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Here is some information about a demo that Barclays gave of Corda:

http://www.coindesk.com/r3-corda-demo-barclays-distributed-ledger/

It would appear that the banking consortium R3 is going to build a platform on top of Corda. They are going to name that platform Concord and the WSJ has an interesting blog post about how it all works together:

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/08/24/a-closer-look-at-r3s-concord/

they've developed eCoin

I seriously hope you're not considering voting for the candidate whose campaign manager worked for Yanukovitch, whose foreign policy advisor actively works for Gazprom

I'd rather Trump wins, than Clinton, who:

1. ran State, when the Administration ended all "Georgian" sanctions against Russia, thus inviting Putin into Ukraine as predicted
2. received, along with her husband, countless bribes (that is, "speech fees") from Putin-controlled entities — and gave amply in return
3. routed billions-worth of investment into Russia's high-tech and -technology firms, some of them, obviously, with military connections
4. was part of the Administration, that still would not give Ukraine lethal weapons (such as anti-tank missiles they desperately need) to counter the threat of Russia's armor
5. Continues to employ John Podesta, who received millions from Putin too — and, unlike Manafort, Podesta is not simply a cold professional campaigner one day in Peru, tomorrow in Israel, and so on, he is sincerely behind Clinton and Democrats.

Unlike USSR before him, Putin courts all sides. I'll take my chances with Trump, who has no prior record of helping the asshole and is less likely to be blackmailed by him.

Mike Pence is blaming the Russians now too. And he may be in a better position to know, since Roger Stone (Trump campaign bigwig) has copped to coordinating with Wikileaks.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/...

Democrats fire-bombed a GOP office today.

Crazy. I didn't believe it at first, but here's the story, from Orange County, North Carolina. It was a Molotov Cocktail, accompanied by graffiti that says, “Nazi Republicans leave town or else.” Real gents, these people.

That moment when even the WSJ starts calling out the bullshit...

Wealthy people don't miss payments

Oh, that's where you're wrong:

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

A review of court filings from jurisdictions in 33 states, along with interviews with business people, real-estate executives and others, shows a pattern over Mr. Trump’s 40-year career of his sometimes refusing to pay what some business owners said Trump companies owed them.

A chandelier shop, a curtain maker, a lawyer and others have said Mr. Trump’s companies agreed to buy goods and services, then reneged when some or all were delivered.

I'm not for a moment suggesting Trump is a 'KGB agent', but he has business history is Russia

More than just "business interests". Most Western banks won't do business with him any more, citing him as a bad risk. The only place left for him to get money for his "projects" is the Russian oligarchy.

The one Western bank that will still deal with Trump is Deutsche Bank, and their stock price has taken a huge hit.

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...

People may have forgotten that Bloomberg, a Trump hater, reported this activity.

Google itself, has had nearly weekly meetings with the Obama White House.

Google employees were Obama's 4th largest source of cash in 2008, and 3rd largest source in 2012.

More than 250 people have shuffled back-and-forth between the Obama administration and Google.

Massive centralized government is in the process of uniting with the political party of big government, and the multinational corporations who control communications and monitor the public. Those communications companies are running "fact checking" sites that rule opposing views as lies without any legal process or appeals, and frequently putting 10 to 20 times the emphasis on negative news for their opponents as on negative news for their allies. Start shining-up yer jack-boots folks.... we are becoming a fascist nation and it's a good idea to be on the side of the national socialists when they begin to assert full control - George Soros has said so - Google him.

Riiight, will those "facts" include the fact that Google was caught rigging search results to be Pro Clinton? Or how about the fact that Eric Schmidt is working for the Clinton Campaign? How about the fact that Google has a meeting a week with the Obama administration?

Comcast had $19.269 billion in revenues last quarter. (Source [cmcsa.com]) This equates to about $211 million per day or $8.8 million per hour. They'll earn back the $2.3 million fine in about 15 minutes and 42 seconds.

Likely the maximum that the FCC can fine the company. The NHTSA is another agency that was hampered with petty maximum fines, until the DoJ stepped in with a wire fraud criminal lawsuit that resulted in far stiffer penalties. "Cramming" could very well constitute wire fraud.

Lied? I think you mean, at best, was mistaken.

