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Good science withstands close scrutiny and is dam hard to deny.

And yet some 50 years after it was proven, the link between smoking and cancer was still "Well, we don't really know, do we?"

Science withstands scrutiny and skepticism, not financially motivated ignorance. Industries that make money on the tragedy of the commons paid for these laws and Lamar Smith. This isn't scrutiny.

Replicate, one way or the other, the greenhouse effect on a planetary level. You can't. Guess the EPA has no business regulating greenhouse emissions. If it were real science, we'd have multiple earths we'd be testing on.

All research affected by HIPAA would be banned by this bill.

No. If it is not personally identifiable, you can publish it. EPA could still use a paper, that says, for example, "Of the 5000 people exposed to such-and-such-sulfate, 537 developed such-and-such-iasis." As long as it does not identify the patients.

Indeed, if doing research in the first place and making it available to the EPA was not in violation of HIPAA (or, rather, HITECH) privacy rules, the EPA can publish it further.

To pretend, this is about "privacy" is a gimmick — a spin, employed by people afraid of the sunlight shining on the darker corner of the government.

This is not a fault of people not caring whether or not research is reproducible, but simply of errors

One is still at fault even if his was an honest mistake...

Whether Global Warming is, indeed, a (grave) threat to humanity remains to be seen. But we already know another blatant mistake of the governments, which has lead to the explosion of the obesity epidemics and millions of premature deaths — the War on Fat. And on cholesterol — though manufacturers are still marketing "low cholesterol" foods, the government's current stance is Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption...

Though Americans — and other nations following America's lead — grew obese, no one was punished for that mistake. Without any accountability for the FDA personnel even when the fault is obvious, what is there to restraint the EPA? What "checks and balances" are there to prevent them from banning anything another "charismatic and confident" doctor suggests to ban without much proof?

The "Trust Us" science is junk science — and Congress is absolutely right to fight it, even if they are too chicken to abolish the EPA altogether.

They actually did press "The Beatles: the Copyright extension album".

https://www.theguardian.com/mu...

Basically, if they didn't publish the couldn't claim the extended copyright, so they published rather than let them become free.

There is something to be said for the way copyright manages to keep some popular collections alive and well-tended, rather than rotting away in a cellar. (There is also something to be said for the way copyright manages to keep less popular collections buried and rotting away in a cellar.)

Northern C# Great Lakes Region Council of 2017 or Northern C# Great Lakes Region Council of C# 4.0?

("Die, heretic!")

He also misses the difference in voter turnout between the youngest and oldest age group:
64% of registered voters aged 18-24 voted
90% of over-65s voted

One could truncate his statement and it would still be as reasonable.
"It was mostly the very old who voted ..."

Well considering:
      - 49% of eligible Brits said 'no'
      - Another portion indicated they didn't really want to exit, and was using this as a protest vote
      - Brits outside of the UK for more than 15 years weren't allowed to vote
      - The younger portion of the population generally voted to stay (ref)
      - Financial institutions may move their HQs, with some having started (ref)
      - Airlines such as Easyjet will need to move their HQs to benefit from the European continent (ref)
      - This may be the trigger for Scotland to have another referendum (ref)

With the above I am wondering who will really be happy? Maybe those who were living in a bubble and reading tabloids? I am not saying the EU doesn't need some fixing, but being a non-team player may really hurt.

Well considering:
      - 49% of eligible Brits said 'no'
      - Another portion indicated they didn't really want to exit, and was using this as a protest vote
      - Brits outside of the UK for more than 15 years weren't allowed to vote
      - The younger portion of the population generally voted to stay (ref)
      - Financial institutions may move their HQs, with some having started (ref)
      - Airlines such as Easyjet will need to move their HQs to benefit from the European continent (ref)
      - This may be the trigger for Scotland to have another referendum (ref)

With the above I am wondering who will really be happy? Maybe those who were living in a bubble and reading tabloids? I am not saying the EU doesn't need some fixing, but being a non-team player may really hurt.

Not interesting or surprising at all. Moore stepped off the hysterical enviro platform. For GP, message trumps rationality.

What an interesting inversion of logic. Yes, CO2 pollution is a first world problem, and therefore something about India? Can I have some of what you're smoking?

