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they had a good laugh and the mayors have said sure, send 'em on over

There was a bit of apprehension because, well, immigrants are statistically less likely to commit crimes, so the only way this wouldn't backfire on Trump is if he took immigrants accused of violent crimes and released them intentionally. Yes, it does happen, albeit rarely, and yes, it's absolute madness to even suggest the President of the United States would do such a thing to score cheap political points, but in the era of Trump it seems like anything goes.

With the recent large increase of lay-offs recently and lots of banks having trouble lately like "Well Fargo" it kinda looks like a recession is starting or is already here. If retail stores are closing down and Amazon/Ebay isn't responsible then people just aren't buying stuff.

https://www.axios.com/us-q1-la...

There are a pile of folks who whish to believe they are "in the know" and it's not hard to find somebody who *thinks* they are more knowledgeable than they really are. Such "I know everything" is common among college age people, who have still not completely developed their adult mental capacity and still have the adolescent tendencies. It's an age and maturity thing.

That attitude isn't just a college-age thing, for example there's this guy who thinks he knows everything about everything: https://www.axios.com/everythi... . I see the age, still waiting on the maturity. Sigh.

Also, I think "AI hardware chip" is just a made-up clickbait title. It is more about an interface. One may lead to another, but this misrepresentation makes the Neuralink mission sound more outlandish than it is. There are already "we are nowhere near true (general) AI" trigger responses in this thread.

the DNC has neutered the super delegates. They stopped short of eliminating them (old power structures are hard to kill completely) but they're basically gone baring a miracle.

But to be blunt, the DNC's shenanigans are tiny, tiny potatoes next to the Sheldon Primary

Basically, it's not just cheating that kept Bernie out of the Whitehouse. America has a ruling class. We don't like to acknowledge their existence, but they're there. And they're not shy about it either.

So the DNC delt a blow to that ruling class, but it was a pretty minor blow. At the end of the day they still choose most of the political candidates out there, and they'll continue to until Americans make refusing corporate PAC money a litmus test to get past the primary.

Actually, it's likely there are...

Which isn't the least unusual, nor new. Trying to argue that any burst of migrants from south of Mexico doesn't include nasty people, like felons or such, is kinda stupid. It's predictable. And it's not even the primary reason to stop them at the border and do the due diligence that is entirely reasonable for a nation with actual borders.

Remember, this is fortuitous timing for both sides of the debate on immigration. Just keep the popcorn coming, folks.

Name one freedom you no longer have in the US. And be specific. Show some intelligence in your answer.

A specious way to pose the question. But since you asked, it's not so much a matter of what freedoms you no longer have, but rather what freedoms are under attack.

Here's a sample. Google can find you others.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.axios.com/united-n...
https://www.axios.com/trump-ad...

Name one freedom you no longer have in the US. And be specific. Show some intelligence in your answer.

A specious way to pose the question. But since you asked, it's not so much a matter of what freedoms you no longer have, but rather what freedoms are under attack.

Here's a sample. Google can find you others.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.axios.com/united-n...
https://www.axios.com/trump-ad...

Not really relevant when you're talking about relative weighting. Something has to be at the top of the search results.

If you link to the original research source, you'll also see that it's mostly independent/left-leaning people that actually try to find out the veracity of what they read. Just claiming that something is not factual without actually trying to look into it at all is a sign of a lack of critical thinking skills.

It was hard; the market for premium consumer mail apps is not big enough, and it faces stiff competition from high-quality free apps from Google, Microsoft, and Apple

Silly, silly laissez faire businessman... The way to solve this — in an increasingly Fascist country — is to lobby the government. Tell them, the competitors aren't sufficiently guarding the customers' privacy and aren't sufficiently cooperative with law enforcement. Also, that their computers are damaging the environment and they aren't buying enough credits to offset that.

Ask them to pass some laws to a) regulate the industry; b) fine the noncompliant for the noncompliance; and c) subsidize the compliant with taxpayers' funds. Voila — Profit!!

https://www.axios.com/global-h...

Hope we make it to 2020.

How's that #Resistance working out for ya?

Trump Approval Jumps As Attacks From Critics Backfire; Trump Now More Popular Than FBI: IBD/TIPP Poll

Increasingly bitter and aggressive attacks on President Trump managed to bolster his approval rating, which climbed 5 points to reach the second highest level of his presidency, the latest IBD/TIPP Poll finds.

