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No people don't regard this as a positive.

They certainly used to. How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics

“Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president. Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee,” said Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of The Huffington Post.

And Barack Obama and the Facebook Election

This election [2008] was the first in which all candidates—presidential and congressional—attempted to connect directly with American voters via online social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. It has even been called the "Facebook election." It is no coincidence that one of Obama's key strategists was 24-year-old Chris Hughes, a Facebook cofounder. It was Hughes who masterminded the Obama campaign's highly effective Web blitzkrieg—everything from social networking sites to podcasting and mobile messaging.

Sometimes it takes a company doing something unsavory at a moment when people are sensitive to it for the problem to get fully recognized.

True. And people are waking up to the degree that the Silicon Valley technocracy and their platforms (Google, Twitter, Facebook) are trying to manipulate them, are trying to influence elections, etc. Glad it's finally starting to sink in.

Slave labor has built many societies. /cough Pyramids?

Slave labor indeed built the infrastructure of many societies. Strangely enough, though, not the pyramids (despite the persistent myth).

The pyramids were, basically, a work project to keep people employed during the non-planting months.

  https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html

  https://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-slaves-didnt-build-pyramids

Hillary Clinton hired a foreign worker herself, and I don't remember you ranting about that... Not that you should have, because it is NOT illegal to hire overseas contractors, but it IS illegal to accept overseas contributions as Obama did, not to mention the Obama campaign was fined for illegal donations.

Now, tell us how this is supposed to be better than a paper ballot.... idiots

I'll tell you, Chad. First, paper ballots can have questionable disputes as to whether they were filled out correctly, have "hanging chads" and other controversial issues. Are you old enough to remember the Gore-Bush Florida fiasco?

Blockchaining anonymized ballots, then making them publicly available for everyone to count, validate, etc. should stop officials destroying ballots before a recount, as in the primary involving Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2017. BTW, Even digital ballots can be destroyed, as they were in the special election for the seat Jeff Session vacated.

Finally, restricted ballot access, paper or digital, may hide other things potentially more devastating to the electoral process. Did state so-in-so lie when they said that although the Russians did break in, they didn't compromise their election? And Whether or not the Russians (or whoever) compromised the Presidential election this last time, have there been even more egregious problems in the past? What could all this portend for the future?

We should follow Sierra Leone's lead, "Blockchain the vote", and draw open the curtain on a supposedly fair and free, but definitely a suspiciously concealed electoral process.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-legacy-of-hanging-chads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2017/12/15/experts-browards-elections-chief-broke-law-in-destroying-ballots-150258

https://gizmodo.com/alabama-supreme-court-okays-destruction-of-digital-voti-1821223685

At the time NAFTA was put in place, the Republicans held both houses of congress with a veto-proof supermajority. Strike one!

AC, you whiffed it yourself. NAFTA was passed in November 1993. That was the 103rd Congress, and it was held firmly by the Democrats. In fact, the "GOP revolution" in 1995 was partly because of NAFTA passage. You're flat-out wrong, Bill Clinton had a strong majority of DEMOCRATS controlling the Senate and House, and NAFTA sailed through with their support. I won't even get into your claim about "veto-proof supermajority" which hasn't existed in Congress for decades.

The Democrats deregulated Wall Street? Seriously? Man, you are so full of it that not even the Russians would pay you to post that level of bullshit. Strike two!

Second whiff again, AC! Over 75% of all Democrats in Congress supported the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which repealed Glass-Steagall. It passed with such strong bipartisan support that Bill Clinton had to sign it - it was way beyond veto-proof. So yes, the Democrats were definitely part of the equation! Add in their weakening of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac regulations over the recommendations of President Bush (probably because they overwhelmingly received campaign donations from FM/FM), and continued to increase the debt load of FM/FM right up to the collapse, and they are just as complicit, if not more so, than the GOP.

The left oppose the notion of originalism. E.g. Roe v Wade decided people had always had a right to abortion because of an invented 'right to privacy'.

Nope, the right to privacy was not invented, it's natural.

The SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage was based on the notion that it was an inevitable consequence of Due Process under the 14th Amendment.

The SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage was actually based on the pattern of discrimination that had been demonstrated by the opponents of same-sex marriage.

Even though the people who wrote the original documents didn't believe in a right to abortion or a right to gay marriage.

They're dead. How exactly do you know what they'd believe, and why should we care anyway? Did I miss some declaration where we subsumed ourselves to their eternal dictatorship from beyond the grave?

Judicial activism is always about allowing your political views to alter the way you read the law. It's a sort of 'ends justifies the means' approach to law. If you agree with the ends, then the means
- twisting or inverting the meaning of the actual words in the law or inventing new rights that aren't actually there - doesn't matter.

That's actually original-ism, as found in numerous instances.

