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Well, your scenario is exactly where you need to start using your real intelligence. Take for instance the conservative claim that climate scientists are just spinning their doomsday scenarios to get those "fat" research checks or to advance some other agenda.

Well, you do realize that claim originated from Frederick Seitz right? He was after all, the former president of the National Academy of Sciences, decorated by NASA and a few other organizations, president of a university and set up and funded a complete lab at another. It's not like that argument was pulled out of thin air and follow the money which is the modern version of it is only the same that was put forward by the AGW crowd and even you somewhat round about in your post. I mean if anyone who is a "denier" is a paid shill, it can work both ways.

This is where you brains are supposed to kick in when you realize that energy companies are willing and able to fund their research in a lavish style that government research simply can't and won't match.

No energy companies sponsored Seitz when he made the claim. Some of the groups that were ran with his quotes but that's nowhere close to what you are implying.

Further, your brains should be able to tell the difference between honest attempts at research vs. simple attempts to delay and undermine research.

Yes, like when the democrats checked to see when the hottest day of the year would be, turned the AC off, did things to make the room hotter, and then scheduled a hearing on global warming? And yes, that is what happened in 1989 James Hansen later said he thought it was perfectly acceptable to exaggerate because he thought the cause made it necessary or some shit like that. (Its been a while since I read the link and it doesn't resolve any more for some reason).

Oh, and I should note that Wirth left politics specifically to take a high dollar job at one of Ted Turner's charities.

So yes, don't trust everything you are told, but use your analytical skills to understand motive and source reliability.

Indeed, if I had the time to find and show the connections between the political solutions to global warming and the scams behind them, some of which is outlined in Al Gore's book earth in the balance where he chastises how the conservatives inveighed against 'atheistic communism', along with the original Kyoto accords and support for groups like Jubilee2000 and it's offshoots

Even more recently, this crap continues to be distorted for political gain.

So yes indeed, do not trust everything you are told. Use your analytical skills to understand motive and source reliability.

Nothing is as clean as you think it might be. Politics has co-opted this subject from the start.

This is how you know it was all planned, from Clinton signing off on the final; removal of Glass Steagall to Fab stating "I don't even know what I'm selling".
The same group of people have been at these financial constructions designed to rob people, the FED is a part of it, you need only look at who runs the financial institutions, who is tops at the fed, who has the presidents ear and finally who really drives the wars in the Middle East.
All the same group of people, it's amazing people aren't pointing it out...
Except there is.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...
http://www.ifamericansknew.org...

Another Clinton in the White House will seal the deal and screw the rest of us, Hillary is beholden to foreign powers.

The financial collapse was a result of mistakes, not crimes.

Absolutely false.

-> In America there have been just a handful of criminal charges brought against senior executives of banks, and even fewer successful convictions. This is very different from the response of prosecutors in earlier banking crises, such as the meltdown of Savings & Loans institutions in America in the 1980s. In that case more than 1,000 bankers were convicted for their misdeeds.

-> William K. Black [senior regulator who pursued offenders during the savings and loan crisis] tells Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL that the tool at the very center of mortgage collapse, creating triple-A rated bonds out of "liars' loans" — loans issued without verifying income, assets or employment — was a fraud, and the banks knew it. And while there is no law against liars' loans, Black points out that there are, "many laws against fraud, and liars' loans are fraudulent. [...] They involve deceit, which is the essence of fraud. "

-> Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2010, The Inside Job chronicles the fraud behavior which led to the financial crisis of 2008 and the recession.

The key word is "control fraud."

"Point Cloud". Where have I heard that term before?

Ah yes
Time Scanners

For a PBS show, it's surprisingly repetitious, and a lot of the dialogue tends towards the "gee whiz--look at the cool technology we have". It has the flavor of a Discovery Channel type show. Despite this, there are interesting bits and pieces throughout.

I'm pretty sure he thinks he's doing a pretty good job. What with the fight to end malaria, the public library funding, and helping to put a pc in every home.

Many robber barons have succumb to their conscience late in life and begin to try to make recompense. Others just do it for good PR to keep "the masses" from rioting at the Gate's. If Gates had truly been interested in serving humanity he would have been doing it (probably at a smaller scale) his entire life. John D. Rockefeller gave over half of his fortune away in his later years but was known to be quite ruthless and ethically challenged.

