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CBS News reports that the same type of attack may have occurred on USAID workers in Uzbekistan; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u...

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Aryeh Goretsky

So, who should be blame for it, because we spend more on education than every other OECD country. Note, this reference is a couple years old, but still relevant.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u...

YO sparked-out, it was President Bush being bipartisan and Presidential when he agreed to do what President-elect Obama asked in regards to the bailouts.

most medical professionals would find this deeply insulting

Yeah, they like to pretend they're doing good rather than being purely commercial about it. e.g.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/p...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...

Fancy a chance at surviving a serious head injury, especially if it may take months or years to recover? Don't sign up to being an organ donor: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...

This court case appears to be still ongoing: https://nypost.com/2012/09/26/...

I've done some genomic work, during the Human Genome Project. I had to step away from the work due to my concerns about the lack of quality. The analysis software of the data, to assemble longer genesic fragements for testing and verification, was so very very poor that all the scientists learned to ignore the analysis and order longer sequence manually, by eyeballing it with their personal experience. It was hideously expensive to do this constantly, especially with the amount of sequences to sample and test and which came back "does not work". Part of the result was that, because they were probing in the dark, they got far more false positives that had to be tested later, as part of an even longer or overlapping sequence, that even *that* data was unreliable.

We have *had* crime labs falsify evidence, with cases like https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a... . Without the ability to verify the provenance of the data, of the results, and of the analysis tools, the DNA analysis can be far too easy to falsify. It should be as verifiable as the scales used to measure the weight of drugs, or the spectrographic analyzer and its software.

Of course warrants should be mandated. Without monitoring and checks, the victims of police have little or no protection or legal recourse. To prevent abuse the police should be monitored and checked constantly in every way feasible while on the job. Here are just a few of the recent examples of police corruption and abuse.

- In Denver, the police are stealing cars.

- In New York, police handcuffed and raped a teenager. Then over a dozen other cops threatened the victim to prevent her from reporting the crime.

- Police steal more than criminals.

- In Utah a cop who assaulted and arrested a nurse for objecting to his inappropriate demands to draw blood from a suspect.

- In Los Angeles a cop was caught by his own body cam planting drugs on a suspect.

Jakubowski recommends ... try engaging with the song, as many people report that actually listening to an earworm song all the way through can help eliminate having it stuck on a loop

Citation provided.

Remember how some websites were faster than others?

YES, actually. Netflix error message blames ISP for slow streaming service

Netflix was effectively extorted by Comcast:

Despite purchasing transit on all available routes into Comcast’s network that did not require direct or indirect payment of an access fee to Comcast, the viewing quality of Netflix’s service reached near-VHS quality levels. Faced with such severe degradation of its streaming video service, Netflix began to negotiate for paid access to connect with Comcast. Netflix and Comcast eventually reached a paid agreement. Within a week of that agreement, viewing quality for Netflix streaming video on Comcast’s network shot back up to HD-quality levels.

Rolling back Net Neutrality means it's open season on this shit starting up again.

Is that the kind of internet you want? One where ISPs can say "it would be a shame if something happened to your website. A real shame.", and they are forced to pay up, even though customers already have service agreements with said ISPs paying for that bandwidth?

An internet where ISPs (who are also cable providers...) can disadvantage streaming services in favour of their own offerings?

And if websites are forced to pay more for "equal footing", who do you think the costs get passed on to?

Why did you leave out the DNC paid for that report or Natlia got her entry into the US approved by Obama administration.

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

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

You don't seem to realize that those stick tickers already back factor in stock splits.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a...
Apple's stock remained resilient as traders came to terms with the death of Steve Jobs, the company's iconic co-founder and chairman. After see-sawing through much of Thursday's session, shares in Apple (AAPL) slipped 0.2 percent, or 88 cents, to close at $377.37.
Your calculation is WAY off. Apple's stock has done good but it hasn't done THAT good.

I never said anything about "the hood," and FYI it's pretty telling that you make the assumption that food deserts only exist in high-crime sections of large cities.

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

Potosi, MO isn't even close to what anyone would consider a "ghetto," but without Wal-Mart, the residents are looking at a 40+ mile drive just for daily necessities.

This is my concern:

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

No matter how well coal plants operate their scrubbers, they leave huge amounts of toxic coal ash that have a habit of ending up in our rivers and groundwater.

