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I'm reminded of the woman who likewise killed herself and tried to kill others, when she was likewise effectively fired from her job making Youtube videos without appeal or recourse. She didn't even get an explanation, I don't know if that's the case for this guy.

The "gig economy" involves monopolistic control for the gatekeepers, and zero rights for employees. We can probably expect more of this, barring some regulatory effort.

My first instinct on this story was to make some comment on how crazy was one way to make popular Youtube videos, and combining crazy with an income stream that might be taken away at any moment is a recipe for trouble.

However, I didn't make the comment since this was only a single incident... until you reminded me that this is the second such incident of a mentally unstable Youtuber going on a murder suicide when they lost their income stream.

I fear this isn't going to be the last incident, Youtube is going to get more and more unstable people pushing the boundaries of what's allowed, and when they (or in this case Valve) start enforcing those boundaries you're going to keep getting unstable people with a very big grievance against you.

I'm reminded of the woman who likewise killed herself and tried to kill others, when she was likewise effectively fired from her job making Youtube videos without appeal or recourse. She didn't even get an explanation, I don't know if that's the case for this guy.

The "gig economy" involves monopolistic control for the gatekeepers, and zero rights for employees. We can probably expect more of this, barring some regulatory effort.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/g...

I think part of the problem is they'd prefer to invest in a self-driving car company that doesn't kill people.

Good luck finding one of those. The software systems in manually driven cars kills people as well. It's unrealistic to expect death-free cars.

nice try https://www.caranddriver.com/features/its-all-your-fault-the-dot-renders-its-verdict-on-toyotas-unintended-acceleration-scare-feature

From the June 2011 edition of Car and Driver:

"Earlier this year, the Department of Transportation released the results of its study into the blizzard of reports that various Toyota and Lexus models were accelerating out of control. The DOT concluded that, other than a number of incidents caused by accelerators hanging up on incorrectly fitted floor mats, the accidents were caused by drivers depressing their accelerators when they intended to apply their brakes. “Pedal misapplication” was the DOT’s delicate terminology for this phenomenon."

I think part of the problem is they'd prefer to invest in a self-driving car company that doesn't kill people.

Good luck finding one of those. The software systems in manually driven cars kills people as well. It's unrealistic to expect death-free cars.

Posting AC for very obvious reasons; I wanted to chime in that I have become far more racist against groups of people since the rise of the SJW in 2012/2013 and the subsequent cascade of hatred against the white male becoming a mostly accepted social norm. The notion that "you cannot be racist against white people" or "you cannot be sexist against men" or "black people cannot be racist" is no different than "the negro is unable to control his rage" or "women are mentally unstable and must be treated specially" except despite the non-PC nature there is some grain of biological truth to the previous two statements; read about MAOA aka "the warrior gene" and women's emotional stability under pressure. Seeing white nationalists banned from host after host for "hate speech" (many white nationalists don't even have a "hateful" message in the first place, certainly less so than what the likes of Bonita Tindle get away with) and the the batshit reaction to "it's ok to be white" have made it seem that some political positions in favor of white people is necessary and morally valuable.

As far as I am concerned, if black nationalist and supremacist groups are fine and dandy, white nationalist and supremacist groups should be as well. That's called "equality." But of course, in the new SocJus era, non-whites and non-males are more equal than whites and males. Much progressive, very Jim Crow, wow.

One thing everyone here is missing is that U.S. Steel and Nucor Steel have been fighting every single exemption request companies have put forth to the U.S. Commerce Department. These companies want exemptions from the tariffs so they can continue to get steel at reasonable prices and/or quality and type they need.

Instead, the two largest producers of steel in the country have raised their prices and told the Commerce Department the exemptions are bogus because they can make the product, even though in at least one case, a company stopped buying steel from U.S. Steel because of quality control issues.

Of course politics plays a big role in all this:

Charlotte-based Nucor, which financed a documentary film made by a top trade adviser to Mr. Trump, and Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, which has previously employed several top administration officials, have objected to 1,600 exemption requests filed with the Commerce Department over the past several months.

