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http://www.latimes.com/busines... When Louisana floods, they want money. When NJ floods, they vote against it. Hypocrisy.

I'd have a lot more sympathy for people from LA, if their representatives didn't vote against aid for people affected by Hurricaine Sandy. That would be Reps. Steve Scalise, John Flemming and Sen. Bill Cassidy. See: http://www.latimes.com/busines... for example. And I'd be more sympathetic if Sen. Cassidy wasn't a climate change skeptic. If the oil companies want to buy a themselves a LA senator, they can pay for protecting the state from climate change too.

Not to mention Trump has stepped up the bombing in that region, something his supporters said Clinton would do but Trump wouldn't.

That's hardly fair. Trump may have indicated he'd pull back from the region, but he also very clearly stated that he'd "bomb the shit out of ’em.". You can't corner Trump like this. He holds every position.

He also stated he'd have Snowden killed - so why would we have assumed he wouldn't go after Assange? Assange was a real asset during the campaign, but probably quite a liability now that it's over.

1. is about automatic transmission

2. is about automatic transmission

3. it's not "the weight of the car", and there's no problem with the transmission being subject to a little strain, because it's designed to withstand hundreds of times that, as i've already said in the comment you're replying to

4. is about automatic transmission

Next time, try replying with something that actually pertains to the matter being discussed. Until then, practice your reading comprehension.

Cars equipped with manual transmissions accounted for about 3% of total US car sales in 2016. Your point is theoretically valid, but practically irrelevant.

Um, bullshit? Even taking their raw income in 1991 compared to today's standard to be a 1% they made well over 1/3. By today's standards it only takes 521k to be a 1%er. in 1991 the Clintons made just over 235k (which is about 424k in today's dollars strictly based on inflation).

Tesla posted a net loss of $773 million in 2016.

Interestingly, it took the two destroyers a good half an hour to get all of these in the air, so the early units actually loitered above the target, doing laps until the rest of them could catch up, and then all were used on their targets within just a couple of minutes.

http://www.latimes.com/world/m...

Looking at the video they fire 1 missile per 15 s which means the whole salvo from 2 ships would take about 7.5 minutes.

Do you have any evidence that Google has been pulling in people to fill lower positions? Disney absolutely abused the system, but everything I have seen either personally or in statistics says that companies like Apple and Google have been using the system to pull in high-talent people, and they paying the accordingly.

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

No. They pull high-talent people and pay them peanuts compared to the wages such a job would normally pay. This helps to depress the wages of Americans. This is all old news.

Fuck the recalcitrant mother fuckers. Up against the wall bitches! Your arrogance and greed will be richly rewarded.

Sanctuary cities do not exist and nobody on the Progressive left talks about the need for them. Right?

Actually, they don't exist, especially not in the form that the Regressive right insists on falsely portraying them. They're pretty much just a straw-man where the right makes up false claims about lawlessness and crime in order to whip up a frenzy of hysteria.

Instead, what they are, is municipalities deciding that the Federal Government needs to be accountable, and forced to behave in a manner compliant with the law, by a policy of adherence to the strictures of law informing them that the cities won't knuckle under to their capriciousness. Not new, but a lingering problem for a supposed agency enforcing the law.

Of course, I'm old enough to remember when Janet Reno was demonized for returning Elian Gonzalez to his father. The mishandling of policies on Cuba is bad enough, but apparently we're supposed to decide parental rights on a whim?

So it's hypocrisy too. Even ignoring the other protests against the federal goverment, the silence on the failures of the immigration system is very telling.

Oh, I guess you are just another AC who's full of shit. Brave enough to hide in anonymity while claiming that I am being watched, as if you are a threat.

You're confused again, there's no threat to being judged, you're merely being observed, and recognized, for what your public behavior happens to be. It's called responsibility. You should recognize that as a natural consequence of communication. You spea

Are you kidding me?

1. The animal abuse videos are usually not recorded in california where the state wiretapping laws apply.

2. The animal abuse videos are mostly visual images of people stomping on animal's heads and kicking them in the throat. They are not audio recordings of conversations.

