So they do the only other thing available to them - surveil everyone! Not ideal, but sure beats just letting the next Bataclan attack happen in the UK
The irony is that mass surveillance will actually make detecting and stopping attacks much harder as people intent on doing harm will have to act independently, instead of conspiracies involving 5, 10, 20 people (more opportunity to uncover the plot). So while the severity of attacks might go down (hard for 1 guy to perpetrate high casualty attacks without captive targets (see the Pulse shootings or the truck rampage in France as exceptions), you will probably see a higher frequency overall in the number of attacks. It just might be 2 or 3 killed instead of 20-30.
That's what scares me. If Brexit had happened 2-3 years ago and Article 50 triggered, I feel like the presidential election would have gone a lot differently. People in the US saw Britain "stick it to the establish" and thought "let's go get us some of that", but haven't had the chance to see the likely fallout of when Britain (not the UK, as if Article 50 is ever triggered Scotland will most likely hold, and accept, another referendum on independence) does pull out of the EU. However, the EU is holding more and more firm on a hard Brexit (when the pro-Brexit crowd campaigned on a soft exit negotiating from a position of strength, which was an impossible promise) it is looking less and less likely that Article 50 ever even will be triggered, in which case nothing happens. Worst case is Britain leaves the EU, enters a recession, and is forced to accept EU terms (including free movement of people) in order to maintain trade with EU member states. Had Americans had time to see any of these outcomes I sincerely doubt we would have had the type of protest election we had this year.
What does what the previous British monarchy of hundreds of years ago during the age of colonization and exploration have to do with letting in some of the worst and most uncivilized and hostile people on the planet?
I will just leave theselinks here. Feel free to peruse at your leisure.
Nor will you or any other leftist hypocritical clown
Not too many liberals happen to attend small, rural, Baptist affiliated universities such as the one I attended (weekly chapel attendance was all but mandatory even). Of course, you just demonstrated a common tactic that many on the right are starting to employ: decry anyone who has an education-particularly in science or history- or doesn't toe the increasingly radicalized party line as a "leftist", as if that is supposed to be some kind of insult. I figure if the alt-right hates me and the alt-left hates me then I must be doing something right. The truth is I am something of a centrist in that I am pro limited government (which includes the government leaving abortion and gay marriage alone as it has no right controlling those things, if you or your religion don't like it the government isn't forcing you to have one yourself) and reasonable checks on firearm ownership such as mandatory safety, legal, and competency training (and I own multiple firearms, some of which are illegal to own in certain states).
So.....in order to keep others from making your country into a totalitarian state ruled by fear, you make your country a totalitarian state ruled by fear. Just wanted to make sure I understood you correctly.
Of course, the irony seems to be lost on you that most of the immigrants are coming from places that were under British protection of not outright British control at one time or another in the last 100 years. Karma can be a real bitch, huh?
It's so hard being a Nazi now a days, for some reason everyone seems to think your a vile repugnant monster.
Everyone knows anti-Naziism is really just a conspiracy run by the hair transplant and wing industries. Twitter is secretly funded by Rogaine! #sethtescalpfree
I just can't get away from the fact that in the whole article/summary it seems like 'music' is seen as a consumable. Not something that we can and should all act to create.
Listening to recordings of other people making music is a passive undertaking. In fact, oftentimes playing back recordings of music into an environment is a manipulative act to calm or alter the mood of those in that environment.
I view the 'classic rock' that drones on and on in many workplace environments as 'slave songs.' The same rotation of songs that I heard on the radio back in the kitchen when I was a dishwasher in an Italian restaurant in 1979 is played today. It's the tunes that keep the slaves calm, singing in the cotton field. Except we don't even sing them ourselves.
The fact that somebody is allowed (part of the time) to 'choose' which recordings of music (out of a catalog of the recordings that are made available) isn't that freeing. Only if we make music ourselves do we really participate in the act.
