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Why does it make sense? By saying that you invalidate the feminist argument that differences between the two are simple social constructs that need breaking down.

Oh, we already have feminists trying to micromanage men in their bathrooms.

two random google hits..
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Plain out-and-out racism and denying this kid his civil rights.

You have specific evidence that he was singled out because of his race? Or is that your own bias showing?

If so, why then so much less outrage & support for the kid who pointed a chicken finger at another student, or the pop-tart gun kid, or the kid who wrote a story about shooting a dinosaur? I don't think any of them got invited to the White House.

It kills me to say this, but if the steel briefcase in the picture is the "clock," Sarah Palin was right, he was asking for it. He should consider himself lucky the cops didn't shoot him on the spot, no matter where his parents were from. Considering every major school shooting I can remember was perpetrated by white people, I'd doubt skin color is what makes school cops trigger-happy.

Ken Cuccinelli received money from Koch-affiliated companies ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). It was not just "political support". RICO is spot-on.

Especially with stories like this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

UND and NDSU are, indeed, rivals. There's actually a trophy for the rivalry, called the Nickel Trophy. Haakenson did actually attend NDSU, as your quote says. However, I'm obviously wrong about his motivations here since the article says as much and I clearly just skimmed the article or didn't pick up on it due to lack of sleep. I'm a little embarrassed about being dead wrong and posting more than once about it.

It's a waste of public money to actually defend this through trademarks. It's doomed to failure. It's clever but doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of working.

Regarding the actual name, I'm not sure I agree with changing the name. The NCAA declared the name hostile, but it doesn't appear that they did so by contacting the actual Native American tribes portrayed. This caused quite a controversy with Florida State, who are called the Seminoles and actually have the support of the tribes. The NCAA told FSU to change the name without ever asking the tribes if they wanted the name changed. With regard to the UND situation, I don't really agree with changing the name. There are two tribes involved, the Spirit Lake tribe and the Standing Rock tribe. The Standing Rock tribe never officially voted on the matter, and only 8 percent of the people in Sioux County, where most of the reservation is located, voted when it was put to a public vote. It seems like the Standing Rock tribe really doesn't care if UND uses the name or not. However, the view of the Spirit Lake tribe was very different. They affirmed that they support the Fighting Sioux name and some of the members of the Spirit Lake tribe sued to try to get UND to keep the Fighting Sioux name. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed.

In summary, one tribe doesn't really care about the nickname and, therefore, doesn't seem too offended. The other tribe involved seems passionate that the Fighting Sioux name ought to be kept. Yet the name was deemed hostile by the NCAA, who didn't bother to find out if it really offended anyone, and UND was threatened with sanctions if they didn't change the name. I think it's a terrible ploy to use trademarks to try to force UND to keep the Fighting Sioux name. That said, the Fighting Sioux name ought to stay. It seems like Haakenson's heart is in the right place, but it's a desperate attempt that's bound to failure.

My sources?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120614/us-north-dakota-primary-fighting-sioux/
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7881221/judge-throws-tribes-lawsuit-north-dakota-fighting-sioux-name

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I'd bet a large wad of money that I know most subjects better than any elementary school teacher. I have a friend who homeschools his kid as well as sending him to school. The kid is #1 in his class and has jumped two grades. And then there was the valedictorian from my engineering college who was homeschooled up until the time he came to university.

I agree it would be good to have "sexual independence", as you put it. I just think there needs to be some responsibility taken by the manufacturers.

In other words, independence is for yourself, but responsibility is for other people?

Sorry, but no. Independence and responsibility go hand in hand.

Gap gets criticised because its manikins are ridiculously, death camp thin. Magazines get criticised because their models are all photoshopped to non-human proportions and levels of perfection.

First, you're using circular reason here. You're basically saying what you're complaining about is a problem because people (like you) are complaining that it is a problem. That's like me saying feminism is toxic because MRAs and GamerGate are saying it is toxic. Come on.

Putting that aside, so what if Gap makes clothes you don't like, or magazines show unrealistic women? THEN DON'T BUY THEM. It's not just men buying them. I wager women buy them more (definitely the miniskirts), if not in proportion than definitely in dollars.

