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I'm really tired of seeing this same racist/misogynist bullshit repeated time and time again.

Oh you are? When have you opposed it? Ever?

Even Obama and Clinton were calling for securing the borders previously, including fence/wall building. It's on youtube if you don't believe me.

Trump actually claims they wanted open borders. It's right there.

More to the point, none of them claimed there was a need for a Wall as vast as Trump's, let alone that Mexico would pay for it.

Obama also put a hold on people entering from the same countries that Trump is trying to temporarily ban.

Obama did not put a hold on people entering with actual visas and permits already, but held up further processing of refugee visas.

Your reply is all echo-chamber.

Ironic.

If the sore losers somehow manage to knock Trump out of power before the next Presidential election, prepare for all hell to break loose. That will be a call to arms that I believe will lead to the end of the United States.

You still believe in Jade Helm and Fema Camps, don't you?

We're already heading that direction with the judicial branch shitting all over the executive branch.

You mean actual judges recognizing the hysteria caused by Trump's Mill-considered is in your mind, mere pique, and thus the judges are at fault?

Huh. Good show of your partisan leanings there.

Your mention of race riots is humorous given that Obama started that, not anyone in the GOP.

No, sorry, that Ohio Campaign chair was wrong.

Nuclear fallout? Thank Hillary for her uranium deal and Obama for letting Iran do whatever it wants.

To the contrary, it did the exact opposite. For far less than any of the other options.

America give 4B in free arms to Egypt, 5-6B to Israel and 2B to Jordan. They wouldnt buy PAtriots if they were not free as they have their own Missile programs.

They wouldn't buy Patriots, you say?

So why did Egypt pay $1.3B for the Patriot missiles they purchased?
Source: http://www.nti.org/learn/count...

Or why did Israel take part in a purchase order with Kuwait, Taiwan, and Spain to purchase $12.5B in Patriot missiles?
Source: https://sputniknews.com/milita...

In fact, for a system you say that no one would buy, there seem to be an awful lot of countries lining up to pay for it...
- UAE - $3.3B
- Qatar - $2.4B
- Saudi Arabia - $1.75B
- Greece - $1.1B
- Japan - $1B

There were more countries and more links, but I'll stop there, since I think I've made my point.

America give 4B in free arms to Egypt, 5-6B to Israel and 2B to Jordan. They wouldnt buy PAtriots if they were not free as they have their own Missile programs.

They wouldn't buy Patriots, you say?

So why did Egypt pay $1.3B for the Patriot missiles they purchased?
Source: http://www.nti.org/learn/count...

Or why did Israel take part in a purchase order with Kuwait, Taiwan, and Spain to purchase $12.5B in Patriot missiles?
Source: https://sputniknews.com/milita...

In fact, for a system you say that no one would buy, there seem to be an awful lot of countries lining up to pay for it...
- UAE - $3.3B
- Qatar - $2.4B
- Saudi Arabia - $1.75B
- Greece - $1.1B
- Japan - $1B

There were more countries and more links, but I'll stop there, since I think I've made my point.

I find it highly unlikely that automation will improve any economy, given that it essentially cuts the lower classes out of the economy entirely.

The referenced MIT paper finds that in countries with declining birth rates and ageing populations, expected losses in GDP per capita are offset by increased automation. However you used the term "improve"?

A system of universal basic income would be necessary to offset the inevitable sequestration, as such a situation is severely non-ergodic.

Yes, yes it is. There would be no meeting the taxation burden to support a growing population under these circumstances.

This is a classic problem with the pursuit of wealth; if you don't put it back somehow, eventually no one else has anything left to spend.

The Club of Rome published a somewhat famous report back in 1972, yet (to paraphrase Feynman), humans have difficulty understanding the upper bound of economic growth given the harsh reality of the exponential function.

To survive, Western societies must switch from growth based economies to sustainable ones. Mass immigration into developed nations will hinder wealth creation and result in total economic and societal collapse.

