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I'm pretty sure Google wanted to float balloons over Africa and create a mesh network, so that neighboring tribes in rural Africa could "like" each others Facebook postings...

Seriously, they do have a Project Link to tie cities together with fiber optic cables and yet another plan to use vacant TV spectrum for wireless internet in a very select region of Africa...

Oh look, Microsoft trialed this technology in Africa a couple years ago.

Is this the same money.cnn.com that declared math racist?

nah, can't be them

When are you people going to stop citing CNN as a credible source? What is it going to take?

There's LOTS more sources. That's just the one that came up first with a good side-by-side picture.

Why not look at THAT. It tells you ALL you need to know.

Oh, I know why: Willful Blindness.

Drug dealers have known to use catapults.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/...

I doubt eliminating drones completely will have ANY significant affect on our nationals drug problem overall.

No, but I do think it's entirely possible that the company that is building the panels is getting billions in subsidies, that equates to thousands per panel, sure. (Or other billions are being dumped into other firms that are part of the production chain upstream of your retail purchase.)

Don't think government would be that stupid? I do, particularly in pursuit of politically-motivated eco goals like:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/2... cash for clunkers, where the U.S.government spent $24000 per car to give people $4500 rebates

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... - a half-billion dollar dunno into renewables for fuck-all result.

And before you go after the source of the information in the original item about subsidies, understand that the data came from the Washington Times...an organization quite a bit more credible than...well, you.

In your specific example, it's made in China...one might further calculate the astonishingly low pay rates in China as a subsidy, knowing the Chinese government is more about keeping people employed than making a capitalist-style profit. Hell, Sunforce might be owned by the PLA as far as we know.

there haven't been any material changes.

Did you miss the part where we elected NAZITRAITORRUSSIANORANGETURBOHITLER to be President? It's LITERALLY THE END OF THE FUCKING WORLD

It has been SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN that AT LEAST 15 million Michiganers switched their votes from Hillary to Drumpfleupagus after reading twitter posts by PUTIN'S fakenewsbots!

Lies, beget lies, which beget lies.

CNN ratings, which were already low have dropped even lower

You are simply denying facts.

CNN has most watched second quarter on record, from June 27th, 2017 / Now in the Top 10 in all categories for cable networks.
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn....

Trump's claim that CNN ratings are down is 'pants on fire'.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...

This is post is just bizarre. Why didn't you fact check first? Don't you understand how your credibility depends on not posting outright falsehoods?

Is this the same money.cnn.com that declared math racist?

nah, can't be them

When are you people going to stop citing CNN as a credible source? What is it going to take?

In fairness, this is the karma train hitting Apple. They tried to pull this same shit with Samsung over goddamn rounded corners.

Oh, it was a LOT more than just "Rounded Corners", troll:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

I'll just leave this here - hopefully you'll avoid making yourself look this silly in future.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/03/investing/tesla-ford-market-value-gm/index.html

CNN did its job. It investigated who put up the video, just like they have done in every other situation. When they found the person, they confronted them and gave them time to explain. .

How was this "their job" ?
They got butthurt, plain and simple. The question of who remade this very old video and slapped their name on it as a joke was not a burning matter of any importance, except to CNN and their shills.The video had no bearing on national policy or safety whatsoever and was not the act of a public figure with the power to affect the aforesaid.

Okay, you also said that you didn't think they should have tracked him down in the first place. And that CNN was behaving like a tabloid, and that you weren't sure that CNN was practicing responsible journalism. You're suggesting that it would have been more responsible for them to critique the president without doing any background investigation into what it is that he was saying? "Today the president has continued being awful. Where does he get this stuff anyway? Who knows? Not us. Let's not find out."

I get what you're saying about trying to keep the story on Trump instead of on this dude, but when the president says something then finding out as much as you can about that thing is what a journalist does. But fine, regarding your criticism of CNN changing the narrative: it's not CNN doing it. Maybe read the actual source article, it's pretty tame. The one line that people are complaining about could have been phrased better, but this story exists the way it does because interested parties have jumped on this opportunity. Not because CNN really did anything wrong.

