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"The profits from A.W.S. represented 56 percent of Amazon’s total operating income, even though the $2.57 billion in revenue from A.W.S. — up 64 percent from a year earlier — amounted to less than 9 percent of total revenue." https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

This reminds me of a similar deal that was similarly scuttled: the proposed purchase of Fairchild Semiconductor that was then owned by French company Schlumberger, to Fujitsu, a Japanese company. In either case, Fairchild would have been owned by a non-US company from a "friendly" country. National security was the given reason, but Japan's then-growing leadership in semiconductors against US companies was the understory.

Although like most states, they have state funding cuts to deal with,

Lies, lies, lies.

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much

In fact, public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was during the supposed golden age of public funding in the 1960s. Such spending has increased at a much faster rate than government spending in general. For example, the military’s budget is about 1.8 times higher today than it was in 1960, while legislative appropriations to higher education are more than 10 times higher.

Never mind that Apple uses a Nevada shell company to avoid paying corporate taxes in California and 20 other states.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html

Also, have you actually looked at what's on offer for Texture

I've used other magazine apps (and comic book apps) so I'm pretty familiar with what they can do, and what can be had. Although I've not subscribed to Texture I did look at the list of magazines and they are pretty standard fare (it's nice to see Make is still going).

I took a look a few minutes ago and was surprised to see there is a magazine devoted to beer, among other things.

I live in Denver, so I would assume there are several hundred magazines about beer.

many people would find it useful and more cost effective than buying magazines all the time.

Indeed it would be more cost effective than buying magazines all the time.

Here's the thing - people are no longer "buying magazines all the time". Magazine purchases have declined tremendously across the board, so magazine apps have kind of felt like the last holdout before they go away altogether.

But I really think Apple. through the sheer bulk and stubborn application of capital, could re-envigorate magazines as a thing again, figure out some way to make them exciting and desirable for the modern reader. Something that would be a cross between a book and a magazine and a set of Medium articles. Magazines have been fishing themselves for something that will help them carry on, but they are bound by capital and risk tolerance in a way Apple does not have to be.

What? I didn't realize that Trump was part of the Uranium One deal which allowed 20% of the US U235 supply to be sold to Russia, with $500,000 going directly to BIll Clinton for "speaking fees" and millions in undisclosed "donations" going to the Clinton Foundation (Clinton's ATM) in exchange for access to Sec of State Hillary. Mueller was Hillary's bag man who took a 10g sample of U235 to Russia for forensic proofing, (Snopes, run by Leftist Democrats, will give you Clinton's and Mueller's explanation) and Mueller is now "investigating" collusion between Trump and Russia. Laughable.
The NYT has all the dirty details:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

He's not capable of understanding that he has done anything wrong. Any good lawyer will play that like a fiddle. He's a narcissistic psychopath or some other melange of serious mental disorders. No judge or jury will be able to hold him legally accountable for his actions. He'll maybe get a stay in a psych ward somewhere, and then be freed when the psychiatrists get bored with him.

Not very likely. The insanity defense is used for people with delusions, hallucinations, compulsions, psychotic episodes and such, that is to say people who lack the capacity to understand and/or control their actions. Not feeling bad about your crimes, poor impulse control or stalking/obsessive behavior is generally not enough for an insanity defense in the US, at least not after the 1984 Insanity Defense Reform Act. Besides it's more like a life sentence, the whole system is rigged against ever getting out because even if the professionals think you're fit for release it goes back to the DA who wants to be tough on crime, a court that'll mostly go along and a general public who isn't eager to have former mental patients with a history of criminal acts back on the streets.

In other countries yes, like here in Norway if you're found not guilty by reasons of insanity you're per definition not a criminal and the justice system has no more say. So if they put you on medication and the medication works it's their call whether to release you. Re-offending statistics indicate they're generally cured, it's mostly people's feelings of justice that are hurt. If you suffer a heart attack while driving and run over some random, innocent pedestrians we kinda accept it's an ill body and not an act of terror. It's a lot harder to accept that the raving loon that went around stabbing people is the result of an ill mind, a sickness that has been cured and that the person is no more guilty of that than the one that suffered a heart attack. For a sane person it's hard to imagine "something else" taking control.

