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..."What really bothers me is that the people of NSA, these folks who take paltry government salaries to protect this nation, are made to look like they are doing something wrong," the former NSA Director added. "They are doing exactly what our nation has asked them to do to protect us. They are the heroes."...

I am sure that many, even most, in the NSA are the heroes he asserts. On the other hand there are instances such as NSA Officers Spy on Love Interests that cast a pall upon the agency.

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Maybe it is time to stop blaming the media for reporting what is happening.

hmm is not a star in a jar nuclear...

That's not how this works. Although fusion is a nuclear process, it's just dandy with the SJW community so long as breakthroughs in theory are required to make it work. As soon as someone comes up with a practical way of doing it on Earth, they will find some rationale for opposing it. They always do.

Example: you thought they at least supported fusion so long as it takes place on the sun, didn't you?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/iv...

Facebook only cares about numbers, not if they're real people or the reasons.
When people realize that Facebook is a house of cards, the soul-less pit of hell made for narcissists, sycophants and stalkers it will crumble.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fa...

My guess is that pretty soon they will create a Social Credit Score like China is putting in place. Then anyone who disagrees can instantly be silenced online. http://www.wsj.com/articles/ch...

According to this Wall Street Journal article there's about 11 minutes of action in a football game so it's even worse than you think.

I know it's behind a paywall, but the WSJ had a very interesting article about China's implementation of Social Credit:

China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything

They are apparently having a significant amount of trouble actually implementing the system because of the sheer amount of data.

Apparently Ant (div of Alibaba) is playing a pretty big role in this, too:

A credit-scoring service by Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial Services—one of eight companies approved to pilot commercial experiments with social-credit scoring—assigns ratings based on information such as when customers shop online, what they buy and what phone they use. If users opt in, the score can also consider education levels and legal records. Perks in the past for getting high marks have included express security screening at the Beijing airport, part of an Ant agreement with the airport.

THIS is why Trump won. White votes matter.

This is why Trump won: people who cannot even find a job think they are competent enough to determine which candidate is more likely to improve their opportunities. So much so that they pick the candidate whose campaign promises caused nearly all economists to refute his ideas. Even the republican establishment desired to tone down his proposed tax cuts. These citizens convince themselves the elite (aka educated) are somehow incompetent and that people who haven't been able to keep up with the modern world are somehow more capable. It is quite the delusion. But if religion teaches us one thing is that delusions are often powerful enough to affect the vast majority of people.

The job market for truly skilled older works has never been better. The past three companies I have worked for would create positions for any available skilled worker they were lucky enough to find, because an unemployed skilled IT worker is more rare than a mega-millions lottery winner. The only ones I have come across were only unemployed because of a recent move to a new area.

That sounds like the typical law school in the United States.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/law-school-accreditors-raising-the-bar-1479751011

Nope.

Actually, he didn't spend a single Federal tax dollar. Indiana gave a $7 million tax break over 10 years, so about $700 per year per job saved. Given the fact that Indiana's income tax rate is a flat 3.3%, that means it "gave up" income tax on the first $21,000 of income per job kept. My guess is that the average wages kept per employee are higher than that, so Indiana will end up with additional income tax it would not have had if the jobs went away. As well as the follow-on spending stimulus that those 1,000 jobs brought. Seems like a good thing all around.

Trump voters like Samsung smart phones and Hillary voters like iPhones. One explodes on Twitter, the other is business as usual.

http://www.wsj.com/video/trump-voters-like-samsung-clinton-voters-like-apple/73985F23-0029-4B38-BC3A-EE6CEF33C69C.html

We know exactly how the clintons made themselves rich because its all in their tax returns. Returns that go back like 40 years.

Bill did tons of speaking tours, raking it in from people with more money than sense who wanted to rub shoulders with a former president.
He wrote a couple of books that got crazy absurd advances.
Hillary did a bunch of speeches in front of similar too-rich-for-their-own-good fools she parted from their money and wrote a couple of less lucrative books.

So, absolutely nothing like trump's modus operandi of fucking over regular schlubs just because they can't afford to fight back.

FAKE.

I don't mind, I guess having three of their campuses in the top 50 in the world makes them "middle of the pack" (#36 and #42). I know this, they are top tier in India, and presumably their top students made it to UCLA, thus they were more than competitive. Interestingly UCLA placed #16, which is nice considering we suck so bad at the football. This data was 2008 which is ok since I graduated almost two decades ago and so am talking about students in the past though not this exact year, obviously.
https://www.iitbombay.org/news...

