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it will gladly loan anyone money to go to college regardless of their likelihood of being successful there, the ability for their degree to allow them to earn a living or pay back their loan, or any other sensible metric.

And yet, college can offer so much including reduction in crime and poverty.

That college costs so much despite universities sitting on billions of dollars in endowments might be a better area to look at.

However, that Bloomberg is following in Harris Rosen's footsteps seems like a good thing.

Nukes are useful, necessary even for a number of reasons. First and foremost nukes deliver power and lots of it all the time, which heavy industry absolutely requires;

Bullshit.

"Advanced grid management technology" is a nice way of saying shutting off the customer's power. Very few heavy industries can put up with that. Very few people will put up with that.

And also bullshit.

The dilemma of cooling nuclear power plants is an artificial one. "Ecologically sensitive" is code for animals are more important than people. A choice between rolling backouts and a lower standard of living versus insignificant ecological damage is not going to be good for the ecology.

Why not apply a Pigovian tax to encourage a market friendly solution which prevents ecological damage? Because they have no interest in such a thing; they just want nuclear power gone at any cost. Isn't it odd that a Pigovian tax is not used on fossil fuels? I wonder why that is.

batteries are not yet capacious or cheap enough to store power in sufficient quantity to make up for the patchiness of renewables.

Bullshit.

Others disagree and it is difficult to get trustworthy numbers.

Electro-chemical storage has always been very expensive but with high power density making it suitable for load balancing once the power electronics became economical but not so good for bulk storage and this is *with* the advantages of flow batteries in bulk applications. Maybe the economy of scale available to lithium batteries in traction applications will change this.

Secondly, the world still has a lot of high-level nuclear waste that really needs destroying in fast-neutron reactors;

They are expensive and dangerous. It would make more sense to just drop the waste into a subduction (The word "subduction" is not in the Moz dictionary... WTF) zone and wave goodbye to it.

I agree but it would be wasteful. High level radioactive waste has almost all of the original nuclear energy in it and it is not that difficult or expensive to store compared to dumping it into subduction zone.

A lot of people use the word "liberal" when they really mean "leftist". There's a big difference. Liberals believe in free speech. They might disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. http://liberalismunrelinquished.net

Leftists will happily censor you and will engage in violence should you persist in speaking. See Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychology professor who wrote in the New York Times defending the idea of speech as violence.

Speech that offends campus activists is actually violence, and we've seen activists use actual violence to stop it - and to defend this as self-defense - when administrators fail to do so. http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/07/violence-self-defense/

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

"George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager and a major Democratic donor, has given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation."

http://www.latimes.com/local/c...

"As they poured millions of dollars into district attorney campaigns, New York billionaire George Soros and other liberal donors seemed poised for victory in California.

They enjoyed the political momentum, having helped elect more than a dozen prosecutors from Florida to Texas."

https://dailycaller.com/2017/0...

"Leaked documents from George Soros' Open Society Foundations reveal how Soros works to defeat populist candidates and movements in Europe.

Soros, a U.S. citizen, uses a network of nonprofits and partner organizations across Europe to try and affect the outcomes of elections in foreign countries, the documents show.

Through advocacy efforts, education campaigns and media influencing projects, Soros does his best to affect electoral outcomes around the globe in support of his open borders worldview."

https://dailycaller.com/2016/0...

"From July 2013 to February 2015, Open Society Foundations, the network of political organizations controlled by left-wing billionaire George Soros, secretly paid the salaries of three key staffers to then-Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, funneling the money through a German non-profit in order to skirt Moldovan laws against doing so, according to a leaked OSF document."

$18 billion buys a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. This is just a small sample.

Remember, if anything bad happens in your life... or anything even bothers you... at all... it was probably climate change.

Before you laugh, remember, Roger Federer lost the U.S. Open because of Climate Change.

As the NYTimes reports today...

That tax break was pitched as a benefit for distressed communities. But critics fear it could primarily help wealthy investors and speed gentrification in parts of the United States that were already likely to draw investment.

