The Affordable Care Act included a way for insurance companies to recoup their losses from covering everyone regardless of their health If insurers lose money, the government’s funds – taxpayer dollars – cover between 50 and 80 percent of… Read More ›
Los Angeles Times
Rise of robot reporters: when software writes the news
17:00 21 March 2014 by Aviva Rutkin Just three minutes after an earthquake hit California on Monday, the Los Angeles Times broke the story on its website. The short article seemed fairly ordinary. It covered all the major details –… Read More ›
Antisocial Network to help users avoid their friends
Friday, 21 March 2014 A pair of U.S. developers have created Cloak, an iPhone “antisocial network” to help users avoid running into their friends. Cloak, created by programmer Brian Moore and former Buzzfeed creative director Chris Baker, is billed as… Read More ›
Scientists REFUSE to release a list of 1,500 outdated Los Angeles homes, offices, and factories at risk of collapse from an earthquake / For fear of being sued
Scientists refuse to pass on details they collected on unsafe buildings Non-reinforced concrete structures are a deadly trap during major quakes Separate list by LA Times shows Capitol Records building, Pantages Theater, and Avalon nightclub among dangerous buildings Scientists confirm… Read More ›
The LA Times decides not to print letters from readers claiming there’s no evidence for human-caused climate change
Should newspapers ban letters from climate science deniers? Construction of liquid natural gas processing plant LNG in Aniva Bay on Sakhalin Island Russia. Photograph: Iain Masterson/Alamy Here’s an excerpt from a Letter to the Editor, printed earlier this week… Read More ›
Official: US Could Increase Scale of Syria Strikes / Longer engagement, and use of Air Force Bombers
Sep. 8, 2013 – 11:49AM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | A BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile is launched from its Mark 41 vertical launch system aboard the Destroyer USS FIFE (DD-991) during Operation Desert Storm. War planners aim to unleash a… Read More ›
Homeland Security secretary Napolitano resigns for senior post at CU
Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Arizona, is being named as the next president of the University of California system, in an unusual choice that brings a national-level politician to a position usually held… Read More ›
Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program
By David Martosko PUBLISHED: 16:14 EST, 21 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:51 EST, 21 May 2013 The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the… Read More ›
Mayor of small city was ‘too stupid and uneducated’ to know his $100k salary was illegal, his lawyer argues
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:21 EST, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 20:26 EST, 21 February 2013 The former mayor of Bell, California, was too stupid and uneducated to know his $100,000 salary for the part-time city job was … Read More ›
Ammo supplier Brownells sells 3 1/2 years of AR-15 magazines in 72 hours
Ammo supplier Brownells says sales of 3 1/2 years of magazines in 72 hours a response to stricter gun control. Sarah WolfeDecember 26, 2012 12:04 An AR-15 Dec. 18, 2012 in Miami, FA. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) What do you think?… Read More ›
Facebook and Twitter more tempting than sex: study
Technology Oct. 07, 2012 – 06:40AM JST( 7 ) SAN FRANCISCO — A study arousing interest online has found that checking Facebook or Twitter is more alluring than sex for those immersed in Internet Age lifestyles. The week-long poll conducted in… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 