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On stage, entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur is wearing a whole fox as a headpiece and being interviewed Schmidt. He answers questions about blockchain (he’s for it), eugenics (he’s opposed), and cell phones (he’s worried about addiction). Schmidt is beloved.

The woman behind me shouts that he should run for president. Someone else says marry me Eric. It was his birthday just a couple days before, and everyone sings Happy Birthday. At dinner that night everyone gets a slice of birthday cake.

Schmidt sat on the floor, smiling, his eyes almost closed. The dinner party included a beer tasting, and the bartender was frustrated because the foie gras torchon was too fatty for a proper beer pairing. Schmidt and his pack headed out into the night.

Robert Scott, the 42-year-old co-founder of the festival, said you don’t need to sweat to have an epiphany.

“There’s a lot of ways to find an epiphany. Being in the desert under hard conditions is one way to bring yourself into a receptive state, I suppose but here, all these things are putting you in the same place gently,” he said.

We sat at a table after a rainstorm, his shaggy brown hair disheveled.

“It’s important what we do here,” Scott said. “That’s what we keep saying. We’re shaping the future. These are the people who not only can do it, but these are the only people who can.”

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...e-eric-schmidt

05-03-2016 , 08:55 AM

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JayTeeMe

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Time spent being tortured by the Taliban counts as time served for a crime?

05-03-2016 , 11:21 AM

#128

Shaomai888

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Gotta lock him up can't risk another Brody.

05-03-2016 , 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

If you thought Burning Man was bad, don't worry tech people made a worse one.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...e-eric-schmidt

"It’s curated."

05-03-2016 , 11:44 AM

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The punishment that is given to Bergdahl is meant to protect the military as an institution or too punish Bergdahl specifically? If it is the latter I can see the time he has spent in captivity given little weight.

05-03-2016 , 12:00 PM

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If the intercept argued that this software and its ability to catch criminals in the future was worth less than the guy they were prosecuting it would be a boring but honest article.

Admittedly my law degree comes from law and order but doesn't any evidence they use this exploit to find and subsequent evidence they could have only gotten following this gets thrown out in the future too?

Fruit of the poisoned tree or whatever.

Also the forum has argued this case in the past, I still think it's super terrible for the US Gov to run a child porn site and now it turns out they did so in a way they can't even prosecute the suspect's they gave child porn to. Awesome work.

05-03-2016 , 12:01 PM

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Animal Collective doing a sold out camping weekend in Big Sur in Sept. That would be my type of Burning Man, though I just like good music and big sur and am not a tech-utopian. (Though people do live on average twice as long as they did 200 years ago and now have access to more or less the entirety of human knowledge on their phones [obamanotbad.jpg]).

(And I did get tix to AC's Sept. 18 OC show at a small venue. Will be sweet.)

05-03-2016 , 12:01 PM

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I was working under the assumption that this tool could still be used and maybe the case would be presented differently in the future so the same legal issue does not arise.. My many years of L&O viewing has indicated that these things can be judge/fact specific.

Haha we all are law and order experts I guess

05-03-2016 , 12:08 PM

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten...n-womens-rooms

American Family Association, which clearly doesn't understand what gender means, decided it was a good idea to send men into women's restrooms in Target stores.

So far none of them have abused a child, thus proving Target was clearly correct to allow women born as men to choose whichever restroom they desired. Bravo AFA, you ****ing idiots, for undermining your own position.

05-03-2016 , 12:49 PM

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Neither here nor there exactly, but the bathrooms in my dorms in college were for both sexes/genders. They were large bathrooms with stalls for toilets and stalls for showers with shower curtains and open area with multiple sinks. This was in 1985.

05-03-2016 , 12:55 PM

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Berkeley dude.

05-03-2016 , 12:57 PM

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The mens bathroom was basically coed in my dorms, the women's bathroom was not.

05-03-2016 , 01:33 PM

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Big Farm's reach is long

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Rick Friday has been giving farmers a voice and a laugh every Friday for two decades through his cartoons in Farm News. *Comment on this story.

Now the long-time Iowa farm cartoonist tells KCCI that he has been fired.

[His Facebook Post]

Quote:

Again, I fall hard in the best interest of large corporations. I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of its Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1,090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.

"I did my research and only submitted the facts in my cartoon.

"That's okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech and free press really are in the county."

THE CARTOON:

The cartoon features two farmers talking about farming profits. (view cartoon)

The first says, "I wish there was more profit in farming."

The second farm answers, "There is. In year 2015 the CEOs of Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer and John Deere combined made more money than 2,129 Iowa farmers.

