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Sorry about that asterisk-- I was trying to include a citation, but for some reason this caused Slashdot to scramble my post into an unreadable mess. Here's the citation: https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

1.

"Bill Clinton did receive $500,000 to deliver a speech at a Russian bank that was promoting Uranium One stock, according to The New York Times, and the company’s chairman donated $2.35 million to the foundation in four installments as Uranium One was being acquired by Rosatum between 2009 and 2013."

2.

"And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority
stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium
One stock."

3.

"Where he once had drawn $150,000 for a typical address in the years following his presidency, Clinton saw a succession of staggering paydays for speeches in 2010 and 2011, including $500,000 paid by a Russian investment bank and $750,000 to address a telecom conference in China."

I can give you more examples from otherwise acclaimed as reputable sources. If any of these you find literally incredible, please, share with us the foundations for discrediting them.

One of those 'facts' you claim " is a previously debunked conspiracy theory" is, indeed, factual, reported by several sources, of which I quoted only three.

Please, stop defending the indefensible by claiming that the facts are debunked in any meaningful way. At least limit your defense to either approval of their actions or, alternatively, approval of their goals.

As energy Secretary Rick Perry hugs coal executive, the photographer who posted the file, gets fired:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
That meeting reviewed the Murray Energy Action plan - the Head of Murray energy and huge Trump supporter, his plan inculdes killing off clean energy. read the Trump approved document yourselves and, please, remember this November.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

As energy Secretary Rick Perry hugs coal executive, the photographer who posted the file, gets fired:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
That meeting reviewed the Murray Energy Action plan - the Head of Murray energy and huge Trump supporter, his plan inculdes killing off clean energy. read the Trump approved document yourselves and, please, remember this November.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

And Germany, according to this article:

  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html

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

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Oh yeah, that one was absolutely hilarious. The Moscow embassy: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11...

A pretty expensive joke, but I'm sure that given the fact the entire world was laughing its collective asses off, it was well worth it in health benefits alone.

Oh I'm sorry - did you think you were proving your case by citing 2 conservative blogs and a progressive blog that SAYS WHAT I SAID refutes me?
You've just proven you are being obtuse.
And a moron.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
(note the use of "universal health care" and not "nationalization")
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...
(note the use of "comprehensive health care reform" and not "nationalization")
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...

People forget a big part of what those publishers do is front money to the band then turn around and advertise for them. Sure, you'll see that they signed "Band X" for 5 albums over N years, but what you don't see is that it is basically all a loan. The publisher will give them some money, but also spend money promoting the band and expect to get a cut of all proceeds.

They get a cut of merchandise, album sales, likely more as the band tours and becomes known. I read somewhere that most artists don't actually become profitable until their third or fourth CD is released. Considering how many one-hit wonders there are out there, you can see how all the power goes to a few rich companies. Not to mention one time people had to buy a whole CD even though they wanted 1 or 2 songs. Today we have that choice thanks to Amazon and iTunes. Here's a couple articles:

Record sales: Where does the money go?

In Shift to Streaming, Music Industry has Lost Billions

The West doesn't carpet bomb entire villages with dumb ordinance, WW2-style like the Russians do.

No, the Americans just used WW1-style* white phosphorus bomb during the siege of Raqqa and Mosul.

*White phosphorus ammunition was first used by the British in 1916.

I am sure their learned leadership was made aware of this option, and swiftly dispatched the messenger with a baseball bat.

Exactly this. Unions have proved their worth in the early 20th century. Unions needed to exist to balance the power between employer and employees. We thank our current protections in the workplace largely to the unions of the past.

That said, today's unions are nothing more than legalized mafia. They are allowed to steal your money through paycheck deduction, approved by the Supreme Court. It may be legal, but it is still theft. (see also https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...)

I sincerely hope these unions die a quick death. There is hope: the Supreme Court is going to have another look at this: http://www.insidesources.com/s...

Reminds of when the Greenpeace morons drove all over the Nazca lines to make some statement about preserving nature or some shit.

Indeed. 10,000 Microsoft employees became millionaires through their stock options.

Bill paid way better than Henry.

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

https://nypost.com/2017/06/27/...

https://nypost.com/2017/12/11/...

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

Just tracing the problem back. People like to portray Chinese imports as Chinese brands, not as the result of American business engineering.

