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If a baker has to make cakes for gay weddings, YouTube has to offer an equal platform for diverse users that they might disagree with.

Fine - show me where a baker has been forced to make cakes for gay weddings. It will be difficult since that case has yet to be finally decided.

Until it is, you haven't even even validated the premise of your argument.

Yes I included the voter fraud commission, just because it was disbanded doesn't mean it was a bad idea, just means this commission didn't work out but voter fraud is a serious issue and Trump should be applauded for at least trying to tackle it https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...

Voter fraud is not a problem in the US.

I can't recall how many times I heard some Republican claim "oh we found rock solid evidence of 1000 cases of voter fraud!" and you'll later hear that at least 999 of them turned out to be due to crappy government databases and the remaining one almost certainly was as well... but there's also a small chance it was a green card holder who got confused. The GOP just keeps pushing the lie because it serves as an excuse to implement voter IDs, and when you insist that voters need ID to vote, and minorities who vote Democrat are disproportionately likely to lack IDs, then you suppress some of the Democratic vote.

The only kind of voter fraud that might be frequent enough to change elections is with mail-in ballots. But here the fraud (if it really is significant) is more likely to be from husbands "ensuring" their wives vote correctly, and since men vote Republican the GOP doesn't care. But again, we don't really know if this is significant.

And that is fundamentally why the commission was disbanded. Because voter fraud doesn't exist the Republicans had to fabricate evidence, and because they had to fabricate evidence the couldn't share documents with the Democrats, and because the court ordered them to share documents they had to scrap the whole endeavour.

Yes I included the voter fraud commission, just because it was disbanded doesn't mean it was a bad idea, just means this commission didn't work out but voter fraud is a serious issue and Trump should be applauded for at least trying to tackle it https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...

It helped me understand how anyone could call someone who was quite apparently making bombs "not a bomb maker". I thought not even a priest can be that delusional. Turns out the young man wasn't making bombs, he was just playing. Maybe he needed some distraction because he was feeling bored and stressed.

I suspect the vast majority of problems go unreported even when management is responsive.

Why are we basing this on number of complaints? Anyone can file a complaint. One person with an overactive imagination can file multiple complaints without merit. The stat is already skewed far in favor of exaggerating the scope of the problem, and you're proposing skewing it even more. I thought one of the basic premises of our society was innocent until proven guilty?

If you truly want to gauge the scope of the problem, the number you should be looking at is the number of unique persons who were investigated and found to have committed sexual harassment. That eliminates the complaints found to be without merit. And it eliminates multiple complaints against a single individual. So the problem is likely much smaller than one complaint per 521 employees.

Even if 100% of the complaints are legit, the actual problem is probably on the order of one individual being complained against per 2000-5000 employees. If you base it on the number of accusers Bill Cosby has, the problem ends up being one individual in 15,000. Meaning of Microsoft's employee count of 124,000, there are probably only 8 individuals guilty of sexual harassment. And if 9 out of 10 people experiencing harassment don't report it, that still means it's being perpetrated by fewer than 100 individuals. The other 99.9% are innocent.

You math.... strangely.

Lets just look at Bill Cosby for a moment, he raped dozens of women. And the vast majority of victims didn't come forward until decades later when everyone else started coming forward. If rape victims weren't reporting you think victims of sexual harassment are? If you were a woman being sexually harassed at work don't you think your first instinct would be to tough it out and not cause a scene?

It's the pattern that shows up with the majority of the #MeToo cases, one or two women come forward and then half a dozen more suddenly pop up to credibly corroborate their story. And in most of those cases I suspect there's a ton more who never come forward.

It's not surprising when you think about it, would you really want to call up a reporter to talk about getting sexually harassed? Would you want to risk having your name thrown all over the internet as a victim of sexual harassment?

So yes, most workplaces have a lot more than 1 sexual harasser in 521 employees, they probably have a lot more than 0.1% of employees harassing. The question with Microsoft isn't whether this is the tip of the iceberg, because it most certainly is. The question is whether their iceberg is unusually large compared to any other organization.

