San Francisco is an extreme example of the case, since their land use regulations are even worse than the rest of California, and their rent control policies make it so hard to evict tenants that building owners choose to let properties remain vacant because it's all but impossible to kick a tenant out if you want to sell the property.
People can't afford to live in San Francisco because the city and state governments have made the decisions that make it impossible for them to live there.
"We're encouraged by the pro-growth policies of President Trump," Fields said when announcing the investment shift from Mexico to the Flat Rock facility.
While this is not quoted in the opening paragraph, this would seem to be a significant factor in the decision, and thus maybe worth at least a passing summary in the Slashdot blurb?
Security experts have been warning of possible foreign hacking for decades. But why this sudden spate of "Russia hacked X" stories now? Why not back when our Secretary of State was running an illegal, private, unsecured email server through which she transmitted classified information?
Simple: The Washington Post wanted Hillary to win the Presidential election, and reminding people how her action made it easier for Russian hackers to gain access to classified information wouldn't have helped her. But publishing it now helps support the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not disgruntled Democratic Party staffers, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the Washington Post and it's employees almost universally loath. That's the entire reason the story is being written and published now.
I'm sure the Russian government recruits computer talent in the many ways listed in the article. I would suspect the U.S. government does much the same.
The fake part comes in: Why publish this piece now? Why not, say, during the massive OPM breach?
Simple: Publishing it during the OPM breach would have harmed Obama, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally adore, while publishing it now helps prop up the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not a disgruntled Democratic Party insider, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally loath.
This story was published because it fits an (unproven and probably false) narrative that Russia "hacked the election" because it theoretically harms Trump.
As rival chaebol, Samsung and LG hate each other and avoid doing business with each other whenever possible. (It was a huge deal when LG and Hyundai merged their semiconductor businesses together into Hynix, and that was only because building new wafer fabs had gotten too expensive to keep going it alone.) Especially since LG is smaller than Samsung. Samsung must really have felt that was the only way to solve their problem...
...in order to force taxpayer-funded abortions on the American public.
You may think that's an exaggeration, but look how tenaciously Nancy Pelosi insisted on the provision during the debate over Obamacare, forcing Stupak's block of flippers to cave rather than give it up.
ObamaCare was meant to fail as a means of forcing the full socialization of American medicine, true. But it was also designed as an instrument of the culture war, and one Democrats were determined to defend no matter how many legislators lost their seats over it.
Overnight and without warning, the government banned bills worth more than about $1.50. The result has been an absolute disaster:
97% of the Indian economy is cash-based. With 88% of all outstanding currency no longer usable, the economy is coming to a standstill. The daily-wage laborer, who leads a hand-to-mouth existence in a country with GDP per capita of a mere $1,600, no longer has work, as his employer has no cash to pay his wages. His life is in utter chaos. He is not as smart as Modi — despite the fact that Modi has no real life experience except as a bully and perhaps in his early days as a tea-seller at a train-station. He has no clue where his life is headed from here.
These people are going hungry, and some have begun to raid food shops. People are dying for lack of treatment at hospitals. Old people are dying in the endless queues. Some are killing themselves, as they are unable to comprehend the situation and simply don’t know what to do. There are now hundreds of such stories in the media.
Small businesses are in shambles, and many will probably never recover. The Hindu wedding season has just started and people are left with unusable banknotes. Their personal and family lives are now an utter disaster.
And you know who this hurt most of all? Democrats. Because the MSM was so in the tank for Hillary, the Clinton campaign couldn't get the information it needed to make tactical choices on what money and effort to spend where. Wouldn't it have been more valuable for them to hear "Hey, Hillary may have a problem with previously Democratic blue collar voters in the rust belt" than "Campaign Inevitable is going to crush all puny obstacles between her and the White House! You go girl!"?
Instead they tried to drag the most corrupt candidate ever to run for President of the United States over the finish line, and now they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.
The was the most unbalanced election news coverage in history, with major outlets (NYT, WP, ABC, NBC, CBS) so far in the tank for Clinton and against Trump that it embarassed many old time journalists:
This is all symptomatic of modern journalism’s great moral and intellectual failing: its unbearable smugness. Had Hillary Clinton won, there’s be a winking “we did it” feeling in the press, a sense that we were brave and called Trump a liar and saved the republic.
So much for that. The audience for our glib analysis and contempt for much of the electorate, it turned out, was rather limited. This was particularly true when it came to voters, the ones who turned out by the millions to deliver not only a rebuke to the political system but also the people who cover it. Trump knew what he was doing when he invited his crowds to jeer and hiss the reporters covering him. They hate us, and have for some time.