It's not the manufacturer's (or men, or society) responsibility that women are choosing to fork over so much of their hard earned (77 cents to the dollar) money to buy that crap. Take responsibility of your own purchasing decisions first, before talking about responsibility in other people. Don't be like those GamerGaters who speak of ethics but don't have any themselves.

I live in Maryland, do you?

http://www.mdp.state.md.us/red...

The first district is pretty bad. It includes the eastern shore, which is pretty much all republican farmers, with a section to the north of Baltimore which is mostly farms. It is a good example of packing. They packed as many Republican voters into one district as possible, and that district votes the way you would expect.

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

The first district is the only district to go for Romney in 2012, which should tell you something, since only PG and Baltimore counties are Democrat, all the other counties are strongly Republican. I live in Anne Arundel County, and it is a large majority Republican, but because of the crap they did in distributing the Baltimore and PG votes into AAC, all three districts that make up the one county go Democrat. It is quite sad actually how bad it is.

I can think of even better system of corruption. Imagine world where you don't need to do funny things with cash under the table, you just take over the whole state with your oligarchic pals and servants and then for example make not prosecuting crimes of oligarchs open policy. Suddenly you don't need to worry about the few times when some troublemaker catches you with cash under the table while you publicly pretend that is against law.

On the other hand, when you want to throw someone under the lock, just send him to Guantanamo. There is no need for lame show trial, you can even admit he is innocent and you have nothing substantial against him. Just let him rot indefinitely.

Senator Wyden has been pretty vociferously against mass surveillance, on repeated occasions.

Some examples:
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro...

"It's being a minor scandal that's being swept under the carpet."

Go ahead and keep telling yourself that.

you don't need to cite commonly known facts of a topic. if you are unaware of how common extreme punishment for minor drug crimes is, you're only announcing how out of touch you are on the subject

google "years in jail marijuana possession"

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

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/2...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ja...

http://www.rense.com/general61...

https://www.aclu.org/marijuana...

american drug laws are stupid, pointless, and insane, and have achieved zero effect. it's easy as ever to get pot

a society that prescribes brutal punishment for various minor crimes does nothing but announce its brutality. it has no effect on the crime in question

http://www.drugpolicy.org/drug...

it is important to cite interesting and novel facts. it is not important to cite commonly understood and well-established facts. the stupidity and insanity of american drug laws is well-established. we're just waiting for enough nancy reagan era morons to die the fuck off so we can build a sensible drug policy: legalization of non-addictive drugs, treatment for addicts, inducements for dealers of addictive drugs to come clean. destroy the mafias by draining their income. drain their income by incentivizing healthcare for addicts and legalizing nonaddictive substances

look to portugal

Indian regime owes reparations to 300 million Untouchable for 2000 years of Caste system; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Informal polling would tend to disagree with you.

http://www.phonearena.com/news...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.androidcentral.com/...
http://www.androidcentral.com/...
http://forums.androidcentral.c...
http://www.neowin.net/forum/to...
http://www.phonearena.com/news...

That is like saying that you know people who's religion is Christianity but they don't call themselves Christians.

Yes, I do know a lot of folks whose religion is Christianity . . . but if you ask them who they are . . . they will say, first and foremost, that they are Americans. They will tell you that the Constitution of the US guarantees their right to practice whatever religion they want. But that, more importantly, no one can force their wacky religious views on you. Case in point: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

So if you want a job where serving alcohol is not involved, get another job. Don't try to force your religious views on others. That's the problem with Muslims. If you don't do what their religion believes, they feel obligated to kill you. I know a women from Iran who doesn't drink alcohol for religious reasons. But she is completely happy at parties where some folks drink alcohol, and some folks don't.

Go to any market in Istanbul. You will have a chance to feel honored over and over again.

Oh, a peddler in the Bazaar will drop that comment liberally . . . but it is my experience that older folks in the Turkish IT community use it very conservatively.

Apparently 46.1% of Democrats do. Though that's down from as high as 75% in July

Hillary could eat dead babies she bought at Planned Parenthood on live TV and still get the 90% of the progressive vote.

Apparently 46.1% of Democrats do. Though that's down from as high as 75% in July

Then there's this guy. I don't know him, but he's my hero.

