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While ISIS is threatening Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg is threatening to `investigate' his employees for failing to indulge BLM grievance mongering.

That's a false analogy. The police want help from the local locksmith to get into this house, which he made the lock for, because they have a warrant to search the premises. And the tenant is dead. And the property owner consents.

Except that they're not asking for a key to that house. They're asking for a Master Key to 38.58% of the Houses in the country, along with the legal authority to demand a custom built master key for the other 60%.

Wrong.

First of all, you can't build a backdoor or a master key in after the fact -- the backdoor already exists in the 5C. If a there's a "Master Key to 38.58% of the Houses in the country", it's the locksmith's fault for creating that situation, not the police's fault for -- a Master Key being possible -- telling the locksmith to use it on this house they have a warrant for.

Furthermore, the FBI's own affidavit indicates that Apple can keep possession of the software (key).

“Apple may maintain custody of the software, destroy it after its purpose under the order has been served, refuse to disseminate it outside of Apple and make clear to the world that it does not apply to other devices or users without lawful court orders,” the Justice Department told Judge Sheri Pym. “No one outside Apple would have access to the software required by the order unless Apple itself chose to share it.”

Finally, nothing here is telling the locksmith to *build* Master Keys into future products -- that's a very separate debate: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/02/encryption-bill-tech-companies-federal-law-enforcement/70734646/

If it helps, think of it this way: The iPhone 5C has a security vulnerability that's fixed in a later version. That security vulnerability enables the use of a search warrant in this case. Said search warrant was lawfully issued.

Where exactly are these additional hurricanes, anyway? We were told there would be more hurricanes.

No, we weren't.

We were told by some scientists (but not at all a consensus) that by the end of the century-- that is, in a hundred years-- there might be more hurricanes. Here's the popular press version, from USA Today (www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/07/08/climate-change-global-warming-hurricanes/2498611/ ):

"The world could see as many as 20 additional hurricanes and tropical storms each year by the end of the century because of climate change, says a study out today.

Other studies suggested that it's more likely that hurricanes could be somewhat stronger, although not more numerous. https://www.climate.gov/news-f...

Y'all must of missed this one from 3 days ago:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

"pointing out where you think the fault lies does not actually make it any less a war"

I wasn't simply pointing out "where the fault lies", because that implies that this rash of fundamentalism is some sort of unintended consequence. Although you could claim that it was unintended regarding our coup of Mossadegh, it certainly is not true of our more recent targets. Saddam? Secular. Gaddafi? Secular. Assad? Secular. ISIS, on the other hand, we handled with kid gloves until Russia got around to bombing them (not to mention a lot of civilians as well).

There are plenty of examples of the pentagon struggling with this administration--having intelligence altered, targets removed from eligibility for bombing, etc.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Of course, this comes not long after our arming of Al Nusra and other extremists in Syria from 2009 onward in a continued attempt to topple Assad.

So, put simply, the idea that this is a "war" against fundamentalist islam is laughable. (You might as well try to tell me how drugs are the enemy in our war on drugs, when they're actually the war's greatest friend--without the drugs, there would be no war!) In recent times, rather, our goal has been to engender fundamentalism in the western world such that we may have an excuse to intervene. This was the most salient--since you like that word--point of my comment, which you didn't address at all. Even today the west's strongest ally is Saudi Arabia, the monarchy of which pushes Wahabism, which is just as extreme as any variety of fundamentalist islam that the US could purport to be fighting.

You act as if a rash of state-sponsored fundamentalism sparked up on its own in the Muslim world, as if through some stimuli among savages that we noble westerners could never hope to understand--a very shortsighted and deliberately simple view.

Actually, the *easy* thing to do would be to claim that those on the other side of the world have a problem, and that our government represents us or always has our best interests in mind--as if we are in the seat of power. The *difficult* thing to do would be to admit that the US' military actions are caused by ripples in a deep state which neither you nor I nor even the president has control over. So your notion that just blaming "the west" is a way of standing up and dusting off our hands is pretty silly--it actually means that WE have a problem, and that WE have work to do.

So you can spare me your "so easy to blame the west" spiel.

This is spin from the government, looks a bit coordinated. Here is more "news" note the author interviews a DOJ contractor as an expert. It attacks Apple's undo burden argument. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

A lot of news and commentary on this one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

How about Anti_vaxxers? People who as a whole, are left leaning hippies. Yet, we don't see the wholesale derision of the Hippies for holding anti-vaccine beliefs.

