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I heard ZERO indictments of him about his political leanings

https://qz.com/1055466/the-alt... basically calls him a liar when he denies being 'alt right'.

Then there are the suspicious string of articles all basically going, "Damore is an alt-right [hero|martyr]":
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.recode.net/2017/8/...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.vox.com/culture/20...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.newsweek.com/who-ja...
http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

Maybe that was just because there was too much material to get to boring stuff like that in his 15 minutes of fame.

No, it's because his political leanings are by all accounts very much aligned to the people trying to demonise him, hence the multitude of articles trying to position him with the people they don't like.

I hesitate to say 'conspiracy' but it sure as fuck doesn't look like independent and honest reporting to me.

Lena Dunham though, I can't find any case there except for her defence of a Girls' Writer who was accused.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/11/06/lena-dunam-sexual-abuse-sister-grace-exploration-lawsuit/18524915/

Lena Dunham though, I can't find any case there except for her defence of a Girls' Writer who was accused.

Lena Dunham wrote a book in which she described how she sexually abused her younger sister. Here's a 2014 USA Today article about the subject: Lena Dunham: Sexual abuse or sexual exploration?

It wasn't that long ago that HIV/AIDS was spreading like wildfire on the African continent because there was a belief that HIV/AIDS could be cured by having sex with a virgin...

additional examples:

Penis-Snatching Panics Resurface in Africa.

Witch doctors sacrificing children in this drought-stricken African country

Malawi Police Arrest 140 After Mob Attacks on 'Vampires'

The US is getting hacked every day by every country. But the only ones you hear about on the news are Russia, China and NK.

That's so incorrect as to expose some truths about you.

Ashley Madison, Equifax, Experian, MySpace, Home Depot and many more are not attributed to Russia, China, or North Korea.

Dmitry Dokuchaev is presumably tied to the Yahoo Breach.

It's very easy to attempt to extrapolate that all attacks are state-sponsored when you are so biased by media and politicians that only attacks from these countries actually exist.

But you see, that's all a story in your mind, or one that you are paid to speak about. There are many data breaches. You can read about them here https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I purposely used about as mainstream a source as possible - USA today. Not a breath about Russia, China, or North Korea.

Hacking can be done for many reasons. State strategic, criminal pecuniary, Penetration testing, or even as a form of entertainment by some folks.

You have to look at the hackee or the target to come up with likely suspects. You can do that. The only murky one here is the Ashley Madison hack. Very possibly Australian, but almost certainly not state. The others have some fairly obvious sources.

So would a penetration tester have hacked the DNC?

Would a criminal pecuniary hacker have hacked it?

We're pretty much left with hacking for the Lulz or state actor.

Yahoo? Equifax? almost certainly criminal pecuniary hacking.

Your premise that mainstream media only focuses on and only attributes hacking to Russia, China or North Korea is just completely wrong, as anyone who actually looks at the news can attest.

I'd call it a strawman argument if the "facts" weren't 100 percent false. So I'm being kinda kind here.

If it were only paying a bill, you'd be correct. In practice, our complex tax system is riddled with judgement calls. There is a moral choice of whether to pay for your kid's ski lessons with child-care deductions, which is clearly not in the spirit of the deduction. It's easy to say 'well, I followed the rules' and absolve yourself of any moral responsibility, but your fellow citizens are paying (on average) ~30% income + ~8% consumption based taxes. If you're reasonably well off and still cutting every corner, you're greedy and that's a moral failing.

Also seems silly to talk about grad students are disappearing when the GOP is proposing to tax them into oblivion.

In grad school, I got paid a stipend of about $25k a year. There was also $25k my school required in "tuition" from my mentor's federal grants. The proposals coming out of the "We love the poorly educated" party would have me paying taxes as if I owed $50k.

Grad students are cheap labor that America's cutting edge science depends on for it's preeminence. It's already priced out of reach for way too many bright minds. People working to put themselves through college likely can't take the required time to volunteer in a lab, a prerequisite to get into grad school. By making a STEM degree so costly AND tightening the screws on student loans, republicans are going to ensure those foreign PhD students stay overseas and only wealthy kids get their PhD.

I guess it balances out though. Sure, we won't do any science in the next ten years, nor will we keep ahead of everyone else in terms of science, but at least trust fund kids will be able to inherit more of their parents' wealth.

Utter crap. Even the Greenies only claim that road vehicles 'kill' a few thousand seriously ill people who would have died a few days alter anyway.

