"Vilification of "the other" (Jews vs Latinos/Muslims) " is fake news and only believe by people that did not really listen to what he was saying. i.e. a characterization created by his political opponents.
"Criminals and rapists", "bad hombres", "Bowling Green Massacre", "thousands of Muslims cheering in the streets of New Jersey" after 9/11. If that's not vilification I don't know what is.
Hitler breathed air. You breathe air. Therefore you are literally Hitler. None of the things you explicitly mentioned that Hitler did are the thigs Hitler did with certainty wrong. You hint at things he did wrong, but killing millions of people who are of a certain religious pursuasion, is nothing substantiality like prioritizing one religion over another. You may have a valid criticism about the religious prioritizing, but trying to say it is of the same issue as what Hitler did is nonsense.
The argument is more that the themes Hitler played on to get to power are the exact same themes Trump has used. Vilification of "the other" (Jews vs Latinos/Muslims) as undermining the values and success of the country, proclaiming a desire to return the country to an idealized "golden age" (Third Reich vs Make America Great Again), vowing to end treaties that have damaged the ability for the country to go and prevent the creation of jobs (Versailles vs.....NAFTA/free trade I guess?-Trump has really played up the negative effects these treaties have had on his power base), building up the "exceptionalism" of the majority of the powerbase and thereby heaping suspicion and scorn on "outsiders" (immigrants or those perceived to not be part of the superior members of the powerbase), and finally decrediting and sowing distrust toward the establishment and those deemed to be working with/acting as agents of the establishment ("Drain the swamp", MSM, "alternative facts).
Fascist, and authoritarian in general, leaders (assuming they haven't come into power through violent means such as revolution or coup) gain power through building up their powerbase, telling them that they are special, superior, and the backbone of the country while pointing towards a chosen enemy(sometimes internal, sometimes foreign) and using that enemy as the scapegoat for why the powerbase has been held down or otherwise been unable to achieve or capitalize off their innate superiority. Once that enemy is identified and targeted, the leader tries to identify himself as one of the people, part of the powerbase, then proclaims that he alone has the capability of removing the roadblocks and obstacles of the enemy and allowing the powerbase to finally achieve their heretofore unattainable (or lost) superiority. This is often accompanied by creating a cult of personality around the leader along with an inner circle whose job is to provide en echo chamber for the leader as well as make sure the information released to the public maintains the cult of personality and stays on message.
So let's say you need core Java programmers in Charlotte, and can't find them. Now, under this law, you can't bring in people from Bangalore either. So are you likely to find them in SC or WV or AL?
Well, the research triangle in NC is bound to have some people that you can attract. You're close enough to ATL which has a pretty good tech industry (not to mention GA Tech for recent grads). A little bit further west and you have Huntsville which has a ridiculous amount of PhDs (many with smart kids who probably went into tech) and Nashville which has a reputable school in Vandy. Any major college like Duke, UNC, SC, UT, Vandy, UGA, Ga Tech, Auburn, Bama, Clemson, etc will have CS programs, and many of your smaller schools in the region might have them as well. Why don't you actually try looking?
So the Iraqi that got detained at JFK on Friday that had a valid visa was doing a bad thing when he worked as a translator for US forces in Iraq? And let's not forget that family of Syrian Orthodox Christian extremists that got turned back in Philly. Nothing but terrorists they are.
What's the point of even doing a backup if you overwrite the only copy every time? If the backup ran after he opened the file you should be able to access the previous backup
A big space that I see where this technology would be very useful would be in flight training. Full flight simulators are extremely expensive and break down very easily. Flight Training Devices are cheaper but barely offer visuals (except level 6/7 FTDs) and in some cases don't even have physical controls and rely on flat panels to display the cockpit layout. Using AR/VR headsets along with tracking gloves (assuming low latency) would allow training programs to rely more on FTDs than on full flight sims, saving costs both in device cost and energy used as FFS's are more expensive than FTDs in both cases. Say $20k per FTD for 2-3 sets of gloves and 4 headsets (1 set glove/headset each for 2 students and an instructor, 1 headset for observer) and you could use FTDs for most sim training, reserving FFS's for check rides for type rating and maybe one or 2 classes of sim training prior to the checking event for familiarization with the sim and getting full motion feedback for maneuvers. It would also reduce cost further by just needing the control panels for feedback and dispensing with the half-cockpit layout that some FTDs have as the cockpit can simply be simulated in the headset.
