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Cats killing birds at a rate 10,000 times higher than wind and solar power combined .

Tesla’s fail miserably in crash tests.

whatever you say my dude enjoy eating your pets commie

Earlier this year Congress passed a bill to let terminal patients try experimental treatments.

If you've been following today's news, you know that we currently have a patient suffering from end-stage terminal dementia in the white house. Fortunately he already signed the right-to-try bill personally, so dementia treatments can begin immediately and with the lord's help, it will save the country from fatal insanity.

Clapper lied to congress and wasn't charged.

Nope. An argument between Clapper and Meghan McCain on The View doesn't prove Clapper was lying.

Eric Holder lied to congress and wasn't charged.

Nope. An opinion piece only.

Hillary Clinton lied to congress and wasn't charged.

Nope. The article says Chaffetz and Goodlatte want to investigate to see if Clinton lied.

Is lying to Congress a crime?
Clapper lied to congress and wasn't charged.
Eric Holder lied to congress and wasn't charged.
Hillary Clinton lied to congress and wasn't charged.

However...
Michael Cohen did get charged for lying to Congress.

With selective prosecution like this, I think being an associate to Trump is a crime but lying to Congress is not. This is what tinpot dictators do. Pass laws that make everyone a criminal and only prosecute those you don't like. Its called a dictatorship, and is run by the DNC not Trump.

Vote Tyranny, vote DNC.

If it were any other organization I would agree with you.

This *IS* Verizon though. They continue to PERSIST with policies that have earned them a slot on the "Most hated company" list for early a decade solid.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

What would normally be considered reasonable to assume, does not seem so in this particular instance. More than likely, Verizon was so concerned about the data throughput of a complete archival dumping process, that they explicitly tried to block Archive. They *COULD* save face by saying that if Archive had requested an offline copy be made, they would have obliged, but that Archive did not make such a request, and that Verizon is under no obligation to provide access to the information over the public internet, now that NN has been repealed.

If anything, such a position would correspond to much of their lobbying over the past few years.

Hmm, 2018 mass shootings at concerts....

Nope, there weren't any. Closest was a series of shootings at Mardi Gras.

Let's not count Thousand Oaks, because that music was pre-recorded...

Let's not count San Diego's attempted shooting, because the concert hadn't started and only the gunman died...

Let's not count threats against concerts, because that concert was cancelled...

Yep. No problems in 2018.

He's talking about these guys.

TL;DR; California put a bunch of new pollution guidelines in place to force trucking Co's to upgrade their fleets. The regulations went in effect right when the economy tanked. Instead of buying a new fleet they forced the drivers (now desperate for any kind of work because the economy was in free fall) into phony "leases" where they were essentially working for free by earning less money than it cost to maintain the truck.

The change goes into effect on January 14, 2019, in most states, so if you're considering a change, it's time to plan ahead.

It's time for everyone to cancel their AT&T service(s) before Jan. 14, 2019.

I'd laugh if AT&T saw a huge spike in cancellations over the next month. Let's see if we cannot accelerate the cord cutting even more.

False

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

manipulate elections

It might be possible to take claims of "manipulation" seriously if the claimants weren't being selective about which companies manipulation they're excited about, but when Google plays with search results to the benefit of (D)s everyone is expected to do whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to get that behavior into the "not manipulation" column. When Facebook grooms anything "conservatives" like from their potentially election impacting news feed we're told "private company shutup nazi" but let Facebook employ an (R) lobbyist firm and it's "oh shit eB1L corporates investigate them now11!!!....," all notion of private company magically gone.

This seems like an interesting, relevant, response: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

So what you are saying is that the airlines arent losing enough money? There will be plenty of posts ignoring the fact that airlines lose money.

Except airlines aren't losing money. See: Airlines had second-most profitable year ever in 2017

  2017 Net Profit: 15.5 billion

  IATA - Another Strong Year for Airline Profits in 2017

Robocalls work because they do thousands of them. If you caught one of the guys $1500 per call is already going to be millions, if not billions and maybe trillions.

Like this guy: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/05/11/robocaller-fined-120-million-fcc-nearly-100-million-spoofed-calls/601287002/?

Same webpage Pacific hurricane seasons and ACE above normal 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018.

From a different mainstream source:
The Atlantic and Pacific Ocean hurricane season is most powerful on record this year

Combined ACE of 221

Put yourself in a politician's shoes. You love the power. How do you keep it? You make your constituents lives better and make sure they know about it. But cut to the chase even further - really, you only need to make your constituents think you're making their lives better. If you are, it's secondary. The most important thing is making them think that. That's how you get the precious votes.

