Slashdot Mirror

Are you a Russian propagandist or just ignorant of the facts?

Reuter's:

U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia interfered in the election to try to help Trump defeat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton through a campaign of hacking and releasing embarrassing emails, and disseminating propaganda via social media to discredit her campaign.

[Republican Chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee] Burr said the committee agreed with the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia had interfered.

Of course you'd reply as AC. You're still at the denial stage of grief. https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The British intelligence are our ALLIES, and have been for decades. Can't you tell the difference anymore, or more likely, will you just say anything that seems to support your point in the moment?

Here's the linked article: http://www.reuters.com/article...

I'm guessing that was a copy/paste error.

Did they even check? Obviously not.

Here's the actual article: http://www.reuters.com/article...

And thus, installed solar capacity can't be counted on to be there at any particular point in time and requires fossil fuel capacity as a backup.
Or you do what others do: you have a back up solar plant. Wow that was so simple again.
When was the last time that whole Africa was under clouds? Or whole USA?

Yeah, lets completely ignore the energy loss due to transmission. Europe hasn't been able to economically transmit electricity from solar power stations in Africa. That's changing through new power line technology and system upgrades. But if they can barely get energy to Europe from North Africa, what makes you think that they can transmit energy to the US?

http://blogs.worldbank.org/ene...

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

https://www.scientificamerican...

yeah, but the first target will be South Korea.

Besides, nobody agrees with you.

Are we on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea? Probably not ...

In South Korea, daily stresses outweigh North Korea missile worries

North Korea could go nuclear, but most South Koreans don't care

So settle down Sally, and don't get your "panties in a wad.

The new iteration is E-Loran.

The research, completed by the Department of Sociology at Queens College in New York, showed full-time female employees in their 20s surpassing same-age males in cities like Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas and New York.

In Dallas, these women earn 20 percent more than men, while in New York City they earn 17 percent more.

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

Is this enough to claim young men in Dallas and New York are being discriminated, or "it is more complicated"/

And even more complicated (the same source):

The study suggested those gains might be based on the fact that women get married later in cities than in rural areas. Women marry the latest in New York, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

The con artist has repeatedly praised his buddy Putin at every opportunity, even going so far as to apologize for Putin's military deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians in Syria, and Russia's support for the dictator Assad.

It is well known Putin doesn't like or tolerate dissent. In Crimea, which Russia stole from the Ukraine, Russia troops went door to door in the Tartar community and rounded up anyone who spoke out against the takeover. They shut down Tartar schools and the only Tartar radio station, and forbid the teaching of the Tartar language. Just recently, Russia jailed a Tartar leader because he led protests against the Russian invasion of Crimea.

Witness now in the U.S. what the con artist is trying to do. His fragile ego can't stand anyone saying a single bad word about him and so he does this. He's only following the lead of his buddy Putin.

That using the power of the government to go after people who exercise their First Amendment rights should even be an issue speaks volumes about this administration.

/ Are you retarded? The US government is going after violent thugs. How rosy must your glasses be to overlook every other act, but the speech.

The con artist has repeatedly praised his buddy Putin at every opportunity, even going so far as to apologize for Putin's military deliberately bombing hospitals and civilians in Syria, and Russia's support for the dictator Assad.

It is well known Putin doesn't like or tolerate dissent. In Crimea, which Russia stole from the Ukraine, Russia troops went door to door in the Tartar community and rounded up anyone who spoke out against the takeover. They shut down Tartar schools and the only Tartar radio station, and forbid the teaching of the Tartar language. Just recently, Russia jailed a Tartar leader because he led protests against the Russian invasion of Crimea.

Witness now in the U.S. what the con artist is trying to do. His fragile ego can't stand anyone saying a single bad word about him and so he does this. He's only following the lead of his buddy Putin.

That using the power of the government to go after people who exercise their First Amendment rights should even be an issue speaks volumes about this administration.

Well, good thing that UAE is investing in nuclear power.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Investing in nuclear power would allow UAE, or any nation, to reduce carbon output and still have power for their air conditioning. Someone might ask why not invest in solar power, especially for a nation with so much access to the sun. As the article I linked to points out UAE intends to invest in that as well, the plan is to get 50% from the sun and 50% from nuclear. I'm sure that such a plan would work well for sunny locations like UAE. For places with not so much sun, like Canada, they might want to lean more on nuclear power than solar.

https://www.thebalance.com/che...

