Consider these are journalist and not scientists. In fact journalists are about as far as you can get from scientists. Consider how they hype 'global warming' and 'climate change' and then blame hurricanes on them (even though NOAA will say the two are not related every time there is a bad one). They use doomesday language like the world has 3 years to reverse course before total annihilation. So, as a researcher, you try leaking info to your friend at the times, how are you going to describe the research you are trying to do. Imagine some material you are looking at that can change shape based on some sort of electric signal or something... Maybe its an 'alloy' or a compound like graphine. OR, maybe its some form of nanotech and nobody has yet to understand how this thing can restructure itself. Maybe its a superconductor and yet trying to make the same thing out of its base elements fails to yield the same results. How do you convey this to a journalist, someone more in tune with language and grammar, than the scientific method, logic, and reasoning? You use layman terms and explain it the way you might have to explain it to your 12-year-old. Then said journalist goes and puts what they annotated into their OWN WORDS. Viola! You get 'mysterious alloys'. When really its more likely a mysterious 'material' whose properties have yet to be unlocked.
For the record I am not some 'believer' who wants to just believe in spite of evidence to the contrary. But at the same time, I know how these dingleberries who write for main stream media think, and logic often has its own definition in their minds. Remember these are the people that think if you pass a law making something illegal (ie guns), nobody would ever be able to kill someone ever again. Murder has been illegal in this country for 250 years now, and yet it happens almost every day in one form or another. Laws don't mean shit to someone who has no regard for them. Its amazing what you can accomplish when you have a complete disregard to law, order, regulation, and due process.
Exactly... which is why Executive orders are not laws at all. Everyone pisses and moans when Trump reverses an executive order issued by Obama as if he is changing the laws and usurping congress. He has the prerogative to do whatever the hell he wants with existing Executive Orders, as they are nothing more than instructions to his subordinates on how to perform tasks. The only thing _permanent_ are Amendments and a new amendment has to be passed to repeal the former (as in the 18th and 21st amendments). Laws are the next closet thing, as they require, at a minimum, simple majority of both house and senate, followed by approval by the president. The only exception to this rule is when the Judicial branch overturns a law or 'interprets' another law to apply to something new.
People should stop getting pissed at Trumps executive orders and simply demand congress to do their fucking jobs to begin with. DREAMers? Illegal immigration?? It wouldn't be an issue if congress got off their asses and worked out a revision to the law. You cannot expect 1 person to act as KING and write all the laws themselves... thats the opposite of what our constitution and government is supposed to do. It totally fucking amazes me that congressional approval NEVER exceeds 20%. At its lowest, I believe it scored 11% approval ratings. Yet, somehow, the same people that disapprove keep re-fucking-electing these same assholes. Its as if they honestly believe its not _their_ asshole causing the problems. I got news for them, they are all assholes, they all need to go. They should do away with all this incumbent horse shit and require primaries every term election. Maybe part of the problem is the deliberate polarization of america by the media and politicians. As long as your own party doesnt challenge you, youve convinced 60% of your area the other party is the epitome of evil, you could sit on your ass and do fuck-all forever, and still keep your job.
A statistician, who refused to fly after reading of the alarmingly high probability that there will be a bomb on any given plane, realized that the probability of there being two bombs on any given flight is very low. Now, whenever he flies, he carries a bomb with him.
Imagine the bullshit election propoganda of fake âhidden camerasâ(TM) published by the zealots on both sides so obsessed with winning at all costs thet they dont care about eviscerating and disenfanchising the voters. Eventually with all the accusations, denials, lawsuits for defamation; in the end we will be no better off than one run by big brother. And that will be double plus ungood.
the fact that we learned that the HRC team contributed to the campaign of an FBI deputy directors wife, to escape indictment; and another special prosecutor's wife works for Fusion GPS, the same wife who provided this 'dirt dossier' to the FBI, to her husband, the same person who spearheaded the wire tap in trump tower. (remember back in may when you insisted that trump was making that part up about an illegal wire tap?)
Here is why his investigation is struggling:
Peter Strzok - dismissed for bias and losing objectivity. This was more than saying something negative in a text, his entire career just got sacked to a shitty desk job in human resources. This wasnt a small thing, according to Meuller.
Buce Ohr - we learned that he met with Fusion GPS many times during the campaign, and his wife WORKS for fusionGPS and was part of the anti-trump dossier
Andrew McCabe - Deputy FBI Director and husband to Jill McCabe, while running for a Senate seat, received $467,000 in contributions from Terry McAuliff right around the time that her husband, Andrew, edited the words 'grossly negligent' to 'extremely careless' in Comey's statement, because 'grossly negligent' is the precise words in the law that would have triggered an indictment.
now stand back and look at this objectively... if HRC had won, and this same investigation was underway trying to impeach her, and you have all these examples of the investigation team being packed with hillary haters... so she screams VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY at the top of her lungs again... would you consider the fact that the prosecution would have a hard time moving anywhere with this?
You do understand impeachment right? Simple majority of the House has to vote for impeachment and 75% of the Senate has to vote to remove him. With all this 'reasonable' doubt and allegations of bias flying around, its never ever ever going to cross the 75% threshold and most of the senate republicans do not even like the guy.
