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No need or request for exceptions, China is leading the US in terms of alternative energy developments primarily with Nuclear power.

No need or request for exceptions, China is leading the US in terms of alternative energy developments primarily with Nuclear power.

Obviously not the person you responded to but...

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/...
http://www.postcrescent.com/st...

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
In a trade war, the USA would be the loser. Grain, aircraft, cars sold to China would stop. China would also stop selling cellphones to the USA.
Together, no cellphones means your salesman would have to run to the office or use wifi and a laptop to communicate with his customers. The USA is too dependent on Cellphone use. That cellphone drop in sales would impact the providers, resellers and even advertising.

China's internal market is 4 time the size of the USA market. They have alternate sources, as does the USA. Trump is trumpeting his stupidity.

It is confirmed: the US gov had a Skype back door in 2011-2013 (and presumably still does) according to Snowden's revelations on PRISM and other programs (here's your proof). This explicitly includes the NSA's ability to watch Skype video (launched in 14 July 2012, audio was much earlier). There have also been strong allegations that various other nations have been granted back doors.

The only good things that came out of Skype were the proof-of-concept (Skype was the first one that actually worked out of the box) and some of the technology (Skype co-developed SILK, one of the two key algorithms used by the Opus audio codec, the free and arguably superior alternative to HE-AAC). That was all before they were purchased by Microsoft. I'm guessing PRISM came after the MS purchase.

"Optic Nerve: millions of Yahoo webcam images intercepted by GCHQ" (28 Feb 2014)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
The govs have been at that for years. They like users to be facing the camera with their face upright for best collection results.
Lets hope that fully encrypted part is deep at the OS level on both ends :)

they have
https://www.theguardian.com/so...
still will take time though ...

IT contractors eh!

Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin political analyst, was jubilant at the result and said a Trump presidency would make it more likely the US would agree with Russia on Syria, where the two powers back different sides and Moscow has intervened decisively on behalf of the president, Bashar al-Assad.

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.”

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Well, that's certainly a matter of opinion. But regardless, Mashiki wasn't comparing Obama and Trump, he was comparing people in general (I suppose especially US citizens). Read what he said: "...were _people_ so rabidly insane" (emphasis added). He's presumably talking about the protests against the election, not about Obama or Trump themselves. (He also talks about Hilary Clinton.)

So ok, let's say DogDude got off the rails a bit, should we then go back and question Mashiki's claims a bit?

Well, Mashiki was talking about people not being so rabidly insane after Obama's election and relection. Ahem. That's a falsehood too, there's plenty of rabidly insane comments from those days. Even the Donald himself. Oh well, he deleted them. I guess they never happened.

I say many of these people were rabidly insane. Insofar as it is a figurative language, not a clinical diagnosis, but I think we know that.

It's like the Nazi comparisons which people on Fox never made. Or how there was no racism before Obama. (Then there's how she's wrong about the schools and neighborhoods shot up, and so forth.)

I'll grant the chair business wasn't entirely crazy. It raised flags with me, but ok, I'll let you just pass him off as Hollywood loony, not crazy.

And do note, I've not gone into the depths too far. This is not comprehensive, it is just enough to show that some people did go off the deep end. And if you look at the other comments, you will see, that they deny any, any craziness at all.

Of course, I'll say that the 70% who believe America is going in the wrong direction, unsourced though that is, would just as well cover people who think Trump being nominated, and winning as anything else. So they could be right. But of course, it's not sourced, so no idea what was truly being polled.

Everyone knows there was no racism before Obama.

I don't know when that labeled began to be applied to the Euro countries or by whom but it's clear one side doesn't truly understand the advanced social democracies and the other doesn't care to

That "label" is something social democratic movements applied to themselves. That is, European socialists, facing failure of their movement, tried to figure out whether they could tone down their message to stay relevant, and they came up with "democratic socialism" and "social democracy".

Identifying the "Euro countries" with "social democracies" is an error. Only a third of Europe is currently governed by center-left governments. Conservative governments in Europe certainly agree with progressive governments on elitism and illiberalism, but they are otherwise usually as right-wing as US Republicans.

As for Ann Jones's article on Norway, she is simply a rich, stupid American political hack, writing patronizing and ignorant articles about European countries. You can safely ignore her and her drivel.

