Any significant party in the Paris climate accord can effectively cancel the whole thing. Without the participation of all significant polluters (and at least a majority of small polluters) it turns from a climate agreement into an infinite carbon-credit giveaway to whoever isn't signed onto the accord. See also: Kyoto protocol and how completely useless it was without the US (and later Canada).
Actually we don't know who has skin in the game because we haven't seen his tax returns. Trump is a financial black box, the ideal vessel for under-the-table money. He even already has that sketchy charity in place.
All things considered, is that *really* such a bad plan? Is it any worse than what we have now, which is a government that mostly listens to big corporations?
It all depends on who the "experts" are. We can't gain much insight into what Trump's political style will be like from his business career. He's now dealing with the political aspects of everything for the first time. From what limited information we can gather from his fledgling political career, all we can tell is that:
1. He likes to put family into positions of power. 2. He seems to prefer far-right wingnuts for the most political positions 3. He'll hire any nasty villain with a sordid past if they have a history of success.
What? Do you understand that consumers are the basis of the profit motive to begin with?. If you leave the vast majority of society without jobs as is bound to happen and don't provide them with sufficient income, this will destroy the possibility of most companies to have any profits at all.
The companies are faced with a choice: since automation is always more effective than paying a human worker to do the same job, they'll naturally gravitate towards it and that's fine. But if eventually all production more or less is automated, there will be nobody left to buy consumer goods if the consumers don't have money.
It's a common but usually implied belief among conservatives that the 1% can be the basis of the profit motive - that they can provide virtually all of the demand no longer provided by the middle and lower classes if we could just make them rich and powerful enough. It ties back into what I call the "charity theory of economics," which in a nutshell is a set of beliefs built around the core idea that economies are driven by the philanthropy of the rich. Again it's usually implied rather than overtly stated. Supply-side economics is built around the same core idea, but never acknowledges it.
The "charity theory of economics" is one of the nastiest lies modern society is deceiving itself with.
Coal isn't much cheaper than renewable energy and will soon be more expensive, especially if pollution stops being an externality. Customers may be willing to pay more for a cleaner energy source anyway if there aren't many jobs on the line...especially those living downwind of coal power plants.
No more mining jobs means less voters having a stake in the mining industry, much of which is the mining of coal. Less mining jobs also means less rural mining boom towns which inevitably turn into ghost towns.
I don't know the details of the voting process in the US, but I'm worried that this could indeed enable vote-buying.
If ballot selfies are legal, how about ballot videos or even ballot livestreaming? If so, could there be a way to record or transmit yourself voting, throughout the entire process, in a way that offers irrevocable proof of your vote?
Either the Republicans run a tighter ship with better security, or there's nothing incriminating/shady to leak.
OR they simply aren't as heavily targeted - the Russian government is only interested in finding dirt on the Democrats after all. They may have even broken into the RNC/Trump campaign to the same extent but kept the information for themselves rather than leaking it.
I had a chuckle at the mere description of the mod, and never would've heard of it without Samsung's "help." I'll have to thank them for the laugh at their expense!
Piracy is very reliable indeed! I never switched from Piracy and as such, have never suffered any kind of geoblock or service outage. Also, Piracy lets you save shows (in fact it usually saves them by default), and viewing is completely device-agnostic, so it even works on my weird old GNU/Linux phone! I've never needed any other service than Piracy and have no plans to switch.
I have heard and said things that lewd but I've never heard or said anything that rapey. Vulgar language is not the main problem here. Trump suggested that he got away with sexual assault, that's the main problem.
If there's nothing fallacious about calling someone a traditional (black) Uncle Tom, then Milo can be a gay Uncle Tom by the same logic - supporting a movement that oppresses you on the basis of your biological traits. It doesn't say that ideology must descend from biology. It just points out the absurdity of supporting bigotry against yourself.
This guy is less harmful than Martin Shkreli overall, and certainly far less potentially dangerous. He's an icon and popular writer in alt-right circles as well as their leading "gay Uncle Tom" figure, and a leading social media harassment campaign coordinator. He hacked the accounts and organized the mass-trolling of Leslie Jones for, as far as I can tell, having the audacity to be black and female in a comedy movie.
That said, he's never sent the price of any life-saving medication through the stratosphere. He's hardly more powerful or dangerous than any Average Joe with seriously fucked-up ideology and a computer, and there are like a dozen of those who post regularly on Slashdot:-P
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Any significant party in the Paris climate accord can effectively cancel the whole thing. Without the participation of all significant polluters (and at least a majority of small polluters) it turns from a climate agreement into an infinite carbon-credit giveaway to whoever isn't signed onto the accord. See also: Kyoto protocol and how completely useless it was without the US (and later Canada).
Actually we don't know who has skin in the game because we haven't seen his tax returns. Trump is a financial black box, the ideal vessel for under-the-table money. He even already has that sketchy charity in place.
All things considered, is that *really* such a bad plan? Is it any worse than what we have now, which is a government that mostly listens to big corporations?
