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No, I'm sure stealing billions via ginned-up mortgage securities is a minor offense in comparison to stealing bread.

Because we do this: http://articles.latimes.com/19...

Comcast profits were 2,137,000 on 18,743,000.

That's 11%.

But that's after having some of the highest salaries in the nation.
http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
Comcast compensation: Michael Cavanagh is highest paid CFO in the nation
Neil Smit, the Comcast Cable chief executive, received $27.9 million, a 20% increase over the previous year.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries...
There CEO is on CNN's list of the 5 most overpaid CEOs in the entire country.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts received total compensation of $40.8 million last year, Corporate Library said. That includes a $2.7 million base salary and over $22 million in earnings related to stock options.

But wait...
Executive own many shares of comcast stock so comcast's huge stock repurchase plan also fed a lot of money to those guys as did the dividends (tho those are a bit low).

And one of the reasons Comcast costs are so high is that everyone up the food chain from them has also jacked up prices and required bundling of channels that should be illegal (and which people are starting to rout around).

Summary: Comcast are bad dudes.

You mean like the Christian terrorist who was thwarted [cbsnews.com] in LA today from carrying out his attack on gays?

That report was apparently in error but of course it fits the narrative so the media went with it.

https://twitter.com/SantaMonic...
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

"Right, and a catholic who blows up a clinic was taking orders from the Pope?"

Please provide a citation where the Pope indicated that Catholics needed to kill people who perform or support abortion. I appear to have missed that.

Would you like me to provide countless examples of imams citing the need to kill homosexuals?

Also, it appears that this Los Angeles guy wasn't a crazy christian -- it was a crazy homosexual -- or at least bi-sexual.

http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

Care to change your tune?

"Or are we going to say this [cbsnews.com] was an act of Christian terrorism that was fortunately thwarted?"

Update:

I'm going to say that the guy your citation references was bi-sexual, had nothing against homosexuals, and there doesn't appear to be any intent to do harm at the pride event. Why did you need to see him as a crazy Christian?

http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

Not 100%, but there have been some successes..

both France and Germany continue to reject the company's validity in their regions

This is such a great news for all the little Statists out there: a multi-billion corporation (spit!) loses to the government officials seeking to retain control of transportation — as well as the massive fees collected from and the influence over those already "in" the system.

Meanwhile, a Boston Uber driver filed a federal lawsuit

Is not it great, when a poor little Joe Shmoe can file a federal lawsuit against such a multi-billion dollar corporation on his own? Is this news not the right answer to the folks lamenting needing millions of dollars to legally fight such an opponent?

illegally classifying drivers as independent contractors to avoid providing full employee benefits

That a distinction even exists — allowing the enforcers from the Executive branch to make life hell for business-owners without even bothering with the Judiciary — is itself a major achievement for the Statism.

Of course, they only begin to complain about "overly strong government", when the wrong guy is about to take the reins. When it is their man, they wish he was a dictator — to do "more good quicker".

just "how sleazy" Uber really is.

There is that... Shortly after Uber hired David Plouffe (the guy instrumental to putting Obama into office), I started getting spam from the company. E-mails asking me, whether I know, how "Uber helps minority drivers" or "how Uber helps the environment". That really was as sleazy a Democratic campaigns get, but the above-mentioned Statists usually lap this sort of thing up — even if the spam campaign misfired in my case and I know begin searching for a ride with Lyft.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the city's method of seizing land for the Clinton Presidential Library on Thursday, eliminating the last legal roadblock in the way of construction.

The court, in a 6-0 decision with one abstention, said a Little Rock landowner failed to prove that the $200-million library and archive complex wouldn't be a park as the state defines it.

The head of the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation said the dispute over Eugene Pfeifer III's land had been the only thing delaying construction of the 28-acre site on the south bank of the Arkansas River.

"I'm shocked," Pfeifer said. "This is truly disappointing news."

