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They did think a competitor sabotaged it and wanted to inspect their roof: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

But at first, they did think that a competitor sabotaged it: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Concentration camps? BS. You read too much leftist literature.

They are concentration camps by any reasonable definition, just as the Japanese-American internment camps were.

Also, reality has a well-known liberal bias.

It's basically human trafficking at that point, you bleeding heart moron.

No, human trafficking is where those 1,400-odd foster kids the feds lost wound up.

Calling them that is an insult to every victim of the Holocaust. I'm old enough to have known dozens of survivors, and you are insulting them with that hyperbole.

This is my favorite new line of argument from MAGA chuds. It's the most cynical kind of virtue signaling.

But before you spout off defending the memory of people who were victims of the Holocaust, maybe we should ask a few Holocaust survivors what they think:

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

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Except this all started under Obama.

Further, it's clear she used her position for financial gain. Very clear. At the expense of the United States.

Is it? Is it really? Want to provide some proof of that financial gain? After all, if it's so clear, you should be able to provide whatever's needed for those hapless FBI guys so she can be charged tomorrow, right? TBH, I'm sick of you conspiracy nutjobs (both sides) that just keep on repeating some tripe you heard in one of your echo chambers. Put up some real documentation or shut up.

Really? I don't even know where to start.

Here, I don't think you can call the WashPo a right wing paper. So have at it -
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

So how come the IRS never audited them? I think it's certain they took money from the foundation from what I've read.

Ever hear of the Clinton Foundation?
Ever hear of Uranium one? ... and so on. Not hard to find. Not hard to find references to actual court cases and such though that doesn't seem to matter to liberals. Nothing does. They're far to emotional to listen to reason. Let's see how you do.

https://www.investors.com/poli...
https://www.theatlantic.com/po...
http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

How about the health care bit that she couldn't shove down our throats in 1994, shoved it down our throats as the ACA? Here, listen to Mr. Gruber (the "expert" that pushed it through) tell you how stupid you are - http://thehill.com/policy/heal...

The Clintons seem to be as corrupt as they come. From Hillary nearly getting disbarred when she worked at the Rose law firm to Bill & Hillary being disbarred after they left the WH. They are not nice people.

A Republican would already be years into his prison sentence by now if he did what she did at the same time.

Well, Trump's still going, and it's been documented that he's benefiting from his elected position. (His hotel in DC alone has a 50% increase in revenues since the presidency started, along with the sudden large number of legal actions in China going his and his family's way post election) I think you'll see more unsavory stories as administration actions are traced back to those that benefitted from them. Zinke is my personal favorite for next indictable current administration official. His actions as EPA head and interactions with lobbyists are billowing smoke. All that's needed is to find the fire.

Interesting. So what law has Trump broken because the Democrats would love to know of an actual law he's broken instead of the fake one - collusion. They've tried emoluments, other things that are very obscure and haven't been complained about in the history of the country. One by one they've been ruled to be not a concern. They're trying to conduct a coup. Just like they tried to do with Nixon.

GDP is doing very well, we're #1 again in the world. Consumer confidence is way back up. Unemployment is at a 43 year low. Black people are doing better than they have done under ANY Democratic President. Things are working a whole lot better. He's even bringing peace to the Korean peninsula. Something Obama really wanted to do and failed. He's putting politicians to shame all the way back to at least Eisenhower. Probably more like Lincoln. I thin

Calling them that is an insult to every victim of the Holocaust. I'm old enough to have known dozens of survivors, and you are insulting them with that hyperbole.

This is my favorite new line of argument from MAGA chuds. It's the most cynical kind of virtue signaling.

But before you spout off defending the memory of people who were victims of the Holocaust, maybe we should ask a few Holocaust survivors what they think:

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

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

The US has around 1.1 - 1.3 fatal accidents per 100K miles for general aviation. For comparison, motor vehicles have about 1.2 deaths per MILLION miles.