Reminds me of this recent story. Tesla wants to install batteries at the Australian utility companies to store power for night.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

the NSA can see them on the reflections on your eyes :)

The NSA analysts are more concerned about their jilted ex-lovers to worry about you...

Everyone (on this site at least), knows that H1B is all about getting rid of Americans in IT jobs in the USA to replace them with cheaper Indians onshore for roles that companies were not able to offshore to India for whatever reason..

On Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article...
"The H-1B non-immigrant visa allows U.S. companies to employ graduate-level workers in several specialized fields, including information technology, medicine, engineering and mathematics." ..slightly better, but the article again fails to mention the actual issue anywhere in the piece..that virtually all the of the H1B visas issued are used by outsourcing or IT companies to replace Americans in IT roles in the USA with cheaper onshore Indians flown in from India.

Umm, not really. I am from India and I did my Masters (in Computer Science) in USA. I'm currently working (in OPT) for a big networking company in an engineering role, not IT. About 60% of our team are non-Americans like me; i.e., from another country (China, India, South Korea, England, Italy and Singapore) who came to USA to pursue Masters or PhD. Except few of them (who have PR), most of them are still dependent on H-1B.

I am not saying that few companies are abusing the system, but it is totally ridiculous to claim that all H-1B visas are used to replace USA IT roles with cheaper Indians.

Though I did not vote for Trump, I have to say he is certainly right about all the fake news (on this topic at least)..

The "spin" regarding H1B in news articles spewing out since this was announced this morning is amazing...

Everyone (on this site at least), knows that H1B is all about getting rid of Americans in IT jobs in the USA to replace them with cheaper Indians onshore for roles that companies were not able to offshore to India for whatever reason..

On major sites as of this morning..:

On Google News / CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/0...
"Large firms say they need the visas to bring in engineers and other high-skilled workers they can't find in the U.S. " ...the article has the above, plus a whole bunch of unrelated sob stories about people who cannot find doctors (an H1B edge case).

again, the fake "skills shortage"..while in reality our IT grads are working in $30K annual salary jobs, Best-Buy and Starbucks because they cannot find good IT work. I know plenty of smart folks in situations like this..

On Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article...
"The H-1B non-immigrant visa allows U.S. companies to employ graduate-level workers in several specialized fields, including information technology, medicine, engineering and mathematics." ..slightly better, but the article again fails to mention the actual issue anywhere in the piece..that virtually all the of the H1B visas issued are used by outsourcing or IT companies to replace Americans in IT roles in the USA with cheaper onshore Indians flown in from India.

I have to hand it to him, Trump may be rather nuts overall, but he is actually doing what he said he would do, and he is the first person in office to actually address this issue (or even mention it).., which is more than you can say for either the R's or D's that have been president up to now. (I don't really consider Trump to be an 'R', either, for what its worth..he is following his own agenda mostly unrelated to the R party from what I can see..)

Kudos to him, maybe I was wrong about him after all..

Unemployment in the U.S. is 5% with a labor force higher than historical levels.

Rapid deployment of technology caused unemployment faster than the economy adjusted; it will always be this way. If the robots take half our jobs in a span of 10 years, no big deal; if they take half our jobs in the span of 10 months, expect the Great Depression to become a footnote in history as America collapses from economic fall-out.

Starbucks treats their employees well and they pay more than fair trade prices for the coffee, so they are in fact a better influence on the neighborhood and the world than plenty of small coffeeshops.

Bullshit. Starbucks is known for having irregular shifts so that part-time workers can't find a second job, was caught keeping their workers' tips (thankfully they lost that lawsuit) and in the face of increasing minimum wage they reduced workers' hours, effectively leaving more work for fewer people.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fo...
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
http://www.reuters.com/article...

The FBI spent close to a million on the San Bernadino iPhone 5C hack, but they also acquired the technique from the contractor.

Please share the link where it's proved he "took money" from the Russians? Smells like a "fact" pulled from your ass.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/e...

http://www.reuters.com/article...

