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Funded by a billionaire, but there was that whole public contempt of court aspect and what-not as well that tended to make the case against them.

A Judge Told Us to Take Down Our Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Post. We Won't.

Especially, don't brag online how you're going to ignore the judge.

No do-overs. This ain't kindergarten.

The only positives I can see from an approach like this are the elimination of a vector for ransomware and viruses, and maybe some illusion of control. There was a story about JCPenney corporate headquarters users watching endless hours of YouTube in the 2013 timeframe. This was the same time the company was on the verge of going bankrupt after the Apple Store guy took over as CEO and tried to turn an old-school department store into a hipster haven. I'm very busy at work and have kids to get home to, so my breaks are usually pretty short; I can't imagine sitting for hours on YouTube all day. But, if I was a government worker in a pretty sleepy department, and really only had a couple hours of work to do a day, I would probably goof off a little more. Users with lots of goof-off Internet time are probably a little more susceptible to phishing-style attacks than tech workers, so that's a pretty good vector for spying right there.

The problem with things like ransomware is that they're easy to get, and easy to spread around the network, destroying data. Completely banning the Internet is probably not the best solution, but if China really is serious about asserting its dominance in the region, Singapore is a pretty juicy target. It's smack in the middle of a strategic trade route -- that's why the British were there in the first place.

More likely it's the fact that Silicon Valley is a liberal/SJW stronghold, where investors will happily throw money at any company with a female CEO.

As we say in California, what are smoking and where can I get some?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valley-named-13th-best-conservative-city-in-ame-1458838034

GAWKER?!?!?!?!

Yeah, that's a trustworthy source.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ, you scraped right through the bottom of the barrel.

More likely it's the fact that Silicon Valley is a liberal/SJW stronghold, where investors will happily throw money at any company with a female CEO.

As we say in California, what are smoking and where can I get some?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/silicon-valley-named-13th-best-conservative-city-in-ame-1458838034

Here's a cache if anyone is interested. The official page is gone now, no telling if they pulled it or FB did. Gawker has more info, including part of the new clause that says “to not post on any public forum or page negative comments relating to the community.” While it may not be strictly illegal, it would be found discriminatory against those who don't have a Facebook account, internet access, etc. The quoted lawyer mentions this; it might violate other laws too; but it would be trivial to show in court that this is discriminatory against the elderly etc who don't use computers, have a Facebook account, etc. It's not technically a "free speech" issue, since it's not a Government agency forcing this..and at this time the only "free speech" restrictions are the Government, a private corp can do whatever it wants inside it's contractual agreements. Utah, and Salt Lake, might have additional "tenet laws" that might restrict them.

However, IANAL

The Republicans got a candidate that in the general election will bring in a huge number of Democratic votes - one poll shows Trump at 2x the support of minority voters as any other Republican candidate (like Romney) has had.

I think the technical term for that is an "outlier".

Yes Trump will lose some women, but more because Hillary is running than because of Trump

A claim contradicted by the fact that Trump has done worse with women against everyone so far.

- and that doesn't really matter because again polls show Hillary losing as many male votes as Trump loses female.

I'm not sure how that math squares with Clinton being way up in virtually every poll.

The Democrats had their chance to elect someone as good, Sanders, but they choose to go with the most ancient rapist-protecting white person they could find, so they are toast in the general election.

Republicans on the other hand went with an actual rapist.

The very first debate will seal the deal with Trump dancing verbal rings around Hillary.

Some Republicans right now say they will not vote for Trump but Hillary is a rather powerful counterforce for that notion...

I'm sure Trump will claim victory but 1 on 1 debates are a lot less susceptible to Trump's insult comic debate style. His understanding of policy is still atrocious and contradictory and Clinton is used to handling personal attacks, debates are not a place where Trump will gain votes.

Lt John Pike of UC Davis received $38k in compensation for the trauma he suffered which was 8k more than the protesters he assaulted.

The research funding dictated who had a voice.

And those with the voice, can get more research funding. Is not it nice, when the government is picking winners?

Climate science has a harder problem to address, but is as rigorous as is reasonable in the circumstances.

I wonder, what you mean by "rigorous" here. Lysenko, for example, rigorously persecuted adherents of the reactionary Mendelian genetics. And, when their activities endangered the favor he held with the government, denounced them as "enemies of the people".

Something that could never happen in a free country. Right?

Is it really a reliable scientific theory, if police are called on to silence its opponents?

Y'know... this one: http://valleywag.gawker.com/homeless-hater-greg-gopman-sued-for-abusing-funds-and-t-1530897282?

Thought it was hilarious when he re-tweeted Mussolini quotes.

He's of course characteristically unapologetic about it.

http://gawker.com/how-we-foole...