Belarus estimates total losses of $235 billion. (Source: Chernobylâ(TM)s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts, The Chernobyl Forum: 2003-2005)

Other source:

Economic damage of the Chernobyl accident is estimated at $235 billion for 30 years on after the explosion, making up 32 national budgets as of 1985. Chernobyl disaster vastly damaged the agricultural sector of the Belarusian economy, which is worth over $700 million annually.

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

Japanâ(TM)s government on Friday nearly doubled its projections for costs related to the Fukushima nuclear disaster to 21.5 trillion yen ($188 billion), increasing pressure on Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) (9501.T) to step up reform and improve its performance.

Other source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/n...Â¥70-trillion-triple-governments-estimate-think-tank/

A private think tank says the total cost of the Fukushima disaster could reach Â¥70 trillion ($626 billion), or more than three times the governmentâ(TM)s latest estimate.

I would not call that: cheap.

Only about 3%-4% of upper management test as psychopaths (vs about 1% for the general population). How do you account for the other 96%?

The off-cited 1 in 5 Australian study was badly misreported by the press. It found 5.76% could be classified as psychopaths, 10.42% were dysfunctional with psychopathic characteristics, and overall 21% showed some psychopathic traits. Crucially, they did not give a comparison for these metrics to the general population. The press added up all these numbers and misreported that 21% were psychopaths. (For comparison, 16% of prisoners are classified as psychopaths.

The vast majority of people highly successful in business are completely normal.

Hacking banks could allow them to move money to circumvent those sanctions. That is when banks aren't outright collaborating with them to do so. Lets say you are right though, and they don't have any willing trade partners who would trade with them despite sanctions. Why then, do we keep hearing about them making continued efforts to dodge sanctions to avoid trade restrictions? It isn't like there isn't a precedent for countries ignoring sanctions against them.

Yea, so when your IT folks raise concerns about security..... DON'T IGNORE THEM!

Also: https://ca.reuters.com/article...

I was kind of hoping we could just go back and forth with a "no you are" for awhile, it would have been more produtive.

Gross Company Profits are what is left over after paying expenses, salaries, etc...
Those can and are increased and decreased by giving out bonuses, raising or lowering wages, paying stock dividends, etc. Non-profits in the US are notorios for this, paying high salaries to execs and often covering many dubious expenses.


This also doesn't go into the intellectual IP that is often used to siphon profit from one company to another, which is again, what this article is talking about and what all my comments are referencing.
I'm no economist and don't purport to be, but I know a bullshitter.
citations:
https://uk.reuters.com/article...
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/3...

The experts you cited said your statement could not be responsibly made at this time. The differences in storm strength are not significant.

And yet we know from science that despite being "not significant" it is stronger and thus more destructive.

If a voter wants jerks to stop bullying him, how does it matter if you say you disagree with his understanding of his situation?

How is this voter being bullied? Also, facts always matter. Your everyday survival depends on facts.

You don’t seem to want to listen to him.

What is it that I am not listening to? Concerns over job losses? The government created programs to help miners transition into other jobs... and now it's getting axed. Coal country is dying and waiving every coal related regulation will not stop that because natural gas is cheaper.

So why should he listen to you? (And before you come up with an answer, remember he’s not listening to you because you’re distinctly not on his side. So lecturing will not be heard.)

If you want to do yourself in, that's your business. However, when you threaten the future of humanity, it's everyone's business. You do not have to listen but you will have to endure as the world changes despite your objections.

Getting money out of China, if you want so, is easy. You simply do a wire transfer to an over seas account. Just like in any other country.

Up to $50,000 per year, yes. Above that - you need a tax permit and register your capital as well and inform the Government of why you are doing the transfer. So I guess if you want to take 20 years to move your $1 millon overseas, you can - but going to Guangzhou, buying a few hundred thousand dollars worth of gold and a $500,000 jade bracelet and walking across the border to Hong Kong is a bit easier than a wire transfer.

Nuclear power.

http://www.newindianexpress.co...
http://www.business-standard.c...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/...

Sure, in those stories you'll find India planning on adding 2 or 3 GW of solar energy capacity. You'll also see plans to add 7 to 10 GW of nuclear energy capacity. They know they can't rely on the sun and wind alone to keep their economy going.

I guess it's technically not a "fine", but Lenovo did agree to pay $3.5 million US as part of the settlement for this case. http://www.reuters.com/article...

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

The issue here is that the reporting was sensationalist rather than a factual inquiry. And the product has been deemed safe by the FDA. I would eat finely-textured ground beef, but I'd expect it to retail for like $0.29/lb. Challenging the FDA decision in reporting would be quite reasonable. Implying that the food is unsafe without offering any evidence really wasn't appropriate. With a high-profile story like this, you need to be less sloppy in your reporting. http://www.reuters.com/article...