Travel / tourism to US is plummeting.
The size of the effect varies by source:

6.5% - http://www.reuters.com/article...
17% - http://time.com/money/4662727/...
25% - https://www.theguardian.com/tr...
50% - http://ttgnordic.com/interest-...

I am European.
I have been to United States tens of times, both on company budget and on my own.
I won't come back, unless pressed really hard by my employer.
Why should I?
The world is full of wonderful places.
Why should I choose a country which is openly hostile to visitors?

If you think that advertising thing is weird, the US and New Zealand are the only countries that allow drug companies to advertise to consumers.

"Your doctor went to school and trained for an absurdly long time and will know a lot better than you what meds you need, but fuck him! This is America! You want alexetrolium damnit! Look at how happy these people walking in slow motion are! That could be you! Tell Dr. Asshole you want alexetrolium now!"

And then we wonder why we pay so much for healthcare...

Phew. Good thing https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/apple-scrambles-after-40-malicious-xcodeghost-apps-haunt-app-store/ never happened. Or http://www.cultofmac.com/241463/researchers-sneak-malicious-ios-app-into-the-app-store-undetected/ that. Or even http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china-malware-idUSKCN0RK0ZB20150921 that (which is a precursor to the first link I posted, so they obviously aren't even very good at fixing the problems when they show up!)

But hey we live in a world of alternative facts, so believe whatever you want I guess. Truth is irrelevant in our brave new world.

A number of crimes (including violent ones) have been committed, which the relevant law-enforcement agency(ies) are duly investigating. They have detained some suspects and are collecting evidence. What's so outrageous or even particularly newsworthy about this?

Why hundreds of people were protesting isn't some kind of unsolved mystery that demands or even justifies law enforcement digging through the last decade of electronic personal data in order to "crack" the case. How would you feel after getting arrested for DUI if law enforcement searched through you entire house, your office, your vacation cabin, and your parents house, just because you happen to have a set of keys on you? If private data is irrelevant to the crime, then it's fucking irrelevant, and privacy should be protected.

Forget Facebook simply handing over information. The root of the issue is the bullshit justification that a search warrant of this kind was even authorized.

A number of crimes (including violent ones) have been committed, which the relevant law-enforcement agency(ies) are duly investigating. They have detained some suspects and are collecting evidence. What's so outrageous or even particularly newsworthy about this?

http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I don't see rioting from conservatives at all. I am not sure what news you are seeing, but these riots are from people "protesting" Trump and his policies (without even having a basic understanding of the policies). The day before the inauguration, the protesters torched a limo. Ironically, the limo was owned by a muslim man who didn't like Trump either. Protests at U C Berkeley turned violent over Milo Yiannopoulos, and the recent executive orders that were implimenting policy passed by the previous administration. Portland Oregon protests turn violent over Trumps (illegal!) immigrant stances.

There were some non-violent protests, such as the women's protests the Saturday after the inauguration, but that is hardly the norm right now.

FYI, I live 30 minutes outside DC, I hear about all the crap going on down there, and it isn't pretty with all the violence coming from these people.

It depends if George Soros funds the protests or not.

George Soros (Hillarys primary financer) instructing Hillary on what policies to carry out as Secretary of State:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/28972

https://i.sli.mg/64gA6D.png

Top contributors for Hillary Clinton page:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?cycle=2016&id=N00000019&type=f

Soros admits creating the European migrant crisis:

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-migrant-crisis-national-borders-are-the-obstacle/

Soros tells Europe to take in at least a MILLION refugees every year:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/616541/European-Union-Migrants-Refugees-George-Soros-Hungary-Viktor-Orban-Europe

Soros finances Handbooks to spur EU-bound immigration:

http://news.sky.com/story/1551853/sky-finds-handbook-for-eu-bound-migrants

Soros urges giving Ukraine $50 billion of aid to foil Russia:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-soros-idUSKBN0KH0NQ20150108

Hacked emails expose George Soros as Ukraine puppet-master:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-01/hacked-emails-expose-george-soros-ukraine-puppet-master

