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> I fear, though, militant religious sects may not have the same self control.

But that could actually be an advantage. The more people see them for the nutcases they are the shorter the path to a possible solution.

> I fear that the inability or lack of willingness to meet violence with violence may be the downfall of rationality. We rightfully shun violence in place of discussion, but as is evident (again), we are not dealing with rational actors.

The danger in dealing with non-rational actors is that rational people will either do one of two things: they will join the non-rational actors and will respond non-rationally themselves, or they will persist in setting up a rational frame of reference for dialogue with the non-rational actors, which clearly will not work.

So the solution is to treat non-rational actors as exactly what they are: crazy, and deal with them accordingly.
Guns and grenades are not that hard to get, even in Europe. The limiting factor is how many people are willing to lay siege to a concert hall and calmly execute a hundred people, and whether some of those people were let in under the guise of "refugees".
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State of emergency in France
> If I want to stop procrastination do I have to be doing something productive 24/7?

My instinct would be to do the opposite. Clear my schedule as much as possible and give myself only one, small thing that I need to accomplish for the day. From there, I'd build on each successful day and work up to the point where I'm taking on more satisfying expectations. If procrastination is my expectations of myself minus what I can get done, there's two ways to beat it...increasing action (your suggestion) or temporarily decreasing expectations.

To put another way, think about avoiding procrastination as a muscle, you can view becoming productive in the same way you'd view becoming strong. No one would suggest that a beginner go out and try to bench press 300lbs. Start with smaller weights and add weight as your strength increases.
I live in Paris and was spending the night in the middle of the hot zone. I was a few hundred meters from the Bataclan but fortunately the area I was in was spared. I tried to get a Uber but they were unavailable, "State of emergency, please stay home", the app said. I took a city bike home, rode about 10kms and barely saw anyone in the streets all the way home. It was really, really weird. I'm awfully sad that people can be proud of having killed a hundred innocents. I'm not afraid, I'm just terribly sad. Please stop this pointless killing.
This is scary. This was a well coordinated attack that usually create a lot of chatter before hand. Unlike lone wolf attacks these are somewhat easier to detect.

The French intelligence and counter terrorism units are either not doing their best or these terrorist are getting much better at covering their tracks.
> heavy immigration of refugees

It's much more likely that the terrorists come from the frustrated youth born and raised in France, than some fresh immigrants.
The far right is already the largest party in France. The reasons for its strength have actually less to do with immigration than the continuous state of crisis of the French economy combined with the corruption of the political establishment. But the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January noticeably increased the anti-islam sentiment in France and I am ready to bet that this night's events will be another step up.
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What if we were to remove our dependence on foreign oil?

Though fusion is a long way out, hypothetically, if we didn't have any reason to interfere and could just leave the Middle East to figure out its own problems, they wouldn't have a reason to see us as the enemy.
I would like to believe that even if my family was killed in a drone strike I would not go to a random country and kill civilians. Furthermore, I would like to see data on how many terrorists had families that were killed in drone strikes. My understanding is that the vast majority have other grievances, many of them theological.
Well, it's entirely up to you what login mechanism you want to use, so if Github isn't what you want, then by all means don't use it. You can be completely self-reliant using email login, or eventually PGP login. But some people find Google and Github login convenient.

FWIW we're currently working on a change that will allow you to attach multiple such "identities" to a single account, after which we plan to open up the door to a lot more authentication providers, including other "open" federated options like OpenID or Shibboleth (as well as popular proprietary services like Twitter, Facebook, etc. -- again, it's up to each user to decide what's most convenient for them).

Probably at some point you'll be able to host your own IDP as a Sandstorm app, if that's what you want. Other Sandstorm servers would be able to rely on that IDP as well, so it meets the federated requirement.
Can we at least wait until people start saying these things before we complain? I'm getting tired of seeing a bunch of comments complaining about other people supposedly making arguments of which I see no trace.
I don't know the views and concerns in France, I've only followed the responses to the Charlie Hedbo shooting and other media incidents in France. That said, the views and conversations with in-laws in Germany, it's interesting hearing what are otherwise inclusive people being concerned about things and not supporting the refugees.

The events are most likely unrelated, but there is a habit to generalize. And escalation of that generalization is what is a concern to me.
This is bullshit and you know this.

There is very little chance of anyone successfully getting up to terrorism if society is

a) riddled with informers
b) detaining people without charges is legal
c) totalitarian ideology and political supremacy makes the establishment of parallel societies impossible. Border controls make importing terrorists next to impossible.

The former eastern Bloc had no terrorist incidents. Pulling them off would be harder, the state would cover it up, etc. Just like it had practically no mob.

