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> That's why we have checks and balances built into law enforcement, to keep them from running rampant.

I agree with most of what you're saying, but fail to see where the checks and balances are for "law enforcement". Not from the executive branch, which has been "tough on crime" since Nixon in the 60s. The militarization of the police has gone completely out of control since 2001. (See "Do Not Resist (2016)" or "Rise of the Warrior Cop" 2014 by Radley Balko for some examples). And not from the judicial branch, which usually cheers on the police and fails to hold even the most rampant police brutality accountable.

I cannot elect my local police chief, nor hold him or his staff accountable for their crimes. Around 1100 people die at the hands of US police every single year. Police and other agencies steal billions of USD every year through civil asset forfeitures (see the Washington Post article series from 2014). The whole police and "law enforcement" as an institution, at every level, from local to federal, is now so corrupt and rotten through and through that there seems little hope in reforms, short of a complete purge and very radical new implementation. It is of course never going to happen.

The US police state is here to stay, and with technology, government and "law" on their side, it will only get a whole lot worse. I fail to see how it can get better.

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yeah there is a large movement toward disadvantage for the succesful and harder working to make it equal for the less capable

In some alternate universe where this was a meritocracy, instead of a place where the #1 factor in how far you go in life is how much money your daddy has. Not how hard one works - else every elementary schoolteacher would be worth millions, while investment bankers would be cramming four bankers into an efficiency.

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that is apples to oranges and the fallacy of only high paid positions are filled by the rich who come from money and their competence has naught to do with it. I know plenty with working class / blue collar backgrounds who got prestigeous educations, high company positions, even one who became a ceo before she was 30 all on the basis of competence. Plenty of those of average competence with money backgrounds compared to similar ability folks with less resources may have increased chances of sucess in some sectors and semi get handed stuff on a plate sure. They have to have some level of competence too though, and others CAN work their way up by putting the work in. In fact I've personally seen a few with such backgrounds and slightly below average competence go nowhere when it came to industry and get surpassed by poor background people who put the hours in. I studied at prestigeous university that has higher entrance grades than most and is known to have classist reputation of taking in more "rich" kids but of those I met who were incompetent went on to mediocrity and failure and the ones who did succeed their success was due to the work they put in. I'm not saying money isn't a factor and life is a pure meritocracy, and I understand nepotism is rampant in some industries. On the latter note I do know 3 in higher banking positions and 1 of those is due to who they know purely; funny enough all three are lower middle class backgrounds and 2 got there through hard work.

yeah there is a large movement toward disadvantage for the succesful and harder working to make it equal for the less capable

In some alternate universe where this was a meritocracy, instead of a place where the #1 factor in how far you go in life is how much money your daddy has. Not how hard one works - else every elementary schoolteacher would be worth millions, while investment bankers would be cramming four bankers into an efficiency.

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The #1 correlation between a student's performance is how much money his or her daddy has.

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"Those who can do, those who can't teach."

Fuck You. Public education is failing because of assholes like you. I don't know a single teacher that recommends entering the profession because of this type of bullshit.

Blame teachers for all social problems, and go out of your way to pass laws to restrict their right to unionize. Make sure that teachers have no due process, and no professional respect. Be sure to siphon off money to for-profit charter schools who often do not teach high school students because extra curriculars are more expensive. Don't hold charter schools accountable when they mishandle public funds, fail to report progress numbers to the State, or refuse to provide services to special education students. Couple that with abysmal pay and benefits in most districts, and the reality is that there is a massive shortage of teachers across the U.S.

Try teaching kids who are hungry, exhausted, and homeless. Students who have no support at home, and nobody to advocate for them fall easily through the cracks. Everything revolves first and foremost around the parents, but many have abdicated their responsibility long before a student meets a teacher.

Take some time out of your important life to volunteer in a school and you will see the reality of the situation. If public education is failing it is precisely because you are not there to make a difference.

No, they are the same side.

So, in 2010, less than two-one-thousandths of one percent of the country's population made misconduct REPORTS?

That's in one year.

