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Now...is this actually on the level of money you can make AND get Federal Assistance?

Bernie thinks Amazon is underpaying workers, and he's fighting for social justice - he's not doing this for Trump.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/...

> In one video, titled "Get Amazon Off of Corporate Welfare," he highlighted that CEO Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person and earns $260 million a day, while many of his workers are on food stamps.

Doesn't work on sites like CNN. Just checked it out: https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/03...

Of course, in China they often times don't end up in jail but just disappear. No one knows - officially - what happens.

We know what happens. They get broken up for spare parts like old cars.

Well it happens.. https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/29...

Sure, using support for Democratic politicians as a proxy for leftward lean: "Google employees are spending heavily to elect Democrats in California and to flip the House" and it's not a recent thing, "98% of search engine's employees gave money to Democrats in '04".

For the news sources, see 96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets and then you can confirm for yourself by going to Google News and either looking at their headlines or searching for any politically relevant topic and counting the number of sources they highlight first on the left vs. the right side of the media bias chart, which if anything underestimates sources like CNN which have turned farther left since the election.

Would Trump actually admit under oath that he had been tricked by an internet video and hadn't bothered to do the most superficial bit of research to confirm if it was true or not? I think more likely he would just settle for a few million rather than lose face.

Remember when Trump got tricked by white supremacist videos? Remember what his response to being called out on it was? Yeah, that's right, he doubled down.

I think I've seen this city.

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

Ex-Navy sniper, another military vet killed at Texas gun range

maybe memories are short.

by prioritizing results from trusted news outlets

Who are these "trusted" news outlets? Does it include CNN, which tried to spin a story about Trump acting like a buffoon on a foreign trip?

Blaring headline:
"Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond"

Truth: "President Trump was following Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's lead when he dumped his fish food into the koi pond."

363 meetings between White House officials and Google employees.

Yeah, so what? You can't draw any conclusions from anything without first estimating the base rate.

When you compare it to other tech companies, telecom companies like AT&T etc, all of them combined do not have this many visits.

Not a bad baseline for comparison—not if you compare Google in the 2010s with AT&T from the 1920s.

History of AT&T

National long distance service reached San Francisco with the First transcontinental telephone call in 1915.

Transatlantic services started in 1927 using two-way radio, but the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable did not arrive until Sept. 25, 1956, with TAT-1.

Of course, you'll normalize your baseline for the 90-year difference taking into account the relative ability of people to visit Washington, and the pace at which the world now runs. You'll of course factor in the Snowden revelations of 2013 on Obama's rush for close contact with two central players in the larger drama—including technical staff to answer pointed questions about technical capabilities and postures. You'll also have read Michael Hayden's view of the momentous issues going on the behind the scenes between the intelligence community and the behemoths of modern social media (not as if they were actively reshaping the world, or anything like that; not as if they were principle driving engines of the lethargic post-Bush American recovery).

Playing to the Edge, by Michael V. Hayden — 6 March 2016

You'll take into account that Obama was one of the few technology-savvy president of living memory:

OSTP Initiatives

President Obama held the first-ever White House Maker Faire in June 2014 to celebrate the Maker Movement.

He also issued a "call to action" to Federal agencies, mayors, companies, universities, schools, libraries, museums, foundations, and non-profit organizations to expand opportunities to participate in Making.

The Maker Movement has the potential to inspire more young people to create and invent, and to promote entrepreneurship in hardware and manufacturing.

Obama was an innovation junkie. Will Trump follow in his footsteps? — 16 November 2016

There's no shortage of reminders of Obama's soft spot for tech.

Upon being elected, he fought to keep his Blackberry. (Presidents traditionally hadn't been allowed to use email.) The Obama administration has hosted an annual global entrepreneurship summit since 2010.

(Continue reading, the article soon partially supports your side of this.)

You'll also take into account that pretty much the entirety of the net neutrality debate transpired during Obama's term. (I can't recommend Tim Wu's books highly enough.)

And after considering all these base-rate factors, you'll decide whether you need to pile yet another agenda on top of this (subtype: nefarious) to explain the Obama White House visitor log.

But only if you really give a shit about the coefficient of narrative baloney.

One do you have any proof of that ? Or do you think the English speaking world has no interest in the actions of the president of the U.S. especially when he is an even more polarizing figure in the U.K. than he is here ?