Utter crap. Pollution is the world's biggest killer and 75% of CO and 50-90% of urban (you know, where most people live) air pollution comes from automobiles. That means it's killing millions of people every year.

Further, it doesn't just kill the weak. It also makes the healthy weaker. And if you were only kind of healthy, it makes you the weak. Then it can kill you.

And that's almost entirely due to diesel particulates, which mostly come from trucks and the Glorious Peoples' Buses.

Wrong again, spanky. Gassers produce just as much soot, and diesels produce less CO2. It takes less energy to refine, and you burn less fuel. The only thing diesels ordinarily produce more of is NOx, which does result in particulate formation; however, DEF injection all but eliminates NOx emissions, meaning that diesels are actually cleaner than gassers if you use DEF injection — which you will note that none of the offending VWs did. Some of those vehicles have actually been retrofit with DEF injection, which is pretty simple; a tank, a pump, and an injector, plus a relay and maybe an IDM (intermediate driver module) for the injector, depending on its trigger voltage. You can predict with a high level of certainty when the engine will produce NOx, so you don't need sensors.

This explains more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/11/02/trump-announces-broadcom-moving-legal-hq-u-s/825600001

And how did you draw that conclusion? We've only seen capitalism do the exact opposite:

Uh, no. And also no.

The problem I see . . . is folks flagging stuff as 'controversial' because they disagree with it. Lots of the left wing channels got flagged. But even some science channels got flagged by the anti-climate change folks and the 'intelligent design' crowd.

On one hand I would say it generally isn't right to do that. On the other, my heart bleeds for them. I mean, it's not like the left wing goes out of its way to abuse, ... well ...

PragerU sues YouTube, Google for blacklisting its conservative educational videos

College melts down over plan for white people-free day on campus

Justice Department settles IRS lawsuits from 400 conservative groups claiming discrimination

Court Documents Show The IRS Focused Scrutiny On Conservative Groups

Now, thanks to filings in a federal lawsuit in Ohio, there is such a list, with 426 names on it. And yes, it's top-heavy with conservative groups:

— 62 had Tea Party or Tea Party Patriots in the name

— a additional 14 had Patriots in the name

— 30 groups had 9/12 or Liberty in the name (9/12 refers to groups inspired by conservative television personality Glenn Beck)

In all, 282 conservative groups were on the IRS list, about two-thirds of the total number of groups that got additional scrutiny.

The list also has 67 progressive organizations (16 percent of the total) and 21 nonpartisan civic groups, including three League of Women Voters chapters.

The IRS took a hard look at Friends of Abe, a group for Hollywood conservatives, and at five state chapters of Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition. But also at LULAC (the League of Latin American Citizens), seven state groups with Progress in their names and two Occupy groups.

The Deerfield Beach, Fla., chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women caught the agency's eye. So did the National Federation of Independent Business and a group recorded simply as The Institute. Thirty-two groups couldn't be identified

I could go on.

Predictions are hard, particularly when they deal with the future.

Did AC realize that what he or she said was very funny in a Yogi Berra kind of way? Hard or easy, predictions are, by definition, always about the future. D'oh! Either way the remark is a gem. I think my stock broker might have told me the same thing once.

Here are a few more Yogi-isms.

FYI I recall reading once that many of these witticisms were supplied by Mr Berra's publicist. Does not make them less funny.

On June 3 last year, Donald Trump Jr. received an email offering him "official documents" containing what was described as "very high level and sensitive information" from Russia's chief prosecutor that would "incriminate" Hillary Clinton and which was "part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." Trump Jr.'s response: "if it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer." Days later, the now famous meeting in Trump Tower followed.

What is plain as day from Trump Jr.'s own words is that he hoped - gleefully- to acquire dirt to use against Hillary Clinton by meeting with someone identified to him in the email chain as a "Russian government attorney." What is also plain as day - and should have been obvious to any sentient American, including Trump Jr., and fellow meeting attendees campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner - is that if the Russian government possessed such dirt, it either came from or could have come from the Russian intelligence services and was being dangled before them by the Russian government to advance Russian purposes.

To spell it out a bit more, interference of any sort by any foreign country in our elections is never acceptable. But Russia is not just any foreign country. It is a hostile power with a long history of spying on the United States and also attempting to influence our politics by both overt and covert means. Any derogatory material on Hillary Clinton which the Russians possessed might have been obtained by the dark arts of espionage: by blackmailing one or more of her associates, by planting moles in her entourage, and/or by intercepting her and her associates' telephone calls and (as actually happened) hacking their emails.