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

"Environmental groups have hailed the various charges against the company as vindication for their years of efforts to get regulators to hold Duke accountable for the pollution leaking from 32 coal ash dumps at 14 power plants scattered across the state. The ash, which is the waste left behind when coal is burned to generate electricity, contains toxic heavy metals."

Actually that South Korean stat was from before the age of tablets and phones. All the studies I read said they stayed inside too much and studied too much... even so far as to conclude that reduced sunlight exposure was the main cause of the nearsightedness.

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

https://naturalon.com/sun-expo...

https://www.marksdailyapple.co...

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

Germany is GMO-free, eh? Well, that's a nice dream. Unfortunately, genes are not something you can simply legislate or otherwise firewall out of your land.

Corn is primarily pollinated by wind. As long as there is wind blowing and dust moving, those GMO genes invented elsewhere can and WILL find their way into fields supposedly GMO-free without any effort by humans to move them there. Keeping them out is likely going to be a fool's errand ending in futility.

There are even lawsuits from Monsanto extracting money from farmers that have patented GMO crops surreptitiously growing on their land. The farmer never paid for GMO seeds, didn't want GMO crops, but the genes found their way into their field anyway, so now these farmers are "infringing" upon Monsanto's GMO patents.

The IRS knows, because they're the ones who leaked your information.

Americans killed by guns in recorded history: 0

Is that like that philosopher who insisted that nobody was killed by a sword, they died from not avoiding the sword?

Here's a shock for you, guns do kill people.

On a side note, concealed carry warning and brandishing probably stops that many robberies, rapes and murders in a week...

Because...you must think that attempted robberies, rapes, and murders are so common that there are thousands a week! What kind of crime-ridden world of fear do you live in?

Americans killed by medical mistakes each year: about 250,000

And we've got a whole group of people arguing about that problem too!

Americans killed by antibiotic resistant bacteria each year: 23,000

Also discussed.

Clearly guns are not that big a threat unless you are an alt left fascist progressive looking to dominate and subjugate the American people.

Nope, guns are a big threat to the American people, what with deaths from toddlers with guns, whereas imaginary fears of alt-left fascist progressives looking to dominate and subjugate the American people aren't a threat at all, except so insofar as they lead right-wing pseudo-conservative trolls to instigate feigned outrage in America.

Every dictator in the last 100 years from Stalin to Mao on down the line disarmed their people first and then murdered millions of them.

Nope. In fact, many dictators armed their people, then told them to go forth and kill "not their people" because well, that's a great way for dictators to keep power.

You must not be familiar with history.

Guns are in fact inanimate objects controlled by their wielder, which is why every LEO in the country carries one.

Guns, are in fact, tools that ought to be regulated like many other tools, such as lawnmowers, chainsaws, pressure washers, and nail guns, and no, not every LEO in the country carries one. For example. And some shouldn't.

Any group that uses "gun deaths" are political shills with no interest in truth.

I wonder if you realize that group includes yourself.

Gun deaths usually include suicides (who just use different methods in gun free countries), criminals shot by police or citizens, and other justified shootings that are actually a good thing for society and end up saving lives.

Nope, actually, they're not using different methods, the suicide rates are often lower, self-defense and other justified shootings are excluded from the counts though actually...the number of such shootings is a problem, not even counting the various incidents.

Sorry, I know you don't want there to be any problem except not having enough bullets for all those dirty leftists who you hate with all you

It's weird how the Republicans and Democrats have swapped sides over this.

E.g. back in 2012 Mitt Romney said that Russia was the biggest threat to the US and the Democrats mocked him for still living in the Cold War era.

Then in 2013 Snowden fled to Russia and probably to a job with Russian intelligence. The consensus on slashdot was that was fine and he needed to get away from the NSA so he could continue to leak. Even though Putin made it clear that he could not continue to leak, at least not publicly

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

Putin, who hosted a summit of gas-exporting nations in Moscow that included leaders from Venezuela, Bolivia and Iran, said he doesn't know if any of those attending could offer Snowden shelter.

"If he wants to go somewhere and there are those who would take him, he is welcome to do that," Putin said. "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he must stop his activities aimed at inflicting damage to our American partners, no matter how strange it may sound on my lips."

