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Here's a video of a cow that clearly comes up with a plan, then carries it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In April 2016, in a staged joke skit done for charity, Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio said he was on "C.P. time" for not previously endorsing Hillary Clinton for President. Leslie Odom Jr. then said he did not like the joke. After that Clinton delivered the punch line that it was supposed to mean "cautious politician time". This was criticized as racist and tasteless.[16] In response to this, President Barack Obama, during the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 30, jokingly apologized for being late because of "running on C.P.T.", adding that this stands for "jokes white people should not make". [17]

[16] Hillary Clinton, Bill de Blasio criticized for race-based joke http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-bill-de-blasio-criticized-for-race-based-joke/
[17] President Obama at White House Correspondents' Dinner 2016 FULL SPEECH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYB-NuW_SRo

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If someone no longer has a functioning penis and testicles, what harm is there in letting them use the women't washroom?

Are you saying transsexual men will have to demonstrate that their penis and testicles no longer function before using a women's bathroom?

Just what are you afraid of?

No - I'm asking what you are afraid of. That's exactly what I asked. What credible threat is there? So far, it's been all noise, no facts in the bathroom debate.

I'm not afraid of anything. I just correctly identified who started this bathroom legalization nonsense. I already told you about the common sense "rule" that's been in effect as a matter of reality, and the whole thing is a gigantic waste of time, money, and political energy. Pretty much what Blair White says -- a passing trans who's actually sane and not the kind of entitled authoritarian that you find on the "progressive" left.

And what is the problem with one that is the same in all respects except for appearance? Why the discrimination? What is there to fear? Besides, we've had cases of men following women into the bathroom because they wrongfully thought the woman was a transsexual. ABC video. Even women born with 2 x chromosomes don't all "pass."

You are posting in a public forum which transsexuals read.

Yes, that's the nature of public debate and discussion. You don't have a right not to have your feelings hurt in such matters.

Mice way to avoid the question by not quoting the rest. That's pure chicken-shit.

By your thinking, the government shouldn't be spending money subsidizing the development and distribution of orphan drugs. Orphan drugs, in the US, are those developed for conditions that affect less than 200,000 people.

It depends. How much money is spent as a percentage of all drug research spending? You have to allocate your resources sensibly, because resources are finite. That doesn't mean zero should go to less common diseases, but it's be stupid to use the equivalent of cancer-level research on a rare disease.

The amount of political capital being spent on trans issues is ridiculous, and it's precisely because the "progressive" left has achieved their goals and kept moving down the "oppressed" stack.

How much money does it cost to let transsexuals use women's bathrooms? None. How much money does it cost to address transsexuals by their legal name? None. You have an issue with both of these, and there is NO financial justification for it. How much money has been wasted in courts fighting over this? A lot. And let's look at Charlotte, North Carolina as one example. They lost expansions by Deutsche Bank (250 jobs) and Paypal (400 jobs), among others. They also lost the NBA All-Star game, with the millions that brings in. Was it worth it, when there has never been an incident perpetrated by a transsexual in a woman's bathroom? No.

And transsexuality, at least in male-to-female transsexuals, also starts in the womb. So what's your point?

I'm talking about preventable birth defects. I'm not quite sure what your point is. Are you saying we should do genetic studies and cure transsexuals in the womb? Because I can't equate preventable birth defects due to a disease-carrying mosquito with not calling Bradley Manning "Chelsea".

And you know that transsexuality isn't preventable in the womb? We don't know enough to say one way or another.

"Virtue signaling?" Hardly.

So "Brave and Stunning" that South Park had to do a show on it.

Never saw it. I have better things to do with my time than sit around watchi

I don't agree with everything Trump wants to do It's pretty obvious to anyone that knows anything Trumps position is way better for the internet than turning it over to an international panel that can start censoring the hell out of it.

Trump is infamous for his proclivity for suing people and desire to use libel law against critics. If the Internet were governed by the US under a Trump administration I think you'd here a lot of grumbling from his administration about doing something about websites that are being unfair to Trump or the administration.