But lets test your premise looking at the BBC home page right now

http://www.bbc.com/

Trump attacks 'left-wing' Google search results

It seems you are factually challenged.

Let's test your premise further:

26 occurrences of "Trump" right now

24 occurrences of "Trump" right now

16 occurrences of "Trump" right now

4 occurrences of "Trump" right now

Boy, BBC sure does a lot of stories on Trump. Must be because they're as obsessed with him as US news outlets are...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/...

This and other similar stories are starting to make me wonder if the "gig economy" was at least partly manufactured as a marketing ploy by Uber and Airbnb and cousins, as a way of getting people to jump on the bandwagon.

Gun culture is about advocating and practicing responsibility and safety.

Maybe at one time. Not for a long long time, though.

If gun culture is sick, then where are the mass shootings at ranges?

Oh, there are plenty of shooting deaths at gun ranges. Yee haw!

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=gun+rang...

Study the biographies of those who commit mass shootings. They are not part of gun culture, but usually loners with histories of anti-social behavior.

So, the guy with a bunch of guns and bump stocks who murdered 53 and injured like 900 innocent people was not part of "gun culture"? Sorry, friend, you're full of shit. The NRA was fund-raising off that mass shooting before the place stopped smelling of cordite.

I seem to be in the minority here.

I had a great time binge watching most of the first three seasons, despite recognizing all its faults right away. Sure, the original Penny was a vaguely slutty, nondescript door matt, and Howard was creep, and Raj was a head case, and Sheldon was a vegetarian Jeffery Dahmer, and Leonard—what the fuck was Leonard, anyway?

Extreme Doormat
Heterosexual Life-Partners
Butt-Monkey
Translator Buddy
With Friends Like These...

—but there was plenty of meta-humour and the delivery was lively and offbeat.

Before the series started shipping glue, it was Leonard that finally the series unwatchable for me.

Shipping

After my happy binge, I've never watched another episode, since (though I do know the modern characters, mainly from YouTube outtake reels).

Before Leonard, it was mainly Raj that made me frequently avert my gaze. But I knew that stupid premise (mutism) simply couldn't last much longer. (First they invented alcohol as a clumsy, but temporary off switch, in a truly kill-me-now "it was all a dream" micro reversal.)

Maybe you can argue that Leonard stayed for the girl. But it was played without the oppressive bars of captivity confining Leonard inside a crazy-making zoo full of insecure-yet-egocentric middle-schoolers with PhDs.

I managed to ignore these problems long enough to really enjoy many moments from the first three seasons, especially as Penny became less nondescript, and actually managed to worm her way inside Sheldon's grill.

All in all, it was not so different than watching The West Wing, which is not that much closer to reality than TBBT, though you have to dig further under the surface to see this.

But Leonard ... he became harder to comprehend as a real person than Trump-loving Manafort juror Paula Duncan.

Manafort Jury Holdout Blocked Guilty Verdicts on 10 of 18 Charges, Juror Says
Do not pardon Paul Manafort, says Trump-supporting juror who convicted him
'I did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty, but he was,' says juror who supports Trump

I can almost understand Paula, but ultimately not Leonard.

107 cases across the whole U.S., vs over 40k in Europe.

I wonder where the Russians have really been targeting - and succeeding.

The U.S. has long been much more immune to ideological persuasion than elsewhere.

Even CNN says you're a liar...

Driving while on drugs was associated with more deaths in 2015 than driving with alcohol in one's system... Of the more than 400 drugs that the federal National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tracks, marijuana accounted for 35% of positive tests reported

Pot smokers account for lots of driving deaths....

Trump's Pecker goes AWOL

I have noticed that the people who complain loudest about "witch hunts" with regards to Trump were strangely silent when it came to investigations on issues such as Obama's birth certificate, the multiple Benghazi investigations, Hillary's emails, Whitewater, etc. It seems that only Democrats are capable of witch hunts, and Republican investigations are only done with the purest of motives.

Some discussion here:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29...

Regardless, the best way to protect yourself from witch hunts, is to not be a witch, and to not associate with those who are. When numerous people around you start pleading guilty to felonies ("I'm a witch and I admit it!") your case for being a blameless pious churchgoer that never had an impure thought in your life starts to look shaky, and the case for you being the head of the local coven starts seeming more plausible.

