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What Altman doesn't need to worry about is the blowback and boycotting that occurs when actual CEOs speak out.

They know what he refuses to admit: that a non-vocal majority of this country strongly supports the President and will NOT support anyone who publicly smites him.

Attacking the President as a normal consumer goods CEO is a losing proposition.

Can't wait to see what Altman writes when the voter fraud is investigated and it's over 3 million fraudulent votes.

We already know of 800,000 (http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/26/hillary-clinto...). Detroit was apparent. The rest will come easily.

What else is Altman wrong about??

> start aggressively building European-based competitors to US tech companies that actually respect user privacy

Won't happen when all of Europe keeps raising taxes and the US lowers theirs.

Most creators like to keep their rewards and distribute it at their discretion, not have over half of it stolen from them by force.

What's your take on censorship?

For instance, if there were scandal allegations involving your favorite politician, and a Neocities user was writing about them, would you take the pages down at their request?

> Given how shit both R and D party security is...

Ummm, since we're now talking about the private email server (still absolutely illegal, regardless of justification), we're not talking about DNC leaks here, so this has nothing to do with "D" and "R".

That ClintonEmail.com server should have been in the STATE DEPARTMENT behind government firewalls, heavily monitored by our government's cybersecurity division.

> I suspect the private email servers are actually afforded a bit of security by being obscure.

WOW!!! Are you listening to yourself?! That's demonstrably been proven to be completely false (ClintonEmail.com is not exactly a "obscure" domain, BTW) -- and by her team's own admission, as there was hack attempt after hack attempt:

* http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JW-v...

* http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/JW-v...

* http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/JW-v...

Then, of course, there was this quote:

> Finally, we learned there is a confidence from these sources that her server had been hacked. And that it was a 99% accuracy that it had been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that things had been taken from that.

But, "you suspect".

How about this: I suspect that they setup a private email server to keep out of the reach of FOIA attempts, because of Lord knows what scandals would have been unearthed. Those emails are out there, many of them possibly on the Weiner laptop or elsewhere, and time will tell if there will ever be any justice served for these Federal crimes.

Shown by who?

The Clinton Foundation does good? Like they did in Haiti, right??

It's okay, you just haven't dug deep enough. The key is understanding where the proposed pipelines are located. Hint: they're in line with various overthrown governments; not coincidental.

Note that I'm not saying you should dig any deeper, as it's not exactly productive time and this is the job of the investigators, but it's interesting to watch play out.

Best question lately is "Where is Eric Braverman?"...

At this point, I'd only like to know why you're making personal attacks on someone you've never met in order to support and defend a politician who's committed federal crimes -- one who you've likely also never met.

Might be time to step back and take a deep breath, my friend.

Have you actually read the emails in question? I've referenced them elsewhere in this thread.

First off, arguing "against the other side" has nothing to do with these emails and is offtopic. We're referencing what was discovered in the leaked emails. And inside, you can find documented proof of the Uranium One thing and their concerns over it.

What millions? How about these:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8396

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22030#efmABAADK...

What Russia family connections? How about these:

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927 (see page 61 of the attachment)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/1127

Why the concern if there's nothing to be concerned about? (https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/225, https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/370)

Regarding codespeak... it's starting to go mainstream. Google what Ben Swann's been up to.

I'm upset enough that our politicians take monstrous amounts of money from corporate lobbyists... let alone foreign nations in questionable areas!! That part is unforgivable.

Justify it however you want, there was some very chilling revelations in those emails. I want politicians solving problems, not building press angles.

Is everyone here forgetting the millions given by foreign nations?? The outright collusion with media? The lack of sensitivity to LGBT rights? The fact that they never discussed how to actually solve the Nation's problems, only worked on crafting a message to the public, and having "public and private" policies? The family connections to Russia that everyone conveniently ignores lately? Or most chilling of all, the cryptic codespeak used in several emails?

Does the 33% corporate tax rate and ~30% personal income tax rate (at a €30k salary) apply to them?

Ahhh, my bad, I didn't dig enough to see that you were Canadian. If Trump's policies "work" with respect to employment, you may certainly see similar dominos fall. TBD of course.

When did I ever imply those things?

