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There isn't much genuine "poverty" in the US anymore. Hasn't been for a couple generations.

I would describe this as a substantial amount of genuine poverty...

"09/11/2015 - More than 500,000 people - a quarter of them children - were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday."

Reuters: More than 500,000 people homeless in the United States

I know the whole "It's just avoidance not evasion so it's all okay!" meme is incredibly popular, but it's also quite possibly not true.

Companies like Apple, Google, Starbucks et. al. are currently under investigation in a number of jurisdictions precisely because what they're doing may well actually be tax evasion rather than avoidance.

I get what you're saying - I get that you're saying we shouldn't conflate avoidance and evasion, but the fact is that what companies right now are doing is ambiguous, it's not clear that they're not in fact guilty of evasion. See here for example, which also mentions the past cases of Fiat and Starbucks who until 6 months ago people were also saying "It's not illegal, it's just avoidance, not evasion!" and who then turned out to be completely and utterly wrong:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/...

> If you could cut your tax bill in half and didn't, you would simply be stupid

Or maybe I don't have a childish tendency to hoard money that I don't actually need? I could cut my tax bill by getting my employer to pay me via a company and just pay myself dividends dropping my top end tax rate, but I choose not to because frankly I don't actually have a problem paying taxes. I'm not poor, I can quite happily survive on what I have and still have plenty of disposable income regardless of the fact I pay taxes.

I get that you think I'm stupid, but you think that because you think money is the only measure of worth. I used to think that too, but eventually it's possible to reach a point where you earn enough such that other things matter, like not working ridiculously long hours, or being healthy, or just happy in general. So call me stupid all you want, but the fact I'm not working 100 hour weeks, the fact I'm not wasting my spare time figuring out how to minimise my tax spend, the fact all of this means I can actually have a life means even if I am stupid, I'm at least enjoying life. I could easily make more money by spending more of my life working, but when you grow up you'll understand that some things are more important than money too.

Companies are a different beast, they don't have personal lives, though the people who run them do. If Tim Cook and co. think it's better to spend his life getting angry in interviews to dodge tax then that's his problem, but he can't really complain when people ask questions about the ethics of the company he is responsible for. If he doesn't like it, he could change the company, and if the board and shareholders don't like that, then he can quit. Otherwise he needs to just put up and shut up, you can't complain about a problem of your own making and if you choose money and misery, over health and happiness, well, that's on you.

Fact is, these companies are under fire because it's extremely questionable as to whether what these companies are doing is in fact actually legal.

Terrorism now or in the near technological future has the power to deconstruct human civilization. That's the Irresistible Force and it's real.

Democratic nations who in practice abandon their liberty securing foundations will devolve into corrupt autocratic regimes of the very worst sort and likely stay there forever. This true fact makes those liberty securing foundations an Immovable Object- an object which must at all costs resist disintegrating forces, both from within and without.

Clearly, the US Government has, in practice, thrown the US Fourth Amendment in the garbage. I don't think anyone can argue otherwise with a straight face. These devices are some of the gory details of how they do this.

It's a slippery slope into an corrupt autocratic regime and we're sliding down it. We just are. /.ers don't need me to prove this to them but there are many things to think about which have not been properly teased out of the headlines. This is just one of them:

For decades, the police have been using the NSA as the actual source of their knowledge of drug smugglers' (and other criminals) travel itineraries. Using this knowledge, they have pretexted pulling those smugglers over, for say failure to signal, and then searched the car for drugs. The fact that the NSA was the real ultimate source of the tip was deliberately and systematically withheld not just from the defense, but from the entire judicial system - judges grand juries and sometimes prosecutors alike.

Now what this implies is it possible to rely on just the average local cop and apparently prosecutor to withhold knowledge of mass, ongoing Constitutional violations. This is a big deal because it is proof of a conspiracy, a conspiracy of silence, sustained for decades by thousands of the very people sworn to uphold and defend the laws and the Constitution. A conspiracy not to keep secret things secret but to keep unconstitutional processes a secret from the American system of justice.

It has been normalized to the point where veteran officers consider both the use of this technique and the hiding of its use from courts to be "bedrock police technique".