I suspect the vast majority of problems go unreported even when management is responsive.

Why are we basing this on number of complaints? Anyone can file a complaint. One person with an overactive imagination can file multiple complaints without merit. The stat is already skewed far in favor of exaggerating the scope of the problem, and you're proposing skewing it even more. I thought one of the basic premises of our society was innocent until proven guilty?

If you truly want to gauge the scope of the problem, the number you should be looking at is the number of unique persons who were investigated and found to have committed sexual harassment. That eliminates the complaints found to be without merit. And it eliminates multiple complaints against a single individual. So the problem is likely much smaller than one complaint per 521 employees.

Even if 100% of the complaints are legit, the actual problem is probably on the order of one individual being complained against per 2000-5000 employees. If you base it on the number of accusers Bill Cosby has, the problem ends up being one individual in 15,000. Meaning of Microsoft's employee count of 124,000, there are probably only 8 individuals guilty of sexual harassment. And if 9 out of 10 people experiencing harassment don't report it, that still means it's being perpetrated by fewer than 100 individuals. The other 99.9% are innocent.

oh? /. decided to start working again?
We'll, not getting the posts right this time either. Big companies are demanding more control and restricting remote workers. sorry:
https://www.nbcnews.com/busine...

No system is perfect. Possibly the most critical system in the US is the justice system. It could not operate without a certain amount of injustice. By some estimates, as much as 5% of those incarcerated in the US are actually innocent. A few place it higher using indirect evidence based on research into plea bargains.

So, in order to be safer, of the 2 million we incarcerate each year, we commit at least 40K and as much as 100K innocent people. It is the cost of justice.

The removal of a video from youtube unjustly is considerably less penalty than the incarceration of an innocent man. It seems as though a false positive error rate over 10-20% would be perfectly reasonable if it significantly increases the rate of removal of those videos that really should be removed - especially if there is a route to getting mistakes reversed. The percentage of mistakes fixed in the justice system is extremely low.

"Study A", referenced in the article notes that only one in six Americans are treated for depression. And here "Study B" observes that one in six Americans already take anti-depressants. Therefore we can conclude that the authors of Study A will be satisfied when 100% of Americans take anti-depressents.

Yet I say that's not going far enough. Something that I learned in college is that if one pill is good, three pills are better, and that American Society will only reach its potential when 300% of its members are taking anti-depressents.

What makes AI scarier than the software controlling nuclear facilities or nuclear weapons? Humans can wipe each other out and persecute each other without the help of AI. This scare-mongering is stupid, and makes you look like a retarded dipshit.

The software controlling nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons, offhand, are written by people who do not assume they're somehow immune from hacking, failing, and getting fucked with in general? The thing I'm saying is concerning here, which I will try to use shorter words for, is the utter fucking morons making the AIs.

I'm not scared of AI. In it's current state, it's a tool. It's a tool which has been vastly oversold with sucky quality, made by people who do not seem think that security and failsafes could possibly be necessary. It is not fearmongering to want something built well, with the ability to deal with it going into a failure mode in a safe and swift manner, and without having security meant for some fantasy world where people won't even dream of trying anything despite the fact that people have done it already and even by sheer accident with virtual assistants.

I wonder whether it can be explained by the gut biome taking a large role in the actual metabolism of food consumed? There's all the stories lately about how the composition and behavior of the gut bacteria actually favor/prevent people's efforts to change their diet and effects on weight. Would make sense then that one's own DNA has less to do with it.

I think the gut bacteria studies look very promising. The impact of fecal transplant from an obese person to a thin person has been observed multiple times.

The DNA thing is old news. This is from 2006. I've read much older articles too. All say it is quackery.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/1406...

It started way before that. Here's peace loving Pat Roberton back in 2004 in those Halycon Bush years:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9047...

The Snope's link disagrees with that, and says your link is wrong. Usually I don't trust Snopes so let's look deeper.

