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Yeah, you already know the response White House, Obama isn't agreeing with the finding.

Back in 2005 then Senator Obama complained about the Patriot Act, which he's now defending.

“This is legislation that puts our own Justice Department above the law.If someone wants to know why their own government has decided to go on a fishing expedition through every personal record or private document, through the library books that you read, through the phone calls that you made, the emails that you sent, this legislation gives people no rights to appeal the need for such a search in a court of law. No judge will hear your plea. No jury will hear your case. This is just plain wrong.Giving law enforcement the tools that they need to investigate suspicious activities is one thing. And it’s the right thing. But doing it without any real oversight seriously jeopardizes the rights of all Americans, and the ideals America stands for.”

So by his own statements he's jeopardizing the rights and ideals of all Americans.

...And the worst is yet to come, when some 80 million additional employer-sponsored policies are cancelled

Is this a realistic prediction? I ask because your link is almost two months old, it's a Fox News story with the usual bias against the administration, and the underlying "facts" come from the American Enterprise Institute, of whom George W. Bush gushed, '"I admire AEI a lot--I'm sure you know that," Bush said. "After all, I have been consistently borrowing some of your best people."' And we know how that administration turned out.

I'm not looking for Rachel Maddow's take, but how about something within the last month, from a source that's not rabidly anti-Obama?

Thanks.

No chance at success. Just like the rest of ObamaCare, a misconceived piece of legislation that managed to take a market plagued by serial distortions of preferential tax treatment for third-party insurance and actually make them worse by larding on an individual mandate and even larger subsidies to insurance companies.

And the worst is yet to come, when some 80 million additional employer-sponsored policies are cancelled.

The failure of the website is just the cherry on top of incompetent conception, planning and execution all along the line. It can take Apple or Microsoft 6 months to fix the bugs in a major release to an X.1 release, and Accenture is supposed to take someone else's far-more-dysfunctional code-base and make it work in 8 weeks?

Not going to happen, and just another example of the serial dishonesty and manifest incompetence of the Obama Administration.

The ship got stuck in sea ice that broke off the continent because it's melting due to the warming.

CSEC Admits It 'Incidentally' Spies On Canadians

So, go to Europe then. Oh, that's right.

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
France - Alarm over massive spying provisions in new military programming law

Why is this going on? Is there some sort of pattern that could explain it?

Iran’s fingerprints in Fallujah
Report: Canadian Terrorists Planned Truck Bomb Attack
At Least 4,000 Suspected of Terrorism-Related Activity in Britain, MI5 Director Says
Dutch Arrest 12 Somalis on Terror Suspicions

The ice they are stuck in is old ice that was able to escape because the ice around it melted. The melting is why more of the ice on land is breaking off and flowing into the sea. Read the article I linked to above.

However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.

Voter turnout in Texas nearly doubles under new ID law
Minority turnout increased dramatically after Georgia voter-ID law
New Analysis Shows Voter Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout

Voting fraud is an important question since so many elections are now decided by margins of victory less than the margin of fraud.

Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud

Poor and minority votes seem especially vulnerable.

Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen
Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud
New York Investigators Obtain Fraudulent Ballots 97 Percent of Time
The “snowbird vote” takes wing

However, those two years have brought on voter registration laws designed to disenfranchise, laws so blatantly racist that it's pants-on-heads insane that anybody let them get away with it.

Voter turnout in Texas nearly doubles under new ID law
Minority turnout increased dramatically after Georgia voter-ID law
New Analysis Shows Voter Identification Laws Do Not Reduce Turnout

Voting fraud is an important question since so many elections are now decided by margins of victory less than the margin of fraud.

Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud

Poor and minority votes seem especially vulnerable.

Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen
Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud
New York Investigators Obtain Fraudulent Ballots 97 Percent of Time
The “snowbird vote” takes wing

Good luck seeing your doctor, as they move to an all cash model to escape the bumfuckery of Obamacare. Why did anyone ever think that asking the doctors to accept deep cuts and more paperwork was the answer to our problems? This is deeply troubling that we would do this to ourselves. You reap what you sow. Enjoy.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/26/doctor-wont-see-analysts-warn-obamacare-plans-could-resemble-medicaid/

Both Fox News and The Washington Post are reporting favorably on Snowden. Congress and the courts are acting on his revelations. He's changed the world a little, probably for the better.

There is no change, those are only recommendations. Obama has yet to decide what to do. Even then it will take Congress acting to change much of it, assuming Obama decides to change anything.

Snowden has offered to help Brazil investigate US intelligence. Is that the patriotism you were referring to?

As to Snowden's fate, there are some other views about him.

