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In addition to that, without asking you, they uploaded all of your mobile phone contacts when you installed their mobile app: https://www.huffpost.com/entry...

This is why I only access facebook from the web on mobile

Why do you perpetuate this lie about Henry Ford? Is it lack of knowledge or is it lack of conscience? Henry Ford paid his workers twice as much as any other employer at the time because he needed his trained and competent employees to stay working at his factories and not leave to go working somewhere with less pressure to mass produce.

His conveyor lines and mass production is what allowed him to produce more per unit of manual labour and thus to drop prices so that more people could buy his product but paying his employees more was not to make sure they could buy the cars, that's nonsense modern socialist propaganda. He hired tens of thousands of people and once they were trained they could easily leave and command the same wage anywhere else, to prevent that Ford offered compensation large enough that no other manufacturer at the time could afford it because they didn't have the scale and the means to mass produce the way he did.

So once again, is it because you do not know or is it because you want to lie that you perpetuate this BS about Ford?

In the 1930's B.F. Skinner found that a variable schedule of reinforcement could cause rats to push a lever unto death. In the 1950's an implanted electrode was even more impressively compelling. In the 1970's John B. Calhoun noted modern human behaviors among his rats of NIMH. I recently camped outside a casino in their parking lot and imagined their never-to-be-seen truth-in-advertising sign to read, "WELCOME TO OUR SKINNER BOX RATS OF NIMH!"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/compass-pleasure_n_890342
http://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/critical-mass.html

No single big bank has a monopoly

Except they were deemed "too big to fail" so they could get away with any behavior including illegal forclosures And laundering billions in drug money. Absolutely no punishment or even fines were leveled against the big banks. Breaking them up allows for thier complete collapse under thier own mismanagement without crashing the whole economy.

Here's the link, from huffpo, but it was widely reported at the time...

Also, if something better were available, why would a college graduate apply at McDonald's?

It's the perpetual victim culture of the alt-right that is trying to redefine everything as harassment, so that nothing is harassment. That way they can do anything they like and just claim the victim is a snowflake.

It's also helpful to their victim narrative, where white guys are now the most oppressed group, and where people are encouraged to be offensive so a to make the extreme nationalist stuff more palatable.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entr...

Like this guy http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1164...

Here you go. First article on google complaining how little work he does down there but confirms for you he does at least some. Plenty of white house staff follow him down there too or do you think they're all just on free holidays. Even the secret service alone operating would call for it, no doubt its actually there. Pretty fucking shocking if it's not but you just seem unable to accept the fact its called for. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

Europe also tends to be more ethnically homogeneous (per country). The U.S., for all its flaws, is a hodgepodge of people from all over the world. I've always suspected part of the high violence rate in the U.S. is due to latent racism and cultural biases present everywhere, but coming into conflict with each other much more in the U.S. than in other countries.

The problem with that argument is simple: You haven't shown that inter-cultural exchanges are compromising a number of homicides.

So basically, not only are you still slipping on causation, you haven't established correlation.

The counterargument would be Canada, which is more diverse than the U.S., yet has less violence. But if you stare at that map and a homicide rate map long enough, I think you'll convince yourself that Canada is an outlier, and that in general higher ethnic diversity in a country is correlated with higher violence rates.

Stare too long into the abyss, and you'll find it staring back, doesn't make it true or valid.

The least you could do is check your own assumptions, but you didn't.

We still have a long ways to go as a species.

One would hope so, we haven't even gotten close to becoming a worm. Which was we all know, is the pinnacle of evolution.

Europe also tends to be more ethnically homogeneous (per country). The U.S., for all its flaws, is a hodgepodge of people from all over the world. I've always suspected part of the high violence rate in the U.S. is due to latent racism and cultural biases present everywhere, but coming into conflict with each other much more in the U.S. than in other countries.

The counterargument would be Canada, which is more diverse than the U.S., yet has less violence. But if you stare at that map and a homicide rate map long enough, I think you'll convince yourself that Canada is an outlier, and that in general higher ethnic diversity in a country is correlated with higher violence rates.