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

The easy conclusion, that cops are bad, has to be false. Cops are (self) drawn from the general population and if there's any reason to think they're non-representative, it's probably to the better side of non-representative with respect to rule following and lawfulness; they are likely better than you would get from just a random draw of citizens.

So it has to be something else. Group dynamics, identification with a group, loyalty, etc. are all at play, but it's also possible that they rationally -and correctly- judge themselves to have been forced into an untenable position where they cannot do their larger job - keep society safe- and also abide by the rules we have set out for them. Giving up the NSA program would result in a worse outcome for the nation overall and giving up using the NSA information would result in a worse outcome for their communities.

In a certain sense it's our fault because we Americans cannot, in the words of Nathan R. Jessep, handle the truth.

http://www.americanrhetoric.co...

I am not saying I agree with this reasoning, I don't but for complex reasons having to do with human psychology and the dangerous dynamics of "the broken window" phenomena where a little bit of bad, seen to be unanswered, brings on an avalanche of Very Bad. Still the cop's position (as guessed at by me) is rational and motivated by a desire to do good, and moreover it may accurately describe the reality of what has to be done in order for policing to be effective. That may just be the truth of the situation.

Going on 15 years after 9-11 and 3 years after Snowden, I still see no dedicated widely

Oh I think he wanted to say something profound about this: http://www.reuters.com/article.... But he wants to provide the editorial himself. He realizes saying what needs to be said (i.e. TMO, et. al. are making an end-run around net neutrality) might have legal implications. He spends many paragraphs (i guess, I stopped reading) about relying on video services to drop to lower resolution, but there are some technical issues why that's not ideal. We also know that the monopolies want to be content providers not bandwidth providers, so they want to start making deals with these companies individually and have exclusivity agreements (i.e. everything we hate and fear about the end of net neutrality). So really the answers to his rants are already out there, but he's unaware or avoiding them.

So at the end of the day many words spent, all wasted.

japan is building 60 new coal plants. So is South Korea
http://in.reuters.com/article/...

The definition of hate speech is right there in the article:
"any comment inciting violence against ethnic or religious groups."

More specifically, from the article linked, a comment is to be deleted: "when it is about criminal expressions, sedition, incitement to carry out criminal offences that threaten people"

"Bomb them"? No, the government is arming them... Let's stop with the charades.. War is still good business

Have onboard Sync send emails with truck's GPS location to IhateTerrorists@CIA.gov every day

But why? The CIA already knows where many of them are- they literally sponsor them or their allies:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Just google for more: https://www.google.com/search?...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All this because the US Gov wanted to destroy/weaken the Syrian Gov:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

Yeah yeah, the usual "demonize China" narrative.

One problem with that: it just ain't true.

China is doing its bit. Time to find someone else to blame, if you want to continue doing nothing.

Searching to see if there are more terrorists engaged in a coordinated attack? Seems like a reasonable and responsible thing to do.

I, and at least 12,000 others was listening on police band (over the internet from 3 states away), and was able to watch on TV while listening to the scanner traffic, both apparently delayed by nearly the same amount.

On the scanner, several police units reported being "slow rolled by a car full of long beards". There were several different incidents of this with words to the same effect, "watching us closely", "seem way too interested", etc.
They even passed these car descriptions and plate numbers to others to be followed, but that was before the two terrorists were engaged in a rolling fire fight, and killed, and everybody seemed to focus on that.

So its clear the police believed at the time there were others (long beards) surveilling them. And it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for that to happen. Even the Paris attacker had returned to the scene to watch.

Ok, so the radio plane was flying around 2:30 PM (14:30) local time, very soon after the event. An attack is still in progress, for all they know. Can't think of a single reason to complain about this, other than that you know they practice and train for it SOMEWHERE.

A safe location? If even the bank is not a safe location, what do you think is a safe location? What if there's a fire? Somewhere safe where, for instance, it will all be instantly seized if law enforcement happened to figure out where it was? I mean you never know, your kid could be a pot smoker and they could bring drug/currency dogs to sniff around your house. And a large pile of cash would be instantly seized, because "everyone" knows only drug dealers and criminals have large piles of cash, right?