I found this one with a more recent date.

Looks like you're probably right. Thank you for once again discrediting Snopes and making me regret using it in an attempt to show balance.

Sure, you want your guns in the 21st century because you're paranoid. I don't know, I guess it's an American thing. I won't argue with that.
But do you really need this?
Do you have to make it so easy for anyone to get military-grade automatic weapons? Why?

http://www.aei.org/publication... Nope not twice the taxes at all.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2986... Look at how much corporate taxes have lowered, especially compared to income taxes. Income taxes went from 40% of taxes to 45% and corporate taxes halved.

If China wants a space station, they will simply launch it, like they are already planning on doing and have already done. Why the hell would they want the old, crappy ISS when they could have a new, cutting-edge space station built with modern technology?

Oh dear, you sad semi-literate Trumpie, you missed all the references (not one of them is Reddit). Here they are so you can improve your reading skills.

1) The Guardian - Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous, Bannon says in explosive book

2) NBC - A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crime

3) Global Witness - Narco-A-Lago: Money Laundering At The Trump Ocean Club Panama

4) The Guardian - Trumps Panama tower used for money laundering by condo owners, reports say

5) Sketchy Donald Trump Deal Eyed For Ties To Iran | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

6) The New Yorker - Donald Trump’s Worst Deal:
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

7) NPR - The New Yorker Uncovers Trump Hotels Ties To Corrupt Oligarch Family

8) Business Insider - Dossier author Christopher Steele: Trumps hotel and land deals with Russians need to be examined

9) New York Times - Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’

10) The Washington Post - Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

11) Slate - An Intriguing Link Between the Mueller Investigation, Trump, and Alleged Money Laundering

12) GQ - Inside Donald Trumps Election Night War Room

13) Politico - Trump’s mob-linked ex-associate gives $5,400 to campaign

14) Raw Story - Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report

15) The Spectator - Forget Charlottesville - Russia Is Still The True Trumps True Scandal

16) McClatchy - Donald Trump and the mansion that no one wanted. Then came a Russian fertilizer king

17) New York Times - Tracking the Yachts and Jets of the Mega-Rich

18) McClatchy - Trump, Russian billionaire say they’ve never met,

Haha, this wasn't the 1st FISA warrant on Carter Page, who became a person of interest to the FBI in 2013. The Steele document was a thing until 2016!

This has NOTHING to do with Manafort's laundering and Russia connections, contact between Papadopoulos and Russia, or Russia hacking the DNC to help the GOP win the election, or Trump's son and son-in-law meeting with Kremlin connected Russians, or Trump firing the FBI director, because, by his own admission, he wanted to hinder the Russia investigation.

It's fun seeing Nunes go to battle with the people investigating the campaign _he_ worked on. A decent person would recuse themselves. This has all the hallmarks of political theater aimed at confusing rubes who will jump at anything that makes their side look good. I'm sure McCabe said lots of things, but the simple fact is that Carter Page is marginal to the Trump-Russia investigation, and besides, this wasn't even the first warrant application. And it's easy for Nunes to omit details to pull the wool of partisan nitwits, because partisanship makes people dumb.

thanks our drug policy and uneven enforcement it's still living full stop. When you're black you learn what neighborhoods you belong in and which ones you don't. After all, the majority of Americans have smoked weed and you can be sent up the river for years for a joint and spend the rest of your life with the consequences of jail time and a conviction.

It's a train wreck. Freight cars full of GOP everything.

This joke is in very poor taste. Shame on you.

A person is dead.

Way to wish away the reality of the situation. Yes, extremists - like crazy lefties who want to silence speech

You appear to have an extreme case of irony deficiency. You should get that looked at.

"Crazy censoring lefties" is a talking point of your particular tribe of extremists who are desperate to accuse everybody else of your own crimes.

