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Have fun with your class action lawsuit there Verizon., you're gonna end up giving all the grandfathered accounts free unlimited for life.

Unless you can prove the contract illegal, have fun trying to get a class action lawsuit when you agreed to Supreme-Court-upheld forced arbitration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com... OP was wrong in claiming it was countries. It's just one.

  Fiorina shafts vendor to senate campaign

no evidence that arming the victims prevents mass shootings.

What's your next guess? Read and learn.

Besides Volokh's very informative research, I'll ask if you've ever hear of a country called "Israel"? There's a reason why the Palestinian terrorists gave up on trying to shoot up shopping malls and switched to half-assed rocketry.

1 in 5 chance that a mass shooting will use weapons the killer didn't own but obtained from gun owners on site.

Bullshit.

Why is it that when you leftards pull a number out of your ass, you always go for 20%? That's just like the bogus claim that one in five women will get raped in college.

-jcr

https://freedomhouse.org/repor...

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etc.

"With their exclusive rights protected by the Public Carriage Office, and their rivals held back, London black cabs behave like any cartel — they squeeze their advantages for all their worth." http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea...

Uber is cheaper and quicker than black cabs: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

In the age of GPS "The Knowledge" is a needlessly hard test which keeps most people out. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

London drivers say "The Knowledge" is better than a GPS http://www.theguardian.com/wor... but even before the age of GPS, most cities on the planet regulated taxi without such a test. Doctors do something similar with entrance boards which decide how many new doctors can enter a field. http://wallstreetpit.com/5769-... Rudimentary economics: any profession which restricts their numbers can charge more. Imagine if nurses, paramedics, firemen and cops set up their own mandatory boards what it could do for them.

Most cities restrict taxi numbers usually by restricting the number of licenses issued.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6... FRANCE $270,000
http://globalnews.ca/news/1780... CANADA Was $360,000
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cost... AUSTRALIA Was $425,000
http://www.scmp.com/business/m... HONG KONG $1M
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... USA $1.2M

"With their exclusive rights protected by the Public Carriage Office, and their rivals held back, London black cabs behave like any cartel — they squeeze their advantages for all their worth." http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea...

Uber is cheaper and quicker than black cabs: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

In the age of GPS "The Knowledge" is a needlessly hard test which keeps most people out. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

London drivers say "The Knowledge" is better than a GPS http://www.theguardian.com/wor... but even before the age of GPS, most cities on the planet regulated taxi without such a test. Doctors do something similar with entrance boards which decide how many new doctors can enter a field. http://wallstreetpit.com/5769-... Rudimentary economics: any profession which restricts their numbers can charge more. Imagine if nurses, paramedics, firemen and cops set up their own mandatory boards what it could do for them.

Most cities restrict taxi numbers usually by restricting the number of licenses issued.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6... FRANCE $270,000
http://globalnews.ca/news/1780... CANADA Was $360,000
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cost... AUSTRALIA Was $425,000
http://www.scmp.com/business/m... HONG KONG $1M
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... USA $1.2M

What Arne Duncan's new senior adviser did to N.Y. schools:

"You'll see the rollout of a statewide data system that will give a lot more useful information to teachers and principals about student performance and a lot more useful data for policymakers."

In the above quote, King was referring to the implementation of inBloom, funded and created by the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. Its purpose was to amass an extraordinary amount of confidential student data with the intent of sharing it with private software developers to create personalized educational products. Despite public outcry, John King continued to support inBloom until the legislature stepped in and pulled the plug during the spring of 2014. Shortly thereafter, inBloom itself shut down.

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A Brief History of US Imperialism and State Violence in Colombia

From the 1960s to the late 2000s, the United States government has played a decisive role in how the Colombian state has carried out its brutal war against left-wing dissidents and Colombian civil society.

Recent history in Colombia reads like something out of a dystopian horror novel.

A recently released report from Human Rights Watch describes how between 2002 and 2008, the Colombian military kidnapped and murdered “hundreds, possibly thousands of civilians”, typically “rural peasants, drug addicts, the homeless, and petty criminals”, and dressed them up as rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Union leaders regularly targeted for assassination. making Colombia consistently top the charts of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a labor organizer. Recently released documents have shown how Chiquita Brands International, a major US banana company, maintained close ties with right-wing death squads
who threatened, kidnapped, tortured, and killed labor organizers in the area who spoke out against low wages and poor working conditions. Agricultural industries, like the palm oil sector, appear to have grown in the last decade through a repeated pattern where paramilitary groups forcibly displace peasants from promising agricultural lands and then sell those lands to multinationals.

