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When Microsoft implemented the browser ballot, the NY Times reported the following (emphasis mine):

Rivals of Microsoft's market-leading Web browser have attracted a flurry of interest since the company, fulfilling a regulatory requirement, started making it easier for European users of its Windows operating system to switch.

Mozilla, whose Firefox browser is the strongest competitor to Microsoft's Internet Explorer worldwide, said that more than 50,000 people had downloaded Firefox via a "choice screen" that has been popping up on Windows-equipped computers in Europe since the end of last month. The screen displays links to a dozen browsers, including Explorer, Firefox, Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari and Opera.

Opera Software, based in Oslo, said downloads of its browser in Belgium, France, Britain, Poland and Spain had tripled since the screen began to appear.

It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Did not RTFA, but a piece in the NY Times a few weeks ago talked about how the recollections and dietary logs of food study participants are unreliable. Studies rely on participants keeping a journal of everything they eat, over long periods of time. The accuracy of the study is only as accurate as the recollections and journal entries of those who are eating.

yes general population can be worse
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

Capitalism is failing

To paraphrase an old saying, capitalism is the worst way to run an economy - except for all the others...

When 'C'apitalism fails, a lot of people lose jobs and have to figure out what to do.

When 'S'ocialism fails, you wind up with results from people getting drinking water from sewers, to 20 million (or more) dead...

The funny thing is, that socialism will always be roundly rejected by the majority of Americans. Would you like to know why? Because quite a lot the victims of socialists disasters through the decades, all end up here with the US being about as opposite from Socialism as you can get... they come in, a constant stream of people with fresh and painful memories of the literal horrors you wish to bring down on a healthy and happy populace.

It is an SUV not a hatchback. Even Teslarati proclaims it an SUV. And it's curved roof and door compromise it's role as an SUV. Apparently, based on your statement, because of battery constraints. So better to make it a poor SUV, than come out with something that does 225 miles - but has a usable interior (in terms of square shape). Better to do a BMW X6-style body that is universally derided as useless - poor for a car, and unusable as an SUV.

Someone tell the NYT, then.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

I know you're trying to be all morally superior but 1) it does seem to have been a thing briefly and 2) it wasn't really meant to be taken as a serious comment you humorless toad.

When internet randoms have a better record of truth-telling than legitimate journalists, what are you going to do?

Here's something from an internet random that I bet you would never hear from the mainstream media: Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times' Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America

"What should be a conversation about American military and its covert apparatus unduly meddling in other countries quickly becomes a referendum on the moral properties of those countries. Theoretically a good conversation to have (and one certainly ongoing among people and institutions in these countries), but absent a discussion of the merits of the initial axiom-that U.S. talking heads and the Washington national security apparatus have a birthright to determine which regimes are good and bad-it serves little practical purpose stateside beyond posturing. And often, as a practical matter, it works to cement the broader narrative justifying the meddling itself. Do the U.S. and its allies have a moral or ethical right to determine the political future of Venezuela? This question is breezed past, and we move on to the question of how this self-evident authority is best exercised. This is the scope of debate in The New York Times-and among virtually all U.S. media outlets. To ante up in the poker game of Serious People Discussing Foreign Policy Seriously, one is obligated to register an Official Condemnation of the Official Bad Regime. This is so everyone knows you accept the core premises of U.S. regime change but oppose it on pragmatic or legalistic grounds. It's a tedious, extortive exercise designed to shift the conversation away from the United States' history of arbitrary and violent overthrows and into an exchange about how best to oppose the Official Bad Regime in question. U.S. liberals are to keep a real-time report card on these Official Bad Regimes, and if these regimes-due to an ill-defined rubric of un-democraticness and human rights-fall below a score of say, âoe60,â they become illegitimate and unworthy of defense as such.

For those earnestly concerned about Maduro's efforts to undermine the democratic institutions of Venezuela (he's been accused of jailing opponents, stacking the courts and holding Potemkin elections), it's worth pointing out that even when the liberal democratic properties of Venezuela were at their height in 2002 (they were internationally sanctioned and overseen by the Carter Center for years, and no serious observer considers Hugo Chavez's rule illegitimate), the CIA still greenlit a military coup against Chavez, and the New York Times still profusely praised the act. As it wrote at the time:

With yesterdays resignation of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chavez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader, Pedro Carmona.