And if the world is wall-to-wall carpeted with music already, there's no room for us to participate, and certainly little possibility of us singing 'off the track.'
Or you know, people growing up in 1979 still like those songs and, since most of them are still alive and are a significant part of the population, those song keep getting played. If you don't like it just change the station (of course most pop these days is far worse).
Although, I guess logical thought would have taken away from your quasi-political ramblings, even though your point is incredibly vague to begin with(everyone can and should make music? No, they can't/or We're all slaves? Not really, go quit your job and live off the grid in Alaska if you want "true freedom)
So does that mean in a few years I have to go to the gun store to buy ammo if I want to play an FPS? Ammo is expensive enough now as it is. Also , if you buy a Class III weapon does that mean you can have access to it in game? Talk about play to win.
Why Americans call their rugby like game played with a rugby ball that rarely involves playing with the feet "football" is a mystery, but they do, much to the confusion of Americans who overhear foreigners discussing "Football" and don't recognize the team names.
Because it initially developed from a game that was similar to soccer in that you could not carry the ball but had to either kick or bat the ball to progress down the field. It was only a few decades later that the sport started to include more rugby-like rules, and even more decades before the gained the start/stop style of play and the forward pass was included.
Don't forget Jackson. Jackson was pretty much the heart and soul of the Army of Northern Virginia and his mere presence of the battlefield could literally turn the tide of battles. He and Longstreet were the 2 best corps commanders in the Confederate Army if not the whole American continent. And to be fair to Lee, he did not expect to fight at Gettysburg. He put too much reliance on JEB Stuart for reconnaissance and if Ewell had pushed the attack as ordered (it was a vague order but still an order) they quite possibly would have taken Cemetery Hill on the first day, completely changing the circumstances of the battle.
Apple doesn't manufacture in China for the price. It manufactures for the flexibility. When Apple says people have to work 24 hour shifts so that the iPhone 7 can meet its launch date people in China do that whereas people in US would not. Labor laws. Apple will bring back factories if forced to but will automate them instead of using humans. Heck during launch time even Apple Employees with masters degrees sleep at the office. How tolerant are they going to be of high school graduates refusing to work late because they have a daughters soccer match to attend
You are aware many companies that require 24/7 uptime just run multiple shifts, right? They could easily run production for 24 hours a day here in the US but it would require 3x the manpower to do so. Again, they could easily afford it without raising prices.
Americans already make cars. Even "Japanese" (Honda, Toyota) cars sold in the US are usually made in the US.
iPhones and other smartphones being made here will probably up the prices slightly, but most of the estimates I've heard are absurd.
iPhones could be made completely in the US and Apple could charge the exact same price for them as they do now and the only difference is Apple's profits would go from ridiculously obscene to only slightly obscene.
The problem is most people outside the aviation industry assume autopilot does pretty much everything, when in reality it just maintains speed and altitude along a preprogrammed route.
Depends on the autopilot. Category III and later autopilots can automatically land in autoland-compliant airports. And that functionality isn't particularly uncommon these days. And ACAS-capable planes will at least attempt to avoid a mid-air collision as well, but this hardware is relatively rare, I think.
What makes autopilot on the ground so different is how much higher the risk of travel path incursion is, whether temporarily (by other vehicles, pedestrians, or potholes) or permanently (by curbs, center barriers, etc.).
The thing about CAT II/III autoland is that you are doing it at a fixed location along a known and restricted path and it can only be done under certain conditions, and you know the flight crew isn't using it as a chance to crack open some beers and pregame before they hit the layover hotel bar, they are paying attention in case they need to take over or initiate a go around. Just like Tesla's autopilot.
From what I understand it's kind of an anti-Valentines Day. Basically a day for urban singles to spend money on things for themselves. A lot of young people in China have moved to the cities so have a decent amount of money, but reduced availability of women looking to be in relationships (due to a combination of young people focusing on careers and a carryover form the One Child Policy) means a lot of people aren't in relationships. Basically it's a Chinese Hallmark (ie made up) holiday to celebrate being single by buying yourself crap instead of buying it for a boyfriend or girlfriend.