Nevertheless, when it comes to tweeting I still think he exhibits very high competence in terms of employing this medium to his advantage (BTW this is not and endorsement of his politics).

http://gawker.com/this-is-how-...

Wrong. Because of the debt issue, there is some doubt he was ever a billionaire.

Yes, yes, yes finally someone gets it. Yes, she's more republican than Trump and WAY more republican than Sanders.

I will be modded to oblivion by the Hillary shills, but oh well. When you have someone who starts more conflicts than George Bush, pushes MULTIPLE trade agreements to strip US of businesses and workers, was against gay marriage before she was for it, wasn't always on the minority's side, ran a war room against the women which Bill had hurt then tweeted all women who are assaulted should be heart, and is in bed with Wall Street, yes she's pretty much a Republican.

How Hillary gets what she wants
http://gawker.com/this-is-how-...

The "study" is a hoax... http://gawker.com/the-federal-...

But don't let that stop any of you from continuing your super-duper important arguments with randos about democracy, taxes, science funding, founding fathers' visions, discrimination, communism, etc.

While I certainly hope that this is a hoax, I am quite skeptical.

It is a hoax... http://gawker.com/the-federal-...

this is not anonymous, read the gawker story, not this copy-paste hackjob http://gawker.com/voicemails-a...

And he conveniently left the Gawker link out of the summary.... http://gawker.com/voicemails-a... Fucking SEO hound

Yeah. It's kind of sad, especially considering that only a few years ago the Google response to this sort of thing was: "Fuck these guys... The US has to be better than this." Not exactly eloquent, but nicely unequivocal.

Well at least we know Kevin Hart is doing his own tweets!

Thank god the government is doing this. Because it will end or at least greatly reduce the incidence of minors getting access to p0rn, that's for sure. Of course there will always be the troubling borderline cases of people linking to the metric tons of p0rn in all kinds of chat rooms and in all types of contexts, including political ones like, famously, Goatse:

http://gawker.com/finding-goat...

but we can spend more time and money going after those sites and individuals later.

This is a great way for the government to appear to be doing something about something without incurring the statistical risks associated with taking political risks. It's awesomely futile but tailor-made for people for whom the world's real problems just seem overwhelming and intractable. You know things like global warming which may, even now, be on an unstoppable trajectory to wipe human civilization from the Earth, and then they're the refugee crisis and that damn thing *making* all those refugees, what's that place called? Syrianna.. no wait that was a George Clooney movie about something or other... camels and shit like that right? Oh wiat...Syria, ...right?

Then there's the grotesque economic disparities which pose a real threat to the perceived legitimacy of the lawmaking process itself and then there's that whole thing with EU...

Fuck it. Gentlemen, man up. We're going after adult p0rn.

We may have grown up with *exactly* the same access to *exactly* the same images (there's a very limited number of positions the human body can assume and and only so many props which can be meaningfully included) and, truthfully our parents did too and, well, yes, our grandparents and so on in an unbroken chain going back at least to antiquity, in all cultures too, but dammit, we're going to stomp it out.... on the internet.

The stuff they talk about at TED doesn't apply to anyone's life. TED is hot air, fluff, and pie-in-the-sky bullshit. It's a fucking joke!

My favorite TED talk

: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The talk itself is some self indulgent stuff about how she came to believe that there is a God. But irony abounds!

http://gawker.com/professional...

This new reformed woman had a bit of a road rage incident, followed a 73 year old woman home, ran over her with her car, then started to back up to run over her again but fortunately was stopped.

I haven't looked at TED talks the same way ever since .

For those calling for his removal, you'll want to ask them. But he wasn't ousted. He chose to resign, so the person you should ask first, is in fact, Tim Wolfe.

He wrote a resignation letter, and took responsibility at the time, for the mistakes he made. Mostly inaction and indifference seems to be the gist of it. Basically, silence. Which can, indeed, be a wrong way to handle many problems.

More recently, though, he emailed something else, that seems to be filled with a lot of sour grapes.

So sometimes they're the last words too.

Journalists report on things they've observed first hand.

Just because 100,000 partisan gossips refer to each other as journalists and publish words that have been strung into paragraphs doesn't make what they do journalism.

Ideal journalism is devoid of opinions, devoid of conclusions. It informs without attempting to lead the reader towards a value judgement, allowing us to make better decisions.

Journalism is dead, and it's the likes of Gawker that killed it in the first place. They put it right in their mission statement:

http://gawker.com/5951868/the-...

If you want people to be well informed with unbiased information, maybe protecting them from the likes of Gawker would be a good start.

http://gawker.com/ipad-hacker-...

"... Amazon can and does hire geniuses..."

