With the deck stacked entirely in his favor he still can't deliver.
About half of Congressional Republicans hate him with passion — and would rather collude with the opposition than with him.
And why is that such a bad thing? In a responsible, reasonable government there should be collaboration between the ruling and opposition parties. How else do you expect to actually get things done that can actually last instead of just getting scrapped as soon as the next party comes into power? Sadly, in US politics these days if you are seen even eating in the same restaurant as someone from the other party you are vilified and torn down the next time you come up for re-election as a traitor to the party. It's pretty sad, really, how much American political parties operate like the Soviet Communist party did, where loyalty to the party supersedes everything else.
The bags are not filled with juice, they are filled with pre-chopped fruit and/or vegetable pieces. Or at least that's the idea behind the bags. I have a little difficulty believing that you could hand squeeze vegetables as effectively as a machine, but fruit should be easy enough.
Look at the little GIF in the article. As easy as that juice is coming out with the hand squeeze she either had to have pounded the bag with a meat tenderizer, or it was already pulped up or liquefied. While a person can,albeit inefficiently, hand-squeeze juice from fruit, I have a hard time believing that person could squeeze vegetables hard enough for juice to come out. With the coloring of that juice being as green as it is, there has to be a significant amount of green/leafy vegetables in it, which means they were already liquid.
It's not a juicer if it doesn't even make juice. All it's doing is squeezing already made juice out of a fancy bag. So if anything, it is a $400 (after the price drop, looks like it was originally $700) juice dispenser, not juicer. Looking at the photos in the article, it looks like what we would have if CapriSun was made by Apple.
Erdogan did not run as a dictator. During his initial rise to power he was actually a very moderate politician. He called for EU membership for Turkey, and under his direction the country did enter negotiations with the aim of getting that membership. He pushed major labor reforms too, giving employees substantially greater protections than ever before in the country and introducing non-discrimination law. He changed later on, slowly, over the course of the 2000s at 2010s, depending increasingly upon tighter control of the media and repression of opposition to stay in power and growing steadily more conservative and Islamist in his social policies.
Culminating in quite possibly orchestrating the coup last year and using that (and the very fortuitous rise of ISIS in Syria) to justify the sweeping grab for power that he just pulled off, effectively guaranteeing he will be in control in Turkey at least through the next decade. He used the coup to purge the military, leaving only loyalists who he can trust not to fulfill the Turkish military's customary role of maintaining secularism in government. You have to give him credit: for a politician he played the long game very well.
I have seen SST a few times, and my friends and I discussed it quite a lot at the time and here was some of the things that we came up with:
No, they didn't use gun sights because they were firing smart bullets that would track targets within maybe 3 degrees divergence of their fired direction. This would allow you to spray and still consistently hit the target.
Except remember there was the one propaganda video where the soldiers were interacting with kids and showing them the rifle. They handed out handfuls bullets that were clearly dumb projectiles. And I think in the attack on Whiskey Outpost when the bugs are charging you can see bullets kicking up dust around the bugs where they are missing.
What we perceived as body armor due to the low budget of the film was actually supposed to be smart gear, carrying ammo, locator beacons for friend or foe ID, food, water, battery pack, etc (I don't remember them all carrying backpacks, just a few and those probably had LAW or HE charges or other specialized hardware).
The ones carrying backpacks were medics (the radio was a backpack as well). And they did have pouches for ammo, grenades, and most probably rations. After the first battle with the Roughnecks it shows rations, supplies, and shelters in containers that were probably dropped after the battle, so no need for the soldiers to carry packs.
I found the movie pretty stupid. All the MI (Mobil Infantry) would huddle together like 8 year old playing soccer. In Heinlein's book the MI would spread out in a line about 1 mile apart.
Well, when your standard issue infantry rifle doesn't even have sights on it, the only way to put out any kind of effective firepower is through a firing line. Otherwise you aren't going to hit anything. And if theMI had gone up against anything other than those bugs whose primary method of attack was an en masse charge they would have been slaughtered even worse than they were on Klendathu.
If you think the story of Starship Troopers was how they fought the war then you missed the point of the movies. They were meant as social commentaries.
I get that. Hence my whole "semi-fascist, military-industrial complex led society" comment. But even railing against the military-industrial complex, the MIC would want combined arms, massive bombardments, and lot of mechanized vehicles involved in combat, because that means more munitions consumed and more vehicles to replace: ie, more profits. Hell, even ISIS and the FSA have and use armored vehicles, or at the very least have a couple machine guns welded on the back of a truck. No one does infantry-only attacks any more unless they have no other option. And the Federation certainly had options. To top it off, no authoritarian/fascist government that just wants cannon fodder (which the MI in the movie certainly was) would go through the effort to give them as much training as the movie suggested they did. Too expensive and inefficient.
