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Of course that would be unreasonable, but that's how the attorney general gets to prescribe your actual sentence through a plea deal. We'll drop the crazy charges and you'll serve one year or we go to court and try to nail you for ten, what'll it be? It's a huge risk to fight the charges even if you're innocent, if you're objectively guilty and take it to court for a lesser sentence your legal team had better be miracle workers. In most cases a jury will end up much closer to the legal maximum than the plea deal because they feel like slam dunking criminals. Remember this case?

if I decide I see you as the opposite gender you identify on can I call you that?

Also gender is more fluid than folks realize, see here. Basically, Gender seems more binary than it is because doctors have been identifying intersex babies and using drugs and surgery to "fix" them.

As for higher incidences of self harm, well, I know some trans people. They've been shit on their hole lives and transitioning didn't make that better, it just made them feel more comfortable in their own skin. Imagine being a guy and everyone looks at you funny because you show up to work wearing pants. That's what their lives are like. That doesn't go away when they transition. If anything it gets worse ("Back! Back! Dude looks like a lady!"). So yeah, they're gonna have issues....

The Dallas county DA, being a good liberal, plans to no longer prosecute property crimes of less than $750, and he very stupidly has announced this. Who's gonna be stupid enough to spend piles of money on equipment and salaries to catch package thieves when those thieves are not going to be prosecuted?

Once this fully kicks-in, there's simply going to be no reason why anybody, upon seeing a package lying on somebody's front porch, should leave it lying there for the benefit of the idiot purchaser. Wealth re-distribution, minus the middleman of big government! Socialism 2.0!

Of course, we could rely on the basic morals of the generally self-regulating God-fearing populace --- oh, nope, liberals have been quite successful in converting a country that was originally over 90% Christian into a nation with a growing portion of the public that believes in no higher authority and thus no objective morality. Interesting times lay ahead - probably an eventual era of vigilanteism and gunfire.

Secondly - coward - there's a difference between a rant and a prediction.
There's also a difference between "rat race", and systematic exploitation of workers. Fewer and fewer of your precious "Z Gen" are making it to middle class
The reason - all the profits are going to the oligarchy. And it's a global phenomena.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11...

"I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files," Chael clarified. "There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored." ... "While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life," Chael wrote.

Also, Chael is gay so I'm sure he appreciates your support, no matter how ill-founded.

Following up whit this information from To undermine Katherine Bouman's role in the Black Hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero -- until he fought back

The misleading posts said Chael alone had authored "850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!" ... However, the effort quickly backfired.

Though it may have been nice to receive more recognition, Chael immediately took to Twitter to explain that the online trolls had exaggerated his contributions, and he defended Bouman's work. In addition, Chael said that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in STEM.

Chael disputed the incorrect posts

I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored.

[... several tweets referenced ...]

While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life.

Chael wrote the code for one of three scripted code pipelines that scientists used to transform telescope data into a coherent image.

Bouman has emphasized collaboration

Though Bouman has received a lot of attention, she has maintained that the black hole image was the product of teamwork.

"No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds." The Event Horizon Telescope project was composed of an international team of more than 200 researchers.

"I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files," Chael clarified. "There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored."

Also:

(3/7) the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging EHT data. With a few others, Katie also developed the imaging framework that rigorously tested all three codes and shaped the entire paper (https://t.co/hgJrv3gOE5);

But congratulations on supporting a gay guy in his efforts. I'm sure he's very pleased with your support. Now go scurry back to your white supremacist site with your tail between your legs because you played yourself.

"I did not write "850,000 lines of code" -- many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files," Chael clarified. "There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored." . . . "While I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life," Chael wrote.

BTW, Chael is gay. So congratulations on supporting him.

As to Bouman herself, she isn't the one taking credit. She has said repeatedly it was a collaborative effort:

"No one of us could've done it alone," Bouman told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many backgrounds."

So yeah it seems a lot of political science was involved here.

Sure was, it came from only one group who was so incensed a woman could do anything remarkable it had to jump up and down, wave its hands, and put out fake information to make itself feel better.

If you're going to blame this on Trump, at least have the self-awareness to also put blame on Obama for not exactly being helpful to Assange, either.

Would you like to see an actual PDF of the Assange indictment? Please notice the big stamp on it and the date. Who do you think was president when this indictment was filed?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11...

Just in case you've forgotten, Assange was arrested today. Trump has been president for over two years.

Mannnn, you don't get just how deep the Deep StateTM really is.

If you're going to blame this on Trump, at least have the self-awareness to also put blame on Obama for not exactly being helpful to Assange, either.

