It is culturally acceptable in the US, especially when dealing with Congress and other Politicians, if done according to political campaign contribution laws.
The amount of PANIC in people is ridiculous. I work for a school district, and three schools went on full "LOCKDOWN!!!" because someone called a report of someone walking down the street with a "GUN!!!!". Turns out it was a man with a cane.
They don't actually work "real crimes" anymore. They have automated systems which allow you to file a police report that they can then ignore. However if you're sleeping in a park, it takes three cop cars and a supervisor to harass you.
It's not their fault if the manufacturer refuses to compile, test, and push out the updates (with their carriers' blessings) which they accepted full responsibility for doing.
It isn't even this. Manufacturers could release the binary blobs for the hardware for people like CM to use to build Android for obsolete hardware platforms. But the fact that Carriers are requiring LOCKED devices from Manufacturers is where the real problem lies.
Which is why Google produces (or has produced for them) the Nexus line of phones and tablets. And why I bought two OnePlusOnes. Support the manufacturers that do it right.
A Government that is not ethical, that is also Democratic, is exactly what the people vote for. You get what you deserve. Bush was bad, Obama was worse, as it was with Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, Carter....
If you look you see a pattern going back to Kennedy who was probably shot for going off the reservation (IMHO)
There is VZ and ATT, and then there is Sprint and T-Mo.
I've had all four in my area, and VZ by far has the best coverage. It isn't even close. I curently have T-Mo and the speed is much better, but coverage much worse than ATT and VZ. I'll give up a bit of coverage for better speeds.
As for Fiber vs Cable vs Wireless, Fiber will win on raw speed every time. The issue is the cost for last mile, and always will be. Which is why I recommend that Municipalities start looking at building out their own infrastructure and offering CONTENT/INTERNET providers the opportunity to compete for the last mile customers.
Right now, there is no competition, only franchise agreements that limit competition.
And how has Socialism Progressive help blacks and race relations? How has Obama helped black people in six years? Tell me how liberal blacks calling conservative blacks "Uncle Tom" and "House Nigger" help race relations? Tell me how letting in illegal aliens helps black people who are unemployed get jobs? How has 50 years of the Great Society (not to mention LBJ's nigger's comment) help black people?
Blame institutional racism, and I'll agree. However I blame Liberal Democrats who want to keep their voting block intact by enslaving blacks to bottom rung economics.
That excuses him being in the KKK in the first place?
And the NAACP isn't really pro Negro, as they are pro liberalism. Because Conservative/Republican Blacks are not acceptable to them. They would vote for a white guy who is liberal over a black woman who was conservative (seen Nia Long UT NAACP endorsement)
No, he apologized for speaking while saying he didn't recall ever speaking there. He didn't speak there, he spoke at another conference in the same place two hours before.
Basically, he apologized for something he didn't do. As opposed to liberals who never are sorry for the things they do.
Truth rarely matters in these things.Once the Narrative is set, all other stories contrary to the narrative are shut down and censored. Nothing else matters but the narrative.
And being part of the KKK doesn't really matter to Democrats, Robert Bird served in the Senate until he died having been in the KKK. But he was liberal, so it was excused. It only matters to Democrats if it is a Republican. The hypocrisy is thick
Let me know when you have something viable (politically, economically) that has energy density of fossil fuels, that is also carbon neutral. Right now, (this moment) there is nothing even close. When oil prices increase there will be a point when it is viable, until then... good luck.
It is almost expected that (D) are scandalous. Boxer (D) of California was caught in a huge financial scandal, but since "everyone" was doing it, it was okay, and she is still in office. Bill and Hillary were caught in many scandals over the years and yet she is the top (D) presidential candidate right now (or was it just a a vast right wing conspiracy?). Remember Teddy Kennedy and Mary Jo? There is, however, never a Smidgeon of evidence of any wrong doing.
But I keep being told that AGW is "settled" and "proven" and such. Tell that to the people who don't believe (faith type) in AGW who are told basically that they are going to hell (blamed for AGW should it occur),and how the sinners need to sacrifice (go "green", pay carbon offsets etc) while the priests get to live in luxury (Al Gore and the 1000s of jets flying to AGW conferences).
You see, if you frame it right, it does sound JUST LIKE RELIGION!
By creating hypothesis and then testing it, experimentally and verifying results, you know SCIENCE.
