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Lest anyone forgets $1B went missing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Oh and you wanna talk about baby killers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How about that opoid crisis? 20 million painkillers to a town of 3,000. ALL CASH. https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

Also...the anonymity isn't crypto's main feature. Just look at the most recent $10 Billion lawsuit. It turns out all those rich list addresses were owned by exchanges and things like that. Cash is far more anonymous than crypto. Why else would drug dealers have bedrooms full of billions of cash: https://www.veteranstoday.com/...

So please tell me how Crypto is killing fucking babies again. I dare you.

FCOJ

72 percent of Republicans support KEEPING the net neutrality rules.

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

Somewhere between just under or just over half of republicans support stricter gun laws.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13...

Neither of these groups supports Republicans. They both support morons.

There's an excellent Planet Money episode about this:

https://www.npr.org/sections/m...

Eggs are heavily cleaned in the US.

This is true and not necessarily a good thing. It's also arguably unnecessary if you design the supply chain properly. As evidence see how eggs are handled in other countries without the same amount of washing. Most places in the world do not bother with the expensive cleaning and refrigeration systems the US supply chain requires.

In the US, the entire supply chain from post clean to shopping cart has to be germ free.

Not even remotely true and not possible either. The supply chain does have safe food handling regulations including cleaning and refrigeration and testing but safe handling does not equal germ free. If it was germ free it would be FAR more expensive.

Now the US egg lasts a lot longer because it's been sterilized and sits in a sterile environment.

A) They aren't sterilized. Some (but not all) eggs are pasteurized which isn't the same thing. Those that aren't are cleaned but nothing remotely close to sterile.

B) Eggs are most certainly not stored in a sterile environment nor are they handled in a sterile manner in most of the supply chain. Especially once they reach the grocery store. People open literally almost every egg carton to ensure no breakage prior to purchase so they are a LONG way from sterile by the time you get your hands on them.

C) Eggs in the US demonstrably do not last longer and because of how they are processed they have to be refrigerated which is not required other places. I own chickens and eggs that aren't cleaned (which removes the protective coatings) actually can sit on a counter for weeks without ill effect even without refrigeration. US eggs are refrigerated which makes a difference but you can refrigerate uncleaned eggs too and get the same effect. Once you refrigerate an egg though it has to stay refrigerated until you use it.

Deep learning systems generating candy heart messages

Let's get specific:

"the National Transportation Safety Board determined that it was a design flaw, and not deferred maintenance, neglect, or other problems, that caused the 35W bridge to collapse. Gusset plates that hold the bridge's huge steel beams together were only half as thick as they should have been. The NTSB also found that nearly 300 tons of construction equipment and materials stockpiled on the bridge deck for the ongoing repair work contributed to the collapse by further stressing the crucial gusset plate that failed."

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01...

It seems amazing to me to draw the conclusion that because the bridge failure was due to underspecced gusset plates we should just stop worrying and do nothing despite so much of our infrastructure being found to be structurally deficient. Isn't a design flaw that makes the bridge unsafe sort of the very definition of structurally deficient? Is that exactly the kind of thing you should be spending money to inspect and fix? Does it not strike you that as other components age and weaken, an underspecced component might be more likely to fail?

The California blackouts were 100% Enron manipulating the market to make billions (that was the federal findings result). Deregulation does not mean no-regulation, and the idiots in California let Enron write the deregulation terms which is why the electorate took Gray Davis head in a historic recall.

There was still regulation, it was just asinine because the bureaucrats were 100% incompetent fools. Many other states (including Texas) have a deregulated grid with no shortages and low prices (that don't gouge users as they buy more, like California and most Democrat states do today). https://www.electricchoice.com... and Texas pays 30% less for baseline electricity than California, even after re-regulation and about 65% less if you consider actual average bills based on usage: https://www.npr.org/sections/m...

