Ugh! I couldn't get all the way through the series. Just... no. Just like I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but couldn't get through the Silmarilion.
Ones I wish I had read earlier: Some Heinlein: The unedited Stranger in a Strange Land The Number of the Beast
Some John Norman: The original Gor series (not the "new" ones from the 2000's).
Norman's Gor is crap. Alan Burt Akers (real name Kenneth Bulmer) Kregen stories are far superior
NOPE the entire investigation needs to end. It's almost been a YEAR and you don't have anything solid at ALL. You cannot hang an endless fishing expedition over the presidents head for 4 years , just because you hate him.
Travel back in time & tell that to the GOP. BENGHAZI!!
"I don't see the trump supporters or defenders (not necessarily the same group) claiming trauma, or feeling threatened and unsafe by dissenting comments, or needing counseling because someone wrote"
Izzat sew??
From the Great & Golden One himself: "Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!"
If the GOP wants to have an investigation into that money, that's okay with me. The fact that they haven't when they were so eager to have multiple Benghazi investigations repeatedly covering the same ground convinces me that there's a whole lot of nothing there
" It was a part of the Russian Federation until 1964, when Nikita Kryushchyev just gifted it to the Ukraine w/o asking the Crimeans what they wanted" 1954, not 1964 by which time he was on his way out.
Trump made a lot of noise about "extreme vetting" and "draining the swamp" but didn't apply that rhetoric to his own campaign which would have turned up a lot about Manafort that would be of concern. Sure, he has done work for campaigns going back to the 70s but also not since 1996. And he has a long history of lobbying for dictators such as Ferdinand Marcos, Joseph Mobutu & has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Pakistan's Intelligence Service for running a disinformation campaign.
There's no hope for you. What Trump's cronies didn't learn from Nixon was that the coverup & trying to defeat the investigation can be more damaging than the crime.
"the only issues post facto was him retroactively registering as a lobbyist for Turkey, which was deplorable" About that "Turkish" work of his....seems it also is tied back to Russia. Just how many layers of Russian dolls are there in the Trump administration?
Obama said that to Medvedev not Putin & he was already president. And he didn't win TWO presidential elections by narrow margins or through the interference of foreign governments. It's amusing to hear a Trump supporter talking about Obama being "excused" for anything when if he'd ever behaved like Trump has been doing his whole life, he would never have become a senator, let alone president.
Aside from Manafort, there's also Carter Page who was an utter unknown to the general public until Trump mentioned his name as a foreign policy advisor during the campaign. Page has been courted by Russian intelligence for a while but is probably too dumb to be a good spy so has likely been used as a useful idiot.
China's pollution is horrendous & they made a very bad mistake by both allowing it to get like that as well as to build so many substandard coal plants. But now they have or are moving on, and doing so quickly. Not only are newer plants much more efficient & cleaner, none of the old ones will be grandfathered - it's clean up or shut down. In contrast, it took the USA 40 years to get to more than 2/3rds of their coal plants fitted with emission controls and only the advent of cheap natgas (and all its attendant problems) forced the closure of more than a few of the older coal-fired ones. If India also gets its act together, it's not inconceivable that Asia will be the clean energy powerhouse in 10-15 years. India's plan is to have 100GW solar installed by 2022, a target they're not likely to meet. But they went from 160 MW in 2010 to just over 1 GW in 2012 and with 1/2 of 2017 still remaining, have exceeded 13GW!! So it's not inconceivable they'll at least get to 50GW by 2022 which is nearly a quadrupling of the current installed base of solar PV and would probably land them somewhere in the lower 1/2 of the Top 10.
"But he's still 1000 times better than HRC" Don't be a moron, unless it's too late. HRC is uninspiring but at least competent & fully understands trade & foreign policy.
"Pure evil??" Why? For strangling Vince Foster with her bare hands and eating his kidneys?
"It's the greenhouse effect from those trace amounts of CO2 that has kept us cozy and warm for the last few billion years" The Earth has spent perhaps a quarter of a billion years in ice ages which sometimes reached to the equator.
"To mark the end of the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China in May 2017, we wanted to give a special gift to fans of Go around the world. Since our match with Lee Sedol, AlphaGo has become its own teacher, playing millions of high level training games against itself to continually improve. We’re now publishing a special set of 50 AlphaGo vs AlphaGo games, played at full length time controls, which we believe contain many new and interesting ideas and strategies.
We took the opportunity at the Summit to show some of these games to a handful of top professionals. Shi Yue, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion said the games were “Like nothing I’ve ever seen before - they’re how I imagine games from far in the future.” Gu Li, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion, said that “AlphaGo’s self play games are incredible - we can learn many things from them.” We hope that all Go players will now enjoy trying out some of the moves in the set."