"The Owner Of California's Botto Bistro Is Proud To Have Yelp's Worst-Rated Restaurant"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Modern society disagrees with you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/tammy-cooper-texas-mom-arrested-kids-unsupervised-video_n_1900113.html

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/01/15/parents-charged-with-neglect-for-kids-playing-outside/21821723/

http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/mom-charged-with-felony-for-letting-son-walk-to-park-alone-video/

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/free-range-parents-found-responsible-child-neglect-allowing/story?id=29363859

Looks like Quest^W Qwest^W CenturyLink is just going for Part Two of the original hit production: Broadband Subsidy Scam.

But don't worry if you're enjoying the show so far -- I have no doubt there will be a Part Three in 10 years or so.

http://nypost.com/2009/09/18/t...

Danmell Ndonye, 18, who had accused five men of gang rape, admitted the truth only when prosecutors confronted her after learning of a cellphone video that captured the whole sordid episode and showed she had willingly participated, officials said.

She created her outlandish tale when her boyfriend, a Hofstra student whoâ(TM)s been dating her since the semester began a few weeks ago, demanded to know where she had disappeared after a wild frat party early Sunday.

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

On advice from his lawyer, Banks had pleaded no contest to raping his childhood friend on campus 10 years ago, reports the Associated Press. He served five years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, and then spent the next five years on parole.

To his surprise, Banks received a Facebook friend request from Gibson after he got out of prison. During their first meet-up, Gibson confessed that she faked the rape accusation and expressed a desire to help him. It was music to Banks' ears -- except for the fact that she didn't want to face prosecutors with the truth for fear she would have to return settlement money her mother had won from the school.

We are so fucking sick of being called out as racists or mean or anti-woman or anti-science or whatever sanctimonious bullshit phrase you want to throw at us.

So stop being racist, mean, anti-woman, anti-science sanctimonious bullshit?

In all seriousness though, this article has an interesting take on Trump:

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

Today, it's not clear whether West himself would repeat what he said 10 years ago. After all, he is more careful now and even apologized to Bush in a 2010 interview on NBC's "Today" show, saying that he "didn't have the grounds to call him a racist."

It's sad how many people don't actually know anything about what they quote.

Previous to 1800, the only monopolies were state sponsored, supported, and sometimes enforced monopolies

And that is still the case today. You postulate the existence of mythical stable "free market capitalism based monopolies", but those simply don't exist. ... Large, stable monopolies are the result of, and require, government action.

While I may not have stated it clearly, I don't consider state sponsored monopolies as a valid point. They're propped up by other than economic forces.

Regarding pure free market monopolies: Standard Oil, Microsoft (virtual monopoly), Intel (virtual monopoly), The current ISP situation in the US, which occurred via local government deals, so that one is arguable. For business networks, it's Cisco to a smaller extent (80% or so from the last time I looked). If you step back 1 level where the choice is extremely limited by cabals, there's plenty there. If the government would let them merge, they would be monopolies.

More than 50% of the world's population lives of less than an equivalent $3 US a day. That's not wealthy by anyone's standards.

Well, no, that's not true. Median family incomes is about $9300, and median per capita income is about $2900, worldwide, nearly three times what you claim.

That is self reported, by people with jobs. Is it accurate? Not that the World Bank and others recently changed the poverty measure, reducing the group considered to be in poverty. And there's a considerable number of people without jobs.

"Wealth" is a subjective measure, it can be created, destroyed, and altered just by comparison.

You're playing meaningless semantic games. If you don't understand what the word "wealthier" means in this context, then we can simply put it this way: the world is much better off today than it used to be, across countries and income groups. There is less hunger, less violence, less homelessness, greater literacy, higher life expectancy, etc.

I think the people in Syria for one, might disagree.

A bald assertion

No, not a "bald assertion". The idea that free trade "drains jobs and money" flies in the face of both established economic theory and long term data. The economic theory isn't even hard to understand: if you erect trade barriers, goods get more expensive so the money people have available is worth less. And, in fact, the cost that the trade barrier imposes on Americans is always higher (often a lot higher) than any increased demand in the US. In addition, politically, if the US erects trade barriers against imports, other nations will erect trade barriers against US imports in retaliation, and our export trade will also suffer. Historically, trade barriers have caused everything from recessions and depressions to outright war.

