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It wasn't the FBI is was the city police. I'm not sure what you class as a reputable source but here's a spectrum of biased ones:

https://www.usnews.com/news/na...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoeti...
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
https://www.acludc.org/sites/d...

The anarchists rioted at trumps inaguratio just as they rioted at obama's inaguration. The local police finally had enough, and most likely went too far (as police tend to do).

Alsup givith and Alsup taketh away.

Judge Alsup for Supreme Court of the United States. He seems to be the only lawyer who understands how patents are supposed to work.

What could possibly go wrong?

Here is an interesting commentary from Forbes about how to find non-fake journalism. The number one item in his list of criteria for how to tell whether a site is legitimate news source: "If a reporter gets facts in a story wrong, will the news outlet investigate a complaint and publish a correction?"

After youtube played the clip you posted, the very next clip loaded was the apology from CNN and the correction. A google search for "Carol Costello Apologizes On Air for CNN Lying About Milwaukee Riot Situation" gives me 95,200 hits.

So, to the contrary. I will cite this next time I am asked for an example of how CNN is NOT fake news.

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Carol Costello Apologizes On Air for CNN Lying About Milwaukee Riot ... Video for Carol Costello Apologizes On Air for CNN Lying About Milwaukee Riot Situation 16:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Carol Costello of CNN apologized on air for her network lying about the Milwaukee situation via a quick on ... WATCH: CNN Apologizes For Lying About Milwaukee Riots (VIDEO ... https://www.conservativeoutfit... News
Aug 18, 2016 - CNN just apologized on air for not showing the full clip of the ... CNN's Carol Costello said she "regrets the second part of the statement was not included" in the report. .@CarolCNN apologizes for not airing full clip of Milwaukee victim's sister calling .... Put yourself in her situation, your house just got shot at. CNN anchor offers apology for shortening of Milwaukee clip – CNN ... https://cnncommentary.com/.../......
Aug 17, 2016 - On Wednesday morning, CNN Newsroom anchor Carol Costello offered ... shot by an officer on Saturday afternoon, which triggered riots in the city. ... On-air, Costello apologized, “I want to take a moment to clarify something from Monday. ... CNN is a lying piece of crap network that is not a good place to get ... www.topbuzzapp.com/article/i6320193922531639812?app_id=1106
CNN Sorry For Editing Clip Of Milwaukee Victim's Sister Calling For ... https://www.buzzfeed.com/.../c...
Aug 17, 2016 - CNN Sorry For Editing Clip Of Milwaukee Victim's Sister Calling For Violence ... an officer on Saturday afternoon, triggering destructive riots in the city. ... On Wednesday, anchor Carol Costello issued a rare on-air apology .... You're one of the few people I've spoken with, who sees both sides of the situation. Costello Apologizes For Deceptive Report About Milwaukee | The ... dailycaller.com/.../cnn-anchor-grovels-to-audience-after-allowing-deceptive-report-ab...
Aug 17, 2016 - CNN anchor Carol Costello apologized on Wednesday for allowing a deceptive report about the violence in Milwaukee to air that characterized ... Carol Costello Apologizes On Air for CNN Lying About ... - Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...
Carol Costello Apologizes On Air for CNN Lying About Milwau

Ya, both sides are equivalent. Hilary running her own email server is the same as Trump colluding with a foreign adversary (getting Russian sanctions out of Rep platform, and we've probably not scratched the surface yet).

Hillary explicitly using unsecured communications channels for classified data, not turning over the server when the investigation started ("Did you wipe the server?" "with a cloth?" "No, with Bleachbit..."), cherry picking which e-mails get to be submitted as evidence...maybe not *quite* the same, but still thoroughly inexcusable..

My point stands.

Benghazi is the same as Iraq (the cause of 1+million human deaths).

Iraq, the war that Hillary voted in favor of and Trump spoke out against?

Ha!, no Trump spoke out FOR the Iraq war, and Hillary as a New York politician was politically forced to make a bad decision, one she open admits to regretting - something that honest people do. The vote was for giving the President a big stick, and he abused that power. This is a reason why we should always take all the evidence into consideration. In this case, there was plenty of evidence the White House put forward that would later be proven untrue. Nothing close to as obnixious as the current pres, but lies nonetheless.

