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Its also good to point out that the fraud was in the review process, not the work itself. So the tools that did it were extra stupid in their laziness.

If they didn't do the peer review, it's probably because the work wouldn't survive it.

That doesn't account for laziness. We don't know if the work itself was bad. I'm suspicious it might be, but it needs reviewed properly.

Climate models are huge and complex, only a few people can truly claim to understand them. They're not lab experiments where you can easily isolate causes and exclude other factors or extrapolate how the ecosystem will respond. There's huge local variations in climate that people use as proof or counter-proof because this year was particularly cold or warm without any validity as a global phenomenon.

Deniers often do claim that the weather outside their window is enough data to refute AGW. I have no doubt that they might have a little problem understanding the modes and the data.

But you and I both know that isn't the real issue. I don't hear anything about radioactivity not being real, and that nucs are some other process is involved. its just accepted. We don't hear much about cosmology, even though it isn't remotely as settled as the greenhouse effect, and there are some pretty active controversies going on, and not many people understand it.

Its money, and who's ox is gored, and who is getting paid for their vote, and inertia, and how somehow the laws of physics has become affiliated with a political party or not. Where once upon a time, not many years ago, the greenhouse effect was believed by most, and how now, scientists are scrambling to save climate data before it is destroyed http://www.businessinsider.com... Who knew that in 21st Century America, that science could become illegal?

That said, just because there's a lot of detail we're working on doesn't mean there's much doubt about the big picture. Take evolution for example, we're still doing tons of research into the exact mechanisms that create and divide species but there's no real scientific competition from creationism or lamarckism that genetics isn't real. "Survival of the fittest" does work as a one-liner summary.

The greenhouse effect is clearly real, if Earth had no atmosphere it would have a surface temperature of -18C instead of +14C.

And yet, people will differ http://www.energycentral.com/c... http://blog.nosuchthingasgreen...

So when they're talking about trying to keep the temperature change because of human activity under 2C we're really talking about a <10% change in the effect. We are just a small part of a pretty big puzzle of how this all works.

It is small in some respects, rather large in others. In addition, there are some wild cards such as methane released by warming: http://www.natureworldnews.com...

Well pretty much the whole thing. The deficit was actually doubled under obama, more than all other presidents before him combined. So there was no massive deficit reduction but an actual increase.

The number of unemployment did go down but the number not in the labor force actually went up by 13.5%. As for the number of actual jobs created, obama numbers are actually lower than Reagan.

I think the health care has been covered but lets by all means drag it out again. The number on health care did go up. But since you had no choice any more it had to go up. While the numbers on health care insurance did go up, the high delectable made the insurance useless.

As for the economy as a whole obama saw the greatest increase of 2.9%. Which is lower than Jimmy Carters 5.6% and Bush Primes of 3.8%

So yeah, I believe we can say that under obama the economy was a disaster and his policies where a failure. Jimmy Carter even beat him for gods sake. I fact the way the numbers are looking now that all of obama's pigeons are coming home to roost, he might just go down as the worse president in the last 100 years.

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-jobs-report-labor-market-participation-rate-2017-1/#since-obama-took-office-in-january-2009-the-us-economy-has-added-11250000-people-to-total-nonfarm-payrolls-1/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/29/americas-economy-before-obama-versus-after-obama//
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/01/obamas-numbers-january-2016-update//

I decided to do a bit of searching, and found this detailed article which has some photos of the contents inside the pouches:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

So it contains "chopped" vegetables, but it's actually already pretty finely shredded for the greens. It looks like the fruit chunks are a bit bigger in size. So this is not fully juiced, but it's about halfway there.

There are about as many Republicans in CA as there are pink unicorns with gold plated horns.

While the CA Republicans have more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the US population. Republican fundraisers still swing by to pick up checks from Silicon Valley companies..

