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No, let's say I am a fundamentalist Muslim, and I support throwing homosexuals off of roofs. I post as much on my Facebook page. Facebook bans me because of hate speech. Now I can no longer interact and share support with re. Rashida Tlaib, because I don't have access to her Facebook page to post my words of encouragement. So Facebook is now violating my 1st Amendment rights to interact with an elected official.

If you pick the right street corner, you can make $200 per hour begging for money.

https://www.ibtimes.com/south-...

Over 7,600 forged certificates.

I don't wanna sound racist or anything, but unfortunately I think China will have a very long way 'till it gets even close to western countries on this matter, which is still not ideal.
Setting US aside, let's consider some european countries and whatnot. There are very few countries that are really getting there, but still not quite.

Currently, China as a society has evolved at unprecedented speeds in comparison to the history of evolution of other societies.

I still remember a time when China was mostly rural, exporting mostly primary resources, and didn't have much in the way of technology to talk about. This was the case not that long ago. If you are too young to remember this, probably your parents will know.
Over just a few decades, less than a lifetime, China went rushing through industrial revolution, raising extremely modern metropolis in cities formerly pretty run down and primitive, and now the country is activelly participating at the forefront of technology and research in some areas.

Some people might not realize this, but it's because lots of people don't really know China. There are cities there that are basically on par with Japan in terms of technology, public transportation, technology in common spaces and whatnot. There are research areas like biomedicine and genetics that China is arguably ahead. Read some of the recent news... China just launched a communication probe in space to aid a mission that will be launched still this year to explore the dark side of the moon.

It's crazy how fast it has evolved. It almost doesn't make sense when you think about the comparison on how technology evolves versus societies.

But all that has a huge side effect. China did not evolve uniformly, these transformations had and still has huge costs, and of course things are not that simple.
It became a country of enormous contrasts. You have cities that look like Tokyo or modern european capitals, while you have towns in the countryside with people starving and living a life of subsistence. You have billionaires and huge investment groups that are among the richest in the world while you have multitude of workers slaving away to a state they prefer suicide instead of living like that. Most of western societies also have huge wage gaps and inequalities, but it kinda pales in comparison to China when looking at extremes.

Sexism can't be seen and treated in isolation, and people should not have some fantasy that it's gonna be solved anytime soon there because there are major shifts yet to happen before it even starts being addressed.

Remember people, China is a country where not that long ago, baby boys were hugely favored over baby girls. And this is a cultural phenomena that endured over decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
This is a huge problem that cannot be solved in few years time, and it has massive cultural effects. Because it effectively created an artificial distortion... there are way more men than women in China when compared to proportions of other countries.
It's not only China too, it's just something that happens a lot in poor countries or developing countries all over the world.
https://www.npr.org/sections/g...
http://www.ibtimes.com/deadly-...
Even though some of these countries don't necessarily have a majority of people of faith in patriarcal religions and systems, it's just a matter of favoring boys because of base manual labor necessities and a prejudiced view that comes with it. The concept also became ingrained in culture, so up to this decade the tendency still remains.

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Per Netflix's Dirty Money, all of the major car manufacturers are putting out cars that break their own emissions standards - and NOBODY in their own governments is doing anything about it. It's as if they've all been bought off.

Maybe the corrupt... er, "green"... German government should go after the lawbreakers before trying radical (and potentially really disruptive) ideas like giving services for free.

BTW - If you haven't seen that Dirty Money episode about Volkswagon, take an hour out and watch it. Amid the surprising depths of dishonesty that higher-level executives will go to turn an ever-bigger profit, the part about the Volkswagon-employed Germans actually considering gassing people (and monkeys) to win a PR war is darkly hilarious.

Oh I agree. It's not just ISIS - the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and so on all have a slavery going on under the surface with the connivance of the authorities.

In fact in Kuwait a female politician wanted to legalize sex slavery

http://www.ibtimes.com/female-...

Slavery was only banned in Saudi Arabia in 1962, and even now they treat their guest workers and maids like slaves.

Meh... has this ever happened?

I don't know whether it has already happened from thermostat data, but burglars do use social media, like facebook or Twitter to find vulnerable homes. Burglars do like to know the owner is not home before acting.

Isn't it far more effective to drive/walk/whatever over and ring the doorbell?

Of course not, duh. A hacker in Russia can't ring your bell at all, and a local malefactor gang can't run about ringing all the doorbells in the city every few minutes - not to mention that ringing a random bell may alert the homeowner and puts them at risk. But running a script that checks thermostat sensor data from many houses at regular intervals is easy and safe, and can provide burglars with excellent targets of opportunity. As a bonus, houses whose owners can afford the newfangled digital devices are better targets already.

Before talking about this stuff it would seem to me to be a good idea to find out how governments get money. Either they raise taxes or they borrow. And when they borrow they do it by selling bonds on the open market. The interest rate they need to promise depends on how risky their debt is seen as. Part of that is how much it is as a percentage of GDP.

The 'banksters' as you put it are people who buy Treasury Bills on an open market. If they stop buying it's not like you can find them all and threaten them.

You have a sovereign debt crisis and threatening individual people to make them buy T bills would make it worse

http://www.ibtimes.com/what-so...

