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"... Nevada, a state which just happens to have no income tax."

Nevada has no Corporate taxes or personal income taxes.

Washington state has no personal income tax, but has taxes "based on gross receipts of businesses".

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

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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)

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

Seattle: Together with Microsoft and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place:

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."

I was rather amused that the Dems kept throwing amendments they knew wouldn't pass as a delaying tactic. One of them changed the name to The Republican Pay More for Less Care Act. Interesting times to be alive.

It ought to be expected, like the sodium.

Actually, OG famously doesn't even salt their water for the pasta. It would void the warranty on their pots.

Seriously. It was reported in 2014 and still happening in 2016

It ought to be expected, like the sodium.

Actually, OG famously doesn't even salt their water for the pasta. It would void the warranty on their pots.

Seriously. It was reported in 2014 and still happening in 2016

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If you have access to Classified information you handle it carefully and keep it on the systems it is supposed to be on.

Hillary should have faced charges (hopefully she still will) for her criminal negligence with out nation's secrets. The outrage at Comey giving her a pass (days after AG Lynch met with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in AZ) was not false it is fully justified.

However, President Trump using an unsecured Android phone even after he'd been issued a secure replacement by the Secret Service is nothing to be concerned with. Is nothing like Hillary's email server. Right, Trumpster?

Nothing to see here either, is there, Trumpster? Everybody needs to relax a bit, is that it now?

Fucking hypocrit.

Taking into account how many tons of ore are necessary to produce your ounce of gold, one could accurately posit a great deal of energy is used in its mining.

No this is what is 'forcing' automated cars on us. Humans are shitty drivers. http://www.businessinsider.com...

probably both from their Zenimax lawsuit and from Valve/Steam/Vive significantly outselling them.

Nope.

Isn't his claim backed up by the chart you just linked? Your chart shows that by the end of last year, the Vive was expected to outsell the Rift in terms of cumulative sales over their lifetimes by 25%. If that's not outselling, what is?

It may get worse though, because the Rift has been available in various incarnations since 2012, whereas Vive only entered the market in April of last year. In clicking through to some of the other pages linked from your article, it sounds like the analysts may have included those other incarnations in the cumulative sales estimates for the Rift, rather than limiting it to the retail version that launched about the same time as the Vive. If so, it would mean that in just 8 months the Vive not only overtook the last 4 years of Rift sales, but that it managed to surpass them by 25%, suggesting that it may be outselling the Rift in terms of monthly sales by quite a bit more than 25%.

Also worth pointing out: just because Oculus has Facebook backing it financially, it doesn't mean they can afford to be unprofitable. Facebook is going to want to see a return on their investment. If Facebook decides it's getting too expensive, Facebook will shutter Oculus, even though they may be perfectly capable of funding it until the sun dies.

Disclaimer: I have no horse in this race, other than wanting to see the facts win. Aside from a handful of professional applications, I think all VR goggles are a fad and little more than a stepping stone to more immersive (yet-to-be-invented) experiences with actual staying power. I think they make for neat tech demos, but I have no interest in owning any of them, nor a beef with any particular one.

Seems like yet more evidence that Oculus must be in serious financial trouble

Ha Ha Ha, they are owned by Facebook, remember? They are in zero financial trouble.

probably both from their Zenimax lawsuit and from Valve/Steam/Vive significantly outselling them.

Nope.

Not from any of the ones you mentioned anyway. What is affecting them is Sony, but it's not so much income from sales as the need for more units in people's hands to encourage developer support. THAT is why they are lowering price, because they have infinite money and the VR world is still very much in the "need to grab marketshare" phase. It may be very hard to match Sony at any point though, all of the PC based VR headsets just have such a larger bar to get past for ownership...

Someone can't accept new nuclear, even to save their own life. Chances are very good that you or someone close to you will die from cancer someday, which could have been preventable if ideology didn't blind you. If the fools in government weren't more interested in weapons than energy, this technology would be saving countless lives today, and inexpensive carbon-free energy would be the norm. There is a good article detailing the specifics and history of LFTR for those with a mind open to facts.

