You know, the issue is that what has happened since Osama Bin Laden created the 9/11 disaster is that the U.S. has been creeping toward a surveillance state, but it has been slow enough that it's like hair growing.
Brother, the US has been creeping toward a surveillance state since J. Edgar Hoover spied on civil rights leaders. Maybe he kept his data on index cards instead of on some nondescript server in a nondescript building but he was every bit the Big Brother wannabe. He was even spying on the President of the US and members of his administration.
And like every authoritarian, he had his own secrets that could have destroyed his career. This is probably what drove him to get dirt on other people.
There was never a time when the United States was a "free" country in any real meaningful sense. There were either people in literal bondage, or people with a boot on their neck since the day the country was founded as a slave state in 1789,
And, why is it so shocking that humans are editing the news feeds? The shocking thing would be if they weren't involved at all. From Gutenburg through Walter Cronkite, news was 100% human edited.
Absolutely. I don't know why it seems desirable to have an algorithm picking what news we see, anyway. Algorithms can't make moral decisions, and if they were deleting right-wing news sources, clearly they were making moral decisions.
Oh, and the weapons that we thought were there, they were found, and they really were there, but don't let facts get in the way of your sound bite.
Start by citing a reputable source.
Here's a few on the Bush war crimes. By the way, Bush, Cheney and members of their administration were actually tried and convicted for war crimes. But you would know that if you paid attention to websites other than the far-Right version of The Onion, known as The Political Insider.
Planned Parenthood was originated to reduce the black population. To this day leadership at Planned Parenthood have been documented trying to cooperate with reducing the number of black people.
Tell Robert Byrd about the change in party affiliation. A grand kleage in the KKK was the longest serving senator in US history and a democrat.
To make your argument that "not much has changed", you just quoted events that occurred between 80 and 60 years ago.
Herman Cain, Ben Carson, were getting the highest poll numbers for periods of time... how does that happen in a racist party?
That Joe Louis was a hell of a fighter, right? Google, "token black". Yes, yours is the party of racism. It's as clear as day.
And no, there is no such thing as reverse racism. It simply cannot exist.
I just opened an account on some random credit union, took a picture of the check and uploaded it, and then did a (free!) transfer.
Chase Bank, one of the biggest in the country, has a $500 limit on deposits of checks being photographed and uploaded. So if your check is more than that all you can do is put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and wait a week to get your pay.
Back in the day, I'd cruise down Halsted with a joint in my hand, a beer between by thighs and black beauties in my blood stream with my Ramones cassette blasting. And I never had a problem with impaired driving.
Of course, there was the time I broke an axle and sheared off the entire exhaust system on my '68 Caprice while doing donuts in the snow in the mall parking lot at 3am, but it was only because I was distracted by the fact that none of the snowflakes hitting my windshield were exactly the same.
Goddamn nanny state wants to take away my right to drive fucked up. Not that I get fucked up any more. I'm too old for that now. But every so often, just for kicks, I crank up Rocket to Russia on my mp3 player and do donuts in my mobility scooter down the paper goods aisle at the Wal-Mart.
CapitalOne will give a credit card and checking account to literally anyone who didn't go bankrupt.
The devil is in the details. What is the interest rate on that credit card?
Online banking isn't for everyone. Believe it or not, there are still a lot of companies who don't do direct deposit. There is a reason there's a bank branch on every other corner on busy streets in white neighborhoods and currency exchanges on every other corner in black neighborhoods. And only a small part of the reason is financial literacy.
I think the reason that they mention "people of color" separately (I don't know why they didn't just say minorities), is that being a person of color is correlated with having low income.
That's not the reason. People of color are generally shut out of the same banking products that we take for granted.
There's been several studies now that show that with a black family and white family with exactly the same income and credit scores, the black family is less likely to be given loans and more likely to be steered toward "sub-prime" type of banking products, even though they're repayment rates are the same.
I don't care if it is true or not, we must preserve the accepted belief that all races are equally capable, no matter what science or history has shown us.
Clearly, you have the "dumbfuck can't read" gene.
Scientists have found 74 genetic variants that are associated with educational attainment. In short, that means some people have variants of genes in their DNA that are correlated with completing more schooling. But this finding, published today in Nature, should be taken with a grain of salt. Together, these variants explain less than half a percent of the differences in educational attainment seen in the population studied — far less than the impact that a person's wealth and environment can have on the time they spend in school.
THEY EXPLAIN LESS THAN HALF A PERCENT OF THE VARIATION IN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
In fact, the researchers stressed in an email to The Verge that the strongest association found for a single genetic variant explained only 0.035 of one percent of the variation in educational attainment. "Put another way, the difference between people with zero and two copies of this genetic variant predicts, on average, about nine extra weeks of schooling," says Dan Benjamin, a behavioral economist at the University of Southern California who worked on the study. These variants don't mean much when it comes to people's schooling, and factors like poverty, geography, and nutrition probably have a much bigger combined impact.
Trump was not the presumptive nominee back in December.
