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Another April Fools joke?

Letting Home Depot know which of there users having been shopping for yard supplies isn't exactly the same as putting complete browsing history of individual user on the auction block. The former is what Google and most other search engines already do, and the latter is what the EFF make it sound like is about to happen.

When I read this article I was very upset. Heck, I was fighting mad. When I read dug a little deeper the next day and discovered that the FCC rule that the Republicans were repealing only dates back to October and wasn't scheduled to go into effect until December 2017, my feeling were strongly mixed. I was relieved that to learn that the only effect of the repeal was to maintain the status quo and pissed as all get out at the EFF for deceiving me. The broadband privacy rules approved last October appear to be very good rules, and the fact that the Republicans are repealing them is messed up. We should be upset about this. However, these were new rules that hadn't even taken effect yet. So if your ISP hasn't in all these years already sold your browsing history (and they haven't) the repeal of some rules that hadn't even gone into effect yet, isn't going to make it happen now. This article was making it out like the one law that had been stopping ISPs from selling our browser history for years had just been axed by the new Republican congress. Really, that what I thought had happened after I read the article. This isn't accidental. This particular article doesn't mention that the broadband privacy rules were very recent, and none of the EFF articles that I saw mentioned that the rules being repealed weren't scheduled to take take effect until December. I am calling fear-mongering on this, and fear-mongering is suppose to be a Trump thing not one of our things.

Actually, not so much. Whenever the two have faced off in the comics, they have been shown as being very evenly matched.

What? Not Madame Gao? She was my favorite character in Iron Fist.

Okay, let talk about this. I think that the article is absolutely right, life between 100% and 200% (maybe 250%) of the federal poverty line really stinks. It is stressful to the point that it subtracts years from a person life, and leaves people riddled with guilt for failing to provide better for their spouses and children So, what are the causative factors and what can be one to address these factors or otherwise help those in the just barely getting by income bracket? I'm hoping that you folk have some ideas here, because I have diddly bumpkus. For causative elements I come up with globalization, automation and the huge and ever widening wealth gap between the rich and the rest of us. Globalization and automation are huge social trends centuries in making, and whatever harm they may do, they both give positive benefits to our lives. If there is anything positive about the wealth gap, I'm not seeing it. However, living in a country where our legislature, our courts and our media are bought and paid for the rich and have been for a very long time, is addressing the wealth gap even possible? I'm not optimistic about this. Part of Trump's business model is not paying his contractors because he has realized that he doesn't have to pay them. Most of the time they would to pay more in legal fees than he owes them in order to collect through the courts. Think about that. That did not happen by accident. How extremely expensive it is to make use of our legal system. to file all the necessary motions and briefs, how expensive it is to get a legal education in the first place, these are features not bugs. Features that have been made part of and expanded upon over the entire life of our republic by those with wealth and power Were we able to somehow get a true populist government, as opposed to the fact populism of Trump administration, the wealthy would just tie it up in the courts, undermine it in the press, wage a fierce counter insurgency in congress and wait it out. They wouldn't have to wait long. In the absence of immediate results the voting public would turn its populist leaders like they turned on the Democrats in 2010 when Obama failed to wave a magic wand and make everything better in his first two years. A pretty bleak assessment, I know. Hopefully, someone here has a more positive ideas on the subject.

If I am understanding it right, a refundable tax credit it being proposed to offset insurance premiums. This means that if you are eligible for the credit based on you income and you purchased insurance, the government cuts you a check. Unfortunately that check probably won't be as much as the ACA subsidy it replaces and you will have to somehow pay your insurance premium in full for months before you get that first check.

My head cannon on this that the Flash travels in a speed force bubble. This is why he can dodge bullets but still gets tagged in HTH. When he gets in punching range of his opponents, they enter his bubble and are brought up to his speed. This is also why he can grab while he is running at super speed and not snap there bodies like twigs.

Yes, the one one that makes widgets is actually useful. Sorry. I know you are a lawyer. I still couldn't resist the lawyer joke.

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No argument there.

The Oklahoma Bombing (168 people dead) was the highest death toll of an act of terrorism until the 9-11 attacks (2,996 people killed).

Here is a list of Trump's executive orders so far for those of you that have lost track.

Yeah, there was a definite learning curve there for him too, but eventually he seemed to get the hang of it (more or less).

If Talia wanted to make babies with Ollie, I think we would have seen her before season 5. Unless of course it was a done deal. However, since he already has been shown to have one illegitimate child, I doubt they will go that route. It would seem repetitive. As for your first question, I haven't a clue.

Personally I thought that was going for a Sailor Moon shoutout, but that just shows how different eyes see things differently.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't.

I think you are a little confused concerning who is on the top of that ticket.

Super powers aren't a thing, minus the super powers Etta's body is as well suited for fighting crime as Diana's body, and looks are very useful for looking good and not much else. As for overcompensating fans ... well, pot meet kettle.

Just read DC Rebirth Wonder Woman #14. Very good. The Truth story arc has been pretty decent, but the Wonder Woman Year One story arc has been rocking the house. I hope they don't keep this particular version of Diana's coming to the World of Men for a long time before revising her history yet again. I like role they have given Dr Barbara Minerva, how they have handled Steve and Diana's relationship and the bestowing of the divine gifts on Diana. Mixed feelings about the new Etta Candy though. She is pretty badass, but nowhere near the ball of awesome that the original was. 10 Ways Etta Candy Was More Badass Than Wonder Woman

Yes, this my issue with self-driving cars. It is likely that soon truck driving, bus driving and taxi cab driving will all be jobs of the past, and those who perform those jobs join the ranks of the technologically dispossessed.

No, I understand the EC just fine. You made a statement that the "majority of the people in the nation actually wanted President Bush to be president". If that was the case, why did he lose the popular vote to Al Gore?

If the majority of people wanted him to be president, why did he lose the popular vote?

Touché.

This is the cover they were going use if she won. She didn't so it never went out. They used their Trump victory cover instead. Being prepared is the opposite of failure.