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Pelosi actually opposed it from the start http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Poli...

Whether it was partisan politics, I cannot say. Probably more likely upset over the Bush administration cutting off information going into her oversight committee.

Even if every detail in the summary is true it's STILL likely to not be an accurate depiction of the entire profile of the gunman.

http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...

I blame booze.

http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...

Sure, but when you are racking up $30K utility bills at your Tennessee estate you can blow through your millions pretty quickly...

Maybe, but we Americans work longer hours than Japanese do.

USA! USA! We're #1!

Bill Gates is only going to buy so many TVs, cars, and houses. Doubling his wealth is not going to change his spending habits.

Actually, I can say with high confidence that his spending habits would change. If his income increased by 100%, the amount he gives to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would increase by more than 100%.

That's simply how philanthropy works. A group of poor people, as much as they might want to engage in philanthropy, simply doesn't have the means to. If their situation improves, such that their own basic needs are taken care of, they tend to become philanthropists who donate a small percentage of their income. If the group's situation improves further, such that their basic needs as well as their more frivolous wants are taken care of, they tend to become philanthropists who donate a large percentage of their income. (There are, of course, exceptions to every rule.)

I look forward to the day when the economy has grown to the point where the social safety net can be funded entirely by voluntary contributions, as opposed to tax revenue that is collected coercively, even while providing more robust services than it does today.

That idea is not farfetched. Americans gave $373.25 billion to charity in 2015. I.e., about 16% of wealth redistribution was voluntary, while the other 84% was coercive. (Ok, the second statistic was from 2012; sorry I don't have something more current.) A few more decades of robust growth in Americans' incomes -- which would result in even more robust growth in their charitable contributions -- would bring us into a much better situation, where it is no longer necessary to redistribute any assets coercively. Imagine how much political rancor would dry up in that situation.

It's true that Boards of Directors often approve very large compensation packages for CEOs. They don't do this for lulz, or because they like to squander the company's resources. They do it because of a sincere belief that it's worth it; that the overall health of the company will be optimized by providing the kind of compensation it takes to attract a top-quality CEO.

Critical thinking should be applied to everything, including those who would second-guess Boards of Directors. What makes them qualified to do so? Have they ever even served on a Board of Directors? They often claim that CEO pay structure is not based on actual scarcities. Actually, top-quality CEOs are quite scarce. It's not a job I could do.

Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

Six whole minutes is quite luxurious, we have two minutes a day to empty our catheter bags and we get are only allowed to buy the official company issues bags from the company store at special discount employee rates.

shudder....

Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

I'd really be pissed about that!

Gotta be a lotta prolapses in that place.

Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

Six whole minutes is quite luxurious, we have two minutes a day to empty our catheter bags and we get are only allowed to buy the official company issues bags from the company store at special discount employee rates.

Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

I'd really be pissed about that!

Please somebody let me know if they report when you fart.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

Barring absolutely needing the job not to be on the street, I would not work at such a place.

And How! I had three separate offices, and was in constant movement. I even wonder how many employees this could even be useful for. No way I would work for these tools both in a job that required being tethered to a desk, and distrusted that much.

This sort of thing will get to the point where even the rabid anti-union types will be rethinking that opinion, and maybe companies who would like to remain union-free should think about such things.

Here's a 2014 report on a company that tried to limit employee bathroom use to 6 minutes per day. http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

Yes, Republicans used their only African-American senator, Time Scott, to speak for Jeff Sessions. No big surprise that he is supporting his party.

Saying that Corretta Scott King was thanking Jeff Sessions for the Rosa Parks Library is rather misleading. She was just acknowledging his presence. There was no thank you in the speech to Jeff Sessions. He was just acknowledged as being there along with all the other notable people in attendance. She was given a list of names to read for the opening of the library; his name was on the list. If you actually watch the video she has to pause and force herself to even read the name and she does not look happy about it.

Jeff Sessions was not liked by Coretta Scott King, you can read her letter for yourself:

https://www.documentcloud.org/...