For healthy governments, borrowing costs are actually low in the "bust" phrase of the "boom and bust" economic cycle because spooked investors move money from the private sector to the perceived safety of the government.

Investors assume that the government's legal power of taxation on the entire economy gives them a better chance of honoring their debt than private entities.

However, when government debt becomes too high - some suggest debt levels equal to 90 to 100 percent of GDP - international investors/lenders may no longer believe the country's tax base can support debt repayment. As a result, the debts of these governments fall in value and their yields (borrowing cost) go up.

Rising yields is a self-reinforcing cycle that makes high debt levels even less sustainable. It also raises the borrowing cost for the entire private sector.

Falling government bond yields deal a detrimental blow to the financial sector. Caruana said it severely erodes the worth of banks' assets because most banks have a large holding of domestic sovereign bonds.

It also weakens the government's implicit guarantee on big banks, which makes it more expensive for banks to raise funds.

Both developments limit banks' ability to lend to the private sector, which hurts the real economy.

In summary, when investors doubt the debt repayment ability of governments and government debt turns from risk-free to credit instruments, "the consequences are likely to be severe," said Caruana.

Indeed, while economies free from sovereign debt problems have generally enjoyed economic growth in 2010 after the global downturn in 2009, Greece's real GDP plunged 4.5 percent in 2010, turning in a worse performance than its 2.0 percent contraction in 2009.

For countries stuck in unfortunate sovereign debt situations, Caruana said they need to "earn back their reputation as practically risk-free borrowers" by credible and tangible fiscal consolidation and structural reforms.

The only way to persuade people to buy your bonds again is to my drastic cuts in public spending to convince people that you're going to reduce your debt to gdp ratio to sustainable levels. Meanwhile your real GDP contracts sharply. It's very hard to get out of this.

Right now the US has a debt to GDP ratio of about $18.96 trillion, or about 104% of GDP. If Bernie's single payer for all were implemented then debt would rise to about $51 trillion of over 200% of GDP. If that caused a sovereign debt crisis T bill auctions would fail and the US government would need to offer higher interest rates. Of course raising the interest rate makes the fiscal situation worse and your credit rating worse.

Or it could default. Even Greece didn't do that because that's even worse than a sovereign debt crisis. You need to call the IMF with emergency loans, and the IMF will demand restructuring - i.e. even sharper cuts than you have in a sovereign debt crisis.

Basically look at most South American countries. Most of them elected politicians who made unrealistic spending promises. They raised taxes, borrowed so much that they had a sovereign debt crisis or default or printed money and created hyperinflation.

South America is poorer than the US mostly because most South American governments have followed Bernienomics most of the time since independence.

What are they calling "bias"? We read constantly about so-called racism based merely on the fact that one race objectively exhibits a particular trait over other races. That's called data, not bias.

It's a tricky question. Just because something is data, does not mean that it isn't biased: data can be biased-- in fact, 90% of what we do in experimental science is understanding the bias in data and figuring out how to get an unbiased measurement out of a biased data set. Almost all data is biased one way or another.

If, for example, white people caught shoplifting are usually given a warning and let off while black people caught shoplifting are arrested and prosecuted ("shopping while black"), the data will show a higher rate of shoplifting among blacks. You will need to go to the raw data to see the actuality. See: https://www.theguardian.com/la...

An AI with no correction for bias will reflect the bias of society.

The article linked is merely a summery of the propublica article, which is has more detail, here: https://www.propublica.org/art...

As for Crimea, it was the people who were living in Crimea

Crimeans didn't decide anything. In spite of overwhelming Russian propaganda, polls before Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea showed that Crimeans preferred to stay with Ukraine. First of all, Russia's referendum pantomime was done in breach of numerous international laws, norms, and treaties, and under Russian military occupation. Second, the referendum did not have a "status quo" option. Third, as the Kremlin's Human Rights Council confirmed that the Crimea "referendum" results were totally fabricated. Russia took away Crimeans' ability to determine their own fate.

the anti-Russia government that took power in Ukraine after the coup?

When a certain country attacks you, you tend to become anti- that country. But let's get the chronology straight - Russia started its Crimea invasion in early February 2014, while Yanukovych was still in office. One of the Russian officers coordinating the Crimea invasion, was Igor Girkin, who immediately went on to lead Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Donbas region. So your rationalization of Russia's Crimea invasion is absurd.

so anti-Russians it even tried to forbid the Russian language.

That's a flat out lie. A motion was proposed in the Rada to take away the privileged status of the Russian language, but Ukraine's acting president, Turchynov, said that he wold veto any such proposal, and that was the end of it. How dumb do you have to be to believe that a country could "forbid" a language that's spoken by the majority of that country?

can you explain to me why the US government immediately accepted the result of the coup instead of demanding the respect of democracy

As mentioned above, Yanukovych tried to subvert democracy in Ukraine - he would've turned Ukraine into a Russia-style dictatorship. The revolution ensured that democracy was not thwarted. After three months of Turchynov's provisional government, Poroshenko was elected in accordance with Ukrainian law.

Considering the difference of military power, if one day Russia decided to invade Ukraine, it would be even easier for them than when the US invaded Iraq.

