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Last time I checked it was the Occupy people that got put on a terrorist watch list not tea party of liberterian types

A) [citation needed]

B) You should check again.

C) "Tea Party" != Libertarian.

That is all.

My question is what does Google, in the current form, expect the glasses to be used for. In the current incarnation, it is the equivalent of wearing mirrors on the top of your shoes. Releasing them without some alternative storyline was a mistake.

Now, when these become available I can see buying a pair and putting prescription lenses in them. OTOH, it does show that Google does not really know what to do with a new product. Everything else it has done in the consumer space has been a refinement or copy. Search using graph theory, phones that were open and now less so, a languishing Office app. What it does with Glasses will determine the future. It could be really good, if they release as a tool instead of a toy.

Another member of the intelligence committee says she didn't know:

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

"Despite the fact that HSBC admitted to laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels (among others) and violating a host of important banking laws (from the Bank Secrecy Act to the Trading With the Enemy Act), Breuer and his Justice Department elected not to pursue criminal prosecutions of the bank, opting instead for a "record" financial settlement of $1.9 billion, which as one analyst noted is about five weeks of income for the bank".

Banks Launder Billions of Illegal Cartel Money

Royal Bank of Scotland fined £5.6m for failing to properly report over a third of transactions

EU fines Royal Bank of Scotland £324m over Libor rigging

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

Yeah... I'm sure there's even less with any high tech knowledge. If by Detroit you mean people in Michigain yes. But local Detroiters are very poorly educated.

A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.

I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me? Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"? A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not) Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?

Tom Perkins direct reference to the one percent should have been your first clue as to how it is a better comparison. Did you really miss that? This is a matter of class injustice as the French dealt with, not racial injustice as was seen in Germany. The difference with reference to the 1% is that in the case of France (and today's US) the 1% are the perpetrators. In Nazi Germany, the 1% are the victims.

Huge, huge, HUGE difference that I will point out, please pay attention:

What Snowden did is illegal because the government made it illegal to call out the bad behavior of government.

The Iraq Invasion was illegal because there was 100% no purpose to it other than to spread unwanted economic influence into a region that had already been battered previously by us. Did you know that Bush and his administration are STILL wanted for war crimes in most of the world?

Switzerland
Canada
Belgium
Malaysia

Liar liar well on fire:

http://features.blogs.fortune.... http://crooksandliars.com/susi... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... https://www.utexas.edu/news/20...

Even if the Supreme Court weighs in against the surveillance, it may still be little more than show. Though rare, it's not unheard of for the executive branch to ignore Supreme Court rulings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonacquiescence, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyle-denniston/gingrich-supreme-court_b_1017418.html

This fanatical "activism" needs to be stopped.

Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.

Good luck with that, chief.

Perhaps you failed to realize that is exactly what the FBI and NSA are for, doofus.

Shit, son, I knew about COINTELPRO when you were still suckling yo mama's titty!

OK, probably not for that long (especially considering I have no idea how old you are), but I have known about it since the first time I listened to a Dead Kennedy's album back in the early 1990's.

Guess that initial response was just a reflex to the unwarranted injection of playground name calling in your post.

Even if your cultural narrative came from Fox News you should have found the FBI's Occupy Wall-street involvement odd.

Slight aside: That's funny. Not what you said, but rather that you would half-assed accuse someone of being a Fox News 'drone,' then provide a link to the fucking Huffington CrapFest, er, I mean Post. Aside from the fact that HuffPo is, essentially, the 'liberal' answer to Fox (in that it's mainly filled with bullshit, partisan editorials thinly disguised as 'news pieces'), do you really think someone that takes FN as gospel would actually give a shit about a HuffPo link? My guess is no, you know they wouldn't, and are trolling to try and see if you can get me to accidentally name some allegiance that you can subsequently attack me for.

Not gonna happen. At least, not when discussing any form of American Corporate Media. But hey, I do tend to vote Libertarian, so I'm certain you can come up with some nonsense about that.

I mean, here you are spouting off about activism and you don't know the first thing about your government policy about it. What the actual fuck?

It's not that I 'don't know the first thing about [my] government policy.'

It's that I couldn't give a fuck less what the oligarchs who currently reign think. We have a Constitution, it is the Inalienable, Supreme Law of the Land, and it can only be superseded by a Constitutional Amendment. "Policy" does not trump Constitutional law, per the Constitution.

For fuck's sake, you morons would make me sick if your politics hadn't heaved me dry.

