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What you have isn't curiosity, but prejudicial dickishness. It's evident from how boldly you talk while obviously not knowing what you're talking about.

Lederman retired to Driggs, which is the west slope of the Grand Tetons. He likely did so to enjoy what is **EASILY** one of the most spectacular and iconic mountain skylines in the world, Google "Driggs Idaho" if you doubt me. While beautiful, it's arid farmland adjacent to desert. Hot in the summer, blisteringly (subzero) cold in the winter. It's a couple thousand souls stranded an hour or two from towns with decent stores. Heck, just 5 hours each way gets you to the cultural hotzone of Salt Lake City. Still, thanks to that backdrop, some talented chefs have chosen to be here and we have some delicious restaurants. Yeah, the area's thick with Mormons, mosquitoes and mountain bikers, the unholy trinity. As an 3rd-generation local, let me be the first to agree you'd hate it here. Please: stay the fuck away.

Getting back to Leon Lederman, before and after his retirement, Lederman used to visit colleges around this area and speak. I've met him a couple times. He was part of Univ of Chicago's Physics for Poets faculty, http://articles.latimes.com/19..., a section of physics focused on helping nonscientists appreciate the immense value and beauty of Physics, in the hopes that they'd retain that love for science if/when they became politicians, administrators, executives, or anyone else able to influence how the US funds science. He was a nice guy, and passionately devoted to science. Am sorry to see news of his passing.

The creditors wanted to erase the debtors from the leveraged buy out. I'm not sure if they get to erase the books of the suppliers as well, but that'd be a pretty neat trick...

Did you miss the entire LA Unified ipad fiasco? Start here circa 2013 http://articles.latimes.com/20... then finish here with the followup two years later https://gizmodo.com/the-la-sch... .

...is that Apple has no hesitation in dumping Intel as a supplier.

Apple announced that Intel modems would not be used after the current generation of iPhones.

Apple will also move away from x86 towards their own desktop/laptop ARM processors.

Is Apple dumping Intel because they broke Qualcomm's NDA? Or is it the 10nm debacle? Or both?

Or because they have perfected their own MODEM.

Remember, they now have produced in-house Bluetooth chips (at least 2 generations thereof); so they obviously have enough in-house RF Engineering talent to take on a WiFi MODEM.

Intel and Qualcomm are both just stopgaps.

...is that Apple has no hesitation in dumping Intel as a supplier.

Apple announced that Intel modems would not be used after the current generation of iPhones.

Apple will also move away from x86 towards their own desktop/laptop ARM processors.

Is Apple dumping Intel because they broke Qualcomm's NDA? Or is it the 10nm debacle? Or both?

Uh-huh, so why are we defending him?

Because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, remember that annoying ditty, professor? If NSA were illegally surveilling his phone, they broke the law. He ought to walk just to teach them a lesson. Does the name Ernesto Miranda ring any bells? He was far worse that Cody Wilson — his crime was not a pseudo "assault", but a real kidnapping and rape. Yet, he walked, because his Constitutional rights were violated by police — and now his name is immortalized in the term "Miranda Rights"...

So, the Trump administration is pushing the prosecution of this guy? Is that your assertion?

The same swamp, that leaned on Norway to go after Assange, who now push Trump's own prosecution, is after this guy, that's my conspiracy theory.

Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one: he bought a prostitute from a website that specializes in extra-young girls and he committed rape.

He is not even accused of rape — the charges are "sexual assault". In Arkansas — across the border — 16 is old enough, for example, stop trying to vilify him over a Malum Prohibitum transgression.

Now, that site, which you claim is specializing in the "extra young" — I'll take your word for it — they must have a substantial customer-base, don't you think? Just to stay in business, uhm? And this one can not possibly be the only girl, who's a tad too young to be legal. Why is Cody Wilson the only one prosecuted? Shouldn't the site be busted open — as "Backpage" were — if they "profit from rape"? Or, if this girl is an anomaly, how could Wilson have suspected her age? As the OP said, this case does not smell right at all...

