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  1. Well, your point is still wrong, and nothing in 14th Amendment confirms it :)
  2. No. Every child under the age of 14th is entitled to an opportunity to get education not worse that some level. Nobody is entitle to limit possibility of education of other children in order to maintain "equal level of education" for everybody.
  3. No. I am not accepting any version. There are more than two possible answers on the original question. My answer is “I don’t care.” Let me elaborate. I am aware that countries are spying on each other. We spy even on our allies. Russia not pretends to be our friend. So, the fact that Russian spies are working against us is not a secret for a long time. I don’t need intelligence agencies to say it again. Russians certainly could do the hacking if they found DNC to be interesting target for them. It also could be done by Chinese spies, Israeli spies, other countries spies and even our local group who thinks that hacking DNC would fit their purpose. So information that our intelligence agencies believes it was done by Russian spies does not present serious interest to me. I would be happy if our intelligence agencies prevented hacking. I would be very interested if they proof the link between hacking and the team Trump. But seems like they don’t even have proof of their version who did the hacking and play instead children game “I guess it was him.” They may be right or not, but nationality of successful spy is not an important question for me. I much more concern about the fact that he was successful. Now. What exactly was the evil act performed by enemies on our election? Did they manipulate votes? Not, as far as I know, their intervention was limited by releasing the information that one party of our election did not play a fair game. The correct information… Maybe if Team Clinton played by rules, “Russian” hacking of the DNC server would not be such a damaging issue? Seems like we much more interested to find a whistleblower but not look at the problem. Even if whistleblower was foreigner spy with evil purposes, we still have an issue. Two issues, at least. Cheating is one. Security is another one. Foreign spying is an issue too, of course, but it is not a new issue and it the most probably will exist until world would consist of countries with different interests.
  4. Sure. You have all rights in the world to believe in whatever you think is correct. I would prefer to wait for evidences. We had way too many made up stories from sources that got used to be trustworthy.
  5. It is claim, it is not evidence. Evidence is a data to prove the fact they stated. As for me, I have tendency to believe anything negative about today's politics of Russia, but to make such a global claim at least some facts needed.
  6. "Who are you going to believe, your loving wife or your lying eyes?" It should not be question of believes at all. It should be question of evidence. For the best of my knowledge 0 evidences to support that claim were presented by intelligence agencies so far.
  7. Phil - Olegru, part 3 18:4, Phil + 14 Part 4 43:24 Phil + 19 Congrats (Sorry, cannot post links from iPad)
  8. I know one player in F2F club who _always_ starts play by taking her aces, no finesses. She asked me recently to teach her how to play on BBO. I guess she finally learn :) On a serious note. One hand say noting at all, no needs to share it. If you have suspicious about a player - check his/her archive. It is not always easy to confirm suspicious, but 9 times out of 10 you will be able to reject suspicious pretty fast. Addition: It was very easy to find the board you referred to. (Not good, by the way). The last week player in question lost in average 1.37 imps per board. I would not call hypothesis about his cheating very probable.
  9. Done. I hope correctly that time. Sorry about the mistake. By the way, curious if GIB play the same way match points and IMPs
  10. Jeffford76 / Olegru part 3 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:295974be.c15e.11e6.b596.0cc47a39aeb4-1481652084&u=olegru 27:7, Jeffford76 + 20 Jeffford76 / Olegru part 4 http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:22634f55.c26c.11e6.b596.0cc47a39aeb4-1481768037&u=olegru 10:15, Olegru + 5
  11. If all this idiocy is going on at the table of the main club and nobody is forced to play and compete with them it is probably better just to blacklist that player(s) and forget about it. It is harder if they play in free tournaments, but I don’t think BBO abuse cares too much about cheating in free games. If cheating is going on in paid tournaments (ACBL or others) you should report cheaters and supposedly abuse team will take care on it.
  12. Olegru - Sep123 27:20, 7 for olegru http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:643b9ecd.b9a9.11e6.b596.0cc47a39aeb4-1480804786&u=olegru
  13. I don't think it is the worst problem. Titles always design to cause the attention and how much is the distance between reality and the title of that video is not clear. At least it is not clear for me, I saw video without checking the title. It speaks very loud for itself. And another video from Jonathan with girls from California school too. The main problem I see is that, according your source, clear "hate" case was labeled as a road rage and liberals simply ignore it. Now imagine sides were reversed. Would you have any doubts it would be labeled as a "hate" crime? We would have riots with many cars put in flame; apologies from top officials, and couple of policemen killed by "concerned citizens." Our statistics manipulated based on political interests. It less and less reflects reality. Not only from race relationship, take unemployment, for example. We are basing our opinions and government bases its decisions on the bad data. On the intentionally bad data. This is the problem I have.
  14. Existing of hoax news site is not a question. I mean did you crosscheck the claim that fake news site actually played serious role in the election a favor of Trump: It is always nice to think that people who do not agree with you are idiots who cannot understand simple things. Usually it is not the case. I have many friends who are living in Russia. Some of them are really smart people. Smarter then me. They also very ethical people. They are Putin supporters. Go figure.
  15. I hope you did cross check that information...
  16. http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7528 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawEMxTroBk
  17. As far as I understand there are 2 schools of taught about Constitution. Conservators thinks that Constitution should be used exactly as written. Liberals have a concept of living Constitution. Idea is that founder fathers had no ideas about our current social relationship, so Supreme Court has rights to interpretation constitution and interpretations could be very far from the original text. I am not in the position to say what is right and what is wrong, but as an IT person, I have living Job Description. After 17 years of working on the same place there is no single thing I am doing that is mentioned in my JD. I definitely prefer HR to go through the process of renewing my JD, but they think it is too much time consuming and prefer to use interpretations. All history of humankind heroes fought with monsters. And both sides of the battle had no doubts that he is a hero and his opponent is a monster. (I am sure I read it somewhere, cannot recall where.)
  18. I found this article written by Russian emigrant like me. It pretty good reflects my opinion, at least one side of it. Article was in Russian, translation is mine, sorry, not very good.
  19. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/11/09/colleges-try-to-comfort-students-upset-by-trump-victory/ Sorry, I throw out pacifiers since my kids turn 3. But I still have couple of teddy bears to donate for heart-broken college students.
  20. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ I found that article interesting
  21. olegru lost to Toast1 by 4 IMPs http://webutil.bridgebase.com/v2/tview.php?t=ARDCHALLENGE:2b1d5769.9e4f.11e6.8e99.0cc47a39aeb4-1477797354&u=olegru
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