"Celebs often complain on how interminable award shows can be but Susan Sarandon has found a way to beat the boredom. She gets stoned!

The 67-year-old actress admitted her penchant for puffing on the Bravo chat show, "Watch What Happens Live."

When host Andy Cohen asked Sarandon to name one Hollywood event that she has showed up to stoned, the "Bull Durham" star cheekily replied, "Only one?" and slapped her knee as the pair enjoyed a naughty chuckle.

"I would say almost all except the Oscars," she answered.

In case you were wondering the celebrated actress has earned eight Golden Globe and four Emmy nominations, not to mention five Oscar nods including one win for "Dead Man Walking" in which she played a nun."

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/12/15/susan-sarandon-admits-to-being-stoned-at-hollywood-award-shows/

No, I do not believe it. I believe that you just made it up. Do you have a citation? Because a Google search finds nothing except a law banning "aggressive begging" (blocking traffic, badgering or pursuing people, loitering next to ATMs, etc.).

I wouldn't go so far as to accuse him of just making it up. There are several places he might have picked up the idea. Some, the courts overrule the laws or parts of it. Some are just proposed. Some require a permit to 'gather' (eg more than 5 people). On Thanksgiving, the church should have 1 person with food in the park. 4 at a time, the homeless could come over. Then, walk away and 4 more could come up. I think the homeless should not be able to look at each other either ;) Get a permit right? I believe in the Orlando case, the problem was, you can only get a permit twice a year for each park so you have to move around. Are the activist intentionally getting in trouble making their point? Sure. Does feeding the poor in the same park, week after week, putting wear and tear on the park? Sure.



Orlando, FL
Raleigh, NC
Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia, PA
Dallas, TX
Houston, TX
NYC, NY
USA Today
LA Times

How is there any difference? Privacy is privacy.

Yeah totally, it's like exactly the same, just like theft is theft so lucky they arrested that guy for stealing 5c of electricity because that's the same as stealing millions of dollars from a bank!

Weirdly, that seems to be one reason the new pope is unpopular with the evangelical right: the left like him.

I can find some anecdotal horror stories, of course. But we both know anecdotes are worthless.

The best known of the pools is probably Medi-Share. From a website sympathetic to their position, http://christianpf.com/christian-health-insurance-alternative/

- You must adhere to living a strict Biblical lifestyle in order to maintain your membership. Not doing so can get you expelled from the program and will likely nullify any claims you may have as well.
- 'For example, she told me a story of a member who was in a bad car accident requiring lots of medical work, but since the person was intoxicated when they got into the accident, the expense was not covered by Medi-Share.'

Roughly, they don't provide coverage for what they consider 'consequences of sin' - but define that quite broadly. I can't find the site any more, but I've read before of a person diagnosed with liver failure who medi-share wouldn't by out for - they judged his illness to be a consequence of excessive alcohol consumption. Similarily, they'll refuse to pay for pregnancy-related costs if the pregnancy is out of wedlock - and, while every parent likes to think their little angel of a daughter would never have premarital sex... teenagers do things like that. Similar again for smoking-related diseases - even if you quit smoking years ago, don't count on them to pay when you are diagnosed with lung cancer.

Also, I'd ignore the comments on that site. Given that every almost single one is heaping glowing praises upon the organisation, I'm guessing the site moderator has been selective in what gets through. No company can possibly be that perfect, religious or otherwise.

They are on the rise right now because, even though not considered legally insurance for most purposes, they do qualify under the new mandate - and, as they are very lightly regulated and don't cover routine checkups, they can be a lot cheaper than any conventional insurance provider. Thus a lot of people who were previously uninsured find Christian not-insurance to be the cheapest option.

If you just want the anecdotes and horror stories though, here's one:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/26/christian-medical-plans-pass-health-law-despite-consumer-complaints/
That's from Fox News, so you'd imagine their bias to be in favor of the Christian not-insurance. If even they condemn it, you can be sure something is fishy.