This is in of itself a good reason to distrust the US left. E.g. look at the gay marriage case. Both Obama and Clinton run on a platform of opposing it, but Obama set up a case which would legalise it and then celebrated. Even if left wing politicians say they won't do something, they may appoint judges who will twist the law to do it and then celebrate the result.

Both Clinton and Obama were wrong to take the cowardly position they did on same-sex marriage, and were roundly condemned for it, they set back civil rights for over a decade.

Now I'm not all that fussed about gay marriage. However even there you can see that the left will use it as a cudgel to beat the right - e.g. Christian bakers will be asked to bake a "I support gay marriage cake" and sued if they refuse.

Actually, it's the right that's upset that they can't get Confederate Cakes.

By the way if Gorsuch ruled in a way that you didn't like would you say "Well he's just interpreting the law. You can't say he's allowing his political beliefs to get in the way"? I'm guessing not, because he's an originalist and not a believer that the role of a judge is to invent new rights. if someone's political views explicitly include a different method of how to interpret law - e.g. 'Improving rights' vs 'Originalism' then those political views obviously alter how they'd rule when they were a judge.

That's because Gorsuch would allow his political beliefs to get in the way.

Look at the SC

https://www.usnews.com/news/na...

Kansas spends about $10K per student which is above average for the OECD (which is around $9300 per student, per my link from CBS News). So Kansas is low for the US, but above average for the OECD. And Kansas ranks 14th overall, even though it's spending is near the bottom.

Using the sources I've provided, Utah is at the absolute bottom in spending per student (over $3000 less per student than Kansas), but ranks 9th nationally. Perhaps it's not how much is spent - but HOW it is spent, and what the State and school districts see as the the goal of the educational system.

Please provide evidence of your assertion.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
http://business.financialpost....
https://www.denverpost.com/201...
https://money.usnews.com/money...
https://www.moneywise.co.uk/ne...
https://mashable.com/2014/11/2... (a bit off, but works for boomers just as well)
http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/i...
https://www.buxtonco.com/blog/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_...
https://www.amazon.de/Boomer-N... (don't worry, not a make-me-rich link)
https://www.bisnow.com/nationa...

And so on, but I think that should suffice. Pick the publication you are the most inclined to not cry "fake news" about.

Here are your "increasing salaries" courtesy of the Republican tax windfall for corporations:

https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2018-01-29/poll-2-percent-of-us-adults-see-pay-increases-post-tax-overhaul

"Much of this techlash is misguided."

Lets list some top shelf, recent bad things happening at the big tech giants:
- Google is suppressing relevant links in your search results that don't agree with their world view and/or whatever country you are searching from. If a conservative organization that controlled 90% of all search was doing this, it would be wall to wall media coverage, but the truth is Google is warping reality, rather than using straight relevancy to your search terms, now they are also deciding what is relevant.

Google must be regulated as a common carrier to protect the free exchange of ideas (a ubiquitous search engine is the very definition of a common carrier), and only a very narrow list should be censorable, and that list must be defined by the government with federal oversight and transparency and accountability to the people, not some unaccountable corporation. For example, sites inciting actual unjustified violence (in their content, not in some random user generated comment), sites promoting violent jihad, sites promoting harming children, etc.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articl...
https://www.usnews.com/opinion...
https://www.reddit.com/r/googl...

- Google and Facebook combined control 60% of all advertising revenue on the web, and routinely block content from receiving revenue if they don't agree with it (conservative video blogs on Youtube for example.) No other entity has more than 5% market share of online advertising. http://fortune.com/2017/07/28/...
- Google recently fired an employee who was asked for input on their internal hiring policies. When he highlighted a number of reasonable, demonstrable facts that contradict Google's diversity initiatives, one of his upper level managers leaked his memo to the press and he was subsequently fired (they are now facing a massive class action lawsuit, and more and more stories of the fascist intolerant alt left behavior at Google are coming out.) (no citation needed, well documented on slashdot.)
- Facebook first facilitated Russian (and likely Chinese and others) meddling by allowing false advertising stories to run during the election, then they tried to implement news censors, the vast majority of which were targeted against conservative sites, to the point that there was massive backlash and they got hauled in front of congress to explain WTF they were doing. They utilized blatantly biased censors as well as sites like politifact (which has very little facts beyond the actual name, and is a demonstrated shill for the alt left and not some non-partisan group) and the ADL (also an alt left hit squad group with zero credibility to anyone who has been paying attention).
https://gizmodo.com/former-fac...
https://www.washingtontimes.co...
Some concrete examples of conservative banning: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20...

- Twitter has been caught red handed gleefully describing how they shadow ban people for expressing political views with which they disagree, rather than advocating anything objectively wrong. The political bans have been 90% right leaning people. Those on the left who have been banned have been advocating actual violence, and often associated with the terrorist group Antifa.

