Lamfrom says the full scale of the problem is yet to be determined but clean up timelines will range in length.
If we can't afford to authorize funding for a border wall for basic security, then how the hell can we afford to authorize funding for a multi-generational cleanup?
Your first mistake is assuming the wall is about basic security.
Over the past decade, Democrats have supported billions of dollars in funding for physical barriers. In 2006, the Secure Fence Act passed with bipartisan support requiring the construction of physical barriers along 700 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Sixty-four Democrats voted the measure in the House and 26 in the Senate.
The current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted for it, so did Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama praised the bill in a floor speech saying it would "certainly do some good" and "help stem some of the tide of illegal immigration in this country."
In 2013, all Senate Democrats and most House Democrats backed comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the so-called Gang of Eight bill. It included $46 billion for border security and around $8 billion to repair or reinforce barriers along the 700 miles of the border as required under the Secure Fence Act.
Yes, and if $46 billion couldn't do it, Trump's wasteful $5.6 billion boondoggle won't do anything but inflate his ego. We're lucky he didn't want it big enough that his Space Force could see it.
these people learn the guards habits and litterly run in behind them.
Should be easy to catch them then, just follow the trail of trash. The money the Dems are offering isn't just for more guards, it's to repair/upgrade infrastructure as well. That means repaired existing fencing, more cameras, etc.
Sell the parks and lower government responsibility.
To who? Who is going to buy all these parks and maintain them when there's no way at all enough people would come and pay enough to make that a profitable business. Or just chop them all down and sell the wood? Yeah, see how well that goes.
Zinke had quite a few people lined up before he ran off to avoid investigations (which may still happen anyway). Of course, the new owners didn't plan on keeping them open as national parks, they want the lumber/mineral rights, etc.
Well a lot of the existing border fencing does need repairs/upgrades so it would be an infrastructure project.
And the Dems are offering $1.5 billion for upgrades to border security and infrastructure. But Trump has to have his Great Wall of Trump. All this shut down is going to do is cost us more money. All the people who worked during the shutdown will still get paid. All the people who didn't work over the shutdown will get paid (there's no way Congress will let hundreds of thousands of government workers go a month without pay). And then we will have to pay for the overtime for every department to clear weeks worth of backlogs.
Those African big game hunts you see all over the news every now and then that environmentalists get all hung up about?
I am afraid you're misrepresenting past criticism of certain wealthy westerners who have travelled overseas to kill animals. The outrage hasn't been so much a rejection of killing animals for sport. Many of the public-outrage incidents you are probably referring to involved unethical hunting behavior that infuriates both hunters and non-hunters.
Idaho Game Official Gloats After Killing Family of PrimatesDentist Shoots GPS-collared Lion Lured from Preserve
This isn't "hunting" so much as it is paying money for the opportunity to kill exotic creatures. The participants lack any skills or patience for "fair chase." They're not much different than a crystal meth addict hiding next to a barrel of rotten apples in a California forest waiting to shotgun (slug) a black bear so he can cut out its heart and sell it to a Chinese witch doctor.
I admire the hunters who go after invasive species such as the Burmese python in the Everglades. It takes hundreds of hours and tons of legwork and concentration to find these monsters. Money doesn't buy an easy trophy there.
Here's an excellent article about the erosion of "fair chase" hunting in America. Before pointing a finger at hunting critics, consider that there really are a lot of jackasses running around calling themselves hunters. The critics are largely pointing their fingers at these jackasses.
I'm not talking about the Cecil killer or the monkey idiot (one maybe, but a whole group was just excessive). But there was the dentist I believe that killed the rhino that was past breeding age and was a loner/was sick, and everyone freaked out. As for skill/fair chase, well, isn't really that hard to sit in a deer stand for a few hours and waiting to shoot a deer that can't even see you, is it? That's honestly one of the reasons why I stopped deer hunting. It didn't feel very sporting (wasn't crazy about the taste of venison either and not into trophy hunting). And you forgot about the gall bladders that bear poachers tend to go for, too.