More Russian propaganda. Here's a translation of a Novaya Gazeta article, in which a Buryat (Russian Mongol) soldier openly talks about his tank unit invading Donbas. Since the article has been published, his mother has been complaining that the Russian military refuses to give him his military pension or to provide other services due to him as an injured soldier. Ukrainian POW Savchenko was traded to Russia for two Spetsnaz who were captured in Donbas. Just yesterday, a Russian soldier was captured in East Ukraine. You can download the Nemtsov Report, which Boris Nemtsov was compiling before the Kremlin's lackeys murdered him -

At least one senator begs to differ.... maybe it's just political grandstanding, maybe not.

http://www.ibtimes.com/politic...

A little known secret: Most countries' governments arbitrarily set the price of drugs and medical devices during negotiations and force pharma and medical device manufactures to sell it at a loss (or simply not have access to that market). To make up for the R&D and marketing, they have to jack the price up in the US to make up the loss. http://www.ibtimes.com/how-us-...

With the upcoming collapse of Obamacare, the rest of the world should be afraid of the US doing the same to the drug and med device companies. The cost of healthcare for the rest of the world will go up while it goes down for the US. I shudder to think about the hoards of angry folks when NHS starts becoming moderately expensive.

Ivar Giaever (nobel prize winner in physics):

Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever Quits Physics Group over Stand on Global Warming

The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degree Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this 'warming' period.

I resigned from the society in 2011. First: nothing in science is incontrovertible. Second: the âoemeasuredâ average temperature increase in 100 years or so, is 0.8 Kelvin. Third: since the Physical Society claim it has become warmer, why is everything better than before? Forth: the maximum average temperature ever measured was in 1998, 17 years ago. When will we stop wasting money on alternative energy?

Why not direct some of your anti-government animus towards companies like Lockheed Martin (a military contractor) that receives almost all of its revenue from the government? Most of the sugar you eat is subsidized by the government through corn subsidies (why do you think it's so cheap?). General Motors would have gone bankrupt if it weren't for government money given after the 2008 crash. And of course the biggest one would be gasoline; fossil fuel companies receive massive direct and indirect government subsidies.

Bill Looman, the owner of U.S. Cranes, LLC, told a local NBC affiliate, 11Alive, that he put up signs on his company trucks stating:
"New company policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone"

This link has a few photos of the signs.

> Will the market be willing to pay over 10x as much for a battery with 3x the charge is the business question.

The cost of the battery module in an iPhone 6 is around $4.50, the total cost is $236 [1]

At the margins they sell them at - Apple would probably drop the battery size by 1/3rd, put in the new $30 battery module, eat the extra $25.50 in costs themselves, and then take great glee in pointing our that their phones were now even lighter, and had double the battery capacity and charged 5x faster than every other phone on the market.

At which point every other manufacturer would have to sit up, take notice, and start using those batteries themselves or be viewed as genuinely inferior, instead of generally superior (in terms of hardware capability, most of the premium Android phones crap all over the iPhone, they just don't have the shiny case and the Apple Reality Distortion Generator). You might get long-term holdouts in the cheaper end of the market, but the premium lines would have to adopt it, which would expand the market, make it more viable to manufacture those batteries, economies of scale kick in, etc.etc.etc.

[1] http://www.ibtimes.com/iphone-...

especially arguing that making everybody equally poor doesn't make for a better society

Devil's Advocate: how do you explain the overall high level of happiness in deeply impoverished countries such as Bhutan ( http://www.ibtimes.com/worlds-... )? Also consider books such as: ( http://isps.yale.edu/research/... ), which argue that the material progress in modern market democracies has not led to a commensurate rise, or even stable level, of happiness.

Hell, its getting worse and worse today, as that it is getting to where a majority of modern females not only are overweight and obese, but we are NOW actually telling everyone "this is ok"

In West Africa and much of the Pacific Islands, men have a preference for obese women. In fact, the oldest beauty standard statue we have is a fairly obese woman.

Personally, I'm attracted more to less obese women, but I don't pretend that it's some product of millions of years of evolution so I can feel superior about it.

Where are you getting that number from? The figure I have is 33,000 between 2002 and 2015, and 2016 wasn't that much worse. If anything, 2016 is the time when ISIS started to really lose ground and get pushed back thanks to Russian and Kurdish forces.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-man...

Anyway, the idea that ISIS could bring their war to US shores is laughable. Maybe some terror attacks at best. And surely if it's a war, they aren't terrorists, they are either soldiers or maybe guerrillas. They aren't trying to murder small numbers of people to effect political change, they are trying to establish a state.

At the polls, more people were afraid of someone who has been trying her hardest to appear presidential for the last 24 years.

As Trump likes to say: wrong.

You are pretty dumb.

And so are you...

Oh my, it's the dumberer complaining about somebody else. What a revelation.

Look, realistic training is necessary for our troops, that means firing ammo that is "like" the real thing in weight and performance at least some of the time. Sure, you don't have to fire high explosive rounds or drop real 1,000 lb bombs that are going to go off all the time, but you do need stuff that's close to real from time to time.

Which would be a useful rebuttal if ANYBODY EVER SAID that their intention was to NEVER have ANY real materials expended.

But you'll note that the only absolutes are coming from the people saying "OMG OMG OMG, this would never work, NEVER NEVER NEVER, it's all PC-Bullshit" and other such mendacity.