It's still a bald assertion. There have been many documented cases of jobs leaving the country post free trade agreements. So until you provide some facts, you're still making an unsupported assertion that sounds more like a policy plan than anything based in reality. Thanks to numerous studies and facts, I can conclude that free trade has moved jobs out of the country, lowered wages, and has had a relatively pronounced and severe negative impact on our trade imbalances as wealth flows out of the country.

There is also a difference between a trade barrier and shifting costs. If you can't understand that, perhaps tha

Conservatives should purchase beach-front property if they are so confident in hoaxing. Some is already selling at a discount due to climate change risk.

Can we get a citation on that? I don't have a lot of cash, but I'd love to buy some beachfront property if it is cheap. And I'd be willing to adapt to the ocean rising 0.13 inches per year. That should give me enough time to move my lawn chair.

Meanwhile, don't forget that Al Gore spent $8.87 million on his beachfront getaway. But what does he know?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

I'm of the belief that there are no truly original ideas, just new combinations of old ideas. The more old ideas you know the more creative you can be. This is just an opinion though.

I also think group think is more of a problem among the uneducated. I doubt making knowledge more available will increase group think, although I agree it will certainly not get rid of it either.

That's got the parts of creativity, but what is needed is parts to do something, and then restrictions. It sounds crazy, but when we have no restrictions, creativity suffers badly. This is tied to education, where you are given a project which might sound weird, like photographing hedges ( I was assigned this once) and you have to produce something worth looking at.

The basic preise though is very interesting, because once you have a huge tool set, the creative mind can work with th restrictions. Awesome.

Now, to the idea that technology dumbs people down, and to the point of groupthink or stupid people - it does not dumb people down at all.

It might look like it's making people stupid - but what it really does is allow people who are already stupid, access to technology that a few years back was only accessible by smart people.

The young lady that brags about robbing a bank - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - is already stupid.

The people hwo bitch about their employers on Facebook http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... - are stupid.

None of these are caused by the technology. They are what happens when stupid people get hold of it.

"The fact that we have brains hasn't made the world any safer"

Now, I understand that life isn't a zero-sum game, and I don't want to belittle any of the truly horrible things that are happening in the world right now... but on the whole, the world is a safer place than it's been in probably any point in humanity's history.

Violence is down.

People are, on average, living longer, healthier lives.

Poverty is declining, if only slightly.

And so on... never been a better time than right now.
=Smidge=

Funny thing about this world, sometimes a stranger (in this case a dog) can indeed save your life.
Often it's the dog's own family, but sometimes it's someone who just happened to need help and was lucky enough that their distress was noticed by a dog.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-bradley-dog-pepper_55d75fd3e4b04ae49703166e
http://theweek.com/articles/466829/7-inspiring-stories-stray-dogs-saving-perfect-strangers
http://www.dogguide.net/25-hero-dogs.php

Only if you're bad at capitalism, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Didn't Michael Moore already skewer that canard over a decade ago? if the primary goal of a business is to make money, why aren't they selling drugs?

In 2010 Obama killed the Constellation program w/o discussing it with congress first and with NO PLAN for ANY American manned spaceflight going forward; his plan only funded the Americans using ISS for a few more years via Russian Soyuz flights before dumping ISS into the Pacific Ocean There was vague rhetoric about new tech development and a possible commercial crew taxi program, but. That was it. Congress had a freak-out because Constellation had been a hard-negotiated bi-partisan program with support and buy-in from the hard-right in congress all the way to the hard-left in congress and supported by both Bush and the Pelosi-Reid team. Constellation had even made it through the 2008 election cycle ans the change of power in congress. Congress under-funded Constellation back then, as they always do to NASA, but Bush and his team did not go around whining about it and blaming the underfunding on Democrat hatred of Bush and/or white people. Obama's supporters have used commercial crew underfunding as "proof" that his opponents are racists; they LOVE this fight.

