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"Yes - it's a big failure" - Yes, that much we can certainly agree on. Here is a little news flashback for you (I intentionally did not choose a story from Fox News or similar Right-leaning news source) : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Not surprisingly, the administration has quitely stopped releasing signup numbers, despite a promise to do so in the article above: http://hotair.com/archives/201...

The Obama administration continues to play fast and loose with the term "enrollment" and still refuse to tell the public how many people have actually paid for an insurance plan via the Obamacare website.

I'm not suggesting that people should "die" when they get sick. Far from it. I believe that Americans should get the best medical care available.

What I am suggesting is that the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has been a collosal bungle, the likes of which the free world has never seen.

Not many but there are some!

Why is the parent post moderated flamebait?

The comment is statistically accurate if a bit understated. Lots of charts:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

There are countless articles anyone on /. should be competent to find on their own, such as this:

The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs.

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

As for the "war on black people" comment, see the book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Once a person is convicted of a felony, like for having an ounce of pot or whatever, huge swaths of civil and privacy rights are just taken away for life, finding employment becomes very hard, and they end up never being financially capable of escaping the ghetto. This is just as effective as "whites only" laws.

Since you are so good at not misunderstanding statistics, can you tell us how you read this to not show that Reddit is male dominated.

It's exactly the other way round, according to this Huffpost piece. There are 99 million more monthly female visitors to the various social media sites (included in the analysis were Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Myspace, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, last.fm, deviantART, Google+, Digg, Bebo, Reddit and many others). Even in gaming, the largest demographic are now adult women.

President Obama - 79

President George W. Bush - 89

President Bill Clinton - 133

President George H. W. Bush - 143

President Reagan - 27

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

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

Citation Provided thanks google A bit harder to find info on Quinn but I guess that's not really surprising considering the implications to "journalists".

They've done it before, feminists just don't care and will find a way to spin it. They're always victims, no matter what, they believe firmly that women should not be held accountable for their actions and they lie when confronted about it, never trust what a feminist says but always pay close attention to what they do.

You might be able to argue that "Death panels" was "engineered by the shady machinery of high-profile congressional campaigns" (Sarah Palin is credited with coining the term), but definitely not "Obamacare" (the media promoted that one), or "Birthers", which was certainly an organic meme, to describe people questioning Obama's origins. It's also a form of the "something-ers" form of describing a group (deniers, anti-vacciners, etc.), which as I recall sprang out of calling the 9/11 conspiracy theorists "truthers".

On the Republican side, Benghazi. The only "scandal" there is that it could be spun to make Hilary look bad. (She's a politician whom I loathe, and for whom I wouldn't vote, but Benghazi wasn't the first time, nor will it be the last time, that we lose people overseas.) Completely bogus non-scandal that froths up GOP voters into a tizzy, and just, coincidentally, against someone they already hate, and the most likely contender for a Presidential run in 2016.

On the Democratic side, the idea that Bush the Lesser described the Constitution as a "goddamn piece of paper." Whatever people think of the actual policies of that admnistration, he didn't say it. The only "source" was a blog, and the author of the post has has retracted the story. I still see it being cited almost nine years later.

1) it's not a given that officer discretion is gone. the same argument was said about dash cams in squad cars, but was just as invalid there. It's up to department policy. Very few departments I know of would even contemplate removing officer discretion, let alone actually do it.

2) No more so than dash cams, or the millions of cameras in peoples pockets already, uploading tons of background to youtube. Public spaces and all that. Plus, it's not terribly difficult to write laws or policies regarding handling of actual privacy data. There's many laws already on the books, it's not an unknown new preoblem, but rather a previously encountered and solved one.

3) No. Absolutely not. Pure absurdity and stupidity.

4) You just cited the "technicality myth". Even more invalid than the slippery slope. It basically only exists on TV. (Myth #6 on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... ). It rarely happens in real life. But when it does, what you call a "technicality" is when the state somehonw violated your (or specifically the defenedant's) rights in its pursuit of justice. When rights only matter for "law abiding citizens", but can be tosed out the window for anyone accused of a crime...that's not law, that's a charade. You should be happy that in enforcing the law is willing to make its own job harder and more difficult, and even toss it's own victories, in the name of protecting your rights should you be accused.

5) That's the whole point. In the cities where this has been done, YES INTERACTIONS CHANGED. Specifically, accusations of brutality or misconduct decreased to tremendously. Wearing the camera protects BOTH THE OFFICER AND THE CITIZEN. An impartial observer to the complete interaction is in everyones' interests: the cop's, the citizen's, and society's in general. Cops have a job to do. That job entails making decisions on a daily basis in regards to enforcing law and interacting with everyday citizens. If you dont have the gumptions or confidence to do that and face potential review at a later date, maybe you shouldnt enter that sort of occupation. Course, that applies to every job.

