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For example, the Washington Post was purchased by Jeff Bezos without doing any due diligence, because he didn't buy it as a business, he bought it so that he could be one of those gatekeepers.

The reputation of the Washington Post needs to be re-evaluated in the Bezos era.

Thank you for the only? useful comment in this thread. If the editor is listening, it might have been useful to have had this information in the summary.

Here's some information from the article on the legal loopholes:

The chatbot uses American rebooking rules on a ticket to switch flights and obtain refunds. It uses rules like the “24 hour rule,” weather warnings, and airline compliance with laws against price gouging to find cheaper tickets. Every five seconds, the chatbot checks for a deal up until the time of your departure, when weather and cancellation loopholes appear more often, according to Browder. DoNotPay actually books and holds the seat for you with its own money until your old seat can be canceled, using the bot’s VC funding.

Because it isn’t versed in other countries’ rebooking rules, the chatbot only works on US airlines with flights that depart from inside the US, whether domestic or international. It doesn’t work for flights flying from international into the US. (The chatbot can also check for lower hotel prices from five hotel chains, including Hilton, Intercontinental, Hyatt, Marriott and Best Western, but it doesn’t cover every hotel yet.)

Musicians who don't make money off their music within 20 years have that problem because they partner with major labels that spend all the album revenue for them, or they simply don't get paid in the first place while their money goes back into labels' pockets.

Why would I restrict an eBook author to 20 years of selling? Well, I wouldn't. I'd restrict them to 20 years of copyright monopoly. They can still sell to anyone who will buy after the eBook is in the public domain, they just can't stop others from using the content as they please. Of all the media to pick as an example for justifying unethically long copyright terms, eBooks may be the worst way to go. Most eBooks are junk books hastily assembled to make a buck and don't have much in the way of literary or artistic value.

If you can't make money off of an artistic work within 20 years, there's a strong chance that your work simply sucks or you suck at marketing it. Neither of those are good justifications for long copyright terms; if anything, they're a good justification for shorter terms since you'll be further compelled to make something that's newer and better instead of trying to sell your sucky eBook for your entire life.

I have fairly liberal views as compared to the parties of today (for example, I would be in support of universal health care at the national level and I believe the free market requires good regulation to continuing functioning properly), but I voted for Donald Trump (it will be interesting to see how this tariff thing pans out, but I'm basically on board to see where it goes; his strong anti-TPP stance won that man my vote over a 3rd party, a decidedly "liberal" view on trade). I can't deny that the growing lies from the left had me increasingly disgusted with them leading up to the election.

I was recently forced to leave a job at a company in Seattle once I finally stopped biting my tongue and said some positive things about Trump (specifically, defending him against what appears to be a mostly false or exaggerated list of sexual "assault" claims). I work in a different state, and the conversation happened at a trade show where some people form Seattle and some people from my state were there together. A female co-worker reported me to HR (just one woman) for "sexual harassment," and I was fired the next day with no investigation whatsoever. I can say this: as long as the left is my enemy and is willing to fuck up my actual livelihood because they believe their own lies to such an extent, I have no choice but to align myself with their strongest enemy: the Republican party. Listen, I have to look out for numero uno first and foremost. If someone has declared themselves my enemy, I will seek out a powerful ally, because I need my livelihood. There are a lot of people that feel under attack from the left (deplorables like men and conservative-leaning minorities who feel treated like Uncle Toms for daring to have a nuanced or different view from what's expected of them). I'm not saying I would vote for Hitler, but Donald Trump is no authoritarian. If the election we re-held tomorrow, I feel significantly more positive that I would vote for DJT than when I actually did last November. I suspect there are many like me. The left needs to get their act together and stop lying, or DJT is going to take the popular vote too in 2020.

... you buy your members of Congress BEFORE they write the laws. But, you can always pay them to change them back, too. From what I've seen, congresspeople are *significantly* cheaper than a lawsuit.

Congresspeople only cost a few thousand a year: http://www.businessinsider.com...

A basic, simple, straightforward lawsuit between two individuals or small companies is going to start in the six figures.