We still have a long ways to go as a species.

On the way? America was already globally shunned. We were the rogue superpower. Take a look at these articles to see who rated America as the greatest threat. http://www.salon.com/2014/01/0... http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry... Face it, it can't get any worse, the whole world hates us.

"Research" is a pretty strong word for links from Politico: https://www.google.com/amp/s/a...

And the WashPo and New York Times: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry... (NYT again:) http://m.washingtontimes.com/n...

Why is it bad to be able to pay more for higher speeds to some selected destinations?

Because no proposal I have ever heard for "preferred traffic" has ever involved letting me decide what those destinations are.

Overall your cable bill could be lower if you just need browsing speed for most sites but want to have a very fast connection for a handful of streaming video sites you use regularly...

Has your cell bill gone down since carriers implemented data caps? This graphic is years old, but please provide literally any evidence that it is not the logical conclusion of such a plan.

That would actually make 4k streaming practical, for example.

What would make 4K streaming practical is for the backhaul to be upgraded to the point where 100mbits/sec down is a de facto standard, with 300mbit/sec remotely affordable. Comcast isn't hurting for a buck, and even if this was the case in "selected cities" to start with, it's not the kind of thing that needs cooperation from everyone, everywhere, all at once. Then again, it's not like the general public is clamoring for 4K content - 1080p is so heavily compressed that good picture quality is still more dependent on Blu-Ray or 1080p file downloads than streaming.

You say that's bad, I say that's progress which is something we've not seen in a while. Under existing laws our network speeds are stagnating, Google is pulling out of fiber now...

Google is pulling out of fiber because they are Google, and pretty much everything that isn't Search, Mail, or Android is a 'pet project' to them...and also because being an ISP delivering gigabit is not the kind of thing they were charging properly for. Meanwhile, what online destinations besides Netflix aren't served 'well enough' by a 25/5 connection for 7 out of 10 Charter customers, and is my cable company's 300/35 tier not enough for 7/10 slashdotters? I'm not saying that progress should stop marching on or that the first round of Carbonite backups isn't going to be a pain, but internet speeds are well within the region where the router can very well be the bottleneck, and though the 300/35 tier is relatively new for my cable company, their standard level is 60/25, up from 25/5 about two years ago, and up from 15/2 from five years before that - and I'm nowhere near a Google Fiber area. Admittedly, my cable company is somewhat-regional and I know that AT&T hasn't done its customers any favors recently, but now we get into the classical argument of whether everyone's speeds need to go up in order for progress to be considered 'reached'.

Hopefully Trump won't stop the Chicoms from buying Hollywood.

I'd rather see her on the big screen than this

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/9849...

Okay, partisan dipshit, here's another link for your dumb ass: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

Who says I want to read the Shittington Post? There even worse than Faux News.

The "faux news" shit is an unfunny tired joke.

Awww, poor baby. Do you need to the waaaahmbulance to come by with some analgesic cream for all that butthurt?

Okay, partisan dipshit, here's another link for your dumb ass: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57cbd415e4b078581f135876

The "faux news" shit is an unfunny tired joke. Sure, Fox News is biased about some things. This isn't one of them. Idiot.

Many of the crimes in the US are committed by illegal immigrants — an indisputable fact, even if we can not agree on the exact figures.

False.
Saying its indisputable doesn't make it so.
There are what, 10mil illegal immigrants?
Compared to 320mil legal residents?
And you expect us to believe they commit more crimes than legal residents?
Even as a percentage that just isnt supported...anywhere.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1742...

Oh gee. Looks like they aren't connected after all.

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

Doh, not there either.

http://openborders.info/hispan...

Damn.
Still more numbers.

so much for "indisputable".

That building a border-wall would greatly reduce their numbers — indisputably proven by Israel's border wall.

Really? Indisputably? Again?