Sanders is a Marxist who honeymooned in USSR

You a Hillbot or a Bushbot? It was always hillaryious to see the former insisting that Sander's would be smeared as a wannabe communist, given that's a copy of paste of Republican attacks on Bill Clinton from '92.

and praised Venezuela of Hugo Chavez

By smearing him as a dictator?

What is it with Bots and living in their own alternate realities?

in The Netherlands: Guardian article on Dutch lawsuit here. So there is some precedent, albeit under a different legal system.

That's an extremely broad interpretation of rights to life and liberty. What's next? Americans suing the US government for not having done enough research to find a cure for cancer?

Indeed I would hope that if the US government put as little effort into cancer as they did into climate change that they would also get sued for this.

It sounds ridiculous, but this is not the first government to be sued by it's citizens for not doing enough about climate change https://www.theguardian.com/en...

But really I consider climate change secondary now. Climate change hasn't affected me and likely won't directly affect me. However fighting climate change has directly resulted in initiatives that have already made my life better. The air smells cleaner, there's less smog, driving behind cars no longer fills my cabin with horrid smelling fumes, the oil refinery near where I work doesn't smell anywhere near as bad as it used to, there's less diesel dust settling on everything... even to climate deniers I don't see any good reason why we shouldn't continue down this road of stemming pollution.

Maybe it was a peaceful diplomatic mission?

I'll be darned if I can reliably tell whether that hot chick I see on the street is 24 or 14.

It's not just you. They sure don't look like they did when I was younger.

I see young women in stores and yeah, they could be 15 or they could be in their 20s. And they're a lot more curvy or buxom or whatever than I remember them being when I was in high school or junior high. Some scientific studies are claiming that the age of puberty is dropping, so maybe that's it.

https://www.theguardian.com/so...
http://sph.unc.edu/age-of-pube...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/0...

"At the turn of the 20th century, the average age for an American girl to get her period was 16 to 17. Today, that number has plummeted to less than 13, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey."

So yeah, there's something going on.

97% + of scientists agree on it being a scientific fact that global warming is happening. 84% apparently agree it's caused by humans, who are you to call it junk science?

"Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years" https://www.theguardian.com/en... are you on the pay roll or just someone suckered in by their corrupt plan?

27 YEARS, holy crap, imagine where we'd be if they invested that money into clean energy research instead of spreading lies while they choke the planet.

And more importantly, if we work as hard as possible to try and counter it, we're making our air cleaner and our planet an all round better place to live, oh no, what a travesty. I'm sure those breathing toxic air in China and India will be devastated they can still breath http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... , https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

97% + of scientists agree on it being a scientific fact that global warming is happening. 84% apparently agree it's caused by humans, who are you to call it junk science?

"Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years" https://www.theguardian.com/en... are you on the pay roll or just someone suckered in by their corrupt plan?

27 YEARS, holy crap, imagine where we'd be if they invested that money into clean energy research instead of spreading lies while they choke the planet.

And more importantly, if we work as hard as possible to try and counter it, we're making our air cleaner and our planet an all round better place to live, oh no, what a travesty. I'm sure those breathing toxic air in China and India will be devastated they can still breath http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... , https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

When we're talking about spear-phishing then it's wise to look at the targets: who would benefit from hacking "Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, the Atlantic Council, the RAND Corporation, and the State Department"? This "Russian Business Network"? There is a widespread and long-standing series of attacks which points to the Russian state being the culprit. I'll post this again because it was unaccountably modded to zero before.

BBC News summarized the evidence for the Russian state being behind a whole host of cyber-attacks since 2007, via the Fancy Bears hacking group. There is no smoking gun but the article and those linked within it (well worth reading) suggest evidence of Russian involvement in the language and timestamps of the malware as well as the list of targets: the Georgian, German, Romainian and Polish governments, Ukraine, Russian dissidents, NATO, the MH17 investigation team, as well as the US Democratic Party, US media and US athletes' drug testing records and more generally targets of interest to governments rather than those after money. The same hackers also shut down a French TV station and a Ukrainian power station, probably just to see if they could.

The article is based on Microsoft's accusation that the group was exploiting an unpatched flaw in Windows but it's probably no co-incidence that it was published just after the head of MI5 warned about Russia's increased aggression.

