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Re "The fact that the CIA was installing spyware doesn't mean that the CIA was installing spyware on the property of US citizens."
"Files on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War" (June 27, 2007)
"...new details about how the Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied on Americans decades ago, including trying to bug a Las Vegas hotel room for evidence of infidelity and tracking down an expert lock-picker for a Watergate conspirator."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06...
Operation CHAOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
".. American domestic espionage project conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1967 to 1974"
Thats why the US got its United States President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Inquiry by C.I.A. Affirms It Spied on Senate Panel (July 31, 2014)
".. officers penetrated a computer network used by the Senate Intelligence Committee in preparing its damning report on the C.I.A.’s detention and interrogation program."
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...

Yep. Boss Trump is rallying the fans in Kentucky, promising to bring back coal jobs. Or, at least, bring back coal by letting up on silly environmental rules like the Stream Protection Rule.

Trouble is, giving coal companies a break doesn't necessarily mean good things for coal miners. Like everyone else, coal companies are heavily investing in automation and mining techniques that require fewer pesky workers. At the same time, strip-mining and poisoning the water and the land makes it suck worse to live in coal country, either as a miner or even as a crazed live-off-the-land survivor type.

Further, Trump is a big friend of fracking, which lowers the price of natural gas, which, like, lowers the demand for coal. Uhhh, right.

My guess is there's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks in coal country in a coupla years when the jobs don't come and Trumpcare takes over. Maybe by then AT&T will be hiring scabs to replace all the folks on strike. Can you run some fiber before that black lung gits ya, or will the heavy metals in the frogs and the river trout git ya first?

In fact, the Stream Protection Rule originated with coal miners. Coal miners, after all, presumably have to live somewhere nearby to the coal mine.

"It offers $20 billion a year in hard Federal dollars every year for the next four years, to build an economy for the 21st century, to invest in new roads and bridges, and streets and rail systems, to develop high-speed rail and a national fiber optic network, to develop new environmental technologies to clean our waters and our air, and to recycle more of our solid wastes. In short, to do those things which we are not doing today."
Bill Clinton June 22, 1992 Campaign Speech

I remember hearing about possibly laying fiber as part of an interstate highway bill. But the plan was way too ambitious since it morphed into maintaining the equipment and doing the last mile connections, etc.. It would have put the Fed as a telecom competitor (and who would want the govt running telecom?).

Pres. Clinton created the National Information Infrastructure Initiative by Executive Order 12864. It was spurred on by then Sen. Gore in his High Performance Computing Act of 1991.

Kent Law Review
The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s

RRK

There are plenty of stories available about the expert, including interviews with the man himself. I'm not sure I believe his story, but he did one thing right, which was provide the real Google link and advised Podesta to change his password AND enable two-factor authentication. Podesta used the link in the phishing email though, so even at best the 'expert' did a very very poor job of communication.

Yep. Boss Trump is rallying the fans in Kentucky, promising to bring back coal jobs. Or, at least, bring back coal by letting up on silly environmental rules like the Stream Protection Rule.

Trouble is, giving coal companies a break doesn't necessarily mean good things for coal miners. Like everyone else, coal companies are heavily investing in automation and mining techniques that require fewer pesky workers. At the same time, strip-mining and poisoning the water and the land makes it suck worse to live in coal country, either as a miner or even as a crazed live-off-the-land survivor type.

Further, Trump is a big friend of fracking, which lowers the price of natural gas, which, like, lowers the demand for coal. Uhhh, right.

My guess is there's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks in coal country in a coupla years when the jobs don't come and Trumpcare takes over. Maybe by then AT&T will be hiring scabs to replace all the folks on strike. Can you run some fiber before that black lung gits ya, or will the heavy metals in the frogs and the river trout git ya first?

Not necessarily. The US EPA went after VW very aggressively, but they mostly ignored decades of emissions cheating at GM, Ford and Chrysler. In one of the very few cases in which they actually filed a complaint against a US manufacturer, they settled for $45 million, even though the number of cars was similar to when they managed to rob VW of many billions. Very recently, Harley-Davidson paid only $15 million for selling replacement parts that helped customers defeat emissions laws. I am very interested in how Fiat Chrysler's emissions cheating will be handled. The US EPA has issued a notice of violation for some of the suspect engines, but there has been nothing like the holy war against VW yet.

There is a huge difference between how the US EPA treats American companies and how it treats foreign companies. John Deere may not have much to fear.