And 3/4 of EVERYONE now thinks the media deliberately and routinely pushes purposely-fabricated stories

You working for Trump?

... I don't know where to start.

Defeating ISIS? Like the organization responsible for new attacks every week? Withdrawing from TPP and from the Paris accord as an unilateral move that results in more pollution and less global respect? Ending the Korean war by tweeting that he will destroy it (let's forget the role the North and South Korean leaders had)? The economy was running red-hot before Trump was ever elected, he just inherited it - what he did do is give a big tax breaks to companies who are now buying shares back, further distributing wealth to capital owners (and yes, while that's you and me, it's a lot more the 1% that are friends with Trump)?

Tech workers are fleeing the United States to work on Canada:
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.digitaljournal.com/...
https://www.axios.com/exodus-u...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Come on news people, make up your minds.

Your post is functionally equivalent to stating that you are Constitutionally illiterate regarding how US Federal elections work.

Hey! Look!

A new Clinton wave is coming this spring

It looks like Hillary 2020 could be coming! There's your chance for a "do over."

You may not be aware but the some of the provision on intellectual property, investment, government procurement and customs were dumped once the country pushing them, the United States of America, withdrew from the deal.

My impression is that the deal is no longer so bad that's it is literally worse than nothing. That being said, I think there is little chance that the United States would be permitted to rejoin the deal as long as Donald Trump is president, mostly because Trump will try to dictate terms to an already enacted trade deal and his attempts at re-negotiating a deal he already backed out of are unlikely to go over well with anyone not directly employed by Trump.

The entire purpose of TPP was to create a countervailing economic force against China's influence in Asia and the world economy. That was obvious to anyone who read even a few pages about TPP, but of course that's too much to ask of someone who is unwilling to read even a single page of non-bulleted text: "Trump said he likes his briefings short, ideally one-page if it's in writing. "I like bullets or I like as little as possible. I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. That I can tell you."

So you prefer 200-page reports on something that can be handled by a page? Why?

The entire purpose of TPP was to create a countervailing economic force against China's influence in Asia and the world economy. That was obvious to anyone who read even a few pages about TPP, but of course that's too much to ask of someone who is unwilling to read even a single page of non-bulleted text:

"Trump said he likes his briefings short, ideally one-page if it's in writing. "I like bullets or I like as little as possible. I don't need, you know, 200-page reports on something that can be handled on a page. That I can tell you."

Facebook pays a shitload of money to Apple, for example, to get their login information as one of the defaults on iOS. Same with Twitter.

Nice try, Hater. You're an idiot.

Apple REMOVED Facebook and Twitter Integration from iOS 11.

Do try to keep up.

https://www.axios.com/apple-re...

While we're on the subject, Tim Cook's little "we don't steal your private data" thing he's on right now, is hilariously hypocritical. They do not have a-user-for-sale-to-advertisers model, true, but absolutely have a history of selling the user's experience and likelihood to interact with such models to the highest bidder, e.g. their switch from Google to Bing, the etc. This is super recent as of iOS 11: https://www.theverge.com/2017/... [theverge.com]

Your linked Verge article was about Apple REMOVING Facebook and Twitter Integration from iOS 11, much like my linked Axios article, above. How in the FUCK does that prove your argument?!?

Idiot moron Apple Hater.

Go the FUCK away.

https://www.axios.com/humans-c...

Ah facts. What a pain.

It's important to keep in mind how long the cars are on the road. Waymo, for example, filed 13 accident reports in 2016, but its cars also drove 635,868 miles in autonomous mode during that period, or just about 1 for every 50,000 miles

Rooting your iPhone doesn't void it's warranty?

What's Rooting got to do with it?

And in fact, in iOS 11, Apple has removed the automatic integration of FaceBook and Twitter.

https://www.axios.com/apple-re...

And the FaceBook App is just another App, and can be Removed like any App D/Led from the iOS App Store. No "Jailbreaking" or "Rooting" Required.

Also, from what I can tell, even with the "Integration" of FaceBook and Twitter Sign-Ons in iOS 10, looking on my iPhone running iOS 10, the FaceBook and Twitter Apps don't appear to be installed, unless I go to the App Store and download/install them.

