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As a non-Muslim, I would like a few things: 1) to not be blamed for Muslims killing Muslims over Muslim issues 2) to not be blamed for Muslims killing non-Muslims a) because "you deserved it" b) because "it really wasn't Muslims, it was your plot against Islam/Pakistan/Syria/Iran/whoever"...

You did trend it. 12 non-Muslims ACTUALLY KILLED today. All over the news, way more trended than any hashtag. And, you know, PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY DEAD. But yeah, I can see where you are more put upon than those who were killed. /s

I agree, but this is PDF. Half the members can't believe anything that doesn't involve a conspiracy, preferably one against Pakistan. Or at least against Muslims. There are no confluences of circumstance, just plots, for them.

The ruble goes up or down with oil, for the foreseeable future.

Interesting - so it looks like the complaining was/is not a prelude to canceling, so much as a negotiating ploy. It will be interesting years hence to see whether they got any concessions out of it.

Not necessarily - lots of people pick sides by examining the issues at stake, rather than just who they are most closely related to.

I'm German-American, I suppose - most of my ancestors were in Germany at one time (maybe, we're not sure, and I don't care). German migration to the US mostly occurred before 1900. Since then, not much. Very few "german-americans" would identify themselves that way. Almost none speak German...

Doesn't matter what the medium of exchange is. Contracts are basically a bet the what I'm buying will go up in price, and what I'm selling will be worth less (when the contract is executed). If you just trade gold for oil (no contracts) - then you don't come out ahead on the exchange. June 2014...

Seriously guys, the hour-to-hour price is interesting if you're a currency trader. For everyone else, stick to the 1 mo or larger time scales. Every financial instrument bounces around a lot if you look at these small scale plots. You can only see trends on longer scales. The ruble was 30 to...

Probably not, unless you have some special skill. The US discriminates against European immigrants - you are not eligible for the green card lottery. You have to come in on marriage or employer sponsorship, really. IT is unlikely to count, we get cheaper engineers from India. With your...

Um, no. Your math skills are lacking. Russia sells internationally - in dollars (mostly). But, it doesn't matter ultimately what the currency is, it's TRADE. You give something, you get something in return. What low oil prices mean is that you get less back in return. Whatever it is you are...

Personally, my money is on two different groups - an insider-assisted group that hacked Sony, and an independent hacktivist group that went after N. Korea. Governments getting involved in something like this would be petty, stupid, and give away methods and attack vectors for nothing meaningful...

Primer (be prepared to rewatch it) Dark City Fish Story (Japanese, subtitles available in english) Galaxy Quest (only if you've seen a fair bit of Star Trek) RoboCop (very violent) Frequency (2000) Robot and Frank (a sort of caper movie) The Jacket (a trippy kind of sort of time travel movie)...

More Ennio Morricone:

Motor fuel taxes in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Seems to indicate that Canada's system is mixed. First, an excise tax (fixed per L, but different from locale to locale). Then a series of Value Added and Sales taxes are applied, on the combined price+excise tax. The impact on...

Converting people by persuading them is fine. Converting people by changing the law to make it effectively illegal, or heavily penalized to be something other than your prefered religion is entirely wrong. The concern that non-Hindus have is that there is a section of the Hindu population that...

Gas taxes (in the US at least, and I suspect elsewhere as well) are not levied on profit or price - it isn't "10% of sales receipts go to the government" or anything like that. Gas taxes are fixed adders per gallon (mostly, there are some cases of sales tax being applied as well). USA Gasoline...

Who lives there? My understanding is that the people that actually live there identify as British. There are no "natives" of the islands - people who have lived there for 1000s of years. The islands were found by the British with no population at all. From Wikipedia: The population (2,932...

For Indies: Primer (may have to watch a couple times to figure out what happened) Memento Castaways on the Moon (Korean) Adopt a Sailor Ink The Castle (Australian, 1997) Robot & Frank Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, so violent and lots of cursing) Not Indie,but still good Easy A (american high...

Funniest thing I've heard today! :-) Wonder if the guy had ever watched "Kill Bill". Some of the best unit names/nicknames come from things like this. The B-1 Lancer got a much cooler unofficial nickname due to secretaries messing up the program name. One had it "B-1". Another decided that...