To date, their efforts have never failed, resulting in denials for companies that are based in the United States but rely on imported pipes, screws, wire and other foreign steel products for their supply chains.

In one case, a company stated “the sole U.S. producer of high speed steel material appropriate for cutting tools is not currently ramping up any production to expand this aspect of their business and has not shown any interest in quoting new business.”

As the tariffs take hold, expect prices of finished goods to rise substantially and more businesses to either go under or relocate out of the country. The largest nail manufacturer in the country has already laid off 12% of its workforce, cut hours for the remainder and is still on the brink of extinction, so it has to make such a decision.

I'll as you the same question:

If I care about immigration reform, which party is more likely to get me there? The one that wants no reform and blanket amnesty, or the one somewhat divided on the issue? Which party is calling for the abolition of ICE? Which party creates "sanctuary" cities/states? Which party runs cities that won't even convict a cold-blooded killer of manslaughter?

There wasn't a single Democratic vote for Trump's tax bill that put us even more massively in debt in either the House or the Senate either.

It was a budget bill. They didn't have to avoid a filibuster.

You're deluding yourself by not holding Republicans to their failures and the party's ideals become weaker for every person that does this.

If I care about immigration reform, which party is more likely to get me there? The one that wants no reform and blanket amnesty, or the one somewhat divided on the issue? Which party is calling for the abolition of ICE? Which party creates "sanctuary" cities/states? Which party runs cities that won't even convict a cold-blooded killer of manslaughter?

Per what was just announced, Tesla lost $717 million on $4 billion in revenue. A 17.9% loss. In Q1, 2018, they lost $597 million on $3.4 billion in revenue. A 17.5% loss. If anything, losses are increasing as a percent of revenue, not decreasing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...

Suppose someone broke into a power company, and shut off all power to a city. Would water stop running into everyone's home in the city, because the water company's water pumps stopped working?

A July 13 CBS news article says

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned of an impending, potentially devastating cyberattack on U.S. systems, saying the country's digital infrastructure "is literally under attack" and warning that among state actors, Russia is the "worst offender."

Speaking at a scheduled event at the Hudson Institute, he adopted the language of former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet who, in the months ahead of the 9/11 attacks, warned that the "system was blinking red." Coats, citing daily attacks from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, said, "Here we are, nearly two decades later, and I'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again."

It's a good idea to have an emergency supply of food and water.

Friend, I have some Bad News for you, an epiphany I had some time ago: The America we all grew up thinking we were living in? IT NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. Maybe it did for the first few months or years in the 18th century, but after that it started getting subverted by the greedy and the cruel, as you put it. Long before the time we were born, it was already gone.

Let me tell you what is at least as big a threat, if not more so, than the foreign agents who are meddling in our electoral process: malicious natural U.S. citizens who are only really interested in 'pissing off liberals', and they don't care if they destroy the United States in the process, so long as they get their pound of flesh. CBS News conducted a poll that shows that even in the wake of Trump virtually selling out the U.S. Government to Vladimir Putin -- a shameful debacle that both sides of the Congressional aisle universally condemned -- Republicans are still supporting Trump. Even Congressional Republicans won't criticize him for long, because they're more interested in retaining their majority in Congress than they're interested in what's good for the entire country, so they let this train wreck of an Administration continue, even as Trump makes nice with one of the biggest villians on the planet today, an unmistakable enemy of the United States. That's why everything is so bad, that's why it all so completely fucked up, and until the GOP no longer has a majority in at least the House or the Senate it'll all just get worse and worse as time goes by. By 2020 there may not be much of a country left.

You either don't know or don't care how the FBI works, much like the Republicans who interrogated Strzok. To suggest that he paid Halper is just stupid. From Strzok's testimony.

"At every step, at every investigative decision, there were multiple layers of people above me, assistant director, deputy director, director of the F.B.I., and multiple layers of people below me, section chiefs, unit chiefs and analysts, all of whom were involved in all of these decisions," he told Mr. Gowdy after the chairman pressed him. "They would not tolerate any improper behavior in me any more than I would tolerate it in them."

