>>67210

>>67230
pretty much

You kids do realize that major charities need to take most of the donations to pay employees, get supplies, advertising and all other necessities, right? What is this, /b/?

>>65381
Well, the banks don't raid towns and force young children to shoot up their families, who are then forced to become either soldiers or sex slaves.

>>67278

>Well, the banks don't raid towns and force young children to shoot up their families, who are then forced to become either soldiers or sex slaves.

Yet....

>>67278

If it's a question of semantics...

Don't care, we're all people.

>>67285

>>implying hispanics aren't white

Lots of them aren't. Saying "hispanics are white" or "hispanics aren't white" makes as much sense as saying "Americans are white" or "Americans aren't white"--some are, some aren't.

>>67281
You should recall that this 50.4% is ALL minorities. The rest, 49.6%, is all white. And whites alone still make up something like 63% of the American population. That's 47% made up by ALL minorities. Whites are far from on the way out, although it would not bother me at all if "mixed race" folks became the majority. ("Race" is a social construct based on skin color. Two Africans are likely less related than an Asian and a white person, when all persons are chosen at random. Meaning there is no such genetic thing as "race".)

>>67310

>Race" is a social construct based on skin color. Two Africans are likely less related than an Asian and a white person, when all persons are chosen at random. Meaning there is no such genetic thing as "race"

The problem is that that's a lie spread for political reasons. It is factually incorrect.

I don't think we need to spread lies to have a functional and fair society where people are accepted regardless of their ancestry or physical features or genetic differences.

>>67312

Also, that statement is very vague. It very well could be that an African from Morocco is more related to an Andalusian than she is to a Khoisan--the former pair is much closer in distnace, and have more cultural and historical ties.

But an Inuit is much more likely related to another Inuit than he is to an Australian aborigine (a people who until relatively recently have been isolated for ~tens of thousands~ of years).

Race is a biologically valid concept. Simplifying it to "African" and "White", and things like that, no, that's inaccurate. But there are genetic differences between human populations based on geographical origin points; that's what "race", in a biological sense, essentially is.

Zimmerman stalked him, Trayvon got paranoid, Trayvon attacked, Zimmerman shot him.

Oh dear fucking lord...

THIS IS A NON ISSUE.
STOP TALKING ABOUT NON ISSUES.

Did you guys hear about Charlie Sheen?

How long did it take for these photos to emerge?
Derp.

>stalk a kid and pick a fight
>get your ass whooped by someone half your size whose scared for his life
>shoot him
>claim self defense

Nobody knows exactly what happened here. There were very probably errors in judgment made on both parts. It's a tragedy. It shouldn't have happened and in a rational society, it probably wouldn't have happened.

This world can be like a dysfunctional family on a grand scale.

>>67228
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with the spiegel?

>>67229
I read them, too. They're not evil, but some of it is just tabloid material or blatantly populist and sensationalist. From time to time they seem obviously biased, or at least omitting things. They have similar positions to my own, but I still like to be aware of a bias and also look at other sources.

The print magazine is a lot better than the website, but I guess you only have the website.

>>67228

>>not completely independent from the government

They are 100% run by the government.
Theres a government office collecting the money to fund them from every citizen owning a TV, Radio, PC...

>>67233
Yes, tell me about dodging the guys who demand you let them into your place and show them you really don't own any of that (you don't have to let them in, but they're persistent and sneaky bastards).

But as far as I can tell, they're left alone for the majority of the year and just haggle about how much exactly they're allowed to collect from everyone once a year.

The purpose of that money is supposed to be news, but they also finance two national TV channels and a bunch of regional ones with it. The majority of the program is movies, TV series, stuff like sesame street, sports programs and horrible music with cheesy German lyrics for old people. The news are still good.

Can we keep using this thread from now on?

>>67236
If you're asking me, yes, feel free. And thanks for the links. Much appreciated :)

>>67265
lol but then there would have been the entire coast in the way

>>67221
My concern would not be a PRC retaliation, but a PRC first strike in combination with conventional forces attack on the Philippines (and Taiwan).

Again, you are right the possibilty is still remote but less remote than before this all developed. Also I am very concerned by the amount of indifference from the mainstream media to this story in any way. I have a genuine fear when foreign policy goes un-noticed politicians have a bad habit of making the worst decisions possible and then doubling down on those decisions to cover up mistakes.

>>67277
i doubt it would go far even if it happned. sure some shit can happen but itll be mostly a war of words. at the very worst it will be a proxy war in some godforsaken part of the world. if america and the soviet union could keep their cool, well, this is a cakewalk by comparison,

>>67299

>at the very worst it will be a proxy war in some godforsaken part of the world

Like African SCRAMBLE?

>>67300
sorta like that. but itll probbably be more like jenga; jerusalem, east asia, nigeria, guangzhou and afghanistan. the first one to make the entire thing collapse loses.

>>67253
well there is that and what infrastructure is in place but i think youll find that the main reason us eurofags pay so much is because of tax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax#Tax_rates

>>67254
Damn, I knew our fuel taxes were fairly low, but fuck germany pays 8.10 a gallon in TAX that's insane.