It's not hard to draw a connection from that to the details of vampire legend.
Doesn't much of the vampire legend stem from the results of decomposition? Something strange happens in the village or people start getting sick, so they think it's from someone recently dead. They go to exhume them and due to the effects of decomposition it looks like their hair/fingernails grew (just skin tightening) or blood is coming from their mouth (gases in the body cavity forcing decomposing flesh and fluids through a convenient opening). So to be safe they cut off the head and stake them down into the coffin (stake through the heart) to keep the body from rising out of the grave.
The last time I looked for a grave I've never visited before nothing special happened. No strange flowers falling over, no bird sitting sitting on the tombstone, no single ray of light from an overcast sky illuminating it.
If there weren't a coincidence that day you wouldn't remember that visit as something special and wouldn't write about it online.
No, but I would still remember it due to the circumstances of me missing the funeral in the first place.
At the same time, make the live population a "profit center" (which will cause it to increase) as opposed to a "cost center" (which everyone tries to ditch).
Even that can be hard to do. Those African big game hunts you see all over the news every now and then that environmentalists get all hung up about? People pay tens of thousands of dollars, if not more, for the permits for these hunts. They can only hunt specifically identified individuals who are usually old and no longer in the breeding population. The fees from the permit are put back towards conservation, and the hunts help stimulate the local economy through guides, processing the kills, and just generally supporting the hunt/travel. But all people see is a dead animal and freak out.
The reason its probably not done thought is because people have to place narratives on everything that happens. The first time someones tree dies prematurely from disease, gets struck by lightning, etc people will imagine it was some judgement on the deceased.
Interesting things or coincidences do happen in cemeteries. I have one of my own. A year or so ago I went for the first time to visit the grave of my great aunt who had recently passed. We had a rough idea of where it was but didn't know for sure. As my wife and I were in the car talking and trying to look for it, we see a flower display on a grave fall over (all of the graves had fake flower displays on them in holders, stuck in that green foam). So we go over and sure enough, her grave was next to the one that had the flowers fall over. This was several weeks after her burial so the flowers probably didn't just fall over after being knocked during her burial.
Apple is very similar to BMW and Mercedes when it comes to this "immersive brand experience" thing. None of these companies want people running around with old phones or cars.
??? We just bought a 2011 X3 at a BMW dealership for probably 1/3 what it cost brand new (low miles too, less than 10k a year). Our mechanic who specializes in BMWs said upkeep/repairs would cost no more than our 2001 330i with well over 100k miles that costs about $200-300 a year to keep up. New BMWs are expensive as crap, but older ones still run great, look good, and don't actually cost that much to keep up.
The Russians caught him at the right moment, at the right time. How convenient.
If you are going grab someone and accuse them of being a spy you are going to want to arrest them servicing a drop point or during a meet, especially if you can catch them with confidential information. The question is, if there really was a USB drive and it contained confidential information, did he know about it or did he think he was just getting a compilation of his buddy's favorite cat videos?
They are crazy enough to arrest foreigners suspected of spying and exchange them for their own people. (e.g. Maria Butina). This was common during the Cold War.
Oh, no doubt, especially since China is getting away with doing the same thing. But they won't kill him. That's how you get your own assets killed.
How do we know he's not a real spy? The Russians would have poisoned him.
No, they aren't crazy enough to kill foreign agents, that would open up a can of worms they don't want. They have no problem killing Russian expats though, and will do so publicly. Apparently if you are a former Russian agent or citizen who speaks out against Putin you have to stay away from doorknobs, tea, and people carrying umbrellas on bridges.
If you ask a random person what Thule means, you will find that the connotation is insider knowledge. Outside of Nazi and Antifa circles, the name is mostly unknown or known for its original meaning. The only people who are offended by this name are seeking to be offended. This is a teachable moment: The far left and the far right will gladly throw progress under the bus in order to fuel the fire. Fuck them all.
