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But the same could probably be said of gender (all 58 of them), religious beliefs or lack thereof, food preferences (vegetarian, vegan, etc), view of science (creationists, etc).

Being a woman is just one variable, and trying to force a 50/50 quota between men and women is just as artificial as trying to have an equal amount of religious beliefs, etc.

Because being vegan doesn't threaten your life

It does threaten the life of the child if the parents think a vegan diet sufficient for adults is sufficient for young children.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/vegans-life-starving-week-son/story?id=14508628
http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet-veganbaby.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18574603/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/vegan-couple-sentenced-life-over-babys-death/#.VzdCrfkrIdU
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/baby-breastfed-by-vegan-mother-dies/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11716428/Vegan-Italian-parents-investigated-for-neglect-after-baby-son-found-severely-malnourished.html\
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10600639/Baby-dies-of-rickets-from-vegetarian-mother.html
http://www.rense.com/general13/malni.htm

(And that's just from the first page of a Google search.)

And are you that thick that you do not understand that Apple had to refuse that openly put demand (or suffer a sharp drop in sales because their customers would not trust them anymore) ? Their refusal tells you absolutily [sic] nothing about their ability to enter their phones or not.

Last I checked, Apple was not "the phone company." They are a manufacturer. Maybe you are ignorant of what a "phone company" is. Let me help you: https://www.google.com/#q=phon... Do you see Apple on that page?

You original assertion was that the phone company could use their sooper dooper hacking ability to defeat encryption. Are you moving the goal posts again? I have no doubt Apple has the ability to defeat their own encryption methods on some phones running some version of ios. I have never said otherwise. When you can point out that the FBI goes to Verizon or AT&T to get plaintext on an iPhone, I will be impressed.

You wrote --> The phone company can, and does have all kinds of (often called "debugging") access to your phone you have little to no clue about, and which, even if you knew, you can't do anything about. [...] Absolutily nothing that is stored on your phone or anything your phone can do that is outside the reach of a phone company, and thus the "law enforcement" agencies.

Well, I call bullshit. I am asking you to give me proof. I asked earlier and you wanted me to do your homework for you. You want me to prove a negative.

Yes, rather voluminous ... What was it, way less than 50 IIRC.

Your memory is either faulty or you are willfully ignorant. On Slashdot, articles have reported between 100 and 400 at the Federal level and many more if you add in local cases awaiting resolution of the New York case resolution before litigating. A New York Manhattan Prosecutor is on record for 175 himself.

Citation: http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Comey himself mentioned the following: He (Director Comey) also said that since October 2015, the FBI has examined "about 4,000 digital devices" and was unable to unlock "approximately 500."

How many of those devices were actually encrypted?

Citation from Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... and Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Pardon me ? If the FBI has the Law on their side, why should they start with threats ? What you are saying there is that those feds legally have nothing to go on, but try to bully others into doing their bidding anyway.

You do realize that is what TFA is about, right? The FBI threatening more litigation against tech companies using encryption by default.

And yours speeks [sic] loudly of plain-old gullibility. Don't blindly believe everything you read, especially if the ones claiming something have much to win by you believeng [sic] it.

I do not believe everything I read, including you. I am still waiting for you to cite one single case where a "phone company," which is an entity distinctly different from a phone manufacturer, hacked a cell phone for any law enforcement agency and successfully defeated encryption permitting them to prosecute. I do believe that Apple does have the resources currently to defeat encryption on some of their phones. I also believe that Apple will work to remove that capability to prevent being caught in the position of being "bullied" (as you said) again, provided the Burr-Feinstein bill goes nowhere. And as I

The "story" you're referring to was leaked by Tesla itself. It was nothing more than marketing propaganda. The machine did not break. It just reached the end of its testing limit and the car didn't break. Tesla also made other very misleading claims are that time. They claimed that their car scored a 5.4 on a scale that goes to 5. They were smacked down by the NHTSA and had to retract the claim. http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Sports by definition require an element of physical exertion.

Chess (and checkers, even if only 10x10) are generally regarded as sport. Even poker might be...