That's a creative way of dancing around the fact that the United States is not a party to it.

That's an interesting way to say something that's actually factually untrue. As of 1988 anyway.

Except that people who've done research

Except there was no research involved. Nothing but a set of assumptions made by a person and then conclusions made based upon those assumptions with absolutely no data involved. Read your article again, Hal.

"Here I run some extrapolations based upon the estimates for other elections from my coauthored 2014 paper on non-citizen voting. You can access that paper on the journal website here and Judicial Watch has also posted a PDF. "

Even President Trump's much-vaunted super-special commission on illegal voting in the 2016 election which was headed by Kris Kobach was abruptly disbanded in shame when they found zero evidence that there had been any illegal voting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Obviously you've never been to rural Texas before.

I've lived in Texas. And the only immigrant who has been prosecuted for illegal voting in Texas has been a Trump supporting Republican.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Like Norway?

Congratulations on your fast efficient trip. But don't be surprised if the terrorists discover exactly how easy it would be to rent a piece of heavy equipment and very efficiently take out a rail.

My favorite response to this sort of thing is this entirely accidental equivalent for roads.

We already have laws that should prevent most Airbnb rentals in New York City. As the New York Times wrote: "The New York State attorney general believes most Airbnb listings in New York are illegal." You aren't allowed to rent a room for less than 30 days unless you are present throughout the rental. Also, subletting is explicitly prohibited in most apartment rental agreements. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Whoops - meant to reply to your second point as well

Buying and selling a property isn't a frictionless transaction. I'm a big fan of the NYT Rent vs Buy calculator. If you're going to stay in a place for 5 years or fewer, you can pay quite a lot in rent before it starts making sense to buy, even with optimistic estimates of home value growth.

Before the "Citation Needed" post appears, here we go ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign-wealth-flows-to-time-warner-condos.html

https://ny.curbed.com/2014/10/24/10031340/shocker-half-of-midtowns-super-luxury-condos-sit-vacant

http://theweek.com/articles/736313/how-foreign-investors-launder-money-new-york-real-estate

Rent control doesn't solve the problem because it actively discourages new development, which when you have a growing population leads to housing shortages. Legislating something doesn't alter reality or prohibition would have worked, there would be no litter in parks, and Wall Street would never do anything someone finds unscrupulous.

You also get plenty of cases where people who don't need rent control housing occupy it (and hold on to it) because it's cheaper. You also see even worse examples like the Congressman who was renting four separate rent-controlled apartments at the same time.

There are various schools of economics and they often squabble over policies and correct courses of action for many things, but rent control is not one of them.

Rent control doesn't solve the problem because it actively discourages new development, which when you have a growing population leads to housing shortages. Legislating something doesn't alter reality or prohibition would have worked, there would be no litter in parks, and Wall Street would never do anything someone finds unscrupulous.

You also get plenty of cases where people who don't need rent control housing occupy it (and hold on to it) because it's cheaper. You also see even worse examples like the Congressman who was renting four separate rent-controlled apartments at the same time.

There are various schools of economics and they often squabble over policies and correct courses of action for many things, but rent control is not one of them.

You remember incorrectly:

The F.B.I. had been aware for several years that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network were training pilots in the United States and elsewhere around the world, according to court records and interviews at flight schools and with federal law enforcement officials.

The F.B.I. knew by 1996 of a specific threat that terrorists in Al Qaeda, Mr. bin Laden's network, might use a plane in a suicide attack against the headquarters of the C.I.A. or another large federal building in the Washington area, the law enforcement officials acknowledged.

You mean like how Trent Lott, then Republican Senate leader declared his wish that Strom Thurmond had won the Presidency?

Yeah, I'll have to grant, that's not fighting for the right to own black people. Thurmond just wanted to fuck them illicitly. Disreputable, but not quite legally sanctioned property.

Sorry dude, you only exposed yourself.

I get it though, you think IOKIYAR is the mantra to live by. That's why you swore undying devotion to the Birther-in-Chief. After all, once you've abdicated your very soul, what does it matter what destitution and depravity you espouse?

This is part of a state of emergency imposed after violence broke out between Buddhists and Muslims.

