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...so all we owe him is a "thank you". If the truth is highly damaging to your candidate - you must have an extremely shitty candidate, one who deserves to lose.

he helped give us Trump, and he should have known better.

Assange didn't rig the DNC primary, wanted Trump as a general election opponent, force Hillary to be such a right wing warmongering racist, or prevent her from bothering to show up in the Rust Belt states that were decisive in the election.

I'll just leave this here.

dumping thousands of unredacted cables without concern for the lives that might be put in jeopardy, not to mention the necessity of US diplomats needing to report observations and interactions back to the State Department without fear of reprisal, makes me think the way Wikileaks handled it was grossly negligent, and should be punished.

That was negligent, but please remember that it wasn't Wikileaks who did that.

1988 James Hansen New York will be Under Water in 20-30 years

https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

1989 UN we have 12 years to save the planet

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c37...

1989 New York Times NOAA (No warming trend over the past 100 years )

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/0...

2000 Snowfalls are a thing of the past

https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp...

2005 UN we will have 50 million climate refugees by 2010

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

2009 James Hansen, Obama Has 4 years to save the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

2018 UN Only 12 years left to save the planet

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07...

2019 Greenland Glacier Reverses Decline.

Warren never lied about anything. ...

BULLSHIT

That lily-white millionaire falsely claimed to be a Native American many, many times in order to take advantage of preferences extended to true Native Americans.

She started doing it at least as early as 1986, and admits there are more examples out there, waiting to be found.

It wasn't false? Then why did Harvard Law School go from 1 to zero Native Americans on faculty when Warren got caught?

Yeah, that's just a co-inky-dink.

She's a fundamentally corrupt liar.

You want non-Snopes sources then?

Q: Did House passage of H.R. 1 allow noncitizens to vote?

A: No. That bill would enact a host of changes to election laws, but it does not permit noncitizens to vote.

Misinformation Follows House Approval of H.R. 1

The confusion regarding noncitizens stems from the use of a legislative maneuver, known as a motion to recommit, that represented the last opportunity for the Republicans to amend the bill before it was passed.

On March 8, the same day the House cast its final vote on the bill, Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw introduced a Motion to Recommit H.R. 1 to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to add language condemning voting by “illegal immigrants.”

But “sense of Congress” provisions, such as the one offered by Crenshaw, have “no force of law,” as explained in a Congressional Research Service report.

“A ‘sense of’ resolution is not legally binding because it is not presented to the President for his signature,” the CRS report said. “Even if a ‘sense of’ provision is incorporated into a bill that becomes law, such provisions merely express the opinion of Congress or the relevant chamber. They have no formal effect on public policy and have no force of law.”

Federal law explicitly prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections, and no state has allowed it since the 1920s.

That was very generous of them to call it "confusion". I'm beginning to suspect Crenshaw isn't very honest:

Crenshaw falsely says HR1 would legalize the type of election fraud found in NC

And it seems Republicans don't want people to vote:

Republicans freak out over HR1: They don't want America to have fair elections

Don't worry, though. They tried it again in Venezuela and as you can see by this article in Salon about "Hugo Chavez's economic miracle", socialism and nationalizing industries is working out great there.

For example, the article says :

When a country goes socialist and it craters, it is laughed off as a harmless and forgettable cautionary tale about the perils of command economics. When, by contrast, a country goes socialist and its economy does what Venezuela's did, it is not perceived to be a laughing matter - and it is not so easy to write off or to ignore.

and asks the important questions, like:

Are there any lessons to be learned from Venezuela's decision to avoid that subsidization route and instead pursue full-on nationalization?

See, so you can use Venezuela as the perfect example of why socialism inevitably leads to massive prosperity for all.

If anyone's interested, Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) ...

This Scott Adams? The one who's a "certified genius"? https://www.salon.com/2011/04/...

You are WRONG. And the fact that you don't admit you are wrong makes you a valid target for insults, because rationality doesn't work on you.