Sean Spicer said “I can only hope that if she was still with us today, that after getting to know him and to see his record and his commitment to voting and civil rights, that she would” regret her opposition. In some right wing news this is being used as a claim that if Coretta Scott King were alive today she would support Jeff Sessions; that is another alternative fact being put out by the right.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Jeff Sessions has a 20% voting record on civil-rights according to the ACLU, which are some of the major issues it is now his job to protect. He has a 7% voting record for African-American issues according to the NAACP. Jeff Sessions has called the NAACP, the ACLU, and other civil rights groups "un-American."

http://www.ontheissues.org/Dom...

Jeff Sessions allegedly told a black attorney that the Ku Klux Klan was "OK until I found out they smoked pot." Sessions used to call a black assistant U.S. attorney that worked for him, Thomas Figures, "boy." When asked about the comment "Sessions apologized and said the remark was a joke." Personally, I don't accept the excuse every time a politician is caught making a racist statement that they were just making a joke and telling an African-American that you think the KKK is OK isn't very funny.

Jeff Sessions believes government services should only be available in English even though the US has no official language.

Jeff Sessions refused to support the removal of a racist judge who said black people "don't want to work" and that affirmative action is repugnant. Sessions said that the judge was "insensitive at worst."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

http://fortune.com/2016/11/19/...

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE -- all countries with which Trump has business dealings -- are still off the hook.

While I agree that those countries should also be on the list, that's a difficult proposition at the moment. Maybe when we're no longer dependent on their oil, which for better or worse is something Trump seems to be trying to do by cutting down the EPA. Either way, the travel ban was a list already comprised by the Obama administration and most of those countries have been bombed by the US in the last few years. Would you want to invest your money in a country that's being bombed? As a /.er you should understand the difference between correlation and causation.

On a curious side note, why is it that the media is spouting that it was Saudis who did 9/11 now but no one said a thing about that when we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as a result of 9/11?

Anyway, while there haven't been "terror deaths" there certainly have been incidents, and Europe is currently experiencing a surge in crime since the refugees started coming in, with many of the crimes going unreported in the media and sometimes even unpunished in a misguided attempt to prevent racism.

A three-month ban is a pain in the ass for the people involved, but nothing insurmountable (i.e., don't leave the country for a few months... this is something I've had to deal with multiple times when moving to other countries), and no one said anything when the Obama administration stopped processing visa applications for Iraqis for six months.

https://muslimstatistics.wordp...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
https://www.welt.de/politik/de... (in German)
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

YES THERE WAS END OF STORY. "As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets."
The Obama administration silently stopped processing applications.
Press and fact checkers are completely lying about it now, saying there wasn't an official ban, nope just a silent one.
The press found out about it months later in 2011 , because US military interpreters couldn't get visas.
This was big up roar then , but the media has suddenly "forgotten" it or has misremembered that disagree with their own reporting.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Nope Obama's State department silently banned them. "As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets."
MSM and fact checkers is completely lying about it now, saying there wasn't an ban.Yes there was, it was just a silent ban.
The press found out about it months later , because US military interpreters couldn't get visas.
This was big up roar then , but the media has suddenly "forgotten" it or has "alternative facts" that disagree with their own reporting.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

"As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets."
The Obama administration silently stopped processing applications.
Press and fact checkers are completely lying about it now, saying there wasn't an executive order, nope they just silently stop processing all refugee visas.
The press found out about it months later , because US military interpreters couldn't get visas.
This was big up roar then , but the media has suddenly "forgotten" it or has "alternative facts" that disagree with their own reporting.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

EO was amended for translators https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Unlike Obama who silently banned them for 6 months. "As a result of the Kentucky case, the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011, federal officials told ABC News – even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...
The MSM and the fact checkers are mis-remembering that there was a big up roar in 2011 for the exact reason, but now they are trying to say it didn't happen, even though there own articles from the period said it did happen.

"the State Department stopped processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011" - ABC News

BULLSHIT YES HE DID http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

WRONG SNOPES IS BULLSHIT, ABCNEWS clearly has a state department quote that they stopped ALL refugees processing for 6 months, which would be visas. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

I call bullshit. I remember Trump telling supporters during a rally to hit protesters and he would pay for their legal fees. I remember seeing on the news an elderly man at a Trump rally punch a protester in the face as the protester was being dragged out by security.

