Guess that explains the people that's been selecting are ardent constitutionalists and believe that law is "the word of law" not a "living breathing document" like Obama and most democrats do right? The breadth and scope of power under Obama expanded to such a level that one of Trumps election promises was to limit the scope and overstep that the government has engaged in, and roll states rights back to the levels they were before Obama came to power.
The truth is "left" and "right" were references to where certain parties sat in a literal assembly room over a century ago. The democrats and republicans are both working towards a fascist, totalitarian state hand in hand with the private industries they work for, and we're all too busy arguing over whether or not abortions should be done at a clinic or a back-alley to notice we're walking straight to serfdom either way.
Not quite, but close.
Why do you think Trump was elected. He wasn't part of the establishment, why do you think so many republicans are attacking him along with democrats? This is about "us or them" but your axis is wrong, it's libertarian vs authoritarian. Which is why you've seen so many people quit the democrat party since Clinton received the nomination. Why the moderates in the middle of the political class have grown. Why even life-long democrats are willing to vote for Trump. This isn't just US politics either, it's happening in the UK. It's happening in France, Germany, Netherlands, Canada. 90% of this entire thing is "elite insiders" vs the public and they're willing to use anything from identity politics(you're a racist/sexist/homophobe/misogynist/nazi/etc) to try and keep a hold of power. Hell in Canada, there it's only taken 15 months and there's already a growing backlash against the establishment. 80% of the public don't trust the government in power(Trudeaus Liberals), the last time it was that high? 1998 when Chretien's Liberals were in power.
You should check Megalia if you want to see absolute insanity. TL;DR: Group of radical feminists who are pro-pedophilia, actively engages in targeting men, has assaulted male children, has poisoned people in public, violently assaulted people, and so on. And...had backing of Park Geun-hye and high level officials within the government. The western press painted megalia as soft special and precious snowflakes that wouldn't hurt a fly.
Using this method to surveil a US Person is illegal. It is called "reverse targeting".
Of course it's illegal. Do you really think that stops someone from doing it? Nope. Stop being naive. Might want to dust off your favorite search engine or criminal law library search engine, because you're going to find a lot of cases where that's happened. You'd think after the shit that's been leaked by wikileaks over the last decade including the illegal taps against foreign leaders by the Obama administration people would understand that.
WAPO is a deceitful rag, the Fox News of the left. If I see a WAPO article, I take it with a pillar of salt. No objectiveness and the comment section looks like it is WAPO employees posting, "Ya, what he said!" and "But Russia!".
WAPO is far worse then that. Fox is at least open with their bias, which is one of the reasons that it has such a large following, on top of the fact that their commentators who have such biases are open about it. WAPO weasel words their way through everything, and even if they get caught lying they'll go out of their way to try and claim it's "fake but accurate"(Hi there Dan Rather). What's funny is you can see the exact time frame that it happened too, just after Bezos bought it out.
This means that, even if Obama did have Trump wiretapped, it was likely due to connections to a foreign power (likely Russia). So "Obama wiretapped me" is another way of saying "I was communicating with Russia."
No, it means they could turn around and get a FISA warrant by saying "He is talking to someone in the UK" then skirt it and record all information anyway. Minimization(subsection c) means that "areas that aren't subject to the application" aren't supposed to be recorded(or if they are, to be deleted and not used), but if you think that intelligence agencies don't record this you're either naive or incredibly naive. That means they can factually lie in the face of the warrant application, record and gather whatever data they want. Then shovel it off to someone with a huge backlog of work while they sift through all the existing data.
Levin got his information directly from the press, you know. WAPO, NYT who were reporting this, that's not a conspiracy. Unless of course you're saying that they're lying, hell read the shit he posted. It's all there in black and white, using the media's own collated sources.
This is how an authoritarian government works. They care less about the truth, and more about justifying their actions with a painted visage of half-truths and lies
You mean like when the Obama administration said that benghazi was caused by a video? Then flapped their arms over and over again saying it really was caused by a video. Or started assassinating americans because "reasons" when they were in foreign countries? How about when they said that fast and furious(gunrunning into mexico) really wasn't a problem and they were tracking them all. Or that the AG was held in contempt over it. How about when the obama administration decided to wiretap reporters and journalist communications? Never mind that if we take various media at their face value Trump is correct, since they stated that there were multiple taps against people in the Trump campaign. Some of who were in Trump Tower, which means that yes -- they tapped his building/lines of communication in order to conduct surveillance on those people. You also can't forget that some warrants like FISA can be ordered by the president and fulfilled at the behest of the AG too.