I do find it ironic that out of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent in advertising in this election, so many people are willing to believe that just $3000 in well placed Facebook ads is all it took to 'steal' an election. Does anyone besides Facebook have anything to gain by perpetuation this rumor? I mean that's totally amazing Advertisement for Facebook. "Ads placed on Facebook are 10,000 times more likely to be viewed than traditional media. A 2016 study showed that every dollar spent in ads on Facebook had more impact than $10,000 spent with our competitors"... then they go about feeding those who are so anti-trump they will latch onto anything, and suddenly half the country believes that Facebook is the ultimate advertisement platform.
no evidence has been found regarding meeting with the Russians before elected. The task is to find evidence of collusion _in order to alter the election_. Having someone plead guilty to lying about meeting with Russian a couple days before new years is NOT the same thing as meeting with them prior to November. I think the problem is so many people wanted to impeach the guy, the day after the election no less, that this crap is being viewed through a distorted lens. Had someone suggested impeaching Obama after being caught on a hot microphone saying he would have more power to work with russia after his election, the very same people would be making the exact same counter claims. Of all the things that the opposition could target, this whole russia thing has to be the worst strategy of all time.
either A) everyone knows that nothing illegal has transpired regardless of any evidence that has or will have been discovered; so this is more of a 'keep the lime light on him to rally the troops and win a future election'
or B) everyone is so blind with rage that they are literally crying wolf so often that eventually something real and substantial is going to come out and everyone is going to be to turned off that only about 30% of the population will believe it, because they already wanted to believe it even before it existed.
the bottom line is that even IF trump had literally sat in the same room as Putin back in August and had a powwow about what the FSB could do in order to assist in Trumps campaign - that still isn't anything actually prohibited. He literally could have stood up and said "I talked to Putin... so what? what are you going to do about it? Tell me not to do it anymore?"
Lets not forget that what HAS been discovered is that HRC's campaign team DID pay $500k to a lawfirm who then engaged Fusion GPS, who then engaged with the Russians, to provide a potentially fake Dossier for the EXPRESSED PURPOSE of ALTERING THE 2016 ELECTION. So if you think uncovering any sort of Russian communication is going to be enough to sink his presidency then you also have to concede that HRC will also be tried and convicted of AT LEAST the same crime, possibly worse if it turns out to be fabricated as well, that amounts to planting false evidence. You also must concede that HRC, had she won, would have been legitimately impeached for COLLUSION as well. You cannot uses the same argument to convict one guy but insist the other candidate is unimpeachable when, currently, there is more evidence stacked against her than what concrete evidence has amassed against him. Lying to the FBI is only evidence of a lie. Without the actual evidence, you only have evidence about a coverup of some unknown thing.
It is my Opinion that this whole Russia thing is about as much of a NON-Starter as the whole Birther movement. That was a constant distraction, intentionally so. Who cares if he was born in Kenya? McCain was born in Panama. Obummer's mom was a US Citizen which automatically makes him a US Citizen regardless of where he was born. Everyone knows this. The idea some foreign birth certificate could have unseated him was a stupid daydream of people that wanted to hate him for the sake of hating him. Ironically he did enough stupid shit nobody had to invent a birth certificate to be upset with the guy. This is completely untested water with vague interpretations and no solid precedence to go on. When John Kerry was running for POTUS he often boasted about speaking with world leaders of France and England, etc, while he was on the campaign trail. This is something of revisionist history to pretend this sort of thing has never happened before. If there were laws against it the US would be incapable of doing the exact same shit in other countries, and we do this shit all the time. We are constantly trying to rig elections in other countries, its embarrassing to hear my fellow americans cry in their cheerios about how the big bad russians did something so unprecedented. We live in a pretty big fucking glass house, we should no better than to throw the 'meddling in elections' stone.
in my daughters Highschool they no longer issue lockers or use them. The kids have A-days and B-days and are expected to carry all their shit in their backpack for the course of the day. They are encouraged to have TWO different backpacks for the two schedules (A/B) leaving you buying two of just about everything except the TI-84+ calculator.
it depends on the grade and the class. In high schools they often dont care between classes or any freetime during class. Ultimately each teacher can establish their own rules of use and confiscation. Using a smartphone to schedule homework or take pictures of assignments is not a bad thing as it is an effective means of organization and scheduling. Using it to play music, facebook, or other bullshit, however is a distraction. In middle school it was not allowed during any class, and most elementary kids dont have one. The biggest incentive to giving a teen/pre-teen a device is the Find-my-iPhone or equivalent so they can see where they are and if they walked/came straight home from school. The fear of kidnapping/abduction in a post Jessica Lundsford world has most parents wishing for some sort of sub-dermal tracking device.
I am mostly shopping for my kids. We have had a Wii and WiiU for some time. The upgrade to WiiU seemed logical since it would still play the library of Wii games. Everytime I try to research the Switch to see if there was an extensive game library etc, I constantly keep running across the demo of 1-2-Switch. Im sorry If I offend anyone but IMO the marketing for the Switch via 1-2-Switch is the absolute worst marketing mistake of all times. You dont even look at the TV and you do retarded shit like pretend to shave or milk a fucking cow. I am 46 years old and I shave... every.. f-ing.. day. I sure as hell am not excited watching a damn video where they boast NOT looking at the TV.... thats called a board game and they cost $20 on average. I see no path for backward compatibility and really don't see a point in buying the same titles in switch format just to keep playing them. Anyone have any experience?
