A unicorn agnostic would say "I have no evidence for the existence of unicorns, so there may or may not be unicorns" but a unicorn atheist would say "I have no evidence for the existence of unicorns, so I don't believe unicorns exist".

It is a matter of semantics.

In the UK police have powers of stop and search which are very wide ranging. Small, personal amounts of cannabis possession are sometimes overlooked or given a 'caution' (which still goes on your record) but its completely up to the cop's discretion. No surprise, figures out last month showed black people are rarely given a caution compared to white. Cannabis is the same class (B) as mephedrone and speed and more restricted than class C ketamine.

Few European countries have police as militarized or jails as full as yours, but many of them eat up the same war on drugs rhetoric.

Intriguing... is that really so much of a factor? To torrent-stream successfully you have to have eventually loaded all snippets from beginning to end of a file and could potentially be offering them for download at most only a couple of hours later than if you downloaded it first snippet.

Congressmen like Mike Pompeo sit in the House of Representatives, which governs the whole US.

Rep. Pompeo is on the House Intelligence Committee. He most likely honestly hate what Snowden has done and represents a part of the country which is very anti-Snowden. This is easy grandstanding for him.

He's misguided, in my opinion, but that's "why".

I've never heard the word before this thread but I'm inclined to think it's a bit like "lads" in British English.

It's really... boastful. Cocky. Self-important. He's using it in sentences where he could just as easily get away without using any pronoun at all.

The closest thing I could think would be to conduct a business meeting in which you only describe your actions and refer to yourself in the third person, and then only as "Big Mark".

"Big Mark understands your position but thinks you're being a bit rude about all of this. Big Mark thinks we should cooperate more" etc, etc

I thought it was from Newsroom but someone else said "film"

It's from Thank You for Smoking.

Hell, I'd seriously consider marking my commute route as closed if it thinned the traffic.

I'm sorry it's not an easy source to access, but you should watch this film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated

>I actually think that pound for pound, threads on 4chan on topics like race or gender politics end up being better conversations

I love anonymous conversation but this sentence makes me think you've not tried to debate these things on 4chan too often.

Murder is bad but was George Zimmerman justified? Is the death penalty just?

Never underestimated the news media's ability to split the American public in half.

News isn't usually positive, but what do you think the tone of this coverage is compared to the coverage of the London olympics?

I personally strongly dislike the way gay people are treated in Russia and I am enjoying the drubbing they're getting from Western media.

But the parent comment is right, it's eerie to suddenly hear partisan media singing from the same hymn sheet.

Maybe in London when you get a hotel room doorknobs do not fall off?

Or maybe they do, but nobody makes international issue from that?

Sure, everybody has agreed to hide leaking toilets and falling off doorknobs in London but emphasize it in Russia. I'm sure Elders of Zion or reptiloid Martians are behind that. Keep wearing that tinfoil hat.

In the last American hotel room I went to, doorknob from off.