Citation Provided is an opinion article, but the section I've quoted is based directly on legitimate news articles I'm too lazy to dig up.

> (Clinton Uranium deal investigated by the FBI,

No. And shame on you for lying about it.

It was not the "clinton uranium deal" that was investigated. It was a bunch of russians doing kickbacks and money laundering, going as far back as 2004. As for Clinton's involvement, this is what the article says:

Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation,

The millions went to a company that also worked with the clinton foundation, but note that the article explicitly avoids saying the millions were passed through to the foundation rather than being spent elsewhere, like aforementioned kickbacks to russians.

Furthermore, whenever the Uranium One deal is mentiond, everybody should remember this key fact: Russia was never given an export license, thus the uranium could never leave the US (and in fact barely any of it even left the ground because importing uranium from abroad is cheaper than mining it here). Here's the official statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency:

Neither Uranium One nor ARMZ holds an NRC export license, so no uranium produced at either facility may be exported.

> and Comey wrote the Hillary conclusion months before interviewing Hillary.)

Another half-truth that is a full lie. Interviewing her was basically a formality, especially if you believe the narrative that she's a master manipulator. The FBI investigation began no later than August the year before, 9 months before Comey began drafting the statement. All of the evidence gathered by then was already exculpatory that the writing was already on the wall.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/comey-clinton-investigation/index.html
A person familiar with the matter pushed back on the notion that Comey had already reached a conclusion that affected the investigation.
The person said back in spring 2016, agents and Justice Department officials were talking about how the investigation would end and there was a belief that the evidence was going in a direction to not support bringing charges. This individual said by April 2016 the FBI had reviewed most of the evidence and didn't find evidence suggesting that Clinton had violated federal law. The person said the FBI wanted to interview her but didn't believe it was going to change the outcome.
The source also said Comey was not involved in the day-to-day steps of the investigation, so even if he reached a conclusion it wouldn't have affected the result of the investigation.
A second person familiar with the matter told CNN that Comey had not already made up his mind, and that it did not influence the investigation. The second source says the FBI had already reviewed much of the evidence by spring and it was becoming more clear that it was not likely to support bringing charges.

> If we can't abide the truth, then we're no different from the media talking heads.

You are different from the media talking heads. You are an unabashedly hyperpartisan liar, they are just poorly informed. You, on the other hand, know the whole truth because it takes exceptional discipline to write out all the parts that don't support your ideology of idiocy.

So it takes a SECOND breech before they decide to suspend the contract? If they have the option to suspend it now, why didn't they do it before? I think this speaks volumes about the competence of the IRS.

How about we move to a simple flat tax with no loopholes, which would dismantle 80% of the IRS and either pass the savings onto the taxpayers or use the savings to start paying off the 20 TRILLION DOLLAR national debt?

Even they admit they directly spend over 12 BILLION dollars a year, which goes up every year! Yet that doesn't include what it costs businesses and individuals to COMPLY with the insanely complicated tax codes. That compliance is estimated to cost the USA economy an additional $409 BILLION dollars every year. Wow, that works out to $3,500 dollars for every tax payer in the country, every year.

https://taxfoundation.org/comp...

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

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

https://fairtax.org/index

About delivery, damage or return issues

In fact they don't even want the items back, because that would mean they have to do something.

I think their current policy is say keep the item to the customer and depose of it as you see fit!
They then credit the customers payment, and reverse the payment to the seller who is out the item and the cash.
So it is the store owner who completely looses out.

Check this out, I don't think Amazon took the loss!
Couple admits to stealing $1.2 million from Amazon

But I could be wrong ;)

The President will be flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow to view the devastation, ...

Nope: Here are Trump comments from the same day.
1) He said "two hurricanes" hit Puerto Rico - FALSE
2) He said Maria was a "Category 5 hurricane" - FALSE
3) He said there were winds "over 200mph" - FALSE

1) Irma & Maria - True, even if that is not quite what Trump said.
2) Maria was CAT 5 when it hit the Virgin Islands, Dominica, Cuba, and some other locations. It had slightly slower winds when it hit Puerto Rico. It is reasonable to refer to Maria as CAT 5 as the New York Times did. Rate this as true too.
3) Where in that link did he state the wind speed? I didn't see it. Even if he did are you claiming there were no wind gusts that fast? How would you know? Almost all of the wind gages in Puerto Rico were destroyed (by "gentle winds"?).
I'll rate this as a fabrication by you.