Raising children well can take about as much time as most adults can put into it. Our US society is currently suffering for too much parental time put into work and then other distractions. and not enough time spent with kids. The same goes for the effort reuired to maintain social relations with freidns and neighbors. That is historically way most human adults spent most of their time -- raising kids and being social. For reference on a hunter/gatherer lifestyle:
http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm

I readily agree that people need a sense of "agency" -- that they are accomplishing things to make their life better. But whether that needs to be withing a structured system of economics we call "work" entailing bosses and customers and "wage slavery" is a different question (even if most of us practically have few other short-term alternatives to work).
http://www.whywork.org/

Related to you point, many people like playing a hunter/gatherer in an abundant Minecraft world a lot. Yet, maybe part of that is indeed because of the abundance and the possibilities? Yet, in US society, many people are arbitrarily shut out from all the abundance. This kind of stuff (or the need for it) is just wrong in such a wealthy society:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2009/08/07/6958/appalachian-fairgrounds-charity-tries-fill-gaps-health-care
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/us_hunger_facts.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/22/demographic-shift-puts-american-dream-out-reach/

If "welfare is a fast road to unhappy dependency", then:
A. Why do rich people tend to give their children lots of expensive things including Ivy League educations, good cars, condos, trust funds, and so on?
B. Would you turn down a million dollar cash gift?
C. Do monthly "Social Security" payments to any citizen in the USA over age 65 cause enormous distress to the elderly?

If you think about these three questions, you may find a missing piece of the puzzle of a picture of the future.

However, your point about the cost of living going down is indeed true and needs to be kept in mind. On the other hand, decreasing costs also generally implies less money going to fewer people. But the marketplace only "hears" the needs of those with cash. If you have zero money, then you can't afford a place to sleep or put your stuff. And further, automation tends to concentrate wealth (at least initially).
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm

Productivity has doubled or triples over the last few decades in the USA, but real wages for most workers have remained flat (granted, health insurance benefits have increased, but it is not clear people are that much healthier for that). That is a political issue about fairness as well as power.

I'd agree humans want interaction with other humans (generally), but whether that is best in the context of payments (as opposed to gifts or family and friend interactions) is another question. For example, I prefer to have my wife cut my hair than to go to a barber or hair salon.

Another thing to consider is that perhaps all humans have some claim on some of the fruits of the commons?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit

BTW, on NYC homeless:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/28/131028fa_fact_frazier?currentPage=all

It sounds there like the "means testing" and uncertainty and constant changes create much

Sadly, this one looks like driver error. Roger Rodas, the driver, has competed in many events.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2013/12/02/paul-walker-crash-who-was-driver-friend-roger-rodas/

Were they wearing seat belts? Not mentioned in the articles I've seen.

In response to: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/20/fcc-announces-plans-to-upgrade-century-old-phone-system/?intcmp=obnetwork http://www.fcc.gov/blog/ip-transition-starting-now It's all conjecture on my part, but I'll take a stab. Deploying a next-generation telecom infrastructure is an interesting challenge - but one that is underway as we speak. Verizon chose Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) (FiOS). AT&T chose fiber to the node (FTTN) (U-verse) and is rolling out VDSL. CenturyLink (Qwest) has also picked FTTN and is rolling out VDSL as well. These rollouts are slow moving - but will continue to use copper for the foreseeable future - FTTP is the long term future still I think - but we keep being able cram more and more data over a pair - and with pair bonding that number keeps rising. For now at least, most voice will still be served over fairly long loops from the CO - AT&T is rolling out VoIP over U-verse - Verizon is doing the same over FiOS, CenturyLink has not yet marketed VoIP to residences - but I suspect it will come in a while (when more of their footprint is covered). Fiber to the Node has the advantage of having fiber near the customer when the cost of repairing the legacy copper exceeds the cost of putting fiber in to each house. Largely, based on my research - the new VoIP circuits are often being served off TDM offices that have upgraded been to packet switching. Both Lucent and Genband offer a way to upgrade their TDM switches to a packet based core (Lucent 7ESS or 7 R/E and Genband C15 Session Controller). In short - the article was full of hyperbole - If you look at the underlying blog post - it doesn't mention the removal of copper, copper will play a big part in last mile service delivery for likely another 20-30 years - in the end is about replacing the TDM based network core with packet switching - a process that has been going on for almost 20 years at this point. With proper engineering a packet based system is every bit as (if not more) reliable as TDM based one. That said, it raises some real questions - what of universal service? How about the CLEC market - will they be granted access to the new networks which are replacing the old? Only time will tell.

So how about some examples, then? There are "so many cases", after all, so you should have no problem giving us 10 or 20 of the most convincing examples.

It would be more convincing if you limited them to contributions to well-established fields, as well. There's nothing impressive about basic discoveries made in the infancy of a new field of study, when EVERYBODY involved is essentially an amateur.

Richard Feynman is one of the few people to have decoded/translated a Mayan heiroglyphic codex.

He did this as an amateur without anything close to a related degree.

This kid discovered a new dinosaur,

Just google "high school student makes scientific discovery" or "college student makes scientific discovery" for a big list.