Well that's certainly persuasive. Would you care to start insulting my ancestral line next ?

But as to being right or wrong it's an interesting choice to place yourself on let's read from theTHE BOOK OF THE CLIMATE APOCALYPSE

James Hansen predicting Manhattan being underwater
https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

Or particularly ironic with the predictions of the end of snow
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

50 million climate refugees anyone ?
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

For someone who bills themselves as an atheist you seem to have more blind faith than the typical millennial cultist and are considerably more dogmatic as well.

It's not science it's religion

b) This new paper couldn't possibly be wrong.

As opposed to James Hansen predicting Manhattan being underwater
https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

As Opposed to the end of winter snow ?
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Still waiting for the ice free arctic btw

As Opposed to the UN (you know the IPCC people) Predicting 50 million refugees from rising seas

https://www.theguardian.com/en...
That's another one where the original material has been taken down in embarrassment BTW

As opposed to Florida being scourged to the limestone by Hurricanes

As opposed to the Ice age we were going to be in

As opposed to the population bomb that had civilization collapsing by now

As opposed to the predictions that we would be out of oil, out of metals and out of just about everything by now.

No, you're a lying faggot.

The vast majority of people loved TLJ. It's consistently polled high, it had extremely high ratings when viewers were polled on opening day, and Blu-ray sales are through the roof.

Here is some of SWTLJ's unprecedented popularity and success.:

http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/... So successful that they stopped showing it. But hey - thd Chinses market means absolutely nothing, it's nonexistent amirite? Disney doesn't need any money from them.

Fiugurine/promotional item sales are through the roof - never better! http://fortune.com/2018/01/18/...

That's okay, no one needs that stuff anyhow.

https://www.theguardian.com/fi...

Everything is doing so well that they put further spinoff movies off. Becoming more popular by austerity.

You sound like an SJW version of Republicans defending Trickle-down theory. Other than that - I've managed to be pretty successful in life by thanking people when I get criticisms, analyzing them, and acting on them to improve my product. I recently retired from running an event that had thousands of passionate fans. They stayed passionate because I respected that and them. Even if I disagreed with them. This doesn't mean I would take actual abuse. I had rules of no name calling, no threats, and keep swearing to a minimum. But they always knew I would listen. And they kept sending money so the happieness index was high.

As one wag noted about Rian Johnson's reaction to criticism - positively, I mimght add!"Eventually, Rian Johnson would hear the criticism made by fans, but ultimately decide it didn't matter." https://www.cinemablend.com/ne...

By the way - that would have been Johnson's last act in my employ. He'd be escorted out of the building by security. You work for me - you don't ignore the customer.

I take it that you approve of the idea that any criticsm must be responded to by calling the person offring it a sexist, racist, and too weak to handle your product. Because that was the Pro-TLJ narrative. https://www.salon.com/2018/07/...

Look - a critic might be wrong. But you don't just reject them by calling them names. They did care for your product enough to make the criticism. A variation on the "If we ignore the customer long enough, they'll quit bothering us"

Then there is the golden age of name calling: https://www.starwarsnewsnet.co... JJ. Abrams called them sexist and racist, but he really didn't because they are racist and sexist. Anytime you need your statements clarified its interesting.

Next time you get a performance review, try personally attacking your boss, if they offer anything other than glowing reviews of your perfection. Then deciding to ignore any critique. Then let us know how that works out for ya.

As I've told climate deniers, young earth creationists, anti-vaxxers, and now SJW Star Wars sycophants - You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Not even your alternative facts, Kellyanne!

Just imagine if this critical eye was aimed at, say, American arms dealers. Or the Bush and Clinton families. Or all the high profile politicians like Howard Dean and Tom Ridge who have been PR flacks for groups on the State Department's list as terrorists:

https://www.salon.com/2012/02/...

Privatized medicine can work. There are clinics in the US that offer a menu of fixed-price services, and take direct payment (no insurance). No bureaucracy leads to reasonable prices - everybody wins.

