Were you intellectually honest enough to take a closer look at the congresscritters that were instrumental in converting Obama's initial "kill Bush's Constellation" into the abortion that became SLS you'd discover Democrats on the front lines, if not leading the pack. But hey, if Trump can lie, so can you, right?
As for the COTS program, take a closer look at just who signed that into law and when it happened. Hint: It wasn't Obama.
I do give Obama credit for not torpedoing a program he didn't come up with & that has borne great benefits but that doesn't excuse his not denouncing the waste inherent in SLS. You want to put Trump up in one after he has served his term? Fine, but Obama's already available and a more proximate responsible for the mess.
SLS is Obama's baby because he allowed Constellation to morph into SLS and mop up billions better spent elsewhere. It'd only be fair to put him on it for it's initial flight.
Well then you're not really against slavery are you? Because if you were you were, by the logic of those tearing down monuments associated with slaveholders, you should also be for tearing down all the other works built through slave labor too.
It isn't about slavery, it's just burying inconvenient historical truths & cultural revisionism has won the day. We all used to mock the Soviets for airbrushing those who had fallen into political disfavor out of textbook pictures. Now some on the left find it politically expedient to do so themselves.
As race relations in the US are too heated for many to reason logically, look elsewhere. The issue is owning up to your past and not hiding it as the Germans do with the Shoah (with exceptions) or attempting to bury it as the Turks are still attempting to do with their genocide of the Armenians (with exceptions). My position is that though the former is more painful is is preferable to the shameful second.
No. If the problem was with exclusivity, they would also be excluding Gaumont exclusive movies & UGC exclusives.
Cannes worded the exclusion quite clearly: Release to theater chains or else.
If it were possible for Netflix to project their production in a few theaters concurrently to releasing them for streaming to qualify for Cannes, they would probably do so, but that's not the problem. The problem is that it is illegal to stream any new movies in France until 3 years after they are released in theaters. THAT is the close minded legislative blocking point.
Yup, in France you MUST protect the Cinema owners lobby, & then Canal+ the paid TV channel.
Why? Because that is how France financed French movies & TV series over the past few decades and no other distribution system can be conceived of by French politicians.
Revisionism is live and well already and not just by the right: They are ripping down monuments to confederate heroes like Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans. While the claim that it is to take a notch out of white supremacists by removing symbols of their heroes is valid, it is troubling that we prefer burying an inconvenient past rather than owning up to it. Slaves built many of Mankind's most iconic monuments like the Pyramids & the Colosseum yet there are no calls for deconstructing them.
We'll get back to you as soon as the Russian judicial system is no longer a joke. Don't forget to bug your buddy Putin regularly on how he's progressing.
Trump won according to the rules, everything else is pissant whining. Getting more votes isn't how you win the presidential election in the U.S., winning the electoral college is. If the Dems thought is was a problem they could have done something about it, like when _Hillary's_husband_ was POTUS. They didn't and losers don't get to change the rules because whine, whine, whine.
Marine could score 49.9999% & that still wouldn't give the FN a single Député. The FN will have to do muuuuch better in the parlementary elections in June than they have ever done and except for Dupont-Aingan nobody will ally themselves with the FN and though they may score higher than the currently fragmented political parties in France the FN is rarely over 50% they'll need when everyone else unites against them.
Nah, it's just internal campaign emails of little importance that the leakers mixed in with transparently forged documents about foreign bank accounts. I have friends who'll be voting FN & even among them nobody believes that the bank account dumps are true. Putin's overuse of the same tactics are wearing thin.
Of course there isn't. Putin actively protects his hackers on Russian soil which means that it's impossible to point to "proof". That doesn't mean that the less dense among us don't see Putin's actions and despise him for it.
Rei, you quite visibly do not live in close proximity with or under the flightpath of a helipad that is used daily (150m). The acoustic pollution of anything large enough to transport people will quickly render their daily use so obnoxious that neighbours will band together and outlaw them (as is coming to pass in the south of France around St Tropez). Small drones delivering packages do not have the same weight & noise constraints.
New ebooks do indeed come with price premium often making them more expensive than hardcovers -- which is why I never but new books when they come out.
However, if you just wait a few years, the ebooks come down in price to paperback prices.
That's why I'm happy with my 4000 ebook calibre library acquired around the same time as Napster was a big thing. I still have a backlog big enough that waiting a few years is not an issue and that's without spending all my time delving into the project Gutemburg classics. Buying through Calibre also turns up the on-line shops with the cheapest ebooks and filters out everything DRM protected.
