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Russia for example, China for another.

And is Breitbart worse than CNN?

Yes

Wouldn't a rational person read / watch CNN, NYT, Breitbart, HuffPost, Reason, Zero Hedge, Mother Jones, Infowars, Final Call, etc...

No

Scary when Alex Jones says there were mass rapes and gropes on New Years in Germany and the NYTs (which you read daily) doesn't mention anything. You dismiss it as Alex Jones hysteria - and then months later it comes out that Alex Jones was right and the NYTs hid something horrible.

Here's one link to just one of NYT's stories covering the gropings: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

The moral of the story is read a little bit of everything and not get locked into a self-referencing echo chamber.

Not everything is worth reading nor does it need to be read to get completely unbiased views. Hateful lies, shock stories, and conspiracy theories do not make news "balanced".

Are there any other questions I can help you with?

I see you've been drinking the Kool Aid. The MSM ran plenty of articles about the Cologne mass rapes. What about the New York Times? Try this one.

Scary when you think you can get better news from Alex Jones than from real reporters.

Average weight of a car: about 4,000 lbs. And since that weight isn't evenly distributed, it looks like an axle weight of 2,700 lbs could be a pretty good approximation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05...

What did Winnie the Pooh ever do to the Chinese government?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/world/asia/china-winnie-the-pooh-censored.html

This is dumb,. Why do you need to identify someones face on the spot by a computer?

So this doesn't happen again
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

A few measurements per face from a face on 2d picture? The ability to build up some measurements from an image more side on, looking up or down?
That created list of numbers can be compared to every police booking photograph and private sector photograph the US gov collected or has access to in seconds.

Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police (Aug. 12, 2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0... "rate of more than one million faces a second." is now for state or city use in 2015

So with more funding and been able to buy any product or service on the open market? Looking at an images vs millions on file from all over the world and USA would not slow any modern system down.
Considering the growth of the Interstate Photo System (IPS), Next Generation Identification (NGI) and anything that be found by contractors or other nations?
Holiday in another nation and lot of different very security services and other nations police might share images with the USA for free.
Also consider all the sharing go interesting people from public private partnerships of interesting people all over the USA.
Get seen with a camera in some small town near their courthouse, jail, banks, police buildings, contractors buildings? Police, CCTV or private security will pass that image of a face to all databases they have access to.
With that person a criminal? Tourist looking at the old courthouse? Could have been a first amendment audit?
So the amount of images from all over the USA or anyone that went on an international holiday covers millions of images updated every week. Private sector, partnerships, private security, social media finds, past job applications, work ID.

Objectively, if you look back at the Nixon administration, he seemed well liked.

In part because evidence of Nixon ordering Haldeman to monkey-wrench LBJ's Vietnam peace talks didn't surface until recently. Whatever positive qualities Nixon may have had as a statesman were completely undercut by his paranoia and treachery. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...

Wow, nice spin job. Did you get those words from your handlers in St. Petersburg?

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and supporting terrorists therein, Russia hasn't been able to produce helicopters because the engines came from Ukraine. Even though Russia now claims it can produce the parts, it's only for a limited type of aircraft.

Same for their icebreaker. It was supposed to be launched this year, but because of the sanctions, and the testing for the turbines being in Ukraine, the launch has been put off until 2019. If even then.

Ukraine has been exporting more agricultural products since it got out from under the boot heel of Russia. Hardly a recipe for "inedible". Speaking of which, is Putin still destroying food being imported into Russia while shelves go bare just to make a statement?

At least we know what the Russian talking points on Ukraine are. Anything to distract from Russian regions which are running out of money, not to mention Russia itself. Then again, when Russian workers aren't getting paid for months, that tells you all you need to know.

Considering Ukraine is working with Western companies and actively seeking out advice on how to upgrade its industry and make it more efficient, that speaks volumes about its leadership. Compare that to Russia where Putin steals people's property and gives it to his oligarch buddies, or siphons off millions for his personal use, then whines how it's someone else's fault Russia is in such a sorry state of affairs.

Wow, nice spin job. Did you get those words from your handlers in St. Petersburg?

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and supporting terrorists therein, Russia hasn't been able to produce helicopters because the engines came from Ukraine. Even though Russia now claims it can produce the parts, it's only for a limited type of aircraft.

