Destabilizing the middle east is what he did right.
The hog fuckers are now fighting each other. Yeah Bush, great job.
It took down a bunch of asshole dictators who, even though they were assholes, knew that if they actively supported terrorists knew their ass would be grass.
Hosni Mubarak? Persecuted his political enemies, but he also did a great job at suppressing Islamic Fundamentalism in Egypt. (Though I still miss Sadat..) Saddam Hussein? People seem to love to say he supported terrorism, but the terrorism threat from Iraq today is FAR greater than it ever was during his reign. Muammar Gaddafi? After 9/11 he read the way the political winds were blowing and made damned sure that Libya wouldn't provide a tempting target for a vengeful west. Bashar al-Assad? Total asshole, let's be honest, but he seemed like the only person capable of containing the crazies in his country. Without his strength to crush ISIS the way it needs to be crushed, now it has the strength to attack the West, repeatedly.
What other countries there have given us grief? Afghanistan, a place no strong ruler has been able to pacify since Zahir Shah, Pakistan (though their troubles are mild compared to the others on this list), and Saudi Arabia, the weird outlier in all of this, the one place with a stable regime that seems friendly to the US while actively globally promoting a harsh fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that lies at the heart of most of this turmoil.
A conservative plan applied to the national level is not necessarily a conservative plan any longer. Conservatives truly believe that there are decisions that individual states are able to make that the federal government ought to have no part of.
Trump was a Republican from 1987 to 1999, a member of the Independence Party from '99 to '01, a registered Democrat from 2001 to 2009, switched to independent, in 2011, and then Republican in 2012.
Taking a risk that something might become better or might become worse certainly is superior than staying the course and watching your opportunities dwindle.
No, "doing nothing" is often better than "doing something horrifically bad."
[[ Just like her remark that 'Whites need to change their behavior' in response to the Dallas killings. ??? ]]
It's good that you put paraphrase quotes around it, because that doesn't match the meaning of the quotes. She said that she wanted to encourage white people to listen to the legitimate cries coming from African-American citizens. That's a big difference from what you said, but I least you didn't carry the idiot ball like Alex Jones did, with his claim she said "better listen up white people, better listen up, or you’re gonna get killed."
She and her staff said it wasn't planned and was a spontaneous demonstration related to some dumb video. That was a big fat lie and they all knew it.
You know, both sides were right. There was an enormous, spontaneous demonstration that was directly spawned by the release of The Innocence of Muslims video. Terrorists used the demonstration as convenient cover to get close enough to attack without being immediately spotted and caught. At the start, it was difficult to discern whether the attack was related to the demonstration or not, and until terrorists entered the compound itself, it was difficult to tell who was a demonstrator and who was a terrorist. Initial reports were that the demonstrators stormed the compound. Those reports were wrong, and no one disputes that.
He did not admit misleading the public. He did say that somebody else "made a mistake". Not him. Somebody else. In short, he lied, then lied about lying. He admitted nothing.
Aaaah, Classic Trump! He's learning from the best.
Whether it is competitive or not, no company really pays taxes. They just take them out of the income they get from sales and remit them to the appropriate taxing authority. So the end purchaser pays the taxes
By that logic, I don't pay any taxes either. It just comes out of my income (I get a refund..) and I pass the cost on to the businesses I interact with by buying less from them, or choosing cheaper products.
So I have now taken Seagate off my list of potential hardware suppliers.
I've taken Seagate off my list of potential hardware suppliers because their hard drive quality has taken a real dip in recent years. I have a failing hard drive and while searching around for the model, I find that there's a class-action lawsuit against Seagate given the unreliability of the Seagate Barracuda 3TB model.
Actually, eugenics was always based on a flawed pop-science interpretation of evolution. Mainly on the false premise that evolution had an objective goal, and that we could inpret that goal and hasten things along through selective breeding of humans. It was good old fashioned racism and classism with a pseudo science wrapper.
You can selectively breed out some bad traits. Eugenics was horribly flawed in many ways, among them: * Which traits were beneficial (IE, blond hair, blue eyes, light skin is just "better" than dark hair, brown eyes, olive skin). * That the undesirable traits you hated were genetic. IE, stupidity was inherited. * And that states are able to nonconsensually sterilize people with the bad traits, a Supreme Court decision that is still US law...
It is already happening. Municipal based transmission ownership, to a COLO facility where you can order/purchase the services you want, from the vendor you like best. The fiber lines are the same as "streets" maintained by the municipality, and the services are open to any and all (think FedEx vs UPS vs USPS).
I love the idea, but if it catches on, expect the broadband providers and their lobbyists and their paid Congresscritters to fight back hard -- they've already been able to get municipal broadband banned in many states. There are two situations that could happen, each of which would be equally fought against: 1) The local/state government purchases the existing lines through eminent domain, existing broadband providers have to rent those lines like any other ISP. Expect this to get struck down with many a "government takeover" or "theft from a private company" and "government trying to destroy an industry" argument. 2) The local/state government installs alternative cables throughout the city, other ISPs could lease bandwidth while existing broadband providers use the lines they own. This can and would be struck down for the same reason why municipal broadband was outlawed in various states, under the idea that governments may not create organizations to compete with private business. So many some might allow this, but most business-friendly states wouldn't allow it.