3. Animals don't have conversations.

4. Wiretapping laws do not apply to animals.

5. States have tried to make recording undercover abuse videos illegal. They failed.

PS-- your PS doesn't make sense for the above reasons.

PPS-- you are confused about what the word "evidence" is referring to.

Um, the point is, dare I say this, that there's very hard science and there's soft science. There's findings which are highly testable, repeatedly, and there's findings which are verging on the non-reproduceable.

No. "Soft sciences" refers to fields which arrogant scientists feel are less deserving due to subject matter, not reproducibility. Social sciences are described as soft science.

Your opinion on social science as a "real" science is up to you, but reproducibility is an issue no matter how "hard" the science is.

I used to believe global warming 100% and assume it was all correct, because I normally trust science, but then started to wonder why people were touting consensus and virtual certainty.

Because obviously scientific findings don't change society by themselves. At a bare minimum, you must publish your results or the scientific findings may as well have never been made. With even non-controversial findings, scientists need to do more, results simply don't speak for themselves, you need to write review articles placing the findings in context, issue press statements in journals, present it at a conference. And that's just to get it known within the scientific community in the absence of opposed nefarious interests.

With climate change specifically, you have powerful industries and motivated ideologues trying to cast FUD on the findings. There's an effort to convince the public that it's far from certain. This approach is having it's intended effects. Scientists and people who realize climate change is happening would be idiots to merely keep presenting dry papers when the public is convinced by scumbags in suits saying "Well, they don't REALLY know do they?"

Yellow means "Stop if safe to do so" in many places.

In most of the USA, yellow means "the light is about to change to red." But you're right, in a few places it means "stop if safe to do so" which is much more ambiguous, meaning it can be (mis-)interpreted by the wrong jurisdiction to mean things like "stop if you are black".

Here's a bit of trivia: in the USA, drivers have a red phase and a yellow phase, while pedestrians have two red phases (don't cross flashing and don't cross solid). And in Los Angeles, it's illegal to cross while elderly because you can't be in the intersection when it changes from flashing to solid, unlike cars which are allowed to be in the intersection when the light changes from red to yellow. It's madness.

Really, how many documented cases of speakers being prevented can you provide? How many injuries? How many hospitalizations?

Here are a few:

(1) Berkeley riots, which injured people, and caused the university to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos:

The university insists that it made elaborate preparations for protests. It canceled the speech only after what it called an “unprecedented” invasion of the campus by “more than 100 armed individuals clad all in black” who engaged in violent, destructive behavior. They hurled metal barricades, threw Molotov cocktails and smashed windows at the student union.

The event was cancelled after left-wing rioters, who the university claim were not students, smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, set fires in the street, and sprayed the words “Kill Trump” on storefronts.

Video was posted showing violent leftists chasing and beating a man with sticks.
The man appears unconscious in the street as they beat him.

(2) A speech at Middlebury College was severely disrupted by protesters. After the speech, when the speaker and Professor Allison Stanger left, they were attacked, and Prof. Stnager's neck was injured:

Then I went onstage, got halfway through my first sentence, and the uproar began.

First came a shouted recitation in unison of what I am told is a piece by James Baldwin. I couldn’t follow the words. That took a few minutes. Then came the chanting.
. . .
This went on for about twenty minutes.
. . .
Professor Stanger and I were led out of the hall to the improvised studio.
. . .
Then there was the sound of shouting outside, followed by loud banging on the wall of the building. . . . Then a fire alarm went off, which was harder to compete with.
. . .
We finished around 6:45 and prepared to leave the building . . . I didn’t see it happen, but someone grabbed Allison’s hair just as someone else shoved her from another direction, damaging muscles, tendons, and fascia in her neck.

There, several masked protesters, who were believed to be outside agitators, began pushing and shoving Mr. Murray and Ms. Stanger, Mr. Burger said. “Someone grabbed Allison’s hair and twisted her neck,” he said. . . . After the two got into a car, Mr. Burger said, protesters pounded on it, rocked it back and forth, and jumped onto the hood. Ms. Stanger later went to a hospital, where she was put in a neck brace.