Tell us about all of those wonderful socialist utopias

https://www.usnews.com/news/be...

Most senior citizens don’t have copious amounts of spare cash - so this first really needs to filter down to the low end of the automotive market.

You might want to look up this "retirement community". Their target customer isn't senior citizens, it's rich people who happen to be over 55.

The community, geographically larger than Manhattan, features more than 40 golf courses, a polo arena and special events throughout the year. Most of the more than 123,000 residents travel via golf cart, some of which have been upgraded enough to cost more than most cars.

I betcha the streets are all very low speed limits if golf carts are considered "normal road traffic". Perfect place to test a bunch of unproven vehicle technology.

Has increased productivity ever actually led to higher wages after inflation was considered?

Yes. Nearly every time. Incomes have stagnated since the 1990s, and especially since 2007, for exactly the opposite reason: stagnant productivity growth.

The problem in America is not "automation of jobs", but "lack of automation".

It hasn't in my lifetime, not even once... and I'm old.

How old? If you are 50, per capita income, after inflation, has nearly doubled in your lifetime. If you are not white and male, you likely did even better.

More importantly, incomes grew the fastest when productivity was increasing the fastest.

Thanks for giving such a clear example of how climatologists can massage data to help push the agendas of their political masters. Your comment is very informative!

The problem is people. A lot of the electorate is not too bright and easily misled, particularly when they want to be. The anti intellectualism in this country is rampant and it is rampant in part because of laziness, and in part because certain people benefit from it.

Still, you can basically sum it up with charts like this. link

Humans need a pretty narrow band to live comfortably, so yah, it matters. The extra energy in the environment is bound to have repercussions, with more frequent and more intense hurricanes being one of the more straightforward likely occurrences.

Just in case anyone believes that Trump believes any of the shit he is shoveling, well you have things like link Basically his resort is getting walls to protect it from the effects of climate change. When his money is on the line he believes in it. When his cult following is on the line, he does not. Which should you believe?

Sweden seems to lead the list for any non-African country. Same results in a 2016 article. Seems that Sweden is, in fact, the rape capital of Europe.

Snopes, politifact and factcheck are all DNC shill sites.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06...

Snopes' main political fact-checker is a writer named Kim Lacapria. Before writing for Snopes, Lacapria wrote for Inquisitr, a blog that - oddly enough - is known for publishing fake quotes and even downright hoaxes as much as anything else.

While at Inquisitr, the future "fact-checker" consistently displayed clear partisanship (RELATED: Snopes Caught Lying About Lack Of American Flags At Democratic Convention)

She described herself as "openly left-leaning" and a liberal. She trashed the Tea Party as "teahadists." She called Bill Clinton "one of our greatest" presidents. She claimed that conservatives only criticized Lena Dunham's comparison of voting to sex because they "fear female agency."

She once wrote: "Like many GOP ideas about the poor, the panic about using food stamps for alcohol, pornography or guns seems to have been cut from whole cloth-or more likely, the ideas many have about the fantasy of poverty." (A simple fact-check would show that food stamp fraud does occur and costs taxpayers tens of millions.)

Lacapria even accused the Bush administration of being "at least guilty of criminal negligience" in the September 11 attacks. (The future "fact-checker" offered no evidence to support her accusation.)

https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

Now comes a study from the George Mason University Center for Media and Public Affairs that demonstrates empirically that PolitiFact.org, one of the nation's leading "fact checkers," finds that Republicans are dishonest in their claims three times as often as Democrats. "PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims during President Obama's second term," the Center said in a release, "despite controversies over Obama administration statements on Benghazi, the IRS and the AP."

http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...

If you look behind the scenes at these phony "fact check" sites, you find that they are funded by organizations with political biases. You must always ask yourself. Who is writing about this so-called "truth." Who funds the site and pays their expenses. What are the origins and history of the funders and who are they associated with. In the case of factcheck.org they receive their funding from the liberal Annenberg Foundation.

The Annenberg Foundation was originally founded by Walter J. Annenberg, a conservative who supported Ronald Reagan. However, when Walter Annenberg died, his family took over the management of the foundation and it took a turn to the far left and has ties to radical left individuals such as Bill Ayers and his friend and fellow left wing radical collegue Barack Obama. How is factcheck.org associated with these people:

To start, Ayers was the key founder of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001. Upon its start in 1995, Obama was appointed Board Chairman and President of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Geesh, that alone connects all three. Well, it branches out even more from there.

