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Thank you for standing up for honesty! Make America Great Again!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wilbur-ross-alleged-to-have-siphoned-more-than-120-million-from-associates-forbes-report-2018-08-07

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/wilbur-ross-stole-money-from-colleagues-sweetn-low-from-restaurants

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting

Oh, the humanity!

Hopefully this will lower young blood prices

A drop in plasma prices is not a good thing. If billionaires like Peter Thiel pay even less to their penurious blood boys, that just increases income inequality in America.

Just seems like a good way to get yourself aids or hepatitis or god knows what other disease if you ask me.

Hopefully this will lower young blood prices

A drop in plasma prices is not a good thing. If billionaires like Peter Thiel pay even less to their penurious blood boys, that just increases income inequality in America.

Last I checked, every senior government position is "voluntary". Any of then can resign at any time. Ivanka has still been acting in official capacities, even if she doesn't have an official title or office.

Remember when she plunked her widening ass down in daddy's chair at the G20 summit?

and as far as I know they haven't. You'd also expect Uber drive's to see higher hourly pay, but it's around $9 bucks/hr. But that looks to be in line with the figures from 2016. Maybe a little less if inflation is taken into account (remember inflation is higher for low paid employees since big ticket items like new cars have less inflation than food/rent/healthcare or even used cars).

Personally,, just between us chickens, I would like to see an awards show that is not based on the white hot hatred of men. One based on a television show being entertaining. One not based on Lecturing us with no humor at all, merely hate. One where every female winner is not announced with playing the old song "You don't own me"

So I have the same amount of intellectual interest in the Emmy's as a slutwalk, or that woman Milo Moiré, who invites people to fingerbang her in public as a strike against the patriarchy. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/s... Just insane people trying to tell us that their insanity is the best.

Which is why I consider third wave feminists merely the opposite side of the coin from Trump. Neither are sane. Then again, that's the state of television.

If he did he wouldn't have opposed Seattle's small tax to help the homeless. https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

It's an empty gesture because he's not Bill Gates. His contribution wouldn't amount to more than a few weeks of relief on the problem.

Oh, really? His most recent house he bought for $600,000. What do you think his other two houses are worth? He personally makes over $170,000 a year, and is never going to want .

So what would happen if he gave away that wealth and spread it around? The median income for a full-time worker is around $30,000 per year. He could easily make a significant difference in the lives of a dozen of people if he chose to. He's a hypocrite that is unwilling to lead by example.

I'll believe them when they stop using private jets and fueling their multiple McMansions. In short, I'll believe it's a crisis when the people who say it's a crisis act like it's a crisis.

I support free castration for anyone who uses the word "free" to describe shit which they want to force me to pay for.

The rule of thumb is that anytime you see someone complaining about "paying for free stuff for other people", they're always someone who got a lot of free stuff growing up.

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Workers aren't always correct. Unions often become corrupt and bloated. Undocumented workers hurt citizens.

Points taken.

What, specifically, has Kavanaugh done that is bad? Being anti-union isn't inherently bad. I say that as someone who is supportive of people's right to collectively bargain.

Well... The article Brett Kavanaugh Ruled Against Workers When No One Else Did cites several cases where Kavanaugh sides with corporations over the interests of workers, also noting:

“Based on his record, we can expect that Judge Kavanaugh will continue to protect the interests of already powerful corporate CEOs instead of working families,” the Communications Workers of America said in a statement.

That article (and several others, below) also talk about a case where Kavanaugh sided with SeaWorld and against OSHA when a trainer was killed (and, apparently, eaten) by an orca -- basically asserting that "he knew the risks".

• Family Man Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Businesses Shouldn’t Be Liable if Employees Are Eaten on the Job
• Kavanaugh’s awful SeaWorld dissent – bad for workers, bad for the environment

OSHA used what’s known as the general duty clause to cite SeaWorld for safety violations after the whale Tilikum killed trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. SeaWorld challenged the citations, but the appeals panel sided with OSHA, ruling that SeaWorld knew its protections for trainers like Brancheau were insufficient and that it could have prevented her death had it taken the proper steps.

Kavanaugh disagreed. He compared working at SeaWorld to playing a sport like ice hockey that comes with inherent dangers, and, unlike his colleagues on the panel, argued that OSHA doesn’t have the legal standing to regulate it.