Yes we do. In fact, there have even been laws created to counter their behavior.

If you point a laser at a plane or helicopter in the US, the feds will come down on you with both feet. This guy got fourteen years for it, though the sentence was reduced to five years on appeal.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

What a crock. Only one calls the toss. Have you ever actually done a coin-toss?

If you want to be pedantic, neither of them call the toss-- neither candidate was even present. The county clerk of elections both flips the coin (or designates the person who does so), and calls which result goes to which candidate (or designates the person who does so). If the clerk calls heads for one candidate, they are calling tails for the other.

That's the way coin tosses work: calling heads one way also means calling tails the other.

What I find more puzzling, and probably more worthy of attention, is that the media almost instantly put out the story "Hillary won six out of six coin flips"-- but the best reported actual data is that, of the coin flips that were officially recorded, Sanders won five out of six against Clinton, and one out of one against O’Malley. (e.g., this report).
So, was it just coincidence that the media happened to get 6 out of 6 data points about Hillary winning coin flips against Bernie, but zero out of six data points about Bernie winning coin flips against Hillary? What are the odds of that? Well, the same calculation.

The original six out of six number apparently came from the The Des Moines Register, who based their reporting on what had been posted to Facebook (!). In a later story, they stated that the actual found of coin flips was "unknown".

There is nobody to cheer for in this situation.

Be happy for the consumers — we got cheaper rides, that are also much easier to hail.

The lie of "ride sharing" as a smokescreen is an especially blatant lie

Well, yes, Uber's PR is now handled by the same guy, who got Obama elected, so lies (and spam, I might add) are part of the game. But I'm glad, that the old monopoly is crumbling, even it took an asshole to get it to crumble.

No need to be afraid of Uber, though — Lyft and others are breathing down their neck.

> In fact, I hired professionals, lots of professionals, to do it for me after a while. I hired them because I needed things done that I was incapable of doing. If I could have done it myself, I'd have not needed to hire them. It's not like I just hired random people for the goodness of the economy. No, I needed good people to do difficult things. I wanted the best and I wanted stuff (and people) that didn't really exist. So, I even paid them well. If it was easy, I'd have done it myself. They were paid well because they were essential to the business. If they were not essential then I'd have not hired them. I didn't hire inessential people. It was a business, not a charity. I'm a charitable person, I was not running a charitable business. This means I only hired the best I could find and paid them enough to ensure that they were happy, productive, and not going to leave. I'd hired them because they were the best that I could make or find. If I could have hired monkeys, I probably wouldn't have because it's unlikely that monkeys would have been essential to the growth and operation of my business. It's really not that complicated and people make things much more complicated than they need to.

--This may be slightly off topic, but part of me wishes you were still in management and working at Morgan Stanley. They just announced they're "streamlining" (read:outsourcing) a bunch of middle-class jobs to save on costs:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

--I don't want to get into a rant here, but it's really time we stopped rewarding Big Business for mistreating/laying off people that are providing perfectly good customer service. There is a Biblical passage/principle (1 Tim 5) that basically states "The worker is worth (his) wages." This realigning/outsourcing has been happening regularly since at least the 1990s, and it's really insidiously decimating the middle-class earnings and buying power in the US.

--Would appreciate any thoughts you have on this; perfectly fine to switch discussion to email if you like.

Whether I post as AC or log in is completely irrelevant to the substance of my post. It's an ad hominem attack, that actually weakens your argument. You've gone out of your way to call me a liar, even though you don't cite any sources to back up your claims. It's no fun to try to write a constructive post, only to have a tough guy launch personal attacks and call me a liar.

Let's get down to the substance of what you've said. The fact is, 60% of illegal guns seized in Chicago originated in other states. The largest portion of those are from Indiana, accounting for 19% of illegal guns in Chicago. And unlike you, I'll cite a source here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/10/28/lax-indiana-gun-laws/74740388/. Over a period of six years, 3,824 illegal guns originated in Indiana and were used for crimes in Chicago. I have a source for that, too: http://wgntv.com/2014/09/03/indiana-guns-favorite-of-chicago-gangbangers/. And yes, it is illegal, but it's still very easy for guns purchased in Indiana to end up in Chicago.