(3) About 600 people protested the immigration ban at the Portland Airport. There was a 4-person counter-protest:

One of the counter-demonstrators was assaulted just after 5 p.m., Port of Portland spokesman Steve Johnson said.

Grant Chisholm, 39 of Portland told The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he was at the airport with three other members of the group Bible Believers for a counter-protest when a Trump opponent hit him in the head three times with something metallic. Chisholm dropped and drifted in and out of unconsciousness, he said, while vomiting a

Look at what would happen if you shot an American on American soil from Canada or Mexico.

Obviously you sue them in Canada or Mexico, or request their extradition?

A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that a Mexican family can sue the Border Patrol over the death of a 16-year-old boy who died in Mexico but was struck by bullets fired from the U.S. side of the border. Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, was shot eight times in the back by Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz on Oct. 12, 2012.

But apparently some think that shouldn't happen absolutely anything.

The Border Patrol argued through its agent’s union attorney, Sean Chapman, that Rodriguez had no right to sue in the United States because a Mexican national killed on Mexican soil is not entitled to protections of the U.S. Constitution.

It's ridiculous the people trying to pawn the problem off on the ADA, politics, politicians, or the deaf people complaining.

What's ridiculous is assigning the blame to anybody else. It's an enormous expense to benefit the few, or in many cases, zero when no person with disabilities even uses the resource.

What would have been sane would be for the deaf person to ask her school to pay for a transcription, and then make that transcription available back to Berkeley. But nooo, the politicians just legislate everybody has to go through upfront expenses and effort, because it's not them doing the work. So now something that was useful to an enormous number of the public will be squirreled away, because public universities like Berkeley are already facing budget shortfalls.

Then toss in the special snowflakes who demand their own, premium, "safe spaces", riot and cause property damage when somebody they don't agree with is invited to speak on campus, and always more demands for lower tuition while increasing "social justice" programs and diversity hires, etc. And then people wonder why colleges is so expensive.

"The reactionaries were further applauding Mexico dumping 150 million tons of sewage claiming that the US deserved it for wanting control of it's own borders."

Haven't heard that one. Valid link?

This is an article on the sewage spill. The article is called "'Tsunami of sewage spills' in Tijuana fouls U.S. beaches, may have been intentional".

A massive sewage spill in Tijuana that polluted beaches in San Diego County last month may have been no accident, according to state and local officials.

In a preliminary estimate, officials said about 143 million gallons of raw sewage spewed into the Tijuana River during a period of more than two weeks that ended Thursday. While cross-border sewage spills of a few million gallons are routine for the region, this is one of the largest such events in the last two decades, according to water quality experts in San Diego.

I happen to know (well) a guy who is a project manager for these and at least 3 are done and running as of last November (2016), and yes, several more are being designed and planned. It's just smart and we need to do it. Energy storage systems are being built and online (while many people babble away about whether it's possible) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla-energy-storage-20170131-story.html/

Thawing is great. How are you going to freeze the tissue without damage?

Become an Alaska Wood Frog (alternate article). They survive being frozen almost completely solid for 7 months at a time.

Starbucks treats their employees well and they pay more than fair trade prices for the coffee, so they are in fact a better influence on the neighborhood and the world than plenty of small coffeeshops.

Bullshit. Starbucks is known for having irregular shifts so that part-time workers can't find a second job, was caught keeping their workers' tips (thankfully they lost that lawsuit) and in the face of increasing minimum wage they reduced workers' hours, effectively leaving more work for fewer people.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fo...
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
http://www.reuters.com/article...

Conflating a killer in a bar in Kansas City with Donald Trump? Seems to be another case of TDS - Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's real.

This incident was shown to be a structural failure rather than unmanned aircraft collision. Your link actually says that -- they originally thought it was a drone, but further investigation showed that there was no collision at all, only a structural failure.

That said, there have been some incidents in the US over the years that have been confirmed/well documented ...

1990: http://articles.latimes.com/19...

2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2015: http://www.suasnews.com/2015/0...