The argument that Chris Katko made was that there's nothing wrong with cutting costs and reducing pollution. It'd be hard to argue otherwise. Even times where you say "We can't cut that cost" it's because there is still something else wrong with it.

I seriously doubt we are going to find a cost effective way to plant trees in mortar shells or wild flowers in target practice rounds. I'm all for not doing harm if we can manage it, but I'm also NOT for these do good green types that advocate the military doing hugely expensive "green" projects that don't really help anything and cost way too much..

That's nice, but you may want to know something. Actual real ammunition and shells are FUCKING EXPENSIVE. So is the clean-up. Spending some money on research is thus competing against a very high standard anyway.

Really, there is a reason we do have fake grenades, and even dummy rounds. Because it's better to practice without that crap going off on you. Save the live-fire exercises for special times.

(Like that "renewable fuel oil" mess the Navy did a while back that was millions of dollars of waste for a very little bit of fuel).

Because a research project is expensive, huh? Now ask yourself how expensive it would be if they didn't prepare in advance.

So the original poster was right...

You haven't made one substantial argument to demonstrate that they are right to oppose any substitution of munitions at all. . Zero. None. Sorry, I know you hate facing reality, most of your type do, but you didn't actually rebut the premises involved.

Keep the purpose of the military straight in your head and dump all the nutty parts about environmental awareness and green technology being part of their mission. They are there to break stuff and kill people while avoiding having others break their stuff and kill them and us. To hell with planting trees or saving the environment if we are not here to enjoy it because the bad guys won the next war.

Well, don't worry, this will be done by a private company anyway. Just like the fuels. That's how the government works. That's how the military does things.

Don't like it? Too bad. You're dumb anyway.

You know Clinton was the fracking candidate, right? (it's in the attachment of the email).

From an article about the subject:

In one excerpt of a speech to Deutsche Bank in April 2013, according to the document, Clinton boasted about the federal government’s support for fracking and her own work to promote the process across the globe.

“Fracking was developed at the Department of Energy,” the document shows Clinton saying. “I mean, the whole idea of how fracking came to be available in the marketplace is because of research done by our government. And I've promoted fracking in other places around the world.”

In another excerpt of the same speech, Clinton outlines why she supports a continued push for fracking.

“The ability to extract both gas and oil from previously used places that didn't seem to have much more to offer, but now the technology gives us the chance to go in and recover oil and gas,” the document shows her saying. “Or with the new technology known as fracking, we are truly on a path -- and it's not just United States; it's all of North America -- that will be net energy exporters assuming we do it right."

I don't mean, in any way, that Trump might be good for the environment. Just that he probably isn't going to be worst (frackingwise) than Hillary would have been.

Well the "debate" on encryption will start a again next year with the government pushing for ever more access. It isn't like those in power haven't fucking told us what they are going to do. I mean it isn't like the assholes in power didn't publicly state that it would take a terrorist attack where encryption was used to turn the public. Then a few months later the next few terror attacks didn't mention encryption at all.

Apparently you fail the grasp the facts that our reliance on carbon based energy like coal and oil is causing us many different environmental problems.
Forget about climate change and just focus on air pollution:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-a...

I really fail to understand why people continue to support an energy and technology that we have been using since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It is time to grow up and move on to less polluting energy sources.

With that being said, there is nothing wrong with using oil and petrochemicals for things like plastics, medicines, industry, chemistry, etc;
If we could move away from using coal for electricity and oil for transportation it would greatly reduce our polluted air problem.

Western media organizations are trying to demonize China and promote revolution and national disintegration as they hate seeing the country prosper...
...reminding state media of its responsibility to promote a "correct political direction"
China also needed to combat the distorted view the Western media...
Li called on mainstream Chinese media to refute "untruthful reports"...

July 5, 2016 - ‘Fake’ News From Social Media Now Banned in China

The use of social media as a source of news has become a fixture in the United States—scrolling Twitter feeds appear next to news anchors, and tips from Facebook regularly result in television coverage. But not in China.
The Chinese Communist Party has recently created a new regulation that describes information from social media as “fake news” and “rumors,” effectively banning its use as a source of information, lest serious consequences follow.

Jul 4, 2016 - China To Crack Down On Fake News From Social Media Amid Rumor-Mongering

Just for you dear AC, another source:

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...

The Russian pol who admitted the coordination was Sergey Markov (not to be confused with the famous mathematician Andrey Markov): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are a lot of Steam gamers already with Oculus or Vive rigs.

No, there aren't. In fact, almost nothing you've claimed is born out by the statistics.

1) There have only been about 140,000 Vive unit sales so far according to HTC. That was as of last month.

2) Vive represented 60% of SteamVR gaming according to the latest survey. If we generously assume (for your benefit) that all 140,000 Vive users were active in SteamVR this last month, that'd mean that the other 40% number about 95,000. Put together, we can say that...

3) There are less than than 235,000 active SteamVR gamers. And again, that's if we make some generous assumptions for your benefit. In reality, the actual number of active SteamVR gamers is likely MUCH lower. But either way...

4) Not even one-fifth of 1% of Steam gamers have used SteamVR in the last month. Steam had over 125,000,000 active users in early 2015. If we ignore (for your benefit) the fact that the number has likely grown since then, we can see that less than 0.19% of Steam gamers have used their VR rig in the last month.

