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This entire article is Bullshit.

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

There were multiple articles denouncing the failure of this program. Do the media cunts that host this site actually think people don't fucking pay attention?!

Remember that this did not just randomly or organically happen. This was openly orchestrated. And everyone let it happen because they were too busy tweeting about Trump's moronic sound byte of the day to care.

Never forget how the Wall Street Journal freely admitted that they hired three people to spend weeks mining and deceptively editing PewDiePie's content, then sent it directly to Disney for the express purpose of starting a controversy where none existed. Never forget that mainstream media organizations like Wired and The Independent (along with a few "new media" news organizations, such as The Young Turks) parroted this story uncritically and did not truthfully describe the video in question (which showed a closeup of PewDiePie's face looking shocked and then saddened after the words "Death to Jews" actually appeared on the screen). Never forget that none of them followed up to tell their readers that the Wall Street Journal not only edited his videos to remove all of the context indicating that it was comedic satire but even edited a shot of him pointing at something off-screen and implied that it was a Nazi salute.

None of this is conspiracy theory. The Wall Street Journal was frank and open about their motives in helping to instigate this "adpocalypse". Just days later, they penned a story that basically explained how their intention was to not merely embarrass PewDiePie specifically, but to also start a moral panic amongst advertisers so as to compel Youtube and other new media giants to reel in ALL of this independent nonsense, ALL of this un-sanitized family-unfriendly content, all of this "let the viewers decide what they want to see" nonsense, all of this free speech nonsense.. They were so cheerfully open about this that they didn't even bother pay-walling that article.

Like I said time and time again when this happened two years ago, this is not about "forcing" Youtube or other corporations to host content, though partisans will always still seek to end the conversation by saying "free market at work; nothing to see here." Corporations like the Wall Street Journal were able to do this by leveraging the fears of advertisers, fears that are ultimately rooted in the desires and actions of consumers like you and me. We aren't just a part of this ecosystem; we are its keystone species.

So please never forget that this was not a natural or organic or grassroots thing that happened. Never forget that controversy was artificial, was intentionally created and cultivated by large corporations for cynical purposes. Never the day the tail wagged the dog and then bragged about doing it. Understand that this is NOT a shining example of free market supply and demand harmony. Understand how viewers and content producers were ignored in favor of what old media wanted to see happen.

This is not a fluid or free market sort of thing. This is monolithic and dictatorial. There is no fine-grained option (from my understanding) that allows individual advertisers to opt-in to specific videos that Youtube has deemed not politically correct enough, not vapid and conventional enough. And nobody (be they advertiser or producer or viewer) has the clout to roll their own competitor to Youtube. Anyone who doubts this doesn't understand how the Millennials, how these "Digital Natives" have grown up to think about technology. For them, Youtube IS online video (other than porn) and there is very little incentive for them to poke their heads outside of that walled garden.

Once again, there will be replies accusing me of being not just Trump apologist but a paid troll. I wish I didn't have to say thi

I'm not saying their connected, but it's a big coincidence that the press release this story is based on gets released the same day this happens:

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

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opin...

Right, you can be sure of that.

• If the Chinese regulator acts proactively, we suspect them of having an agenda;
• If the Chinese regulator does not act, we describe them as authoritarian insensitive to people's rights;
• If the FAA and Boeing delayed fixing the plane due to government shutdown, it is just boring business as usual;
• If the plane is made in China, front pages and comment sections across Internet would be filled with "Made in China products are craps";
• If the plane is made in USA, rare odd problem and silence is golden.

We should continue to blame China for everything wrong on this planet, that will for sure Make America Great Again.

Yes, I can. The flu epidemic, for one. That was easy. Of course, it's harder to remember Obama's because NONE of them were in the least bit controversial.

I recently reviewed them ALL as declarations of national emergencies have been a subject of the news recently and it WAS covered by the Fake News MSM .

NONE of those national emergencies were used as a means of subverting the will and power of Congress.

Most of them actually simply froze assets of bad actors in countries like Yemen or the Central African Republic.

BTW, why does Trump believe the US is so weak that we need Saudi Arabia's money? How many jobs are our arms sales actually creating?

“It’s $110 billion. I believe it’s the largest order ever made. It’s 450,000 jobs. It’s the best equipment in the world.”

— President Trump, in remarks to reporters, Oct. 13, 2018

“$110 billion in purchasing. It’s 500,000 jobs, American jobs. Everything’s made here.”