The pilot is required to be constantly at the controls ready to take over. This use of the word also applies to cars. Problem is people get dependent on it.
The problem is most people outside the aviation industry assume autopilot does pretty much everything, when in reality it just maintains speed and altitude along a preprogrammed route. They should really rename it to "Copilot", as the reality is closer to PM/PF. Autopilot is doing the flying(PF), but the driver should be paying attention(monitoring) at all times to make sure the Autopilot doesn't screw up and should be ready to take over at any time(PM). I know this isn't exactly like PM/PF, but at least it might be a little less confusing for lay people than autopilot.
On the east coast, look at property values of the south compared to that of the north and you'll see the south is STILL paying for trying to secede from the union.
As a Southerner, I have a hard time seeing how it's a bad thing to pay on average $36 less per square foot than people in the Northeast do.
California's agricultural crops are not the full picture, or not as you may think. from TFA:
"California is also the biggest economy in the US and the sixth largest in the world with a gross state product of $2.496tn for 2015, according to the IMF."
Your fancy "grain fed cows" and amber fields of grain aren't really squat compared to the ~$2.5 $$ Trillion $$ GSP $$ of California now, don't ya think?
I think Calif would be just fine as it's own sovereign nation without being sucked dry by the new 3 ring shit show we just got handed.
A lot of that comes from Hollywood and the music industry. What happens when California secedes and now has to pay import/export duties for their film and music exports? Importation duties to the US for all those crops California grows? Oh, and all that power an electricity that California imports from the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest? International import duties! Oh, and good luck taking care of the 38 million+ people on welfare. Or are you like all the Brexit people and think that California could just leave but still keep free access to now international markets without any levying of duties?
Good. We can use a little sanity when it comes to our 2A rights.
Exactly. Like expanded background checks and mandatory safety and competency lessons for receiving a carry permit. And I say this as someone with a carry permit, multiple "hi capacity" handguns, an "assault weapon", and multiple other firearms. However, the NRA has pushed so hard to define "sane" gun control as "allow anything short of nuclear weapons to anyone with the money to buy them", and most gun control activists define "sane" as "even seeing a picture of a gun could cause irreparable harm to children and any gun that can hold more than 1 round at a time, is less than 5 feet long, doesn't have a stock, and isn't permanently chained to a 30lb cinder block should be illegal" that it's almost impossible to have sane discussions regarding gun control.
Really ANY federally mandated insurance purchase (health/auto/etc) should have a non-profit federal plan as an option. Otherwise you are mandating profits for corporations. This would have the added effect for forcing companies to provide competitive prices and/or services in order to pull customers away form the federal option. Plus this way we really can see if "private sector does it better".
Trump is less likely to start WWIII than Hillary Clinton was.
Trump is less likely to start WWIII much in the same way that Chamberlain didn't start WWII. It might not start under his watch(like it did with Chamberlain) but he can certainly help lay the conditions for it to start for his successor. If Putin continues his expansionism (both physical and influence), Trump is very unlikely to stop him.
The percentage of white males with power is extremely low. But the percentage of power in the hands of white males is extremely high. And I say that as a white male.
Trump is coming into office in the midst of yet another bubble from the Fed. That bubble's going to burst sooner or later, and they can make it happen tomorrow if they want, simply by stopping inflation. The correction that follows is necessary, but you can bet that the left will try to blame it on the Republicans.
-jcr
People have been predicting for months that the Fed would probably raise rates in December regardless of who won the election. My gut tells me that a Trump presidency will lead to the tech bubble collapsing.