And, he didn't get anywhere near the "devastation".

Yes he did, both on foot, and by helicopter.

Soros's payroll?l? Is it "funny" because it's true?

Sorry bro. Your kumbaya fantasy world isn't viable. Daily we're presented with undeniable evidence of the contempt and disdain the powers the be and all their left wing sycophants have nurtured in their hate filled hearts.

Oh noes!

Like this guy?.

Or perhaps?

Or maybe?

Or him?

Or maybe him??

I got a sense here that you don't realize what's really going on in this country is nothing new or surprising, but at least you could be honest about it being bipartisan.

Left wing shitheels coming at us one way or another Every. Single. Day.

So no, if we hadn't already picked a side we're left with no choice but to get on one;

Why? Because you're too sensitive to handle the fact that there are uncouth and vicious people in this world? Or because you're such a hypocrite you can't deal with your own?

some sort of extreme event

When it's daily it's not extreme.

You know, your glass house is very messy. Everybody can see the dirty clothes inside.

Your self-righteous advice is the sort of thing that one never sees offered to, for instance, BLM types. You accept every tenet of their accusations and every grievance they claim in silence, and you know it.

That's been happening for 50-60 years. Just ask Al Sharpton. The problem is, you deny every single grievance, refuse to recognize any validity to their accusations, and you know it.

There's a reason why you freak out over EVERY protest.

But too bad for you, you done made the stank yourself.

Still waiting for slashdot to post an article about the growth rate surpassing 3% as described in that nasty conservative rag USA Today:

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

That 3.1% growth was higher than anything under Obama, as confirmed by far, alt-right Nazi organization politifact:

http://www.politifact.com/illi...

Oh snap, they're MSM and left wing hacks respectively

Is that news for nerds, stuff that matters? This story is marginal, and that one would be no better.

Well sure. But apartments? Gardens for food? Not being able to afford a car? C'mon. ;)

The problem is you have this concept of "owning a car". In most cases, people lease cars and don't own them.

I disbelieved and wished to challenge that, so I looked it up.

While not "most", 30% is a much higher number than I expected.

Ask yourself why anyone would want to spend more than $4 on a watch or $13000 on a car when you can tell time or drive an new car in the US that cheaply?

Myself, I have a $300 watch and a $20K car. There are far more expensive options available, but I don't need or want them. But Rolex and BMW aren't going out of business anytime soon. If you have money and the features offered at any price range are appealing to you, then... why the hell not?

Specifically, about phones... My computer is $2000. Each successive model I've bought since I started buying computers is just a bit smaller, while more powerful and at the same price point. Apple is making their phones more and more powerful, and investing a great deal in Augmented Reality, while their computers approach the size of tablets and their computer OS is approaching the feature set of their phones. How much you want to bet that 10 years from now, people will be buying $1000-$1500 phones and bluetooth accessories (AirPods, AiR Glasses) that enable them to do whatever they used to do on a computer on their phones instead?

Ugh, that was not a BLM supporter. It was a mentally ill person that hated cops. There are plenty of people out there that hate police that aren't part of BLM.

I've seen this this assertion more than few times on here. There is a sect out there trying to paint BLM and other leftists as violent. The ironic part is they are the same people that used to make fun of them for being hippy pacifists whiners. These are mostly normal people, I'm sure there are unstable members just like there are many unstable members of the NRA such as their fearless leader.

Every industry association, trade group, owners' groups, sporting group ... ALL of them ... call loudly and routinely for the prevention of mentally unfit people obtaining firearms, and for the rigorous prosecution of anybody that participates in knowingly being part of providing a gun to someone like that

Well, not exactly.

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

The WSJ story has already been debunked. Stop the madness already.

Lenovo will pay $3.5M. Source 1 Source 2

TL;DR There was no fine by the FTC, but they will pay a settlement on another lawsuit.

Both the title and summary here, as well as the TFA are misleading. Come on /. check your facts!

I still wear the windbreaker.

Well, you did up until May 21, 2017.

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

After that, the "windbreaker" (size: Ringling) was sold off.

According to a 2015 USC report, President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women...

This news piece talks of the absence of male teachers.

I'd like to have an effort targeted to this imbalance too. Google, anyone?

Why would Google care about that? Google cares about the lack of diversity in its own hiring pipeline because diverse teams are more productive and creative, and it just can't find enough non white/asian males who are top notch software engineers. So, this.