Body armor that may as well have been regular clothing for all the good it did? This was a frustrating movie.
I always wondered why they even bothered to wear the body armor when it couldn't even stop their own weapons, not to mention the bugs themselves. That and the fact that none of the rifles even had sights kind of blew my mind. When you are fighting as infantry against thousands and hundreds of thousands of enemies, spraying and praying is really not the best idea. And, for a semi-fascist, military-industrial complex led society, they surprisingly had no idea of combined arms tactics. No armored vehicles, no air support, no artillery. Just lots and lots of people. It was like the WWII-era Red Army in space. The closest thing they had was the bombing run on the one planet followed up by an infantry attack, but clearly the staff officer school for the Federation military doesn't go into much detail on WWI or WWII, otherwise they would have realized that pre-attack bombardments are pretty useless against enemy combatants that are entrenched or bunkered underground.
Hinted? Sully talks to a tree (who also happens to be their god) and the next day about 5 different species of animals show up to help. That's pretty much in your face that plants were conscious. Plus when they were trying to save Weaver's character all the villagers were connected to the tree just like they do with animals. The whole idea behind Pandora was the very Native American (and found on multiple other indigenous religions as well) notion that everything had a spirit and everything is connected.
District 9, 2009, brought in only around $210M, but only cost around $30M or so, so a 7x multiplier, and hugely popular
District 9 wasn't too bad, but I still think it would have been a lot better in it's original form as a Halo movie. Forward Unto Dawn was surprisingly good, and the story behind Halo easily lends itself to film. It's also a well-known brand, and even people who aren't into sci-fi played Halo. Even the little live-action short for The Division wasn't too bad.
But are they easier to maintain? Can you use a droid that's worked with binary loadlifters like you can with vaporators, or do you need a specialized droid? Those can get expensive out in the desert.
I can understand a poorer household having variable income if working hourly, but I don't understand fluctuations of that size on a household with a real job, that gets paid salary....?
The summary just says full time, not salaried. You could be a full-time hourly worker, which could lead to reduced monthly income if enough days are missed from work.
They were crew for a flight that would be cancelled if they weren't there. What this is, in addition to a PR foulup, is a logistics screwup. The crew should have been booked on a flight already.
Not always possible. A delay on the inbound leg of the flight the next day could have caused an issue where the scheduled crew would be illegal to operate the flight. Sometimes you only have an hour or two notice. That is why airlines always have crews on reserve, to recover flights like this. By the time they knew they would need to send the crew to Louisville the flight could have already started boarding.
Yep. Just look as that damn Muslim Myanmar persecuting all of those Buddhist Rohingya. Wait, you mean Myanmar are the Buddhists and Rohingya are Mulsim? Well, certainly that's just an isolated incident. Oh, you mean China severely represses the Muslim Uighurs? Well, they are evil, atheist Communists, something like that would never happen in a democracy. Damn, the Hindu dominated government in Uttar Pradesh (a state in the world's largest democracy, India) is severely cracking down on slaughterhouses (disproportionately affecting Christian and Muslim minorities in the state) over alleged killing of cattle. At least things are better here in the US though. We don't persecute Muslims. We just have people kill non-Muslims because they assumeall brown people are Muslim
As an anecdote to #3, I heard news articles saying that the local Imam in Florida was calling for death to gays before the nightclub attack. Are such overt calls for violence protected as free speech or freedom of religion, or should we make certain exceptions?
So it's ok if a Christian preacher does the same thing, but if an Imam does it it's bad?
Generally, we've gotten...6 TVs (one in every room)....We've also started to eat at McDonalds a lot, because who has time to cook? If we cooked, we couldn't watch all that anime on Netflix.
I solved that problem by putting a TV in the kitchen;)
At the very least, if all the data was printed out and bound into books, how many Libraries of Congress it would take up. You know, units Slashdot is familiar with.
At a point, being wealthier doesn't really help you, because you buy all these toys but you work all the time and don't have any leisure hours to play with them.
You don't buy all those toys to play with them. You buy all those toys because someone else at the country club bought them, and because Bob down the street doesn't own them and you want him to be jealous. Or did you think they actually used those extra 2 kitchens and 4 bedrooms, or the Olympic sized swimming pool with waterfall and and built-in grill that would give Bobby Flay wet dreams? That's why they have to lease the newest Range Rover, Porsche, or BMW every 2 years. Once you reach a certain threshold, toys aren't meant to be used, they're meant to be seen.