I liken it to burning down a city, killing the mayor and making yourself the new ruler and then offering to rebuild the city at a reduced rate but you still get to be the ruler.

According to the article "How Nigeria has succeeded in containing Ebola", there's hope that Ebola can be contained. The article tells how leaders including Babatunde Fashola, governor of Lagos state, have put procedures in place to stop the spread of Ebola. Nigeria is a large, populous country. But it has had only 21 cases of Ebola, and nine deaths.

And this is in a country with lots of internal problems. I really hope Boko Haram doesn't mess up their efforts.

and often when the police's case falls apart and ends in a non-conviction they keep your stuff anyway. "Civil forfeiture" should be considered unconstitutional...if we moved back in time to the Colonial days this is the EXACT same thing the British were doing that lead to the War of Independence. Illegal seizures, no viable recourse, stealing property without rule of law or real proof of wrong-doing...when a DA does "civil forfeiture" they are considering the "property" itself guilty, as if your house or car has a intelligent consciousness that knows the difference between right and wrong and could have chosen not to be involved somehow. It costs at least $10K to take it to court, so the cops know if they take less than that it's not worth it. And since your property is being charged (not you) then it's considered "guilty until proven innocent", you have to pay for the lawyer, and you have to meet a higher standard of proving absolutely no drugs were ever involved (even before you owned it)

PBS article

No person is "evil". Calling extremists evil is a lazy manipulation designed to stop you thinking about their motivations and grievances. I think we've had quite enough of that.

ISIS engages in rape, torture, beheadings, amputations, crucifixions, live burials, mass executions, and genocide.

Are they simply misguided? They desire to spread their civilization and form of government over all the earth. Is that wrong? Are you being "judgmental"?

ISIS Attacks: “Religious Cleansing and Attempted Genocide”
Horrors Of ISIS: Children Buried Alive, Crucified Corpses
Iraq crisis: Islamic militants 'buried alive Yazidi women and children in attack that killed 500'

I know Hollywood has brainwashed everyone into thinking it's illegal to distribute any kind of video or music online. But Frontline and PBS are publicly funded It's ok to watch it online.

No, I know what you appear to think the emails said. I also know the email you are eliptically refering to had nothing to do with:

And yet when taken at their word without the background and context, it points to another direction. You can claim any statement is ultimately true and worth or just and proper, the problem is in how it appears to people. Take Mitt Romney's 47% quote for instance, it is purely proper in the context of how to spend campaign contributions to say that 47% of the people would never vote for him so they need to convince the other 53% and that in no way means those 47% are ignored or will be ignored if elected, but how did the public receive it? There is your problem, just like it was Romeny's problem.

The post I wrote was about people politically co-opting the science or the presentation of the science and being skeptical because of that instead of big oil paying for studies and crap. I mean hell, a democrat senator said he colluded with James Hansen during their 1988 presentation to congress in order to pick the historically hottest week for the presentation and then disable the AC systems in order to give the presentation more weight and when asked about it, Hansen said it was appropriate and justified because of how he felt the cause needed pushed.

Like I said, The distrust is not all about money backing something. The distrust is also in the politicking involved. Those emails could have said Jesus was coming and it wouldn't have made a difference to what I said because the politicking and appearances of them. The content simply isn't important, what is important is how it appeared to some.

Reining in Forfeiture

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

Federal Asset Forfeiture Continues to Skyrocket Under Obama

http://reason.com/blog/2012/07...

Rand Paul introduces bill to reform civil asset forfeiture

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

The Stealing of America By the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

(As usual, the Huff Post gives the primary culprit, the head of the executive branch, a pass.)

CBC's article is just a Canadian take on things. The original article (just as scary) is here:

Well, yes. But it's hardly "original" -- this is a problem that has been profiled extensively for years, yet few people seem to realize how far it extends. A couple of times over the past year, when posters on Slashdot mentioned random forfeitures that happened to them, they were met with comments saying, "You must have done something suspicious" or "What's the rest of the story," and I tried to provide links to point out the systemic problem, but have been met with ignorance and resistance.

