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My daughter was telling me about an app that day-cares and schools use to send photos of kids to 'helicopter' and panic parents and I tried explaining why that was a security issue:

How do you explain to people who don't realise the problem that there IS a problem.

I've tried using the Jewish registration at the Nazi police stations (what, 1939ish?).
I've tried hacker data stealing.
Data collection of kids through adulthood.....

What is a good argument to use against "App! Facebook! Wow! If you don't do anything wrong you have nothing to worry about"?

Anyone got a good speal?

We're Making America Great Again. And part of that is honoring the guy who made America great in the first place. By discovering it. Naming it. And opening it for BUSINESS! So I've proclaimed today as a VERY SPECIAL day to honor the fantastic Christopher Columbus. He was a very smart businessman. But he had a big heart. So inspiring! For too long, people forgot how our Country started -- Columbus. I didn't forget. He's forgotten no more. Because I did a Proclamation. We are finally going to open the history books on the Columbus family, their lives, their schemes, their adventures. CELEBRATE!!! whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-columbus-day-2018

Rumor: New PlayStation 5 Feature Revealed

Earlier this week, a new patent filed by Sony suggested that it is planning on adding backwards compatibility to the PlayStation 5. Now, another patent has surfaced revealing possibly another feature the system will have.

Filed back in May by Sony Interactive Entertainment, and approved just a few days ago, the patent appears to suggest that hardware V-Sync will ship with the next Sony console.

Titled "Video Frame Rate Compensation Through Adjustment of Vertical Blanking," the patent is pretty extensive, but in short, it should help games run better on the system.

Great, patents for backward compatibility and V-Sync. WTF?

Read this. Fuckin' read it. You want someone with violent tendencies? You want "disasturbation?" You want stone-cold nihilism? Runaway has you covered. Here he is, cheering for megadeaths, wishing horrible demise upon 50 million people he dislikes ("progressives") because he thinks people with brown skin are somehow the privileged class in this country. He also seems to think I'm some kind of unreconstructed Marxist, which is...not only not right, it's not even wrong. I've bolded the especially...telling...parts of this little rant.

Alright then -

A civil war will be uglier than most liberals have ever dreamed. Maybe uglier than the war-happy conservative capitalists have dreamed, as well.

But, it might be better than allowing the progressives to have control. The so-called left is hardly any more left than the R's are, but they are strongly into authoritarianism. That left makes me look silly as hell with my claims of being an authoritarian. The REAL difference between me, and them, is the legitimacy of authority. If I recognize an authority as being legitimate, then I respect it. If I don't recognize an authority as legitimate, I fight it.

Your left wants to create it's own authority by force. There is no legitimacy to either the force, or the authority which they desire. None.

But, if the right stands by, and watches the "left" proceed, it's possible that the progressives could win. Chances are slim, but the possibility exists.

Yes, I'd rather see twenty million dead liberals lying in the streets, than to see their progressive heros taking over this country. And, I'll willingly sacrifice five million dead conservatives and independents to put a stop to the progressives.

The tree of life must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots, from time to time.

And, welcome to reality, where most important decisions by nations are settled by force. As it has been for tens of thousands of years, so it will be for tens of thousands of years into the future.

Have you ever considered the dystopias portrayed in much of science fiction? Have you never imagined one of those dystopias, in which death is preferable to living? The dystopia being offered to us by the progressives is one in which a child can be punished, and branded for life, if he so much as notices that his own skin is not the same color as that of his teacher, or one of his class mates. In this computer age, any "deviant" behaviour will be documented, put into a database, and NEVER forgotten.

Progressives promise a number of things, which I fear, and despise, with their racial inequality ranking high. "People of color" vs "white and Asian". It's already real, it has made it into headlines. Follow that to it's logical conclusion - if you're brown, or black, you get a leg up in education, employment, in everything. If you're white, or Asian, you get shit on, and you're lucky if you can ever get a job cleaning septic tanks, or collecting garbage.

The party, as well as the progressives, have forgotten Martin Luther King, who had a dream. They've abandoned his dream. Today, they don't want equality, they want vengeance.

And, I, for one, am not willing that my grandchildren should be cast into some third-rate citizen role, to make those brown or black people happy. I side with King - my great grandchildren should compete with black, white, brown, and Asian for their place in life. And, the best man/woman for the job should win the job.

Political correctness? I've fought that bullshit since I first heard of it. It was a Soviet construction - if you were in good graces with the party, then you were politically correct. Fuck PC. Seriously, just fuck PC. Progressives promise to enslave my descendants, at the expense of brown and black people. Just fuck them.