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So they do the only other thing available to them - surveil everyone! Not ideal, but sure beats just letting the next Bataclan attack happen in the UK
The irony is that mass surveillance will actually make detecting and stopping attacks much harder as people intent on doing harm will have to act independently, instead of conspiracies involving 5, 10, 20 people (more opportunity to uncover the plot). So while the severity of attacks might go down (hard for 1 guy to perpetrate high casualty attacks without captive targets (see the Pulse shootings or the truck rampage in France as exceptions), you will probably see a higher frequency overall in the number of attacks. It just might be 2 or 3 killed instead of 20-30.
As the UK goes, so goes America.
That's what scares me. If Brexit had happened 2-3 years ago and Article 50 triggered, I feel like the presidential election would have gone a lot differently. People in the US saw Britain "stick it to the establish" and thought "let's go get us some of that", but haven't had the chance to see the likely fallout of when Britain (not the UK, as if Article 50 is ever triggered Scotland will most likely hold, and accept, another referendum on independence) does pull out of the EU. However, the EU is holding more and more firm on a hard Brexit (when the pro-Brexit crowd campaigned on a soft exit negotiating from a position of strength, which was an impossible promise) it is looking less and less likely that Article 50 ever even will be triggered, in which case nothing happens. Worst case is Britain leaves the EU, enters a recession, and is forced to accept EU terms (including free movement of people) in order to maintain trade with EU member states. Had Americans had time to see any of these outcomes I sincerely doubt we would have had the type of protest election we had this year.
What does what the previous British monarchy of hundreds of years ago during the age of colonization and exploration have to do with letting in some of the worst and most uncivilized and hostile people on the planet?
I will just leave these links here. Feel free to peruse at your leisure.
Nor will you or any other leftist hypocritical clown
Not too many liberals happen to attend small, rural, Baptist affiliated universities such as the one I attended (weekly chapel attendance was all but mandatory even). Of course, you just demonstrated a common tactic that many on the right are starting to employ: decry anyone who has an education-particularly in science or history- or doesn't toe the increasingly radicalized party line as a "leftist", as if that is supposed to be some kind of insult. I figure if the alt-right hates me and the alt-left hates me then I must be doing something right. The truth is I am something of a centrist in that I am pro limited government (which includes the government leaving abortion and gay marriage alone as it has no right controlling those things, if you or your religion don't like it the government isn't forcing you to have one yourself) and reasonable checks on firearm ownership such as mandatory safety, legal, and competency training (and I own multiple firearms, some of which are illegal to own in certain states).
Of course, the irony seems to be lost on you that most of the immigrants are coming from places that were under British protection of not outright British control at one time or another in the last 100 years. Karma can be a real bitch, huh?
It's so hard being a Nazi now a days, for some reason everyone seems to think your a vile repugnant monster.
Everyone knows anti-Naziism is really just a conspiracy run by the hair transplant and wing industries. Twitter is secretly funded by Rogaine! #sethtescalpfree
I just can't get away from the fact that in the whole article/summary it seems like 'music' is seen as a consumable. Not something that we can and should all act to create.
Listening to recordings of other people making music is a passive undertaking. In fact, oftentimes playing back recordings of music into an environment is a manipulative act to calm or alter the mood of those in that environment.
I view the 'classic rock' that drones on and on in many workplace environments as 'slave songs.' The same rotation of songs that I heard on the radio back in the kitchen when I was a dishwasher in an Italian restaurant in 1979 is played today. It's the tunes that keep the slaves calm, singing in the cotton field. Except we don't even sing them ourselves.
The fact that somebody is allowed (part of the time) to 'choose' which recordings of music (out of a catalog of the recordings that are made available) isn't that freeing. Only if we make music ourselves do we really participate in the act.
And if the world is wall-to-wall carpeted with music already, there's no room for us to participate, and certainly little possibility of us singing 'off the track.'
Or you know, people growing up in 1979 still like those songs and, since most of them are still alive and are a significant part of the population, those song keep getting played. If you don't like it just change the station (of course most pop these days is far worse).