Why would citizens be talking about granting political figures asylum when citizens don't have the power to grant asylum? Governments do, and many South American governments HAVE expressed the will to give him asylum.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/13/s-american-leaders-back-asylum-amid-snowden-row/

You also talk about other countries' concerns in a manner, frankly, that makes you sound like an unlikeable prick.

How about when Britain and France cowtowed to the US in denying Bolivia's president a place to land, and then justified it with worries that Snowden was on board?

You're terribly careless at this, get the fuck out of here.

Or... you could go beyond your close-mindedness, trust that your web browser will simply open the PDF up for you (as mine does)... and maybe take with a grain of salt what the evil RedState has to say... doubly so when you do not know how I arrived at choosing that link (hint, it was a quick search and was the top relevant result).

Just for you, here is another link, but about the PDF above & a quote from the CEO of TrustedSEC who was testifying in Washington today:

“Hackers are definitely after it,” said David Kennedy, CEO of information security firm TrustedSEC before a House Science, Space, and Technology committee hearing on security concerns surrounding the problematic Healthcare.gov website.

“And if I had to guess, based on what I can see I would say the website is either hacked already or will be soon.”

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/11/19/healthcaregov-already-compromised-security-expert-says/

Somehow I doubt Huffington Post, Daily KOS or MSNBC are going to cover these issues... in fact at cursory glance, I see not hints of such reports there today.

The simple answer - both China and the US depend far too much on coal for electricity, and there is currently almost no control over CO2 emissions from these plants.

  45% of US electricity is coal and about 23% after that the 1/3 less polluting natural gas (which can be derived from coal, but isn't), after that is 20% nuclear and the rest mostly "green" energy. The EPA has proposed forcing new coal plants to adopt carbon capture technology, but Republicans (and yes, I call out Republicans, some of this info is from their coddling "news" site) oppose it for various reasons, usually citing it is experimental, expensive, and poses safety risks. What they don't say is it is about 1/3 less efficient in generating electricity and therefore impacts their constituent's profits, since their constituents can't regulate their own rate hikes (such is the life of a regulated monopoly). Thus the EPA has to focus on the other 55%, much of which has already taken place (automobile emissions standards, industrial emission standards, etc).

I don't know Chinese numbers, but the fact that they mine almost 4x what the US does suggests they are far more dependent on coal.

I have a vague recollection of something like that. I'm not sure if I saw in the news or a movie.

I did however see this when I did a quick search.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/13/man-accused-impersonating-cop-to-get-dunkin-donuts-discounts/

Police officers themselves rarely receive personal bonuses based upon tickets, but police departments absolutely obtain revenue from tickets. This, of course, leads to wonderfully corrupt practices like instituting ticket quotas and larger fines/stricter enforcement to control their revenue.

However, not all departments fall to abuse, and the quotas (when they exist) are never made public intentionally, so this issue usually flies under the radar.

Oh Redbox!

The McDonalds of the future! Really, I cannot wait for completely automated fast food.

My favorite modern robot quote:

"Using Lettuce Bot can produce more lettuce plants than doing it any other way," said Jorge Heraud, the company's co-founder and CEO.

Agriculture Industry Looking To Replace Farm Workers With Robotic Machines

I use Kapersky and while I like the product I don't necessarily like this comment:

The reason is that the space station uses computer-controlled SCADA systems in order to manage various physical components of the satellite. As these systems are based on Linux, they are open to infection.

So even on the ISS there's no concept of an air gap when it comes to SCADA systems? I realize there's monitoring and management required but there are tools and policies for dealing with that but shit, what is being eluded to is that the Russian Astronauts gerfinkerpoked around with a USB thumb drive and now we have an F*d up multi-billion dollar, multi-ton object in orbit possibly out of control? I think that's a disservice to Russian Astronauts (Cosmonauts) everywhere.

All systems can have vulnerabilities but if the systems onboard the ISS have been compromised by trojans, malware, viruses etc. I think the Linux community needs
to be made aware of the vulnerabilities so that these issues can be addressed and code fixed. Not that ol Kaspersky here needs to make a but right, but if they're not inherently part of Linux and are just stupid admin pet tricks, then that needs to be brought to public attention so that the ISS partners can address their IT problem. Playing coy and providing anecdotal commentary on "infections" and "bad things happened at a Nuclear plant" only mean that there are still vulnerabilities and bad practices that need to be addressed. I mean it's not like we wouldn't have that happen here in the US, say on a major Website, right?

On the other hand Microsoft should be smiling right now since it was announced that the ISS was going all Linux just this year. Maybe it was because the Astronauts couldn't find the Start Menu?

That's a fair question.

I was afraid somebody might ask that (because I think I could find a study to back it up, but it might take a long time).