George Soros funds Ferguson Black Lives Matter protests:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

Soros funds paid "protestors" to spur civil unrest:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ferguson-Missouri-paid-protesters/2015/05/25/id/646587/

Soros funds MoveOn and Media Matters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Matters_for_America#Funding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoveOn.org#Financial_contributors

Soros funds Black Lives Matter:

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2015/11/13/anti-american-left-funds-blacklivesmatter-now/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/?page=all

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/hired-black-lives-matter-protesters-start-cutthech/

Globalists Unite: Hillary Clinton Running Mate Tim Kaine Dines with George Soros Son as Donald Trumps Rise Terrifies World Elite:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/globalists-unite-hillary-clinton-running-mate-tim-k

Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.

Also, tobacco taxes in Holland are a LOT higher (excise tax alone is 56% of retail price, though stil less than WHO recommended level) than in the US (federal excise tax is $1.01 per pack of 20 no matter what the retail price), so there's more tax revenue from tobacco going to the feds to pay for health care than in the $1.01 a pack in the US to pay for federal health care programs that pay for the majority of smoker's health care.

Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.

In that analysis, 9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.

Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The feds aren't taking in enough revenue from the $1.01 a pack excise tax to pay that $170 billion a year in costs. That would require every single American - of all ages right down to newborns - to smoke more than 500 packs a year. So no, it's not a myth that smokers cost more than they pay.

Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.

Also, tobacco taxes in Holland are a LOT higher (excise tax alone is 56% of retail price, though stil less than WHO recommended level) than in the US (federal excise tax is $1.01 per pack of 20 no matter what the retail price), so there's more tax revenue from tobacco going to the feds to pay for health care than in the $1.01 a pack in the US to pay for federal health care programs that pay for the majority of smoker's health care.

Using recent health and medical spending surveys, researchers calculated that 8.7 percent of all healthcare spending, or $170 billion a year, is for illness caused by tobacco smoke, and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid paid for most of these costs.

In that analysis, 9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.

Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The feds aren't taking in enough revenue from the $1.01 a pack excise tax to pay that $170 billion a year in costs. That would require every single American - of all ages right down to newborns - to smoke more than 500 packs a year. So no, it's not a myth that smokers cost more than they pay.

9.6 percent of Medicare spending, 15.2 percent of Medicaid spending and 32.8 percent of other government healthcare spending by sources such as the Veterans Affairs department, Tricare and the Indian Health Service, were attributable to smoking.

Of the $170 billion spent on smoking-related healthcare, more than 60 percent was paid by government sources, they wrote in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The majority of the costs of health care for smokers are paid for by the public, not private insurance. And this doesn't take into account the lost revenue from taxes when they can't work or die early.

The funny thing about people claiming the AppleWatch was not succeeding, was they always ignored sales and customer satisfaction.

Or they followed sales and noticed a lack of customer satisfaction.

There have been other products that people really liked that got axed as well, but not that sold in the volume the AppleWatch did. If any other company but Apple had been selling the AppleWatch, it would have been considered a breakaway hit...

A "cult classic" perhaps, but even those tend to have relatively high sales figures to their contemporaries. So, Apple Watch sells in the 1-2 million range/year? The big three countries/regions (China, Hong Kong, and Switzerland) make ~1 billion watches/year. You can argue they're a different category (which they are), but then that's sort of the point. It's not much of a breakaway anything if people aren't breaking away from the wristwatch

Especially after the WatchOS 3 update, the Apple Watch has been really useful, and apparently the newer models (series 2) have multi-day battery life and charge fast enough you can wear them while you sleep and just charge them while you are in the shower to get a full charge. Apple is doing what it does best, just slowly grind away at improvements while the market fails to notice a change, until they realize that somehow Apple is in front again...

So, you're arguing that Apple doesn't win by making better products by but attrition it adds just enough features to convert people? Well, that's funny. I don't own any Apple products*. They must be doing a pretty terrible job.