The WAPO article is shit, it's even worse shit to anyone who's ever seen a warrant application being filed and the requirements. Hell FISA warrants have such specific thresholds that them being refused is so rare you can count them on all your fingers and toes over the last ~40 years.
I nearly forgot that I'd never replaced the rare shoes on that car either. Front pads on the other hand? Every couple of years, those cars chewed through them until I went to ceramic. That was 100% to do with the vehicle design, 80% of the vehicle weight on the SW series cars were weighted towards the front of the vehicle which caused heavier wear on the front pads. But the brakes on them are so easy to do you could change them in your driveway in a couple of hours. And that has to do a lot with the cars themselves, when your doors weigh under 100lbs each because their skins are plastic-composite, it heavily cuts down on vehicle weight.
Great cars, had an incredibly loyal fanbase too. Same that GM killed the division off, especially since they were incredibly profitable. Even up here in the land of salt and cold you see the rare early 90's saturn that looks in great shape.
How did your suspension last so long? Shocks, struts, bushings, etc? All of that stuff is pretty wear intensive unless you're lucky enough to only drive on new asphalt in a non-freezing climate.
Factory. Take proper care, properly lube them, keep an eye on them as long as they're not "sealed by design" and you can do spot repairs like replacing a bearing without replacing the entire wheel hub assembly. Not quite so easy these days, modern cars? The hub and bearing assemblies are designed as an "all in one" piece with the ABS sensors built in as well. Which is why they're around $500 each. Considering it's mostly highway miles it's not a surprise, and if by non-freezing climate you mean down to -40C in AB, and heavy use of rock salt(since I live in SW Ontario). I guess. Seeing old Saturn SW series cars in central florida(away from the ocean), TX or AZ and so on where it's heavily dry though, you'll start bumping into 1m mile cars on occasion with a lot of factory components.
Transmissions these days also seem to be pretty tightly engineered, it seems like a lot of cars I've looked into have sub-par feedback on transmissions.
That's because of the design, not much more can be done on automatics for example except band performance tuning, and the design of stick hasn't changed in 20 years. But if you go stick there's almost no points of failure besides mechanical as long as you do the very rare fluid change.
Actually it was the alternator that cooked the battery, the voltage regulator flaked out and I didn't notice it--something I should have but it can be easy to miss. The battery replaced in 2009 was factory and suffered through numerous winters with the temperatures dropping to -40C. Batteries normally fail before an alternator though, not the other way around. And in turn cause the alternator to pump out more juice at a higher peak that damages the alternator. Remember with starters 99% of the time it's the solenoid that fails, buy a car that doesn't have a all-in-one design and it's not a serious repair. Then it's a $30 repair.
Before you read this article, What did you think an intelligence agency do ?
Follow the rule of laws and regulations setforth is what most people expect intelligence agencies to do. However in many countries intelligence agencies have gotten so large they see themselves apart from the government.
Around 90% of the problems my buddy sees at his shop are directly tied to either emission controls or senors used to make sure the vehicle is running the best it can(MAF, O2, knock, Cam/crank PoS/TPS and so on). Mechanical failures are pretty rare these days especially after the initial break-in period, hell seeing a vehicle with all original parts and 200k-300k mi isn't even rare anymore. That other 10% is usually something like a mechanical/electronic hybrid device like an EGR valve, or component of the gas-vapor recycling system not working properly because a tube wore through because a clip that held it in place broke and it's allowing air in. Or in newer cars the all-in-one ABS-wheel hub fails in a mechanical way like the ratches snapping. Something that would still happen with an electric car.
When I retired my '96 saturn I had 597k mi on it, and it's only major repairs had been a battery, alternator, radiator and a new clutch at 281k mi.
Only works for trucks and farm equipment because in many cases they're designed for field repairs. If you're driving down the highway and manage to strip out a CV joint, or snap a tie rod or have a ball joint fail, the guy who's coming to fix it isn't going to have accessibility issues on your truck or tractor. You blow a transmission gear, or strip a gear on a diesel? That's getting towed in just like a car because it requires a partial disassemble to fix or fully replace. On the other hand with a car since many are front wheel, you need a hoist, half-shaft puller, likely a specialized hub puller as well, depending on whether or not the vehicle has other features like traction control, AWD, and so on you might require other stuff. Doing a tie-rod or ball joint without a hoist isn't impossible, just very difficult on cars because of the 6-11" standard ground clearance and the hazards of knocking the car off whatever you're using to keep it in the air. You sometimes need a lot of force to get that part of the drivetrain appart.
