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Money thought that gender identity was mutable, same as people who think that sexual orientation can also be changed by "reparative therapy", another ridiculous and increasingly illegal practice. Since the botched circumcision left the child without a penis, he convinced the family to raise him as a girl.

He claimed for years that it was a success. It was only when a grad student got access to his raw data that it was obvious that Money's basic premise was wrong - you can't change a person's gender identity.

Now as for the term gender identity, other languages such as french use gender interchangeably with sex on things like employment forms. If you don't like the term, use sexual identity (what sex do you self-identify as) instead. It's distinct from both chromosomal sex and sexual orientation.

The people still following Money's beliefs are religious groups and TERFs (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists) who wrongly believe that both sexual identity and sexual orientation can be changed.

In other words, you've got it all backwards. Not a big deal, we see this all the time, and as both legal and social acceptance increases, who really cares? It's like Lets Make a Deal - survey says that it's mostly older people, more specifically older men, who still have a problem with it.

Transgender Americans may find greater acceptance in the future, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll that shows young adults and women more open to people using public bathrooms matching their gender identity.

Americans aged 18 to 29 favor letting transgender people use the restroom of their identity by a 2-to-1 ratio. Among Americans aged 60 or more, the ratio was 2-to-1 in reverse with people saying restroom use should be mandated by the gender on one's birth certificate.

If you're an older male, you're in the demographic that has a problem with accepting transsexuals. And of course, the 40-50 white male demographic is the one that's seeing the rise in suicides, contrary to everyone else. Long-term trend is irresistibly going to be for greater acceptance as the old white guys who for some reason feel threatened by the existence of transpeople (probably suppressed castration fears) die off.

TL;DR - the opinions you hold are increasingly viewed as being grounded in bigotry and ignorance.

"because it disregarded tax experts brought in by Irish authorities."

Because your experts aren't biased *eye roll*

"The low rate is achieved by Apple telling U.S. tax authorities that the profits are earned by Irish units. Meanwhile it tells Ireland the profits are not earned in Ireland. "

"Sewell said the fact that an entity was a holding company with no employees on its books did not mean it was inactive and it could be actively managed by employees of its parent company." http://www.reuters.com/article...

Wow just wow. I guess Apple learned at the knees of Goldman Sachs. Pay your fucking taxes hippie!

Calm the fuck down idiot. Nobody in the Trump administration has even hinted that they're going to destroy any of the data.

No, they've skipped that step and went straight to destroying the scientists.

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

Interesting:

"The rank & file [of the NSA], especially by this point, know full-well the kind of authoritarian, criminal, and *dangerous* people they work for. If they continue to 'just do what they're told' they will be just as guilty as the German prison camp guards of WW2. They have a choice. Walk away."

News stories about the NSA have always communicated an underlying assumption that the NSA is well-managed. But any secret agency can avoid discovery of bad management.

There are many secret and semi-secret agencies in the U.S. government. Each of them degrades the quality of government. We can't contribute unless we understand.

The U.S. military, for example, keeps most of its management secret. This story is an example: U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds.

Bad management does not benefit the NSA or the military. Bad management hurts everyone.

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

Anybody who claims that they are "unbiased" is lying. I'm biased, you're biased, and so is everybody else. What you can do is listen to people's arguments and look at their data and draw your own conclusion.

You might look at Wikipedia:

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

Even there, there doesn't seem to be a lot of arguments for agricultural subsidies and a lot of negative effects.

Having said that, a good place to start is probably Econlib; they have a free market bias, but their papers and their speakers/authors are good (and reputable if you care about that):

http://www.econlib.org/library...

http://www.econlib.org/library...

http://econlog.econlib.org/arc...

The Heritage foundation, of course, has a "conservative bias", whatever that is, but they also make a good argument:

http://www.heritage.org/resear...

For the harm that farm subsidies cause to third world countries, you can listen to both representatives from those countries and even the Guardian:

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

https://www.theguardian.com/su...

Americans couldn't care less, however:

http://econlog.econlib.org/arc...

As for what farmers actually can do to mitigate risk, that's part of Farming 101:

https://www.extension.purdue.e...

It's such a big part of education because the dirty truth is that farm subsidies go to politically well connected groups, while most farmers actually must manage their risks themselves.

I'm afraid I can't supply you with links that make arguments for agricultural subsidies that I consider credible.

While he is cosing up to Russia, the latest insults towards China indicate that the latter will be designated as the new hostile nation #1, and the TPP is all about containing and insulating China.

