You misspelled "Hillary Clinton will accept bribes from anyone in the world, as shown by the donation list to the Clinton Foundation. But that was while she was Secretary of State, not a member of congress...
And instead embrace freedom and allow their impoverished citizens embrace freedom and capitalism, and exchange information that way.
The reason that "Cuba has little Internet infrastructure" is because communism is a colossal economic and political failure. Free capitalism economies offer a much better model for getting out of poverty and building out an information infrastructure.
Let the market decide, and let regulation catch up later (if ever).
We don't need "better" ways to regulate new technologies, we need smaller government that doesn't feel the need to stick its tentacles into every orifice of the body politic.
At least at a certain level, with Anonymous taking out thousands of pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts with Operation Tango Down. Now that's just one service, and nothing prevents them from signing on again. But you can slow momentum and make it harder for supporters of terrorism to broadcast their views to supporters without reprisals, and also limit or prevent coordinated action.
Best of all, it's possible to do it merely for Terms of Service violation, without government action.
Of course, to actually defeat terrorists, you have to kill them faster than terror organizations can create new terrorists, and to dry up their financial support (of which the Islamic State has plenty in "moderate" Sunni states...)
If you want to calculate nuclear yields, I suggest picking up a copy of Samuel Glasstone's The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (that's an Amazon link, but there are a fair number of used copies floating around). I have the revised 1962 edition.
Be sure to pick up a copy that still has the yield computer wheel in the back of the book.
Also, this web page lets you map nuclear bursts using Google maps, and seems to be heavily based on Glasstone.
For the ostensible purpose of transporting people too and from the places they want to go, sure.
But that's not the real reason politicians push for rail-based transit.
The real reason politicians love rail transport is that there's so much greater opportunities for graft, kickbacks, patronage and campaign donations.
* Expensive trains with expensive contracts * Expensive construction with expensive contracts * Expensive donations and lobbying for rail stop locations * Expensive land purchase deals for favored real estate agents and land owners * Expensive union contracts to run and maintain the trains. * Great "green energy" kickback subsidies from the federal government * By benefiting (mostly) rich white people instead of (mostly) poor minorities, it helps rake in campaign contributions from the Right People
Old fashioned existing streets and bus lines offer so many fewer opportunities to get on the gravy train. And rail also offers the smug satisfaction of "being green"...
Later in the talk, Colón recalled once locking herself in a car, “afraid he was going to body-slam me into the ground again or waterboard me in our upstairs bathroom like he had done before.”
Of course, take everything in a divorce filing with several grains of salt...
If "community activists" want to drive high-paying jobs away, there's no shortage of locales with competent regulatory regimes that are happy to welcome new data center construction with open arms.
...because of multiple government regulations that have choked off supply, namely:
* Rent Control * Excessive environmental regulations * Excessive land use regulations * An institutional hostility to landlords (so bad that many landlords simply refuse to rent at all since renters could tie them up in court for years when they tried to sell the property). * California's general hostility to development.
And now San Francisco has said they'll try to limit price increases by restricting supply. Looks like someone failed Economics 101.
Ask yourself: How many Air Force brass made their bones flying A-10s (or cargo planes, or refueling tankers) and the answer is going to be pretty close to zero.
...that contributors will have their contributions blocked or reversed at the behest of vindictive campaign insiders without explanation or appeal in order to stroke the insiders' petty egos?
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: recycling is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered environmental community when IDC confirmed that recycling market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all waste. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that recycling has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Recycling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent urban priorities poll.
You don't need to be the Amazing Randi to predict recycling's future. The hand writing is on the wall: recycling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for recycling because recycling is dying. Things are looking very bad for recycling. As many of us are already aware, recycling continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
The Trailer Was Astoundingly Awful
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I have to agree with this decision, since the trailer they did release looked amazingly bad and amateurish. They leads don't seem to be good actors, have no charisma and no chemistry, what little dialog seemed uninteresting and full of cliches, and the scenes seemed badly done.
I watched this with a friend, and at the end she went "Wait, that was a real trailer? I thought it was some sort of ad!"
If that was what the film was going to be like, then best it's dead.
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You misspelled "Hillary Clinton will accept bribes from anyone in the world, as shown by the donation list to the Clinton Foundation. But that was while she was Secretary of State, not a member of congress...
And instead embrace freedom and allow their impoverished citizens embrace freedom and capitalism, and exchange information that way.
The reason that "Cuba has little Internet infrastructure" is because communism is a colossal economic and political failure. Free capitalism economies offer a much better model for getting out of poverty and building out an information infrastructure.
...it's a feature.
Let the market decide, and let regulation catch up later (if ever).
We don't need "better" ways to regulate new technologies, we need smaller government that doesn't feel the need to stick its tentacles into every orifice of the body politic.
More than 1,400 children were raped over a period of years by a ring of Pakistani Muslim men in Rotherham, and UK policed couldn't be arsed to care about it over fears political correctness might end their careers. (And Rotherham wasn't the only one. There were similar Muslim rape rings in Oxfordshire and Manchester.) What on earth make you think they're going to drop everything over information sexual predators might possibly use later?