Another great article with details on this was from earlier this year in the NY Times:

Kubrick, according to the transcript of the session in his archive at the University of the Arts London, gave Mr. Rain only a few notes of direction, including:

— “Sound a little more like it’s a peculiar request.”

— “A little more concerned.”

— “Just try it closer and more depressed.”

Though HAL has ice water in his digital veins, he exudes a dry wit and superciliousness that makes me wonder why someone would deliberately program a computer to talk this way. Maybe we should worry about A.I.

When HAL says, “I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal,” Mr. Rain somehow manages to sound both sincere and not reassuring. And his delivery of the line “I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do” has the sarcastic drip of a drawing-room melodrama and also carries the disinterested vibe of a polite sociopath.

Nukes are useful, necessary even for a number of reasons. First and foremost nukes deliver power and lots of it all the time, which heavy industry absolutely requires;

Bullshit. And also bullshit.

batteries are not yet capacious or cheap enough to store power in sufficient quantity to make up for the patchiness of renewables.

Bullshit.

Secondly, the world still has a lot of high-level nuclear waste that really needs destroying in fast-neutron reactors;

They are expensive and dangerous. It would make more sense to just drop the waste into a subduction (The word "subduction" is not in the Moz dictionary... WTF) zone and wave goodbye to it.

Finally, apart from vehicle fuel much of the world's energy requirement is heat, rather than electrical or chemical power. Small, sealed-for-life nuclear reactors powering district steam heating would go a long way towards replacing gas as a heating fuel.

Heat comes from a number of sources. Much of that energy requirement could be substantially reduced by simply implementing more insulation, which doesn't have to be done every day like heating a space does.

Krugman's NYT column is called "The Conscience of a Liberal." Nate Silver and Krugman had a public dispute [mashable.com] when Silver left the NYT to form FiveThirtyEight. Silver said, about Krugman [talkingpointsmemo.com], "Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,” Silver said in that interview."

Economic models are data fit to curves. See the 'Philips curve' [google.com] and 'the breakdown of the Philips curve' [google.com]. However, this data exists in the context of other systems. "All Models Are Wrong" [google.com] of course, but it seems to me many economists don't appreciate the error in their models and are willing (and paid) to make grand pronouncements based on highly error-filled models. Often in support of one social narrative or another.

Hey look! Chaff!

That's an awful lot of words to avoid facing that Krugman repeatedly says his simplistic models are not complete and not supposed to be complete.

Krugman: "In the aftermath of the Great Recession, I went with my models and they always worked!" Unfortunately he missed biggest economic event of the past 80 years, the Financial Crisis while a few others did not (side note, he had a feud going with that guy who predicted it).

Yes, it has since the 1980s, but it started stalling around 2005, and that is the point of curiosity.

It's not all that curious. There are plenty of plateaus in productivity in our history. Finding one, especially in an asset bubble that was sucking up a ton of capital, is not all that weird.

You're surprisingly making a bit of sense here. But your assertion that this is not a puzzle in economic circles is wrong.

No, not because 'reasons'. Because of its fairness and resistance to corruption, cronyism and favoritism.

That you can not actually design beyond high-level platitudes.

Nothing I said is a platitude. Work on your literacy, there are many good educational aids out there.

Don't conflate all of Europe as one.

Don't skip over the word "most".

So that leaves Germany.

You apparently think Europe consists of 6 countries, one of which is located in South America. Also, you want to warn people to not over-generalize Europe.

Your reading comprehension needs work. I specifically said Venezuela was not part of Europe, in the part you cut out.

I know you're trying, bless your heart, but try harder.

We're not as homogeneous as Germany for sure, or even the UK so our population has a different temperament, values and intelligence

And why am I not surprised racist bullshit appears.

Nothing I said is racist. One of the reasons the term 'racism' is losing its power in suppressing discussion is because people like you bandy it about too much whenever you disagree with something. It's an incontrovertible fact different groups have different temperaments, intelligence and values. Look up the UN indices on national corruption. Look up national IQs. You know what "Boko Haram" means? Educate yourself, you'll appear less foolish per

not one controlled mainstream media outlet carries the story.

