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Take for instance, this article on forbes. (Yes, I know. Have noscript ready.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/k...

It is rather short on details, but makes the salient point about alpha-go creating a wholly original move, through machine "creativity."

It is not really that big of a change in tactics required to train similar AIs to do, for instance, market trading strateges-- which has already caused a mass exodus of humans from stock trade floors.

Further refinements of such methods could eventually lead to radical shifts in how things like aircraft are designed, or computer chips are laid out. Skilled human minds that rely on intuition can be replaced with purely logically founded iterative software agents, with billions of prior tested design strategies to work with behind them.

To get an idea of how quickly the fallout of a major paradigm shift can rattle through an economy, take a look at this Atlantic article from last year.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...

It also has the following gem in it:

In 2013, Oxford University researchers forecast that machines might be able to perform half of all U.S. jobs in the next two decades.

which is on par with my initial statement. Since it was called out specifically, let's see if we can find it.

And here it is. (warning, pdf)

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac....

Like I said, the linked story is not the only group that has looked at this issue. I am vaguely recalling at least 2 others that have reached similar conclusions to Oxford and PwC, and who have given a rough estimate of hitting the tipping point within the next 20 years, give or take.

I have no reason to argue against people better trained in trend analysis than myself.

Tell it to the BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi... or http://www.abc.net.au/news/201... or https://www.forbes.com/sites/a... or https://cosmosmagazine.com/bio... or http://scholar.harvard.edu/fil... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Let me guess, you love firing lead bullets at firing ranges with your buddies, as much as possible.

Yep. Boss Trump is rallying the fans in Kentucky, promising to bring back coal jobs. Or, at least, bring back coal by letting up on silly environmental rules like the Stream Protection Rule.

Trouble is, giving coal companies a break doesn't necessarily mean good things for coal miners. Like everyone else, coal companies are heavily investing in automation and mining techniques that require fewer pesky workers. At the same time, strip-mining and poisoning the water and the land makes it suck worse to live in coal country, either as a miner or even as a crazed live-off-the-land survivor type.

Further, Trump is a big friend of fracking, which lowers the price of natural gas, which, like, lowers the demand for coal. Uhhh, right.

My guess is there's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks in coal country in a coupla years when the jobs don't come and Trumpcare takes over. Maybe by then AT&T will be hiring scabs to replace all the folks on strike. Can you run some fiber before that black lung gits ya, or will the heavy metals in the frogs and the river trout git ya first?

In fact, the Stream Protection Rule originated with coal miners. Coal miners, after all, presumably have to live somewhere nearby to the coal mine.

How Intel came to be Israel's best tech friend
A newly found cache of photographs shows the development of one of the country's most important ongoing business relationships

Intel Invests $6 Billion In Israel To Create Advanced Chip Manufacturing Facility

Yep. Boss Trump is rallying the fans in Kentucky, promising to bring back coal jobs. Or, at least, bring back coal by letting up on silly environmental rules like the Stream Protection Rule.

Trouble is, giving coal companies a break doesn't necessarily mean good things for coal miners. Like everyone else, coal companies are heavily investing in automation and mining techniques that require fewer pesky workers. At the same time, strip-mining and poisoning the water and the land makes it suck worse to live in coal country, either as a miner or even as a crazed live-off-the-land survivor type.

Further, Trump is a big friend of fracking, which lowers the price of natural gas, which, like, lowers the demand for coal. Uhhh, right.

My guess is there's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks in coal country in a coupla years when the jobs don't come and Trumpcare takes over. Maybe by then AT&T will be hiring scabs to replace all the folks on strike. Can you run some fiber before that black lung gits ya, or will the heavy metals in the frogs and the river trout git ya first?

Here's a recently published article as an example - https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...

For the past several years I've been seeing lots of stories about how our government wants to "cut off" people from accessing this medication. Yes, there have been deaths. Perhaps access to the drug makes it easier for chronic pain sufferers to commit suicide... People like me who are not addicted will suffer more if this drug becomes unavailable.

