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Except of course that Mexico and Nicaragua have higher vaccination rates against measles than the US: https://theweek.com/articles/5...

The difference being a human that sees lane markers leading into active oncoming traffic will decide there are shenigans and not follow.

I guarantee you I can find examples of humans would would be fooled. There are a LOT of humans that are quite easy to mislead and all humans can be mislead sometimes. The only difference is that the tactics that fool a human will usually be different than those that fool a machine but make no mistake that both can be fooled. There are plenty of examples of people very dutifully following the instructions from their GPS into trouble despite it being painfully obvious that the GPS instructions were faulty in some way.

Your notion that people are harder to fool is not entirely supported by the facts.

This is not 'a machine can be fooled like a human', it's a reminder that the machine is still a *lot* dumber than a human.

That depends very much on the human in question. I will be happy to introduce you to some humans I know who should not be permitted to drive on public roads. I'm pretty sure you know some like this as well. Not all humans are "smarter" than machines for driving purposes even today. Your average human almost certainly is a better driver than the current state of the art machine but some machines have already surpassed some humans and they are getting better all the time while human drivers aren't.

Ninety years ago, companies were figuring this out.

Nixon ran with it 65 years ago.

But, what a CRAAZY idea, am I right?

Let give you a concrete example: Norway. https://theweek.com/articles/7...

I can't say I went to your link, but I'm assuming you are saying Norway is a successful socialist country. If so, you are wrong. Norway is a capalialist country with high taxes and a generous amount of entitlements. Unless socialism has a different definition than it used to, you may want to Google the definition of socialism.

Well seeing as free thinking, independent, rigorous, robust are all B.S. at this point

Staged news
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com...

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

https://www.realclearpolitics....

Not Independent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

I suppose robust might be legitimate as in robustly compromised

Amazing how badly people don't want links like these to be seen.

Well seeing as free thinking, independent, rigorous, robust are all B.S. at this point

Staged news
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com...

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

https://www.realclearpolitics....

Not Independent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://theintercept.com/2016/...

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

I suppose robust might be legitimate as in robustly compromised

Oh, citations:

https://twitter.com/banditelli...

https://thehill.com/opinion/im... (this article quotes Keith Ellison repeatedly)

Only two, I know. Like an iceberg...

Then the implied and explicit support for open borders:

https://theweek.com/articles/7... ( Zack Beauchamp exchange with a reader, Tom Stephenson, and later Zach states explicitly he is an open borders supporter)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1... (Hillary Clinton 'dreamed of “open trade and open borders” throughout the Western Hemisphere.')

Hillary seems pretty mainstream Democrat unless you're trying to hide the details.

That fact that you don't think people function like computers is tragic... and revealing.

Seriously. If you don't know how dumb people are, you really should educate yourself.

Trump seems concerned about non-citizens.

Just the ones who can't pass the brown paper bag test. Apparently, Trump's hotels and condos are very popular with pregnant Russian women looking for a US passport, and I haven't heard a word about it out of that degenerate's mouth.

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

for electronics stores. There's a few regionals, but only in the big cities. And somehow they've avoided getting Bain'd like Toys R Us did. So far anyway. If you don't know what Newegg is they're pretty much it for computers and if you want to buy something in town then yeah, they're it.

What do they call this? Survival Bias?

Hillarybot was built in a garage in Palo Alto. She short circuited. We are working on a model that can actually sweat (Hillarybot doesn't). You'll have to wait out Trump's second term before we can try again. Until then, Military Intelligence is handling him just fine, cool your jets.

P.S. Trump is an ally to Hillary; They're actually cousins. She went to His wedding. Trump was a registered democrat for 3 decades, FFS. All US presidents are related to English Royalty (mostly to King John, signer of the Magna Carta); Even Barry was. Look it up. You live in a delusional dream world if you still imagine Left vs Right as being a relevant political spectrum.

captcha: drudge

Sure it has. But it was approved by Obama first http://theweek.com/articles/678038/facial-recognition-governments-new-weapon

"I take no pleasure in saying this, but we've been warning for the past 8 years that the Orwellian surveillance programs instituted under the Obama administration could fall into the hands of someone that people may trust less," said Kade Crockford, the director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology For Liberty program. "We now find ourselves in exactly that situation."

