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Perhaps, incredulously, the reason Señor Trump seemingly wildly accused the election of being rigged is that he knew more than we did, but mistakenly assumed he was not the beneficiary.

Hell, perhaps he's a savant with the ability to grasp immunity by merely convincing us all he's a clown.

Maybe this would be a good time to rearm Japan. I suspect that would give China something to think about.

From recent articles I have read, Japan is pretty heavily armed already. But until recently, they could only use those weapons for self-defense.

According to this article, the new Japanese Prime Minister and his allies in goverment want to change their constitution to give them more power to use that military might. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Thanks for citing their marketing material. Every nonprofit-for-profit has "reasons" why they need all the money the solicit. But you need to peek behind the curtain to see if "reasons" are supported by actual data. It isn't hard.

We can look at the exploding spending at Wikimedia.

And there are very serious questions about all that money being rushed out the door, who it is going to and why. There is a high level of self-dealing in passing out grants, and creating and filling the ballooning list of paid positions. It is very lucrative to be a "friend-of-Jimmy".

A glance at the financials shows that "building an endowment" is NOT the reason for the incessant fund-raising. First, the endowment was only launched this year , and their stated plan is to use only 10-20% of their fundraising revenue for that endowment. Currently they seem to be at the low end of that number (or below it) but we will need to see a report on 2016 to see the actual break-out. The goal of the endowment is to reach $100 million, but in their last annual foundation report (a 28 page advertising pamphlet with only one page of actual information) they state having $78 million in net assets as of 18 months ago, which is an increase of $25 million from the previous year report (almost all of it unrestricted).

If we assume that the net assets are only accumulating at the same rate as from June 2014 to June 2015 (by all data it is probably higher, much higher), then right now they have about $115 million in assets, more than enough to fully fund their foundation with soliciting a penny (they received at least $6 million in designated donations to the foundation when they set it up, so they no more than $94 million to make up to reach their stated goal.

So no. The foundation has nothing to do with their aggressive, relentless fund-raising.

Here's some names and dates, which appear to be specific to energy companies:
link 1
link 2
link 3

Protecting your information is important to us and we work continuously to strengthen our defenses.

Not a very good track record: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

I live in Europe. I work in the financial sector. Please explain to me how Europe is limiting cash transactions.

https://www.french-property.co...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

give it a few weeks and then we'll probably see yet another announcement from yahoo about how hackers got bank account info

Does the NSA count?

That said, at least some of this could be 'spin' (at least the way it's being publicized) so Verizon can pick up Yahoo for millions off the asking price, just like Nissan did to Mitsubishi before their merger.

While these (South Asians?) are willing to work for a fraction of the wages because it's much better than at home, relatively soon there will be a much more compelling reason for them to try to get visas (any visa or none at all).

Survival.

Within the lifetime of many of those reading these words, the climate in large regions of the world will make them UNINHABITABLE. Due to a combination of high heat in the summer months and high humidity (yes there is high humidity in parts of the middle east, like near the Red Sea), the typical healthy Adult (not sick or old or young) will die after just 6 hours outdoors (I believe in the shade!). That's even with plenty of water because, with such high humidity you can't sweat the heat out.

http://www.sciencealert.com/mi...

That's Hundreds of Millions of Refugees, a number that will make the current six million fleeing Syria seem like a drop in the bucket. (And look at what this small number has done to Europe). Of course it won't be restricted just to the Middle East, another report from a military focused organization claims there will be 30 Million climate refugees from just ONE country (Bangladesh).

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

It's obvious that these people won't just sit there and DIE, they'll want to LIVE. They'll be willing to do anything and everything to live in a country where they won't literally die from heat (or being submerged). Thanks to the internet, they'll know where to go and how to get there. Are you prepared to share your country? To save people from dying? Or will you shoot them on sight (because that'll be what its going to take). I'm afraid we're headed towards a world where men with machine guns protecting the wealthy against the desperate masses will be a common sight. Go NRA! (Sarcasm)

If you still don't believe in Climate Change, why don't you to put your money where your mouth is and invest in property that's at risk. Say the low lying areas of Florida or Bangladesh. Or you can put it into the glittering cities of Dubai and other places like Yemen which are slated to become hot properties indeed. According to these projections, you'll only need to wait 20-30 years; some mortgages are shorter than that. And if you're right, you'll make a killing! (But if you're wrong, you'll be the one who's dead).