  As of 2014, Colombia had at least 5.7 million internally displaced people (~11% of the total population); only Syria had a higher number of displaced people.

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A Brief History of US Imperialism and State Violence in Colombia

From the 1960s to the late 2000s, the United States government has played a decisive role in how the Colombian state has carried out its brutal war against left-wing dissidents and Colombian civil society.

Recent history in Colombia reads like something out of a dystopian horror novel.

A recently released report from Human Rights Watch describes how between 2002 and 2008, the Colombian military kidnapped and murdered “hundreds, possibly thousands of civilians”, typically “rural peasants, drug addicts, the homeless, and petty criminals”, and dressed them up as rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Union leaders regularly targeted for assassination. making Colombia consistently top the charts of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a labor organizer. Recently released documents have shown how Chiquita Brands International, a major US banana company, maintained close ties with right-wing death squads
who threatened, kidnapped, tortured, and killed labor organizers in the area who spoke out against low wages and poor working conditions. Agricultural industries, like the palm oil sector, appear to have grown in the last decade through a repeated pattern where paramilitary groups forcibly displace peasants from promising agricultural lands and then sell those lands to multinationals.

  As of 2014, Colombia had at least 5.7 million internally displaced people (~11% of the total population); only Syria had a higher number of displaced people.

you're commenting under a story in which the EPA is underfunded and as a result is unable to do it's job, and so a corporation got away with polluting on a massive scale

and your response is: disband them, and only *clean up* messes, instead of *prevent* them

seriously? you're not trolling or making a sarcastic joke?

profoundly, amazingly stupid

i always wondered at the source of this form of idiocy: "government isn't doing it's job, so destroy it" rather than gee, i dunno, fix the fucking problem preventing them from doing their fucking job?

because if no one does the job government is supposed to do, the world will be better? how does that work? no need to regulate markets. no need to prevent pollution, no need to police the food or drug supply? because as history clearly shows, nevermind current fucking events like bp oil spill, this volkswagen story, the peanut salmonella case x1,000,000 other examples: when corporations can get away with crime, *they do*

why are there so many morons like you in this world who see government as the problem, and not the corporations doing all the actual, criminal wrong?

look at the comments under this story

1. industry cheated na dpolluted
2. government is underfunded so it fucked up

and what do we have... criticisms of govt, no criticisms of industry, and calls to disband the very agency tasked with policing the scumbags in industry fucking up

how... the... fuck

"corporation {xyz} did horrible thing dumping pollution... but that's not the problem, the epa screwed up the clean up, that's the real problem!"

really?

seriously, how can people be so fucking stupid on this point?

how can this incredible blindness about the repeated malfeasance and ineptitude in business escape your attention or derision, but only government, which you fucking need to prevent and control and punish these corporate assholes, is always the culprit?

this guy:

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

he's real

he exists. he'll poison your children, he'll kill you, he'll render vast areas uninhabitable. all to make $10 more

time and time and time again throughout history, there's millions of examples of this

but no, he's not the problem: government screwed up the investigation, the cleanup, the prevention. therefore, let's focus all our rage there and ignore the criminals out there screwing up your lives and your communities

WTF?

why are you morons and assholes so blind to this?

you rage at government and give industry a pass: why???

When did Lars Ulrich start working at T-Mobile?

"Believe me, as a libertarian I love questioning the wisdom of all laws"

Except, you guys never seem to open a history book or frequent scientific journals regarding actual history.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

The real history of imperial conquest by commerce:

From war is a racket:

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home."

Article on civilians being killed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/colombian-army-killed-civilians-to-fake-battlefield-success-rights-group-says/2015/06/23/5e83700e-191d-11e5-bed8-1093ee58dad0_story.html

All that tells me is that gun violence isn't a big problem when it is the people who are trained and vetted who have the guns. That says nothing about the general population packing heat. In fact, there are a lot of myths about both Israel and Switzerland regarding gun ownership. The situations there are not evidence that high levels of gun ownership in the civilian population doesn't lead to increased gun violence.