The reason cabbies don't use GPS is that it'd be too obvious when they take you on the scenic route, or get you stuck in traffic intentionally.
In the rare times where I am in another city and taking a cab, I always pull up my destination on Google Maps or Waze and use that to track where we are going to make sure we aren't "detouring".
At least production companies and producers are actually putting their money in up front. It carries a risk of loss and directly contributes to creating the film by helping to fund the crew, makeup, sets, etc. Amazon bought the rights after it was screened at Sundance, which means the whole movie was already done.
And on top of that, according to the summary, all Amazon did was purchase distribution rights to the movie. They weren't involved in creating it in any way. They didn't earn an Oscar nomination, they bought one.
This is why we need basic income. Nobody should have to live like that, especially people who are motivated and actively looking for more work.
He chose to quit the job he was currently in and drive for Uber instead. His biggest mistake is leasing a car from Uber. To be fair, Uber is in trouble currently for not meeting the advertised terms and conditions of the leases and it could be argued he was misled into believing he could easily pay off the lease at the rate they promised. However, you really shouldn't be driving for Uber unless you have your own car. And if he had his own car, he would have been better off keeping his original job and using Uber as a side job for extra cash. Of course, Uber nothing more than an illegal cab company exploiting poorer or disadvantaged people as a cheap labor force and skimming everything they can off the top.
If Trump had died before being sworn in, would the vice-president elect get prompted or would the Electoral College re-vote?
Obama is technically still the President until Trump is sworn in (and Pence, even though having taken the oath already, isn't VP until Trump is sworn in). SO if something were to happen Obama would most likely remain president until Pence is able to be sworn in as President, assuming whatever took out Trump didn't get Pence. If all of them were taken out the Jeh Johnson would have become president as he was the designated survivor.
CNN's international site I believe was carrying a story that mentioned the 6 survivors found. I think it was CNN at least, might have been AJE, can't remember.
In these days of 24 hour news cycles and online publication, journalists and editors don't have time to do basic things like fact check with experts or even spell/grammar check. With no print deadlines they can throw up anything online at any time and easily edit it later, and preferably give it a nice clickbait title. It's the race to be first that journalism has always had but taken to an extreme combined with the fact that many journalists don't have the background or interest in the field the topic they are writing on is in.
If you invested your hard earned money instead of buying an iPod, iPhone or iPad (when they came out) , into Apple stock, you'd be able to buy all three today, and have money left over.
Back in the early 80s my grandparents bought $100 worth of Apple stock. They promptly forgot about it as Apple didn't pay out dividends for years. All of a sudden a couple years ago they got a check in the mail from Apple once they started paying out again. Turns out their stock had been split a few times and ended up owning about $20k worth of shares that they sold off. Not bad for a $100 investment. If only they could have been able to afford $1000 worth of stock back then, but my grandfather was a college basketball coach and not making all that much money.
If you're invested in index funds, as you should be
Since I'm pretty young (only 30) so I have plenty of time, my plan is to wait until we have the next tech bubble crash which will likely damage the value of index funds. That way I can shift part of my 401k and personal savings into the index funds when they are low and ride the recovery wave. I'll just have to talk the wife into letting me do so.
An aristocracy has formed in this country. And when I see so many companies that recruit exclusively from top schools (BS MIT? Come right in! BS CS State, uh, housekeeping is looking for people.), it gets real discouraging. And aggravating.
I heard complaints from recruiters about how hard it is and the bidding wars for new CS grads. I was incredulous at this "shortage" so I asked what was so hard?
They and many other firms in the area ONLY recruit from GA Tech. If you to state - even if you do really well - you're SOL.
Kind of sucks for that poor white male kid who doesn't want the debt and can't live on campus for the costs decides to commute to say, Kennesaw State U from his parents northern GA home, busts his ass, does really well, only to be discounted because he went to the "wrong" school.
What those top schools have going for them is that they only accept the top students and legacies; which then enhances the reputation of the school even more.
Well, to be fair State doesn't really have the rep Tech does, and it's facilities are horrible. I'm glad I only went there for my Master's degree and went out of state for my undergrad. As for north metro, well, up until recently if you wanted to do tech but stay local you went to Southern Poly, but I guess that's changed now when KSU bought them out. But KSU is starting to get a bit of a pretty good rep around here too from what I can tell. Since I live in Woodstock I am considering doing KSU's project management course. Not wasting money on an MBA when I'm still paying off loans for my MA in IR from Ga State. Of course, if I had decided to go do my undergrad at Tech I would be in a different field and probably making double what I am now....I really should have picked that biomed engineering internship at Tech over the one with the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History my senior year of high school, but once a history nerd always a history nerd.