1.) Scientists predicted in 2000 that kids would grow up without snow.
2.) It’s been 10 years since scientists predicted the “end of skiing” in Scotland.
3.) The Arctic would be “ice-free” by now
4.) Environmentalists predicted the end of spring snowfall

SOURCE ? link to scientific journal please ?

He can't do that, because the above points are copy-pasta of half-truths:

• 1) In an Independent article the author says that snow is a thing of the past, and that he quotes some scientists who say that if global warming continues snow will become a rare occurrence. No dates attached to the scientist's predictions.
• 2) In a Guardian UK article in 2004, unnamed "experts" predicted that the Scottish ski industry had about 20 years left before it died. For the math challenged, that prediction won't be testable for another 7 years. The article points to some short-term trends that showed fewer ski days and fewer ski tickets. The article that the claims were copied from claims since there was a lot of snow this year, the Scottish Ski industry is saved forever.
• 3) This is one based off of something that Al Gore said, which was "Some of the models suggest to Dr Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire North polar ice cap, during summer, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice free within the next 5-7 years." There's a lot of qualifiers in there that get skipped when skeptics read that, they tend to ignore "Some of the models" and "75% chance" and claim that Al Gore said all the Artic would be ice free in 5 years. I'm pretty sure Dr. Maslowski further hedged his bet by prefacing it with "if the current trend continues", but what was actually said is less important than claiming it's wrong.
• 4) This one is references a Union of Concerned Scientists press release, which notes that we have been getting less snow in spring over the last decade and then talks about the kinds of environmental impacts those changes have. The article the claims were copied from notes that there was a record breaking snowstorm this year as a refutation of the entire press release.

https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs...

In the period 2004-20013 3066 Americans were killed due to terrorists, 2902 were killed in 9/11
In the period 2004 -20013 over 126,000 americans were murdered by americans.

If you remove 9/11 as a statistical outlier you have are 128 time more likely to be murdered than killed by a terrorist.If you assume half the people know their murderer you are over 60 times more likely to be killed by someone you know than by a terrorist.

Now lets compare this to deaths in Iraq
https://www.theguardian.com/ne...
"The key figures IBC found are:
14,705 (13%) of all documented civilian deaths were reported as being directly caused by the US-led coalition. The report notes that
Of the 4,040 civilian victims of US-led coalition forces for whom age data was available, 1,201 (29%) were children"


And that was just for one year, over the same 9 years it could be higher than 150,000 deaths and climbing

The USA is much less a "hero" than you are led to believe.

And you wonder why people from these countries have a strong anti-US sentiment ?
Look how much hate the US has towards muslims, yet the deaths caused by them are insignificant compared to the number of muslims killed by US led forces.

Clearly the poster was using one of Boston's new maps. Europe is much smaller now, so they've probably had to omit some letters to make everything fit.

Well.. While we are making stupid claims... How about Obama's trips to the Med, where he and his wife took separate aircraft and a boat load of friends?

You mean the ones where Michelle Bachmann claimed it was 200 million a day? They're lying crap, that's what.

See, that's the issue, you start lying, you keep on lying, and nobody believes you.

But Trump's excursions are all too real. And far too expensive. And way too hypocritical from a guy who claimed to do the exact opposite.

And what makes you think protecting the president in FL is all that much more expensive than having him at the White House? It's not like they don't have SS staff in both places at this point...

There's all sorts of expenses, including the law enforcement in FL. And the NYPD for that matter, for Melania. It's quite a burden.

Why can't he go back to looking for a birth certificate he can't find?

Haters gota hate I guess....

You're the one carrying water for a liar and a fraud. How do you live with yourself?

I'm really tired of seeing this same racist/misogynist bullshit repeated time and time again.

Oh you are? When have you opposed it? Ever?

Even Obama and Clinton were calling for securing the borders previously, including fence/wall building. It's on youtube if you don't believe me.

Trump actually claims they wanted open borders. It's right there.

More to the point, none of them claimed there was a need for a Wall as vast as Trump's, let alone that Mexico would pay for it.

Obama also put a hold on people entering from the same countries that Trump is trying to temporarily ban.

Obama did not put a hold on people entering with actual visas and permits already, but held up further processing of refugee visas.

Your reply is all echo-chamber.

Ironic.

If the sore losers somehow manage to knock Trump out of power before the next Presidential election, prepare for all hell to break loose. That will be a call to arms that I believe will lead to the end of the United States.