Where are you getting your numbers? For the last full decade with complete numbers:

Passenger deaths per 1 billion passenger miles 2000 - 2009:
Car - 7.28
Ferry - 3.17
Train - 0.43
Bus - 0.11
Plane - 0.07

Nice but this is wrong.
or at least is an attempt at propaganda
or is a victim of bad data
or maybe this is the left mumbling to itself again
Since S. Asians make up majority of the workforce at Google.
Face it, determining quotas using race is racism just the same.

How the Asians became white

Ask yourselves why North Korea and Russia are constantly made out to be this big threat

OK, first of all, it's not "North Korea" and "Russia" that are the threat, it's the regimes governing North Korea and Russia. I don't know any North Koreans, but all the Russian people I know are fine people. I have no problem with them.

1) Why the Kim regime is a threat: Kims regularly have their political enemies murdered (including family members) including one who was strapped to an anti-aircraft gun and vaporized.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

2) Why the Putin regime is a threat: He regularly has his political enemies murdered, sometimes via terrorist attacks on Western countries. He also used state intelligence machinery to attack elections in the United States, the UK, and the Ukraine, and in the case of the US colluded with criminals to throw the 2016 presidential election to a mobster.

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

Yeah, sure buddy. They're not teaching kids how to write in school anymore. You were saying?

This Washington Post story explains it the story better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/14/two-rival-gamers-allegedly-involved-in-kansas-swatting-death-plead-not-guilty-in-federal-court/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4c37f1c30c49

But when Gaskill noticed that Barriss had started following him on Twitter, he realized what the Californian and Viner were plotting. Instead of backing down or running for help, Gaskill taunted the alleged swatter via direct message on Twitter.

“Please try some s–t ,” Gaskill allegedly messaged Barriss on Dec. 28, according to the indictment. “You’re gonna try and swat me its hilarious I’m waiting buddy.”

In one twist, police say that when Gaskill and Barriss were speaking over Twitter, Gaskill gave the alleged swatter an address he claimed was his own — 1033 W. McCormick

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Gaskill became aware what Viner and Barriss were planning, but instead going to the police, he lied about living at a former address and then taunted Barriss to "Try something please kid". He encouraged Barris to carry out his threat knowing that innocent people could be hurt because of his deception. That's certainly prosecutable.

More detail in this story: Why the Higgs boson wasn't discovered in America.

2 quotes:

1) "One thing that killed the [Texas] SSC was an undeserved reputation for over-spending."

I don't agree with "undeserved". The project leaders did not explain their spending sufficiently that people with little technical knowledge could understand it. That was my impression.

2) "People have been asking which party killed the Superconducting Super Collider. The answer is... both of them. The key Senate vote came in 1993, when Democrats controlled Congress. All told, 26 Democrats voted to kill the project and 29 voted to keep it; 31 Republicans voted to kill and 13 voted to maintain funding."

More detail in this story: Why the Higgs boson wasnâ(TM)t discovered in America.

Quotes:

"One thing that killed the TexasSSC was an undeserved reputation for over-spending." I don't agree with "undeserved". The project leaders did not explain their spending sufficiently that people with little technical knowledge could understand it. That was my impression.

"People have been asking which party killed the Superconducting Super Collider. The answer is... both of them. The key Senate vote came in 1993, when Democrats controlled Congress. All told, 26 Democrats voted to kill the project and 29 voted to keep it; 31 Republicans voted to kill and 13 voted to maintain funding."

Civilians who mishandle confidential documents have historically not been charged, and that's been a policy since at least the Bush administration:

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

As for the statute, people miss the point when they complain about "reading intent" into it, because the operative question is whether she was "grossly negligent," and the evidence seems to suggest that no, she wasn't.