Jesus tap-dancing Christ, calm the fuck down you little twit. Shit, my 3 year old nephew has better argumentation skills than you, and he can make his point without degrading into brainless, foaming-at-the-mouth, hateful nonsense.

If you want to continue this conversation like a grown up, please do; I enjoy intelligent debates with people whose opinions differ from mine.

If you're going to continue this mindless, asinine troll, you can promptly go fuck yourself.

This fanatical "activism" needs to be stopped.

Well, to do that, you're going to need to draft up a Constitutional Amendment that voids the First Amendment, then get 2/3 of state legislatures to ratify it.

Good luck with that, chief.

Perhaps you failed to realize that is exactly what the FBI and NSA are for, doofus.

Even if your cultural narrative came from Fox News you should have found the FBI's Occupy Wall-street involvement odd. I mean, here you are spouting off about activism and you don't know the first thing about your government policy about it. What the actual fuck? Have you had your head up your ass concerning the past 100 years of your country's history such that you missed that whole 'secret' police state doing heinous illegal shit and especially their anti-activism policy AKA "national security"? For fuck's sake, you morons would make me sick if your politics hadn't heaved me dry.

The seven hundred deaths, annually, you mean?

It that's an unacceptable number of deaths by your standards, then I suggest you quit your job immediately:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

"Work-Related Deaths Kill 150 Americans Per Day"

That's 54750 a year. Having a job is roughly 78 times more fatal than being around someone who took aspirin with the flu.

ACT NOW!

I am sure that their bank managers would complain about them putting more into their accounts than they were expecting and their politicians would be very upset by all of that money flowing in their economies instead of going to Bermuda

FTFY

Let it loose at the Adult Entertainment Expo.

If it can figure out what half of that stuff is, it's a brilliant algorithm.

If not, it will probably be hilarious to see the results.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

Excellent post and as far as I'm aware you're quite right, Neo-Nazism simply hasn't become a real problem in Western democracies.

As you say, "awareness" is part of the problem. You aren't aware, and neo-Nazism is a problem in Europe.

'Like 1930s Germany': Greek Far Right Gains Ground

Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and prosecutors are powerless.

Marian Kotleba: Slovakia’s New Neo-Nazi Governor Only Latest of Right-Wing Extremists Emerging In Eastern Europe

Kotleba, whose organization has long agitated against Slovakia’s Roma (Gypsy) minority, branding them as “parasites,” once belonged to the now-outlawed Neo-Nazi Slovenská Pospolitos (Slovak Community) movement that praised the Nazi puppet government that ruled the country during World War II. Bloomberg reported that Kotleba openly admires praised Jozef Tiso, president of the Nazi satellite state in Slovakia during World War II, which dispatched thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Kotleba, a 36-year-old former high school teacher, has been notorious for sporting Nazi-style uniforms in public, and also repeatedly arrested and sued for spreading racism and hate (no such charges have ever stuck, however).

Russia: Far-Right Nationalists And Neo-Nazis March In Moscow

Neo-Nazis form expanding networks beyond national borders

The cooperation between right-wing extremists from different countries is gaining strength. Experts warn that this phenomenon could have dangerous consequences.

Neo-Nazi parties on the rise in Europe, Jewish group warns

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- The World Jewish Congress said Tuesday it is greatly concerned about the emergence of what it called neo-Nazi parties in Europe, singling out Greece's Golden Dawn, Hungary's Jobbik, and Germany's National Democratic Party.

A study presented at the congress's assembly in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, highlighted the links among the growing strength of such extremist groups, the European economic crisis and latent Nazi-type tendencies in Europe.
 

The change you voted for was edited after. But don't worry, things will change, just don't complain if it's for worse.

Any idea what the names of those are? Maybe you have a better source, but I don't see any listed here:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/SubjectCS2013.html
or here:
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2013/computer-science-and-information-systems
or here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/best-university-computer-science_n_2439697.html
or here:
http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2011/sep/05/top-100-universities-world-computer-science-and-information-systems-2011

I don't think we are talking about Computer Science. There are three universities in Russia (1 in Moscow and 2 in St. Petersburg) that are all better in Computer Science than any university in US.

Hmmmm.
And carrying it further.

There are a plethora of studies out there tying memory and cognitive function to various things, including diet, sleep, type of learning, etc... Being in my 30's I can empathise with the problem, I just don't seem to pick things up as quickly as I did in my teens and 20's. It's not drastic, but it is noticable.