Brain is part of the body and exerting it more often makes you a good sport... So to speak...

I remember that story on all the major media outlets, but remember few that actually covered the follow up where the NHTSA said Tesla made up the numbers and that it never broke any machines.

Here & here covered it. Was a PR stunt probably concocted by Musk.

Some official statistics may look decent, but the labor-force participation (a figure not prone to fudging like politically redefined unemployment) is the lowest it has been since 1978.

With over 94 million not even looking for work — and thus not included in the unemployment statistics — we can afford less and less non-necessities.

With the constantly rising food-prices and the incomes of those still working stalling, expect further declines.

Socialism — measured as the part of the GDP spent by government — sucks.

Any fool can type "war on women backfires" into a search engine and find it.

That wasn't what you typed earlier though, you typed:

It was nationally pushed through national media and coordinated through local political organizations and national political organizations. This does not mean that anything specific happened in literally every single voting district. I can't speak to where ever you're from. It was NATIONALLY applied. I can post you links to national media articles from the time.

If you wanted to type something else, you should have. But what you did say was that you could post links, so naturally you were asked to follow through with doing so. If you don't want to do something, I suggest refraining from making any claims that you can do something.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

Hmm, a lot of talk, but very little evidence to go with the conjecture. That's one of those talking head things, not much in the way of analysis that can be examined. I'd have chosen a different link, rather than that one.

At least you didn't link to one featuring that one guy who claimed to be a CIA agent, except he turned out to be lying. Well, I think, I can't quite tell, maybe he's there in disguise.

But the most you've demonstrated is that there are people who think it existed. Ok, I'll grant you that, I've not disputed it, and I've heard it before. But as I said already, it's possible to come to the wrong conclusions, all too easy, in fact, as perception can often different from actuality.

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

An editorial focusing on a single candidate, in a single state? But you said it was a nationally coordinated campaign. There is a brief mention of an article in that one that some made claims of a national scope, I'd have suggested a link to that instead. So far, you've got what, one guy out of 33 or so? What about the others, and what about the House districts? What did they do? How did they coordinate?

Still, if you want to talk about the Colorado Senate elections in 2014, we can. The interesting thing I see, is that both candidates got fewer votes than the loser in 2008. More than the other Senate election in 2010 so I guess it's still an increase. The real blow-out was in 1998, however. Close to 2 to 1. But turnout, well, let's see if we can dig that up.

Here it is, 54.5 percent.

Wow, over 50%. That is an exception. Disheartening that they're THIRD though.

But still, now you just have to show that the drop was voters didn't vote because of what Mark Udall did in regards what you claimed. You know, to get a backfire out of it.

If not, at most you get a misfire, and even then, he did get more voters than the candidate in 2010.

Not as many as he did in 2008, but that was the Obama wave. And in 2012, while Colorado had no Senate election, more people voted for Obama in that state than in 2008. So maybe Udall should have had the President come by for a few more visits, you think?

the list of articles goes on for pages and pages and pages.

In that case, I'd suggest choosing more carefully if you ever claim to post any again, the ones you have are rather poor when it comes to meeting your claims.

At most, you have demonstrated belief that it exists, which in politics is often very different from reality.

As to whether it was applied nationally, what do you want... statements from the DNC at the time?

Well, you did say natio

Any fool can type "war on women backfires" into a search engine and find it.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

the list of articles goes on for pages and pages and pages.

As to whether it was applied nationally, what do you want... statements from the DNC at the time? What will make you drop to your knees on this issue? Because... you tell me what it is... and I'll do it.

You say "I WANT ARTICLES"... you got them. pages of them. Endless pages after pages after pages after pages of them.

If that doesn't do it... you need to be more specific. And that will just mean the inevitable kowtow.

Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump at 54 points to 41 points.

The poll shows several major demographic struggles for Trump. The real estate mogul is tied with Clinton among men but trailing her among women by 26 percentage points.

He leads whites by 9 points, but trails nonwhites by a whopping 67 points. He also trails among independents by 11 points.