They flat-out lied about Chavez stepping down. LIED.

When internet randoms have a better record of truth-telling than legitimate journalists, what are you going to do?

Here's something from an internet random that I bet you would never hear from the mainstream media: Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times' Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America

"What should be a conversation about American military and its covert apparatus unduly meddling in other countries quickly becomes a referendum on the moral properties of those countries. Theoretically a good conversation to have (and one certainly ongoing among people and institutions in these countries), but absent a discussion of the merits of the initial axiom-that U.S. talking heads and the Washington national security apparatus have a birthright to determine which regimes are good and bad-it serves little practical purpose stateside beyond posturing. And often, as a practical matter, it works to cement the broader narrative justifying the meddling itself. Do the U.S. and its allies have a moral or ethical right to determine the political future of Venezuela? This question is breezed past, and we move on to the question of how this self-evident authority is best exercised. This is the scope of debate in The New York Times-and among virtually all U.S. media outlets. To ante up in the poker game of Serious People Discussing Foreign Policy Seriously, one is obligated to register an Official Condemnation of the Official Bad Regime. This is so everyone knows you accept the core premises of U.S. regime change but oppose it on pragmatic or legalistic grounds. It's a tedious, extortive exercise designed to shift the conversation away from the United States' history of arbitrary and violent overthrows and into an exchange about how best to oppose the Official Bad Regime in question. U.S. liberals are to keep a real-time report card on these Official Bad Regimes, and if these regimes-due to an ill-defined rubric of un-democraticness and human rights-fall below a score of say, âoe60,â they become illegitimate and unworthy of defense as such.

For those earnestly concerned about Maduro's efforts to undermine the democratic institutions of Venezuela (he's been accused of jailing opponents, stacking the courts and holding Potemkin elections), it's worth pointing out that even when the liberal democratic properties of Venezuela were at their height in 2002 (they were internationally sanctioned and overseen by the Carter Center for years, and no serious observer considers Hugo Chavez's rule illegitimate), the CIA still greenlit a military coup against Chavez, and the New York Times still profusely praised the act. As it wrote at the time:

With yesterdays resignation of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chavez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader, Pedro Carmona.

They flat-out lied about Chavez stepping down. LIED.

Have someone flip the power switch on the router and tell them to bring up MS Word, WordPad or even Notepad and spend 30 minutes writing a grammatically correct 4 paragraph introduction to a prospective employer arguing why you are a fit for the position**

** "Yes, you an make up all your quals, but it needs to read like a young man or woman is approaching a job as a respectable potential employee."

Sit back and watch the mayhem that ensues outside of those districts that still have parents and teachers that don't think like this:

Those in their mid-30s today came of age on the cusp of the digital revolution. Many older Millennials didn’t have internet at home until high school, didn’t join social networking sites until college, and didn’t get an iPhone until they had already begun their careers. The arrival of Generation Z into the workplace is showing Millennials what a true digital native looks like.

NYTimes had a pretty interesting technology article about the undersea "cloud" three days ago. https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

"Do we actually know for certain that this second crash has the same cause as the first?"

If the comments in this thread [https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104767729008107520] are accurate about not reaching Vr speed sucessfully prior to take-off, it's almost certain MCAS was not to blame (and certainly, not reaching Vr makes this a very strange flight. Vr is the computed "rotate" speed for the take-off; the speed when the front wheels should leave the ground.)

"The issue was the documentation and training provided by Boeing was insufficient to enable the pilots to identify and respond to the original failure in a timely way. "
As I undertand, with Lion Air crash, the issue was pilots had been able to take 'undocumented shortcuts' on prior versions of the 737 (specifically, not follow the checklist to the same detail). If they had followed the textbook handling of the condition that they were supposed to do on previous 737 versions according to Boeing, MCAS would not have activated. (They should have activated the Stabliser Trim Cutout Switches at the base of the control column which would disable all electric trim AND MCAS.

It may be this was an unreasonable expectation by Boeing -- but after Lion air, every 737MAX8 pilot should know to whack the trim cutout switches if they're having controlablity issues!

President Trump on Monday threw his support behind efforts to keep the United States permanently on daylight saving time, which took effect Sunday morning. "Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!" Trump tweeted.

