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Foxconn Will Only Create 1500 Jobs, says Wisconsin Governor (theverge.com) 203

Posted by msmash from the broken-promises dept.
The Foxconn factory in Wisconsin will only create 1,500 jobs when it starts production next May, Gov. Tony Evers said yesterday. From a report: That's the same number Foxconn has been saying since it shifted plans for the factory a few months ago, and far short of the 13,000 jobs that were promised when President Trump broke ground a year ago. Evers has been negotiating with Foxconn since he replaced former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, and he says he now has "clarity: on Foxconn's plans. 1,500 jobs is short of the 1,800 jobs required for Foxconn to get the next set of tax credits under its $4 billion deal with the state. Foxconn already missed its first jobs target under that contract, hiring only 156 employees instead of the required 260 last year. Instead, Foxconn has bought a series of empty buildings for "innovation centers" around the state as part of a promised "AI 8K+5G ecosystem" (although it's never specified what that ecosystem actually is). Timeline: Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle; Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan For Wisconsin Factory; Foxconn Says It Will Build Wisconsin Factory After All; Foxconn is Confusing the Hell Out of Wisconsin; and One Year After Trump's Foxconn Groundbreaking, There is Almost Nothing To Show For It.
Medicine

44 US States Still Allow 'Religious Exemptions' For Vaccines (pewresearch.org) 426

Posted by EditorDavid from the faith-healing dept.
An anonymous reader quotes the Pew Research Center: New York recently became the fifth state -- after California, Maine, Mississippi and West Virginia -- to enact a law requiring children in public school to be vaccinated unless they have a valid medical reason. Legislatures in several other states are considering similar legislation. Most states (44), however, allow children to be exempt from vaccinations due to religious concerns, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. And one state, Minnesota, allows for a broader exemption based on personal beliefs but does not explicitly mention religion... Among the states that specifically allow religious exemptions to vaccinations, 15 also allow exemptions for any type of nonreligious personal belief, according to the Center's analysis...

The action in New York came after the state became the center of a nationwide measles outbreak that has sickened more than 1,000 Americans in 28 states so far this year.

Comment Re:BigTech Censorship (Score 1) 743

by dave420 (#58834648) Attached to: Reddit Quarantines Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats

Report the messages. Chances are the moderators of those subs actually remove those messages, as opposed to what happened in T_D where the moderators left messages which violated T_D's own rules up.

T_D wasn't quarantined because of what people post (as every sub has people posting violence and nonsense from time to time) - the problem was the moderators weren't moderating it.

Comment Re:BigTech Censorship (Score 0) 743

by dave420 (#58834632) Attached to: Reddit Quarantines Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats

The problem was the moderators weren't removing posts which violated Reddit's rules and their own subreddit's rules. If a subreddit has poor moderation and is home to threats against people which aren't removed, the subreddit gets quarantined until the moderators show they're actually willing and able to moderate it. This goes for any sub, left or right.

And a subreddit called "fuck the police" is fine unless it contains posts urging people to go out and kill police officers, as happened in T_D, and especially if those messages aren't removed by the moderators.

Comment Re:A bigger mistake than the Brexit referendum? (Score 1) 808

by dave420 (#58661354) Attached to: Theresa May, Undone by Brexit, To Resign as UK Prime Minister

So it's undemocratic to ask the people what they want? If they still believe the same as before, then nothing will change. If they have changed their minds, it's undemocratic to ignore them now. And it's impossible to ask the same question twice in a referendum, so it can't possibly be re-running it.
Security

In a First, Israel Responds To Hamas Hackers With an Air Strike (zdnet.com) 568

Posted by msmash from the growing-tension dept.
For the first time, Israel has used brute military force to respond to a Hamas cyberattack, three years after NATO proclaimed "cyber" an official battlefield in modern warfare. From a report: The "bomb-back" response took place on Saturday when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an air strike against a building in the Gaza Strip. They claimed it housed Hamas cyber operatives, which had been engaging in a cyberattack against Israel's "cyberspace." "We were ahead of them all the time," said Brigadier General D., the head of the IDF's cyber defense division. "The moment they tried to do something, they failed." Israeli officials did not disclose any details about the Hamas cyberattack; however, they said they first stopped the attack online, and only then responded with an air strike. "After dealing with the cyber dimension, the Air Force dealt with it in the physical dimension," said IDF spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Ronen Manlis. "At this point in time, Hamas has no cyber operational capabilities."

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