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2) KKK may be "monitored", but they are allowed to speak, demonstrate, organize, and so forth as long as they commit no actual crimes (arson etc).

In the US the KKK is really close to the government. They, and other right wing advocates of violence, get away with a lot of stuff that would end up in big trouble for non-right wingers.

For example, the incoming House Whip, Steve Scalise, gave a well received speech to a white nationalist group in 2002

(Reuters) - U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, gave a speech at a conference of white nationalists when he was a state lawmaker in 2002, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing his spokeswoman.

Spokeswoman Moira Bagley said Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, was not familiar with the ideology of the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, or EURO, when he attended the event in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, the Washington Post reported.

EURO was founded in 2000 by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and ran a high-profile race for governor of the state in 1991.

Given the name of the group, and the participation of David Duke, his claim he was unaware of the white racist nature of the gathering are not credible.

As for toleration of right wing threats of violence, there's an ongoing problem in Utah with people with guns threatening Bureau of Land Management employees

(Reuters) - A pair of motorists in a pick-up truck brandished a firearm and flashed a threatening sign at a federal land management agent in Utah, officials said on Thursday, about a month after a widely-publicized armed standoff with a rancher.

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Crandall said a BLM employee was driving an agency vehicle on Interstate 15 near Nephi, about 90 miles south of Salt Lake City when two motorists whose faces were covered pulled alongside him and made an obscene gesture.

The suspects pulled away but returned minutes later, flashing a gun and a hand-scrawled sign that read: "You need to die," Crandall said.

She said the incident was reported to the Utah Highway Patrol but the BLM agent could not provide investigators with a license plate number because it appeared to be covered with duct tape.

So imagine if some non-honkies in masks threatened a federal employee with guns. There would be a 100 person team from the FBI on the case immediately, and someone would be arrested shortly whether they were involved or not. Not many resources were spent trying to find the perps in this case. Since it's Utah, all that happened is the the BLM has removed insignia from their vehicles.

So not all terrorists are created equal. It counts less if you are white and Christian.

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

TFA itself admits that

In their comments, some people acknowledged having not seen the film, but wanted to show their support

According to Reuters:

Most viewers [in China and South Korea] said they watched the low-brow spoof because of the devastating cyberattack on the Hollywood studio that produced it, Sony Pictures, but they were not impressed.
Even in South Korea, technically at war with the North, viewers panned the movie.
"A lot of it is unrealistic and the people who play North Koreans are so bad at speaking Korean," said a viewer on Naver, an online portal. "In the scene where Kim Jong Un gets mad...I couldn't quite understand what he was saying."
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"It doesn't matter whether the film is any good, it's become something everyone has to see," said one user on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
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Sony's international executives have previously said the movie was "desperately unfunny" and would have flopped overseas, according to e-mails leaked by the hackers.
China is North Korea's only major ally, but Kim Jong Un is not a popular figure in the country, being widely lampooned on social media as "Fatty Kim."
Many viewers said the film was not very good

So Chinese viewers don't like Kim but neither do they like another formulaic and "desperately unfunny" bromedy that is so culturally blind that it misses all the great comedy material there is in North Korean reality, because the filmmakers know nothing but clichés about North Korea. The jokes are all on a ching-chong-chinaman level. I can see how East Asians wouldn't appreciate that.

No, that was sony.

After several years planning and deploying, they have fiber-to-the-shore, courtesy of their sugar daddies in Venezuela. It's public access that's lacking, and perhaps the showstopper here isn't lack of computers but scaling up their national firewall.

Done.

It seems that even the FBI's evidence isn't watertight. They only claimed that the tools used were similar to attacks that had previously originated from North Korea.

The FBI said technical analysis of malicious software used in the Sony attack found links to malware that "North Korean actors" had developed and found a "significant overlap" with "other malicious cyber activity" previously tied to Pyongyang. But it otherwise gave scant details on how it concluded that North Korea was behind the attack.