You're full of crap.

Trump announces ban on transgender individuals serving in military

‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration

I guess attacking people's livelihood or health counts as hurting their feelings?

The U.S. was not the first to impose tariffs. Even if you don't like Trump he is 100% correct right when he complains about tariffs from the EU and China being in place for years that are heavily weighted against the U.S.

What you are probably thinking about is reading recently about China raising new tariffs - but that does not mean they did not already have plenty to begin with.

What you and others not familiar with the by now ancient world of tariffs do not realize is, just how weak a hand China has... they will eventually capitulate. Just as Canada did.

You mean like this?

CIA is said to have bought and destroyed Iraqi chemical weapons"
 
There are also many reports of US soldiers needed medical care from coming in contact with WMD caches they found.

Perhaps? What is even slightly in question with the statement you're replying to?

That they were merely "visiting a conflict area". There's plenty of evidence that they went over their to fight via social media posts, interviews with reporters, etc. Trudeau has chosen the hugs and monitor approach, rather than aggressively prosecuting. Trudeau has also foolishly invited them into his country in the first place, pretending that there's nothing wrong with Islam.

Well seeing as free thinking, independent, rigorous, robust are all B.S. at this point

Staged news
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com...

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

https://www.realclearpolitics....

Not Independent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

I suppose robust might be legitimate as in robustly compromised

Amazing how badly people don't want links like these to be seen.

Well seeing as free thinking, independent, rigorous, robust are all B.S. at this point

Staged news
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com...

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

https://www.realclearpolitics....

Not Independent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

I suppose robust might be legitimate as in robustly compromised

See here. Heck, the wikipedia artcile has tons of sources.

And if you think a national election where the winning candidate lost the popular vote by 3 million and won the electoral collect by about 100,000 votes wasn't impacted by a wide scale campaign from an ex-KGB guy who specialized in information warfare, well, I don't even know if I should call that naive. There needs to be a stronger word for it. Perhaps something German?

2016 was the watershed year when the mainstream media finally dropped the mask and came out as full-throated political partisans. They openly supported the most corrupt candidate for President in American history. Their treatment of Trump was unprecedented in its hostility. The media live in an echo chamber where they think that they are loved and adored by the population. They believe they are the final authority on truth and that we, their grateful audience, should believe everything they tell us.

"The Times completely missed the story, and misled its readers in the process." Source: New York Times.

Wikileaks detailing how the Democrats are coordinating with the media. Organization after organization, CNN, McClatchy, Time, WSJ, the list goes on and on. How do any of these people still have jobs after being exposed like this?

Look at all these respected journalists express surprise, dismay, and a total lack of understanding that Hillary lost. They even admit it: "I genuinely do not understand America."

CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves

More recently, the USPS has started retaining these images for a period of time. This has, for instance, been helpful in law enforcement - see the recent case of Cesar Sayoc.

The answer is that the data is being handed off to the DHS or similar...

But I don't know how long the images are kept for,

...and therefore it is being stored forever and ever, amen.

or what other legitimate uses there may be for it.

There's no end of potential legitimate uses for that data. There's also no end of potential illegitimate ones, either. Sadly, the feds will store it for all eternity, so that it can be used by friend and foe alike.

So did Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.

Reagan did sign the law that repealed most of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, however when it was returned to the state they got sued by the ACLU that was looking to free the people locked up in mental institues.
Reagan gets lots of hits for his treatment of the mentally ill from California to the federal level but he was just following the law and lawsuits that had come before him.

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/1...

"Motorcycle fatalities are not only our number one source of organs," said one surgeon. "They are also the highest-quality source of organs, because donors are usually young, healthy people with no other traumatic injuries to the body, except to the head."

"it wasn't possible for Zuckerberg to appear before all parliaments"

Funny, he seems to have the time to court nearly every country's MARKETS, but not to speak to their government. What, he's got a lot of paperwork to do?