Cue a sports stadium or a megacorp like Amazon. Big headline jobs numbers, construction spending, infrastructure spending. But how do you pay for it? Taxes, redeploying money from other priorities, and bond sales. Maryland for example, created a nearly 9 billion dollar subsidy/incentive package for Amazon. Baltimore, in Maryland, has two spectacular stadiums at the gateway to the city. But the rest of the city is a mess, with the highest murder rate of any large city in the country, on a par with Ciudad Juarez, a cartel war zone in a semi-failed state.

Who really knows for sure what the net economic benefit will be? I suspect it's a lot like sports stadiums. Realize that the economy is a competition for resources and Amazon is a very successful competitor. And that politicians are not spending their own money, only trying to make their constituents think they are making those constituents' lives better.

Ultimately I think it's like a blood transfusion to yourself - diverting resources away from other priorities and taking on debt to pay for the shiny now. Ultimately, the source of wealth is creating things that people value. Does Amazon create value? I guess so. But they are also very good at retaining that value for themselves. Think of the WalMart effect. Or Facebook lights-out datacenters. These competitors are much better at retaining value they generate than any politician, whose primary skills like in raising money and getting votes. And they're also quite good at sloughing off costs on others, like the environmental polluters of yore. But this is "financial pollution" - company keeps the profits and socializes the losses, like WalMart and foodstamps. Or most famously, Wall Street after the financial crisis and bailouts.

Don't get me wrong, technology increases the productivity of people, which leads to the "Consolidation of the production of value." It's been going on since before the Industrial Revolution, but it leaps forward with the various technological revolutions. But just because a company is big doesn't mean that landing in your area is going to bring a prosperity windfall, and should get vast subsidies in anticipation of such.

Yep I saw the Young Republicans outside of Jim Acosta's house in a mob shouting "We will fight, we know where you sleep at night"

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Oh my mistake, that was Antifa and Tucker Carlson's house with his wife and four children at home.

You know the GOP want's nothing to do with the Neo Nazis, while the Democrats actively finance these idiots

You don't understand the rules. Dirty tricks are ok if your side is doing them, they're only wrong if the other side uses them. Being a hypocrite is a prerequisite for becoming a politician (and how I wish this was only a joke).

Your post is a good place to drop this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Gun owner permit lists are public and not classified. So this is a similar issue.

Except the twitter mobs that descend on the hosts of sites who they don't like and get them thrown off the internet.

Again that's not the internet, anybody knowing the location of the server can get to it. We didnt start with domain name servers and they aren't a requirement now, just a convenience.

You actually think things like BBSs and early social pages were just these fantastic bastions of free expression where nobody engaged in anything that anybody else complained about?

Not as old as some, and only anecdotal evidence, but the BBSes I frequented in the 90's were a thousand times more 4chan-ish than facebook-ish.

Right and that is the point. While you might not like facebook it doesn't mean the internet is facebook, no we certainly do have things like 4chan on the internet as well.

There's nothing to stop you using a BBS or email just like we have been doing for decades.

Except the twitter mobs that descend on the hosts of sites who they don't like and get them thrown off the internet.

You actually think things like BBSs and early social pages were just these fantastic bastions of free expression where nobody engaged in anything that anybody else complained about?

Not as old as some, and only anecdotal evidence, but the BBSes I frequented in the 90's were a thousand times more 4chan-ish than facebook-ish. The idea of anyone getting banned for thoughcrime or un-PC opinions (or really anything short of actual flooding or posting child porn or something) was repugnant. Though as I understand it usenet was much more in the "If I disagree with you I'll write a snide 1500 word essay about it that no one will ever read and then brag about killfiling you" vein.

Apparently, Microsoft's new business model is imitating Google: Collect a lot of information about users, and sell it to any organizations that will pay.

Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence. (Oct. 20, 2018)

That business model is not going well:

A watchdog group pretended to be Russian and bought 'divisive' Google ads -- now, Google is blasting the group for its ties to Oracle. (Sep. 4, 2018)

Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, foreign actors on eve of midterms. (Nov. 5, 2018)

We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found. (May 13, 2018)

Apparently, Microsoft's new business model is imitating Google: Collect a lot of information about users, and sell it to any organizations that will pay.

Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence. (Oct. 20, 2018)

That business model is not going well:

A watchdog group pretended to be Russian and bought 'divisive' Google ads -- now, Google is blasting the group for its ties to Oracle. (Sep. 4, 2018)

Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, foreign actors on eve of midterms. (Nov. 5, 2018)

We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found. (May 13, 2018)

what happened to the constitutional guarantee of a trial?

