Maintaining existing fleets of aircraft doesn't advance your career, let you stroke your ego by putting your name on a big budget project, or guarantee you a nice cushy position at a defense contractor (on top of your flag officer pension) after you retire like the LCS, F35, etc do.
Well if it's build quality is anything like the LCS they won't have to wait long. One of the littoral combat ships recently cracked it's hull just transiting the Panama Canal, and I believe has has repeated engine troubles as well. I think the Navy is trying to race the F35 project to see who can spend the most money and get the least amount of operational equipment for it.
If only we had this machine that could take paper and...let's see, what's the word I'm looking for... ah, yes, scan that paper and convert it to a format that can be easily stored on a computer and even converted into searchable data. Now of course they would also need to make this scanning machine small and cheap enough that multiple people could have their own machine, making the process a lot quicker than a single person sitting there scanning each hard copy. Someone really should invent this, it would make life a lot easier.
Credit unions are better. The Wells Fargo branch office in my neighborhood lost a lot of business when a credit union opened up next door. I moved my accounts over when my bankruptcy attorney told me that Wells Fargo would freeze my accounts when they get the legal paperwork.
Yeah, I'm part of a credit union through my employer (it is no loner solely for employees any more, however) that I have my mortgage through, but my wife didn't want to leave Suntrust when we got married for our day to day banking. But at least credit unions aren't completely soulless like most banks are.
That's cute, you actually think Republicans will maintain majorities in Congress.Trump has poisoned a lot of independents and moderates against the Republican brand, myself included.
I love that a good synthetic diamond simply can't be distinguished from the real thing without the aid of very advanced technology. Specifically, that even a trained diamond cutter with decades of experience working with diamonds can't tell without the assistance of advanced technology.
Then they try to tell the public that synthetic is somehow bad.
I didn't even buy my wife a diamond for her engagement ring. We decided on a white sapphire that was a third of the price of a comparable diamond (which was nice because at the time I was making half of what I make now) and literally no one outside our immediate family (and even some of them) have no idea that it is not a diamond. The rock itself is fairly big so people assume it was a pricey ring too, which is always nice.
Starship troopers 3 really lost me with the whole "no religion" thing, since in the book they made sure to point out that every single individual unit had a soldier pulling double duty in a religious capacity and that all religions were welcome and expression of religion was in fact encouraged.
Sell the Peshmerga real weapons and Iraq won't touch them.
We already have special forces...I'm sorry, "advisors"....embedded with the Peshmerga in Iraq/Syria, so we probably aren't too far away from arming them if we haven't already. There's even photos of special forces fighting with Kurds in Syria (if you need proof besides the beards that they are special forces, in the second picture the soldier in the back is carrying an FN SCAR which is only issued in special forces in the US military).
I think it's almost certain that the coup wasn't really a coup. It's a shame, Turkey was really making strides towards being a true modern democracy until Erdogan came along.
This coup also had the side effect of allowing Erdogan to purge a lot of the top military brass and replace them with officers more loyal to him. This is important as the Turkish military had traditionally played the role of maintaining Turkey's secular status by undertaking coups. He has pretty much assured that there will be no military intervention any time soon in domestic politics.
And this, is the reason that the US can't have an open-ended alliance w/ the Kurds. The Kurds, whether in Iraq or Syria or even Turkey, would be happy to join forces to combat Jihadist terror in their lands, be it ISIS, Saddam, Shias or Sunnis. Just one problem - Turkey
Correction, 2 problems: you forgot Iraq. Any independent Kurdistan would take a large chunk of land(with a lot of oil) from Iraq. Iraq doesn't want to give up control of that area and would firmly resist any policy that could cause it. If the US supported a Kurdistan then Iraq would very quickly turn to others(namely Russia, but possibly China) for support. It's sad too, as the Peshmerga have made strong gains against Daesh in Iraq and are one of the more effective groups fighting in Syria.
In regards to Turkey, it is important to note that they have already begun moving troops to the Iraq border and made some very troubling comments regarding the fighting near Tal Afar, namely that they would retaliate if any ethnic Turk citizens are mistreated during the fighting. Things could quite possibly get even more complicated in the Levant than they are now.
Given all the things that Erdogan has done in the wake of the 'coup', it makes me wonder whether it was actually a coup attempt, or just Erdogan's version of the Reichstag fire.
A couple thousand troops (most of whom had no idea what was going on at all anyway) mobilized only in the capital, halfhearted attempts to take over local media outlets but no attempt to take over media outlets or military bases in other parts of Turkey, and most of the "leaders"of the coup miraculously killed riding in the same helicopter and you couldn't realize the coup was staged until Erdogan started arresting hundreds of generals and admirals (gee, you'd think with this many high ranking officers involved that the coup would have been more widespread, huh?), thousands of soldiers, teachers, and school administrators; declared an opposition figure living in exile in the US as Turkey's Osama bin Laden; starting rounding up political opponents; and lastly cutting off social media(well, this one I can support at any rate)?