Ok...here we go:
The wall has done very little to stop attacks or crossings.
Even Israel's own right wing factions acknowledge the wall has played little part and is ineffective.
That credit goes to waning support for violence, and the ability of the Israeli Intelligence to disrupt them.
The real reason for the wall is to further expand the territory they have, since possession is 9/10 the law.
http://972mag.com/wave-of-stab...

The Second Intifada ended for a number of reasons, only one of which was the separation barrier. That becomes especially clear when you look at how little of the barrier had actually been constructed by the time the attacks stopped.

The violence of the Second Intifada wound down because Israeli intelligence managed to wear down armed Palestinian groups. Popular Palestinian support for the violent uprising slowly dwindled due to the painful consequences, namely Israeli military operations, sieges, closures and curfews, which affected more and more of Palestinian society with little to show for their suffering. And finally, momentum simply fell off; the First Intifada also lasted for roughly five years before slowly coming to a halt.

Even a 10% reduction in crime will pay for the wall within one year. Maybe, the 10% figure is exaggerated, but 1% is certainly reasonable. So the wall will pay off in 10 years instead — still a big win.

No, it's not reasonable.
And you've clearly ignored upkeep costs.

The wall Trump wants would cost a minimum of 30 billion to build.
that's just in materials, and does not include labor or logistics. which would easily be 2/3 or more of the total project cost.
so to build out you're talking ~70-90 billion.
(All that....and defeating it as simple as spending ~30$ at Home Depot on a ladder.)

The harsh desert sun and wind would quickly put it into poor shape, so regularly maintence is a must.
maintenance costs alone would exceed the initial build cost after only 7 years. so annualized that's ~10 billion a year (at 70b build cost).
plus, because walls are stupid-easy to defeat with ladders and tunnels, you're still going to have to man it, which means even more border agents, cameras, monitoring equipment than we currently have. so thats even more money.

So, even going conservatively, 10 year cost total comes to 170billion.

Annually, crime costs ~15b in economic losses, and ~180b in government spending fighting it.
That's ~200b a year.

So no, you're not paying it off after 10 years.
Or ever really.

And thats again ignoring that the wall will not reduce crime anyway because your entire premise is that immigration is the source of the majority of crime, whic

Nope. It was a special inspection forced by the AG. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

Read your own posts. The shut down for refuelling and regular maintenance was performed at the scheduled time. The Environmental unit AG of NY had been hounding on MANY different additional inspections they wanted. None of those cases had yet come into effect. As per your own article, both the shut down and the inspection of the bolts were voluntarily undertaken by Entergy. You might choose to believe, as the AG and the article claim that it was the legal hounding that encouraged this inspection. I would posit instead that the fact that similar wear and damage to bolts had been a known and observed issue in similar nuclear plants already might have motivated Entergy more strongly...

Nope. It was a special inspection forced by the AG. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

Try this candidate Dr Jill Stein http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

You're operating on a vacuum assumption in your own head without looking at the world around you. You go, "Oh, that doesn't make sense to me, so I'll make up bullshit and claim everything based on solid analysis and understanding is made-up bullshit."

Put up or shut up time: predict the next major recession. Right now. Can't? Hmmm.... So, with that out the way, you've made some other major assertions that many just don't agree with:

No, the cost-of-living hasn't gone down; the standard-of-living has gone up. ... That means, yes, the *buying* *power* income from a single job has increased (median).

I'd say inflation has done a number on the median income and reduced disposable income to lower levels. So I suppose it's a good thing those toys cost less, because there is less to spend on them.

I already demonstrated that we're in a labor force participation rate bubble,

TBBA (Truth by Blatant Assertion) Merely pointing at a graph or mentioning various cherry picked statistics doesn't prove a bubble.

Let's not argue so much over *why* labor force participation suddenly grew. Let's ask another question: Why was it so low in 1970? Well, I can find as far back as 1947 at a glance, and the answer is it's always been that low.

