LOL. You obviously do not know American manufacturing and our situation. China does NOT have us.
The US economy is a highly-tuned machine. Like a Jaguar car, it's high performance, but it doesn't take much to make it come tumbling down. The Dot-Com Bust and the Housing Bubble were minor problems compared to what a trade war with the country which actually makes all of our stuff would do.
At the same time, since America actually is low emission (with an intelligent normalization of emissions / $GDP ),
The rest of the world is not going to accept that definition of 'low emissions' because it's crafted to benefit only one country: the USA. It's pretty much the only way you could manipulate the definition of 'low emission" to make the US come out ahead. Pretty much everyone else is going to use 'per capita,' and it seems difficult to argue that they're wrong.
I'm sure some jerk could argue that Alaska was once Russian.
Northern California once was as well. Actually, all of the western coast of North America as far south as Fort Ross (just north of San Francisco) was claimed by Russia, though the majority of their settlements and activity were in Alaska. They overhunted until the fur trade petered out, and by that point their North American settlements were economically impracticable and Alaska was sold.
It seems customary practice in Russia to take what you want by force
All they have to do is claim there are still ethnic Russians living in Washington and California who are of course being viciously persecuted by Washington (probably true, heh) and in need of liberating.
I could see Russia, but why would China, Iran or any Islamic entity want Trump to win?
Because they don't like Hillary? She was always the war hawkiest of Obama's cabinet. Trump has yet to show any diplomatic competency, and his fans just lap up his nonsense that he's "the best" with no proof.
China would stand to lose big if they can no longer sell to the US
China has the US's balls in a vice, not selling to the US will hurt China, but it will hurt the US far FAR more.
if Trump follows through on his extreme vetting moves to stop hostile Muslims from coming into the US, ISIS and AQ have no reason to rejoice either.
ISIS's and al Queda's motivations are not difficult to figure out; they've been pretty honest in what they want: to drive a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims. They dislike "moderate Muslims" in general, and feel like those who do not fight to pull down non-Muslim societies are traitors. Absolutely they are happy with Trump's tarring of Muslims and calls for Muslim travel restrictions. They YEARN for a horrible war.
ADL is both pro- and anti- "social justice," or at least the modern day's concept of it.
On one hand, most people concerned about the social justice side of Israeli/Palestinian relations tend to think that the Palestinians have gotten a pretty raw deal from the whole thing, what with them getting their land "bought out" to create Israel, current West Bank issues, etc. However, ADL is also a radically pro-Israel and pro-Zionist organization, enough that they have repeatedly tried to conflate criticism of Israel's policies with anti-Semitism itself. So they're sortof a weird outlier at odds with, say SPLC or other 'anti-hate' groups.
I swear, you assholes who overuse SJW calling SJW-this and SJW-that have turned a once delightfully trollish term that describes people wandering into a situation they don't understand and shitting over the discussion with shrill screeching and white-knighting, and now "SJW!!!" is thrown at anyone who has even a shred of conscience about how to treat each other with respect. Don't like the KKK? You're a fucking SJW. Think that a full-time job ought to pay a living wage? Shut up, you fucking SJW.
SJW is the new "Nazi." Now, when someone starts yammering on about SJW's, you can immediately dismiss them as blithering idiots. That's how badly the term has been abused, and that's how meaningless it has become.
President Obama just vetoed the ability of the families to even sue Saudi.
As he should have. It was a stupid idea from the very beginning. Sovereign Immunity is an important concept, and there's no reason why this can't be turned against the US as easily as American citizens try to use it.
I'll probably be down-modded for being snarky but just because you're "tone deaf" and can't tell the difference between 16-bit @ 44 KHz and 24-bit @ 192 KHz doesn't imply everyone else is.
There's a time and a place for 24-bit @ 192 KHz, and it's when you're converting/modifying the music such that that distortion would become noticeable. Otherwise, 16-bit @ 44 kHz and 24-bit @ 192 kHz are indistinguishable by the human ear.
Most of the ones that require the language say so with tact. "We are looking for an application engineer. A candidate fluent in mandarin.." and so on. The very first search on dice in California is for "Network Engineer (Mandarin)". Only requires an associate's. Who knew it was so easy to become an engineer.
In the tech land, "engineer" does not mean you have an engineering degree or certification. It means you're good with computers and they don't have to pay you overtime.
Sorry, did I offend your favorite sportsball game? Getting the ball in the net is easy with practice. Obviously there's a little bit more to it and the game has nuances but it's basically get the ball in the net more than the other guys. Pass it around a bit move close then have a go?