A decision against the city could have forced the foundation to find another site for his planned academic center and museum.

The library ended up being built on land expropriated based on eminent domain so the tactic you proposed is, like I said, underhanded, detrimental to Clinton campaign (as it opens a can of worms that would be better sealed shut) and, in general, undemocratic.

The USPS is more the exception with their sole focus being mail than the rule.

How soon people forget:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They still do Money Orders:

https://www.usps.com/shop/mone...

There are those who think the USPS should get back in the financial business to help serve the underserved/underbanked

http://www.latimes.com/busines...

THIS!

I remember after an earthquake in LA that part of the I10 freeway had collapsed, and was a major disruption. The contractor that won the bid, put in a clause that he would be paid a sum of money per day it was completed ahead of the schedule put forth in the RFP for the repairs. He completed the project 74 days ahead of schedule.

You can read about it here. http://articles.latimes.com/19...

Here is the most interesting quote: "Caltrans Director James van Loben Sels estimated that without the accelerated effort the project would probably have taken two years to complete."

And people say that Government bureaucracy isn't expensive. It is HUGELY expensive, in time, effort and money, and often (as in this case) causes as many (or more) problems as it actually solves. All those licenses, permits, fees, approvals ..... have a cost, and they are often unquantified and unknown.

California, where rioters waving the Mexican flag want to "Make California Mexico again".

And the Crooked Hillary!-supporting mayor blamed Trump!:

The mayor, a Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, criticized Trump for coming to cities and igniting problems that local police departments have to deal with.

"At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign," Liccardo said.

TRUMP needs to take responsibility for the RIOTERS who openly say they want to "Make California Mexico again"?!?!?!

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!

That's no different than saying the Jews who were murdered at Auschwitz need to take responsibility for their irresponsible behavior too.

I think it's sad that you believe the examples you presented don't happen to caucasians too.

Ok, I'll bite. Per capita, do the different ethnic groups in this country experience the same level of racism?

Minorities do no have a monopoly on being treated poorly by others.

We are not talking about merely being treated poorly by others. We are talking about systemic abuse and roadblocks that some groups experience at a much greater frequency than others.

Furthermore, I provided specific examples the nature and frequency of which are backed by history. Unlike you, I did not just talk about people being treated badly. Bad treatment is something that affects all poor people regardless of race. But there is a very specific subset of mistreatment that occurs again and again, with some groups getting the brunt of it, which is part of this country's history.

I refer, again, to last year story about lending discrimination (link here.) A better article about this specific case can be found here .

I will also refer to you to the lawsuit brought against Toyota for discriminating against Blacks and Asians (link here.)

I will also refer to you to the recent case in Denver of six Black employees and one White whistleblower against a warehouse with a habit of calling blacks “lazy, stupid Africans” and punishing those who complained. Link here.)

Again, this is not about, as you put it, believing bad shit doesn't happen to Caucasians. This is beyond what we think of bad shit happening in life. This is methodical, hard-to-eradicate racism whose targets are very specific.

I believe everyone should get treated fair, and about all, equally. Unless you are saying that all groups are systematically getting the same levels bad treatment (and you can prove it), your argument has no leg to stand on.

If The Donald wins, we are safe.

Really? The tech industry sure doesn't see it that way.

I assume you're a conservative, because they're the only people who are so convinced that there's no such thing as personal responsibility.

Funny enough most conservatives I know push personal responsibility quite hard. Earn your own way and all that. If you want to see a culture that avoids personal responsibility at all costs you would be better served by looking here:

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Hardly conservatives though.

And when you pay below that cost, you're effectively asking for a handout, for the employee and their friends or family (or, in some cases, the government) to subsidize your business.

Already there: McDonald's http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/2... Walmart http://www.californiaprogressr... and more Walmart http://articles.latimes.com/20...

People (government) also thinks it is a great idea to take USA food-stocks (corn) to make ethanol. It is kick-backs and subsidies -- these technologies would never exist on their own without the government subsidies (because the ideas are not profitable, and even wasteful).

