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(Grabs cigar and gun) Clinton will do what billionaire pedophiles do. ;)

You are obsessed. Your jowls are shaking, spittle is dripping off your chin. Righteous indignation of a diehard Apple apologist.

Waving the white flag, eh? You literally cannot come up with anything except for ad hominems that project your own feelings onto others?

And Apple watch is a piece of junk that nobody should waste their hard earned money on.

Which is why millions are sold every quarter, and they're the market leader.

If you need a smartwatch then buy Samsung, Fitbit, Xiaomi or Huawei, companies that actually care about making a good looking, usable product.

Which is why far fewer of each are sold every quarter. Participation trophies for all!

Oh, and Apple products tend to explode.

First sentence "Samsung might not be the only smartphone maker with exploding handsets in its portfolio." Whoops.

That never happens to others.

Looking forward to your reply, because you're not obsessed at all...

...because it is idiotic, and could apply to EAS, or EBS before it, delivered via any medium, including radio and TV, or even warning sirens.

https://nypost.com/2018/10/03/...

One of the chief purposes and reasons for being for EAS (and EBS) is for the President to get a message directly to the American people in the event of a major national emergency.

It's a system that is desperately needed, and was expanded to include Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) via the IPAWS legislation signed into law by President Obama.

And though we hope the system is never used, it does need to be tested.

https://slate.com/technology/2...

The play fields/courts of eSports are the copyrighted games owned by publishers, are not open source.

It sounds like the analogy you're trying to make is the following:

Team-based first-person shooters in general are to baseball as Overwatch is to Yankee Stadium.

Under this model, each team would specialize in one game and provide game licenses to the visiting team.

You're being deliberately obtuse and cherry-picking legal technicalities on a simple analogy. And if you want to get technical, the Yankees don't own their stadium either which makes your theoretical licensing system fall apart ( https://nypost.com/2016/08/29/... ). Furthermore, the Yankees players are employees with no ownership rights to Yankee Stadium; like how a competitive video gamer does not own the servers hosting their online games. We still can build on your Overwatch/Yankee Stadium analogy though....but you need to think bigger because Overwatch is not bound physically like a traditional sports stadium... Overwatch is like baseball stadium that can house all baseball games everywhere simultaneously. It is an "eStadium." Players and spectators engage in Overwatch's eStadium, but they don't own it any more than the Yankees players or spectators own Yankee Stadium.

Do women have complaints about the engineers' clothes? That's what really matters when things like this are accomplished: women's feelings about clothes.

https://slashdot.org/~petes_PoV blathered:

Right now the internet is one big space that every user shares with every other user.

That is irrespective of whether one user is a grandma trying to email to a relative, an individual buying a product, a city's traffic light network, a government department, a car or a battleship

This is a ridiculous situation to be in. We segregate road users for their own safety (and that of others) and in order to provide facilities that are appropriate for each type of user. What we don't need is a one-size-fits-all security model. We should be separating out the various forms of network traffic into physically discrete networks. Maybe even to the extent of having multiple networks with little or no cross-over between them.

This would be especially apt for a break between commercial and non-commercial traffic. Or between government and civilian use. And especially between safety-critical infrastructure and everything else.

The concept of an "internet" is past its useful life. The whole structure never took security seriously and was designed more around trust than enforcement. It is past time to move a LOT of stuff off the public network and to make it harder for grandma to accidentally email the Pentagon's National Military Command Centre - just like it isn't (I hope) possible for someone to accidentally walk in through its front door.

I could not more strongly disagree.

The Internet is a voluntary interconnection between (at this point) millions of private networks. It is only that interconnection that made the staggering revolution in how people in the developed world interact with everything from local government to retailers to social networks to ... well ... virtually every other person, organization, and resource in the modern world.

What you are describing is, in many ways, not unlike the Internet in the days of NSFnet being the only backbone provider in the USA. Commerical traffic was banned, period. Networks in the .com domain were permitted to use the net only to provide free-of-cost-to-the-user resources for the public. A private individual could only register for a .com domain by providing a statement of the use to which he/she intended to put it. Only netrwork providers could register in the .net TLD. And so on.

That proved extremely problematic, and, when NSFnet was defunded and went out of business in favor of commercial telecom providers' much-higher-speed backbones, virtually everyone on the 'net cheered. Loudly - because the NSFnet restrictions on content were essentially global constraints, since the USA had by far the largest population of users at the time, so even Europeans had to abide by the prohibitions, because some portion of their traffic would inevitably transit NSFnet.