Thanks to the links I offered above, you too know, she spoke an untruth.

Maybe, you are too young to have paid attention, when these facts broke out, but Hillary Clinton was already very active in politics — she can not possibly not have heard about it. Therefore, she knew. Deliberately telling an untruth is the very definition of lying.

I am reluctant to accept something from a KGB archive as fact.

Well, what would you accept as fact? There are folks, who still question Moon-landing, for example, and they too can explain in detail, why everything known about it was not "fact". In the early 1990-ies, when the archives were (briefly) made accessible, the KGB was in disarray...

KGB might have still borne some grudges against the Kennedy family.

American Left have always been good to the USSR and Russia... It was because of them, the US was humiliated in Vietnam, defeated not by military might, but by discontent back at home. Later, when the USSR collapsed, it was Bill Clinton, who didn't push for Nurneberg-style of the Communists, allowing their prosecution to fizzle — that during the time, when Moscow was barely avoiding famine thanks to America's help. Later, it were Barack and Hillary, who offered Putin a "Reset" — and poured billions of dollars into Russian scientific research — not selflessly, of course. The duo also completely forgave Putin his invasion of Georgia by ending all sanctions in 2010 (thus encouraging him to invade Ukraine, as predicted).

Why would Putin seek to undermine such an asset as Hillary — whom he could've instead controlled with a combination of continuing bribery and blackmail over the bribes already taken?

Sure enough, Democrats would like Trump to look like Putin's favorite, but history points rather strongly at them...

How do Trump supporters arrive at the "might stand up to wall street" conclusion for a clear member of the oligarch class whose tax plan clearly favors the affluent as opposed to Clinton who has at least furnished one that seems to favor the middle class?

I guess you haven't been paying attention to how income disparity increases under Democrat rule:

The Census Bureau releases annual updates on income distribution in the U.S., publishing three technical statistical measures—the Gini index, the mean logarithmic deviation of income (mean log deviation for short), and the Theil index—each of which represents inequality levels on a scale of 0 to 1 (zero signifies perfect equality and 1 indicates perfect inequality). By all three measures, inequality rose more under Bill Clinton than under Ronald Reagan. And it wasn’t even close. While the inequality increase as measured by the Gini index was only slightly more during Clinton’s two terms, the Theil index and mean log deviation increased two and three times as much, respectively.

Barack Obama’s administration follows this pattern, despite the complaints he and his supporters have made about his predecessor. The mean log deviation increased 37% more under Mr. Obama than under President George W. Bush, although when this statistic was released, Mr. Obama had only six years as president compared with Mr. Bush’s eight. The Gini index rose more than three times as much under Mr. Obama than under Mr. Bush. The Theil index increased sharply during the Obama administration, while it fell slightly under Bush 43.

Fact: income inequality increased more under Clinton than it did under Reagan

Fact: income inequality increased more under a mere 6 years of Obama than it did under 8 years of Bush II.

Not a surprise - under socialism, the powerful get rich. Got the balls to guess who the richest person in Venezuela is? LMGTFY.

Please, tell me, how on earth to arrive do you arrive at the conclusion that some one like him will favor the middle class over the affluent? There's certainly nothing in the few actual policy proposals he's floated that suggests that.

Trump may very well not favor the middle class over the affluent.

BUT WE KNOW ALL TOO FUCKING WELL THAT CROOKED HILLARY! WILL FAVOR THE AFFLUENT..

For those wanting some context, here is a collection of articles from a variety of sources. For those saying "show me the evidence", they wouldn't believe any evidence -- or are themselves Russian trolls.

What Does Putin Want?
5 Oct 2016

The United States should pursue confrontation where necessary and mutual interests without illusions where possible.

However therapeutic and tempting, especially during election season and after Russiaâ(TM)s direct complicity in the Syria horror, the understandable impulse to confront and isolate President Vladamir Putinâ(TM)s Russia is not wise policy. Notwithstanding the many areas of altercation as well as the doomed attempt by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to âoeresetâ U.S.-Russia relations after the George W. Bush administration, the next president should pursue a dual strategy designed both to challenge Putin where U.S. national interests demand it but find areas of collaboration where interests coincide. The United States should pursue confrontation where necessary and mutual interests without illusions where possible.

http://nationalinterest.org/fe...

