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NOAA's funding redirected

lundi 19 juin 2017 à 02:00

A new US law redirects NOAA's funding towards weather forecasting. Since it doesn't give NOAA more money, this money has been taken away from something. What, I wonder? Could it be climate science, perhaps? Is the idea to make good 2-month and 2-year forecasts, at the expense of the 20-year and 40-year forecasts our civilization will live or die by?

Giving thugs unchecked power to mistreat

lundi 19 juin 2017 à 02:00

The Supreme Court and other courts have given US thugs unchecked power to mistreat anyone, effectively at will.

Rental bikes track user

lundi 19 juin 2017 à 02:00

New "dockless" bike rental schemes admit that they track the user's movements all the time with GPS.

These schemes would work even better, and without spying on people, if the bikes allowed anonymous use limited to a certain area.

Limiting thugs' snooping equipment

lundi 19 juin 2017 à 02:00

As the ACLU encourages cities to limit thugs' snooping equipment, only thugs are opposed.

Dontcare bill would destroy Americans

lundi 19 juin 2017 à 02:00

One concrete example is concrete proof that the Dontcare bill would destroy Americans.