I was extrapolating from the statements by scientists who study these things that poorly-ventilated wood stoves are as dangerous for the lungs as cigarettes, car exhaust, or coal power plant emissions. It's impossible to calculate these things precisely, but one of the data sets I use, because it's a classic study, is in the 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, which found that military veterans who smoked cigarettes died about 10 years sooner than veterans who didn't smoke. There are lots of studies since then that come up with comparable numbers. There are studies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is one of the big killers among lung diseases, which found a high incidence of COPD among women who use traditional wood and charcoal cooking stoves indoors.

Now realize the dangers come from traditional wood stoves, and it's possible to make clean-burning stoves that don't have those dangers.

Here's one from Fox News (which sometimes gets a bad rap), comparing wood stoves to car exhaust:

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/02/07/wood-stoves-cause-cancer-heart-disease/

Wood Stoves May Cause Cancer, Heart Disease
Published February 07, 2011
FoxNews.com

A wood-burning stove in your home may be a great source of heat during the cold winter, but new data shows that invisible particles produced by burning wood may cause cancer and heart disease, the Telegraph reported.

Wood-burning stoves are becoming more popular because of the rising price of oil, gas and electricity prices. But researchers at Copenhagen University in Denmark said that breathing in air around the stoves is the equivalent to inhaling car exhaust—with the wood particles being small enough to breathe into the deepest parts of the lungs.

"The particles that come from wood smoke can certainly cause fatal heart or lung disease. In human cells that were exposed to the particles, substantial DNA damage and mutation took place. It was comparable to the effects of particles given off by traffic," said professor Steffen Loft, of the Department of Public Health at Copenhagen University....

Here are some other studies:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120116095814.htm

Wood-Burning Stoves: Harmful or Safe?

Jan. 16, 2012 — Wood-burning stoves are a popular source of heating in many countries. However in recent years there has been much debate about the potential negative health effects associated with wood smoke. A Norwegian researcher has studied the influence of combustion conditions on the emissions and their health effects.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130820102516.htm

Traffic Pollution and Wood Smoke Increases Asthma in Adults

Aug. 20, 2013 — Asthma sufferers frequently exposed to heavy traffic pollution or smoke from wood fire heaters, experienced a significant worsening of symptoms, a new University of Melbourne led study has found....

"Our study also revealed a connection between the inhalation of wood smoke exposure and asthma severity and that the use of wood for heating is detrimental to health in communities such as Tasmania where use of wood burning is common," Dr Burgess said.

"Clean burning practices and the replacement of old polluting wood stoves by new ones are likely to minimise both indoor and outdoor wood smoke pollution and improve people's health," he said.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110205204159.htm

Air Pollutants from Fireplaces and Wood-Burning Stoves Raise Health Concerns

"It's a closed system, everyone is a re-distributor of income."

No, it is NOT a "closed system". It is an OPEN system, and it is very open.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/04/02/remittances-to-mexico-drop-11-pct-in-february/

The US economy is being siphoned off to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars PER MONTH, by just one country. I have no idea where you pulled that "closed system" idea from, but it certainly didn't come from reality.

And if you can't pay, and declare bankruptcy? Who pays then? You pretending this isn't a problem [cnbc.com]?

And are you pretending the ACA did anything to actually reduce costs are help resolve the problem you're talking about? Did you read the entire article you linked?

With millions buried under medical bills, more insured under the Affordable Care Act will not completely solve that problem, LaMontagne said. While the ACA's reforms will indeed give more people coverage, NerdWallet's data shows that millions of people with year-round, full coverage are still overwhelmed by medical bills, she said.

So, 1-2 trillion dollars that are going to be spent per year, and the very same broken legs are still going to be paid out of pocket. I love this stuff!

You _can_ keep your policy if you like it

Hmmm, I don't seem to recall the disclaimer on the end of that sentence when the president said it. I don't remember ANY wiggle room here. I think the President said this better than I could. Not sure where you'd pick any of this apart.

Instead, President Obama should have said something like, "You can keep your plan... comma insert disclaimer here".

As for this up-sell notion... the policies that got dropped were dropped due to them not offering all the stuff required by the ACA to be offered. These were policies that had existed prior to the ACA implementation. The white house knew many of the policies out there would no longer be allowed to be offered. They knew it when the President was out giving speeches that you would not lose your plan under any circumstances... "period". He was either completely ignorant of the fact, or was out and out fabricating lies. There is no in between.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/11/05/harley-davidson-launches-small-motorcycle-lineup

The people we are waterboarding, on the other hand, have demonstrated both the desire and the ability to do us harm

Except for the innocent.

