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http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/05/technology/cell-phone-outage/

Not true. Trump has come out against it as it currently stands, and has an elegant solution: require H-1Bs be paid more than market wages. That way, it's only cost-effective to hire an H-1B if you honestly need them.

I mean, I understand because I'm old enough to have a grandfather who was permanently affected by polio. So I grew up with that. But those much younger than me?

Quite a few people younger/around your age remember polio. Just not people in this neck of the hemisphere of the woods.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/

By changing his diet from being meat, grain and vegetable based to sugar based (and REDUCING the number of calories without changing exercise), the subject LOST WEIGHT.

Why would a reasonable person feel threatened by a drone? You do know people have succeeded in firing drone-attached handguns, don't you? Given that you can't tell when it's hovering whether or not it's armed, feeling threatened seems VERY reasonable, doesn't it? http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/...

Christ, what hell-hole do you live in where police have a general 'order people around' power that's backed by some sort of right of violence?

Failure to obey a police order is usually a misdemeanor. You can be arrested for a misdemeanor. If you resist such an arrest in any way, the officer can use whatever violence he deems necessary to subdue you. Even if you are wearing a bikini.

Government is an evil structure by its very definition, as it is set up to provide the collective with violent means of dominating an individual. Whatever system that is fundamentally based on violence can not and will not avoid using violence to increase its own power, and blah blah blah blah

As much as starting your own business means you will sexually harass your female employees, defraud your investors, dump toxic waste in the river, and join the international slave trade. For what some businesses have done, all businesses will do.

That's either equally brilliant as your assertion that government = evil, or equally asinine.

Another problem left out of your Randian storyline: look back at the worst Soviet agency, program or institution you could name, and its bureaucrats wouldn't have a direct, personal incentive to cut corners the way capitalists do. Because, as you Randians constantly tell us, socialism/communism leads to lazy, unproductive workers that have guaranteed jobs and salaries no matter how little they work. As opposed to capitalists, who choose to leave people with cancer, disembowelment or death to save a buck (or less) on products that cost thousands of dollars.

He says he's been told by many police leaders that officers who normally would stop to question suspicious people are opting to stay in their patrol cars for fear of having their encounters recorded and become video sensations

Good...maybe they'll learn a little fucking restraint instead of popping out of their cars and shooting 12-year old kids for holding a toy gun.

Seriously, stay in your fucking copmobile unless you have a reason to be "interacting" with the public. It's not your job to go on fishing expeditions hoping to make another arrest or choking a guy to death for selling cigarettes or "jogging while black".

Really, Walmart is 100x bigger than Amazon and actually has large scale reach (not distance).

Why all the Amazon articles of this week (hiring 100K temps, stock price, walmart comparsions, etc...)?

Likely because they always need a gimmick to stir up attention in gearing up for the holiday season. 2012-Kindle Fire/phone & cyber Monday, 2013-drones. 2014-floor bots, black Friday and echo (which really got steam in the last quarter). A company like Walmart doesn't need to (they will get shoppers for the holiday season).

And every year Wall St reports missed earnings/loss and business news ALWAYS talks about Amazon vs Walmart.... every year.

We get it. And Amazon will continue to stay in the red.

Well, considering their base pay is currently $9 and minimum wage is $7.25, yes, they are in fact paying above minimum wage.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/1...

Waiting tables makes way above minimum wage, so I would highly recommend those jobs. The minimum wage for waiting tables is $2.13, and waiting makes good tips (with some effort).

The form to get the Walmart job, is called a job application. It is available on their site:

http://careers.walmart.com/sea...

... but you'd better hurry up, the political landscape will most likely change in the next 18 months.

How so? The US will still be run by the ultra-rich, privileged upper-class aided by their well-fed lackeys, the lobbying companies. Oh, you mean the puppets office will be different? Doesn't really count.

To hazard a guess, I think he means most of us are getting fed up with the so-called social "justice" warriors who are continuously up in arms and having hissy fits over any perceived (though probably not real) slight. Yesterday provided a perfect example. Two guys on twitter made up a #boycottstarwarsvii hashtag, claiming the movie was racist against white people. Of course, SJWs went apoplectic with self-righteous indignation, and it even made CNN & The Daily Show, but it turns out it was all just a troll from the get-go. SJWs seem to go full retard every day.

