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...will still have people driving into ditches or off cliffs.

Or across airport runways.

Costco got into a fine mess last year when a South Korean golf ball supplier sold them surplus golf balls and Costco resold them under the Kirkland label at $29 for two dozen. The golf industry got turned upside when golfers realizaed that the Costco golf balls were better than the more expensive premium golf balls.

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http://www.newser.com/story/25... Oh those wealthy people...

http://www.newser.com/story/261299/tweet-about-maga-hat-costs-reporter-his-job.html https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/06/30/reporter-resigns-over-false-tweet-that-annapolis-shooter-had-on-maga-hat/ The reporter made a false claim. It was widely reported that this was fake news.

Who was it?: http://www.newser.com/story/16...

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Phones did that :-) Someone has to do something: http://www.newser.com/story/25...

i've been saying it for years. Go 100% digital. It'll help cut down on crime and loss. There's no downside http://www.newser.com/story/18...

This is OLD "news"! Plus... it gets worse: http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/16...

This is OLD "news"! Plus... it gets worse: http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/16...

This is OLD "news"! Plus... it gets worse: http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/16...

This is OLD "news"! Plus... it gets worse: http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/16...

Massive Ransomware Attack Spreading Around the World http://www.newser.com/story/24...

So sweet. So decent. Why wouldn't we embrace them coming to live their lifestyle in the U.S.? We should welcome Shariah Law in America, right? http://www.newser.com/story/24... (and why not? Don't you want to wear a mask?)

There are weaker and stronger people around, and I don't see that the weaker are any less deserving. They aren't, in my observation, less productive in general. The difference between what you said and "the strong will avoid preying on the weak only so long" is subtle at best.

The weak must be protected from the strong. The minority must have their say is a similar concept. . But I think you are confusing the tyranny of the weak with making certain that people do not abuse the minority or the weak. A similar concept is pandering to the least common denominator. We are not talking about the same thing.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that it's difficult to find what Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos think about things? We don't know their private thoughts, but we wouldn't if we went to a lecture by one of them anyway. It's easy enough to find what sorts of things they're likely to talk about, and what they're likely to say about them. It's reasonable to figure, knowing this, that they aren't going to be worth scheduling.

Seriously, you just wanted to disagree with me and you pulled that stunt? Of course it is easy peasy to find out what those two assholes have said. Teh internetz allow a lot of that.

But tell me, who is the arbiter of who should speak? I'll bet that you could find someone on every campus that would object to any speaker they might come up with.

Are you advocating not ever having a different viewpoint? Allow me to make an example along the feminists' allies as a point. If you are a feminist, one of your mentors is Alice Schwarzer, who believes that male/female sex is sexist, and "hardly possible without the subjugation of women". http://www.newser.com/story/10...

She is also a convicted criminal. Sounds like a true asshat to me.

But here is the difference between you and some people, and me. I would love to hear what she says. That's because I believe that hearing someone in person is very important. Apparently your desires are similar to people who want only self affirmation, IOW a bubble where you are insulated from anything you don't agree with.

Sure, the Constitution guarantees the freedom to share more information in the public, and the right to free speech is great... but NOT when it will cause a danger to National Security. The info Snowjob likely possesses is probably EXACTLY the kind of stuff al Qaeda wants leaked out so they can learn better of how to successfully find ways to kill Americans at will. Not to mention, maybe names and locations of counter-terrorism spies that the U.S. has out in the field infiltrating the ranks of those would-be murderers. People want to complain about the NSA and allegedly "spying" on them, but then they'll also complain about not feeling the government is doing enough to protect them from al Qaeda! The NSA is not "hiding" anything, but they'll be truly ineffective if EVERYONE knows what they're working on. They're not interested in photos of your baby or mom's recipes. Has NOBODY stopped for a moment and asked "why" the NSA has been doing what they're doing? Did people think the authorities use magic to uncover terrorist plots? Which would you prefer, "spying" on you or terrorism on you? Snowflake (a high school drop-out) did what he did for the fame (for the escape from obscurity that everyone wants... although most average people simply use Facebook). http://www.newser.com/story/17... Special Ed is a traitor... Some still say what he did was NOT treasonous... But those weren't "leaks". He falsified his credentials and used other agents' identification so he could flat out steal sensitive information...