He's already threatened to use the power of the presidency to go after Amazon because Bezos owns the Washington Post and it's been mean to him.

Trump is far less racist than Hillary (just look at past Hillary remarks like arriving late because she was on "Colored People Time").

Wow, your evidence of Hillary's racism is a misremembered SNL sketch?

It wasn't even intentionally racist, it was supposed to be a joke about a politician inadvertently saying something racist (which they ironically did).

I thought Trumpites understood the good "Hillary is a racist" stuff is back in the mid-90s with all the super-predator stuff, you really need to catch up on your twitter.

Trump chose a black woman to win and work with on the Apprentice - sure it's a TV show but she did work for him and supports him, as do a number of prominent black celebrities.

You're literally making the argument that Trump can't be racist because he has black friends.

Trump also wanted to cooler evaluate NATO commitments before taking action,

He seemingly wants to extort allies into paying the US for protection, I say seemingly because he doesn't have coherent foreign policy.

and yet the media portrays him as a warmonger. Why?

Because he's generally really quick to call for military action and to call for major war crimes like stealing other countries natural resources, up until the military action turns out poorly. And then he hops in a time machine and goes back to change his mind.

Trump is far less racist than Hillary

As near as I can tell at least some of Trump's racism is just him manipulating racists to vote for him. Trump is Trump first, and he doesn't give a damn how he has to manipulates the populace. He has no decency whatsoever. He will say anything to win, and contradict that an hour later if he thinks he needs to. He loved Hillary until he was running against her. Trump Endorses Hillary

Previously he said Bush and McCain were awful Trump on Bush. In the same interview he said Obama did an amazing job, though then he was just referring to his first campaign. Still, no worries about his birth certificate there.

Here is one where Trump supports Democrats, Universal Health Care, Hillary, hates the concept of guns, republicans are crazy right, etc

I wonder which Trump people will vote for in November.

Trump is far less racist than Hillary

As near as I can tell at least some of Trump's racism is just him manipulating racists to vote for him. Trump is Trump first, and he doesn't give a damn how he has to manipulates the populace. He has no decency whatsoever. He will say anything to win, and contradict that an hour later if he thinks he needs to. He loved Hillary until he was running against her. Trump Endorses Hillary

Previously he said Bush and McCain were awful Trump on Bush. In the same interview he said Obama did an amazing job, though then he was just referring to his first campaign. Still, no worries about his birth certificate there.

Here is one where Trump supports Democrats, Universal Health Care, Hillary, hates the concept of guns, republicans are crazy right, etc

I wonder which Trump people will vote for in November.

Trump is far less racist than Hillary

As near as I can tell at least some of Trump's racism is just him manipulating racists to vote for him. Trump is Trump first, and he doesn't give a damn how he has to manipulates the populace. He has no decency whatsoever. He will say anything to win, and contradict that an hour later if he thinks he needs to. He loved Hillary until he was running against her. Trump Endorses Hillary

Previously he said Bush and McCain were awful Trump on Bush. In the same interview he said Obama did an amazing job, though then he was just referring to his first campaign. Still, no worries about his birth certificate there.

Here is one where Trump supports Democrats, Universal Health Care, Hillary, hates the concept of guns, republicans are crazy right, etc

I wonder which Trump people will vote for in November.

You may not, but the problem is that too many of the politicians you vote for do. HRC is on record many times this campaign saying she wants to see the "Australian model" implemented in the US. That means forced confiscation of all personally owned firearms under the guise of "buybacks." The buybacks are mandatory, and you go to prison is you don't comply.

Here's a list of politicians talking about confiscating guns, just from a short period in 2013:

Hawaii legislature proposes gun confiscation
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/...

New York Assemblyman asks colleague not to mention that original proposed SAFE Act included confiscation
http://www.breitbart.com/Breit...

Missouri Democrats introduce legislation to confiscate guns
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-...

VA has veterans who cannot manage their own financial affairs declared prohibited persons unable to own firearms
http://www.humanevents.com/201...