"Obamacare", ugly as it was, added millions to the number of insured and got rid of the donut hole and that's equivalent to Trump Care, which removes those advantages for the non-rich.

The 2,300 page bill that Nancy Pelosi said we needed to pass to find out what was in it? The bill that wasn't a tax until the question of whether or not it was Constitutional was raised, then it became a tax? That bill? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that people got coverage, but has this turned into an ends-justifies-the-means situation?

Support for TrumpCare was tough to find, even among Republicans.

My point stands.

Climate change is going to affect the poor way more than the rich,

This is true - the costs of addressing climate change are going to roll downhill until they end up manifesting as price increases for household goods, but let's not pretend that taxing companies into compliance is going to come out of the C-level exec's annual bonuses.

Silly. Multiple studies have found a correlation between trickle-down economics and reduced growth, and that higher taxes on the wealthy are linked to economic growth.

AND green jobs in some states already outnumber fossil fuel jobs,

Absolutely...and in other states, fossil fuels are still economic powerhouses (Pennsylvania and North Dakota, I'm looking at you), turning it into a numbers game.

You missed the point - renewables are the economic powerhouse of the [present and] future. Backasswards in coal and oil (I'm looking at you Russia) are in trouble, and are going to miss the boat if you don't start working on it, instead of spending your country's resources on astroturfing the internet.

but getting rid of jobs and sacrificing future prosperity, hey it's all equivalent, I don't know which side to support.

Amongst the reasons Trump won was because he promised that manufacturing and oil drilling and coal mining would end up becoming domestic tasks again. Now yes, to an extent he was just making campaign promises (i.e. he was full of it), but the definition of 'gett

The Russians have been abusing social media and comments sections of websites for a long time now.

Russia Targets The Blaze
Documents Show How Russia’s Troll Army Hit America
Russian Trolls and the US Election

Not news; if it is to you, you haven't been paying much attention. :P

I do see the violence on the right but I do make a distinction between actions v words and lone wolfs v groups.

Actually, what you do is try to embrace a false sanctimony as you fail to admit to the violent organizations on the right, from the Bundy Ranch militias, the Respect the Flag group, the Huttaree, and even the various Tea Party groups and others on the right-wing clamoring for a revolution. Which included Donald Trump, in 2012, with his infamous Tweetstorm.

If you want to admit to them, then fair enough, go ahead and condemn them. Say they're deplorable. Say they're repugnant. Say they're dangerous.

I don't blame the Chicago kidnapping on the left anymore than I blame the Charleston shooting on the right.

Yes, yes, you already made it clear that you want to ignore how Dylan Roof is merely one among many on the right espousing such views, but that won't make it not a fact that "they do exist in abundance.

Sorry, but Dylan Roof wasn't merely some lone isolated nut following the beat of a drum only he could hear, there's a whole marching band.

By their fruits we know them.

As for the rest of your diarrhea... try harder.

I will, you're not worth giving up on. You deserve to be informed. You deserve to have the strength of character you need to admit the truth. You can have the fortitude to boldly proclaim that the shit stinks all around. It's a dysentery that

Rent for the brothers' personal apartments in the Marina
Security deposits for an apartment in Dogpatch used by the Wellers
Weekly apartment cleanings
Personal grocery bills for the Wellers
All restaurant meals for the brothers
Mitchell Weller's Dodge Viper, which was claimed for insurance following an accident, as well as the new Viper purchased by the company to replace it

Check here -> https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitas...

On the back of that, at the time, I pulled out of a major indiegogo funding campaign because I no longer had faith in the model. When I signed up to to it it had a large "back out at any time" message on the page. After considering the matter of Skully I decided to back out and was confused as to how this is done from my backers page. I read the FAQ and it simply said that I go to my backers page and hit the "Refund order" button. So simple except THERE WAS NO REFUND button.

I asked and I was told that SOMETIMES there is no refund button and that funds have gone to the campaign owner. So I cannot get a refund from Indieggo because they do not have the money. I emailed the campaign owner and got no response for two months. As I had no other information to go on I researched the campaign, backer and related company and sent them letters threatening to sue as they are subject to EU law (Luckily because US law is really shit on these sort of things). After some haggling I got my funds -12% for various fees, 2% were to Indiegogo...and you know what I was lucky to get anything at all.