Some foods have been tied to cognitive function. Read up a little bit here and here. Or do some googling for some more stuff. It's interesting that the traditional american diet of burger and fries is actually a hindrance to memory and brain function. Healthy eating is very important to every component of your life, I just wish I new that when I was in my early 20's.

Exercise is another thing that fuels the brain. I find that when I stop biking/running, my mood goes to crap and I have a harder time sleeping. As my exercise level goes up, everything else gets better. Plenty of research here to back it up.

Different people also learn things in different ways. Looking at learning styles may help you figure out what works best for you. One thing I learned in undergrad is you don't really understand something until you can:

1. Define what it is
2. Defend it's strengths
3. Attack its flaws

In that same class, the professor told us that if we knew our stuff, there was no way he could trick us. I've applied that same test to those things I really want to remember, and I've found it works great. Repetition in Math never really stuck with me, but when I was finally able to reason about what the equation was actually doing, and understand the strengths and weaknesses (getting into applied math here), I found it was much easier to comprehend and work with.

You could spin your wheels for days trying to figure what works best for you, or to discover that there may be something else going on that needs treatment (i.e. ADD or something) before you're able to progress. It may be worth talking to your primary care and getting a referral to the appropriate specialist.

Netflix, in its old life as a small Blockbuster-fighting DVD-maiing rebel is already dead, after a bout of insanity in apparent pursuit of dark knowledge and money. Its current form, ostensibly an independent being but truly a zombie* raised by the vile magicks of Big Media, aims for exclusive deals with cable providers (who just happen to be ISPs) and to make its own content** as an excuse to lobby for tougher copyright. I would avoid touching the shambling corpse, lest you come down with something and be damned to eternal unrest, availability excuses that involve repeated chants of "distributors", "market segmentation", and "contracts", and high fees.

*It didn't quite manage lichform, but almost certainly tried.

**Which would lead to the whole "doing DRM'd streaming video by breaking HTML5 with DRM-friendly extensions" thing, if HTML5 was a stable or good standard in any sense but name.

Probably, but someone thought it was valuable enough to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/29/bbc-hacked-christmas-access-britain_n_4515229.html

Companies need a system to decide who gets retrenched first due to automation improvements: Those who use self-scanners at supermarkets get laid off first. It's only fair! :-)

But how will these newly unemployed cope? :-(

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135284/How-cheating-checkouts-turning-nation-self-service-shoplifters.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/coles-to-combat-selfserve-thieves/story-fni0dcne-1226746394342

Problem solved! :-)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/big-y-self-checkout-machines_n_980886.html
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/06/are-self-service-checkouts-on-the-way-out/

We know for sure that the added carbon in the atmosphere does add pollution

We do? How? And what "carbon" do you mean? Soot? Sure, but we don't have very much around here — and it has little to do with global warming. CO — the monoxide? It is outright poisonous, but, thankfully, we don't have much of that (because it is rather short-lived in the atmosphere). CO2 — the dioxide? Not a poison — and plants thrive on it.

and make it more difficult to breath

Pollution in general does make it more difficult to breath, yes, but modern equipment produces very little of it. The skies of Los Angeles and other big cities used to be very polluted, but not any more (though Chinese cities are pretty bad these days).

and stop taxing good things (like trade and income).

No disagreement here. But let's stay on topic of the global warming, errr, no, Climate Change. (Or is it "Extreme Climate" nowadays?)

Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.

This goes with pretty much every other aspect of life in america, I don't see why you're shocked.

Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.

Sorry, but someone has to call BS so here we go.

First, presuming you are living in the 2000s and not a time traveler recent data suggests the average working woman makes 23% less than the average man. This DOES NOT try to control for any factors. When you control for factors even AAUW can only find at best a 7% difference. Some reports show the difference as low as 4.3%. Is there a detectable difference in pay between the sexes? Yes, but just barely. Obviously, as people have a hard time understanding these numbers, "Math is hard" is probably a real thing.

Second, the rest of your argument is not a complete lie so I have no problem with it. The argument, and studies, about how much is nature and how much is nurture have been going on for a really long time so there is probably substantial truth in both positions. That being said in the US the 'Tom Boy' description is a great example of how your 'freak if they don't conform to the pink unicorn princess culture' is a bit over exaggerated. (As a side note did you know that pink used to be a masculine color it wasn't till the early 1900s that it was considered feminine).