What should worry you is the threat to our privacy — but, of course, it does not. It is only important, when Communist terrorists need to get off the hook. When it is about a guy who defends the Bill of Rights, you jeer and wish him to burn.

You just call anyone you don't like "fascist".

No, professor, it is you who does that. I call Chinese "Fascist" because that is, what they are — by the very definition of the term. Unlike the Communist/Socialist China of the late 20th century, today's China is Fascist: capitalist markets exist — and move the economy — but they are tightly controlled by the government. The secondary indications — like rising nationalism and persecution of minorities (complete with ethnic cleansing) are there too. And — and this is the point most important to this discussion — neither a person nor a company can survive after displeasing the government in general and the Dear Leader in particular.

Up until Trump's election, the US was going in that same direction (and not fast enough for some people). One hopes, he'd be able to survive politically long enough to cripple the creep towards Fascism for a few generations — by nominating judges with a similar pessimism over the government's power.

But, whether he succeeds in that or not, his very attempts make him anti-Fascist. That Google's CEO dislikes Trump for his imaginary Fascism, while willingly cooperating with the actual Fascists of China is a sign of deep malaise of this country's elites — both real, like this very bright Mr. Brin, and the wannabes, like a certain much dimmer teacher who is so wanting in education.

Reduced radiation emissions from 5G antennas compared to 4G antennas would presumably further reduce any health effects of this technology.

Enjoy your greatly increased exposure to "reduced radiation emissions" that you'll be getting from small-cell 5G placed everywhere.

Of course, any worries about microwave and millimeter wave emissions causing harm to anyone or anything are total bullshit.

Is 5G technology dangerous? Early data shows a slight increase of tumors in male rats exposed to cellphone radiation

2.45GHz Microwave Radiation Impairs Learning and Spatial Memory via Oxidative/Nitrosative Stress Induced p53-Dependent/Independent Hippocampal Apoptosis: Molecular Basis and Underlying Mechanism.

for affordable li-ion battery recycling.

Median wage would likely be more representative.

That is the median wage: http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Great list! I would also add:

* Humming music was the biggest piracy threat because artists weren't getting their "fair share"

* Used CD sales was the biggest piracy threat because according to clueless, greedy asshats artists aren't paid royalties on these transactions,

* Guitar Hero was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed gamers to play music over and over again onlyh having to pay once,

Aerosmith has reportedly earned more from Guitar Hero : Aerosmith than from any single album in the band's history.

* iTunes was the biggest piracy threat since it allowed music and movies to be distributed without needing physical media.

This is different from .mp3 since Apple's .aac used to be DRM protected but did these wankers complain about that when Apple removed DRM from their music?

Furthermore, why did it take a computer company to sell music???

The only thing the music industry knows how to is whine, constantly. It's not fucking rocket science. People just want:

* Access to music, regardless of device, and
* The ability to pay for it.

Piracy shows you have a distribution opportunity not a price problem.

About a sixth of the "good" that People Who Are Better Than You do.

Drive a car into peaceful protester's and kill some one

Peaceful protestor yeah
https://www.thegatewaypundit.c...

Shoot up a place of worship because the people there were black.

Dylan Roof was certifiably insane

Hold up against the federal government in a violent manner because they object to federal land policies.

The BLM acted illegally http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

Navarro rebuked federal prosecutors — using the words "flagrant" and "reckless" to describe how they withheld evidence from the defense — before saying "that the universal sense of justice has been violated" and dismissing the charges.

It wasn't the land use policies, it was the illegal railroading of a citizen.

I don't pretend my end of the political spectrum doesn't have assholes in it but clearly you do.

Sure you don't

Sounds like someone's trying to get their money's worth and bring back JLENS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

The good news is that Tesla also makes higher capacity grid-scale energy storage products than the PowerWall.