Would you like to see an actual PDF of the Assange indictment? Please notice the big stamp on it and the date. Who do you think was president when this indictment was filed?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/11...

Just in case you've forgotten, Assange was arrested today. Trump has been president for over two years.

A presidential commutation reduces the sentence being served but it does not change the fact of conviction, whereas a pardon forgives a certain criminal offense.

He's being charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, and one of the reasons for his arrest was a US extradition request:

https://edition.cnn.com/uk/liv...

It's not the traditional spoils of war the Romans hauled home on horseback. It was the right to sell oil to us and make absolutely villainous amounts of money doing it. "Before the 2003 invasion, Iraq's domestic oil industry was fully nationalized and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it is largely privatized and utterly dominated by foreign firms." https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19...

Woman claims her body brews alcohol, has DUI charge dismissed (2016)

[People with auto-brewery syndrime] can function at alcohol levels such as 0.30 and 0.40 when the average person would be comatose or dying.

So what if I have this? I might be able to get my own car's interlock disabled, but I doubt I'll be able to drive a rental car, drive on the job, or drive a friend's car, even though I could drive one safely today.

So when Bezo's claimed that he was hacked by Saudi Arabia,
https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31...
it was really US NSA operatives that hacked him.. got it....
not sure if it's all that smart to screw with the worlds richest man.

First major sales loss due to the 737-Max fiasco. $5B loss to Boeing from that order alone, and several other airlines are now said to be going down the same path.

The kind of blatant disregard for safety is not something that comes without a steep price, once your customers understand what you did and how you fooled them by failing to mention the kind of hackery that was done to this plane. By all rights it should have been a new model redesigned for bigger engines like Airbus did, but Boeing did not want to wait and lose even more market share to Airbus while they did that. Well, it looks like are going to lose that market share now whether they want to or not.

Hold onto your hat Rufus, we've seen nothing yet.

delusions of genocide

Did you maybe mean grandeur? I am not aware of any genocidal ambition on the part of Putin. Its not hard to believe he might hold some idea of racial superiority but I don't see him engaging in ethnic cleansing etc.

Let me introduce you to the Georgia-Russia War. A quick and nasty little bit of Russian military intervention. They are currently preparing the war crimes trials from this very short 5-day war. That's a bit quick for war crimes unless you really wanted to get rid of parts of the civilian population as a general principle. Then there is Russian takeover of Crimea and their intervention in Ukraine. I'm not sure many of the citizens of those places would agree with you. Ethnic tensions and playing on them is a major part of politics in that area of the world and Russia is no different.

This is how you handle Republican faggots.

Because under the simulations, Boeing themselves found pilots might have under 40 seconds to override the software or the plane might go into a unrecoverable dive. And that’s in a simulator where the pilots were expecting it.

how they're all Democrats. Ok, it's not that funny. In fact, it's not funny at all. It's more than a little messed up actually.

GOP must just love the idea of rigging elections. I mean, why do none of them speak out against these situations?

The trade war has hurt a lot of them, badly.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/soybean-farmers-trump-trade-war/index.html

You think?

... and that has no other factors like other countries not wanting glyphosate soaked, GMO laden stuffs, etc., sure.
I guess you have a few bridges in NY to sell me as well.

how they're all Democrats. Ok, it's not that funny. In fact, it's not funny at all. It's more than a little messed up actually.

The trade war has hurt a lot of them, badly.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/politics/soybean-farmers-trump-trade-war/index.html

You think?

Yet more false accusations from one of WindBourne's lackeys.

It's funny when WindBourne is so clueless he doesn't even understand he is comparing 2 completely different things (voters and the general population). Then comes to an illogical conclusion.
But when it's already spelled out, and you still don't understand...that's just sad...

WindBourne really needs to get some better lackeys.
Unless it really is your job here to make him look smart in comparison, by looking even stupider than him?

Anyway lets check WindBoune's quote

Nearly, 45% of the population checked off Trump, yet, right after the election, his popularity was already lower than what he won with. IOW, a number of ppl that voted for him, really did not like him.

Only 45% of voters picked Trump, but only 56% of eligible voters bothered to vote. So only about 26% or so of the people approved of him enough to vote for him . (So his number is wrong)
Trump's lowest ever approval rating was 35%

So no,in fact WindBournes entire premise is incorrect. In fact many more people approved of him than voted for him.

Educating WindBourne's lackeys, one at a time...

1988 James Hansen New York will be Under Water in 20-30 years

https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

1989 UN we have 12 years to save the planet

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c37...

1989 New York Times NOAA (No warming trend over the past 100 years )

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/0...