Let's look at it a different way: In one year, 1% of all sworn police officers in the United States had misconduct charges brought against them. $300 million was paid out by police departments to the victims of that misconduct, excluding sealed settlements, court costs, and attorney fees. Since most of these cases are sealed settlements, we're over half a billion dollars paid by taxpayers for police misconduct. As a side note: on average, 1100 police officers are arrested for committing crimes unrelated to misconduct every year. That's three per day.

In one year.

Now, let's assume that those officers who commit misconduct are taken off the force. One percent every year means a different one percent.

Now, one in ten is too high, but it's understandable that one in 100 police officers are scumbags. The problem is not only that one in 100 (every year!), but the other 99% that reflexively cover for them, even to the point of committing perjury or tampering with evidence. District attorneys, who are dependent on police, are highly unlikely to bring charges, even in the most awful incidences.

Further, on average, 1100 police officers are arrested for committing crimes unrelated to misconduct every year. That's three per day. (Study done by Bowling Green University, funded by the Justice Department)

When you have a culture that portrays all police as "heroes" and at the same time a government that is militarizing police forces, you have a toxic situation. Remember, police officers are nothing more than armed bureaucrats. Government workers who will get government pensions (and can start collecting in their 40s). Union members. If you believe in limited government (and I know you do), you must also believe in limited respect for police forces. It's not even as dangerous a job as most people believe, based on Dept of Labor statistics of workplace injury or death. Being a janitor, garbage collector or taxi driver is far more dangerous than being a cop.

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So, in 2010, less than two-one-thousandths of one percent of the country's population made misconduct REPORTS?

That's in one year.

Let's look at it a different way: In one year, 1% of all sworn police officers in the United States had misconduct charges brought against them. $300 million was paid out by police departments to the victims of that misconduct, excluding sealed settlements, court costs, and attorney fees. Since most of these cases are sealed settlements, we're over half a billion dollars paid by taxpayers for police misconduct. As a side note: on average, 1100 police officers are arrested for committing crimes unrelated to misconduct every year. That's three per day.

In one year.

Now, let's assume that those officers who commit misconduct are taken off the force. One percent every year means a different one percent.

Now, one in ten is too high, but it's understandable that one in 100 police officers are scumbags. The problem is not only that one in 100 (every year!), but the other 99% that reflexively cover for them, even to the point of committing perjury or tampering with evidence. District attorneys, who are dependent on police, are highly unlikely to bring charges, even in the most awful incidences.

Further, on average, 1100 police officers are arrested for committing crimes unrelated to misconduct every year. That's three per day. (Study done by Bowling Green University, funded by the Justice Department)

When you have a culture that portrays all police as "heroes" and at the same time a government that is militarizing police forces, you have a toxic situation. Remember, police officers are nothing more than armed bureaucrats. Government workers who will get government pensions (and can start collecting in their 40s). Union members. If you believe in limited government (and I know you do), you must also believe in limited respect for police forces. It's not even as dangerous a job as most people believe, based on Dept of Labor statistics of workplace injury or death. Being a janitor, garbage collector or taxi driver is far more dangerous than being a cop.

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Costs rise because demand rises. Demand rises due to a growing economy. Another time Seattle's economy grew this fast was during the Alaska gold rush. Seattle was the outfitter and jumping off point for the prospectors. And often where the wealthy ones brought their money back to.

This boom also attracted large numbers of unemployed people looking for opportunities that never materialized. These people ended up living along what was known as Skid road. Now they arrive, hoping for some of that Amazon gold, or a $15/hour job and pitch tents along I-5. History repeats itself.

police officers will happily turn off the cameras whenever they know they'll get in situations where they'll look bad.

Also, cameras malfunction when you least expect it. Odd how that happens.
Quick google search shows that, for example, 80 percent of Chicago PD dashcams videos lost audio due to 'officer error' or 'intentional destruction'

Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.

I'd agree, but I've yet to see senior management ever take up the workers cause over other management even when it is obviously hurting the company. HR pretty much just admits they are only there to help management. That sometimes takes the form of risking a lawsuit by firing somebody who keeps notifying them that some manager keeps doing something illegal.

