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It's all about disarming victims.

I'd say it's all about responsible gun ownership. Toddlers shot themselves or others on a weekly basis in 2015. And here's another parent shot in the back by her son. It's pretty dumb.

Google under scrutiny over lobbying influence on Congress ... The Guardian Dec 18, 2015 - Google has made political donations to 162 members of the US Congress in the latest election cycle http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

like it or not if you want to survive those are the games you have to play. MS adamantly refused to do such political donations and it led to their anti trust case. Now you will find MS donate as much or more than everyone else. You are either in with the politicians or your competitors will be and then you are a target. It is the way the American system works.

Google under scrutiny over lobbying influence on Congress ... The Guardian Dec 18, 2015 - Google has made political donations to 162 members of the US Congress in the latest election cycle http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

And now we want them back (and have a look right where they are made why they put plastic into them). http://www.theguardian.com/lif...

You'll see a lot of familiar names.

Here is how much each senator was paid by each backer for fast tracking.

Here's a Hillary specific one about donations to her campaign, since it came up early in the search.

The first 2 charts I found linked in this excellent Guardian story.

Some key excerpts:

Using data from the Federal Election Commission, this chart shows all donations that corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP made to US Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate:

- Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 "yea" votes.
- The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
- The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.

The amounts given rise dramatically when looking at how much each senator running for re-election received.

Reminds me of F-Secure and their "Herod clause". First born child mentioned. http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

This El Nino was actually weaker than the 1998 event, but the recent winter was still warmer, suggesting the record temperatures have their source elsewhere.

Here's a story that has a chart of temperature trends since 1965 breaking them out for El Nino, ENSO neutral and La Nina years (also showing years with major volcanic eruptions). The temperature trend is upwards in all 3 categories and similar to the general warming trend. The chart doesn't include the current El Nino but it would be above the El Nino trend line.

So El Nino/ENSO is just a cycle that happens on top of the general temperature trend without affecting it much.

This is what you are missing:
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

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

Can you find a link to corroborate this, and update the Wikipedia articles on Sievert and CT Scan? Because every link I find corroborates the lower numbers that people are posting in this thread.

6.8 mSv
3 - 20 mSv
2 - 16 mSv
30 mSv
1 - 100 mSv
That last article lists Head CT as 56 mSv, and Cardiac CT angiogram as 40 - 100 mSv.

Hydropower is not exceedingly safe. I don't know where statistics on deaths due to power station failures might be collected, but I'd be willing to bet that this one incident dwarfs all non-hydropower plant disasters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Sadly, it's not an isolated incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Nor is it something that isn't a risk in modern times:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

some even return home

Who is telling you that? I know some people on the Chinese side of the border and they have a very different story. Who would go back to starvation and public execution for trying to escape in the first place? Some executions even happen within sight of the Chinese border.

Various news articles on the subject. I think the one I remember was on BBC on how hard it was for NKs to adjust to SK culture. It just mentioned that some did return. This article addresses the subject although they put a very low number to those that have returned. Single digits on the number SK says have gone back to NK, double digits on what NK says, and barely triple digits on the high end. Of course, this is also put into uncertainly because it is feared that NK is sending spies in with refugees and I could see such returning just as a propaganda ploy. Many of the articles will talk of how refugees are sending money back to NK from SK because of families and there are fears that the NK government is seeking to control such people either for the money or propaganda by doing so.

The greatest advantage that the French nuclear program has enjoyed is lack of organized opposition and the endless delaying tactics that you activists use in other countries to increase costs through endless legal delays. Any targeted energy program can be made to cost too much by imposing delay after delay.

Some illumination on the fossil industry's ownership of the antinuclear movement:
http://atomicinsights.com/esso...
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2013...
In contrast, the French oil giant Elf-Aquitaine (now Total) has always been a refiner and distributor, rather than owning the production it takes to be a sponsor against competing forms of energy

Some choice general commentary from a leading environmentalist on your endless stream of lies:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...

I predict that one of the more interesting byproducts of today's low oil prices will be the antinuclear movement running out of money.