PS - Apple Watches are just generally terrible. An improvement to "multi-day battery life" means "useless battery life" in a few years (at best). No matter how chargeable or replaceable they are, I can literally buy 26 watches for the price of one Apple Watch and get all the useful functions I'd want on my watch--time, date, a stop watch (the last I virtually never use), and a light--with ZERO worry about charging/losing it/breaking it. That and I don't own an iPhone and if I did I'd use the iPhone instead of a horribly tiny display. Does that mean I think Apple Watches (or Smart Watches in general) are useless? No. But they're a very niche market for those people who get substantial benefit on having ready access to small notifications or other small information on their wrist where a smart phone or other device wouldn't do.

But, please feel free to spin it otherwise. I'm sure Apple Catheters will also be a breakaway success, whenever Apple gets around to making and selling them.

*Seriously, the closest I've ever come to owning an Apple product is the time I saw someone selling a "Macintosh Color Classic"--might have not been the exact model but it was from that era--at a garage sale for less than $15. And I decided against it because the only reason to buy it was to play Scarab of Ra.

That explains jumping on Trump over the radical Islamic nation ban as a precursor to fighting for the H1Bs under the penumbra of immigration. Ditto for Bezos, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Facebook and the rest of Silicon Valley.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a...

http://www.reuters.com/article...

That explains jumping on Trump over the radical Islamic nation ban as a precursor to fighting for the H1Bs under the penumbra of immigration. Ditto for Bezos, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Facebook and the rest of Silicon Valley.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a...

http://www.reuters.com/article...

Not a flip-flop.
She said she was going to bring new economic opportunity based on renewable energy tech.
But she never intended to squash coal. She just expected the inexorable market to do it.
And she was right. And it wasn't even renewables that did it, was the coal industry's misguided bet on metallurgical coal that bankrupted the two largest coal companies in the country.

Natural gas from fracking didn't help either.

> Those of us that grew up under the constant pressure of instant annihilation from nuclear attack just don't get worked up over climate change that much.

Speak for yourself. Once you've pondered the aftermath of a nuclear war, you're more likely to realize what climate change is likely bringing in its wake.

> losing their shit that Trump is openly talking to Russia.

Oh come on. Let him talk; fact is that what he says means shit, it's what he does. People said we're doomed if Hillary won because you know, no fly zones!!!111!. Yea, I know, Reuters, yadda yadda. We have that "we're doomed!!!" clock and might well debate if it's any good and whose purpose it serves, but putting all thing aside, you need to admit that the world has not exactly become a safer place with Trump, albeit ubiquitous cries of "Hillary means WW3!!!!111".

Moreover, the hyperbole by HuffPo, PopSci, Buzzfeed and others has now been walked back by actual journalists at WaPo & Reuters:
WashPo: Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration
Reuters: USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit

@IHTFISP: "This is a temporary freeze on spewing official agency propaganda by extremists w/in the agencies who may resent their funds being cut. .. Given the 11th hour sabotage salvos launched by Obama in his last weeks as POTUS, any rational person could sympathize w/ a “stand down” order from the new, in-coming administration to prevent far-left partisan policy loyalists from muddying the waters until the new Presidential cabinet members can take office and plot a course."

That's the best alt- drumpf redneck gibberish I've seen yet :)

Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources

@hackwrench: "The original order was a memo not made public. We don't know what the original order was"

"U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website .. the administration had instructed EPA's communications team to remove the website's climate change page, which contains links to scientific global warming research, as well as detailed data on emissions."

"A copy of the interim procedures memo, dated Jan. 23 .. shows many of the steps reflect either the same or similar measures taken by the previous administration"

When was the previous admin instructed to remove the climate change page from its website?

@Anonymous Coward: "The blackouts are merely to prevent lifelong government staffers from publishing on political policy issues .."

Do you have any verifiable evidence for this? When was the previous admin instructed to remove the climate change page from its website?

Let me read the article to you:

You mean "part of the article". Because it goes on to say:

The 2017 memo, however, differs in two main areas. .....

Per usual, Trump supporter misrepresents an article. Film at 11.

