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

Nah.

No one paid any attention to those emails.

This election was a blindside by poll-shy angry, bored, under-educated white women.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/chi...

https://www.theguardian.com/ka...

I realize the link about condoms is not exactly fresh but the current stats are still in line. While the government 'promotes' the use of birth control, they certainly don't got too far to ensure its availability.

I realize that the Daily Mail has issues.
https://www.theguardian.com/co... After all, we get Private Eye here in the states.

The big problem with this story is that they're hyping a vaccine that is still in Phase I clinical trials. Yeah, doctors are trying to find a vaccine for the common cold. Doctors have been doing that for 100 years. What's new about this one?

Other than that, it's a somewhat disorganized collection of interesting and maybe even useful information about the common cold. She went to experts and they explained their work and what they thought were the important issues. She spent a day at Imperial College London, let them teach her about the common cold, and wrote a story about it. She could do worse.

If you want to understand how to evaluate (or write) a medical story, Health News Reviews has a great checklist. http://www.healthnewsreview.or...

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (22 October 1995)
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"... set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. "
Its interesting reading about the past of many US projects with terms like:
"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (Friday 18 March 2011)
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
"... none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology"
"The CIA and the media" gives some context to what the US was doing globally.
http://carlbernstein.com/magaz...

Thank you for showing your true colors. Justifying illegal behavior by citing other allegedly illegal/immoral acts is a slippery slope

Didn't spend much time thinking about that before clicking Submit, did we? You want to a be a legalist/moralist, then demand your taxes be raised to pay for reparations and that politicians be held accountable for their crimes against humanity, committed against every. single. country. south of the U.S. border with Mexico. The victims of the Monroe Doctrine are morally owed a green card at the border, no questions asked, with a fast path to citizenship. That's chump change next to real justice - so you fools can pay up, or STFU.

No nation is perfect, but the ones that respect civil rights

Which ones would that be, Slick? Certainly not the United States, that ran a goddamned kidnapping and torture program under Bush, that beat at least 100 people to death, that we know of. That's like praising OJ Simpson and Ted Bundy for their respect for women.

Your tax dollars have directly paid for boy fucking on military bases. Tell me again how much you respect civil rights when your tax dollars have directly supported fucking pubescent and pre-pubescent boys. In the ass. Repeatedly. Or how at the same time it was whipping Americans into wetting their beds at the site of journalists being beheaded by ISIS, it was selling billions in weapons to the beheading capital of the world, Saudi Arabia. Who has beheaded people for sorcery. And that's a percentage of a portion of the cliff notes on America's human rights violations - want to talk about the millions killed in bullshit wars over just the last 15 years?

Or, you could stop being a willfully ignorant (white) American Exceptionalist, and watch your IQ go up by 200 points on the spot. Of course, you're starting from quite the hole in the ground, boy fucker. so that might get you up to 90.

Good work. An argument straight out of the manual

You should read about what they are actually doing. Doing the Nazi salute in all seriousness is a pretty good sign they are neo-nazis.

Agree, and let's keep our eye on the ball.

It's the little round thing called, "blue-state poll-shy angry, bored under-educated white women."

That's the reason Clinton lost.

All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.

Time to wake up, America.

This might also interest you in particular:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.

Time to wake up, America.

This might also interest you in particular:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.

Time to wake up, America.

This might also interest you in particular:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Putin is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, intended at undermining trust in our democarcies and our institutions.

Time to wake up, America.

This might also interest you in particular:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

All that is happening now in the US has happened before in Europe. You need evidence? Just google "Putin far right funding" or "Putin Trolls". Here, let me give you a hand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Except it's not BS. I'm multilingual and follow some main online news publications of different European countries. What the US has witnessed now has been happening in Europe since Russia annexed Crimea. Russian government trolls are flooding discussion forums with pro-Putin and anti NATO / western propaganda, linking to phony stories on Russian news websites for "proof". They try to undermine trust in our democratic institutions spreading all kinds of wild conspiracy theories while accusing others of conspiracy theories when they are called out.
Russia is leading a full-scale propaganda war against the west, trying to change public opinion while funding far-right groups across Europe. They are basically trying to destabilize us. It's no joke:

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

I guess Russia has recently extended its operations to the US and has been disturbingly successful. The weakest candidate - Trump - became president, and the Duma applauded and cheered:

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

No, the fake news hackers are Russian young adults who are otherwise unemployed and mostly unemployable.