Then why is it repeated on CNN's page? http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07...

By CNN's own description of the timeline the apology came AFTER they attempted to contact him several times, including directly by phone.

On Monday, KFile attempted to contact the man by email and phone but he did not respond. On Tuesday, "HanA**holeSolo" posted his apology on the subreddit /The_Donald and deleted all of his other posts.

There was no question that at the time of the apology he knew CNN knew his identity.

I know this isn't the most trustworthy news source, but here it is:

CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.

CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

The first part of that statement is fine but that second part is as clear a theat as you'll likely ever see printed by a (once) reputable news agency.

CNN did its job. It investigated who put up the video, just like they have done in every other situation. When they found the person, they confronted them and gave them time to explain.

The person, not having the convictions of their actions, agreed to withdraw the video and apologize because, and something not stated in this particular article, he didn't want to bring shame to his family.

As always, he claimed the anti-semitic remarks he regularly posted weren't really who he was, nor was he in any way proud of what he had done.

Of course that's not what he said when the video went up:

After Trump tweeted the video on Sunday, "HanA**holeSolo" took to Reddit to say he was "honored," writing "Holy sâ"!! I wake up and have my morning coffee and who retweets my sâ"post but the MAGA EMPORER himself!!! I am honored!!" MAGA is an acronym for the President's campaign slogan: Make America great again."

After posting his apology, "HanA**holeSolo" called CNN's KFile and confirmed his identity. In the interview, "HanA**holeSolo" sounded nervous about his identity being revealed and asked to not be named out of fear for his personal safety and for the public embarrassment it would bring to him and his family.

Interestingly, moderators removed the entire apology from the sub group after it was posted.

Coal is actually quite nice compared to what we had before it.

We've tried to clean it up within the limits of what can be paid by the coal industry without making it prohibitively expensive. Scrubbers seemed to do the trick, but hey coal ash holding ponds . . . oops. And that's just the ones we notice. There are plenty of others leeching toxic/carcinogenic crap into ground water.

Obama DID swear to kill the coal industry, and he likely hastened its demise by ramping up regulations to the point that everyone knew that it would be prohibitively expensive compared to methane power. Methane is cheaper now, so it was easier to put the coal industry down for the count.

Take methane off the market and coal in 2008 and prior is still about as "clean" as its going to get. You might be able to ramp up regs a bit more, but the cost/benefit just isn't there. Make no mistake, Obama knew this fact. He just didn't care; or rather, he did. He wanted coal dead no matter what.

We'll never get much better power generation than we did in the pre-Obama, pre-fracking days. Those "clean coal" plants that attempt ash-free burning of coal have yet to work out very well. You still have to deal with all the non-carbonic pollutants in coal. How do you get it out of the exhaust stream? Where do you put the crap when you're done with it? Can't just shove it back in the mines since we're mostly back to strip mining, with sneakier stripping policies.

Take the blue pill - move onto another response. For God's sake don't look any further at this article. Especially if you're a snowflake.
Take the Red pill - read on for some reality.

Let's discuss these.
Hit second tier due to ACA and other lies we were told and many still believe.

Larges airplane is a European A380 - Nope. Of course not. The A380 is just a modernized C-5 that America had back in the 1970s. Just look at the dimensions, they are all like 6" from each other. No achievement, just building on US technology, old technology at that. So they're just catching up. It's also not the largest airplane. An American airplane is of course - http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/31/... . So Europe is still decades behind the US, and they know it. Even so, the A380 has had a lot of problems with cracking and such. I wouldn't be surprised if they start coming apart in the air soon. The C-5's keep on going of course.

No new sky scrapers in NYC? How about the one that just replaced the twin towers? They also have newer ones going up, so you're wrong on that too. I see construction cranes in many places as I fly over the city.

Socialized medicine? England has that type of medicine and they'd rather allow their kids to die than send them to the US to save them - https://www.washingtonpost.com... . What a slap in the face to socialized medicine everywhere. They have to admit they aren't up to US standards and we see that all the time as we have Canadians coming into the US to get treatment that they can't get in Canada. At least no time soon. i wouldn't even think of going to Canada, Great Britain or France for surgery, or Korea. My chances are a lot better at my local county hospital.