You are arguing for an officially-balkanized Internet - a change that would, in every meaningful way, destroy the usefullness of the most important advance in human communication in modern history. Not coincidentally, it would deny the populations of emerging economies the opportunity to interact with the rest of the world, and thereby force them to play technological catch-up with the equivalent of one foot in a bucket.

There's a well-worn cliché that warns against the class of solutions you suggest to the problem of securing the subset of devices we call the IoT: "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

As for the insight you display, the H. L. Menchken, the Bard of Baltimore, probably said it best when he observed that "there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong ... "

That is irrespective of whether one user is a grandma trying to email to a relative, an individual buying a product, a city's traffic light network, a government department, a car or a battleship

This is a ridiculous situation to be in. We segregate road users for their own safety (and that of others) and in order to provide facilities that are appropriate for each type of user. What we don't need is a one-size-fits-all security model. We should be separating out the various forms of network traffic into physically discrete networks. Maybe even to the extent of having multiple networks with little or no cross-over between them.
This would be especially apt for a break between commercial and non-commercial traffic. Or between government and civilian use. And especially between safety-critical infrastructure and everything else.

The concept of an "internet" is past its useful life. The whole structure never took security seriously and was designed more around trust than enforcement. It is past time to move a LOT of stuff off the public network and to make it harder for grandma to accidentally email the Pentagon's National Military Command Centre - just like it isn't (I hope) possible for someone to accidentally walk in through its front door.

"New evidence Sony hack was ‘inside’ job, not North Korea" https://nypost.com/2014/12/30/...

New Research Blames Insiders, Not North Korea, for Sony Hack http://time.com/3649394/sony-h...

Researcher: Sony Hack Was Likely an Inside Job by a Woman Named "Lena" http://gawker.com/researcher-s...



So no boys and girls this was not North Korea. This is an attempt by the Military Industrial Complex to gin up tensions with North Korea in order to prevent detente. Because you know war is profitable but peace is not. Stocks for military contracts took a tumble when the US was negotiating with North Korea.

Wow not even a link. Lets look at how major news organizations report the news about the president

https://nypost.com/2018/08/29/...

Last Thursday, we asked how long it would take before Lanny Davis again changed his story about what his client, Michael Cohen, knows about President Trump. It turned out to be four days.

Meanwhile, CNN is standing by a story that relied in part on claims that Davis now says he never should’ve made.

It all started with last month’s bombshell CNN report that Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, was claiming his then-boss knew in advance of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and a Russian operative.

The CNN story said outright that Davis had declined comment, implying that he wasn’t a source — even though Davis now says he was, and CNN admits it. That same night, Davis confirmed the story anonymously to this newspaper and to The Washington Post.

So are you merely a rube ? Or do you enjoy having a hand stuck up your ass

Gun culture is incredibly polite and full of good people who have respect for themselves and others.

Oh yeah. Here's one of your "incredibly polite" good people who have respect for themselves and others:

https://nypost.com/2018/05/09/...

Apparently, working for Tesla is now officially a shit show: https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/...

No the person using ad hom here is you.

There is no equal protection under the law and its enforcement is arbitrary. Here is an example, and here is another one.

It's perfectly reasonable to ascribe ulterior motives to dogged legal persecutions of which was initiated under false pretenses to begin with. Cohen is a pawn and you know it. To pretend otherwise is some seriously sanctimonious bullshit.

But not by Russia!. https://www.motherjones.com/po... https://www.npr.org/2016/04/19... https://nypost.com/2016/04/21/...

I'm not triggered, I just think there's too damn many aspie douchebags who never learned how to BEHAVE like civilized human beings on Slashdot. Spoiled rotten with tech toys by parents. spoiled by their silicon valley employers with techtoys at work and nerf fights and whatnot.

And then they have hissy fits when they have a female boss or some female critic discusses tropes, or they have to learn to listen to people who aren't bearded aspies.

Stallman, Raymond, Torvalds, Damore, all the same shit. Aspies who never learned how to BEHAVE properly and then get/got away with all sorts of shit that NORMAL people would simply NOT do.

Damore is going to go nowhere with his filings. Those are just some aspie whining. Just like that guy who got kicked out of his parents house:

https://nypost.com/2018/05/22/...