I'm not saying it's just about Trump. Americans, seeing the slate of midgets that were trying to claw their way over one another to become the nominee, started to see that no matter what happens, the next president will not be as good as the one we have.
Yes, Obama has looked good against the entire Republican field since there were 17 candidates.
You know it was the democrats who authored the Trail of Tears and removal of the Indians in general, right?
You know that party affiliation has shifted over the generations, right?
The Democrats were once the party of racism, right up until they weren't any more, and the Republicans decided to take over that mantle. Right at this very moment, the leader of the Democratic Party is a black man. Now how many self-respecting racists are going to stay in a party that's led by a black guy?
And no, before you finish crafting that snappy comeback, there is no such thing as "reverse-racism".
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Sounds like gloom and doom to me.
And now they've got us by those short hairs.
Brother, the US has been creeping toward a surveillance state since J. Edgar Hoover spied on civil rights leaders. Maybe he kept his data on index cards instead of on some nondescript server in a nondescript building but he was every bit the Big Brother wannabe. He was even spying on the President of the US and members of his administration.
And like every authoritarian, he had his own secrets that could have destroyed his career. This is probably what drove him to get dirt on other people.
There was never a time when the United States was a "free" country in any real meaningful sense. There were either people in literal bondage, or people with a boot on their neck since the day the country was founded as a slave state in 1789,
I don't know from mitochondria, but the last time I had a gut microbe, I didn't get off the can for like three days. It was brutal.
So I hope the scientists are able to kill whatever this thing is that they found. I still can't bear to look at a bowl of bean dip.
Absolutely. I don't know why it seems desirable to have an algorithm picking what news we see, anyway. Algorithms can't make moral decisions, and if they were deleting right-wing news sources, clearly they were making moral decisions.
Start by citing a reputable source.
Here's a few on the Bush war crimes. By the way, Bush, Cheney and members of their administration were actually tried and convicted for war crimes. But you would know that if you paid attention to websites other than the far-Right version of The Onion, known as The Political Insider.
http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
To make your argument that "not much has changed", you just quoted events that occurred between 80 and 60 years ago.
That Joe Louis was a hell of a fighter, right? Google, "token black". Yes, yours is the party of racism. It's as clear as day.
And no, there is no such thing as reverse racism. It simply cannot exist.
Where did they make that claim?
https://youtu.be/k5f3-BgtaLM
You say that as if it was a bad thing.
Chase Bank, one of the biggest in the country, has a $500 limit on deposits of checks being photographed and uploaded. So if your check is more than that all you can do is put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it and wait a week to get your pay.
You're drinking again, aren't you?
Back in the day, I'd cruise down Halsted with a joint in my hand, a beer between by thighs and black beauties in my blood stream with my Ramones cassette blasting. And I never had a problem with impaired driving.
Of course, there was the time I broke an axle and sheared off the entire exhaust system on my '68 Caprice while doing donuts in the snow in the mall parking lot at 3am, but it was only because I was distracted by the fact that none of the snowflakes hitting my windshield were exactly the same.
Goddamn nanny state wants to take away my right to drive fucked up. Not that I get fucked up any more. I'm too old for that now. But every so often, just for kicks, I crank up Rocket to Russia on my mp3 player and do donuts in my mobility scooter down the paper goods aisle at the Wal-Mart.
https://youtu.be/CVQfVtzFd4U
Hey, that's not fair. I might be texting. Or texting AND high.
The devil is in the details. What is the interest rate on that credit card?
Online banking isn't for everyone. Believe it or not, there are still a lot of companies who don't do direct deposit. There is a reason there's a bank branch on every other corner on busy streets in white neighborhoods and currency exchanges on every other corner in black neighborhoods. And only a small part of the reason is financial literacy.
There is no question that could clear up my confusion.
That's not the reason. People of color are generally shut out of the same banking products that we take for granted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10...
There's been several studies now that show that with a black family and white family with exactly the same income and credit scores, the black family is less likely to be given loans and more likely to be steered toward "sub-prime" type of banking products, even though they're repayment rates are the same.
http://www.epi.org/publication...
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blo...
Are there deserts in Brazil? I thought it was tropical, but geomancy was never my strong suit.
Do you honestly believe that the comments here are really so worth preserving that a few can't be lost for a story that was deleted as a dupe?
Come on, man.
Trump 2016
Clearly, you have the "dumbfuck can't read" gene.
You've been doing a good job, manisha.
I'm not saying it's just about Trump. Americans, seeing the slate of midgets that were trying to claw their way over one another to become the nominee, started to see that no matter what happens, the next president will not be as good as the one we have.
Yes, Obama has looked good against the entire Republican field since there were 17 candidates.
You know that party affiliation has shifted over the generations, right?
The Democrats were once the party of racism, right up until they weren't any more, and the Republicans decided to take over that mantle. Right at this very moment, the leader of the Democratic Party is a black man. Now how many self-respecting racists are going to stay in a party that's led by a black guy?
And no, before you finish crafting that snappy comeback, there is no such thing as "reverse-racism".
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/R...
Show of hands: Who knew the Italians had a military?
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