“When should we as a society paternalistically decide that the participants in these sports and entertainment activities must be protected from themselves – that the risk of significant physical injury is simply too great even for eager and willing participants?” he asked.

Jordan Barab, a former OSHA official during the Obama years, wrote Tuesday on his blog Confined Space that the SeaWorld case shows Kavanaugh to be “a threat to workers and to OSHA.”

“Kavanaugh’s idea of making America great again apparently hearkens back to a time before the Workers Compensation laws and the Occupational Safety and Health Act were passed,” Barab wrote. “Back then employers who maimed or killed workers often escaped legal responsibility by arguing that the employee had ‘assumed’ the risk when he or she took the job and the employer therefore had no responsibility to make the job safer.”

Maybe it's just me, but that's appalling. Can't wait for that precedent to be exploited, *especially* if Kavanaugh is confirmed to SCOTUS. Just get someone to sign something that says, "There is a risk of ..." and goodbye legal liability.

Ford customer: The car shifted into Reverse by itself, backed over and killed my grandfather.

Ford lawyer: (Pointing to sales agreement) He knew the risks.

Ford Sales Agreement
There is a risk that the vehicle transmission may unexpectedly shift from Park to Reverse, causing the vehicle to back over and kill your grandfather.

Judge: Hmm... Let me check Kavanaugh in OSHA v. SeaWorld... Okay. Case dismissed.

Hillarybot was built in a garage in Palo Alto. She short circuited. We are working on a model that can actually sweat (Hillarybot doesn't). You'll have to wait out Trump's second term before we can try again. Until then, Military Intelligence is handling him just fine, cool your jets.

P.S. Trump is an ally to Hillary; They're actually cousins. She went to His wedding. Trump was a registered democrat for 3 decades, FFS. All US presidents are related to English Royalty (mostly to King John, signer of the Magna Carta); Even Barry was. Look it up. You live in a delusional dream world if you still imagine Left vs Right as being a relevant political spectrum.

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Oh dear. And here you are, all out of tissue. Not to worry, I'm sure they can patch you up in your next cognitive therapy session.

I dunno - It really is a different tack, with Disney expounding on Lando's pansexuality. i mean, whatever two consenting adults do is cool, but I really can't get into a character that wants too have sex with my little girl or my mailbox or my lawnmower.

Disney trying to branch off into where characters want to stick their pecker or fig is an annoying and irrelevant side trip that wrecks their story line.

Mostly because it turns the movies into clumsy propaganda pieces. "The Last Jedi" was exactly that Apparently Solo wasn't actually too bad, but in the aftermath of TLJ, Kennedy et al told the old fans they were not needed, and called them misogynists. and other derogatory names.So it tanked

Perhaps when dealing with people who give you their discretionary money for entertainment, you shouldn't tell them you don't need them. https://screenrant.com/star-wa...

And make no mistake - The Last Jedi has a specific third wave feminst agenda "Offers the harsh condemnation of mansplaining we need in 2017" https://www.vanityfair.com/hol...

No problem if you want to make political films catering to third wave feminists. But so far, they are happy that the films are becoming openly misandryic. But t appears the ladies they now consider their target audience neither watch the films, nor do they buy the promotional mechandise.

You're a fat worthless cunt and women hate you for a reason.

Oh dear. And here you are, all out of tissue. Not to worry, I'm sure they can patch you up in your next cognitive therapy session.

I dunno - It really is a different tack, with Disney expounding on Lando's pansexuality. i mean, whatever two consenting adults do is cool, but I really can't get into a character that wants too have sex with my little girl or my mailbox or my lawnmower.

Disney trying to branch off into where characters want to stick their pecker or fig is an annoying and irrelevant side trip that wrecks their story line.

Mostly because it turns the movies into clumsy propaganda pieces. "The Last Jedi" was exactly that Apparently Solo wasn't actually too bad, but in the aftermath of TLJ, Kennedy et al told the old fans they were not needed, and called them misogynists. and other derogatory names.So it tanked

Perhaps when dealing with people who give you their discretionary money for entertainment, you shouldn't tell them you don't need them. https://screenrant.com/star-wa...

And make no mistake - The Last Jedi has a specific third wave feminst agenda "Offers the harsh condemnation of mansplaining we need in 2017" https://www.vanityfair.com/hol...

