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  1. Re:PolitiFact is "Mostly False" on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I got as far as "in the initial fog of war the blame may have been misplaced."

    Think about this. Do not just regurgitate talking points. Image how you would think about this if it was Trump instead of Hillary. You'd be ranting about Trump and "red herrings" and "what is he trying to hide," etc. Anyhow, if there were any truth to the video rumor then, the video was so inflammatory that Hillary should have done her best to keep the existence of the video as quiet as possible to protect innocents from attacks by persons driven violently insane from this video. Instead, she gave it international publicity.

    In regards to your ad hominen attack, blaming the Russians is de rigeur. Many senior U.S. senators have been doing so.

  2. PolitiFact is "Mostly False" on Google Tackles Fake News With Global Fact-Checking Rollout (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't see an entry for what probably most hurt Hillary's chances in the 2016 election. That is, she blamed a YouTube video for the 9/11/2012 terror attack on the U.S. ambassador to Libya and his staff in Benghazi.

    I also do not see an entry for the oft repeated phrase "the Russians hacked the election."

    There's a ton of hair splitting regarding statements made by Trump and other Republicans.

    PolitiFact appears to be just another propaganda site. It's probably sponsored by the Russians with the intention of demoralizing Trump supporters (cf., ABC, CBS, *NBC, NYT, WP, LAT, PBS, ...).

  3. Re: No, because it FUCKING FAKE NEWS AGAIN on Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are very clever. You parse your facts well. All-the-same, you must know that Hillary Clinton's personal email server was discovered during the investigation into the 9/11/2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. ambassador to Libya and his staff. Hillary (et al.) responded to the attack with rants about a "video." This was a very disturbing response to the attack. It sounds like a "red herring" that a guilty party would use to try to deflect blame. If we were able to read Hillary's emails related to the development of this speech we may be able to find why she tried to deflect blame for the violent attack. What was she trying to hide? We may never know because those emails have been deleted.

  4. Politicians are people who specialize in politics. We are choosing someone to be the chief executive of the U.S. Government. That is a very different skill set from being a politician. It's unfortunate that our voting system allows political parties to dominate elections but, they do, and that is why we usually have a politician sitting in the chief executive's seat. Our first chief executive, George Washington, was not a politician. In fact, he despised politics. He much preferred being a general which, though akin to being a chief executive, is yet another skill set.

  5. 1. What country do you live in?

    2. What do you mean by "right-wing?"

    3. If Sweden is so good why do they have so many fewer immigrants than the U.S.?

  6. Re:Who says the amounts are equal? on WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to imply that you have a right to see Trump's tax returns. If you want this right you should get a job at the IRS.

    We do have a right to know why Hillary blamed the Benghazi 9/11 on a video. It's been four years since the attack and we still do not (officially) know the origin of that claim. Hillary's denunciation of the video is available on YouTube. You should watch with the thought in mind that we now know that the video did not trigger the attack.

  7. Do you have evidence that they have a bunch of dirt on Trump that they're refusing to publish?

    Hillary's operatives are currently working to fake documents to dump to Wikileaks for just that purpose.

  8. Trump is audited by the IRS every year on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    If there is evidence of criminality in his tax returns he would be under prosecution. He may have a personal, business, or even political (i.e., he'll release his taxes when Hillary produces her missing email) for not releasing them. Do you make your taxes public? If not, then why not?

  9. Why did Hillary blame a video for Benghazi 9/11? on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the answer will be in her deleted emails. Apparently she has forgotten the name of the person who told her to blame the 9/11/2012 Benghazi attack on a video. That person should be named. Her denouncing of the video was so inflammatory that it likely caused further terror attacks. The person who told her to assign this blame should have to account for this.

  10. "Climate Change" sounds like propaganda on Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Climate Change" deniers are likely responding to the "propaganda-ness" of much of the media regarding the subject. Answers to simple questions such as how climate is quantified and what reproduced experiments have been done to support or debunk climate change theories would have a lot more effect to win over non-believers than political agitation such as "the planet has a fever..."

  11. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    Smart politicians follow Lomnasey's rule: Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink..

  12. Re:Aboriginal First Nations on DNA Reveals History of Vanished "Paleo-Eskimos" · · Score: 1

    Yes! We are natives of the land where we were born and raised.

  13. Chicken or egg? on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    It makes little sense that testosterone levels independently started decreasing. Occam's Razor says that civilization and technology made it possible for weaker humans to survive thus the decrease in testosterone related features in humans.

  14. Re: The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 0

    What woman wants to marry a man who makes less money than her, has lower status than her, has no job,...? Men are happy to marry lower status women who have no jobs or money.