He had the time to basically wander across America on his apologia tour https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... (that was turned into an hilarious meme https://mashable.com/2017/09/2...). But not for, say, the democratically elected representatives of a major western government to speak with him?

Is this UN report an old report?

Because:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

What is unclear from the article is how much new CFCs are being released relative to pre-ban amounts.

No it isn't. The US doesn't automatically register anyone, you have to manually register. That's a pretty significant difference right there.

The entire US system is built around building as many hurdles to voting as possible. So you have to manually register. You frequently also need an approved form of ID. If you move house, both your voter registration and your ID become invalid. If you have no legal address, you have even more hurdles to jump - in some states this means getting an "official address" from the local sheriff, which for historical reasons many Americans are fearful of.

Your registration too is vulnerable. It can be cancelled due to any number of voter suppression techniques, from minor inconsistencies between names on registration vs, say, driver's licenses, to mail being returned when sent to a voter's address.

Finally, efforts to help voters are often illegal. One organization (which ended up the victim of a smear campaign, so I won't name it because that'll just turn people off ironically because they were fooled by this very issue) tried to mass register voters by knocking on doors, asking residents to fill in registration forms, and then delivering them to the local government. They found themselves responsible when some residents, and even some volunteers, put false information on the forms (like names of football players, people who didn't actually want to vote but, in the case of residents, wanted the door knockers to go away, or in the case of volunteers wanted to collect money from the organization for turning in enough registrations), finding it was both illegal not to turn them in, or to turn them in altered, but also illegal to turn them in with the false information. An election official in Georgia who told an elderly woman how the voting procedure worked was put on trial for helping her because, as she wasn't illiterate or disabled, the state believed she wasn't entitled to help (the election official was acquitted after 20 minutes of jury deliberation, but she had been facing 15 years in prison, and the fact the judge didn't stop the trial and nobody questioned what happened suggests her acquittal was a mild case of jury nullification)

It's nothing like what's in Europe. In Europe, registration is automatic, and you're encouraged to vote.

Regardless of the presence of state actors wanting to interfere in our elections...

WHAT KIND OF MORON RUNS FTP ON AN ELECTIONS SERVER?

Well... You could ask Brian Kemp, Georgia's Secretary of State and the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Georgia. He's overseeing his own election.

He and his office just (two days before the election), without citing any evidence, just opened an investigation (and other sources) into Georgia Democrats over an alleged ‘hack’. Maybe it was an FTP hack.

Interesting how all the voter supression and election fraud comes from the Republicans.

Nope. According to The New York Times,

The North Dakota Democratic Party posted a misleading ad on its website and on Facebook that suggests state residents should reconsider voting in this year's election if they have hunting licenses in other states.
. . .
A look at the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party's claim:

CLAIM: "By voting in North Dakota, you could forfeit your hunting licenses." - posted on the Democratic party's website this week.

THE FACTS: The ad is false.

You do know that scientists are expected to acknowledge their sources of funding in their publications, right?

And you do know that often they do not, right?

Here's an example of the same. Willie Soon is heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry.

The documents show that Dr. Soon, in correspondence with his corporate funders, described many of his scientific papers as “deliverables” that he completed in exchange for their money. He used the same term to describe testimony he prepared for Congress.

But in those same papers he failed to disclose and often explicitly denied any conflict of interest or outside funding.

That's stupid. A company doesn't care about the stock price after the first sale of stock. Regardless of how much price changes the company never receives more money or has to return money.

OK, I'm going to explain to you why a company cares about a stock price after the first sale. Are you ready? You might want to sit down for this.

Because, in Apple's case, they've been buying back as much stock as they can with their windfall from the Trump tax giveaway. In fact, Apple is one of Apple's biggest shareholders. So if the stock goes up, they will be one of the biggest beneficiaries, after Berskshire Hathaway and Arthur Levinson, who is Apple's biggest shareholder and - ready for this - also the chairman of the board of Apple.

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

You've posted an insane amount of dishonest comments here before, but this one is by far the worst. What the hell is wrong with you?

From that ultra-conservative rag, the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/0...