No problem if you want to make political films catering to third wave feminists. But so far, they are happy that the films are becoming openly misandryic. But t appears the ladies they now consider their target audience neither watch the films, nor do they buy the promotional mechandise.

They're not keeping children in "concentration camps" on the southern border. Geeze, you people are self-parody.

They are absolutely keeping children in concentration camps.

First, maybe we should establish a definition of "concentration camp"" According to Merriam-Webster, a concentration camp is, "a camp where persons (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined"

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Next, we should establish that Trump is indeed keeping children in such places [note: I purposely only include foreign news sources for this, so you can't claim some local political bias]

https://news.sky.com/story/hun...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

https://www.standard.co.uk/new...

And when did this new policy of indefinite detention of children start? May of 2018.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

Further, since people who present at a port of entry requesting asylum have broken no US laws, the Trump Administration is separating children from parents who have done nothing wrong and holding them in concentration camps just to exert political pressure on his opponents.

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Especially since Holmes was a big Clinton supporter

So was Donald Trump.

http://time.com/3962799/donald...

https://www.politico.com/story...

https://www.vanityfair.com/sty...

And? What facts do you have to show the election was not as stated in my link?

Rooster, you make it too easy.

https://www.rawstory.com/news/...

https://gizmodo.com/5825014/ho...

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/1...

https://www.motherjones.com/me...

There. I've given you the truth. Do what you will.

Turkey is also blocking Wikipedia and blaming a candy manufacturer for fomenting a coup.

Basically, you're arguing that a double rainbow and a new star appearing at the birth of Kim Jong Il doesn't make sense from meteorological OR astronomic point of view.

People can be against fascism and still be assholes.

It's disturbing how, when there are protests between wannabe Nazis and basically anyone else, some people leap to condemn the "anyone else". Whatever ever happened to not being huge fans of the Nazis?

The "Nazis" aren't a threat. Your "anyone else actually is.

Yes, people standing up against Nazis and protesting police brutality and not standing for the pledge of allegiance are a threat. A dangerous threat. CRUSH THEM!

Whereas the people who commit multiple acts of terrorism and crime aren't.

(A) All the russian interference was not enough by itself for him to steal the presidency. Trump exploited weaknesses in the system that people like Newt Gingrich and Rupert Murdoch have been cultivating for decades. They didn't plan on Trump becoming their anointed one, he kind of muscled in on their action, but once he was in, they all fell in line.

(B) He didn't stumble on russian intelligence. They've been grooming him since the 80s. He wasn't the only horse they've bet on over the years, but the closer he got to power the more the resource they poured into using him. His entire comeback since 2000 was financed by laundering dirty russian money. In Russia the government is the mafia, so all that money laundering was happening with Putin's explicit approval.

I think it's the other way around now

Indeed. a few months ago the headline was exactly reversed:

ANTI-TRUMP TECH WORKERS ARE DITCHING THE U.S. FOR CANADA

âoeWeâ(TM)re seeing a reverse brain drain for the first time.â

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

So, which one is it? Judging by the housing prices still shooting upwards, I think it's more that Canadians are coming here than vice versa.

You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution [house.gov] to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?

And the Justice Department under Jeff Sessions put it right in the circular file where it belongs. There will be no charges.

And also note that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher claims to have physical proof [breitbart.com] that the Russians did not hack the DNC.

You mean the Dana Rohrabacher who the Kremlin has considered an intelligence source for the past two decades and so important that they gave him a code name? THAT Dana Rohrabacher?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/11...

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

http://thehill.com/homenews/ca...

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

I tried to post this nearly 6 months ago, but y'all weren't having any. Then.

That's his second lead attorney...

And he apparently plans to "fucking do it his way".
You know... his way.

Trigger warning: You may get an urge to put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger from all the cringe in that clip.

Every time you try to prop up a woman as a tech leader, you find out not only are they unethical but downright criminal.

Not only that but they are kind of a buzz-kill at the sex parties, even though being lesbians they should enjoy the escorts and abuse of female tech workers as much as anyone! Didn't anyone see those Hostel movies?

Bad example, the Koch brothers hate Trump
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

When they agreed with Trump on something Politico actually found it newsworthy and posted a story about it
https://www.politico.com/story...

Trump has a low opinion going back to at least the election
https://twitter.com/realdonald...

