The Supreme Court itself will likely demand a replacement, if the extraordinary GOP posturing keeps the seat vacant too long. Personally, I think that we'll have an appointment within a month or two at most. Sure for now they'll spout out a bunch of nonsense, in large part because it's what they do, but the GOP leadership will likely want to avoid having their candidates commit on 'what they want in a Justice' on the campaign trail.
That's what George Bush should have done with Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement instead he replaced her with Alito, however, picking a Supreme Court justice is the Constitutional right of a President and there is little support in the Senate to play games with the Supreme Court, in part because the Court itself might fight back. He's already picked two moderates, maybe this time we will get a real liberal, but I doubt it. So you'll likely have your moderate.
When I switch from Republican registration to Democratic, it wasn't because I was 'in love with the DNC', but because the GOP had clearly become so 'bat shit crazy', the joining the Democratic party wholeheartedly was the best way to oppose them as strongly as I could. If more people voted in the Democratic primaries, we'd likely have more liberal candidates and if more people showed up to vote in the general elections, especially in the midterms, even if they had to 'hold their nose and vote for a 'non perfect' democratic candidate, we'd have a better more liberal government. A government that is more willing to help the poor and middle class.
Whining endlessly simply isn't a good plan for getting things done.
Too many people make the mistake in believing that 'the free market' was a modern or even American invention. In truth it's a least as old as human beings if not older. It's regulations which as created modern society by reiging in 'the free market' with stability and a measure of fairness to both workers (who create a larger middle class) and businesses.
I think that you lost the war for 'what engineer means' when 'train engineer' became common lexicon a long time ago. Perhaps you could take the better fight that 'Software Architects aren't really Architects'.
Yea, no way that could go wrong says the guy who clearly doesn't live in Seoul, South Korea with their family and all their assets within marching distance from over a million North Korean soldiers.
As a nation we pay more for healthcare than any other country, yet we are the 'least socialized' of all the major counties. Perhaps some day you'll understand your place in the self sucking machine of right wing outrage that the GOP has tapped into.
Nope, in Oregon students with the proper permits are allowed to conceal carry, so it's just one more thing you are wrong about. Also, as usual, such laws failed to produce a hero because the simple truth is that 'the bad guy shoots first'.
Actually, without any 'enforcement' at all, the average woman in the U.S has a fertility rate of 1.6, which is actually less than the replacement rate need for a stable population even if we eliminate old age. If it wasn't for immigration we'd be losing population. Virtually all 'advanced economies' are the same.
And what makes you think that gold will be a reliable currency? Personally, if I were the 'prepping' type, I'd stock up on fools gold and nitric acid (for testing) rather than risking too much on real gold.
The data showed that 7.6% of crash-involved drivers tested positive for marijuana or THC, versus 6.1% of the control group. In raw terms, that would suggest that marijuana was associated with a 25% increased chance of crashing. But it's not that simple: the figures have to be adjusted for other factors possibly contributing to crash risk, including the driver's gender and age.
As it happens, males and young drivers have higher crash rates than females and older drivers; they're also more likely to be marijuana users. And once these factors are corrected for, "the significant increased risk of crash involvement associated with THC...is not found." The same outcome was determined for other drugs tested for, including sedatives, antidepressants, and stimulants.
Contributing to the doubts about marijuana's effect on auto safety was the inadequacy of the testing. Pot, like other drugs, can continue to show up in test samples for days or weeks after it's used, meaning that some subjects found to have THC in their systems may have been well past the period of impairment.
The biggest 'hole' in the federal budget is $200 billion dollars a year in unfunded Medicare costs, most of which is because of Medicare Advantage and Part D, both of which were passed with a partisan GOP vote without any funding save for new debt. Overall that largess has had America's future generation pump more than 2 trillions into today's GOP voting seniors.
Sure paying off two trillion in debt isn't a bad idea, but that does nothing to plug the GOP debt hole in the first place. The best idea would be to plug it in a separate bill. Using this 'one time' money for over due transportation programs is bound to generation at least 10 times the cost in economic activity.
Actually, we freeze human eggs (sometimes even fertilized) all the time these days. Seeds of plant are also frozen and the later planted. The only real 'trick' is to have a place to properly grow them. If an animal species is completely wiped out, it might be hard to find a good host to carry it to term, so an incubator might need to be developed, but it does mitigate the genetic problems that come from a small surviving group.
Actually, RAID can be used to speed up access and/or to survive a disk failure (depending on setup). While important in case of major disaster, restoring from backup generally knocks out the service altogether, while a simple (and fairly common in large data centers) disk failure wouldn't even be noticed by anyone but a system admin with a RAID designed to tolerate it.
