Octopus Overlords

Zaxxon wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:59 pm https://twitter.com/Tweets0fTheGod/stat ... 6574155778

Holman wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:19 pm

Alefroth wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:46 pm I'm not familiar with Briscoe. What's the implication, that Stephen met his maker?

No need to be coy. Briscoe's implication is that Hawking is burning in hellfire.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:36 pm

Holman wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:19 pm

Alefroth wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:46 pm I'm not familiar with Briscoe. What's the implication, that Stephen met his maker?

No need to be coy. Briscoe's implication is that Hawking is burning in hellfire.

I know nothing about Briscoe, but I would never have taken that implication away from his Tweet.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:36 pm

Holman wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:19 pm

Alefroth wrote: Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:46 pm I'm not familiar with Briscoe. What's the implication, that Stephen met his maker?

No need to be coy. Briscoe's implication is that Hawking is burning in hellfire.

I know nothing about Briscoe, but I would never have taken that implication away from his Tweet.

Throughout the video, the women explain they are filming to shed light on a "threat that we're facing in America." They emphasize that the mosque has infiltrated a "nice suburban city" where "many young vulnerable people pass by."

They give the children various warnings during the visit. As the kids pass by the mosque's playground equipment and climb onto a funeral van, Gonzales tells them they "don't know what filth has been on there" and that items touched by Muslims could be "disease-ridden."

"They multiply," Gonzales says as she films, at one point implying Muslims endorse pedophilia and "smell like goats" because they have sex with them.

"They’re multiplying, so that they’re able to continue their invasion and illegal takeover of everything,” she says.

The video indicates Gonzales might have been armed, despite multiple signs prohibiting weapons at the mosque. "They carry AKs (assault rifles) around and kill people all the time," she says of Muslims in the video.

The video ends with Gonzales shouting at a man standing near one of the community center's doors. As one of her dogs runs over to the man, Gonzales yells at him not to touch it or eat it before launching into a tirade against "Sharia law."

A controversial rule requiring advisers to act in their clients’ best interests when it comes to managing retirement accounts has been ferociously contested, and may soon be dead.

The Fifth Circuit Court, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, said on Thursday the Department of Labor, which oversees the fiduciary rule, “overreached” with its mission. The fiduciary rule, also known officially as the “Conflict of Interest” rule, states advisers have to give conflict-free advice on retirement accounts, putting their clients’ needs ahead of their own potential compensation. That means shifting away from commissions on various investment products and becoming completely transparent on what they do and the advice they provide. Because other circuit courts sided with the government, the rule’s fate may lay in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is currently unclear.

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RunningMn9 wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:18 pm I don’t understand how someone can say “A controversial rule requiring advisers to act in their clients’ best interests”.

How is that controversial to Paul Ryan? Ryan wouldn’t stand there and say out loud that he thinks that advisers should be able to act in their own best interests, at the expense of their clients. Like he wouldn’t say that out loud.

So what would he say out loud about it?


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ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:44 pm As a supposed free market purist, he would say that this is overregulation, and that the market would figure this out. Advisors who frequently acted in their own interests and screwed over investors would lose clients to those who acted in their clients' best interests. He would also likely argue that the rule opens up advisors to frivolous lawsuits when something they thought was a good investment goes sour, and it shouldn't be up to the courts to second guess these advisors. That's my guess without really researching the arguments for or against, anyway.

Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker best known for passing on information that led to the arrest of Chelsea Manning, has died aged 37.

In online messaging conversations, Manning confided in him, describing confidential military material Manning had sent to Wikileaks.

Wikileaks published the video of a US helicopter strike that killed seven people, including a journalist working for the Reuters news agency.

The cause of Lamo’s death, confirmed to the BBC by the Sedgwick County coroner in Kansas, has not yet been made public.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Friday described Lamo as a “petty conman and betrayer of basic human decency”.

RunningMn9 wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:32 am

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:44 pm As a supposed free market purist, he would say that this is overregulation, and that the market would figure this out. Advisors who frequently acted in their own interests and screwed over investors would lose clients to those who acted in their clients' best interests. He would also likely argue that the rule opens up advisors to frivolous lawsuits when something they thought was a good investment goes sour, and it shouldn't be up to the courts to second guess these advisors. That's my guess without really researching the arguments for or against, anyway.

But if the rule doesn't exist, and a financial adviser doesn't have any fiduciary obligation to act in their client's best interest, wouldn't that make it really hard to sue in the event that the financial adviser sold you a bunch of lousy investments because he got a giant pay day (from the investment), at the client's expense?

