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... the voters to unite ...

With fake-news-for-profit, a US political party lying about the economy, "fuck you, I've got mine" tribalism, "tough on" criminals & "stop socialism" & other forms of class warfare, "evil government", general paranoia, general apathy, cultural extremists/fanatics hijacking every citizens' protest, the US voters will never unite.

The government and the wealthy want that disunity to continue.

... a better way?

Guns and ammo won't protect you from crazy and hate. Your boom-sticks are just an illusion of protection. Instead, invest in supporting and maintaining society and the people themselves. Civilized people working side-by-side with you are the only thing that will defend against all the crazy.

Personally, I choose to push for education reform, including teaching children interpersonal skills, respect for their fellow man and critic thinking from a very early age. That's the best way to kill-off the crazy of their ignorant, hateful, cowardly parents.

Succumbing to fear (i.e. stockpiling guns, doomsday prepping) is exactly what our enemies want to evoke in us, because scared people don't think rationally, logically or critically. Instead, scared people have nothing but knee-jerk reactions to everything, and thus always choose the worst possible thing for their own good.

  - McBob1

Full disclosure, I posted in the comments section in the article you linked, but my comments are still being held in moderation because they are detected "spam" (this appears to happen any time you provide a lot of links for references with discus). In any event, you can see the thread here:

https://disqus.com/home/discus...

Regarding expert's opinions, the discussion at Quillete has been good and includes very good comments from David P Schmitt, who is one of the authors that James Damore quoted.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/0...

There's also been a very good meta-analysis of studies being performed at Sean Stevens heterodox academy:

https://heterodoxacademy.org/2...

And a very good back and forth between Adam Grant and Scott Alexander here:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017...

Good luck explaining that to opinionated commenters who insist on being technically correct ("the best kind of correct"). See this thread where John Willkie maintains that the legal definition of "extortion" is the only one that matters, and anyone bringing a colloquial definition into the discussion "sound[s] very immature".

https://www.robtex.com/ clicking on a disqus.com icon you will be met with a requester to abort and reason: "Logging into Disqus can allow it to track you around the web". Answering no shows what u had to post was not that important.

My Post was to help, the IP address 72.21.91.29 shows over 100 pages containing malware (most I've seen) but it's a feed for the UseNet where Malware is expected and fairly obvious. Not a big deal.

I took a back door approach to get a disqus.com account (through robtex.com) I had no ToS (privacy policy) to read.

Post to Robtex.com can be posted without account, and how I will from now on.

Was kool though, sitting unobtrusively all this time in the menu bar, when it tosses up an alert you take notice. The reason for Privacy Badger showing a plus, sorry but many just say a bad site ahead awaits u.

That Disqus.com didn't make the HOSTS file? No clue, I dropped the ball.

I have checked https://www.robtex.com/ while I found no Google links before, nor mention of Google in the FAQ (no ToS), the site reeks of Google (very nice, good useful info). It's no big deal, it's just http://testmy.net/ was Google yet they hid the fact, vs Flurry.com, it took some digging and many links from original ToS but you would find a Google ToS. A post reply was by one of the admins of how much they enjoyed working for Google, and I questioned the ToS; It was changed to a Google ToS; Changed now to: no clue (not read yet) but just assume Google and do what you do - I leave Google alone but for advertising, and data collection other than what I know (my choice) is going to be Public domain (my searches for one).

FWIW https://disqus.com/ gives no alert.

Slashdot's comments are upvoted/downvoted in a more granular fashion than any other site out there and comment display can be skewed by user preferences - I penalize "funny" posts and really wish I could do the same on Reddit. The best the rest of the internet has managed to implement is a Nero-style upvote/downvote system, which puts the same weight on puns and one-liners as it does on trolls and insightful responses.

Commenting in general is ripe for disruption - if Disqus upgraded from upvote/downvote to something along the lines of the system Slashdot has had since the 90s it would change the Comments section overnight.

When my boss called Dell about the eight we had that were dropping keypresses, they said that our employees that had trouble were incompetent and did not know how to use a keyboard. He is a Dell fanboy so he fired a couple people.

Does your boss's name happen to be JIM?

So you'll have to forgive me; I'm a little late to the party. I only really started reading up on this fiasco yesterday.

Question: I read elsewhere that there were 4 minutes unaccounted for between when Zimmerman hung up with the dispatcher and when neighbors heard Zimmerman's cries for help and came out to observe Martin beating Zimmerman's head into the cement. However, the timeline in the linked-to photo has Z going over to the main road to get a street address and then walking back to his truck but being intercepted by M en route.

However, based on the transcript of Z's call to the police, Z was intending to go to the community's clubhouse to meet the officer. What I don't get is if Z was really walking back to the clubhouse to meet the officer, why would it take 4 minutes for M to intercept Z at the "T intersection"? Wouldn't Z have been at the clubhouse after 4 minutes?

I realize that the above is more of an academic question. While M was beating Z's head into the cement, Z was permitted to use deadly force per FL statute. A reasonable person would expect to suffer grave bodily injury due to repeated blows to the head causing the head to repeatedly impact the sidewalk. From what I read, this is pretty basic self-defense and would apply in other jurisdictions. Not just FL.

Anyway, I'm just curious if anyone has coughed up a plausible explanation of what happened during the unaccounted for 4 minutes.

Here, let's make it simple shall we? And now you know the chain of events, and can understand why it *was* self defense, and why you're wrong.

What's the basis for this account of the story? I'm not disputing it; I just haven't seen this before and I'd like to read more.

Here, let's make it simple shall we? And now you know the chain of events, and can understand why it *was* self defense, and why you're wrong.

Most of the "Anonymous Coward" postings I see here are folks with mod points that want to mod in the same discussion in which they are posting.

It just took a couple of ham-fisted goofs (*waves* Hi "foe"!) to let me see what was going on.

It's amazing how much more polite we get when we have to have our name (even an anonymized one) signed at the bottom.

I found that Disqus was "kind" enough to trawl all the databases they could, and found some very old comments (ones that I really regret making), and offered to link them to my current Disqus profile.

How nice. I declined. However, I have since signed off of Disqus. Not because of that, but because they were obviously hacked (or sold their user list to hard-core spammers, which I doubt). I use DEAs for these kinds of services. Getting penis pill spam on one of those DEAs automatically flags that service for binning.

http://disqus.com/

Customize it with CSS... call it a day. Forums are just pages with styled links. Your server doesn't suffer the load... the federated login is handled by others...

Isn't that what DISQUS is for?

http://disqus.com/ lets you do comments very well, and is used by many large customers.

So, Facebook is trying to take over the market for snap-in comment systems from Disqus and IntenseDebate. I think I would prefer a healthy competition between these two and other startups, rather than Facebook domination.

As I wrote to the Atlantic after being blocked for not having a Disqus account, "Why does the Atlantic presume to require me to enter into a contractual relationship with a third party to communicate with your editors?"

The Disqus terms allow them to spam you and to send your information to advertisers.: "We use Personal Information ... to provide you with information and offers from us or third parties that we believe you may find useful or interesting, including newsletters "

The U.S. Government negotiated better terms from Disqus. The Goverment made them take out the bad stuff. If your site wants to use Disqus, demand to use the Federal terms, not the standard terms.

At least there's alternatives. I prefer Disqus for my blog. It is easy to add, it lets someone else handle the login/password stuff, and doesn't have the whole Facebook/real name problem.