Your run-of-the-mill stuff like oil changes also require a lot of room, trucks? Tractors? Nope it's just much easier to have a pit that you can get in to get at the filter and drain plug, but you can do them at the side of the road just like cars. They're pretty easy, unless everything is jammed in some spot that requires your arm to bend the wrong way aka "vehicle should be on a hoist." Failed fuel pumps on cars? Almost impossible unless the vehicle has a "inside" vehicle service hatch to access the top of the tank and almost no car has them. And no one wants to haul around a giant fuel storage tank to pump out then try and pull the tank with low clearance. Trucks and tractors on the other hand, most don't use in-tank pumps. Stuff just goes on and on.
The idea isn't bad, but you're gonna have to convince mechanics to not work indoors too. Especially the guys who are unionized and get fancy perks like air mist cooled shops and so on. Or the small guys who don't want to work outside while it's pissing down rain, or laying in the snow to do repairs like they were when they were apprenticing. And having been an apprentice in the 90's and did all the shitty jobs like laying in a mud pit for 3 hours to do a field repair on a truck, you could make me do it again. If you paid 4x the market rate per hour aka $380/hr in labor plus parts.
It likely isn't a conspiracy theory. Nvidia seems to do something like thiswith graphics drivers and old video cards. Where AMD equivalents weren't suffering the same generational loss even with newer drivers. In many cases the AMD cards improve more even further in the cards lifetime. Ex: A 670 is approx to a 7950-7980. Today with the newest drivers it struggles to hold against a 7750, where that same 7950 in some cases is at the level of a 680.
No, as another poster pointed out. But..maybe, it could be worthwhile auditing yourself and devices. And should it prove that it's a bogus notice, billing them for the time and any other costs associated with said audit.
GPUs are increasing incredibly fast because of a couple of reasons. First, they're not anywhere close to the same die size as a CPU. They're roughly 2 generations behind CPU's in shrinking, that means the tolerances can be off and it won't make a huge difference and can "run wild" without the danger of causing errors. But can benefit from all the advances that AMD and Intel have gone through with each die shrink. The second is GPU's are able to increase their die size and transistor count as well as having very specific instruction sets compared to a CPU. They also don't have to have on-die caching which takes up very valuable real estate space on the silicon itself, that more space(upto 1/3) with each shrink can be dedicated to specialized instruction sets or more transistors which further take the load off the CPU.
Neither one of those things has happened. Ok, I heard maybe DeVos tried to push back on the transgender ruling, but that didn't lead to anything different. It's still gone. Because you know, that bathroom business is SO dreadful. But let's see, we have his military operation (a failure), his precious executive order (also a failure, a failure so bad he put it off again this week), and alternative facts out the wazoo.
You mean like all those cases where someone claimed to be transgender and then started spying on little girls and women? Well I guess that's okay. Funny how your most important thing seems to be bathrooms, but not failing schools. Or that abortion known as common core.
Your thinking seems to be stuck in the idea that Donald Trump doesn't have a history of lying through his teeth and out his ass, whose idea of keeping a promise is pretending he did something, when he did no such thing. His history as a businessman is one of scams and deceits, of self-promotion and failure, and has been known since the 1980s....
You seem to be inventing alternate history. See, I didn't say that. But you seem to believe that everyone who likes Trump doesn't also know that this happens. But you're saying that he didn't turn around and actually reduce the prices of those things? You should let him know. I'm sure your alternative facts won't count. Or would you prefer to say that driving down even the estimated cost of something is bad? That governments(and their leaders) shouldn't turn around and say "that's too fucking much" and just give companies a fiat to get money from government contracts. You know that Obama didn't pass a budget for 6 years right? And repeatedly failed to meet the mandates for even tabling a budget several times.
Nope. You should hear the real truth: People aren't flipping to Trump....
You should probably try to avoid CNN for your polling. I'm sure Hillary still has a 95% chance of winning right? The NYT also says so. By the way, wouldn't you hate criticism if all the media did was lie about you? Or invent stories? Wonder why buzzfeed and CNN are currently being sued for making up news yet? You realize that he called the house out on them taking too long on the ACA? Maybe you should get on the phone to your representative and ask them why it's taking so long. I'll wait, because that's going to be an amazing answer.
You should probably get out of your bubble, it's going to bite you in the ass. Just like it has with all of the progressive politicos who said "If you look out your window and see cows, you're probably a racist."
No president in the history of the US has blocked the press like he is.
Oh boy. Time for you to actually dust off a history book, and go read up on FDR. I'll also wait for you to go read up on how the Obama administration tried to block the press. I'll also wait for you to read up on all the times that the Obama admin stuck minders, and locked reporters into rooms so they couldn't see "official political events" from happening.