I can't pull your head out of your ass if you're so desperate to be up there.

http://gazette.com/editorial-w...

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek...

http://www.newsweek.com/war-wo...

Look, I'm trying to make sense not advocate for a political position. You are trying to advocate. I don't care.

• Water pollution
• Corruption
• REDRUM

The lapdog media tells us that Brazil is a multicultural paradise, but in reality, it's a third world abyss.

Too bad, because they have some great metal bands: Sarcofago, Sepultura, Vulcano...

You cannot prove a negative. Jailing someone until they do is a huge miscarriage of justice. You can hit them with that 5 dollar wrench all day, but they still won't be able to prove a negative (as proved by the CIAs torture of Abu Zubaydeh).

http://www.thenation.com/artic...

If there is actually child pornography there, He's certainly better off in a local jail on contempt charges than in a big prison on child porn charges. He's also likely to be released in a decade or so without being on any predator lists. That is still a far better outcome (from his perspective).

A more interesting case to illustrate this is a man who's wife claimed he had money in an offshore account during a divorce. He claimed he had no such money, so the judge naturally jailed him for contempt until he could find the missing millions. He was released 17 YEARS later and the SAME judge was on the bench and was convinced that this 73 year old man would rather spend 17 years in prison and be too old to even spend the money rather than hand it over and continue the proceedings.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/sto...

I was wondering the same thing myself. The problem in this area (both SF and Silicon Valley; I live in the latter (Mountain View) is that nobody tends to build "new things" as often, instead the infrastructure (speaking generally about housing/apartment upkeep) tends to be about keeping costs as low as possible through use of kludge fixes. Nobody wants to pay for the "gutting" of something and doing it right, as most of the infrastructure here was built in either the late 40s/early 50s or, late 70s. Those which do build new things tend to pay tons of money for the property (and they want their profits/ROI -- so rents or mortgages tend to be insane as a result: we're talking 3BA/2BA condos which go for US$2.5 million each); those who own the older properties know they're sitting on gold mines, waiting for said companies to approach them and offer multi-millions, so they spend as little as possible to maintain upkeep. It's not about providing housing or residences to people: it's about making money.

A comparative example would be where I reside: the plumbing line that connects our 6-apartment building to the city's sewage line has a gigantic tree root running through it (yes, THROUGH). The tree is on the city's property, but the plumbing line is my landlord's. My landlord has known about this problem for over 10 years, but chooses to do nothing about it due to the cost of having concrete hammered out + digging + removal of the root + repaving (the line runs under two of our parking spaces). It's not an inconvenience to anyone who lives here either, we'd just park on the street for a week or two. It's instead about the cost.

In other words: it's great that SF is at least taking steps in the right direction, but if they wanted to really do something about it, they'd be applying that legislation to *existing* buildings. And it'll never happen -- landlords there would riot, considering property owners there do insane shit like this already.

basic healthcare is need as the jail / prison is better some people.

in this case I say jail is better. As the jail can pay there $500 MO for medication.

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

It's probably a good idea to link to some references about the University of California, Davis pepper spray incident.

So you're not complaining that the legal definition of rape is twisted so men can't be raped, 'cause it sure sounded like you were in the GGP. Now it seems like you're saying that the law should be asymmetrical since one part of the population is more likely to be the offender than the victim. Pick a side will you?

Unless you can provide facts I call bullshit.

I guess I'm the one who's going to have to provide the LMGTFY link. I'll even QTFY:

the U.S. Department of Education is investigating complaints against 161 institutions for their handling of sexual violence investigations.

Also, you're going to have to be more specific about "Duke and UNLV", and how they "both show the assertion to be incorrect". By the way, Duke is back on the DoE's aforementioned list as of January. Since Title IX investigations take 1-2 years, I doubt this is the specific case you're talking about.

Would you or have worked on tech which could enable torture?

You may be expecting an unqualified "no", but the right answer is it depends. The unacceptable kinds of torture are those, which leave the subject dead or damaged. (And I mean real damage — not as in "needs counseling"). It may be useful to confine the definition of "torture" to such methods only — as was done by some people already.

