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I don't know. She should probably check the configurations of Jeb Bush's and Rick Perry's private email servers before making a decision.

Look at the Continuum feature in Win10. That's all I can say. Here's a recent CNN article that shows the feature being demo'd: http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/1...

I think you're missing how much of a whore the media was leading up to the Iraq war, completely drowning out any dissonant experts including high ranking military, political scientists, and historians.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/...
http://www.salon.com/2007/04/1...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The media will do anything that gets them readers. Morals, ethics, and political leanings have nothing to do with it. The all-mighty dollar crosses all political boundaries.

Iran has been doing this for years.

At least our copies work.

I found the "inventor" of the Twitter hashtag to be significantly more interesting, featured on CNN Money, along with all his pervert sexual views. http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/29/technology/chris-messina-non-monogamy/. Enjoy :)

Here's the logic

A formidable contender for the title of "most bizarre case of musical infringement" has got to be the case brought by the John Cage Trust against Mike Batt for the latter's "A One Minute Silence", ostensibly an infringement of Cage's " 4'33" " (consisting of 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence). The suit was settled out-of-court for a six-figure sum (edition.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence)

The effective corporate tax rate is 12.6%.

As the other commenter indicated, the president doesn't declare war. Congress declares war.

So why would you bring Obama up anyways?

Obama after all doubled the national debt, he started many wars (http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/272471/fact-checking-the-war-comparisons-between-obama-and-bush/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/...) though two is kind of limiting it a bit, and was elected twice.

Actually the money is usually above average.

Did not violate any rules regarding email retention

Yes, she did. It may not have been against the law just yet, but it was certainly against the State Department's own rules already.

The stupid arrangement left communications of the top American diplomat vulnerable — something Russia and other enemies would be happy to exploit on any day, but fine, a President is not supposed to be proficient in communication security.

But we should discard public servants at the first sign of hypocrisy — and that's exactly, what's on display here. And here...

Did what every other Secretary of State did in regards to email.

Citations needed.

Hillary is not a bad choice.

Lovers gonna love.

Firearm accidents barely made it onto the chart I was looking at with 22 unintentional firearm deaths for the 10-14 year old category.

First of all, they are dramatically underreported, as has been shown numerous times. Second of all, I mentioned shootings, not just deaths. Fortunately a fair number of the shooting victims manage to survive, but that is only by luck (usually aided by the fact that the accidental shooter is often a child as well).

Firearm deaths are hardly the "low hanging" fruit on things killing children in the US, and it hardly happens "every single day"

Read the news. It is not hard to find an accidental shooting every single day in this country that involves a child. Hell, there were three accidental shootings in Houston involving children over the weekend. It does happen every day, and it is the fault of irresponsible gun owners.

Hence why most "gun nuts" get more than a little agitated when it is used as a reason to take away their rights.

Did I say anything about taking away rights? No, I did not. I even said that most owners are responsible. I just want people to be responsible. We have a lot of irresponsible shit-heads leaving loaded unlocked weapons sitting around like they are toys, and this is the result.

And your bit about the age of a child is a straw man argument. I follow the standard definition of a child being under 18. And even at that the accidental shootings that I pay the most attention to are the ones involving kids under 10.

Curious, I'm not aware the citation of one piece of for-profit journalism has been deemed to be authoritative when determining cause and effect.

They are just reporting the findings of authoritative sources.

I'm also curious about the degree to which private educational institutions are simply getting less money from the state(s)?

There is zero effect on private institutions since they do not receive state money. Tuition at these institutions will naturally rise due to inflation. Public schools have that same cost rise plus the added decrease in revenue due to decreases in state funding. That is why private school tuition is only rising at a rate of 60% over 10 years but public tuition rate is rising at a rate 105% over 10 years.

Can I open college and get free money from the state to help run things?

No

At any rate, I'm STILL trying to figure out why any larger percentage of my state tax dollars should be funding personal education that I certainly don't directly benefit from, and indirect benefits would be largely dubious.