Yes, that install isn't on the scale of what you say is needed (don't know the math) but it seems to be doing pretty damn good for the Aussies - good enough that Southern California Edison wants one too.

Why would it take 6 months when you could just buy 1 dose from China and copy that instead?

Heck, sneak in and steal a sample, bribe a Chinese person to get one for you. You claim it's going to be worth 10's to 100's of Billions of dollars, you want to save hundreds of millions of American lives. So slip a 'researcher' a 20 and have a sample tomorrow. It's not like Chinese pharmaceutical companies are well known for their integrity.

Or are you just anti-China fear mongering again with this?

Or the world could just pay CHina $100-1000 / person for an inoculation.

What's more comparing news organizations FOX is the number one rated news channel, CNN can't beat ancient aliens on the history channel

Not last week. Fox News falls behind MSNBC and CNN on a tough news day for Trump. But don't worry, Fox is still number one in the racist senior citizens demographic.

there's an overwhelming torrent of complaints backed up by undercover investigations

You are citing remarkably few examples for something you claim to exist in "overwhelming" number. Are you so easily overwhelmed, the mere thought of such things indicates sniffing salts?

Nothing funny about it, it's because Amazon warehouses are even worse than working at Walmart

Oh, it is funny. Hysterically funny, how the same crowd, who claim poor Americans — with nothing to lose but their chains — forced to toil at Amazon for lack of better alternatives, while also contending, we need more immigrants, because there are jobs Americans just would not do.

hell if I know, but apparently there are conflicting stories, some say it is theft http://www.latimes.com/world/a...

yet others say it probably was just damaged by normal physics... AKA solar panels and heavy things don't mix so well. https://www.scmp.com/news/chin...

Cohen hasn't flipped on Trump yet.

Cohen would not accept a pardon from Trump, if offered, Davis said. “Not only is he not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon. He considers a pardon from somebody who has acted so corruptly as the president to be something he would never accept,” Davis told NBC on Wednesday. -- LA Times

It certainly looks like a flip to me.

1. Illegal immigrants can obtain driver's license in California.
2. Anyone obtaining a driver's license in California (and in many other states) can check a checkbox to also register to vote. It is the person's own discretion, scruples, and fear of prosecution, that decides it.
3. Anyone registered to vote, can come and vote — no verification is done at the time of voting.
4. Indeed, various cities — including San Francisco — encourage non-citizens to vote now. Ostensibly, they are only supposed to vote for local issues only (such as school boards), which is legal. In practice, there are no checks preventing them from voting.

It is possible. It happens. Attempts to quantify, how wide-spread it is, are sabotaged.

As with other possible exploits, we must assume being compromised... Which is unfortunate...

I think you missed the part about Rickets. "Without enough of it, bones can become thin, brittle and misshapen, causing a condition called rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults" Rickets in children has been and continues to be a problem, especially amongst the poor in America. When you see very bowlegged or bandy legged children, most likely you are seeing children who suffer from rickets. http://articles.latimes.com/20... https://www.medscape.com/viewa... https://abcnews.go.com/Health/... https://www.webmd.com/children...

Total BS. Nelson is losing and he knows it, so he's starting the "Russians stole it" crap to try and de-legitimize Scott's win. Claire McCaskill of Missouri is saying the same thing.

It is the same reason the New York times ran a bogus op ed about Georgia voter suppression in preparation for Stacey Abrams, the first black woman nominated to run for governor, losing.

Considering the left leaning Atlanta Journal Constitution says Black, nonwhite voters on the rise in Georgia, AJC analysis shows that must mean who ever is working to suppress minority voting is doing a piss poor job.

This is all the Democrats have. They have no message, they are running either as socialists or as Trump resistance. In other words, they want to take every thing you have or they want your vote because you're supposed to hate Trump. They know this is a losing argument so they have to start now claiming "muh Russians did it".

