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no matter what he does or says or what comes out. Hell, he's mad that he took Pence as his VP because it turns out the Evangelicals will support him no matter what. These same Evangelicals just elected a dead pimp

To me the Russian interference is like a vial of blood in a shark pool. It didn't take much, but without the vial there wouldn't have been a frenzy. And we shouldn't be surprised. Vlad Putin's specialty was information warfare for Christ's sake. It's not like we weren't warned. He saw a weakness (Hilary) and exploited it to weaken us further.

You can't build those in an earthquake zone, but San Francisco Bay would be an ideal place for barge housing.

This is what happened to the Google Barge: https://www.pressherald.com/20...

It wasn't housing, but a product demo site that, like so many other good Google projects, was abandoned before it really got going. But since there is nothing specifically Googlish about the idea of barge apartments, why isn't anyone building these? This would be housing that could easily be moved from place to place as needed.

Lying to law enforcement has always been illegal:
http://blogs.findlaw.com/blott...
Did you not notice headlines about Gates in court for lying to FBI?
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You are exaggerating the impact of higher taxes etc. If they are smaller investors, then their taxes are smaller anyhow, or at least should be.

You were talking about "fat cats", i.e., big investors. If those people don't constitute a big part of overall investments, then taxing them won't yield a lot of revenue, so you are just taxing them out of envy and spite, not to gain significant amounts of revenue.

And put it where?

There a plenty of other places rich people can put their money without paying taxes. Government corruption, for example, is an excellent investment.

overnment official jerks don't need to "cheat", they "poison babies" simply by not giving a fuck and by not being liable for the consequences of their actions.

Example? Two or three groups keeping an eye on something is usually better than one. Sure, sometimes inspectors are jerks, but that's true of any endeavor. The fact that humans are imperfect is not a reason to let corporations run willy nilly over the environment etc.

You're absolutely right that governmental agencies like the EPA are keeping an "extra eye" on environmental sins and are making very cautious decisions because US administrations don't want to get in trouble with environmentalists; the result is limited job growth, limited economic growth, and stagnation.

If you hand over more power to the government, like they used to behind the Iron Curtain, the motivation of government officials shifts from irrational caution to irrational attempts to meet economic output targets; that's why the environment behind the Iron Curtain was such a disaster.

Just because you know people who are responsible gun owners does not mean everyone is and the statistics prove it out, particularly when it comes to children either killing themselves or others with guns they found lying around.

Then there are those who think Russian roulette is a game.

This doesn't include those gun owners who don't bother to report their guns have been stolen. Which is odd because if they're responsible they wouldn't leave their guns in their cars.

To me - clearly you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I've hit plenty of birds over the decades I've been flying. Not one of them has left damage anything like that. Not one of them has left distinct lines like you see in that aluminum. It's ranged from no damage to having to replace some surfaces due to being deformed. Not one of them had an actual hole in it like you see on that wing.

So we have stories like this:
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It's just a matter of time. Do we have to have a big body count before the inevitable happens and we do something about it? Seems that is the only way it'll happen.

International trade dries up and the global economy collapses.

Very easy to make such a one line reply, but that is silly. Trade and the global economy weren't bad before all this free trade, life will go on just fine.

The army arrests and deports illegal immigrants?

I'm not sure how you got that out of what I posted. Rounding up existing illegals is the job of law enforcement, not the Army.

The US Army should be deployed to the Southern border to prevent people from crossing the border illegally. This applies to immigrants as well as drug cartels.

https://youtu.be/Nt2Wz81ygOc

If you're crossing the border between the US and Mexico, at night, you're an invader... People who invade other nations are enemies.

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"Most of the immigrants hail from Central America, and many come with children. They often turn themselves over to authorities immediately after crossing the river, following the advice of smugglers, friends and relatives, who tell them they will eventually be released and allowed to continue to their destination.

For parents with young children, that has largely been true because the U.S. has only one long-term family detention facility, in Pennsylvania, and itâ(TM)s full. Most parents are handed notices to appear at the immigration office closest to their destination and dropped off at bus stations across the Southwest."

That is a bloody crime, why even have borders or rules? Why should I follow the rules when they don't have to? They are taking American jobs and holding down wages.