Stock for stock and dollar for dollar, Silicon Valley companies give more political donations to Republicans than Democrats, and are more likely to have right-leaning stockholders to boot, according to a new report by news site The Daily Dot. This runs contrary to Silicon Valley's reputation as waving the banner of American liberalism but the numbers don't lie.

http://www.businessinsider.com/silicon-valley-gives-more-to-republicans-than-democrats-2015-3

Which reminds me --- Coca Cola pulled out of the Cold Drink effort with Keurig. After product launch it all tanked. --- again they forgot to test the market. Nobody wanted to pay a big price for the machine, have it occupy counter space, and then fork over about the same money as a can of soda costs.

oh- and everyone is getting wise to health and sugar -- and that they should drink less soda.

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

That is correct. Most of the Dreamliner for example is made outside the US, and increasing amounts of engineering are moved as well.

The days when Boeing made most of the airplane in the US are long gone, and have been for a while.

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PROTECT vs.:

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) fastflux C&C
3.) dynDNS C&C
4.) DGA C&C
5.) DNS down
6.) poisoned dns
7.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
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ClarityRay defeatable

Don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

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You use AdBlock Bob the Super Hamste https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6339101&cid=48554751/ & it's BRIBED TO NOT WORK BY DEFAULT http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

Adblock = inefficient & hosts do more/use less 151mb http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/ in faster kernelmode natively.

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

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Tesla cars can self-park,

They are doing such a bang up job at the whole self parking thing.

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PROTECT vs.:

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) fastflux C&C
3.) dynDNS C&C
4.) DGA C&C
5.) DNS down
6.) poisoned dns
7.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
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10.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

11.) Multiplatform
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14.) UBlock no DNS bennys = poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
15.) NoScript tag parses. Hosts block ad script before it downloads!

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ClarityRay defeatable

Don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

What hosts do addons can't (or as well):

PROTECT vs.:

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) fastflux C&C
3.) dynDNS C&C
4.) DGA C&C
5.) DNS down
6.) poisoned dns
7.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
8.) spam/phish payload
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10.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

11.) Multiplatform
12.) Ez data edit
13.) Efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O)

14.) UBlock no DNS bennys = poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
15.) NoScript tag parses. Hosts block ad script before it downloads!

APK

P.S.=> AB+ 151mb http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

UBlock 64MB http://cdn.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/adblocker-memory-consumption.jpg/

(hosts ~6mb)

ClarityRay defeatable

Don't work http://www.businessinsider.com/google-microsoft-amazon-taboola-pay-adblock-plus-to-stop-blocking-their-ads-2015-2/

SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions/686041/which-leads-to-faster-browsing-an-ad-blocker-or-an-edited-hosts-file/

United Airlines Flight 3411 is NOT a United Airlines flight. The U.S. government allows mis-labeling. Flight 3411 is a CommutAir flight.

United's CEO Oscar Munoz made the situation FAR worse by the pretend caring in what he said: United is investigating why authorities dragged a passenger off a flight -- here's what it found.

Quotes from the CEO:

"... we approached one of these passengers to explain apologetically that he was being denied boarding..."
It was not "apologetic". The passenger was already boarded. There was no "we".

"Our agents were left with no choice but to call Chicago Aviation Security Officers..."
They could have tried asking someone else, and increased the price they would pay.

To employees: "I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."
That badly worded sentence also shows a lack of social ability.

The incident was like a billion-dollar advertisement saying, "Don't fly United Airlines." A New York Times story, United Airlines Passenger Is Dragged From an Overbooked Flight, now has 4983 comments! (07:48 am PDT)

The issue was not connected with anything United Airlines did. The result, however, is that the United Airlines CEO demonstrated that he isn't a good choice to lead a company. In my opinion, the United Airlines Board of Directors should consider getting a new CEO.

Background information: When airlines overbook a flight, these federal rules apply.

Goldman Sachs disagrees with you. Asteroid mining can now be done for not much more money than it costs to open a regular metals mine on Earth:

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

And please, robot "bugs" sifting through trash? Asteroid mining is far less sci-fi than that. Besides, you're not going to find lots of precious metals in the landfills.

You're way, way too optimistic about the capabilities of robots in the near future. And you're overlooking who's going to own all the robots that do the work.

Let's see. First we have more than one can reference on the swamp draining:
Search google for "Trump drain the swamp" and you'll find a quick 469,000 articles to reference.