You do realize that any other candidate would have nuked Trump by double digits? Yes? Bernie would have annihilated him.
-- BMO
I'm not so sure about that. Trump annihilated the entire GOP slate without saying 2 coherent sentences in a row and there were some heavyweights - and I'm not making a sly remark about Chris Christie. Hillary's campaign has a great many problems including carrying Bill's baggage and 30 years of being smeared by rightwing media but this election was all about angry people who thought everyone but them is getting ahead.
"I can't get a job or afford medication but all my elected reps are doing is finding a safe place for chicks with dicks to piss?"
I don't think Bernie's message would resonate with *enough* of them to have prevented what happened in Michigan, Pennsylvania & Wisconcin. Rick Scott has tossed so many off Florida's voter rolls that I can't say if Sanders could have prevailed there either
The only thing "fishy" about this case to start with was that Assange decided to run and hide in the embassy rather than face his day in court, spouting this blatant nonsense about a US extradition scheme.
Yet America refused to say that they would not ask Sweden to extradite if Assange agreed to testify. And then they got Bolivian president's Evo Morales' plane rerouted by spreading rumors that Snowden was aboard and demanding extradition
And for all that she still got nearly as many votes as Obama did against Romney. I agree Clinton's campaign was far from stellar and not inspiring but aside from well-targeted strategy by the Trump campaign, there was also some heavy voter suppression going on and Comey's thumb on the scale. And the photos from Trump tower showing his face at the moment of victory was clearly a "oh-shit-what-do-I-do-now" expression
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Ugh! I couldn't get all the way through the series. Just... no. Just like I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but couldn't get through the Silmarilion.
Ones I wish I had read earlier:
Some Heinlein:
The unedited Stranger in a Strange Land
The Number of the Beast
Some John Norman:
The original Gor series (not the "new" ones from the 2000's).
Norman's Gor is crap. Alan Burt Akers (real name Kenneth Bulmer) Kregen stories are far superior
NOPE the entire investigation needs to end. It's almost been a YEAR and you don't have anything solid at ALL. You cannot hang an endless fishing expedition over the presidents head for 4 years , just because you hate him.
Travel back in time & tell that to the GOP.
BENGHAZI!!
"I don't see the trump supporters or defenders (not necessarily the same group) claiming trauma, or feeling threatened and unsafe by dissenting comments, or needing counseling because someone wrote"
Izzat sew??
From the Great & Golden One himself:
"Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!"
https://twitter.com/connorfran...
She should have kept it. Remember, everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Leigh...
She probably got tired of people offering to eat her pie
Or maybe don't leak classified information that you're sworn to protect in the first place?
What's the penalty when you're the president & decide to tell a foreign leader where he can find a couple nuclear subs?
If the GOP wants to have an investigation into that money, that's okay with me. The fact that they haven't when they were so eager to have multiple Benghazi investigations repeatedly covering the same ground convinces me that there's a whole lot of nothing there
https://www.mediamatters.org/r...
" It was a part of the Russian Federation until 1964, when Nikita Kryushchyev just gifted it to the Ukraine w/o asking the Crimeans what they wanted"
1954, not 1964 by which time he was on his way out.
Trump made a lot of noise about "extreme vetting" and "draining the swamp" but didn't apply that rhetoric to his own campaign which would have turned up a lot about Manafort that would be of concern. Sure, he has done work for campaigns going back to the 70s but also not since 1996.
And he has a long history of lobbying for dictators such as Ferdinand Marcos, Joseph Mobutu & has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Pakistan's Intelligence Service for running a disinformation campaign.
"I would trust Putin over Obama's intel agents"
There's no hope for you. What Trump's cronies didn't learn from Nixon was that the coverup & trying to defeat the investigation can be more damaging than the crime.
"the only issues post facto was him retroactively registering as a lobbyist for Turkey, which was deplorable"
About that "Turkish" work of his....seems it also is tied back to Russia. Just how many layers of Russian dolls are there in the Trump administration?
http://www.politico.com/story/...
Obama said that to Medvedev not Putin & he was already president.
And he didn't win TWO presidential elections by narrow margins or through the interference of foreign governments.
It's amusing to hear a Trump supporter talking about Obama being "excused" for anything when if he'd ever behaved like Trump has been doing his whole life, he would never have become a senator, let alone president.
Aside from Manafort, there's also Carter Page who was an utter unknown to the general public until Trump mentioned his name as a foreign policy advisor during the campaign. Page has been courted by Russian intelligence for a while but is probably too dumb to be a good spy so has likely been used as a useful idiot.