— Trump, in an interview with Trish Regan of Fox Business News, Oct. 16

“Who are we hurting? It’s 500,000 jobs. It’ll be ultimately $110 billion. It’s the biggest order in the history of our country from an outside military.”

— Trump, in an interview with Stuart Varney of Fox Business News, Oct. 17

“I would prefer that we don’t use, as retribution, canceling $110 billion worth of work, which means 600,000 jobs."

— Trump, during a defense roundtable at Luke Air Force Base, Oct. 19

“So now if you’re talking about — that was $110 billion — you know, you’re talking about over a million jobs. You know, I’d rather keep the million jobs, and I’d rather find another solution.”

— Trump, in additional remarks to reporters after the roundtable, Oct. 19

The truth is that it's more like thousands of jobs...maybe even more than 10,000. And before you say if we don't sell weapons to them, they'll just buy from Russia, China and maybe even India do you REALLY think they can get parts and service for all their American made aircraft? Do those countries sell THAAD systems? Is the security of our nation really dependent on supporting war crimes in Yemen?

It's absolutely absurd that anyone believes a word that Trump says.

"The reason I do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. for which we are not reimbursed," - Donald Trump

FACT: It's more like $14 million

I'll try to cite some NON-MSM sources for that:

Canceling Joint Exercise with South Korea Saved $14 Million: DoD
The Pentagon says next month's Freedom Guardian exercise with South Korea would have cost about $14 million, one month after President Trump said canceling the exercise would "save a fortune."
‘War Games’ Trump Said Were Too Expensive Cost Less Than a Fighter Jet
Pentagon estimates U.S.-South Korea military exercises, canceled as too provocative and expensive, would have cost $14 million

But there is a huge difference between China and the USA govts.
In China, when you disagree with the govt, you and your family disappear, cannot travel, don't get a lawyer and often aren't seen for a yr. If you appeal, you get re-sentenced to death.
In the USA, you get a lawyer, can usually fight back, appeal any decision.

A few quick reminders:
Xi is
* a dictator for life
* sends millions of Chinese to "re-education camps"
* no freedom of speech
* no freedom of travel
* China uses tanks against their own people.
* Religious re-education cities with 1M+ people.
* smartphones **must** have govt tracking software
* Your social network posts are tracked by the govt and rated. A poor rating can block rights and travel.
* don't recognize international waters as ruled by world-wide govts
* Currency manipulation
* intellectual property stealer / Hacker of companies and govts world-wide
* Highly selective enforcement for any laws; usually against foreign companies and Chinese companies that cause large number of deaths
* Tibet takeover
* Tienanmen Square; they admit to killing over 1,022 civilians. Other estimates are over 10,000 deaths.
* Check your server logs, most attacks are probably from Chinese IP ranges.
* Their elections are fixed - only approved party members can be on the ballot. So, would you like Bernie or Clinton or Gore or Dukakis?
Like any of those are even a different choice from the others. Well, freakin' terrible vs really, really, bad is a choice, I suppose.
* Police in China behave like thugs. Ok, sometimes that happens in the USA too.
* Taiwan, cough.

Don't forget what China is and how they behave.
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Cisco and Motorola caught Huawei stealing their intellectual property.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/S...

        Huawei Admits Copying Code From Cisco in Router Software
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
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        Motorola sues Huawei for trade secret theft
Huawei physically stole parts in 2014 from a testing robot during a
visit to T-Mobile. The robot was used to ensure buttons on phones would last.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...
China hacked more than 245 companies and agencies, including US Navy and NASA.
Ref: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

This happened while The US/China economic espionage pact was in-force beginning in 2016.

The USA isn't perfect, but it isn't China. Not by a long shot. If you refuse to decrypt data at the US border, they keep the data and you can sue to have it returned. Canada, UK, Australia, France, Thailand, and 50 other countries would demand you unlock it at the border without any reasonable cause. It is illegal to refuse, a crime.

The ACLU isn't so hot on the 1st Amendment anymore either. They've decided free speech hurts marginalized people and will no longer defend speech cases that would hurt their social justice agenda. Link.

WSJ reports, referring to Energywire, that it was Duke Energy.

Well, here. There are plenty more from plenty of various sources. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/2...
https://www.recode.net/2019/1/...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...
https://www.newsweek.com/amazo...
https://www.kare11.com/article...
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.businessinsider.co...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a...