A cursory search reveals:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/former-state-department-official-team-bush-knew-many-at-gitmo-were-innocent/275327/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/notes-from-a-guantanamo-survivor.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8471907/WikiLeaks-Guantanamo-Bay-terrorist-secrets-revealed.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/19/ex-bush-official-guantanamo-bay-innocent/
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1997083
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-wrong-place-time
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/25/wikileaks_documents_reveal_us_knowingly_imprisoned
And many more.

You've never experienced the fanatical hatred these "people" have for those who don't share their ideology.

I lived in Israel from 1973 to 2000, 7 of those years I spent in the IDF (mandatory + standing army) and then did reserve service (as Captain) before emigrating.
I have experienced the hatred of people that would bomb a school-bus just to make headlines and I still find your attitude toward torture despicable.

No surprise. It is consistent with the President's previously expressed views.

Coal-state lawmakers seek to block EPA power plant rules

For example: Not one word about the anti-NSA protests in US media. Still.

Your news gathering skills are....poor to say the least.

USA Today: Anti-NSA rally attracts thousands to march in Washington http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/26/nsa-dc-rally/3241417/

Huffington Post: NSA 'Stop Watching Us' Protest Draws Thousands In Washington http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/26/nsa-stop-watching-us_n_4166640.html

US News and Word Report: Edward Snowden Endorses D.C. Protest Against NSA in Rare Public Statement http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/24/edward-snowden-endorses-dc-protest-against-nsa-in-rare-public-statement

Christian Science Monitor: NSA Washington: March against surveillance and a call from Edward Snowden http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/1026/NSA-Washington-March-against-surveillance-and-a-call-from-Edward-Snowden-photos

CNN: Anti-NSA rally targets Washington http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/26/anti-nsa-rally-targets-washington/

Fox News: Hundreds rally in DC to protest NSA http://video.foxnews.com/v/2772548586001/hundreds-rally-in-dc-to-protest-nsa/

NBC News: Hundreds march at anti-NSA rally in DC http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53383405

CBS News: Protesters March For Investigation Into Mass NSA Spying http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/10/26/protesters-march-for-investigation-into-mass-nsa-spying/

ABC News: NSA Spying Threatens to Hamper US Foreign Policy http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/nsa-spying-threatens-hamper-us-foreign-policy-20689770

Washington Post: Techies concerned over NSA surveillance will march in D.C., proclaiming ‘Stop Watching Us’ http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/techies-concerned-over-nsa-surveillance-will-march-in-dc-proclaiming-stop-watching-us/2013/10/25/5bedb546-3da7-11e3-b7ba-503fb5822c3e_story.html

This is where I get tired of pasting, but I assure you the list goes on and on.

As the FOSSolytes say: It's all open, fork your own if you don't like our implementation.

That's the problem, if countries *do* fork off their own internet, it's going to make things worse for everyone.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/09/17/brazil-fights-us-internet-hegemony-wants-to-shield-brazilian-data-from-nsa/

Imagine a fractured internet, where if you want your site accessible from the world, you have to buy domain names and have your site be vetted by every country that you want your site accessible from.

You should read more attentively A., you are missing some key points.

If you read the story you find that the intelligence estimate is several years old (2011) and refers to domestic groups, not international terrorists.

From The Article:

“As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing.”

In any event it appears that this information is outdated and no longer relevant given the recent reports from aircraft crews observing what they believe to be either probes of security or dry runs for attacks on planes.

Pilots union warns of possible terrorism 'dry runs'

An internal memo from the union representing US Airways pilots details a frightening incident that brings back memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, WTSP-TV in Tampa-St. Petersburg reports.

The US Airlines Pilots Association memo says "there have been several cases recently throughout the (airline) industry of what appear to be probes, or dry runs, to test our procedures and reaction to an in-flight threat."

The pilots say the most recent dry run occurred on Flight 1880 on Sept. 2.

Pilots union warns of 'dry run' by possible terrorists on US flight

"Bringing down an airliner continues to be the Gold Standard of terrorism," states the undated memo, first reported by WTSP-TV in Tampa-St. Petersburg. "If anyone thinks that our enemies have “been there, done that” and are not targeting U.S. commercial aviation -- think again." ...

According to the memo, the pilot of a subsequent, return flight bearing the same flight number, 1880, ordered an inspection of the plane after eight women in burkas showed up at the boarding gate. The memo claims that "evidence of tampering was found," though it does not elaborate.

One expert speculated that the efforts may have been aimed at sizing up security procedures and spotting air marshals aboard flights. ...