Thanks Trump! (Sarcasm)

Anybody who claims that they are "unbiased" is lying. I'm biased, you're biased, and so is everybody else. What you can do is listen to people's arguments and look at their data and draw your own conclusion.

You might look at Wikipedia:

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

Even there, there doesn't seem to be a lot of arguments for agricultural subsidies and a lot of negative effects.

Having said that, a good place to start is probably Econlib; they have a free market bias, but their papers and their speakers/authors are good (and reputable if you care about that):

http://www.econlib.org/library...

http://www.econlib.org/library...

http://econlog.econlib.org/arc...

The Heritage foundation, of course, has a "conservative bias", whatever that is, but they also make a good argument:

http://www.heritage.org/resear...

For the harm that farm subsidies cause to third world countries, you can listen to both representatives from those countries and even the Guardian:

http://www.reuters.com/article...

https://www.theguardian.com/su...

Americans couldn't care less, however:

http://econlog.econlib.org/arc...

As for what farmers actually can do to mitigate risk, that's part of Farming 101:

https://www.extension.purdue.e...

It's such a big part of education because the dirty truth is that farm subsidies go to politically well connected groups, while most farmers actually must manage their risks themselves.

I'm afraid I can't supply you with links that make arguments for agricultural subsidies that I consider credible.

Their criminal enterprise is mostly related to vice crimes (gambling, prostitution, etc.) and would probably find preying on the elderly to be shameful.

Unless they're already dead, in which case it is totally acceptable.

While nobody wants a huge abusive spy agency tracking Americans at all times, there are going to be plenty of people on here jumping up and down hoping for the destruction of the NSA... while simultaneously running around like chickens with their heads cut off claiming that Russian Hackers are the sole reason that Trump is president.

Seriously, WTF is this comment and why is it (currently) +4 Interesting?

#1. Many, many people who have been most critical of the NSA's activities have been skeptical of the claim that Russian hackers are the sole reason Trump is president. This includes Glenn Greenwald as well as many in the security community who don't take leaked reports of CIA briefings at face value. I'm not seeing anyone who is anti-NSA spying wholesale accepting the CIA's story. So the premise of your point is not correct.

#2. Even if they DID accept the Putin story... There is no inherent conflict between not wanting a "huge abusive spy agency tracking Americans at all times" and wanting an agency to protect against foreign attack (if one has occurred, which as I said is not certain).

#3. The NSA has done very little that would have prevented the hacks, while actually having done very much to weaken national security-- the kind of thing that facilitates break-ins. They have compromised security algorithms and pushed the RSA to accept them as standards. They have deliberately inserted weaknesses into Cisco products. There are numerous examples of this. If the "Russians" has hacked us because of weak technology, the NSA very well could be to blame. The assumption that they're some kind of shield against attacks appears to be backwards.

#4. Podesta's emails were reportedly hacked via social engineering. Explain to me how you think the NSA's role has been stopping human beings from typing in their own Gmail login information when tricked to do so.

#5. Finally, elucidate on the connection you make between a "huge spy agency tracking Americans at all times" and an alleged nation state hacking campaign. What the hell does the surveillance state agency spying on all citizen activity have to do with these hacks? If anything, the alleged influence of Russian agents in our election occurred WHILE the mass-spying is occurring. Therefore, by your logic, the NSA should stop all spying to stop Putin. Right?. Right??

In short, your post makes no sense, it is not "insightful"-- it connects dots that don't have anything to do with each other. Worse, it is in some ways dangerous because it is really an attack on questioning authority. There is zero contradiction in opposing an all-powerful state surveillance agency on one hand vs. a corrupted electoral system on the other.

Not to mention that those reports of foreigners meddling in our election originate from an agency with a notorious decades of history in... well, meddling with foreign elections.

Declassifying UFO information was actually one of Hillary Clinton's campaign policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Now remind me who blocked him from closing down gitmo...

No one can block the President from doing whatever he wants with the military. He is the Commander in Chief, remember? And Guantanamo is a military prison — that's the whole reason it was used by Bush to hold foreign combatants out of reach of America's civil legal system.

So, yes, Obama could have just let all of the inmates loose. Into Cuba or into Antarctica or anywhere else... Or he could've killed them — the way he deliberately killed tens and hundreds of would-be detainees to avoid having to explain to his base, why Guantanamo population is growing... Including Osama bin Laden.

>In an online political discussion, one conservative complained about Obama's alleged excess snooping. I pointed out that Bush and Trump are pretty much pro-snoopers also.

I'm about as liberal as they come.

