If you ever wondered how anyone will continue to believe in doomsday cult after supposed day of rapture come and goes with nothing happening, just look at "net neutrality" folks still bravely fighting to save the internet.
Yeah, 'temporarily dismissed' for 6 months? Who gives a shit. Oh but furloughed for 3 weeks, THE HUMANITY!
Some will take the buyout offers, some will be 'transferred' and some will be 'temporarily' dismissed (all of them will be rehired after 6 months, I pinky promise, I'm CEO of megacorporation why would I lie?) so 'there will be zero job losses'. Yeah, not buying it. But when the inevitable layoff happens, nobody will care about that article. They'll just blame Trump.
Ford said there will be zero job losses in the U.S. as a result of the new plant in Mexico. The Wayne, Michigan, plant that now builds the Focus and C-Max that will move to Mexico will instead start building other models -- probably the new Ford Bronco SUV and Ranger small pickup.
Workers at Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, west of Detroit, will be temporarily dismissed from around May 7 through Oct. 22, according to a notice Ford filed with the state.
Who knew liberals considered parroting evil corporations' lies to be real news.
A year after unveiling the AirPower all-in-one wireless charger for the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods, Apple has now erased all references to AirPower from its website.
It is also the county's biggest taxpayer, paying $56 million in the 2017-2018 tax year.
On 2017 net income of $48.35 billion ($48350 million), that's a tax rate of 0.116%. Tell me again why we needed another corporate tax rate cut....
I heard Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, on 2017 net income of $45.6 billion, paid $0 to Santa Clara County, that's a tax rate of 0.000%. Man, these mega corporations are evil. But I also heard some mom & pop store in Portland paid $0 to Santa Clara County, that is also a tax rate of 0.000%. So maybe all business are evil?
Or maybe Apple's $48.35 billion net income is a result of doing business all over the globe and as a result don't pay all of its taxes in Santa Clara County?
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McClatchy's data comes from a federal lawsuit filed against the state. In addition to the problem in Habersham County's Mud Creek precinct, where it appeared that 276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots, the piece describes numerous other issues with both voter registration and electronic voting machines. (In fact it was later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct.)
Mud Creek voting precinct is one of fourteen voting precincts of Habersham County, Georgia. You can check the location and area of Mud Creek precinct here. That page doesn't list the population data but this page shows population of each blocks in Habersham County. According to that data Mud Creek precinct (comprising three bottom left blocks) has a population of 5,864, so 3,704 registered voters sounds about right. I think this statement from Habersham County Election Supervisor is exactly what happened.
We learned today that an error was made in the reporting of the number of registered voters in the Mud Creek precinct during the May 22, 2018 General Primary Election. This typo, showing the incorrect number of registered voters, did not affect the vote count. The vote count was correct, and the percentage of voter turnout was also correct. This typographical error had no impact on the results of the election.
The suspect is a mentally unstable person who spent all day spamming comment sections of many blogs. The victim didn't really have an interaction with the murderer, he was just one of the victim of spam messages and reported him to admins. Suspect got flamed by some other commenter (not the victim) how internet warrior can't do anything in real life. After further taunting he decided to prove them wrong and randomly chose the victim because he happened to be holding a seminar near his house (the seminar wasn't really about 'how to resolve personal disputes on the internet' and more generally about dealing with multitude of problems in maintaining a blog).
iQIYI, one of the online platforms carrying the show, said that simultaneous views of the Gala reached a record 14 million, surpassing the company's previous record set during the 2014 soccer World Cup.
"The reporting has been mostly hot garbage," Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, tweeted after reviewing satellite imagery of the 7,200-foot Mount Mantap, where North Korea's Punggye-ri test site is located.
Because getting rid of all the weapons of mass destruction or WMD's as Bush liked to call them worked out well for Iraq, they complied fully with international demands, which the US knew full well but went ahead and made up some crap about WMD and invaded them, not to steal the oil but to bring this belligerent nation to heel.
A. A pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway.
This was not a "false missile alarm" or any kind of fault in J-Alert system. This was news organization (NHK) mistakenly publishing a pre-written news piece, kinda like when premature obituaries occur. That is not to say there hasn't been a mistake in J-Alert testing producing a false missile alarm. In fact it has happened several times already:
4/19/2017 in Osaki, Miyagi. False missile warning broadcasted over loud speakers while testing of J-Alert system. Correction issued after 6 minutes.
9/8/2017 in Yokkaichi, Mie. False missile warning sent over radio while testing of J-Alert system. Correction issued after 10 minutes.