5) Even if every single active SteamVR user was a closet Mac/Linux dual booter who would go back to Mac/Linux if SteamVR was available, it'd only shift the OS statistic by, at most, 0.19% away from Windows. Mac/Linux dual booters are clearly not throwing a wrench in the statistics like you claimed.

6) Contrary to your suggestion that Mac and Linux gamers are staying booted into Windows for SteamVR, their numbers are actually higher today than they were before VR. Mac and Linux have been growing at Windows' expense all along, with VR having no noticeable impact.

7) As for consoles, the Playstation VR is on track to outsell both the Vive and the Oculus by the end of the year, despite there being far fewer PS4 owners (~40M) than active Steam users (125M). So, no, VR is not "a much larger percentage of the PC gaming market than it is if you factor in consoles". But even if you had been right, so what? If VR was even less significant in another market, that doesn't make it significant in this market.

Finally, there's this (emphasis mine):

[...] they would be people capable and possibly willing to run SteamVR on the Mac if they were able to, with no new computer purchase.

And what Mac model would these people be using, exactly? One of the big complaints from Mac users when it comes to VR is that there isn't a Mac with the horsepower to run VR. The Mac Pro was last updated in December...of 2013. It's woefully insufficient. The iMac, MacBook Pro, and most other lines have seen updates, but they all use mobile-class dedicated graphics or integrated graphics, both of which are currently insufficient for VR. Given that the hardware doesn't exist, I think it's safe to say that today's Mac users aren't influencing the numbers by booting into Windows for SteamVR.

Mind you, I say this as someone who has continuously used a Mac as his primary machine since the late '80s, including for gaming. My current Mac is my primary gaming machine, just as the one before it and the one before it and so on. So I'm speaking from experience when I say that we're a vocal group, but that we don't account for much.

As for VR, it has a lot of hype, and it may eventually amount to something, but it's barely even a rounding error at this point, so your assertions that it's affecting those numbers in any sort of a meaningful way are demonstrably false.

am really worried that Trump will start WW3,

With who, the Russians, or the Chinese? Trump has repeatedly indicated he would normalize relations with Russia, has backed away from militarily supporting NATO allies who don't meet their 2% GDP military spending commitments, and (to my knowledge) has not advocated a No-Fly Zone in Syria.

Contrast with Clinton, who has repeatedly indicated she wants regime change is Syria, at the very least a No-Fly Zone in Syria....even though the airspace of the Syrian government is rather actively protected by the Russian military.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
http://www.ibtimes.com/will-us...

If you are concerned about a war with China, check out the articles below. Basically, Clinton is the one who wants to play hardball, but without operating from a position of strength. That's a good way to have the Chinese call your bluff. While Trump wants a stronger presence is Asia specifically to show China he's serious, he's quoted as saying he would reject a nuclear first strike. He has also expressed a greater willingness to diplomatically engage with China on the subject of North Korea.
http://www.voanews.com/a/advis...
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/...

iPhones aren't known to combust

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-i...

I think that you could find reports of any device with l-ion batteries exploding/catching fire.

> Hilary Clinton is pretty obviously the target if a multi-billion dollar character assassination program.

Wiener is (or was) Huma's husband. Huma is the girl who was born in the USA, lived in Saudi Arabia from 2-18, then returned here to become Hillary's top aide. With all those billions, just how did they place Wiener in such a way to screw the Democrats?

How do you explain that the emails are all unaltered and can be validated with DKIM from Hillary's own damn server, which she shouldn't have had in the first place? I note that you don't address any of the many things found on that server. Go read the /r/wikileaks summary threads, there's a pile of dirt a mile high.

And just what does your "but Russia" buy you? Suppose, somehow, via magic, they made all of the above happen. Do you even know why the Russians worry about this election? They don't want to go to war with the USA over Syria.

Do you?

Not sure what she's going to do with a few bucks from a few random Twitter followers who let her charge their credit cards on demand when they can get million dollar birthday gifts from the wonderful country of Qatar:

QATAR
- Would like to see WJC "for five minutes" in NYC, to present $1 million check that Qatar promised for WJC's birthday in 2011.
- Qatar would welcome our suggestions for investments in Haiti - particularly on education and health. They have allocated most of their $20 million but are happy to consider projects we suggest. I'm collecting input from CF Haiti team.

Source

Related News:
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton...

Notes:
WJC = William Jefferson Clinton, better known as Bill Clinton

You claim that I made up those statements

No. From the start I said maybe you didn't made up those statements. Right from the start I claimed it was either you making it up, or that you quoted someone. But you keep claiming that i said you made it up. I never claimed it was you, I claimed it was you or someone else (duh), but you keep putting words on my mouth.

If you cannot mount a compelling case (...) then you don't have a case, and HRC is presumed innocent.