As for the corporate profits, I think a quick review of his stock portfolio might shed some light:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

A quick search for his financials leads a to a whole lot more. He made a nice penny off the spike in oil last week after a little fireworks show.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/06...
http://www.reuters.com/article...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

And one of his holdings stands to make a pretty penny on replacing those little rockets:
http://www.raytheon.com/capabi...

I can find you more if this isn't enough.

What if the online service has no problem with it? http://www.businessinsider.com...

That's because Republicans abused the Amendment process.

Democracy does not work..

128k

Newer estimates are higher:

On average, 205,300 jobs need to be created every month just to keep up with population growth and not allow the unemployment situation to get worse.

So when you read "added 98,000" you have to understand "lost 108,000" relative to steady state.

And when the loyal press diligently repeats "and the unemployment rate fell" you can fall back on your fourth-grade mathematics to know that they're lying with statistics (like removing people who cannot find work).

Why this is important: since the Dot-Bomb the job market had not has a sustained period of permanent job growth. Throughout the "recovery" job rates have constantly declined. There is *no* evidence that the job market will *ever* recover.

Austrian economists understand that this is because of the time value of money and that artificially-suppressed interest rates prevent lending and by extension economic growth. But the Fed has both the responsibility to service the interest on the National Debt and setting the interest rates, and if rates rise to a more natural 8% or so, the US will default on debt payments. So they can either have the economy crash or crash the economy. That is their pickle and they have chosen to spread the misery rather than risk their seat of power. Unfortunately even for then, the current trajectory is unsustainable over a long term and this will eventually result in a currency crash, revolution, or tyranny (choose two). Keynesians believe that starting wars are the best way out of a bad economic situation and even though the Middle East wars haven't fixed the economy they're looking to knock over Syria and North Korea (damn the EMP's, or do those break wiindows?)

Fortunately we have the Feds' imposition of Common Core Math (Pearson style) so 4th-grade math won't be much of an impediment for long.

It would suck to be gone for 4 weeks, and nobody noticed you were gone. Except you weren't there to complain all the time.

It's even worse when you die at work and no one notices.

Personally I only saw the first Hobbit movie, and was rather unimpressed, not only by the story but also the FX. It looked really fake in many places. The 3D and HFR was technically impressive, but I didn't think it was really great overall. It is weird how different those movies were from the LotR movies. Are we sure they were made by the same Peter Jackson? Maybe the real one was killed and he was replaced by an evil clone. That would explain it. Or perhaps he has an evil twin brother who knocked him off.

Anyway, the problem I see is that even if there's 20 worthwhile movies, that's still only about 2.5 per year. That just doesn't seem like enough to keep very many theaters going, maybe not even any. However, that brings me back to my prior post: what are the box-office sales really like? Well, according to this doom-and-gloom article, plus these domestic ticket sales numbers from 1995 to now, it's really not that bad. Just in the US, the number of tickets sold seems to really have been rather constant since 1995: it was 1.33B (billion!) tickets in 2016, up from 1.22B in '95. Of course, most years in between '97--'15 were higher, but not that much. 2010 and 2011 were even worse, as was 2014. But overall, these numbers look fairly constant to me. So even with all the "theaters suck!" comments here, obviously someone's buying these tickets, and it makes sense since so many anti-theater comments are complaining about the other patrons. Now if you look at these numbers on a per-capita basis, it doesn't look so great since the population has grown since '95, but still, it sure doesn't look like the theaters are in danger of losing all their viewers any time soon. If they can't figure out how to stay in the black and keep their doors open with all these willing theater-goers, then they're doing something else very wrong. Honestly, this sounds to me like an industry that's whining and moaning because they think they're entitled to constant growth, and they're no longer getting it, but this is nothing new: theaters used to be a LOT more popular (per capita) way back before the color TV became commonplace, or before TVs became affordable.

"they are still way cheaper than a taxi despite all the BS"

Hard figures needed. Because, although the rider may pay less, Uber heavily subsidizes rides, and those subsidies must be included as part of the true cost when comparing with taxis.

It's said that Uber subsidizes over half the cost of a ride, so the true cost would be at least double.

