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While I don't condone your ad hominem attack, you forgot to mention that Charles Murray was shouted down and physically attacked (based on an interview about the incident) at Middlebury College. If I recall, the professor who was escorting Murray was hurt by a student. It went beyond protesting, disinviting, or boycotting.

Ivaka using private email.
Hell Comey had some private email.

1) Ivanka Trump
2) Jared Kushner
3) Steve Bannon
4) Stephen Miller
5) Reince Priebus
6) Gary Cohn
At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts

7) Mike Pence
Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked

They got a huge tax break instead of an all-but-guaranteed tax hike.

Yeah, actually not. Clinton's plan contained significant cost reductions for people making under $50K/yr. Under trump, we got tax cuts for millionaires and tax bills for the middle class.

Unemployment is way down.

Not for rural whites. In fact, its still so bad for them that Michigan republicans are trying to exempt them from their draconian medicaid work requirements.
Also, those people at that Carrier plant that he "saved?" Yeah, they got fucked.

The stock market is way up.

(A) Doesn't mean squat for majority of people because they don't own stocks.
(B) Rate of growth in the stock market is slower than it was under Obama.
(C) China has stopped buying soybeans. Not just tariffs, full stop, buying em from somewhere else. China is the #2 largest market for US soy and soy is the #2 US crop export.

Denuclearization, peace, and potential reunification in Korea,

Not anything to do with trump. The sanctions only resulted in a ~20% increase in black market currency exchange, showing that it wasn't a big deal for a country that survived the great faminine of the 90s on nothing but Juche. Moon Jae-in is leading trump around by the nose. Though I guess you could say the fact that trump is so easily played by Moon is a point in trump's favor. So sure, promise that gloryhound a nobel prize if that's what it takes to keep him from screwing up everybody else's work.

Tons of sex cults and human trafficking rings have been broken up.

Ah, so now you reveal yourself as one of those RWNJ dumbasses. In fact, its the nothing of the kind. If anything, they've been cracking down on easy targets - adult sex-workers, not trafficking victims. Meanwhile Trump knowingly endorsed an actual pedophile.

Corrupt leaders and former leaders of many countries are actually being brought to justice.

Yeah. Putin. Duterte. Netanyahu MBS They've all been locked up!!! Yay!

The wall is being built.

Lol. He couldn't even get his own republican party to pay for it. Much less mexico.

Next year there will be no unconstitutional personal mandate for health insurance.

Yay! That's already working out so great for republicans.
Never mind how he totally fucked rural whites with empty promises about the opioid epidemic.

Way to wish away the reality of the situation. Yes, extremists - like crazy lefties who want to silence speech

You appear to have an extreme case of irony deficiency. You should get that looked at.

"Crazy censoring lefties" is a talking point of your particular tribe of extremists who are desperate to accuse everybody else of your own crimes.

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Drexel censures professor for white genocide tweet.
Firing of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia
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I'm afraid of this coming to my community, which was selected as "best place to live" by Money magazine.

I'm a renter, so I'm not going to make money on my house, and prices will go up fast if Amazon comes.
The schools already can't keep up with student costs since the state government blew up the property tax base and refuses to invest in local schools.

The local government is so in bed with developers I think we're already in trouble. Right now we have shiny new infrastructure, but I'm sure there is not a tax base sufficient to maintain and grow it. Best case we steal tax base from our next door neighbor community that is older and more established so both communities go downhill.

Remember that Carrier plant that Trump gave $7 million in tax dollars too? Less than a year later they are laying off 550+ employees. It would have been closer to 625 except a bunch of people did self-layoffs because they saw the writing on the wall.

Try a real citation next time. Random local news and blogs have no place other than for low information 10 second googlers.

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

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

https://www.indystar.com/story...

Just so we're clear, the "crime" you're accusing Hillary Clinton of is having a private email server and playing fast-and-loose with the rules about what's non-government business (allowed on a private server) vs. government business (not allowed on a private server). This is bad and should not be encouraged. But making a big deal about Hillary Clinton doing it is absurd when everyone does it (including multiple people in the current administration) and getting investigated for it is unheard of. Oh, wait, Bush (the second one) did, and also got a slap on the wrist, just like Hillary Clinton. Clearly those rules are not interpreted strictly by anyone not trying to come up with an excuse for an investigation.