OK, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are genuinely ignorant and not just trying to be a troll. You do know that the US is a net exporter of oil right... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The war in Afghanistan was because a few monsters over there murdered 3000 US civilians, and the ruling body in Afghanistan sided with those monsters, so we killed them. You remember that right? There is/was no oil in Afghanistan...

The war in Iraq happened because Saddam Hussein had a huge stockpile of chemical weapons (previously well documented in the 80s and previously used on the Kurds in 1988 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared... ) and had Uranium (550 tons http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2554...), was trying to buy more and refine it (we found the centrifuges buried in a civilian district of Baghdad http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/... ) and he kicked the IAEA/weapons inspectors out of Iraq. He thought we would blink because we were already involved in Afghanistan, but we didn't and that was what triggered the Iraq war.

We didn't take over any Iraq oil fields and we don't import it. We spent $2,000B on the Iraq war http://www.reuters.com/article... while the Iraq oil production is worth a piddling $25B/year. http://www.theglobalist.com/ir... If you think the Iraq war was about oil or for profit, you are either ignorant or a moron or both.

We need the US war machine so that the Russians and/or the Chinese (or Iran for that mater), don't try to subjugate the rest of the world. I suspect under Trump, a lot of other modern countries who have been getting a free ride as far as protection via the US military will start shouldering their fair share of expenses, so we may well have more cash, but that will probably go to actually building things like power plants, transmission lines, roads and airports, rather than more "green jobs." We already tried that under BHO and we got Solyndra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The estimate is 30,000 to 50,000 new jobs. Not a few dozen workers. And that's only the beginning

So you'd prefer that there be even fewer jobs, so that the unemployment rate can look artificially low as people go on welfare because their unemployment benefits run out and they can't get jobs? Foxconn isn't just thinking of investing $7 billion, for 30 - 50k jobs - they're also thinking of another $50 billion in US investments.

If that creates jobs at the same rate, that's another 210,000 - 350,000 jobs, in addition to the 30,000 -50,000 from the display manufacturing investment. That's more new jobs than all the current jobs in Vermont or Wyoming.

They better watch it - Foxconn is thinking of opening a $7 Billion display screen factory in the USA, on top of $50 Billion, and you know darned well that fear of Trump putting duties on them is part of it.

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is considering setting up a display-making plant in the United States in an investment that would exceed $7 billion, company chairman and chief executive Terry Gou said on Sunday.

The plans come after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to put "America First" in his inauguration speech on Friday, prompting Gou to warn about the rise of protectionism and a trend for politics to underpin economic development.

You really have to admit that 30-50k new jobs is significant.

Gou said he told Son that the United States has no panel-making industry but it is the second-largest market for televisions. An investment for a display plant would exceed $7 billion and could create about 30,000-50,000 jobs, Gou told Son.

You can hate on him all you want, but if fear of Trump can bring manufacturing jobs back, the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did. As for the rest, you should all wish for more success stories, despite your personal opinions. It's not like any other president hasn't been an asshole. Why? "It's the economy, stupid!"

And yet we still have idiots saying "I hope he fails." Cut your nose of to spite your face all you want, the rest of the world thinks you're idiots to undermine anyone trying to reverse the trend of killing the middle and lower classes for the benefit of crony capitalists.

They better watch it - Foxconn is thinking of opening a $7 Billion display screen factory in the USA, on top of $50 Billion, and you know darned well that fear of Trump putting duties on them is part of it.

Nope. I don't know or believe that for a second. See, I'm not dumb. I can actually read that Foxconn had plans before Trump even threw his hat into the ring.

More importantly, I dislike governance by fear, and what I also know is that if ANYBODY on the left-wing side said anything like what Trump purports to do, the Republicans would shake in their boots at the vileness of government interfering with the free market, and most importantly, I know that the suffering factory workers in Asia, whose plight I also care about, will not be in Trump's thoughts. So not only will he be ignoring real problems, the political allies in the legislature won't be genuinely interested in doing the thing, at most, they'll appear to do it.