Indeed it is advisory. Now when we clarified this explain please how are you going to deal with the opinion of significant majority of the country?
The easiest way is probably to devise a specific plan for how to execute Brexit, and then have another referendum. If they choose a soft Brexit then the voters will know immigration policy and EU regulation enforcement will be left unchanged, and voters who cared about that will probably not vote for Brexit. If they choose a hard Brexit then those who don't want to leave the single market will probably not vote for Brexit.
The UK doesn't get to decide how hard or soft Brexit will be, the EU does. And the EU has already stated in no uncertain terms that they will not discuss terms of Brexit until the UK invokes Artilce 50. A lot of people in the UK got sold a bill of goods over Brexit, and it's going to hurt when the EU comes to collect.
We evolved to live on Earth. We cannot live anywhere else for long periods of time. This is simple biology. The only place we can live is on Earth, or another Earth like planet. And we know, based on physics, that we cannot reach another Earth like planet.
Isn't the whole point of something like this to build something that basically mimics completely the conditions of Earth? You are right of course, we are evolved to live on Earth. So, if we want to go somewhere where there isn't Earth, we will have to bring it with us.
Commercial air service has started back up form the US to Cuba, but from what I understand the US government still requires the reason for your visit still to adhere to a fairly narrow set of authorized purposes.
They probably have a distribution qarehouse in Memphis since fedex is based there. Removing all physical presence from Tennessee would probably be a bad move
Apparently, there is suppose to be another dump sometime next week which according to wiki (doubt if I believe it) should
"get Hillary arrested". Now, as much as I think the Clinton's are crooks, and should be in jail, I doubt it will happen.
Then why wait a week before the election?If it's something big enough to get her arrested immediately they should release it now. Anything else would take too long through the system that she couldn't even be charged until after the election, just due to investigation necessary given the source and circumstances of the release.
Interesting though, the Clinton's have transferred over 2 million dollars from their accounts in the USA, to Dubai. Are they
planning some sort of escape in the near future, to a country that will not extradite them to the USA? Why transfer all of your
assets to another country?
I'd say $2 million hardly counts as all of their assets.
She has to know, if she loses, Trump, even though I still have it in the back of my mind he only got into this election to help
Hillary, by taking all of the spotlight off of other candidates, may of had a "come to Jesus meeting" and got his mind right
with God...I hope so!
If Trump does get elected he will run headfirst into the brick wall of reality and the US will have it's own Brexit scenario. My guess is most of his supporters would sour to him quickly and he would certainly not get a second term.
I don't know about that. If they had gone further earlier, we might have a different Democratic nominee. If she were to drop out of the race now, Trump might be up against a write-in Democratic candidate.
That would doom the Democrats to failure. If anything they would force her to resign after the election leaving Kaine as the President-elect. TO alter the ballot now would be electoral suicide.
Ideally your best people should have a stake in the smooth operation of your company and will realize that if they are being called in it is for a reason and they trust that the company will fairly compensate them; usually there is an understanding and/or formal policy involving compensation in the form of overtime and/or comp time, and if the circumstances require, management might even arrange for food and/or lodging. If these things don't exist then the company has a problem anyway, as there should be already under. If you have reasonable compensation policies and your people still push back on coming in then it either happens way too often or they have a way too inflated sense of worth and will probably be jumping ship from you soon anyway.
The Red Cross along with a select other few entities such as the NY Times still solicits my long dead grandfather once a year who passed back in the late 90s.
Maybe they figure they can get more blood than normal from him since he's not using it anymore?
If my company doesn't want to employ shifts so that people can be on hand in case of an emergency, then I suppose I can be on call 24x7, if they triple my salary to remunerate me for my time.
An emergency is by definition an extreme event that happens very rarely. Any company that pays 2nd or 3rd shifts just to have people on hand in case of an emergency is wasting money. If there is an emergency outside normal working hours you bring in your staff and pay them the appropriate amount of overtime. Now, if calling people in outside working hours is a regular occurrence for a company then that company needs to look into shifts, either as regular working hours or rotating on call shifts with appropriate compensation when you are on call.
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Trump carried pretty much every rural county in the country. Poor, uneducated, and whute definitely describes a lot of his support base
"One of the littoral combat ships recently cracked it's hull"
Did it run into an extra apostrophe? It's means it is.
Pork in the funding bill required extra locally sourced apostrophes be included in all LCS hulls.