Yes, that system was called LORAN, and we shut it down a few years back to "save money":

Specifically: she said she turned over all work-related emails, but did not do so. Now, it's possible it wasn't an intentional lie, which is why I'm willing to wait for the investigation to see how bad it is.

Walmart is very much into efficiency.

When they looked at buying trucks for their fleet 0.1% fuel savings could mean it millions in savings. It is very cutthroat between Cummins, Volvo and Detroit Diesel/Mercedes.

Who stands to gain a lot from automated semis? Walmart. If they can get rid of a bunch of tired, overworked drivers overnight they wouldn't hesitate.

I want to shop for groceries like I register for Wedding registries and just have it delivered. Walmart already has the supply chain in place for that. They're just missing the 'last mile'. Which for now means you have to go to a Walmart.

The Walmart City could be a tiny footprint.store that has one of every non-food/perishable item. People in the city walk through with their Walmart branded Android Device on Walmart's MVNO. Use the phone like a barcode scanner and just pick what you want. Want 50 bottles of soda but don't want to deal with loading them into your car? Just hit "Qty. 50" and schedule your Walmart Valet Service delivery.

Stuck in the mountains and need some matches? Order it on Walmart Express app and a Drone will be there in 2 hours or less.

Don't underestimate a company with a lot to lose being backed into a corner.

on /. about sports and financial writers being replaced by computer programs? Seems anything with a lot of statistics was ripe for this since sports/finance writers were really just putting fluff around numbers. Good thing automation never costs jobs, right?

You're still wrong - some information is classified as soon as it's generated, even if it isn't marked "classified". Some of that information was found on her server - it was classified at the time, even if it didn't have the appropriate markings - that's how classified information works. She lied when she said she turned all the emails over. Not turning them over is, in fact, illegal, and it was when the RNC did it too. Their bad behavior doesn't excuse hers.

All I have to say, is if this were Jeb, he would be in jail already.

Except Jeb did practically the same thing:

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

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/...

And George W. Bush did even worse, breaking the law in doing so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He even refused to turn over e-mails under subpoena: "The White House stated it might have lost five million emails"

At least 5 different investigations were hampered by his private e-mail account:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Unlike George, Hillary appears to have broke no laws, turned over all the data to investigators, and isn't hampering any investigations.

Case in point: The a-hole at costco who punched out an old man for complaining that he was grabbing all the samples for himself! http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/...

Good! This generation of old people are particularly self-important, entitled blowhard fucks. They singlehandedly brought down this great nation, with their fiscal irresponsibility and attitude of MINE MINE GIMME IT'S FUCING MINE!, something even the Soviets couldn't manage to do. Glad to see one of them got what was comin to him. Too bad the guy who did the deed will probably go to jail.

Powell seems quite upset about the recent actions of his GOP. "I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them," Powell said, prompting laughter from the audience.

"In Virginia, you don't have to declare a party ... but I'm still a Republican because I believe in a strong defense, because I believe in the entrepreneurial spirit that is so typical of the Republican Party in the past. But I'm having difficulty with the party now," he said.

He actually said he's only a Republican because it annoys them. So you are correct, even if you posted as an AC lol.

"I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them," Powell said, prompting laughter from the audience.

"In Virginia, you don't have to declare a party ... but I'm still a Republican because I believe in a strong defense, because I believe in the entrepreneurial spirit that is so typical of the Republican Party in the past. But I'm having difficulty with the party now," he said.

It's not really about the magazine anymore, nowadays they're trying to manage it as a lifestyle/luxury brand. They have branded merchandise that's highly profitable and expanding in China, for example. They're also trying to get bigger into the "online content" thing, which was being harmed by the nudity... not having nudity makes it easier for people to share stuff on Facebook or email articles to people and whatever.

Hillary hasn't yet started her campaign, really started it, where she starts spending her money and making an effort on the campaign trail so that she's not polling well is of no surprise.

Meanwhile, in reality...

"Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign spent 90% of the money it raised over the last three months, campaign aides said Thursday, a staggeringly high figure for a political organization that has prided itself on being thrifty." - 2 October, 2015

Citation.

Well, no. Not really.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/0...

"For the first time ever, the number of people living in extreme poverty is set to fall to below 10% of the global population in 2015, the World Bank said."

