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Maas requests that Facebook obeys the law and deletes posts containing hate speech and calls for violence. Such shit is even illegal in the US.

Bullshit - https://www.facebook.com/commu...

Facebook removes hate speech, which includes content that directly attacks people based on their: Race, Ethnicity, National origin, Religious affiliation, Sexual orientation, Sex, gender, or gender identity, or Serious disabilities or diseases.

Organizations and people dedicated to promoting hatred against these protected groups are not allowed a presence on Facebook. As with all of our standards, we rely on our community to report this content to us.

The Nazis mercy-killed morons like you.

What about many nerds and/& geeks? Me as 1/one with to add to the stat(istic)s who is becoming a 40 years old virgin soon. :-P

I'm pretty sure Germany's had laws about denial of the holocaust since well before modern internet culture was around.

Sure, but that didn't cause much conflict with other cultures. German laws only applied to Germany. But with the Internet, it is common to find forums that mingle people from different cultures, and different legal jurisdictions. One of the big differences between cultures, is how they deal with the tradeoff between "freedom" and "order". Americans and Germans see that tradeoff from very different historical perspectives, and make very different tradeoffs. As an American, I believe that people should be able to express even the most odious opinions, and suppression of those opinions causes more problems than it solves. The Germans see it differently.

... then they came for the Nazis, and I did not speak out because I was not a Nazi.

Of course this isn't really about Nazis and Holocaust denial. It's actually about all kind of racist posts and other hate speech. Which Facebook says they would delete in their Community Standards (yes, even in the US, so the cultures argument is bogus really):

Facebook removes hate speech, which includes content that directly attacks people based on their: Race, Ethnicity, National origin, Religious affiliation, Sexual orientation, Sex, gender, or gender identity, or Serious disabilities or diseases.

But the real fun part is that "users also accuse the company of double standards for cracking down swifter and harder on nudity and sexual content than on hate-mongering."

So first the come for the nude people, you fucking asshole.

How many libraries of congress is that!?!? Oh wait, we're not talking about network traffic here. But, we ARE talking about archiving and searching through tweets. So the question comes up: the library of congress is archiving all public tweets. Do they honor the fact they're deleted off of the source material? And how easy would it be to search the library's archive vs Twitter's archive?

https://www.facebook.com/notes...

Thank goodness Bloom County is back!

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1022932631070823/?type=1&theater

(NOTE: In fairness, Berke is not above directing the humor at himself.)

Thank goodness Bloom County is back!

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1022932631070823/?type=1&theater

(NOTE: In fairness, Berke is not above directing the humor at himself.)

A few weeks ago one of their politician declared a "war on multiculturalism" on saturday wee hours and that caused a fucking massive controversy and spawned demonstrations.

Here is the particular post in Facebook.

My attempt to get myself censored or banned was unsuccessful: https://www.facebook.com/wogsl...

At work so I am not going to follow your link but I have noticed a double standard if you identify as a democrat, leftist or a member of the LGBT community. They allow those people to say a bunch of hateful bigoted things about Jews and Christians. Every report, no matter how blatant, receives a "we found that it does not violate the community standards blah blah blah". But if I were to call a gay person a coward for hiding behind a fake community page to attack christians on christian stories, I get banned for several days. Just for calling them a coward for abusing the system. You see, you cannot block individual accounts from appearing even in comments on other people's stories but not "community" accounts.

My attempt to get myself censored or banned was unsuccessful: https://www.facebook.com/wogsl...

(Why the HELL are there now TWO front page threads about this??)

I know I'm a bit late to this, but this is what I posted in the other thread:

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Concerning CyanogenMod, this was posted to their Facebook page a few hours ago:

Recent Stagefright issues

The following CVE's have been patched in CM12.0 and 12.1 nightlies for a couple weeks. If you haven't updated already, we strongly encourage you to do so.

CM11 will see these updates hit as part of out of band fixes this weekend (these releases occur weekly).

CVE-2015-1538
CVE-2015-1539
CVE-2015-3824
CVE-2015-3826
CVE-2015-3827
CVE-2015-3828
CVE-2015-3829

We are actively following all the DefCon events and announcements and will be keeping tabs on other disclosures that could impact CM and its derivatives.

Concerning CyanogenMod, this was posted to their Facebook page a few hours ago:

Recent Stagefright issues

The following CVE's have been patched in CM12.0 and 12.1 nightlies for a couple weeks. If you haven't updated already, we strongly encourage you to do so.