You really gonna post links to Mother Jones and nymag and use that as references? Did you miss the recent scare about fake news?

My apologies, I must have messed up a link in there, I had three for you. I can't remember what site it was, but I'm sure you can find others, if you wanted. I don't think you do, as I don't see you expressing any particular comments about their coverage of Betsy Devos, but rather going into a diatribe over familial relationships as a distraction for some reason.

Not even challenging a single fact or claim, just waving your hands in the air. Denouncing those liberals. Again!

And here's the best part:
I tried talking calmly to my dad and just got a steady stream of Fox News bull$&@!
Someone is writing to NYMAG saying that they can no longer respect their father because he voted for Trump, and in the same breath they go and complain that he's the one spewing propaganda.
Really, wtf. One has to wonder how, as a society, we got to a point where the intolerance of the liberals has reached the point where they reject their own parents for voting Republican.

Oh my, the irony.

It's like you missed All in The Family and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. You know, back in the seventies.

Or the dozens of Ann Landers and Dear Abby columns over politics. Or race. Or religion. Or hair cuts. Even overseas!

I mean, really, bad enough that you can't stick to the topic you claimed to want to discuss, but it's as if you think such conflicts are somehow a new development. When they've been TV fodder for decades.

Even the Simpsons have spoofed it. Three times.

You could at least show some appreciation for history. It doesn't take much effort to realize this sort of thing is old news.

For the whole company? didn't think so.

Watch out, something incredible is about to happen. Somebody is going to apologize to you, on the Internet.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be an ass. It's this damned election that has me so worked up. I'm not even American, but I simply can't believe people voted a narcissistic egomaniac with no idea of the world and who boasts about grabbing pussies as the president of the US. I guess the shock still hasn't worn off.

Also, maybe I am being paranoid about all the fake news topic and Russian involvement, but in Europe there is a real, noticeable influence in the comment sections of online journals of professional Russian trolls praising every decision Putin makes and taking ever opportunity to criticize the US and NATO with bogus arguments. It has been going on like this since the annexation of Crimea. I'm convinced there is an underground war declaration of Russia vs. the West:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.businessinsider.de/...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

It's honestly scary stuff. Then I have to think about how the Duma started cheering and clapping when Trump won the presidency. It gave me the chills that they were not just cheering for Trump, but actually at their own "Successful Operation".

Anyhow, this time, let me respectfully disagree. I think the article you quoted on Business Insider might be wrong or misleading, because the way I understood the page that I linked is, that while there are paper ballots, they are being read electronically by a machine with an optical scanner.

No, no, what they are worried about is this sort of thing: https://www.theguardian.com/bo...

I think you'll agree that it sounds pretty out there.

There are thousands of Solitaire versions out there, many free.

You can also run the Windows 7 (if you have that OS) version of the game, but you have to edit the EXE file due to Microsoft fuckery. Surprisingly, this piece from The Guardian covers it pretty well.

Nope.

Well if the alt-left didn't scream at everyone calling them all racist misogynistic cis-scum ultra Hitlers 2.0 for the past year, then maybe she'd of won.

And as a result the neo-Nazi's are rejoicing.

Well, there you go again.

Cry me a river while Trump is busy proving my point more eloquently than I ever could. Everyone he has appointed is a shining example of the kind of problem he said he would solve when he came to power. In the face of all the evidence to the contrary, why do you still think you are a useful judge of character?

Or maybe I just have a different opinion than you. Maybe you're not perfectly correct on everything you think about the man.

No, I am perfectly correct on everything I think about the man. Everything I have said about him is coming to pass. I said he would abandon his supporters and his stated principles as fast as necessary, because his entire platform was a bunch of bullshit that could never happen — except reducing regulations which keep people like him in check. That part was real.

The truth is that he hasn't even become president yet, and he's sold his supporters out already. Everyone he has appointed is a perfect example of the kind of person he promised he would get rid of, and his tax plan is fuck you. When will you accept that you have been conned just as surely as if you had voted for Clinton?

