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Literally not what he said.

Of course like so many of his tweets, this one was also wrong, that the NFL has no preferential status..

Actually they do, just one order removed in that it applies to all stadiums for all sports. In fact, multiple republicans have gone on the record that they wanted to repeal it because of the police brutality protests (democrats want to scrap it because its corporate welfare).

But, surprise, surprise, privately trump wanted to keep the subsidy and got it stripped from the final version of the gop taxscam. The fact that he's taken millions from NFL team owners probably has something to do with that. Stir up the racist base in public and then give handjobs to the rich in the backroom. Plutopopulism!

I noticed in the reuters report the following :

“As the incident unfolded, a 28-year-old male opened the front screen door and stood in the doorway or just outside that doorway,” he said. “Officers gave him several verbal commands to put his hands up and walk towards them.”

A police officer opened fire, shooting once, after the man quickly raised his hands and appeared to point a weapon at the officers, Livingston said.

I wonder if any body / dash cams were working...

Link :
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

France still plans to reduce nuclear to 50% - just not already by 2025 as planned by the old government.

http://www.mining-journal.com/...

While France exports a huge amount of electricity, this is mostly cheap surplus electricity at times of low demand. At times of high demand or many plants are down (e.g. during heat wave), it often critically depends on imports. In contrast, in the last years this was never the case for Germany.

http://energypost.eu/france-ca...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

But even in total, Germany is about to overtake France as the biggest electricity exporter - especially with all the trouble France had with its nuclear plants this year.

http://www.worldstopexports.co...
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/...
https://www.platts.com/latest-...

It was Obama who degraded the dignity and respect of America's foreign services when he declared that Raymond Davis, CIA, Blackwater contractor James Bond wannabe, a diplomat entitled to the highest level of diplomatic immunity after he killed two Pakistani citizens with an illegal gun, thus severely damaging diplomatic relations with that country

I'm no fan of Obama but that was the right thing to do. You can't hand US citizens over to the ISI for acting in US interests. It sends the wrong message. The ISI need to know that the US is the dominant partner in the dysfunctional US Pakistan relationship.

The Syrian stuff was a fiasco though - the US should never have been backing a bunch of Islamist so called moderates against Assad when it was clear if he fell most of the country would end up being run be ISIS/Al Qaeda types. And regardless of what policy you pursue you need to be consistent. Saying chemical weapons use was a red line and then not enforcing perversely sent a message that chemical weapons use was fine.

And I think in retrospect the US and EU played a very bad role in Ukraine - they supported people who wanted to join the EU customs union which meant that it wouldn't join the Russian one because customs unions, unlike free trade areas, are exclusive.

Oddly enough BREXIT provides a good solution to this. The UK wants tariff free trade but not open borders and it wants to be able to sign free trade agreements with non EU countries. A UK/EU free trade agreement could be used as a template for EU free trade agreements with Ukraine and Turkey, both countries the EU can't agree to allow into its single market which requires free movement of people and joining the customs union.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The future post BREXIT is more glorious than you can possibly imagine. Needless to say Obama opposed it.

Bullshitters might be attracted to bullshitters - they might be betting on Elizabeth Holmes. She was able to fleece so many people once before, making a lot of people a lot of money, they might be betting on her abilities again. I mean look back at the year 2000 stock bubble and the 2008 housing bubble. There were many pundits screaming buy! buy! buy! (Jim Cramer, Abby Joseph Cohen, and others) and they suffered no significant negative consequence.

Of course, it's not hard to create an updraft in a stock ("Surely these big money types know something we don't! Get in before it's too late!") that is awash in liquidity injected by central banks around the world operating from the same playbook. There may even be a formula for it (in the context of a high liquidity market, $takeoff_velocity = $amount_injected/$market_cap).

