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Next you're going to argue that he earned that through activities unrelated to global warming. But maintaining a high profile is half the game to getting on all those boards. And global warming is how Al Gore maintains his high profile. Apple sure didn't hire him for his insight into circuit board layouts.

Take a moment to think about that.

If you think all that is bad, then consider that the NFL is a non-profit organization. Should the NFL continue to enjoy non-profit status?

Here's a tidbit about that 'culture' that does not come from Fox News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/st...

Oh you want precise data? Like large support across muslim countries, where terrorism is supported. 20% of muslims support the 7/7 bombings 1:4 muslims in the UK say the bombings were justified 31% of muslims in turkey support suicide bombings against westerners 32% of palestinians support the murder of jews, including children. 55% of muslims support hezbollah 26% of young muslims in america believe suicide attacks are justified 26% of egyptian muslims believe that suicide attacks are justified

You're now enlightened to this "tiny minority." Which is roughly 25% having extremist views, out of 1.6 billion that would be a "mere" 400,000,000 individuals. You know, I could keep going and posting, so again--there is something fundamentally broken with islam and muslims. And I haven't even gotten to the stuff on specific groups, which vary between 6% as a low to 51% support across muslims. Or the 50-75% that believing that killing apostates is a good idea. I guess none of that is large swaths.

Sure thing. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/3d...

If you look it up. They hired Deloitte to come in to assess the situation. Deloitte delivered a dozen of these sites successfully.

They are opting for option 3 which is use the federal site.

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I agree with the sentiment about programming skill, but I think Toyota, not Honda, had the more significant unintended acceleration issues (according to CBS News and NHTSA, as many as 89 deaths).

Success in a test tube and/or monkeys doesn't mean much as far as hope for a drug viable for humans. After all, the trials for Tekmira's drug are on hold by the FDA due to safety concerns ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ho... ).

I don't know how to ethically do human trials for this. With monkeys, they infect them with the virus, then give the vaccine and see if the animal develops symptoms. Would we knowingly and purposefully infect humans with Ebola? Or are there enough people out there who have been exposed within three days and are as of yet symptom free? The particular strain of Ebola they tested with has a mortality rate of 90% - too high to responsibly give someone.

Then I'd say they need to move their ass and get down to Liberia where we likely have plenty of test subjects.

And ethics have little to do with it when you're facing a 90% mortality rate. Anyone with sense enough would likely sign up for the drug no questions asked if they tested positive for Ebola.

Success in a test tube and/or monkeys doesn't mean much as far as hope for a drug viable for humans. After all, the trials for Tekmira's drug are on hold by the FDA due to safety concerns ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ho... ).

I don't know how to ethically do human trials for this. With monkeys, they infect them with the virus, then give the vaccine and see if the animal develops symptoms. Would we knowingly and purposefully infect humans with Ebola? Or are there enough people out there who have been exposed within three days and are as of yet symptom free? The particular strain of Ebola they tested with has a mortality rate of 90% - too high to responsibly give someone.

Success in a test tube and/or monkeys doesn't mean much as far as hope for a drug viable for humans. After all, the trials for Tekmira's drug are on hold by the FDA due to safety concerns ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ho... ).

Also, Tekmira is NOT the company that manufactured the drug used to treat Dr. Brantly and his coworker - that was Mapp Pharmaceutical's ZMapp

Well, trying at least

Time for medicare for all in the usa also the million-dollar heart transplant is loaded with markup where you can likely go out side of the usa and pay way less for it.

also due to court rulings in favor of inmate care you can just go to prison / jail to get one as well.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pr...

Boy, is that ever the exception that proves the rule. In order to get a heart transplant somebody had to sue the California prison system for him.

If they didn't want to pay for it, they could have released him on parole. He was sentenced for burglary and robbery. A patient with heart failure isn't going to be able to commit any more burglaries and robberies. He'll be lucky if he can walk around the block.

Despite this unusual example, prisoners have some of the worst health care in the country.

I read a series of articles on prison health care by Andrew Skolnick in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998 http://www.aaskolnick.com/new/... and I've seen dozens of articles since then to show that it hasn't gotten any better (it couldn't get worse).

They were leaving diabetic patients to die in their cells without insulin. Dozens of patients died because doctors and nurses simply ignored them and didn't give them their regular medication.

Sue, you say? It's almost impossible for a prisoner or his estate to sue the prison or the private contractor in most prisons, Correctional Medical Services.