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Russia Suspends Nuclear Agreement, Ends Uranium Research Pact With United States
5 Oct 2016

âoeThe regular renewal of sanctions against Russia ... demands the adoption of countermeasures against the U.S. side.â

Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy on Wednesday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.

The Russian government said that as counter-measures to the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, it was putting aside a nuclear and energy-related research pact with the United States.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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Russian state newspapers predict âdirect military conflictâ(TM) with US as it compares Syria stalemate to Cuban missile crisis
5 Oct 2016

'Third World War' fears have been voiced by the newspapers over the growing tensions with the USA

A RUSSIAN newspaper fears a Third World War with the US over Syria.

Tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets predicts a âoedirect military confrontationâ on par with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/...

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Russiaâ(TM)s Military Sophistication in the Arctic Sends Echoes of the Cold War
4 Oct 2016

Norwegian, NATO and U.S. officials express concerns over Moscowâ(TM)s increased sophistication in region

When the U.S. wants to learn what Russia is doing in the Arctic, it often turns to the Norwegian military, which has been conducting operations for decades from this Arctic town amid the fiords.

These days, it isnâ(TM)t the volume of Russian military activity in the region that concerns Norway and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. Adm. Haakon Bruun-Hanssen, Norwayâ(TM)s chief of defense, says Russian military activity in the Barents Sea has grown in recent years but still pales in comparison to Cold War levels.

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

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Amid Deteriorating U.S.-Russia Relations, Questions Grow About Cyberwar
4 Oct 2016

Just when you thought U.S.-Russia relations couldn't get worse, diplomatic deals on both Syria and nuclear security fell apart this week.

Moscow went first, announcing that it was pulling out of a landmark agreement on plutonium. Russia's President V

Facebook is surprisingly profitable.

Donald Trump was hardly the only guy to invest in Atlantic City gambling and lose money on the thing.

No, but he was the only one to do it in 1995.

Incidentally, just how many people were employed by Hillary in her many businesses?

The difference is that the ones Hillary employed actually got paid. Donald Trump? Not so much.

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

http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...

The on-paper top marginal rate didn't affect reality due to widespread use of shelters (mostly holes which have since been closed). You have to look at how much was paid in practice, and it turns out the top pays about the same and the bottom 2/3 now pays much less.

The Fantasy of a 91% Top Income Tax Rate:

However, it is worth noting that from 1958 to 2010, the taxes paid by the top 3% of earners, as a percentage of total personal income (which can't be reduced by shelters), increased to 3.96% from 2.72%, while the percentage paid by the bottom two-thirds of filers fell to 0.51% in 2010 from 2.7%. This starker division of relative tax burdens can be explained by the inability of upper-income groups to shelter income.

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

But to turn into a total fuck up requires the private sector. See also http://www.wsj.com/articles/ep...

Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle are competing for the next artificial intelligence (AI) system, which requires large data sets to train properly. LinkedIn and Twitter have large data sets.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/salesforce-joins-race-for-artificially-intelligent-business-software-1474241982

$1,000,000 puts you in the top 0.5%.

That link refers to annual income, not net worth (which is what the discussion was about). Like the parent said, every million will get you about $30k-$40k in income, hardly in the 1% for income. To be in the top 1% for net worth, you need about $7 million.

$1,000,000 puts you in the top 0.5%.

That link refers to annual income, not net worth (which is what the discussion was about). Like the parent said, every million will get you about $30k-$40k in income, hardly in the 1% for income. To be in the top 1% for net worth, you need about $7 million.

$1,000,000 puts you in the top 0.5%.

It was WSJ that broke the story this morning, CNet is summarizing it.

The original article is here.

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

I'd pay 10x as much for my groceries if that means my wife has less chance of being raped, and my children have less chance of being groomed by drug dealers.

Blaming rape and drug dealing on illegal immigrants is a ridiculous scapegoat with absolutely no basis in fact. The reality is the opposite of this - illegal immigrants (not accounting for the crime of illegal immigration itself) commit a tiny fraction of the crime in America, and it's very much disproportionate to their population. Illegal immigrants are less likely than natives to commit violent crime or be incarcerated.

