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The F-35 will not be able to use its guns until 2019. http://www.thedailybeast.com/a....

the principle you're looking for is "keeping poor people poor and in their place".
its about punishing the poor.... for being poor
it's about punishing parents and starving kids.
there is also very much a racial element to this.
and of course there's the fact that the predominant users of drugs aren't the poor to start with.

"States already do a good job of ensuring no one gets a 'free ride.' We don't need another one--especially one that stigmatizes"
http://time.com/3117361/welfar...

"The rush to humiliate the poor"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

"The Myth of Welfare and Drug Use"
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http://www.slate.com/articles/...

America should be about 2nd chances. And 3rds. and 4ths. And 5ths. Indeed, that's the idea behind the mythological American Dream, that anyone can make it here. But people who support this punishment of the poor seem to believe that people should be expected to accomplish a home run on the first swing, and be punished if they fail to do so. They tell people to "work harder", "try harder", "pick themselves up", while simultaneously doing everything they can to impede their ability to do so.

So no. It's not about responsibility. And it's not even about principles. It's a lie to say that it is.

Brilliant idea. Like in this movie:

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http://www.roarthemovie.com/

The Second Amendment clearly (to anyone who understands how English was used at the time) forbids the Federal Government from interfering, in any way, with obtaining and carrying weapons. (infringe ~ "even meddle with the fringes of")

Your interpretation is quaint, and incorrect, at least it didn't mean that until 2008, Columbia v. Heller

there is not a single word about an individual right to a gun for self-defense in the notes from the Constitutional Convention

Nor in the Constitution!

The public's understanding of the 2nd Amendment started to be distorted by the NRA early in the last century. The NRA has been filling the minds of gun owners with an interpretation that was never intended by the Founders for some time, so no one can blame you for your incorrect interpretation when a propaganda machine like the NRA has been bombarding you with selective truths and out-right lies.

Four times between 1876 and 1939, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule that the Second Amendment protected individual gun ownership outside the context of a militia.

That includes gun trafficing, because stopping gun sales makes it harder to exercise the right.

Wow... THAT is OUT THERE. Of course, you are completely mistaken, and this bold statement of yours is wildly, dangerously inaccurate. Gun regulation is legal, and necessary.

Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

Saudi Arabia-funded Islamic State
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

CIA-funded al Qaeda
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...

Start with the top link it leads to all the others, and there are a LOT of them.

And a Russian thing. And a Mexican thing.

we should focus on having any accountability at all.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/16/venezuela-now-has-toilet-paper-but-no-breast-implants.html.

Jokes aside, they did have shortages. The gov't saw the problem and reacted to it. Problem solved. You'll note no one's talking about their TP shortage anymore. See, that's kinda the idea behind socialism. You see a problem and then instead of waiting for some phantom invisible hand to solve it you actually _do_ something.

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http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/...

As to examples, your ignorance of common knowledge is not my problem. Look at his wikipedia page.

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

http://nymag.com/daily/intelli...

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http://www.poynter.org/news/me...

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There you go. Links. Suck it long. Suck it hard.

yeah, given that we're not any closer to an AI that would NEED those three laws

The robots Asimov imagined (whatever their brain) did not have to be bound by the three laws. They were deliberately designed that way.

And that's exactly the complain — the brains we currently devise are not being built those hard limits.

they don't make any choices nor do they ponder the choices or have any capability to make a choice.

Yes, the "syntactic" ones do not. But we are on the verge of real ("semantic") AI, and those better have some limits built-in, or some nasty predictions might materialize instead of Asimov's comfortable robot-assisted world.

The one European country that consistently supports science is France. It's been this way since the Revolution - small wonder that our own first ambassador was Ben Franklin. But even France has participated in the anti-GMO hysteria spreading through Europe. Now there's an anti-vaccine movement as well:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
And of course, everyone is familiar with Germany's replacement, in direct collision with the concern over carbon, of nuclear power with brown coal.

The last mention of fracking I heard of in Germany was that attempt to develop geothermal energy in an old volcanic stump in the southwestern corner of the country. As soon as the first tiny dish-rattler earthquake was felt in Basel, the Germans shut down geothermal development, and it was never heard from again.

But only in Sweden is regret considered retroactive rape.

No. At most universities in the US, regret can also be considered retroactive rape. See the Emma Sulkowicz case at Columbia University.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/columbia-student-i-didn-t-rape-her.html

it's deeply in debt

Nice try. We elected a Democratic governor, so the giant debts from the era of the previous republican adminstration are gone. hello surplus! Thanks credit upgrade!

Pretty sure both Rick Perry and Greg Abbott -- and especially Ted Cruz -- would wipe the floor with any Democrat on Jeopardy.

Especially the "brilliant" Sheila Jackson Lee.