9/14/2017 in Minamisoma, Fukushima. False missile warning distributed over email while testing of J-Alert system. Correction issued after 7 minutes.
But this time it was not a mistake in J-Alert system, so all the conspiracy theorist can shove it.
Steve Scalise is a third ranking Republican in the House and receives full-time protective details by Capitol Police. His presence at baseball field meant good guy with guns were already there to save lives. If they were forced to wait for police to arrive, there would likely been multiple fatalities before culprit was neutralized.
According to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, Samsung Electronics took up 12.9 percent of the combined operating profit posted by global players by posting US$1.57 billion in earnings over the January-March period, down 21.9 percent from a year earlier.
Samsung's archrival Apple Inc., on the other hand, posted an operating profit of $10.1 billion over the cited period, accounting for a whopping 83.4 percent of the global industry, a gain from 79.8 percent posted last year.
Japan does not have the same cultural baggage about this you'd find in the west. There's no huge population that had the whole Bible and "Mark of the Beast" drummed into their heads. There's no conspiracy theorists. No persecution of Jews - even though they were an ally of Nazi Germany.
Japan has conspiracy theorists as much as America has if not more. Here is a poll from 2014 asking Japanese whether there is a conspiracy of shadowy organization controlling the world in secret, and 60% answered yes. As for Japanese positive attitude toward Jews during WWII, that was a result of Jews bankrolling Japan during Russo-Japanese War. Jews hated Russia for anti-Jewish pogroms and helped Japan and in turn Japan helped Jews during WWII. Of course that was then, now there is a rampant conspiracy theory that Japan was tricked into fighting Russia by evil Jews. Nowadays Russo-Japanese war is usually held up as the proof of how Jews controls the world by first causing a war and then deciding its victor.
Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
Yeah, I remember conservative cartoonist publishing a cartoon with Obama's kids as dancing monkeys and conservative were not only okay with this obvious racism but even defended it! Only people on the right seem to think its okay to attack children and to portray minority as monkeys. Oh wait...
The Orlando massacre, while tragic, would have to occur daily to crack the top 5 causes of death. Even then, I'm not sure it would. If you took the combined global death tolls of every terrorist act in the last two decades and condensed them into a single quarter, then put it on repeat, it still wouldn't make the top 5 annual US deaths.
Terrorism is vastly overblown as a threat to any of us.
If it's not among top 5 causes of death, then it's not important enough issue to do anything about. NSA spying, patriot act, TSA, etc. meh, unimportant stuff that we should just ignore.
Far more damage is done to our daily lives in the name of stopping terrorism than has ever been done in the name of it.
So, I agree the best solution is not to do nothing - the best solution is to dismantle all the somethings people have done in the last two decades under the guise of protecting us from terrorism.
Oh, government overreach has entered top 5 causes of death list?
Or could it be that issues that YOU don't care about can be dismissed by "doesn't crack the top 5 causes of death" test but issues YOU care about is huge threat to all of us even if death caused by it are basically zero? Well, that's convenient.
Both a negative story about dumb politician trying to overreach after the terror attacks in France. One has a name of politician in the headline and party affiliation in the summary while another doesn't include name of politician in headline and information on party affiliation isn't found in summary nor linked article. I guess it's time to play the classic game of Guess That Party!
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If you ever wondered how anyone will continue to believe in doomsday cult after supposed day of rapture come and goes with nothing happening, just look at "net neutrality" folks still bravely fighting to save the internet.
Yeah, 'temporarily dismissed' for 6 months? Who gives a shit. Oh but furloughed for 3 weeks, THE HUMANITY!
Some will take the buyout offers, some will be 'transferred' and some will be 'temporarily' dismissed (all of them will be rehired after 6 months, I pinky promise, I'm CEO of megacorporation why would I lie?) so 'there will be zero job losses'. Yeah, not buying it. But when the inevitable layoff happens, nobody will care about that article. They'll just blame Trump.
Ford said there will be zero job losses in the U.S. as a result of the new plant in Mexico. The Wayne, Michigan, plant that now builds the Focus and C-Max that will move to Mexico will instead start building other models -- probably the new Ford Bronco SUV and Ranger small pickup.
Ford to Lay Off 2,000 Workers for Ranger, Bronco Retooling(March 5, 2018):
Workers at Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, west of Detroit, will be temporarily dismissed from around May 7 through Oct. 22, according to a notice Ford filed with the state.
Who knew liberals considered parroting evil corporations' lies to be real news.