It all depends on who the "experts" are. We can't gain much insight into what Trump's political style will be like from his business career. He's now dealing with the political aspects of everything for the first time. From what limited information we can gather from his fledgling political career, all we can tell is that:
1. He likes to put family into positions of power.
2. He seems to prefer far-right wingnuts for the most political positions
3. He'll hire any nasty villain with a sordid past if they have a history of success.
Yes. The nuclear bombs only had a physical capability to damage the Internet. Trump will have legal authority to damage the Internet.
You Americans had the opportunity to prove you're smarter than the Brits once and for all and you blew it, great work.
Interesting times ahead for sure....most immediately the new global recession you've just triggered.
I wonder how many WW2 vets lived to see this day.
It's a factually correct statement if by qualified he means experienced.
What? Do you understand that consumers are the basis of the profit motive to begin with?. If you leave the vast majority of society without jobs as is bound to happen and don't provide them with sufficient income, this will destroy the possibility of most companies to have any profits at all.
The companies are faced with a choice: since automation is always more effective than paying a human worker to do the same job, they'll naturally gravitate towards it and that's fine. But if eventually all production more or less is automated, there will be nobody left to buy consumer goods if the consumers don't have money.
It's a common but usually implied belief among conservatives that the 1% can be the basis of the profit motive - that they can provide virtually all of the demand no longer provided by the middle and lower classes if we could just make them rich and powerful enough. It ties back into what I call the "charity theory of economics," which in a nutshell is a set of beliefs built around the core idea that economies are driven by the philanthropy of the rich. Again it's usually implied rather than overtly stated. Supply-side economics is built around the same core idea, but never acknowledges it.
The "charity theory of economics" is one of the nastiest lies modern society is deceiving itself with.
If you're going to the Halloween meeting of your local Linux user group...otherwise, not so much.
Coal isn't much cheaper than renewable energy and will soon be more expensive, especially if pollution stops being an externality. Customers may be willing to pay more for a cleaner energy source anyway if there aren't many jobs on the line...especially those living downwind of coal power plants.
No more mining jobs means less voters having a stake in the mining industry, much of which is the mining of coal. Less mining jobs also means less rural mining boom towns which inevitably turn into ghost towns.
I think that would've been a frothy working relationship, causing a stink within the campaign.
I was hoping Trump would pick Gingrich as his VP candidate, imagine the sheer hilarity of a 2-nutjob ticket! XD
I don't know the details of the voting process in the US, but I'm worried that this could indeed enable vote-buying.
If ballot selfies are legal, how about ballot videos or even ballot livestreaming? If so, could there be a way to record or transmit yourself voting, throughout the entire process, in a way that offers irrevocable proof of your vote?
some animal parts have the potential to produce them
Only through the placebo effect.
What we have to do is convince the Chinese that parts of invasive species will give you a super-boner...
Either the Republicans run a tighter ship with better security, or there's nothing incriminating/shady to leak.
OR they simply aren't as heavily targeted - the Russian government is only interested in finding dirt on the Democrats after all. They may have even broken into the RNC/Trump campaign to the same extent but kept the information for themselves rather than leaking it.
They were deleted by Daniel Domscheit-Berg:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...
A little encryption on the pirate streams and the watermark is illegible.
Enjoy video of this clever and humorous mod!
https://youtu.be/6EK-Qy_UZX4?t...
Video's here:
https://youtu.be/6EK-Qy_UZX4?t...
I had a chuckle at the mere description of the mod, and never would've heard of it without Samsung's "help." I'll have to thank them for the laugh at their expense!
If your mouse occasionally sent an erroneous input to the computer no matter how careful you were, you wouldnt use it so much.
And yet touchpads are still vastly more common on laptops than trackpoints...
Piracy is very reliable indeed! I never switched from Piracy and as such, have never suffered any kind of geoblock or service outage. Also, Piracy lets you save shows (in fact it usually saves them by default), and viewing is completely device-agnostic, so it even works on my weird old GNU/Linux phone! I've never needed any other service than Piracy and have no plans to switch.
I have heard and said things that lewd but I've never heard or said anything that rapey. Vulgar language is not the main problem here. Trump suggested that he got away with sexual assault, that's the main problem.
If there's nothing fallacious about calling someone a traditional (black) Uncle Tom, then Milo can be a gay Uncle Tom by the same logic - supporting a movement that oppresses you on the basis of your biological traits. It doesn't say that ideology must descend from biology. It just points out the absurdity of supporting bigotry against yourself.
My bad, he actually didn't carry out the hack himself, he just incited it:
https://thinkprogress.org/lesl...
This guy is less harmful than Martin Shkreli overall, and certainly far less potentially dangerous. He's an icon and popular writer in alt-right circles as well as their leading "gay Uncle Tom" figure, and a leading social media harassment campaign coordinator. He hacked the accounts and organized the mass-trolling of Leslie Jones for, as far as I can tell, having the audacity to be black and female in a comedy movie.
That said, he's never sent the price of any life-saving medication through the stratosphere. He's hardly more powerful or dangerous than any Average Joe with seriously fucked-up ideology and a computer, and there are like a dozen of those who post regularly on Slashdot :-P