Establishing the right to vote was a big thing in the 20s. But Feminism and Women's rights are similar but not entire the same movement. Women didnt do the whole 'burn their bra' thing until the 60s. Thats really when I see the biggest transition of Feminism in society. Women in the workforce happened during WWII, but they were expected to become housewives once the men returned. Women didn't really start going back to work en masse until later. Sure there were nurses and secretaries etc, but that was reserved for 'old maids' and those below middle class income. Anything outside of this resulted in a stigma. The concept of a 2-income family really didn't gain traction until the 70s. If both your parents worked, it was because you were not even wealthy enough to be middle class. There was even a 1980s movie called 'Mr Mom' starring Michael Keaton that addressed the stigma of the wife being the breadwinner of the family. But for the most part, in the 70s and 80s sexism was still rampant and mostly accepted. Stewardess' being sex fodder for pilots was pervasive all the way through the 80s on most major airlines and thats just one example of thousands.
Over here men who knocked up underage girls weren't 'dissapeared' as much as married (hence the term shotgun wedding); Assuming, of course, he wasn't already married.
more importantly, there has been no allegations in more recent times. Every allegation is 30yrs old. If we are going to remove everyone from any elected or government position based on any sort of thing they did 30 years ago, under the scrutiny of 2017 views (bear in mind that in alabama, asking parents for their underage kids hand in marriage was not _that_ uncommon; Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13yr old Cousin only a about decade earlier) then we better start throwing every single one of them out and look for robots to replace them. Because nobody, and I do mean nobody, is going to be able to live an entire life without coming to a moment of change in ones life. I am not condoning anything he did, but it's also important to understand we cannot try people today for things they did before there was a stigma against it. Any one of us are already guilty of doing something perfectly acceptable when we were in high school that is now, or in the future, will be socially unacceptable. In 15yrs even practical jokes are going to be considered 'bullying' and subject to zero tolerance. Too bad you stuck that tack in your friends chair when you were 17, its totally going to ruin your chances of being elected to Congress when you are 50, because you show a pattern of behavior of being a bully and dehumanizing others. Forget that everybody used to love you for things they called 'antics' and often encouraged the behavior and cheered at these jokes.
Date Rape: that was something that didnt exist as a term until the mid 90s. Until then it was something of a he-said / she-said encounter often written off to after-sex regret (which in some cases still is just post-regret). There was a complete shit-ton of it going on in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Going somewhere to park and make-out was usually a guarantee of leading to sex; which is why they always told girls to never put themselves in a compromising situation. There was no "no means no" back then. Intervention and education are the only way to change someones way of thinking.
Statutory Rape: IE the age at which a child is considered mentally mature enough to actually consent to sex, and anything below that age is considered rape no matter how many times that person says yes or initiates. However, they made provisions for things, even to this day, for parental consent. "Parental consent is needed in Alabama and Utah at age 14" according to their current legislation.
So is a 30yr old dating a 14yo, possibly in search of a wife, creepy? You bet. But so is a 60yr old dating a 20yr old. And nobody calls that out, even to this day. Its taken well over a 100years to overcome racism after the abolition of slavery. One cannot expect to go back in time and hold people accountable for sexism during the 70s only a decade after the birth of feminism.
IMO IF the ONLY allegations they can find, true or otherwise, are from 30 years ago then I think it has no bearing on the issue at hand and his ability to represent the state of Alabama. If the allegations are true, then at some time, more than 20yrs ago, he quit acting this way and changed his way of thinking and acting. The Washington Post even ran an article where THEY went to Australia, to a small religious town where Moore lived for a time, in search of any sort of political dirt they could dig up, as they love to do to any non-freepass-democrat. The Washington Post admitted flat out that they have never been able to find any other place or time that someone would say that he was anything but the nicest person.
As someone who has been running a small, independent, ISP since 1996, I have seen the steady anti-competitive lobbying to get congress to legislate us out of business. In 1994 Congress signed the 1994 Telecom Act, that basically assuaged the iLECs pissing and moaning that they need to get into LD in order to make money. The act basically says they can get into LD, but since they claim there is zero profits in local and last-mile services, they must sell wholesale access to their competitors to provision in order to boost options for consumers.
For a while we saw a boom in local CLECs, some more physical, some merely billing and administrative, by buying unbundled circuits like Uni-T1s and Uni-DS3s to their customers that connected back to the CLEC over the iLECs last-mile. Then came the Patriot Act and CALEA. In the interest of political expediency, Congress and the FCC has slowly, but surely, eroded the 1994 telecom act into nearly nothing left to enforce. In order to effectively issue wiretap orders on unsuspecting citizens, the telecoms argued, it makes more sense to engage with only a few players than tens of thousands.
First to disappear were the unbundled T1 and DS3 circuits. Now if you wanted to provision T1/PRI to a customer you were forced to buy your own unbundled copper. Then, in a surprise move, the FCC and Congress agreed with a Verizon case, that "New Technologies" should be exempt from equal-access provision of the 1994 Telecom Act. This effectively allowed Verizon to deny all competition to their Fiber circuit. Since the telcos, cable, and power companies have exclusive rights to last-mile access to telephone poles, no CLEC has the ability to just roll out their own last-mile to the customer except in some extremely densely populated cities where puttting a fiber shelf and mux in the bottom of a 500 suite building paid for itself. The biggest example of this anti-competitive behavior was when Verizon engaged in the practice of ripping out ever inch of copper to a customer once they bought into Fios service. Now the customer has a choice of Fios or Fios. No competitor even has left over copper available to be ordered to the customers premises.