If our government wants to tackle unauthorized use of opioids, perhaps they should try to figure out why Heroin use has skyrocketed. It may have something to do with post-war Afghanistan.

You have a funny definition of freedom if it means support and praise of people who back things like elimination of civil liberties, strict control of speech, elimination of equality, and convergence towards dictatorship.

You have a funny definition of freedom yourself if you think that it means developing and collecting techniques to use your personal electronics as spies for the government. Whatever Assange's relation to the Kremlin may be: on this specific issue they are fighting for your and my freedom with much more impact than any soldier ever had in the past 70 years.

Assange [...] doesn't believe in freedom, he believes in absolute rule by only those who he personally agrees with [...]

According to a 2011 interview with Forbes, Assange is some sort of libertarian. Now I tend more to what is called socialist in the US, and believe little in trickle-down economy and market shenanigans, but you are describing a fascist, which Assange has never given any reason to believe he is. On the other hand, the people who "believe in absolute rule" are also those who collect and use the hacking tricks used by the CIA. So what kind of fascist would ever disarm the brown shirts?

Except Skylake processors will face the same doom come July, per Forbes' article yesterday.

From the article:
Additionally, while Intel Skylake processors are currently supported on Windows 7 and 8, they won't be from July. So users with those operating systems will also be forced to upgrade in order to keep updates coming.

You left out the part where they spent $92 million on furniture over a decade. That's averaged out at $6000 per employee. Source is Forbes. Hope that isn't too "Fake newsy" for y'all. I know how sensitive some people are to truth that contradicts their preconceived notions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/a...

About two seconds of googling. I'm sure that, if I gave a sh** about Kurzweil, I could come up with dozens and dozens examples of his horsesh** that hasn't happened...

The Top 10 Jobs That Attract Psychopaths...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/k...

And the top Answer even before Spot 1 is: Contributor to the Forbes contributor network and cut-rate bar mitzvah DJ training academy. Which has nothing to do with aforementioned jobs of "Journalist" and "Media" [sic].

Apple Fined $670,000 In Taiwan For Price Fixing in 2013

https://www.forbes.com/2009/08...

Oh OK i'll play with the passive aggressive tar baby, Forbes do ? Oh and the reason you don't have the numbers for residencies is they aren't being produced by med schools.

Why should I install Skype (one poster called it spyke) and allow MS to use "Legal Intercept" to spy on my communications, or give that privilege to some gov agent?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...

It was bad enough when Skype's previous owners burgled Linux users CPU and bandwidth to act as P2P for others communications and left daemons remaining in memory after Skype was shut down! Were they spying too? MS changed the P2P feature to a Linux server farm on which they installed their patented "Legal Intercept" software. If you use Skype you might as well open your Window and shout to the outside while you talk.

I've moved on to other PRIVATE means of communication. One nice one that works well on my KDE Neon User Edition OS is "Wire".

If a patent or copyright makes a reasonable profit during it's term, the intent of those exclusive rights is met. Beyond that, locking up IP impedes progress, since others can't freely build on the original. Disney built their business using the works of the bros. Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Kipling, etc., but now work diligently to steal our culture from us by preventing newcomers from doing similar.
 

In the world of software I would argue that patents impede more than they help promote innovation. Many of the motivations for developing software aren't because there is a promise of a patent or monopoly, since if it were we wouldn't have the huge number of open source solutions. If a company hasn't capitalized on a software 'invention' within a couple of years, then there is a good chance someone will come up with and equivalent solution, without evening needing to see how the 'original' works and in a number of cases we even see evidence of parallel creation.

It has been argued that copyright is more valuable to software than patents.

One interesting article on software patents is here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...

The bulk of it is spent on their drivers. But look there's a nice analysis of their losses here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...