Friday received an email from his editor at Farm New cutting off their relationship a day after the cartoon was published.

http://m.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa...rtoon/39337816

05-03-2016 , 01:36 PM

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What will be the peak number of troops in Iraq/Syria in the next 5 years? My guess is 20k, 5x the current level.

05-03-2016 , 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Big Farm's reach is long

http://m.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa...rtoon/39337816

That sure worked out well for the people who complained.

05-03-2016 , 02:05 PM

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Posting for lou, Edward Snowden essay in The Intercept (also a foreword to Jeremy Scahill's new book, The Assassination Complex, based on leaks from a new whistleblower): Whistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance

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We are witnessing a compression of the working period in which bad policy shelters in the shadows, the time frame in which unconstitutional activities can continue before they are exposed by acts of conscience. And this temporal compression has a significance beyond the immediate headlines; it permits the people of this country to learn about critical government actions, not as part of the historical record but in a way that allows direct action through voting — in other words, in a way that empowers an informed citizenry to defend the democracy that “state secrets” are nominally intended to support. When I see individuals who are able to bring information forward, it gives me hope that we won’t always be required to curtail the illegal activities of our government as if it were a constant task, to uproot official lawbreaking as routinely as we mow the grass.

05-03-2016 , 02:24 PM

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Goofy,

Are you banging some chick at The Intercept and shilling for clicks so she doesn't get ****canned?

05-03-2016 , 02:27 PM

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I feel bad for buying stuff off of eBay now. I built that.

05-03-2016 , 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by pvn

is anyone listening to Jon Favreau and Dan Pfiffer's podcast? It's absolutely terrible. They seem to think they're huge strategy experts because they're insiders, but 90% of their podcast is "remember when obama did X and we had to re-write the speech?" and the rest is ******ed **** like "TRUMP could pick someone with a military background... like David Petraeus" (100% seriously). It's also super catty/gossipy, just impossible to take these guys seriously. And their production values are terrible, which is weird since it's part of the Ringer, so they should have all the HBO resources they need to make it sound decent.

Disagree. This podcast is fantastic and hilarious. The whole point of the David Petraeus guess was because of how wild and unpredictable Trump's campaign has been and that no one has any idea who he'd pick, hence why they threw out other names like Jim Webb, Carl Icahn, Rudy Giuliani, Stanley McChrystal, etc.

05-03-2016 , 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Big Farm's reach is long

http://m.kcci.com/news/longtime-iowa...rtoon/39337816

Are the farmabros using their profits to buy rare bluegrass albums?

05-03-2016 , 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ikestoys

The mens bathroom was basically coed in my dorms, the women's bathroom was not.

MALES ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST

05-03-2016 , 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnEPark

Disagree. This podcast is fantastic and hilarious.

Well, sure, it can be, depending on what you want.

Quote:

The whole point of the David Petraeus guess was because of how wild and unpredictable Trump's campaign has been and that no one has any idea who he'd pick, hence why they threw out other names like Jim Webb, Carl Icahn, Rudy Giuliani, Stanley McChrystal, etc.

All of those others are actually possible. If they were going for "just totally out there" then they would have said stuff like Ed Snowden. Throwing Petraeus in there is only explainable if they literally have no idea what the **** is going on.

05-03-2016 , 03:56 PM

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I mean are you seriously putting Petraeus and McChrystal on the same level???? That's like saying Eddie the Eagle and Michael Phelps are the same because they're both technically "olympians".

05-03-2016 , 04:05 PM

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Well, sure, it can be, depending on what you want.

Can't argue with that.

All of those others are actually possible. If they were going for "just totally out there" then they would have said stuff like Ed Snowden. Throwing Petraeus in there is only explainable if they literally have no idea what the **** is going on.

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I mean are you seriously putting Petraeus and McChrystal on the same level????
That's like saying Eddie the Eagle and Michael Phelps are the same because they're both technically "olympians".

Not gonna nit about how likely or unlikely each of those picks are, and no one is comparing anybody. The whole point of the convo was who the f knows who he'll pick. They listed some semi-serious people and some absurd people. Given Trump's campaign to date, both are possible. Your initial post made it sound it like they legit think David Petraeus is a likely VP pick, which missed the point entirely.

05-03-2016 , 04:58 PM

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Given Trump's campaign to date, both are possible. Your initial post made it sound it like they legit think David Petraeus is a likely VP pick, which missed the point entirely.

It certainly sounded like they legit think Patraeus is a possible pick. What did they say that makes you think otherwise?

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