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Ethan Siegal at Starts With A Bang (makes the point that https://www.forbes.com/sites/s...) makes the point that what is a planet should be considered in light of what we know about solar system evolution. According to that perspective, it does not appear that Pluto is a planet. If Pluto is a planet, then there are over 100 of them.

Slippery slope is valid if the slope is slippery.

But you haven't shown that it is. You simply bleated "But look at them banning knives in London." As if (1) they banned all knives in London (nobody eats with those things, anyway) and (2) that was a highly likely result of a bump stock ban.

Funny how a London ban on carrying >3 inch blades down a public street is crazy but an American ban on carrying 2.4 inch blades in commercial airplanes is totally rational. Almost as if balancing competing interests, benefits and harms, utility and philosophy in context matters.

Since you're not defining a limit and a guiding principle that would constraining your ambitions, your position is a slippery slope.

Defined a limit and a guiding principle, so it is not. However, since you cannot read, your posts continue to be a dumpster fire of fallacious reasoning.

You are explicitly avoiding setting a limit. If we limit the mag capacity etc you're just going to stop and oppose any further restrictions?

Wait - you claimed that I explicitly avoided setting a limit. How did mag capacity come into this? Oh, because I did set a limit, and you've now admitted it.

And yes, I am. How 'bout me now?

If not, then you're conceding the slippery slope right there.

But if so, and since I am not conceding the point, you've got a problem.

Still waiting for you to say anything of substance on the topic...

2) Low taxes have high costs

Yeah, like an electorate from CA that's fleeing to find them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...

"If you don't live in California, you wish you lived in California."

I manage people in CA, but don't live there. I've visited frequently over the last ~30 years, and spent about a total of a year of my life in the state. It's a great place to visit, but no fucking way do I want to live there. And clearly, I'm not alone...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/1...
https://www.nbc26.com/news/nat...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/p...

Remember their big splashy people carrying Octo-copter?

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

Do you still want to ride in one of these?

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

And where would we be in medical progress if the US was following the world's example?

If you seriously think the government hasn't long been double dipping into social security to fund general liabilities, then you are quite frankly an idiot.

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

1. Correlation != Causation.

2. Rotten Tomatoes measures how popular something is. Using it as a exclusively as "proof" of measurement of "quality" is shows you don't understand point #1 nor #2.

Now there is (some) overlap between a movie that is popular AND good, but there are at least 4 permutations you seem to be ignoring:

RT / Quality
=========
High / Good -- i.e. Baraka
High / Crap -- i.e. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Spy Kids, Jurassic World, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Prometheus, etc.
Low / Good -- i.e Silence (2017), Underrated movies on RT, Ace Ventura (*)
Low / Crap -- i.e. Battlefield Earth, far too much crap to list.

Legend:

High = high popular score on Rotten Tomatoes
Low = low popular score on Rotten Tomatoes
Good = Great characters, plot, world building, story telling, or funny / satire / parody.
Crap = Who the fuck wrote/directed this shit???

We can ignore the High/Good (both > 90%) and Low/Crap (both < 40%) since in those cases it can generally be agreed upon that RT's score of popularity DOES equal quality. It is the two OTHER ones High/Crap, and Low/Good that demonstrate RT's score is based on popularity, not quality:

* High/Crap = movie might be over-rated
* Low/Good = movie might be under-rated

(*) I thought Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls was funny as hell, but only a deluded fan would think it was "good" -- how should it be rated then??? Good from an Entertainment value? Crap from a Story perspective?

Beside, IMDB's Top 100 is a better correlation of good movies then RT. But again, this is still mostly a list of popular movies.

Even "better" is a combined RT and IMDb -- but even that must be taken with a grain of salt.

3. There is a HUGE disconnect between the RT's "Critics" and "Audience" score.

Spy Kids has a 93% from critics (WTF?!), yet only a 46% from the audience.

More crap like this can be seen with SW:TLJ, critics rate it 91%, yet the audience score is closer to 24% (**) -- ignoring the animated Clone Wars (2008), it is the LOWEST Star Wars film to date.

(**) RT currently shows the audience score as 47%, but this leads me to my next point.

4. Rotten Tomatoes pull shenanigans like this: They don't count half stars!

The Last Jedi ACTUAL Rotten Tomatoes popcorn score is 24 percent - Mark Sargent

Ignoring the data doesn't make it go away.