Seeing how uneducated you are, I suggest you make use of the public universities available in your state to get a clue.

I'm glad you liked it.

In the 80s, utility companies in the US just gave up on building new nuclear plants entirely. The two reactors currently under construction at Plant Vogtle in Georgia are the first new reactors to be approved in over 30 years. They're currently over budget and behind schedule, but how much of the problem can be attributed to regulatory meddling vs. other causes (such as the fact that the last engineers who could possibly have experience building a reactor in the US have surely long since retired) remains to be seen.

Minor tax issues?!

You have to file income tax on both ends, your country of residence, and the US for the rest of your life. I hated that red tape.

The US is the only country that takes the stance that all your world wide income no matter where it is generated has to be declared, and is going to be taxed by the IRS.

Yes, there are double taxation agreements, but if you make a lot of money you are screwed.

Many banks outside the US these days won't even service Americans because they have to report all account details to the IRS, an extra workload that they are not interested in taking on, especially since it exposes them legally to US laws.

All of the above also applies to green card holders. Which is why I gave mine back. Not so easy to get out of citizenship. You have to pay hefty fines that seem to get hiked up regularly if you want to hand in your passport.

Sorry folks, but your government seems to think it owns you.

Some quick links I found covering the issue.

Americans Living Abroad Becoming Trapped by Citizenship Based Tax Rules
Mayor Of London Boris Johnson Announces He'll Renounce U.S. Citizenship
When American Expats Donâ(TM)t Want Their Kids to Have U.S. Citizenship
Meet the 'accidental American' with a big tax bill
PwC suggests a check to see if you're an 'accidental American'
âAccidentalâ(TM) Americans Still Owe Income Tax

Or cope with sleeping bus drivers.

If marijuana were harmless then it'd be cool. Unfortunately, recent research has shown that regular marijuana use reduces IQ. In the case of adolescents with still-developing brains the IQ loss is permanent. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this is the state of the science at present. Here's a popularized reference for you (from a Left-leaning source):
http://www.pnas.org/content/11...
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11...

Like I said, if marijuana was harmless then it'd be cool with me- I'm not here to start a flamewar. I'm just here to point folks in the direction of the most recent medical studies. Rather than mod me down, if you disagree then please give me a link to a study that is as good as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and we can all learn (ie. "High Times" is neither an impartial nor scientific source, so I'm looking for something better than that).

"... they hired someone who they thought would bring a lot of Google inside information to them, ..."

Marissa Meyer was demoted, according to an L.A. Times story that has now been deleted, but is available at another site.

Quote: "But when Page took over as CEO in April 2011, he did not make a spot for her on his senior leadership team. Instead, she took over the company's location and local products, fueling speculation she would leave Google."

Do you think someone can be CEO and take care of a baby at the same time?

Back in 2006, before she joined Yahoo, there were questions about how much she thinking she could do, considering her work habits: How I work.

Quote: "I do marathon e-mail catch-up sessions, sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday. I'll just sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight. I almost always have the radio or my TV on."

Another, earlier quote: "I use Gmail for my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast."

tell me how we are one iota better off today with the democrat in the White House.

Your justifiable disappointment in both parties leads you to renouncing both of them equally, which is not justifiable in the slightest.

Had a Republican won, we would've still been capturing enemies to be held in Guantanamo — instead of simply killing them. Osama bin Laden would've been on trial, rather than fallen victim to extrajudicial killing .

Putin would not have dared to invade Ukraine. Gaddafi — who has made amends with US after seeing the capture of Saddam Hussein on TV — would've remained in charge of Lybia, instead of that country plunging into chaos. We wouldn't have left Iraq in such haste, which would've kept ISIS in check.

Domestically we would not have had the grossly unpopular Obamacare forced upon us with such vigor, most people — proponents and detractors alike — could not even understand the proposed law before the voting took place.