There was a provision in a lot of states by which a doctor who was convicted of sexually abusing patients or dealing drugs would get his license reinstated but limited only to treating prisoners, so many of the prison doctors had worse convictions than their patients.

Don't forget, a lot of these prisoners were in because of the war on drugs.

Journalists know that if you want to do a sensational investigative story, write about prison health care. The New York Times did a series a while back:

https://www.google.com/webhp?r...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02...

HARSH MEDICINE
As Health Care in Jails Goes Private, 10 Days Can Be a Death Sentence
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
Published: February 27, 2005

Brian Tetrault was 44 when he was led into a dim county jail cell in upstate New York in 2001, charged with taking some skis and other items from his ex-wife's home. A former nuclear scientist who had struggled with Parkinson's disease, he began to die almost immediately, and state investigators would later discover why: The jail's medical director had cut off all but a few of the 32 pills he needed each day to quell his tremors.

Candy Brown died in September 2000, investigators say, when her withdrawal from heroin went untreated in this Rochester jail cell, shown in a recent photo.

Aja Venny with a photo of her son, Scott Mayo Jr., and the urn holding his ashes. She lives in a Bronx apartment with her husband, Scott Mayo, and their daughter, Skye, who is at her mother's knee.

HARSH MEDICINE
The New York Times's yearlong examination of Prison Health Services, the biggest commercial provider of medical care to inmates, found instances of disturbing deaths and other troubling treatment.

DAY 1: Dying Behind Bars

DAY 2: Lost Files, Lost Lives

DAY 3: Mistreating Tiffany

Time for medicare for all in the usa also the million-dollar heart transplant is loaded with markup where you can likely go out side of the usa and pay way less for it.

also due to court rulings in favor of inmate care you can just go to prison / jail to get one as well.

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China embedding chips in electric kettles and using the other appliances in the home to pry into home networks on the off chance that you're someone worth hacking.

Beyond that, hacking someone's fridge is a great way to be irksome to someone you don't like -- I've come home to a failed fridge after a week-long trip and it is definitely not pretty.

Im not seeing where you're getting your info; everything Ive ever heard indicates that the only issues reported with the M4 are reliability, due to its tighter tolerances, but that its also more accurate.

I guess people have short memories
2006: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-faulty-ammo-failing-troops/

In a confidential report to Congress last year, active Marine commanders complained that: "5.56 was the most worthless round," "we were shooting them five times or so," and "torso shots were not lethal."

That's just the first article google kicked up.
Complaints about stopping power started showing up once the Iraqi insurgency picked up.

The M4/M16 is very accurate, it just doesn't have the same stopping power past 300 meters as larger rounds.
This is intentional, because the military did research and concluded that most engagements take place inside 300 meters.
This is also a problem, because in Iraq/Afghanistan, soldiers were being engaged from 400 and 500 meters, well past the effective stopping range of the 5.56 round.

2010: U.S. Military Reconsiders Army's Use of M4 Rifles in Afghanistan

The Taliban are meanwhile using heavier bullets that allow them to fire at U.S. and NATO troops from distances that are out of range of the M4.

To counter these tactics, the U.S. military is designating nine soldiers in each infantry company to serve as sharpshooters, according to Maj. Thomas Ehrhart, who wrote the Army study. The sharpshooters are equipped with the new M110 sniper rifle, which fires a larger 7.62mm round and is accurate to at least 2,500 feet.

Then again, the military is in the midst of a "pivot to Asia" so who knows what that means for the next war.

Shame most of that concrete in China is going to waste, since a large percentage of the buildings they are building has no one using them.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/...

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You are full of shit. What the fuck has gotten into Slashdot? The numbers show the Israelis to be the aggressors. You'd think that, having lived through a genocide, they wouldn't attempt to do the same to another people.

2008 cease-fire. Look at the number of rocket and mortar *launches*. The cease-fire was honored by the Palestinians. Israel went over the border and killed 6 Hamas members, violating the cease-fire.

On 4 November 2008, the IDF made an incursion at least 250 meters into the Gaza Strip searching for a tunnel, claiming it was intended for the capture of Israeli soldiers and that it intended to continue with the truce, calling the raid a "pinpoint operation".[33] Hamas and, according to an allegation by Dr. Robert Pastor, one IDF source maintained that it was for defensive purposes.[34] As six Hamas fighters were killed,[4][35] Hamas stated that the attack was a "massive breach of the truce".[36]

This year, the Israeli president announces that they can never relinquish control of the West Bank. Meaning they will not accept a sovereign Palestinian state.