For a sample of past coverage, here's an extensive piece from The New Yorker a year ago, a piece from Reason in 2012, a piece from Forbes in 2011, pieces in Slate and The Economist from 2010, a detailed piece on NPR from 2008, etc., etc., etc. Here's an extensive account of problems with the system from PBS almost 15 years ago (around the time that legal reform forced money to go to local municipalities in many cases rather than the federal government). The ACLU has been fighting this for decades.

I know some people here may be well aware of this problem, and others may find this shocking and new. Regardless, it's very sad that it may take other countries' shaming us into taking action to fix an unjust assault on our citizens that has been going on for many years.

• Climate Change Causes Insurers to Rethink Price of Risk After Hurricane Sandy
• Insuring a Better Future: Sustainability at Swiss Re

It's easy to tell the difference between a ballistic missile and a orbital trajectory after a short period of time. Ballistic missiles achieve a far lower speed then something going into full orbit.

Yes, there are things that can seem obvious.

Now.

But back in the day, they were just sorting things out. Late 50's? Ask anyone about the difference between ballistic and orbital trajectory. Hell they were just finding out you have to restrain the rocket a few seconds to allow it to build up thrust. Perfectly good rockets rose a foot or so and fell back to earth. Went all kablooey, to use the technical term.

The moon almost accidentally triggered WW3 once.

As did a sounding missile launched in Norway. More germane to my point.

Citations, you ask? Here ya go: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/m...

When a mistake means we turn most of the world into radioactive charcoal, The libertarian rant of "I can't do rocket research in my garage, kinda pales.

People who hate government and blame it for every ill can some times become indistinguishable from anarchists.

Seriously, your only alternative is paid-for shillls by the oil industry and you are going to reject the work of 250,000 Climate scientists, statisticians and space-climate researchers.
This is idiocy turned into an art form.
so, that said PBS How Exxon Shaped the Climate Debate (denialism exposed)

So many poor assumptions there. The average life expectancy was a lot less 100 years ago: http://demog.berkeley.edu/~and... Consequently, people got married earlier because they died sooner; this goes back through the beginning of recorded history, and it was really only in post-WWI 20th century that marrying while a teenager became not just not the norm, but socially frowned upon. Also, look at the drops in life expectancy in 1918 and 1943; what you are seeing it the effects of both world wars and the spanish influenza epidemic in 1918. So life wasn't just short, it was unpredictably precarious in a very real, life-limiting way.

While there are definitely observable fetish aspects to the celebration of youth in our current culture, we no longer marry immediately post-pubescent because, for the very most part, we no longer need to as a practical necessity to be able to have family or an otherwise "full life".

You assumptions on economics are so bad they border on ridiculous. Up until the 1920s, 30 percent or more of the US population were farmers: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/t... And yes, as the percentage of workers in agriculture declined, those in manufacturing rose; however, the real economic differentiator remains education, and that trend has only been slowly improving: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

Hmm, Kaiser. Where have I heard that name before? Oh, I remember: in the Nixon tapes when he's discussing HMO's, which in turn created the largest rise in healthcare costs in the entire history of the United States! Well now that there is sure an unbiased source, yesiree Bob!

An Anonymous Coward does an ad hominem attack without bothering to see if his nay saying has any credibility. How useful.

You could have done a simple Google search

Excellent documentary about Judah Folkman and angiogenesis here

...The defendant always as the advantage in US criminal law.

That's hilarious! I wish I had mod points this is definitely a +5 Funny!

The linked article is just tabloid journalism.

I wrote a comment about how the media experts were focussing on the wrong problems and how they clearly -surprisingly- knew very little about Wikipedia and its problems - BUT then I read the source article and found it's just an attack piece, cherry picking the least interesting parts of the conference and painting every controversy as being the fault of an iron-fist dictat from the Wikimedia Foundation.

What I learned: wikipediocracy is a nonsense website.

I agree, it seems to me these news organizations are just trying to discredit a competitor. You can't trust the news at all anymore. It's always been questionable but it's gotten worse over the past 10yrs... and incredibly bad over the past 2yrs or so.