Actually, let's do discuss it, because it's quite relevant. You see, in the late 60s, with women's lib and societal upheavel in the US and the rejection of the June Cleaver role, women actually demanded that they be treated as equals in society. Because of the aforementioned appliances etc, they had more free time and they not only went to work but stayed at work, developing careers as a normal activity. That increased the labor pool, it was not a bubble, but a raising of the available level. Now you can dispute that the pool got bigger or address the drop off since the peak, but you can't say the increase was a bubble as several fundamental shifts in society occurred to drive that effect. That would be like saying an asteroid only caused some minor temporary damage 65 million years ago.

Globalization started in the 19th century--some economists want to take this back further--with the reduction of shipping costs. That whole shipping textiles and spices and liquor around? That's outsource labor, pushing manufacture to cheaper labor markets.

Really? Try the 70s for when textiles really started losing business fast. You're seriously stretching there with ancient trade. That trade was for goods unique to production areas, not a move to replace domestic production with cheaper foreign production. It's a simple test really, was whatever was being brought in made domestically as well? No? Then it wasn't outsourcing.

At the same time, income per household has increased even as labor force participation decreased, which suggests the jobs we're gaining are higher-paying jobs.

You might want to check your numbers as it is obvious that real median income has dropped since the 70s, with the exception of the last report, which still indicates that median income has dropped since 2000. Add to that that actual cost of living has increased....

First, we don't have a lowered median income.

TBBA - Several links from authoritative sources a

For the edification of the Slashdot community, here is one of the women that's on his list of "hot conservative women":

"Debbie Schlussel"

https://blogomatica.files.word...

Here's another woman on his list demonstrating how hot conservative women are (trigger warning: If you're heterosexual, this photo may make your nuts shrivel up permanently):

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1793...

Half a bomb is a stupid way to phrase things. The clock before it was taken apart was therefore also half a bomb. Radio Shack before it went bankrupt could be classified as a Do-It-Yourself half-a-bomb factory. It's not even a trigger yet, it's just a clock with minimal changes to put it into a pencil box (looks cooler, like something maybe from a really bad spy movie where you have to cut the red wire, no the green one).

Did he intend it to look like a bomb? I don't know. It does not look like one to me. It did NOT look like a bomb to the police or teachers either or they would panicked, maybe have an evacuation drill, and they would not have kept a possible-bomb around. What they thought was that the kid intended it to be a hoax bomb, which the kid denied, and they arrested him and against Texas law did not have his parents present. The school wanted him to sign a "confession" without his parents present.

It sounds like a big case of the police and school assuming the kid did something wrong, not having any solid proof of any of it, then just wanting to send a big message with the hand cuffs and perp walk. The kid is supposed to learn the lesson to not stand out, keep curiosity in check, go play football when the urge to study strikes. All hail zero tolerance, keeping our kids safe and stupid for a decade.

everybody knows that's not what a bomb looks like. This is what a bomb looks like: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2815...

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/...

I don't know, it is hard to tell how far from the ocean it is from any picture but that one, and that one gives the impression of being pretty close to the ocean as you can see it in the background.

In case the link doesn't work, it is the last picture in the gallery.

which you would have figured out if you'd looked at the photos in your link.

So, please link to the better picture showing that the house is so far up and away from the ocean. Or did you just not even look at the pictures?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1323...

Here you go, those are $100 bills.

There's no way the computer is going to win at Strip Poker.

I don't know about that. Remember that computer generated girl from Weird Science?

PETA themselves euthanize plenty of animals: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

Care to tell me why the NSA cares about the por anyone looks at, if not to discredit them?

And you know how I know you're full of shit?
The idea that the plutocracy is solely a republican thing.
Oh no doubt, they bear half the blame, but the country is and has always been majority democrat: and hell, congress was a democratic lock for what, 50 years?
I've always been astounded at the cognitive dissonance necessary for tendentious people like yourself to assert that "it's all those dirty republicans".