Yeah, multiple layers of people who refuse to state under oath that they actually read the FISA warrants they signed to spy on the Trump campaign.

Not the greatest source it's clearly biased, but the embedded video clearly shows Rod Rosenstien - one of Strzok's "multiple layers of people above me" - refusing to state that he actually read the FISA warrants he signed.

Nevermind the fact that Strzok has no credibility at all - which is why Mueller shitcanned him in the first place.

Ask Steven Hatfill how Robert Mueller's FBI worked - he got seven million dollars from the FBI because of their fuckups.

Ask the four Boston men framed by the FBI for a murder in order to protect Whitey Bulger how "the FBI works". They got $101 million for their troubles. Guess what? Robert Mueller's fingerprints are all over the coverup of THAT....

The way Raenex has framed these statements, closes the door to any reasonable discord.

I stated my case plainly and with supporting references, in response to a one-sided diatribe against the right.

Your defense of the intolerant muslim ban is to say that, yes, you are intolerant?

Your defense of mass importation of an intolerant and violent culture is... to say to not do so would be intolerant?? All this concern for LGBT and women's rights flies out the window when it comes to this issue. Strange, isn't it?

You're just making shit up.

All my statements were supported by references. Who's the one attempting reasonable discord? Certainly not you.

I don't see anything on the "left" that is attempting selective immigration by religion or origin

Oh, really?

You provide no argument to oppose the claim or defend LGBT people, but just point out that you are absolutely and certainly ostracizing at least the trans portion of those. Isn't this simply confirming your intolerance?

I made a case that the defense of LGBT issues has gone well past the point of reasonableness. You think it's "intolerance" that biological women don't want to have biological men who "identify" as women hanging around them with their genitals hanging out. Does this seem reasonable to you?

Where was BLM mentioned?

That's what has pushed the whole "police brutality" narrative for the past several years.

Are you rounding them all up under the generic "the left" again?

"The left" has indeed adopted and heavily pushed the phony Black Lies Matter narrative, which itself was founded by leftists who idolized the black nationalist, communist, and fugitive cop-killer Assata Shakur.

The article you use as evidence states that there was bias found in police use of force.

A whopping 18%. Now let's talk about how blacks commit many times more violent crime than whites, which is their real problem. Less crime, less interaction with the police, less black on black crime.

If they're illegals, they can't vote.

You completely ignored the part about the US Census. Why should illegals help determine the outcome of the Congress and the Electoral College?

Furthermore, illegals technically "can't work" either, yet they do so via fraudulent means.

How does that relate to voter disenfranchisement, which you have not commented on?

I commented that minorities, who are supposedly being disenfranchised, actually have majority support for voter id laws. Disenfranchisement happens when people who are not eligible to vote do so, by usurping rights exclusively limited to citizens.

Yes, abortion is a divisive issue, but you're using it to wedge us apart here.

I'm not the one who brought it up. I was responding to somebody using it to tar the right as "intolerant" of "womens rights", while ignoring the human life being terminated. Of course it's a complicated issue, and you can make a reasoned case for either side.

I don't know how we'll ever heal this country

I don't know either. We certainly won't by harassing

The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims.

Islam is the most intolerant, violent, and supremacist religion on Earth. Sane people want to limit immigration, which is not a right, from this violent and supremacist culture. The left wants to import them in massive numbers, and will call you an "Islamophobe" and "xenophobe" if you don't.

They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people.

The left wants 99.9% of society to re-engineer itself to recognize the delusions of the 0.1% of transgender people. Some guy "identifies" as a woman, and he wants to hang out with biological women with his male genitalia hanging out.

They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality.

Black Lies Matter was a phony narrative that did not stand up to scrutiny. The end result has been dead cops and more dead blacks due to less policing in crime-ridden neighborhoods.

They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting.

The left wants to disenfranchise American citizens by flooding the country with illegals and making it harder to reserve rights for American citizens. That's why they put up a big stink when the US Census was going to ask about citizenship status, because they're afraid illegals won't be counted for congressional representation and the electoral college.

