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You're right the NSA as a body has far more pressing concerns, but the problem is information collected is open for personal abuse by pubic servants. The eavesdropping on American soldiers phoning their loved ones shows some public servants *ARE* very much interested in "how drunk Motard got at the bar last night":

US:

“Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans,” Brian Ross, Vic Walter, Anna Schecter. ABC Nightline, 2008-10-09 “"Calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses, sometimes their girlfriends, sometimes one phone call following another," said Faulk. ... Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer. ... "Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.” http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

“Cop Suspected of Using Database to Plan Murder of Ex-wife.” http://rense.com/general26/top...

“FBI Files Sold to Mob and International Criminals by Nevada Attorney General's Office Employee and Former FBI Agent.” http://rense.com/general26/top...

“The Highland, Indiana, police department had its access to the state's FBI database suspended due to misuse. ... State police auditors claim that local investigators had been using the system to run checks on contractors and door-to-door solicitors in direct violation of IDACS policy, and continued to do so even after being warned.” http://rense.com/general26/top...

‘Political Candidates Probed by Police Chief in Eastpointe, Michigan.’ http://rense.com/general26/top...

“Police Investigated for Using Database to Target Organizers of Sheriff-Recall Campaign” http://rense.com/general26/top...

“Butler County Prosecutor's Office Uses Database to Smear Prosecutor's Political Opponent” http://rense.com/general26/top...

“Police Lieutenant Charged With Abusing Database to Influence Elections” http://rense.com/general26/top...

“Cop Fired for Abusing Database, Chief Accused as Well.” http://rense.com/general26/top...

“Amid Concerns, FBI Lapses Went On.” Jeffrey Smith and John Solomon, Washington Post, 2007-03-18. “FBI counterterrorism officials continued to use flawed procedures to obtain thousands of U.S. telephone records during a two-year period when bureau lawyers and managers were expressing escalating concerns about the practice” http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

“School Spies on Students at Home With Webcams: Suit,” Teresa Masterson, NBC, 2010-02-18. “A Philadelphia-area school official confronted a student with photographic evidence that he was doing bad things at home. She got her evidence by activating the webcam on the laptop in his house, a lawsuit claims. Lower Merion School District officials are spying on students and their families inside their homes with Web cameras

What kind of major outlets are you looking for?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gr...

http://www.npr.org/sections/th...

Hell, even the NY Daily News covered it:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

It's not nearly as simple as that. In terms of outdoor water supplies, I'm not sure it's particularly dangerous. Bacteria break down quickly in tropical water, though viruses are a bigger problem. But there are plenty of nasty water supplies in other places. For example, there are brain eating amoebas that live in deeper water in the United States. While water treatment means human activities don't pollute the water like in Brazil, plenty of other nasty things can live there, including things that don't die as readily outside of the tropics.

As for the diving well, it's a mistake that shouldn't happen, but sounds like the result of human error. Can you trust pools in the United States to be sanitary? Human error and incompetence can occur anywhere. It might be a good thing that this happened in an outdoor pool in Rio, where at least the rapid growth of the algae quickly alerted everyone that something wasn't right. It's less likely that algae would have grown quickly in an indoor pool, which might have allowed harmful things like bacteria and viruses to grow more before it became obvious there was a problem. Once the algae bloomed, adding a large amount of chlorine is one of the recommended steps to treat the problem in any pool. I don't see why human error and incompetence are inherently less likely in, say, Beijing or London. It could happen in Indianapolis, where Olympic trials take place. Can you trust a hotel pool to be safe and clean? There was at least a lot of monitoring at the Olympics to quickly test for safety and then to act accordingly. I'd bet many hotel pool are far more unhealthy than the diving well ever became. Back in 2008, one in eight public swimming pools in the United States were immediately shut down after inspection because of unsafe water or other dangerous conditions.

Also, the chemical smell that pools sometimes get is actually from chloramines, which develop from the interaction of chlorine with things like bacteria. If a pool has a strong smell, it's quite possibly unsafe. And chloramines aren't safe, either. Thats also what forms when you mix ammonia and bleach.

