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The employee who did that didn't even get fired either, just assigned to another job pending an investigation.

http://time.com/5103320/hawaii...

Richard Rapoza, spokesman for the Hawaii Emergency Management System, confirmed that the employee was temporarily moved to a new role, NBC News reports. However, he declined to say what the worker's new tasks are.

"All we will say is that the individual has been temporarily reassigned within our Emergency Operations Center pending the outcome of our internal investigation, and it is currently in a role that does not provide access to the warning system," Rapoza said.

People across Hawaii received an emergency alert on Saturday warning them to seek immediate shelter for a ballistic missile threat coming to the state. "This is not a drill," the alert said, causing immediate terror.

And they've refused to co-operate with an FCC inquiry into what went wrong, even though the Hawaii EMA said it was hoping they would cooperate and was encouraging them to do so.

http://time.com/5119618/hawaii...

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it hoped its employee-who has already been reassigned-would decide to cooperate with the investigation.

"We share FCC Public Safety Bureau Chief Lisa Fowlkes's disappointment. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency has encouraged its employees to cooperate in all ongoing investigations, and while each individual makes a personal choice, we hope anyone who is not cooperating will reconsider and help to bring these matters to a satisfactory conclusion," Richard Rapoza, the agency's public information officer, said in a statement.

Despite the employee's lack of cooperation, Fowlkes said the FCC's investigation has made progress. She told to the Senate committee that officials in Hawaii have begun to change their procedures to ensure a similar mistake does not happen again.

"The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency tells us that is working with its vendor to integrate additional technical safeguards into its alert origination software, and has changed its protocols to require two individuals to sign off on the transmission of tests and live alerts," she told the committee.

You have to wonder what it would take to get fired if you work for a government agency in Hawaii.

The employee who did that didn't even get fired either, just assigned to another job pending an investigation.

http://time.com/5103320/hawaii...

Richard Rapoza, spokesman for the Hawaii Emergency Management System, confirmed that the employee was temporarily moved to a new role, NBC News reports. However, he declined to say what the worker's new tasks are.

"All we will say is that the individual has been temporarily reassigned within our Emergency Operations Center pending the outcome of our internal investigation, and it is currently in a role that does not provide access to the warning system," Rapoza said.

People across Hawaii received an emergency alert on Saturday warning them to seek immediate shelter for a ballistic missile threat coming to the state. "This is not a drill," the alert said, causing immediate terror.

And they've refused to co-operate with an FCC inquiry into what went wrong, even though the Hawaii EMA said it was hoping they would cooperate and was encouraging them to do so.

http://time.com/5119618/hawaii...

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it hoped its employee-who has already been reassigned-would decide to cooperate with the investigation.

"We share FCC Public Safety Bureau Chief Lisa Fowlkes's disappointment. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency has encouraged its employees to cooperate in all ongoing investigations, and while each individual makes a personal choice, we hope anyone who is not cooperating will reconsider and help to bring these matters to a satisfactory conclusion," Richard Rapoza, the agency's public information officer, said in a statement.

Despite the employee's lack of cooperation, Fowlkes said the FCC's investigation has made progress. She told to the Senate committee that officials in Hawaii have begun to change their procedures to ensure a similar mistake does not happen again.

"The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency tells us that is working with its vendor to integrate additional technical safeguards into its alert origination software, and has changed its protocols to require two individuals to sign off on the transmission of tests and live alerts," she told the committee.

You have to wonder what it would take to get fired if you work for a government agency in Hawaii.

It will be exciting to see this process applied to the untranslated Indus Valley Language and Easter Island glyphs.

http://content.time.com/time/w...

of constant productivity increases being told 'raises will come' rings hollow. GDP or not we'd recovered from the 2008 crash in less than 2 years. Wages dropped like a rock then as everybody (except CEOs) took paycuts. Every day I turn on the news and the stock market's hitting records but boo-hoo-hoo the GDP means we can't raise wages, meanwhile I read stuff like this

We're in full trickle down mode (minus the trickle down, which never happens, just ask Kansas). This is what happens when you give all the money to 1% of the country. GDP _can't_ grow because all the capital is tied up in offshore bank accounts. If you let them the Aristocracy will roll us back to another Dark Age, not out of spite, but because they'll claim all the money for themselves and our entire economy will grind to a halt.

I'll remind you that the best times in American Economic history were when we had a 90% top marginal rate.

yup, Trump had nothing to do with Russia ever.. except maybe..

2008 Trump "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia" http://time.com/4433880/donald...

2013 Trump appears in a music video by the son of Aras Agalarov https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2014-2015 - Starting in 2014, Trump oddly Tweeted Nine Times to Deleted Russian Twitter Accounts About Running for President. https://www.pastemagazine.com/...
11/23/2014 - "@russiannavyblog: @dr_rita39 I follow Mr. Trump in a crusade to get him to restore Western Civilization with a Trump/Palin '16 ticket!" https://twitter.com/realDonald...
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I could really fill a volume here there is so much out there.