Amazon can and does do foolish things. Abusing Amazon employees is just one example. A few links:

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

"... Amazon can and does hire geniuses..."

Amazon can and does do foolish things. Abusing Amazon employees is just one example. A few links:

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

"... Amazon can and does hire geniuses..."

Amazon can and does do foolish things. Abusing Amazon employees is just one example. A few links:

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

Libertarianism doesn't require faith in that. The mix of people actually enjoying acting out of altruism and the situations where people acting for their own good inherently results in the good of the commons (competition, efficiency improvements) is enough for a lot of things and is quite demonstrable without any faith needed.

Uh, OK, if you say so.

By the way, if you are looking for an investment there is some land in Chile you may be interested in:

http://gawker.com/ayn-rands-capitalist-paradise-is-now-a-greedy-land-grab-1627574870

First of all, there is nothing "dumbed down" about dictionary. It provides a definition. Looking at examples may help get a better feeling for the term, but the definition remains. Italian example, Spanish example, German example — what's relevant and what is not?

Hitler was a vegetarian — are vegetarians fascists? No. Mussolini was a journalist — are journalists all crypto-fascists? No.

Hitler, Mussolini, Franco all valued the State (the Collective, the Community) above the Individual — are all such Collectivists Fascists? Yes, actually — so long as they also favor forcible suppression of opposition and long for a dictatorial leader. Not because I hate them and use "fascist" as simply a dirty word, but by definition.

Has Trump indicated a preference for any such Collectivism? Apparently, not — despite bombastic accusations, the actual quotes are yet to appear.

If all judges were this sensible, then those who want to imprison people for "climate change denial" will be thwarted.

All zero people.

Well probably not quite zero, there's enough people in the world that there's probably one nutjob who says something like that. I'll bet you can't find a remotely significant number of people with such views.

Crawl out from under that rock, because you're WRONG:

Read a US Senator (Democrat, natch) call for bringing RICO charges against climate deniers.

More here: Arrest Climate-Change Deniers

And here: Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent?

More: Al Gore Blasts GOP Climate Deniers, Thom Hartmann Says Throw Them in Jail

Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice

Death Penalty for Global Warming Deniers?

WTF? DEATH PENALTY?!?!?!

Yes indeed - death penalty. And he's not alone:

Climate “Deniers” Must Be Jailed or Killed

What States' Attorneys General Can Do About Climate Deniers (Hard to believe the Kennedy clan has fallen that far - JFK tried to depose a Communist dictator instead of sucking up to him...)

All zero people.

Lawrence Torcello blows a hole in that claim: http://gawker.com/arrest-clima...

Though you're right, there (thankfully) doesn't seem to be a significant number of people who agree with him.

uh... he was voted in twice.

It is not a vote, if the winner is known with 146% certainty ahead of time. (Time for Russians to recognize that too, by the way.) Syrian elections last year were a sham.

If that's not legitimising his position, what is?

Easy: a vote, that takes place after multiple challengers are allowed to campaign — unmolested — before the poll and where the vote-count raises no questions of large-scale manipulation (small-scale abuses are inevitable).

Basically the original Wunderground.com site was very, very data dense, and had lots of links to specific views of weather data, data patterns, forecasts including aviation and maritime. You also got a post-it note sized wundermap view of your local area with all of this data. Rather than getting a TV man weather report, they gave you a full weather station with all the relevant data feeds. It was very transparent and if you disagreed with the weather report, there was enough data go dig in and decide if the model was off, or if that weather pattern would impact your local area.
 
The new "web 2.0" redesign dumped most of that data deep in the website, or hid it completely. Rather than having an all-in-one page, you were forced to hunt for relevant information. Data density dropped way, way down as well, which made it harder to put together a coherent picture yourself. If you just wanted to know if it was going to be sunny on Saturday, the new Wunderground was for you. If you were a hard core weather junkie who helped build up the site by telling all your friends about it for the last 15 years, it was total garbage. Since wunderground's primary audience was talented nerds, the new design did not go over well, and it didn't offer anything special (other than Wundermap which is a polished feed of the high resolution radar data now avalible for $$$ from NOAA) so it just kind of died due to absolutely shit management not understanding their core audience, and then alienating them by turning off classic.wunderground.com earlier this year.
 
Here's a NYT article on the topic
 
Here's a blog post detailing the changes
 
  OLD - Here is a screenshot of "Classic" Wunderground, essentially unchanged from 2002 or so when the site really took off: https://i.imgur.com/7PA9TQF.png
 
  NEW - Here is the site with it's "web 2.0 redesign" that went in to beta around 2010 and finally completely replaced Wunderground Classic in 2015: https://i.imgur.com/P7SU61J.png
 
The old site had it's fans for their reasons and it wasn't for everyone, but it was still the best online weather station data aggregator when they finally put it down. The only thing that could have made it beter was some sort of integration with stormpulse (I reccomend Cyclocane as a free alternative)

Facebook was FOR the CISA bill (Google it)

So please, stop using Facebook or you're complicit in everything Zuckerberg does.