Republicans and Democrats are an inbred family, sleeping together for the past three generations.

Though the less principled "centrists" or "pragmatists" of the two parties do meet in the middle like stalactites and stalagmites, as those geological phenomena they too come from opposite ends.

What a day, Leonard Nimoy dies.

Boris Nemtsov is murdered.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/...

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/...

Putin says this was a horrible murder.... as he was seen hiding the fucking gun in his back pocket.

Not a good day.

We seem to be doing a good job of catching people before they join terrorist groups lately. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/... Oh and don't forget about the Newburgh Four. Those paid FBI informants are the nuts. Imagine how much safer we'll be once they expand this to cyber crime! /sarc Nothing like creating straw man criminals to justify the budget of an entire department of the government.

Seems like another carefully-planted article meant to dissuade Americans from the idea of protecting the country's borders:

• It is unfair
• Think of the children
• And now: it is expensive .

WTF? Law enforcement is not about just costs — it is also a deterrent. If 9 out of 10 illegals got caught and promptly deported, the word would spread around very quickly and the attempts would cease to a trickle compared to the ongoing flood.

But the sitting President's Party, facing such a severe disillusionment of existing Americans, desperately needs new ones — hoping for their votes based on sheer gratitude...

Seems like another carefully-planted article meant to dissuade Americans from the idea of protecting the country's borders:

• It is unfair
• Think of the children
• And now: it is expensive .

WTF? Law enforcement is not about just costs — it is also a deterrent. If 9 out of 10 illegals got caught and promptly deported, the word would spread around very quickly and the attempts would cease to a trickle compared to the ongoing flood.

But the sitting President's Party, facing such a severe disillusionment of existing Americans, desperately needs new ones — hoping for their votes based on sheer gratitude...

Seems like another carefully-planted article meant to dissuade Americans from the idea of protecting the country's borders:

• It is unfair
• Think of the children
• And now: it is expensive .

WTF? Law enforcement is not about just costs — it is also a deterrent. If 9 out of 10 illegals got caught and promptly deported, the word would spread around very quickly and the attempts would cease to a trickle compared to the ongoing flood.

But the sitting President's Party, facing such a severe disillusionment of existing Americans, desperately needs new ones — hoping for their votes based on sheer gratitude...

No, it's back to the 1940s. The (Islamo)fascists are the threat. Once again Jews are forced to flee Europe under threat of death, and Mein Kampf (long a popular book in the Middle East) is going back on the shelves in Germany. The point is to arrest the next sabotage / attack / terrorist cell that land by sub / plane / self organizes. "Papers, please"? Not so much.

Brooklyn men who wanted to join ISIS had plans to shoot President Obama, bomb Coney Island: FBI - Thursday, February 26, 2015
Al-Shabaab threatens malls, including some in U.S.; FBI downplays threat - February 21, 2015

Hmmm, what's all this then?

Abbott: Australia to strengthen citizenship laws to combat terror - February 23, 2015

Last I heard, Australia wasn't located anywhere near Moscow.

No, it's back to the 1940s. The (Islamo)fascists are the threat. Once again Jews are forced to flee Europe under threat of death, and Mein Kampf (long a popular book in the Middle East) is going back on the shelves in Germany. The point is to arrest the next sabotage / attack / terrorist cell that land by sub / plane / self organizes. "Papers, please"? Not so much.

Brooklyn men who wanted to join ISIS had plans to shoot President Obama, bomb Coney Island: FBI - Thursday, February 26, 2015
Al-Shabaab threatens malls, including some in U.S.; FBI downplays threat - February 21, 2015

Hmmm, what's all this then?

Abbott: Australia to strengthen citizenship laws to combat terror - February 23, 2015

Last I heard, Australia wasn't located anywhere near Moscow.

During daytime, buy cheap power from all those rooftop solar installations. Use it to pump water up into a high reservoir (~80% efficiency). The reservoirs are pretty empty right now in the west, so the trick is just finding some fresh water to pump in the first place.

