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We've got a president who's paying porn stars to spank him with a rolled up magazine, and who says he's exactly the same height and weight as Cubs firstbaseman Anthony Rizzo.

The next president will probably be pro-wrestler The Undertaker and his cabinet will be made up of the Ducks Dynasty family, members of the Unification Church and Dallas Texans cheerleaders. Ain't no way we're going to Mars. By 2020, most Americans won't even believe Mars exists.

By the way, here is an article from Sports Illustrated listing the athletes who are the same height and weight as Trump:

https://www.si.com/extra-musta...

You don't somehow think that all of the missiles that North Korea has been firing were somehow summoned by magic since the start of the Trump administration, do you? They were obviously being worked on during the Obama administration. What we are seeing is the flowering of Obama's work. (Or do you blame Her?)

For what? North Korea wasting their limited resources on a tool that's only useful when you want to provoke an ill-tempered boob who will go off on freak out over them, then erroneously claim to send an aircraft carrier to deal with it?

So what you're saying is that at best, he's par for the course. "Par" is not what we were told to expect.

Trump hasn't even been in office for a year yet and he already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than Obama achieved, has China cooperating, and missile defense is getting a big boost in funding.

Except it turns out those sanctions are a failed policy that only harms the innocent North Korean people, China is, as usual, lying, and putting money into missile defense has been a favorite way to waste tax dollars since the Reagan years.

He seems to be making progress that Obama couldn't.

So far, your examples are only repeated examples of waste, fraud, and failure.

That's not a common definition of progress. Admittedly, to somebody trying to sabotage America, it would seem different.

Lets see what happens between now and the end of the eighth year of the Trump administration.

Let's see what happens between now and the end of the next year.

I'd say this year, but eh, you won't have any results.

before the end came in round TEN .

Many had the bout much closer than a near shutout, especially in the earlier rounds.

https://www.si.com/boxing/2017...

For the first few rounds, Conor McGregor, the UFC fighter, looked like a boxer. A competent boxer. Dare we say, even a good boxer. He looked like he might even do what he had been telling us heâ(TM)d do for the last three months: beat Mayweather at his own sport, outbox one of the best boxers of all time. In the first round Mayweather threw five total punches. McGregor charged forward, looking like he wanted to make good on his promise that heâ(TM)d drop Mayweather in the first round. He put his arms behind his back, taunting Mayweather. He threw jabs and landed them. He countered a Mayweather attack with an uppercut, something that very few professional boxers have ever done. The vastly pro-McGregor crowd broke out in an olé chant, thinking their hero was going to do the impossible, again, just like he told them he would.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0... https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...

None of the shots McGregor landed seemed to hurt Mayweather, but the success the Irishman experienced was more than many boxing pundits thought he could enjoy. Mayweather stayed composed throughout the fight and gradually turned up the heat beginning in the fourth round Until you can find a professional analyst who claims McGregor "looked like a joke" we'll just have to agree to disagree.

I had a few ideas about why Cable TV is failing, and of course others had the same idea.

1. Commercials - Time has an article about the trend over the years for more commercials per hour. The article has a 2014 date, so we're talking an increase in almost a minute per hour over 5 years.

   On cable, commercials are even more frequent, totalling 15 minutes and 38 seconds of each hour. Commercials on cable took 14 minutes and 27 seconds of each hour in 2009.

2. Content - We've all complained about how much Reality TV just plain sucks. There's a nice write-up onOregon State's sociology 499 class site (of all places) that mentions ER set a record for $13Mil per episode, while a half hour reality show can cost more like $150k.
3. Cost - Of course we the consumer complain about a steady increase in cost for little gain (another grass growing channel? really?), we don't often look at how much things cost for companies. Sports Illustrated has a nice breakdown of costs to run a 30 second ad during the super bowl. The growth is damned near exponential and was somewhere on the order of $5mil this year, and $3mil in 2010.