Twenty million dead progressives? Make it fifty million - it's all the same to me. A future with slavery in it looks pretty damned bleak, no matter whether it's my descendants, or yours, or whoever's. We had a war, ~150 years ago, over a number of issues, including slavery. Today, "liberals" want to go back and explore slavery. Kill 'em all, and let God sort them out.

The bunch of dumb bastards in charge of the Democrat party need to pull their heads out of their asses, BEFORE they spark that civil war. Once the first few shots are fired, there will be no mercy.

Gawwwwwwwwwd...DAMN. This is what a meltdown looks like. This is what "identity politics" actually is. The man has gone bat-boinking nuts. Okay Runaway, suit up in your Rambo gear, here's an MP3 player with the soundtracks to the entire Contra series on it, here's some MREs, now go and defend your country from those horrible brown people.

Jesus. Jetskiing. CHRIST.

Thank you Kansas, we love Kansas! And thank you @VP Pence, very smart Dem Senators Susan Collins & Joe Manchin & our LOYAL Rep Senators -- I'm so proud of how you all put America First today! Congrats (soon) ASS. JUSTICE BART! VOTE Nov. 6th.! #RedTide https://www.pscp.tv/w/bolO8zFvTlFs...

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This ^ should never have happened.

We've registered our son (despite my mis-givings) with the police as moderate to severely autistic, non-verbal, with slight cerebral palsy BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THINGS LIKE THIS to happen to him (as well as for other reasons, explained below).

The police in Canada seem to be much better trained (or more patient) than in the States, but we don't want anything going wrong for him in any encounters.
He is rarely out of our sight or hearing and we got him a Medic-Alert tag for his running shoes that can point police to his info (supposedly, they are trained to look for tags like this), but registered him with the local police to let them have INSTANT info if he ever did go missing (they won't have to wait for us to get them pictures and info: they will be able to access it from their site).
They will know his name, any nick-names he will respond (possibly) to, how he might react to them, how to get calm him down, that he will probably want to be hugged, etc.

We want him to be trouble free if found by the police (the school has let him run a couple of times but have always caught up to him eventually.... so far).

But what happened in the video above is disgusting. He sprays water at them and they taze him over and over and over and over????
WTF?

If that happened to our son, they would be seeing a VERY expensive court case and disciplinary actions and HELL FIRE RAINED DOWN ON THEM and have their asses plugged with cement if possible.

Never. ever. ever. should. have. happened.

*****
Just read the rest of the story: the down syndrome kid being asphyxiated by police and the other shit.

No charges were laid against the cops who tazed the kid in the shower?

My God.
How do these people go on in their lives.

You win the presidency, in theory you're not supposed to do great in the midterms. Right? We won and we've been working very hard at our agenda of Making America Great Again. But you know what, honestly, with what we've done on jobs, on our Country, on our Military -- we're gonna talk about our veterans, what we've done -- on Energy. Who the hell can beat us, I mean who can beat us? Who can beat us?

One of the Fake News people said recently, and they hated to say it, but that Trump has actually fulfilled MORE PROMISES THAN HE PROMISED. It's true, look what we're doing. 4.2% GDP. Every point is 3.5 trillion dollars and 10 million jobs. And when I took it over, our Country was headed south. We were going down. Instead of 4.2, you'd be at negative. Negative 4.2. Last quarter it was 4.1, it was just adjusted upward to 4.2. And it's going much higher. We've created over 4 million jobs since the election. We've lifted almost 4 million Americans off of food stamps. Wow!! Number 1 we're taking care of people. Number 2 it doesn't cost us anything. We've added nearly, it will soon be 600,000 new manufacturing jobs. We weren't supposed to be adding manufacturing jobs. Companies are pooring back into our Country.

