I'm a Gary Johnson supporter, but I have a few friends that are always posting smoking gun posts from fringe conservative sites that claim "Hillary's going to be indicted any day now!" or "Hillary's campaign is over when this gets out!" I keep telling them these are just clickbait links and don't offer any substance.
They're in La-La Land if they think they're going to change anyone's mind. Hillary Clinton's supporters know she's a corrupt liar, but they don't care, just like everyone knows Trump is a crass, narcissistic bully, and his supporters don't care.
By the way, is it getting any more obvious to anyone that Trump is a Hillary plant? Every day he's shooting his mouth off with some preposterous remark, making his campaign tank. No serious candidate would act the way he does. Sure, it worked great in the primaries to bring out the Redneck/Juggalo/Tea Party vote, but that's a small minority of the electorate. The whole thing has the feeling of a setup.
If Johnson and/or Stein don't get into the presidential debates, this is going to be the most lopsided election Since Reagan/Mondale in 1984.
Assuming there are 7.4 Billion people and 40% of them have internet access, then the proportion on that site is 29,000/2960000000 = 9.79e-6. So that is a little less than 1 in 100,000 people.
Don't forget, this is only the number of people who were savvy enough to find a dark-web site and maintain an account with monthly submissions, so you're probably off by an order of magnitude.
In Denmark, university education is free for all Danes. You also get a small allowance each month, just enough to rent a room or small apartment and buy (cheap) food. So that part of it is not that radical outside the US.
The difference here is that the "free" education isn't being picked up by the taxpayers, so not exactly the same.
Meanwhile, the NIH is lifting it's ban on chimera research.
Must have been after intense pressure from the furry lobby. Seems ironic that the Chinese will be the ones with human super soldiers but we'll have tiger-man warriors.
(Sec. 749) Prohibits the FDA from acknowledging applications for an exemption for investigational use of a drug or biological product in research in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. Provides that any submission is deemed not to have been received, and the exemption may not go into effect.
While this prevents any FDA approval, I don't see how it would stop scientists from performing experiments, and it doesn't seem to have any criminal or civil penalties attached to it. Are there other bills that provide for this?
I bet they also wonder why people use ad blockers. You don't have to see those ads, you know.
Unfortunately, I found ad blockers to be almost as much of a problem as the ads. Often times, if you have an ad blocker enabled, you won't be able to view videos on the site.
Comcast and other cable companies complain that this will open the door to copyright violations, and US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante agrees with them.
My Comcast box comes with a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port on the back. What's stopping someone from just downloading the files from the DVR onto a computer? I've done some experimenting with my MacBook Pro, mounted the DVR drive as a Firewire drive, and was able to view files using VLC, so they don't seem to be encrypted.
Almost every website you go to now, even sites like CNN, CBS, Forbes, etc., have clickbait ads. The ones that irritate me the most lately are "You won't believe what X looks like now, it's stunning!" where X is some sort of 60's or 70's TV show star. They're in their 50's-80's, I pretty much guarantee they aren't going to look "stunning". They're going to look like old ladies. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the ads seem to imply they somehow magically got better looking over the past 40 years./end rant
The other thing I'd wonder about is what kinds of questions are they asking, and why do they need all that data? In the U.S., the census is only supposed to be for one purpose, enumeration of representatives in Congress, but they ask all sorts of nosy questions that have nothing to do with that.
They fear no repercussions for any of this since Bernie's followers will be good little Democrats and vote for Hillary in the end. That is all that matters.
It didn't take them too long to bow down to Hillary either. Those that have any integrity will probably vote third party, most likely Green.
The revolution is dead despite Bernie's claims to the contrary. He got on board with Hillary so he will not lose the committee positions and other advantages he has in the Senate. To go against her would mean he would be ostracized, so he plays ball. He talks of the platform, platforms never mean a damn thing. They are just symbolic appeasements for the fringe elements of the party. Always has been, now Bernie's revolution joins those ranks.
Bernie's revolution was never a revolution, it was a case of the everyone-gets-a-trophy entitlement generation (a.k.a. Millennials) latching on to the guy who promised to make everything free.
No. I'm not surprised by this -- at least not the way YOU reference. I am totally surprised the media doesn't care.
That's a good point.
Well, it's okay to make derogatory comments about women & minorities if you're a Democrat. You can even put on a minstrel show and almost nobody bats an eye.
Pssst..... everyone, it isn't "libtards against guns" - its liability. Sweet Jeebuz in a smartcar, when an emoticon becomes a second amendment flashpoint, perhaps it isn't the "libtards" that have a really big problem.
I really don't care what Apple does with its emoji. But do you seriously think it's going to make any difference in liability when students get kicked out of school for biting pop tarts to make a "gun" shape? Hoplophobia is out of control in this country.
Honestly, what did you guys expect? Apple is an image based company and the image they portray is "hip". Currently in the largest population centers its hip to be super liberal.
Not saying chip and pin is perfect, but I really don't get why this is such a big "disaster".
