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It was reported last year and recently that national Buddhists use Facebook as a channel to post things that help to incite violence towards minority Muslims called the Rohingya in Burma. A monk called Wirathu was banned, by the government, from public preaching, and that included Facebook.

More information:
A War of Words Puts Facebook at the Center of Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya crisis: How we got here
U.N. Fact Finders Say Facebook Played a 'Determining' Role in Violence Against the Rohingya
Myanmar: UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred of Rohingya
Is Facebook playing a part in the Rohingya genocide?
The Facebook official who oversees the news feed says his team loses sleep over the site's alleged role in violence in Myanmar

It always blows my mind when I see users who constantly post pro-Trump free market posts on slashdot calling for the death and hanging of someone or some organization who is doing just that!

Except last year the con artist said he'd lower drug prices. Then he picked a guy who is a former pharmaceutical executive who raised drug prices.

Even in February's State of the Union address he said he'd lower drug prices.

What has he done so far? Reduce regulations on oil and gas drillers, put a guy in charge of the EPA who is vowed and determined to let polluters off the hook, and started a trade war with China which is already costing Midwest farmers.

Assange said it wasn't a government actor. Others with connections to Wikileaks have said it was a leak from inside the DNC (which wouldn't be surprising, there are of course members in the DNC who get annoyed by corruption).

It's worth noting that there are several sets of emails, and keeping track of them all and where they came from can be confusing.

Or that's just the narrative that the Russian agent told the wikileaks rep when he handed over the USB drive.

I'm aware of three sets of emails.

1) Hillary Clinton's emails on her private server. Never hacked, the subject of legal investigation .
2) The DNC emails hacked and leaked by Russians.
3) Podesta's emails phished and leaked by Russians.

And we have really good evidence that the DNC emails were hacked by the Russians, not only do we have the digital forensic evidence, which if nothing else is inconsistent with a leak. But we have Russian agents telling a member of Trump's campaign about the emails well before they ever went public (and probably before they got to wikileaks). That alone is a very strong piece of evidence suggesting collusion.

Assange said it wasn't a government actor. Others with connections to Wikileaks have said it was a leak from inside the DNC (which wouldn't be surprising, there are of course members in the DNC who get annoyed by corruption).

It's worth noting that there are several sets of emails, and keeping track of them all and where they came from can be confusing.

Not only that, Europeans live longer, are healthier, happier, and have more (and better) sex than Americans.

This really seems like something the the US Navy needs... desperately. For everyone else though... the ocean is pretty large so likely it is not so urgent.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

This talking point is stupid on it's face. All states in the U.S. have democratic elections for their representatives and governors - no state has an Electoral College to toss out the results of an election because the elites didn't like the result.

First, you clearly have no grasp of the Electoral College beyond what you've read since Hillary lost. It only impacts the Executive branch, which leaves the counter-balances of the Judicial and Legislative branches to counter it. Congress does an admittedly poor job here, but this mostly boils down to party politics.

Let's think back to the run-up to the election where one of the largest surprise wins from Trump was Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state carried by Democrats since after Nixon (with the exception of Reagan), should have their vote completely ignored in your view simply because the population of California voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary -- literally the vote difference (8,753,788 - 4,483,810 = 4,269,978) in California of pro-Trump (4,483,810) versus pro-Hillary (8,753,788) was 49% greater than the difference of the entire popular vote across the nation (65,853,514 - 62,984,828 = 2,868,686). Oh, and since you are so inclined to be anti-Electoral College because it is pro-elites, imagine for a moment that while you dream of a world without the Electoral College, you silence the Wisconsin voters where Hillary did not even bother to visit during the general election.

By your view, one state and thus one completely isolated mindset should outweigh that of the entire union. And that's why you are literally what the founders were worried about. A voter that believes that they are informed enough to understand, but instead fumes about some reasons that their candidate lost, thus declaring it unfair. It is wholly ironic that you complain of it being there to help elitists when it was literally used to block one.