While I am not a proponent of ethanol fuels, the US didn't take food stocks to produce it. They did use feed stock corn, but that corn would never have been for human consumption in the first place. Since then, many have changed their crops to switch grass which has similar yields but requires much less water to grow. So, using food stocks for fuel production did not happen on a large scale, although it is feasible that some farmers switched from food stocks to non food stocks most planted acreage that was not in production.

What any of that has to do with hydrogen fuel cells is beyond me.

Taco Bell would disagree. :D

Chuck Schumer didn't do us any favors when he added fuel to panic and caused a bank run on IndyMac.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/2565430...

http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/1...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html#page=1

Then how about we have a more serious one instead of pointless nitpicking that ignores more serious issues.

Good idea, shame you keep insisting on it and deflecting.

Also, you calling bullshit on the irrelevant side issue ignores that the there are military based in Alaska and some of them are even under the direct control of the governor of Alaska?

You keep making such claims, yet fail to substantiate *ANY* of it. It's almost as if you don't know what you are talking about... or are you one of those being paid by the Clinton campaign to 'correct' people on the internet?

Palin's emails were released, multiple outlets put them online, here is one that still is. It's reported that some 2200 pages were redacted in some way, to quote one article (notice how I keep quoting sources? You might try it.):

The state redacted more than 2,200 pages worth of materials, citing exemptions to public-records laws, including the privacy provision of the Alaska Constitution, attorney-client privilege, work-product privilege and executive and deliberative-process privileges.

So many named carve outs... and yet 'classified information', 'military secrets', & 'common sense from dbIII' aren't listed as reasons, odd that?

Yes, it is possible that *IF* classified information existed in the emails and was found, it accidently got lumped in with one of those other categories... only that still assumes that she had access in the first place, something you continue to have failed to prove she did.

If you cannot, I will accept your admission of defeat on this matter and treat your statements of "ZOMG! Sarah Palin did the same thing!" as the same sort of conspiracy theory as "9/11 was an inside job" I hear from similarly grounded people.

Then how about we have a more serious one instead of pointless nitpicking that ignores more serious issues.

Good idea, shame you keep insisting on it and deflecting.

Also, you calling bullshit on the irrelevant side issue ignores that the there are military based in Alaska and some of them are even under the direct control of the governor of Alaska?

You keep making such claims, yet fail to substantiate *ANY* of it. It's almost as if you don't know what you are talking about... or are you one of those being paid by the Clinton campaign to 'correct' people on the internet?

Palin's emails were released, multiple outlets put them online, here is one that still is. It's reported that some 2200 pages were redacted in some way, to quote one article (notice how I keep quoting sources? You might try it.):

The state redacted more than 2,200 pages worth of materials, citing exemptions to public-records laws, including the privacy provision of the Alaska Constitution, attorney-client privilege, work-product privilege and executive and deliberative-process privileges.

So many named carve outs... and yet 'classified information', 'military secrets', & 'common sense from dbIII' aren't listed as reasons, odd that?

Yes, it is possible that *IF* classified information existed in the emails and was found, it accidently got lumped in with one of those other categories... only that still assumes that she had access in the first place, something you continue to have failed to prove she did.

If you cannot, I will accept your admission of defeat on this matter and treat your statements of "ZOMG! Sarah Palin did the same thing!" as the same sort of conspiracy theory as "9/11 was an inside job" I hear from similarly grounded people.

then you don't have evidence.

They don't need no steenking evidence

If you can pay for items with your phone/watch/etc. and it uses a biometric the risk is non-zero.

All they have to do is forcibly drag your finger across the finger reader or drag your handily detached finger.

Criminals do bad things. It's not distopian, it's realistic.

As for the government,

http://www.latimes.com/local/c...
"There, authorities obtained a search warrant compelling the girlfriend of an alleged Armenian gang member to press her finger against an iPhone that had been seized from a Glendale home. The phone contained Apple's fingerprint identification system for unlocking, and prosecutors wanted access to the data inside it.