Rapper Common Disinvited By University As Commencement Speaker Over Song Lyrics
Vanderbilt puts Duke Med alum on leave after complaint about kneeling to protest white supremacy - The Chronicle
CBS Fires Jewish VP for Anti-White Comments Follows Las Vegas Shooting – Occidental Dissent
Drexel censures professor for white genocide tweet.
Firing of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia
After news reports on tweets, queer advocate fired from Claremont Colleges
Two Liberal Professors Fired after Making Controversial, Anti-White Remarks |
Texas State Student Who Wrote Anti-White Op-Ed Fired Off School Paper
L'Oreal Drops Transgender Model After 'All White People' Racism Post
Texas State newspaper fires anti-white column's author as backlash escalates | Fox News
Nurse fired for post suggesting sons of white women be ‘sacrificed’ | New York Post
Lawmaker pushing legislation to refund fans angered by anthem protests
Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' Acquitted | Techdirt
Fox refuses to air tax ad with Trump impersonator - POLITICO
Profane anti-Trump sticker sparks free-speech debate in Texas | Fox News
Tennessee Baptist church that hired female pastor can't vote - WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & Sports
Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University | Religion News Service
Why Liberty University Kicked an Anti-Trump Christian Author Off Campus - Th

You don't get mass shootings at gun shows, police stations, or sportsmans clubs.

Gun shows have had 4 mass shootings since 1987. However, there are a multitude of other shootings at gun shows.

As to police stations, 2016 mass shooting in Dallas, 2011 in Detroit, and 2012 in New Jersey where an inmate caused a mass shooting, 2012 again in New Jersey though this more a domestic issue. There have been numerous shootings of and at police stations, though they are not considered mass shootings.

#blacklivesmatter is responsible for a dozen or more police officer deaths.

In the US, the right-wing kills more cops than any other group:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/...

And here's the actual report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the above article is based on, in case you'd like to see it:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/690...

I mean, just in the past few weeks there have been at least two cases of right-wing jackoffs killing cops

http://www.newsweek.com/colora...

And more cases of alt-reich nazis murdering people:

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

And right-wing pepe terrorism:

https://www.redstate.com/smoos...

What are you talking about? There's been a massive amount of attention to Russian support of Jill Stein. This has included aspects of Senate investigations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/19/jill-stein-trump-russia-investigation-documents. There were many mainstream media reports on it such as https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261 and https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/senate-intelligence-committee-jill-stein-russia.

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

As of the end of November, Airbus had won orders for 317 A380s and delivered 221, leaving 96 unfilled orders.

It's not really like video game to the drone operators: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

You're quite correct that remote killing machines operated by humans are little better than fully autonomous ones.

(his race - you think similar views expressed in this scenario by a fashionable race would have resulted in a firing)?

Saying "fashionable race" makes you sound like a really stable genius.

And conservative-correctness is everywhere. For example, this guy was fired for saying all he wanted for xmas was white genocide. This university newspaper fired a reporter for an anti-white column. This nurse was fired for anti-white tweets. L'Oreal fired this spokesmodel for her anti-white post on facebook. Shirley Sherrod was fired by the Obama administration after Breitbart quoted her out of context to make her look racist. This professor was fired after saying it was OK for a BLM protest to ban white people from joining. Pomona fired the head of their LGBTQ resources center for saying the police enforce white supremacy.

The LAPD took Tyler Barriss of Los Angeles into custody in that city on Friday afternoon, on a fugitive warrant stemming from the Thursday evening incident in Kansas, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arrest-man-suspected-swatting-preceded-deadly-police-shooting-n833576

Established that they are official statements? No, but that was claimed earlier this year by Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary at the time.

More than just Spicer. The 9th circuit said, basically, that they were pretty much the same stature as executive orders:

Buried in a footnote in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ unanimous opinion upholding the bulk of the injunction blocking Donald Trump’s travel ban, there is a moment of reckoning in which the panel addresses whether the president’s tweets constitute binding statements of executive intent.

Wasn't it established in a federal court that Trump's tweets amount to official statements and can be cited as effective policy statements?

Established that they are official statements? No, but that was claimed earlier this year by Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary at the time.

