Donald Trump

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  1. Moonglow181

    Moonglow181 Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Also, I have not heard you speak of anything Hillary stands for that goes against your ethics besides the getting into people's private computers......to catch criminals......but what goes against your ethics about her more than Trump?

    Also, if you are typing your blog, why would it not look like what you are typing?
     
  2. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    Silicon Valley DOES view the government as an adversary ... exactly because of people like her. Apple, Google, Mozilla, the FSF (Free Software Foundation) all stand against such tyrannical ... pipe dreams lol.

    read the link: i've explained this shit before on here. I must not have the proper ethos, and i doubt the person who wrote this article does either .. for some people. Some people just don't know, or don't care. The technological literacy of society at large is quite pathetic and they will believe w/e bullshit that comes out of the mouth of someone like Hillary Clinton that talks like they are an authority on the subject, though it's worthy to note that she herself has admitted that she has little to no understanding of how the technology actually works but that she trusts that "tech experts" can "come up with a solution to this problem". lmao.

    But what she is talking about really is nothing more than a pipe dream ... it won't solve anything. You can't ban knowledge, or an algorithm. Just like you can't ban me from writing code that could be used to do things that under certain circumstances could be considered illegal. Heh. It's not like hackers NEED corporations to supply them with crypto lol ... they're perfectly capable of getting what they need elsewhere ...

    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151119/18032932868/hillary-clinton-joins-make-silicon-valley-break-encryption-bandwagon.shtml


    *as far as the blog ... its because papers are written in a certain format, MLA fomat, APA, IEEE, chicago style etc. HF blogs screws up the formatting so its a real pain to edit it into something that looks right at all*

    edit: blog is up. I'll probably have to edit it again later, but it seems to look okay at least at first glance
     
  3. Moonglow181

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    I am sorry, but all of the silicon valley talk is way over my head, and what do hackers need that cannot be obtained legally?...so it still means nothing to me....whatever Hillary says about it......I guess it is not my main concern in life. Should it be and why?
    How is the governemnt going to hurt me, if they get into my computer? Nothing I do would be of any interest to them....so I do not worry about it.
     
  4. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    So what is it? She needed a man to help her career or not?
    You said the only reason she got to where she is is because she's a woman, and that she needed Bill Clinton to help her, if I remember correctly when Bill was President she was criticized for being too pushy and not accepting the role of Little Miss White House. I seem to remember that she was supposed to be the brains behind Bill.

    Absolutely.
    Let's look at some supposed rights that woman have that men don't.
    Woman have the right to not have their genitals cut during infancy and the poor old guys may have to put up with a circumcision. A totally stupid comparison as some believe male circumcision has health benefits while female circumcision:
    They can't be drafted into the military for combat service.
    This is a male decision. Women do not have the physical strength of men, they become pregnant (although they could be forced to use birth control), someone is needed to stay at home and mind the young (why would we send the mother of a nursing baby into combat and leave the father at home)?
    Women have the right to choose parenthood.
    So do men. The argument is that once a man has inseminated a female she can sue him for support and he can't order her to have an abortion. What idiot came up with this.
    Women have the right to be the assumed caregiver of children.
    Again idiotic.
    Women have the right to call unwanted coerced sex rape.
    So do men.

    Now on to your mens' rights question. Constitutionally both have equal rights, but we're not talking about Constitutional rights are we? We're talking about the right to make decisions concerning one's own body, the right to equal healthcare, the right to non discrimination in the workplace due to gender alone, the right to not be socially programed into certain roles (that happens to both genders but predominately to the females), and the right to equal pay. I did notice the report you cited was confined to the first year after college graduation.
    It depends on the context.

    True it's not illegal, That was my point. There are no laws that I know of that say the President of the United States can not have an affair or date other employees or "inferiors" to use your term. Nor are there any written rules or policies, nor are their any hard social rules as there is certainly ample precedence for this type of activity.
    Then you state that you don't really care if Bill cheated on his wife but then bring your own morality into play by condemning him by saying, "no leader should be using sex to take advantage of employees." Even though there are no laws, written rules or policies, or absolute social restrictions on doing so...and you don't really know if the employees were taken advantage of or if they were the initiators or willing participates.


    I know what STEM is, I've written curriculum based on it and was involved in it as it was being developed in the state of PA. So what?
    I am well aware of how males and females are educated in the U.S. and what social pressures are applied to both having spent over 51 years in the system at all levels.