See that guy? Same ilk as Damore., Thinks he's an expert in everything. Goes on a hissy fit when called out for not knowing jack shit about what he thinks he knows.

And his lawyer has sued people for using photo in a blog post. The EFF came down on her for that. She's a self serving crackpot...look her up! Damore's complaint has already been rejected by the NLRB, it's going nowhere.

Yep, you should have told it to Amazon (AMZN), that they should have started making profit from year 1, instead of them losing money by stupidly spending it on useless stuff like expanding their infrastructure (and basically becoming THE CLOUD since then)~~

I'm sure, If they had listen to you they would have been successfuly instead of going down crashing and flaming as Tesla motors (TSLA) is going to do any moment soon !~~

Have you ever even looked at the butterfly ballots? The names do not line up with the spots you have to punch to vote for that person (except for Bush). Even Pat Buchanan himself admitted that the votes he received in West Palm Beach were illegitimate.

You joking? The mainstream media that we know for a fact was colluding with the Democrats to throw the election for Hillary? We have hard proof; Wikileaks confirms. Freedom of the Press does not imply Honesty of the Press. The media tells only the story that confirms its own view, that in the end it was incapable of seeing an alternative outcome and of making a true risk assessment of the political variables - reaffirming the Hillary Clinton camp's own political myopia. This defines the parallel realities in which liberals, in their view of themselves, represent a morally superior character.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions. http://imgur.com/a/OMD6b#ed8AV...

On June 16, 2014, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank published a column alleging that a peaceful Muslim was nearly verbally lynched by violent Islamophobes at a Heritage Foundation-hosted panel. What Milbank described was despicable. Unfortunately for Milbank and the Washington Post's credibility, someone filmed the event and posted the film on YouTube. Panel discussants, including Frank Gaffney and Brigitte Gabriel, made important points in a courteous manner. Saba Ahmed, the peaceful Muslim, is a "family friend" of a bombing plotter who expressed a specific desire to murder children. It soon became clear that Milbank was, as one blogger put it, "making stuff up."

CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton.

Ex-CBS reporter's book reveals how liberal media protects Obama

Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

The entire media endorsed Hillary.

CBS's John Dickerson: http://www.mediaite.com/online...">Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves.

Here's the media changing headlines to attack Trump on dozens of occasions.

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

Journalists don't want the media to stop being partisans, they just want them to be *more effective* partisans! To be more effective at beating Trump. The assumptions and goals are the same - Trump is evil, he should be destroyed. It never occurs to the media or their "critics" that the media is not supposed to have any skin in the game...you can only "lose" if you are fighting an opponent...and THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

What bothers me the most about the media is that not only are they horribly prejudiced - they don't even seem to be able to recognize their prejudice. That's so bad.

Oh, there are plenty of people who willfully lie about things like this. Prime example: The boy who claimed to see heaven and came back lied about it.

I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention,” Malarkey admitted.

This is a known problem in the States too. NYC, in particular, sends over half of its "recyclables" to landfill anyway. But, not to worry, they still fine people for failing to sort their trash — whether it helps environment or not, whatever increases the government's power over the subjects is a good thing, is not it?

https://nypost.com/2017/04/05/passenger-from-hell-threatens-to-accuse-uber-driver-of-rape/

An enraged Bronx woman threatened to falsely accuse an Uber driver of rape and assault — after he told her he didn’t have a charger for her phone, footage shows.
“I’m going to start screaming out the window that you’re raping me, that you raped me,” the female passenger can be heard saying in a dashcam video posted by LiveLeak.
“I will punch myself in the face and tell the cops you did it,” she adds. “You wanna play?”
The incident is said to have occurred Monday in the Bronx, according to the video-sharing website.
The woman also hurled racial expletives at the driver and told him to “go back to your country.”
“Donald Trump going to send you and your family back,” she seethes. “Get the f–k out of my country.”

I'd hate to think how much trouble this guy would be in if he didn't record video and audio to prove how crazy the woman was.

