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What I find amusing about this whole thing is that the Trump campaign never used the data, because they didn't trust it.

The Trump campaign never used the psychographic data at the heart of a whistleblower who once worked to help acquire the data's reporting -- principally because it was relatively new and of suspect quality and value.

So Facebook giving all that data to the Trump campaign had no effect on the election whatsoever.

All this outrage and calls for regulation and boycotting - because it was Trump of course - over something that Trump didn't use.

I don't care who y'are - that's funny right thare!

Missing link from above.

Two days later, CBS is now reporting that the Trump Campaign only used the CA data for a targeted online advertising and a single TV ad buy during the primaries, because they were playing the CA data off of the RNC, in case the RNC pulled a "resistance" and didn't want to share with the Trump campaign. They ended up not using the CA data for the general election because they didn't trust it coming from Facebook.

Ever hear of a place called Ireland? Little island just north of England. Just look them up and Bombs. The police had so many bombings over there that they could tell you how much and what type was used based on the destruction of windows around it. Back in the 1970s it seemed like they were blowing stuff up all the time.

It's not that hard. Plans are all online and materials are easy to get. 17 killed and injured would look like a walk in the park. They used to kill and injure hundreds, sometimes thousands and condemn big buildings. Maybe you heard of the Murrah building in the US? https://www.cbsnews.com/pictur... That fool blew up the building right before I was getting my Government clearance. Held it up for months.

So why don't you think bombs can be effective again?

Now about your "assault rifle" remark - they are already effectively banned. Have been since the 1930s. That's an automatic rifle. You can own one in some cases, however they are very expensive and very heavily regulated. Not one has ever been used in a crime. You may have meant - assault weapon. That's just the left's attempt to scare you. Usually a big scary looking gun like the AR-15 that they sell to civilians. I could do a lot more harm with a 12 Ga shotgun. There are a lot more effective guns that could be used.

With any luck this fools demise saved a lot of people.

Are you sure about that? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t...

I'm sure that "vast majority of murderers never re-offend" is a comforting statistic for the victims of the small minority who do re-offend.
Care to give some statistics on just how "vast" that majority is? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/o...
Here's a Canadian study that found a 0.3% repeat murder rate over a 10 year period: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/resea...
And here's an article from the UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Are house prices declining as a result of this?

I'm pretty sure it is in one case.

OP just said that he/she had never had a breakin in Durban, not that it was safer in general. Anecdotal but still.

Or he/she never had his/her legs nearly sawed off outside Durban either.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictur...

I think that just as I was talking about super PACs, they are also talking about super PACs

There's an often-repeated list about limiting the corrupting influence of corporations, billionaires, unions, and special interests. That last category is stuff like NARAL and environmentalist groups, although mainly people mean to indicate the NRA and such.

If we look at how McCain-Feingold did it, it did not prohibit all political advertisements in the sixty days prior to an election, it only prohibited those which clearly identified a candidate

Lobbying is 501(c)(4); political stuff is 527. A 527 organization can talk about candidates, while a 501(c)(4) can talk about issues. If you want to do both, you have to create a separate segregated fund for your 527 activities and get donors to contribute for that fund; if you transfer from your 501(c)(4) bank account to your 527 account, you pay taxes on that money. Also, for the 527 to raise funds, it needs to transfer money from your 527 account to your 501(c)(4) account at the fair market price of list rental of your 501(c)(4) donor list, or else find its own donors without referencing the list.

As you say: these are not PACs. 527 is PAC; 501(c)(4) is lobbyist. As a candidate for office, I've considered organizing a 501(c)(4) with a 527, called a "Leadership PAC", mainly as a fall-back so I can quit my job and become politically-active if I lose. I learned some shit that made me rather unhappy in the process.

By the by: the IRS requires you to file form 8976 to inform them you intend to file form 1024-A to organize as a 501(c)(4). If you file form 1024-A, they'll process it; but that doesn't satisfy the requirement to also file form 8976 informing them of your intent to file form 1024-A. Are we in a sitcom?

this question of what speech is, without providing a specific answer, is what I'm imagining you're talking about.

It's more-complex than that. Arguments over unions center around things like free association as speech. The courts talk a lot about compelling government interests, equal protection, and other such things when discussing election and campaign finance law.

while I don't know every way in which political speech can be expressed, I do know that spending money isn't (or shouldn't be) a part of it

Well, you can spend hours and hours knocking doors and reach a few thousand people in a few months. You could also pay people to do that for you. You can pay radio and TV broadcasters to use their infrastructure (labor) to send a message.