Same for their icebreaker. It was supposed to be launched this year, but because of the sanctions, and the testing for the turbines being in Ukraine, the launch has been put off until 2019. If even then.

Ukraine has been exporting more agricultural products since it got out from under the boot heel of Russia. Hardly a recipe for "inedible". Speaking of which, is Putin still destroying food being imported into Russia while shelves go bare just to make a statement?

At least we know what the Russian talking points on Ukraine are. Anything to distract from Russian regions which are running out of money, not to mention Russia itself. Then again, when Russian workers aren't getting paid for months, that tells you all you need to know.

Considering Ukraine is working with Western companies and actively seeking out advice on how to upgrade its industry and make it more efficient, that speaks volumes about its leadership. Compare that to Russia where Putin steals people's property and gives it to his oligarch buddies, or siphons off millions for his personal use, then whines how it's someone else's fault Russia is in such a sorry state of affairs.

Except, of course, that Liberty University has a long history of having leading figures on the left come and speak to its student body. Ted Kennedy was a frequent speaker, and last year, students were required to go to a Bernie Sanders speech.

The students were respectful and listened, even though they disagreed with Sanders on most points.

I wouldn't go to or send my child to Liberty U, but the differences between a Liberty University and a Berkeley or Evergreen or Yale or Middlebury are pretty stark. Liberty U expects a respectful audience and gets one, the others have let the inmates run the asylum.

Actually, I expect it is all that Engineering, math, biology etc that they regard as bad.

No it's people like this. People like this don't work in the stem fields.

Technology giants like Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, Facebook, Google, Twitter

We are repeatedly told, "net neutrality protects the little guy" — a notion made rather suspect by the concern of the giants like Amazon.

scrap the open internet protections installed in 2015 under the Obama administration

OMG, how did we live in 2014?..

Those consumer protections mean providers such as AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon are prevented from blocking or slowing down access to the web.

Translation: owners of the networking equipment and cables are prevented from doing what they want with their property. War is peace. Regulations are liberty.

You are apparently unaware of the Hillary's uranium deals with Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

If only we could explain Trumps "stream of consciousness" style Twitter-ship because his office was sitting directly above ethylene vents. Almost every thought that goes through Trump's head also comes out on Twitter

Instead of some joint "cyber security unit", we might want to have some type of "red phone" system instead. Maybe a "blue" or "green" phone. My idea is to at least have some high-level notification system when a nation-state detects some major outbreak; like when the recent DNS DDOS happened. While existing security publishing systems seem to do that job, if there is ever an accidental release of some MAD-level tools it would be good to be able to "pick up the phone" and let governmental leaders know ASAP.

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

But, his emails!

Or mandating a $15 minimum wage without studying it first and then seeing it decrease earnings of those it was designed to help, at least according to one recent study (more research over time is still needed to say for sure). There's a much longer list for someone crankier than me to make.

It's well meaning but it's almost universally poorly thought out in terms of unintended consequences.

Bullshit. I was part of the effort to raise the minimum wage in Seattle to $15. The effort was studied and argued ad nauseam. We looked at all the data. Study after study shows that paying people a living wage is not only feasible, but improves the economy. It may be shocking to learn, but putting money into the hands of people who'll actually spend it in the community boosts the economy. Your spending is my income, my spending is your income. You get paid more, then you spend more. Then I make more and pay you back. That's how economies work.

(What hurts an economy? A few rich assholes sucking up all the money for themselves and then sending that money out of the economy to their Swiss bank accounts.)

This recent study came out contradicting previous results. It stated that increasing the minimum wage hurts workers. Turns out the new study wasn't peer reviewed. Another shocker. One problem of many is that the new study excluded minimum wage employers with multiple locations. Why? No good reason. If a restaurant was successful and opened a second location, it wasn't included in the study. No surprise that increasing the minimum wage looks bad if you methodically cut out the successful businesses.

http://www.epi.org/publication...

Like this income tax idea, which will perversely drive out the people who pay the most in property taxes and push them into driving into work from the suburbs. And Seattle already has miserable traffic.