The crusade by some to eliminate nuclear above all else will mean missing carbon targets if successful. Respected climate scientists like James Hansen agree that we can't afford to dismiss nuclear. Those working to obstruct nuclear progress also ensure that first generation reactors remain in service far longer than necessary.

Just note that in this context, "Code of Conduct" has a different meaning that extends beyond the legitimate rule to be civil. Its one of those SJW phrases that they took hold of and completely skewed in meaning (like "enabler" or "diversity" -- for them, everything SJW is "diverse" but everything even slightly critical of SJW is "bigoted", funny how they turn the terms around by 180 degrees). Their goal is to make you believe that an environment that is toxic towards people who think different from the (SJW) mainstream is just "enforcing good behaviour". Remember, github is the company that threatened to ban an open source project for (humorously) using the word "retard" in its advertisement (just google "github retard" to find out what I mean), and whose "VP of social impact" repeatedly made racist statements: http://www.businessinsider.com... ... probably they think that when its anti white its not racist.

You do realise that the An-225 is an appallingly low tech aircraft, all it has going for it is its size.

What else do you need for a cargo plane other than the size — and the lift, which it also has aplenty? The long distance, maybe, and the ability to operate in various weather conditions? It has got all that too..

Loading. Efficiency. Safety. Noise.

Face it, if the An-225 hadn't already been build to satisfy the USSR's dickwaving contest over space, nobody would touch it.

And the Ukraine

There is no "the" in front of the country name. The Germany? The France?

The Sudan. The Philippines. The Netherlands. The Bahamas. The United States of America. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Face it, you might as well object to me sending a letter to the Prussian Consulate in Siam by way of Burma.

Yes, and that's why they are now reorienting towards the Saudis as I already mentioned. And the Chinese. In other words, both of the markets mentioned in the write-up.

Is that why they didn't actually build any planes last year?

Face it, if the United States of America can sell out to the Kleptocracy of Russia, so will the Ukraine.

You do realise that the An-225 is an appallingly low tech aircraft, all it has going for it is its size.

What else do you need for a cargo plane other than the size — and the lift, which it also has aplenty? The long distance, maybe, and the ability to operate in various weather conditions? It has got all that too...

And the Ukraine

There is no "the" in front of the country name. The Germany? The France?

as its prime buyer was Russia

Yes, and that's why they are now reorienting towards the Saudis as I already mentioned. And the Chinese. In other words, both of the markets mentioned in the write-up.

If you were to do a serious study I think you would find a decreased likelihood in voting for Trump in cat ownership, statistically.

I say this simply because there's already been serious studies that match cat owners to the left wing and dog owners to the right. Even though Trump is arguably more of an old-school Democrat than a core Republican the voters are what we're talking about, and without a doubt Trump was elected by the more conservative of those of any alignment than the progressive.

I believe if you were to do a serious study of comparing Hillary voters to Trump voters you would see a pattern of dogs/no pets to Trump versus cats to Hillary/Stein. I don't think the break-out would be phenomenal, but I do think you would see a pattern, 60/40 or so. I leave Johnson out of this because this time around he lost his rudder and nobody could tell where he belong on the alignment charts unlike his previous run.

TBH, that goes both ways and why I find the Horse-shoe theory applicable. Both sides are doubling down and the real question is which side is pissing off the middle more than the other. Right now, I think more people are getting fed up with the left, hence POTUS Trump. Yea, Trump is disliked but that was true before he was elected. Obviously, that dislike wasn't enough. All he has done is what he promised on the campaign trail, like it or not. Just like the ACA that pissed off R's that Obama said he would do. Polls show his E.O. travel ban was popular . Looks like it is disliked by D's that wasn't going to like anything he did. Go figure.

Sure, there are some issues with the press and government over truthiness but neither have authority over truth. I like the government and media at odds because they should be critical of each other and not give a pass. No scandals from Obama? Right...