Ayers co-chaired the organization's Collaborative, which set the education policies of the Challenge. Oddly enough, Obama was the one who was authorized to delegate to the Collaborative in regards to its programs and projects. In addition to that, Obama often times had to seek advice and assistance from the Ayer's led Collaborative in regards to the programmatic aspects of grant proposals. Ayers even sat on the same board as Obama as an "ex officio member". They both also sat together on

Large tax breaks to corporations generally equate to those companies spending between 10 and 20% of the initial take on employees wages and bonus's. This is already known.

[citation needed]

Correct, nowhere near 10-20% of large tax breaks goes to employees. Of the $300 billion companies saved from the 2004 Homeland Investment Act, about 92% of it went to shareholders in the form of share buybacks and dividends. The top 15 companies, who accounted for half of the repatriated money, cut 20,000 net jobs in the three years following the tax break.

But the remaining 8% didn't even all go to employees. I couldn't find exact figures, but some of that also went to capital purchases. At best you could say 5%-10% of large tax breaks go to employees, but even that is probably a bit high.

There is no honest debate on whether this tax bill will meaningfully boost the economy and help American workers. It won't. It will boost the stock market (or more likely already has) and create the illusion that the economy has improved, but that is about it.

After leaving a negative review about a hotel in Indiana following a weekend getaway with her husband, an Indiana woman was charged $350 and threatened with legal action, WTVR reported. ...

On Dec. 15 the attorney general's office filed a lawsuit alleging the hotel violated Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act.

Ask the washington post, cnn, nbc, or abc news. They've done a bang-up job over the last few years of making fake news all on their own. You might even remember what started it in the current era, it was Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" which offered no proof at all.

Uh no, actually, the current era began with an incident on Dateline. Of course, the fact is, those tanks did result in lots of settled lawsuits so you can be sure it wasn't entirely manufactured.

Then again, concurrent with Dan Rather, we have....real fraud that got hundreds of thousands killed, and you'll never ever bring that up.

But if you want a real conspiracy? Ask yourself why the transmovement is pushing their stuff on pre-teens, and believe that a 3yr old boy or girl "really knows they're a girl or boy." And pushing puberty blockers before they're even old enough to legally engage in sex. Think back if you can, to when you were that young and all the stupid garbage you believed. I can remember wanting to be a train. And you can bet your and my ass, that if your parents were fawning after the transmovement you'd do what they were saying just to make them happy. Why? Because your brain isn't developed enough to understand.

Man, that is a crazy conspiracy Mashiki, and you don't even have a reason to blame the reverse vampires.

Meanwhile, actual reality escapes you.

You know, you wouldn't sound so crazy if you didn't make up such hysterical bullshit, but stuck to facts. Actual provable events.

Not your foaming at the mouth hyperbole.

FYI if you want affordable healthcare, you need it to be at the state level. Not the federal level, even at that I hope you're going to enjoy shortages and healthcare rationing.

Nope, I'm a citizen of the United States, and you may not understand this, but I want healthcare EVERYWHERE in my country, and more to the point, there are some practical considerations that necessitate my ability to cross state lines to get healthcare, as the boundaries of states were not set according to population or economics. A fatal flaw, but what can we do?

Whether it's in Canada, Sweden, France or the UK, we all have rationed healthcare even if it's free.

Everybody everywhere has rationed healthcare. That's because health care resources are not infinite or unlimited.

Letting you buy some healthcare at my expense because you have more money is not a gain.

Oh, and I still have medical insurance here in Canada because that "free healthcare" doesn't cover everything.

That's a choice. Not a necessary element. If you don't like it, write your Prime Minister.

And if you want to see wait times, you can look here. I hope you don't mind waiting 30-50 days for cancer treatment to start, or 150 days for bypass surgery or 11 months to get into a pain management clinic.

And what happe

Guess I spoke too soon. Looks like this has actually gotten think time in legal circles.

https://www.usnews.com/news/ar...

That's fine. There's nothing criminal, or IMO, particularly wrong with that. Especially if you expand "conservative" to include Breitbart.

Then you should have no problems with O'keef doing exactly the same thing.

I'm trying to find information on this. I don't know what "PP" is. Searching "media matters PP" didn't help.

You obviously don't know that PP is a short term used by people on both sides of the isle for planned parenthood? I gotta ask, do you even live in north america? If you don't, it would explain your lack of understanding to most of what's posted to /. in both political and social issues.

Clearly you don't have a clue how the world works.

So you claim, but your demonstration is false.

We don't have a 'single world government' YET.

What does this matter? Do you think it is really necessary? I actually pointed out how the rich can't really escape to another government without consequence anyway.

And government's like money more than those who actually produce it do.

The printers?

Ireland didn't create themselves as a tax haven for Apple just for 'shits & giggles', they made money off it, via jobs or limited taxation.

Indeed, Apple promised things to Ireland in order to get favorable treatment. That's a commonly recognized problem. You give people an incentive, they can do things that are ill-advised, immoral, or just mistaken.