The CIA also faked all those meetings & communications between Russians & Flynn, Manafort, Kushner too
What's a girl gotta do to get noticed around here?
We're not in that situation now and likely won't be for thousands of years.
You are an example of someone who is never happy with any solution.
I sincerely hope there are many more people who are unhappy with such a terrible "solution" as fracking.
Still better than putting forward a budget with a $1 Trillion arithmetic error.
China's pollution is horrendous & they made a very bad mistake by both allowing it to get like that as well as to build so many substandard coal plants.
But now they have or are moving on, and doing so quickly. Not only are newer plants much more efficient & cleaner, none of the old ones will be grandfathered - it's clean up or shut down.
In contrast, it took the USA 40 years to get to more than 2/3rds of their coal plants fitted with emission controls and only the advent of cheap natgas (and all its attendant problems) forced the closure of more than a few of the older coal-fired ones.
If India also gets its act together, it's not inconceivable that Asia will be the clean energy powerhouse in 10-15 years.
India's plan is to have 100GW solar installed by 2022, a target they're not likely to meet.
But they went from 160 MW in 2010 to just over 1 GW in 2012 and with 1/2 of 2017 still remaining, have exceeded 13GW!! So it's not inconceivable they'll at least get to 50GW by 2022 which is nearly a quadrupling of the current installed base of solar PV and would probably land them somewhere in the lower 1/2 of the Top 10.
"But he's still 1000 times better than HRC"
Don't be a moron, unless it's too late.
HRC is uninspiring but at least competent & fully understands trade & foreign policy.
"Pure evil??" Why? For strangling Vince Foster with her bare hands and eating his kidneys?
all that fracking has led to much higher emissions of methane which is a much more powerful GHG than CO2 in the short term.
Water.
"It's the greenhouse effect from those trace amounts of CO2 that has kept us cozy and warm for the last few billion years"
The Earth has spent perhaps a quarter of a billion years in ice ages which sometimes reached to the equator.
Google has also released a set of 50 games where AlphaGo played against itself.
That should help analyse its weaknesses.
https://deepmind.com/research/...
"To mark the end of the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China in May 2017, we wanted to give a special gift to fans of Go around the world. Since our match with Lee Sedol, AlphaGo has become its own teacher, playing millions of high level training games against itself to continually improve. We’re now publishing a special set of 50 AlphaGo vs AlphaGo games, played at full length time controls, which we believe contain many new and interesting ideas and strategies.
We took the opportunity at the Summit to show some of these games to a handful of top professionals. Shi Yue, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion said the games were “Like nothing I’ve ever seen before - they’re how I imagine games from far in the future.” Gu Li, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion, said that “AlphaGo’s self play games are incredible - we can learn many things from them.” We hope that all Go players will now enjoy trying out some of the moves in the set."
They're going at night?
North Korea already accomplished this years ago.
All Hail our Dear Flattop Leader
Congrats, you've won the (Chinese) Internets for today.
Wait a sec, "won" is Korean.
Okay, you've yuan the Chinese Internets for today.
You do realize that any other candidate would have nuked Trump by double digits? Yes? Bernie would have annihilated him.
--
BMO
I'm not so sure about that. Trump annihilated the entire GOP slate without saying 2 coherent sentences in a row and there were some heavyweights - and I'm not making a sly remark about Chris Christie. Hillary's campaign has a great many problems including carrying Bill's baggage and 30 years of being smeared by rightwing media but this election was all about angry people who thought everyone but them is getting ahead.
"I can't get a job or afford medication but all my elected reps are doing is finding a safe place for chicks with dicks to piss?"
I don't think Bernie's message would resonate with *enough* of them to have prevented what happened in Michigan, Pennsylvania & Wisconcin.
Rick Scott has tossed so many off Florida's voter rolls that I can't say if Sanders could have prevailed there either
The only thing "fishy" about this case to start with was that Assange decided to run and hide in the embassy rather than face his day in court, spouting this blatant nonsense about a US extradition scheme.
Yet America refused to say that they would not ask Sweden to extradite if Assange agreed to testify.
And then they got Bolivian president's Evo Morales' plane rerouted by spreading rumors that Snowden was aboard and demanding extradition
And for all that she still got nearly as many votes as Obama did against Romney.
I agree Clinton's campaign was far from stellar and not inspiring but aside from well-targeted strategy by the Trump campaign, there was also some heavy voter suppression going on and Comey's thumb on the scale.
And the photos from Trump tower showing his face at the moment of victory was clearly a "oh-shit-what-do-I-do-now" expression