What is definitive is the violence is more often then not coming from the left. Whether that is paid agitators at campaign rallies or the antifa on inauguration and Berkley. There are allegations of *isms and *ists but a lot of those reports have been either false or carried out by people trying to craft that narrative of *isms and *ists. Like this.

If I had to gander a guess as to which is more repugnant to normal people; I would venture the guess to the violence, false accusations, and poorly justified allegations..

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The quality is there as a result of the clothes being made in China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. If she moves production to the US, all will be lost.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-clothing-line-made-in-china-hong-kong-2017-2

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Anyone watching the end sequence of that video who goes on to describe it as anti-semitic either does not understand human emotion or is deliberately lying.

Its using an anti-Semitic message to make a point. I understand that fine. But its also a video where a smiling person merrily displays message promoting genocide while the host laughs his ass off. If that doesn't make you the least bit uncomfortable, I'm a little worried about you. And ironically, the "joke" appears to be "look, nobody's doing anything to stop me from saying these horrible things". So when someone comes along and in fact does a wee bit of that, I don't see where he's got a lot of valid ground to get mad about it. Its precisely what he was asking for in the first place.

As far as the WSJ misrepresenting something, that's hardly new for them.

Thomas Edison
Ray Kroc
Mark Zuckerberg

Good ole' Zuck

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.

...my diesel car, which is a 2 litre sporty car that delivers a lot more performance than a Leaf while delivering 45mpg. And that's taking the grid in those areas as a whole; it probably isn't 100% coal even in the worst places. So I'm afraid you're wrong.

For the consumer electric is a cheaper "fuel" than gas or diesel. Tree-huggers and climate-deniers can argue all they want about carbon footprints, but it doesn't matter because it's the green cash in people's wallets that will make EVs happen.

Also, you might be surprised at the performance of a Leaf (or any electric car)... it's worth a test drive at a dealer for curiosity's sake if nothing else. I own a Leaf, and while it's by no means a Tesla, it's still quite fast off the line as it has the electric advantage of instant power/torque. The acceleration curve flattens considerably above 45 mph, where ICE cars would still be accelerating well, but personally I don't feel the need for punchy acceleration at high speeds (your results may vary), and I can still get my Leaf going over 80mph, which is fast enough to get a speeding ticket most anywhere in the US. I'm not an EV zealot though... I acknowledge they aren't for everyone (yet) and are not perfect, but there are a lot of misconceptions about EVs, performance being one of them. Put it this way, Porshe isn't investing in EVs for their carbon footprint! ( http://www.businessinsider.com... )

Every claim you just repeated by the State has been proven _False_ by other agencies

That's false. The Legislative Analyst's Office questioned the assumptions but did not find anything in the CAHSR's numbers that were factually incorrect. The State Auditor found some risks and weak oversight but again could not disprove the numbers. We see the same thing over and over again, and each time it helps California improve its planning and oversight.

Meanwhile, every HSR line in the world that's at least a few years old is already making a profit.

Every.

Last.

One.

Even Amtrak's Acela Express makes a profit. So why would California's HSR be any different?

The BIGGEST problem in the US is the over-regulation of residential building in the most productive cities that keeps the housing supply artificially low.

In the study "Why Do Cities Matter? Local Growth and Aggregate Growth", the authors show that lowering regulatory constraints on housing in high productivity cities like New York, San Francisco and San Jose to the level of the median city would expand their work force and increase U.S. GDP by 9.5%. That is three or more years of current economic growth rates "for free".

Increasing density in these cities is simple. For example, see these reasonable designs for enhanced density while maintaining green space and livability. You don't have to be like Toronto with 37 residential towers over 46 stories. You can achieve a density of 100,000 people per square mile using a mix of buildings up to 8 stories tall.

To see how screwed-up things have become, 40% of buildings in Manhattan would be illegal to build today, because of height, too many residential units, or too much mixed-use between residential and commercial.

More people living in the most productive cities will also increase the tax bases there, allowing for more investment in transport, education, etc. However transport needs would decline (or at least stay the same) if most new residents live inside these cities instead of the distant exurbs.