The problem comes when the government intervenes too much. In the health insurance market, insisting that everyone must be covered, regardless of health problems or pre-existing conditions - that's no longer insurance, and has led to the problems the US is facing. Let the private insurance market work - it worked just fine for most people, most of the time, over many decades.

For people who cannot qualify for private insurance, the government can become the health care provider of last resort. That's basically where Medicare/Medicaid would come into play. Essential services only, no cosmetic or optional treatments. This is also where people would land, who get ill or injured, but couldn't be bothered to pay for insurance.

The situation in countries like the UK is actually not too dissimilar. The NHS provides health care for everyone, as long as you don't mind waiting months or years for anything that's not immediately life threatening. Meanwhile, there is a perfectly functional private insurance market for people who don't want to wait - the prices are reasonable, and coverage is good. As far as I can tell, the government basically ignores the private market - which is probably why it works.

You are living in a fantasy world. If the insurance companies had their way they would drop you the second you no longer became profitable, just as they often do for people with poor driving histories. The problem is that people often make poor choices that result in them being a bad driver. However, you can quickly become someone with preexisting conditions simply by becoming the unfortunate victim of a violent crime. It sounds like you and Mo Brooks are either the same person or best friends.

I have seen many, many examples of insufficient management at Amazon.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site besides those mentioned in this Slashdot story.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "brilliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Would you fly into space if the company has a manager who shows serious limits? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?

Perhaps the single greatest force behind the growth of the prison population has been the national "War on Drugs". The War on Drugs initiative expanded during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. President Reagan established the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. According to the Human Rights Watch, legislation like this led to the extreme increase in drug offense imprisonment and "increasing racial disproportions among the arrestees".[36] The number of incarcerated drug offenders has increased twelvefold since 1980.

I also found this with a quick search, which just makes me feel that even 8.4% of private prisons are too many.
As far as your violent crime stat goes, you ought to be aware that more than 90% of cases are settled by plea bargains, so what the prisoner was sentenced for is almost irrelevant.
I don't live in the US, and don't subscribe to your Democrat/Republican dichotomy, so my ideological bubble might not be what you expect.

"if they were smarter they'd make them add-on bundle products, ..."

Exactly! I'm seeing many, many examples of Amazon managers not being smart.

It is VERY important to recognize ALL of the abusiveness of Amazon. Only a small part of that is mentioned here, in this re-post of a former comment, with added information:

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page. There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

A few of the stories about Amazon being abusive:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace. (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Quote from the Wikipedia page for Jeff Bezos. (Nov. 29, 2018):

"Journalist Nellie Bowles of The New York Times has described the public persona and personality of Bezos as that of 'a brilliant but mysterious and coldblooded corporate titan'. During the 1990s, Bezos earned a reputation for relentlessly pushing Amazon forward, often at the expense of public charity and social welfare."

In my opinion, Bezos is not "briliant". No one who is habitually abusive can be called brilliant; his abusiveness damages the quality of his own life.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns Blue Origin.. Blue Origin does NOT now have the capability of orbiting the earth. Would you fly into space with a company owned by someone who makes huge mistakes and doesn't detect them?

According to Hansen
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Still waiting for those 50 million climate refugees predicted by the UN
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Or how are things on the West Side of Manhattan these days ?
https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

Then again snow is supposed to be a thing of the past as well
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...

pushed around by powerful employees who do not care about patriotism.

So, since when is Silicon Valley patriotic? As in, they care about America and their fellow Americans? Huh? Silicon Valleyites are "citizens of the world". They care far more about distant peoples from backwards cultures than their own neighbors in places like Texas, Idaho, and West Virginia. They regard us with mingled scorn and apprehension. Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk. Here is a great essay I have bookmarked that discusses the issue very eloquently and precisely.

Every election cycle like clockwork, conservatives accuse liberals of not being sufficiently pro-America. And every election cycle like clockwork, liberals give extremely unconvincing denials of this.