They have since clarified their refund policy further -> https://support.indiegogo.com/...

Simply do not believe ANYTHING a campaign page says. It might very well say "hassle free refund." but really should say "limited refund options occassionally available, terms and conditions apply. If you believed this was honest and bought based on that assumption you're a sucker hahahaha"

Now ask Skully-AR1 backers if they got anything yet? Helemt? Refund? An apology? - There is ZERO accountability.

We MUST convince Indiegogo and Kickstarter - basically crowd funding in general to do more.

Firstly I would like FULL DISCLOSURE expense reports of backers money. There is NO excuse not to let backers of your porject know how you spent their money.
Secondly I want the crowd funding site to review sufficiently large projects, say over $1 million with a third party registered accountant to check this is not all BS.

Lastly, for blatant misuse of funds amounting to fraud I would like for Kickstarter/Indiegogo to sue these people to the ends of the Earth on backers behalf. I will pay good money, more than my original investment to make sure fraudsters are dealt with as harshly as possible.

Without any safety checks and so on I tell you now I will never ever back any product that has not been released and review or a has a money back guarantee I can trust.

Impotent rage, eh?

Yep. Dismissing the opponent as "crazy" and other ad hominem attacks is a sure sign of not having rational arguments. Normally people just do not reply in such situation — unless they are enraged and feel compelled to type something up, such to denounce the opponent's person, rather than his argument.

lefty WaPo of all places in fact say the exact opposite

It does not. Quote:

I’ve long argued that Obama’s most ardent supporters should not ascribe racial motives to the president’s critics when none exist.

Why would the article's author have "long argued" against a phenomenon, if the phenomenon didn't exist — or was rare? Of course, it existed — and was awfully common-spread. And the same exact verbiage would've gotten recycled for eight more years with "racism" replaced by "sexism". We all know it, including yourself — the sooner you come out of your denial, the better.

And er you don't really understand sarcasm that well. Or logical fallacies.

Your impotence is showing once again. We are done.

Good point about the loss of communication. But there are MANY problems:

1) What if communication is hijacked?

2) There are many, many dogs that would jump on a drone trying to land a package.

3) There are children would try to capture a drone. Mom! I found a plane in our yard!

4) A drone would be REALLY, REALLY ANNOYING to a lot of people. Why? A drone would compromise their safety. A drone would emit scary noise. Many, many people in the U.S., a nation of gun owners, would shoot at a drone. Even children might use their BB guns to shoot at a drone.

5) Thieves might like to capture a drone.

6) Weather is often ENTIRELY UNPREDICTABLE. A big, unexpected gust of wind could smash a drone against a house. There are many places where 2 weather systems come together in which weather reports are only educated guesses.

7) Electronics sometimes fails. (Funny: I can imagine Slashdot readers saying, "What! I didn't know that!")

8) Mechanical devices sometimes fail.

9) There are often design errors that are only discovered after device failure.

These are problems of TRUMPIC proportions!

But yes, Jeff Bezos is still better than Donald Trump.

Cold War explosives are becoming unstable and they tend to explode on their own, especially when there is insufficient money to maintain proper storage.

You know what else is becoming unstable? Vladimir Putin's political enemies and journalists. They're dropping like flies, literally. Earlier this week, one mysteriously flew out a fifth floor window.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikeh...

And just yesterday, one was mysteriously gunned down in Kiev.

https://www.adn.com/nation-wor...

Since the election, we've had nine prominent opponents of Vladimir Putin become unstable and expire mysteriously. Such coincidence!

FYI, the reason Trump so strongly believes that Obama spied on him is because he has a history of doing it himself. He routinely snooped on his employees, but even worse he routinely eavesdropped on guests at his own hotel. This eavesdropping was reported before the election, but was mostly missed because it was just another drop in the geyser of shit about him.

Sources: Donald Trump Listened In On Phone Lines At Mar-A-Lago

just one more tool that law enforcement can use to make our job a little safer and a little bit easier

Sure! I'd love to work for the police state! And for free!