That's good news for California!

http://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-california-third-world-country-latin-american-immigrants-2018-3

Remember this news when Microsoft first launched Windows Phone by staging a mock funeral for the iPhone?

Who knew there were 600 computers in Iceland?

They're in Iceland because they use the cold ambient temperature for cooling.

Iceland may use more electricity mining bitcoin than powering homes this year

Nothing wrong with that if they were going to use electrical heat anyway. It's not free heat, it's free cryptocoins.

Who knew there were 600 computers in Iceland?

They're in Iceland because they use the cold ambient temperature for cooling.

Iceland may use more electricity mining bitcoin than powering homes this year

Is it possible that our exploration of space could inadvertently be leaving a trail of life

That's why NASA has gone to great lengths to sterilize spacecraft headed to places like Mars. There's even a planetary protection officer.

I've heard the US signed an international treaty to that effect. Alcohol sterilization, course correction to avoid the rocket's third stage hitting Mars, and spacecraft are not allowed to carry more than 300,000 bacterial spores. I'm sure NASA is doing a fine job, but they ain't the only ones sending stuff to space.

The microbes on the surface of the ISS may or may not come from the atmosphere, but that they stay alive while in space suggests that life could 'go forth and multiply' by those not as concerned about sterilizing as is NASA. Here, there are plenty of candidates. Venture capitalists are launching hundreds of satellites now. Elon Musk launched a potentially un-sterilized car into space the other day, and promises Martian colonies with people, food and microbial-laden poop. China, Japan and India are talking space tourism; still others plan on mining asteroids. At some point in the future that international treaty will be a thing of the past. And life will go on.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/technology/is_planetary_protection.html

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/why-sending-a-tesla-into-orbit-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-science/

http://www.businessinsider.com/starman-elon-musk-car-orbit-collision-risk-calculations-2018-2

Admitting that Trump is a stopped clock which is right twice a day is a huge step forward. I mean, gargantuan. You mean Hitler is right twice a day?

Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler."

Christine Todd Whitman: Donald Trump Muslim comments like Hitler's But Trump's most recent comments have drawn comparisons to Hitler, including a front page Tuesday on the Philadelphia Daily News showing Trump with his hand raised looking like a Nazi salute and the headline "The New Furor."

5 Ways Donald Trump Perfectly Mirrors Hitler's Rise To Power

The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler' - sex offender Louis CK

Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's

After Trump asked people at his rallies to raise their hands to swear to vote for him, the press compared it to the "Heil Hitler" salute from Nazi Germany.

You mean this Trey Gowdy?

“There is a Russia investigation without a dossier,” Gowdy said. “The dossier has nothing to do with the meeting in Trump Tower. The dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica. The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos’ meeting in Great Britain. It also doesn’t have anything to do with obstruction of justice. So, there is going to be a Russia probe even without a dossier.”

Gowdy, who is not seeking reelection, remained resolute about the need for an investigation and pronounced himself “100 percent” behind Mueller. “Look, Russia tried to interfere with our election in 2016 with or without a dossier.”

Funny that the memo - and the response to the Democratic rebuttal - act as though the dossier is some core part of the Russia investigation, something that Gowdy fundamentally disagrees with. Where's your source that Gowdy "WROTE the FUCKING thing"? Because here's what I find Nunes himself saying:

Hours after the memo came out on Friday, Nunes gave an interview on Fox News during which anchor Bret Baier asked him if he wrote the memo. "Yes," Nunes replied, saying other Republican lawmakers, like House Oversight Committee chair Trey Gowdy, also contributed.

"Did you read the actual FISA applications," Baier asked, referring to the documents that the memo cites in part as evidence of improper conduct by US law-enforcement officials.

"No, I didn't," Nunes said, before adding that Gowdy was part of a designated group that reviewed the intelligence, took notes, and reported it back to committee members.