They will not build a new one. First, Germany is super annoyed that they withheld information on an accident in the plant, as Germany would directly suffer from the consequences if the plant goes Fukushima. Second, EDF tries to build a new nuclear plant in the UK (Hinkley Point C). Their government is totally behind it. Unfortunately, the EDF finance director resigned as he sees the plant to be a economic disaster (the union also think it is stupid and will cost jobs) http://www.theguardian.com/env...

Therefore, it is not very plausible that they will build a new reactor anywhere.

No much different than of Predictive Policing, or Predictive Assessments, or Predictive Profiling, or Predictive Markets, or Datamining and Predictive Analysis and so on and so on...

Enough is enough. As the leader of the free world, shouldn't you be doing something about this? Besides everyone else, the families Kim is gassing would be thankful if you stopped turning a blind eye to Kim's shit. http://www.theguardian.com/wor... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Time to give this fucker the same body piercing the SEALS gave Osama bin Laden. BANG! BANG!

I guess his pissing off every voter bloc is the reason he's behind in the delegate count and number of votes cast. I guess he really didn't win in the most Hispanic city in the nation...

stupid laws that do not protect anyone from anything

Of course, they do protect — encryption is a weapon and you try to limit access to your best stuff. Yes, the enemies may still be able to get some of it, but your efforts make it harder for them.

Cryptography advances outside of the US made the point moot by early nineties, and the export-restrictions were dropped. But they weren't "stupid" — except, maybe, for the very last year or two.

The article's emphasis is all wrong — the vulnerabilities are due to poor design of SSL2 and the coding practices of OpenSSL developers leading to poor implementation of the rest. Neither of these problems is due to the government's export-restrictions.

When I read that, it was pretty clear to me that the application in question was Whatsapp (whatever that is), which has only recently been brought by Facebook. So I took it as meaning that the process of integrating the two companies hasn't been completed, and either Facebook needs to update it's policy statements to clarify that it physically/ logically can't release data from Whatsapp, or they need to change Whatsapp so that they can get hold of the data (presumably, store it and decrypt it).

But even when Facebook have made what changes it wants to, there's still nothing that would enable them to decrypt any data stored under the previous system, if the keys don't exist any more, or never existed. and of course, if data wasn't stored in the first place, there would also be nothing they can do.

Sounds to me as if someone is doing a poor job of explaining technical details to the court. "Film at 11."

AC re 'but to my knowledge no one has ever found any." did you forget all the interesting PRISM news back in 2013?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
"encryption unlocked even before official launch"
".. helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption"
"... routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport""

Already furniture (for example) is crappier than it was in my father's or grandfather's time, now mostly made of chipboard rather than solid wood because the world is running out of hardwood forests.

No, it's not, this is completely false. Furniture now is better than it was in your grandfather's time, or earlier. The problem is that you're buying cheap-ass furniture, instead of hiring a woodworker to make custom pieces for you.

Of course you can still get well made hardwood furniture for a price. Even in Soylent Green you could still buy steak. But I am comparing like with like - my grandfather was not rich and his cupboards were basic (did you miss that word?), sold to the equivalent market that the crap chipboard stuff is today. But his cupboards could last for ever (I use them daily) whereas some new stuff I buy today is falling to pieces even as I install it - I often need to add strengthening.

For example, I have bought three beds over the last 20 years. The first had storage drawers with plywood bottoms. The second had storage drawers with hardboard bottoms. The third had storage drawers with cardboard bottoms. In the latter two cases the bottoms promptly burst out when blankets were put in them, and I made steel plates to fit under them to give adequate strength. The beds were all the same brand, same price bracket. I don't consider my life as having improved with regard to beds.

If you aren't paying thousands of dollars for a single piece of furniture, then you can't compare: back in the old days, people spent a fortune on furniture. ..... All those nice museum pieces you see from a couple centuries ago are the furniture pieces that ultra-wealthy people had commissioned

My grandfather certainly could not have spent a fortune. In fact he probably bought them second-hand, which was possible as this stuff was solidly made, though not stylish. I'm not talking about museum pieces, but about the basic, functional, tool cupboards in my shed.

