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Celebrate National Women’s Equality Day by turning down the goddamn A/C

This is your annual reminder that we’re living in a man’s world — and we’re feeling it most at the office.

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Obama Administration Admits $400M to Iran was Contingent on Prisoner Release | The Stream

The Obama administration said Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to Iran seven months ago was contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners.

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College Profs Admit Affirmative Action is Failing Students, Get Called Racist | The Stream

Professors are being denounced as white supremacists after messages were leaked in which they claim affirmative action sets up students for academic failure.

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Black Lives Matter Wants to Dismantle Police Forces, and Now They Have $100 Million to Do It | The Stream

Black Lives Matter, which is trying to grow from a street-level movement to a political powerhouse, has just received pledges of cash most organizations only dream of: more than $100 million from foundations eager to join the bandwagon for social...

Why? So cities can get more dangerous?

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Beauty site lets anyone read customers' personal information

Strawberrynet says it's convenient for customers, security chaps say it's stupidly convenient for crims

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Baltimore Lt. Suspended for Calling Criminal Protesters "Thugs"

Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Police Lieutenant Victor Gearhart, who is also an FOP vice president, has been suspended for calling it like it is. Based on protests leading up to the Maryland state FOP conference, he sent an email to all Baltimore PD members warning them...

WTF?

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Tough times for Silicon Valley’s diagnostic wunderkind and her multi-billion dollar company, Theranos — NewsWorks

The company is under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, largely due to reporting that began last October, by the Wall Street Journal's...

Doesn’t pay to lie

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Inside the tightly controlled world of Schedule 1 drug research — NewsWorks

At the Behavioral Biology Research Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, there's a special room set up for smoking. Inside is a ventilated chamber made of plexi-glass and steel that is...

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Strapped for students, nonprofit colleges borrow recruiting tactic from for-profits

ORLANDO — In a convention hall echoing with words like “leads” and “starts” and “business” — all, in this case, meaning “students” — Vivek Zaveri is describing how he helps colle

Really? LOL

What are your thoughts? 

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Some of Verisign's chickens have evidently come home to roost. A number of companies that the registry giant has pissed off over the last couple of years have slammed the proposed renewal of its .com contract with ICANN. Rivals including XYZ.com (sued over its .xyz advertising) and Donuts (out-maneuvered on .web) are among those to have filed comments opposing the proposed new Registry Agreement. They're joined by business and intellectual property interests, concerned that Verisign is being allowed to carry on without implementing any of the IP-related obligations of other gTLDs, and a dozens of domainers, spurred into action by a newsletter. Even a child protection advocacy group has weighed in, accusing Verisign of not doing enough to prevent child abuse material being distributed. ICANN announced last month that it plans to renew the .com contract, which is not due to expire for another two years, until 2024, to bring its term in line with Verisign's contracts related to root zone

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ClintonKaine.com Pays Off For Domain Squatter

Jeremy Peter Green registered ClintonKaine.com in 2011. After Hillary Clinton named Tim Kaine as her running mate, Green offered the site to Clinton's campaign but it wouldn't meet his price. Who did?

Clinton campaign is stupid. 

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8K video gives virtual reality the full picture for mainstream use

Reg man gets his hands on Samsung's only-in-Korea Gear 360 VR cam

Would love an 8K Resolution TV

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Marine Corps Desperately Wants 10 Percent of Force to be Women | The Stream

The Marine Corps is aiming to make women 10 percent of the force and showing the service is no longer a “good ol’ boys club anymore.”

Is this possible?

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US Embassy, UN Criticized for Lack of Action in Sudan as Americans Tortured and Raped | The Stream

U.N. peacekeepers and the U.S. embassy failed to answer multiple calls for help from a group of aid workers under attack in South Sudan.

This is what happens when you have weak leaders. 

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WikiLeaks to Loretta Lynch: Letting Clinton Off Means DOJ Needs to End Case Against WikiLeaks | The Stream

An attorney for WikiLeaks sent a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch arguing that the precedent established by the refusal of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute Hillary Clinton means the agency should drop its criminal investigation of WikiLeaks and Julian...

Loretta Lynch is a bitch

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Twenty-five advocacy groups want the Commerce Department to hold off on plans to cede its control over the body that governs internet domain names. But the United States shows no signs of halting plans to end its leadership of the body by the end of next month.

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