So far, the rate of admitted criminality among Trump's friends and associates is starting to make the crime rate among the immigrants he is always complaining about seem paltry by comparison, and yet Trump steadfastly maintains that he has never done anything illegal. I find that very hard to believe, given the evidence that has come out so far, and given Trump's own behavior (e.g. the glowing way he talks about Putin and Russia in general, and seems to consider them no threat whatsoever, while our allies (Europe, NATO, etc.) somehow he sees as a major problem). He seems to have a massive blind spot when it comes to Russia specifically, and I think that one can reasonably ask why that is. His repeated threats to fire Mueller, Sessions, and others, and threats to pull other nasty tricks (threatening to withhold security clearances from those who criticize him, etc.) do not make him seem to be acting like someone who is innocent.

As for "The Russians" and "collusion" being irrelevant to Cohen, a very small amount of research turns up articles like the following. It's not hard to find information on this stuff. If you're actually interested in knowing. Not likely to be covered on Fox News, though.

Some examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/polit...
http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...

The CNN article on the original submission did a very good job linking this to the Russians while leaving themselves a way to act like they didn't

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0...

I neither know nor care who "Kris Kobach's" is, or why you make a possessive out of his (her?) name. That's the game of personality politics, and we've had enough of that.

He's one of the top voter ID cultists in the country, who's repeatedly seen his claims shredded in court. Why are you commenting on a subject when you lack remedial knowledge of.

The fact is that it is trivial to walk into a polling place and claim to be anyone you want to be, and without requiring ID you'll likely get away with it.

Then it will be trivial for you to list examples of that happening, clown shoes. John Smith shows up to vote or send in his absentee ballot only to find out "he" has already voted. Voter ID cultists have no problem rattling of dozens of examples of illegal voting to support their claims, despite the fact that none of said examples would have been prevented by ID - felons, not meeting residency requirements, voting in person and by absentee.

So, to get back to square one, if there were a number of John Smiths falsely voting - any number at all - it's all voter ID cultists would talk about. They aren't.

1. Illegal immigrants can obtain driver's license in California.
2. Anyone obtaining a driver's license in California (and in many other states) can check a checkbox to also register to vote. It is the person's own discretion, scruples, and fear of prosecution, that decides it.
3. Anyone registered to vote, can come and vote — no verification is done at the time of voting.
4. Indeed, various cities — including San Francisco — encourage non-citizens to vote now. Ostensibly, they are only supposed to vote for local issues only (such as school boards), which is legal. In practice, there are no checks preventing them from voting.

It is possible. It happens. Attempts to quantify, how wide-spread it is, are sabotaged.

As with other possible exploits, we must assume being compromised... Which is unfortunate...

If the murderer had been a citizen, I really doubt the site would have seen it as newsworthy.

I'm blowing mod points to reply to your post, but it's important to point out that in this case you are flat out wrong. This story has been in the national news for a month since she went missing. It has been in the national news all along. When her body was found yesterday that was in the national news. Today it was revealed someone was charged with her murder, and it was an illegal immigrant.

This was a month ago (People magazine): https://people.com/crime/unive...
Three weeks ago (Fox News): http://www.foxnews.com/transcr...
Three weeks ago (CNN): https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26...
This was two weeks ago (USA Today): https://www.usatoday.com/story...

You get the idea. Google shows 2.7 million hits from news sources for her name. Just pointing out you have made a massive assumption ("By just reporting every crime committed by an illegal they can create the impression that all illegal immigrants are murderous") based on totally incorrect information ("If the murderer had been a citizen, I really doubt the site would have seen it as newsworthy.")

The problem you have is that the perpetrator of pizzagate actually killed someone and cited Alex Jones for creating the conspiracy. You have parents of Sandy Hook victims receiving death threats because he called them crisis actors. So while he doesn't tell people to go and kill or harass directly he definitely incites it. This is perfectly legal however so that is why Alex Jones is not in jail.

On top of all that You have his health products which are dubious and the real goal behind his rhetoric. He is using all the conspiracy talk to get interest which he then uses to sell his actual products. This is bait and switch at its finest which against is still legal even if it is dubious.

If you'd like a summary of his actions they are easy to find. He repeatedly casts victims in some seriously harsh light calling them actors. This is going to incite groups of people to react in some very severe ways. If there were any truth to it then it would probably be fine but it is blatantly false.