... Got the T-shirt:
https://slashdot.org/story/00/01/10/0816250/aol-and-time-warner-confirm-merger-plans

Also, these Slashdot pull quotes in the Washington Post are awesome:

In one virtual gathering place for technology buffs yesterday--the Slashdot Web site--Managing Editor Robin Miller kicked off a rollicking debate over the merger with this screed: "Now you'll be able to get all your Internet needs, from connectivity to content to shopping, delivered by a single experienced company. No more need to deal with Web sites that stray from the party line, take risks . . . or any of that other messy old-fashioned 'Internet as anarchy' stuff.

"To get online in the future, all you'll need to do is plug in your computer, turn off your brain, and enjoy!"

If nothing else, AOL Time Warner will toil in a media environment that's undergoing a whirlwind evolution. No one can say with any certainty, for example, whether in a few years most consumers will go onto the Internet from their televisions, or whether tomorrow's TV viewers will watch their favorite shows on their computer screens.

What's likely, however, is that high-speed Internet service will soon become a mass-market phenomenon. Access to the Internet via fatter cable lines is about 100 times faster than traditional phone and modem connections. And control over broadband is considered pivotal to the health of both companies, said Mark Berman, an analyst at Mediaweek.com, an online trade publication.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/01/11/aol-to-acquire-time-warner-in-record-183-billion-merger/92bdb300-0f48-4dfd-ae7e-38d9aec6417a/?utm_term=.d94ff7b431e7

I don't recall making any mention of race, in fact I didn't even say anything about the past administration other than to simply present links of comments by your liberal gods that show the massive hypocrisy of your side. You all cheered and agreed with what they said then but now you're the ones that are horrifying and whining and you refuse to admit it. But why is it anytime someone says anything about the worst President to ever occupy the Oval office you immediately jump to race? How do you even know what my race is? Typical leftist playbook, don't address the facts, instead call names.

But seriously "ran America better"? Did the worst economic recovery in history show you that? Did the record number of people on food stamps show you that? Or maybe it was when the Obama administration altered the formula for determining the unemployment number to drop all of those who stopped looking, while today even according to the NYT since Trump's has reversed or halted many of Obama's policies we're at statistically 0 unemployment.

Oh and of course there's always the signature ACA legislation where if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor and how they admitted to having lied to stupid Americans to get it passed. And now of course we see that there really is no affordable in the ACA, but that rates are skyrocketing and it is taking the deficit with it.

Please list the accomplishments of which you speak. Considering he was in office for 8 years and Trump has only been in office 500 days I'm sure you can find many more instances of his successes than the current President.

And I won't even get started on foreign policy like Libya, Afghanistan, Iran, etc.

Except the homeless aren't counted as part of the unemployed -- many haven't been looking for years. They need a leg up and training, and money for this doesn't come from thin air.

MS-13? Name the school and neighborhood -- you're likely exaggerating.

‘A ticking time bomb’: MS-13 threatens a middle school, warn teachers, parents, students

Gang-related fights are now a near-daily occurrence at Wirt, where a small group of suspected MS-13 members at the overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Prince George’s County throw gang signs, sell drugs, draw gang graffiti and aggressively recruit students recently arrived from Central America, according to more than two dozen teachers, parents and students. Most of those interviewed asked not to be identified for fear of losing their jobs or being targeted by MS-13.

Gonna grow a brain and pull your head out of your partisan, smelly ass now?

Or are you going to close your already-closed mind even more and shove your head even further up your rectum until you can see your own damn molars from the backside?

MS-13 "taking over schools" is Fox agitprop.

Actually it appears to be wapo agitprop.

Thanks for the excellent link: Cobalt mining for lithium ion batteries has a high human cost.

Also, lithium ion batteries age and lose storage capacity. They are very expensive to buy and replace.

That is an example of an issue I mentioned. Always examine all the surrounding information.

I'm all for making a buck but the use of "benefit" here is a loose term depending on which end of the technology ladder you're on. When it comes to the current philosophy of renewable energy storage there's a little problem. Anybody who doesn't grasp this is kidding themselves.

This is the same Congress that wasn't allowed to read the Obamacare bill before they passed it...