I asked Barack Obama about Ms. Lee, he said he learned about her idiocy from the papers. You know, like he learned about Benghazi, Hillary's illegal email accounts, etc.

But what about the gun nuts' Constitutional right to bear arms irresponsibly and kill their pregnant wives without consequence? Thank ALEC, the NRA and Jeezus that here in the land of the free and the home of the brave that gun nuts have a license to kill so long as they "feel threatened". I'm sure they "feel threatened" whenever some legislation comes up with respect to gun rights... Better get your arsenal in order!

Their upper class wants to communicate anonymously: http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

It's not just "speculation and conjecture" As the Daily Beast's companion article states (emphasis mine),

One item in particular jumps out from the cargo manifest: a consignment weighing 5,400 pounds that included a large number of lithium-ion batteries, radio accessories and chargers.

Tests conducted on a similar consignment of batteries in a cargo hold by the Federal Aviation Administration have shown that they are vulnerable to a “thermal runaway” when one battery overheats and a chain reaction occurs. In several of the tests, smoke and fumes reached the airplane’s cockpit in less than 10 minutes. Another test caused an explosion that blew open the cockpit door. This week United Airlines joined Delta in deciding to no longer carry shipments of the batteries in the cargo holds of passenger flights.

Yes, and that is a perfectly rational risk assessment. It is not possible to say how big the risk is exactly, but it is easy to avoid for a moderate additional cost, and therefore I would expect any airline to come to the same conclusion - unless maximising profit is the only significant consideration.

However, that does not really explain what happened, because it seems that the aircraft did not blow up, but it just followed a rather strange and irregular flight path.

Yep because speculation and conjecture will really help at this point.

Large consignments of lithium-ion batteries get carried all the time without issue.

It's not just "speculation and conjecture" As the Daily Beast's companion article states (emphasis mine),

One item in particular jumps out from the cargo manifest: a consignment weighing 5,400 pounds that included a large number of lithium-ion batteries, radio accessories and chargers.

Tests conducted on a similar consignment of batteries in a cargo hold by the Federal Aviation Administration have shown that they are vulnerable to a “thermal runaway” when one battery overheats and a chain reaction occurs. In several of the tests, smoke and fumes reached the airplane’s cockpit in less than 10 minutes. Another test caused an explosion that blew open the cockpit door. This week United Airlines joined Delta in deciding to no longer carry shipments of the batteries in the cargo holds of passenger flights.

This issue was also brought up quite recently in a related discussion right here on Slashdot.

They were also carrying a load of lithium batteries, which other passenger airlines refuse to carry due to past accidents

"It confirms that a large consignment of lithium-ion batteries was aboard the Boeing 777 and outlined in a red box was the warning: “The package must be handled with care and that a flammability hazard exists if the package is damaged. Special procedures must be followed in the event the package is damaged, to include inspection and repacking if necessary.”"
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India's Caste Culture is a Rape Culture
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If I were Prime Minister of India, I'd give Licensed Pistols to all Dalits/Adivasis in India;
http://wh.gov/ijtyM

The records law was brought into the 21st century after Clinton left the State Department. Also, she turned over all official correspondence.

She may not have violated any laws.

http://thedailybanter.com/2015...

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According to the Daily Beast, those "rules" that Hillary supposedly broke... weren't put in place until almost a year after she left office.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

"The new regs apparently weren’t fully implemented by State until a year and half after Clinton left State. Here’s the timeline: Clinton left the State Department on February 1, 2013. Back in 2011, President Obama had signed a memorandum directing the update of federal records management. But the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) didn’t issue the relevant guidance, declaring that email records of senior government officials are permanent federal records, until August 2013. Then, in September 2013, NARA issued guidance on personal email use."

Why not? Apparently, doxing isn't actually illegal!

You could argue that it's not a smart thing to do because a Federal judge might have enough power to get somebody raided with a no-knock warrant and arrested even though the charges wouldn't stick, though.

Obviously because they would have been bragging about it. The national insecurity state constantly releases top secret info for PR purposes when it would be calling for another 30 year sentence for a whisteblower if he were to publish the same information.

So, yeah, if mass warrantless wiretapping had actually been used to prevent an actual attack, you would have actually heard about it.

I'm not sure it would be a bad thing for OSHA to require employers to provide adjustable desks for office workers.

Check that make-a-law impulse. A desk job is just about the safest thing you can do (assuming you don't have to travel for work). Very little chance of suffocating a mile underground (mining), disappearing into the sea (commercial fishing), losing a limb (logging, mill works), or routine exposure to carcinogens (many factory jobs). (Obligatory slideshow: the twenty deadliest jobs.)

That's not to say OSHA should have no concern but office workers (which they do)... just that it should be proportional to the risk involved.