It did have a great many terrorists, mostly in various training camps.
We tried to stabilize Iraq, now we have ISIL.
Our bombs and bullets are what led to the creation of ISIS. Surely the solution is not more bombs and bullets.
We do not know yet the identities of the terrorists, so only a guess based on the previous three years of attacks in France.
I volunteered two different refugee camp constructions in Syrian border and I know the difference between a refugee camp and a homeless camp clearly.
Exactly. An app like Netflix couldn't get away with that; if it started breaking, people would contact Netflix support, and if the answer was "turn on the microphone", people would demand a reason why it needs to have access all the time.
They also carry their religion, genes and culture. And with that comes a clash of civilisations. With open gates: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb0_1447249820
This is not such a bad idea. Unfortunately, it won't help in controlled places like a concert hall (as tonight) where patrons will be scanned at the door. If not today, undoubtedly they'll start doing a lot more of this.

On the street and in restaurants, that's another story.
I'd try - seriously.

I don't know who came up with "an eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth would lead to a world of the blind and toothless" but I believe it.

I'm sure it's something I'd struggle with when the hard choice arises, but I honestly believe I'd try to keep to it.
Shifting the mind-blowingly insane amount of money we spend on defense over to fusion could help move things along pretty quickly.
I'm very curious about where the attackers got those firearms. France isn't as heavily disarmed as England, but it isn't exactly the United States for firearms availability; if any of the offenders' weapons can be recovered, I'm sure there will be interesting things to learn from their serial numbers.
I would say that Saudi Arabia is the odd one, and Israel is, given its circumstances, on far less low moral ground, for what that's worth. That is not to say that Israel does not do a great number of deplorable things, but certainly if Israel swapped weapons with Hamas then every Jew in Israel would be dead within a day.
Even if you're a staunch ally of safe, conservative family entertainment for its own sake, Disney was pretty damn crappy for a while. Look at their animated stuff in particular for plenty of mediocre storylines and bland animation (e.g. The Aristocats, The Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood). Children deserved better!

Eventually some meaningful competition from the likes of Don Bluth started to push them in the right direction (Secret of NIMH, Land before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, etc.) and not too long afterward they were doing things like Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin. Quite an improvement, though I dare say the storylines have never quite caught up. (Of course, all of Bluth's stuff would later be undermined as it was sequel-ized to Hell and back, like The Land Before Time XXIV: Teach Your Kids Roman Numerals Edition...)

Right now, though, after seeing Pixar's homages to Ghibli, I'm anticipating the impact of recent works like Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which really pushed some boundaries in Japan. (If you're not familiar with it, I'll just say... imagine if Pan's Labyrinth had been actively marketed to little children as a happy family film and an homage to Alice in Wonderland... and then translate that willful deception and the profound darkness onto Sailor Moon.) If it does make a splash in the youth entertainment industry at large, that will be quite interesting indeed.
They probably have more data than what they can process. The best they can do so far, in terms of prevention, is stopping the incredibly dumb: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/11/france-says-tou...
That's their choice not mine.

As much as I'm able to claim, I'd never advocate such.
If you see and hear everything, you will know nothing.
There is enough information floating around for almost any reasonably competent engineer with a knack for physics (or vice versa) to build an implosion device. The list is long.
In general I'm of the same mindset as you, but to be fair it's not exactly an apples to apples situation.

Painters demonstrating a new technique are far less likely to get bogged down trying to figure out why the wrong colors are coming out of their brush or why some strokes don't show any color at all, why their canvas is crashing, etc.
I don't think any secret service could prevent any isolated individual to make at home, say, Molotov cocktails, and throw them by car in a crowd.
Religion is simply a very powerful button to press, especially when pressed by someone the person under discussion sees as a person of authority or power figure. Aiming to please is very strongly embedded in human nature, combined with religion it can be powerful enough to make people do the most horrific and stupid things.
Or carrying concealed could be allowed there too. Scanners didn't stop this.
They knew something was up they just didn't know what.

http://sofrep.com/44480/french-and-german-police-knew-paris-...
In Paris right now. We are in shock. At both the scale and the extremely coordinated nature of the attacks on civilians at multiple locations.

I work near rue Bichat and Le Petit Cambodge, a warm little restaurant in the 10e that my colleagues and I frequent, where people were tonight killed. The Bataclan is a well-known concert venue for metal bands, where I've seen several bands play live. Les Halles is at the center of Paris. Everyone who lives here has close connections to these areas; they took place very close to our everyday lives. Even those of us fortunate enough to know that our friends are safe are reeling from what has happened.

