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>>81261
If you believe this the I've got a 4chan pass to sell you.

>>81261
It explains nothing
I am so fed up with US astroturfing bull shit
Go fuck yourself, Cause no one else will

If this was true, it would literally be the stupidest plan ever conceived, you think that pipleine would ever be completed? or remain un-exploded for more then a day?

the Bengazi thing was just an arms deal that Stevens set up, then got cold feet

>>81755
The working-level officials' response came in the short wake of remarks by U.S. Director of National Intelligence(DNI) James Clapper.

[Sound bite: U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper]
"The notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause. That is their ticket to their survival."
"So the notion of giving up their nuclear capability, whatever it is, is a nonstarter with them ... The best we could probably hope for is some sort of a cap, but they're not going to do that just because we ask them. There's going to have to be some significant inducements."

If the North's current nuclear capability is officially recognized before putting a cap, it will no doubt lead to increased calls for the South's nuclear armament.

The State Department tried to put out the controversy triggered by Clapper's remarks, saying there is no change in the U.S.' policy aim for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula.

But the U.S. intelligence officials made it clear that there is a subtle change on the thorny nuclear armament issue at a time of transition at the White House.
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.

>A Hillary Clinton presidency will be built, from the ground up, on self-dealing, crony favors, and an utter disregard for the law.
While this is completely true, and in fact understating the problem, the same can be said for Trump. What's the point?

>MSM is actually going after Clinton

I wouldn't call it that, these shills are vehemently anti-Trump and always will be. It's controlled opposition

>>80966
Can it? And why has this point only been pushed in regard to Trump and not Clinton by the media over the last 6 months?

>>81718
The sources reportedly said that the demand allegedly followed Cho’s refusal against pressure from the ministry to sign The Blue K, a company founded by Choi, on a project to build stands for the Olympic stadium and other subsidiary facilities.

“It seems that (Cho) flatly refused all unreasonable demands from Choi’s side. It seems that his resignation may also have been driven by a disgruntled Choi,” Democratic Party of Korea Rep. Ahn Min-seok was quoted as saying in a media interview.

The Blue K, which also failed to win the said project under Cho’s successor Lee Hee-beom, was reportedly planning to bid for a 150 billion-won ($131 million) infrastructure project for the Olympics at the year’s end.

Cho had been heading the Olympics organization committee since August 2014 and was nearing the end of his two-year term. Cho had served as head of PyeongChang’s Olympic bidding committee in 2011, beating Munich of Germany and Annecy of France in an International Olympic Committee vote.

Following the speculation on Choi’s influence on Cho’s position, news reports also suggested that the normalization efforts of Hanjin Shipping that started to go haywire this year could also have been connected, citing the government’s sudden negative turn of attitude against helping the shipper, branding it as an “insolvent company.”

Hanjin Shipping was put under court receivership in September, as its creditors, led by the state-run Korea Development Bank, rejected its last self-rescue package worth 500 billion won.

And Russia fired at a north Korean fishing vessel for the same reason. The fuck is going on?

>>81612
Good

>>81636
I believe a Chinese fishing ship recently rammed and sunk a S. Korean ship, could be mixing it up with something else though.

These findings expand on previous work that found pet ownership also increased the biodiversity of microbial organisms, such as bacteria and fungi.


"We were surprised to see that these three variables - which we have some control over - were more powerful predictors of biodiversity than climate," Madden says. "We had expected environmental factors associated with regional climate to play a larger role than they actually did."

However, the scope of the study data also allowed the researchers to create a national atlas they can use to track the range of specific arthropod genera. And, depending on the genus, climate factors were seen to play a significant role in determining the range of some arthropods.
For example, dust mites can be serious allergens in homes and the team found that they were more often associated with homes in humid regions of the country.

In addition, researchers were able to use the atlas to identify genera that had significantly expanded their range - but no one had previously noticed.
For example, the Turkestan cockroach (Shelfordella lateralis) was previously thought to be found only in the southern and western regions of the United States - but the data from this study showed that it had expanded as far as the Northeast.
"We're just scratching the surface of how we can use this data set and the arthropod atlas," Madden says. "What can it tell us about the food webs in our own homes? What can it tell us about how arthropod populations expand and contract across the country? What emerging allergens can it reveal? We're just getting started.

"Also, we want to stress that this was a citizen science project," Madden says. "This study would not have been possible without the participation of people from across the country who volunteered to be actively involved in the work." [Note: anyone interested in participating in future citizen science projects with this research team can visit http://www.yourwildlife.org/participate/.]
The paper, "The diversity of arthropods in homes across the United States as determined by environmental DNA analyses," is published in the journal Molecular Ecology.

Shout out to NC State

>>80388
Fuck yeah

I haf crippelen rapelling depprassion

When do I get my disability cheque?

will there be social worker hookers with free service or something?

