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| Topic | Trump moves to cancel student loan debt for disabled veterans |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 10:17:36 PM
#8 | Nomadic View posted...ZMythos posted...
Kazi1212 posted...
Chalk that up as another W
Like I said, Trump's team has had a lot of missteps and slights against veterans. Four L's and a W is still three L's.
You should probably learn math before keeping score. this guy. --- |
| Topic | Supreme court divided over online sales tax |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 10:11:06 PM
#1 | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/business/justices-divided-on-sales-taxes-for-online-purchases.htmlA closely divided Supreme Court struggled on Tuesday to decide whether internet retailers should have to collect sales taxes in states where they have no physical presence.
Brick-and-mortar businesses have long complained that they are disadvantaged by having to charge sales taxes while many of their online competitors do not. States have said that they are missing out on tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue under a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that helped spur the rise of internet shopping.
By the end of arguments on Tuesday, it was not clear whether there were five votes to overrule the 1992 decision, Quill Corporation v. North Dakota, which said the Constitution bars states from collecting sales taxes from companies that do not have a substantial connection to the state.
Several justices expressed concerns about imposing crushing burdens on small businesses that sell goods on the internet and about making them liable for back taxes. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the case before the court, South Dakota v. Wayfair, No. 17-494, raised a host of questions and a whole new set of difficulties.
Sounding almost plaintive, she added that Congress, rather than the Supreme Court, was the right forum in which to settle the matter.
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Is there anything we can do to give Congress a signal that it should act more affirmatively in this area? Justice Sotomayor asked.
But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that it would be very strange for us to tell Congress it ought to do something in any particular area.
Both he and Justice Elena Kagan said the fact that Congress has so far chosen not to act was itself a telling indication that it was satisfied with the current system.
The chief justice added that the marketplace may already be addressing the problem.
The bigger e-commerce companies find themselves with a physical presence in all 50 states, he said, so theyre already covered.
The tenor of the argument was a surprise, as three members of the Supreme Court had indicated that they may be ready to reconsider the Quill decision. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch have written about their uneasiness with the ruling and the constitutional justifications for it.
Justice Gorsuch seemed prepared on Tuesday to reconsider the Quill decision. Why should this court favor a particular business model? he asked.
In a 2015 concurring opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy seemed to call for a fresh challenge to the decision. if they overrule it, then every state will have online sales tax. no more pretending you live in another state to avoid it. --- |
| Topic | Israeli officials say that Trump's Syria strike failed. |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 7:18:55 PM
#5 | only question is did he inform them on purpose or was it sheer stupidity? --- |
| Topic | The Sutherland Springs church shooter was stopped by a good guy with an AR-15. |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 6:29:30 PM
#11 | Antifar posted...This is a less preferable option to not having a mass shooting kill 26 people --- |
| Topic | Laura Ingraham's ratings are up 20% since the David Hogg boycott |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 5:52:09 PM
#64 | Kolibri X posted...NibeIungsnarf posted...
Kolibri X posted...
If Hogg can't handle Laura fucking Ingraham maybe the boy should stop throwing himself in the spotlight.
He got an apology from her.
How is that not handling her?
He couldn't accept it. She hurt him too deeply, I guess. why would anyone accept a fake apology only done for pr purposes? --- |
| Topic | Scientists confused as to how flesh eating disease is exploding across Australia |
dreamvoid
04/17/18 5:03:20 PM
#1 | 80/80 https://nypost.com/2018/04/17/baffling-flesh-eating-disease-is-exploding-in-australia/A terrifying flesh-eating disease that can claim limbs is exploding in parts of Australia but doctors are stumped as to how its transmitted and where it originates, according to reports.
The disease, known as the Buruli ulcer, usually starts off as a single, painless red lump resembling a bug bite on the arms or legs and slowly enlarges over weeks to months.
Its caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans and can destroy skin or soft tissue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In worst cases, the disease which comes from the same family as leprosy and tuberculosis can cause irreversible deformity, bone infections or amputation.