And here are some things to read if you wish to educate yourself.
http://freakonomics.com/2010/01/28/superfreakonomics-book-club-goldin-and-katz-on-the-male-female-wage-gap/
http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/gender-wage-gap
http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/public-policy/aauw-issues/gender-pay-gap/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-gap_b_2073804.html

Other if they have a gun are assumed to be criminals and be shot on sight, or brought up on charges for nothing more than having a gun. And this is silly because the NRA has clearly indicated that the problem with our society is there are too few gun owners, that gun owners should not have to register, that private sales, such as those that happen on instagram, should be legal and unregulated, and that only in certain extreme cases should gun ownership be regulated at all.

Such cases are very confusing to kids. Here is another one that is a pet of Rand Paul. A convicted drug dealer is serving a life sentence because he was caught several times over six years of so selling drugs. Now, I know that this kid had divorced parents, was abused, and is depressed, but I wondered how many people in jail do not have a similar set of circumstances. I don't agree with the drug laws, and think they need to be changed, but I do think that sometimes if someone is convicted of a crime several times something needs to be done. If nothing else they are a very stupid criminal and someone is going to get hurt. But Paul just says in this case we should forgive and forget.

Again, it is very confusing to kids. This guy rapes a girl, posts the rape on the internet and gets a year of probation, and you tell me that there are consequences. Adolescents, and developmentally challenged adults, which includes a large part of the population, think they are invincible and will tend to over estimate the odds that they will get away with stuff. If we are not sending every kid to jail for a few days who tries to buy alcohol with a fake ID, then what gets out on Twitrer is not that fake IDs are dangerous, but that you probably won't have any consequences so the risk is worth it.

It is the same thing with guns and dangerous products carried onto airplanes. In most cases, the TSA will just confiscate or destroy. There are no real consequences. Therefore if a terrorist organization wanted to destroy a plane, all they would have to do is setup multiple agents to go to multiple airports until one eventually got through. There is nothing the TSA does to keep this from happening. If you are a licensed gun owner, just say you forgot it was there. The harmless compenents to make a strong acid that can eat away the skin of the plane stored in your shampoo, will just be thrown away.

One thing I've wondered about of late is the reliability of evidence collected on the internet.

We've heard cases where someone was arrested because they admitted to something on Twitter, or had a picture of themselves doing something wrong on Facebook, and so on.

Absent any other evidence, is admission of guilt on the internet sufficient to convict someone in ideal circumstances?

Does anyone here with legal knowledge know the answer?

(I understand that you can get convicted of anything for any reason, and even for no reason, but I'm wondering about theory here. What's the situation, given an honest judge and correct representation?)

(And no, I'm not seeking legal advice on the internet since I'm not accused of a crime.)

Some examples of late: picture of teenager holding a beer (or holding a joint) leads to alcohol/drug charges, tweeting that you were driving drunk, and so on.

On a daily basis, December was a month of extremes for Germany, with day-ahead base prices closing on December 10 and 11 at less than €60/MWh – the highest over-the-counter levels seen all year – only to fall to its lowest level December 24 to €0.50/MWh.

I have seen a nice bumper sticker before: Solar and wind are allright, but nuke's do it all night.

I agree with this sentiment. Shame Germany is phasing out nuclear in favor of coal.

1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html

That link is to a completely unrelated story about the IRS. I was hoping you had some proof, because that was the first time I've heard that Fast and Furious was all bullshit. So I searched the same website for more info and didn't find anything to support your claim. What I did find was an article from july 2013 talking about two more deaths in mexico linked to those guns - not something I'd expect to see from "huffpo" if the scandal had been debunked.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/fast-and-furious-gun_n_3554854.html

Sorry, too many links. Have some more appropriate links, and thank you for catching that:
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/not-so-fast-on-fast-and-furious/

1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html

That link is to a completely unrelated story about the IRS. I was hoping you had some proof, because that was the first time I've heard that Fast and Furious was all bullshit. So I searched the same website for more info and didn't find anything to support your claim. What I did find was an article from july 2013 talking about two more deaths in mexico linked to those guns - not something I'd expect to see from "huffpo" if the scandal had been debunked.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/fast-and-furious-gun_n_3554854.html

Sorry, too many links. Have some more appropriate links, and thank you for catching that:
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/not-so-fast-on-fast-and-furious/