"We have over 100,000 people using the app right now, and we're hoping that more will join us to take action and fight this fight,"

I think a more productive use of everyone's time will be to monitor and document police activity. After all, police lie. They are corrupt and can't be trusted.

>> I'd start off with a $10M asking.

> Good luck with that; you might as well say I'd ask for ownership of the universe if you're going
> to ignore the context of what is realistic. The UK courts tend towards using evidenced
> losses rather than theoretical maximums, and in this case the bloke and his lawyer
> clearly thought £60k was close enough to the maximum they could hope for to accept it.

The 44-year-old guy, and his partner, will probably be umemployable for the rest of their lives in the trades they used to work. From the article https://www.buzzfeed.com/matth...

> Lang described the situation he was in before his arrest as the happiest he had been in life.
> He and his partner were in well-paid jobs - she was a chartered accountant - raising their
> young son together and paying off the mortgage on the house they had recently bought.

> Today, neither he nor his partner is working. Lang is effectively a full-time carer for his
> disabled mother, and in the years since his arrest his partner developed ME,
> something they blame on the stress caused by the whole ordeal.
>
> "I'm not hopeful of getting the same standard of job. I'm mentally and
> physically exhausted... this is one of the worst things that can happen to you."

Put it this way... you're 44. You and your wife have well-paying jobs and are raising a son. Then both of you become unemployable. Now imagine two adults living the rest of their lives, plus putting a kid through college on a $73,500 one-time payout. I don't think so.

The reality is that police lie. Whether or not they are wearing a body camera, whether or not it is turned on, you must always make your own video recording of any and all police interaction with you. Always document police behavior. It's not worth taking the risk that the police will lie about how they behaved.

This company thought they could pull an uber, but instead of ignoring the laws and getting a bunch of taxi drivers mad, they ignored the laws and got insurance companies that pay their CEOs billion dollar bonuses mad. Their ignorance was quite willful (when I last heard about them, after being caught selling insurance without the appropriate license, they started getting their people licenses by writing a script that logged into the mandatory education class website and pretended to be present for the employees)

Anonymous users of 4chan's /pol/ board are currently trying to influence the French election and get the far right candidate elected. Since most of them don't speak French they are asking French users to help write their copy/paste shitposts so that they can then pull their standard sockpuppet attack on social media.

It's hard to say how effective they are, but it's also quite worrying. They really have studied that leaked GCHQ guide to social media manipulation well. Hopefully as people get wise to memes and fake news the whole thing will backfire, but it's far from a certainty.

Finally iPhones will support Engrish. About time shall I say. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasne...

How much do those odds mean to the victims and their families of the WTC, San Bernadino, the Boston Marathon attacks, and others?

Shit happens. You're more likely to die from obesity (30,000 people per year), lightning strikes (10,000 people per year) or from being attacked by a shark (five people per year).

https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/20-things-that-kill-more-people-than-sharks-every

The source of the story, at the bottom of TheLocal article, is Central European News, which BuzzFeed proved to be a source of fake news: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanw... There's an accurate report here, with statements from the hotel's manager: https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...

Maybe msmash could find the same article on a more reputable site, like Buzzfeed or CNN.

Easy enough. Don't Anonymous Cowards have google?
Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/peter...
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyha... No lawsuit from this one, or at least none mentioned. Same lack of support, though. I don't remember if anything came of this being posted.

Exaggeration, hyperbole, and confusing a personal opinion with a law of nature... Man, you hit the trifecta there.

Uh... exaggeration and hyperbole are the same thing. How exactly can they make up two parts of a trifecta?

Anyhow, this is far from merely a "personal opinion." Monopoly has been criticized ever since it was originally rejected by Parker Brothers for game play that grew too long and tedious. They only picked it up after it became a minor "craze" in the mid-30s. It certainly had novel elements that made it appealing, but that doesn't mean it also didn't have serious flaws.