BBC News summarized the evidence for the Russian state being behind a whole host of cyber-attacks since 2007, via the Fancy Bears hacking group. There is no smoking gun but the article and those linked within it (well worth reading) suggest evidence of Russian involvement in the language and timestamps of the malware as well as the list of targets: the Georgian, German, Romainian and Polish governments, Ukraine, Russian dissidents, NATO, the MH17 investigation team, as well as the US Democratic Party, US media and US athletes' drug testing records and more generally targets of interest to governments rather than those after money. The same hackers also shut down a French TV station and a Ukrainian power station, probably just to see if they could.

The article is based on Microsoft's accusation that the group was exploiting an unpatched flaw in Windows but it's probably no co-incidence that it was published just after the head of MI5 warned about Russia's increased aggression.

Ah, common problem. You don't want to deal with it.

Not the first time. After all, if you claim it isn't something you've seen, it doesn't exist.

Too bad for you, it is a real problem.. Documented even.

I know, I know, you want to pretend to be above it all. But you can't help but make yourself look bad when you make such blatantly untrue statements.

You think Facebook only collects information on people who create accounts?

That's adorable.
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

If there was something malicious going on, do you think they would really be out advertising it? Idiot.

Of course Russia is going to want to reach out to the likely president-elect of the United States of America in order to start a working relationship.

At least they seem to advertise some of it.

The Guardian:

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.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Nobody bought that one, not even Jezebel.

That aside, the Epstein thing in there is actually interesting. Yes, it's true that Trump was on that guys plane once, long before it came out that he was a pedo. Tons of celebrities have also been on that guy's plane, including Bill Clinton (20+ times).

As far as I know Trump has had nothing to do with the guy after knowing he was convicted as a pedo. Not everyone can say that...

Political speech mostly, and the expression of ideas are the most protected.

That's a very vague answer...

The sad reality is, once you accept even a seemingly innocuous infringement — such as, for example, that famous example of yelling "fire" (or "gun!") in a crowd, you start down a very steep and slippery slope. For example, Trump is — according to millions of Americans — a very dangerous man to this country, his election promising to be a disaster far more dangerous than a handful of deaths in a panicked crowd of any theater. He is also a racist, is not he? Ergo, Trump's speech, however political, should be curtailed, his followers suppressed. (Wait for AC follow-ups here expressing agreement with this sentence.)

If you think, this is an unlikely and asinine scenario, you haven't been paying attention. There are articles and educated opinions out there already proposing a ban on "hate speech" in general (such as on this, supposedly "Liberal" web-site) and on pro-Trump speech in particular... Other perfectly respectable countries ban "hate speech" already — even that of politicians.

One should be extremely careful accepting new arguments for infringing more speech — and always seek to get rid of existing ones.

you can't say your snake oil contains unicorn tears, cures cancer

A Republic (and a Democracy) can survive such bogus claims being legal. They are a nuisance, but not a threat.

the corruption foisted upon them by their pro-Russian "leaders"

Oh, how coincided that today, Saakashvili resigned, and said something many non-brainwashed Ukrainian people already known:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

“What difference for Ukrainians does it make who will treat them like dirt: Poroshenko or Yanukovych; what difference who will steal from them?”

From the 1930s Keynes predicted a 15 hour working week. In the 60s and 70s a three day weekend was predicted. What actually happens is that some people have to work harder than ever for fear of losing their jobs while others have no work and live in poverty.

These days, you probably could get a 15 hour a week part time job and live on that so long as you were willing to live at a 1930's standard of living. No car. No electric appliances. No phone. You might even get away with a 1950's standard of living. Sometime back at the start of the 2008 recession, I wondered how bad things would have to get to look like the Great Depression like people were saying. Anyway, I found a study on the standard of living in the 1950's of middle class families that studied actual metrics like how many suits the breadwinner had on average, how many weeks of clothes people owned, how many electric appliances they owned, how much of a percent of their money was spent on food and clothing, etc. It was very sobering. The average member of a "middle class family" (I never did get a definition of what middle class meant however, but apparently they studied what was considered middle class at the time.) had a little over a weeks worth of clothing. A family had and average of around three electric appliances total in 1950. The average husband owned 1.54 suit jackets. The father got the eggs and bacon and everybody else got oatmeal, because that's what they could afford. Overall, the 1950's were not that good a time, but rather a time of increasing standards. Salaries were going up, electric appliances were being bought, people could afford more clothing. If one wanted to live at those standards of living they probably could as at the time a major portion of their money went to food and clothing which have come down in price probably by an order of magnitude. Housing would be a sticky issue as many of the forms of housing that used to exist, no longer does. Homes have gotten larger and tend to have many more features, and seems to be going up.