Although, I guess logical thought would have taken away from your quasi-political ramblings, even though your point is incredibly vague to begin with(everyone can and should make music? No, they can't/or We're all slaves? Not really, go quit your job and live off the grid in Alaska if you want "true freedom)
So does that mean in a few years I have to go to the gun store to buy ammo if I want to play an FPS? Ammo is expensive enough now as it is. Also , if you buy a Class III weapon does that mean you can have access to it in game? Talk about play to win.
Why Americans call their rugby like game played with a rugby ball that rarely involves playing with the feet "football" is a mystery, but they do, much to the confusion of Americans who overhear foreigners discussing "Football" and don't recognize the team names.
Because it initially developed from a game that was similar to soccer in that you could not carry the ball but had to either kick or bat the ball to progress down the field. It was only a few decades later that the sport started to include more rugby-like rules, and even more decades before the gained the start/stop style of play and the forward pass was included.
Oh yeah, the Union never did anything like that....*cough* Sherman*cough*. Sorry, allergies
Don't forget Jackson. Jackson was pretty much the heart and soul of the Army of Northern Virginia and his mere presence of the battlefield could literally turn the tide of battles. He and Longstreet were the 2 best corps commanders in the Confederate Army if not the whole American continent. And to be fair to Lee, he did not expect to fight at Gettysburg. He put too much reliance on JEB Stuart for reconnaissance and if Ewell had pushed the attack as ordered (it was a vague order but still an order) they quite possibly would have taken Cemetery Hill on the first day, completely changing the circumstances of the battle.
Apple doesn't manufacture in China for the price. It manufactures for the flexibility. When Apple says people have to work 24 hour shifts so that the iPhone 7 can meet its launch date people in China do that whereas people in US would not. Labor laws. Apple will bring back factories if forced to but will automate them instead of using humans. Heck during launch time even Apple Employees with masters degrees sleep at the office. How tolerant are they going to be of high school graduates refusing to work late because they have a daughters soccer match to attend
You are aware many companies that require 24/7 uptime just run multiple shifts, right? They could easily run production for 24 hours a day here in the US but it would require 3x the manpower to do so. Again, they could easily afford it without raising prices.
Americans already make cars. Even "Japanese" (Honda, Toyota) cars sold in the US are usually made in the US.
iPhones and other smartphones being made here will probably up the prices slightly, but most of the estimates I've heard are absurd.
iPhones could be made completely in the US and Apple could charge the exact same price for them as they do now and the only difference is Apple's profits would go from ridiculously obscene to only slightly obscene.
Depends on the autopilot. Category III and later autopilots can automatically land in autoland-compliant airports. And that functionality isn't particularly uncommon these days. And ACAS-capable planes will at least attempt to avoid a mid-air collision as well, but this hardware is relatively rare, I think.
What makes autopilot on the ground so different is how much higher the risk of travel path incursion is, whether temporarily (by other vehicles, pedestrians, or potholes) or permanently (by curbs, center barriers, etc.).
The thing about CAT II/III autoland is that you are doing it at a fixed location along a known and restricted path and it can only be done under certain conditions, and you know the flight crew isn't using it as a chance to crack open some beers and pregame before they hit the layover hotel bar, they are paying attention in case they need to take over or initiate a go around. Just like Tesla's autopilot.
And what is Singles' Day?
From what I understand it's kind of an anti-Valentines Day. Basically a day for urban singles to spend money on things for themselves. A lot of young people in China have moved to the cities so have a decent amount of money, but reduced availability of women looking to be in relationships (due to a combination of young people focusing on careers and a carryover form the One Child Policy) means a lot of people aren't in relationships. Basically it's a Chinese Hallmark (ie made up) holiday to celebrate being single by buying yourself crap instead of buying it for a boyfriend or girlfriend.
The pilot is required to be constantly at the controls ready to take over. This use of the word also applies to cars. Problem is people get dependent on it.