While mainstream consumers have long since moved on from AIM commodities traders still rely on it as their primary IM client between brokers. And since trading falls under the purview of the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) legislation must be recorded. Although AIM has a conversation history feature it cannot be centrally administrated. This has led to a third party IM recording industry. If this change cuts off these third parties access to the server then traders will not be allowed to use AIM and there will be a scramble to find an alternative. Since Intercontinental Exchange's ICE chat already communicates with AIM servers many firms have moved to it. But this might also affect ICE chat's ability to connect to AIM servers.

You have a very good point. We should be talking about 0.1%, not the 1% and the 99.9% of everyone else.
from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moneywisewomen/2012/03/21/average-america-vs-the-one-percent/#495f4aab2395

The 1 percent are executives, doctors, lawyers and politicians, among other things. Within this group of people is an even smaller and wealthier subset of people, 1 percent of the top, or .01 percent of the entire nation. Those people have incomes of over $27 million, or roughly 540 times the national average income. Altogether, the top 1 percent control 43 percent of the wealth in the nation; the next 4 percent control an additional 29 percent.

This is what Apple gets:

President Obama and his administration today issued a veto on an International Trade Commission patent ruling that would have banned the import of some older models of the iPhone and iPad, dealing a blow to Samsung in its ongoing patent disputes with Apple.

The America hating around the world has always bothered me with it's irrationality. It is akin to having a bodyguard protect you for decades, get shot and bleed for you, ask only that you treat them with respect, and they pay you (through imbalanced trade deals or outright foreign aid) for the pleasure... The deal the civilized world has had with the US for 70 plus years has been extraordinary. I guess the asshole attitude towards the US has finally reached the US citizens, because now we have Trump, and he seems fixated on making every country pay its own way for defense and on balancing the trade deals. I guess the saying really is true, you don't appreciate how good you had it until you lose it.

The whole BS about corporate profits is just a canard used by small minds to justify the unjustifiable. US corporate profits are a side effect of accepting people from everywhere into the US and judging based on the worth of their ideas. The US is the largest stabilizing influence in the world. US companies are profitable because we invent and create useful products and services and come up with good ideas. We rightly want to protect those from pirating, just as Australia and every other country does of it's products and ideas. Why should the US be judged on a different basis than your home country when it comes to IP or commercial products?

A few thoughts on a war with the Chinese:
The Chinese outnumber you 58:1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The Chinese are #2 in global firepower, Australia is #23 http://www.globalfirepower.com...

China is on the other side of the planet from the US (literally). They are just about in your back yard. The Chinese want to become the lone super power and dominate the planet (sorry, that is just the truth). They also believe that they are the master race and everyone else are savages. Does this sound familiar yet, something like Germany and Poland around 1936? http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/...

If we wind up with a global war with China, it will be because it was inevitable due to their above stated goals (which are no secret). If it happens before they are ready to implement all of the military specs and tech they stole from the US over the last 8 years, so much the better for the world. Your complete ignorance and lack of understanding of geopolitics is breathtaking, considering you would probably be in the first wave of those killed or subjugated and sent to work the the Chinese military factories or concentration camps, while your wives and daughters would be taken as prizes by the 25 million surplus Chinese men who can't find a woman in China, to be used as a (sub human in their culture) substitute... The US could probably win in a prolonged war with China while Australia would cease to exist in a few days without US support.

Actually, the citizens of NZ and AU greatly benefit from good relations with the US. Consider what would happen if the US blocked all trading between the US and those states. What would happen to their economies? How many popular movies, games and software come from the US, not to mention physical goods from US companies? Consider if the US pulled all of our carrier groups back to US assets. What would happen between NZ and AU and China? I hope you can speak Mandarin, with your large amount of desirable real estate (Australia) and tiny population/military (24M people and #23 in military firepower, China and Russia are #2&3 in terms of military and China outnumbers you 58:1, NZ doesn't even make the lists...) Both NZ and AU have a lot to lose pissing of the US over a single citizen who clearly broke laws and committed crimes in the US and basically gave the US the finger when we told him to stop.

