US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4061

On June 16 2016 07:30 xDaunt wrote:
I haven't gone through the opposition research file in detail yet, but skimming through the contents, I wasn't particularly impressed with what they had.

On June 16 2016 06:46 Falling wrote:

I don't get it. Could you provide more context?

On June 16 2016 07:12 SoSexy wrote:


Really? At this point we'll arrive at 2.0 meters people getting mad if referred to as 'tall'... how is pointing out one's party dehumanizing?

On June 16 2016 07:37 biology]major wrote:


Happens at about 2:00:00. He basically says Saudi Arabia donates millions to the Clinton foundation, and then asks women first what saudi arabia thinks about them. Then he goes on to ask gays the same question, but I think he just lost his train of thought and jumbled his words completely.

On June 16 2016 06:18 SolaR- wrote:
I'm more interested in what is true, and the quest for truth. Not so much on religion and it's impact on economics.

On June 16 2016 07:50 Paljas wrote:

i recommend a physics book

On June 16 2016 07:54 SK.Testie wrote:
I don't think it matters whether what they have is substantial. So long as they can keep up the bombardment on low information voters they'll crush the election regardless. It's why I think Hillary simply has it in the bag. Every late night host, every news outlet, every celebrity, all guns are on Trump with very little support. Sound bites and snippets will always be played against him. His issues and policies will not matter.

I'm definitely not implying that high information voters don't have plenty of great arguments to vote against him. I'm well aware they have a literal truckload of reasons. But among high information voters you'll have a more equal split overall. Because a lot of those voters aren't necessarily voting for Trump or his immigration policies, they are voting on what they think governments role should be.

Whereas in Canada for instance, a tonne of women voted for Trudeau because he was cute. Regardless of how good a politician he may or may not be, I think most of us can agree this is a borderline retarded way to vote for your country.

Julian Assange from Wikileaks said he'd be releasing a lot of fun info on Clinton. And he genuinely dislikes and fears the woman for obvious reasons. Discussion on Hillary and not BRexit starts at around 4:10.
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On June 16 2016 08:03 oneofthem wrote:
internet atheists, internet round earth-ists, astrology denialists, what's the difference

The FBI maintains a huge database of more than 411m photos culled from sources including driver’s licenses, passport applications and visa applications, which it cross-references with photos of criminal suspects using largely untested and questionably accurate facial recognition software.

A study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released on Wednesday for the first time revealed the extent of the program, which had been queried several years before through a Freedom of Information Act request from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The GAO, a watchdog office internal to the US federal government, found that the FBI did not appropriately disclose the database’s impact on public privacy until it audited the bureau in May.

The office recommended that the attorney general determine why the FBI did not obey the disclosure requirements, and that it conduct accuracy tests to determine whether the software is correctly cross-referencing driver’s licenses and passport photos with images of criminal suspects. The Department of Justice “disagreed” with three of the GAO’s six recommendations, according to the office, which affirmed their validity.

The audit came at the request of Minnesota Democratic senator Al Franken.

Images of faces are protected personal information under US law. The Privacy Act of 1974 limits the collection, disclosure and use of personal information and requires agencies to disclose what kinds they are using, generally about whom and how.

The FBI did not publish such disclosures, according to the report.

The FBI’s system searches not just its own database, but also photo databases maintained by seven participating states, the US Department of State – which issues passports – and the US Department of Defense, shared among federal law enforcement agencies and the participating agencies, though access on the state level is obtained through the FBI.

Initial queries about the program from the EFF, Franken and others referred to the Next Generation Identification-Interstate Photo System (NGI-IPS, or NGI), which allows the FBI and some state and local agencies to cross-reference surveillance camera footage and other photographs with its collection of candidate photos.

But the GAO report found a much larger program, run by the criminal justice information services division of the FBI (CJIS), called Facial Analysis, Comparison and Evaluation, or Face, which “conducts face recognition searches on NGI-IPS and can access external partners’ face recognition systems to support FBI active investigations”.