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I want to point out, again, that these statistics claim there was drop in the 2016-2017 school year, the bulk of registrations occur in Fall, so that happened before Trump was elected, and at a time when nobody thought Trump could possibly win.

The drop increased in 2017 - but was it Trump, or a trend that already started, or both? It's very likely both - blaming Trump for the drop is really short sighted. People tend to want simple answers, but the truth is seldom that simple, and there are likely all sorts of reasons (including Trump) involved.

Yes... it's not criminal to be successful here, but those who aren't (and even some who are) can't believe it can be done ethically, through hard work and by creating something others find beneficial. The vast majority of millionaires did not start off that way (America: Where Millionaires are Self Made). Yet the wealthy are vilified, it's become ubiquitous to precede "rich" with words like "dirty" or "stinking." It's sunk into the American psyche that wealthy people simply cannot be "good" or "moral." I know a guy - and so do you - who donated $6 million to charity and was berated for doing it to evade taxes (by people whose knee-jerk reactions are to vilify anything the wealthy do - and who have no clue how tax deductions work).

This has little to do with my opinion about higher education - if you are poor, and come here because you have excellent grades, and work to get a higher education and are subsidized by American tax payers, then it's really a moral obligation to pay back into the system that helped you become successful. So I have no tears for people that want to be subsidized, but don't want to pay back when those subsidies helped make them successful.

I'm generally a libertarian, but sometimes the big picture shows that the best places to live, the nicest, cleanest places with the lowest crime rates, are those where things are paid for by the community. The hardcore libertarian belief that things like fire protection, police protection, roads and mail should all be privately run are untenable positions when scrutinized. Perhaps college should be completely paid for, perhaps not. My problem with it is that if people get useful degrees, like engineering, or degrees that help those useful degrees, like mathematics, it's one thing. Producing successful and productive members of society who then pay into subsidizing others is certainly not a terrible system (if it works). But when people who are not talented pursue art degrees, or music, and then demand subsidies to pay for their art later on - after all, if someone really wants to be an artist, shouldn't they be able to live as one? That starts to be another absurd proposition equal to nothing being subsidized (at the other extreme).

As usual, the truth - the best path - lies somewhere in the middle, but too many people with hard core beliefs - yes, on both sides - prevent meaningful discourse on the matter.

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My parents have a Boston Terrier that is stout, and now in her older age is even quite hefty.

We have a Boston Terrier that is basically a cat. She's a bit lanky and has completely different markings. Per Google they're the same dog.

I'll go ahead and share for reference. If storage were unlimited I would load up all my old photos too, but I would quickly overload my space. Too bad there's not a "pay once keep forever" option on space instead of a regular bill.

....that right there should be enough reason to keep your old subscription to Neflix's DVD catalog. Not to mention that with Disney and other stations chomping at Netflix's bit it's quite possible the netflix we know and love won't be around in five years. Bet! I use Meecal to see the latest DVD releases from there and plan on continuing to do so. Forget the cloud. Plus I love having a actual physical copy, even If i just rip the DVD. Yeah, I still do that.

the updated offence will ensure that only those found to repeatedly view online terrorist material will be guilty of the offence, to safeguard those who click on a link by mistake or who could argue that they did so out of curiosity rather than with criminal intent.

Here's a website that would be illegal to visit more than once under Amber Rudd's proposal. It shows how to make a Frag Grenade using materials from airport terminals.

Here are some other links you might also want to click on.

cat videos
more cat videos
cat videos yay!

I am hoping Amber Rudd can explain the dilemma here.

Here ya go.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qdy9gdi5uZ...
https://goo.gl/maps/4sDGuvywrf...
https://goo.gl/maps/KRoyccRBiM...
https://goo.gl/maps/W9VQJtVGWZ...

Tho I'd agree that their utility is suspect, since there are dozens if not hundreds of uninspected alternate routes.

Here ya go.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qdy9gdi5uZ...
https://goo.gl/maps/4sDGuvywrf...
https://goo.gl/maps/KRoyccRBiM...
https://goo.gl/maps/W9VQJtVGWZ...

Tho I'd agree that their utility is suspect, since there are dozens if not hundreds of uninspected alternate routes.

Here ya go.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qdy9gdi5uZ...
https://goo.gl/maps/4sDGuvywrf...
https://goo.gl/maps/KRoyccRBiM...
https://goo.gl/maps/W9VQJtVGWZ...

Tho I'd agree that their utility is suspect, since there are dozens if not hundreds of uninspected alternate routes.