Basically, it's all in the pursuit of the almighty dollar. Commercials have gotten longer and more expensive, while production costs have been driven lower and lower. If only there was some way en masse to stop making stupid people famous...

That reminds me of John Elway on Trevor Siemian. Siemian was the last quarterback drafted that year. He had already lined up a job in real estate because he figured he might not be drafted - he wasn't that good. Fans were surprised and a bit dismayed when Elway drafted him for the Broncos, who were a powerful team -they won the Superbowl that year. Elway said Siemian "has potential".

It turns out that in his first year as a starter Siemian had a an 18-10 touchdown-to-interception ratio and an 84.6 passer rating, both stats better than Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler in the previous Superbowl-winning season.

Elway later reminded one fan who had been dismayed by the Siemian pick that Elway does indeed know how to spot potential:

http://www.si.com/extra-mustar...

... independent ones, and independent journalists.

So this was a headline neglecting to mention her white nationalism. If Facebook asks a black person whether the headline is misleading, they're generally going to get a very different answer from a white person. Also, does Facebook actually know if it's asking a black person?

Here's the Philly article:
http://www.philly.com/philly/b...

Here's the version from bleeding heart liberal progressive magazine, Sports Illustrated:
http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/12/...

It's notable that Google has hired/funded Full Fact, a facts-only organisation in the UK I can personally vouch for.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article...

20% is forums like Something Awful and Slashdot which would effectively function fine as free newsgroups.

Who would sponsor the forum's NNTP server now that most home ISPs no longer provide Usenet access as a standard feature? And how could Slash-style crowd moderation be implemented on top of NNTP?

20% is sports scores/gambling stuff which would be online regardless of ads. The gambling sites have a real product to sell, and the sports scores sites exist to promote a real physical product.

Not being a user of either sort of site (nor pornography for that matter), all I can do is guess: Gambling sites are illegal in most of Slashdot's home country, and sites like DraftKings are specifically targeted. Sports score sites operated by cable television networks, such as CNN- and TBS-affiliated SI.com, might go paywalled to encourage users to subscribe to cable television. Sports score sites operated by leagues might go paywalled to encourage users to attend games in person or subscribe to the league's out-of-market cable package.

So yeah, I think if the news sites did real hard hitting journalism, I'd throw them my $20 for good reading. The rest pays for itself.

Until you discover that the articles you want to read are scattered across a dozen sites. Then it balloons from $20 to $240.

How about, this place is CLEANER than New York City. How many folks swim in the Hudson or the East River?

Thousands, actually.

A hockey player that abuses his wife is pretty rare.

That's nonsense. You can have a violent sport like boxing and still have the players be abusers. Plus read this.

Even bigger problem though is that is a misunderstanding of domestic violence and why it happens. It isn't "men have aggression and need to get it out". More like a mix of cultural (shitty views of women as "less than" men, toxic attitudes towards relationships especially marriage, etc) and individual factors. Why not read up on it a bit?

it's new for nerds?

I think you're on the wrong site. Try here.

Press leaks tend to be imprecise. Pretty much all of the news regarding this issue (with the exception of one NFL press statement and a press conference from the ) came from leaks.

It's not the Cubs, Red Sox, or A's.

The original story about this said that it was "an organization that many might not expect." None of those, or the other teams who've shown marked interest in analytics or who have GMs known to be friendly to advanced analytics (off the top of my head that's the Yankees and Mets, Cleveland, Tampa, Baltimore, Toronto, Seattle, and Arizona to start with) would be particularly surprising. The other thing to note is that "buy a supecomputer!" is the sort of response that a team that suddenly realizes that it's way behind might do. The Red Sox have probably been growing a dedicated server farm to deal with all of the new data sources that have been coming along. They don't need to rush out and buy a Cray.

The speculation at the time the story came out ran to the Phillies (they have cash and seem to be way behind on analytics) and Astros, and then teams like the Tigers and Royals that have a fantastically rich owner.

Yes it does. It really grew out of the English game rounders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2010/11/08/history-lessons-with-bud/