FTFY

You people are so delusional, after all this time there is not a single piece of evidence to support any of these wild claims. The Trump tower meeting has been shown to have been a setup by FusionGPS - the lawyer met with FusionGPS both before and after that meeting, and funny how she was complaining a couple of weeks ago that if this meeting was oh so important, why hadn't Mueller's team interviewed her? Because Mueller knows it was a setup and he has enough problems already.

But lest anyone forget, even if there was a meeting IT IS NOT A CRIME. The only criminal act related to foreign powers is if they provide something of substance to a campaign. You know, like a British national providing opposition research, or illegal aliens making contributions to a campaign. There is also no collusion statute in the US code except between corporations. The only time speaking to a foreign power could be considered a crime is if we are at war with that power and the person speaking was giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy. Last time I looked we were not at war with Russia.

So for all you butt hurt liberals who lost the election, I have 3 links for you:

Election is over, we won, deal with it - B. Obama
Stop whining about the U.S. elections being rigged - B. Obama
Trump wouldn't say if he'll accept the outcome....horrifying - H. Clinton

You seem to confuse production efficiency with subsidy, correcting for subsidy is one thing, correcting because your own farmers can't produce milk at the same price because they are more inefficient is very much protectionism (and a kind of subsidy all by itself on the part of the Canadian government, very telling you cannot or will not admit that).

I think at this point it's important to let readers read facts about the matter rather than your own un-substnatiated figures, I think I'll leave the discussion at that - facts on which people can decide, rather than the emotion of only one side supposedly subsidizing an industry.

You bullshit. STEM grads enter a market where employers want everyone to be under 30 while at the same time already having a decade of professional experience. Where their own government works to suppress their wages with the H1B visa program. Where their industry tries to offshore or outsource as much as possible - and colludes to suppress wages when they can't.

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

Don't laugh, she has experience as a mail-server admin... "the most qualified candidate for the position", etc.

100 % correct except for one thing --

Even National Geographic, the MOST self-righteously environmental organization

National Geographic Magazine is now owned by Murdoch/Fox, about as far as from the environment as a company can get. BTW I let my subscription lapse after the third in a row issue with a large article about the Holy land. See

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

Connecticut's gun laws after Sandy Hook reduced gun killings by over 40% across the board.

And your cite? Does not say "Guns help prevent crime more than they cause it. " at all.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for unrestricted gun access, but let's not muddy the waters with BS. If we as a society want these rights to guns, we have to pay the price and know - with open eyes - the costs.

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

And pretty much all political proposals to penalize "bad" behavior is that they're not designed to respond to feedback. If you're going to do this, the correct way to do it is to designate some desired level of atmospheric carbon. The higher we go above that level, the greater the tax per ton of CO2 becomes. Likewise, the closer the actual CO2 level gets to the desired level, the smaller the tax becomes. (Conceivably it could go negative if it's deemed that too little atmospheric CO2 is also a danger.)

When you don't use a simple feedback mechanism like this to make incentives auto-adjusting, you get the screwed-up situation we currently have with gender "equality" in education. Girls are outperforming boys at every education level. We've reached the goal of gender equality in education, then blown right past it to where girls are now advantaged relative to boys. But the incentives (created when girls lagged behind boys) are still set to favor girls.

I don't recall a lot of people being okay with Obama's drone policy.

Of course, you don't — passive acquiescence is not memorable. So, please, cite anything by NYTimes or Washington Post denouncing Obama for the far graver offense of killing suspects, that's more passionate than this, or this, or this...

Heck, not only was he not denounced, his side praised him for killing Osama bin Laden, instead of arresting him... Online and IRL, Left were taunting "RethugliKKKans" with: "who is tougher on terrorism now?"

The only guy objecting was this maverick. Every single other "progressive" is a hypocrite...

Mike Pence used a private server while governor of Indiana which is
legal in Indiana , it isn't legal at the federal level and he didn't do so exclusively as Hillary did. He doesn't do so as VP.