The problem is most people outside the aviation industry assume autopilot does pretty much everything, when in reality it just maintains speed and altitude along a preprogrammed route. They should really rename it to "Copilot", as the reality is closer to PM/PF. Autopilot is doing the flying(PF), but the driver should be paying attention(monitoring) at all times to make sure the Autopilot doesn't screw up and should be ready to take over at any time(PM). I know this isn't exactly like PM/PF, but at least it might be a little less confusing for lay people than autopilot.
On the east coast, look at property values of the south compared to that of the north and you'll see the south is STILL paying for trying to secede from the union.
As a Southerner, I have a hard time seeing how it's a bad thing to pay on average $36 less per square foot than people in the Northeast do.
California's agricultural crops are not the full picture, or not as you may think. from TFA: "California is also the biggest economy in the US and the sixth largest in the world with a gross state product of $2.496tn for 2015, according to the IMF."
Your fancy "grain fed cows" and amber fields of grain aren't really squat compared to the ~$2.5 $$ Trillion $$ GSP $$ of California now, don't ya think? I think Calif would be just fine as it's own sovereign nation without being sucked dry by the new 3 ring shit show we just got handed.
A lot of that comes from Hollywood and the music industry. What happens when California secedes and now has to pay import/export duties for their film and music exports? Importation duties to the US for all those crops California grows? Oh, and all that power an electricity that California imports from the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest? International import duties! Oh, and good luck taking care of the 38 million+ people on welfare. Or are you like all the Brexit people and think that California could just leave but still keep free access to now international markets without any levying of duties?
Good. We can use a little sanity when it comes to our 2A rights.
Exactly. Like expanded background checks and mandatory safety and competency lessons for receiving a carry permit. And I say this as someone with a carry permit, multiple "hi capacity" handguns, an "assault weapon", and multiple other firearms. However, the NRA has pushed so hard to define "sane" gun control as "allow anything short of nuclear weapons to anyone with the money to buy them", and most gun control activists define "sane" as "even seeing a picture of a gun could cause irreparable harm to children and any gun that can hold more than 1 round at a time, is less than 5 feet long, doesn't have a stock, and isn't permanently chained to a 30lb cinder block should be illegal" that it's almost impossible to have sane discussions regarding gun control.
I hope he ends up hiring competent advisors and not just his buddies.
How much do you want to bet he names Chris Christie Transportation Secretary?
Really ANY federally mandated insurance purchase (health/auto/etc) should have a non-profit federal plan as an option. Otherwise you are mandating profits for corporations. This would have the added effect for forcing companies to provide competitive prices and/or services in order to pull customers away form the federal option. Plus this way we really can see if "private sector does it better".
Trump is less likely to start WWIII than Hillary Clinton was.
Trump is less likely to start WWIII much in the same way that Chamberlain didn't start WWII. It might not start under his watch(like it did with Chamberlain) but he can certainly help lay the conditions for it to start for his successor. If Putin continues his expansionism (both physical and influence), Trump is very unlikely to stop him.
Congress MAY agree to build a wall, but the actual result would probably make the F-35 program look like something inexpensive and effective.
And what are the odds that the companies that get hired to build the wall are affiliated with Trump or have worked for him in the past?
Very few white males have any power.
The percentage of white males with power is extremely low. But the percentage of power in the hands of white males is extremely high. And I say that as a white male.
Trump is coming into office in the midst of yet another bubble from the Fed. That bubble's going to burst sooner or later, and they can make it happen tomorrow if they want, simply by stopping inflation. The correction that follows is necessary, but you can bet that the left will try to blame it on the Republicans.
-jcr
People have been predicting for months that the Fed would probably raise rates in December regardless of who won the election. My gut tells me that a Trump presidency will lead to the tech bubble collapsing.
Well, the whole "we need to stop Muslim travel to the US" thing us a pretty big clue