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Imagine an illegal immigrant first has to get past boarder control

It is a popular myth that most undocumented immigrants cross the boarder illegally. Visa overstays have been the majority since 2007. Also, 60% of undocumented immigrants have been here for more than a decade. 40% came here by air. Think about this when you hear chants about building a wall.

DNA profiling has its uses, but as many cases have proven in the past decade or so it can easily be abused as well. First off while DNA is usually highly unique DNA profiles aren't so much so. There was a case not long ago where during a trial "experts" claimed that the chances of a profile mismatch were insanely unlikely, I believe when it was reviewed in appeals they found out the statistical probabilities were actually 50/50. And that is before you get into things like micro samples, evidence tampering, lab mistakes, etc. If you use DNA evidence as it was originally used, as in get evidence, find suspect with motive & opportunity, then do testing at a well ran facility, your chances of a mistake are extremely low. But if you go the lazy route, just throwing crime scene evidence at a database and trying to blindly convict the first match that the computer spits out the chances of an innocent person being convicted skyrocket.

Lab Tech falsifies results
Lab with erroneous results from incompetence

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

Dylann Roof would indicate otherwise.
So would Robert Dear.
And Timothy McVeigh.
And Wade Page.
And Alex Fields.
And Jeremy Christian.

That's just a start. I could go on (and on, and on and on), but it should be pretty clear that you're arguing in bad faith by now.

Yup, I see the delusion and raise you .. reality. It's all over the web: https://www.nbcnews.com/health...

Which is exactly why auto manufacturers should have to work on making their vehicles safer for those NOT inside the car.

Well, you're in luck. Auto manufacturers DO have to work on making their vehicles safer for those people. For example, there is a required hood crumple specification to improve pedestrian safety if you hit them. All passenger vehicles sold in the USA will have to have automatic emergency braking by 2022, and the EU will probably follow suit. And they took non-folding hood ornaments off of cars to protect pedestrians, as well.

People drive cars like maniacs because airbags, crumple zones, seatbelts make them feel sufficiently safe to do stupid things.

Stupid as riding a bicycle on a public road, where a a slight mistake by you or by a motorist or any small equipment failure could end your life, or just relegate you to permanent vegetable status? And where in the best case, you're sucking exhaust and tire dust while breathing vigorously?

Pity the pedestrian or cyclist who gets in their way or makes them 5 seconds slower getting to Starbucks.

Don't get in the way. Physics is still a thing.

There probably are several new medicines that will cure or alleviate symptoms for all manner of things developed each month. Sometimes the news is a bit premature as the drug hasn't even been tried in humans yet. Once further testing is done some of these are found to cause all manner of nasty side effects, some worse than what they cure. Sometimes the FDA approves it anyhow if the side effects don't appear to be life threatening, even as off-putting as they may be.

Ford market is big? You realize they're just about out of the car business, right?

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

Ford market - small. Very small.

> They both have broken the Law.

Seeking asylum is not against the law. And yet, if you come to the US-Mexico boarder seeking asylum, you will be arrested and your children, if any, will be confiscated.

And I say "confiscated" because there is a nonzero chance that separation will be permanent.

> No it's not pleasant, no it's not ideal.

It's un-American, it's illegal, it's racist, and it's completely unnecessary. It's throwing gasoline on what is already a dumpster fire of a humanitarian crisis.
=Smidge=

The systems will also be wired into the entertainment system so they cannot be turned off.

Actually no, they're not required. From: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/t...

Guests can choose whether they would like to share a room with Alexa or disable the technology by tapping the “mute” button.
Guests can also request the Echo speaker to be taken out of the room.

Marriott Hotels was announced as the first adopter of the new platform ...

Guests can choose whether they would like to share a room with Alexa or disable the technology by tapping the “mute” button. Guests can also request the Echo speaker to be taken out of the room.

In more ways than one, Google's rhetoric on Diversity rings hollow.

indefinite detention of children

Some sources say it's the law that children may only stay there for 3 days. Other sources say the average stay is ~50 days. As an aside... I noticed the same paragraphs being used across numerous sources, without the original author being quoted (i.e, plagiarism, and possibly an effort craft a narrative via quantity).

Further, since people who present at a port of entry requesting asylum have broken no US laws, the Trump Administration is separating children from parents who have done nothing wrong and holding them in concentration camps just to exert political pressure on his opponents.

That's not what other sources are saying.

"The vast majority of the children arrived at the border unaccompanied," Merkley said Sunday. "But a certain share of them came with their parents and they were separated from their parents."

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Children are automatically separated from parents referred for criminal prosecution.