NJ State Senator "We needed a bill that was going to confiscate confiscate confiscate."
http://www.politickernj.com/ba...

Oregon Legislator calls fears of gun confiscation a "paranoid delusion" and then states he is in favor of gun confiscation
http://www.examiner.com/articl...

Governor Cuomo says, "confiscation could be an option."
http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Feinstein suggests "compulsory buyback."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...

CA assembly proposes confiscating 166,000 legally registered guns.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bre...

And the classic from 1995:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Do you notice any common political party among the people calling for confiscation?

2) Tokyo will explode with the force equivalent of solar flare.

Probably something like this.

You're such an asshole, and like most lefties you're you're such a liar.

Quite commenting, dickhead.

There actually "are" four console games that can do a multiscreen setup with multiple consoles driving the displays. Gran Turismo 3, 4, 5, and 6. 3 uses Firewire to network, but 4,5, and 6 use ethernet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

First of all, become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something. And then when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do, and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be any diseases ever again!

How to Do It

Now that I am retired in Bellingham, Washington, I miss them. Here in Bellingham, we have the Pickford Film Center, which is the only non-chain art cinema north of Seattle in Washington State. Between going there for movies and keeping busy with my multiple hobbies ans sports, I still have not touched any streaming service for entertainment.

The little video that I look at on line is how-to videos on Youtube on doing stuff as welding, sewing, glass engraving, and so on.

'In fact, I have done my own videos on Youtube such as thins one https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Neglect for music and art has more to do with funding than any desire to cram more stuff in. There are schools where they can't even afford basic supplies like paper. How are they going to have instruments that students can use (as most can't afford a personal instrument)

Well, they could make their own instruments from recycled trash. Seriously -- they've figured out how to do it in much poorer countries. Kids could learn creativity in construction, crafting, and ecological responsibility along the way, as well as understanding the acoustics behind instrument construction (which can help you play better even with a "real" instrument, but most music students don't learn until perhaps grad school if ever). Oh, and you know... You can SING even without any instruments. Humans have been making music for thousands of years in much poorer circumstances than today...

Obligatory obscure novelty song.

BBC Top Gear was your spokesmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

- OR - Top Gear Christmas Special 2011

Design and method for finding one's way out of a paper bag.

Here's A. Elk discussing some of her previous research..

6. Windows will monitor you hard disk drive remporting it's content and changing or deleting files.

7. Windows will monitor all your internet access and report it to other parties.

8. Windows will add new more invasive software against your will and show you mocking messages of your inferiority and the need for you to part with money.

9. Windows will monitor all your communications and report of them as well as informing on all your contacts.

Windows is not a virus or a bug but a trojan and that's without any protection http://www.trojanbrands.com/co..., no protection what so ever. It demands, full bent over bare back access, not even a free meal, in fact they demand that you pay for that privacy pounding, again and again and again. This is what your computer feels like after windows 10 installs https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

Why no story on Tesla hack?
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That was posted more than 24 hours ago.

Slashdot really that afraid if EIon? Will he stop paying them?
Shame!

They're singing to the profit, "Never gonna give you up"

"We are at the point where money has never been cheaper and STILL people won't take out loans because, well, there simply isn't anything to invest in."

And there's nothing wrong with that.

We live on a finite planet.

Exponential growth on a finite planet is doomed.

This is well worth watching and understanding.

was purely motivated by his mixed race.

Could you offer some proof of this — something the rest of us, who do not have your powers of telepathy, can verify on their own? Something, that makes Trump's suspecting Obama's eligibility uniquely different from Clinton suspecting same? Or suspecting that McCain or Ted Cruz may not be eligible either?

You will need to provide substantial proof that the judge is racist before you can make a statement like that.

That judge has just awarded a scholarship to an illegal immigrant . Is it not fair to suspect, he may be biased against someone, who wishes to deport such illegal immigrants?

White judges are suspected of bias against Black defendants all the time (as are White juries) — why is it "racist" to suspect a Latino judge of similar bias against other races?