If you look for information yourself, the chances of getting an understanding of things and believing your understanding is better. I wrongly assumed you wanted that and not just an excuse to say she's innocent. That's why the nudge and not the links list. So here is the case.
Benghazi:
Search terms on youtube: Hillary Clinton Benghazi (as stated before), but you refused to search .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaENYYQIAKE (this is a short one with some points);
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUObFqU5cgE (another one focused on the troublesome parts);
full hearing.
On supporting terrorism:
Hillary's email saying Qatar and the Saudis are financing terrorism
Who is to blame for the rise of ISIL - not directly related to Clinton but important to understand ISIS;
Military intervention in Syria email from 2011 - also not Clinton, but to give an understanding of what the "moderate rebels" the USG under Obama supports are supposed to do ("commit guerrilla attacks, assassination campaigns, try to break the back of the Alawite forces, elicit collapse from within");
The three above are to make it explicit that everyone (in her circles) knows who the Saudis are and what the regime change the US is pursuing does to people. It is common knowledge.
Clinton Foundation Donors Got Weapons Deals From Hillary Clinton's State Department;
Contributor and Grantor Information from Clinton Foundation the Saudis donated between 10 and 25M;
Qatar giving 1M to Bill Clinton (Qatar, the ones she says are financing terrorism);

The secret information mishandling should be one of those clear cut cases of too powerful to answer to justice. They clearly said that the reason they would not prosecute was lack of intent, not lack of proof it was done.
Rep. Gowdy Q&A - Oversight of the State Department (short video)
The actual FBI statement on the case. They didn't say she didn't commit the crime, just that no prosecutor would prosecute. They also explain what the crimes would be in the case ("Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities."). That's why sometimes we are not sure what the crime is. Because US law is overly intricate.

World’s Smallest Transistor Is Just One Nanometer Long And Is Not Made Of Silicon

When this is ready for mass production, we're about to see a boom in computing that will make the 80s and 90s look like nothing.

Seriously, who cares? The embargo has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. Any American who wanted to go to Cuba just had to go via another country, and they've worked out a scheme with Cuba to prevent it from ever showing up on your passport:

But that’s not the only way. For decades, despite the embargo, some Americans have been visiting Cuba by way of indirect flights through countries such as Canada, Mexico and the Bahamas. These trips require less paperwork and can cost less than half the official option. An official, state-approved trip from the U.S. can cost between $4,000 and $5,000 for a week. A package including a resort stay and round-trip flights through Canada or another country will cost about $1,290 (or $1,500 Canadian), according to Krytiuk.

Typically, American travelers book flights to Cuba through a Canadian city or Caribbean hubs such as Nassau, Bahamas, or Cancún, Mexico. From there, every traveler going to Cuba is issued a tourist card for the passport. Upon arrival, Cuban customs agents remove one half of the card, and take the other half upon departure -- leaving no official record of the visit in a traveler’s passport.

> Once again religion demonstrates it's worthlessness.

Oh please, its not "religion." Its fucking human nature. Stalin was the biggest killer in modern history Mao Zedung the second and Hitler was probably third. The first two were officially atheist the last was only nominally christian because that's just what white people in germany were.

As long as you are focused on "religion" as the cause of the problem rather than just another neutral tool that can be co-opted you are never going to improve the world. Know your enemy.

Wikipedia page for the F35 says: "In 2012, the total life-cycle cost for the entire U.S. fleet was estimated at US$1.51 trillion"

"Afghanistan costs 124 million a year"? Did you actually type "cost of war in afghanistan" into Google?

Some estimates put the at 14 million per hour:

http://www.ibtimes.com/14-mill...

Of course that's a junk new site so that figure is wrong. More reliable site put it two or three times higher than that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Exactly what "piece of shit" things has she done?

Libya, Syria, Yemen (by selling weapons to the people who are bombarding them)

when have American war crimes ever mattered much to the USA?

Oh, I see, you don't care about war crimes. Then yes, she's fine, just an average politician getting bribes and corrupting the election.

I'm increasingly convinced that the Donald's secret plan for quickly defeating Daesh involves nuclear weapons

According to him, it's to bomb the oil fields and to cut the money that they get from "US allies" (in reality Hillary's allies, as they are donating for her).
But if you don't care about war crimes when it's Hillary, why care when it's Trump?

Check out this article from Feb 2016 The Future Of Xiaomi: China’s Most-Valuable Startup Is Looking Well Beyond The Smartphone

Xiaomi, which was founded just six years ago, sells its smartphones in just nine countries, but China is far and away its biggest market, accounting for the vast majority of the 70 million smartphones it sold in 2015.

Two issues? I would say the second issue is they dropped multiplayer after promising it, and taking people's money.

http://www.ibtimes.com/no-mans...

It looks like there were many promises not met with the game. I can kind of understand, small developer overpromises and can't deliver.

I'm amazed someone claiming they follow this news carefully isn't aware of the countless infringements. They're relatively regular and, well documented:

http://www.ibtimes.com/despite...

https://theaviationist.com/201...

http://www.baltictimes.com/rus...

http://www.upi.com/Business_Ne...

http://sputniknews.com/europe/...

http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Art...

http://uawire.org/news/media-r...

The fact is that Russia is a hostile nation, it's invaded Ukraine, and it's invaded Georgia, it can't pretend it's an innocent bystander that's merely hard done by as you're implying it is.

Russian aircraft are allowed to fly over this airspace if they obtain permission. However when a military aircraft, many of which are armed, enters foreign airspace unannounced, and typically with transponders off as is the case in most these incursions, then that can only be seen as a provocative act.