It marked a rare time that prosecutors have demanded a person provide a fingerprint to open a computer, but experts expect such cases to become more common as cracking digital security becomes a larger part of law enforcement work."

We are talking about people happy to waterboard american citizens for information at the same time government officials are telling the Washington Post: âoeThey picked up the wrong people, who had no information. In many, many cases there was only some vague associationâ with terrorism.

My point isn't that people do this. My point is fingerprint locks are security theater.

"You know... It might be worth having a meaningful discussion about legislating that non-criminal political activity is a protected class."
In most places it is but that can get into a some odd corner cases.

1. What about a teacher that wants to legalize sexual relations between adults and minors? They have never been convicted of any crime and may just want the change because they believe it is good change but have never actually had sex with a child. Should their job be protected? Would you want them teaching your child?
2. Someone that is a member of the KKK or is a neonazi and a police officer? If you were a minority would you feel safe?
Should those people have their jobs protected?
The Supreme court did come down with this ruling. http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

But what about someone that works for a company and then public states that the company is terrible?

http://www.sfgate.com/science/...

I'm sorry the burden of proof is on you people. You want to say this is all global warming? Have fun substantiating that.

This is my state. I know it and I know its history. Most of the chumps commenting on this are either out of state hacks that are just bandwagoning an issue they don't understand. And the rest are mostly millennial twinks that don't know what happened yesterday much less the historic climate patterns of anywhere... even the fucking state they reside within.

http://articles.latimes.com/19...
http://news.sky.com/story/1193...
http://www.californiadrought.o...

The AGW hissy fit has gotten old. Shouldn't we be getting MORE water if your chicken little bullshit were right? After all, more heat, more humidity, more precipitation?

We brought water to the desert. Our cities do not thrive on the rain that falls on our land. It thrives on the water we bring to our land.

No part of the country has as elaborate a water transport system as California. That is what made our cities possible and is what allowed them to grow. Men that moved the water. Our population has grown and all we have to replace those old lions of the past are a bunch of head up their ass hippies that do very little besides whine and waste money.

That is why we have a problem. There is plenty of water. The old city fathers of Los Angeles would have already taken care of this bullshit. They would have gone to any of the many places in the north that have loads of fucking water and they would have made a deal. What is more, Our water system is not well designed to share water within itself. It is frequently compartmentalized. Simply by bringing water into the top of the system and then allowing reserves in the north to spill into reserves in the south... the problem solves itself.

Here someone will say "but every place needs every drop of their water". Bullshit. Oregon and Washington state are loaded with it. You talk to them and work out an arrangement. Buy it. Move it.

Here someone will say "but its hard to do things because we're so fucking incompetent!!!"... you have to imagine that with a really whiny voice to get the statement in its proper context. The Romans moved water hundreds of miles. This is the 21st century and we're talking about a major population center that is a huge economy and huge food producer... so... The fuck? Did we lose the ability to make pipes and concrete? I was unaware that level of incompetence had been reached. Because that's straight up Idiocracy levels of fuckwittery.

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...

Quote:

"After the Trayvon Martin verdict I was talking to Prince and he said, 'You know, every time people see a young black man wearing a hoodie, they think, he's a thug. But if they see a young white guy wearing a hoodie they think, oh that might be Mark Zuckerberg. That might be a dot-com billionaire.'"

"I said, 'Well, yeah, Prince that's true but that's because of racism.' And he said, 'No, it's because we have not produced enough black Mark Zuckerbergs. That's on us. That's on us. To deal with what we're not doing to get our young people prepared to be a part of this new information economy.'"

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...

Quote:

"After the Trayvon Martin verdict I was talking to Prince and he said, 'You know, every time people see a young black man wearing a hoodie, they think, he's a thug. But if they see a young white guy wearing a hoodie they think, oh that might be Mark Zuckerberg. That might be a dot-com billionaire.'"