By the way, even the majority of minorities support voter id laws.

They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems.

Just ignore the human life that's terminated by these "womens rights".

You think the left is intolerant?

Yes, I think harassing people in public, hounding them out of their jobs, and shutting down their free speech events is massively intolerant.

When over 90% of black people and the majority of other minorities vote for the left it's because they think (correctly) that the right is actively working against them.

No, it's because they are on the Democrat welfare plantation.

Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.

For fuck's sake, "piss christ" was an actual thing, and nothing happened. Do you know what would happen if you actually performed this experiment? They would probably politely tell you to stop bothering them.

Now go post a sign that says, "It's okay to be white", and see what happens.

Formaldehyde is in everything. Well, not quite everything, but a huge number of products. New clothes? Yep. That new flooring? Certainly

https://branchbasics.com/blog/...
https://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bi...

It even occurs naturally in some foods:
https://www.foodinsight.org/ch...

Anything above that means child labor or Grandpa working into his 70s!

Guess what?

Removing all germs is why more and more people get sick so often. They're so germophobic their bodies don't develop immunity to minor bugs, let alone the bigger ones. These are the same people who run to the doctor when they have a sniffle and demand an antibiotic which is why we are beginning to see antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The best thing a child can do when growing up is eat two pounds of dirt.

NOTE: this does not mean I don't wash my hands after using the restroom or that people who handle food should not wash their hands. I'm only saying that building up an immunity would go a long way to helping mitigate outbreaks.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/l...

Looks like part of the explanation could be artificial score inflation.

1. Allow applicants to omit SAT/ACT scores
2. Applicants with lower scores omit
3. Your average applicant score goes up
4. ???
5. Profit!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

It is maybe because it was not about developing... They were right about the time to develop. BUT the non scientist failed with their works: a success commercial embargo. The "political" premises under which scientists were wrong, there was technology exchange. A-Bomb asks Pakistan... For the missiles, check the usual suspect and strange pieces from western countries (an intermediary?). Seems more a political failure and a secret services failure than a scientific failure. It was never about developing but about transferring technology.

You should think again.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...

There are MANY other examples as to how the amount of gun deaths in the USA, by 100,000 population, is ... unusually high for a nation not at war, shall we say?

"Even though it has half the population of the other 22 nations combined, the United States accounted for 82 percent of all gun deaths. The United States also accounted for 90 percent of all women killed by guns, the study found. Ninety-one percent of children under 14 who died by gun violence were in the United States. And 92 percent of young people between ages 15 and 24 killed by guns were in the United States, the study found."

If you don't think that is a problem, I'd be quite worried about you.

What she did was fraud, pure and simple.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t...

Wow, just wow. California is flooded with illegal immigrants. They openly brag about taking over the state. And the useful idiots hold the door open. But you're not racist, right? God forbid a stereotype is actually true.

Do you actually think anybody else would have been allowed to flip his car, crash into a police car, send 3 police into the hospital, all without a license, and not even been cited? Even if by some off-chance he's here legally, the police would have assumed he's an illegal. They can't even inquire about immigration status.

We have a state that's declared itself a "sanctuary" state, with an Oakland mayor who committed obstruction of justice by tipping off a Fed raid, with a cucked citizenry that won't even convict a murderer of manslaughter.

But you aren't racist, right?

What's this?

Why are you linking that article? It doesn't support your theory on CFCs. It mentions Hydrogen Sulfide and Sulfur Dioxide, both known volcanic gasses that have nothing to do with CFCs.

So, either naturally occurring CFCs. Or Kilauea breached a geothermal well.

There are no naturally-occurring CFCs. They don't exist in geothermal wells. They are produced entirely by industrial processes. The concentration around Kilauea is most likely because atmospheric scientists have sampled around it without sampling thousands of miles of upwind regions... because, you know, they're all ocean and sampling has to be done by manually collecting atmospheric samples and bringing them to a lab for analysis.

detected 4 years ago.