Instead of having government buses waiting for them, how about we have Predator Drones firing hellfire missiles at them? Sooner or later, they'll get the message to stop.

This nonsense is why Trump is at over 40%, hard working Americans are sick of this crap and want it to stop.

Maybe you're proposing they just summarily execute the immigrants or threaten to invade Mexico.

If an invading army is crossing your borders, you shoot at them.

As for invading Mexico, it may well come to that if they can't get the drug cartels under control. If they can't clean up their mess, we'll do it for them.

Well in that case the US becomes a pariah state.

Yea, like it did after Iraq? I hate to burst your bubble, but no one in the world cares any more about Mexico than they did about Iraq, and we have FAR more interest in Mexico than we ever did in Iraq.

The problem is your "stick" isn't nearly as big as you think it is

It is bigger than you think it is...

And yet people have no problem with Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Murrah Federal Building, white guys shooting up Jewish centers, the daily reports of shootings in every major city and even podunk cities like the one I live near, not to mention those driving pickup truck drivers randomly shooting people on the road or photographers being robbed at gunpoint.

It's only Muslims that people should be worried about.

Google has explicitly said that they weigh search results to focus on sites that are friendly to smart phones.

http://www.pressherald.com/201...

So If I am trying to fix a an old computer I won't actually see a fix immediately because the fix might be on a snitz forums 2000 that will never ever be on a mobile phone.

... IF the user is searching with a smart phone. They don't do any of that weighing if the searcher isn't using a mobile device.

Read the fine print.

Google has explicitly said that they weigh search results to focus on sites that are friendly to smart phones.

http://www.pressherald.com/201...

So If I am trying to fix a an old computer I won't actually see a fix immediately because the fix might be on a snitz forums 2000 that will never ever be on a mobile phone.

We're used to this stuff - it snows in the winter. No big deal.

Well, everyone except those who decided to drive:

Maine State Police Lt. Erik Baker, supervisor for Troop G, which covers the Maine Turnpike, said 19 cars slid off the highway or got stuck in snowbanks Tuesday morning. “The roads are treacherous,” Baker said. “There are major whiteouts.” Conditions were delaying tow trucks and emergency workers and at least one motorist abandoned a vehicle, got a ride to safety and plans to have the car retrieved Wednesday, he said. “You can’t tell whether you are on the road or off the road,” said Bob Bohlmann of York County Emergency Management. “People who have come in to help us say it is very, very easy to get disoriented.”

> (say, construction road signs) it just never occurred to them that anyone would ever care to look it up for a prank

Gee, kids don't respect authority? This has being going on since the beginning of time ...

"Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers." -- misattributed to Socrates

City officials get butt hurt because somebody wanted a little humor with "Warning Zombies Ahead!" ... they need to chill out.
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There is another barge in the harbor in Portland, Maine http://www.pressherald.com/news/Myserty_Portland_barge_and_San_Francisco_barge_appear_linked_.html

Google wasn't the first by a long shot. By several years in fact.

But, they were one of the first ones to solve the problem of all of those web sites which had polluted every search by adding random words to meta tags or whatever they did.

When I first discovered Google, Yahoo had devolved into pretty much nothing but spam and irrelevant search results. It had become somewhat useless to use most search engines, because they never actually retrieved anything relevant to the search, just stuff which showed up due to those SEO idiots.

Google's page ranking managed to discard a lot of unrelated crap and actually get you something useful, and I never used Yahoo as a search engine again.

Of course, since then, Google's adherence to their own "do no evil" mantra has become a bit of a joke, and they've become really annoying about trying to force you to use more of their services even when you don't want to.

So much so that if I was ever within a few feet of Sergiy Brin he might get a kick in the nuts just for the fun of it. You know, just to show him what it's like and to show we care.

Google didn't build on-campus but they signed up with Tech Shop a while back.

Google does have an on-campus shop for employees. They're not doing much at TechShop. They've done team-building events at the Menlo Park TechShop, and downloaded and cut out a model of a bridge on the plasma cutter. One or two Google employees go there now and then. But it's not a big thing.

This might have something to do with it: http://www.pressherald.com/business/organic-farmers-lament-dismissal-of-lawsuit_2012-02-29.html