http://www.globalfirepower.com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Looking at a criminal being extradited to the US who stole and incurred real financial harm in the millions of dollars to a friendly state who provides a massive amount of protection from bad actors like China for many small neighboring countries like AU and NZ as well as providing significant trading benefits is short sighted at best... All the America haters out there, your alternatives are China or Russia depending on where you live. The US has fostered peace, freedom and economic growth for 70 years, both China and Russia have murdered millions of their own citizens in that same time frame (Soviet Russia killed between 15 and 61 million people in that time frame, Communist China killed at least 65 million, and if you think they will treat you better if you side with them over the US, you are sadly mistaken). 5 minutes after the US ceases to be a threat to Chinese world domination, one of the most racist countries on the planet (China) will wipe you out (or enslave you) and resettle some of its population to your cities and towns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/...

Sun blamed cosmic rays for causing CPU cache corruption and system crashes in their high-end enterprise systems. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2...

Correction: SAP = "Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung"; German for "Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing".

Don't feel dumb, it is only the world's third largest software company.

I agree with AC... it was the Dems' election to lose, and lose it they did. Lowest voter turnout in 20 years. Dumb-fuck Americans who think "I don't like either candidate, so I won't vote", thinking that's gonna make anything... better? But the Dems didn't help their case one fucking bit. Shoulda read the angry writing on the wall and backed Bernie... cutting Bernie at the knees for Hillary might probably be why so many voters stayed home.

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

Err no, the recession ended in 2009.

Err, no;it did not really end in 2009.

If the recession had really ended Trump would not have won. Trump won because he was willing to call out everyone on bullshit, including the absolute mountain of bullshit that is the claim the recession "ended" in 2009...

Either way, anyone worth a shit in this industry banks on a dip cycle ever 4-5 years and 3-6 months of unemployment every 8-10 years, and plans accordingly.

You should really have funds for a year off at all times, but I agree that everyone should be ready for cycles... so save up during the next eight years of prosperity.

I am willing to bet that gene editing will lead to more evil humans. Why? The rich that could afford and want to edit genes are going to want to give their kids the things they admire.

What they admire is easy to guess regardless of decade we are in... they'll want their kids to be like them but "better", and most rich people run businesses. They'll want height, competitive drive, greed (they won't call it greed), alpha dog attitudes, and other qualities that lead to "being a better business person". And of course genderwise, muscles on guys, curves on girls. So what are you breeding?

A whole new race of miniature psychopath CEOs that have zero empathy towards the rest of their race.

  https://www.quora.com/Why-do-p...

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/w...

The Wolf to Friendly dog thing is highlighted by a Russian study of wild foxes. It took a few years for the foxes to be bred into animals that look a lot like dogs... curly tails and whatnot. The genes that make the fox less mean to humans connected to genes that basically made the fox less mature and more pup like. They may have tried to breed some of that back out, but look at the TV show that goes into some detail about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Until we don't. And actually, we know the position of most of the pieces of space junk too. We just have no idea how to clear it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ji...

Then why has Paul McCartney made $15 million in royalties for "Wonderful Christmastime"?

Still feeding the fake news and alternative facts I see. Sorry, you can't rewrite history. If you voted for President Pedophile, you voted for someone who lies and has no problem breaking the law, and if you did it because he made up a claim that his opponent broke the law all the worse. Kelly-Anne Conway just broke the law on Fox News last night by advertising for Ivanka Trump, but I don't see Republicans punishing her either. Most federal employees in the past get suspended or fired for what she did last night, but President Pedophile and Republican controlled congress are the only ones with the ability to punish her, and I don't see either doing anything. President Pedophile actually defended her after she broke the law.

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/poli...