They appear to have slid significantly since then, now coming in at 103rd. And according to this article http://blogs.wsj.com/indiareal...
they suffer from factors not having to do with the quality of their graduates or education offered.

When I was at community college otoh, they weren't quite so ranking as a whole.

You bought the fake news. Point me towards a racist thing trump has said in the last 20'years. You can't, because it's fake news. When you look at his actual statements, you will see a populist platform, not racism. He said deport illegals. That's not racism. He said to vet Muslim immigrants for terrorism ties before letting them into the country. That's not racism. The bowl of skittles? He said a few, not a large fraction. Keep digging through what he said, vice what's been reported, and you'll see who the consumers of fake news are.

Trump saying Judge Curiel's inability to impartially judge him in a court of law is the very definition of racism. It was a direct quote from Trump himself. You can also cite the many cases against Trump's properties unfairly discriminating against potential black tenants and the ad he took out in the paper himself calling for the death penalty of the central park 5. He's pretty racist.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/do...

Read this especially the "no" due to economics.

You're still wrong about everything that you claimed.

I was reading this thread, and this WSJ opinion piece at the same time, and my attention was snagged.

Politico reports the electors in question are “mostly former Bernie Sanders supporters who hail from Washington state and Colorado,” which means they are Clinton electors. If they prove faithless, it would widen Trump’s margin—not that it matters, for at least 37 Trump electors would have to defect to deny him a majority.

Now I'm actually interested in observing the electoral ballot casting!

and business's "liberty" to just put sawdust on the shelf and call it food

They do that already. Just look for the word cellulose in any form on food labeling. It could be worse, they could be deliberately mixing bugs into food. Well shit, at least it isn't as bad as haggis sounds.

a small group of people brought together to investigate or decide on a particular matter.
"an interview panel"
synonyms: group, advisory group, team, body, committee, jury, council, board, commission
"a panel of judges"

You know... like those people who score individual performances at sports events... or those people on that supreme court thing...
Some might even call such a group a "panel of experts".

On the other hand, "the four people" part seems to be a Wall Street Journal invention.
All that the actual CanIRank.com analysis mentions is "scorers from both sides of the political spectrum" and that they "were in agreement as to the degree and direction of bias for about half of the results, and were within 1 point on approximately 90%".

On the other hand, I wouldn't trust someone who references "four people" either. Might as well say "four guys", "four dudes" or "four humans".
Which leaves us with a question - why would a Wall Street Journal writer use such a 4th grade language when he should know better?
Particularly when it's a phrase he invented... and he only writes about Google...
There are other biases out there other than the left- or right- bias.

I'm happy for you if you had a good time at Amazon but they consistently rank very low in tech companies for work/life balance, employee satisfaction, compensation and work conditions. See what the WSJ has to say:

Amazon ranked 63rd in overall satisfaction among the companies surveyed, compared with 3rd position for Google Inc. and 7th position for Apple Inc. The overall ranking measures employees’ satisfaction with a company’s culture, career opportunities as well as salary and benefits.

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

Amazon sells food to its employees and rents them parking spots. They're the Walmart of tech companies - and actually there's quite a revolving door between the two companies at the senior management level.

Meanwhile Google offers free food, free haircuts, free laundry, free gyms, and they even offer a bus service for people who don't have a car.

Both companies are immensely successful but you can't deny that there's something low-rent about Amazon.

I'm genuinely disappointed.

I've seen numerous internet articles showing the wide array and quality of Samsung campuses in South Korea, and I've always told my friends and coworkers to buy Samsung, because you're buying Korean, and you're voting for a company with a good track record of clean production facilities and high wages for workers.

I guess Samsung is just as bad as Apple. Or Nike. Or that company that built the Burj Khalifa. I wonder who built it...

Wikipedia.org...Burj Khalifa...

Oh, wait...

Well, that just ruined my day.

I still can't understand how environmentalists could be opposed to [nuclear power], if they truly believe what scientists are telling us about what's happening with AGW and what the long term effects may be.

Actually, environmentalists are on board when it comes to nuclear power, for the very reasons you mentioned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/en...

There were already rumors that this would happen:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-may-block-linkedin-if-company-loses-court-case-on-personal-data-law-1478775414

Russia is asking that user data about its citizens be stored in the country exclusively. This is not unlike what the EU is asking under their new privacy laws.

I too find his remarks highly racist. I've been working in Silicon Valley for 20 years and at all of the companies I have worked at there has always been a large percentage of immigrant engineers of all races. Most of the start-ups in the valley were started by immigrants and 51% of the billion-dollar startups were founded by immigrants. While some companies seem to abuse H1bs I can honestly say that in my experience there is a shortage of good engineers, at least for the areas I work with (high-speed networking code, embedded processors, bootloader code, Linux kernel code, etc.). There are not enough Americans graduating from college with the degrees and skills needed to fill the gap, especially as the older engineers start to retire.