While I'm often critical of how litigious our society has become, I'm also glad for it as vendors marketing Chinese made children's toys containing lead paint can be sued, whether or not they made the design decision. For a society that provides examples of extreme callousness such as bridges made of garbage, American businesses have good reason to be extremely diligent in monitoring supply lines.

Along with middle-class and minimum-wage workers who can buy more quality goods and live at a higher standard of living.

Again, with the problem of income inequality, only being able to afford chinese 'goods' even as majority of families are dual income makes a declaration of higher standard of living questionable. I fail to see how this will be a net benefit in the long run.

I thought the DHS's rainbow of death was replaced by something else.

Look on the bright side. Teen pregnancy and drug use is at an all time low!

Apparently it's difficult to get pregnant if you never leave the house.

people who are procuring illegal (in particular, kiddie) porn could then hide behind the response of "I thought it was fake".

Even knowing it is fake, and being able to prove it in a court of law, may not be sufficient to avoid a guilty verdict. An Australian man was convicted of possession of child pornography for a fake Simpsons cartoon. source - source.

Let us assume you are talking about real-looking child porn, not disgusting cartoons. Why would you even have child porn that you thought was fake, e.g. a child's face photoshopped on an adult's body? Why would you want pornography involving children, even if fake and no child was harmed? Laws in pretty much every Western democracy criminalize such behavior. Even if it is fake, you know it is fake, the judge and jury know it is fake, none of that matters because you possess pornography containing minors (naked adult, child's face photoshopped in ticks the right legal check box). You are now a sex offender for life and will go to prison. Oh, and prisoners may not care if you murdered someone just to watch them die, but if you commit rape or any crime against a child, good luck not getting your skull bashed in and the guards looking the other way.

That does explain why pet food made in China keeps killing dogs and cats and noone can understand why

Actually, that's because there was a point several years back when some Chinese manufacturers adulterated foods with melamine to raise protein measurements by nitrogen decomposition. It was a huge problem, and the Chinese government quickly cracked down on it when it became known. Two executives from the main offending producer were actually executed for this.

China has been refactoring itself for a couple decades. The Chinese government isn't as experienced with regulation as the EU and the US; they are, however, highly intolerant of things which tarnish the international image of China--a problem which, as you can imagine, they are quite sensitive to since it just won't go away.

Cheap goods that are less durable and less capable of being repaired only tacks on to the externalized costs

We know that. The problem is American companies demand lower cost, and press down on the quality. That lets them get low, low prices. The Chinese are capable of--and frequently do--producing some of the highest-quality manufactured goods on the planet at surprisingly low costs; practically nobody wants that. All of their clients want them to produce it cheaper. Even mid-range producers want that mid-range cheaper than the same quality coming out of Germany or America.

That chinese peasants are finally choking to death on smog and they are having to deal with it now rather than a decade later, is no argument for having such unfair and unconscionable trade practices from the onset.

With natural growth, it wouldn't be that they would do what they're doing today later; it's that they'd be pumping out old-tech, dirty-coal and dirty-oil emissions longer, unable to sustain their economy if they go expending their resources on smokestack emissions scrubbers which produce nothing of value. They can't sell clean air; it's an immediate cost. Clean air only buys you long-term stability: your healthcare and environmental resources don't fall apart and create extreme costs sometime down the road. When poor, developing nations just shrug and let that be a problem for later.

China has been forcing new environmental controls and getting this stuff retrofitted, catching up to countries like the United States. That's been going on for a few short years now. Imagine if they were rolling coal and talking about maybe getting some environmental controls in 2080, instead of working on becoming the world leader in solar energy and electric cars (China's behavior suggests they want to go in this direction, which is self-reinforcing: cleaner air means better solar generation).

Because China is such a global manufacturing superpower, they have the economic basis to do all of this stuff now, instead of generations down the line.

Obviously that's why they stopped selling Apple TV at exactly the same time, right?

It may be hard for the /. crowd to grasp, but there's companies out there who are simply miserable assholes to eachother.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/1...

Get the fuck off my lawn.

We've been through this three years ago (and earlier, but I can't find the links).

As everybody knows, trains' primary purpose is not to haul cargo or transport passengers, but to provide jobs . Not just the drivers (excuse me, engineers), but even the announcers (excuse me, conductors) can not be eliminated.