This is the first time since the Second World War that France has declared a state of emergency.

It's too early to come to any conclusions. It's too early to talk about immediate and long-term ramifications, about connections to the refugees, how these events will make France more 'communautariste'. That time will come, but it's too early right now.

It's 2am right now, Paris is mostly awake. We mourn those who lost their lives.
> You can generally keep driving a car for a few days after failing an inspection so you can take it to get fixed with minimal issues.

How does this have anything to do with the issue? With a mechanical object, you have risks and probability of failure. The certificate or driver's license or credit card doesn't _fail_, it expires.
How much "chatter" do you really need to coordinate something like this?

If it is a small group of just half a dozen people you should be pretty much invisible if you act a bit clever. Coordination can be done via throw away sim cards and personal meetings so you don't really need to communicate that much.
> the 30 Years' War, The Crusades, the Sudanese War, etc... - would indicate that at least some number of the participants are involved purely because they think Heaven/Jannah/something else awaits and a god is being pleased.

I haven't studied all of those wars, but my understanding has been that behind every religious explanation for war is a political power struggle.

Religion is used to get ordinary people to go to war, certainly. If it wasn't religion, it would be something else that speaks to people's emotions and desire to belong to a group. (Patriotism, 'Duty', 'Honor', etc.)

For two of your examples:

The crusades cemented the power of the Papacy and Holy Roman Empire in Europe, partly by sending a lot of armed powerful people to fight elsewhere. It also was an attempt to reunite Catholicism under the Roman Pope (i.e. it was a massive land/tax/power grab by the Pope at the time). Fighting other faiths occurred, and was certainly used as a reason for people to leave their homes and travel hundreds of miles to fight foreigners. (I'm pretty convinced very few people do that willingly.)

The whole Protestant reformation taking off at all (Luther was not the first person to rail against the perceived hypocrisies of the Catholic church) and subsequent 30 years war was generally driven by a desire of the various princes and kings involved to remove themselves from Catholicism. The 30 years war also quickly devolved past Protestants vs. Catholics and largely into various factions jostling for power.
> This was a well coordinated attack that should have been picked up.

Should have been picked up?

You think secret services are omnipotent? That they can get a whiff of every conspiracy.

>The French intelligence and counter terrorism units are either dangerously incompetent or these terrorist are getting much better at covering their tracks.

Or, there is way, way more of them. Currently, thousands of migrants are entering Germany each day. No one is checking them, fingerprinting them, taking their photos or running those against databases.

You can find useful idiots decrying such treatment:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisi...

Doing so would require a lot of coercion, so no one is doing that.

My guess is that the Daeshi idiots slipped in a martyr cell or two. These guys got weapons from black market and executed a well-planned attack.
There are people making that argument literally in this thread. They're not saying "Muslims" but they're using terms like "culture" as signifiers.
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It's a weird feeling, bookmarking an article about procrastinating to read sometime later.
The prevailing laws and rights in an Emergency Situation are gist'ed here:
https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/faa2ae629d22f325beb7

One important feature:

Closure of public places

Minister of the Interior or the prefects may
"order the temporary closure of theaters, pubs and meeting places" and
"meetings of nature to cause or maintain disorder"

Wondering how the above affects the Internet/Mobile networks, even though they weren't any reports of any throttling today.
When I (did) read "a scene from Brazil" I thought the video would be some sort of commom crime we have here, which in certain cases are very similar to terrorism. And people has been always adapting to it, so it's just shit almost nobody cares anymore. And it's growing year after year.

Well, just to say my misunderstanding of to which Brazil it was referred.
Open twitter. Every tweet on this topic has a bunch of replies complaining about muslims and migrants.

Even the first comment on HackerNews contained an anti-islamic sentiment jabbing at the migrant crisis.
> The reasons for its strength have actually less to do with immigration than the continuous state of crisis of the French economy combined with the corruption of the political establishment.

The political establishment in France is in thrall to a radical, globalist agenda that seeks to increase its power by performing 'divide and conquer'.

A multicultural society has many more fault lines that can be exploited for political gain. One has only to look at how miserably the US is faring and how Americans are getting it good and hard from the donor class..
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It's really important to understand the Muslim community in France, and not evoke false connections.

We don't know if the attackers had anything to with the flux of Syrian migrants moving across Europe now, but my guess would be: they had nothing to do with it.

There are about 5 million Muslims in France, which accounts for about 7 percent of France's total population. France has deep, long-standing and often troubled ties to several Muslim nations, notably Algeria. The French presence in Algeria lasted from 1830-1962.

During the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, France was targeted by terrorist attacks several times. One of those bombings EDIT: injured more than 100 people, which may be the number lost in the attacks today.