The Electoral College did exactly what it was designed to do even without all of your crutch-reasons for its existence removed. There are no more indentured servants, sharecroppers, or slaves (which, as a reminder (right?), were used by the slave owner to get extra votes because slaves could not vote...). It protected the executive branch from effectively being selected by a single state and -- surprise, surprise -- that is mathematically exactly what happened.

Yet your talking point doesn't happen in even the most liberal of states, New York and California.

You mean the epicenters of socialist politicians? I honestly thought they'd be obvious thoughts ... but I guess not. NYC's mayor a socialist, as-is the governor of California. Those two states represent the largest state-wide democracies in the US, outside of Texas, with absolutely massive economies that are consistently failing to support the socialist agenda of their political leaders.

All of whom which were selected with your precious republicanism

Uh, except the people in Congress are 100% elected by popular vote.

and none of whom Puerto Rican's get to vote for.

Puerto Rico has, in the past, rejected becoming a state themselves. It's only now that their providence is completely broke and broken that they are motivated to seek statehood. Let's not pretend that that's the US' fault outside of the housing meltdown that the US helped to create.

When you look at the photo: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/da... It looks like a single blade is missing. If the blade breaks and flies to the cabin, like a dagger, ripping things on the way, I can understand. But how did the whole front cowling get ripped in all directions? or did the wind rip pieces after the structure was damaged?

Think about it this way... That one blade broke loose and suddenly the whole engine is imbalanced and still turning at tens of thousands RPM's. I can see the front fan getting pretty wobbly as everything slows down, shredding the intake cowling.

Also, look at where the broken window is. It is well behind the rotating parts of the engine... I don't think it was broken by a fan blade back there, more likely it was bumped by parts of the cowling driven by aerodynamic forces as they departed the aircraft. There is a tell tail mark in the blue paint just under the window too, making me think that damage was caused by something much larger than a fan blade.

When you look at the photo: https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/da... It looks like a single blade is missing. If the blade breaks and flies to the cabin, like a dagger, ripping things on the way, I can understand. But how did the whole front cowling get ripped in all directions? or did the wind rip pieces after the structure was damaged?

...wins wrongful termination lawsuit
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/us/west-virginia-officer-lawsuit-settlement-trnd/index.html

- Says mean things on twitter and openly mocks idiots who inarguably deserve every bit of it.
- Tries to enforce laws whose neglect has resulted in about 10% of a neighboring country's citizens residing illegally within our borders.
- Caused the extinction of the entire human race (or possibly all life on Earth)
- Drinks water during televised statements
- Likes two scoops of ice cream for dessert

- Says mean things on twitter and openly mocks idiots who inarguably deserve every bit of it.
- Tries to enforce laws whose neglect has resulted in about 10% of a neighboring country's citizens residing illegally within our borders.
- Caused the extinction of the entire human race (or possibly all life on Earth)
- Drinks water during televised statements
- Likes two scoops of ice cream for dessert

Really? I seem to remember a certain Nobel Peace Prize winner that ran out of bombs.

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04...

So fuck off with your Trump hysteria.

Trump bloody hates Bezos because he owns the Washington Post, which regularly publishes factual information

The same Washington Post that published a questionable sexual abuse claim against a political candidate, among other claims that turned out to be unreliable?

name a SINGLE government agency that is efficient at what it does.

The Department of Energy loan program which had Solyndra. Yes, that one is efficient and successful. Of all the loans it has given out, only four have failed. The loss rate for the program (as of 2014) was 2.28%. Right now that program is making money even though it was never intended to do so.

Further, Republicans were so sure the taxpayers would lose money on this program (which was started during the Bush administration), they set aside $10 billion to cover losses. Those four failures cost less than $1 billion.

Compare that to private industry which lost over $1 billion on Solyndra alone. Even Tesla paid back its loans nine years early, with interest.

You wanted one example, there ya go. Now go ahead and move the goalposts.