2000 Snowfalls are a thing of the past

https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp...

2005 UN we will have 50 million climate refugees by 2010

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

2009 James Hansen, Obama Has 4 years to save the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

2018 UN Only 12 years left to save the planet

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/07...

2019 Greenland Glacier Reverses Decline.

And don't forget, your tax dollars are going to a country which has its own version of apartheid.

Proof of this? Seriously, I have seen this presented as "fact" without any actual proof.

The BDS movement was started by Omar Barghouti. Yeah, he is a victim of "apartheid" all right, since he went to "Tel Aviv University." I guess that they forgot about their apartheid when they admitted him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I have a friend in Israel. He has Muslim friends, and tells me that one of his friends won't get an Israeli citizenship -- because if he does, he will not be allowed into many neighboring countries, like Syria. So, it is Israel's neighbors that are trying to discriminate against people.

Yes, the Palestinians have a rough time. But that is because they keep on trying to kill Jews. What do you expect, for the Jews to just say "murder as many of us as you want?"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/25...

When you make absurd statements, please be prepared to be called out on them.

Fucking dolt AC... CNN reports:

No collusion: Mueller did not find Donald Trump's campaign or associates conspired with Russia, Barr wrote.

There Was No Collusion. Zero. Nada. You're a fucking dolt. Go back to weep with Rachel Maddow and watch Chrissy Matthews piss his quivering legs, you ignorant prick...

But what the actual fuck would you call THIS BULLSHIT LOL?

I'm not saying their connected, but it's a big coincidence that the press release this story is based on gets released the same day this happens:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/b...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opin...

Indeed, like abortion and global warming, it's become so politicized there is no rational discussion to be had anymore.

This is NOT okay. It's hurtful, it's not rational, it's counter-productive.

What we're seeing is a mob mentality, with torches and pitchforks. It's (dare I say) evil.

Agree on polluting the ecosystem. But nearly all of the world's population growth is happening in developing countries. Some developed nations like Japan are even experiencing a population decrease (which can have interesting effects on things like the housing market). Even in the U.S. with its minuscule 0.6% population growth last year (among the highest in developed countries), roughly half of that is due to immigration, only half due to natural population growth.

Economic development and progress in science and technology are the solution to overpopulation - it makes people stop having as many kids.

Serbia was the tell on that.
" designed to short out electrical transformers, blacking out much of Serbia"
http://edition.cnn.com/US/9905... (May 3, 1999)
All part of a color revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

Mea Culpa. Here is the correct link.

When you can not tax them, them make up crimes and hit them with massive fines. I notice that America is now joining that attitude.
I wonder how soon the west will realize that this approach is destroying us? Perhaps Xi and Putin (along with their online trolls ) can write a book about how to destroy western nations.

1) We could possibly, in time, figure out how to do it cheaper, but this would be a start.

Blowing money on "a start" that can never produce the necessary results isn't exactly the best way to spend money.

2) Is it more or less expensive than wack-job politician's "Green New Deal" that is currently tagged at somewhere around $90T and will NOT actually be capable of solving the problem? ("Solving the problem" means doing so without killing millions of people, which the raising of the price of energy would do by casting more and more people into poverty. Poverty kills. Smoking may take 7 years off your life, but living in poverty is good for a 10 year reduction.)

One key element of the Green New Deal that you are unwilling to understand is the efforts within the program create jobs. Somebody has to actually refit old houses to be better insulated, and so on.

Those jobs reduce poverty, ameliorating the problem you cite here.

3) Has it escaped everyone that we are currently adding about $1T to the National Debt every year and NOBODY has a clue what to do about it

We know exactly what to do about it because that deficit was created by a massive tax cut on the wealthy.

Fixing it is also trivially easy. Reverse those tax cuts. It would require you to give up your tax cut fetish though.

Clue: The last year that the National Debt didn't go up was 1957. We've raised and lowered the income taxes numerous times since without achieving that desired result.

1998-2001 called, and would like to remind you they existed. Though acknowledging that evil liberal tax hikes reduce the deficit and thus debt would require abandoning your tax cut fetish.

It's blinding obvious to me that income taxes are absolutely incapable of funding the gov't, and should be abolished. The Founders set up the nation to run on consumption taxes such as excise taxes and tariffs

The founders also set up the nation to not have a standing military and pressed for limited-to-no foreign entanglements. So, unless you also want massive defense cuts resulting in the US dropping out of being a superpower, you don't actually want to go back to what the founders set up.

Also, between your rant about how terrible poverty is and your tax proposals, you forgot that consumption taxes take a far larger percentage of poor people's income.