Their strong dislike of Trump is still very current
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

(for varying values of Monsanto)

They already do it when the seeds drift.
If they can show the benefit of the GE crop has drifted they will assign a value to that benefit and send a lawyer and an invoice.

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Perhaps they were looking for take-out.

All in all, the tactic of funding poor applicants to achieve a verdict is common and used by all civil rights organizations

The only civil right Peter Thiel cares about is his right to inject himself with the blood of teenage boys..

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

And no, that story has not been debunked.

https://gizmodo.com/someone-is...

I used both of those functions on a regular basis, but usually just to adorn a smart-ass post with a smart-ass image.

Humour? Who needs it? Nothing I can't live without (as a married man).

Why Women Aren't Funny

Perhaps Google can add a click that automatically opens the target website with Firefox's Media Preview tab (or your equivalent)—or an extension can be written to do the same; ideally, the extension would arrange the page's images in a Image Search–like image gallery (optional: middle finger as a selection cursor).

Are you seriously aligning the interests of the globalists in the US government with the interests of the American people? We had fuck-all to do with that coup shit. Hell, the CIA did a lot of those on its own while trying to hide its involvement from the elected government. This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's established fact.

The solution, however, is not to turn away from friends and alliances which have been built up for more than half a century.

Gotta love that attitude. FUCK YOU USA and then turn right around and DON'T LEAVE USA YOU FUCKING ISOLATIONIST ASSHOLES. Jesus Christ, you really can't see it, can you?

building fucking walls never solved any problem ever

If walls don't work, then why did Zuckerberg build one? Heck, even Obama builds a wall, I wonder what kind of problem he had? I guess the wall solved it!

They already tried; it was discovered that the bodies need to really live for the organs to be healthy.

The spare body wouldn't just sit in a vat. You could give it enough of a brain stem to run on a treadmill for an hour per day.

Or you could use it as a "blood boy" for periodic transfusions of youthful blood. That seems to be working for Peter Thiel.

What are you talking about? There's been a massive amount of attention to Russian support of Jill Stein. This has included aspects of Senate investigations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/19/jill-stein-trump-russia-investigation-documents. There were many mainstream media reports on it such as https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261 and https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/senate-intelligence-committee-jill-stein-russia.

Making OLED displays is going to be hard for Apple. Firstly there are still a ton of valid patents in the field that would more or less exclude Apple, and given Samsung have invested large sums of money developing OLED displays that's exactly what patents are for, unlike Apples software bull shit patents.

Wake up and smell the "roses" Samsung has been selling you for Christmas. Samsung needs patents for inevitable countersuits after they stole somebodies inventions, so they can crush them in the market while the court cases drag along. They've been doing that for decades now, and they did it in the OLED market too. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war

BTW, isn't it odd that the majority of Samsung's patents are design patents? Since long before the patent war with Apple started?

The Obama administration had 8 years to do something better, and they didn't get it done.

Get what done? Why would they bother with the barking Chihuahua that is a non-relevant pest which ~90% of Americans forgot about until Bush the Lesser decided to add them to his pointless Axis of Evil speech?

After 10 months the Trump administration already has far more rigorous sanctions in place than the Obama administration accomplished, and Trump's team did it with the United Nations and diplomacy, including diplomacy with allied nations. That must be a bitter pill to swallow.

Yeah, here's a hint, all those sanctions have done is kill off millions of North Koreans, you might as well praise Trump for reverting back to treating Cuba under an Embargo, when the real accomplishment would be doing the opposite. You should stop taking poison pills and praising the taste.

Is the "magic" fading for you?

Is the gaslighting getting too much for you? It seems to be too much for Trump.

They put a lot of time and effort into that sword fight: How The Princess Bride Built Film’s Most Beloved Sword Fight https://www.vanityfair.com/hol...

Trump Jr quid pro quo sanctions relief in exchange for Russian government help in the election. This is treason.

source

Papadopoulus (Trump campaign aid) colludes with Russia's attack on America, and confesses to lying about it to the FBI.

source

Carter Page claims the dossier is fake while corroborating its assertions.

source

Well, there was that one about threatening to nuke North Korea... Does that count? https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Yeah, I also remember Trump threatening Iran with "massive retaliation" if they attacked Israel and later clarified Iran's aggression against Israel "would provoke a nuclear response from the United States". Hate speech!

And what about that time Trump threatened to "erase North Korea from the map of the world"? So much hate speech!

Oh, wait...