There are several basic facts that may help people understand why these attacks happen in France (I'm going to make some crude and unsympathetic generalizations that stem from the years I spent there):

* It's close to Middle Eastern and North African countries torn by conflict, notably Libya and Syria. These are training grounds for would-be attackers, many of whom originate in the west.

* Because of that, and of the fact that France rejoined NATO in 2009 and put itself firmly on the side of the US, it is also a proxy for the US, and will be targeted by those unhappy with American policies.

* It's racist. France has not dealt with the fact that people other than the French live on its soil. If you are the child of immigrants who were invited to France to help its post-War growth, you soon learn that a Muslim name will exclude you from many opportunities.

* Its economy is stagnant. France is no country for young men. They will face limited opportunities regardless of their ethnicity, unless they belong to the elite passing through the grandes écoles. This leads to a lot of frustration. When people cannot build a life in one direction, sometimes they are susceptible to morbid, violent ideologies.

* It's sloppy. I lived in France for 14 years, on either side of the 9/11 attacks on Manhattan. The French were really slow to put respectable security systems in place. CDG airport leaked like a sieve for years and I have no reason to believe that has changed.

Anyone who wants to know more about Islam in France should read Gilles Kepel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Kepel

He wrote a particularly good book in the 1980s called "The suburbs of Islam".
You are trying to rationalize with people who are irrational. They don't reconcile. It sucks. It's depressing.
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Terrorism does not make me feel fear. It makes me sad. Sad that there are so many lives lost, sad that so many people are still incapable of thinking critically, sad that we're again one step further from an actual solution. it's mostly a sad affair. But fear, no.
Arguably, we gave up on stabilizing Iraq and pulled out too quickly, angering the Sunni tribes who were counting on the U.S. to protect them from the majority Shi'ite government. Once they saw the U.S. military bailing out, they began allying with Sunni extremists and gave ISIS a fertile soil in which to take root.
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Did the people who they bombed operate drones? AFAIK, france doesn't conduct drone warfare.

It could be, I suppose, that someone could simply hate western culture due to the acts of one nation, but that doesn't make it right. If you hate all Muslims because of the acts of few, you're most likely in the wrong. The same morality should apply to the people on the other side.
i'm guessing they are just waiting for the auction to be near the end so they don't have to spend too much outbiding the terorists.

speaking of that anyone manage to see when it ends? this new silk road redesign is really confusing me.
This kind of thinking led to the War on Terror, which led to a rise in extreme Islam which led to...
I think the initial idea was that if somebody later came along and found some stale information, they could go in and fix it, the same way you do with Wikipedia. Unfortunately, this vision of the site is at odds with the way Stack Overflow actually works, where each question has multiple answers that are upvoted, and one gets an "Accepted" checkmark from the asker.

The solution that feels right is adding a new answer rather than stomping on somebody else's, but it seems unlikely that the new answer will get a lot of upvotes and even less likely that the asker will come back and reassign the checkmark. So a lot of more current answers are probably abandoned before they're even posted, and those that are posted end up buried (like the correct answer to that question, which is posted there but is currently languishing at 4 upvotes).

Personally, I say that if you feel like an answer is outdated, you should either comment with a polite correction if you'd like the author to fix it or just edit in the updated information yourself. (This nets less karma than answering new questions, but I can say from personal experience that 150k karma and a dollar will buy you a pack of gum.)
ISIS has a very fundamentalist view of the end of the world from their reading of the Koran, and are trying to hasten the "final battle". This belief was not "caused" by the war on terror or frustration with the west, though it does align with what they expect to happen.
I think that you have all the answers to the questions you posted here on why people in general have disproportionate reactions to death caused by violence and death caused by accidents.

It's all about human agency and intentions. Terrorist attacks are carried out by HUMANS with the clear INTENTION of inflicting harm on the populace. Accidents on the other hand lack these essential factors. When I walk by a chemical plant, it never crosses my mind that the plant would attack me or be capable of doing such a thing and therefore I am not worried to be around but on the other hand if I happen to be walking in a bad neighborhood late at night, I would be very wary of people around me because I know very well that some of them might inflict harm on me for any reason.

So, I think that the comparison you drew between these two categories is not that solid and that people have every right to be "terrified" of terrorism and take all the precautionary measures to stop/prevent it.
> The former eastern Bloc had no terrorist incidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Terrorism_in_the_Sovi...
Go reply to them, then. Don't add to the clutter by repeating their arguments as a straw man.
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Yea but you weren't born with these ideas, you can't know how you'd be if you grew up in a different context.