Buruli ulcer is not the most aggressive flesh-eating disease, Daniel OBrien, deputy director of the department of infectious diseases at Barwon Health in Victoria told the Washington Post.
The tropical disease has reached epidemic levels the Victoria, a southeastern state in Australia and home to Melbourne and is rapidly increasing in number as well as becoming more severe in nature, according to the Medical Journal of Australia.
Reported cases of Buruli ulcer in Victoria surged 51 percent from 2016 to 2017, which recorded 275 cases, according to OBrien. The number of severe cases has doubled in the last five or six years, he added.
Last year, there were at least 2,209 cases of Buruli ulcer reported with the majority of the cases from West and Central Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
Australia and Nigeria have reported an increase in cases, the WHO said.
The numbers are exploding, OBrien said.
Buruli ulcer can be fully cured with antibiotics but many people dont even know theyre infected because symptoms can take up to six months to show.
The disease was first recognized in Victoria in 1948 but doctors are still baffled by where it lives in the environment and how its transmitted to humans.
It is difficult to prevent a disease when it is not known how infection is acquired, the Medical Journal of Australia said. i guess their wildlife just wasn't terrifying enough. --- |
| Topic | Everyone needs a shitposting outlet tbh |
dreamvoid
04/16/18 6:08:57 PM
#6 | Bullet_Wing posted...Kazi1212 posted...
Back in the day you could just shitpost ie verbalize your dumbest and stupidest thoughts with your buddies
Uh, I still can
Do you people who think that PC police lurk around every corner have actual social lives? ouch. --- |
| Topic | Woman obsessed with nazis wanted to recreate columbine massacre in Halifax mall |
dreamvoid
04/16/18 5:44:10 PM
#39 | Tmk posted...I remember briefly arguing with SnoopyFemme IIRC about nazis being bad basically and she was like ugh you don't understand and I wasn't even sure really what to say. Like, if someone sees nazis, and thinks yeah they're a good lot, what can you even say to try and reach them with rationality.
But yeah, she posted a lot. i wonder if any of the admins were contacted by reporters to answer questions. --- |
| Topic | Woman obsessed with nazis wanted to recreate columbine massacre in Halifax mall |
dreamvoid
04/16/18 4:55:29 PM
#28 | |
| Topic | Hogg derangement syndrome claims another victim |
dreamvoid
04/16/18 3:33:46 PM
#1 | https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/david-hogg-smeared-nazi-brownshirt-parkland-education-board-member/A member of Parklands Education Advisory Board, which makes recommendations about school policy for Marjory Stoneman Douglas, attacked school shooting survivor David Hogg, the Miami New Times reported Friday.
Education advisory board member Wayne Alder allegedly compared Hogg to Nazis on his Twitter account.
Parkland. Here is your future. I wont be wearing the Broward Brown Shirt, Alder allegedly posted, showing a picture of Hogg with a raised fist.
This is what happens when a town decides to back one political party, one political voice, he also allegedly tweeted. The tyranny of one voice that is David Hogg.
Alder, a partner at Boca Ratons Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, told the Miami News Times that hed never posted about Hogg but didnt deny the account was his. The Times described his claim as odd, noting they had screenshots of his posts.
I havent posted anything about David Hogg myself, Alder claimed. Not a word.
He has a right to say what he wants to say, he continued. All I say is that when anyone puts themselves in the public forum, they should expect criticism from people. ah, yes, the old deny, deny, deny, and when confronted with evidence, deny some more. i don't think calling him a nazi qualifies as valid criticism. what is it about him that makes people like this self-destruct so spectacularly? --- |
| Topic | Woman obsessed with nazis wanted to recreate columbine massacre in Halifax mall |
dreamvoid
04/16/18 3:15:59 PM
#1 | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/lindsay-souvannarath-sentencing-day-1-1.4621339Lindsay Souvannarath was prepared to die in a foiled Valentine's Day massacre at a Halifax mall, the court heard at her sentencing hearing Monday.