Here's an update: North Korea denies hacking Sony, U.S. stands by its assertion

The FBI said technical analysis of malicious software used in the Sony attack found links to malware that "North Korean actors" had developed and found a "significant overlap" with "other malicious cyber activity" previously tied to Pyongyang. But it otherwise gave scant details on how it concluded that North Korea was behind the attack.

There was a cyberattack threat component, too. FBI warned theaters of possible cyberattacks over 'The Interview': The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation released a warning on Tuesday, advising theaters and other businesses associated with Sony Corp's Hollywood studio's film "The Interview" that they could be targeted in cyberattacks. The private document, which was obtained by Reuters, said that "anyone associated with the production, distribution and promotion" of the film "could possibly become the target of cyberattacks."

I agree with you. It's amazing how many people are running with the story that it was North Korea. Utter stupidity.

An excellent breakdown of the "breach".

FBI saying that North Korea was not involved

So the US has committed acts of war against Germany by tapping their head of state's phone, etc. Or is it only an act of war when it's against US interests?

That story was a hoax.

No proof so far that NSA bugged Merkel's phone: prosecutor

Germany's top public prosecutor said an investigation into suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone by U.S. spies had so far failed to find any concrete evidence.

On Wednesday he said however, "the document presented in public as proof of an actual tapping of the mobile phone is not an authentic surveillance order by the NSA. It does not come from the NSA database.

"There is no proof at the moment which could lead to charges that Chancellor Merkel's phone connection data was collected or her calls tapped."

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

We've seen the US go to war from much less "evidence". Can you say "WMD in Iraq"?

Iraq of course being a more profitable target, not stuck right up against China and not having as a leader 'The one Daddy let get away'.

We've seen the US go to war from much less "evidence". Can you say "WMD in Iraq"?

Education policy is not the domain of those who understand education - it's decided by politicians at nearly every level. Everything from what will be taught, to the books we use, to the structure of classes and rating systems meant to produce specific results without any real understanding of how those results are achieved or the real impact of them. They also can't make radical leaps - anything that might fail would result in losing their position, so they stick to minor modifications to existing systems - so there's no disruptive changes possible, as per Ken Robinson[1].

All that while fighting through often biased or partisan processes that result in, for example, including religion and denouncing evolution in Texas schoolbooks. In fact, you can say that government run institutions are process-driven more than anything else.

On the other hand, businesses are results driven. A business that does not produce product will shortly cease to be a business. That mechanism lends itself well to tackling any problem, even if it often discards moral or ethical considerations as not being part of the problem scope. So while their primary focus is of course, profits rather than education, when education is a requirement for profits, they're both well situated and motivated to provide that.

They can even take risks, with the knowledge that success will reward them many times over. So new styles of education are realistically evaluated and considered.

That's the nice part about capitalism. We can rely on human greed and ingenuity to produce almost any result, so long as we're able to figure out how to make it a requirement for fiscal success, whereas the political systems are motivated to not take chances and not to rock the boat, while at the same time claiming to be a boat-rocker.

So yeah, there's some PR gain in there for those companies, but that's just icing on the cake compared to their main benefit from supporting or redefining education.

[1] - See http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_r... ,
                          http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_k... ,
                          http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_r... ,
                          http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_r...
              for some interesting thoughts on disrupting the existing educational systems.

The Uber paying service will be banned starting from January the 1st, according to the French governement.

You're not really defending blatant douche-baggery based on the notion that other people have been douche-bags in the past, are you?

Actually I think he might have a point.

Squatters have started raising pigs on the site of Peru's Nazca lines - the giant designs best seen from an airplane that were mysteriously etched into the desert more than 1,500 years ago.

"We get 120-180 reports or alerts about encroachments every year," Alva said. "For my colleagues in the rest of Latin America, who get two or maybe five cases per year, that figure is unbelievable."