CM11 will see these updates hit as part of out of band fixes this weekend (these releases occur weekly).

CVE-2015-1538
CVE-2015-1539
CVE-2015-3824
CVE-2015-3826
CVE-2015-3827
CVE-2015-3828
CVE-2015-3829

We are actively following all the DefCon events and announcements and will be keeping tabs on other disclosures that could impact CM and its derivatives.

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Being California, it's apricot.

Facebook's API description says about v2: "In v2.0, the friends API endpoint returns the list of a person's friends who are also using your app. In v1.0, the response included all of a person's friends." This doesn't sound like it will be a useful replacement for their XMPP chat interface unless everybody is using the same third-party app, or maybe I'm missing something.

Secret 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access

vPro processors allow remote access even when computer is turned off

Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com | September 26, 2013

http://www.infowars.com/91497/

"Intel Core vPro processors contain a "secret" 3G chip that allows remote disabling and backdoor access to any computer even when it is turned off.

Although the technology has actually been around for a while, the attendant privacy concerns are only just being aired. The "secret" 3G chip that Intel added to its processors in 2011 caused little consternation until the NSA spying issue exploded earlier this year as a result of Edward Snowden's revelations.

In a promotional video for the technology, Intel brags that the chips actually offer enhanced security because they don't require computers to be "powered on" and allow problems to be fixed remotely. The promo also highlights the ability for an administrator to shut down PCs remotely "even if the PC is not connected to the network," as well as the ability to bypass hard drive encryption.

"Intel actually embedded the 3G radio chip in order to enable its Anti Theft 3.0 technology. And since that technology is found on every Core i3/i5/i7 CPU after Sandy Bridge, that means a lot of CPUs, not just new vPro, might have a secret 3G connection nobody knew about until now,"reports Softpedia.

Jeff Marek, director of business client engineering for Intel, acknowledged that the company's Sandy Bridge" microprocessor, which was released in 2011, had "the ability to remotely kill and restore a lost or stolen PC via 3G."

"Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has it's own operating system embedded on the chip itself," writes Jim Stone. "As long as the power supply is available and and in working condition, it can be woken up by the Core vPro processor, which runs on the system's phantom power and is able to quietly turn individual hardware components on and access anything on them."

Although the technology is being promoted as a convenient way for IT experts to troubleshoot PC issues remotely, it also allows hackers or NSA snoops to view the entire contents of somebody's hard drive, even when the power is off and the computer is not connected to a wi-fi network.

It also allows third parties to remotely disable any computer via the "secret" 3G chip that is built into Intel's Sandy Bridge processors. Webcams could also be remotely accessed.

"This combination of hardware from Intel enables vPro access ports which operate independently of normal user operations," reports TG Daily. "These include out-of-band communications (communications that exist outside of the scope of anything the machine might be doing through an OS or hypervisor), monitoring and altering of incoming and outgoing network traffic. In short, it operates covertly and snoops and potentially manipulates data."

Not only does this represent a privacy nightmare, it also dramatically increases the risk of industrial espionage.

The ability for third parties to have remote 3G access to PCs would also allow unwanted content to be placed on somebody's hard drive, making it easier for intelligence agencies and corrupt law enforcement bodies to frame people.

"The bottom line? The Core vPro processor is the end of any pretend privacy," writes Stone. "If you think encryption, Norton, or anything else is going to ensure your privacy, including never hooking up to the web at all, think again. There is now more than just a ghost in the machine."

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Citation for him claiming this? It's right on his facebook.

It's hard to explain to kids these days what doxxing is and what it is not.

If I can take your /. or reddit username and go to http://facebook.com/%5Busernam... then it's not Doxxing. YOU are the idiot that used the exact same username for multiple sites. The most hilarious violators are the ones that post on the porn sites with the same name as Reddit, with their full location. It takes maybe 5-10 minutes to find the average Redditor from their posts and similar usernames.

Some will even post enough photos for you to reconstruct other username with google image search or tineye. This isn't super stalking sleuthing it's google 101.

he gets a boost in star status with NDT, https://www.facebook.com/neild...

FB Messenger is not a particularly offensive app with regards to data consumption. I used 56MB with it during my last billing cycle and the total was only that "high" because of photo sharing. If you just use it for text messaging the data usage is insignificant.