>>77390
>at least he doesn't rape
Still a piece of shit

>>77397
Less of a piece of shit then Hillary who got a child rapist out of jail even though she knew he was guilty and then laughed about it. She is also a rape enabler for Bill Clinton.

>>77398
Sources?

>>81622
it's happening

>News articles must be recent! Nothing older than 48 hours please.

10/16
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201610161046376681-north-korea-fishing-vessel-fsb/

>>81622
This shit's already been posted here

>>81606
so ... how isn't this rape?
because he's black?

Hey at least it got tugboats.

Fucking pathetic

>>81046

I remember literally seeing a picture of Kuznetsov's smoke emissions being visable from space.

Seems like a strategic liability.

>>81046
lawl, on the bright-side they could blow the whole country of France away now if they wanted.

>>81527
Guys like him and busybody soccer moms ruin Halloween.

Would it be ok if it was a 18 year old girl?

>>81597
No

>>81433
like you have to look further than Shillary to find neo-Communism.

>>81434
t. Right Wing Extremist

>>81433
That isn't what the article says at all. It's a misleading headline. If you read further than the second paragraph, you find out things like this:

>The F.B.I.’s inquiries into Russia’s possible role continue, as does the investigation into the emails involving Mrs. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, on a computer she shared with her estranged husband, Anthony D. Weiner. Mrs. Clinton’s supporters argue that voters have as much right to know what the F.B.I. has found in Mr. Trump’s case, even if the findings are not yet conclusive.

>“You do not hear the director talking about any other investigation he is involved in,” Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Democrat of New York, said after Mr. Comey’s letter to Congress was made public. “Is he investigating the Trump Foundation? Is he looking into the Russians hacking into all of our emails? Is he looking into and deciding what is going on with regards to other allegations of the Trump Organization?”

>Mr. Comey would not even confirm the existence of any investigation of Mr. Trump’s aides when asked during an appearance in September before Congress. In the Obama administration’s internal deliberations over identifying the Russians as the source of the hacks, Mr. Comey also argued against doing so and succeeded in keeping the F.B.I.’s imprimatur off the formal findings, a law enforcement official said. His stance was first reported by CNBC.

If a computer uses small talk in the wrong context, it will not only be less effective but downright jarring. She and her students have studied many different kinds of human interactions to understand the components that might be captured and encoded into machines, most recently annotating the behavior of high school students teaching each other algebra.

Although Cassell has been studying ways for machines to mimic conversational rapport for more than a decade, she says corporate researchers have only recently shown an interest in her work. In fact, one big company, which she declined to name, recently offered to buy the patents behind Sara, she says.

The techniques Cassell and others are honing could prove especially important as virtual helpers take on more responsibility for guiding the way we find information and shaping our purchasing habits. Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and others see chatbots as a promising new interface for reaching customers (see “Here Come the Marketing Chatbots”).

Some of the more polished virtual helpers out there, like Siri, already make use of some subtle social cues (see “Social Intelligence”). Earlier this year, Apple bought a company called Emotient, which is developing technology for tracking people’s emotions. That may signal an intention to improve Siri’s emotional intelligence.

Meanwhile, sources familiar with Amazon’s research say the company is investigating ways of making Alexa, the virtual assistant in its Echo voice-controlled device, more attuned to users’ emotional states as expressed through their tone and manner of speech (see “Amazon Working on Making Alexa Recognize Your Emotions”). Obviously, Amazon’s device is also designed with one eye on enabling online purchases, so it isn’t hard to imagine Alexa developing an artful sales patter.

There are challenges to making it work in any practical way. Timothy Bickmore, a professor at Northeastern University, says one of the biggest is capturing all the different cues that may be relevant to an interaction, including facial expressions and body language. This may be especially tricky on mobile devices, although in theory a smartphone could capture the information used to enable something like Sara. And he says the approach isn’t much help if an interface is just meant to execute a command as quickly and efficiently as possible. “Those cues are most useful in a natural conversation,” he says. “Sometimes the social stuff just gets in the way.”

Sara, at least, seemed pretty useful as a conference helper. Earlier this year, Cassell and her students took Sara to an event hosted by the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China, where it helped attendees meet people. And she says an as-yet-unpublished study shows that Sara is more effective at getting someone to click on a link when the agent applies its conversational strategies. That kind of human-to-machine relationship-building may be a sign of things to come.

“My goal is to build a device that can spend a lifetime with you, and over time its behavior will change,” Cassell says. “If, over five years, it is speaking to you in the same way that it did on the day you bought it, then you’re going to feel like you have a device with amnesia—or even worse, one that doesn’t care about you.”

>>81326
> more useful chatbots
I don't see how chatbots are in any way useful exept in deceiving People. The only Ones I can imagine Profiting from chatbots are mischievous Companies/Advertisers and Political Parties.