See how much they fought the EU in not wanting to collect 'owed taxes'.

Yes, the Irish government wanted to have their cake so they could eat it. Delicious! But somebody had to remind them that they'd agreed to eat their vegetables. See also how Ireland is reacting to the Brexit demands. They want the UK to act in accordance with existing agreements too.

Now consider all the African countries, South American etc. looking to grow & need money. They'll gladly set up rules to allow these corporations to legally avoid taxes in the US & other Western countries for a much smaller cut of the buy...presumably to fund their own version of UBI maybe?

Yes, various countries are already compromising themselves, but no, I wouldn't presume they'd be funding their own version of UBI, they'd be funding the palaces for their wealthy potentates. This may be cheap in a fiscal sense, but it's morally expensive. And like I said, puts them in a place where the rich risk their existing gains.

And let's get this straight, EVERYONE is 'desperate to keep what they have', actually poor & middle class more than the rich. I don't know anyone in the poor & middle class that likes paying their taxes or would not prefer to pay less, the rich may care but it hardly matters to whether they can feed themselves or live.

Indeed, the rich don't have to worry about deprivation like the poor and middle class, that's always been the case. But they are quite willing to go to many lengths in order to ensure their further enrichment, even including fabricated moralities.

This is why the poor & middle class keep claiming the rich "don't pay their fair share" even though the top 20% of earners pay 88% of taxes (https://nypost.com/2017/10/05/yes-us-tax-cuts-will-mainly-benefit-those-who-pay-the-most-taxes/)...

Yes, the rich keep claiming it's the poor and middle class who are the parasites and leaches, even as the share of wealth held by the rich grows, and their servants in government can't make promises about helping anybody except the rich.

It was also the case back in the early 1900s, the 1800s, the 1700s...

And no the Greece issues weren't 'manufactured hysteria', I don't know who you're trying to troll, but go away, and maybe take some of your own advice on understanding world politics & economics.

Your complete lack of foundation to your assertions is hardly persuasive. Sorry, I don't know if you're just fooling yourself, but maybe you should reflect on your own arguments before chiding others.

I mean, you could have endeavored to present your case better, but all you've got here is vituperation.

But they don't need government assistance to buy a luxury vehicle.

The logic is that by subsidising a new industry, eventually the technology will become cheap enough for everyone else to benefit too. As much as it makes for great headlines, sometime subsidising the wealthy is actually a net gain for everyone (but only in some specific cases).

This isn't one of those cases. There are plenty of non-luxury EV and hybrid cars that cost much less.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-t...

You don't somehow think that all of the missiles that North Korea has been firing were somehow summoned by magic since the start of the Trump administration, do you? They were obviously being worked on during the Obama administration. What we are seeing is the flowering of Obama's work. (Or do you blame Her?)

For what? North Korea wasting their limited resources on a tool that's only useful when you want to provoke an ill-tempered boob who will go off on freak out over them, then erroneously claim to send an aircraft carrier to deal with it?

So what you're saying is that at best, he's par for the course. "Par" is not what we were told to expect.

Trump hasn't even been in office for a year yet and he already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than Obama achieved, has China cooperating, and missile defense is getting a big boost in funding.

Except it turns out those sanctions are a failed policy that only harms the innocent North Korean people, China is, as usual, lying, and putting money into missile defense has been a favorite way to waste tax dollars since the Reagan years.

He seems to be making progress that Obama couldn't.

So far, your examples are only repeated examples of waste, fraud, and failure.

That's not a common definition of progress. Admittedly, to somebody trying to sabotage America, it would seem different.

Lets see what happens between now and the end of the eighth year of the Trump administration.

Let's see what happens between now and the end of the next year.

I'd say this year, but eh, you won't have any results.

Voter fraud doesn't exist and has never existed in the way described. Stuffing meatbags into polling booths is the least effective, most costly and the most easily detected form of electoral fraud. Might as well be defending democracy from unicorns.

BULLSHIT

Pure unadulterated mendacious BULLSHIT

1,088 cases of provable voter fraud.

And that wonderful supporter of women? Al Franken?

Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud

When 1,099 felons vote in race won by 312 ballots

Oh, yeah. "Mendacious" means you're a lying sack of shit.

As long as we have "news" outlets like Fox News misinforming people and people not willing to be skeptical, and the Republicans using Fox News to their advantage, we will continue to have this crap.

The tax bill that was passed by the House will screw us in the end (except if you are a 1+ percenter) and the Senate's isn't looking much better.

How did those people get elected? Because about half of our population believes in the non-sense that's spoon fed to them or vote on single (distraction) issues.

Your idiocy here is just the same as Damore's: you wrongly believe some generalization you made, without even seriously testing its reliability, can be applied to a specific set of people.