I mean, shit happens. Ask Copperfield. I'm pretty sure he still hasn't had that $2 million back.

I guess you could always have a safe deposit box in a bank. Oh wait...

Another informative link on how activist investors get appointed to boards of directors.

Phone access != BES access.

They may not give 2 shits about you or your privacy but they sure give a shit about their BES deployments. As the first comment pointed out, WE aren't their customers. Corporations spending millions on BES are their customers. Selling backdoored *phones* is a core part of their business model to go right along with BES. So yes, they are happy to give LEO the same backdoor access your IT manager has but they won't give out the keys to the kingdom for BES.

This!

Pakistan was in love with Blackberry for the longest time for exactly this reason because they liked having a central BES server to make the job of the ISI easier to collect everyone's communications. Then back in July Pakistan announced it was kicking Blackberry out of the country, by November 30th(today).

From what I've followed of Pakistani news it looks like this was the flow of things. The Pakistani government spent a long time requiring anybody in government or important had to run Blackberry on the government controlled BES server so that everyone could be watched. Since GW Bush gave them his cowboy speech, their military government relaxed things a bit and gave civilian government control back again for the first meaningful length of time in the country's history. During that time the civilian government also liked keeping tabs on everyone, but also opened up telecoms ability to do their own thing. This led to telecoms running their own private BES systems. The Taliban then had an affordable encrypted communications channel that they could use for planning attacks on Pakistani cities. It's even odds whether the Taliban or civilian use of the private BES systems was the REAL reason the government decided to crack down, but Pakistan announced it's decision back in July that Blackberry had gone from golden boy to unwelcome and would be banned from use by the country's private ISP's today.

In short, Blackberry would like to spin this as them taking a stand, but it's really just them losing a big customer.

It's nice of Blackberry to try and spin this as a positive that they've decided to pull the plug on Pakistan, today on November 30th. Reuters however reported on the 24th of July 2015 that the Pakistani government was moving to shut Blackberry out of the country by November 30th.

This is much more an effort on Blackberry's part to try and spin a loss of a major business customer than it is Blackberry actually takign any manner of morale stand.

Actually, YouTube removed videos which were encouraging Palestinians to kill Israelis (and were actually faked), and were clearly in violation of TOS. The stories don't say anything about removing videos of real Israeli attacks on Palestinians. If you search YouTube for "israeli human rights abuses", you'll still find lots of hits.

http://www.reuters.com/article...
Israel says Facebook, YouTube videos encouraging Palestinian attacks

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-...
YouTube Removes Inciting Videos Portraying Murder of Jews, at Israel's Request
Hamas uploaded one video dramatizing stabbing death of two Jews, while cartoon reenacted murder of Eitam and Naama Henkin in West Bank.
Reuters and Haaretz
Oct 08, 2015 8:06 PM

Exaggeration works to the advantage of both sides.

The Israeli organizations like to say, we talked to Google and were successful in getting Google to remove videos, we're effective, and please contribute money to our ongoing effort.

The Palestinian organizations like to say, the Israelis are censoring Google, support our organization and fight this.

A member of an advisory group to President Barack Obama said about surveillance, "There can be serious negative effects on other U.S. interests". -- From the Reuters article, Russian researchers expose breakthrough in U.S. spying program.

Another quote from that article: "The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives."

"China is seeking to make its own secure smartphones, in an attempt to insulate its handsets from U.S. surveillance." -- Wall Street Journal
Links: Direct, possibly paywalled, also through Google Search.

How will China react to Windows 10, which gives Microsoft complete control over any computer connected to the internet?

Articles about Microsoft spying:

Microsoft's Software is Malware. "Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user." -- Gnu.org

How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? -- Computerworld UK

Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages -- The Guardian

In a democracy, citizens are allowed to participate in government. Secret government projects in the U.S. make the U.S. less of a democracy and move toward hidden control.

Articles about secret agencies often assume they are managed well. But an employee of an NSA sub-contractor, Edward Snowden, was able to copy huge amounts of data. What would stop NSA employees from listening to telephone conversations of CEOs to find inside information for profiting from buying stock, for example?