Even if it did matter it still would not matter because no professional data firm would put PII at risk anyway and would always keep data in the proper hands. Of course, feel free to keep preaching otherwise to yourself if you like wasting your own time in bouts of what ifs.

Oh, you mean like this data firm?

"Facebook and Twitter hold a huge amount of users' personal data while LinkedIn includes users' professional data. Data from real-estate site Zillow was also roped in to create these consolidated user profiles. Researchers believe these profiles containing sensitive and personally identifiable information is highly coveted and targeted by hackers."

Or, perhaps this one? I mean, it's Google, right? They've never had this problem before, right?

Oh, wait! Maybe you mean this one!

I believe we, as a society, and as a global people, need to put Google, and others who hoover up and trade in peoples' data in their place. We need to get up off our collective butts, find or create an alternative to the service(s) offered by them. Start with Google. Bankrupt them and bury them. Fast and hard. Perhaps that will teach the others like them to think twice before engaging in this chicanery.

That's the main difference, but their are many others.

The US Govt can't shut up the press or their people. Freedoms guaranteed in the USA.
In China, the press is owned by the govt and "causing trouble" is illegal. Thugs (aka police) come to your home, beat you up, threaten you and your family, and prevent you from travel.

And China puts people in "education camps" over their religion. Over 1M last estimate.

Smartphones in China must have govt tracking app installed. Police randomly verify this.

Tienanmen Square; they admit to killing over 1,022 civilians. Other estimates are over 10,000 deaths.

Their elections are fixed - only approved party members can be on the ballot.

Don't forget what China is and how they behave.

Stealing https://www.wsj.com/articles/S...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/1...
China hacked over 125 orgs.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
The Chinese govt commonly lies. This happened while The US/China economic espionage pact was in-force beginning in 2016.

Yeah, China is nothing like the USA.

You are a liar.

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

The product may now ship but the reputation damage is permanent. Right up there with the white I-phone.

The fence was a failure. People simply went around it or went over it. It was also breached 9,287 times in 5 years, resulting in repair costs.

People would climb it, tunnel under it, throw drugs over it... It even started a drug war that resulted in 2000 deaths.

It also had some pretty bad effects on the environment where it was built.

Okay, you say, Trump's wall will be better. Higher, stronger, cover the entire border. Here's a video of a couple of guys climbing the existing very similar existing wall, in broad daylight, with drugs strapped to their backs, using only ropes. Takes them less than a minute.

The problem needs to be tackled at source, not at the border.

Facts say otherwise. I do find some things saying USA is in top 5/10(of ocean pollution, nut specifically plastics), but provide no information on it, and feels more like FUD. (however, New York needs to stop dumping trash in ocean)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.ecowatch.com/these...
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-a...

So Google, an advertising and spyware company, is upset that someone else is advertising and spying?

That's rich.

How about we say no to the ad-infested shithole that the internet is becoming, no small thanks to Google and Facebook?

[indians have] been more republican oriented than democrat

No, they haven't been. That's your world view combined with your racism distorting your perception. Actual data shows "Indian-Americans" are overwhelmingly Democrat.

Why do Indian-Americans flock to the Democratic Party?
Hindu-Americans Don’t Vote Republican

You probably need to check your racism; your distaste for Hindu American's has you associating them with your enemies, despite the fact that such alignment is highly improbable, as common sense should have told you; immigrant groups always align with Democrats.

Here, let me Google that for you.

Oh, my, that was so hard to find.

Yes, yes they did. Interestingly, it is now explicitly legal to discriminate on boards of directors against transsexual and intersex folks, because the law only states that women must be included. Since there is now a defined list of who must be on a board - men and women - it implicitly means you do NOT have to have anyone else, so feel free to discriminate as you like!

You do know that "female" is a sex classification, not gender, right? You can chop off or sew on or use hormones to grow whatever you want to in order to change your gender classification, but it still doesn't change your chromosomes.

Yes, yes they did. Interestingly, it is now explicitly legal to discriminate on boards of directors against transsexual and intersex folks, because the law only states that women must be included. Since there is now a defined list of who must be on a board - men and women - it implicitly means you do NOT have to have anyone else, so feel free to discriminate as you like!

Oh, it's just liberal journalists. Ok, got it!

Although Communists and their sympathizers — and that's what "Liberal" means today — really are the enemy of humanity, it is not, what Trump claimed.

His actual claim was, Fake News media are the enemy of the people. And he was right — he usually is...