Imagine if you had to campaign across a large Congressional district. It's 40 miles wide. A rich guy can buy gasoline; you can't afford a bus ticket. By spending money on gasoline and car insurance, he's expanded the reach of his speech and can effectively compete against you. This is both why spending money is speech and why we need controls on the spending of money.

The courts have argued that it's not in the government's interest to equalize competitiveness between candidates, and also that the government can't put limits on campaign spending because this would not be equal protection and would need to reflect each candidate's situation to be valid. These are actually conflicting arguments; if the second wasn't used to justify why the government can't make campaign spending limits, but only as a note of why it doesn't achieve the stated goal, then they wouldn't be in conflict.

When you sit down and think about it, the courts have ruled that giving people money is a violation of the first amendment.

To be honest, I think the courts are flat wrong: it's the government's primary interest to represent the people, and elections are the key to that representation. On the other hand, I can work with this. They gave me enough to attack, so I'll rig up circumventions for all of these arguments.

Laws are never as complete as we'd like them to be

This will be even more true when Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies.

So which school shooters were NRA trained?

This last one, Nikolas Cruz.

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

How does the NRA support them?

They provided over $10k in "non-cash donations".

"The JROTC marksmanship program used air rifles special-made for target shooting, typically on indoor ranges at targets the size of a small coin. Records show that the Stoneman Douglas JROTC program received $10,827 in non-cash assistance from the NRA's fundraising and charitable arm in 2016, when Cruz was on the squad."

I suspect you were so focused on your too-clever jab (pro tip: Milwaukee local channel Fox6 != Fox News) that you skimmed over the very first line of your article:

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

Had you read on a bit more, you would have observed that the rankings in your article were based on 2015 statistics. Chicago's murder rate went up 65% in 2016, representing 22% of the country-wide increase in murders. That spiked it into the top 10 with bedfellows like New Orleans and Detroit.

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

Horner was known for writing false stories and disseminating internet hoaxes that often went viral on Facebook and hoodwinked thousands of people.

They included a story falsely claiming former President Obama was gay and a radical Muslim, and another saying protesters were being paid thousands of dollars to demonstrate at Donald Trump's campaign rallies.

Horner took on greater prominence during the presidential election when false stories were widely shared on social media during the race between Trump and Hillary Clinton.

In an interview with The Washington Post in 2016, Horner said he thought Trump won the White House because of him. Horner said Trump's supporters didn't fact-check his stories before posting them. ...

The fake news mill over seas said the same thing. Liberals fact checked stories so the stories couldn't get traction. So after a short time, all their stories were targeted at convervatives.

Like Mulder, conservatives wanted to believe.

"We came. We saw. He died!" *maniacally laughs*

Was that ever on CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC? Mentioned in a debate?

CBS News reported it, with video, on October 20th, 2011, the very day that Qaddafi Duck died with a spike up his ass

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

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...

In any case, what's your point?

"We came. We saw. He died!" *maniacally laughs*

Was that ever on CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC? Mentioned in a debate?

CBS News reported it, with video, on October 20th, 2011, the very day that Qaddafi Duck died with a spike up his ass

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

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...

In any case, what's your point?

Not the source mentioned but this article has a table that shows relative rates between the US and other high-income countries:

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

Their source dates back to 2010 but up-to-date and reliable studies are hard to come by and the stats are unlikely to have changed substantially. It is worth noting that the data covers homicide, suicide and accidental death and compares firearm and non-firearm rates (as a common misconception is that what you shave off one will appear on the other set of stats).

I don't see why you got voted 'interesting' The leader of the 'Republic of Florida' Militia which advocates for white civil rights and an ethnostate confirmed we was a member but insisted he acted on his own. That same leader then walked those statements backward as the law enforcement agency that monitors the group can't confirm his membership either. For those not researching into it look up the 'Republic of Florida' Militia and decide for yourself before you believe an internet troll. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f...

