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Razer reported the theft to police:

http://fortune.com/2017/01/10/...

If Razer orchestrated all of this for publicity, then they risk a lot by filing a false police report.

And if Razer was behind it, why would they allow their goods to be sold on Taobao?

No, this doesn't add up as "fake news."

It's based on ground stations like American and United.

No it's not. JB's internet is based on Viasat-1, the first satellite from Carlsbad-based company Viasat (see: http://fortune.com/2015/07/01/...).

Viasat-2 is scheduled to launch this year, bringer more bandwidth to the skies, followed later by Viasat-3.

The only downside of satellite-based internet services is the latency of up to 600ms. Viasat partly mitigates that by using traffic acceleration, pre-fetching and caching on the UT.

Having used ground-based in-flight wifi as well as satellite based-wifi, I'd say the satellite version is vastly superior for things you'd like to do in-flight. Things like watching a movie, send/receive e-mail and browse the web. No real-time video or calls, that will only annoy your neighbors anyway,

Tesla's superchargers currently manage to provide around 170 miles of range on a half-hour charge, so Samsung's planned tech could approximately double that.

Sure, this technology will beat Tesla's current capability, but it won't be available until 2021. Does Samsung think Tesla won't make improvements by then? They are already quietly increasing the capability of their charging stations, and rolling out new batteries using production tooling.

Well, first, oil and gas subsidies have to stop, so I think it'll be a while before they're "cheap".

Faraday Future is also getting subsidies. After all, we wouldn't want any of these billionaires to have to actually risk their own money, would we?

It's a good idea, you should have a router protecting devices from the raw internet, but can you really trust Norton to do anything right? Ironically, anti-virus companies don't have a culture of security.

How many days till we see an advisory for Norton core enabling attackers a method of leveraging Norton core to compromise systems it is supposed to be protecting?

http://fortune.com/2016/06/29/...

Also apparently if you don't renew your subscription your Norton paper egg turns into a Norton paper weight as they disable all access controls on spite not just the scanning/heuristic subscriptions but basic ACL shit too.

All those countries HE spied on, and tried to influence national elections within.

Everyone spies on everyone.

After all, if he's so upset about rumored Russian involvement (and it is rumored - not a single shred of evidence yet, and the people who leaked the actual stuff, Wikileaks, state unequivocally it wasn't the Russians) then he should get on his knees and crawl across Europe asking for forgiveness from Merkel et al.

Funny. The Germans are worried that Russia — not Obama — will interfere with their elections.

http://fortune.com/2016/11/16/germany-russia-elections/

Russia steps in and ends the Syrian conflict just to piss USA off.

Not wrong, but not right either. The US fucked up plenty in Syria. Russia just opportunistically threw a wrench into the works. The complexity of that war puts it far beyond your implication that anyone could unilaterally make a decision to end it.

Russia runs rings around the U.S. by performing cyberwar on national elections and demonstrates to the world that the U.S. system of democracy is a fraud.

It wasn't cyberwar, it was leaked information. It wasn't Russia. And US democracy isn't as fraudulent as you imply. The primaries dice are loaded but everyone with a brain already knew that.

Russia continues to launch more space payloads than any other nation.

What's your point?

China owns the majority of U.S. debt, hence the U.S. economy.

Not anymore. But more to the point, owning the most does not mean owning most of, nor does it imply or give ownership or control of the economy. It means the power to cause a recession. Wow.

China can, not only easily find but also, pluck U.S. military technology from a very large ocean as a demonstration of technical superiority that should not be ignored.

I regret to inform you that being able to use a crane to pull up a sleeping submersible drone is not a demonstration of technological superiority.

The only point you have right is that Russia is currently sending up more material than any other government. Your entire argument is impressively wrong.

[...] a way to do the same thing without genetic manipulation before birth

It's called CRISPR-Cas9, and China's already using it to treat a lung cancer patient.

Overdue?

The economy moves in cycles. The up cycle under Obama is seven years old and the longest since World War II. What goes up must come down eventually.

http://fortune.com/2015/12/07/why-americas-big-banks-are-predicting-a-recession/

Were you expecting a recession under Obama?