These days, woodworkers get a lot of their hardwood from Africa, which wasn't available to your grandfather...... And there's still plenty of hardwood coming from North America. Go to a lumber store and see for yourself. It isn't even that expensive.

Funny, because grandfather's cupboards are made from hardwood; I wonder if you know what hardwood means.The USA is one area that has a relatively large amount of forest, for now, but I am in the UK and you won't see hardwood in publicly accessible "lumber stores" except in tiny amounts like beading and veneers. Any significant amounts of hardwood are kept within the professional trade.

As for Africa, did you hear that it is being colonised by China? I cannot see much hardwood being left over for the West in the future.

when these measurements corroborate the existing (and already very convincing) evidence for sea level rise, the wingnuts will come up with yet another obscure rationalization explaining why they should be discarded or ignored.

If the fact that coastal cities are starting to flood at an increasing rate hasn't been enough to convince them, do you really think satellite data's going to do it?

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

When the satellites show that the sea level isn't rising

Then you can feel justification, as the water laps up over your ankles.

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

However, with the constant childish name-calling, spite-filled, intolerant, unadulterated hate that comes from the extreme left-wing in this country, I would never ever identify myself as a "progressive". What the left has become is to spit in the face of what true liberalism is about and many rational nominally left leaning people don't want anything to do with it.

There's a difference between those excellent points and blaming "Obama and the SJWs" for the milk going bad.

Donald Trump is not the outcome of leftist policies. He's the result of a major political party riding the tiger of talk radio shock jocks who are all trying to be more horrible than the next one and calling it "talking tough". It's the result of the Southern Strategy, it's the result of creating a victim mentality among white working class people, convincing them that they're being oppressed. It's the result of a cheapening of discourse and the stoking of irrational fears - of xenophobia and plain, old bigotry. It's the result of the "bully effect", where weak-minded people feel empathy toward the strong papa-figure, as long as he sounds sufficiently like a hard-ass. It's the result of a fascism that's been dormant in the US for over a century and a half and really started to flower in 1980. The 20th century was stained with rivers of blood from what happens when that sort of ugliness takes hold in a portion of a society.

Don't blame some stupid college kids or feminists for the rise of the first candidate in decades that's been embraced by actual white supremacists and Nazis.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-...

... link it shows the "enviro-left" IPCC predictions vs actual temperature measurements. Not even close.

The Guardian addresses several of your errors interpreting this graph in this article. Perhaps the biggest error is the implication that the models predict specific temperature rises over time. In reality, the projections all included error bounds which, if included, would have show a very different picture.

I will note that those error bounds were pretty broad back in 1990. And that newer models are narrowing those bounds.

Last, a quotation from the article: "The 1990–2012 data have been shown to be consistent with the [1990 IPCC report] projections, and not consistent with zero trend from 1990"

Some in the EU do care about privacy but not everyone here does.
Google has had more access to Downing Street than any other company in the past 20 years.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

Having more cars than licensed drivers sounds good for the environment - it means some aren't being driven...

That's only "good" if no resources are needed to build a car. Depending on how far down the chain you track resources, building a car has a higher carbon footprint than driving it:

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

Anyhow, that "fact" isn't true, at least as of the given dates.

Try "licensed drivers".

Another restaurant chain in London, Gaucho, which serves steak dishes that cost up to £99, takes 16% of staff tips and puts part of this towards 'staff incentives and competitions'. It also takes a further 2.3% each month from sales generated by each waiter, which is shared among non-waiting staff.

A Gaucho employee told the Observer that in one month they earned close to £500 in tips but, because of a combination of the two deductions, more than £400 of that was retained by the company.

Last week a further tipping scandal came to light when the London Evening Standard reported that a French restaurant chain, Côte, retains the entire 12.5% service charge that it adds to customers’ bills rather than giving it to their staff .

Tipping in cash is a good way for the wait staff to remember you the next time that the manager wants them to push the fish, so they'll tell you "avoid the fish."

Yup. Just like how asset forfeiture started out by nailing those bad drug dealers who were making money off of selling drugs to our kids. Fast forward and you've got cops stealing people's sh*t like gangsters under the same rules.