The President is under no obligation to listen to you. Ignoring constituents is rather poor form, but it's not illegal or unconstitutional, any more than it is illegal or unconstitutional for current or past Presidents to ignore emails, phone calls, or written correspondence.

He doesn't have to listen. But if he permits comments from his supporters and uses the account for presidential purposes, then he has to accept ALL comments without editing out those he doesn't like or blocking commenters that he doesn't like. It's not like the question has not come up before in other contexts. Mike Pence even ran into the buzzsaw.

Public officials can either accept comments or not, but they can't selectively curate their audience and the audience's comments to assuage their fragile egos.

No, Pence. And Pruitt too.

[Correspondence] with his then-chief of staff, Jim Atterholt, and his top public safety and homeland security adviser John Hill, on subjects including Pence's efforts to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees and the state's response to a shooting at Canada's national parliament building... Much if not all of that information appears to have been reported in the media at the time.

... and absolutely nothing to indicate any communications with the Federal DHS, which the GP seems to woven from whole cloth to match his worldview.

Because some people WANT a car that does that. There's no reason you had to buy it though. Entirely your fault. Blame yourself. Every single day of the rest of your life blame yourself.

She didn't buy it. It was her boss' car. She had no business driving it while drunk, probably for the first time. Her boss possibly said "I'm too drunk to drive" and she said "I'm not" but she was — indeed, her BAC was higher than his.

Let's see what else I can leave in this comment while I'm here... the debris field is large enough to show that the car was moving quite quickly, if not very quickly. Autopilot is not meant to be used in these conditions, so if it was turned on, then that's just more evidence that the driver is at fault. But it doesn't accelerate like a mad bastard, because why would it, so it's probably not the culprit. The father did a crappy job of raising his daughter and now she's dead and we're arguing about it, the end.

What exactly are leftists regressing too? Or is this another case of someone from the right wing trying to paint the left with their own brush ala Karl Rove?

First off, I'm a liberal. Voted for Hillary, although my heart belonged to Bernie. I'm not afraid of Trump, though, so I'm apparently not a very good liberal.

Second. Regressive Left is a play on the term "Progressives." Because the authoritarian post-modernist critical theory (read: marxist) nutjobs who are behind the Progressive movement are anything BUT progressive.

They want to set up segregation again, this time under the theory that they'll choose who gets the good water fountains. http://www.thecollegefix.com/p...

They want to discard the magna carta and the foundations of our legal system -- because some pink haired "Gender Diversity Officer" should have more of a say than the police in rape accusations.
http://www.indystar.com/story/...

They want to redefine terms like "racism" so that certain protected classes are allowed to be racist, because they don't know any better. Because the people suggesting this are racists. https://www.rawstory.com/2016/...

We just saw the US population as well as the UK reject this insanity. The rest of the EU appears to be following right behind. And rather than do any form of introspection and start pushing out some of these toxic, problematic marxist elements, instead we get unhinged conspiracy theories about L33t Russian Haxx0rs.

God save us, because the left has learned absolutely nothing.

(Fun fact: Note that the CIA also confirmed all those emails were true, but we're not supposed to care that the DNC is more corrupt than the GOP now. Nor are we supposed to care that Trump actually bamboozled the GOP into giving him a standing ovation when he talked about protecting Gay Rights. Remember, Literally Hitler.)

You're wrong, the Tesla did catch on fire and the remaining parts of the battery exploded violently.

The recent Indiana abortion law that you refer to (HEA 1337) was halted by the Federal court in June: see http://www.indystar.com/story/... for one writeup. See http://fox59.com/2016/06/30/ju... for another. But thank you for your analysis!

a voter fraud ring in Indiana.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/23/whos-behind-group-police-say-submitted-fraudulent-voter-registration-forms/90778006/

"the group has submitted about 40,000 registration forms" ... "at least 10 of the group's voter registration forms from Marion and Hendricks counties contained fraudulent information. Local election officials said some of the group's forms were missing key information, such as Social Security numbers and birth dates."

So, 10 out of 40000 had missing info.

I am underwhelmed.

