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Intel knew back in June. The stock sale was planned in October and actually executed in November.

It has also come to light that Intel CEO sold $24M in stock when he was aware of the issue.

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The people who have left were responsible for collecting and analyzing the intelligence that goes into the president's daily briefing.

Daily intelligence briefings for the Chief Executive used to be a vitally important component of policy formulation. Then President Chump was sworn in, and suddenly they became completely irrelevant, because they bored him. He refuses to read or even listen to them, even when they mostly contain brightly-colored graphics, videos, and other visual elements designed to appeal to the functional-illiterate-in-chief. They've also been tailored to avoid topics, such as the latest intelligence on Russian psyops interference in the 2016 election, that push the Orange Oaf's buttons. (Let me point you to an alternative citation, because the Washington Post article may be paywalled for those who don't know how to use private browsing and cookie deletion to get around it.)

Think about how you'd feel if you had dedicated your career to producing detailed, highly-nuanced, daily reports on a whole range of intelligence topics for the most powerful national leader on the planet - only to discover that the new guy is completely uninterested in any information that can't be expressed in crayon drawings and bumper sticker catchphrases. Now throw in civil servant wages, and ask yourself whether that job would be in any way attractive to you?

Yeah - it's like that.

That's why they're leaving ...

How does a 3rd world country as backward as NK have elite, top of the line, hacking capability? Last I checked, they had a whole 1024 IP addresses for the whole country.

They aren't hacking from NK. In fact, they are based in a NK-owned Chilbosan hotel in Shenyang, China.

As long as you're good, you're staying in 5 star accommodations.

I think it's less about raising home-grown hackers, and more about attracting top-tier talent from China and Russia.

Murdered by Antifa:

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20 others.. and more. Just search instead of trolling the same thing every time.

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If I do some googling with Duck Duck Go I find

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Trump's Council of Economic Advisers say it will boost growth by 3-5%, which means Trump will go down in history as the Next Reagan. But then, as Mandy Rice-Davies put it "Well, they would say that wouldn't they?"

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Then there's this, another right wing think tank

https://www.americanactionforu...

The U.S. is mired in a slow economic recovery, and is projected to continue growing at about a 2 percent annual rate for the next 10 years.
The U.S. corporate tax is grossly out of step with the rates of its developed country competitors, and is the only nation to have increased its rate on net since 1988.
A large body of economic research has documented the anti-growth effects of the U.S. corporate tax, with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concluding that it is the most harmful form of tax on per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Reducing the corporate tax rate would lead to higher investment, faster productivity growth, faster economic growth and higher wages, which would offer a higher standard of living for U.S. workers.

Here's the OECD paper.

https://www.oecd.org/officiald...

This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax structure into a set of panel growth regressions for 21 OECD countries, in which both the accumulation of physical and human capital are accounted for. The results of the analysis suggest that income taxes are generally associated with lower economic growth than taxes on consumption and property. More precisely, the findings allow the establishment of a ranking of tax instruments with respect to their relationship to economic growth. Property taxes, and particularly recurrent taxes on immovable property, seem to be the most growth-friendly, followed by consumption taxes and then by personal income taxes. Corporate income taxes appear to have the most negative effect on GDP per capita. These findings suggest that a revenue-neutral growth-oriented tax reform would be to shift part of the revenue base towards recurrent property and consumption taxes and away from income taxes, especially corporate taxes. There is also evidence of a negative relationship between the progressivity of personal income taxes and growth. All of the results are robust to a number of different specifications, including controlling for other determinants of economic growth and instrumenting tax indicators.

Now the OECD report is credible.

And it doesn't really seem all that unreasonable for the US to cut corporation tax rates given it has the highest tax rate in the OECD.

E.g.

http://stats.oecd.org/index.as...

In fact in best Laffer curve fashion you can make an argument that high tax rates encourage US corporations to have complex tax structures like Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich. Reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 22% makes it somewhat more competitive. A bit of Trumpian bullying of the likes of Apple and Google combined with a tax cut might cause them to start paying US taxes instead of paying Dutch, Irish or UK ones.

I can see you don't like Trump of the GOP and to be honest I've got mixed feelings about them myself. Still you c

At the same time movie attendance has been falling, the number of movie sequels has been climbing, hitting an all-time high of 40 in 2017. Not saying the relationship is causal (correlation and all that), but Hollywood might want to consider that possibility before it blames it all on piracy or home streaming or some other thing that's not their own fault.