It's not like they unsealed a tomb, careless people have been tromping around these things for millenia from early European explorers to various locals to backpacking douchbags who look up the location on google maps.

And yes it caused damage, but they didn't wreck the figure anymore than any of those previous groups wreaked it. It's like touching a painting in a gallery, your individual poke won't leave a mark, but if a bunch of people do it the painting will be ruined.

I think that's probably the main motivation for the comments, first they're rightfully offended by Greenpeace attempting to expropriate their heritage to try and make a viral video. But moreover they're worried that Greenpeace will inspire copycats to visit the sites, and it won't take a lot of that before you start seeing visible damage.

Before Sony got hacked, they hadn't had a big breach.

They had a big breach in 2011. They had other smaller breaches as well.

I can assure you that the data was not secured properly.

Duh. Thanks for your brilliant hindsight.

Now now. Don't you know that failure to give planned increases in military budget = defense cutbacks?

And how do you refer to the actual reductions in head count and budget cutting that has been going on?

Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two

Wrong timing for it, though. While our nation is under attack by Isis and Syria, this increase would be better spent on improving our dwindling military capabilities..

Dwindling? CITATION NEEDED.

CITATION PROVIDED

Budget cuts to slash U.S. Army to smallest since before World War Two
A New Army Drawdown: This Time Is Far Worse
General: With cuts, Marine Corps will 'cut into bone'
AIR FORCE PREPARES TO SEPARATE 25,000 IN SERVICE'S LARGEST DRAWDOWN

"Over the next five years, about 550 aircraft and about 25,000 Airmen will be gone from the Air Force.

Mind the elephant, sir, it has been known to bite people in the ass.

For example, Fraud from bots represents a loss of $6 billion in digital advertising @Reuters says

Almost one-fourth of video ads and 11 percent of display ads are viewed by fake consumers created by cyber crime networks seeking to take a chunk of the billions of dollars spent on digital advertising

I think getting "clicks" from actual targeted customers is a non-problem in the face of all this other fraud. When it comes to security research (my field), more information pretty much always leads to better verdicts. It's therefore quite reasonable that you want to crawl an extra step deep in order to vet a page you're on. This isn't even unprecedented; think of the browser link prefetching, which anticipates where you'll click and downloads content ahead of time.

I'll give you another anectdote. And you can do this all day. It's fun!

How about "UAVs (sometimes called "drones") shouldn't be operating around airports but the likelihood of one downing a transport category aircraft is low, certainly not zero and something responsible people are concerned about".

Wall Street's and the City's financial mobsters are exactly those who would like more EU, idiot. If you still haven't realized it yet, any regulation coming from Bruxelles has been designed by them. Just to make an example, a recent online public consultation on the TTIP has been discarded "because there were too many people against the treaty". Pure modern fascism:
http://in.reuters.com/article/...

That's why eurosceptic europeans are now the majority. There's not going to be any "united states of europe", ever. And those who supported this delirious idea, in future will be considered just like nazis are today. Live with it, or fu*k off.

Yet again you fail to see the bigger picture. BlackBerry phone sales aren't where the company makes money. They make it on MDM and EMM offerings which are subscription based thus the subscriber base numbers. When BES only supported BB devices phone sales were crucial for them. Now that BES 12 supports iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices phone sales are a secondary concern. They really don't need to be #1, 2, or 3 in phone sales to make money as long as they continue to grow their MDM business...which, despite rumors to the contrary, they are doing. In fact they just entered into a partnership with Samsung to integrate the Knox security platform into the BES system to enhance Android security.

Jon Chen knows BlackBerry addicts love their QWERTY based devices and he will continue to build those phones to keep the faithful but he is a businessman and not an idealist like Lazrdis or Balsillie. He won't hesitate to cut off a limb if it is toxic to the company.

@"She didn't get it from touching her face with a glove"

Try reading the news, e.g. http://uk.reuters.com/article/...