Things are better than they've ever been for the most people, ever.

Case in point: The a-hole at costco who punched out an old man for complaining that he was grabbing all the samples for himself! http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/...

I'd go for bracelets. That way you can give them a warning shot and they can still keep working with the other one.

I know, I'm a big softie.

Like feminism, the "gay rights" movement doesn't have much room for non-WASPs either. Mr. Granderson, being a gay and a black man, should know what he is talking about. Funny how "progressives" talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/PO...

Hell, I could have told you that. It's not very welcoming if you're in any of the letters of the acronym past LG, either; this is a bit old but still accurate and a bit of work with Google will give you some lovely more recent examples of transphobia and biphobia within the LGBT community, and that's just starting to dig into the nastiness within the community. Sometimes it just shows too much that the 'inclusiveness' is totally for numbers and appearances.

I love the "class warfare" narrative for the Left that has become fashionable amoung the Right. Pointing out that for the last half century that wealth inequality has increased while the middle class has shrunk and that maybe we should do something about that is not class warfare. Anyone who has received half a political science education can tell you that massive wealth inequality is one of the most significant threats to successful republican governance.

Actually, this is typical class warfare rhetoric. The thing to remember here is that wealth inequality is not a significant threat to successful democracy. Our freedoms are not threatened merely because some people have a lot of wealth. They are threatened because a fair fraction of the voting population can be swayed by rather transparent propaganda (which is something that money can buy).

who are wealthier then they have ever been in American history.

Once you adjust for inflation, you find this assertion is patently false. Here's a typical list with the richest living US citizen, Bill Gates at 12th place. Again, this is class warfare rhetoric. Humanity has always had a small elite in control of an inordinate amount of resources.

In fact, I think one might be able to make the case that it is our conservatives who are engaged in class warfare.

One can make the case that the Moon is made of green cheese. So what?

My view is that wealth inequality is worse now than it was in say, 1970. But I think we should expect it to be in the face of intense labor competition from the developing world, which is the elephant in this room. And rather than adopt policies that make that problem worse, maybe we should concern ourselves with stuff that actually matters, like making US labor more competitive with the rest of the world.

That means among other things, abandoning the class warfare rhetoric - the rich will continue to get richer because their wealth is in capital not labor, reducing costs like the inefficient and often counterproductive social safety nets that price US labor out of a lot of markets, and cleaning up the ridiculous morass of regulation surrounding employment and business.

Like feminism, the "gay rights" movement doesn't have much room for non-WASPs either. Mr. Granderson, being a gay and a black man, should know what he is talking about. Funny how "progressives" talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/PO...

You're just holding it wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/m...

http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....

Your problem is that you are assigning incompetence when it is nowhere found in the statement. Not knowing something does not mean incompetence, it means ignorant of all the facts if anything.

I am specifically stating that the fog of war makes things like the purpose behind specific buildings fluid and ever changing and it is not possible to know what every building is being used for when you do not control the territory they are located in. Presumably, the Afghans who called the air strike in were trusted enough to be able to do so and they were taken at their word that they were receiving fire from the building. There is no incompetence there at all.

Take a read at this snippet from CNN. It's basically the same as I said and he calls it a mistake. If you consider that incompetence, I consider you looney and too unintelligent to continue.

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen Mark Hertling said it was common for facilities such as hospitals to give combatants their coordinates.

"The coalition air forces will put something called a no-fly area on that GPS coordinate, so you have a pinpoint dot on a map, where you say something is there ... don't hit it," Hertling said.

"But when the fluidness of the battlefield takes place and you have engagements with troops on the ground, sometimes there are mistakes," he said.

This is being reported all over. Here's a link from CNN Money.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/0...

Which bit?

Why shouldn't people who leech obscene amounts of data pay more? *THAT* is the American way, *THAT* is how capitalism is *SUPPOSED* to work.

This is being reported all over. Here's a link from CNN Money.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/0...

Don't fret. The monopolistic tactics of the entire industry will all but guarantee your carrier too will offer this "feature" very soon.

The utter lack of enforcement by our government ensures that anti-monopoly laws continue to be ignored as we all pay the Piper of Collusion.

Clicking the "do not like" button and doing nothing else about it is why Verizon and others ritualistically shove their hand up the consumers ass.