The idea that this great fraud was perpetrated by some rogue engineers never made much sense.

Even if we assume this is an accurate depiction of when the CEO was told, there almost had to be some degree of lower management complicity in this from the outset, even if it was in the form of setting impossible goals for employees, much like the Wells Fargo fake accounts debacle.

Black unemployment falls to lowest level on record

Black unemployment rate falls to record low

Black unemployment hits all-time low

How about CNN : Final tally: Obama created 11.3 million jobs

He must have been working really hard to hire 11 million people on his puny Presidential salary...

You're searching for a fixed phrase, doofus. Google gets fooled by just a single word of difference. Are you seriously expecting me to remember a headline exactly? And if you ever bothered to see CNN's front page since early 2016, you'd know this is not an isolated occurence but something that happens all the time. Heck, they have a piece of anti-Israel drivel on their front page right now.

But no, your side is holiest of holy. Every SJW and neo-nazi these days says that. Polish "patriots" put people into prison for claiming that any Poles cooperated with the Nazis (~80% of Jews who died to Nazis were denounced by their neighbours), or that Poland had any concentration camps (every single ex-German camp that wasn't dismantled before Soviets came operated after the war, some up to 1956). Then you say that no, CNN can't be anti-semitic racist and genderist, because CNN is good and I'm evil.

You make me sick.

That's not how election night (or general post-election) coverage works.

First, election websites only show what polling locations report AFTER the polling locations are closed. All polling locations in a locality close at the same time (unless they stay open later for long lines, etc.) and then begin tallying and reporting to the election authorities. As the election authorities receive and validate results after the closure of all polling locations, they update the website. [Source: my best friend is an officer of election]

Second, all (legitimate) news outlets refrain from projecting/declaring a winner until after all polls related to that election are closed to prevent this very thing. For example, CNN makes this expressly clear in their editorial policy: "CNN editorial policy strictly prohibits reporting winners or characterizing the outcome of a statewide contest in any state before all the polls are scheduled to close in every precinct in that state."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI...

The projections you see/hear immediately after the polls close is based on exit polls, pre-election polls, past elections, etc. It's why they're sometimes wrong. It's also why news outlets will hold off on projecting a winner if exit poll numbers aren't aligning with their pre-election projections.

So, no, hacking an election website is not a big deal. It's the equivalent of hacking ESPN. Changing the score on the website does not actually change the score of the match.

One thing everyone here is missing is that U.S. Steel and Nucor Steel have been fighting every single exemption request companies have put forth to the U.S. Commerce Department. These companies want exemptions from the tariffs so they can continue to get steel at reasonable prices and/or quality and type they need.

Instead, the two largest producers of steel in the country have raised their prices and told the Commerce Department the exemptions are bogus because they can make the product, even though in at least one case, a company stopped buying steel from U.S. Steel because of quality control issues.

Of course politics plays a big role in all this:

Charlotte-based Nucor, which financed a documentary film made by a top trade adviser to Mr. Trump, and Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, which has previously employed several top administration officials, have objected to 1,600 exemption requests filed with the Commerce Department over the past several months.

To date, their efforts have never failed, resulting in denials for companies that are based in the United States but rely on imported pipes, screws, wire and other foreign steel products for their supply chains.

In one case, a company stated “the sole U.S. producer of high speed steel material appropriate for cutting tools is not currently ramping up any production to expand this aspect of their business and has not shown any interest in quoting new business.”

As the tariffs take hold, expect prices of finished goods to rise substantially and more businesses to either go under or relocate out of the country. The largest nail manufacturer in the country has already laid off 12% of its workforce, cut hours for the remainder and is still on the brink of extinction, so it has to make such a decision.

The NRA represents fewer than 1 in 10 gun owners.

There are over 300 million people in the USA and about 1/3rd of them own guns.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15...

That's 100 million gun owners. If 1/10th of them are NRA members than that's 10 million NRA members. Recent polling suggests it's closer to 6 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is that a "massive number" compared to the general population?

The margin of votes between President Trump and Secretary Clinton in 2016 was less than 4 million.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So, yes, that is a "massive number" compared to the general population.

It was written in dream sequences to sneak it past Roman censors. So it reads as if it is making prophecy, but it's just some guy in prison talking to his followers.