You still believe in Jade Helm and Fema Camps, don't you?

We're already heading that direction with the judicial branch shitting all over the executive branch.

You mean actual judges recognizing the hysteria caused by Trump's Mill-considered is in your mind, mere pique, and thus the judges are at fault?

Huh. Good show of your partisan leanings there.

Your mention of race riots is humorous given that Obama started that, not anyone in the GOP.

No, sorry, that Ohio Campaign chair was wrong.

Nuclear fallout? Thank Hillary for her uranium deal and Obama for letting Iran do whatever it wants.

To the contrary, it did the exact opposite. For far less than any of the other options.

Why not use autonomous ships on the dangerous passage instead? Autonomous ships are expected in the next few years, even before autonomous cars.

Only by people who are living in technology la-la land like the authors of the cited article. They're proposing transoceanic cargo vessels with no crew, because as everyone knows the only thing the crew needs to do is click OK for a mid-Atlantic course correction and the rest of the time they're sitting around doing nothing, since a ship runs itself and deals with every eventuality automatically.

If nothing goes wrong, then you don't need a crew. The crew is there for when things go wrong.

Kind of like the auto-pilot of a plane: it can generally take care of everything in cruise and a good portion of landing, but pilots are there for when things go sideways.

Why not use autonomous ships on the dangerous passage instead? Autonomous ships are expected in the next few years, even before autonomous cars.

Only by people who are living in technology la-la land like the authors of the cited article. They're proposing transoceanic cargo vessels with no crew, because as everyone knows the only thing the crew needs to do is click OK for a mid-Atlantic course correction and the rest of the time they're sitting around doing nothing, since a ship runs itself and deals with every eventuality automatically.

Really? People are still parroting the defensive "It's your laws!" after Apple has been found guilty of breaching the law on so many occasions?

Time and time again people say these companies are just following the laws, time and time again we find out they're not as they get hit with record fines:

Japan: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...

Ireland: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

France: http://www.cultofmac.com/45566...

China: https://www.cnet.com/news/appl...

It's not just Apple of course, but can we stop pretending these companies are merely following the law when they do this? It's pretty clear they're not given the number of occasions they've been demonstrated to be guilty of outright tax evasion, not mere simple avoidance.

I'm amazed given how dead the "They're just following the law!" line is that people are still parroting it, obviously they're not, hence the constant barrage of fines that are now catching up with years of criminal tax evasion by large tech companies.

If anything needs changing with national laws it's that the penalties need to be increased substantially to act as a real deterrent which they're clearly not now, but that doesn't change the fact that companies like Apple, Google, et. al. have been engaging in outright illegal tax evasion. The idea they have gets parroted a lot, but it's based on the assumption that because they haven't been caught yet they're innocent, but it doesn't mean they actually are innocent as we keep finding out now that the multi-year investigations are finally catching up with them.

Wait, are you saying Assange is a freedom fighter?

So why is he in bed with authoritarians like Putin, Farage, and has engaged in mutual praise with Trump? Even if you believe there's no official connection then Assange is a regular on Russia's state propaganda channel RT, has met up with Farage in the Ecuadorian embassy:

https://www.rt.com/tags/the-ju...

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

You have a funny definition of freedom if it means support and praise of people who back things like elimination of civil liberties, strict control of speech, elimination of equality, and convergence towards dictatorship.

Assange is the last person I'd want fighting for my freedom, because he doesn't believe in freedom, he believes in absolute rule by only those who he personally agrees with and is trying to support that using Wikileaks.

It could put CNN out of business

You mean Breitbart who literally, in the truest sense of the word, has put up false and fake information (it can't be called news). Even Bannon has called them out for posting fake information.

It's why companies have ditched advertising on the fake site.

But let me guess, "alternative facts"? Or is it a camera in a microwave?

Or for that matter, the Standard Run of Limits to Growth. Can't disrupt the brain if society's priorities are elsewhere.

Ahh, the ole Bush helped the Nazis kill jews bit.

Yes, that old bit, in which it is revealed that Prescott Bush could not possibly have not known what he was doing. In fact, a number of corporations willingly cooperated with the Nazis. Without their assistance, the axis could not have made war effectively. Naturally, every one of these corporations has tried to disclaim responsibility for what their German divisions were up to, but the ongoing relationships between such entities during the war make that difficult. The service contract for the concentration camp management machines was paid straight to IBM's American operations in Armonk, NY, for example.

