I had never heard of this stereotype before. Good folks of the GNS, is this true or bullshit in your experience?
Argument I just came across in a textbook : Do women tip less than men?
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Her birthday party was Lit
El stupido
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Black Lives Matter Philly protest outside the home of a killer pig over the killing of David Jones…
http://www.metro.us/news/local-news/philadelphia/black-lives-matter-protestors-rally-home-officer-involved-fatal
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Black-Lives-Matter-Members-Protest-Outside-Philadelphia-Police-Officers-Home-Over-Mans-Shooting-Death-441764083.html
Black Lives Matter protestors rally at home of officer involved in fatal shooting
Activists call for punishment in the shooting of David Jones outside officer's home in quiet Bustleton neighborhood.
Calling for justice in the recent, fatal police shooting of 30-year-old David Jones, a small group of Black Lives Matter protestors marched in the streets in front of the Bustleton home of the police officer who caused Jones’ untimely death.
The events unfolded at about 7 p.m. on Thursday, when a group of protestors began pasting “wanted” posters for Philadelphia Police officer Ryan Pownall on telephone poles near his home along Bridle Road in Northeast Philly.
The posters featured a photo of Pownall and claimed the officer was “wanted by the people of Philadelphia for the murder of David Jones.”
According to the police report on Jones’ death, he was fatally shot in the back by Pownall on June 8th after a scuffle over a gun in Jones' waistband.
Pownall had stopped Jones after seeing him riding a dirt bike erratically near the intersection of Whitaker and Hunting Park Avenues in Juniata Park, notes the report. An alleged witness to the shooting has claimed that he saw Jones' gun drop to the sidewalk before Jones ran and Pownall shot the fleeing Jones fatally in the back.
On Thursday, Black Lives Matter organizer, Asa Khalif led a group of about ten protestors in chants of “No justice, no peace, no racist police” and “We demand justice for David Jones,” as police vehicles quickly filled the block.
It was mere moments after the protestors placed their first “wanted” poster when law enforcement officials arrived en masse, creating a line of officers along the sidewalk, separating protestors from the home they had targeted.
“We want justice for his kids. We want justice for his family,” shouted Khalif. “We want justice or else we are going to keep going into your motherf***ing neighborhood.”
During the protest, local residents emerged from their homes. Some confronted the protestors, with one man even attempting to throw several signs that read “Black Lives Matter” into a plastic garbage bag.
He shouted “I saw trash and wanted to pick it up,” when officers on the scene stopped him and walked the man back towards his home.
Though the event was mostly peaceful, at times protestors clashed with residents in prolonged shouting matches. Police on hand seemed content to monitor the situation and make sure to keep the parties separate.
When asked to discuss the police response to the protest, officers on scene declined to comment to a Metro reporter.
At one point, someone in the crowd shouted that, if Khalif wanted to have his point heard, he should go directly to the mayor’s office.
Khalif replied that he had indeed done that.
In fact, he had, in recent weeks, stopped press conferences, marched on City Hall and stormed into the offices of the city’s managing director, Michael DiBerardinis, calling for Pownall to be arrested for Jones’ shooting.
Khalif replied that they had decided to come to Pownall’s home in a further effort to seek justice.
“[Police] come into our communities and we are flipping the script. We are coming to your neighborhood,” he said.
The investigation into Jones’ death is ongoing and is being handled by the Office of the Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
After about an hour, as the sun began to set, Khalif gathered his small group of activists and left for the evening.
“Black lives matter also,” said Khalif as he closed the rally. “When you kill someone, you should go to jail.”
No arrests were made. Mayor Jim Kenney praised the conduct of the police officers who, he said, "peacefully defused last night's event."
"There are many Philadelphians and officers who are productively working to build police-community trust, including pushing for transparency and reform which Commissioner Ross and I both agree must continue," Kenney said. "What happened last night did nothing to move those efforts forward."
Following the display, some locals seemed upset by the protest.
"This is a disgrace. Don't come to our neighborhood!" shounted one neighbor as Khalif's vehicle drove off. The man refused to share his name with a reporter.
Yet, others seemed to believe that it was everyone’s right to protest if they feel there has been an injustice.
Citing the fact that protestors promised to return to the neighborhood in the coming days, a neighbor of Pownall’s asked to remain anonymous, but he said that he could understand the protestors’ motivations.
“We live in a free country, so you should be able to voice your opinion,” said the neighbor. “But, my father was a cop and you show up at a guy’s house to express your opinion? I don’t know… That’s tough.”
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Black-Lives-Matter-Members-Protest-Outside-Philadelphia-Police-Officers-Home-Over-Mans-Shooting-Death-441764083.html
Pownall was called a "racist, bigot pig cop" and Khalif said he has "a murderous spirit" referring to another shooting that the officer was involved. That 2010 shooting left Carnell Williams-Carney paralyzed when a bullet hit him in the back. The shooting was ruled justified and Williams-Carney lost a federal lawsuit against police.
Thursday's protest riled police union boss John McNesby. He called Khalif a "punk" who shoud've been arrested for protesting without a permit.
"I can't use the words I want," McNesby said Friday. "To take it to someone's house, a police officer's house, he doesn't have any respect."
"He's a two-bit punk who doesn't have the respect of decent protesters, if there is any in this city."
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IC Stop Making Excuses and Let's Get Healthy Thread
Well the last thread was deleted along with the rest of my content but the show must go on.
I'm proud of what the last thread became and how many posters got involved, you guys helped not only keep me motivated but keep other posters motivated as well so pat yourselves on the back for that.
Let's keep it up in 2015, what are some of your goals?
I'm proud of what the last thread became and how many posters got involved, you guys helped not only keep me motivated but keep other posters motivated as well so pat yourselves on the back for that.