This is a good example of why people should be allowed to record for security and lawsuit reasons in businesses. Especially one-on-one situations such as in cabs, ubers, or brothels
But what needs to be heavily regulated is the publication of recordings.

https://nypost.com/2017/04/05/passenger-from-hell-threatens-to-accuse-uber-driver-of-rape/

An enraged Bronx woman threatened to falsely accuse an Uber driver of rape and assault — after he told her he didn’t have a charger for her phone, footage shows.
“I’m going to start screaming out the window that you’re raping me, that you raped me,” the female passenger can be heard saying in a dashcam video posted by LiveLeak.
“I will punch myself in the face and tell the cops you did it,” she adds. “You wanna play?”
The incident is said to have occurred Monday in the Bronx, according to the video-sharing website.
The woman also hurled racial expletives at the driver and told him to “go back to your country.”
“Donald Trump going to send you and your family back,” she seethes. “Get the f–k out of my country.”

I'd hate to think how much trouble this guy would be in if he didn't record video and audio to prove how crazy the woman was.

They were facing criminal liability, not only for fostering prostitution, but for injuries to both johns and prostitutes. There was at least one notorious prostitute murder, described at https://nypost.com/2016/11/25/... , and the "Craigslist Ripper" described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Standing up for the free speech and commercial rights of peaceful customers is one business strategy. Accepting the legal liability for deaths or injuries from illegal activity fostered by your advertising service is a much less attractive business, and I understand that at the time Craigslist ended its adult services, it was a strong motivation to do so.

You think standing matters to ICE or Border Patrol?

How credulous can you be?

Everyone may get a second bite of cake.

"I get it, he's not Hilary. But Hilary's gone, and Trump's poll numbers don't budge."

Is Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?

So in 2020 everyone may get a do over. Only time will tell for sure.

Just my 2 cents ;)

The reason this is bad because currently the "authoritative" sources are actually incredibly biased, manufacture stories, and often hide information to further an agenda. They understand that if you control the narrative, you can manufacture a reality, or at least keep compliant people invested in such a narrative.

For example, you might yell tinfoil hate but here are a few off the top of my head:
Dan Rather, anchor long time CBS anchor, forced to resign in disgrace for manufacturing anti-conservative news http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBI...
Funny if you read the NY times and other articles attempting to pretend this was a normal stepping down

Brian Williams, NBC making false claims https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

NPR admitting press is biased and making up stories https://nypost.com/2017/10/21/...

If i need, I can go on. The point being it is easy to paint others with pejoratives like "tin foil hat" while failing to even consider much that you believe is likely from tainted perspective. Many people rightly fear that google (aka youtube) are censoring opinions that poke holes in their world view. Fake-news is more about people who disagree, not with people posting things that are untrue.

that too, but it's also wrong link because it's fucking bloomberg, who thinks having javascript disabled or rejecting cookies is a 'terms of service violation'. fuck 'em. search engines exist. they are not the only source for news or 'news'.

here's some noscript friendly alternative sources...

https://arstechnica.com/inform...

https://nypost.com/2018/07/05/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

any of these will let you read the article with noscript and adblock active.

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it's not nothing to do with moral policing. Credit card transactions are effectively loans. In large parts of the world you have a legal right to dispute any charge on your card as a result. Adult content has a high percentage of disputes (probably from guys who's wives/girlfriends notice the charge). Even if you can prove the charge is valid it's still expensive to do so. Hence why nobody wants to be involved in it.

With corporations always, always, always follow the money. Anything bigger than a leomonade stand is completely amoral.

Tell that to companies which have anything to do with firearms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://nypost.com/2018/06/11/...
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/...

Inciting Violence. I'm going to be completely blunt. The reason the right wing (I refuse to call people in favor of radical change "Conservative") get more bans is there's a lot of them hinting at violence. There's a good example right here. Jones backpedaled as best he could but the meaning was clear. It's so common there's a name for it: Dog Whistling

Alex Jones?? Alex Jones is your "example" of a " conservative "? Alex Jones is a nutter fringe conspiracy theorist. Trying to portray him as somehow representing conservatives in general is reasonably taken as one or more of: uninformed, blinded by ideology, dishonest, incompetent, membership in the nutter fringe at a another point.

The radical right has a lot of unhinged people than even the extreme left. There have been no cases of left wing terrorism since the 70s.

By that do you mean none that you are willing to mention? Like this mass political assassination attempt from last year?

Steve Scalise

Stephen Joseph Scalise (/sklis/; born October 6, 1965) is the current United States House of Representatives Majority Whip and representative for Louisiana's 1st congressional district . . . . . On June 14, 2017, Scalise was shot by a far left-wing activist[4][5] at a practice session for the congressional baseball team in Virginia, and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

Oh, this explains it:

James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History

. . . a Bernie Bro named James T. Hodgkinson shoots at a bunch of congressmen for the explicit reason that he hates Republicans and wants them dead? How do we fit that into the preferred narrative?