My undergraduate degree is in history. One of my primary interests is World War II, so I would like to think I am relatively informed regarding Nazi ideology, mythology, and iconography. I can't recall "Ultima Thule" ever mentioned in reference to Nazism. Apparently it was a fringe belief within the occult circles which were themselves a fringe belief within the Nazi Party? Occultism in the Nazi party is already heavily exaggerated and overblown anyway. Was there some of it there? Probably. Himmler was pretty messed up and did some crazy things within the SS. I think some if has to do with some people's inability to (or desire not to) come to terms with the fact that what happened in WWII was done by regular, ordinary every day people, so they have to rationalize it as them being monsters or possessed by demons or something.
LOL! It's physically dangerous to bounce a ball and try and throw it through a hoop? prohibitively expensive to get a football and throw it around with friends?
Yes, it is. My freshman year of college during the first scrimmage of spring practice (I had been playing multiple sports including football for 10+ years at that point without serious injury) I broke my foot simply taking a step. Didn't get stepped on or have anyone fall on me or anything. I know another guy who lost out on a lucrative NFL contract due to an injury suffered during a non-contact practice. You don't have to be hitting people or even going full speed to get injured, sometimes significantly.
Sounds like the plot of a Syfy movie. Scientists dig a hole, unleash a long-dormant virus that kills half of humanity until Tara Reid comes in and saves the day while saying a bunch of really long and meaningless but technical sounding words that she can barely pronounce.
And then a shark flies in from behind and is about to eat her when the screen cuts to black.
I suspect there's some instinctive disgust for organ meats, that can be suppressed via exposure. Thus, people not raised eating it tend to resist eating it. I know other animals are a-ok eating organs, so I'm unsure why humans would be.
Aren't organs the first to decompose once an animal died? Maybe at some point evolutionary when human ancestors were still primarily scavengers there was evolutionary pressure to stay away from the organs of scavenged animals. Once we moved to hunting if the organs were eaten they were most likely eaten first to avoid spoilage. Interestingly enough, in societies that do "regularly" eat organs (I say "regularly" because a lot of these societies tend to be traditional, agrarian, and poorer so eating meat in rarer than in more developed societies) organs tend to be regarded as prized cuts, with certain organs going to certain people depending on status within the group/community.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think virtually everything we do to make food taste good was originally used for preservation or to hide off flavors. Pickling, salting, smoking, drying, cooking, sweetening, fermenting, culturing? whatever yogurt/cheese making is, and spicing all have preservative benefits or control how the food ages. About the only common practices that hurt shelf life are those that reduce food to smaller pieces, e.g. milling.
As I said earlier, we can keep meat red with carbon monoxide, although I'm not well informed on how well it works.
I always understood that the spicing and all of that was more to cover up flavors in instances where the meat had started to turn but was still edible as opposed to preserving the meat itself. Except of course for salt, which does preserve the meat.
While I have no doubt that lowering prices would significantly increase demand, I wonder how much raising prices even more would decrease demand. Many many people are completely committed to iPhones, and will be willing to pay much more than the current prices to not have to switch to Android. I wonder if Apple would actually make the biggest profit by fleecing these people instead of going after people who are more price sensitive and are willing to switch or already have switched to Android.
Increasing prices even further would kill the 1-2 year upgrade cycle they try to push everyone into. Why pay $1500+ for a new phone when your 2 year old phone still works fine and is maybe even subjectively superior to the new model due to "upgrades" that affect usability? People are already starting to hold on to their iPhones longer. It's part of the reason why Apple worked with all the carriers to start those plans that are effectively 1-2 year leases where you upgrade your phone each year to the new model.
What are the measurements for "highly agile" and "resilient"? Can this "flexibility" be demonstrated? And a normal business invests in more business not in a vague "future".
Sure. Higher stock prices, larger executive bonuses, and bigger cash reserves. You know, all the metrics that define a successful company.
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Lamfrom says the full scale of the problem is yet to be determined but clean up timelines will range in length.
If we can't afford to authorize funding for a border wall for basic security, then how the hell can we afford to authorize funding for a multi-generational cleanup?
