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There's nothing "tough" or "advanced" about rank idiocy such as "women are destroying civilization". Yeah it is outrageous statement, almost like patriarchy is holding women back right? Patriarchy is holding women in back, but not necessary ways that people think when they hear the claim Like for example it isn't even half century ago when in many (western) countries women could not actually own credit card, bank account etc. things without man co-signing those. It also wasn't that long ago when in many (western) countries inheritance laws jump over women in favor of male relatives (and some times male cousin could be higher in line than actual daughter of deceased). It isn't also that long when we had laws in many (western) countries that moved ownership of things that woman owned to her husband if she married. Today these laws still have impact on women statuses in societies as general as they have made our societies such that we have much more rich men than women.

Federal ID card was not because there isn't other ID cards that work in all the states, but to make ID card which federal authorities can give out. I am not sure if federal authorities can give out state IDs. In other news Trump administration officials are forbidding officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget. Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are: “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cdc-gets-list-of-forbidden-words-fetus-transgender-diversity/2017/12/15/f503837a-e1cf-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.205aabe84b26

In my understanding biggest problem in voter ID systems is not id requirement per se, but sloppy bureaucratic work from decades ago, which is something that nobody seems to have interest to fix. To fight voter fraud and solve these constant id issue problems Establish federal register for citizen which will have everybody's birth certificates and all the possible changes that there come to it during person's life, like change of a name, state where person lives, social security number or some other essential information (like person dying). Moving all the existing stuff to above mentioned register Creating federal id card which is valid in every state Making it so that one can get above mentioned id from federal authority which can be found in (nearly) every county like post office in feasible price. And if states add automatic voter registration in the mix then voter fraud should be quite difficult and only thing that prevents people voting is not being able to go to vote (including early voting by post or such) for some reason.

Net Neutrality was in effect before 2015. FCC was forced 2015 for various reasons make it clearer because ISP's constantly fought against it. One of biggest reasons was Comcast decision to start throttle Netflix down until they agreed to pay Comcast millions of dollars extra for service that they had already paid. https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix-agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/

https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-fccs-net-neutrality-plan-breaks-with-50-years-of-history/ I would not start gloating death of net neutrality yet. I would predict that this vote will be heavy blow against FCC authority (as their decision will be tested in courts and congress needs to decide what they will do to demands from their constituents) and will inspire actual laws to be placed in in order to protect interest of people who elect people to govern them. Several states (like for example California and Washington) are already starting to introduce their own net neutrality laws. Which means that future will be much more regulated and with much more complex set of rules.

He definitely took the easy way out, avoid all that media attention and eventual jail time I probably would have done the same what are you talking about? Police dropped that case. Are all people mad these days? You are ok with ruining peoples lives without trial? wtf Accusations of misconducts are typical in politics especially in USA. Just look presidential race of 2016 and how many accusation were made against candidates without any trials. Okay one candidate was but on trial and was convicted (Trump University lawsuit and judge approved settlement) but that didn't prevent him to become president. Other candidates were accused, among other things, of running child prostitution ring in pizzeria and even for committing treason and nobody seemed to want to wait investigation let alone trial. Politics is ugly business where one needs to have thick skin when it comes to accusations of misconduct. If Johnson was innocent he should had sued people accusing him instead killing himself, because later only makes it worse for his family.

I would say from current numbers Tennessee can still keep selling their "At Least We're Not Alabama" souvenirs

Chancellor is elected similar way as Speaker of the House or Senate Majority leader

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364336-fcc-ftc-announce-partnership-to-police-internet-after-net-neutrality-repeal FCC, FTC announce partnership to police internet after net neutrality repeal “Not only is the FCC eliminating basic net neutrality rules, but it’s joining forces with the FTC to say it will only act when a broadband provider is deceiving the public. This gives free reign to broadband providers to block or throttle your broadband service as long as they inform you of it."

Main reason why ISP's are against net neutrality is that rise of popularity of services like online gaming, Netflix and Youtube has made it more difficult to them to sell same bandwidth multiple times (like for example installing one gigabit cable in the apartment house and then sell every household living in said apartment house 100 megabit connection), because more and more people use services which use full capacity of their connections, which forces ISP's to build their infrastructure to actually have capacity that they are selling to their customers and they don't like that because that cuts their profits down, so instead they want government give them permission to throttle those services down or force them to pay those infrastructure upgrades for them.