So far it hasn't been too bad!? Here's a piece by Madeline Albright, not an alarmist: "Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II." Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler." Ex-Mexican President Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler. Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's. Even comedian Louis CK says 'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler'.

These are all sane, levelheaded people and you're saying it's not too bad? Who's in a better position to know, you or them?

So far it hasn't been too bad!? Here's a piece by Madeline Albright, not an alarmist: "Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II." Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler." Ex-Mexican President Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler. Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's. Even comedian Louis CK says 'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler'.

These are all sane, levelheaded people and you're saying it's not too bad? Who's in a better position to know, you or them?

So far it hasn't been too bad!? Here's a piece by Madeline Albright, not an alarmist: "Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II." Anne Frank's stepsister, in a January essay to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, accused Trump of "acting like another Hitler." Ex-Mexican President Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler. Yale history professor: Here's why it's useful to compare Trump's actions to Hitler's. Even comedian Louis CK says 'Insane bigot' Donald Trump 'is Hitler'.

These are all sane, levelheaded people and you're saying it's not too bad? Who's in a better position to know, you or them?

Further the guy was fine 5 weeks later as you can see from the photos here. If this was indeed the cause then it would be the first case ever of RVCS induced by capsaicin. The peppers aren't as hot as nearly pure capsaicin extract, which is used as an ingredient in those hot wings you often have to sign a waiver for as well as topical pain relief creams (DO NOT TASTE THESE). I like spicy foods, even extremely spicy foods, but after eating several of those extract laden wings, not only did my hands start burning through the skin (I now know why the chefs wear them), but I suffered pretty severe abdominal pain for 12 hours on top of the usual exit wounds. Not really worth your picture on a wall if you ask me.

Here's the first one. There's no evidence it was a hate crime. Even the right wing bloggers were just complaining the media didn't cover it enough because it was black on white crime.

The second one wasn't a hate crime because it was blacks and a white. It was because it was a bunch of assholes attacking an Autistic man. Again, not Blacks attacking "Whitey". Still a hate crime, but their skin color was irrelevant.

I don't know enough about South Africa to say if you're right or wrong there. The entire place is a hell hole though, and whites are in a minority. And if it's one thing I know about minorities it's that they often get screwed. So you might be right.

I'll counter your final anecdote with my own. My bro married a black woman, and one day when they were dating he ran a red light late at night. She was utterly terrified and he couldn't understand why. The reason was she was terrified of the police, as any interaction with them can and often did turn violent. I've been pulled over more than once myself for driving with black and my best friend, a black truck driver, had trouble getting routes because his dispatcher didn't like sending him down south. And let's not forget legislating while black. Or Mississippi's 2010 anti gang law To be fair those last two aren't anecdotes since they've got sources...

Being black in America is a very, very different life.

Are you also going to pretend the euro was forced down too?

Currencies fluctuate all the time depending on the conditions in the economies. This is basic stuff.
Where is this high Chinese inflation over the last 5 years? Looks like the opposite of what you claim.

You are completely clueless about everything.

China was dumping U.S. Treasuries in 2016 so that it could buy its own currency -- the yuan -- to counter downward pressure caused by a huge outflow of cash from its economy.

To be this wrong about everything you say, you can only be trolling. Even anti-China idiots have a grain of truth they try to hold on to, but not you windtroll.

Coffee is reported to offer some surprisingly substantial health benefits, unlike cocaine.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/14/health/coffee-health/index.html

I'm not entirely sure whether you're trolling, or if you genuinely believe the uninformed jetsam you wrote there.