@"BTW we can disinfect most boxes. Most cargo entering America could be heated to 150 degrees".
How can you say such things and not see them as wrong?! ... Most packaging in a supermarket can't be heated to 150 degrees! ... and these packs etc... come from other countries which are loaded into containers by people ... people who can become carriers of the virus and so help spread a virus if they become infected and during a pandemic with millions of cases such events become very possible. If you want to model points of contact you need to think wider than what is just in front of you.

@"People who are contagious do not work in factories packing goods".
You don't know that and your ignorant prejudice is showing through. Also are you seriously trying to say you are so ignorant that you can't imagine a global pandemic where more people can spread it further?

Yes, the rhetoric for this week's episode of "Theresa May had an idea" has been particularly silly.

The statistics trotted out over the past week or so make for interesting, if depressing, reading.

For example, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, a very senior officer with counter-terrorism responsibilities, says they've been prevented on average one terrorist attack per year but so far this year it's been 4-5 already. (It's not clear whether this was in the specific context of "lone wolf" attacks, though.)

Just hours apart from that, we have Theresa May herself saying that almost 40 major terrorist attacks have been foiled since the 7/7 bombings, giving an average of about four per year. This means, she says, that the UK is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history, which might be surprising to anyone who was around during the worst of the troubles with the IRA not so long ago. There are plenty of scary messages played over the PA system when you go through any major London railway station these days, but not frequent closures due to actual bomb threats and the like.

Also on Monday, there was a statement from Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley citing 271 arrests resulting from counter-terrorism investigations so far this year. Their Commissioner seemed to be implying in the above statement that all of these had led to charges, too. What they don't seem to have mentioned anywhere in this week's PR campaign is how many such arrests ultimately lead to convictions, nor how many of those convictions (or the arrests or charges themselves) are actually for terrorism offences.

The combined budget for our security services reportedly remains somewhere around the £2B mark, not counting additional funding for counter-terrorism units within other organisations such as the police.

In other news, in 2013 (the last full year for which stats are available) there were 1,713 people killed on our roads, and a further 21,657 seriously injured, not to mention damage to the economy estimated in the £15-30B range as a result of the disruption due to incidents on the road. Would anyone like to guess what's been happening to the annual road safety publicity budget in recent years?

I mean, no one — not even you — has any evidence of it.

except we do. the docs snowden leaked contain entries going back to around ~2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29 PRISM is a clandestine anti-terrorism[1] mass electronic surveillance data mining program launched in 2007 by the National Security Agency (NSA) and government survialence has been consistantly leaked on slashdot since it started in 1997, going back to CARNIVORE, RAPTORE, and this: Narus

Citation needed.

This is the war on drugs
Reagan declares war
This is parellel construction, basicly allowing cops to either plant evidence, and effectively nullifies reasonable suspicion.
This is civil foreiture. As you can see, the government can now just take your stuff without having to provide evidence
far less conviction in a court of law, jury of peers or not

Empty words.

hey mr pot, the kettle called, your fucking black.

I was ignorantly assuming that they'd do everything they could to insure the accomplishment of the mission.

They almost certainly did within the allowed budget. There are two problems with nuclear power spacecraft. The first is that if something goes wrong on takeoff you risk what is effectively a 'dirty bomb' going off somewhere in the Earth's atmosphere which is not good. The second, which does not apply in this case, is that if you make it into space safely you had better make sure that the craft does not return for Earth for a few billion years otherwise, again, it is like a dirty bomb going off in the atmosphere.

Clearly deep space missions like this mean that there is no chance of return but you still have the risk of a disaster on launch which is not entirely uncommon as the recent Antares Rocket launch showed.

1800 million euros.

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

Who's the 'tard now, hm?

List of images....

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

Hoping for some larger resolution of these. Fantastic the surface of a comet close up.

China just went on record saying that they're at least going to attempt to reduce their emissions in the future. That's something that they were never willing to say before.