Portuguese mobile data plans, are funny because they were main reason why lots of European mobile carriers opposed EU's plans to give people right to use their mobile data everywhere in EU with same price as they can use in their home country, because as they (carriers) put it, prices for mobile data there is so outrageous that it would force them to rise prices in their home markets if they would offer their limitless data plans there.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/daniel-shaver-shooting-ex-arizona-police-officer-not-guilty-murder-n827641 Last year's fatal shooting of a Texas man by Arizona police was caught on body-camera video and showed him sobbing with his hands up, begging for his life in his final moments. Jurors who watched the full video showing Daniel Shaver's death agreed Thursday to acquit former Mesa officer Philip Mitchell Brailsford of murder, ending an emotional six-week trial. Brailsford faced as many as 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder charge. Brailsford's attorney, Michael Piccarreta, put an arm around his client after the verdict was read. "There are no winners in this case," Piccarreta said, "but Mitch Brailsford had to make a split-second decision on a situation that he was trained to recognize as someone drawing a weapon and had one second to react." Laney Sweet, Shaver's widow, shook her head "no" after the decision was read and later declined to answer questions, reported The Associated Press. She and Shaver's parents have filed wrongful-death lawsuits against the city of Mesa. Mark Geragos, an attorney representing the Shaver family, called the shooting an "execution" and said the "justice system miserably failed," reported The Arizona Republic. At the heart of the prosecution's case was the shaky bodycam footage taken at a Mesa hotel on the night of Jan. 18, 2016. Shaver, 26, a pest-control worker, was in Mesa on business and was with acquaintances at his room. According to the prosecution, Shaver showed them an air rifle used to exterminate birds and at one point waved it outside of his fifth-floor window — prompting a witness to notify the hotel front desk, which led to police to being called. Police said he had been drinking at the time. When officers got there, they ordered Shaver out of his room and to lie face-down in a hallway and refrain from making sudden movements — or risk being shot. "Listen to my instructions or it's going to become very uncomfortable for you," one of the officers shouted. "Please do not shoot me," Shaver said before he was ordered to crawl toward officers. As he inched forward, he reached toward the waistband of his shorts. That action led Brailsford to fire his rifle, he said, because he believed Shaver was grabbing for a handgun. While no gun was found on Shaver's body, two pellet rifles related to his pest-control job were discovered in his room. The detective investigating the shooting agreed Shaver's movement was similar to reaching for a pistol, but has said it also looked as though Shaver was pulling up his loose-fitting basketball shorts that had fallen down as he was ordered to crawl. The investigator noted he did not see anything that would have prevented officers from simply handcuffing Shaver as he was on the floor. During his trial testimony, Brailsford, 27, told jurors that he was terrified for the safety of officers and a woman who were in the hallway. He also said he felt "incredibly sad" for Shaver. Brailsford served as a Mesa officer for about two years before he was fired two months after the shooting for violations of departmental policy, including unsatisfactory performance. Video of shooting https://twitter.com/i/videos/939014159726870530

Maybe our founding fathers saw what a huge melting pot we was gonna become and gave the right to us as a psychological comfort and also a way to ease up the govt way to "protect" since as a single country we are much bigger than I think any single country in Europe. In Europe I'm wondering if it is common to have "big" creatures (not snakes and spiders etc) running around that can kill you as well. Like are bears, lions, tigers, etc very common in y'all's countries still? We have bears, wolves and lynxes, although in many places they have been hunted to extinction. Here in Finland they are quite common, but city person can live their life without seeing one.

Dems probably should nominate 20+ candidates plus one rich celebrity joke candidate and have lots of idiotic debates to hog press time and it is almost guaranteed that their joke candidate will win

I must say that USA has very interesting tax laws considering that they need following definitions be included in them

Chicago offers 2.25 billion dollars worth of tax breaks and other incentives if they build their office to Chicago.

He had dual citizenship, which is why he was able to move Norway so easily.

It is nice little story about how expectations patriotism don't match reality of what being patriotic entails. I personally find it very funny.

We have quite similar system in Finland, as every year on 1st of November (also called national envy day) everybody's tax returns are made public.

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/933346267492646913 8:06AM: White House makes pool reporter issue a correction to say "The president will NOT have a low-key day and has a full schedule of meetings and phone calls." 9::26AM: The president goes golfing I don't envy people who are running political satire magazines these days.

That isn't even worse robbery that government does. I mean they say that debt is not inherited. Like for example man is 10 million dollars in debt to you and then he dies and government tells you that man's children don't own any money to you. Like those children have not benefited from that 10 million dollars that you borrowed to their dad.