I've been to Sri Lanka quite a lot in the 1990's (I had friends there), when the war was still raging in the north and east, and then the government responded to bombings and other emergencies by declaring a state of emergency and imposing curfews. They basically shut down large parts of society to let things cool down, including transport. It once happened just when I was about to leave the country. Public transport suddenly didn't exist anymore, taxi drivers didn't want to take long distance rides because they were afraid to get stranded somewhere, and only with the aid of a police officer from my friends' neighbourhood were we able to arrange transport for me to the airport. It was spooky, there was no other traffic at all and an astounding number of roadblocks had materialized out of nowhere.

While the Sri Lankans I met generally were incredibly nice people the country does have a history of overheated reactions that result in burned properties and deaths, and that appears to be happening again now. The government responded in the way they tend to respond, and nowadays that apparently includes shutting down social media. The state of emergency is declared for 10 days, so that should be the duration of the social media shutdown too.

you can't remote-work a fast-food restaurant.

Unless you're at a McDonald's drive-through speaker.

Do they also deny the sheep employment, housing, access to credit?

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Seriously- they trained A.I. on actual cases and the A.I. gave much harsher sentences for the same crime to blacks.
https://www.propublica.org/art...

Because that's what decades of human judges have been doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

As an *old* white texan who voted for Reagan twice, racial bias and injustice bugs the shit out of me. I hate that our country doesn't treat people fairly. It hurts me everytime the police arrest or kill someone because they were driving or walking while black.

We should be better.

We can be better.

Don't put words in my mouth, I didn't say Russia "hacked the election"

You know everyone can just look at your comment I was replying to and find the words:

Or is he (and perhaps a lot of his supporters) so stupid to believe that the Russians didn't hack the election ...

Bet you feel pretty dumb for not being able to read your own comment, huh?

As for the Washington Examiner, why don't we Ask the NY Times if it's a real newspaper or not? That's from 8 years ago, so they've been around a while. Or is the NY Times also a newspaper you've never heard of?

I note you don't even attempt to dispute the actual list of facts in the article, instead, you just attempt ad hominem attacks, which clearly indicates you don't have an actual argument.

Regarding your 13 indictments, if you read them, you'd see that their actions were stirring up political feelings on both sides (including anti-Trump) for profit. As for your study, I already debunked that in the previous Slashdot thread on it. They took an obviously biased sample of news sources, which created a predictable effect. The only thing it proved was that conservatives were more likely to like conservative news and liberals were more likely to like liberal news.

So here's 6 actions Trump took against Russia in about his first year:

        Bombing Syria, Russia's main client, and generally unleashing the U.S. military in Syria, including against Russians when necessary.
        Arming Ukraine.
        Browbeating NATO allies to increase defense spending.
        Adding low-yield nukes to our arsenal.
        Starting research and development on an INF noncompliant missile.
        Shutting Russia's San Francisco consulate.

Obama was President for 8 years. Can you list (6*8) 48 similar actions Obama took against Russia? (I can think of only 1 off the top of my head, the rest was all empty words.) Can you list even 6 for his entire Presidency? If not, then I guess you'll just have to concede the Washington Examiner's argument.

I'm sure all this is nothing but a coincidence:

Chicago 2/28 – Are Rideshares Increasing Traffic Congestion?
Denver 2/25 – Studies suggest Uber, Lyft cause traffic congestion
Boston 2/25 – Uber, Lyft drivers are making city traffic worse
Seattle 2/12 – Do Uber, Lyft worsen Seattle’s traffic congestion?
Manhattan 2/26 – Your Uber Car Creates Congestion. Should You Pay a Fee to Ride?
Washington, DC 2/28 – Ride sharing services such as Uber are causing causes of traffic congestion

Please cite your evidence that shit posters on Twitter increased after Trump started running for President and that this problem didn't exist prior. I did a quick Google search from prior to Dec 31, 2015 and here's a few I came up with:

Shock Jock fired for racists Twitter Rant

Obama's Twitter Debug attracts hate-filled posts

Shocking racist tweets follow high school basketball win by all-white team

A brief history of people getting fired for social media stupidity

That last one was one month after Trump formally announced is candidacy in June of 2015.