But hey... "wrote it" vs. "took notes", no real difference... And clearly the memo reflects Gowdy's view that the dossier has little significance to the Russia investigation as a whole! (/snark)

Dude, you're missing the reality. The NRA (the modern NRA, not the NRA just-post-civil-war or even the NRA up to the 1960's, but the NRA today) exists to sell guns. It functions to protect and increase sales of weapons in the United States. The gun companies are their most important donors, and they directly benefit from the commerce in guns.

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

While that is still part of the organization's core function, today less than half of the NRA's revenues come from program fees and membership dues.

The bulk of the group's money now comes in the form of contributions, grants, royalty income, and advertising, much of it originating from gun industry sources.

Since 2005, the gun industry and its corporate allies have given between $20 million and $52.6 million to it through the NRA Ring of Freedom sponsor program. Donors include firearm companies like Midway USA, Springfield Armory Inc, Pierce Bullet Seal Target Systems, and Beretta USA Corporation. Other supporters from the gun industry include Cabala's, Sturm Rugar & Co, and Smith & Wesson.

The NRA also made $20.9 million — about 10 percent of its revenue — from selling advertising to industry companies marketing products in its many publications in 2010, according to the IRS Form 990.

First of all, which Bush?

It doesn't matter. Both of them substantially expanded the number of government jobs during their administrations.

Second, exactly what "private" (in your view) industry did he "socialize?"

All airport security was private contractors prior to 9/11. Then it became a part of DHS. More generally public sector payroll expanded greatly during their administration - more than most recent presidents except perhaps Clinton. Based on their actions it's not entirely irrational to say they are closeted socialists.

Third, are you seriously claiming that Bush (41 or 43) is a socialist?

Oh they try to pretend they aren't but it's actually pretty easy to argue that a lot of republicans are really socialists in denial about it. They want big government and if you mute their rhetoric their actions prove it. They never actually cut military spending, medicare spending, or social security which are the three biggest line items in the federal budget. In fact Bush 43 expanded medicare and every republican administration tries to make the military larger to pander to their base. So yeah, they kind of are a weird sort of socialist.

Actually, it was a 'deranged idiot schoolkid' instance, and the news has reported numerous reactions from idiot schoolkids.

Yes.

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Yes.

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Look, we get that you hate the US. Now back a better horse than Venezuala. You are, almost, a perfect example of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".
But, just for the record: http://www.businessinsider.com...

We were shooting in Tunisia, and the script had a scene in which I fight a swordsman, an expert swordsman, it was meant to be the ultimate duel between sword and whip. And I was suffering from dysentery, really, found it inconvenient to be out of my trailer for more than 10 minutes at a time. We'd done a brief rehearsal of the scene the night before we were meant to shoot it, and both Steve and I realized it would take 2 or 3 days to shoot this. And it was the last thing we were meant to shoot in Tunisia before we left to shoot in England. And the scene before this in the film included a whip fight against 5 bad guys that were trying to kidnap Marian, so I thought it was a bit redundant. I was puzzling how to get out of this 3 days of shooting, so when I got to set I proposed to Steven that we just shoot the son a bitch and Steve said "I was thinking that as well." So he drew his sword, the poor guy was a wonderful British stuntman who had practiced his sword skills for months in order to do this job, and was quite surprised by the idea that we would dispatch him in 5 minutes. But he flourished his sword, I pulled out my gun and shot him, and then we went back to England.

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failed to disclose that not only was it paid for by a campaign

Oh, fucking keep up. This was debunked two weeks ago.Yes it was disclosed. Everyone has been telling you the Nunes memo cherry picked the facts. Of course, Trump has refused to let the full facts out so far.

Communist revolution? Actually, one must ask there really actual communist revolutions out there!

You're creating an argument based on the "no true Scottsman" concept, which is a logical fallacy. How many times do communist revolutions need to result in failed states before you finally say "gee...I think this whole thing may not work after all."? Capitalist economies prosper all the time, so why has a communist economy never prospered if it is really so much better? There never was a true Scottsman, nor will there ever be.