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quotes:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface."
"Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017)

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In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quote:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface." Another quote: "Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017, Bizarro)

The USPS is losing money because of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. It required USPS pension funding to change from a "pay as you go" model to a pre-paid model. The postal pension fund is over 80% funded for future obligations - unlike the Federal workers pension fund which is $7 TRILLION dollars underfunded.
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The problem is compounded by decreasing snail mail usage.

Based on what publicly available evidence?

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Image, reputation, and perception of impartiality does not equal "tainted."

Then you don't understand law enforcement and particularly investigations. Even the perception is very important to the integrity of an investigation. Especially for political special investigations. Yes, it does taint the FBI. How many other investigations can be compromised because of relationships or conflicts of interest like Ohr? There is a reason that Mueller, as soon as he found out, demoted those agents or reassigned them.

Prior to 2015, they acquired all or a part of Sprint, Supercell, DramaFever. Since 2015 the list has gotten really long, including ARM, Nvidia, Boston Dynamics. I'm not sure there's any rhyme or reason to their investments. It seems more like a shotgun approach (a little of everything), and they're hoping one (or more) of them will pay off.

As usual, things are only bad when other people do them to you. But are fine when you do them to them.

Making public, fully attributed, on the record press statements isn't even remotely like what Russia has been doing to other countries. Its basically the opposite.

The way I see it, the most interesting part of this story is Putin getting his panties in a twist over such a small thing. It reveals that, contrary to all of the shirtless photos of him performing as the most manly strong-man on the planet, he's actually deeply insecure about his position on top of the throne over there. And really, he ought to be.

Putin served as a way for the corrupt-as-fuck Yeltsin to get off the throne without losing his head in the process, but who is going to do that for Putin? His corruption has grown 100x worse than Yeltsin. He's looted the country so much that he's now the richest man on the planet. Nobody is going to sign up to cover for him because there is no upside, you can't get much richer than Putin already is. But you can get deader.

The "Energiewende" is not a failure... Germany has steadily increased the share of renewable energy in the electricity mix.

Opinions differ. While "environmentalists" endorse that, it is opposed and regarded as a massive failure by people who care about the environment. Germany did not shut down all of their coal-burning power plants, instead they switched from burning coal to burning forests. That practice causes natural habitat destruction on a massive scale.

Generally, a helpful thing to keep in mind when when discussing energy and the environment is that renewable energy sources are not categorically good. Renewable=Good is stupid. Whale oil is renewable resource, should we go back to harvesting whales? Corn Ethanol is a renewable resource and its production uses about the same amount or more energy as it yields and promotes forest destruction, results in massive soil erosion causing river and stream pollution, places enormous amounts of toxic agri-chemicals in the environment and promotes food scarcity in third-world countries. Windmills murder birds, and so many that wind energy was only made viable in the U.S. because Obama gave the wind industry environmental waivers to murder American Eagles.

It is also important to keep in mind that though we depend on coal, coal is harmful. Though AGW alarmism is political propaganda supported by junk science, coal releases mercury and other toxins in quantities large enough to yield significant and measurable declines in human health and longevity. Mountain-top removal mining is an environmental disaster. It would be good to replace coal with cleaner energy, but let's not be idiots and replace it with worse energy sources because we are suckered by the environmentalist lobby. Switching to more energy efficient homes, electric cars, grid-scale storage, photovoltaics, natural gas and fission reactors would be net environmental gains and some of those continue to get cleaner and cheaper. R&D on new technologies on average has big efficiency and environmental payoffs, despite government preferentially funding losers and that no on particular technology is a sure win. But many incremental improvements and/or a big breakthrough like viable fusion reactors would move us off of coal.

Hahahaha no.

It already has. The Boxer Rebellion was caused mainly by young men who couldn't find wives after 60 years of Chinese female-baby abortions. Even today, Chinese men buy wives from Vietnam due to the same sort of shortage. It's just that with all the global travel, the effects spill over into other countries.

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From the linked article:

The FCC's Enforcement Bureau found that Sinclair aired stories paid for by the Huntsman Cancer Foundation without disclosing that they were paid programming. The programming was made to look like independent news coverage.