And outside of the US, there's this --

2011: http://gizmodo.com/5831849/her...

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This news article and many others are calling it a weir rather than a cofferdam. I would imagine that they got that language from the state, as most folks don't even know what a weir is.

Nobody knew that the spillway was structurally insufficient.

False.

If the former then we already know who designed them...

We know that it wasn't Ian. He was given a napkin. Whether or not Nigel knew the difference between feet and inches was not his problem.

Went on to work at NASA. http://articles.latimes.com/19...

How can anyone with any intelligence protest voter ID laws?

Because people with intelligence realize that oppressive manifestations of even the most genuine and benign laws exist.

If you weren't a dishonest liar, you're realize that, and account for it, instead of trying to disingenuously dismiss any challenges at all.

Voting is a PRIVILEGE in the USA reserved only for citizens.

Technically no, there are many cases where residents or property owners are allowed to vote. Regardless of citizenship.

California allowing anyone obtaining a driver's license to register to vote without verification of eligibility could, in theory, allow non-citizens (including illegals, since they don't check that when issuing a driver's license either) to register to vote.

We need stricter voter ID laws.

Nope. You need some regard for the truth, as what you're saying about California is a malicious lie.

Really, what is the purpose of making such easily disproven lies?

Why do you repeat such things? Are you a mindless shill, or are you intent on making Republicans look bad? Which is it?

Looks like the Hanford site has had quite a few problems:
Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Plant May Be Too Dangerous
https://www.scientificamerican...

Report finds serious defects at Hanford nuclear waste treatment plant
http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

Yeah, and the fact that the song got the name from an article in that alt-right NAZI publication.. the L.A. Times ... didn't seem to matter.

http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-e...

Or that it actually raised legitimate intellectual points while actually being funny, which is something the alt-left can't do since they need to be in a homicidal rage all the time.

It's not quite in the desert - it's in Ontario, CA, where people live. http://www.latimes.com/busines...

California's boycott of Arizona was successful

Successful? Are you on crack? It was just a boycott in name only:

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

City employees were ordered to scrutinize contracts with Arizona companies to see which could legally be canceled but few, if any, were ultimately terminated. The City Council passed exemption after exemption permitting new contracts to be signed with Arizona companies and allowing employees to travel to the state. This week, the council approved a $57.6-million contract for police officer body cameras with Scottsdale-based Taser International. So much for sending a message.

Several other California cities and counties enacted and also failed to follow through on their boycotts.

I'm sure Elon's advice will be to keep those subsidies coming!

5$ Bn. so far....as they say, not bad for Govt. work.

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

I thought you were joking. I thought, how could you miss the Pacific? But no. Thank goodness they realized the mistake before touching down.

Smells like more of what I am starting to refer to as 'Trumped up news'.

Not that I support the man (or in fact could really care less directly about US politics), however it seems very important to quite a group of people to
make it look like the sky is falling right now. It is quite sad to see the side that believes they stand for fairness, doing the right thing, caring of others, etc
having to throw so much dirt so bitterly. Its like watching monkeys at the zoo fighting over scraps.

No it's not. It raising the alarm over alarming actions. It's the same thing thing that happened to some other guy. It's the same thing that yet some other guy did many many times.

when you think the press is critical of you, and not the other guy, you're just biased. when you complain and criticize almost non-stop, then call it unfair when other people criticize and complain about you, you're just a fucking cry-baby.

Dude, this is a red herring. The fortune 500 DOES NOT PAY TAXES. If we lowered taxes to ZERO % the net effect would be the same.

Corporate tax reform tax is meaningless for the big guys. The only thing a ZERO % corporate tax would is put a lot of high priced MBA's in the unemployment line. Taxes are a big industry in the USA. The more complex, the better since that equals fees. Imagine what a flat tax would do to H&R block and their industry.

Tax reform would destroy the important financial jobs, so it is ALL TALK and will never happen. They have their lobbyists on the ready.

If we could downsize the parasites: legal, accounting, government fees/regulations, insurance, this would have a measurable gain on what is left of the middle class.