Or how about Stingrays (used for the parallel construction you've mentioned)? Those things would only be used to catch really dangerous terrorist types, right? Hell, with all the secrecy and backdoor-buddy'ism behind that we can't even *get* records of where those are being used, but 2000 cases got dropped because of them. It's not like they can't use the tools, they just need to get a f***ing warrant, but don't.

Let us not forget all the cases of other compromised internet security devices with suspicious circumstances behind them. Do we truly believe that none of those track back to certain 3-letter agencies.

Land of the free only seems to apply when it's government agencies having a free-for-all with your privacy.

Error 53.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-... (the Pacchieri baby snatching case)
https://www.lifesitenews.com/n... (they even go so far as to prohibit the mentally ill from having sex)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... (or those deemed to have learning difficulties to marry... Mark and Kerry have been happily married now for seven years and are very good friends of mine)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... (background on the CoP and the evils that it can order: abortions, caesarians, experimental surgery and medication, euthanasia (AKA Liverpool Care Pathway which is just another term for "withhold all food, water and painkillers"), sterilisation, forcible restraint, incarceration "for the public good" even if no danger to the public has been evidenced)

Security is complicated, and you're asking for an easy-to-use device that will withstand all possible attacks.

The funny part is, even Apple's devices would be incredibly secure if they had hardwired the try limit on the chip. :-)

This isn't like any key escrow proposal I've seen. Those have typically been things that weakened security just by existing, and typically have not required a court order. This is a potential attack, available only on court order, which Apple is fighting. The difference is pretty big.

Trust in the US government's ability to adhere to existing laws and endorse transparency has faltered. Who's to say they won't use the FISA kangaroo courts to obtain the needed court orders and issue a few gag orders too? It's not like this type of dubious activity hasn't happened already. Stingrays, NDAs, NSLs...

This "attack" is also now free game for every oppressive government out there.

It doesn't mix, it "caps" the warmer sea water and totally jacks with ocean currents. The system and the science is very complex; the freshwater can also lead to ocean acidification and dead zones.

alarmist nonsense like the impossible scenarios Al Gore presented

Yeah, about that...

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-s...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...

There were plenty of stories about it. I have looked up one of them and I'm sure that Google will find you plenty more (though maybe not "bong", or whatever it is MS calls it's excuse for a search engine today). It's funny how easily people forget how truly awful Microsoft is with just a few years of publicity campaigns against their opponents.

This won't do anything as long as the Feds don't throw bankers who launder billions for drug lords in prison. Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court.

B^)

Watching Us.

I'm seriously wondering if this whole thing could really just be a giant PR/marketing exercise by Apple, when in fact they are already complying with the NSA?

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

That study makes no sense at all. It is based entirely on wrong assumptions:
- Cars that have not been shown to cheat emission tests emit less NOx than the affected VW TDis (false)
- The probability of additional NOx causing health damage is independent of concentrations (widely known to be false)

Most importantly: they only look at NOx. The affected vehicles emit far less of all other pollutants than the emissions standards allow. It would only be fair to subtract the number of people who would have died additionally if the cars had emitted the maximum permissible amount of all other pollutants. They would probably have ended up with a large negative number.

If you would apply MIT's findings to lorries, buses and power stations, everyone alive today would have been long dead. It is based on fundamentally flawed assumptions. The software is bad because they cheated; it should not have happened and air quality might have been slightly better otherwise, but let's not pretend any significant actual damage was done. Any additional NOx was a drop in the bucket and many comparable cars manage to produce even more NOx without defeat devices (as far as we now).

idiot... it is not science if there was never any experimentation.

Liar.

The report was delivered in stages, starting with Working Group I's report on the physical science basis, based on 9,200 peer-reviewed studies.[2][3]

moron... none of this has been tested at all... it is simply computational speculation

Liar.

The report was delivered in stages, starting with Working Group I's report on the physical science basis, based on 9,200 peer-reviewed studies.[2][3]

where are their successful predictions? there are none, zero. they can't predict shit

Liar:

The paper, published on Wednesday inthe journal Nature Geoscience, explores the performance of a climate forecast based on data up to 1996 by comparing it with the actual temperatures observed since. The results show that scientists accurately predicted the warming experienced in the past decade, relative to the decade to 1996, to within a few hundredths of a degree.

but yeah, dumbass, liquidate western civilization over it, you deserve it for being such sheep

Who needs to liquidate western civilization? Oh, right, the polluters and their denialist useful idiots like yourself. The world would certainly be a better place without illiterate, biased, useful idiot liars like yourself.