So I've provided evidence this was happenging before Trump entered the stage, lets see if you can provide evidence of his presence making it worse. I can assure you the increased amount of vitriol coming from his opponents is easily measured, hell just look at how often people like you post on Slashdot - a news for nerds site - your vile hate for the man, but how about you show statistics of an increase in toxicity from his supporters?

Bastard! You have blown their cover. Now that pizza place will suffer the fate of this pizza place:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/nyregion/robbery-stolen-sauce-mystery-surrounds-killing-of-brooklyn-pizza-maker.html

This is all a red herring to avoid substantiating your claims of "Backpage running an underage prostitution ring" but I'm going to thoroughly stomp it down anyway.

You cited the definition of ephebophilia so you know that referring to teens below the statutory age of unlimited sexual consent in some jurisdictions as "children" to imply that any desire to have sex with them is "sex with children" is dishonest. You have no other way to win this argument than to fire off ad hominem attacks and appeals to your own personal morality. You know that the paraphilia discussion is a giant red herring because the post you responded to was calling you out for trying to insert "underage" into the discussion without substantiation. You still haven't substantiated any of those claims.

You still have not supported your assertion that "[Backpage was] running a[n] underage prostitution ring" nor your curiously revised version "[Backpage] made aggressive moves to break into the underage prostitute ad market" (emphasis mine) so you're pushing really hard to play the "b-b-b-but if I call you a pedo apologist and swing my moral nuts in the air I can automatically win!" card instead. We're not talking about the difference between paraphilias (red herring) and we're not talking about the political support for bill in question (appeal to popularity and appeal to authority); we're talking about your assertions regarding Backpage and underage prostitution and how you have posted a lot of junk that has nothing to do with supporting those statements.

Plus, you keep trying to push for older teens to be regarded as equivalent to five-year-olds. These model twins are 16 years old, one year beyond the age of consent in Denmark where they are from and above the age of consent in the U.K. as well as several U.S. states. You are asserting that they are "children." Psychology and the law both say otherwise. It doesn't matter how many times you say the phrase "pedo apologist," it won't make you any less incorrect. Don't like it? Petition to have the laws changed to raise the legal age of sexual consent in those jurisdictions.

Don't like the models as an example? Fine. Here's Angelina Jolie at age 16, modeling underwear, published on a major U.K. website. The age of unlimited sexual consent in many parts of the world floats around 16 while the United States (where Backpage is operated) has a lot of states with a minimum age of 18, meaning they're illegal in those states but 100% legal in other states and several European countries. These older teenagers are within the age of consent in huge chunks of the modern Western world, are capable of bearing children, have developed secondary sex characteristics, have strong sexual drives, are already expected to take "correct" actions that will put them on career paths and shape their entire futures, yet you're attempting to liken them to five-year-olds.

I wonder how hard your panties will twist over [super NSFW] tiny and petite (but adult and legal) porn stars that are petite enough to have the Feds go after viewers for "child pornography" even though the photos are watermarked with an 18 USC 2257 compliant company's name and the photographed model is in their early 20s.

Support your original assertions with some facts or toss off. You've been given several opportunities and chosen not to substantiate your arguments thus far. I'm not letting you worm your way out of substantiating your original claims no matter what you try to use as

I don't think I am wrong or lying. I've been reading up on Backpage and found things like this

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

And this

https://www.portman.senate.gov...

So you've got a company whose whole business model was ads for underage hookers. And they used CDA S 230 against anyone who impeded that model

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

* Backpage.com v. McKenna, et al., CASE NO. C12-954-RSM
* Backpage.com LLC v Cooper, Case #: 12-cv-00654[SS1]
* Backpage.com LLC v Hoffman et al., Civil Action No. 13-cv-03952 (DMC) (JAD)

The court upheld immunity for Backpage in contesting a state of Washington law (SB6251) that would have made providers of third-party content online liable for any crimes related to a minor in Washington State. The states of Tennessee and New Jersey later passed similar legislation. Backpage argued that the laws violated Section 230, the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, and the First and Fifth Amendments. In all three cases the courts granted Backpage permanent injunctive relief and awarded them attorney's fees.

