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These smart guys already did the math: Odds Hillary Won Without Widespread Fraud: 1 in 77 Billion Say Berkeley, Stanford Studies (If you don't like this link, there are several other copies of this article floating around on the web.)

The available voting data from the 2016 democratic primary shows significant statistical abnormalities, in the last half of the data, that favor Hillary at the expense of Bernie. It appears that a voting machine exploit was in place in several districts, that only triggered in real time when someone or something detected that Hillary was about to lose to Bernie.

That's just the election itself. Stepping back in time to the pre-election Hillary vs. Bernie campaign trail, there's also the obvious issues of stealing campaign money from Bernie's campaign, and installing Imran Awan, a Pakistani spy as the IT manager of the DNC's computer network, subverting the DNC 'VAN' computer network that Bernie, a democratic candidate, was forced to use for official campaign business. Meaning that Hillary was secretly in control of the Bernie campaign's network, and even revoked access at one point during his campaign. (We discovered Hillary's DNC network subversion through a Wikileaks publication.) Then we have a secret joint fundraising agreement that DNC bosses signed with Hillary Clinton, giving her nearly full control of the DNC, BEFORE she was nominated. (alternate link.)

If that's too technical for you, then let me remind you that, defending against the DNC fraud lawsuit, a DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva said in court: "We could have voluntarily decided that, 'Look, we're gonna go into the back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way." This is in reference to the whole Hillary-biased democrat super-delegate debacle that was all over the news at the time. Hillary bribed those super-delegates with laundered money through one of her crooked 'charities' to secure her nomination over Bernie.

This is just the easily cited stuff Hillary's done to screw Bernie. I'm not saying that Hillary's crimes only include screwing Bernie, or that Bernie's a perfect candidate. And I sure as hell didn't vote for Trump.

I don't own an Apple computer but if I did and I needed tech support (which I wouldn't), I would make it my mission to use all the forbidden language and act confused when they didn't respond using the same language. When they finally quit the linguistic acrobatics I'd start yelling, "HERETIC! HE SPOKE THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!", pointing and maybe jump on on a table to maximize store-wide attention.

And that's how I plan to get banned from every Apple "town square". ;)

And I assume also your plan to get Baker-Acted by the local gendarmes.

I don't own an Apple computer but if I did and I needed tech support (which I wouldn't), I would make it my mission to use all the forbidden language and act confused when they didn't respond using the same language. When they finally quit the linguistic acrobatics I'd start yelling, "HERETIC! HE SPOKE THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!", pointing and maybe jump on on a table to maximize store-wide attention.

And that's how I plan to get banned from every Apple "town square". ;)

Thanks, he might just be a run-of-the-mill wildly misinformed conservative. I'm guessing he's referencing this.

Calling the companies on this list gun manufacturers is a stretch. They are basically resellers or customizers (run by dumbasses).

Oh now we have another vector. Hmmm

Maybe you're right it's not as if Google doesn't have a pattern of censorship for conservative content. Oh wait what do you know they do.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20...

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/...

So I suppose youtube shut down a site dedicated to economic education as hate speech because page rank ? It also shut down a firearms education channel because hate speech ?

Feel free to go again

https://www.theblaze.com/news/...

The driver had been employed by Feinstein for 20 years. He also acted as a gofer in the senator’s office in San Francisco and as a liaison to the Asian-American community. In this role, he attended multiple Chinese Consulate functions on the senator’s behalf.

We can probably guess why the channel was removed. Some of the videos seemed to be making medical claims about the drugs, and the descriptions had links where you could buy them... So basically a bunch of infomercials making claims not backed up by medical science.

Is this all we are left with?

I'd like to point out that we started with "everyone c'mon in, the service is free!",

...then "removed because this is clearly illegal speech"

...then "removed because this is hate speech"

...then "removed because it's unsafe to the community"

...then "[crickets]" and we can only guess why they did it.

Are we there yet?

And you're competing globally against people who are, your job gets outsourced.

Congratulations on discovering why the global village only works well if it's tuned.

THis idea that 'Murrica is failing becauxse oof our work hours - Any citations? As well, can you cite the work conditions with hours worked in trh countries that are eating our lunch?