In any group of 23 or more people, there's a 50% chance two will have the same birthday.
While it's an interesting idea, I'm not really sure how it applies. The 'birthday in common' is only between two of the group and is an 'equally probable date' rather than a specific one. So even if Jesus was one of the group, there is only a small chance he'd be of the pair with matching birthdays.
The most effective political weapon is fear most ads tell you to fear the other guy more than anything else, it's also great for keeping people watching/reading the news, plus fear makes most pay taxes and stop at red lights. I'd say that those who that use broken logic of revenge and racism keep terrorism in business as much as anything.
Financial services and many other business already have such private connections. However, I've said for the last couple of years that the real security problem are developers (such as myself) who need high security privileges on both our own machines as well as production ones. What's more is that our browsing tends to be grouped into finding sometimes obscure downloads for administrative tasks and solutions for programming issues, which would likely add to the ability to target.. In reality the problem might not be the malware infested laptop of Marketing Sally, but Targeted Tim, the IT guy. While the real solution should likely be a OS that is more secure at least for IT and probably in general, at the very least people with too much privilege should use another PC running on different credentials for at least 'solution lookups'.
Sure the CIA can be trusted, however, it's not a generally good idea unless they present the evidence and it checks out. Why don't you think 'It isn't even plausible that NK is behind this'? Do you think North Koreans can't develop 'script kiddie' technology?
Actually, the 'if you see the gas station, you went too far' is really more analogous to 'catching a runtime exception' before it travels too far up the stack.
True, but there are those who love horses as well, yet now most people rarely even see a live horse, let alone own one.
I think two things will 'drive' the adaption to driverless cars, parking and driving. People already spend a good deal of time trying to find a parking spot. With a driverless care you'd have your own 'valet parking' everywhere and the storage location for the car isn't limited to the local area, a car could easily be sent back home (yours or its). At first parking will get cheaper and more abundant, but eventually, 'Downtown parking' will not only become almost unneeded, but it will also largely disappear and I think even suburban parking will become rare. Also, thanks to digital reflexes and networking driverless cars will be able to tailgate not only to save gas, but to keep the traffic flowing at higher volumes. I suspect that 'manual drivers' will find themselves 'locked out' of the fast lane by cars on autodrive. Sure frustrated drivers will force their way into the fast lane and jam up traffic (as they do now), but the cars will record the reckless driving, likely by a few 'angles', eventually, it'll become a citation to do it.
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The Supreme Court itself will likely demand a replacement, if the extraordinary GOP posturing keeps the seat vacant too long. Personally, I think that we'll have an appointment within a month or two at most. Sure for now they'll spout out a bunch of nonsense, in large part because it's what they do, but the GOP leadership will likely want to avoid having their candidates commit on 'what they want in a Justice' on the campaign trail.
That's what George Bush should have done with Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement instead he replaced her with Alito, however, picking a Supreme Court justice is the Constitutional right of a President and there is little support in the Senate to play games with the Supreme Court, in part because the Court itself might fight back. He's already picked two moderates, maybe this time we will get a real liberal, but I doubt it. So you'll likely have your moderate.
When I switch from Republican registration to Democratic, it wasn't because I was 'in love with the DNC', but because the GOP had clearly become so 'bat shit crazy', the joining the Democratic party wholeheartedly was the best way to oppose them as strongly as I could. If more people voted in the Democratic primaries, we'd likely have more liberal candidates and if more people showed up to vote in the general elections, especially in the midterms, even if they had to 'hold their nose and vote for a 'non perfect' democratic candidate, we'd have a better more liberal government. A government that is more willing to help the poor and middle class. Whining endlessly simply isn't a good plan for getting things done.
Too many people make the mistake in believing that 'the free market' was a modern or even American invention. In truth it's a least as old as human beings if not older. It's regulations which as created modern society by reiging in 'the free market' with stability and a measure of fairness to both workers (who create a larger middle class) and businesses.
I think that you lost the war for 'what engineer means' when 'train engineer' became common lexicon a long time ago. Perhaps you could take the better fight that 'Software Architects aren't really Architects'.
Yea, no way that could go wrong says the guy who clearly doesn't live in Seoul, South Korea with their family and all their assets within marching distance from over a million North Korean soldiers.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The federal government has a two year election cycle, if you knew that we'd likely have a more stable government.
As a nation we pay more for healthcare than any other country, yet we are the 'least socialized' of all the major counties. Perhaps some day you'll understand your place in the self sucking machine of right wing outrage that the GOP has tapped into.
