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If you think truth is stranger than fiction, you clearly haven't been reading the self-published dinosaur porn that's been showing up on Amazon.

The chances are pretty good actually. And that's just the first page of Google hits (ignore the one fake video).

The near misses are happening frequently enough that there will eventually be a hit, likely several. Do you really want to stick your head in the sand and pretend there's no problem until there's loss of life? Aviation regulatory agencies like the FAA are frequently criticized for being too reactionary - not addressing problems until after there's been loss of life. They are attempting to be proactive in this case, and they're getting criticized for that too.

Weren't the Fukushima reactors by Westinghouse, and of American design?

And we have numerous reactors here in the USA which are highly similar, and six which are identical. So don't believe the hype, use google. I did.

Since when is ignorance of the law an excuse?

The personal server was set up under existing government policy at that time, and wasn't changed until after Hillary left office.

Even I understand that spy satellite photos and the names of operatives within the government intelligence community are probably things I shouldn't share using my personal email account.

Emails got flagged by CIA as being classified. The same information in the emails were also publicly available in the media. Is this classified or non-classified?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-new-top-secret-clinton-emails-innocuous-n500586

I would rather have a jerk trying to run the country than a puppet for Koch and friends, I'm really interesting to see if the RNC will let him actually represent them or if something will happen on the way to the convention. Now that the Koch brothers are pushing Rubio I expect him to get better coverage but I think that Trump would make for an interesting 4 years. I don't think that 4 years under Trump would be as bad as 4 years under the Koch brothers.

( http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/top-koch-brothers-official-jumps-marco-rubio-s-campaign-n524336 )

Mike Griffin has complained about NASA priorities ever since he was fired in 2009 and stopped setting the priorities. You may remember the public campaign he and his wife waged to keep his government job. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2845... And he hopes a new incoming President will re-appoint him as NASA head.

  Griffin wants to go back to the expensive paradigm of sending humans to the surface of the moon. This may be an engineering objective (it's fun to build cool stuff) but it is not a top scientific objective. NASA is planning for exploration and eventual colonization of Mars. The truth is that it is astronomically (pun intended) expensive to put humans in such a hostile environment as space. There is really only one goal that makes such expenditures worthwhile. That is the establishment of a permanent self-sustaining human colony off the Earth. The rest, including further exploration of the Moon, can be better carried out by AI or remote controlled robotic vehicles.

Reports I've seen combined blaming the Christmas shopping season (i.e. don't slow down the cash flow), engineering issues, and MasterCard and Visa reportedly being late in publishing at least SOME of the documentation.

http://www.nbcnews.com/busines...

The truth is somewhere in the middle and much more subtle.
The humans most definitely did not stop the price surge "immediately" when they realised it was due to a shooting, here was Uber's original tweet

"We are all concerned with events in CBD. Fares have increased to encourage more drivers to come online and pick up passengers in the area."
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

After a quick social media backlash, they changed their tune to this
"Uber Sydney trips from CBD will be free for riders. Higher rates are still in place to encourage drivers to get into the CBD."

So the algorithm upped the price, Uber was happy with that, everybody else wasn't, Uber then did the right thing.

Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground have said.
“Given the number of hospitals that have been bombed since the war started, they do not think [giving GPS coordinates] is going to protect them, rather the opposite,” another official said.

Don't let the title fool you. The WHOLE article does NOT have a word, or phrase suggest that they STOP provide GPS coordinates to Russia AFTER the incident. In fact, as the quote, they have never provided the data.
Further details:
http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-g...

The charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's five-year civil war have led medical staffers to ask the group not to provide the GPS coordinates of some sites. This was the case of the makeshift clinic run by the charity in the Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan, which was hit four times in attacks on Monday, killing at least 25 people.

OTOH, the Kunduz hospital was the brightest lit building, with flag were easy recognize AND they provided GPS data, and they repeats the claim that "the strikes continued for half an hour after U.S. and Afghan authorities were told the hospital was being bombed" .
After that, tanks entered and destroyed the evidences.

While no-one know which was Russian or Syrian bombing or "other" airforces (remember the airstrike that killed numbers of SAA soldiers, no one know who did this).