"It's not that we're, like, against America per se. It's just that...well, did you know Europe has much better health care than we do? And much lower crime rates? I mean, come on, how did they get so awesome? And we're just sitting here, can't even get the gay marriage thing sorted out, seriously, what's wrong with a country that can't...sorry, what were we talking about? Oh yeah, America. They're okay. Cesar Chavez was really neat. So were some other people outside the mainstream who became famous precisely by criticizing majority society. That's sort of like America being great, in that I think the parts of it that point out how bad the rest of it are often make excellent points. Vote for me!"

I was an Obama voter, and I have proud memories of spending my Fourth of Julys as a kid debunking people's heartfelt emotions of patriotism.

Here is a popular piece published on a major media site called America: A Big, Fat, Stupid Nation. Another: America: A Bunch Of Spoiled, Whiny Brats. Americans are ignorant, scientifically illiterate religious fanatics whose patriotism is actually just narcissism. You Will Be Shocked At How Ignorant Americans Are, and we should Blame The Childish, Ignorant American People.

Needless to say, every single one of these articles was written by an American and read almost entirely by Americans. Those Americans very likely enjoyed the articles very much and did not feel the least bit insulted.

Here's another great essay, "Revolt of the Elites" that also addresses this issue.

When confronted with resistance to these initiatives, members of today's elite betray the venomous hatred that lies not far beneath the smiling face of upper-middle-class benevolence. They find it hard to understand why their hygienic conception of life fails to command universal enthusiasm. In the United States, "Middle America" - a term that has both geographical and social implications - has come to symbolize everything that stands in the way of progress: "family values," mindless patriotism, religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, retrograde views of women. Middle Americans, as they appear to the makers of educated opinion, are hopelessly dowdy, unfashionable, and provincial.

These privileged young people acquire advanced degrees at the "best [universities] in the world," the superiority of which is proved by their ability to attract foreign students in great numbers. In this cosmopolitan atmosphere, they overcome the provincial folkways that impede creative thought, according to Reic

RH did offer contributors the chance to join the IPO at the time. ALL contributors, not just their inside people.

Not exactly. They hand-picked a few hundred contributors and emailed them directly with an offer to participate. I remember this because I wrote to them saying "hey, I've contributed, here are links to my work... what about me?" and they blew me off.

Here is coverage from Aug, 1999:

About three weeks ago, on July 20, Red Hat sent an e-mail to hundreds of software developers offering us a chance to participate in its initial public offering, a gesture of support for the community of free-software hackers without whom the company would not exist. But weeks of infighting and confusion -- aided and abetted by E-Trade -- followed. Now I've finally got my stock. Am I happy? Sure. Relieved? Definitely -- by the market's close on Thursday the stock price had reached $72.62. But was it all worth it? The whole process nearly tore our community apart. So, I really don't know.

Within two years it was back at like $3.50/share.

Meanwhile the GOP invites Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, to speak at their events.

In his own words:

“I think there’s not enough violence in today’s day and age. I want violence. I want punching in the face. I’m disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.” - Gavin McInnes

  "We do it cause it’s fun. It’s fun beating you up, because you suck s--t." - Gavin McInnes

https://www.salon.com/2018/10/...

If they are refugees, then why are they reportedly waving proudly their country's flag as they march up, and in some cases even burning the US flag? That isn't the behavior of people seeking help from a host, that is a hostile invasion and damn rude.
It is not indicative of asylum seekers, which, by international law, are supposed to stop at the nearest country for help, not cross over 3 or more borders to get to a target country.

If you want to believe no one is calling for open borders, go ahead, but here's the evidence to the contrary:

https://openborders.info/
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.salon.com/2017/03/...

and those are just for starters..

My opinion: Jeff Bezos is not a sufficiently capable manager. Evidence: Look at any Amazon web page. As you are researching some product that is interesting, you are often distracted by other products. One fix: Put any distractions at the bottom of the page.

There are many other shortcomings of the Amazon web site.