Which makes him a Russian spy, not a whistleblower.

Back then I said

https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...

If you look at WWII Anglo American SIGINT like breaking the Enigma code was absolutely vital to the war effort and saved the UK from defeat. As China moves towards parity with the West and confronts Japan over the Senkakus it's not impossible the US may find itself in a similar situation. In the long run it's not impossible that Russia will threaten the Ukraine militarily - after all it did more than threaten Georgia.

And in fact having a major SIGINT advantage over Russia and China is likely to act as a deterrent on them doing something like this. Conversely Snowden visiting both and telling them the US's capabilities is likely to make them think they're the ones with the advantage.

The only reason you'd think Snowden did the right thing is if you think the US is the sole source of evil in the world and Russia and China are both governed by people who act robotically in the best interests of humanity eschewing any personal gain. How likely is it really that the people who govern the US are the only ones vulnerable to corruption and the far less open political systems of Russia and China magically produce incorruptible leaders?

I'd say as bad as the US's politicians are the openness of the system means they are likely a lot less bad than those in China or Russia. In which case I'd rather the US has the SIGINT advantage. Snowden did exactly the wrong thing in taking US secrets to Russia and China and the Guardian is wrong to publish US secrets.

And was called an 'NSA shill'.

However now Slashdot is suddenly full of people saying that Russia hacked the election, presenting no evidence for that and calling anyone who disagrees a 'Russia shill'.

Russians buying ads to influence our political system is a problem? Really?

What do you call President Obama outright stumping for Macron in France?

Last time I checked President Obama was not a French citizen and not eligible to vote in their elections. Isn't that unwanted foreign influence in an election?

At least the Senate investigation into Russian collusion is still going strong and expanding.

You mean the investigation that's yet to turn up a shred of evidence in the nearly a year it's been running? That one? It's "expanding" because it's a wild goose chase. It's "expanding" because they still haven't found anything.

If the Republican party had a spine, they'd terminate this complete waste of money. Imagine how much money being wasted on this Democratic witch hunt could instead have been spent on helping Puerto Rico.

This is exactly what the banks and Wall Street firms did from 2005 - 2007. Every time a bill came up which would require them to be more transparent, to have greater oversight applied, to hold more cash on hand, they fought it tooth and nail. Their claim was all those "rules" would defeat their competitive nature in the financial markets. Don't worry. They knew what they're doing. It was different this time.

We saw how that worked out.

Now here we are, with Facebook having done the same thing and having to face up to the reality of why those rules were necessary. It will be interesting to hear the excuses Zuck throws out. He's already given his faux apology and faux promise to make things better. All that's left is for him to flip us the middle finger like Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein have done and the circle will be complete.

At least the Senate investigation into Russian collusion is still going strong and expanding.

Those of us who oppose it are usually castigated as "alt-right" haters who "cling to our guns and religion"...

Your president has expanded civil forfeiture.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/polit...

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

https://reason.com/blog/2017/0...

As opposed to my-birth-certificate is none of your business or my-college-records are none of your business but I'm a Rhodes scholar and professor of constitutional law but get my EOs overturned at a record breaking level Obama?

By any number of metrics, the Obama administration was the least transparent administration in history, bar none. Just because you happened to agree with him doesn't change that fact. Obama had the largest number of lobbyists working in the white house in the last 50 years. The Obama administration lied to judges so they could spy on journalists and the AP to find white house leaks they didn't like. There is a list 3 feet long of incidence where the Obama admin concealed information from the public for political advantage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://reason.com/archives/201...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/o...

That has been well established and corroborated by many witnesses.

Many (most?) of those witnesses turned out to be either lying or mislead into giving a false testimony. See page 129 in the Thornburgh-Boccardi report for example:

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/...

Practically the only witness who wasn't would be Killian's secretary, who came out of the woodwork after the fact. There were also many witnesses who recalled GWB volunteering for 90 days of service in Vietnam under a program they had at the time, but he didn't have enough flight hours to qualify. See page 61 and 130. Nobody ever brought this up.

However the right-wing noise machine was able to drown out all facts related to the case other than the memo's origin and I see that it is still working quite well here.

Go read the report. Likely every fact that you take for granted in this case was fraudulent. Mapes and Rather weren't fired for political reasons; they were fired because they wanted this story to be true so bad that they were completely willing to ignore inconsistencies in witness testimony while making almost no attempt at all to corroborate their sources.