NSA = No Sales for America.

Question: Other producers of spyware have been put in prison. How does Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella avoid a court case?

Except if you look at the numbers the artists ain't getting shit and in fact are making less of a percentage now than they did in the 50s.

This is why I have zero fucks to give about "the industry", because I know that Meatloaf had to file bankruptcy because Bat Out Of Hell I, which just FYI holds the fricking record for the longest run on the top 200 in history BTW, according to the record company didn't make a cent therefor they didn't owe him a penny. I know that Cheap Trick is currently suing their former record company because you know all those iTunes sales? Yeah the record company says that "since that didn't exist at the time you were with us in the 70s and 80s we don't owe you a cent from those sales" and I know that Keith Richards says all those iconic Stones albums from the 60s? Yeah they haven't seen a single dime from those since 75. Want something newer? How about Lyle Lovett sells millions, earns nothing.

So if you want to "steal" from the industry? Go right ahead, at least when it comes to music you are NOT hurting the artist as they ain't getting a thin dime from those songs.

their problem is Google pulled their funding

No, Mozilla decided to go with Yahoo: Yahoo usurps Google in Firefox search deal

And they've always handed over all the data when the government threatened to stop their sales in the country.

India - http://articles.economictimes....
Saudi Arabia - http://www.reuters.com/article...

Or maybe they're getting tips from domestic and foreign intelligence agencies and not just from innocuous tippers who won't testify. But if you want to trust them implicitly, then go right ahead.

How can you make $3,500,000 disappear?

Oh please! You're kidding, right? We can make 8.5 trillion disappear, okay? In fact, multiply that by about 500, and you have the derivatives markets...

Alright then.

I think one of the main problems with the muslim world is lack of critical thinking, which leads to unquestioning belief in authority and conspiracy theories. Don't take my word for it, this is straight from the horse's mouth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As for ISIS, it's too simplistic to say it's just religion, see this (somewhat biased, but largely true):
https://newrepublic.com/articl...

But you can't understand what they do without taking islam into account. They blow up not just ruins from pagan times (Jahiliyyah), but also muslim shrines. Well, that's Wahhabism in action, and Saudi Arabia has the same policies, to the extent that they can get away with it.
In Paris, IS targeted the music venue Bataclan, makes sense since music is banned in Wahhabism. It's also jewish-owned, and has been a target many times before, also the headlining band recently toured Israel, apparently. So there's the antisemitic aspect. Restaurants and bars were attacked: that's alcohol, music, *and* men and (non-covered) women in the same room, that's triple haram. Wahhabism also bans sports (any kind of game actually), which explains the attack on the soccer game.

Without this background-knowledge the massacre looks like a random burst of violence, perpetrated by mentally ill people. Far from it, it was well-planned, and in line with doctrine.

Another example, IS wants to conquer Rome. They also called Obama "the dog of Rome". This obsession puzzled me, until I found out what "Rome" can refer to in the Muslim world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Know your enemy. Western policymakers don't seem to understand IS, so they got caught off gaurd last friday:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

IS announced Washington DC and London will be next, so nobody can plead ignorance anymore.

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

China's so-called ghost cities are actually just very, very new. http://blogs.reuters.com/great... What actually seems to happen is that developers (the real estate kind, not the Steve Ballmer kind) buy land for cheap because it's far from any existing population center, but Chinese law requires them to build something rather than sitting on it. So all these developers build all this stuff, and after a few years people start moving in and the ghost cities become just plain cities.

The primary way for Chinese people to legally invest money is to buy property, so many of these units go to property speculators trying to earn a return. Also, China plans far in advance, and the people have been moving from the country to the cities at an amazing rate there, so they are taking the long view and building housing for the boom that has been ongoing for decades. They won't always be ghost cities, but currently no one lives there.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great...