Automating them will causes them to fail in that primary purpose and therefor can not done. From the Socialist scum to the seemingly respectable Slashdotters, everyone is against that... #ResistOrSomething

This is not a technical problem.

Yes I know about all of those, and I think we're too old to be having Google Fights. So we're starting with a sample size of 4, but should it really be 4? The story about the Trump campaign getting early access to the DNC emails was a typo, so it's not really fair to suggest any bias played a part there. And it might turn out to be accidentally correct anyway.

Next, to assume that there is some biased intent in making mistakes in a consistent way, you first have to believe in the idea of a Kamikaze Journalist, one who will sacrifice their career in pursuit of affecting some political influence with an erroneous news story that will soon be retracted. These people were all disciplined after all, mostly by firing. The idea of a Kamikaze Journalist is plainly ridiculous.

Finally, the "direction" of the mistakes and the journalists' motivations can be explained by the potential payoff. A lack of evidence isn't a big story - that's pretty much the status quo, but new evidence is, being the first to break the story of new evidence would be a career-defining win for any journalist. That's why they're jumping at shadows of big news in ways that put their careers at risk: not partisanship, just fame, glory, and capital.

What you see as political motive is a combination of a failure to recognize the actual motive and extrapolation from a small data set.

OK, my bad, let's dumb it down a bit for you. If I say "there's a better than even chance that an ordinary 6-sided die will throw a 3 or higher", then you can't disprove that by throwing a 2.

Also, "better than even" may have involved a bit of hyperbole. But you have to admit that he does have serious issues distinguishing truth and fantasy, at the very least.

I get it. You're a fucking idiot. You don't know what you're talking about, and refuse to learn about it. You are making stupid people embarrassed because they're now associated with you. It's been explained to you why you are wrong. If you continue to intentionally be wrong and lie about it, then you are no long simply wrong.. you're a lying sack of shit. That's probably an upgrade from what you normally are, but you should still strive to be better.

https://www.factcheck.org/2008...

https://www.thebalance.com/us-...

https://www.thoughtco.com/hist...

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10...

https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/...

Meh. We have yet to see right-wing snowflakes in real life; meanwhile they're a dime a dozen on the liberal side.

Here you go: On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’

Lots of dimes and dozens on both sides.

I think you might want to rethink that position.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Trump wins election

Is this a joke? This is your proof, balancing coins? On the Chinese train they're clearly leaning the coins against the window and the lip. But I have no doubt they're cheaper trains. Because they're built by exploiting the cheap labor who lives in squalor in China. Congratulations?

LOL there is no "leaning against the window", it's a well known experiment to demonstrate how stable China's trains are.

China's train is by far the most stable trains at 300+km/h, it has beaten the Germans and Japanese:

High Speed Train comfort quality balance coin
On my recent trip to Shanghai I tried successfully to balance a coin in the window of the train at 300 km/h.
(This is done by Ola von Koskull, from Sweden's Parliament)

Watch how long coin can balance on high-speed train traveling at 350 kph

China's High Speed Train in 300km/h ,12minutes survival of a coin ! It's amazing!!

Stand two tiny coins on CRH train at 302 kmph

Chinese high-speed rail survive coin balance test, Japan refuse to accept the result.

There are tons of technology involved to make the trains ultra stable at 350km/h, from the base to the aerodynamics, to mm level percision of the tracks, China have beaten everyone else.

China has the top two supercomputers and the rest of the world has the other 498 who's total power far suprasses Chinas total compute power on the list.

Wrong again.

machine boasts speeds five times faster than the best the US can muster.

Today, it not only has more than everyone else—including the United States—but its best machine boasts speeds five times faster than the best the US can muster. And, in a first, it achieves those speeds with purely China-made chips.

China has the largest number of computers among the top 500

Not only does China have the world’s fastest machine for the seventh consecutive time, it has the largest number of computers among the top 500 — a first for any country other than the United States.

China is in a desperate race to catch up to the rest of the world. In 50 years maybe they can start focusing on social progress.

LOL catch up to what? To be western banker's little bitch? To be the whipping boy of CIA like Germany?

China is the only country with the power to challenge the entire western financial system (AIIB), nobody else can do so.

China's economy is already #1 in in purchasing power parity, but it's just the beginning.

The world has changed and you don't even know it yet. You live in your little bubble thinking you're more advanced, but you are not, millions of

You are afraid of facts and challenges because you are weak.

