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So Apple is supposed to ban "prohibited content including pornography, gambling and counterfeit goods." That sounds ok, but I wonder what the other prohibited content is. Does it include private free speech, without the Chinese government able to listen in?

The same WSJ article says,

Apple depends on China for about one-fifth of its revenue. When sales in the market fell 26% in the three months ended in March 2016, Apple’s stock tumbled to a low of $90.34 within months.

I wonder if Xi is trying to scare Tim Cook, hoping Cook will pressure the US government into backing down on tariffs against China.

I don't think it's true, but private prisons have basically been handed blank checks:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

I don't think anyone realizes how much corporate welfare goes on in the prison system in general.

Actually yes https://www.wsj.com/articles/s...

They like money, they don't like it being from a single market. They don't care about oil per se. They know they only have a finite supply of oil and the world

They know better than thinking buying out *just* Tesla and shutting it down would stop EV and renewable energy.

How can a camera cause an accident? Perhaps you mean that stop lights "cause" (air quotes) accidents because assholes speed up on yellow instead of slowing down? That's not the light causing the accident, it's the assholes.

As for "getting up to speed" in NYC, here are just a few within the last year or so:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/times-square-speeding-vehicle-strikes-pedestrians-new-york
https://abc7ny.com/traffic/19-year-old-dies-after-speeding-mercedes-strikes-her-uber-/3520238/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-serial-traffic-violators-in-new-york-city-go-unpunished-1521036000

In my neighborhood in the Bronx there's someone who regularly drives a Porsche at high speed (I estimate about 50 MPH) on the residential streets at night. A speed camera might make him think twice.

A different Porsche was thankfully eliminated from the "car pool" in that same area:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/drunken-driver-loses-control-porsche-lands-playground-article-1.3727865

For some things, automatic pages are appropriate.

There is a guy who has "written" 2.7 million Wikipedia pages. For example, he created a page for every single bird species where the pages don't already exist. That's OK because the basic information for each species is pretty formulaic - English name, Latin name, classification, habitat perhaps. Once the page exists, humans can add more "interesting" info if they have any.

This method doesn't work well for other topics, like people.

Took them a while. The problem's been known for years — even in peaceful Finland... And Russians have used malware to get location-data to target Ukrainian forces. And, of course, the NATO.

Americans are said to commit three felonies a day. Not terribly far from the NKVD's claim to Stalin, "Show me the man and I'll find you the crime."

Yeah, except they repaid the bailout money with money they got from the government.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/S...

Financial shell games don't count.

And that's not touching on the fact that the TARP bailout made sure the banks were on solid ground while the people the banks had screwed were rendered homeless. TARP was a bad program from the get-go, and it was designed specifically to maintain the powerful's wealth on the backs of the powerless.

What about when the right wants to raise taxes on them?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/n...

The top income bracket (the 1%) pulls in about $2 trillion dollars. 0.001% of that gets you $20 million. On an average year, Americans purchase about 17 million vehicles, so your tax will save approximately $1.18 on the sticker price of each vehicle.

Now, if we expand to, say, the top 25% we get a figure of $6.7 trillion. 0.001% of that gets you $67 million, or about $3.94 per car.

"Screw that," you say, "I was just throwing out a number. Increase the tax by 1%". Now we're talking real numbers! A 1% surtax on the top 1% could (theoretically) pull in $20 billion dollars! Split among cars and you get... $1,180 per car. The average car in January 2018 was $36,270, so you would drop that to $35,090.

Whoo hoo! That makes the car only... $180 more than the same car in January 2017. And that's not including the cost to hit the new emissions and safety targets your tax was supposed to cover.

The WSJ has a related story about how sellers attempt to game the system to get their products a higher ranking in searchers.

Some of the tricks include:

1. Taking old listings with high ratings and change the product
2. Posting SPAM-my comments on opponent products to get their rivals listings flagged as abusive
3. Filing bogus safety claims against rivals to get their products delisted pending a safety investigation
4. Paying people to receive empty shipments so that they can post verified buyer reviews

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sellers-trick-amazon-to-boost-sales-1532750493?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=4

I thought that the article was interesting. I hope others do too!

Will

Fuck the ACLU.

They have given up on free speech in the name of "social justice":

In carrying out the ACLU’s commitment to defend freedom of speech, a number of specific considerations may arise. We emphasize that in keeping with our commitment to advancing free speech for all, these are neutral principles that apply to all speakers, irrespective of the speaker’s particular political views

...