At the time Christians beliefs were suppressed, but your everyday Roman believed in oracles, prophecy, and dream interpretation.

more info: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/...

my wife's five year old iPhone 5s is running the latest iOS beta and yes; fast too (once she put in a new battery)

Of course. Apple has to update old phones to slow them down.

Apparently you haven't been keeping up with the news on the meeting:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/05/politics/trump-tweet-trump-tower-meeting/index.html

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do.

Please read the sources instead of parroting your party's talking points. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster partially defunded Planned Parenthood. He didn't defund the entire budget because doing so would keep 700k women and children from getting prescriptions through Medicaid. This is in line with what I said. Republicans don't want to spend tax dollars on things they morally disagree with, but allow individuals to pay for the procedures themselves.

Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

Again, read the source. There are a lot of slippery words such as "could be interpreted". On top of that remember that not all Republicans agree 100% on all issues. As to the "Day After" pill, it's basically a do-it-yourself-at-home abortion. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We allow contraceptives, but view elective abortion and the day after pill as sinful in most cases. You chose to have sex. You knew the possibility of a pregnancy. Even condoms fail about 1% of the time. Now live with the consequences of your choice.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

Sensationalism! You are being dishonest here. Read the article you linked to from Elle. The proposal would "penalize abusers for causing miscarriages". I like the phrases in Portuguese better than English, so I'll use them here. What we call miscarriage in English is a "spontaneous abortion" in Portuguese. This phrase better shows that it's the woman's body recognizing that something's wrong with the pregnancy and spontaneously terminates the pregnancy and expels the embryo / fetus (depends on stage of development). Under the proposal, inducing an abortion would be criminal. Again, different factions within the party want different things.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do. Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are elective too. Remember, if it was legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting it down.

The Catholic Church is against contraceptives, so they don't want to pay from health insurance which pays for contraceptives, but that doesn't stop their employees from buying supplemental insurance or paying retail for contraceptives.

The Catholic Church doesn't get to decide what healthcare I get, even if they employ me. They are a church. We do not let churches govern lives. And you won't find an insurer that doesn't want to cover contraceptives. It's actually cheaper. Why does the Catholic Church get to increase my costs as a potential employee, or an insurer's costs?

What gives them that right to impose expenses upon me do to their religious dogma?

And the Catholic Church isn't even as bad a bunch of liars as the Quiverful movement. Now that group is taking a lot of welfare money. Not to mention the whole adoption business they want to control.

The country is so divided that you parrot your party's talking points without determining the validity of the claims.

Your mind is so blinded that you can't even admit the Republican Party's own dogma or how invalid its claims are.

They are committed to their agenda, and they brazenly lie about it. And it's not limited to abortion, they do the same with immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, public schools, and more.

Maybe you need to do some checking. Here's a suggestion, contact some Republic

They said this 20 years ago.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/scienc...

I'll bet they'll say the same thing 20 years from now, no matter what happens with global average temperature :)

I am sick of the trolls that are trying to destroy Tesla.

Unfortunately, here on Slashdot, a troll is defined as anyone who points out that they are burning through cash faster than they can earn it. Yes, they've hit their production goals with the Model 3, and that takes investment...but time will tell if that investment pays off. They may not have enough time with their current burn rate.
https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/...

Look, many of us like electric cars and most everyone will probably end up driving them in the very near future, but odds are Tesla may not be around that long. I'm wondering if part of taking this private is so that their quarterly balances won't be so public.

"World Trade Organization data show that goods shipped from the European Union to the United States are charged an average tariff of 1.4%. It's 1.9% for goods going the other way." See: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/... And then there are tariffs on services, for which i believe the US has larger tariffs.

The word acknowledges where the first one came from, not requires that every following one come the same way.

So, every time the Old Testament, either in the Hebrew original or in its Greek translation, and every time the New Testament in the Greek original, talk about someone's "breathing", they're being metaphorical, and actually meaning "this isn't really about breathing but we'll use the word anyway"?

Oh, cool. then murder is just "mischief" according to the Bible. Good to know.

That word is translated in other versions as "injury".