It actually started under Bush, after 9/11. But that doesn't matter. Neither party cares enough about the rights of citizens.

Sure it has. But it was approved by Obama first
http://theweek.com/articles/678038/facial-recognition-governments-new-weapon

"I take no pleasure in saying this, but we've been warning for the past 8 years that the Orwellian surveillance programs instituted under the Obama administration could fall into the hands of someone that people may trust less," said Kade Crockford, the director of the ACLU of Massachusetts' Technology For Liberty program. "We now find ourselves in exactly that situation."

2012 called. It wants its "last mile monopolies" rant back.

Ajit Pai is on point that CDNs and walled gardens are a bigger threat. Google kicked all the gun videos off Youtube as part of their consensus pogrom against the NRA, and continues to put videos they don't have sufficient excuse to censor but whose views they don't like in "Youtube Jail," something they invented to thwart as many as possible of the political goals of free speech without technically censoring the video. Twitter is outsourcing censorship to (((SPLC and ADL))). Die Luegenpresse is constantly talking about "the line between free speech and hate speech," a nonsense excuse for demanding "evil" tech monopolies do more to shut down non-Luegenpresse news. Edgy bloggers are worried they will be banned from registering domain names, renting housing, hiring taxis, and buying food as retaliation for their political speech. At the same moment publishing is more democratized than it's ever been in the history of the world, free speech is in worse shape than it's ever been in the United States's history.

The Chinese idea of censorship for social harmony, decided by the "consensus" of a thin, elite, isolated caste of party insiders, is now mainstream within the tech monopsonies that are the gatekeepers of political discourse, and they relentlessly pursue anyone who slips through their fingers once they start to get an audience through DDoS, registrar fuckery, BGP tricks, recursive DNS poisoning, any means at their disposal regardless of mandate or due process. Look at their actions, not their words, and when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Don's bestest buddy in the entire world was McCarthy's attack dog, Ray Cohn, who died of AIDs. As soon as Don found out that Cohn was sick, he dropped him like a live rattlesnake and coincidentally developed a massive case of germophobia. Its probably why he thinks avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam.

Don definitely knows the difference between HIV and HPV, he was just trying to wind up Gates because he knows Gates takes public health seriously. Its a relatively common sociopath move - figure out what some cares about and then take plausibly deniable digs at it in order to get them twisted. Source: have a couple of clinically diagnosed sociopaths in the extended family.

Another example: German http://theweek.com/articles/46...

Who is paying for all this? The DNC was reportedly broke at the beginning of the year. Are they taking money from campaign donations to fund frivolous lawsuits now? [source] http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

Private Equity doesn't buy businesses that are doing well!

That is absolutely false.
There are many private equity funds that specialize in businesses doing poorly. They call themselves "turn-around specialists" and some are called "vulture funds". Some are called asset-strippers. The big funds invest in well-performing and failing alike.

Someone mentioned Toys-R-Us. Here's their story.
http://theweek.com/articles/76...

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Apologies, I meant to write "That is absolutely true"

Identity politics is a tool (one of many) to keep the proles divided and distracted and bickering amongst themselves. When the entire world is partitioned into a giant Venn diagram of competing "identities" - each obsessed over which group among them is the most oppressed - there's zero chance of mustering up the will or numbers to tackle any problems that actually matter, and the 'elites' are free to plunder the world at their pleasure.

Just imagine a left wing group trying to get something like OWS going in 2018. Even their one day Vagina Cosplay March nearly collapsed under the weight of unchecked white privilege and cultural appropriation.

Before the "Citation Needed" post appears, here we go ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreign-wealth-flows-to-time-warner-condos.html

https://ny.curbed.com/2014/10/24/10031340/shocker-half-of-midtowns-super-luxury-condos-sit-vacant

http://theweek.com/articles/736313/how-foreign-investors-launder-money-new-york-real-estate

Saying women are attracted to high status men is like saying men are attracted to women with big tits. It's non controversial and obvious to everyone.

Are you Australian by any chance?

http://theweek.com/articles/49...