Regarding Kushner, from NPR, that noted right wing organization:

"Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business. Fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account. These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal, rather than his White House, address. All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event."

So some people have his personal account and he gets emails there but he forwards them to his official account so they are properly tracked and recorded. I just started a new job and folks here still have my personal email address as the first one to popup in their Outllook when they send me an email so I've received a couple of sensitive documents outside the company. Every time it happens I let the sender know so they correct it. Does that mean I'm doing company business on a personal email address?

You really need to try harder if you're going to try to find hypocrisy, your arguments are too easily knocked. Here, let me help you:

Donald Trump was attacked relentless for not denouncing David Duke, a man he never met, and someone he and Pence did denounce, yet the same media and Democrats haven't demanded that any of these 7 Democrats denounce their actual ties with Louis Farrakhan. They even buried the photo of Obama standing with him so it wouldn't come out while Obama was in office. Now that is a proper example of hypocrisy.

corporate interests write the laws they want and pay your elected officials to enact them. See George W Bush's energy policy as one of many examples.

Obviously you can't be right, since Bush the second's administration's energy policy was decided and enacted with full transparency and under open public scrutiny. Moreover, we know Republicans always put people first, so corporations can't have had any influence on the policy.

The "FTC should handle it" argument is indistinguishable from a clever plan to bury any possibility of net neutrality in red tape for a long time:

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

Here's the study you requested.

The problem with using datasets over long times (like 19 years) is a myriad of other factors changing over time can influence the economic outcome. I suspect if you'd set the endpoint at the middle of the 2008/2009 recession, you would've concluded the minimum wage absolutely increases unemployment. To really do a valid study, you need to do an A/B comparison. Two different areas (preferably nearby or mixed with each other) with similar economies at the same time, but with different minimum wages.

Even then the results of all these studies tend to be mixed. I suspect what's going on is that a high minimum wage kills off low-income jobs (those where a worker would not be productive enough to pay for their own price of labor). So no neighborhood kid mowing your lawn, no people loading boxes from the warehouse onto the truck, fewer cleaning staff for the office, etc. But businesses don't give up and file for bankruptcy because of a small change like this. They adapt - they buy a forklift and hire a skilled forklift operator paid a lot more than the minimum wage, but who moves more boxes per hour per $ of wage than the workers he replaced. The company just hadn't wanted to pay the up-front money to buy a forklift, until the increased minimum wage tilted the scales against hiring multiple unskilled workers. Or they buy a robot vacuum which handles the nightly cleaning, so they only need the cleaning staff to come in once a week instead of every night. etc.

And so the net result of a too-high minimum wage isn't higher overall unemployment. It's a decrease in the number of jobs which require little or no skill or experience. Which is exactly the complaint you hear about from millenials (the neighborhood kid mowing lawns is out of luck - people will just do it themselves rather than overpay someone else to do it).

Somehow I managed to paste a link in title text rather than HTML, and this after manually excising the utm_term from the URL (how is that even possible?)

In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors

[*] Somehow I suspect the utm_term is just for show anyway:

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• There have been about 250 fatalities from school shootings over 18 years (excluding suicides and gang violence). That works out to (250)/(18) = 13.9 deaths per year. Since there are approximately 51 million K-12 students in the U.S., a student's odds of being killed in a school shooting in any given year are (51 million) / (13.9 per year) = 1 in 3.67 million.
• About 120 Americans are killed every year by deer. (325.7 million Americans) / (120 per year) = 1 in 2.71 million.

So a student is more likely to be killed by a deer than from a school shooting. Where are all the walk-outs and protests advocating deer population control?