This is a blow against "fake" news.

On a related note, Facebook is dumping it's fake news flagging system (the "disputed" flag), because studies show that flagging something as fake makes people more likely to share it!

(Snicker.... snort... chuckle... BWA HA HA HAH HAH!)

So they're basically creating a giant Wal-Mart branded vending machine?
Isn't that what a "store without cashiers" is?

I wonder if it will look like this mall?

Just swap their morning joe with decaf. Epidemic averted.

That won't stop the depression, anxiety and eventual health consequences such as high blood pressure and eventual heart attack that will follow from attempting to meet ridiculously unreasonable demands. We have a system whereby many people are in a constant, unnatural state of fight or flight response. As of 2016, the United States has the highest use of anti-depressant medication of any OECD country. That's solid evidence that we have a systemic cultural problem that is leading to large scale health problems for our citizens.

How about we use a map that shows where people live? For example, half the US population lives in the blue counties identified on this map. Now look at how a lot of the population lives in those counties. For HALF the people in the US, high-priced condos and townhomes are the norm. There is a LOT of empty land where 1+ acre lots are normal, but very few people actually live there. HALF the population lives in those few counties. For vast swaths of people - that is the norm.

Show of hands, please:

Who believes anything a Trump appointee says? She was put in place by Tom Price, the disgraced Health and Human Services secretary who resigned when he was caught lying about using military jets as his private airline.

Here is a list of the 15 Trump appointees who had to leave in the first 11 months of his administration due to indictment or embarrassment.

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Why keep phones out of prisons? I'd like inmates to have robust access to the outside world—the capacity to talk to others, to keep up on the news, to stay in touch with the world outside their concrete walls.

When inmates exit prison, they have to go to a halfway house. They're so out-of-touch with reality that they need to be re-introduced to society--reintegration. That's ridiculous. Okay, maybe we don't buy you a Sega Saturn for your birthday; but you should be able to stay in contact with family, friends, the like. You should be able to keep track of politics and current events.

Yes, I know: keeping them from somehow gaming all day while allowing access to not-gaming material is hard. We can probably get away with locking down access to 80 and 443, using a robust Web filter, and generally letting the collective game of whack-a-mole packaged into an off-the-shelf product suffice. It's not like it's hard to block Steam; they'll have to struggle to find little flash games and such.

If you're committing criminal activities inside prison using a cell phone, you're ... I mean, you're in prison, you're identifiable, and you're organizing crime using a cell phone. You're a high risk and at risk of scrutiny, which makes criminal activity harder to conceal (this is also a good Constitutional argument: a lot of rights against search and seizure or self-incrimination make it easy to commit crimes that nobody really cares about, whereas loud and visible crimes draw attention and are harder to conceal).

Prison is hard. On the one hand, you want people to be in prison. On the other, you want them to come out of prison capable of engaging in society. You don't want them in a nice little luxury hotel where they can relax--just penned in--and you don't want shoplifters coming out as hardened criminals with no capacity to engage with civil society.

At this junction, we have a question: can we keep cell phones away from inmates? It's become harder, so we should ask another question: should we keep cell phones away from inmates? We may have learned things about rehabilitation and prison management which would change the answers to these questions. I've heard that some countries have less-terrible prisons and also have lower recidivism rates--Norway is bewildering and god damn I need to update my platform on criminal justice reform.

Only Christianity and Judaism maintain that God created a material reality that was (1) separate from Him, and (2) knowable.

LMAO. Trends come and go in all religions. The Islamic Golden Age was a time of amazing scientific and philosophical progress, but they gave it up. Catholics rejected science, then eventually came to embrace it. Protestants loved science, then modern evangelical sects came to despise it.

I was raised Southern Baptist, but wholly abandoned it because of their insane insistence that reality was wrong. When a man tells you the sky is green and Jesus rode a dinosaur, it's awfully hard not to laugh at his opinions on anything else. Whatever else I might think about their organization, the Catholic church seems to be pretty good about science these days. I don't hear anything bad about the scientific beliefs of mainstream protestant groups (that is, ones that aren't American extremists). That said, Hindu and Taoist countries are doing lots of amazing science, and the OECD says that lots of barely religious countries are beating the US in science education.

Most of the services people use regularly would not exist.