This is from 1931 article of Socialist party of Great Britain: http://www.worldsocialism.org/... [worldsocialism.org]

This didn't just happen in the USSR, it happened in every so-called communist revolution that lasted any meaningful amount of time. Everywhere it didn't happen, the GDP fell on its ass and people literally starved until a capitalist model was adopted. This is EXACTLY what happened in China and several others.

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

Besides, have you ever heard of the Icarians in Navoo, Illinois? Look up how they started, how they operated, how the work rules changed over time by sheer necessity to bring up productivity, and then how they failed. And no, it wasn't because of a fire. Their GDP had already fallen to the point of no return before this happened. If they actually had a strong economy, they simply could have rebuilt, just like Chicago did from a major fire around that same time that was far more devastating and required much more effort to rebuild. The Icarians truly had no capitalism, they truly had a communist economy that was as stateless as you could get, and they had democracy. Then consider how they could have lasted longer if there was no democracy, and if they could prevent people from leaving.

It's a perfect case study, and it fits very well with what most people intuitively think will happen in communism without even having heard of the Icarians.

Sorry, you are a liar or a dupe.

Absolutely. Here's a glaring example.

They are not pushing a viewpoint. They are just stirring shit.

I personally like not having to clean the chicken shit from my eggs when I get home from the store.

So don't clean it off. Seriously, it isn't necessary except in rare cases and it's unlikely to harm you in any way. Washing in many cases actually increases the risk of getting salmonella and other pathogens into the egg so I prefer eggs that are actually safe and produced with best practices. 90+% of the world doesn't wash eggs the way they do in the US and they get similar to better results. A lot of egg producers vaccinate their birds against salmonella.

I raise my own chickens and eat the eggs they lay. Sometimes the shells have a little poop on them and there is vast evidence that this does not present a serious health risk if the birds and eggs are handled properly. If this grosses you out then you are a bit of a weenie and you aren't basing your behavior on actual evidence.

In the coming years, the company hopes to launch 4,425 interlinked broadband-internet satellites into orbit some 700 to 800 miles above Earth, plus another 7,500 spacecraft into lower orbits.

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No, you're wrong. "Blue" states definitely subsidize "red" states. In other words, California subsidizes your bullshit.

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http://www.businessinsider.com... Sorry there may be a better non-paywall link

You should try Vancouver. When I was there around 2010, average monthly housing costs exceeded 100% of median income. I hear it's gotten better and it's "only" 79% now.

Which brings up a important caveat to these type of stories. These home price to income ratios are assuming you just got a job there and need to move and buy a home in the area. If you've been living there for a while, you bought your home when the price was much lower, so it still makes sense for you to live and work there.

What "election hacks of 2016" are we talking about? I mean, besides the Democrats screeching about this stuff 24/7 trying to push their alternate explanation of how the worst candidate in history lost to the 2nd worst.

The ones that a named DHS unit head says occurred. It's amazing how forgetful you trolls can be.

I'm not a troll, you are. Did you even read what you posted. Here, I'll make it easy:

"A top official at the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News that Russia "successfully penetrated" a small number of state election networks during the 2016 US election."

Successfully penetrating a state election network and hacking an election aren't related. There's no evidence - and not even the allegation - that they changed anything.

Sorry, Hillary lost because she was a terrible candidate who didn't bother to campaign in key states. It had nothing to do with Russia. The questions that I asked are valid and unanswered.

What "election hacks of 2016" are we talking about? I mean, besides the Democrats screeching about this stuff 24/7 trying to push their alternate explanation of how the worst candidate in history lost to the 2nd worst.

The ones that a named DHS unit head says occurred. It's amazing how forgetful you trolls can be.

Not changing anything seems to be the more sensible alternative.

The problem is that DST has been found to have negative side effects. From the forced shift of sleep schedule affecting peoples' health, to increased traffic incidents caused by weary motorists, to added weariness causing a drop in work performance. http://www.businessinsider.com...

Therefore, if DST has little to no positive benefits, then the negative ones make it sensible to spend some cost to abolish it so that we can get rid of the negative ones.

[the headphone jack] takes up more space that could be dedicated to battery or another function.

