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Monday, March 26. 2018Monday morning linksOlder Americans are experiencing ‘delayed aging’ — and better health Growing questions about CNN's airport monopoly as network veers left Student at Providence College Attacked for Sharing Catholic Teaching The Red Guards Take Over Mount Holyoke College How is genetics changing our understanding of race? NYT: Barry Diller on Hollywood and the future of film Last Fall This Scholar Defended Colonialism. Now He’s Defending Himself. We’re Saved: Global Experts Take Long Fossil Fueled Trips To Save Us From ‘Climate Change’ If they believed in it, they wouldn't do that. If you talk the talk, you need to walk the walk. Like anti-gun celebs with armed bodyguards. The biggest albatross of environmentalism is its well-deserved reputation for apocalypticism Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered CHILDREN’S CRUSADE? NO, IT’S WORSE “Forgive Me If I Don’t Want A Lesson On The Second Amendment From A 16-Year-Old” You Want To Have A Serious Talk About Gun Violence? Let’s Talk About Chicago And Handguns New York Taxi Industry Update, And The Problem With Unsustainable Government Giveaways Scott Pruitt slammed for spending less on travel than Obama’s EPA chiefs McCabe's Mea-Non-Culpa Editorial in the, Get This, Washington Post: I Didn't Intentionally Mislead Anybody. My Answers Weren't "Fully Accurate," But I Was Confused 'I Went Through Hell': Former FBI Agent Says Andrew McCabe 'Targeted', 'Slandered' Her Giddy Up – DOJ Admits They Have a Grand Jury Empaneled in FBI and DOJ Investigation… MILITARY SERVICE BY TRANSGENDER INDIVIDUALS, GEN. MATTIS SPEAKS After his squad leader went down, this Marine fought to death trying to save his men Vietnam War - Fighting in Hue City, 1968 A book: South Vietnamese Soldiers: Memories of the Vietnam War and After Standing Up in France - One hundred French intellectuals make a public declaration against Islamist totalitarianism. Why the French government wants Muslim immigrants is a mystery ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian sources: Turkish air raids destroy Christian archaeological sites Trackbacks
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When I fly out of Newark, CNN is on spewing their propaganda. When I land in Dallas, Fox News is on.
I avoided watching the march against the 2nd amendment because it seemed offensive to me. It has obviously devolved into a far left, anti-Republican, pro-Marxism agenda. It is funded by far left organizations, some of which are so far to the left that they must hide their affiliation. The speakers are overwhelmingly negative and propagandized and simply wrong on most everything. But this morning when I got up and turned on the TV they showed a video clip of highlights from the anti-civil rights march and I was struck by the obvious similarity with pre WW II fascism rallys in Europe. It was all classic fascism. The hate, the lies, the over the top rhetoric. After a number of video shots of the children, many not even past puberty I was again struck by the comparison with Hitlers youth corp. Same tactics, same reasons; to exploit and propagandize. In fact it occurred to me that the next thing from this cabal of far left Marxists would be a plea for children to turn in their parents who might own an unregistered gun. One of the last clips showed David Hogg giving his stirring “Mein Kampf” speech and ending it with a "Sieg heil!" salute. I swear it was a "Sieg heil!" salute. It may not have been intentional but there it was on TV. It was classic fascism!
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” Interesting that these 16,17 and 18 years old, are old enough to lead a revolution, throw away hundreds of years of rights, but not old enough, by their own standards, to purchase a firearm. I don’t want anything to do with their tired, worn out, disastrous, defunct political philosophies. There is nothing remotely new about this garbage. The history of the world, is the tyranny that they preach for. Of course these young people are not allowed to learn about western civilization. Western civilization, is spit upon, and lied about in their schools, all to move forward this Marxist utopia. There is no utopia on this earth. Never going to happen. The sooner you learn, and except that utopia is not going to happen, the better off you, and the rest of us will be.
QUOTE: Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered No. Not everyone cheered. Concerns were expressed by many civil libertarians and social scientists. QUOTE: According to various news accounts, a professor at Cambridge University built a Facebook app around 2014 that involved a personality quiz. The difference is that the Cambridge Analytica data was collected under false pretenses, while the Obama campaign data made clear how the data was to be used. Cambridge Analytica has also been implicated in other nefarious activities. Both of those responses were proven to be wrong or misleading the other day.
Why must y'all be so disingenuous? Back to your sandbox, kiddiez. She just repeats her lies, figuring that persistence is a substitute for truth.
