You're right, In the Supreme Court, judging works by listening to all the arguments presented and then ruling for whatever side fits with your preconceived ideological convictions. That's why both parties fight so hard to control who they put on the Supreme Court. With lifetime appointments, if the scale tilts in your ideological favor it can stay that way for a very long time.
Especially when Kavanaugh has an air of sexual accusations against him mixed with his behavior during the interview process where he lost his cool pretty dramatically making things look even worse for him then if he would have maintained a cool head.
He was coached to act that way. Righteous indignation plays very well with the current conservative base and to them he looked strong, forceful, and outraged that, as a man of morals and integrity, he was being treated the way he was. Many people in the conservative base see themselves as being repressed or persecuted and the current Republican leadership plays into that with all the claims of "being treated unfairly" and "fake news" (which they claim treats conservative unfairly by ignoring goods stories/promoting bad ones, making up lies, etc). This is also helping drive the growth of "white nationalist" and "alt-right" groups and conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, Q-anon, and the "deep state". They don't see Kavanaugh for what he is-a wealthy guy who grew up going to private schools and an Ivy League school- they see him as "one of us", a family man who-like any real American-likes a beer every now and then and the evil "others" (Democrats) are going after him because they hate "us". When Kavanaugh got attacked, they were being attacked too.
It quite honestly may have backfired on the Democrats. Republicans are currently voting only on a limited numbers of issues and, by trying so hard to block Kavanaugh, they will twist it to say that the Democrats don't want him on the court because he will keep them from taking away guns, help over turn Roe vs. Wade, keep them from limiting presidential power, and protect Trump when he removes Rosenstein after the midterms in an attempt to stop the Mueller investigations. It might have motivated the base enough to get them to show up for the midterms.
Are they absolutely certain about the time sync between the cameras and the fitbit? Are they certain that the fitbit data corresponds with death?
If they have video footage of he opening the door, taking out the trash, mowing the lawn, whatever, they take take that timestamp and match it up to the corresponding activity rate on the fitbit. About all the defense would be able to do is argue that the fitbit somehow lost/gained time and the killing happened after he left. There should be enough data to demonstrate how well the fitbit keeps time to counter that argument though (assuming the fitbit does in fact keep consistent time).
So I said screw that I'm not using Alexa, I'll spend $5 more, get a Roku stick, and I can use that to replace one of my Comcast boxes saving $10 a month. Thanks Amazon, your greed and attempt to force people to use Alexa saved me money!
Hey, I guess the real dick here is Comcast isn't it. $10 a month for that lousy box? Jeez, for someone counting $5 here and there you sure indulged yourself.
We were on Uverse but they were even worse than comcast. Wanted to go to Sling/Hulu but the wife wanted some channels neither of those carried, and after factoring everything in Comcast only comes out to about $20-30 more a month(own my own gateway, plan to use 2 roku sticks for comcast streaming so only renting 2 boxes)
The device also ships with Amazon's newer Alexa Voice Remote...
I stopped reading after that.
Fail.
Our dog decided that our Fire stick remote was a toy. So, go to find a replacement remote on Amazon. The only option for a replacement remote is the Alexa remote at $25 (they sell a $15 non-Alexa replacement remote but it is not available in the US). A brand new stick is $40, only a $15 difference. So I said screw that I'm not using Alexa, I'll spend $5 more, get a Roku stick, and I can use that to replace one of my Comcast boxes saving $10 a month. Thanks Amazon, your greed and attempt to force people to use Alexa saved me money!
It is trendy in entertainment to show ostensibly good people as failures and terrible people. I don't know why. But that is exactly what they did here: took a character that previously showed courage, loyalty, valor, and nobility, and turned him into a coward, abandoner, would-be murderor of his own family, and a quitter.
The fact that his actions are completely inconsistent with his character as revealed in the previous movies doesn't matter a bit. The goal was to reveal him to be a terrible person. I will admit that I took it a bit personally, like an insult to me and my generation. YOUR heroes are really losers, and only OUR heroes are authentic.