The problem is people like you conflate "popular" == good, or RT "high score" == good, when that simply isn't the case.

There's never going to be TVs big enough *and* cheap enough for the home to actually make good use of 4k, and 8k TV will never be useful in the home, period. You'll need way too big of a TV, and that'll never happen.

https://blogs-images.forbes.co...

while living in the lap of incomprehensible wealth, and feeling guilty about it.

You know the old bit about the average net worth of a bar patron skyrocketing the moment Bill Gates comes in for a beer is a joke, right?

Right?

Epidemiology Without Biology: False Paradigms, Unfounded Assumptions, and Specious Statistics in Radiation Science

Bad science is the foundation for radiation regulations, the source of hysteria surrounding nuclear, and the cause of the outrageously increasing costs:

Nuclear Power Learning and Deployment Rates; Disruption and Global Benefits Forgone

This needs to be addressed, because the ordained "green" solutions aren't enough, and while we keep hearing about how cheap they are, they are mostly just making electricity more expensive.

No,you can NOT power America 100% from yellowstone. That has been shown through multiple studies.
BOTH MIT and NASA say that if develop ALL of the geo-thermal available by 2050, we could power about 1/3 to 1/2 of America. And that would be the destruction of yellowstone as well.
Here is a forbes article that you likely read, but read wrong. The problem with this is that it speaks of powering the earth twice over, but for only a short time.
And here
And here is MIT

One item missing out of BOTH NASA and MIT report, is that with magma that close, combined with heated water, it will be carrying LOTS of minerals. That is lots of minerals that can be mined. In fact, by adding various additives to the injected water, it should be possible to grab different types of minerals and then later pull them out.

Like nuclear SMRs, this is such a missed opportunity for America.

LOL.
America is switching to EVs at a rather quick pace. Right now, we have been behind Europe, but that is changing quickly due to Model 3. Then add to that, the coming electric semi-tractors which will make a HUGE impact on America's emissions.

Finally, CHina is NOT only the most aggressive investor in renewable energy, but also the most aggressive investor in coal plants. In fact, they are building over 700 over the next couple of years.
This lead to China having a 5% CO2 emission rise for 2017. China's coal consumption is jumping to deal with the extra electricity demands by these buses and China trying to force GDP increases.

Sadly, this article points out the real facts and skips the BS from so many.
In short, for all of Europe’s posturing and moralizing about the Paris climate accord, Europe continues to do relatively little to address carbon dioxide emissions, other than to neither increase nor decrease its own emissions. That leaves it up to the United States and China to sufficiently reduce emissions to compensate for growing emissions in developing nations. And China, despite modest reductions from 2015 through 2017, has increased emissions this decade – and this century – more than any other nation in the world. Even the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) acknowledges that America’s emissions comprise only a small portion of global emissions. According to UCS, the United States accounted for only 15% of global emissions in 2015, and that percentage continues to fall. Declining U.S. emissions simply cannot keep pace with rising global emissions unless there are substantial reductions in the pace of global emissions growth. Chastising America for declining to join an agreement of nations, by nations, and for nations that continue to do little if anything to reduce emissions may satisfy anti-Trump anger, but is ineffectual and meaningless in the effort to reduce global emissions.

Home taping is killing music.
the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone...
The content companies have never understood their customers and have always feared change.

More importantly, are 90% of pharma projects unsuccessful?

Way more than 90% fail. But most fail early, before any clinical trials, and don't cost much. Of those that make it to clinical trials, 80-90% fail, depending on how you measure it. But clinical trials are run in phases, so a cancellation after "phase 1" means phases 2 and 3 are never run.

Citations:
The high price of failed clinical trials
Why too many clinical trials fail
A new look at clinical success rates

In 1967, Canada became the first country to adopt a points-based immigration system.

So fifty years after Canada implements a merit-based (AKA points-based) immigration policy America-hating Americans attack President Trump and his administration as being anti-immigrant by proposing a similar immigration program. (Apparently the only good immigration program is one that increases the absolute number of immigrants admitted into the country annually...)

It's funny how your own Google link contains an article which also refutes your contention.

Wages don't equal Total Compensation. Wages are only one component of how people are compensated for their work. Total Compensation is up compared to productivity.

Inflation doesn't account for qualitative improvements in products, i.e. a $500 computer now vs. one 30 years ago.

It's amazing how you get better results when you use the correct stats (per economic theory) instead of cherry-picking just part of them in the form of wages.