>Let's do an experiment, take a worker in any other sector: retail/food/engineering/medicine, you name it. Now tell that person that they are going to move to a system where they can chose when to go to work and when to leave, with 15-minute granularity and no advance notice whatsoever. Of course, their wages will scale only with the time they actually spend working. Now ask them what that sort of flexibility would be worth to them.
Want to take the afternoon off to watch your nephew's baseball game -- it costs you exactly one afternoon of wages.
Want to take the weekend to attend your college friend's wedding -- it costs you exactly one weekend of wages.
Want to sign out of your job for 3 months while you backpack SE Asia and then come back and continue like nothing happened -- it costs you exactly 3 months of wages.
I'm quite fortunate that my boss is understanding, and I could probably do the above if we weren't swamped with work and if it wasn't too overlapped with my teammates (6-person team, so 2 of us leaving for the same week would be bad but not fatal). Most workers, especially in retail/food sectors closest in wage level to Uber can't dream of it. If your boss at Starbucks says you work on Saturday, your sister's birthday party will just have to wait (or you can swap).
Hell, even with my understanding boss and cushy job, I would absolutely love an arrangement where I make my pro-rated salary for every week (!) I want to work and can take unlimited pro-rated vacation without a single thought.
That's fine. I'll stick with my 5 weeks of actual PAID vacation (currently 3 weeks vacation with 2 weeks of paid personal time off that you accrue every year and can bank, earning 1 more week of vacation this year and 1 more week in 5 years) that I can already take any time I want because I don't have bosses that are dicks and my coworkers can cover the slack (although if you took a whole month off at a time you would be kind of an asshole, they can handle a week or two at a time). Oh yes, and this job is a full time job, pays a livable salary, and gives benefits. Why would I trade that for the "freedom" of a gig job?
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Daesh, not ISIL. Should always use Daesh since they hate being called that.
About half of Congressional Republicans hate him with passion — and would rather collude with the opposition than with him.
And why is that such a bad thing? In a responsible, reasonable government there should be collaboration between the ruling and opposition parties. How else do you expect to actually get things done that can actually last instead of just getting scrapped as soon as the next party comes into power? Sadly, in US politics these days if you are seen even eating in the same restaurant as someone from the other party you are vilified and torn down the next time you come up for re-election as a traitor to the party. It's pretty sad, really, how much American political parties operate like the Soviet Communist party did, where loyalty to the party supersedes everything else.
The bags are not filled with juice, they are filled with pre-chopped fruit and/or vegetable pieces. Or at least that's the idea behind the bags. I have a little difficulty believing that you could hand squeeze vegetables as effectively as a machine, but fruit should be easy enough.
Look at the little GIF in the article. As easy as that juice is coming out with the hand squeeze she either had to have pounded the bag with a meat tenderizer, or it was already pulped up or liquefied. While a person can,albeit inefficiently, hand-squeeze juice from fruit, I have a hard time believing that person could squeeze vegetables hard enough for juice to come out. With the coloring of that juice being as green as it is, there has to be a significant amount of green/leafy vegetables in it, which means they were already liquid.
It's not a juicer if it doesn't even make juice. All it's doing is squeezing already made juice out of a fancy bag. So if anything, it is a $400 (after the price drop, looks like it was originally $700) juice dispenser, not juicer. Looking at the photos in the article, it looks like what we would have if CapriSun was made by Apple.
People with legitimate grievances aren't "trolls", just people you disagree with.
Disagreeing with a movie portraying the killing of over 1 million Armenians by the Turks during WWI is a legitimate grievance?
Erdogan did not run as a dictator. During his initial rise to power he was actually a very moderate politician. He called for EU membership for Turkey, and under his direction the country did enter negotiations with the aim of getting that membership. He pushed major labor reforms too, giving employees substantially greater protections than ever before in the country and introducing non-discrimination law. He changed later on, slowly, over the course of the 2000s at 2010s, depending increasingly upon tighter control of the media and repression of opposition to stay in power and growing steadily more conservative and Islamist in his social policies.
Culminating in quite possibly orchestrating the coup last year and using that (and the very fortuitous rise of ISIS in Syria) to justify the sweeping grab for power that he just pulled off, effectively guaranteeing he will be in control in Turkey at least through the next decade. He used the coup to purge the military, leaving only loyalists who he can trust not to fulfill the Turkish military's customary role of maintaining secularism in government. You have to give him credit: for a politician he played the long game very well.