I am more than disappointed by Obama's expansion of domestic spying. I am also more than disappointed by Obama's removal of due process and Habeas Corpus - Tangerine Bolen is in my Facebook friends list (because she's a good friend of my wife).

This is her:

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

There are a shitload of us over on the left who are fucking pissed. It's not just conservatives.

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BMO

For example:
Thousands have died after being found fit for work, DWP figures show | Society | The Guardian

I'm sorry, are you suggesting that a link to a Youtube video of a self-published and self-publicising "mens movement" crank interviewing a liar and fossil-fuel industry shill is a scientific citation? I had something more traditional in mind - you know, links to original peer-reviewed research.
I retract my previous assertion. Folks like you aren't remotely interested in the truth when it might impinge upon your own cuddly childish fantasy world. Grow up.

Intercept NSA/GCHQ communications and/or hack them back?

That is the best solution so far. We have to gain access to the same tools. Make them feel the same pain. I hope that will happen, but we have to produce something a bit better than tabloid material...

Joshua Bell: no ordinary busker

there remains the distinct possibility that close states will flip to her slate of electors

I'm curious how you think that could possibly happen. Historically, individual electors have voted contrary to their commitment, but I doubt that there exists a legal means to unseat an elected slate of electors, short of a recount that flips the state's result.

There is a group of 8 Democratic electors (the so-called "Hamilton Electors") who say they're going to vote for John Kasich, and a Democratic elector from the state of Washington who says he won't vote for Hillary Clinton. There is a Republican elector from Texas who says she will not vote for Trump, but instead for some unnamed Republican she feels would be a better choice. So far, that's a net loss of 8 for Clinton and a net loss of 1 for Trump.

If enough electors refuse to vote for Trump but don't vote for Clinton, then no one gets 270 in the Electoral Collage and it gets kicked to the House of Representatives, where votes may be cast for anyone who received at least one Electoral College vote.

Though you appear to decry use of derogatory nicknames, it is among the rhetorical tactics of the apparent President-elect.* During his campaign, he used such a nickname for each of his opponents: Low-Energy Jeb, Little Marco, 1 for 38 Kasich, Lyin' Ted (which some of his supporters attempted to reclaim as Lion Ted), and Crooked Hillary. Now watch leftards turn the practice back at "One-Term Donald".

* Faithless electors could yet keep Mr. Trump from officially becoming President-elect on December 19. There are eight so far.

There is actually one, not eight. The seven people who already were not going to vote for Trump (because they're pledged to Hillary) don't count.

That said, "One Term Donald" sounds like a great nickname. Here's hoping.

Plus or minus 5 degrees

That would have us swinging in and out of an ice age.

What's the "ideal", "average"

The ideal temperature is approximately what it's been since the dawn of civilization. Only for the reason that we built this civilization, (the farms, the coastal properties, the dykes, the infrastructure, etc), with that climate in mind. Transport all that to a different climate and it no longer fits. It's expensive to have to redo it all.

and how you calculate and control it?

Best way to calculate it: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs... (IMHO, YMMV, but all methods produce roughly the same results.

Best way to control it: https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Justin Trudeau is a master of public-image manipulation. He knows the tricks about appealing to young, inexperienced hyper-liberals, but can do little to divert people's attention from his abysmal track record on matters such as appeasing to the oppressive and aggressive Chinese regime, appeasing to the criminal family of Ibn-Saud, and oppression of First Nations. He self-consciously cultivate his own hero-worship, but he's just politician.

By now, anyone still falling for such cheap PR stunts and gimmicks?

"One-Term Donald".

Half-Term Donald
Donald J Duck
Cheater Trump

* Faithless electors could yet keep Mr. Trump from officially becoming President-elect on December 19. There are eight so far.

John Kasich for teh win!

Though you appear to decry use of derogatory nicknames, it is among the rhetorical tactics of the apparent President-elect.* During his campaign, he used such a nickname for each of his opponents: Low-Energy Jeb, Little Marco, 1 for 38 Kasich, Lyin' Ted (which some of his supporters attempted to reclaim as Lion Ted), and Crooked Hillary. Now watch leftards turn the practice back at "One-Term Donald".

* Faithless electors could yet keep Mr. Trump from officially becoming President-elect on December 19. There are eight so far.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/moscow-had-contacts-with-trump-team-during-campaign-russian-diplomat-says/2016/11/10/28fb82fa-a73d-11e6-9bd6-184ab22d218e_story.html?tid=sm_tw

Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a report that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin’s role in the president-elect’s bitter race against Hillary Clinton. ...

"Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Rybakov said. “ I cannot say that all of them but quite a few have been staying in touch with Russian representatives.”

I'll repeat for emphasis: staying in touch with most of his entourage during the campaign. And what did they have to talk about?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/putin-applauds-trump-win-and-hails-new-era-of-positive-ties-with-us?CMP=share_btn_tw

Markov also said it would mean less American backing for “the terroristic junta in Ukraine”. He denied allegations of Russian interference in the election, but said “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.”

The Obama administration accused Russian authorities of hacking Democratic party emails that were leaked to WikiLeaks. Putin has previously dismissed as “nonsense” claims of Russian interference.

Whether or not you choose to believe that Putin and his party are responsible for his win, they think that they are.

As for the other stuff, I'm not sure what you're questioning - that's just history; pick up a history textbook.

Sure, there are real conspiracies, but not a single conspiracy theorist has ever uncovered one.

Sometimes you have to break into an FBI office or release a massive trove of NSA documents to be taken seriously, otherwise you're just a 'conspiracy theorist'.

Problem is, what is an actual investigative journalist these days? Someone like O'Keefe and the videos where he has people admitting to conspiracy on tape? Can you name even one 'investigative journalist' who could be trusted with purveying facts? Can you even say that the news media is even trustworthy when so much of it has been consolidated, leaving only a scattering of independent sources? Oddly enough, it is then these independent sources that get the 'conspiracy theory' label, even when plausible and substantive evidence is presented.

Bottom line, its a fucked up world, and anything is possible as shown by historical fact. Now we have the 'truth' brigade out in full force; Me thinks they dost protest too much.

Apparently you fail the grasp the facts that our reliance on carbon based energy like coal and oil is causing us many different environmental problems.
Forget about climate change and just focus on air pollution:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-a...

I really fail to understand why people continue to support an energy and technology that we have been using since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
It is time to grow up and move on to less polluting energy sources.

With that being said, there is nothing wrong with using oil and petrochemicals for things like plastics, medicines, industry, chemistry, etc;
If we could move away from using coal for electricity and oil for transportation it would greatly reduce our polluted air problem.

Even other EU nations are trying for decryption :)
From Germany
https://netzpolitik.org/2016/p...
Re "Keyboard logging before encryption? lol."
The UK's Code of practice for the use of equipment interference by the security and intelligence agencies can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
Recall Bullrun, Edgehill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security (6 September 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Here is the question from the article (https://theintercept.com/2016/12/02/of-8-tech-companies-only-twitter-says-it-would-refuse-to-help-build-muslim-registry-for-trump/):

“Would [name of company], if solicited by the Trump administration, sell any goods, services, information, or consulting of any kind to help facilitate the creation of a national Muslim registry, a project which has been floated tentatively by the president-elect’s transition team?”

The question is loaded, because it is founded on the premise that such registry has actually been proposed by Trump's transition team. It has not. The Intercept itself offers no support for this assertion. The closest it comes is a Reuters article from Kris Kobach, who says he would support re-instituting a special registration program that monitors immigrants coming from countries that have been designated high-risk. This program was originally created after 9/11, and although the countries affected are predominantly Muslim, the program does not specifically target Muslims, nor does it target ass predominantly Muslim countries. Even then, it is unclear to what degree Kobach's comments reflect the incoming Trump administration's actual agenda, since no official statement has been made. Above all, it certainly does not fit the criteria of a "national Muslim registry."

Here are a couple other articles that have attempted to tease out the Trump camp's position on Muslim registries:

http://www.politifact.com/trut...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

These articles highlight comments Trump has made about Muslims and immigration in the past, and point out that he has refused to explicitly say he would never seek such a thing. Sitll, they make it clear that (at least to the best of the knowledge of the journalists writing these articles) at no point has Trump ever actually proposed a national Muslim registry (e.g., "Trump has not called for blanket registration of all Muslims in the US or those seeking to immigrate from other countries.", The Guardian).

So, it is my opinion that asking tech companies if they will support Trump's muslim registry plan is loaded, because Trump does not have a muslim registry plan. Despite that, any answer -- including no answer at all -- can be easily misconstrued as a political statement by the company. And that's exactly what The Intercept has done here.

The reason he's still about is in fact because he knows where the bodies are buried. He got his currrent job (for which is is ludicrously underqualified) by protecting Cameron's arse by feeding one of his own subordinates to the wolves when they were all colluding with Rupert Murdoch over handing over BSKYB to NewsCorp
https://www.theguardian.com/po...