They've hugged and made up since then.

I am sure the ass hat that burned down that mosque in Texas was a Trump supporter.

Are you referring to the mosque that was burned down in 2016, or the mosque that was burned down in 2015? Because the 2015 arsonist is a Muslim who attended prayers 5 times a day, before burning down his own mosque on Christmas day. As for the 2016 arson, I'll wait for the police report, thank you.

I am sure the neo nazi wanna be that burned down those churches in the south this last summer would vote for Trump.

Actually, there was a grand total of one black church that was burned down and vandalized with "Vote Trump" graffiti. It turns out the arsonist was black, and a member of the congregation to boot. More encouragingly, the church has since raised over $170,000 from donors to rebuild the church, many of which were donations from Trump supporters.

If you are not willing to speak out against those instances of violence by your fellow Trump supporters you have no right to bitch about being targeted.

Got any more? Knocking these down is pretty fun.

As I said, it can take over a decade to get a green card, and longer to get citizenship. It's not easy. We have an unknown number of H1-B workers, but it's probably over 600,000 (as of 2011), probably more now. So saying that green cards and citizenship are 'available' is ignoring reality. Most workers on H1-B are trapped in that status, and as long as they are they cannot fight back against poor working conditions or unequal pay... and that is depressing wages more than any other single factor.

This was embarrassing.

Yes, an embarrassing set of hysteria from the right wing, who forgot the truth on their way to their latest outrage.

Tell us about the curtains, the birth certificate and the training exercise.

The Mexican president canceling a meeting in a huff? Not so much.

Oh oh, oh, ooloorie, you forgot, Trump said it was "mutual" so you are passing the wrong story.

Of course, now he has to meet with another populist radical, who wants to advance her own agenda over the wishes of the actual elected government which only now is she spinning as what she intended to do all along.

I guess we can start calling it AirStrip One.

So far, NIMBYs have been very effective at killing offshore wind farms. Waterfront property is typically owned by "special" people, and they don't like the noise of wind turbines. http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

So, Bush and Obama were both shitty Presidents. I think that has been firmly established. Should we just give worthless piece of shit Trump a pass since the other Presidents were shitty, too?

Hillary put one of her big donors on a government intelligence advisory board, even though he had no relevant experience.

Yes, we can give Trump a pass on appointing Giuliani.

And also, why are you insulting our president?

Hillary lost.

Get over it.

What makes you say that? Everything that Trump has said in the past about it has been in support of LGBT rights, not against.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

But perhaps you were just trolling?

And you should also admit that Trump is largely the source of the "hire local" climate, he's caused companies to rethink their outsourcing plans, especially in light of the alternative candidate who said explicitly that she wants completely open borders for job seekers.

Nope. That's been something proclaimed for YEARS. It's been a scam.

So is Trump's "Carrier deal" and "Ford and he lied about "Boeing too.

Durp, durp, durp. You lie about Hillary Clinton as well. Just like Your Orange God

Who also made up a story about bidding on drugs. LOL. Yeah, let's see him change the Republican's opposition to the reform proposed by Democrats for decades. He'll either come up with a way to screw us, or fail and claim he somehow saved us anyway.

But none of that matters. I don't think many people really care who takes the credit.

Is it important to you?

Help me out here.

Why should credit even matter?

Ask your good buddy, Donald J. Trump, who puts his name on everything.

Sorry, but some of us know that Donald only wants CREDIT for success, he doesn't even care if the job gets done.

Maybe you like his over-the-top bombastic style of self-aggrandizement, maybe you think his much vaunted narcissism is a matter of virtue, but you're the one who has to look at what you've embraced.

With open eyes. He's already said he likes being liked. He can't see a problem in that. He'll be a suck-up to anybody who offers him praise.

And if you dare to criticize or challenge him, he'll throw a tantrum.