This is being reported all over. Here's a link from CNN Money.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/0...

You're just holding it wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/m...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/1...

Walmart pays more than the federal minimum wage. So if you need food stamps on a Walmart paycheck, it is time to improve yourself and find work elsewhere. $9 now, and $10 next Feb (2016), nationwide, is nothing to look down on. In many places, that is the best paying job around.

Dell is reportedly in talks to buy all or part of enterprise storage powerhouse EMC, which would mark a bold and unexpected new chapter in the PC maker's history.

According to unnamed sources in the WSJ, who also cautioned the companies might not finalize any agreement. Cautionary tale.

Sort of like this, these deals don't always materialize.

1. Harvard doesn't necessarily mean genuinely smart, believe me I have first-hand experience.

Well the title of the article refers to the Harvard team as "National Title Winners". In fact the article's first sentence says "Months after winning a national title, Harvard’s debate team has fallen to a group of New York prison inmates." While you could say that about random people from Harvard, you'd expect a team that won a national title in debate to be somewhat good.

Additionally, a bunch of cocky elitists from an Ivy League school probably didn't prepare in for this little shindig to the same extent as their opponents.

I'm curious to know how you think being in prison that gives a person an advantage that an elitist college student doesn't have

In fact, you might say their opponents were captivated with their training...

Er what does that mean? If anything the prison inmates were at a disadvantage in debate preparation as their access to the resources such as books and the Internet is severely limited.

Inmates face any number of challenges preparing for debate, including a lack of access to the Internet and a requirement for prison administration approval of necessary written materials, which can delay access to information.

Look at the position that the good left-wing indoctrinated Harvardites were asked to take: That forcing public schools to educate any and all children of illegal aliens is not necessarily a good thing.

Um, no. That was the position the inmates had to argue. The skill of debater is not whether the debater believes in the position personally but what arguments they can make for the position they took. In some formats, the positions are not decided until the debate so the teams have to prepare for both sides.

Who knows. But a few or even a few hundred idiots are not a substantial threat to Europe. CNN just published this graph, showing that the risk for Americans to be killed by firearm in the US is more than two orders of magnitude greater than the risk of an American being killed by terrorism (home or abroad). And if you exclude 9/11, it's more than three orders of magnitude. If the US can survive the NRA, then Europe can survive a couple of other fanatics.

And no, I just can't come around to respecting that. Pull up your big girl/boy undies (or go commando, that's where the real fun is, but I digress) and let it roll off your shoulders, or do something proactive and beneficial about it that isn't the act of a sniveling wimp.

And people wonder why incidents like this happen. I am really not too fond of your solution. Hint: being a jerk doesn't make you a bigger man; it just makes you a jerk.

I hope now the bureaucrats and big companies have passed it they will now show it to politicans and peasants affected by it? Democracy my butt.

About as dependable as their banking secrecy laws.

Bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...

http://www.today.com/food/your...

http://www.allaboutwater.org/t...

https://youtu.be/saSgpX186MM

In many cases, bottled water is coming from a municipal water source. It's treated and filtered the same way all municipal water is. About the only thing that happens is that the companies sometimes re-introduce minerals to enhance the flavor.

Bullshit on your bullshit.

It is completely intellectually dishonest to the point of a LIE to assert that water delivered via a sterile, new, plastic container is the equivalent of what runs through the often old, sometimes lead, sometimes infused with bacteria and sediments stuff tossed through underground lines prone to breakage and then on premise, subject to the neglectful landlord's, and cheap ass developer's habits.

You never had the fire department flush their lines and all of a sudden your water is brown for a day? Try shaking a bottle of bottled water, if it becomes brown afterward I'll concede the piped in water is the same as the bottled stuff.

Water from the tap may be "as safe" but it is NOT "as good" most of the time. How come I can go to my neighbor's apartment and the water tastes different? How come the water at the office tastes like there's a goddamn garden hose in the loop somewhere? (Probably because there IS somewhere. ick.)

The water delivery to the tap is completely different, and it's different in a way that's old, broke down, and full of flaws to the point that many consumers routinely filter it to make it semi-palatable again.

That's not "about the only thing that happens". Lie, lie, and then LIE again.

