"Deprived of the ability to omit or retouch the truth, under penalty of being caught by an army of inquisitorial eyeglasses, society would feel nearly uninhabitable. The permanent confrontation with a verifiable truth will turn us into overly cautious, calculating, and suspicious people. The apparent truth of what we are and say will be derived not from personal perceptions, particular intuitions and social judgments, but from complex calculations made by algorithms and computations based on the way we use our voice, turn our nose to the right, or incline our mouth to the left.

It will be a mechanical and mechanized truth.

We run the serious risk of losing, little by little, our spontaneous humanity, appearing more and more like the predetermined algorithms that observe and judge us."

By not being able to think one thing and say another, our identity will become monochromatic.

A Rush song?

We got a week go go...

I only drink coffee anymore, not the rest of those drinks Starbucks has, which as you pointed out are disgustingly chock full of sugar. Occasionally I will stop into a Starbucks to have coffee, though I usually go to local coffee places.

Besides their(usually) good customer service and clean spaces, the one glaring consistency is how bad Starbucks coffee is. It tastes like drinking water ran through a smoldering campfire. It requires large additions of cream and sugar to make it palatable, so in the end, you end up with a sugar drink anyway.

When I go to almost any other coffee place, their coffee is usually much better tasting than Starbucks and doesn't require anything but a little cream.

I think the maternity leave period duration is because of their location: Spain(Europe...)

This graphic shows the breakdown by country
As we can see, Americans prefer a social darwinism form of maternity leave.

Someone may have already posted this...

From this map you can see how widespread the $$$ is, and that there are so many congressional districts in the US benefitting from this program, to cancel or make changes to it now would be political suicide for the scumbag congressmen who initiated it.

60 Minutes did a decent job on the F-35 a while back, where the vibe from the Marine general, after being asked if he was going to get the F-35 operational in time was like that of one of Hitlers generals saying he would stop the Soviets after the disaster at Kursk...

Also, take a look at how many countries are already "in the pipe" on ordering for these. A lot.

The US and its allies better hope that when China finally decides to make their own high end fighter jets(which are currently based on Russian-made Sukhoi jets), based on all they have learned after waltzing into the US DOD databases, that it is as much of a CF as the F-35 is.

Yes, that would be a brilliant coup of common sense, but alas, marketing dipshits world wide will be rewarded yet again by mandating idiotic default settings of no security on IoT devices, inviting an avalanche of security issues as more of these devices are connected to the internet.

Downfall is one of the best WWII films ever made.

I imagine that age old and universally uniform combination of fear and greed were the prime motivators of their unwillingness to speak of those Russian cyber-criminals.

And don't forget the re-emergence of Moab versus Telluride.

I haven't had cable/sat(television) for six years. I've gone strictly NF since and I love it. I get to choose what/when/where I watch.

And... wait for it...

There are no ads.

Imagine the fallout from all those who would have lost insurance?
Imagine states scrambling to set Exchanges, vet software/platforms, etc;
The media coverage would have skewered the Republicans over a hot flame.

This decision actually helps the Republicans in 2016. The SCOTUS gave them a pass.

Wow, did you really just compare the Iraq War to what Obama did in Libya? Really?
Get a historical clue before you post here or face your ignorance being exposed.

Yes, that day will come. However the outcome from that event won't be what you may think.

If we take 9/11 as a template of idiotic reactions to terrorist events, here will be the likely outcome:
1. The true perp, the decision makers(marketing management, etc; not coders) who enable cars to be the toys of hackers, will avoid any blame. They will be swiftly whisked off to team building sessions in Aspen, Cancun or Jackson Hole, where they will be presented with awards for their forward thinking and accommodation to user comfort and convenience.

2. The proxy perp, who actually drives the cars to the left, will be swiftly arrested, convicted and jailed, and become a scapegoat for those receiving awards for forward thinking and accommodation to user comfort and convenience.

3. Users and "car owners" will be the real losers here. Even more restrictive rules and engineering will be placed on modern cars, whereby the bank you got your car loan through will be able to deduct funds directly from your bank account if any number of intellectual property violations are committed such as humming the Star Spangled Banner on the way to a 4th of July picnic. Any modifications, however subtle(including but not limited to "support our troops bumper stickers"), to the vehicle will be met with a swift kick in the ass from your local dealer, and more funds being deducted from your account. More "security" measures will be implemented, as per a Congressional Oversight Committee, that will, in essence, hogtie users/drivers even more and allow even more vectors for attack by hackers in Bulgaria, Boston and Beijing, but you already knew all that...