Let's keep it up in 2015, what are some of your goals?
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5 nurses disciplined for drooling over dead d1ck
https://www.google.com/amp/s/deanblundell.com/five-nurses-suspended-looking-dead-guys-impressive-hammer-lot/amp/
Source – Five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks after they inappropriately viewed a deceased patient’s body and talked about it, a hospital spokesman confirmed to Denver7 Investigates Tuesday.
A tip to Denver7 said the nurses disciplined admired the size of the deceased patient’s genitals and at one point opened a body bag to view parts of the body. A hospital spokesman confirmed details of the incident.
A different nurse heard one of the disciplined nurses make a comment in May that the nurse felt was inappropriate and reported it to hospital staff, Denver Health Medical Center spokesman Josh Rasmussen said.
“Multiple staff members viewed the victim while he was incapacitated, including after he was deceased,” a Denver Police report says. “The complainant, Risk Management for Denver Health, made a mandatory report.”
Too bad the guy is dead because this is the kind of story you tell your friends. When you have a pork sword that’s so impressive that even in death, makes women open up your body bag to look at it that has to be a huge penis.
Let me give you some context: When a man dies two things happen.
When a man dies two things happen.
1) He relieves himself
2) everything contracts including the testicles and the penis.
This guys dick remained “must see” days after death to the point where nurses came from all over the hospital to see this thing and kept people coming back in disbelief.
Source – Five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks after they inappropriately viewed a deceased patient’s body and talked about it, a hospital spokesman confirmed to Denver7 Investigates Tuesday.
A tip to Denver7 said the nurses disciplined admired the size of the deceased patient’s genitals and at one point opened a body bag to view parts of the body. A hospital spokesman confirmed details of the incident.
A different nurse heard one of the disciplined nurses make a comment in May that the nurse felt was inappropriate and reported it to hospital staff, Denver Health Medical Center spokesman Josh Rasmussen said.
“Multiple staff members viewed the victim while he was incapacitated, including after he was deceased,” a Denver Police report says. “The complainant, Risk Management for Denver Health, made a mandatory report.”
Too bad the guy is dead because this is the kind of story you tell your friends. When you have a pork sword that’s so impressive that even in death, makes women open up your body bag to look at it that has to be a huge penis.
Let me give you some context: When a man dies two things happen.
When a man dies two things happen.
1) He relieves himself
2) everything contracts including the testicles and the penis.
This guys dick remained “must see” days after death to the point where nurses came from all over the hospital to see this thing and kept people coming back in disbelief.
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Parents: R. Kelly Holding Our Daughters in Sex-Obsessed, Abusive ‘Cult’
A bombshell BuzzFeed News report quotes several sets of parents claiming their daughters are being held against their will in a sex-obsessed, abusive “cult" by legendary R&B singer R. Kelly. Three former members of Kelly’s entourage also spoke to the outlet, confirming the parents’ claims of the singer’s cult-like and predatory behavior—one is quoted as saying “[Kelly] is a master at mind control.... He is a puppet master.” According to parents and the former crew members, Kelly: keeps a collection of young women at his homes in Atlanta and Chicago; replaces their cell phones with ones specifically used to communicate with him; requires they call him “daddy” and ask permission to leave their residence; films their sexual encounters with him; and punishes them verbally and physically when they break his “rules” such as appearing remotely flirtatious towards other men. The daughter of one set of parents have attempted to contact their child—now 21 years old—for two years but have been rebuffed by her claims that she is in a consenting relationship and is not being held against her will.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult?utm_term=.lnb4gblAK#.vklpWa5E8
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how yall feel about this ranking of the 25 sexiest cartoon women
seen this on fb n thought id share..
who do yall think got snubbed. who shoulda made the list.. why is wack as marge on here.. discuss
who do yall think got snubbed. who shoulda made the list.. why is wack as marge on here.. discuss
25. Betty Boop, "Dizzy Dishes"
24. Wonder Woman, DC Animated Universe
23. Judy Jetson, "The Jetsons"
22. Betty Rubble, "The Flintstones"
21. Leela, "Futurama"
20. Cheetara, "ThunderCats"
19. Daphne Blake, "Scooby Doo & The Legend of the Vampire"
18. Nancy Gribble, "King of the Hill"
17. Stripperella, "Stipperella"
16. Princess Jasmine, "Aladdin"
15. Harley Quinn, "Batman: The Animated Series"
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14. Storm, "X-Men"
13. (Hello!) Nurse, "Animaniacs"
12. Marge Simpson, "The Simpsons"
11. Diane Nguyen, "BoJack Horseman"
10. Supergirl, "Superman: The Animated Series"
9. Ariel, "The Little Mermaid"
8. Esmeralda, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
7. Catwoman, "Batman: The Animated Series"
6. April O'Neil, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
5. Poison Ivy, "Batman: The Animated Series"
4. Lois Lane, "Superman: The Animated Series"
3. Lana Kane, "Archer"
2. Jessica Rabbit, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"
1. Lois Griffin, "Family Guy"
http://www.mandatory.com/2015/02/20/ranking-the-25-sexiest-cartoon-women/
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Black judge shouldn’t oversee white cop’s murder trial after posts about profiling, lawyers say
Judge Greg Griffin, a circuit court judge in Montgomery, Ala., is a habitual Facebook user with nearly 5,000 friends. He posts regularly, sometimes multiple times a day, and often shares life experiences.
In April 2016, he talked about one such life experience.
Griffin wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that he was stopped by police officers while he was walking in his neighborhood with a stick in his hand. The officers told him that they were looking for a man with a crowbar who fits his description. Griffin pointed out that he was not holding a crowbar, and that doing so wasn’t illegal to begin with. He then showed the officers a badge proving that he’s a judge.