Yea, the DNC appears to be attempting to destabilize the West just like Russia wants. Maybe they should stop taking orders from Putin?

Actually, the evidence I have seen suggests they are taking orders from Poroshenko.

"DNC denies working with Ukrainian government, but contractor floated anti-Trump material"
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

"Robert Mueller’s ’13 Russian trolls indictment’ is a COPY + PASTE job from 2015 Ukrainian Radio Free Europe post"
http://theduran.com/busted-rob...

Oh, and for good measure:

"Exclusive! Yanks To The Rescue. The Secret Story Of How American Advisers Helped Yeltsin Win"
https://img.timeinc.net/time/m...

'Victoria Nuland Admits: US Has Invested $5 Billion In The Development of Ukrainian "Democratic Institutions"'
http://www.informationclearing...

And:

"When Will the US Stop Organizing Foreign Coups?"
https://russia-insider.com/en/...

"Here's the short list of U.S.-backed coups over just the past seven-plus decades . . .

        Syria 1949.
        Guatemala 1954.
        Tibet 1955-1970s.
        Indonesia 1958.Cuba 1959.
        Iraq 1960-1963.
        Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960-1965.
        Dominican Republic 1962.
        Iran 1963.
        Guatemala 1963.
        South Vietnam 1963.
        Brazil 1964.
        Ghana 1966.
        Chile 1970-1973.
        Argentina 1976.
        Afghanistan 1979-1989.
        Turkey 1980.
        Poland 1980-1989.
        Ecuador 1981.
        Panama 1981.
        Nicaragua 1981-1990.
        Grenada 1983.
        Haiti 1991.
        Iraq 1992-1996.
        Venezuela 2002.
        Haiti 2004.
        Iran 2005-present.
        Honduras 2009.
        Libya 2011.
        Syria 2012-present.
        Ukraine 2014.

"Moreover, it's no secret that we're at it again right now with Venezuela, and a poorly-kept secret that Russia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Bolivia, probably another shot at Cuba, and recently added Kyrgyzstan, are also in the queue".

We are not

This wasn't a minimum wage increase. Amazon increased their wages. If we'd done a federal increase then the workers could leave or go get second jobs and do just fine. If we did Medicare for All they wouldn't have to fear losing health benefits (and the employers wouldn't have to worry about paying for them).

Progressive policy works when it's not being actively sabotaged by bad actors.

We got exactly what we expected.

Yes, there are going to be some isolated incidents. That's why you need to have a _Federal_ minimum wage. That way when a bad manager responds by cutting hours and telling everybody to work harder the employees can do this .

The Kremlin seems to be able to accomplish it https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/...

Lol. Go fuck your gook slave and get back to us when you remember what being male was about, you lying sniveling Putin's-ass-licking faggot traitor.

Enjoy Prison though, Drumpftard traitors! It was built for you."

The facade is crumbling.

Some people never learn, it's a big-big problem.

But if we're talking about 2nd-tier superpowers like Russia destroying satellites they don't own, (destroying ones you do is bad enough...) that's Defcon 1+x.

I think they'd prefer to be less directly attributable in such attacks. Of course, they aren't exactly subtle.

LEO mostly clears itself in a few dozen years just from drag. If we really blew it we could use nuclear weapons to clear it out, or less ultimate measures. It would cost a shit tonne of money and set the world back decades.

But if we're at this point, yes, these are the stakes, and a traitor is in charge! Literally.

No links, no mention of where temperature recordings were made.

If full links were provided to all the data, would you believe them ?

If no, why ask for links ?

If yes, then why are you doubting the conclusion ?

Links? We got links! https://edition.cnn.com/2019/0... https://www.npr.org/2019/01/25... https://phys.org/news/2019-01-... https://www.standard.co.uk/new...

Pages and pages of links.

I'll just note that I haven't found one Fox News link yet, as they are busy showing that Global warming is a hoax........

It snowed in Seattle, you know.

So no, the two sides are not equal on the environment and people pretending that are liars.

Not that "tech company" is a separate category anymore what with almost every part of industry transforming itself onto a technological base. But every industry from pharma and insuranceto automobilesto appliances is pouring money into politicians with very predictable results. For decades. For centuries. Now I'm supposed to believe the government is actually reigning in capitalism under a Republican president and a heavily Republican-constrained congress? Pull the other one, it squeakes.

Seems Nike is having software, hardware, and financial problems of late.

I would no consider all over 21 states of the US a localized phenomenon.

adequate

I don't think that's how I would describe the care given by the VA.

adequate

I don't think that's how I would describe the care given by the VA.