It is a fact (simple or not) that American interests willfully and thus traitorously aided the axis for profit. And it is a fact that Prescott Bush was among them.

How about this one?

No.
Obama didn't "Trade it for something", he avoided a government shutdown by giving Republicans what they demanded.

compared to the 70's, the environment has been fixed

Not for long, because, as you guessed it, Trump.

Literally.

United in genocidal anti-Semitism, treats "nonbelievers" as subhuman and worthy only of death.

Have some balls - actually look at the connections. Because they are there.

Hell, just Google "Islam Holocaust denial". Just look at this pathetic Guardian apology for Islamic Holocaust denial:

Arabs have a complex relationship with the Holocaust

A "complex relationship"!?!?!? With the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews?!?! WTF IS "COMPLEX" ABOUT THAT?!?!! THEY HAVE SOME SUPPORT FOR THE RESULTS?!?!?!

I wonder if this is part of the "adult conversation" about encryption that FBI director James Comey mentioned last year that he was preparing to have this year. Also when ever mentioning that fucking iPhone it should also be pointed out that nothing of value was found on it. This way it becomes clear that encryption wasn't something that hampered the case in any way so they can't trot out that old saw to try and make their case against the public having access to strong encryption.

You should care though. Foreign spy agencies feel the same way about you. This leak shows how they share these exploits so they can avoid legal boundaries.

The CIA may not be spying on you, but GCHQ is. And any insights gleamed from that can be shared legally back to the CIA.

It's the same as with databrokers. Everyone thinks "hey, don't sell my data". But they (Facebook, etc) never sell your data directly, they sell insights gleamed from that data (in the form of up to 3000 different scores). These scores are their 'opinion' on you, and hence not your data, but theirs. They can sell it, and are even protected in doing so as it's a form of free speech.

The legal reasoning in the spy agencies is something along those lines too. "We're not storing your data, we're storing our own opinions on you based on that data".

We've already seen the legal bending where they say that if they don't actually look at the stored data, then you are not being surveilled.

This is three years old now:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Richard Nixon: "Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal."

Or maybe this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/trump-new-york-times-interview-transcript.html

".. the law is totally on my side, meaning, the president can’t have a conflict of interest."

A hipster fucktard did something stupid. Other hipster fucktard, in an attempt to be more original than each other, all did the same thing.

So instead of producing something eloquent and insightful (like naming it after Katherine Giles) a race to the lowest common denominator ensued.

it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement.

That same Washington Post article also has FBI Director James Comey saying he is:

"focused on trying to get the law changed" so that companies would be required to unlock data and devices for law enforcement

Fast forward to the terror attacks on Paris and the line in media was all about how the terrorists used encrypted communication, a line that was total BS but is what was initially widely reported so that is what the general public believes. Then go forward a little more to the San Bernardino attack and that fucking encrypted iPhone. It was a problem because it was encrypted, but it turns out nothing of value was found on it.

Go forward a bit more to the latter part of last year and you again have FBI Directory James Comey stating that he is preparing to have an "adult conversation" on encryption next year. So I would expect that anything that can be done to vilify encryption in the public eye will be done. At this point it seems like the CIA leak may be used to help do this as a way to get some benefit of the leak, and I don't believe that this was some sort of false flag but probably an insider. So I would recommend keeping an eye out for vilification of encryption or those who are pro encryption (Friday March 10th 2017 stream of the Brokaw Report sounds strangely like a short calm version of InfoWars with Tom Brokaw playing the part of Alex Jones).

It can literally get you killed in some places. Houses have been known to catch on fire when someone labeled a pedo moves in a neighborhood.

Like in the UK. Here's a story about a paediatrician targetted by some illiterates in England.

The answer, since you're unwilling to look for yourself, is "no".

That's not how this works. How this does work: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." If you persist in being a lazy commenter, we'll move to the stage of the conversation where I casually assert that you like to have sex with farm animals in school playgrounds, since it's your now job to disprove the assertion made online. And while we're on the subject of debunking false narratives.....

Those emails, though

Yes, Hillary setting up a email server was a disastrous, corrupt, arrogant decision for her to make. Dems think they're making a great point with the "but her emails!" meme, but all you're doing is highlighting the fact that Hillary had no business running for dog catcher of the DNC, much less POTUS.