False as always.Comey said NO crime in the Email non-scandal, as in "this was never even close".

Oh really ?

Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case
-- James Comey

Now what FBI Agents had to say

“Each month for 27 years, I received oral and computer admonishments concerning the proper protocol for handling top secret and other classified material, and was informed of the harsh penalties, to include prosecution and incarceration,” for mishandling such material, he pointed out. “Had myself or my colleagues engaged in behavior of the magnitude of Hillary Clinton, as described by Comey, we would be serving time in Leavenworth.”

Likewise, Marc Rich's wife did not donate to the Clinton Foundation THERE WASN'T ONE in 1998

My bad Clinton Library, of course you were trying to imply that there was no donation at all weren't you ?

The Indiana voter fraud is now up to 56 counties
http://www.indystar.com/story/...

That's USA Today btw. What are your news sources, Democratic Underground and Media Matters ?

Bringing frivilous lawsuits will get you slapped down hard.

If only it were so, then we wouldn't have the likes of this guy: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

What corporation isn't a whore?

PayPal as per this story? The NFL? http://www.washingtonexaminer....

Arizona came close to losing the Super Bowl - heck that might have been 15 dollars of profit...

Georgia

http://www.breitbart.com/sport...

Indiana: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/...

Ther are many more.

Because the peopel who want to impose their beliefs on othes are just a minority of loud assholes, most Americans simply don't give a dman about other peopels sex lives, and would prefer th loud assholes would just go bak to handling snakes,

people do it all the time.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014...
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropoli...
http://www.indystar.com/story/...
http://www.casp.net/sued-for-f...

My city has a similar program: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

The authorities in at least 2 US states (Indiana, Massachusetts) beg to differ.

They concluded that Planned Parenthood is not engaged in *any* such transfer of bodies or even bits of them, not even through donations.

Let's see your videos that you're so confident in that you couldn't be bothered to link to them, shall we?

Be sure to let us know who's prepared to go on the record as to their authenticity and provenance, too.

We want to know!

It's not identical, http://www.indystar.com/story/...

It gives significantly more rights to corporations then they currently enjoy under our terrible status quo. There is no reason to support this law, and every reason to oppose it.

I'll just leave this here, https://movetoamend.org/

You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.

I'm a white guy. I was refused service, in Maryland just last weekend. I simply moved to another shop. What's the big deal? Gays don't get to shove their homosexuality down someone else's throat? Make someone else do something they don't want to? How would you like it if someone used the force of government to make you do something you didn't want to? Why are you arguing for them to be able to do that?

You have no clue what you're talking about, that's why. Here's the law, not that you'll read it: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

I happen to live in Indianapolis, and not only have I read (and understand) the article you mention (and many more), but I have read the excellent follow up article in the Star, which has an analysis of the differences between the Federal RFRA and the Indiana RFRA that not only proves everything I am saying, bug is also backed up with the opinion of experts on both sides of the issue more schooled in the law than either of us. Not to mention things like the letter to Gov. Pence signed by FIVE former Governors of Indiana, and another one signed by the CEOs of nine major Corporations admonishing him to stop ruining the State for some political coin.

And when the original sponsor of the Federal RFRA says that the Indiana Law is different in important (and dangerous) ways than the one he championed (and which he and Obama both supported), then you best listen.

You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.

I'm a white guy. I was refused service, in Maryland just last weekend. I simply moved to another shop. What's the big deal? Gays don't get to shove their homosexuality down someone else's throat? Make someone else do something they don't want to? How would you like it if someone used the force of government to make you do something you didn't want to? Why are you arguing for them to be able to do that?

You have no clue what you're talking about, that's why. Here's the law, not that you'll read it: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

I happen to live in Indianapolis, and not only have I read (and understand) the article you mention (and many more), but I have read the excellent follow up article in the Star, which has an analysis of the differences between the Federal RFRA and the Indiana RFRA that not only proves everything I am saying, bug is also backed up with the opinion of experts on both sides of the issue more schooled in the law than either of us. Not to mention things like the letter to Gov. Pence signed by FIVE former Governors of Indiana, and another one signed by the CEOs of nine major Corporations admonishing him to stop ruining the State for some political coin.

