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I look at this story and see only one thing, a corrupt bipartisan effort to digitally corrupt upcoming elections behind the lies of securing it and surprise, surprise with the help of killing net neutrality, the 99% are all trolls to be censored and full of nothing but lies and propaganda and the 1% are descended from Gods and are to be believed in everything they say. They are still carrying on with this shit with zero public evidence, they are corrupt and fucking lying and about to try to get a whole lot more corrupt.

After over a year, still no evidence publicly provided apart from all the evidence of corruption with the US government, the Democrats and the Republicans, evidence all over the place and the proof of corruption, the continued failure to prosecute. So bipartisan, well that is a typical description of US politics to right parties sharing power and as for Harvard http://lesswrong.com/lw/jwh/wh... and https://www.glassdoor.com/Revi... and https://www.therichest.com/ric.... Yes 'Hardvard' a paragon of virtue, integrity and honesty, fuck you people will believe any dribble the 1% serve (this crap absolutely stinks to high heaven of corruption).

Are you being intentionally thick? Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation. That's the subject of this conversation and the charge has been levied that it is pseudoscience. That's the "pseudoscience" in question. They will be doing plenty of legitimate science in the pursuit of their goal. Much like space exploration, you never know when useful stuff might be a by product of the endeavor. And those are just actual physical products. Space exploration has certainly advanced other areas including but not limited to software development.

Oh, but please do - because it's not so much a "mile long list" of dirt, so much as it is a mile long list of overhyped nothingburgers that Republicans repeatedly tried to turn into major scandals in an ongoing effort to destroy the Clintons politically. About the only respite from it was when Hillary was seen as a rival to Obama after she lost the primary to him in 2008. Once she became part of his cabinet though, it was "game on" again.

People who assert that "their" politicians dirt isn't really dirt are usually blinded by partisanship.

It's actually somewhat more telling that despite all the relentless scrutiny, investigating, and endless parade of hearings, over 24 years now, there still has yet to be a single indictment or criminal charge against her. Either she's the canniest most effective schemer ever (yet simultaneously incompetent enough for all the rest of these minor screwups), or there's really not a lot to any of it.

LOFL. This is an idiotic statement. For example, there are numerous mobsters who have been under heavy police scrutiny but have never faced charges: http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/10-mob-bosses-who-successfully-evaded-the-law/

Chemistry, software engineering, and whatever led to these things.

Pretty much, every field has the ability to create multimillionaire success stories, given the right combination of luck, inspiration, and hard work. Of course, it's more difficult to copy the chemistry of dynamite than it is to copy a written work, which is why we still know of Alfred Nobel's work, but very few know about Arthur Brooke, whose most famous work (if it was even his) predates the first copyright law.

If you're referring to planned parenthood, the courts have said it never happened. If you're asking about the general trade in human parts, there's plenty of that going around that is perfectly legal. Enjoy :-)

Of course, whenever she loses her job (voluntarily or involuntarily), I'm sure there's a golden parachute that will deploy and she'll be set for life either way.

Even with Yahoo's stock tanking, Marissa Mayer doesn't need a golden parachute to be set for life.

You know super rich have a different idea what stuff is worth, e.g. extended lifespan in low gravity ...
What about this: http://www.therichest.com/expe...
Imagine you could brew 100l beer on the moon or make wine/champagne there, using lunar water.
Or build up a grave yard ...
Heck, people would pay extraordinary sums just for having a keg of beer orbit the moon once or twice ...

Capitalism at its finest. Until there's a market-based motivation for cell phone companies to change, they won't. I don't know of more recent data, but back in 2013, the U.S. ranked 3rd most expensive, behind Canada and Japan. Unfortunately, I don't think that analysis included data and it isn't very current. Certainly, the U.S. could be far and above the worst right now.