"Denialists lost the severity gamble, HARD"
Really?
As far as I can tell, nearly EVERY prediction about Global Warming from flooded NY to hundreds of millions of climate refugees has been wrong.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/t...
https://www.foxnews.com/scienc...
http://www.aei.org/publication...
https://www.thenewamerican.com...

GM CEO Mary Barra said the company is "still hiring people with expertise in software and electric and autonomous vehicles, and many of those who will lose their jobs are now working on conventional cars with internal combustion engines," reports Dallas News. "Barra said the industry is changing rapidly and moving toward electric propulsion, autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing, and GM must adjust with it."

Those car plants will probably be retooled over the span of a year or two and start producing Electric and Autonomous vehicles and the jobs that they couldn't automate will come back. The real losers here will be all the mechanical engineers that will be replaced with electrical engineers because those jobs are not coming back once the transition to electric cars is complete. This sucks but such is the cost of progress.

Even if we assume that the Chinese have a backdoor into that equipment, it's better than the NSA/GCHQ having a backdoor into it.

Explain this reasoning.... how is a foreign backdoor preferable to a domestic one?

Furthermore, if you're the Germans, who do you trust the least, the Americans or the Chinese? The Germans already have over 30,000 US soldiers on its soil that it willing supports. Would the Germans be willing to do that with the Chinese? The US has been outed spying on Germans, including Merkel herself, and yet Merkel has still emphasized the importance of future US-German intelligence cooperation. Would the Germans have that same attitude toward the Chinese?

And this is only considering political and military implications. I assume that the Germans are just as concerned as the Americans about Chinese industrial espionage.

"Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney, served on the firm’s advisory board "

Really doesn't sound like "His Company"

It was enough Whittaker's company that he made promotional videos for them and wrote threatening letters to customers who complained about the fraud. He was apparently very involved with the company.

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

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

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

"Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney, served on the firm’s advisory board "

Really doesn't sound like "His Company"

It was enough Whittaker's company that he made promotional videos for them and wrote threatening letters to customers who complained about the fraud. He was apparently very involved with the company.

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

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

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

Krugman's NYT column is called "The Conscience of a Liberal." Nate Silver and Krugman had a public dispute [mashable.com] when Silver left the NYT to form FiveThirtyEight. Silver said, about Krugman [talkingpointsmemo.com], "Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,” Silver said in that interview."

Economic models are data fit to curves. See the 'Philips curve' [google.com] and 'the breakdown of the Philips curve' [google.com]. However, this data exists in the context of other systems. "All Models Are Wrong" [google.com] of course, but it seems to me many economists don't appreciate the error in their models and are willing (and paid) to make grand pronouncements based on highly error-filled models. Often in support of one social narrative or another.

Hey look! Chaff!

That's an awful lot of words to avoid facing that Krugman repeatedly says his simplistic models are not complete and not supposed to be complete.

Krugman: "In the aftermath of the Great Recession, I went with my models and they always worked!" Unfortunately he missed biggest economic event of the past 80 years, the Financial Crisis while a few others did not (side note, he had a feud going with that guy who predicted it).

Yes, it has since the 1980s, but it started stalling around 2005, and that is the point of curiosity.

It's not all that curious. There are plenty of plateaus in productivity in our history. Finding one, especially in an asset bubble that was sucking up a ton of capital, is not all that weird.

You're surprisingly making a bit of sense here. But your assertion that this is not a puzzle in economic circles is wrong.

No, not because 'reasons'. Because of its fairness and resistance to corruption, cronyism and favoritism.

That you can not actually design beyond high-level platitudes.

Nothing I said is a platitude. Work on your literacy, there are many good educational aids out there.

Don't conflate all of Europe as one.

Don't skip over the word "most".

So that leaves Germany.

You apparently think Europe consists of 6 countries, one of which is located in South America. Also, you want to warn people to not over-generalize Europe.

Your reading comprehension needs work. I specifically said Venezuela was not part of Europe, in the part you cut out.

I know you're trying, bless your heart, but try harder.

We're not as homogeneous as Germany for sure, or even the UK so our population has a different temperament, values and intelligence

And why am I not surprised racist bullshit appears.