"I said, 'Well, yeah, Prince that's true but that's because of racism.' And he said, 'No, it's because we have not produced enough black Mark Zuckerbergs. That's on us. That's on us. To deal with what we're not doing to get our young people prepared to be a part of this new information economy.'"

Island (and coastal) property in general remains very attractive — even among the staunchest alarmists.

Hey moron - you are aware that this villa is 2 miles inland, 500 feet above sea level? By admitting this will soon be beach property, you confirm AGW. You fail again.

Never let the facts get in the way of this tired clickbait:

http://www.latimes.com/enterta...

If you believe that climate change is a scam

Much of it is, yes.

ocean rise is bullshit

Certainly is.

then island property should be a bargain in paradise

Island (and coastal) property in general remains very attractive — even among the staunchest alarmists.

But that the Maldives in particular are sinking because our cars are too big remains a rather dubious conjecture. Plenty of places went under centuries and millennia before the industrial revolution.

So the papers have nothing to do with Putin

Yeah, Putin had nothing to do with it — it is perfectly common for a cellist in Russia to have $2 billion in Panama. Right...

Somebody has to make more humans for the species' survival.

Oh, you think that will pass a sanity check?
Lets see
Current pop 7.4 billion. That is up 400 million in 4 years. http://www.latimes.com/world/p...
  So 100 million new mouths per year and growing.

  55.3 million people die each year http://www.ecology.com/birth-d...

If the world quit spawning right now, we would be just under 7 billion people in a FREAKING DECADE.

We would still be over 6 Billion mouths in two FREAKING DECADES of 0 people on the planet making babies.

So with the global warming caused by excess people, as well as other issues like "We ate all the big fish in the sea and are now creating dead spots" and "Hey that oil that grows and moves our crops/food should run out by ~2038.", you think we need more people..

"I WANT BABY! BABY BABY BABY!!!" Is an emotional response that doesn't stand up to thinking about whether having one is a good plan. Sadly those more likely to feel about breeding rather than think about breeding are also more likely to reproduce. Good by thinkers, hello feelers.

We are at the point where irresponsible reproduction may be participating in the deaths of billions. Or we may be well past that point already.

Captcha: "maternal". Slashdot you be trollin' me.

PayPal has made it very clear: there are 49 other states that will gladly accept our proposition to employ hundreds of high skilled knowledge workers.

Well, 48 states when you exclude Mississippi. Or 47 if you include Indiana which passed and then walked back some their RFRA. Or less if you include many of the other states that have passed or tried to pass similar legislation in the last few years in attempts to reverse any progress that was made at the federal level.

I really don't understand the "gee this is boilerplate" milquetoast shrug-and-bear it response. Boilerplate dogshit is what it arbitration clauses are.

These include details like waiving your right to a juried trial and agreeing to go into arbitration instead

Did you know you can opt-out in many cases?

"All things considered" has more on why these arbitration clauses are evil and you should always say "no".. So does the la times, the nation, lifehacker", and pretty much everywhere.

When you agree to arbitration you're agreeing to wave your right to a try in lieu of a system that is biased for business and rules against consumers 94% of the time

TIL that the Oculus Rift is toxic.

Nothing at all will happen. Putin doesn't care about this 'revelation' any more than he or his cohorts cared about information released about the Attorney General of Russia Chaika and his children (video) This person still keeps going strong, so do his children, and the information released about them ties them to the criminal organization responsible for the biggest case of multiple murders including little children in Russia in the last decade.

I think the FBI had a warrant, and Apple has a shitty argument.

Apple is arguing that writing software constitutes free speech. Therefore, forcing them to write software to help solve a crime would be infringing on their free speech. Except, the problem the FBI is encountering was created by Apple complying with a law that required them to write anti-theft software into their OS. Ironic, to say the least.