"I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan."

Just a week ago, the UN called out Israel for using Palestinian children as a human shield, torturing them, putting them in solitary confinement, and threatening sexual abuse. Their foreign minister said, "Israel must go all the way."

What the fuck are you people smoking? This is a genocide in motion. The US government wholeheartedly, 100%, with NO dissent supports it, when only 87% of the Israelis themselves support it. The House of Reps even called the attacks "unprovoked". I mean, seriously, WHAT THE FUCK?

For the record, I don't support either side shooting at each other, but it's not hard to see that this is some seriously fucked up shit on Israel's part. No person or group should engage in genocide and war crimes. Right now, Israel is doing 99% of the committing war crimes. That may have been different in the past, and it may change in the future, but it is NO EXCUSE.

Lol, naivete can be funny.

Sure, they can't outright deny you coverage, but what stops them from making your coverage so expensive you can't afford the deductibles? The answer is, "not a damn thing."

Which is why it's so great that the ACA has rate controls to prevent this kind of thing from happening, and mandates that everybody get insurance, so the many low-risk insured create a pool which makes it possible to cover the high-risk population in an affordable way.

You don't really believe that, do you? There are already tons of reports rolling in of people being denied treatments, being told that the cost of a procedure wouldn't go towards their deductible, and finding out that their $150/mo insurance program has a $25,000 deductible attached to it.

Some examples:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/g...

A pastor in Iowa, who is covered under ObamaCare, decried “there’s no compassion in the Affordable Care Act,” after he was told just minutes before receiving life-saving chemo that his treatments would not be covered. The pastor’s family has since emptied their savings account and are now $50,000 in debt.

A February 4 Los Angeles Times article detailed the story of California resident Danielle Nelson who was promised by Anthem Blue cross that her oncologists would be covered in her new policy. Diagnosed with non-Hogkins lymphoma last year, a lump was found near her jaw in January. But when she went to her oncologist’s office, the Times reported she “promptly encountered a bright orange sign saying that Covered California plans are not accepted.” Nelson told the Times: “I’m a complete fan of the Affordable Care Act, but now I can’t sleep at night, I can’t imagine this is how President Obama wanted it to happen.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ob...

The Affordable Care Act is turning out to be less than affordable for some consumers.

That’s because many of the plans carry huge deductibles, creating potential financial problems for middle-class consumers. Some “bronze”-level plans, the lowest level of coverage, carry deductibles as high as $12,700 per year for a family of four... The average individual deductible for a bronze plan is a whopping $5,081 per year, according to research provided to CBS MoneyWatch from HealthPocket, a technology company that ranks health care plans.

What’s worse, that represents an increase of 40 percent from the average deductible for an individually purchased plan before the federal health care overhaul, according to The Wall Street Journal.

... and these are just the tip of the iceberg. Things will get worse as the delayed provisions start to kick in.

That said, I don't think the concept of single-payer healthcare is a bad one; however I do not believe the current implementation is an effective system that's not designed to bilk average Americans out of money for the benefit of insurance execs and the Congresscritters who love them.

Oh come on now... the guy may be a tea party-aligned rape fugitive who overrode his political party to caucus with the Neo-Nazis, gave the dictator of Belarus an advance on leaks to be used in purges against his enemies, attempted to blackmail aid agencies by threatening to release information that could get their sources killed (including Amnesty International, to the tune of $700k), makes his volunteers sign 7-figure ultra-repressive NDAs, caused the defection of most of Wikileaks's staff due to complaints from authoritarianism to diverting the organization's money to himself, writes on his blog about how he's a god to women and women's brains can't do math, made a fake op-ed in the name of one of his opponents supposedly supporting him and promoted it with a fake twitter account in his name, wanted his book to be called "Ban This Book: From Swedish Whores to Pentagon Bores", wanted it to be full of his sex stories and at one point interrupted his ghostwriter to leer at a couple of 14-year-olds before remarking that one was "fine until I saw the teeth", cyberstalked a 17 year old before he got famous, and so on down the line ad nauseum... ....that's still no reason to wish him ill.

> Target's breach cost them 50% of their revenue for a year.

No it did not. Not even close. At worst their profits for the subsequent quarter were down 50% or in terms of revenue, that's less than a 6% drop compared to a year ago.

