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I originally saw Emma's watch as part of the BBC 2 Series, The Big Life Fix with with Simon Reeves http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme... http://www.bbc.com/news/av/mag... My father has Parkinsons, so I am hoping a commercial version of the Emma watch will become available within the next couple of years.

I suppose every political party that loses needs its conspiracy theories. For Republicans, it was birtherism under Obama. For Democrats, it's Russian conspiracy theories under Trump.

Considering Russia's interference (confirmed fact) during the election, it's only prudent to investigate any possible links. Even republicans know that.

In Japan the threat is so great that people regularly confess to crimes they didn't commit.

It is unsurprising that there is resistance to this idea.The implications (more on that below) are horrific.The fact, though, is that robots and AIs are becoming rapidly more capable, and denial is not going to prevent organizations from selecting the most cost effective way to get jobs done. Even if the robot/AI solution has some limitations, the profit motive will win out (as anyone who has used call centers staffed by people who cannot communicate effectively in your language should recognize).

What are the implications? The most obvious is mass unemployment/under employment. This is going to create a huge disadvantaged class in rich countries. Proposals for a national basic income are well meaning, but unrealistic. It might happen in a very limited number of smaller countries, like Finland, but the elites in most countries who decide such matters will never willingly allow some of their wealth to be given to "non productive" members of society.

The BBC ran an interesting opinion piece recently (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170418-how-western-civilisation-could-collapse) that predicted a breakdown of Western civilization if gross and increasing levels of inequality continue to occur. I think those predictions ring true. Further, the piece does not even consider the problems introduced by huge segments of the population becoming completely surplus to the elite's needs.

There will be valuable jobs those displaced by robots and AIs could do, but they will be of no economic benefit to the elites to would have to put up the money to finance them.

Ever since I was a child, I have been reading about how automation would create more leisure time, and the challenge being how that leisure time will be used. The reality of the last 40 years is that those with jobs work harder than ever for the same or less money in real terms. Total wealth has increased, but (the predictions of trickle down economics notwithstanding) virtually all the increase has gone to the already wealthy.

Is there oil off the coast of Mar-a-Lago? Trump pitched a fit about a wind farm off the coast of Scotland near his golf course there. Wonder how he'd feel about a few oil drilling platforms or a spill?

Probably feel the same way Ted Kennedy did while trying to keep wind farms away from his property in Mass.

Is there oil off the coast of Mar-a-Lago? Trump pitched a fit about a wind farm off the coast of Scotland near his golf course there. Wonder how he'd feel about a few oil drilling platforms or a spill?

Has the DNC E-mail leaker been found yet? Hillary was inconsolable after the election, and you know how people who cross her tend to end up dead. Wonder how she would react if the DNC leaker's name were made public?

Is there oil off the coast of Mar-a-Lago? Trump pitched a fit about a wind farm off the coast of Scotland near his golf course there. Wonder how he'd feel about a few oil drilling platforms or a spill?

But Microsoft will never read your email, unlike Google! Moving your email to the Microsoft Cloud improves your privacy!

Protection levels only need to be appropriate for what they are protecting. When you're authenticating a sub-$1000 transaction then fingerprints are fine.

And if you need to authenticate a $5000+ transaction then you can do like Japanese ATMs have done for years and require a finger vein check instead http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29062901

He has a 50% approval rating. Sorry to let you know that.

Nope.

Of course, we're looking for people who can recognize that he's a boor, a buffoon, and an embarrassment to the country, which doesn't preclude approval, so that's not exactly meaningful.

It is telling that he is lying, the same as he lied about a landslide.

Let me give you a clue - it got so bad that the President of the Philippines - long considered a vassal state to the US - openly mocked Obama last year.

Oh my, you mean that reprobate thug? Exactly why would we want his approval? That's baffling. Then again, you seem to want the Phillipines to be a subject of the US for some reason.

I'm not a Trump fan but I recognize why he won (clue: Hillary) and I have no delusions that we would have been better off in *any* way with Hillary in the White House.

Trump won because running, as a Republican, he could have been a brain-eating space alien, and have a chance to win. Sheer chance let him through, and we'd have been better off without the learning experience of Trump in office.

It would be useful to apply this to organizations like moz://a, too.

