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[ganbaru]

Insight: What ever happened to France's voice in Europe?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93N0AA20130424

Boston bomb suspect's name was on classified government watch lists
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93N06720130424

[Badkarma 1]

LAPD=Shoot first, ask questions later!

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Boston bomb suspect's name was on classified government watch lists
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93N06720130424

Assuming it was true from the new statements that the 2 brothers did NOT get help from known terrorist groups, being put on a watch list probably didn't trigger any alarm bells for the duration. They made their bombs using publicly available info, so no massive purchase of fertiliser and such that could generate investigation.

They were low key, they didn't contact any terrorists themselves, and in the end they didn't plan the attack very well either. No escape plan or spare cash to go underground. Their lack of preparation means they were easily caught, but it also means there was less grounds to stop them ahead of time.

[MrTerrorist]

Belarus's university in exile

She tells me that she once presented a teacher in Minsk with her own translation of one of Shakespeare's sonnets. The teacher was not impressed and gave her a low mark for failing to complete the correct assignment - a biography of the playwright.

"I was punished for my creativity but here if you try something new, you are always appreciated. That's why I can tell I cherish, cherish every single lecture and course that I attend at this university because it's so, so different."

She adds: "You can speak, you can just express yourself and this is precious and you are never given this opportunity in Belarus, never."

Whoa. What old hardass jerks.
The government would rather train the next generation as mindless drones rather than encourage creative thinkers.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Why can't she do the homework before doing the translated sonnet? Creativity doesn't excuse you for failing to do the task assigned. She isn't a school girl, she should know the assigned work needed doing first before doing things for fun.

[RRW]

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An eight-storey block housing factories and a shopping centre has collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, killing more than 80 people and injuring hundreds.

Only the ground floor of the Rana Plaza in the town of Savar outside Dhaka remained intact when the block imploded about 9am (local time).

Armed with concrete cutters and cranes, hundreds of fire service and army rescue workers struggled to find survivors in the mountain of concrete and mangled steel which resembled the aftermath of an earthquake.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-2...ladesh/4649772

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Whoa. What old hardass jerks.
The government would rather train the next generation as mindless drones rather than encourage creative thinkers.

Creative thinkers are always a threat to the current social establishment. They disrupt the law, and damage the current process of progress. [/sarcasm]

Non-taxable creativity has always been a crime.

[kenshinanime]

Beijing (CNN) -- Clashes in the unsettled western Chinese region of Xinjiang killed 21 people, including police officers and local officials, authorities said Wednesday.
The attacks took place Tuesday afternoon after three local officials visiting homes in the area found "several suspicious persons" and knives in one house, the Xinjiang government said in a statement.
When the officials alerted their superiors of the situation, the people in the house took them hostage, the statement said. Police rushed to the scene, and in the ensuing violence, six of the assailants and 15 other people were killed, it said. Two other people were injured.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/24/wo...tml?hpt=ias_c2

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A car bomb exploded just outside the French Embassy in Tripoli early Tuesday morning, injuring two French security guards and a Libyan girl, officials said.
The blast was so powerful it blew the front wall off the embassy. Homes can cars adjacent to the embassy sustained heavy damage, and the windows of nearby buildings in this upscale, largely residential neighborhood were also blown out.
During a visit to the area, Deputy Prime Minister Awad Barasi said a 13-year-old girl in a nearby house was injured in the attack and will be taken to Tunisia for treatment.
Barasi, who condemned the attack, said he had spoken with the French ambassador to Libya, who assured him he will not leave Tripoli.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/23/world/africa/libya-french-embassy-attack/index.html?hpt=iaf_c1

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Creative thinkers are always a threat to the current social establishment. They disrupt the law, and damage the current process of progress. [/sarcasm]

Non-taxable creativity has always been a crime.

I would have been more impressed with the girl if she managed to be creative within the boundaries of her given task.
Creativity is at their most impressive when they exist under difficult conditions. In her case, she simply wanted to do something else. That isn't creativity at all.

Is it creative to make a statue when you are told to draw a painting? No, that's not creativity. That's just you ignoring what your task was.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

I would have been more impressed with the girl if she managed to be creative within the boundaries of her given task.
Creativity is at their most impressive when they exist under difficult conditions. In her case, she simply wanted to do something else. That isn't creativity at all.