Also, even your own link doesn't pretend that there are "30-40 years of declining wages". That's just a flat out lie you made up. They're talking about not increasing as fast as they thought they should, not declining. Nice try on the propaganda front, though.

I love the "total compensation" bullshit managers have been selling. Some employers try to pass of them paying their part of your taxes is a benefit. My personal fav is health care. Many major employers are self insured which means the "compensation" of them paying part or all of your health insurance is just moving money from one account to another. Americans also get less time off, which is a part of the "total compensation" calculation. Bonuses are either a bonus or part of your pay. Calling it a bonus (meaning you might not get it) and then claiming it's part of your "total compensation" is just another scam to pay people less and reduce corp taxes. 401k matching and stock options some of the only real benefits that I'd count.

It's funny how your own Google link contains an article which also refutes your contention.

Wages don't equal Total Compensation. Wages are only one component of how people are compensated for their work. Total Compensation is up compared to productivity.

Inflation doesn't account for qualitative improvements in products, i.e. a $500 computer now vs. one 30 years ago.

It's amazing how you get better results when you use the correct stats (per economic theory) instead of cherry-picking just part of them in the form of wages.

Also, even your own link doesn't pretend that there are "30-40 years of declining wages". That's just a flat out lie you made up. They're talking about not increasing as fast as they thought they should, not declining. Nice try on the propaganda front, though.

I am serious; if you took some of the worst drivers today and gave them self driving cars with existing tech, you would be saving lives and reducing accidents.

No, you won't. The worst drivers frequently have their license pulled. The worst drivers are already taken of the road.

The remaining drivers will average perhaps three to four accidents over their lifetime, with the odds of a fatality so small it's hardly a rounding error (source). The average american drives 13,476 miles per year (source). Figure on a 40 years worth of driving (giving *YOUR* argument the benefit of bias here), we're looking at 500k miles with a non-fatal accident every 125k miles at worst, and every 250k miles at best for the average driver. We can't say what the fatal accident rate is because it is below 1 for the average driver.

Current *BEST* measured self-driving needs human intervention every 5600 miles (or so says Waymo). It is nowhere near comparable to the 125k miles (worst case). Current SDC is so far off average human drivers they are not even comparable.

In summary, current BEST SDC will have an accident every 5.6k miles. Current human drivers will have an accident every 125k miles. Your assertion makes no sense.

won't get close to the amount of supervision even the best SD system in existence needs.

the plaques on the Pioneer spacecraft launched in 1972 and 1973 showed the Earth's position from 14 pulsars

Just because it was an old idea, doesn't mean it was a good idea...

Unfortunately, these vintage pulsar map would be nearly impossible to use for its intended purpose of allowing someone in the far distant future to locate us...

However, for a short term galactic map usable on human time scales, pulsars might prove much more useful.

I know, right! The Model 3 is already the best selling (as in actual deliveries) EV. It also outsells similarly priced 4-door ICE competitors like the Acura TLX, Mercedes C/CLA, Audi A4, Lexus RC, and the BMW 2, 3, and 4 series.

I'm assuming you are joking. But in case you aren't, the highest estimate of model 3's that I've seen is just over 17KThe Chevy Bolt hit 20K before the end of last year Nissan has delivered 300K Leafs as of January of this year.

SJW type and feminists at that. Remember the furor over dancers at a microsoft-GDC party? Yeah. Small group of whiners, but damage is done, people no longer employed. These are the same two groups that have been going hard after video games for the last few years, either trying to make claims that "sexuality cause men to become rapists" or "violent video games cause men to become serial killers." What should be bothering anyone old enough to remember Jack Thompson is that the left sjw/feminists have their own in Anita Sarkeesian, and where if it was o'l Jack they'd be rushing to fling attack articles. With Sarkeesian, they're nodding their heads and smiling while saying that she's absolutely right.

Remember the shit show over grid girls? All those feminists and sjws who screeched that a women should be able to work at any job they wanted? And....then pushed F1 to the point they basically fired dozens of women from well paying jobs that they wanted and enjoyed. Hope everyone is enjoying the regressive steps backwards and away from the sexual revolution now.