Digging up historical grievances helps no one.
And burying historical grievances only hurts the next group of victims when you can't show that you are on the path to the next atrocity.
I have seen SST a few times, and my friends and I discussed it quite a lot at the time and here was some of the things that we came up with:
No, they didn't use gun sights because they were firing smart bullets that would track targets within maybe 3 degrees divergence of their fired direction. This would allow you to spray and still consistently hit the target.
Except remember there was the one propaganda video where the soldiers were interacting with kids and showing them the rifle. They handed out handfuls bullets that were clearly dumb projectiles. And I think in the attack on Whiskey Outpost when the bugs are charging you can see bullets kicking up dust around the bugs where they are missing.
What we perceived as body armor due to the low budget of the film was actually supposed to be smart gear, carrying ammo, locator beacons for friend or foe ID, food, water, battery pack, etc (I don't remember them all carrying backpacks, just a few and those probably had LAW or HE charges or other specialized hardware).
The ones carrying backpacks were medics (the radio was a backpack as well). And they did have pouches for ammo, grenades, and most probably rations. After the first battle with the Roughnecks it shows rations, supplies, and shelters in containers that were probably dropped after the battle, so no need for the soldiers to carry packs.
I found the movie pretty stupid. All the MI (Mobil Infantry) would huddle together like 8 year old playing soccer. In Heinlein's book the MI would spread out in a line about 1 mile apart.
Well, when your standard issue infantry rifle doesn't even have sights on it, the only way to put out any kind of effective firepower is through a firing line. Otherwise you aren't going to hit anything. And if theMI had gone up against anything other than those bugs whose primary method of attack was an en masse charge they would have been slaughtered even worse than they were on Klendathu.
If you think the story of Starship Troopers was how they fought the war then you missed the point of the movies. They were meant as social commentaries.
I get that. Hence my whole "semi-fascist, military-industrial complex led society" comment. But even railing against the military-industrial complex, the MIC would want combined arms, massive bombardments, and lot of mechanized vehicles involved in combat, because that means more munitions consumed and more vehicles to replace: ie, more profits. Hell, even ISIS and the FSA have and use armored vehicles, or at the very least have a couple machine guns welded on the back of a truck. No one does infantry-only attacks any more unless they have no other option. And the Federation certainly had options. To top it off, no authoritarian/fascist government that just wants cannon fodder (which the MI in the movie certainly was) would go through the effort to give them as much training as the movie suggested they did. Too expensive and inefficient.
Body armor that may as well have been regular clothing for all the good it did? This was a frustrating movie.
I always wondered why they even bothered to wear the body armor when it couldn't even stop their own weapons, not to mention the bugs themselves. That and the fact that none of the rifles even had sights kind of blew my mind. When you are fighting as infantry against thousands and hundreds of thousands of enemies, spraying and praying is really not the best idea. And, for a semi-fascist, military-industrial complex led society, they surprisingly had no idea of combined arms tactics. No armored vehicles, no air support, no artillery. Just lots and lots of people. It was like the WWII-era Red Army in space. The closest thing they had was the bombing run on the one planet followed up by an infantry attack, but clearly the staff officer school for the Federation military doesn't go into much detail on WWI or WWII, otherwise they would have realized that pre-attack bombardments are pretty useless against enemy combatants that are entrenched or bunkered underground.
It hinted that plants were conscious.
Hinted? Sully talks to a tree (who also happens to be their god) and the next day about 5 different species of animals show up to help. That's pretty much in your face that plants were conscious. Plus when they were trying to save Weaver's character all the villagers were connected to the tree just like they do with animals. The whole idea behind Pandora was the very Native American (and found on multiple other indigenous religions as well) notion that everything had a spirit and everything is connected.
District 9, 2009, brought in only around $210M, but only cost around $30M or so, so a 7x multiplier, and hugely popular
District 9 wasn't too bad, but I still think it would have been a lot better in it's original form as a Halo movie. Forward Unto Dawn was surprisingly good, and the story behind Halo easily lends itself to film. It's also a well-known brand, and even people who aren't into sci-fi played Halo. Even the little live-action short for The Division wasn't too bad.
But are they easier to maintain? Can you use a droid that's worked with binary loadlifters like you can with vaporators, or do you need a specialized droid? Those can get expensive out in the desert.
I can understand a poorer household having variable income if working hourly, but I don't understand fluctuations of that size on a household with a real job, that gets paid salary....?