That Judge is apart of a group called "San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association", not the "La Raza" association

Distinction without difference. Any attempts to promote people based on their race automatically discriminates against other races and is thus racist — by definition.

That's pretty much racist.

"Pretty much" does not count.

directly attributed to anybody from the Middle East, who's appearances are starkly contrasted to caucasians.

The biggest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, which is about as far from the Middle East as is the US. Fail.

That happened in 1973. He took over his father's business in 1971.

So, he inherited a problem from his father. Big deal. Hillary Clinton's father was racist too

Except that was a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A YouTube clip with some talking-head talking about Trump is not proof, sorry. Maybe, he really forgot, who it was. Or, maybe, he lied. But that's not racism either way.

As for "disavowing" David Duke — wake me up, when Hillary Clinton "disavows" Al Sharpton, who is no less a racist than David Duke... Except she would not do that, because, whereas Duke's endorsement of Trump was unsolicited, Hillary actively sought Sharpton's. Maybe, if Trump ever went to a Duke's rally, you'd have had a point...

Fail.

One of the RIAA slaves group, I mean music band, even made a song about it.

The solution to the problem is already known and long ignored in the USA.

Michael Moore documentary clip of on Finland's school system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Unless they just made that up for the film.

Wow.. you got to be one of THE BIGGEST trump apologist I've ever seen.

First:

Trump's complete ignorance of the fact that Obama's mother was a US Citizen when he was born, and the push that he's not an American on the fabrication that he was born in Kenya, only for the sole fact that his father was Kenyan, was purely motivated by his mixed race.

Second:

What Trump actually said, was that the judge — a Mexican racist himself ("La Raza" member) — may have a conflict of interest. If it is Ok to suspect [washingtonpost.com], that an All-white jury [wikipedia.org] may be unfair to a Black defendant, why is it "racist" to suspect, a Mexican may be unfair to a White one?

You will need to provide substantial proof that the judge is racist before you can make a statement like that.

That Judge is apart of a group called "San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association", not the "La Raza" association you're thinking of.
http://www.snopes.com/judge-cu...

Third:

Has proposed banning members of a religion from the US (very similar to racism).

Not racism. Stick to the topic.

That's pretty much racist. It impacts a wide swath of individuals classified as Muslim, which is directly attributed to anybody from the Middle East, who's appearances are starkly contrasted to caucasians.

There have been numerous attacks on Sikhs who were believed to be muslim because they "looked like a muslim." The only similarity is the skin color.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/...

Fourth:

Trump's Real Estate business that he ran with his father were biased against black renters

https://www.documentcloud.org/...

That happened in 1973. He took over his father's business in 1971.

Fifth:
Trump stated that he wouldn't disavow David Duke because he didn't know who he was or what he was about.

Except that was a lie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

He clearly knows who David Duke is, unless it helps his agenda to feign ignorance.

Colorado's Finest.

" . . .vunce rockets go up, who cares where they come down,
'That's not my department', says Werner Von Braun. . . . "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

We only run into this problem because we have a portion of our population who will sue anyone over anything bad that happens.

No, it's almost nothing to do with settlement costs, and if you looked into the figures you'd see that rather than just parrotting what you want to believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I was going to vote Johnson until he made it clear that he's a politically correct Democrat in Libertarian clothing, getting into a hissy fit because an interviewer used the term "illegal immigrant". I never did like his goofball expressions, but I was willing to vote 3rd party, but fuck it.

Actually, a true Libertarian would object to the concept of "illegal immigrant" too, and would insist that people have the right to do what they want, rather than give the government more and more power.

Gary Johnson may not have made the best articulation of the issue, but he's sticking to his principles.

That actually improves his ability to get my vote. He realizes that the immigration system is a farce. I would give him tips on expressing the ideas though.

He should have said "For the most part, what they've done should not be illegal" for example.

I like how you call him out for paraphrasing Trump, and then follow that up by paraphrasing Trump.