SJW's, Feminists, and what's left of religious conservatives still in that realm are all on the same side. It was feminists and SJW's pushing the #metoo stuff, it was a nearly dead sex-negative religiously back conservative group that got cosmopolitian removed from walmart. It's also not hard finding the number of people from the first two groups, pushing for censoring non-western games or even running campaigns to have games banned from sale in North America. DOAX3 was a good example, to the point where the made a developer believe there was *no* western market for it. Then there's crunchyroll censoring DanMachi Memoria Freese and really, I could keep going.

Crazy but true. The blame goes, not to Amazon, nor the USPS, nor China. The United Nations UPU (United Postal Union) treats China like an undeveloped bit player

Under current rules, those charges
(called terminal dues) are set ludicrously
low for certain countries, among them
China. (Under UPU rules, for example,
China, the world’s second-largest
economy, gets the same break on
terminal dues as do Gabon and
Botswana.) This means that the USPS
actually charges China Post less to
deliver a package from China into the
U.S. than it charges a U.S. business or
customer to deliver a similar size
package within the 48 states. The post
office is losing money on every package
it delivers from China — costs it has to
pass on to its own American customers,
not to mention U.S. taxpayers.

(Arthur Herman, National Review)

Article in Forbes last fall. "As U.S. Postage Rates Continue To Rise, The USPS Gives The Chinese A 'Free Ride'" - https://www.forbes.com/sites/w...

Article in Washington Post almost four years ago, "The Postal Service is losing
millions a year to help you buy cheap stuff from China" - https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I work in Data Engineering, leading teams of what used to be known as ETL Developers building analytics warehouses and datamarts to power and operationalize models built by data scientists.

While over the past two or three years, it was considered , 2018 is supposedly the year of the Data Engineer.

These aren't new roles, by any means, they're simply coming out of the dark reaches of organizations and becoming an integral part of successful business. DE and DS resources are expected to make sense of non-sense and present those findings to wider audiences than even 3-5 years ago, including C-level executives.

The company I currently work for has a large number of numbers-focused resources which span the gambit and *ALL* of them could benefit from learning the basics of how to take the data they use to the next level without having to rely on DE/DS teams to get it to them.

Just like spreadsheets are consumed and used by all levels of an organization, in a few years, DE and DS tasks will likely see similar amounts of proliferation across job titles. Yes, this approach can be fraught with challenge; however, it would serve any one who is in a field where they're analyzing data in spreadsheets or otherwise collecting and understanding data to take at least a basic course and bring themselves out of Excel pivot/macro/VBA hell into something more manageable.

TL;DR - take the course and apply the learnings to your own stuff. Maybe you'll end up in one of the top careers in the country.

This picture taking was never a problem until a few months ago.

You know what else happened a few months ago?

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

Wake Up, People!

Now I know that the aliens are here. That they have taken human form. Even if the hair is, you know, the hair is too orange. Somehow I must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.

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

The easier thing to answer the first one would be to go around it the opposite way. They have almost nothing that is worse than what you do in US when it comes to e-commerce, and almost everything better. Wechat payments are universal and easy, deliveries are extremely fast taking hours rather than days within major cities, availability is "everything you see on aliexpress, amazon, etc and then some" and prices are excellent.

It's economy of scale, and China has incredible megacities and produce most of the things locally, so many of your orders that have "x days to deliver" because they're not in storage - they go straight from manufacturer's storage output in China with minimal logistical overhead.

About the only thing that is worse is availability outside major cities. Especially in rural China in the poorer regions, lack of paying customers causes problems with deliveries. And of course you have to watch out for crappy fakes, but there's the exact same problem on amazon.

As for bike sharing, they have so many of them, they literally have to clear them out to make room for new ones. There are huge landfill-style dumps full of nothing but those bikes of older models, supplanted by the newer ones. They're completely universal, and this universality is actually a problem, because they tend to get dumped anywhere and everywhere. Forbes had a good story on the problem here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/y...

Maybe, but there are headlines from organizations as mainstream as Forbes saying New York / Chicago In Potential Crash Path Of Out Of Control Chinese Space Station. And I've seen absolutely idiotic comments that border on satire online - but that is par for the course. Who knows? Humans are still terrible at risk assessment.

Then please let me claim town idiot and explain this article to me, which indicates the standard $35K model won't be available until late 2018 (which, let's face it, will probably get later and later with Tesla). here is the link to the article that I speak of.

From the article I linked:

"If package delivery bore its fair share of Postal Service system costs, each box would cost $1.46 more to deliver."

Obviously that means the post office is losing money on each package.