"Service"? Facebook, for example, is a surveillance platform. It exists to provide intelligence to advertisers. It exists to silo and isolate and mediate its user's experience of the web. It exists to treat you like cattle. It exists to extract profit from the control of attention. If Facebook dies, so what? Nothing of value will be lost. So called social media is bad for you, which is why Facebook is now launching its counter-narrative to try to convince you otherwise.

Mark Zuckerberg thinks web users are dumb fucks. Is he right?

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He was appointed by Obama in 2012.

He was appointed to the FCC by Obama because Obama was required to appoint a certain number of Republicans.

Trump made Ajit Pai chairman of the FCC. In fact, it was one of the very first things he did after getting sworn in, and Trump did it with an explicit understanding that the Net Neutrality rules would be thrown out by Ajit Pai's FCC.

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Is it good for healthy societies to have one or two giant for-profit companies controlling most of the news people see?

No but that's hardly some new problem. Currently there are about 6 companies" that control roughly 90% of the media. It is these companies that are funding opposition to net neutrality since they own much of the content and distribution.

Google if anything is something of a disruptive influence.

Which is why they all colluded with the DNC right? CNN politico washington post donna brazille handing debate questions to the clinton camp before a debate and on, and on and on and on.

Call me back when any of those networks gets caught colluding with the DNC

CNN politico Washington Post. That's all from the 2016 election cycle, they all colluded. So did all those other networks I listed, you can find them all right in the DNC email leaks. There's dozens on top of dozens of stories on major networks getting caught sending stories to the DNC to make sure the narrative was correct, directly publishing articles from the DNC. Hell Donna Brazille was caught giving the Clinton camp debate questions before the debate from CNN. You get that? They all colluded.

Or better yet, don't call me at all you nazi.

And the current state of the political left rears it's head. Anyone who dares to question the narrative = nazi. You truly are pathetic people.

Yes, I know they're employed. Yes, I know there's a lack of housing. What I meant is moving costs money, and there's no guarantee they're going to find a job by moving to somewhere else. That's what UBI takes care of. Basic needs. It's better for them to stay where they are without UBI because they at least have a job.

Huntington's disease: the new gene therapy that sufferers cannot afford

I simply looked up "Michael R. Hayden" and the name of the drug in question and quality reporting landed right at the top of my search results.

Hayden is the most cited author in the world for HD and ABCA1, and has authored over 830 peer-reviewed publications and invited submissions (h-index 105).

Hayden is active against genetic discrimination.

The House GOP is pushing a bill that would let employers demand workers' genetic test results — March 2017

Here's Ron Paul, wearing his mechanical heart on his sleeve:

Uniform Federal mandates are a clumsy and ineffective way to deal with problems such as employers making hiring decisions on the basis of a potential employee's genetic profile. Imposing Federal mandates on private businesses merely raises the costs of doing business and thus reduces the employment opportunities for all citizens. (src)

Health insurance and 'genetic discrimination': Are rules needed? — January 2012

Others disagree, noting that genetic discrimination was deemed significant enough to spur the United States and many countries in Europe to enact legislation. The question of what information genetic testing may reveal and how it can be used shouldn't be left up to insurance companies, said Bev Heim-Myers, chair of the Canadian Coalition for Genetic Fairness.

The problem is, if society imposes nothing, business tends to devolve into a crass race to the bottom with real human casualties.

So I'm generally in favour of the government foreclosing on the worst of the worst, while leaving plenty of scope for businesses to morally disgrace themselves (or not).

It still stuns me when people say stuff like this. But then I remember, maybe they weren't here, and didn't see what happened.

The net has always been neutral. From time to time an ISP would try to test the boundaries, and then we would stop them:

2005 - Madison River Communications was blocking VOIP services. The FCC put a stop to it.

2005 - Comcast was denying access to p2p services without notifying customers.

2007-2009 - AT&T was having Skype and other VOIPs blocked because they didn't like there was competition for their cellphones.

2011 - MetroPCS tried to block all streaming except youtube. (edit: they actually sued the FCC over this)

2011-2013, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were blocking access to Google Wallet because it competed with their bullshit. edit: this one happened literally months after the trio were busted collaborating with Google to block apps from the android marketplace

2012, Verizon was demanding google block tethering apps on android because it let owners avoid their $20 tethering fee. This was despite guaranteeing they wouldn't do that as part of a winning bid on an airwaves auction. (edit: they were fined $1.25million over this)

2012, AT&T - tried to block access to FaceTime unless customers paid more money.