Traffic cameras, police car dash cams, and officer worn cams have all been tremendous success stories in terms of providing an impartial official record of what actually happened. When actual video exists of an entire encounter, rather than relying on notoriously unreliable "eyewitnesses" or hoping some passerby caught it on camera, it becomes clear exactly what happened. Also, we can once again turn to other countries, as this isn't a new thing being encountered for the time ever. It's been common in Europe and UK for close to 10 years now. Also tremendously successful over there.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://online.wsj.com/articles...

Rolling the stones as huge cylinders would've been cool but they used water to wet the sand, which reduced friction. There's even some hieroglyphs that show it being done. Was big news back in the spring. See:

• Scientists May Have Figured Out How Ancient Egyptians Moved Huge Pyramid Stones
• The surprisingly simple way Egyptians moved massive pyramid stones without modern technology
• Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand

Here, the last-mile providers are acting like Marxists.

They certainly are — thanks to the monopoly-power once given to them by the government.

The solution to this, however, is not creating more rules for them to follow (with more boards and commissions to — ineffectively — ensure compliance) — these only make it harder for a would-be newcomers to appear — but to make this market properly competitive.

So screw the Koch Brothers and their idiot shilling.

While the public anger is (somewhat clumsily, but still effectively) once again redirected against the Koch Brothers, "Big Cable" donates to the ruling party en masse, CEOs play golf with the President and otherwise do the ruling party's bidding. Is it likely, that further monopolization will be blocked?

... for killing a dinosaur Steven Spielberg posing next to a dead dinosaur

http://doit.niu.edu/doit/polic...

Using the resources for political activities, including organizing or participating in any political meeting, rally, demonstration, soliciting contributions or votes, distributing material, surveying or polling for information connected to a political campaign, completing political surveys or polling information, and any other activities prohibited under the ethics act and/or other state/federal laws.

Emphasis mine, and this makes sense from a CYA perspective. The next one though it bizarre:

Use of personal social media sites, following specific direction to cease or not utilize university equipment or time to an extent or during time periods that would interfere with professional responsibilities, including, but not limited to

??? - can somebody explain what the heck this means. Oh wait, next link.

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

That only applies to employees. I think that's where the confusion is. Students -- unless they are an employee

Sorry, this was a poorly planned, executed and communicated rollout. Sounds like a new position for Vice President of IT will be opening for a major university soon...

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

Supposedly the policy applies to employees not students.

They're successful when you consider that the point was to move tax revenue to crony pockets:

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

>> "The rover has reached its planned mission life, everything beyond this is a bonus."
> I agree with the rest of your post, but this part is tricky to evaluate.

This says "mission accomplished".

Just ditch the measuring equipment, the entire point of the project is to drive as far as possible on the surface.

No, it's to draw willies on Mars.

You can't screw over your customers and not expect people to start looking at alternatives.

I considered a blackberry earlier this year, but it was so off the mainstream that I said to heck with it. If Blackberry had gone to android instead of qnx, I would probably have bought one just to encourage them, but there's no way that I'm going to buy something that's virtually an orphan. And everyone I know who loved their crackberries has switched. Judging by their market share, this is now an all-too-common occurrence.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Now police's only tool are military-grade weapons, intended to kill.

And sometimes the situation changes how people is, like in this Standford prison experiment

Add to that how police cover up miscarriages and that you can't film the police, is not just who watches the watchers, but who watches the watchers that have military-grade weapons in the streets and are abusing of them.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Now police's only tool are military-grade weapons, intended to kill.

And sometimes the situation changes how people is, like in this Standford prison experiment

Add to that how police cover up miscarriages and that you can't film the police, is not just who watches the watchers, but who watches the watchers that have military-grade weapons in the streets and are abusing of them.

Psychiatric Diagnosis such as ADHD are pseudo-science thought up by the pharmaceutical industry to sell more drugs.

"The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis"

Because the pentagon/darpa are completely ran by pedophiles

Also, Pedro Bravo was not the roommate of Christian Aguilar.

But this is /., who needs facts?!

I wasn't changing the subject, just pointing out that you're a bit fanatical on this subject. You sure you don't have a brown shirt or two in the closet? Just following orders is not the same as a person doing a 9 to 5 at a job making a living. I also pointed out that the current administration views the press and whistle blowers as treasonous entities, something which you blew right on by. So instead of canonizing St. Snowden here you should wake up and smell the cat shit. Most of the crap dumped out there as gospel is utter shit, poorly produced and there's no fucking way in hell that given his access, he'd have any knowledge of strategic planning at the NSA. Todays Cyberbot bullshit is just that, bullshit.