“Throughout the ordeal the officers were courteous; however, it was aggravating to be detained when the only thing I was guilty of was being a black man walking down the street in his neighborhood with a stick in his hand who just happened to be a Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge in Montgomery, Alabama. Lord Have Mercy!!!!!” Griffin wrote.
Now, almost a year and a half later, Griffin’s post about his encounter with police — specifically his allegation that he was stopped solely because he is black — is being scrutinized.
The judge is presiding over a murder case involving a white police officer accused of shooting and killing an unarmed black man. Defense attorneys argue that what prosecutors say happened in February 2016, when Montgomery police officer Aaron Smith stopped Gregory Gunn, was “eerily similar” with Griffin’s personal experience with officers from the same police department. For that reason, they say that Griffin can’t be an objective arbiter of the law — at least not in Smith’s case — and he should recuse himself.
The Alabama Supreme Court must now decide whether it should force Griffin off the case. The court on Friday decided to postpone Smith’s October trial to allow the attorneys to present arguments.
Smith’s attorneys point to a state judicial ethics rule that says judges should avoid “all impropriety and appearance of impropriety.”
“The allegations against Officer Smith was that he stopped a black male in a high-crime area without justification … [Judge Griffin] did not directly compare himself to the case, but the analogy is there,” Roianne Conner, one of Smith’s attorneys, told The Washington Post.
Griffin’s judicial assistant said the judge is not able to comment on an ongoing case. He has said earlier that he will not recuse himself, and that the two situations had nothing to do with each other. Griffin wrote his Facebook post less than two months after the shooting and before he was assigned the case.
“This is not a stop-and-search case. This is a murder case,” Griffin told Conner in court, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
The request to remove Griffin is the latest in a highly contentious and volatile case that ignited racial tensions in Montgomery, the birthplace of the civil rights movement. Gunn’s death set off several days of protests and prompted demands from politicians and Gunn’s family for Smith’s arrest.
The deadly encounter happened on Feb. 25, 2016, when Gunn, 58, was walking home from a late-night card game, and Smith, a young officer, was working the overnight shift.
Conner said her client was following orders from a supervisor to “stop anything that moves.” The officer spotted Gunn at about 3 a.m., dressed in all black and walking around a high-crime area besieged with burglaries. Smith’s attorneys say those were justifiable reasons to stop Gunn.
Conner said Gunn tried to escape as Smith was patting him down; a crack pipe fell out of his pocket during the struggle, she said. The two fought, with the officer hitting Gunn with his baton and using his Taser multiple times but to no effect, Conner said. Gunn then ran to a neighbor’s front porch, grabbed a five-foot-long painter’s pole and swung it at Smith. That’s when the officer fired five shots, killing Gunn.
In a heated exchange with reporters last year, Mickey McDermott, one of Smith’s lawyers, defended his client’s decision to use lethal force. He said Smith was simply trying to talk to Gunn, who escalated the situation by trying to escape and left the officer without any other choice but to shoot.
“You can twist words all you want, but let’s just stop. Let’s get the facts … Now, remember, this officer didn’t turn on his blue lights. He wasn’t making an arrest. He was getting out to talk to Mr. Gunn. Mr. Gunn made himself a suspect,” McDermott told reporters, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey disagreed that Smith had no other choice.
“Why did any of that happen — that’s the crux of the matter,” he told the Montgomery Advertiser.
Bailey was not available for comment Tuesday afternoon.
Gunn’s family says he was racially profiled and immediately regarded as a threat because of his skin color.
“They thought he was a lowlife nothing, walking the street,” Gunn’s brother, Franklin Gunn, told The Post earlier. “They didn’t see a man. They didn’t see a black man. They saw somebody who needed to die, and they executed him. Now they are trying to cover it up.”
Smith was charged with murder less than a week after the shooting. His attorneys criticized the prosecutor for how quickly he filed a murder charge, saying the process should have started with a grand jury investigation.
The case was eventually turned over to a grand jury, which indicted Smith in November.
[Officer shoots Ohio newspaper photographer after confusing his tripod and camera for a gun]
It has been pending since, with three other judges recusing themselves. One judge recused himself after learning that his son works for a law firm representing Smith in a federal lawsuit brought by Gunn’s family, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. The two other judges did not explain their decisions.
Last May, after Griffin was assigned to the case, Smith’s attorneys filed a motion asking the judge to recuse himself to avoid what they say would be an unfair trial.
“Here, your honor has been subjected to and spoke out against the same actions that will weigh heavily on the determination of Mr. Smith’s guilt or innocence in this matter,” according to the motion.
During a heated exchange in court last May, Griffin accused Conner, the defense attorney, of using his race against him.
“You brought race in here,” Griffin said, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. “I’m a black judge. I can take this black robe off, but I can’t take off this black skin. I live in west Montgomery. I live in the hood. Should I recuse myself from every criminal case that has happened on the west side?”
Conner shot back, telling The Post that Griffin should not preside over the case because of his Facebook posts, and not his race.
“To me, he was the one that was injecting the race issue in all of this. … I never made the allegation that I did not want an African American or black judge,” she said.
She added that judges, as a general rule, should not make public statements on social media, especially on sensitive issues.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/06/white-cops-lawyers-say-black-judge-shouldnt-oversee-murder-trial-after-posts-about-profiling/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news:page/in-the-news&utm_term=.ed441e434006
In April 2016, he talked about one such life experience.
Griffin wrote in a lengthy Facebook post that he was stopped by police officers while he was walking in his neighborhood with a stick in his hand. The officers told him that they were looking for a man with a crowbar who fits his description. Griffin pointed out that he was not holding a crowbar, and that doing so wasn’t illegal to begin with. He then showed the officers a badge proving that he’s a judge.