Anyone who has played a lot of Monopoly knows a number of the major flaws for family gaming. But don't listen to me on this. Here's just one post which sums up a lot of the major issues:

It suffers from problems that most game designers nowadays try to avoid. First, players can be eliminated. This is no fun -- unless, of course, the eliminated player finds something better to do than play Monopoly -- and games are meant to be fun. Second, there is often a runaway leader. Someone can snap up a juicy monopoly early on, and that quickly becomes that. The rest of the game is pro forma and boring. And games aren't meant to be boring. Third, there is what's known to game designers as a kingmaking problem. A losing player can often choose, typically via a lopsided trade of properties, who wins the game. This is also no fun and negates whatever skill was required to begin with.

Oh, and it also takes a really long time to play.

This is hardly the only criticism of the game. See for example here or here. And if you want some more criticism along with recommendations for better, more engaging games, see here.

None of this means a given person can't or shouldn't like Monopoly. It just means that most people who spend a lot of time playing a variety of board games tend to think Monopoly has serious flaws. And if you're trying to meet certain common goals of family gameplay (e.g., long-term engagement for most people, avoiding long drawn-out concluding play between a minority of players that is exceptionally unlikely to actually change the outcome, etc.), Monopoly has only one advantage -- it's well-known. If you're willing to try out "new things," there are a lot of really good options out there.

Explanation here: Carrie Fisher Wrote Her Own Fantastic Obituary

My bad, I got mixed up with the Pizzagate article today. Here are the links:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craig...

By the way, did you notice how the owner of the pizza restaurant didn't post the photo you linked to? And how it's not proof of anything other than someone making a really bad joke? This is what conspiracy theories are made of.

Sorry. That is not even remotely comparable to the main stream media, regardless of the fact that they have a diversity of opinions or that some of them may be (gasp) feminists.

BuzzFeed started this "fake news" meme. They are defining "fake news" as "false or misleading news", then identify a whole bunch of conservative news sites as "fake" by that definition and create a scare about it. So, by their own definition, much of the news published by mainstream media is "fake", not necessarily because it is completely false, but because it is misleading. (To be sure, a significant fraction of even mainstream media stories are entirely false; it's simply that journalists don't make them up themselves, they just uncritically repeat other people's fictional stories if they fit their own political agenda.)

My point is not that there are other sources you should read, my point is that the "mainstream media" have deteriorated to the point where they are no more trustworthy than a random blog off the Internet. If you want to know what's going on, feel free to read the NYT and NPR, but also read Breitbart and NRO, and then do a little background research yourself to determine which of those gets the story right. Anybody who was surprised that Trump got elected shouldn't blame other people's ignorance, they should blame their own ignorance; if you had strayed outside the "mainstream media", it would have become clear that Trump was, in fact, quite "mainstream".

The mainstream media is at least as bad as the supposed "fake" news sources.

This analysis by BuzzFeed pretty much proves the exact opposite.
They took ~1000 POSTS from 3 specific large hyperpartisan right-wing Facebook pages (Eagle Rising, Freedom Daily, Right Wing News), 3 specific hyperpartisan large left-wing Facebook pages (Addicting Info, Occupy Democrats, The Other 98%) and 3 specific large mainstream media Facebook pages (ABC News Politics, CNN Politics, Politico).

Rigth-wing pages made 666 posts combined, out of which 82 (12.3%) were "mostly false" while another 169 (25.4%) were "a mixture of true and false" - while another 14.4% were "no factual content" posts. I.e. "Like if you...", "We rule they suck" and similar partisan memes.
Left-wing pages made 471 posts combined, during that same period, 22 (4.6%) being "mostly false", 68 (14%) "mixed" and 24.6% of "no factual content" memes.
With individual pages posting between 12.3% and 23.6% false and mixed stories on the left - and between 29.4% and 46.4% on the right.

I.e. While one in eight to one in four stories on 3 hyperleft pages can be bogus - on 3 hyperright pages it's between one in three and up to one half that are bullshit.
Mainstream media was 0.0% "mostly false" and 0.4-1.0% "somewhat false".

In other words, even disregarding "fake for profit" sites, while "somewhat false" news IS a possibility for mainstream media - fake news ranges from being symptomatic to an absolutely necessity for fake news sites.
When only about 40% of posts are actually true and actually news... that's not a question of being a credible news source or not.
That's being a gossip site.