Dissatisfied housewives voted the bastard in.

This story presents facts about Russia's troll factory in St. Petersburg, just as I have done in numerous previous postings and got hammered by the Russian trolls. Go ahead, check my most recent postings to see how the trolls mindlessly mod me down for reporting facts about this troll factory, about the continuing shipments of cargo 200 from Ukraine (i.e. dead Russian soldiers), the terrorists in Ukraine who openly admit Russian soldiers are fighting there and supplying them with arms and munitions, or the Russian soldiers who state they have been sent to Ukraine and have fought there, and finally, the law which Putin signed which bars Russian mothers from talking about their sons who have died while fighting in Ukraine or even talking with other mothers about these deaths. Or course the graves of these dead Russian soldiers say otherwise, as do reports from eyewitnesses and families.

This story need to be modded down in like fashion. Wouldn't want the Russian trolls to have to see the facts of their dear leader's propaganda industry.

And in other news satire dies as an art form.

Sorry - I sympathize with your feelings, but the death of satire has already been announced. It was about 40 years ago when Tom Lehrer (someone well qualified to comment on the subject) remarked that

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize."

https://www.theguardian.com/cu...

The telco access, the court document that first allowed your ISP to log you. That would be the national record of interest to anyone looking.
The UK has a long history of court and police data walking.
"Journalists caught on tape in police bugging" ( 21 September 2002)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Beyond that if your of interest to the GCHQ or NSA, expect some device or OS (hardware or software) on your network to be altered to log any password used or entered.
Any new hardware bought online might be altered during shipping.

What part of " to lead government-wide efforts to identify propaganda and counter its effects." don't you understand?

They are not restricting anyone's right, even foreigners such as the Russian troll factory to lie their asses off.

What they are doing is the same thing anyone else would do if repeated lies and falsehoods were put forth: countering the lies.

Oh, and speaking of the Ministry of Truth, Putin has that covered. He has made it illegal for Russian mothers to speak out about their son's deaths in Ukraine, including contacting other mothers to form groups and compare notes on how many soldiers Russia has lost during its invasion of Ukraine.

LOL! More proof of fake news on the internet brought to you by the guardian.

I thought you guys would be pushing the scare with https://www.theguardian.com/en...

How is your article above not as fake as this "Trees might cause air pollution on city streets" to drive a wedge to help us decide to cut down all the trees on the planet.

Is this greenpeace's reply to the inconvenient news that the world has gotten 14% greener? http://www.spectator.co.uk/201... -- indeed, why does no one want to know? And why go all denier on good news?

USB-C needed some more refinement before release so we have a new set of issues to worry about:

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Also, USB-C and thunderbolt etc over this connector end up requiring IC chips in the cables themselves as well. Those cheap USB-A and mini cables are a thing of the past and the same goes for the charger adapters too. USB-C is not an improvement other than it's 2 sided plug. All so we can only have 1 plug for everything... except not everything since thunderbolt 3 will have to be noticed with a tiny logo because the plug won't indicate the type of port anymore. USB-C is 1 step forward and 2 steps back. USB-A version 3 was good enough and we even have wall outlets for it.

Frankly apples lightning connector is the nicest plug design I've seen since the 1/8 headphone plug (which should be included in everything with audio, forever.)

Seeing as 90% of all medical research is flawed, (and no, this is not some crank - it's pretty much accepted in research because of the evidence, as well as researchers personal knowledge/experience of bad studies we need to test against placebos, because some of the supposedly beneficial treatments are later found to be harmful.

Remember thalidomide? Or more recently, the panic over hormone replacement therapy because the biggest, best trial of HRT ever was started prematurely because it purported to show harmful effects of estrogen? 10s of millions of women world-wide were suddenly put on antidepressants to help deal with menopause side-effects. Turns out that the study was bogus, but more than a decade later, many doctors still haven't got the memo.

The flaw in the study was in using only estrogen from pregnant mare urine (Premarin and Prempro). Equine estrogen is not bio-identical to human estrogen (estradiol estrogen is), but it also contains equine enzymes that the human body has never seen in nature and can't handle - which cause, among other things, liver failure. Having horse enzymes in your blood, your organs, your brain ... that's going to cause problems. Also, progestins were included in HRT even though not needed, further increasing the risk. So this "definitive" study was harmful to people.

Heart attack is the #1 killer of women (no, not breast cancer). Estrogen helps protect against cardiovascular diseases. So people on a placebo would have been healthier, with less chance of sudden death.