You are drinking the NRA's cool aid + your links were crap and had nothing to do with statistics of Gun homicides per capita: a real measure of the social impact of Guns.
Since you like the Washington Post, try this
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
or the BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

For civilized western countries, the USA gun homicide rate is 10 times that of comparable countries.

This is because
- You have freaking guns everywhere. Accessibility increases the homicide rate (kids find them, a bullet does more damage than a punch etc.etc)
- You have an African American problem. When a people group you beat on for hundreds of years get their freedom & guns: you've got a problem.
- The USA celebrates violence: You as a culture group are not mature enough to have guns as freely as you do.

It will take multiple generations to solve your gun violence problem. If you put in sensible gun reforms like Australia, you will have 20-30 years of criminals having a vast supply of weapons, while law abiding people don't: thus the laws will fail from the outcry of the innocents.
I'm afraid your goose is pretty much cooked.

The places with the highest rates of gun violence all have bans on guns. Please prove me wrong, show me how taking away everyone's guns will make everyone safer, but every time I read news about shootings, it is in places where people aren't allowed to carry guns.

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If gun control is the answer, why is it that in at least two countries where NO guns are allowed, there are still mass shootings?

The places with the highest rates of gun violence all have bans on guns. Please prove me wrong, show me how taking away everyone's guns will make everyone safer, but every time I read news about shootings, it is in places where people aren't allowed to carry guns.

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

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

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

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

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If gun control is the answer, why is it that in at least two countries where NO guns are allowed, there are still mass shootings?

This is what I thought would spring up around Google Glass which was one of the reasons I was against it.
But if this is true:

If you havenâ(TM)t registered for the site, and thus canâ(TM)t contest those negative ratings, your profile only shows positive reviews.

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

Then simply never register for the site, and frankly yet another reason to dump your Facebook account if you have one.

For those of you that are too young to remember or know this, the US government declared ketchup as a vegetable for school lunches, back in the 80's.

Such a shame pizza doesn't count as a vegetable..

> "Racial bias has to be operating, inequities are rampant. Discrimination does exist whether intentional or unintentional,"

Asserting doesn't make it so. If she had proof she wouldn't have needed the mealy-mouth phrase "has to be operating".

> she told the school board in May of this year. Ford found that both Hispanic and black students are underrepresented in gifted programs
> She also found that about half the seats in those programs go to higher-income students, even though the majority of the district is poor.

Because a program truly oriented toward "gifted" children should be color-blind, and because white and/or higher-income households have a greater emphasis on school and success, especially compared with blacks and latinos, who are, by policy in most schools, advanced far beyond their competence by the myth that all outcomes must be equal, even when they aren't. What will happen is this program will be gutted, the money diverted in the name of "fairness", the gifted children will continue to be bored out of their minds at school, the blacks and latinos will still be told the system is rigged against them, and most of the diverted money will be donated to Democrats, 'cause, that's the way these things work..

How many times do we have to see this movie?

Tell me, people, when was the last time a white neighborhood erupted in violence, attacking and robbing local, white-owned businesses, because some black cop gunned down an unarmed white kid? The shootings happen, why not the violence? Why not the outrage? Why aren't Democrats defending the poor, downtrodden, white people being systematically murdered by "da man?"

To take just the first few results from Google:
http://mrconservative.com/2014...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.westernjournalism.c...

It also happens to be fake. Generated to stoke tension. The WSJ article you mention does not support your claim, it says nothing about immigrants wanting to cancel Oktoberfest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://m.snopes.com/ban-oktobe...

Rand Paul 11 hour speech against patriot act renewal http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Rand Paul swipes against GOP on another Iraq war http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pau...

Either the NSA has some good shit on everyone in power, and/or everyone in power values convenience over the interests of the people.

No, they have some good shit on everyone. They have said as much, without really coming out and saying it outright, if you see what I mean.

Read all about it here and here.

Meanwhile the Arctic Ocean on this planet is getting colder, further showing that global warming is a lie: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Cruz/Palin 2016 - Restoring America from the Liberal War against common sense

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

I would encourage everybody reading the parent post to actually read the article. Just take a look at the image at the top of the article: the overwhelming majority of the planet is heating up, setting all sorts of records, except for one small part of the ocean. And that part of the ocean is getting colder (it appears) because of all the melting fresh water (because the planet is heating up), which is screwing up a major circulation current. And _that_ is their evidence that global warming is a lie: taking a small part of evidence out of context, wilfully mis-interpreting it, and ignoring almost all the rest of the evidence.

never mind - the post you're referring to had gotten marked -1, so it fell under my filter.