A year after unveiling the AirPower all-in-one wireless charger for the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods, Apple has now erased all references to AirPower from its website.
Really? I still can find it mentioned in these:
The future is here: iPhone X
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus: A new generation of iPhone
Not to mention they still hosts the video of presentation that introduced AirPower and it still has Phil Schiller introducing it (@1:43:00 from apple special event September 12, 2017).
Either Apple is bad at searching their own website or this is a clickbaity article.
It is also the county's biggest taxpayer, paying $56 million in the 2017-2018 tax year.
On 2017 net income of $48.35 billion ($48350 million), that's a tax rate of 0.116%. Tell me again why we needed another corporate tax rate cut....
I heard Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, on 2017 net income of $45.6 billion, paid $0 to Santa Clara County, that's a tax rate of 0.000%. Man, these mega corporations are evil. But I also heard some mom & pop store in Portland paid $0 to Santa Clara County, that is also a tax rate of 0.000%. So maybe all business are evil?
Or maybe Apple's $48.35 billion net income is a result of doing business all over the globe and as a result don't pay all of its taxes in Santa Clara County?
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McClatchy's data comes from a federal lawsuit filed against the state. In addition to the problem in Habersham County's Mud Creek precinct, where it appeared that 276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots, the piece describes numerous other issues with both voter registration and electronic voting machines. (In fact it was later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct.)
Mud Creek voting precinct is one of fourteen voting precincts of Habersham County, Georgia. You can check the location and area of Mud Creek precinct here. That page doesn't list the population data but this page shows population of each blocks in Habersham County. According to that data Mud Creek precinct (comprising three bottom left blocks) has a population of 5,864, so 3,704 registered voters sounds about right. I think this statement from Habersham County Election Supervisor is exactly what happened.
We learned today that an error was made in the reporting of the number of registered voters in the Mud Creek precinct during the May 22, 2018 General Primary Election. This typo, showing the incorrect number of registered voters, did not affect the vote count. The vote count was correct, and the percentage of voter turnout was also correct. This typographical error had no impact on the results of the election.
The suspect is a mentally unstable person who spent all day spamming comment sections of many blogs. The victim didn't really have an interaction with the murderer, he was just one of the victim of spam messages and reported him to admins. Suspect got flamed by some other commenter (not the victim) how internet warrior can't do anything in real life. After further taunting he decided to prove them wrong and randomly chose the victim because he happened to be holding a seminar near his house (the seminar wasn't really about 'how to resolve personal disputes on the internet' and more generally about dealing with multitude of problems in maintaining a blog).
iQIYI, one of the online platforms carrying the show, said that simultaneous views of the Gala reached a record 14 million, surpassing the company's previous record set during the 2014 soccer World Cup.
Wasn't their test site already "dismantled" by a massive tunnel collapse?
No, North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Wasn't Destroyed in an Earthquake
"The reporting has been mostly hot garbage," Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, tweeted after reviewing satellite imagery of the 7,200-foot Mount Mantap, where North Korea's Punggye-ri test site is located.
Election and IDs?
That's voter suppression!
Disenfranchisement!!
Racist!!!
NAZIS!!!
Because getting rid of all the weapons of mass destruction or WMD's as Bush liked to call them worked out well for Iraq, they complied fully with international demands, which the US knew full well but went ahead and made up some crap about WMD and invaded them, not to steal the oil but to bring this belligerent nation to heel.
Yes Iraq did complied fully with international demands, except when they kind a didn't for these UN resolutions:
United Nations Security Council Resolution 660
United Nations Security Council Resolution 661
United Nations Security Council Resolution 678
United Nations Security Council Resolution 686
United Nations Security Council Resolution 687
United Nations Security Council Resolution 688
United Nations Security Council Resolution 707
United Nations Security Council Resolution 715
United Nations Security Council Resolution 949
United Nations Security Council Resolution 986
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1051
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1060
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1115
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1134
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1137
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1154
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1194
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1205
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1284
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441
but let's ignore these niggling exceptions because it doesn't fit the narrative.
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A. A pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway.
This was not a "false missile alarm" or any kind of fault in J-Alert system. This was news organization (NHK) mistakenly publishing a pre-written news piece, kinda like when premature obituaries occur. That is not to say there hasn't been a mistake in J-Alert testing producing a false missile alarm. In fact it has happened several times already:
4/19/2017 in Osaki, Miyagi. False missile warning broadcasted over loud speakers while testing of J-Alert system. Correction issued after 6 minutes.