People would probably be really surprised at how organizations like that spend their resources. It would probably make people reconsider making donations to such organizations.

For example, yesterday there was a Slashdot submission entitled The Woman Whose Phone 'Misdiagnosed HIV'. It linked to a BBC article. Based on the title of the article, one would not have expected to read anything about moz://a in it. Yet this BBC article mentioned the following:

Commissioned by Mozilla - the organisation behind the Firefox operating system - the study was designed to find out what it is that limits people in the developing world from grabbing the opportunities offered by the web.

So instead of using their resources to improve Firefox, the only software that keeps moz://a barely relevant today, moz://a apparently wasted them on a useless study that found that some third-worlders are gullible, and that some use their smart phones to defraud financial lenders and then gamble away the proceeds.

After reading that article it made me very glad that I never supported moz://a financially, despite people urging me too. I would not want any money wasted on such nonsense, directly or indirectly.

Interesting article on the BBC...'My Airbnb flat was turned into a pop-up brothel'

Quote: "I found used condom wrappers under the bed, I found the bin was overflowing with tissues and condoms. And basically what I had to do was pick all that up with my hands."

With people like this renting stuff, I'm not sure I want to try Airbnb anytime soon...

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

These are established, stable, organized, stationary, predictable groups that ought to be easy targets for law enforcement.

That assumes law enforcement sees them as a problem to begin with, which isn't necessarily the case in India. Much like the 419 scams operating out of Lagos and the banking trojans coming out of Russia, the local police probably know who's responsible, but "bilking ignorant Americans out of money" isn't seen as a major crime. In some cases the local government even encourages this behavior, or at least actively looks the other way.

There are occasional raids on these call centers, but you can bet most of the players are back to work within a week.

Um, yeah, no kidding that AI (a fancy term for advanced data analysis, mostly) will be useful to businesses, instead of the stupid chat bots now being displayed.

How appropriate that a previous story talks about AI algorithms deployed in the real world can be easily confused by knowledgeable attackers.

There's some very vested interest in keeping us hooked on these things.

There's also some opposition to that, like in France where they banned work email after 6pm.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

I had submitted this separately but it didn't make the cut, researchers are also concerned about how a knowledgable attacker can do something that breaks the assumptions the software is using - http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security report, Russia's goals were to "undermine public faith" in the US democratic process and "denigrate" his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton, harming her electability and potential presidency. "We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... [bbc.com]

This is a fair assessment and while I can agree with the concept, there is one thing that really bugs me about this. It assumes that the average US voter is so pathetically inept, that bad stories about a political (who had some of the worst favorably ratings even before the election!) some how translates into undermining public faith in the democratic process. Just... no.

Clinton was hated long before the 2016 election. She had a lot of baggage and any party revealing the details of that baggage no more undermines faith in the democratic process than any other leak of government personnel and processes.

Did revealing Anthony Weiner's digital escapades undermine the faith in the democratic process in NY? Why would it be different for Clinton? There have been scandals since there has been politicians and to assume that some bad press will up end centuries of democracy in this country is laughable. Clinton was a terrible candidate who dug her own shitty campaign.

Yes, it is illegal to hack the DNC, a private company, just like it was illegal to hack Ashley Madison. The later did not undermine the institutions that were caught up because of work emails found in those hacks and why would it? The people involved were shitty and we found out the details of their shittiness but that does not translate to a complete distrust and lack of faith to the institutions involved. Especially institutions that have survived for centuries and far worse than airing of bad laundry.

I participated in all parts of the election season. I was not influenced by Russia anymore than the BBC stating how bad Trump was/is. I saw both candidates and I consumed as much information as I could about both for the topics that concerned me as an American. Clinton's actions, rhetoric, and campaign hurt her electability. She was a poor candidate who ran a poor campaign with a poor message. No one is to blame but her for that.

Let's assume they got all the DNC mail and released it. How was that hacking the election?

If you actually read the article, it states "El Confidencial, a Spanish news website, has said that Mr Levashov's arrest warrant was issued by US authorities over suspected "hacking" that helped Donald Trump's campaign."

So there are two statements there.
1. Mr Levashov was arrested for suspected "hacking", and
2. this suspected "hacking" helped Donald Trump's campaign.