What Africa really needs to fight Ebola is to stop traditional burial practices, such as allowing traditional healers to wash the dead body and then travel back to their home village and spread the contagion. Where there is one case, quarantine the village and cremate the deceased. To quote: "Ebola victims are most infectious right after death—which means that West African burial practices, where families touch the bodies, are spreading the disease like wildfire." In Guinea, 60% of all cases had been linked to traditional burial practices."

Don't forget the rapes

Chicago

Boston

Los Angeles

India

First of all, go to this link http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

You said:

... There was about 1000 years of peace before that happened ...

If there ever was 1000 years of peace why the Christians had to hide from the Muslims in the caves?

True, the Christians were first hiding from the Romans, but after the Romans themselves became Christians, the Christians living there didn't need to live underground ... until THE ARRIVAL OF THE MOSLEMS who persecuted the Christians, captured their females and gang-raped them, and then sold them to slavery, just like what those IS motherfuckers are doing to the non-Sunni females in Syria / Iraq right now

Why do you lie?

What do you get for lying??

At least one Lefty disagrees.

So how many times have organizations of the Federal Government had information beforehand on suspects and have failed to put the pieces together and act vs. actually succeeding at stopping something? They've never given any evidence that they have been able to stop anything significant based on prior knowledge and yet I've lost count of how many times they have traced back having information and the threat *still* happened.

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• The 9/11 Comission Report

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• The Boston Bombing Intelligence Failure

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• Obama calls Christmas day attack an intelligence failure

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• Long history of intelligence failures

That doesn't even consider the many times when there is no intelligence failure and bad things still happen. Thinking that knowing everything about everyone will prevent problems only infringes liberties with no promise of protection. At some point you have to see through the claims that ". . . if only we do X we can ensure that this will never happen again!" as being unworkable and it's better to protect liberties than to infringe them . . . including liberties of foreign citizens. Trying to blame Snowden's disclosures for why bad things aren't prevented is ludicrous.

Of course there's always the root of the problem: who effected the bad thing? We should blame the implementors of the evil rather than some fringe player . . . unless all you want is a scape goat that's in arms reach.

Kim Kardashian for breaking the Internet ? NSFW Linky

Ok, so how was it unlikely that NK did the hack?

Technical fingerprints: the tools used in the hack were not unique to NK and the hackers' "C&C infrastructure" was public proxies. This renders worthless all of the FBI's proof against NK since it was based on no one else having these tools or IPs.

More technical fingerprints: Sony has been hacked by everyone for years. It can be assumed that multiple hacker groups were inside Sony at any time, and any one of them could have been the one to take over Sony's network and destroy their data.

Motive: One of the GOP hackers has been identified as a Sony sysadmin who said their motivation was equality. Sony had been caught paying a newly hired male executive $1 million more than a woman with the same job title a few months before that sysadmin lost their job at Sony. The stuff about North Korea came after the equality claim, after the media raised it as a possibility.

... kids who masturbate on tweeter ...

You mean Lena Dunham? http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

As an American this is the only time I am trying to follow up on what Kate is wearing: http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/c...

Yep, 2 cops dead, and I'm the idiot because I DARED point it out. Sorry you found a faked video, but I wasn't talking about that one. I guess Fox News once again was the ONLY place that played this one story since you are completely ignorant on the subject.

Take your hatred and name calling somewhere else. Its the name calling that is causing the problems, and you just piled it higher and deeper. You should be ashamed of yourself, but instead you are probably proud.

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That "we don't negotiate with terrorists" is a lie:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Please stop repeating it.

Thank you.

That "we don't negotiate with terrorists" is a lie:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Please stop repeating it.

Thank you.

I'm not trying to defend them, they're as ridiculous a caricature of villainy as you can get, but they're a product of the east west dynamic much more than a product of Islam.

Right .....

ISIS Jihadis Get ‘Slavery for Dummies’

One of the biggest problems the West has is recognizing them for what they are based on their actions and who they say they are as opposed to what the politically correct nonsense being published in the West says about them.

Unfortunately it isn't just ISIS, Al Qaida, and company.

Russian Blondes Wanted for Islamic Sexual Slavery
“I hope that Kuwait will enact the law forsex slaves”

But if he was using this MIT program at all to try to pick up women then that is wrong, and it makes sense for MIT to put a stop to it.

It might make sense for MIT to disconnect him from such "online students", but it makes no sense to take the (presumably valuable) lectures offline. They have merit regardless of who wrote them — James Watson didn't stop being a brilliant biologist, when we learned, he is also a racist.

More generally, if we allow Communists — propagandists of the most deadly school of thought known to humanity so far — and terrorists (and some assholes, who fall into both groups) to become college professors, then a petty harasser — and even a serial rapist, with his mere few scores of victims — should be just fine...

The mass purchase of books written by right-wing commentators and politicos by right-wing organizations is well established as a form of support (aka "pay-off") is well established.