Democrats are the media / communication company whores, not the republicans.
Or, you know, it's both. In this particular case you have a Democratic AG in a state with a majority Republican stage government (including governor) for legislation that hurts the public but helps communication companies. Cloris Leachman in Beerfest might as well have been speaking for both parties when she said "We are all whores".
With the exception of Game of Thrones and Westworld all their new content is terrible. Even the bad Netflix originals like "The OA" are better than the garbage on HBO. And that's actually the problem with the Netflix business model. It's become just another HBO. And the problem with that is once you become just a content studio you're entire business model is a slave to your talent. Once the people currently in charge of content production get too old, leave or lose their current edge in some other way the business will start to come undone a la HBO which certainly has seen much better days. I love Netflix but wouldn't own the stock.
The thing about HBO is people will pay the subscription fee every month for just one of those shows. One really good show with very high production value like Game of Thrones, Westworld, The Sopranos, and even short stuff like Band of Brothers or The Pacific, and you can milk that show and move on to the next. I'm sad to say I am one of those people. I hardly ever watch HBO currently outside of Game of Thrones, Westworld, and a movie or 2 on demand. BUt those shows are good enough for me to justify keeping my subscription up. GoT is winding down but Westworld should have some decent legs, especially if they can expand into the world (and other parks) outside of the Westworld park itself. They just have to keep finding that one show(hell, just make sure to cast Ed Harris in a major role and I'll probably watch it, he makes one hell of an ambiguous bad guy).
If there is any real threat from Amazon/Netflix/etc it's not necessarily the quality of the show that will do in HBO (of course they do have the quality with shows like OITNB, Stranger Things, and Narcos) but more the fact that, for so long, HBO was the only place where you could find shows like that, that they could have content that other networks couldn't. But now you can find that content on Netflix or Amazon. That's the real danger.
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So, you mean Obama.
Obama was a populist. Mixing nationalism with populism like Trump has is what takes you down the road toward fascism.
"Vilification of "the other" (Jews vs Latinos/Muslims) " is fake news and only believe by people that did not really listen to what he was saying. i.e. a characterization created by his political opponents.
"Criminals and rapists", "bad hombres", "Bowling Green Massacre", "thousands of Muslims cheering in the streets of New Jersey" after 9/11. If that's not vilification I don't know what is.
Hitler breathed air. You breathe air. Therefore you are literally Hitler. None of the things you explicitly mentioned that Hitler did are the thigs Hitler did with certainty wrong. You hint at things he did wrong, but killing millions of people who are of a certain religious pursuasion, is nothing substantiality like prioritizing one religion over another. You may have a valid criticism about the religious prioritizing, but trying to say it is of the same issue as what Hitler did is nonsense.
The argument is more that the themes Hitler played on to get to power are the exact same themes Trump has used. Vilification of "the other" (Jews vs Latinos/Muslims) as undermining the values and success of the country, proclaiming a desire to return the country to an idealized "golden age" (Third Reich vs Make America Great Again), vowing to end treaties that have damaged the ability for the country to go and prevent the creation of jobs (Versailles vs.....NAFTA/free trade I guess?-Trump has really played up the negative effects these treaties have had on his power base), building up the "exceptionalism" of the majority of the powerbase and thereby heaping suspicion and scorn on "outsiders" (immigrants or those perceived to not be part of the superior members of the powerbase), and finally decrediting and sowing distrust toward the establishment and those deemed to be working with/acting as agents of the establishment ("Drain the swamp", MSM, "alternative facts).
Fascist, and authoritarian in general, leaders (assuming they haven't come into power through violent means such as revolution or coup) gain power through building up their powerbase, telling them that they are special, superior, and the backbone of the country while pointing towards a chosen enemy(sometimes internal, sometimes foreign) and using that enemy as the scapegoat for why the powerbase has been held down or otherwise been unable to achieve or capitalize off their innate superiority. Once that enemy is identified and targeted, the leader tries to identify himself as one of the people, part of the powerbase, then proclaims that he alone has the capability of removing the roadblocks and obstacles of the enemy and allowing the powerbase to finally achieve their heretofore unattainable (or lost) superiority. This is often accompanied by creating a cult of personality around the leader along with an inner circle whose job is to provide en echo chamber for the leader as well as make sure the information released to the public maintains the cult of personality and stays on message.