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It'd be nice if there was a source that offered data in bulletpoint-format with multiple sources per data point. So many articles are basically opinion pieces stuffed with adjectives like that Vanity Fair article you linked to.

That leaves hiring, which for some reason has fallen off a cliff, versus non-whites. Is there any innocent explanation for this?

No, there isn't.

Rather what I'm seeing seems like a pattern in which certain people who otherwise have a lot to offer act as if the Trump election has opened a great wound in their minds and hearts. And this wound they can't help poking deeper every day and causing more harm -- primarily to themselves.

It's that kind of thinking is why Obama won. Twice.

There is a difference between "opening a wound" and poking the bear, my friend. And the bear is fully awake now. There is a reckoning coming, and it won't be coming from the "wounded". There have already been 43 state congressional seats that have flipped from R to D and there hasn't even been an Election Day yet. The fat, wet, orange genie is going back into the bottle and the bottle's going to be thrown into the sea. Count on it.

And for your enjoyment on your Dear Leader's birthday, here is the video of Trump saluting the North Korean general, the day before he declared North Korea "no longer a nuclear threat".

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightl...

Nothing of value was lost.

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

I miss the days when electronic communications protocols lasted over a century.

STOP - Telegram era over, Western Union says 2/2/2006 2:30:26 PM ET
"DENVER - For more than 150 years, messages of joy, sorrow and success came in signature yellow envelopes hand-delivered by a courier. Now the Western Union telegram is officially a thing of the past. "

That reported was dating the white house stuffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee, who is 30 years older then her. And he was leaking classified information.

story on nbcnews

Democrats have been slowing down the confirmation process, so that Trump has many fewer people in place than other presidents at this point in their term.

Nope, actually, it's Trump's lack of nominees.

Good little lemming on blaming Democrats. Like for the embassy. You know, for the country that disinvited him.

Admittedly, it's within the rules and an aspect of Democratic resistance that is actually succeeding.

Kinda your own practice really.

Not exactly a success though.

That kind of ruling is what causes Civil Wars.

It's hurts the country but it does slow down Trump's agenda, and that's what matters most.

Actually, Trump's agenda of trying to put crazy shits in office is what's going to hurt the country.

Fortunately for him, his base is more concerned that heattacks the people who don't stand for the national anthem.

It's ok, he doesn't actually have any need to govern. He can just demand apologies.

Are you aware that Jill Stein sat with known Russian agent and Trump's national security adviser at the infamous RT treason-dinner, at Vladimir Putin's table?

Jill Stein is a Russian agent whose purpose was to elect Donald Trump to act as a Russian puppet.

How do you feel about voting for Jill Stein now?

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White nationalists (which is what the people being called nazis are) are more dangerous to Americans than all muslim extremists combined.

The US figures are at least partially influenced by the opiate crisis.

I'm more concerned that a) they released the car with crap brakes and didn't notice until Consumer Reports told them about it and b) an over-the-air software update developed in about a week can apparently affect the operation of a critical safety system.

The problem only emerged when doing multiple emergency stops in a row. How often do you do that?

A number of reviewers had reviewed the Model 3's brakes previously. Some noticed no issues at all. A couple noticed "inconsistency" in their repeated hard braking tests, but nonetheless rated them well. It was only Consumer Reports that managed to show that it was an actual problem.

I'm glad Tesla took it seriously. Going from a bad braking review to a fix for all vehicles in a week is really amazing. Compare and contrast to the GM ignition switch scandal, where they played the denial game for over a decade.

Of course, Slashdot is going to be full of people pretending that recalls only affect Tesla, just because media coverage focuses so heavily on Tesla. Literally, within days of the CR brake finding - affecting only repeat emergency braking events, and only to the point of braking like a pickup - Fiat issued a recall for around 5 million vehicles due to a problem where the cruise control could get stuck on and the engine unable to be shut off, leading to the terrifying situation of the driver having to fight the vehicle to a stop with the brakes. But it got almost no coverage versus the Tesla issue.

>> I posted the exact part of the ruling. If you can't understand it, then that's on you.

It is you who do not understand what the court ordered. Judges use precise language in their rulings. This ruling did not order anything at all.

From NBC news: "The ruling answered the question in front of the court, but the judge did not issue an order immediately requiring Trump to unblock or to stop blocking accounts. The judge wrote that the ruling declaring the law should be enough."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/t...

>> That's idiotic as saying that I'm not part of neighbors divorce but I am affected by their divorce.

O.K., believe that rulings on constitutional matters have narrow implications. Or instead believe the lawyers for the plaintiffs in this case.