    That's not the question. Can you prove that diversity doesn't improve a companies performance or that a lack of it does?


    I don't know what the point of your video was. Some guy complains because women cry so they shouldn't be in science related fields?
     
  5. Flagme15

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    You are putting political leaders on a pedestal. They are no different than the rest of us other than the fact that they can buy their way into office.
     
  6. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    You missed the point. Most "hacking tools" are written by hackers ... any vulnerability introduced into a system can be exploited by anyone with a simple script or program once it's discovered, which it will be then distributed freely on the Internet for anyone who knows how to use it, to use it against you, or anyone else using the vulnerable system which in the worst case might be like 98% of US citizens. China and Russia would love it, and ISIS would really love it. They have their own "tech experts" ... ;)
     
  7. scratcho

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    There is no drought in California. Trump said so yesterday. And of course--he's going to fix the water situation.If those 3 " fish in the delta could be wiped out ---there would be plenty of water for everyone. I feel better about it. You?
     
  8. newo

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    ​Well he refuses to debate with Bernie and gives all sorts of lame excuses why not. Obviously he knows he has nothing to gain and a lot to lose from it because Bernie would tear him a new one.

    ​I wonder how he'll get out of debating Hillary?
     
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  9. I don't see him having much trouble debating Hillary. All the times he dodges questions and all the points she makes against him will seem like a big deal to the smaller segment of the population that takes the mainstream media and Hillary and Trump seriously, but to the majority of us it's just raw entertainment at that point. When Trump comes back at her with attacks on her character it will be just as valid as her attacks on him. Most people want to see her torn apart just as much as they want to see Trump torn apart. There'll be a bunch of losers who are really into Hillary trying to make it cool to like her, but the essential uncoolness of these people will make it a comedy of errors.

    Would've been nice to have a real man as president, Bernie Sanders, but if we have to torture ourselves for another four to eight years I can take the darkness.
     
  10. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I think Hillary would do really well in debates with him attacking his lack of substance.
     
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  11. Nah, 'cause she has no substance either. She waffles on everything. Most of her campaign is stolen Bernie talking points. She's got nothing except a transparent desire to feel better than everybody else.
     
  12. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    I believe Hillary has substance. She's not the most ethical person around, but she has what it takes to get the job done without ruining the country.

    Here's a lack of substance: We'll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. How? Trust me, they will.

    And so on.

    But Trump supporters aren't into substance, they're into slogans, rhetoric and empty promises. I once thought that after exposure to Nixon and Bush the American people had become more savvy and less gullible. Apparently not.
     
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  13. I don't understand how you can be so blind to Hillary. I suppose you just really loathe the idea of Trump being president. But Hillary does not have a good favorable rating or trustworthiness rating with the general public. Even Obama said "Hillary will say anything and change nothing."

    The country is already ruined at this point. Citizen's United makes that clear. The only question is whether or not it's salvageable, and neither Hillary nor Trump can be trusted to do what's in the people's best interest rather than what's in the corporations' best interests.

    If you want to talk about Nixon, who is more like Nixon than Hillary, deleting all of her emails and putting them on a private server to try and avoid public inquiry?

    Both of these candidates just suck in the worst ways imaginable. People should stop playing along like they have no choice but to vote for one of them and use their vote as it was meant to be used. To vote for someone you actually believe in. The only way democracy will win is if we stop playing along. Our true voice needs to be heard.
     
  14. hotwater

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    ‘America Was Never Great’ Hat Leads to Death Threats


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    Krystal Lake of Staten Island with a custom-made hat that caused strong reactions on social media and led to death threats

    Ms. Lake a Bernie Sanders supporter said she had gotten tired of hearing Mr. Trump’s slogan from his supporters and thought "America was never great.”




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  15. Karen_J

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    I like the hat.
     
  16. newo

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    I'm not blind to Hillary but if my choice was between Nixon and Hitler I'd go with Nixon.
     
  17. EventHorizon

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    I think Donald Trump wins either way. Whether he ends up president or not. All of the free advertising he's been receiving has raised the value of his personal brand sky high. He's going to end up richer at the end of this thing, no matter the outcome.

    Which is why he ran in the first place. It was a business decision.
     
  18. Meliai

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    But this isn't good. Choosing between Nixon and Hitler is not where we want to be as a country.
     
  19. Tyrsonswood

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    But that's where our country is, unfortunately.
     
  20. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    According to Hipmonk (whatever that is) bookings at Trump's hotels are down 59% compared to last year.

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