For every Koch (which you invoke with the trembling nervousness of some medieval priest talking about Satan), there's a Soros, or a Bloomberg, or a few of them, actually: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry... "Democratic super PACs continue to attract more money than their Republican counterparts, due in part to a huge amount of support from deep-pocketed mega-donors."

How naive are you?

Elon doesn't have the goods. Get John Podesta drunk at a bar to find out.

Show me an airport that doesn't close during hurricanes then you can talk.

Not just closed "during" the hurricane. >20K flights were cancelled over 6 days. Not just because of the hurricane proper but because of major damage from severe storm sruge flooding. I can show you lots of airports that don't get storm surge flooding.

The DOT's assertion is that these events will become more likely. I don't know the validity of the assertion, but that's the assertion.

Can we talk now?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/8395...

IKR? Bill Nye is a settled science kinda scientist. If you look at some of his comments it's obvious he has no patience for people who don't follow his religion: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

I wouldn't be surprised considering 10 corporations own practically all of the common consumer brands.

PS: Stripes might even attract lions: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/5923...

Study: US Education Spending Tops Global List

Modesto Junior College in California.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3954954

ever seen an american without surgery?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1162017/thumbs/o-EXTREME-WEIGHT-LOSS-PREMIERE-facebook.jpg

Chicago Sun Times' new classified ad

The french minister sent an answer to Maurice Taylor (who is known to be a troll btw). I couldn't find an english translation but it's a well written answer. (sorry, only pdf's and jpg available at this time)
answer page 1
answer page 2
About the 3h/day of talking, the factory was in a transition period where they temporarily switched their production line from tires for car to tires for truck, and the production line for car tires wasn't fully operational anymore. Taylor would have sent the workers home without payment, but the french union refused. That's their difference.
Of course french workers are not allowed to chat for 3h/day, anyone with a sane mind and who have worked in real life understands this.

The french minister sent an answer to Maurice Taylor (who is known to be a troll btw). I couldn't find an english translation but it's a well written answer. (sorry, only pdf's and jpg available at this time)
answer page 1
answer page 2
About the 3h/day of talking, the factory was in a transition period where they temporarily switched their production line from tires for car to tires for truck, and the production line for car tires wasn't fully operational anymore. Taylor would have sent the workers home without payment, but the french union refused. That's their difference.
Of course french workers are not allowed to chat for 3h/day, anyone with a sane mind and who have worked in real life understands this.

It depends; what people are looking for in a review is relative. For example, this Netflix review has basically nothing in terms of analysis and criticism, but a 100% helpfulness rating. And I defy anyone who is looking at possibly watching Nat'l Lampoon's Barely Legal to say that review didn't hit the nail on the head in terms of what they wanted to know. But, no professional reviewer/critic would ever in their right mind write such a thing.

The famously creepy portrait of Stalin and Lenin was also in the exhibit: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/740931/thumbs/o-STALIN-570.jpg Stalin actually faked a lot of history. He lied himself to the top, but started as a simple thief and bagger. One can dismiss the idea, but not the effect.

it looks like he also built a bionic cock.

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/244958/slide_244958_1382942_free.jpg?1345045217000

>>It's always the peanut gallery yelling "Derpa derp she stoopid SHE SO STOOOPID!"

Right. On the NPR thread for this, I asked why people don't go derp derp every time Obama says something stupid. Which he does. A lot. He and Biden are as bad as GWB. But GWB gets labeled as an idiot, and Obama/Biden's mistakes and misspeak-ings get labeled as "funny gaffes".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG7VSt0_VcU
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/281640/OBAMA-WESTMINSTER-ABBEY-GUESTBOOK.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Plenty more if you Google for them.

You might say that Palin is getting all this attention because she defended her mistake on a technicality, but on a technicality she IS right. So it's just mindless hate.

Oh... and I can PRINT right out of the box! Unlike you... (yes, I know there are some printing applications, but that picture is just hilarious) Plus there are a multitude of other devices that I can hook up to my laptop via USB (an industry standard, unlike the proprietary iPo/ad connector) that you can't do with an iPad.