Collapse of U.S. society? More details of the collapse:

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!"" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims. (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 20

Collapse of U.S. society? More details of the collapse:

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!"" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims. (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 20

Collapse of U.S. society? More details of the collapse:

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!"" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims. (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:
Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 20

Every single one of our intelligence agencies are convinced that the Russians directly influenced our election but you believe it is a lie?

It's funny you quote that, as that was debunked as well :

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/pageoneplus/corrections-june-29-2017.html

A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trumpâ(TM)s deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last yearâ(TM)s presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies â" the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency. The assessment was not approved by all 17 organizations in the American intelligence community.

So who should you believe ? Obviously, you've been believing the wrong people.

BTW. Try finding a link to this article by searching google

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

I don't know what you've tried, but "Brooks Pichai resign" returned that article as the first hit for me on Google.

BTW. Try finding a link to this article by searching google

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

Could find it on Bing.

Tech leaders had some insight into what tech, social media is and does. ... Was a Low-Tech Parent (10, 2014)
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...
.. "strictly limited his children's use of technology" http://www.independent.co.uk/l... (24 February 2016)
.... raised their kids tech-free (October 2017)
http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

You could simply choose *not* to suffer under the administration. ISIS is all but defeated, jobs are coming back, taxes were reduced, many people are getting bonuses, North Korea is coming to the Olympics, and we're no longer in the TPP.

Not to mention, if you happen to live in Puerto Rico, free paper towels.

Who doesn't love free paper towels?

Puerto Rico's power grid was all fucked up from piss-poor management and corruption long before the hurricane hit:

July 2, 2017: Puerto Rico’s Power Authority Effectively Files for Bankruptcy

Feb 1, 2016: How Free Electricity Helped Dig $9 Billion Hole in Puerto Rico

You could simply choose *not* to suffer under the administration. ISIS is all but defeated, jobs are coming back, taxes were reduced, many people are getting bonuses, North Korea is coming to the Olympics, and we're no longer in the TPP.

Not to mention, if you happen to live in Puerto Rico, free paper towels.

Who doesn't love free paper towels?

Puerto Rico's power grid was all fucked up from piss-poor management and corruption long before the hurricane hit:

July 2, 2017: Puerto Rico’s Power Authority Effectively Files for Bankruptcy

Feb 1, 2016: How Free Electricity Helped Dig $9 Billion Hole in Puerto Rico

For one example, take the current rate, and project it back to Roman times. The difference would be in the 4 or 5 meter range if the rate had been relatively constant since then. But the Romans built structures at the shoreline that would be several meters underwater today if the rate had been constant, which is now only barely underwater: https://green.blogs.nytimes.co...

But what I asked for is your sources, PopeTazo. Sources that I've noticed that you have yet to provide.

Here you go. I'm flattered that you prefer my sources to the other poster who provided them. Happy to oblige (the last one is a nice summary)

http://www.kansascity.com/news...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

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

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

[citation needed]

Also, your link implies that the cameras use local storage

Not for very long. As soon as a smart criminal or two take the recorder along with the driver's money at the end of a ride, the next generation of such cameras will be hailing "instant uploading of videos to the cloud". And the cabbies will upgrade. They are upgrading already — credit card acceptance by taxis is rising. Though cash still remains an option, that too may be on its way out.

BTW, cities like New York have required data-collection from taxis for years — and now require the same from Uber/Lyft as well. Scandals like this will, no doubt, happen again.

At any rate, I can accept the opposition based on privacy — even if I still think, you are naive, if you think, paying cash in a taxi is substantially beneficial to your privacy. But anything based on the supposed "illegality" of Uber/Lyft is just nonsense.

And taxi companies are taxi companies -- they're not into selling your data to marketeering filth

Unless you turn off and disable your smart phone, when you enter a cab, tracking you personally is already easy — and will become more so, when the new generation of taxi equipment is adopted. To Uber, Lyft, or traditional taxis (as well as to any retailer, policeman, or passer-by) the WiFi and Bluetooth radios in your phone already uniquely identify you... Crap, it is already happening.

May as well ride Lyft and save money...

and then one there auto cars out cars get's a crash will they pay out or hide under a system of franchisees and subbed out rent a cars?

right now they don't really enforce the basic safety rule or pay drivers the full IRS mileage so the car up keep is poor.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com...

http://www.restaurant-hospital...

http://theexaminer.com/stories...