The key is to require all providers to maintain a reasonable % of excess capacity over what they sell into the grid, and when it drops below a threshold, they have to build more capacity and require long term contracts (something like 12 months at a time) so that energy is sold on a long term contract basis, instead of a premium spot demand price.
 

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,

I'm also willing to trade my freedom to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater in exchange for the safety of not dying in a stampede. No freedom is absolute. That's the philosophy underpinning modern Western society going back to Hobbes and Locke. Individuals sacrifice their natural right to absolute freedom in exchange for the safety and stability that comes with living in a society where people aren't free to rob and murder each other.

Besides, the Ben Franklin quote you're paraphrasing doesn't mean what you think it means.

This "news" is "dog bites man" please come back when it is "man bites dog".

Well, OK then.

Anti-science? Remind us again how many genders there are.

There are only two. Male, and female. There are some intergender people, but if you have trouble figuring out what is what - have them drop trou, and do an inspection

Anti-knowledge?

Using nutjobs is not a very good tactic of trying to smear anyone who isn't a Republican. Both parties have nutjobs. But just so you know, here are Republicans that have been elected, therefore are supported by the mainstream Republican party. Whack-a-doodles are not in firm control of the Democrats. Let us look at a few of these people have to say: https://www.npr.org/2011/09/07...

But then, your little diversion isn't my point at all. If Ron Paul doesn't believe in evolution, or Rick Santorum believes that the world was created exactly as in Genisis 1, well I could hardly give a rat's ass. If you want to believe the sun rotates around the earth, or is a burning lump of coal, or that somehow enough water rained out of the sky to cover the entire earth in 40 days from sea level to the top of Everest, (do the math on that) and that the animals in Australia swam to the middle east across the ocean to avoid drowning, well, I support that.

But making policy on all of that is demonstrably anti-science, and it is exactly mainstream Republican dogma. The outliers like John Huntsman are exactly that - the outlier- the exception that proves the rule. Meanwhile, we need to settle if Genesis 1 or 2 is the correct order of creation.

And if some left wing doofus wants to declare that there are an infinite number of genders, or that crystal harmonics rule the universe, the same holds. I am pro science, not pro policy. And right now, the team that is in power, the team that controls what happens is not. And just as in other anti-science countries, a brain drain will occur.

• "This is not a drill" is only to be included if it is not a drill.
• Drills are to be preceded and ended by the phrase "exercise exercise exercise."

For a false alert to be sent out, both safeguards have to fail. Presumably staff are trained that either the absence of "this is not a drill" or the presence of "exercise exercise exercise" indicates a drill. In other words, it is only real if the broadcast contains the phrase "this is not a drill", AND is not begun nor ended with "exercise exercise exercise."

The first safeguard failed when a supervisor played the incorrect broadcast to staff - one which included the phrase "this is not a drill." He did however correctly include "exercise exercise exercise" at the beginning and end of the broadcast.

The second safeguard also failed. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency fired the employee because they think he ignored the "exercise exercise exercise" in the broadcast. The fired employee claims another employee cut off the phone broadcast before the ending "exercise exercise exercise" so he never heard it.

I agree they should've waited until after an investigation to fire him. But the inclusion of the phrase "this is not a drill" does not automatically absolve the employee of responsibility for the mistake. The system you're advocating only has a single safeguard, which is a really dumb way to design a system which could potentially incite panic.on a state-wide scale. They correctly designed it with multiple safeguards, and it is possible that the employee ignored the second safeguard, which would in fact make him responsible for the false alert.

Here is the problem, truck drivers make a descent middle class wage.

And yet, not enough people want to do this job: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/576752327/trucking-industry-struggles-with-growing-driver-shortage

This, below, is the utter antithesis to Feynman's observations, and each time I watch the video, I am given serious pause as to how to raise my children:

https://www.npr.org/templates/...

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

"In an irritated voice they said, 'you've given us a machine that works only in English, so we had to each ourselves English in order to use it.'"

"Well apart from the fact that improper replication of the DNA molecule causes disease, we haven't understood anything else."