Exactly. Everyone who's not into living with those people basically moved to the South Bay. It's a good place to raise kids, with lots of parks, many high quality public schools, low crime rates, and plenty of tech companies, like Apple, Google and Facebook that are headquartered there.

The fact that SF is bad for raising kids have nothing to do with the tech boom. It's always been a city where the dredges of society are tolerated, if not welcomed. If anything, gentrification by tech workers is making it better. Even so, there's no getting around the fact that SF embraces its culture, including pot smokers, meth heads, homeless, muggers, occasional riots and naked gay men running around on the streets. Obviously, parents are going to have second thoughts about raising kids there.

If it weren't for the latest tech bubble keeping them afloat, California would be completely screwed.

California has:

* High state income taxes, and overall it's one of the highest taxed states in the country.
* Over $1.3 TRILLION in government debt, much in underfunded public employee union pension obligations.
* A regulatory and legal climate that stifles growth and drives businesses out of the state to lower tax, lower regulation, lower cost states like Texas.
* Schools that are some of the worst in the nation.
* Some of the worst roads in the nation, despite having some of the highest gas taxes in the nation.
* Widening income inequality, driven by coastal elites enacting policies that make it increasingly difficult for the poor and middle class to earn a living in California.

San Francisco is an extreme example of the case, since their land use regulations are even worse than the rest of California, and their rent control policies make it so hard to evict tenants that building owners choose to let properties remain vacant because it's all but impossible to kick a tenant out if you want to sell the property.

People can't afford to live in San Francisco because the city and state governments have made the decisions that make it impossible for them to live there.

Taxing the crap out of each and every industry they can. Why should wind and solar be special? You know, those are big evil corporations building those plants, and selling that electricity!

The people running wind and solar seem to think they should never be taxed on their very profitable business...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

In the four years since Wyoming began taxing power generated by wind turbines, it has collected a little less than $15 million in revenue.

No, that is not much money in a resource state rocked by the simultaneous decline in the prices of coal, oil and natural gas, a state trying to close a budget gap that could reach $500 million.

But now, as one of the world’s largest wind farms is about to begin construction here on a project aimed at providing clean electricity to nearly a million homes in California and the Southwest — potentially transforming this fossil fuel state into a major player in renewables — some powerful state lawmakers are looking to raise those taxes.

And some in the wind industry, which has long benefited from incentives and subsidies, say they are worried. The company that has spent nine years trying to build the wind project says higher taxes could further delay or even halt the plan.

“Just about every legislator we’ve met with asks us, ‘You tell us how much we can tax you before we put you out of business,’” said Bill Miller, chief executive of the Power Co. of Wyoming, which is planning the wind farm. “I just shake my head and say, ‘Zero.’”

Want to revise your statement? Brown got the budget balance, but only after seeing pretty large bumps in taxes, not cutting spending, now that is slipping away from him.

Reagan Democrat. I'll give you that. Leave people alone is my motto. Socially liberal, economically conservative is close enough.

Hillary is neither of those things. Socially she was lurched back and forth between homosexuals are deviates and blacks are animals to the we must accept and care from both (politician=liar/bullshit artist.)

Putin does need to be checked, but another 4-8 years of Bush/Obama. (Hillary is closer to Bush than Obama) No thanks. If we get into another war, they need to be public, declared, and most importantly violent and brief. We don't need another 4-8 years of Obama/Bush incompetence.

And you should also admit that Trump is largely the source of the "hire local" climate, he's caused companies to rethink their outsourcing plans, especially in light of the alternative candidate who said explicitly that she wants completely open borders for job seekers.

Nope. That's been something proclaimed for YEARS. It's been a scam.

So is Trump's "Carrier deal" and "Ford and he lied about "Boeing too.

Durp, durp, durp. You lie about Hillary Clinton as well. Just like Your Orange God

Who also made up a story about bidding on drugs. LOL. Yeah, let's see him change the Republican's opposition to the reform proposed by Democrats for decades. He'll either come up with a way to screw us, or fail and claim he somehow saved us anyway.