Why would Google care about gender imbalance in a profession that is not part of its business?

According to a 2015 USC report, President Obama was kept abreast of efforts to challenge media's stereotypical portrayals of women...

This news piece talks of the absence of male teachers.

I'd like to have an effort targeted to this imbalance too. Google, anyone?

Man who opened fire in Charlottesville crowd arrested

This isn't murder, and it wasn't 1 company. The emissions fraud was a German country wide practice that included VW, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Daimler - pretty much EVERY German car manufacture that produces diesels.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
To convict a single "engineer" is laughable.

actually new sanctions bill (against north korea, iran and russia ) was opposed by trump administration(on the ground it limited executive branch's ability to conduct diplomacy with flexibility), but was passed with overwhelming(veto proof) bipartisan support by house and senate.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

stop posting uniformed nonsense, stay informed and keep up!

The story you linked was from 2014. If you spend a lot of money designing something and only produce a few vehicles, you are never going to achieve an economy of scale required to be cost competitive. There are a lot more recent stories showing successful implementation of fuel cells. Here is a story from a few months ago that is more relevant. http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/1... https://www.usatoday.com/story... The U.S. Army has begun testing an extreme off-road version of the Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The military and General Motors collaborated to develop the Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 fuel cell electric truck, which could pave the way for a stealthy new mode of military transportation. Although its tricked-out design is conceptual and would likely not grace the final product, the Colorado ZH2 boasts a silent hydrogen fuel cell powertrain that could give American soldiers an edge in war zones. The Army is testing the vehicle for noise, detectability, torque, fuel economy and water vapor discharge. It was developed, assembled and tested at GM sites in Michigan in cooperation with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). The hydrogen fuel cell on board powers an electric motor that drives the vehicle, building on fuel-cell expertise GM has cultivated for years.

here you go.

Were you silent when they came for private sector Pensions?
Did you speak up when they came for Union pensions?
Where you concerned when they attacked teachers pensions?
Did you raise the alarm when they undermined public sector pensions?


Make no mistake, they'll get to you soon.

Such as gay activists wanting to force churches to perform gay civil marriages or censoring a Wyoming judge for stating she could not perform same-sex marriages despite it not being her job nor having not ever been asked to perform such a marriage or pressuring a CEO to resign for supporting California's prop 8 or a city banning a Catholic farmer from it's farmers market for not hosting gay weddings on his private farm which is located 22 miles outside the city limits.

More and more, it feels that it is the LGBT community which is imposing its beliefs on others such as Christians for simply not wanting to participate in LGBT events. If it is unreasonable to coerce people to participate or promote immoral acts such as producing pornography, pedophilia, FGM, or prostitution, why is it reasonable to force people to participate in LGBT marriages which orthodox Christians and Catholics hold to be immoral as these "marriages to be immoral? Especially since the 1st amendment explicitly states that 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof'. Forcing participation in LGBT events would prevent Christians from the free exercise of their religion which instructs them to 'go and sin no more'

Ahem... as I said..

I'm not a big fan of Nuclear Energy + Idiot Cost Saving, Risk Ignoring Humans.

But your number is grossly overstated.

From Chernobyl... 56 direct deaths (47 accident workers and nine children with thyroid cancer) resulted from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and it is estimated that there may eventually be 4,000 extra cancer deaths among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people.

4056 deaths is no where near 1 million deaths.

And some of those cancers will only cost people a year or two of their lives (old people).

But solar, wind, etc. are better already and getting better every day. And when a wind tower falls over, it doesn't render 525 square miles of prime real estate uninhabitable for 300-600 years.
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She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.

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

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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

*could* *could* *could* reach 4,000 deaths.

The publications quoting a million are all fairly extreme, small, and disputed.

With leadership from people like you, hopefully one day the US can be just as good as India.

Don't worry though, that child will go up for adoption, which always works out for the kids. At least the kid won't be alone, there's 30 million orphans to keep her company. We're almost there with India though, just like if that kid was in the US she won't have access to health care, because like you point out it's her responsibility to buy medical insurance for herself, which totally makes sense for an orphan, and she'll get all of the public education she needs, just like in the US. Until she's 14. Then she's on her own. But let's rejoice that another of the 1.3 billion lives in India has started, I'm sure it will be a great one. This is a fantastic victory for conservatives everywhere.

