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Good point. But the article is VERY poorly written.

Instead of:

"... with just 6 percent of Twitter accounts identified as bots responsible for 31 percent of 'low-credibility' content."

It could be:

"Of the 6 percent of Twitter accounts that were identified as bots, 31 percent were responsible for 'low-credibility' content."

When I think about that, I am confused about what could be the underlying meaning. Does that mean 94% of the bots were doing something else besides giving dishonest content? What were the 94% doing? What is "low-credibility" content? Is that content that is only partly dishonest?

The issue is that the article is poorly written, and also that probably no one knows what percentage of Twitter accounts are robots, not reporters or Twitter managers.

From the article: "Twitter has removed tens of millions of accounts in 2018."

Canada's gov't is right to stay out of this. Why? Because it's expensive and unnecessary.

Elon Musk is going to "wire" the world with over 10,000 low earth orbiting satellites:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/s...

Low earth orbiting means the latency problem won't be a problem, and you can use 'em to do your First Person Shooter games with low ping times. Will require some waiting, but you can't wire up Canada before Elon Musk / Toney Stark / Iron Man launches his 10,000+ satellites. Hey, when you've got rockets that work and are much cheaper than anyone else's, you can do s*** like that...

She's a White House employee. Her job is called "Senior Advisor to the President". Even comes with a paycheck.

A paycheck that she does not receive.

Not that that changes anything of course. She is indeed an employee.

Nah, just PG&E burning down the state again

Dude... climate change is DISSOLVING the ocean floor! Be alarmed, be very alarmed. Do you have any idea what happens when the ocean floor DISSOLVES? The ocean falls right down into the basement and good luck getting that shit cleaned up. Ever.

So if it was in Marin it would be important enough to be on the site? Class is the key?

I'm not sure about "class," but apparently the fire makes the news simply because it's a town, not, say, an apartment building

Yes, I'd say magnitude makes a difference. A house burning down doesn't make slashdot. An apartment building burning down doesn't make slashdot. A dozen other wildfires in California didn't make slashtod. Why should this one? Are we interested in fires now?

Any of them can vote with provisional ballots should they choose to vote and find their registration has been invalidated. Cleaning roll will inevitably lead to some legitimate voters being cut because data management isn't perfect. New York City did the same thing and purged almost 120,000 before the last election. It inevitably resulted in many people having to cast provisional ballots. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/a...

They get little or no natural disasters

Wow, do you have that totally backwards. CA is second in the number of declared natural disasters per year, after Texas.

https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...

2. California
The nation's most populous state also is one of the most disaster-prone due to wildfires, landslides, flooding, winter storms, severe freeze and even tsunami waves. But earthquakes are the disaster perhaps most closely associated with California. The worst in recent years have included a magnitude-6.9 quake near San Francisco in 1989 that killed 63 and a magnitude-6.7 quake in Southern California in 1994 that killed 61.

Major disaster declarations since 1953: 78

eh, look again, dozens of cases out there

I have personal experience with the problem when in late 1990s a group of people I cared about had given money being promised immigration into the USA, luckily that was solved before they were too far into the clutches of the system

things like this:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2816...

Do please tell Mr. Rogozin that we have the trampoline he ordered.

Viner and Gaskill had been partners in a game of "Call of Duty" that day. When one particular session ended badly, both teammates blamed each other and Viner reached out online to Barriss and asked him to "swat" Gaskill, prosecutors said.

Barriss then taunted Gaskill in a Twitter direct messages, before Gaskill challenged the California man to swat him, according to court records. Gaskill even gave Barriss the address to target: a home where Gaskill had once lived that was now occupied by Finch's family.

"Gaskill practically begged him (Barriss) to come at him, 'Here’s everything you need, my address,'" Distrcit of Kansas U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman James Cross told NBC News on Friday. "Gaskill was letting him know he wasn't afraid of him."

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...


This should answer your question. Viner and Gaskill are those two gamers that the article is talking about.
If true, this means Gaskill was fully aware of the possibly lethal consequences for anyone who lived at that particular address. There could and ought to be a case against him as well.

Surprising nobody, the person sending bombs to Democratic politicians, supporters, and media organizations is a virulently pro-Trump terrorist.

Apparently it came as a surprise to those who promoted it as a false flag operation or asserted that republicans just don't do this kind of thing

LOL - And the democrats who are actually encouraging civil unrest and violence even after a republican was shot at a baseball game? I don't recall any apologies there.