So how about you come back and discuss facts instead of calling someone a liar and making ad hominem attacks. Your post is disingenuous, and I've cited sources with facts that prove it.

Re 'we just afford to can't replace them"
"GPS upgrade set to launch on replacement mission" (February 20, 2014)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
""We have a lot of satellites that are well past their design life,""
" "We're trying to prevent any sort of outage and (have) some backup capability on orbit.""
""We've really gotten remarkable performance out of them, but they are aging, and there are some components that simply wear out," s"
"US Air Force Launches New GPS Satellite" (February 21, 2014)
http://www.space.com/24767-gps...
"In this particular case, the satellite we are replacing is over 16 years old and its design life was 7.5 years."

The Verge may be right, but they are totally apple fanboys who jump at any opportunity to make fun of the competition.

I would agree, but Windows Phone is not now nor ever was competition for Apple. The company that is competition for Apple's bread and butter market however, is a totally different story:

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-g...

TL;DR: Google (or Alphabet rather) is likely to overtake Apple's overall net worth soon.

Also to add to that, Apple's massive cash supply has a major problem that's going to take a lot of "financial engineering" to solve:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

TL;DR: Apple has a lot of cash overseas, and can't bring it here or else it will get taxed HARD. Meanwhile, over here, they have a huge pile of debt that is growing faster than their foreign cash reserves.

Between that, combined with the slowing smartphone market, and an overall slowing US economy (we're probably going to see a recession soonish) they *may* be in for some rough times. Microsoft seems to be doing well on the other hand, with their cloud division bringing in huge profits.

You didn't answer my question about how you'd feel

You asked me how I would "react" not how I would "feel." Sorry, but I answered the question that you asked, not the one that you MEANT to ask.

How I would FEEL? I would think that you are an unfit parent.

Nope. They tried it and were sued in 2013... and they lost. They cannot supercede Oregon law, all they can do is politely ask that nobody bring their guns.

Funny, that is not what it says in the student handbook -- and, yes, I read it after the shooting. Once again, I can believe you (without references), or the word of the college president and the college handbook. Hmmmm, which one is more trustworthy?

Well, *IF* your statement is true, despite evidence to the contrary, you are up to ONE shooting not in a "gun free" zone.

Let me list the ones, just off of the top of my head, that were in gun free zones:

Movie Theaters. Columbine high school, Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech, Churches in S. Carolina. Military recruiting offices. Yeah, all of those were gun free zones.

According to you: Guns are safe because they don't actually hurt anybody.

Huh? Seriously, dude, what are you smoking? I never said or implied that. According to me, guns in the hands of an honest, responsible person are no danger to YOU unless you are a criminal. According to YOU, apparently, evil guns go out and find victims on their own.

Anyway, I'd rather wait for police to arrive than have a numbnut who think he's John McClane adding more bullets to the mix. Your fantasies about how heroism works are based on what Hollywood has shown you, not reality.

So, you would rather be locked in a room with a murderer unarmed with help 10 minutes away rather than have somebody in the same room be armed and take a chance of stopping the bad guy? Like I said, history has shown what that looks like, and it isn't pretty.

Now, this incident happened about TWO MILES from my house: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So, yeah, a lady with a concealed carry permit stopped a bad guy. Once again, whom do I believe? Facts, or your opinion?

Here is another incident where a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. Only one innocent killed, but without the good guy, who knows how many?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Like I said. Make this interesting. Please deal in the truth. If I can prove what you say is false with 10 seconds of Googling, you aren't doing it right.

Tell you what. Before you post again, Google for evidence to the contrary to save me time.

Or perhaps is has to do with you pausing before under god for some reason when the pause is only after under god.

Nope. It has something to do with George MacPherson Docherty.

So, this is somehow forcing you to believe in the Christian God, vs the Jewish, Muslim, or whoever else's god/gods, or none at all?

It's forcing a message to be promulgated with the money of the state.

Personally, I find it offensive as a religious person though, money and God do not mix.

Let me guess, blocking religious law from becoming state law is now a bad thing?

It is when you block particular people of a particular religion from using their religious law to guide their own personal decisions, don't you think?

This means, for example, that your own will can be invalidated if you rely upon a given set of laws in it, even if it violated no express concern of the state's existing jurisprudence otherwise.

