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Someone needs to patent an AI that can determine if your Uber driver is a murderer or rapist.

Stop using practice-babies and have an actual baby instead. And use cloth, not disposable.

The "actual baby" is only for wealthy people today. https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Obviously some folks rely on the guvmint to help, but yeah, it cost my wife and I over a quarter million to raise one kid.

You are so focused on the tiny subsidy for trains you overlook the gigantic subsidies for air travel. If you want to continue running full planes over the prairie, you can pay the actual cost

I'll be over here holing my breath waiting for wages to finally go up.

Looks like you can breathe now

And more recently, Costco...

Thanks Trump!

P.S. if you vote for any Democrat, they have promised to the last being to cancel the tax cuts when they come up for renewal in a few years. Which amusingly means canceling the tax cuts only for people, not the corporate tax cuts which were permanently lowered.

It's especially sad as normally I vote for either Democrats or Republicans or Libertarians or Greens, just whoever I like best. But this global war on the people the Democrats seem to be undertaking has taken them right off the list of anyone I can seriously vote for (in national elections anyway, local is still usually more removed).

The fans concerns and complaints after The Last Jedi was met with derision by Kennedy and her crew, who dismissed the long time fans in favor of what they believed was a brave new world of political activism, that even though set in a Universe far far away, and long long ago, this universe emulates far left Social Justice warrior identity politics of the US and GB today. Weird. So fans en masse neglected to go.

Soylo even had a few tricks up it's sleeves such as a droid with a sexual identity, social Justice warrior mindset, and with a terrible attitude. This character was so annoying that apparently audiences cheered when it was destroyed.

Then in a creepshow to end all creep shows, one of the Writers smugly bragged that one of the Characters, Lando was pansexual. https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Let that sink in a moment. A Star Wars Character that enjoys dipping his wick in little boys, little girls, dead people, Car exhausts, cows, sheeps, dogs, chickens.

Now I'm pretty liberal about this wick dipping business, but I'm old fashioned enough that I kinda think that humans should stick with other humans, and of an age where consent can be given. Just sayin'.

The problem you see, is that Social Justice Warriors are happy to complain about Start Wars - and everthing else it would appear - but if they even go to the movies, they don't do what has made LucasFilms and the Star Wars Franchise a mint in the past. And they don't buy the promotional items. Old School Star Wars fans, male and female, go to the movies often several times. They buy the promotional paraphernalia. They write the fanfics.

And what they do not want is 21st century far left identity politics. Star Wars is a couple hour escape from reality, not a couple hours of virtue signaling and destruction of the canon narrative. So they stayed away. All around the world.

Meanwhile,the people who made it flop apparently believe that the reason it flopped was because audiences are tired of White male characters. Apparently both racism and sexism is the new rule.

It's their money. But smart people trying to sell things should make things others want to buy. If Disney wants to make a movie called Queen of the Femniverse, shouwing white men being skewered and flayed alive, and women cheering and screaming in pleasure at the sight - well they can. It probably won't work. But its their money.

But it takes a willful act of stupidity to destroy a golden goose franchise in order to get rid of it's core audience.

Democrats have been slowing down the confirmation process, so that Trump has many fewer people in place than other presidents at this point in their term.

Nope, actually, it's Trump's lack of nominees.

Good little lemming on blaming Democrats. Like for the embassy. You know, for the country that disinvited him.

Admittedly, it's within the rules and an aspect of Democratic resistance that is actually succeeding.

Kinda your own practice really.

Not exactly a success though.

That kind of ruling is what causes Civil Wars.

It's hurts the country but it does slow down Trump's agenda, and that's what matters most.

Actually, Trump's agenda of trying to put crazy shits in office is what's going to hurt the country.

Fortunately for him, his base is more concerned that heattacks the people who don't stand for the national anthem.

It's ok, he doesn't actually have any need to govern. He can just demand apologies.

The only way you could think that is if you misunderstood what he said. Political derangement syndrome.

As they say, when you're misunderstood, the first person to look at is yourself.