Well, it's just like email is destroying the U.S. Post Office :-) and because of cellphones, we don't see payphones on the streets anymore. Time marches on... Who needs one-hour photos, when you can have as-soon-as-you-press-the-button photos? These things happen, but hey, there are some entire store chains that have disappeared: http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/24...

Well, it's just like email is destroying the U.S. Post Office :-) and because of cellphones, we don't see payphones on the streets anymore. Time marches on... Who needs one-hour photos, when you can have as-soon-as-you-press-the-button photos? These things happen, but hey, there are some entire store chains that have disappeared: http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/24...

Well, it's just like email is destroying the U.S. Post Office :-) and because of cellphones, we don't see payphones on the streets anymore. Time marches on... Who needs one-hour photos, when you can have as-soon-as-you-press-the-button photos? These things happen, but hey, there are some entire store chains that have disappeared: http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/24...

Do us a favour and get with the program! YOUR electric company disasters are costing us problems here in the U.S.: "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Company, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." - http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/23...

Do us a favour and get with the program! YOUR electric company disasters are costing us problems here in the U.S.: "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Company, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." - http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/23...

Do us a favour and get with the program! YOUR electric company disasters are costing us problems here in the U.S.: "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Company, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." - http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/23...

Do us a favour and get with the program! YOUR electric company disasters are costing us problems here in the U.S.: "A news report says Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant was so unprepared for the disaster that workers had to bring protective gear and instruction manuals from elsewhere and borrow equipment from a contractor. The report, released by operator Tokyo Electric Company, is based on interviews of workers and plant data. It portrays chaos in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful battle to protect the Fukushima plant from meltdown, and shows that workers struggled with unfamiliar equipment." ap.org/ - "Scientists have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from the waters off of Japan, site of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster of 2011, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is unequivocal. The young tuna were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium from Fukushima." http://content.usatoday.com/co... - "Japanese whalers caught 2 animals along the northern coast that had traces of radiation from leaks at a damaged nuclear power plant, officials said. 2 of 17 minke whales caught off the Pacific coast of Hokkaido showed traces of radioactive cesium, both about 1/20th of the legal limit, fisheries officials said. They are the first whales thought to have been affected by radiation leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant since it was hit by a 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami." - http://www.newser.com/story/19... http://www.newser.com/story/20... http://www.newser.com/story/17... http://www.newser.com/story/23...

India's Famine Solution: We'll Eat Bugs... – Hopefully people in India like munching on crickets and other, um, delicacies. As the country's Food and Agriculture Organization warns a global famine will strike in 50 years, scientists are experimenting with an interesting source of alternative protein: bugs. "We are now doing a lot of work on edible insects," says a professor who has studied 29 different insect species included in the diet of the Bodo tribe in Assam. An FAO report notes bugs like caterpillars, termites, beetles, and grasshoppers have a high nutritional value that could match other kinds of meat, Quartz reports. Plus, insects are already part of traditional diets for two billion people worldwide, according to the report. So how do you feed a country like India with bugs? The answer is large-scale insect farms, FAO says, adding that such a diet would be environmentally friendly and cheaper than other proteins. As for the Bodos, "they do not have much inhibition about insects. It is an age-old tradition for them," the professor says. But one member of the country's Dalit population, which has also eaten bugs, notes they did so "out of compulsion ... If you ask them to go back to eating just that, they will tell you to go to hell." Maybe this will help: "Salty and sweet" preserves made from leftover silkworm pupae apparently taste like prawns, a scientist says. The Waco Tribune-Herald notes the trend toward creepy-crawly meals is also playing out in the US. http://www.newser.com/story/18... https://science.slashdot.org/s...

There is no downside to not using "cash". It should be obsolete by now http://www.newser.com/story/18... The U.S. is behind the times http://news.slashdot.org/story... (We'll just need to increase cyber security)

So they can enjoy the fun of THROWING people off a plane even though they paid for that seat: http://www.newser.com/story/24... http://www.newser.com/story/24...