Next up was project PRISM installed in MAE-East and MAE-West. In order to ensure all traffic traversed through the prisms for cloning (yes actual prisms were used to split the fiber stream), they had to reduce the number of carriers and peer points that could bypass these points of capture. By allowing the largest LECs to build monopolies, they LECs sold your souls to the devil, in exchange for running CLECs out of town via new regulations and 'understandings' of legislature.
It is no surprise that no anti-trust suits have ever been brought to claim against these LECs. Its FAR easier to spy on everyone when only 5 companies control traffic versus thousands of others.
as a ISP, I cant even get people the same DSL that the Telco's offer. 12mb ADSL2+ is the best I can get even though the LEC does SHDSL, VDSL, and 20Mb ADSL2+. They will also not let us get naked DSL (no $60 phone line charge in addition to DSL) or do G.Bond (two copper pair to double the throughput). We are stuck with wireless, and that has real world issues form lightening, wind, and other weather.
its not like Killary was going to end the biggest, most unconstitutional bill ever to be approved. IMO, as a libertarian, anyone who signed onto the Patriot act should be tried, then hung, for treason.
its not that saying this makes you unintelligent, merely naive. By the time they get to be 13ish, they will have acquired at least 1 or more social media accounts without their parents knowledge (its not like FB shows up and cards the applicant). So without the most elaborate of content filtering, along with mobile device app filtering, app blocking, restricting content when using the dataplan instead of wi-fi, etc, you're going to lose. Even with ALL of those features, its still not enough. There are proxies out there for all kinds of content circumvention of parental and employer software. Its a constant battle, not of just your witts against your kids, but against their peers as well. Collectively they will outsmart you, simply because you cannot possibly know everything out there and how to disable it. Eventually one or more backdoors will work.
its about FB creating a social media outlet were pedophiles can one-stop-shop building up trust to some unsuspecting victims. This whole sexual harassment/assault/misconduct cleansing is probably just getting started. I have no doubt that there are more than a handful of executives at FB that have probably used coercion, and other tactics, to exercise power over someone, either by making them sexually uncomfortable, to groping, to flashing, and perhaps full-out assault.
My thoughts were that an app like this pretty much puts a jailbait label on anyone using it. Instead of being an anonymous identity of unknown age, we now have an app specifically targeting 9-12yrs old (despite the rules of facebook saying you must be 13). Regardless of how safe they think they are going to be, pervs are still going to troll, possibly 1 out of 10 of membership. It reminds me of the days of online chat where some friends would tell me that more than half the users in lesbian chat rooms were men pretending to be lesbians. For pre-teens, the only true way to avoid these pitfalls is to deny them access altogether. There is a HUGE difference, cognitively, between a 14yr old teen and a 16yr old teen in terms of mental development. Even a 14yr old has difficulties making wise, responsible, choices when approached online. The ability of a pre-teen successfully avoiding these people are nearly non-existent. I cannot speak to this app, but my own 15yr old has had random strangers of other chat-type applications send pictures of their genitals without even first introducing themselves or any sort of dialog. This was a chat site for kids playing Mindcraft, and the pervs would first join a game and then find out what server everyone was using to chat. The pervs were knowingly picking sites were an over abundant of users were ages 10 - 16.
the fact that these products are part of a different line of business but the anti-competition behavior is being waged on an entirely different business (amazon store, kindle app store, etc) goes far and long in support of the criteria of a Trust. This pissing match proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are using their enormous power base to harm consumers for their own financial gains.
For two years I was denied access of my Ultraviolet collection on the FireTV because Vudo wasnt allowed on the FireTV and eventually Flixster (streaming in SD) was removed from the lineup as well. It wasn't until October, when Disney's Movies Anywhere ecosystem took off and I can now see my entire digital movies collection with their app (and amazingly enough it also shows up in my amazon video library too). So I don't think they care about disrupting anyone's ecosystem. Now I find myself; once again, turning to my PS4 for certain aspects of video content, atleast for this TV. The smaller tv has a roku ultra.
A lot less than you think. Eventually people will just use the excuse in order to silence somebody else’s view. By then people will just willingly accept that they were taken out due to “offensive comments“. It run similar to the argument about gun control. Nobody wants to give a crazy person a gun. But having a law that says that people that arereported by their doctor are revoked of their Second Amendment rights Has already resulted in false reports by doctors who were simply anti-gun. Unfortunately, there was no oversight or proper due process to get yourself off of the list if you were put in there for political reasons. These type of infringement a really a very small step from imprisoning political opponents. I think the CEO woke up scared shitless that he created a president of a police state.
Think of it like somebody that you only marginally know comes forward and accuses you of rape. Within a day 80% of people you interact with on a daily basis have already convicted you as a rapist before the first piece of evidence is even examined. 100% of the people that don’t know you already convinced you’re guilty. Violating somebody’s due process is probably the single most egregious crime we can can commit against the Constitution. If you take away due process, people can invent mini “acceptable“ reasons for denying you every other liberty.
actually the right to bear arms is to keep the government from overthrowing the people. It may seem like semantics, but there is a difference in how its perceived. I would assume _enough_ people have to agree on it, otherwise it wouldn't last more than 5min and be deemed a wasted effort. A pitchfork is a simple tool in its day, but tens of thousands of them, in the hands of an angry mob, was enough to overthrow the Czar.