If America want's to represent Democratic values i.e. capitalism, rule by the people for the people, on a world stage, with the willingness to represent and defend those people who cannot. Then we must as a nation defend those things. We have a president who will not or cannot defend those things that have been so sacred to our institution. The rule of law over government, the desire to promote the will of the people over tyrannical leaders, the hope that all of us will have some say in our own lives, and the willingness to defend others. That is the America I fight for. Not Nazi's, not white power, not America first. https://www.snopes.com/dr-seus...

I expect the same will happen with tablets: the majority of users eventually will use a tablet as their primary computing device.

LOL, so did Steve Jobs, about 10 years ago... He was wrong.

In fact, it seems not a year goes by without someone claiming that "this is the year PCs will die and be replaced by tablets."

http://time.com/3643693/tech-p...

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

http://www.datacenterjournal.c...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/m...

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

I personally find the debate comical... what does "PC" stand for? Personal Computer; what is a tablet, if not a computer that is personal?

Some folk would argue over anything.

This shouldn't come as a surprise. This entire administration has been built around two policies: A) if Obama did it, get rid of it and B) mysticism and flimflammery over science.

This is the same man who said he wants to bring back coal despite its known hazards (acid rain and greenhouse gases to name two), and recently upped tariffs on solar panels which will all but destroy the thriving solar industry in this country, an industry which has more jobs than oil, coal and gas combined.

This is the same man who denies climate change, yet says he needs to protect his failing Irish golf course from climate change by building a sea wall.

“If the predictions of an increase in sea level rise as a result of global warming prove correct, however, it is likely that there will be a corresponding increase in coastal erosion rates not just in Doughmore Bay but around much of the coastline of Ireland. In our view, it could reasonably be expected that the rate of sea level rise might become twice of that presently occurring. As a result, we would expect the rate of dune recession to increase.”

“As with other predictions of global warming and its effects, there is no universal consensus regarding changes in these events,” it states. “Our advice is to assume that the recent average rate of dune recession will not alter greatly in the next few decades, perhaps as far into the future as 2050 as assumed in the [government study] but that subsequently an increase in this rate is more likely than not.”

He's made numerous comments anti-vaccine comments:

        Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes – AUTISM. Many such cases!

        — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2014b

“You take this little beautiful baby, and you pump — I mean, it looks like just it’s meant for a horse and not for a child,” Trump said. “We had so many instances [in which] a child had a vaccine, and came back and a week back had a tremendous fever, got very very sick, and now is autistic.”

And considered appointing an anti-vaccine proponent to a commission on vaccine safety and "scientific integrity".

That he would now defund the ISS is inline with his anti-science stance. Because he is incapable of seeing any benefit to its continuation (who needs scientific research anyway?), and he can't make a dime off it, it's no good. And especially since Obama touted the numerous successes and scientific knowledge coming from it.

It isn't even a real problem.

analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher

The thing about a real market economy, is that if you could end up paying women whatever % less than men, you'd hire more women, everything else being equal.

The problem is, not everything else is equal. Women will forgo wage increases to stay closer to home, with the kids, during the 18 years or so it takes to raise them to adulthood. That has profound long term effects on wages. BTW, Stay at home dads suffer just as much, but get no sympathy from the Feminists.

This isn't about equality, this is about "feelings" about equality. After all, if you're against "wage fairness" you're obviously a misogynist" who hates women. Facts don't matter.

It is, disproportionally in the Arctic. So there is less sea ice there and the difference between the Arctic air and the more southerly air is less pronounced than usual. A larger differential in air temperatures drives stronger Polar Vortex winds. The Polar Vortex is a circular wind pattern that is strong enough to trap the cold air, keeping it in the Arctic where it belongs. When the Polar Vortex weakens, that cold is able to leak out and freeze the middle latitudes.

The key to note though is that the overall global average temperatures are rising, due to the extreme warming at the poles. Occasional colder than normal weather in more temperate areas are nowhere near enough to put a damper on the rising global average.

Other Polar Vortex related cold spells occurred in January 2014 and February 2015.

Links:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/what-is-this-polar-vortex-that-is-freezing-the-u-s/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/polar-vortex1.htm

http://science.time.com/2014/01/06/climate-change-driving-cold-weather/

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/polar-vortex-explainer/63115

https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/polar-vortex-april-2016-cold-outbreak-east

https://phys.org/news/2014-01-weakened-polar-vortex-blamed-american.html

Next someone'll tell me that Mexico is paying for a wall.

You guys really haven't figured it out yet ?

US trade deficit with Mexico : 63.2b $ in 2016 (1 year : https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico)
Cost of wall : Est 70b $ (in left-wing media dollars : http://time.com/4745350/donald-trump-border-wall-cost-billions/).