But none of that matters. I don't think many people really care who takes the credit.

Is it important to you?

Help me out here.

Why should credit even matter?

Ask your good buddy, Donald J. Trump, who puts his name on everything.

Sorry, but some of us know that Donald only wants CREDIT for success, he doesn't even care if the job gets done.

Maybe you like his over-the-top bombastic style of self-aggrandizement, maybe you think his much vaunted narcissism is a matter of virtue, but you're the one who has to look at what you've embraced.

With open eyes. He's already said he likes being liked. He can't see a problem in that. He'll be a suck-up to anybody who offers him praise.

And if you dare to criticize or challenge him, he'll throw a tantrum.

Had it been American authorities, Apple would've put up a heroic fight. But helping Russian (and Chinese) efforts to keep tabs on their citizens and enable dragnets by foreign governments — well, that's just complying with local laws, nothing to see here.

Nope. Trump said that we would pay to build the wall, and the Near Earth Asteroids will pay for it later. That's always been his position. You're just a victim of fake news.

I mean, we use the CFAA for damn near everything? Why not this, where it actually seems to apply?

OK, an explanation could be found here on LA Times. You could also read below quote (from the given link) for the specific part of the answer.

At the federal level, prosecutors can use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to target ransomware. But state prosecutors typically must pursue such cases under laws against extortion, or those that target threats to injure a person or property that have not been acted upon.

That doesn"t quite fit computer crime, Hoffman said.

"With ransomware, the threat has already been carried out," he said. "The data has already been encrypted; it has already been compromised. It"s more like data kidnapping."

At least one other state, Wyoming, has outlawed ransomware.

Not sure how else you could pretend to be someone's SO without actually being it.

Darkness:

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

Legally speaking, there is no such thing as "fraudulent sex".

Legally speaking, yes there is.

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

Rape by deception is a thing. And it's also illegal. And people have been sent to prison for doing it.

I don't get where you can say 45% are Republicans, when Hillary won 61% to 31%. California has a Democrat supermajority (67% or more) in both houses, a massive39 of 53 Federal Representatives, and both Federal Senators. And a Democat Governor. California is as close to a single-party State as you can find, with ZERO ability by the GOP here to affect ANYTHING at Federal, State - and increasingly, local - levels.

R moving into the whitehouse. So, as is tradition, 'homelessness' just became a much bigger problem.

Oh yeah, the people living in this Artist's Colony were so much better off under President
Obama and Governor Brown's more permissive leadership.

It doesn't take much to make a regular aircraft into a pilotless drone. All it requires is a parachute. This Mig flew into NATO airspace with no pilot.

UN GA just days ago adopted a resolution finally admitting that Ukraine is a victim of the Russian military aggression.

For better or worse, the part of the United States' electorate, to whom you want to appeal, view the United Nations with skepticism. So, instead of appealing to a questionable authority, try the following argument...

Imagine, Americans, Mexican government declaring Trump's election "a coup", his assemblage of generals — a junta, which placed the Latinophobic Nazi in power, contrary to the wishes of most Americans. Out of concern for the brotherly nation, Mexican government is encouraging volunteers to cross into California, Arizona, and Texas to help the local Spanish-speaking "self-defense" militias protect themselves against the White English-speaking bigots, who've persecuted the Spanish-speaking minority for years. In places stolen from Mexico before, these polite volunteers in military uniforms without any official insignia are already organizing a referendum to leave the US and join Mexico.

Patriotic Americans attempting to resist the invasion are denounced as racists and shot at with military-style efficiency. Although officially Mexico is not a party to this "civil war", its troops are regularly encountered on the battlefields — all of them are then found to have been "on leave" from their units. Artillery bombardment of American forces seems to originate from across the border, but no one can say for sure.

Would you still say, it is a civil war — Americans fighting other Americans?

Just go across the bay to Oakland. Find a neighborhood where all the houses have burglar bars. Walk around for a while until you get attacked. SF news organizations won't even go to certain areas any more because they are victimized by violence. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you've been living inside a bubble.

You mean structured like this?
http://www.latimes.com/project...