“Throughout the ordeal the officers were courteous; however, it was aggravating to be detained when the only thing I was guilty of was being a black man walking down the street in his neighborhood with a stick in his hand who just happened to be a Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge in Montgomery, Alabama. Lord Have Mercy!!!!!” Griffin wrote.
Now, almost a year and a half later, Griffin’s post about his encounter with police — specifically his allegation that he was stopped solely because he is black — is being scrutinized.
The judge is presiding over a murder case involving a white police officer accused of shooting and killing an unarmed black man. Defense attorneys argue that what prosecutors say happened in February 2016, when Montgomery police officer Aaron Smith stopped Gregory Gunn, was “eerily similar” with Griffin’s personal experience with officers from the same police department. For that reason, they say that Griffin can’t be an objective arbiter of the law — at least not in Smith’s case — and he should recuse himself.
The Alabama Supreme Court must now decide whether it should force Griffin off the case. The court on Friday decided to postpone Smith’s October trial to allow the attorneys to present arguments.
Smith’s attorneys point to a state judicial ethics rule that says judges should avoid “all impropriety and appearance of impropriety.”
“The allegations against Officer Smith was that he stopped a black male in a high-crime area without justification … [Judge Griffin] did not directly compare himself to the case, but the analogy is there,” Roianne Conner, one of Smith’s attorneys, told The Washington Post.
Griffin’s judicial assistant said the judge is not able to comment on an ongoing case. He has said earlier that he will not recuse himself, and that the two situations had nothing to do with each other. Griffin wrote his Facebook post less than two months after the shooting and before he was assigned the case.
“This is not a stop-and-search case. This is a murder case,” Griffin told Conner in court, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
The request to remove Griffin is the latest in a highly contentious and volatile case that ignited racial tensions in Montgomery, the birthplace of the civil rights movement. Gunn’s death set off several days of protests and prompted demands from politicians and Gunn’s family for Smith’s arrest.
The deadly encounter happened on Feb. 25, 2016, when Gunn, 58, was walking home from a late-night card game, and Smith, a young officer, was working the overnight shift.
Conner said her client was following orders from a supervisor to “stop anything that moves.” The officer spotted Gunn at about 3 a.m., dressed in all black and walking around a high-crime area besieged with burglaries. Smith’s attorneys say those were justifiable reasons to stop Gunn.
Conner said Gunn tried to escape as Smith was patting him down; a crack pipe fell out of his pocket during the struggle, she said. The two fought, with the officer hitting Gunn with his baton and using his Taser multiple times but to no effect, Conner said. Gunn then ran to a neighbor’s front porch, grabbed a five-foot-long painter’s pole and swung it at Smith. That’s when the officer fired five shots, killing Gunn.
In a heated exchange with reporters last year, Mickey McDermott, one of Smith’s lawyers, defended his client’s decision to use lethal force. He said Smith was simply trying to talk to Gunn, who escalated the situation by trying to escape and left the officer without any other choice but to shoot.
“You can twist words all you want, but let’s just stop. Let’s get the facts … Now, remember, this officer didn’t turn on his blue lights. He wasn’t making an arrest. He was getting out to talk to Mr. Gunn. Mr. Gunn made himself a suspect,” McDermott told reporters, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey disagreed that Smith had no other choice.
“Why did any of that happen — that’s the crux of the matter,” he told the Montgomery Advertiser.
Bailey was not available for comment Tuesday afternoon.
Gunn’s family says he was racially profiled and immediately regarded as a threat because of his skin color.
“They thought he was a lowlife nothing, walking the street,” Gunn’s brother, Franklin Gunn, told The Post earlier. “They didn’t see a man. They didn’t see a black man. They saw somebody who needed to die, and they executed him. Now they are trying to cover it up.”
Smith was charged with murder less than a week after the shooting. His attorneys criticized the prosecutor for how quickly he filed a murder charge, saying the process should have started with a grand jury investigation.
The case was eventually turned over to a grand jury, which indicted Smith in November.
[Officer shoots Ohio newspaper photographer after confusing his tripod and camera for a gun]
It has been pending since, with three other judges recusing themselves. One judge recused himself after learning that his son works for a law firm representing Smith in a federal lawsuit brought by Gunn’s family, the Montgomery Advertiser reported. The two other judges did not explain their decisions.
Last May, after Griffin was assigned to the case, Smith’s attorneys filed a motion asking the judge to recuse himself to avoid what they say would be an unfair trial.
“Here, your honor has been subjected to and spoke out against the same actions that will weigh heavily on the determination of Mr. Smith’s guilt or innocence in this matter,” according to the motion.
During a heated exchange in court last May, Griffin accused Conner, the defense attorney, of using his race against him.
“You brought race in here,” Griffin said, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. “I’m a black judge. I can take this black robe off, but I can’t take off this black skin. I live in west Montgomery. I live in the hood. Should I recuse myself from every criminal case that has happened on the west side?”
Conner shot back, telling The Post that Griffin should not preside over the case because of his Facebook posts, and not his race.
“To me, he was the one that was injecting the race issue in all of this. … I never made the allegation that I did not want an African American or black judge,” she said.
She added that judges, as a general rule, should not make public statements on social media, especially on sensitive issues.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/06/white-cops-lawyers-say-black-judge-shouldnt-oversee-murder-trial-after-posts-about-profiling/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news:page/in-the-news&utm_term=.ed441e434006
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Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.
Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.
A small portion of the ads, which began in the summer of 2015, directly named Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the people said. Most of the ads focused on pumping politically divisive issues such as gun rights and immigration fears, as well as gay rights and racial discrimination.