Obama's plan got such a negative backlash even from prominent Democrats that he cobbled together a plan to come up with a plan and, after months of back-room negotiations, ended up calling for a manned version of the Bush-era commercial cargo program, combined with an extension to ISS operations (which even now not all of the ISS partners have agreed to). Congress (again BOTH parties) were so unimpressed with the plan that they insisted on the SLS rocket as part of the plan and the law that ended up getting written allowed Obama's commercial crew program but also REQUIRED the SLS rocket. Obama signed that into law, but has been playing passive-aggressive games with it ever since. Every year, he tries to shift money from SLS to commercial crew, which angers congress and they in turn refuse to increase the commercial crew funds. He then announces that SLS does not need the money any way, then in separate reports to congress announces that SLS is slipping its schedule due to lack of funds (he actually says it's slipping because of delays to the Orion's service module - but THAT is because ESA is building it because he said we could not afford to have Lockheed build it in the US (an budgetary bankshot))

Congress wants a rocket to enable the US to return to the Moon and go on to Mars.

Obama is adamant that we not return to the Moon and that we will go to Mars someday in the distant future

There's no happy compromise between such opposite views.

Obama's NASA fills its website with Mars-centric rhetoric but absolutely no plan, budget, goals, or schedule (this is called "planning to fail by failing to plan"). He attempts to square-the-circle politically by making it look like he is agreeing to a deep-space future for NASA while in actuality he keeps trying to limit NASA to renting taxis for flights to and from LEO that will be easy for a future President to kill-off (since it will lack the political constituency of a big NASA program). He could EASILY get the funding for commercial crew if he would do 2 things: [1] stop slow-walking SLS and robbing its funds, and [2] agree to let congress increase the NASA budget WITHOUT tying that to an across-the-board budget balloon (boosting NASA would require either cutting something else or violating the budget caps, and Obama insists that he be allowed to bust the caps on all social spending programs if NASA gets a boost); Obama is using NASA in a supremely partisan set of fights and it's VERY bad for NASA.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is only a difference of semantics between the following two statements:

1) Conserving resources during an emergency by strongly discouraging the waste of a suddenly valuable commodity.

2) Taking advantage of an emergency by gouging customers in need of a suddenly valuable commodity.

There is literally no difference in practice between the two, the difference is intent of the seller, the actions could, quite literally be exactly the same. If we can use greed to make a bad situation better, shouldn't we?

This is the foundation of economic theory, and it rarely works out well to ignore economics altogether.

I recently saw a comedian explain it - it's funnier if you 'punch up'. Even 'punching down' is usually a self-deprecating joke about the comedian ("look what an asshole I am").

White people have had an advantage for hundreds of years (or longer?), and it shows in the percentage of politicians ruling, and probably more importantly the percentage of super rich. It started with slavery, but continued with Jim Crow, and exists today as, at minimum, bias. With that history and current imbalance, it stands to reason that any comparisons showing white people favorably will be met with disdain.

I think of it like this. If we're all neighbors, then we're actually teammates to a degree. If we're the player doing poorly, we should focus on doing better, working harder. If we're the player doing well, we should focus on helping the teammates not doing well. Encouragement seems to work in all situations, and actual help and advice in some situations (like if it's requested).

Indians can infect you with Caste, a type of Cancer;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Kshatriya will manipulate you/system and covertly hire/promote a Kshatriya;
Brahmin will manipulate you/system and covertly hire/promote a Brahmin;
Bania will manipulate you/system and covertly hire/promote a Bania;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Indians have infected America with Caste system, a type of Cancer;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Kshatriya will manipulate you/system and hire a Kshatriya;
Brahmin will manipulate you/system and hire a Brahmin;
Bania will manipulate you/system and hire a Bania;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Please sign/RT;
https://petitions.whitehouse.g...

Just how many of his businesses has he bankrupted, again?

Not that many. But could you trust him not give his own businesses advantages? Is he going to be an American Berlusconi?

Something like this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

"... it's not the disaster that people are making it out to be."

One of the issues is this: "people" are saying negative things. Apple has become a gay-supporting, headphone-selling, watch-making corporation that announces products before they are ready.

Apple's Tim Cook profiled as "most powerful gay man in Silicon Valley"

5 Reasons Apple Headphones Are The Actual Worst. We are all victims.

Exclusive: Corrupt Apple Store Employees Come Forward Across America (12/20/12)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is apparently not someone who can handle being a CEO. A capable CEO would not run a company in a way that gets so much negative or distracting publicity.