IANAL, but I doubt, enemy combatants are covered by that guarantee — certainly not if they are outside of the US proper. And what crime would you accuse them of?

Why is that not an option?

I don't know. But, as the already-cited case of Somali pirates shows, it is not — and not only in the case of the blood-thirsty AmeriKKKan goon$, but for the gentle Canadians and enlightened Europeans as well...

Why don't you stop blaming America for a second, and direct your query to the Canadian, Spanish, and French governments? Whatever they tell you about trying pirates will apply to trying the Guantanamo inmates as well. And as long as are contacting all these nice, benevolent non-American governments, be sure to ask India, why their Navy never bothered to look for survivors of its "battle" with "pirates" 10 years ago.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

It has way more important problems than some freak accident that is highly unlikely to happen again.

Problem solving steps.
1. Define the problem correctly. This is important, since you need a solution that does more than reduce one narrow case of gun crimes.

2. Take no possible solutions off the table initially. Republicans, for instance, automatically take any solution off the table limiting gun availability.

3. Find the solution or combination of solutions that best mitigate the problem for least cost. Republicans often say, well that wouldn't work in this case, completely missing the point, or, far more likely, deliberately pretending they are too stupid to see the bigger picture. Solve the right problem, which is getting the most reduction in gun deaths period.

It has way more important problems than some freak accident that is highly unlikely to happen again.

With a byline like If you have reservations, vote Democratic, vote third party, or stay home in the 2018 midterm elections , I would hope the USA Today twitter account was also deleted (not holding my breath).

what about if an ISP site has your address has it but it turns that it really does then the ISP must pay the cost to built it out.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

https://consumerist.com/2015/0...

I don't mind if there is some evidence to back it up (like even a blog post showing how it was hard for someone to sign up)

Exactly. And Twitter denied it, other than admitting there was a problem with their autocomplete results which they said they had a fix on the way.

In a statement to CNBC, Twitter said it does not shadow ban users. "We are aware that some accounts are not automatically populating in our search box, and shipping a change to address this," the company said.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

So not only did they deny shadow banning R's, they denied doing it at all.

You can buy many of these built in safety systems and bolt them on.

Lane departure
Back up cameras
Collision Avoidance

Sure...maybe suspect or poor quality at the moment, but it will only get better,

EXCEPT if it's Bill Clinton. Then, Monica Lewinsky was able to consent, despite what you just said about power differentials. That's right, the President of the USA, the most powerful man in the world, and an intern. There could not be a greater power disparity.

Reminder: 20 years ago, Monica Lewinsky, Jennifer Flowers and Juanita Broaddrick tried "breaking their silence" about Bill Clinton. TIME did not name these brave women "Person of the Year". Instead, Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media attacked and victim shamed them. #MeToo

He got a blowjob from an underling during work hours inside a public government office. How do you not get fired and/or prosecuted for that? Everyone else would have. What the hell?

In Soviet Russ,

oh wait, never mind.

Reality: everyone is expected to be watching, those who aren't excited about dear leader will be "re-educated"

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Yes. Apple is being undercut by competitors who are willing to work for data. There are arguments to be made, but be mindful of who is making the argument in this case. Not a neutral third party. Someone whose fortune depends on you to pay more for (possibly just the illusion of) anonymity.

If they are refugees, then why are they reportedly waving proudly their country's flag as they march up, and in some cases even burning the US flag? That isn't the behavior of people seeking help from a host, that is a hostile invasion and damn rude.
It is not indicative of asylum seekers, which, by international law, are supposed to stop at the nearest country for help, not cross over 3 or more borders to get to a target country.

If you want to believe no one is calling for open borders, go ahead, but here's the evidence to the contrary:

https://openborders.info/
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.salon.com/2017/03/...

and those are just for starters..

Muslim countries tend to drink the least,

... when their relatives are watching. Muslim countries also lead the world in deaths from illegal moonshine.
Where alcohol is restricted or frowned upon, you can get a massive black market.
  Indonesia or the Middle East now is like the US in the 1920s.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

They should have known that this was going to be a problem.

Right, based on the zero accidents. If you disagree, link to the cases of Waymo getting in accidents and / or killing people. Here'll do it for you. Here's the only one:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

But don't forget this:

The self-driving van was not in autonomous mode at the time of the crash, said a spokesperson for the Mesa Fire and Medical Department.

