When you have an entire poltical party claiming 'government is bad; regulation is evil' and winning because of it, why would you expect any other result?
And furthermore, the bad evil government isn't doing anything to help me get a job!!
From the 6th century historian John Malalas. He accused the Vandals, arianist christians, to have blindly destroyed everything of value when they sacked Rome in 455 AD. Interestingly though, John Malalas was a catholic christian, lived 100 years later, was thus no eye witness and badmouthed everyone not of catholic faith.
The pump don't work cause the Vandals took the handles.
How about the sounds of a team of horses clopping along?
This reminds me of the law passed during the early days of automobiles, requiring that a man walk in front of a car with a red flag (by day) or lantern (by night), so the horses wouldn't be frightened....
Ironically, horses were frightened by the guy waving the flag, says Wikipedia.
Got plenty of those where I live. Coming from cars with six foot tall aluminum spoilers and exhaust pipes that a basketball could be tossed in. Bonus points for the "R-Type" stickers on a Nissan SE-R.
Ya. That's right. It's totally them darn kids and their phones.
I'm going on the assumption that you've been around an electric car before at low speeds to hear how quiet they are. I know I have. Frankly, all I heard was the quiet creaking of the tires as it moved over pebbles and a very faint whine of the electric motor(s). It would be entirely possible to miss those noises, in my opinion, face-in-smartphone not withstanding. And I say this as a person who is routinely very keenly aware of my surroundings.
I do find it a sort of ironic amusement though. Make electric cars too quiet, needs a noisemaker. Meanwhile, in my office, I'd beg them to turn off the white noise generator for just a moment's peace.
One reason why I don't adjust my bike brakes so that they don't squeal, despite the offers of all the handy passers by. a vehicle should make noise when you're trying to not hit somebody oblivious.
If pedestrians would fucking look up from their phones once in a while and actually pay attention, this would be a non-issue.
But since we can't fix stupid, we rely on tech to keep us safe:|
The future is going to be magic level technology, wielded by complete idiots.
It's kind of ironic. in the daytime people walk out in front of cars because they're looking at their phones. And at night they get run over because you can't see them in the dark, but you would have been able to, if they had been looking at their phones.
"By the Act of 1865 it was provided that three persons should accompany every road steamer; that one of them should precede it by at least 60 yards, displaying a red flag; and that the speed should not exceed four miles an hour in the country, and two miles an hour in towns and villages. "
http://hansard.millbanksystems...
heh heh, road steamer.
But carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant. It's a compound necessary for the growth of plant life.
Yeah, water is essential for plant life also, yet we become agitated when excess quantities of it appear in our bedrooms while we sleep.
Oxygen is your friend, yet you would be unhappy if it found entry into your canned food, or into the welds which hold the suspension of your automobile together.
A pollutant is anything which is appearing somewhere where it is undesirable as the result of an external process.
We're primates. Our ancestors lived in trees for a long time. When you live in a tree you just crap wherever and whenever you feel like it. If you peel a fruit you just toss the peel over the edge. All waste products just magically vanish like that. It's deeply engrained in our behavior. It's a wonder we can be toilet trained at all, let alone that it can be done in a couple of years. And obviously some of us never get the message for other waste. Compare to an animal whose ancestors evolved in dens which need to be kept reasonably clean to prevent disease. It is really easy to teach them not to crap in their homes, even though they are reportedly less intelligent so we let them live in our houses.
And that's why our species is perpetually in danger of poisoning itself.
A supposedly free market depends on fully informed consumers and producers both making rational choices for their own interests.
Just look at that statement. Look at the assumptions built into it. Tell me that's not a lot of horse shit. Information imbalance always existed. People are hardly rational. Free markets never existed, even when humanity consisted of 300 or so person pre-metal tribes.
And then Led Zeppelin came along.
But seriously, a free market is like a unicorn, with wings and the whole nine yards - a unicorn can be described, even painted, animated, carved into wood/stone/titanium, and stories and games written around it, but it doesn't exist and never will. Just like a free market.
It is a figment of imagination and always will be. The fact that so many believe that it's a real thing says that a lot of people are willing to believe bullshit. It's not a fact. It's a religion. It's like believing that My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is a documentary. Rational adults know better.