Maintaining existing fleets of aircraft doesn't advance your career, let you stroke your ego by putting your name on a big budget project, or guarantee you a nice cushy position at a defense contractor (on top of your flag officer pension) after you retire like the LCS, F35, etc do.
Well if it's build quality is anything like the LCS they won't have to wait long. One of the littoral combat ships recently cracked it's hull just transiting the Panama Canal, and I believe has has repeated engine troubles as well. I think the Navy is trying to race the F35 project to see who can spend the most money and get the least amount of operational equipment for it.
The "prior set" were submitted on paper.
If only we had this machine that could take paper and...let's see, what's the word I'm looking for... ah, yes, scan that paper and convert it to a format that can be easily stored on a computer and even converted into searchable data. Now of course they would also need to make this scanning machine small and cheap enough that multiple people could have their own machine, making the process a lot quicker than a single person sitting there scanning each hard copy. Someone really should invent this, it would make life a lot easier.
Credit unions are better. The Wells Fargo branch office in my neighborhood lost a lot of business when a credit union opened up next door. I moved my accounts over when my bankruptcy attorney told me that Wells Fargo would freeze my accounts when they get the legal paperwork.
Yeah, I'm part of a credit union through my employer (it is no loner solely for employees any more, however) that I have my mortgage through, but my wife didn't want to leave Suntrust when we got married for our day to day banking. But at least credit unions aren't completely soulless like most banks are.
Pretty much all bank these days suck
That's cute, you actually think Republicans will maintain majorities in Congress.Trump has poisoned a lot of independents and moderates against the Republican brand, myself included.
I love that a good synthetic diamond simply can't be distinguished from the real thing without the aid of very advanced technology. Specifically, that even a trained diamond cutter with decades of experience working with diamonds can't tell without the assistance of advanced technology. Then they try to tell the public that synthetic is somehow bad.
I didn't even buy my wife a diamond for her engagement ring. We decided on a white sapphire that was a third of the price of a comparable diamond (which was nice because at the time I was making half of what I make now) and literally no one outside our immediate family (and even some of them) have no idea that it is not a diamond. The rock itself is fairly big so people assume it was a pricey ring too, which is always nice.
Starship troopers 3 really lost me with the whole "no religion" thing, since in the book they made sure to point out that every single individual unit had a soldier pulling double duty in a religious capacity and that all religions were welcome and expression of religion was in fact encouraged.
Sell the Peshmerga real weapons and Iraq won't touch them.
We already have special forces...I'm sorry, "advisors"....embedded with the Peshmerga in Iraq/Syria, so we probably aren't too far away from arming them if we haven't already. There's even photos of special forces fighting with Kurds in Syria (if you need proof besides the beards that they are special forces, in the second picture the soldier in the back is carrying an FN SCAR which is only issued in special forces in the US military).
I think it's almost certain that the coup wasn't really a coup. It's a shame, Turkey was really making strides towards being a true modern democracy until Erdogan came along.
This coup also had the side effect of allowing Erdogan to purge a lot of the top military brass and replace them with officers more loyal to him. This is important as the Turkish military had traditionally played the role of maintaining Turkey's secular status by undertaking coups. He has pretty much assured that there will be no military intervention any time soon in domestic politics.
And this, is the reason that the US can't have an open-ended alliance w/ the Kurds. The Kurds, whether in Iraq or Syria or even Turkey, would be happy to join forces to combat Jihadist terror in their lands, be it ISIS, Saddam, Shias or Sunnis. Just one problem - Turkey
Correction, 2 problems: you forgot Iraq. Any independent Kurdistan would take a large chunk of land(with a lot of oil) from Iraq. Iraq doesn't want to give up control of that area and would firmly resist any policy that could cause it. If the US supported a Kurdistan then Iraq would very quickly turn to others(namely Russia, but possibly China) for support. It's sad too, as the Peshmerga have made strong gains against Daesh in Iraq and are one of the more effective groups fighting in Syria.
In regards to Turkey, it is important to note that they have already begun moving troops to the Iraq border and made some very troubling comments regarding the fighting near Tal Afar, namely that they would retaliate if any ethnic Turk citizens are mistreated during the fighting. Things could quite possibly get even more complicated in the Levant than they are now.
Given all the things that Erdogan has done in the wake of the 'coup', it makes me wonder whether it was actually a coup attempt, or just Erdogan's version of the Reichstag fire.