G'AWWWWN!

STTOS and STTNG were great at showing us a different path. A way of living where, simply, no one cared about race - at least among Earthlings.

You have to realize the time STTOS came out though. In 1966 there were almost NO non WASP characters on television. In 1968 a Presidential candidate was running on a "Segregation Forever" platform, winning 5 states and 46 electoral votes. Only about 50% of Americans at that time approved of women working outside the home.

Merely depicting whites, blacks, women, Asians, Russians, and even aliens in a functional work environment was a radical "social justice" message, and a direct affront to both existing society and social conservative ideology. Doing much more than that would have gotten them thrown off the air. (In fact, the pilot had a female 2nd officer. The network wouldn't allow it because the role involved her giving orders to men).

Michelle Nichols was thinking of quitting after the first season, and Martin Luther King Jr., a man who literally dedicated his life to fighting for Social Justice, personally forbade her from doing so. Told her she was fighting for the cause on TV more than anyone on the streets.

It was simply a completely different world than the America of today. Conservatives HATED the show. So its a pretty good bet that if you're a conservative today and don't like "SJW Trek", you would have never liked trek. You only like it when its so dated its no longer radical.

and raise you an NPR Article and a BBC one too.

Our health care sucks, particularly in rural areas. And you can't blame that on the US being spread out. Look at Canada. Better outcomes and just as if not more spread out population centers.

Unnecessary tests and pharmaceuticals. Doctors use unnecessary tests to protect themselves from lawsuits. Then there's the medication problem.

the-myth-of-drug-expiration-dates
  The government needs an independent lab to determine the expiry dates, not big pharma.

drug-firms-shipped-208-million-pain-pills-to-west-virginia-town

drug-company-payments-mirror-doctors-brand-name-prescribing

I also have to wonder if doctors prescribe drugs as the easy solution instead telling the patient to make lifestyle choices.

We physicists have been quietly mortified by his crackpottery for decades. He squanders the capital of credibility built up by so many careful researchers, and to what end?

You never had credibility to anyone but the credulous. Get over it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...
https://www.npr.org/sections/t...
http://www.michaeleisen.org/bl...

Science and philosophy aren't improved by the adulation of laymen who are merely seeking a replacement for their black-cassocked hierophant in a white-coated scientist. Don't promote attribution of trustworthiness to your field, that's exploitative pseudoscience, instead be trustworthy as an individual.

The emails were real, but edited. The line Trump quoted during his run for president was cut and pasted into the email using a Russian language version of microsoft office. The actual line was a quote from a Russian propaganda website. https://www.npr.org/2016/10/11...

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/14...

Payment is unclear. A generous plan that covers all Americans is going to require more revenue. There's no exact plan for how to pay for Sanders' bill, but he did on Wednesday afternoon release a list of potential payment options. Among the proposals: a 7.5 percent payroll tax on employers, a 4 percent individual income tax and an array of taxes on wealthier Americans, as well as corporations. In addition, Sanders' plan says the end of big health insurance-related tax expenditures, like employers' ability to deduct insurance premiums, would save trillions of dollars.

But even with all of those potential revenue-boosters, Sanders may still fall far short of the total amount of money needed to pay for his ambitious program. Altogether, his estimates of how much money his funding mechanisms would generate totals up to around $16 trillion over 10 years. In a 2016 report on his presidential campaign's "Medicare for All" plan, the Urban Institute estimated that the plan would cost $32 trillion over 10 years.

Right now the total US debt is $20 trillion

https://www.treasurydirect.gov...

So you're looking at adding another $16-$32 trillion to that over ten years depending on how overly optimistic his plan turns out to be. I'm sure that won't cause any problems, like a sovereign debt crisis for example, at all.

After all single payer for all worked out fine in Vermont. Oh wait, not it didn't.

https://www.politico.com/story...