--
BMO
Ha! Liberal lies and confusion! Unicorns don't have wings, that's Pegasus! Otherwise you're right on though.
How you can argue that it's been "completely investigated" when new batches of emails are magically discovered on nearly a weekly basis?
Not to mention the fact that Commey and the FBI laid out every facet to convict, but stated that they didnt prosecute because they didnt think they could make a case that she intended to commit a crime. Intent is not a factor for conviction. An act (or lack of action) is a crime, or its not. Intent is a potential factor in sentencing, not in gaining a conviction. The FBI already laid out that she is unequivocally guilty. That ship has sailed.
It's strongly believed now that Commey (and Lynch and Obama) are being heavily pressured by whistleblowers within the FBI that there every criteria was already met to prosecute, and were going to come forward with the damning details if the FBI didnt reopen the case and treat it with equal justice under the law.
And dont forget that the case was dropped the first time after Clinton's husband, a former US President, met in private with the sitting Secratary of Justice, Loretta Lynch. If there's evidence now that the conversation was not in fact specific to yoga, and their kid, then the scope of the investigation could (and should) increase to whether or not there was prosecutorial misconduct, obstruction of justice, and corruption within the Dept of Justice, ALL under Obama.
"new batches of emails are magically discovered on nearly a weekly basis", meaning that they had looked at Hillary's email recipients to find copies of her emails, and after they thought they were done they were investigating a completely different case and found that that person had also received some emails sent by Clinton. I know any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic but you are setting the bar absurdly low.
I think the Republican leadership might regard Trump as a manipulatable puppet. It is better to have an inept poser in the white house who will advance the positions the party advocates than a competent person who will actively fight against those positions. With any luck he'll just strut around, occasionally say something offensive, but mostly just carry out what is one of the main responsibilities of any modern president: Put on a big show and serve as a focal point for the public while congress and the network of commitees, subcommitees and appointees gets on with the task of actually running the country.
If Trump loses, the Republican party will have been dealt a terrible setback that will take years to recover from.
If Trump wins, the Republican party is over.
At this point, nobody should be pulling harder for Hillary than the Republican establishment.
The Republican party is currently under the control of dysfunctional crazies. They seized control from a bunch of semifunctional crazies who diligently recruited them. Anybody who was an actual small c conservative jumped ship and joined the Democrats years ago. I see no way this will change. If the Rockefeller Republicans couldn't fight the rabidly radical right's takeover up to now, they won't suddenly find the strength next year; nor would founding a new party get them the advantage over the Trump Tea Party; and the Democrats aren't exactly going out of their way to oust them, merely putting up arguments from the Bernie wing.
Look, if the Democrats could provide a home for the Blue Dog Democrats for a century, swapping them for the Rockefeller Republicans can only make things easier.
That was kind of my thought a few months ago, how nice it would be if Trump and Clinton both dropped out and it was Pence vs Kaine.
I've thought for a while that it would be to the benefit of the country and both parties to form a pact that, regardless of who wins the election, congress will immediately impeach them.
I like this idea. In fact, start the proceedings against all candidates as soon as they announce.
I don't think 99.9% of Trump supporters have a problem with a female president. They have a problem with THIS female as president. If she supported their positions on things and wasn't horrible corruption incarnate, they would be more than happy to vote for her.
I have no interest in any opinion of anyone who has no trouble with a Donald Trump as president.
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how many naval battles have been fought recently? main use of navy seems to be moving aircraft carriers around. and marines.
When you have an entire poltical party claiming 'government is bad; regulation is evil' and winning because of it, why would you expect any other result?
And furthermore, the bad evil government isn't doing anything to help me get a job!!
From the 6th century historian John Malalas. He accused the Vandals, arianist christians, to have blindly destroyed everything of value when they sacked Rome in 455 AD. Interestingly though, John Malalas was a catholic christian, lived 100 years later, was thus no eye witness and badmouthed everyone not of catholic faith.
The pump don't work cause the Vandals took the handles.
They think you need to answer Trump's random vocal blurts as though anyone might think they might have some sort of reality.
How about the sounds of a team of horses clopping along?
This reminds me of the law passed during the early days of automobiles, requiring that a man walk in front of a car with a red flag (by day) or lantern (by night), so the horses wouldn't be frightened....
