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  1. ... to an entirely new level.

  2. Re:Nice attention whoring. on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone's hero?

    Right ...

    Snowden I respect, Assange on the other hand is over the top paranoid, and you seem to share that sentiment.

  3. Re:Nice attention whoring. on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Sweden wants to question him with regards to improper sexual conduct, this is common, on the record knowledge.

    The nature of the charge has also been widely reported and confirmed by interviews with the women (who are not particular interested in seeing this blown out of proportion).

    The dude had consensual sex, yet it was supposed to be protected sex, and he sneakily removed the condom. Sweden has very strict laws around consensual sexual conduct, so if he did indeed do this on purpose, and tricked the women, it amounts to an offense under Swedish law.

    That he holes up in an embassy over this rather minor legal problem is laughable.

  4. Re:Wacky? Maybe, but at least he's got vision. on Elon Musk Scales Up His Ambitions, Considering Going 'Well Beyond' Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong birth certificate.

  5. Re:He's just showboating on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nicely summarized. If I had mod points I'd vote this up.

  6. Nice attention whoring. on Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Making himself the hero, while deflecting from the fact that he is holed up in the embassy because he is wanted for sexual misconduct in Sweden.

  7. Prostitution and Religion on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The two oldest industries there are.

  8. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever edited a Wikipedia article and tried to make it stick? It's much harder than you think it is.

  9. Re:Autistic people are methodical and detail-orien on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing that. Very insightful.

  10. Autistic people are methodical and detail-oriented on Microsoft Hopes To Hire More Coders With Autism (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    "Autistic people are methodical and detail-oriented"

    Whoever wrote that clearly never met my eleven old, slightly autistic boy.

    I think SAP, who has been hiring autistic employees for a while, has a better handle on it. To quote on of their HR people:

    "If you met one autistic person, you know just one ."

  11. Odd how all the reporting on this always misses .. on Stephen Wolfram Reveals Ambitious Plan to Teach Computational Thinking (stephenwolfram.com) · · Score: 2

    ... on crucial adjective the proprietary Wolfram Language.

  12. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    As if there were any other non-partisan sources on the matter.

    You care so little you had to write it in bold. Sad!

  13. Re:Citation? You read the FBI reports, didn't you? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    As an non-American but not Russian, I can only hope most of the electorate will make this "mistake". Hillary is a known quantity, Trump one screw lose away from turning into a comb-over Kim Jong Un (who he professed admiration for).

  14. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Vampires are cool.

  15. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean the kind of evidence the FBI concluded did not amount to a level of criminal negligence?

    The same kind of negligence Powell exhibited so that he could access private and business emails on the same device?

  16. Re:Citation? You read the FBI reports, didn't you? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    She had that server for the same reason that Powell previously used that set-up, so as to be able to have private and business emails aggregated at one account. This way she could have it on the same Blackberry.

  17. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    That hinges on the meaning of "turn into nonpaper". I would expect the FBI to have probed this during the interviews.

    I..e. her staff may have very well understood that this means remove the classified data (e.g. identification info) from the document.

  18. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    The Arab spring wasn't due to any foreign policy failures. Don't see how the US could have engineered any better outcomes in Syria or Libya.

    Having US troops to fight on the ground is an ISIS wet dream, there's no reason to make it come true for them. Especially since Kurdish militias have proven to be capable to kick their butts. (Bonus point: Getting defeated by Kurdish women fighters is regarded as especially dishonoring by the ISIS scum).

  19. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    So you have convincing evidence of alternate history timelines where different decisions of hers as US State Secretary could have given different outcomes?

    And no, the Iraq was vote doesn't count, Bush's war would have happened anyhow.

    During her tenure many powerful enemies to the US and Western were eliminated, with Osama and Gaddafi among the most prominent examples. All that without putting troops in harms way. I find that a pretty good record.

  20. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Before there was ISIS Gaddafi pioneered state sponsored terror. The Lybian civil war was on, and Britain and France were lining up to intervene, so the US went along to make sure an old enemy deservedly ended up dead.

    Nothing wrong with that picture.

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  21. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you. As somebody who has no vote in the matter but has to live with the foreign policy consequences, I am much less concerned about a business-as-usual president. Despite all the global and rather silly Anti-American sentiments, the world needs your nation with steady hands on the trigger.

  22. Re:Oh, you assume I'm pro-Trump? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    At this end stretch de facto anything anti-Hillary will help Trump and vice versa. Dog vomit and cat hairballs don't really factor in much, although I think that Gary Johnson despite all his incompetence seems to be a decent guy.

    At any rate, it wasn't so much Bush who sold his war, he outsourced this to Powell et al. and the media. At the time there was a steep political price to pay to oppose that war. Doesn't make it right, but it isn't hard to see why career politicians signed on to it.

  23. Re:It has stuck on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This audio tape form the eighties is the best you can do at character assassination? I listed to the whole thing, and it is quite clear that her amusement stems from the oddities of the case, such as, that her client passed the lie detector test, and that this forever destroyed her faith in polygraph tests.

    Also the peculiar nature of the evidence that she only got a piece of underwear, with a hole where the crime lab had cut out material, or that the judge tried to order her out of the room because he didn't want to discuss the sexual nature of the crime in front of a woman.

    At any rate, most of the laughter on the tape is from the interviewer, and that's because the surrealities of the case are funny even if the underlying crime is anything but.

    At no time does she make light of the nature of the crime.

  24. Re:Al Capone did much the same for years on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    At least we can see these tax records, remind me again when Trump will release his tax returns?

  25. Re:backing Hillary? on Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    Gary Johnson will hardly ever be the smartest guy in any room, but unlike Trump he knows and acknowledges that.