- - - - - -

You're entitled to your opinion right up until it becomes incitement to violence.

2016 was a deadly year for cops — and BLM may be to blame

The cop murders in Dallas were carried out on July 7 by an African-American ex-Army reservist who’d expressed his hatred of Caucasians, particularly Jews. He shot to death five white police officers and injured seven others and two civilians before being blown to bits by a police bomb-squad robot.

Ten days later in Baton Rouge, a Marine Corps veteran, described by an official as a “black separatist,” shot to death one black and two white law enforcement officers and injured three others as revenge for the shooting death of a black man by police, before being gunned down by cops.

Is that more of that "right wing violence" you're warning about?

and ask the black and LGBTQ communities about how they're treated down south some time.

It's surprising how much nuance can inject itself into that question.

Atima Omara

STOP THE PRESSES: Lupe Valdez, an LGBT Latina woman formerly Sheriff of Dallas just secured the Democratic nomination for Governor in Texas. Y’ALL. - 7:44 PM - 22 May 2018

Houston’s Annise Parker, a gay ma

Leftists literally say "punch a nazi" (meaning their peaceful political opponents, not actual nazis) and mean it, and nobody cares

Oh, go fuck yourself. I gladly say "punch a Nazi" (and I will). Who are these "peaceful political opponents" you're talking about? These fuckers, who murder people? Charlottesville Nazis Trump Nazis?These evil fuckers. Where are these "peaceful" Nazis that you're talking about?

I don't know if you know anything about history, but our country was at war with Nazis less than a 100 years ago. We, as Americans, did a whole lot more than punch Nazis. We killed them. Millions of them. They deserved it. Nazis today definitely deserve to get punched.

Why would immigrants be afraid of ICE? As an immigrant, you're supposed to carry your green card at all times.

Unless you were convicted of a misdemeanor charge 18 years ago or even just speaking Spanish.

You jest, but this is exactly what happened last year.

Apple's Diversity Chief was forced out after committing heresy. She said that a room of twelve white men could be diverse, because they could all come from different backgrounds and experiences. She was forced to apologize for this heinously offensive statement, and step down, and she was replaced by a white woman.

This makes it stunningly clear that what currently passes for social justice advocacy is really more about rigidly enforcing dogma than it is about helping people.

From the report:

"In addition, we identified instances where FBI employees improperly received benefits from reporters, including tickets to sporting events, golfing outings, drinks and meals, and admittance to nonpublic social events. We will separately report on those investigations"...

And nothing was ever heard of it again.

But nothing nearly so juicy as the previously unreported text from the FBI agent to his mistress, saying "We will stop it" referring to Trump being elected.

It was unreported, because in the texts the BFI gave congress, that line was removed...
Not redacted. Removed.

Is that enough perspective for you?

A guy just literally burned himself to death because of it.

Just like China is the #1 plastics polluter, I can guarantee that it's China again here.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/...

The solution? Let's have California start banning even more things! That will fix it!

> an illegal alien maid pick-up classified FAXes in a SCIF room

The illegal part hasn't been proved. Yes, her maid had access to FAXes and to Hillary's email:

https://nypost.com/2016/11/06/clinton-directed-her-maid-to-print-out-classified-materials/

And even worse asked senders to forward messages to her maid's personal email, but I don't think it was ever proven that her Filipino maid was here illegally. Also, it's strange that the FBI never asked for access to the maid's iMac.

It's worse than that:
10 Rivers contribute 90% of the plastic in the oceans:
https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/...

"...The biggest offenders are indeed two of the largest rivers in the world, with the Yangtze and the Ganges carrying over 900,000 tons of plastic between them to the ocean every year.

By comparison, the Thames dumps 19 tons of plastic into the sea annually...."

So while this is a tremendous act of virtue-signaling and public inconvenience for the western world, the impact of this will be...nearly NOTHING.

Jesus it would be nice if politicians in 2018 just once made a decision based on facts, not show.
The Left likes to take the Right (often correctly) for their stupid anti-science positions. I would argue this time the shoe is on the other foot...but it's apparently too uncomfortable for affluent, white, western countries to 'call out' 3rd world shitholes for what they actually are and start actually trying to fix their problems that really affect all of us.

Nuclear power and GMO foods are going to save us? Really?