So, we should expect the price to the rider to be less than half the cost of a taxi if they're truly cheaper. But, that doesn't appear to be the case. In fact, only when you add a 20% tip for the taxi driver, and only in one city, does that hold true (numbers are old, feel free to dig up more recent ones). In some cases, Uber is more expensive, even without considering the subsidies.

What sort of backwater third world dictatorship do you think you live in where vocal criticism of the dear leader amounts to treason?

Russia.

Mothers in Russia can face jail time for speaking out about their sons who are being killed in the Ukraine. Uzak of the President of the Russian Federation, No. 237 makes it a crime to talk about the deaths of soldiers. If you criticize the government for not telling you where and how your son died, the government will withhold death benefits. And put you in jail.

Having internet access is a privilege and not a right.

UN thinks internet access is a human right

"A poll of 27,973 adults in 26 countries, including 14,306 Internet users,[3] conducted for the BBC World Service between 30 November 2009 and 7 February 2010 found that almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right.[4] 50% strongly agreed, 29% somewhat agreed, 9% somewhat disagreed, 6% strongly disagreed, and 6% gave no opinion.[5]"

If you rabid net-neut proponents don't watch it, we're going to end up with ISPs that bill by the byte.

This is an incredibly common result of touchy-feely regulations. Remember the days when if your credit was good enough you could get a prime-plus-a-point-or-two credit card, and even with just ok credit you could get 10% or less? The CARD Act sent that the way of the dodo bird -- average introductory rates are now pushing 20%. Remember how Dick Durban was going to stick it to the banks by forcing them to not charge "exorbitant" transaction fees? Banks just found other ways to make up the fees that disproportionately impacted lower-income people.

What in the world makes you think this latest moral crusade is going to end any differently?

I'm an active follower of youtube and watch a lot of Vlogs and podcasts and the likes. Rcenetly in the wake of the so called "PewPewdie scandal" youtube has apparently shifted to be more and more restricve about what kind of content they allow to be monetized. Certain tags and words appear to be banned from getting ad-revenue, (recently it came to light their new policy prohibits including 'atheist' in one's channel name, and in general old channels with atheism in their tittle have seen a huge drop in revenue. Have a look at their 'advertiser friendly content guidelines':

Content that is considered "not advertiser-friendly" includes, but is not limited to:

Sexually suggestive content, including partial nudity and sexual humor
Violence, including display of serious injury and events related to violent extremism
Inappropriate language, including harassment, profanity and vulgar language
Promotion of drugs and regulated substances, including selling, use and abuse of such items
Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown
If any of the above describes any portion of your video, then the video may not be approved for monetization. If monetization is approved, your video may not be eligible for all available ad formats. YouTube reserves the right to not monetize a video, as well as suspend monetization features on channels that repeatedly submit videos violating our policies.

This is all very very strange from a business perspective. I understand that youtube/Google wants to give their paying customers - advertisers - more control over the kind of content their ads are displayed on. I understand that they want to compete more directly with services such as Netflix. However, I do not understand their decision to do this in this way. independent content has been the core of YT for a decade now. it's what lifted them to their current position. And now they want to actively reduce their range of content because a single streamer made some jokes some people/companies didn't like? Like, to me it just seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Besides, none of this applies to their corporate users, CNN and other news channels can still run content about terrorism and politics and keep getting ad-money, but if a private individual creates content on the same topic they don't get revenue? This is completely nonsensical. the correct move would be to allow advertisers determine whether or not they want their ads to be run just on 'approved' channels or on all kinds of videos. Hell, I can bet you that there are advertisers that would like to specifically target for example political videos or videos with black/vulgar humor or swears. The people who watch this type of content (myself included) are still consumers that buy items and services and they are a separate segment than those who prefer 'family friendly' content, so preventing advertising for this segment to me makes no sense whatsoever.

Instead of offering a more 'netflix-like' curated experience for those that want it and keeping the 'old youtube' as it is, they've now put in place guidelines which can be used to essentially destroy the majority of independent political vloggers for example. Sure, some of them can manage to keep going via services like Patreon allowing them to accept donationsfunding directly from the audience but that option is really only available to channels with a rather large following.