Western Union pivoted into the crime industry. "Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586 million" "Western Union, which has over half a million locations in more than 200 countries, admitted “to aiding and abetting wire fraud” by allowing scammers to process transactions, even when the company realized its agents were helping scammers avoid detection, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission said in statements." https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Just in the last day or two Toyota has announced a big move towards batteries. Not that they are abandoning hydrogen, but they are going to be making quite a few battery EVs now.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The Ford Nucleon was a real concept car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also, nuclear-powered (radiothermal generator) pacemakers were installed in the 1970s - some are still in use today. It might seem like a joke, but that was extremely reliable tech and saved the patient more surgeries to replace batteries or the pacemaker in the future...

https://uk.reuters.com/article...

Well, I just can't understand how most of Europe and Canada do it without actually going bankrupt.

The same way the US pays for it's military. By borrowing and going into debt.

Not everybody. Some countries behave like rational adults and show some discipline with their finances.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Single-payer would bankrupt the country.

Total unsubstantiated nonsense. How is it that every other major country in the world has universal healthcare without being bankrupt? Norway has completely socialized healthcare, yet somehow they have very low national debt as a fraction of GDP. Maybe it's because they manage their finances like rational adults, rather than instituting $1.5T in tax cuts to the wealthy in the midst of an economy that's already thriving...

Some citations:
https://www.theatlantic.com/in...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

I'd like to see laws on the books that would require new commercial developments to include solar+battery for each housing unit.

This is one of the dumbest things we could do. In order to make a real change, alternative energy HAS TO ACTUALLY MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE.

It only sounds dumb if you keep ignoring the elephant in the room: external costs.

The economic fact of the matter is, fossil fuels cost us a lot more than the sticker price, and not only in nebulous future climate costs but in real, measurable damage to our health. US coal alone costs $300-500 billion a year, easily doubling the wholesale cost. When you look at the whole picture, it actually made economic sense to get off fossil fuels a long time ago, and what doesn't make sense is why people keep pretending these costs don't exist.

Since it's abundantly clear that the energy market is in no hurry to factor these external costs into their prices, the issue has to be forced - ideally by government evaluating full, levelised costs for all the alternatives then applying a suitable market correction (regulatory mandate, carbon price, cap & trade, whatever suits your politics), or the hard way - let the problem keep getting worse until the pain can no longer be ignored, and hope that the alternatives aren't too unattractive.

We've done exactly this in any number of other industries (sulphur emissions cone to mind), but the energy industry has been pushing back extra hard.

Credit card delinquency is above 2%. And a lot of people will take the "get rich quick" schemes that are being pushed as BTC. It's going to be an ugly bubble pop for a lot of people... Yeah, they're stupid for buying on credit (which they probably cannot afford; I know if I maxed out all my credit cards I would have a hard time paying the minimums), but it's going to happen. And over-leveraged with credit cards is like margin at your broker - you're borrowing money you don't have, to make a bet you think will win.

Yes, the cabal of major ISPs (AT&T/Comcast/Verizon) are prohibited from carving the internet into a cable like system with Net Neutrality, preventing them from changing you by the "station", or in this case, site. Additionally, they want be able to develop "profiles" of your surfing habits and sell them to marketers without your knowledge or permission.
Repealing NN is an estimated $8B dollar gimme to the cabal.
To achieve their aim, they have peppered congress with $101M in gravy to ensure their victory.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
Of course, unlike cable providers, ISP's do not have to license or bid for content for rebroadcast. We as end users are already paying for content (netflix/prime/hulu subscriptions) and for the connections. Remember the definition of ISP (Internet Service Provider?), Despite record profits, that model isn't good enough for them:
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
No matter what the people think, or who says it, NN will be repealed. may god have mercy on their souls and our check books.

Here's more information on HomeKit versus Alexa.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

It seems many of the formerly planned coal plants have been suspended or cancelled.

The Reuters report about this incident is dated March 10, 2016. It refers to the heist happening "last month", so sometime in February, 2016.

Duterte's presidency didn't start until June 30, 2016.

So as you can see, this incident happened well before Duterte took over as president.

Why your comment has been modded to "3, Insightful", I cannot fathom. Your comment is total junk.