We can only hope that the enlightened thinking of India makes its way to the US soon. Unlike shitty Luxembourg, with its stupid #1 health care system that no one can learn from, or dumbass Finland, with its free education at every level. Their #1 education ranking is a sham and there's absolutely nothing we can learn by studying them. "Health care and job training is the responsibility of the individual", the debate starts and ends there. This is an incredibly simple world, and we need incredibly simple rules like that to live by.

In fact, we should go even farther. This country is absolutely full of leeches and parasites, and you know who I'm talking about. Teachers. They get paid extravagant salaries, which is the only reason we can justify making them pay for all of their own classroom materials, but we can fix that problem. Let's kill the public education system altogether, let's abolish public schools completely and really make individuals pay their own way. That's exactly how we end up with a well-educated work force that will allow our country to continue our economic march to victory. We can just get rid of the entire department of education, imagine how much better off the country will be if we keep all of that money and give it back to the rich in tax cuts! The free market will fix this problem nicely, only the most profitable schools will survive, they can stuff as many kids in one classroom to maximize revenue, since that's the really important thing to us Americans, and they can hire whoever is willing to work for the lowest pay and benefits, because that's how you attract real talent. Yes, if we force the next generation to pay for their own education the entire way, and health care for that matter, then by the time I'm old and retired this country will have an extremely solid foundation for the future.

Have you been in a cave? They're complaining about white cops and the police culture.

Have you? NWA was calliging out racist black cops in the mid-80s, and I am sure they weren't the first.

Check your confirmation bias.

Check yours.

Ambush-style killings of police up 167% this year. (2016) You think that's just coincidence?
These assassins had BLM affiliations or sympathies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Here are some very anti-white racist statements by BLM co-founder Yusra K. Ali.
https://archive.fo/kpjIG/e8a79...

Remember this?
http://www.washingtontimes.com...

Many lawsuits pending for their violence:
http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/aut...

"He can simply run his own website,"

Like The Daily Stormer', right?

No, BLM is recognised as a Black Power movement.

By who? Is there an accreditation board somewhere? What criteria did they meet? Mysteriously, you don't identify any.

93% of Black homicides are committed by black people (84% of homicides against white people are committed by whites; while this is only a 10% difference, in the population sizes, a vast amount more white people are killed by non-whites than the other way round.

Mysteriously, you use percentages, not numbers, otherwise you'd have to admit a vast amount is....around 300.

Easily explained by the difference in population, and not particularly meaningful. No matter how much you want it to be.

If Black Lives Matter, then to get the biggest return, they need to address the (probably cultural, gangsta, edgy, which is so popular it's practically mainstream) issues in their own community first.

What issues are those, and why do you think they matter? Maybe you should address how people think it is a fabrication?

But that'd not get any political points and headlines. So nobody does it, or is even allowed to speak about it.

What are you talking about? It gets headlines, and lots of political points. Mysteriously, of course, you want to complain about that because it gets you political points. And you know what, people talk about it.

Maybe you should stop with your talking point where you claim they don't. Those points aren't even worth it.

Now if they allow crowd funding for legal funds of black people accused of murdering other people, with this weight of observable evidence in the public domain, then they get strung up for hypocrisy, as you rightfully put.

You'd also have to string up the folks who complained about money given to support Mumia Abu-Jamal. I wonder how many of them changed their tunes. Mysteriously.

No, BLM is recognised as a Black Power movement.

By who? Is there an accreditation board somewhere? What criteria did they meet? Mysteriously, you don't identify any.

93% of Black homicides are committed by black people (84% of homicides against white people are committed by whites; while this is only a 10% difference, in the population sizes, a vast amount more white people are killed by non-whites than the other way round.

Mysteriously, you use percentages, not numbers, otherwise you'd have to admit a vast amount is....around 300.

Easily explained by the difference in population, and not particularly meaningful. No matter how much you want it to be.

If Black Lives Matter, then to get the biggest return, they need to address the (probably cultural, gangsta, edgy, which is so popular it's practically mainstream) issues in their own community first.

What issues are those, and why do you think they matter? Maybe you should address how people think it is a fabrication?

But that'd not get any political points and headlines. So nobody does it, or is even allowed to speak about it.

What are you talking about? It gets headlines, and lots of political points. Mysteriously, of course, you want to complain about that because it gets you political points. And you know what, people talk about it.

Maybe you should stop with your talking point where you claim they don't. Those points aren't even worth it.

Now if they allow crowd funding for legal funds of black people accused of murdering other people, with this weight of observable evidence in the public domain, then they get strung up for hypocrisy, as you rightfully put.