So they can enjoy the fun of THROWING people off a plane even though they paid for that seat: http://www.newser.com/story/24... http://www.newser.com/story/24...

The reason Costco sells them cheap is because they deal in volume - instead of making balls in hundreds of thousands, they can make balls by the millions, extracting mass production cost benefits.

And because they were partnered up with another company who designed the balls, they got a good quality ball, made quite cheaply in volumes that out-do the other manufacturers since Costco does stuff in bulk.

Apparently the golf balls in question are a OEM ball manufactured by Nassau Golf Company (located in South Korea). Nassau has also sold OEM golf balls to TaylorMade (a golf equipment subsidiary of Adidas). Although I suspect nobody knows for sure, the word on the street was it manufacturing over-run which is unlikely to be repeated.

The interesting thing that most folks are missing is that Costco is pre-emptively suing Acushnet (the seller of Titleist balls) seeking declartory judgement (yes, Costco is doing the suing) in response to a lawyer letter sent by Acushnet. This is mostly because they need to defend the tag line "meet or exceed the quality standards of leading national brands" of their Kirkland branded products, not because they want to sell more golf balls (although they probably do, it's not the main reason for their lawsuit). They want to establish a legal precedent that they can use this tag line in the rest of their business to deter future lawsuits on this basis.

Funny you should mention that. Must be a new thing in academia. No one at the Department of Education bothered to check the texts before tweeting.

http://www.newser.com/story/238241/education-dept-tweets-typo-apologizes-with-typo.html

Sometimes it's beneficial http://www.newser.com/story/21...

1) Theft 2) False credentials 3) Tampering with national security 4) Placing all Americans at risk 5) International flight 6) Traveling on a voided passport 7) Bartering with items/information he doesn't legally own nor has personally created 8) Terroristic threats 9) Unethical treatment toward his employer 10) Misrepresentation 11) Perjury/breach of oath 12) Dereliction of duty 13) Failure to follow orders. 14) Impersonation of known government officials/identity theft. He's also flirting with, in fact, trying to set up the two main offenses: A) Assisting foreign powers B) Aiding the enemy. Sure, the Constitution guarantees the freedom to share more information in the public, and the right to free speech is great... but NOT when it will cause a danger to National Security. The info Snowjob likely possesses is probably EXACTLY the kind of stuff al Qaeda wants leaked out so they can learn better of how to successfully find ways to kill Americans at will. Not to mention, maybe names and locations of counter-terrorism spies that the U.S. has out in the field infiltrating the ranks of those would-be murderers. People want to complain about the NSA and allegedly "spying" on them, but then they'll also complain about not feeling the government is doing enough to protect them from al Qaeda! The NSA is not "hiding" anything, but they'll be truly ineffective if EVERYONE knows what they're working on. They're not interested in photos of your baby or mom's recipes. Has NOBODY stopped for a moment and asked "why" the NSA has been doing what they're doing? Did people think the authorities use magic to uncover terrorist plots? Which would you prefer, "spying" on you or terrorism on you? Snowflake did what he did for the fame (for the escape from obscurity that everyone wants... although most average people simply use Facebook). http://www.newser.com/story/17...

Just how thoroughly have hackers licked antivirus programs? So thoroughly that even Symantec, which essentially invented commercial antivirus, is jumping ship on the concept, the Wall Street Journal reports. Antivirus "is dead," Symantec Senior VP Brian Dye tells the paper. "We don't think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way." Symantec's new stance, he explains, will be to assume that hackers can and will break through any antivirus protection, and to focus on containing the damage once they do. Symantec will create a response team businesses can call on if they've been hacked, intelligence briefings they can buy on specific threats, and technologies for identifying advanced malware in networks. Rivals already have similar products—as Channelnomics notes, other companies have been decrying the decline in antivirus effectiveness for years—but Symantec is hoping its conversion, even if late, can stem plummeting revenue. Dye says the company realized it was time "to get your act together and go play the game you should have been playing in the first place." http://www.newser.com/story/18... http://www.techweekeurope.co.u...

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i love it. They nailed him! http://tech.slashdot.org/story... Down with trolls http://www.newser.com/story/21...

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