And when the original sponsor of the Federal RFRA says that the Indiana Law is different in important (and dangerous) ways than the one he championed (and which he and Obama both supported), then you best listen.

You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.

I'm a white guy. I was refused service, in Maryland just last weekend. I simply moved to another shop. What's the big deal? Gays don't get to shove their homosexuality down someone else's throat? Make someone else do something they don't want to? How would you like it if someone used the force of government to make you do something you didn't want to? Why are you arguing for them to be able to do that?

You have no clue what you're talking about, that's why. Here's the law, not that you'll read it: http://www.indystar.com/story/...

I happen to live in Indianapolis, and not only have I read (and understand) the article you mention (and many more), but I have read the excellent follow up article in the Star, which has an analysis of the differences between the Federal RFRA and the Indiana RFRA that not only proves everything I am saying, bug is also backed up with the opinion of experts on both sides of the issue more schooled in the law than either of us. Not to mention things like the letter to Gov. Pence signed by FIVE former Governors of Indiana, and another one signed by the CEOs of nine major Corporations admonishing him to stop ruining the State for some political coin.

And when the original sponsor of the Federal RFRA says that the Indiana Law is different in important (and dangerous) ways than the one he championed (and which he and Obama both supported), then you best listen.

You are watching the real faux news. The manure salesmen sold you a big load this time. Read the law - http://www.indystar.com/story/... .

What it means right now is a muslim deli could be sued for not selling pork products. They can't claim 1st amendment without that law. So why should someone be able to force a business to do something they don't want to? Could give you a gay example. Flower shop. They could have gay clients, sell to them for years. Even discuss it for years. They go to get married. The business owner says - I can't attend the wedding, it's against my religious beliefs. I can sell you the flowers, I just can't be there. Right now they could be sued unless they go against their religious beliefs. Why would you be for using the force of government to make them do what they don't want to? I don't think you would. You were lied to by the media again.

Read the law dude - http://www.indystar.com/story/... . You'll see it does nothing of the sort. BTW, the same law the ACLU, Chuck Scheumer pushed and Bill Clinton signed in 1993. Somehow they were/aren't anti-gay. You bought a load of manure from main stream media again.

Why don't you shut up until you understand what you're talking about?
You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.

As it is right now, a muslim deli owner could be forced to carry pork products. He wouldn't be able to claim it's against his religion. So why use the force of government to make him carry pork products?

You have no clue what you're talking about, that's why.
Here's the law, not that you'll read it:
http://www.indystar.com/story/...

Jefferson called what is going on despotism.

You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.

I'm a white guy. I was refused service, in Maryland just last weekend. I simply moved to another shop. What's the big deal? Gays don't get to shove their homosexuality down someone else's throat? Make someone else do something they don't want to? How would you like it if someone used the force of government to make you do something you didn't want to? Why are you arguing for them to be able to do that?

You have no clue what you're talking about, that's why.
Here's the law, not that you'll read it:
http://www.indystar.com/story/...

Want to talk about lawlessness in the US?

http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/

The problem is that LEOs regularly refuse to investigate or report crimes that happen, or misclassify them to reduce their severity - http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

It certainly could be as high as 2.5 million, but hey, I'll give you half of those as exaggerations, and we're still talking huge numbers.

More good guys with guns, less crime. A good guy can be an LEO, or a law abiding CCW holder.

Or is it your position that somehow LEOs are superior gun handlers? http://www.indystar.com/story/...

Here you go.

This guy regularly drank on duty, and got drunk one day and crashed into some motorcyclists, who were stopped at a stoplight, at 50+ mph and killed several of them. Convicted of 9 felonies and gets 16 years in prison. Indianapolis has been cracking down on corrupt cops quite a lot in the past few years; there have been busts of cops involved in prostitution rings, cops busted selling firearms to felons, and other things.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be many other cities that actually want to get rid of police corruption, but Indianapolis police have actually run stings specifically to catch corrupt cops.

Even with Ad-Block, that link is gross.

Slashdot groupthink hates the militarization of our police. Sheriff Gayer (seriously?) isn't going to help that cause.

SWAT teams are a reality. Buying them a surplus MRAP isn't shocking.

Sheriff Gayer making stupid comments, however, won't help anything...

