We were indoctrinated to believe that having babies was destroying the planet, so we quit having very many, and now we are importing people from cultures who have many. Because they say we need breeders/workers to keep the ponzi schemes going.
Not sure I understand the question. Are you suggesting multiculturalism will lead to Sharia law which is pro death penalty? You may be on to something.
It's not about gifts, or flowers. It's in the way you touch someone. It's in the way you kiss. It's in the way you hold onto someone after the loving that tells the tale.
Kentucky is pretty and green with nice lakes and rivers and lots of caves where I live. But pretty hot and humid in summer. I've been to about 10 countries. Germany and Ecuador are my favorite so far, but Mexico and Canada have some great places too.
I want in on the coming class action lawsuit. May be a good time to dump Facebook stock if you own any.
By David Ingram
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook <FB.O> on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company.
The U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California seeks status as a class action on behalf of all affected users and asks for unspecified damages.
A Facebook representative could not immediately be reached for comment.
Facebook, which is reeling from a scandal over its handling of personal data, on Sunday acknowledged that it had been logging some users' call and text history but said it had done so only when users of the Android operating system had opted in.
Facebook said on Sunday that it does not collect the content of calls or text messages, and that information is securely stored. The data is not sold to third parties, it said.
Android is owned by Alphabet Inc's Google <GOOGL.O>, which is not named as a defendant in the suit.
Photos: Mark Wilson / Getty Images; The Washington Post Capitol Hill wants Facebook’s blood, but President Trump isn’t interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon, according to five sources who’ve discussed it with him. “He’s obsessed with Amazon,” a source said. “Obsessed.”
What we're hearing: Trump has talked about changing Amazon’s tax treatment because he’s worried about mom-and-pop retailers being put out of business.
Show less A source who’s spoken to POTUS: “He’s wondered aloud if there may be any way to go after Amazon with antitrust or competition law." Trump’s deep-seated antipathy toward Amazon surfaces when discussing tax policy and antitrust cases. The president would love to clip CEO Jeff Bezos’ wings. But he doesn’t have a plan to make that happen. Behind the president's thinking: Trump's wealthy friends tell him Amazon is destroying their businesses. His real estate buddies tell him — and he agrees — that Amazon is killing shopping malls and brick-and-mortar retailers.
Trump tells people Amazon has gotten a free ride from taxpayers and cushy treatment from the U.S. Postal Service. “The whole post office thing, that's very much a perception he has,” another source said. “It's been explained to him in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon." Axios' Ina Fried notes: The Postal Service actually added delivery on Sunday in some cities because Amazon made it worthwhile. Trump also pays close attention to the Amazon founder's ownership of The Washington Post, which the president views as Bezos’ political weapon. Trump never talks about Mark Zuckerberg or Facebook: He isn’t tuned in to the debate over how they handle people’s data, and thinks the Russia story is a hoax, sources say.
Axios' Kim Hart points out: "Trump told Axios last year he doesn’t mind Facebook because it helps him reach his audience. He's an old-school businessman who sees the world in terms of tangible assets: real estate, physical mail delivery, Main Street, grocery stores. It reminds me of the story Jim wrote a while back about Trump’s fixation with 1950s life. Amazon takes direct aim at some of the core components of mid-century business.” One warning sign for Facebook: Vice President Mike Pence is concerned about Facebook and Google, according to a source with direct knowledge.
Though Pence isn't yet pushing internally for any specific regulations, he argues these companies are dangerously powerful. The source said the V.P. worries about their influence on media coverage, as well as their control of the advertising industry and users’ personal info. When private discussions have turned to the idea of busting Facebook and Google, Pence has listened with keen interest and is open to the suggestion that these two companies need shaking up. Get more stories like this by signing up for Jonathan Swan's weekly political lookahead newsletter, Axios Sneak Peek.
I've heard the post office loses money on every package they deliver for Amazon, so I don't know who is being honest here.
Might as well try, where else they going to find enough recruits?
Approximately 71% of the 34 million 17-to-24-year-olds in the U.S. would not qualify for military service because of reasons related to health, physical appearance and educational background, according to the Pentagon.
The ineligible typically includes those who are obese, those who lack a high school diploma or a GED, convicted felons, those taking prescription drugs for ADHD and those with certain tattoos and ear gauges, the Wall Street Journal reports, though some requirements can be waived.
Only 1% of young people are both “eligible and inclined to have conversation with” the military about possible service, according to the Defense Department.
“The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly,” Major General Allen Batschelet, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command’s commanding general, told the WSJ.
Well I certainly think you can tell a lot more about someone, by reading their posts to the forums and blogs......... than you can by just reading their profile. Twenty years wow, I'll bet you have seen the players change. I'm not so sure I have 20 years left.
You seem to have an unhealthy attraction to music videos. Me I'm a little hung up on trying to save the free world. The movie/video seems like a Fatal Attraction knockoff. No?
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RE: Robotics
From 1951