/. is really going downhill....

The media in general is going down hill. As much as Foxnews shills for the republicans, this is probably the biggest story of the year, yet it's missing from nearly every other news organization in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.latimes.com/
http://www.pbs.org/topics/news...
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.nbcnews.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/

I checked every one of those and there's no mention of it.
Obama could get IMPEACHED over this. This is turning into a Watergate level scandal.
It could all be coincidental, but seriously? The IRS doesn't archive email? REALLY?

He walked out of the State of the Union Address saying "I could not bear to watch as he continued to cross the clearly-defined boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers". Really adult.

He's running for Senate in Texas against Senator Corwyn, the Senate Minority Whip, and he just dropped off the map. He missed 17 House votes in a row. It also seems that even though he is a official candidate, he is doing zero campaigning. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-senate-candidate-steve-stockman-goes-awol/

He has also been cited by the Office of Congressional Ethics (I know, I laughed too). He accepted campaign contributions from his own staff members, which is a big no no. He is also accused of using his full time House staff members to work on his Congressional campaign. They all pull this trick, but there is a legal way and a stupid way to do this. He chose stupid. http://oce.house.gov/2014/06/june-11-2014---oce-referral-regarding-rep-steve-stockman.html

So it's not surprising that he would be the one to further complicate the snake pit of uncontrolled domestic surveillance by injecting it into a congressional investigation. Considering his quote about Obama breaking the constitution, his appeal to use unconstitutionally collected data to get at the IRS is mind boggling. His brain is clearly an irony free zone.

YOU THINK IT IS FUNNY? "Nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe in - angels". All that progress in science and mankind is going to shait again! It's not funny. Or maybe it is? Maybe it is hilarious? HAHAAAAHA!

Nah, they just taser people to death instead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai...

It's also happened fairly recently before the game came out, warning people about the city being closed because it's too hot, zombies, and GODZILLA.

"We tried that already with the Occupy movement. It ended up being judo'd into supporting those rat bastard "Tea Party" conservixtremists.

Sorry, but there's simply NO WAY you were not on SOME drug when you typed that!

The "Occupy Movement" was synthetic - it was setup by organizers affiliated with the Democrats who recruited and/or encouraged a bunch of losers to "take to the streets" and "occupy" a few parks - but was NEVER intended to succeed in doing ANYTHING to the Wall St. Bankers who FUNDED Barack Obama. "Occupy Wall Street" was an attempted leftist-populist SMOKESCREEN sponsored in many ways by the Democrats who, you will note, spoke glowingly about the movement and refused to enforce many laws against its actions (for as long as it was useful). It was an attempt to create a counter-balance to the TEA partiers on newscasts through an election cycle (originally, to get Obama through 2012, but now bits are trying to re-ignite for 2014). The "occupiers" were "useful idiots" who undoubtably stood for many OPPOSITE THINGS from the TEA Party, but did not understand that their true masters would never let them be effective; that was NOT the plan. They were NOT "judo'd into supporting" the TEA Party. .. the individual "occupiers" were just used by the politicians and their friends at ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC etc for an election cycle and then were discarded when the tactic failed to convince middle America that the TEA PArty was equally synthetic and obnoxious. Every polluted park, drug overdose, rape, smashed window, etc just further highlighted the complete CONTRAST with the TEA Partiers who did no none of those things.

"The problem is that it is angry average Joe against teams of highly intelligent, highly motivated, professional weasels working for the big two parties"

No. The problem is [1] that the many "angry average Joe" characters you cite are angry about DIFFERENT THINGS and want to go in ENTIRELY different directions for solutions, and [2] that the government is now SO big and involved in EVERYTHING that polititians can easily create a myriad of "wedge issues" to get various "angry average Joes" to support them (beacause of those "wedges") as they harm those Joes with other policies. The "Angry Average Joe" who goes to "occupy" thinks the solution is Marxism (even though that has NEVER worked). The "Angry Average Joe" who joins the TEA Party wants to go back to the small government with limited authority our founders gave us (which DID work). These positions CANNOT be merged; they are POLAR OPPOSITES. This gets gamed by politicians who then argue over things like abortion, gay marriage, global warming, etc as a way to drag people to their sides REGARDLESS of issues of Marxism vs Freedom (and, yes, those two are OPPOSITES... you CANNOT re-distribute wealth without first STEALING it at gunpoint)

Spying on people like Angie Merkel is the entire reason we instructed our Congress to spend $30-$40 per person on an NSA. Period. End of story. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Same goes for most of the other NSA revelations (spying on Brazil's government, helping the Aussies spy on Indonesia, etc.).