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015)

Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018)

Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (bloomberg.com, Feb 19, 2013)

Would you fly into space with a company managed by someone who makes those mistakes and doesn't detect them? Note that Blue Origins does not have the capability of orbiting the earth.

No it's not the Deomcrats fault Trump won.

But of course it is. Not only did they rig their own primary to force the one candidate that could lose to Trump down our throats, Hillary promoted him during the GOP primary via her Pied Piper Strategy.

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/...

Trump is and always was corrupt, venal and incredibly self serving. The information was all out there before the election. If you voted for Trump, the fault is entirely yours. Own it.

But of course he is - but then so was his general election opponent to an equal or greater degree. On all fronts. It's why, despite Trump being the most unpopular president in history, is still more popular than HRC. So don't freak out on the people that voted for the turd sandwich instead of the shit taco.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/...

Remember when, before the election, everyone thought Hillary would win the electoral college and Trump the popular vote, and we were all sharply warned that's the way the system is, and to accept the results no matter how unpleasant? Pepperige Farms remembers...

Nope. This may shock and awe you (to the point where I don't expect you to even show your cognizance over how wrong you are), but that's bullshit, and if anybody did say it, they were full of shit, and I'd have told them (and probably did, because calling out the bullshit of the Electoral College is something I do.) how stupid they were.

But you know what I remember? I remember Trump tweeting that, back in 2012, he wanted a revolution:

"He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!"

"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy."

The phoney electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!

See all this? Easily documented. And all mysteriously backtracked upon...well, no, there's no mystery at all. Trump is rather easy to read.

That might be because, unlike you, I remember things that actually happened, not your imagined narrative when in reality, the ire over the sham that is the Electoral College is something people have genuinely held long before Trump, Bush, or even Perot.

Sorry, but some of us do consider the Electoral College illegitimate due to its very nature, and are committed to rejecting it, unlike you, who is not only an apologist for it that is completely wrong about the principles under which it operates (to wit, your still false claim regarding some service to rural voters), you are also fabricating an attack on others who are critical of it, while ignoring what is documented to have been said by who? Oh yes, your beloved Trump.

Of course, it doesn't help him that he completely made up his own unsubstantiated claims about the popular vote rather than accepting that he got fewer voters. That's the sort of boasting and bragging your silence over speaks volumes.

You'd do better to leave the side of lies and deceits, and if you are genuinely concerned about the supposed rural voter or whatever butters your toast, come up with some system that actually serves you purported needs. I'd respect that, you'd be showing the sense to realize the need for a legitimate system of some kind, but no, no, instead of making that effort, you dogmatically spout the false claim over what the Electoral College does.

Open your eyes fool!

I believe the right called Obama a racist (he is - provably so - by his own words), and a Kenyan muslim anti-colonialist (again, provably so by is own words). But I don't remember him being called Hitler. Stalin, or Mao, perhaps - but not Hitler.

Fortunately your memory isn't required, we have records.

And we even remember you denying you did it before.

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

specifically it adds context, e.g. that a woman is getting criticism that a man would not have. Here's a pretty good write up about it and also why the term has been diluted.

That said, the tweet she was responding to didn't sound like mansplaining to me. I didn't detect anything condescending. I'm wondering if the Total Biscuit tweet elsewhere on this thread is real (I can't find a reliable source for it online, just a few forum posts) and if this wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back.

In any case one good point has been made: the Reddit Mob, once mobilized, can get anyone at the company fired. That's not a good thing.

Greenwald:

The primary tactic in this game is Villain Rotation. They always have a handful of Democratic Senators announce that they will be the ones to deviate this time from the ostensible party position and impede success, but the designated Villain constantly shifts, so the Party itself can claim it supports these measures while an always-changing handful of their members invariably prevent it.

Glenn wrote that years ago about Democrats killing the Public Option, but it holds true to pretty much any policy the party wants to drown in the bathtub at any level of government. There's also the flipside to this tactic: Hero Rotation. That's where some member of the party grandstands on C-SPAN to make liberals wet, but its just propaganda as they don't intend to make any changes beyond this week's news cycle. See: pretty much anything from Kamela Harris, Cory Brooker, and especially Elizabeth Warren.