And can you blame them? Journalists love mocking Trump supporters. We insult their appearances. We dismiss them as racists and sexists. We emote on Twitter about how this or that comment or policy makes us feel one way or the other, and yet we reject their feelings as invalid.
It’s a profound failure of empathy in the service of endless posturing...We diagnose them as racists in the way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession. Journalists, at our worst, see ourselves as a priestly caste. We believe we not only have access to the indisputable facts, but also a greater truth, a system of beliefs divined from an advanced understanding of justice.
And, after all that, Trump still won. So now liberals will look everywhere for a scapegoat to pin this "inexplicable" failure on. Everywhere, that is, except their own attitudes and actions.
The left is responsible for this result, because the left has now decided to any other opinion, any other way of looking at the world, is unacceptable. We don't debate anymore because the left won the cultural war, so if you're on the right you're a freak! You're evil! You're racist! You're stupid! You are a basket of deplorables! How do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that? When has anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or labeled? So now if you're on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion. That's why people wait until they're in the voting booth, where no one's watching anymore, there's no blame or shame or anything, and you can finally say what you really think, and that is a powerful thing.
Basically, put water at 4000 PSI and you can dump loads of heat into it without it turning into steam. Now dump Oxygen into it and it will basically break down any organic molecule.
The problem has always been how to scale a reactor vessel large enough and strong enough to make it suitable for commercial use.
The big question is whether it can economically scale.
Go to the actual article and you see not a prototype, not a mockup, but concept art.
Could a single trained technician with the proper tools (hoist, lift, etc.) assemble a truck from modular, prefabricated parts in four hours? Maybe, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Especially when a typical kit car requires 80-100 hours to build yourself.
This is pie-in-the-sky fluff to pimp to investors.
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If it weren't for the latest tech bubble keeping them afloat, California would be completely screwed.
California has:
* High state income taxes, and overall it's one of the highest taxed states in the country.
* Over $1.3 TRILLION in government debt, much in underfunded public employee union pension obligations.
* A regulatory and legal climate that stifles growth and drives businesses out of the state to lower tax, lower regulation, lower cost states like Texas.
* Schools that are some of the worst in the nation.
* Some of the worst roads in the nation, despite having some of the highest gas taxes in the nation.
* Widening income inequality, driven by coastal elites enacting policies that make it increasingly difficult for the poor and middle class to earn a living in California.
San Francisco is an extreme example of the case, since their land use regulations are even worse than the rest of California, and their rent control policies make it so hard to evict tenants that building owners choose to let properties remain vacant because it's all but impossible to kick a tenant out if you want to sell the property.
People can't afford to live in San Francisco because the city and state governments have made the decisions that make it impossible for them to live there.
Could it be... SATAN ?
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Maybe the tinypass is the thing to block?
I also have RefControl and GreaseMonkey installed. Those might help.
While this is not quoted in the opening paragraph, this would seem to be a significant factor in the decision, and thus maybe worth at least a passing summary in the Slashdot blurb?
Security experts have been warning of possible foreign hacking for decades. But why this sudden spate of "Russia hacked X" stories now? Why not back when our Secretary of State was running an illegal, private, unsecured email server through which she transmitted classified information?
Simple: The Washington Post wanted Hillary to win the Presidential election, and reminding people how her action made it easier for Russian hackers to gain access to classified information wouldn't have helped her. But publishing it now helps support the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not disgruntled Democratic Party staffers, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the Washington Post and it's employees almost universally loath. That's the entire reason the story is being written and published now.
Further reading here and here.
What do you think the under/over is for MSM "Russian Hacking" stories between now and January 20?
I'm sure the Russian government recruits computer talent in the many ways listed in the article. I would suspect the U.S. government does much the same.
The fake part comes in: Why publish this piece now? Why not, say, during the massive OPM breach?
Simple: Publishing it during the OPM breach would have harmed Obama, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally adore, while publishing it now helps prop up the false narrative that the Russians were behind the DNC leaks, not a disgruntled Democratic Party insider, and thus supposedly harms President-elect Donald Trump, whom the New York Times and it's employees almost universally loath.
Remember, among the revelations to come out just after the election were how the Times abandoned objectivity to go after Trump and how the entire newsroom is dedicated to driving a predetermined narrative rather than carrying out an objective search for truth.
This story was published because it fits an (unproven and probably false) narrative that Russia "hacked the election" because it theoretically harms Trump.
Further reading here and here.
