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Moving food to a poor town in the US from somewhere else is a trivial task. Africa has its own set of problems.


> Moving food to a poor town in the US from somewhere else is a trivial task.

You're missing the point, but long as we are trivializing complex social issues, let's ask why there are 13 million hungry kids in the US. https://www.nokidhungry.org/problem/hunger-facts


No need to ask: lack of nutritional education and income inequality.


Please help me understand. Why would Africans need unhealthy, pesticide-infested food from America? Unless it is a country ravaged with wars, sponsored by the same, America? We can grow our own food.


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We are growing our own food and exporting excess food to other countries. What do you think we are doing with our land? Just play on it? Only countries who are unable to grow their own food are those who are at war. War which is started by the very same West who pretend to be feeding us.


Your claim is that most starvation in Africa is caused by war, and most war is instigated by countries outside Africa (China and the U.S.?).

Why, then, don't we see so much war in South America, where China and the U.S. are also heavily involved?


I love how you cherry-picked South America and ignore recent examples where US is directly involved in impoverishing people by destroying their country in the name of democracy. Democracy meaning installing their own puppets who will allow them to loot. Countries like Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait etc. All South American countries have been at war. All of them. Google them one by one. Leave China out of this equation because they have never started or sponsored war outside Asia. When a country isn't at war, know that it is ruled by puppets of the West.


And you're cherry picking Muslim countries, when when we talk about starvation in Africa we mean the huge barren between the Muslim countries and South Africa.

We are talking malaria here, what do the Muslim countries have to do with that?

http://www.thelancet.com/cms/attachment/2001010053/200378675...


How did you find out that stuff of the google ad id? Especially associating it with past websites.


In the source of every page with Google ads, there's a "Publisher ID" which is a unique identifier for the account. In the case of NYStockNews.com, it shows up as:

> google_ad_client: "ca-pub-6009540024781990"

From there, there are specialty services that keep track over time, otherwise, you can just search for the trailing digits on Google.

When doing so for "6009540024781990", a few sites come up, GDPInsider.com - Another stock bot-written site, and then a dead link with a Google Cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ccudn6...

Using various other tools, you can see the domain registration information over time or ID which servers hosted it, or just find out who was linking to a domain earliest. Reddit is a great site for the latter. Often times, when a 'marketer' sets up a site like these, they immediately run to social media to try and promote it. If you can find the first time it's linked publicly, you can often find out who posted it.

That last part is actually one of the ways they tied Ross Ulbricht to The Silk Road -- They found the first public mention of The Silk Road online (The post: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1386099...) which was written by 'Altoid' and directed users to a Wordpress page that had been set up a few days earlier. They then found a series of posts on BitcoinTalk by 'Altoid' looking for an IT Pro in the Bitcoin community with instructions to email [email protected] if they were interested in a job... He was doing deeply illegal stuff and couldn't be bothered to mask his ID, imagine how easy it is to find rando affiliate marketers.


He didn't complain about this article being here. He asked why 40+ people found it interesting. I share his question, I don't understand what's interesting about this at all, and there's no actual conversation around it here either.


correct.

and when I commented, the article had a single point.


What else should we talk about in this thread? About how sad it is that nobody wanted to buy her photos, or about how great it is that she's giving them away?


FYI, Kainoa seems to be male. It's an easy mistake to make, since names ending in "a" strongly tend to be female in many (especially European) languages, but this one is Hawaiian.


To be honest, sounds like a plan, because I'd like to know the former and I agree with the latter.


It's just my personal opinion, but I think these photos are poor quality. Many of them were not in focus and post-processing was used to make them look better. And that's based on the really small versions available. So I don't think it's surprising they were not accepted by some newspapers (especially that we don't know the asking price).

Still, it's great that the author decided to share them for free. They have great value even without being top quality - it's just that many publications want to keep the photos quality top notch.


Excuse the photographer for the fuzziness of a photo taken while BULLETS ARE FLYING AROUND.


getting the shot correctly while BULLETS ARE FLYING AROUND is the job. Blurry photos don't get printed, and they certainly don't win Pulitzers.


I'm not saying the job isn't hard. I'm just saying that some people do it better (or have better hardware) - and having a choice, publishers choose the best option they can get.


The photographer is a man.


>You imply that as soon as you decide to fight — be it righteous or not — you forfeit your life and it is okay to kill you.

Of course it is. If you choose to fight in a war, you forfeit your life. That's how wars work. You only win a battle by decimating your enemy. How is this bigotry?

Also, you believe your cause to be righteous, and so does your enemy. You both believe your cause to be so righteous, and your enemy to be so menacing to your cause, that you both have decided to go to arms over it.

On the other hand a civilian is a civilian. He didn't choose war, so he doesn't deserve to have his life taken away by a conflict he has no interest in.


> You only win a battle by decimating your enemy.

You are wrong. You may decide to fight but not want to be killed nor kill anybody, but just want the war to stop. Most battles ended without decimating any side, and they can even end without much confrontation at all.


A step closer to this. http://i.imgur.com/f7hccDn.gif


The premise of the matrix violates the first law of thermodynamics; It's just a plot device.


Except although the movie does say battery. That's not the original plot device that was written. They were originally written as human based cpu computers. But some higher up thought people wouldn't understand "human processors" so just everytime you think about or watch the matrix again. Just think it's a poor mistranslation that made it into the movie, "processor->battery"


Of course battery is just what Morpheus and the others from Zion think is the story.

Considering how wrong they were on other important matters the battery explanation could easily be wrong and the CPU correct.


Wasn't there some deleted dialog about this?

I'm paraphrasing, but Neo says "that's impossible (in reference to the Matrix) since it violates the laws of thermodynamics"

To which Morpheus replies "and where did you learn about the laws of thermodynamics?"

If you're in the Matrix, your knowledge of the Matrix would come from the Matrix itself which would have a bias towards falsifying information to preserve itself.


It would be. It's unlimited space, not unlimited bandwidth to put things in that space.


I feel that's what CrashPlan does, over the last few years I've rarely gotten over 500 KB/s upstream, although with my LTE router I regularly get 4-5 MB/s.


Ingress already existed...


Pokemon Go was implemented by the Ingress team.


And it had practically no marketing, an terrible on boarding experience. Pokémon Go was Ingress for the masses.


Actually, Pokemon Go essentially IS Ingress, as pretty much every Ingress spot is also a PG spot.


Isn't that called "holidays"? We have one month every year by law here. But of course you have to negotiate when they are with your employer.


That's like saying WordPress is a forum because you can install bbPress.


That's like saying WordPress is a great CMS to manage the content for your forum, using a plethora of great plugins or custom post types to output the content in a forum-like view.


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