From a Washington Post article: "To what extent does this decision affect other politicians and public officials?
The ruling itself doesn't mention other public officials. But it does set a precedent that other public officials will be under pressure to obey, said Katie Fallow, a senior staff attorney with the Knight First Amendment Institute who argued the case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York."

As a side note http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3519...

Actually, the US found more than 500 tons of uranium yellowcake, which was given to Canada.
Also, the US found thousands of chemical weapons and millions of liters of dual-use chemicals - so many that the New York Times castigated the government for failing to protect US troops from those 'non-existent' chemical weapons.

Yet another example of a citzen getting shot at while obeying an officer's orders. He was told to put up his hands and got the blam, blam, blam for doing so.

I'm sure anyone with an IQ of at least 80 will realize when you ask someone for their license they're going to reach somewhere. So perhaps an IQ test for officers?

"Can you get out your license and insurance?" Blam blam blam
"Can I see your license please?" Blam blam blam

The problem is not Bird itself.

I think the real Venice would disagree: they clearly have a real bird problem.

You still have the right to an unmonitored attorney vist.

Sure you do. And prosecutors turn over Brady material. Tell me another one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2601...
https://www.prisonlegalnews.or...
https://www.apnews.com/846bd29...

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

This might be more what you are thinking of...

In Pennsylvania a doctor reported his patient drank more than a 6-pack a day and his license was revoked. The guy wasn't driving drunk, he just liked to drink at least a 6-pack a day. (I do too).

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5432...

This follow-up article says he was offered his license back if he got an ignition-interlock device, but he refused.

http://articles.mcall.com/2011...

The U.S. is alienating itself greatly already anyways.

No, get it straight: The current POTUS and the people he's appointing to cabinet positions are alienating the rest of the world, our allies included. He seems to think that the U.S. can stand alone in the world and survive. He, of course, is completely wrong.

That was the last POTUS. Not that our news said much, NBC did - https://www.nbcnews.com/slides...

He was THE worst ever. Unless you think racial division, muslims invading Europe, screwing our allies around the world and doing everything he could to free terrorists and screw the American people was good.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/apple/apple-agrees-pay-15-4-billion-back-taxes-ireland-even-n826701

AC recall the UK had the Ring of Steel and the use of CCTV?
"cameras capable of automatically capturing vehicles’ license plates" (9/14/2004)
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5942...

I recall a story years ago about exiled teachers who were either incompetent or being accused of various types of misconduct who are literally paid to sit around and do nothing because they can't teach because of the above, and not be fired because of their union.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3149...

https://www.nbcnews.com/scienc...

he new experiments aren't the only ones to show superposition states.

In 2010 scientists at the University of California at Santa Barbara built a resonator — basically a tiny tuning fork — the size of the pixel on a computer screen, and put it into a state of superposition, in which it was both oscillating and not oscillating at the same time. But that wasn't as extensive a system as those in the two recent papers.

"That experiment corresponds to one quanta," said Nicolas Gisin, a professor at the University of Geneva, who led the Swiss research team. "Imagine a nano-mechanical motor showing no oscillation and 500 states. That would be ours."

Yea, still not a good thing, look at how society reacts to just being a suspect, you are now mostly guilty until proven innocent. Wives will divorce husbands, working fathers will be fired from good jobs, people that know them will ostracize and avoid them, they could lose access to their own children.

People are so hell bent on getting the bad guy they will happily grind up innocent people along the way with little remorse. This is not even considering things like this...

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

20,000 convictions dropped. Heck people have gone to jail over donuts!
https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

Lets face it... law enforcement and quality testing are just not friends. They happily rely on shoddy results and questionable evidence to go full assault on someone in their pursuits to apprehend "the innocent criminals."

Maybe the right to "full refund, no questions asked" could also be revoked when your score drops below a certain level. Once you reach that level there's a requirement to show the bugs, exchange for a different model, pay a restocking fee, whatever...

This already exists (and was covered by Slashdot earlier this year), in private agreements and some store's "Return Policies", not codified into the law. Google "The Retail Equation", a private scoring service used by Best Buy, Home Depot, J.C. Penney, Sephora, Victoria's Secret, etc.

To me, the scary part isn't scoring citizens with a secretive formula (that's also how the FICO and other credit/renter/etc scores work). The scary part is when the government is backing up the scoring and can remove what we think of as basic rights (travel, property ownership) when you fail to maintain a good score.

I was going to ask about the South American Hippo Herds...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/l...