When did silicon valley define "innovative" to mean "Almost as boring as the same old shit"?

This jet.com for example appears to be amazon as it has existed since 1998, except prices are going to be even harder to figure out. Oops, I'm sorry, I mean "ALGORITHMS! MAGIC! "LOWER" PRICES!"

When you say "innovative" I think new like the first iphone after I had a fliphone, or like CRISPR DNA editing. Tech bros say innovation though and mean "This iphone doesn't have headphone plugs!"

Walmart pretending to be "innovating" means we should probably just give up the word entirely, it's fucking dead.

Presidents sometimes, when they're about to leave office, call for a mission to Mars. That way, it's not their responsibility, and they don't have to support it in any way - but if it does happen, they get a bit of the credit for inspiring it. Obama did it in 2016. Bush the Elder did it in 1989.

Trump, however, is doing something new: calling for a Mars mission within a few months of becoming President. That puts him in a position where he has to be the one to support it, for at least 4, probably 8 years - but he only gets a bit of the credit, not the majority of the glory, when the mission actually happens, another 5-or-so years down the line.

That looks like he's being more selfless, and less glory-seeking, than the average President.

no evidence of Obama wiretapping Trump, and confirmation that the FBI is investigating links between Trump's campaign and Russia.

Feel like it's the 1990s again with Bill Clinton. No evidence that Obama was wiretapping Trump. Carefully chosen words. He's talking about the classic definition of wiretapping, Trump put it in quotes meaning that type of an idea. He also said Obama, meaning Obama didn't specifically order a tap, which is probably true. However you can bet your life that he knew about it. Nobody doubts that.

Also, there's that inconvenient NYTimes article where they say there's a transcript of what General Flynn said. He was in Trump Tower at the time. So if there was no wiretap, how did they get that transcript?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Those darn facts again. They want it both ways.

So, I read one news article here,
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Apparently they are banning electronic devices in the cabin due to the possibility of concealing explosives in them in "a way that is hard to detect". Ok, let's assume that is true. Question from me is, what difference does it make if it is in carry-on or checked baggage? Once it is on the plane, wouldn't an attacker be able to detonate it remotely if it is in checked baggage? Am I missing something here?

If you really want to reduce illegals, then audit businesses for their employment practices. However, biz bribes GOP not to...

More on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

what if a defendant really doesn't remember the password? Throw him in jail forever?

Sure. Why not? The criteria is "reasonable doubt" not "certainty". In practice, the standard for "reasonable doubt" is not very high. When DNA evidence first became valid in court, the Innocence Project reviewed thousands of old cases, and determined that about 10% of them could not possibly have committed the crimes for which they were convicted. One case overturned was the Central Park Five, which EVERYONE, including our president, was absolutely certain were guilty. There are many, many other cases with no DNA evidence, but there is no reason to believe the false conviction rate is any lower for those.

So if 90% certainly is good enough to lock up some poor black kids for life, why isn't it good enough for a rich white guy with a Macbook Pro?

The concept of Uber is to extract corporate profit off the backs of drivers. No long term business model succeeds by exploiting those who provide the actual goods and services that is the foundation of the company. Their exit plan was automated vehicles and remove the driver from the equation- If it is proven in court that Uber stole the code from Google for self driving cars: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Uber no longer has a business model at all.

News stories I've found indicate what you said is correct:

Seattle: Together with abusive companies and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place.

Houses in Seattle are expensive: Seattle bumps Boston as the most expensive U.S. housing market that's not in California.

Rent is expensive: Seattle rent is 5th most expensive in U.S.

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

You proved my point.

First of all, he's not a fueher nor fascist. Fascism is on the left, not the right. Learn your history. Secondly, Mr. Trump said Wiretapped and he put it in quotes. It's still on his twitter if you don't believe me. That means wiretap type of a technology, not that it was a 1950s type wiretap.

You seem to think you're a smart guy. I know you've been indoctrinated that nothing is true from anything other than the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. Ok, here's an article for you - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... . Look about half way down, what does it say? General Flynn was wiretapped, and he was in Trump Tower when it happened. We know this.

Here is a snippet - The White House had examined a transcript of a wiretapped conversation that Mr. Flynn had with Mr. Kislyak in December, according to administration officials. Mr. Flynn originally told Mr. Pence and others that the call was limited to small talk and holiday pleasantries.