Allow me to start, since you might be stressed.

While it certainly isn't a dead lock as to flexible work schedules that employees only work duringh their peak performance times, there are indeed only 24 hours in a day - so the average number of hours in a day are of interest. After all, the more hours worked are likely to indicate that not all of those hours are peak time. \ So your thesis is that America is working too much and at the wrong times.

In 2011 the average American was working 1,703.55 hours in a year. W'll for the moment accept that as indicating imminent failure.

In the 1950's the Average American worked 1,920 hours per year. Just sayin'

In France in 2011 the average work week was 1,475.79 per year - that's only a little over 28 hours per week.

UK is similar to the US at 1,650.40 hours per year.

Germany the average is 1,406.25 hours per year - that might argue to your thesis. Germany is an economic powerhouse especially considering it's size and population.

Netherlands a little more on average than France.

Now on to Asia.

Japan is averageing 1,706.25 hours per year - similar to the US

Canada 1,707.88 hours also similar.

Taiwan - its heading up 2,144.40 hours per year.

Singapore - 2,287.20 hours per year. still trending up

Hong Kong - closing in on 2,400 hours per year.

Sauce: https://www.theblaze.com/news/...

While not directly addressing the peak performance hours - which you are going to give us the citations in your next post, I'm reading the situation as rising economies doing it with cheap labor as companies and countries are happy to expolit that fact. Some of the Asian countries like South Korea were well known for Insane hours along with a rising economy. But one thing is for certain, If you are working many more hours per week, it stands to reason they will be more likely to be in a non-optimum time.

I wouldn't want a publication to hog up my system's resources as payment, especially for a publication as terrible as Salon who has given pedophiles a positive platform

Captcha: families

This story broke just a few days ago.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...

https://www.salon.com/2017/12/...

Autocrats gonna be autocrats.

Alarming Number of Baltimore High Schools Had Zero Students Proficient in Math.

Facebook's discrimination against anyone that isn't progressive or liberal is very well documented. Unfortunately this is an issue as they have a monopoly on social media the likes of which the world has never seen. This gives them the ability to manipulate public discussion and discord that is the envy of many nation states. An example of Facebook abusing their monopoly is their attempts to redefine the truth using progressive political activists as fact checkers.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016...
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12...
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...
http://www.breitbart.com/radio...

People are waking up and realizing that the facebook ministry of truth is more focused on propaganda than facts. It hasn't even been a year and their fact checking efforts are having only a very slight difference or even backfiring.

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

However, Facebook will unquestionably learn to be more subtle in their political manipulations in the future. When you privatize the public square you also effectively privatize constitutional rights. Should facebook be broken up or regulated? Their position, power and propensity to abuse their power has created a threat to our democracy.

Why the rant against Canada?

Asshole companies being assholes most certainly, but there is justification for blaming Canada here. We're talking about a country that has speech codes like the ones on American liberal arts campuses, but applying to the whole country. You can be hauled before a secret tribunal for criticizing religious practices or even a public figure's arrest record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

or a list of other parameters which is continually being expanded:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...

These categories of "hate speech" include large areas of what in the US and Europe would be ordinary political discourse.

She said that she would run for president if millennials want her to.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...
In Alabama, the state government began to require this year that able-bodied adults without dependents in 13 of its counties either have a job or go through a work training program while receiving benefits. The result has been a staggering 85 percent decrease in the number of food stamp beneficiaries in those counties.

And in Georgia, state lawmakers began requiring this year that ABAWD in 21 of its counties either hold a job or complete job training as a condition of receiving food stamps. So far, the requirement has resulted in a 62 percent drop in the number of beneficiaries in those same 21 counties.

Citations:

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2... http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/2...

Biden should run in 2020. The Onion articles would be epic. This country needs to laugh again.

Wait, I thought Trump was going to be comedy gold for comedians and late night TV hosts? The Onion articles on Uncle Joe were pretty epic though. :-D

When corporations can force people to hand over their wealth under threat of incarceration and/or violence, I'll take your perspective seriously.

You mean, like this?

Thing is, there was never any actual evidence of Russian hacking.