Everyone wants to live close to downtown. Part of that is precisely because of the miserable traffic. We've got the hottest housing market in the nation. If a few people leave over the income tax, there's 10 times the number of people who'd love to buy their homes, move in, and pay that income tax. Our housing market will be completely fine with this tax change.

But, again, while the economic sun is shining the city has the leeway to try these grand but foolish experiments. Unfortunately, at some point the tech boom here will end and there will be a nasty bill to pay for it.

Yeah, sure. The internet is just a fad. It'll end soon. Keep telling yourself that.

In 10 years, the Seattle City council will complain about the impact of commuters on its road infrastructure

More likely they will be complaining about why there isn't enough usage of the mandatory tandem bicycle ride-sharing service that they instituted when they turned all the city's North-South streets into seven-abroad bicycle lanes.

I proudly call Seattle my home. And its mayors and city councils really do believe they're doing the right thing, bless their hearts. But they are pretty much all blithering idiots. Because Seattle is a tech boom town filled with generally liberal people, they have the money and political backing to do well-meaning but impractical things.

You know, things like spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a bike share program in a city that is full of huge f***ing hills and where it rains half the year. Or mandating a $15 minimum wage without studying it first and then seeing it decrease earnings of those it was designed to help, at least according to one recent study (more research over time is still needed to say for sure). There's a much longer list for someone crankier than me to make.

It's well meaning but it's almost universally poorly thought out in terms of unintended consequences. Like this income tax idea, which will perversely drive out the people who pay the most in property taxes and push them into driving into work from the suburbs. And Seattle already has miserable traffic. But, again, while the economic sun is shining the city has the leeway to try these grand but foolish experiments. Unfortunately, at some point the tech boom here will end and there will be a nasty bill to pay for it.

Ahem.

Waymo have an agreement to pursue self-driving cars with Lyft, the main Uber competitor. Uber have fired their principal self-driving car engineer. Meanwhile Uber is in disarray due to alleged toxic working place conditions.

The objective of this lawsuit is not for Waymo to win a settlement, they probably don't care so much about the money, it is to win time and mindshare by burying Uber in this corner of the market.

Personally I think self-driving cars are coming but the engineering challenges are still formidable, perhaps these fights are premature.

at least it not on burial grounds.

The city of San Francisco relocated all the graveyards to Colma after the 1906 earthquake, where the population of the dead outnumbers the living today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/06/sports/football/the-town-of-colma-where-san-franciscos-dead-live.html

Did we really bring a nuclear bomb with information that canâ"like we see with fake newsâ"blow up peopleâ(TM)s brains and reprogram them?

You made some crappy worthless products history has already forgotten about. Ones that caused real damage to real people in the process.

We've all seen lots of shit like this on various HVAC forums over the years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

https://www.reddit.com/r/homea...

Energy harvesting scheme in particular you all knew when you did it that it would cause problems yet ..."C" wire too hard = lost sales = customer bitching = fuck it. This wasn't unintentional. It was deliberate.

According to Fadell, this is largely a matter of unintended consequencesâ"but that doesnâ(TM)t free designers and developers from responsibility.

You all know what you were doing (selling your customers out) and why you were doing it (to make money). Building actual functional products gets about as much attention as smartphone voice quality.

Fadell wants there to be a Hippocratic oath for designers, where they pledge to work ethically and âoedo no harm.â âoeI think we have to be very cognizant of the unintended consequences, but also acknowledge them and then design them outâ"make sure that we are ethically designing,â

Yea sure... back in the real world we have firms hiring physiological experts to maximally get users addicted to their "platforms" to maximize advertising profits. Unintended consequences. I'm sure the drug industry didn't intentionally cause an opioid epidemic either... It was all "unintentional". If your going to bother reflecting on "ethics" you should probably start by admitting what you really did and why you really did it. Not that any if it matters.

This video shows the architect of the affordable health care act making fun of his supporters [youtube.com] for being stupid. You may not have known this because it was not widely covered in the liberal press.

It was covered all over the place. Here's one example. If you had a broader vision, and didn't just watch crappy TV shows, you would have known that.

I'm not sure why you linked to a USA Today article when I asked for Fox News. If your point is that ABC and NBC are just as bad as Fox News, then sure, I'll agree with you. I'm even open to arguments that they are worse than Fox. Not to say that Fox is any good, mind you.