Socialized medicine in Korea? Looked it up. They have significant deficits and they don't even have illegal aliens and other free loaders like we have in the US to deal with. So why do we want socialized medicine again? If you want medical care, buy it. Not hard people.

As for your society vs economy remark, you realize societies don't exist without an economy - right? Capitalism took the US to the moon, a fact that socialists can't dispute and they've never been able to do. We're coming up on 50 years now and they're still behind. I mention this because you can't dispute it, there is no getting around it, you have to admit it's true no matter how much you don't like it. Modern space programs from Japan, China and Europe that have been to the moon have found the landing sites and the foot steps are still there, so it did happen. Capitalism makes it so ANYONE can become rich. In socialism, only those in power can do that and they keep everyone else out. Often at gunpoint. They are not free.

You want a capitalist society unless you're just useless. Go live in a socialist country for a year. Even a month. You'll quickly understand just how well you have it in the US. Things can be worse, a WHOLE lot worse.

Then most national papers need to send their people back to school. This is a common error you find in even in the most snobby of papers like the NYTs and WaPo.

Get the fuck off you high horse and respond with an actual argument or shut the fuck up.

Well, it's not like the NYT actually needs copy editors!

( http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/2..., in case you missed it)

But the USSR did not know how many we had and it only took 2 for Japan to surrender because they believed we could keep bombing them with nukes. It would have probably only taken one for the USSR to surrender, considering the shape they were in. War is rarely about annihilation, it is about destroying your enemies will to fight. Don't believe the revisionist bullshit.

The activity in the world by the US from the '50s to the '90s was with good intentions, if not always ideal results. The so called democratic governments that were overturned were brutal dictatorships or oligarchies who murdered millions of their own citizens. Only simpletons like you think that calling a government a "democratic republic" makes it so...

Korean war: Korea was being invaded by communist proxies from China and the USSR and was in the middle of a shooting war when the US got involved.
  South Korea lives in comfort as a first world nation, North Korea is perpetually on the brink of starvation and a shooting war with the world as they sell nuclear weapons tech to rogue nations and develop ICBMs to try and threaten the world.

Vietnam: Vietnam was also invaded by communist proxies from China and the USSR before the US got involved. About 900,000 men, women and children were murdered by the communists "democratic republic" government of Vietnam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

US activities in south and central America were mostly to deal with drug cartels who had taken over entire countries, or rogue dictators who were massively violating the human rights of their citizens. If you don't know this, go read something that is actually historically accurate, not some pointy headed idiot on NPR or BBC who hates the US...

Iraq war 1 was in response to their invasion of an ally and strategic partner, Kuait. We told Saddam to leave and he gave us the finger, so we obliterated his military.

Afghanistan was actively helping Al Queda who murdered 3000 US civillians and, unlike Pakistan, was openly resisting our efforts to eliminate Al Queda. So we invaded Afghanistan.

Iraq war 2 was in response to Saddam's clams of biological, chemical (which he had used on the Iranians and the Kurds in the past) and nuclear weapons claims. Saddam was supporting terrorisim, paying money to homicide bombers families, and asserting that he had WMD and was willing to use them. He kicked out weapons inspectors, and 18 global intelligence agencies said he had WMD capacity. After the war, the US exported 550 TONS of uranium http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2554... from Iraq that Saddam had bought on the black market. We also found the equipment to manufacture nuclear bombs buried in Baghdad: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/... That he did not have a chance to use his chemical or biological weapons is a testament to US military air power effectiveness. That he didn't have a nuclear bomb yet was purely luck.

WRONG AGAIN. Previous post was accurate. Even now some Democrats are realizing that demonizing Trump to shift the blame away from the real reason is becoming reality for the majority of the people. She lost the support of the Obama voters group at her own doing.. Oh wait, FAKE NEWS from CNN, I forgot about that. [/sarcasm]. Seriously, when are you Hillary diehards going to admit that she was a terrible candidate. Much worse than the current administration.

Way way too high you mean.