I read the article; http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
  So it appears that the North Atlantic thermo-haline circulation may be getting screwed up due to a general warming trend on Earth.
I wrote a paper in grad school (comparing planetary climates) about this happening back in 1984, as did probably thousands of other students.
So it's not surprising that there's a knee-jerk Ah-ha! I told you so! It's happening! at the first hint of that maybe sorta there might be a problem.
If the current is shutting down at this time then it's too late already. shrug. I think not, though, the ocean's not warmed enough.
If it is happening, get ready for those assholes in Europe to start another world war when their continent freezes.

A while back, merchants won a lawsuit against credit card companies, allowing them to offer discounts for cash payments. This is most visible at gas stations:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
So in essence, the "revolution" could happen now, yet the cash revolution hasn't really caught on.

Why? I don't know. Maybe the merchants like playing this game of marking things up 3% and then earning extra on the debit and cash users? Maybe people like playing the game of juggling around their cashback credit cards whose 5% cashback categories change every quarter?

He wants families to be forced out of work and to starve. That is so Republican of him. So Republican. They hate families.

Jeff Bezos has supported and donated primarily to Democratic causes and Democratic candidates.

Don't confuse him with reality :)

To these folks the word "Republican" is just a meaningless pejorative. Their use of the word betrays no actual knowledge at all.

He wants families to be forced out of work and to starve. That is so Republican of him. So Republican. They hate families.

Jeff Bezos has supported and donated primarily to Democratic causes and Democratic candidates.

social conservatism is mostly hypocrisy and easy shallow judgment. faced with the same problems, all of those spouting holier-than-thou fire and brimstone would probably commit the same "sins". it's all about making yourself feel superior for reasons which are paper thin. social conservatism is a character defect: judge others in a do-as-i-say-not-as-i-do manner

and i love the current pope as he makes mincemeat of the propaganda plutocrats have successfully sold to conservative morons for years about the environment and the poor. of course, i don't like his stand on abortion and gay marriage, but i like the fact he shows the propagandized morons what actual conservatism really looks like: care and concern for the poor and the environment. true conservatism has more to do with bernie sanders than it does with the plutocrat loving bullshit the corporate propaganda channels have sold to the conservative retards. it costs money to pay for the crap they dump in our air and water, and it costs money to pay workers a decent wage. so rather than doing that, they'd rather sell conservaitives on perrenial wedge issues like abortion to ge them voting for them, then abandon them and pursue their agenda of robbing the conservative retards in their paycheck and polluting their air and water

i was going to say there is no compassion in conservatism, that anyone with actual compassion and a brain inevitably becomes a liberal, but that's not actually true. what is true is that the caring side of conservatism has been buried under corporate and plutocrat agendas. i look forward to a reawakening on the right in terms of social justice, actual care and concern for the poor, a long standing pillar of genuine conservatism. it's possible. i could just be blindly optimistic, but bernie sanders recently visited extremely conservative liberty university in virginia, and just came out of the gate with "we don't agree about abortion and gay marriage. now let's talk about income equality"

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

it's a start

i'm rather hopelessly optimistic, but an awakening on the right about how they are being robbed and cheated blind by an agenda which uses them and doesn't give a shit about them would be wonderful

Google will simply pay them off, no big deal, just like they have paid the US government and the EU over countless privacy-based violations.

Google is now one of the biggest bribers to the US Government... err, of course I mean lobbyists(!)
http://www.opensecrets.org/lob...

Actually, I have heard of many digs going over. I even have a local example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Here is a contrary view: "Fifth Amendment protects passcode on smartphones, court holds - The Washington Post" https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Japanese companies build a boatload of cars in the US with non-union labor, and VW actually encouraged their employees to join the UAW .

Of course, this is important for individual diagnosis. But it's the longer term implications on the epidemiology side that are absolutely huge.

This seems to me to be the real benefit of these types of tests. I would hope that CDC, NIH in conjunction with other agencies would begin funding these types of tests on a randomized basis so they could see how viruses are spreading through the population and finding out how viral infections are interacting with other diseases and treatments. The data collection effort would be well worth it.