Your first mistake is assuming the wall is about basic security.
And Obama said that under Obamacare you could keep your doctor.
And Obamacare was patterned after the healthcare legislation signed into law in Massachusetts by that perennial liberal Mitt Romney.
Over the past decade, Democrats have supported billions of dollars in funding for physical barriers. In 2006, the Secure Fence Act passed with bipartisan support requiring the construction of physical barriers along 700 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Sixty-four Democrats voted the measure in the House and 26 in the Senate.
The current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted for it, so did Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama praised the bill in a floor speech saying it would "certainly do some good" and "help stem some of the tide of illegal immigration in this country."
In 2013, all Senate Democrats and most House Democrats backed comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the so-called Gang of Eight bill. It included $46 billion for border security and around $8 billion to repair or reinforce barriers along the 700 miles of the border as required under the Secure Fence Act.
Yes, and if $46 billion couldn't do it, Trump's wasteful $5.6 billion boondoggle won't do anything but inflate his ego. We're lucky he didn't want it big enough that his Space Force could see it.
these people learn the guards habits and litterly run in behind them.
Should be easy to catch them then, just follow the trail of trash. The money the Dems are offering isn't just for more guards, it's to repair/upgrade infrastructure as well. That means repaired existing fencing, more cameras, etc.
Sell the parks and lower government responsibility.
To who? Who is going to buy all these parks and maintain them when there's no way at all enough people would come and pay enough to make that a profitable business. Or just chop them all down and sell the wood? Yeah, see how well that goes.
Zinke had quite a few people lined up before he ran off to avoid investigations (which may still happen anyway). Of course, the new owners didn't plan on keeping them open as national parks, they want the lumber/mineral rights, etc.
Well a lot of the existing border fencing does need repairs/upgrades so it would be an infrastructure project.
And the Dems are offering $1.5 billion for upgrades to border security and infrastructure. But Trump has to have his Great Wall of Trump. All this shut down is going to do is cost us more money. All the people who worked during the shutdown will still get paid. All the people who didn't work over the shutdown will get paid (there's no way Congress will let hundreds of thousands of government workers go a month without pay). And then we will have to pay for the overtime for every department to clear weeks worth of backlogs.
There already is a cottage film industry in Africa. Look up Nollywood.
I am afraid you're misrepresenting past criticism of certain wealthy westerners who have travelled overseas to kill animals. The outrage hasn't been so much a rejection of killing animals for sport. Many of the public-outrage incidents you are probably referring to involved unethical hunting behavior that infuriates both hunters and non-hunters. Idaho Game Official Gloats After Killing Family of Primates Dentist Shoots GPS-collared Lion Lured from Preserve This isn't "hunting" so much as it is paying money for the opportunity to kill exotic creatures. The participants lack any skills or patience for "fair chase." They're not much different than a crystal meth addict hiding next to a barrel of rotten apples in a California forest waiting to shotgun (slug) a black bear so he can cut out its heart and sell it to a Chinese witch doctor. I admire the hunters who go after invasive species such as the Burmese python in the Everglades. It takes hundreds of hours and tons of legwork and concentration to find these monsters. Money doesn't buy an easy trophy there. Here's an excellent article about the erosion of "fair chase" hunting in America. Before pointing a finger at hunting critics, consider that there really are a lot of jackasses running around calling themselves hunters. The critics are largely pointing their fingers at these jackasses.
I'm not talking about the Cecil killer or the monkey idiot (one maybe, but a whole group was just excessive). But there was the dentist I believe that killed the rhino that was past breeding age and was a loner/was sick, and everyone freaked out. As for skill/fair chase, well, isn't really that hard to sit in a deer stand for a few hours and waiting to shoot a deer that can't even see you, is it? That's honestly one of the reasons why I stopped deer hunting. It didn't feel very sporting (wasn't crazy about the taste of venison either and not into trophy hunting). And you forgot about the gall bladders that bear poachers tend to go for, too.