Mexico are paying for the wall, just not with cold hard cash. I hope you finally understand the actual plan here.

I guess "Don't be evil" is now completely by the wayside.

Oh, yeah, I guess it is, at least for Alphabet.

http://time.com/money/4621673/... Think about that next time you go to McDonalds or some similar restaurant where the person handling cash is often handling food.

What kind of world asks people [...]

The world, where the benign and omniscient government officials know better, what you should eat. They have such a good track-record. Most of the toiling masses accept this guidance voluntarily. The few cantankerous ones, who do not, need to be:

1. Re-educated
2. Shamed
3. Compelled

into compliance. It is mandatory, comrade...

It's somewhat tangential to what I believe the intent of your question is but: https://www.omicsonline.org/op... http://healthland.time.com/201...

And this link (Ads for sugared products leading to obesity) is generally accepted as a ground truth of advertising to children. I fully accept the inevitable counter argument of "parenting", but as a parent I will also say, there are times when you cave just to get the kids to STFU and give you a moment of peace.

So the result is that advertising makes kids want things. No kidding. That's not harming them.

It's somewhat tangential to what I believe the intent of your question is but:
https://www.omicsonline.org/op...
http://healthland.time.com/201...

And this link (Ads for sugared products leading to obesity) is generally accepted as a ground truth of advertising to children. I fully accept the inevitable counter argument of "parenting", but as a parent I will also say, there are times when you cave just to get the kids to STFU and give you a moment of peace.

I am not fan of the Internet Porn industry, i think its harming society and based on this article the planet...

Then you must really think Netflix is killing the planet.:

"In its quarterly letter to investors sent Tuesday, Netflix touted that its members streamed 42.5 billion hours worth of programming in 2015, up from 29 billion hours in 2014. Netflix also releases its total subscriber count every quarter, which increased from 57 million at the end of 2014 to 75 million at the end of 2015.' -- This Is How Much Netflix We're All Watching Every Day

More telling to me from the article is:

"In the late 1990s, he says, a new Evil Angel DVD would sell approximately 7,500 copies in the first 30 days. Now, he says, Evil Angel videos are streamed 30,000 times in the first 30 days—and that only represents the 5 percent of its web traffic comprised of paying customers. Each week, 2 million free previews are watched. “There’s no way, 15 years ago, at the peak of physical media, that many people were touching our brand,” he says."

It sounds like a 4 fold increase in sales in the first 30 days, but it says nothing about the total sales. Regardless, if we presume for a moment that that 4 fold increase is a genuine measure, then from the perspective of dvd -> streaming, you only have to use 1/4th energy in streaming vs dvd production, distribution, and sales to be more ecologically sound. The "2 million free previews"? It's a lot harder to qualify that as like piracy it's a demonstration of how many people window shop but never buy. So, it's unclear to me if they'd use less energy in some other pursuit if they weren't streaming porn. After all, they may well just switch streaming to Netflix.

This is actually a huge issue.

Yep.

If you really want equality and not just some token feelgood bullshit, let's start with eliminating "maternity" leave and turn it into "parental" leave, with mandatory equal times for husband and wife.

This is something that will most likely benefit men as well as women.

It's also something feminists have been going on about for quite a while.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u...
https://www.theatlantic.com/bu...
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
http://time.com/2853080/father...
https://www.fatherly.com/love-...
https://www.americanbanker.com...

You are an idiot - http://healthland.time.com/201... and https://www.researchgate.net/p.... In fact simply do the search yourself https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stre.... Stupid is as stupid does and they have been quite stupid.

I would post studies showing Aliens causing the same damage but it's classified and they would find me.

You are an idiot - http://healthland.time.com/201... and https://www.researchgate.net/p.... In fact simply do the search yourself https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stre.... Stupid is as stupid does and they have been quite stupid.

There has been some studies showing some people basically can't gain much fat, but if their body still takes in too many calories it causes problems. The result is way too much LDL cholesterol or something similar in their blood... it also either lead to heart problems or diabetes or both, I can't recall.

These links might be close, but not the exact thing I remember:

http://time.com/14407/the-hidd...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2614...

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

The team at IDM (https://idmprogram.com/blog/) and (https://intensivedietarymanagement.com) among others has specialized in exactly this: using fasting and food input based methods to manage insulin response and reduce or eliminate hyperinsulinemia.

Even Time magazine in September ran an article on this.
http://time.com/4940354/revers...

Diabetes is a $375 billion dollar industry in the US. Perpetual drug treatments are the preferred "cure" to advertise and promote, which is why the well known, isn't.

The team at IDM (https://idmprogram.com/blog/) and (https://intensivedietarymanagement.com) among others has specialized in exactly this: using fasting and food input based methods to manage insulin response and reduce or eliminate hyperinsulinemia. Even Time magazine in September ran an article on this. http://time.com/4940354/revers...