AGW and the CO2 debate has just Hypothesis generation, and the models have failed at predicting anything. And yet, you have people running around crying "2014 was the hottest year on record", and while it is fun being "Chicken Little" isn't accurate at all, and crying "consensus" (popular opinion) etc.
So far, all science has done is shown that CO2 is increasing, measured/verified.
Not to mention all the other "theories" about how weather, especially hurricanes, would increase and cause more devastation, and the cries of "Global Warming" after Sandy, which does NOTHING but drive panic (emotion, not facts) to elicit government controls on human activity. After all, only government can solve the worlds problems (never mind that governments cause most of the worlds problems).
Global warming isn't science. It is political fodder masquerading as science.
Yes, it is unethical, but it shouldn't be illegal. I call these "Asshole laws" trying to make being an asshole illegal. The problem with Asshole laws, is the unintended consequences and uses to harass people who were otherwise legitimately doing something not assholish.
Suppose you're in a restaurant, filming a birthday party for your 9 year old kid, and in the background is John, having a romantic dinner with "not John's wife". And you post it to Youtube, unwittingly exposing the nefarious John and his romantic "friend". Asshole law invoked, and you're now in trouble for recording a kids party at a restaurant.
So you now need to pass another law to protect yourself.
Fast forward, Asshole knows that John is having a romantic dinner (again) with his "not his wife" and uses an innocent cover to record John's indiscretion, and post it to Youtube.
The point being Assholes are going to do asshole things, we shouldn't be making laws to deal with them, because the consequences are often worse. That, and the real asshole is John for romantic dinning with "Not his wife".
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It is culturally acceptable in the US, especially when dealing with Congress and other Politicians, if done according to political campaign contribution laws.
Drone's aren't a real issue. They haven't been an issue, and they are likely not to be an issue.
The simple $2 fix is to jam the frequencies used by drones. Doesn't even need to be all that powerful, just directional antenna pointed at the drone.
But "GUNS!!!!!"
The amount of PANIC in people is ridiculous. I work for a school district, and three schools went on full "LOCKDOWN!!!" because someone called a report of someone walking down the street with a "GUN!!!!". Turns out it was a man with a cane.
So, lets panic! It seems to be all the rage!
They don't actually work "real crimes" anymore. They have automated systems which allow you to file a police report that they can then ignore. However if you're sleeping in a park, it takes three cop cars and a supervisor to harass you.
It's not their fault if the manufacturer refuses to compile, test, and push out the updates (with their carriers' blessings) which they accepted full responsibility for doing.
It isn't even this. Manufacturers could release the binary blobs for the hardware for people like CM to use to build Android for obsolete hardware platforms. But the fact that Carriers are requiring LOCKED devices from Manufacturers is where the real problem lies.
Which is why Google produces (or has produced for them) the Nexus line of phones and tablets. And why I bought two OnePlusOnes. Support the manufacturers that do it right.
A Government that is not ethical, that is also Democratic, is exactly what the people vote for. You get what you deserve. Bush was bad, Obama was worse, as it was with Clinton, Bush 41, Reagan, Carter ....
If you look you see a pattern going back to Kennedy who was probably shot for going off the reservation (IMHO)
There is VZ and ATT, and then there is Sprint and T-Mo.
I've had all four in my area, and VZ by far has the best coverage. It isn't even close. I curently have T-Mo and the speed is much better, but coverage much worse than ATT and VZ. I'll give up a bit of coverage for better speeds.
As for Fiber vs Cable vs Wireless, Fiber will win on raw speed every time. The issue is the cost for last mile, and always will be. Which is why I recommend that Municipalities start looking at building out their own infrastructure and offering CONTENT/INTERNET providers the opportunity to compete for the last mile customers.
Right now, there is no competition, only franchise agreements that limit competition.
If we know the models aren't even close to being predictive (at all), then why are we using them for policy?
IF you say, "Because that is the best we have", you're part of the problem and a religious nut.
The year or the book? ;)
The book is more a commentary on Socialism than anything.
And how has Socialism Progressive help blacks and race relations? How has Obama helped black people in six years? Tell me how liberal blacks calling conservative blacks "Uncle Tom" and "House Nigger" help race relations? Tell me how letting in illegal aliens helps black people who are unemployed get jobs? How has 50 years of the Great Society (not to mention LBJ's nigger's comment) help black people?
Blame institutional racism, and I'll agree. However I blame Liberal Democrats who want to keep their voting block intact by enslaving blacks to bottom rung economics.