And the cherry, the US, the Country FOUNDED on the principles of freedom, drops to 21....well done....
http://theweek.com/speedreads/... [theweek.com]

I have a hard time taking any analysis that ranks Germany, Canada, and the UK above the US. Hate speech laws. Arrests for tweets and facebook posts. Compelled speech... Not exactly bastions of personal freedom and civil rights. Any report that thinks countries that employ those laws are free are delusional and fundamentally flawed in their analysis.

I honestly would not trade my citizenship of the US for with any other nation on Earth. The US has it's problems no doubt but the protections for individual liberty are still foundational. I can say what I want and I can defend my right to say it myself without the government.

There was a time when America prided itself in it's technological prowess. A time when we believed science had the potential to solve our problems and propel us into the future. It's sad that we've gone the other way, clutching superstition and paranoia, as a great thinker once predicted: https://www.goodreads.com/quot...
This has historically been a "pro tech" site, which be definition and education should include individuals educated in science... but alas, it's just more politicized, polarized arse holes too willing to jump on the reichwinger "blame libs for all evils" bs....
Your prizes:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://worldtop20.org/2017-wo...
http://thehill.com/policy/inte...
And the cherry, the US, the Country FOUNDED on the principles of freedom, drops to 21....well done....
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

Any sources on that?

It's a little generic, especially because it doesn't count the type of protest. IE, the Tea Party protesters had a non-low voting rate.
The Occupy Wall Sheet protesters had a pretty low voting rate, according to former representative Barney Frank.
Occupy Wall Street protesters should have voted instead. I don't see the quote in there, but I do remember listening to him on a program (Fresh Air?) where Rep. Frank went to an OWS protest and asked why there was no voter registration effort or attempts to educate people on voting for the causes they believe in. He was told by the organizers of that Occupy Wall Street group that voter registration and voting "wasn't really their thing." That was the point when he realized that OWS was doomed, that its effect would be pretty minimal. And the shabby youth voting turnout would tend to support his position.

My best hope is that the DNC has learned not to thumb the scale so next election when the GOP again offers up a rogue's gallery the Ds can pick someone who will win.

You understand that the very reason the Democrats have "Super Delegates" is explicitly to keep Democrat Voters from nominating anyone they like - the Republican primary process allowed for literally anyone to wander in, capture the hearts and minds of the common voter and "steal" the nomination from the party's preferred candidate. Remember, the GOP didn't want Trump as it's candidate, it was forced to accept it when Trump won the primaries.

The Democrats picked someone that should have won, but she choose to ignore several staunchly democrat states and take the voters there for granted, costing her just enough votes to lose the election. Instead of campaigning in PA, MI, WI, etc. HRC repeatedly went back to CA to milk ever more campaign funds from rich Hollywood types... Now she has a fat bank account, but she lost the election.

In any case, I agree that

Really, you agree that that slipshod, incoherent, thoughtless post is what it means to be an American?

That's damning by association. Don't you dare insult America like that again.

Further, if you want to understand how to parse the language, and avoid the misunderstanding that the 2nd only applies to militias, there are lots of articles out there which discuss how to parse it in the context it was written in, such as this pretty long article about it.

Lots of articles? True. But that's an empty and vacuous article that fails in the second paragraph:

But the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights is indeed a well-crafted sentence.

No, it is not. It's poorly written, and an honest historical analysis would admit it. The most damning thing? He doesn't deny the facts of the inconsistent written versions. So by his own words, he should know better.

I don't know why so many fools insist on sanctifying the specific wording of the Amendment, when they could accomplish so much more avoiding such wasteful and fruitless argumentation by engaging in a direct addressing of the particulars instead.

some other reading on the subject.

That's what it should mean to be American. Thoughtful, earnest consideration, by people with the integrity to realize that they cannot rest on the laurels of the past, that glorification of what was is a way to ignore what is, and that they need to be responsible for their own decisions.

This is the sort of thing that makes me think that the Second Amendment Advocates are worse than the Sixteenthers, they could make a legitimate and persuasive argument, but obstinately refuse.

That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving.

Because he hasn't been able to do much of consequence yet.