Even without the memo, it's blatantly obvious that Rather and Mapes royally fucked up.

What's interesting is that if you read the Thornburgh-Boccardi report, Mary Mapes (the person who was investigating this story for CBS, and was fired along with Rather) had actually found several witnesses who indicated that GWB volunteered for service in Vietnam while at the Texas ANG, but didn't have enough flight hours to qualify. Among witnesses mentioned include a TexANG flight instructor and LTC Killian's son.

See pages 61 and 130:

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/...

What makes you think corporations becoming larger than the government will happen? That's one of many things that anti-competition law is designed to prevent.

Are you sarcastic? I'm sure you are!

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295938213_Multinational_corporations_A_new_global_dimension_-_Corporations_bigger_than_governments
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/51/corporations-and-human-rights
• https://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research
• https://archive.skoll.org/2011/02/21/corporations-are-more-powerful-than-governments/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1
• https://business.time.com/2012/01/27/are-companies-more-powerful-than-countries/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-myths-about-big-business-vs-big-government/
• https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16598-focus-monsanto-protection-act-proves-corporations-more-powerful-than-government
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/54/tax-avoidance-and-havens-undermining-democracy
• https://makewealthhistory.org/2014/02/03/the-corporations-bigger-than-nations/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
• http://www.confrontcorporatepower.org/how-corporations-influence-the-government/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/

South Korea is also known as "Republic of Samsung":

• http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung25
• https://ipezone.blogspot.com/2008/04/dismantling-of-republic-of-samsung.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-s-korea-the-republic-of-samsung/2012/12/09/71215420-3de1-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

Because without their contributions the schools can't keep the lights on,

Bullshit. US schools spend more per student than almost any other nation.

"When researchers factored in the cost for programs after high school education such as college or vocational training, the United States spent $15,171 on each young person in the system — more than any other nation covered in the report."

Try again.

Revisionist history, pure and simple.

The things I'm saying match what the news outlets were saying while the ACA was being designed. Read that second paragraph again. The whole reason the ACA is a train wreck is because of concessions the Democrats made to the Republicans. This is all well-established fact. Anyone arguing against those facts need only spend two minutes doing a Google search of historical news articles to find out that their opinion is based on pure fantasy and lies.

One of us is spouting revisionist history, but it's not me. You've been lied to. Now go back to Fox News or Breitbart or whoever fed you that disinformation and tell them, "Stop with the fake news already."

And if you knew your ass from a whole in the ground, you would know that the rise of meth is a (relatively obvious) consequence of the war on drugs. If coke were available in high quality at free market prices, most of those people would be contented to do coke. Coke without unknown additives is significantly safer on a number of measures than street drugs. Sure, then we'd have coke addicts, but we already have 30% of the country abusing alcohol, an even more dangerous drug than either meth or coke, and the country isn't falling apart. You don't hear people talking about all the booze junkies. Why? Because it isn't forced underground. It's regulated, controlled and sold at (close to) market pricing. The War on Drugs created your meth problem. It's really that simple. You're allowing yourself to be fooled by the DEA's game of 3 card monty.

We are not comparing Trump to Hitler, we are pointing out that there are literal, actual Nazis involved in his administration and in his electoral campaign. And many others who are not literal Nazis, but have supported Nazis or nationalists, or are nationalists, or are just generally awful people.

You mean, the same Trump whose first foreign visit was to Israel, and whose daughter is Jewish, is a Nazi sympathiser? While your side keeps shouting praise of a vile theo-political ideology who literally (in the real sense of this word) tend to have "death to Jews" on their flags?

Did you not hear the chant of "Jews will not replace us" at the Unite the Right rally? Did you not hear Trump call those demonstrators "very fine people"? In case you want to see some cold, hard evidence of the KKK and neonazis at this rally, here you go: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictur....

Your failed attempt at a rebuttal is nothing more than a sampler pack of logical fallacies. False equivalence: Muslims/BLM are not Nazis. Hasty generalization: All Muslims are not anti-Semitic, just as all Christians are not anti-Semitic. Association fallacy: Just because Trump's daughter is Jewish doesn't mean he isn't defending Nazis. Red herring: This question isn't about BLM, it's about whether Trump defended Nazis. And just plain wrongness - Trump going to Israel has nothing whatsoever to do with whether he is defending Nazis.