Look dude, even President ManBaby himself said the information he's seen convinced him.
The one guy with the most reason to deny the russians hacked the Clinton campaign and the most access to any proof otherwise has said he thinks the Russians did it.

Trump: "As far as hacking, I think it was Russia"

The claim by Trump follows incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus stating on Fox News that he thinks Trump “accepts the finding. He’s not denying entities in Russia are behind these particular hackings.”

It would help if their chair candidates didn't tend to exhibit such shocking anti-white racism in their desperate attempts to brown-nose minorities. What do they expect whites to think exactly?

Here you go . . . "

No evidence supporting claims of the attack's origins was ever presented.

Look dude, even the Resident ManBaby himself said the information he's seen convinced him.
The one guy with the most reason to deny the russians hacked the Clinton campaign and the most access to any proof otherwise has said he thinks the Russians did it.

"As far as hacking, I think it was Russia"

The claim by Trump follows incoming Chief of Staff Reince Priebus stating on Fox News that he thinks Trump “accepts the finding. He’s not denying entities in Russia are behind these particular hackings.”

"At least we didn't cozy up to the religious right, spawn the TEA partiers, and elect a cheeto."

So instead of cozying up to the religious right (the group of people who founded, and fought and died to create the country that you live in and benefit from http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... ), spawned the Tea party (a grass roots set of peaceful organizations fed up with Washington politics and liberal overreach who left their protest and event grounds cleaner than when they arrive http://www.thegatewaypundit.co... ) and elected president Trump (the only non-politician citizen running for the office this last election cycle). Instead of doing all that, which you somehow think is horrendous, the left spawned:

-The sometimes violent/rapist Occupy movement that caused mass disruptions and cost large cities millions of dollars to clean up after http://www.nydailynews.com/new...
-The violent, rioting, police and law and order hating, racist Black Lives Matter group who were founded on a lie in Fergusun http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfro... went on to inspire a man to mass murder police officers in Dallas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and generally hate law enforcement http://dailycaller.com/2015/08...
-The left has spawned violent riots over conservative speakers http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/...
-The left has disrupted and shouted down conservatives and their events and violently attacked Trump supporters. http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...

There seems to be a large contingent of rabid fascists on the left and an even larger cross section of lefies who are so secure in their moral superiority that reality cannot intrude. The fascist left had better tone it down or they may end up facing the national guard and lead bullets the next time they try to violently assault someone else's freedom to assemble/speak. The rest of the left had better start paying more attention to reality and pull their heads out of their collective echo chamber (or their asses, I can never tell which is which with them).

Based on this comparison, I will take the conservative approach any day of the week and twice on Sunday. You should focus less on name calling and more on staying abreast of actual actions committed by these groups, both left and right.

In the real human world you should prepare yourself to defend against attackers who don't respect other's body and safety.

The best defense is a good offense. A good offense disarms your opponent before they can hurt you.

Wouldn't you rather there not be any need to worry about being attacked in the first place?

Strangely enough, those that whine about "hate speech" are usually against having the means to defend against attackers, they'd rather everyone just be a victim.

Strangely enough, however, those that whine about the need to defend themselves tend to be hysterical, to the point where they spent 8 years desperately buying firearms for...no real reason. Panicky, idiotic people, who are so easily lead astray are the ones who make me the victim of their insanity.

That's the real humans in this world.

• Cooperate Taxes - Why stay here when you can go overseas for cheaper labor
• Insurance / Obamacare - If you get beyond a certain size you either have to cut everyone hours so you don't have pay their insurance. Or you pay a penalty in the form of taxes on insurance to help pay the Affordable Care Act.
• H1B1 VISA Contractor - Why use expensive local labor when you can bring in an external entity to do it cheaper
• Work Ethics - Its just hard to find young people who will work like their older counter parts
• Automation - We've seen article here about robotics and AI. The menial tasks are slowly getting replaced reducing the labor pool
• Lack of Education - Colleges need to show that their graduating about 80% of their students to get state and federal funds. So they're dumbing down the courses.

Yeah, the halcyon days of...February 2017.

Remember then? Trumpcare hadn'tâ failed yet. There was no gay Beauty and the Beast. David Rockefeller was still alive.