I mean it used to be shorthand for "grandstanding, virtue signaling, demagogic assholes"

FTFY

From Salon writing a dozen fainting couches on a Game of Thrones rape scene while ignoring Theon's mutilation in the previous season and cannibals munching on a village in the same episode, to Marvel not race swapping Iron Fist, to pretending two wankers who complain about a black stormtrooper on Twitter means Star Wars fans are racist (nevermind 35 years of Londo).....yeah, SJW's are a thing.

Speaking of Ada Lovelace, the second implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine design #2

...has nothing to do with Ada, does it? The Difference Engine was a fixed-function unit of Babbage's design. But speaking of Ada, I feel compelled to note that

she was considered by some to be the world's first computer programmer -- having published the first algorithm intended for use on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

appears to be a rather nonsensical view of the events.

Even the biggest assholes are capable of doing a good interview. Especially those who are sociopaths, those dudes are downright likable as long as they get their way. But as soon as people aren't giving them what they want, they start acting like persecuted little children.

Musk loses his shit whenever there is a hint of criticism.

He treated his wife like an employee.
He fired his PA in the most dickish way possible after when she asked for a raise after 12 years
He used underpaid illegal immigrant labor to build his factory.
He uses illegal union-busting tactics.

so-called 51% attacks are a well-known and dangerous cryptocurrency attack vector.

It is a an attack vector, and it threatens far more than cryptocurrencies... What if 51% of voters decide, for example, that a tiny minority of the population ought to be enslaved again? Or that an even tinier minority have "too much" money?

Sounds like something a Hillbot nursing two year old butthurt would say. They could always take it up with the person most responsible for Trump being in the White House.

From my perspective it's Israel's opponents in the region who are out routinely killing journalists but you are not allowed to say such things.

Your perspective includes blinders. And these latest killings are just part of a long tradition.

Contrary to what one might imagine, I'm not a big fan of Palestine. I'm just not a fan of Israel, either. I have little use for religious "logic", or anyone's justifications for genocide. What am I a fan of? Facts. And it's a fact that Israel kills a lot of journalists.

Is Jeff Bezos careful to be logical? It seems to me the answer is no, if you judge by how Amazon is managed. More evidence, added to the evidence in the parent comment:

A Slashdot comment: "you still can't sort prime-only items by price correctly (it includes the lowest priced non-prime seller)..."

And: "... Amazon literally still builds their rich pages using their normal grid layout, and in the most impossible to navigate way possible.

Amazon: Amazon warehouse jobs push workers to physical limit (Seattle Times, April 3, 2012)

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (Bloomberg, Feb. 19, 2013)

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Salon.com, Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (New York Times, Aug. 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon paid no US income taxes for 2017 (SeattlePI, Feb. 27, 2018)

Amazon: Undercover author finds Amazon warehouse workers in UK 'peed in bottles' over fears of being punished for taking a break (Business Insider, April 16, 2018)

Amazon: The undercover author who discovered Amazon warehouse workers were peeing in bottles tells us the culture was like a 'prison' (Business Insider, April 18, 2018)

Amazon: Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows (The Intercept, April 19, 2018) Quote: "Though the company now employs 200,000 people in the United States, many of its workers are not making enough money to put food on the table."

Safe space flight depends on careful thinking. Everyone involved with flight into space must be logical. Maybe Jeff Bezos just needed to find a place to put his money; maybe he doesn't influence Bllue Origins much. But even if that is true, he has influence, and that is scary. My opinion.

So you don't like learning then, suit yourself.
If you did, you could go through that post and tell which were which.

Since you won't, I'll just point out this little bit mentioned in that post.

But the Model 3 will have a much lower margin, perhaps only 10%

Now in the same way that zero is less than 10.
10 is also greater than zero.

> This Bridenstine guy will probably turn out to be a Flat Earther as well.

