Their Mueller investigation must truly be going poorly. It's been over a year and they haven't found anything that says Trump colluded. They've found wrong doing by various underlings
If a significant portion of the people you personally selected (by your own claims!) to work under you/advise you/etc have been caught doing something illegal, then you are either complicit in that illegal activity or incapable of proper leadership and oversight. Both of which should be indicators that you really shouldn't be running a country.
By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote.
I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.
Personally, I would probably have voted for Bernie because, much like Trump, I know most of his crazier policies would never make it through and, unlike Trump, Bernie would do what he actually thought was best for the country. However, since the Democrats were dead set to run Hillary, I ended up voting for Johnson.
For this though, they are just shooting themselves in the foot. The suit will go nowhere and it will just give the right-wing talking heads and trolls more fodder to rile up the right even more. It's definitely partisan. Maybe an attempt to out-Trump trump? Get him focused on this lawsuit instead of Mueller or Cohen?
Yes actually. We're not in kindergarten. Ideally the writing level would at least be appropriate for a 12th grade audience.
Anyone can usually memorize more complicated synonyms of everyday words in order to try and sound smarter. However, a much more effective demonstration of intelligence would be showing the ability to understand what level of communication is appropriate and necessary for both the subject and target of the communication. In effect: Keep It (as)Simple (as possible) Stupid.
>> this sound can get very loud, a big no-no
Jeezzez Crisco. What did we do now to get SlashDot editors talking down to us with one syllable at a time?
Would you prefer "the aforementioned audible emanation attained a decibel level detrimental to the proper operation of the installed data storage mechanisms"?
So the obvious solution is to legalize prostitution so that adults who make their own choice to enter that profession can do so safely and openly without having to resort to more clandestine customer acquisition methods. But of course, the goal isn't really protection of these women, it's about punishing something they feel is immoral.
I used to work out with a guy who was a neighbor of lil John. He said every other week he would have a new car in his driveway because he just rotated through short leases.
The work/life balance in the US is horrible. The typical 9-to-5 doesn't exist-it's closer to an 8-to-7 schedule if you're salaried.
I guess I'm lucky then. 7:30-4 with an hour for lunch. 10 years with the company and have 3 weeks vac(get 4 next year, it tops out at 5 weeks), plus 14 days paid time off earned each year with unused time rolling to the next year (up to a certain amount). Of course, I only make about 60k w/ bonus so the pay could be better.
Eh, if I had the technical aptitude and education for things like that, I'd be off starting a company around VR-enabled aircraft trainers. But it doesn't take a person with a background in robotics or automation to see the easy directions it could go given logical and reasonable improvements in technology.
"All you need is a delivery mechanism for the food."
We already have that. It is called the "Automat" and developed and deployed in 1895. Why aren't all restaurants automats? There are restaurants where the food comes out on conveyor belts next to your table (and have been around for decades). Why aren't all restaurants like that?
Actually, I was thinking more like a really tall roomba. All you need is a robot that's flat on top to hold the food. You already know the layout of the restaurant so program that in and add some sensors to avoid collisions. Besides, there's a perfect example of prior art to work off of.
" Trash collectors- self driving trucks with a robotic arm to pick up the cans and dump them into the truck."
Who is developing that? You? That would be quite a feat to do that with zero humans! You guys read too many PR pieces.
How is that a stretch from what we have now? We already have robotic arms that can pick up something here and put down there. It's not at all a stretch of the imagination to see automated trash pickup. And this is residential trash pickup. Commercial or bulk trash using dumpsters would be even easier to do.
What type of magical "automation" is coming that is going to massively replace jobs? People keep talking about "automation", but is there some magic technology coming that is going to automate out waiters and lawyers and doctors and trash collectors?
We're already close with current technology. As technology improves your examples become even easier to accomplish.
Waiters-could really already be done to a limited extent. A lot of causal chain restaurants have gone to those little tabletop kiosks that let you pay and order food/drinks. All you need is a delivery mechanism for the food.
Lawyers-plenty of firms are looking into "AI"-lite programs that can quickly search through case law, do research, etc. And don't forget that chatbot that helps people dispute traffic tickets.
Doctors-We already have remote doctor visits and even remote surgery, not much of a leap to robot/AI in medicine. IBM is already trying to do that with Watson.
Trash collectors- self driving trucks with a robotic arm to pick up the cans and dump them into the truck.
First time I've heard of wikipedia being referred to as a "hate site". Are you one of those "alternative facts" people where anything that goes against what you believe is "fake news"?