My challenge to you: see if you can defend Trump without resorting to a fallacy, diversion, or outright lie. I'll bet that you can't, because if you're being honest, he's simply indefensible.

I guess John Podesta didn't fall for a simple phishing scam, the servers were hacked direct by some uber-Ukranian Evil Crime Lord sitting at a computer system that would make the one in Swordfish look like a Fisher-Price toy (blowjob under the desk by Halle Barry probably not included...) All done at the behest of Putin as he rode, magnificently and bare-chested, through the Siberian tundra aboard his chestnut colored steed, hunting wolves with a slingshot and pocket knife.

Does the First Amendment (freedom of association) also protect who I choose to do business with?

Yes, Lowe's is free to tell you to fuck off when you request to not have a black man deliver your appliances. Company policy now. Same with AirBNB, Uber, and the US Army.

Except no such thing ever happened. BLM never called for the attack and issued a statement condemning it immediately after, something our bullshit president couldn't even do after a shit stain terrorist in a charger drove over a bunch of innocent people.

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

And what's missing from the summary? That, the site in question was used by the people who rioted in Washington, DC. (or this link for those that get upset because 'fox') That those 230 people were tied in some way to the disruptj20 site, according to the requested info which the verge happily leaves out. You can find it easily enough with a search.

But it seems like they want all the info, which isn't a surprise. After all, this is relating to felony rioting. And it wouldn't surprise me if it has something to do with the other idiots that wanted to use a chemical attack at several other events in the DC area.

Just like how Obama didn't call the BLM protester who killed 5 cops in Dallas a terrorist.

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Yes, yes, you want to make them out to be terrorists so you can dismiss and ignore them further.

"Oh, but that's different!" No, it really isn't.

Ok, tell us what isn't different about the actual response by Obama versus Trump. Compare and contrast.

Both BLM and the Nazis need to go...they're both breeding violent, hate-filled people.

All evidence indicates that Micah Xavier Johnson had mental health issues that long predated the formation of BLM, with no substantial connection to the movement.

That's why those lawsuits keep losing.

Except that's fucking bullshit.

Until there are blind resume reviews and tests, the myth of the meritocracy is just so-much garbage spouted by people that are worried they'll lose their jobs to someone ACTUALLY qualified.

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

This was exactly the same thing that happened at symphonies. When you ACTUALLY care about a) diversity and b) hiring the best people for the job, it turns out that the first thing you have to do is leave your biases at the door, and virtually nobody is good at doing that. So remove the doubt: blind auditions.

Most interview processes are garbage anyway. I've been a programmer for 15 years and I'm still asked to talk about certain kinds of language specific minutia that are super irrelevant in daily programming. (That is, I've answered questions and literally never, ever seen those features used in the games we ship. It's essentially a trivia contest.)

And here's the thing about programming when you're at a game company: AT LEAST half your job has nothing to do with programming—at least if you're any good. You HAVE to play the game you're making, make suggestions, think about the comfort of the player. I would take a junior programmer with a good feel for gameplay than a veteran rockstar programmer that has great technical chops but doesn't have any suggestions to improve the game. Even for engine and graphics programmers.

So yeah, coding can be hard, but I can teach you what you need to know. If you're working with me and I can trust you to make good gameplay decisions, that's a LOT more important to me, and I CAN'T teach you that.

Ego drives it. About 95% of people believe they're smarter than the average of their peers. So they tend to be dismissive of the collective wisdom built up from the company's past experiences. When they implement a new change which is the same as an old change, they think "this time it'll be different because I'm in charge."

The best (actually only) solution I've been able to find is to compartmentalize the damage. Instead of implementing a change company-wide or product-wide, implement it in a small section first. Let them try out the change for a few months, and then having to deal with the problems it causes is usually enough to overcome their ego. Then they can objectively re-evaluate whether the change really was a good idea before you implement it company-wide or product-wide.

This works well for changes which affect events that occur with moderate frequency (happens often in the few months trial). Unfortunately it doesn't work for changes which increase the likelihood of black swan events, like cutting IT and increasing your chances of being hacked.