Here's a comparison in today's money from how it was in the past - http://money.cnn.com/interacti... [cnn.com] . Face it, you're wrong. I know, I know, it's CNN and we know they lie, like hell. However this seems to be right. According to that slider, you cannot make an argument for it being any more than $10/hour.

Was a ridiculous reply!

those who can't afford solar benefit from the electric grid.

So. . . people poorer than these people?

People seem to forget about the incredible down scalability of solar and battery systems. . .

Way way too high you mean.

Here's a comparison in today's money from how it was in the past - http://money.cnn.com/interacti... . Face it, you're wrong. I know, I know, it's CNN and we know they lie, like hell. However this seems to be right. According to that slider, you cannot make an argument for it being any more than $10/hour.

Sure, leaks are illegal. But, unless they are also considered wrong, people will keep doing them — for publicity or other aggrandizement, etc.

The constant harping on the US in general and the NSA in particular creates the perception, that hurting and embarrassing both somehow improves the world — a demonstrable falsehood.

Similarly, the worshiping of Snowden, who fully bought into the above-mentioned falsehood, and of Manning, who leaked the classified data not even to make the world a better place, but simply to impress acquaintances — make leaking glamorous even if still dangerous. And copy-cats follow.

This traitor-worship ought to stop. Even if you do (foolishly) believe, NSA is evil, you still can not betray the secrets entrusted to you — just as you would not murder, for example, to "raise awareness". Not only because it is illegal, but also because it is wrong.

No. That's fanboy reality distortion field BS.

The LG Prada smart phone was winning design awards almost a year before the Iphone was actually released, and the Iphone looked almost exactly like the Prada and used the same typical smart phone interface. The only arguments that the fanboys have come up with are qualitative claims, such as the Prada's web browser or touch screen was not as "good" as that of the Iphone, and such subjective claims are not only dubious, but they have nothing to do with the innovation of the smart phone.

Nope. The LG Prada beat the later Iphone, but neither LG nor Prada had the legion of blind followers that Apple had.

Apple has actually originated very little.

Sorry. The iPhone didn't look like the Prada (other than the fact that they are both rectangular); but the Samsung phone looked EXACTLY like the iPhone.

https://www.wired.com/2007/02/...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...

So now what?

Obamacare is no panacea.

Agreed. Here is an interesting article: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/...

Still I have to think your cost would be even higher without Obamacare. Do you have a death wish?

Even a gold plan would leave me with more than $500/month in insulin costs.

Don't you hit your maximum out of pocket expense limit.

the VA is a typical US government intrusion into healthcare. It is inefficient, corrupt, and next to impossible to change.

As can be seen in the above article, private healthcare also has problems. I believe that single payer works in many countries. I don't believe we can dismiss all US government run programs.

He worked for the VA for more than 15 years and never once did he actually earn his wages.

I've heard this about some government jobs. Is it also true for contractors? What about medicare? (Yes there is fraud, but you can't compare against Utopia.)

Is the US raiding homes because of speech? News to me, got a source?

The bathroom debate is more about a poorly written version of post-modern law, i.e. should the state recognize the gender you choose at any given time or should it use objective standards that represent 99% of the population. To quote Ted Cruz: "it isn't about the Caitlyn Jenners of the world. But if the law is such that any man if he feels like it can go into a womens restroom and you can't ask him to leave that opens the doors for predators.". Poorly written laws with good intentions are still bad laws. I don't like the idea that if you feel a certain way you can do anything you want. A pedophile feels attracted to children, does that mean I should be tolerant of that because of their feelings? No. I will not capitulate to feelings that disregard objectivity and the vulnerable.

Whether you agree that the law should have a post-modern influence or not is very much different than raiding your home because you said wrong-speak. I would rather a Trump than a benevolent dictator.

I believe that a transgender person would be dressing in clothes that match his gender. If he is as a woman, he should be permitted to use the woman's washroom.
Cruz is mixing up normal males, dressed as males, going to a woman's washroom. Is that really going to happen? So who is going to wear woman's clothes and visit a man's bathroom or vice versa? Its just a great example of applied stupidity 101.