As for my statement about public pools: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/cdc-swimming-pools-pose-infection-risk/story?id=10711137

While the green algae blooming drew a lot of attention, I don't see this as being a result of incompetence from hosting the Olympics in Rio. I'd much rather swim in the diving well in Rio than take my chances with many public pools in the United States.

It's becoming more and more clear, that Baltimore is going to require a truly massive purge of it's law enforcement ranks. Not just slaps on the wrist, or re-training, but a flat-out "You're fired, and law enforcement credentials revoked" kind of thing.

There won't be any mass riots or anything like that. Those happen because the firings haven't happened when they should.

If anything, it'll become the most peaceful, most pleasant city to live in, until a fresh crop of high-IQ, college-graduates can be convinced to take the job.

When Pennsylvania tried to enact a voter ID law the people who voted for it (all Republicans) openly stated they could not point to a single act of voter fraud. The best they could say was, "the number of voter fraud cases that are prosecuted are only a sliver of the fraud taking place because there is no system in place to detect fraud."

Which is a great work of circular reasoning. One can't show voting fraud has taken place but that's only because there isn't any way to detect it. If one can't detect voter fraud, how do you know it's taking place?

One of the biggest issues with PA's attempt was the person who did not have a driver's license had to travel to only a select few locations during certain hours and do this twice. Once to prove who they were then come back a second time to get their state-issued ID. All during regular business hours.

If you're on the bottom rung of life you need to work as much as you can and can't afford to take off work to prove who you are, twice, and if you're a senior citizen you may be dependent upon someone else to take you around because not everyone has a bus stop in front of their house.

PA's law was nothing but a blatant attempt to suppress voting.

:-) So I did read you right the first time. Gotta admit, you had me going for a second, Mr. Trump.

Wanting to ban Muslims from entering the country simply on the basis of their religion is pretty awful.

Why is it awful? You may or may not agree, that it would help, but what is "awful" about it? It is not "simply" a religion — no other religion that I know of specifies a particular form of government as the only one acceptable. Most are mum on it, while Christianity explicitly leaves "Cæsar's to Cæsar". Donald Trump's page, to which you linked yourself, has links to results of a poll of Muslims already in the US showing, they would like to be governed by Sharia rather than the Constitution. Arguably, a President — who's solemn responsibility is upholding the document — would be derelict of his main duty, if he allowed even more people with such opinions to enter the country and become citizens. This is not much different than blocking Communists and Nazis from immigrating...

And before you say "First Amendment" — stop. Insults against Islam are already deadly dangerous — and even the "moderate" Muslims would like it to be illegal. When Iran called for murder of Salman Rushdee, Margaret Thatcher gave the man state's protection. Today we are more likely to see the victim blamed for his own "intolerance". For example, instead of the state's protection, the would-be Koran-burner was asked to pay for additional police presence out of his own pocket in order to exercise his First Amendment rights. Trump is more likely to reverse this unfortunate trend, and that is a good thing...

reject Islamism, but we should do it without blaming all Muslims

It is increasingly hard to make a distinction. But the ban Trump is proposing is not permanent — rather it is "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". That is, until reliable methods of separating "Islamists from Muslims" (your choice of terms, not mine) can be developed.

And, of course, there's his ridiculous wall idea

Why is it "ridiculous"? When Israel implemented their wall — which critics were calling ridiculous and evil too — the number of terrorism-related deaths inside Israel plummeted.

Seizing the remittances earned by people working here is very disagreeable to me; that's effectively a large tax on people who are, generally, low income.

As Trump points out, most of the remittances originate from illegal immigrants. Now, such illegality might not warrant death penalty or even incarceration, but any and all financial penalties are perfectly justified. What of the legal immigrants? Well, they too can easily avoid this "tax" you disapprove of by holding on to their monies — it will achieve Trump's goal anyway. Because the goal is not to rob these folks, but to compel Mexico to (help) pay for the wall construction.