Did they? There's little doubt, and even some sly statements, but did they actually admit it?

Not officially, but by multiple orchestrated "leaks" of details to the media. They certainly did not follow the usual "neither confirm nor deny" approach. See NY Times June 1, 2012
.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

Several sites and apps allow users to turn Spotify songs, YouTube videos and other streaming content into permanent files to store on phones and computers.

You mean "time shifting". This has been litigated already.

You are correct. Unfortunately, you didn't link the relevant case. Time shifting is legal, if each and every person is doing it with their own equipment. Time shifting is not legal if you use someone else's equipment to do it.

In other words, sites that provide a ripping service (with or without ads) are not legal. Apps that rip on your own computer or other device are legal. So sayeth the Supreme Court of the United States in 2014, so it's going to stick for quite some time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blog...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

I refuse to work for a manager that can't use Google, keep your fat fucking job.

They're untrained

This can be said about most taxis drivers anyway in most part of the world. Not that driving a taxi requires much training anyway, and the "training" taxi drivers have is not in doing good things...

There are different standards for training in different parts of the world.

For route finding, GPS devices don't always pick the best routes, as they are generally unaware of upcoming traffic patterns, nor do they know about streets where taxis are allowed to drive, but private vehicles are not. And GPS doesn't work too well between skyscrapers or in heavy thunderstorms.

As for other training, how to best to lift/support passengers and luggage can be important. As a taxi, you're generally not allowed to refuse to carry someone with a disability that requires light assistance.
Does the average Uber driver know how to fold and secure a manual wheelchair, or how to assist an elderly person into and out of the car without hurting them? Some taxi services have mandatory training on these things.

And provide first aid too. Many a child has been born in a taxi on the way to a hospital or clinic. And some get other problems that may benefit from intervention, like people choking or passing out, especially when inebriated. Basic first aid training like how to clear airways is certainly an asset.

Then there's conflict resolution. Passengers can become irate, and training in handling and defusing those kinds of situations can certainly help.

Why are people so resistant to a simple audit I wonder?

Don't know. Why don't you ask the con artist who fought tooth and nail to stop vote recounts in three states by claiming, wait for it, there was no evidence of vote fraud. The exact words used:

"There is no evidence - or even an allegation - that any tampering with Pennsylvania's voting systems actually occurred."

In Wisconsin, the recount and simultaneous audit went forward despite the lawsuits. That would have seemed a perfect time to see about illegal votes but instead, the con artist and his supporters filed suit to stop the process.

As Jill Stein stated in Michigan:

"In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself, verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would address concerns around voter disenfranchisement,"

And yet, the con artist didn't want vote recounts, or any checking of the votes. Now he does. Why the change? As stated above, it's simply to soothe his ego that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. That is it. Nothing more, nothing less. He can't stand it that he received fewer votes than a woman, and it is made worse that it was Hillary.

What rubs me in the wrong way is that the school would have criteria for what are considered acceptable plans for the future. They would not only be judging whether the student has thought about the future, but also the decision itself.

That's really scary. Where we have historically seen fuzzy criteria like this in places like crime sentencing, prosecutorial discretion, and voting literacy requirements, they have almost always resulted in higher standards being applied to minorities (particularly African Americans).

Lest you think your skin color makes you immune to this problem, this is just the fairly easily quantifiable effect. Black Americans are the canary in the coalmine for locating an unfair subjective system. If you or your kid manages to get a bad rep, or has a weird hairstyle/color, or heaven forbid, actually ticks off the school administration, that could be you too.

I believe fraud was already proven several times:

CNN reported that James Comey would testify he did NOT tell Trump that he wansn't under investigation. The next day Comey, under oath said that he told Trump he was not under investigation several times.

3 CNN "journalists" were forced to resign (read fired) for publishing a false story about a Trump associate that was totally baseless. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

A CNN producer was caught on hidden camera admitting that the Trump Russia scandal was BS: http://www.tmz.com/2017/06/27/...

Van Jones, a former Obama lackey and CNN contributor was also caught on undercover camera admitting the same thing: http://www.washingtontimes.com...

Pretty sure you would win that case plus legal fees plus counter suit damages for frivilous suit from CNN...