Waterboarding is certainly not damaging — a rough arrest by a police may be far more harmful to the suspect — and still be justified. Likewise, a prolonged criminal investigation may be far more damaging psychologically. And don't even get me started on the exploding use of "Hellfire" missiles (pun intended) by the highest-placed opponent of waterboarding:

no president has ever relied so extensively on the secret killing [emphasis mine -mi] of individuals to advance the nation’s security goals.

Don't know about you, but I'd rather be waterboarded by mistake, than killed by the same mistake.

Dealing with the government is rarely pleasant, but waterboarding does not cross any real lines. If the duly-elected President charged with protecting us deems it necessary, his subordinates better get on with it. Or resign. As George Orwell pointed out decades ago:

"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Where does that put you morally and ethically?

Whether it is useful is another question, but "morally and ethically" there is nothing wrong with it. Deal with that.

You have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

This is what the Republican Party had to say about the 2012 election. Read it. Educate yourself.

http://goproject.gop.com/rnc_growth_opportunity_book_2013.pdf

And you demonstrate your ignorance every time you post, yet like the idiot you are, you just keep at it.

I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot.

it's not as if other republicans haven't noticed something odd...
"Republicans have to stop buying into things that demonize the president. I mean, why aren't Republican leaders shouting out about all this birther nonsense and all these other things? They should speak out. This is the kind of intolerance that I've been talking about where these idiot presentations continue to be made and you don't see the senior leadership of the party say, 'No, that's wrong.' In fact, sometimes by not speaking out, they're encouraging it. And the base keeps buying the stuff. "And it's killing the base of the party. I mean, 26 percent favorability rating for the party right now. It ought to be telling them something. So, instead of attacking me or whoever speaks like I do, look in the mirror and realize, 'How are we going to win the next election?" -Colin Powell, 2013 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...
"The GOP “still looks down on minorities,” Powell said. He slammed Sarah Palin‘s “shuck and jive” comments from last year about President Obama and criticized Republican’s use of the word “lazy” to describe the president. “Why do senior Republican leaders tolerate this kind of discussion within the party?” he asked." -Colin Powell, 2015 http://www.mediaite.com/tv/col...
"Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists," Col. Lawrence Wilkerson said Friday on MSNBC's "The Ed Show." "And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander in chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that’s despicable." https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"The Republican Party and the conservatives have shown very little interest in black Americans and have actually done things to leave the impression among blacks that they are antagonistic to their interests. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative --I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration--I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome." -Clarence Thomas 1987 http://reason.com/archives/198...
"The party must follow Governor Bush's lead and reach out to minority communities and particularly the African-American community -- and not just during an election-year campaign," General Powell said pointedly. "It must be a sustained effort. It must be every day. It must be for real." He did not spare the party for its record on affirmative action. There was "cynicism in the black community," he said, because "some in our party miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousands black kids get an education." But, he added, "hardly a whimper is heard from them over affirmative action for lobbyists who load our federal tax codes with preferences for special interests." -Colin Powell 2000

He has made numerous denigrating remarks over entire groups of people. That is racism, exclusion and neo-nazi hatred -

A group of people is not a race. He has made denigrating remarks about illegal aliens (Trespassers who are breaking the law), and violent people who practice Islam. Islam/Muslim is not a race. Illegal aliens from Mexico are not a race, as Mexican isn't a race.

He proposed a ban on Muslim immigration. Religious tests for imigration was one of the very first policies the NAZIs promoted as well. Right there is your first one.

He proposed a /temporary/ ban on Muslim immigration.

So Obama is a Nazi then? After all, he banned Muslim immigration in 2011 for six months.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...

Hitler never did that either. Not once. He called for EMIGRATION. The final solution was kept secret from pretty much the entire civilian population even while it was happening. What he actually said was "prevent imigration", "forced emigration" and other "acceptable" ways to achieve cultural and racial purity. Just like Trump.