I think you are referring to this sentence:

"Fixed costs aside, USPS package delivery is profitable, helping subsidize rural service and letter delivery. "

In other words, PUTTING AMAZONS LOWER FIXED RATE ASIDE, package delivery is profitable.

The post office CLAIMS that Amazon delivery is profitable. But the numbers make it clear and in absolute terms the post office is losing a vast amount of money. How is it possible the Amazon contract is really so profitable when they continue to bleed vast sums of money. Very obviously, the post office needs to be charging everyone more.

Is that clear to you now????

See http://www.thespacereview.com/... and https://www.forbes.com/sites/q... for background. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003 said the shuttle program should be recertified (its safety to fly re-evaluated) if flights were to extend past 2010. Bush announced the retirement in a speech at the beginning of his second term on January 14 2004.

Because NASA didn't have enough money (remember when congressional Republicans were deficit hawks?) to continue to operate the shuttles and develop a successor, they had to end the shuttle to free up funds for a successor launch vehicle.

By the time Obama arrived four years later, the decision would have been a nightmare to reverse, so he didn't try.

Uhm. According to the CBO the United States make 1.6 billion in profits off of student loans in 2016

Nope.

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

Banks don't own the loans, the federal government owns 90%+ of loans these days.

The federal government doesn't profit on student loans. Banks do.

https://www.rollingstone.com/p...

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

From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...

"Announced last year during the Queen’s Speech, the update to the UK Computer Misuse Act via the Serious Crime Act 2015 has caused consternation for two reasons. First, it’s terms are broad. For someone to have deserved a life in prison, they must have committed an “unauthorised act” and known that it was unauthorised, and will have either intended to have caused “serious damage” to “human welfare or to national security” or had been “reckless as to whether such harm was caused”"

Gee, it seems he's eligible for life in prison in the UK too.

Mozilla, which is controlled by Google, has punished Facebook for having offered a Republican Party campaign a fraction of the same services that Facebook and Google offer to Democrats, dozens of commercial marketers, and foreign powers.

There was no similar outrage when Facebook was found to be censoring people who oppose ISIS. How's that for aid to a campaign.

His net worth went from 6.6B to 5.5B just this month. Sounds like he still held a good amount of FB stock, as you would expect. Wonder if he dumped it all to people buying the dip and is now able to speak freely (and also is a touch bitter from just having lost $1B over it).

I guess you've never heard of "civil asset forfeiture", which is quite popular with many law enforcement departments these days. If the police just "feel" that anything you have might somehow be related to drug money, they can (and often do) seize it. Then you have to take them to court and prove it's NOT, often spending more than what what seized. No proof, arrests, or real "due process" is needed from them to keep your stuff. Carrying cash to go buy something? You might be going to buy drugs (even though your record is completely clean and you've never been involved with anything like that before) and now your cash and car is theirs.

References: (this is just a few, there are hundreds if not thousands of these types of abuses every year now)...
nationalreview.com
forbes.com
forbes.com
metrotimes.com
newschannel5.com
onlineathens.com
vox.com
washingtonpost.com

I guess you've never heard of "civil asset forfeiture", which is quite popular with many law enforcement departments these days. If the police just "feel" that anything you have might somehow be related to drug money, they can (and often do) seize it. Then you have to take them to court and prove it's NOT, often spending more than what what seized. No proof, arrests, or real "due process" is needed from them to keep your stuff. Carrying cash to go buy something? You might be going to buy drugs (even though your record is completely clean and you've never been involved with anything like that before) and now your cash and car is theirs.

References: (this is just a few, there are hundreds if not thousands of these types of abuses every year now)...
nationalreview.com
forbes.com
forbes.com
metrotimes.com
newschannel5.com
onlineathens.com
vox.com
washingtonpost.com

Why is it a scandal when a company is working for a conservative/GOP candidate but not even a story when it isn't. This type of data collection has been going on for years.

For the same reason that anytime the word "email" came up in conjunction with Clinton it became a major news story but historically stories related to record retention or classified information barely made a blip.

It feeds into the narrative. Right now voter manipulation by Russia, particularly over the Internet, is a big story. And Cambridge Analytica is actually under suspicion as a possible link between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.

Any story involving voter manipulation, the Internet, and Cambrige Analytica is going to be big news.

Why is it a scandal when a company is working for a conservative/GOP candidate but not even a story when it isn't. This type of data collection has been going on for years.