It's not our fault if Trump is such a poor speaker that he can't get past his own biases and literally says:

"These aren't people. These are animals."

Sorry, but you'd be better off teaching Trump how to express himself with moderation and temperance, and it isn't like you can't pretend that the Right-wing went full-on nuts even when Obama merely misspoke, which unlike Trump wasn't driven by the sheer raging hysteria of bigotry.

Tell Trump to speak better so we can understand him. Write him right now. Send him a letter.

We'll wait.

One trusted worker can watch a lot of people. The US has a lot of people who can watch.
"5.1 million Americans have security clearances. That’s more than the entire population of Norway." (March 24, 2014)
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Who has security clearance? More than 4.3M people" (June 6, 2017 )
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Security Clearances (07.23.12)
https://www.wired.com/2012/07/...

Even as a "business" man Trump had exactly one trick - screw over people that trusted him. The Trump University scam was all about conning regular schmoes who believed he would help them (and don't forget he agreed to pay $25M in restitution to them). Meanwhile the guy was notorious for stiffing the blue-collar workers that he contracted with on his buildings.

But when it comes down to negotiating with people who don't trust him, he either folds like a wet blanket or flips the table and walks away. That might work in the business world where there is always a new sucker around the corner. But in politics, there isn't an endless supply of suckers, you have to keep going back to the same table with the same people.

Also, this is only partly related but every time he screams "witch-hunt" people should know that Mueller has already charged 19 people, 3 companies and secured 5 guilty pleas. One year in, even the watergate investigation didn't have as many results as that.

What little information I found on the subject when I looked into it pointed to lobbying by special interest groups interested in protecting birds.

Which is one of the more bullshit arguments one can make against wind power since wind turbines kill rather few birds. Cell phone towers actually kill far more birds than wind turbines do but I don't see people complaining about those. And cats kill orders of magnitude more birds than wind turbines.

From the link
"Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats, according to the peer-reviewed study by two federal scientists and the environmental consulting firm West Inc."

I calculated +30% wrong. Should be 7,865,000 accidents a year / 409.408 miles without an accident / with waymo being 7.4% as safe.

Though accidents in the US are very heavily weighted towards winter conditions. "The deadliest states are all in the Upper Midwest or near the Great Lakes: Michigan (83), Pennsylvania (65), Indiana (49) and New York (46) round out the top five." https://www.usatoday.com/story...; which Waymo doesn't do. Until it becomes feasible to roll out of your driveway the morning after an ice storm and have a functional self-driving car without having to roll through a de-icing unit (and wipe everything so it is perfectly clean), the accident number to compare is probably closer to 5.5 million anyway.

Damn you comical holidays!

OK, so that was a bad example.

Here are some better ones:
https://www.allure.com/story/r...

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

five deaths in Tesla vehicles.

A quick search for Telsa deaths suggests that ALL the fatalities (of people in Teslas) have been when autopilot was running.

You need to redo that search. There was the crash in Florida just a couple weeks ago that resulted in fatalities and did not have autopilot running - instead, it was the entirely predictable result of 3 teenagers driving at 60 mph around a turn known as "deadman's curve".

Big question is whether we have enough oil to keep ICE cars on the roads until then.

We have plenty of oil. Current reserves are estimated at about 50 years and it's understood that is a very conservative estimate with the real number being notably higher. The big question is how much damage we are going to do to the environment before we can transition away from ICE powered cars. I'm worried we are watching a slow motion train wreck. If we actually pump and burn all the oil that HAS to have some pretty major effects on the global ecosystem none of which are going to be good news.

Here's a news story from the end of last year - Comcast: Loss of cable television subscribers accelerates. I am sure that this has absolutely nothing to do with the billing practices described in TFA. Nope, unh-uh, not at all, not one bit, nothing to see here folks, these things are totally unrelated.

Here are the ads the the Russians ran.

I was amazed that they worked. The only explanation is that the people who were affected by those ads were so misinformed that they believed them. And not only misinformed but also unwilling to fact check making them doubly stupid.

You can only blame Clinton for so much - and much of the hate towards her was based on bullshit.

