller, individual ecosystems that were improperly extrapolated to make regional generalizations.

Cory Smith, director of companion animal public policy at the Humane Society of the United States, said habitat loss and other human-related causes affect bird and wildlife populations. She said the Humane Society, which also advocates for wildlife, shares concerns about cats but does not support using lethal measures to deal with them.

“Cats are one of many, many factors in all of this,” she says. “Right now these types of studies are being promoted in a way that is not helpful, because they often make this very naive calling for the elimination of cats from the landscape without understanding what that would entail.”

McRuer’s data show that cats can do great damage to wild animals, even if they don’t finish the job. Some 80 percent of birds and 70 percent of the mammals admitted to the rehab center had to be euthanized. Wounds are a primary cause of death, but many animals die from infections caused by the bacteria that cats can pass on to wildlife through their teeth and claws, McRuer said.

“One of the take home messages from that is that when people find an animal caught by a cat and are able to free it from the cat and let it go again, the chances of that animal surviving in the wild are very low,” he says.

Smith said conservationists should collaborate more with animal welfare groups in dealing with the issue.

“We don’t defend cats to the point of saying ‘Nothing else needs to be done.’ Nobody would agree with that,” she said. “There are 30 to 40 million community cats out there on the landscape, and we estimate that about 2 percent of them are sterilized, so there is a lot of work to do.”

Marra says that cats aren’t the root of the problem — they are just doing what comes naturally to them. “It’s a problem with humans and our ability to responsibly care for our animals,” he says. “We turn them into pests based on whether or not we choose to let them outside.”

I would like to see the motivated FBI agents come out on top with this one. It's such blatant hiding and cover up that it's almost laughable what they're doing on her behalf. Let the investigation lead to a court hearing.

>>78250
in4b someone cires /pol/

>>78253
If the shoe fits...

>>>/pol/

>>78263
if you were locked in a burning building would you just sit down like a monk and chant about how you deserve to die?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria

Marketing. Disregard this bullshit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396484/

>>76343
Everyone start committing clown crimes pls

>>81388

1) What was Comey’s original non-prosecution decision this summer?

2) What was the impact of Comey’s recommendation?

3) Was Comey’s recommendation of non-prosecution reasonable?

4) Was it unusual for Comey to announce his recommendation in public and explain his rationale?

5) Why did he do it, and was he justified in doing it?

6) Was Comey shilling for Clinton when he made his non-prosecution decision?

7) Was Comey shilling for Republicans when he critically described Clinton’s conduct?

8) Was it right for Comey subsequently testify before Congress about his decision?

9) Should Comey have publicly released so many documents about the investigation?

10) What is the relationship between the Anthony Weiner sexting investigation and the email investigation?

11) What did Comey do or say yesterday?

12) Is Comey a political hack shilling for Trump?

13) Did Comey reopen the email investigation?

14) Does the letter mean the FBI has found something explosive and seriously incriminating about Clinton?

15) Did Comey breach law enforcement norms by sending yesterday’s letter?

16) Should Comey, having said what he said yesterday, now say more?

17) Does this episode show that the FBI is political?

18) Should Hillary Clinton be happy or angry about what Comey did?

FIN

Flashback: Bill Clinton cheered 11th hour indictment that doomed Bush re-election

Keep this history in mind during the coming days when you hear Democratic hacks talking about how awful it is for law enforcement officials and/or prosecutors to "interfere" in the presidential election process.

Whispers of "payback" are being directed at Hillary Clinton after she decried as "unprecedented" the surprise FBI revival of its probe of her email scandal.

That's because 24 years ago, as former President George H.W. Bush was surging back against challenger Bill Clinton, a special prosecutor raised new charges against Bush in the Iran-Contra probe, prompting Clinton to claim he was running against a "culture of corruption."

Many Republicans claimed that the indictment made by special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh against former Reagan-era Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger the weekend before the 1992 election cost Bush a second term. The indictment, later thrown out, challenged Bush's claim that he did not know about a controversial arms-for-hostages deal that dogged the Reagan-Bush administration.

When it came, Clinton seized on it, saying for example, "Secretary Weinberger's note clearly shows that President Bush has not been telling the truth when he says he was out of the loop." Clinton added, "It demonstrates that President Bush knew and approved of President Reagan's secret deal to swap arms for hostages."


The Clintons seized on the new indictment, howling about a "culture of corruption" that supposedly pervaded the administration. Bush's poll numbers declined and Bill Clinton won the election.

Shortly after the election, a federal judge threw out the new indictment because it violated the five-year statute of limitations and improperly broadened the original charges. President Bush then pardoned Weinberger.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/flashback-clinton-cheered-11th-hour-indictment-that-doomed-bush-reelection/article/2606000

>>81247
Yes emails do equate perfectly with the deaths of millions.

Damn I think I sent an email yesterday. Whoops gotta go to Nuremberg now!

>>81250
retard

>>74405
Someone should make a Poland ball of this event.
Also
>Poland
>Civilized
Pick one

>>74405
>When you think world is moving forward into the brighter future
How stupid do you have to be to think things would ever get better.

>criminalize miscarriages
Top kek.

I smell a set up.
Did I pass the minimum required Intelligence test to not fall for this?
Do I win a prize?

But Mr. Turnbull’s conservative government has refused to back down in the face of those criticisms, instead offering some of its policies as a possible solution to the migrant crisis sweeping Europe.

The main opposition bloc wouldn’t say on Sunday whether it would back the legislation. Migration has been a political flashpoint for more than a decade, helping swing several elections.