I'll give you 2 but not 1 as the subject is "flying cars", which is to say ubiquitous transportation. If they aren't "taking off and landing wherever they want" then they aren't flying cars. & if not, what is the point?
Besides which, even with automated pilots, there's still the issue of noise. I have close friends that live near St Tropez where the over-use of helicopters by those rich enough to afford their use has already produced a reaction in the neighbouring communities, restricting their use. Flying cars would be outlawed in all urban centres before ever becoming a thing.
Most airplanes are circumscribed to landing and taking off in special areas called airports and their use is highly regulated. That diminishes somewhat the worries people have of seeing their neighbors (who they've seen driving into trees and parked cars) attempting to master flight.
I'm of a number of minds about the situation anyway: Assange isn't above the law and should have at a minimum been interrogated by the swedish judge and possibly been behind bars Assange's claim for a noble reason for jumping bail is bogus - the U.S. can extradite him easier from the U.K. than from Sweden. Wikileaks is nothing more than the mouth of Putin's dirt excavations and as such is just as dirty as those whose dirty laundry he exposes.
Assange's self-assumed impunity to prosecution is overblown: - He's never been on U.S. soil & isn't a U.S. citizen - not needed to for prosecution of knowingly spreading classified materials - They'll never catch me! - Only if Moreno, who has replaced Correa decides he's worth the hassle. - I'll make a stink! - Any stink Assange makes is tiny compared to Trump's self-made scandals. - Putin will protect me! - Everyone now sees that Wikileaks "independence" is fake. Putin will easily find another mouthpiece that isn't as transparent as Wikileaks has become.
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Were you intellectually honest enough to take a closer look at the congresscritters that were instrumental in converting Obama's initial "kill Bush's Constellation" into the abortion that became SLS you'd discover Democrats on the front lines, if not leading the pack. But hey, if Trump can lie, so can you, right?
As for the COTS program, take a closer look at just who signed that into law and when it happened. Hint: It wasn't Obama.
I do give Obama credit for not torpedoing a program he didn't come up with & that has borne great benefits but that doesn't excuse his not denouncing the waste inherent in SLS. You want to put Trump up in one after he has served his term? Fine, but Obama's already available and a more proximate responsible for the mess.
You mean like Obama?
SLS is Obama's baby because he allowed Constellation to morph into SLS and mop up billions better spent elsewhere. It'd only be fair to put him on it for it's initial flight.
Well then you're not really against slavery are you? Because if you were you were, by the logic of those tearing down monuments associated with slaveholders, you should also be for tearing down all the other works built through slave labor too.
It isn't about slavery, it's just burying inconvenient historical truths & cultural revisionism has won the day. We all used to mock the Soviets for airbrushing those who had fallen into political disfavor out of textbook pictures. Now some on the left find it politically expedient to do so themselves.
As race relations in the US are too heated for many to reason logically, look elsewhere. The issue is owning up to your past and not hiding it as the Germans do with the Shoah (with exceptions) or attempting to bury it as the Turks are still attempting to do with their genocide of the Armenians (with exceptions). My position is that though the former is more painful is is preferable to the shameful second.
It's illegal to stream content in France until 3 years after movies have been released to theaters. Straight to steam content isn't affected.
No. If the problem was with exclusivity, they would also be excluding Gaumont exclusive movies & UGC exclusives.
Cannes worded the exclusion quite clearly: Release to theater chains or else.
If it were possible for Netflix to project their production in a few theaters concurrently to releasing them for streaming to qualify for Cannes, they would probably do so, but that's not the problem. The problem is that it is illegal to stream any new movies in France until 3 years after they are released in theaters. THAT is the close minded legislative blocking point.
Yup, in France you MUST protect the Cinema owners lobby, & then Canal+ the paid TV channel.
Why? Because that is how France financed French movies & TV series over the past few decades and no other distribution system can be conceived of by French politicians.
Revisionism is live and well already and not just by the right: They are ripping down monuments to confederate heroes like Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis in New Orleans. While the claim that it is to take a notch out of white supremacists by removing symbols of their heroes is valid, it is troubling that we prefer burying an inconvenient past rather than owning up to it. Slaves built many of Mankind's most iconic monuments like the Pyramids & the Colosseum yet there are no calls for deconstructing them.
