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Well, it can't in its present form, but there is a market (me, at least) for a distributed app framework that would be the basis for uncensored (and uncensorable) serverless p2p versions of all your favorite social media.

Yup, surprised that they never thought of charging (more) for lossless.

Has anyone publicly presented any concrete evidence whatsoever that the Russians were involved in any way in influencing the U.S. election as yet?

Just asking, for a friend :)

I recently flew to the U.S. - I did consider wiping my iPhone in advance and then restoring it from iCloud backup once safely in the hotel, but in the end just left it at home. It was very nice taking a break too.

Of course, as a fairly unremarkable middle-aged white guy, I didn't get stopped at all.

Speculating here, but as a defeated and occupied WW2 power - indeed still hosting U.S. troops to this day - Germany might not have had very much say in where its gold got stored.

Compare and contrast with speculation about what happened to Ukraine's gold: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-18/ukraine-admits-its-...

If diamonds are anything to go by, it is perhaps unlikely that the asteroid miners would dump the whole lot on the market in one go. It would be in their interests to maintain prices in order to maximise their profits, would it not?

To counter your assertion that it's just "the right wing" who have lost trust in the MSM, I would direct your attention towards: https://www.off-guardian.org

This lady talks as if false flag state-sponsored terrorism for political purposes does not exist.

As evidence that it most certainly does, I would suggest the work of Dr. Daniele Ganser (University of Basel, Switzerland) on Operation Gladio - NATO-sponsored terrorism in post-WW2 Europe, a notable example of which is the Bologna rail staion massacre, which killed 85.

https://www.danieleganser.ch/assets/files/Inhalte/Interviews...

He also did an interesting lecture on 9/11, examining the evidence on the tenth anniversary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fUT7XgLiTY

I saw an article a few years ago, where they said most people disadvantage themselves unknowingly - by not negotiating their salary for their first job out of college harder.

The thinking being that if most people usually move jobs for their current salary +x%, that initial figure has a profound compound effect throughout the rest of your earning career.

Double it and add 5k?

Yay Microsoft!

I would only quibble about the car-crash that has been attempting to download VS 2017 from behind a corporate (bank) firewall.

ZIRP and NIRP have been very damaging to many retired and retiring, when buying annuities and attempting to live off savings interest.

Brexit voter here. Reasons? The treatment of Greece; the craven slavery of the EU to Neocon coup-instigating in Ukraine (and general Russia-baiting - yes, I realise that is unlikely to change short-term in UK with Brexit, but have hopes for the future); and a general belief in the superiority of smaller polities.

From NASA - volcanic vs solar activity: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/st07500u.html

"volcanos erupted causing a cold period that lasted from the 1600s to the late 1800s"

Correlation vs causation - while the volcanic winter phenomenon is well-known, there are those that propose that solar activity is the primary driver of climate on Earth:

https://www.amazon.com/Neglected-Sun-Precludes-Catastrophe-I...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/winter-is...

Not to say that the greenhouse effect is not real, or that anthropogenic CO2 does not cause warming - just that the magnitude of the effect may well be greatly over-hyped.

This is a false dichotomy: either everyone is "ceaselessly, ruthlessly, effectively scheming" or "all parties and groups are fractious and bumbling"

How about the truth is somewhere in between? Some people are scheming - and some schemes do come off successfully.

There has been nothing but scheming and counter-scheming since this U.S. election - the removal of General Flynn being, according to some commentators, just the latest example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_ZfKmcnSk