Backpage.com v. Dart., CASE NO. 15-3047

The court ruled in favor of Backpage after Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County IL, a frequent critic of Backpage and its adult postings section, sent a letter on his official stationary to Visa and MasterCard demanding that these firms "immediately cease and desist..." allowing the use of their credit cards to purchase ads on Backpage. Within two days both companies withdrew their services from Backpage. Backpage filed a lawsuit asking for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Dart granting Backpage relief and return to the status quo prior to Dart sending the letter. Backpage alleged that Dart's actions were unconstitutional violating the First and Fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution as well as Section 230 of the CDA. Backpage asked for Dart to retract his "cease and desist" letters. After initially being denied the injunctive relief by a lower court, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed that decision and directed that a permanent injunction be issued enjoining Dart and his office from taking any actions "...to coerce or threaten credit card companies...with sanctions intended to ban credit card or other financial services from being provided to Backpage.com." The court cited section 230 as part of its decision.

At which point Congress passed SESTA which stops people doing that.

And this thread is full people criticizing the notion of the age of consent, pointing out that pedophile != ephebophile and so on.

Seriously, do you even read news?

Renault thought to be cheating at emissions tests for 25 years. (use google translate, German article) https://www.auto-motor-und-spo...

Nissan, too: (use google translate, German article) https://www1.wdr.de/wissen/tec...

Ford accused of cheating: http://www.thedrive.com/sheetm...

Fiat/Chrysler accused of cheating: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Mercedes emissions cheating: (they already had recalls) https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

BMW emissions cheating: (they already have recalls for affected cars - those had Renault engines due to a cooperation, which makes the Renault claims above more valid) https://cleantechnica.com/2017...

You can find articles like this for pretty much EVERY car manufacturer, if you simply google. Funnily, in recent testing, VW Diesels had among the lowest emissions results. Seems they fixed their stuff on newer models after the scandal.

On the other hand, car theft is almost a non-issue anymore, thanks in large part to the technology that you decry.

Actually no, they aren't being replaced. We're within 15 years of demographic collapse because of it.

Sees no "Russians" required.

Who needs Russians when you can work with a Russia-aligned former Ukrainian president. You know, that country that Russia invaded?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/us/politics/paul-manafort-new-charges-mueller.html

See, the problem is you only accept data that you BELIEVE is correct, and ignore all other.

Mirror, mirror, Is LynnwoodRooster talking about himself again? Why, yes, ironically he is.

You're the one who produced a report that you accepted with blind faith and devotion since it suited your agenda.

When has that happened before?

A real scientist, a true skeptic (which is the foundation of science) would look at conflicting data and say "more research needed, we cannot draw conclusions". FAITH would demand you adhere to your position. That is religion...

Yes, you are preaching your religion, but if you were a true believer, you'd follow its tenets, however being a disingenuous fraud and con-artist, you simply use them as a club to attack others, as you consistently have.

For you, it is not a teaching, it is a weapon used for assault. You fling it against any who disagree with you, but never apply the learning to yourself.

Hence, I preach unto you, and say "Physician, heal thyself!" as I call upon you, and your multitude of sins to be cured of what clearly ails you, and thus make right thine own entry into Heaven.

Really, you know your history, you should know you are tainted yourself. You should reflect on your errors and come clean. It'd be less of a farce if you did.

No need for a deep dive here, anyone who knows anything that has been happening in Venezuela for the past decade or so would know this petro thing is just another scam bullshit.

If people are not aware of this, the Maduro proto-dictatorship already "nationalized" (read stolen) a whole bunch of stuff:
Petroleum companies that had a whole ton of American investment:
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/0...
https://venezuelanalysis.com/n...
Toys from private business:
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/1...
General Motors factory:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

It's just a continuation of Chavez sociodictatorship running the entire country to the ground. Brazil, with some stupid socialist politicians, also lent money for some business there which was promptly stolen and their government already announced they are giving nothing back.
The only hope I have left is that all the people behind those decisions end up in jail, because most of them are likely to receive a corruption sentence in the wave of revelations that have been happening for a good part of the past half decade or so.
And unfortunately, venezuelans are likely to keep receiving the short end of the stick until they can get rid of their so called socialist president who's actually a dictator and his entire ilk, party and everything else.
Because they will keep abusing their power... 'till half the population is dead from famine, mark my words. It's the populist plague that infected a whole bunch of south american countries, including mine. Huge swaths of the respective populations were all swayed into their discourse, with some bullshit talk about humble origins and fighting against the mid to upper class, and we're all now in deep deep shit with huge corruption schemes, and organized crime running the countries. It'll be an entire lost decade or more for several south american countries.

anti-Hollywood story (that Democrats hate).