From the 1930s Keynes predicted a 15 hour working week. In the 60s and 70s a three day weekend was predicted. What actually happens is that some people have to work harder than ever for fear of losing their jobs while others have no work and live in poverty.

The test is whether Musk would be willing to pay a significantly higher corporation tax to fund the basic income.

Musk has already used universal-corporate-income to fund his companies (tax break fro Tesla and Solar City, direct Nasa contracts for Spacex). Of course he believes you can shake down the government for endless supplies of money...

From the 1930s Keynes predicted a 15 hour working week. In the 60s and 70s a three day weekend was predicted. What actually happens is that some people have to work harder than ever for fear of losing their jobs while others have no work and live in poverty.

And a third group don't work yet live in fantastic luxury because they own everything. If we had Keyne's vision of capitalism, we would all be working 15 hour weeks, but we don't have that, we basically have a regression to feudalism. Those that own the land/capital grant a share of the harvest surplus to those who still have some utility value to the feudal lords. Those that are not useful live off the charity of those who still are - in the end what do the feudal lords care if the stupid serfs want to share their meagre income among themselves.

We had a UBI in the 1960-80 when the middle class was big enough to self insure itself (universal healthcare, unemployment, pensions). Unless you fix the structural shift that has occurred since then, any new attempts at a UBI simply amount to the poor sharing rocks and imaging they are potatoes.

From the 1930s Keynes predicted a 15 hour working week. In the 60s and 70s a three day weekend was predicted. What actually happens is that some people have to work harder than ever for fear of losing their jobs while others have no work and live in poverty.

The test is whether Musk would be willing to pay a significantly higher corporation tax to fund the basic income.

I expect that what will happen to workers all over the world with increased automation will, to varying extents, be similar to what happened to the free Roman citizenry when the empire was flooded with cheap slave labour. There will be widespread unemployment, enormous income inequality, rampant poverty, an upper crust that feels it self entitled to exploit those less fortunate in any whey they please, politics that revolve around promising the masses of unemployed citizens fast food and reality shows (or what passes for 'bread and games' these days)... basically, read any book on the decline of the Roman Republic. There will also be other effects such as a genetic divergence since only certain people will be able to afford having theirs children's genome re sequenced. There will possibly also be an effort to off-load genetically inferior excess populations to off-world colonies all over the solar system starting with the Moon and Mars with promises of better lives and corporate sponsored genetic re-sequencing programs for their kids. The reality will turn out to be genetic modifications they did not sign up fore and a drudgery of a life in an oxygen deprived mining complex or something where they will never be out of debt to the corporation. The future will be something along the lines of what you see in that SyFy channel show 'The Expanse'.... Ok, time out, I'm going off now to look for my anti-depression meds....

From the 1930s Keynes predicted a 15 hour working week. In the 60s and 70s a three day weekend was predicted. What actually happens is that some people have to work harder than ever for fear of losing their jobs while others have no work and live in poverty.

The test is whether Musk would be willing to pay a significantly higher corporation tax to fund the basic income.

Everyone told me Comey was irresponsible and wasn't worth listening to last week. Why should we care what he says now?

He was extremely irresponsible and may have even broke the law (not that anyone on the right would be concerned about that).

This is a bit of a too-little too-late attempt to fix his screw up.

Kristian Saucier went to jail for much less than that: taking selfies in a restricted area. Didn't even send them to anyone.

From http://www.snopes.com/kristian... (at end of article):

Both Kristian Saucier and Hillary Clinton were federally investigated over alleged mishandling of classified information: Saucier was charged and sentenced to prison, while Clinton was controversially not indicted by the DOJ after a lengthy investigation. Shipmates of Saucier and some members of the public have contrasted the cases to suggest that Saucier faced harsher penalties for a lesser offense, but intent was the core of the FBI's recommendation not to indict Clinton, while several witnesses testified that Saucier was fully aware his actions were prohibited.