And honestly, earlier this month "Suspected Ricin sent to Pentagon, suspicious letters to Trump, Ted Cruz office"
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

How did the media respond to this? Well the New York times publishes a fictional article about the secret service and Russians assassinating Trump

The Third wave feminists and Mengele type trans kooks are the far left's equivalent of The far Right's White supremacist and conspiracy nuts.

The fucking 'alt-right' isn't trying to chemically castrate preteens. In fact, to the extent that the left seems to consider crimes of a sexual nature more terrible than run-of-the-mill violence these days, nothing done by post-civil war white supremacists (that I can find in a quick google search) was as bad as this. Even slaves weren't castrated except sometimes as punishment.

Oh fuck, You white supremacists hav a lot of suppressed memories. Tell me do you get an erection when you think about James Byrd Jr.. Drug behind a truck and ground to death. Look it up for your friday wanking fun. That was 1998, so hardly ancient history. Here's the cite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

And y'all are still loving it! https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

And you white supremacists have the moooslims beat in modern day killings https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

So lose the attitude. You supremacists and the SJW's are all the same, just different shit that you are mentally unhinged about.

I'm hoping Led Zep will finally have to pay Randy California for Stairway to Heaven.

Then surely Spirit will get back together.

I guess the worst part about that was they waited until he was dead to file a lawsuit. (But it's not about the money, is it?)

Maybe there is hope after all:

Led Zeppelin ordered to go back on trial in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright lawsuit

And maybe a record company can finally successfully sue John Fogerty for sounding too much like John Fogerty.

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

It's like the opposite of that time Neil Young got sued for not sounding enough like Neil Young.

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

It's really slow.

You already knew that it would not be accepted because Breitbart is not news. Breitbart is propoganda - the word that we used before alternative facts.

Breitbart is news. If it isn't, then point out what that story got factually wrong. There's no such thing as non-propaganda outlets any more, if there ever was. They all have a bias and an agenda. They report on some stories and not others. They leave out some facts and not others. And sometimes they just outright make shit up.

Remember how all those "trusted" media outlets kept on insisting that censorship of the right on social media was a "conspiracy theory"?

Except it wasn't -- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted to shadowbanning 600,000 accounts (note link to "real news" Engadget, but submission was also removed from the votable feed within hours) . Breitbart foreshadowed that story, which I also submitted, and which was also removed within hours.

But hey, just pretend you can ignore alternative news sites, because the other sites are "real news".

This is a gross misinterpretation and simplification of what is actually a very thorny legal situation involving several different cases.

There has always been an exception to EEOO requirements where being a member of a protected class under the statute constitutes a "bona fide occupational qualification." (BFOQ)

The problem with "breastaurants" like Hooters is that they class their buxom staff as servers, not as entertainers. For the latter, there are plenty of situations where this exception has been applied. Think strippers, actors, singers, etc. However, typically server is seen under the law as a gender-neutral occupation.

Hooters' problem is that they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to argue that a primary function of their staff is to titilate men, but they don't want to deal with the burdensome local regulations they would typically face if they were classed with titty bars and the like.

They know that they are walking a fine legal tightrope, which is why they settled out of court the two class action suits (1997 and 2008) brought by men who sought employment as servers there. This doesn't mean "Hooters won." It means that there is no ruling as to whether their gender-based discrimination is legal or not, and it remains an open legal question, much to Hooters' relief, since they come out screwed whether they win or lose.

As to the more recent ruling, it had to do with a complaint brought by potential female servers over the "slim and fit" provisos. Now, physical appearance has never been a protected class under the EEOO. For reference, these classes are race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (gender), sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, and reprisal). Thus, the BFOQ test does not apply. Under federal law, Hooters, or any other employer, can do what they like, as long as "appearance" isn't used as a way to sneak in other types of discrimination (e.g. keeping black people out based on racial motivations while using "unkempt hairstyles" as an excuse).

Also, one should note that Hooters has definitely lost discrimination actions on "appearance" grounds that were found to be disguised racism, so its not like they are unaware of how dangerous this balancing act is.

Amazon has 566,000 employees (source).

A cynic would say that is only a one time payout of ~$3,533 per employee. A realist would understand that only the bottom rungs of the income ladder should get this money, so let's redo the math:

Amazon has "125,000 full-time hourly associates in the U.S" (source).

Now it's a one time payout of $16,000!