The acknowledgment by Facebook comes as congressional investigators and special counsel Robert Mueller are probing Russian interference in the U.S. election, including allegations that the Kremlin may have coordinated with the Trump campaign.
The U.S. intelligence community concluded in January that Russia had interfered in the U.S. election to help elect Trump, including by using paid social media trolls to spread fake news intended to influence public opinion.
Even though the ad spending from Russia is tiny relative to overall campaign costs, the report from Facebook that a Russian firm was able to target political messages is likely to fuel pointed questions from investigators about whether the Russians received guidance from people in the United States — a question some Democrats have been asking for months.
“I get the fact that the Russian intel services could figure out how to manipulate and use the bots. Whether they could know how to target states and levels of voters that the Democrats weren’t even aware really raises some questions. I think that’s a worthwhile area of inquiry,” Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said during a May airing of the podcast Pod Save America. “How did they know to go to that level of detail in those kinds of jurisdictions?”
An official familiar with Facebook’s internal investigation said the company does not have the ability to determine whether the ads it sold represented any sort of coordination.
The acknowledgment by Facebook follows months of criticism that the social media company served as a platform for the spread of false information before the November election. In a statement posted days after the election, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to explore the issue but said that 99 percent of information found on Facebook is authentic and only “a very small amount” is fake or hoaxes. In December, however, the company announced that it would begin flagging articles that had been deemed false or fake, with the assistance of fact-checking organizations.
Facebook discovered the Russian connection as part of an investigation that began this spring looking at purchasers of politically-motivated ads, according to people familiar with the inquiry. It found that 3,300 ads had digital footprints that led to the Russian company.
Facebook teams then discovered 470 suspicious and likely fraudulent Facebook accounts and pages that it believes operated out of Russia, had links to the company and were involved in promoting the ads.
A Facebook official said “there is evidence that some of the accounts are linked to a troll farm in St. Petersburg, referred to as the Internet Research Agency, though we have no way to independently confirm.” The official declined to release any of the ads it traced to Russian companies or entities.
“Our data policy and federal law limit our ability to share user data and content, so we won’t be releasing any ads,” the official said. The official added that the ads “were directed at people on Facebook who had expressed interest in subjects explored on those pages, such as LGBT community, black social issues, the Second Amendment, and immigration.”
Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, said in a statement that the company is committed to continuing to protect the integrity of its site and improve its ability to track fraudulent accounts. He said Facebook has shut down the accounts that remained active.
“We know we have to stay vigilant to keep ahead of people who try to misuse our platform,” he said.
Earlier this year, Facebook announced technology improvements to detect fake accounts and more recently announced it would no longer allow Facebook pages to advertise if they have a pattern of sharing false news stories. Over the past few months, Stamos said, the company has also taken action to block fake accounts tied to election meddling in France and Germany.
The Internet Research Agency has received attention in the past for its activity.
In 2013, hackers released internal company documents showing it employed 600 people across Russia. Ex-employees who have gone public with their experiences at the company in Internet postings and in media interviews have said their work entailed creating fake Twitter and Facebook accounts and using them to circulate pro-Kremlin propaganda. They said Internet Research Agency employees, for instance, spread derogatory information about Putin critic Boris Nemtsov in the days after his 2015 murder.
In 2015, the New York Times Magazine reported that social media accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency had launched social media campaigns in the United States, including a sophisticated hoax that spread false news of a chemical leak in Louisiana in 2014, apparently to sow chaos and fear.
In its unclassified report in January, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that the Internet Research Agency’s “likely financier” is a “close Putin ally with ties to Russian intelligence.”
In May, Time Magazine reported that U.S. intelligence officials had discovered evidence that Russian agents had purchased ads on Facebook to target specific populations with propaganda. A Facebook spokesman told the magazine that the company had no evidence of such buys.
Under federal law and Federal Election Commission regulations, both foreign nationals and foreign governments are prohibited from making contributions or spending money to influence a federal, state or local election in the United States. The ban includes independent expenditures made in connection with an election.
Those banned from such spending include foreign citizens, foreign governments, foreign political parties, foreign corporations, foreign associations and foreign partnerships, according to the FEC. (Permanent residents who hold green cards, however, are not considered foreign nationals.) Violators face civil penalties, as well as criminal prosecution if they are found to have knowingly broken the law.
Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.
A small portion of the ads, which began in the summer of 2015, directly named Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the people said. Most of the ads focused on pumping politically divisive issues such as gun rights and immigration fears, as well as gay rights and racial discrimination.
The acknowledgment by Facebook comes as congressional investigators and special counsel Robert Mueller are probing Russian interference in the U.S. election, including allegations that the Kremlin may have coordinated with the Trump campaign.
The U.S. intelligence community concluded in January that Russia had interfered in the U.S. election to help elect Trump, including by using paid social media trolls to spread fake news intended to influence public opinion.
Even though the ad spending from Russia is tiny relative to overall campaign costs, the report from Facebook that a Russian firm was able to target political messages is likely to fuel pointed questions from investigators about whether the Russians received guidance from people in the United States — a question some Democrats have been asking for months.
“I get the fact that the Russian intel services could figure out how to manipulate and use the bots. Whether they could know how to target states and levels of voters that the Democrats weren’t even aware really raises some questions. I think that’s a worthwhile area of inquiry,” Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said during a May airing of the podcast Pod Save America. “How did they know to go to that level of detail in those kinds of jurisdictions?”
An official familiar with Facebook’s internal investigation said the company does not have the ability to determine whether the ads it sold represented any sort of coordination.
The acknowledgment by Facebook follows months of criticism that the social media company served as a platform for the spread of false information before the November election. In a statement posted days after the election, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to explore the issue but said that 99 percent of information found on Facebook is authentic and only “a very small amount” is fake or hoaxes. In December, however, the company announced that it would begin flagging articles that had been deemed false or fake, with the assistance of fact-checking organizations.