Ironically, horses were frightened by the guy waving the flag, says Wikipedia.
Screw that, I want one that sounds like an F-4 on afterburners.
I want that sound from the car on the Jetsons. http://www.coolbiz.com/wav/jet... http://www.coolbiz.com/wav/jet...
Got plenty of those where I live. Coming from cars with six foot tall aluminum spoilers and exhaust pipes that a basketball could be tossed in. Bonus points for the "R-Type" stickers on a Nissan SE-R.
prepare yourself. https://www.google.com/search?...
Hissing or fake engine noise.
3 stooges "whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop"
first time I saw an electric rolling by, my first fucking thought was... holy fuck is that quiet.
my second thought was... this will be a nightmare for the blind pedestrian.
and what about the blind and deaf pedestrians? the only solution is to also make them shoot out an awful smell a hundred yards ahead.
Ya. That's right. It's totally them darn kids and their phones.
I'm going on the assumption that you've been around an electric car before at low speeds to hear how quiet they are. I know I have. Frankly, all I heard was the quiet creaking of the tires as it moved over pebbles and a very faint whine of the electric motor(s). It would be entirely possible to miss those noises, in my opinion, face-in-smartphone not withstanding. And I say this as a person who is routinely very keenly aware of my surroundings.
I do find it a sort of ironic amusement though. Make electric cars too quiet, needs a noisemaker. Meanwhile, in my office, I'd beg them to turn off the white noise generator for just a moment's peace.
One reason why I don't adjust my bike brakes so that they don't squeal, despite the offers of all the handy passers by. a vehicle should make noise when you're trying to not hit somebody oblivious.
If pedestrians would fucking look up from their phones once in a while and actually pay attention, this would be a non-issue.
But since we can't fix stupid, we rely on tech to keep us safe :|
The future is going to be magic level technology, wielded by complete idiots.
It's kind of ironic. in the daytime people walk out in front of cars because they're looking at their phones. And at night they get run over because you can't see them in the dark, but you would have been able to, if they had been looking at their phones.
Cop: Your speaker is out. Can't drive any further.
perfect you can get a ticket if your car is too loud or too quiet. next they'll give you a ticket because it's an ugly color.
Hang a cow bell on the undercarriage.
Problem solved.
"By the Act of 1865 it was provided that three persons should accompany every road steamer; that one of them should precede it by at least 60 yards, displaying a red flag; and that the speed should not exceed four miles an hour in the country, and two miles an hour in towns and villages. " http://hansard.millbanksystems... heh heh, road steamer.
Because I just don't see too many little cars scooting along right at the speed limit blasting 100 decibels out.
But carbon dioxide isn't a pollutant. It's a compound necessary for the growth of plant life.
Yeah, water is essential for plant life also, yet we become agitated when excess quantities of it appear in our bedrooms while we sleep. Oxygen is your friend, yet you would be unhappy if it found entry into your canned food, or into the welds which hold the suspension of your automobile together. A pollutant is anything which is appearing somewhere where it is undesirable as the result of an external process.
We're primates. Our ancestors lived in trees for a long time. When you live in a tree you just crap wherever and whenever you feel like it. If you peel a fruit you just toss the peel over the edge. All waste products just magically vanish like that. It's deeply engrained in our behavior. It's a wonder we can be toilet trained at all, let alone that it can be done in a couple of years. And obviously some of us never get the message for other waste. Compare to an animal whose ancestors evolved in dens which need to be kept reasonably clean to prevent disease. It is really easy to teach them not to crap in their homes, even though they are reportedly less intelligent so we let them live in our houses. And that's why our species is perpetually in danger of poisoning itself.
A supposedly free market depends on fully informed consumers and producers both making rational choices for their own interests.
Just look at that statement. Look at the assumptions built into it. Tell me that's not a lot of horse shit. Information imbalance always existed. People are hardly rational. Free markets never existed, even when humanity consisted of 300 or so person pre-metal tribes.
And then Led Zeppelin came along.
But seriously, a free market is like a unicorn, with wings and the whole nine yards - a unicorn can be described, even painted, animated, carved into wood/stone/titanium, and stories and games written around it, but it doesn't exist and never will. Just like a free market.