Like the above poster, we see far more foreign born applicants than native born. Unlike some companies which hire a huge number of H1b's who aren't all that skilled, my employer tries to be picky and hire good engineers and we jump at the chance to hire truly great engineers, regardless of race, sex, etc.

We are a country of immigrants. Immigrants help make this country great, bringing new ideas. Silicon Valley has always been a land of immigrants even as far back as the gold rush, where Chinese were brought in through San Francisco. My current employer, as were about half of my previous employers were founded by immigrants.

I say this as a native-born white guy who was born and raised in Silicon Valley. I work with a lot of very talented engineers from all over the world, including many from south-east Asia. In every engineering position I've held, I've been surrounded by "minorities" and am often the minority. Steve Bannon is a disgrace.

So, everybody involved in a lawsuit with Trump is trying to steal money, and Trump is always the good guy? Come on, that's simplistic bullshit.

Here, look at some real cases:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/do...

Are they all slam-dunk-Trump-is-evil cases? No. But many of the instances listed were ended because the litigants couldn't afford to fight, not because they thought they were wrong.

> Of the two, even today, who has more years experience running an organization?

When Trump showed up at the whitehouse to meet with Obama, he didn't even know he would have to hire new staff for the west wing. So much for organizational experience.

During their private White House meeting on Thursday, Mr. Obama walked his successor through the duties of running the country, and Mr. Trump seemed surprised by the scope, said people familiar with the meeting. Trump aides were described by those people as unaware that the entire presidential staff working in the West Wing had to be replaced at the end of Mr. Obama’s term.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/leading-contender-for-donald-trump-s-chief-of-staff-is-rnc-chairman-reince-priebus-1479069597

I've been hearing a lot of talk about "Give Trump a chance", and "let's judge him when he gets to office" by people who voted against him, but are practical enough to want a good leader.

However, this seems to be a pattern with Trump - using donors or people who already agree with him in key positions and advisors. His economic team consists of big donors, and discredited hacks like Stephen Moore and Larry Kudlow (this is non-partisan; even economic advisors of previous republicans presidents don't agree with Moore). He takes an climate-change skeptic (Myron Ebell) to lead the EPA transition.

Yet, I haven't heard a peep from most people who supported Trump about this. The "blue collar" crowd who supported him was about people sick of "Establishment politics", and instead wanted someone "looking out for the working class". Trump's isolationist and trade-war leaning policies, and embrace of supply-side economics have a proven record of hurting workers. Together with clear cronyism (to be fair, this was obvious before the election), I'm surprised that the "blue collar" crowd isn't even slightly upset.

Trump's supporters seem to still be in the post-game high - "Our team won!"; are they going to hold him to his (crazy) campaign promises? Are they going to expect him to loosen libel laws, build a wall, bring back sweatshop factory jobs? A co-worker remarked "Trump's victory speech was a step towards healing", instead of realizing that the stirred up crazy is still out there; he doesn't get credit for not being as crazy enough to follow through on his campaign promises.

I've heard that TPP and TTIP are already going through their death throes thanks to Trump.

You are incorrect.

TPP is dead.

Donald Trump’s victory in Tuesday’s presidential election has prompted President Barack Obama to abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported late Friday.

According to the Journal, the White House had hoped to push the deal forward in the lame-duck session of Congress, assuming Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had won the election. Her loss has already changed the political landscape:

Also of note since Trump won: Canada has said it's willing to renegotiate NAFTA, Mexico said it's willing to renegotiate NAFTA, stock market has hit new highs, money previously allocated by the government for the purpose of building the wall has been found, and two of Trumps scandals (the underage rape, and the muslim hajib thing) were found out as complete fabrications.

I'm waiting to hear the liberals on Slashdot spin the death of TPP as a bad thing because it was due to Trump.

I've heard that TPP and TTIP are already going through their death throes thanks to Trump.

So right there are two huge wins that us average people have been dreaming about for years now. Globalist garbage being brought to an unwilling citizenry by none other than the Democrats that so many people wanted to vote for. Here it is, crushed because of the one the dems told you was Satan: Donald Trump.

I have a feeling some big apologies are going to be necessary by the dems and their supporters.

Finally, this fucking scam to get everyone to believe that the world is going to end if we don't tax everyone can finally be laid to rest.

Well, at least here in the US.

