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  1. You've got to be careful with addons like that, some of them intercept SSL/TLS communications which make you less safe (IE Privdog) - best solution is to run Opera's built in adblock or use a global opt-out of behaviour advertising form the industry portal (this works with cookies) EU EDAA Opt-out (ALL EU Advertisers) US Opt-out (less effective than EU) Canada opt-out (roughly same as EU opt-out) Windows 10 opt-out Manual opt-out if master fails: Google Opt-Out Facebook opt-out Microsoft online opt-out
  2. Your ISP isn't the one to worry about (Use Google, Facebook or Microsoft Services by any chance?) You know those cookie warnings on websites - if you OK them without checking what they're used for your history on that website will likely be given over to an advertising or analytics company like Google and sold on. Protect yourself with a VPN if you really want to and block third party cookies if you're paranoid (there's now a free unlimited one built into Opera at fairly high speed) - if you're going towards the mad end of privacy use DuckDuckGo to search (I use DDG because gets better results anyway).Plus it isn't like the NSA and GCHQ won't have a data breech of the petabytes of stuff they've collected on you at some point or another. With the amount of data Google collect on users, they probably know the contents of Hillary's e-mails, the Brexit plan (which does not exist), Trump's taxes (or lack of them) and whatever strange websites you visit in your spare time.
  3. As my post before said, I'm British and the original articles were British, therefore the constitution of the United States does not apply. Yes the US has different laws, but this answer was in context of where the hate is being spread. As the sources were British, my first response still stands, EU and UK law adds the required exceptions. Edits due to abysmal mobile typing.
  4. To be honest, Christianity includes several values that are contradictory to western society. From the things that I can remember from the top of my head, "women should be silent in the churches" has been taught in Christianity for centuries, with Puritan Christians in the time of Oliver Cromwell banning Christmas, alcohol and other things in the west, with same-sex activity outlawed in the UK since 1967 - with the discrimination brought in by Christians. At the same time, we in the west need a foreign policy based on a policy of human rights, democracy and international law. We're guilty ourselves of some of this, during colonial times Europeans pushed their laws at the time on their colonies with lasting effects. We ourselves have come a long way towards achieving equal rights, and communities internationally are working in their own countries towards the same goal. We do not have the right to force our way through, but what we can do is push for changes through multinational organisations such as the EU, AU and UN, and as individual consumers we can start avoiding products from countries with poor human rights records, something that will be easier in time as clean energy allows us to leave Saudi oil and our economies begin to adapt when demand for products from certain countries falls. While we cannot invade a country or spread propaganda, we can hit them where it hurts - in the bank account. What we need to do is start enforcing our current laws and give more funding to the bodies that already exist to stop this exact thing from being spread.
  5. British interruption here since the sources were about the UK, US law does not apply etc etc. Teaching that sexism, homophobia and racism are acceptable is not just wrong, in some cases it is illegal. "Protected speech" comes with attached exceptions, for example in England and Wales there are active laws against hate speech (defined as speech which attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnicity, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation). This does not just include specific words, but is context bound. The simple fact is, some of the content is in violation of equality and anti-discrimination laws. In addition to this, actively promoting sexism, racism and homophobia can cause violent acts to happen. Words can have real consequences from all sides. I'm extremely fortunate to live in the UK, in one of the top 50 state run schools and under the protection provided by UK law which the LGBT community has had to fight consistently for. The legal protection given to us is extremely important. Only just recently, after many attempts the Greens proposed compulsory education on relationships which also include ending violence towards women (which also has further implications to said teaching) which has now been passed, which will now force all institutions to follow the curriculum set by the DoE and other bodies. Laws dictate the right to free speech (sadly Katie Hopkins seems to be exempt from this) - the concern here is not if it is acceptable, but why Ofsted, the DoE and Ofqual (the relevant UK bodies) are not doing enough about this in other areas of the UK.
  6. It got lost in Heathrow terminal 5, two very important announcements may have been inadvertently flushed into the river, and must be located at either Henley or Canary Wharf - whichever way the current is flowing.
  7. I think we need another 500,000 Avansies threads this week. - Sorry to the Americans that don't understand that.
  8. Shush please! Face it, you're just not relevant. Can you leave the constant cycle of wars between two sides to the bigger people, because at least we have a few months between our wars which actually make dents in the globe, rather than two micros trying to be relevant. You can't sit with us!