No need. We all know cops drive drunk.

Oh, and BTW, insurance premiums under Obamacare are skyrocketing:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130718/BUSINESS/307180100/State-says-Obamacare-will-force-72-percent-increase-individual-insurance-plan-rates

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/313885-obamacare-premiums-lower-than-expected-in-maryland

Hell, just Google "obamacare rate increase"

Lord help you if you smoke, or happen to be overweight.

Gotta love their fucked-up rationale: "Your freedom is likely to be someone else's harm" Yea, that sounds like what a Stasi dogfucker would say.

You mean like the Medicare Part D that was passed by a Republican House, Senate, and President? You are right, that would never happen.

Medicare Part-D isn't healthcare, its a funnel for pouring cash from the federal coffers into the accounts of insurance companies - and very little more than that.

Sounds like Obamacare.

You MUST buy health insurance - from an INSURANCE COMPANY.

Oh, and BTW, insurance premiums under Obamacare are skyrocketing:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130718/BUSINESS/307180100/State-says-Obamacare-will-force-72-percent-increase-individual-insurance-plan-rates

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/313885-obamacare-premiums-lower-than-expected-in-maryland

Hell, just Google "obamacare rate increase"

> The reality that their design choices have political consequences, and that
> these consequences should and will have effects on the salability of their
> offerings is not respected, because they are used to altered reality where
> their design choices are fawned over and lauded as innovative and amazing.

Or maybe, just maybe, the people who run one of the the most profitable companies in the world figured out that if they make products that are more shiny and less environmentally sound* that the sales they gain from the consumer space will offset the small loss of government sales?

* and, to play Apple's Advocate here, we're talking about one particular metric, which a) might not actually be the One True Way to good environmentalism and b) is almost certainly gamed by other companies who make higher-rated-but-actually-worse products. Kind of a letter-of-the-law/spirit-of-the-law thing. Corporations are masters at gaming regs like this. At least Apple is honest enough to say "Fuck it, we're not going to follow that", for whatever reason. Or would you rather they just make products that just barely squeak past those particular measurements so everyone feels better? It's like the environmental version of the "security theater" that we always deride here.

And, before you complain that I'm just an Apple shill, consider this example: on the one hand, an iPad might be less recyclable that a regular computer; on the other hand, a desktop computer requires about 20x more electricity to run. You can run an iPad for a whole year for about a dollar's worth of electricity. So which is the better side of that tradeoff?

The reason the manhole covers had locks installed had nothing to do with security. It was because Indianapolis Power & Light substations, which are underground in downtown Indy, kept exploding and blowing manhole covers 20 ft in the air.

There were 4 such explosions last year.

I am romantically in favor of the idea of the mysty eyed dreamer going to school for indian tribal botany or some other esoteric pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. That's actually probably closer to the original idea of the university. But that experience is something he or she needs to pay for privately -- asking me to help is ridiculous. Making it national policy and funding it at the federal level is suicidal.

I agreed with you up to this point. While it doesn't work in the US, this "romantic" ideal of pure education works perfectly well in more socialist economies. Finland, in particular, comes to mind, where your education (and expenses) are completely paid for by the state, for as long as you want to take. The downside being, once you're working, the majority of your paycheck disappears in taxes.

And with all this, their test scores are among the best, their unemployment rate is low, and their economy is solid.

  http://blogs.indystar.com/education/2012/01/20/lesson-from-finland-everything-indiana-is-doing-is-wrong/

I was homeschooled until 2nd grade. I went to private schools until the middle of 4th grade, then switched to public schools and remained there until graduating 7th grade. After 7th grade, I decided that I wasn't learning anything in school, and I convinced my parents to homeschool me for my remaining 5 years (my siblings were homeschooled from start until 8th grade, so it wasn't such a leap for us to consider it).

Immediately after I quit school after 7th grade, I went to a computer science summer camp for high schoolers at my local university, IUPUI (a joint-campus of Purdue and Indiana Universities located in Indianapolis). The teacher in charge of the program noticed me and recommended that I take some college courses via a little-known program called SPAN (Special Programs for Academic Nurturing). SPAN at IUPUI allows for high school students to take college courses and receive dual high school and college credit.