Give an example of "hate speech" that trump posted.

Well, there was that one about threatening to nuke North Korea... Does that count? https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

There was a very good look at this effect a few years back. Mirosoft emulated GE's technique of laddering everyone and cutting the bottom rungs. The problem wasn't a specific layoff but rather how this rolling layoff poisoned the climate. People were focused on their own survival rather than any team goals. This is long but worth reading...

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Wrong. During the campaign, the Koch brothers hated Trump, because he wasn't a swamp creature that could be manipulated. Kochs did everything they could to make sure Trump didn't win the primary. I think they even sat out for the general election.

http://www.politico.com/story/...
http://www.newsweek.com/donald...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Wow, I didn't know whether to mod you +1 informative or -1 off-topic, since you are right, and you cited evidence and gave links (thanks!) ... but the whole discussion is off the topic.

So instead I'll just comment as AC.

Yes, the Koch brothers very specifically did not invest in the Trump campaign. I will point out, however, that they have funded Pence, and in turn he has been very supportive of them:

https://www.thenation.com/article/vice-president-mike-pence-would-be-a-dream-for-the-koch-brothers/

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/339283-pence-stops-by-koch-brothers-conference-in-colorado

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/345449-pence-to-keynote-koch-brothers-event-in-august

http://www.npr.org/2016/07/15/486253693/despite-ties-to-vp-pick-mike-pence-koch-network-still-refuses-to-support-trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/07/14/indiana-gov-mike-pence-has-close-ties-charles-kochs-money-network/87083956/

Wrong. During the campaign, the Koch brothers hated Trump, because he wasn't a swamp creature that could be manipulated. Kochs did everything they could to make sure Trump didn't win the primary. I think they even sat out for the general election.

http://www.politico.com/story/...
http://www.newsweek.com/donald...
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

Pinker vs. Spelke

On 22 April 2005, Harvard University's Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative held a defining debate on the public discussion that began on January 16th with the public comments by Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, on sex differences between men and women and how they may relate to the careers of women in science.

The debate at MBB, "The Gender of Gender and Science" was "on the research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of bias, discrimination and innate and acquired difference between the sexes".

Apparently, nothing has changed. I thought Pinker argued the issues and Spelke mostly engaged in an end run, but the audience (a tweed of elite leftish sympathizers) voted for Spelke.

Spelke was among the strongest critics of Lawrence Summers and in April 2005 faced Steven Pinker in an open debate over the issue.

She declared that her own experiments revealed no difference between the mental capacities of male and female children ranging in age from 5 months to 7 years old.

Yeah, androgen is just a confound, leave it out.

Besides, only half the debate is about capacities. The other half is about drive and narrowness of focus. Women generally don't wish to be as mentally narrow as the most extreme men, and sometimes choose balance over advancement.

I get it. Women resent the past and present reality that choosing balance over wonk navel-gaze has such a striking impact on the pocketbook, at the top end of the curve.

Society can decide—collectively—to diminish the natural premium of an unconstrained market. And maybe we should (sometimes naked incentive is quite the bitch), though you won't get many of the more strident voices in this debate to admit that this is what we're actually talking about.

Here's the butt-naked truth: a lot of young males who aren't getting laid don't give a flying fuck about life balance.

I get it. It's hard to compete with testicles hell bent on a self-destructive war path of personality implosion.

Hitchens: Why Women Aren't Funny — 2007

This was written precisely to lampoon the cognitive morass surrounding this issue.

This is not to say that women are humorless, or cannot make great wits and comedians. And if they did not operate on the humor wavelength, there would be scant point in half killing oneself in the attempt to make them writhe and scream (uproariously). Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence. Men will laugh at almost anything, often precisely because it is—or they are—extremely stupid. Women aren't like that.
...
Fran [Lebowitz] responded: "The cultural values are male; for a woman to say a man is funny is the equivalent of a man saying that a woman is pretty. Also, humor is largely aggressive and pre-emptive, and what's more male than that?"
...
There are more terrible female comedians than there are terrible male comedians, but there are some impressive ladies out there. Most of them, though, when you come to review the situation, are hefty or dykey or Jewish, or some combo of the three. When Roseanne stands up and tells biker jokes and invites people who don't dig her shtick to suck her dick—know what I am saying? And the Sapphic faction may have its own reasons for wanting what I want—the sweet surrender of female laughter.