Russia isn't the only nation that does this, the US does it too in Asia, but two wrongs don't make a right. You're arguing that no harm may come of a Russian aircraft entering sovereign airspace of other nations, in your view, does that remain true even when they actually launch weapons as in Ukraine and Georgia? Given that they have done this, do you seriously still think it's a sensible argument to suggest that armed Russian aircraft entering airspace unannounced should always be considered benign?

It sounds like you're making an awful lot of excuses for Russia over things that simply cannot be excused. The idea that Russian pilots can't navigate a 5km gap making incursion into Finnish or Estonian airspace with armed warplanes with transponders off acceptable is utterly laughable, and pointing out that you can't pass through the English channel without infringing British or French airspace is relevant why? you also can't pass over Moscow without infringing Russian airspace, so what? The fact that the channel is joint sovereign British/French air space is entirely meaningless other than to distract from the fact Russia is a persistent and aggressive violator of sovereign airspace.

There is genuinely no issue with Russian aircraft sticking to international airspace, avoiding civilian airline routes, or announcing routes and flying with transponders on. There's not even any problem with it passing through sovereign airspace of other nations with permission. But that's not what's happening is it? Russia is violating sovereign airspace proper with armed aircraft, flying transponders off, and flying in civilian flight paths unannounced and outside the control and hence potential awareness of air traffic control. It's doing this in the context having recently used such subversive tactics of pretending to be not Russian military to annex sovereign territory of another nation.

$3 billion in 1-2 years is nothing compared to what Apple makes in revenue which is around $50 billion per quarter.

It's not about the numbers, it's about the news cycle. This was the story at the beginning of the quarter:

http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-a...

And it actually turned out a little worse than expected. Don't be surprised if you see some Apple selling in the market ahead of the quarterly statement next week.

The talent pool of black engineers is small in Silicon Valley because no one will hire them.

http://www.ibtimes.com/why-mor...

Yes, dumb story.

Should have gone with a 'Is the Olympics a huge waste of money?' angle: http://www.theatlantic.com/bus... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://money.cnn.com/gallery/n... http://www.thenational.ae/spor...
Answer: No, if you're a pork-barrelling supplier, a politician or Olympic hanger on partying at the tax payers expense. Yes, if you're one of Brazil's poor threatened with poverty http://riotimesonline.com/braz... crime http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/o... and disappearances http://www.ibtimes.com/road-ri...

I just assumed those pies were full of wood pulp (cellulose) filler like pretty much every cheap food, such as wal-mart's melt-resistant ice-cream bars and taco bell.

So which pie bakery makes those mini-pies?

includes the NSA's lawn.

And Hillary Clinton's server. Fuck the emails, she had her Clinton Foundation correspondences on that sucker. She sells states secrets to foreign governments, and ensures arms deals with Saudis, UAE, Qatar, etc. go through so long as huge donations wind up in the Clinton Foundation. Want to sell federal wildlife lands to the Russians for uranium mining after prohibiting US citizens from using the land? Sure! No problem, just make a donation to Hillary Clinton.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/05/gold-mine-hillary-clintons-brother-granted-super-rare-mining-permit-from-haiti-after-state-dept-sent-country-billions/
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/01/05/clinton-is-selling-uranium-from-bundy-and-hammond-ranches-to-russians-to-fund-presidential-campaign/

There were tons more juicy details in there that everyone knows about now. So much so that if all of the corruption was released it might cause riots or even a war or two. That means if HRC becomes president, we'll have a sockpuppet president that's being blackmailed by damn near any other nation state. Of course the rest of the world supports her! Her supporters don't care about such things because the Clintons have always been able to be bought off anyway. Easier to bribe them than black mail them I suppose.

The elite's worst enemies are hackers. That's why you won't find them in NSA or FBI. They just purchase 0-day exploits everyone else. If you want to do some real data exfiltration go work for Central Intelligence.

-we have more allies than just Israel. and most of them were alienated by bush the lesser, and those relationships repaired by Obama.

W put together a coalition of 48 countries for the Iraq war. Most of those contributed little but they were signed on.

I'm really interested to hear which countries were alienated by W and when the alienation occurred. I Googled for "George W Bush alienated" and found this, which is an article saying that President Obama's administration is doing such a horrible job that it makes the W administration look good.

-our military is in NO WAY in shambles

http://www.ibtimes.com/us-navy-doesnt-have-enough-ships-send-marines-crisis-zones-may-borrow-foreign-vessels-1990659

https://news.usni.org/2015/11/04/navy-half-the-carrier-fleet-tied-up-in-maintenance-other-5-strained-to-meet-demands

https://news.usni.org/2015/11/19/report-navy-and-marine-corps-strained-to-breaking-point-second-forward-carrier-in-the-pacific-could-help

https://military.id.me/aircraft/marines-forced-raid-military-museum-aircraft-parts/

"The U.S. Air Force is now short 4,000 airmen to maintain its fleet, short 700 pilots to fly them and short vital spare parts necessary to keep their jets in the air. The shortage is so dire that some have even been forced to scrounge for parts in a remote desert scrapheap known as 'The Boneyard.'"