Yes. Or the next administration. Depending on when this economic cycle peters out.

Or will this next recession also be caused by Bush?

I hate to break the news but Bush has been out of office for nearly eight years. It's time to move on.

Trump has a long track record of running hundreds of business ventures.

Many of which have failed, declared bankruptcy or are barely keeping their head above water. His repeated lies about how much his businesses are worth are undermined by his own attorneys who keep arguing the properties are worth substantially less for tax purposes.

and a long track record of raking in millions in cash for her family while being Secretary of State.

False. Completely false. Hillary Clinton, or her family, never profited from any contributions or otherwise while she was Secretary of State. Nor from their foundation.

Contrast that with Trump who bragged about siphoning millions from his casinos while they were plunging into bankruptcy:

"Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me," Mr. Trump said in an interview in May, summing up his 25-year history here. "The money I took out of there was incredible."

Further, Trump's "foundation" has been illegally paying his legal bills, his personal bills and buying him things. That is why the New York Attorney General has barred him from soliciting for donations in the entire state of New York.

You just like the fact that she was completely beholden to her financiers on Wall Street, as opposed to Trump, who paid his own way through to his nomination as a candidate

False again. Trump received tens of millions from hedge fund managers and Wall Street firms, not to mention his pick to head the Treasury is/was a hedge fund manager AND worked for Goldman Sachs.

Nor did Trump pay his way through the campaign. He started to do so but then had donations come in from regular people, including illegal foreign donations.

If everyone is so disappointed then why are the new Macbooks selling so well?

If I had a house full of apple gear and several Macs / Macbooks I too would be buying a new Macbook Pro. But I sure as hell won't be happy about it. Why is it selling so well? Because it's so frigging overdue that at this point people will take whatever shit they can get to replace their old dying Macbooks with their soldered in batteries that don't last longer than 20min without needing to suck some juice from the wall. And these same people keep buying Mac for the same reason 2016 wasn't the year of Linux on desktop despite the turdburger that was Windows 10: People will go out of their way to avoid change.

If everyone is so disappointed then why are the new Macbooks selling so well?

I saw a story on slashdot a while ago claiming Mac users were switching to Linux as well.

It just sounds like hardware manufacturers are trying to cause doubt to get more sales, because the reality doesn't seem to show that people are switching away from Macs given they are selling so fast.

While he is cosing up to Russia, the latest insults towards China indicate that the latter will be designated as the new hostile nation #1, and the TPP is all about containing and insulating China.

> they have genuinely interesting technology.

I've been hearing about the promise of Magic Leap for years now. So much so it become the Duke Nukem of the VR world. IMHO If they actually had anything cool and also on any level do-able it would have been in a product by now.

Look at this article:
http://fortune.com/2016/12/09/...

According to it, the headset they actually have is the size of a helmet, not the sunglasses thing that all the hype has made out, and the demo they posted on youtube over a year ago and claimed "they were playing in the office" was actually made with film studio special effects. If that is hot-air then I don't know what is.

I do so enjoy showing you're an idiot. Don't worry if the media isn't telling you what you want to hear.

Maybe you can still keep your doctor?

http://fortune.com/2016/09/11/...

Does he still work at Apple?

The last report I saw said that they were using 36% of all Internet traffic, and that was in early 2016 before they had a bunch of 4K offerings:

http://fortune.com/2015/10/08/...

keep hearing this, but no real evidence to support it.

Then you haven't been paying attention.
https://slashdot.org/comments....

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated, and that the inner city is a hell hole
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His sons kept appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally".
Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/... [fortune.com]

If you believe the proxy science.

What proxy science. Data and methodologies are publicly accessible and subject to peer review.

I don't trust it since Climategate.