Here perhaps this will help you. This is what other countries have managed to agree upon as a notification regime.

(Sigh.) Here's an internet phenomenon. Somebody does a Google search, finds something he doesn't understand, and pastes it into a comment.

This isn't a list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, it's a list of reportable emerging tropical diseases. You don't seem to understand the difference between bacteria and viruses.

This list doesn't even include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), or Clostridium difficile, which is what we're talking about. http://www.reuters.com/investi...

Let me guess: You never took a bacteriology course in your life, right?

No, of course not.

Then your argument is invalid — by your own admission and on its own merit.

Your method has already been tried and it resulted in a massive disaster

Non sequitur. If freedom of speech is what gave us Hitler's genocide, you may as well blame mothers giving birth — Hitler was born, was not he?

I'm actually a strong proponent of free speech.

Yeah, except in Europe, right? Let's go back to the question I asked earlier: if Germany not having true freedom of speech is justified by Hitler, what other freedoms and liberties would you excuse other countries not offering their citizens and visitors by something, that happened to them in the past? Is it Ok for Thailand or Venezuela to prosecute people for "insulting" the head of State, while you continue denouncing Trump (and I don't expect you to stop, when he actually takes office)?

This story presents facts about Russia's troll factory in St. Petersburg, just as I have done in numerous previous postings and got hammered by the Russian trolls. Go ahead, check my most recent postings to see how the trolls mindlessly mod me down for reporting facts about this troll factory, about the continuing shipments of cargo 200 from Ukraine (i.e. dead Russian soldiers), the terrorists in Ukraine who openly admit Russian soldiers are fighting there and supplying them with arms and munitions, or the Russian soldiers who state they have been sent to Ukraine and have fought there, and finally, the law which Putin signed which bars Russian mothers from talking about their sons who have died while fighting in Ukraine or even talking with other mothers about these deaths. Or course the graves of these dead Russian soldiers say otherwise, as do reports from eyewitnesses and families.

This story need to be modded down in like fashion. Wouldn't want the Russian trolls to have to see the facts of their dear leader's propaganda industry.

As a western liberal I of course object censorship in all of its forms, but at the same time I understand the mindset that the Chinese establishment has: they cannot prevent the inevitable spread of communication technology, so more and more Chinese people are becoming networked. This means that the potential for massive protests of millions of people over any number of subjects ranging from food prices to air quality to an outrage over public transit prices can occur more and more easily as these ideas are free to spread.

Take something like the 2013 Turkey protests as an example. The estimates of how many people were on streets ranger from 3,5 to 7,5 million people. As I was in a relationship with a Turkish woman at the time, I know the effect social media had. People were sharing the locations data with each other; locations of other protesters, riot cops, locations of where to get gas masks/first aid, and in general coordinating the movement of the masses to try and evade the rather over the top fascist measures that the government pretty much immediately chose to resort to. Now 3,5 million people is a lot, but percentage-wise it's less than 5 % of the total population. China has approximately 721 million online users and growing. Even if only 0,5 % of that population gets together and starts organizing protests movements, we're talking about over 3 and a half million people, around the same scale as the protests in Turkey.

From the perspective of the Chinese government the situation is tricky: lowering censorship would be a good PR move and make people happier, but it has the potential to trigger situations in which Tianmen square will look like a peaceful and orderly event. The path of least resistance is thus to allow people to yell about their dissatisfaction online, but just make sure the information never reaches a critical mass of people to trigger major social instability and havoc. Put another way: giving total freedom of communication to the Chinese people has the possibility of sending the country into major internal turmoil, possibly even civil war, because the internet can be used - both by ethical and unethical instances - to leverage the power of the mobs at much faster speeds than any other communication technology up until this point.

From this perspective I understand why they're doing it, even though I do not condone it.
 

Cyber Monday is likely to have been the biggest online shopping day in history... when $3.34bn was spent

No.... Alibaba ALONE did many times that much business ($14.3bn US) vs on Singles Day this year:
Alibaba.

"Cyber Monday" is slightly more than a rounding error.

Some alternate sources:
Australia: http://www.news.com.au/technol...
BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Western media organizations are trying to demonize China and promote revolution and national disintegration as they hate seeing the country prosper...
...reminding state media of its responsibility to promote a "correct political direction"
China also needed to combat the distorted view the Western media...
Li called on mainstream Chinese media to refute "untruthful reports"...

