[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[OlympicIRL 4,771]

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

It should be no problem at all to get some good voting machines there. They don't even need to have any sort of network interface or something.

 

In Ireland we invested millions in rolling out voting machines in the early 2000s but they were never used and now lie in some storage place going to waste.... and in fact still costing us fortunes just to keep them stored. That's how we like to do things here

 

I like the drama and suspense of waiting for the votes and the updates from each count centre. If we did move to the instant results of electronic voting then at least I want them to have some creative way of delivering the results like in TISC or something

 

[heywoodu 13,562]

12 hours ago, VolleyRuller96 said:

Maybe not but it certainly sounds different when you say "the populist party finished second, only after the winner" than "the populist party finished fourth"

Well, they finished 2nd  

[bestmen 2,566]

very cold meeting Trump/Merkel
Trump seems ignoring her , this guy is not educated and grimaces like a kid

 

Edited March 18, 2017 by bestmen

[heywoodu 13,562]

Attack in London, here we go again. Let's hope it stays 'small'. 

[VolleyRuller96 264]

45 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Attack in London, here we go again. Let's hope it stays 'small'. 

It looks like an open attack on a governing institution so I doubt it. One could even classify it as a terrorist organization trying to take over a country.

[heywoodu 13,562]

1 minute ago, VolleyRuller96 said:

It looks like an open attack on a governing institution so I doubt it. One could even classify it as a terrorist organization trying to take over a country.

It reminds me of a sort mini version of London has Fallen. 

[bestmen 2,566]

one woman has died , many injures

 

in the same time the scottish debate about the independance has been suspended

 

so i think it's a politic attack

[VolleyRuller96 264]

1 hour ago, bestmen said:

one woman has died , many injures

 

in the same time the scottish debate about the independance has been suspended

 

so i think it's a politic attack

Maybe, but there have been many BREXIT talks already and none caused something like this, and the suspect is said to be 40something Asian which in todays times means sadly that it's 90% sure Islam based

[Pavlo 65]

picture of terrorist is clear, muslim again, as always, politics? I wouldn`t call it politics...

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Polish Public Tekevision : The attacker was Abu Izzaden, Muslim Cleric.

British Public Television : The attacker could not be Izzaden, as he is currently in prison 

Polish Pulic Television an hour later : The attacker was Abu Izzaden, Muslim Cleric.

#QualityJournalism 

 

Anyways, the attack was supposedly announced one day earlier on 4chan as a riddle - picture of a gun and Westminster's coordinates encoded in Morse Code which translates to Binary Code which translated gave the coordinates.

 

It might be important as if it's real it might prove that 1. The attack was planned way earlier 2. This may show that it might have not been Islamic Terrorism at all (ISIS and others rather never did something like this before - plus didn't claim the responsibilty yet, but they might simply wait to see what colour was perpertrator)

 

There are also now apparently 2 version of how the terrorist looked - one that the photographed man was the terrorist, but some other claim that he was a "white, bald man" - but this second version is only cited by some British users of reddit.

Edited March 22, 2017 by VolleyRuller96