Kilauea has been there for millions of years.

Yes, but the article is about a project that has been tracking CFCs in the atmosphere for many years seeing a new source of CFC-11 starting around 2012. That's not "millions of years".

And, not seeing a new source of other CFCs, just CFC-11. Volcanoes don't emit CFC-11 (there just aren't any magma sources for fluorine-- volcanic gasses to worry about are hydrogen sulfide and sulfur di- and tri-oxide.)

What's this?

"This" is a news article that says of the geothermal plant at Puna "a flammable gas called pentane is used as part of the process."

Pentane isn't a chlorofluorocarbon (although it's a contributor to photochemical smog.)

detected 4 years ago.

Kilauea has been there for millions of years.

And volcanoes do NOT release CFCs

You know this how? Proving a negative ....

nor are they used in geothermal electricity production.

What's this?

Yea, who knew that hanging 5+ Lbs worth of crap off of a key could effect the mechanism?
Nearly all of us I think.
Paying people for being stupid again.

Lawsuit was based on lies to begin with - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/g...
Just someone trying to hit the lottery.

Pentane is used for lava targets. Heptane and Septane are already spoken for. Enneatane don't fire nobody's rocket, not nobody, not nohow. Hentriacontadictakitane is available.

Yet another example of a citzen getting shot at while obeying an officer's orders. He was told to put up his hands and got the blam, blam, blam for doing so.

I'm sure anyone with an IQ of at least 80 will realize when you ask someone for their license they're going to reach somewhere. So perhaps an IQ test for officers?

"Can you get out your license and insurance?" Blam blam blam
"Can I see your license please?" Blam blam blam

As multiple sources clarify, 47% do not pay the "Federal Income Tax" while 28% do not pay net federal taxes. The difference is mainly because the payroll (FICA) tax is an income tax but is not the Federal Income Tax. That is, the United States has multiple income taxes and the 47% comment is about one of them, making it very misleading. Additionally, there's a good number of households you'd expect to not pay taxes. About a third of those 28% are elderly people, for instance.

(These numbers are all from articles around the time of Romney's 47% remark. The precise numbers are likely similar but not identical today.)

Israel's evidence clearly show Iran's pattern of lying, and Iran's statements clearly indicate they where still actively developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, despite the "deal".

You mean the papers that CIA has known about for a decade? And which were the precursor to the agreement that was made? What Israel brought to the table is nothing new. It was known before, which is why an agreement was needed to curb the Iranians' effort to make a nuclear bomb. The agreement did just that. IAEA has certified over and over that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the agreement.

Right.. the IAEA is to be trusted and Iran let them see everything? (not as far as you can throw them and not on your life.)

The Iranians are lying to the IAEA, just like they did before the agreement was made (as the evidence proves). The problem here is the IAEA didn't have unrestricted inspection rights, even to the locations we KNEW where being used (as the evidence shows). The agreement didn't specify these locations. The IAEA's view of the situation was thus limited. Iran was/is lying that they are in compliance, like they've lied about this for decades. Nothing is new...

So you think the IAEA's opinion counts and is valid? Cute..

Israel's evidence clearly show Iran's pattern of lying, and Iran's statements clearly indicate they where still actively developing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, despite the "deal".

You mean the papers that CIA has known about for a decade? And which were the precursor to the agreement that was made? What Israel brought to the table is nothing new. It was known before, which is why an agreement was needed to curb the Iranians' effort to make a nuclear bomb. The agreement did just that. IAEA has certified over and over that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the agreement.

I'm going to assume you're not a moron and try to explain.

The fundamental, most basic cornerstone of a democratic government is the right to vote. (Yes, I know we're technically a republic.) Everyone has a constitutional right to vote. When you put barriers in place, no matter how innocuous they may seem, you will inadvertently deny people their constitutional right to vote. You will deny them their ability to participate in self-government, which is the cornerstone of freedom.