Kanye West is $53M in debt.

A lot of news and commentary on this one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

Yeah, and they already have:

They alleged in their filing that Farook may have disabled the iCloud data feature to hide evidence. Although investigators have been able to obtain several backup versions of Farook's iCloud data, the most recent version they've been able to access dates from about a month and a half before the shooting. They said this showed Farook "may have disabled the feature to hide evidence."

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/apple-fights-order-unlock-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone-n519881

He was a racist who didn't believe black people deserved to belong to elite universities

That's probably what "he believed the Constitution was a living document to be interpreted with the evolving standards of modern times" meant.

How about that "no more baby parts" Christian extremist who is proud that he killed 3 people and shot 9 others? And all the other christian nutters ...

There is some evidence that exercise benefits people with Alzheimer's, but the how and why is not well understood.

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Yes, those were his words exactly. So you lied, covered up for a liar in office, and made personal attacks to someone who pointed out the truth.

The Amish

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...

Not everyone believes in private insurance.

You seem to be replying to sjbe's assertion that "everyone uses the health care system".
You provided an interesting link; however, the article you linked supports sjbe's assertion that everyone uses the health care system.

While practices vary by community, most Amish fund their health care through a system that merges church aid, benefit auctions and negotiated discounts with local hospitals - promising quick cash payment in exchange for lower rates.

The man from Kinzers said his community relies on two funds. Nearly every family contributes monthly to a hospital aid fund, while large bills are also paid with free-will offerings.

Some Amish carry benefit cards, which identify them as members of a community but do not bear names or photographs, to help hospitals keep track of those discounts.

What the Amish are doing is using the public health care system and they pay for care through their own community based insurance.
This is much like any other insurance company's affinity group plan except for the details of how the plan is funded.

The Amish

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...

Not everyone believes in private insurance.

Fucking "launch it anyway, the President wants to mention it in his State of the Union speech tonight".

7 Myths About the Challenger Shuttle Disaster

Myth #6: Political pressure forced the launch
There were pressures on the flight schedule, but none of any recognizable political origin. Launch officials clearly felt pressure to get the mission off after repeated delays, and they were embarrassed by repeated mockery on the television news of previous scrubs, but the driving factor in their minds seems to have been two shuttle-launched planetary probes. The first ever probes of this kind, they had an unmovable launch window just four months in the future. The persistent rumor that the White House had ordered the flight to proceed in order to spice up President Reagan’s scheduled State of the Union address seems based on political motivations, not any direct testimony or other first-hand evidence. Feynman personally checked out the rumor and never found any substantiation. If Challenger's flight had gone according to plan, the crew would have been asleep at the time of Reagan's speech, and no communications links had been set up.

A hand up is fine. You might be surprised that I'm in favor of a social safety net, I don't think we should tell people to go die in a ditch.

I'm open to the idea of the government being the employer of last resort, promising to give all comers a job.

I think people on unemployment/welfare/etc. should have to work for it, not sit at home and collect a check. Even if it is just digging ditches or working a phone bank or anything.

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Let me put this another way... If we can afford the most powerful military in the world with 11 aircraft carriers, we can afford to feed our population without exception.

But it shouldn't be free. If you have no money, if you're starving, we will feed you, but you'll work for it. Perhaps it is just working in a soup kitchen a few days a week. Perhaps it is sorting books in the local library a few days a week.

Something, anything... if you give it away for "free", then people do not value it and come to expect it and see themselves as entitled.

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There is an exception... children... I think it is a crime that we charge for food in school. Children should get breakfast and lunch provided at no charge in school.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

That should NEVER HAVE HAPPENED... A child was hungry, the cafeteria worker did what any bloody decent human would do, she fed the child. Refusing to feed a child is a crime against humanity, in my opinion.

If a child is hungry, you give him/her food, period. There should not be a discussion about it. It makes me mad just thinking about it.

Not really a scare article. It's just the TSA issuing press releases trying to make it sound like they're doing a good job despite the fact that they fail 95% of the their own tests of their system.

They might not catch any terrorists, but they are catching the shit out of all the gun owners that are forgetting to check their bags.