Tell me how many Democrats you count here:

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

Notice they were mentioning movies and TV as well. And during that event, the republicans were saying "It's just a video game." Something they've always been saying, since well before it was considered related to gun control. And this all started because somebody told Joe Lieberman that there was a "scantily clad" woman shown in Night Trap, a game that practically nobody heard of until this, and then most people forgot about it afterwards.

The very progressive state of California passed a law to ban violent video games in 2011, until SCOTUS shot it down:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06...

Oh and then there's Hillary's stance on violent video games:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Obama threw a lot of money at the topic when pushing it towards a gun control issue (which is pretty much where this became a gun control topic):

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...

And I think every gamer remembers Jack Thompson who tried to get Doom banned after Columbine since the shooters were big fans of Doom and even commented that their spree would be just like Doom. Of course, he didn't stop there.

I kind of doubt Trump's base is pushing towards this. Maybe, but it's most likely that Trump, having been born without a filter, just randomly came up with it, just like everything else he does and says.

It seems a peculiarly American/Starbucks phenomenon where mooching on free wifi for hours at a time is regarded as a basic human right. The rest of the world happily tether to their phone's data connection.

Reminds me of gun control and Chicago, New York, DC.

1) Crime in New York is at a 60-year low, including shootings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

2) There are 24 cities in the US with worse rates of murder and gun crime than Chicago

Maybe this case of protesting in a shopping mall? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12...

There, that's your diet. Don't over complicate it.

Reduction of calorie intake is the key to weight loss. But it's complicated and annoying to count calories, weigh everything, know the calories in a given food and so on. So forget the counting, switch to a quality diet that reduces your calorie intake, without leaving you hungry and annoyed at calorie-counting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

And only the republicans are bankrolling things? Right? riiiight? Oh wait the DNC is doing it too. Look at the current thing on the news. Does not matter what it is. Notice how all the news orgs are ALL talking the same points as the DNC. Now stop and think about how much that costs. Quite a large sum isn't it. But they are the 'good guys'. Right? They tell me they are. They have never lied to me. Right?

It's basically the right wing version of identity politics
The previous guy was doxed. Google did it. It went from a small group of people to all over the place. My guess is anyone involved google is going to offload. No mater your party. That is the way of corporations. Fire until the problem 'goes away'.

A caste system
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

The system is being gamed by the very people you want to side with. To make sure you get paid for shit while they walk away with millions and make sure you fight the fight for them. Good job.

The story I was mentioning above.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

TBILISI, Georgia â" Jobless and with graduation looming, a computer science student at the premier university in the nation of Georgia decided early this year that money could be made from Americaâ(TM)s voracious appetite for passionately partisan political news. He set up a website, posted gushing stories about Hillary Clinton and waited for ad sales to soar.

âoeI donâ(TM)t know why, but it did not work,â said the student, Beqa Latsabidze, 22, who was savvy enough to change course when he realized what did drive traffic: laudatory stories about Donald J. Trump that mixed real â" and completely fake â" news in a stew of anti-Clinton fervor.

More than 6,000 miles away in Vancouver, a Canadian who runs a satirical website, John Egan, had made a similar observation. Mr. Eganâ(TM)s site, The Burrard Street Journal, offers sendups of the news, not fake news, and he is not trying to fool anyone. But he, too, discovered that writing about Mr. Trump was a âoegold mine.â His traffic soared and his work, notably a story that President Obama would move to Canada if Mr. Trump won, was plundered by Mr. Latsabidze and other internet entrepreneurs for their own websites.