At night, or when there cloudcover. spin the generators from the reservoir and sell it back at a 50% premium. Use the difference to pay for distribution and take a nice profit.

If you can't find fresh water, use the surplus power to desalinate some.

Let's have *that* problem, renegotiating daytime vs nighttime rates, rather than a mass extinction. Thanks.

Helicopter Parents. Protecting them from everything and anything.

Let them play in the mud, eat their own boogers, scrap their knees, eat bugs, roll in the grass and leaves even though the dogs poo there, etc.

When you grow up in a plastic bubble, everything is your enemy.

You wrote almost exactly what I was going to say, but I was also going to add that the attitude goes way beyond what kids do or don't eat. The problem is that even if you want to be a sane parent (vice a helicopter parent) the law is being written/interpreted such that you have no choice. Here in Maryland, a parent is being charged with neglect for letting their child walk home from the park. The weirdest part is that the law being used to charge them is one which prohibits locking a child in a building alone. Being outdoors is being equated to being locked inside. There are a bunch of similar stories reported at http://www.freerangekids.com/

Speaking of the Yellowstone River and oil pipelines:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/20/...

Also missing are Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/...

Clearly his Peace Prize protects him from condemnation.

B$. My family of 5 coverage was $160 per month, $35 copay, no deductible. Here comes Osamabinladencare, one adult person is now $1200 per month for almost the same coverage, kids are forced to take medi-cal, which is free but will recoup any/all medical bills from my estate. No choice on this, it's this or pay the full outside price which is 10X what it was.

One person, $1200 a month? not including subsidies?
http://money.cnn.com/infograph...

The reality of healthcare politics is that a majority have and still do want some kind of gov't managed insurance to pool risk. Only about 1/4 want to go back to the way things were before ACA (link below).

IF a political entity rants to change or repeal it, they need to first specify in detail what to replace it with or change.

Every known non-trivial change will sock it to one group of people in order to benefit another, and thus wouldn't be an easy sell.

Griping is easy; presenting viable alternatives is not.

And each state CAN run it's own exchange site if it doesn't like the federal one.

http://politicalticker.blogs.c...

SCOTUS already ruled on this. Welcome to 2014.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/25/...

I would, if I could.

You may rest assured, though, that it will be very, very hard to do so. For a few reasons that are quite obvious. One, adding such a gimmick is trivially cheap and since it's one thing you can add to the tickbox list of features, every item will have it. For reference, see cellphones and cameras. I don't want it, I don't need it, I would especially love to get it for our workers (for the obvious reason) but there is not a single cellphone that has no camera or where it is at least easily and permanently disabled that passes the other criteria.

Same will apply for appliances and internet connection. Few people will actually have a sensible use for it most of the time, but it's trivial to add, it's cheap to implement and since nobody uses it, you won't even have to make it work for more than what's necessary for the showroom presentation.

And then of course there's that other reason that the makers of the appliances want their gadgets to phone home and report back what you do and how to better annoy you with advertising. Here's a chilling little tidbit straight out of 1984... no, wait, 2015 and it's not a novel, it is actually a TV that spies on you. Or maybe I'm overreacting to the manual stating "Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition". Must be my paranoia, for sure.

You think fridge makers wouldn't want to know what kind of junk you eat, washing machines makers don't care how often and what kind of clothing you wash? It's all data that can be mined, sold and bought.

It will be very, very hard to avoid the internet of things. And it will even be harder to disable the crap in the appliances without throwing warranty away.

Another blind spot is the dark side of the moon.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/...

The US launched a satellite to check if the Russian were doing nuclear weapons testing on the dark side of the moon.

You are simply wrong -- 3D printing on a RepRap or similar is less expensive than injection molding -- CNN did a nice story on it awhile back - http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/31/...

they currently don't have to pay their debts anyway

Then why is there a deadline for paying back 1.5 billion Euro to the IMF, which isone of their creditors, in June? That sounds like a debt repayment to me.