Except the "liberal" branch for various reasons does not want federalism as you have defined it.

Exceptwhen they do. Only Trump could make liberals embrace federalism! :-D

...if you are a kernel or systems contributor to a major platform.

As I remember, there were compromises in the kernel architecture that were evoked deep "regret" in the commentary.

On the other side we have a crazy bunch of people that think "that's a really good idea".

Like this genius:

He wanted it to be a wake-up call to America -- that a terrorist could strike anytime, anywhere.
That was what Michael Sibley told investigators in March, more than four months after he left two partially assembled pipe bombs by a tree perched on a hill in a park in an Atlanta suburb, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. The devices were inside a backpack that, among other things, included copies of the Quran and the book, "The Rape of Kuwait."

Prosecutor: 'Patriot' placed pipe bombs in park to rouse America

To write this here. Because I write it every single time some politician comes up with this bullshit.

There is no such thing as a "backdoor", a "secret key" or any other way to break encryption that only a nation or a group of nations will have. ... Can you imagine how valuable this key is? Can you see corporations or even nations being interested in acquiring this key, no matter the money or force required?

Or, so even a prime minister can understand it: Everything, every access, you get that way, Iran and North Korea do, too.

First off, I don't particularly favor back doors. That being said, it wouldn't have to be quite this bad. Basically you would generate a unique key that unlocks the encrypted key in storage on the device without the pin/password/whatever is being used. The unique (random) keys generated would be stored in a closed area at each corporation, without internet access. For official purposes (court order) the device could be decrypted by the manufacturer and the decrypted contents turned over.

Of course, do I think governments would accept such a solution? Not remotely and in truth I don't support the idea either, but if I was forced to implement it, then that is more or less what I would do.

All that being said you can't stop someone from making an encryption program. I could have probably done it in high school, with but a minor amount of motivation, and it is impractical to control all compilers and all that. Seriously, gun control is way way easier, and I don't know if anyone's counting, but gun deaths are around three orders of magnitude more frequent than terrorist deaths in america. link

And the result is ....

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/2...

... i.e. banks not serving Americans, not to mention a whole lot of other weird consequences following from this measure such as a rise in the tax for US citizens renouncing their US citizenship.

Is the US raiding homes because of speech? News to me, got a source?

The bathroom debate is more about a poorly written version of post-modern law, i.e. should the state recognize the gender you choose at any given time or should it use objective standards that represent 99% of the population. To quote Ted Cruz: "it isn't about the Caitlyn Jenners of the world. But if the law is such that any man if he feels like it can go into a womens restroom and you can't ask him to leave that opens the doors for predators.". Poorly written laws with good intentions are still bad laws. I don't like the idea that if you feel a certain way you can do anything you want. A pedophile feels attracted to children, does that mean I should be tolerant of that because of their feelings? No. I will not capitulate to feelings that disregard objectivity and the vulnerable.

Whether you agree that the law should have a post-modern influence or not is very much different than raiding your home because you said wrong-speak. I would rather a Trump than a benevolent dictator.

If this was Trump, the media would be ripping their hearts out and slapping them on the table while screaming "COLLUSION!" for not telling us.

Correction: It WAS Trump. He started receiving briefings in August of 2016. And yet he kept on insisting that it was not the russians. Despite the fact that earlier, in the last major press conference of his campaign, he had originally said it was the russians: ""They probably have her 33,000 emails"

Its kind of weird that after saying he believed it was Russia he stopped doing press conferences and started insisting it wasn't Russia. What happened there?