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/14/wiped-out-air-force-losing-pilots-and-planes-to-cuts-scrounging-for-spare-parts.html

http://dailysignal.com/2015/12/04/is-the-obama-administration-trying-to-wreck-the-military/

-labor participation is dropping regardless of anything any one does. it has to do with the boomers retiring, not the economy.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/louisefron/2014/08/20/tackling-the-real-unemployment-rate-12-6/

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/sorry-but-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-9-8-not-5/

-inequality is horrible, but its not thanks to the current occupant, but rather the past several decades of structural issues in the economy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/11/income-inequality-obama-bush_n_1419008.html

-maybe you forgot, but the economy crashed a few years ago. of course stamps are up, and will remain up until people get back to where they were. that's what they are for

As a candidate, and then as President, Mr. Obama was quite willing to blame W for the economy. Mr. Obama didn't cut W any slack on the economy; why should I be more forgiving toward Mr. Obama than he was toward his predecessor?

And a robust economy helps people... "a rising tide lifts all boats." The Obama recovery is the worst economy recorded in modern times. It's nearly flatline.

the real reason they don't decommission nuclear plants is there is no money to shut them down and clean up the mess.

Nuclear power plants are being shutdown all the time, and those projects are fully funded. You're spouting massive ignorance.

Here's a few more recent ones:
http://insideclimatenews.org/s...

That graphic is actually 2.5 years old... Several "at risk" plants have already decided upon shutdown. And more...

http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

"another 15 to 20 plants are at risk of a premature shutdown in the next decade due to economics."

http://www.ibtimes.com/exelon-...

Nuclear is some of the cleanest power we can produce in bulk,

Solar and wind are much cleaner.

These are the sorts of comments which destroy my karma...because nobody wants to hear the voice of reason, nobody has any memory, or is able to do a simple google search.

These reefs have been "in danger" and scientists have been "caught by surprise" every 2-3 years for the last 20 years. Just do a simply google search and you'll see when the greenies were worried about dredging in 2014:

http://www.ibtimes.com/great-b...

Then, UNESCO took the reefs off the endangered list in 2015:

http://www.ibtimes.com.au/unes...

And that was after the reef supposedly lost "half it's coral" in 2012:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/...

And that was after the other "wakeup call" in 2011:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/03/...

And so on, and so on, and so on.

In truth, the reefs are growing and shrinking, as they always have, for hundreds of thousands of years. All this is is more fearmongering for the green religion, because they have "demands" they want met. Just like we've been hearing about the "thousands of acres" of rainforest being destroyed since the early 90s - which has far exceeded the actual acres of total rainforests twice over - yet there seems to still be quite a bit of rainforest left. It's all just fearmongering. It's really that simple.

It's not the first time. We had this discussion years ago...

In 2013...

http://www.ibtimes.com/googles...

A year later they outsell the iPad in schools...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Really? I didn't know that pine coffins were so expensive.

There's something wrong with your reply on the surface. I haven't looked at the costs, but that "it (routinely) costs more to execute someone than not?" Assumptions, cost measurements, or what: SOMEthing's wrong with that line. Doing a Google search now. Ahh, phrasing: you mean the cost of the legal proceedings, long and drawn out as they are for kill vs non-kill cases while I literally mean the cost to kill them, period; not the previous "set up" costs that must be incurred. Good point, they are different.

If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole*, which costs millions less and also ensures that the public is protected while eliminating the risk of an irreversible mistake, the money saved could ...

I hadn't considered that. And it does solve the 100% sure thing, as you don't kill someone, you just effectively "take their life away over a long period of time."

So we'd need more jails if (as?) we get more permanent jail residents. Oh, and don't forget health care, even if they want to change their sex. And visitation rights, and guards, alarms, upkeep, training, and what-now.

Vs an "Escape from New York" setup.

So you take someone, put them in "The Big House", locked up with bars everywhere, ordered around all of the time, take care of them (not being sarcastic here) for as long as they live? I originally was going to say THAT sounds like "cruel and unusual punishment," just like living on death row for 20 years -- see Nathan Dunlap. But Food, AC, heat, dry, bedding, security, and medicine all provided? The more I think about it the more I think I want to go there myself -- everything's all done and provided for me. All I have to do is be there and complain if I'm bored. And as a bonus I even get to take out someone that I absolutely abhor? Depending on who it was: forget being regretful about it, if it was the right person I could have nice dreams about that every night.

So once I cross some magic threshold all you can do to me is lock me up and feed me? For someone serving concurrent or even sequential life sentences: maybe that's all the judge can do, but it's ridiculous non-the-less. So James should have shot more, more "bang for the buck" as it were, right?

And that permanent "without parole" line is so harsh, shouldn't we think of the poor victimized prisoner in the years to come?

Taking someone life against their will should NEVER be an easy, dried and cut thing. That doesn't mean that you don't do it, though. And: let's ask the opinions of their victims. Oh wait, we can't. Their life was cut short -- do we "owe" them anything?

Not all of them would agree with me, though. She's a better person than I.

Then again you've got mob rules, but that's no good either.

Hmmm ... Santa keeps a list of people, I guess I'll have to ask Jason if he's keeps one as well.

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NO I'm not going to go out and kill anyone. I don't hate anyone that much. If they do irritate me I just usually get away from them, or irritate them enough so that they move away from me.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Even if is "cheaper" and nicer to keep most killers alive, it still seems l