Can we stop acting like everything that spills out of his twitter account is comparable to signed legislation/executive order?

As has been proven with nearly every tweet ever issued by Trump, either as private citizen, candidate, or President, he simply tweets what's on his mind.

Reminds me of the time Bush '41 said he didn't like broccoli, and people acted like they based their eating habits on the personal tastes of POTUS.

1) You don't know that it can do that because Boeing elected not to tell you

That's a fair criticism of Boeing, but also not all that relevant. The symptom here would be the same as any other runaway trim situation, and would be dealt with the same way.

2) The autopilot is off

It would have to be; MCAS doesn't function with the autopilot on.

3) You've just taken off, are low, and in one of the most dangerous phases of flight

You can't be that low or early; MCAS also doesn't function with the flaps down.

4)
5)

I could make some objections to these, but nothing of much consequence so I'll agree it's a shitty situation.

Pilots in emergency situations are human. They rely on memorized safety procedures to follow in situations like that. Apparently "turn off the MCAS" is now one of those procedural items. It wasn't before.

There is no "turn off the MCAS". There's a "turn off electrical trim system", which has always been there. If you look further up you'll see a video I posted of pilots doing it on an older 737 back in 2015.

It's curious that the pilots on the *previous* Indonesian flight didn't notice the trim acting up, since it sounds like they probably flew most of the flight with it doing so. Or maybe they did notice, and the disengage wasn't working properly.

Pilots on the previous flight DID have the same problem:

"Boeing has asserted the pilots on the next-to-last flight of the same Lion Air aircraft that crashed encountered a similar, if less severe, nose-down problem. They addressed it by flipping off the stabilizer cutout switches, in keeping with the emergency checklist."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

They correctly followed the checklist and lived. The pilots on the final flight did not.

You seem to be misinformed:

1. Even with trim maxed out, pulling back on the yoke/stick will still bring the nose back up.

However, according to the New York Times:

Older 737s had another way of addressing certain problems with the stabilizers: Pulling back on the yoke, or control column, one of which sits immediately in front of both the captain and the first officer, would cut off electronic control of the stabilizers, allowing the pilots to control them manually.

That feature was disabled on the Max when M.C.A.S. was activated â" another change that pilots were unlikely to have been aware of. After the crash, Boeing told airlines that when M.C.A.S. is activated, as it appeared to have been on the Lion Air flight, pulling back on the control column will not stop so-called stabilizer runaway.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/world/asia/lion-air-plane-crash-pilots.html/

You might consider reading this first:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.html

People are posting that Lasik only rarely had adverse effects. Actually the rate of complications is very high. Below are a couple of excerpts from a recent NYTimes article:

"A recent clinical trial by the F.D.A. suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramirez are not uncommon.
Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found. Nearly one-third developed dry eyes, a complication that can cause serious discomfort, for the first time."

and

"Yet few studies have followed patients for more than a few months or a year, and many are authored by surgeons with financial ties to manufacturers that make the lasers.
One such study, written by the global medical director for a large laser eye-surgery provider, reported high satisfaction rates among patients five years after Lasik.
But the study also found that even after all those years, nearly half had dry eyes at least some of the time. Twenty percent had painful or sore eyes, 40 percent were sensitive to light, and one-third had difficulty driving at night or doing work that required seeing well up close."

I was thinking about Lasik until I read this. No thanks.

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

Right, you can be sure of that.

• If the Chinese regulator acts proactively, we suspect them of having an agenda;
• If the Chinese regulator does not act, we describe them as authoritarian insensitive to people's rights;
• If the FAA and Boeing delayed fixing the plane due to government shutdown, it is just boring business as usual;
• If the plane is made in China, front pages and comment sections across Internet would be filled with "Made in China products are craps";
• If the plane is made in USA, rare odd problem and silence is golden.

We should continue to blame China for everything wrong on this planet, that will for sure Make America Great Again.

Other one got modded down by some morons, so reposting to give you a chance to back up your blather:

war crimes revealed by Manning?

Lolwut. That's like going to a political convention and asking for evidence that Obama is black.