Scott Pruitt is the poster child for why we need to get money out of politics. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

These mandatory voluntary arbitration clauses are spreading to all industries. The financial services industry has been doing it for decades.

They argue that it saves time and money for the consumer and the arbitration panels are filled with experts - industry insiders - hardly unbiased.

And in this day and age, internet access has become more important than phone service.

Anyone who wants to defend this practice, please read this.

From this article:

The agency, [the court] said, did not have authority under the Clean Air Act to block the rule.

Sounds like they wrote the rule in order to comply with the law as passed by Congress; they can't just unwrite the rule without getting Congress involved.

Most of the discussion requires restricting rights or taking something away from somebody and giving to something else. What is often forgotten is this is not a fixed sum equation. Our economy is dynamic and everyone can gain at the same time. Historically, you could get a good paying job without a college degree working the assembly line. Unfortunately, many of these jobs are being outsourced and/or automated. As a result, these blue collar jobs are being eliminated and nothing is coming in to replace them. A $15 an hour job at a restaurant will not provide a solution no matter how better it is compared to the $10 an hour minimum wage. What these "blue collar" people need are opportunities to find fulfulling and good paying jobs. Today there is a huge barrier to this -- the college degree. The time and expense of achieving this are either unobtainable or not a very good investment. Also, many are burdened with huge college related debts afterwards which effectively reduces their wage for many years. I don't often quote articles in the NY Times, but this one was right on and hits close to many of us on Slashdot. How about the "blue collar" coding/programming position. Have companies stop filtering by college degree and start filtering by abilities. Many non-degreed people become excellent programmers. As an experienced software developer I would love to take on interns who are committed, talented and hardworking people and help them learn my trade. They may not get paid as well as me with my formal degree, but they sure will get paid far more than they would at a minimum wage imposed restaurant.

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

Boeing has had internship openings for blue collar jobs. We should encourage other companies to encourage internships for non-college bound positions. Those of the non-libertarian persuasion may even consider subsidies and/or tax breaks for companies that promote these kinds of jobs.

Here's a similar story which someone posted as a comment in this New York Times article:

Ulf Erlingsson

In the academic world where I come from, the older help the younger, its a necessary part of it. We cannot display different behavior if the student is a man or a woman, that would be discrimination. Yet when I behaved the same way as my elders had done in Sweden towards me and my colleagues, men and women, in Miami, trying to help a promising woman student with her career, inviting her to a work meeting over dinner in exactly the same way I had been treated in Sweden, she accused me of sexual harassment and I was fired. She didn't even RSVP to the invitation. My conclusion is that American women who want equality but don't understand the implications, they are their own worst enemies for their careers.

--

Now, we only have Ulf's side of the story, but here is a documented "I got fired for sexual harassment for asking a woman out to dinner" story.

Corporations are sitting on trillions in cash, neither spending nor investing it (other than parking it in short-term treasuries or other cash-equivalent short term investments).

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

Even if you posit that most of it is invested, when the investments are in firms controlled by an ever-shrinking number of people, you're not "creating wealth for others" in any broad sense, you're either increasing your own wealth, since you control the firm being invested in, or its back-scratching exercise with the other oligarchs.

And if we're actually talking about a future of high levels of automation, investing in a firm like that isn't actually creating wage jobs, either.

Anyone who voted up your post which is just a bunch of lies and bogus allegations.

Apparently you're not only one of them "low information voters", you're also promoting ignorance.

Time for you to learn.

- Bill Clinton pardoned two terrorists who were responsible (among other things) of killing two cops.

An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01...

- Bill Clinton also pardoned 16 Puerto Rican terrorists, two of which refused his pardon.

On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, which is a Puerto Rican paramilitary organization that set off 120 bombs in the United States, mostly in New York City and Chicago. There were convictions for conspiracy to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as firearms and explosives violations.[

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

- The Clintons stole furniture from the White House and returned some of it to avoid further lawsuits.

The Clinton White House furnishings in question, which were donated in 1993, included two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman, worth $19,900, from Steve Mittman; a kitchen table and four chairs, valued at $3,650, from Lee Ficks; a $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe; $1,170 in lamps from Stuart Schiller; and a $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, according to the Post.
Mittman, Noe and Joy Ficks, the widow of Lee Ficks, told the Post that their donations were gifts to the White House, not the Clintons. The contributions were intended to complement a 1993 White House redecoration project.