You'd also have to string up the folks who complained about money given to support Mumia Abu-Jamal. I wonder how many of them changed their tunes. Mysteriously.

I think it's pretty hard to target the Black Lives Matter group because its not really a group as a whole, but a collective of smaller groups that have almost no connection other than they operate under the same banner. It's very similar to the group Anonymous in that there really isn't any central command and anyone at all can decide that they want to operate under the banner.

When you have a structure like that, it's really hard to treat them as a monolith. For example, one city's BLM decided to have a cookout with their local police to try to have a friendly dialog and voice their concerns. Even if you're generally against the movement as a whole, it's pretty hard to condemn trying to come together on good terms and build understanding. On the other hand it's hard to support the BLM member who has allegedly defrauded the University of Toronto for almost $300,000 dollars even if you generally support the movement as a whole.

In general, most things are a mixed bag, but typically you're dealing with an entity that is ultimately answerable to a single person or a small group of individuals so you can still form a cohesive opinion of the whole, but I don't know if that's really possible with BLM since it's completely decentralized. I suppose it's possible to argue that the "good" parts of BLM should rebrand or distance themselves from the "bad" parts, but as a brand BLM is attractive under the idea that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Even if you are one of those "good" parts of the movement, you can use the negative publicity as a foil to highlight the positive of your own particular subgroup within the movement.

crashes a whole lot less. How much less? In our tests so far, 64-bit Firefox reduced crashes by 39% on machines with 4GB of RAM or more.

A rather sad state of affairs — good software does not crash, period... If the RAM-size is a factor (and I do confirm that it is), you are leaking... And Mozilla knows this — they even implemented some tools to monitor the problem.

Long way to go, Mozilla. But, at least, you aren't against "gay marriage" any more.

Just like how Obama didn't call the BLM protester who killed 5 cops in Dallas a terrorist.

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Yes, yes, you want to make them out to be terrorists so you can dismiss and ignore them further.

"Oh, but that's different!" No, it really isn't.

Ok, tell us what isn't different about the actual response by Obama versus Trump. Compare and contrast.

Both BLM and the Nazis need to go...they're both breeding violent, hate-filled people.

All evidence indicates that Micah Xavier Johnson had mental health issues that long predated the formation of BLM, with no substantial connection to the movement.

That's why those lawsuits keep losing.

Not unique to Google. HP is wanting a younger workforce too.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

The way they play the game is to open jobs to college graduates and people that have "less than two year's experience" (yep, that's true).

Posting AC for obvious reasons.

We all know this — the "free speech" Amendment only applies to government. You must not prosecuted for calling Trump "traitor" or a policemen — "an asshole".

Though the work to abolish the Amendment is in progress, it may take a while for us to become "more like Europe".

So, in order to control, what people say — and what politics they support — the statists have invented a new trick. Instead of pursuing the individuals, they would go after employers. See, the First Amendment may protect James Damore's speech, but it does not protect Google from charges of "creating hostile work-environment".

And just what constitutes such an environment? Whatever the government says it does (somehow "gender identity" is on the list already, for example)... Sure, sure, to actually win in court, the prosecutors/lawyers need to persuade a judge and the jury. But the process is daunting and very costly — and whereas the employer has to pay their own expenses, the "attackers" are paid by the taxpayers.

It is to protect themselves from such nonsense, that employers establish these "internal policies" and set up positions like "Vice President of Diversity" in the first place. These people sincerely believe in the justice of their causes, doing the government's job for it...

By inventing "protected categories" the government gets to decide, what Americans aren't allowed to say. At least, at work — where we spend about half of our waking time. And then come Social Justice Warriors, who would gleefully pursue you even for convictions privately held...

First Amendment? Yes, sure — you still have it, but best talk in your shower, where no one can hear it and get offended.

trouble sleeping? these have been used here for years. Cuba or someone else is just learning to get the settings right. Nothing to see here folks, move along....

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

As for the often stated claim that no one wants a late term abortion, and no doctor performs one unless medically necessary, remember Dr Gosnell.

When your counter-example is someone engaging in felonious behavior,

My counter example is proof of hundreds of women who wanted late term abortions, not for medical purposes, and a doctor and numerous assistants who provided them for years before his practice was finally brought to light.

You don't have any proof of those women's reasons, and there is proof that the abortions were done without informed consent, hence the convictions for that. And honestly, the description of the place makes me wonder about their ability to make a sound judgment in the first place. I do wonder how many of them were forced to go there by somebody else.