It also seems that living in a nation of laws you don't want to abide by them and change them from within. You're labeling people for being evil when all they're doing is their job. That makes you intolerant. Somewhere, somebody got the idea that it would be good to do this; collecting metadata et al. All three branches of government are a fault here and we as the voting public are also culpable for letting it happen. It's time to fix it but you just can't trust everything you read, especially from somebody who's compromised and an attention whore. Despite your non-beliefs to the contrary, Snowden is wanted in this country under the laws that have been established to deal with this kind of crime. If you feel morally outraged, then you have a right to protest, lobby, arm twist whoever you want but that doesn't make people fundamentally trying to protect our nation evil scumbags.

Your perception on lying is interesting to. How do you know any of this material is credible? You're taking on faith from a guy who had an agenda. He violated his oath of secrecy to, and there's penalties for that. I'm not arguing the morality of it, but it's still against the law and until laws are changed or courts throw it out it's still the law. If we all decided to ignore laws we thought were morally wrong we'd have a game like Twisted Metal on the streets. Speed limit? Fuck That it's wrong? Murder? Fuck that it's wrong I'll kill my neighbor if he plays that stereo too loud. Yeah it'd be a much better place to live.

We have a constitution which serves as the basis for our laws in this country. Whether those laws are correct is for the people to decide and unfortunately public opinion on the whole Snowden episode is now swinging towards not credible. See the spin doctors are winning.

I can't speak for the laws, but the claim that no one's buying, and thus has only 1 shop, is demonstrably false. While it's true there's only 1 shop, it just opened on July 8. 3 days later, they were completely sold out

They issued the first 25 licenses this week, and most just haven't opened yet. You just have to give it some time.

Like people on GPS bracelets to ensure they do not leave the state.

The bracelets are an alternative to being in jail — having your freedoms suspended by the Judiciary, not Executive. Executive can arrest you — limiting your freedoms temporarily — but they can not deprive a citizen of his rights for very long without a successful a successful trial.

Try again when you have been around the world, checked out the laws and rights enshrined within those laws, been arrested under those laws

I've been around the world quite a bit, but I have never been arrested. Nor do I accept that as a requirement to holding (and putting forth) an opinion.

I can still enter the UK despite my last trip causing a ton of problems with the Bobbies.

But Michael Savage can not — without causing the Bobbies any problems whatsoever.

The only countries on the American landmass that are stupid about shit like this are the USA and Canada.

Stupid like what? Keeping understandables out? I would not call it "stupid" — quite the contrary — but, unfortunately, we aren't that. Not any more...

If every time I read a story starting with "_______ reversed in mice!" it ended up being an actual advancement in medicine, by now we would be immortal and immune to almost every disease.

And here's the meta story

"But stuff like needing to take PE classes where 1 CLASS costs way more then buying a 2 YEAR gym membership is not needed"
Have you seen the obesity rate It's bad in the US and the rest of the world is catching up. In addition there is evidence exercise increase productivity:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Sounds like a repeat of Amy's Baking Company

I wish that were true. It sure looks like the US funds a vast majority of drug marketing, though.

But for completeness sake, here's some counterpoints.

" and generally taste worse than beef does."

Small sample:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/what-does-human-taste-like_n_5233724.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/05/human-meat-taste-cannibal

So the general consensus is either pork or veal. Properly prepared pork is very tasty but I would say that beef can beat it out depending on the cut. Especially the tender and fatty skirt steak, better than filet mignon IMHO. Diet, gender, age and lifestyle could also affect taste. Perhaps a young fit female vegan would be the tastiest while an overweight 50y/o male alcoholic smoker would taste awful.

They go out of their way to try to warn civilians through various, creative means.

Which grants the people of Gaza little consolation for their civilian casualties, who for various reasons, are either unable to leave/a> or are deliberately targeted despite trying to flee. Not to mention that the survivors will have lost all of their belongings. Those warnings are essentially of zero use to the Palestinians, they are only useful for the apologists of Israel's PR machine.

There is actually plenty of evidence of deliberate targeting of civilians by the IDF. Take a look at this video for example, which shows a civilian being deliberately taken out by a sniper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not only that, but Nerval's Lobster is the screen name of Nick Kolakowski, a Dice / Slashdot employee who churns out content for just about anyone who pays

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

I fully agree but as a side note it seems that the tail of kangaroos also plays an important role in jumping http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Except the credit card companies wont raid your house for shopping at the wrong store http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

how can you blame the republicans for the state of nasa? bush had the funding in place when he left office, obama gutted the program, and made one of NASAs missions, sorry their "formost" mission is increading the relationship with muslims. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

explain to me what reaching out to muslims have to do with space travel????

there is alot of blame to go around, but a lot of it belongs on obama

It seems the stereotype threat theory is a myth:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

I remember reading that people would post negative reviews on Yelp! and ask restaurant owners to pay to remove them. I don't know about the US, but I'd prefer if this nasty tactic isn't protected by the Constitution in Europe. I even found the link - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.... What do you think about that? According to your First Amendment, this man has a right to do that. I'm glad that at least in Europe, a restaurant owner can drag this kind of person to court.