Last night I was listing to police scanners from Ferguson, MO. People looted the Walmart, stole assault rifles, then road around shooting up the neighborhood. I saw images from people with cellphones of groups of police 50+ all in riot gear firing teargas and rubber bullets into crowds. People getting loaded into ambulances. 2 major interstates were shut down as the crowds threw bricks onto the freeway.

All this, yet the only media outlets that are following it seem to be local outlets, PBS and Yahoo news. I'm flabbergasted by the lack of coverage. These are some of the most violent race riots in American history and it's all getting swept under the rug so they can focus on Robin Williams?!?!

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news...

Why isn't this the headline on every site in the country right now?

There is some trouble lurking here:
"The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) [18 U.S.C. Sections 2510-2521, 2701-2710], which was signed into law in 1986, amended the Federal Wiretap Act to account for the increasing amount of communications and data transferred and stored on computer systems. The ECPA protects against the unlawful interceptions of any wire communications--whether it's telephone or cell phone conversations, voicemail, email, and other data sent over the wires. The ECPA also includes protections for messages that are stored--email messages that are archived on servers, for instance. Now, under the law, unauthorized access to computer messages, whether in transit or in storage, is a federal crime." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

It is not clear to me that Google has the legal right to look into email beyond the notion of
presenting marketing content that lines up with a user profile and perhaps a blind data
base match against market content and marketing profiles.

Since CP is illegal no profile or other marketing activity can be sold or participated with
by Google. To me nothing in any market driven activity can generate a CP profile
and match.... the implication is that someone was buying or selling Google services
to engage in CP.

It is possible that an image was discovered and a federal warrant caused Google to
search for a match against a very specific image. The sharing of such images outside
of law enforcement may itself be illegal especially if a service to discover such an image
if Google was paid to search for it.

It is possible that an image transfer to a different suspect or legal honey pot
was detected but that should trigger a search warrant.

As others have pointed out anything seen and disliked or disliked and searched
for but not illegal could trigger a witch hunt. I know individuals that have a
visceral dislike for: Rush Limbaugh, CNN, FoX, Kate Gosselin, Jodi Arias,
Joe Arpaio and some would have inclinations to make accusations if they
thought they could get away with it.

The good thing at this moment is that I do not know enough about this
in any detail so others will have to dig into the reality.

It's not a law. Jimmy Carter issued an executive order against recycling spent fuel. I'd like to say that was one of his more stupid moves, but there are so many to choose from.

And Reagun repealed the order several years later.

It's not a law. Jimmy Carter issued an executive order against recycling spent fuel. I'd like to say that was one of his more stupid moves, but there are so many to choose from.

It is scaremongering to entertain the idea that a patient, under strict isolation procedures, that is infected with sed -e 's/ebola/Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase/g' could somehow cause an outbreak in the US. The sed -e 's/virus/bacteria/g' does not transmit in a way that would support the type of Hollywood outbreak the scaremongering is referring to.

Because it couldn't happen somewhere like the CDC or the NIH. Oh Wait.

We think we know a good deal about the ebola virus and the methods of transmission. We're pretty sure we've got the isolation procedures down pat. Is this really worth the gamble, or are we better off flying a whole fucking team with a hospital and any piece of equipment they can fucking dream up to Liberia and doing all we can to treat him there?

After 45 days of symptom free days of proper isolation, the team can fly back to the US and Liberia is the proud recipient of a BILLION dollars of US tax payer funded medical equipment. Say "hey" to General Buck Naked while you're there.

As a taxpayer, I'm pretty ok with that idea.

Interestingly, captcha is "manage" as in "manage risk"

I never fail to find the bravado and hubris underlying American exceptionalism... exceptional.

Land of the free... as long as you're not in one of our many many prisons ( http://nomadcapitalist.com/201... ), which has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba, which is second on the list. Oh, and speaking of Cuba, there's always http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G....

Home of the brave... because you'd be pretty brave too if your military budget was larger than the nearest eight other countries combined ( http://pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/... )

Where all men are created equal... except, of course, when they're not ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru... ) and a man can make something from himself even if he starts out life with nothing (but probably not): http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/0... )

And where the rule of law is universal and sacrosanct... except in those cases where it's not convenient ( https://www.globalpolicy.org/u... ) and ( https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying... )

Oh well, enjoy your "freedoms".