Here's a scary article for you. There are cops out there making $10.50/hr working part time. Less than a Wal-Mart Greeter. At those prices beggars can't be choosers and cops who've been fired for misconduct get hired by cash strapped departments who can't afford the $140k it takes to train up an officer. This is what happens when you slash taxes non-stop for 30 years. The government doesn't waste nearly as much money as people think. Sooner than later those cuts need to come from somewhere real.

Tax reform. That is turning out to be fairly useful. Lets look and see what else has been passed by Trump. How about a link from NPR?

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/27...

• HR 244 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017
• HR 2810 National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
• HR 3732 Emergency Aid to American Survivors of Hurricanes Irma and Jose Overseas Act
• HR 2430 FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017

I just ticked off a few random ones there. So I would say that Trump in passing lots of useful legislation in his presidency.

This shouldn't come as a surprise. This entire administration has been built around two policies: A) if Obama did it, get rid of it and B) mysticism and flimflammery over science.

This is the same man who said he wants to bring back coal despite its known hazards (acid rain and greenhouse gases to name two), and recently upped tariffs on solar panels which will all but destroy the thriving solar industry in this country, an industry which has more jobs than oil, coal and gas combined.

This is the same man who denies climate change, yet says he needs to protect his failing Irish golf course from climate change by building a sea wall.

“If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase.”

“As with other predictions of global warming and its effects, there is no universal consensus regarding changes in these events,” it states. “Our advice is to assume that the recent average rate of dune recession will not alter greatly in the next few decades, perhaps as far into the future as 2050 as assumed in the [government study] but that subsequently an increase in this rate is more likely than not.”

He's made numerous comments anti-vaccine comments:

        Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes – AUTISM. Many such cases!

        — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2014b

“You take this little beautiful baby, and you pump — I mean, it looks like just it’s meant for a horse and not for a child,” Trump said. “We had so many instances [in which] a child had a vaccine, and came back and a week back had a tremendous fever, got very very sick, and now is autistic.”

And considered appointing an anti-vaccine proponent to a commission on vaccine safety and "scientific integrity".

That he would now defund the ISS is inline with his anti-science stance. Because he is incapable of seeing any benefit to its continuation (who needs scientific research anyway?), and he can't make a dime off it, it's no good. And especially since Obama touted the numerous successes and scientific knowledge coming from it.

Their plan was so obviously horrible that when they applied for a half-billion dollars the analysts could predict, to the month, when Solyndra would go bankrupt - so they denied their federally-secured loan application.

Nope. And you don't do your position any good by making up lies in hindsight to justify it. In fact, the whole problem with Solyndra was that traditional investors could not predict what would happen.

The entire point of the Energy Loan Program was to lose money. That's because it was specifically intended to make high-risk investments that risk-adverse lenders would not take on in order to kickstart the industry in general. Return on investment was not intended to be dollars, but innovative technology that will filter out to the entire industry, much like the way the US space program was a huge money loser but produced all kinds of technology spin-offs that were ultimately a massive positive for american business.

The reason lenders would not make loans to companies like Solyndra is that green-tech was an extremely new industry with little track-record for investors to refer to when calculating risk/reward. Essentially the Energy Loan Program was modeled on high-risk venture capital in silicon valley where they bet on 20 companies, fully expecting 19 to be money losers but that 20th one to hit it out of the park.

And guess, what? It worked better than anyone expected. Despite expecting to lose money, the Energy Loan Program has been turning a profit.

Slashdot, you should know better than to allow this garbage on the front page. It's short and yet still packed with unfounded claims and base assumptions that are far from normal, yet the author makes no attempt to explain or justify these absurd assumptions. In a world where we have to make phone lanes and have teenage suicides at new highs despite rising quality of life, I fail to trust this author's disingenuous claim that there is a weak link between smartphone addictions and happiness.

Slashdot, you should be ashamed for calling this news. It's comment bait, that's it; and why you are losing more of your audience every month.

Thank illegal immigration and the underground economy created by it -- many people have no choice OTHER than to pay cash for services.