It'd be one thing if a state had found some will instructions to be problematic, like disinheriting minor children, but this is a blanket ban with no such consideration.

But go ahead and pretend you're interested solely in banning religious law from becoming state law. Nobody catches a whiff of hypocrisy there. You'll note how none of the Amendments, whether in North Carolina, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota or Tennessee ever seem to note the perils of Christian legal abuses. At most they try to smoke-screen it by being generic, saying foreign law, or international law. Which by a proper reading of the Constitution, would be invalid since it violates the treaty clause. Yet still they do it.

Why?

Of course, the irony is that it is these same states that were most often opposed to civil rights in America. That protested how they were being oppressed by giving up segregation and anti-miscegenation laws. And where they most stridently demand their right to have a big ole display of the Ten Commandments.

Sorry, but Roy Moore is in your bunch, and by their works you shall know them.

You do realize that this is not against the First amendment right? Preventing others from displaying their religious symbols however is.

You do realize that your First Amendment Rights are your speech, not your use of other people's property?

You don't have a right to use the public property to display your religious symbols, especially not your religious symbols alone.

Besides, nobody had to bring up the First Amendment. They can bring up things like Section II-5 of the Oklahome Constitution.

Curse you modern liberal atheists and your time travel machine, rewriting a state constitution!

In english please? I do believe that there has been much from the Left restricting people from praying, even on their own quietly to themselves at team sporting events...that is against religious liberty.

That's against facts you mean, as in reality. Unless you can cite an actual example to substantiate your belief, you're probably just falling into the idea that you MUST be being persecuted. After all, you're a Christian, you're always being thrown to the lions. Always.

Mean while This does happen.

And this is real.

And this.

Where is the law stating that you must be a Christian and must go to church on Sundays?

Probably in the darkest recesses of the minds of certain wretched folks who think if only that were the case, all

http://www.usatoday.com/pages/...

It is not clear yet how Trump compares to Hillary or Bernie, but it is clear that the felon waiting to be charged is 13 points ahead of the free money for all guy.

Please, don't be fawning about the US nuclear weapons and how we take care of them, and pretend that we would be attacked if we didn't have them. Pure nonsense.

The nuke guys were all caught cheating on tests.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

We have lost nukes and sent them accidentally across the country, and had all sorts of problems that show we don't "maintain them well"..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

I am sure you know all this, but you are hoping that no one else knows or is paying attention. They will never be used because they are not needed, and can't be used. They are not stopping Russia or China from attacking us because Russia and China have no intention of attacking us. This kind of utter nonsense has to stop. I thought we were supposed to be smarter than that here at /. No country is about to attack the US, and it has nothing to do with the fact that we have nukes. Stop the idiocy.

The only reason they don't need to be used is because we have them. The only reason Russia and China have no intention of attacking us is because we have them. If they never existed we already would've either attacked or been attacked by Russia between now and the end of WW2. You know that the Soviets were very seriously considering not stopping in Germany at the end of WW2 before we showed off our nukes. Having them makes Russia or China directly going to war with us suicide for both sides. The west getting getting rid of all our nukes dramatically increases the chances of WW3 and a nuclear holocaust.

Only very few of the problems the military has had with nuclear weapons created a realistic risk of a accidental detonation, launch, or theft.

This is like people on psych meds thinking they don't need the meds because they are sane on them, even though they are only sane because they are taking the meds.

When was the last accidental detonation, launch, or theft of a nuclear weapon?

Congratulations your one of the few people on Slashdot that is both naive enough and dumb enough to think they way you.

Please, don't be fawning about the US nuclear weapons and how we take care of them, and pretend that we would be attacked if we didn't have them. Pure nonsense.

The nuke guys were all caught cheating on tests.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

We have lost nukes and sent them accidentally across the country, and had all sorts of problems that show we don't "maintain them well"..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

I am sure you know all this, but you are hoping that no one else knows or is paying attention. They will never be used because they are not needed, and can't be used. They are not stopping Russia or China from attacking us because Russia and China have no intention of attacking us. This kind of utter nonsense has to stop. I thought we were supposed to be smarter than that here at /. No country is about to attack the US, and it has nothing to do with the fact that we have nukes. Stop the idiocy.

Yeah, about that. Google Photos is not smart enough to recognize much of anything. Facebook, on the other hand, knows all kinds of different insults based on your photo.