The other test that has a similar implication was the one announced back in June This blood test can tell you every virus you’ve ever had

Come up with a statistically meaningful sampling. Say 10,000 kits per 100,000 patients and just start collecting data.

Nope, no confusion here.

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

He was saying at the time he was building nukes to use on Iran, and he was refusing access to UN weapons inspectors.

yes, things are different https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I don't think this is nonsense, and it's actually been reported before. See this Bill Moyers transcript for another, much older, source. Here are a couple more sources from 2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601358.html. Basically, the White House was so desperate to have DoJ authorization for the program, they visited a man in the hospital who was very ill, almost certainly very medicated, and in no condition to make decisions about the legality of domestic surveillance. It seems like they were trying to take advantage of Ashcroft's state and trick him into signing the papers. Notably, Alberto Gonzales, an attorney general later in the Bush administration, was among those visiting from the White House. Also, Ashcroft wasn't even the Attorney General at the time; because of his illness, he had transferred the power to Deputy Attorney General Jim Comey. Bush went around Comey to try to take advantage of a very ill man to try to get the surveillance authorized.

I don't think this is nonsense, and it's actually been reported before. See this Bill Moyers transcript for another, much older, source. Here are a couple more sources from 2007: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601358.html. Basically, the White House was so desperate to have DoJ authorization for the program, they visited a man in the hospital who was very ill, almost certainly very medicated, and in no condition to make decisions about the legality of domestic surveillance. It seems like they were trying to take advantage of Ashcroft's state and trick him into signing the papers. Notably, Alberto Gonzales, an attorney general later in the Bush administration, was among those visiting from the White House. Also, Ashcroft wasn't even the Attorney General at the time; because of his illness, he had transferred the power to Deputy Attorney General Jim Comey. Bush went around Comey to try to take advantage of a very ill man to try to get the surveillance authorized.

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

Millennials are leaving the federal workforce in droves.

Hmm, I wonder if there's a connection....

The FBI has an awful lot of previous form when it comes to pretending to have scientific evidence that doesn't really exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...
https://www.wsws.org/en/articl...

etc., etc. ad nauseam.

A while back a story made the rounds that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had written piece for the Washington post suggesting that if fossil fuel interests were deliberately lying in their climate change denial, that they could be prosecuted under RICO. In his piece he concluded that there wasn't enough evidence to know for sure that climate change denial was actually racketeering. Perhaps this is the beginning of the information he'd need to make such a case.

The Washington Post summed it up best in a headline: Scientist apologizes for his sexist shirt, but the Internet still wants women to shut up and die

Perhaps you remember news stories of a town in Texas (Irving, in fact) that had to pass local legislation to prohibit sharia courts that were settling various business and personal disputes of Muslims.

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

If you take things in context here, there is a political, religious and PR battle waging in this city between the government and Muslims. The Muslims lost round 1, rightly so, by not be allowed to set up their own government systems in parallel to those of the United States or State of Texas. They won round 2 today, with Obama officially taking the side of the youth.

I was modded down in a comment to a previous story, but I will say at least this much again. No one has seen the device. I tried finding pictures, but to my knowledge none have been posted. It was in a small metal briefcase like box (for holding pencils) with a steel cable around it. Since no one here actually knows the physical appearance or context of how it was presented and perceived, none of us can make any kind of informed opinion on whether or not teachers were justified in having any concerns of what he brought to school.

His father has had run ins of various sorts with the local governments regarding Islam. It did not say what those were (if they were related to the Sharia law deal or what).

Whats the count of killed officers so far this year?
21?
Something like that?
Meanwhile the number of citizens killed by police so far this year is more than 500.

Again: there is no war on police.
And if there is, it is a pittance compared to the War being waged by police upon the citizenry.
(and no i dont actually believe that 'that' war exists either)

read, and become educated. you could surely use it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

A blockade is an act of war. A people have a right to defend themselves against an attack.

Then could you please explain why Gaza isn't at war with Egypt, and why Gazans aren't "defending themselves" against this "attack" by lobbing rockets at Cairo?

I can't remember an Israeli prosecution of settlers for killing Palestinians

You either have a short memory, or (more likely) are trolling and hoping that others have one.

After the Tomb of the Patriarchs massacre, the one major incident of "killings by the settlers", "The Israeli government...responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, criminalizing the Kach movement and affiliated movements as terrorist, forbidding certain Israeli settlers from entering Palestinian towns and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles...Jewish Israelis were barred from entering major Arab communities in Hebron."