There's three war crimes in the Collateral Murder video alone: targeting civilians, targeting the press, and targeting first responders. There are cables on the US pressuring other countries to ignore our extraordinary kidnapping and torture program. The biggest doozy, though, has got to be using US taxpayer dollars to pay for Bacha Bazi boys for Afghan warlords. Because all of the transophobes clucking "you mean HIM???" in reference to Chelsea Manning don't seem to have a problem with their tax dollars being used to support boy-fucking. Boy-fucking taking place on US military bases.

KABUL, Afghanistan - In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

"At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it," the Marine's father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. "My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it's their culture."

Now, you were blathering something about blather?

Other one got modded down by some morons, so reposting to give you a chance to back up your blather:

war crimes revealed by Manning?

Lolwut. That's like going to a political convention and asking for evidence that Obama is black.

There's three war crimes in the Collateral Murder video alone: targeting civilians, targeting the press, and targeting first responders. There are cables on the US pressuring other countries to ignore our extraordinary kidnapping and torture program. The biggest doozy, though, has got to be using US taxpayer dollars to pay for Bacha Bazi boys for Afghan warlords. Because all of the transophobes clucking "you mean HIM???" in reference to Chelsea Manning don't seem to have a problem with their tax dollars being used to support boy-fucking. Boy-fucking taking place on US military bases.

KABUL, Afghanistan - In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.

"At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it," the Marine's father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. "My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it's their culture."

Now, you were blathering something about blather?

Before you start downmodding or name calling, get the facts. By January 17 of this year, New York State had 182 confirmed cases of measles, almost exclusively among the Ultra-Orthodox community. New Jersey had 33 cases, mostly in Orange County, for the same reason.

Recently, one Ultra-Orthodox Jewish kid infected twenty-one others at a Yeshiva.

Since last year, over 300 cases (which include the above), most of which come from the Ultra-Orthodox community, have been tabulated in New York City and Rockland County.

Why? Because like those in Washington State, many Ultra-Orthodox oppose vaccination.

Before you start downmodding or name calling, get the facts. By January 17 of this year, New York State had 182 confirmed cases of measles, almost exclusively among the Ultra-Orthodox community. New Jersey had 33 cases, mostly in Orange County, for the same reason.

Recently, one Ultra-Orthodox Jewish kid infected twenty-one others at a Yeshiva.

Since last year, over 300 cases (which include the above), most of which come from the Ultra-Orthodox community, have been tabulated in New York City and Rockland County.

Why? Because like those in Washington State, many Ultra-Orthodox oppose vaccination.

Before you start downmodding or name calling, get the facts. By January 17 of this year, New York State had 182 confirmed cases of measles, almost exclusively among the Ultra-Orthodox community. New Jersey had 33 cases, mostly in Orange County, for the same reason.

Recently, one Ultra-Orthodox Jewish kid infected twenty-one others at a Yeshiva.

Since last year, over 300 cases (which include the above), most of which come from the Ultra-Orthodox community, have been tabulated in New York City and Rockland County.

Why? Because like those in Washington State, many Ultra-Orthodox oppose vaccination.

Apple got burned when they launched Apple Music by not paying royalties to artists during free trials. They quickly changed their policy, but got quite a lot of flack for it.

I think this is less of them being clever than them just not wanting to touch this with a ten foot pole.

Here's another later story on that by a more credible source.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/0...

the fact the Chinese can sue in American courts with a decent chance to win still says a lot about the differences between the two juggernaut nations.

The differences only exist in your brain, washed over by American propaganda.

Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

Plus Japan is not even near a model citizen when it comes to marine conservation.
For example:

More than 120 pregnant female whales were among 333 killed during Japan’s recent annual summer hunt off the coast of Antarctica, according to a new report.

The report, released by the International Whaling Commission this month, said 122 of the slaughtered minke whales were pregnant and 114 were considered immature.

Sadly, the more I learn about Japanese culture the less I would ever want to visit there.

Agree with your first half. However your time table is a just a little bit off:

Sony was selling their transistor radio, TR-55, back in 1955 -- long BEFORE Apple. One of Sony's last mass popular consumer electronics was the Walkman which starting selling in 1979 -- the same year Apple was selling the Apple ][+.

How is Sony copying Apple when they were selling electronics before Apple even existed???

Sony makes MOST of its money (63%) selling insurance.

Sony pivoted to finance from electronics a long time ago.