<Alex Jones Rant> THEY PUT BOTS IN OUR CHATS TO TURN THE FREAKIN YOUTH GAY.

“More thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don’t kill or maim what works,” she said in one speech underwritten by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to a transcript that was stolen from her campaign chairman’s email account.

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon pointed to her advocacy work during her Rose years. “From the day she left law school, Hillary Clinton has never stopped being an advocate for children and families,” he said. “This period was among her most active years as Arkansas’ First Lady, when she introduced a new early childhood education program and expanded health access to rural parts of the state.”

Mrs. Clinton’s years at the firm included some controversy. For one, the roots of the Whitewater affair reach back to her years at Rose when her husband was serving as Arkansas governor. The firm and Mrs. Clinton represented a failed savings-and-loan association run by James McDougal, the Clintons’ partner in the Whitewater real-estate investment, in a matter before state regulators. Whitewater dogged the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton’s presidency, though neither of them was ever charged.

When her husband ran for president in 1992, her work at Rose sparked questions about whether she had benefited from state business handled by her firm. Mrs. Clinton denied that it had. “For goodness' sake, you can’t be a lawyer if you don’t represent banks,” she said at the time.

Two of her best friends at the firm followed the Clintons to Washington. One of them, Mr. Hubbell, eventually went to prison after it was discovered he had stolen from the firm. They haven’t spoken since. “She doesn’t talk to me,” Mr. Hubbell said in a recent interview. The other friend, partner Vincent Foster, committed suicide.

Mrs. Clinton, known then as Hillary Rodham, joined the Rose Law Firm in 1977.

She had followed Mr. Clinton to Arkansas and was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school when he was elected attorney general and planned a move to Little Rock. She had worked with Mr. Foster on a project, and he helped recruit her to the firm, which was founded in 1820 and bills itself as the oldest law firm west of the Mississippi River.

At the law school, she had run a legal-aid clinic for the poor. Many of the Rose firm’s clients were big companies, including three of the state’s largest: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Tyson Foods Inc. and Stephens, Inc., a brokerage firm.

In one way, the Rose years reinforce a theme of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign—that she is a pioneer for women. She was the firm’s first female associate, and two years later, its first female partner.

Although many partners welcomed her to the firm, some initially worried how they would introduce her to clients and what would happen if she became pregnant, Mr. Hubbell recalled.

When she did have a child, she has said, some partners were surprised that she expected to be paid during her maternity leave.

Some people who worked with her said her casual dress and look were out of step with Southern women of that era. “Her appearance was much more stodgy and old maid-ish,” said Joe Giroir, one of her partners from that era. “I don’t think she ever had a real feel of Arkansas.”

Mr. Giroir said there was just one woman in his law school class, and for years he had “misgivings about female attorneys because I felt like their family obligations were going to interfere” with their work. He said he changed his mind after seeing a female lawyer in Houston do a good job with a case.

Inside the firm, lawyers were split over Mrs. Clinton’s value as a partner, according to Mr. Hubbell and others.

Mrs. Clinton recruited Amy Lee Stewart to the firm and mentored her.

“Whenever I needed anything, wanted to ask a question, needed help with the right angle on a brief, I’d say, ‘Do you have a few minutes?’ ” recalls Ms. Stewart. “She’d say, ‘Come in. Let’s have a cup of tea and cookies.’ ”

Other colleagues resented Mrs. Clinton’s outside interests and how they limited her billable hours. In addition to time away campaigning for her husband, who was on the ballot every two years, she served as chairwoman of both the Legal Services Corp. and the Children’s Defense Fund and led efforts to revamp Arkansas’s education system.

“You can say that, well, perhaps from one perspective she wasn’t as productive as other partners were,” says Jerry Jones, a Rose colleague. “But from another perspective, what a great role model. She is able to balance all of these things and be successful at them.”

As first lady in 1996, Mrs. Clinton gave a deposition as part of a Whitewater inquiry in which she talked about how her attentions were divided in the mid-1980s. “I was engaged in a lot of pro-bono public activities,” she said. “I spent much of 1982 campaigning nearly full-time for my husband. I spent much of 1983 heading up the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, so that my time was not solely devoted to law practice by any means.”

At Rose, her share of the profits was tied to the business she generated, so her time on outside civic and political activities meant she earned less than other partners. She supplemented her income by serving on corporate boards including Wal-Mart and TCBY Enterprises, the yogurt franchise, both Rose clients.

She wrote in her 2003 memoir, “Living History,” that she “worried that because politics is an inherently unstable profession, we needed to build up a nest egg.”

By 1991, she was earning just over $100,000 from the firm, plus another $60,700 from director’s fees, according to news reports at the time. As governor, Mr. Clinton earned $35,000 that year.