But getting cheap, clean energy is the opposite of "liquidating western civilization" unless one is a shill, a troll, and / or a complete fucking idiot.

that the software engineering is good says nothing about the science... fool

Maybe, if you're stupid. I guess you're stupid (stating the obvious).

"All models are wrong, some models are useful."

If being stupid were painful, you'd have died of the agony ages ago.

It's long been said that if stupidity were painful, the world would be a better place. You are evidence of that.

Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground have said.
“Given the number of hospitals that have been bombed since the war started, they do not think [giving GPS coordinates] is going to protect them, rather the opposite,” another official said.

Don't let the title fool you. The WHOLE article does NOT have a word, or phrase suggest that they STOP provide GPS coordinates to Russia AFTER the incident. In fact, as the quote, they have never provided the data.
Further details:
http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-g...

The charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's five-year civil war have led medical staffers to ask the group not to provide the GPS coordinates of some sites. This was the case of the makeshift clinic run by the charity in the Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan, which was hit four times in attacks on Monday, killing at least 25 people.

OTOH, the Kunduz hospital was the brightest lit building, with flag were easy recognize AND they provided GPS data, and they repeats the claim that "the strikes continued for half an hour after U.S. and Afghan authorities were told the hospital was being bombed" .
After that, tanks entered and destroyed the evidences.

While no-one know which was Russian or Syrian bombing or "other" airforces (remember the airstrike that killed numbers of SAA soldiers, no one know who did this).

Apple is being compelled to create speech in violation of the first amendment. It's not an issue of if they can do it. Unlike previous cases such as the Elayne Photography case when a photographer asserted first amendment rights against photographing a wedding where the couple was gay, the photographer hung out her shingle as a business for photographing weddings. Gays are protected in the state where this happened.

In this case, Apple is in the business of selling iphones, not selling custom firmware for iphones. They can't restrict sale from gays, for example, but forcing them to create custom firmware for random customers is not their business. Not to mention, the FBI isn't exactly a protected class, nor is apple refusing based on the fact they're FBI. They're refusing because they won't do it for anyone.

There were other cases where a 1st amendment defense wouldn't work, such as lavabit where they were handed a piece of equipment and ordered to install it.

You dont get it. This is the FBI's 'Rosa Parks' moment. They are using an incendiary case to force the issue that unbreakable encryption should not be allowed in casual use. They are trying to force the idea that it should be illegal to make an unbreakable lock and they are using this case to ram it home. They dont really give a shit about the data in this case, they want to cow the tech sector into not making their jobs harder.

THIS! I wish that I had mod points. You are correct, the case is entirely political. The Guardian has an article that explains in depth what you very succinctly stated. The big takeaway is that the actual data in this case doesn't really matter. However, the feds were fishing for the perfect inflammatory case to establish legal precedent (NPR had a great story on it earlier this week with a legal analyst who said that the Justice Department knew exactly what they were doing when they chose this case). Tim Cook is spot on in fighting this as a precedent matter more than anything else.

I believe it's pretty well established that many Poles were not too upset about all the Jew-killin' going on. There is a well-established history of anti-Semitism/pogroms happening prior to the war in Poland, where Jews were widely seen as complicit in the murder of Jesus. We all saw Schindler's List, right? Remember when they're on the trains and the locals are all making the teasing slit-throat gesture with their fingers? That happened, and apparently pretty regularly. Check out the documentary "Shoah" and you'll see survivors tell that story..

I've heard first hand that the english and hebrew language Auschwitz tour is very different than the Polish version in the degree with which Poland accepts its participation in the genocide... Anyone can confirm?

Probably related to the recent measures proposed by the Polish government to criminalize the use of the phrase âoePolish death campsâ.

Why should Sweden have to interview someone not on their own terms?