She didn't promise repeal it, she offered to 'introduce a bill'.

That is the only way the law can be repealed.

She didn't promise to not subsequently veto said bill.

Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg is not the Governor and therefore can not veto the bill.

So the call from the NRA to the only dealer who was selling a smart gun is not opposition?

A lot of the things that have happened recently in the U.S. could have been put to rest - one way or another - with first person video (and often multiple points of view). Dash cams are great, and we should continue using them on EVERY car, but every officer should also have this kind of tech. There should also be punishments or reprimands if the device is turned off during a shift (malfunctions aside). The video should also be streamed to their vehicles and, perhaps, even relayed directly back to the station.

I'm all for this, but some recent events caught on video haven't been enough to draw up charges. They make sure to take care of their own.

that is because we have permitted corporations to dodge taxes

"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934).

Imagine that I am a greedy businessman. I can create my corporation anywhere. Why should I create my business in the US and be taxed at 35%, when I can create it in:

• India / Mexico at 30%
• China / Spain at 25%
• Russia, Turkey, or UK at 20%
• Israel, Singapore, or Switzerland at 17%
• Canada at 15%
• Ireland at 12.5%

Make the corporations bear the tax burden, and you'll see that situation cleaned up in a hot second.

No, what you'll see is a race to move to the countries with lower tax rates. The US has a corporate tax rate that isn't competitive, and it shows by many businesses having already moved and others on their way out. Business are voting with their feet, and choosing America's competitors. You don't fix that with a big stick. You fix that with a carrot. You lower the taxes, so business would rather pay your taxes than someone else's.

I personally want to live amongst a more educated populace. You may think that's wasted money, but can readily see what the alternative looks like in the midwest, where most of the welfare mouths are.

Their uneducated habits must be rubbing off on you. This article from January 2015 says States with the most people on food stamps are: 7) Louisiana, 6) Tennessee, 5) Oregon, 4) West Virginia, 3) New Mexico, 2) Mississippi, and 1) District of Columbia. None of those are in the midwest.

Disney have repeatedly and successfully lobbied for increases of the H1B scheme, and are notorious abusers and beneficiaries of it.

Paul Ryan has just gifted them a 400% increase in the number of H2-B visas issued. To be used for, surprise, surprise, cheap labor at theme parks.

Copyright terms get extended every time Micky Mouse or Snow White approach the public domain.

Bought attorney generals and corrupt judges are working to sink fantasy sports sites, the NFL's plan-B to preserve revenue as ESPN subscription decline. (This increases Disney's chances of getting a larger slice of a shrinking pie at the expense of the leagues.)

Yada, yada, yada.

It's a sad day when I agree with a pathetic old cook like Bernie Sanders, but the US is controlled by evil corporations, and none are more evil that Disney.

Defund DSNY!

That's been known for years. Why no one has ever exploited it I don't know.

I'll tell you why: because despite the billions of dollars we're throwing at "security" each year, and all of the fear propaganda being pumped out of the television 24/7, there just aren't many terrorists trying to attack us. Weak points exist everywhere in our society, there are plenty of effective ways to inflict mass casualties, and yet it's not happening with any regularity. The lack of attacks is not attributable to draconian security measures, as plenty of avenues are currently unsecured; it's because nobody's trying. The fact of the matter is, the threat of terror attacks is incredibly tiny and is not worth the sacrifices we're making.

By the way, one guy did attack a TSA line in Louisiana earlier this year. He wasn't brown, though, so nobody paid much attention.

Federation is the difference. WhatsApp uses XMPP but its federation is turned off; WhatsApp users are not allowed to communicate with users of other XMPP providers. With federation there is no need to have 900 million users(1) all using the same provider. Instead users can use a much wider spread of servers, yet they will still be able to easily communicate with each other. If one provider gets hit with a security breach, lawful takedown, or other interruption, it only affects that provider's users (insofar as interruptions; data logs on a breached server can of course affect anyone who communicated with users on that server). If you are inconvenienced by interruption of service that may motivate you to think how to prevent it in the future, e.g. by switching to a smaller or more trusted provider. Or you can have one tech-savvy friend or relative set up an XMPP server, which is extremely easy with Prosody(2).