Maybe they're banking on the homeless refusing the search, or they're hoping to use the scans as an excuse to filter the homeless out of the subways. LA does not have a problem with assault rifles on the subways, but it does have a major problem with the homeless taking over the trains and platforms.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-metro-homeless-20180406-htmlstory.html

Also, California sends much more money to DC than it gets back in subsidies -- California is essentially carrying red states in its back.

This was true pre-Obamacare. My understanding now is that it's roughly a break even due to how much the Feds are sending for 1/3 of the state being on subsidized or "free" healthcare. In CA you want to either be rich and use tax loopholes or poor and get everything for free or heavily subsidized. Those in the middle just get squeezed. Citation: http://www.latimes.com/politic...

The Space Force is more an attempt to separate out programs from the Air Force that have been killing their budget the past decade or more. Whether it is wise or not is debatable, but to automatically declare sinister motives is silly.

There's no good reason to move that stuff out of the Air Force at this time, because it is a small amount of activity compared to the whole. The only reason you might want to move that stuff into its own force is so that you can handicap it. Trump works for Putin, who would very much like to see our ability to manage military interests in space impaired...

By that "logic", does Dianne Feinstein work for Beijing?

Hell, the LA Times was publishing stories on that twenty years ago, probably about the same time Feinstein hired a Chinese spy:

Feinstein, Husband Hold Strong China Connections

WASHINGTON — On Capitol Hill, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has emerged as one of the staunchest proponents of closer U.S. relations with China, fighting for permanent most-favored-nation trading status for Beijing.

At the same time, far from the spotlight, Feinstein's husband, Richard C. Blum, has expanded his private business interests in China--to the point that his firm is now a prominent investor inside the communist nation.

...

And the SF Examiner:

Husband invested in China as Feinstein pushed trade

An investment fund backed by the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinste in pumped millions of dollars into firms doing business in China while Feinstein was boosting expanded trade between China and the United States, The Examiner has learned.

...

So, for two fucking decades, the Democrat leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee has a Chinese spy working for her, she's pushing for closer relations and trade with China, and her fucking husband is literally making millions of dollars in China, but you go around spouting unsubstantiated bullshit about Trump?!?!

Trump Derangement Syndrome much?

CC permits are like the NRA: all about supporting gun sales not gun rights. When cops are free to gun you down with impunity for the "crime" of having a gun in an open carry state - or even a garden hose on your own property - do you have any real right to carry? At all?

Just like his wife ripped off Michelle's speech. http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do.

Please read the sources instead of parroting your party's talking points. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster partially defunded Planned Parenthood. He didn't defund the entire budget because doing so would keep 700k women and children from getting prescriptions through Medicaid. This is in line with what I said. Republicans don't want to spend tax dollars on things they morally disagree with, but allow individuals to pay for the procedures themselves.

Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

Again, read the source. There are a lot of slippery words such as "could be interpreted". On top of that remember that not all Republicans agree 100% on all issues. As to the "Day After" pill, it's basically a do-it-yourself-at-home abortion. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We allow contraceptives, but view elective abortion and the day after pill as sinful in most cases. You chose to have sex. You knew the possibility of a pregnancy. Even condoms fail about 1% of the time. Now live with the consequences of your choice.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

Sensationalism! You are being dishonest here. Read the article you linked to from Elle. The proposal would "penalize abusers for causing miscarriages". I like the phrases in Portuguese better than English, so I'll use them here. What we call miscarriage in English is a "spontaneous abortion" in Portuguese. This phrase better shows that it's the woman's body recognizing that something's wrong with the pregnancy and spontaneously terminates the pregnancy and expels the embryo / fetus (depends on stage of development). Under the proposal, inducing an abortion would be criminal. Again, different factions within the party want different things.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are

Republicans don't deny access to healthcare;

They do. Not only that, they expressly support the idea of banning not just abortion, but their rhetoric is encouraging pharmacists to refuse to dispense medication.