Look at it this way (I assume you are referring to Luke): He fought for years, saw friends die, mentors die, family die, and frankly was directly responsible for thousands if not millions of deaths (he did blow up the first Death Star after all). And after all of that, basically nothing changed. Wouldn't you be tired and jaded by then too?
That SUV is used and built on a truck platform. It may guzzle gas but it's cheaper design makes it much more reliable. When you buy a vehicle even poor folks consider total ROI (though most wouldn't know it's called ROI).
Still doesn't mean you have to lease a new one every 3 years for $400 a month. We just bought a used 2011 BMW x3 with 70k miles for less than we paid for my 2014 Focus new. And that BMW will still last longer than my Focus will. It's replacing my wife's 2001 330i.
Nobody is claiming he is an angel. But he is not part of the political establishment. His opponent was queen of that corrupt establishment even going so far as to rig her party's primaries to ensure she be ordained the next great leader. Oh but we said Nope to her. He wasn't a great choice, but he was far better than the alternative option (the one that actually had a chance at winning.
Shows like Game of Thrones.....have a distinct identity ; none of their creators would let anyone decide the next storyline.
You do realize the show GoT outpaced the books long enough ago that yes, the show actually has been deciding it's storyline. Of course, they did get buy-in from GRR Martin, but they have said that the show storyline could and probably would differ from the book storyline.
Coal can be shifted away from with the correct political will......Coal is a dying industry and they know it.
"My grandpappy was a coal miner, my daddy was a coal miner, I'm a coal miner, and dammit, my children will be coal miners even if it kills 'em....which between mine accidents, black lung disease, and general lifestyle it probably will!"
Trump is easily the worst person (competence, morals, decency, empathy, etc - pick your measure) to get to the office of president in my lifetime and I'm old enough to have lived during Nixon's administration. He surrounds himself with people who are somehow if anything worse in a lot of ways. There are prominent republicans who I respect and think could be good presidents even if I don't necessarily agree with their policy positions on a given topic. Trump is not even close to among them. I thought Bush Jr was a terrible president but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Trump. Reagan or Bush Sr would be a huge upgrade. Heck I'd happily take McCain (even with Palin) or Romney who I think were both competent and fundamentally decent people. No I'm not arguing the Democrats were notably better (they weren't) but literally every other president or candidate for either party in the last half centry would be an improvement over Trump.
Trump is honestly the first President in my lifetime who I do not think is actually doing what they think is best for the country. The Bushes, Clinton, Obama, hell even the losing candidates like McCain, Gore, Kerry, Bill's scarier half, while I didn't agree with all of their policies, I did believe that for the most part they were doing what they thought was good for the country. That's really about all you can ask of a leader. Trump on the other hand, only cares about what's good for Trump, anyone named Trump, and anyone who supports him so long as they continue to support him and their support benefits Trump. It's "Trump, the whole Trump, and nothing but the Trump, so help you Trump."
>"The immune system normally seeks out and destroys mutated cells, but cancer cells find sophisticated ways to hide from immune attacks"
That is strange wording. Cancer cells are not autonomous, learning, clever, and planning. They are just mutations that "happen", randomly due to replication errors and external events (like radiation, viruses, and chemicals). Sometimes there just happen to be cells that mutate in a way that the immune system doesn't recognize. We all have cancer cells in our bodies, probably all the time, and normally they are caught and killed by our immune systems. The above statement makes it sound like they are planning something with a "will":)
Look at "find" not in the sense of "seeking out", but rather "stumbled upon". As you say, we have mutated or cancerous cells in us all the time, but our body kills most of them. Only the ones that hit the mutation lottery get the chance to kill us. Although, as for having a will, since some cancers can be made up of cells from all over the body (gotta love those pictures of tumors with hair, teeth, etc), if one develops with brain tissue is there a chance for some rudimentary brain activity?
A couple of weeks ago I read an article about an airline that was considering replacing some of the cargo space on passenger flights with actual bunk beds. The idea was that there would be a spiral staircase down from the seating deck to a bay with a small number of full-sized beds for people who wanted to use them. The frame containing these "bedrooms" would itself be modular, such that the airline could remove them and replace them with regular freight containers when they needed to do so.