Saucier's investigation and subsequent conviction were far less complex that that of Clinton's use of private e-mail, and his lawyers suggested the decision not to indict her led to a lighter sentence their client received in his case.

As for:

I'm sympathetic to arguments that classified rules are too strict, but Hillary shouldn't get special treatment. Elites getting special treatment is how we get unfair rules in the first place.

Clinton wasn't an "elite" but Secretary of State, an appointed and confirmed position that is quite different from a sailor. Different treatment isn't necessarily "special" treatment, however unfair it may *seem*.

Kristian Saucier went to jail for much less than that: taking selfies in a restricted area. Didn't even send them to anyone.

I'm sympathetic to arguments that classified rules are too strict, but Hillary shouldn't get special treatment. Elites getting special treatment is how we get unfair rules in the first place.

How much is the Russian government paying you? I hear it's a pretty cutthroat gig there...

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

Hardware solutions are plug-and-play and dirt cheap now and keep you out of the Linux/hacker/config/maintenance nightmare ecosystem.

Until you find that your "hardware solution" is part of the latest botnet and has been trading your credit card numbers for child pornography. Some time about two years after the police come round to arrest you for the child porno. If you are lucky. Don't get me wrong; the F/OSS stuff may not save you, but the hardware IOT devices certainly will put you at risk.

Jehovah's Witnesses have done this, as have other cults...
1 predict the end of the world...
2 screw up badly on prediction...
3 revise date of end of world...
4 GOTO 1

Replace "end of world" with "end of Arctice icecap", and you get the idea...

Sunday 21 August 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
'Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice'

Saturday 4 June 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see 'an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year'

Monday 17 September 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.

Wednesday, 12 December 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/713... Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'

Rinse... lather... repeat.

Jehovah's Witnesses have done this, as have other cults...
1 predict the end of the world...
2 screw up badly on prediction...
3 revise date of end of world...
4 GOTO 1

Replace "end of world" with "end of Arctice icecap", and you get the idea...

Sunday 21 August 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
'Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice'

Saturday 4 June 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/e...
Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see 'an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year'

Monday 17 September 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/en...
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years.

Wednesday, 12 December 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/713... Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'

Rinse... lather... repeat.

Didn't really work out too well.

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

Who said he received death threats? He did.

And many others. https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

but also https://insideclimatenews.org/...

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/01/mit-climate-scientists-wife-threatened-frenzy-hate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jun/06/australia-climate-scientists-death-threats

http://grist.org/news-2/here-are-some-of-the-death-threats-sent-to-a-climate-scientist/

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/116404/response/288373/attach/4/Appendix%20A%20Data%20file%20072.pdf

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1545134/Scientists-threatened-for-climate-denial.html

If your going to have a cell phone on you know the gov, mil, police will track you.
The ability to plot you and your contacts is easy. The ability to log what other phone stopped with and for how long is within a nations city or state police budget per case.
A park bench, a cafe, walking side by side for any length of time can all be discovered. With cell phone mapping it will all be logged and can be played back.
Don't meet contacts with your phone. Have a friend take your phone with them into an area and wonder around to create a fake map.
You can still be tracked on CCTV, by vehicle registration plate but thats is a given.
Do not trust any soft power down, remote turn on is alway a gov/mil supported option in many devices.
Anyone in the press should be aware of how police counter the media with all the tools they can get.
Journalists caught on tape in police bugging (21 September 2002)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
Your phone is designed to be wire tap friendly as sold globally. Don't carry it near contacts or use it to create vast amounts of disinformation.

What other side? Hasn't Romney endorsed Clinton? The most amazing thing about this election is the validation of the conspiracy theorists who have been saying we have one party rule. It's true, as unbelievable as that is.

Have you ever considered the possibility that Trump is just a completely terrible candidate for President? He is facing a rape trial and a fraud trial along with his many other flaws.

They have an angle. For example, when Snopes "debunked" how Hillary laughed while talking about the rape of a 12-year old girl, they went for the biggest strawman they could find. Yes, it's true that she was forced to defend that guy. Normal people aren't complaining about that part, just about how she did so.