As rival chaebol, Samsung and LG hate each other and avoid doing business with each other whenever possible. (It was a huge deal when LG and Hyundai merged their semiconductor businesses together into Hynix, and that was only because building new wafer fabs had gotten too expensive to keep going it alone.) Especially since LG is smaller than Samsung. Samsung must really have felt that was the only way to solve their problem...
Donald Trump is not "anointed heir to the U.S. presidency," he's the President-elect of the United State of America. He did not inherit the office.
...in 5...4...3...
...right after the perfect practical fusion.
Once that tiny little hurdle is overcome, it's off to Mars!
...in order to force taxpayer-funded abortions on the American public.
You may think that's an exaggeration, but look how tenaciously Nancy Pelosi insisted on the provision during the debate over Obamacare, forcing Stupak's block of flippers to cave rather than give it up.
Look how fervently the Obama Administration insisted that the Little Sister of the Poor must pay for abortifacients rather than come to an accommodation as required by the law.
ObamaCare was meant to fail as a means of forcing the full socialization of American medicine, true. But it was also designed as an instrument of the culture war, and one Democrats were determined to defend no matter how many legislators lost their seats over it.
And as for the current state of ObamaCare, take a look here.
...if it succeeds in keeping Social Justice Warriors away.
If it works there, then we can expand the process to science fiction conventions...
Overnight and without warning, the government banned bills worth more than about $1.50. The result has been an absolute disaster:
Banks and ATMs are running out of what little cash their is shortly after they open.
Many of the "right wing hate crime" hoaxes have been debunked.
Meanwhile, in many incidents people have been arrested for attacking Trump supporters or committing property crimes during anti-Trump riots.
You are part of the fake news problem.
...from the fact that Google is run by shape-shifting reptoids.
WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!!! /Cue obligatory XKCD
The major media outlets went all into the tank for Hillary. The New York Times abandoned even a pretense of objectivity to editorialize against Trump on their front page. Wikileaks proved that CNN and the Washington Post (among others) actively colluded with the Clinton campaign against Trump.
And you know who this hurt most of all? Democrats. Because the MSM was so in the tank for Hillary, the Clinton campaign couldn't get the information it needed to make tactical choices on what money and effort to spend where. Wouldn't it have been more valuable for them to hear "Hey, Hillary may have a problem with previously Democratic blue collar voters in the rust belt" than "Campaign Inevitable is going to crush all puny obstacles between her and the White House! You go girl!"?
Instead they tried to drag the most corrupt candidate ever to run for President of the United States over the finish line, and now they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.
The was the most unbalanced election news coverage in history, with major outlets (NYT, WP, ABC, NBC, CBS) so far in the tank for Clinton and against Trump that it embarassed many old time journalists:
And, after all that, Trump still won. So now liberals will look everywhere for a scapegoat to pin this "inexplicable" failure on. Everywhere, that is, except their own attitudes and actions.
"When Obama got into power, I assumed he'd be the typical liberal. Little did I know he'd get very friendly with the expansion of the police state."
That's like saying:
"When Tom got into banking, I assumed he'd be the typical banker. Little did I know he'd like to work with money."
or
"When Paul got into boxing, I assumed he'd be the typical boxer. Little did I know he'd really enjoy hitting people."
When have liberals (the modern, government expanding kind) ever been shy about expanding the power of the police state?
Remember all those liberals decrying using force to make Christian bakers bake gay wedding cakes?
Me neither.
You haven't been paying attention.
The boom came later.
So a recovery could make trump look more Reaganesque.
Oh wait, it's not there, because Wikipedia's Social Justice Warrior contingent insists it must be "Chelsea."
Basically, put water at 4000 PSI and you can dump loads of heat into it without it turning into steam. Now dump Oxygen into it and it will basically break down any organic molecule.
The problem has always been how to scale a reactor vessel large enough and strong enough to make it suitable for commercial use.
The big question is whether it can economically scale.
Go to the actual article and you see not a prototype, not a mockup, but concept art.
Could a single trained technician with the proper tools (hoist, lift, etc.) assemble a truck from modular, prefabricated parts in four hours? Maybe, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Especially when a typical kit car requires 80-100 hours to build yourself.
This is pie-in-the-sky fluff to pimp to investors.
Is it Sberbank, Russia’s biggest financial institution, and the one that The Podesta Group is a registered lobbyist for?
You know, the "Hillary Clinton inner circle" Podestas? Of Wikileaks fame?
Oh, it seems to be a different bank.
...to "Throbbing Pleasure Shaft."
There! Problem solved!
Samsung can hardly take all of them down if people keep putting them up.