Is it creative to make a statue when you are told to draw a painting? No, that's not creativity. That's just you ignoring what your task was.

That is true too. Creativity under difficult conditions is impressive, though creativity without boundaries is novel. So novelty or impression? We don't know.

[Anh_Minh]

I don't see what's so creative about translating a 14 verses poem.

If it turns out she copy-pasted Google translate, I'll be even more unimpressed.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

That is true too. Creativity under difficult conditions is impressive, though creativity without boundaries is novel. So novelty or impression? We don't know.

As an example, I would be impressed if she managed to write the biography as instructed, but also as a sonnet in Shakespeare's style. Preferably in Italian.

[Roger Rambo]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Assuming it was true from the new statements that the 2 brothers did NOT get help from known terrorist groups, being put on a watch list probably didn't trigger any alarm bells for the duration. They made their bombs using publicly available info, so no massive purchase of fertiliser and such that could generate investigation.

It'd be impossible for being put on a terror watch list to put you under strict attention. The terror watch list includes half a million people.

Sorta makes you question how useful the terror watch list database is at its current size.

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Belarus's university in exile



Whoa. What old hardass jerks.
The government would rather train the next generation as mindless drones rather than encourage creative thinkers.

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Why can't she do the homework before doing the translated sonnet? Creativity doesn't excuse you for failing to do the task assigned. She isn't a school girl, she should know the assigned work needed doing first before doing things for fun.

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Creative thinkers are always a threat to the current social establishment. They disrupt the law, and damage the current process of progress. [/sarcasm]

Non-taxable creativity has always been a crime.

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

I would have been more impressed with the girl if she managed to be creative within the boundaries of her given task.
Creativity is at their most impressive when they exist under difficult conditions. In her case, she simply wanted to do something else. That isn't creativity at all.

Is it creative to make a statue when you are told to draw a painting? No, that's not creativity. That's just you ignoring what your task was.

Ok, whoa. Did anyone not get the message of the article?
It wasn't about students being punished for being told what to do, it was the Belarus government preventing and putting young minds down who fear them of challenging the status quo of their Dictator's rule of the country.
The government is trying to brainwash their youth into believing their authoritarian rule is the best for the country and don't like the idea of other alternatives might be better for the country.

I think i should word these type of articles carefully next time.

[RRW]

another one cih

The suspect police say shot and killed five people early Wednesday morning inside a Manchester, Ill., home reportedly died at an area hospital after he exchanged gunfire with arresting officers, police told FoxNews.com.
The relationship between the suspect and his victims remains unclear, but police say the shooting occurred shortly after a prior pursuit. There were initial reports of a high-speed chase, but those reports are erroneous, police said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/24...#ixzz2ROyuGEws

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Ok, whoa. Did anyone not get the message of the article?

Why, are we supposed to accept it unconditionally?

It wasn't about students being punished for being told what to do, it was the Belarus government preventing and putting young minds down who fear them of challenging the status quo of their Dictator's rule of the country.
The government is trying to brainwash their youth into believing their authoritarian rule is the best for the country and don't like the idea of other alternatives might be better for the country.

Even so, it was a terrible example. It's just a girl refusing to do her homework, doing something distantly related than can be crapped out in a few minutes, and calling it "creativity". And bitching because she wasn't given full marks, as if she would be anywhere else.

I think i should word these type of articles carefully next time.

Did you write it?

[Kyuu]

OK, I scored 100%. How about you?

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/

[Vexx]

Originally Posted by Kyuu

OK, I scored 100%. How about you?

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/

I got a 100% (better than 92% of the respondents by the graph which is depressing). I'll complain a bit that too many of the questions required me to know what the person looked like - to me that's kind of "Inside Edition" irrelevant to their name, rank, and what they're doing.

Welcome to the idiocracy?

[Haak]

I got 11 out of 13 and I'm not even American. XP

I hope I'm not screwing with their research...

[Xellos-_^]

Originally Posted by Kyuu

OK, I scored 100%. How about you?

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/

12/13

for some odd reason i read the question to #4 as which is the symbol of Islam