On the one hand, if these allegations are true, heads should damn roll.

On the other, Tesla is a great target for a he-said-he-said lawsuit. High profile, lots of cash, great timing right before the make-or-break moment where they have to make good on their affordable cars before GM and the other old guys power into the market.

Tesla's got to be a pressure-cooker company right now to get that production up. But if floor management is creating problems like this, there's a huge incentive to for senior management to give a beat-down to the floor managers. No workers, no Tesla 3's, no Tesla... and there goes Elon Musk puttering around dog-faced in a Bolt.

Who the fuck to believe. To my knowledge, these Tesla things are not sticking like the way they stuck on Uber. But who the fuck knows... news and lawsuits are full of bullshit these days, it's not easy to know truth from some Russian kid with a smartphone masquerading as a Texan. All that's reliably true is Tesla has money, and any cheap-suit lawyer would see an opportunity to make a quick settlement out of them, rather than risk more bad press and production delays as they try like mad to make their delivery date.

This bill wouldn't have had any effect at all on the ads in question.

This bill is a straightforward extension of the existing Federal Election Campaign Act so it also covers internet advertising. That's fine and is good. It says that any "qualified political advertisement" must be disclosed. A qualified political advertisement is defined as one which (1) refers to a clearly identified candidate for Federal office, (2) is targeted to the relevant electorate.

The ads in question? They weren't qualified political advertisements. They weren't geared towards any one political candidate. They were general sowing of division and antipathy between groups. "Some of the ads supported Black Lives Matter and other groups bringing attention to the tense relationship between law enforcement and people of color. Yet other ads painted these activist organizations as a rising political threat." (article1). "Some championed activist groups like Black Lives Matter, while others portrayed them as existential threats. Others aimed to split opinions through hot-button issues like Islam, LGBT rights, gun rights and immigration." -- (article2).

So this bill is fine and good and just makes sense. But if there were indeed Russian ads as described in the past electoral cycle, then their propaganda is years ahead of our own legislators.

PS. Here's the full text of the proposed "Honest Ads Act": https://coffman.house.gov/uplo...

And here's the relevant federal law which it amends: https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

Ummm, no sweetie. The "FAKE N00Z!!!" meme was conceived by democrats as a way to get rid of the Breitbart.coms of the world by conflating them with sites that literally made shit up.

The fact that Trump was so successful in hijacking the term is due purely to its staggering hypocrisy, not to mention that it was the most laughably stupid and transparent attempt at propaganda since "Freedom Fries".

May I point out that Hillary was also for Black Lives Matter and Blacktivist, the two groups being paid to protest?

Here's how it works. You pay someone to participate in a protest and then have them do something that's really ugly and angers people.

For example, one paid Russian protester, a guy named "Jack Posobiec", would go to leftist rallies and hold up "Rape Melania" signs. Now this guy is an alt-right supporter of Trump, but he's not recognizable, so people think, "Man, those leftists are really horrible. Look, there's a "Rape Melania" sign."

Then, it gets the front-page treatment on Infowars, Breitbart, DailyStormer, and eventually ends up on Fox News. Total outlay for the sign is maybe a buck. Trump gets elected, and get this: "Jack Posobiec" becomes a "journalist" with White House credentials. So, not only does he get a little money on the front-end, but he gets rewarded by Trump on the back-end. Oh, and Posobiec was also one of the leading "Pizzagate" conspiracy theorists, which we now know was also a Russian op.

Here are the details:

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.salon.com/2017/08/...

https://www.deathandtaxesmag.c...

Wow no, the opposite, the models over-estimate

Right, tell us another

We know the risk is lower than LNT projects, the problem is that the risks are so low for these lower exposure levels, they cannot find enough statistical significance to define a model at all, even among large study groups. For reference, LNT projected many more deaths and negative health impacts from Chernobyl than actually occurred.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

FYI;

Chernobyl's Harm Was Far Less Than Predicted, U.N. Report Says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

You're still paying for the EPA, and they are still spending money on important things which I'm sure must be in the interests of the country. We know those things are important, because they're so sensitive.