Breaking into the DNC computers and stealing e-mail is illegal. Period. This was done, plausibly, on behalf of Russia: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Hacking the election would be changing votes in a database.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security report, Russia's goals were to "undermine public faith" in the US democratic process and "denigrate" his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton, harming her electability and potential presidency. "We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

If someone finds out that a candidate murders babies, I would prefer they release it...and not be arrested for "hacking the election".

There was no allegation that Trump or Clinton murders babies. This really is changing the subject. It's the same argument that governments use to break into your computer: "think of the children! Maybe that computer we break into has child porn! Would you disagree that we need to stop child porn?" Breaking into computers and stealing e-mail is illegal. People who do that should be arrested. Nobody is murdering babies; saying "but what if they murder babies?" is not an excuse.

Let's assume they got all the DNC mail and released it. How was that hacking the election?

If you actually read the article, it states "El Confidencial, a Spanish news website, has said that Mr Levashov's arrest warrant was issued by US authorities over suspected "hacking" that helped Donald Trump's campaign."

So there are two statements there.
1. Mr Levashov was arrested for suspected "hacking", and
2. this suspected "hacking" helped Donald Trump's campaign.

Breaking into the DNC computers and stealing e-mail is illegal. Period. This was done, plausibly, on behalf of Russia: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Hacking the election would be changing votes in a database.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security report, Russia's goals were to "undermine public faith" in the US democratic process and "denigrate" his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton, harming her electability and potential presidency. "We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

If someone finds out that a candidate murders babies, I would prefer they release it...and not be arrested for "hacking the election".

There was no allegation that Trump or Clinton murders babies. This really is changing the subject. It's the same argument that governments use to break into your computer: "think of the children! Maybe that computer we break into has child porn! Would you disagree that we need to stop child porn?" Breaking into computers and stealing e-mail is illegal. People who do that should be arrested. Nobody is murdering babies; saying "but what if they murder babies?" is not an excuse.

The bottom three are Saudi Arabia, India and Egypt........

Sweden's high stats are because everything counts as rape, even things that in some countries aren't even crimes.

Indeed. In addition, which two countries are the kidnapping capitals of the world?

Australia and Canada.

Official figures from the United Nations show that there were 17 kidnaps per 100,000 people in Australia in 2010 and 12.7 in Canada.

That compares with only 0.6 in Colombia and 1.1 in Mexico.

The Julian Assange extradition case has put Sweden's relatively high incidence of rape under the spotlight. But can such statistics be reliably compared from one country to another?

I'm working at a business with low pay--where the average for a programmer is $96k here, programmers make $74k. The same is true of most IT staff, running a good 20%-30% short of the industry median.

We're also fairly diversified and have chicks and people from all over the world in our staff, and have had folks who speak Russian or obscure Indian dialects as a primary language in prominent technical positions. They're also poorly-paid, although near as I can tell we all have about the same salary.

It seems like a form of posturing: we don't want to pay salaries, so we create a perception of ... something. We're a good place to work because of something something benefits diversity open-door-policy.

Are these studies by industry, region, experience, and business? Do we say that black women earn 55% as much as white men, or do we say that black women at business X in job Y earn 55% as much as white men in business X at job Y? What happens if business X mostly hires white men for job Y, and business X' hires a higher proportion of black and asian women for job Y but also pays like shit even if you're a white man?

That doesn't work. Recruiters will successfully poach someone getting underpaid or unhappy. So, it seems like you're unhappy about getting underpaid.

Competition is why people earn what they earn what they earn. Your employer cannot get away with paying you $x when employer B will pay you $(x+y). At a statistical level, maybe race and gender matters but on a personal level there are too many variations.

Wrong. From http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Opposition forces are also not believed to have been in possession of the amount of Sarin used in the attack - hundreds of kilograms, according to Human Rights Watch's calculations - nor to have expertise in the specialised procedures required to load chemical warheads.

Amazing how the rebels keep bombing themselves with chemical weapons while never hitting Assad-controlled areas with them.

They did. The first reports of usage of chemical weapons in Syria were about the rebels using them against Assad.
Moreover the manufacturing of dangerous chemical components is quite easy. The difficult part is to use them effectively against an enemy. It is far easier to use them in false flag operations, than directly hit your foes.