American 'poor' typically have subsidies for a roof over their head, drinkable water, cheap reliable electricity, cable/satellite TV, smartphones, internet access, free healthcare, and food assistance.

Eliminate all subsidies and pay people a basic income. Those subsidies are enough to cover most if not all the costs of the basic income. Hell the corporate welfare queens Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill, the largest private corporation in the US, each receive billions of dollars in subsidies.

Poor' is a lot wealthier than you may think. American 'Poor' typically receive more in gov't benefits than entry-level jobs pay, removing the incentive to get off the gov't teat.

Poor' is a lot wealthier than you may think. American 'Poor' typically receive more in gov't benefits than entry-level jobs pay, removing the incentive to get off the gov't teat.

Not even, on two accounts. One, because I survived a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, I have a disability income. If I had a minimum wage job I worked at fulltime I'd make $300 more than my Disability income. Two, abasic minimum income does not reduce the desire of most people to work. Because I hate being idle, as many others do too, I volunteered at a nonprofit. In my first 3 years I put in more than 4000 hours building pcs from used parts so low income people, and those who were trying to start their own business, could buy or earn a fully functional computer even if it was made from parts a few years old. And if they helped build pcs then they could learn to upgrade their pc for a lower cost than buying a new one.

FalconWolf

Pay secrecy leads to what economists call information asymmetry and during initial hiring or annual raise or promotion discussions, information asymmetry gives an employer the advantage. But in a 2015 survey, two-thirds of people who were paid at the market rate believed they were actually underpaid and the majority of that two-thirds intended to quit, even if they were paid at market rate. Keeping salaries secret makes it easier to discriminate. Organizations with pay transparency see dramatic reductions in discrimination and increases in the perception of fairness. Researchers have found that keeping salaries secret decreases motivation and performance, and sharing increases performance. When people know where they stand and know how to move up in the pay range they’re more motivated to work to improve their performance and improve their standing. (Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/d...)

>"FTFW. Bernie is still the most popular elected politician in the country -- a fact even Fox News agrees with [businessinsider.com]."

Why would that surprise anyone? When around HALF the country is taking/drawing some type of government handout, and HALF the country also pays ZERO income tax, of course people are going to vote for anything that gets them more "free" stuff from those who work hard AND pay lots of taxes. It is a major conflict of interest of the highest order.

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

As Benjamin Franklin reportedly said, âoeWhen the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.â

Of course it would be insane and unconstitutional, but it almost makes we wish that if you are on/accept disability, welfare, food stamps, rent control, grants, subsidized insurance, medicaid, or any other handout OR pay no income taxes, you get NO VOTE (primary pensioners excluded). Or perhaps some extreme subset. Well, back to reality now.

USSR/Russia have been meddling with foreign politics for decades. The entire "peace" movement was financed by the evil empire, financing everything "anti-war" in the West (while themselves invading neighbors like Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan).

Similarly, they also funded "Black liberation".

There is even good evidence of Senator Edward Kennedy offering future cooperation in exchange for Soviet help in getting himself elected... Certainly more evidence of (attempted) collusion, than there ever was against Trump...

But none of it was important, until Trump won the elections — and it became crucially important for the swamp to, if not impeach, keep him occupied and thus less dangerous to the crocodiles.

...indicating that Siri 1.0's infrastructure was very creaky, which held back the service.

It's not Apple's fault. They did the best with the resources the then second most valuable company in the world could do. /s

One simply has to compare the suggested mitigation approaches for Climate Change with the long standing agenda of the radical Left Wing Environmentalists.

  * Restrictions
  * Higher Taxes
  * More regulations
  * Less choice
  * Criminalization of normal activities.

  While coincidences do happen, this is far too much of a coincidence, especially when you see the primary advocates of the Global Warming hypothesis making scads of money.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/d... is one of the many available examples.

Lyft, if they have an interest in self-driving cars, doesn't seem to actively pursue it.

Really? Are you sure about that?

What percentage of the Android phone market do you think you represent? The fact is everyone can afford inexpensive Android phones and sometimes people can afford expensive Apple phones.

The government has been misplacing a trillion dollars per year for 20 years. It's now sitting upwards of 21 thousand billion, or as I like to say 1/50th of a quadrillion dollars At this point any tax paying citizen should have zero respect for how tax money is spent and demand reform.

Two factor authentication coming from a beast near you soon.

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