You mean since you found an excuse to get your confirmation bias on - just like the anti-vaxxers. You guys come up with a reason yet for why, in an industry where a single company can make $40 billion in a single quarter, they haven't been able to debunk climate science if it's all faked? When even their own paid scientists admit that climate change is happening, when they actually examine the facts?

while renewable energy is just not nearly as cheap or efficient on the large scales needed to do away with fossil fuels

Outdating talking point #3,475: Wind now competes with fossil fuels. Solar almost does - and that's allowing the fossil fuel industry to externalize most of their side effects. Feel free to skip the baseline red herring, as production capacity can be spaced across the grid to account for the rare windless periods or times of low sunlight.

and the world has no appetite for nuclear

Slight correction: the world has no appetite for the cost of nuclear. Nuclear power is by far the most expensive and ludicrous form of corporate welfare invented by man, with the exception of defense contractors. It simply costs too damn much to mine, refine, construct, secure, maintain, decomission, and store the waste for hundreds of years.

I was thinking through the recent news (last night) that Trump got Carrier to keep 1000 jobs in the US, and how I couldn't see a way to frame that in a bad light. Lo and behold! Recent comments on Slashdot manage to paint this as a bad thing.

Slashdot is hardly the only place where you'll hear a negative opinion of the Carrier deal. Several news outlets are also taking a more skeptical view.

In the end, viewing any deal as objectively good or bad may be overly simplistic. In the case of this one, it seems like it's good for the people who won't be losing their jobs. It also seems good for other companies who now have a precedent for extracting concessions from our government in exchange for abandoning plans to offshore jobs, as well as those employees who won't be losing their jobs as a result. It seems less good (or even bad) for taxpayers who aren't invested in or employed by these companies, as they'll be effectively subsidizing these jobs to some extent, and it's not clear that the cost of this subsidy is greater than the general economic benefit gained by having a marginally stronger labor market in the manufacturing sector.

Here's the same story from USA Today. In case they're a state-sponsored mouthpiece for Russia or some other government here's the same story from Fortune. I'll leave it up to you to do a quick web search to find dozens of other sites reporting on the story. Even Fox has a version of the story and while they're a mouthpiece, it's not a state-sponsored Russian one.

I can show you hundreds of stories telling us that CNN aired 30 minutes of porn - and yet it hasn't happened. And just like those are all based on just one "fake news" tweet, your "other" sources are all based on that one exclusive RT interview.

Here's the same story from USA Today. In case they're a state-sponsored mouthpiece for Russia or some other government here's the same story from Fortune. I'll leave it up to you to do a quick web search to find dozens of other sites reporting on the story. Even Fox has a version of the story and while they're a mouthpiece, it's not a state-sponsored Russian one.

Of course you focus on the messenger far too much and ignore the more obvious. What guarantee do we have that Assange is telling the truth or that he is capable of knowing that for a fact. Let's suppose he knows that the leaks came from party X who he has reason to believe isn't involved with the Russian government. He could be legitimately mistaken and Russia could ultimately be the source of the leaks pushed through enough independent channels to hide their involvement. Or it came directly from Russia and he's covering up that fact for his own reasons.

Unless you're also getting fed the kind of classified information that gives you a better idea of the shape of the world, all we can do is speculate. However, I think a better way to go about that is to look at what's happened since the election and what happens going forward. If we never see any additional email leaks related to Hillary or the DNC going forward it's pretty safe to assume that it was someone who really didn't want them to get elected and since that even has passed, they have no further interest. Even Trump who was heavily on the bandwagon to put Clinton in prison has done a bit of an about face on it. Whether he really ever wanted to or not is immaterial, it was just useful in helping him get votes. However, if over the next year we continue getting more and more leaks, it's probably safer to assume it isn't Russia (or if it really is that they'll try to act in a way as to make it appear less likely that it's them in which case we need more criteria that we don't post to the internet where they can read about it) and is just some hacker doing it because they can or to shake the ant farm a little bit for his or her own amusement.

Of course there's a whole host of other sources that aren't Russia and it's usually safer to play the field unless you can't legitimately think of anyone else who might have been involved.

Fortune is already calling BS on this story: http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/russian-fake-news/

No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See

article debunking the WaPo story

http://fortune.com/2016/11/25/...