Nothing I said is racist. One of the reasons the term 'racism' is losing its power in suppressing discussion is because people like you bandy it about too much whenever you disagree with something. It's an incontrovertible fact different groups have different temperaments, intelligence and values. Look up the UN indices on national corruption. Look up national IQs. You know what "Boko Haram" means? Educate yourself, you'll appear less foolish per

The problem is not just about how Facebook handles users' data. It's perhaps just as, or even more dangerous in how they go out of their way of getting ADDITIONAL data without user's consent.

- Banks
- Airline/ airline rewards programs
- Banks / Credit cards/ credit card programs
- When users are logging in from IP addresses that they're not familiar with, they'd ask them to identify people via photos, in the name of security, but it's really to help their photo identification algorithms
- Scaping data (such as contact lists: matching emails/ phone numbers) off smart phones

This is just a list of a few small examples

The article says there's a longer article at Wall Street Journal, but it's paywalled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...

I'll believe it when I see them actually enforcing this. Besides, the Chinese government doesn't consider it theft when they take it because they have laws that compel you to comply. Got a factory in China? Yeah, it's at least 51% owned by the Chinese so that (surprise!) they can insist that all IP be handed over.

Nothing is changing here, it's just words. The idea here is to fool Xi's US counterpart.

Exactly. Remember that on paper, China is the world's largest democracy. However, India is usually referred to as the world's largest democracy because democracy in China doesn't exist in reality.

Just as in the US, the court system is the key. Take a look at the East Texas courts for patent law. If judges always rule one way, the strongest laws don't matter. In fact, this could be a good way for China to legitimize IP theft, by leaving the imprimatur of Chinese law on IP that gets stolen and deposited in China. Before, the Chinese government could just leverage foreign greed for the mirage of Chinese markets. Now, they realize that it's better to adjudicate in their own courts and say that they are simply following established legal principles and mechanisms, i.e., IP laundering.

One of the articles in the summary said, "[China] is also increasingly being selected as a key venue for patent litigation by non-Chinese companies, as litigants feel they are treated fairly as foreign plaintiffs won the majority of their patent cases in 2015." However, that article references the Wall Street Journal which actually says, "Western lawyers say that as a result of China’s moves, the country is fairer to outsiders than a few years ago, but still far from a level playing field. Patent infringement remains rampant, and violators aren’t deterred by the small damage awards there, lawyers say. The U.S. State Department said last year that U.S. firms saw “serious obstacles” to protecting their intellectual property in China, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and drug-test results. The good news is China is interested in IP, and the bad news is China is interested in IP,” said Mark Cohen, who leads the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s China team."

Especially the SJWs.

...go ask the round of progressive professors who've lost their jobs because someone got offended and rallied the mob over their opinion on Halloween costumes, or refusing to play along with their "whitey is the cause of all world ills" stances.

LMAO, remember last year when Berkeley staff and educators had to use an escape hatch to flee SJW protestors?

Good times.

The real answer is neither. The increased competiveness of the US economy has come from cheaper energy prices which has come from fracked gas. ...

I'd bet a shitload of money that you're ignorant of the fact that it was Obama's actual policy to drive up the price of fuel:

President Barack Obama’s Energy secretary unwittingly created a durable GOP talking point in September 2008 when he talked to The Wall Street Journal about the benefits of having gasoline prices rise over 15 years to encourage energy efficiency.

“Somehow,” Chu said, “we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

That WSJ article:

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and his energy team could face the most inauspicious climate in years for pushing ahead with their plans to remake U.S. energy strategy.

...

Remember Obama's constant refrain "remake the US economy".

Tell us again why those jobs left?

If it was because of higher energy prices, Obama was deliberately driving them away.

So yeah, thanks for tying US job loss right to Obama.

Somehow I suspect that wasn't your intent.

Of course this is political, the US military has been using Microsoft products to run all sorts of services etc etc that is used towards the same goal.

There is a difference between using a company's products for military purposes and having them specifically create something that is only for a military purpose. It is especially different when using a relatively new technology like artificial intelligence that is capable of becoming extremely evil by automation (which is exactly what had been warned about since AI first gained prominence).

Nowhere in the letter did it say that they would be OK with doing the project if Obama was running it. Instead, it talks about the ethical issues, and it is all about the inner workings of Microsoft and not the DOD's policies. I presume that you haven't read the letter, so here is a couple of paragraphs that demonstrate how this is an ethical story and not a political one:

Earlier this year Microsoft published "The Future Computed," examining the applications and potential dangers of A.I. It argues that strong ethical principles are necessary for the development of A.I. that will benefit people, and defines six core principles: "fair, reliable and safe, private and secure, inclusive, transparent, and accountable."