“With any legislation you want to look at it, see whether in fact it is fair and reasonable, and is consistent with our own commitments internationally,” senior Labor lawmaker Brendan O’Connor said.

Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the new laws were also aimed at preventing marriages of convenience between migrants and asylum advocates seeking to bring partners to Australia.


But lawyer and refugee advocate David Manne was critical. “They do nothing to resolve what has been widely recognized as an appalling and unsustainable situation for those people left in limbo of Nauru and Manus Island,” he said.

Australia receives a relatively small number of asylum seekers each year compared with European countries like Italy, Greece and Spain. Historically, most arrived by air, not boat, though the percentage arriving by boat has risen in recent years. Successive Australian governments have moved aggressively to stop the tide, given wide public opposition to boat landings and outcries over sinkings and drownings en route.

In the six years before the settlement ban, more than 51,000 asylum seekers arrived in the country, including 20,000 in 2013. Under the conservative government headed by Mr. Turnbull, no boat has succeeded in getting past a naval blockade dubbed “Operation Sovereign Borders” since July 2014. Historically, most people seeking asylum arrived in Australia by air, not boat.

Almost 3,000 asylum seekers meantime have been detained on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, mostly from Iran and Afghanistan. Most have rejected Australian offers to send them home, claiming fears of persecution there.

The number of people fleeing conflict, meanwhile, has soared. The U.N.’s latest Global Trends Report said a record 65.3 million people had been forced to leave their homes last year, while globally the number of refugees had reached 21.3 million, with most coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia.

>>81308
>he U.N. and rights groups like Amnesty International and Save the Children have castigated Australia for its failure to follow up on widespread detainee complaints.

The UN gave thousands of people in Haiti cholera so they can go fucking rot. Cunts.

This isn't new.
Scientists already know there was a gigantic impact that scarred the earth in the mentioned area.
This impact is credited with creating the moon.

>>78734
Non phone link

http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-internet-trolls-and-donald-trump-2016-7

Very interesting OP thank you for posting this. The troll factories of Russia are well documented. I wonder if there are paid American trolls as IMO they would have more of an impact like CTR as they grew up in the culture and know how to respond in an active discussion about politics. Would be interested to see direct links like an American super pact or even cordnation between the Trump campaign and paid trolls like with the Hillary campaign and CTR.

These people aren't trolls, they're propaganda agents.

Before that, Tim Hemmes, paralyzed in a motorcycle accident, reached out to touch hands with his girlfriend.

But the way our arms naturally move and interact with the environment around us is due to more than just thinking and moving the right muscles. We are able to differentiate between a piece of cake and a soda can through touch, picking up the cake more gently than the can. The constant feedback we receive from the sense of touch is of paramount importance as it tells the brain where to move and by how much.

For Dr. Gaunt and the rest of the research team, that was the next step for the BCI. As they were looking for the right candidate, they developed and refined their system such that inputs from the robotic arm are transmitted through a microelectrode array implanted in the brain where the neurons that control hand movement and touch are located. The microelectrode array and its control system, which were developed by Blackrock Microsystems, along with the robotic arm, which was built by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab, formed all the pieces of the puzzle.

In the winter of 2004, Mr. Copeland, who lives in western Pennsylvania, was driving at night in rainy weather when he was in a car accident that snapped his neck and injured his spinal cord, leaving him with quadriplegia from the upper chest down, unable to feel or move his lower arms and legs, and needing assistance with all his daily activities. He was 18 and in his freshman year of college pursuing a degree in nanofabrication, following a high school spent in advanced science courses.

He tried to continue his studies, but health problems forced him to put his degree on hold. He kept busy by going to concerts and volunteering for the Pittsburgh Japanese Culture Society, a nonprofit that holds conventions around the Japanese cartoon art of anime, something Mr. Copeland became interested in after his accident.

Right after the accident he had enrolled himself on Pitt's registry of patients willing to participate in clinical trials. Nearly a decade later, the Pitt research team asked if he was interested in participating in the experimental study.

After he passed the screening tests, Nathan was wheeled into the operating room last spring. Study co-investigator and UPMC neurosurgeon Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Pitt School of Medicine, implanted four tiny microelectrode arrays each about half the size of a shirt button in Nathan's brain. Prior to the surgery, imaging techniques were used to identify the exact regions in Mr. Copeland's brain corresponding to feelings in each of his fingers and his palm.

"I can feel just about every finger -- it's a really weird sensation," Mr. Copeland said about a month after surgery. "Sometimes it feels electrical and sometimes its pressure, but for the most part, I can tell most of the fingers with definite precision. It feels like my fingers are getting touched or pushed."

At this time, Mr. Copeland can feel pressure and distinguish its intensity to some extent, though he cannot identify whether a substance is hot or cold, explains Dr. Tyler-Kabara.

Michael Boninger, M.D., professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Pitt, and senior medical director of post-acute care for the Health Services Division of UPMC, recounted how the Pitt team has achieved milestone after milestone, from a basic understanding of how the brain processes sensory and motor signals to applying it in patients

"Slowly but surely, we have been moving this research forward. Four years ago we demonstrated control of movement. Now Dr. Gaunt and his team took what we learned in our tests with Tim and Jan -- for whom we have deep gratitude -- and showed us how to make the robotic arm allow its user to feel through Nathan's dedicated work," said Dr. Boninger, also a co-author on the research paper.

Dr. Gaunt explained that everything about the work is meant to make use of the brain's natural, existing abilities to give people back what was lost but not forgotten.

"The ultimate goal is to create a system which moves and feels just like a natural arm would," says Dr. Gaunt. "We have a long way to go to get there, but this is a great start."