To me the great thing about YT has been the possibility it offers: if you create content that's appealing to people - whether it's in-depth political analysis, debates, silly animations or just guys s

Here's a little more context, for hilarity's sake. From the link:

Compared to the threat posed by refugee terrorists — which the president's executive order is allegedly designed to curtail — the data suggest the typical American is:
    6 times more likely to die from a shark attack (one of the rarest forms of death on Earth)
    29 times more likely to die from a regional asteroid strike
    260 times more likely to be struck and killed by lightning
    4,700 times more likely to die in an airplane or spaceship accident
    129,000 times more likely to die in a gun assault
    407,000 times more likely to die in a motor vehicle incident
    6.9 million times more likely to die from cancer or heart disease

However, that's just for refugee terrorists. The lifetime odds of dying from foreign-born terrorism (all forms) is 1 in 45,808. Given that "[T]he United States spends about $100 billion per year seeking to deter, disrupt, or protect against domestic terrorism," that means that in order for our spending on prevention to be proportionate to the lifetime risk of death from terrorism, we should be spending approximately $572.6 million on shark attack prevention, $14.8 billion on hornet/bee/wasp sting death prevention, $76 billion on tornado death prevention, $1.056 trillion on bicycle death prevention, and $654.4 trillion each on heart disease and cancer death prevention per year .

Milo unverified on twitter Jan 2016:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Milo banned on twitter Jun 2016:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

So they DID unverify Milo, with no reason given, and certainly no doubt as to his authenticity. Six months later they banned him for ToS violations.

> Is there evidence supporting the claim that the loss of the verified mark was related to their opinions and not an ambiguity in who was actually posting

One easy-to-find case:

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

Milo, of course, went on to be completely banned by twitter at a later time. But there was ABSOLUTELY no question than he was who he said he was: there was no ambiguity. So there's your "evidence supporting the claim". Because he was later banned, it definitely fits the idea that they unverified him as a may of adding meaning to the check mark of "this check mark denotes twitter approves of this", and therefore removing the check mark is a statement of political disagreement.

This event was not missed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

So this means that the blue mark removal was being received by both left and right as being an editorial statement about the person, and not a "guaranteed to be the person" mark.

They'll talk about, say, chemtrails, and when I don't believe it, they respond with something like "oh you don't think the government would do something like that? don't be so naive". No, the issue here is not that I trust the government (or whoever) not to be malicious. I know very well that they (government and otherwise) are malicious all the time. If it came to light that this outlandish thing you claim they're doing was actually happening,

Well the US government basically did do that in the 50s and 60s. Now that doesn't mean that I believe the current conspiracy theories about chemtrails, the lizard people, FEMA camps, or the like but given past performance of the US government with things like Operation LAC, the internment of various groups of people, and other actions I don't believe that my government should be entirely trusted either.

Income inequality in the US is much worse than you think.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

http://www.lcurve.org/

Without electoral weighting, lots of people who don't bother to vote now because it is pointless (like in my state) would be up at the crack of dawn, in line at the polling places, waiting their turn to cancel out the votes of bicoastal pricks or flyover hicks.

You can't really have it both ways. Without the electoral college, the popular majority would be the list of counties here and we know how those counties voted. This would not have biased the election further in Trump's favor.

Unless Gates is 2 & Bezos is 3. http://www.businessinsider.com...

You won't bring jobs back to America until you get rid of NAFTA and the other trade deals that encourage sending jobs overseas. That was another one of Trump's lies, that he would renegotiate NAFTA. Fat chance. So where are the jobs coming from? Maybe the huge proposed increase in our bloated offense budget? We can hire more poor kids in the US to go overseas and kill other poor people at the behest of US oligarchs? Read general Smedley Butler's book "war is a racket".

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

Sanders would have beat the crap out of Trump and you know it. Sanders is currently the most popular politician in America, even according to FOX News poling:

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

whereas Hillary Clinton was one of the least popular candidates to ever run. Considering that Clinton, nonetheless, won the popular vote the obvious conclusion is that Sanders would have beaten Trump in a landslide.