July 5, 2016 - ‘Fake’ News From Social Media Now Banned in China

The use of social media as a source of news has become a fixture in the United States—scrolling Twitter feeds appear next to news anchors, and tips from Facebook regularly result in television coverage. But not in China.
The Chinese Communist Party has recently created a new regulation that describes information from social media as “fake news” and “rumors,” effectively banning its use as a source of information, lest serious consequences follow.

Jul 4, 2016 - China To Crack Down On Fake News From Social Media Amid Rumor-Mongering

What's "pants on head" stupid is that the only time "fraud" is ever a serious concern is when Democrats lose. The same Democrats who belittle and pooh-pooh Republicans who point out actual, in the flesh fraud. Because, remember:

Fraud doesn't exist

I mean just ask Obama: “You are much likelier to get struck by lightning than to have somebody next to you commit voter fraud,” he said. “You’d win the Powerball.”

You can find plenty of people on the right that would say Obama should have gone after Snowden more aggressively. I think Obama always looked at the people and arguments of a situation, found the middle of the road, and then sided on what he thought was the right thing to do. In this case, letting the law speak for itself and not interferring looks like an easy decision to me, because it keeps a stance against treason, yet allows the perpetrator of the biggest most important state secret leak in modern history, to not be incarcerated (or tortured, etc as some crazies seem to want).

Sure, only Tesla gets taxpayer money... *cough*GM bailout*cough*.

At least Tesla are pushing forward instead of just continuing to make the same crap as everybody else.

I totally do... which is why I think it is horrible that we have such laws on the books... Such as the one that says I can't bar black people from renting my apartments...

After all, legislation requiring me to hold someone else's beliefs is wrong, right?

See the problem with your position?

Nope. The problem is with your representation. The above poster made a statement about a particular set of beliefs and actions, namely the burial of fetal remains, and you, being a tricky-minded person, with an agenda and an axe to grind, adopted a position of rhetorical sophistry to attack them, by bringing up another, unrelated subject that was not addressed by the remarks, but is an outside factor.

Because what h33t l4x0r said was "There would be something wrong if she tried to pass legislation requiring everyone else to hold those same beliefs." which was not a generalized statement of the position of anti-discrimination laws, but rather a reference to this particular situation, where there is tolerance for allowing fetal burials, but it is considered wrong to force that specific same belief on others.

Sorry, but h33t l4x0r was not attempting to make such an articulation regarding anti-discrimination laws in general, but rather, addressing the particular matter of ceremonial funerals for fetal remains, which is a reasonable accommodation to make. However, I will note that there are, in fact, problems with how people specifically act in regards burials, so it should not be assumed to go to any and every extreme, even within the narrow range of that subject.

This may be pointless edification, however, as you are using sophistry to asserted that a specified acceptance was somehow extended to all points, or was a general statement, when it was not.

Of course, even were it to have been intended that way, it'd still be you using rhetorical tools, and not a legitimate argument anyway. The way to address you, if it were worthwhile, would simply be to articulate the intent properly, but that's not really worthwhile, since you are not going to accept it anyway.

It works fine when it is something you support, but do you really support it both ways?

Ah, no, most people do not, so it isn't supported in all ways, no. Both ways, I won't use that term, since it implies there is only a pair of directions it could go, when the situation is more complex. See above, my link to the burial in Alabama. There are more.

You make me think of Robot Santa, from Futurama, who sees a bunch of robot mobsters beating up a shop-keeper, and says, ""Mobsters beating up a shopkeeper for protection money! Very naughty. Shopkeepers not paying their protection money — exactly as naughty!""

Except you know, you don't have Santa's excuse for faulty programming of his logic circuits.

But yep, when it comes down to it, no, people don't support it all ways. That would be dumb. And don't bother to call it hypocrisy, that's a petty argument that's full of your usual bullshit.

I 100% agree the GOVERNMENT should not discriminate, which is why I SUPPORT gay marriage, because the GOVERNMENT issues the licence.

Good for you, cupcake, you're able to recognize what a lot of folks don't, that government is involved in marriage, that it isn't just a religious practice.

It is actually a legal instrument.

However, I as a PRIVATE citizen don't have to support it, and the laws should not try and require that I do, such as baking them a wedding cake.

Oh wait, I spoke too soon. You're forgetting something, that marriage a contract, and gives rights to both parties in it. That means that a third party can be held to the terms of the contract themselves, when circumstances merit it.