What I am questioning is the fact that the most qualified individuals are all mostly white male billionaires.
Nice identity politics there.
Plus he didn't pick on merit, he picked people with the most radical view towards that department.
Ever wonder why the governments get unwieldy, and when populists rise the first thing they do is put people in who are good and have a disdain for the organizations that they then have oversight of? I'll let you think on that.
Trump may thrive on chaos, but presidents do not.
You apparently are new, otherwise you'd have seen the amount of chaos that Obama created during his tenure. Everything ranging from the ACA to his backdoor deal with Iran, to using funds from fredie and fannie to cover the ACA.
You mean he shouldn't select people based on merit? He should do what the democrats are doing and select people based on the gender/race/sexuality instead. Gee, we can really see why the democrats are losing so damned badly can't we.
So how's he muting the press? Oh right he's not. You realize that press gaggles aren't a right to attend event don't you? You realize that gaggles are also posted publicly. Where are your protests when Obama did the same thing to "right wing" media outlets. Oh...I see. How about when he tried to ban Fox News? And it took the press to actually call his administration out on that. You see the difference yet? No? The Obama administration tried to directly block a news organization. Trump has not, they're still there at every presser. At every briefing, and they weren't invited to a single gaggle and suddenly the sky is falling.
The public aren't confused what "fake news" is. Why do you think that there is such a small level of trust in the media? You think Trump suddenly traveled back in time and made it happen under Bill Clinton's term or something? You wonder why the trust in the press has steadily decreased since roughly then to the abysmal level it is now at 14% of the public trusting them.
Time to realize that the media lied at you, and he hasn't muted the press. You want to know what a muted press actually looks like? This is what the media being banned actually looks like. And what it actually looks like when they're called out by the media for banning a news organization. Oh and the NDP? They're far-left.
Do what in a month? Take credit for stuff that the Obama administration worked on for 8 years?
You mean Obama's actions to worsen race relations in the US? Every single time he opened his mouth on something relating to race, he made the situation worse? That instead of waiting for truth, his administration would fabricate and outright lie? You remember Benghazi don't you? How's that "it was because it was a video narrative" bullshit working out these days. To fund terrorists in the middle east because Assad? To back groups that are linked to ISIS? You wonder why ISIS is already on the run a month into Trumps presidency when the mad dog was let off the leash.
The only thing he's really done is to stun the rest of the world into immobility for a while until they figure out whether he is the homicidal maniac that he tries to pretend he is . As soon as somebody else decides to stomp on his balls and gets away with it, it's game over for the game guy.
Yeah because picking Hillary was a great idea. The same person with so many conflicts of interest that she was beholden to dozens of governments? Gee you catch why part of the clinton foundation suddenly shutdown. Her desire to push the US into a war with Russia is a great idea too. Especially since she wanted to bomb them in Syria. How about her wanting to drone strike Assanage. Yeah, there's that homicidal maniac you're looking for. You wonder why marines had to be assigned under the Obama administration, but over 13k of them volunteered to be on the detail for Trump. Dig your head out of your ass.
Yes, for the past 20+ years. Apparently you have not paid any attention to him until recently, which makes you a complete moron for trusting him.
So then you know that he likes flapping off his mouth, but doing things that are fundamentally to the point of what he states he's going to do. Yes, very moronic. You figure out why he got elected yet?
But let's look at the opposition and their rigged DNC primary which was a great idea. Hillary wanting to push the US into WWIII with Russia was a great idea too. And her wanting to outsource jobs, and her support of TPP, and her "open border" policy, all very good things. Gee would you look at that? Looks like you're a fucking moron who still think that the worst possible candidate was the democrats best choice. And to think, they just had the option to pick another path. And the DNC decided to pick "more of the same" that's going to work out really well. By 2020 I'm going to bet that the democrats are a dead party.
No, he doesn't. He just says he does. However, being Trump, even if he wanted to do it, he's incapable of doing it competently.
You been paying attention to what he's done and said? No? You should. Let me know when you get to the part where he's been keeping his promises, and putting people in place who would happily stand up to his views if they're bad. Your thinking is still stuck in a period where politicians would lie through their teeth, and you're now in an era where you have a person who wasn't ever a politician until he was elected POTUS keeping his promises.
That's not an upside, it's a sad effect of politics, you can promise the moon, and deliver a nice shot of your own ass.
And now the funny part. Where you can hear the former never-trump, anti-trump people who've flipped pro-trump because they've seen him keep his promises and do more in a month then the Obama administration did in 4 years. To paraphrase.