But not by acting on a whim. You did read the post, right? Because that claim is a scurrilously false one. The actions being taken are after a long period of consideration and reflection, not a sudden burst of intemperate hysteria.

I know the post had a trollish tone to it, but that claim is not false.

It is false, because it assumes that the EU's decisions are based on a whim, when instead, their meeting was documented and you can read the transcript yourself. Anything but a whim. It might not be what you desire, you might disagree with them, but being accurate in your criticisms is nonetheless important.

The EU is practically expecting social media to delete this content almost before it is even posted. Explain to me, how the fuck are you supposed to do that without acting on a whim?

I believe your understanding of the expectations of the EU are in error, but I'll focus one your understanding of what acting on a whim is, which is the root of the false claim. If you want to be bothered by concerns that the EU is expecting action that is overly hasty, or presumptuous, that is one thing, but that is not something properly described as acting on a whim.

You don't do it to "win" a game. You do it to prevent the destruction that will result.

And how exactly is that supposed to work in this case?

I believe you'll want to read the article or the EU's press release or the remarks by the commissioners.

Right now, they are not entirely committed to a particular course of action, so I would not say they are in the position of having an "exact" methodology adopted. Which is fair, since they are endeavoring to proceed with deliberation.

Indeed, extremists are documented liars and frauds, whose desire to push a narrative isn't burdened by a concern to be truthful, or even appear truthful.

No, not necessarily. There are a lot of people out there who are just plain stupid. Alex Jones actually eats his own horse shit, for example.

Alex Jones is a prime example of someone who by his own admission, isn't burdened by a concern to be truthful, or even appear truthful, so I wouldn't recommend him as a counter-example, but no, I wasn't saying they were necessarily such, let alone exclusively, I merely noted it as a quality they can possess on your mention of the subject.

Well, no, you're looking for a "plain and simple" cause is unfortunately mistaken, it isn't just echo chambers, though they are a problem, there is a more pernicious nature to the problems, as even if you have exposure, the capacity for self-deluding deception remains, still, I think we can hope for more, and work at it. Sure, it won't be easy. But again, who promised you it would be easy?

We're speaking in the context of social media here, and yes, it pretty much comes down to echo chambers.

I believe that's a mistaken myopia, as it doesn't get down to the foundation of the problem which extends beyond the context of social media.

When you're talking about the internet at large, then yes, you can expand well beyond that, including other media, like television.

Well, for me, it's not a matter of expansion, it's a matter of recognizing that this is nothing new under the sun.

"Appleâ(TM)s Irish tax arrangements have allowed it to pay tax at a rate of 3.8 percent on $200 billion of overseas profits"

From this article.

So that is 7.6 *billion* dollars in taxes that Apple has paid to the EU in taxes.

Not to mention, that for every expensive Apple device sells, the EU is of course collecting a tax of taxes (VAT) atop that as well. All just because Apple has physically located a store there. The taxes collected alone on sales must be many more billions.

Again, just for Apple having a store located in that country or city.

Do you seriously think the tiny impact of Apple having a store in those countries is not more than offset by the taxes already paid? Apple has paid for roads, security, and far more out of the very large amount of money Apple has collected and paid in taxes.

It's legal: You said so when it was Obama tapping Trump. It will be legal when it's Trump tapping Warren.

The difference is that Warren isn't a traitor.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

In practice, you can also work for your Bitcoin. There aren't a lot of jobs yet that pay in Bitcoin, but more will likely be coming:

https://www.google.com/search?...

And, yeah, this will likely be used a lot by people wanting to avoid income tax. Why should people in Italy, Germany, and France have all the fun?

I am honestly asking why should this person be prohibited from purchasing the company? If your argument is based on morality then perhaps you should reexamine the situation.

They likely believe he shouldn't be able to buy them because Thiel isn't left wing therefor can't keep that same level of muckracking that they'd been doing for years. It was only a matter of time before Gawker managed to commit suduko anyway.