Solar is dwarfing nuclear.

As for GMO crops, um, no. Just no.

Do you realize the connection between the nitrogen cycle, fossil fuels, and the 1973 oil embargo?

In a nutshell: World populations grew faster than land based plants can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The natural carrying capacity of this planet using sustainable traditional agriculture is about 2 billion humans. Oddly enough, about the time that the world population level reached 2 billion humans, the most technically advanced society at that time created a process to make large scale artificial fertilizers (and explosives) and a major engine of the industrial revolution. Both powered by fossil fuels. Farming commenced on a massive scale. And war, but that's just entertainment for idiots and of no real importance.

Fast forward to 1973. A new world power (USA) pisses off the a little Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and finds itself with insufficient energy to function. Everybody scrambled to find a way to fuel airplanes, cars, and tractors. Monsanto discovers that a chemical chelator that removes calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper and zinc (trace elements essential for most forms of life on earth), also kills weeds. Go figure. This seems to suggest a way to conduct large scale farming without having to till the earth, which greatly reduces the fuel needed to farm. Fast forward a bit, and now we have GMO crops that survive occasional applications of this new miracle herbicide. And then there's the unregulated application of this new herbicide on wheat. Because Profit.. And it seems to be everywhere.

Sadly, many forms of animal life that come in contact with Monsanto's creation get cancer, have the epithelial lining of their intestines die, and get misdiagnosed as having Celiac disease. And those that aren't so lucky end up morbidly ill and dying prematurely due to complications of a diet high in high fructose corn syrup (high cholesterol, heart disease, etc.)

Now connect the dots... stay with me here:

GMO foods today have their origin in a lack of energy and environmental planning. These are contributing to CO2 levels and a whole collection of ensuing health and environmental disasters.

Stop spewing carbon, stop processing food with short sighted techniques that result only profit for some and misery and death for most. And please realize that messing with plants has the potential to cause death and misery on a truly global scale. Do you really want to go there, for profit?

most certainly not for renting golf carts for the Secret Service agents who are supposed to take a bullet for her.

She'd just tell them to fuck off. https://nypost.com/2015/10/02/...

At least she never made them to run errands in their free time. https://sputniknews.com/art_li...

I'm 100% certain she wouldn't be playing much golf.

Agreed. She can't even stand up for a full rally much less play 18 rounds of golf.

most certainly not for renting golf carts for the Secret Service agents who are supposed to take a bullet for her.

She'd just tell them to fuck off. https://nypost.com/2015/10/02/...

Nor the tax breaks for the ultra rich including Wall Street. Want me to go on?

She'd raise taxes on the rich while giving them loopholes to get out of it. This is a woman who has made a fortune giving speaches to banks and Wall Street while not alllowing transcripts of those speaches to be released.

Hate to shatter your illusion as an i-Phile fanboy, but it doesn't take a whole lot of research to come to that conclusion: http://www.dw.com/en/foxconn-a... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne... https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/...

So there were a couple of almost 16 year old that posed as 16 year olds to get a job. That kind of "child labor" is common and legal in the US. Boycott US products!

Millennia of human experience, not to mention science, tells us that some patterns of human behavior turn out better over the long term than others. You seem to disregard that.

New Report: Majority of U.S. Teens Don’t Live in Intact Families

You're right that marriage protects kids. But "Marriage after conception" . . . better than not at all, but both backwards and suboptimal for producing good marriages that last.

Related: How shacking up leads to divorce

Hate to shatter your illusion as an i-Phile fanboy, but it doesn't take a whole lot of research to come to that conclusion:

http://www.dw.com/en/foxconn-a...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/...

Have you seen the stupidity cops in the US are capable of these days?

https://nypost.com/video/reckl...

Parents, community, and teachers all contribute to the education of a child. The stresses todays kids face aren't that different than the ones their parents faced, poverty, hunger, drug addiction aren't new.