Nature finds a way. --- Haven't they seen Jurassic Park?

I dislike Jeff Goldblum but I absolutely HATE that line.

Life finds a way....unless it DOESN'T. Just ask the Dodo, the dinosaur, the Neanderthal, and all of the other extinct species. But you can't, they're extinct; ask one of these instead.

Life TRIES to find a solution (anthropomorphising life? It that legal?) but -- like everything else -- has resource restraints. If there's time and it can and it's lucky, it succeeds and offspring enjoys the benefits. If not, there's no offspring. Either way NO PROBLEM. That is unless you're the missing offspring.

Gaia? Save the Earth? Complete nonsense, the EARTH will do just fine with or without us. Just see Venus, Mars, or even Jupiter. Now the biosphere that we live in? That you might want to save.

The so-called President is having Russian troubles of his own. I wonder how this plays into the Snowden saga.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

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Still feeding the fake news and alternative facts I see. Sorry, you can't rewrite history. If you voted for President Pedophile, you voted for someone who lies and has no problem breaking the law, and if you did it because he made up a claim that his opponent broke the law all the worse. Kelly-Anne Conway just broke the law on Fox News last night by advertising for Ivanka Trump, but I don't see Republicans punishing her either. Most federal employees in the past get suspended or fired for what she did last night, but President Pedophile and Republican controlled congress are the only ones with the ability to punish her, and I don't see either doing anything. President Pedophile actually defended her after she broke the law.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...

https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...

The Clinton e-mails are one of the biggest lies Republicans, Breitbart, and Fox News told. Nothing was really deleted. Hillary first sent one copy of the hard drives to a law office and had them sort between all the personal stuff and professional stuff. They "deleted" the personal stuff off that copy of the data before handing it to the FBI. The FBI said that wasn't sufficient and issued a subpoena for all the data including the personal data. Then she handed a copy of all the data including the personal stuff. Once requested, the FBI got everything. The quote from the FBI was about "deleted" e-mails was that there were about a dozen business e-mails that hadn't been included with the first set of business e-mails handed over. There wasn't any crime, because nothing was actually deleted. The FBI also decided that the missing ("deleted") e-mails was not criminal because there was no evidence that it was done intentionally and there was nothing incriminating in them (incorrectly sorting 0.1% of the e-mails was probably accidental). It's not like we are talking about paper copies where there is only one copy of the papers and she shredded them. There were multiple copies of the data on different hard drives and backups.

Rice had her aides use personal e-mail accounts to send e-mails for her. Powell used a private e-mail account (believed to be AOL) for his secretary of state e-mails. Republicans only had a problem with Clinton doing the same thing Republicans had done. They also leave out that she requested a secure e-mail option from the NSA twice and was rejected; the NSA told her to send e-mails from her office computer when she spent most of her job traveling. She was just trying to do her job.

http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

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

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...

Here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I don't recognise the website, but I leave you to investigate

http://www.stopfake.org/en/rus...

Not RT accused directly but

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

A reminder about the lies at the time of the invasion of the Crimea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...

And finally

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10...

For the first time last year, there were more people in the world who are over 65 than under five. First time ever in history. By the middle of the century, the number of people over 80 will double. By the end of the century, it'll be up sevenfold, globally.

SEVENFOLD? At that rate, by the first half of the century after that, everyone will have died off! (unless we've figured out how to halt/reverse the aging process, and then "age" won't really matter).

Ya gotta question these numbers, but there's definitely a trend among developed nations toward not having kids, while better healthcare helps keep people alive longer. I think the former is ok (and if you don't now, someday you will), but not having kinds is a weird offshoot of how our world has evolved. Without a chance at a sustainable income in those golden child-making years (think get a job at the steel mill right out of high-school after knocking up your prom date... see the first half of The Deer Hunter to get a glimpse of those long-gone happy days), if you have anything to do with it you put off having kids, at least until you and your SO (if you have one) have enough reliable income to support the little tyke (or maybe you're lucky enough to have one or more sets of parental units living nearby who offer free nanny service because they really want grandkids).