You want to preserve democratic freedoms by censoring fake news? Wouldn't that be like... taking away the most important democratic freedom of them all, free speech?

No.

Recognizing that a problem exists is not the same as proposing censorship as a solution. I read the article-- apparently you didn't-- and at no place does he suggest censorship as the solution. You are the one who just proposed censorship.

The problem exists. If even talking about the problem draws cries from the likes of you of "you're proposing censorship"-- this is just about as bad in terms of squashing speech. The data shows that fake news is getting more clicks than real news (the link in the article you didn't read: https://www.buzzfeed.com/craig... )

We have a problem. What's the approach to a solution? You are the one who just proposed censorship. Have any other ideas?

Apple isn't an "ad company" because they failed with iAds. They tried, they tried really hard - but couldn't pull it off.

And yet even then it wasn't their primary source of revenue or their main focus. Google is the one interested in customer data so they can push ads on them. Apple has never shown any interest in mass data collection from their users outside what they need to have to provide their services (such as cross-device call history sync, as is the case here), and they certainly are not making money off selling it, as the OP suggested.

Trump isn't part of the political elite. Yes, he's rich, but he's never really spent any of his time or money in politics. He's a true outsider.

Your "true outsider" was openly Democrat until the 2010s and did spend both time and money on politics - a lot of both. Here's a beautiful example.

Honestly, you should've researched your candidate a bit better.

Apple isn't an "ad company" because they failed with iAds. They tried, they tried really hard - but couldn't pull it off.

The alt-right is posting more fake stories than the alt-left - 38% to 19%. Now, a lot of people will point to that as a "right is more gullible for fake news than the left!" point, but I see it as "even 19% is really bloody terrible".

A lot of the BS, mind you, isn't to say maliciously done; it's a consequence of the clickbait era that we live in. Many people - including even teens in Macedonia - have learned that if you make up something with dramatic language and a sensationalist headline, people click and share it, and they get ad revenue. Factual accuracy doesn't come into equation - if you can sensationalize a real story: great; if you have to make up a story from whole cloth: also great! A single widely shared article can earn them $3k in a day. So they create fake news sites like "WorldPoliticus.com", "USADailyPolitics.com", etc and fill them with clickbait. Early on many of them did it about equally with the left and right, but they found that they got more clicks and shares from the right.

The alt-right is posting more fake stories than the alt-left - 38% to 19%. Now, a lot of people will point to that as a "right is more gullible for fake news than the left!" point, but I see it as "even 19% is really bloody terrible".

A lot of the BS, mind you, isn't to say maliciously done; it's a consequence of the clickbait era that we live in. Many people - including even teens in Macedonia - have learned that if you make up something with dramatic language and a sensationalist headline, people click and share it, and they get ad revenue. Factual accuracy doesn't come into equation - if you can sensationalize a real story: great; if you have to make up a story from whole cloth: also great! A single widely shared article can earn them $3k in a day. So they create fake news sites like "WorldPoliticus.com", "USADailyPolitics.com", etc and fill them with clickbait. Early on many of them did it about equally with the left and right, but they found that they got more clicks and shares from the right.

I liked tron the best. Solar OS (Solaris?) running on sun4u hardware hey?
There were also a lot of parallels in the movie between the new ENRON owners and the new owners of Sun Microsystems (Oracle). Jumping Jack Flash was interesting too. Of course there are lots of others like Cloak and Dagger, War Games etc..

38 percent of posts shared from three large right-wing politics pages on Facebook included "false or misleading information."

Of course, the posts shared from left-wing pages were completely accurate. /sarc TFA is crap. It implies that the right-wing sites are unreliable, but ignores the negative information about the left-wing sites.

The BuzzFeed article is long, and gives lots of interesting detail. It even appears to be pretty balanced, not pushing any particular political agenda. No surprise, extremist sites on both sides make shit up to support their views. The site with the highest proportion of false content was right-wing, but it was also the site with the least content. The site with the most false content (in absolute numbers, more than all other sites combined) was a leftist site.

With that background,

Came across this article that offers some insight.

it has happened already:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexk...

Or a Trump supporter making direct threats to take out Clinton?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasne...

Looks like it has a happy ending. Democrats raised money to help rebuild it.