And I think it's idiotic that the Republican super pacs ran and ad stating that Clinton would bring all this controversy and baggage into the Whitehouse when Trump is doing that ten fold.

From what I'm seeing and based on having lived through a Clinton Presidency, Trump is making Bill look like an amateur when it comes to fucking up the Presidency.

This isn't about Democrats, Republicans, Hillary or Trump. Russia didn't care about our politics, they cared about destabilizing us. They did so by making us turn against each other. Over 50 million ad impressions per week. If you're on Facebook, you saw them. And they were designed so that the people who saw them would be most likely to engage (like/comment/share). https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Here's a better breakdown of the ad contents:

Of the roughly 3,500 ads published this week, more than half — about 1,950 — made express references to race. Those accounted for 25 million ad impressions — a measure of how many times the spot was pulled from a server for transmission to a device.
        At least 25% of the ads centered on issues involving crime and policing, often with a racial connotation. Separate ads, launched simultaneously, would stoke suspicion about how police treat black people in one ad, while another encouraged support for pro-police groups.
        Only about 100 of the ads overtly mentioned support for Donald Trump or opposition to Hillary Clinton. A few dozen referenced questions about the U.S. election process and voting integrity, while a handful mentioned other candidates like Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush.

Appears to be way more related to racism vs. police than it does to influencing votes directly for/against politicians.

The summary makes it clear that it’s slowing iPhone sales growth, not slowing iPhone sales.

This is a big deal, but it doesn't mean Apple is going out of business anytime soon. It means that Apple is transitioning from being a growth stock, to a value stock. This is a tricky thing to do. Microsoft struggled with the transition at the turn of the millennium.

In order for Apple to still remain appealing to investors, they need to pay careful attention to how they issue dividends.

Of course, there will still be some people in denial that they are no longer a growth stock. These are the people that are freaking out about slower growth. However, as long as management has come to terms with it, and doesn't try to over-saturate the market, they will be fine.

Then why do older programmers have issues getting jobs?

various reasons. one is difference in culture, another is inflexibility that sometimes comes with age, for some is lack of love for various PHBs.. you can google around, https://www.usatoday.com/story... etc. I personally witnessed a few very talented engineers walk out of a decent job because the way they were "managed".

But they apparently have issues getting any position.

"good but not exceptional" category is basically shorthand for "30-ish white guy". these are fine, problems start at 40+

In the UK, a fairly senior level position would be around $60 to $70k, although healthcare costs might make that worth $70 to $80k. So $120k seems pretty damn good.

at forex rates, sure, but at purchasing power parity, especially if you consider rent and real estate prices, chances are the picture is different.

for a reference, when you calculate how much funding a startup needs, the quick estimate is headcount x number of months x 10K. that covers not just the salary but everything the employer pays for - medical insurance plans, payroll taxes where appropriate etc.. should give you a good idea of what kind of comp you should be expecting.

It's a combination of factors. Trump and his hardline stance giving Kim no room for belligerent talk. South Korea recently electing a very liberal President (some even call him communist). And Kim still being relatively new to the reins of power in North Korea (2011).

The combination of the three has produced a unique situation where the political stances which had been the status quo for over 50 years can be thrown out without anyone losing face. The long-term North Korean stance has been that South Korea is a puppet state of the U.S., and until now they've refused to negotiate solely with South Korea, always insisting on negotiating with the U.S. instead. The U.S. in turn has insisted that all major belligerents in the war be involved in any peace treaty talks (North and South Korea, U.S., China, and Russia). And South Korea's leadership has with a couple short exceptions been fairly conservative, and unwilling to yield almost anything to North Korea.

Trump broke with the 5-country peace treaty stance the U.S. has held for decades, and agreed to meet with Kim one-on-one. It's a Nixon-goes-to-China situation, where only a hard-line opponent could give ground on a long-held position without losing face. Kim broke with North Korea's insistence that South Korea was a puppet state and that any peace treaty be negotiated between it and the U.S., and agreed to meet Moon directly as representatives of two nations. And Moon agreed to meet Kim, which former Korean Presidents from conservative parties probably wouldn't have been able to do without being kicked out of power by their own party.