C'est toi l'expert dans la domaine...
We'll get back to you as soon as the Russian judicial system is no longer a joke. Don't forget to bug your buddy Putin regularly on how he's progressing.
Nope, Putin's playbook is now universally recognised and only anonymous _Cowards_ attempt to defend him.
Putin's tactics are now well known and have become counterproductive: Nobody believed the lies
Trump won according to the rules, everything else is pissant whining.
Getting more votes isn't how you win the presidential election in the U.S., winning the electoral college is.
If the Dems thought is was a problem they could have done something about it, like when _Hillary's_husband_ was POTUS. They didn't and losers don't get to change the rules because whine, whine, whine.
That Clinton was the worst candidate in decades doesn't disprove Putin's meddling. Both helped get Trump elected.
Marine could score 49.9999% & that still wouldn't give the FN a single Député. The FN will have to do muuuuch better in the parlementary elections in June than they have ever done and except for Dupont-Aingan nobody will ally themselves with the FN and though they may score higher than the currently fragmented political parties in France the FN is rarely over 50% they'll need when everyone else unites against them.
The problem wan't the electoral college, it was that the candidate was Hillary. Fortunately, Macron isn't Hillary.
Nah, it's just internal campaign emails of little importance that the leakers mixed in with transparently forged documents about foreign bank accounts. I have friends who'll be voting FN & even among them nobody believes that the bank account dumps are true. Putin's overuse of the same tactics are wearing thin.
Rien a foutre de Clinton mais marre des tactiques de mensonge de Le Pen et l'ingérence de Putin.
Sure Vlad, whatever you say...
Of course there isn't. Putin actively protects his hackers on Russian soil which means that it's impossible to point to "proof". That doesn't mean that the less dense among us don't see Putin's actions and despise him for it.
Rei, you quite visibly do not live in close proximity with or under the flightpath of a helipad that is used daily (150m). The acoustic pollution of anything large enough to transport people will quickly render their daily use so obnoxious that neighbours will band together and outlaw them (as is coming to pass in the south of France around St Tropez). Small drones delivering packages do not have the same weight & noise constraints.
Only buy ebooks with no DRM or DRM that can be ripped out like Amazon's. My ebook collection will survive me.
New ebooks do indeed come with price premium often making them more expensive than hardcovers -- which is why I never but new books when they come out.
However, if you just wait a few years, the ebooks come down in price to paperback prices.
That's why I'm happy with my 4000 ebook calibre library acquired around the same time as Napster was a big thing. I still have a backlog big enough that waiting a few years is not an issue and that's without spending all my time delving into the project Gutemburg classics. Buying through Calibre also turns up the on-line shops with the cheapest ebooks and filters out everything DRM protected.
I'll give you 2 but not 1 as the subject is "flying cars", which is to say ubiquitous transportation. If they aren't "taking off and landing wherever they want" then they aren't flying cars. & if not, what is the point?
Besides which, even with automated pilots, there's still the issue of noise. I have close friends that live near St Tropez where the over-use of helicopters by those rich enough to afford their use has already produced a reaction in the neighbouring communities, restricting their use. Flying cars would be outlawed in all urban centres before ever becoming a thing.
Most airplanes are circumscribed to landing and taking off in special areas called airports and their use is highly regulated. That diminishes somewhat the worries people have of seeing their neighbors (who they've seen driving into trees and parked cars) attempting to master flight.
Truth is stranger than fiction so why not?
I'm of a number of minds about the situation anyway:
Assange isn't above the law and should have at a minimum been interrogated by the swedish judge and possibly been behind bars
Assange's claim for a noble reason for jumping bail is bogus - the U.S. can extradite him easier from the U.K. than from Sweden.
Wikileaks is nothing more than the mouth of Putin's dirt excavations and as such is just as dirty as those whose dirty laundry he exposes.
Assange's self-assumed impunity to prosecution is overblown:
- He's never been on U.S. soil & isn't a U.S. citizen - not needed to for prosecution of knowingly spreading classified materials
- They'll never catch me! - Only if Moreno, who has replaced Correa decides he's worth the hassle.
- I'll make a stink! - Any stink Assange makes is tiny compared to Trump's self-made scandals.
- Putin will protect me! - Everyone now sees that Wikileaks "independence" is fake. Putin will easily find another mouthpiece that isn't as transparent as Wikileaks has become.