I was 13 at this time, and I had complete academic freedom due to our decision to homeschool me, so what I did was take a light load (~8 credit hours) for two semesters. At all times, my university professors were very supportive, people were very friendly (in retrospect, I was probably lucky to have such accepting seniors at my university), and my experience was positive enough that after those two semesters, I just decided to drop homeschooling and take a full load at IUPUI. I was taking a full college course load at IUPUI by age 14, getting both high school and college credit. Essentially, IUPUI was my high school.

I have since changed majors twice (Computer Science --> Computer Graphics --> Japanese individualized major & Physics dual-degree), spent a year studying abroad, and after graduating last year, I am now enrolled in a Geophysics Ph.D. program. I believe that I am reasonably successful.

I was the first one ever to participate so young at IUPUI in the SPAN program, and after the success of my performance, IUPUI has become rather more aggressive at recruiting young homeschoolers and young prodigies with great success. They have certainly recruited much, much more intelligent and motivated children than I was, and I think this is of great benefit both to the university and the young students involved. No doubt you have heard of the 12 year old astrophysics researcher, recently. He is part of the SPAN program, and the Physics department is well-prepared to integrate him into its culture after dealing with my strange college career.

I also want to say that under no circumstances did I or my parents do this on our own. I have to commend the excellent and extraordinarily flexible staff at IUPUI for allowing me to participate at such a young age, and so many people at high levels of both the IU School of Liberal Arts and the Purdue School of Science were very accepting and worked with me. If you have a child that you think is capable of entrancing college at such a young age, or know of one, I would highly recommend going down to your local university and talking with them. You might mention my story, or contact IUPUI's SPAN program and talk to them about it. I know that other universities are starting to be more accepting of this kind of practice. It is not an easy thing to do; my mom had to drive me to class every day and pick me up afterwards -- IUPUI is largely a commuter college, so no dorm rooms were necessary for me. You should establish good rapport with the administration in your department and be flexible; remember, they are already being flexible with you to allow your child to enroll in classes as such a young age.

There are lots of bureaucratic hurdles to overcome (especially if you're in a state not friendly to homeschooling -- fortunately, Indiana is good), but very early entrance to college is achievable. There are some things that I missed

And away from sensationalist reporters going for "OMG! Big Bang didn't happen says genius kid!".

http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12-year-old-studying-IUPUI

Meanwhile, Jake is moving on to his next challenge: proving that the big-bang theory, the event some think led to the formation of the universe, is, well, wrong.

Wrong?

He explains.

"There are two different types of when stars end. When the little stars die, it's just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova," Jake said. "What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it's more dense."

OK . . . trying to follow you.

"So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.

"So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it's really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don't care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn't there have to be some sort of carbon?"

He could go on and on.

And he did.

"Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn't be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn't gonna happen."

"Because of that," he continued, "that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We'd have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up."

Plenty of time for Carbon at the beginning of things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/first.htm

IANAA, so my GUESS here is that kid lacks the knowledge necessary to put the whole thing in perspective.
As indicated by astrophysics Professor Scott Tremaine's reply to his theories that suggests "Jake to spend as much time as possible to learn more and to further develop his theory".
It's a polite way to say "Well thank YOU Mr. Smartypants. Us poor astrophysics scientists here would have NEVER thought of THAT had YOU not come along. NOT!".

And the journalist simply doesn't have a clue on the subject and is clearly going for a sound-bite.

Explanation at http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12-year-old-studying-IUPUI

Here is his "debunking" of the big bang:

"So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it's really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don't care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn't there have to be some sort of carbon?"
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I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn't gonna happen."

This is total gibberish. There is no carbon created in the Big Bang, only hydrogen, helium, and lithium. This was understood in the 1970's. All of the carbon in the universe is created in stars. This is likewise well understood. Also, the earth is mostly iron, not carbon. If this kid's new theory of relativity is anything like his theory of cosmology, he needs to be back in school getting an education, not doing independent research.

"But far from complaining, Jake has turned the sleepless nights to his advantage - debunking the big bang theory."
Wait...what? I think we need more of an explanation on this little gem.