Oh...

Some people blamed Amazon but that wasn't the cause.

Part of the problem was that it tied up stock with toys that no one wanted -- such as The Last Jedi.

THE biggest problem was that it was saddled with *Billions* of dollars in debt. Namely $5.2 Billion and negative equity of $1.3 Billion. While Microsoft can dump $2 Billion into the XBox or BING program until it is profitable Toys R Us didn't have the capital to do that.

TL:DR;

* Huge debt
* Couldn't pay interest
* Declining sales
* Bad management
* Got bought by Private Equity firms - stripped the company of cash
* Arrogance of thinking it didn't need an internet presence

References:

* https://www.quora.com/What-are...
* https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I'm aware. I used to be a federal employee. Most US companies start people out with 2 week, then after 5 years go to 3 week, and after 10 years offer 4 weeks vacation. I've also worked at several other large companies (over 10k employees) and this seems to be pretty standard. These sites back that up with stats from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics-

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/0...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

The actual numbers are actually a little lower according to this - https://www.bls.gov/news.relea...

Knowing Delta's mastery of established technology lets me look forward into a bright future with them embracing the spearhead of bleeding edge technology.

--signed, Oscar Muñoz, CEO United Airlines.

At-will workers can be fired for any reason, with negotiated contracts employers often need JUST CAUSE. Then there is a DUE PROCESS hearing. There is also a GRIEVANCE process, and LEGAL REPRESENTATION. Typically, union members also get LIABILITY INSURANCE with their dues. HEALTH INSURANCE is often negotiated by union representatives.

It is illegal in most U.S. States for dues to be used for political purposes. However, union members can donate separately. Just pricing out liability insurance through State Farm was significantly more expensive than the cost of my yearly dues. Hell, I wrote the check today without hesitation because the benefits of membership make the decision a no-brainer.

How do I know all of these things? Because I have been the president of my local union. I live in a RTW Freedom to Freeload State. I may be forced to represent a non-member because they are covered by the contract. My total compensation for being president was $0, and it is somebody else's turn to take the thankless job.

Clearly everyone in this thread has been living in their own echo chambers for some time. None of you mentioned anything related to the functions of a union. When workers die on the job and nobody notices for 8 hours, it is time to consider unionizing.

Well, the inventors of the term would disagree.

"No one knows who will name the next generation," says Neil Howe, who, along with his deceased co-author and business partner, William Strauss, is widely credited with naming the Millennials, a generation he figures spans from about 1982 to 2004.

From the article:

Regulators blame the dip in air quality in recent years on hotter weather and stronger, more persistent inversion layers that trap smog near the ground.

Yeah. And the fires.

Even here in Seattle, we had a week or so of horribly, smoggy air that was outside the "safe" levels, and that's pretty rare for this area. You could see the haze drifting over from the fires on satellite imagery.

One could argue that a warming and drier climate encouraged the development and spread of wildfires over a sustained period, but it's pretty odd to not even mention them as a major contributing factor for this season's bad air.

From the article:

Regulators blame the dip in air quality in recent years on hotter weather and stronger, more persistent inversion layers that trap smog near the ground.

Yeah. And the fires.

Even here in Seattle, we had a week or so of horribly, smoggy air that was outside the "safe" levels, and that's pretty rare for this area. You could see the haze drifting over from the fires on satellite imagery.

One could argue that a warming and drier climate encouraged the development and spread of wildfires over a sustained period, but it's pretty odd to not even mention them as a major contributing factor for this season's bad air.

Further, gun-grabbing Illinois has a lower rate of actual gun violence than gun-crazy Texas, according to the latest statistics.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Also, if you follow the links of the Anonymous Coward above, you will see that the rates he quotes are not for violent crime, or gun crime.

Dallas and Chicago have the same amount of violent crime and gun crime. However you want to slice it. And as I said before, Dallas has more property crime. Because statistically, guns make jackoffs into bigger jackoffs.

Your Median Income number is for Household Income. If you didn't know that, your welcome. If you did know that, quit lying to people.

Cigarettes are not legal for kids. Not anywhere civilised. Nor should e-cigarettes with addictive components be but the law was slow to catch up.

I think it's you that has some catching-up to do. From August of 2016: "Vape shops cannot give free samples to customers or sell to people younger than 18, under the new regulations. Merchants will be required to ask for identification from customers who appear to be under the age of 27."

I thought there were too many lawyers, especially in specific fields? https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Sorry, those jobs are coming back

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Don't believe the NY Times.

Right.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...