1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html

That link is to a completely unrelated story about the IRS. I was hoping you had some proof, because that was the first time I've heard that Fast and Furious was all bullshit. So I searched the same website for more info and didn't find anything to support your claim. What I did find was an article from july 2013 talking about two more deaths in mexico linked to those guns - not something I'd expect to see from "huffpo" if the scandal had been debunked.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/fast-and-furious-gun_n_3554854.html

1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html

That link is to a completely unrelated story about the IRS. I was hoping you had some proof, because that was the first time I've heard that Fast and Furious was all bullshit. So I searched the same website for more info and didn't find anything to support your claim. What I did find was an article from july 2013 talking about two more deaths in mexico linked to those guns - not something I'd expect to see from "huffpo" if the scandal had been debunked.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/fast-and-furious-gun_n_3554854.html

It is really telling that the ATF gave over 2500 guns to Mexican drug cartels, and no one from the ATF, DOJ, or Obama Administration is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the IRS targeted political opponents during an election year, and no one from the IRS, DOT, or Obama Administration is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that Obama campaign donors at Solyndra got $500,000,000 of tax payer money, promptly went bankrupt, and no one from the DOE is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the Fed prints $75,000,000,000 a month, totaling over $4,000,000,000,000 in the last 5 years, and no one from the fed is sitting in jail.
It is really telling that the president himself breaks the PPACA on a daily basis by announcing parts he will be temporarily or permanently not enforcing, and he's not sitting in jail.

Wow, that's a fun list. I count 3... 4? outright lies, 4 completely made up scandals, 1 thing taken completely out of context, several words that don't mean what you think they mean, and a complete lack of understanding as to how civics works.

It's always fun to debunk these kinds of lists, because I always learn something new, usually something that makes me proud of what our country is doing.

The only sad thing is that it takes me hours and the people posting them will either blindly ad hominem them ("YOU LINKED DAILYKOS THAT MEANS YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD~!~!"), call me a "liberal commy fagg 'MERICA hater", or ignore me and go right back to posting about how Obama was raised by Karl Marx on the Socialist Moonbase on the dark side of Mars or something. Or go back to quoting from the sites those guys run. Same difference, really.

Anyway, lets go!

1. Fast and Furious was made up. The entire thing was based on one right wing ATF source, who was discovered to be lying. It has been debunked so often that even the actual GOP doesn't mention it, only ultra-far right idiots in the Tea Party talk about it nowadays.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/20/irs-scandal-democratic-acorn_n_3785717.html

2. Ditto for the IRS scandal, which was also made up. Darrel Issa asked the investigator to ignore the fact that the IRS was looking at all groups claiming to be charities, as they are REQUIRED TO DO BY LAW, and merely provide him talking points on Republican ones. The real scandal? The IRS failed to notice 10 out of 11 of the Koch brothers fake charities were fake charities. You'll note that Issa doesn't even bother talking about this one anymore, he's too busy trying to use Benghazi to kneecap President Hilary Clinton before her 2016 victory.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/26/1219172/-Here-s-how-Darrell-Issa-manufactured-the-IRS-scandal

3. Solyndra's loan was one of Bush's projects, not Obama's, and there's a HUGE difference between George Kaiser (a billionaire who raised a whopping 50-100k for Obama) and the Kaiser Family Foundation (a charity he started). There's a whole boatload more of made up crap about Solyndra, it's a very transparent manufactured scandal to try and drive us away from Solar and Wind technologies -- because oil will never run out or anything. I'll just leave this link as an exercise to the reader:
http://ourfuture.org/20120926/the-phony-solyndra-solar-scandal

4. Literally not true. The "Fed prints $75,000,000,000" is such a common meme that there are so many Tea Party sites shatting it out that it's hard to discover it's source. Took a while, but I found it - The fed is buying back a bunch of T-Bonds and Mortgage Bonds at the rate of 75 billion a month as part of the stimulus package, but that's not "printing money." The Feds have a FAQ entry up on it here, for those who don't roll

target messes with there employees and does not pay OT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/target-manager-fired-lunch-break_n_1016100.html

The median compensation for CEO's of publicly traded companies in 2011 was $9.6M source.

Mining is the act of removing very small amounts of valuable minerals from large chunks of rock.

Bringing them HERE means the tailings all end up in earth orbit.

We've got enough crap orbiting the earth and taking out Satellites without adding to this mess.

Processing them on the mood might make more sense, but if you have the ability to do that, why not just mine the moon?