Does Tim Cook deserve to be paid so much? "Cook's pay package was valued at $378 million when he became Apple's CEO."

Let's take a look at the 8 "infuriating" things wrong with the Apple Watch, according to HuffPo:

1) I had no trouble buying one. There are a lot of options; surprise! With more options comes more complexity!
2) My setup time consisted of running the Apple Watch app on my phone. That was it. Minutes.
3) This just in: A watch can get dinged up on your wrist. In other news, water is wet.
4) ... obviously if you drop it on concrete the face will break, just like the screen on your phone would. You don't have to be any more careful than you are with your phone.
5) I have not experienced any degradation in my iPhone's battery life. But, I also don't have a basis for a scientific comparison; qualitatively it doesn't feel like a problem.
6) If it won't charge, it's clearly bad hardware, and you can exchange it. Bad hardware happens, unfortunately, this is why there are return policies.
7) I have to agree a (little) bit with this one, it's not clear how stuff is intended to be used sometimes. But once you get used to it, it's no problem. Still, that's a black eye for Apple; ease-of-use is one of their primary selling points.
8) I've experienced the issue described. I have not had the issue with my watch's app screen.

Clearly it's not the smoothest rollout Apple's ever had, but it's not the disaster that people are making it out to be.

No such thing happens with islam. Every day atrocities are committed in name of islam. There's a billion muslims out there who could stand up and show disgust for the atrocities. Doesn't happen.

http://news.sky.com/story/1298...

http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

http://www.yourlocalguardian.c...

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/new...

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

Like fuck it doesn't happen. Get your head out of your ass.

Yes, it tells the time. The watch shows text messages on an iPhone so that it isn't necessary to take the phone out of a pocket. But, does that justify paying $500 or $1,000?

Would you want your company to suffer the destruction of reputation faced by Apple?

Seven problems facing the Apple Watch

Apple Watch: Issues We Know Of And Possible Fixes.

Opinion: One month later, fixing 15 early Apple Watch problems seems straightforward

These 8 problems with the Apple Watch are 'infuriating'

9 of the biggest complaints about the Apple Watch so far

8 Infuriating Problems With The Apple Watch

Yeah because the government never does bad things.

Oh wait. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Remember, if big powerful corporations are evil just because they are big and powerful then what is big powerful government?

I would say that it might not be the lawmaking branch of government that saves us from bad companies as much as it is the judicial branch and civil court suits.

However, as is obvious from the asinine warnings printed on nearly everything that there is such thing as too much of a good thing.

> Wow. What kind of fucked up bible are you reading that makes you think that Jesus would support abortion?

This fucked up bible

So are the Chinese really in space? Or are they in a pool, faking the footage?

Why did an astronaut's helmet recently start filling up with water? And why did they announce, on MSM TV, that they were converting half of the tubing inside the suit into snorkels? See this one, of many, articles on the subject: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Why would an astronaut need a snorkel, in space?

NASA is becoming a laughingstock. The fake footage might have fooled us in the 60s, but these days we have the "Internet hive mind" to look through and discover anomalies, like the square box surrounding the Earth in pictures from the moon, visible when you play with the optical settings in Photoshop -- i.e., it was added, it was not a part of the original picture.

"When the first U.S. public corporations were created in the early 1800s, corporate charters were granted by the state legislatures for very specific purposes. The charters specified that the corporations met what was considered to be a worthy public purpose and contained strict restrictions, such as the length of time the charter lasted and what, specifically, the corporation could manufacture. In the mid-nineteenth century, it wasn't unheard of for states like Ohio, Michigan, New York and Nebraska to revoke corporate charters when corporations no longer fulfilled their purpose."

We should return to enforcing and revoking corporate charters when they fail to serve the public interest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/corporate-charters_b_2759596.html

theres the london one. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
not sure of the US one the OP is referring too.

Ahem...

"China Executes 2 People Over Tainted Milk Scandal"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

sorry, i forgot the source

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

"New research into Industrial Ethernet Switches .. showcases "a massive lack of security awareness in the industrial control systems community."

New research - new research ? - this has been known about for at least a decade ref. and the solution is, don't connect your switches directly to the Internet, connect them through VPNs running on embedded hardware.