His stance on NAFTA and free trade in general is not supported by most economists

Economics are a scandalously unscientific discipline. Frustrated Harry Truman once demanded to see a "one-handed economist" — so exasperated he became of the endless "one the one hand/on the other hand" coming from his economic advisers.

Now I am for free trade — not because it is effec

yes. twins no less. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireS...

Because changing it to a toy gun changes everything

I see attack the messenger. Try again moron. People have long raised questions about the Clinton Foundation. There was a decided change in direction in the Clinton Foundation and when Hillary became Secretary of State. Then there was the appointment of Foundation donor (Rajiv K. Fernando) to a security board (International Security Advisory Board) who had NO EXPERIENCE. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

Fuck off troll.

"Schweizer concedes he found no “smoking gun” evidence that any of the donors who poured cash into the Clinton coffers actually were promised, or received, any State Department favors in return."

Maybe not the State Department, no.
How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board

nearly 1,600 square miles of land around Chernobyl has radiation levels too high for human health

The irreparable damage is already done, but the other three reactors at the station are in perfectly fine order. In fact, they continued to operate for 14 years — and were shut down for reasons political rather than technical.

Instead of sending thousands of people to install solar panels in the vast dangerously polluted lands, it would be far more sensible — and cheaper too — to reactivate the reactors already there.

Who knows how far they'll go to fix this one up?

Fantastic! Now you can prove me wrong. Just find one person who did what Hillary did (mishandle classified data but with no intent to leak and with no data leaked) and is in jail, and you will prove me terribly mistaken.

Or, if you can't, then it will be clear that your hatred of Hillary is greater than your love of facts or fairness or patriotism, and that you will make anything up if it fits the narrative you wish were true.

How many cases would you like links to? Here is one from NPR that talks about David Petraeus who was indicted for mishandling classified data. He received one year of probation after pleading out. The same article mentions John Deutch, who was the CIA director under Bill Clinton. President Clinton had to grant him a pardon when he was facing indictment for "Improper handling of classified data." In fact, he basically did the same thing as Clinton - had classified data on a (government owned) computer at home. He was facing indictment because he didn't turn over classified material several days after leaving the CIA. How long did Clinton keep the classified data at her house? Oh and here's another Clinton aid mentioned in the same article: Samuel "Sandy" Berger who destroyed copies of classified data and then lied about doing so. Hmmm didn't Clinton do the same thing - only in her case it was to destroy evidence of wrongdoing? And then again we have Alberto Gonzales, AG under GW Bush. He was investigated just for storing material in a safe that non-cleared people had access to - inside the Justice Department office - though in this case there was no indictment. What about this Navy Engineer who was indicted and convicted for mishandling classified data with no intent to distribute it? This young sailor just took a picture on a submarine and then destroyed the evidence and was indicted and convicted. How about this Marine Corps Major who was dishonorably discharged after using personal email to send classified documents? And here is a lab tech who was prosecuted for taking classified material home from the office - again with no evidence of intent to distribute. How about an NSA Employee who was indicted for leaking material to the press? And a State Department Employeee indicted and convicted for taking classified material home. Are these enough references? Because it took me all of 30 seconds to find these news articles.

And what did the FBI basically say? She's too big to indict.

You have a rare talent, to interpret what people "basically" say. My poor brain can only handle what they "actually" say: "In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: [various bad stuff]. We do not see those things here."

How else can you interpret the comment that "No reasonable prosecutor would indict" when it was clearly a violation of the law and we can clearly see dozens of cases above where people were indicted for doing similar things, and in some cases, far less than Clinton? If they could not find cases of prosecution in events similar to hers then

Why do these people keep doing the same reports year after year? Every previous report has said the same thing.

From 2009

August, 2013

August 2013 again

September 2013

June 2014

We don't need any more studies to state the obvious.

Why do these people keep doing the same reports year after year? Every previous report has said the same thing.

From 2009

August, 2013

August 2013 again

September 2013

June 2014

We don't need any more studies to state the obvious.

perverted industry where one mammal's breast milk (intended for infants of its own kind) is fed to adults of a different species.