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/...

and it was apparently not enough because Hilary did it again when she was Secretary of State.

The ex-agent told the FBI that they were aware of Clinton or her aides 'removing lamps and furniture from the State Department which were transported to her residence in Washington, D.C.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

- Bill Clinton has a history of rapes (he settled on the most famous one) and Hillary has a history of covering up his actions.

Bill Clinton raped me, and Hillary Clinton threatened me

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/09/...

- Hillary Clinton got caught lying many times

She said when she arrived in Bosnia on March 25, 1996, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

But news video footage of her arrival at Tuzla shows Clinton, then the first lady, calmly walking from the rear ramp of a U.S. Air Force plane with her daughter, Chelsea, then 16, at her side. Both Clintons held their heads up and did not appear rushed.

The video shows Clinton spending several minutes talking with the group, including an 8-year-old Bosnian girl who presented her with a poem, and later greeting U.S. troops.

Instead of being a VC, they should have run for president. Then they wouldn't have these problems.

Trump isn't getting any sex. Even his wife won't let him hold her hand in public. Why do you think he's up in the middle of the night on Twitter? His sex drive is so low that he doesn't even want to look at porn. Twitter and Fox. Big Macs and steak with ketchup and Cheetos. Dat's all folks.

The finasteride that Trump takes to slow down hair loss means he's most likely got no libido, and no ability to have an erection. Which explains his turning to Twitter to keep himself occupied.

Trump's sex life is now limited to hall sex - where you pass each other in the hall as you go to your separate bedrooms and say "fuck you!" "fuck you!"

The New York Times had an article about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley.

Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/technology/women-entrepreneurs-speak-out-sexual-harassment.html

This book is on my reading list: "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries" by Kory Stamper. The author recently had an opinion piece in The New York Times, and The New York Times previously had an article on her workplace, Merriam-Webster.

This book is on my reading list: "Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries" by Kory Stamper. The author recently had an opinion piece in The New York Times, and The New York Times previously had an article on her workplace, Merriam-Webster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0... (nytimes, may be pay-walled) All the people in this region are playing with fire. While they’re fighting over who is caliph, who is the rightful heir to the Prophet Muhammad from the seventh century — Sunnis or Shiites — and to whom God really gave the holy land, Mother Nature is not sitting idle. She doesn’t do politics — only physics, biology and chemistry. And if they add up the wrong way, she will take them all down. The only “ism” that will save them is not Shiism or Islamism but “environmentalism” — understanding that there is no Shiite air or Sunni water, there is just “the commons,” their shared ecosystems, and unless they cooperate to manage and preserve them (and we all address climate change), vast eco-devastation awaits them all.

This sounds like a good idea. It will never be implemented though as protecting is not part of their remit. If in doubt, refer to the Supreme Court: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...

Unfortunately, our police forces are for revenue generation and for primitive behavioural control.

Revenue could be (but not limited to) speeding tickets or prison profits.

Behavioural control is the war on * where they can lodge a case against your possessions instead of you and just take them without any legal recourse by the individual. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if in doubt.

Long story short, government is just a bunch of brigands working together to rob everyone blind. The governments that succeed for a while are the ones smart enough to leave enough crumbs around for their victims to continue surviving. They are not advanced enough yet to farm us properly for maximum yields but they are extremely advanced at farming us for maximum efficiency.

Have no illusions, if the government happens to do something that you think is good and protecting, it is merely a serendipitous coincidence that allows them to be a little more convincing that they might have society's needs at heart.

It was Bill Clinton, A FUCKING DEMOCRAT that federally deregulated the banks and federally instituted the racist 3-strikes law.

We were told that this sort of stuff would have been a Republican wet dream. THE DEMOCRATS DID IT

And the Dems wonder why they can't win elections.

Because Rockoon is such a demented liar that he states easily disproven falsehoods?

Yeah, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act was totally named after 3 Democratic Congressmen. Wait. Sen. Phil Gramm (R, Texas), Rep. Jim Leach (R, Iowa), and Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R, Virginia). Hmm. Of course, we could just forget the Bush administration, because obviously they weren't capable of doing anything, so it's unfair to hold them responsible for running the country.