Which he did after the Discovery disaster after the analysis showed the shuttles were way past EOL and such issues couldn't easily be resolved - which was why Bush accelerated the Constellation rocket program to take its place.
Which Obama killed and offered NO replacement
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3520...

So many good points to comment on.

Saddam agreed to complete disarmament and full inspections prior to the invasion, but not until the US and UK were on his doorstep. He even offered exile for himself. However the "coalition of the willing" ignored him and invaded anyway. That turned out well. And the DPRK was watching. They know that they can't trust the USA to let them exist unless they are in a position to make them pay dearly for invading. Kim doesn't want to end up like Saddam or Ghadaffi.

I'm no historian, but your point about the UK's negotiations with Hitler I don't find to be particularly relevant. Yes, Hitler was biding his time while building his war machine with expansionist plans and no real interest in diplomacy. The DPRK's leadership just wants to exist. They are no real threat (or haven't been until the US pushed them into it).

Other countries without much of an effective military seem to manage okay from a diplomatic standpoint. I don't subscribe to the need to be on the brink of annihilation before effective diplomacy can be had, but I do appreciate your point. Besides, the new operating theatres are global money markets (UK was king, then USA, now China is winning) and information warfare (US was king and now Russia is winning). Military might is so 1980s...

Pretty much everyone agrees that the DPRK just wants to exist. If Russia and France conducted joint training exercises off the UK coast on a regular basis, simulating an attack on your country, what would your reaction be? They're now nuclear-armed because the US has driven them to that point. Now you want to weaponize space to ensure they can't fight back. I wonder how that will work out?

It's ridiculous. Just leave them alone and wait for their population to oust the leaders of a failed system. It's cheaper and safer for the planet.

Earlier this week the DPRK offered diplomacy and the UN sent an envoy. The US's response so far has been "Not until you give up your nukes". Wut? You don't start a diplomatic exercise by making demands before you will agree to talks. There is no risk to talking unless you don't want a resolution.

As usual failed US foreign policy has left us all in this position. The US should probably outsource foreign relations to Canada or something because they clearly suck at it.

Late Wednesday, finance author Ben Carlson wrote: Bitcoin has achieved something I've always wanted to see in the stock mkt - a reverse 1987 (20% gain in a single day)

Whoever wrote that is an idiot. No we do not want to see that kind of volatility in the market, positive or negative. That is NOT a good thing. Any time something skyrockets that fast in price it is pretty much invariably because something weapons grade irrational and/or criminal

l is going on. This is what happens with

pump and dump

schemes and those rarely end happily.

What if... the Slashdot effect of thousands of amateurs exiting BitCoin would cascade into a run on BitCoin that would burn the pump and dump criminals responsible for this, the CDO & CDS scams, Madhoff, dot.com, the housing bubble, the rent-backed-securities bubble...?

There has been some studies showing some people basically can't gain much fat, but if their body still takes in too many calories it causes problems. The result is way too much LDL cholesterol or something similar in their blood... it also either lead to heart problems or diabetes or both, I can't recall.

These links might be close, but not the exact thing I remember:

http://time.com/14407/the-hidd...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2614...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Suspect you're talking about this Florida prison escape by two inmates. The crazy thing about that story is how they were caught. All felons in Florida are required to register their locations after release. These two guys actually registered their location. They were working under the delusion that nobody would ever figure it out and doing everything possible to follow the law.

I'm pretty sure that they paid a lot for the forgery though. So it wasn't easy or cheap.

The concept of escaping from a prison and staying out for any length of time was common in older days but is pretty much dead in America today. The vast majority are caught almost immediately. All escapees do is add to their sentences.

Jail is a somewhat different story. Authorities may simply not care enough to launch a massive manhunt with a jailbreak by a misdemeanor offender. At the same time, the gain is less so why do it. These guys will have a vast loss for next to no gain.