Also, Apple has no problem cooperating with governments when there's a net benefit to them. And there's tons of precedence that free speech rights can be revoked, within reason, by a court of law, when required by society.

I think there's plenty of evidence that the culture at Apple cares very very little about user freedom. I think, rather, that in the wake of the Snowden revelations Apple has identified an opportunity to run a PR campaign and has taken advantage of it. I think this is a horrible, but not surprising, thing for Apple to do.

Apple is using the first amendment to essentially help them run a public relations campaign. If software is speech, then it can't be patented or protected as intellectual property. If they don't want to cooperate with the government, fine, say that. But don't try to get high and mighty and act like your "rights" are being revoked. I seem to recall Apple having no problem cooperating with the Chinese government. They weren't worried about their free speech rights so much when it meant access to a billion person person market. I've also seen precedent where real, undisputable, free speech rights get revoked when it's convenient for everyone. Apple was ordered, by a court, to work with the government to help prosecute a crime. If a sysadmin can go to jail for withholding passwords, then Apple should to.

Just FYI - Anonymous is run by a division of the CIA. It's not surprising that their efforts against Trump are lackadaisical - there are CIA assets (that aren't in Langley most of the time) that actually support Trump's efforts (if not is methods). And, of course, the CIA is currently in a proxy war with the Pentagon, which is vehemently opposed to Trump, because is clearly a problem for the Military Industrial Complex.

Since Hillary has taken nearly $3Million in, ahem, donations from Tata and Infosys you can be sure there'll be plenty of new data available as the foreign workers pour in.

Source: http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Snip:

Clinton is successfully wooing wealthy Indian Americans, many of them business leaders with close ties to their native country and an interest in protecting outsourcing laws and expanding access to worker visas. Her campaign has held three fundraisers in the Indian American community recently, one of which raised close to $3 million, its sponsor told an Indian news organization.

It's having a lot of different effects. Some restaurants have given waiters raises, and others have increased wages in advance of the required deadline. Reports from Seattle are of restaurants raising prices 20%. Same in Los Angeles.

Since the US Government is spending so much on "security", they have to justify it by at least occasionally trying to catch somebody. As others have already pointed out, this has as much real world effect as putting a sign in you window telling the kids to stay off your lawn.

Many of the cyber attacks against US institutions and infrastructure are state sponsored. Picking out a few individuals and blaming them is a bad joke. The only time it might have an impact is if they go to Europe or a strong ally of the US like Australia and are arrested. I doubt they are that stupid.

Who is at fault for the horrible track record on cyber security in the US? How about the US Chamber of Commerce and the business interests it represents. Way back in 2012 the Obama administration tried to get a cyber security bill passed, and it got nowhere. It was viewed as being anti-business and government interference in private enterprise.

Democrats overwhelmingly supported the legislation, but for Republicans, it meant a stark choice between competing constituencies: national security officials and business leaders. Even after the bill's backers made the standards voluntary, the Chamber of Commerce, which spends more on lobbying than any other trade group, opposed it.

On Thursday, the Senate cyber-security bill failed to overcome a Republican-led filibuster. Analysts say the bill couldn't breach a wall of anti-regulatory sentiment that proved resistant to the dire warnings.

The measure fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to end debate, 52 to 46, with 40 Republicans joined by six Democrats voting in support of the filibuster.

"Rarely have I been so disappointed in the Senate's failure to come to grips with a threat to our country," said Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee and one of the bill's chief sponsors, who had tried in vain to sway her GOP colleagues. Just four sided with her.

Since then Obama has signed various executive orders, but they all boil down to voluntary participation outside the government. And since even government outsources the actual work, nothing has changed. That's what happened when the Office of Personal Management was hacked. The data was obtained from the contractor.

So what has the Chamber of Commerce been doing since then? How about holding CyberSecurity Summits. I'm sure that Chinese, Russian and Iranian hackers have just given up because they know how impossible it will be to penetrate US organizations after they hold a "Summit".