You can't change the climate, but you can change the environment and that is what's really worth preserving and not some bogus 2.5c global temperature. You'd have to be a complete fucking idiot if you think CO2 is the control knob the Climate...pfft.

FYI, China (the biggest contributor of global emissions) plans a 20% increase in coal by 2020:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/ch...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

You just elected a Russian mole.

Sure. Because Kremlin says so... Except, they don't even claim that... It is all a product of hypotheses, suggestions, and unsubstantiated — usually anonymous — claims.

Meanwhile, a few facts about Clinton's recent past:

• In 2010 abolished the anti-Russia sanctions imposed over their invasion of Georgia in 2008 — thus, predictably, inviting them into Ukraine (and, correspondingly, to Syria).
• Criticized and mocked, along with other "Progressives", the very notion, that Russia may be hostile to the United States.
• "Reset".
• Routed billions of dollars worth of American investments into Russia's high tech — some of it with military purpose — while rewarding herself in the process.
• Has a history of taking bribes from Putin with who knows what other things remaining up his sleeve with which to blackmail her.

The only thing, that can be done to address the above accusations by your kind is down-modding them — facts are stubborn. So, apply some Vaseline, charge your Prius and head for Canada as you promised.

The Beautiful Wickedness finally had some water splashed on her, and us, the deplorable munchkins, are rejoicing.

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Sorry, I'm totally non-partisan, being disgusted by political parties in general. It counts always.

And no, that number does NOT include those over the age of 18 only. The number it is based on is called the "civilian non-institutional population", of which the definition is:

In the United States, the civilian noninstitutional population refers to people 16 years of age and older residing in the 50 States and the District of Columbia who are not inmates of institutions (penal, mental facilities, homes for the aged), and who are not on active duty in the Armed Forces.

The age is 16+, which you can see in the BLS statistics for yourself.

So, it excludes young children, but assumes everyone 16 and older is working, which is a very outdated assumption. Retired doesn't count, unless you're actually in a nursing facility. Military doesn't count. Full-time students don't count. Housewives don't count. Etc.

There are too many caveats to that number for it to be useful as anything other than a misleading, FUD talking point. This article in the WSJ breaks this down nicely.

The real answer is complex, and you can't break it down to a single sound bite. I still maintain the U-6 is a more accurate representation for trying to convey the total unemployment/underemployment picture. I don't think you fall off of U-6 after a set period of time. As it is compiled from a survey, I think you fall off if you flat out say you've just given up looking.

While there are employment issues in the U.S., saying things like "there are 95 million people out of work" just isn't accurate. Most people have a basic understanding that there are approximately 300 million people in the U.S., and the go "OMG! 1/3 of the population is unemployed! Those people need jobs." And that just isn't true.

Except that there was no malfunction here. Like most of these Autopilot stories, Autopilot wasn't actually in use.

But wait, I hear you saying, the article says:

In September, Tesla revealed the death of a man in one of its cars in a crash in the Netherlands and said that the "autopilot" software's role in the accident was being investigated.

"In the moments leading up to the collision, there is no evidence to suggest that Autopilot was not operating as designed and as described to users: specifically, as a driver assistance system that maintains a vehicle's position in lane and adjusts the vehicle's speed to match surrounding traffic," Tesla said in a blog post at the time.

The article is talking bollocks. That quote isn't from Tesla describing the Netherlands crash, it's describing the same old May 16th tractor-trailer-across-both-lanes, driver-watching-Harry-Potter crash. Autopilot was not in use in the Netherlands crash (and more to the point, the driver was driving 155 kph). So far, there's only been one confirmed death from Autopilot (and one person in China who insists that his son was killed by Autopilot but refuses to let Tesla check the logs to see if it was actually on)

There is zero evidence that illegal aliens commit crime at a lower rate than regular citizens. Zero.

Facts seem to disagree with your uninformed opinion.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/th...

Six Hundred, Fifty Thousand Emails found on Weiner's laptop. It should have taken weeks to review but when Loretta Lynch, who is nice and tight with the Clintons, runs the Justice Department - there is no justice when it comes to the Clintons.

You see, when you have facts you don't need insults. If you need so resort to insults - you've already lost the debate.

Try telling a Green that Nuclear Power is a vastly superior and cleaner alternative.

Actually, the "Greens" have been telling us that very thing:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/en...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...

The Hatch Act is a ban on using one's office for partisan gain. It doesn't require the FBI to shut down active criminal investigations just because the Democratic party happened to nominate someone under investigation.