Here ya go.

https://goo.gl/maps/Qdy9gdi5uZ...
https://goo.gl/maps/4sDGuvywrf...
https://goo.gl/maps/KRoyccRBiM...
https://goo.gl/maps/W9VQJtVGWZ...

Tho I'd agree that their utility is suspect, since there are dozens if not hundreds of uninspected alternate routes.

Now everytime I turn on my phone, it contacts Google and does an install of whatever Google Play tells it to

If you don't want automatic updates, turn off automatic updates. You have control over that.

YouTube on Android needs approval to upgrade.... it's needs new permissions. What permissions does a video player need now? Access to your contacts, your GPS position, your SMSs, your Microphone, your device ID and call information. i.e. who you talked to, when, where you are, who you are, who you associate with, what you said to your friends.

Here is an explanation of exactly what YouTube uses each of those permissions for. Note, also, that since Nougat (7.0, if you prefer numbers), you can disable any of those permissions individually. Further, they're disabled by default until you try to use a feature that requires them, and then you're asked specifically about each. I just looked on my phone, and the only permission category that's enabled on my phone is "storage", probably because the only feature I've used that required any extra permissions is to download videos.

None of this is NEEDED by Google, it's WANTED by Google.

It's needed to implement features in the app that are used by some users. And if you're on a newish Android version, you can keep all of those permissions off simply by not using the associated feature, so you'll never be prompted to enable them.

Try uninstalling Google Play and it will uninstall every app you bought

That's obvious if you think about it. Uninstalling any app removes all of that app's data. An app store's data includes all of the APK files it downloaded for installation on your device. But why would you want to uninstall it? If you don't want it updating apps, disable app updates. Done.

The situation is a joke, suppose Putin doesn't put in Trump, suppose he got a proper dictator into power and not a wannaby self-deluded one. A few laws later and all that data would be there to do a stasi wet dream of a surveillance.

Well, assuming the "proper dictator" could find a way to eliminate the rule of law.

Why does my phone need to identify objects and people on the photographs that I've stored on it? The fact that it's 'invisible' and causes people to be confused about battery drain means people don't even know their phone is doing it.

Yeah, I expect there's a real good reason why the phone needs to run face recognition on every photograph I have stored on my phone. Righto.

It's only "invisible" to paranoid idiots line you.

The rest of us watch Apple Keynote addresses and read OS "Feature" Pages, tutorials, TV commercials and other media reports, websites, reviews, etc, where these features are (gasp!) revealed, demonstrated, and openly discussed.

And BTW, you sick fuck, because Apple DOES respect your privacy, ALL of the face categorization process and data is done ON DEVICE (that's why it slows down your phone, you moron!).

https://goo.gl/images/ccjsMV

https://goo.gl/images/8osDNj

https://www.apple.com/ios/phot...

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

https://www.iphonetricks.org/1...

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/i...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4920...

https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/20...

Oh, and I found these links in about 5 minutes, using that secret, Dark-Web search tool, you probably haven't heard of it. It's called "Google".

Why does my phone need to identify objects and people on the photographs that I've stored on it? The fact that it's 'invisible' and causes people to be confused about battery drain means people don't even know their phone is doing it.

Yeah, I expect there's a real good reason why the phone needs to run face recognition on every photograph I have stored on my phone. Righto.

It's only "invisible" to paranoid idiots line you.

The rest of us watch Apple Keynote addresses and read OS "Feature" Pages, tutorials, TV commercials and other media reports, websites, reviews, etc, where these features are (gasp!) revealed, demonstrated, and openly discussed.

And BTW, you sick fuck, because Apple DOES respect your privacy, ALL of the face categorization process and data is done ON DEVICE (that's why it slows down your phone, you moron!).

https://goo.gl/images/ccjsMV

https://goo.gl/images/8osDNj

https://www.apple.com/ios/phot...

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

https://www.iphonetricks.org/1...

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/i...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4920...

https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/20...

Oh, and I found these links in about 5 minutes, using that secret, Dark-Web search tool, you probably haven't heard of it. It's called "Google".

We live in Franklin, TN, just south of the edge of the zone of occlusion. Actually, we could hit the south edge of the zone with a 15 minute drive. But I wanted to be closer to center line.

We went to Gallatin, TN, and decided to go to Bledsoe Creek State Park. I would realize later that the center line passes through the north side of the park, which explained the large number of people there. The park was closed with police guarding the entrance, and cars parked along the road outside.

We found a historic school house with a few other folks there, large open yard, and no street lights. Perfect. Cario, TN:

https://goo.gl/maps/EDBEDPj1XY...

Getting there was easy, getting out took a lot longer.

We had maximum time there, over 2 and a half minutes. I got a couple of pictures, but mostly just looked at it. It reminds you of what the word "awesome" was made for.