>>67269
its a "sin tax" in sweden we tax the fuck out of alcohol and tobacco too.

>>67276
Oh we do that here for alcohol and tobacco, but gas tax hikes are a bit more politically risky because they affect commerce(because of the relative separation of our cities), and somewhat ironically the argument that they are regressive taxes(as if alcohol and tobacco don't have more disproportionate use among the poor)

>>67282
the tax on a litre of vodka is just under $30, do you guys go that high? gas taxes have been raised bit by bit because its considered unsustainable for multiple reasons. however we are less "suburbanized" and the gov builds more public transport to offset the hike. they also subsidize things like geothermal additions to houses. its not all good though, the green faction fights every plan to build a road ever which means lines which means more polution/gas use.
in general though the gov just keeps tilting the balance from oil to something else. wood chips, geothermal, the bodyheat of crowds, rabbits, you name it. its not like they just raise the tax.

>>67294
lol wordfilter. 4chon. nb

FUCK GOOGLE

that would suck for those guys visiting the site, then those people would flood everywhere else.. lose lose situation.

>>67304 second.jpg

>>67165

>A person doesn't lose the right to defend themselves against perceived deadly force just because they started a fight. The issue is one of escalation. Just because one guy throws a punch doesn't give the second one the right to kill.

In Florida it does. As long as one party thinks their life is in danger.
So who wins?
The jolly african-american or the 1/2 spic?
There ya go!

>>67150
threads derail, i feel your pain but this is just human nature. at least no one brought up hitler yet.
>>67166
well actually we are discussing the laws in question which theoretically is up to the public to create or remove.
/n/ is "shit tier" bacause people disagree. welcome to humanity.

>>67172
half spic? you mean half jew.

>>67172

Do you even know what you are talking about or are you talking out of your ass? Ultimately, there has to be some proof to support even a subjective belief of threat to the self.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/stand-your-ground-claim-by-trevor-dooley-in-fatal-park-shooting-rejected/1230020

>>67280
You mean like some creepy latino stalking you like a pedo in the middle of the night?

>>67240
Corporations love regulations.

Except when they are being regulated.

>>67240
They like certain regulations that serve as barriers to entry, it inhibits smaller competition from growing by taking advantage of the same economic conditions that allowed the larger corporations to grow.

>>67252
This is true.

>>67240

They maintain that certain regulations serve corporate interests.

Then they turn around and say that all regulations are the problem. They would use this same logic against regulations that exist to keep the air and water clean. Against regulations that keep banks from behaving irresponsibly (though these seem nonexistent).

They point out bad regulations, and use them to argue against good regulations as well.

my god they are taking fucking forever to get around to anything.

>>67266
exactly, the only reason their existence is tolerated is because no one wants a fight. if they start a fight they use up their only card. america isnt even needed, the south can take them out themselves easily.

Not going to happen.

The leaders of North Korea have a good thing going, and they know it. They don't want to fuck it up by having the military might of the entire world crash down on them. They know that they would be completely annihilated.

>>67225

>the US is more than willing to cut off huge sources of it's aid and put it's population to death by starvation because of something as small as an attempted satellite launch.

It kind of sucks that the US government is willing to starve so many millions of innocents over a satellite launch. It's not like they couldn't easily shoot down anything NK launched.

>>67270

It kinda sucks that that same aid could be feeding the homeless (or some other humanitarian use) here by the hundreds of thousands too. Doubly that it's to foot the bill of some tin pot dictator trying to hold a potato gun to the world's head, and triply (lol is that a word) that it's the only thing keeping him propped up. I can hardly condone starving a population like that, but the aid has only created a different vicious cycle at the same time :S

NB cause tangent

>>67270
We don't need to shoot it down. They keep exploding on their own.

Oh, you guys and your kooky conspiracy theories. Quit reading stuff on that Internet, online, on the computer, inside. Go out and get some fresh air. Kodak would never do that.

Everything is fine.

>>67205

>I heard Instragram has chemical weapons in it's supply room

Actually that is just the smell of all the hipsters who work there and refuse to bathe.
We should still invade them and wipe them out though...

>>67261
isnt that a chemical weapon though?

I like how this gradually gets less and less awesome as you absorb the information.

> KODAK HAS A SECRET NUKULAR WEAPON IN THE MIDDLE OF NEW YORK

> Oh wait, it's just a reactor, they don't even have enough material to build a bomb.

> And they have a legit reason for using it.

> And it's not exactly top secret, more like unnoticed.

> And... it doesn't exist anymore

>>67248

pic is really fucking with my head

My money is on Activision Blizzard. They have the resources

It's back up.

https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/the-pirate-bay-returns-anonymous-hater-takes-credit-for-ddos/12233

Seriously?

Some asperger fuck pissed off because he didn't get his daily dose of anal porn just DDOS'ed tPB?

That's sad.

>>67258
you try lasting a few days without delicious poopers