For some perspective on the scope of the school shooting problem, look at the stats the CDC puts out. For 2015, the leading causes of death among the 15-19 year old demographic were:

3,919 deaths - Accidents (mostly automobile accidents and drug overdoses). 282x more than school shootings.
2.061 deaths - Suicide. 148x more.
1,587 deaths - Homicide (mostly outside school, and gang related). 114x more.
583 deaths - Malignant neoplasms (cancer). 42x more.
306 deaths - Heart disease. 22x more.
195 deaths - Birth defects. 14x more.
72 deaths - Influenza (the flu). 5.2x more.
63 deaths - Chronic lower respiratory diseases. 4.5x more.
61 deaths - Cerebrovascular diseases. 4.4x more.
52 deaths - Diabetes. 3.7x more.
41 deaths - Complications from pregnancy and childbirth. 3x more.

A protest over excessive rates of teen pregnancy could potentially save 3x more lives than a protest over school shootings. Likewise, teaching kids not to each too many sweets, to exercise, not to smoke, get the flu shot, use sunscreen, not to join gangs, to buckle their seat belt, not to use drugs, and offering them counseling for depression, would all be much more productive uses of our time and effort than worrying about or debating school shootings. For that matter, controlling deer populations to reduce the number of fatalities from striking deer could potentially save 1.35x as many students' lives as lost to school shootings.

If you want to tackle a life-threatening issue that students face, probably the best choice is suicide. It results in more than a hundred times as many student deaths as school shootings. But when's the last time you saw the media run a story about teen suicide? The only reason school shootings are even on the radar is because of the media using them to play the "think of the children!" card against guns.

When house prices grow at 12% a year, and income doesn't, waiting means that one may well never be able to buy a house at all.

No it doesn't. First of all, if you're saving less than 15% every year (and subsequently investing it,) then you're doing a pretty bad job at managing your financial priorities. Oh wait, you moved into a place with rent costs that you can't afford so you can't save anything? All I can say in that case is: it must suck to be that dumb. Anyways, it's pretty rare for a housing market to rise at or above 12% within a year. When it does, a hard crash follows afterward. The reason the prices are going up is because too many people treat them like an investment, which means they're allowing the price of the house to detach from its actual value, which means they're speculating, which means they're creating a bubble, which inevitably pops. In this housing market, I'm forecasting a 40% or above decline in housing costs when the next recession hits. Why? Because housing expenses are now close to 50% of the CPI, so either we deal with big-time inflation with no end in sight, the housing market crashes, or the fed raises the interest rate enough so that mortgage interest is north of 6%, which would greatly reduce the demand for expensive housing.

The previous recession saw housing prices fall by about 60%, by the way.

Sounds like you don't have an ex-wife or a family,

Duh, I deliberately chose not to until I had graduated from college and obtained a decent and stable income. Why would you not do this? You prefer to think with your dick instead of planning ahead? If you prefer the term "I just wanted a family", that's fine and all, but why on earth would you do that when you still have a low income? Research shows that when parents wait until they're established will raise kids in an environment that provides better development, both physically and educationally. Having kids and/or an ex-wife (or a wife period) before then is unwise.

and live in an area with a lard-based diet.

What would be the problem with that?

https://www.independent.co.uk/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Yes, lard has gotten respect over the last two years, and it doesn't make you stupid (there is even evidence that it can contribute to the opposite.) What people began blaming on fat in the 60's was actually attributable to sugars more than anything else, we're only finding this just recently. As for being in an area with high lard consumption in particular, I don't know what other people use to cook their food, nor do I care, but I do know that basically any ingredient you'd like to use is in a local grocery store. Me in particular? I generally eat out these days (except for breakfast and lunch) about 3 days a week going to a steakhouse and having a ribeye (basically, every gym day.) As far as I know, there is no lard involved, (I rarely eat the kind of food that benefits the most from lard) but if there is, I wouldn't care. And yes, I'm very lean (160lbs, 5'10") and visibly fit, which is something else you need to do to keep your mind sharp.