I don't see why users would have to switch XMPP servers often. Yes, switching providers would be changing the user name that others contact you by. It would be like getting a new phone number or new email address. You just mass-message your friends/contacts with the new information. It's mildly annoying so there may be some impetus to find a reliable XMPP provider and not have to switch again anytime soon.

1: WhatsApp global users in September 2015. Brazil alone had 45 million WhatsApp users in April 2014.

2: Prosody is a full-featured XMPP server that is easy to set up and keep updated. It's a great replacement for WhatsApp/Viber/SMS. I've tried out several Android XMPP client apps and am really pleased with Conversations. Several types of encryption are supported and it's easy to send pictures and files. Prosody is free and open source, Conversations costs money on the Play store but is open source and free on F-Droid.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com... You've got the wrong dump.

From the USAtoday article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

The registry could be challenged in court.

Marc Scribner, a transportation expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an advocacy group for limited government, said the FAA should have allowed public notice and comment about the final rule for the registry, which will be published Tuesday in the Federal Register. Ignoring those requirements means government officials "are practically demanding litigation," Scribner said.

“The FAA’s mandatory consumer drone registration scheme is both unreasonable and probably illegal,” said Eli Dourado, director of the technology policy program at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, who said he expects the registry to be overturned if challenged in court. “There is little evidence that small consumer drones — essentially toys — pose a risk to the national airspace.”

A 2012 law that called for the FAA to develop rules for commercial drones explicitly prohibited the FAA from regulating “model aircraft” for “hobby or recreational use” that is operating within community-set guidelines.

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I have been flying model RC aircraft for about 20 years and a member of Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) for 19 years. I have about 40 planes that will fall under the registration process. I will be paying ~$200 every three years just so I can fly my aircraft. All of my planes have my AMA number in or on the fuselage and have my contact information inside the fuselage. My AMA membership gets me liability coverage, accident/medical coverage, accidental death coverage, fire, theft, and vandalism coverage, assistance in getting and keeping flying sites, monthly magazine, ... What does registering my aircraft with the FAA get me?

If you really have to pay $200 under this program, it would indicate you have a serious multiple personality disorder. I would quit flying and get professional help.

The registration will cost $5 for an unlimited number of aircraft and will be valid for three years.

source

The Bush Administration never said Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. That's a false narrative that was pushed by anti-war activists back in 2002.

You mean to tell me that more than two out of three Americans who believed that Saddam was behind 9/11 did so because anti-war activists back in 2002. pushed that line? That lie was still poisoning the discourse of one out of three American voters in 2007. Apparently, the drive by, liberal, mass media was involved on pushing this lie too. This lie was foisted upon the world by the Bush Administration. What bothers me most is that you (or the people who told you the lie you're repeating) know that this was not only a despicable lie but one that they felt needed to be countered or the lie you are regurgitating never would have seen the light of day.

No many how many guns are sold if you can't carry it on you it does no good unless you're at home.

Stricter gun laws = less violence.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

> His business spiked since the Paris shootings,

Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks

Got to protect us from those mooslims!!! What would Issa do?

i wish Barack would pull operations from Pakistan! Here's what he did while we were having a government "shut down" due to lack of funds: http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

http://www.examiner.com/articl...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

"The home demolition is a tactic that the Israeli government has revived to punish families of alleged Palestinian terrorists"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

And use a license plate cover (although covers have been made explicitely illegal in some places).

The real world has occupied more of my attention. I've a new(ish) female in my life who takes an inordinate amount of time! It's nice and something that I was kind of hoping to achieve (albeit not expecting it to occur quite like it has) but it does eat into my Slashdot-time. There is a huge, I mean huge, gingerbread house and candy display in the hotel lobby. (I'm still in Buffalo and will be until tomorrow afternoon or Tuesday morning, probably Tuesday morning.)

http://www.usatoday.com/videos...

There are other links, that was the first one I came across. It's kind of neat but press and people are crawling about. It'll be nice to get the hell back on the road but it will be odd as I've a second person with me. Yay? I'm probably just going to go to DC next. I've been in this damned city, and hotel, since early/mid September. It's a nice suite and all but, honestly? I'm kind of sick of it.

Either way, to the point of the connectivity... *grins* I have three current DSL lines that are all separate. I don't know why I can't just buy the bandwidth and have access to it entirely but I need three. I have one connection in the garage/workshop. There's one in the house that was here when I bought the place, I also keep some hardware there. I have the last connection in the the new house. I'd love to be able to have the total bandwidth and just provision it myself but it seems that Fairpoint doesn't allow it.