Their actual app is another matter, as you point out, and I would highly recommend ditching it in favor of using m.facebook.com through your mobile browser of choice. It's also better from a privacy standpoint because you can control whether or not you share your location with them via the web browser and they don't get access to the file structure, camera, dialer, or anything else for that matter. That site will work as a messenger replacement too, with the caveat that you won't get push notifications. I would be happy to ditch FB Messenger altogether but I've got a lot of friends aboard that use it exclusively; they live in countries where SMS is billed per message and there's no unlimited option as there is here in the States.

https://m.facebook.com/christo...

In John Carmack's in-depth critique of a horror genre GearVR game https://www.facebook.com/perma... he too had a thought that people will die from VR: 'Some of the scares are just perfect â" walking along, see a table off to the side, turn to pick up loot, turn back to carry on, and *JESUS CHRIST*!!! Someone is going to have a heart attack in a VR horror game, it is only a matter of time. There were also times when I was legitimately afraid for a minute or two, since I really didnâ(TM)t know what the rules of the environment were. When I did get jumped, I desperately wanted an endurance limited sprint option instead of the nightmare slowness of normal walking speed, but there would be VR comfort issues to consider.'

Yeah - I looked for the paper that won him the Amdocs prize but couldn't find it. All reports seem to be, um, based on this story. Which is where I found he trained the system using two Fffacebook pages:

posts on Hebrew-language Facebook pages that are almost pure opinion, called “superior and condescending people” and “ordinary and sensible people.” The pages are basically forums for people to let off steam about things and events that get them mad, a substitute for actually confronting the offending person. Between them, the two pages have about 150,000 “likes,” and active traffic full of snarky, sarcastic, and sometimes sincere comments on politics, food, drivers, and much more.

“Now, the system can recognize patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant,” explained Saig.

System Alert - Possible Arrogance Detected - user message issued

[ 328.0081004] Overtones Warning (bug): Optional FUBAR field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x000000000000102C/0x0 (Sarcasm overflow)

So it's a startup pitch - expect optimistic projections of outcomes. It's even possible (would it detect that) it's based on pure supposition - you know, like maybe the opinion of the machine learning program matched a readers take on those Fffacebook pages.

Yeah - I looked for the paper that won him the Amdocs prize but couldn't find it. All reports seem to be, um, based on this story. Which is where I found he trained the system using two Fffacebook pages:

posts on Hebrew-language Facebook pages that are almost pure opinion, called “superior and condescending people” and “ordinary and sensible people.” The pages are basically forums for people to let off steam about things and events that get them mad, a substitute for actually confronting the offending person. Between them, the two pages have about 150,000 “likes,” and active traffic full of snarky, sarcastic, and sometimes sincere comments on politics, food, drivers, and much more.

“Now, the system can recognize patterns that are either condescending or caring sentiments and can even send a text message to the user if the system thinks the post may be arrogant,” explained Saig.

System Alert - Possible Arrogance Detected - user message issued

[ 328.0081004] Overtones Warning (bug): Optional FUBAR field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x000000000000102C/0x0 (Sarcasm overflow)

So it's a startup pitch - expect optimistic projections of outcomes. It's even possible (would it detect that) it's based on pure supposition - you know, like maybe the opinion of the machine learning program matched a readers take on those Fffacebook pages.

Where does it say there is no delete? I can point you to where it says there IS a delete.

Since you didn't bother to point to anything, here it is.

My reading of fb's policy says the only way to delete anything is to delete your entire account.

Why do you assume that just because I did a poor job at imitating a Southern accent that it was "ebonics?" Frankly, I was trying to use the character Huckleberry Finn's dad as a reference, and apparently mixed things up *shrug*.

And why would making fun of someone crying that one state government won't be flying the symbol of those who committed treason in defense of chattel slavery cause you to support said crybaby? I, personally, think that the retailers have gone overboard. I would love for every ignorant f*ck who thinks the South rebelled for any reason other than to maintain its "peculiar institution," and wants to support that banner of savage traitors, to wear it willingly. That way they'll have a nice, big, scarlet letter that will let everyone else know that they're somewhere between ignorant fools and bigoted scum.

Angry rant over.

Have a link to an image and a post that sum up how I feel about the only things that make "Southern" culture distinct from American culture. Excerpt from the post:

"That was Sherman’s advice to the South before the war even began. And he was, as usual, absolutely right. But he was talking like a grown-up to people who didn’t want to think like adults. Their whole society was based on horrible lies—“a bad cause to start with”—which gave them a deep aversion to cold truths. So they stuffed themselves, as Mark Twain said, with copious doses of the worst “chivalrous” nonsense they could find, like Walter Scott’s pseudo-medieval novels, and went off to cause the biggest slaughter of their fellow Americans in history, a body-count far higher than the sum total of all Americans killed in all wars with other countries."