The summary just says full time, not salaried. You could be a full-time hourly worker, which could lead to reduced monthly income if enough days are missed from work.
He could always ask Sean Spicer how Nazi comparisons tend to work out.
They were crew for a flight that would be cancelled if they weren't there. What this is, in addition to a PR foulup, is a logistics screwup. The crew should have been booked on a flight already.
Not always possible. A delay on the inbound leg of the flight the next day could have caused an issue where the scheduled crew would be illegal to operate the flight. Sometimes you only have an hour or two notice. That is why airlines always have crews on reserve, to recover flights like this. By the time they knew they would need to send the crew to Louisville the flight could have already started boarding.
And everyone says it's impossible for programmers to find jobs after 40...
Yep. Just look as that damn Muslim Myanmar persecuting all of those Buddhist Rohingya. Wait, you mean Myanmar are the Buddhists and Rohingya are Mulsim? Well, certainly that's just an isolated incident. Oh, you mean China severely represses the Muslim Uighurs? Well, they are evil, atheist Communists, something like that would never happen in a democracy. Damn, the Hindu dominated government in Uttar Pradesh (a state in the world's largest democracy, India) is severely cracking down on slaughterhouses (disproportionately affecting Christian and Muslim minorities in the state) over alleged killing of cattle. At least things are better here in the US though. We don't persecute Muslims. We just have people kill non-Muslims because they assumeall brown people are Muslim
Seeing as how it's Canada they probably asked very politely.
As an anecdote to #3, I heard news articles saying that the local Imam in Florida was calling for death to gays before the nightclub attack. Are such overt calls for violence protected as free speech or freedom of religion, or should we make certain exceptions?
So it's ok if a Christian preacher does the same thing, but if an Imam does it it's bad?
Generally, we've gotten...6 TVs (one in every room)....We've also started to eat at McDonalds a lot, because who has time to cook? If we cooked, we couldn't watch all that anime on Netflix.
I solved that problem by putting a TV in the kitchen ;)
At the very least, if all the data was printed out and bound into books, how many Libraries of Congress it would take up. You know, units Slashdot is familiar with.
At a point, being wealthier doesn't really help you, because you buy all these toys but you work all the time and don't have any leisure hours to play with them.
You don't buy all those toys to play with them. You buy all those toys because someone else at the country club bought them, and because Bob down the street doesn't own them and you want him to be jealous. Or did you think they actually used those extra 2 kitchens and 4 bedrooms, or the Olympic sized swimming pool with waterfall and and built-in grill that would give Bobby Flay wet dreams? That's why they have to lease the newest Range Rover, Porsche, or BMW every 2 years. Once you reach a certain threshold, toys aren't meant to be used, they're meant to be seen.
>Let's do an experiment, take a worker in any other sector: retail/food/engineering/medicine, you name it. Now tell that person that they are going to move to a system where they can chose when to go to work and when to leave, with 15-minute granularity and no advance notice whatsoever. Of course, their wages will scale only with the time they actually spend working. Now ask them what that sort of flexibility would be worth to them.
Want to take the afternoon off to watch your nephew's baseball game -- it costs you exactly one afternoon of wages. Want to take the weekend to attend your college friend's wedding -- it costs you exactly one weekend of wages. Want to sign out of your job for 3 months while you backpack SE Asia and then come back and continue like nothing happened -- it costs you exactly 3 months of wages.
I'm quite fortunate that my boss is understanding, and I could probably do the above if we weren't swamped with work and if it wasn't too overlapped with my teammates (6-person team, so 2 of us leaving for the same week would be bad but not fatal). Most workers, especially in retail/food sectors closest in wage level to Uber can't dream of it. If your boss at Starbucks says you work on Saturday, your sister's birthday party will just have to wait (or you can swap).
Hell, even with my understanding boss and cushy job, I would absolutely love an arrangement where I make my pro-rated salary for every week (!) I want to work and can take unlimited pro-rated vacation without a single thought.
That's fine. I'll stick with my 5 weeks of actual PAID vacation (currently 3 weeks vacation with 2 weeks of paid personal time off that you accrue every year and can bank, earning 1 more week of vacation this year and 1 more week in 5 years) that I can already take any time I want because I don't have bosses that are dicks and my coworkers can cover the slack (although if you took a whole month off at a time you would be kind of an asshole, they can handle a week or two at a time). Oh yes, and this job is a full time job, pays a livable salary, and gives benefits. Why would I trade that for the "freedom" of a gig job?