Maybe if you had bottled water, you'd drink it instead of coke and other nasty things.
Despite popular belief, tap water, even with a Britta, is nothing like bottled water which is actually nice to drink.

Bullshit.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH...

http://www.today.com/food/your...

http://www.allaboutwater.org/t...

https://youtu.be/saSgpX186MM

In many cases, bottled water is coming from a municipal water source. It's treated and filtered the same way all municipal water is. About the only thing that happens is that the companies sometimes re-introduce minerals to enhance the flavor.

I think the firing range comment was about:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/03/...

Which was most likely a result of PTSD, as they were at the range trying to help the vet get through his PTSD issues.

Notice all these shootings seem to be happening in "gun free zones"?

You might be suffering from confirmation bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/16/...
http://www.newsweek.com/second...

> "Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant. Discrimination does exist whether intentional or unintentional,"

Asserting doesn't make it so. If she had proof she wouldn't have needed the mealy-mouth phrase "has to be operating".

> she told the school board in May of this year. Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs
> She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though the majority of the district is poor.

Because a program truly oriented toward "gifted" children should be color-blind, and because white and/or higher-income households have a greater emphasis on school and success, especially compared with blacks and latinos, who are, by policy in most schools, advanced far beyond their competence by the myth that all outcomes must be equal, even when they aren't. What will happen is this program will be gutted, the money diverted in the name of "fairness", the gifted children will continue to be bored out of their minds at school, the blacks and latinos will still be told the system is rigged against them, and most of the diverted money will be donated to Democrats, 'cause, that's the way these things work..

How many times do we have to see this movie?

Tell me, people, when was the last time a white neighborhood erupted in violence, attacking and robbing local, white-owned businesses, because some black cop gunned down an unarmed white kid? The shootings happen, why not the violence? Why not the outrage? Why aren't Democrats defending the poor, downtrodden, white people being systematically murdered by "da man?"

To take just the first few results from Google:
http://mrconservative.com/2014...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.westernjournalism.c...

Fair enough. Start with these fine upstanding people.

maybe if you grow your own or buy in a place that is legal. but illegal marijuana is cut with all sorts of crap that makes it far far worse than the crap tobacco companies put in cigarettes. dealers will cut marijuana with all sorts of shit. and i mean that literally:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.... (tldr: the cdc saw a salmonella outbreak, and traced it to distributors cutting weed with feces)

illegal drugs are horrible to consume as you have zero accountability or responsibility for who put what in it. if something you buy at a store poisons you, you can go after the seller and/ or manufacturer. like this:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/... (tldr: company executive faked peanut tests, people died of salmonella poisoning, executive goes to jail for a long time)

in many ways, it's an argument for legalization/ decriminalization/ some sort of safe harbor provision so people aren't being killed by who knows what poison some asshole puts in their drugs. but until such time, you need to either grow your own, move to a place your drug of choice is legal, or find some sort of chain of distribution that you implicitly trust. but taking some pill some low life asshole you don't know says is {XYZ} is a way to get parkinson's disease, cancer, or violently ill

what kind of blows my mind is morons like yourself who rail against evil corporations and modern food growth and distribution, and then will eat/ smoke/ shoot some poison form some random douchebag who is a genuinely amoral asshole

really?

corporations do plenty of evil in the world, but drug dealer's are yet many many levels lower on that measure of integrity or sense of morals. why is that corporations get so much distrust form you, but some shitbag slinging drugs is someone you trust with chemicals you put in your body?

Doesn't stop the US, so why should it stop us Aussies.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/bin.laden.legal/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9739447/Dotcom-raid-legal-FBI-taking-evidence-not

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/02/world/americas/bolivia-presidential-plane/

FUCK YOU TO HELL AMERICA!!!!

Uber headquarters are in San Francisco so I suggest extradition to Australia for the CEO. Failing that, entice the homeless of San Fran to burn the cunts to the ground!!!!

Doesn't stop the US, so why should it stop us Aussies.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/bin.laden.legal/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/9739447/Dotcom-raid-legal-FBI-taking-evidence-not

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/02/world/americas/bolivia-presidential-plane/

FUCK YOU TO HELL AMERICA!!!!

Uber headquarters are in San Francisco so I suggest extradition to Australia for the CEO. Failing that, entice the homeless of San Fran to burn the cunts to the ground!!!!