Can you read French? Here are two articles, one from France, one from Switzerland, on the subject. The google translation is readable but horrid (I only checked for the French article). Note that both these newspapers are left (far-left for Libération) leaning newspapers, that deplore above all the fate of these kids.

http://www.laliberte.ch/info/les-mineurs-roms-d-sarment-la-police
http://www.liberation.fr/societe/0101526553-gens-du-voyage-un-reseau-d-enfants-eleves-pour-voler


>> ^Nebosuke:

>> ^hpqp:
It might not be the case here, but this video reminds me of the problem Europe faces with Travel People who send their underage kids - who have been trained and brainwashed into loyalty - to beg and/or steal because they know the judicial system can't touch them. Really smaddening. /rant

I would be interested in more information.

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It aint a party without a Chainsaw.

Watch the movie here : http://www.wootly.ch/?v=SAEEEEE4 free and easy. Do not say I never did anything nice for you

Well now you can watch the movie.

http://www.wootly.ch/?v=F37EEEE4

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Annoying! Why did CH change their codes?

Thanks for getting those CH vids - all are fixed. Cheers!

So far I have found new embeds for them in CH. So, the original vides still exist in their site, but you have to go find them and get the new embed. It sucks, I know.

I just finished this book about the French Revolution. I felt the knowledge I had received from the Norwegian educational system was inadequate for such an important event in European history. I really liked the book; it is a fast read and lays out the important events during the 12 year period between the fall of the Bastille and the advent of Napoleon in a concise and entertaining manner. What is stunning about these events is how chaotic they really were, and how many similarities there are with other social changes in more modern history, violent or not.

Right now I'm reading two books in parallell:

Ian Cameron Esslemont's Stonewield
er, his 3rd novel in the Malazan universe he co-created with Steven Erikson. I have gotten hooked by this dark and gritty world through Erikson's books, which are unlike any other run-of-the-mill fantasy out there. Esslemont's books in the same universe have so far been under par in comparison, but his writing is getting better and better with each book.

Zur Sache, Chérie by Alain-Xavier Wurst. I'm reading this to learn German better. It's a very funny book written by a Frenchman living in Germany, about how bad German women (and men) are at flirting.

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It's called Entre les Trous de la Memoire by Dominique Appia. Here's his website: http://www.appia-d.ch/
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I love that painting in your profile. Do you have any info on who the artist is or the title of the piece?

>> ^grinter:

Taking control of the drone sounds pretty unlikely.. but I wonder if there is a kernel of truth to this. Maybe they just jammed it's guidance signal, autopilot kicked in, and when it ran out of fuel it glided to a, relatively, gentle landing?


I would take a wild guess that those things are designed to go kaboom if there is even the slightest hint of malfunction (malfunction meaning ANY undesired event). The interesting part was the fact that the CIA lead on that perhaps that exact sequence of events didn't quite occur correctly maybe.

Also yes, that is a fake airplane... The drones are MUCH bigger than that piece of crap, paper-mâché high school project. For example this is a bomber drone that is brand new, it's 65 to a possible 90 feet across (BTW, in the video you can see that they label it as the RQ-170, which is what I linked to)... Like I said it's a bomber, it needs to be pretty big. So unless the CIA has a stealth version that is 3/4 the size of the bomber, they are full of crap. I think what the CIA was worried about is maybe that the entirety of the drone wasn't destroyed leaving possible tidbits behind like it's stealth mesh and other composites to be reverse engineered--I think TDS had a bit on this a few days ago.

-Second Part
I did look around some more and there are some US officials taking this very seriously, so maybe they do in fact have their 45~ft drone. If you read at the bottom of the RQ-170 on Wikipedia (I linked it above), it has been updated with much more current information. So it may indeed be a small coup for the Iranian Military indirectly, as it seems to be a navigational flight error. Which asks the question: where the hell is it's self-destruction switch; are they really that stupid?

Religious texts are like the US Tax Code, plenty of contradictions, useless passages and passages made useless or contradictory by the passage of time. Yet few if any people are totally against the concept of taxation and the spirit of taxation (especially liberals). It's also a matter of faith that the tax code is truly fair and what it says can be interpreted in only one way, so the history and usefulness of a text can be entirely different from its original intent and still work.

Given all that, for atheists (even Penn) to nitpick the religious beliefs of politicians is silly. Politicians who take their faith seriously are less likely to wake up believing they are God and the State their means of ruling absolutely.

The better part of all religions affirms the sanctity of life. Atheism simply cannot match this.

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