His party came up with a disastrous idea for a healthcare bill, a competent President who understood himself to be accountable for the consequences would have pushed them to a different bill, instead three Senators are the only thing that prevented a disastrous modification to the healthcare system.

He came up with a terrible idea for immigration, he moderated it to get around the courts and it still got blocked forcing him to moderate it further. And he's got some braindead idea to pull out of NAFTA which will hammer the US economy.

Now his party is pushing a tax plan wanted by no one except for their rich donors, again a competent President concerned about their popularity and legacy would go for something different.

His also trying to pick a fight with North Korea.

Frankly Trump isn't as bad as I thought he'd be, he's actually worse. The difference is he's also less competent than I thought, so his badness hasn't actually been able to translate into action.

The American people hired him to drain the swamp. That's going to piss a lot of people off.

What swamp is he draining? His cabinet is basically a mixture of fringe GOP and rich people.

Don't give me that shit about racism or treason or whatever. I've followed this from before the primaries. Trump wasn't a racist nor was he treasonous before the election and he isn't now.

I have no idea how racist he personally is, but there's a reason why the KKK and NeoNazis have been among the most dedicated Trumpists from the start. Heck, his campaign manager and chief of staff ran a publication that ran articles in collaboration with NeoNazis.

Also worth noting here that reportedly the dude set the fire alarm off in his room, which led to him being located.

I offer the following definitions:

fleece
fls/
noun
1. the woolly covering of a sheep or goat.
"as the sheep came on board, we grabbed their long shaggy fleeces"

2. a thing resembling a sheep's woolly covering, in particular.
"Golly gee, this polar fleece almost keeps me as warm as natural fleece."

verb
1. informal - obtain a great deal of money from (someone), typically by overcharging or swindling them.
"Like he had done to so many others, Donald Trump fleeced me, when he stiffed me on the bill for the piano's I sold him. What a fucking con-artist!! I sure hope noboby is stupid enough to vote for him."

2. literary - cover as if with a fleece.
"the sky was half blue, half fleeced with white clouds"

http://theweek.com/articles/54...

How the American opiate epidemic was started by one pharmaceutical company
FROM
Mike Mariani
(Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle/San Francisco/CORBIS)
March 4, 2015

The state of Kentucky may finally get its deliverance. After more than seven years of battling the evasive legal tactics of Purdue Pharma, 2015 may be the year that Kentucky and its attorney general, Jack Conway, are able to move forward with a civil lawsuit alleging that the drugmaker misled doctors and patients about their blockbuster pain pill OxyContin, leading to a vicious addiction epidemic across large swaths of the state.

A pernicious distinction of the first decade of the 21st century was the rise in painkiller abuse, which ultimately led to a catastrophic increase in addicts, fatal overdoses, and blighted communities. But the story of the painkiller epidemic can really be reduced to the story of one powerful, highly addictive drug and its small but ruthlessly enterprising manufacturer.' ...

Spoiler: The corporation lied to doctors about how dangerous oxycontin was.

You're gonna have a hard time with your retirement planning, then.

Retirement? What's that?

Nice try at stirring up some hate there but it's not the Mexicans who are the slackers.
http://theweek.com/articles/53...

So what was the point?

Given a choice I'm sure a pedophile would always try to have sex with a human child rather than a robot one. Because in the depths of their hearts they don't believe what they are doing is wrong.

I get that this material is just too scary for you to do research on, but you would be completely wrong:

Pedophiles often feel guilt and shame about their activities, say therapists. "People don't grow up and say, 'I want to be a pedophile,'" said the Rev. Stephen Rossetti, who runs a psychiatric hospital near Washington, D.C. "All the people I've ever talked to hate it."

Next time, grow a pair and do the research instead of hiding from readily available facts that you can get from google. There is a real debate going on as to whether child dolls can reduce the chance that pedophiles "would seek out child pornography or sex with real children". And the truth is, we don't know. We don't yet know whether it's a release, or just entrainment. And since existing pedophilia treatments "do not change the pedophileâ(TM)s basic sexual orientation toward children" the odds seem good that they won't be any worse than the other options. Certainly many of the customers believe that their access to a child sex doll helps prevent them from assaulting children, but that proves exactly nothing.