If you take a "Modern" song, and try to put it in Vinyl, the moder equalization would make the needle jump out of the record. This is termed "Loudness Wars", and was made possible by the introduction of Digital Music (CD, DCC, MiniDisk, etc).

If the song you want was released in Vinyl AND the same mix was used for Vinyl, CD and digital download, you can feel free to get it in the media most convenient to you.

If, on the other hand, there are different mixes dependeng on the media, go for Vinyl, you will not get the most acurate reproduction, and there may be noise, but at least, you will get a hell of a lot better dynamic range in your song.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

It's incredible watching you be so breathtakingly and hilariously wrong.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

A guy punched another guy. Neither guy had any connection to Berkeley. You're gonna have to do better than that.

however, in general we should be wary of restricting any speech or sharing of information

Just as we should be wary of forcing people to publish others' speech.

You want to ensure a virulent idea survives? Persecute it so that those who adhere to it have a cause to support.

Apparently not

But there is a huge difference between China and the USA govts.
In China, when you disagree with the govt, you and your family disappear, cannot travel, don't get a lawyer and often aren't seen for a yr. If you appeal, you get re-sentenced to death.
In the USA, you get a lawyer, can usually fight back, appeal any decision.

A few quick reminders:
Xi is
* a dictator for life
* sends millions of Chinese to "re-education camps"
* no freedom of speech
* no freedom of travel
* China uses tanks against their own people.
* Religious re-education cities with 1M+ people.
* smartphones **must** have govt tracking software
* Your social network posts are tracked by the govt and rated. A poor rating can block rights and travel.
* don't recognize international waters as ruled by world-wide govts
* Currency manipulation
* intellectual property stealer / Hacker of companies and govts world-wide
* Highly selective enforcement for any laws; usually against foreign companies and Chinese companies that cause large number of deaths
* Tibet takeover
* Tienanmen Square; they admit to killing over 1,022 civilians. Other estimates are over 10,000 deaths.
* Check your server logs, most attacks are probably from Chinese IP ranges.
* Their elections are fixed - only approved party members can be on the ballot. So, would you like Bernie or Clinton or Gore or Dukakis?
Like any of those are even a different choice from the others. Well, freakin' terrible vs really, really, bad is a choice, I suppose.
* Police in China behave like thugs. Ok, sometimes that happens in the USA too.
* Taiwan, cough.

Don't forget what China is and how they behave.
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Cisco and Motorola caught Huawei stealing their intellectual property.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/S...

        Huawei Admits Copying Code From Cisco in Router Software
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
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        Motorola sues Huawei for trade secret theft
Huawei physically stole parts in 2014 from a testing robot during a
visit to T-Mobile. The robot was used to ensure buttons on phones would last.
---
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...
China hacked more than 245 companies and agencies, including US Navy and NASA.
Ref: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

This happened while The US/China economic espionage pact was in-force beginning in 2016.

The USA isn't perfect, but it isn't China. Not by a long shot. If you refuse to decrypt data at the US border, they keep the data and you can sue to have it returned. Canada, UK, Australia, France, Thailand, and 50 other countries would demand you unlock it at the border without any reasonable cause. It is illegal to refuse, a crime.

This political fact checker agrees that all politicians lie at least some of the time, but that a small number of politicians still tell the truth most of the time.

Do you have a survey in mind that found that "most even mildly controversial statements by any politician of any stripe are lies"?

Right there I have a problem with this. The U.S. has no jurisdiction over actions in Iran by a non American company and non American citizens.

Correct.

The U.S. instead has jurisdiction over monetary transfers conducted through the U.S. banking system that were intended to violate U.S. sanctions and completed based upon fraud allegedly committed by the accused when dealing with U.S. banks.

As reported here

Mr. Gibb-Carsley laid out what had led to her arrest. He said that between 2009 and 2014, Huawei used a Hong Kong company, Skycom Tech, to make transactions in Iran and do business with telecom companies there, in violation of American sanctions. Banks in the United States cleared financial transactions for Huawei, inadvertently doing business with Skycom, he said.

The banks were 'victim institutions' of fraud by Ms. Meng, Mr. Gibb-Carsley said.

Now explain how the U.S. lacks jurisdiction to me once more...