Teachers (in my experience, and I worked in public education for 5 years in NJ, then taught for 6 montsh in TX in a charter school) today aren't like the teachers I had growing up (I worked 5 years in the district I grew up in) - Every teacher from 7th to 12th grade feels it is their responsibility to inject "current events" into their classroom, no matter the subject. While it's OK if one or two teachers in the school do it, when every teacher wants to "discuss" BLM, Gun Control, #METOO, et al, it takes away from the education process. In addition, taking out Practical Arts classes (Wood shop, metal shop, auto shop, etc.) forces kids that wouldn't have been on a college track into one, slowing down the process because they can't keep up - but, they are there because "everyone needs to go to college" (true story, in my district in central jersey we had 97% of graduating seniors going off to college, and a handful were going in various military branches - there were more than a few parents that argued the district had failed them because 100% of the seniors weren't going off to 4 year colleges!) Then we get to Learning Disabilities, I grew up with siblings that had learning disabilities, and their differences were managed outside the classroom one-on-one and in small groups. The current trend is to try and "mainstream" children with differences, again, dragging down the class average as the teacher and aide(s) try and steer the class though the material. It wasn't that long ago that programs like "No Child Left Behind" quickly morphed into "No Child Gets Ahead" when Honors, AP, and other "gifted and talented" classes were cut to bring up the lower-performing students.

But, you bring up parenting, and I agree it is a major component, but many of todays parents are simply disconnected from their education, continuing the neglect and lack of concern about their children's education their parents showed them. When I taught at the charter school they had an interesting program - when a child was at risk for failing two or more classes, they were required to attend evening study halls with a parent until their grades improved to passing in all grades. The parents would get mad at the school for this policy, not their children for not doing their class/homework, but they were forced to put up with it because they chose the school, they agreed to the terms - the alternative was a public school that spent the bulk of the day trying to keep the children safe from each other.

Teachers burnout, and tenure and unions keep them on the payroll, hurting student's chances of getting an education, and for that I hold them responsible - to the unions public schools exist to hire teachers, to parents schools serve a different purpose. What could the NYC public schools do if they didn't have hundreds of teachers collecting full salary & benefits, sitting idly in the so-called "rubber rooms" while their performance and offenses are slowly, meticulously debated by lawyers?

It's a bit difficult to find the old news now. But to me it was always obvious that North Korea just feels threatened. And by that I don't say that the US out south Korea is the aggressor. Both sides felt threatened by each other and responded with threats.
Maybe the US really never announced plans of a first strike. But for sure such plans were made and discussed, and only North Korea's options of revenge saved it.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/21/...

As long as there is other matching evidence I am more agreeable with the testing, but if the only evidence is DNA match that is just not enough.

While the chances of false positives are low, reality is just too following case of a person being arrested for looking like and having the same first name of a criminal..

https://nypost.com/2017/06/12/...

or this one...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

there are 8 billion people on the planet and a lot of people share a lot of similar genetic information name and other identifying information. It is also shocking how much law enforcement is happy to put an innocent person in jail because at least they have someone to arrest just so they can call it a case closed.

There is a reason we need to make Law enforcement jump through hoops and get warrants to exercise power. They are humans like the criminals they go after. An open database of DNA they can use to scan people with is going to end badly for a lot of people.

Just becoming a suspect in a case like this will leave an impact and possibly wreck their life! It has happened all too often!

On the opposite extreme is gender quotas. Lowering requirements in hiring for one sex, yet still calling it equal opportunity while enforcing a double standard.

The issue with the physical requirements for NYC firemen is an example, with women failing the exam but still being given the job. So in theory, a person can burn to death in a house fire because of political correctness that put people unsuitable for job in a position to rescue them, due to some unwritten formula for the ideal combination of genitals among firemen.

That seems just as counterproductive and detrimental to the society as unfettered capitalism. If jobs exists that are unsuitable for the disabled, or women who lack the physical strength do a fireman carry, why should laws exist to enforce their participation?

Rigged it was, at least in New York:
A catalogue of SNAFUs
An admission of guilt

And delivery services are a "natural monopoly", as in only about 3 of them can survive even in a large country. It's a business where economies of scale really kick in.

There are dozens of lesser trucking services, and even residential delivery services. I used to work for a company that made delivery tracking software, there are several packages which do that and each of them have to have enough customers to stay in business... But beyond that, if you do a whole lot of your own shipping, running your own trucking service can save you money. You can contract out your excess capacity to others. Sears would have gone out of business ages ago if not for their truck fleet. They're having to rename their trucking line, though, because nobody really seems to want to see "Sears" on the side of a truck making a delivery to their house any more.

they're certainly not covering the mess now, when they clearly got it so wrong.

Is this the media that isn't covering it?:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...
https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/...
http://fortune.com/2018/04/10/...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/ma...

I skipped the tech sites which are all covering it too and just quoted sites that actually are more general purpose.