The writing was already on the wall for that, the entire buy-up by univision was funny though, especially when all the reporters who say they're bloggers, then claim they're reporters when convenient started quitting because univision required actual ethical standards out of them. And now in this whole situation univision is trying to sell off chunks of what they bought from Gawker because they're money losers.

With the current state of the ad market, and adpocolypse 2.0 now on the horizon? If Thiel is offering money, they'd better get in a head of this ad crash. If you didn't hear anything on it, even more companies are pulling ads from youtube, google, adwords, and other associated stuff. Why? Because their ads were appearing next to the apparent pedofarming videos that were targeted at children. See the elsagate stuff if you really want to know, fair warning, it's massively fucked up. Or you can watch/listen this vid from mundanematt bout 12mins long.

It has been speculated that perhaps the charger connector can't handle any more power and they wanted people who bought the original Surface to be able to use their chargers.

Thing is that makes no sense - it's not like the Surface devices sold all that well and neither did the Surface Book and if you're making something like a Surface device or a Macbook you shouldn't worry about back compatibility - the device only has to work with the charger it comes with.

Apple have changed their charger port a fair few times - MagSafe 1, MagSafe 2 and now USB C and it's pretty clear that Surface is Microsoft's latest attempt at copying Apple's misfeatures in order to compete with them. Completely missing the point that people put up with Apple's misfeatures because want to run OS-X and Apple is the sole hardware vendor. It's not like anyone actually likes them.

I think they just decided to save a few bucks by not redesigning the connector so they could charge the battery in worst case power usage.

Just because some of what the government does is a money and power grab does not mean that all of them are.

Just like replacing coal and nuclear with wind and solar is not a "power grab". You contradicted your own thesis.

Can we let the market and not the government decide that?

Has it ever occurred to you how much money is SAVED by regulation? Do you really think that if TEPCO and Japan's government had to do it all over again, that they wouldn't have spent a few hundred million on a higher seawall and better backups instead of a few hundred BILLION cleaning up up a disaster?

But even if you eliminated regulations and let every nuclear Dr. Nick build a plant, nuclear power would never be cost effective because of the costs of plant decommission and waste storage.

They agreed to inspections as a trade for civilian nuclear power technology. They've been caught violating this agreement several times and a report from 2015 shows them to be uncooperative at best in holding up their end on openness of their civil nuclear power program. If they want civil nuclear power so badly then they are going the wrong way about it.

That's Trump's spin on it, which is naturally bullshit. Not only have they been in compliance, the "deal" despite being hailed as Obama being the peacemaker was in fact Obama being a neocon warmonger.

Again: both the CIA and Mossad have said for 15 years that Iran has had no nuclear weapons program, but Obama spent years illegally threatening Iran with military force for weapons he knew Iran was not trying to obtain. He also crashed their economy with sanctions, blackmailed Iran with its own money, and if he didn't sign off on the CIA murdering Iran's nuclear scientists in terrorist attacks, he knows who did.

You want to look at a country in flagrant violation of the NPT, look in the mirror as the U.S. has not only been violating the disarmament provisions of the treaty, it's spending a trillion dollars to upgrade its own nuclear arsenal.

I don't care if they aren't building nuclear weapons. So long as they chant "death to America" in their parliament I see no reason for any Western nation to trade with them. That counts double for anything of military value.

Are you a hypocrite of Biblical proportions or just ignorant? Serious question. The United States overthrew Iran's government in '53, backed a torture-loving dictator for decades, backed Iraq when it invaded Iran (and used chemical weapons in the process), shot down an Iranian passenger plane murdering all aboard, invaded two countries on Iran's border for bullshit reasons, and then engaged in Obama's neocon warmongering as mentioned above.

Iranians have a very, very long list of perfectly legitimate reasons to resent the United States.

North Korea has nuclear weapons because the nation is run by an increasingly paranoid group of little dictators.