Don't misunderestimate the spiritual implications -

http://fortune.com/2016/10/09/presidential-debate-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-devil/

Double the COST. It currently costs $224 to make the 7. So it would cost $448 in the U.S. (probably less actually with automation, I bet this cost estimate is assuming the same labor hours per phone). If apple collects the same profit margin and passes the cost on, the phone would cost $224 more, or about $924.

Annoying but not the end of the world and not $3000.

I'm somewhat in favor of this. Not tax incentives - I just think that plants outside the U.S. that are allowed to import without tariffs should (1) adhere to OSHA and (2) pay their workers a living wage and (3) adhere to comparable environmental regulations as the U.S.

Otherwise, it will never be possible for American manufacturers to compete if the foreign plants can be deathtraps that use slave labor and create mountains of pollution.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/20/...

I'm genuinely disappointed.

I've seen numerous internet articles showing the wide array and quality of Samsung campuses in South Korea, and I've always told my friends and coworkers to buy Samsung, because you're buying Korean, and you're voting for a company with a good track record of clean production facilities and high wages for workers.

I guess Samsung is just as bad as Apple. Or Nike. Or that company that built the Burj Khalifa. I wonder who built it...

Wikipedia.org...Burj Khalifa...

Oh, wait...

Well, that just ruined my day.

Tesla is now building in Autopilot 2 into their vehicles and they provided a new demo video of the code that will eventually be enabled on the vehicles shipping today:
https://www.tesla.com/videos/a...

The acquisition of Solarcity has to do with turning Tesla into an integrated transportation company including the energy and the vehicles. Tesla is uniquely positioned for the coming changes in transport, both at the individual vehicle level and in commercial trucking.

The acquisition also has to do with the transformation of the energy... one example is the Kauai Solarcity project that uses Tesla PowerPacks:
http://fortune.com/tesla-solar...

The amount of solar + stationary storage (batteries) that the combined company is looking to deploy in 2017 will represent a staggering growth level.

You know things are bad when their stock price drops back to under $20, their COO quits, a whole new site — Gab was created to fight their wildly biased censorship practice, and to solve the problem, they put the ban-hammer into overdrive.
Twitter's key shareholders include #3: Steve "Monkeyboy" Balmer, and #2: Saudi royal PrinceAlwaleed Bin Talal. Meanwhile buyout investors are not happy with what they see.

Blah blah. There's a clear distinction between equality of opportunity versus equality of outcome.

Which has nothing to do with your conceptualization of either. You really don't have to think of them as having poles.

It's not a presumption, it's a reflection of reality. The arrogantly presumptuous are the ones who want to deny reality and force-fit the world into their presumed idea of what should be.

Yes, yes, you'll proclaim you're the one with the greater connection to reality, which doesn't make you seem at all arrogant, so you can completely avoid thinking about the presumptions you're continually making.

This is very important for you. Very much so.

You presume the impression is false. Women can make up their own mind. Gender studies reveal that differences between interests in the sexes are innate that go beyond any kind of social construct.

You presume that there are no false impressions, and that people are not influenced by outside effects. Numerous studies reveal the existence of a multitude of factors that influence life choices, even irrespective of gender.

It has a bad name because of the actions and words of feminists.

Nope, it has a bad name because it's important for its opponents that it has a bad name. It's not new. It's standard practice.

They beat up Western society over a mythical rape culture while condemning those who speak out against importing Muslims from societies with actual rape culture problems.

Ah, now you're still confused about that. Really, no matter how many times you rant about it as if it were some intent to foster those attitudes, the whole point is to get the refugees into a position where they can be influenced for the better. Has no one ever been able to set you straight, or will you keep on screaming about it in obtuse hysteria for a few more years?

They cry for safe spaces and preferential treatment.

I just don't know if it's a joke.

I really don't.

I actually do think he's that unable to handle criticism. It reminds me of the past.

They've created a culture where a man can be tried for sexually assaulting a woman while video evidence shows what was claimed was clearly impossible.

Yes, yes, and we have a world where a father complains that his son was punished excessively for 20 minutes of action, where a man got a suspended sentence for raping his 12-year old daughter, well, we could trade dueling stories for a long while.