And the same animal's flesh, intended for maggots, bacteria, plants, and various carrion animal species, is similarly fed to humans...

Vegetarian Diet Kills Animals Too:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Last but not least:

And the angel of the Lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber, and took me on high, and higher still until we moved in the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he bore me unto a vast farmland of our own midwest, and as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear, and terror possessed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots. You see, reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day
and to them it is the holocaust."

And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one millions terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light, they have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul. Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses, save our brothers...can I get an amen? Can I get a Hallelujah? Thank you, Jesus.

Here's your link for the Islam numbers. Short version: The number of places under Sharia law is growing, and - more shocking -- the number of Muslims in western countries like the US and the UK who *wish* they were living under Sharia Law and would like to see their country change its legal system to one that was theology based is *growing.*

47 percent of all American Christians identify themselves as "Evangelical," although only 62 percent of those "Evangelicals" believe that abortion should be illegal in all states, so they're probably not what you would describe as a real Pokemon-fearing Evangelical. Link with stats

Look, I'm not here to do your homework for what is common sense to anyone who is not a dyed-in-the-wool Jihad apologist. Radical Islam is an existential threat to western civilization, and it's growing. Christianity is NOT an existential threat, and their numbers are diminishing. Get your head out of your ass and start doing some of the research yourself.

There is a woman space historian, Amy Shira Teitel, ...

I know you weren't intentionally being sexist - but a historian's gender doesn't really affect their ability.

Since when is mentioning a person's gender being sexist?

The irony of all of that is that the people who seem to love to deny mentioning a male/female gender seem to have a metric shitload of genders

Agender Androgyne Androgynous Bigender Cis Cisgender Cis Female Cis Male Cis Man Cis Woman Cisgender Female Cisgender Male Cisgender Man Cisgender Woman Female to Male FTM Gender Fluid Gender Nonconforming Gender Questioning Gender Variant Genderqueer Intersex Male to Female MTF Neither Neutrois Non-binary Other Pangender Trans Trans* Trans Female Trans* Female Trans Male Trans* Male Trans Man Trans* Man Trans Person Trans* Person Trans Woman Trans* Woman Transfeminine Transgender Transgender Female Transgender Male Transgender Man Transgender Person Transgender Woman Transmasculine Transsexual Transsexual Female Transsexual Male Transsexual Man Transsexual Person Transsexual Woman Two-Spirit

Tell me, since these labels are approved by Social Justice warriors, Any there I can choose from and not elicit outrage? How odd that people who don't want others to define them go batshit insane with labeling.

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...

it purely aligns with greed, rather than need

The facts disagree:

Charitable giving continued its upward trend in 2015, as an estimated $373 billion was given to charitable causes. For the second year in a row, total giving reached record levels, and taking 2014 and 2015 together, charitable giving has increased over 10% (using inflation-adjusted dollars).

The wonderful thing about that $373 billion redistribution of wealth is that it was not coerced by any government.

High-income people tend to give more of their income to charity, in percentage terms as well as in absolute terms, than middle-class people. (Of course there are exceptions to that rule: Bidens gave average of $369 to charity a year.) That explains why, say, 3% GDP growth results in greater-than-3% growth in charitable contributions. Most of that $373 billion in philanthropic donations was given by -- according to you -- "psychopaths who parasitically prey upon the rest of society".

If we can just obtain a few more decades of economic growth, we will be able to have a more robust social safety net than the one we have now, funded entirely by voluntary contributions. Government will be able to get out of the wealth redistribution business, and focus on the sole job it was created to do: securing our rights.

For that reason, I'm betting the economy will never be permitted to grow that much. Restoring that limited, Jeffersonian scope to government is anathema to too many people.

It is always evil, but no one other than Black men have done it in recent memory.

wrong again.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
http://investigations.nbcnews....
http://www.pfaw.org/media-cent...