Experts said the incident could be an indication of another attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an airplane while midflight. Ret. Col. Mike Pheneger, former director of intelligence at Special Operations Command, said it’s “impossible” to absolutely prevent terrorist attacks.

"We can only make it more difficult for people to attack an airplane or a facility,” he said. “We can't make it impossible. We have to be lucky 100 percent of the time and they only have to be lucky once."

As to the fund raising, some of it is no doubt related to cigarette smuggling.

Tobacco and Terror: How Cigarette Smuggling is Funding our Enemies Abroad (.pdf)

It has been well-reported that terrorist and criminal organizations are conducting illicit business operations within the United States, sending the profits overseas to finance domestic and international terrorist and criminal organizations. Recent law enforcement investigations have revealed that those profits, estimated to be in the millions of dollars annually in the United States alone, are generated in part by illicit cigarette trafficking. ... Recent law enforcement investigations, however, have directly linked those involved in illicit tobacco trade to infamous terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al Qaeda.

The world hasn't "moved on," it is simply not paying attention.... again.

You should read more attentively A., you are missing some key points.

If you read the story you find that the intelligence estimate is several years old (2011) and refers to domestic groups, not international terrorists.

From The Article:

“As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing.”

In any event it appears that this information is outdated and no longer relevant given the recent reports from aircraft crews observing what they believe to be either probes of security or dry runs for attacks on planes.

Pilots union warns of possible terrorism 'dry runs'

An internal memo from the union representing US Airways pilots details a frightening incident that brings back memories of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, WTSP-TV in Tampa-St. Petersburg reports.

The US Airlines Pilots Association memo says "there have been several cases recently throughout the (airline) industry of what appear to be probes, or dry runs, to test our procedures and reaction to an in-flight threat."

The pilots say the most recent dry run occurred on Flight 1880 on Sept. 2.

Pilots union warns of 'dry run' by possible terrorists on US flight

"Bringing down an airliner continues to be the Gold Standard of terrorism," states the undated memo, first reported by WTSP-TV in Tampa-St. Petersburg. "If anyone thinks that our enemies have “been there, done that” and are not targeting U.S. commercial aviation -- think again." ...

According to the memo, the pilot of a subsequent, return flight bearing the same flight number, 1880, ordered an inspection of the plane after eight women in burkas showed up at the boarding gate. The memo claims that "evidence of tampering was found," though it does not elaborate.

One expert speculated that the efforts may have been aimed at sizing up security procedures and spotting air marshals aboard flights. ...

Experts said the incident could be an indication of another attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an airplane while midflight. Ret. Col. Mike Pheneger, former director of intelligence at Special Operations Command, said it’s “impossible” to absolutely prevent terrorist attacks.

"We can only make it more difficult for people to attack an airplane or a facility,” he said. “We can't make it impossible. We have to be lucky 100 percent of the time and they only have to be lucky once."

As to the fund raising, some of it is no doubt related to cigarette smuggling.

Tobacco and Terror: How Cigarette Smuggling is Funding our Enemies Abroad (.pdf)

It has been well-reported that terrorist and criminal organizations are conducting illicit business operations within the United States, sending the profits overseas to finance domestic and international terrorist and criminal organizations. Recent law enforcement investigations have revealed that those profits, estimated to be in the millions of dollars annually in the United States alone, are generated in part by illicit cigarette trafficking. ... Recent law enforcement investigations, however, have directly linked those involved in illicit tobacco trade to infamous terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al Qaeda.

The world hasn't "moved on," it is simply not paying attention.... again.

If it doesn't work then it's not "massive".
If it doesn't work it's smoke and mirror bullshit.

Maybe you better actually look before making wild comments. The sequester is in effect and reducing the budget.

What to Cut? Sequester offers lessons in latest budget talks

Yet, it was only after last week’s deal to end the partial government shutdown that Republicans seemed to fully grasp the full worth of the sequester contained in the Budget Control Act of 2011.

"What the BCA showed is that Washington actually can cut spending. And because of this law, that's just what we've done. For the first time since the Korean War, government spending has declined for two years," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week on the Senate floor, as the deal was struck.

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How about I think they can't come up with 16 trillion dollars?

Are you referring to the national debt? I'm not sure that makes sense. The question any time recently hasn't been "will it grow", but "how fast." The sequester has had a meaningful impact.

Let's just say the feeling is mutual.

That's the difference then, I have data, you have feelings.