âoeItâ(TM)s all Trump,â Mr. Egan said by telephone. âoePeople go nuts for it.â

If his pro-Clinton site had taken off, he said, he would have pressed on with that, but âoepeople did not engage,â so he focused on serving pro-Trump supporters instead. They, he quickly realized, were a far more receptive audience âoebecause they are angryâ and eager to read outrageous tales.

âoeFor me, this is all about income, nothing more,â he added.

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So yup, conservatives and republicans went crazy reading fake pro-trump, anti clinton stories written by this guy's staff of writers. Unlike the 13 Russians just indicted, Beqa didn't even care politically. He was just trying to drive ad hits.

As if we dont know how this will turn out. 'whats your is mine'.

http://www.laht.com/article.as...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://www.miamiherald.com/new...
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
http://www.scmp.com/news/world...
http://news.abs-cbn.com/overse...

Let's hope not.

Thinking this through, it's probably an issue with policies or reporting on IBM having moved 10s of thousands of jobs outside of America, while claiming to be an American company.

Outsourcing is diversity:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Having more employees in a country where you were not founded is diverse.

The cases you list are precisely those where government dictated licensing is unnecessary, and the reason it is unnecessary is for exactly the reasons you have invoked -- the need for qualified individuals in those positions is crucial and self-evident. You might as well pass a law that no one can be hired to be CEO of a multibillion dollar company without an MBA. Quite obviously, no multibillion dollar company is going to hire an unqualified person for that position and is more than capable of doing the necessary vetting. Most CEOs probably do have MBAs. Those that don't will be proven in other ways. A one-size-fits-all law would simply be needlessly discriminatory of the latter and limit the pool of qualified talent.

Where licensing actually is necessary is where the consumer is directly exposed to risks they may not be qualified to investigate. E.g., a large hospital might vet its own staff, but if a private person is able to open up their own medical clinic, there would be frauds and the people walking in the door would likely not all have the ability to discern the difference.

That said, something looser than present setup might, for instance, not block thousands of qualified doctors from practicing (reducing wait times and medical costs). So it might be worth looking at letting different professional organizations, hospitals/health care providers, counties, etc. have some ability to decide what they would consider satisfactory in hiring qualified providers of care. Stating the status quo is problematic does not require swinging fully to the opposite extreme of no licensing at all.

Because of the costs involved, will this go the way of other private ventures into the 911 system where Wall Street has sunk its teeth deep into the process? Will taxpayers be on the hook when things go awry?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

Democrats commissioned the dossier.

A conservative website (The Washington Free Beacon) initially hired Fusion GPS to do the research, largely backed by Rubio supporters. Then Hillary & the DNC took over. Then Fusion GPS hired Steele. So, yes Republicans kicked off the Fusion GPS investigation. No, the GOP did not fund the Steele dossier.

The judges who are the most "activist" and actively ignore the wording of the Constitution are conservatives....and people who claim to be originalists, like St. Scalia.

The 11th Amendment says federal courts cannot hear lawsuits against a state brought by "Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State." But it's been interpreted to block suits by a state's own citizens -- something it clearly does not say. How to get around the Constitution's express words? In a 1991 decision, Justice Scalia wrote that "despite the narrowness of its terms," the 11th Amendment has been understood by the court "to stand not so much for what it says, but for the presupposition of our constitutional structure which it confirms." If another judge used that rationale to find rights in the Constitution, Justice Scalia's reaction would be withering. He went on, in that 1991 decision, to throw out a suit by Indian tribes who said they had been cheated by the State of Alaska.

himself couldn't turn a profit on Atlantic City casinos

Except the unstable moron ... er ... stable genius never actually ran those casinos.

The Trump business model is:

But even as his companies did poorly, Mr. Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.

Trump makes his money by a shell game whereby other people take the risks and put up the money, he gets paid for his name, and runs the venture into the ground.

Trump is actually a terrible business man from any metric other than "leave the suckers holding the bag", and treating the venture like his own private piggy bank. He's basically just a con-man.

He's somewhere between PT Barnum, and Bernie Madoff. Let's stop pretending he's done anything other than leave a string of failed ventured behind him where other people lost their shirts.

He's great at conning other people into paying for his wild ventures, but his track record of running them isn't so good.