Editor is obviously using hyperbole. I just got a replacement card with a chip from my credit union. I went grocery shopping, and 2 of the stores had me swipe, the 3rd had me insert the card. It did take significantly longer, and you need to remove it at a specific time in the process or else the transaction will fail. That store also has Apple Pay, so I think I'll just use that at that particular store in the future. Other stores have told me that the chip reader on their unit doesn't work.
Good cause & a fun way to raise money. Both my wife & I did. She sprang up on her feet a split second after I started to dump the ice water on her. One of the funniest things I've seen!:-D
iPhones do last a long time. I bet a lot of them are still working as hand-me downs to the kids, spares, etc..
They do last a long time if you take care of them. I had an iPhone 4 for 4 years and it held up very well. When I traded it in for my iPhone 6 Plus, the AT&T lady told me that it was in the best shape she's ever seen one. I just kept it in a phone case most of the time. It was still working well, but didn't support the newest OS, which prompted my upgrade. I would have given it to my wife if the trade-in wasn't so attractive. I plan on keeping the iPhone 6 Plus for at least 4 years.
I would try going the opposite way: have everybody tweet something about the Olympics. Let the IOC go bananas trying to identify and sue a billion or more people all over the world who use a medium that is largely anonymous.
FTS:
Specifically any company that tweets about the Olympic Games and isn't a sponsor.
So you as an individual aren't barred from tweeting about the Olympics, but if you tweet on behalf of "Applehu Akbar's Cereal", then they'll go after you.
I just don't like the controller, although I have to admit the XB One's controller is better than the XB 360's. I much prefer the PS3's Dual Shock. From what I understand, the PS4's Dual Shock is better than the PS3's, so a PS4 will almost certainly be my next console purchase, when or if I'm ever in the market for a new one. That probably won't be for a while, since I'd like to wait for the VR market to mature a bit, and I still have a boatload of games on my PS3 I still haven't even touched.
We probably would have solved it by now. But it's not. That's why 5 year plans and great leaps forward never worked. That's why there was mass starvation in rich agricultural areas. Central planning, even with genius elites running linear equations are going to read their own personal biases into the results.
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I'm a Gary Johnson supporter, but I have a few friends that are always posting smoking gun posts from fringe conservative sites that claim "Hillary's going to be indicted any day now!" or "Hillary's campaign is over when this gets out!" I keep telling them these are just clickbait links and don't offer any substance.
They're in La-La Land if they think they're going to change anyone's mind. Hillary Clinton's supporters know she's a corrupt liar, but they don't care, just like everyone knows Trump is a crass, narcissistic bully, and his supporters don't care.
By the way, is it getting any more obvious to anyone that Trump is a Hillary plant? Every day he's shooting his mouth off with some preposterous remark, making his campaign tank. No serious candidate would act the way he does. Sure, it worked great in the primaries to bring out the Redneck/Juggalo/Tea Party vote, but that's a small minority of the electorate. The whole thing has the feeling of a setup.
If Johnson and/or Stein don't get into the presidential debates, this is going to be the most lopsided election Since Reagan/Mondale in 1984.
Assuming there are 7.4 Billion people and 40% of them have internet access, then the proportion on that site is 29,000/2960000000 = 9.79e-6. So that is a little less than 1 in 100,000 people.
Don't forget, this is only the number of people who were savvy enough to find a dark-web site and maintain an account with monthly submissions, so you're probably off by an order of magnitude.
I laugh when I see preppers with their automatic weapons. Where do they think they're going to get the ammo for those when they run out?
A lot of preppers also have reloading kits.
In Denmark, university education is free for all Danes. You also get a small allowance each month, just enough to rent a room or small apartment and buy (cheap) food. So that part of it is not that radical outside the US.
The difference here is that the "free" education isn't being picked up by the taxpayers, so not exactly the same.
Information and communication being classified as a weapon is not a good sign.
I get what you're saying, but what about things like counterintelligence, false flags, incitement to violence, etc.?
Meanwhile, the NIH is lifting it's ban on chimera research.
Must have been after intense pressure from the furry lobby. Seems ironic that the Chinese will be the ones with human super soldiers but we'll have tiger-man warriors.
The problem is more from restrictions on federal research funds, and the rules against related research in labs receiving any federal funds.
So basically it's not a ban in the sense that it's verboten, just that they won't be able to get any research dollars from the government?
(Sec. 749) Prohibits the FDA from acknowledging applications for an exemption for investigational use of a drug or biological product in research in which a human embryo is intentionally created or modified to include a heritable genetic modification. Provides that any submission is deemed not to have been received, and the exemption may not go into effect.
While this prevents any FDA approval, I don't see how it would stop scientists from performing experiments, and it doesn't seem to have any criminal or civil penalties attached to it. Are there other bills that provide for this?
I bet they also wonder why people use ad blockers. You don't have to see those ads, you know.
Unfortunately, I found ad blockers to be almost as much of a problem as the ads. Often times, if you have an ad blocker enabled, you won't be able to view videos on the site.
Comcast and other cable companies complain that this will open the door to copyright violations, and US Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante agrees with them.