This are not "natural fluxes" this is the ordinary CO2 cycle.

And the ordinary CO2 cycle is filled with natural fluxes.

We already have server problems due to ocean acidifying.

No, we don't. We have alarmist articles claiming there are problems, but the truth is there is no sign that pH flux of .1 over a long period of time will have any effect on biomes that fluctuate an order of magnitude than that on a daily basis.

http://www.latimes.com/science...

Seriously, read the actual papers, not the newspaper mangled spin on them :)

You STUPID FUCKER.

Stop shouting, Illiberal asshole... You aren't on an anti-Trump rally complaining about "not being heard".

And 10 are dead from water-borne Legionella.

They did not die on the first day the pipes got contaminated, did they? Not even the first month. Back then, somebody wishing to be sympathetic to the people involved in the mess could've said, the same thing: "Nobody got poisoned or sick in the end".

Today, somebody sympathetic towards the hackers, is making the same mistake making the same claim. Some of the chemicals involved in water treatment are nasty and messing with their levels may make the tap water poisonous as well. Whether anybody was, in fact, affected may not even be known, because, if it is the well off and White skinned folks, they are unlikely to attract much attention from media or government regulators. But to make the above claim was bogus — and that's my point.

Children exposed to lead are doomed to irreversible neurological damage, including lowered intelligence and a propensity for violence

Yes, yes, sure. All according to government "scientists", who also claimed for decades, that fat and cholesterol are bad for you...

dyed-in-the-wool, reality-denying neoconservative.

Che Guevara much? Please, don't hate...

Eliminating carbon as a fuel source world wide is not. There is nothing really different now about people in this regard.

Once upon a time, Republicans believed that CO2 was an energy retaining gas. Now? Denial of science is a party platform.

Just as a point of edification to whoever marked this post as "Troll".....

In 2008 The Republican Party platform listed global warming a a national problem, and cited Human activity among its causes.

citation: http://www.latimes.com/opinion...

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

Now, here is the specific text HArd core Republicans might want to stop reading at this point, because this is going to get really uncomfortable instantly. From the 2008 platform

Addressing Climate Change Responsibly

The same human economic activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. While the scope and long-term consequences of this are the subject of ongoing scientific research, common sense dictates that the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today to reduce any impact on the environment. Those steps, if consistent with our global competitiveness will also be good for our national security, our energy independence, and our economy. Any policies should be global in nature, based on sound science and technology, and should not harm the economy.

The Solution: Technology and the Market

As part of a global climate change strategy, Republicans support technology-driven, market-based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.

To reduce emissions in the short run, we will rely upon the power of new technologies, as discussed above, especially zero-emission energy sources such as nuclear and other alternate power sources. But innovation must not be hamstrung by Washington bickering, regulatory briar patches, or obstructionist lawsuits. Empowering Washington will only lead to unintended consequences and unimagined economic and environmental pain; instead, we must unleash the power of scientific know-how and competitive markets.

Now let us fast forward to today, Here is your 2016 presidential candidate Donald trump on global warming

http://www.inquisitr.com/10836... specifically his tweet: “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice”

https://twitter.com/realdonald...

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More tweets

Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet! They don't believe it $$$$!

It’s snowing & freezing in NYC. What the hell ever happened to global warming?

Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!

Your other possibility, another person who represents the soul of the republican party, Ted Cruz Has this to say about global warming:

“Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of

A google car hit a bus recently. The car's fault as it had to move to another lane to get around an obstacle http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

Hell, I'll take a system with a 20% chance of working over nothing, if it can be improved over time.

From the article:

Despite years of tinkering and vows to fix technical shortcomings, the system's performance has gotten worse, not better, since testing began in 1999. Of the eight tests held since GMD became operational in 2004, five have been failures.

So the difference is... people on the right want to piss away large amounts of money on useless things to help them from being scared of their own shadow, while people on the left want something that actually works. Must be hell going through life as a coward.