More likely, they'll get fed up with him, and toss him on his ass as soon as he gives them an opening.

You really have to admit that 30-50k new jobs is significant.

In a country of over 300 million? Nope. In a country with a workforce of 160 million or so. Nope. Heck, I still remember the right-wing shills complaining about people leaving the workforce and not even looking for jobs, thanks to Obama. Now you want me to praise Trump for a pittance?

Says more about you than the economy.

You can hate on him all you want, but if fear of Trump can bring manufacturing jobs back, the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did. As for the rest, you should all wish for more success stories, despite your personal opinions. It's not like any other president hasn't been an asshole. Why? "It's the economy, stupid!"

Ah, here's the thing, Trump won't bring them back, but he will absolutely insist he is, so the naive will be thinking the world is changing for the better, and all too easily believe that it's the GREAT TRUMP who is saving them, even as the Emperor's lack of clothes becomes apparent.

I agree there will be lots of "success stories" but that's the problem. See, it won't be true stories. It'll be works of fiction. And the kind of asshole that Trump is, is one that is very dangerous, though perhaps you might not be aware of it. He's the conniving deceitful sort that gets a roaring crowd behind him as he convinces Democracy to sign its death warrant.

He's very dangerous.

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is considering setting up a display-making plant in the United States in an investment that would exceed $7 billion, company chairman and chief executive Terry Gou said on Sunday.

The plans come after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to put "America First" in his inauguration speech on Friday, prompting Gou to warn about the rise of protectionism and a trend for politics to underpin economic development.

You really have to admit that 30-50k new jobs is significant.

Gou said he told Son that the United States has no panel-making industry but it is the second-largest market for televisions. An investment for a display plant would exceed $7 billion and could create about 30,000-50,000 jobs, Gou told Son.

You can hate on him all you want, but if fear of Trump can bring manufacturing jobs back, the people whose livelihood depended on manufacturing jobs and who voted for him are going to be happy they did. As for the rest, you should all wish for more success stories, despite your personal opinions. It's not like any other president hasn't been an asshole. Why? "It's the economy, stupid!"

I do knot know what GP believes or knows, but one would have to be have been living under a rock for the past one and a half years not to know that the use of defeat devices is very widespread in the industry. Some reports and articles easily found with your favourite search engine:

The emissions test defeat device problem in Europe is not about VW
Dieselgate At GM? Defeat Devices Claimed To Be Found In Opel Cars
Test of Fiat diesel model shows irregular emissions: Bild am Sonntag
Report on France’s Renault emissions probe omitted crucial details
French government ordered to hand over full details of Renault emissions study
PSA Group Raided by French Fraud Office in Emissions Probe
Nissan faces suit over alleged emission fraud
#Dieselgate continues: new cheating techniques
RDW emission test programme - Results of indicative tests for the presence of an unauthorised defeat device
VW, Daimler, Nissan, Mitsubishi, GM: Can We Finally Agree That Dieselgate Is An Industry Problem?
Revealed: nearly all new diesel cars exceed official pollution limits
Many car brands emit more pollution than Volkswagen, report finds

Defeat devices are hardly a recent phenomenon:
How Common Are EPA “Defeat Devices” In The Auto Industry?
Carmaker Cheating on Emissions Almost as Old as Pollution Tests

There are different ways to cheat, too:
`Shameful' Mitsubishi Fraud Risks Pushing Carmaker to Brink
This is the world now: Suzuki also admits to cheating on fuel-economy tests

It's not hard to find more. Pretty much every manufacturer cheats or has cheated in one way or another.

"I think you're at the "ok, global warming is real, but its not a big deal, honest" stage?? But that's at least semi-positive. You've accepted the basic warming, even if you want to downplay the short time scale its happened over by adding in ancient ice cap melts"

The problem is that a lot of people who are only now reaching that stage or only got there (publicly) in recen years will soon jump to "but it's too late to do anything except adapt / geoengineer".
For example, Rex Tillerson, former Exxon CEO and expert knobsucker of both Trump & Putin.
http://www.reuters.com/article...