Awesome. Completely disingenuous because literally everyone does the above, especially those who talk about gender inequality in the workplace. Unlike them, though, I acknowledge what I said was truthiness not truth and needed better support.

Let me make this clear- you have no fucking idea what women programmers working at Google "tend" to do, you have no idea if female applicants to Google are similar to women as a whole.

So, are you arguing that it's something I personally don't know or that it's an unknown as a whole? Because if it's the latter, then we have absolutely no reason to speak about gender inequality at Google at all because we have no evidence of gender inequality nor a basis to really have a productive discussion about "fixing it". We would have reason to collect statistics about it, though. If it's the former, please enlighten me with the statistics that you have to actually refute my generalization to at least some degree. The only generalization I can give statistically that, admittedly, doesn't directly correlate to Google is that while "both men and women feel that bureaucracy and hierarchy are impeding employees from achieving what they are there to accomplish", when women notice what they consider to be unnecessary obstacles to their work, they tend to end up leaving for another career. Ie, that tends to reforce my claim about 'there are more insanely overly competitive men who will do just about anything to "win" in business'. But, you know, whatever.

These Democrats:

'Even some Obama administration veterans praised Trump’s action. “President Donald J. Trump was right to strike at the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for using a weapon of mass destruction, the nerve agent sarin, against its own people,” Antony Blinken, a deputy secretary of state under Obama, wrote in The New York Times.' (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/after-the-missiles-we-need-smart-diplomacy.html)

Washington Post: "Continued bombing by Assad shows limits of single U.S. attack" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/continued-bombing-by-assad-shows-limits-of-single-us-attack/2017/04/08/1c70cb1a-1c83-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html?utm_term=.918c02caa31b)

"Trump was also praised by prominent Democrats, like New York Senator Charles Schumer and California Representative Nancy Pelosi, who said Trump’s actions were “proportional” and “the right thing to do.”" -- http://www.washingtonexaminer....

"Hillary Clinton called for Donald Trump to 'take out' Assad airfields hours before air strikes" -- https://www.usnews.com/news/to...

She rebuked him for warning Russians beforehand (which quite likely reduced the casualties).

Honest question, did you really not know this?

I can tell you one thing, in Switzerland most of the person having also a US citizenship renounce to it. Being a dual citizen with a US citizenship is a curse if you don't live in the US. Bank here just don't want you as a customer as they have to go through additional administrative task, you have to go through the hassle to do a tax declaration to the IRS, etc. You can see the figure here: https://www.usnews.com/news/be...

Many of these people will be on a grant. So, yes, it has nothing to do with education cost.

I was curious how much truth there was to this. Here's what some quick Googling turned up:

Financial Aid: FAQs
In 2014-15, about two-thirds of full-time students paid for college with the help of financial aid in the form of grants and scholarships. Approximately 57 percent of financial aid dollars awarded to undergraduates was in the form of grants, and 34 percent took the form of federal loans.

International Students at U.S. Colleges
Some, but not all, U.S. schools offer international students financial aid. In 2016-2017, of the 1,293 schools that provided data on this topic to U.S. News, 425 said they awarded aid to international students - that's around 1 out of every 3. Each of these 425 schools gave financial aid to, on average, about 40 percent of the international students they enrolled.

So the overall rate at which students receive grants is (2/3)*57% = 38% (or 44% if you assume the missing 9% is scholarships)
The rate at which international students receive fanancial assistance is (425/1293)*40% = 13%

This article sums it up. OP is correct that the cost of U.S. colleges is a huge factor for foreign students.

How international students are subsidizing U.S. universities
A growing number of international students are finding that their dreams of studying in the U.S. comes with a nearly impossible price tag. Many schools have limited funds for student aid, and the lion's share of that money is reserved for U.S. students. And most foreign citizens are not eligible for federal student aid from the U.S. Department of Education.

That means that being a foreign student in the U.S. usually means paying full tuition

I am sure you stated the same after the decisive 52% that President Obama won in 2008?

It's elective surgery, not car crash surgery.

The reasoning is sound. The cost of the procedure goes way up if you're overweight, and since surgery is one of the most stressful things yor body will ever experience, you're more liskely t push an overwight body to failure when you're under the knife.

https://health.usnews.com/heal...

What art of "costs more, and is more likely to kill the pateint" don't you understand?

Smoking increases risk of complication, but not as extreme as weight.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Valid Point, There is this ;)

America does have one of the Worlds Best Health Care Systems."Money Can Buy" ;) ATM

FYI
Canadians Increasingly Come to U.S. For Health Care
Canadian Politician Comes to U.S. for Heart Surgery
Why Canadian premier seeks health care in U.S. - SFGate

The foundation of the accusations about Russian interference are the FBI, CIA and NSA investigations of their activity on social media, funding and meeting with American citizens.