And how they keep simultaneously destroying their hospitals at the same time. Silly rebels!

The rebels sold all the medical equipment they found to hoard money for their war. Those hospitals were already destroyed.

Look at any pictures from a leftist rally, and there are always communist groups marching with them. Most if not all receive funding from Russia. This has been happening since forever

What part of "US Communist Party suffered a crippling blow with the collapse of the Soviet Union" do you not comprehend?

I find it highly amusing to see leftist marching with groups that supposedly helped Trump get elected. HGHLY amusing.

Guess what happens when climate changes? Permafrost is not so permanent. We don't know yet whether our unprecedented-for-literally-ages CO2 release is going to perturb the ice age cycle.

Find the least steep and most stable mountain you can, drill a big hole in it, and put it there. And then do that ten more times.

I think it was stolen out of a museum in Germany last week.

It actually has content.

The effects on society were documented in one town in Canada in the 1970s. More children finished school. Fewer visits to the hospitals. Better general health (which helps explain the fewer visits to the hospitals). More adults able to take time off to upgrade their skills and get a better job. More adults able to take time off to go looking for a better job. More mothers staying home with their children during the early years.

The healthier population meant money was saved by the universal public health system. Kids finishing high school meant that the money spent to try to educate them wasn't wasted. It also meant they were more employable, so they could pay more taxes. People who were sick less also didn't lose pay since they weren't sick. And those who were ill could take the time off to get better instead of returning to work prematurely and falling ill again, so more money saved and more taxes collected.

As for moral rights - moral rights don't exist in natur Same as a judge in Italy recently ruled that theft is not a crime if you're hungry

Stealing small quantities of food to satisfy a vital need for food did not constitute a crime, the court wrote. "The condition of the defendant and the circumstances in which the seizure of merchandise took place prove that he took possession of that small amount of food in the face of an immediate and essential need for nourishment, acting therefore in a state of necessity," wrote the court.

The individual's right to survival trumps your property rights..

26 May 2016: Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.

One factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots", a government official told the South China Morning Post. Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: "More companies are likely to follow suit."

Sanctuary cities do not exist and nobody on the Progressive left talks about the need for them. Right?

Actually, they don't exist, especially not in the form that the Regressive right insists on falsely portraying them. They're pretty much just a straw-man where the right makes up false claims about lawlessness and crime in order to whip up a frenzy of hysteria.

Instead, what they are, is municipalities deciding that the Federal Government needs to be accountable, and forced to behave in a manner compliant with the law, by a policy of adherence to the strictures of law informing them that the cities won't knuckle under to their capriciousness. Not new, but a lingering problem for a supposed agency enforcing the law.

Of course, I'm old enough to remember when Janet Reno was demonized for returning Elian Gonzalez to his father. The mishandling of policies on Cuba is bad enough, but apparently we're supposed to decide parental rights on a whim?

So it's hypocrisy too. Even ignoring the other protests against the federal goverment, the silence on the failures of the immigration system is very telling.

Oh, I guess you are just another AC who's full of shit. Brave enough to hide in anonymity while claiming that I am being watched, as if you are a threat.

You're confused again, there's no threat to being judged, you're merely being observed, and recognized, for what your public behavior happens to be. It's called responsibility. You should recognize that as a natural consequence of communication. You spea

(or Millenials like Milo, Coulter, Shapiro, etc...)

Ann Coulter was born in 1961, that makes her a Baby Boomer, or a Gen-Xer, depending on your lines. It can be a bit fuzzy, but she's in no way close to being a Millenial.

You should probably check your own "facts" better. Seriously, Coulter has been around since the nineties with her act. Which should probably tell you that your premises are false, of course, you could find the same pattern with recognition of McCartney, Birch, Hearst, Calhoun, or Davis, to name a few. There's nothing new about them(even individuals like Milo Yiannopolous and Ben Shapiro are just recent additions to the crowd), and no, they don't care about facts, that's why they can make things up, instead preferring their flippant hysteria and emotion laden rhetoric.

Even Fred Thompson knew about it.

PS, the Italian American community has long expressed distress about being characterized as being gang and criminal oriented, as have the Russians and Irish. And Hispanics. And Blacks. And...well, the list goes on.