The Clinton e-mails are one of the biggest lies Republicans, Breitbart, and Fox News told. Nothing was really deleted. Hillary first sent one copy of the hard drives to a law office and had them sort between all the personal stuff and professional stuff. They "deleted" the personal stuff off that copy of the data before handing it to the FBI. The FBI said that wasn't sufficient and issued a subpoena for all the data including the personal data. Then she handed a copy of all the data including the personal stuff. Once requested, the FBI got everything. The quote from the FBI was about "deleted" e-mails was that there were about a dozen business e-mails that hadn't been included with the first set of business e-mails handed over. There wasn't any crime, because nothing was actually deleted. The FBI also decided that the missing ("deleted") e-mails was not criminal because there was no evidence that it was done intentionally and there was nothing incriminating in them (incorrectly sorting 0.1% of the e-mails was probably accidental). It's not like we are talking about paper copies where there is only one copy of the papers and she shredded them. There were multiple copies of the data on different hard drives and backups.

Rice had her aides use personal e-mail accounts to send e-mails for her. Powell used a private e-mail account (believed to be AOL) for his secretary of state e-mails. Republicans only had a problem with Clinton doing the same thing Republicans had done. They also leave out that she requested a secure e-mail option from the NSA twice and was rejected; the NSA told her to send e-mails from her office computer when she spent most of her job traveling. She was just trying to do her job.

http://www.nytimes.com/interac...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...

Jessica Alba also runs her own business(es), which, as far as I care to research, is the biggest portion of her income these days.

Jessica Alba has been wildly successful in her business ventures. Perhaps Microsoft should have made her more than a creative director.

The tech crowd echo chamber had a lot to say about the headphone jack disappearing and the new MacBook Pros being a lousy update, but the unit sales on both of those devices point to the masses simply not caring. Both of them were stated to be setting sales records for Apple even before these financials came out.

I do agree that there is plenty of criticism warranted against Tim Cook's Apple. I feel as if he's fallen into the profits trap that Steve Jobs famously talked about when he was asked in 1995 about why the Mac failed to be a bigger deal. But I also see this whole "no innovation" argument as a bit of a double standard. Under Jobs, they put out evolutionary products (i.e. incremental updates) each year, but only put out revolutionary products (i.e. Mac, iPod, iPhone, and arguably the iPad) once per decade or so. The fact that they haven't had one since his 2011 death is not surprising, though it doesn't bode well for the company either. They clearly thought the Watch would be a revolutionary product, but, as with the iPad, it took them a couple of years before they even realized what it should be used for, let alone to start marketing it so that people would understand the benefits.

You are right that we have a long history of people crying wolf. As part of a course on the policy and ethical implications of AI, I am teaching the history of Luddite reactions from the printing press to the more recent robotic "revolution". Even recently with ATMs, there was a prediction of fewer branches and tellers which did not happen. So we're good right? Well...

Unfortunately, there is one thing that should stand out as being potentially different this time -- in previous instances of the Chicken Little scenarios, it was those who were worried about being displaced that were sounding the alarm, not those creating the technology. This time, it's the other way around. The vast majority of AI researchers, particularly in the private sector, are bullish on the elimination of most blue-collar and service jobs (even management and hedge fund investors are not safe) in the not too distant future. And if you have doubts, we have ample room to believe that the changes are not 50 years away:

• Manufacturing jobs are finally returning to North America...for robots
• Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
• BBC News: Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
• Attention all humans of Shanghai! Robo chefs will now whip you up a bowl of ramen in 90 seconds flat
• Japanese white-collar workers are already being replaced by artificial intelligence
• Mining 24 Hours a Day with Robots
• China Has Launched the Robocops You Have Been Waiting For
• Robots are already replacing fast-food workers Trump’s pick for labor chief, the CEO of Hardee's and Carl’s Jr., likes the idea.
• Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
• Fmr. McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour
• Fast-food CEO says he's investing in machines because the government is making it difficult to afford employees

And other things to think about....

• Dallas Police Used Robot With Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect
• Microsoft Foresees AR Tracking Your Keys, Milk, Entire Life
• White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots
• McKinsey's 2016 Analy

You have no safety net for your people.

Here's the figure for 2012: more than $2 trillion was transferred from the top 40 percent of families to the bottom 60 percent. https://taxfoundation.org/dist...