You don't somehow think that all of the missiles that North Korea has been firing were somehow summoned by magic since the start of the Trump administration, do you? They were obviously being worked on during the Obama administration. What we are seeing is the flowering of Obama's work. (Or do you blame Her?)

For what? North Korea wasting their limited resources on a tool that's only useful when you want to provoke an ill-tempered boob who will go off on freak out over them, then erroneously claim to send an aircraft carrier to deal with it?

So what you're saying is that at best, he's par for the course. "Par" is not what we were told to expect.

Trump hasn't even been in office for a year yet and he already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than Obama achieved, has China cooperating, and missile defense is getting a big boost in funding.

Except it turns out those sanctions are a failed policy that only harms the innocent North Korean people, China is, as usual, lying, and putting money into missile defense has been a favorite way to waste tax dollars since the Reagan years.

He seems to be making progress that Obama couldn't.

So far, your examples are only repeated examples of waste, fraud, and failure.

That's not a common definition of progress. Admittedly, to somebody trying to sabotage America, it would seem different.

Lets see what happens between now and the end of the eighth year of the Trump administration.

Let's see what happens between now and the end of the next year.

I'd say this year, but eh, you won't have any results.

> So what? The original remark was is pretty much what the voters expect so disputing that necessarily refers to the popular vote as done by the voters.

So the uneducated voters think that the popular vote decides who is president?

Well, no, it's Mr. Trump who thinks something about the electoral college, back in 2012 when he mistakenly perceived that Obama had lost the popular vote yet won the electoral college. He made numerous vituperative denunciations on that.

Now of course, he suddenly can't say that, though he's still compelled to fabricate an unsupported fairy tale about illegal voters in order to justify his ego-base claims that he didn't lose the popular vote. He couldn't even accurately describe his victory, but ended up ignoring who outperformed him in the electoral college, and how even George W. Bush in 2004 got more voters in many states than he did.

And the liberals still want to call the Trump supporters uneducated? Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black!

No, I would call Mr. Trump's supporters a rusted crucible that is slowly disintegrating into even more useless scrap.

It wasn't that long ago that HIV/AIDS was spreading like wildfire on the African continent because there was a belief that HIV/AIDS could be cured by having sex with a virgin...

additional examples:

Penis-Snatching Panics Resurface in Africa.

Witch doctors sacrificing children in this drought-stricken African country

Malawi Police Arrest 140 After Mob Attacks on 'Vampires'

One of the most difficult things in the world to find: an idea that remains reasonable when you take it to the extreme. That's what you are doing here.

Goit.

Well, there was that one about threatening to nuke North Korea... Does that count? https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Yeah, I also remember Trump threatening Iran with "massive retaliation" if they attacked Israel and later clarified Iran's aggression against Israel "would provoke a nuclear response from the United States". Hate speech!

And what about that time Trump threatened to "erase North Korea from the map of the world"? So much hate speech!

Oh, wait...

Environmentally friendly electronics components, maybe?

The claim is that more minorities have common names than Caucasians apparently, although I haven't seen strong data to support that claim. I do buy the argument though because minorities do have a lot of common surnames at least.

According to the 2010 US Census the most common Surnames at least in the US are Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Garcia, Miller, Davis, Rodriguez, Martinez, Hernandez, Lopez, Gonzalez, Wilson, and Anderson. 6 of those are Spanish: Garcia, Rodriguez, Martinez, Hernandez, Lopez, and Gonzalez. I am not sure if any of the others are mostly minority. The fastest growing surnames are also minorities: Zhang, Li, Ali, Liu, Khan, Vazquez, Wang, Huang, Lin, Singh, Chen, Bautista, Velazquez, Patel, and Wu. I don't see Census data on common both first and last names.

https://www.census.gov/newsroo...

I haven't seen numbers on Crosscheck purges by race, but apparently African Americans and minorities are heavily represented.

Crossheck is apparently very partisan where purges are about 50% democrats, 29% republicans, and 21% independent/other. There is plenty of data to show that Crosscheck is partisan.