He's somewhat of a new meme. He was one of the "undecided voters" at the second US presidential debate and asked the final question. The combination of his name, his peculiar look, and his "Can't we all just get along?" question quickly turned him into internet fodder.

You mean like this piece by Ben Goldacre about how scientists aren't sharing data https://www.buzzfeed.com/bengoldacre/deworming-trials? Or this article encouraging people to take steps to avoid making more antibiotic resistant bacteria https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/stop-asking-your-doctor-for-antibiotics? Buzzfeed has a lot of clickbait, but some very good articles on occasion, and they don't have "fake" news. You can argue that a lot of it is obnoxious listicles, but that's a very different claim.

You mean like this piece by Ben Goldacre about how scientists aren't sharing data https://www.buzzfeed.com/bengoldacre/deworming-trials? Or this article encouraging people to take steps to avoid making more antibiotic resistant bacteria https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/stop-asking-your-doctor-for-antibiotics? Buzzfeed has a lot of clickbait, but some very good articles on occasion, and they don't have "fake" news. You can argue that a lot of it is obnoxious listicles, but that's a very different claim.

If Amazon wants to SAVE money on shipping, how about they pay attention to the size of boxes and packing material in comparison to the original item purchased?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/moren...

This makes me wish I'd taken pics of the packaging for the two circle batteries i just received for my key fobs for my car, because that shit was ridiculous!

I wonder how long before we start seeing drones take the place of police in cars.

You mean like this, this, and this?

People generally drink their sodas in single-serve containers, which have a fixed number of calories and grams of various sugars.

You are ignoring several things - mostly price, human need and desire for MORE and habitual consumption.

Cans cost the most.
They've even introduced a smaller can, supposedly reducing the portions - which costs more than the older one.
And it doesn't take a lot of math to figure out that when faced with a choice of more for less versus less for more - most people will pick the bigger and cheaper option.
AKA the "sharing" option.
Note the attachment of "positive" verbiage to bigger packaging.

On the flip side, you got those who would lie to themselves that they are drinking less so they are entitled to keep drinking coke.
I.e. Having another one. One for the road. One to pick them up. One just because.
I have a friend who does exactly that. To indulge that one small vice. And then when his wife is not around he buys the big bottle - to indulge some more.

My dad does something similar - with booze. That was the Coke and Pepsi of his generation.

The idea that 3.0 fewer grams of glucose is going to make people drink another can of soda that they otherwise would have skipped is a stretch - that's not really how people consume soda.

It's not MAKING people drink more. It's ALLOWING people to drink more - while tasting better. I.e. Sweeter.
Just like that old trick with trying to eat sugar with a spoon. Doesn't take much to "hit the limit" and give up on that.
But mix that sugar into water or milk - and now you can drink it until your hands start to shake from all that sugar.

Except it's not just any sugar that's making your hands shake - it's glucose.
Reduction of the glucose part allows you to drink more before noticing that you've had way too much.
But what the Coca Cola and others are doing is NOT reduction of glucose percentage but INCREASING of the fructose percentage - cause it is sweeter.
That's the part that's making people drink more. Sweetness, but without the "hitting the limit" part - all packed with a big happy dose of otherwise bitter caffeine.

I.e. These now generation's booze.
We're chuggin that brown brew just like them older generations were slurpin their martinis and beers.

already metabolizing nearly 60 grams of fructose - that additional gram and a half is a rounding error. A Big Gulp with pure sucrose will have the same negative effects.

No. Do the math. It's not a rounding error.
Multiply 42 by 1.31 (i.e. increase it by 31%). Compare the result to the HFCS 55 mix.
Now compare that to the situation where the mix is equal.

Also, there is fundamental flaw in your logic.
ALL OF THAT SUGAR is not food calories - it's fat calories. All of it. Sucrose AND the HFCS kind.
People simply don't treat drinking as eating. We drink many more times per day and much more than we eat.
It's because we need water and we can't store it like we can store calories. It's evaporating out of our skin like crazy just sitting there.
Turning the action of drinking into eating means that ALL the calories we may be getting from that are pure extra calories which will be turned into fat.
Again... regardless if it is sucrose or fructose.