Programming is basically moving a few bits around between registers and devices. Filmmaking is basically pointing a camera at stuff happening. Editing is basically putting some clips together and trimming off the ends. Electrician is basically plugging in wires. Being a successful politician is basically doing what constituents and/or lobbyists tell you to do. Plot for Citizen Kane: Newspaper owner comes to power, but dies yearning for childhood memories. Plot for Donnie Darko: Boy is warned by his future self to avoid accident, but has to die anyway to avoid time loop.
When you remove detail, pretty much everything can be boiled down to a summary that is incredibly simple and often wrong in its simplicity.
Why aren't I making millions in the nba? Same reasons you aren't probably, chief of all is not enough practice
Because you're not good enough. You could practice for a hundred years and not be good enough to be an NBA player. Sports is the segment of society that most clearly requires certain sets of skills that few people are able to require. Sports team owners tend to be good businessmen (otherwise they wouldn't be able to extort those stadium deals). It would be in their best interests to be able to pay athletes 1/10th of what they currently do. If others came along who could do it as well, the expanded pool would lower salaries, since availability of talent and demand for positions is what drives salaries up and down. Yet an average person just can't do what Kobe Bryant or Bryce Harper or Michael Jordan or Jerry Rice could do. They can't.
Of course. They moved from throwing stones into store windows for a quick smash and grab and using bats for mugging to guns.
That's generally not how evolution has worked -- IE, the giraffe long-neck problem. The explanation that giraffes gained long necks by "stretching" and then that trait was passed down was originally thought to be how evolution worked, but it's not true. It's far more likely that the giraffes that naturally had long necks were able to reach more food, and thus they were the ones more likely to survive to breed and pass the trait.
At this point in humanity, what we do (occupation/pastime/etc) seems to have little to do with whether we can breed and pass on our genes.
Technically, forced government sterilization for "idiocy" is still legal in the US and was upheld by the Supreme Court. Of course, in this day and age, if anyone actually tried to go through with that, that's a court case that would be overturned right quick. There just hasn't been a need for a challenge.
I'm just saying it's a sentiment shared by more and more Americans now -- but that certainly didn't used to be the case. We used to buy into our own mythologizing of historical figures, as well as the pastoral bliss of the "first Thanksgiving" story. People are more jaded now.
The faculty are still there, and they knew it was a scam, and still profited. The "Ich vas chust followink orders" excuse is no excuse. Neither is "everyone was doing it."
So basically, only the fall guys take the fall, like that one Wall Street executive who went to jail for the fraud resulting in the 2008 Housing Crisis? Funny how that one guy at Credit Suisse caused so much trouble..
Sounds like a corporate setup so they probably integrate into AD. Also, systems like that practically need good video driver support to play back high res video without pegging the cpu and dropping frames. Linux is spotty with that at best (though it has been getting better).
If you use an Nvidia card with nvidia's driver, you're fine on Linux, and have been for a good part of a decade.
Ever watch 'Amerika' (the 1987 abc miniseries)? The backstory is a russian 'bloodless' takeover in an alternate 1997 because americans turned inward rather than stand up for their country's values.
There's something very odd about some of you Americans. It has often been said that the Puritans who came to America on the Mayflower and other ships fled Europe on account of religious persecution - their complaint being that they were not sufficiently allowed to engage in religious persecution of others.
That may have been the regular rhetoric 30 years ago, but many Americans today know that the Puritans were kicked out of Europe because they were assholes, so they came to North America to be assholes here. They were disliked by everyone else (Indians and other settlers) and got subsumed into other cultures, and the last of it was squelched into nothing more than lingering societal norms around the Age of Reason. Those norms are hard to stamp out, however, and we still deal with it today.
Crimea has been an integral part of Russia since before the USA existed as a nation.
Doesn't matter.
No, literally, it doesn't matter who had Crimea 50+ years ago. Historical ownership does NOT give any country claim over parts of any other. It doesn't mean that Russia has claim over Lithuania or Poland, Spain has no claim to Florida, Mexico has no claim over California, and Palestinians have no claim over the portions of Israel that may have belonged to Palestinians a hundred years ago -- just as Jews had no claim to lands they claimed 2000 years ago.
In 50 years, if Russia still has the Crimea, then it would be unjustifiable to seize it and return it back to Ukraine.
Everything else you wrote is straight out of the Russian propaganda book.I hope they're at least paying you well, because it's better written than most.
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LOL. You obviously do not know American manufacturing and our situation. China does NOT have us.
The US economy is a highly-tuned machine. Like a Jaguar car, it's high performance, but it doesn't take much to make it come tumbling down. The Dot-Com Bust and the Housing Bubble were minor problems compared to what a trade war with the country which actually makes all of our stuff would do.