2013, Verizon literally stated that the only thing stopping them from favoring some content providers over other providers were the net neutrality rules in place.

2015 was just the FCC formalizing what we've had since the internet was first invented. The Internet only exists because it was always neutral. This is about breaking the entire premise of the internet, after decades of it working properly.

You think you can have meaningful competition in "last mile" for internet, any more than you can have it for electricity? Hilarious. Someone's going to start up a new ISP, somehow get right of way to everyone's last mile? That's your competitive marketplace?

"Oh but the local governments." I can give you another list of all the cities and towns full of people who can't get decent service at all, from any ISP, and then when they try to build their own, the big ISPs sue and harass them to stop them from doing it...

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I dunno man. I watched the John Legere video and he seems very trustworthy to me and not at all a slimy, coked up sales twat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny thing is the FCC said Binge On was fine. Despite that T Mobile scrapped it anyway and instead introduced an 'all unlimited' service, which instead throttles all video to 480p - you can upgrade from that for $25 a month. If Net Neutrality had stayed and the FCC had ruled that throttling video violated the principles even though zero rating did not, T Mobile would be in deep shit

https://www.fiercewireless.com...

But, as Recon Analytics' Roger Entner points out, a 6 GB plan on T-Mobile with all zero-rated streaming is a "de facto unlimited plan," and one that costs less than T-Mobile One, which starts at $70 per month. Without the $50 intro tier that got so many customers through T-Mobile's doors, Entner fears that the "entry level breaks away" for T-Mobile.

Entner said this could become even more problematic considering that Sprint just introduced its own unlimited plan that undercuts T-Mobile's plan by $20/month for two lines.

But the real potential red flag for T-Mobile One is the $25 upcharge to upgrade video quality from T-Mobile's standard 480p resolution to HD video.

With Binge On, 480p video was positioned as a more than acceptable resolution for smaller screens. Now, with T-Mobile One, 480p resolution looks more like an entry level option that can be upgraded.

"You're treating different traffic differently. If AT&T or Verizon did this, the FCC would slap them down in a heartbeat," said Entner. "I think carriers should be able to do what T-Mobile is doing. But all of them should be able to do it."

Indeed, while FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has promised to keep a close watch on sponsored data programs from AT&T and Verizon, he's praised T-Mobile offerings like Binge On as "innovative."

But if Wheeler changes his tune in light of T-Mobile's new plan, it could be problematic for the Uncarrier.

"If the FCC says you can't force people onto 480p, [T-Mobile] is in trouble," said Entner. "Because the data usage will go through the roof."

If T-Mobile customers could suddenly access HD or even 4K video and not worry about data usage, that could result in data consumption on the network going five-fold for HD or even 12-fold for 4K.

"It would bring the network to its knees," said Entner.

The problem I see it is fat, bovine consumers demanding their videos all be in 1080p on their mobile phone where even 360p is fune and data usage be uncapped. They're the sort of people who eat themselves into a Porterhouse Blue at a 'all you can eat' buffet in order to assert their absolute right to unlimited stuff for a fixed price.

All T Mobile are doing now is making people use small plates so they don't take as much food per trip to the buffet and thus don't drive T Mobile into bankruptcy. If you had Net Neutrality the FCC might denounce small plates as being contrary to the Holy Principles Of Net Neutrality and demand that T Mobile go bust.

And yet what does Net Neutrality even mean, if selectively zero rating some providers is OK but throttling all video equally regardless of provider may not be?

Luckily for T Mobile net Neutrality was something that went away when Wheeler stopped being head of the FCC.

I used to use the T Mobile Walmart plan when I was in the US, but it seems like they've stopped it

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Shame really, $30 a month for 4GB of 4G data and then unlimited 2G data was way more than I needed. It didn't have many included minutes but you could use VOIP for calls.

It's passed the House and Senate, albeit in slightly different forms

http://www.businessinsider.com...

You don't need to actually cut taxes to affect confidence - if the perception in the markets is that they will fall that's enough to cause some change in mood.

And both the House and Senate bills cut corporation tax from 35% to 20%, though Trump suggested off the cuff it might only go to 22% to finance other cuts. Still even 35% to 22% is a pretty drastic cut.