So let's say you need core Java programmers in Charlotte, and can't find them. Now, under this law, you can't bring in people from Bangalore either. So are you likely to find them in SC or WV or AL?
Well, the research triangle in NC is bound to have some people that you can attract. You're close enough to ATL which has a pretty good tech industry (not to mention GA Tech for recent grads). A little bit further west and you have Huntsville which has a ridiculous amount of PhDs (many with smart kids who probably went into tech) and Nashville which has a reputable school in Vandy. Any major college like Duke, UNC, SC, UT, Vandy, UGA, Ga Tech, Auburn, Bama, Clemson, etc will have CS programs, and many of your smaller schools in the region might have them as well. Why don't you actually try looking?
Maybe offer to buy everyone in Ireland a cask of Irish whiskey and a round of Guinness?
So the Iraqi that got detained at JFK on Friday that had a valid visa was doing a bad thing when he worked as a translator for US forces in Iraq? And let's not forget that family of Syrian Orthodox Christian extremists that got turned back in Philly. Nothing but terrorists they are.
What's the point of even doing a backup if you overwrite the only copy every time? If the backup ran after he opened the file you should be able to access the previous backup
A big space that I see where this technology would be very useful would be in flight training. Full flight simulators are extremely expensive and break down very easily. Flight Training Devices are cheaper but barely offer visuals (except level 6/7 FTDs) and in some cases don't even have physical controls and rely on flat panels to display the cockpit layout. Using AR/VR headsets along with tracking gloves (assuming low latency) would allow training programs to rely more on FTDs than on full flight sims, saving costs both in device cost and energy used as FFS's are more expensive than FTDs in both cases. Say $20k per FTD for 2-3 sets of gloves and 4 headsets (1 set glove/headset each for 2 students and an instructor, 1 headset for observer) and you could use FTDs for most sim training, reserving FFS's for check rides for type rating and maybe one or 2 classes of sim training prior to the checking event for familiarization with the sim and getting full motion feedback for maneuvers. It would also reduce cost further by just needing the control panels for feedback and dispensing with the half-cockpit layout that some FTDs have as the cockpit can simply be simulated in the headset.
Even then only when done out of season.
The reason cabbies don't use GPS is that it'd be too obvious when they take you on the scenic route, or get you stuck in traffic intentionally.
In the rare times where I am in another city and taking a cab, I always pull up my destination on Google Maps or Waze and use that to track where we are going to make sure we aren't "detouring".
We all know what the real answer would be, but most companies won't reimburse for hookers and blow.
At least production companies and producers are actually putting their money in up front. It carries a risk of loss and directly contributes to creating the film by helping to fund the crew, makeup, sets, etc. Amazon bought the rights after it was screened at Sundance, which means the whole movie was already done.
And on top of that, according to the summary, all Amazon did was purchase distribution rights to the movie. They weren't involved in creating it in any way. They didn't earn an Oscar nomination, they bought one.
You thought IBM meant 25,000 net jobs?
This is why we need basic income. Nobody should have to live like that, especially people who are motivated and actively looking for more work.
He chose to quit the job he was currently in and drive for Uber instead. His biggest mistake is leasing a car from Uber. To be fair, Uber is in trouble currently for not meeting the advertised terms and conditions of the leases and it could be argued he was misled into believing he could easily pay off the lease at the rate they promised. However, you really shouldn't be driving for Uber unless you have your own car. And if he had his own car, he would have been better off keeping his original job and using Uber as a side job for extra cash. Of course, Uber nothing more than an illegal cab company exploiting poorer or disadvantaged people as a cheap labor force and skimming everything they can off the top.
If Trump had died before being sworn in, would the vice-president elect get prompted or would the Electoral College re-vote?
Obama is technically still the President until Trump is sworn in (and Pence, even though having taken the oath already, isn't VP until Trump is sworn in). SO if something were to happen Obama would most likely remain president until Pence is able to be sworn in as President, assuming whatever took out Trump didn't get Pence. If all of them were taken out the Jeh Johnson would have become president as he was the designated survivor.
It seems that Islam was not represented ?
I am dismayed by the number of times "God" was referenced, sigh.
Well, Islam and Christianity do worship the same god, so.....
CNN's international site I believe was carrying a story that mentioned the 6 survivors found. I think it was CNN at least, might have been AJE, can't remember.
In these days of 24 hour news cycles and online publication, journalists and editors don't have time to do basic things like fact check with experts or even spell/grammar check. With no print deadlines they can throw up anything online at any time and easily edit it later, and preferably give it a nice clickbait title. It's the race to be first that journalism has always had but taken to an extreme combined with the fact that many journalists don't have the background or interest in the field the topic they are writing on is in.