Sucks to be the little shitbag, doesn't it.

The little fucker knew the authorities would overreact to his prank, that's why he did that shit. Now he's going to be on the receiving end of the war dildo.

I hope they sent SWAT in to bust him.

I hope mommy and daddy are proud of their little shit-bag.

But in reality, they're going to hire and expensive lawyer and the little shit will make a plea to a non-felony using the affluenza defense, and get out with time served and maybe probation along with counseling.

funny you bring up SS, SS would be fine if the govt stopped raiding it.

Ah yes, the conservative myth about Social Security that just will not die: "Social Security is broke because government's been raiding it!"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/20...

http://money.cnn.com/pf/featur...

Social Security benefits are not paid out of a "trust fund". They are paid out of payroll taxes on an "as-you-go" basis. The "trust fund" represented the massive overpayments that were made in preparation for the large number of baby boomers who are now retiring. And by the way, in case you're worried, they aren't making any new baby boomers, so every year, their number shrinks.

Social Security is not only perfectly fine, but is without a doubt the most popular and successful US government program in history. It's one of the main reasons the US has had such high standards of living since WWII. And the GOP/libertarian desperation to undo Social Security is the best proof that they are too dangerous to be allowed to govern.

Except now that siucidal gay teen or the boy who thinks he is a girl doesn't have to kill themselves when they are tormented for not fitting into society- they can get a doctor to do it for them.

The part you're missing is that when that person goes to the doctor, they may find their first friendly voice they have ever heard.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/31/...

"When Josh Alcorn voiced a desire to live as a girl, the Ohio teenager's parents said they wouldn't stand for that.

"We don't support that, religiously," Alcorn's mother told CNN on Wednesday, her voice breaking."

---

That boy had no one to provide a friendly voice, his parents took him to a christian therapist:

"My mom started taking me to a therapist, but would only take me to christian therapists, (who were all very biased) so I never actually got the therapy I needed to cure me of my depression. I only got more christians telling me that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help."

---

Instead of walking in front of a truck to take his own life, had he been able to go talk to a doctor, someone that his parents didn't pick, he might have found a sympathetic voice.

Regardless if you think LGBT is "right" or "wrong", a 16 year old boy has to be in a LOT of pain to think that death is their only escape.

Federal gas tax pays for highways and the gas tax isn't enough to cover the cost, and hasn't been for years. Additionally, state gas taxes only pay for half of state and local roadway expenses.

The roadway users aren't paying for the cost of the roadways through fees -- they're covering more than half. There's absolutely no evidence that money intended for transportation is being spent outside of transportation, and at the state level in many states that would violate the state constitution.

We're underfunding transportation in America, both road and rail. The problem is that taxes, fees, and fares are not high enough, not that money is leaking into other areas of government.

Ok, Let's focus on these answers that you have wider selection sets to make a mental image over than just people you know.

That would be 1-5, and 10.

1)
You say that you have never heard a female pilot over the intercom. How strongly does this paint the image that pilots are all male? (Or, how shocked would you be to hear a female pilot informing you of mid-air turbulence?) Would you say this would be encouraging for women to become pilots?

According to the Airline Pilots Association, only 5% of commercial aircraft pilots are female.
CNN has a story that tries to address some of the issues that might be involved in why there is a huge disparity there as well. Some of the reasons given are less likely to apply, given the statistical increase in women choosing careers over family in recent decades, so take some of the answers with a grain of salt.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL...

2)
Prior to the 1980s, only 19% of flight attendants were male. In 2007 that number had risen to 26%. Some attribute this to progressive social policies that encouraged males to take up "less manly" careers, as many stories in that time period discussed issues such as daycares operated by male caregivers, and other "controversial" subjects, which helped push back against the perception that flight attendant is a female job.

http://www.prb.org/Publication...