"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," warned Mr. Trump from his golf club in Bedminster.

"They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen," he told reporters. "He has been very threatening -- beyond a normal statement," Mr. Trump said of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "As I said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."

— President Donald Trump, 2017 Aug 8

Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.

— Mr. Donald Trump, 2013 Aug 13

$35B/year - and this: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai... says there are just under 1B air passengers per year - saying that the pilot is costing each and every passenger ~$30 in salary, $3 in training and $1 in additional fuel costs - per trip.

Sorry, that just isn't happening, especially on SouthWest and the other small jets.

Why should anyone be expected to work 60-80 hours a week with no vacation time? Why should this be the norm? Is it only the dysfunctional males who routinely engage in pissing contests because they think it shows how tough they are (even though they're not tough enough to either unionize or go on strike)?

Would this help explain the high suicide rate for programmers (23 per 100,000 per annum) as compared to the population as a whole (~13 per 100,000)?

The kill switch was first widely implemented by Apple on their own phones prior to any law,
There were some reported vunerabiities found in 2014, which were since patched and I haven't heard of any exploits since.

Granted politicians have a habit of passing laws without any understanding of technology or implementation, but this was already a proven solution when the law was passed.
Maybe there are some underground hacks, but I don't think they'll be easily available to the kind of people who feel they have to steal smart phones for some cash. To your point, why *wouldn't* thieves give a shit about it? When nobody wants to buy a stolen phone because they know it wont work they'll get the message. Yeah you can still sell it for parts or sell to unsuspecting people but that's a lower incentive.

Here's a bunch of older stories claiming that the iPhone kill switch lowered thefts
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ip...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

As others have said, the overall reduction in phone thefts are probably due largely to do with the greater availability of phones, but let's not all of us just jump on the cynical bandwagon and suggest every idea ever is stupid.

You have to read very closely, but unintended fatal shootings in the US from 2005-2010 resulted in 3800 deaths, or roughly 760 per year.

You need to read more carefully as there are known flaws with the reports.

As a frame of reference, approximately 250,000 people die from medical mistakes at hospitals every year, yet there aren't any politicians trying to ban hospitals or regulate doctors.

WTF man? Banning hospitals wouldn't solve the problem, but instead create a whole new one (not that Trump isn't willing to cause hospitals to shut down, mind you..) and there's a shitload of regulation of doctors. Including programs to reduce medical mistakes.

(as evidenced by the fact that gun ownership is at an all time high, but accidental shootings are at nearly the lowest they have been ever).

Sorry dude, we don't have any rigorous data collection on that. Sure, there's Gunfail, but its author notes the lack of actual substantive reporting.

Instead, the errors are well known.

As with any tool in this imperfect world, there are accidents, misuse and abuse, but we must weigh the cost vs benefit of guns, something that the fascist progressives and Dims refuse to do (and have prevented the FBI from collecting statistics on; there is a very cynical reason that you can't find statistics on incidents where citizens save lives or property using their lawfully owned firearm, you can only find "gun deaths").

Nope, it's actually something that the Republicans and the NRA are known to make up numbers/a> about, and furthermore, it's well known that they refuse to let data be collected on gun injuries.

Maybe if you didn't lie so much, you wouldn't have so many problems.

But man..."smart" guns IMHO are NOT a good thing to have.

To the contrary, smart guns are a good thing to have, and the fact that they can be hacked is almost irrelevant.

The primary useful thing about smart guns is that they prevent your toddler from finding your gun and killing you, themselves, or each other. This happens all the time-- 1300 children get killed by firearms per year. (alternate source)(another story on the subject).

Even, if as you say "I mean, having a firearm that my life may depend on in a home invasion, that may not fire if I'm not wearing a watch" -- that's actually a good thing, because the thing that you should most be worried about in a home invasion is getting killed by your own gun.

Worrying that a hacker is going to break into your home, hack your gun, and then kill you with it is pretty remote.

You really want a gun that only fires when you fire it. A gun that fires when you don't want it to is not a good thing.