It's not hard to draw a connection from that to the details of vampire legend.
Doesn't much of the vampire legend stem from the results of decomposition? Something strange happens in the village or people start getting sick, so they think it's from someone recently dead. They go to exhume them and due to the effects of decomposition it looks like their hair/fingernails grew (just skin tightening) or blood is coming from their mouth (gases in the body cavity forcing decomposing flesh and fluids through a convenient opening). So to be safe they cut off the head and stake them down into the coffin (stake through the heart) to keep the body from rising out of the grave.
The last time I looked for a grave I've never visited before nothing special happened. No strange flowers falling over, no bird sitting sitting on the tombstone, no single ray of light from an overcast sky illuminating it. If there weren't a coincidence that day you wouldn't remember that visit as something special and wouldn't write about it online.
No, but I would still remember it due to the circumstances of me missing the funeral in the first place.
Except the ADF headquarters in Saxony were bombed that same day.
What "same day"? The hacks and releases have been going on for over a month according to the summary.
At the same time, make the live population a "profit center" (which will cause it to increase) as opposed to a "cost center" (which everyone tries to ditch).
Even that can be hard to do. Those African big game hunts you see all over the news every now and then that environmentalists get all hung up about? People pay tens of thousands of dollars, if not more, for the permits for these hunts. They can only hunt specifically identified individuals who are usually old and no longer in the breeding population. The fees from the permit are put back towards conservation, and the hunts help stimulate the local economy through guides, processing the kills, and just generally supporting the hunt/travel. But all people see is a dead animal and freak out.
I like that idea a lot actually.
The reason its probably not done thought is because people have to place narratives on everything that happens. The first time someones tree dies prematurely from disease, gets struck by lightning, etc people will imagine it was some judgement on the deceased.
Interesting things or coincidences do happen in cemeteries. I have one of my own. A year or so ago I went for the first time to visit the grave of my great aunt who had recently passed. We had a rough idea of where it was but didn't know for sure. As my wife and I were in the car talking and trying to look for it, we see a flower display on a grave fall over (all of the graves had fake flower displays on them in holders, stuck in that green foam). So we go over and sure enough, her grave was next to the one that had the flowers fall over. This was several weeks after her burial so the flowers probably didn't just fall over after being knocked during her burial.
Apple is very similar to BMW and Mercedes when it comes to this "immersive brand experience" thing. None of these companies want people running around with old phones or cars.
??? We just bought a 2011 X3 at a BMW dealership for probably 1/3 what it cost brand new (low miles too, less than 10k a year). Our mechanic who specializes in BMWs said upkeep/repairs would cost no more than our 2001 330i with well over 100k miles that costs about $200-300 a year to keep up. New BMWs are expensive as crap, but older ones still run great, look good, and don't actually cost that much to keep up.
The Russians caught him at the right moment, at the right time. How convenient.
If you are going grab someone and accuse them of being a spy you are going to want to arrest them servicing a drop point or during a meet, especially if you can catch them with confidential information. The question is, if there really was a USB drive and it contained confidential information, did he know about it or did he think he was just getting a compilation of his buddy's favorite cat videos?
They are crazy enough to arrest foreigners suspected of spying and exchange them for their own people. (e.g. Maria Butina). This was common during the Cold War.
Oh, no doubt, especially since China is getting away with doing the same thing. But they won't kill him. That's how you get your own assets killed.
How do we know he's not a real spy? The Russians would have poisoned him.
No, they aren't crazy enough to kill foreign agents, that would open up a can of worms they don't want. They have no problem killing Russian expats though, and will do so publicly. Apparently if you are a former Russian agent or citizen who speaks out against Putin you have to stay away from doorknobs, tea, and people carrying umbrellas on bridges.
If you ask a random person what Thule means, you will find that the connotation is insider knowledge. Outside of Nazi and Antifa circles, the name is mostly unknown or known for its original meaning. The only people who are offended by this name are seeking to be offended. This is a teachable moment: The far left and the far right will gladly throw progress under the bus in order to fuel the fire. Fuck them all.