The real question will be on the quality of German crypto.
Who tested and passed German communications networks for secure German gov use only to allow the NSA and GCHQ access?
Why was German crypto set at such a low level? If the NSA, GCHQ got in what other nations had the skills to access junk German crypto?
Are German staff happy to help the NSA and GCHQ to access German gov communications over decades or just selecting equipment from a list of allowed junk standards?
NSA surveillance: Merkel's phone may have been monitored 'for over 10 years' (27 October 2013)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

you mean other than food stamps, welfare, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the numerous tax credits.

https://www.theguardian.com/mo...

Be gone, ignorant one.

If those programs actually eliminated poverty, then they could be greatly reduced. While they help keep people maintain themselves, they don't address a lot of the underlying conditions, so poverty is not truly reduced.

The Nazi vote didn't get him in.

It was the White female sleeper cells.

He doesn't control the military, either.

Notice the hand-holding by Congress.

... that the polls were systematically wrong ...

Already been covered:

Clinton was blindsided by poll-shy, white middle-class, mostly women, voters in typically blue states that she ignored because she assumed they were in the "win" column, when, actually, they were in the Rust Belt.

The real 'shy Trump' vote - how 53% of white women pushed him to victory.

Curiosity about Wisconsin has centred on apparently disproportionate wins that were racked up by Trump in counties using electronic voting compared with those that used only paper ballots. The apparent disparities were first widely publicised earlier this month by David Greenwald, a journalist for the Oregonian.

However, Nate Silver, the polling expert and founder of FiveThirtyEight, cast significant doubt over this theory on Tuesday evening, stating that the difference disappeared after race and education levels, which most closely tracked voting shifts nationwide, were controlled for.

Silver and several other election analysts have dismissed suggestions that the swing state vote counts give cause for concern about the integrity of the results.

I expect they will try the rubber hose method first. Not literally of course, they will pick someone who uses a VPN, take their equipment away for forensic investigation and maybe throw in some child porn charges for good measure. Make their lives a misery for a few years, then eventually return their equipment wiped and broken.

It will have to be someone who is innocent, so that people get the message that innocence is no defence if you use a VPN. You will be investigated and your life wrecked, name and face in the newspapers, unemployable and unable to afford legal council.

Unlike many other countries, the UK has no written constitution (despite periodic hand-waving about "Magna Carta"). The UK parliament can basically enact any laws they want. In the past, UK citizens could take a case to the European Court on the basis that a particular law contravened the European Convention on Human Rights. However leading Brexiteers, and even the current Prime Minister Theresa May (a notional Remainer), have made it clear that they want to plug that "loophole".

Makes you proud.

"Why won't Democrats support the outcome?"

You do realize that the Democrats do support the outcome, right? Hillary Clinton conceded and called on her supporters to accept the US election result. Hillary's campaign is not contesting the election.

The article in question here is from a computer security specialist who is not with the campaign or with the Democratic party saying that the Democratic party should ask for a recount

you mean other than food stamps, welfare, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the numerous tax credits.

https://www.theguardian.com/mo...

Be gone, ignorant one.

And yet most people never have a fire in the kitchen. It's not common - it's the exception.

My mother never taught us to cook because we picked it up on our own. It's just applied chemistry (which explains why I made a cake with green and red icing even though it was summer. Experimentation.) We weren't sheltered from life. That's not possible in the slums.

Cooking is a basic survival skill. It's been for more than a million years. It wasn't even our invention, but a preceding species. And that's with an estimated IQ of 60, less than 99.5 percent of humans.

In other words, if a moron (IQ between 51 and 70) can do it ...

Also, there was no rage. This is what happens when you over-protect your kids. As far as I'm concerned, it means that my kids have less competition to worry about, and so do their kids. (hum "The circle of life")

He's even waffling on the Paris deal, so it's quite possible that many of the people that supported him may find he's not as keen to fulfill all his campaign promises as they hoped.

I'm genuinely disappointed.

I've seen numerous internet articles showing the wide array and quality of Samsung campuses in South Korea, and I've always told my friends and coworkers to buy Samsung, because you're buying Korean, and you're voting for a company with a good track record of clean production facilities and high wages for workers.

I guess Samsung is just as bad as Apple. Or Nike. Or that company that built the Burj Khalifa. I wonder who built it...

Wikipedia.org...Burj Khalifa...

Oh, wait...

Well, that just ruined my day.