The putting-off process very easily becomes indefinite. In some countries in Asia and Europe, this is becoming a big deal. Even in the U.S., population numbers are largely because of immigration.

I think we're gonna need those robots. Nice ones who will make our toys, take out the trash, help us up the stairs, mix up the medicine, and wipe our asses, everything the children of immigrants won't do because they're parent made 'em study real hard and make it into Harvard and MIT, so they can major in robotics 'cause maybe that'll make 'em enough money to someday pay off their student loans so they can maybe, you know, get married and have some kids.

Maybe. Gotta work long hours in that industry. Word has it that working in tech is bad for your sex life (if you believe the opinion of an at least semi-crazy gay billionaire).

They were both temporary halts to immigration to examine the vetting process.

Unless you're Syrian, then it's indefinite. It's not only immigration though, and that's part of the point. "Immigration" isn't a catch-all term for anyone coming here, an immigrant is a specific type of person. As opposed to, for example, a refugee.

The fact is he did not implement a Muslim ban.

Like Trump says, call it whatever you want. The reason why he didn't just ban Muslims is because that is unconstitutional. That's what he promised on the campaign trail, but it turns out you can't actually do that.

Erm, except that is actually what Trump's executive order set out to do.

No it's not. Originally they even denied access to permanent residents. They denied access to people already traveling.

Funny how nobody said a peep about all the hardships that Obama's order must have caused.

Yeah, that's a laugh riot, isn't it? What were all of those hardships, incidentally? How many students returning to the US got deported? Shit, this whole thing is high comedy.

So is Trump. He's just not waiting around for more terrorist attacks to happen.

Welcome to the kernel of the argument, glad you made it. If you stop all travel to the US, then people won't be able to travel here to attack us. Just like you can protect your computer from online threats by disconnecting your computer from the internet. But stopping everyone from coming here is un-American, it is not in line with our values. It's also not possible. Again, welcome to the core of the argument.

While I think you'd have to have your head in the sand to not recognize the problem with Islam as a whole

I think it's pretty obvious at this point that religion is a sickness. I don't claim to think that some religions are necessarily more harmful than others, all of them encourage an us vs. them mentality which is detrimental to everyone. While the fact is that the vast majority of religious people live in relative peace and security, that doesn't mean that religion isn't a corruption of the rational mind. People who want to kill people will kill people, the fact that these particular people justify their killing using religion isn't an indictment on everyone else who considers themselves to be in the same religion but still doesn't think that it's moral or ethical to kill people. The problem is non-stop violence in the middle east, not whatever religion those people follow. The answer isn't shutting out members of that religion from the rest of the world.

It would also be a good idea to realize that Trump is doing exactly what ISIS wants. The reason why they were hoping that he would win was specifically because he would block Muslims. The reason why they want that is because they want Muslims to be forced to make a choice, to pick a side, between their country and their religion. They believe that the vast majority will choose their religion over their country, and that is the most direct path to radicalization. When you force a Muslim, or a member of any other religion, to choose between their religion and anything else you're creating a clear path for them to choose violent resistance because they feel justified or "righteous" in doing so. That's exactly what ISIS wanted to happen, they wanted this to happen because they wanted Muslims to feel like the west feels like Muslims are the enemy, and that they would see a large recruiting boom based on that. This is how we defeat ourselves - we ban members of an entire religion, forcing them to pick a side in what they now see as a war against them, then they attack to defend themselves, then we use those attacks as further reasons to crack down on them harder. This doesn't end until one side is eliminated. This isn't the correct path to take. Shutting out a major percentage of the world's population from even traveling here is not the solution that is going to lead to the end of religious-based terrorism.

>(You won't find them on any news site I've found, including CNN, FOX or MSNBC, but you will find a LOT of commentary about them..)

You can find the text of executive orders on several news sites. I Googled "executive order" and "text of executive order" and sites include Yahoo News, Business Insider, and The New York Times.

"Below you'll find the full text"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pre...