Losses from pirates are high. Not only material losses, the cost of maintaining an anti-pirate army.
Huh? Cargo vessels aren't allowed to be armed. There's the option of hiring maritime security, but for a shipping line to staff a security detachment on each each ship is prohibitively expensive, if not outright prohibited due to local laws at their ports of call. They could do it air marshal style with detachments on a small number of ships but that won't really work as a deterrent either. Ships can use passive or non-lethal defenses such as water hoses (which they will already have to fight onboard fires) or sound cannon. Somali pirates use small ships to board the cargo vessels so even the large wake and waves generated by the cargo vessel can be used defensively to make it impossible to board the ship.
Of course, we already have an "anti pirate army". There's the multinational maritime patrol off the Horn of Africa.
There are no month long voyages anymore since about 100 years... just saying.
Yes there are. It can take 2 weeks to almost a month just to cross the Pacific. Here's some Middle East/Horn of Africa times. That time includes several port stops, but just long enough to offload/load up cargo and resupply/refuel. Not long enough to do anything besides the simplest of repairs.
It's really not that hard to put together IKEA furniture, anyone could do it. Now, show me a robot that can correctly pronounce the furniture names and I'll be impressed.
I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.
the company left a massive store of profile data on a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket
Cue the Congressional hearing with the 80 year old Congressman asking why Amazon even allows companies to store anything in these buckets if they have holes, and why they can't just stop the leaks with duct tape.
PR has turned into a shitshow so people in the contiguous states can point fingers and pat themselves on the back.
It's hard to figure out what's going on down there. For example, the significant under reporting of hurricane-relate deaths (that requires government complicity) makes no sense. I assume it's to keep the local officials from looking bad and losing their jobs, but the locals are still going to know the government is lying when grandma died but the government reports zero deaths and, if anything, you would want to over report deaths as that would make the situation look worse and therefore more worthy of aid and rebuilding dollars.
Have you ever met any Puerto Ricans? As I speak the apartment next door is filled with a bunch of college age Puerto Ricans who should be in school or the military, but are instead smoking weed and playing video games. Not a particularly resourceful or high achieving culture. It's not a surprise their island is a shithole.
And as I speak, there are plenty of college/military age white males sitting around smoking weed and cooking meth in the rural Appalachian town my grandparents live in. Not sure what your point is besides being racist.
Is this the same place that sent away the crews that had started rebuilding the infrastructure after the hurricane because they suspected cronyism with the Trump Administration?
Because a company with an employee count that can totaled on the hand of a drunk carpenter is the best possible choice to rebuild the power infrastructure of a whole island. Not to mention the contract prevented the PR government from auditing the contract and that the company was charging over $300 per hour for each worker.... Their contract was bigger than the one for the Army Corp of Engineers! That whole situation smelled worse than, well, a San Juan fish market after a few weeks of no refrigeration.
Doesn't anyone know how to use a god damn oxygen mask? I mean it has been a staple part of flight safety demonstrations since the 80s, but really look at the selfies, NO ONE seems to know how the oxygen masks work. Like people have them attached to their chins and stuff, I'm genuinely surprised no one is wearing one like a hat.
I like the guy with the man-bun that couldn't even be bothered to take out his ear buds and doesn't even have the strap around his head. And of course, as you mention, not a single person has the mask covering mouth and nose like you are supposed to.
Dude, the USPS is real world. Write a check, put it in an envelope, and take it to your local post office. They'll even sell you the envelope and stamp if you need one.
So.....you mean like an email, but on paper? How do you use the loopy thing to physically attach the check to the envelope?
There should be no more "I thought I saw a gun" shootings. They should not fire until they positively identify the subject is holding a gun. A knife? Then tasers only. You have body armor, you chose to be a cop. Your duty is to make sure other people go home safe before you do.
The Post is pretty good with facts. They also have a strong anti-Trump bias. Most reasonable people do, but papers are supposed to attempt unbiased reporting. If they are trying, they suck at it.
The only way to stay unbiased while reporting on Trump is to use alternative facts. Real facts tend to have an inherent anti-Trump bias.
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Their Mueller investigation must truly be going poorly. It's been over a year and they haven't found anything that says Trump colluded. They've found wrong doing by various underlings
If a significant portion of the people you personally selected (by your own claims!) to work under you/advise you/etc have been caught doing something illegal, then you are either complicit in that illegal activity or incapable of proper leadership and oversight. Both of which should be indicators that you really shouldn't be running a country.