Why would anyone trust Facebook not to store the content? Even if they don't store the video itself, I'd expect them to run voice recognition on it and store and index the text so they can send you ads about whatever you talk about.

And from where exactly do you think Snapchat's revenue is supposed to come?

Original article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/e... (WSJ paywall)

Other coverage: http://www.businessinsider.com...

What they were testing was that a bullet hole in a plane could lead to "explosive decompression" and cause a large hole to suck people out.

They had to answer the question that has been on everybody's mind for all these years

As one of the 50% percent who never goes to the dentist, I can assure you it has nothing to do with cost. The percentage without healthcare is at 9%.

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says it's 50-100 years out.

Adblock can't do (or do as well) 16 things hosts do 4 speed, security & reliability:

1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
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3.) Protect vs. dynamic dns botnet C&C servers
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C servers
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
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ClarityRay defeats it

Ab+'s bribed not to work by default http://www.businessinsider.com...

AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...

"Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

Some people don't believe Satan exists. For them, maybe this:

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, says Microsoft should continue selling vulnerabilities to secret agencies of the U.S. government. Unfortunately for the overworked Microsoft employees, the Chinese government wants different vulnerabilities.

Trumps flavor ability right now is higher than the DNC

Classic tea party response. Most people are going to find Trump very sour-tasting in the near future. Trump's favorability is still sinking and lower than the DNC.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/03/20/trump-approval-rating-low/99409570/
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/democratic-party-favorable-rating

The Dems are caving left and right on Trump's appointees, and there is no reason to believe this will stop any time soon.

Last I read that Trump was still trying to find 500+ people out of 320M people who haven't said a negative thing about him to fill all those vacant government positions.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-filling-staff-positions-2017-2

I'd say they don't need lectures from you about how to grow an economy.

What hosts do addons can't (or as well):

PROTECT vs.:

1.) bad sites (past ads)
2.) fastflux C&C
3.) dynDNS C&C
4.) DGA C&C
5.) DNS down
6.) poisoned dns
7.) trackers (dnsrequestlogs/ads/transparent ISP proxy)
8.) spam/phish payload
9.) dns blocks
10.) slowdown 2 ways: adblocks & hardcodes

11.) Multiplatform
12.) Ez data edit
13.) Efficiency (cpu/ram/I-O)

14.) UBlock no DNS bennys = poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
15.) NoScript tag parses. Hosts block ad script before it downloads!

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ClarityRay defeatable

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Heard this lie before from you dude. Why are you trying so hard?

Well, who do you think Microsoft is firing?

News stories I've found indicate what you said is correct:

Seattle: Together with abusive companies and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place.

Houses in Seattle are expensive: Seattle bumps Boston as the most expensive U.S. housing market that's not in California.

Rent is expensive: Seattle rent is 5th most expensive in U.S.

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

It could put CNN out of business

You mean Breitbart who literally, in the truest sense of the word, has put up false and fake information (it can't be called news). Even Bannon has called them out for posting fake information.

It's why companies have ditched advertising on the fake site.

But let me guess, "alternative facts"? Or is it a camera in a microwave?

It takes a special kind of idiot to (a) regard the 'media' as a monolithic entity (all the same people, sure!) and (b) heavily imply that Trump doesn't lie. Seriously.... LOL.

It takes a special kind of idiot to not see that there are organizations like Journolist around which exist to drive ideological narratives. That the media has been caught doing this numerous times. Including in other media like games media(see gamejournopros) Or media groups which will publish political propaganda directly from political parties as gospel truths. The DNC did that with multiple media organizations in the last election. The Obama administration did that multiple times, it became so common that the WH Press corps., openly wrote a letter about it. In most of the west, the 4th estate is broken and the people in it, are nothing but puppet mouthpieces trading favors for favors.

Now it's time for you to understand the difference when "Trump says something" and when an entire arm of a political party uses their weight in order to push an ideological view point, and the media accepts it as truth and repeats it. Or turns around and forwards it to the party in question to ensure it has ideological purity. Keep in mind, that in the beltway +90% of the reporters are democrat voters, donate directly to the DNC, and hold either democrat or progressive views. That drops to 80% outside of the beltway. Time for you to grow up a bit perhaps, and realize just how much institutional power the left has held for decades and why there is such a backlash brewing across the west.