The morons look like they are trying to recreate a mem from episodes of Get Smart. When you are professional shill like Pruitt and you are appointed as a hatchet man you better not let your conversations be made public or the shit will hit the fan real quick. The actions and dealings of public servants in institutions like the EPA, the TSA, NASA, the CDC and the like should not be secrets they should be public record by law! We are moving towards a dictatorship and this is one of the first major steps in that direction. How government is dealing with issues that should be under continuous public debate and must be open to the public so the institution is directly responsible to the electors. This action simply goes to show that the muzzles of dictatorship is slowly being put in place.

When the moves to change the election process start by this obvious tyrant wantabee then perhaps some people will start to wake up and realize that the government of the US is in deep trouble. He has already hinted that this is in the works. Like Hitler said elect the NSDAP and you will never need to vote again. The republican party would be better served to formally split from these idiots and have a shadow leader appointed to expose their obvious moves toward a closed society.

You're still paying for the EPA, and they are still spending money on important things which I'm sure must be in the interests of the country. We know those things are important, because they're so sensitive.

Can't stop what's coming, can't stop what is on its way and all the Insightful mods in the world won't help you.
Adam Schiff, 2 days ago

Over the past nine months, the House Intelligence Committee has learned a great deal about the scope of these Russian efforts. Like our Senate counterparts, we have found ample evidence to support and build upon the intelligence community's January assessment that Russia was responsible for hacking our democratic institutions and dumping stolen data in an effort to turn Americans against one another, harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.

I'm a leftist, dumbass. The DNC organization can go die in a fire. They're right wing hacks like yourself - and I hear they have a position open for an IT worker. You have so much in common!

Speaking of which.....has anyone else noticed there hasn't been a SINGLE article on Slashdot about Imran Awan and his shenanigans as a Congressional IT staffer for some major Democrats? Is it just political bias amongst the /. editorial staff? BeauHD bends over backwards to bring us every negative thing about Trump while skipping over this equally-interesting (from the perspective of IT practices, opsec, and crime) story affecting the opposite party.

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Of course it's falsifiable, but you have to prove the evidence presented is not true.

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There are emails . . . There are receipts.

Um, ok. Unsurprisingly, neither of the articles you linked show any of the actual emails or receipts you claim to be evidence of "a deal to exchange the lifting of sanctions for campaign help." In fact, the original WaPo article your ABC News link mentions says exactly the opposite -- that the new emails bolster the Russian lawyer's story that the meeting had nothing at all to do with campaign help:

It could offer evidence backing up the Russian lawyer’s claims that she was meeting with Trump Jr. solely to discuss a 2012 law despised by the Kremlin that imposed financial sanctions on wealthy Russians as punishment for human rights abuses.

If there's some specific "evidence" you'd like to specifically direct me to and specifically say why you feel it proves the deal you mention, I'm very happy to talk about it. But I'm frankly not holding my breath given your well-established tendency to... er, embellish.

If you are going to get calcium from sedimentary rocks then limestone is your source. But being at the meeting of the North Atlantic and European plates Iceland has access to volcanic (igneous/metamorphic) rocks. They get their calcium from basalt. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

If you wait long enough for erosion to liberate calcium from volcanic rocks the CO2 in the oceans will form limestone. Typically, this is river runoff. https://earthobservatory.nasa.... Alas, waiting hundreds of millions of years isn't going to fight global warming so the Icelandic project is kind of hurrying things along.

I expect it to happen if drone operators continue to do stupid stuff that interferes with aircraft. I'm sorry, but there are too many stupid people playing with drones to have forced this because they clearly can't regulate themselves. Imagine the outcry when people die because of some stupid drone operator hitting an aircraft at some critical point. They have already caused mid-air collisions and have interfered with emergency responders.

Here's a case that resulted in damage to the helicopter:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Here's a possible hit with an A320:
https://www.theverge.com/2016/...
There have also been hundreds of close calls:
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Interfering with firefighters:
http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/...
http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/...