The difference is that the glucose part of HFCS and sucrose WILL get burned up immediately and will make us want to eat less for our next meal.
Fructose simply goes to fat. As long as there's any glucose in the system or any source of glucose in the system.
Not until well into second day without ANY food will your body consume the glycogen in the liver (i.e. primary fructose storage) and not until you consume all that wil

"Turning off" your phone's GPS doesn't actually disable the capability. All phones with GPS are required to be able to use it, even if it's turned off, so it can relay your location if you happen to call 911. So it's not like a hardware switch which powers down the GPS chip.

The title of the submission doesn't match the summary. Summary states this can be defeated by turning off all location services (same as the iPhone). You don't have to delete Maps and Play as the title states. This being Android, if enough people are upset about it, someone will create a widget which lets you change the setting with a single tap whenever you want.

I wrestled with it a few years back (when I finally got a phone whose battery would last all day even with GPS on), and eventually decided to leave GPS on all the time. Yes Google uses it to track me, but it's one of those things where you give up a little bit of your privacy (location) in exchange for useful services (real-time traffic updates). It's kinda like bittorrent. Nobody wants to seed because it sucks up your bandwidth, but without seeders the service stops working. People who expect real-time traffic while leaving their GPS off are essentially leechers. And I decided considering how heavily I use real-time traffic, it was my civic duty to leave the GPS on.

Also, one of the bugs I've encountered in Marshmallow is that sometimes battery life plummets with the battery use monitor saying it's the Android system which is consuming it. I eventually figured out this was linked to location services somehow getting "stuck" on in Google Play. The fix is to uninstall the updates for Google Play Services, then allow Android to re-update it. I wonder if that's the same bug causing the battery drain reported in Nougat in TFA.

Because they filter reviews and they've at best very sloppy about it. They're not just posting online content. They're selectively censoring and even when people have gone to lengths to show Yelp censored a 5-star review they shouldn't, Yelp's "customer service" DGAF and that costs the business concerned. https://www.buzzfeed.com/sandr...

Interesting this link by another poster: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01... If Google are profiting from this sort of advertizing, is Yelp?

It's become tradition for the masses to flambe any poor sap who tries on take on the system, but maybe we shouldn't be too hard on that locksmith? Maybe he has been shafted?

Eh, they could have put in a second lightning port, but that would be very un-Apple-like (this is the same company that refused to have 2-button mice for a while).

Also, it wouldn't have solved the real problem to add something back after they removed the jack. The issue wasn't just space, but interference between parts. Apple could have miniaturized the analog audio jack further, but the interference would have remained. Supporting analog audio was a losing battle from the beginning when blutooth and lightning both support digital audio output. If Apple could get away with it, they'd remove the lightning jack as well -- wireless power, audio, everything. In fact, I'm sure that's their ultimate goal. I expect the Iphone XII to be completely wireless -- though with a proprietary optical sensor/receiver to work with car stereos and beats audio, of course!

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I'm going to echo what an AC wrote suggesting an algorithm. Apparently Twitter has an algorithm to block abusive responses and used it "to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Barack Obama during a Q&A session."

Twitter's algorithm isn't perfect, but it's not bad. From the Buzzfeed article: "According to a former senior Twitter employee, Costolo ordered employees to deploy an algorithm (which was built in-house by feeding it thousands of examples of abuse and harassing tweets) that would filter out abusive language directed at Obama. Another source said the media partnerships team also manually censored tweets, noting that Twitter’s public quality-filtering algorithms were inconsistent."

So maybe the algorithm isn't a perfect way to detect hate speech, but it can probably be used to indicate how likely a tweet is abusive. And users can use that to make their own decisions. From the AC:

What if Twitter had the algorithm set a score 0-5 of how likely it thought a tweet is offensive/hate speech, then Twitter let users set a threshold. So maybe someone could set their own threshold at 3 and not see tweets at 4 or 5 (highly likely to be abusive tweets) and someone else can set their threshold to 5 and see everything. People getting abused on Twitter would have a way to automatically block offensive tweets without anyone crying "censorship!"

I think that would get us pretty far down the road to helping people block abusive tweets without limiting anyone to what they can say (the "free speech" mentioned in the article).