I get it, you'd rather have us worry about the poor cake baker, rather than the bank, the hospital, or the cem

I'm surprised you didn't mention the connection to ISIL???

The Clinton foundation accepted donations from Qatar and tried to hide it, and according to wikileaks, the government of Qatar is funding ISIL. Since it was in her leaked emails, she obviously knew about it.

http://mobile.reuters.com/arti...

From https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...:

we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region.

I was actually talking about Hillary. The Clinton foundation accepted donations from Qatar and tried to hide it, and according to wikileaks, the government of Qatar is funding ISIL.

http://mobile.reuters.com/arti...

From https://wikileaks.org/podesta-...

we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence >> assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, >> which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and >> other radical Sunni groups in the region.

They just introduced their own Uber-style ride sharing program that will undoubtedly use this: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAKCN12K2IA

They probably do not want competition.

Right, but a small mention of "Entire family wiped out in car crash" pales in comparison to the news coverage that a Tesla just scraped a parked car .

This shows the the level of media attention does not correlate to the appropriate levels of concern. Just like the terrorist attacks. Tobacco companies kill far more Americans than terrorists. Do not ramble on on the argument that smokers choose to risk their health and life, I'm talking about second hand smoke.

Tesla's autopilot will save many lives on the motor ways. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be statistically better than you or I. Even though this technology is in its infancy, it is already a better than you are, statistically.

Right, but a small mention of "Entire family wiped out in car crash" pales in comparison to the news coverage that a Tesla just scraped a parked car .

This shows the the level of media attention does not correlate to the appropriate levels of concern. Just like the terrorist attacks. Tobacco companies kill far more Americans than terrorists. Do not ramble on on the argument that smokers choose to risk their health and life, I'm talking about second hand smoke.

Tesla's autopilot will save many lives on the motor ways. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be statistically better than you or I. Even though this technology is in its infancy, it is already a better than you are, statistically.

Consider: he was scheduled to be interviewed on behalf of Sweden by an Ecuadorean prosecutor today, and that interview was postponed last Wednesday (Oct 12) to ensure that Assange's legal team could be present. It's now been postponed until Mid-November. (source: http://www.reuters.com/article...)

It was rescheduled at Assange's request:

"He made the request in a document, via the Ecuadorian ambassador in the United Kingdom, in which he sets out his reasons pertaining to protection guarantees and self-defense," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Perhaps, Ecuador feels that Assange is abusing their hospitality by playing legal games to further delay his interview. Perhaps, Ecuador doesn't appreciate this very much, and is putting pressure on Assange to get him to comply with the legal process that he's agreed to.

Even more simply, perhaps they had scheduled a block on his access for today to prevent him from getting on the internet and causing problems if the interview went poorly for him, and simply forgot to revoke the block when they rescheduled his interview to November.

Any of these are at least as likely as Hillary Clinton somehow using the vast machinery of state that she no longer has direct control of to somehow force Ecuador to muzzle Assange *after* he's released most of the stuff he has about her.

Its deep in the text of "RT: NatWest to close Russian channel's UK bank accounts"
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
"The UK Treasury said it does not comment on individual cases, but added that no new sanctions or obligations relating to Russia had been imposed on British banks by the government since February 2015."
Very careful wording.
The UK wording gets even more interesting in
"NatWest decision over Russia's RT is matter for bank -UK PM spokeswoman" (Oct 17, 2016)
http://www.reuters.com/article... or http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
"It's a matter for the bank and it's for them to decide who they offer services to based on their own risk appetite," ... spokeswoman told reporters."
The term "risk appetite" is chilling.

THAT SAID - the way the authorities have been treating the protesters is absolutely mind boggling. They have a right to protest - and people have a right to film it.

They do not have a right to protest on private land. They don't have the right to obstruct construction crews with their protest. They certainly don't have the right to claim to be about "Democracy Now" based on the opinion of a few thousand (?) unelected protesters to overrule the US Congress and the State of North Dakota (plus a Federal Court and the Army Corps of Engineers).

They certainly definitely don't have the right to break into pipeline control systems and start turning valves.

I don't support punitive jail sentences for any of them, but at the same time I don't support the idea that if you have enough people, you can obstruct things you don't approve of (Planned Parenthood?!) and then hide behind the First Amendment. You have the freedom to express yourself, but no one has to listen or give a shit.