This is why I can afford nice things, and you can't: You're quick to jump into groupthink (otherwise you wouldn't have made that retarded statement,) you don't seem to understand enough about finances and budgeting (really, budgeting and planning came naturally to me as a 12 year old without needing anybody to teach me anything, while you're an adult and you still don't get it,) you appear to not care about actual science, you don't keep your knowledge up t

While all you wrote is true, it is very misleading, to the point of creating a false conclusion. The Washington post has a fuller story.

TLDR Under Obama, it was mostly that the families knew where the kids were (with family, false information on location given to the government,) not the government. Under Trump, the families do not know where the kids are as Sessions like it that way.

A judicial ruling in 2015 caused the issue during Obama's presidency. He tried to get a bill passed, that republicans refused to vote on, then in 2016 passed an executive order to reduce the numbers. Trump and Sessions decided separating families was a good punishment, so undid the Obama era fixes, and the numbers are going back up instead of way down.

Under Obama, they tried to place the kids with families, and as those were also mostly undocumented, they lied about things like names and location to protect the kids. Trump era most are not going to families, and the families do not know where their kids are.

Democrats have been slowing down the confirmation process, so that Trump has many fewer people in place than other presidents at this point in their term.

Nope, actually, it's Trump's lack of nominees.

Good little lemming on blaming Democrats. Like for the embassy. You know, for the country that disinvited him.

Admittedly, it's within the rules and an aspect of Democratic resistance that is actually succeeding.

Kinda your own practice really.

Not exactly a success though.

That kind of ruling is what causes Civil Wars.

It's hurts the country but it does slow down Trump's agenda, and that's what matters most.

Actually, Trump's agenda of trying to put crazy shits in office is what's going to hurt the country.

Fortunately for him, his base is more concerned that heattacks the people who don't stand for the national anthem.

It's ok, he doesn't actually have any need to govern. He can just demand apologies.

I don't wish to be driven anywhere by someone too stupid to realize they're not being paid for their time and depreciation, and instead are funding the profits of a large corporation out of pocket

And I don't wish to be driven anywhere in a cab that requires a limited-quantity medallion which is owned by an investor and leased out to the driver. Which means the driver's labor is funding the profits of some millionaire investor.

By all means, force everyone to get a license, but make the terms of the license objective (training, insurance, vehicle) and impartial. The idea of "there can only be 4325 taxis in Chicago and not a single one more" ended up abusing the drivers and the public.

Just passing along that, The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’s -- and just a bit more that Whole Foods:

The coal industry employed 76,572 people in 2014, the latest year for which data is available. (That number includes not just miners but also office workers, sales staff and all of the other individuals who work at coal-mining companies.)

Although 76,000 might seem like a large number, consider that similar numbers of people are employed by, say, the bowling (69,088) and skiing (75,036) industries. Other dwindling industries, such as travel agencies (99,888 people), employ considerably more. Used-car dealerships provide 138,000 jobs. Theme parks provide nearly 144,000. Carwash employment tops 150,000.

Looking at the level of individual businesses, the coal industry in 2014 (76,572) employed about as many as Whole Foods (72,650), and fewer workers than Arby's (close to 80,000), Dollar General (105,000) or J.C. Penney (114,000). The country's largest private employer, Walmart (2.2 million employees) provides roughly 28 times as many jobs as coal.

Overall, are you aware that some things that seem perfectly normal and sensible today will inevitably become unpardonable moral sins in a generation, but there's no telling which things. What do you want in your permanent record, to be used by a government or employer that does not have your best interests in mind, 20 years from now?

So true. I know that /. is full of left wing types but the reality is that for decades the biggest abusers of these *has* been the left. SJWs embrace the following concepts:

Hounding people over their politics is acceptable

https://www.reuters.com/articl... https://www.catholicnewsagency...

Violence is OK as long as you're right and "they" are wrong

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...

No, they can't just all get along if they don't follow the correct politics

https://www.theodysseyonline.c... https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Seriously, it's amazing that the left hasn't pushed for re-education camps (yet). Despite this they have the gall to say that the real danger is from the right. Amazing.