Without any rule to enforce, the client just gets fucked. Sure if a FA fucks over enough clients, the market might act to correct that, but that relies on new clients having the necessary information at their finger tips to know that the FA has been fisting other clients over.

It seems obvious that FAs should have a fiduciary obligation to act in the best interest of their clients. That's just common sense.

AWS260 wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:11 pm It's happening: the only non-annoying Sex & The City actor is running against Mario Cuomo.

Kraken wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:27 pm And it could be a springboard to the presidency. America would benefit from another Nixon.

AWS260 wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:43 pm Maybe a well-meaning neophyte would be an improvement.

The last drop was supposed to be “the big one” — the full inspector general report on McCabe, which still has not been released. Instead, when Burkman bent over to pull the papers out from under the cone, he was shot in the buttocks and thigh. As he ran out of the garage with his dachshund in his arms, he was hit by an SUV.

Fitzy wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 1:06 pm I'm well aware I'm going to hell for laughing at attempted murder. The actual Washington Post article is: Lobbyist says he was nearly killed by man he hired to investigate Seth Rich’s death.

Freyland wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm I'm amazed the dog was unhurt. He was shot in the thigh while carrying a Weiner.

Kraken wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:27 pm And it could be a springboard to the presidency. America would benefit from another Nixon.

Freyland wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm I'm amazed the dog was unhurt. He was shot in the thigh while carrying a Weiner.

Remus West wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:19 pm

Freyland wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm I'm amazed the dog was unhurt. He was shot in the thigh while carrying a Weiner.

I swear there is a joke here about Anthony but I just can not seem to find it.

Remus West wrote:

Freyland wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm I'm amazed the dog was unhurt. He was shot in the thigh while carrying a Weiner.

I swear there is a joke here about Anthony but I just can not seem to find it.

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:01 pm

Remus West wrote:

Freyland wrote: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm I'm amazed the dog was unhurt. He was shot in the thigh while carrying a Weiner.

I swear there is a joke here about Anthony but I just can not seem to find it.

Just can’t rise to the occasion, eh?

The Trump administration succeeded in eliminating efforts to direct $900 million in planned seed funding to the $30 billion Gateway project to improve passenger rail service to and from Manhattan, including a new tunnel under the Hudson River.

[Trump wants Gateway tunnel project left unfunded, Chao tells House panel]

The project has been a key priority for lawmakers of both parties, including Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.).


But Trump, according to several officials familiar with his thinking, was determined not to hand Schumer a win while Democrats stood in the way of his administration’s priorities, and he issued a veto threat that the White House never backed off. A Democratic aide said that the project would still benefit from hundreds of millions of dollars in Transportation Department funding, even without the specific earmark.

Max Peck wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:49 pm Turkish guards will be charged in embassy protests, officials say

D.C. authorities will announce criminal charges Thursday against 12 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail and the police force who authorities say attacked protesters outside the ambassador’s residence last month, according to two officials familiar with the case.

Charges have been dropped against 11 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's security detail that were accused of beating protesters in Washington, D.C.

Federal prosecutors made the decision to drop the charges against 11 of the 15 security members in connection with the incident.
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Prosecutors in November requested a judge to drop the charges against four members of Erdoğan's security team, and the charges against seven others were dropped in February before now-outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew to Turkey to meet with Erdoğan.

U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal that the prosecutors were not pressured to drop the charges, saying that investigators had misidentified some suspects and did not have enough evidence against others.

Moliere wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2017 5:23 pm Turkey has arrested Amnesty International’s local director

Following a decision by a court in Istanbul to conditionally release the Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner Kılıç, after nearly eight months in detention, Gauri van Gulik, Amnesty International’s Europe Director said:
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While Taner has now been released, the trial against him, İdil Eser and the other nine human rights defenders on trumped-up terrorism related charges continues. It is one of many baseless prosecutions against members of civil society under the crackdown in Turkey.

Amnesty International chair Taner Kılıç has been in prison detention since June 2017. He was released by the trial court on 31 January 2018, only for the same court to reverse its decision the next day. His trial for “membership of a terrorist organization” continues despite the lack of any credible evidence of his guilt.

Altogether, SpaceX and Tesla had more than 5 million followers, according to Venture Beat.

"We've never advertised with FB," Musk added. "None of my companies buy advertising or pay famous people to fake endorse. Product lives or dies on its own merits."