They had the opportunity to do so before he left the country. He informed them that he would be leaving the country, they did not object. He left the country. Then they decided they wanted him back.

Also, because Sweden does not own Assange. They can shake their fist and make demands, but they deliberately passed up the opportunity to interview him in association with this incident on their own soil.

Aside from that, you do know that Ecuador has been blocking Swedish attempts to interview Assange in their embassy for the past 3 years, right?

I do know that Sweden refused to sign a basic agreement surrounding the questioning, and delayed their formal request until the last moment to make Ecuador look bad.

>> 13 years ago, BBC3 launched...that launched countless comedy careers...

In the words of John Oliver, settle down people. It's only been around 13 years. Surely, the number of people who are still working in comedy after working on that channel is finite. Here's a list of the most famous, I guess: http://www.theguardian.com/med...

Uhhh you DO realize that the US government has ALREADY admitted they had a deal in place to give Snowden a rendition ride if he stepped into Denmark, yes? That they have a looong history of giving rendition rides, to really nasty places so they can get around that pesky Constitution and torture to their little black hearts content? And that the head of the Ecuadorian embassy said flat footed "We'll be happy to hand him over, all you have to do is sign a piece of paper saying this isn't a false pretense to hand him to the Americans" and they refused?

If you truly believe the CIA would allow a guy that blatantly flipped them the bird like Assange to get away without a rendition ride? Well I have a really nice bridge you will be interested in. Hell if there is one thing you should have learned from the Wikileaks docs its that the CIA has been as out of control as the NKVD for damned near 40 years. And here is a question for you....if it had fuck all to do with rape and not a cheap excuse for a rendition ride, why not simply sign the paper? After all once the investigation was over he would have either been in their jail if found guilty or he would have left if not, neither of which would be any business of the USA, so why not sign?

The answer is frankly so obvious Ray Charles could see it, which is it didn't have fuck all to do with rape, it was a rendition ride deal and if they would have signed it would have made the Swedish government look like a bunch of lying USA cock gobblers. If there wouldn't have been any paper they could have gotten a little call from their master and then gave a press conference and said "the USA has requested his extradition and we will abide by our treaties" blah blah blah, suck suck suck that USA dick and swallow like a good little bitch. But that little piece of paper would have made them look like lying whores cooking up charges for their master, couldn't have that so hence why they didn't sign.

The good news is the whistleblowing material reached the public and press in full. Whistleblowing material and full public release.
https://cryptome.org/2013-info...

Long term what could happen?
The prospect of Sweden doing a "temporary surrender" to the US and its secret grand jury before returning to Sweden again.
"Julian Assange: where does he go from here?" (September 12, 2015)
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
"They admit that the grand jury is continuing. "
"Don't lose sight of why the US is out to get Julian Assange "
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
"There are specific risks in Sweden – for example, its fast-track "temporary surrender" extradition agreement it has with the US. "
Revealed: US plans to charge Assange
http://www.smh.com.au/technolo...
"... the existence of a ''temporary surrender'' mechanism that could allow Mr Assange to be extradited from Sweden to the US."

The other history is that of József Mindszenty
"...political asylum by the United States embassy in Budapest, where Mindszenty lived for the next fifteen years"
"Mindszenty lived there for the next 15 years, unable to leave the grounds"

Well, you fired those two worthless losers when you arrived, which was a great breath of fresh air. There's still one left, who apparently thinks that the word "hack" plus the word "Twitter" equals "Slashdot story". How many weeks do you need to stop posting stuff like this? I volunteer to start picking out stories instead of timothy. I'll do it for free, too. As a bonus, my stories will not repeat themselves in the same 24 hours, I will use a spell checker, and I will explain unfamiliar concepts and acronyms in the article.

I was really hoping we would cover Madeline Albright's "Thereâ(TM)s a special place in hell for women who donâ(TM)t help each other!" about women who don't support Hillary Clinton. This was a great topic, it was all over the news, it was strongly pro-Sanders, and I was certain we'd get coverage...but no. What did we get instead? Another nerd-bullying article condemning introverted men for not knowing how to relate to women. Because we haven't had enough of THOSE around here lately. It's like there hasn't been any management change at all.