Failed yet again by my local main-stream media. I dont recall any coverage of the event, but i guess thats to be expected from a group of conglomerate advertisers

Well, of all the failures among news outlets, it was reported twice before on that awful "Slashdot" site. One of those even linked CNN as a source, but they're hardly mainstream, are they? There was, of course, also coverage on Fox News, which in turn links to coverage on the Wall Street Journal. On the other coast, the LA Times also ran a Bloomberg-syndicated story.

thanks to the sausage-factory machinations of our federal government, im sure we'll never be privy to so much as a general idea of what this satellite was designed to do

Well, let's go gather a few facts, and guess. First, its contract details are all secret, which strongly implies it's for military purposes. It was aimed for low-earth orbit at 51 degrees inclination, which would put it over many places of military significance. Indeed, a more knowledgeable source theorizes it's for space-based radar, which would certainly be in accordance with recent US military doctrine of "get more pictures, engage from further away, and use fewer people".

Flint Michigan looks set to go another year without clean water

...which has absolutely nothing to do with spaceflight, or the military, or anything related to this discussion. Not only are the military branches and intelligence agencies expressly forbidden from assisting Flint, the restoration efforts are already underway and progressing as expected. What the fearmongers like yourself conveniently ignore is that essentially Flint has had to rebuild its entire water system due to the years of neglect, and as of last year, the vast majority of test samples are clean. There's still work to be done, but the situation is no longer a failure of government.

Congress brand oversight. ... Well it wasnt as prevalent for this 3.5 billion dollar satellite

Which is perfectly normal for classified projects, regardless of where they go. Since part of OPSEC is to minimize dispersal of classified information, there are bipartisan committees that debate classified projects in great detail, and their unclassified comments are usually distributed to the other congresspeople.

it did such a bang-up job of everything from the timely restoration of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina

...which isn't in Congress's authority, since once the national emergency has passed, the authority goes back to the state per the Tenth Amendment...

to ensuring healthcare for our veterans is the best in the world

...which isn't mandated by any law, or even really practical, and still not directly under Congress's authority, being wholly delegated to the Veterans Health Administration, itself wholly under the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is itself organized under the Executive branch under the President...

one can on

Her crime is, at least, identifiable — unlike "collusion", the gross negligence in handling classified information is a felony.

And we know, it was gross negligence — even if her buddies at the FBI have changed it to "extreme carelessness" to help her avoid prosecution. A prosecution she richly deserved even if a certain FBI director concluded, that "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue it...

In other words, that some people are prosecuted unfairly for "crimes" imagined by their enemies, does not absolve other people of actual felonies. Nor does it reflect poorly on those, who insist, the felons be properly punished.

Windows ME, Vista, Version 8 - Microsoft has been having problems here and there with Windows for some time. In 2015, Nadella combined their hardware efforts with the Windows Universal Platform, allowing for cross platform applications [1]. Things didn't go as hoped. While Windows 10 is popular, overtaking Win 7 by February 2018, overall PC sales has been declining. In fact, they have been losing ground for the last 6 years, with a 2.8% drop in 2017 [2].

Consumer Reports stopped recommending the entire line of Surface PCs in 2017 due to hardware concerns. These days CR rates the Surface Pro 4 positively, but they still claim Microsoft is less reliable than most brands, and Apple is the most reliable laptop brand [3]. BTW, if you're interested, Windows can be installed on a Mac with OS X's dual booting Boot Camp. Best of both worlds.

Now, Terry Myerson, the leader of the Windows and Devices Group, is leaving Microsoft. With his departure, Microsoft is creating 2 new teams that will prioritize Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence products. Perhaps this is an effort to appease investors [4]. With Myerson's departure and this re-prioritization, it's no surprise Windows applications like Mail are having problems. I expect more trouble across the Windows spectrum. Microsoft's head is in the clouds, and their application platform is in the sunset, rear window.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-182823659.html

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-vs-windows-7-has-microsofts-newest-os-just-reached-a-turning-point/

https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/632157/2017-saw-pc-shipments-decline-six-years-straight/

[3] {May be Paywalled} https://www.consumerreports.org/products/laptop/microsoft-surface-pro-4-384902/overview/

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/news/companies/microsoft-restructuring-windows/index.html

This includes 1.5 tonne monstrosities like Yutyrannus Huali, (related to Tyranosaurous Rex) https://news.nationalgeographi...