He isn't proposing kicking out current citizens, he is proposing kicking out people who are not citizens and are breaking the law by trespassing here illegally, like many other countries do. This isn't unique to trump at all.

Tell me, how many vague similarities does it require before you are considered literally Hitler? We both breath air. I'm sure I've worn the same color clothing once before. I am also against animal cruelty and am anti-smoking, just like Hitler.

Aawww you are so naive. Besides which - he is trying to be a politician. His job is NOT enforcement of the law, it's to propose BETTER laws.

Actually, that is wrong. He is trying to be president.

The president has the authority to send troops into combat, and is the only one who can decide whether to use nuclear weapons.

He also enforces laws, treaties, and court rulings; develops federal policies; prepares the national budget; and appoints federal officials. He also approves or vetoes acts of Congress and grants pardons.

His job is not to "propose better laws".

Excuse me ? Where have the opposition been violent ? If anything there's been way too much appeasement. Hell even protesters at his rallys have by and large been victims of violence, not perpetrators.

Well, off the top of my head there were the protests in Arizona that blocked a highway, where protesters kicked and jumped on a car trying to get by them:

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

There is the woman who punched a man in the face (But all you hear is that she got maced by evil trump supporters):

https://youtu.be/TA1S0KQD2W8?t...

And, as long as we are considering speech violent, scary, triggering actions, there are the several protestors who dressed up as the KKK, hoods and all:

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

Though I guess I can't really count that one, as a black trump supporter attacked them. But since they were parading around as symbols of hate, it was okay, right? Just like the students getting triggered by chalk, right?

Actually - the entire basis on which that claim is made has shown that you KNOW nothing about Hitler. You don't see that they are identical - simply because you are looking for the post-war Hitler caricature that you heard about in school - and know nothing of the actual man, how he actually got elected, what his speeches actually SAID and how he went about achieving his nefarious ends.

If they are identical, wake me up when Trump loses

The last line in the article is: "We rate this ad's claim Mostly False."

"Mostly". They could not flat-out reject it, as I said. Which, given their adoration for Illiberalism in general and Obama in particular, confirms, it is true.

If you choose to reply, be sure to state unambiguously:

• Whether you accept the fact, that Solyndra executives have donated to Obama and other Democrats.
• Whether you agree, that such donations create — as a minimum — an appearance of impropriety. And, if not, what would create such an appearance in your opinion?
• Whether it is acceptable, in your opinion, for it being necessary for a private company operating in a free country to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on lobbying government officials?

Prosthetic devices and the people who wear them are also quite dangerous.

Which they had already done once, then LOST THE PASSWORD.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-b...

At any rate, physical security is the most important part of security. If they have the device, they will eventually crack it.

Trump creeps me out a bit. I generally agree with him philosophically but I think his demeanor is a bit to harsh for the lilly livered pansies the american people have become. After this however, I will be hard for me to support anybody else.

Because he posed for a picture with displaced workers?

You might want to know that Trump has posed for a lot of pictures with a lot of different people. If you're gonna base your support on that, you might want to take a look:

http://a.abcnews.go.com/images...

North Carolina has outlawed sea level rise since 2012.

It has been ruled unconstitutional for the sea levels to rise.

The ABC article and other articles derived from it are flat out wrong.
What the article says is exactly the opposite of what the law said. The law REQUIRES that peer-reviewed science be used.

Here is the actual law from the state of North Carolina's web site. It is short an easy to read.
http://ncga.state.nc.us/sessio...

Here is the relevant section.
"These rates shall be determined using statistically significant, peer-reviewed historical data generated using generally accepted scientific and statistical techniques. Historic rates of sea-level rise may be extrapolated to estimate future rates of rise but shall not include scenarios of accelerated rates of sea-level rise unless such rates are from statistically significant, peer-reviewed data and are consistent with historic trends."

He has no chance

We'll probably see more snowballs in Congress.

It has been ruled unconstitutional for the sea levels to rise.

It is the job of the federal government to respect and enforce all laws enacted by a duly elected constitutional body of legislators. If Florida had outlawed sea level rise in 2012, it would be a federal government problem, and the state does not have to do anything. Now ordinary Floridians are having to pay for the mistakes committed by incompetent state legislatures.