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Consider these are journalist and not scientists. In fact journalists are about as far as you can get from scientists. Consider how they hype 'global warming' and 'climate change' and then blame hurricanes on them (even though NOAA will say the two are not related every time there is a bad one). They use doomesday language like the world has 3 years to reverse course before total annihilation. So, as a researcher, you try leaking info to your friend at the times, how are you going to describe the research you are trying to do. Imagine some material you are looking at that can change shape based on some sort of electric signal or something... Maybe its an 'alloy' or a compound like graphine. OR, maybe its some form of nanotech and nobody has yet to understand how this thing can restructure itself. Maybe its a superconductor and yet trying to make the same thing out of its base elements fails to yield the same results. How do you convey this to a journalist, someone more in tune with language and grammar, than the scientific method, logic, and reasoning? You use layman terms and explain it the way you might have to explain it to your 12-year-old. Then said journalist goes and puts what they annotated into their OWN WORDS. Viola! You get 'mysterious alloys'. When really its more likely a mysterious 'material' whose properties have yet to be unlocked.
For the record I am not some 'believer' who wants to just believe in spite of evidence to the contrary. But at the same time, I know how these dingleberries who write for main stream media think, and logic often has its own definition in their minds. Remember these are the people that think if you pass a law making something illegal (ie guns), nobody would ever be able to kill someone ever again. Murder has been illegal in this country for 250 years now, and yet it happens almost every day in one form or another. Laws don't mean shit to someone who has no regard for them. Its amazing what you can accomplish when you have a complete disregard to law, order, regulation, and due process.
Exactly... which is why Executive orders are not laws at all. Everyone pisses and moans when Trump reverses an executive order issued by Obama as if he is changing the laws and usurping congress. He has the prerogative to do whatever the hell he wants with existing Executive Orders, as they are nothing more than instructions to his subordinates on how to perform tasks. The only thing _permanent_ are Amendments and a new amendment has to be passed to repeal the former (as in the 18th and 21st amendments). Laws are the next closet thing, as they require, at a minimum, simple majority of both house and senate, followed by approval by the president. The only exception to this rule is when the Judicial branch overturns a law or 'interprets' another law to apply to something new.
People should stop getting pissed at Trumps executive orders and simply demand congress to do their fucking jobs to begin with. DREAMers? Illegal immigration?? It wouldn't be an issue if congress got off their asses and worked out a revision to the law. You cannot expect 1 person to act as KING and write all the laws themselves... thats the opposite of what our constitution and government is supposed to do. It totally fucking amazes me that congressional approval NEVER exceeds 20%. At its lowest, I believe it scored 11% approval ratings. Yet, somehow, the same people that disapprove keep re-fucking-electing these same assholes. Its as if they honestly believe its not _their_ asshole causing the problems. I got news for them, they are all assholes, they all need to go. They should do away with all this incumbent horse shit and require primaries every term election. Maybe part of the problem is the deliberate polarization of america by the media and politicians. As long as your own party doesnt challenge you, youve convinced 60% of your area the other party is the epitome of evil, you could sit on your ass and do fuck-all forever, and still keep your job.
A statistician, who refused to fly after reading of the alarmingly high probability that there will be a bomb on any given plane, realized that the probability of there being two bombs on any given flight is very low. Now, whenever he flies, he carries a bomb with him.
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Imagine the bullshit election propoganda of fake âhidden camerasâ(TM) published by the zealots on both sides so obsessed with winning at all costs thet they dont care about eviscerating and disenfanchising the voters. Eventually with all the accusations, denials, lawsuits for defamation; in the end we will be no better off than one run by big brother. And that will be double plus ungood.
the fact that we learned that the HRC team contributed to the campaign of an FBI deputy directors wife, to escape indictment; and another special prosecutor's wife works for Fusion GPS, the same wife who provided this 'dirt dossier' to the FBI, to her husband, the same person who spearheaded the wire tap in trump tower. (remember back in may when you insisted that trump was making that part up about an illegal wire tap?)
Here is why his investigation is struggling:
Peter Strzok - dismissed for bias and losing objectivity. This was more than saying something negative in a text, his entire career just got sacked to a shitty desk job in human resources. This wasnt a small thing, according to Meuller.
Buce Ohr - we learned that he met with Fusion GPS many times during the campaign, and his wife WORKS for fusionGPS and was part of the anti-trump dossier
Andrew McCabe - Deputy FBI Director and husband to Jill McCabe, while running for a Senate seat, received $467,000 in contributions from Terry McAuliff right around the time that her husband, Andrew, edited the words 'grossly negligent' to 'extremely careless' in Comey's statement, because 'grossly negligent' is the precise words in the law that would have triggered an indictment.
now stand back and look at this objectively... if HRC had won, and this same investigation was underway trying to impeach her, and you have all these examples of the investigation team being packed with hillary haters... so she screams VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY at the top of her lungs again... would you consider the fact that the prosecution would have a hard time moving anywhere with this?
You do understand impeachment right? Simple majority of the House has to vote for impeachment and 75% of the Senate has to vote to remove him. With all this 'reasonable' doubt and allegations of bias flying around, its never ever ever going to cross the 75% threshold and most of the senate republicans do not even like the guy.