A couple thousand troops (most of whom had no idea what was going on at all anyway) mobilized only in the capital, halfhearted attempts to take over local media outlets but no attempt to take over media outlets or military bases in other parts of Turkey, and most of the "leaders"of the coup miraculously killed riding in the same helicopter and you couldn't realize the coup was staged until Erdogan started arresting hundreds of generals and admirals (gee, you'd think with this many high ranking officers involved that the coup would have been more widespread, huh?), thousands of soldiers, teachers, and school administrators; declared an opposition figure living in exile in the US as Turkey's Osama bin Laden; starting rounding up political opponents; and lastly cutting off social media(well, this one I can support at any rate)?
Indeed it is advisory. Now when we clarified this explain please how are you going to deal with the opinion of significant majority of the country?
The easiest way is probably to devise a specific plan for how to execute Brexit, and then have another referendum. If they choose a soft Brexit then the voters will know immigration policy and EU regulation enforcement will be left unchanged, and voters who cared about that will probably not vote for Brexit. If they choose a hard Brexit then those who don't want to leave the single market will probably not vote for Brexit.
The UK doesn't get to decide how hard or soft Brexit will be, the EU does. And the EU has already stated in no uncertain terms that they will not discuss terms of Brexit until the UK invokes Artilce 50. A lot of people in the UK got sold a bill of goods over Brexit, and it's going to hurt when the EU comes to collect.
We evolved to live on Earth. We cannot live anywhere else for long periods of time. This is simple biology. The only place we can live is on Earth, or another Earth like planet. And we know, based on physics, that we cannot reach another Earth like planet.
Isn't the whole point of something like this to build something that basically mimics completely the conditions of Earth? You are right of course, we are evolved to live on Earth. So, if we want to go somewhere where there isn't Earth, we will have to bring it with us.
The embargo remains in place, only congress can end it and the republican party at least has no intention of doing so.
Of course not. Cuban exiles and their families are pretty much the only Latino support the Republicans draw.
Commercial air service has started back up form the US to Cuba, but from what I understand the US government still requires the reason for your visit still to adhere to a fairly narrow set of authorized purposes.
They probably have a distribution qarehouse in Memphis since fedex is based there. Removing all physical presence from Tennessee would probably be a bad move
Apparently, there is suppose to be another dump sometime next week which according to wiki (doubt if I believe it) should "get Hillary arrested". Now, as much as I think the Clinton's are crooks, and should be in jail, I doubt it will happen.
Then why wait a week before the election?If it's something big enough to get her arrested immediately they should release it now. Anything else would take too long through the system that she couldn't even be charged until after the election, just due to investigation necessary given the source and circumstances of the release.
Interesting though, the Clinton's have transferred over 2 million dollars from their accounts in the USA, to Dubai. Are they planning some sort of escape in the near future, to a country that will not extradite them to the USA? Why transfer all of your assets to another country?
I'd say $2 million hardly counts as all of their assets.
She has to know, if she loses, Trump, even though I still have it in the back of my mind he only got into this election to help Hillary, by taking all of the spotlight off of other candidates, may of had a "come to Jesus meeting" and got his mind right with God...I hope so!
If Trump does get elected he will run headfirst into the brick wall of reality and the US will have it's own Brexit scenario. My guess is most of his supporters would sour to him quickly and he would certainly not get a second term.
I don't know about that. If they had gone further earlier, we might have a different Democratic nominee. If she were to drop out of the race now, Trump might be up against a write-in Democratic candidate.
That would doom the Democrats to failure. If anything they would force her to resign after the election leaving Kaine as the President-elect. TO alter the ballot now would be electoral suicide.
Ideally your best people should have a stake in the smooth operation of your company and will realize that if they are being called in it is for a reason and they trust that the company will fairly compensate them; usually there is an understanding and/or formal policy involving compensation in the form of overtime and/or comp time, and if the circumstances require, management might even arrange for food and/or lodging. If these things don't exist then the company has a problem anyway, as there should be already under. If you have reasonable compensation policies and your people still push back on coming in then it either happens way too often or they have a way too inflated sense of worth and will probably be jumping ship from you soon anyway.
Hmmm....16 bits...."Kill all humans!" has 16 characters including spaces and punctuation.....coincidence?
The Red Cross along with a select other few entities such as the NY Times still solicits my long dead grandfather once a year who passed back in the late 90s.
Maybe they figure they can get more blood than normal from him since he's not using it anymore?
If my company doesn't want to employ shifts so that people can be on hand in case of an emergency, then I suppose I can be on call 24x7, if they triple my salary to remunerate me for my time.
An emergency is by definition an extreme event that happens very rarely. Any company that pays 2nd or 3rd shifts just to have people on hand in case of an emergency is wasting money. If there is an emergency outside normal working hours you bring in your staff and pay them the appropriate amount of overtime. Now, if calling people in outside working hours is a regular occurrence for a company then that company needs to look into shifts, either as regular working hours or rotating on call shifts with appropriate compensation when you are on call.