You mean the countless layers of ineffective bureaucracy at Shared Services Cana-duh can't help?!

Exactly this. Facebook - and other websites with "real name" policies - hardly seem the place to post anonymously. Want to post anonymously for free? Set up a Wordpress.com site under a pseudonym and post there. You can even share it on Twitter under a pseudonym account. Will it be impossible for people to find out who you are and where you live? Of course not, but if you do it right, it should be much harder to track than Facebook.

I found his FB page and it not only shows his photo, but lists his name (Jagendra Singh) right in the header. If that's anonymous than my Slashdot username is anonymous as well!

And you still don't know or understand. Bet you didn't know you subjected yourself to the same anytime you went for a jog. Bet you didn't know you did all of this to yourself while just simply walking. If it were pain like you describe, Pharoah wouldn't at-all be reaching out to say "hi" to Espinosa like he is in this pic... Victor came by to give the horse a hug and a kiss Since you don't know horses, AT-ALL, you'd not know that if it were as horrendous as you describe, they'd just as soon kill you as look at you (Called a "Rogue" iin horseman's circles.) If you don't know, educate yourself or STAY SILENT. You don't know. Seriously.

Why can't Google just ship an OpenJDK build for ARM instead of screwing around with breaking the portability contract of the byte code?

The biggest thing they changed from Java was removing all the UI code (Swing and AWT). That wouldn't have been very useful on a phone, and leaving it out saved space. (Sun had a version of Java that didn't have the UI code, but J2ME isn't open source, you have to pay for it).

I have no idea why they didn't use the same bytecode. Their own implementation was rather lousy and had strange bugs like this one.

You can read the whole article (and you should), but here are some nice excerpts.

FTA: On the electric car front, the Chevy Volt is the most significant U.S. competitor to Musk's Tesla Model S...

Meanwhile, Volt was developed during Uncle Sam's bailout of "Government Motors" with $30 billion. That's more than six times the number that got Mr. Hirsch so worked up! Though GM touts that they've "repaid" the government, Treasury reports that the government lost more than $11 billion on that dubious deal.

The Model S is not comparable to the Volt. The Volt is a plug-in hybrid (not an EV) cludge to meet the requirements of a bail out. The Nissan Leaf is a better comparison and it blows the Model S out of the water in its effects on the market. But, the author wants to hamstring a stronger comparison by requiring that the company be American.

Additionally, a bail out deal and subsidy are not comparable. A bail out deal your mom throwing you a few hundred bucks because your business failed, rent needs to be paid, and you have to go visit her to pick up the check. A subsidy is your mom throwing you a few hundred bucks to start up or expand your business. One's there to save your as with some nominal requirements and the other is there to help you profit. Musk has taken both for Tesla.

FTA: The most polite response I can offer to the critics is: Get over it. Find something more productive to do than condemning success. If you insist on continuing to carp, do your research first and hit the right targets. Otherwise you will continue to sound jealous and misinformed.

Wow, internet tough guy, huh?

Oh, and this isn't the only time this guy has white-knighted for Musk. He's actually a bit of a fanboy, so don't let his professorship lull you into a false sense of academic separation:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... "Disclosure: Dr. Autry currently owns Tesla stock."
https://twitter.com/gregwautry
https://www.facebook.com/gregw...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/re...

Ed, is that you?

Actually, in a poll conducted just this last week, 65% of Americans say that NSA surveillance has helped thwart terrorist attacks, and a plurality--49%--say that they believe the benefits outweigh the negatives. So yeah, maybe Americans aren't super thrilled about the fact that the NSA has our dick pics, the same way we're not thrilled that Facebook has licensing rights to all our photos or that Uber tracks our location and uses it to make inferences about our sex lives, but yet, at the end of the day, we're not changing our behavior--neither in the apps that we use nor in the ways that we vote.

Man, I feel dirty linking to the Washington Times, but it was the most recent poll that a two-minute Google search turned up.

... have Facebook encrypt email it sends to you ...

This doesn't prove who sent the message. A message must be encrypted with the receiver's public key and encrypted again with the sender's private key. Once again, all security depends on the integrity of the public-key server. Such servers can't prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

In addition to encrypting messages to your public key, Facebook also digitally signs the messages using their private key and rotates the signing subkey every few months.