So now what do you do? If you're smart, you'll respond and admit you were wrong. He was wiretapped.

BTW at the end of the day Trump has been mostly right about what he's said. He's not who I would have wanted to be in the WH, however he'll certainly do. Far, far, far, far better than Hillary.

just one more tool that law enforcement can use to make our job a little safer and a little bit easier

Sure! I'd love to work for the police state! And for free!

"We have over 100,000 people using the app right now, and we're hoping that more will join us to take action and fight this fight,"

I think a more productive use of everyone's time will be to monitor and document police activity. After all, police lie. They are corrupt and can't be trusted.

File this under, "no shit, Sherlock". I mean, has anyone gotten a load of the White House staff lately? We had a registered agent of a foreign government receiving national security briefings and holding the post of National Security Advisor before he was thrown to the wolves for being too obvious.

The president just signed a license deal to use his name on a string of Chinese brothels. I mean, what the fuck? I miss the days when the worst thing a president did was get a blowjob from a 20 year old and lie about it.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/07...

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

You haven't priced ebooks lately. Most of them are considerably more expensive than having a physical copy shipped to you. Take for instance the classic 1984. A paperback copy can be bought brand new including shipping for $6.51. On Kindle, it is 50% more, at $9.99. I love my Kindle, but I refuse to pay the premium price that publishers are charging for the books. On books that are priced this way, I'll either borrow a copy from the library or pirate it.

And 1984 is out of copyright in many non-US countries. It's on Project Gutenberg.

Given that, and its subject matter, I was amused by Amazon's remote removal of it. That's the strongest case for DRM removal I can think of.

Here's what happens when you raise farm worker wages to the living wage. A pound of apples goes from $1 to $1.06 (adding a little to get it up to $15/hr since it's an old article).

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

Defense spending is always made out to be the bogeyman by those on the left. But it's not what's been driving the huge increase in government spending (from 20% of GDP in 1950 to 40% of GDP today). Entitlement programs are.

We've had over a decade of uncharacteristically low interest rates, so balancing the budget wasn't important - you could borrow a lot of money and didn't have to pay much interest if you didn't pay it back. But now that interest rates are rising, it's very important to reduce the amount of outstanding debt. Otherwise the interest portion of that spending graph is going to balloon and start to rival entitlement spending.

It's also worth pointing out that in the midst of the recession, everyone argued vehemently that the way to get out of a recession is for the government to go into debt and spend money to stimulate the economy. The corollary to that is that once you're out of the recession and the economy is picking up, government spending needs to be cut and that debt repaid lest you overstimulate the economy leading to another rapid boom/bust cycle.

Really, how many documented cases of speakers being prevented can you provide? How many injuries? How many hospitalizations?

Here are a few:

(1) Berkeley riots, which injured people, and caused the university to cancel a speech by Milo Yiannopoulos:

The university insists that it made elaborate preparations for protests. It canceled the speech only after what it called an “unprecedented” invasion of the campus by “more than 100 armed individuals clad all in black” who engaged in violent, destructive behavior. They hurled metal barricades, threw Molotov cocktails and smashed windows at the student union.

The event was cancelled after left-wing rioters, who the university claim were not students, smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, set fires in the street, and sprayed the words “Kill Trump” on storefronts.

Video was posted showing violent leftists chasing and beating a man with sticks.
The man appears unconscious in the street as they beat him.

(2) A speech at Middlebury College was severely disrupted by protesters. After the speech, when the speaker and Professor Allison Stanger left, they were attacked, and Prof. Stnager's neck was injured:

Then I went onstage, got halfway through my first sentence, and the uproar began.

First came a shouted recitation in unison of what I am told is a piece by James Baldwin. I couldn’t follow the words. That took a few minutes. Then came the chanting.
. . .
This went on for about twenty minutes.
. . .
Professor Stanger and I were led out of the hall to the improvised studio.
. . .
Then there was the sound of shouting outside, followed by loud banging on the wall of the building. . . . Then a fire alarm went off, which was harder to compete with.
. . .
We finished around 6:45 and prepared to leave the building . . . I didn’t see it happen, but someone grabbed Allison’s hair just as someone else shoved her from another direction, damaging muscles, tendons, and fascia in her neck.