But we didn't "provide healthcare", we simply required people to buy health insurance at higher premiums and with higher deductibles than before.

That's outright false. Subsidies for the poor made purchasing healthcare really cheap. For millions of people premiums were under $50 per month and there were also subsidies to cover deductibles and other out-of-pocket expenses. Those subsidies were tied to income not costs so as costs went up, so did the subsidies for ~80% of the people on obamacare.

The people who got screwed (like myself) were high earners who are self-employed. We don't get subsidies so we have to pay the full bill of the price hikes. But the main reason prices went up is because the republicans (specifically marco rubio) quietly tweaked a very wonkish part of obamacare a few years ago so that a major part of the risk-reduction insurance companies relied on was neutured. And when risk goes up, so do prices.

How Marco Rubio stealthily gutted ObamaCare

So, yet again republicans were dedicated to claiming government doesn't work and then going out and proving it by deliberately fucking it all up.

As a sometimes-Republican with a folder full of Creepy Uncle Joe memes, I beg you, Please, please, nominate Biden.

Forget about the Uncle Joe memes. The Onion articles will be hysterical.

http://theweek.com/articles/468552/6-best-onion-parodies-joe-biden

The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it.

So... fuck your teabagger party, If you're too fucking stupid to remember anything, you're nothing more than a useless dipshit. They weren't in opposition to "crazy people" exercising power... they were in response to a black guy getting elected, and having more intelligence in his toenail clippings than their entire inbred family.

And by the way, fascist dipshit... i'm just trying not to be too "PC" for whiny little shitstains like you... because you've said so many times you hate having to be PC. So...fuck you. Either learn what you're talking about, or just stay down on your fascist teabagger knees.

informal used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true. "I have received literally thousands of letters"

emphasis mine.

http://theweek.com/articles/46...

what is the real problem with cutting the press corps out of the process?

Trump has no intention of "cutting the press corps out of the process". His plan is to simply never face questions. He hasn't given a single press conference since July where he takes questions.

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

A great political cartoon because it trashes them all.

iPhone users are much richer than android users on average, and poor people are more honest and trustworthy than rich people. In fact, you can make people more honest and trustworthy by making them feel poor in comparison to others, and you can make people less honest and trustworthy by making them feel rich in comparison. http://theweek.com/articles/47...

Hydrogen is cheaper and more abundant, but because of one minor setback 80 years ago the idea has been senselessly abandoned.

You have a very curious definition of "one minor setback".

Imagine the same principle was applied to other aircraft and we abandoned the whole idea as soon as one thing went wrong

The problems with other aircraft had solutions. The problem of using highly flammable hydrogen gas is an irreducible hazard. Helium can work as a substitute but our supply is limited on Earth and getting more will be expensive.

Engineering and design methods have improved considerably in 80 years, and we could now likely make a very safe hydrogen airship, but people have an unfounded fear of the idea.

Really? We've solved the problem of hydrogen gas being highly flammable? When did that happen?

and please point out how in any way using the Star of David was the least anti-semitic

Let's see...Star of David, superimposed over a field of money with a message of "corruption". And the image came from a site that is frequented by white supremacists, nazis and antisemites.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/t...

Anyway, even if you can't see it, the people it was meant for certainly could see it.

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

I'm not saying I'm a Trump supporter, but he did have a point in that Disney didn't catch hell for using the same star on a Frozen sticker book.

Disney didn't get their image from a neo-nazi forum.

Anyway, the people for whom the Trump Star of David was meant got the message loud and clear. Donald Trump may not be a bigot, but he's number 1 with bigots.

https://theweek.com/speedreads...

The director denied that forcing American companies to backdoor their security systems would cause any commercial problems.

This is lie, an outright lie, and I hope he was under oath when testifying before congress. Absolute, outright lie! Liar, liar, pants on fire. Everyone email their representative and let them know the director outright lied to their face and cite the CEO of Cisco.

This will hurt American Tech in China. To interoperate, China will steal all corporate America's IP and integrate it into their products.