Yes, that space is sooooo valuable that when Apple removed the headphone jack, they filled the space with a piece of molded plastic.

That's incredibly misleading. Sure, it's a piece of molded plastic. What you fail to mention is that it is a functional piece of molded plastic - part of the speaker.

But that's not what the quoted article says. They said: "teardown [of the new iPhone] reveals what's in place of the headphone jack that Apple removed. In short: nothing complicated. Just some plastic. No speaker, and no electronics."

I hope your English teacher doesn't see this:

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
http://global.oup.com/about/?c...

But seriously, if Oxford didn't invent it, they are pretty much responsible for it:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.

1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book

2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime

3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama

4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say

5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family

8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined

9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’

10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering

12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room

13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign

14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report

15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal

16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king

17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich

18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,

a deep hole with lots of mechanical support because of simple leverage

You have it backwards. The length of the jack reduces the leverage on the internal components. The leverage an outside force has depends on the length of the headphone jack outside the device. The length of the jack inside the device increases the leverage of the internal components, increasing their ability to resist torque from something outside yanking on the headphone cable..

it takes up more space that could be dedicated to battery or another function.

Yes, that space is sooooo valuable that when Apple removed the headphone jack, they filled the space with a piece of molded plastic.

promotes such a toxic workplace...

I would hasten to add that toxic workplace is as most subjective as can be, and that this is *your* opinion. There are a lot of external references to Uber's toxic workplace. Try google searching Uber+toxic+workplace. A few hits I could dismiss as "a few haters", but I get 443 thousand hits.

Here are some of the top few. It looks pretty toxic to me: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... https://thinkprogress.org/trav... https://www.recode.net/2017/6/... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://theconversation.com/fix... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.theguardian.com/te... https://qz.com/1010986/a-timel...

Maybe Alphabet doesn't believe that Google's results are accurate. ;-)

Strangely, I just ran the same search in Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Google: 157,000 hits

Bing: 3,690,000 hits

Yahoo: 21,000,000 hits

One thing people don't realize is that while the DoD budget is an extravagance, part of that funding does eventually end up in the private sector. GPS was DoD funded for military use before becoming widely spread. Your iphone wouldn't be what it is today without DoD spending.

One of the tenets of the DoD Research Labs is to help small businesses get off the ground through SBIR contracts - and then make sure they can grow and sell to the public after that initial investment by the Gov. If you follow the money, a very small portion goes to the guys/gals in uniform. Most of the money goes to defense contractors - keeping those STEM folks employed, or to mom and pop businesses selling supplies through GSA.

It's not so much an extravagance as it is a re-investment in local businesses. You may disagree with the technology being built, but I doubt you disagree with keeping US minds employed.

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Let's parse.

Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times.

So you start off by pretending that SpaceX and Tesla are the same company. Clever move! What is this "government support"?

New York state is spending $750 million to build a solar panel factory in Buffalo for SolarCity. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will lease the plant for $1 a year. It will not pay property taxes for a decade, which would otherwise total an estimated $260 million.

Wow, OMG, a state government gave financial incentives for a large company to build a factory in their state. This has never happened before in the history of business! Except bloody always, but apart from that, OMG!

Nevada has agreed to provide Tesla with $1.3 billion in incentives to help build a massive battery factory near Reno.

Stop the presses again!

That's nearly half of the $4,9B in the article, and it's just your standard "incentives to get a large company to move to your state" game that all large companies play.

The federal government also provides grants or tax credits to cover 30% of the cost of solar installations. SolarCity reported receiving $497.5 million in direct grants from the Treasury Department.

All solar installers received this; it is nothing SolarCity specific. You could start a solar installation company yourself today and receive tax credits.

The Palo Alto company has also collected more than $517 million from competing automakers by selling environmental credits.

Same story. The other automakers wouldn't have sold credits had they actually made the ZEVs that the legislation was intended to make them produce. And any automaker could get the credits.