A "warehouse associate" earns ~$13/hr (source).

That is a staggering (/s) $27,040 per year.

Does Bezos really think that the overhead of starting, yet another, charity and its administrative costs is cheaper than just giving his lowest level employees a decent living wage?

This announcement says, yes, he does think that. But you say, that's just stupid.

So a then you would say, who benefits?

The Day 1 Academies Fund "will launch and operate a network of high-quality, full-scholarship, Montessori-inspired preschools in underserved communities," Bezos said.

Bezos said that the preschools will be directly operated by the organization and "use the same set of principles that have driven Amazon."

"Most important among those will be genuine, intense customer obsession," Bezos wrote. "The child will be the customer."

(source)

"The child will be the customer."...

In the age of DeVos, Bezos is going to open private charter schools, for the youngest among us, and run them like a business, but the difference is that the "child will be the customer".

Smell something?

Would someone learn the likes and dislikes of these children and slowly build an "anonymized" ad profile for that child, following them throughout their life span, knowing exactly what products they are likely and not likely to buy?

Now the decision to pass over that wage increase and open a "charity" makes sense.

sigh:;; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3909...
Sorry comrade,

Considering that Hodgkinson had a list of GOP lawmakers names in his pocket, not a list with both Dem and GOP, it's a pretty fair bet he was only targeting Republicans.

I can't imagine this hurting anybody but the US consumer

No, it hurts the Trump agenda too.

If you move out of the U.S. but your last state of residence was California, the CA FTB will try to argue that since you did not move to another state, your "state of residence" is still California even if you don't live in the country anymore. And that you owe California taxes on income you're making in Canada or the UK or wherever. When I began working in Vancouver, Canada, I got lucky and happened to consult with a tax attorney first. He strongly recommended I first rent an apartment in Washington for a few months and get a WA driver's license, and commute cross-border to work. That would establish with no uncertainty that I was a Washington resident. Then I could move to Canada, free of the clutches of the California FTB.

(The U.S. Federal government does this too - demands U.S. income tax on money you earn while living abroad. No getting around it if you're a U.S. citizen, which is why some wealthy people have worked to give up their U.S. citizenship. Most outher countries tax based on residency. If you live in the country, they expect you to pay income tax. If you live outside, they don't tax you. This is especially fun for dual-citizens who hold U.S. citizenship by birth (one of their parents was a U.S. citizen). They may have never set foot in the U.S. their entire lives, but Uncle Sam still demands they pay taxes.)

Alex Jones Threatens to Shoot Robert Mueller
Alex Jones threatens to shoot "Pedophile" Robert Mueller
Youtube takes down 4 Jones videos because of violent or graphic content and issues a warning to Jones.

sponsored by the alcoholic beverage industry

Just a few of those doing those 'alcohol industry backed' studies:

The School of Public Health at Harvard University
Catholic University of Campobasso
Kew-Kim Chew, epidemiologist, University of West Australia
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Edward J. Neafsey, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
University of East Anglia

There are more. It looks like, according to you, the six universites above are in the pocket of the alcohol industry. Your claim, now go about backing it up.

Non-citizens are unable to register to vote and are unable to vote.

There is literally nothing preventing them. And that is the point KKKon$ervative media are making — correctly. The forms at the DMV are the same for all. Whether or not to register to vote is determined by the applicant himself — the DMV employees are neither expected nor even allowed to verify eligibility. Indeed, this is what caused that poor abuela from Kansas to do it, according to this article:

She applied for an Illinois driver's license in 2005, presenting her Peruvian passport and her green card. On one form, she declined to register to vote. But she said a clerk asked her if she wanted to register to vote. When she asked the clerk if she was "supposed to," she said the clerk responded: "It's up to you."

The only reason we know about her is that she disclosed this to the officials during her naturalization process. How many more people like her have done — and continue to do — the same is anybody's guess. Because not only is no one checking, active measures are taken to prevent the checking.

you are incorrect in suggesting that they can vote in more than just those school board elections. Details matter

They cannot as in "it is not legal". They can as in "nothing prevents them from doing it". This is, what matters. Are you going to claim, there are no thieves, because theft is illegal?

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...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3951...

I still remember the President(?) of Diebold Systems promising to deliver the vote to the Republican candidate

He made that promise as a member of the State's GOP, not as the CEO of Diebold. Do you think, other makers of such equipment will have no employees with allegiances to one party or the other — even if they keep their mouths shut?