...but don't let facts get in the way of your argument.

10 times cheaper, 3 times worse...

Seriously, they simply don't value human life as much as we do. Whereas Western governments consider a human life to be worth nearly $10 million, Russia, for example, values theirs at no more than $2 million. In China, according to WorldBank study, it is less than 2 mln yuan, or less than $300K.

So, it may make sense for NASA to spend an extra $1 million to reduce a risk to one human's life by 10%. But for the Chinese to spend $1 million, the risk has to be 30+ times greater...

But have you purchased your own telephone pole?

NO? Bloody amateur.

... the more fragile it becomes.

Hanjin - a major korean shipping corp recently gone bankrupt - has massive containerships standing at sea, not allowed to run into harbours because the harbour authorities are afraid they won't see their fees. As a result, companies relying on their shipments done with Hanjin are on the brink of bankruptcy, because they can't deliver. And on it goes down the foodchain.

This is what happens if you cut it too thin and expect dirt-cheap stuff and services everywhere, every time and all the time. Same with Uber, Lyft, MyHammer and now this. This sort of race for the bottom line will end up with deflation and eventually a lot of companies and individuals going out of business.

Uh, the last link isn't band wagon. Its from the fucking US Consumer Protection agency. Holy shit are you delusional if you think that's fraudulent claims.

You want dishonest? How about this:
"In announcing the recall, however, experts say, the South Korean company neglected to first coordinate with safety authorities in the U.S. According to U.S. law, the CPSC must be notified within 24 hours after a safety risk has been identified, and recall announcements are generally then carried out jointly."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/sa...

The Irish government agreed a deal with Apple in 1991 to only tax a certain bracket of its earnings, giving it a dramatically lower tax rate than it would have to pay in the US. Apple got its lower tax rate, and Ireland kept Apple in the country. For a long time, that arrangement worked well. But as Apple's profits soared, the EU started to look more closely at the deal.

It's illegal for a government in the EU to strike a so-called "sweetheart deal" with a company. The European Commission classes those deals as illegal state aid, and it has decided that Ireland's deal with Apple is exactly that.

and here

The commission said that two tax rulings issued by Ireland to Apple have “substantially and artificially lowered the tax paid by Apple in Ireland since 1991.”

The rulings endorsed a way to establish how much tax two of Apple’s Irish incorporated companies–Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe– should pay.

Almost all sales profits recorded by the two companies were internally attributed to a “head office,” which existed only on paper and could not have generated such profits, according to the commission.

and here

The European Commission said tax arrangements that Ireland offered Apple in 1991 and 2007 allowed the company to pay annual tax rates of between 0.005% and 1% on its European profits for over a decade to 2014, by designating only a tiny portion of its profit as taxable in Ireland.

“The commission’s investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years,” said European antitrust commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

The sweetheart deals violated Ireland's treaties with the EEC and the EU. Ireland could leave the EU to prevent future tax claims, but then Apple would move the office to the continent.

The Irish government agreed a deal with Apple in 1991 to only tax a certain bracket of its earnings, giving it a dramatically lower tax rate than it would have to pay in the US. Apple got its lower tax rate, and Ireland kept Apple in the country. For a long time, that arrangement worked well. But as Apple's profits soared, the EU started to look more closely at the deal.

It's illegal for a government in the EU to strike a so-called "sweetheart deal" with a company. The European Commission classes those deals as illegal state aid, and it has decided that Ireland's deal with Apple is exactly that.

and here

The commission said that two tax rulings issued by Ireland to Apple have “substantially and artificially lowered the tax paid by Apple in Ireland since 1991.”

The rulings endorsed a way to establish how much tax two of Apple’s Irish incorporated companies–Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe– should pay.

Almost all sales profits recorded by the two companies were internally attributed to a “head office,” which existed only on paper and could not have generated such profits, according to the commission.

and here

The European Commission said tax arrangements that Ireland offered Apple in 1991 and 2007 allowed the company to pay annual tax rates of between 0.005% and 1% on its European profits for over a decade to 2014, by designating only a tiny portion of its profit as taxable in Ireland.

“The commission’s investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years,” said European antitrust commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

The sweetheart deals violated Ireland's treaties with the EEC and the EU. Ireland could leave the EU to prevent future tax claims, but then Apple would move the office to the continent.