They can't even control hitting other drones.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/faqs/

This is explicitly Zuckerberg's intent.

"To take another grand theory, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has exclaimed his desire to liberate humanity from phoniness, to end the dishonesty of secrets. âoeThe days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly,â he has said. âoeHaving two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.â

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SX has launched 43 times with 1 launch failure ( and a partial ).

Huh? What are you talking about? SpaceX failed in its first three launches. You can hardly call that "only one launch failure (and a partial)".

I admire that: the best way to push the boundaries is to fail, and then learn from the failures. But learning from the failures means: don't pretend that failures didn't happen.

Even it you meant "Falcon-9" and not "SX", you can only count "1 launch failure" if you ignore the one that exploded on the pad. That was only a year ago, so you'd think people would remember. https://www.space.com/33929-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-explodes-on-launch-pad.html

So, two out of 44 failed-- that comes to a demonstrated 95.5% success rate, very close to what the AC said, "that the average reliability of orbital rockets historically sits currently at 94%."

If you want reliability, go with Atlas-V. But you will pay for it: moving up from 95 percent to pushing 100% costs a lot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/23/why-the-most-maligned-rocket-in-the-world-is-also-one-of-the-most-reliable

I thought there was something a while back, but I think I was hallucinating. I did find a nifty little writeup on 5 accomplishments, but number 5 can be knocked off the list now. Not much solace here either:

"Stepping back, there have been a few accomplishments of note:

Getting Neil M. Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court;
The significant drop-off in illegal immigration crossings (from an already low level);
Neither the world nor the Constitution has been destroyed yet;
Progress in the Middle East campaign against the Islamic State;
A solidly growing economy."

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In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.

Israel notified the NSA, where alarmed officials immediately began a hunt for the breach, according to people familiar with the matter, who said an investigation by the agency revealed that the tools were in the possession of the Russian government.

Israeli spies had found the hacking material on the network of Kaspersky Lab, the global anti-virus firm under a spotlight in the United States because of suspicions that its products facilitate Russian espionage.

This range of very active volcanoes have been discovered. Perhaps no one put the 2 together? Or maybe steam from one that is about to erupt could be sending heat beneath the ice pack.

One Island on Antarctica's shores has a Caldera supervolano similar to Yellowstone that produces hot springs for warm bathing by humans. Even if there is no eruption some steam and hot water ahead of one can give off an incredible amount of heat under an already stressed ice pack.

FB literally had employees who helped the Trump campaign. 60 minutes told us all about it just a couple days ago.
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President Obama was very much obeying the law, and a mandate from Congress does exist. The original authority comes from the Clean Air Act of 1963, as amended, Section 111, codified as 42 USC 7411, which covers pollutants from stationary air sources.

The regulation of carbon emissions was already reviewed and ruled on by SCOTUS in 2005.

The EPAâ(TM)s authority to regulate greenhouse gases stems from the Supreme Courtâ(TM)s 2005 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. In this case, the Court decided that, contrary to the opinion of the Bush EPA, carbon dioxide and other GHGs qualified as âoepollutantsâ subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. This gave the EPA the power â" and, for all practical purposes, the obligation â" to regulate GHGs under the CAA.

The stay issued by SCOTUS on the Clean Power Plan had nothing what-so-ever to do with the fundamental authority of the EPA to regulate carbon emissions. The official documents simply state that the stay should be enacted until the rest of the cases wind thru the courts.

It is likely SCOTUS didn't want a possible repeat of Michigan v EPA (2015) where their ruling was so late as to be moot.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/02/09/supreme-court-puts-the-brakes-on-the-epas-clean-power-plan/

Different government, same country. Some of us have been wary of government lies since Vietnam so we have good experience sniffing them out, and this Russian interference stinks like month old caviar.

Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company's platforms in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the company's investigation.

I'll see your 113,000 and raise you 1.3 billion, for. like you, no reason at all.

Around the world, 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity.