Souvannarath was 23 when she was arrested at Halifax Stanfield International Airport on Feb. 13, 2015, after flying to Nova Scotia from her home in Geneva, Ill. She has been in custody since.
Souvannarath, now 26, and her co-conspirator, Randall Shepherd, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder. Shepherd is serving a 10-year prison sentence for his role.
A third man involved, 19-year-old James Gamble, killed himself at his Timberlea, N.S., home as police surrounded the house on the day of the 2015 arrests.
During Monday's sentencing hearing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax, the Crown outlined how Souvannarath and Gamble met online over a shared fascination with the Columbine High School massacre.
"Strange feeling to meet someone and almost immediately know you want to die with them. I was to be his Eric Harris he was to be my Dylan Klebold," reads a note found in Souvannarath's cell in 2015 and shown in court on Monday.
Harris and Klebold killed 13 people and then themselves in the 1999 massacre.
In the agreed statement of facts read on Monday, the court heard Souvannarath told an undercover police officer she was going to wear a skull mask during the shooting.
Gamble had planned to wear a ghost-face mask like the one in the movie Scream.
"We would have looked so perfect," Souvannarath told the undercover officer.
'Too many people who need to die'
The court heard the trio's plan was to take Gamble's father's guns and shoot as many people as possible in the food court of the Halifax Shopping Centre. When finished they'd kneel, face each other and shoot each other on count of three.
The court also heard that Gamble had planned to kill both his parents before the mall plot. Both were in court on Monday.
The court heard of several gruesome email exchanges between Souvannarath and Gamble, including one in which Souvannarath hoped the group's actions would inspire more killings.
"There are too many people who need to die. And too few people willing to kill them," Souvannarath wrote in one exchange.
The Crown said Monday there's "nothing to suggest her [Souvannarath's] world view [on Nazism, racism and hate] has changed during her time in incarceration." i'm glad they caught them before they were able to act. --- |
| Topic | Canadian serial killer of gay men charged in 8th death |
dreamvoid
04/16/18 2:57:28 PM
#1 | http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43786779Canadian police have identified the remains of a Sri Lankan man they believe is a possible victim of suspected serial killer Bruce McArthur.
Mr McArthur, 66, was charged on Monday with an eighth count of first degree murder in the death of Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37.
Police believe Kanagaratnam was killed sometime between 3 September and 14 December 2015.
He arrived in Canada in 2010 and lived in the Toronto area.
In March, police released the photograph of an unidentified deceased man as part of the investigation into the accused killer in the hopes a member of the public could help in his identification.
Police said they received hundreds of tips, and announced late last week they had made a successful identification.
Toronto police detective Hank Idsinga said on Monday that Kanagaratnam's direct family, who live in Sri Lanka, were informed over the weekend of his death.
The detective did not reveal Kanagaratnam's immigration status and said he had never been reported missing in Canada.
His remains were identified as one of at least seven dismembered bodies found in plant pots on a midtown Toronto property linked to Mr McArthur.
Who are the alleged victims?
So far, all of the eight suspected victims except Kanagaratnam had ties to the city's Gay Village.
All went missing between 2010-17.
Many were immigrants from South Asia or the Middle East.
Members of Toronto's LGBT community have criticised police, saying they did not take their concerns about the missing men seriously.
The first two alleged victims were identified in January as Andrew Kinsman, 49, and Selim Esen, 44, who both went missing in 2017.
Since then, police have named Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, who disappeared on Labour Day weekend in 2010; Soroush Mahmudi, 50, reported missing in 2015; Dean Lisowick, 47, who is believed to have been killed in April 2016; Abdulbasir Faizi, 42, who disappeared in 2010; and Majeed Kayhan, 58, who disappeared in 2012.