There's a set schedule for the vaccine, Days 0, 3, 7, and 14. You can get the vaccine from your primary, in theory, but of course my primary has a months long waiting list because we're driving PCPs out of business. Bottom line, I can't get appointments with them for Days 3 or 7, so that's two more trips to the ER.

That's really bad.

PBS and Reuters have articles on a push to support primary care doctors.

From the second article, "The insurer can afford that because better primary care, which accounts for just 6 percent of all medical spending, can reduce hospitalizations and visits to expensive specialists." I hope the idea catches on.

[citation needed]

Here you go: http://media.wix.com/ugd/80ea2... - Academic journal with the title "Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior"

This shows some of the other social experiments conducted on the topic of wealth and entitlement: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb...

It appears to be using rigorous methodology along with peer review to reach what could be considered the scientific conclusion: in a capitalist society, the rich are more likely to cheat.

First, this is a violation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Secondly, we are seeing the rip off of the US taxpayer. And I think Verizon should pay ALL of the taxes they should have paid:

Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.

And thanks to the Hobby Lobby ruling (pierced the corporate veil), it looks like that the CEO should go to jail for tax evasion.

The real problem is that wealth makes people act like spoiled children and having a bunch of spoiled children move into your town is the shits. Rich people feel more entitled, have less empathy, are less generous and often are just arseholes. There have been numerous studies to back this up as well and the more the spread between the wealthy and the poor grows, the worse things will become. Perhaps it'll lead to successful revolts or perhaps it'll be like the peasant revolts that started in the 14th century and had zero successes.
One article, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

Wealth and power breed a sense of entitlement:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

It's human nature. That's why people in positions of power should be required to follow a strict set of guidelines rather than apply them arbitrarily to whomever they seem to think deserves scrutiny. "Gut feelings" don't work. The people trying to get stuff on planes know this, and know to be cooperative and smile. The guy waring the "Don't tread of me" tshirt, refusing to be strip searched, may be a jerk... but he's not trying to hurt anyone.

The intelligence oversight act of 1974 gave small groups in congress the ability to oversee intelligence activities that breach rights -- the basis being that warranting evidence would then lead to permissions of privacy violations, etc. I don't understand why this isn't still important. It was important in August 2001. It was important on September 10th 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Watch the Frontline special on the NSA:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/n...
http://therealnews.com/t2/inde...

prior to 2008, 2 quakes per year on avg.
2009: 49
2010: 180
2011: 162
2012: 92 (a coincidentally, was less fracking and injection done that year)
2013: 291
2014: 190 AS OF JUNE. 300+ by the end of the year.

stfu shill.

Where I'm from unions aren't at the company level, they're at the industry level.

So you're saying workers are less abused, better paid, with greater benefits and vacation time? And this is a bad thing for you?

People don't voluntarily joins the unions

Here, why don't you try an experiment: go down to the office of your local Chamber of Commerce, and tell them you want to enjoy all the benefits of being a CoC member, but without having to pay membership dues. Write down the responses, and come back to us.

Unions don't protect employees, employment law protects employees.

Why don't you go work at the Tyler Pipe factory for a while and say that again. Negligence that would land your ass in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison gets shrugged off if done by a monied corporation.

Unions are a check on greed, and the robber baron class as only gotten more as time goes on.

Hydrogen is extremely reactive, the instant it leaks out.

No it isn't.

You are risking dying because someone will drop a nuclear bomb on you. Yes, by accident. But no, ignore that, and worry about something much less probable...

http://www.nukefix.org/accbad....

How many times have you heard stories about "I was told to press the button"? or "lost nukes" or "missing nukes"? And that's only in the last 60 years! Cuban missile crises was just one thing, but there were dozens of incidents up to and including few years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/m...

There were cases where launch "safety systems" were circumvented by operators allowing one person to launch missiles without any keys, codes, whatever, just connecting two wires.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...