That's the consequence of their "moral conscience" and "religious liberty" approach.

they just don't want to pay for others having a procedure they disagree with.

Nope. They want to outlaw those procedures. Or even just having a miscarriage.

I disagree with elective abortion, so I don't want my tax dollars to pay for you to have an elective abortion.

And I don't want my tax dollars wasted opposing a person getting an abortion that's being paid for privately.

Are you going to refund me? No? Why not?

How about the thousands of other things I don't want the government doing with my tax dollars? No, you won't even listen to my grievances about the fault system of elections so I'm effectively unrepresented in those discussions?

Huh. Pardon me for giving little credence to your demands then, since you don't reciprocate.

I am against making abortion illegal because there are some situations I agree with abortion (such as a pregnancy which resulted from rape, or cases where either the mother's or fetus' life is in severe jeopardy).

As Republicans will tell you, those are elective too. Remember, if it was legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting it down.

The Catholic Church is against contraceptives, so they don't want to pay from health insurance which pays for contraceptives, but that doesn't stop their employees from buying supplemental insurance or paying retail for contraceptives.

The Catholic Church doesn't get to decide what healthcare I get, even if they employ me. They are a church. We do not let churches govern lives. And you won't find an insurer that doesn't want to cover contraceptives. It's actually cheaper. Why does the Catholic Church get to increase my costs as a potential employee, or an insurer's costs?

What gives them that right to impose expenses upon me do to their religious dogma?

And the Catholic Church isn't even as bad a bunch of liars as the Quiverful movement. Now that group is taking a lot of welfare money. Not to mention the whole adoption business they want to control.

The country is so divided that you parrot your party's talking points without determining the validity of the claims.

Your mind is so blinded that you can't even admit the Republican Party's own dogma or how invalid its claims are.

They are committed to their agenda, and they brazenly lie about it. And it's not limited to abortion, they do the same with immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, public schools, and more.

Maybe you need to do some checking. Here's a suggestion, contact some Republic

You are completely missing what I am trying to say. Let us pretend we are attending a conference on qualfonic energy, which is completely made up. Let us suppose that someone has just given an address with a serious criticism of this form of energy. Would you be more likely to trust this criticism if it came from someone who has had nothing good to say about it or from someone who was a major proponent of it? Hopefully you can understand why people might take the comments from the latter person more seriously given no other information.

Neither. They both have motivations to lie. I'd want to fact check the claims of either person because the first one might be inventing a criticism and the second one may be omitting other major problems. You're a fool if you think either of them is more trustworthy than the other. Furthermore, a proponent admitting a minor flaw, is a classic hustle technique to get you to buy into the product that they're pitching.

If this were not the case you would understand why a source pointing out all of the things that Trump has lied about or misrepresented is not sufficient proof of your claim. You need to compare it to other politicians and I am not convinced that Trump is significantly worse. He certainly is not a truthful politician, but few are and we tend to forget the myriad lies and cover-ups of controversies that surround past politicians. I suspect that if we were discussing some subject where you were not in agreement with the conclusion, you would be quick to employ the same arguments I have used here, but you dislike Trump so much that your emotions blind you to reason.

Trump's lies corrode democracy.
There's a long history of presidential untruths. Here's why Donald Trump is 'in a class by himself.
How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best — and Worst — Presidents?
Trump’s Lies vs. Obama’s
Donald Trump running the most dishonest White House ever, says historian
Comparing Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump on the Truth-O-Meter
Are Clinton and Trump the Biggest Liars Ever to Run for President?

That is not to say you are a bad person, because everyone is that way about something that they take personally. My point is that in this particular area, you are not a good source absent significant and quality evidence.

How much evidence do you need? If you're really interested, there's a lot more stuff on Trump's lack of honesty and his place in the world of American politics in respect to that, but I think it's telling that presidential historians (who ought to know quite a bit about past presidents) have (spoilers) ranked him last place out of all of America's presidents. That's pretty unusual, most politicians get ranked in the middle somewhere during their terms, neither best nor worst.