Plenty of ACs have posted here that the U.S. is only going after non-American firms. Well, here's your red meat...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

Ipilimumab and Pembrolizumab were fast-track approved by the FDA. They are credited with getting Jimmy Carter into remission.

Immunotherapy is still bleeding edge stuff with much of it not out of trials yet. It probably hasn't impacted survival numbers yet.

The FDA has been fast-tracking immunotherapy drugs. Pembrolizumab and Ipilimumab have been approved and credited with the remarkable remission in Jimmy Carter.

It's hard to imagine that is all they are after and that there would be no follow up suit to recover unspecified amount that the government spent to integrate with the Google services. The entire revenue that Google received from Uncle Sam is virtually nothing ($600,000 over 2 years according to http://abcnews.go.com/Business...). That would pay a salary of, at most, 2 developers at Google (remember this is over 2 years). If the only thing at stake was the loss of the contracts themselves, Google would have dropped em like a hot potato a long time ago.

Global political attacks on cash (India http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl..., Pakistan http://www.financialexpress.co..., Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/wo..., Euro http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...) and gold (India gold ownership limits http://www.indianjobs4u.com/go...) and Euro currency (Italian bank bailout worries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...), US (geopolitical uncertainty from Trump, interest rate hikes http://abcnews.go.com/Business...), brexit (UK in or out of Europe http://www.express.co.uk/news/...) are all bullish for Bitcoin into 2017.

Hey, I'm a huge fan of campaign finance reform (although Clinton has not been accused of any criminal wrong doing in any of that) None of that makes what the Russians did alright though.

Also, the RNC being hacked is not universally agreed upon: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

And if say the RNC had been hacked the lack of releases is certainly not proof that everything is morally prestine with them. One could just as easily say that that is proof the hackers favored Trump as i find it highly unlikely that both parties dont have a good bit of dirty laundry tucked away.

As for Trump, he still has plenty to hide. How about those tax returns?

The system was reportedly engaged after sensing a collision.

The regulation was adopted to reduce the number of rear end collisions by trucks.

So, ... this system reduces the number of rear end collisions by slamming on the breaks after it hits something?

Yessir, unfortunately the biomatter sensor had been bypassed after multiple roe deer collisions.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-elect-trump-hold-public-events-election-win/story?id=43896199

"Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences," he said to workers at the Carrier plant. "These companies aren't going to be leaving anymore. They aren't going to be taking people's hearts out."

That's what Carnival/Cap seem to have factored in. Which is why they are offering their IT staff the chance to join Capgemini. I'd say that's a lot better than what Disney or other companies have done in the recent past: firing the workers and offering them severance only if they train their replacements.

I think the workers should take this, and then look out at the competitors - Accenture, Deloitte, KPMG, et al. It has the potential of making them more portable employees in the market

"Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences," he said to workers at the Carrier plant. "These companies aren't going to be leaving anymore. They aren't going to be taking people's hearts out."

No, he advocated for an immigration registry to help with the immigration vetting process. The "Muslim Registry" was part of that fake news that people seem to think helped Trump win the election.

I must call you out on this: it is not "fake news". It is actual news based on something he said. The transcript is here. It's clear that to a degree he is being led on by the reporter and, as is often the case, isn't really thinking about the answers he's giving. He provides vague replies about "management" being the solution and appears distracted. Nonetheless, what's most striking is that he doesn't attach much significance to the concept of a Muslim database. It seems like a totally reasonable idea to him. If I was a Muslim in the US, this is what would worry me. My worry would be compounded by his reaction to the questions in the second half of this video. He's asked about the racial discrimination which a database might bring about and repeatedly avoids the question. He has an opportunity to clarify his views and reassure, but he doesn't take it. It is worrying when someone reacts in the way that he does and none of this information is in any way "fake".

Your video really more shows the opposite of what you claim. Trump never volunteers anything about a "Muslim Registry". The interviewer instead opens with the question "would you support a database for tracking muslims", which is clearly trying to call him out, reveal his racism, or put words in his mouth depending how you want to view it. Trump agrees, but his later comments put some question on what he was agreeing to. He repeatedly references it as a method for stopping illegal immigration. It sounds as though the interviewer is talking about a 'muslim' database but Trump is responding and talking about an immigration database.