Actually, his practice was brought to light repeatedly over three decades, but nothing was done to close him down.

Then you should complain about the relevant authorities. Who knows what else they are missing?

(Oh wait, Pennsylvania? Yeah, from memory, they missed sex abuse, a judge profiting off sentencing juveniles, and more...so quite a lot, it seems. I don't feel a need to do a comprehensive review though.)

For all his illegal and unethical practices, he apparently filled a role that the pro-choice establishment wanted filled.

Nope. He filled a role that reflects the general indifference there is to the plight of the poor and impoverished in this country.

They were willing to ignore serious issues and allow him to continue with minor penalties, or let him move to another area where no one knew his past.

You're way behind on complaining about lack of accountability in the medical profession.

Good luck addressing that. You'll be fighting uphill. It's not limited to the issues of abortion at all.

Also, do you really think Dr Gosnell is the only practitioner providing late term abortions?

Why would I claim that? Though George Tiller was murdered for it, there are still a few other physicians performing the service when medically appropriate. None have, as far as I am aware, at least in this country, operated in such a fashion.

Other countries, well, I should hardly expect to be responsible for them. Unless you want me to be their keeper?

He is simply the one that finally killed one too many adult women and was no longer able to be protected.

The thing is, he broke the law in such copious and distinguishable ways that you should wonder why you'd think anybody would consider him as anything other than an example of generally bad medical practice.

you might as well be citing Orville Lynn Majors as an argument against Euthanasia.

Possibly, except for the distinction that euthanasia is generally done to prevent pain and suffering in patients who have terminal diseases, whereas Majors

murdered patients who were demanding, whiny, or disproportionately added to his work load.

Hmmm. Ending suffering and pain vs ending whining and increased workload. So you really consider Majors' actions to be that similar to euthanasia, to compare them to Dr Gosnell's actions being exactly like late term abortions?

I consider bringing up Majors to be comparable to bringing up Gosnell, yes. About as useful in the discussion. Which is to say, not at all.

Please note that I didn't make any comment on the infanticide aspect of Dr Gosnell, to compare Majors' serial killing to.

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like I have been working towards?
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
"I feel open source tools for collaborative structured arguments, multiple perspective analysis, agent-based simulation, and so on, used together for making sense of what is going on in the world, are important to our democracy, security, and prosperity. Imagine if, instead of blog posts and comments on topics, we had searchable structured arguments about simulations and their results all with assumptions defined from different perspectives, where one could see at a glance how different subsets of the community felt about the progress or completeness of different arguments or action plans (somewhat like a debate flow diagram), where even a year of two later one could go back to an existing debate and expand on it with new ideas. As good as, say, Slashdot is, such a comprehensive open source sensemaking system would be to Slashdot as Slashdot is to a static webpage. It might help prevent so much rehashing the same old arguments because one could easily find and build on previous ones. ..."

My latest efforts along that line: https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

And I put together ideas here like using IBIS:
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

Of course, there seems to be so much age discrimination at Google (including against people who can't easily relocate), not much point in me applying there in my 50s:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
http://www.computerworld.com/a...

Of course, older software developers with families and community roots might help provide a moral conscience to the organization as well as provide examples to others about work/life balance -- which might be bad for Google's short-term bottom line...

Although such older people (of all genders) also might have helped Google think through better ways to do hiring long ago.

Also, I've made some previous comments I made about Google in 2008 that might be problematical in getting me hired there: :-)
http://www.pdfernhout.net/a-ra...
"So what is Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California but a little temporary space habitat bubble of happiness for regular employees, but floating on a sea of relative misery for everyone else planetwide who supports it? Can't we as a society or Google/Virgle as an aspiration do better that that? And even within that bubble are emerging issues. How long can a company expect to run on twenty-somethings without kids?
Google-ites and other financially obese people IMHO need to take a good look at the junk food capitalist propaganda they are eating and serving up to others, as in saying (even in jest): http://www.google.com/virgle/o... "we should profit from others' use of our innovations, and we should buy or lease others' intellectual property whenever it advances our own goals" -- even while running one of the biggest post-scarcity enterprises on Earth based on free-as-in-freedom software. :-(
Until then, it is up to us other "semi-evil ... quasi-evil ... not evil enough" hobbyists with smaller budgets to save the Asteroids and the Planets (including Earth) http://www.openvirgle.net/
from financially obese people and their unexamined

Underage rape victims are forced to pay child support too

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