Actually, while I'm not some rabid environmentalist (not that they are all like that), I think there's a lot to both sides of the equation, here - the earth has trends - it's been a lot warmer than it is now (without humankind), and it's been a lot colder. But I certainly do think we're at least acting as a catalyst, and that our presence is certainly having some effect, even if the overall temperature increases are not entirely human made.

But here's the rub - as the article points out, we can completely stop emitting greenhouse gasses (no we can't, but as the story goes) and we're still getting a 0.5c increase in temperature. What do people want? They are talking about 10% here, maybe 20% there... in other words, you're still talking like 1.75c increase in temperature. Instead of inflicting trillions of dollars in economic damage making the world stop producing, stop progressing, putting millions, if not billions out of work, we should be focusing on dealing with it rather than stopping it, because it's coming even if we cut emissions in half.

I'm not saying we shouldn't pursue "green" technology, I'm all for it. I'm certainly not for companies getting government grants of our tax dollars, then having the CEOs cut and run and the company goes bankrupt, but there's definitely the need for research, and the practical application of that research. I cannot afford to cover my roof with solar panels even though I wish I could. I can't afford it, and I wouldn't recoup my investment because I certainly won't own the house long enough. Maybe there should be more incentives there... .too bad we let the monopolies manipulate legislation that makes it harder for homeowners to do things like that instead of easier (In Sunshine State, Big Energy Blocks Solar Power).

Anyway, people need to get a grip on this subject and meet in the middle instead of allowing the politicians and media divide and conquer us. Anyone with a brain can admit humans have an impact on their environment; anyone with a brain can admit that we can't completely stop greenhouse emissions (unless you can "cure" farting, or the need to eat in general). So let's stop the hyperbole and have some reasonable discourse about how to deal with it instead of pointing fingers and name calling.

"...there's no reason to have a certain sign on certain roads (Stop sign on an interstate highway)."

What about here? (Cross Island Parkway, New York USA, Exit 31)

Stop signs often do appear on highway entry ramps, especially where they are short. This is true in construction areas, as well as on some older entrance ramps around New York City.

Technically this is a 50 MPH (~80 km/h) Parkway and not an Interstate, but rather than randomly searching the area this was the first that came to mind.

But would you want to live in those areas that the immigrants live in?
https://goo.gl/maps/vzaMDUWpa3...
https://goo.gl/maps/HEcGiK4N2E...
https://goo.gl/maps/NnpKssYrtZ...

But would you want to live in those areas that the immigrants live in?
https://goo.gl/maps/vzaMDUWpa3...
https://goo.gl/maps/HEcGiK4N2E...
https://goo.gl/maps/NnpKssYrtZ...

But would you want to live in those areas that the immigrants live in?
https://goo.gl/maps/vzaMDUWpa3...
https://goo.gl/maps/HEcGiK4N2E...
https://goo.gl/maps/NnpKssYrtZ...

Putin has an estimated net worth of 200 billion with all the money he's squirreled away ...

That actually is a classic example of fake news. Hermitage Capital Management Founder Bill Browder called him the "Richest man in the world" when speaking to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and all of the Time Warner etc. media carried articles amplifying the statement. Usually, they said Bezos and Gates together didn't come close to Putin's wealth. Nonetheless, the Forbes most recent list of richest in the world https://goo.gl/NvqgGk puts Gates in the top slot.
The trick is that Putin's wealth is secret!

Russia has things worthy of criticism. The soon-to-take-effect VPN ban is a good one. But Putin being super, super rich is just BS.

Normally they'd have been fine. What got them is they didn't know that Hogan had that billionaire behind him until it was too late.

Both statements are untrue. What got them was ignoring an order of the court to take down the nude and sexual images and videos they published without permission.

Hogan's sex tape had some legitimate newsworthiness. Specifically his racially charged comments. As a public figure Gawker is well within their rights to report on them. What's more, we've lost a legitimate source of good 'ole fashion muck racking of the kind that used to keep abuses by the rich in check. Whatever your personal views on Gawker you're going to regret losing them as the billionaire class can now operate in shadow. Good luck starting your business if it competes with or even gets noticed by them.

The billionaire class is already operating out of the shadows - see gawkers response to the fappening and their response to hogan. One sex scandal is "bad" because it offends gawkers ideology and the other one is "good" because it reinforces gawkers ideology: Here is the position that gawker takes.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Actually, no. Dutch Elm disease never got west of the Rockies, because the carrier beetles couldn't survive crossing the mountains. In fact elms are making a comeback in the midwest, the disease having basically killed off its food supply and run out of places to go. And some elms are resistant. Also, most of the elms in the desert are Siberian elms, not American elms.