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

And yet, compensating research and development costs is exactly why the pharma industry's Senators claim the US needs a TPP treaty -- just one that's more stilted in favor of US pharma than the current draft, which they claim doesn't line corporate pockets enough to pass ratification. From Reuters this morning:

[Orrin] Hatch said failing to secure 12 years' protection for next-generation biological drugs could make it hard for innovators to recoup investment in new products, drive companies out of the industry and leave American consumers subsidizing cheaper medicines in other countries.

Longman dictionary:
someone who uses violence such as bombing, shooting etc to obtain political demands

or, by their actions: "Insurgent" Eats Heart of Syrian Soldier, or Free Syrian Army allegedly trafficking in human organs. They are just like the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which U.S supported before.
Moreover, U.S official admitted that they has trained only 'four or five' Syrian fighters against Isis, top general testifies, and it's cost about 500 M, and the U.S funded groups frequently desert or handed armors, weapons to the Al Qaeda.

Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.

The EPA also said that sulfoxaflor was safe.

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

Government is an evil structure by its very definition, as it is set up to provide the collective with violent means of dominating an individual. Whatever system that is fundamentally based on violence can not and will not avoid using violence to increase its own power, and blah blah blah blah

As much as starting your own business means you will sexually harass your female employees, defraud your investors, dump toxic waste in the river, and join the international slave trade. For what some businesses have done, all businesses will do.

That's either equally brilliant as your assertion that government = evil, or equally asinine.

Another problem left out of your Randian storyline: look back at the worst Soviet agency, program or institution you could name, and its bureaucrats wouldn't have a direct, personal incentive to cut corners the way capitalists do. Because, as you Randians constantly tell us, socialism/communism leads to lazy, unproductive workers that have guaranteed jobs and salaries no matter how little they work. As opposed to capitalists, who choose to leave people with cancer, disembowelment or death to save a buck (or less) on products that cost thousands of dollars.

You can actually complain about false advertising here. Major advertisers know the rules though, and get close to the line of illegality without actually crossing it. Although not always.

I would have flagged the submission "notthebest", but I can't comb /. 24/7.
WSJ and the NYT makes it hard to see full stories and should be banned.

Also, we should see more from sites like the Guardian and the Atlantic, the latter of which still has Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" available.

It appears that most all of the articles about this is linking to the WSJ article, but at least they are not the WSJ site. Here's a Reuters post.

The checks are in his desk drawer; he just hasn't cashed most of them. He wrote that they mistakenly cashed one in 1959.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/17/idUSN17200921

USA is a joke, not the world's largest manufacturer. WTF does USA manufacture? You should try and come up with examples beyond Boeing, Caterpillar and what? Bombs?

Dollar is going down, not up and the fact that the Chinese decoupled from USD as I mentioned a number of times is a great indicator that they will no longer prop up the US dollar and debt. There is nowhere for the USD to go but down, the entire USD bubble was predicated on a false expectation of the Fed raising interest rates, which they will not do, instead they will come out with QE4 and later QE5 and all the way into QE infinity until there is no more dollar.

The only thing that will stop this bleeding will be a dollar/bond collapse that will prevent USA from borrowing further. At that point it's either hyperinflation or back to sound money. As far as Euro concerned, it is going to beat USD in the coming months.

Chinese economy is becoming more and more free, this unpegging from the USD proves it. So called 'communist' China is now enjoying a much more free market capitalist economy than the so called 'capitalist' America. I understand economics much better when I am unconscious than when you use 100% of your little pathetic brain.

Lemme see. Sigh.

2nd link says OS X 10.10 has 4.91% of overall market share, which they figured from browsing stats, which seems to me to be a sane proxy for the vast majority of computers running Windows and OS X both.

This link says there were over a billion computers out there (in 2008, no doubt more now, but I used the 1,000,000,000 figure anyway.)

So. 1,000,000,000 * 0.0491 = 49,100,000 computers running OS X 10.10.

Maybe I'm just being (repeatedly) dense but I don't see the problem with the math. You (or anyone who cares to correct me) can be snarky if you like and I won't complain, but would you please point out where I went wrong?

"Uber wants to take a piece of the cake without following the rules everyone else has to abide."

Fact is two people should be able to enter into their own contract without a jealous third party getting shitty that the buyer isn't forced to buy from their shitty overpriced monopoly. You want to go classic taxi? You are free to do so. The rest of us should be able to do as we wish.