Key take away: the budget for "ANALYZE, FORECAST, AND SUPPORT" services was $492,014,000 but now it's $471,792,000. Will that reduction break forecasting? Perhaps, but I strongly doubt it. More likely, it'll result in cuts to people who have been there for a while, but hardly do anything (legacy folks), yet cost a lot, and/or cuts to open recs that have yet to be filled, or were just recently filled

Based on this article from September 2017 I think it's just a reduction in open head count

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

"As of July, the NWS, which has a workforce of about 4,300, had 668 vacant positions, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO), the union representing NWS employees. Overtime is common in many local offices since positions have gone unfilled for months and sometimes years. According to the GAO, about 5 percent of the agency's total positions were unfilled in 2006. That figure rose to about 11 percent in 2016"

So they are already operating with many more vacancies than this cut represents. In the private sector when you leave positions unfilled eventually the headcount gets cut.

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

It appears that 43% of companies (and 51% of private companies) offer PTO as opposed to vacation / sick time in 2016. source

Considering 23% of employees are offered no paid time off, it appears the majority of workers with that benefit have their vacation and sick days combined.

Man, I can't believe the old days of death and violence, when the US was ruled by an evil dictator, and we had military parades through the streets of DC... Yeah, 1991 was a terrible time to be alive..

Do you have to shut down computers opposite to the one that fails to maintain "computing balance"?

The Soviets did that on the N-1 because it allowed them to install the engines without gimbaling hardware, simplifying the design. The F9 does have gimbals, so it doesn't need to shut down the opposing engine.

Does a failing computer fundamentally alter your mission profile to the point that you have to change the computations for ALL other computers?

So what? That's what computers are really good at.

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

We spend more than any other OECD country on K-12 education - and our students typically end up near the middle, or in the bottom half. Spending != performance, at least in the US.

"We" meaning the average of the country. Kansas is at the bottom of the barrel in education spending. There are some states (generally blue ones), that spend far, far more, which pulls the average way up. Exorbitant spending isn't required to have effective education, but there is such a thing as funding so low that it becomes impossible to run a school properly. Kansas has been in that situation for quite a while.

We spend more than any other OECD country on K-12 education - and our students typically end up near the middle, or in the bottom half. Spending != performance, at least in the US.

Hold up, she said nothing marked classified.

Because she told her underlings to remove the marks:

In email, Hillary Clinton tells aide to send talking points "nonsecure"

Sullivan tells Clinton that aides "say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it."

Clinton responds, "If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure."

Try again.

OK, try this on:

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

Any day now...

realistically how many people per thousand actually need heavy opiates? How many would be in a town that size? 1 in 3 adults are getting prescriptions from the numbers I am finding. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m...

Let's adjust by 50% to cover children, pregnant women, macho men (I can take the pain), masochists, etc. and divide by 3. That works out to about 483.

483/60 = 8.05 which seems excessive.

Most of this came abut due to the Congress neutering the Law enforcement (DEA) on behest of the Drug Companies that product the opioids.

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

Look up Joe Rannazzisi. Former DEA chief prosecutor

JOE RANNAZZISI: If I was gonna write a book about how to harm the United States with pharmaceuticals, the only thing I could think of that would immediately harm is to take the authority away from the investigative agency that is trying to enforce the Controlled Substances Act and the regulations implemented under the act. And that's what this bill did.

The bill, introduced in the House by Pennsylvania Congressman Tom Marino and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, was promoted as a way to ensure that patients had access to the pain medication they needed.

Jonathan Novak, who worked in the DEA's legal office, says what the bill really did was strip the agency of its ability to immediately freeze suspicious shipments of prescription narcotics to keep drugs off U.S. streets -- what the DEA calls diversion.

Oh I'm sorry - did you think you were proving your case by citing 2 conservative blogs and a progressive blog that SAYS WHAT I SAID refutes me?
You've just proven you are being obtuse.
And a moron.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
(note the use of "universal health care" and not "nationalization")
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...
(note the use of "comprehensive health care reform" and not "nationalization")
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...

Watching the news last night, they had a story about a measles outbreak, in freakin' 2018 (and there was this one at Disney in 2015 too).

I guess you could say that we in the US are finding innovative ways to bring back near-extinct diseases.

...they did not present any figures for the nicotine content of the non-smokers vaping.

I link to this elsewhere too. It says that vaping teens opt nicotine-free 2/3 of the time.

What will happen during Trump's presidency remains to be seen. In the first year we've seen economic growth, is anyone disputing that? Anyway, I think it's interesting to keep note of the headlines as times goes on.

Back in February 2017: "Trump is upset the media is not reporting a meaningless statistic about the national debt" https://www.washingtonpost.com...