The article I saw didn't go in to details of the way that pressurisation would be handled - I may be wrong but I always thought that cargo spaces, even on commercial airlines, were not pressurised.
But there are definitely plans out there to be able to send you as air freight!!!
Some cargo bins are pressurized, some aren't. Also, while most widebody aircraft have crew rest areas above the cabin, some have been retrofitted to have crew rest modules below the cabin in the cargo area. I could see some airlines putting bunks down there for passengers, but the ability to access those bunks would definitely be a significant additional charge as airlines get some good revenue from freight and it would cut into that.
I'm seriously considering traveling as freight next time. I'd have way more room and pay less.
Some of those cans they use for cargo are actually roomier and more comfortable than you would think. If you go as bulk freight just make sure you are put in the pressurized bin and those are prime napping spots. The floor panel right by the door in the front bin of a 737 is even heated, very nice to have once you reach altitude. You learn some good tricks when you work on a ramp.
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And the camera follows you around, keeping everyone in focus.... not creepy at all.
You could make a skin that looks like an old timey portrait painting with the tracking cameras for the eyes so they can follow you as you move.
Or you could refuse to let the mob choose with whom you are and are not allowed to associate.
If you associate with someone like Kip Drordy you deserve to be shunned and ostracized by everyone.
That's not the way Judging works.
You're right, In the Supreme Court, judging works by listening to all the arguments presented and then ruling for whatever side fits with your preconceived ideological convictions. That's why both parties fight so hard to control who they put on the Supreme Court. With lifetime appointments, if the scale tilts in your ideological favor it can stay that way for a very long time.
Especially when Kavanaugh has an air of sexual accusations against him mixed with his behavior during the interview process where he lost his cool pretty dramatically making things look even worse for him then if he would have maintained a cool head.
He was coached to act that way. Righteous indignation plays very well with the current conservative base and to them he looked strong, forceful, and outraged that, as a man of morals and integrity, he was being treated the way he was. Many people in the conservative base see themselves as being repressed or persecuted and the current Republican leadership plays into that with all the claims of "being treated unfairly" and "fake news" (which they claim treats conservative unfairly by ignoring goods stories/promoting bad ones, making up lies, etc). This is also helping drive the growth of "white nationalist" and "alt-right" groups and conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, Q-anon, and the "deep state". They don't see Kavanaugh for what he is-a wealthy guy who grew up going to private schools and an Ivy League school- they see him as "one of us", a family man who-like any real American-likes a beer every now and then and the evil "others" (Democrats) are going after him because they hate "us". When Kavanaugh got attacked, they were being attacked too.
It quite honestly may have backfired on the Democrats. Republicans are currently voting only on a limited numbers of issues and, by trying so hard to block Kavanaugh, they will twist it to say that the Democrats don't want him on the court because he will keep them from taking away guns, help over turn Roe vs. Wade, keep them from limiting presidential power, and protect Trump when he removes Rosenstein after the midterms in an attempt to stop the Mueller investigations. It might have motivated the base enough to get them to show up for the midterms.
I'm assuming it'll mostly be union organisers.
The whalers on the moon probably ordered another shipment of harpoons.
Are they absolutely certain about the time sync between the cameras and the fitbit? Are they certain that the fitbit data corresponds with death?
If they have video footage of he opening the door, taking out the trash, mowing the lawn, whatever, they take take that timestamp and match it up to the corresponding activity rate on the fitbit. About all the defense would be able to do is argue that the fitbit somehow lost/gained time and the killing happened after he left. There should be enough data to demonstrate how well the fitbit keeps time to counter that argument though (assuming the fitbit does in fact keep consistent time).
So I said screw that I'm not using Alexa, I'll spend $5 more, get a Roku stick, and I can use that to replace one of my Comcast boxes saving $10 a month. Thanks Amazon, your greed and attempt to force people to use Alexa saved me money!