I do find it ironic that out of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent in advertising in this election, so many people are willing to believe that just $3000 in well placed Facebook ads is all it took to 'steal' an election. Does anyone besides Facebook have anything to gain by perpetuation this rumor? I mean that's totally amazing Advertisement for Facebook. "Ads placed on Facebook are 10,000 times more likely to be viewed than traditional media. A 2016 study showed that every dollar spent in ads on Facebook had more impact than $10,000 spent with our competitors" ... then they go about feeding those who are so anti-trump they will latch onto anything, and suddenly half the country believes that Facebook is the ultimate advertisement platform.
no evidence has been found regarding meeting with the Russians before elected. The task is to find evidence of collusion _in order to alter the election_. Having someone plead guilty to lying about meeting with Russian a couple days before new years is NOT the same thing as meeting with them prior to November. I think the problem is so many people wanted to impeach the guy, the day after the election no less, that this crap is being viewed through a distorted lens. Had someone suggested impeaching Obama after being caught on a hot microphone saying he would have more power to work with russia after his election, the very same people would be making the exact same counter claims. Of all the things that the opposition could target, this whole russia thing has to be the worst strategy of all time.
either A) everyone knows that nothing illegal has transpired regardless of any evidence that has or will have been discovered; so this is more of a 'keep the lime light on him to rally the troops and win a future election'
or B) everyone is so blind with rage that they are literally crying wolf so often that eventually something real and substantial is going to come out and everyone is going to be to turned off that only about 30% of the population will believe it, because they already wanted to believe it even before it existed.
the bottom line is that even IF trump had literally sat in the same room as Putin back in August and had a powwow about what the FSB could do in order to assist in Trumps campaign - that still isn't anything actually prohibited. He literally could have stood up and said "I talked to Putin... so what? what are you going to do about it? Tell me not to do it anymore?"
Lets not forget that what HAS been discovered is that HRC's campaign team DID pay $500k to a lawfirm who then engaged Fusion GPS, who then engaged with the Russians, to provide a potentially fake Dossier for the EXPRESSED PURPOSE of ALTERING THE 2016 ELECTION. So if you think uncovering any sort of Russian communication is going to be enough to sink his presidency then you also have to concede that HRC will also be tried and convicted of AT LEAST the same crime, possibly worse if it turns out to be fabricated as well, that amounts to planting false evidence. You also must concede that HRC, had she won, would have been legitimately impeached for COLLUSION as well. You cannot uses the same argument to convict one guy but insist the other candidate is unimpeachable when, currently, there is more evidence stacked against her than what concrete evidence has amassed against him. Lying to the FBI is only evidence of a lie. Without the actual evidence, you only have evidence about a coverup of some unknown thing.
It is my Opinion that this whole Russia thing is about as much of a NON-Starter as the whole Birther movement. That was a constant distraction, intentionally so. Who cares if he was born in Kenya? McCain was born in Panama. Obummer's mom was a US Citizen which automatically makes him a US Citizen regardless of where he was born. Everyone knows this. The idea some foreign birth certificate could have unseated him was a stupid daydream of people that wanted to hate him for the sake of hating him. Ironically he did enough stupid shit nobody had to invent a birth certificate to be upset with the guy. This is completely untested water with vague interpretations and no solid precedence to go on. When John Kerry was running for POTUS he often boasted about speaking with world leaders of France and England, etc, while he was on the campaign trail. This is something of revisionist history to pretend this sort of thing has never happened before. If there were laws against it the US would be incapable of doing the exact same shit in other countries, and we do this shit all the time. We are constantly trying to rig elections in other countries, its embarrassing to hear my fellow americans cry in their cheerios about how the big bad russians did something so unprecedented. We live in a pretty big fucking glass house, we should no better than to throw the 'meddling in elections' stone.
in my daughters Highschool they no longer issue lockers or use them. The kids have A-days and B-days and are expected to carry all their shit in their backpack for the course of the day. They are encouraged to have TWO different backpacks for the two schedules (A/B) leaving you buying two of just about everything except the TI-84+ calculator.
it depends on the grade and the class. In high schools they often dont care between classes or any freetime during class. Ultimately each teacher can establish their own rules of use and confiscation. Using a smartphone to schedule homework or take pictures of assignments is not a bad thing as it is an effective means of organization and scheduling. Using it to play music, facebook, or other bullshit, however is a distraction. In middle school it was not allowed during any class, and most elementary kids dont have one. The biggest incentive to giving a teen/pre-teen a device is the Find-my-iPhone or equivalent so they can see where they are and if they walked/came straight home from school. The fear of kidnapping/abduction in a post Jessica Lundsford world has most parents wishing for some sort of sub-dermal tracking device.
I am mostly shopping for my kids. We have had a Wii and WiiU for some time. The upgrade to WiiU seemed logical since it would still play the library of Wii games. Everytime I try to research the Switch to see if there was an extensive game library etc, I constantly keep running across the demo of 1-2-Switch. Im sorry If I offend anyone but IMO the marketing for the Switch via 1-2-Switch is the absolute worst marketing mistake of all times. You dont even look at the TV and you do retarded shit like pretend to shave or milk a fucking cow. I am 46 years old and I shave... every .. f-ing.. day. I sure as hell am not excited watching a damn video where they boast NOT looking at the TV. ... thats called a board game and they cost $20 on average. I see no path for backward compatibility and really don't see a point in buying the same titles in switch format just to keep playing them. Anyone have any experience?