Kim also happens to be a k-pop fan. And one of the best ways I've found for reconciling two people with an acrimonious history is to start with something they both like. It sounds cheesy, but it forces you to think of the other side as being comprised of real people just like yourself, not nameless faces onto which you can project decades of ingrained stereotypes and prejudices.

A few days agao Amazon and Microsoft were neck and neck:

Microsoft and Amazon are within a percentage point of one another at around $723 billion

... or the UK or Japan or Australia or Germany. https://www.theguardian.com/us...

"London murder rate overtakes New York as knife crime rises ... Of the 47 murders in London so far this year, 31 have been committed with knives" https://www.reuters.com/articl...

There is a hue and cry for knife control in the UK. It's the logical next step.

In case people thought you were joking ...

"London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a crackdown on knives Sunday in response to the rising levels of violence in London, which recently surpassed New York City's homicide rate for the first time. "No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan tweeted. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.""
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

We pay for 13 years of education at no cost to the child is or the child's family... If the locals choose to reward teachers that fail to teach their students with higher paychecks, tenure, and life-long pension and healthcare rather that's on the community.

People aren't denied education, they simply mismanaged the resources provided to educate them.

Disclaimer: I'm a IT staff member in a public school district.

Given your low 4-digit UID, I assume you're an old fart. So let me spell out something for you.

There is mismanagement of resources, but placing the blame squarely at the feet of teachers is wrong.

Throwing money at education, much like anything else, doesn't guarantee success. Further, it's not like the students being educated are products at the local store. You can't just run in and pay for "education" in a can and always walk out with the exact same product every time. It's a craft, not a mass produced trinket from China. You will get imperfections and defects every time. Even more so once you realize the craft is being applied to substandard materials, IE. Children. These students are not adults with a desire to learn, they are kids who for all intensive purposes, are being held against their will, in a room by people they may not like, along with a bunch of other peers they may not like and may even be terrorized by, under the pretext of it being "good for them".

One of the biggest issues is the gamification of education. The No Child Left Behind Act is directly responsible for this mess because a bunch of politicians decided that everyone was perfect, and mandated by law perfection, with showering of money for showing constant "growth" in student proficiencies, and pink slip Russian roulette for constant "regression". Cue the pubic school districts wanting free money or to avoid losing their jobs bumping up the test scores, and being found out. All of that's before you get into the misuse of the Standardized Test Scores. Plus it's getting worse, what with our US Department of Education Secretary being a privatization of education proponent, e.g. Charter Schools which have a profit incentive to ensure low passage rates and high tuition costs as a business model, who's supporters say she should step down, and state governors like Matt Bevin (KY) who wants to use public funds to support said for profits, while at the same time cutting public education funds saying the money isn't there. Long story short, you can't gamify a person's continued employment completely based on the input from others and expect the results to be good.

And before you say: "We'll that's what they get for not teaching them." Remember that the Standardized Tests are Multiple Choice tests for the sole purpose of expedient grading. They are not a valid method to determine a person’s knowledge because it's perfectly possible to ace the test without knowing any of the answers through sheer probability / luck. Worse, it's perfectly possible for a student to hide their deficiencies on the test because of this. So even an educa

Not to worry, the SJW's will make sure it ends up racist against white and males before long.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/0...
https://www.americanthinker.co...
https://www.theaustralian.com....

...to sell devices that are just waiting to be abused as 'telescreens'.

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

No. Trump irrationally claimed credit for keeping airplanes safe.

Link

So, in turn he must get the blame for everything that goes wrong. He claims credit for all that isn't broken and blames everything that is on someone else.

Hell, he just said his political enemies should be jailed, yet again. This aint normal folks, and it aint right. Ignore it enough and we might not have a democracy left. He calls James Comey all kinds of vile names, when he is simply a flawed man like many of us with a questionable decision or two, but above all James is clearly an honest man.