The UK rate is 20% in 2016, falling to 18% in 2020.

https://www.gov.uk/government/...

This measure sets the Corporation Tax main rate for each year from the financial year beginning 1 April 2017 to the financial year beginning 1 April 2020, reducing the Corporation Tax main rate by 2% by 2020.

The Corporation Tax main rate for 1 April 2016 is set at 20%. The rate for 1 April 2017 is 19% and sets it at this rate for 1 April 2018 and 1 April 2019. The rate for 1 April 2020 is set at 18%.

Ireland is 12.5%

https://www.idaireland.com/inv...

But that's for trading income. Other rates apply for non trading, financial services, and manufacturing

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

The EU has declared Advance Tax Rulings of the sort Apple got illegal state aid.

Of course now the UK is leaving the EU, I'm sure it will offer the equivalent of Advance Tax rulings for companies like Apple on profits they move from somewhere else to the UK. I mean, if the UK would have got 0% tax otherwise, even 1% is an improvement.

Trump's got very little done legislatively except for the corporation tax cut. More regulations have been repealed than have been passed

http://www.washingtonexaminer....

Which demonstrates that if you do little except cut taxes and deregulate, the US economy will tend to pick up speed.

And look at Apple. They've just paid Ireland what the EU demanded they pay, even though Ireland didn't want it

http://www.zdnet.com/google-am...

If the EU forces countries like Ireland to charge more tax, and Trump cuts corporate taxes in the US while bullying companies to invest, there's an argument that companies like Apple might decide to move some cash back. E.g. this sort of deal

http://www.businessinsider.com...

But even in this context, Apple backing a big manufacturing plant could be a significant political win for Trump. Foxconn's display plant could create 30,000 to 50,000 jobs in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Apple has 80,000 US-based employees.

Where could Foxconn build factories in the US? It depends on which states give Foxconn the best incentives. Pennsylvania seems to be in the lead for either a "molding facility" or the display plant. A trade official from Pennsylvania was at Foxconn's holiday party, Nikkei reported.

"I have to tell other states to hurry up or we'll go ahead and sign with Pennsylvania," Gou said.

Tim Cook could virtue signal about how he's creating US jobs. Apple and Foxconn would get given an Ireland like tax deal by the state and federal government.

Purists will say this is rather unorthodox economics - basically Trump bulled Cook into doing it and arranged for tax breaks. Still that's the way business works, why shouldn't government?

As we were repeatedly told during the campaign when good employment numbers kept coming out, these are fake numbers.

The words of the con artist ring true. These are fake numbers. And the same reasons he gave for calling the numbers fake hold true now.

19 times he said the numbers were fake.

Job numbers are biggest hoax in modern politics.

So there you have it. More fake numbers.

There is a dark side to full employment. This means we cannot have growth because companies will not be able to hire new people even if they wanted to. Kicking out people and focusing on these people who are different will hurt the economy. Because without these companies growing, there will be a point where all the people who wanted their stuff will have it, and stop buying it.

Because the unemployment rate is bullshit. Look at the labor force participation rate - AKA the "employment rate".

Note how it's declined precipitously since 2009. There are a lot of people available for work, which is why wages have been stagnant despite the "low" unemployment rate.

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I've considered that possibility, and it's always struck me as realistic. But it would also require that this be wrong.

There was zero precedent for people being killed by bullets until the gun was invented and used to shoot people.

In many ways, what is described strongly resembles ultrasound except that ultrasound reflects from density gradients (and thus, for example, the skull). A signal with multiple carriers however sounds like a more interesting possibility, as then you can get harmonics between the two waves at frequencies which are much better transmitted into the body. You'd also get second and third and so forth harmonics, which is exactly the sort of pattern you see in the embassy recording believed to be of the attack.

But that's just a hypothesis.

Youtube stars earn about $1 for every 500 views. You have 50 views of a video, which would mean $.10 if you pass the minimum threshhold (you won't). Even Youtube stars can earn just hundreds of dollars a year, and of course you are not going to become a Youtube star.

In order to earn this hypothetical $.10, you took the bus to the Apple campus and spent your time taking videos, then spent your time editing the videos with music and putting them online. It doesn't seem like it's worth hours of effort to make a dime.