Pepper trees and oaks do not survive under the same conditions that elms can (in fact I've never seen an oak in the desert unless it had its roots in someone's septic tank).

Honey locust is another that seems to do just fine in the desert, with zero support. Junipers are native but the young ones need to be shaded by their elders for a few years til they get established, so they are not easy to spread or cultivate.

The other trees that do well are olives and Italian stone pines (these are usually the last survivors of prolonged drought, even after all else have died), but they'll need a few wet years to get established (should not be irrigated, tho, because that prevents deep root formation). Eldarica pine and saltcedar (tamarisk) were used a lot as windrows by the now-gone farms, but they were starting to die back as of about 2005.

These are all totally without irrigation, relying only on rain and groundwater... just some I knew where to find offhand:

Honey locust
https://goo.gl/maps/7JmTwCs7Sk...

Eldarica
https://goo.gl/maps/7KXaZyXvZX...

Italian stone pine
https://goo.gl/maps/Pf3nohGQdE...
Used to be plum trees there too, but they died about 2005 (and dead trees soon get demolished by the ground termites). There's a much larger stone pine about 2 miles away, but too far off the paved road for Google.

commercial olive orchard, abandoned about 40 years ago
https://goo.gl/maps/1c5TzyohYh...
(unfortunately since mostly cut down and replaced with a solar farm)

elms -- these are volunteers, much smaller than the ones that were destroyed by the county
https://goo.gl/maps/THhUE1hKUo...
(turn around and look north to see how they do next to an occasionally irrigated field)

native desert juniper
https://goo.gl/maps/f6AEy3e87Y...

saltcedar (left) and elm (right)
https://goo.gl/maps/89kpJh5pzw...
And a mile or so away, would have loved to show you a great before-and-after of a huge healthy elm, and one the same age that had been topped, but the place burned (had been abandoned since at least the 1970s) and took the trees with it.

Most of mine have never killed anything

Yeah I too buy mine just so I can sit there and stroke them erotically.

I don't get this hoplo-erotic fascination that so many non-gunowners seem to have. I don't know anyone who actually owns guns that sees them in anything like that twisted way. They're fine pieces of machinery, some of them are works of art, many of them have sentimental value, they are tools for specific purposes... there are a lot of ways in which they're valued, some deeply emotional, but none of them remotely sexual.

For example, my favorite rifle is a fine machine, a work of art and has deep sentimental value, as well as being an excellent tool for killing big game. It's a 7mm Remington Magnum (an excellent caliber for elk, moose, bear; a little heavy for mule deer, but not too bad) that was made by my father in law. It started life as an Argentine Mauser M98 which my dad in law rechambered to 7mm. He tuned and polished the action and trigger to an incredible degree of smoothness and accuracy, and blued and polished the barrel and receiver to a beautiful high gloss. Then he handcrafted and fitted a stock of elegant birdseye maple, with polished ebony forearm and grip caps. He also elaborately hand-tooled the leather sling. The result is a breathtaking work of art (the photo doesn't do it justice) and also an incredibly smooth and accurate weapon... and it's the best memento I have of my father in law, a great man who I learned to love and appreciate deeply over the course of the almost 30 years I've known my wife. I also treasure his slide rule, but the rifle has so much more of him invested into it.

In contrast, my daily carry gun is just a tool, with no more emotion connected to it than my keys or my wallet, or my phone. Actually, I'm probably more attached to my phone. I like the gun because it's small and easily-concealable, and because it's surprisingly accurate in spite of its extremely short barrel. I can consistently hit a two-inch square from 25 feet; not anything I'd want to use in a target competition, but more than adequate for the purpose.

Various other guns have various meanings; there's my first gun, a single-shot .22LR rifle that I got when I was 12 and which I've used to teach all of my kids to shoot. My shotgun has lots of fond memories associated with it, of hunting birds with my sons, and my old bird dog (who died a couple of years ago). My old carry gun has some, because it was the gun I used to learn to shoot handguns well, and it was the one I used at at a pistol marksmanship course that I took with my dad... the first time I've ever out-shot him, an event that really brought home that he's getting old.

Actually, all of the emotional attachment I have to various guns is really just imprinted emotion from family interaction, and nothing remotely sexual in any of it (maybe if my wife were interested in guns...). Cars, on the other hand, some things have happened in various vehicles I've owned that give my thoughts about them some erotic overtones.

I'll be shocked if you actually read past the first sentence of this post, though. You're not interested in learning about reality that contradicts your assumptions.