It is a figment of imagination and always will be. The fact that so many believe that it's a real thing says that a lot of people are willing to believe bullshit. It's not a fact. It's a religion. It's like believing that My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is a documentary. Rational adults know better.
-- BMO
Ha! Liberal lies and confusion! Unicorns don't have wings, that's Pegasus! Otherwise you're right on though.
How you can argue that it's been "completely investigated" when new batches of emails are magically discovered on nearly a weekly basis? Not to mention the fact that Commey and the FBI laid out every facet to convict, but stated that they didnt prosecute because they didnt think they could make a case that she intended to commit a crime. Intent is not a factor for conviction. An act (or lack of action) is a crime, or its not. Intent is a potential factor in sentencing, not in gaining a conviction. The FBI already laid out that she is unequivocally guilty. That ship has sailed. It's strongly believed now that Commey (and Lynch and Obama) are being heavily pressured by whistleblowers within the FBI that there every criteria was already met to prosecute, and were going to come forward with the damning details if the FBI didnt reopen the case and treat it with equal justice under the law. And dont forget that the case was dropped the first time after Clinton's husband, a former US President, met in private with the sitting Secratary of Justice, Loretta Lynch. If there's evidence now that the conversation was not in fact specific to yoga, and their kid, then the scope of the investigation could (and should) increase to whether or not there was prosecutorial misconduct, obstruction of justice, and corruption within the Dept of Justice, ALL under Obama.
"new batches of emails are magically discovered on nearly a weekly basis", meaning that they had looked at Hillary's email recipients to find copies of her emails, and after they thought they were done they were investigating a completely different case and found that that person had also received some emails sent by Clinton. I know any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic but you are setting the bar absurdly low.
I think the Republican leadership might regard Trump as a manipulatable puppet. It is better to have an inept poser in the white house who will advance the positions the party advocates than a competent person who will actively fight against those positions. With any luck he'll just strut around, occasionally say something offensive, but mostly just carry out what is one of the main responsibilities of any modern president: Put on a big show and serve as a focal point for the public while congress and the network of commitees, subcommitees and appointees gets on with the task of actually running the country.
No you're the puppet! You're the puppet!
I don't understand it at all.
If Trump loses, the Republican party will have been dealt a terrible setback that will take years to recover from.
If Trump wins, the Republican party is over.
At this point, nobody should be pulling harder for Hillary than the Republican establishment.
The Republican party is currently under the control of dysfunctional crazies. They seized control from a bunch of semifunctional crazies who diligently recruited them. Anybody who was an actual small c conservative jumped ship and joined the Democrats years ago. I see no way this will change. If the Rockefeller Republicans couldn't fight the rabidly radical right's takeover up to now, they won't suddenly find the strength next year; nor would founding a new party get them the advantage over the Trump Tea Party; and the Democrats aren't exactly going out of their way to oust them, merely putting up arguments from the Bernie wing. Look, if the Democrats could provide a home for the Blue Dog Democrats for a century, swapping them for the Rockefeller Republicans can only make things easier.
I was hoping Trump would pick Gingrich as his VP candidate, imagine the sheer hilarity of a 2-nutjob ticket! XD
I am deeply surprised Trump did not pick himself as VP.
That was kind of my thought a few months ago, how nice it would be if Trump and Clinton both dropped out and it was Pence vs Kaine.
I've thought for a while that it would be to the benefit of the country and both parties to form a pact that, regardless of who wins the election, congress will immediately impeach them.
I like this idea. In fact, start the proceedings against all candidates as soon as they announce.
Stalin wasn't ever convicted of crimes against humanity either. Was he a good leader?
Or Putin. Oh wait, this was supposed to be a proTrump thread. Never mind.
I don't think 99.9% of Trump supporters have a problem with a female president. They have a problem with THIS female as president. If she supported their positions on things and wasn't horrible corruption incarnate, they would be more than happy to vote for her.
I have no interest in any opinion of anyone who has no trouble with a Donald Trump as president.
If you're still a Hillary supporter, it has to be through willful ignorance. Hands over ears Eyes closed Saying, lalalalalalalala
Dr. Dunning, meet Dr. Kruger.