  9. Are you still here? There should be a ban on one person alliances creating threads here.
  10. It's a Microsoft Edge only bug. If you press send on any message the page refreshes and asks to resubmit the data, its avoided on desktop by swapping to Opera/firefox etc but more difficult on mobile. Messages still send, but Edge pulls up a refresh error anyway. Error only applies to sending a reply
  11. The left is regaining in strength. Ever since Brexit multiple campaigns has been working to crush the media spreading hate and fuelling the Trump/BNP/BF movements. once and for all. https://www.facebook.com/stopfundinghate/videos/356313188039351/ And the campaign just reached yet another breakthrough with Lego ending all Daily Mail advertising, this follows Specsavers and the Co-Op group reviewing where they are advertising. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37962425 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/12/lego-not-planning-any-future-tie-ins-with-daily-mail-after-protests
  12. Firstly, I don't look down on the "working class", It's the fault of successive centerist/tory governments failures to invest in high quality state operated free at POU education. I'm from the North East, the SINGLE most neglected region, we're the closest collectively to the description. Britain should be moving to a classless society, but the factor I'm referring to is education and there is a good reason for this. Humans like to follow crowds, plain and simple. Now in a political sense we can see this where the posh ones vote Tory and those who have been neglected by society as a whole vote Labour. Now those of a higher standard of education - which yes varies on location/income/government at the time - are statistically more likely to research their choices more carefully. There is also a clear connection between intelligence and the choice to seek multiple opinions, again this is statistical and it can't speak for everyone. As for the pound that was obvious, companies like certanty and they'll move their money around to try to maximise cash flow. Market shocks happen and crashes are accelerated by the fact most of the top 100 companies by revenue use computers to automatically buy and sell currency, commodities and shares. The EU however, does have it's benefits, for starters free movement of people let's companies put anyone any ware in the EU at short notice, secondly the Regional Development Fund puts money into the regions, the Tories wouldn't spend a penny of this in the North East if it was down to them. Thirdly, the EU allowed co-operation to increase, we have seen Airbus grow from a small challenger to Boeing to a market leader, and that co-operation has been crucial to us competing with US companies. And no, I'm not Labour - I'm Green. There's a big difference between Corbyn and Lucas. Also devolution has great benefits - the Scottish get everything because they have a devolved parliament and the North East Combined Authority (NECA, styled as neca) have reached a deal giving us so much money we can start to begin patching up our region from the damage the last coalition did - the single good decision Osborne ever made. Donald Trump's attitude has already formed cracks. Protests in California are turning violent and the number of protestors shows cracks. His attitude to China is also very very dangerous. In addition, Donald Trump's mere remarks are helping evil radical orginksations like Isis recruit members - he needs to stamp out hate in order to secure peace. I would post more but on mobile so typing is unbearable.
  13. What were you doing (or trying to do): View active alliance wars What happened (describe thoroughly please): All active wars show as expired Link to page: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=622&display=war Any other relevant information: N/A Screenshot: (if available) http://imgur.com/a/00rNE
  14. Opera and Vivaldi are problem free. But yeah the Edge bug is real, really irritating actually becease there are few Win Phone alternatives.
  15. In my own view, he is extreme in his head, but he knows that he'll never get these things through the process of Congress. In addition, he has reacted to the global condemnation of his ideas, such as the petition to ban him from UK entry and having honours degrees stripped. By most standards, Trump is far - if not extreme right, with his rhetoric matching groups like "Britain First", which was wound up in the killing of a democratically elected MP a few months back*. When you have groups like this backing him, he is categorised between far and extreme. * The group denied involvement and the media was confused weather the killer shouted "Britain first" or "put Britain first", either way, it's six and two threes.
  16. It's in the Daily Star now. For Americans, the Mail is if Fox news did a paper,the Sun is a fox election special and the Star is borderline satire
  17. 1) This "better than you" logic is simply fact - again I live in Sunderland, part of the North East, THE single most deprived region. Now to put it politely, there are quite a few people in the deprived schools who through no fault of their own are essencially sheep. I'm lucky to have been to one of the top regional schools (state-run), but at the same time I know people who went to the rest, and they're thick Sun/Star readers. And look at the sections for any paper, the Daily Mail is the best example here, I've become a kind of expert on the Mail because we annotate their articles for English to point out the technical errors, and the wacky ideas. "Project Fear" was mostly factual, as much as I hate Cameron he was right, jobs are at risk (Come on, May and the Tories payed Nissan a fortune, but she won't admit it. Take it from the person next to the factory.) Moreover the pound plummeted so prices are increasing, leaving the single market in a hard brexit will cement that. The Guardian did refer to some aspects as PF but others it agreed with the benifits. Also, I didn't vote because unlike some people who are at the end of their lives, I am 16, and therefore cannot vote in a decision that will ruin MY life, not some old person who won't live to see A50 activated. Up here we wanted to see Cameron resign, or to just disagree with the crooked Tories. You CANNOT get any worse in Britain than it is up here, the Tories can't put Newcastle on a map, let alone invest a single penny here. The government is all "London, London, Scotland, Scotland, oh Sturgon's kicking off again, more Scotland, London, tiny bit of Wales. What? the North?, ok Manchester then, before a bit more London.". People voted in desperation to get Cameron to resign - we know he was a very weak leader, it was stretigic, even though I myself and about 3/4 of young people would have voted in. The left isn't "weak", the left is being smeared by a right wing media. The movements to get the toxic, biased hateful press out of business is building and it is doing so quickly. The left will invest in the REAL north, not the middle of the country. The right will look after themselves, cripple our NHS and bring the country back to its knees. The North East has to be heard and if the right grows more powerful, you'll see operations like HMRC brought to their knees as the region downs tools in frequent strikes. When the drift to the right grows, we start demanding devolution - calls growing by the day. In other news, Canada's immigration website crashed with a surge of people with brains wanting to move out of the US before Trump starts WW3, and California has started Calexit rumblings, a movement which won't succeed, but sends a strong warning that the devisions growing in society are forming visible cracks.