More severely retarded politicians get into government and make their populations vulnerable by refusing to see blatant cause-effect relationships between a global terrorism movement and the ideology driving it. All across Europe and North America there are politicians so desperate to prove their own tolerance that they are rapidly importing into their societies people who despise the principles those societies were built upon. Then when the imported persons commiot violent acts, these same know-nothing elites lie their asses off about what happened and hide evidence, even denying basic facts after the public becomes aware.

Just look at the German government. They imported this stuff into Germany and on New Years as over a thousand German women were raped or molested by immigrants the Germena governemt exercised more effort covering it up than protecting its own people.

Look at France, where it has now been found that the French government hid the details of the tortures that happened at the Bataclan massacre.

Look at the Obama administration that tries to re-paint every Muslim terrorist attack as "gun violence", "man-caused disaster", "workplace violence" and so forth. This very same administration rushed to the nearest microphone to denounce any opponent as a racist or bigot (as long as he/she is NOT Muslim).

The truly voluntarily-menatlly-crippled are the ones that refuse to see the obvious connection between a belief system that teaches that anybody who disagrees must be subjugated or killed, that no man-made law is valid, that a woman is 1/2 or 1/4 the value of a man depending on if she is testifying in court or exercising any other right, etc. and the violent terrorism its adherents have been carrying out all over the globe. The idiots are the ones who have no solution as the bodies pile up like wood at a sawmill and who only get exercised when somebody points out that the emperor is naked (i.e. Islam is as its name indicates: a religion of SUBMISSION, not "peace") and that it has a centuries-long reputation for violent jihad pricisely because it's "prophet" specifically taugh and practised violent jihad. The complete horse posteriors are the people who would denounce somebody like Gingrich who ties cause to effect, who whine about how mean he is, or what a jerk he is, while having absolutely no solution to the problem of muslims who can, at any moment, decide to become serious Muslims and faithfully carry out the commands of their prophet to go on a killing spree.

The US Marine Corps was created by the Continental Congress in November 1775, even before the US was officially an independent nation. Marines are called "leathernecks" for a reason: they had leather collars on their uniforms to make it harder to behead them. They were originally sent into two struggles: (a) the fight against the British, and (b) the fight against the Barbary Pirates (Muslims who were taking American merchants as hostages) which is where the leather collars came into the story. The Marine Corps sing about the "shores of Tripoli" in memory of those early fights in Libya rescuing Americans from Muslim pirates.

The Christian Crusades started in response the the Islamic take-over of the Biblical Holy Lands and the subjugation of the Christians there and the sacking of Christian churches.

Islam has a demonstrated history of wave after wave of bloody massacres and violence ever since it was founded about 7 centuries after Christianity arose. History teaches that it

Reaction from conservatives and Republicans on this will be little to zero excitement.

Pence shriveled up in the face of the challenges in his state when the religious freedom act came under assault, and he really bears no marks of being a person who could be sold as a moderating influence to Trump.

However, I suspect that Trump has left himself with few friends and fewer qualified choices, so this is what the Trumpsters get. Mike the Generic Guy.

Oh, he didn't "shrivel up". He outright LIED.

Part of that was his advisors fault (both their poor ideas and their arrogance)...

All part of The Plan:

The Project For The New American Century

This. It's well known by everyone but the OP apparently.

The amazing thing is that they feel they have to use this excuse at all, I don't get why they're all afraid to just say 'Nah, not enough status'. Bunch of losers.

Armed Robbers Used Pokemon Go App to Target Victims, According to Cops

http://abcnews.go.com/US/armed...

I'll see your few scholarly research papers, and raise you several violent protests that you have missed. Even leftists have to worry about leftists, as I stated.

Further, I can show that leftist people and groups support the protests.

Well, one way to reply to a post calling out confirmation bias ... is to double down on the confirmation bias.

You have a funny term to refer to what would properly be labeled as 'observation of leftists, on social media and in real life'.

Apparently I get to represent all liberals now

Only if you are unable to parse my phrase, "Should I follow suit, ...", which limits the following phrase to a hypothetical question. But I guess such subtlety is wasted on leftists. (See, that is using your inability to read to claim all leftists are ignorant as well.)