Or perhaps like Disneyland and Anaheim?

http://www.latimes.com/project...

But those sweet minimum wage jobs...

> For instance if you thought Trump had no chance of winning the last presidential election, then your model of the universe was grossly wrong.

That's an interesting comment. What if, last year, you said that a growth rate of 3% was impossible, asserting that we'd have "annual average of about 1.9% well into the next decade."? How wrong would your model of reality have to be, to say that for at least the next five to tend years that can't happen, just months before it hits 4%?

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

https://www.bea.gov/newsreleas...

How about if one were President and said 6%-8% unemployment is the new normal, "jobs just aren't coming back." How wrong would you be?

Four months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico struggles with lack of electricity, food and water

9 months after Hurricane Maria, thousands of Puerto Ricans still don’t have power

THis is what happens when you have poorly developed systems.

Well, with record low unemployment and an economy that keeps beating growth predictions, I suppose there's money to be had.

On the other hand, you can side with the geniuses (including some Obama advisors) who predicted 3%+ growth would be basically impossible.

NBC ala '07

LA Times ala '07

Myself, I side with the liberals. Tariffs are bad (unless other countries are doing it), and we should negotiate to bring down the price of cheap plastic crap at all costs. This is the stuff that matters.

Bull fucking shit ass-hole. The money was not paid back in full when they don't know who much in total was lent out. Not too mention it does not take in to account the total cost of the malfeasance committed by the banks and the government's in action in helping the homeowners. There was not interest charged so no interested was paid. Not bailing them out would have been the better way. It would have restored moral hazard. Banks and investors would have taken a bath because of their risky investments and the financial services industry would have been for the better. Now we have even bigger banks they will require an even bigger bail out because of the bail out.

The point about the F-35 moron is that the government can magically find $2 Trillion (and that does not cover the cost of purchasing said plane) and counting to pay for this program but can't come up with money for UBI. UBI would actually help the economy, UBI goes back into the economy.

Unfortunately Virginia, spending proposals DO NOT GET SUBJECT TO THE SAME LEVEL OF SCRUTINY. That $80 BILLION dollar defense increase (over and above what we spend) had ZERO debates. We just magically had the money. Contrast talks about free college or medicare for all and people wring their hands over where the money comes from. Spending precedes taxing and borrowing - that's how the government works http://www.latimes.com/opinion...

FYI, not withstanding increases, we will spend $7.1 TRILLION dollars on defense alone over the next 10 years. Defense that apparently can't detect nor prevent hacking from Russia. Russia spends about $50 BILLION on defense and apparently they can hack our elections. Seems to me we should talk to the Russians. They know how to get a return on their investment!

You mean like banning straws under threat of prison sentence? They did it. Jail time for a plastic straw.

Yeah, I didn't believe this so I looked it up.

I couldn't actually find anything on the penalties SF is planning to impose, but it does sound like you've confused Santa Barbara with San Francisco along with a little fake news from Fox, the Daily Mail and Donald Trump Jr.

Santa Barbara wants to lock up straw users? That'd be outrageous, if it were actually true

Santa Barbara is considering a straw ban — and no, you won’t be jailed for violating it

Latchford pointed out that, since Santa Barbara’s plastic bag ordinance went into effect in 2014, “we haven’t had a single fine.”

Pushing for compliance rather than maximum penalties is similar to how they've handled public smoking bans and bans on throwing away certain recyclable material (e.g. plain cardboard) where I live (not California).

I really am not familiar with the public defecation situation in SF and I doubt you are either so I won't speak to that, but your other claim:

You mean like decriminalising the act of purposefully infecting other people with an incurable deadly disease? They did that, too

No, they did not. Knowingly exposing another to HIV is still a crime.