>Frankly, I'm shocked that the "milking machine" isn't already a real thing....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/robot-handjobs-vr-tenga_n_4261161.html

COINTELPRO aimed to divide and discredit the all activist movements: "COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day... [including] discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[6][7][8]". You could even include trolling forums in that list.

As you can see, COINTELPRO contains examples of FBI sponsored campaigns of extreme violence. How do we know that the violent elements in the Weather Underground were not yet another FBI agent provocateurs to turn public opinion against all forms of peaceful but related activism. We don't know and you cannot reasonably argue that it is not the FBI given the evidence against them - the FBI even went as far as assassination to further COINTELPROs aims.

All real world tunnels discovered so far have only been a few inches wide and use a pulley system to move drugs.

No, larger tunnels have been found.

In November 2011, authorities found a 600-yard tunnel that resulted in seizures of 32 tons of marijuana on both sides of the border, with 26 tons found on the U.S. side, accounting for one of the largest pot busts in U.S. history. The tunnel was equipped with electric rail cars, lighting and ventilation. Wooden planks lined the floor.

and

On Thanksgiving Day 2010, authorities found a roughly 700-yard passage equipped with rail tracks that extended from the kitchen of a Tijuana home to two San Diego warehouses, netting about 22 tons of marijuana on both sides of the border.

Human trafficking wouldn't be a problem if they wanted to but I suspect that the economy in it is too low to be worth the risk and effort.

The "Tea Party" has been a corporatist project since 2002.

There is a reason why they were sudden mass media darlings right after the 2008 crash; they have the capital-friendly narrative that corporations want grandfathered into a political 'renewal' should one become necessary. The saddest part is they can't even pay enough people to show up at their low-turnout protests.

Here is an enlightening comparison of fascist history with more recent developments:

The third stage: being there
All through the Bush years, progressive right-wing watchers refused to call it "fascism" because, though we kept looking, we never saw clear signs of a deliberate, committed institutional partnership forming between America's conservative elites and its emerging homegrown brownshirt horde. We caught tantalizing signs of brief flirtations -- passing political alliances, money passing hands, far-right moonbat talking points flying out of the mouths of "mainstream" conservative leaders. But it was all circumstantial, and fairly transitory. The two sides kept a discreet distance from each other, at least in public. What went on behind closed doors, we could only guess. They certainly didn't act like a married couple.

Now, the guessing game is over. We know beyond doubt that the Teabag movement was created out of whole cloth by astroturf groups like Dick Armey's FreedomWorks and Tim Phillips' Americans for Prosperity, with massive media help from FOX News. We see the Birther fracas -- the kind of urban myth-making that should have never made it out of the pages of the National Enquirer -- being openly ratified by Congressional Republicans. We've seen Armey's own professionally-produced field manual that carefully instructs conservative goon squads in the fine art of disrupting the democratic governing process -- and the film of public officials being terrorized and threatened to the point where some of them required armed escorts to leave the building. We've seen Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner applauding and promoting a video of the disruptions and looking forward to "a long, hot August for Democrats in Congress."

This is the sign we were waiting for -- the one that tells us that yes, kids: we are there now. America's conservative elites have openly thrown in with the country's legions of discontented far right thugs.

http://www.alternet.org/politics/141819/is_the_u.s._on_the_brink_of_fascism/?page=entire

A real grassroots movement emerged years later when Occupy Wall St. put a big chink in the corporate narrative armor, and evaporating any semblance of teabagger interpretations to 'inevitability' or even sanity.

My guess is they are going to start classifying various crimes as terrorist acts.

Well, they're already classifying peaceful protests as such so I'm thinking were just a little way past that.

1. No reference groups or underlying familial risk were examined in those papers. Not conclusive.

2. No need to completely remove THC from the medication.

3. No need to GM cannabis.

4. Dissenting voices (this one from David Nutt, the man behind the 2010 Lancet-published study) are stifled.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/03/middle-class-really-three-decade-slump

http://www.businessinsider.com/decline-of-theus-middle-class-2013-10

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/labor/news/2013/09/17/74363/latest-census-data-underscore-how-important-unions-are-for-the-middle-class/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/college-costs-median-income_n_3443806.html

http://www.aarp.org/research/ppi/security/impacts-of-rising-healthcare-costs-AARP-ppi-sec.html

I think quoting a single statistic without anything else to compare it to is disingenuous. More people surely are enrolling in college now than they were in my parents' generation. My parents, going to a state school, essentially carried no debt when they finished, and had good middle class jobs waiting for them. It was more likely in my parents' generation that one could be middle class all the way through to retirement without a college degree, as well.