Studies also show it's a potent anti-depressive, and delays the onset of Alzheimers and other dementias. Those are sentences of a slow death. It also reduces or stops suicidal ideation.

It also slows down bone demineralization by enabling the digestive system to take up more calcium (which is why calcium supplementation by itself doesn't work - if your body can't absorb it, you'll just eliminate it). 28% of women and 37% of men who fracture their hip die within one year. Considering that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men will get at least 1 hip fracture, that's a significant amount of women who are now at higher risk because of this "greatest study ever."

So even the best studies need to be re-done, because if this study had included a placebo as well as Premarin, and also included other sources of estrogen such as estradiol, Premarin would have been singled out as the biggest contribution to health risk from HRT.

So placebos have a place - they would have saved millions of women from premature death, not endangered them further. That's why we do studies, and why we include placebos. Plus, placebos also work even when the patient is told that it's just a sugar pill. That's why you compare the benefits of a course of treatment with a placebo as well as no treatment. Why prescribe a drug with bad side effects when a placebo performs either as well or better? Not including placebos places people depending on the results of the study to make informed decisions at risk of making bad decisions. Some of those are fatal.

Sugar is worse than fat. Fat doesn't spike your insulin making you hungry again shortly afterwards.

The start of the real obesity epidemic in the USA correlates strongly with the research that sugar companies paid for that painted fat as the enemy, and the frenzied replacement of fat in many food products with sugar. See "low fat!" on a label? They had to find something to replace it with, and that was usually sugar.

No, this is what state-sponsored means.

changes would jeopardize the privacy rights of innocent Americans and risk possible abuse by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump

The law will be signed by President Barack Obama — who vastly expanded government's surveillance over his 8 years. So stop blaming Trump for it, uhm'k?

Geez people get a grip. It's like half the population of the country is throwing a temper tantrum like a toddler who acts like the world is ending because they can't get the toy they want.

Perhaps you're simply too young to remember the reaction when Obama was elected eight years ago, but it wasn't pretty.

Four years later, in 2012, reactions from the right to Obama's second election as president hadn't changed much. Back then, Donald Trump tweated:

1. "This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
2. "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
3. "He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!"
4. "Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us."

But we can move the goal posts again. We still aren't as bad as those other guys, because they do it on their own soil!

We long ago ran over that post: The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

"It means serving patrons in a world in which government surveillance is not going away; indeed it looks like it will increase."

Although surveillance expanded dramatically under Obama, these guys didn't object.

They gave Obama a pass, but are exceedingly harsh on Trump. As we know, this can only be explained by racism... So, fook them — they aren't getting a penny from me until they publicly renounce this wasteful effort.

Sure, why not Russia. It's not as if Putin has ever shut down newspapers, radio, tv stations or other independent media because they didn't sing the tune Putin wanted them to.

I don't think you could find a better place to store a repository of internet web pages, some of which might contain information Putin finds objectionable because they show the facts of his corruption and abuse of power. What could possibly go wrong?

The "bleaching" phenomena was first identified in the 1970's, well before 1980. The major causes of coral death in the area are: chemical runoff from pesticides, muddy water from boat traffic and other runoff, coal mining in the area, and storms. All of those things contribute to increase in temperatures and are not specifically "global warming". Here's an article from a few years ago with more information: https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Didn't we try that already? Didn't it just make it harder for the poor to keep a car because it took millions of cars off the road that otherwise would have been useable on the cheap for another couple of years?

The primary (negative) effect last time the US shifted food production to fuel production too quickly was to cause worldwide food shortages and food price inflation.

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

Asia's enormous and growing carbon footprint has nothing at all to do with it:

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

Don't believe Microsoft ever swore off this:

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

With the new administration getting appointments with folks who support mass surveillance and a CIC who stated he wanted to be able to spy on his political enemies, you have to wonder who will be in his crosshairs over the next 4 years. Things in this area are probably not going to get better. Best to assume any Skype communication will be stored by government forever, for future use and decide if you want to use this product from this company - whatever the "features" are.

He [Sergei Markov] denied allegations of Russian interference in the election, but said “maybe we helped a bit with WikiLeaks.”

Who is Sergei Markov?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Alexandrovich_Markov

He is also a Deputy Chairman of the Russian Public Forum on International Affairs. Markov serves as co-Chairman of the National Strategic Council of Russia and is a member of the Presidential Council for Facilitating the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights of the Russian Federation.