My point, however, remains. Why is it, that in the case of Diebold the mere possibility of corruption is accepted as evidence of the fact of corruption — without any citations of it actually happening "in the field" — but the same standards of evidence are not applied to the illegal voting? Which is not only just as possible, but actually happens (even if we don't know, how often)?

signed and checksummed

Ah, reliance on software — and the personal integrity of the programmers writing it...

When a process is demonstrated to be so flawed that compromise should be assumed, why is irrefutable proof even necessary?

Yes! Indeed! Which is exactly the logic, we should be applying to the phenomenon of illegal voting too.

It is easy, it happens — which is more than we can say (with citations) about the Diebold machines, actually.

But, for some reasons, any attempts to improve this demonstrably flawed process are struck down — because, it is said, on Slashdot and elsewhere, "there is no proof".

The more man tries to "control" what he doesn't understand (let alone has the power and ability to significantly influence), the more we waste what resources we have.

Precisely. We all know that man in his hubris failed to close the ozone hole, after all, and at untold cost to the noble hairspray corporations. Oh wait.

That's the funniest thing I've read all week. Also the saddest.

Agreed. In a country where 76% of the members of one political party believe that a blatant liar tells the truth "all or most of the time" link anything is possible.

Still there might be a way to save the united states from such stuff. We just need to slip a commercial into Fox and Friend's morning show where they discuss how a government like Australia who bans encryption without backdoor can easily take over, I don't know, the latest model I-phone to spy on anyone ever. They could even have a pseudo Donald Trump in the cliff tweeting from a fancy bedroom while a Robert Mueller look alike brings up Donald's screen, a live picture of Donald Trump, and a pair of headphones.

Then again, given the loyalty he inspires, Robert Mueller probably doesn't have to work that hard to get recordings...

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

I'm not trying to imply that the SSN is a secret. I'm implying that it's UNIQUE.

Social Security Numbers are NOT unique per person. not even close. People have more than one (often for legitimate reasons) and many numbers are used for more than one person (usually for identity theft). We're talking tens of millions of people here. We tend to think of them as unique identifiers in the sense of a primary key but in reality they definitely are not reliable in that capacity and never have been.

It's far better if you never accept the linkage in the first place because, once you've given a piece of information away, you've completely lost control of it.

Quite so.

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

I'll just share this fine catalogue of CIA competence:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyl...

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.

Because that is your Nuclear Ideology, it is your ism, your belief system that wants to make us believe the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing when it is hot.

That's not what I claimed and you know it. I stated that wind and solar have reduced output in a heatwave, just as nuclear power has reduced output in a heat wave. I suspect you know this otherwise you would have provided a citation on that. I did some searching and found that PV panels can see a 10% to 35% reduction in output in high heat. If you don't believe me then I'd like to see what you believe a more accurate number would be.

Solar Thermal is an immediate, viable, long term, economical and technologically underdeveloped base-load replacement for nuclear power.

Yes, I've seen that. The claim is that the sun can heat a molten salt, used to heat air in open or closed cycle gas turbines, do so without the use of water as a heat sink, and therefore perfect for use in hot arid climates. This allows for long term storage of energy (long term = hours or days, not months), load follow capability, as well as waste heat suitable for desalination and other industrial processes. I do not dispute this. Want to know why I don't dispute this? Because this exact same technology is what is planned for in future molten salt nuclear reactors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Go ahead, bring on the molten salt solar thermal power. That will prove the technology for use in nuclear reactors. You think energy storage only helps wind and solar? It helps nuclear power just as much, if not more. Here's where nuclear beats out solar on the molten salt storage, it doesn't take multiple square miles to achieve 1 gigawatt of power. It might take the area of a medium sized airport, but that's mostly to provide an ample security buffer around a vital civil asset, no different than that around a water reservoir, hydroelectric dam, or... well, an airport.

Domestic Solar is the perfect peaking solution to replace nuclear power. Wind is a new type of power generation mechanism with a vastly more dynamic upgrade cycle than anything we've see so far, it has massive promise to replace nuclear power.

I'll believe it when I see it. Since nuclear power provides 20% of the electricity consumed in the USA, and you claim that wind and solar are going to replace it, do I really need to provide a citation for you on the current viability of nuclear power? It seems you've admitted to that already.

Maybe it's more of your rhetoric. As you said of nuclear "they still produce power" the only difference is solar and wind don't explode and cause mass evacuations like a nuclear plant does when they overheat, they just make less power.