[Citation Needed]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh-us-not-monitoring-german-chancellor-angela-merkels-phone/

Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, saying that would be "a serious breach of trust" if confirmed. The two leaders spoke by phone, Carney said.

"The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," said Carney. "The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges."

Why did Obama promise not to spy on Merkel if that's what "we instructed our Congress to" do?
(Who's "we" by the way? I sure as hell didn't instruct anyone do to that.)

7 months later and Merkel is still pissed off about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/world/europe/merkel-says-gaps-with-us-over-surveillance-remain.html

Ms. Merkel, who last fall declared that âoespying between friends is simply unacceptableâ and that the United States had opened a breach of trust that would have to be repaired, said at the news conference that âoewe have a few difficulties yet to overcome.â One remaining issue, she said, was the âoeproportionalityâ of the surveillance.

I used to hear that you could use them in self-driving mode to get you home if you'd had too much to drink, but not anymore.

I used to hear that you could use them in self-driving mode to get you home if you'd had too much to drink, but not anymore.

If the United States took the high ground and refused to engage this, it would be to the detriment of the West, likely including the Country you've posted from.

And how exactly? Are the evil Internet terrorists going to hack us? Wait I know, maybe some evil foreign spy agency will steal trade secrets from our businesses... oh wait.

This technology is already out there for everyone to exploit

"But Johny also did it" is the kind of excuse I'd expect from a first grader. Just because someone else engages in something morally questionable doesn't make it ok for you to do it.

Just stop. This isn't about "defending" anything, but American financial interests. If you honestly believe there is some higher purpose behind the US spying efforts, then you are either extremely naive, or suffering from a severe case of cognitive dissonance.

And, of course, not all citizens are tax payers...

There was no evidence beforehand that there are significant problems with US K-12 education on average

Until I read the rest of your post I assumed you were being sarcastic with this statement. The US spends more than any other country on education, but still ranks below average when compared to other developed countries. We have known this for a long time, but things keep getting worse. While none of this means teachers are the primary cause of these problems, it is ignorant to say that there are not significant problems in our K-12 education system.

but there was and is absolutely zero evidence that the vast majority of teachers weren't already working hard 'to achieve results' before Grover Norquist and Michelle Rhee got involved to "improve" the situation.

My employers don't care much if I am trying hard. They care what my results are. There are times when I fail, and most of the time my employer agrees that the cause of the failure was outside of my control. But the next step isn't to ignore the failure, it is to determine how I will mitigate and compensate for those outside factors. Our educational system has been showing us very clearly that it is not doing a very good job finding solutions that will make the US compare well with the rest of the world. There are not easy answers to any of these problems, as evidenced by the lack of success that many renovators are having to suffer through. Sadly I believe this means we need more revolution than evolution, but I'm not sure how that could ever happen politically.

On the other hand, there is over 100 years of evidence as to why schools tend to evolve toward seniority systems (hint: not to protect "incompetent" teachers), all of which was ignored.

Everyone would love to be insulated from office politics. If teachers unions want to be part of the solution instead of the problem, they need to find a way to identify good teachers by some metric other than seniority (which doesn't work at all). This will allow great teachers to be paid well (I see no reason why the top 1% of teachers shouldn't be making $200k+) and will allow us to remove poor ones. This is an incredibly hard problem to solve, but current teachers unions just bury their head in the sand instead of trying to find solutions. That is why you have so many outside interests getting involved.

Was Bengahzi a problem, yes, four people died. Was it a big enough problem to justify the level of discourse about it, and let's be honest here, it was only if you want to discredit Hilary Clinton in case she runs for office. The irony of the situation is that anyone that would be swayed by arguments about Benghazi would be in the group of people that wouldn't vote for her anyway.

Benghazi is two problems. The State Department, at the time led by Hillary Clinton, was allegedly negligent in not taking proper security precautions to prevent the attack. It also led a coverup to prevent the attack from hurting President Obama politically.