I will bluntly state that if you have the kind of writing talent that OP displayed, and you cannot afford a bicycle, you are simply not applying yourself.

That level of skill alone could easily net you $1500/month+ on various writing services (at an extremely conservative 2000 words/day * $0.03/word * 20 days/month). Nobody said it'd be fun or easy, but hey, you'd at least have a bicycle after you got paid.

So, is the argument here that more expensive healthcare shouldn't make for more expensive insurance?

I wholeheartedly disagree.

If I choose to live rent-free in my parents' basement, I will not get fined for doing so. I keep ALL of my cash. But I'll STILL get fined for having not buying myself insurance.

I'm not sure what logical fallacy you're throwing here, some form of "Denying the antecedent" or something along those lines, but it's not the same situation.

There is a huge difference between a fine and not receiving an incentive.

If I have $1000 in my pocket right now, I will still have $1000 in my pocket if I choose not to go after an incentive.

But if I have $1000 in my pocket right now, I will not have $1000 in my pocket even if I choose not to buy any health insurance.

In my eyes, being punished for peacefully doing absolutely nothing is as anti-American as it comes. That's another argument, but my point is that the analogy is off the mark.

Bullseye landing of Stage 1! This is always so inspiring to watch live

> But it is me that envy them now, I am 29, have zero income, lots of debt, and own no assets (not even a bicycle).

I have a hard time feeling sorry for people who write such essays. You are clearly a talented writer. Are you unable to start some kind of a business and hustle for 14 hours a day?? Why do you have time to be here and not there?

Given the energy policies our President is going to be taking, I'm willing to bet your friends in oil will be employed within two years. We'll see, but there's quite a bit of excitement with my chemical engineering friends.

Do you get fined for not buying a house??

Because you do get fined for not buying health insurance.

We can argue the semantics of the word 'mandate' all day, but your analogy is upside down.

Altman acts like buying insurance was impossible when self employed pre-ACA. Give me a break.

I shopped online and bought a sensible plan just like anything else. There were tons of choices and plenty of competition.

This whole notion that we'll all be doomed without it is utter rubbish. The entire Healthcare system is broken, starting from our agricultural subsidies to our ridiculous prescription drug prices (which many pharma-lobbied Democrats just voted to keep high) to the artificially low supply of doctors (you don't need 12 years of school to prescribe penicillin).

ACA is just 2000 pages of nonsense on top of all of that. We can do better at all facets.

Many bands, startups, and other well-intentioned people have taken on TicketMaster in an effort to shake up the industry.

All have lost. Nothing has changed.

> heart disease

You mean "partying our faces off for decades on end"?

Unfortunately no, we don't have a cure to fix a generally wrecked body.

Drugs are indeed bad, at least to the extent that this generation of stars used them.

Given that there is no report button or ability to downvote someone that replies to you (at least not on mobile for me), it is only reasonable to defend myself in that situation.

The ensuing attacker went to my profile, researched me and my business, and personally attacked me because they disagreed with my sentiment.

What is my recourse for action in such a case? Take it on the chin like a wimp? I don't think so.

If you don't provide appropriate tools to stop a tit attack, then you are fostering an unfair and "unsafe" environment by banning tit-for-tat response.

You are turning this community into a one-way echo chamber.

How is "you spew" namecalling?

I was the one personally attacked in this thread, not the other way around. Just because my comment doesn't fit the Musk Worship narrative doesn't make me wrong.

Was someone not killed by a malfunctioning / underprepared Tesla? What am I missing here????

> but they make money along the way

Only killing a few people in the process, but hey who am I to judge?

One big sign of dysfunction at Apple is that their main competitor released phones that literally explode, and Apple was still unable recapture any foothold, while said competitor is successfully reloading as we speak.

> TV executives don't seem to understand that.

Oh, they completely get that, but this generation of executives are ride-or-die into retirement. They don't care about the future of their companies.

They're going to pick the carcass as long as they can, parachute out with everything, and leave it just in time to go the way of Blockbuster.

The more you research, the more horrifying it is. I'd not recommend looking into it if you don't want to go down a rabbit hole, be thoroughly creeped out, and have your day completely ruined.