Some parts of the media print bullshit. But some of it does high quality reporting and issues corrections when necessary. By talking about the "MSM" as a homogeneous group, all equally bad, you are pushing the idea that you can pick your own alternative facts and make your own truth.

Your claim about the BBC is pure bullshit. Your whole argument looks copy/pasted from a post-truth talking points memo, to be honest.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

The bill says the visa programme "has allowed replacement of American workers by outsourcing companies with cheaper H-1B workers" and aims to end the "abuse" of the programme.
"My legislation refocuses the H-1B programme to its original intent - to seek out and find the best and brightest from around the world, and to supplement the US workforce with talented, highly paid, and highly skilled workers who help create jobs here in America, not replace them," Rep Lofgren said on her website.

If the professor is relying on comments on Social Media, then he is being mislead. Twitter has close to half a million fake accounts

I would not be surprised to learn that Facebook and the other S.M. sites suffer from the same thing.

Social Media is an advertising venue. It invites fake users and fake news.

No, no, no, nothing that convoluted. AC can tell how integrated a job applicant is just by looking at their name. Praveen Singh has clearly not integrated. But if he changed his name to John Fontaine... now that is a well integrated citizen right there. Watch how he confidently holds everybody’s attention in the palm of his hand with his crisp American accent and charismatic style. I'm being sarcastic of course, but sadly there is plenty of evidence that employers suffer that kind of unconscious bias.

You didn't even bother with a half truth, you went with the old FLAT OUT LIE! It was 53.4% that voted to LEAVE from England, with 73% turnout. If you tally all of the votes including Wales, Scotland, and Ireland tally was 17,410,722 to leave, 16,141,231. Which is still 52% of the vote _TOTAL_ (51.89%).

Ireland and Scotland had the worst turn outs, which means they didn't have a strong enough opinion to vote.

Your opinion denies things we call facts. Your opinion is invalid and based on some fantasy land that does not exist. Only a complete lunatic attempts to deny facts to support their delusional ill gotten opinion.

Citation for the intellectually challenged who can't find results. Don't worry, I know you won't look.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-nor...

Scotland is definitely leaving the EU along with UK. If they vote for independence, they could reapply to the EU. But this is far from automatic, since there are other EU members that are struggling to discourage their own secessionists.

http://www.politico.eu/article...

(hint: blowing out a window won't destroy the plane or "suck anyone out".)

Hint: You're wrong. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646

A passenger plane made an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport recently with a huge hole in its side and one passenger missing. Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab later claimed the attack, but several questions remain unanswered:

The only reason the entire plane didn't go down was because they were only about 15m into the flight and not at peak cabin pressure differential.

But I've always learned that English was invented in Flanders, at least the spelling! Why "ghost" and not "gost"? The English couldn't print so they had to ask the Flemish and they charged by the letter. They 'laft' their way to the bank because the charged 3 extra letters and printed "laft" as "laughed".

How's that "red line" in Syria working out?

Enjoy Trump's solution, don't you?

If Obama engineers a coup in Ukraine that won't start a war!

How's that armed foreign insurrection working out for you?

Fuck the EU!

That's Trump's plan. And Nigel's. And Wilders. But Merkel didn't rise to the bait, did she?

Wow, look how ISIS (AKA "Al Qaeda") didn't take over large parts of Iraq after Obama bugged out - unlike all predictions.

So let's see, either A) you want Obama to ignore the treaty Bush agreed to with the Iraqi government and forcibly occupy them or B) Obama to bribe that Iraqi's even more when they couldn't see the obvious, they still needed support.

Which is it?

How about that "reset with Russia"?

How's those waves of arrests working out for Putin anyway?

And, oh boy, isn't Libya such a stable area now!

You're complaining about Libya, which Tom Clancy denounced as a haven for terrorists 3 decades ago, just because Trump loved another show-boating dictator?

You were saying?

What exactly are you saying? The hat's on your head now.

And imagine how bad things would have been if Obama wasn't a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize!

Imagine how badly Trump would cry if the Nobel Prize committee gave Obama second prize, just to spite him?

My response was that Obama was actually worse

neurological damage much? check out the knee-jerk reaction!

How's that "red line" in Syria working out?

If Obama engineers a coup in Ukraine that won't start a war! Fuck the EU!