Hmm, not sure how that happened. Correct link: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Then, IEEE, Elsiver, etc.take your paper and copyright.

They don't actually take it. The authors sign over the copyright in order to get the paper 'published'. So they can get academic credit for it. What is this publishing? It includes peer review and all the effort required to get the paper physically published.

OK, not all peer review is that bad. Not quite. But physical publishing is pretty much a thing of the past, what with web sites and software that can automatically water mark authors' submissions with the journal's logo. Logically, the publishing business should be commoditized, reducing prices. But I imagine that there are some behind-the-scenes cash flows that keep traditional journal publication a requisite step in scholarly recognition.

I keep seeing this. And yet, millions of people with guns have never killed or threatened to kill people.

And what percentage of mass murderers in the US were gun owners?

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There's three possible correlations:

Somebody likes oversimplifications, don't they?

Over simplify? What other correlations are there besides increasing, decreasing, or no change? You can complicate this with giving rates of increase or decrease but how does that help?

You just invalidated your own purported study. It took you only two more sentences.

I guess if we look at the data one has a choice, robberies or rapes. Total crime is effectively unchanged but when one goes the other takes it's place.

Nope. You shouldn't guess, especially when it's easy to recognize the flaw in your premise.

You're just acting like "rapist" and "robbers" are interchangeable, but that really isn't very believable.

Whether you find it believable or not that's what I found in my study. I used the FBI UCR for my data set on crimes committed and the Brady Campaign score on the gun laws of every state.

And you didn't name them. Here's a something [vox.com] though.

They committed the same crime I warned about, incomplete data. They compare nations on "gun violence" but leave out any crimes committed without a firearm and also left out a vast number of nations from their study. Just look at Wikipedia for the rates of deaths by firearms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Then the rates of intentional murders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I noticed something odd about the two lists. The "gun death" rate in the USA was double the homicide rate. I looked closer at the first list.

The following list includes suicides, accidental fatalities, and justifiable homicides.

Oh, so we include suicides in "gun deaths"? That's not what I think of as "gun deaths", and not even what I think of if someone brings up a case of "gun violence". So what is the suicide rate in the USA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

USA is right up there with Sweden. Sweden must be a terrible place to have a suicide rate like the USA. Other places with a higher suicide rate are Finland, Japan, and Belgium. It's no surprise that North Korea has such a high suicide rate but do you think their gun ownership rate is a problem? I think it's a problem, it's far too low.

You know, you might want to look up the statistical studies on rape. Or robbery.

The two groups are not as correlated as you seem to think.

Didn't I just say I did that study? I believe I did. There is an odd correlation between the two that someone might want to study more. If we lump together violent crimes and correlate that to restrictions on gun ownership then we find no correlation. If we separate out murders, rapes, and robberies then we see for every robbery "prevented" by gun laws we see a rape in it's place.

This study I did was for a graduate level statistics course but it was a very basic study. A study that I've said has been done before. Here's one example.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The correlation between the homicide rate and Brady score in all 51 jurisdictions is +.032 (on a scale of -1 to +1), which means that states with more gun restrictions on average have very slightly higher homicide rates, though the tendency is so small as to be essentially zero. (If you omit the fatal gun accident rates, then the correlation would be +.065, which would make the more gun-restricting states look slightly worse; but again, the correlation would

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.

So, if pesticides are killing them, why are they making a comeback...

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https://www.globalcitizen.org/...

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There are five SAE accepted levels of autonomy:

Level 0: No self driving features
Level 1: Some driver assistance
Level 2: More driver assistance
Level 3: Conditional autonomy
Level 4: Nearly autonomous.
Level 5: Completely autonomous.

When will it get here? Dates range from 2017 (Ol' Musky) to 2026 (president of IIHS) and beyond, from people in the know.

Every bit of driver assistance I think is a good thing, but Level 5 - true autonomy - is still a ways off, it seems to me.

Trump was given $2 billion plus in free media coverage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...
https://secure.marketwatch.com...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...