1. There is no concept in modern America of "did the time, paid for the crime" with regard to social attitudes and how ex-felons can be treated. 2. Say something "offensive" in public and watch a wild-eyed mob that makes a witch-burning look tame come after and try to make sure there is "no place in society" for you. 3. Now corporations are getting in on the act with Chase locking accounts because the person was a Badthinker(tm).

It's amazing how much it's changed. I recall as a kid people being able to say just about anything. It got thrown in the category of "say what you want it's a free country". People wouldn't agree, they might call you an idiot, but nobody would track you down and try and get you fired. Gotta love "progressive justice" as shown here: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...

"Kinda like Guantanamo or the no fly list."
Actually, those both actually have a due process:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0... as an example of the former.
and
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/pas... for the latter.

You're either being sarcastic or overlooking the current Muslim detention camps:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/world/asia/xinjiang-china-forced-labor-camps-uighurs.html

The ironic thing is in 1941 the Third Reich forgave a man who trained his dog to mock Hitler & the Nazi salute https://www.nytimes.com/2011/0...

We're not so fortunate today.

WHAT IT IS USED FOR is the key

Yeah, like these usages are entirely acceptable, since they are done by the GREATEST NATION on earth.

ONE MILLION UIGHURS IN CHINESE PRISONS.

Wow, what a change of heart for Americans! We are suddenly having real empathy about Muslims, as long as they are not being locked up in Guantanamo.

The Chief of INTERPOL for chrissake was arrested and secretly detained for MONTHS without being charged.

Wow, another change of heart for a top Chinese security official who supposedly have done, well because he was the top police chief, all the political crimes such as "disappear dissidents, undesirable ethnicities, journalists, etc."

Please mod up. "Mistakes were made." being part of the official record won't punish all the people who are currently involved. But, sometimes it gets die hard defenders of bad ideas to actually honestly admit their mistakes. Sadly, very few people actually listen. That's partly Congress' fault because its members strive to polarize voters with lies. Yet at the same time, it's also the people's fault for failing to do the adequate research and have an open mind willing to listen to what is plainly said.

So, perhaps this hearing meanings nothing like the Facebook and Google hearings. Or it'll take dozens or even hundreds of years to realize just how horrible fucked up the position of data collection and privacy is treated by corporations. The EU seems to have at least somewhat woken up to the threat, even if not completely. I don't have a lot of hope the US will wake up very soon, though, given our absurd trust in corporations who constantly fuck us over. Even in 2008, the US could barely muster anything beyond general contempt for government propping up corporations/banks temporarily. Not one word was spoken about actually trying to fix any of the problems--just the creation of another regulatory agency which like Greenspan would be complacent and "trust the market" over time.

Woosh. I meant NYT and WaPo... NE is more likely to get a story correct than NYT or WaPo. I listed 3 examples of news stories so bad that you should only expect them to happen once every 5 years or so.

But the stories you list show the opposite story from what you implied.

Story 1. Buzzfeed is some internet site. Says nothing about real sources.

Story 2. I assume you didn't actually read the New York Times story of Covington. Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and follow-up here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

and editorials here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

The way you can tell legitimate media from spin is that the legitimate media updates their stories when new information becomes available.

story 3. The journalists reported the police report; and when the police report changed the story, the media reported that. This is what you want from journalism. This is what you don't get from internet gossip.

Woosh. I meant NYT and WaPo... NE is more likely to get a story correct than NYT or WaPo. I listed 3 examples of news stories so bad that you should only expect them to happen once every 5 years or so.

But the stories you list show the opposite story from what you implied.

Story 1. Buzzfeed is some internet site. Says nothing about real sources.

Story 2. I assume you didn't actually read the New York Times story of Covington. Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and follow-up here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

and editorials here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

The way you can tell legitimate media from spin is that the legitimate media updates their stories when new information becomes available.

story 3. The journalists reported the police report; and when the police report changed the story, the media reported that. This is what you want from journalism. This is what you don't get from internet gossip.

Woosh. I meant NYT and WaPo... NE is more likely to get a story correct than NYT or WaPo. I listed 3 examples of news stories so bad that you should only expect them to happen once every 5 years or so.

But the stories you list show the opposite story from what you implied.

Story 1. Buzzfeed is some internet site. Says nothing about real sources.