I do like the "rich fiends" bit though!

Now you have.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Bush drafted the pullout plan...

Yes, the plan drafted by him years earlier — but it was Obama's execution, and his failure to make corrections when new developments made it obvious, the plan's original projections were too optimistic. Face it, Obama wanted to do it for political reasons — to look better...

You mean, like Reagan did with the USSR and Afghanistan invasion?

Hah! You lie, but that's a good example, thank you! USSR invaded Afghanistain in 1979, when Jimmy Carter was is office — another example of a weak "it is all America's fault" excuse for a President. But even he imposed sanctions against USSR. And the whole world boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Reagan assumed Presidency in 1981, with the invasion over a year-old, and proceeded to arm Russia's opponents in Afghanistan. He did not lift Carter-era sanctions — he expanded them. Obama, on the other hand, would not send Ukraine anything lethal, and even to get him to agree to supply blankets and body-armor took some arm-twisting and was delayed by months.

1) Gitmo is still open. 2) Drone strikes were started by Bush.

Yes, which is an embarrassment for Obama. To reduce the embarrassment, he is doing two things both of which are far worse: 1) he is releasing the current detainees — including bona-fide enemies of the US; 2) he vastly expanded the drone strikes "started by Bush". Bush used air-strikes to kill enemies, who could not be detained. Obama is using against all — such is his reluctance to increase the number of inconvenient detainees, he prefers to lose the intelligence value of interrogating them. That the remotely-killed people have no chance of clearing up any confusion makes Obama's policy even more immoral.

So far you've listed exactly the things that Republicans do.

Nonsense. You have no leg to stand on in this argument — the extrajudicial killing of bin Laden (ordered by Obama) defeats your point by itself... That you chose to ignore the earlier-raised point of Obama taking the drone-strikes to the whole new level, and his order to kill rather the detain bin Laden, shows your dishonesty.

On top of that you got Reagan's reaction to USSR's invasion exactly backwards, which demonstrates the level of ignorance so deep, I'm unlikely to respond again...

You are not sure women get harassed more than men? Why not?

Because I can't tell the difference between actually getting harassed more and our biases coloring things to look that way.

There is a great deal of room for improvement on the way men treat women.

So you want to talk about harassment - but your opening move is to split people, not into harassers and victims, but by birth group according to your own biases, and insist on that being the framework for the discussion. To me that says that you care less about ending harassment than maintaining your worldview or identity as the 'guy who get it'. (When you say "admitting this doesn't make me less of a man" you're essentially bragging about how you're better than those other guys.)

So try this one:

There is a great deal of room for improvement on the way women treat children and the elderly.

Sure, women abuse the most vulnerable in our society more than men do, but is focusing on that the right way to make progress? Should I base part of my ego on "admitting that women are part of the problem"?

We don't. Because the people in question are likely 12 and 13yrs old and couldn't get convicted anyway

You are forgetting that in the USA, it is not uncommon to sentence kids to jail for life.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2005/1...

There are at least 2,225 child offenders serving life without parole sentences in U.S prisons for crimes committed before they were age 18, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a new joint report published today.

While many of the child offenders are now adults, 16 percent were between 13 and 15 years old at the time they committed their crimes. An estimated 59 percent were sentenced to life without parole for their first-ever criminal conviction. Forty-two states currently have laws allowing children to receive life without parole sentences.

also read, http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Does an 11-Year-Old Deserve Life in Prison?
Eleven-year-old Jordan Brown is accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancé with a hunting rifle. Does that means he belongs in an adult prison with rapists, murderers, and hardened criminals?

So 13 year old making death threats? Hey, they could spend many many years behind bars for that and anything related.

"The washing, touching, and kissing of these bodies — typical in many West African burials — can be deadly. But prohibiting communities from properly honoring their dead ones — and thereby worsening their distrust in medical professionals—can be deadly, too. ref

Ghusl Al Mayyah (Washing the Body)

The Difficulty of Burying Ebola's Victims - Smithsonian

Ebola cremation ruling prompts secret burials in Liberia

Makes me wonder what the local governments in the region are doing to combat the outbreak, they do have governments in that part of the planet? If Ebola broke out in Texas for instance, a state of emergency would be declared then quarantine imposed on anyone within a ten miles of an Ebola victim. The situation would have been resolved within months. They do have governments in that part of the planet?

Villagers began running from the ambulances, trying to burn down hospitals, and attacking humanitarian workers. They feared the disease—but they feared the medicine even more, as well as the people delivering it.

We already have one. Women aren't harassed more, people just CARE MORE when women are harassed.

No, we just react differently even though we have evidence men are harassed more. When a man is harassed on the internet, even by his domestic abuser nobody gives a shit or they go after HIM. When a woman is harassed on the other hand it's the end of the world and a civil rights issue.