Except for those who inherit or are handed wealth by others, we all have to start someplace, and it may be with just $50. If $50 is all you ever have to invest, you aren't going to get very far. Passive investing works best when you have a steady amount of $$ to invest, and you can use "dollar cost averaging" to take the ups and downs out of the market. $50/week will go far.

The person with $100k to invest in stocks probably started with less, and learned along the way, and so will do dramatically better (even in a relative/proportional sense) than the person with $50 who is (probably) just starting out. I don't think much of investment consultants, and I haven't made a habit of consulting them, so I wouldn't attribute the success of the $100k investor to them. My best "advisor" was this book: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Investment-Guide-Youll-Ever/dp/0544781937/ref=dp_ob_title_bk, but you might have to gain some experience to believe what you read.

The worst mistakes I've seen people make are to time the market, to pull their $$ out AFTER a big stomach-clenching drop (because they are afraid of a further drop), to get greedy with exotic strategies ("let's trade options, shall we?"), and to sit out the market waiting for prices to drop so that they can "buy low" and "sell high." Oh, and to pull their money out of a 401(k)/IRA/investment plan because of an "emergency." (If it is your money or your life [or the life of someone you care about] then its an emergency. Otherwise, leave the $$ in the market.) Pick sane investments (index mutual funds have done me well), know your investment time horizon, and stick to your plans.

I interpret the advice from Mr. O'Leary as suggesting that you avoid unnecessary expense, spending your money where it will bring what you regard as true value. His advice on buying coffee wouldn't help me; I don't drink coffee. However, I did have a bad "eat lunch out" habit that boosted my investments once I kicked it. I also learned to subscribe to the magazines I liked instead of buying them at the newsstand (and reading them at the library is even cheaper and avoids a lot of waste). I also stopped reading the advertisement supplements in the Sunday paper... turns out you "need" a lot less when you don't think about it in the first place. (Adjust as necessary for however you imbibe your daily quota of advertising today.) Spend time hanging out with/interacting with friends; keep busy by volunteering to help others and doing something you find rewarding; discover activities and pursuits you enjoy that don't require a constant stream of $$ out of your pocket. In the end you will spend less, save more, and find you will probably need less later so that what you have saved will last longer.

Some thoughts:

https://torah.org/learning/pirkei-avos-chapter4-1b/

http://time.com/money/collection-post/4034098/get-rich-secret/

This is indeed, as you say, "bullshit" because a light year is a measure of distance.

Which is why I put "light year" in quotes. I used the term from the parent post. I realize that it is a measure of distance, I assumed it was used figuratively as meaning a vast difference. I'm sure you knew that.

However, it is very accurate to say that European and Canadian healthcare is about 3 years ahead of healthcare in the US because the average life expectancy in Europe and Canada is about 82 years while it is only about 79 in the US (averaged over both genders).

I noticed that African nations ranked lower than average on that chart compared to the rest of the world, and European nations ranked average to above average. I see that the USA has a population of people from African descent of about 13%. Getting a good number for the percent of people in Europe of African descent is difficult, but my best guess is that it's about 2%. Similarly the percentage of those of European descent in Africa is quite small, also likely about 2%. Is it possible that this very small difference in lifespan between USA and Europe is due to genetics rather than the quality of the medical care?

Here's something interesting, a study showing that people of African descent in America live on the average 4 years less than those of European descent.
http://www.businessinsider.com...

The authors of the article linked above seem to think that this is not genetic but merely a reflection of poverty and education. But it seems Americans are highly educated.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/...

It also seems Americans make good wages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Perhaps it's genetic, perhaps poverty, perhaps education, or maybe it is in fact the healthcare in the different countries. There's other factors too, like climate, crime, diet, accidents, and more. Placing this rather small difference in expected lifespan on the different health care systems alone seems like a pretty big leap in logic. Perhaps a leap in logic the distance of a "light year"?

A few years ago there was a woman in Germany that seemed to have been involved in all kinds of spectacular crimes, mostly murder. Her DNA was found on various crime scenes that seemed totally unrelated, She must have been the most wanted criminal for a while and was called the "Phantom". There was a $400,000 reward put on her head

Of course it turned out in a slightly different way than police had expected. The DNA that was found was actually from a female factory worker packaging the cotton swabs that were used by German police to collect DNA, so these DNA traces were simply a contamination. Here is the whole story: http://content.time.com/time/w...

You can expect something similar from the bacteria on the ISS. Everybody of course wants some spectacular news, but unfortunately there are far more mundane ways how the bacteria could have ended up there.

There's room for hundreds of billions of people on Earth given better designs. Even if there weren't there is room for quadrillions of humans and associated biosphere in self-replicating space habitats around the solar system.
http://pdfernhout.net/princeto...