Two years after savaging the Bush Administration, "Our Constitution is being shredded. We know about the secret wiretaps, the secret military tribunals, the secret White House email accounts" she was doing the same damn thing herself. If that wasn't bad enough, she kept her server after Republicans took the Senate in the 2010 elections, who then had the power to subpoena her.

Dem's like to whine that the GOP smear machine has had it out for her for a quarter of a century, which is true. But then how dumb of a fuck did she have to be to hand them a real scandal, one that could still send her to prison. Warmed over Vince Foster bullshit no longer needed, now you can prosecute her dumb ass for mishandling classified evidence and obstruction of justice, when she deleted thousands of emails before her server could be inspected. And you can skip all the tired excuses for Hillary's unsecured, unauthorized server when a man is currently serving time for taking selfies on his unsecured, unauthorized cell phone.

If her name was Hillary Johnson, she'd already be in prison serving 20 years - for obstruction of justice charges alone. Then Dems have the nerve to whine about Comey, when they should be thanking him for not perp walking her into an arraignment.

There are a few billionaires out there and that's it.

That's enough. Even just the eight richest people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest 50%. That's 8 people vs 3.5 billion. The wealth distribution in this world is completely out of whack. Give that money to the poor and they'll spend it in the local economy and get things going.

Easy the police were protecting the state. Just a reminder that this type of stuff has been going on in the UK for awhile, whether it be the police threatening people for daring to speak out against migrants, migrant terrorism or engaging in overt censorship over porn. It's not just the UK either, but other EU countries too. People who think the US is a "police state" have absolutely no clue, especially for those of us who live in countries where speech is restricted by law. Like in Canada, you know where you see shit like this. And the government launches a motion against "islamophibia" the opposition launches a completely neutral version, which is the defeated because it no longer contains the one and only protected religion aka islam.

There is more sunlight each day, temperatures are warmer and even flowers are starting to bloom.

That's global warming.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/01/northern-hemisphere-sees-in-early-spring-due-global-warming

...it sounds like the app was putting fake people into cars and directing the driver elsewhere...

To further confuse the issue, here are a couple of articles on Uber "Ghost Drivers" that give us a definition that doesn't really work here. In those articles, "ghost drivers" are people that post gruesome pics on their profile to scare customers into canceling. That can't be right unless Uber has gotten weird.

You're probably right, although that's not very subtle. I assume the regulator would book a ride and then the ghost driver just wouldn't show or would cancel?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/apr/25/japan

I understand Utah is one of the biggest consumers of porn. while at the same time rejecting teaching sex education in school.

The question isn't about the spy capabilities. It's about whether these tools are used without logging and review by elected officials from the Congressional security committees.

That might be one of the questions for Americans, but the vast majority of the world and of CIA's victims isn't American. Wikileaks isn't American either. This information matters much more for the rest of the world than it does to the American democracy. We can count in one hand the number of Americans drone murdered. Compare that to Pakistanis.
Most of the American public doesn't care about mass murder outside of America and think all this capabilities and uses are fine as long as it's legal and there is congressional review.

Did you get the old news about the innocent that was kidnapped by the CIA in Italy, delivered to be tortured in Egypt, and suffered for 4 years? None of the American criminals went to jail. The 22000 American IP addressees in this publication should be the least of the world's concerns.

Google Play is "free as in beer".

The article "The hidden costs of building an Android device" by Charles Arthur and Samuel Gibbs states that as of three years ago, the compliance testing to qualify for a Google Play license cost tens of thousands of dollars, or on the order of $1 per device. Even though the article states that the amount is payable to approved "third party testing facilities," not directly to Google, the article does not mention how much Google charges said facilities to become approved.

The article "Why Microsoft Makes $5 to $15 From Every Android Device Sold" by Chris Hoffman states that as of three years ago, Microsoft was collecting several dollars in patent royalties for each Android device for the use of patented processes, such as those essential to the FAT file system.

What has changed in the past three years, other than the replacement of a license for the VFAT patent(s) with one for the exFAT patent(s) after the expiry of the former and enshrinement of the latter in the SDXC specification?

Talk to Apple. They have a $178 billion dollar pile of cash in the bank that is gathering dust. I think that is enough to build a whole school for every kid in Congo. And maybe get some modern mining equipment and mining engineers as well.