"You can read the full text of the executive order below"
http://www.businessinsider.com...

"The full text can be found here"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Go ahead and type "software" into that search box at the top of the page. Doesn't look quite like slave wages from here. Yeah, I know that most of the jobs are warehouse type jobs, and they don't pay much. I'm guessing that's why, when I was a kid, my father told me to get an education so I could work with my brain instead of my back.

On the other hand, at least until recently, working with your brain at Amazon seems to have its own challenges -- Amazon promises to change its 'Hunger Games' employee review process. Don't know if things are any better yet. I'd make a President Snow -- Jeff Bezos comparison joke, but the hair is all wrong.

Never mind that the chance an American will be killed by a foreign-born refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-risk-of-being-killed-by-a-foreign-terrorist-trump-ban2017-1

Sorry, your number is complete nonsense. The current population of the United States is roughly 300 million. At least one American has been killed by a foreign born refugee. Therefore the chance of an American being killed by a foreign born refugee is at least 1 in 300 million,.

Never mind that the chance an American will be killed by a foreign-born refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-risk-of-being-killed-by-a-foreign-terrorist-trump-ban2017-1

This is not taking into account the Europeans already being killed by foreign-born refugees on a monthly basis + the fact that Obama had a refugee surge planned to hit 2017. Past performance only predicts the future if circumstances stay the same.

Serves Oracle right. The CEO was on Trump's transition tream.

Never mind that the chance an American will be killed by a foreign-born refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-risk-of-being-killed-by-a-foreign-terrorist-trump-ban2017-1

fuck logic, right?

Never mind that the chance an American will be killed by a foreign-born refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-risk-of-being-killed-by-a-foreign-terrorist-trump-ban2017-1

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!

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/

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!

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/

[...] come in as a foreign student and get a college degree for free or severely reduced cost [...]

You appear to be misinformed. International students typically pay three times more than a typical American student. They're actually subsidizing public colleges at $9B per year.

http://www.businessinsider.com/foreign-students-pay-up-to-three-times-as-much-for-tuition-at-us-public-colleges-2016-9

China, US, and the former USSR have already knocked out satellites. From the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01...

> China successfully carried out its first test of an antisatellite weapon last week, signaling
> its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of
> concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said yesterday.
>
> Only two nations â" the Soviet Union and the United States â" have previously destroyed
> spacecraft in antisatellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid-1980s.

At the speeds in question, a head-on impact with an inert third stage will at least break up the rock into smaller, harmless fragments. No nukes required. The force of impact might even vaporize most of the target. The main problem is detecting the rocks. The Chelyabinsk meteorite was not detected http://www.businessinsider.com...

While a similar rock may not directly wipe out humanity, like the Chicxulub rock wiped out the dinosaurs, consider this... Washington or Moscow gets hit, with no warning, by the equivalant of a multi-megaton nuke. If the surviving commanders have itchy trigger-fingers, a disastrous nuclear exchange could ensue.

while Trump is denying basic science, you're not looking at what he's actually doing. It's the magicians trick of distraction.

Would be helpful if the media wasn't in full 'everything he does is literally Hitler' mantra. An argument for voting for him over Clinton was the simple fact that the media doesn't like him and were in bed with Clinton. It is much easier for the electorate to get informed when you have the government and media at odds. Is it really Trump doing the magicians trick or is it the media convinced of their own hyperbole that they lost all perspective? It takes two to tango and they would rather argue about audience sizes than the limits of executive power. I at least expect it from a reality TV show host made president and not the news media outlets.

Gee I wonder which traitor gave Putin the names?

Nice conjecture. It wouldn't have anything to do with the poor cyber security the US has, right? If you have proof that Trump is a traitor fine put up or shut up. Conjecture does nothing for no one.

but you're missing the fact he's written a law here

You mean, the executive order that stated the law it used to justify? What law is he writing when he lists the law he is using to execute the order?