They've created a culture where the female star of The Big Bang Theory felt fine figuratively giving her fans the finger when they complained after she cut her hair, but fell over herself backpedaling after the media made a big ruckus when she said didn't identify as a feminist, because, you know, she didn't really face inequality, and that, *gasp*, she likes cooking for her husband.

I know, how terrible. Thank god the feministas set her straight.

A celebrity comment's is considered meaningful? What a world! What is it shaped like?

Possibly. Though I think I read that there are more iPhones sold in China than US right now. Oh yes, here is a source. Quoting:

The most important finding, though, was that the data suggests there are now more than 131 million iPhones in-use in China at the end of 2015, making it a larger market for Apple than the U.S., which is estimated to have 110 million active iPhone users, according to data released earlier this year by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners.

It might make more sense for Apple to keep making and selling iPhones in China than move the whole show to the US.

Who is a private company? Twitter, sir/madam, is not private. And as a decently-sized shareholder, their actions affect me.

Then maybe they should have banned those fucktards six months ago, because it's specifically stated as reasons why DIS and CRM pulled their bids for TWTR. http://fortune.com/2016/10/18/twitter-disney-salesforce/

Twitter's refusal to deal with the brigading and fuckery from the hard right and the hard meant that its shareholders got fucked to the tune of at least $5B given the widely rumored takeout valuation of $17-20B and its present-day market cap of $13B.

if that were it, youd have a point.
but its not, and you dont: https://slashdot.org/comments....

Is Trump racist? YES!

FTFY.

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His father was a racist who went to KKK rallies. His sons are racist, and kep appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally". Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... [huffingtonpost.com]
http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/... [fortune.com]

Keeping private is not "hiding". Are you "hiding" your phone number? No? Post it then.

Sure, they're not required to, but it helps to foster trust. Trump has broken a long standing tradition. Quoting taxhistory.org: "Since the early 1970s, however, most presidents have chosen to release their returns publicly."

That's not what his black employees say, nor just that mesh with him picking Omarissa [vanityfair.com] years ago to win The Apprentice (which also meant he would have to work with her).

There's enough evidence to suggest he's about as racist as the people in the flyover states who voted for him. As in, they'd prefer to live in America where most people look just like them, but they're not quite on the level of donning hoods and start burning crosses to achieve it.

Trump is the most pro-gay GOP candidate [conservativereview.com] there has ever been, far better for the LGBT community than Hillary would have been.

Hillary likely would not have done anything to further the cause of LGBT rights, but she accepted the status quo. Trump has said he wants to appoint supreme court justices who will overturn marriage equality, and leave it up to the states.

As for women, well if Trump hates women so much why did he keep hiring them to lead his campaign [dilbert.com], including the last one that led him to victory?

If Trump "hated" women, he wouldn't be married to one. He disrespects women, which as it turns out, actually appeals to the wifebeater-sporting "bitch, go make me a sammich!" troglodytes who voted for him.

Sorry I'm having trouble seeing the Trump violence over Portland burning, and the fake protestors the DNC hired to mess up Trump rallies.

Trump incites violence in that he alienates and marginalizes significant portion of this country's population, and has the diplomacy skills of a drunken Klingon. People are protesting because they have legitimate concerns about their future and are afraid Trump won't be willing to compromise with them. So what does Trump do? He confirms their fears by dismissing their protests as a conspiracy, organized by the mainstream media. With a tweet, no less.

And yet he still won, so obviously what he does know is how to find and hire the right people who do know how to accomplish things.

He won the system, not the hearts and minds of the majority of Americans voters. Trump lost the popular vote.

Claimed just before the election, and we are supposed to believe that.... meanwhile Hillary was covering for Bill having sex with under-age females for decades. Don't see you very against that you monster.

While the media and the keyboard warriors were incessantly squawking about sex scandals, xenophobia, Benghazi, and emails, the country bumpkins had already decided their disdain for how capitalism is working out for them, had sealed their vote. He's the right's version of Obama from 8 years ago. He's their Hope & Change detergent, "New & Improved with whiter whites and a lower price!"