See, Hillary laughed when interviewed about it. It's on the tape. That doesn't count according to Snopes because "she did not laugh about the case's outcome." They say she was just chuckling a few times, for example when saying she mistrusted polygraph results because they would've indicated her client wasn't guilty. Snopes, please tell us, why is the rape of a 12-year-old funny at all? Should we just ignore that Hillary has a rather morbid sense of humor?

Hillary implied that her client was guilty by her mistrust of the polygraph results where he was telling the "truth" about not raping the girl. But Snopes will summarize this as "she did not claim she knew the defendant to be guilty." Right, she only implied guilt based on inside knowledge that she should hold in confidence as an attorney. That's only a highly unethical violation of her attorney client privilege to imply things like this. But it's okay! She only mistrusts polygraphs--like the one she had him take and which he passed--because of this case with this man. She didn't come out and say he's guilty! It's not like you'd have to be an idiot to fail to understand the clear implication. Nothing to see here!

They say "she did not assert that the complainant "made up the rape story,"" instead they point out that she just put forth an anonymous source who allegedly told her the girl was "emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing about persons, claiming they had attacked her body." This kind of defense is exactly why we have rape shield laws nowadays--because people got fed up with this scummy tactic being used by defense lawyers and outlawed it. Yes, she may have some excuse of professional obligation there--this turns into a murky legal question. But morally? People thought this was such a disgusting, hurtful way to attack rape victims that it's been outlawed. Please let that sink in for a moment. It's true that she may be legally correct here. But how can you defend that kind of thing morally? [1]

So the thing is they really do massage how they frame the articles, which "facts" or formulations thereof they try to debunk--picking strawmen to attack when it suits their claims, and then they make summaries that are misleading. It's a more subtle form of bias with the intent to mislead, but it's clear enough if you actually read everything and do your own research. They simply don't expect anyone to actually bother to read things and I hate to say it, but they're usually right that people won't.

[1] Whataboutists: I'm also disturbed by some of the allegations against Trump. However, there is some evidence pointing to deliberate fabrications, making that less clear than it might be.

No that's how they get you https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

It's almost on the same level of real-world effectiveness as the female pill, according to the article on the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/so....

Hijacks could allow law-enforcement officers to safely seize control of vulnerable drones that are endangering or interfering with first responders.

Imagine the historical impact if this very important footage of protests in Hong Kong, Macedonia, and Greece was seized by authorities.

It is bad enough that authorities are using Stingrays to gather contact information from the phones of those who participate in protests. It is bad enough that constant, aerial,high resolution footage of these peaceful protesters is being used to track them as they go home. The tactics that police use to control the population are one step short of the tactics that are used in modern warfare.

The same way it ended in the UK. Files finding their way into the hands of anyone who can pay.
"Journalists caught on tape in police bugging" (21 September 2002)
".. obtaining information from a private detective agency which in turn paid corrupt officers for confidential police material." https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

There is plenty of evidence that more intelligent species kill off less intelligent species. So, where there is any pressure toward diversity at all, it follows that evolution tends to produce intelligence. Even if intelligence only provides an advantage in some tiny percentage of cases where life can exist (which seems quite pathological to me), that's all it takes to generate intelligence.

Their profits and sales dropped after a massive recall and their products and even their replacements bursting into flame? I did not see that coming!

Don't take it too bad. An entire company was Elopped because they didn't see this coming and they believed "Samsung would be well-placed [to] dominate, which would leave no room for anyone else". This would have been their chance to take back the lead. They might be able to use this to get back into the market, but I bet they are kicking themselves that they didn't go with Android when they had the chance originally.

Very rarely with 100s of partners a year, yet this is "not uncommon" in the gay male community.

They are on average promiscuous on a level heterosexuals just don't get close to.

Perhaps because it's an election year, I've gotten into the habit of fact-checking statements which sound suspiciously like they've been pulled out of an ass.
Or, maybe I just lament the ending of Mythbusters. Either way, Myth Busted.

TL:DR version: They took some usage data from a popular dating site and discovered that both gays and straight people have roughly the same amount of luck getting laid. Science, bitch.