Don't forget his famous quote...

"They trust me â" dumb fucks," -Zuckerberg
http://gawker.com/5636765/face...

He simply does not understand why most people would not embrace this. It seems perfectly logical to him. It is efficient. It is through. It saves time and energy. It puts a "team" on raising your kids.

And when the time comes, they'll trust the company enough to be easier to cook and eat -- hold on, that line wasn't supposed to make it into the press release. Send it back to PR and have them review *the whole thing* and let me know when the next draft is ready. Sheesh.

Burned koran

Obviously the more important followup questions are: "How did the moon get there? . . . How come we have that and Mars doesn't have it? . . . "

Can they even tell themselves apart ?

I guess their CEO (Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli) harasses people on the internet as well.

See:
http://gawker.com/lawsuit-scum...

And, now, tell us ... just how much scrutiny are the luggage handlers under while they work?

Dunno if you remember this little incident:

http://gawker.com/5852669/tsa-...

Short version, TSA agent finds a personal vibrator in a woman's luggage, and leaves her a note:

"Get your freak on girl!"

Unfortunately for the snoopy - probably sniffy - TSA agent the woman was a fairly well known blogger.

So not much oversight, it would seem.

Maybe because it's part of a pattern of "willful" coverup under her tenure?

http://gawker.com/state-department-finds-thousands-of-philippe-reines-ema-1724560491

"Over two years ago, the department claimed that 'no records responsive to your request were located' - a baffling assertion, given Reine's well-documented correspondence..." "Last last week, however, the State Department came up with a very different answer: It had located an estimated 17,000 emails responsive to Gawker's request."

It took a lawsuit to uncover the State Department's illegal response to a Freedom of Information Act request. In this case, "20 boxes" of official emails were found on the personal account of Reines.

Philippe Reines was the former deputy assistant secretary of state and "aggressive defender" of Hillary Clinton.

Perhaps you don't like Gawker. Well, how about the Associated Press which is also suing the State Department to force the release of email correspondence and documents because of their unresponsiveness to FOIA requests: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/ap-sues-state-department_n_6847146.html.

The choices of what's going on are easily reduced to a small number:

- Clinton and her top aides simply care nothing about protocol because they're going to do things their way and screw what everyone thinks about it

- Clinton and her top aides willfully violated the law on multiple occasions and don't care what anyone thinks of it

- Clinton and her top aides were consistently incompetent in executing their statute-mandated responsibilities

- It's a vast, right-wing conspiracy to bring down the Clintons.

Now, which of the first three choices leads anyone to believe that Clinton deserves to be President?

If you still think it's a vast, right-wing conspiracy then I guess you have to throw the federal district courts and Clinton-appointed judges into the mix.

The database can't be trusted, and I can verify this because my email address is in their database...
I know this because whoever signed up my address was able to do so without access to my email account...
Merely having an email address listed in the leaked database is not proof of anything...

How about credit card transactions? It doesn't mean a whole lot when joesmithsonnwa@gmail.com is listed as a member, but when that account is paid for by Joshua Duggar with two of his known addresses then that's a little more incriminating.

Lol, your reference is a satire site that starts off "Adrian Chen (aka Gaydrian Chen)" and that he's "a half-breed dwarf fresh out of community college" using "jew-gold rearing techniques"?

For those who want actual background... Basically, there was for a period a Reddit war against him because he exposed one of their moderators who ran a section peddling racy images of young girls, among many other kinds of nastiness.

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Is Amazon an unpleasant place to work? Quote: "Based on my experience, I agree with what everyone has said about the company being a horrible place to work."

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Is Amazon an unpleasant place to work? Quote: "Based on my experience, I agree with what everyone has said about the company being a horrible place to work."

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Is Amazon an unpleasant place to work? Quote: "Based on my experience, I agree with what everyone has said about the company being a horrible place to work."

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

"After reading this I'm not going to even entertain the thought of working there."

A few links to stories that say that's a good decision:

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second

"After reading this I'm not going to even entertain the thought of working there."

A few links to stories that say that's a good decision:

Dear Amazon interns, some advice from an old man who has been at Amazon way too long. Quote: "Amazon's work-life balance is awful."

Inside Amazon's Kafkaesque performance-improvement plan

Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture

Glassdoor Reviews of Amazon

Amazon Is a Time Thief, by an Amazon Employee.

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing.

Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second