Oh really? Article 13 didn't pass and police raids and arrests for social media posts aren't happening on a daily basis? The London metropolitan police aren't actively trawling through social media looking for thought crime?

Then there is this recent ruling by the EU court of 'human rights' that decided that free speech is not a right and that the “the right of others to have their religious feelings protected” will be enforced through pain of fine or imprisonment. No doubt there will be even more midnight police raids for thought crimes.

Oh and speaking of 'justice' is Tommy Robinson back in court yet? Any more press 'gag' orders to make journalists afraid to even discuss it or face prison time themselves?

Not nearly as bad as the US... well, at least you have that right. If we're not careful to oppose the leftist globalist would-be tyrants that have made the EU what it is now then we could suffer the same fate. We need to be remain vigilant so that the EU asylum seekers and refugees fleeing prosecution have someone to go.

NYT: "In apps marketed for children 5 and under in the Google Play store, there were pop-up ads with disturbing imagery. There were ads that no child could reasonably be expected to close out of, and which, when triggered, would send a player into more ads. Dancing treasure chests would give young players points for watching video ads, potentially endlessly. The vast majority of ads were not marked at all. Characters in childrenâ(TM)s games gently pressured the kids to make purchases, a practice known as host-selling, banned in childrenâ(TM)s TV programs in 1974 by the Federal Trade Commission. At other times an onscreen character would cry if the child did not buy something."

Liberals have spent two years rioting in the streets and on campuses because they didn't get their way in 2016, are regularly driven to assault by the mere sight of red hats, and are triggered into apoplectic rage by the mere existence of alternative viewpoints. Social media (and /.) is flooded with batshit demands for everything from assassinations of republicans and Trump or demands for Trump's trial and execution for "treason", to the overthrow of the government itself.

In an honest world this is known as "terrorism"; the only reason no one pushes the point is because it would only inflame the situation more and we're trying to contain you psychos as best we can. Actively monitoring and infiltrating the Antifa-types (as well as right-wing nutjobs) looking for any excuse to shut them down is exactly what the government *should* be doing. To not do so is all but asking for another OKC.

Ted Cruz: Evidence doesn't support global warming:
https://www.npr.org/2015/12/09...

GOP leaders view climate change as fake science:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

GOP-Climate change education is propaganda:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

Next lie, snoflake?

There are probably already to many people.

That's what entitled westerners tell themselves while arguing poor brown people need to practice eugenics. Because each of you uses dozens the times the amount of resources a person living in a third world country does.

As for a real solution, just end capitalism. That would be a lot easier than betting the farm on some kind of geo-engineering project to trap massive amounts of carbon, or hoping India and Pakistan will trade a few nuclear blows so the resulting nuclear winter can stop the climate methane bomb.

You are exactly the type of shit bag people want to keep out. Thanks for showing your "gimme gimme gimme" attitude. As to the rest of your barely coherent bullshit, if they want peace and prosperity so badly, they can strive for it in their own country and make a difference.

Slight problem: that's all projection, shitbag. Because the problem isn't overpopulation, it's resource consumption. And when each of your entitled western asses are using the same amount of resources as literally dozens of people in third world countries - tell us again who has the "gimme" attitude?

Irrelevant.

Branches of the tree of life become irrelevant ant die off. That's natural and normal.

But that is not even remotely equivalent to taking an axe to the trunk or lopping off healthy branches to make way for the diseased.

It is not really a tree https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... , but whatever.

Human actions are part of the evolutionary process as well. Same as all other animals.

And your mother isn't a virgin, but they both started out that way.

No. The lawsuit never included a defamation claim.

No, I haven't missed the last two years. Have you?

Hopefully they'll use better rivets.

(There's a well-researched, if controversial, theory that many of the rivets on the original Titanic were defective, particularly those where the iceberg struck. When a split started, entire steel plates began peeling off: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/0...)

They are involved in IP theft. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

First this story is just reporting on the walkout.
Now if you want background well, Google is your friend.

Google investigated and concluded her claim was credible, said the people, who spoke on the condition that they not be named, citing confidentiality agreements.