I could never have voted for Hillary, if not for any other reason than because of her long standing opposition to gay marriage and her subsequent lies about it

Rich. . . so you voted for the ticket with MIKE PENCE!? and Donald Trump, who has been a consistent opponent of marriage equality. Face it, you were also duped. This IS Brexit all over. . . where AFTER the election voters are like, "what is the EU?".

It will be interesting to see how long people like you will defend him. Trump will eventually unite America. . . with his universal disappointment. . .

If you have some way of knowing what's going to happen 22 years in the future, I would sure like to know. Otherwise, I'm all for hating on Trump, but his casino closing is a poor example of his failings.

There's not really enough time to go through an entire business degree here, but the simplified version is that the viability of any business is subject to possible competition. Trump failed to take this into account and that is his failure to bear. Millions of other business people succeed or fail based on similar circumstances, the successful ones take responsibility to navigate such obstacles, while Trump and his fanboys blame everyone else but themselves for their situation.

Trump has over 500 businesses, yet he still performs lower overall than an index fund The illusion is that he is successful, but the fact is he started high and has since trailed the average. Don't believe the hype.

Indeed, Shit happens.

In Trump's defense, Atlantic City is failing as a whole and dumping his casino was the best thing he could have done.

Sure. Although I'm not that covers it. From: A Look Inside Donald Trump’s Failed Taj Mahal Casino:

Though Trump Entertainment Resorts was losing million, Trump personally profited during his tenure, partially thanks to a deal that had his flailing casinos buying up Trump Ice bottled water. Trump walked away having pocketed roughly $82 million during his time there.

And: How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions:

In one instance, The Times found, Mr. Trump pulled more than $1 million from his failing public company, describing the transaction in securities filings in ways that may have been illegal, according to legal experts.

The rest of the NYT article is pretty illuminating too.

That used to be true but ESPN has been losing subscribers rapidly. And of course, the NFL (et al) is looking at alternate channels to deliver its content. Monetizing the viewers in some way or another, of course.

Didn't Amazon offer to refund all Hoverboard purchases? If this customer didn't take advantage of it. It's their own damn fault. People knew the risk these Hoverboards pose.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/25/...

The Obamacare "Chickens have come home to roost". Everything predicted is coming to fruition, and the people who created the mess, are all running around saying that they are the only ones able to fix the mess they created.

How does that work?

It doesn't. It can't. It was never supposed to work. It was simply the path to single payer that liberals want. They just lied to get the whole thing going.

Next up the anecdotal evidence "I have insurance now, even though I have cancer" stories.

"Attacks on the Internet keep getting bigger and nastier" (22 Oct 2016)
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
"1.2 trillion bits of data every second" or
"How Hackers Make Money from DDoS Attacks"
http://fortune.com/2016/10/22/...
"1.2 terabits of data per second"

When these selfdriving cars have accidents because of not having been made good enough for some driving condition, or just because glitch, who's responsible?

That has already been answered presented on every major news page, including Slashdot.
Spam, spam, spam and more spam.

The price of batteries is quickly dropping and there are other battery types that show promise for grid storage such as liquid metal batteries. It sounds like the main bottleneck now is the seals to keep air out, otherwise the batteries should be fairly inexpensive and use common materials. This article describes where things are at with liquid metal batteries.

Tesla has said that their grid batteries use NMC, nickel, manganese, cobalt and lithium. Lithium ion batteries typically contain only 3% lithium. The cells should support 5000 charge/discharge cycles, or over 13 years with full daily cycling.. Of course the cells won't be fully cycled every day so they should have a very long life.

Lithium typically is less than 1% the cost of the batteries.

Ethanol for energy storage will be extremely inefficient, especially when one takes into account the costs and energy to:
1. Extract CO2
2. Filter the water to remove contaminants
3. Generate the ethanol
4. separate ethanol from water (which tends to be energy intensive since ethanol loves water)
5. convert the ethanol back into electricity

Liquid metal batteries and pumped storage are currently around 70% efficient. Lithium ion batteries are over 90% efficient. Using ethanol will be significantly lower. Batteries will also require a lot less maintenance.