The impact of the proposed speech and the impact of its suppression:
Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed, depending on factors such as the (present and historical) context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values; and the structural and power inequalities in the community
in which the speech will occur.

So the ACLU is now using "the equality and justice work to which we are also committed" as an excuse to get out of defending free speech. And how they laughably characterize that as a "neutral principle".

I guess they're going to do with the 1st Amendment the same thing they did with the 2nd Amendment - ignore it.

FUCK THEM

Cite?

Wont take responsibility for finding knowledge on the internet while on the internet. Wasting other people's time.

You made the assertion, refuse to provide any evidence for it, then blame your opponent for being too lazy to search for evidence to support your assertion.

When people have credible evidence, they're not afraid to cite it.

There's nothing wrong with expecting people to know what they're talking about, the research the topic, or to check claims made by others to refute, rebut, or acknowledge them. Asking for a citation when you can easily go and get it yourself in 2 seconds is the equivalent of a 6 year old little shit saying "Nuh-uh! PROVE IT!" incessantly.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

When he was leaking things that made Bush look bad you loved Julian Assange so hard that Benedict Cumberbatch played him in the movie.

By reporting our government's fuckups, Wikileaks has taken a rather extreme pro-America attitude and is basically doing the job that our own media ought to be doing. Wikileaks is the enemy of America's enemy. Maybe he's not really our friend, but if you adopt the point of view of us American citizens, you'll see that he sure appears to be either a friend, or even one of us.

Whistle-blower site WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian politician who cited its role in freedom of speech, news agency NTB reported Wednesday. 'WikiLeaks is one of this century's most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency,' parliamentarian Snorre Valen said in his nomination. Valen cited WikiLeaks' role in disclosing the assets of Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his nearest family, contributing to the protests that forced them into exile. http://www.thenewage.co.za/935...

WikiLeaks released the State Department cables in 2010, revealing that appeasing Russia was a motivator for canceling the plan with Poland.

Wikileaks published CIA espionage orders for the 2012 french presidential election. When Russia does it, it's an attack. When US does it, it's just mates havin' a go?

Net Neutrality became needed because Congress and the FCC legislated monopolies after the patriot act went into effect. It was easier to spy on the whole country via 10 access points than via thousands. So your choices went to shit.

Except that they didn't "legislate" monopolies, they repealed the regulation that was previously forcing phone companies to wholesale connections to competitors. By removing that regulation in 2005, the FCC allowed the phone companies to shut down every competitor that did not have the billions (Google Fiber spent one billion dollars in Kansas City alone) of dollars required to install their own networks. Did they do it for the NSA? Did they do it because they're Republicans and deregulation is always good? Did they do it to play fair since cable companies didn't have to resell their networks? Did they do it because AT&T promised to hire them all as consultants? I don't have an answer to that, but the government did not create this problem anymore than the government is responsible for you hitting yourself in the face with a hammer since they didn't pass a law to stop you.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

The WSJ reports:

Google said a year ago it would stop its computers from scanning the inboxes of Gmail users for information to personalize advertisements, saying it wanted users to âoeremain confident that Google will keep privacy and security paramount.â

But the internet giant continues to let hundreds of outside software developers scan the inboxes of millions of Gmail users who signed up for email-based services offering shopping price comparisons, automated travel-itinerary planners or other tools. Google does little to police those developers, who train their computersâ"and, in some cases, employeesâ"to read their usersâ(TM) emails, a Wall Street Journal examination has found.

One of those companies is Return Path Inc., which collects data for marketers by scanning the inboxes of more than two million people who have signed up for one of the free apps in Return Pathâ(TM)s partner network using a Gmail, Microsoft Corp. or Yahoo email address. Computers normally do the scanning, analyzing about 100 million emails a day. At one point about two years ago, Return Path employees read about 8,000 unredacted emails to help train the companyâ(TM)s software, people familiar with the episode say.

This examination of email data privacy is based on interviews with more than two dozen current and former employees of email app makers and data companies. The latitude outside developers have in handling user data shows how even as Google and other tech giants have touted efforts to tighten privacy, they have left the door open to others with different oversight practices.

How hard is it to rate on a 5 point scale? We do it zillions of times a day at nearly every school in the nation...