And maybe if everyone here would get off of their "persecuted white man" complex and harping on the SJW boogyman, maybe you'd people would actually learn the facts.

And you people think you're smart? Huh.

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I'm guessing that you are not from the US or Canada. The KKK is the most well-known white supremacist organization in the US and dates back to the immediate post civil war era. They are the original homegrown terrorists of the US.

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

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan

The KKK didn't just threaten people, they tortured and murdered them. Their "cross burnings" were a method of intimidation but they didn't stop at threats. These days they try to present a civilized public face for better "optics".

In the 1920s there was significant Klan membership among elected officials both in Congress and various offices like state governors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/04/books/review/linda-gordon-the-second-coming-of-the-kkk.html

It can happen again.

It should be common knowledge, since even Leftist media sources reported on it, but here ya go:
Wikipedia
New York Times
The NY Post
Fox News
BBC
Al Jazeera

Is that enough for you?

We conservatives are so persecuted. We only control three branches of the government after all!

And all those violent people and their guns - they are all backed by George Soros. Soros is backing the Nazis AND Atnifa! He's such a brilliant Je...globalist.

Conservatives have ALL the answers.
Abortion? Ban it! And teach the only true sex education - abstinence. Even though all the evidence is against it, it just feels right! because Sex is EVIL and it's S-I-N!! Jesus said so!
Why yes, I do belong to the anti-sex death cult known as Christianity. We hate sex and worship a zombie!

Guns! Who cares if laws actually reduce violence It's a Jesus given right!!!!

Healthcare? Well now, that's a privilege. Once you're forced to be born, well tough shit. It's a dog eat dog Capitalist World and if you can't deal, then fuck-off and die! Jesus said so!

If you made poor decisions in life - we all know the good decisions are always there and apparent, then you can't help but succeed! Look at me! I chose to be born a white male in an upper middle class family where college was a given.

All those morons who choose to be born Black and poor or a woman have only themselves to blame! And Donald Trump - he's such a genius that he chose to be born a third generation millionaire - he's self made!

And the teaching of evolution in school. Plah-ease! We need to teach the truth of Creation and not this liberal evidence based horseshit!

No sir! As a conservative I know what's and right and wrong and those liberals with their "the world is a shade of gray" nonsense should just smarten up!

Then everyone dies and the cops get called for not protecting people.

"Then everyone dies" is a made up story. The Kansas shooting is an actual story of something that actually happened.

The police already have no legal duty to provide police protection. The thing you are arguing against as a hypothetical is what we already have.

[several sentence attempting to change the subject to me deleted]

Nice try. It's not about me. Anything about me is beyond irrelevant.

There are plenty of checks and balances in play (your other assertions that there arenâ(TM)t are incorrect).

Yet police are still out there shooting innocent people (and shooting guilty people when those people are not a threat) and receiving zero punishment for it. So no, there aren't "plenty" of checks and balances.

Yes, there is more of a benefit of doubt applies to armed response teams. That is because the psychology and statistical likelihoods of events occurring are well understood.

Storytelling about what might happen.

If a pattern emerges of wrong action, you bet someone will be pulled up and lose that benefit of doubt.

But never punished. Even police officers who are judged unfit and fired just go to some other town's police force.

Out of interest, what is your experience in the field of security/crisis operation?

We have a government "by the people". That means everyone votes and our representatives make the rules. Self-interested "experts" don't decide, we decide.

BTW: Slashdot doesn't support the character set your iPhone is using, so it makes a mess whenever you use apostrophes or quotation marks.

http://www.anthropocenemagazin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/0...

https://uanews.arizona.edu/sto...

were an issue. You're a high priority target you don't get to take chances.

Well, not the "same" issue. Private email servers are used throughout Washington and somehow stopped being an issue after 2016. I wonder what changed?

"Discussions with China about changing their law????"

China has close to 1,000,000 people of Islamic background in re-education camps today, right now.

I suppose there could be a "People's Friendship Association" that Apple could participate in. Perhaps Apple could work to promote recycling, or unisex restrooms in China.