It clearly shows government does not work, any government based solutions does not work. It is time to shrink the government small enough to be drowned in a tidal pool.

Whatever it is, I am in the west, and I don't want my tax dollars paying for dumb mistakes done by Floridians. It is time for people to take responsibility for their decision where to live. And I want the Federal government off my back, off my land, the Bureau of land management dismantled. The only role federal government can play here legally is to put out the wild fires using helicopters and airplanes.

It sounds like she was arrested for refusing the lawful orders of a police officer. She was asked to stop and produce identification so the officer could write a ticket (for something that is a ticketable offence) and refused, so she was arrested.

Seems perfectly legitimate to me. You don't get to walk away because you think the offence is silly, it is still an offence.

While that lead to her arrest, it was the act of chewing on candy in her mouth that was the initial cause. I agree she acted stupidly, and he she stopped would probably only got a ticket, but it's an example of how strict DC is on eating on the Metro. It could be worse, she could have been eating a french fry. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story... Now, if they'd just arrest people for standing on the left side of an escalator or in front of doors as you exit life would be grand. Now, if you know Oliver North, you might avoid arrest and just get a $10 fine...

"one healthy mother completely lacked a gene called PRDM9 that is involved in shuffling chromosomes during the formation of eggs and sperm. Mice lacking the gene are sterile."
The researchers might need to take another look at that woman; she might be a "chimera", whose reproductive organs don't have the same DNA as the part of the body responsible for a more-easily-tested substance (usually blood or saliva).

Which families of the victims are against unlocking the phone besides Carole Adams? According to this article, an attorney representing some of the families will be filing court papers in support of the FBI's position.

"Velasco said the phone could reveal other extremist plots or that other people were involved in planning the San Bernardino attack.

"The only way to find out is to open up that phone and get in there," he said. "A lot of the families of the victims, we're kind of angry and confused as to why Apple is refusing to do this."

ABC is reporting that "the owner reset the password" on the iCloud account, apparently referring to the San Bernadino authorities as "the owner".

This purportedly prevents backing it up to the iCloud, though I don't understand the relevance of that. If someone can get in, won't they be able to see whatever they want?

Moreover, I thought the issue was that Apple was being asked to update the firmware so that the authorities could make endless attempts to guess the password without locking it up, which again leaves me wondering about the relevance of not being able to back it up to the cloud.

Is Apple just blowing smoke? Or am I just too ignorant of the technical issues?

Someone's already going under the bus for it:

The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-b...

All you have provided is individual anecdotes and irrelevant analogies.

The only thing that matters is the actual level of contamination in the affected body of water, as measured by scientific instruments, and an objective risk analysis of pathogenicity based on those measurements. In plain English, your stories about people swimming and fruit dropping from trees means fuck all.

The water was already tested many months ago, and the levels of harmful bacteria and viruses were deemed too high to be safe:

http://espn.go.com/olympics/st...

At that time, some people even suggested that athletes competing in these water events should arrive in Rio early, train in the contaminated environment, get sick with the local diseases, and hopefully build up immunity before the Olympics. That, in my view, is an insane proposition.

Japan is experiencing deflation in many areas, whereas they should have benefited from lower oil costs. That's why both the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank are into negative interest rates. It's why even the fed is worried and using negative interest rates as one scenario for bank stress tests

I'm not sure the officials did anything wrong, but these things are horribly inaccurate. Here's what Boise State's coach had to say about it:

Boise State coach Leon Rice's frustration wasn't so much with the officials' decision as with the use of video to supersede the game clock.

"It opens a can of worms," Rice said Thursday in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "Why are those milliseconds [at the end] more important than any other time throughout the game?

"Because all my life, I've gone off the clock on the scoreboard -- and [Webb] got it off before that."