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Guess that explains the people that's been selecting are ardent constitutionalists and believe that law is "the word of law" not a "living breathing document" like Obama and most democrats do right? The breadth and scope of power under Obama expanded to such a level that one of Trumps election promises was to limit the scope and overstep that the government has engaged in, and roll states rights back to the levels they were before Obama came to power.
The truth is "left" and "right" were references to where certain parties sat in a literal assembly room over a century ago. The democrats and republicans are both working towards a fascist, totalitarian state hand in hand with the private industries they work for, and we're all too busy arguing over whether or not abortions should be done at a clinic or a back-alley to notice we're walking straight to serfdom either way.
Not quite, but close.
Why do you think Trump was elected. He wasn't part of the establishment, why do you think so many republicans are attacking him along with democrats? This is about "us or them" but your axis is wrong, it's libertarian vs authoritarian. Which is why you've seen so many people quit the democrat party since Clinton received the nomination. Why the moderates in the middle of the political class have grown. Why even life-long democrats are willing to vote for Trump. This isn't just US politics either, it's happening in the UK. It's happening in France, Germany, Netherlands, Canada. 90% of this entire thing is "elite insiders" vs the public and they're willing to use anything from identity politics(you're a racist/sexist/homophobe/misogynist/nazi/etc) to try and keep a hold of power. Hell in Canada, there it's only taken 15 months and there's already a growing backlash against the establishment. 80% of the public don't trust the government in power(Trudeaus Liberals), the last time it was that high? 1998 when Chretien's Liberals were in power.
You should check Megalia if you want to see absolute insanity. TL;DR: Group of radical feminists who are pro-pedophilia, actively engages in targeting men, has assaulted male children, has poisoned people in public, violently assaulted people, and so on. And...had backing of Park Geun-hye and high level officials within the government. The western press painted megalia as soft special and precious snowflakes that wouldn't hurt a fly.
Using this method to surveil a US Person is illegal. It is called "reverse targeting".
Of course it's illegal. Do you really think that stops someone from doing it? Nope. Stop being naive. Might want to dust off your favorite search engine or criminal law library search engine, because you're going to find a lot of cases where that's happened. You'd think after the shit that's been leaked by wikileaks over the last decade including the illegal taps against foreign leaders by the Obama administration people would understand that.
WAPO is a deceitful rag, the Fox News of the left. If I see a WAPO article, I take it with a pillar of salt. No objectiveness and the comment section looks like it is WAPO employees posting, "Ya, what he said!" and "But Russia!".
WAPO is far worse then that. Fox is at least open with their bias, which is one of the reasons that it has such a large following, on top of the fact that their commentators who have such biases are open about it. WAPO weasel words their way through everything, and even if they get caught lying they'll go out of their way to try and claim it's "fake but accurate"(Hi there Dan Rather). What's funny is you can see the exact time frame that it happened too, just after Bezos bought it out.
This means that, even if Obama did have Trump wiretapped, it was likely due to connections to a foreign power (likely Russia). So "Obama wiretapped me" is another way of saying "I was communicating with Russia."
No, it means they could turn around and get a FISA warrant by saying "He is talking to someone in the UK" then skirt it and record all information anyway. Minimization(subsection c) means that "areas that aren't subject to the application" aren't supposed to be recorded(or if they are, to be deleted and not used), but if you think that intelligence agencies don't record this you're either naive or incredibly naive. That means they can factually lie in the face of the warrant application, record and gather whatever data they want. Then shovel it off to someone with a huge backlog of work while they sift through all the existing data.
Levin got his information directly from the press, you know. WAPO, NYT who were reporting this, that's not a conspiracy. Unless of course you're saying that they're lying, hell read the shit he posted. It's all there in black and white, using the media's own collated sources.
This is how an authoritarian government works. They care less about the truth, and more about justifying their actions with a painted visage of half-truths and lies
You mean like when the Obama administration said that benghazi was caused by a video? Then flapped their arms over and over again saying it really was caused by a video. Or started assassinating americans because "reasons" when they were in foreign countries? How about when they said that fast and furious(gunrunning into mexico) really wasn't a problem and they were tracking them all. Or that the AG was held in contempt over it. How about when the obama administration decided to wiretap reporters and journalist communications? Never mind that if we take various media at their face value Trump is correct, since they stated that there were multiple taps against people in the Trump campaign. Some of who were in Trump Tower, which means that yes -- they tapped his building/lines of communication in order to conduct surveillance on those people. You also can't forget that some warrants like FISA can be ordered by the president and fulfilled at the behest of the AG too.