Since you dodged the facts I'll just copy and paste them again:

1) they remember the U.S. flattening all of their cities and killing millions of Koreans, even if your American Exceptionalist ass does not
2) the United States has been practicing invasions of North Korea every year since the 90's - look up Foal Eagle
3) Insurance against regime change - American Exceptionalists may have forgotten that the Iraq, Libya and Syria wars have all been based on total bullshit, but they haven't

It's not paranoia when the U.S. is literally out to get you.

I see, you equate a policy of issuing licenses as lifting all regulation completely.

I see you're trying t

No, it didn't. We have the email. We have a Russian operative asking Jr. if he was interested in dirt about the Clintons. We have Jr. responding to the email "I love it".

The e-mail with Jr. was not from a Russian operative.

What I know is that Trump's campaign at least conspired with an unfriendly foreign power to affect election results.

But they didn't conspire and it didn't affect the election results.

No, we're not. Only nutjobs are going down that path. Seriously can you people do anything greater than regurgitate Fox news? It's just sad at this point.

Congress are nut jobs ?

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

You must just watch CNN.

Let's see. Increase tax burden massively for grad students. So what else do we have? Well, we've got a tax break for private jet owners added in http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/360785-senate-tax-bill-includes-tax-break-for-private-jets (Note that The Hill is a general news site related to Washington politics, generally pretty non-partisan). We've got a removal of the tax deduction for state and local taxes https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-local/u-s-towns-cities-fear-taxpayer-revolt-if-republicans-kill-deduction-idUSKBN1DH01D, which is both of quesitonable constitutionality due to the double taxation, screwing over specifically the people in "blue" states which generally have higher state taxes, and harming disproportionately people in middle income brackets. So, yes, please tell Snotnose above or me what sources we should be looking at to see what is wrong about their description. What information that we are not seeing in our echo chamber should change our viewpoint?

Though a free country can't ban them, we do have to be aware of these efforts and we can't base any actual decisions on the "sentiment" of social networks and blogs. Because the enemy — such as Russia — really does make massive use of these methods, paying loony activists and saturating twitter et al with comments by both human trolls and outright robots.

And whereas the old USSR was only relying on Left-leaning movements abroad, Putin is happy to use everyone. In France, for example, it is the Right that's on his payroll, whereas in Germany — the Left, even if the common media wouldn't admit that, singling out individual assholes, rather than entire movements it finds sympathetic.

To be fair, there was one actual interview in which (then) NASA Administrator Bolden was quoted saying that NASA needed to "find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering". However, a day later the White House corrected this to say that this was "not the task of NASA."

"A story about Louis C.K.

That's an example of a story that benefits from an image. This is about stories where the image adds nothing (or very little). For example, the story about Sony linked in the summary:

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

How many stories about the stock market feature a photo of the bull statue? What information or context does that supply to the reader? I would say none.

Why do you ruin your nice rumination about American astronauts by raising divisive McCarthyist drivel over people you don't like? Was Roy Holladay who just died in a plane crash one of those "sports" players who "disrespect our nation"? If you truly love those heroes of your youth, you'd direct your energy toward the politicians who've been scrapping and starving the space program since Nixon, canceling the Apollo mission that would have put Gordon's feet on the moon. It took politicians with guts to funnel all that money into what became Mercury and Gemini, guts to deal with setbacks like scores of test pilots dead, the Apollo 1 disaster, but keep selling the program as essential to the USA. Stop looking for blame in "other people" who supposedly "disrespect our nation", realize if you want America really great again,like in Space, someone's gotta PAY for it, starting with YOU. Not some other guy, YOU. I'd be willing to pay a nickel more per gallon of gas to get us to the moon again... pay a hefty tax on guns and ammunition to get us to Mars... Would you? or would you just call that more wasteful government spending? 'cause the commie Chinese are happily spending on Space, and they will get to the moon, and they will get to Mars, because all they have to do is give the order and their people gotta get to it. The only question is whether the USA is up there too, and the difference will be if US citizens are either willing, or too damn cheap and self-centered, to pay the price it takes to get there, and part of that price is getting along with people who might not agree with you on every damn thing.

Btw, Netherlands will hold a referendum on this new surveillance law, so Mozilla's action is warranted https://www.reuters.com/articl...