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

Not recycling them doesn't prove that there are no dupes. Errors can happen, and they have.

https://www.nbcnews.com/techno...

https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

Here's a fact - you suck at fact checking.

Absolutely, strongly inspired by but with several critical differences.

If "inspired" is an euphemism for "stolen" - yes, it was a case of a LOT of inspiration, all over.

The key in terms of the shuttle program was "overt collection" and specifically the use of commercial databases. In effect, the massive effort directed at the U.S. space shuttle program was among the first cases of Internet espionage, if not the first case. With all the critical documents online, it was left to the VPK, under the auspices of the KGB, to gather it all up and then circulate it to those in the space program who needed it.

The 1985 CIA analysis on "Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology" described the shuttle project as the best example of the KGB's exploitation of U.S. government databases:

"From the mid-1970s through the early 1980s, NASA documents and NASA-funded contractor studies provided the Soviets with their most important source of unclassified material in the aerospace area. Soviet interests in NASA activities focused on virtually all aspects of the space shuttle. Documents acquired dealt with airframe designs (including the computer programs on design analysis), materials, flight computer systems, and propulsion systems. This information allowed Soviet military industries to save years of scientific research and testing time as well as millions of rubles as they developed their own very similar space shuttle vehicle."

The CIA noted that "individual abstracts or references in government and commercial data bases are unclassified, but some of the information, taken in the aggregate, may reveal sensitive information."

Moreover, said the CIA, the VPK had laid out "general guidance to collectors to acquire selected information on ... the U.S. space shuttle." In terms of priority, in fact, the report noted that "documents on systems and heat shielding of the U.S. space shuttle" was the VPK's top need in the "Space and Anti-satellite Weapons" arena. The CIA also detailed how much the KGB had budgeted for several of the shuttle-related projects and what academic institutions were targeted by the Soviets' shuttle effort.

A half-million rubles - then worth roughly $140,000 - had been budgeted for "documents on the U.S. shuttle orbiter control system," the CIA noted. And shuttle-related research projects at Caltech, MIT, Brooklyn Poly, Princeton, Stanford, Kansas, Penn State and Ohio State were also listed as targets of the KGB.

So thorough was the online acquisition, the National Security Agency learned, that the Soviets were using two East-West research centers in Vienna and Helsinki as covers to funnel the information to Moscow, where it kept printers going "almost constantly." The Reagan administration had cut the Soviets off from making direct purchases of reports through the Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service and the Pentagon's Defense Technical Information Service.

"Prior to that, they simply went from the Soviet embassy on 16th Street to the Government Printing Office on North Capitol and H Streets, provided the GPO with the name and number of the document they had gotten off the database, paid their money and took the documents back to the embassy," said one intelligence official.

The computer center through which much of the intelligence then flowed, according to another CIA report, was located at the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Moscow, which it identified as having strong "links" to the KGB. The report noted it was "reasonable to assume" that the chamber's computer center tapped into western online information services.

Word up, go find sources that aren't so biased.

Back at you.

"This is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals and 12 pallets of infant food â" which I gave them to the people of Comerio, where people are drinking off a creek," she said

All of that was what for a city with a population of just under 400,000. She was making a point that what was getting thru was paltry compared to the need, and that further help was needed.

Her standing in front of the pallets of aid was EXACTLY what she should have done. She was being transparent about the magnitude of the crisis versus the magnitude of what was getting thru.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/puerto-rico-crisis/san-juan-s-mayor-pleads-trump-you-are-killing-us-n806116

People expressing their opinions as foreign nationals, and specifically stating that they are from another country, is not even in the same ballpark as: the son of a presidential candidate having clandestine meetings with Russian spies, or a campaign manager taking millions of dollars in Russian mob money, or the National Security Advisor having to literally register as a foreign agent; or Russian agents making bot accounts to leave thousands of pro-Trump messages on various forums pretending to be Americans. Take your false equivalence elsewhere.