The Irish government agreed a deal with Apple in 1991 to only tax a certain bracket of its earnings, giving it a dramatically lower tax rate than it would have to pay in the US. Apple got its lower tax rate, and Ireland kept Apple in the country. For a long time, that arrangement worked well. But as Apple's profits soared, the EU started to look more closely at the deal.

It's illegal for a government in the EU to strike a so-called "sweetheart deal" with a company. The European Commission classes those deals as illegal state aid, and it has decided that Ireland's deal with Apple is exactly that.

and here

The commission said that two tax rulings issued by Ireland to Apple have “substantially and artificially lowered the tax paid by Apple in Ireland since 1991.”

The rulings endorsed a way to establish how much tax two of Apple’s Irish incorporated companies–Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe– should pay.

Almost all sales profits recorded by the two companies were internally attributed to a “head office,” which existed only on paper and could not have generated such profits, according to the commission.

and here

The European Commission said tax arrangements that Ireland offered Apple in 1991 and 2007 allowed the company to pay annual tax rates of between 0.005% and 1% on its European profits for over a decade to 2014, by designating only a tiny portion of its profit as taxable in Ireland.

“The commission’s investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years,” said European antitrust commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

The sweetheart deals violated Ireland's treaties with the EEC and the EU. Ireland could leave the EU to prevent future tax claims, but then Apple would move the office to the continent.

But Cook appears to be pushing for permanently lower corporate taxes.

Even Obama wants to do that. In fact, so do both parties.

You can foam at the mouth about how unfair the real world is all you want, imposing increasingly higher taxes on corporations or individuals will cause them to adopt "tax avoidance strategies". If you make the taxes high enough, they'll simply stop operating/working altogether. It's as unavoidable as gravity.

Here's the story: A bunch of right wing think tanks were campaigning for Republican politicians and calling themselves charities. They weren't even trying to hide it. The IRS went after them because hey, low hanging fruit. That didn't change a damn thing about how illegal their actions were. There's a reason it's illegal to pretend to be a charity. A good one. And you're being disingenuous (read: lying through your teeth) when you suggest otherwise.

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

May 18, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET
Barack Obama owes his presidency in no small part to the power of rhetoric. It's too bad he doesn't appreciate the damage that loose talk can do to America's tax system, even as exploding federal deficits make revenues more important than ever.

At his Arizona State University commencement speech last Wednesday, Mr. Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree, citing his lack of experience, and the controversy this had caused. He then demonstrated ASU's point by remarking, "I really thought this was much ado about nothing, but I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS."

Just a joke about the power of the presidency. Made by Jay Leno it might have been funny. But as told by Mr. Obama, the actual president of the United States, it's hard to see the humor. Surely he's aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents. But that abuse generated a powerful backlash and with good reason. Should the IRS come to be seen as just a bunch of enforcers for whoever is in political power, the result would be an enormous loss of legitimacy for the tax system.

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Fast forward to 2012 when Lois Lerner and her minions sought out politically disfavored groups for targeting. And of course lots of potential evidence magically disappeared right after Congressional subpoena.

You also characterize the targeted groups incorrectly, perhaps in an attempt to paint them as somehow more worthy of your contempt.

The groups in question were not presenting themselves as "charities". Under point of law, they presented themselves as 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations. Such organizations are not charities, and donations to them are not deductible. Organizations like Greenpeace and Obama's own Organizing for Action (to promote President Obama's legislative priorities) are 501(c)(4) organizations. Such organizations cannot donate to campaigns, but are free to pursue issue-based initiatives, which may align with or be opposed to positions taken by one or more politicians or candidates and thus by indirect extension "support" or "oppose" candidates.

As previously stated, and much like the Clinton email server scandal, the Obama Justice Department investigated the Obama IRS and chose to file no charges.

The lack of transparency, destruction of evidence, and self-serving denial goes a long way in Obama's administration.

I hate to think what putting the IRS and Justice Department in either Hillary's or Donald's hands would look like. Make Obama look like a piker.

Then how does Wall Street's financial sector continue to earn returns on their buying of candidates? After all, they spend the money supporting a selected candidate, they expect a return!