The WAPO article is shit, it's even worse shit to anyone who's ever seen a warrant application being filed and the requirements. Hell FISA warrants have such specific thresholds that them being refused is so rare you can count them on all your fingers and toes over the last ~40 years.
I nearly forgot that I'd never replaced the rare shoes on that car either. Front pads on the other hand? Every couple of years, those cars chewed through them until I went to ceramic. That was 100% to do with the vehicle design, 80% of the vehicle weight on the SW series cars were weighted towards the front of the vehicle which caused heavier wear on the front pads. But the brakes on them are so easy to do you could change them in your driveway in a couple of hours. And that has to do a lot with the cars themselves, when your doors weigh under 100lbs each because their skins are plastic-composite, it heavily cuts down on vehicle weight.
Great cars, had an incredibly loyal fanbase too. Same that GM killed the division off, especially since they were incredibly profitable. Even up here in the land of salt and cold you see the rare early 90's saturn that looks in great shape.
How did your suspension last so long? Shocks, struts, bushings, etc? All of that stuff is pretty wear intensive unless you're lucky enough to only drive on new asphalt in a non-freezing climate.
Factory. Take proper care, properly lube them, keep an eye on them as long as they're not "sealed by design" and you can do spot repairs like replacing a bearing without replacing the entire wheel hub assembly. Not quite so easy these days, modern cars? The hub and bearing assemblies are designed as an "all in one" piece with the ABS sensors built in as well. Which is why they're around $500 each. Considering it's mostly highway miles it's not a surprise, and if by non-freezing climate you mean down to -40C in AB, and heavy use of rock salt(since I live in SW Ontario). I guess. Seeing old Saturn SW series cars in central florida(away from the ocean), TX or AZ and so on where it's heavily dry though, you'll start bumping into 1m mile cars on occasion with a lot of factory components.
Transmissions these days also seem to be pretty tightly engineered, it seems like a lot of cars I've looked into have sub-par feedback on transmissions.
That's because of the design, not much more can be done on automatics for example except band performance tuning, and the design of stick hasn't changed in 20 years. But if you go stick there's almost no points of failure besides mechanical as long as you do the very rare fluid change.
Actually it was the alternator that cooked the battery, the voltage regulator flaked out and I didn't notice it--something I should have but it can be easy to miss. The battery replaced in 2009 was factory and suffered through numerous winters with the temperatures dropping to -40C. Batteries normally fail before an alternator though, not the other way around. And in turn cause the alternator to pump out more juice at a higher peak that damages the alternator. Remember with starters 99% of the time it's the solenoid that fails, buy a car that doesn't have a all-in-one design and it's not a serious repair. Then it's a $30 repair.
Before you read this article, What did you think an intelligence agency do ?
Follow the rule of laws and regulations setforth is what most people expect intelligence agencies to do. However in many countries intelligence agencies have gotten so large they see themselves apart from the government.
Around 90% of the problems my buddy sees at his shop are directly tied to either emission controls or senors used to make sure the vehicle is running the best it can(MAF, O2, knock, Cam/crank PoS/TPS and so on). Mechanical failures are pretty rare these days especially after the initial break-in period, hell seeing a vehicle with all original parts and 200k-300k mi isn't even rare anymore. That other 10% is usually something like a mechanical/electronic hybrid device like an EGR valve, or component of the gas-vapor recycling system not working properly because a tube wore through because a clip that held it in place broke and it's allowing air in. Or in newer cars the all-in-one ABS-wheel hub fails in a mechanical way like the ratches snapping. Something that would still happen with an electric car.
When I retired my '96 saturn I had 597k mi on it, and it's only major repairs had been a battery, alternator, radiator and a new clutch at 281k mi.
Only works for trucks and farm equipment because in many cases they're designed for field repairs. If you're driving down the highway and manage to strip out a CV joint, or snap a tie rod or have a ball joint fail, the guy who's coming to fix it isn't going to have accessibility issues on your truck or tractor. You blow a transmission gear, or strip a gear on a diesel? That's getting towed in just like a car because it requires a partial disassemble to fix or fully replace. On the other hand with a car since many are front wheel, you need a hoist, half-shaft puller, likely a specialized hub puller as well, depending on whether or not the vehicle has other features like traction control, AWD, and so on you might require other stuff. Doing a tie-rod or ball joint without a hoist isn't impossible, just very difficult on cars because of the 6-11" standard ground clearance and the hazards of knocking the car off whatever you're using to keep it in the air. You sometimes need a lot of force to get that part of the drivetrain appart.