And... the Freddie Gray case? What is your point, exactly? Unlike Hillary Clinton's deliberate violation of numerous statutes and being shown to be lying about it, the officers in that case are being prosecuted by Democrats in a fit of race-related mob-appeasing (of OTHER Democrats). The two situations have nothing to do with each other.
Ugh. Race-related mob appeasing? Really? Police handcuffed him and put him in the transport van with nothing to secure him in the van so that he'd get thrown around. I'm not sure why prosecuting the police in that case is "mob appeasing." Maybe we should be angered, as a mob, when the police kill someone who's in custody.
So if your users have a need, don't prattle on about policy, meet your user's needs.
And what if one department's needs directly threatens another department's? What if one user's "needs" threatens the security of the company? IT isn't there to just "meet needs" as if the answer to a user's every question is "yes, that's a good idea, we can do that."
and throws stuff like Net Neutrality out the window
Net Neutrality wouldn't be a problem if the artificial monopoly of the cable provider was tossed out the window. But the only realistic way I could see out of that would be for the ISP to not be the owner of the transmission lines. And I can't see that happening anytime soon either.
You'd have more credibility if you got your sources from other places than Rupert Murdoch's puppet "news" sources.
The New York Times is a Murdoch puppet "news" source? I guess they can't win -- they get called partisan all the time, but usually partisan on behalf of Democrats.
Collin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails
Rice, for some reason, was not a habitual email user. Nor was Madeleine Albright. Colin Powell did have a personal email address, but that is not the same thing as a private email server in her home. Two different things.
I really love it when I get an error message and I google it to find out that no one else on Earth has ever seen this error before.. or at least they hadn't reported it. That makes me feel special, but in a bad way, since I know the problem won't get fixed any month soon.
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He's one of those crazy "conversation therapy as a biblical approach to making gays into heterosexuals" asshole.
Destabilizing the middle east is what he did right.
The hog fuckers are now fighting each other. Yeah Bush, great job.
It took down a bunch of asshole dictators who, even though they were assholes, knew that if they actively supported terrorists knew their ass would be grass.
Hosni Mubarak? Persecuted his political enemies, but he also did a great job at suppressing Islamic Fundamentalism in Egypt. (Though I still miss Sadat..)
Saddam Hussein? People seem to love to say he supported terrorism, but the terrorism threat from Iraq today is FAR greater than it ever was during his reign.
Muammar Gaddafi? After 9/11 he read the way the political winds were blowing and made damned sure that Libya wouldn't provide a tempting target for a vengeful west.
Bashar al-Assad? Total asshole, let's be honest, but he seemed like the only person capable of containing the crazies in his country. Without his strength to crush ISIS the way it needs to be crushed, now it has the strength to attack the West, repeatedly.
What other countries there have given us grief? Afghanistan, a place no strong ruler has been able to pacify since Zahir Shah, Pakistan (though their troubles are mild compared to the others on this list), and Saudi Arabia, the weird outlier in all of this, the one place with a stable regime that seems friendly to the US while actively globally promoting a harsh fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that lies at the heart of most of this turmoil.
A conservative plan applied to the national level is not necessarily a conservative plan any longer.
Conservatives truly believe that there are decisions that individual states are able to make that the federal government ought to have no part of.
He's a clean cut older white male.
White? The guy is almost as orange as Boehner.
What was he before?
Trump was a Republican from 1987 to 1999, a member of the Independence Party from '99 to '01, a registered Democrat from 2001 to 2009, switched to independent, in 2011, and then Republican in 2012.
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She was literally hired by Harvard because she claimed to be Native American.
Without that bogus "ethnicity" claim she'd just be yet another nobody law professor teaching at some state school no one had ever heard of before.
Didn't you get smacked around enough in the last story you posted this drivel on? Do you really want to go through that again?
Taking a risk that something might become better or might become worse certainly is superior than staying the course and watching your opportunities dwindle.
No, "doing nothing" is often better than "doing something horrifically bad."
Donal Trump is a moderate Democrat on every issue but immigration.
And national defense and national security.
[[ Just like her remark that 'Whites need to change their behavior' in response to the Dallas killings. ??? ]]
It's good that you put paraphrase quotes around it, because that doesn't match the meaning of the quotes. She said that she wanted to encourage white people to listen to the legitimate cries coming from African-American citizens. That's a big difference from what you said, but I least you didn't carry the idiot ball like Alex Jones did, with his claim she said "better listen up white people, better listen up, or you’re gonna get killed."
You're trying to change her story.
She and her staff said it wasn't planned and was a spontaneous demonstration related to some dumb video. That was a big fat lie and they all knew it.
You know, both sides were right. There was an enormous, spontaneous demonstration that was directly spawned by the release of The Innocence of Muslims video. Terrorists used the demonstration as convenient cover to get close enough to attack without being immediately spotted and caught. At the start, it was difficult to discern whether the attack was related to the demonstration or not, and until terrorists entered the compound itself, it was difficult to tell who was a demonstrator and who was a terrorist. Initial reports were that the demonstrators stormed the compound. Those reports were wrong, and no one disputes that.