I've no intention of ever normalizing that man. He brings Bill, yes Bill's former accusers to a debate, while having a trail of tears of his own, some of which have been paid off by his fixer.

Guns? No, this is not because of guns. It's because we need mental illness checks. It's because the internet promotes violence. It's because of a feeling of entitlement promoted by liberal society. It's because of the decline of faith. It's because God is punishing us for embracing homosexuality. It's because of television. It's the Democrats fault. It's Obama's fault. It's Slashdot. It's Social Justice Warriors.

Nah, it couldn't be because of Guns.

What an asinine, utterly thoughtless post.

Because knives are next, right?

Ridiculous, right? No one's going to ban knives!

Right?

Wrong:

After murder rate passes NYC, London Mayor Sadiq Khan calls for sharper knife control

London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a crackdown on knives Sunday in response to the rising levels of violence in London, which recently surpassed New York City's homicide rate for the first time.

"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan tweeted. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."

There have been more than 50 homicides in London so far in 2018, and much of the violence is tied to gangs.

Damn - London's murder rate is higher than New York's? And there are now calls for "knife control" in London?

Yet thoughtless twits like you just have to blame guns?

Of course, that lets you ignore the elephant in the room: WHO is engaging in violence.

Every system will choose a cure over a treatment, for reasons including cost.

When costs are socialized, who has an incentive to reduce costs? Patients certainly don't, because they don't bear the burden of their treatments. The government or regulated insurers don't, because the more they spend, the more power they have and the higher their revenue. And health care providers don't either because, again, they earn more if they spend more.

This is wrong on a few points:
1) Patients often have co-pays or something which gives them cost exposure, though this system isn't perfect and drug companies can exploit it with rebates.
2) Private insurers (regulated or not) have a HUGE incentive to reduce costs because they can then lower rates and steal clients from their competitors.
3) Government insurers also have a big incentive to reduce costs because government are under constant budgetary pressure.

Now, European nations are a little bit better at cost control in their socialized systems, but not a whole lot: they spend about 1/3-1/2 per capita of what the US spends. To be sure, that's a good thing: at that spending level, we could cover every American with Medicare without any new revenue or any changes to private insurers. But even European healthcare is vastly overpriced, has rapid and unsustainable growth in costs, and also delivers lower service for the lower costs.

As a Canadian I (and most other Canadians) are happy with our healthcare.

The reason the US is so expensive has lot to do with the private hospitals and doctors, not the insurers.

Doctors and hospitals are the ones who are ultimately responsible for deciding how much money to spent on treatment but it's the insurers (and slightly patients) who foot the bill. Since doctors and hospitals really like helping patients and making money they're driven to spend gobs of money on treatment. The only way for the insurers to keep this in check is to insist on piles of paperwork and administration to make sure the treatments are necessary, but this isn't cheap either.

Healthcare is just a problem for which markets are a really poor solution.

Socialized medicine is cheaper because it can control the hospitals and set appropriate treatment levels, and it can cut out a bunch of the administration because you've lost some of the competing interests. This is partially why the VA in the US is generally does a good job.

The incentive structure of publicly financed researchers also don't align with those of patients or the public. Publicly financed researchers want to maximize their career advancement, their reputation, and their incomes.

And privately financed researchers don't?

The real difference you're going to see are:
1) Publicly financed researchers will make less money since public salaries are under much more scrutiny.
2) Publicly financed researchers get more prestige and job security since that's one of the ways you compensate for the crappy salary.
3) Public researchers are going to focus more on things that are really deadly (cancer) or rare diseases that affect only a few people. Private researchers are going to throw out a few more cold remedies and Viagras.

Note that for many diseases we already have cures: a large portion of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer could be eliminated if people lost weight and exercised. But the current US healthcare system provides no incentive for doctors to cure their patients in that simple, effective way.

Sure it does. But that's more a cultural issue than a primary healthcare provider issue.

Across the pond Uber has employees rather than independent contractors.
Perhaps it is easier to buy an American judge?
British panel rules Uber drivers are employees, not contractors

Please, stop changing the subject to half of your first sentence, as you did twice already. If you do this again, I will not respond.