I'm not trying to prove anything here, he is. He has to offer evidence — I don't, my job is to simply plant reasonable doubt about his. A lawyer should know this better than us, laymen...

Even so, if part of your argument involves bringing up the definition of racism as a way to claim that someone isn't technically racist

Technically right is the best kind of right .

Arguing without defining terms is fruitless and stupid... My opponent seemed to be suffering from the common mind-virus of the Left, which leads them to think, most incorrectly, that racism is "White's prejudice against other races". Setting him straight early in the debate is the beginning of healing...

Trumpity Trump Trump Trump

Trump's wall just got 10 feet higher! High Energy

Total height: 239960ft.

We are 40.633% of the distance of the thickness of the Asthenosphere! (590551ft)! 350591ft remaining.

OH LOOK! He DID! For obvious reasons, we didn't know it was him until after the arrest.

I was going to vote Johnson until he made it clear that he's a politically correct Democrat in Libertarian clothing, getting into a hissy fit because an interviewer used the term "illegal immigrant". I never did like his goofball expressions, but I was willing to vote 3rd party, but fuck it.

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You may want to look up what she looks like before making a statement like that.

Unless you're into that kind of thing*

* I haven't looked myself but let's face it there's always someone into any kind of thing :-)

I'm envisioning a sort of scene like in an early Simpson's episode dealing with shock shock aversion therapy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Except today, they'd be using apps on a smartphone.

Anyhow, this woman is Streisanding the bejabbers out of her situation.

It is hard to unweave the fact from fiction which you've heard. Joseph used seer stones to translate the Book of Mormon from "reformed Egyptian" to English. Eleven other men say and handled these plates and published their testimonies to the world. None of these eleven ever denied the Book of Mormon. The papyrus from which the Book of Abraham was translated is lost. The mummy contained multiple papyrus writings, some of which have been found. Joseph did not claim the ability to find water sources, though he tried a few times.

Yes, it was lost and thought burned, and then later it was found in 1966. In fact they even found it with the original letter from Smith's mother who gave it to the museum, thus authenticating it as the very same one Smith had, and indeed even the LDS church believes it to be the same. You can read about that here, including actual pictures of the papyrus that you claim to have been lost, which also match up rather well with what is depicted in the book of mormon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Furthermore, it was never contained in a mummy, rather it was a part of a collection of egyptian artefacts that Smith purchased, which included some mummies.

Also, Smith even wrote direct "translations" of individual hieroglyphs that weren't even anywhere close to being accurate (often "translating" a single glyph into multiple sentences.) He also said that a depiction of Isis was a depiction of Abraham (in other words, he even got the gender wrong) and turned a drawing of Anubis resurrecting Osiris into what he called an "idolous priest" slaying Abraham.

In fact, you can find a pretty good rundown of the whole thing here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

'Worth a buy' https://www.youtube.com/user/W... game reviews are also not to bad. The best game yet I have found for exposing shite reviewers is Witcher 3 (my go to for checking a game reviewer), the higher the score, beyond the realistic one of say 7, the worse the reviewer, 10 just ignore them.

Youtubers who think they can get away with this over the long term are foolish and just being treated by idiots by the advertisers scamming them, they fully intend to burn through them and then replace them over and over again with new manufactured reviewers (hire someone, fill up subscribers with fakes, give them some main stream media air time and use them for as long as possible and replace them).

Of course, the ACTUAL originator of the Birther claims was a guy that produced a book jacket biography for Obama's first book that was never written. That bio explicitly claimed that Obama was born in Kenya. The writer that produced that book jacket biography that was sent to the publishers? No one seens to know who it was, but it initials were B.O. and it's rumored he was last spotted at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC.

Oh please, even Breitbart admitted that it was unlikely the biography was written by any of the subjects, and the person who probably didn't pay that much attention to it.

M.G. is different from B.O. though.