Plainly the interview doesn't give you warm fuzzies for Trump, but it's not exactly a smoking gun for him supporting a Muslim registry either, it looks equally strongly like a 'fake' news attempt to make it look like he supports one.

Do you have some better, less nuanced sources? We have video/audio recordings of blaming climate change on a chinese conspiracy, and about grabbing women by there private parts. Surely if Trump supports a muslim registry there is something more conclusive than what looks like a baited question that Trumps mind translated over to immigration database instead of muslim registry.

In an interview with NBC News last November, Trump was asked: "is there going to be a database that tracks the Muslims here in this country?"

The remarks were made after a rally, and there was speculation by some on social media afterwards that Trump did not hear the entirety of the question, because he refers to the border in his answer.

"There should be a lot of systems, beyond database, we should have a lot of systems, and today you can do it," Trump responds. "But right now we have to have a border, we have to have strength, we have to have a wall. And we cannot let what's happening to this country happen."

"But that's something your White House would like to implement?" the reporter presses.

"Oh I would certainly implement that. Absolutely." Trump answers.

But Trump continues to talk about the logistics of implementing such a database at length.

"But for Muslims specifically, how do you actually get them registered in a database?" the reporter asks. Trump responds: "It would be just good management. What you have to do is good management procedures and we can do that."

He also responds to a question about going to mosques to "sign these people up." "Different places, you sign them up at different, but it's all about management, our country has no management," Trump says.

Here's a news flash for you - ABC News is not "just some news outlet". Just because they showed Trump saying something stupid doesn't mean they have an agenda, beyond reporting on actual events. They gave plenty of bad press to Hillary as well. Even more so, just like all the other news outlets in the country, they contributed to trillions of dollars of free media coverage for Trump.

You can read the transcript of the conversation here. Like many things related to Trump, it's a confusing and vague conversation, that allows you to draw your own conclusions.

No, he advocated for an immigration registry to help with the immigration vetting process. The "Muslim Registry" was part of that fake news that people seem to think helped Trump win the election.

I must call you out on this: it is not "fake news". It is actual news based on something he said. The transcript is here. It's clear that to a degree he is being led on by the reporter and, as is often the case, isn't really thinking about the answers he's giving. He provides vague replies about "management" being the solution and appears distracted. Nonetheless, what's most striking is that he doesn't attach much significance to the concept of a Muslim database. It seems like a totally reasonable idea to him. If I was a Muslim in the US, this is what would worry me. My worry would be compounded by his reaction to the questions in the second half of this video. He's asked about the racial discrimination which a database might bring about and repeatedly avoids the question. He has an opportunity to clarify his views and reassure, but he doesn't take it. It is worrying when someone reacts in the way that he does and none of this information is in any way "fake".

Seriously, how much of your own kool-aide can you drink?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
(warning, bs autoplaying video)

"âoePresident-elect Trump has never advocated for any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion, and to imply otherwise is completely false," Jason Miller, Communications Director of the Presidential Transition Team, wrote in a statement. "The national registry of foreign visitors from countries with high terrorism activity that was in place during the Bush and Obama Administrations gave intelligence and law enforcement communities additional tools to keep our country safe the President-elect will release his own vetting policies after he is sworn in.""

The article goes on to illustrate where the idea apparently came from, in a probably-misheard question during a rally.

From what I can see, a good 50% of the panic the left is feeling over the Trump presidency is being startled by THEIR OWN STRAWMEN.

Pipelines are only safer then the alternatives when things like the safest route is taken. In this case the safest route was close to Bismark and the people of Bismark protested so the pipeline was moved to go under a lake instead of the shorter route under the river.

Completely wrong on multiple points.

1. It wasn't the safest route,
2. the people of Bismark didn't even have a chance to complain because the early plan was killed before it even got submitted to State-level agencies.
3. It wasn't the shortest route either.
4. It's still going under the river. The 'Lake' is a manmade reservoir in which the river was just widened via a dam.