  18. Murdoch had everything to do with Brexit. The fact is his media didn't say a single good thing about the EU, the Mirror, Independent and Guardian, the more civilised side of the press (well the Mirror is still a Tabloid, but a more intelligent one) were less negative. Murdoch's media said things like "we want British judges deciding on British issues", weeks later "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE". Tabloids are aimed at those lf lower intelligence weather you like it or not, the Sun and Daily Star are at the lowest end, with topless women on page 3. Do you really think Guardian readers are of low enough intelligence not to read unbiased sources to make informed decisions, project fear was actually project fact. In referendums like this Dumb people vote like sheep. Proven time and time again the dumb swing elections to a poor choice, weather that'd voting UKIP or Tory to leaving the EEC, while some with brains do note to leave because they weighed up cause and effect, the sheep don't do that - or in Sunderland's case, Leave was a tactical vote to get Cameron out, unfortunately we got Mrs May. Do you really think Sunderland wanted to leave the EEC, no. We wanted to vote against the Tory scum that was Cameron. Labour has in-fighting but so do the Tories. It's like playing resignation bingo for the shadow cabinet and Tory mps. As for the Greens, they were weak under the previous leader but never under-estimate Caroline Lucas. She is the single-most non cabinet influencial MP and a well respected politition. Lucas will gain more of the left-leaning support which is growing by the day. Sit down and go back to reading the Tory-graph, well seeing as you're advocatong "normal" news, the Daily Star. If you don't mind I'm back off to GuardianLand.
  19. Well for starters, it wasn't the remain campaign that cried out against the poisonous scum that is Katie Hopkins amd the media - she called migrants "cockroaches" - justify that. Murdoch wanted Brexit because the EU aren't cowards and because there is little he can do to dispose of foreign officials stopping him he minipulated the idiotic readers of The Sun to leave. Now the reason people are jumping on the media now is the headlines like "enemies of the people", now its obvious no-one with a brain reads the Daily Mail, but this was building up, that headline was essentially the last straw, in fact last year there was a petition to swap Hopkins for 50,000 Syrian refugees. Now as for Corbyn, he is in a weak spot for some voters, but at the same time he is popular with young voters who have to sort out the mess when you lot are long gone. I'm a Green supporter, and actually it is the more idealistic views that become powerful as the political establishment starts to fail - the difference from the US is we have open debates, so we KNOW about alternatives' who get more votes. I'm not even going to address Gove, come to the North East and ask anyone about him. In five words, incompetent backstabbing fat tory pig.
  20. The EU referendum was fought on lies a d backstabbing - all "hate" of the EU os exagerated, the Sun newspaper (hard right), and the Daily Mail have been inciting hatred for years - they're not that 'smart', Murdoch's approach has been to put power into UK hands because he can stomp all over the UK government, but if he tells the EU ti do something to benefit him and him alone they don't bat an eyelid. The right wing aligned media know this. Corby is in power for a reason, the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru have formed an alliance and May is so scared about Brexit she created a fictitious cabinet minister just to take the blame when it goes horribly wrong. Recent polls conducted around last week actually showed many who voted leave regretted their decisions, or voted to go against the Tories (in the North East's case a anyway. I live in Sunderland btw.) Now as for Trump's so-called Advisors - dl you really think a man with an ego bigger than the bottles of fake tan he uses really listen's to people? Just look at Michael Gove and Boris Johnson - they hated experts but look where it got them after Cameron went, so poor even the Tories rejected them. Trump will Simply get into bed with Putin until his party falls to pieces, he's taking advice from Sarah Palin for gods sake.
  21. The SNP are going to help the supreme court legal challenge. Theresa May is a weak leader who would lose an election to Corbyn (that is how poor she is). Brexit must pass a vote by MPs, the SNP will try to block it, as will many mps from stronghold constituencies, for example Tyne and Wear wanted Brexit but as a Labour stronghold they could safely vote to block it. A "hard" brexit won't be passed whatsoever. In addition our hard right media (especially the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Express) are facing a backlash and advertisers are beginning to pull out, effectively crippling their revenue.
  22. There's plenty to fight - it is the job of those that are disappointed in the result to fight individual policies - stalling if not stopping them until the next election. Trump isn't experienced and can't win legal challenges to policies.
  23. Sorry America, you elected an far right leader who will topple at the first challenge. And who'll have to sort you out - well it won't be Britain because sometimes children have to go on holiday without their parents and that means learning to take some responsibility. Where's the Clinton supporters fight, Remain stalled Brexit - those who hate Trump can stall the wall.
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