Duckduckgo returns lots more with my query, "worth of free media coverage 2016 election Trump"
If the media had ignored him or only ran paid advertisements, Trump would have been a lot less likely to have won

yeah, but the first target will be South Korea.

Besides, nobody agrees with you.

Are we on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea? Probably not ...

In South Korea, daily stresses outweigh North Korea missile worries

North Korea could go nuclear, but most South Koreans don't care

So settle down Sally, and don't get your "panties in a wad.

Swamped by trying to be relevant with rumors alone.

CNN once reported the gunman fired so many bullets they set off the smoke detector which pin pointed his location. I never heard another report of the smoke detector.
Searching it one gets 230K results today, down from 800K yesterday. las vegas shooting smoke detectors = https://www.washingtonpost.com...

You think it is bad here. On reddit the CEO edits the posts of users.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.theverge.com/2016/...

so your comparisons to Google's situation fall apart right from the get-go.

The subject of the thread still lists hosters (of services) in addition to registrars. Moreover, registrars — such as Google — have an even greater responsibility. Whereas a hosting provider may choose to discontinue service to a particularly unpleasant customer, a registrar should not have such ability — certainly not without first seeing the customer's domain safely migrated elsewhere.

Speaking of IANA, it, rather than the US government, is the organization with the authority you're talking about. The USG gave it away in 1998 to ICANN

Bullshit. Whatever it is ostensibly, the governance of the Internet is still very much controlled by the US government with ICANN allowed to do its thing only as long the US is Ok with it. Many of the root DNS-servers are US-owned...

As I said earlier, the domain-registrars are very government-like in their very purpose, like Registries of Deeds, for example...

The courts have repeatedly ruled that inciting violence—which is what The Daily Stormer is accused of—is an unlawful form of speech

You aren't offering any citations — how is mere accusation of inciting violence sufficient for government to suppress speech?..

But, meanwhile, do I understand you correctly, that you'll have no problem with any and all "Antifa" sites losing their domains? They aren't merely "accused" of inciting violence, not even merely observed engaging in it, they openly admit it.

don't you dare suggest that private entities are obligated to assist them

Just as Daily Stormer agreed to Google's terms, Google have agreed to — and did for a while — host them regardless of their views, voluntarily. They did not have to take them, but they did.

Notary Publics are private too, and they aren't obligated to serve anyone in particular. But, once they notarize your signature, they can't — should not be able to — withdraw their certification on the basis of you being an asshole...

The sudden pull of the domain-registration is a scandal and a violation of the Nazis' civil rights.

curb the enshrined right of freedom of speech of NFL players protesting.

This is bullshit. There is no such right. The 1st Amendment protects them from government prosecution — one can not be jailed for making a statement. It does not protect them — nor anyone else — from the disgust of their fellow citizens. Private employers may fire assholes — indeed, just the other day y'all were celebrating firings of the folks (accused of) taking parts in KKK marches...

Consistency much?

There's a tendency among Europeans to tribute the problems they see in the U.S. to structural problem with the U.S.

Most European states are very homogeneous in their racial makeup. The U.S. has an extremely large immigrant population, making it very ethnically diverse for a developed nation (I believe only Canada is more diverse). If you compare to a map of homicide rates, with the notable exceptions of Canada and Russia, you'll see a very strong correlation. More ethnically diverse countries tend to have more homicides.

We as a species are still very tribal. When the population is homogeneous and fewer tribes are in conflict, there tends to be less violent crime. When the population is diverse and more tribes are in conflict, there tends to be more violent crime. That's probably all you're seeing. The Canadians I've met are genuinely nice and friendly towards outsiders (almost to a fault - they have problems standing up for themselves when they're being taken advantage of). Americans tend to be more of the type who won't take crap for others. The high U.S. prison population is probably a consequence of maintaining low developed world crime rates within an ethnically diverse population. (I haven't visited Russia nor met many Russians so I can't speak for why their correlation is the opposite of most of the world.)

Drop a few million people from all around the world into any EU country, and I suspect you'd either see their crime rate or their prison population skyrocket.

It's like when Enron investigated itself...