It's quite common to go to replay to see if a last second shot got off on time. This is also done with shot clock violations. There's a light on the backboard, an orange LED strip around the edge, that goes on when the shot clock or game clock is at zero. Officials simply look to see whether the player is still touching the ball when the light goes on. Of course, neither the game clock nor the shot clock is especially accurate because it requires people to start them running. And yet I don't normally see this come up because officials simply look at the ball, the player's hand, and the light on the backboard.

No, GPS is not making people stupid, or destroying their inner mapping.

What GPS is doing is allowing idiots who are already pretty stupid to have access to technology that they cannot comprehend.

They started out stupid, and remain that way.

I use GPS daily, and I also have old school paper maps in the car. If something doesn't seem right, I refer to the paper maps as a sanity check. So I seldom end up 250 miles out of my way, or driving into a desert and ending up nearly dead http://www.sacbee.com/entertai...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Not one of these fates was the fault of the GPS. It was the fault of the stupid stupid owners, who were stupid enough to end up near the Arctic circle, or stupid enough to ever ever go into the desert without provisions, then coupled with not having a paper map in their car and checking it the first second something didn't seem right.

One of the best was the case of Iftikhar Hussain, who last year followed his GPS off a demolished bridge in Indiana. Sad, but according to the Lake County Police:

a sheriff's office spokeswoman told the Times of Munster: "The Cline Avenue bridge is marked with numerous barricades including orange barrels and cones, large wood signs stating ROAD CLOSED with orange striped markings. There are concrete barricades across the road to further indicate the road is closed."

So if you are going to assume that the GPS is correct, as you drive around barricades and barrels and "Road Closed" signs and concrete barricades, It isn't the machine that is stupid, it is you.

GPS navigation is simply mapreading enhanced by GPS coordinates. The Mapreader doesn't always plot what it thinks is your exact position, it often assigns you to a nearby road. It doesn't always know the exact condition of the road it's trying to send you on, and if you choose "shortest route" it will often send you off on some interesting but time consuming shortcuts. It doesn't always know if a route is closed.

But if you are stupid, it will allow you to kill yourself.

You might want to call guiness about that chip on your shoulder, you're approaching record territory.

As I recall, the key factor of that decision was that IR scanning was not widely available to the public, and the idea was that the cops shouldn't have too much more capability than normal people without going through due process. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story...

> few million people skip on $2 all Keanu Reeves needed to do was take a 1% pay cut for the Matrix and that cost would be recouped.

Your math is off by a few orders of magnitude. Not to worry, that's normal with big numbers. Psychologically, "million", "billion", and "trillion" are all just big numbers, we KNOW the difference, but it's completely unintuitive to think about big large numbers.

"A few million people" at $2 each is $60 MILLION.
1% of Reeves salary for The Matrix is $100 THOUSAND.
In fact, $60 million (a few million people at $2 each) is more than 100% of Reeves salary - you'd need him to pay millions for the privilege of being allowed to work.

Speaking of Reeves Matrix money, did you know he gave most of it away?

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertai...

Yeah, the US making a big deal about how ISIS gets all those Toyota trucks when it turns out that the US was the one supplying them. Ooops. Let's pretend for an instant that the funding of terrorist groups by the US is strictly limited to pickup trucks. After all, cash and weapons only goes to "moderate" beheaders not terrorist beheaders...

he wants to throw out all the Muslims.

Not even a Trump supporter, but [CITATION NEEDED].

He said he wants to put a temporary ban on middle-eastern immigrants, not "Throw out all the Muslims".

This is something that our current administration already did back in 2011 for 6 months:

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

You bring up some good points.

However, I never compared them to "terrorists", which as we all know is a politically heated phrase that can be used against anyone the media/government/corporations and others can use. I compared them to criminals, which is what they are.

Think about this in the context of our current "law enforcement paradigm" of shooting first and asking questions later, which hasn't abated since Ferguson or any of the other incidents where police just decide to kill someone, because they were nake, high, unarmed and not following directions. Here we have armed trespassers, who flagrantly voice their intent to commit crimes and harm law enforcement, etc;

Hey, thats some double standard were seeing up there in Oregon.

I agree....