GP's post is slightly inaccurate in that China haven't cancelled all of their plants, but they have massively scaled back. In the meantime Trump has pulled us Out of the Paris Accord and is actively planning To ramp up coal use.

Tell me again which country is the bad actor?

I am *not* dead wrong. Russia has a terrible position. They're no Soviet Union. They're surrounded, where are they going to go?

Uhh, Crimea, for a start? They have Syria, too.

The US won't allow anything to happen to its captive vassal states in Europe.

I think the people of Ukraine would disagree with you on that.

The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia

So far, they've been strong enough to impose some sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine and the taking of Crimea. But it's kinda over... nobody believes Russia is going to just pack up and leave. Re-draw the maps: Crimea is now part of the Russian Federation.

Don't fall for the old "blame the dirty foreigners" line, it's the oldest trick in the book.

Unless the dirty foreigners are actually playing dirty. They play dirty in Ukraine, they play dirty in Syria. They play dirty on the high seas. They have vast oil wealth, hold real estate interests worldwide, and maintain the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, which Putin said (over dinner) could destroy America in a half-hour or less.

And then there's that whole internet hacking thing. If the shoe fits, wear it.

I am *not* dead wrong. Russia has a terrible position. They're no Soviet Union. They're surrounded, where are they going to go?

Uhh, Crimea, for a start? They have Syria, too.

The US won't allow anything to happen to its captive vassal states in Europe.

I think the people of Ukraine would disagree with you on that.

The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia

So far, they've been strong enough to impose some sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine and the taking of Crimea. But it's kinda over... nobody believes Russia is going to just pack up and leave. Re-draw the maps: Crimea is now part of the Russian Federation.

Don't fall for the old "blame the dirty foreigners" line, it's the oldest trick in the book.

Unless the dirty foreigners are actually playing dirty. They play dirty in Ukraine, they play dirty in Syria. They play dirty on the high seas. They have vast oil wealth, hold real estate interests worldwide, and maintain the largest nuclear stockpile in the world, which Putin said (over dinner) could destroy America in a half-hour or less.

And then there's that whole internet hacking thing. If the shoe fits, wear it.

Yeah, that's what people with zero understanding of running a business say. Most executives I've run across are easily worth more than what they're paid, and very few aren't. Just as a case in point:

https://aflcio.org/paywatch/TM...

The AFL-CIO thinks it's terrible that John Legere makes 533 times more than the line workers. But here's why he gets paid what he gets paid: He turned that carrier around from hemorrhaging customers to being the fastest growing carrier within three years, overtaking Sprint as the #3 carrier in the process.

Besides that, because of him, my phone bill has seen both a 50% reduction in cost and a massive increase in quality of service. The same can be said of non T-Mobile customers. When Verizon started losing subscribers for the first time in over a decade and kept doing so for several quarters, they abandoned their line of "customers don't want unlimited data" to offering unlimited data.

AFL-CIO is welcome to suck my balls. And the CWA union can suck my balls as well. It's because of them that Centurylink's employees are lazy as fuck and have made phone service here really turn to shit. I kid you not, Centurylink's employees, as per union rules, are required to bring a lawn chair and an umbrella to their work sites.

I personally have avoided working for unionized companies not only because I would have yet another boss to answer to, but I really don't want to have money taken out of my paycheck to fatten up some mafia boss that ultimately doesn't do anything for me other than pretend he's looking out for my best interests. (Not to mention union executives everywhere make well over 6 figures...tell me...why am I supposed to hate the CEO's pay, but not theirs?)

http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-n...
http://nlpc.org/2016/02/01/top...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's one big giant bubble and when it bursts, who knows what financial ruin will face us.

That's what people were saying when XBT first reached $1,000 back in December 2013. Nothing to worry about at all.

Bubbles only really happen when people buy things with little to no intrinsic value for purely speculative reasons. If this were really a bubble you would have a sensational rise in price of XBT. What's more the price would have been largely unresponsive to news of increasing moves to regulate or outright ban it by various governments around the world.