The remains of all but Kayhan have been identified. that's pretty sick. --- |
| Topic | Black guys arrested at Starbucks for doing nothing, white customers are shocked |
dreamvoid
04/15/18 5:54:42 PM
#318 | MrGoodBadGuy posted...Why are the white customers saying anything? why does it matter if they are white? i expect anyone of good character to speak up when they see something wrong. --- |
| Topic | Is Starbucks a retail store or a restaurant? |
dreamvoid
04/15/18 5:40:39 PM
#9 | DezDroppedFreak posted...chill02 posted...
a coffee shop --- |
| Topic | So did Russia ever retaliate? |
dreamvoid
04/15/18 5:32:10 PM
#9 | why would the retaliate when practically nothing was accomplished? it's the airfield all over again. --- |
| Topic | Sarah Sanders defends spreading fake news |
dreamvoid
04/15/18 5:17:55 PM
#1 | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/15/trump-sarah-sanders-clarifies-misleading-photo-syria-strikeDonald Trumps press secretary issued a begrudging clarification on Sunday after being accused of posting a misleading photograph of the president online.
Sarah Sanders was criticised for a tweet on Saturday that appeared to show Trump busily directing missile strikes against Syria from the White House situation room, with vice president Mike Pence at his right hand.
Last night the President put our adversaries on notice: when he draws a red line he enforces it, Sanders wrote as a caption.
Keen observers promptly noted that the photograph could not have been taken on Friday as the attacks were mounted because by then Pence had arrived in Peru to deliver remarks at the Summit of the Americas.
Fascinating tweet in which Sarah Sanders reveals that Mike Pence was simultaneously in Peru and Washington, said Walter Shaub, the former director of the office of government ethics. If this new capability doesnt scare our enemies, nothing will.
Sanders on Sunday responded with a new installment from the Trump administrations series of prickly statements in which an inaccurate remark is simultaneously defended and amended.
It said: As I said, the President put our adversaries on notice that he enforces red lines with the strike on Syria Friday night. The photo was taken Thursday in the Situation Room during Syria briefing.
Trump, who frequently makes untrue statements, last month posted misleading photographs of his own. Pictures supposedly showing the start of work on his much-vaunted border wall in fact showed repairs to an existing fence in California. i thought trump hated fake news? --- |
| Topic | Can a slut even feel shame? |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 8:01:52 PM
#16 | Grindcorp9000 posted...Kaname_Madoka posted...
u wot m8
How can you be individual when sex means other people are involved lol. That's more than one person lol. notsureifsrs. --- |
| Topic | Can a slut even feel shame? |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 7:49:37 PM
#10 | Grindcorp9000 posted...dreamvoid posted...
Omnislasher posted...
there is no shame in enjoying sex
the shame is on sheltered and insecure people who propagate irrational double standards
Don't encourage him. he's right, though. --- |
| Topic | Can a slut even feel shame? |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 7:48:01 PM
#7 | Omnislasher posted...there is no shame in enjoying sex
the shame is on sheltered and insecure people who propagate irrational double standards --- |
| Topic | What happened to Asherlee's gofundme? |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 7:46:01 PM
#29 | someone is going to get demodded. --- |
| Topic | creepy ass tweaker digs under his neighbors fence |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 7:40:47 PM
#4 | he probably hid drugs somewhere and forgot where he hid it. --- |
| Topic | Ajit Pai declines to punish Sinclair over violating an FCC policy |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 7:25:42 PM
#1 | https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/12/fcc-declines-to-punish-sinclair-for-its-must-run-segments-and-scripts/It was hard to avoid seeing the video posted last week showing local news stations reciting a must-run script about fake news from their parent company, Sinclair broadcasting, in eerie synchrony. It creeped out a dozen Senators so much that they asked the FCC to look into it and Chairman Ajit Pai has responded, saying thats not going to happen.
The Senators letter, which you can read here, expresses concern that Sinclair is clearly using its power over local news stations to advance a political agenda at a national level:
Sinclair may have violated the FCCs longstanding policy against broadcast licensees deliberately distorting news by staging, slanting, or falsifying informationMultiple news outlets report that Sinclair has been forcing local news anchors to read Sinclair-mandated scripts warning of the dangers of one-sided news stories plaguing our country, over the protests from local news teams.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is responsible for ensuring that broadcast licensees use the public airwaves to serve the public interest. We call on the FCC to investigate whether Sinclairs production of distorted news reports fails the public interest test.