From the story presented in the links.
"The intelligence captured ... specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives"
Why would anyone interesting risk talking over any insecure network?
Who talks on the phone or sends interesting orders down a network the USA sold another nation? Or any network that is at risk by the GCHQ, NSA or CIA?
"Hackers with ties to .... intelligence services"?
What ties? The data walked out thanks to a domestic staff member.
"To guard against leaks, subsequent meetings in the Situation Room followed the same protocols as planning sessions for the ..."
We are really reading about this secret online so soon?
"that ... was working to elect ... "
People all over the USA went to free elections and voted for a candidate they wanted and who could give great speeches in their states.
Want to win a US election? Find a presentable candidate who has the energy and charm to win in more states.
Re ' It was a case that took almost no time to solve, traced to the ... through cyber-forensics"
Nations that have such easy to find malware code litter issues don't hack.
An ip range, time of day, malware thats been in the wild for years and is in use by many people is not "cyber-forensics".
Any language use can be left as a fake trail for private sector "cyber-forensics" to find.
The US efforts showed "Marble" libraries include code used to obfuscate " with the add foreign languages option(4/3/2017)
https://arstechnica.com/securi...
Re "... is a remarkably elusive target." "extreme precautions to guard against surveillance" but we just had " specific instructions on the operation’s audacious objectives"?
Funny how the story has the order that really needed to be kept more secret been transmitted down the not very secure US export grade hardware network?

Someone in the USA walked out with some documents and gave it to the waiting media.
The US saw another Pentagon Papers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" (July 27, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces."

" a clandestine hand-off in a wooded area near American University with one of the email sources "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
"The leakers' motivation was 'disgust at the corruption..."

Back on June 9, 2017, CNN reported that Wipro was claiming that Trump's election as U.S. president would harm its business:

Bangalore-based Wipro has included Trump's election as U.S. president in a list of "risk factors" in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Significant developments stemming from the recent U.S. presidential election could have a material adverse effect on our business," Wipro said.

It called out Trump's opposition to the North America Free Trade Agreement and his advocacy for "greater restrictions on free trade" as specific risks.

Wipro, much like its peers Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys (INFY), Tech Mahindra and others, depends heavily on the U.S. The company gets more than half its total revenues from U.S. clients.

But Trump and his administration have accused Indian firms of using the popular H-1B work visa program to send millions of foreign tech workers to the United States to take jobs Americans could do. Around 70% of all H-1B visas go to Indian workers.

The article: CNNTech article: Indian tech firm makes it official: Trump is a risk to its business

We're talking about comedians that get away with saying things like "Trump really wants to bang his daughter" and don't get sued by Trump... because even Trump's lawyers aren't stupid enough to try to win such a case.

Trump's solution is to change libel laws so that he can sue people in those cases. If you are losing the game, just change the rules.

The history of how Walmart crushed Kmart and other competitors is interesting....

Well Sears was the largest retailer in the United States until October 1989 when it was surpassed by Walmart. Amazon is now twice the size of Walmart.

It speaks to the powerful intransigence of entrenched management culture that companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars fail while others grow to replace them, as opposed to substituting in better executives with the same strategies as their winning competitors. The real infrastructure loss and financial loss to investors is enormous compared to the price of hiring better executives. There is a massive inefficiency here.

Hiring free market, limited government judges.

But only 2 judges have been confirmed, and 15 more have been nominated even though there are 132 federal judicial vacancies.

Relaxing burdensome regulations - coal mine opening (and no the coal is not used for heating or electricity but for the production of steel)

But a lot of those regulations were issued in late December, so he's just revoking regulations that weren't in place very long anyway.

Pushing for (instead of against) the Keystone Pipeline

Sure, I'll grant you that.

Pushing for (instead of against) fracking

Pushing for (instead of against) off-shore drilling

I'm not sure there's actually much of a difference from Obama's policies. For instance, environmental groups were upset that the Obama administration approved 1500 offshore drilling and fracking applications from 2010 to October 2014 and oil production boomed under Obama.

Getting out of the TPP

That's different than what Obama pushed for, but Bernie Sanders, and eventually Hillary Clinton, both came out against the TPP. I'll grant you that it is a change in policy from the previous administration, though.

Getting out of the Paris Treaty

Yes, I agree that he did do that.

And, as you mentioned, increased funding and activity on illegal immigration.

But even that's a mixed bag. ICE arrests were up, but deportations were down during the first 100 days of Trump's presidency compared to the previous year.

But back to the subject of the article. The closure of federal data centers started before the Trump administration, and it seems as though he's now trying to take credit for it.

Not to mention that he's gotten no major legislation through. So I really do believe he's not very effective.