So yeah, just go ahead and plow all your life-savings into XBT ... it's as safe as silver!

When Apple tried to use these silly design patents in the UK courts the judge gave one of my favourite rulings:-

Samsung wins court case against Apple because it's "not as cool"

If Apple appealed the ruling would they be saying Apple was not "cool".

Interesting, that is 2 weeks after Symantec announces the opposite.
http://www.reuters.com/article...

It is hard to say who is right and who is wrong.
(It is not obvious that showing the source to some groups is a good thing, as it may increase the risks for people not included into those groups)

Solar is one of the cheapest forms of energy, one of the few that is subsidy free in the UK, compete with battery storage. https://uk.reuters.com/article...

The battery isn't a UPS, it's for smoothing the output as the wind fluctuates slightly. It also gives them some capability to meet short term peaks, which are very profitable.

FUD... It was given BEFORE and revoked AFTER.

It hasn't been revoked. It's been temporarily suspended.

IRS puts Equifax contract on hold during security review

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has temporarily suspended a contract worth more than $7 million it recently awarded to Equifax Inc following a security issue with the beleaguered credit reporting agency’s website on Thursday.

wow. Another idiot who knows NOTHING about this issue, but will speak about it at length.
Here, lets go to the TRIVIAL lies of yours. The Chinese gov, the CHinese oil companies, AND their academia say that they have pretty much hit peak oil and expect it to drop QUICKLY. They have exactly 3 choices which is 1) to militarily fight for ocean bottom that does not belong to them from the nations that I mentioned before, 2) import a lot more, which they are growing their imports, but absolutely do NOT want to do so, and 3) move off oil over to coal with EVs. The later is what the CHinese gov wants.
So, you claim that CHina is burning less coal, that new plants are replacing old one, and that they have turned on all of the pollution controls. Ok. Assume that is true? Then why is pollution getting WORSE, not better? about 85% of China's visible pollution comes from their coal plants and their not using pollution controls. If coal use REALLY dropped, then the air would actually clean up WRT all pollutions. If pollution control was turned on, then visible pollution will drop (regular unseen pollution such as SOx, NOx, etc would continue ). If new plants were replacing the old ones, then again, TOTAL pollution would drop. BUT, that is not the case
for the last couple of year, pollution improved slightly, but that was due to their economy dropping on the industrial side. Now it is picking up as the idiots in Europe try to cozy up to them like they did with Hitler
2016, along with 2017, saw major increases.
And here.

New plants are not being built and what few are simply replacing old ones?
Nope. Only the idiots make such wild claims.
China is the largest builder of new coal plants. Much of that will still go into china, but China continues to push this all over the world, in spite of their claiming to be on-board with paris accord. As was pointed out, Trump talks about restoring coal to America, but the fact is, that unless he gets MAJOR subsidies for coal, which has nearly zero chance of passage, we will not be building anything new. In fact, America's will continue to drop.

As to your personal hatred of America, whatever. Go live in China, Russia, North Korea, etc. Please, go have a good time.
But claiming that America is polluting the world, is total BS. We emit no mercury of any amount. It is Canada, Australia, Europe India, Russia and esp China that do all that.
SOX/NOx? America emits a fraction of that.
And as has been shown by OCO2, America's emission of CO2 is about right on to what we claim, while Europe's, South Korea, Japan's, China, etc are MUCH HIGHER. And for the last decade, America has dropped the most CO2 emission of all nations.

They aren't building 700 coal plants. There were plans for to to 700, but they have largely stopped approving them now so most won't ever get started.

http://mobile.reuters.com/arti...
https://unearthed.greenpeace.o...

Similarly all new nuclear approvals were stopped in 2011 after Fukushima. The only ones being built were approved before then.

Meanwhile the germans see no reason to warn about Kaspersky.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

I mean, the Russians are decades ahead in propaganda warfare, they own the US president, they only need a tiny budget to subvert US elections , they control everyone's computers through AVs , and Germany is in denial! It's a new Red Dawn I'm tellin ya!