Meanwhile, everyone shoulders the huge financial costs of air pollution from fossil fuel power (the healthcare costs alone from the worst coal plants can be up to 45 cents per kWh). But I know you want to slap down renewables with everything and give fossil fuels a pass for everything, so let's keep going!

Since 2006, SolarCity has installed systems for 217,595 customers, according to a corporate filing. If each paid the current average price for a residential system — about $23,000, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists — the cost to the government would total about $1.5 billion, which would include the Treasury grants paid to SolarCity.

Oh, so now we're taking in subsidies to consumers and pretending that they're subsidies to SolarCity? Clever girl! But okay!

But wait, that article was just for $4,9B (and that includes SpaceX). Where did your other $3B come from? Oh right, this:

The California state Assembly passed a $3-billion subsidy program for electric vehicles, dwarfing the existing program.

So we can now play the game where we pretend that Tesla gets all of that! But of course, we know that there are other other EV manufacturers; again, any company cam make EVs and get incentives. But let's go with it. How much money does Tesla

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Let's parse.

Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times.

So you start off by pretending that SpaceX and Tesla are the same company. Clever move! What is this "government support"?

New York state is spending $750 million to build a solar panel factory in Buffalo for SolarCity. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company will lease the plant for $1 a year. It will not pay property taxes for a decade, which would otherwise total an estimated $260 million.

Wow, OMG, a state government gave financial incentives for a large company to build a factory in their state. This has never happened before in the history of business! Except bloody always, but apart from that, OMG!

Nevada has agreed to provide Tesla with $1.3 billion in incentives to help build a massive battery factory near Reno.

Stop the presses again!

That's nearly half of the $4,9B in the article, and it's just your standard "incentives to get a large company to move to your state" game that all large companies play.

The federal government also provides grants or tax credits to cover 30% of the cost of solar installations. SolarCity reported receiving $497.5 million in direct grants from the Treasury Department.

All solar installers received this; it is nothing SolarCity specific. You could start a solar installation company yourself today and receive tax credits.

The Palo Alto company has also collected more than $517 million from competing automakers by selling environmental credits.

Same story. The other automakers wouldn't have sold credits had they actually made the ZEVs that the legislation was intended to make them produce. And any automaker could get the credits.

Meanwhile, everyone shoulders the huge financial costs of air pollution from fossil fuel power (the healthcare costs alone from the worst coal plants can be up to 45 cents per kWh). But I know you want to slap down renewables with everything and give fossil fuels a pass for everything, so let's keep going!

Since 2006, SolarCity has installed systems for 217,595 customers, according to a corporate filing. If each paid the current average price for a residential system — about $23,000, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists — the cost to the government would total about $1.5 billion, which would include the Treasury grants paid to SolarCity.

Oh, so now we're taking in subsidies to consumers and pretending that they're subsidies to SolarCity? Clever girl! But okay!

But wait, that article was just for $4,9B (and that includes SpaceX). Where did your other $3B come from? Oh right, this:

The California state Assembly passed a $3-billion subsidy program for electric vehicles, dwarfing the existing program.

So we can now play the game where we pretend that Tesla gets all of that! But of course, we know that there are other other EV manufacturers; again, any company cam make EVs and get incentives. But let's go with it. How much money does Tesla

People have been killed http://www.businessinsider.com... or had their house set on fire https://www.aol.com/2011/11/03... for unfriending somebody. Dislike at your own risk.

Here is the main one.
Here is BI
Here is CBS
Here is Market Watch.
Here is WSJ
In fact, other than Faux News, BreitBart, and Daily Stormer, they all say the same thing. That yes, Tesla had losses but not as much as forecast some time ago.

It means they are more viewed, and you are conflating entertainment with news, two completely different genres with different importance and different purposes...

Consistently falling and low ratings for MSM outlets other than Fox news http://static4.businessinsider... indicate people are voting with their feet and leaving MSM for the simple reason that news outlets are supposed to get you as many facts, as accurately and quickly as possible. It only takes a few conversations with others/viewing sessions of Fox/other alternative news outlets where it is clear you have been mislead by the MSM via withholding key facts for most people to switch their primary source of news (assuming that they are truth seekers and not rabid partisans).