Further, the big problem industrialized nations face now is actually falling populations. For an extreme example, Italy may be the future for us all (if we survive the slaughterbots and engineered plagues and nukes etc made by people with scarcity worldviews):
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
""We are very close to the threshold of non-renewal where the people dying are not replaced by new-borns. That means we are a dying country," Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin said. "This situation has enormous implications for every sector: the economy, society, health, pensions, just to give a few examples," Lorenzin said. "We need a wake-up call and a real change of culture to turn the trend around in the coming years," added the minister.""

Even the USA is below replacement without immigration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"As of 2010, about 48% (3.3 billion people) of the world population lives in nations with sub-replacement fertility.[3] Nonetheless most of these countries still have growing populations due to immigration, population momentum and increase of the life expectancy. This includes most nations of Europe, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Iran, Tunisia, China, the United States and many others. In 2015, all European Union countries had a sub-replacement fertility rate, ranging from a low of 1.31 in Portugal to a high of 1.96 in France.[4]"

Let's say people do need an "arsenal" to keep the peace. How big should it be? The USA, for example, spends essentially all its surplus and then some on an arsenal. Which is part of why we in the USA can't have nice things like pothole-free roads without tolls, longer vacations, high speed broadband, first-rate medical care for everyone, community makerspaces everywhere, tuition-free college, and so on...
https://www.nationalpriorities...

Needless competition, artificial scarcity, and huge for-profit prison populations are other reasons we can't have nice things:
http://www.alfiekohn.org/artic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

People are a lot less likely to support autocrats and so on if they aren't desperate.
"The Desperate Middle-Class Voters Who Made Trump the Republican Nominee"
http://time.com/money/4318531/...

Strangely, the USA has the most guns and now also is getting increasingly autocratic -- how does that fit into your model of why we need an arsenal?

Grad student here. I get payed for 20 hours of work per week as a research assistant. The other 40-60 hours per week that I work are considered part of my education, and I have to pay for them instead--the tuition portion gets waived, but I'm still stuck with fees etc.

I don't deny that this is messed up, but counting tuition waivers towards taxable income as written in the house bill is a problem. At public universities, graduate student stipends are usually payed for by government grants that the student's department has obtained--I'm payed from an NSF grant, for example. So raising grad student taxes means you're effectively redirecting education and research grants back to other government programs.

I do think it makes sense, philosophically speaking, to count tuition waivers as taxable income, but if you're going to do that then you should also make it qualify for a tax deduction--which it did, until this year.

Yeah! I mean, it's not like we give billions of dollars to other industries like oil. Or have paid trillions of dollars in protecting those same interest abroad.

But it's not just oil. How about the $5.3 billion in improper subsidies for Boeing for the Dreamliner? Or that Boeing and Lockheed get billion dollar subsidies for launching absolutely nothing into space. Pork-barrel spending is never truer than in aerospace. How about the $20 billion we give to farmers to NOT GROW CROPS.

Do you know what Big Oil, Big Aerospace, and Big Agriculture all have in common? They are predominantly located in red states. Not that all subsidies are republican-related of course. $1T goes to medicare, medicaid, and ACA. $366B goes to safety net programs. Hell, $1.5B goes to the entertainment industry every year.

Personally, I'm very interested in the coming electrification of the auto industry and have invested my own money into it. It was a smart move. Anyone with half a head could see it coming a decade ago.

http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
http://nation.time.com/2011/04...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03...
https://www.economist.com/news...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
https://www.cbpp.org/research/...

Tesla is such an SJW company.

What's amusing about all the "America, f*ck yeah!" folks complaining about Tesla being all "SJW" is the fact that of all the car companies, Tesla car are the 'most American-made' of any of the USA-based car companies.

So anyone who is a patriot who says "Buy American!" should skip over their F150 pickup (64% American made) and buy a Tesla (100% American-made).

Source: http://time.com/4677817/americ...

[the Japanese] don't seem to be spending any time shooting people at music festivals, churches or schools every other week.

I'm not sure if you are trolling but I think this is in fact a valid point, and it's one of the reasons why I and others are opposed to banning firearms.

I recommend a book called The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy which analyzes gun control and gun violence in Japan, Canada, and the USA. The conclusion of the book: gun misuse is overwhelmingly a cultural thing. Japan may have gun control laws, but it's not the laws that keeps gun violence low there, it's the culture.

I believe that even if the USA adopted the exact same laws that Japan has, gun violence in the USA wouldn't change very much. Changing the culture is much harder but also much more likely to have an effect.

BTW Japan has a whole lot of suicides. Someone who is really super upset there is more likely to kill himself rather than trying to kill a bunch of others.

P.S. Mass murder events do happen in Japan: http://time.com/4423216/mass-killings-japan-tsukui/

Japan doesn't have as many as the USA. Japan has a smaller population, so one would expect fewer events, but even after adjusting for population it's less. However, it's not zero.