5 = A = very best = Absolutely love
1 = F = worst/fail = hated it

Apparently it's hard. Let me direct your attention to this partial article: You Graduated Cum Laude? So Did Everyone Else. At X and Y, more got the designations than didn't.

So just save time and space and make everything a 10 or 11 and be done with it.

>Oh won't somebody think of the Children...

Well, somebody is

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/india-police-missing-children-facial-recognition-tech-trace-find-reunite-a8320406.html

Indian police trace 3,000 missing children in just four days using facial recognition technology

http://www.vocativ.com/news/427175/facial-recognition-lost-children/index.html

When Fu Gui was six, he was abducted on his way home from school in Chongqing, China. He was then trafficked to Quznahou, about 1,000 miles away, where he was sold to foster parents. Now, 27 years after he was taken from his family, he has been reunited with them. And it’s all thanks to the latest cross-age facial recognition technology from Chinese tech giant Baidu.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facial-recognition-could-move-beyond-mug-shots-1522855817

When police found a senior citizen apparently suffering from Alzheimer’s missing from her family on Staten Island in 2014, officials took to technology.

Powell never used his personal email for official government related emails. That is a lie. The Left tried to get him on it and it failed for that precise reason.

To the contrary, he did. But it wasn't illegal to use personal servers for government related email. It only became policy after Hillary left office: https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/colin-powell-defends-personal-email-227889
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/fbi-colin-powell-email-probe-218748

(it was probably illegal for him to not archive them, though.

In fact, it was Powell who advised Hillary on use of personal e-mail: https://abcnews.go.com/Politic...

Plus the fact he required them to pay a $1 billion dollar fine and place $400 million in escrow:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/zte-pays-1-billion-fine-after-allegedly-violating-u-s-sanctions-1528374558

in addition to buying from American suppliers as you mentioned.

"All that remains is boilerplate rhetoric from the political class, frivolous nuisance lawsuits, and bureaucratic mandates on behalf of special-interest renewable-energy rent seekers." (Steven F. Hayward) Mr. Hayward is a senior resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...

OK ... here's a fact for you:

US revenues are up 12% compared to previous year.

"Federal Budget Surplus for April Largest on Record"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

How can that be? We REDUCED taxes?

What facts do you have?

Memorial day is a good time of year to break out the Kool-Aid. Unless you're in Jonestown, of course.

This part of the scam I didn't know yet. Do you have some sources to read up on the details?

OK, I found it. The first mention I could find of the story was in a Wall Street Journal article from 2009 (behind a paywall).

https://www.wsj.com/articles/S...

It was referenced again on the Mental Floss blog (written by some writers from This American Life and other places). It seems to be taken from the Wall Street Journal story.

http://mentalfloss.com/article...

To the right of the title where they have been putting it for single source pieces for a while now.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/n...

Where you have been? Bush email controversy It wasn't just Bush but it was his administration including Karl Rove and Colin Powell. In all 22 million emails are "missing". As for the current administration they also have been using private emails. That doesn't include GOP members like Scott Walker, Marco Rubio etc. Seriously you can google and find many GOP members caught using their own private unsecured email.

Less than 1/2 of billion dollar startups are started by American's https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2...

old news: Federal agents have persuaded police officers to scan license plates to gather information about gun-show customers, government emails show, raising questions about how officials monitor constitutionally protected activity. https://www.wsj.com/articles/g... looks like they've gone "contractor".

> the guy who recently admitted that the standard password policy recommendations (expire after 3 months and all that) were something he pulled out of his ass...

paywalled article...

The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!
Bill Burr’s 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error
By Robert McMillan
Aug. 7, 2017 12:41 p.m. ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

via

https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

some other coverage from the time:

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/p...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

Claims with no citations? You're either an idiot or an outright troll/liar.

A small sampling of the citations linked in the post in question:
http://www.city-journal.org/20...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi...
http://www.umass.edu/legal/Ben...
http://www.jstor.org/discover/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publ...
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub...
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abst...
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abst...
http://www.jstor.org/discover/...
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinf...
http://www.jstor.org/discover/...
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles...
https://www.ncjrs.gov/app/abst...
http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/...
http://www.sentencingproject.o...
http://online.wsj.com/articles...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live...
That's enough citations that I then have to add in this line because the stupid post filter thinks the average line length is too short. That's enough citations that I then have to add in this line because the stupid post filter thinks the average line length is too short. That's enough citations that I then have to add in this line because the stupid post filter thinks the average line length is too short. That's enough citations that I then have to add in this line because the stupid post filter thinks the average line length is too short. That's enough citations that I then have to add in this line because the stupid post filter thinks the average line length is too short.