How many additional trillions must be transferred before you'll acknowledge that there's a safety net? Serious question.

Here's an interesting piece by a U.K. citizen that asks, and answers, the question "given that the United States spends vast amounts of money alleviating poverty then how come there is still any poverty in the United States?"

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

Isn't all of SV SJW? I just heard that story from peter thiel who almost was kicked from the facebook board (even though he was an early investor) just because he endorsed an anti SJW presidential candidate and went to RNC [1] [2] [3]. He was the first openly gay man to speak at the RNC! Apparently thats not SJW enough for SV. Or github which nukes entire repositories just for using certain words [2]. So Mozilla isn't the only SJW company in SV, its part of their style.

[1] : http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...
[2] : https://www.theguardian.com/te...
[3] : http://time.com/4417679/republ...
[3] : https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

What functionality do you believe it's missing? You may have missed the recent changes to Android Wear that improve the experience for ios users.

So you think the role of the US is to replicate the role of EU? Not really, otherwise the US would have Chancellor Merkel.... er, .. President Hillary Clinton.

Germany's Migrant Rape Crisis Spirals out of Control
‘Cologne is every day’: Europe’s rape epidemic
Why Did British Police Ignore Pakistani Gangs Abusing 1,400 Rotherham Children? Political Correctness

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

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

That would be pronounced Obama. Is all your history this bad ?

It was about users being able to go into a mode indicating they wanted to receive compressed video at lower resolutions in exchange for not having it apply to their cap, (or in some cases, using their allotment less quickly). The "deals" made with content providers were contractual agreements, available to every content provider, even the tiniest of startups, at no cost. The agreement with the providers was either 1: do nothing, and if we notice you streaming HD video to a binge-on user, we'll try to compress/reduce it; but user still pays normal data rates. 2: work with us so we can know when data you serve up is streaming video, then we'll compress/reduce it when sending it to Binge-on users, and user gets free bandwidth. 3: Compress/reduce the video yourself, work with us so we can know when you're sending compressed video to binge-on users, and promise that you'll only send decent quality compressed video with binge-on users; and user gets free bandwidth 4: let us know you're opting out and that we shouldn't try to compress your data, regardless of the user requesting video being compressed by nature of being in binge-on mode.

You gave a much better description than I did

Arguably, there are problems with this offer, but it's far from the preferential-treatment anti-competitive deals that really get people up in arms about net-neutrality.

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/d...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/to...
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/s...

I believe there is even a few Slashdot article about it as well.

Unless, of course, they're in tech.

Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or Austin, Tex., software companies are discovering that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger.ïï Engineers may still command the biggest salaries, but at disruptive juggernauts such as Facebook and Uber, the war for talent has moved to nontechnical jobs, particularly sales and marketing. The more that audacious coders dream of changing the world, the more they need to fill their companies with social alchemists who can connect with customers--and make progress seem pleasant.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2015/07/29/liberal-arts-degree-tech/

The Washington Post calling out anybody on alternate facts is dubious at best. Downright scandalous at worst. And MSNBC plainly state they are an opinion station not a news agency. I want to know where anybody is getting "official" numbers for any of the inaugurations since they stopped taking headcounts years ago. All counts you see put forth as fact are actually guesstimations based on a photo of the event. The numbers can be close but never verified. The inauguration is harder to count because no aerial photography is allowed (No fly zone). Add to that rioters blocking the entrance to the Mall preventing attendees from actually entering and numbers become even more irrelevant. I didn't want to believe the media had gone completely partisan but the more they publish hearsay and innuendo the more it looks like they have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll
You can look at the numbers any way you want. The bottom line is that nuclear power is dangerous. Again, I'm a fan of nuclear [done right]. But I think it's irresponsible to to argue it's not dangerous.

I can link to a list of airplane accidents and call flying unsafe but that does not make it true. Try again.
Here's some help:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2...