When 'Liking' a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue — 16 April 2014

Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights?

General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, "join" it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways.

Instead, anyone who has received anything that could be construed as a benefit and who then has a dispute with the company over its products will have to use informal negotiation via email or go through arbitration to seek relief, according to the new terms posted on its site.

It's not the first time we've been taxed unreasonably for touching a toe to the yellow brick road, Dorothy.

General Mills Kansas City flour plant likely behind E. coli outbreak — 1 June 2016

Flour produced at a General Mills Inc plant in Kansas City, Missouri, was probably the source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 38 people across 20 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

Ten people have been hospitalized in the outbreak, the CDC said.

Though for our own safety, we really have to stop meeting like this.

Here is the link to the real story:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-dreamhost-idUSKCN1B41ZC

Here is a related article from one of the other collisions: http://www.reuters.com/article...

    q[... the ship's commanding officer, executive officer and master chief, would be removed from the vessel because "we've lost trust and confidence in their ability to lead."]

It's still far better than the Russian "justice" system which allows the government to violate its contracts with Siemens with impunity so it can send turbines to the occupied Crimea in violation of international sanctions.

Then again, with all the blackouts Crimea keeps experiencing due to the ineptitude and incompetence of its Russian occupiers, it's no wonder the court didn't intervene. Wouldn't want to incur the wrath of Putin and have its judges end up like Boris Nemtsov, killed in front of the Kremlin by the orders of Putin.

Where is the evidence that he is a "nazi" other then being guilty of the crime of being white in America?

Here. Or do statements by former classmates and teachers not satisfy you?

It's at least lawful when it comes to university entrance.

Am I the only one here who actually tried to read the article? The summary points to the wrong article: "Tech companies in the crosshairs on white supremacy and free speech".

The LinkedIn article is here.

How is it possible for three consecutive comments all to all be wrong in different ways?

The current-day corporation is called HP Inc.

The historical corporation was known as Hewlett-Packard, hyphenated, two 't's, no 'i's.

I'm going to dismiss this outright. Since the tech HAS been around for forever (I had a crystal radio set in the early 1980s, similar to the one pictured in wikipedia) don't you think companies would have used it by now if it were viable? What company WOULDN'T want to be able to advertise "OMGLOOK! Our phone doesn't need batteries!"

From your Wikipedia article: "... crystal sets produce rather weak sound and must be listened to with sensitive earphones, and can only receive stations within a limited range." Yeah. I'm sure the transition to supporting millions of people in a metropolitan area is a small hurdle to overcome.

You can make a very low-powered device like this. You are not going to get enough power to drive a multi-inch, multi-megapixel 60fps color display with a bright LCD and touch sensor and wifi and everything else we take for granted in modern smartphones.

Also, @msmash, the link is wrong. There is no info about phones at http://www.reuters.com/article...

The main problem with modern cellphone batteries is that everyone makes them too thin. Dear everyone, please make smartphones 3mm thicker plskthxbye.

Since none of us have seen the private docs and license agreements, all we really know about the above is that's how Apple has spun the PR on it. Qualcomm says that's not the case and spins it differently, to make themselves look like the aggrieved ones. Which specific patents are the each accusing, etc.

First of all, Qualcomm is being investigated by both the US (FTC) and European agencies for anti-trust. This follows South Korea fining the company $854M for unfair business practices.

Second, you can't claim ignorance after an assertion. In essence you're saying "We don't know what was in the agreements" right after you positively alleged the Apple wrongs did with the agreements. Either you don't know or you do know. So how do you know what Apple did?

Who's telling the truth?? That's probably why the ITC actually agreed to dive in and try to figure it out. Potential merit according to both stated positions, need a neutral party to look and decide.

Well I don't believe either party but it's not the first time or party that has accused Qualcomm of the same behavior, so . . .

It appears that the editor *actually read* the article, causing Reuters to scroll to the next story and change the URL. Will wonders never cease.

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

Damore said he was exploring all possible legal remedies, and that before being fired, he had submitted a charge to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accusing Google upper management of trying to shame him into silence.

"It's illegal to retaliate against an NLRB charge," he wrote in the email.

"At will" or not, if he can make a case that Google fired him in retaliation of his making an NLRB charge, he may stand to cash in big time.

the list of reasons why an at-will employer cannot fire an employee who decides, unprompted, to openly criticize the employer's policies and

The NRLA specifically protects openly criticizing employer's policies.