The benefits and the problems you perceive are not mutually exclusive. The congestion charge had number plate recognition since day one. It's the only way to do it, the only alternative would be to introduce barriers and have cars slow down and stop to pass them, which defeats the purpose of trying to reduce congestion. There's no doubt at all that the effect of the congestion charge is to limit/reduce travel inside central London, which in turn reduces pollution (not enough). Of course, it also gains automatic number plate recognition (already present on many traffic cameras and the M25, and inside police cars) and tax revenue.

It should come as no surprise that there's no public money in the UK. All councils are short of money, we're already under severe austerity measures thanks to elite banker scum, and the economy has taken another dive due to brexit uncertainty. The current government has made a point of reducing funding to any and all public services which will lead many people far worse off. To make up the shortfall in funding, local councils are finding themselves forced to cut back on essential support for people on low incomes already hit by rising prices.

The model in question was exempted from the congestion charge due to assumed low emissions, which turned out to not be the case. Therefore, it should have paid. So... why not get the revenue owned back from VW, who cheated the system? Pollution in London is estimated to cause 9500 deaths a year, VW can go fuck themselves.

It's because there's nowhere to park. Also, if you had a garage it would have been converted into a "luxury apartment" by now.

Automation makes no business sense unless it contributes to the bottom line. Meaning it should be better, cheaper, or faster than existing human labour (preferably all three). If the total amount of (wage paying) man hours per unit of output isn't lower than without automation, it's not competitive. In all three cases it will mean a net reduction in human labour in a particular niche plus support jobs (insofar as they are billed through to the work they're replacing),.

In the past there were always new investment opportunities (new things to do; often new natural resources to exploit) that would absorb that labour, and offer a return on investment. In other words: it would drive up our collective wealth to more than pay for those new jobs.

For better or worse I don't quite see where the next big economic expansion is to come from (and if I did I wouldn't be telling you until I had secured a slice of the pie). I fear it may be absent.

Unfortunately some of the biggest niches in US labour market are in manual work: manufacturing things, mining, driving trucks, warehousing, janitorial work, and the service industry.

Ever read about the time when so much employment was in farming jobs? Mostly gone. Automated. Jobs absorbed by industry.

Manufacturing jobs are shifting. Some offshore. Some to automation. As far as I know, the bulk of shop floor manufacturing jobs (just look at the automobile industry) are assembly-type jobs (i.e. not skilled machining). Which can be automated as pick and place robots become more affordable and more capable.

Warehousing: same thing. Jobs being automated. Just ask Amazon. Easier to run 24/7 and no more restroom breaks.

Driving trucks seems on its way to being automated too. According to this site http://www.alltrucking.com/faq... there are about 3.5 mln. truck drivers in the US. What if we can eliminate just the easiest 10% of those? See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/te... and http://www.latimes.com/project... and https://www.wired.com/2015/05/... and here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... . Any ideas where about 350k former truck drivers will find employment? That's a lot of low-skilled jobs to offset by generating new demand. In fact, it's about 2% of the labour force (see http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat0... ).

I believe that mr. Trump's recent win is mostly because whole groups of US citizens are facing the problem that what they have to offer (their labour) is no longer in demand. It can be (and often has been or is being) replaced by automation, different products, even cheaper competition offshore, or illegal immigrants. That should at least tell us that people are feeling the squeeze.

To continue a bit with mr. Trump: his promises seem to hinge on three economic pillars: erecting trade barriers, exploiting the commons for commercial gain (as in exchanging environmental protection statutes for operating profit), and injecting a trillion

It's already been reversed: Google reverses decision to ban Pixel phone resellers

This is a non-story. (1) users found to be skirting tax laws (2) suspend accounts to investigate (3) review appeals (4) act based on what you found
If Google did nothing they'd be in trouble with regulators.

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

Climate models that are calibrated to accurately 'predict' weather conditions in the past are not proven to be as accurate in predicting conditions for which they haven't been calibrated, so knowing very well that this will attract a lot of flak from the usual AGW-zealots, and acknowledging that my karma will be reduced based on their disagreeing with me--which means that slashdot effectively already does have the 'fake news' filter that facebook is only still talking about--I will not be compelled to hold back my opinion.

Run-on sentence much? Anyway, for about the bazillionth time, climate != weather.

The AGW people are not zealots, they're scientists, and those who understand how science works. What you seem to interpret as zealotry is actually a genuine concern for the future of the human race.