More naiveté. An illegal immigrant can get a credit card, not a problem...

But if cash is paid, all the system knows is that cab #5A4D went from point A to B at such-and-such a time and date.

Your naiveté is touching. We already know, how easy it is to uniquely identify you just by your web-browser. And that's something you can control somewhat.

With an active smartphone in your pocket, you are uniquely identifiable by definition — the MAC-addresses of your WiFi and Bluetooth chips betray you. It may be just a bit more difficult to obtain the IMEI from your phone's conversations with the cell-towers. Not to decipher the context of your SMSes and voice-conversations — that'd be illegal and impractical — but simply to keep track of your movements.

Will these systems know your name? You only need to slip up once, allowing to tie your phone to your name (and your cellular provider has the link already). Perhaps more importantly, they don't need to know your name to peddle wares to you — they just need to know, where you are going with any frequency.

Customer photos aren't uploaded to said system.

As I already said, not for very long. The ever-Increasing wireless bandwidth will make real-time uploads of such images to the cloud practical... But these are not even necessary to identify you...

Thank illegal immigration and the underground economy created by it -- many people have no choice OTHER than to pay cash for services.

More naiveté. An illegal immigrant can get a credit card, not a problem...

But if cash is paid, all the system knows is that cab #5A4D went from point A to B at such-and-such a time and date.

Your naiveté is touching. We already know, how easy it is to uniquely identify you just by your web-browser. And that's something you can control somewhat.

With an active smartphone in your pocket, you are uniquely identifiable by definition — the MAC-addresses of your WiFi and Bluetooth chips betray you. It may be just a bit more difficult to obtain the IMEI from your phone's conversations with the cell-towers. Not to decipher the context of your SMSes and voice-conversations — that'd be illegal and impractical — but simply to keep track of your movements.

Will these systems know your name? You only need to slip up once, allowing to tie your phone to your name (and your cellular provider has the link already). Perhaps more importantly, they don't need to know your name to peddle wares to you — they just need to know, where you are going with any frequency.

Customer photos aren't uploaded to said system.

As I already said, not for very long. The ever-Increasing wireless bandwidth will make real-time uploads of such images to the cloud practical... But these are not even necessary to identify you...

https://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134525412/Segments-Of-NPR-Gotcha-Video-Taken-Out-Of-Context

Okay, I took the time to read this article ... and I honestly don't see a problem. He took a two-hour video, and released a several-minute edit of the most damning bits. That's standard in media - heck, look at any CNN report that shows any clip of Trump. What O'Keefe did that makes him stand out from the rest of the media is that he also released the raw two-hour video. Is there any other media outlet that shows that degree of openness?

Veritas means truth. In that context, it is worth keeping in mind that this is James O'Keefe who runs it, a man who has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to edit videos and take anything out of context http://www.cracked.com/article_20369_5-major-news-stories-that-forgot-to-tell-you-best-part.html https://www.npr.org/2011/03/14/134525412/Segments-Of-NPR-Gotcha-Video-Taken-Out-Of-Context are two detailed examples. This is a man who literally lied about who he was as part of an attempt to bug a US Senator's phone http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html. Pretty much anything he says should be assigned zero credibility. It may well be that Twitter employees are reading direct messages routinely, or even doing so for political aims, but anything by Project Veritas should not be taken as serious evidence for such a claim.

Bring them to shelter. People have survived nuclear attacks before, no doubt they will in the future as well. If you avoid being killed by the initial blast and radiation you want to shelter from the fallout, most of which fades in two weeks.

Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Fallout Protection - What to Know and Do about Nuclear Attack

Nuclear Strike Drills Faded Away In The 1980s. It May Be Time To Dust Them Off

Nuclear weapons and their effects operate according to the laws of physics, not magic. The physics, effects, and countermeasures are known.