9/8/2017 in Yokkaichi, Mie. False missile warning sent over radio while testing of J-Alert system. Correction issued after 10 minutes.
9/14/2017 in Minamisoma, Fukushima. False missile warning distributed over email while testing of J-Alert system. Correction issued after 7 minutes.
But this time it was not a mistake in J-Alert system, so all the conspiracy theorist can shove it.
A preparation for road ahead.
Well, there was that one about threatening to nuke North Korea... Does that count? https://www.vanityfair.com/new...
Yeah, I also remember Trump threatening Iran with "massive retaliation" if they attacked Israel and later clarified Iran's aggression against Israel "would provoke a nuclear response from the United States". Hate speech!
And what about that time Trump threatened to "erase North Korea from the map of the world"? So much hate speech!
Oh, wait...
Steve Scalise is a third ranking Republican in the House and receives full-time protective details by Capitol Police. His presence at baseball field meant good guy with guns were already there to save lives. If they were forced to wait for police to arrive, there would likely been multiple fatalities before culprit was neutralized.
Wrong. Samsung is more profitable than Apple, even if they don't make a $400 profit per phone.
From Yonhap News dated 2017/06/04:
According to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, Samsung Electronics took up 12.9 percent of the combined operating profit posted by global players by posting US$1.57 billion in earnings over the January-March period, down 21.9 percent from a year earlier.
Samsung's archrival Apple Inc., on the other hand, posted an operating profit of $10.1 billion over the cited period, accounting for a whopping 83.4 percent of the global industry, a gain from 79.8 percent posted last year.
Japan does not have the same cultural baggage about this you'd find in the west. There's no huge population that had the whole Bible and "Mark of the Beast" drummed into their heads. There's no conspiracy theorists. No persecution of Jews - even though they were an ally of Nazi Germany.
Japan has conspiracy theorists as much as America has if not more. Here is a poll from 2014 asking Japanese whether there is a conspiracy of shadowy organization controlling the world in secret, and 60% answered yes. As for Japanese positive attitude toward Jews during WWII, that was a result of Jews bankrolling Japan during Russo-Japanese War. Jews hated Russia for anti-Jewish pogroms and helped Japan and in turn Japan helped Jews during WWII. Of course that was then, now there is a rampant conspiracy theory that Japan was tricked into fighting Russia by evil Jews. Nowadays Russo-Japanese war is usually held up as the proof of how Jews controls the world by first causing a war and then deciding its victor.
Perhaps you were just saying racist things? I am a progressive and I have conservative friends and we mocked President Obama all the time, but we mocked some of his policies, we never attacked his children (unlike some people on the right) nor his wife, his race, culture or religion. Perhaps you need to take a hard long look in the mirror (you do not need to tell us the results) and ask yourself if you are really being honest with yourself.
Yeah, I remember conservative cartoonist publishing a cartoon with Obama's kids as dancing monkeys and conservative were not only okay with this obvious racism but even defended it! Only people on the right seem to think its okay to attack children and to portray minority as monkeys. Oh wait...
The Orlando massacre, while tragic, would have to occur daily to crack the top 5 causes of death. Even then, I'm not sure it would. If you took the combined global death tolls of every terrorist act in the last two decades and condensed them into a single quarter, then put it on repeat, it still wouldn't make the top 5 annual US deaths. Terrorism is vastly overblown as a threat to any of us.
If it's not among top 5 causes of death, then it's not important enough issue to do anything about. NSA spying, patriot act, TSA, etc. meh, unimportant stuff that we should just ignore.
Far more damage is done to our daily lives in the name of stopping terrorism than has ever been done in the name of it. So, I agree the best solution is not to do nothing - the best solution is to dismantle all the somethings people have done in the last two decades under the guise of protecting us from terrorism.
Oh, government overreach has entered top 5 causes of death list? Or could it be that issues that YOU don't care about can be dismissed by "doesn't crack the top 5 causes of death" test but issues YOU care about is huge threat to all of us even if death caused by it are basically zero? Well, that's convenient.
It's worth noting that Apple was the longest hold out from PRISM and joined them only after Jobs passed away.
I thought its priority was muslim outreach with bit of "earth science" on the side.
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption
Both a negative story about dumb politician trying to overreach after the terror attacks in France. One has a name of politician in the headline and party affiliation in the summary while another doesn't include name of politician in headline and information on party affiliation isn't found in summary nor linked article. I guess it's time to play the classic game of Guess That Party!