EiA, who has never had a correct prediction, agrees with you. BTW, they have ALWAYS predicted that Fossil fuels will continue to grow except recently.
However, experts in the coal field of montana
Other Americans continue to point to coal rapid closing.
Here is the massive navajo plant that will most certainly close down. Note that this is America's single dirtiest plant going.
Nice article about the continuing closings of coal plants (assuming that Trump is not allowed to subsidize coal anymore than we currently do)

Finally, here is a partial list of coming US coal plants closures.

Didn't think it was that uncommon. That was a problem when people thought that the phones on a downed airline were still ringing for some reason.

So can you give me some links to the "Pentagon trolls?

Sure, here is some relevant reading:

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Pentagon ramping up public relations offensive: Agency moves to bolster image in face of mounting criticism of Iraq war
U.S. Media Knew Kosovo Reports Were Propaganda
Meet The State Department Team Trying To Troll ISIS Into Oblivion
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi -- "The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers..."
Pentagon Paid for Fake âAl Qaedaâ(TM) Videos
The Government's Social Media Propaganda Machine
âoeOn the Offensiveâ: US State Dept. Gives $40M Boost to âoeTroll Farmâ Propaganda Efforts
How the American government is trying to control what you think

That should get you started.

Of course, our mass media tends not to emphasize such American skulduggery and propaganda. They'll do an initial report on the issue, but it's rarely, if ever, put into the news loop and repeated over and over and over again. Funny how that works, eh? It makes one think of Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who once bluntly said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."

If you want any more you'll have to search for it.

Obviously we don't know for sure. But to be fair, Zuckerberg straight up told a senator the other day that when you delete your profile they do delete your data. So either hes lying to them or they do delete it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/card/f...

Whodathunk it? Now excuse me, I'm off to have some nice refreshing water.

Leaving aside for a moment the crap headline that implies the opposite of what Zuckerberg actually said, the key point here is the claim that something changed at Facebook to enable it to police itself effectively. A bit late for that now. Do business like a monopoly, get regulated like a monopoly.

Why do people even entertain these silly theories.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077...

Yeah... I have no idea why people might think that a spy agency might try to use subterfuge to hide their operations... wild, crazy, silly idea.

Me, some random asshole on the internet, thinking that these guys are likely guilty of crimes does not make this a witch hunt, and you clearly don't know what a witch hunt really is if you think that. I'm not in a jury room deciding whether they are going to be convicted beyond a reasonable doubt based on the case the prosecutors have provided, nor am I part of an angry mob going door to door short circuiting due process with torches and pitchforks. You guys can dish it out but you can't take it, which is pretty damn sad. It doesn't take you very long to reach for "but Hillary!" Is this witch hunt accusation projection? Are you so accustomed to the effort to gin up a witch hunt against her that you don't even know what a legitimate prosecution of political figures would look like?

Quite a turn of euphemism there to turn Manafort's accused crimes into a "paperwork matter", the mental gymnastics to pull that one off are worthy of the Olympics. Spoiler alert: tax fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering are serious business, especially when you consider the context of those crimes: the was money obtained from the recently ousted Ukrainian Yanukovych regime, a puppet government of Russia, as well as the mystery surrounding his business relationship with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Deripaska doesn't seem to be particularly happy with the outcome of that business relationship either, mind you, given that he is suing Paul Manafort for $25 million.

You should read up some of the history of Yanukovych, btw, it is pretty damn sobering. He did "lock her up!", with "her" being Yulia Tymoshenko, one of Yanukovych's main political rivals. If you want to know what a political witch hunt actually looks like, there you go, she got convicted for some pretty hard to figure out reasons (her dealmaking with Putin on gas that is piped through Ukraine, and using money from a climate change deal to put into the pension system as opposed to planting forests or something), and subsequently she was brutalized in prison. Putin himself said he couldn't understand why she went to prison. If you want to skip to the end of that story, Yanukovych turned out to be a crooked traitor and fled to Russia, Tymoshenko was let out of jail and her conviction dropped, and Russia invaded and annexed Crimea and propped up a civil war in Eastern Ukraine. So no, there's no guarantee that any of this type of thing will end well for those involved.

I thought that was a liberal California thing. Y'know, the whole "not informing a sexual partner that you have HIV/AIDs" is now just a misdemeanor instead of a felony thing.

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Sounds like a great place for all those bug chasers to go after they realize nobody wants to bone somebody who is such a severe biohazard.

Russia hacked the DNC, and our election systems. citation provided

Unfortunately some traitors actually support Russia's attacks and their continuing hacks of our elections systems so they deny the obvious.

Donald Trump is on the Russian government's payroll so he refuses to protect our country or acknowledge what happened. What's your excuse?

If an Islamic extremist wants to kill you with a truck, he'd do it while you weren't prepared.

Come to Texas, we'll show you a real gunman.