As for three strikes, the flaws of it were pointed out in 1995. Republicans? They've had 22 years. They've done what now?

At least Clinton has the grace to admit his mistakes. The new Sheriff is committed to ignoring that.

If you want to say that Democrats don't win elections because America is infected with such a fanatical zealotry of lying GOP stalwarts that substitute their own reality, I guess that's an idea. Anything else? You're just being as much a liar as Rockoon.

The real story with elections, of course, is that the game is rigged.

It was Bill Clinton, A FUCKING DEMOCRAT that federally deregulated the banks and federally instituted the racist 3-strikes law.

We were told that this sort of stuff would have been a Republican wet dream. THE DEMOCRATS DID IT

And the Dems wonder why they can't win elections.

Because Rockoon is such a demented liar that he states easily disproven falsehoods?

Yeah, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act was totally named after 3 Democratic Congressmen. Wait. Sen. Phil Gramm (R, Texas), Rep. Jim Leach (R, Iowa), and Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R, Virginia). Hmm. Of course, we could just forget the Bush administration, because obviously they weren't capable of doing anything, so it's unfair to hold them responsible for running the country.

As for three strikes, the flaws of it were pointed out in 1995. Republicans? They've had 22 years. They've done what now?

At least Clinton has the grace to admit his mistakes. The new Sheriff is committed to ignoring that.

If you want to say that Democrats don't win elections because America is infected with such a fanatical zealotry of lying GOP stalwarts that substitute their own reality, I guess that's an idea. Anything else? You're just being as much a liar as Rockoon.

The real story with elections, of course, is that the game is rigged.

If the con artist gets wind there's an attempt to stop using Russian-based software because the company might be susceptible to Russian government influence, he'll order them to use it no matter what.

Remember, this is the same guy who was explicitly warned not to bring Michael Flynn into the fold because Flynn was highly susceptible to Russian blackmail. He went ahead and did it anyway, then tried to blame Obama when everything blew up in his face, ignoring the fact it was Obama who fired Flynn for insubordination.

The unemployment rate in Seattle has fallen from 6.7% in Jun 2012 to 2.9% in May 2017. As noted in the NYTimes, a plausible reason that people are working less hours in minimum wage jobs is that the tight labor market has forced a lot of companies to pay more than minimum wage. That may make the food industry, which the UC Berkeley study says were benefiting important, since those are exactly the sort of jobs that probably are last to benefit from a tight labor market.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/milwaukee-segregation-wealthy-black-families.html

Ask me how I know your white?
FYI, I'm not; or not fully, which other whites have told me is the same thing.

By 1940, the average income was $1,368. Someone making minimum wage ($.30 by 1940) would earn about $600 per year at the minimum, working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks per year. It also means the minimum wage increased 20% in the first two years.

In 2015, median household income in the US (according to census figures) was $56,516. Working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks for $4.25 would earn just $8500. A yearly income of $24787.72 would be a similar multiple of the average income, which would yield an hourly wage of $12.39.

It should likely be higher. The average household income is much higher, $72,641, which would yield a comparable hourly wage of $15.93. Inflation isn't the only factor to consider on how much the minimum wage should be raised.

A simple Google search proves you wrong about Paul Krugman, who has come to support raising the minimum wage. Saying that most economists don't like the concept of a minimum wage is completely overstating the case.

And you should still be downmodded as a troll, one: for being pointlessly wrong, and two: for saying I told you so.

Running a VM doesn't take all that much in terms of processor power, but it requires a lot of memory (RAM), usually around 4GB or more. The problem is that 4GB is right at the limit of what XP can use. You want to have at least 8GB of RAM to run smoothly, but that means you have to upgrade to Win7-64 at the very least.

And even if you're running a VM, the machine can still be infected, and act like a vector to spread the virus through the network. So you have to have a firewall and virus scanner, just like a hardware machine.

And since we're dealing with previously unknown zero-days, neither of those are of much use. Indeed, they may be worse than useless, as we're starting to find out.

Except in California, they can't get the Americans to work more then a day, even while offering WAY above minimum wage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-backed-trump-but-now-fear-losing-field-workers.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/immigrant-worker-unharvested-crops_us_59508a72e4b05c37bb774d89