Story 2. I assume you didn't actually read the New York Times story of Covington. Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and follow-up here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

and editorials here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

The way you can tell legitimate media from spin is that the legitimate media updates their stories when new information becomes available.

story 3. The journalists reported the police report; and when the police report changed the story, the media reported that. This is what you want from journalism. This is what you don't get from internet gossip.

Woosh. I meant NYT and WaPo... NE is more likely to get a story correct than NYT or WaPo. I listed 3 examples of news stories so bad that you should only expect them to happen once every 5 years or so.

But the stories you list show the opposite story from what you implied.

Story 1. Buzzfeed is some internet site. Says nothing about real sources.

Story 2. I assume you didn't actually read the New York Times story of Covington. Here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and follow-up here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

and editorials here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0... and here https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

The way you can tell legitimate media from spin is that the legitimate media updates their stories when new information becomes available.

story 3. The journalists reported the police report; and when the police report changed the story, the media reported that. This is what you want from journalism. This is what you don't get from internet gossip.

Trump : The art of the caving repeatedly.

Investigations don't mean much if the result is tyupically no action taken. The most extreme violations may EVENTUALLY lead to some significant action, but generally far less that the action taken against a non-cop for the same crime.

If I choked someone to death for selling individual cigarettes on the sidewalk, I would certainly go to jail. The only question would be for how long. If I fired shots into a crowd, it wouldn't be a question of me keeping my job or not, it would be a question of life without parole vs a sentence where I might see parole before I die (assuming I lived to stand trial).

These are cases where the police were the only ones actually shooting. Only the suspects faced criminal action.

Investigations don't mean much if the result is tyupically no action taken. The most extreme violations may EVENTUALLY lead to some significant action, but generally far less that the action taken against a non-cop for the same crime.

If I choked someone to death for selling individual cigarettes on the sidewalk, I would certainly go to jail. The only question would be for how long. If I fired shots into a crowd, it wouldn't be a question of me keeping my job or not, it would be a question of life without parole vs a sentence where I might see parole before I die (assuming I lived to stand trial).

These are cases where the police were the only ones actually shooting. Only the suspects faced criminal action.

No, usually they're made into editors if they're smug enough.

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

"Blacks commit vastly disproportionate amount of crimes, especially violent ones"

All things male are considered bad. [The blatant sexism is everywhere. Making anything and everything a gendered issue (and therefore, a problem with men, of course). - Women of this generation make at least 8% more than similarly qualified males. [Looks like I remembered that 8% number from that Time Magazine article I linked]

White men systemically discriminated against in all spheres of life - from family court - to hiring [They literally had to end blind recruiting because, once the bias against men was removed, MORE men than before were found to be qualified. These talking head idiots didn't even realize that today's system already discriminates in womens' favor. Of course, the solution was to halt the study, lest we have a solid foundation to prove discrimination. But, I think this is VERY good early proof of systemic discrimination in hiring, at least in Australia.] - to welfare (men are not eligible in any way unless disabled or "disabled") [I was somewhat wrong here. If you look under "The Three-Month Time Limit", it appears that women without children cannot get SNAP long-term either. So, I had one, very minor point, which I don't have good evidence from a mainstream source for.]

Looks like it's you who got fucked. Moron.

The Democrats themselves say that they want to take your guns..... You should probably keep up on current events. *IN ADDITION* criminals do not follow firearms purchase laws, so yeah, making it harder for LAW ABIDING people to obtain firearms does exactly ZERO to stop criminals. Idiot.

They do? Citation needed. And every gun owner is law abiding until they aren't. Many shootings have been perpetrated by people who bought their guns legally and had no previous criminal record.

It may surprise you to learn that I am not against private gun ownership. But it must be more tightly regulated, like it says in the 2nd Amendment. Too many Responsible Gun Owners have proven themselves to be anything but responsible. Like this fucking genius who fired into a busy parking lot after a fleeing shoplifter. And to your point about stopping criminals, how many stolen guns are sold on the black market? How many are sold in private sales to God-knows-who? If you want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, and in the hands of (currently) law abiding citizens, you should want tighter gun regulation. We have laws that keep alcohol out of the hands of minors. We could do something similar with guns. But you would still lose your shit over it. And yes, I know that alcohol regulation is not 100% effective. But if you are going to point that out, you might as well argue that laws in general are useless.