No. It's not. Not even remotely close. Whining about Social Media ads - many of which were placed after the election last November and someone of which involved cute pictures of cats or criticizing a Trump golf course in Scotland - is the last pathetic attempt of partisan hacks desperate to keep their edition of the Whtiewater/Vince Foster witch hunts going. Or didn't you notice the steady moving of the goalposts - from DNC hacking to collusion to $100,000 in ads (many of which were place after the election) in a race where Hillary spent $1.2 biiiiiiiillion dollars?

It's all in that report, why don't you read it?

You mean a report completely lacking in the aforementioned Eh Veh Dence from the same professional liars who sold you on Saddam plotting 911, who spy on Congress while perjuring themselves before Congress?

Did you read the link noting that all this hyperventilation is over drops in an ocean?

Say hi to Uncle Bob for me, as you've turned into a Birther: someone who skates right on by legitimate reasons to oppose a political opponent in favor of engaging in theories so bizarre they wouldn't make it onto Info Wars.

And all so that the corporate Democrats that brought you Trump can make the conversation about Russia and not their epic fail, so they can maintain control and direction over the party. Might as take one of Uncle Bob's "4 more years!" sign and put it on your lawn. Right now.

I had to dig deep into the first page of results for this. Many Bothans died to bring you this information... https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

Some Europeans have trouble understanding this same fact about the United STATES of America.

Because the USA is a single country, Europe isn't.
In other news, Americans are terrible at geography

Guess you've never heard that the average person inadvertently commits three arguable felonies everyday. The game is rigged boys. With private jails profiting off of every "guest" admitted, the profit seeking impetus is to pass more and more laws to put more and more people in jail.

Just failing to mow your lawn can land you in jail today. And once they've got you in jail, you can't mow your lawn to fix the problem, minimum wage laws no longer apply to your labor, and the jailers can nickel and dime you to death as they do with these high prices for phone calls.

Be happy you're lucky enough to be on the outside right now.

Uh, it's widely believed in the intelligence community

Handpicked spooks chosen by a professional liar who committed perjury does not mean "widely believed".

Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway & Belgium all thank you for your good wishes.

They sure need them, because their Collectivism is killing them and their performance is pathetic. For just one sign, consider the fact, that these countries (with the possible exception of Finland) haven't been bombed/destroyed in the WW2. Which means, their standards of living ought to be, if Socialism really was so grand, well above that of the US. It is not — not even in Norway, for all their vast oil exports propping up the GDP.

And that's despite their spending much less on military — to the point, the otherwise decrepit Russia can overrun them in a matter of weeks.

Beat me to the punch ;)

Gravimetric energy density is one of the least important aspects these days. Back in the lead-acid days, improving it it was a huge deal because lead-acids made cars impractically heavy for a reasonable range. Those days are gone. As noted in this post:

The base curb weight of the Tesla Model 3, according to the official press kit, is 3549 lbs, which is 1610kg. 1730kg is the LR version, the heavier version. The BMW 3-Series ranges from 1475-1770kg. The A4 ranges from [wikipedia.org] 1410-1695 kg. I can't find an official total range for the C300, but find values ranging from 1630 kg to 1688kg to 1695kg to 1715kg. While the 1630kg is described as the "base weight" (analogous to the M3's 1610kg), I have no clue what the heaviest C300 config is, there could easily be configurations heavier than the 1715kg one.

To sum up:
Tesla Model 3: 1610-1730kg
BMW 3-Series: 1475-1770kg
Audi A4: 1410-1695kg
Mercedes C300: 1630-1715+kg

To repeat: The Tesla Model 3's curb weight comes in at pretty much the same range as other midrange compact sedans (BMW 3-Series, Audi A4, Mercedes C300, etc).

Even if Houston had sane zoning laws, there literally is no precedent for 53 inches of rain in 2 days, which is the average amount of rain that Houston gets in 365 days.

Except you know, actual literal precedents.

And Flooding in general is not unprecedented, so...maybe you should think about what you claim is unprecedented.

The local and extended area response was still a hell of a lot better than what happened in New Orleans after Katrina (where there were mass rapes, lots of people firing on rescue boats and helicopters, and it took a large military presence to get things back under control).

You should also be more careful about examining the stories you've heard, the mass rapes was a myth(driven by the idea that is the sort of thing would happen in New Orleans), the firing reports also happened in Harvey(and are as likely exaggerated as the first), and that military presence was needed to bring in supplies, which took somebody with the guts to think about the people to do(mostly because FEMA under Brown was dithering).

While I'm all for shitting on Houston's lack of zoning for many different reasons, this did not contribute anything to the problem with Harvey. Harvey killed 70 people (so far), while Katrina killed closed to 2,000.