If you Google the passage you'll see there are interpretation that go with a reading that this passage means something akin to this: if an assailant hits the woman, and she gives birth to a premature but still living baby due to it, and the baby survives, then the assailant must pay a fine because of the premature child bearing he caused, otherwise it counts as "further injury" and the eye for an eye kicks in. That seems to me to be quite the forced interpretation, but yes, it's a possible reading if one absolutely doesn't want to go with the clearer one.

Uhhh, no. I'm old enough to know better.

There are controversies, or maybe two sides to that. You remember one. Here are the two takes, the one I referred to, and a disagreeing one.

I've had two electric cars so far, waiting for my Model 3 to be delivered. One of the cars is a Volt, so I've some experience with PHEVs...

I don't think pure BEV pickup trucks will be popular in the near future. For people who want to tow, I don't think BEV will have the range for a while. However, hybrid should be a really good fit with a pickup truck. The torque available from an electrified drive train fits really well with towing etc. Everyone remember this stunt? https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/...

My brother in law is a plumber and I don't think a BEV pickup truck would work for him unless it had 300 miles of range - he can't predict where he'll need to run next, and someone with a plumbing problem isn't going to want to wait for him to recharge his truck first. On the other hand, fuel is a huge cost for him, so getting a much more economical vehicle would really help his bottom line.

I keep thinking a combination of hybrid + something like the Achates engine (https://www.trucks.com/2018/01/15/detroit-auto-show-achates-aramco-pickup-engine/) gives us a chance at ~50 mpg pickup trucks in well under a decade.

Now if we could just convince all those people who own pickup trucks and use them just as a passenger vehicle to switch to something more fuel efficient...

The cost of computers has come down over the years, and cars are more like computers than they are like CDs in terms of competition based on price.

Then why is the cost of cars going up so much?

This is the last attempt that I know of by Republicans to pass immigration reform

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27...

Republicans can not blame Democrats for failing by 90 votes when they have a majority in the House.

It's going to be a difficult threat to resolve indeed.

Where did bank bailouts work that way? You know what happened here? Banks needed bailouts. So they needed money, from the state. The state did not have that money, so what did the state do? Lend it of course. Where? Well, banks.

What REALLY happened here is that the state stood as guarantor for banks' liabilities, usually paying more for interest and fees than they got from the banks that needed the bailout. In the end, I don't know of a single state or country that went away with a plus from the deal.

You don't have a clue. Try reading this for a start:
https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/...

Or this if you want more depth
https://business.cch.com/banki...

And smartphones and social media are one of the primary methods now used by students to bully each other.

Cellphones don't bully. People do.

It's not that we want to ban phones. They are useful tools, a heck of a lot of fun, and can save you in an emergency.
Along with the benefits, we should recognise the harm done by phones. Sure, they are far from the biggest killer, but somehow our country seems to have a unique problem with them, at least among civilised nations. Thousands of deaths are not to be ignored just because it is less deadly than cancer or road transport.

    So how can we continue to get the benefits, while reducing the harm? Surely there must be some measures that cellphone users can accept, even though it limits their freedom? Nobody wants to allow cellphone use in cinemas. Can we all agree on that? And nobody wants to ban cellphones. So we are really only debating over the degree of restriction.

How can we maximise the benefits, including entertainment, while curtailing the deaths a little? I love Angry Birds, but I don't want to risk leaving my screen unlocked so my toddler might find it when I'm not watching.

Neat fantasy. I hope it helps you get through the next 7 years without a psychotic break and/or suicide.

I look forward to the studies decades from now detailing the psychological damage done by the media's constant Russia/Mueller blueballing. Going years and years constantly believing that A) Literal Hitler is in charge of the world and is actively conspiring with Russians and Israelis and The Sith to literally kill everyone, and B) The brave, noble Special Prosecutor is mere moments away from bringing him down must be SO stressful.

I'm especially curious how the true believers will react when nu-Ken Starr finally nails Trump for jaywalking after 6 years of investigating and Trump gets the same 20 point "OH MY GOD NO ONE FUCKING CARES" poll bump that Bill Clinton got as the sad impeachment shitshow proceeds.

No one actually pays $7500/yr, though -- it's typically closer to "free" due to grants and the Empire scholarship.

Average cost is 14,000 and that's before books, equipment, parking, commute, site fees, registration fees, and graduation fees.

Where's your sources?

But they have a huge debt load and one report I saw said model 3 cancellations outnumber orders now. See here https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/...