Nope, in Oregon students with the proper permits are allowed to conceal carry, so it's just one more thing you are wrong about. Also, as usual, such laws failed to produce a hero because the simple truth is that 'the bad guy shoots first'.
Actually, without any 'enforcement' at all, the average woman in the U.S has a fertility rate of 1.6, which is actually less than the replacement rate need for a stable population even if we eliminate old age. If it wasn't for immigration we'd be losing population. Virtually all 'advanced economies' are the same.
You won't 'live forever', you just won't die of old age.
And what makes you think that gold will be a reliable currency? Personally, if I were the 'prepping' type, I'd stock up on fools gold and nitric acid (for testing) rather than risking too much on real gold.
The biggest 'hole' in the federal budget is $200 billion dollars a year in unfunded Medicare costs, most of which is because of Medicare Advantage and Part D, both of which were passed with a partisan GOP vote without any funding save for new debt. Overall that largess has had America's future generation pump more than 2 trillions into today's GOP voting seniors. Sure paying off two trillion in debt isn't a bad idea, but that does nothing to plug the GOP debt hole in the first place. The best idea would be to plug it in a separate bill. Using this 'one time' money for over due transportation programs is bound to generation at least 10 times the cost in economic activity.
Whatsapp is a jabber client as well. I fail to see why this is surprising connection. Seems more like click bait.
Actually, we freeze human eggs (sometimes even fertilized) all the time these days. Seeds of plant are also frozen and the later planted. The only real 'trick' is to have a place to properly grow them. If an animal species is completely wiped out, it might be hard to find a good host to carry it to term, so an incubator might need to be developed, but it does mitigate the genetic problems that come from a small surviving group.
Arrrghhhh!!!!....
Actually, RAID can be used to speed up access and/or to survive a disk failure (depending on setup). While important in case of major disaster, restoring from backup generally knocks out the service altogether, while a simple (and fairly common in large data centers) disk failure wouldn't even be noticed by anyone but a system admin with a RAID designed to tolerate it.
In any group of 23 or more people, there's a 50% chance two will have the same birthday.
While it's an interesting idea, I'm not really sure how it applies. The 'birthday in common' is only between two of the group and is an 'equally probable date' rather than a specific one. So even if Jesus was one of the group, there is only a small chance he'd be of the pair with matching birthdays.
Since 9/11? Google 'McCarthyism', then 'yellow journalism', you should recognize that fear has always been a primary driver of human existence.
The most effective political weapon is fear most ads tell you to fear the other guy more than anything else, it's also great for keeping people watching/reading the news, plus fear makes most pay taxes and stop at red lights. I'd say that those who that use broken logic of revenge and racism keep terrorism in business as much as anything.
Financial services and many other business already have such private connections. However, I've said for the last couple of years that the real security problem are developers (such as myself) who need high security privileges on both our own machines as well as production ones. What's more is that our browsing tends to be grouped into finding sometimes obscure downloads for administrative tasks and solutions for programming issues, which would likely add to the ability to target.. In reality the problem might not be the malware infested laptop of Marketing Sally, but Targeted Tim, the IT guy. While the real solution should likely be a OS that is more secure at least for IT and probably in general, at the very least people with too much privilege should use another PC running on different credentials for at least 'solution lookups'.
Sure the CIA can be trusted, however, it's not a generally good idea unless they present the evidence and it checks out. Why don't you think 'It isn't even plausible that NK is behind this'? Do you think North Koreans can't develop 'script kiddie' technology?
Actually, the 'if you see the gas station, you went too far' is really more analogous to 'catching a runtime exception' before it travels too far up the stack.
True, but there are those who love horses as well, yet now most people rarely even see a live horse, let alone own one.
I think two things will 'drive' the adaption to driverless cars, parking and driving. People already spend a good deal of time trying to find a parking spot. With a driverless care you'd have your own 'valet parking' everywhere and the storage location for the car isn't limited to the local area, a car could easily be sent back home (yours or its). At first parking will get cheaper and more abundant, but eventually, 'Downtown parking' will not only become almost unneeded, but it will also largely disappear and I think even suburban parking will become rare. Also, thanks to digital reflexes and networking driverless cars will be able to tailgate not only to save gas, but to keep the traffic flowing at higher volumes. I suspect that 'manual drivers' will find themselves 'locked out' of the fast lane by cars on autodrive. Sure frustrated drivers will force their way into the fast lane and jam up traffic (as they do now), but the cars will record the reckless driving, likely by a few 'angles', eventually, it'll become a citation to do it.