This is why Trump is a real failure though, shit like this, which is about as meaningful as Major Dad getting the date wrong on his discharge papers. And no, nobody else made Trump proclaim that he'd find out the real truth. He chose to do it. He also chose to try to make somebody else responsible. Nobody else made him print that letter about the Central Park 5. Nobody else made him make a wild accusation about Ted Cruz's father. Nobody made him do half the shit he's done.

But hell, if he wants to say he's Hillary Clinton's puppet, go right ahead and let him.

Its not like he can own up to anything himself.

Wow, I will try to respond rationally. According to all polls, the margin between Hillary and Trump is within a few percentage points. While I am not a fan of either candidate, I do feel that the country would be far, far worse off if Trump is elected. If I vote for a third party candidate, I am giving up the small voice I have to try to block Trump.
The current system we have for voting in the United States is a first past the post election system. To understand why I (and others) mathematically can't vote for third parties without hurting themselves, I refer you to this video.
I hope that will help you understand why I would vote for a candidate I don't love, over one I detest. Or you can continue in your ignorance to consider me a "fucking asshole", and go about your day.

You describe a race to the bottom. Voting for a lesser evil devolves into the "popular" front-runners we have today.

Voting for Trump actually might rock the entrenched system in a good way. Bernie would have done it much better (I think he could have won if the DNC gave him equal standing and that if Trump wins it's the direct fault of the DNC and Democrats who wanted to vote for Bernie but didn't think he'd be competitive). Trump certainly seems opposed to the status quo of politics as usual and his raw manner of speaking resonates with a lot of blue collar workers. I'm pretty sure our country would weather the various shocks. Best case it might actually result in the reduction in the power of the Executive (long overdue). I'm not a supporter and am planning to vote third party myself. I certainly won't be voting for Hillary.

You mean like Jen's interview from The IT Crowd?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Wow, I will try to respond rationally. According to all polls, the margin between Hillary and Trump is within a few percentage points. While I am not a fan of either candidate, I do feel that the country would be far, far worse off if Trump is elected. If I vote for a third party candidate, I am giving up the small voice I have to try to block Trump.
The current system we have for voting in the United States is a first past the post election system. To understand why I (and others) mathematically can't vote for third parties without hurting themselves, I refer you to this video.

I hope that will help you understand why I would vote for a candidate I don't love, over one I detest. Or you can continue in your ignorance to consider me a "fucking asshole", and go about your day.

On a similar note, the 1960s were fun, too!

People are buying less cars.

fewer cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Anyone who believes this is a fool. So-called 'self driving cars' are NOT going to be capable or safe to be unattended anytime in the next 5 years, or 10 years, or 20 years, because we do not have true AI and will not have true AI until we understand how our own brain works.

You're wrong. We don't need AI for self-driving cars. (You might call it AI, but that's another, academic discussion)
What we need is cars that can drive themselves better than humans can. And those already exist. Even with Teslas mislabled autopilot and that one weird accident that happened due to wrong/irresposible handling of the car counted in, the death quota per kilometer is half that of human drivers. And that's in a definitely non-selfdriving car you can by right now in any mid-sized to large city.

I suggest you get up-to-date on things.

You're welcome.

I don't think I've ever had a cab driver that could be described as "nice, well-groomed and jovial".

Maybe Angry, slovenly (with the overwhelming scent of B.O.) and Anti-social would be a better description of the cab drivers I've had throughout North America.

Personally, I welcome our Johnny Cab overlords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The reason real guitarists prefer tubes is because of the distortion.

This is not entirely true. The dynamic known as "pick attack" is also something which solid state amplifier and DSP cannot reproduce with any level of accuracy.

Interesting, but Kemper disagrees with you. Their amps even have a "pick attack" knob.

Solid state just doesn't compare.

Solid state does many things well, but it has its own niche.

Well these days they do compare. Humans can't distinguish between an amp modeled on (for example) a Kemper modeling amp and the tube amp it modeled. A few years ago it was not the case, but DSP always wins in the end.

Bullshit.

I call bullshit on your bullshit :)
Just watch the following video, where two experienced guitarists do a blind test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...