The co-author of the bill explains:

Last week, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 239, a bill I co-authored to modernize California’s HIV criminal statutes by treating HIV *exactly* the same as other serious and deadly diseases such as Ebola, SARS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis: as a misdemeanor. Under current California law, only HIV is treated as a felony, and you don’t have to infect anyone—or even create a risk of infection—to be guilty and go to state prison.

SB 239 doesn’t eliminate criminal penalties for reckless behavior by people living with HIV. Rather, it simply aligns our criminal treatment of HIV with how we treat every other serious infectious disease in existence: as a misdemeanor.

We Modernized California’s HIV Criminal Laws & the Right Wing Attacked

And this should blow your mind:

In 1994, Texas became the first state to repeal its HIV criminal laws, according to the Center for HIV Law and Policy.

Nor do all other states treat exposing another to it as a felony.

HIV Crime Laws: Historical Relics or Public Safety Measures?

And finally - and I admit I'm going out on a limb here because I've never lived in California, but I don't think SF is considered "Southern California". According to Wikipedia, it's "Northern California".

So who's crazier? The San Franciscans in Southern California or Texans? Or the states who never made it a felony in the first place?

This quarter could be a special case. There is a 200,000 vehicle trigger for reducing/eliminating government subsidies at Tesla is close to that mark. By delaying deliveries by a few weeks or diverting production to another market, they can push the date when the 200,000 limit is reached into the next quarter, and thus delay the loss of subsidies by a quarter. I've seen this discussed several times, here is the first article discussing it that I found by web search:

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

Researchers at the online publication Inside EVs said Tesla probably reached the 200,000-unit mark on its models 3, X and S in June. However, Tesla could have worked the numbers so the target will be hit in July, by shipping more cars to Canada, for example.Under Internal Revenue Service rules, the first subsidy cutback, to $3,750, would begin for cars delivered in October or January, depending on when the 200,000 limit is hit.

>> World War I and the discovery of cheap oil derailed Shuman's dream of replicating his "sun power plant" on a grand scale

Also, ya know, physics. Not everyone has access to abundant sunshine, cheap natives and water within arm's reach.

What boggles the mind is how NASA managed to convince the natives to help Spirit and where they got the water from! NASA sure are a crafty bunch!

>> Shuman's plant used parabolic troughs to power a 60-70 horsepower engine

Cool, so he was also a pioneer in "clean energy" frying birds as they flew. http://www.latimes.com/local/c...

I would prefer 10M dead birds from concentrated solar to the 10B dead birds that oil is killing.

Cool, so he was also a pioneer in "clean energy" frying birds as they flew. http://www.latimes.com/local/c...

That's fewer than 1% of the birds killed by hunters in Texas every single day. And just about the same as the number of birds killed by airplanes every month in North America.

Don't be a dope. And please, don't pretend you give one blessed fuck about birds getting killed when all you want is to spread FUD about solar energy.

I suspect the problem is

That Twitter is run by a bunch of Lefists gearing up for the midterm elections after the Left had a meltdown after the last election?

that prominent racists try to avoid saying things that are obviously racist

Oh, so it's racist dogwhistles? Phew, what a relief! Now we can go back to open borders and violently attacking "fascists"!

The phrase 'The article did not bode well' *should* mean something like 'The article posed an existential threat' for something (like libraries). Or 'The article portended doom' or 'The article foretold disaster'

I think the writer wanted to say 'The article did not sit well'

Sorry about the word-nazism, but this stuff really grates on me.

You word-Nazism is welcome in a thread regarding the future of libraries.
In the words of Julia Child, "never apologize"
http://www.latimes.com/resizer...

Is this what you mean by Trump did nothing.

The mirror was over-budget, and behind schedule, and management at Perkin-Elmer wanted to ship it. The mis-assembled instrument was the contractually agreed method of mirror acceptance, and the one used in the figuring process. When engineers found after the figuring that simple tests showed that it was incorrect, P-E management didn't care, and didn't tell NASA.