Just one of the many, many advantages Texas has over California [battleswarmblog.com].

That blog post is a load of bullshit. But, hey, what do you expect from a low reg, low tax state.

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/RTSHf.Xl_.4.jpeg

You are just repeating over and over again that freedom of speech comes first. Why? Is it for you an absolute value, an end in itself? Then there is no discussion possible, and I'm just wasting my time trying to reason with you.

Re BLM: I'm not searching for it. I asked for a concrete example, it would be nice of you to provide the link.

Here's some. If you're interested there is more.
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...
www.huffingtonpost.ca/.../black-lives-matter-toronto-yusra-khogali_b_14635896.html
http://www.torontosun.com/2017...

Why does Freedom of Speech come first?

What would it come after? Your feelings?

Should saying "Islam / Christianity is a barbaric, ridiculous religion" be against the law? No.

Would you make Islam illegal because it advocates killing infidels? No.

You do know he got fewer votes, right?

One of the topics that I find interesting is the sheer volume of protest over voter ID laws. I need ID to drive, to fly, to move into or out of the country, etc. Why is it so odd that I would need ID to vote? However I hear it compared to everything from a racist scheme to prevent poor people from voting to a modern day Jim Crow. However it fails the common sense test that ID should be a problem. There was even a very funny video of that that I cited below. However the level of protest is so extreme that I feel that there must be more to the story. The data that I have seen is that voter ID laws mainly hurt the Hispanic vote which would also be, as a group, the most likely to have people who weren't citizens. Thus in a sense it suggests what people have been alleging, which is that a lot of votes are illegal, may well be accurate. Or maybe we can call them undocumented voters if you prefer ;-) Citation: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...

Oh, was that [washingtonpost.com] what [thedailybeast.com] you wanted?

Yes, something like that, except targeting not a particular person (like Obama), but "all the vile evil non-believers and sinners who have either actively or passively decided to follow Satan".

Because wishing ill to a particular person — including President of the US — is really old shtick.

while deliberately failing to consider that the prayers in question were for the misery and suffering of others.

The distinction you are trying to make is without difference. They are still merely prayers. Words. Not actions. Not even calls for actions, which is what the Illiberals are doing.

Whish is worse — praying for suffering of political opponents (if indeed such praying takes place at all), or causing the suffering of political opponents?

You need to sit back

OMG, a wanna-be anonymous troll teaches me, how to troll properly?..

Story that directly counters your claim. Let me quote it for you.

The House Intelligence Committee had to cancel a briefing set on Capitol Hill for Thursday after their request for more information from the CIA and other intelligence agencies was denied.

U.S. Rep Devin Nunes is one of the people requesting the information, Congress is STILL in session until Friday.

You lied twice in order to cover up. Thats right, you lied in order to cover up Obama lying to the public and help them refuse transparency and answering to the public. You should not comment on political stories if your initial reaction is to lie to make your points.

(And if you want to call The Blaze a non-trustworthy news site, you will have to name a news site that I can't name a story where they outright lied in the last month off the top of my head, which includes the NYT, Boston Globe, CNN. MSNBC, and on and on)

Bernie got bought off after the election was stolen, no doubt. But to pretend that the democrat primary was fair and balanced, in any way shape or form, is ret-conning of the highest degree.

Speaking of coin tosses: http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

The most amusing bit about the democrats response isn't the fact they aren't screaming "LIES!" It's the fact that they are pointing at Russia and yelling "Those dicks did that!"

My guess is that if the defense is true - she pissed them off with the reset button!

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

Or not.

According to that she was in bed with Putin.

that does ignore this book

http://www.penguinrandomhouse....

Which tells where the "reset button" was swiped from.

It amazes me that people forget that hillary reset relations and simultaneously screams about hacking.Was she a complete failure back then? Or is she lying now?

You said that the basis of your analysis was "operant behavior". I'm simply pointing out that that analysis is incorrect: reinforcements only apply to actual behaviors, and someone who is jobless, by definition, doesn't engage in the actual behavior of "holding a job" so that behavior never gets reinforced.

Obtaining employment under current welfare: punishment. Welfare benefits vanish. Job bad. Operant response: avoid.

