As I understand it 5G *can* provide real-time haptic feedback. It's good for gaming, yes. But more important so that little things, such VR/AR surgeries, can be done remotely.
There weren't ice ages until the recent past (2.5MYA) and in the intervening years we've had about 24 periods of global warming and global cooling (ice ages) and numerous mini-ice ages.
I'm not sure if you're serious... You think there weren't ice ages until 2.5MYA? That's patently false....
You're correct. I was talking about the Pliocene Ice Age. There weren't ice ages for what? 250 million years (a quarter of a billion years) until recently.
... checking wikipedia
"There have been at least five major ice ages in the earth's past (the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo Ice Age and the Quaternary glaciation). Outside these ages, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes.[31][32]"
The Karoo was from: "360 to 260 " MYA.
The chicken little aspect of global warming comes from saying "the world will end" if CO2 levels rise to a quarter what it was 50 million years ago. No. It won't.
That exaggeration is part of the problem. Need we do something about pollution? yes of course. Need we reduce carbon emissions? yes, of course.
Will the world end; will civilization collapse if we take another 20 years before the advent of wind and solar and other alt-energies become significant players? No. Hell no. Exaggerating claims only hurts our credibility.
Laws are decided by the people who live in the country. Not the rest of the world.
I'm an atheist. How about you insist (and get Saudi Arabia to agree) that all people can go everywhere and we all follow our own rules. Why? Because we're all one people.
Stop making things up and then calling other people bigots for not following it.
The climate has always changed. There weren't ice ages until the recent past (2.5MYA) and in the intervening years we've had about 24 periods of global warming and global cooling (ice ages) and numerous mini-ice ages.
CO2 levels were magnitudes higher 50 million years ago. An era dominated by mammals. Life would flourish at CO2 levels many times the level shouted by alarmists.
I personally find the chicken little aspect of some to be extremely detrimental to accomplishing rational solutions: namely cutting down on fossil fuels (not only for CO2 levels); reducing the production of carcinogenic industrial by-products; and safely disposing of these harmful products.
People hear different things. The coal miners (and others) heard that Trump was going to try to bring back middle-class blue collar jobs. They don't care if it's a coal mine, installing solar panels, an oil pipeline, building refineries - what counts are blue collar jobs.
And not the BS trope but forth by the high-almighty that we're going to train you to become code monkeys (and then triple the approved H1-B visas) .
The Dems used to be the party of labor. Not anymore. The Dems abandoned labor in favor of identity politics and other progressive Shibboleths.
??? There was a short recession 1989-1990. Then it slowly recovered. Staggering a bit in 1992 and then took off.
The media was calling Bush 41 out of touch; that the economy was staggering. Bush was saying that the economy was getting stronger. As soon as Clinton won (see link in earlier post) the media started calling it the Clinton Recovery.
Whatever happened after has nothing to do with the 1992 election.
Re the claim: there wasn't a recession in the late 90s. It was a boom time.
Prices are low because we're drilling and fraking. A few years ago it was $4.00 and politicians were famously saying it would never be under $2.00 again.
We need to continue this. Bring the pipeline down to the refineries and stop sending money to fanatics.
We can tax the revenue and to bring about alt energies.
Re global warming - bad economy leads to unrest the world over. Gas is better than oil and coal. We need to come up with solutions that work in India, Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia - the world over to we can move to alt-energy.
Simply reducing supply, such as your proposing, is not good idea. (IMHO)
We have 20 years or so until alt energy becomes the dominant source. We need to get there without war; without mass upheaval; and as quickly as possible arrive at alternatives. Taxing cheap oil and using the revenue to promote alternatives is a good idea.
Short sighted re immigration and the belief that Trump wants "nasty smoggy pollutants" because he and the Russians agree on one thing. Money should not go to the Saudis as they spend billions in spreading their religious zeal to mosques around the world.
Again. The issue isn't the work done. It's the fact that it is a Cabinet Level position.
There will always need to be an HR staff for the military. It needn't be a cabinet level position. It's the hallmark of a bloated bureaucracy. The work needs to be done. The title and the perks with the title can go.
Again. Re the Postmaster General. The work needs to be done. The cabinet level position can go.
As you pointed out there isn't a "true" patron-client relationship in place, but they still exist. New positions that act as "stepping stones" for higher office are created all the time. NYC has borough presidents and the Public Advocate.These positions have no purpose except to act as resume enhancers and helps people jockey for political power. These positions need to go. Bureaucracies throughout the ages are famous for this, whether in government or in large corporations.
When do we start to phase them out? Again - it's not the work involved - it's the position. The work, obviously, still needs to be done.
Yeah. I get it. You're being foolish and shortsighted.
Renewable energy is the way of the near future. But that is no reason to oppose the Keystone Pipeline. We need carbon based fuel in the now. Let's produce it here. Make jobs here. Don't send money to the Saudi religious nuts. And use the tax revenue from said production to fund alternative solutions.
Re immigration? When do you say no? When we have a 500 million people (in 30 yrs) or 1 billion people (in 70 years)?
Who gets to decide? The people living here? Or do they have no say?
It's foolishness to say that the people here have no say.
Ambassadorships are, in large part, patronage jobs.
The Department of Education does not need, should not be an Executive Branch responsibility.
Another example would be the VA. It's the Armed Forces HR. It made sense in 1946 when 13+ million people (out of a population of less than 150 million) were being discharged. It doesn't make sense today.