That's just not true, you're completely making it up. Gamers buy the latest cards just fine.

Bullshit, son.

Only 6 months? What kind of third world anti labor people hating shithole did you move to?

I got 99 weeks in the US last time I got laid off.

Poor dumb European losers even pay higher taxes to get lower benefits. You chose the wrong country, my friend!

Did you work around the system? Also, the length of paid unemployment is depended on state you are in. It is 19 weeks (NC) up to 73 weeks. On average, it is 40~63.

Left-wing fake news does indeed have higher production values.

It's so well funded (by Soros? The Jews? the illuminati? The Lizard people?) that they actually get reality to manufacture the fake news. Disgusting.

How about the CIA?

CIA pays Amazon $600 million for cloud services in 2014

Bezos buys the Washington Post in 2016

I'm conservative and disagree with almost everything Bernie believes in. But I would've voted for him over Trump. Bernie was pretty much the only candidate with a shot to win the nomination that I felt was genuinely honest. And I'd rather have someone honest that I disagree with as President, than someone who'll lie and cheat to win the office. (Since the choice ended up being Clinton and Trump, I ended up voting third party).

However, I think it's fascinating that you seem to have accepted all this propaganda about Russian manipulation. I'd been wondering how well that story had been playing among the Democratic faithful. Aside from the DNC emails (which are really what should've been the news, not who the messenger was), the evidence I've seen of Russian manipulation of the election has been extremely thin. A few tens of thousands of dollars worth of ads (much of which was spent in 2015) in an election where billions of dollars were spent. A little over a thousand fake accounts on a platform which claims billions of accounts. A bit over a million page views on a site where the average person sees 8000 pages per year, means with 214 million users in the U.S. a million views of Russian propaganda pages in 2016 amounted to 0.00006% of the average American's FB pages viewed.

These things are far more likely to be statistical noise than a real conspiracy. IMHO the problem isn't little two-bit sites spreading fake news conspiracy theories over social media. It's when the mainstream media starts spreading fake news conspiracy theories.

Apple has about a 40% US market share. 50% is a bit of a stretch... Worldwide it's about 12% - and falling.

While everyone is running around calling it crypto-currency It's all just varying uses of a blockchain to validate a transaction or ownership while remaining anonymous and not requiring a central agency/server. I still don't fully understand it but almost every big player in web services (IBM, Microsoft, Amazon) is now offering blockchain services to track and verify inventory. Yes banks and those shadow governments that control everything behind the scenes detest the idea that some of their control is being wrested away so you can bet they will fight to either extinguish (unlikely) or control through legislation the use of the technology. But ultimately the way the tech works means legislators will be playing whack-o-mole as new blockchains are created faster than legislation can be written let alone voted into law.

Was there (at least) one instance where US people did not feel strongly enough to protest, but were egged on by outside influences?

Sure there were. They got the left out on the streets and they got the right out on the street. Well actually with that last event, they got both sides out on the street. Just for a start.

Obviously people already felt strongly, but those protests didn't arise spontaneously. Those feelings were deliberately amplified and those people were "egged on" by outside influences who went so far as to organize the events.

... chill. The purpose was to get people riled up and divisive, and by being outraged you are playing into their hand. Furthermore, if you are outraged don't propagate by posting about it - that just amplifies the effect.

This, OTOH, is wisdom talking. And actually, it's OK if your fellow citizen has different political opinions ... it's great in fact! Would you like to live in a country where that wasn't allowed?

The light blue is Nougat (v 7) 20.6%, NOT Gingerbread.

Gingerbread (v 2.3) is only 0.6% (it's a slightly different blue). Here, take another look at the original link you referenced.

And here is a less confusing graph with an even earlier date.

I'm not blaming you though, the Business Insider purposefully altered the original graph so it would tell the story they wanted to tell. And it took a while to figure it out myself, even though I knew that 20.6% of single-processor phones couldn't possibly be correct.