Discoveries and detailed analysis of recent dinosaur fossils indicate that they were covered with feathers long before flight evolved. And they are now believed to have been warm-blooded. this is confirmed by CT scans of well-preserved fossils (e.g. 600 pound herbivore) showing a 4-chambered heart with *ONE* aorta http://contenidopatrocinado.cn... This is a physiological sign of a warm blooded animal.

So dinosaurs had feathers and were warm blooded. Birds have feathers and are warm blooded. Birds are one group of dinosaurs that survived the asteroid. This was probably due to small size and being able to scavenge scarce food right after the impact.

It won't work anyway. the press is regulated, and expected to consider things like the public interest value vs. privacy.

Explain Fox "News". Regulation of the press in America is a pathetic joke.

I thought that was a liberal California thing. Y'know, the whole "not informing a sexual partner that you have HIV/AIDs" is now just a misdemeanor instead of a felony thing.

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Sounds like a great place for all those bug chasers to go after they realize nobody wants to bone somebody who is such a severe biohazard.

Time will tell, but so far, we are still on a trajectory which is much improved over the last administration's. Remember that.

Not an improved trajectory, just further along the same trajectory (at least until recently). To bring this article up to date:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/1...

The bull market is 109 months old. Trump owns 17 of them.

Including these months:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

I suspect the process of target identification will take place in more than physical space, but cyberspace as well.

People with unusual buying habits and web activity may find themselves being improperly classified by machine learning tools.

Makers, survivalists, security researchers, preppers, amateur scientists, gun collectors, and anyone with political opinions unpopular to Google might have their electronic records being gravely misconstrued.

Once self-driving cars gain the hidden "assassinate passenger" function, the entire cycle of target identification to elimination can be fully automated, and therefore, we should anticipate that it will be fully automated.

But I don't think we have to wait for "strong AI" for such a dystopia to occur. No. People will be using these systems to harm and/or control each other. If it can be done, it will be done; and it definitely can be done.

NSA: Some used spying power to snoop on lovers

Violent video games were disproven as a means of aggression, and in fact were repeatedly shown to reduce it when ...

No.

The result of various studies were that violent video games were not proven to cause violence. This is not the same as "proven to not cause violence."

This distinction is important in evaluating scientific studies of all sorts: not proven to cause is not the same as proven to not cause.

The subject is still heavily debated, and you can find studies that show a connection, or more that don't show a connection. Here's a good overview: https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25...

Enjoy having a doctor that tries to protect your privacy while you can.
from New Hampshire: A doctor who won't use a computer loses her license to practice medicine

Austria is considered to have the most relaxed laws in the European Union.

From aged 18, Austrians can freely buy and own certain types of shotguns and semi-automatic rifles for sport and hunting. They only have to be registered with a licensed dealer within six weeks of purchase.

Non-repeating shotguns don't need a license.

Austria is one of the few EU countries where self-defense is a valid reason for gun ownership. Media reports say gun ownership in Austria has soared in the wake of the refugee crisis, which has seen hundreds of thousands of migrants from Syria and Iraq arrive in Europe.

Still, automatic weapons are banned, following the minimum standards which apply across the EU.

Seems that automatic weapons are all that's banned in the EU. For all intents and purposes, they're banned in the US as well; you can get a permit to own one but it must be made before 1986 and there aren't many of those left. You literally never hear of one being used in a crime.

But the NRA is a $350 million dollar lobbying machine, while the "anti gun crowd" are a handful of completely unfunded people who occasionally get an editorial in a newspaper. And the NRA's agenda is black and white: any regulation of guns whatsoever is attacked as a proposal to ban all guns, and needs a vigorous political action to remove any politician who even mentions this as a possibility.

There is no "reasonable" discussion of gun regulation almost entirely because the NRA attacks any reasonable discussion as "they're coming to take our guns."

Ok, so from 1968 to 2012 the number of guns per capita doubled.