Hiring free market, limited government judges.

But only 2 judges have been confirmed, and 15 more have been nominated even though there are 132 federal judicial vacancies.

Relaxing burdensome regulations - coal mine opening (and no the coal is not used for heating or electricity but for the production of steel)

But a lot of those regulations were issued in late December, so he's just revoking regulations that weren't in place very long anyway.

Pushing for (instead of against) the Keystone Pipeline

Sure, I'll grant you that.

Pushing for (instead of against) fracking

Pushing for (instead of against) off-shore drilling

I'm not sure there's actually much of a difference from Obama's policies. For instance, environmental groups were upset that the Obama administration approved 1500 offshore drilling and fracking applications from 2010 to October 2014 and oil production boomed under Obama.

Getting out of the TPP

That's different than what Obama pushed for, but Bernie Sanders, and eventually Hillary Clinton, both came out against the TPP. I'll grant you that it is a change in policy from the previous administration, though.

Getting out of the Paris Treaty

Yes, I agree that he did do that.

And, as you mentioned, increased funding and activity on illegal immigration.

But even that's a mixed bag. ICE arrests were up, but deportations were down during the first 100 days of Trump's presidency compared to the previous year.

But back to the subject of the article. The closure of federal data centers started before the Trump administration, and it seems as though he's now trying to take credit for it.

Not to mention that he's gotten no major legislation through. So I really do believe he's not very effective.

How about getting paid crazy wages to ensure that sorry asses like you get your pay check ever week?

Without IT, most businesses would come to a screeching halt. Managers that treat It like their janitorial staff have already paid the price.

There was lead in the food on December 31, 2010, also. That was the last time you had a fully Democratic controlled government. You'll have to come up with another lame excuse now.

Um, it would help if you RTFA:

That said, the FDA's food standards were set in 1993. Those standards suggest that children get no more than six micrograms of lead per day, based on children having no more than 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. However, a 2012 NIH study found evidence that levels less than 5 micrograms per dL "decreased academic achievement, IQ, and specific cognitive measures; increased incidence of attention-related behaviors and problem behaviors." The EDF reported that the CDC is expected to lower its recommended blood levels to no more than 3.5 micrograms per DL in 2017.

The toxicity of lead was not fully understood even just several years ago. It was only recognized after Republicans took control of Congress. However Obama did sign a food-safety bill on January 4, 2011, just five days after the fully Deomocratic controlled government ended. Luckily, it had overcome a Republican filibuster in the Senate just in time, on December 21, 2010.

But since Obama signed it, it's bad and so Trump needs to undo it. This is a statement his campaign released on September 15, 2016:

Specific regulations to be eliminated include:

[...paragraphs ranting about EPA controls on CO2, water, and ozone pollution deleted...]

The FDA Food Police, which dictate how the federal government expects to produce fruits and vegetables and even dictates the nutritional content of dog food. The rules govern the soil farmers use, food and food production hygiene, food packaging, food temperatures, and even what animals may roam which fields and when. It also greatly increased inspections of food "facilities", and levies new taxes to pay for this inspection overkill.

It seems poisoned dog food isn't even popular among Trump supporters, so the "FDA Food Police" paragraph silently disappeared from Trump's campaign website. However there are still calls from some within the GOP (e.g. Newt Gingrich) to abolish the FDA altogether.

I'm not sure what will become of the CDC plans to lower the acceptable level in 2017. Trump's hiring freeze has left 700 vacancies at the CDC and his proposed budget cuts their funding by 17%.

Perhaps because I don't have time to repeatedly do so. It is NOT my responsibility to educate your ignorance.

Donald Trump spoke to veterans. The media published hundreds of articles touting that Donald Trump said soldiers commit suicide because they are weak. Just a few examples below, and those are much milder than many headlines I saw.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Except those media outlets blatantly took Trump's words out of context and implied statements that he did not make. You can also go to YouTube.com and find the actual video. In fact, surprisingly, that particular video is perhaps the most Presidential moment I have ever seen of Trump.

http://www.snopes.com/donald-t...