Oh really, how much money do you have to lose before shutting it down at any time can make sense?

I'm not sure but you must need to lose more than $2.6 billion, because Tesla has steadily lost that amount and everybody seems to think that's not enough for it to make sense to shut them down. http://time.com/money/4437888/tesla-quarterly-loss/

For instance there are now claims that there is some form of collaboration between Russia and 'Black Lives Matter'. That's just the kind of things governments come up with to discredit activism.

That report was by The Guardian, a far left UK paper, who went digging for Russia links to discredit Trump and prove Hillary's 'Russia collusion' narrative.

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

The main topics covered by the groups run from Russia were race relations, Texan independence and gun rights. RBC counted 16 groups relating to the Black Lives Matter campaign and other race issues that had a total of 1.2 million subscribers. The biggest group was entitled Blacktivist and reportedly had more than 350,000 likes at its peak.

Actually backing BLM and Texan independence is straight out of Dugin's playbook. Quite literally - Foundations of Geopolitics has a set of recommended things a Russian government should do to destabilise the US and backing 'separatism' and 'Afro-America racists' are among those things.

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

The book emphasizes that Russia must spread Anti-Americanism everywhere: "the main 'scapegoat' will be precisely the U.S."

In the United States:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements - extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics."

Also if Russia's goal is to 'spread Anti-Americanism everywhere' it doesn't make sense to back one US party over the other. Presumably the FSB are smart enough to realise that changing the POTUS at the top of the system isn't enough to convert the US from a strategic competitor to an ally.

The reason for that is that isolationism and abandoning allies isn't a viable strategy for the US. Trump may have said some isolationist things as a candidate but like US POTUSs before him he's ended up abandoning them in office for the simple reason they are disastrous

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Putin is a foreign policy realist, and he'd presumably expect this. Actually I suspect he thought he'd get honeymoon period like he did with W Bush and Obama and then the US would revert to business as usual. Unfortunately for him that hasn't been the case with Trump. Trump bombed a Syrian airbase which had Russian personnel on it, though he warned them first. He also shot down a Syrian jet

http://time.com/4823314/syria-...

I.e. he's actually noticeably more hawkish on Russia than Obama and W Bush were in the first year in office.

http://time.com/4172866/white-... Walking right on the edge isn't all that bad. Better than falling over. Or worse, being pushed over.

The Russians didn't hack them - they purchased those ads like any other customer.

Non sequitur. The fact that the Russians purchased ads doesn't mean that they did not also hack them. They could do both.

And, in fact, it's pretty clear that the Russians were doing some explicit hacking-- they were behind the hack into the DNC e-mail (done by Posesta clicking a link in a phishing e-mail).

How many US Presidents have run for office on a 'We need to stop intervening abroad" platform? Every single one has backed down from it once they're in office, presumably based on issues like the ones I raised.

Admittedly none of them have done much to stop Iran or North Korea getting nukes, but all of them have been at least rhetorically committed to stopping that.

Actually Trump is an interesting case. When he was running he wanted to change the US's arrangement whereby the US extends its nuclear umbrella and in return Japan and South Korea do not build nukes. He even signalled that if the price for withdrawing US guarantees was that they did build nukes, he'd be fine with that.

http://time.com/4437089/donald...

In the same New York Times interview in March, Trump indicated that Japan and South Korea might need to obtain their own nuclear arsenal to protect themselves from North Korea and China if the U.S. is unable to defend them. "It's a position that we have to talk about," he said. "If the United States keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they're going to want to have that anyway with or without me discussing it, because I don't think they feel very secure in what's going on with our country."
"At some point, we cannot be the policeman of the world. And unfortunately, we have a nuclear world now," he later added.
Trump also said Japan and Korea might need to pay more for their own defense. "You know, when we did these deals, we were a rich country. We're not a rich country. We were a rich country with a very strong military and tremendous capability in so many ways. We're not anymore," he told the newspaper. "We have a military that's severely depleted. We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape. They don't even know if they work."

And then in office people obviously explained why this is a bad idea - China might decide that it should strike first - and he backed off.

James Mattis made it clear the US remains committed to defend Japan.

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

The Pentagon said defense secretary James Mattis called his Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera on Wednesday and "underscored that the US commitment to defend Japan, including the US extended deterrence commitment, remains ironclad".

The Pentagon statement said Mattis "also underscored the United States would work with Japan to enhance its ballistic missile defense capabilities".

It was not immediately clear if the Spy-6 radar system was discussed. Mattis also called his South Korean opposite number, Song Young-moo, who this week called for US tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed on the Korean peninsula for the first time since 1991, as well as other strategic assets such as aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and B-52 bombers.