You'd think China of all countries could appreciate a masterful application of dumping when they see it.

Did you see this one?

Sandefur’s son, Larry Daniel Kaufman, was among the 14 people killed at the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2 as a husband and wife sprayed an office holiday party with gunfire during a terror attack.

On Thursday, Sandefur weighed in on the dispute between technology companies and law enforcement. In a letter released by an attorney representing several relatives of victims, Sandefur wrote that Apple should help FBI agents trying to access encrypted data on an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook.

http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

But of course you're "more right" than them since you have no personal interest whatsoever in this case, you're just clamouring for the principle of the matter, which is obviously always the right answer.

Because someone wants something doesn't mean they have a legal right to get it. So, you're still a fascist willing to override legal rights.

And yes, as someone with no personal interest whatsoever in this case (not even my country) I can afford to stand up for the "principle of the matter." And what's so bad about standing up for the principle of the matter? At least I HAVE principles, and I believe they're worth standing up for, unlike you, where it's all about "expediency" or "convienience" or "mob rule" rather than the rule of law - in other words, fascist bullsh*t. If you don't stand up for your principles, you don't have principles.

And I guess you missed the fact that the mother whose son was killed by those same shooters sides with Apple. That's integrity - standing up for principle even when it hurts. Of course, you don't have any.

A mother whose son was killed in the San Bernardino, California, shooting last year is siding with Apple in its battle to protect consumer’s privacy rights by refusing the FBI’s demands for new software to break into the iPhone of her son’s killer.

Carole Adams, the mother of Robert Adams — a 40-year-old environmental health specialist who was shot dead by Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife in December - told the New York Post Thursday that the constitutional right to privacy “is what makes America great to begin with.”

She stood by Apple’s decision to fight a federal court order to create software that would allow federal authorities to access the shooter’s password-blocked iPhone. The software would allow authorities to retrieve personal banking passwords, photos and other information.

If you hate the constitution and the rule of law so much, why aren't you living in some place that hasn't got either?

Did you see this one?

Sandefur’s son, Larry Daniel Kaufman, was among the 14 people killed at the Inland Regional Center on Dec. 2 as a husband and wife sprayed an office holiday party with gunfire during a terror attack.

On Thursday, Sandefur weighed in on the dispute between technology companies and law enforcement. In a letter released by an attorney representing several relatives of victims, Sandefur wrote that Apple should help FBI agents trying to access encrypted data on an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook.

http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

But of course you're "more right" than them since you have no personal interest whatsoever in this case, you're just clamouring for the principle of the matter, which is obviously always the right answer.

The chances are pretty good actually. And that's just the first page of Google hits (ignore the one fake video).

The near misses are happening frequently enough that there will eventually be a hit, likely several. Do you really want to stick your head in the sand and pretend there's no problem until there's loss of life? Aviation regulatory agencies like the FAA are frequently criticized for being too reactionary - not addressing problems until after there's been loss of life. They are attempting to be proactive in this case, and they're getting criticized for that too.

Where this simply a case for statistics. I'd support it... But Algebra underpins it all — there are good arguments for introducing children to Algebra before Arithmetic (Robert Heinlein, actually, floated this idea decades ago).

polynomials and logarithms, and is required by the new Common Core curriculum standards used by 47 states and territories, drives dropouts at both the high school and college levels

Oh, wow — just when America started doing something right about Math, someone wants to mess with it. So, if people drop out because of it, it should be abolished? The logic sounds sort of like that about narcotics — people keep doing it despite efforts to the contrary, so it should become legal. Oh, he only talks about Algebra II — the "complicated" stuff... Well, how elitist of him — what about the poor kids, who fail basic Algebra en masse?

But, hey, how about we abolish the "Common Core" instead and allow the decisions on what to teach be made at the local level — and compare the results? Yes, some schools will be in error, but not all — while national curriculum created in Washington carries the risk of forcing everybody to make a mistake...