The excuse for the taxi monopoly is you get clean cabs and a higher level of safety. So explain to me why a taxi license costs $1M? http://blogs.reuters.com/felix... It's sheer greed by government workers either to feather their own nests and fat government pension plans.

IRS tests (audits) less than one percent of income tax returns. Yet tax compliance is quite high in the United States

Even so, the IRS' budget should be expanded:

IRS data show that auditors assigned to the 14,000 or so largest corporations found $9,354 of additional tax owed for every hour spent testing tax returns in the 2009 fiscal year. The highest-paid IRS auditors make $71 an hour. Based on a 2,080-hour work year, that works out to around $19 million of lost revenue annually for every senior corporate auditor position cut from the payroll.

There's a lot of sources of embarrassment, from the ineffectiveness of the US embargo in collapsing their economy, to the demonstrably stable Communist regime, in the USA's back yard

It's not demonstrably stable. It survived solely because of Soviet financial aid. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it's survived because of financial aid from Venezuela which makes up 7%-10% of it's GDP.

Venezuela gets that money from oil sales, mostly to the U.S. since U.S. refiners are some of the few who can process Venezuela's low-quality heavy crude oil. It's so difficult to process that Venezuela has even been importing light arabian oil to meet their domestic needs rather than attempt to process their oil themselves. So in a roundabout way, it's money that's coming from the U.S. to Cuba.

Is a Russian citizen now?

He lives in Russia now and remains very useful to Putin.

you want to bring in a discussion of personal property as it relates to liberties and suggest that is on topic

Because I estimate the correlation between people voting for "wealth-spreading" and those mongering the fear of the NSA as above 90%. All of them are either self-inconsistent fools or two-faced scumbags.

You seem to suggest the NSA's data will one day be used to confiscate wealth.

No, I'm saying, the IRS is already doing that. NSA's worst offence so far was providing other agencies (local and Federal) with information about real crimes — and freedom-loving Americans are outraged over those other police then lying to conceal the spies' involvement. Some day such lying may evolve and lead to innocent people being framed. But it is yet to happen — so far there aren't even any allegations of anybody being framed with NSA's involvement.

But the IRS is already open and brazen about confiscating your monies on mere suspicion and target opposition-supporters for audits and other prosecution.

So there is my point if you don't let the government see your stuff they don't know where there is to try and take from you. So thank you Snowden for bringing to light the domestic spying!

Had Snowden escaped from the IRS, you would've had a point.

Maybe the NSA's domestic spying isn't the 'greatest' threat to liberty but it clearly is a A threat. I for one think we should resist all threats to personal freedoms not just the biggest ones.

Well, if your house were on fire, would you concentrate on putting it out, or will you also continue thinking of the danger of an air-plane falling on it some day? The focus ought to be on the clear-and-present threats, not the hypothetical ones from the future. Moreover, significantly reducing the taxation will also reduce the threat of NSA — by lowering the amounts of money at the government's disposal, you make it less attractive for assholes, who would abuse NSA (or any other agency) to remain in power the way they already use the IRS.

And then they get brain-eating amoebas.

This is a Reuters news story - why is the submission linking to Newsweek, which locks the article behind their ad wall?

Here's a Reuters link:

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

Google will simply pay them off, no big deal, just like they have paid the US government and the EU over countless privacy-based violations.

Google is now one of the biggest bribers to the US Government... err, of course I mean lobbyists(!)
http://www.opensecrets.org/lob...

I honestly don't know about Johnson, but I've often seen guys of his age involved in science such as him to be quite pro-nuclear: quite enough for most to not be particularly thorough when it comes to researching positive outlooks. That brings me to the IAEA which is the source cited and has been criticised a lot for its very positive stance about nuclear power.

Last of all, when talking about Fukushima workers, let's not dig too deep, it could lead to taking a look at the sub-sub-contracting (often through the yakuza) of people and the way their eventual issues may get handled afterward :

http://www.rt.com/news/fukushi...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/wi...