If anything, the FBI Director has been taking Hillary's side on this. They didn't charge her even after this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Why is Hillary different than Martha Stewart?

Putin wants Trump to be president.

Pathetic... Seriously... Are we supposed to believe, Trump will be better for Russia, than the alternative, who:

• In 2010 abolished the anti-Russia sanctions imposed over their invasion of Georgia in 2008 — thus, predictably, inviting them into Ukraine.
• Criticized and mocked, along with other "Progressives", the very notion, that Russia may be hostile to the United States.
• "Reset"
• Routed billions of dollars worth of American investments into Russia's high tech — some of it with military purpose — while rewarding herself in the process.
• Has a history of taking bribes from Putin with who knows what other things remaining up his sleeve with which to blackmail her.

You expect us to ignore all of the above and worry ourselves over "irregular pings" of a server with "Trump's name in it" originating from a Moscow bank?

Story where Terry McAuliffe (a long time Clinton friend) gave the lead FBI investigator's wife $500,000 for a campaign run in 2015 during the investigation. If you know Terry McAuliffe, you know dealing with him is basically the same as dealing with the Clintons.

I think you need to exclude anyone who took bribes from the Clintons as well.

If you have cash,

...before they discovered just how shoddy it is put together and how many flaws there are in the perennial beta software. Then, they wisely retracted their recommendation.

Delta seems to do pretty well in the overall ratings. Not the highest, but in the top half...

You say that as if we haven't caught them doing anything!

Employees remove Trump posts as "hate speech"

The group "Assassinate Donald Trump" does not violate Facebook community standards:
This sort of thing, even as a joke, normally gets people a visit from the Secret Service...

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

Banned for talking about getting censored:

So no, they weren't able to keep the conspiracy hidden. You, however, seem to have managed to be ill-informed about it.

I haven't covered everything, either.

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You may think Trump is the lesser of two evils, but make no mistake: Trump is no champion of civil liberties. If this is your reason for voting him, I suggest re-thinking about it.

Trump IS the lesser of two evils.

Trump MAY be as bad as Hillary with respect to civil liberties - but he pretty much CAN'T be worse.

And the media will at least try to keep Trump honest. The media has pretty clearly demonstrated that they won't do a damn thing to keep Hillary! honest.

Did you know Hillary! confidante Terry McAuliffe have the wife of the #2 FBI leader over half a million dollars just a few days after the FBI started investigating that email server that Hillary! "didn't have" - and that "didn't have classified data on it"?:

Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife

The political organization of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.

Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.

Clinton ally gave $500K to wife of FBI agent on email probe

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton confidant, helped steer $675,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an FBI official who went on to lead the probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email system, according to a report.

The political action committee of McAuliffe, the Clinton loyalist, gave $467,500 to the state Senate campaign of the wife of Andrew McCabe, who is now deputy director of the FBI, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The report states Jill McCabe received an additional $207,788 from the Virginia Democratic Party, which is heavily influenced by McAuliffe.

The money directed by McAuliffe began flowing two months after the FBI investigation into Clinton began in July 2015. Around that time, the candidate’s husband was promoted from running the Washington field office for the FBI to the No. 3 position at the bureau.

Within a year, McCabe was promoted to deputy director, the second-highest position in the bureau.

How can anyone who can THINK not come to the conclustion that Hillary! is a much larger danger than Trump? She's ADMITTED that nothing she tells you means anything.

Youtube was 'breaking even' up through a year ago: http://www.wsj.com/articles/vi...

After paying for content, and the equipment to deliver speedy videos, YouTube’s bottom line is “roughly break-even,” according to a person with knowledge of the figure.

Also, there's only about 11 minutes of action per game:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

I enjoy watching games, but only with it pre-recorded. It takes about 30 minutes per game (I watch penalty determination, reviews, and injuries alongside the brief actual game play).

Or, and I really like this, I let the game play at real time and pick up a bit between plays and clean during commercials. I can get 2 hours of stuff done during one game, and some exercise (running in from the kitchen to catch the start of the next play). Add some beer and maybe fire up the grill (pausing the game to build up fast-forward time - charcoal man here...) and it can be a rather pleasant way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Phone bills quadrupled almost over night.

Well, for starters how about stuff that actually happened. Here's a story from 1984 a year after the AT&T break up. It notes a decline in long distance prices (around 5% decline) combined with somewhat sharper rises in local service costs (but 16% increases rather than your bullshit 300% increases). One could buy their own phones and telecom equipment.

And cell phones are a huge benefactor of the breakup. AT&T had been sitting on cell phone technology for years. Within the decade, its pieces had set up viable cell phone networks.