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
(A german article from Speigel circa 2012 concerning efforts in Germany to recruit more male childcare workers.)

http://www.boston.com/communit...
(An Op-Ed concerning the "Controversial" practice of leaving children in a male care-giver's custody, circa 2009)

Exactly how much impact the "Softening" of social reactions to males entering "Traditionally Female" occupations has had on the uptick in males serving as flight attendants is not known, and probably cannot be well known, but I would expect that it is at least partially attributable, as the societal reaction towards a male entering such a career has relaxed somewhat in recent decades.

3)
According to the bureau of labor statistics, 51% of gas station employees are female. Granted, this value contains retail positions. The occupation of "Attendant" as it relates to gas stations typically involves this retail counter interaction these days, but the more historical view is of the guy outside who helped you at full service stations (a thing of the past, I know), which more parallels with automotive repair. The same statistics breakdown has 9.3% worksforce as female in automotive repair. Sadly, they don't give trend data, just snapshot data.

Depending on your perception of what "Gas station attendant" is, there is either a very slight lead for women in the industry, or a major lead by men in the industry.

4)
Labor statistics for "Retail Trade" have female participation (overall) listed at 48.3%. In various sub-categories, women dominate sales, while in others, men lead. Most hover in the 40-60%, with some leaning one way, and some to the other. Sales seems to be something that does not, intrinsically, have a gender bias, excepting in specailty products tailored or marketed to a specific gender.

5)
Labor statistics for "Administration of human resources" cites a 69% statistic for females. That's nearly 50% greater liklihood of your HR director being female over being male.

10)
Scientific research and development cites a 47% statistic.
Again, very close to 50% split.

There's other interesting data in there, concerning computer equipment manufacture-- 29% industry wide are female.

If this were true, cab driver would be a seriously dangerous job. In most countries, it isn't.

Yes it is. Taxi driver is one of the most dangerous jobs.

Fine, I should've been more careful with my wording. The article you linked to doesn't break down the number but implies heavily that the high fataility rate is due to car accidents. We're talking about the risk of violence here, which the article implies has been decreasing: "There aren't so many potential felons in the backseat as there used to be".

But ignoring all that, let's look at the numbers. 19.7 fatalities per 100,000 workers (per year, I assume). Let's say a cab driver takes 20 customers per shift, 250 days a year. That's 19.7 fatalities per 500,000,000 trips, or one death per twenty five million rides. I can live with those odds.

I'll leave the conversion to micromorts to someone else.

If this were true, cab driver would be a seriously dangerous job. In most countries, it isn't.

Yes it is. Taxi driver is one of the most dangerous jobs. It is much more dangerous than being a police officer.

How many 9mm charges would it be? A 9mm pistol round can certainly kill someone.

Oh yeah, it's not like Atlanta has any experience with bombs.

and placed with some kind of sign.

They were. The linked story doesn't say it but this one does. Specifically:

Photos of other cameras show them attached to trees, fences and windows around the city. Some include notes that identify the soda can as a "Georgia State Art Project." Some instruct passersby to "Please do not take down!"

He just took a bashing from IBM for reporting it, yet there it is. Robert, sadly you were right once again.

Would somebody please go out and just fire this stupid retard Romettey who just took $10 mil for her great fucked up planning and leadership?

Even with the regulations, several major brands that are considered (perhaps undeservedly) reputable were selling fakes. Imagine if there were no regulations.

Just in case anyone thinks this problem is limited to over the counter herbal supplements:

General information on counterfeit medicines
Counterfeit Medicine
Cracking Down on Counterfeit Drugs
The deadly world of fake medicine

Yes, even in the US, even with all the regulations, it happens more than most people think.

I don' t think any of the 911 planners knew who much their actions would kick into action deep seeded anti freedom views from inside western governments.

You would be wrong.
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life."
-- Bin Laden's sole post-September 11 TV interview