I think one important thing to remember is per-capita doesn't tell you who owns guns. According to this story, it's about 1/3rd of US people. And appears to be declining (though lack of formal statistics make the trend noisy)

So it's not that more people own guns, it's gun owners owning more guns.

And that is a big part of why the "gun debate" in the US has the character it currently has. There's a minority of people who really like guns and thus are highly motivated to keep several of them. The majority doesn't have any guns, and thus supports gun regulation or at least does not oppose it.

Chicago - 650 murders in 2017
Huston - 269 murders in 2017
Population of both, just over 2 million, yet Chicago has well over DOUBLE the murders.

You lied, outright. While calling me names. You are worse than a slaver, a racist, or Nazi. You celebrate blacks killing each other so you can try and pass gun control and remove the rights of US citizens. You are literally encouraging mass murder, and doing NOTHING to stop it, in order to oppress millions of uninvolved people.

Evil is too light of a word for you. I think it is time for people to learn that liberalism supports/encourages mass murder to achieve their ends of oppression.

... pet rocks.

A Pennsylvania school district has a different solution for tackling intruders: rocks.

Buckets full of river stones have been placed in all classrooms at the Blue Mountain School District in Schuylkill County, Superintendent David Helsel said.

As a teacher, I can tell that the main reason for relaxing the cell phone bans is the parents demanding it. the research is in, cell phones detract from learning.

The following is part of a letter I sent to my building administrator on this topic. The first point, that is cut out, but mentioned, had to do with my student to robot ratio.

The second is more generalized, yet it remains a problem. It is the cell phones in the school.

The research done by the London School of Economics showed that the benefit to a cell phone ban was the equivalent to an extra week of instruction. However, even more relevant to our district, is that the gain was driven by low income students. they showed an improvement equal to receiving three extra weeks of instruction per year.

Simply telling the students to put the phones is not enough. A study by the University of Chicago determined that the negative effects of the cell phone are present when the phone is in close proximity, such as in a backpack. When in close proximity, the addictive nature of the phone continues to interfere with the cognitive process.

Based on research, a simple ban of cell phones could improve the students education. In cases where the parent believes that their child needs a phone, and will not be swayed by research, a area of small lock boxes in the office would allow the students to secure their phones at the beginning of the day.

These are two proposals that would increase student engagement and learning.

Here I include summaries and abstracts from recent cell phone research:
  a couple of studies that have been completed in an attempt to assess the impact the impact of having cell-phones in school on education.

The first is a study completed by the London School of Economics. Here is the abstract:

This paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on student test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases post ban. We use a difference in differences (DID) strategy, exploiting variations in schools’ autonomous decisions to ban these devices, conditioning on a range of student characteristics and prior achievement. Our results indicate that these increases in performance are driven by the lowest achieving students. This suggests that restricting mobile phone use can be a low-cost policy to reduce educational inequalities.
Source: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/down...

A more readable summary is provided by CNN:
The authors looked at how phone policies at 91 schools in England have changed since 2001, and compared that data with results achieved in national exams taken at the age of 16. The study covered 130,000 pupils.
It found that following a ban on phone use, the schools' test scores improved by 6.4%. The impact on underachieving students was much more significant -- their average test scores rose by 14%.
Source: http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/1...

This study was supported by a recent study conducted by the University of Chicago. Further, they determined that the negative effect of the cell-phone were present even if the cell-phone is put away, such as in a backpack. From the Abstract:
Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention—as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones—the mere presence of these devices reduces available cognitive capacity.
Source: http://www.journals.uchicago.e...

There is a cult of personality surrounding Apple.

Yep, just not the one you think. I call it the Hatorade Distortion Field.

all of the tech sited in the article involve efficiency increases. It reminds me of stuff like this. AI doesn't have to replace workers to leave us screwed. Just keeping the number of new jobs stagnant is enough. Like how inflation eats away at your income.