All models are a compromise, because they attempt to express in mathematics and algorithms the essential parts of a complex real world. They can make wrong predictions in both directions. But the practice of science works to correct this by observing discrepancies and producing better models. And guess what? Models keep improving, and they are becoming quite accurate:

http://www.skepticalscience.co...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
http://www.ucsusa.org/publicat...
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/c...
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-g...

Whether you accept what the models say or not, the essential take-away is that CO2 and methane are greenhouse gasses, and humanity is responsible for adding a significant amount of them to the atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Enough to cause a problem that we must face and solve, or risk significant global hardship. Temperature is trending upwards. Polar ice is melting. Sea levels are rising. These are observed facts.

And maybe, in fact perhaps quite likely, efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be a net benefit for economies, rather than a hardship.

Climate models that are calibrated to accurately 'predict' weather conditions in the past are not proven to be as accurate in predicting conditions for which they haven't been calibrated, so knowing very well that this will attract a lot of flak from the usual AGW-zealots, and acknowledging that my karma will be reduced based on their disagreeing with me--which means that slashdot effectively already does have the 'fake news' filter that facebook is only still talking about--I will not be compelled to hold back my opinion.

Run-on sentence much? Anyway, for about the bazillionth time, climate != weather.

The AGW people are not zealots, they're scientists, and those who understand how science works. What you seem to interpret as zealotry is actually a genuine concern for the future of the human race.

All models are a compromise, because they attempt to express in mathematics and algorithms the essential parts of a complex real world. They can make wrong predictions in both directions. But the practice of science works to correct this by observing discrepancies and producing better models. And guess what? Models keep improving, and they are becoming quite accurate:

http://www.skepticalscience.co...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
http://www.ucsusa.org/publicat...
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/c...
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-g...

Whether you accept what the models say or not, the essential take-away is that CO2 and methane are greenhouse gasses, and humanity is responsible for adding a significant amount of them to the atmosphere since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Enough to cause a problem that we must face and solve, or risk significant global hardship. Temperature is trending upwards. Polar ice is melting. Sea levels are rising. These are observed facts.

And maybe, in fact perhaps quite likely, efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions will be a net benefit for economies, rather than a hardship.

All the rage in Russia right now.

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

Placebo effect works even if patients know they're getting a sham drug

So even if homeopathy is only a way of achieving a placebo effect, it is making a positive contribution to the health of the nation. The fact that it is mumbo-jumbo winds up scientific fundamentalists, who HATE the fact that placebos work. Let's stop buggering about targeting this sort of issue, and address the real scandals out there. (That said, homeopathic treatment for serious diseases where there is a mainstream cure ARE a public danger.)

Media/Light Technology companies aren't very powerful, despite the obsessions on sites serving sheltered western children. Musk is a failure in everything he does due to shitty management philosophy driven by pure greed, covered only by the shallowest marketing BS. The US truly has fallen though, defeated by vengeful Russians desperate to sabotage the EU (Brexit, AfD, sponsorship of Fascist Ukrainian separatists) and the US (Trump's election due to the actions of Russian hacking houses, and longterm sabotage of patriotism being replaced with Anti-American values of xenophobia and nationalism).

Obama set the record for an active president campaigning for Hillary Clinton . http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
Obama in 2011 Trolling Trump, funny Trump has his job now http://time.com/3991301/donald....
Obama Feb 2016 , Trump won't be president http://www.bloomberg.com/polit...
Obama "at least I will be a president" http://www.politico.com/story/...
Obama playing the KKK card https://www.theguardian.com/us...
Obama continuing his un-presidential arrogant tone http://www.businessinsider.com... .

It's not just "a select group of people", it's also the far right nutjobs like this. Personally I condemn all extremists, rather than a large group that contains extremists that another group of equally ugly extremists don't like due to their own disgusting twisted worldview.

Trump can simply build a wall around China.

If Trump really believes climate change isn't real, then why is he building walls around his golf courses? (to be correct, he wants it around Ireland).

He should put his money where his mouth is and not do it. Hell, Ireland should say since it's not real, he doesn't need the wall. It's either real, and it's in his economic best interest to protect his properties, or it's not real as he claims, in which case he doesn't need the walls.

Yes, but that would cost fossil fuel companies a lot of money, so they send out their useful idiots and shills to spread disinformation, even when said fossil fuel companies have known about AGW for decades

Also you should read this detailing how China "China will lead the world for growth in renewable power".