I find no evidence of this. I'm not saying I don't believe you. The fact that they should have known is good enough, but we don't know who cheated. It might not have been management.

Ironically, builders of large ground-based telescopes normally test mirrors two or three different ways, and continue testing until results agree. Crucially, Perkin-Elmer ignored tests with a smaller 'refractive' null corrector which used lenses rather than mirrors. NASA says the refractive instrument was 'much cruder', and that -- unlike the reflective null corrector -- it was neither 'certified' to measure spherical aberration, nor intended for precise measurement of the final surface figure. It now appears that the cruder instrument gave the correct result.

The Justice Department asserted that the two companies knew or should have known about the defect. Hughes officials said Monday that they agreed to the settlement only as a goodwill gesture because NASA, the Hubble sponsor, is a valued customer.

Funny, the most common thing I hear about problems competing when it comes to the 'small guys' is the 'big guys' pushing them out with every dirty trick they can think of.

Following some ground rules for being fair to your customers is probably far easier compared to competing with incumbent big name ISPs. Besides, I bet small ISPs don't do enough business to make screwing over customers a valid business strategy. I fail to see how it'd be overly demanding of a small company to expect them to provide their advertised speed and service quality, to not demand they pay extra to use certain websites, etc.

No, I think the companies that stand to lose the most are big ISPs. Perhaps they should have dealt more honestly with the American people and we wouldn't need to legislate them into behaving.

in a money laundering sting op. This one comes to mind since the woman was fine until the undercover cop mentioned he was moving drugs with the money. There's several more.

I'm not saying coinbase will fall afoul immediately, but the price of bitcoin's dropped 70% in a few months (down from high of 20k to around 6k). I'm sure their cut's way down. Even if they don't take a percentage they're gonna be out money on volume as people scared off by that much volatility exit the market. It's going to get tempting to take on more dangerous trades...

False. While there are laws against libel and slander, as well as the ever fun 'falsely yelling fire in a crowded theater'... many forms of lying are protected, example: http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...

The left aren't the ones making travel bans for muslims.

Islam is the most intolerant, violent, and supremacist religion on Earth. Sane people want to limit immigration, which is not a right, from this violent and supremacist culture. The left wants to import them in massive numbers, and will call you an "Islamophobe" and "xenophobe" if you don't.

They aren't the ones ostracizing LGBT people.

The left wants 99.9% of society to re-engineer itself to recognize the delusions of the 0.1% of transgender people. Some guy "identifies" as a woman, and he wants to hang out with biological women with his male genitalia hanging out.

They aren't the ones advocating for police brutality.

Black Lies Matter was a phony narrative that did not stand up to scrutiny. The end result has been dead cops and more dead blacks due to less policing in crime-ridden neighborhoods.

They aren't the ones trying to disenfranchise minorities from voting.

The left wants to disenfranchise American citizens by flooding the country with illegals and making it harder to reserve rights for American citizens. That's why they put up a big stink when the US Census was going to ask about citizenship status, because they're afraid illegals won't be counted for congressional representation and the electoral college.

By the way, even the majority of minorities support voter id laws.

They aren't the ones pushing against womens rights to control their reproductive systems.

Just ignore the human life that's terminated by these "womens rights".

You think the left is intolerant?

Yes, I think harassing people in public, hounding them out of their jobs, and shutting down their free speech events is massively intolerant.

When over 90% of black people and the majority of other minorities vote for the left it's because they think (correctly) that the right is actively working against them.

No, it's because they are on the Democrat welfare plantation.

Tell you what, go ahead and tell a conservative christian that you are gay and that jesus is a lie and see what happens to you.

For fuck's sake, "piss christ" was an actual thing, and nothing happened. Do you know what would happen if you actually performed this experiment? They would probably politely tell you to stop bothering them.

Now go post a sign that says, "It's okay to be white", and see what happens.

My wife is an immigrant, is she at risk?

Yes.

It sure is. And those are very right-wing sites I tell you.