At the same time, since America actually is low emission (with an intelligent normalization of emissions / $GDP ),
The rest of the world is not going to accept that definition of 'low emissions' because it's crafted to benefit only one country: the USA. It's pretty much the only way you could manipulate the definition of 'low emission" to make the US come out ahead. Pretty much everyone else is going to use 'per capita,' and it seems difficult to argue that they're wrong.
I'm sure some jerk could argue that Alaska was once Russian.
Northern California once was as well. Actually, all of the western coast of North America as far south as Fort Ross (just north of San Francisco) was claimed by Russia, though the majority of their settlements and activity were in Alaska. They overhunted until the fur trade petered out, and by that point their North American settlements were economically impracticable and Alaska was sold.
It seems customary practice in Russia to take what you want by force
All they have to do is claim there are still ethnic Russians living in Washington and California who are of course being viciously persecuted by Washington (probably true, heh) and in need of liberating.
I could see Russia, but why would China, Iran or any Islamic entity want Trump to win?
Because they don't like Hillary? She was always the war hawkiest of Obama's cabinet. Trump has yet to show any diplomatic competency, and his fans just lap up his nonsense that he's "the best" with no proof.
China would stand to lose big if they can no longer sell to the US
China has the US's balls in a vice, not selling to the US will hurt China, but it will hurt the US far FAR more.
if Trump follows through on his extreme vetting moves to stop hostile Muslims from coming into the US, ISIS and AQ have no reason to rejoice either.
ISIS's and al Queda's motivations are not difficult to figure out; they've been pretty honest in what they want: to drive a wedge between Muslims and non-Muslims. They dislike "moderate Muslims" in general, and feel like those who do not fight to pull down non-Muslim societies are traitors. Absolutely they are happy with Trump's tarring of Muslims and calls for Muslim travel restrictions. They YEARN for a horrible war.
Are you serious? She's on the board of anything for the exact same reason that anybody is on the board if anything.
With many public companies, the board is elected by shareholders..
ADL is both pro- and anti- "social justice," or at least the modern day's concept of it.
On one hand, most people concerned about the social justice side of Israeli/Palestinian relations tend to think that the Palestinians have gotten a pretty raw deal from the whole thing, what with them getting their land "bought out" to create Israel, current West Bank issues, etc. However, ADL is also a radically pro-Israel and pro-Zionist organization, enough that they have repeatedly tried to conflate criticism of Israel's policies with anti-Semitism itself. So they're sortof a weird outlier at odds with, say SPLC or other 'anti-hate' groups.
The internet, like /b, was never good
100% wrong, but thank you for playing.
So quick google search says social justice is:
There's a huge difference between "an SJW" and someone actually interested in fairness for all.
Shut the fuck up with the "SJW" tag.
I swear, you assholes who overuse SJW calling SJW-this and SJW-that have turned a once delightfully trollish term that describes people wandering into a situation they don't understand and shitting over the discussion with shrill screeching and white-knighting, and now "SJW!!!" is thrown at anyone who has even a shred of conscience about how to treat each other with respect. Don't like the KKK? You're a fucking SJW. Think that a full-time job ought to pay a living wage? Shut up, you fucking SJW.
SJW is the new "Nazi." Now, when someone starts yammering on about SJW's, you can immediately dismiss them as blithering idiots. That's how badly the term has been abused, and that's how meaningless it has become.
President Obama just vetoed the ability of the families to even sue Saudi.
As he should have. It was a stupid idea from the very beginning. Sovereign Immunity is an important concept, and there's no reason why this can't be turned against the US as easily as American citizens try to use it.
I'll probably be down-modded for being snarky but just because you're "tone deaf" and can't tell the difference between 16-bit @ 44 KHz and 24-bit @ 192 KHz doesn't imply everyone else is.
There's a time and a place for 24-bit @ 192 KHz, and it's when you're converting/modifying the music such that that distortion would become noticeable. Otherwise, 16-bit @ 44 kHz and 24-bit @ 192 kHz are indistinguishable by the human ear.
Most of the ones that require the language say so with tact. "We are looking for an application engineer. A candidate fluent in mandarin.." and so on. The very first search on dice in California is for "Network Engineer (Mandarin)". Only requires an associate's. Who knew it was so easy to become an engineer.
In the tech land, "engineer" does not mean you have an engineering degree or certification. It means you're good with computers and they don't have to pay you overtime.
Sorry, did I offend your favorite sportsball game? Getting the ball in the net is easy with practice. Obviously there's a little bit more to it and the game has
nuances but it's basically get the ball in the net more than the other guys. Pass it around a bit move close then have a go?
Programming is basically moving a few bits around between registers and devices.
Filmmaking is basically pointing a camera at stuff happening.
Editing is basically putting some clips together and trimming off the ends.
Electrician is basically plugging in wires.