You been paying attention to what he's done and said?

Yes, it has been staggering in his lack of competence, and general inability to remain accurate to facts, combined with self-aggrandizement and deceit.

Do you think I didn't notice? Well, I think you haven't noticed. I bet you can't even name 10 of Trump's personal screw-ups. I'll even let you pick them out over his life time, even though you could likely do it in the last week if you paid attention.

Let me know when you get to the part where he's been keeping his promises, and putting people in place who would happily stand up to his views if they're bad.

Neither one of those things has happened. Ok, I heard maybe DeVos tried to push back on the transgender ruling, but that didn't lead to anything different. It's still gone. Because you know, that bathroom business is SO dreadful. But let's see, we have his military operation (a failure), his precious executive order (also a failure, a failure so bad he put it off again this week), and alternative facts out the wazoo.

Evidence indicates he doesn't listen to advice, and his parrots are trained to tell him whatever he wants to hear. And his promises are not kept.

Your thinking is still stuck in a period where politicians would lie through their teeth, and you're now in an era where you have a person who wasn't ever a politician until he was elected POTUS keeping his promises.

Your thinking seems to be stuck in the idea that Donald Trump doesn't have a history of lying through his teeth and out his ass, whose idea of keeping a promise is pretending he did something, when he did no such thing. His history as a businessman is one of scams and deceits, of self-promotion and failure, and has been known since the 1980s. After the election? See Boeing. (Railing at nothing, as the project to replace the VC-25's was in the planning stages) See Lockheed(nothing he did to accomplish any savings), see the deficit(he had boasting about a 200 billion dollar blip when he hasn't even passed a budget), see his executive order(a failure on its own, which he promised to fight in court, but he's not going to do that because that's a waste of time, and even now he put it off, because it'd just make him look bad), see his nominees to join the Swamp(A number of troubled individuals, from a racist to an unqualified bear-fearer).

And now the funny part. Where you can hear the former never-trump, anti-trump people who've flipped pro-trump because they've seen him keep his promises and do more in a month then the Obama administration did in 4 years. To paraphrase.

Nope. You should hear the real truth: People aren't flipping to Trump. He can claim to be beloved, and appreciated, but it turns out, he's still the guy who didn't win the popular vote. The things he's done include a flopped executive order, whining about his daughter's product line being dropped, nominating numerous incompetent or corrupt people into office(one who has already resigned, another who was just revealed to have lied in his nomination process), blathering out a litany of lies, oh wait, wait, he called them Alternative Facts, railing at the media(He really hates criticism, in case you haven't noticed), and otherwise totally striking out. No ACA repeal on the table. Instead, he just realized it would be complicated. Frankly, that's the most shocking thing I've heard out of him, it's basically demonstrating to me how badly he presented himself on the subject. Oh but wait, Ryan is doing something. Right? Oh wait, he's keeping that under wraps. Oh my.

I suppose you could count the Supreme Court nominee, bu

So everyone just passes English? Why give out grades at all then?
https://www.theguardian.com/ed...

The falls are due in large part to new government policies that force 17-year-olds who got a D or lower in English or maths last year to resit those exams, meaning more students overall were sitting the tests.

While stats do vary on passing grades from year to year - it's not 100% of students.

2016 %gaining grades, A*-C:
English 60.2
English Literature 75.1

I'm saying that one can be a born and raised UK adult without actually speaking something that resembles English one would need to speak/read/write in order to pass a test.

Currently, that's about 40% of UK citizens who've been training for that test nearly every day of their lives, ever since they learned their ABCs.
And if you think they'll retain that level of knowledge once they finish with school, you clearly never had to watch adults struggle with multiplication of 2-digit numbers without a calculator.
God forbid asking someone to calculate a square root.

A future in which human workers are replaced by machines is about to become a reality at an insurance firm in Japan, where more than 30 employees are being laid off and replaced with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate payouts to policyholders.

Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance believes it will increase productivity by 30% and see a return on its investment in less than two years. The firm said it would save about 140m yen (£1m) a year after the 200m yen (£1.4m) AI system is installed this month. Maintaining it will cost about 15m yen (£100k) a year.

The move is unlikely to be welcomed, however, by 34 employees who will be made redundant by the end of March.