Establishing the right to vote was a big thing in the 20s. But Feminism and Women's rights are similar but not entire the same movement. Women didnt do the whole 'burn their bra' thing until the 60s. Thats really when I see the biggest transition of Feminism in society. Women in the workforce happened during WWII, but they were expected to become housewives once the men returned. Women didn't really start going back to work en masse until later. Sure there were nurses and secretaries etc, but that was reserved for 'old maids' and those below middle class income. Anything outside of this resulted in a stigma. The concept of a 2-income family really didn't gain traction until the 70s. If both your parents worked, it was because you were not even wealthy enough to be middle class. There was even a 1980s movie called 'Mr Mom' starring Michael Keaton that addressed the stigma of the wife being the breadwinner of the family. But for the most part, in the 70s and 80s sexism was still rampant and mostly accepted. Stewardess' being sex fodder for pilots was pervasive all the way through the 80s on most major airlines and thats just one example of thousands.
Over here men who knocked up underage girls weren't 'dissapeared' as much as married (hence the term shotgun wedding); Assuming, of course, he wasn't already married.
no, just creepy, that is, if you are old enough to potentially be their parent; which happens around age 36.
more importantly, there has been no allegations in more recent times. Every allegation is 30yrs old. If we are going to remove everyone from any elected or government position based on any sort of thing they did 30 years ago, under the scrutiny of 2017 views (bear in mind that in alabama, asking parents for their underage kids hand in marriage was not _that_ uncommon; Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13yr old Cousin only a about decade earlier) then we better start throwing every single one of them out and look for robots to replace them. Because nobody, and I do mean nobody, is going to be able to live an entire life without coming to a moment of change in ones life. I am not condoning anything he did, but it's also important to understand we cannot try people today for things they did before there was a stigma against it. Any one of us are already guilty of doing something perfectly acceptable when we were in high school that is now, or in the future, will be socially unacceptable. In 15yrs even practical jokes are going to be considered 'bullying' and subject to zero tolerance. Too bad you stuck that tack in your friends chair when you were 17, its totally going to ruin your chances of being elected to Congress when you are 50, because you show a pattern of behavior of being a bully and dehumanizing others. Forget that everybody used to love you for things they called 'antics' and often encouraged the behavior and cheered at these jokes.
Date Rape: that was something that didnt exist as a term until the mid 90s. Until then it was something of a he-said / she-said encounter often written off to after-sex regret (which in some cases still is just post-regret). There was a complete shit-ton of it going on in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Going somewhere to park and make-out was usually a guarantee of leading to sex; which is why they always told girls to never put themselves in a compromising situation. There was no "no means no" back then. Intervention and education are the only way to change someones way of thinking.
Statutory Rape: IE the age at which a child is considered mentally mature enough to actually consent to sex, and anything below that age is considered rape no matter how many times that person says yes or initiates. However, they made provisions for things, even to this day, for parental consent. "Parental consent is needed in Alabama and Utah at age 14" according to their current legislation.
So is a 30yr old dating a 14yo, possibly in search of a wife, creepy? You bet. But so is a 60yr old dating a 20yr old. And nobody calls that out, even to this day. Its taken well over a 100years to overcome racism after the abolition of slavery. One cannot expect to go back in time and hold people accountable for sexism during the 70s only a decade after the birth of feminism.
IMO IF the ONLY allegations they can find, true or otherwise, are from 30 years ago then I think it has no bearing on the issue at hand and his ability to represent the state of Alabama. If the allegations are true, then at some time, more than 20yrs ago, he quit acting this way and changed his way of thinking and acting. The Washington Post even ran an article where THEY went to Australia, to a small religious town where Moore lived for a time, in search of any sort of political dirt they could dig up, as they love to do to any non-freepass-democrat. The Washington Post admitted flat out that they have never been able to find any other place or time that someone would say that he was anything but the nicest person.
As someone who has been running a small, independent, ISP since 1996, I have seen the steady anti-competitive lobbying to get congress to legislate us out of business. In 1994 Congress signed the 1994 Telecom Act, that basically assuaged the iLECs pissing and moaning that they need to get into LD in order to make money. The act basically says they can get into LD, but since they claim there is zero profits in local and last-mile services, they must sell wholesale access to their competitors to provision in order to boost options for consumers.
For a while we saw a boom in local CLECs, some more physical, some merely billing and administrative, by buying unbundled circuits like Uni-T1s and Uni-DS3s to their customers that connected back to the CLEC over the iLECs last-mile. Then came the Patriot Act and CALEA. In the interest of political expediency, Congress and the FCC has slowly, but surely, eroded the 1994 telecom act into nearly nothing left to enforce. In order to effectively issue wiretap orders on unsuspecting citizens, the telecoms argued, it makes more sense to engage with only a few players than tens of thousands.
First to disappear were the unbundled T1 and DS3 circuits. Now if you wanted to provision T1/PRI to a customer you were forced to buy your own unbundled copper. Then, in a surprise move, the FCC and Congress agreed with a Verizon case, that "New Technologies" should be exempt from equal-access provision of the 1994 Telecom Act. This effectively allowed Verizon to deny all competition to their Fiber circuit. Since the telcos, cable, and power companies have exclusive rights to last-mile access to telephone poles, no CLEC has the ability to just roll out their own last-mile to the customer except in some extremely densely populated cities where puttting a fiber shelf and mux in the bottom of a 500 suite building paid for itself. The biggest example of this anti-competitive behavior was when Verizon engaged in the practice of ripping out ever inch of copper to a customer once they bought into Fios service. Now the customer has a choice of Fios or Fios. No competitor even has left over copper available to be ordered to the customers premises.