My Comcast box comes with a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port on the back. What's stopping someone from just downloading the files from the DVR onto a computer? I've done some experimenting with my MacBook Pro, mounted the DVR drive as a Firewire drive, and was able to view files using VLC, so they don't seem to be encrypted.
Almost every website you go to now, even sites like CNN, CBS, Forbes, etc., have clickbait ads. The ones that irritate me the most lately are "You won't believe what X looks like now, it's stunning!" where X is some sort of 60's or 70's TV show star. They're in their 50's-80's, I pretty much guarantee they aren't going to look "stunning". They're going to look like old ladies. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the ads seem to imply they somehow magically got better looking over the past 40 years. /end rant
The other thing I'd wonder about is what kinds of questions are they asking, and why do they need all that data? In the U.S., the census is only supposed to be for one purpose, enumeration of representatives in Congress, but they ask all sorts of nosy questions that have nothing to do with that.
I wonder if people are advocating busing in people from remote locations to "fix" the balance?
That's next.
They fear no repercussions for any of this since Bernie's followers will be good little Democrats and vote for Hillary in the end. That is all that matters.
It didn't take them too long to bow down to Hillary either. Those that have any integrity will probably vote third party, most likely Green.
The revolution is dead despite Bernie's claims to the contrary. He got on board with Hillary so he will not lose the committee positions and other advantages he has in the Senate. To go against her would mean he would be ostracized, so he plays ball. He talks of the platform, platforms never mean a damn thing. They are just symbolic appeasements for the fringe elements of the party. Always has been, now Bernie's revolution joins those ranks.
Bernie's revolution was never a revolution, it was a case of the everyone-gets-a-trophy entitlement generation (a.k.a. Millennials) latching on to the guy who promised to make everything free.
No. I'm not surprised by this -- at least not the way YOU reference. I am totally surprised the media doesn't care.
That's a good point.
Well, it's okay to make derogatory comments about women & minorities if you're a Democrat. You can even put on a minstrel show and almost nobody bats an eye.
Pssst..... everyone, it isn't "libtards against guns" - its liability. Sweet Jeebuz in a smartcar, when an emoticon becomes a second amendment flashpoint, perhaps it isn't the "libtards" that have a really big problem.
I really don't care what Apple does with its emoji. But do you seriously think it's going to make any difference in liability when students get kicked out of school for biting pop tarts to make a "gun" shape? Hoplophobia is out of control in this country.
Honestly, what did you guys expect? Apple is an image based company and the image they portray is "hip". Currently in the largest population centers its hip to be super liberal.
Yeah, they're taking a bold stance against guns, except when guns make them money.
The US hasn't done chip and pin. It's chip and signature, effectively the worst of both worlds. Very little extra security and much slower.
Maybe for some cards in the US, but mine is chip & pin. Probably depends on the bank.
Not saying chip and pin is perfect, but I really don't get why this is such a big "disaster".
Editor is obviously using hyperbole. I just got a replacement card with a chip from my credit union. I went grocery shopping, and 2 of the stores had me swipe, the 3rd had me insert the card. It did take significantly longer, and you need to remove it at a specific time in the process or else the transaction will fail. That store also has Apple Pay, so I think I'll just use that at that particular store in the future. Other stores have told me that the chip reader on their unit doesn't work.
Good cause & a fun way to raise money. Both my wife & I did. She sprang up on her feet a split second after I started to dump the ice water on her. One of the funniest things I've seen! :-D
iPhones do last a long time. I bet a lot of them are still working as hand-me downs to the kids, spares, etc..
They do last a long time if you take care of them. I had an iPhone 4 for 4 years and it held up very well. When I traded it in for my iPhone 6 Plus, the AT&T lady told me that it was in the best shape she's ever seen one. I just kept it in a phone case most of the time. It was still working well, but didn't support the newest OS, which prompted my upgrade. I would have given it to my wife if the trade-in wasn't so attractive. I plan on keeping the iPhone 6 Plus for at least 4 years.
I would try going the opposite way: have everybody tweet something about the Olympics. Let the IOC go bananas trying to identify and sue a billion or more people all over the world who use a medium that is largely anonymous.
FTS:
Specifically any company that tweets about the Olympic Games and isn't a sponsor.
So you as an individual aren't barred from tweeting about the Olympics, but if you tweet on behalf of "Applehu Akbar's Cereal", then they'll go after you.
Kerry says AC is worse than ISIS.
If John Kerry is so worried about AC, there's always this: Remove air conditioning from all US State Department property. I'm tempted to sign it, but don't want to be added to the enemies list when Clinton/Trump gets elected.
I just don't like the controller, although I have to admit the XB One's controller is better than the XB 360's. I much prefer the PS3's Dual Shock. From what I understand, the PS4's Dual Shock is better than the PS3's, so a PS4 will almost certainly be my next console purchase, when or if I'm ever in the market for a new one. That probably won't be for a while, since I'd like to wait for the VR market to mature a bit, and I still have a boatload of games on my PS3 I still haven't even touched.
We probably would have solved it by now. But it's not. That's why 5 year plans and great leaps forward never worked. That's why there was mass starvation in rich agricultural areas. Central planning, even with genius elites running linear equations are going to read their own personal biases into the results.