ISIS has a surprisingly sophisticated logistics chain: http://www.reuters.com/article... The study referenced in the article is found here: http://www.conflictarm.com/pub...

No, what he said about Warren Buffett was right, nobody pays more taxes than they have to. So I agree with him that avoiding taxes is smart. Taking a $916M loss on the other hand makes him look bad, and if he hasn't paid takes since, that means he hasn't made that money back yet.

Warren Buffet (and his tax returns) would disagree with you: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Samsung has sold millions of these things. Three of them have caught fire. That makes the odds of a device catching fire less than 1 in 1,000,000. Business Insider says that 17 cars catch fire every hour. Where are the cries for recalling cars?

I'm going to keep a copy of your post for safe keeping. This "what about y" device is constantly being invoked as justification for everything from mass surveillance to red rum so often in so many different contexts it usually makes me cringe/sigh Al Gore style whenever I encounter it.

Boldly inquiring about cries for recalling products that catch on fire takes it to a whole new level.

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

http://q13fox.com/2016/09/30/s...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

http://jalopnik.com/5935974/fi...

http://www.autonews.com/articl...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

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

http://www.streetdirectory.com...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2...

If you want to hear cries from victims themselves click keywords and enter fire. http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/o...

Except the CF was hacked in August and what better way to make a leak disappear by saying the docs are fake . http://www.reuters.com/article...

Just because one document is the same as another leaked doesn't mean there wasn't a copy of the same file at the clinton foundation.

Except the CF was hacked in August and what better way to deny is to say the docs are fake . http://www.reuters.com/article...

Just because one document is the same as another doesn't mean there wasn't a copy of the same file at the clinton foundation.

Except they said they were hacked in August http://www.reuters.com/article... . Also Pay-to-play sometimes doesn't mean what is suggested , just they want to make sure they track anything that might fall under pay to play rules.

The CF was hacked in August http://www.reuters.com/article... The people working at the Clinton Foundation were sent copies of DNC docs or work for both and just copied the docs right over.

If people somehow think the Clinton Foundation keeps completely separated systems from the DNC they are completely lost. Clinton couldn't even keep work , personal and classified separate.

No. It might be unconstitutional if it were a demand or order,

You were saying?

Everything you mention is already happening. North Korea has a major trade link with China at Dandong. North Korean border guards are easily bribed, though they have raised their fees recently in the face of stricter controls. A cheap Chinese made portable media player known locally as the Notel is popular in North Korea. Note the brand in the image on that page, SANSUNG :-). People can buy these on the black market since around 2005 for about $50, cheap enough for them to buy with their own money without our help. It has USB ports, SD slot, plays DVDs, radio tuner, and TV tuner. And like Cuba, foreign content is smuggled into North Korea on USB thumb drives, and people swap content via sneaker net. The device was legalised by the regime in 2014, so even state run shops and markets will sell them now.

That might be because Trump is unapologetic in his avocation for prioritizing American interests over those of the world at large - in foreign trade, in overseas military action and in diplomacy. Naturally this will annoy denizens of European nations that've drastically under-spent on their armed forces for decades, preferring to freeload off the guaranteed protection of US/UK forces. Even former defense secretary Robert Gates - who's gotten snippy with Trump's foreign policy statements - himself said that NATO was becoming a "two-tier" alliance of fighters and freeloaders. It's taken repeated and persistent Russian aggression to finally reverse that trend, and it might already be too little, too late. Someone rattling Europe's cage to stimulate defense spending is exactly what they've needed - a little more rattling can only produce more spending.

Some Americans have a strange fascination with the opinions of foreigners on our politics - the American left wing holds them in particularly high regard - for reasons I cannot fathom. Said people often cite said opinions as if they're significant to our internal discourse as American citizens.

When these foreigners pay taxes to the American government, then I'll care about their opinion. Until then, they can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

Don't forget, DPRK state media has endorsed Donald J. Trump for president (this is not a joke).

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

http://www.politico.com/story/...

RSA was tampered with by the NSA to allow for it to be easily cracked. While we'd known there was tampering with it, the extent of that tampering wasn't known until the Snowden leaks. That said, the flaw is only with dual elliptic curve and I don't think anybody uses that anymore. Also the only thing cracked this year was RSA 220, which is 729 bits and the next you'd logically expect to see broken. My secure emails use RSA-1024 (I didn't set that up, all I do is check a checkbox that says "Secure" and the recipient needs to use their key card and PIN to decrypt it - not sure how it works for out of office emails).