Your run-of-the-mill stuff like oil changes also require a lot of room, trucks? Tractors? Nope it's just much easier to have a pit that you can get in to get at the filter and drain plug, but you can do them at the side of the road just like cars. They're pretty easy, unless everything is jammed in some spot that requires your arm to bend the wrong way aka "vehicle should be on a hoist." Failed fuel pumps on cars? Almost impossible unless the vehicle has a "inside" vehicle service hatch to access the top of the tank and almost no car has them. And no one wants to haul around a giant fuel storage tank to pump out then try and pull the tank with low clearance. Trucks and tractors on the other hand, most don't use in-tank pumps. Stuff just goes on and on.
The idea isn't bad, but you're gonna have to convince mechanics to not work indoors too. Especially the guys who are unionized and get fancy perks like air mist cooled shops and so on. Or the small guys who don't want to work outside while it's pissing down rain, or laying in the snow to do repairs like they were when they were apprenticing. And having been an apprentice in the 90's and did all the shitty jobs like laying in a mud pit for 3 hours to do a field repair on a truck, you could make me do it again. If you paid 4x the market rate per hour aka $380/hr in labor plus parts.
It likely isn't a conspiracy theory. Nvidia seems to do something like this with graphics drivers and old video cards. Where AMD equivalents weren't suffering the same generational loss even with newer drivers. In many cases the AMD cards improve more even further in the cards lifetime. Ex: A 670 is approx to a 7950-7980. Today with the newest drivers it struggles to hold against a 7750, where that same 7950 in some cases is at the level of a 680.
Yes, but it can't play Star Citizen.
No, as another poster pointed out. But..maybe, it could be worthwhile auditing yourself and devices. And should it prove that it's a bogus notice, billing them for the time and any other costs associated with said audit.
GPUs are increasing incredibly fast because of a couple of reasons. First, they're not anywhere close to the same die size as a CPU. They're roughly 2 generations behind CPU's in shrinking, that means the tolerances can be off and it won't make a huge difference and can "run wild" without the danger of causing errors. But can benefit from all the advances that AMD and Intel have gone through with each die shrink. The second is GPU's are able to increase their die size and transistor count as well as having very specific instruction sets compared to a CPU. They also don't have to have on-die caching which takes up very valuable real estate space on the silicon itself, that more space(upto 1/3) with each shrink can be dedicated to specialized instruction sets or more transistors which further take the load off the CPU.
Neither one of those things has happened. Ok, I heard maybe DeVos tried to push back on the transgender ruling, but that didn't lead to anything different. It's still gone. Because you know, that bathroom business is SO dreadful. But let's see, we have his military operation (a failure), his precious executive order (also a failure, a failure so bad he put it off again this week), and alternative facts out the wazoo.
You mean like all those cases where someone claimed to be transgender and then started spying on little girls and women? Well I guess that's okay. Funny how your most important thing seems to be bathrooms, but not failing schools. Or that abortion known as common core.
Your thinking seems to be stuck in the idea that Donald Trump doesn't have a history of lying through his teeth and out his ass, whose idea of keeping a promise is pretending he did something, when he did no such thing. His history as a businessman is one of scams and deceits, of self-promotion and failure, and has been known since the 1980s. ...
You seem to be inventing alternate history. See, I didn't say that. But you seem to believe that everyone who likes Trump doesn't also know that this happens. But you're saying that he didn't turn around and actually reduce the prices of those things? You should let him know. I'm sure your alternative facts won't count. Or would you prefer to say that driving down even the estimated cost of something is bad? That governments(and their leaders) shouldn't turn around and say "that's too fucking much" and just give companies a fiat to get money from government contracts. You know that Obama didn't pass a budget for 6 years right? And repeatedly failed to meet the mandates for even tabling a budget several times.
Nope. You should hear the real truth: People aren't flipping to Trump. ...
You should probably try to avoid CNN for your polling. I'm sure Hillary still has a 95% chance of winning right? The NYT also says so. By the way, wouldn't you hate criticism if all the media did was lie about you? Or invent stories? Wonder why buzzfeed and CNN are currently being sued for making up news yet? You realize that he called the house out on them taking too long on the ACA? Maybe you should get on the phone to your representative and ask them why it's taking so long. I'll wait, because that's going to be an amazing answer.
You should probably get out of your bubble, it's going to bite you in the ass. Just like it has with all of the progressive politicos who said "If you look out your window and see cows, you're probably a racist."
No president in the history of the US has blocked the press like he is.
Oh boy. Time for you to actually dust off a history book, and go read up on FDR. I'll also wait for you to go read up on how the Obama administration tried to block the press. I'll also wait for you to read up on all the times that the Obama admin stuck minders, and locked reporters into rooms so they couldn't see "official political events" from happening.