There, several masked protesters, who were believed to be outside agitators, began pushing and shoving Mr. Murray and Ms. Stanger, Mr. Burger said. “Someone grabbed Allison’s hair and twisted her neck,” he said. . . . After the two got into a car, Mr. Burger said, protesters pounded on it, rocked it back and forth, and jumped onto the hood. Ms. Stanger later went to a hospital, where she was put in a neck brace.

(3) About 600 people protested the immigration ban at the Portland Airport. There was a 4-person counter-protest:

One of the counter-demonstrators was assaulted just after 5 p.m., Port of Portland spokesman Steve Johnson said.

Grant Chisholm, 39 of Portland told The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he was at the airport with three other members of the group Bible Believers for a counter-protest when a Trump opponent hit him in the head three times with something metallic. Chisholm dropped and drifted in and out of unconsciousness, he said, while vomiting a

Wait until el Presidente Tweetie learns of this. There will be a new Executive Order, No More Security Exploits of Government Systems, All Security Personnel Can Hence Be Given Their Walking Papers.

Uh, no. Congress approved and funded the contract. It's very unlikely that Congress will cancel the contract willy-nilly without evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Talks are underway for the next five-year contract.

[...] industry sycophants who come crawling to his Oval Office with baubles and trinkets to be used for the next election.

Uh, no. Trump has 500 positions to fill in Washington, D.C. He values loyalty above all else in employees. Finding 500 people who haven't said a negative thing about him is proving to be a serious personnel problem for his still born administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/us/politics/trump-administration.html

If you stir up hatred, you incite to violence, and should face consequences.

Unless they are beating up Trump supporters or "punching a Nazi". Then the clearly unbiased media will simply excuse or laud you. Not unlike how Obama went to a very racist church for ages yet got a pass.

I will stick to my theory that the media is fanning the flames of racial tension to distract everyone from the loss of the middle class and the severe decline of the American Dream. After all, the quickest way to defeat "We are the 99%" is to fragment them into many smaller groups who will conveniently fight each other rather than fight the 1%.

Citations: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06...

Actually, the exact opposite happened in 2007.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06...

The Supreme Court STRUCK DOWN an antitrust rule AGAINST minimum retail prices.

Better, look at what would happen if a Mexican soldier shot an American on American soil.

Hint: "Act of War" comes to mind, but "I'll sue, I'll sue!!" doesn't....

Why not?

What, you thought it hadn't happened? Give enough guys a gun, somebody will get shot.

We were warned that by 2000 we'd see major cities on the oceans, such as New York, LA, Miami, Sydney, and Tokyo, completely submerged due to the ice caps having totally melted.

Despite no real action to cut down on the various emissions they claimed would be responsible for this global warming, none of their threats actually happened.

I'm pretty sure that you could say that flooding in Miami has actually happened, sorry, is actually happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html?_r=0

I respectfully disagree. Expressing yourself; expressing your beliefs should not be illegal in free society.

What your proposing would only lead to tyranny. Whistleblowers, skeptics of all sorts would be criminalized.

Imagine bringing up objections to Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. What sort of proof would you need to bring forward?
How about Rachel Maddow and Trump returns. Should she be sued?

No. There ought not be a limit on freedom of thought, freedom of speech.

Are the positions of your adversaries wrong? Argue against the wrongfully stated position. Take it on in full daylight.

As a side note right now there are people who say there are different facts for different races and genders. How would you deal with those arguments? You needn't have to.

Everything you say should be legal.

Now, if you falsely, and knowingly create a panic (crying fire in a crowded theater) then being prosecuted for directly ensuing panic *may* make sense. But what do you do to people who
1. say that the economy is in bad condition.
2. declare that the existing president is not being helpful.
3. when a new president is elected (and before he comes to office) declare the economy is making a comeback and call it the "new_president recovery"

Should those obvious falsehood be a prosecutable offense?

Signals of the Clinton Recovery - Rebound Is Seen, but a Slow One ...
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11...

Rachel Carlson is personally responsible for the pain, suffering and death of huge numbers of people through the ban.

Nope. You're just looking for a scapegoat.

Which says a lot about you. In reality, numerous countries, including African ones continued to use DDT with RIS. But you would rather blame an environmentalist who actually served to warn us of real problems with the effects of DDT that were developing due to its misuse.

Not to mention the development of resistance in mosquito populations which was rendering it less effective.

Oh no, you would tell us the person we should be outraged at, who didn't cause any of the actions you allege, is the one warning us.

Not even concern over lack of research into malarial medication, corruption in African countries, lack of education, lack of resources, just misguided venting.