Why are we allowing corporations to "debug" their cars on our roads? You have no concept of reality. 700 deaths on US roads. What would the number be if every car was using Tesla's autonomous technology? It might be 10,000 deaths per week. How would you know?

There are these things called multiplication and division. There are 250 M cars on the road according ot this:

    https://www.statista.com/stati...

About 200k Teslas have been sold, which is recent enough that most of them should still be on the road. 200k / 250M = 0.08%

There are 40k deaths per year , according to this:

    http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocumen...

so we would expect 0.08% of that in deaths with Teslas, so that is 32 deaths. So to a first approximation, Tesla is very safe, since you do not have another news story every other week about someone having died in a Tesla.

Now one might want to adjust for the type of driving done, where autopilot only drives well on high ways, where maybe the death rate is less. The number is knowable, though, and it is definitely not 10 000 per week.

You're comparing apples to oranges, under 24 and over 75 represent about 65% of road fatalities. Those aren't demographics who drive Teslas. Accidents also skew towards lower-income groups who tend to drive more irresponsibly (alcohol or speed), again not Tesla drivers.

You've also got single vehicle crashes that claim multiple lives. Driving with kids is dangerous because of the potential distraction they pose, but do you really think many Tesla drivers are using the auto-pilot with their kids? Or drive in fresh snow with poor traction?

The auto-pilot is overwhelmingly used by upper-middle class to wealthy people who are old enough to drive responsibly, young enough to drive competently, and are driving in ideal road conditions without occupants, and usually driven in cities (which highways are much more dangerous). Plus some of those cars are older and lack new safety features.

As you pointed out we don't know the proper adjustment, but I can see a lot of factors that should make Telsa owners responsible for far less than 32 deaths per year.

Huh? They paid only 6.6B for Toys'R'Us. http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/1... Show me an example of a private-equity purchase of a non-struggling company. When companies are doing well, especially public companies, they tend to resist sales. You're right about things like loading up with debt and all of the problem that come with a private equity purchase. But no company ever has a private equity sale as their 'exit' strategy. It's what you do when your business isn't healthy. Now I realize that 6.6B is a lot of money but its 1/10th the market capitalization of Target. and about 1/20th that of Amazon. Leveraged buyouts are (no surprise) structured so that the PE firm makes money regardless of how well the underlying business does. Otherwise why would you purchase a struggling business?!

The Parkland shooter is receiving a lot of fan mail.

The government of Ecuador said on Wednesday it has cut off internet access in its embassy in London to Julian Assange

But, but, Internet access — fast Internet access — is a human right in better countries...

Why has Julian lost his — with nary a protest?

No one does that. The tale that this country or that country pays for a 'free' university education is just that a fairy tale.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

https://www.investopedia.com/a...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/1...

Now our President? I'm not so sure anymore.

Under Trump, our moderate headchopping friends in ISIS just magically got targeting information precise enough to kill Russian generals in Syria with mortar fire.

So you're saying that Trump gave ISIS the location of Russian generals? That's a novel conspiracy theory.

I suppose you actually meant the remnants of the modern rebels, in that case I honestly don't know the legitimacy of your theory though would point out that Trump is still subject to constraints.

Trump has maintained high troop levels in eastern Europe, wants to arm our literal neo-Nazi pals

You either don't understand the word "literal" or you read waaaaay too much Russian propaganda.

Yes, there exist neo-Nazis in Ukraine, but they have less influence on Ukrainian than American neo-Nazis have on the GOP.

that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea. That's like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the sanctions have been maintained, and the reason for not pushing new ones is that it's going to punish allies who have little choice to trade with Russia.

Sanctions that are complete bullshit to begin with. How is it that the U.S. gets to level sanctions against Russia in response to...the aforementioned American overthrow of Ukraine's government. How is it totally legitimate for the U.S. to spend $5 billion to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves" and then say the Crimean vote to secede was illegitimate - before whining about $5,000 in Facebook ads swinging an American election.