The US has thus far opposed any redeployment of nuclear weapons. The Pentagon statement on the Mattis-Song conversation said only that the US defense secretary stressed that "any threat to the United States, its territories, or its allies will be met with a massive, effective, and overwhelming military response".

Trump himself told the South Koreans that the US remained committed to its existing security guarantees

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

President Trump and Acting President Hwang Kyo-Ahn of the Republic of Korea (ROK) spoke by telephone today. Acting President Hwang congratulated the President on his inauguration. The two discussed the importance of the U.S.-ROK alliance. President Trump reiterated our ironclad commitment to defend the ROK, including through the provision of extended deter

"They already had Clinton in their pockets with their massive contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and they knew Trump wouldn't be their sworn enemy based on his comments during the campaign. This was basically a no-lose election for them."

Well when you start with a false premise you can prove anything! Clinton is a proven hawk when it comes to international affairs and you have no proof in regard to your claims that Hillary was "in their pockets", just pure speculation. In fact it is well known that Hillary was very much in favor of far more US intervention in Syria, a firm Russian ally ( http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/... , http://time.com/4730416/syria-... , And Trumps take: http://time.com/4730416/syria-... is to bad mouth her position). Clinton also made it very clear in 2016 that Russia was not our friend ( http://time.com/4730416/syria-... ) where as Donald consistently stated the contrary.

"They already had Clinton in their pockets with their massive contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and they knew Trump wouldn't be their sworn enemy based on his comments during the campaign. This was basically a no-lose election for them."

Well when you start with a false premise you can prove anything! Clinton is a proven hawk when it comes to international affairs and you have no proof in regard to your claims that Hillary was "in their pockets", just pure speculation. In fact it is well known that Hillary was very much in favor of far more US intervention in Syria, a firm Russian ally ( http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/... , http://time.com/4730416/syria-... , And Trumps take: http://time.com/4730416/syria-... is to bad mouth her position). Clinton also made it very clear in 2016 that Russia was not our friend ( http://time.com/4730416/syria-... ) where as Donald consistently stated the contrary.

"They already had Clinton in their pockets with their massive contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and they knew Trump wouldn't be their sworn enemy based on his comments during the campaign. This was basically a no-lose election for them."

Well when you start with a false premise you can prove anything! Clinton is a proven hawk when it comes to international affairs and you have no proof in regard to your claims that Hillary was "in their pockets", just pure speculation. In fact it is well known that Hillary was very much in favor of far more US intervention in Syria, a firm Russian ally ( http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/... , http://time.com/4730416/syria-... , And Trumps take: http://time.com/4730416/syria-... is to bad mouth her position). Clinton also made it very clear in 2016 that Russia was not our friend ( http://time.com/4730416/syria-... ) where as Donald consistently stated the contrary.

Citation needed.

http://time.com/4783932/inside-russia-social-media-war-america/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/russia-facebook-twitter-election.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-and-the-new-cold-war
https://www.newsmax.com/Politics/james-clapper-absolutely-russia-interfered/2017/05/30/id/793102/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448931/vladimir-putin-russian-election-interference-american-incompetence-weakness-helped-it

I'd lay off the magic mushrooms.

Yeah, I know-- don't bother saying it: you're not going to read any of these because "that's all fake news because the mainstream media lies". Yeah. When you dismiss everything that confronts your entrenched position, yes of course you will never change your mind.

Seven assertions zero links to any sources (never-mind "Score:5, Informative" trustworthiness caliber sources).

How about one assertion linked to a trustworthy source: basket of deplorables?

How does one know whether or not one would belong in this "basket?" What would this basket look like? It would have to be large enough to hold, perhaps, tens-of-millions of people. Have there ever been events in history where a country's leader felt that a significant part of the population deserved to be put somewhere?

Here are few home work problems you can use for searching for link-able sources:

Who made the following statement? "We came. We saw. He died."
What was the context?
What involvement did the speaker of the statement have with the death of the man referred to in the statement?
What significant changes had happened to that man's country in the year previous to that statement?
What significant event occurred to the U.S. Ambassador in that man's country in the year following that statement?
What triggered an investigation into a personal email SERVER being used for work involving national security?

While # of "subs" and monthly cost continue to climb, actual content has deceased. In the 2 years 2014-2016, number of movies and TV shows decreased by 33% and 26% respectively.
http://time.com/4272360/the-nu...
Just this August, Disney has announced it's pulling it's entire library OFF Netflix in favor of its own streaming service.
What really torques me is that shows I should be able to see, I can't in the US due to greedy lawyers, but the shows are readily available to netflix in other countries (ie: Startrek Discovery)

We already have that as judges can dismiss cases for a variety of legal reasons. However you don't want them to have too much leeway. It sounds good in theory until you have a judge letting people off because he doesn't think its in the public's interest to prosecute them.