Not so. It looks like there was already some momentum. Here's an article from June: China, the world's biggest emitter, will set a total cap on its CO2 emissions when its next five-year plan comes into force in 2016, He Jiankun, chairman of China's Advisory Committee on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing. - http://in.reuters.com/article/...

It is good to see that the momentum is continuing to build.

If society thinks I should pay more, then it would be rather hypocritical to disagree.

It is only hypocritical for those, who proclaim their trust in government determining the amount for other people...

But, hypocritical or not, you pay more than you believe is fair because you can not avoid it — on pain of having armed men come in and evict you from your house (though I doubt you have one, if you aren't American).

If you made an offer of $100 to buy an item from me and I said "No! It's only worth $50" are you going to haggle over the price and insist on paying the extra?

People disagreeing about a price are welcome to not commence the transaction. There is no such freedom with taxes — and the taxpayers are forced into paying. All taxes are collected like that world-wide, that's a given. What it means, however, is that these monies can only be spent on things, only government can provide — such as military and law-enforcement — not transport, not health care, not food... It is simply immoral to force Peter to pay for a bus line, which will help Paul get to work... And it is outright outrageous to force Peter to pay for Paul's food and housing.

We have an efficient public transport system throughout the country, affordable health care, a safety net if I lose my job, and mandatory paid vacation

You may have been brainwashed into believing, that's the only way to live — and that those "elected administrators", in their omniwisdom and benevolence are the best at deciding, how to spend other people's money. Better even than the people themselves are. You have the excuse, that those ruling you have a (very) vested interest in perpetuating your belief. But you should've recognized the truth, when it slapped you...

Clearly there's a problem in the US where apparently there's a ruling class that you have no say about

Having visited Europe many times, I can "clearly" see, you live in poverty. Your cars are too small for comfort, as are your showers. Your food is expensive — and so are most other goods and services. And, despite all those taxes upping the every-day prices, you are still too poor to maintain a military, that can credibly discourage Russian... Shrugs...

Note that the story says this is only about non-U.S. earning.

If you RTFA, there's only one of three possibilities:
1. US assets were under priced in order to keep income out of the US.
2. European assets were over priced in order to shift income to a lower tax EU jurisdiction.
3. All of the Above

The correct answer is 3 and this story is not about US earnings, because those articles have already been written.
Special Report: Amazon's billion-dollar tax shield
Dec 6, 2012

Amazon disclosed in October 2011 that the IRS wanted $1.5 billion in unpaid taxes. It has declined to say exactly what transactions the charge relates to but said it was linked to "transfer pricing with our foreign subsidiaries" over a seven-year period from 2005.

Who knows why the EU didn't bother to aggressively investigate until now.
The broad outlines were laid out years ago.

- August 4, 2003: Chung Mong-hun, Chung Mong-koo's younger brother and then chairman of Hyundai Asan, jumps to his death while facing trial over an alleged $500 million secret "cash for summit" payment to Pyongyang before the landmark June 2000 North/South summit. He was also accused of doctoring company books and embezzling 15 billion won.

- June 18, 2004: Hyundai Motor Group vice chairman Kim Dong-jin and Korean Air Chief Executive Cho Yang-ho are given suspended two-year and one-year jail terms respectively, for raising a slush fund to support politicians in the 2002 presidential race. Both get to keep their jobs.

- March 26, 2006: South Korea prosecutors raid Hyundai group units such as Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors Corp. over a probe into suspected illegal political lobbying.

- Apr. 19, 2006: Hyundai Motor says the Chung family will donate $1 billion in shares of the group's auto shipping affiliate Glovis Co. Ltd. to atone for the bribery scandal.

- Apr. 28, 2006: Chung is arrested on charges of misusing company funds.

- May. 16, 2006: South Korea indicts Chung, who is officially charged with breach of trust and embezzling 103.4 billion won in company funds, some for personal use, and for incurring losses at group companies by forcing them to support weaker affiliates.