What does that tell us about yourself?

Looks like the factory has both a history of accidents (2 previous deaths) and owner/name changes. That could indicate a culture of disregard for safety.

Perhaps even welcome. From The President Changed. So Has Small Businesses’ Confidence

The owner of an automotive parts assembler gave thanks that he would not be receiving visits from pesky environmental and workplace overseers.

The president of a trucking company spoke of a “tremendous dark cloud” lifting when he realized he would no longer be feeling the burden of rules and regulations imposed by the Obama administration.

“My gut just feels better,” said Bob Fleisher, president of a local car dealership. “With Obama, you felt it was personal — like he just didn’t want you to make money. Now we have a guy who is cutting regulations and taxes.

Thankfully, those pesky environmental and safety rules and regulations protecting people and getting in the way of profits over disposable employees will be going away...

Paper and copper network was from:
https://arstechnica.com/inform... (8/15/2014)
The FCC has changed the definition of broadband ( Jan 29, 2015)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...
IMSI catchers from
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0... (FEB. 11, 2016)

re "And of course CIA do use those tools against US citizens, they are allowed to and required to do so in some circumstances."
That is what Church Committee worked on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Recall Operation CHAOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
Project MERRIMAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Project RESISTANCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Files on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War" (JUNE 27, 2007)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06...
"... provide new details about how the Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied on Americans"

Richard Nixon: "Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

Or maybe this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html

".. the law is totally on my side, meaning, the president can’t have a conflict of interest."

Religions get nearly all their followers from the most ignorant/impressionable. Both Christianity and Islam have both have spent centuries actively suppressing the threat of their followers getting informed/educated. We can see this in the existence of things like the secret Vatican library, and Sharia Law that denies women the right to attend school. I mean it was only since 1992 that the vatican formally accepted the earth goes around the sun.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10...

The church are now under significant threat from technology as things like the internet have enabled information, knowledge and scientific research to flow far more freely then they can control. The bottom line is that people are leaving the catholic church in droves as they realise there's less and less credibility and need to explain things with "magic", so the Vatican realises they need to do something if they want to hold onto their gold palaces paid for by donations they continue to con out of of the poor.

>>https://cruxnow.com/church/2015/05/12/pew-survey-percentage-of-us-catholics-drops-and-catholicism-is-losing-members-faster-than-any-denomination/

It seems like this Vatican representative is filling exactly the same sort of role that Microsoft do at Linux conferences. i.e. trying desperately to figure out any small way that they can still appear to be relevant and to maintain their parasitic chokehold on a society that is increasingly aware of the fact that they add no value and their product is both expensive and crap compared to far better alternatives out there for free.

That's not true. Definitely not true. The "cloud" hasn't weakened encryption because WhatsApp and Signal (more Signal than WhatsApp) use an open-source protocol that is zero-knowledge through transit. The guys running the servers don't know the contents of the communications. (I believe that WhatsApp collects metadata but Signal does not.)

Google's Android and Apple's iOS are not being deliberately bugged with back doors. For fuck's sake, Android is open-source. It is possible to compile Android from the source code to make sure there aren't back doors. Apple patched iOS ten days after it learned that a private spy company had compromised iOS. When the FBI wanted to force Apple to hack the iPhone, Apple went to court to stop them, and finally forced the FBI to pay a private company to break the phone.

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

Daylight savings is the perfect example of government's regulatory overreach interference in people's lives for theoretical gain. What is there is an increase in stress, time, money and heart attacks.

It's a concept that kills people, something studies have shown for years. Meanwhile anyone who wants an extra hour of daylight can make a personal choice and adjust their sleep schedule.

http://www.livescience.com/567...
https://permies.com/t/509/Debu...
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfor...
https://www.theatlantic.com/na...

Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of vaccines. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03...

Here, do some research next time:

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/trump-reportedly-still-uses-unsecured-android-phone.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html?referer=&_r=0

Maybe we should give him the Nobel peace prize too, we haven't gotten into any new wars during that month.

We did the next best thing: we moved the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight.

probably supported Obama as he spent YEARS claiming "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" and "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan" etc. That very same Obama whose people (like Ben Rhodes and Jonathan Gruber repeatedly bragged that he secured victories in health care and foreign policy by lying to his own stupid supporters by way of the in-the-tank journalists at outlets like the New York Times.

yup... keep up the meme that Trump is a huckster while your preferred huckster's entire legacy dissolves from his own used car salesman and carbon offsets trader style marketing lies.