In January 2018: "December US budget deficit shrinks to $23.2 billion" https://wtop.com/national/2018...

I don't claim to know the future, but looking at the past it seems like people's concerns re: this president have been pretty overblown. I will watch impartially as the story unfolds.

Might not even be 66%. According to this, teens go non-nicotine about 2/3 of the time. I would have guessed otherwise, but what do I know?

"Do you have any actual evidence for this?"

About once a week for the last 3 years I've been around a group that plays Dungeons and Dragons. My impression from talking with them is that they have all had difficult childhoods. It's good that they have a group activity. But playing D&D does not give them any help in understanding how to recover from insufficient care.

Will they have limited social abilities their entire lives? It seems yes.

Want an example of people having limited social ability? Here is an example from this Slashdot story: "You're defending Nazi's Hal. You ought to share their fate." Someone is recommending murder in this Slashdot discussion! There are many other comments on this Slashdot story that are equally lacking in social ability.

Here is an example of the results of social acceptance of violence in the United States, from a few minutes ago: Kentucky school shooting: At least 5 shot at Marshall County High School - live updates.

Note that my original comment on this Slashdot discussion is modded "Score: 0, Troll". There are 12 comments below my comment.

Influx of new jobs?? What jobs??

Sorry, don't mind me. I'm just sitting here waiting for my taxes to go up.

Don't ask for citations if you make uncited claims yourself.

Good point. Here's a couple.

Absolutely. But the economic version of natural selection still applies... if he doesn't do it, his company will tank and another will take over. So the choice is, "Do we push this problem onto the taxpayer or do we go bankrupt while someone else pushes it onto the taxpayer?"

Seems like an easy choice.

Yup. And the owners of many companies made the first choice. How 'bout we tax them for the burden they put on us?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/c...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h...
https://www.thenation.com/arti...
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.commercialappeal.co...

Many more where those came from.

The average adult head weighs 10 to 12 pounds when it's in the upright or neutral position. However, because of that pesky thing called physics -- gravitational pull -- the cranium becomes heavier the more you bend your neck.

LOL. Just... LOL.

His study found that bending your head at a 60 degree angle to get a better look at your selfie is putting 60 pounds' worth of pressure on your cervical spine, the portion of the spine above the shoulders. That's more than the weight of the average 7 year old.

Stahp, yer killin me! Fizzicks!

If I've said it once.... I've said it a hundred times.

Our technology is evolving faster than our species.

• 
  Suicides of teen girls in the USA are up due to cell phones and social media.
  Cell phones are killing our necks.
  In addition to carrying a personal tracking device, governments are using and abusing any and all technology to spy on citizens
  The Sun could wipe out our power grid with a direct hit from a geomagnetic storm, and utilities aren't doing anything to mitigate the risks.
  5 Countries are destroying the ocean with plastics and covering the earth with asbestos.
  And let's not forget about the Doomsday clock and Nuclear Weapons. We still have a cold war posture that could end badly.
  We have governments with cheap gene editing tools CRISPR/CAS9 working to make designer pets that glow in the dark and super biological weapons
  Video Game Addiction is rampant
  The Internet is a Pandora's box of garbage and porn, bad behavior are shaping your minds through YouTube and other video streaming sites.
  The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. There will be a tipping point and this will lead to global unrest.

We can truly say it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. If we could all just grow up and use our technology for good, but we can't. Just like light and dark, yin and yang, the good of technology is always accompanied by the evil dark side.

My prediction for 2018 is that AI and machine learning are going to be applied to hacking. AI's will be trained to write code to exploit all things and the exploits will be endless. Humans won't even be able to understand the exploit code as the AI software churns them out. Further I predict human cloning will happen this year and that China/Russia/North Korea will test some pretty nasty hacks on Americas Banks, Stock Market, Telecommunications, and/or gas/electric/water. I also predict that US drug usage will continue to increase (opioids, weed, alcohol) and the life expectancy will continue to decrease and suicide rates will continue to increase. I also predict that based on an increased energy in the atmosphere that storms will continue to grow in intensity. I also predict there will be a war in North Korea due to an error in a rocket test hitting a US ally. Further I predict Russia will take over another ex-Russian republic and China will continue to flex it's military muscle.

7 billion people on the planet. Technology everywhere, and we still can't figure out to behave and share.

I was watching TV with a little child and she was horrified by the war videos on the news and she asked me, "Why is there war? Why are they fighting?"