In response to a handful of Jewish extremists celebrating the attack, Israel enacted "legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists". Your turn: can you point to a single instance of Gaza or any Muslim nation passing a law like that?

'...the "white flag" incidents where Israeli soldiers killed Palestinians, including children, who came out carrying a white flag as ordered (documented in the Goldstone report), but Israel has never prosecuted a solider for killing a Palestinian, or even admitted that it happened.'

That is a bald-faced lie, but of course you already know that:
"After reviewing the evidence, the Military Advocate General ordered that an IDF Staff Sergeant be indicted with charges of manslaughter by a military court. This decision is based on evidence that the soldier, who was serving as a designated marksman, deliberately targeted an individual walking with a group of people waving a white flag without being ordered or authorized to do so."

As an aside, you also know that the Goldstone report that you refer to has since been disavowed by its author...

This is a particular problem with small, non-commercial planes. Modern airframes are very safe, and the cats vast majority of crashes are "controlled flight into terrain".

Have you got cites for that? A very brief search turned up this article, which states:

"The vast majority of general aviation accidents in 2011 happened because the pilot lost control in-flight. Another common cause was “controlled flight into terrain,” which means the pilot didn’t see the ground, a mountain, a body of water or another obstacle until it was too late."

Isn't that just a bit of regurgitated propaganda, assuming facts not in evidence (i.e. that liberal arts majors, dogs and Republicans would follow the rules)?

Here is what happens in real life:

manipulation in the service of commercial agendas,

hoaxes,

malice, and

blackmail,

along with "skewed information, unattributed material, and potential copyright violations".

Wikipedia throws such people out today, and they're back tomorrow, with a new pseudonymous sockpuppet account.

Wikipedia lists over 70,000 blocked sockpuppeteers, and that list does not include some of the most serious cases, where individuals have used literally hundreds of sockpuppet accounts. (For reference, the English Wikipedia has around 3,000 steady contributors making at least three or four content edits a day.)

Calling this issue "WikiGate" reflects a rather single-minded focus.

A few days ago, we learned that there was an extortion ring operating in Wikipedia – see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... or http://www.independent.co.uk/n... and many others.

A few months ago, we learned that a hoax article had survived for ten years on Wikipedia, and that its content had come to be cited in numerous places, among many other hoaxes: https://www.washingtonpost.com... see also http://wikipediocracy.com/2014...

A few weeks prior to that, we learned that an administrator had managed to manipulate Wikipedia's articles on a bogus Indian business school over a period of years, with an Indian journalist estimating that Wikipedia had messed up thousands of students' lives by lending its brand's supposed credibility to the school's misleading propaganda: http://www.newsweek.com/2015/0... and http://scroll.in/article/71429...

Each of those would have deserved the title WikiGate more than this non-issue, which if anything actually helps improve Wikipedia's reliability.

First, this isn't new. Software-based no-fly zones already exist in drones, such as over the DC area. See this story from the Washington Post about this already being done. The difference is that such zones are static, not dynamic.

A NOTAM is a notice to airmen of potential hazards to aircraft. If police or firefighters need exclusive access to a portion of airspace, they need to issue a NOTAM indicating that all other aircraft should avoid that area. This is already done for military training operations, for example. Other events that might present hazards such as fireworks, hot-air balloons, and air shows issue NOTAMs so pilots know to avoid those areas. In reality, what needs to happen is that drones obey NOTAMs and any such restrictions included within, whether temporary or permanent. And the issue involving DC wouldn't have been a problem had the drones simply obeyed NOTAM 0/8326.

It's not clear to me how that information will be transmitted to drones in real-time, though. Other aircraft generally aren't programmed to specifically avoid areas under NOTAM no-fly restrictions, mostly because pilots are expected to be trained to obey them. So either there has to be a way for drones to automatically download and obey NOTAMs or their operators need to be able to receive NOTAMs and manually comply with them. The latter solution is difficult right now because anyone can operate a drone for recreational purposes under 400 feet in areas without flight restrictions. There are basically two options, and they're not mutually exclusive: 1) require some kind of certification to legally operate a drone that shows they understand the rules and can do so safely or 2) program drones to automatically comply with NOTAMs.