Black markets pop up when free markets aren't available. Legalizing drugs would do wonders for the economy. Not only do we spend a heap of money on the war on drugs: militarized police, overburdened legal system and oversaturated prisons, but then there's also the costs in terms of innocent bystanders who are injured or killed in this war. Over 70,000 people have been killed by drug cartels in Mexico alone. How do a lot of terrorists fund their activities? By selling heroin. If they were available for over-the-counter purchase at a reasonable price, like alcohol & tobacco are, it would make a whole world of problems disappear. That's not to say that there wouldn't be new problems in terms of addiction, but these problems would be minor in comparison to the ones we have now.

And just get scammed in some other way
http://www.therichest.com/rich...

http://www.therichest.com/rich...

Which is the right one?

I don't necessarily think any victim-blaming was going on.

Whenever something the victim has said or done is used to excuse — or even merely explain — an attack on him, it is victim-blaming. When his actions/words were perfectly legal — whether it is the revealing clothing, or following a suspicious character on public street, or mocking somebody's religion, or even "not caring" for somebody's dire economic situation — such victim-blaming becomes abhorrent.

Poverty breeds violent crime.

Yeah, a famous excuse by Illiberals. Only it is not quite true. Congo, for example, may be the world's poorest country, but Iceland is at the top of the number of crimes per capita.

Poor people with no future and therefore nothing to lose do bad things.

Citation needed. While we do not (yet) know the background of these criminals, the Tsarnaev brothers were reasonably comfortable. Palestinians in Gaza are much wealthier than Egyptians behind the border. 9/11-attackers were from Saudi Arabia — and although not all residents of that country are rich, all citizens are very well off. Bin Laden was a bona-fide billionaire...

Poverty may or may not increase the number of property crimes, but it does not make one a terrorist, from what I see.

If you can do something to fix that problem, you will decrease the number of desperate people doing desperate thing.

The assholes responsible for the attack being discussed were not desperate. Nor did they do a "desperate thing". Off-topic much?

The youngest children getting pregnant ever recorded are listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
and here: http://www.therichest.com/rich...
No idea how reliable the links are, as certainly not everything makes it into "the news".
My point is, getting the period etc. and being in puberty before twelve is extremely rare, especially in industrialized nations. Before ten is rarely heard of, especially for boys.

Bottom line for girls being fertile and being in puberty is not even the same ... a girl can have her period and become pregnant before she even has breasts: breasts grow through the puberty, their growing basically is the definition of puberty.

Really, it's an actual requirement, for a week? Is that a requirement in your county, state or country, because I haven't seen any requirements for that. If it's true, then it would explain why US mobile contracts are so expensive - the operators would have to have a battery plus generator for every tower.

The cell tower outside our office (in the middle of nowhere in the UK), which gives us HSDPA has a battery that will last for about 3 hours, though I don't doubt that towers in more densly populated areas will have more robust solutions.

Getting sick is your fault.
Your kids getting sick is your fault.
And all of the associated medical expenses are yours because you acted irresponsibly.

And those poor poor 1%'ers who work so hard while the rest of us just sit around have to be persecuted by the EPA, FDA and the rest of government because, after all, they are creating jobs and helping our economy. Who else is going to off-shore those jobs and pollute our drinking water? Not us! We're too lazy!

By the way, since there's a 1 to 1 correlation between hard work and wealth, does that mean Bill Gates worked NINE times harder than Tom Perkins? And that Bill gates worked 72,000 times harder than your typical millionaire?

And since Bill got so much richer and faster than Tom Perkins, I guess that makes Bill superior to Tom.

Tom Perkins is just a big mouth slacker and he should be lucky that he's not in Russia or Zimbabwe where the leadership can just take his wealth and if he has a problem with it, they'd declare him a traitor and put him in prison while he awaits execution.

So, he should shut up and pay a 95% income tax and 40% capital gains tax because he COULD be somewhere in Africa.

Exactly. It's ridiculous the pedestal we place Einstein on.

I'd be willing to bet that many smarter than average people have larger than average corpus callosums. It doesn't seem like something that would be unique to Einstein.

Since Einstein, I think we have people who are without a doubt more intelligent, I mean just check this list.

Einstein made a breakthrough that would have inevitable happened anyway, because he was curious, smart, confident and able to think critically.

Putting him on a pedestal to the point where we study his brain like this just shows how ignorant and how low average intelligence is.