- Jun. 28, 2006: Chung is released on $1 million bail.

- January 16, 2007: Prosecutors demand a six-year jail term for Chung.

- February 5, 2007: Chung is found guilty of breach of trust and embezzling company funds and sentenced to three years in jail.

- February 12, 2007: Prosecutors and Chung appeal the three-year jail sentence.

- Jun. 19, 2007: Prosecutors seek to double the jail sentence for Chung to 6 years.

- September 6, 2007: South Korea's appeals court upholds the lower court conviction and hands Chung a 3-year jail term suspended for 5 years.

Slashdot IS social media, which is why NSA and GCHQ created a fake Slashdot to hack into a Belgian Telecom company.

You dirty terrorists, you! Bad Slashdot! BAD!

Seriously, though, this is beyond belief and beyond the pale. Where do they get these morons? Most of these people are guilty of perjury (at best) and outright conflict of interests and gross violations of basic human rights at worst.

When is this going to stop and when are we going to get rid of these idiots? Where is Senator Franck Church when we need him?

If by 'wealth' we mean 'earthquakes' then yes, Ohio has gotten some wealth. http://time.com/60363/fracking... http://www.reuters.com/article...

"The idea that all these people are going to vote and have an opinion about subjects that are increasingly complex - where what seems, you might think the easy answer [is] not the real answer. It's a very interesting problem. ref

"The EU and India are currently negotiating a free-trade agreement, which campaigners say will restrict India's ability to produce anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, preventing the world's poor from accessing cheap drugs for their treatment." ref

Except, those GMO plants often require higher levels of herbicides and pesticides

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

But after 20 years of GMO products, and absolutely no significantly measurable negative ecological/human impacts,

Whoa nellie! That's not exactly true.

In areas where Roundup-ready corn has established hegemony, such massive quantities of pesticides have to be used that half a dozen studies have shown sick people with high concentrations of those pesticides in their internal organs.

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

There is actually a growing body of scientific literature that raises questions about the direct safety of GMOs. Any scientist who publishes such research will have his funding pulled, have donors start contacting his department to try to get him fired, right on up to death threats (and there's even some evidence that those threats have been acted upon in a few cases). Anyone who posts links to such research will be drowned in a sea of astroturf butthurt like you've never seen before, by people whose only comments on the internet ever have been in support of GMOs.

Most Buddhists would strongly disagree with you.

But they won't kill you over it.

Or more accurately, like most other religious followers, the majority of Buddhists won't kill you for it. Like every religion, it has followers who are willing to kill for their beliefs - Special Report: Buddhist monks incite Muslim killings in Myanmar

Some types of mutation are fantastically unlikely

Yep, that's all true, but there are other options, possibly no less scary.

This virus is well established in humans now in this outbreak, whereas before it was mostly a zoonosis (caught from animals). Mutations will now be being selected by their efficacy in prospering in us, not in the original host(s).

Some scientists believe this is already happening, we know it is mutating and there is evidence that it is mutating to become more infectious, to us: http://www.businessinsider.in/...

If it is true that viral loads are coming up earlier and higher than before, then it could be shedding before symptoms. Wouldn't be entirely surprising - containing it through hazmat-after-symptoms will probably select for strains that infect before symptoms. That would screw up all our containment measures rather well. Even if it just accelerates symptoms it could get a lot harder to contain - if first symptoms are a fever _and_ the infected is monitoring and gets themselves straight into care, further infection can be limited, but if first symptoms are fever and projectile vomiting you have much more of a problem.