I'm thinking something more like this. The (un-)design is quite pleasing and yet it breaks so many ordinances in my own city that we would not be allowed to build it.

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The Pueblo PD's policy is to run the cam during the search. Watch the video https://goo.gl/HmUxVA . The cop is the bad guy.

Look at the video https://goo.gl/HmUxVA . The cop was clearly trying to deceive the court. The cop is the criminal.

In the video he apparently acts surprised when he finds the gun. He doesn't tell anyone it's a "reenactment" until his statement and the video don't quite line up with each other and the prosecutor asks him about it.

video: https://goo.gl/HmUxVA

No idea what you think is dirty here, but I don't live in Nashville, I live in Franklin. Here's what we scored with Nissan:

https://goo.gl/maps/bRPKok5iYz...

I've been waiting for something like that to come along, and found one on Indiegogo (Turn Your Smartphone Into A Laptop). I don't own a compatible phone, nor do I see buying one any time soon, but I'd get the four pack for my family in a heartbeat if I did. It is compatible (in addition to Apple and Android) with some Windows phones.

It's inevitable to me that we ultimately will have just the one device we take everywhere that can be used on it's own, but also attached to something that makes it more usable for all sorts of work (like actual code development). I could even picture eventually having a desktop that your phone plugs into that will still allow it the flexibility of upgrading graphics and sound (like the Surface Book with Nvidia... the Nvidia hardware is actually in the keyboard, so you only get the Nvidia acceleration when the tablet is attached to the keyboard).

In an attempt to complete with Apple: New phone unveiled!

They define needs differently these days.

Haha same here. I got mine at radio shack in 1996. It was the black ibm aptiva with 200mhz, 32MB ram and a 1GIG HD I think. They had the white model and the black model. From what I remember the black one was more powerful. My parents paid $2000 for that computer. Man looking back that was awesome. I'm so greatful they did that. I'd probably have no skills or love of computers if it wasn't for that purchase.

still makes me smile

That's what it seems like to me, too. I think it's more around 5% or less. It's still wrong, but it's not the apples-to-oranges 20% that SJWs throw around. And I'm not saying it's right, but if we just let things ride the way they are going now, it will solve itself, at least in the U.S.. The last I read (On campus, women outnumber men more than ever), there are more women than men in college, so what does that mean for the future? People also need to put things in historical perspective - without the whining of the last decade, think about what the real (apples to apples) pay gap was 50 years ago... 40 years ago.... now look at the last decade and the "real" pay gap is only around 4%. It was improving all on it's own without new laws or requirements. Society evolved, and it's still evolving. Just let it happen.

Just because statistics are still "in favor" of cable companies doesn't mean cord-cutting isn't a rising trend. Consumers are increasingly discovering the benefits of cost-effective alternatives as providers slack in delivering quality content for the price. I am a former Netflix customer (which served just fine as a replacement for cable) but switched to SelectTV to save even more money. Sorry cable companies, you've lost a customer after years of shoddy service and poor programming and I'm certainly not the only one in this growing movement.

If you look at it on Google Earth, you'll see that it's fairly spread out. There are a large number of separate warehouses (around 100?), and each warehouse has large earthen banks around it, then a large amount of empty space. That's intended to contain fire & explosions, so if something goes wrong you might lose a single warehouse but they don't spread to other parts of the complex. That's clearly not working very well. But those earthen banks and empty spaces take up a large amount of space, probably over 90% of the site.

So it's fairly spread out, even though it was at a single site.

People tend to object if you build an ammo bunker next to their house, so it's always going to be awkward to get more sites. You also need to secure ammo bunkers very well, so having less sites lets you have better security for the same money, or spend less to get the same level of security. Making a base 4 times bigger only doubles the perimeter fencing needed, probably doesn't change the number of guarded gates you need, and the number of guards needed only goes up a little bit since the guards are mostly there to man the gate and to react to an intruder. So having a small number of large sites does make sense.

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... but a lot of these seem different. I can't help but think that they were held back because of how terrifying the imagery is. Some in particular (https://goo.gl/PviFuq , https://goo.gl/cl1QlR) look like the bomb is creating a sun on Earth which then begins to destroy the Earth. If these videos were available in the 70's, 80's, or 90s, I think nuclear disarmament would have been a much more attainable goal because the severity of the risk would have been even more understood.

Richard K. Morgan has a book called Black Man ( Thirteen in the US) that explores the idea of militaries in the future genetically engineering pyschopaths. The book doesn't specifically call them pyschopaths if I remember correctly but that's what he's describing. It backfires and they end up being relegated to penal colonies after their units are disbanded. The book isn't that good in my opinion but it's an interesting concept.