With JEDI, Microsoft executives are on track to betray these principles in exchange for short-term profits. If Microsoft is to be accountable for the products and services it makes, we need clear ethical guidelines and meaningful accountability governing how we determine which uses of our technology are acceptable, and which are off the table. Microsoft has already acknowledged the dangers of the tech it builds, even calling on the federal government to regulate A.I. technologies. But there is no law preventing the company from exercising its own internal scrutiny and standing by its own ethical compass.

Musk as smart enough to hire very capable people for Space X. Contrary to the Elon folklore among his fans, he did not design the rockets and he is not as hands on in the management of Space X as he is for Tesla. He had an idea for a private space flight company, hired great people and said, "Make it so." and became the rain maker for the business: he gets the business and his people do the rest.

And, most notably, went to NASA to fund his vision, who turned out to be the only organization who had the confidence in him and the funding to develop his rocket.

Gwynne Shotwell has more to do with Space X' success than Musk does. Just guess who is the Ari Force's go to person for Space X? Hint: It's not Elon.

I'll agree with this; Shotwell's contributions are underestimated because she stands in the shade thrown by the charismatic Musk, but she is critical to SpaceX's success

Musk as smart enough to hire very capable people for Space X. Contrary to the Elon folklore among his fans, he did not design the rockets and he is not as hands on in the management of Space X as he is for Tesla.

He had an idea for a private space flight company, hired great people and said, "Make it so." and became the rain maker for the business: he gets the business and his people do the rest. Gwynne Shotwell has more to do with Space X' success than Musk does. Just guess who is the Ari Force's go to person for Space X? Hint: It's not Elon.

Mashiki wrote:

So why don't you prove me wrong. Go out, publicly, in front of the media and take ads out in the paper with the two following subjects: "The wage gap is a myth." "No, the US rate of sexual assaults is not higher then the Congo."

I'll wait. Enjoy the public lynch mob by the way.

Don't Buy Into The Gender Pay Gap Myth. The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth Wage Gap Myth Exposed — By Feminists The ‘Wage Gap’ Myth That Won’t Die .These are just the first few hits.

I have not been able to find anyone that supports the idea that sexual assaults in the US is higher than in Congo. When Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State she raised the issue of sexual violence with Congolese President Joseph Kabila; I believe she would support your position.

Skype was revolutionary when it came...
Sold twice by it's creator!
But MS seems to be making Skype worse in each iteration.
FaceTime, FB Messenger, Viber, Snapchat, Telegram, Signal offers the same functionality.
Skype is the next ICQ.

Cite?

Sure. Some snippets:

"Previous generations fretted about the world having too many people. Today's problem is too few."

"Mounting pensions are an important reason peripheral European countries like Greece have such intractable debt burdens and why Germany is so reluctant to stimulate its own economy despite a balanced budget. Meanwhile, the movement of so many people into the highest-saving period of their lives has produced a bulge of excess savings that has held down interest rates and inflation, making it difficult for central bankers to use their traditional tools to revive economic growth."

"Older, richer countries can boost their immigrant intake from low-income economies primarily in Africa and Asia, which will make up a growing share of the world's working-age population--if they can overcome political opposition."

Martha Stewart went to prison on some of the most questionable process charges ever - she was accused of lying to prosecutors by denying that she had committed insider trading! When, in fact, the prosecutor couldn't manage to even charge with insider trading. He tried, though - he attempted to convince a judge that publicly stating that she was innocent impacted *her* company's stock price, and was thus a new case of insider trading.

That's right. The prosecutor used a declaration of innocence as 'perjury' without even charging, much less convicting, Stewart of the crime she correctly declared herself innocent of.

That prosecutor's name? James Comey.

Martha Stewart went to prison on some of the most questionable process charges ever - she was accused of lying to prosecutors by denying that she had committed insider trading! When, in fact, the prosecutor couldn't manage to even charge with insider trading. He tried, though - he attempted to convince a judge that publicly stating that she was innocent impacted *her* company's stock price, and was thus a new case of insider trading.

That's right. The prosecutor used a declaration of innocence as 'perjury' without even charging, much less convicting, Stewart of the crime she correctly declared herself innocent of.

That prosecutor's name? James Comey.

The consent decree shackling Microsoft after the IE bundling case expired in 2011. At the time it was made, a lot of us complained about it only lasting 9 years, when a similar consent decree against IBM was in place for 40 years.