Voter impersonation does not rise to the level of concern that we should be denying people their right to vote by placing barriers up that don't accomplish their stated goal. I live in Wisconsin, and here are some of the things that happened when we implemented voter ID:

90 Year Old Iwo Jima Vet denied the right to vote.

When he presented his veterans administration card with his picture on it, he was told that the card was not listed as 'acceptable' proof of his identity. He responded: 'You mean veterans can't vote?'

A birth certificate with a typo on it causes a man to not be given a photo ID so he can't vote.
People of all races, all walks of life turned away from the polls.

And for what? For what possible purpose did we implement a voter ID law in Wisconsin?

Attorney General Brad Schimel suggests Donald Trump won Wisconsin because of the state's voter ID law

That's why. Partisan. Fucking. Politics. Not because voter impersonation is an issue. Because some evil asshats decided that getting their people elected was more important than some people's constitutional rights and freedoms.

And for the record, I feel the same way about gerrymandering and denying felons the right to vote. None of these things are helping voters participate in democracy, and they're not solving any issues that are remotely of the scale that it would make it necessary to put these barriers in place.

It's shocking to me how undemocratic we've become (or we've always been, but it's really visible now) as a country, and I think it's well past time to undo all of this stupidity. And make federal voting day a national holiday with a mandatory half day off for everyone. If you really want to tackle voter impersonation, that's an easy way to do it. With a guaranteed half day off, there should be no reason people can't get to the polls. And the more people who vote, the less viable voter impersonation becomes. It's already a non-issue, but something like 90% voter participation would absolutely put a stake in it.

I think Trump is a reckless goofball, but experts and the South Korean Foreign Minister are crediting him for pressuring North Korea to come to the table.

No, no, it's all a coincidence, like the cold war ending under Reagan.

The smart set all say so, just like they did then!

He is so dumb he managed to end the Korean war today.

Trump had nothing to do with it, and there's still no peace treaty signed. The two Koreas agreed that they should end the war and pledged to work toward it, but that's happened before and they're a long way from an actual treaty.

I think Trump is a reckless goofball, but experts and the South Korean Foreign Minister are crediting him for pressuring North Korea to come to the table. The fact that he's a reckless goofball means you have to take the threats he makes seriously, kinda like how North Korea has been playing the West all these decades. Anyhow, we'll see if it's different this time around, or if it'll be yet another round of North Korea collecting concessions from the West, then reneging on the deal (as happened with food and energy aid in the past).

The fact that North Korea is willing to talk to South Korea alone about a formal peace treaty is in and of itself a pretty big step. Previously, North Korea refused to recognize the legitimacy of the South Korean government, calling it a puppet state, and insisting on negotiating with the U.S. (and only the U.S.) directly. That's why in the past, the U.S. has insisted on 5-way negotiations between all major countries involved in the war - North and South Korea, the U.S., China, and Russia. North Korea agreeing to meet directly with only South Korea about ending the war is already a concession on their part. (So is Trump agreeing to meet Kim without South Korea present. This may be another Nixon-in-China moment, where only a staunch opponent can pull off overturning decades of established policy, because if anyone else did it, it would be seen as giving in.)

Trump is not a criminal target of the investigation.

So now I'm wondering how unusual it is to have a general warrant on a sitting president, culminating to a raid of Trump's attorney, breaching attorney client privilege.

The DNC and their media lapdogs have been running with this collusion narrative for over a year, it has not resulted in impeachment, so now it is time to try to at least reap something from what they've sown in preparation for November.

I'm glad they are pulling this stunt. It's time once more to point out that the source of the DNC hacking narrative, their email server, was never subjected to an independent third party security audit, nor was it ever turned over to the FBI.

They had it in for him.

Back in '08, it was a very heated race between Obama and Clinton. Then in the Summer, they had a meeting with the Democratic party bigshots. After the meeting, Clinton drops out and leave the field open for Obama.

Then low and behold she is Secretary of State - a position in the old days gave credibility to a Presidential Candidate.

What I think? They all made a deal that she backs out for Obama with the understanding that she would be THE candidate in '16.