  15. Re:Hey Americans! on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    The primary motivation against socialized healthcare in the U.S. is to maintain a state of decentralized power. We want our Federal Government to have less power not more power. When the U.S. Government has control over healthcare in the U.S. it will have significantly increased its power over a significant part of the U.S. economy. Add that power to the power of the U.S. military and the rest of the world may start thinking that maybe decentralized power in the U.S. looks like a pretty good idea.

  16. Re:Officials say? on Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well · · Score: 1

    There is also no constitutional right to social security, roads, clean water, safe food, ...

    Good roads, clean water, safe food, are all benefits to public health and national security. It's a happy accident that these things benefit individuals.

    Social security and healthcare for individuals are charity. They are not Constitutional or God given rights.

  17. Re:Furloughed workers on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    So ... I repeat my wife's question: do you REALLY want these people in charge of your healthcare? I don't.

    Does your wife really think that insurance companies don't make errors with billing, coding or paying the bills?

    Next time you're in your doctor's office, ask them how much effort it is to work with the various insurance companies.

    Ask them which is worse - the insurance companies or Medicare?

    Yes. The insurance company haters should ask their medical providers this question. They will find that medical providers are encouraged to "over treat" patients in order to be reimbursed enough from Medicare to pay for a visit's "paperwork" costs.

  18. Re:Answer: No. on Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    Rare? Nearly every government contract offered to the private sector since Bush took office has been no-bid. Remember the deals made during the Iraq War? Every single one of those was no-bid to Halliburton. This kind of cronyism is NOT rare at all; it is the norm, and has been for over a decade.

    I assume "Bush" means George W. Bush. The 43rd President of the United States. He has not been president for almost five years. Anyhow, cronyism existed long before he became president.

    On the issue of purported no bid contracts: What services did Halliburton provide for the U.S. Military in Iraq? Who were the likely competitors to provide those services? What services did CGI Federal provide the U.S. Government? Were there any likely competitors (i.e. has anyone else built a website to service millions of customers)?

    One more question: Why did congressional Democrats originally vote to support the Iraq War during the Bush administration? Was there some sort of quid pro quo?

  19. Old age is a killer on Fighting the Number-One Killer In the US With Data · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better use of our resources to combat the "killers" of people in their twenties and thirties? Those killers being suicide, homicide, and "accidents."

  20. Re:logic on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    learning logic skills should be well in advance of coding. i do think our society waits too late on that.
    that alone could improve lots of things out side of computer programming as well.

    The zeitgeist in U.S. elementary education is to discourage students from using the "traditional" algorithms to solve multiplication and division problems. Algorithm practice is now referred to, by educators, with the pejorative "drill and kill". If students are not familiar with following algorithms, and possibly have disdain for doing so, they're going to have difficulty learning to code.

  21. Re:Climate change. . . on A Climate of Violence? · · Score: 1

    Climate change: Is there anything it can't do?

    Medical Marijuana: Is there anything it can't treat?

    Both memes seemed to arrive with the Millennials.

  22. Re:Why Harm? on Avatars Help Schizophrenics Gain Control of Voices In Their Heads · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know why schizophrenia svoices always seem to try and cause harm? Why don't the voices tell you to clean your house, volunteer for something, build a house, do something good?

    Maybe some schizophrenics do here these type of voices but prosocial behavior tends to go unnoticed.

  23. Re:Both not important and important on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    The questioner refers to differential equations which most likely involves using algorithms to solve problems. I'm sure there are minimal or no proofs to be done for the class. It's probably a weed-out course for students who have trouble with algorithms.

  24. Re:WHAT ARE THE NULL HYPOTHESES? on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    Okay. Someone somewhere measured an increase of 85 ppm (i.e. 85/1,000,000 = 0.000085 parts) of C02 in the atmosphere between 1960 and "today." Is this a significant increase? Is the increase consistent throughout the Earth's atmosphere? How do we know that this increase in C02 lead to increased global temperatures? Would an increase in global temperatures necessarily be bad?

    I've had "the planet has a fever" as an earworm, triggered by references to AGW, for many years now.

  25. WHAT ARE THE NULL HYPOTHESES? on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    I tend to be skeptical about "everything". Since "Anthropogenic Global Warming" (AGW) seems to have made it into the headlines about the same time as "Medical Marijuana" and because of stupid comments such as "the planet has a fever", I am especially skeptical of AGW.

    So, AGW advocates, convince me. What are some null hypotheses that are being used by scientists in support of AGW?