I'd be careful about that too, the deaths attributed to Katrina include people who had heart attacks due to the stress, suicides and quite a few drug overdoses.

Probably not got complete results for the Harvey deaths either, at that.

It could have been so much worse.

It could have been less worse. They got lucky. In another year, Trump probably would have ruined FEMA. Even a few weeks later, if it had hit, when Trump was planning his shutdown, would have increased the disaster.

USA has high retraining costs with loans that can't be easy gotten rid in bankruptcy and most college credits don't transfer
https://www.usnews.com/news/na...

The assets that I had in my brokerage, business and retirement accounts fell 50% because of the Great Recession.

Then you chose some PISS POOR asset allocations. The average loss for retirement accounts in 2008, by total assets under management:

50-100k: -15%
100-200k: -21%
200k+: -25%

(Source)

If you lost 50%, you were in such ridiculously risky investments that you should seek competent professional help from a qualified investment advisor, and stop trying to manage ANY of your investments yourself.

The value of those assets were significantly less than what I owed and weren't worth the trouble for the trustee to liquidate.

Which means that they didn't exist, or had zero value. The only thing exempt in a bankruptcy is your retirement accounts. Cash, bank accounts, stocks, and other savings are typically non-exempt - if the trustee abandoned them, then they were of negligible value. Which means that, even at 2x their value, they weren't significant. Which means that your other assets are virtually non-existent.

Once the economy turned around, those assets regained their value.

And you commenced building credit card debt again. So, gg, creimer - you can declare bankruptcy again 8 years after your previous declaration. Maybe then you can blame Trump and his "damn wall" for that one, rather than your own poor decisions and financial choices.

but they also have a lifetime battery warranty.

How sumptuously vague. It could mean that it lasts as long as it lasts or that if your battery fails they have you assassinated.

The 2012 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid’s new battery warranty will reportedly last for the life of the car. “If the battery fails, the company will replace it and take care of any recycling costs,” Cars.com reports." More here.

If the word "reportedly" makes you queasy, there's this, straight from Hyundai: The Lifetime Hybrid Battery Warranty applies to all U.S. 2012-2016 model-year Sonata Hybrids. The Lifetime Hybrid Battery Warranty ensures that if the lithium polymer battery fails, Hyundai will replace the battery and cover recycling costs for the old battery free of charge to the original owner. The Lifetime Hybrid Battery Warranty excludes coverage for vehicles placed in commercial use (e.g., taxi, route delivery, rental, etc.).

Also, if you sell the car, the next owner gets an additional 10 years/100,000 mile warranty on the battery.

Yes, there is a tendency for doctors to use HIPAA as a handwave excuse when they just don't want to deal with patient email:
https://www.usnews.com/opinion...

But then they get advice like this from the administrative side of medicine:
https://www.foxgrp.com/hipaa-c...
and still more rubber chicken waving:
https://www.bridgepatientporta...

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'

it's much more similar in refinement to a Dacia or a Hyundai

Not according to literally every reveiwer who has been in in the vehicle, which is over a dozen. A base Model 3 is also more feature-rich than its competitors such as the 3-series (there are also comparisons to the A4 and C300 if you'd like)

Now, you can spout nonsense that doesn't correspond at all to any reviews, but that's not to your credit. Seriously, the concept that a soft-touch sports sedan with a 5,6 second *base* 0-60, eight cameras, a dozen ultrasonic sensors and a radar *standard*, automatic crash avoidance *standard*, and a ton of other things is equivalent to a Dacia... why not just call it a used Yugo while you're at it?

Tesla Model 3: 1740kg (claimed)

Wrong. The base curb weight of the Model 3, according to the official press kit, is 3549 lbs, which is 1610kg. 1730kg is the LR version, the heavier version. The BMW 3-Series ranges from 1475-1770kg. The A4 ranges from 1410-1695 kg. I can't find an official total range for the C300, but find values ranging from 1630 kg to 1688kg to 1695kg to 1715kg. While the 1630kg is described as the "base weight" (analogous to the M3's 1610kg), I have no clue what the heaviest C300 config is, there could easily be configurations heavier than the 1715kg one.

To sum up:
Tesla Model 3: 1610-1730kg
BMW 3-Series: 1475-1770kg
Audi A4: 1410-1695kg
Mercedes C300: 1630-1715+kg

I'll repeat: The Tesla Model 3's curb weight comes in at pretty much the same as its ICE competitors in its class (BMW 3-Series, Audi A4, Mercedes C300, etc).

https://www.usnews.com/news/da...

The ONLY medical sub specialty that has more a biased gender ratio than computer science is Obstetrics/Gynecology, which has a justifiable biological bias.

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.