Obtaining employment under my system: 100% of benefit from employment is conveyed. No punishment. Job good. Operant response: reward, repeat.

A person with no job and a limited income has many behaviors which are mediated by money. A person lacking sufficient money to engage in rewarding behaviors will seek to increase income, perhaps by getting a job; however, as stated, punishing a person for getting a job diminishes job-seeking behavior.

That is a property that pretty much all welfare systems already have.

Unemployment: When you become employed, benefits discontinue immediately. Loss of job requires re-application; benefits are only provided under specific job-loss conditions. An at-fault termination (you were fired, not laid-off) disqualifies you for unemployment benefits, thus taking a job is risky. Loss of employment more than thrice in three years disqualifies you for unemployment benefits, thus seeking jobs repeatedly is dangerous.

HUD: HUD pays the lesser of 30% of your rent OR 30% of the standard minus your income. An income increase removes HUD benefits and makes you responsible for more of the rent, thus an income increase reduces income. HUD is, however, less useful in this examination, because HUD families already have jobs; they might gain additional income by working more, if underemployed (which, of course, requires occupying a job out of what is, at any given moment, a limited pool of jobs, thus excluding someone else from working those hours).

SNAP: DO NOT ACCRUE ANY SAVINGS. SNAP benefits END if you have more than $2,250 of bank accounts and other countable resources; some (15) states actually count your car as a resource, and won't pay you a benefit until you sell your car and spend the money on food (and then how do you get to work?). Households with above $990 + $347/person monthly income are disqualified. SNAP benefits are reduced to zero at a rate of 30% of monthly income; the reward value of gainful employment is thus reduced by 30% (i.e. $10/hr? No, it's only $7/hr).

The Welfare Trap has an income plateau at $8.25/hr full-time in Illinois, and drops off above $12/hr. Total income reaches a low point at $18/hr full-time; recovery is roughly $38/hr full-time. Here's a picture.

Now what's really interesting is this graph doesn't actually show unemployment. That's because unemployment is based on your income at your prior job, and is limited to 6 months. In Maryland, the current maximum is $430/week or $10.75/hr; in Illinois, it's $418/week or $10.45/hr. That means unemployment pays more than full-time $8.25/hr--which is almost the maximum income level when benefits are included. Further, unemployment is 47% of your income over the past 6 months, which means you would have been making $22.25/hr to get $418/week.

That means, in Illinois, being on unemployment and every other Welfare system pays more than a replacement job at your prior wage, unless you made more than $38/hr ($76,000).

The median household income is $54,000, which means more than 50% of all households are better off holding out on welfare as long as possible.

What was that feature you were talking about? The feature that this shit doesn't happen? Because this is how it works in the real world. If you make less than $60,000 or $75,000 or something, get yourself laid off, get on unemployment, get all benefits possible, then fi

party leaders still have time to recover some shred of dignity

Ah, that famously gallant concern Democrats have for the Republican Party...

KKK, BLM, and Westboro Church — three infamously Democratic outfits — throw urine at each other, but it is the Republicans, who need to worry about their dignity... Fabulous...

You might want to pull you head out of Obama's ass. I realize you like the taste of his prostate, but that's no excuse.

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

Second, Wide Receiver, though flawed, was more of a gun-tracing operation than a gun-walking program. Gun-tracing involves putting specific safeguards in place to track firearms, such as RFID chips perhaps with video or aerial surveillance. Gun-walking is what happened in Fast and Furious, where ATF agents sold thousands of guns without a reliable way to recover them, apparently just hoping for the best.

Some of the guns from Wide Receiver were implanted with RFID chips and were actively tracked electronically. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in Phoenix also implemented aerial surveillance tactics in an attempt to follow the weapons.

However, problems reportedly arose due to poorly implanted RFID chips which were forced into the guns, bending the antennas and decreasing their effectiveness. Cartels and straw purchasers also eventually came up with creative ways to shake tracking maneuvers and overhead surveillance, such as driving in loops for hours until surveillance planes had to refuel.