Hollywood has made more money from abroad than in the US for a while now. It's now to the point that they are making movies primarily for foreign consumption and merely showing them here.

That is also why a lot of movies are full of explosions, and don't have much confusing plot (woohoo transformers!), because that is easy to translate into any language and culture. Seriously, check out these numbers.

Since America has the best programmers...

> Germany and Brazil, with at least two more happening in May in Paris and Zurich

That part concerns me. It sounds like to me that they now care more about being PC than producing good software.

Wow! It just shows how prejudiced you are. First have a look at the Debian developers world map. Most of them are in Europe so this is the most logical location for Debian conventions.

Second, America has the best programmers? Really? That's not what HackerRanksays. But more importantly you have to know that most everyone is going to think their country has the best programmers so starting with such a statement speaks a lot about you and discredits the rest of your post.

The person behind it all seems to have been ex-CEO Martin Winterkorn (if not directly, then by unnecessarily causing the circumstances which led to the cheating). Winterkorn had been the head of Audi, while Wolfgang Bernhard was the head of VW. Bernhard was hired from Daimler-Benz-Chrysler, so was seen as an outsider within the VW Group (VW / Audi / Porsche). In an apparent corporate coup the former CEO was ousted by Winterkorn and the chairman. Winterkorn was crowned the new CEO, and they also got rid of Bernhard in the process.

Bernhard had just licensed the DEF system from Mercedes Benz (diesel exhaust fluid - adding urea to the diesel exhaust to convert NOx into nitrogen and water). Winterkorn's ego was apparently big enough that it wasn't enough to get rid of Bernhard, he also dumped the DEF-enabled engine Bernhard had been working on. Thus the VW 2.0L diesel engine without a DEF system was born, whose only way to comply with emissions regulations was by cheating.

Winterkorn resigned because of the scandal. But believe me a lot of VW owners would love to see him jailed.

The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for "intelligence") worship at the altar of youth. I don't know the number of people I've encountered who tell me that by being older, my experience is worthless since all the stuff I've learned has become obsolete.

This, despite the fact that the dominant operating systems used in most systems is based on an operating system that is nearly 50 years old, the "new" features being added to many "modern" languages are really concepts from languages that are between 50 and 60 years old or older, and most of the concepts we bandy about as cutting edge were developed from 20 to 50 years ago.

It also doesn't help that the youth whose accomplishments we worship usually get concepts wrong. I don't know the number of times I've seen someone claim code was refactored along some new-fangled "improvement" over an "outdated" design pattern who wrote objects that bare no resemblance to the pattern they claim to be following. (In the case above, the classes they used included "modules" and "models", neither which are part of the VIPER backronym.) And when I indicate that the "massive view controller" problem often represents a misunderstanding as to what constitutes a model and what constitutes a view, I'm told that I have no idea what I'm talking about--despite having more experience than the critic has been alive, and despite graduating from Caltech--meaning I'm probably not a complete idiot.)

Our industry is rife with arrogance, and often the arrogance of the young and inexperienced. Our industry seems to value "cowboys" despite doing everything it can (with the management technique "flavor of the month") to stop "cowboys." Our industry is agist, sexist, one where the blind leads the blind, and seminal works attempting to understand the problem of development go ignored.

How many of you have seen code which seems developed using "design pattern" roulette? Don't know what you're doing? Spin the wheel!

Ours is also one of the fewest industries based on scientific research which blatantly ignores the research, unless it is popularized in shallow books which rarely explore anything in depth. We have a constant churn of technologies which are often pointless, introducing new languages using extreme hype which is often unwarranted as those languages seldom expand beyond a basic domain representing a subset of LISP. I can't think of a single developer I've met professionally who belong to the ACM or to IEEE, and when they run into an interesting problem tend to search Github or Stack Overflow, even when it is a basic algorithm problem. (I've met programmers with years of experience who couldn't write code to maintain a linked list.)

So what do we do?

Beats the hell out of me. You cannot teach if your audience revels in its ignorance and doesn't