Natalie Morales Calls Christopher Hitchens an 'A–hole' for Saying Women Aren't Funny — 2017

The "Access Hollywood" and "Today" host ...

Awesome! Di

Would that also be like the claims by the media, DNC and so on that Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton were just talking about grandkids?

You mean the hysterical screaming by the right-wing media, RNC and Trump that there was a secret conspiracy on the airport tarmac? You went on for weeks about it. Weeks on end.

Then you ended up attacking an innocent pizza parlor.

Or is it just a case that the FBI lied, the DNC and Obama administration covered it up, and the media directly worked with both to try and bury the story.

You mean the story that you were screaming over for weeks, if not months, that you, and the GOP and House Republicans kept trying to fan into a fire, desperate that we believe all their smoke?

But blow as hard as you could, it never happened. Never will either, and you know it.

That's what burns you the most.

Enjoy these FOIA documents, because the whole gigantic clusterfuck of collusion, lies, and complete bullshit from the previous administration and DNC is coming home. You can read the summarized version including the emails here if you don't want to read the ACLJ's stuff. Enjoy the part about the Washington Post wanting to bury the story.

Enjoy how Republicans admitted they faked a scandal. Go read their actual report nterview notes - ... where they desperately tried to claim something bad, but ended up with nothing.. Except in their own minds, where they proclaimed triumph over doing nothing.

Or we can look at Michael Flynn, Paul Manaforte, or Donald Jr. Himself. Now there is some meat. Or Trump's un-independent business dealings.

That isn't even touching on the stuff uncovered by Judicial Watch.

Ah, the famed blind Judicial Watch. Did they ever find Judge Roy Moore? I heard he killed Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Candlestick. Why don't you just stop? But wait, I remember you lying with James O'Keefe videos and about Alberta's power grid. Yes, I remember you falsely claimed one group was responsible for it to one purpose, when it was actually the prior government for another.

What is it with you, can you just not resist the urge to lie?

Donald Trump seems to have that illness too. Who lies about the boy scouts? Oh wait, after his speech, he had no choice.

Now they can reject asylum seekers without even bothering to process them.

Soon they'll be free to deport anybody that simply isn't a loyal enough American, eh, Comrade?

And the border wall will be transparent as well as solar powered.

Somebody please tell me that he's sundowning.

Waymo have an agreement to pursue self-driving cars with Lyft, the main Uber competitor. Uber have fired their principal self-driving car engineer. Meanwhile Uber is in disarray due to alleged toxic working place conditions.

The objective of this lawsuit is not for Waymo to win a settlement, they probably don't care so much about the money, it is to win time and mindshare by burying Uber in this corner of the market.

Personally I think self-driving cars are coming but the engineering challenges are still formidable, perhaps these fights are premature.

There's already a preccedent for lawsuits about cutting out content http://www.vanityfair.com/holl... A legitimate outfit that deletes x-rated content from DVD/BluRay videos *THAT YOU HAVE LEGITIMATELY PURCHASED* has been sued for merely deleting sex scenes, etc.

This is an ugly precedent. If you circumvent DRM to block ads, that'll be yet another charge they can throw against you. This would probably include even something as simple as noscript or a hosts file.

consider Breitbart's enormous jump in readership in recent months

In case anyone misses the subtly of what your are saying, you should have made clear that Breitbart's readership has plummeted

Are we holding Balmer's performance to the same standard? Or does this standard only apply to the employees?

Based on this old 2012 article it sounds like Balmer's performance was consistently poor which leads me to question if he is qualified to be considered a business leader?

Vanity Fair: Microsoft's Lost Decade

If you check the link they highlight several examples where Balmer called it wrong. This other example of Balmer always makes me smile:

One topflight engineer, Mark Lucovsky, met with Ballmer on November 11, 2004, as a courtesy to let him know that he had accepted an offer from Google, which at the time was led by Eric Schmidt. And, according to a sworn statement submitted by Lucovsky in an unrelated lawsuit, Ballmer exploded.

He threw a chair against the wall. “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy!” Ballmer yelled, according to the court document. “I’m going to fucking bury that guy! I have done it before and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”

Sure about that?

Yes, he most definitely has interest in doing it to himself. It's not quite clear whether he has started the treatment yet or not (in 2015 he stated that he hadn't “quite, quite, quite started yet”), but he definitely plans to at the very least.