So, from various news sources, the U.S. Commerce Department banned American companies from exporting products to ZTE for seven years because:

The U.S. government accused ZTE of violating a March 2017 settlement in which the firm pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.19 billion for illegally shipping telecommunications equipment to Iran and North Korea.

Now, after Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, he threatens European countries with sanctions if they continue the nuclear deal with Iran (w/o the US). Is he going to stand by that or fold if/when companies complain? How about if ZTE starts shipping things to Iran again? (Of course ZTE isn't a country or in Europe, but Trump doesn't know that.)

The concept itself, striking a deal with Iran to keep them from working on Nuclear weapons, is itself good.
The execution, however, was terrible. Still is.
For example:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/i...

It begins....

Man and machine? The driver identifies as "Rafaela", so maybe it should be woman vs machine? Or peoplekind vs machinekind?

What are you talking about? I live in America, I own a Toyota, it was manufactured by Hino (a subsidiary of Toyota) in Japan. And yes, it really was made in Japan, (the VIN starts with J). The one, SINGLE joint Toyota/GM plant (NUMMI) was shut down in 2010.

I've owned several Japanese cars, and they were all built in Japan and came over here on a boat. But these days, it's common for Japanese cars sold in America to be made in America from American parts, including Toyotas.

Now the Germans, they mostly don't build vehicles here. BMW builds most of the X series here, VW builds the Passat and Atlas, and Mercedes builds GLE and GLS-class vehicles here, and that's about it. However, that does probably account for most American consumption of German vehicles today.

Women are not aggressive and competitive? Are you kidding? They may be more subtle, but if you want to see backstabbing that could teach George R. R. Martin a few things even he didn't imagine possible, watch a few women try to outdo each other for a high level position.

And heaven forbid some woman ever gets added to an office that already has a queen bee.

If you read the OP, 'The average warehouse worker at Walmart makes just under $40,000 annually, while at Amazon would take home about $24,300 a year," CNN reported in 2013.' So how can you include Walmart in your statement? Think about that: the AVERAGE warehouse worker at Walmart made 40k in 2013, 5 years ago! That's almost $20 an hour and pretty good money for people driving forklifts and pushing skid jacks.

Not only that but Walmart increased its minimum starting wage and gave $1000 bonuses to employees just this January. Walmart also does not have a parasitic relationship to the U.S. Postal Service.

I'm not going to even try convincing you of how idiotic you are, but for others who might read that post...

1. The whole "neoliberal" accusation is a catch-all slur hurled at anyone who has the audacity to not want to go whole-hog down the road to communism. Socialism is fine for things that the private market cannot or should not provide, such as health care. And in fact, Hillary Clinton has been fighting for universal health care since the early 1990s--it's one of the reasons that right-wingers hate her so badly, because as first lady, she was doing that instead of being a nice, demure housewife. For everything else, the free market is the best way to go. The best systems of government in the world are a healthy mix of both, but the trick is in finding the right balance. Bill Clinton did a great job starting us down that road from Reagan's/Bush's deregulate everything strategy, and Obama did a great job pushing us further, as evidenced by the improvement in our situation today. This notion that anything short of turning the US into a communist country is "neoliberal" is idiocy pushed by the Tea Party of the left. It's also a great way to turn off the public-at-large. As a famous man once said, "if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow."

2. Clinton's "superpredator" comment wasn't racist. It was an offhand comment that she admits she shouldn't have used in referring to how gangs at the time were no longer just groups of kids innocently hanging out. And in that respect, she was right--at the time crime was skyrocketing and there was a massive public demand that actions be taken to bring it down. And actions were taken. And it was brought down.

But this one comment keeps coming up from Bernie Bros as "evidence" that Clinton is racist. The reason this one quote comes up every time is because in reality, Clinton has a consistent record of fighting hard against racism. That's why she was endorsed by virtually every civil rights leader and won the black vote in the primaries by over 50 points. The notion that Clinton is racist is a ludicrous lie invented and propagated by the right-wing nuts, and believed by gullible left-wing nuts who are looking for any excuse, no matter how farfetched, to hate her.