Treaties vs. Executive Agreements: When Does Congress Get a Vote?

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/...

They didn't set out to make a partial upper deck. The original plan was to make it a full double-decker like Airbus eventually did with the A380. But given their deadline, they didn't think they could solve the problem of adding (safe) evacuation slides for passengers on the upper deck in time, so they settled for a traditional single-decker (which they already had experience designing, just needed to scale everything up to make it wider). The short blister on top for the cockpit was added to allow the cargo variant to have a swing nose so you could load cargo through the front, instead of through the side. So it's not really "copying" someone else's design when there's only one practical solution (the impractical one being putting the cockpit in the swing-away nose and designing all sorts of latches for the mechanical linkages between the cockpit controls to the plane's control surfaces).

This is why the upper deck on the early 747-100 is a lot shorter than in later variants like the 747-400. The few upper-deck seats on the 747-100 were an afterthought, added more for novelty than for increased passenger capacity. The lower deck on the 747 already carried nearly 3x as many passengers as any other plane operating at the time. Boeing tried for decades to sell the idea of a full double-deck 747 to the airlines, but not enough of them would commit to them. So Boeing never bothered making it. When Airbus announced their plans for the A380, Boeing tried again to pitch a full double-deck 747, and again not enough airlines said they wanted it. That's why they didn't try to compete with Airbus on the A380.

Production of the A380 will probably soon cease, and its sales have just barely recouped its design costs. The 4-engine airliners like the 747, A340, and A380 are being eaten alive in the market by twin-engine airliners like the 777, 787, and A350 (2 engines are more efficient than 4). The disparity between A380 orders and deliveries is mostly due to airlines which placed orders but have asked to delay delivery or have refused receipt as they consider cancelling. Airbus needs to produce about 20-25 a year for the production facilities alone (i.e. excluding design costs) to operate without losing money. And right now they're scheduled to drop to 12 deliveries/year in 2018, so they'll probably wind up losing money on the A380 overall (the remaining 100 or so orders will probably be delivered at a loss, if they're not canceled outright). So it would appear Boeing's market analysis was correct that there wasn't enough market demand for a full double-deck airliner. It's a good thing the EU government guaranteed the loans Airbus took out to design the plane or this might've bankrupted the company. Competition between Airbus and Boeing is what keeps technology progressing and prices low.

As long as the employees are not forcibly coerced to work there, I fail to be outraged.

I really have a hard time calling these students "volunteers"

Indian executives say early investments by GE in India gave their technology and business service sectors crucial credibility and cash when other companies still viewed the country as a risky backwater. Moreover, exposure to Mr. Welch's culture of cost-cutting and efficiency taught them business skills they are now using to compete globally, often against U.S. firms.

With arrests and incarceration increasing, we will run out of criminals on the lam. Time to pass new laws.

Ten felonies a day, or bust!

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

The location Bing has for Melbourne is home to the gigantic squid, the most dangerous squid in the world. So of course they assumed it was in Australia.

I estimate the cost of goods sold per Epi-pen is about $2 to $3 each. Any figures beyond that are profit. Any higher CGS presented by Mylan, should they choose to do so, are likely accounting techniques where they move ongoing R&D costs onto old and fully paid for products. The retail price of Mylan's Epi-pen is legalized theft such that Al Capone would be proud.

Al Capone and his bootleggers were largely in favor of prohibition ($$$) and opposed to its repeal. They were also (violently) opposed to their competitors trying to move alcohol outside their protection racket. You want to fuck Mylan over, stop making it difficult for their competitors to compete with them

Last year Sanofi withdrew an EpiPen rival called Auvi-Q that was introduced in 2013, after merely 26 cases in which the device malfunctioned and delivered an inaccurate dose. Though the recall was voluntary and the FDA process is not transparent, such extraordinary actions are never done without agency involvement. This suggests a regulatory motive other than patient safety.

Then in February the FDA rejected Teva's generic EpiPen application. In June the FDA required a San Diego-based company called Adamis to expand patient trials and reliability studies for still another auto-injector rival.

The only shocking thing is that the price didn't go up more when a field of three competitors was narrowed to only one that's given a legal monopoly over the whole market.