My answer, "Because, Sharing is hard."

To all reading this, in 2018 do a better job of sharing, loving your neighbor, and using less plastic.

Happy New Year!

When the West does IT?.
"British army creates team of Facebook warriors" (31 Jan ‘15)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
"Is America Prepared for Meme Warfare?" (Feb 1 2017)
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
"So, Why Does the Air Force Want Hundreds of Fake Online Identities on Social Media?" (Feb 19, 2011)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...
"BBC World Service gets funding boost from government" (23 November 2015)
http://www.bbc.com/news/entert...
The new "Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No, that's not what I said. It is about committing FRAUD, not just being inept. And yes, the two ARE different.Here's 10 CEOs who also committed fraud and all are in jail. Another CEO of a startup committed fraud and is going to jail. And here's another startup CEO going to jail because of fraud. Curiously, all those CEOs who committed fraud are going to jail. Why not Holmes? I'll tell you why: vagina. She is STILL the CEO because she is a woman, and kicking her out would be seen as sexist.

Why else would a CEO of a company, who committed fraud, NOT go to jail or be charged? Can you tell me?

"Feel"? The various candidates spent almost $7 billion on propaganda in 2016 alone. The other day the BBC was complaining about how Russia spent 97 fucking cents on facebook ads to "influence" brexit.

You know, we spend more on education than just about any other country. There is always a hue-and-cry for single-payer medicine to control costs, but we have, essentially, single-payer education, and costs are high - and the results aren't very promising. Maybe those poor school results aren't a result of "gutted budgets" (even though they tend to be the highest in the world), but a bankrupt mentality of how to educate, and what forms the basis of a good education?

If you're spending so much on Education and aren't managing to have a decent education system, you need to look at how the system is run. The problem with Education in the US is the same with health care. the US govt spends twice what the UK govt does per person per annum on health care but does not provide the same standard of service as the NHS and the US health care recipient has to pay out of pocket. The problem is the US health care system is made to fit an ideology that does not support an affordable health care system... the US education system is the same, designed to fit the ideology of those who control the purse strings, not to service those who need or want education.

To fix education in the US, you need to do what we did in Australia or the UK and take control away from the Government and let the service be measured and guided by its results. Of course this means that some bible basher congressman from East Texas cant ban schools from teaching things like Evolution.

Auto insurance is way cheaper in California.

You know, we spend more on education than just about any other country. There is always a hue-and-cry for single-payer medicine to control costs, but we have, essentially, single-payer education, and costs are high - and the results aren't very promising. Maybe those poor school results aren't a result of "gutted budgets" (even though they tend to be the highest in the world), but a bankrupt mentality of how to educate, and what forms the basis of a good education?

A flawed and broken idea that was so badly done it was revised within years(seriously, by the second real election under it, the protocols were obviously faulty), and still fails us(after four documented examples),

It only "fails" if you assume in advance that it's supposed to be doing something it's explicitly not designed to do.

Actually, the rules changed in the 1920s. That's when they stopped apportioning the House with new members, but forced a squeeze play, and back then, California was barely in the top 10. And Florida, well, Florida was still under a million.

The rules for changing the rules were also part of the rules.

the while he innocently presented as his own warm-hearted Democratic inventions, every anti-libertarian, anti-Semitic madness of Europe.

You're seriously calling the biggest shill for Israel in recent memory an anti-semite? Do you even know how upset the (extremely few) real nazis are with Trump because of stuff like, for example, hiring Kusher and keeping him around despite being mostly useless? Every time a liberal starts frothing at the mouth about some potential scandal involving Kushner I just laugh at how clueless they are.

Give us something that expresses the real nature of the problem,

"The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure."

not your badly veiled references to Antisemitism.

Lolwut? Did I miss the news where Trump convert to judaism?

That's just lazy. Lazy and shallow thinking.

Says the one whose entire case against Trump amounts to litanies of single-word insults.

Try a real citation next time. Random local news and blogs have no place other than for low information 10 second googlers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

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

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

https://www.indystar.com/story...

= = = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...
"My people are so smart -- and you know what else they say about my people? The polls?" Trump asked a crowd at a Sioux Center, Iowa, rally Saturday. "I have the most loyal people -- did you ever see that?"

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he said, referring to the major street in New York City that cuts through Manhattan's large commercial district. "It's, like, incredible."