And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits supervisors from engaging in harassment based upon gender. When someone is a "Senior Software Engineer," serves as a peer reviewer, and is fired for "perpetuating gender stereotypes," which priority governs?

BTW, the NLRA does not apply to supervisors.

secret tribunal

I think that's overstating it a bit. As can be seen by following your first link, the findings of the tribunal are public (unlike the national security ones on either side of the border, which I'll grant you, are egregious, although at least on the CND side, they've been getting a bit more transparent, ( http://ca.reuters.com/article/... ). We'll see how it works out.

On a personal note, I don't mind the CND hate speech laws. In cases where I've had the stomach to review the actual objectionable material that has been found to be in violation (and there have been cases where the tribunal found that it wasn't hate speech too) I wouldn't personally say that it was an indispensable part of the social commentary on the subject, and I was just as glad to have it judged as such.

Min

A Google search turned up this: https://e360.yale.edu/features...

It mentions lithium for batteries and tellurium for solar cells. I recall also that child slave labor is one of the main problems with sourcing lithium for batteries: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Nothing is absolute, however, and I think for example it's still somewhat open exactly what kind of batteries should be used alongside solar power. I remember seeing something about a test plant in China testing all sorts of batteries to rate their efficiency and monetary costs with solar power. So it's not certain that lithium inherently poses a problem for solar power, but for now it at least makes one particular setup--lithium batteries--more complicated.

Nuclear power probably is not without its esoteric requirements when you consider everything needed to build a plant and connect it to the grid. The main benefit in regard to mining, however, is that is uses so little fuel (fissible material).

Turns out there's more than one horse in the barn. You don't leave the barn door open just because one got out. We've not had any problems. Every impact so far? Great, we've survived them. Heck, hundreds of people survive a drunk drive every night. We still try to stop them if we can. And no, the serious people looking have done more than just guess or blow smoke.

Don't conflate them with the people full of shit.

They've been in the news lately: http://www.reuters.com/investi...

I'm glad Tim Cook is trying to protect the environment, and that he's trying to avoid using conflict minerals. But I wish he'd stop making things in China, as long as China's government was so repressive. I also wish he wouldn't invest in Chinese companies, or build a "new research and development center" there.

Suppose Xi Jinping repressed only people of a certain race, or only gay people. That would be outrageous discrimination. But since Xi severely limits the freedom of all of his citizens, that's not "discrimination" - it's just "unfortunate". However, it's not unfortunate enough to stop doing business there. (I'm talking about all American companies that do business there, not just Apple.)

I'm very glad to read about the Apple-related manufacturing plants that will be built in India and the US. I hope this is the start of a trend away from manufacturing in China.

No AV vendor will allow known government malware (US, Chinese, Russian, etc.) through.

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

According to the Post, Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the Russia probe. Trump's lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers, a second person told the newspaper.

Personally, I'd rather have an all solar power grid than have destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan.

Financial Cost of the Iraq War: Indirect and Delayed Costs

According to a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report published in October 2007, the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money. The CBO estimated that of the $2.4 trillion long-term price tag for the war, about $1.9 trillion of that would be spent on Iraq, or $6,300 per U.S. citizen.

Richard Sammon (July 2007). "Iraq War: The Cost in Dollars". Retrieved 2007-07-23.
"U.S. CBO estimates $2.4 trillion long-term war costs". Reuters. October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-24.

The link seems to go to an article on net neutrality. Correct link is here: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Numerous states have lost in court over their abusive voter actions: Florida, Texas, Kansas, North Carolina. What do these states have in common? Is it also that they've been subjected to Republican misrule, often due to gerrymandering? It would seem, therefore, if Republicans were really interested in fair and honest elections, they would remedy the faults in their actions that lead to unlawful purges, and discriminatory ID claims, so their actions would be fair and above reproach. Yet the opposite happens...Why is that?

Oh, and it turns out that Virginia had problems with its attempted purge. And that report you cherish is questionable.

Sorry, LynnwoodRooster, but your command of statistics remains faulty, same as when you're being a racist bigot about homicides.

China is getting aggressive towards cleaning up their act.

FWIW, in January China cancelled 104 new coal power plants with a capacity equal to one-third of the current coal capacity in the US.

Also, their emissions requirements for coal plants are so strict that by 2020 exactly zero US coal plants would be clean enough to legally operate in china.

Here is the correct link: http://www.reuters.com/article...

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

https://www.sec.gov/litigation...

What CAN be said though is that those companies invest half a trillion annually into fossil fuel extraction. If the money was put into alternatives instead we'd have replaced our reliance on fossil fuels pretty soon.