Dr. Mr. Director of CIA, your reality distortion field is NOT WORKING! I am still in disbelief. This is how you kill American products in emerging markets and hurt growth. What an absolute lie!

http://theweek.com/articles/58...

"Wha?" is a pretty poor rebuttal.

Rebuttals are for (understood) arguments. "Wha?" indicates lack of understanding. Sadly, you would not elaborate on what you meant...

You'll be ludicrously overcharged as a tourist, but that's capitalism too, right?

It is Capitalism, and it is fine (you do not object to taxes collected based on one's ability to pay — do you?). Uber is also Capitalism — and it does enable the free information flow, that is so important for free market to function.

Taxis choke the streets during most afternoons

That's not a problem of taxis — it is a problem of streets being inadequate for the number of people in need of travel. Forcibly reducing the number of taxis will, very simply, leave some people unable to get where they need to get.

I submit Panama City as an object lesson in giving people incentives to have cars in the streets.

Who is this "giver of incentives" in your world model?

But, whoever that is, you acknowledge it yourself: Panama city is already gridlocked — Uber/Lyft did not make it so. Their ride-sharing options may even alleviate the problem, but the point you are raising is off topic.

It's easy to rail against taxi monopolies. You've done so repeatedly. I'm sure it's a good argument.

Thank you. It is also the topic here.

How do you imagine that Uber or Lyft will provide a disincentive towards gridlock?

You know, this is funny (in addition to being off-topic)... I'm sure, you'd be arguing the exact opposite point, if the subject was Netflix et. al "gridlocking" the Internet infrastructure. If a network can not keep up with the users' demand, it is the problem of either the network or the people demanding — trying to blame it on those answering the demand is wrong and bogus. And this is equally true for both computer and transportation networks.

That is not an accurate assessment of what Trump sad. untilourcountry'srepresentativescanfigureoutwhatisgoingon.. I'm not sure what your point is in regards to disavowing the KKK, the point is that it ok him 24 hours to do it and he initially refused and then lied about. The Hillary comparison is also not helpful for a least 6 reasons: first, that's one endorsement of Hillary v. the many white separate white supremacists who endorsed Trump. Second, no major reporter has asked Hillary about the KKK endorser about her. Third, this ignores that many white supremacists have actively credited Trump with increasing their enrollment in their groups. http://theweek.com/speedreads/593608/white-supremacist-groups-credit-surging-interest-donald-trump-hes-certainly-creating-movement. Fourth, the Dragon who endorsed Hillary did so out of essentially a conspiracy theory about her actual policies being different than her stated policies, while the Trump ones are endorsing him based on his actual statements. Fifth, this is not a game of baseball where points against one candidate somehow magically count as points in favor of another candidate.

Netflix is NOT the cause of this -- it is the greedy asshole content providers. Have a NetFlix (streaming) subscription but travel to Canada or over seas and want to watch Netflix? Tough shit -- you are forced to use a proxy / VPN workaround due to retarded licensing contracts. The content providers don't have a fucking clue that some people want to watch anything anywhere and that we're willing to pay for it. They want to nickel and dime every region independently to maximize profits.

The actual reason Netflix's catalog is so sparse -- where the fuck is Seinfeld? Big Bang Theory? -- is because licensing costs go up about 10% every few years. Sadly, Netflix just doesn't the capital nor critical mass that the cable industry has. :-/

Here is a list of Movies not on Netflix

People think "cutting the cord" is a solution. That doesn't effect the content providers AT ALL. The cable companies are big enough that a few lost customers aren't going to make a difference. The cable industry is so OVER saturated that the terminology is "churn". Cable box penetration has remained consistent for the past ~10 years.

It is a similar reason Netflix basically ignores its deaf subscribers and screws up the subtitles. The solution would be crowd source the whole dam thing but you can thank the lawyers for fucking that over.

* http://theweek.com/articles/45...

Except that the president's approval rating is the highest it's been in years, and much higher than other presidents at this point in their tenure: http://theweek.com/articles/61...

I'm not a big fan, either, but the fact is that you're wrong.

http://theweek.com/articles/57...

That article seems to go through it. China told Kim Jong Un to chill out after the last bomb was detonated, they are starting to tire with the hostility coming out of NK.