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12...

A lot of the pollution in Beijing comes from the Gobi Desert. It is a fairly regular thing for fine desert dust to be an appreciable amount of the pollution. That seems worthwhile in terms of filtering - and it's a 100% natural source of "pollution" (which is more than just man-made stuff).

Natural in the sense of a result of actual physics? Sure. As a result independent of human behavior? Nope, not 100%, in fact, as various ill-advised land management usages in the Gobi Desert have had severe results on the stability of the soil surface, much the way the Dust Bowl did back in the 1930s or the poor cultivation techniques in Africa(some also fostered by China). Hence the need for a long-standing program to reverse the problem created by human acts, though of course, said program may not be entirely effectual or beneficial.

You can quibble and say that the soil particulates that become dust are "natural" Perhaps, but nonetheless, you can't argue it's not a man-contributed problem. But to give you benefit of the doubt beyond what you merit, you should revise your statements to specify what you mean.

I suspect George Soros, after all, currency manipulation is his shtick. That guy has truly harmed millions of people over his evil money destroying schemes as he made himself and his investors rich.

Remember when he screwed over the British pound: https://priceonomics.com/the-t...

Or when he screwed over Thailand: http://www.businessinsider.com...

Or when he was caught illegally insider trading: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12...

A small price to pay for annoying the alt-right, as I'm sure you'll agree.

I suspect George Soros, after all, currency manipulation is his shtick. That guy has truly harmed millions of people over his evil money destroying schemes as he made himself and his investors rich.

Remember when he screwed over the British pound: https://priceonomics.com/the-t...

Or when he screwed over Thailand: http://www.businessinsider.com...

Or when he was caught illegally insider trading: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12...

Per person just allows for the budget to grow as the number of people the government is supposed to serve grows. That's a better measurement than without taking population growth into account or comparing it to other irrelevant numbers which already include government spending (which some people like to do to try and make spending look better).

Either way, way too much spending. Yes, that includes wars and yes it includes other things besides just old folks. Here's a decent analysis.

Loss of utility power once a major portion of transportation is moved to electric power will be troublesome. This year we had two examples of extended power outages that caused significant trouble.
Hurricane Maria caused total collapse of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) generation and distribution system. Complete restoration is now hoped to be May 2018.
A construction accident cut power off to the outer banks of North Carolina (Hatteras and Ocracoke). The outage started July 27 2017, and ended Aug 3 2017.
How does emergency response work when the power is out? Backup generation helps but even on the outerbanks where the source feed is more than 60 miles of single circuit primary distribution, the backup generation is not intended to replace the primary utility feed. The backup generation could likely not be able to carry the electrical load of charging the several thousand vehicles that needed to evacuate the island.

Loss of utility power once a major portion of transportation is moved to electric power will be troublesome. This year we had two examples of extended power outages that caused significant trouble.
Hurricane Maria caused total collapse of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) generation and distribution system. Complete restoration is now hoped to be May 2018.
A construction accident cut power off to the outer banks of North Carolina (Hatteras and Ocracoke). The outage started July 27 2017, and ended Aug 3 2017.
How does emergency response work when the power is out? Backup generation helps but even on the outerbanks where the source feed is more than 60 miles of single circuit primary distribution, the backup generation is not intended to replace the primary utility feed. The backup generation could likely not be able to carry the electrical load of charging the several thousand vehicles that needed to evacuate the island.

Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:

Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)

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Links about Trump
from 18 different organizations

Trump moving toward starting a nuclear war:

> Trump Says His "Nuclear Button" Is "Much Bigger" Than North Korea's (Jan. 2, 2018, New York Times)
Two unstable people threaten each other.

> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a War. (Jan. 6, 2018, Huffington Post)

> Cartoon: "My nuclear button is bigger than yours!" (Jan. 4, 2018, Gary Varvel at ArcaMax.com)

Trump's lies:

> In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

> President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, New York Times)

> In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

> 10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

> Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Books about Trump:

> Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Published Jan. 5, 2018)
Four days after publication, there were 1,432 customer reviews; 82% were 5-star reviews.

> Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

> Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green (Published July 18, 2017)

> Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding (Published Nov. 16, 2017)

> It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston (Published Jan. 16, 2018)

Sexual abuse:

> The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Trump is said to have paid to avoid publicity:

Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump: report (Jan. 12, 2018, TheHill.com)

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