My undergraduate degree is in history. One of my primary interests is World War II, so I would like to think I am relatively informed regarding Nazi ideology, mythology, and iconography. I can't recall "Ultima Thule" ever mentioned in reference to Nazism. Apparently it was a fringe belief within the occult circles which were themselves a fringe belief within the Nazi Party? Occultism in the Nazi party is already heavily exaggerated and overblown anyway. Was there some of it there? Probably. Himmler was pretty messed up and did some crazy things within the SS. I think some if has to do with some people's inability to (or desire not to) come to terms with the fact that what happened in WWII was done by regular, ordinary every day people, so they have to rationalize it as them being monsters or possessed by demons or something.
LOL! It's physically dangerous to bounce a ball and try and throw it through a hoop? prohibitively expensive to get a football and throw it around with friends?
Yes, it is. My freshman year of college during the first scrimmage of spring practice (I had been playing multiple sports including football for 10+ years at that point without serious injury) I broke my foot simply taking a step. Didn't get stepped on or have anyone fall on me or anything. I know another guy who lost out on a lucrative NFL contract due to an injury suffered during a non-contact practice. You don't have to be hitting people or even going full speed to get injured, sometimes significantly.
so whats the best open weather data network ?
I'm not after predictions, just data
A window?
Sounds like the plot of a Syfy movie. Scientists dig a hole, unleash a long-dormant virus that kills half of humanity until Tara Reid comes in and saves the day while saying a bunch of really long and meaningless but technical sounding words that she can barely pronounce.
And then a shark flies in from behind and is about to eat her when the screen cuts to black.
I suspect there's some instinctive disgust for organ meats, that can be suppressed via exposure. Thus, people not raised eating it tend to resist eating it. I know other animals are a-ok eating organs, so I'm unsure why humans would be.
Aren't organs the first to decompose once an animal died? Maybe at some point evolutionary when human ancestors were still primarily scavengers there was evolutionary pressure to stay away from the organs of scavenged animals. Once we moved to hunting if the organs were eaten they were most likely eaten first to avoid spoilage. Interestingly enough, in societies that do "regularly" eat organs (I say "regularly" because a lot of these societies tend to be traditional, agrarian, and poorer so eating meat in rarer than in more developed societies) organs tend to be regarded as prized cuts, with certain organs going to certain people depending on status within the group/community.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think virtually everything we do to make food taste good was originally used for preservation or to hide off flavors. Pickling, salting, smoking, drying, cooking, sweetening, fermenting, culturing? whatever yogurt/cheese making is, and spicing all have preservative benefits or control how the food ages. About the only common practices that hurt shelf life are those that reduce food to smaller pieces, e.g. milling.
As I said earlier, we can keep meat red with carbon monoxide, although I'm not well informed on how well it works.
I always understood that the spicing and all of that was more to cover up flavors in instances where the meat had started to turn but was still edible as opposed to preserving the meat itself. Except of course for salt, which does preserve the meat.
While I have no doubt that lowering prices would significantly increase demand, I wonder how much raising prices even more would decrease demand. Many many people are completely committed to iPhones, and will be willing to pay much more than the current prices to not have to switch to Android. I wonder if Apple would actually make the biggest profit by fleecing these people instead of going after people who are more price sensitive and are willing to switch or already have switched to Android.
Increasing prices even further would kill the 1-2 year upgrade cycle they try to push everyone into. Why pay $1500+ for a new phone when your 2 year old phone still works fine and is maybe even subjectively superior to the new model due to "upgrades" that affect usability? People are already starting to hold on to their iPhones longer. It's part of the reason why Apple worked with all the carriers to start those plans that are effectively 1-2 year leases where you upgrade your phone each year to the new model.
What are the measurements for "highly agile" and "resilient"? Can this "flexibility" be demonstrated? And a normal business invests in more business not in a vague "future".
Sure. Higher stock prices, larger executive bonuses, and bigger cash reserves. You know, all the metrics that define a successful company.