Facebook discovered the Russian connection as part of an investigation that began this spring looking at purchasers of politically-motivated ads, according to people familiar with the inquiry. It found that 3,300 ads had digital footprints that led to the Russian company.
Facebook teams then discovered 470 suspicious and likely fraudulent Facebook accounts and pages that it believes operated out of Russia, had links to the company and were involved in promoting the ads.
A Facebook official said “there is evidence that some of the accounts are linked to a troll farm in St. Petersburg, referred to as the Internet Research Agency, though we have no way to independently confirm.” The official declined to release any of the ads it traced to Russian companies or entities.
“Our data policy and federal law limit our ability to share user data and content, so we won’t be releasing any ads,” the official said. The official added that the ads “were directed at people on Facebook who had expressed interest in subjects explored on those pages, such as LGBT community, black social issues, the Second Amendment, and immigration.”
Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, said in a statement that the company is committed to continuing to protect the integrity of its site and improve its ability to track fraudulent accounts. He said Facebook has shut down the accounts that remained active.
“We know we have to stay vigilant to keep ahead of people who try to misuse our platform,” he said.
Earlier this year, Facebook announced technology improvements to detect fake accounts and more recently announced it would no longer allow Facebook pages to advertise if they have a pattern of sharing false news stories. Over the past few months, Stamos said, the company has also taken action to block fake accounts tied to election meddling in France and Germany.
The Internet Research Agency has received attention in the past for its activity.
In 2013, hackers released internal company documents showing it employed 600 people across Russia. Ex-employees who have gone public with their experiences at the company in Internet postings and in media interviews have said their work entailed creating fake Twitter and Facebook accounts and using them to circulate pro-Kremlin propaganda. They said Internet Research Agency employees, for instance, spread derogatory information about Putin critic Boris Nemtsov in the days after his 2015 murder.
In 2015, the New York Times Magazine reported that social media accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency had launched social media campaigns in the United States, including a sophisticated hoax that spread false news of a chemical leak in Louisiana in 2014, apparently to sow chaos and fear.
In its unclassified report in January, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that the Internet Research Agency’s “likely financier” is a “close Putin ally with ties to Russian intelligence.”
In May, Time Magazine reported that U.S. intelligence officials had discovered evidence that Russian agents had purchased ads on Facebook to target specific populations with propaganda. A Facebook spokesman told the magazine that the company had no evidence of such buys.
Under federal law and Federal Election Commission regulations, both foreign nationals and foreign governments are prohibited from making contributions or spending money to influence a federal, state or local election in the United States. The ban includes independent expenditures made in connection with an election.
Those banned from such spending include foreign citizens, foreign governments, foreign political parties, foreign corporations, foreign associations and foreign partnerships, according to the FEC. (Permanent residents who hold green cards, however, are not considered foreign nationals.) Violators face civil penalties, as well as criminal prosecution if they are found to have knowingly broken the law.
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Norwegian Website Quizzes Trolls Before Allowing Them to Comment
A Norwegian news site is now asking its readers to take a short reading comprehension quiz before allowing them to post comments below certain articles, according to a report from Nieman Lab. “The goal,” writes Joseph Lichterman, “is to ensure that the commenters have actually read the story before they discuss it.”
The site, NRKbeta, which covers technology for Norway’s public broadcasting company, sees the quiz as a way to certify that readers are beginning a discussion from the same place, and as a “count to ten before you speak” preventative buffer. NRKbeta thinks the feature has improved the civility of its conversations and may add the quiz to all of its stories if the experiment continues to perform well.
A premise of NRKbeta’s experiment is that many commenters haven’t read the article they intend to discuss. In a 2016 survey of commenters, the Engaging News Project offered some evidence to support that idea, finding that more than half of commenters spent the same amount of time or more in the comment threads than reading the article. Nineteen percent of commenters spent more time commenting than reading.
Cause we know none of you mfers ever read the OP before commenting.
The site, NRKbeta, which covers technology for Norway’s public broadcasting company, sees the quiz as a way to certify that readers are beginning a discussion from the same place, and as a “count to ten before you speak” preventative buffer. NRKbeta thinks the feature has improved the civility of its conversations and may add the quiz to all of its stories if the experiment continues to perform well.
NRKbeta’s solution may be novel, but the problem it addresses is not. Across the web, publishers and social platforms are struggling to improve the quality of online discourse. Toxic conversations can escalate to harassment, or at least discourage participation from a diverse representation of readers. (When NPR removed commenting from its site last summer, ombudsperson Elizabeth Jensen cited estimates showing that 83 percent of its commenters were male, while overall readership was only 52 percent male.) And comment threads gone wild can work against the journalistic goals of news sites if they change how readers interpret a story, as some research suggests. Meanwhile, sites are often unable to dedicate more resources to moderation, and many are reluctant to constrain the free exchange of ideas and debate. Given these challenges, it’s understandable that many publishers have thrown in the towel, either removing comment sections from their sites or outsourcing their conversations to platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
A premise of NRKbeta’s experiment is that many commenters haven’t read the article they intend to discuss. In a 2016 survey of commenters, the Engaging News Project offered some evidence to support that idea, finding that more than half of commenters spent the same amount of time or more in the comment threads than reading the article. Nineteen percent of commenters spent more time commenting than reading.
Cause we know none of you mfers ever read the OP before commenting.
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Does anyone in the IC do Art?
I be playing around nothing serious.Anyone on the site likes graffiti?
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White Supremacist rally in Charlottesville
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When they "miss" you, Do you "miss" them? really?