What I am questioning is the fact that the most qualified individuals are all mostly white male billionaires.
Nice identity politics there.
Plus he didn't pick on merit, he picked people with the most radical view towards that department.
Ever wonder why the governments get unwieldy, and when populists rise the first thing they do is put people in who are good and have a disdain for the organizations that they then have oversight of? I'll let you think on that.
Trump may thrive on chaos, but presidents do not.
You apparently are new, otherwise you'd have seen the amount of chaos that Obama created during his tenure. Everything ranging from the ACA to his backdoor deal with Iran, to using funds from fredie and fannie to cover the ACA.
You mean he shouldn't select people based on merit? He should do what the democrats are doing and select people based on the gender/race/sexuality instead. Gee, we can really see why the democrats are losing so damned badly can't we.
So how's he muting the press? Oh right he's not. You realize that press gaggles aren't a right to attend event don't you? You realize that gaggles are also posted publicly. Where are your protests when Obama did the same thing to "right wing" media outlets. Oh...I see. How about when he tried to ban Fox News? And it took the press to actually call his administration out on that. You see the difference yet? No? The Obama administration tried to directly block a news organization. Trump has not, they're still there at every presser. At every briefing, and they weren't invited to a single gaggle and suddenly the sky is falling.
The public aren't confused what "fake news" is. Why do you think that there is such a small level of trust in the media? You think Trump suddenly traveled back in time and made it happen under Bill Clinton's term or something? You wonder why the trust in the press has steadily decreased since roughly then to the abysmal level it is now at 14% of the public trusting them.
Time to realize that the media lied at you, and he hasn't muted the press. You want to know what a muted press actually looks like? This is what the media being banned actually looks like. And what it actually looks like when they're called out by the media for banning a news organization. Oh and the NDP? They're far-left.
Do what in a month? Take credit for stuff that the Obama administration worked on for 8 years?
You mean Obama's actions to worsen race relations in the US? Every single time he opened his mouth on something relating to race, he made the situation worse? That instead of waiting for truth, his administration would fabricate and outright lie? You remember Benghazi don't you? How's that "it was because it was a video narrative" bullshit working out these days. To fund terrorists in the middle east because Assad? To back groups that are linked to ISIS? You wonder why ISIS is already on the run a month into Trumps presidency when the mad dog was let off the leash.
The only thing he's really done is to stun the rest of the world into immobility for a while until they figure out whether he is the homicidal maniac that he tries to pretend he is . As soon as somebody else decides to stomp on his balls and gets away with it, it's game over for the game guy.
Yeah because picking Hillary was a great idea. The same person with so many conflicts of interest that she was beholden to dozens of governments? Gee you catch why part of the clinton foundation suddenly shutdown. Her desire to push the US into a war with Russia is a great idea too. Especially since she wanted to bomb them in Syria. How about her wanting to drone strike Assanage. Yeah, there's that homicidal maniac you're looking for. You wonder why marines had to be assigned under the Obama administration, but over 13k of them volunteered to be on the detail for Trump. Dig your head out of your ass.
Yes, for the past 20+ years. Apparently you have not paid any attention to him until recently, which makes you a complete moron for trusting him.
So then you know that he likes flapping off his mouth, but doing things that are fundamentally to the point of what he states he's going to do. Yes, very moronic. You figure out why he got elected yet?
But let's look at the opposition and their rigged DNC primary which was a great idea. Hillary wanting to push the US into WWIII with Russia was a great idea too. And her wanting to outsource jobs, and her support of TPP, and her "open border" policy, all very good things. Gee would you look at that? Looks like you're a fucking moron who still think that the worst possible candidate was the democrats best choice. And to think, they just had the option to pick another path. And the DNC decided to pick "more of the same" that's going to work out really well. By 2020 I'm going to bet that the democrats are a dead party.
No, he doesn't. He just says he does. However, being Trump, even if he wanted to do it, he's incapable of doing it competently.
You been paying attention to what he's done and said? No? You should. Let me know when you get to the part where he's been keeping his promises, and putting people in place who would happily stand up to his views if they're bad. Your thinking is still stuck in a period where politicians would lie through their teeth, and you're now in an era where you have a person who wasn't ever a politician until he was elected POTUS keeping his promises.
That's not an upside, it's a sad effect of politics, you can promise the moon, and deliver a nice shot of your own ass.
And now the funny part. Where you can hear the former never-trump, anti-trump people who've flipped pro-trump because they've seen him keep his promises and do more in a month then the Obama administration did in 4 years. To paraphrase.