She's done it for years. DrTorch: She just repeats her lies
Claim: No. Not everyone cheered. Concerns were expressed by many civil libertarians and social scientists. Google for 2012: Facebook, data, danger - Claim: The difference is that the Cambridge Analytica data was collected under false pretenses How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions: "All he divulged to Facebook, and to users in fine print, was that he was collecting information for academic purposes" - Claim: while the Obama campaign data made clear how the data was to be used. When people opted to {sign in with their Facebook profile}, they were met with a prompt asking to grant the campaign permission ... - Claim: Cambridge Analytica has also been implicated in other nefarious activities. Channel 4: "The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump’s campaign and outside groups – an activity which is potentially illegal." From Zuckerberg himself (with my own emphasis added)
In 2007, we launched the Facebook Platform with the vision that more apps should be social. Your calendar should be able to show your friends’ birthdays, your maps should show where your friends live, and your address book should show their pictures. To do this, we enabled people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them. In 2013, a Cambridge University researcher named Aleksandr Kogan created a personality quiz app. It was installed by around 300,000 people who shared their data as well as some of their friends’ data. Given the way our platform worked at the time this meant Kogan was able to access tens of millions of their friends’ data. Pay special attention to the dates above and the weaselly language about what was authorized. Ignore the bs flying about supposed fine print and academic studies. From 2007 to 2013, the Facebook API allowed apps to scrape data from friends of people logging into apps, i.e. people who were not asked if they consented to have their data used, with minimal if any restrictions. The Obama campaign exploited this opening to perform what they called 'targeted shares', i.e. suggesting posts to their app users to be shared based on the data collected about their friends. CA used this same permission in their personality test app until FB decided to limit it .... in 2015. Interesting timing, to say the least.
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2018-03-26 14:00
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Christopher B: To do this, we enabled people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them.
That's right. It's like sharing the information on a "Rolodex", an ancient device used to store the telephone numbers of your contacts. However, sharing your network can create a serious privacy issue when aggregated over millions of people. Christopher B: From 2007 to 2013, the Facebook API allowed apps to scrape data from friends of people logging into apps, i.e. people who were not asked if they consented to have their data used, with minimal if any restrictions. Facebook users authorized the sharing of their data as part of their user agreement. Again, it has to do with whether people consented. That doesn't mean that such widespread sharing doesn't have inherent problems, but it is quite different from what Cambridge Analytics did, which was misrepresent how the data was going to be used.
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2018-03-26 14:26
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drowningpuppies
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2018-03-26 14:34
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Facebook has collected EVERYTHING on you, virtually all of it without your knowledge or consent.
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-find-out-everything-facebook-knows-about-you-1824022899 You put it on your computer or phone, it spies on everything you do. But that's ok, I'm sure Google and Amazon do as well.
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2018-03-26 14:53
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Jim: Facebook has collected EVERYTHING on you, virtually all of it without your knowledge or consent.
It's opt-in, including phone and SMS data. It's amazing what people are willing to share. Jim: But that's ok, I'm sure Google and Amazon do as well. If you are logged into any of Google's services, then they certainly do follow you around taking notes on your activities. They can also search thousands of your Gmails in a split second — because they've already read every single word of every single message, indexed and analyzed.
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2018-03-26 15:12
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Zzzz: It's amazing what people are willing to share.
Yep, the kiddiez freely share their dishonesty every day.
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2018-03-26 20:32
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You're tap dancing around it again, kiddiez.
Back to your sandbox.
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2018-03-26 14:02
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"while the Obama campaign data made clear how the data was to be used."
After. They. Got. Busted. Why do you continue to leave that out? jimg: After. They. Got. Busted.
We provided a citation indicating that the Obama campaign used an opt-in system. You exclaimed "Is not!" Which do you think is the more convincing argument. Your dishonesty is never a convincing argument, kiddiez.
This is pretty cool. They guy says he was actually riding in this rocket though there is no footage of him getting in or out. He says he needs to get into space to see for himself whether or not the Earth is flat.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/flat-earther-blasts-california-sky-homemade-steam-powered-rocket/l Regarding the genetic argument in the NYTimes by David Reich, please see Greg Cochrane at http://westhunt.wordpress.com/, who will be reviewing the book and has some initial comments. Briefly, Reich knows and says some useful things, but avoids saying others. This is likely because his career is in flames if he does, and he dares only hint at the uncomfortable truths.
CNN is definitely on in Seattle and LAX (duh). I was a touch surprised to see it in Anchorage as well. I don't have TV myself, so I was surprised how Trump-obsessed the network is. In the gym Sun afternoon, it was Trump and his ex girfriends, non-stop on CNN
Fine with me if the leftoid menagerie obsesses over Trump's sex life 24/7. Keeps them from wailing about the destruction of globalism that's well underway.
"Standing Up in France - One hundred French intellectuals make a public declaration against Islamist totalitarianism."
Now, if they could just get 100 French soldiers to pick up their dropped weapons! It's a start! Like when was the last time French soldiers risked their lives to stand beside their allies, the Americans?
Good point. Here's the latest French citizen to voluntarily surrender his weapon.
France bought into this problem decades ago. They allowed immigration from "colonies" and other countries where they had used their military to defend and protect one side against another. They did this because they could not see the inevitable downside. A few French politicians and elite objected when it first began but they were ignored. Later when the immigrants were more aggressively anti-French and anti-Christian they found it difficult to stop or reverse a decades long "right".
We are looking at the collapse of Europe. Just as the collapse of Rome it didn't happen in a day a week a year. It took a long time but slowly the Barbarians at the gate made their way inside and changed the society and over ruled the citizens. And then in a final coup de grace there was an invasion, plundering and murdering of the citizens. This is so common in history that you would think people would understand the mechanism and prevent it... "Growing questions about CNN's airport monopoly as network veers left": AS????????????? Kinda late (VERY LATE) to the party, ain'tcha?
Yeah, that's not really a veer, more like a general drift over decades. They made their reputation covering the first Iraq war, and doing it credibly. That was long ago.
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