Nope...the Flat Earthers are also big believers in global warming:

https://www.salon.com/2013/06/...

Which probably means more about something along the lines of gullible people being easily manipulated.

Ferret

And ironically Podesta put in writing that he supported Trump as the candidate because he thought his campaign could beat him:

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

Thank you Podesta for helping create this mess. The actual email (view the attached PDF):

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1120

"We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously"

Yeah, because Wisconsin paid $200,000 per Foxconn job and waived environmental regulations for them.

I wouldn't call that a win.

Isn't "pee-lover" Trump already being investigated?

1) Petty partisan theater. Same reason Clinton and Obama were investigated for blow jobs and Benghazi, and not starting wars in Yugoslavia and Libya without Congressional authorization. Going after stupid shit like Stormy Daniels, not real shit like all the businesses Trump started in Saudi Arabia while running for president and then giving them a huge weapons deal.

2) Salve for butthurt Democrats who nominated the worst candidate in history. Also to keep their base compliant and distracted, so the corrupt assholes responsible for Trump in the first place can stay in control of the party.

3) Psyop to get the public on the side of confronting Russia. Same as the propaganda about Saddam planning 911 and having WMD's. Dick Cheney must be kicking himself these days, though. He went through all the trouble of having Colin Powell present fake evidence to the U.N., but who knew he could go make assertions to the press without any evidence whatsoever, and people would just eat that shit up with a spoon?

Hilary was already investigated. For years, and nothing.

Because her name was Hillary Clinton, and the aforementioned bipartisan immunity for crimes committed by high level officials.. If her name was Hillary Smith, an unconnected bureaucrat who mishandled classified information and then committed obstruction of justice on top by destroying evidence, she'd be serving an effective life sentence. That Hillbots continued to excuse her unsecured, unauthorized email server after a sailor was sent to prison for taking half a dozen unauthorized selfies on an unsecured phone shows the capacity for people to be partisan hacks. Really, really, really stupid partisan hacks.

Are you playing dumb or have you just not been paying attention? One of the most notable aspects of Trump is how pro-Russian he's been

AYFKM? Under Trump, our moderate headchopping friends in ISIS just magically got targeting information precise enough to kill Russian generals in Syria with mortar fire. Trump is illegally staying in Syria indefinitely, a country Russia is defending from the aforementioned moderate headchoppers and organ eaters.

Trump has maintained high troop levels in eastern Europe, wants to arm our literal neo-Nazi pals that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea. That's like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the sanctions have been maintained, and the reason for not pushing new ones is that it's going to punish allies who have little choice to trade with Russia.

Sanctions that are complete bullshit to begin with. How is it that the U.S. gets to level sanctions against Russia in response to...the aforementioned American overthrow of Ukraine's government. How is it totally legitimate for the U.S. to spend $5 billion to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves" and then say the Crimean vote to secede was illegitimate - before whining about $5,000 in Facebook ads swinging an American election.

Flynn was fired because he got caught secretly phoning the Russian ambassador to say that Trump would drop the election sanctions

In return for Russian support on a UN vote on illegal Israeli settlements. But this fact is never mentioned in the Russiagate storyline...almost as if the people pushing it were lying propagandists. That and the fact that no one is accusing Trump of treason for colluding with Apartheid Israel.

The Steele dossier being used toilet paper

Also fixed. And still, how can Democrats talk about collusion with a straight face when it's a fact (as opposed to an unproven conspiracy theory) that Hillary not only worked with foreign agents to swing an election, but paid them to do so.

But if Trump was being groomed beforehand it doesn't mean they wanted him to be President

Still the plot hole of Putin being a master chess player setting the board years in advance, except for anticipating the totally predictable response from Democrats, from the media, and from the military-industrial complex.

