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  1. If the margin of error is a few hundred votes and you have a good chance to upend the result with each recount I would probably contest too.

  2. That was the next day. She was awol the night of the election.

  3. Are there other kinds of lesbians I don't know about?

    I've known quite a number of dour lesbians. Maybe a one or two gay ones.

  4. In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings. Meanwhile, The Post found that the great majority of people who died at the hands of the police fit at least one of three categories: they were wielding weapons, they were suicidal or mentally troubled, or they ran when officers told them to halt.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

    Is this the impression you are left with when watching the news?

  5. Re:So sad that SJWs were the reason on Google Plans To Remove 'In the News' Section From Its Desktop Search Following 'Fake News' Criticism (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Winning does not obviate someone's responsibility to go after instances or cheating. Voter fraud should be tracked down and prosecuted at a level equal to treason. Whichever side commits the act. It attacks our way of life in a very fundamental way.

  6. Re:Google will kill Black Lives Matter on Google Plans To Remove 'In the News' Section From Its Desktop Search Following 'Fake News' Criticism (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The black lives matter stories may rely primarily on false narratives but it is the officially sanctioned media outlets that give voice to those false news stories. The very ones the "fake news" filters are setup to endorse.

  7. Re:Getting your news from Facebook on EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook (onlinecensorship.org) · · Score: 1

    People get their news from their peers. If their peers are sharing stories on Facebook I don't see why that would not be valid. It isn't so much the medium by which people are communicating as the original source material and I don't see how you can avoid that as a problem without further alienating people from main stream media by attempting some sort of truthiness meter.

    The ideal is a kind of universal commons where news and information is exchanged in near real-time. At least, that is what I always thought we were striving to evolve to. There will always be noise in such an environment but it seems to me that berating people for getting news from Facebook (from their friends) is like complaining about the structure of the internet in general.

  8. Re: don't know their right from their left on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you please link to the news accounts of massive right-wing riots when Obama was elected?

  9. Re:Poor Nazis on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't "tolerate" it. You confront it with your own views. If your values are so fragile that they cannot survive in the arena of ideas then that is your problem. If you want to disagree with someone, you disagree with them. You don't take away people's right to espouse their views.

    Of course, Twitter is a private company and can do what they want but it is in my view contemptible behavior and the primary reason I no longer use the service.

  10. Re: And to think the DNC wanted to face Trump... on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Narcissism? It would be interesting to compare Obama and Trump speeches and count how many times each refers to themselves. I know the result I would expect.

  11. Re:We know better than you on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have hardware that boots from SD cards so being able to write an image with a dd command is very useful. I also have a phone with sd card slots. It may not be a deal breaker but it is another irritation that I wouldn't have to deal with if I chose my own hardware and ran linux. Then you have the lack of a traditional USB port. For me at least, those irritations are beginning to add up.

  12. Re:Phill Schill on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The macbook pro ships with a headphone jack and no port to plug the lighting headphones they force you to buy for the iphone. So you need an adapter for an sd card slot, an adapter for your headphones either for your phone or laptop, an adapter to plug your current usb devices into the macbook pro... One thing I've always admired was how polished the macbook line hardware is but the dongles are starting to add up.

  13. I guess I think about it like a bunch of gang members hanging out at their local club/bar. The entire organization is based on crime but day to day they are chatting about this or that sports team, playing Foosball, baking cookies etc.

  14. When around half your content is illegal it strikes me that you have earned the name dark web. Is this result really surprising? I would have assumed the innocuous content would be higher than 55%.

  15. The solution is pretty simple regardless on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuke the moon. No more moon, no more tide and the water level goes down.

  16. Re: About These Weekly Climate Panic Articles... on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    I am honestly completely confused by this topic. The only conclusion I can come to is that C02 is a greenhouse gas and that may or may not be a good thing and that may or may not be statistically significant. Half the people say we're doomed the other half that it is complete bunk and now today I see this story claiming we are entering a little ice age: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

  17. Re:I don't agree that these are "conservative" vie on Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe said judge was also a member of la raza. A group that, if it were to be espousing the same beliefs it currently does while on the right side of the isle would without doubt be classified as a hate group.

  18. I have a lot of respect for the EU WWII fighters but we did cross an ocean from the other side of the world to participate in your defense. When's the last time your country committed that many resources to helping countries in the Americas on our side of the world?

  19. Re:Dice, we get it you don't like Ms. Clinton on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. nothing makes sense anymore. This is actually pretty exciting if accurate though. Not the notion that one candidate or the other might actually win but simply the thought that there might be real changes in the makeup of each party after near a decades of status quo.

  20. It certainly isn't acceptable to call a black man an uncle tom either in my view. Calling a black man an uncle tom is just another example of how minorities who do not see themselves as victims and fall out of line get attacked. I do not consider myself a conservative and even I can't stand this sort of stuff.

  21. Re:Dice, we get it you don't like Ms. Clinton on Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President (dilbert.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't see Gary Johnson taking much support from Clinton. Any attention to him is more likely to draw votes from Trump which is probably the real motivation behind much of the media coverage of him.

  22. Eh, I'm not sure the people that will be aware of this story overlap a great deal with yahoo's user base. Besides they have plenty of assets other than "yahoo" -patents and a huge amount of real-estate etc.

  23. A Marissa Mayer decision again.
    Yep. She's cute and intelligent but Yahoo hid the "wiretap" from Alex Stamos (the freaking Chief Information Security Officer) and he and his team only discovered it later which seems to have been the reason he left. Apparently Yahoo (Marissa) did this secretly to avoid any in house conflict. I'd say she isn't CEO material but it isn't like the majority of CEOs in the country set the bar all that high.

  24. Re:Clinton is above the law on Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    No. We'd expect the least poor countries to be the ones with the highest average IQ... Most everything else is just window dressing.

  25. The US doesn't need anyone to host nuclear missiles. The US has enough undetectable nuclear armed subs around the globe to destroy pretty much all life in Russian on a whim with plenty left over for any other country in the world that would object. I'm not saying it is a good thing but land based missiles? That's so 20th century.