Theres a clear irony in what amounts to fake news warning viewers of itself, but the concerns of these Senators are more straightforward. Note that they dont simply dislike the message; the message is only mentioned by the by. The real issue is that if Sinclair is systematically distorting the news that appears on its stations, that should be investigated as a potential violation of its FCC-issued broadcast license.
And as icing on the cake, they bring up the fact that Sinclair ought to be under extra scrutiny since it is in the middle of a merger that would give it unprecedented reach in broadcast, and the FCC is also accused by many of favoring Sinclair in particular with some of its deregulatory policies. net neutrality is bad, but a monopoly of local news by a company whose sole purpose is to spread propaganda is good. --- |
| Topic | Drones will soon decide who to kill on their own |
dreamvoid
04/13/18 7:20:00 PM
#23 | MacadamianNut3 posted...Cal12 posted...
You can think that if you want but in my mind this is Skynet coming to fruition.
The "I watched Terminator/2001 once and now I base all of my beliefs towards AI/robotics on it" schtick is played out broseph
But seriously though, it's obviously 2 sides with this. Applications where it's used to kill people and other fucked up stuff, and applications to help people. And all of this crap being put out in the open (data to train the algorithms is the real secret sauce that nobody wants to share), the public can be more informed about the inner workings of these algorithms and do whatever with them, maybe even actively counteract other entities using them. Like how everyone and their grandma knows you can fuck over many sophisticated object detection algorithms by slightly changing a subset of pixels leaving the image still easily identifiable by a person, because GANs have been discussed a ton in open forums you are clearly an ai trying to downplay this. it appears we have already been infiltrated. i really do think the ethical implications are pretty bad, though. there are already civilian casualties with humans involved.--- |
| Topic | 43 y/o Dad who had SEX with his 20 y/o DAUGHTER are DEAD in a MURDER-SUICIDE!! |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 7:11:59 PM
#7 | every part of this story is revolting. --- |
| Topic | Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) is now officially law. |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 7:01:12 PM
#10 | meanwhile, trump paid a pornstar off over sex and is currently running scared from it. --- |
| Topic | Drones will soon decide who to kill on their own |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 6:41:35 PM
#1 | https://www.upi.com/Drones-will-soon-decide-who-to-kill/3561523449841/The U.S. Army recently announced that it is developing the first drones that can spot and target vehicles and people using artificial intelligence. This is a big step forward. Whereas current military drones are still controlled by people, this new technology will decide who to kill with little human involvement.
Once complete, these drones will represent the ultimate militarization of AI and trigger vast legal and ethical implications for wider society. There is a chance that warfare will move from fighting to extermination, losing any semblance of humanity in the process. At the same time, it could widen the sphere of warfare so that the companies, engineers and scientists building AI become valid military targets.
Existing lethal military drones like the MQ-9 Reaper are carefully controlled and piloted via satellite. If a pilot drops a bomb or fires a missile, a human sensor operator actively guides it onto the chosen target using a laser.
Ultimately, the crew has the final ethical, legal and operational responsibility for killing designated human targets. As one Reaper operator states: "I am very much of the mindset that I would allow an insurgent, however important a target, to get away rather than take a risky shot that might kill civilians."
Even with these drone killings, human emotions, judgments and ethics have always remained at the center of war. The existence of mental trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder among drone operators shows the psychological impact of remote killing.
The prospect of totally autonomous drones would radically alter the complex processes and decisions behind military killings. But legal and ethical responsibility does not somehow just disappear if you remove human oversight. Instead, responsibility will increasingly fall on other people, including artificial intelligence scientists.
The legal implications of these developments are becoming evident. Under current international humanitarian law, "dual-use" facilities -- those that develop products for both civilian and military application -- can be attacked in the right circumstances. For example, in the 1999 Kosovo War, the Pancevo oil refinery was attacked because it could fuel Yugoslav tanks as well as fuel civilian cars.