He did not admit misleading the public. He did say that somebody else "made a mistake". Not him. Somebody else. In short, he lied, then lied about lying. He admitted nothing.
Aaaah, Classic Trump! He's learning from the best.
Whether it is competitive or not, no company really pays taxes. They just take them out of the income they get from sales and remit them to the appropriate taxing authority. So the end purchaser pays the taxes
By that logic, I don't pay any taxes either. It just comes out of my income (I get a refund..) and I pass the cost on to the businesses I interact with by buying less from them, or choosing cheaper products.
The only reason they charged him at all is likely because he had something the administration wanted, but couldn't get without legal pressure.
They charged him because he wasn't that popular with folks high up in the administration, and they were happy to have a good excuse to get rid of him.
So I have now taken Seagate off my list of potential hardware suppliers.
I've taken Seagate off my list of potential hardware suppliers because their hard drive quality has taken a real dip in recent years. I have a failing hard drive and while searching around for the model, I find that there's a class-action lawsuit against Seagate given the unreliability of the Seagate Barracuda 3TB model.
Actually, eugenics was always based on a flawed pop-science interpretation of evolution. Mainly on the false premise that evolution had an objective goal, and that we could inpret that goal and hasten things along through selective breeding of humans. It was good old fashioned racism and classism with a pseudo science wrapper.
You can selectively breed out some bad traits. Eugenics was horribly flawed in many ways, among them:
* Which traits were beneficial (IE, blond hair, blue eyes, light skin is just "better" than dark hair, brown eyes, olive skin).
* That the undesirable traits you hated were genetic. IE, stupidity was inherited.
* And that states are able to nonconsensually sterilize people with the bad traits, a Supreme Court decision that is still US law...
It is already happening. Municipal based transmission ownership, to a COLO facility where you can order/purchase the services you want, from the vendor you like best. The fiber lines are the same as "streets" maintained by the municipality, and the services are open to any and all (think FedEx vs UPS vs USPS).
I love the idea, but if it catches on, expect the broadband providers and their lobbyists and their paid Congresscritters to fight back hard -- they've already been able to get municipal broadband banned in many states. There are two situations that could happen, each of which would be equally fought against:
1) The local/state government purchases the existing lines through eminent domain, existing broadband providers have to rent those lines like any other ISP. Expect this to get struck down with many a "government takeover" or "theft from a private company" and "government trying to destroy an industry" argument.
2) The local/state government installs alternative cables throughout the city, other ISPs could lease bandwidth while existing broadband providers use the lines they own. This can and would be struck down for the same reason why municipal broadband was outlawed in various states, under the idea that governments may not create organizations to compete with private business. So many some might allow this, but most business-friendly states wouldn't allow it.
Either is a big long-shot.
I don't understand this comment. I just checked the app and there are 10 Car2Go vehicles all under a 3 minute walk from where I am right now
Car2Go is an interesting idea, but it's not available in many cities yet. This seems more like more convenient car rental rather than "car sharing."
And ... the Freddie Gray case? What is your point, exactly? Unlike Hillary Clinton's deliberate violation of numerous statutes and being shown to be lying about it, the officers in that case are being prosecuted by Democrats in a fit of race-related mob-appeasing (of OTHER Democrats). The two situations have nothing to do with each other.
Ugh. Race-related mob appeasing? Really? Police handcuffed him and put him in the transport van with nothing to secure him in the van so that he'd get thrown around. I'm not sure why prosecuting the police in that case is "mob appeasing." Maybe we should be angered, as a mob, when the police kill someone who's in custody.
There's so much crazy in here.
I like that it can boiled down to "Hitler Clinton loves Jews."
And we're glad not to be dealing with a dickless opponent who even smaller agencies could push around.
I think Hillary qualifies as literally a dickless opponent.
So if your users have a need, don't prattle on about policy, meet your user's needs.
And what if one department's needs directly threatens another department's? What if one user's "needs" threatens the security of the company?
IT isn't there to just "meet needs" as if the answer to a user's every question is "yes, that's a good idea, we can do that."
and throws stuff like Net Neutrality out the window
Net Neutrality wouldn't be a problem if the artificial monopoly of the cable provider was tossed out the window.
But the only realistic way I could see out of that would be for the ISP to not be the owner of the transmission lines. And I can't see that happening anytime soon either.
You'd have more credibility if you got your sources from other places than Rupert Murdoch's puppet "news" sources.
The New York Times is a Murdoch puppet "news" source? I guess they can't win -- they get called partisan all the time, but usually partisan on behalf of Democrats.
Collin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails
Rice, for some reason, was not a habitual email user. Nor was Madeleine Albright.
Colin Powell did have a personal email address, but that is not the same thing as a private email server in her home. Two different things.
I really love it when I get an error message and I google it to find out that no one else on Earth has ever seen this error before.. or at least they hadn't reported it. That makes me feel special, but in a bad way, since I know the problem won't get fixed any month soon.