Now this isn't all Terri's fault... Bill O'Reilly is a huge douchebag and Al Franken is charming. But listen to her differing approach in these two interviews of people who, at the time, had almost the exact same role (political-based entertainment):
Bill O'Reilly's Fresh Air Interview
Al Franken's Fresh Air Interview

Now this isn't all Terri's fault... Bill O'Reilly is a huge douchebag and Al Franken is charming. But listen to her differing approach in these two interviews of people who, at the time, had almost the exact same role (political-based entertainment):
Bill O'Reilly's Fresh Air Interview
Al Franken's Fresh Air Interview

The advent of stage 4 self driving cars doesn't mean that all other cars are going to be banned from the roadways.

Pretty sure they are. And that's admitted by some autonomous car proponents. They had one on NPR a few months ago, saying how great things were going to be ..... and how the I-5 corridor through Washington State would have to be reserved for autonomous cars.

And the whole bicycle problem has yet to be solved.

Anyway, Kodak being a bunch of white people did initially set the standard to work well with only white people. Then someone realised and fixed it.

https://www.npr.org/2014/11/13...

Let me re-summarize your statement in accurate language:

Kodak set a standard that worked in their testing environment and for the vast majority of the customers. Later on, someone realized that the standard was lowering picture quality for a small portion of their customers, who were complaining. Kodak then held a meeting to discuss how to improve the standard, so that more customers would be happy and buy more Kodak products.

Note Mr Hognoxious, I'm not replying to you pre se, since you're angry, dim and incapable of admitting a mistake viz:

Let me get this right, Kodak had an executive meeting and the subject on the agenda was "How to maek pickchurz of neegras look crap, 4 teh lulz"?

No, that's you making shit up about the parent post because the feeling righteous outrage gives you a little high.

Anyway, Kodak being a bunch of white people did initially set the standard to work well with only white people. Then someone realised and fixed it.

https://www.npr.org/2014/11/13...

They aren't actually bringing in more money than they used to. (link) The listed price of tuition has gone up dramatically because it gives them other advantages, but they're not money making empires.

The big problem with this is that some students do end up paying the full listed price, and these people get screwed royally.

Anyone can buy oil and sell it on the open market... You don't have to be an oil company. Even NPR can do it.
https://www.npr.org/sections/m...

The ruling was the first time that a federal court had blocked a congressional map because of a partisan gerrymander

This may be the first time a federal court has intervened, but such cases do happen all the time — one just reached Supreme Court in Texas last September — and a federal court may get involved there as well.

That the federal judges intervened in a matter of how a State decides on voting should be troubling to anyone, who claims to support States' Rights...

Most dust is skin flakes and mite poop, and therefore has DEFINITELY been part of a structure at some point.

Interplanetary dust? Citation needed, I think.

Even if you're confining yourself to household dust (obviously not the topic of my comment), you're still way off base. For starters, two-thirds of it is typically stuff tracked in from outdoors.

But I suppose if you say that "supernova poop" "has been part of a structure at some point", then you're technically correct...

Dont forget M. Sanger who loved to control the black population through abortion. Their plan is working well since that race has the highest abortion rate. Hillary loves Sangers work. :-)

You mean the same Margaret Sanger who wasn't even alive when Planned Parenthood first performed abortions, and whose cause was birth control, which was considered to be unlawful and highly stigmatized, but who believed such methods would actually reduce the number of abortions, and who actually began her campaign among her own neighborhood before being invited by the leaders of the Harlem community to expand birth control services to their population?

You know, that's the problem with the right-wing, they get so caught up in their lies, they don't realize people can actually check the facts.

> RACE ONLY MATTERS AS MUCH AS YOU LET IT MATTER.

Jim Crow
Jim Crow 2.0
Red-lining
Red-lining 2.0
Sundown Towns
Tuskegee Experiment
School Segregation
School Segregation 2.0
The War on Drugs specifically targeted blacks
Driving While Black
Walking While Black
Debtor's Prison 2.0

LBJ was famously quoted at the time as saying under his breath about the Democrat entitlement programs; "I'll have those n1gg3rs voting Democrat for the next hundred years!"