(or at least the ones you don't like, with that bit of no-true-scotsman mixed in under cover of "I didn't mean everybody").

I'm not allowed to clarify my point that you have such a hard time understanding? Considering my original post was simply comparing attitudes and actions of nondescript left-wingers and right-wingers in the post I replied to. Since I wasn't the one who established the general groups under discussion, I certainly feel I have the right to make that clarification. Sorry if that upsets you.

Let's get back to your original claim, which can be distilled to 'liberals conform more than conservatives'.

Oh, wait a minute. I begin to see your problem. After writing all that above, I realize upon re-reading this line, that you simply are trying to argue the wrong claim. You think it is a discussion of whether one group or the other conforms to the expected norm. But that wasn't Ungrounded Lightning's argument, nor mine. UL said that those on the left "apply social pressure to each other to conform", and in response to (I assume) your question about right-wingers, I voiced my support of UL's argument, and provided an example.

I stand by my claim that leftists do much more to force their views on society, even on other leftists, than rightists do. That has nothing to do with whether right-wingers (AKA conservatives) by their nature want to keep things the way they are (also known as 'to conserve', funny how that is implied in the label 'conservative').

You are arguing the wrong case.

Yes, the church did some horrible things throughout history,

They still are:

One case, and another, and a few more, and a few more, just for good measure. Even down under boys aren't safe. Nor are dogs.

Even the UN called out the Vatican for its systemic adoption of policies allowing priests to rape and sexually abuse tens of thousands of children.

But as always, these are just isolated cases.

'WHY WOULD I DO EMAIL WITH ALL THESE INVESTIGATIONS?'

Hillary clearly wanted to circumvent FOIA and any other scrutinizing of her communications.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/red-l...

And for shortened Yellows when cameras are installed to counter the second argument you make:

http://nypost.com/2012/10/08/c...

cleverly innoculates himself against those bringing up his long record of cheating customers, stiffing suppliers, outsourcing product fabrication to China, giving hiring preference to foreigners, not paying any taxes, declaring bankruptcy over and over again, etc.

You're right, I used to be one of them. But now, I'm with you and I'm you're champion!

Since Colorado legalized marijuana there has been a 300% increase in hospital visits related to marijuana usage.

You don't suppose that might be because people avoided actually seeking medical care before, because they were afraid of getting into legal trouble?

From that point of view, the 300% increase would be a positive outcome.

Since the Uber and Lyft ride-sharing apps stopped service in Austin, drunk driving has increased, . . .in the three weeks since Uber and Lyft left Austin, 7.5% more people have been arrested for drunk driving.

Since Colorado legalized marijuana there has been a 300% increase in hospital visits related to marijuana usage.

From a 2014 story from Telluride immediately after legalization:

"In my first 10 years of work in emergency departments, I did not see one case of a patient who took too much marijuana to the point that it resulted in an emergency department visit," says Daniel Hehir, a physician. "Now it is a frequent occurrence."

Yet oddly, that will never be reported on here. Only a story about an illegal cab company.

"Hospitals are pretty hygienic places -- except when it comes to passwords, it seems. "

Hardly. Bad hygiene in hospitals kills over 100.000 people a year in the US alone.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/stor...

When people bitched and moaned about ordinary banner ads and started blocking them, advertisers started making ads more intrusive. We could still have simple animated GIF ads except that you freeloaders started blocking them to begin with. Those ads were harmless but, thanks to all of you who had to go and block those ads, we're now stuck with malware and far more intrusive advertising. Thanks a lot for ruining the internet for everyone.

B.S.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...

X10 Pop Under ads ring a bell ?
And what do you know the fist example of Malvertising is Flash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Given my love of five-alarm chili, I have to suspect that at the other end of the system, things might not go well for me.

On the contrary, that burning ring of fire is probably beneficial...

Try selling ISIS flags, see how that works out for you.

No problem.

Or are we going to say this was an act of Christian terrorism that was fortunately thwarted?