Foreign influence is foreign influence, no matter the circumstances. If you want to go about it your way, then you can argue that a private citizen in another country can just go ahead and buy ads for political messages, which will be legal even if this person was bankrolled by a government entity.

While I am no fan of HRC, to say that she ignored the wants of the states that she lost dismisses the fact that she had a lot of plans in place, and that she communicated those plans quite well time and time again. The problem was that she was perceived as having no empathy for the plight of these people. It's the same problem I have with my wife sometimes. If she tells me about a problem she is having, I always jump to, "here is how we can solve this." All she wants to hear is, "I understand what you are saying, and that this problem is important to you." Although I'm sure that if Hillary tried her husband's "I feel your pain" shtick, she would have been lampooned for that as well. She was just an atrocious candidate.

If somebody repeatedly refers to you with terms like 'a deplorable', you won't give a flying fuck what their plans are for you. Besides, during her campaign, Hillary didn't bother visiting these states, instead holding rallies in states with people she liked. Guess who did visit these states?

Now Trump on the other hand, did a great job of empathizing with people. It's just that the solutions he offered, and the solutions he's trying to deliver, won't actually help the people who got him into office.

Most voters have not a clue about what their guy plans on doing, so this doesn't matter. In fact, I recall during the 08 election, most people I spoke to who were voting for Obama just said that they were voting for him because their friends were voting for him. Practically none of them knew what his campaign was all about. This lady certainly didn't:

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

For most voters, emphathizing and understanding is all that matters.

For the record, I think that marginalizing racist assholes is a way better solution than saying they are "very fine people."

Actually the thing about that...it won't work. In fact when you do this kind of thing, it tends to backfire. Look at the anti-vaccine movement; the more you tell them that it's stupid, the more they hold firm in their beliefs.

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

Even then, most of the people you're talking about aren't racist. Hell, I've had people on slashdot label me a racist just because I think black lives matter shouldn't be allowed to block freeways, and that the "unfair campaign" was retarded.

But even with them, I do not tolerate statements about how impressive it is that he has the balls to break apart Mexican families by arresting parents at a children's hospital, or how funny it would be if you had to eat a bacon sandwich to get through the TSA checkpoint.

Usually statements like these are in jest, in my experience. The person wouldn't actually do these things themselves. I've heard people say they'd force a kid with peanut allergies to eat peanuts rather than ban peanut butter sandwiches f

Their (now fired) head of cyber security majored in music.

James Damore was right. This is the new diversity first culture. Equifax now, Google tomorrow.

Both Trump and Clinton (and most every other democrat/republican) proved that idiot voters don't care about liars. The best liar always wins. Meanwhile, and much more importantly, the money keeps flowing into the coffers... Obviously, for both sides, lying is good business.

The microwave auditory effect is well known and I have serious doubts that any government funded program would publish the exact details of any progress on weaponizing it. The public knowing exactly how these devices work would decrease the effectiveness if they're actually trying to make targets feel like they're hearing voices in their head not just blast their hearing with noise.

I'd expect the intensities involved would likely be high enough to harm the device operator unless they were remotely situated from the transmitter site. You'd want a high power output to provide the device range and effectiveness through walls and windows. As a consequence the operator being in the vicinity of the transmitter would still get effected by side lobes from the transmitter.

The Russians claimed to be working on such a device in 2012 probably in response to the US Navy contracting a company to develop a microwave auditory weapon.

How about Sonia K.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/opinions/holocaust-survivor-trump-charlottesville-sonia-k-opinion/index.html

Or, MIchael Bornstein

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/holocaust-survivor-charlottesville-white-supremacists-are-finding-another-voice-n792461

Or, Alfred Munzer

http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/dc/dc-holocaust-survivor-responds-to-trumps-remarks-on-charlottesville/464692365

Or, Jack Rosenthal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-holocaust-survivor-noticed-a-detail-in-charlottesville-you-might-have-missed_us_59a09bf8e4b05710aa5c3feb

Or, Erika Gold

http://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/holocaust-survivor-responds-to-president-trumps-nazi-comments