If you invested your hard earned money instead of buying an iPod, iPhone or iPad (when they came out) , into Apple stock, you'd be able to buy all three today, and have money left over.
Back in the early 80s my grandparents bought $100 worth of Apple stock. They promptly forgot about it as Apple didn't pay out dividends for years. All of a sudden a couple years ago they got a check in the mail from Apple once they started paying out again. Turns out their stock had been split a few times and ended up owning about $20k worth of shares that they sold off. Not bad for a $100 investment. If only they could have been able to afford $1000 worth of stock back then, but my grandfather was a college basketball coach and not making all that much money.
If you're invested in index funds, as you should be
Since I'm pretty young (only 30) so I have plenty of time, my plan is to wait until we have the next tech bubble crash which will likely damage the value of index funds. That way I can shift part of my 401k and personal savings into the index funds when they are low and ride the recovery wave. I'll just have to talk the wife into letting me do so.
An aristocracy has formed in this country. And when I see so many companies that recruit exclusively from top schools (BS MIT? Come right in! BS CS State, uh, housekeeping is looking for people.), it gets real discouraging. And aggravating.
I heard complaints from recruiters about how hard it is and the bidding wars for new CS grads. I was incredulous at this "shortage" so I asked what was so hard?
They and many other firms in the area ONLY recruit from GA Tech. If you to state - even if you do really well - you're SOL.
Kind of sucks for that poor white male kid who doesn't want the debt and can't live on campus for the costs decides to commute to say, Kennesaw State U from his parents northern GA home, busts his ass, does really well, only to be discounted because he went to the "wrong" school.
What those top schools have going for them is that they only accept the top students and legacies; which then enhances the reputation of the school even more.
Well, to be fair State doesn't really have the rep Tech does, and it's facilities are horrible. I'm glad I only went there for my Master's degree and went out of state for my undergrad. As for north metro, well, up until recently if you wanted to do tech but stay local you went to Southern Poly, but I guess that's changed now when KSU bought them out. But KSU is starting to get a bit of a pretty good rep around here too from what I can tell. Since I live in Woodstock I am considering doing KSU's project management course. Not wasting money on an MBA when I'm still paying off loans for my MA in IR from Ga State. Of course, if I had decided to go do my undergrad at Tech I would be in a different field and probably making double what I am now....I really should have picked that biomed engineering internship at Tech over the one with the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History my senior year of high school, but once a history nerd always a history nerd.
Democrats are the media / communication company whores, not the republicans.
Or, you know, it's both. In this particular case you have a Democratic AG in a state with a majority Republican stage government (including governor) for legislation that hurts the public but helps communication companies. Cloris Leachman in Beerfest might as well have been speaking for both parties when she said "We are all whores".
With the exception of Game of Thrones and Westworld all their new content is terrible. Even the bad Netflix originals like "The OA" are better than the garbage on HBO. And that's actually the problem with the Netflix business model. It's become just another HBO. And the problem with that is once you become just a content studio you're entire business model is a slave to your talent. Once the people currently in charge of content production get too old, leave or lose their current edge in some other way the business will start to come undone a la HBO which certainly has seen much better days. I love Netflix but wouldn't own the stock.
The thing about HBO is people will pay the subscription fee every month for just one of those shows. One really good show with very high production value like Game of Thrones, Westworld, The Sopranos, and even short stuff like Band of Brothers or The Pacific, and you can milk that show and move on to the next. I'm sad to say I am one of those people. I hardly ever watch HBO currently outside of Game of Thrones, Westworld, and a movie or 2 on demand. BUt those shows are good enough for me to justify keeping my subscription up. GoT is winding down but Westworld should have some decent legs, especially if they can expand into the world (and other parks) outside of the Westworld park itself. They just have to keep finding that one show(hell, just make sure to cast Ed Harris in a major role and I'll probably watch it, he makes one hell of an ambiguous bad guy).
If there is any real threat from Amazon/Netflix/etc it's not necessarily the quality of the show that will do in HBO (of course they do have the quality with shows like OITNB, Stranger Things, and Narcos) but more the fact that, for so long, HBO was the only place where you could find shows like that, that they could have content that other networks couldn't. But now you can find that content on Netflix or Amazon. That's the real danger.
I'm thinking more along the lines of the killer rat swarms from Dishonored.