If Hillary Clinton was so negligent that her subordinates did not take the proper security precautions, she is responsible, through negligence, for the deaths of four Americans. Certainly there's an amount of negligence which would immediately disqualify Clinton from being voted for. If she gets the nomination, each voter will have to draw that line for themselves.
But was she negligent to that level? Were her subordinates? Was the President? I don't know, and very few other people do either, which is exactly why we need the investigation. Whether or not Clinton was negligent in preventing the attack is material to whether she deserves to be President, so the American people deserve to know what happened before they decide whether or not to vote for her.

The second issue is the coverup. We now know that Federal Government NEVER believed that a YouTube video was the cause for the Al Qaeda attack on the Benghazi consulate. The reason that the YouTube video spin was propagated in the first place was to prevent questions about whether the Obama administration's foreign policy was succeeding at preventing terrorism by hiding the fact that a US consulate was attacked by Al Qaeda.
Just like with the attack itself, if Hillary Clinton was responsible for a lie being told to the American people, that will disqualify her from being elected in the eyes of many people. Just how many depends people depends on just how responsible Hillary Clinton was. Because every voter has to draw that line for themselves, the American people need to know exactly what happened before they decide whether or not to vote for her.

As an aside, before you bring up veterans dying to support ignoring an Obama administration coverup, you may want to check out what Veterans Administration Secretary Shinseki has been covering up.

The prevalence of the passwords requiring uppercase, lowercase, punctuation etc is ridiculous as more and more sites and servers I use are requiring it.

I'm going to make an assumption here and I bet I'm I'm right. (I have NO idea!)
The VAST majority of security breaches are due to poorly patched software / bugs / social engineering / angry staff etc.
I'd wager very very few password hacks are due to people having the password
"momspajamas2212" instead of "M0mspaJAMas22!2"

I will say I'm finding the only way to still remember my passwords on sites now is to start using pattern based passwords, example "$RFV%TGB4rfv5tgb" (try typing that) - it's not ideal but I can remember the bastard thing. (I hope this helps someone else out, I gave it out to someone recently and they adopted something similar pretty much instantly and yes, I know you could add patterns to the dictionary)

If you look at those who have analyzed cracked databases to see what passwords people actually used, you'll find that people get hacked because they're using passwords like "password", "123456", "monkey", and so on.

Honestly, I've found that a password manager is really the only sane way to use cryptographically secure (and completely different) passwords on every site without worrying about losing those passwords. I use Lastpass, since it syncs between machines automatically and has a plugin which automatically fills in the username and password for you, and will detect when you change existing passwords or create new ones. There are a bunch of other good ones too if you don't like the idea of your encrypted password database being store online (note: it's encrypted locally, so Lastpass never sees anything but a binary blob).

There is major oil in Florida, or at least under the continental shelf within the EEZ. However, Cuba would probably prefer that they didn't have to compete with Russia for the oil they are slant drilling (using Chinese drilling platforms, instead of US or EU-owned platforms due to sanctions).

Good for them, btw, as there doesn't appear to be any illegality (other than who has the will and biggest guns having the final say as to what is illegal) and obviously it is immoral for the USA to access that oil, anyway.

Man, so many grenades, so little time.

Not so fast. We have aided Mexico militarily by sending special forces for training, and also bringing Mexican troops to the US for training. Russia itself has not invaded Ukraine. Russian loyalists however have occupied several government buildings/regions because they're not a fan of the Pro-NATO, Pro-West stance taken by the Kieven government. I'm not going to say Russia is entirely innocent here, after all there were supposedly photos of Russian special forces training Eastern Ukrainians, but that behavior is nearly the same as what the US has done with Mexico in the drug war. We picked the side we liked and benefitted us the most, we gave them equipment and training, and told the other side that if they spill over our borders we will christen them with hellfire missiles.

EPA's Air Pollution Target: Flatulent Cows
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ep...

Anwar Al-Awlaki ringing any bells?

Link

Hyperbolic exaggeration of trivial consequences, as if they could wipe out an industry, are not a valuable contribution to the discussion.

Except in discussions where the phrase "global warming" is uttered (twice now!). Where the hyperbole of extremely long time frames can be applied to miniscule almost statistical-level-of-error deltas, to imagine a massive and immediate effect that is presented like a wrecking ball to cause children (and adults who should know better) to imagine tsunamis and thunderbolts of baking heat.

This is overall a small matter - a trivial cost regulation, protecting from a small threat.

Information and beer and over-the-counter stock trading wants to be free --- free from parasitic scalping practices that affect everyone. High Frequency Traders and The Government are now under greater scrutiny these days, people are waking up and asking why? Why? What's in it for us?