Both sides do it, which is why I am a libertarian ;) And no, it isn't a defense, but it is an excuse (R) and (D) use to keep voting for (R) and (D)s
Do you vote for people who silence their critics?
That excuses him being in the KKK in the first place?
And the NAACP isn't really pro Negro, as they are pro liberalism. Because Conservative/Republican Blacks are not acceptable to them. They would vote for a white guy who is liberal over a black woman who was conservative (seen Nia Long UT NAACP endorsement)
Right?
No, he apologized for speaking while saying he didn't recall ever speaking there. He didn't speak there, he spoke at another conference in the same place two hours before.
Basically, he apologized for something he didn't do. As opposed to liberals who never are sorry for the things they do.
Noise is loss of efficiency.
Truth rarely matters in these things.Once the Narrative is set, all other stories contrary to the narrative are shut down and censored. Nothing else matters but the narrative.
And being part of the KKK doesn't really matter to Democrats, Robert Bird served in the Senate until he died having been in the KKK. But he was liberal, so it was excused. It only matters to Democrats if it is a Republican. The hypocrisy is thick
Just like USSR, China and North Korea does, by jailing people for having a terrorist handbook called ... "the bible"
Both (R) and (D) are known to try to silence critics. Pretending otherwise is stupid. To claim it is rampant is also stupid. Stupid people exist.
Let me know when you have something viable (politically, economically) that has energy density of fossil fuels, that is also carbon neutral. Right now, (this moment) there is nothing even close. When oil prices increase there will be a point when it is viable, until then ... good luck.
double the amount of the atmospheres main persistent infra red absorber
Make it rain more? CO2 isn't the main Greenhouse gas, water vapor is. And it isn't even close.
But this is the problem with AGW proponents who don't even know what they are talking about, they come off as stupid ignorant parrots.
It is almost expected that (D) are scandalous. Boxer (D) of California was caught in a huge financial scandal, but since "everyone" was doing it, it was okay, and she is still in office. Bill and Hillary were caught in many scandals over the years and yet she is the top (D) presidential candidate right now (or was it just a a vast right wing conspiracy?). Remember Teddy Kennedy and Mary Jo? There is, however, never a Smidgeon of evidence of any wrong doing.
Festivus?
But I keep being told that AGW is "settled" and "proven" and such. Tell that to the people who don't believe (faith type) in AGW who are told basically that they are going to hell (blamed for AGW should it occur),and how the sinners need to sacrifice (go "green", pay carbon offsets etc) while the priests get to live in luxury (Al Gore and the 1000s of jets flying to AGW conferences).
You see, if you frame it right, it does sound JUST LIKE RELIGION!
By creating hypothesis and then testing it, experimentally and verifying results, you know SCIENCE.
AGW and the CO2 debate has just Hypothesis generation, and the models have failed at predicting anything. And yet, you have people running around crying "2014 was the hottest year on record", and while it is fun being "Chicken Little" isn't accurate at all, and crying "consensus" (popular opinion) etc.
So far, all science has done is shown that CO2 is increasing, measured/verified.
Not to mention all the other "theories" about how weather, especially hurricanes, would increase and cause more devastation, and the cries of "Global Warming" after Sandy, which does NOTHING but drive panic (emotion, not facts) to elicit government controls on human activity. After all, only government can solve the worlds problems (never mind that governments cause most of the worlds problems).
Global warming isn't science. It is political fodder masquerading as science.
#2 Is unethical and should be illegal.
Yes, it is unethical, but it shouldn't be illegal. I call these "Asshole laws" trying to make being an asshole illegal. The problem with Asshole laws, is the unintended consequences and uses to harass people who were otherwise legitimately doing something not assholish.
Suppose you're in a restaurant, filming a birthday party for your 9 year old kid, and in the background is John, having a romantic dinner with "not John's wife". And you post it to Youtube, unwittingly exposing the nefarious John and his romantic "friend". Asshole law invoked, and you're now in trouble for recording a kids party at a restaurant.
So you now need to pass another law to protect yourself.
Fast forward, Asshole knows that John is having a romantic dinner (again) with his "not his wife" and uses an innocent cover to record John's indiscretion, and post it to Youtube.
The point being Assholes are going to do asshole things, we shouldn't be making laws to deal with them, because the consequences are often worse. That, and the real asshole is John for romantic dinning with "Not his wife".
Global Warming is a hypothesis, not a fact. Piltdown man was once considered a "fact", but it wasn't even true.