But I'm not talking about Russia in this context, I'm talking about Trump. One of the main ideas of Democracy is the job is bigger than the person, the President's first duty is to the country, the Attorney General to the law, director of the EPA to the environment, etc, etc. No administration gets this perfectly, but Trump doesn't even seem to understand this basic concept. He sees his job as doing good for Trump, whether that's boosting his poll numbers, helping out his family, helping his own businesses, or giving himself a tax cut. And he sees the first duty of any appointee as serving his interests rather than the country.

You could always take it up with the person most responsible for Trump being in the White House.

Of course he knew, he designed the thing. But he didn't spend the time writing a programs for it, he had Ada to do that.

Surely you can't be serious.

Is it possible that our exploration of space could inadvertently be leaving a trail of life

That's why NASA has gone to great lengths to sterilize spacecraft headed to places like Mars. There's even a planetary protection officer.

I've heard the US signed an international treaty to that effect. Alcohol sterilization, course correction to avoid the rocket's third stage hitting Mars, and spacecraft are not allowed to carry more than 300,000 bacterial spores. I'm sure NASA is doing a fine job, but they ain't the only ones sending stuff to space.

The microbes on the surface of the ISS may or may not come from the atmosphere, but that they stay alive while in space suggests that life could 'go forth and multiply' by those not as concerned about sterilizing as is NASA. Here, there are plenty of candidates. Venture capitalists are launching hundreds of satellites now. Elon Musk launched a potentially un-sterilized car into space the other day, and promises Martian colonies with people, food and microbial-laden poop. China, Japan and India are talking space tourism; still others plan on mining asteroids. At some point in the future that international treaty will be a thing of the past. And life will go on.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/technology/is_planetary_protection.html

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/why-sending-a-tesla-into-orbit-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to-science/

http://www.businessinsider.com/starman-elon-musk-car-orbit-collision-risk-calculations-2018-2

Oil was not the sole reason, but a largest contributer. To say otherwise is to turn a blind eye on motivations behind military-industrial complex.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

By your logic since Iraq was next door to Iran for invading Iraq, we should invade Kazakhstan(or any neighboring state) and China to engage future warfare with Russia and North Korea, respectively? Why not invade Iran directly instead of surrounding it? Also, since Pakistan is also a border state, what's your excuse for leaving that one behind? You know, the one that provided harbor for Bin Laden?

And guess who's the biggest sponsor of terrorism now - Saudi Arabia - but we are allies with them?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.newsbud.com/2017/0...
https://www.salon.com/2016/01/...
http://www.newsweek.com/why-sa...

You see, we see it as what it is. A complete bullshit by neocons running the White House.

Salon's main article today: Celebrity monomania: Maybe Trump and Oprah aren't as different as we think

The reality about Trump: He is a habitual liar. One article: In 365 days, President Trump has made 2,140 false or misleading claims

Salon's main article today: Celebrity monomania: Maybe Trump and Oprah arenâ(TM)t as different as we think"

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims.

If you go to Salon with uBlock Origin in Medium Mode - third party scripts and frames are blocked - it turns out it loads fine.

And then you see articles like this on the front page and remember why you deleted your bookmark to Salon about ten years ago

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/18/john-oliver-gives-us-six-lessons-on-how-to-report-on-trump/

A listicle based on failed Brit comedian and CURRENT YEAR man, now a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC saying things like 'late-night comedians have become the nation's front-running truth tellers'. Yeah, I think I'll pass. If he's not going to cry like Jimmy Kimmel, how do I know he's sincere?

My first thought on seeing the headline was about using technology to read ancient manuscripts which may be too fragile to open or may have even been written on recycled even older manuscripts. They use x-rays and computer imaging to read that which cannot be read by the human eye.

I've seen a few stories about this over the years.

Scientists read ancient sealed documents without opening them

MIT and Georgia Tech develop technology to read books without opening them

Scientists Read Ancient Hebrew Scroll Without Opening It

Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open

There's lots more out there and note those aren't just 4 different links to the same story.

But this story is still interesting to me too. I'm sure that the people doing the work in the linked article might be tasked with transcribing or translating the images of pages they can't actually touch.