Hey, I guess the real dick here is Comcast isn't it. $10 a month for that lousy box? Jeez, for someone counting $5 here and there you sure indulged yourself.
We were on Uverse but they were even worse than comcast. Wanted to go to Sling/Hulu but the wife wanted some channels neither of those carried, and after factoring everything in Comcast only comes out to about $20-30 more a month(own my own gateway, plan to use 2 roku sticks for comcast streaming so only renting 2 boxes)
2pm EDT (1pm CDT) is sleep time for me - I work nights
Well, at least you won't have to worry about being woken up when Trump accidentally sends one of these out at 3am instead of a tweet.
I stopped reading after that.
Fail.
Our dog decided that our Fire stick remote was a toy. So, go to find a replacement remote on Amazon. The only option for a replacement remote is the Alexa remote at $25 (they sell a $15 non-Alexa replacement remote but it is not available in the US). A brand new stick is $40, only a $15 difference. So I said screw that I'm not using Alexa, I'll spend $5 more, get a Roku stick, and I can use that to replace one of my Comcast boxes saving $10 a month. Thanks Amazon, your greed and attempt to force people to use Alexa saved me money!
It is trendy in entertainment to show ostensibly good people as failures and terrible people. I don't know why. But that is exactly what they did here: took a character that previously showed courage, loyalty, valor, and nobility, and turned him into a coward, abandoner, would-be murderor of his own family, and a quitter.
The fact that his actions are completely inconsistent with his character as revealed in the previous movies doesn't matter a bit. The goal was to reveal him to be a terrible person. I will admit that I took it a bit personally, like an insult to me and my generation. YOUR heroes are really losers, and only OUR heroes are authentic.
Look at it this way (I assume you are referring to Luke): He fought for years, saw friends die, mentors die, family die, and frankly was directly responsible for thousands if not millions of deaths (he did blow up the first Death Star after all). And after all of that, basically nothing changed. Wouldn't you be tired and jaded by then too?
That SUV is used and built on a truck platform. It may guzzle gas but it's cheaper design makes it much more reliable. When you buy a vehicle even poor folks consider total ROI (though most wouldn't know it's called ROI).
Still doesn't mean you have to lease a new one every 3 years for $400 a month. We just bought a used 2011 BMW x3 with 70k miles for less than we paid for my 2014 Focus new. And that BMW will still last longer than my Focus will. It's replacing my wife's 2001 330i.
Nobody is claiming he is an angel. But he is not part of the political establishment. His opponent was queen of that corrupt establishment even going so far as to rig her party's primaries to ensure she be ordained the next great leader. Oh but we said Nope to her. He wasn't a great choice, but he was far better than the alternative option (the one that actually had a chance at winning.
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Shows like Game of Thrones.....have a distinct identity ; none of their creators would let anyone decide the next storyline.
You do realize the show GoT outpaced the books long enough ago that yes, the show actually has been deciding it's storyline. Of course, they did get buy-in from GRR Martin, but they have said that the show storyline could and probably would differ from the book storyline.
Didn't someone try that sort of thing with DVDs many years ago? How'd that work out?
Depended on which choices you made
Coal can be shifted away from with the correct political will......Coal is a dying industry and they know it.
"My grandpappy was a coal miner, my daddy was a coal miner, I'm a coal miner, and dammit, my children will be coal miners even if it kills 'em....which between mine accidents, black lung disease, and general lifestyle it probably will!"
or is this man truly evil?
Trump is easily the worst person (competence, morals, decency, empathy, etc - pick your measure) to get to the office of president in my lifetime and I'm old enough to have lived during Nixon's administration. He surrounds himself with people who are somehow if anything worse in a lot of ways. There are prominent republicans who I respect and think could be good presidents even if I don't necessarily agree with their policy positions on a given topic. Trump is not even close to among them. I thought Bush Jr was a terrible president but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Trump. Reagan or Bush Sr would be a huge upgrade. Heck I'd happily take McCain (even with Palin) or Romney who I think were both competent and fundamentally decent people. No I'm not arguing the Democrats were notably better (they weren't) but literally every other president or candidate for either party in the last half centry would be an improvement over Trump.