Sorry, BS, but you can't find one single contemporary source for that quote. It was only proclaimed in a book published in 1995.

Sorry, but you, like many people, are prone to succumbing to the idea if you repeat something you want to believe in, that nobody knows how false it is.

Of course, we also know about the history books.

Sorry, but you ruined your own argument by relying on a spurious quote and thinking we didn't know the rest of the story.

We need laws which make it illegal for the cops to roll up on someone and execute them on the basis that someone claimed that there was a crime occurring

Exactly! The core problem is the militarization of police.

https://www.npr.org/2014/08/19/341542537/police-militarization-becomes-a-hot-topic

Unfortunately, the Black Lives Matter movement co-opted the police militarization issue, and claim (incorrectly) that police militarization is driven by racism. For example, one of their key demands is the following:

We demand an end to the war against Black people. Since this country’s inception there have been named and unnamed wars on our communities. We demand an end to the criminalization, incarceration, and killing of our people. This includes:

...

8. The demilitarization of law enforcement, including law enforcement in schools and on college campuses.

So, are these what they call the Clovis or "pre-Clovis" people or are we talking way before them?

It is unlikely they are Clovis. The Clovis people are genetic ancestors of Native Americans, while the girls in TFA are not. Also, the Clovis people lived in Montana and New Mexico about 13 kya, while these girls lived in Alaska 11.5 kya, so they likely arrived from Siberia after the Clovis migration.

I did read the links. O'Keefe does hidden camera investigations. The fact he did one into AntiFa isn't the only evidence against them. And the charges against O'Keefe are politically motivated bullshit - his sin was exposing the lies and bias of leftist media organisations and NGOs.

Nope. His sin was being a lying bullshit spewer, which lead to him becoming a criminal, your sin, of course, was to believe him. Repetitively.

Any prosecutor dumb enough to allow such a taint into a trial, well, no wonder incompetence is rampant.

But hey, keep relying on them, it's a big sign that you've got less than nothing.

You want to see how real racism is cured?

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20...

Free speech is just the tip of the iceberg. You don't just stop at free speech. You give of yourself, and in return you redeem someone to the whole of society. Not a bad exchange, one might posit, and incredibly effective if it changes the mind of even one racist.

It is a vastly different approach than, say, telling all white people they are racist because they were born white, or creating safe spaces where "people of color" can exclude white people, or beating the shit out of other black kids when they achieve academic success because it's "acting white."

The first thing it requires, that most politically active "anti-racists" will never possess, is not being a fucking piece of shit racist yourself. This is why many politically active "anti-racists" people have called this man, who has done more to combat real deep seated racism than anyone I have ever seen, a traitor to his own race. Apparently, curing a white person of their racism with love is unacceptable to fucking piece of shit racists, period.

Why, you ask? Well, as someone who is repulsed by the inexplicable actions of fucking piece of shit racists of every race, I have no goddamned clue.

Going AC to preserve moderation, but rats too are being used to detect land mines in Cambodia and Africa.

Here's the full 400 pages of the rules. Feel free to point out the page which contains "Don't fuck with your customers' internet access" as part of the rules.

If it's not in there, then it's a phrase which as I said before is irrelevant to what the FCC would actually do or not.

You seem to think FCC rules mean whatever you've heard or read somewhere or wish was in there. However, they actually write these things down and at best only follow what's actually written, not what you want to read into them. The actual effect of the couple years of Title II FCC authority over ISPs was primarily actions aimed at preventing Facebook from being provided to people for free who otherwise wouldn't have access to it.

Title II is a reference to the Communications Act of 1934. It's the section specifically designed to relate to common carriers. I've actually read the section, have you?

The price of the average home has nearly doubled in the US over the last 50 years

So what you are saying is that houses are getting cheaper per area?

"The average American house size has more than doubled since the 1950s; it now stands at 2,349 square feet".