In the particular case you mentioned (link for anyone interested) the proper response would be to sue for legal fees, which given the story shouldn't be too difficult to win. I can understand the man not wanting to spend any more of his life on it though. I'm surprised some court hasn't gone after the person who filed that suit in some fashion for wasting the court's time.

He should have just taken the case to one of those court shows and then both people would get paid for appearances.

She literally called white voters "deplorables."

She literally didn't.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.

The strategy is indeed obvious.

I presume China are so not worried by CAGW (climate deniers phrase) that they did not sign up to the Paris accord http://time.com/4810846/china-... - oh wait.. they did and its Trump and his meat heads that didn't. US shot themselves in the foot on that decision.
"CAGW is simply another foreign money maker for them and strategically exploits the US." - belongs in the conspiracy theories column

the American revolution was started by wealthy farm owners who didn't want to pay taxes. The folks in charge were by and large in favor of it. Those weren't grass root memes, it was war propaganda.

Now, you can argue that you still agree with the message and that we're better off now than we would have been under British rule (I woulda like the NHS), but make no mistake, the Revolution was about as grass roots American as the Tea Party was 200 years later.

Still tyrannical.

http://time.com/4261816/trump-...

Do you know your claims are false, or do you not care?

The fact is that similar numbers of people die from both.

Everyone dies of something

Prostate cancer is diagnosed far more often, and men suffer from a larger number of life-impacting operations to remove their prostate than for breast cancer.

Then they aren't too bright. While you like to accuse me of lying, this is not news at all, I knew this stuff long ago. And now I'll give you all the fake news you care to call fake. http://healthland.time.com/201... If you are past 60, and get a diagnosis, you should forgo treatment. Why? Becaue unless it is an aggressive case, you'll die of old age first.

In fact, surgery is often the last thing you want http://healthland.time.com/201...

The PSA test is the source of many false positives. http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

The 5 year survival rate for Prostate cancer is is 99 percent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Breast cancer?:

For women with stage II breast cancer, the 5-year relative survival rate is about 93%.

The 5-year relative survival rate for stage III breast cancers is around 72%.

Metastatic, or stage IV breast cancers, have a 5-year relative survival rate of around 22%.

Satege 0 or 1 has a 5 year survival similar to all stages except aggressive prostate.

Which is why, exactly why, I said that given an either or case, you will work pretty hard at curing breast cancer, which does tend to kill pretty quickly if you take the same approach as you would with prostate cancer.

Undiagnosed mortality rates from both are quite similar, although higher for prostate cancer.

Umm uhh, get ready for it here it comes. don't blink!

Do you know your claims are false, or do you not care?

Simply brilliant! me hearty. I am fully aware of the sometimes wildly different ways that women are treated compared to men, and encourage men to even consider that they might live a fuller and less stress filled life by avoiding entanglements with women, because society and the legal system are not conducive to good outcomes for men.

But I don't hate them, and wish all women long and happy lives.

Do you know your claims are false, or do you not care?

The fact is that similar numbers of people die from both.

Everyone dies of something

Prostate cancer is diagnosed far more often, and men suffer from a larger number of life-impacting operations to remove their prostate than for breast cancer.

Then they aren't too bright. While you like to accuse me of lying, this is not news at all, I knew this stuff long ago. And now I'll give you all the fake news you care to call fake. http://healthland.time.com/201... If you are past 60, and get a diagnosis, you should forgo treatment. Why? Becaue unless it is an aggressive case, you'll die of old age first.

In fact, surgery is often the last thing you want http://healthland.time.com/201...

The PSA test is the source of many false positives. http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

The 5 year survival rate for Prostate cancer is is 99 percent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Breast cancer?:

For women with stage II breast cancer, the 5-year relative survival rate is about 93%.

The 5-year relative survival rate for stage III breast cancers is around 72%.

Metastatic, or stage IV breast cancers, have a 5-year relative survival rate of around 22%.

Satege 0 or 1 has a 5 year survival similar to all stages except aggressive prostate.

Which is why, exactly why, I said that given an either or case, you will work pretty hard at curing breast cancer, which does tend to kill pretty quickly if you take the same approach as you would with prostate cancer.

Undiagnosed mortality rates from both are quite similar, although higher for prostate cancer.

Umm uhh, get ready for it here it comes. don't blink!

Do you know your claims are false, or do you not care?

Simply brilliant! me hearty. I am fully aware of the sometimes wildly different ways that women are treated compared to men, and encourage men to even consider that they might live a fuller and less stress filled life by avoiding entanglements with women, because society and the legal system are not conducive to good outcomes for men.

But I don't hate them, and wish all women long and happy lives.

So please, at long last, stop with this silliness. We are doing nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

So please do nothing in response, it will all be over soon.

I hope Equifax gets buried. Things are off to a good start: San Francisco sues Equifax on behalf of 15 million Californians affected by the breach As reported days ago, there were as many as 50 class action cases pending.