This is hilarious. Russia literally invades and annexes part of another country and a fig leaf of a referendum is all you need to give them the thumbs up.

Flynn was fired because he got caught secretly phoning the Russian ambassador to say that Trump would drop the election sanctions

In return for Russian support on a UN vote on illegal Israeli settlements. But this fact is never mentioned in the Russiagate storyline...almost as if the people pushing it were lying propagandists. That and the fact that no one is accusing Trump of treason for colluding with Apartheid Israel.

I actually thought you might be on to something for a moment.

Then I found out that Flynn talked to Russia about the UN vote on Dec 22, the vote was on the 23rd, and Russian ignored Flynn and voted for the resolution.

The call about dropping the sanctions was on Dec 29th.

But I wouldn't get too worked up about it, causality really is a PITA sometimes.

The Steele dossier being used toilet paper

Also fixed. And still, how can Democrats talk about collusion with a straight face when it's a fact (as opposed to an unproven conspiracy theory) that Hillary not only worked with foreign agents to swing an election, but paid them to do so.

Because hiring an investigator who happens to be a retired intelligence operative for an ally is very different from getting an unfriendly nation to do your dirty work.

But if Trump was being groomed beforehand it doesn't mean they wanted him to be President

Still the plot hole of Putin being a master chess player setting the board years in advance, except for anticipating the totally predictable response from Democrats, from the media, and from the military-industrial complex.

It's like you didn't even read my response, or more likely, you're applying the same reasoning skills you used to conclude the Crimean "referendum" was legit.

Are you playing dumb or have you just not been paying attention? One of the most notable aspects of Trump is how pro-Russian he's been

AYFKM? Under Trump, our moderate headchopping friends in ISIS just magically got targeting information precise enough to kill Russian generals in Syria with mortar fire. Trump is illegally staying in Syria indefinitely, a country Russia is defending from the aforementioned moderate headchoppers and organ eaters.

Trump has maintained high troop levels in eastern Europe, wants to arm our literal neo-Nazi pals that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea. That's like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the sanctions have been maintained, and the reason for not pushing new ones is that it's going to punish allies who have little choice to trade with Russia.

Sanctions that are complete bullshit to begin with. How is it that the U.S. gets to level sanctions against Russia in response to...the aforementioned American overthrow of Ukraine's government. How is it totally legitimate for the U.S. to spend $5 billion to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves" and then say the Crimean vote to secede was illegitimate - before whining about $5,000 in Facebook ads swinging an American election.

Flynn was fired because he got caught secretly phoning the Russian ambassador to say that Trump would drop the election sanctions

In return for Russian support on a UN vote on illegal Israeli settlements. But this fact is never mentioned in the Russiagate storyline...almost as if the people pushing it were lying propagandists. That and the fact that no one is accusing Trump of treason for colluding with Apartheid Israel.

The Steele dossier being used toilet paper

Also fixed. And still, how can Democrats talk about collusion with a straight face when it's a fact (as opposed to an unproven conspiracy theory) that Hillary not only worked with foreign agents to swing an election, but paid them to do so.

But if Trump was being groomed beforehand it doesn't mean they wanted him to be President

Still the plot hole of Putin being a master chess player setting the board years in advance, except for anticipating the totally predictable response from Democrats, from the media, and from the military-industrial complex.

But I'm not talking about Russia in this context, I'm talking about Trump. One of the main ideas of Democracy is the job is bigger than the person, the President's first duty is to the country, the Attorney General to the law, director of the EPA to the environment, etc, etc. No administration gets this perfectly, but Trump doesn't even seem to understand this basic concept. He sees his job as doing good for Trump, whether that's boosting his poll numbers, helping out his family, helping his own businesses, or giving himself a tax cut. And he sees the first duty of any appointee as serving his interests rather than the country.

You could always take it up with the person most responsible for Trump being in the White House.

California?

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Trump's lead lawyer resigned yesterday and four other top law firms refused to represent him.