Explanation at http://www.indystar.com/article/20110320/LOCAL01/103200369/Genius-work-12-year-old-studying-IUPUI
Jump down to "Thinking big is what he does"

The Indianapolis Star

He has been denied a speedy trial and has suffered punitive treatment in pre-trial detention.

Allegedly. Isn't that for the courts to decide? I very much doubt they would take any risks with his treatment that could be used to his favor legally.

FYI - It was two years almost to the day from the arrest of Timothy McVeigh (April 19, 1995) till his trial started (April 24, 1997). He was arrested the same day as the bombing, and was identified as the likely bomber in two days. That case would seem far more straightforward than some of the case against Manning.

By comparison, Timothy McVeigh was kept confined for about 2 months prior to initial court proceedings, and trial started within 6 months.

Not quite. McVeigh's trial started two years after his initial arrest.

April 19, 1995 - McVeigh arrested

April 24, 1997- McVeigh's trial begins

What you fail to understand that fiat money is NOT the problem for a country such as US, it prints all the money it wants.

The problem IS the productive capacity, so dissing the producers (those companies you want to tax) will force those companies to find different markets, not to return to US.

On the other hand the US will have to find the supply of all those goods that those companies are producing. Supply is the wealth, not cash. Do you know how I know? Look at all that junk people are fighting to buy these days from all those evil corporations that are supplying them with this junk.

What you fail to understand is that the wealth is in production, not in cash. Cash is the trivial part of economy (at least for a Keynesian oriented gov't), it's the supply that's the problem.

However of-course for this economy the jobs are the problem, as they are disappearing and people are living their lives on borrowed time and money, again, all this courtesy Keynesian gov't, printing money, borrowing by selling bonds, trying to push the interest rates down but eventually failing on the long term interest.

You think for some reason that the producers have to produce and supply you with goods and ALSO they have to supply you with the cash to buy those goods. Let's see how much longer this theory will hold.

I'm a member of a college athletics committee, and I can tell you with all confidence that while is the common perception of college and university football programs, it simply isn't true. Even in Division I institutions football teams are, as a rule, largely funded by state dollars, student fees, and creative tax exemptions rather than by ticket sales, television contracts, etc. And this has been shown in study after study -- it's even a line that the NCAA toes.

You can check NCAA financial disclosures to verify this at http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_reports/ thanks to a study completed by Mark Alesia in 2006, but a quick Google should point you to a bunch of other studies that give this position the lie. If you'd rather not click through and see the reports yourself, this is a nice summary statement:

"First off, he [Alesia] found that athletic departments at taxpayer-funded universities nationwide receive more than $1 billion in student fees and general school funds and services, and that without such outside funding, fewer than 10 percent of athletic departments would have been able to support themselves with ticket sales, television contracts and other revenue-generating sports sources. In fact, most would have lost more than $5 million."

While this is a statement about athletics programs in general rather than football programs specifically, the NCAA financial reports make it clear that even among popular sports like basketball and football, the overwhelming majority of programs are perennial money losers.

A hacker could might have installed a remote access program, downloaded the files manually, and then uninstalled the remote access program. There wouldn't be much evidence to suggest that this guy didn't download the kiddie porn himself.

Child porn becomes an obsession.

There are usually two elements in an arrest and conviction for possession:

1 The number of files retrieved is enormous.

In the thousands or tens or thousands. Authorities arrest 64-year-old man for child pornography

In this case, 40,000 photos and videos.

2 The defendant's behavior was reckless and self-destructive.

He'll try to slip his porn stash through customs. Va. man headed to prison for child porn It will be found on the cell phone he left behind at Starbucks. The laptop he brought into his grade school classroom. Pike High School teacher charged with possession of child porn

This guy was lucky.

Luck as nothing to do with it. Criminal investigation at its most basic isn't about tech, its about people. The frame has to fit or you look elsewhere.

The geek should give up his life of crime. He isn't as smart as he thinks. The schemes he contrives are overly complex and fragile. The human element is ignored.

I hate to go Godwin on the thread here, but it isn't like IBM hasn't found ways to use data to do evil things before.

Yes, and IBM has a thing about getting into bed with governments, although not always with good results. And you can be pretty sure nothing IBM is up to will be good for Americans given their tendency to take the money and run.