FTA: "This story was originally published online on 21 October and in the 23 October issue of Science. It has been updated with new information."
And yes, this story was on Slashdot then.
At least at a certain level, with Anonymous taking out thousands of pro-Islamic State Twitter accounts with Operation Tango Down. Now that's just one service, and nothing prevents them from signing on again. But you can slow momentum and make it harder for supporters of terrorism to broadcast their views to supporters without reprisals, and also limit or prevent coordinated action.
Best of all, it's possible to do it merely for Terms of Service violation, without government action.
Of course, to actually defeat terrorists, you have to kill them faster than terror organizations can create new terrorists, and to dry up their financial support (of which the Islamic State has plenty in "moderate" Sunni states...)
If you want to calculate nuclear yields, I suggest picking up a copy of Samuel Glasstone's The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (that's an Amazon link, but there are a fair number of used copies floating around). I have the revised 1962 edition.
Be sure to pick up a copy that still has the yield computer wheel in the back of the book.
Also, this web page lets you map nuclear bursts using Google maps, and seems to be heavily based on Glasstone.
For the ostensible purpose of transporting people too and from the places they want to go, sure.
But that's not the real reason politicians push for rail-based transit.
The real reason politicians love rail transport is that there's so much greater opportunities for graft, kickbacks, patronage and campaign donations.
* Expensive trains with expensive contracts
* Expensive construction with expensive contracts
* Expensive donations and lobbying for rail stop locations
* Expensive land purchase deals for favored real estate agents and land owners
* Expensive union contracts to run and maintain the trains.
* Great "green energy" kickback subsidies from the federal government
* By benefiting (mostly) rich white people instead of (mostly) poor minorities, it helps rake in campaign contributions from the Right People
Old fashioned existing streets and bus lines offer so many fewer opportunities to get on the gravy train. And rail also offers the smug satisfaction of "being green"...
Of course, take everything in a divorce filing with several grains of salt...
Basically, Shout Factory, the people who are doing the DVDs, bought all the shows rights from Jim Mallon/Best Brains, " including all brand assets and global intellectual property."
If your local greenies object to data centers (low danger/high pay modern infrastructure), I'm sure that Texas would love to have that business.
If "community activists" want to drive high-paying jobs away, there's no shortage of locales with competent regulatory regimes that are happy to welcome new data center construction with open arms.
And by that I mean "Bankrupted by corrupt one-party machine politics, deindustrialization, and overly generous union pensions, and where the police can no longer afford to light up streetlights or to investigate any but the most serious crimes.
...because of multiple government regulations that have choked off supply, namely:
* Rent Control
* Excessive environmental regulations
* Excessive land use regulations
* An institutional hostility to landlords (so bad that many landlords simply refuse to rent at all since renters could tie them up in court for years when they tried to sell the property).
* California's general hostility to development.
And now San Francisco has said they'll try to limit price increases by restricting supply. Looks like someone failed Economics 101.
Bonus: Did you know that the Rev. Jim Jones (yes, that one) once served on San Francisco's Housing Authority?
Liberals use "Dominionist" the same way they use "fascist": As an ignorant synonym for "something they don't like."
Conspicuously missing: Cruz proclaiming they're "Dominionists" as opposed to "Christians."
She openly preached it, in fact..
[[Citation Needed]]
Preferably not something from The Big Popup Book of Liberal Political Smears...
No, without his suit, Tony Stark is a "Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist."
Do I have to explain the simplest things to you people?
...he should be researching which countries don't have extradition treaties with the United States...
Also: Top 10 Ashley Madison Pickup Lines.
...because I hated running and it hurt my knees. Which is much the same reason George W. Bush took it up.
It's also easier to do in the Texas heat than running, thanks to the airflow, and doubles as a means of transportation.
...and love shiny new, big-budget fighter planes, I can only assume that the test will be rigged to show the F-35 in the best light possible.
Ask yourself: How many Air Force brass made their bones flying A-10s (or cargo planes, or refueling tankers) and the answer is going to be pretty close to zero.
...stolen from the hacker's files!
Like: “Sure, Miss Wong, I’ll let you use my login!” — SecuritySupervisor@opm.gov.
100% authentic!*
*Which is to say, every bit as authentic as the vast majority of "women" you can contact on Ashley Madison...
...that contributors will have their contributions blocked or reversed at the behest of vindictive campaign insiders without explanation or appeal in order to stroke the insiders' petty egos?
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: recycling is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered environmental community when IDC confirmed that recycling market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all waste. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that recycling has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Recycling is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent urban priorities poll.
You don't need to be the Amazing Randi to predict recycling's future. The hand writing is on the wall: recycling faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for recycling because recycling is dying. Things are looking very bad for recycling. As many of us are already aware, recycling continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
We hardly knew you!
I have to agree with this decision, since the trailer they did release looked amazingly bad and amateurish. They leads don't seem to be good actors, have no charisma and no chemistry, what little dialog seemed uninteresting and full of cliches, and the scenes seemed badly done.
I watched this with a friend, and at the end she went "Wait, that was a real trailer? I thought it was some sort of ad!"
If that was what the film was going to be like, then best it's dead.