Wind and solar kill more people than nuclear. Citation:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...
https://ourworldindata.org/wha...

If you want to reduce nuclear accident deaths further then stop evacuating people needlessly. Citation:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...

Unlike Nuclear power, wind and solar plants are upgradeable.

Then explain this list of articles on nuclear power plants getting upgrades:
https://www.power-eng.com/nucl...

Unlike Nuclear, coal and everything else developed in the 19th and 20th century that produce heat, solar and wind is a 21st century solution that reduces the heat load

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyl...

You're wrong, cold in winter isn't "just weather," it's a sign the climate is warming.

I think slashdot ate them as part of the "undo moderation" prompt.

Here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16...

Also, what's "ironic" about broken links in this context? Are you sure you understand the word?

As I replied to GP: Bullshit.

Have you tried falsifying your own theory? (Specifically, the theory that media outlets don't call bad Democrats, Democrats?) If you haven't, you aren't really trying to be rational - you're just trying to create a narrative that's intellectually comfortable for you and that won't challenge any of your preferences.

3 counterexamples that show you're wrong, from 10 seconds of googling:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politi... [nbcnews.com]
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0... [cnbc.com]
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16... [cnn.com]

On the other hand, let's take Roy Moore is always labeled with republican. And that type of lie-by-omission has been going on for quite a while.

Bullshit. This may have happened in a couple cases, but the media goes out of their way to rag on liberals when they get the chance because they work hard to try to achieve balanced reporting. That's tough to do because the GOP of late is so consistently stupid and/or evil that journalists have to really dig to find liberal stories that begin to compare.

Example:
In ALL of these articles from the "MSM", Al Franken is declared prominently as a Democrat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/0...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16...

Your contention that the media doesn't label bad democrats as democrats is just wrong. The Republican media persecution complex is disgusting. Any evidence that contradicts your worldview is immediately dismissed as a biased product of the "MSM" conspiracy. If you don't want reporting on your politician's misdeeds, don't choose pedophiles, adulterers, and blundering idiots to lead your party.

You're assuming the TSA guys actually work.

Apparently they were only 5 percent effective. Yes, 5%.

Theater Security Assholes.

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TSA Logic

It seems to have been enough to discourage further attempts, or we can go with the everyone must love us now theory.

You're assuming the TSA guys actually work.

Apparently they were only 5 percent effective. Yes, 5%.

Theater Security Assholes.

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TSA Logic

is that it's owned lock, stock & barrel by the same mega-corporations that are buying off politicians.

I just read an article talking about "moderate" Democrats (e.g. the right wing) opposing Bernie Sanders and it made the point that single payer health care is popular but threw in the phrase "government run". Bernie and his ilk aren't talking about government run-healthcare. Nobody except a very tiny number of loons is (roughly the same as the number of Republicans talking about expelling black Americans and fewer than the number of Republicans in favor of child labor). Single Payer != Government Run, as anyone in Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands or Sweden will tell you.

When I talk about a right wing media bias this is what I mean.

I'm pretty sure they have other duties they are paid for. Paperwork, pre-flight checks, etc.

AC versus NBC News. Fight!

"A portrait of these hourly pay scales becomes even more pathetic when you consider that regional airline pilots, who are paid only from the time the airline leaves the gate to the time it arrives at the destination, only are on the clock on average about 21.5 hours per week."

"They have a minimum pay for time on duty at some airlines, like one hour of pay minimum for every two hours on duty, and one hour of pay for every 4-5 hours away from home,' Darby says. 'These rules are often not in effect at the smaller airlines, and are always guaranteed by the larger major airlines' union contracts."

Oooo... half-time pay, if you're lucky. Color me jealous.

Customer satisfaction has nothing to do with recalls and you know that.

In March Tesla was forced to recall half the cars it had ever produced: https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...

That was just ONE issue. When the tent models start being delivered you can expect far more quality problems.

I'm curious what on earth a "Palestinian Law Enforcement" group does, do they make sure the fire bombs terrorists sail on kites over to Israel have the correct amount of fire starting material or what?

Or maybe they go around to homes making sure the kids are all watching the appropriate amount of cartoons showing jewish people are working with the devil so they are groomed to carry out suicide attacks...

Because it sure doesn't seem like there is any law in Palestine.

scholarworks.umass.edu
www.economist.com
www.nbcnews.com
www.ehs.org.uk
etc, etc.