Whites or Jews?
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar...

Do these Jews, many of them dual citizens of Israel, do they have American or Israeli/Jewish interests at heart when they decide to continue funding their own racist nation of Israel where only Jewish immigrant are welcome?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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

From 2011

You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?

Exactly, the first thing on hearing about this should be to check the veracity of the tale.

And this is part of why all the drug development work ends up happening in private industry.

You're joking, right?

Pharmaceutical Companies Spent 19 Times More On Self-Promotion Than Basic Research: Report

Has nothing to do with the relative spending of academia vs industry on development.

Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?

Also has nothing to do with the relative spending of academia vs industry on development.

Why Pharma Needs the NIH: Basic Biology Drives the Industry, Says Genentech VP

This is about basic research, not development. As I said in my post, "That said, when it comes to the basic research side of things pharma companies do tend to let the academics do the work for them."

I love research about research

Also has nothing to do with the relative spending of academia vs industry on development.

My point was that most drug DEVELOPMENT costs are incurred by private industry, because it isn't a low-risk publication environment.

I wasn't saying that the drug industry didn't have problems.

Can't remember where I saw the article about the lawsuit going forward. They basically won. The best I can find now are: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... and http://www.theguardian.com/tec..., so yes, just the start of the case.

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

From 2011

You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?

ok, I'd like to argue your point. You seem to think online gaming addiction isn't a "Thing"
First you'll have to accept that "Gambling addiction" is real and causes people do these same sorts of things. If you don't that's a different argument.

Then I, of course, am going to say that Online Gaming addiction is one and the same as Gambling addiction. And not that they are similar to or trigger similar things in the brain... no, it's that online gaming has turned into true gambling.

As an example I'm going to cite "Neverwinter Online"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

It's not the only one like this, but it's a good example of what I mean. They've taken strategies strait out of casinos and applied them to an MMO.

First, they have so many currencies that are so confusing you can never keep track of what you have. There are dozens, if not over 100 of them:
http://neverwinter.gamepedia.c...

Secondly, you can BUY one of these currencies with real money. Zen:
https://billing.arcgames.com/e...

Then you can turn around any buy a whole host of items with this Zen in the game.
But, those items are expensive. But, you can buy "Keys" that open magic boxes that drop like rain in the game.
Those boxes have completely undisclosed "odds" that can change at random.

This is where it gets interesting...

You can then sell the items that you got in those boxes at a profit in their online auction house.
Then use the money you get from the sales to buy more keys
Open more boxes
You're getting the idea...

On occasion you'll get a "winner" and get some fantastic item that sells for a lot.
Often you'll lose a "small" amount and on occasion a LOT
To get back into the game you have to buy more Zen...

and it goes on like this. This is clearly gambling in my eyes. People are being used an manipulated. The fact that they hide the odds should be a red flag, but it's still going on. And before you argue that this isn't gambling because you don't get real world cash out of it... you can. There are plenty of people that will buy your currency for real money if you're selling cheaper than the game is. They make no attempt at all to stop it. There are a lot of people that make their entire living in markets like this. Ironically, most of them in China.

So yes, I think it could get as crazy as these articles suggest. I don't propose banning it or anything. But more disclosure on odds... less pretend bullshit that this is anything less than what it is: Gambling... would do us all some good.

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

From 2011

You might think this is getting to be epidemic in China or somebody over there takes advantage of gullible westerners ?

I favor reducing spending and increasing taxes. That is because I am a fiscal conservative and we are currently running a wildly excessive deficit.

Do you want to increase tax revenue, or tax rates? The two are not necessarily the same, depending on which side of the Laffer Curve we currently occupy.

And don't write off other ways to reduce the deficit:

• a revenue reduction concurrent with an even larger spending reduction. (Even during Bill Clinton's second term, when there was a healthy federal surplus, opinion polls of that era showed most Americans thought the government was spending too much. If spending was scaled back to Clinton Administration levels, in partial deference to that sentiment, we would instantly be back in surplus.)
• the "Penny Plan," surprisingly endorsed by the liberal Lanny Davis (although one must wonder about the sincerity of that endorsement)

And this is part of why all the drug development work ends up happening in private industry.

You're joking, right?

Pharmaceutical Companies Spent 19 Times More On Self-Promotion Than Basic Research: Report

Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money?

Why Pharma Needs the NIH: Basic Biology Drives the Industry, Says Genentech VP

I love research about research

I really know nothing about how Amazon works internally, so perhaps you can enlighten me.

how do they manage to do such great things with software?

By ripping off Android for their mobile platform and then screwing developers who sign their awful agreement?

How do they manage to operate such a huge warehousing and logistics operation?

By allegedly exploiting and shorting their employees and having soulless fulfillment centers/neo-sweatshops?