Next up was project PRISM installed in MAE-East and MAE-West. In order to ensure all traffic traversed through the prisms for cloning (yes actual prisms were used to split the fiber stream), they had to reduce the number of carriers and peer points that could bypass these points of capture. By allowing the largest LECs to build monopolies, they LECs sold your souls to the devil, in exchange for running CLECs out of town via new regulations and 'understandings' of legislature.
It is no surprise that no anti-trust suits have ever been brought to claim against these LECs. Its FAR easier to spy on everyone when only 5 companies control traffic versus thousands of others.
as a ISP, I cant even get people the same DSL that the Telco's offer. 12mb ADSL2+ is the best I can get even though the LEC does SHDSL, VDSL, and 20Mb ADSL2+. They will also not let us get naked DSL (no $60 phone line charge in addition to DSL) or do G.Bond (two copper pair to double the throughput). We are stuck with wireless, and that has real world issues form lightening, wind, and other weather.
its not like Killary was going to end the biggest, most unconstitutional bill ever to be approved. IMO, as a libertarian, anyone who signed onto the Patriot act should be tried, then hung, for treason.
Turning citizens into suspects since 2002.
its not that saying this makes you unintelligent, merely naive. By the time they get to be 13ish, they will have acquired at least 1 or more social media accounts without their parents knowledge (its not like FB shows up and cards the applicant). So without the most elaborate of content filtering, along with mobile device app filtering, app blocking, restricting content when using the dataplan instead of wi-fi, etc, you're going to lose. Even with ALL of those features, its still not enough. There are proxies out there for all kinds of content circumvention of parental and employer software. Its a constant battle, not of just your witts against your kids, but against their peers as well. Collectively they will outsmart you, simply because you cannot possibly know everything out there and how to disable it. Eventually one or more backdoors will work.
its about FB creating a social media outlet were pedophiles can one-stop-shop building up trust to some unsuspecting victims. This whole sexual harassment/assault/misconduct cleansing is probably just getting started. I have no doubt that there are more than a handful of executives at FB that have probably used coercion, and other tactics, to exercise power over someone, either by making them sexually uncomfortable, to groping, to flashing, and perhaps full-out assault.
My thoughts were that an app like this pretty much puts a jailbait label on anyone using it. Instead of being an anonymous identity of unknown age, we now have an app specifically targeting 9-12yrs old (despite the rules of facebook saying you must be 13). Regardless of how safe they think they are going to be, pervs are still going to troll, possibly 1 out of 10 of membership. It reminds me of the days of online chat where some friends would tell me that more than half the users in lesbian chat rooms were men pretending to be lesbians. For pre-teens, the only true way to avoid these pitfalls is to deny them access altogether. There is a HUGE difference, cognitively, between a 14yr old teen and a 16yr old teen in terms of mental development. Even a 14yr old has difficulties making wise, responsible, choices when approached online. The ability of a pre-teen successfully avoiding these people are nearly non-existent. I cannot speak to this app, but my own 15yr old has had random strangers of other chat-type applications send pictures of their genitals without even first introducing themselves or any sort of dialog. This was a chat site for kids playing Mindcraft, and the pervs would first join a game and then find out what server everyone was using to chat. The pervs were knowingly picking sites were an over abundant of users were ages 10 - 16.
the fact that these products are part of a different line of business but the anti-competition behavior is being waged on an entirely different business (amazon store, kindle app store, etc) goes far and long in support of the criteria of a Trust. This pissing match proves, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are using their enormous power base to harm consumers for their own financial gains.
For two years I was denied access of my Ultraviolet collection on the FireTV because Vudo wasnt allowed on the FireTV and eventually Flixster (streaming in SD) was removed from the lineup as well. It wasn't until October, when Disney's Movies Anywhere ecosystem took off and I can now see my entire digital movies collection with their app (and amazingly enough it also shows up in my amazon video library too). So I don't think they care about disrupting anyone's ecosystem. Now I find myself; once again, turning to my PS4 for certain aspects of video content, atleast for this TV. The smaller tv has a roku ultra.
A lot less than you think. Eventually people will just use the excuse in order to silence somebody else’s view. By then people will just willingly accept that they were taken out due to “offensive comments“. It run similar to the argument about gun control. Nobody wants to give a crazy person a gun. But having a law that says that people that arereported by their doctor are revoked of their Second Amendment rights Has already resulted in false reports by doctors who were simply anti-gun. Unfortunately, there was no oversight or proper due process to get yourself off of the list if you were put in there for political reasons. These type of infringement a really a very small step from imprisoning political opponents. I think the CEO woke up scared shitless that he created a president of a police state.
Think of it like somebody that you only marginally know comes forward and accuses you of rape. Within a day 80% of people you interact with on a daily basis have already convicted you as a rapist before the first piece of evidence is even examined. 100% of the people that don’t know you already convinced you’re guilty. Violating somebody’s due process is probably the single most egregious crime we can can commit against the Constitution. If you take away due process, people can invent mini “acceptable“ reasons for denying you every other liberty.
actually the right to bear arms is to keep the government from overthrowing the people. It may seem like semantics, but there is a difference in how its perceived. I would assume _enough_ people have to agree on it, otherwise it wouldn't last more than 5min and be deemed a wasted effort. A pitchfork is a simple tool in its day, but tens of thousands of them, in the hands of an angry mob, was enough to overthrow the Czar.