3. Yes, I flatly deny that her voting record looks like a money stuffed republican. As a senator, she consistently voted for policies that benefited the poor and middle class, not the rich.

4. No, Trump supported Bernie because it was a split in the vote among liberals. And Trump has this uncanny knack for appealing to stupid people. The fact that you listened to him means... well... there's no tactful way to say it. You're a stupid person. And Trump's tactic worked, creating this "I'm going to vote for Jill Stein" bullshit. To be fair, Democrats were doing the same thing, trying to exploit the "Never Trump" split in the Republican party. The difference is that unlike liberals who buy into the opposition's divisive rhetoric and propaganda, conservatives stick to their ideological guns with religious-like fervor. This will continue being a problem into the foreseeable future because while both sides have stupid people, one side's stupid people are malleable enough for this tactic to actually be effective.

5. Russia helping Bernie Sanders is fact. It's a particularly inconvenient one that Sanders is lying about to this day, but that doesn't make it any less true.

They engaged in operations primarily intended to communicate derogatory information about Hillary Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Ted

http://fortune.com/2018/04/07/...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...

https://itep.org/is-the-trump-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/vide...

https://www.nationalreview.com...

https://www.nasdaq.com/video/t...

There yah go. Because you're a fucking idiot doesn't mean reality gives a fuck about what you think, it just means you're a fucking idiot.

Isn't California on the verge of going broke and taxing itself to death?

No. California has a big budget surplus.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/j...

I rather suspect that he has access to really good base information on the subject,

Lol! The belief that the victim in chief is actually some sort of 83-dimensional chess grandmaster really must bring his supplicants great comfort since it seems that no amount of evidence to the contrary, from his own staff can shake you loose from that teat.

I look forward to you telling us that the reason the MAGAdook wants back in to the TPP is because he won asian trade.

The early birders get up early, show up for appointment on time and wait for the masters of the world, us, night owls, to show up late

Teh real reason for the 2016 election outcome!

https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/07/05/5-things-a-data-analysis-of-hillary-clintons-emails-show-about-her-work-habits/

5.) Mrs. Clinton was an early riser

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/30/why-donald-trump-tweets-late-at-night-and-very-early-in-the-morning/

Trump is a Twitter addict and a night owl.

HAHA. YOU'RE JUST LIKE TRUMP!!

they're certainly not covering the mess now, when they clearly got it so wrong.

Is this the media that isn't covering it?:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...
https://nypost.com/2018/04/10/...
http://fortune.com/2018/04/10/...
https://www.foxbusiness.com/ma...

I skipped the tech sites which are all covering it too and just quoted sites that actually are more general purpose.

That's not "economies of scale", that's improved technology over time.

Still not providing anything to back up your opinions I see. Certainly it's easy to find citations saying the opposite:

A glut of low-cost solar panels—mainly manufactured in Asia—have pushed prices down in recent years.

Which directly contradicts your scarcity claims too (and not just recently, either). Yet demand and supply are both still dramatically increasing, with global installed PV increases up to 50% annually. It's hard to deny that scaled-up manufacturing like that contributes a lot to lower manufacturing costs.

As for the "analysts", judge for yourself. I'm going with "misguided", since we're well below that price already.

That's not "economies of scale", that's improved technology over time.

Still not providing anything to back up your opinions I see. Certainly it's easy to find citations saying the opposite:

A glut of low-cost solar panels—mainly manufactured in Asia—have pushed prices down in recent years.

Which directly contradicts your scarcity claims too (and not just recently, either). Yet demand and supply are both still dramatically increasing, with global installed PV increases up to 50% annually. It's hard to deny that scaled-up manufacturing like that contributes a lot to lower manufacturing costs.

As for the "analysts", judge for yourself. I'm going with "misguided", since we're well below that price already.

That's not "economies of scale", that's improved technology over time.

Still not providing anything to back up your opinions I see. Certainly it's easy to find citations saying the opposite:

A glut of low-cost solar panels—mainly manufactured in Asia—have pushed prices down in recent years.

Which directly contradicts your scarcity claims too (and not just recently, either). Yet demand and supply are both still dramatically increasing, with global installed PV increases up to 50% annually. It's hard to deny that scaled-up manufacturing like that contributes a lot to lower manufacturing costs.

As for the "analysts", judge for yourself. I'm going with "misguided", since we're well below that price already.