So, once the initial cost is covered (in 2 years), it will only cost $300 a month per employee replaced. That's like having wage slaves working for $1.50 an hour. There's no way for humans to compete with that.

Uber executive casually threatens journalist with smear campaign
Uber driver tells MPs: I work 90 hours but still need to claim benefits
Uber is ignoring California rules on self-driving cars, and the government is pissed

I assume, given the 'rampant agendizing(sic)' accusation, you have evidence to refute the above? It would be interesting, as Uber themselves did not refute any of it, nor did they take legal action against anyone printing it.

USA Airport Immigration has recently started putting programming questions to travellers who claim to be software engineers. In one case they asked the traveller Python questions.

(Not to be confused with the Monty Python questions the UK immigration authorities ask.)

It's a reasonable concern that if companies were to, say, start bringing asteroids into earth orbit for mining that there would be adequate safety precautions in place.

Well, let's see. Who keeps dropping shit on people to kill them? Oh, right, the US government. A bomb every 20 minutes, from the Nobel Peace Prize winner.. And drone killings everywhere.

Yes, we should put adequate precautions in place so that crazy people don't start dropping rocks on populated areas, and the foremost precaution should be to stop the US government from having any control over rocks in space.

And sometimes kids just happen... It'd be nice if you could return them to the store and get your money back but...

From TFA:

Sam, 40, lives with his wife and three kids in San Jose, earning around $120,000 a year at a multinational software company. "I get paid a very good wage, but I have three kids, childcare is ridiculously expensive so my wife mostly takes care of them," he said.

He feels pressure being the sole breadwinner. "I've got no safety net,: he said. "I have credit cards, but this is not sustainable. If something bad happened I'd be out of the house in a month."

Article covers several cases.
Couples who "make over $1m between us, but we can't afford a house", people with health issues, people living a 20-something coder's life paying 2k for a room in a house they are renting with roommates, people cramming in ""studio-like closets" in a basement", people who can't move out of San Francisco for fear that a Lunatic in Chief might send national guard to round them up and deport them when they set a foot outside a "sanctuary city"...

It helps to read the articles... and linked articles too...
Like "'Tech tax': San Francisco mulls plan for taxing the rich to house the poor"
San Francisco is suffering from its own form of "resource curse".
It brought in tech companies by giving them tax breaks, which brought in money, which skyrocketed the cost of living, which created a whole set of problems for whole sets of people - homelessness being one of them.

And sometimes kids just happen... It'd be nice if you could return them to the store and get your money back but...

From TFA:

Sam, 40, lives with his wife and three kids in San Jose, earning around $120,000 a year at a multinational software company. "I get paid a very good wage, but I have three kids, childcare is ridiculously expensive so my wife mostly takes care of them," he said.

He feels pressure being the sole breadwinner. "I've got no safety net,: he said. "I have credit cards, but this is not sustainable. If something bad happened I'd be out of the house in a month."

Article covers several cases.
Couples who "make over $1m between us, but we can't afford a house", people with health issues, people living a 20-something coder's life paying 2k for a room in a house they are renting with roommates, people cramming in ""studio-like closets" in a basement", people who can't move out of San Francisco for fear that a Lunatic in Chief might send national guard to round them up and deport them when they set a foot outside a "sanctuary city"...

It helps to read the articles... and linked articles too...
Like "'Tech tax': San Francisco mulls plan for taxing the rich to house the poor"
San Francisco is suffering from its own form of "resource curse".
It brought in tech companies by giving them tax breaks, which brought in money, which skyrocketed the cost of living, which created a whole set of problems for whole sets of people - homelessness being one of them.

Having screamed for anti-immigrant violence and sexual assault becoming common place because of Trump, Illiberals could never offer any actual evidence. Maybe, this guy is what they need. Finally...

Yeah, that's why Robert Doggart was totally convicted, there was no evidence presented. And he didn't talk with anyone about his plans. Nor anyone else. The FBI is totally not reporting an increase in hate crimes either.

But hey, it's not like it's new in America. They even had the support of John Wilkes Booth. Remember him?

Meanwhile the number of victims of the "Black Lives Matter" assholes — the very foundation of their movement based on a lie — uncounted scores.

And then you read a few DOJ reports.

Gosh, I wonder why little old mi never mentions any of that. Is it because you support the authoritarian and oppressive police state that they represent?