Then Sanders came in spoiling everything. (It didn't help that he called himself a Democratic Socialist which "Socialism" is a dirty word in this country. And add in the fact that the Dems wanted a candidate that could win in the general and get the Independents and moderate Republicans who are dissatisfied with their party having gone batshit crazy.

Add in the Republicans primary system and we now have a crazy porn star prostitute fucking adulterer Evangelical Christian kook in the office of President.

Anyway, no matter how you slice it, the Dems totally fucked up and new leadership will be needed. The old guard has to go.

- Says mean things on twitter and openly mocks idiots who inarguably deserve every bit of it.
- Tries to enforce laws whose neglect has resulted in about 10% of a neighboring country's citizens residing illegally within our borders.
- Caused the extinction of the entire human race (or possibly all life on Earth)
- Drinks water during televised statements
- Likes two scoops of ice cream for dessert

Forcing me to pay taxes that will be wasted is IMMORAL.

And don't give me this bullshit about "some waste". It's fucking endemic and epedemic to the system. The Pentagon (I like to pick on them, 'cause they are an easy target) can't account for $2.3 TRILLION. How the hell is that "some"?

Was it wasted? Who knows.. They sure as shit can't account for it.. So they can't say where it went.. This is not a small amount of money, it's quite nearly equal to the entire federal budget for a year.

To quote:

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t...

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. Yeah.. that's "some"

You don't need to have a strong AI like some kind of skynet, even simple weapons with limited automation can be very deadly. Everything from smart mines to futuristic micro drone swarms. For example, it's not too hard to have a small drone zero in on a person today, as long as you aren't too picky about targets. But, ultimately data like that used by Facebook and CA coupled with facial and object recognition could wreak havok with killing based on complex criteria like age, sex, religious, or political beliefs just like the first linked video. Today, batteries tend to limit the run time of micro drones, but with wireless charging or perhaps a chemical source it could be sooner rather than much later. Larger helicopter sized autonomous weapons platforms are also already under development.

does the chant "lock her up" ring a bell

<HILLARY>Well, there weren't any email servers.

Oh, wait. There weren't any email servers with classified data on them.

Hmm, make that there weren't any email servers with data marked classified on them....

Damn. How about there weren't any email servers with classification markings removed because I ordered them removed.

Oh, and those not-classified emails that weren't marked and I never told anyone to remove the marking from? That were on servers that never existed? I never told my no-security-clearance-made to print them out..</HILLARY>

If you don't think Hillary lied about that server and broke the law, your head is so far up your ass you can probably count your teeth from the backside.

https://www.nationalreview.com...

Sounds like a lot of Americans are taking steps to increase their security.

Go ahead, keep talking about banning guns. All that does is increase profits at Smith & Wesson.

Background checks are a rather poor indication of real gun sales because not every check means a gun sold (either because of a denial or police running a check before issuing a permit to purchase a firearm) and a single background check can be run for multiple guns sold (people with a permit to purchase could buy several guns with no additional check). With nearly 3 million background checks run that could mean something like 2 million or 4 million new guns being sold.

You think every gun sold should be registered so we can track gun sales better? Go ahead, propose that in your state or federally, that will just mean more people buy guns before the law goes into effect. You want people to register guns they already own? Well, that would violate ex post facto laws. Then there's another problem with that, the government can't force people to register guns they don't know about.

It's too late to do any kind of gun ban or registration now. Not only are people generally not pleased with government telling them they can't own guns but it's now possible to "print" a gun at home with a computer. Go look up "ghost gun". There cannot be any effective gun laws any more, technology made any kind of gun laws obsolete. I guess legislators will have to think of something else to scare people with. They can try to scare people with gun bans, and then people buy more CNC mills to make their own guns at home.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/l...

A 50-year-old gun law makes homemade guns legal to own, and the only way to regulate the firearms is for Congress to take legislative action.

Yeah, good luck with that. What kind of law would stop this? I mean you can ban the making of guns at home but there's no way to enforce it. The government can confiscate the ones they find but someone will just make another just like it.