You have to spread your business around so that you have multiple vendors from which to chose. Because one day, that big vendor that gave you the good price will screw you and everyone else.

Just like Wal*Mart taught these town folks a lesson. This town let their local mom and pop grocery store go out of business in favor of shopping at Wal*Mart express. Now Wal*Mart is closing and leaving town leaving them with no food, or a food desert as it is called in the article.

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

Spread your shopping around, keep everyone in business or else one day your options may be limited to zero or one.

Well still yet they seem to be obligated to hold up their end of the bargain. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...

Trump's businesses are more than real estate. Most items in his Trump store are made in China.

- The original is public domain, someone is making it available which is entirely legal.

Well, maybe not. According to this, the original manuscripts were never actually published until a critical scholarly edition came out in 1986.

And apparently under applicable law in 1986, what may matter is not when they were written, but when they were published. Apparently posthumous publication in some circumstances remained under copyright until 50 years after the first date of publication -- the date of the death of the author in this case is irrelevant. This provision about posthumous copyright was dropped in 1995 in the EU, but apparently the law was also written in such a way so as not to diminish any copyright term that went into force before 1995.

That's the problem with copyright law -- it not only depends on the country, but also exactly when copyright was first granted. Different eras are often under different rules, depending on when the laws changed.

Why would the adapters claim copyright on the original by virtue of its adaptions?

Apparently that's NOT what's being claimed here. It's not the adaptation that is the issue, but rather the effective publication date of the original manuscript. Now, I don't know much about the details of the case, but apparently there is some applicable law that has been used to support the arguments of those claiming rights. (By the way, I absolutely agree from a moral perspective that this SHOULD be in the public domain by now. But it may not be under applicable law.)

If that were the case, numerous people would be able to claim copyright on all biblical manuscripts or someone claiming copyright on papyrus artifacts or stone tablets at museums.

Well, no -- because no one could claim copyright on most biblical manuscripts, since their contents has mostly been published for many centuries.

On the other hand, for recent scholarly finds, there actually have been cases made for copyright of portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example. In this case, the text required significant deciphering and editing (including lots of interpolation of letters and words, etc.) to make sense of passages. Without a modern edition, the original sources would be meaningless to everyone except experts in ancient writing and languages, so it does makes sense in some cases that modern editions should be granted copyright.

I never said that they can only be robbed physically, even though it still is the most popular method.

It is not:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
https://www.fbi.gov/stats-serv...
http://www.informationweek.com...? (note that the stats are from 2006)

. Also, you said this:

Yes, real banks get robbed, but that takes some real time and effort and most of the time the robbers get caught. In contrast, the risk-to-reward ratio for virtual currency is so unbalanced that it's a natural target with minimal risks. No bullets flying around, no get-away cars, no bank guards, no logistics about hauling the cash away, no dye-packets to worry about. It's like a crime made in heaven.

Note how you the contrast you present completely focuses on the physical nature. Had you have said that banks have better digital security than some crappy Bitcoin-exchange there would have been no issue. To say that you didn't imply that the 'real time and effort' had to do with 'bullets flying around, get-away cars, bank guards, hauling the cash away, dye-packets' is simply disingenuous.

The difference is that regardless of how the bank is robbed, I'll still get my money back.

This is still irrelevant to this thread, as I pointed out before.

Virtual currencies do have some serious, unavoidable problems inherent

Nobody in this thread has said otherwise (although the 'unavoidable' part of it is debatable). You don't seem to be very good at discussing. You shouldn't just randomly insert new subtopics and pretend they are a reply to what the other party said.

I'm referring in part to an incident with Julie Bass in Oak Park, Michigan. Grow a victory garden, go to jail.

They were even quite open about wanting to go to one of their training facilities!

Those factors are 50 times more important in determining a person's ability to learn than genetics.

Citations needed.

all of those kids are 100% fucked for the rest of their life

Rather gloomy. What makes you so convinced? All I found was talk of potentially dangerous ...

greedy rich asshole fuckheads that made decisions they had no right making

Relax, pal — a town spending less money on water-supply has more money left for public schools, has it not?