I did have satellite for the longest time. It's not really a good solution. I don't game but latency was still problematic. My usage pattern is not conducive to satellite bandwidth. I go through a lot of bandwidth, even though I am not home - the home connection (the others are fairly idle) is still eating up a TB or more per month. I am usually connected to a machine at home, via VNC or SSH, and that's where I do a lot of "work." (It's not really work - it's just easier to spin up a bunch of VMs on more robust hardware, compile there, or even use it as another layer in security.)

The telephone lines only come from one direction. I live off of a routed highway but about five miles beyond my house the lines stop and don't start again for about sixty more miles. There are no electrical lines in there, no anything. There are some hunting camps and one or two homes that are entirely off the grid but that's it. Otherwise, I'd try to get a DSL provisioning from the other direction. As it stands, I can use cellular data if there's something that takes me offline for an extended period of time. Thus, it's my only redundancy and it's not configured to kick in if I'm not home so the network isn't so very robust. It's fine, I guess, for a residency.

When I last counted, I had some 143 ISO/compressed distros shared via torrent, some going back quite a ways, so it's probably for the best that it's not set to auto-restore service via cellular data. I've got a few dollars but that's because I don't tend to waste money on frivolous things. If it's a friend who needs to backup their data then, worst case, they know where the key to the house is and know the alarm code. If they're too remote then they can *probably* call another friend, one that is more local, and they may have the technical chops to get connectivity restored. If not, well, they can go without or call me and I can talk someone through it.

What that had to do with bookmarks is, well, only tangentially related - a lack of organization, the use pattern, etc... Hell, it's not even tangentially related. ;-) I mean, this is me! I'll just meander around from topic to topic but that was so far removed that I had typed it out a goodly portion of it before I realized how far removed it is and decided to delete it.

Seeing as I'm on the subject, it would be nice to be able to build a more robust network. I'm usually home but I like being able to access my own networks from afar. I'd also like to be able to maintain connectivity in an emergenc

Yes, the marketing campaign is flawless. My next car will be a Tesla, and my decision is based only on the articles published here on /.

I'm also planning on getting a Tesla as my next vehicle.

It's largely because of context. I *hate* how my dealership inserts itself between me an my purchase and tries to siphon off money for itself. I went through the trouble of looking for the *same* model and make of my previous purchase between two dealers - and got two "rock bottom" prices that were $1000 different. I know they were "rock bottom" prices, because the dealership told me so.

There's also the reliability context. GM has a problem with its ignition switches, denies the problem for a decade, and once a hundred deaths occur fixes the issue without telling anyone, and backdates the paperwork in an attempt to hide the issue.

For the longest time I couldn't rationalize Tesla stock analysis in the financial news. It's almost as if the analysts were looking at Tesla as a black box company: they make some product, have some capitalization, have some profit/loss, and it's a good/bad buy.

As near as I can figure, the financial analysts have an algorithm that actually looks at Tesla as a black box company and makes an heuristic estimate of whether it's a good buy or not. Periodically, an analyst chooses Tesla for review and then rationalizes the heuristic output based on whatever news has recently happened.

(I think that's how all financial analysis is done, actually. It's always "markets are *up* because of $X, markets are *down* following $Y", and so on. It makes the reader think that market fluctuations are caused by these newsworthy events.)

No one in the financial news seems to clue in that the company is building a battery factory, or that the cars had (at the time) the highest rating on Consumer Reports, or that they own a nationwide chain of chargers (and are building more), or even that they are currently selling electric vehicles.

Nope - none of that matters. Porsche plans to make an electric vehicle, and Tesla's stock tanks.

Apparently, in the financial markets context doesn't matter.

But if you look at the context, Tesla is the best product on the market.

The logic of authoritarians:

Thanks to Snowden's revelations, terrorists started using unbreakable encryption!!!!!!!

Right. Except they didn't.

That was pre-Snowden. Terrorists didn't know about encryption before that.

Right again. Except they did.

So, you see-- Snowden has "blood on his hands" for making terrorists aware of encryption, which they knew about for decades, so they could use it, which they didn't. And thank goodness for that, because if they had used encryption, the attacks might have been successful, which they were.

Got it.

