Perhaps your disconnect is that it is not true. It's simply not. The American culture is, if anything, enormously compassionate. Giving is a virtue embraced at all levels whether it's social, economic, religious, age, whatever. This 'every man for himself' culture is a fantasy, probably from someone that feels guilty about being American and the standard of living Americans enjoy (believe me, there's a lot of that going on here). Nobody goes hungry here without significant personal effort, food kitchens abound, WIC, food stamps, and half a dozen other programs at state and federal levels exist. Medical care is free if you just go to the ER and wait for treatment, you only pay what you can afford and if that amount is nothing then you pay nothing (been that way for decades).

Where we may be slipping is mental treatment. In a nation of 300 million, you got some crazies that need help and no amount of handouts, whether it's money, food. or housing, is going to get them off the street.

I once worked with a manager that dreamed of hiring a female, minority, with a physical disability. He could have checked off a lot of diversity points with that one. I don't think he'd have cared at all about the quality of work. Just getting HR and the SJW's off his back would have been worth it.

"The U.S.'s most popular third-party presidential candidate ..."

In other words, some irrelevant guy (and irrelevant girl) are saying they'd do something if elected president. So what? This is America, we can elect anyone we want president as long as we pick from 2 choices that were at least partly pre-determined quite some time ago. If you're going to vote Green or Libertarian as a way to protest, you're making the mistake that it will have any impact and anyone will listen.

Split hairs all you want. It's clear that there was collusion between Clinton and the DNC - that is indisputable. It's also just as clear that money was routed in pretty sketchy ways to get around campaign finance laws. Perhaps they didn't break the exact wording of the law and it comes down to things like the meaning of the word "is" (a classic Clinton stratagem). If such things are OK with you, that's fine, enjoy the results that brings.

The crime exposed by the DNC emails is money laundering. In those, they discuss how to move money from very wealthy donors making big deposits through a DNC fund for "down ticket" candidates (like state and local races). Huge donors with money, adhering to campaign finance laws, make deposits into the Clinton campaign (HFA). But they want more money to go to her so they direct the majority of it into something called the Hillary Victory Fund which is operated by the DNC. From there it's split again between state level party operations and the DNC, also to avoid limits. However, it's not at the state party accounts long, in fact, it's often there so briefly that the state level treasurers managing don't even have time to see it hit the account before it's gone and it's "donated" back to the DNC, essentially having been 'washed' through the sate accounts. The DNC then used the money to support the Clinton campaign.

tl:dr - the DNC laundered money to circumvent campaign finance law and support Hillary.

HALO jumps are not done that often anymore. In fact, I suspect almost never. They do HAHO now. Modern parachute design allows you to glide into the target area from up to 40 miles away rather than the aircraft flying over a target country. It takes a while to travel that distance so plenty of time to whip out a iPhone and get anything from GPS, current LZ/target data, keep in contact with your team, etc.

I have not had a nexus phone and I've heard from friends and business peers that's the only reliable one - if I were to ever go back android, it's the only one I'd consider. I can't recall all the android models I've had, at least half a dozen different ones over a multi-year period (at least 8 years). Some were better than others but for the most part they all exhibited similar behavior.

I doubt it. I had android phones most of my career and only switched to iPhone about 18 months ago. The android phones tend to suck, it's that simple. They freeze, they lose performance (frequent reboots often fix that) and occasional exhibit unexpected and inconsistent behaviors (icon/button clicks don't work until app/phone restart, a button that did one thing sometimes does something else, etc). Android battery life sucks so bad there are apps you need to use to help manage it - not because the battery is a problem but it seems something is always running that drains it. With my iPhone, it just works. In 18 months I can count the number of reboots on one hand. I can go the entire weekend without recharging. Occasionally there is an app crash but nothing like I saw on android. When you're out on the sharp tip of the spear and your life may depend on information being reliably available, android is not the best bet. I'm not saying iPhone is something I'd want to bet my life on either but if I was in their position and wanted the best available, it's the iPhone.

I've done more than a few projects with offshore development. Yeah, there are some crappy western developers - it was particularly bad during the dotcom era when every excel macro developer thought he was a programmer and was trying to get into the game. But we're talking the averages. On average, the non-western developers write code that is poor for all the reasons mentioned above. They are difficult to work with due to cultural issues (e.g. Indian developers *always* tell you they understand, even when they don't) and that makes for some really crazy code that even if it works does not do what you really wanted done so you spend considerable time and effort trying to fix the code and the understanding of requirements. And time zone offsets, don't get me started, it's a hassle when meetings can generally only happen at 6 AM and 6 PM.

I don't think they're stupid at all. They're simply doing what they get paid to do. Finding more reason to pin climate change on human activity pays well, gets you fame and fortune. I think they're being honest about it too but that's the thing with incentive programs, you get what you pay for out of people. That's why we had things like ClimateGate 1 & 2 where it was shown how they manipulate data, skew research and publishing, and intimidate people with contradictory conclusions.

And the Nobel Prize, it ain't what it used to be....

Yes, relying on Facebook as a news outlet is not the best idea. But you know, people are doing it. They're also relying on outlets like The Daily Show - essentially a comedy that's also got a strong liberal bias. It seems anyone under 30 is relying on pretty bogus media for their news and dismissing this development as "nobody to blame but yourself" is missing the point. It's happening, it's strongly biased propaganda and if it was conservative biased the pundits and media would be going apeshit (remember the fairness doctrine and Air America?). The question is, should anything be done about it and if it should, what? Right now, about the best that can be done is to expose it and hope that people are willing to see the truth that's in front of them. If they're not, well, then let it burn.

I mean, it could very easily be this was the result of some dumbass flying around the airport and accidentally hitting a 747. But could it also have been the result of a terrorist attack? Seems like it would be one hell of an easy and cheap way to take down a airliner if it's actually a viable way to do such - and we are seemingly convinced of that somehow based on the posts thus far. Is a drone you can buy at the local store or from Amazon really capable of such? I don't know, I really don't. But if I was the type that wanted to take down a large passenger plane, I'd invest a few hundred in finding out in a "live" test.

The stat is true, it's just calculate the same way it was always calculated prior to 1994. Anytime government tries to tell you good news about unemployment with pre-1994 comparisons, your bullshit detector should go off as that's not a straight comparison. Current unemployment for March 2016 is 22.9% if you include long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994.

Asking the long term unemployed, who are almost certainly deeply financially distressed, to move to another state is a tough demand. How can they afford to move, get a place to live, place deposits, etc, etc. much less even interview in those faraway locations? I have a relevant skill - engineering degree with deep technical background in a industry that has (allegedly) very high demand for new employees and it took me 9 months to get a new job after getting laid off. I can only imagine what it's like in low skill/low demand areas.

Yeah, that's why the justice department looking at prosecuting deniers. Because the science is so good that anything less than 100% acceptance of it should be a crime. Certainly voicing skepticism should be illegal, right? All part of the scientific method.

Oh yeah, the science was settled. Only deniers would ever believe anything but the evils of butter. The. Science. Was. Settled. Anyone not accepting that is in the pocket of "big butter" and should be sent to jail.