Not really a scare article. It's just the TSA issuing press releases trying to make it sound like they're doing a good job despite the fact that they fail 95% of the their own tests of their system.

A million miles at no higher than 25mph.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...

No, most of the miles driven by Google's cars have been with the highway-speed versions, not the newer custom-built versions that are currently being tested on city streets, and are limited to 25 mph.

A million miles at no higher than 25mph.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/te...

I find it especially ironic that none of the recent shootings that made the news would have been stopped by his changes if they happened first thing on his swearing in.

He wants to stop the gun show vulnerability to the system, but that doesn't stop a broken background check system that allowed Dylann Roof to buy a handgun. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
He went through the background check, but because the database being used sucks, he didn't get flagged.

The changes wouldn't have stopped Adam Lanza from shooting up Sandy Hook, the guns he used were legally owned by his mother and were available to him.

I do enjoy the irony in Obama calling for gun control while being surrounded by a private army though. Especially in that all the gun control possible hasn't slowed the crime rate in the city he used to work in of Chicago, or where I am from, Baltimore.

I also fail to see how these guys are any danger to real terrorists.

They aren't, they are a benefit to IS. IS's raison d'etre is the conspiracy against Sunni Islam by the alliance of Shias and the Western World. By attempting to silence them, they are just giving IS more credibility in the eyes of their adherents, by validating the conspiracy theory. Even for groups as odious as IS, it is better to let them speak freely, and then counter their claims with more speech.

Btw, Saudi Arabia, a staunch American ally, beheaded 47 dissidents and apostates yesterday, including a leading Shia cleric. So on a moral basis, how is our enemy any worse than our ally?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us... The Secret Service quickly intervened and said the pilot of the small, quadcopter-style drone was "completely unaware" that Obama's motorcade would be traveling through the area on Oahu. The man "immediately complied with law enforcement requests to cease and desist," the statement added. No charges were filed and the motorcade did not stop or slow down because of the incident. No shooting or arrests ... how sensible.

A quote from an NBC News story about Blue Origin, a company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, shows one of the differences between SpaceX rockets, which go into orbit, and Blue Origin rockets, which don't orbit:

SpaceX is working to reuse rockets that are returning from the higher altitudes and faster speeds of orbital missions. "It is ... important to clear up the difference between 'space' and 'orbit'," Musk posted on Twitter. ... A rocket needs to be traveling about three times the speed of sound, or Mach 3, to reach space, but orbital missions require speeds about Mach 30, Musk said.

That's how it seems to me. Jeff Bezos has done that before. He said his company, B.O., Blue Origin, would take tourists into the edge of space, but not into orbit. He has apparently abandoned that idea. Now he is pretending to compete with Elon Musk and SpaceX.

Quote from an NBC News story about B.O.:

SpaceX is working to reuse rockets that are returning from the higher altitudes and faster speeds of orbital missions. "It is ... important to clear up the difference between 'space' and 'orbit'," Musk posted on Twitter. ... A rocket needs to be traveling about three times the speed of sound, or Mach 3, to reach space, but orbital missions require speeds about Mach 30, Musk said.

What about pizza?

I tell my wife that the reason I end up eating multiple bowls of salsa when we go eat Mexican food is so I can get my vegetables.

What about pizza?

I met the assistant chief of police of ReykjavÃk when I spoke there. He explained to me that the police did not carry firearms because if the did, the criminals would as well.

Looking here, it seems that police are divided. The chief's organziation supported gun control and the sheriff's organization divided it.

I've been a deputy sheriff because the county found that to be the easiest way to get emergency services volunteers under their insurance. I think in some places people get that badge just for the gun privileges - concealed carry, etc.

YES it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

So is Obama trying to take away guns. True tyrants don't let a little thing like the constitution get in the way of a good campaign.

It's okay when they are actually a militant group?

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

http://www.adweek.com/prnewser...

http://media.breitbart.com/med...

For anyone still reading, all of those links show that a single man shouted a nazi reference to a crowd of people who shouted at him first. Seriously, read the links.

Once again I reiterate - just because your political ideology differs from someone else does not mean that they are Hitler and you are not.

It's okay when they are actually a militant group?

http://www.nbcnews.com/politic...

http://www.adweek.com/prnewser...

http://media.breitbart.com/med...