Being a successful politician is basically doing what constituents and/or lobbyists tell you to do.
Plot for Citizen Kane: Newspaper owner comes to power, but dies yearning for childhood memories.
Plot for Donnie Darko: Boy is warned by his future self to avoid accident, but has to die anyway to avoid time loop.
When you remove detail, pretty much everything can be boiled down to a summary that is incredibly simple and often wrong in its simplicity.
Why aren't I making millions in the nba? Same reasons you aren't probably, chief of all is not enough practice
Because you're not good enough. You could practice for a hundred years and not be good enough to be an NBA player. Sports is the segment of society that most clearly requires certain sets of skills that few people are able to require. Sports team owners tend to be good businessmen (otherwise they wouldn't be able to extort those stadium deals). It would be in their best interests to be able to pay athletes 1/10th of what they currently do. If others came along who could do it as well, the expanded pool would lower salaries, since availability of talent and demand for positions is what drives salaries up and down. Yet an average person just can't do what Kobe Bryant or Bryce Harper or Michael Jordan or Jerry Rice could do. They can't.
Of course. They moved from throwing stones into store windows for a quick smash and grab and using bats for mugging to guns.
That's generally not how evolution has worked -- IE, the giraffe long-neck problem. The explanation that giraffes gained long necks by "stretching" and then that trait was passed down was originally thought to be how evolution worked, but it's not true. It's far more likely that the giraffes that naturally had long necks were able to reach more food, and thus they were the ones more likely to survive to breed and pass the trait.
At this point in humanity, what we do (occupation/pastime/etc) seems to have little to do with whether we can breed and pass on our genes.
Technically, forced government sterilization for "idiocy" is still legal in the US and was upheld by the Supreme Court. Of course, in this day and age, if anyone actually tried to go through with that, that's a court case that would be overturned right quick. There just hasn't been a need for a challenge.
We've called it "selective breeding" for hundreds of years.
Lost wages for a job you didn't get is like lost profit for a sale that never happened
It works for the music companies!
I'm just saying it's a sentiment shared by more and more Americans now -- but that certainly didn't used to be the case. We used to buy into our own mythologizing of historical figures, as well as the pastoral bliss of the "first Thanksgiving" story. People are more jaded now.
And for the way the government killed them: instead of coming up with some meassure that would let the students finish their degrees somehow,
The charge is that the degrees are worthless. So why throw more money into the system to finish the degrees if it's a waste of time?
The faculty are still there, and they knew it was a scam, and still profited. The "Ich vas chust followink orders" excuse is no excuse. Neither is "everyone was doing it."
So basically, only the fall guys take the fall, like that one Wall Street executive who went to jail for the fraud resulting in the 2008 Housing Crisis? Funny how that one guy at Credit Suisse caused so much trouble..
Blah blah blah, class warfare bullshit, blah blah blah.
Have you never heard of domestic partners before?
Sounds like a corporate setup so they probably integrate into AD. Also, systems like that practically need good video driver support to play back high res video without pegging the cpu and dropping frames. Linux is spotty with that at best (though it has been getting better).
If you use an Nvidia card with nvidia's driver, you're fine on Linux, and have been for a good part of a decade.
Ever watch 'Amerika' (the 1987 abc miniseries)? The backstory is a russian 'bloodless' takeover in an alternate 1997 because americans turned inward rather than stand up for their country's values.
Yup, definitely sounds like a 1980s movie/series.
There's something very odd about some of you Americans. It has often been said that the Puritans who came to America on the Mayflower and other ships fled Europe on account of religious persecution - their complaint being that they were not sufficiently allowed to engage in religious persecution of others.
That may have been the regular rhetoric 30 years ago, but many Americans today know that the Puritans were kicked out of Europe because they were assholes, so they came to North America to be assholes here. They were disliked by everyone else (Indians and other settlers) and got subsumed into other cultures, and the last of it was squelched into nothing more than lingering societal norms around the Age of Reason. Those norms are hard to stamp out, however, and we still deal with it today.
Crimea has been an integral part of Russia since before the USA existed as a nation.
Doesn't matter.
No, literally, it doesn't matter who had Crimea 50+ years ago. Historical ownership does NOT give any country claim over parts of any other. It doesn't mean that Russia has claim over Lithuania or Poland, Spain has no claim to Florida, Mexico has no claim over California, and Palestinians have no claim over the portions of Israel that may have belonged to Palestinians a hundred years ago -- just as Jews had no claim to lands they claimed 2000 years ago.
In 50 years, if Russia still has the Crimea, then it would be unjustifiable to seize it and return it back to Ukraine.
Everything else you wrote is straight out of the Russian propaganda book.I hope they're at least paying you well, because it's better written than most.