Ethically, there are even darker issues. The whole point of the self-learning algorithms -- programs that independently learn from whatever data they can collect -- that technology uses is that they become better at whatever task they are given. If a lethal autonomous drone is to get better at its job through self-learning, someone will need to decide on an acceptable stage of development -- how much it still has to learn -- at which it can be deployed. In militarized machine learning, that means political, military and industry leaders will have to specify how many civilian deaths will count as acceptable as the technology is refined. humanity had a good run. --- |
| Topic | Here's a guy shooting at a cardboard cutout of David Hogg |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 6:09:08 PM
#157 | good job at providing ammo to gun control advocates, i guess. --- |
| Topic | Sinclair TV chairman tells Trump we are here to deliver your message |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 5:55:48 PM
#17 | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/11/sinclair-chairman-david-d-smith-neighbors-disputesDavid D Smith, 67, whose company owns many local TV stations, is in dispute with neighbors in two states: We wish hed just go away
The executive chairman of the Sinclair television group has run into trouble at courts in two states for his alleged conduct during disputes with neighbours.
David D Smith was temporarily barred from contacting a tenant on land that he owns in Maryland after he was accused of making threats, which he denies. He was separately found in contempt of court by a judge in Maine for breaching a restraining order.
Smith, 67, chairs the board of Sinclair Broadcasting, whose ownership of local television stations around the US has this week come under renewed scrutiny after many of its presenters read from identical scripts echoing Donald Trumps attacks on the news media.
In a telephone interview, Smith denied wrongdoing. He said the tenant in Maryland was a dishonest radical who refused to vacate his property despite being offered a generous payout. He described the dispute in Maine as a very common conflict in the area.
Its ridiculous, but it is what it is, Smith said of the Maryland incident. Of the dispute in Maine, he said: Its like Im living in the Twilight Zone or something.
Smith was placed under a temporary peace order by a judge in Baltimore county in March 2013, after a farmer who was leasing land from Smith formally accused him of threatening violence and destroying crops.
I was threatened that I would not be farming the property and I would be taken care of, the farmer, Stephen Pieper, said in his application for protection from the district court. Smith told the Guardian this was utter, absolute nonsense and noted that Pieper had himself been placed under a protective order for alleged domestic violence in 2007. so, this came out about him. he sounds like the neighbor from hell. what a nutty guy. --- |
| Topic | This is why we need Gamergate |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 5:34:13 PM
#34 | harassment and death threats are never warranted let alone needed. --- |
| Topic | Tennessee man harasses schoolgirls by shouting Allahu Ackbar and attacks father |
dreamvoid
04/12/18 5:29:13 PM
#9 | -Unowninator- posted...dreamvoid posted...
it's horrible that this guy harassed these girls, attacked the father, and even tried to claim he was the victim. they're lucky the father was on his way home. who knows what he would've done to the girls.
Either he's a terrible liar, or terribly delusional. i'm guessing the latter since he did this in broad daylight. --- |
| Topic | Sinclair TV chairman tells Trump we are here to deliver your message |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 6:08:45 PM
#14 | Sayoria posted...dreamvoid posted...
Hexenherz posted...
I feel really dumb for having never heard of this company until last week.
i'm in the same boat. i only heard of them after the video of the anchors went viral. they did a good job at staying under the radar.
I heard of them last year because John Oliver made this video:
Oliver is always, always 70 steps ahead. i don't really have the interest to watch either of them after jon and colbert left. i liked oliver on the show as a correspondent, but i just don't feel like watching . --- |
| Topic | Sinclair TV chairman tells Trump we are here to deliver your message |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:56:41 PM
#9 | Hexenherz posted...I feel really dumb for having never heard of this company until last week. i'm in the same boat. i only heard of them after the video of the anchors went viral. they did a good job at staying under the radar. --- |
| Topic | Breaking: House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election in November |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:46:56 PM
#48 | Asherlee10 posted...Does this mean he will run for President later? i could see it. severing his link to trump and not getting involved in the next couple years of shenanigans would be a good idea. --- |
| Topic | Sinclair TV chairman tells Trump we are here to deliver your message |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:37:38 PM
#1 | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/10/donald-trump-sinclair-david-smith-white-house-meetingThe chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group met Donald Trump at the White House during a visit to pitch a potentially lucrative new product to administration officials, the Guardian has learned.
