You’d be surprised how some crew members have figured out to steal bandwidth from areas of the ships communications systems.

US officials tell me the threats from Iran included “specific and credible” intelligence that Iranian forces and proxies were targeting US forces

“acting like a site which was notorious for sex trafficking is some kind of great loss”

Yep, I live in the Netherlands where: 1) prostitution is legal and there are a number of social services available to sex workers; and 2) the Netherlands is one of the world’s top sex trafficking destination countries and sex trafficking is a huge problem here. The percentage of Dutch women in sex work is the minority…

Agree 100% that prostitution should be legalized, regulated, and taxed just like any other therapeutic business.

“Many sex workers argue that under their broad scope, SESTA and Fosta could cut off spaces to share safety information, stymie outreach efforts, and flag dangerous clients, while driving those clients and sex traffickers further off the radar.”

I still remember one of the least popular arguments I ever made on Gawker was that the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son should have been a cause for outrage on the left. Even on an extremely liberal site that opinion got attacked relentlessly. Drone strike warfare is still incredibly popular, and there is zero…

The Obama administration was wrong in continuing the illegal drone strikes started by Bush. This was a lost opportunity to reinforce the moral high ground that some Americans think we have. The result has been more torture and murder with a known lying criminal like Trump. War crimes need to be prosecuted.

... It’s not a metaphor.

Yeah, nobody really is. Most of us would prefer to see fewer people get shot because police officers interpret dark skin tone as an imminent threat and imagine weapons to go with it.

Rule number 1: tell the cops you’re not black. That might buy you some time to get out of gunshot range.

Just follow these simple rules to not be shot if you are black. Don’t: stand, sit, lay down, kneel, crawl, walk, run, be still, have things in their hands, have empty hands, have hands behind your back, have hands clearly in front of you, have hands behind your head, look directly at the police, look away from the…

As I interpret the new wording of the law, an officer could have a taser drawn and, if rushed as in the Tueller Drill, fire his taser, right? Of course, officers won’t want to draw their tasers in case the suspect has a gun, so they draw their guns first and that’s why they end up shooting, assuming that they’re even…

I don’t know. 15, maybe 20.

Read it again. The point is the 21 foot rule.

Yeah, she needs to appeal to the rest of the demographic outside of NYC if she is really going to get anywhere.

I am going to say the same thing for Nixon’s campaign that I said for Hillary’s run: It is her race to lose. Don’t underestimate her opponent even for a moment.

She’s got a chance, maybe even a better than even odds kind of chance, but saying

If a cop could get full pay for a do-nothing job and all he had to do was shoot someone, every single cop would shoot someone on the first day.

Nah, all we have to do is make any unlawful death payouts come out of the police pension fund instead of the general fund. Cops will immediately start policing their own if their money was on the line.