Those in charge of Fast and Furious took no similar steps to strengthen their chances of recovering walked guns other than recording the serial numbers before watching them disappear in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

In fact, ATF agents involved in Fast and Furious have previously testified that they were ordered to stand down and not track the weapons even when interdiction was possible and instead “took notes” and let the guns walk across the Mexico border. Watch some of ATF whistleblower John Dodson’s Congressional testimony:

You are, however, correct that most of the guns were not recovered. Which is exactly why it was shut down. They tried something, it failed miserably, they stopped.

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

The medical experts that sided with the family included the girls primary physician at Tufts Medical Center who knew her well and was treating her successfully, as well as many other MD experts in the same field who were unpaid and who reviewed and agreed with his diagnosis.

They were MDs, not homeopaths.

The state sided initially with the hospital and thus they are as criminally liable for her injury, deprivation of her meds for mitochondrial disease, 16 months of physical and psychological torture, as well as treating the parents like they had abused their daughter. She went in with the flu, but was otherwise functional, with videos just prior of her skating and hanging out with friends.

The quacks at the hospital locked her in a psych ward for 16 months. After 16 months without meds the hospital had nearly killed her, which is why they finally returned custody to the parents, because if she had died someone would have been facing manslaughter at least if not 2nd degree murder. When she was finally released she could not stand, sit or walk on her own and had other severe symptoms of the untreated mitochondrial disease. She has also had to have multiple surgeries to correct some of the damage.

Since your google is broken, here are some links. I know it sounds like Stalinist Russia, but this actually happened in the US a couple of years ago...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/me...

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

If you have kids and didn't know about this story, you need to wake up and pay attention to the people and politicians who are trying to take away your rights as a citizen and as a parent. It is some scary shit.

Of course, the ACTUAL originator of the Birther claims was a guy that produced a book jacket biography for Obama's first book that was never written. That bio explicitly claimed that Obama was born in Kenya. The writer that produced that book jacket biography that was sent to the publishers? No one seens to know who it was, but it initials were B.O. and it's rumored he was last spotted at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.

Oh please, even Breitbart admitted that it was unlikely the biography was written by any of the subjects, and the person who probably didn't pay that much attention to it.

M.G. is different from B.O. though.

This is why Trump is a real failure though, shit like this, which is about as meaningful as Major Dad getting the date wrong on his discharge papers. And no, nobody else made Trump proclaim that he'd find out the real truth. He chose to do it. He also chose to try to make somebody else responsible. Nobody else made him print that letter about the Central Park 5. Nobody else made him make a wild accusation about Ted Cruz's father. Nobody made him do half the shit he's done.

But hell, if he wants to say he's Hillary Clinton's puppet, go right ahead and let him.

Its not like he can own up to anything himself.

Fuck them all.

Report: Clinton Made VP Finalists Turn Over Every Social Media Password for Each Member of Family and More

Such as? Be specific.

Not OP but here is the first thing that comes to mind.

I don't know what your preferences are politically, but you can definitely vote your conscience. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pay-attention-to-libertarian-gary-johnson-hes-pulling-10-vs-trump-and-clinton/>Gary Johnson has 10% of the overall electorate vote today.

There are other third party candidates there, some are horrendous Marxists basically, like Stein, whatever. You can vote what you really think rather than taking a part in this false choice.

Shit, write in Darth Vader if that's your real preference.

I'd say that shows very clearly that depending on the cops for protection is a losing strategy. If you want to protect yourself, your friends and loved ones, and innocent people around you, you should carry at all times.

Ironically, the idea of being able to defend yourself seems to be anathema to some people...

I'm not disagreeing with you. The example I was looking for was something along the lines of the Diary of Anne Frank. Perhaps it is a lot more cloudy that I initially thought. Especially since Anne Frank is dead and the copyright if applicable would be inherited by her legal heirs.

That makes sense. I've found an article Do you lose the right to privacy when you die?, which seems to conclude, more or less, yes. Apparently in the USA at least there is specific legislation covering medical records, death-scene images are covered because they might be distressing for relatives, and unauthorised access to an electronic account is covered on that basis. In general, though, people don't have a right to privacy after they die.

But here is a different scenario. Suppose it is security footage of a house fire instead of a diary and the rest was the same outside of it being footage like this http://www.theblaze.com/storie... Do you think the privacy angle would be any different even though you or the home owner would essentially own the footage originally?