What's frightening is that you'd choose a crazy bigoted egomaniac over a fairly unremarkable Democrat who has become the devil incarnate to right-wingers somehow. I never understood the incredible amount of hate that US conservatives have for Hillary. Since she's a huge war-hawk by Dem standards, you'd think they might even find her more tolerable.

hillary was beloved by republicans back when. “I have a sense that she is one of the more competent members of the current administration and it would be interesting to speculate about how she might perform were she to be president,” -Dick Cheney http://dailycaller.com/2011/09... "Look, if we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles as Chief of Staff of the White House or president of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That's not the kind of presidency we're dealing with right now." - Paul Ryan http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bi... “Having started as a secretary and eventually become a chief-executive officer, I not only have great admiration and respect for Hillary Clinton and her candidacy and her leadership, but I also have great empathy, I must tell you, for what she went through,” -Carly Fiorina http://www.todayszaman.com/wor... “I happen to like Hillary Clinton; I think she’s done a good job for the ... secretary of state’s position, and I have high respect for her and think a great deal of her.” - Orrin Hatch http://www.politico.com/story/... “I think the international star is Secretary Clinton. She has done a really tremendous job.” John McCain http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2... "She's dedicated to her job, she loves her country, I think she is a good role model, one of the most effective Secretary of States, greatest ambassadors for the American people that I've known in my lifetime." -Lindsey Graham http://www.thestate.com/news/p... "I think she's done a fine job. The problem isn't Hilary Clinton, who's great," -Condoleeza Rice http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_...

If you like "red alerts", get ready for the "the threat level is orange; the threat level has always been and will always be orange" 3.0: DHS just announced a new threat level alert system.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

I still think the Ron White system is the most clearly articulated threat alert system. It consists of 2 levels: 1.(low level)Find a helmet; 2. (high level) Put on the damn helmet.

If you like "red alerts", get ready for the "the threat level is orange; the threat level has always been and will always be orange" 3.0: DHS just announced a new threat level alert system.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

Odd, how I first read that as "theatre level alert system"

If you like "red alerts", get ready for the "the threat level is orange; the threat level has always been and will always be orange" 3.0: DHS just announced a new threat level alert system.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...

The assault rifles were purchased by a friend of Syed in 2011 and 2012. Syed didn't make his first trip to Saudi Arabi until 2014. This would imply he became radicalized before ever leaving US soil and before meeting his wife, lending possible credence to the fact that Syed was in fact a "homegrown terrorist". To be fair it's not clear if the friend bought the weapons for himself initially and then lent/sold them to Syed sometime thereafter.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

At least there are some varieties of banana that are resistant to this strain of Panama disease.

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

It is a bacterial disease that is wiping out citrus in many places worldwide. It's spread by a sap sucking insect.

There is NO non GMO citrus plant that is resistant. Lemons, limes, oranges, tangerines, kumquats, pommelos, buddha's hands, every single citrus is in the process of being wiped out.

So far, the only resistant citrus plants are ones that have had spinach genes grafted in.

Citrus greening is rampant in Florida, and many areas worldwide, but is spreading somewhat slower in California because citrus areas tend to be separated by ridges of hills.

Infected plants only survive, for a while, if they're given antibiotics.

It's looking awfully like it's soon going to be a choice of GMO citrus or NO citrus.

And while you're GMO-ing citrus, how about removing or reducing the fumarins which cause skin cancer?
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...

(A swipe at nature nutjobs, "natural" doesn't mean "good" every time--citrus might be better if it didn't cause cancer, right?)

--PeterM

> Anyone care to comment on the legality of using ANPR in public?

Not only is it legal, there is an enormous industry that's been exploiting it for years. Nowadays all repo-men have ANPR camers on their vehicles and they upload their data in real-time to a couple of different data brokers. It started off as just data for other repo men, but now for $10 anyone can look up plate scans in their database.

So yeah, turn those cameras on the powerful instead of just the pitiful. Let them learn first hand what its like to live under the panopticon. I'm especially looking forward to real-time tracking of un-marked police cars in waze.

There's a counter-"zero tolerance" movemnet gaining steam.