Poor, trapped, Android users...

The memo is based on documents Nunes now admits to never reading. Trey Gowdy did the reading and has said that the memo doesn't discredit in any way the Mueller investigation.

So there you go. And having a vendetta against someone has never been a legally disqualifying factor in getting a warrant, although that really doesn't matter.

(Axios, but video @ Fox News)
https://www.axios.com/nunes-re...

The Russian angle was the made up part, out of whole cloth, by Steele.

Here are some undisputed facts about the Russia probe that did not come from the Steele dossier

https://www.axios.com/10-undis...

https://www.realclearpolitics....

Sooo, when evidence appears that the Obama FBI and DoJ colluded to abuse the FISA process in order to spy on a rival political campaign, you're dragging out the Chewbacca defense?

The Russian angle was the made up part, out of whole cloth, by Steele.

Here are some undisputed facts about the Russia probe that did not come from the Steele dossier

https://www.axios.com/10-undis...

https://www.realclearpolitics....

You can actually read the document. It doesn't say they'll "Nationalize 5G" (which they couldn't do even if they wanted to).

It's a lot of talk about how 5G is good and they want to speedup deployments of it and take away Huawei's marketshare, maybe by building their own network. It's low on practicality. Most of the actions it talks about are unrealistic. They won't be nationalizing any 5G networks.

Diplomats, you say? Russia seems to be having extraordinarily bad luck with its diplomats.

Russian diplomats keep dying unexpectedly

Russia's ambassador to Sudan was found dead Wednesday in Khartoum. That's the seventh Russian diplomat to have died since November last year, in addition to an aide to a former deputy prime minister, a lawyer for a Putin-foe, and a former Russian MP.

Interestingly, among this toll was Vitaly Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN, in New York, where Donald Trump lives.

Why weren't you saying the same thing when Obama signed his 800 mile border wall extension in 2013 ?

It's just trump is evil ?

Probably because in reality, what Obama was doing was different, namely a measured and considered response that reflected a rational desire to mitigate harm that was based on acutal problems, and not the blatant hyperbole that Trump resorted to, which is really Trump's own fault because of his personal lack of temperance and desire to concoct imagined demons to fight. In fact, he himself rejected the fencing of the Bush and Obama days in preference to his own concrete edifice. Among other castigations.

You see, some of us haven't forgotten that Trump denounced Democrats for "an open door policy" that was entirely his concoction while falsely claiming phony successes of his own.

But hey, great that you're admitting that Trump lied. One lie down, dozens to go!

Hardly

https://www.axios.com/republic...

What they're saying:

Vice President Mike Pence said, via his spokesperson, that Pence believes that if the allegations against Roy Moore are true, then "this would disqualify anyone from serving in office."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "If these allegations are true, he must step aside."

Sen. John McCain: "The allegations against Roy Moore are deeply disturbing and disqualifying. He should immediately step aside and allow the people of Alabama to elect a candidate they are proud of."

Former Gov. of Massachusetts: "Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. I believe Leigh Corfman. Her account is too serious to ignore. Moore is unfit for office and should step aside."

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said, "I'm horrified and if this is true he needs to step down immediately." She also said she has spoken to Luther Strange about becoming a write-in challenge, ultimately challenging Moore in the Dec. 12 election.

Sen. Ted Cruz, who endorsed Roy Moore: "These are serious and troubling allegations. If they are true, Judge Moore should immediately withdraw. However, we need to know the truth, and Judge Moore has the right to respond to these accusations."

Sen. Jeff Flake: "If there is any shred of truth to the allegations against Roy Moore, he should step aside immediately."

Sen. John Cornyn, who endorsed Moore and is listed on his website, said: "Well I think the next steps are up to the governor and the people of Alabama. I find it deeply disturbing and troubling. If it is true, I don't think his candidacy is sustainable."

Sen. David Perdue called the allegations "devastating" and said Moore should withdraw if they're true.

Sen. Pat Toomey: "If there's a shred of truth to it, then he need to step aside."

Sen. Richard Shelby: "If that's true, then he wouldn't belong in the Senate."

Sen. Mike Lee: "If these allegations are true, Roy Moore needs to step down."

Sen. Tim Scott: "If they're accurate, he should step aside."