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Seattle: Together with Microsoft and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place:

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

They have already succeeded in a quick implementation of another battery system:

Manufactured, shipped, installed and readied for operation in roughly three months, the batteries are connected to distribution circuits at Southern California Edison’s Mira Loma substation in an industrial section of Ontario, Calif., about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

“Essentially, we can go and pour a slab and install the basic wiring, but each one of our Powerpacks is quite self-contained,” said J. B. Straubel, Tesla’s chief technical officer.

As president, those who suffer from that have no recourse until he leaves office. He can't be sued as president.

Not true. A sitting President can be sued for any illegal action outside the bounds of his duties, per the unanimous US Supreme Court ruling in 1997. The Court was asked whether or not Bill Clinton could be sued for alleged sexual harassment. The answer was an unequivocal yes. Now Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a second, concurring opinion saying that it might be difficult to hold court proceedings without interfering with the duties of the President, so there's plenty of legal cover for lawyers to delay proceedings for ages, possibly until a President is out of office, but a suit can certainly be filed while a President is still in office.

So while the federal government enjoys sovereign immunity (with some explicit exceptions in law), and that includes the Office of the President, it only applies to the person of the President when he is acting as president. So a President can not be sued for signing a bill into law, or for ordering troops around, or for signing a treaty with a foreign power, or for any of the thousands of things authorized by law, but a President can be sued for libel or slander or sexual harassment.

The decision was hailed at the time by the New York Times as "resisting the notion of an imperial White House," so even a left-leaning paper saw it as a good thing, even when applied to a Democratic president.

You are under the delusion that Trump wasn't wiretapped, when the NYT said he was...

Bull shit. Just bull shit. Here's some fact checking for you.

And it is often the same "unnamed" sources.

I'm assuming you have something to back that up other than just pulling it out of your ass or listening to the BS coming from Trump?

...leaked classified documents that show ... he was indeed being spied upon..

I'd be very curious to see these documents. So would the rest of the world - Especially the media. It's a shame that you're the only one with access to them.

As bad as the liberals want to get Trump...

This isn't a case of liberals coming after Trump. It's a case of the whole world asking WTF he's talking about and reacting to a scandal bigger than Watergate.

Soviet era style tactics are the best, aren't they? Turn half of the population into informers, you don't even need that many people, you just need to seed the doubt in the people's minds that they are constantly being watched. Except that they are being watched constantly

Yeah, if urea injection was commonplace that would be a great solution. However it adds weight, complication, and expense to a car, and most diesels don't have urea injection. In real life, European cities are experiencing horrific smog due to diesel exhaust, and 23,500 people in Britain die each year from it.

"Yesterday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and 23 Republican co-sponsors introduced a resolution that would overturn new privacy rules for internet service providers."

Seriously question: why are Republican lawmakers so willing to sell out their own constituents? And why do rank and file republican voters go along with it?

They're against anything and everything that would seem to be good for the people of their states and districts- healthcare, privacy protection, consumer protection, environmental protection, financial regulation on banks and mortgage companies, etc etc etc.

I mean, what the fuck?

About 6 months prior to the 2008 election, Barack Obama flip-flopped on telecom immunity.

He was, at that time, the leader of the Democratic party, and he felt comfortable enough breaking a campaign promise that he did it 6 months *before* the election.

Take an unbiased look at politicians and you'll find that both parties work against the interests of the people. Big corporations and moneyed interests give money for reelection, and expect special favors.

We've said for years on this very site how corrupt both parties are, and for this exact reason. We can follow the money, we can show the logical conclusions, we can cite example after example, and we do it for both parties.

Get away from the partisam bickering. Simple "the other side is awful" complaints are misdirecting people into internecine conflict, when we should be banding together as a people to demand better service from our government.

The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.

"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

- NYTimes article, Questions for Linus Torvalds by David Diamond (at the end)

Bill, Steve, and Satya have probably discussed this at some length. To be a fly on the wall...

Although it may surprise you, outside your insular liberal bubble most people look at the so called 'carbon' problems as a total hoax.

You could have learned in one simple search that your comment is a lie.

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

I do the same as you except it's on a normal bus because we don't have an express bus, and a good percentage of the ridership is homeless, and every few months one of them decides to start yelling at me for no reason.

That would Hotel 22 in Silicon Valley.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/hotel-22.html