There is? About time. It's really stupid when a bully hits you then complains to a teacher that his hand hurts and is able to get you expelled for not moving out of the way fast enough. Then again, our high school had a lot of odd students. We had our share of drugs in the free brownies at bake sales, bomb threats, and greased up naked guys . Even The Daily Show called us Gaylords. Maybe a vital nutrient was missing from our food...

Seriously? It was all over the news. He did not eliminate Olivia Hallisey from winning her scholarship prize from Google, but he did steal the spotlight of the event. Her amazing discovery went from headline news to buried byline at the bottom.

Take a look.

This was all over every meaningful news outlet for a couple weeks. I don't understand how you could have the ignorance to miss something like that but still have the self-confidence to call it out as bullshit. Shame on you and whomever modded you up for not knowing how to google or keep abreast of the news you are commenting on.

Video link, for the skeptical: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

I'm the child of a muslim... personally atheist but reasonably scared by this headline... Watched the video and it's just some jargon about a wall and immigration. Of course he's advocating for nothing in particular, probably nothing congress would pass, but what we're seeing here is sensationalist nonsense from a journalist. Trump is obviously not listening to him, or barely listening to him. Thanks white people for wasting my time. I thought I was going to have to arm myself to defend my constitutional rights against fascism. Turns out the media "GOTCHA" ...

There is no misinterpretation. The video link, for the umpteenth time: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

What else will you allow politicians to say and then allow them completely off the hook? The reporting is the reporting. His words are there. If he clarifies or backpedals later, do not shoot the messenger who gave the first reports.

You are shooting the messenger who reported his initial words. That's a well-known Republican tactic that has been used over and over again this political season. By contrast, Democrats will clarify or backpedal but they will rarely if ever say the initial reports were biased, and evidence that the whole world is against them.

We should probably bring in more context at this point. Marco Rubio says the mainstream media is the biggest SuperPAC in the world for the Democrats. That is so absurd, but it got so many cheers in the last debate. Does that lend any extra context to what you are doing here?

To summarize: the initial reports were not inaccurate by any means. The video link is there. Republicans blame the media to get away with all manner of bullshit, and you are both apparently ignorant of the tactic, and an enabler by promoting a bullshit counter-narrative to Trump's database of Muslims.

I never said he was either a stooge or a super genius. This may be the first conversation you have participated in because you clearly can't tell what is actually being said, you're whaling away at some imagined argument.

I will link the video for you again, because you are talking about a transcript, despite the fact that a primary source is right there at your fingertips:
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

You keep it up, though. Enough people are willing to pretend they have all the facts themselves, and the mainstream media is just out to get Republicans. I do not think I am winning over many people, but it should be clear to anybody reading this conversation, who has any experience with critical thinking, that you are not following it correctly.

Okay, watch the video link, and try to note what was actually said (the words that were actually spoken): http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

The story is being reported correctly. He said what he said, there is no need for a conspiracy theory.

If you are willing to believe the never-ending Republican refrain that they are being persecuted by the mainstream media, then you're simply willing to look past what they actually say, on camera, an example of which is right there in the link. That will help them. It's a dullard's belief system. It lets them off the hook for saying very stupid shit.

So you are in their camp for that, but Trump also gets points for tossing some flesh to their extremely bigoted base. I never once said this was bad for Trump. He'll get a boost from this for all the wrong reasons, of which you are one very, very dismissive, dissembling example.

Video link, again: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...

You apparently want to defend what Trump said by saying it's spin now, not whether his words are being reported correctly. It doesn't matter whether it's spin or not, he said what he said, and it's being reported accurately.

Trump will gain significant ground if he can spin this both as red meat for the bigots, and media persecution for the mentally unkempt.

You are in the latter, good for you.

"There should be a lot of systems. Beyond databases. I mean, we should have a lot of systems." - Donald Trump
"Different places. You sign ’em up at different..." - Donald Trump

That takes out the context of the questions, but the context makes it more clear, we're talking about database. I don't doubt that he wants to backpedal now and cry loudly about media persecution, but that doesn't mean you can dismiss the way this is being reported. He said what he said.

Again, the video link: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/t...