By actively preventing Bernie from getting the democratic nomination they made a Trump victory much more likely. Tons of people voted "not Hillary" with their Trump vote. I'm not saying there was no Russian collusion, but lets look at all the reasons.
Personally, I would probably have voted for Bernie because, much like Trump, I know most of his crazier policies would never make it through and, unlike Trump, Bernie would do what he actually thought was best for the country. However, since the Democrats were dead set to run Hillary, I ended up voting for Johnson.
For this though, they are just shooting themselves in the foot. The suit will go nowhere and it will just give the right-wing talking heads and trolls more fodder to rile up the right even more. It's definitely partisan. Maybe an attempt to out-Trump trump? Get him focused on this lawsuit instead of Mueller or Cohen?
Yes actually. We're not in kindergarten. Ideally the writing level would at least be appropriate for a 12th grade audience.
Anyone can usually memorize more complicated synonyms of everyday words in order to try and sound smarter. However, a much more effective demonstration of intelligence would be showing the ability to understand what level of communication is appropriate and necessary for both the subject and target of the communication. In effect: Keep It (as)Simple (as possible) Stupid.
>> this sound can get very loud, a big no-no Jeezzez Crisco. What did we do now to get SlashDot editors talking down to us with one syllable at a time?
Would you prefer "the aforementioned audible emanation attained a decibel level detrimental to the proper operation of the installed data storage mechanisms"?
So the obvious solution is to legalize prostitution so that adults who make their own choice to enter that profession can do so safely and openly without having to resort to more clandestine customer acquisition methods. But of course, the goal isn't really protection of these women, it's about punishing something they feel is immoral.
I used to work out with a guy who was a neighbor of lil John. He said every other week he would have a new car in his driveway because he just rotated through short leases.
10 vacation days is not a lot.
The work/life balance in the US is horrible. The typical 9-to-5 doesn't exist-it's closer to an 8-to-7 schedule if you're salaried.
I guess I'm lucky then. 7:30-4 with an hour for lunch. 10 years with the company and have 3 weeks vac(get 4 next year, it tops out at 5 weeks), plus 14 days paid time off earned each year with unused time rolling to the next year (up to a certain amount). Of course, I only make about 60k w/ bonus so the pay could be better.
So go design it and market it. Good luck.
Eh, if I had the technical aptitude and education for things like that, I'd be off starting a company around VR-enabled aircraft trainers. But it doesn't take a person with a background in robotics or automation to see the easy directions it could go given logical and reasonable improvements in technology.
"All you need is a delivery mechanism for the food." We already have that. It is called the "Automat" and developed and deployed in 1895. Why aren't all restaurants automats? There are restaurants where the food comes out on conveyor belts next to your table (and have been around for decades). Why aren't all restaurants like that?
Actually, I was thinking more like a really tall roomba. All you need is a robot that's flat on top to hold the food. You already know the layout of the restaurant so program that in and add some sensors to avoid collisions. Besides, there's a perfect example of prior art to work off of.
" Trash collectors- self driving trucks with a robotic arm to pick up the cans and dump them into the truck." Who is developing that? You? That would be quite a feat to do that with zero humans! You guys read too many PR pieces.
How is that a stretch from what we have now? We already have robotic arms that can pick up something here and put down there. It's not at all a stretch of the imagination to see automated trash pickup. And this is residential trash pickup. Commercial or bulk trash using dumpsters would be even easier to do.
What type of magical "automation" is coming that is going to massively replace jobs? People keep talking about "automation", but is there some magic technology coming that is going to automate out waiters and lawyers and doctors and trash collectors?
We're already close with current technology. As technology improves your examples become even easier to accomplish.
Waiters-could really already be done to a limited extent. A lot of causal chain restaurants have gone to those little tabletop kiosks that let you pay and order food/drinks. All you need is a delivery mechanism for the food.
Lawyers-plenty of firms are looking into "AI"-lite programs that can quickly search through case law, do research, etc. And don't forget that chatbot that helps people dispute traffic tickets.
Doctors-We already have remote doctor visits and even remote surgery, not much of a leap to robot/AI in medicine. IBM is already trying to do that with Watson.
Trash collectors- self driving trucks with a robotic arm to pick up the cans and dump them into the truck.
First time I've heard of wikipedia being referred to as a "hate site". Are you one of those "alternative facts" people where anything that goes against what you believe is "fake news"?