Our Coal Industry is back -- people said it would never happen. We're giving great healthcare. We're in the process of building the strongest military we've ever had -- by far. Wage growth highest in nearly 17 months. USMCA, big victory for our wonderful American Industries & Workers. Lot of praise for that one. So much praise. 45.wh.gov/USMCA

Democrats, they want to end ICE. They want to end a lot of things. Open boarders. Can you believe it? Hey, how would you like this platform? We want open boarders, we want High Taxes, we want Crime -- because basically they're saying, Crime. So they have Crime, they have High Taxes, they have Open Boarders. Oh, and by the way, and we don't want to fund the Military. You have no idea how hard it is to get money for the Military. It's almost impossible. It's like a full-time job. But we got that money, we got a lot of money! If the Democrats got 51 votes in the Senate, they would open our nation's boarders, they would starve our Law Enforcement -- do we love our Law Enforcement? Seriously. I got a tremendous percentage of Law Enforcement vote. But, you know, I think I might have, do I get 100%? Let's say I didn't. Who the hell wouldn't vote for me from Law Enforcement? OK? We've done a lot. We've gotten them a lot of surplus material from the Military. You know, we had all this. We had hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus material. And our previous administration, under no circumstances did they want to give this to Law Enforcement. Because they thought it presented a wrong "image." We gave it out to Law Enforcement. And the Law Enforcement does like us. If you want to stop sanctuary cities -- they're rebelling in California, of all places. If you want to protect communities from really bad, bad crime, then you've got to vote Republican. This election is about security and it's about prosperity. We've done things that nobody can believe.

I will tell you, they did a poll. They call it the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Just came out today. Thursday. Overall support, 50%. Look, it's a poll. But we love those polls, don't we? I love polls. Only when they're good. When they're not good, I don't talk about them. But they do a lot of phoney polls. The Fake News Media. They do a lot of polls, they call them suppression polls. They make them bad, so you go to a movie instead of voting. But I'll tell you, in 2016 nobody went to a movie!!! pic.twitter.com/6HQVaEXH0I

"We greatly appreciate President Trump’s LEADERSHIP & DETERMINATION in bringing about a resolution to our intellectual property issue in Canada." Roger Goodell

You're welcome, Roger. And it's so true. We're fighting very hard on that one. It's called NEGOTIATION. People don't know this. In Canada, when they show our Super Bowl on TV, the Canadian stations can't put up their own ads. Their very foolish government -- the Justin regime which, by the way, is overdue for a change -- said, you can only show the USA ads. The American ads. Very hard for the stations to make money that way. Because they can't put in the Canadian ads, in the Canadian language. We're fixing that. In my United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, my USMCA. In which, by the way, we put America First. As I promised and as I always always do. Then Mexico -- we're doing great things with Mexico. And Canada is LAST, where it belongs.

Here's the fix. "Canada shall rescind Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2016-334 and Broadcasting Order CRTC 2016-335. With respect to simultaneous substitution of commercials during the retransmission in Canada of the program referenced in those measures, Canada may not accord the program treatment less favorable than the treatment accorded to other programs originating in the United States retransmitted in Canada."

Very simple. Very straightforward. And very FAIR. Obama wouldn't do it. I'm doing it. And I think I've done more than any other President -- more than ALL the others -- to make our sports leagues the greatest in the world, in the history of the entire world. And to bring back respect for Anthem, Flag & Country. So important! NFL fans were refusing to go to games because players were disrespecting our Flag & Country. Very bad situation. And I said, look, you can force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. I said, make a big penalty if they don't stand. And they'll stand, believe me. So they did the National Anthem Policy, smart move. And the fans are coming back. Because of me. MAGA! hollywoodreporter.com/news/nafta-deal-means-canadian-tv-viewers-wont-see-american-super-bowl-ads-1148687

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(In July) Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, and his staff were reportedly sending text messages to former classmates to underplay allegations that he exposed himself during a party at Yale University.

The text messages, which were obtained by NBC News, were reportedly between Kavanaugh's friends, Kerry Berchem and Karen Yarasavage. Based on the contents of the messages, Kavanaugh himself may reached out to his classmates to undercut the claims made by former classmate Deborah Ramirez, who told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh had exposed himself in front of others at a dorm-room party during the 1983-84 school year.

According to one message, Yarasavage said that Kavanaugh had asked her to defend him on the record, NBC News reported. Other messages indicate that Kavanaugh's surrogates had communicated with his former classmates before the story's publication.

Yarasavage said in a message that she corresponded with "Brett" and "Brett's guy." Bercham also claimed Yarasavage told her friend that she sent a copy of wedding party photo that included Kavanaugh and Ramirez "to Brett's team."

However...

"All right," an interviewer said in a redacted Judiciary Committee report. "My last question on this subject is since you graduated from college, but before [The] New Yorker article publication on September 23rd, have you ever discussed or heard discussion about the incident matching the description given by Ms. Ramirez to [The] New Yorker?"

"No," Kavanaugh said, according to the transcript.

Text messages between Brett Kavanaugh and his classmates seem to contradict his Senate testimony