Sen. Cory Gardner, chairman of national republican senatorial committee: "If these allegations are found to be true, Roy Moore must drop out of the Alabama special Senate election."

Sen. Rob Portman: "It was very troubling ... if what we read is true and people are on the record so I assume it is..." Moore should step aside.

Sen. Susan Collins: "If there is any truth at all to these horrific allegations, Roy Moore should immediately step aside as a Senate candidate."

Sen. John Hoeven: "The allegations against Roy Moore are very serious and if true, he should step down as a candidate for the Senate."

Trump said he should stand aside if the allegations are true

http://fortune.com/2017/11/10/...

Sanders said that Trump âoebelieves we cannot allow a mere allegation, in this case from many years ago, to destroy a person's life.

"However, the president also believes that if these allegations are true, Judge Moore will do the right thing and step aside."

Broadcom and Qualcomm are American.

The original Broadcom was a US company. When bought out by Avago, but keeping the Broadcom name, they were based out of Singapore. Now they are trying to move back to the US.

It almost seems that you were attempting to find a day that somebody at the Whitehouse said something that was not a lie, rather than a day that nobody at the Whitehouse said any lies.

And quite honestly, I'm pretty sure that your first link has a lie right here:

Q Thank you, Sarah. Given what the President said about Secretary of State Tillerson's outreach to North Korea over the weekend, does the President still have confidence in him as Secretary of State?

MS. SANDERS: He does, yes.

And considering that I've already heard rumors about Tillerson's replacement (and a "suicide pact" between him, Mnuchin, and Mattis to prevent him from being fired), I think time will tell that indeed the President's spokesperson was telling yet another lie.

dom

Let's be clear... he was fired for exposing their $265M boondoggle: https://www.axios.com/googles-...

How many targeted scholarships and local/urban school improvements could have been had for $265M?

https://www.axios.com/tech-job...
It's to the right of the headline. It's been this way for a while. It's dumb.

"Further, the fact that more people of a particular race are prosecuted is not a reflection of bias in the data, rather a bias in the prosecution."

In this case, "persecuted" was more accurate.

Data is Data. It cannot exhibit a bias.

I can only surmise that you're not an experimental scientist. Data has bias all the time.
In physics (my field) the bias usually has no social consequence-- astronomical statistics, for example, are biased toward bright stars (since they're much easier to see than faint ones, and hence overrepresented in the data set). In social "sciences," however, the bias very often does have social consequences. SAT scores from children whose parents spend tens of thousands of dollars on SAT Prep courses, for example-- surprise!-- score better on SAT exams than ones who don't. The data shows a correlation of SAT score with parental income. Is this real? Better correct for the SAT-prep course effect before making a conclusion.

Data is biased. All the time. Be ready for it.

...Plus, being from the Guardian, I am skeptical that they didn't twist the data some to obtain their desired outcome, which ironically touches on the subject of this story.

Huh? MIT Tecnology Review and Propublica were the source. The link in the summary was this: https://www.axios.com/algorith... which linked here: https://www.propublica.org/art... and here MIT Technology Review

nothing I saw in those links actually communicated that he did anything wrong other than than putting his hand on that woman's thigh

You didn't read the apology (That's a link. You click on it, in other words you put your mouse cursor over the link and click on the mouse button, or simply touch the link if using a touchscreen device like a tablet or smartphone.)

"It is outrageous and unethical for any person to leverage a position of power in exchange for sexual gain, it is clear to me now that that is exactly what I've done."

You did not read the apology, which states this: "It is outrageous and unethical for any person to leverage a position of power in exchange for sexual gain, it is clear to me now that that is exactly what I've done."

That is how The Guardian worded it, yes, and yes it was a direct admission. But let me quote Caldbeck's apology: "To say I'm sorry about my behavior is a categorical understatement" "my behavior played a role in perpetrating a gender-hostile environment"

Or, how about this line in his apology "It is outrageous and unethical for any person to leverage a position of power in exchange for sexual gain, it is clear to me now that that is exactly what I've done."

With all due respect, how can you read that and claim that he did not admit his guilt?

Low-cost?

Microsoft does not rely on "H-1B slave labor", because it actually pays market prices to its H-1B employees.

https://www.axios.com/h1-b-sal...

These are not the companies that have been abusing the H1B program.

https://www.axios.com/h1-b-sal...