Right, I bet the shareholders are just lining up to demand that Google gets a new CEO after a disastrous 29% increase in profits last year. Clearly Google is dying and in need of a rockstar CEO to save them. I hear Melissa Mayer is available.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Flynn is a criminal, noted even before Trump appointed him for "Flynn facts", complete utter falsehoods.
the fact that he invented stories to justify criminal acts by NSA simply demonstrates you have NO IDEA what you are talking about
Flynn admitting he is a paid agent of a foreign power simply seals the deal, he belongs in a prison cell along with the orange-orangutan

what happens when one loses control, and plows into my house? Who covers that? And how should that happen?

Bottom line the same insurance that would cover a human drier that "loses control".

Structural failure of a component responsible for maintaining control of the car is one. Failure of a sensor. A software bug.

While you may find it interesting to cherry pick my argument, I'll just leave this link here: https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The driver was speeding and ignoring warnings, and attempting to use autopilot as autonomy - they are not remotely the same thing - but something tells me that there will be millions to be made in profit for the family.

The point is in this case, especially where the driver of the car is involved, is that with totally autonomous cars, the driver will by definition not be liable. You cannot be liable for a process that you are not involved in.

This is not how our society runs. Ever notice how disappointed people are if there is an accident, and the talking head notes at the end - "No charges have been filed"? If you go to that piece of shit page, which I suspect was designed by the same people who created "Ban Bossy", it is propaganda that old Adolf would have blushed at. Amazing how these people know! that without evidence, that autonomy is a dead lock to allow us a utopian future of safety, because as they say - "Because we should all get home safe".

tl;dr version If autonomy is as promoted, the only person involved that doesn't need liability insurance is the driver.

I'm perfectly willing to believe, the authors of the Symantec software and the owners of the company want to have to provide a good anti-virus and do not want to cooperate with United States' spies. But the decision may not be up to them — US government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries.

Yes, Russian government has some such instruments as well — just pick, who you trust more...

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

https://www.muckrock.com/news/...

https://www.dailykos.com/stori...

> Russian government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries.

Pshaw! Russia doesn't have anything on the US in that regard.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-rsa/exclusive-secret-contract-tied-nsa-and-security-industry-pioneer-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220

As a key part of a campaign to embed encryption software that it could crack into widely used computer products, the U.S. National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry, Reuters has learned.

And don't forget all those US anti-virus firms that reluctantly updated their products to scan and remove the Sony rootkit DRM shit only after there was a public pressure and class action suits filed.

And then there the security firm of HBGary that on the one hand provided a installable module to the Mcafee security suite to detect rooktkits, and on the other worked on a project called Magenta: a windows rootkit that was designed to be undetectable and impossible to remove that would be marketed and sold to government intel agencies.

And then there is allegations about OpenBSD having some network code that contained exploitable weaknesses to backdoor those systems. Purportedly a company that provided routinely contributed networking code to the BSD kernel was paid by the FBI. Theo confirmed that the exploitable code had been part of the kernel at one time,but was no longer. He didn't comment on possible FBI connection since there was only allegations from one developer and no other evidence. But it not hard to believe that companies would be paid by the government to inject backdoors into opensource projects. Red Hat, IBM, HP, etc., etc,. all have large military contracts with the US government. And the Snowden files had shown that Red Hat is the OS of choice for the NSA.

I seriously doubt the Russians have anywhere near the means to get Russian companies to cooperate like the US does on US companies

"Also note that when government picks winners and losers, government tends to do a stupid job. Consider the Obama administration loans to Solyndra... a total debacle."

Except that Solyndra wasn't a case of the government picking winners and losers. Solyndra was only one of many companies to use that program, and the vast majority were successful. The program was intended to stimulate the industry as a whole, and it did exactly that, while actually turning a profit - even considering the not-insignificant losses incurred by lending to Solyndra.

There are also the 3 main Western news agencies, AFP, AP and Reuters.