ANTIFA is basically a neo-Nazi organization with different goals. Same evil tactics, same corrupt ideology. No support for Nazis - or those who are just as bad and use the same tactics.

The number of households with fridges and air conditioners is growing exponentially. Would hundreds of Asian cities with millions of households with leaky ACs not throw up a plume? https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Only if they got hold of still working 30 year old air conditioners, or someone have started making 1980s tech air-cons again.

The number of households with fridges and air conditioners is growing exponentially. Would hundreds of Asian cities with millions of households with leaky ACs not throw up a plume? https://www.washingtonpost.com...

You do make an important observation, though: it is leftists that have been going around after WWII to make groundless accusations against others of being fascists and neo-Nazis. Every Republican president over the last couple of decades has been denounced as a "fascist", "Nazi", and/or "white supremacist" by the left. Every conservative commentator or intellectual has been denounced as such.

Actually, it's conservative commentators that have a problem with it. Perhaps not every single one, but enough, that you're just being a hypocrite and fraud, protesting your own crimes that you ascribe to others.

And then you one-up'd it: By going further.

Perhaps you can blame Democrats for it, you do tend to falsely accuse them of being responsible for everything you do.

You seem to be ignoring the fact that the government still needs to be funded.
https://washingtonpost.com/93c...

Fanciful thinking doesn't change reality, it just drives the nation deeper into debt.

Learn how to type you half-wit.

That wasn't a typo, it's covfefe's brother.

Seriously, though, T is confusing and confounding other nations because of his flip-flops, surprise "temporarily exemptions", vagueness, etc. Today's proclamations maybe be irrelevant tomorrow via a new Tweet. Most world leaders are relatively careful, systematic planners and don't know what to make of his style.

I'm not going to even say T's unpredictable style "doesn't work"; for it's too early to judge. I'm merely saying that it's baffling the h$ll out of world leaders and negotiators.

Maybe there is a method to his madness. I wouldn't bet on it personally because it resembles trolling to me, but can't rule it out yet. It's an interesting experiment; I just hope us lab-rats survive it all.

It constantly overestimates the real recidivism rate for black people.

It does not. Take a look at this Washington Post article

Note the first graph. For each risk score, chance of recidivism is approximately the same between blacks and whites.

What ProPublica showed is the reverse, that black defendants who do not reoffend are more likely to receive a high score than white defendants who do not reoffend. Given that black defendants as a whole are more likely to re-offend, this is unavoidable without making the predictor biased against whites instead. The Post article goes into this.

Here are some examples:

- In the USA some judges use sentencing software that analyses if a defendant would be likely to commit a crime again. This software turned out to be biased against black people.
https://www.propublica.org/art...

- Women were less likely to be shown Google adds for high paying jobs, as the algorithm had perceived the existing bias (women less often have high paying jobs), and then concluded that showing these adds to women would result in fewer clicks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

- An algorithm denied pregnant women medicare. "The scholar Danielle Keats Citron cites the example of Colorado, where coders placed more than 900 incorrect rules into its public benefits system in the mid-2000s, resulting in problems like pregnant women being denied Medicaid."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/21/17144260/healthcare-medicaid-algorithm-arkansas-cerebral-palsy

- Google's sentiment analysis algorithms gave gay related words a low score.
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

The list is endless.

The general assumption is: 'algorithms use math and data, thus they must be neutral and scientific'. But it's not that simple. This site explains it: https://www.mathwashing.com/ [mathwashing.com]

"The real danger, then, is not machines that are more intelligent than we are usurping our role as captains of our destinies. The real danger is basically clueless machines being ceded authority far beyond their competence." - Daniel Denett

Why always putting people in the correct categories is mathematically impossible:
https://medium.com/@mrtz/how-big-data-is-unfair-9aa544d739de

Books on the subject:
https://nyupress.org/books/978...
https://weaponsofmathdestructi...
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/cat...