There doesn't seem to be anything tying him to Christianity, so why do yo claim that? He does appear to be progressive though.

The Latest: Chief: Armed Suspect Did Not Say He Meant Harm

The man in the Facebook page appears to be the same James Wesley Howell in a picture released by police, and the page includes several pictures of a white Acura sedan like the one Howell was arrested in on Sunday.

The page's most recent public post, from June 3, shows a photo comparing Adolf Hitler to Hillary Clinton. An anti-Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders photo was posted in February.

That makes for an interesting tie-in to the Orlando shooter.

Orlando Shooting Suspect Identified As Omar Mateen, Registered Democrat Of Afghan Descent

I think we have the drift of your views regarding Christians. What are your views about Progressives involved in terrorism?

Toyota has recalled cars because of the gas pedal sticking. If that were to happen in a tesla, the sensors would show the throttle going to 100% and would blame the driver when in fact the car was at fault.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Good point. A floor mat issue or mechanical issue with the pedal would trigger the sensor and make it appear that pressure was being applied to the pedal. Basically you would need a camera pointed at the foot to really see what happened under there.

Maybe they should just install cameras under the dash pointing at the controls with the price of camera modules being under $5.

They could even defray the costs by selling the resulting upskirt videos to porn sites.

Toyota has recalled cars because of the gas pedal sticking. If that were to happen in a tesla, the sensors would show the throttle going to 100% and would blame the driver when in fact the car was at fault.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Good point. A floor mat issue or mechanical issue with the pedal would trigger the sensor and make it appear that pressure was being applied to the pedal. Basically you would need a camera pointed at the foot to really see what happened under there.

Maybe they should just install cameras under the dash pointing at the controls with the price of camera modules being under $5.

I'd be inclined to agree with you but for one thing... A few years ago Tesla let BBC Top Gear test a Roadster, and Jeremy Clarkson lampooned the vehicle in a way that annoyed Elon Musk. Ever since then Tesla have put a *lot* of data capture capability and performance monitoring into all of their vehicles, specifically to stop these sorts of claims.

The problem is that the sensors are recording what happens but not why it happens. The sensor can say that the throttle was 100% but it doesn't actually record the movement of a biological leg and foot - it assumes it.

Toyota has recalled cars because of the gas pedal sticking. If that were to happen in a tesla, the sensors would show the throttle going to 100% and would blame the driver when in fact the car was at fault.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

I think the bigger point is that the car wasn't in autopilot mode at the time. I don't think the drivers are realizing that they can check and call them on their bullshit.

Generalizing a question, does a certain 'mode' have to be activated for a bug in software/firmware to cause a problem with a device that might currently be in another mode?

I would say no.

To give a legacy car analogy, cruise control can be disabled and the gas pedal could still get stuck at full acceleration.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Here you go... Now I wonder if Hillary! will actually release the e-mails she claims are not work related - at least let someone from the FBI screen them to determine she has released everything...

That is even pope approved and funded.

Which is why Trump has his name brand shirts made in Mexico and his other products are made in China.

I am not the only one. Apparently, it makes sense to about 20 percent of Sanders supporters

Clinton is too much of an insider and that hurts her credibility.

5 months after legalization.

A doubling of hospital admittances 1 year after legalization.

Different story, same result. 1 year after legalization.

2 deaths from marijuana use 1 year after legalization.

Third death the following year.

Unreported death due to marijuana.

The last article raises the question, how many more deaths as the result of marijuana use have gone unreported? We know more and more traffic deaths have marijuana as a cause.

But please, let us here more excuses how none of the above is related to marijuana use. Drug users are good at making excuses, especially when presented with facts.

Oh don't worry, Hillary will just email them to a more responsible person.

I heard Bill Clinton will hang on to them for her.

... proles.

The government is getting ready for this state of affairs by removing their means of revolt.

A group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill on Thursday that blocks a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas.

I saw Rand Paul on their, but certainly this is something Bernie Sanders would support as well, right? Does anyone have a link for the full list?