Tire pressure is a safety and emissions issue. A big safety issue. Where I'm at, Ontario, any MIL code is a fail, any code. http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1076372_tire-pressure-at-fault-in-5-percent-of-accidents-study (note in the last section, bad weather effect amplified by poorly infalted tires) http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/05/14/study-finds-low-pressure-factor-in-many-crashes/ http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/maintain.shtml And of course, proper inflation gives the best mileage. This applies to *any* vehicle. A slow leak in the mountains is no fun. Even in the city, a slow tire leak can ruin your day. That's the point of your sensor, avoiding the hell of changing your tire on the side of the highway.

Tesla should adopt the Gadsden flag as their unofficial logo in Texas. Then they should run an ad campaign about how government regulation and lobbyists are hurting small business owners and stripping individuals of their freedom to choose a vehicle. It would surely drive up sales amongst Tea Party types here. Just don't tell them it's good for the environment.

It is not legal, but I doubt we will see any U.S. agent being extradited to Mexico, even for crimes considered as such by both countries.

First the U.S. got angry because a known drug lord was released from prison in Mexico on a technicality. Caro Quintero was accused of murdering a U.S. agent (Kiki Camarena) and running drugs to the U.S.

Then, three U.S. agents came forward declaring to a national magazine (Proceso) that the guy supposedly killed by Caro Quintero, was actually executed by U.S. intelligence agents.

This on top of the Fast and Furious operation from a couple of years ago, on which the U.S government supplied guns and asault weapons to drug lords in Mexico.

One has to wonder, exactly on which side is the U.S. government?

Film is not "biased" towards people with "light skin." ... I think this whole article is a trollish attempt to inject a "racial issue" where there is none.

No, no; the universe REALLY IS biased against you.....

2.1.6 Sentence 4: Why does the universe prefer matter over antimatter?

Physicists have announced that more matter particles are generated than antimatter

A team working with data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider says it has discovered a particle that decays unevenly into matter and antimatter.

.... that is, if you're made out of antimatter. If so, then to make us for the total unfairness of everything, I'll give you a BIG hug.


Back on topic, I agree. Some people are looking for biases and problems where none exist and keep on finding them.

Reminds me of the Face on Mars. You're looking for something that isn't there and finding it in the noise. That fine -- but you need more supporting evidence to back up your "findings" rather that just point and say, "Look -- look! There it is!"

Not the OP, but...

1) your sig isn't even visible in your post.

And the fact that you've chosen to hide it is his fault because...? Anyway it's just a link to Dunning-Kruger Effect on Wikipedia.

2) It doesnt matter what you can make of it, if the weight is higher than it was, the handling WILL be affetcted.

These panels weigh *less* than existing panels. RTFA

3) see http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/10/07/tesla-ceo-says-fire-caused-by-impaled-battery/

Let me first quote the point you're replying to:

"Also batteries can be dangerous as they contain a LOT of energy. "
true, but it isn't chemical energy, so no fires.

The Tesla uses chemical batteries. These are not chemical batteries.

4) see 3)

Again, this is a *completely* different technology than what is used in the Tesla. That's like saying a hand crank flashlight is going to spontaneously combust just because some laptop batteries do.

It is interesting times. You have the two reports from the US nuclear side too:
http://rt.com/usa/us-nuclear-general-suspended-495/
and then:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/11/air-force-general-in-charge-nuclear-missiles-to-be-fired-officials-say/
Was an item transferred from a US base without the correct paperwork?
Was an item not transferred from a US base without the correct paperwork?
Now 2 top people from the NSA too (civilian deputy will step down too).
Someone is replacing staff around the nuke command and the domestic surveillance system. What does history tell about the politics of such changes?

taking your points in order:

1) your sig isn't even visible in your post.

2) It doesnt matter what you can make of it, if the weight is higher than it was, the handling WILL be affetcted. 2b) I dont need to be talked to like a kid you arrogant prick.

3) see http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/10/07/tesla-ceo-says-fire-caused-by-impaled-battery/

4) see 3)

Even the source link points out that its not $634M (except, since it does so in a "Fair and Balanced" way, you can't really tell)
You can either actually read the article in gory detail, or better yet, go read this breakdown of the numbers.
TL;DR --> its around $55.7M (which is still a lot, but is - decidedly - not $634M)

http://www.foxnews.com/images/385241/3_21_ape450.jpg

NSFW: Shows nipplage.

NSFW, is fox "news"

http://www.foxnews.com/images/385241/3_21_ape450.jpg

NSFW: Shows nipplage.

Law enforcement doesn't obey the law, they are above the law. Anyone paying attention knows that they just do whatever they want. If they are ever caught the only "punishment" is to give some tax payer money to someone.

Former police officer gets probation for tanning videos
Undercover cop arrested in NYC biker gang attack

You were saying?

So by not using FB were going to die?
The Surgeon General may disagree with you