I'm not entirely sure whether you're trolling, or if you genuinely believe the uninformed jetsam you wrote there.

Failed yet again by my local main-stream media. I dont recall any coverage of the event, but i guess thats to be expected from a group of conglomerate advertisers

Well, of all the failures among news outlets, it was reported twice before on that awful "Slashdot" site. One of those even linked CNN as a source, but they're hardly mainstream, are they? There was, of course, also coverage on Fox News, which in turn links to coverage on the Wall Street Journal. On the other coast, the LA Times also ran a Bloomberg-syndicated story.

thanks to the sausage-factory machinations of our federal government, im sure we'll never be privy to so much as a general idea of what this satellite was designed to do

Well, let's go gather a few facts, and guess. First, its contract details are all secret, which strongly implies it's for military purposes. It was aimed for low-earth orbit at 51 degrees inclination, which would put it over many places of military significance. Indeed, a more knowledgeable source theorizes it's for space-based radar, which would certainly be in accordance with recent US military doctrine of "get more pictures, engage from further away, and use fewer people".

Flint Michigan looks set to go another year without clean water

...which has absolutely nothing to do with spaceflight, or the military, or anything related to this discussion. Not only are the military branches and intelligence agencies expressly forbidden from assisting Flint, the restoration efforts are already underway and progressing as expected. What the fearmongers like yourself conveniently ignore is that essentially Flint has had to rebuild its entire water system due to the years of neglect, and as of last year, the vast majority of test samples are clean. There's still work to be done, but the situation is no longer a failure of government.

Congress brand oversight. ... Well it wasnt as prevalent for this 3.5 billion dollar satellite

Which is perfectly normal for classified projects, regardless of where they go. Since part of OPSEC is to minimize dispersal of classified information, there are bipartisan committees that debate classified projects in great detail, and their unclassified comments are usually distributed to the other congresspeople.

it did such a bang-up job of everything from the timely restoration of New Orleans after hurricane Katrina

...which isn't in Congress's authority, since once the national emergency has passed, the authority goes back to the state per the Tenth Amendment...

to ensuring healthcare for our veterans is the best in the world

...which isn't mandated by any law, or even really practical, and still not directly under Congress's authority, being wholly delegated to the Veterans Health Administration, itself wholly under the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is itself organized under the Executive branch under the President...

one can on

Yes, but that was before the data being sold was connected to the Trump campaign. Facebook can conduct experiments on manipulating user's moods, but the line has to be drawn here.

It was perhaps out of Zuckerberg's greed did he fail to realize that not sufficiently acting as a team player would cost him, unlike Eric Schmidt who clearly demonstrated his loyalty.

The ISPs are certainly a risk, especially now, with the questionable status of net neutrality. But how is it that arguably the worst actor of all, Akamai, never gets noticed?

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/20...

The New York Times likes to put over-the-top columns on the op-ed page from both sides of the aisle.

Claiming that there are only two sides is part of the problem.

It's disingenuous for you to claim that the column you cited is indicative of the opinions of those who run the company.

The piece was written by Thomas Friedman. He has been the Times' foreign affairs columnist since 1995. He won three Pulitzer Prizes. To say that he doesn't represent his employer well is disingenuous.

he's criticizing the ineffectualness of America's system.

He's praising authoritarians because they can get things done. All of us know the sick, twisted history behind this idea. Hey, that Mussolini's not so bad, at least he made the trains run on time. I'll take the American system any day of the week. The Times said our system is worse than China's. That's wrong and it needs to be called out as the toxic speech that it is. A lot of people worship the New York Times, and they need to have it pointed out to them that their hero has feet of clay. The latest example, they wrote a lengthy article telling everyone how the tax cuts were going to make a hypothetical American couple pay $4,000 more in taxes this year. Oops, turns out they were going to save money. Another "accidental" mistake. What we should expect with journalistic "mistakes" is that they sometimes go in one direction, and other times go in the other direction. That's exactly what does not happen at the New York Times.

The list of people who have either quit or have been escorted out of the White House by security continues to grow. The Trump administration has broken all records in regard to staff turnover, and it's only been a year.

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No, Donald Trump's sexuality is even less fertile than a gay couple.

Also, gays and Donald Trump are not the problem, because they're only a very tiny percentage of the population. If anything, divorce and pederasty causes homosexuality.

The real problem is that women don't respect motherhood anymore