Ok ... so you're away on a business trip for about a week and a half.
1 week into the trip your girl (or guy) calls you up and starts tripping and saids " I Miss You"
now heres the important part.
YOU DONT MISS THEM... Seriously You can be apart from your s/o whom you love dearly for more than a week
without falling to shreds.... and quite frankly, you look forward to seeing them when you get back... but the truth is that
you don't "miss" them.
How do you approach your response. What will be better for the longevity of your relationship?
Im asking for a friend btw
1 week into the trip your girl (or guy) calls you up and starts tripping and saids " I Miss You"
now heres the important part.
YOU DONT MISS THEM... Seriously You can be apart from your s/o whom you love dearly for more than a week
without falling to shreds.... and quite frankly, you look forward to seeing them when you get back... but the truth is that
you don't "miss" them.
How do you approach your response. What will be better for the longevity of your relationship?
Im asking for a friend btw
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Women that use the dog snapchat filters are more than likely hoes or at minimum birds?
One of my friends at a get together straight up said "If she uses the dog face or fake ass queen filter on her photo she is a certified bird." Anybody agree with this?
What say you?
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What say you?
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My name is My name
Fellas
If you are married ...or if you plan to get married one day
How do you feel about changing your name to your S/O ?
Would you be willing to hyphenate it like Beyoncé and Jay-Z did ?
What if your wife wanted to keep her last name and not use yours at all ?
Side note :Women weren't even allowed to keep their last name until 1972
Why is it so important to you ?
Does it matter if your kids have your last name ?
Ladies feel free to chime in too ❤️
If you are married ...or if you plan to get married one day
How do you feel about changing your name to your S/O ?
Would you be willing to hyphenate it like Beyoncé and Jay-Z did ?
What if your wife wanted to keep her last name and not use yours at all ?
Side note :Women weren't even allowed to keep their last name until 1972
Why is it so important to you ?
Does it matter if your kids have your last name ?
Ladies feel free to chime in too ❤️
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Man Catches Wife Cheating, Faces Up To 15 Years For Illegal Surveillance - God Bless America !
... and no place else.
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Man, 37, who filmed himself busting his wife in bed with her boss could now be jailed for unlawful surveillance
A man who filmed himself confronting his wife when he busted her in bed with her boss now faces jail time for unlawful surveillance.
Sean Donis, 37, filmed two videos on his phone when he found his wife Nancy in bed with another man in Rockland County, New York in April last year.
He told the New York Post he had used the 'Find My iPhone' app to locate his young son's iPad when he spotted it travelling through Rockland County
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Donis said he was looking after the couple's son because his wife had said she was meeting up with friends for dinner in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
He said seeing the iPad location confirmed fears he had about his wife's infidelity with her boss Albert Lopez.
Donis went to Lopez's house and entered through the unlocked front door.
He then proceeded to film his wife and Lopez in bed as he confronted them.
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Nancy filed for divorce and it was finalized earlier this year.
Months later in July, Donis was informed he had been indicted by a grand jury for unlawful surveillance and felony burglary.
'I feel like it's unjust what they're doing to me,' Donis told The Post. 'It's like I'm being punished twice.'
He pleaded guilty in August but is due to front court again on September 20.
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What's your purpose for living
What's the reason you wake up everyday?
What keeps you motivated to live life?
What keeps you from committing suicide or a slower method of destruction?
What keeps you motivated to live life?
What keeps you from committing suicide or a slower method of destruction?
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GOAT weatherman Alan Sealls explains Irma without sensationalizing
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The Powerful Pet Thread
I noticed that a lot of people had pets in the Summer Pics thread so I decided to make a thread dedicated to the pets of the IC...
Here's mine. Isis my 13 year old Siberian Husky. To say I love this dog is an understatement. She's the best dog I've ever had.
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Here's mine. Isis my 13 year old Siberian Husky. To say I love this dog is an understatement. She's the best dog I've ever had.
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The General Business Thread
Alright yall this is a spinoff from the Tax Implications thread that was started by @JonnyRoccIT . I made this thread to help out anybody who has general questions about getting started or going forward, legal matters in business, financing/banks/credit, how to find information, building websites, structure, taxation, business plans/proposals, investing, motivation - anything that has to do with running a business please ask the question here and me or @pralims will answer you promptly.
Anything that has to do with even supplying apps or anything for that matter that can help someone, anybody, somewhere do something easier or better will be greatly appreciated.
To kick things off I have put the topics in spoilers to make the O/P organized and easier to browse for mobile users.
Business Entity/Legal Structures
Sole Proprietorship
The simplest structure is the sole proprietorship, which usually involves just one individual who owns and operates the enterprise. If you intend to work alone, this structure may be the way to go. The tax aspects of a sole proprietorship are appealing because the expenses and your income from the business are included on your personal income tax return, Form 1040. Your profits and losses are recorded on a form called Schedule C, which is filed with your 1040. The "bottom-line amount" from Schedule C is then transferred to your personal tax return. This is especially attractive because business losses you suffer may offset the income you have earned from your other sources.
As a sole proprietor, you must also file a Schedule SE with Form 1040. You use Schedule SE to calculate how much self-employment tax you owe. In addition to paying annual self-employment taxes, you must make estimated tax payments if you expect to owe at least $1,000 in federal taxes for the year after deducting your withholding and credits, and your withholding will be less than the smaller of:
1) 90 percent of the tax to be shown on your current year tax return or
2) 100 percent of your previous year's tax liability.