If solar power is "safe" then nuclear power is "safer" or "safest". Also, a large portion of those nuclear accidents in the Wikipedia article are from Soviet military reactors. That's demonstrative of how willing they are to kill their own warriors in the defense of the "fatherland" than anything inherently wrong with nuclear power. Here's a hint, don't put murderous bastards in charge of running a nuclear reactor.

And then you look at other states that are failing

Other states have:

*Taxes that are devastating on people with lower incomes
*Instead of randomly belaboring a single data point, consider the whole picture, including the nastiness of total local government debt
*A regulatory and legal climate that leads to exposure to pollution and injury risks
*Decades old reports with schools that are some of the worst in the nation being hysteria to justify even worse results
*Huge backlogs of road work necessary across the country, and a refusal to pay for it
*Increasing income inequality
*Huge drug problems in rural areas.

I can drop links on you all day, don't pester California or San Francisco when you live in a glass house yourself.

And here we go again. If you check the US history, you will see that US "greatness" is strongly correlated with immigration:

- Most of the great scientist in US were and still are immigrants. So many running away from war, persecution, ... How Many went to US because its openness? Many went there because there are the best scientist from all around the world. Read Immigrant Scientists - Invaluable to the United States.
- Most of your great companies were founded by immigrant or their children

Close your frontier. US will never be great again. US worker first, let me laugh. It was never about work but about wealth. And it does not matter if the wealth comes from immigrants.

US was great for its values (openness, freedom, ...) but that seems now to be the past.

It is because Left Wingers keep parroting "Clinton won the Popular Vote" as if that mattered.

Except it does. Why?

Because it shows Trump is LYING about a landslide.

If you weren't a partisan hack, you'd oppose that too, and point out the real facts. You can't though, because again, you're a partisan hack.

Which you can't even admit, but have to lie about and pretend you're some kind of neutral observer. Who consistently repeats right-wing lies. Huh.

You think we're dumb as you are? We're not, we spot your lies.

When liberals offer that up, it opens up every other comparison out there. Hillary lost the election, popular vote doesn't count. If you wanted it to count, the vote totals would change, substantially.

Whah-whah. It does count. Because that way, we know exactly how broken the Electoral College system is, and no, not every other comparison. Your false allegations about Hillary losing in 49 states, for example. Trump's assertions of a landslide. Those are still lying bullshit.

A lot of Republicans in California don't vote because what is the point?

All evidence indicates a lot of Americans don't vote, period.

Turnout drop is arguable, but even that aside, 90 million non-voters. That's how Trump was able to win Wisconsin with fewer votes than the losing side got in 2004.

What do you mean, "until"? This already happens all the time, and Trump personally has probably been doing it for years.

I'd be willing to bet that at least one person associated with the Trump crime family was buying shares in Lockheed and/or Boeing last month. Very possibly Trump himself.

This is why the president is expected to remove his business-related conflicts of interest. Trump has made no pretense at doing that, he's just there to milk the country for all it's worth. Welcome to kleptocracy.

Here's a news article from a few weeks ago:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

Happier now?

I didn't say that nuclear power requires "special" mention, only that by leaving it out of the discussion the authors of the article show an anti-nuclear bias. Forbes claims that China's wind and solar growth cannot continue at this rate for long, the economics don't add up. Forbes also claims that if China is going to reduce its coal use by any meaningful amount it will be from growth in nuclear and hydro energy.

Reuters claims that this shift to zero carbon energy will come from wind and solar. The implication is that the rest of the world should follow China's lead in this. I agree, only if the whole story is told. China, or any other nation, can only truly reduce fossil fuel use if nuclear power is part of the solution.

Notice that Android never faced similar lawsuits?

Also notice that no one cares about "walled gardens" on cars, Bluray players and game consoles. Like with don't hold it wrong and bendy phones and Foxxcon, the problem isn't a problem unless Apple is involved.

Does someone pay people to say these things? It is much higher at least twice that in many states. https://www.washingtonpost.com... http://www.forbes.com/sites/mo...