All that said, scariest thing to me is that this is an African zoonosis that hasn't been out of Africa before except in the lab. We have no idea what hosts it may find in the non-African animal population, should it get the opportunity. If it finds an easy first-world reservoir host (maybe it likes our bats, or our foxes, or our rats) then it will become endemic, rapidly. Endemic ebola (in the absence of vaccine or cure) will be a game changer for 1st world medicine - think about every fever case to be isolated and treated using hazmat until tested negative (probably twice X days apart). Africa's health system, such as it is, is already feeling that pain - Ebola may well kill (already) more people via malaria than it does directly: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Egalitarianism

Wage gap myth:

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

Majors by Gender: Is It Bias or the Major that Determines Future Pay?

There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth

Gender pay gap is not what activists claim

Equal pay statistics are bogus because they don’t compare like with like

Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die

The Wage Gap Myth

Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

The pay inequality myth: Women are more equal than you think

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

Share of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low

Women In Tech Make More Money And Land Better Jobs Than Men

Female U.S. corporate directors out-earn men: study

Female CEOs outearned men in 2009.

Women between ages 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single women between 22 and 30 years old earn an average of $27,000 a year. That’s 8% more than comparable men.

Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Young Women’s Pay Exceeds Male Peers

The 15 Jobs Where Women Earn More Than Men

Women aged between 22 and 29 earn over £10 per hour on average, compared to men their same age who earn just under this amount.

Young women now earn more than men in UK

lol, you modded me down and then replied anon? You truly are a coward aren't you?

http://www.reuters.com/article...
Even cowards can use Google.
We are steeling trade secrets and giving them to corporations friendly to the US government. We're doing exactly the same thing China is doing, just on a much much larger scale.

Yeah, good luck with that. The last thing I saw on TV was people from her plane made hops to at least four states.

The President should have just ordered people with passports and travel stamps from these countries to not be allowed to enter the US.

A travel ban would kill more people than Ebola ever would.

Due to western workers refusing to travel to certain countries in Africa because of Ebola, the Cocoa crop has already been threatened:
http://www.reuters.com/article...

There are also travel bans between those countries. Because of that, the migrant workers that harvest them will have no work for the year. No income. Many will starve to death. MORE than would have been killed by Ebola. As bad as dieing from Ebola is, Starvation is worse.

Panic will always kill more people than the disease. Think critically before you demand action. The cable news networks are reveling in the profit they are making off of your panic.

U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fusion reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle.

OMGWTFROFLOLBBQ! Reuters doesn't have a science correspondent. I didn't know they were headquartered in Texas.

The second link brings up Solyndra and government loan guarantees.
The author conveniently leaves out the fact that Solyndra's failure was a direct result of China dumping solar panels onto the market.

The USA and China have been fighting a slow motion battle at the World Trade Organization over solar subsidies and tariffs.

In 2012, the USA slapped billions in tariffs on Chinese products.
In 2014, the WTO said that the USA overstepped with its tariffs.
Then the Chinese appealed the WTO ruling even though it was in their favor.

Solyndra's failure and the ensuing finger pointing led to $14+ billion in tariffs, over 2 years, on Chinese products.
All because of a $535 million federal loan that didn't pay off.

You are Netflix Customer
You are Verizon FIOS Customer
You are already paying for their service (both sides).

You are a potential customer for Verizon's (in-house) streaming offerings.
Hence the conflict between Verizon and Netflix.

Verizon owned 65% of the now-defunct Redbox Instant.
Speculation is that the Redbox Instant team will be retasked to work on Verizon's new digital video service.

All is well. Or the screen was just blanked by WiFi.

Hmmm?

Actually there's a lot of people who want to get out of the US. The Southwest seems to have the most so it's not just a Texas thing.

FYI the US gets the least bang for the healthcare dollar so don't be so hasty to judge crappy countries in AIDS-ville on that metric alone.

There is no law forcing scientists to predict earth quakes or volcanic eruptions ... so, how smart was your remark?

It was a reference to this story where Italy put 7 people, including 6 scientists, in prison for manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake. There is no law forcing scientists to predict earthquakes or volcanic eruptions in Japan, but there is in Italy.

It was covered here on Slashdot. Try to keep up.