Losses from pirates are high. Not only material losses, the cost of maintaining an anti-pirate army.
Huh? Cargo vessels aren't allowed to be armed. There's the option of hiring maritime security, but for a shipping line to staff a security detachment on each each ship is prohibitively expensive, if not outright prohibited due to local laws at their ports of call. They could do it air marshal style with detachments on a small number of ships but that won't really work as a deterrent either. Ships can use passive or non-lethal defenses such as water hoses (which they will already have to fight onboard fires) or sound cannon. Somali pirates use small ships to board the cargo vessels so even the large wake and waves generated by the cargo vessel can be used defensively to make it impossible to board the ship.
Of course, we already have an "anti pirate army". There's the multinational maritime patrol off the Horn of Africa.
There are no month long voyages anymore since about 100 years ... just saying.
Yes there are. It can take 2 weeks to almost a month just to cross the Pacific. Here's some Middle East/Horn of Africa times. That time includes several port stops, but just long enough to offload/load up cargo and resupply/refuel. Not long enough to do anything besides the simplest of repairs.
It's really not that hard to put together IKEA furniture, anyone could do it. Now, show me a robot that can correctly pronounce the furniture names and I'll be impressed.
Just remember a big part of the attractiveness of those jobs-pensions-are gone forever.
I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.
the company left a massive store of profile data on a public but unlisted Amazon S3 storage bucket
Cue the Congressional hearing with the 80 year old Congressman asking why Amazon even allows companies to store anything in these buckets if they have holes, and why they can't just stop the leaks with duct tape.
PR has turned into a shitshow so people in the contiguous states can point fingers and pat themselves on the back.
It's hard to figure out what's going on down there. For example, the significant under reporting of hurricane-relate deaths (that requires government complicity) makes no sense. I assume it's to keep the local officials from looking bad and losing their jobs, but the locals are still going to know the government is lying when grandma died but the government reports zero deaths and, if anything, you would want to over report deaths as that would make the situation look worse and therefore more worthy of aid and rebuilding dollars.
Have you ever met any Puerto Ricans? As I speak the apartment next door is filled with a bunch of college age Puerto Ricans who should be in school or the military, but are instead smoking weed and playing video games. Not a particularly resourceful or high achieving culture. It's not a surprise their island is a shithole.
And as I speak, there are plenty of college/military age white males sitting around smoking weed and cooking meth in the rural Appalachian town my grandparents live in. Not sure what your point is besides being racist.
Is this the same place that sent away the crews that had started rebuilding the infrastructure after the hurricane because they suspected cronyism with the Trump Administration?
Because a company with an employee count that can totaled on the hand of a drunk carpenter is the best possible choice to rebuild the power infrastructure of a whole island. Not to mention the contract prevented the PR government from auditing the contract and that the company was charging over $300 per hour for each worker.... Their contract was bigger than the one for the Army Corp of Engineers! That whole situation smelled worse than, well, a San Juan fish market after a few weeks of no refrigeration.
Doesn't anyone know how to use a god damn oxygen mask? I mean it has been a staple part of flight safety demonstrations since the 80s, but really look at the selfies, NO ONE seems to know how the oxygen masks work. Like people have them attached to their chins and stuff, I'm genuinely surprised no one is wearing one like a hat.
I like the guy with the man-bun that couldn't even be bothered to take out his ear buds and doesn't even have the strap around his head. And of course, as you mention, not a single person has the mask covering mouth and nose like you are supposed to.
A group of thugs comes to you and says, "Your money, or your life."
You think, "Surely government will protect me from these gangsters!"
Come to find out, the gangsters AREA the government, and it's tax day.
Because you haven't in any way benefited, even tangentially, from things funded by taxes......
Dude, the USPS is real world. Write a check, put it in an envelope, and take it to your local post office. They'll even sell you the envelope and stamp if you need one.
So.....you mean like an email, but on paper? How do you use the loopy thing to physically attach the check to the envelope?
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There should be no more "I thought I saw a gun" shootings. They should not fire until they positively identify the subject is holding a gun. A knife? Then tasers only. You have body armor, you chose to be a cop. Your duty is to make sure other people go home safe before you do.
The Post is pretty good with facts. They also have a strong anti-Trump bias. Most reasonable people do, but papers are supposed to attempt unbiased reporting. If they are trying, they suck at it.
The only way to stay unbiased while reporting on Trump is to use alternative facts. Real facts tend to have an inherent anti-Trump bias.