David D Smith, whose company has been criticised for making its anchors read a script echoing Trumps attacks on the media, said he briefed officials last year on a system that would enable authorities to broadcast direct to any Americans phone.
I just wanted them to be aware of the technology, Smith said in an interview. He also recalled an earlier meeting with Trump during the 2016 election campaign, where he told the future president: We are here to deliver your message.
Sinclair is the biggest owner of local TV in the US, and may soon reach 72% of American households if a proposed $4bn takeover of a rival is approved by federal regulators. It is accused by critics of having a conservative bias, which it denies.
The company has been a driving force in the development of a new broadcasting standard known as Next Gen TV, and is one of the first involved in making chips for televisions, cellphones and other devices to receive the new transmissions.
A broadcasting industry group, of which Sinclair is a prominent member, lobbied federal authorities last year to force manufacturers to incorporate the chips in all new devices. This would have created orders for millions of chips and probably new revenues for Sinclair. i really don't like how this company is everywhere and even making chips which they lobbied to force manufacturers to use. --- |
| Topic | Was there ever an explanation why Zangief was a villain in Wreck it Ralph? |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:28:30 PM
#6 | |
| Topic | Breaking: House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election in November |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:26:25 PM
#40 | https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/paul-ryans-retirement-makes-president-trump-impeachment-more-likely.htmlAmong its other consequences, Speaker Paul Ryan's retirement from the House increases the chance that President Donald Trump will be impeached.
Ryan's decision accelerates the ongoing competition among his deputies to become the leader of the GOP in the House. But it will also dispirit fellow Republicans, diminish his ability to raise campaign funds and encourage more vulnerable incumbents to retire.
All of that smooths the path for Democrats to recapture the House in November and hand Nancy Pelosi the speaker's gavel once again. And there's little doubt that a Democratic-controlled House would seek to impeach the president. uh oh. --- |
| Topic | Ransomware virus forces users to play pubg |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:22:42 PM
#3 | i guess with fortnite's popularity, this is the only way they can get new players. --- |
| Topic | Man in wheelchair beats up would be muggers |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:03:27 PM
#1 | http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43725596Knife-wielding muggers who tried to steal a mobile phone from a man in a wheelchair got more than they bargained for when the army veteran fought back.
Police said Roger Mercer, 38, was making his way along a canal towpath near Chester Crematorium on Sunday when the would-be robbers confronted him.
One, brandishing an 8in (20cm) knife, demanded Mr Mercer's phone but he shoved him and the blade to the ground.
Police said he then fended off the other man who grabbed him from behind.
A Cheshire Police spokesman said one of the attackers then hit the victim's wheelchair, causing it to fall on its side, before they fled towards the city centre.
Mr Mercer was out training for the Chester Half Marathon at the time of the attack, according to the Chester Chronicle.
The 6ft 7in (2m) cub leader, who was injured on duty in Afghanistan in 2007, is raising money for his scout group.
'Extremely brave'
Det Con Tom Philpotts said: "This was an opportunistic robbery by thieves who thought they could prey on a defenceless disabled man in order to steal his phone.
"In this case the victim was extremely brave and lucky to be able to fight off his attackers, preventing them from causing him serious harm or taking his phone."
One of the suspects is described as white, between 5ft 8in and 6ft, and of slim build. In his 20s and speaking with a Liverpool accent, he has blue eyes and was wearing a dark hoodie and gloves.