Now, it takes 500 to wipe every major city in US and Russia and Europe. And there is someone sitting there at the button (or pressing some retarded dead-man switch so they don't launch!). But you are worried about Fukushima..... you might as well blame the worry about shark attack in Paris for why you never learned to swim and drowned instead.

/. is really going downhill....

The media in general is going down hill. As much as Foxnews shills for the republicans, this is probably the biggest story of the year, yet it's missing from nearly every other news organization in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.latimes.com/
http://www.pbs.org/topics/news...
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.nbcnews.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/

I checked every one of those and there's no mention of it.
Obama could get IMPEACHED over this. This is turning into a Watergate level scandal.
It could all be coincidental, but seriously? The IRS doesn't archive email? REALLY?

This is nothing new. Andrew Jackson one refused to scoffed at a Supreme Court decision, saying in a letter to John Coffee, "...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate," (that is, the Court's opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/suprem...

The Supreme Court has ALWAYS had to rely on the cooperation of the the other branches of government because they have no constitutional mandate to enforce their decisions. It is a clear part of the limitation of the powers of one of the branches of government.

Congress on the other hand does hold the power to impeach the President if they can agree on such. However it has to rise beyond the petty partisanship we have today and get to the point where 2/3 of the Senate will vote for it. If it happened to occur in a partisan manner watch out because then the office of President will become a completely empty shell.

The real danger to the Republic is the factionalism we see today, which was written about by James Madison in the Federalist #10 long ago.

I'm not a paid shill.

Then you are naive, at best. Even if he came back to the states today, there is no possible way for him to get a fair trial. It would be a huge miracle for such a trial to even be public, given our government.

Consider that it took one person eight years to get taken off the no-fly list after being put on for what is reportedly a government mistake. Part of the reason (if not the entire reason) for that was the continued insistence by the Justice Department that they couldn't reveal why she was on the list, even just to her own attorneys, because it was a state secret:

Holder and Clapper argue that U.S. national security could be seriously or significantly harmed if Ibrahim or her lawyers are provided with classified information about whether she was the subject of an intelligence or terrorism investigation or about the standards for inclusion in a database called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) could harm national security.

This is how our government reacts for a single individual who has been unable to use air travel because of the mistake of a lone public worker.

While he did technically break many laws, it was justifiable because of the sincere good it did in revealing just how unconstitutional our government acts, which is the first step necessary to making it stop. In order to prove that it was justified, he would have to present evidence of the wrong-doing of the government. Do you honestly believe he wouldn't be completely stonewalled and railroaded by the Justice Department, Congress, and whoever was the President? Even if the documents are now in the public eye, they can still be withheld from trial; nevermind the mountain he would have to claim to extricate extra documentation from the NSA proving how much shit they do.

The only way for Snowden to come back with any hint of safety is a Presidential Pardon; I'll know our nation has finally grown up and stopped being scared of the invisible monster under its bed once that happens, if it ever does.

Thank you for the perspective.

Here's what I'm seeing from the outside:

• His district is 75% white, and less than 4% Hispanic. So his constituents know Hispanics mostly in the abstract
• The only concrete issue I'm seeing him hit on in #tcot #va07 tags is "amnesty".
• Two weeks ago he's polled as up by 34 points in his primary
• A week later (June 6th), on local TV he announces he's willing to work with Obama on "the border security bill".
• A couple of days later, his opponent is campaigning on this statement like it is "support for amnesty". This appears to be his only issue.
• Last night he lost by 10 points - a 40 point swing. Even for an internal poll, that's a suspiciously large swing.

I'm no detective, but the footprints look pretty darn clear to me.

One resort felt the trend so heavily that it posted a notice: "PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THEIR KODAKS ON THE BEACH."

The "Hartford Courant" sounded the alarm as well, declaring that "the sedate citizen can't indulge in any hilariousness without the risk of being caught in the act and having his photograph passed around among his Sunday School children."

I really don't get the vitriol. In 120 years people will laugh at the primitives from the early 2000's who reacted with shock and horror to Google glass. My biggest objection is that it's rude to glance at a notification when you're speaking to someone. But that's true of a phone, too.

You'll have to forgive Sheriff Gayer, after all it must feel like a warzone when you spend all you're available time and money engaged in the war on drugs because it's so damn profitable for the cops.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...