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and to protect the American people from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals admitted to the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

What happened to the calls for him to divest his businesses and stop accepting foreign money? Lost in all the other stuff he's done. What about his tax returns? The fake numbers he gave in the election filing? Forgotten.

Because that was important before the election and now it is an issue for the courts to resolve... WTF is supposed to happen if you allow ANY citizen to be president?

You see how he sets the agenda by doing something really extreme, and what you miss is what he's doing at the same time. Really important stuff like blocking the head of Defence from security meetings, banning the US Director of National Intelligence from security meetings.... i.e. removing Congregational approved roles from basic government, so that Congress doesn't appoint anyone who has any role.

Is it illegal? Does congress allow the president to do this even if previous presidents have not? Sure, it sounds bad but I honestly don't know. I doubt you know either because your post is mostly knee jerk reactions. Bush did something similar with Karl Rove but this is being described as 'unusual'. Unusual != nefarious like you imply. http://www.businessinsider.com...

Your post is mostly FUD and conjecture it is sad it is modded 5 insightful. If you have something substantive provide it.

Reality is countries who letting these refugees in are finding out the hard way how incompatible the cultures are, and some people are paying for it with their lives.

The residents of the countries on that list have performed 0 terror attacks on US soil since 1975. And the source for this is not some 'libtard' site bit the conservative as Cato institute:

Foreigners from those seven nations have killed zero Americans in terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1975 and the end of 2015. Six Iranians, six Sudanese, two Somalis, two Iraqis, and one Yemini have been convicted of attempting or carrying out terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Zero Libyans or Syrians have been convicted of planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil during that time period. - -

In addition to the visa restrictions above, Trump’s executive order further cuts the refugee program to 50,000 annually, indefinitely blocks all refugees from Syria, and suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days. This is a response to a phantom menace. From 1975 to the end of 2015, 20 refugees have been convicted of attempting or committing terrorism on U.S. soil, and only three Americans have been killed in attacks committed by refugees—all in the 1970s. Zero Americans have been killed by Syrian refugees in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The annual chance of an American dying in a terrorist attack committed by a refugee is one in 3.6 billion. The other 17 convictions have mainly been for aiding or attempting to join foreign terrorists.

President Trump tweeted earlier this week that executive orders were intended to improve national security by reducing the terrorist threat. However, a rational evaluation of national security threats is not the basis for Trump’s orders, as the risk is fairly small but the cost is great. The measures taken here will have virtually no effect on improving U.S. national security.

Meanwhile, Saudi-arabia is the largest propagator of Wahabbism which is both the state religion of the kingdom and also at the core of ISIS ideology. Saudis are also largely behind the funding of ISIS. 15 of the 911 attackers were Saudi nationals, 2 were from United Arab Emirates, 1 was Lebanese, and one was from Egypt, But is Saudi-Arabia on the list? Nope. And neither are Egypt or Lebanon. They're still considered your 'allies'. In fact Saudis themselves seem 'very optimistic about Trump.'

So he's planning to combat radical Islam by maintaining military and financial support to its largest state sponsor in the world, while banning a list of countries that have done the US zero harm comparatively? So what, exactly is this 'fixing' outside playing right into the hands of your enemies by allowing them to trump up the rhetoric of 'holy war' and senseless persecution of muslims in an attempt to radicalize the american muslim population?

Nothing. You're being played like a cheap fiddle. The ISIS commanders are laughing their beards off and Sun Tzu is rolling in his grave because of such utter strategic incompetence.

Economics used to be a complex subject.

Things aren't what they used to be. And they never were.

The buzzword for that is, "greed."

Are the people of today greedier, than they were 50 or 100 years ago? Can you substantiate such a claim?

The end.

The end? Oh, no! Clearly, what we are witnessing is a market failure — KKKapitali$m is revealed once again to be inherently incapable of providing Internet-service to the poor via solar-powered drone — which means, it should be nationalized. Then, the selflessy well-paid unionized workers, lead by the omniscient government officials will secure the human rights of the downtrodden.

Unborked URL for "Vermont had the highest rate of illicit drug usage in the US".