You sound insane, bro

Nope. Just demographics. This can be seen in the construction trades where American workers are aging out, foreign workers are going home, and high schools are diverting students from the skilled trades to colleges.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-shortage-construction-worker-shortage-is-set-to-get-even-worse/

Most college students don't look at the long-term demographic trends for their major and ask if they will have a job after graduating. When I first read the study about 2030, people told me I was nuts to learn computer programming. Layoffs were still taking place after the dot com bust, healthcare became the new money major that everyone and their grandparents flocked to. I went back to school, got into IT Support and I love my career. As for my friends who went into healthcare, they're making big bucks switching out bedpans and hate their career.

Yep. You've convinced me! It was Trump that has sold out to Russia. Not the lifetime politicians (and Democrats). Or, perhaps, just maybe this is business as usual and both side's politicians are vile idiots?

I really can't finish reading your post without laughing to myself. A lot of Democrats have certainly convinced themselves that they are truly better than Republicans, just as a lot of Republicans have done the exact same thing in reverse.

The reality is that both parties are completely corrupted. If you associate with either party, rather than agree with some of their public opinions, then you are an idiot. Nancy Pelosi and Paul Ryan might as well be the exact same person. They pass the exact same pork with different names slapped on top of them. The only minor difference is the large donors that benefit from the passage.

Russia certainly did try to muck around with the 2016 elections, just as I'm sure they tried to muck around with the 2012, 2008, and 2004 election cycles. Obama was proven to be a fool when it came to dealing with Russia and he was outmaneuvered at every point by them, just as Hillary was during the last election. Having someone in office like Hillary -- a person that can be openly bribed via their foundation, with emails from nations noting such exchanges in public view -- would only serve to help Russia continue to make moves.

What was the major driver of the Russian involvement? Oh, right, it was leaked emails from both Hillary's staff and the DNC. So, in other words, we're flipping out about Russian involvement for showing us the vile hatred behind the fake smiles. The DNC was just as involved with influencing the as the Russians by giving debate questions to their preferred candidate -- Hillary -- and secretly working against the other candidates (both Republican and Democrat).

On the other hand, Trump is possibly in Russia's pocket and possibly not. There is literally no proof of it and the recent issues surrounding Trump Jr are a joke given that the exact same Russian is observed with numerous people of power on both sides of the aisle (see the above link for video evidence). Furthermore, the US has stepped up efforts to block Russian-supported involvement in Syria; a move that Obama constantly threatened but never had the spine to perform, which emboldened our enemies (and, before anyone mentions it, he already had placed troops and resources there, so it wasn't to avoid it; it was weakness). If he is a shill for Russia, then he's playing it oddly better than Obama ever did.

So I will gladly take the unknown over the absolutely known corruption. Any existing politician can be presumed to be corrupt until proven otherwise, on both sides of the aisle.

The most interesting aspect of your entire rant is that you associate Republicans with Trump. And I think that most Republicans would actually disagree with that association. There's a reason that the Republicans in Congress look so bad: they're avoiding Trump's agenda because they largely disagree with it because it doesn't help their donors. They can't reform the ACA, not because it's a great bill or an impossible thing to do, but because they don't know what they want to do because they want a Republican agenda that is not directly associated with Trump.

The one under investigation for bribes and other nonsense?

Yea, keep telling yourself he is clean and ignore that he and his wife are about to be indicted for corruption.
Story for your "clean" politician. Hint, they are ALL corrupt and that is why a majority of people want smaller less powerful government.

Most people would get insulted, not just the old ones. If I recall correctly, studies have shown that most of us believe that we are above average (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/everyone-thinks-they-are-above-average/, https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/when-it-comes-to-driving-most-people-think-their-skills-are-above-average.html#.WWEcscbMzdQ, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority) and tend to be incapable of recognizing when our performance is declining (sorry, couldn't find the references I was thinking of for this second effect).

Add to that a tendency to be defensive about the things you fear may be happening to you as you age, and... it's not surprising that an elderly person reacts badly to being told that they aren't as good as others or as they used to be.

When you force someone to do something with threats of reveling information about them or the like it's extortion. What they're doing is in the realm of extortion.

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

It doesn't matter what they guy did. He made a meme that became popular. Its popularity has nothing to do with the hidden behaviour of some random guy or reflect on any knowledge or foreseeability on Trump as to some horrible allegations by CNN against this guy.

https://authoritynutrition.com...

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

He said the gun is in his glove box. Was he reaching for the glove box? No.

But, the gun was actually in his pocket, as many of the links about the trial details show: here's one random link.