While there is no description of the second man, he may have sustained scratch marks to his face during the incident. i guess they shouldn't have messed with a 6'7 veteran. --- |
| Topic | Be careful of a user around here that uses the name 'Reiko' on Discord |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 5:01:12 PM
#4 | you're reiko, aren't you? --- |
| Topic | Is the term "white privilege" helping race relations? |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 4:41:00 PM
#82 | all that topic tells me is that people get way too defensive and take it as an attack on white people. --- |
| Topic | Is the term "white privilege" helping race relations? |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 4:34:45 PM
#79 | why does the term white privilege bother people so much? what is it that makes people so defensive? i'm white and it doesn't bother me in the least. is it really so hard to recognize being white is an advantage in some cases, such as dealing with cops? --- |
| Topic | "Get Ready Russia! Missiles will be coming to Syria!" Trump tweets |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 4:26:07 PM
#35 | i doubt vets ever imagined that a president would declare war through twitter. --- |
| Topic | Tennessee man harasses schoolgirls by shouting Allahu Ackbar and attacks father |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 4:11:18 PM
#7 | iPhone_7 posted...Merikkka well, it is tennessee. --- |
| Topic | So I was choking my (explicit) |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 1:12:28 AM
#8 | AzurexNightmare posted...DarkChozoGhost posted...
You can die from deeding in the shower. I knew a guy it happened to
How lol he probably fell and broke his neck or something similar. bathrooms are where most accidental deaths occur in homes. --- |
| Topic | Serious question: Why doesn't Elizabeth Warren submit to a DNA test? |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 1:06:21 AM
#24 | Anteaterking posted...Ulyanyx posted...
if you don't care about her possibly lying about her ancestry to gain or keep votes
She didn't bring up her ancestry when running for political office. i don't think most people that care about it even know what it's in reference to. there isn't even any evidence that she used native american heritage to gain an advantage in the first place. --- |
| Topic | Serious question: Why doesn't Elizabeth Warren submit to a DNA test? |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 12:48:53 AM
#7 | Prestoff posted...Who fucking cares? Tmaster148 posted...There's no reason to do it because the only people who care about it are the people who wouldn't vote for her anyways. both of these. --- |
| Topic | Target fires guy for putting white nationalist propaganda into diaper packages |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 12:45:20 AM
#59 | |
| Topic | The secret story of how Allison Mack became a sex slaver |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 12:27:46 AM
#25 | |
| Topic | Tennessee man harasses schoolgirls by shouting Allahu Ackbar and attacks father |
dreamvoid
04/11/18 12:20:58 AM
#1 | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/tennessee-man-accused-harassing-two-girls-wearing-hijabs-charged-hate-n864331NASHVILLE, Tenn. A Tennessee man accused of harassing two teenage girls wearing hijabs and then swinging a knife and attacking their father is a facing a federal hate crime charge, the Justice Department said Monday.
A federal grand jury in Nashville has indicted Christopher Beckham and charged him with violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and lying to the FBI.
Beckham, who is 32 and lives in Nashville, is also facing state charges for the alleged incident that took place in October.
He is accused of confronting two sisters in hijabs after they got off a school bus and saying "Allahu Akbar!" and "Go back to your country," federal court records say.
An affidavit filed by an officer with the Nashville Police goes into more details about the same alleged incident.
Beckham, according to the police filing, followed the girls after confronting them and told them he was going to beat them up. The girls' father was headed home in his taxi and pulled over when he saw Beckham approaching his daughters, the affidavit said. Beckham shouted racial slurs at the dad, who was identified as Abdull Ali, and then pulled out a pocket knife and swung it at the father, the police report says.
The father ducked to the right and Beckham fell to the ground, the affidavit said. Ali, the affidavit says, fell twice during the scuffle while trying to defend himself. The father was not seriously injured.
Officers arrived and took Beckham into custody, police said, adding Beckham told authorities he was the victim. it's horrible that this guy harassed these girls, attacked the father, and even tried to claim he was the victim. they're lucky the father was on his way home. who knows what he would've done to the girls. --- |
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