The price of a college education has risen at a rate entirely inconsistent with median income. That's not just for Harvard or MIT - that's for all American college education.

Similarly, health costs have gone up without regard to income levels. Likewise real estate anywhere where jobs exist. Likewise daycare, or elder care. Pensions that were commonplace a generation ago are nearly extinct now, and vilified by a large segment of the population.

Sure, people can afford to have computers and DVD players and game consoles that didn't exist a generation ago, but the essentials of a middle-class life are getting more and more expensive relative to a middle-class income.

They want you to have ID so that the masses who for some reason don't have ID can't vote.

What "masses" are these? Not only is ID de-facto required to travel around this country by air, you can't ride Amtrak without an ID either. Bus operators (I was told by one of them) are also supposed to check IDs, though nobody currently enforces the requirement.

So, if Obama-managed TSA has some good reason (whatever it is) to keep those "masses" from traveling, is not it logical, that same reason applies to keeping them from voting?

Plus, of course, the very good other reason — already cited — of preventing voting fraud, which you dismiss as "miniscule" problem without citing any evidence. We are told repeatedly by the ruling classes not to worry our pretty little heads about it, but the only evidence ever offered is the low rate of fraud-prosecutions... That's a rather bizarre logic — I wonder, if GLAAD would've accepted the argument claiming there being no gays in America based on absence of applications of anti-sodomy laws.

The conflict of interest is staggering — few politicians want to talk much about voting fraud, because that would endanger the validity of their own mandates. Why would you be willing to accept such claims without skepticism, is beyond me.

Here's hoping that he actually has some proof that they do. If so, this is a very smart move. If they say "yes we do", Congress will be forced to react immediately in some way, at least for PR reasons.

There is nothing to "react immediately" to. This isn't some rogue NSA operation. The House and Senate already knew NSA was doing this, or at least part of them did. The Intelligence Committees of the House and Senate are the ones who are tasked with deciding which classified projects are created and approved, and sit in the classified briefings where progress on such programs is discussed. They're the ones who created this program and steered challenges to it through the FISA court so that it would remain secret and legal.

Sander's isn't doing this because he has some big reveal he's hiding. He's just using this as a way of skirting the taboo against senators directly criticizing other senators, by instead criticizing the program those on the Intelligence Committees approved. In all likelihood the answer to his question is yes, unless the phone company has some special database entry which flags which phone numbers belong to members of Congress so their metadata is not included in that sent to the NSA.

In the bigger scheme, this is just a part of the whitewalling to dump the fallout from this onto the NSA in the mind of the public. By acting shocked and dismayed at the program, the politicians in Congress and the White House can appear to be innocent in all this when in fact they were the ones who created this program and created the laws which made this program legal (albeit Constitutionally sketchy).

Prove that microwave heated food isn't dangerous. Microwaves are totally different than simple heated air that people have been using for centuries, which heats food more slowly. Totally different results too; your pizza will be all mushy and not crisp when it is made in a microwave. You couldn't do that with an oven. And you have no idea what alterations you are making to the food. It isn't like anyone has ever studied it, and if they have, Big Microwave has silenced them.

But you are right, the point I made was rather stupid. Saying that all differences are meaningful is often an oversimplification of an issue.

The TPP will make it illegal to label your food GMO free and no, it won't matter what your nation's legislature had to say on the topic or would like to say later. The TPP will supercede the laws of you nation's legislature:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/obama-trans-pacific-partnership_n_4414891.html

http://www.nationofchange.org/trans-pacific-partnership-and-monsanto-1372074730

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_tpp_tafta_monsanto_protection_act_on_steroids/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/tobacco-symbol-of-corrupt_b_4439416.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/041965_tpp_gmo_labeling_monsanto.html#

The TPP will make it illegal to label your food GMO free and no, it won't matter what your nation's legislature had to say on the topic or would like to say later. The TPP will supercede the laws of you nation's legislature:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/09/obama-trans-pacific-partnership_n_4414891.html

http://www.nationofchange.org/trans-pacific-partnership-and-monsanto-1372074730

http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop_tpp_tafta_monsanto_protection_act_on_steroids/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-r-shaffer/tobacco-symbol-of-corrupt_b_4439416.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/041965_tpp_gmo_labeling_monsanto.html#