The federal government permits you to pay estimated taxes in four equal amounts throughout the year on the 15th of April, June, September and January. With a sole proprietorship, your business earnings are taxed only once, unlike other business structures. Another big plus is that you will have complete control over your business--you make all the decisions. There are a few disadvantages to consider, however. Selecting the sole proprietorship business structure means you are personally responsible for your company's liabilities. As a result, you are placing your assets at risk, and they could be seized to satisfy a business debt or a legal claim filed against you.Raising money for a sole proprietorship can also be difficult. Banks and other financing sources may be reluctant to make business loans to sole proprietorships. In most cases, you will have to depend on your financing sources, such as savings,
home equity or family loans.
Partnership
If your business will be owned and operated by several individuals, you'll want to take a look at structuring your business as a partnership. Partnerships come in two varieties: general partnerships and limited partnerships. In a general partnership, the partners manage the company and assume responsibility for the partnership's debts and other obligations. A limited partnership has both general and limited partners. The general partners own and operate the business and assume liability for the partnership, while the limited partners serve as investors only; they have no control over the company and are not subject to the same liabilities as the general partners.
Unless you expect to have many passive investors, limited partnerships are generally not the best choice for a new business because of all the required filings and administrative complexities. If you have two or more partners who want to be actively involved, a general partnership would be much easier to form.
One of the major advantages of a partnership is the tax treatment it enjoys. A partnership does not pay tax on its income but "passes through" any profits or losses to the individual partners. At tax time, the partnership must file a tax return (Form 1065) that reports its income and loss to the IRS. In addition, each partner reports his or her share of income and loss on Schedule K-1 of Form 1065.
Personal liability is a major concern if you use a general partnership to structure your business. Like sole proprietors, general partners are personally liable for the partnership's obligations and debts. Each general partner can act on behalf of the partnership, take out loans and make decisions that will affect and be binding on all the partners (if the partnership agreement permits). Keep in mind that partnerships are also more expensive to establish than sole proprietorships because they require more legal and accounting services.
The other portion is in the next post
As for what state is best to incorporate in, it really depends on what type of business you're trying to build. Please PM me and I may be able to assist you.
Motivation
For motivation give these books a read:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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@pralims
@traestar
@black caesar
@MarcusGarvey
@kontakz
@BigBallsNoWorries
@YunnSanco
@KingSimba
Feel free to post if yall can contribute, anything is plenty.
Anything that has to do with even supplying apps or anything for that matter that can help someone, anybody, somewhere do something easier or better will be greatly appreciated.
To kick things off I have put the topics in spoilers to make the O/P organized and easier to browse for mobile users.
Business Entity/Legal Structures
Sole Proprietorship
The simplest structure is the sole proprietorship, which usually involves just one individual who owns and operates the enterprise. If you intend to work alone, this structure may be the way to go. The tax aspects of a sole proprietorship are appealing because the expenses and your income from the business are included on your personal income tax return, Form 1040. Your profits and losses are recorded on a form called Schedule C, which is filed with your 1040. The "bottom-line amount" from Schedule C is then transferred to your personal tax return. This is especially attractive because business losses you suffer may offset the income you have earned from your other sources.
As a sole proprietor, you must also file a Schedule SE with Form 1040. You use Schedule SE to calculate how much self-employment tax you owe. In addition to paying annual self-employment taxes, you must make estimated tax payments if you expect to owe at least $1,000 in federal taxes for the year after deducting your withholding and credits, and your withholding will be less than the smaller of:
1) 90 percent of the tax to be shown on your current year tax return or
2) 100 percent of your previous year's tax liability.
The federal government permits you to pay estimated taxes in four equal amounts throughout the year on the 15th of April, June, September and January. With a sole proprietorship, your business earnings are taxed only once, unlike other business structures. Another big plus is that you will have complete control over your business--you make all the decisions. There are a few disadvantages to consider, however. Selecting the sole proprietorship business structure means you are personally responsible for your company's liabilities. As a result, you are placing your assets at risk, and they could be seized to satisfy a business debt or a legal claim filed against you.Raising money for a sole proprietorship can also be difficult. Banks and other financing sources may be reluctant to make business loans to sole proprietorships. In most cases, you will have to depend on your financing sources, such as savings,
home equity or family loans.
Partnership
If your business will be owned and operated by several individuals, you'll want to take a look at structuring your business as a partnership. Partnerships come in two varieties: general partnerships and limited partnerships. In a general partnership, the partners manage the company and assume responsibility for the partnership's debts and other obligations. A limited partnership has both general and limited partners. The general partners own and operate the business and assume liability for the partnership, while the limited partners serve as investors only; they have no control over the company and are not subject to the same liabilities as the general partners.
Unless you expect to have many passive investors, limited partnerships are generally not the best choice for a new business because of all the required filings and administrative complexities. If you have two or more partners who want to be actively involved, a general partnership would be much easier to form.
One of the major advantages of a partnership is the tax treatment it enjoys. A partnership does not pay tax on its income but "passes through" any profits or losses to the individual partners. At tax time, the partnership must file a tax return (Form 1065) that reports its income and loss to the IRS. In addition, each partner reports his or her share of income and loss on Schedule K-1 of Form 1065.
Personal liability is a major concern if you use a general partnership to structure your business. Like sole proprietors, general partners are personally liable for the partnership's obligations and debts. Each general partner can act on behalf of the partnership, take out loans and make decisions that will affect and be binding on all the partners (if the partnership agreement permits). Keep in mind that partnerships are also more expensive to establish than sole proprietorships because they require more legal and accounting services.
The other portion is in the next post
As for what state is best to incorporate in, it really depends on what type of business you're trying to build. Please PM me and I may be able to assist you.
Motivation
For motivation give these books a read:
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
@pralims
@traestar
@black caesar
@MarcusGarvey
@kontakz
@BigBallsNoWorries
@YunnSanco
@KingSimba
Feel free to post if yall can contribute, anything is plenty.
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