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

Those are a few among all the various scandals surrounding the Fukushima disaster (still ongoing, by the way). But please, do keep downplaying what the risks are in using nuclear power. In any case, most of the vocal crowd on ./ will cheer on.

You think quantitative easing is the new normal ? ...you'd have to agree they should only be temporarily.

They're just as temporary as the patches *I* create. Until they blow up, and then they get a new temporary patch.

Than again, maybe Janet Yellen herself is temporary: one, Two

When I watched two, at first I thought she had gotten stage fright, then I decided she was just trying to concentrate or breathe.

>> America's Cup of...

Does that mean they got to cheat with weight?
http://www.reuters.com/article...

The purging seems to be happening from the top down with three more execs losing their jobs today. Perhaps they already know who authorized what?

TDIClub has a good summary and a list of relevant articles for those wishing to know more about the details of the technology and emissions violation.

My first thought was that German billionaire that committed suicide over his failed VW short position. Just a handful of years too early. http://www.reuters.com/article...

Sweden rejected the basic income, so it's not only Americans.

The "bomb" is pictured here, as part of a Reuters story that the kid has won a personal invitation from President Barack Obama on Wednesday to attend an astronomy night at the White House.

The report goes on to say "Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg also invited the teenager to drop by his California-based company. "Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed," he wrote on his Facebook page.

I maintain that he shortly will be on the circuit of morning news shows. Congrats, kid, you're a star. Don't blow it.

From the report:

The incident has launched a social media campaign called #IStandWithAhmed, which was the No. 1 trending topic in the United States on Twitter on Wednesday with about 600,000 tweets, many critical of the school district and police.

"My hobby is to invent stuff," Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News in a video it posted online.

He told the newspaper he enjoys robotics and was looking to continue his interests as he started high school so he showed the clock, which had a digital display and a circuit board, to a teacher. The teacher notified officials.

"They took me to a room filled with five officers," Mohamed told the Morning News.

A spokeswoman for the Irving Independent School District said at a news conference that school officials could not discuss the matter to protect the student's privacy. Police said no charges have been filed and they considered the case closed.

Mohamed was handcuffed and taken to a detention center where he was fingerprinted and had mug shots taken. He was freed when his parents came for him.

Mohamed has been suspended from school, the Morning News said.

Police said the device was in a case and could be mistaken for a bomb. Police spokesman James McLellan said Mohamed's religion had nothing to do with their response.

Two school police officers initially questioned the student and he told them he had built a clock. He did not offer further explanation, McLellan said.

"He didn't explain properly what it was and they felt compelled to arrest him," McLellan said.

The "bomb" is pictured here, as part of a Reuters story that the kid has won a personal invitation from President Barack Obama on Wednesday to attend an astronomy night at the White House.

The report goes on to say "Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg also invited the teenager to drop by his California-based company. "Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed," he wrote on his Facebook page.

I maintain that he shortly will be on the circuit of morning news shows. Congrats, kid, you're a star. Don't blow it.

From the report:

The incident has launched a social media campaign called #IStandWithAhmed, which was the No. 1 trending topic in the United States on Twitter on Wednesday with about 600,000 tweets, many critical of the school district and police.

"My hobby is to invent stuff," Mohamed told the Dallas Morning News in a video it posted online.

He told the newspaper he enjoys robotics and was looking to continue his interests as he started high school so he showed the clock, which had a digital display and a circuit board, to a teacher. The teacher notified officials.

"They took me to a room filled with five officers," Mohamed told the Morning News.

A spokeswoman for the Irving Independent School District said at a news conference that school officials could not discuss the matter to protect the student's privacy. Police said no charges have been filed and they considered the case closed.

Mohamed was handcuffed and taken to a detention center where he was fingerprinted and had mug shots taken. He was freed when his parents came for him.

Mohamed has been suspended from school, the Morning News said.

Police said the device was in a case and could be mistaken for a bomb. Police spokesman James McLellan said Mohamed's religion had nothing to do with their response.

Two school police officers initially questioned the student and he told them he had built a clock. He did not offer further explanation, McLellan said.

"He didn't explain properly what it was and they felt compelled to arrest him," McLellan said.