Anyhow, bottom line is that stopping Microsoft's behavior this time around will require a new DoJ investigation, which if history is any guide will take more than a decade. Given the history, hopefully it'll be done quickly enough or the judges will be willing to grant restraining orders to prevent Edge's market share rising up to 90% as IE did.

I still maintain that the best solution back in the 1990s would've been to break apart Microsoft into two companies - an OS company and an applications company. Then there would've been no reason for the OS (Windows) to favor Edge or Office (ever notice a trial starter version comes with Win 10?) or any other Microsoft application.

Here ya go.

U.S. Widens Russia Sanctions Amid Calls They Don’t Go Far Enough

Russia keeps getting hit with sanctions. Do they make a difference?

Ruble Tumbles as U.S. Sets Out New Sanctions on Russia

Those sanctions are largely the work of the Obaman admin, Congress and the EU, not the Orange Emperor. Trump is itching to abolish them.

Here ya go.

U.S. Widens Russia Sanctions Amid Calls They Don’t Go Far Enough

Russia keeps getting hit with sanctions. Do they make a difference?

Ruble Tumbles as U.S. Sets Out New Sanctions on Russia

Almost certainly tons of fake reviews and possibly fake downloads where they use promo codes etc. I highly doubt so many Mac users are using this.
Check this article out:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/h...

Fake reviews for products is a HUGE industry and almost certainly thousands of people in India got paid to astroturf this app to the top. Amazon is literally being crippled by fake reviews and dodgy products.

Me, and here's why:

Security and and a business model of handling your data are not exclusive. In fact one would hope that the people who make a business of handling your data are also some of the best in the aspects of security. Now this isn't applied universally. If you take a company like Verizon who will bulk sell your data to the highest bidder then security (of that data) is a non issue. However if you deal with a company whose sole source of income is selling access to you by way of profiling your data, and while maintaining that your data is effectively their carefully guarded CocaCola recipe, then you should apply a bit more nuanced thought.

On top of that you should also take care to look at the quality of products and code produced to date, as well as security practices, hiring and staffing practices, and general industry standings.

With all that in mind I trust Google more on matters of security than a company like Semantic, and a fuck ton more than a company which collects my data as an incidental revenue stream (looking at you Samsung, Verizon etc).

But then you throw thought out the window when it comes to data as evident that you prefer to trust security to agencies which almost exclusively are out to determine if you are thinking wrong and to punish you for it.

Your problem is that you're misunderstanding whose security Google cares about. They care about their own. Whatever protection they provide to your data is only due to the fact that they make money off of that data. At least I know that the NSA and CIA are going to spy on me and generally do things that aren't in my interest. Google is the kind of company that, with their "Do no evil" mantra claim that they're a great company. And yet they spy on you worse than even Facebook does. There are plenty of companies who make this kind of hardware that do not make their money on spying. Why should you trust Google more than one of them?

Hmm. Lets just explore for a moment who is demanding racial segregation in the US.

http://www.spiked-online.com/n...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.thecollegefix.com/...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/5...
https://www.washingtonexaminer...

Are those "rich reichtard nazis"? I'm not familiar with the term, so I'll have to assume so for the moment.

The RNC was also hacked

Was it? No, it was not.

for some reason, was not let loose on WikiLeaks

Such a fresh, beautiful conspiracy theory, nipped in its innocent pink bud...

So, as Equifax and Ashley Madison — to name just a few — before, DNC has learned to take data-security seriously the hard-way. A welcome change nonetheless, for sure.

Would it to be proper to mention, that the RNC has successfully foiled such an attack back in 2016? No? Too partisan? Ok...

Or, maybe, it is not too partisan to call out the same guys, who have once mocked an opponent for being computer illiterate?

The RNC was hacked and those documents are being sat on.

The article I linked to says, the attack on the RNC failed. The organization was not hacked. Why, I wonder, would you misrepresent the facts this way?

Blackmail, perhaps?

Funny, how you assume, internal documents must always be embarrassing. Kinda reveals your opinion of the organizations you know from the inside :-)

The GOP are fucking traitors, is the short answer.

That you are either a moron unable to comprehend fairly basic English, or a liar hoping to influence this kind of morons, is now established.

Whichever option applies, both explain your hatred of the GOP far better, than there being anything wrong with the object of your hate.

Yes. RNC just happened to survive it the first time .

Perhaps, because they run a tighter ship, so to speak...