The fingerprint of their primary key (which is used to sign the signing subkeys) is available on their HTTPS-secured announcement page.

Additionally, all outgoing emails from Facebook are DKIM-signed, adding further assurance that it's from them.

Sure, it's *possible* that an HTTPS connection may be MITMed and DKIM records spoofed, but that requires an active attacker and significantly increases the risk of the attacker getting discovered. You could use Tor, a VPN, or a proxy from a different computer to verify that the HTTPS certificate, DKIM public keys, and the PGP fingerprint are what you see on your normal internet connection and thus have more assurance that the information is authentic.

It's right there in their privacy policy:

https://www.facebook.com/polic...

We collect the content and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up for an account, create or share, and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content you provide, such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. We also collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with or the frequency and duration of your activities.

and...

We also collect content and information that other people provide when they use our Services, including information about you, such as when they share a photo of you, send a message to you, or upload, sync or import your contact information.

The list goes on and on. Most troubling is this is how they descrie their "anonymous" data:

For example, we may tell an advertiser how its ads performed, or how many people viewed their ads or installed an app after seeing an ad, or provide non-personally identifying demographic information (such as 25 year old female, in Madrid, who likes software engineering)...

It has already been proven that anonymized data can be unraveled and associated with an individual again. Facebook makes it even easier to unravel by providing the sex, age, likes and city of the victim. (Search /. for the multitude of stories on this). So don't feed me that pap on it being "anonymous".

Even given the policy, Facebook doesn't come right out and say EXACTLY what and with whom they are sharing information BEFORE THEY SHARE IT. It is intentionally nebulous.

Lastly, the default settings in the Privacy Center is to share as much as they can without triggering aggressive privacy concerns generating bad PR. Admittedly, that is the whole purpose of the site. So the idea to not use social media or at most provide as little private information as possible (or fake it when not avoidable) is sound advice.

Or you could go to the Tour Facebook page and see more information. Sorry for not giving you everything on a silver platter.

Maybe carry a gun?
https://www.facebook.com/fahme...

I always carry a camera and will readily use it, but before you take your newly re-discovered rights watch this....

https://www.facebook.com/micha...

Knowing your rights isn’t enough; I am not suggesting this advice is wrong but you need to fully understand that if you find yourself in a situation like this that you are risking a confrontation with an officer that has deemed him or herself ‘worthy’ of your camera. Police must learn to respect the citizens they ‘protect’ and stop this kind of behavior.

They maintain a open FB page, so you can all go and congratulate them on enacting such sensible and inspired legislature. https://www.facebook.com/Centr...

Bah! Vote darkness and despair; https://www.facebook.com/cthul...

Bah! Vote for the greater evil; https://www.facebook.com/cthul...

For techies: the program does a backtrack search, choosing the next cell to guess which minimises the fanout.

Here’s a question for those reading the source code: if x is an (binary) integer, what does (x & -x) compute?

Hope you have fun playing with this. Please tell me if you find any bugs! – LHL

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As several of you noted, (x & –x) returns the least significant ‘1’ bit of x, i.e. the highest power of two that divides x. This assumes two’s complement notation for negative numbers, as some of you also pointed out. e.g. if x=12 (binary 1100), then (x & -x) = 4 (binary 100). I didn’t invent this; it is an old programming trick.

Nice!

which are kids being brought up in broken homes or no home at all with no family or community support structure.

Really? And systemic racism has *nothing* to do with the plight of young African Americans? https://www.facebook.com/brave...

As for the great lakes, they froze early, thawed late and had 100 year record levels of ice; some froze completely which is nearly unprecedented and niagara falls froze twice in 2 years.

All signs of a warming world no doubt.

But please drag out the weasel words and explain this. Extra points or quoting "Skeptical science".

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
https://www.facebook.com/video...
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/20...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

This page doesn't include reading the call history: https://www.facebook.com/help/...
However, the call history appears in the play store appearance of the main facebook app. I'm not sure whether this has been newly added, and they have to refresh that page, or they just don't list it in that page.

You mean aside from the fact she's a perjuring pathologically lying domestic abuser who works with racist GNAA trolls?

I attend Fragapalooza on a yearly basis and they manage ~200 folks, I've volunteered a few times myself for setup / teardown and over the years some things have become apparent:

1. Power
Having stable power distribution is your top priority, no matter how much you've solved other problems when power goes down it's going to kill everything. Worse yet if you have rolling power issues that's going to put a real kink in your tournament scheduling. The main thing to consider when it comes to power distribution is what kind of hardware is going to show up, if you are using tournament machines where every build is identical then it shouldn't be a problem, if people are bringing their own machines you're going to have to sort out wildly fluctuating power configurations.