Not a surprise that the US government uses RSA for secure emails but AES (designed in Belgium away from NSA tampering) for both military and confidential secret and top secret encoded data. Confidential data needs to be at least AES-128 encrypted and Secret/Top Secret AES-256 if I recall correctly. We're insulated from that stuff (our software backend handles it), all we need to know is the classification.

In a roundabout but easy calculable way - it came to about $1.3M.

"Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job. According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job."

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

Anyone who stayed with Apple after the lightning connector change will stay with Apple after this, save a very small (and vocal) minority.

Well, since GLOBAL supplies of the iPhone 7 (Plus) are already sold-out, I would say that Apple is probably feeling that pulling the 3.5mm jack is not a "deal breaker" for most people. And they'd be right.

But I also think that the Mac is not an iPhone, and different rules apply. Therefore, the 3.5mm jack should stay, at least for the time being, on the Macs.

Somehow I don't think European censorship is going to really help out here.

As a Venezuelan that has lost nearly 20 pounds in less than 9 months due to food being scarce and expensive, i laugh every time someone in the US see similarities between Obama and Chavez, or call Obama "socialist".

IMHO there are more similarities between Chavez and Trump.

Something was "open":

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

Previous reports of Spacexom suing SpaceX appears to be potentially misleading, and simply a part of the compensatory process.

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

Or maybe this - "Vestager said if Washington chose to tax the profits reported by Apple's Irish operation, she would reduce her demand accordingly."

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

Seriously? You can't use google? Or wikipedia?

here's a pdf from the first footnote on the wikipedia article. It's an article written in 2007. http://www.gtlaw.com/portalres...

Apple came up with this method in the 1980s. It's been well known for a lot longer than any silly NYT article. http://www.reuters.com/article...

Wow, you really suck at proving your point. Thanks for providing no evidence whatsoever for your claim. Hint: your article about the Double Irish doesn't mention Apple, and the article about Apple taxes in Ireland doesn't mention the Double Irish.

Or is the problem that you don't even know what your point is?

Seriously? You can't use google? Or wikipedia?

here's a pdf from the first footnote on the wikipedia article. It's an article written in 2007.
http://www.gtlaw.com/portalres...

Apple came up with this method in the 1980s. It's been well known for a lot longer than any silly NYT article.
http://www.reuters.com/article...

Here's the link that should have been with the story. (I think) http://www.reuters.com/article...

did you not know the Minoan Warm Period, Roman Warm Period and Medieval Warm period were warmer than today?

No, because globally, they were much colder (see fig 2).

Vikings farmed in Greenland

And now it's easier than ever before.

wine grapes could be grown as far north as York in England.

There's many commercial vineyards there today, and even further north.

Now the graves of the Vikings are under 'permafrost'

Wrong, there hasn't been permafrost at those sites for a long time.

You talk about 'nutters' yet seem to be defending a position for which you don't even understand even the basic counter evidence

I've yet to see you present any, only oft-repeated claims that you obviously have never bothered to check for yourself.

I would hope you would look at the statement of the leaders of the CAGW movement

You seriously expect us to accept a bunch of out-of-context quotes as evidence of some global conspiracy? The only "agenda" it proves is that of the people who set up the website.

"Anti-science" means people who deliberately ignore the huge amounts of collected scientific evidence, and continue to spout provably incorrect claims with no evidence of their own. "Nutters" usually follow this by attempted FUD about the reliability of all the evidence against them, inevitably resulting in global conspiracy claims. You certainly qualify for both terms.

The central banks of the world are conjuring money out of thin air and using it to buy stocks, which are ownership claims on real businesses with real assets, made of real materials in a universe dominated by the laws of thermodynamics [1]. Think about this absurdity and the implications for holders of fiat currency.

Therefore, the marginal buyer is increasingly a central bank that can create as much money as it wants, consequences be damned. When this ends, I suspect equities, like most other asset classes, will have a long fall back to reality.

Concurrently, interest rates are artificially low, leading to all sorts of chicanery and malinvestments. Shares of dividend-paying blue chips, such as Microsoft, are bid higher and higher as income-seeking investors search for yield wherever they can. However, the price you pay for future cash flows absolutely matters and determines your return; at current valuations, I suspect there will be a lot of tears for equity holders.

Between the third central bank-induced financial bubble in less than 20 years and Trump/Clinton, I'm starting to think I'm on a bizarro Earth 2 or something.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article...