Nineteen eighty-four was the year that Congress rewrote the civil forfeiture law to funnel drug money and "drug related" assets into the police agencies that seize them. This amendment offered law enforcement a new source of income, limited only by the energy police and prosecutors were willing to put into seizing assets. The number of forfeitures mushroomed: Between 1985 and 1991 the Justice Department collected more than $1.5 billion in illegal assets; in the next five years, it almost doubled this intake. By 1987 the Drug Enforcement Administration was more than earning its keep, with over $500 million worth of seizures exceeding its budget.

The numbers are only worse now. States like Minesota that are average size take in around 8 million dollars and almost every penny of that money is given right back to the cops.

When it comes to evolution, someone needs a hug and also needs to embrace his inner fish

(which by the way was a fantastic 3 part series, and well worth watching)

Watch THIS.
It blew my friggen mind. Michael Hayden is an evil motherfucker.

When your dog starts pooping east-west it is time to take earthquake precautions
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

Yeah, the administration is full of traitors and not the guy who leaked information on US spying operations abroad.

Right, because the current administration never leaked information on US spying operations abroad. Nope. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

> They have to take what they can get.

That's why part of their efforts need to be focused on fixing that.

"And this is why it’s important for companies like Google to be at the forefront of change, and encouraging women to join them, and then making it women-friendly, making it — and also another important thing, that, in Palo Alto, we have — in the center of Silicon Valley, you have Palo Alto High School, but then you have East Palo Alto High School, where you have African-American and Latino kids.

Those children want to be part of the ecosystem over here. What Google and other tech companies need to do is to start recruiting there, start going and teaching classes there, bringing them into the fold, giving them internships, and making them part of the system.

That could cause dramatic change within five years if they started focusing on it today."

-- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/googles-diversity-record-shows-women-minorities-left-behind/

Of course, Newton was a pretty weird guy and believed in all sorts of things that modern science would think weird

Covered in a 2005 episode of Nova. See it here
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/p...

Do you not remember CDNow, and the virtual CD service? You probably don't since it was annihilated in a legal storm of massive furor.

I don't recall CDNow, but Cringely had a posited legal maneuver to account for the phonorecording problem. But, yeah, his idea is over a decade old, so way to use the Google, submitter.

ob: this never occurred to anybody at Netflix...

The invasion of our net was secret, and we did not know that we should resist.

Oh, we knew. The anti-activism state seeks to maintain the status quo even against their own people: That's what "national security" is. The mainstream news and pundits alike remained silent. But we knew about state media control too.

TFA makes it sound like Eisenhower didn't actually warn us of everything that fucking happened on his last day in office. We all knew. The shit was pungent and all encompassing. Just no one in the mainstream media was talking about it; Only the "conspiracy nutters" were. A term the media used to conflate regular illegal acts of conspiracy with schizophrenic belief in "lizard people" and "Illuminati" in order to help silence the signal.

You see, we all fucking knew. It took Snowden coming along and rubbing your nose in it to force the hand of the 4th estate (the media). It would make you media folks look like idiots if you didn't report on it, and even when you do, you present the story in the fucked up and slanted light that we didn't know and could have done nothing to stop it.

To be perfectly clear: The Media DID KNOW THEY CHOSE NOT TO SAY SHIT ABOUT IT. It's "Journalists" fucking fault that they present themselves as trustworthy enough to deliver important information to citizens, while remaining morally bankrupt. This is now a game of face-saving by the corrupt, both by the Corrupt States, and their Media Lapdogs. Fuck Right Off!

Amazon big screw-up with the Kindle was completely missing the big takeoff of crowdfinding sites like kickstarter.com.

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/...

"Authors are choosing to crowdfund their work, and there are now options for them on which platform to use. The question is: Kickstarter, Indiegogo or Pubslush? To explore the pros and cons of those platforms, I interviewed a successful author from each of them to find out why they chose it and how they succeeded....

Amazon Kindle & DRM strategy needed to end up with authors completely dependent on the Amazon for their income. Amazon either missed the birth or takeoff of crowdfunding sites for as a new important revenue source for creative occupations.