Trump is honestly the first President in my lifetime who I do not think is actually doing what they think is best for the country. The Bushes, Clinton, Obama, hell even the losing candidates like McCain, Gore, Kerry, Bill's scarier half, while I didn't agree with all of their policies, I did believe that for the most part they were doing what they thought was good for the country. That's really about all you can ask of a leader. Trump on the other hand, only cares about what's good for Trump, anyone named Trump, and anyone who supports him so long as they continue to support him and their support benefits Trump. It's "Trump, the whole Trump, and nothing but the Trump, so help you Trump."
>"The immune system normally seeks out and destroys mutated cells, but cancer cells find sophisticated ways to hide from immune attacks"
That is strange wording. Cancer cells are not autonomous, learning, clever, and planning. They are just mutations that "happen", randomly due to replication errors and external events (like radiation, viruses, and chemicals). Sometimes there just happen to be cells that mutate in a way that the immune system doesn't recognize. We all have cancer cells in our bodies, probably all the time, and normally they are caught and killed by our immune systems. The above statement makes it sound like they are planning something with a "will" :)
Look at "find" not in the sense of "seeking out", but rather "stumbled upon". As you say, we have mutated or cancerous cells in us all the time, but our body kills most of them. Only the ones that hit the mutation lottery get the chance to kill us. Although, as for having a will, since some cancers can be made up of cells from all over the body (gotta love those pictures of tumors with hair, teeth, etc), if one develops with brain tissue is there a chance for some rudimentary brain activity?
That would be Pittsburgh! 6 Super bowls.
Can't claim "titletown" when you can't even beat Cleveland.
"the magnetic fields were generated using a technique called electromagnetic flux-compression. "
They didn't have a flux-compensator.
I would say they probably used too big of a flux capacitor. They're lucky they didn't get sent back in time.
When someone steals a few million irises from their database, the company can't send out a bulk email telling everyone to change their eyes.
Good afternoon, Mr. Yakamoto. How did you like that three-pack of tank tops you bought last time you were in?
3. If someone tells you to stop being an asshole, stop being an asshole
Just because someone says you're an asshole, doesn't mean that you are.
Calling someone an asshole when they aren't being an asshole would be breaking rule #1: don't be an asshole.
1. Don't be an asshole
2. If someone is being an asshole, tell them to stop being an asshole
3. If someone tells you to stop being an asshole, stop being an asshole
Follow this simple code of conduct and suddenly things get a lot nicer.
A couple of weeks ago I read an article about an airline that was considering replacing some of the cargo space on passenger flights with actual bunk beds. The idea was that there would be a spiral staircase down from the seating deck to a bay with a small number of full-sized beds for people who wanted to use them. The frame containing these "bedrooms" would itself be modular, such that the airline could remove them and replace them with regular freight containers when they needed to do so. The article I saw didn't go in to details of the way that pressurisation would be handled - I may be wrong but I always thought that cargo spaces, even on commercial airlines, were not pressurised. But there are definitely plans out there to be able to send you as air freight!!!
Some cargo bins are pressurized, some aren't. Also, while most widebody aircraft have crew rest areas above the cabin, some have been retrofitted to have crew rest modules below the cabin in the cargo area. I could see some airlines putting bunks down there for passengers, but the ability to access those bunks would definitely be a significant additional charge as airlines get some good revenue from freight and it would cut into that.
I can as well call a spade a spade.
Can we watch while you do that?
I called a spade a spade once. It hit me in the face and told me it identified as a trowel.
I'm seriously considering traveling as freight next time. I'd have way more room and pay less.
Some of those cans they use for cargo are actually roomier and more comfortable than you would think. If you go as bulk freight just make sure you are put in the pressurized bin and those are prime napping spots. The floor panel right by the door in the front bin of a 737 is even heated, very nice to have once you reach altitude. You learn some good tricks when you work on a ramp.