The Army Corps of Engineers nixed the idea because it made the pipeline 10 miles longer AND it make it much harder to keep the pipeline the minimum 500 feet from homes and put the water of far more people at risk. http://abcnews.go.com/US/previ...

Just an FYI, the entire state of North Dakota has less than 1 million people. Bismark has 67k people, and the entire Standing Rock Reservation has about 8k people.

Also FYI - over 80% of those arrested at the DAPL protests are not Natives - neither North Dakota/South Dakota citizens, nor Standing Rock tribal members.

I think the Standing Rock tribe did get screwed repeatedly historically, and had a right to protest and be heard. However, the Army Corps of Engineers hadn't even made their determination regarding permits to go under the river yet, so none of the sabotage and militant action was justified. All the idiots going "Hey, Why did Bismark get a pass? RACISM!" were jumping the gun because the same agency that made the determination RE: BIsmark were still assessing the Standing Rock crossing - the approval process hadn't even been completed yet.

In reality, most of the protesters currently at the camp in ND have been bouncing from one camp to another along the route causing trouble, spills, and related environmental damage. http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

  The Standing Rock camp just got the most publicity, and the tribe got used again. This time for the alt-left's ideological extremism.

Stating a fact is not a strawman argument. Trump did petition to have a sea wall installed and in his petition it is specifically stated it is because of the possibility of rising sea levels due to climate change. The exact words:

"If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland."

Further, he sent out flyers to the local populace in regards to this proposal in which it states:

"Predicted sea level rise and more frequent storm events will increase the rate of erosion throughout the 21st century."

So Trump being Trump, he says one thing but does another. Like his golf course in Connecticut which he has repeatedly bragged is worth $50 million but wanted to claim on his taxes was only worth $1.5 million.

Then again, the con artist has done the same thing around the country with his golf courses, bragging about being worth X millions but claiming for tax purposes significantly lower values.

Have trouble finding wikipedia?

But that's a lot of info, you'll likely just try to hand-wave it away. So, let's get your opinion on something specific: http://abcnews.go.com/US/asian...

Around the 6:25 mark in the video, there's the part the reporter wrote about this way:
Because Richard Spencer had just told me with a smile on his face that I would not be allowed to live in the all-white ethno-state he envisions for the future.
"You could have your own ethno-state," he offered ...

How, exactly, is that anything other than racism?

Go to around 6:25 in the video.

That part of the video is quoted in another article by JuJu Chang:
. . . Richard Spencer had just told me with a smile on his face that I would not be allowed to live in the all-white ethno-state he envisions for the future.
"You could have your own ethno-state," he offered ...

Google: "Richard Spencer Ethno State"

You could also listen to this interview: http://abcnews.go.com/US/white...
or just read their synopsis:
His deeply inflammatory world view involves an all-white "ethno state" where races are segregated through peaceful "ethnic cleansing," though he has been quoted before as saying that it could be bloody.

Even more links are available through the guy's Wikipedia page.

His deeply inflammatory world view involves an all-white "ethno state" where races are segregated through peaceful "ethnic cleansing," though he has been quoted before as saying that it could be bloody.

From http://abcnews.go.com/US/white...

I remember tons of road construction with signs saying it was being done with stimulus funds.

I remember hearing about how those signs were quite expensive and paid for by the stimulus.

Should be trivial to construct a USB charging cable with inline fuses (or sacrificial caps/resistors/diodes), maybe adding $1 to the cost of the cable, and protecting your expensive devices from not just intentional sabotage, but also cheap, poorly engineered chargers, which might just kill you.

It was already bad hygiene to plug-in a USB cable that has the data lines intact into a public port, as all your data could be quietly siphoned off, and malware loaded on. If this new threat gets people to pay attention to previous threats, we might all be better off for it.

I agree the cable can be made. You could also just require everyone to use wireless charging. It would be more difficult to damage things that way. In fact I'm looking for a good 5.5" android phone that supports wireless charging, ideally cheaply. The best I saw was like $240 plus a supported QI charging module.

I have no idea why wireless charging isn't more popular...