If they force their way in you charge them with trespassing on a military base.

No one is buried on a military base. If homo-bashers can disrupt military funerals, a respectful photographer can show up and take a few solemn pictures too.

my Point was that America is using mercenaries to do an end run around those sensitivities.

Citations necessary. But even stipulating your statement is true, my point remains — Americans are more sensitive about warfare losses. This sensitivity can be "worked-around" by using contractors, but only to a point. A point, beyond which other measures — such as using robots — is very useful.

We got our cake and ate it too.

Stipulating, this is true, you seem to be rather dissatisfied by it. I wonder, which side you are on...

Members of the House and Senate committees that will question Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about user privacy protection next week are also some of the biggest recipients of campaign contributions from Facebook employees directly and the political action committee funded by employees. The congressional panel that got the most Facebook contributions is the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which announced Wednesday morning it would question Zuckerberg on April 11.

Where are exactly are these toxic masculinity articles you're reading all the time?

A selection of the first google results page:

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

https://www.politico.com/magaz...

https://www.care2.com/causes/w...

https://www.refinery29.com/201...

http://thefederalist.com/2018/...

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

https://www.them.us/story/beyo...

Mass shootings are blamed on toxic masculinity, male entitlement, male fragility, "boys are broken", "its us or them [men]", "toxic masculinity is killing us", "end men", the list is hundreds of thousands long.

Also, let us know when there's another female shooting like this to support your article. You need at least 2 to start I think.

Women aren't called mass shooters for whatever reason. They are called rampage killers or mass killers.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

The reason there are so few women that kill many people? Same reason why there are so few successful business women, female CEO's, and female prisoners: risk aversion. Both good and bad risk taking brings radical success or failure. Men do it more and reap the consequences for good or ill.

Nah, Fuckerberg is more into nudes of children.

So you're saying that he didn't make his position clear about immigration before the election? Or after the election?

Correct because he doesn't have a position. What he has is the position of playing to whatever his base wants.

You're saying he didn't sit down with Pelosi and Schumer to try to work out a deal?

No, he didn't. What he did was sit down with Schumer and work to not make a deal to so that the government would shut down. He then proceeded to message that Democrat didn't care and the government shutdown was entirely their doing. He even bragged that he was going to do that back in September.

You're saying he didn't send a 70-point immigration wish-list to congress right before the Omnibus bill?

He sent a wish list but he really doesn't care one way or the other, as long as it's what his extreme-right base wants. If they were insisting on amnesty for all illegal immigrants then he would have sent a wish list about that.

You're making shit up. The truth is... you're making shit up.

I'd be laughing if this wasn't such a serious situation. Our president is a malignant narcissist and doctors have been trying to warn you.

This is a standard liberal practice - just make shit up about the other side and then say how bad that shit is.

Now that is rich. If you look at the situation objectively then you would see that the White House is in chaos and our president is guilty of many very serious felonies. There isn't a special council appointed when everything is fine.

The average age of vehicles on the road in the U.S is 11.5 years old.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Modern-ish cars made in late 90's and early 2000's are lasting and newer models are giving few reasons to replace them. And those few reasons isn't MPG, safety, but gimmicky things like backup cameras, blue tooth, built in usb ports.

Let's not forget about cats.

Cats that live in the wild or indoor pets allowed to roam outdoors kill from 1.4 billion to as many as 3.7 billion birds in the continental U.S. each year.

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

When have 2nd amendment proponents ever done anything to protect people's privacy rights? I don't see them protesting data collection

Actually, gun rights proponents are almost certainly the most successful lobbyists against data collection in modern America, which, depending on your views, may not be a good thing.