Bitcoin is slowly becoming more stable:

"Its biggest daily moves in 2016 were around 10 percent, still very volatile compared with fiat currencies, but markedly lower than the trading of 2013, which saw daily price swings of as much as 40 percent."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-bitcoin-idUSKBN14M0IF

"Millions of dollars' worth of U.S.-supplied drones that Kiev had hoped would help in its war against Russian-backed separatists have proven ineffective against jamming and hacking, Ukrainian officials say."

And look who's talking.No conservative rally, meeting or speech this year has been without a violation of some artist's rights, because they just played whatever song they like, without prior giving a crap about the copyright owners' consent,

It's also a trademark issue, since artists usually don't want people to think that they endorse the moron who uses it without consent.

http://www.thelegalartist.com/...

Awww, you sore fucking loser.

Putin shrugs off Trump's nuclear plans, says Democrats sore losers

'SORE LOSERS'

The Russian leader, speaking in a news conference that lasted just under four hours, fielded questions on everything from Syria to the economy, Ukraine and sports doping.

But he only became really animated when talking about the United States, launching a scathing attack on the Democrats.

He said they had forgotten the meaning of their own name and were sore losers.

"The current administration and the leadership of the Democratic Party are trying to blame all their failures on external factors," said Putin.

"(We are talking about) a party which has clearly forgotten the original meaning of its own name. They (the Democrats) are losing on all fronts and looking elsewhere for things to blame. In my view this, how shall I say it, degrades their own dignity. You have to know how to lose with dignity."

No wonder Dems suddenly hate Putin after mocking anyone who thought Russia might be an enemy.

I guess the Dems are back in the 80s, pining for Jimmy Carter.

BWAAA HAAAA HAAAA!!!!

Funny how U.S. intelligence services turn from human intelligence to signals intelligence in the light of warnings from:

Flight instructors
Russia regarding the Tsarnaev brothers
Parents of terrorists ...and many more.

Are they lazy or just incompetent?

Russia has developed means to fool American drones — including the recently-supplied by the US analog Ravens.

They aren't completely useless, but they don't rule the skies either.

I'm going to preface this by stating flat out that I don't like the idea of the new UK law. That said...

1. Incorrect. Initial reports stated there was no internet at the compound. Subsequent released showed that there was indeed a fiber cable.

2. You don't always hear what's been stopped, and obviously, you do hear about what slips through. "It Doesn't Work" is only your assumption.

3. The operational failure to snag these two is anecdotal, and only an indication that in the US, the standard for picking someone up is more stringent than in other nations. The Feds had been tipped off by the Russians...they certainly would have been grabbed in Russia.
http://www.reuters.com/article...

4. Does the UK have that?...IDK...I know we do in the US, but Apples v. Oranges.

5. Agreed

6. Should merge w/4.

Well, there are over 3600 jobs from Indiana alone going overseas that he isn't doing anything about. This includes 350 lost at Rexnord that Trump had tweeted about it not happening and then the company heard nothing from him.

School vouchers used to promote competition improved education for Sweden.

It is a bit of a stretch to consider Sweden's voucher program a success. Your link is paywalled so I don't know anything about it's findings but another decade of data (your report is from 2005) has been less than kind to Sweden's voucher program.

That illustrates one big problem with some of these privatization efforts. For any new program it is often easy to show immediate benefits by focusing on low hanging fruit, so it usually takes decades to understand the real impact of these changes. Luckily we now have examples in Sweden and South Korea to show the dangers of mixing a profit motive with education.

The fact that Flint is seen as a major disaster, worthy of much outrage, as opposed to the norm, shows just how good a job the EPA is doing.

False. That is nowhere near enough information to base a conclusion on. This is a start toward more information, and the news is bad:

A Reuters examination of lead testing results across the country found almost 3,000 areas with poisoning rates far higher than in the tainted Michigan city. Yet many of these lead hotspots are receiving little attention or funding.