The efficiency increase from using batteries would more than pay for itself long-term since this option also will likely require a lot more maintenance.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/...

Is Trump racist? YES!

FTFY.

A short and very incomplete list of completely racist things Trump has said or done:
-"theres one of my blacks"
-"mexico is sending us rapists"
-"laziness is a trait in blacks"
-"the judge is a Mexican"
-"they don’t look like Indians to me... They don’t look like Indians to Indians.”
-supports stop-and-frisk, as practiced by the NYPD (ie, unconstitutional and racially discriminatory), and wants it expanded nationwide, claiming it worked, contrary to all evidence
-Obama's birth certificate
-condoned the abuse and even beatings of multiple Black Lives Matter protesters and other minorities at his campaign rallies
-regularly engages in anti-Semitism
-treats his minority supporters as literal tokens
-treats minorities and racial groups as monolithic stereotypes
-thinks all African americans live in the inner city, are poor, without work, receiving welfare, and uneducated
-saying 88% of white murders are committed by black folks
-repeating statements from white supremacists multiple occasions
-making blatant dog whistles to the alt-right, white supremacist crowd
-not condemning or distancing from white supremacists campaigning for him, including David Duke
-encouraged mob justice against the Central Park 5, and continues to insist they are guilty years after its proven otherwise, including spending 85k$ on full page ads in the paper advocating for their execution
-being sued by the federal government on multiple occasions for not renting to minorities

Hell, even when he claims to be trying to reach out, he's doing so in white communities and actually only repeating racist myths and stereotypes that are meant to appeal to white voters and make them feel better about voting for such overt racist.

His father was a racist who went to KKK rallies. His sons are racist, and kep appearing on white supremacist radio programs..."accidentally". Once may be an accident. Twice, you need to fire your booking agent. four times and counting? its no longer accidental or someone else's fault.
Donald Trump IS racist, regardless of the efforts of the ignorant to ignore it or explain it away.

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They're speeches, just like everyone elses speeches. The real problem is you've been lied to for so long by the fascist power hungry GOP politicians that you've developed a Pavlovian response to say everything Hillary does is bad. It must suck having your head so far up your ass all the time.

Maybe you should diagnose yourself sometime, Dr. Freud. Take two self-reflections and call me in the morning.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/11/...

They're speeches, just like everyone elses speeches. The real problem is you've been lied to for so long by the fascist power hungry GOP politicians that you've developed a Pavlovian response to say everything Hillary does is bad. It must suck having your head so far up your ass all the time.

And more importantly take market positions acting on that, so that he can advise his clients to cash out. I mean let's look here: Who the fuck is "Global Equities Research "? Nobody I've every heard of, they aren't some major national or international investment firm. So you go look at their site and it is light on the information (very light) heavy on the marketing fluff. Basically, they advise their clients on what is going on with relation to trends that would be useful in making stock picks.

Right, so for that to be profitable you have to:

1) Have good information that a company can use to make stock picks.

2) Only give it to customers.

#2 is really important. For one, if you give it out to everyone, well then why should someone pay you anything? Like I'm not going to go and pay for the U1-U6 numbers since BLS gives them to everyone for free. They have to be offering something you can't have for nothing. However the other thing is that if everyone in the market knows something, you can't really capitalize on it. If I was able to say with 100% certainty that a bank will default next year, and prove it to everyone's satisfaction, well then the only people who would make anything would be the people who could act the quickest. Everyone would dump their stock and bonds, get their money out, etc and I'd actually be proven wrong by my own prediction since it would cause it to happen early. However if I held that information close and only shared it with some people, we could make money. We could get our assets out for a good price, take out options, etc since we had information others didn't.

Thus this guy is either a dipstick, or is deliberately spreading information that he WANTS to be true, rather than information that is (or both). He's advised clients to take different positions, and he needs people to take positions as though this was true to make them money.

Also, it looks like this isn't the first time he's said some really wrong shit: http://fortune.com/2013/07/07/... is an article where he's saying Apple is done in 2012 and also saying no money would change hands between Samsung and Apple (Samsung just lost their appeal and will have to pay).