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

Yawn

You may not have notice when you were copy-pasting those links, the ONE STORY that was actually about the pay gap and had any data was about worldwide pay in developed nations. Women in most European countries have been making the same as men for decades. Hell, even in little countries like Serbia, there's been pay equity for over half a century. The other two stories were op-ed pieces by people who presented evidence, only feelings.

If you look up at the headline of this story, you will notice that it's, "Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft Sign White House Pledge For Equal Pay". Get that? White House pledge. That means US. And brother, there is absolutely a pay gap in the US. Don't believe me, listen to what those filthy SJW Socialists over at the Wall Street Journal had to say:

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

Disney's parent owns Vice Media. Domestic propaganda is legal in the USA again. The rich and powerful people are spending time and money manufacturing consent on sites just like this. Meanwhile, the US government is literally sending supplies to ISIS under our noses. I wonder why this piece is coming out of vice right now.

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."

- David Rockefeller's[p]urported remarks at a Bilderberg Group meeting in Baden-Baden, Germany in June 1991, The remarks are said to have been printed in several right-wing French publications shortly thereafter; as quoted in Programming, Pitfalls and Puppy-Dog Tales (1993) by Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, p. 65. Skepticism is in order for the accuracy or attribution of alleged remarks from these exclusive meetings, particularly those which could be manifestations of either satire, sarcasm — or outright fraudulence.

Sorry, Bud. You've only got half the news. They admitted making it up after they vandalized a bathroom. http://www.wsj.com/articles/ro...

[...] but for the majority of horses... where did they go?

Being shipped to Canada or Mexico as horse meat for export.

http://blogs.wsj.com/canadarealtime/2013/02/27/who-knew-canada-is-no-3-in-global-horse-meat-export-trade/

The rest of humanity will be left to fight among ourselves for what scraps remain.

Soylent green, anyone?

What kind of major outlets are you looking for?

http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...

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

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

http://www.npr.org/sections/th...

Hell, even the NY Daily News covered it:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

are hiring a *higher* percentage of minorities than are graduating from college

Do you have some stats for that? TFA links to this paywalled article that says there are more minority graduates than jobs. This US government report says the same thing.

male nurses, male teachers, male social workers

Read the news, at least in the UK this has been a major issue since the 90s at least and is getting millions of Pounds spent on fixing it. Men looking to become primary school teachers get massive incentives, for example.

No the "cure" I am talking about is dissolving the inclusion bodies and allowing the cells to function normally again.

Lets says you have a condition that for whatever reason is forming these bodies in your cells at a certain rate and as you age your cells get worse at running correctly so at 60 your cells are damaged enough you are diagnosed with alzheimers. We could give you the treatment and completely restore the cells to full functioning.

To be certain, by the time any of the effects show up, the damage is long done. Any plausible fix/repair for Alzheimers would require very early intervention. As in early 30's http://www.medpagetoday.com/ne... , or perhaps even childhood: http://www.wsj.com/articles/al...

The problem is you still have the condition and will still make more of these inclusion bodies but the process is very slow. At 80 you would probably need another treatment to restore full function and another at 100 etc. That is why these are not permanent cures but there is also no reason not to just use it again.

I can see from your post that you are sort of confusing some of the telltale clues and assuming that removing the aluminum containing plaques will restore a person's mental facilities. This is probably a false lead for many. It is the sort of thing that has caused many people to attempt to avoid aluminum and alumina - one of the most common elements and minerals on earth, so good luck with that. Because of studies and easy database searches, and out desire to blame ourselves for our frailty. As well, too much zinc supposedly causes Alzheimer's. Then again, too little zinc supposedly causes Alzheimer's.

But as with the overwhelmingly largest factor influencing our longevity in the first place, my money is on genetics. And any "cure" for Alzheimer's will have to be tackled through genetic manipulation. Some people are going to get it, some aren't. My father and I discussed finances within 12 hours of his death from COPD. My Mother in law thought my wife was her mother for 10 years.

Most of the stuff I am aware of is trying to restore full functionality. That is why restoring the brain is so important since it is a major reason to end up in a nursing home.

I'm pretty curious about a treatment that can restore full function in a symptomatic Alzheimer's patient. As noted, the neurodegeneration has been going on for a good while before the overt symptoms appear.