Wow, look how ISIS (AKA "Al Qaeda") didn't take over large parts of Iraq after Obama bugged out - unlike all predictions.

How about that "reset with Russia"?

And, oh boy, isn't Libya such a stable area now!

You were saying?

And imagine how bad things would have been if Obama wasn't a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize!

::cough:: I'll just leave this here... ::cough::

1,400 raped children in the UK by Muslim pedo ring while the UK police looked the other way to "not seem racist." (That's not even exaggerating.)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng...

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

I guess ignorance really is bliss.

No Donny, these men are socialists (with a "hybrid" economy). Among other things, true communism doesn't allow for class systems/structure or ownership of private property. This is why any modern "communist" state lasts about as long as it takes the new leadership to come to the conclusion that all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others [*]. Socialism proper went out of vogue in China with the introduction of Special Economic Zones in the '70's. Once government officials realized how much money could be made/grafted off these setups there was no looking back. In the late 90's I was a pre-sales engineer with a sales group for a large multinational and this group handled all the business in China. The level of corruption was staggering. Pretty much every major deal involved handing over a trash bag full of cash to at least one PRC official or a PLA officer at some point. One of the salesmen commented to me that they made governments in South America look like puritans. I understand the situation has improved but corruption is still rampant enough that the government has cracked down a few times on ostentatious displays of wealth, including executing the odd official. In all cases I'm aware of it wasn't so much that the official was taking bribes but rather they were flaunting their wealth that really got them in trouble.
 
// I'm by no means an expert in the PRC economy or government so take all of this with the request grain of salt.

Tell it to the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... or http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... or https://www.forbes.com/sites/a... or https://cosmosmagazine.com/bio... or http://scholar.harvard.edu/fil... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Let me guess, you love firing lead bullets at firing ranges with your buddies, as much as possible.

http://www.bbc.com/future/stor...

That is where it is coming from. China has basically been strip mining huge areas and creating huge slurry lakes to hold this stuff. You do not see it much here because we outsourced the pollution.

I'd love to see your cites and stats re "police standoffs gone wrong" in 2016.

According to the Washington Post, 963 people were killed last year in the U.S by police. I filtered that down to people that had guns, in order to kinda hit your 'standoff' thing, and got 518 people. I assume that if someone has been killed, then it's a standoff 'gone wrong', but I suppose there's no clear definition of what it means for a standoff to 'go wrong'. You might argue that if the bad guy got killed, maybe the standoff went right, so let's instead use the number of police killed in action. That's 46 officers for the year 2016, according to the BBC.

Now, how many people were killed by islamic terrorists in 2016 that arrived here by plane from one of the 'banned' countries?

It's none, isn't it? There were terrorist attacks for sure, but Omar Mateen was 'self-radicalised' and was from New York, Dahir Ahmed Adan was from Somali (the country is on the list), but he didn't kill anyone, Ahmad Khan Rahami was from Afganistan (not on the list) and didn't kill anyone, and Abdul Razak Ali Artan (also from Somali) also didn't kill anyone. Names from here.

So, you are more likely to be a police officer killed in the line of duty, than by a terrorist that's arrived from one of the banned countries.

Furthermore, as you no doubt very well know, Trump himself has publicly stated on more than one occasion that the ban is about religion. This is why it has been struck down in the courts, because there is no other basis for his choices. There's certainly no public safety basis, that's for sure.

>first thing I thought was someone figured out how to weaponize certain laptops

It's believed that terrorists did just that last year. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35521646

Everyone's missing the fact that if you eat at a Google restaurant, Google can see what you eat, just like they can read your email for any reason!

I imagine that all DSL providers in all countries charge a fee for maintaining the copper. But I thought Virgin had laid a separate fibre network in much of Britain (source).

(North) Korea is likely where we'll see Trump begin to play with his new toys.

Sadly, NK seems to be doing everything it can to give the Orange-Moron-In-Chief every excuse he needs.

It's not like, say, Africa or the Caribbean, where the climate is such that shelter, clothing, and even agriculture almost become non-issues.

While this may technically be true, it is rather unrespectful towards these developing countries, at a time when according to the UN,the world faces the greatest humanitarian (famine) crisis since 1945. So yes, I would say the inconveniences of DST are first worlds problems.