So there you got, there is a citation for you. Now give me your address so I can send you a pro-rated bill for my time your lazy ignorant buttface wasted. And THIS is why I don't cite every time. Cause we have Google. Use it....

Perhaps because I don't have time to repeatedly do so. It is NOT my responsibility to educate your ignorance.

Donald Trump spoke to veterans. The media published hundreds of articles touting that Donald Trump said soldiers commit suicide because they are weak. Just a few examples below, and those are much milder than many headlines I saw.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Except those media outlets blatantly took Trump's words out of context and implied statements that he did not make. You can also go to YouTube.com and find the actual video. In fact, surprisingly, that particular video is perhaps the most Presidential moment I have ever seen of Trump.

http://www.snopes.com/donald-t...

So there you got, there is a citation for you. Now give me your address so I can send you a pro-rated bill for my time your lazy ignorant buttface wasted. And THIS is why I don't cite every time. Cause we have Google. Use it....

For 40 years, it was illegal to export US-sourced crude oil. It was the Obama Administration that lifted the ban in 2016. Prior to that, all US pumped oil had to be used in the US. Would be trivial to go back to that...

We are involved in the Middle East to essentially guarantee the oil flows for our "friends" in the EU who knock us for using our own oil and for military aggression in protecting their own oil supplies...

Call him all the names you want. He's uniting people left and right on a common goal. And companies are spending their own money on things the taxpayers were before.

You could probably thank Trump too. Not only is he making companies pay for their own green initiatives, he's also made Democrats embrace the concept of federalism.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06...
More public sector incompetence. Private sector accommodation would never be so lethal as the risk of a lawsuit acts as a deterrent and spurs better performance. That's the discipline of the free market.
--
roman_mir

GOP having control of power right now as it drives sales down since they can't scare potential customers into thinking the government is going to take the guns away.

No, certain GOP hating liberals have already routed around that problem. Now they are shooting Republicans for being republicans. Now the Republicans will simply need to arm themselves to protect themselves from Rioting AnitFa and random people targeting them.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/...

If, by sabotage, you mean they report what he says and does, then I concede the point

No, by "sabotage" I mean publication of falsehoods and innuendo, which, without stating an accusation, masterfully create a perception of the impeachment-worthy "high crimes and misdemeanors" having already been committed by the President.

he should stop giving them so much fodder.

What "fodder" did he give anybody to accuse him of treason? None — but for months we were talking about it... Indeed, Comey, of all people, knew perfectly well, the charges of "treason" are so baseless, there is not even an investigation about them — but still maneuvered to have a special prosecutor appointed to investigate something — even though no one can even state a coherent accusation, much less prove anything.

That is done to sabotage his agenda — there is no other plausible explanation — an undeniable and objective fact...

> That my friend is the difference between you, and I (the peons) and the
> CEOs of the world. The driven continue to be driven, not just by money,
> but by their desire to create, innovate, and sometimes destroy.

BULL FUCKING SHIT. I *might* believe that for a *second* if they didn't ALSO get paid RIDICULOUS sums, REGARDLESS of their performance. Or did you miss the news that she will walk away with $186 million?

Show me an America CEO who makes within TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE what the average employee earns and I *might* believe that they're doing it for anything other than the money.

Think she doesn't like money? Maybe she'll share her newfound wealth with the 2,100 who were laid off last week. $186 million divided by 2,100 = $88,571 per employee.

Or share some with these people. (Feb 2016)
Or these people. (April 2015)
Or these people. (June 2013)

Don't you fucking DARE tell me that she is more driven by a desire to create or innovate than any of those THOUSANDS of people -- that THEY were only driven by money. Becoming CEO is basically like winning the lottery.

By the way, she was already worth $540M last week.

Marissa Mayer
CEO, Yahoo!
2017 AMERICA'S SELF-MADE WOMEN NET WORTH â" as of 6/8/17
$540 M

Add today's $186M and she's now around $720M. She's three-quarters of a BILLIONAIRE. But she's not driven by money -- just her desire to create and innovate. Gotcha. Too bad for the thousands of shallow, selfish former Yahoo employees who were only driven by money.