"Now you see, of course, that with this method we can disprove any definite theory. We have a real guess, with which we can compute consequences, which could be compared to experiments; and in principle we can get rid of any wrong theory. You can always prove any definite theory wrong. Notice, however, that we never prove it right. Suppose that you invent a good guess, calculate the consequences, and find that the consequences agree with experiment. The theory is then right?

"No; it is simply not proven wrong. Because, in the future, there could be a wider range of experiments or you could compute a wider range of consequences and you may discover that some of those are wrong. That's why laws like Newton's laws for the motion of planets last for such a long time; he guessed the law of gravitation and calculated all the kinds of consequences for the solar system and so on, compared them to experimental observation and it took several hundred years for the slight error in the motions of Mercury to develop. During all that time, the theory had been failed to be proven wrong and could be taken to be temporarily right. It can never be proved right, because tomorrow's experiment may succeed in proving what you thought was right, wrong."

The only way that global warming, as a scientific theory, will ever be permanently "settled" is if it is proven wrong. When the challengers are just repeating the same bullshit arguments over and over (as with the religious teleological arguments presented anew under the names of "creation science" and "intelligent design") winning the debate may be quick and painless, but nevertheless the proper working of the scientific method is the remorseless, unceasing challenge of the orthodoxy with new ideas and measurements.

Plenty of these have already happened.

Yeah that's why they use it in so many asthma inhalers and electronic cigarette fluids and lots of other things intended to be ingested.

So that implies that those are non-toxic? Ethyl alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, cough syrup, and countless others are meant to be ingested too - But that doesn't imply zero toxicity. Drink a couple of fifths of vodka with a bottle of percoset and tell me in the morning whether those ingestables had any toxicity.

Don't be stupid. Too much of anything can kill you. Skip the vodka and Percocet and just drink a couple of fifths of water in a short period of time. Let me know how well that works out for you. Hyponatremia can be caused by drinking too much water.

First off the wage gap myth is exactly that, it's been debunked a dozen times over:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/th...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/re...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...

Second off women are NOT overwhelmingly the victims of domestic violence, they are in fact more likely to be the PERPETRATOR of non-reciprocal violence than men, excerpted from an article on the subject:

"in nonreciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more than 70 percent of the cases," and men incurred significant injuries ('http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/31-a') ('http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/5/941').

"In addition to the CDC data, a recent 32-nation study by the University of New Hampshire found women commit half of all partner violence and are just as controlling as men ('http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm?type=n') ('http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41E2.pdf').

A University of Florida study recently found women are more likely than men to "stalk, attack and abuse" their partners ('http://news.ufl.edu/2006/07/13/women-attackers/').
The University of Washington recently found similar results ('http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070625111433.htm').

In fact, although men are less likely to report the violence - which distorts crime data, virtually all randomized sociological surveys show women initiate domestic violence as often as men and use weapons more than men, that men suffer one-third of injuries, and that self-defense explains only a small portion of domestic violence by either sex. Professor Martin Fiebert of California State University summarizes this data in an online bibliography at ('http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm').

A recent study in the Journal of Family Violence found many male callers to a national hotline experienced severe violence from female partners who used violence to control them ('http://www.springerlink.com/content/a7q0032j88817218/fulltext.pdf').

A University of Pennsylvania emergency room report found 13 percent of men were assaulted by a female partner in the previous 12 months, 37 percent with a weapon, and 14 percent required medical attention ('http://www.aemj.org/cgi/content/abstract/6/8/786').

You really expect to believe the numbers coming out of Washington? Gullible aren't we?

Sure, this is the worst administration for lies in our lifetime, but even before this one, they still fudged numbers. It's just the way the game is played out there.

define "lifetime."

also, i'm pretty sure THIS was the worst falsehood from a U.S. presidential administration in our relative lifespans: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/st...

Various Native American tribes are engaging in self-destructive behavior. Some say it is over gambling profits.

Disenrollment leaves Natives "culturally homeless"

One tribe in California will shortly have cut itself in half, down to 900 or less: I Know I Am, But What Are You?

Wow! When did Southwest get ETOPS approval to fly over the Atlantic Ocean???

They didn't. They just get lost occasionally.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-and-spacex-elon-musks-industrial-empire/

It's cute that you think you personal observation actually has Merritt or is accurate in any way.

Keep on thinking that. And I can keep on finding stories.