Since they were watching the footage 20 minutes after evacuating, I guess the camera was accessible via the Internet. I'm given to understand that a right to privacy under common law depends on having a reasonable expectation to privacy (e.g. you don't have a right to privacy in a room with a window facing a busy street, with the curtains open). I'd wonder if someone could have a reasonable expectation to privacy if they had a camera connected to the Internet and it was unsecured. This article suggests there is no right to privacy in USA for unsecured webcams: Controversial website feature shows alarming lack of webcam security. I don't know if the camera in question was unsecured though.

Otherwise, if the camera was secured, or the footage was obtained from the property itself, I'd guess that a right to privacy covers footage inside an empty home, but I don't know.

Perhaps you are correct. My understanding of the common law is to the extent that it existed before we became formally a country and the traditions of stare decisis where a decision creates precedence for lower courts. I'm not sure that a law or case that happened in 1980 Britain would have much impact in the US. However, the magna carta was specifically referenced in some of the eminent domain cases I remember being fought and losing so I know it does have weight.

As for the trash being private, I'm not so sure the extent is for third parties but I was also not aware of how all over the place the courts have been on it.

In any case, if there is an issue with privacy here, I think it would be better dealt with by reforming privacy law. Using this as an argument against the original suggestion for reforming copyright law seems a bit convoluted. I think your other argument was better.

I'm not disagreeing with you. The example I was looking for was something along the lines of the Diary of Anne Frank. Perhaps it is a lot more cloudy that I initially thought. Especially since Anne Frank is dead and the copyright if applicable would be inherited by her legal heirs.

But here is a different scenario. Suppose it is security footage of a house fire instead of a diary and the rest was the same outside of it being footage like this

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

Do you think the privacy angle would be any different even though you or the home owner would essentially own the footage originally?

Not sure what you're implying here, but you would have a very hard time convincing me that, somehow, Donald Trump is not an intelligent and decent person. Despite some of his wacky outbursts, he is in no way unfit to be president of the US, and might be exactly what this country needs right now.

I don't know about intelligent or not, since that's very hard to judge, but he's ignorant, not at all decent, and wildly unqualified to be President. He doesn't know about basic aspects of US military and foreign policy, like the nuclear triad which combines with his terrible ideas about using nukes as a serious threat instead of conventional troops. This combines with his general deep misunderstandings of basic issues in international relations http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11318722/trump-foreign-policy.

As for being a decent person, decent people don't attack war heroes for being POWs http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317, they don't suggest they'll pay legal fees for supporters who engage in violence http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317, and then lie about it http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/15/fact-check-trump-claims-he-never-said-hed-pay-legal-fees-for-rally-attendees-who-hit-protesters/. They don't have such thin skins that they get upset over a comment about the size of their hands and then proceed to reference the size of their genitalia on at a Presidential debate http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/03/04/donald-trumps-obsession-with-size-surfaces-in-crude-ways.html .These are only a few examples.

He's an unqualified, egotistical blowhard. It is a deep shame that the party of Lincoln has been reduced to this.

It is well-known that most domestic terrorists are well educated, middle class to wealthy individuals.

Most Domestic 'Jihadists' Are Educated, Well-Off

However, many foreign terrorists are also very wealthy.

Osama Bin Laden Had $29 Million in Wealth, Requested it Mainly Be Used for âJihadâ(TM) in Personal Will

Whatâ(TM)s made the Islamic State one of the richest terrorist armies in history?

The World's Richest Terrorists

PTSD from being attacked and raped? Nope, can't own a gun, even though it would help to reduce the panic attacks and would make you feel safer.

Mentally abusive husband twists your mind constantly making you feel like you have no power, you finally get away from him, and are prevented from owning a handgun to protect yourself from former abusive husband.

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

The proper response to an abusive ex is to own a gun, would he dare break in if you had a firearm pointed at the door?

For anyone still reading, all of those links show that a single man shouted a nazi reference to a crowd of people who shouted at him first. Seriously, read the links.

Oh, there are more.

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

http://www.motherjones.com/moj...