"For Sheldon Cooper, sex is no longer going to be just a theory. At Tuesdayâ(TM)s taping of the Dec. 17 episode of CBS' The Big Bang Theory, brilliant, awkward scientists Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) lose their virginity together. After the taping in front of a studio audience, which was attended by USA TODAY, executive producer Steve Molaro issued a short statement.

âoeAfter over five years of dating, we felt the time was right for Sheldon and Amy to finally consummate their relationship, and we're so excited for the audience to see the journey over the next several episodes,â says Molaro, who oversees day-to-day operations of the top-rated, ninth-season comedy (Thursday, 8 p.m.), which was created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

For Sheldon Cooper, sex is no longer going to be just a theory. At Tuesdayâ(TM)s taping of the Dec. 17 episode of CBS' The Big Bang Theory, brilliant, awkward scientists Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik) lose their virginity together. After the taping in front of a studio audience, which was attended by USA TODAY, executive producer Steve Molaro issued a short statement.

âoeAfter over five years of dating, we felt the time was right for Sheldon and Amy to finally consummate their relationship, and we're so excited for the audience to see the journey over the next several episodes,â says Molaro, who oversees day-to-day operations of the top-rated, ninth-season comedy (Thursday, 8 p.m.), which was created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Plutocracy at its best.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...

""The passengers who fly on airlines and the airlines are paying for projects at airports where we don't fly," [Air Transport] association CEO James May says"

Asia Carrera, who used to be fairly known in the Unreal Tournament and Quakecon communities (not to mention porn), did this over a year ago. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

Multiplied out that's 247 shootings * 4 people == 988 [...] So that's say around a thousand people, vs 129 people in this Paris attack.

You've made a false assumption here: you've assumed that, in a mass shooting, every person who gets shot dies. If you use, as your definition of a mass shooting, that four or more people are *killed*, there are 146 events over 7 years for a total of 934 deaths (ref), or an average of 133 per year. That's about 1% of the total rate of gun homicide, which is ~10,000 per year.

So, France just lost roughly as many people in one mass shooting (129) as the US does in an entire year (133); and it has a smaller population (66m vs 322m), so its mass shooting death rate for the year is about five times as high on a per-capita basis. But this is still small compared to the background homicide rate.

For anyone who still doubts, here is a majority of the Muslim world's reaction to yesterday's Paris attacks.

"As low as mid 1980s" meaning within a FEW PERCENT.

The difference between 10% and 6% U-3 unemployment is only a few percent. It is also the difference between 2000 25-54 participation and today's numbers. A few percentage points can be a big deal.

For Gods sake you people act like everything is falling apart. We are still at historical highs.

Almost every metric of societal advancement is going to be at historical highs if you compare it to the last 100 years. If you start comparing things to the last 30 years, which is far more relevant to our modern economy, we are nowhere near a "high".

That is explained easily by the fact that more women have chosen to drop out of the workforce to raise children, people are staying in college longer, and the tail end of the baby boomers retiring.

I agree these are most of the reasons, but all of these are bad from an economic point of view. The only one I could quickly find strong statistics on was stay at home mothers. The number of stay at home mothers has risen from 4.3 million to 5.4 million in the past 15 years. That is about 25% of the decrease in our workforce. But the number of mothers who stay at home because they cannot find a job has risen from about 200 thousand to 1.1 million. So 90% of those new stay at home mothers are not doing it by choice, but because of a weaker economy. I would not be surprised if the rise in 25+ year old college students and sub-54 year old retirees is also 90% people who feel forced to and not those who want to.

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I am inviting you to move to a place where car owners are more than welcome.

Where "car culture" is in full effect.
Where vast acreage is set aside for parking, and great 10 lane freeways bustle and swell with the endless traffic you so desire.
A place where getting around with mass transit or a bicycle is possible, but very difficult and requires spending an extra two-three hours each day for your commute and the patience of a saint.
This is a place where it is routine to see massive lifted diesel trucks belching dark clouds of exhaust into the unassuming open window of a Prius owner eating a kale and hummus wrap.

A place where lowered Monte Carlos cruise slowly next to you with sub woofers so loud your fillings come out.

Please come to America! Land of the car, the truck, the traffic jam, and Road Rage.

You will be welcomed with open arms by the millions stuck in traffic, arguing over parking, raging after getting cut off on the onramp,