Time will tell. As to china wanting to negotiate, really? What were they willing to offer to redress the US's grievances? What materially were they offering? Because we have a list here of things the US has been complaining about for well over a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

This sort of shit is typical. Is china "actually" going to do anything about this sort of thing?

Or this:
https://variety.com/2017/film/...

or this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/6...

These are not "EVIL TRUMP" sources here, chum. The guardian... Variety... CBS News...

I can do this all day. What did the happy harmless did nothing wrong chinese offering? I'm dying to know "actually" what you're referring to here.

*gets popcorn*

If Google was so damn generous, they'd donate laptops with 4G modems and access

You heard it here, folks: b0s0z0ku has spoken, Google's gift isn't generous enough to meet b0s0z0ku's standards.

Note that TFA says this is an expansion of an earlier pilot program that has been working out. But according to b0s0z0ku's thought experiment, it won't work. Silly Google!

P.S. I get carsick in buses too, but I'm not going to snark at Google over this. Maybe school-age kids can use a Chromebook in a bus without getting sick, or can learn to. Also Chromebooks can do some things without Internet. Bottom line is that the kids have more equipment and more options than before Google made the donation.

Lakaysha says the program has helped her personally. Also the article I linked there says that the program includes parking the buses in public places, like community centers, so that some students can use the WiFi service from the bus even after the long bus ride is finished.

Actual evidence the plan works beats a thought experiment that the plan doesn't work.

Look, using Facebook's personal data on people isn't that big a deal. It's what Facebook *does*. Carol Davidsen, Obama's campaign media director made a TED Talk about what the Democrats did in 2012. They pulled in the entire Facebook social network for the USA into their database. The talk is here. She says that Facebook gave the Democrats special treatment "because they were on our side". Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook worked with the DNC to win the 2016 election for Hillary. As for Trump,he discontinued using Cambridge Analytica's data, instead relying on the more accurate RNC data. So this whole thing is a nothingburger.

I think the whole thing is about tarring Zuckerberg so he can't run for President in 2020. Zuck for Prez? Not as crazy as it sounds. He's been spotted making the rounds doing silly things that no elite would be caught dead doing, like rubbing elbows with ordinary Americans fishing and attending baseball games. What other purpose than appealing to the masses? After the Bernie disaster, which was only averted by rigging the primary, and the even bigger Trump disaster, the last thing they need is yet another outsider barging in and thinking he can take away the best political plum there is. What, just because people vote for him? Don't be silly. That's not how The System is supposed to work.

How many CIA and DEA agents did heinous deeds outside the US and were never prosecuted for it. I'm all for prosecuting foreign intelligence operatives, but it's difficult...

The DEA agents and Honduran police who attacked unarmed Honduran civilians should be rotting in prison, for starters...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

"Speed limits are set according to fixed rules that have been set by carefully examining statistics and the theoretical capabilities of cars and drivers."

That is some serious bullshit. If it were true, there would be little need to change limits as often as they do around here. Many smalltowns purposely set up speed trap areas for revenue. In other places the 85th percentile rule is used...that has zip to do with the theoretical capabilities of cars and drivers. And in other areas, various elected officials simply decide what they think is a safe number...we have a nearby down with a four lane divided road, and a 25mph limit set because they want people to go to the stores along it...anywhere else, it would be 40-45mph.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

this could be a major political issue if it doesn't turn out they did the same for the other side. The Dems might make it a campaign issue with FB stuck in the middle. The one thing they've got to be afraid of most is regulation. After all, you are the product. It's not the adverts where they make all their money, it's selling all that sweet, sweet demographic data.

Not sure what you're going on about. The Trump campaign did not get voter data from Cambridge Analytica, and the Facebook data they had was not used by Trump or the Trump campaign at all. Facebook's political division offered to embed their employees in the campaigns to help with analysis and targeted advertising (the offer was made to both the Trump campaign and the Clinton campaign). The Trump campaign accepted and had Facebook folks working with them. The Clinton campaign rejected the offer because they wanted to use their own strategies.

Source about Cambridge Analytica, and source for Facebook "embeds".