2. LAN
Your LAN setup needs to be flawless, monitored and set up to find and eliminate problems. That one person who shows up with DHCP turned on is going to be a cancer, the faster you can find problems like that and solve them the better. You'll also need people to keep an eye out for hacking, tournament play, it happens

3. WAN
Problem 1: You're hosting a LAN style event with a required WAN connection, you can do everything in your power to ensure that you've got the bandwidth to handle X number of simultaneous players as well as whatever the players who aren't in the tournament are playing, even if you handle this perfectly online-only games are a bitch to run tournaments for because if the servers you are connecting to go down your event is over or will drag on way too long. Even checking for potential maintenance windows to ensure there's not going to be downtime during your tournament hours is something important that's easily overlooked.

Other stuff you're going to need to consider is gate security and floor security, not just for things like theft but also for ... conflagrations between players. When people get mad you need to be able to deal with them quickly otherwise things start to escalate, it's bad for your event, it's bad for your attendees.

Anyway, all this stuff probably seems obvious but it's hard to achieve AND maintain

Comcast has failed to support HBO Go (and many other channels' streaming content) on Roku for years and now Amazon Fire TV. There is a Facebook page dedicated to getting Comcast to enable authentication for a service that Roku owners are paying for:

https://www.facebook.com/pages...

If I had a choice, I drop Comcast in a heartbeat. Do not let these ass hats increase their monopoly and deny more people options that don't coincide with their goals.

There are lots of porn stars on Facebook.

And if you think you can't find racism on Facebook, you are an idiot.

Facebook does sensor SOME things, but not all the things. Like I said you can find any ideology on there you like.

Arkansas also has one of these Religious Freedom bills, as well as similar southern conservative cowboy type things, and I think this is a natural progression after years of voters being told by the conservative media that our elected conservatives weren't conservative enough, weren't religious enough, and too open to compromise with the left, and too slow to respond to issues regarding immigrants and terrorists. Add to that a general sense of failure or lack of inspiration in the left regarding their own leaders, and we leave a wide open door for this sort of thing.

I believe the response in Arkansas was the creation of a sticker that businesses began putting on their windows, saying that they welcome LGBT customers. This is where we are now... I suppose we should be thankful they haven't decided to simply force businesses to comply to "religious conscience" the way they're forcing universities to accept guns on their property.

David Marcus left PayPal last year to go work with Facebook in the mobile messaging division of Facebook. Honestly looking at the screen shots it almost looks like the PayPal app.

David Marcus letting the cat out of the bag

Grab some popcorn and cross your fingers. Would be nothing more enjoyable in seeing Facebook vs. PayPal in a drag out legal fight including similarities in look and feel of the app, patents, and most specifically non-compete agreement that Marcus should be bound too.

Diverting 93% of the water to grow lettuce in the desert since 1920 had nothing to do with it.

Also, ignore the arctic ice that's been increasing for three years, the antarctic ice that's always grown and hit a new record in 2014, snow in Hawaii, and the great lakes that have frozen early,and that have frozen over compete the last two years. Ignore Niagara falls that has frozen over two years in a row and ignore all the record cold around the country. Ignore the fact we kill killed half the worlds trees in the last 100 years and where we do theres drought and ignore the fact the IPCC did not admit trees ate CO2 until 2010. Ignore the fact NAS falsified the CO2 hypothesis in 2010 and ignore the fact the climate models now have 95% error.Ignore the fact corals have genes that upregulate to ignore acidification and warming and ignore the fact pollution (I'm especially looking at you big oil) has gotten worse while we're distracted by this nonsense. Ignore the fact not a single IPCC prediction ever came true.

And especially ignore NAA/NOAA when they say "there has been no warming this century"

Creation science, social science, climate science... if you have to add "science" to a word to give it legitimacy, it's not science any more than the Democratic People's republic of North Korea is a democracy. Real sciences yield natural laws to quote Feynman.

Instead, look at 01% of a country that is 2% of the world.

Refs:
1) Ice
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/201...
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...

2) records:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/vide...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
http://www.staradvertiser.com/...
https://www.facebook.com/video...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/febru...
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

3) Trees:
http://www.pri.org/stories/201...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
http://www.agu.org/news/press/...