Mind you, it’s their own privacy that they’re interested in protecting, but they’ve lobbied Congress so we’ll that it’s currently illegal for the US government to create or maintain databases of gun owners, historical gun purchases, or even the guns themselves, despite massive efforts by people on the other side of those debates to collect exactly that information. And even the paltry records that do exist (i.e. records from private gun stores that went out of business), are not allowed to be computerized. If you’d like more information, it’s easy to come by because the ways that the ATF has been hamstrung by the NRA get re-reported every time there’s another major shooting. And it’s not just at the national level either. Gun enthusiasts are quite active in protesting locally as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news... (paywalled)
https://www.informationweek.co...
http://www.heraldtribune.com/n...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I do agree with the overarching point you were trying to get at, but that particular argument you used to make your point was an extraordinarily poor choice.

Terrorism has some sort of political goal - you are trying to get other people to change their behavior. Hence the name, you're trying to elicit terror in your target group, as a motivator to get them to change behavior.

Based on early reports, this guy seems to be a straight out psychopath. His motive seems to be nothing more than doing it for thrills. Timothy Mcveigh was a white terrorist. I'm not convinced that this guy is. Anarchist is probably a better match.

The concept of the ship of Theseus has been debated for ages.

On the flip side, people can certainly think of something that is actually "self" as "non-self". This ranges from auto-immune system struggles to Dissociative identity disorder to body integrity identity disorders...

And of course people have gone to sleep and waken up speaking with a different accent

The whole concept of "self" is a bit soft if you ask me...

My take-aways.

1. Any crazy can make a crypto.
2. Crypto is the hot word right now in tech "journalism"
3. People whom invest in it are most likely dumb and it's like chasing after a penny stock.
4. It's good for getting your name out like if your company is dying and you need to get in the news somehow
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

or for selling a book

It's what any good driving school would teach. Let me google that for you...

Mentioned toward the end of the video...
https://www.geico.com/more/dri...

https://www.dmv.org/how-to-gui...

#6...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Given the $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut we just did (83% of which went to the 1%) I'm guessing no. It's just like the lottery. They claim the money will go to services but then they shuffle it around and turn it into tax cuts for the rich.

I'm so tired of hearing the same bullshit thing repeated over and over. 83% of the tax cuts did not go to the top 1%. The fact is that two years after the tax cuts expire in 2025, assuming they do not get renewed, then the top 1% will get 83% of the tax cuts. So I guess we should push our representatives to renew the cuts in 8 years. Even in 2025 when they do expire the top 1% will only see about 25% of the cuts.

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

kid shoots another kid, in the head, because... (wait for it...) they wouldn't share a video game controller: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I don't believe I've ever seen the claim that it changed adult behavior... you know, that's why we have a rating system that makes certain things unavailable to certain age groups (movies and games) so it seems kind of stupid that they only tested it on adults.

Also, others have made the comment but I'll just agree here: 30 minutes a day doth not a gamer make. Filthy casuals.

Actually this is not the first time I've read about this. People that live on residential streets that are close to major highways have had problems with Waze and the like routing way more cars through their streets than it was designed for. They design residential streets for a typical traffic flow and not for a lot of cars bypassing traffic on a regular basis. Imagine living on one of these streets and having hundreds of cars come down there daily, when it was never designed for that and thus making your quiet residential road into a high traffic road.
A quick google search turns up lots of stores and people complaining about this.
http://kalw.org/post/driving-a...
https://www.waze.com/forum/vie...
http://www.latimes.com/opinion...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Laughing stock is laughing stock, a bigger laughing stock still means it was TRUE that we were a laughing stock before https://www.usatoday.com/story...

It's meant to look like one, but it's not.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/03/16/miami-bridge-collapse-suspension-cables-support-tower/431418002/

It seems that the tower+cables were a mere cosmetic thing, they were not supposed to support the bridge.

Miami bridge that collapsed was a truss design, despite the cosmetic tower, support cables

Lazy Chinese not doing their own research.

China must stop forcing U.S. firms to share intellectual property

Command and control: China’s Communist Party extends reach into foreign companies

How China squeezes tech secrets from U.S. companies

And so on...

"Ygè shzi de xn zài t de zu l."

What's 650 dead kids a year compared to your right to be a fucking moron with a car? You are no less free if you don't own a car, all the other excuses boil down to tiny dick motorsexual bullshit.

Fucking idiot.