“False modesty can be worse than arrogance.”
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Trump still stinks. Discuss.
Gallup says Trump is still falling in appoval ratings. He's down to 35% approval and up to 59% disapproval in the three-day tracking average.
And just to tweak some conservative posters here, Obama's lowest approval during his entire 8-year stint was 38%; his highest disapproval was 55%. Of course, he's still got quite a ways to go before hitting Dubya's 25% approval low…
And wasn't Richard Nixon down to about 22% during the first week of August 1974?
Vger
You keep stating his best quality. What's to discuss?
Megalomania?
Narcissism
Sociopathy
I could go on and on.
Peace
And you're still on his better qualities!
Dept. Of you can't make this shit up. Arkansas is trying to execute eight men in eleven days because one of the drugs the state uses for execution is nearing it's expiration date.
Uuuh, I guess that means it would be unsafe to use the drug after the expiration date? Isn't that kind of the whole idea?
Maybe after expiration, it will only make them stronger?
While we were being distracted by Russia, (no more) clean air, etc, our junior senator and 49 of his (exclusively Republican) colleagues made sure you have absolutely zero privacy regarding your internet history; it's now 'for sale'. Here are instructions on how to set up your own VPN at home. #MAGA
Thanks for that, Michael.
Kudos to Rand Paul (R-KY) for voting against this nonsense. Surprised to see Susan Collins voting in favor. Who was the other brave Republican who voted against; and who were the two Dems/Independents who did not vote?
I believe that your math is off. 50-48 means all the D & D-affiliated Is voted against. 2 Rs didn't vote: Isakson, out of Georgia, and the guy who, for some unknowable reason, you just praised for his opposition.
Paul was a fucking cosponsor of the resolution, though, so Libertarianism!
Uh…..OK…..
Boy howdy!
It’s entirely consistent with the libertarian philosophy he generally presents, though. From his perspective, this isn’t a government intrusion (which he has opposed), it’s a private one. It’s perfectly legitimate (from his perspective) for a private entity to make as much profit as they can from their relationship with (what he sees as) a willing customer in a voluntary exchange. Find another provider whose terms are more beneficial to you, or don’t use the service at all. That’s textbook stuff.
It shouldn't go unmentioned that this is already how things are today. The measure passed in the Senate, and in the House yesterday, overturns a set of rules put in place by the FCC last year, but which have not yet taken effect. Large providers were given a year to comply, and smaller ones, two years. So, your data already done been sold, in all likelihood.
The FCC rules were actually fairly liberal for ISPs: sensitive data, like your browsing history, required consumers to opt-in to having data shared; but non-sensitive data was still opt-out, meaning it could be shared unless you to action to stop that.
One thing to understand when using any free service to move your bits around the interwebs– the general rule in the tech world is that, if the service is free, you're the product, not the customer.
The rule was being implemented in part because the matter wasn't fully resolved by the ISPs, i.e. they hadn't really gotten far in taking advantage of it. Some ISPs started inserting their own ads into your browsing stream, but AFAIK none of them had really gotten too far into reselling customer data to third parties.
Your ISP isn't free – in fact it's pretty much compulsory. There's a reason why the common carrier designation that brought net neutrality in to its current state of being was, IMHO, the right thing to do (despite it being unpopular even among some of the regulators who wanted net neutrality). Internet providers really are common carriers, just like your phone carrier or the USPS. Do we allow the phone company to aggregate your calling history for sale to advertisers? How about aggregating your mail correspondence? No? I wonder why…
Partly, we don't know what they've been selling, but there are stories from a decade ago about ISPs selling customer data. Not to mention Verizon's relatively recent 'supercookie' nonsense, where they used their position in the pipeline to provide tracking for ad and data collection companies.
You won't find any Section 8 housing at 666 5th Avenue…
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UPDATE on the Ft Collins mosque vandalism: a suspect is in custody. Per the Coloradoan, Joseph Giaquinto admitted to the crimes.
Our "sister" Unitarian church in Ft Collins, Foothills, had its congregation's cars leafletted with anti-Muslim propaganda after posting signs saying "You are Welcome Here" in English, Spanish, and Arabic. I had a sign like this outside my home, but it was stolen.