Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

Don't think that poor French priest so dastardly done in was not decapitated Belfrager. Stabbed and throat cut by those dastardly Islamist nut jobs. A damn shame and everywhere Islam goes the columns of killers come too.

Even if he didn't it was still a shocking indictment.

While we wait, we could always listen to @Belfrager 's choice of music […]

If successful, the founder is hoping to roll them out across the UK.

So what do you propose?

Thus, Brexit is a gateway through which Great Britain attempts to  remain master of the world. The US and EU, in this sense, are only giants with not much in the way of brains, who place themselves in the position of small British pawns to secure its mastery. The US became “a creature” who, for the sake of Great Britain, is doing the dirty jobs around the globe, military coups, small and big wars alike, hybrid wars, asymmetric wars, training and supporting terrorist networks etc., and EU is a “clown” in the British yard who should be used as a base for NATO troops in the pending conflict with Russia. Only Great Britain keeps its “hands clean” from everything!

We propose an algorithm that renders a desired input string in an author’s
handwriting. An annotated sample of the author’s handwriting is required;
the system is flexible enough that historical documents can usually be used
with only a little extra effort. Experiments show that our glyph-centric ap-
proach, with learned parameters for spacing, line thickness, and pressure,
produces novel images of handwriting that look hand-made to casual ob-
servers, even when printed on paper.

Congolese Negroes: Beautiful But Stupid?
Investigating Belgian Colonial Attitudes through Reactions to the Congolese Village in the 1885 Antwerp World Expo

Thanks to its low-frequency, high-quality content, the newsfeed of the Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek (Flemish Heritage Library) is among my favorite library feeds. Where else are you going to find out about awesome stuff like this newly digitized 19th century book about the 1885 Antwerp Universal Expo? My attention was particularly drawn to the fact that the 1885 expo featured a living Congolese display village.

According to the few paragraphs dedicated to the village, this living exhibition was the first of its kind. Exactly what is meant by that remains unclear, keeping in mind that shows like Buffalo Bill’s Wild West certainly precede it. Several Congolese-style huts were constructed for the Congolese people meant to inhabit the exhibit. Following those introductory words it truly starts to get interesting, with a description of the people.

Continued here: http://fransdejonge.com/2016/08/congolese-negroes-beautiful-but-stupid/

Machines were our ideal. Now, we are the ideal of machines. What a shift!