Get rid of it.
Another one is the Postmaster General. This made sense in 1788. It doesn't make sense today.
These roles are necessary. The Cabinet level position for the role is not. Time for them to go.
We're not talking about the work - we're talking about the position.
Climate Change was invented by Luntz? Then why has been so enthusiastically embraced? It's a effed-up stupid phrase.
If you think it's stupid; if you think it was created by Luntz to embarrass the Global Warming then you need to start explaining to the Chicken Littles that they sound ridiculous chanting the phrase "No More Climate Change."
Sorry disagree with every point. National policy on education should be in CONGRESS. Not the president. And the actual implementation needs to be done on the local (with oversight on the state level).
It's time for this patronage BS position (The Department of Education ) to go.
By the way the Board of Ed was formed under Carter. It would be more advantageous for the monies put into the agency to be spent on actual education.
Here's an idea - use the money to maintain a digital public library with downloadable PDFs (and all digital formats) so that no one has a barrier to education material. This should include college level textbooks.
Truly. Honestly. The Dept of Education needs to go. If this, and this only, happens the Trump Presidency would be success.
I'm willfully ignorant. I see nothing that counts as a scandal. The closest is the NSA guy having to resign for lying.
You think there were scandals good for you.
I want to see the end of Imperial Washington. Get rid of the Department of Education. So DeVos is not a scandal. I hope she pares down, if not eliminates the cabinet position.
Why would anyone want the Dept of Ed? We have local level school boards, principals, superintendent of school systems, mayors and counties; state legislatures, governors' boards; the federal legislature. Why the f00k do we need a cabinet level position. It should be a no-brainer that this is irrelevant patron-client, feed-the-beast B$.
DeVos is not a scandal. It's a feature. I was a neverTrump and this made me cautiously optimistic. Now if only we can get rid of the Dept of Veteran's Affairs (useful in 1946 when 15 million people were being discharged from the armed forces). It's not useful now. It's the HR dept of the armed forces. Get rid of it as a cabinet level position.
Because at the time the Obama administration said it was not a tax.
Judge Roberts disagreed. For Obamacare to exist it must exist as a tax. THEREFORE it does not require cloture. As a tax provision it can be amended or overturned with a majority vote.
Expect more controversies, scandals and indictments than the Nixon and Reagan administrations combined. For the news media, this is better than having a Clinton in the White House. After the election, The Washington Post announced they were hiring 60 investigative reporters.
We'll see so far there are no scandals. NSA lied to Pence and Trump. He's out.
Controversies? Define controversy? Something the opposition disagrees with? You mean like Obamacare? Or invading Iraq?
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Hmmm. So you're advocating going away from progressive economics and leaning to free-market where, by definition, this will not happen.
As I understand it 5G *can* provide real-time haptic feedback. It's good for gaming, yes. But more important so that little things, such VR/AR surgeries, can be done remotely.
Is this BS? I don't know.
whatever. As someone old enough to have lived through the period. There wasn't a recession in the late 1990s.
See links below. There was a recession in 1990-199 and another in 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.nber.org/cycles.htm...
There weren't ice ages until the recent past (2.5MYA) and in the intervening years we've had about 24 periods of global warming and global cooling (ice ages) and numerous mini-ice ages.
I'm not sure if you're serious... You think there weren't ice ages until 2.5MYA? That's patently false....
You're correct. I was talking about the Pliocene Ice Age. There weren't ice ages for what? 250 million years (a quarter of a billion years) until recently.
... checking wikipedia
"There have been at least five major ice ages in the earth's past (the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo Ice Age and the Quaternary glaciation). Outside these ages, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes.[31][32]"
The Karoo was from: "360 to 260 " MYA.
The chicken little aspect of global warming comes from saying "the world will end" if CO2 levels rise to a quarter what it was 50 million years ago. No. It won't. That exaggeration is part of the problem. Need we do something about pollution? yes of course. Need we reduce carbon emissions? yes, of course.
Will the world end; will civilization collapse if we take another 20 years before the advent of wind and solar and other alt-energies become significant players? No. Hell no. Exaggerating claims only hurts our credibility.
There will be soon; along with financial analysts. Many of those positions are soon going to be replaced with AI (as it's foolishly being called).
Brownshirts? You mean for the guys rioting over Milo. You mean making Brownshirts for those a$$wipes?
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Laws are decided by the people who live in the country. Not the rest of the world.
I'm an atheist. How about you insist (and get Saudi Arabia to agree) that all people can go everywhere and we all follow our own rules. Why? Because we're all one people.
Stop making things up and then calling other people bigots for not following it.
The climate has always changed. There weren't ice ages until the recent past (2.5MYA) and in the intervening years we've had about 24 periods of global warming and global cooling (ice ages) and numerous mini-ice ages.
CO2 levels were magnitudes higher 50 million years ago. An era dominated by mammals. Life would flourish at CO2 levels many times the level shouted by alarmists.
I personally find the chicken little aspect of some to be extremely detrimental to accomplishing rational solutions: namely cutting down on fossil fuels (not only for CO2 levels); reducing the production of carcinogenic industrial by-products; and safely disposing of these harmful products.
People hear different things. The coal miners (and others) heard that Trump was going to try to bring back middle-class blue collar jobs. They don't care if it's a coal mine, installing solar panels, an oil pipeline, building refineries - what counts are blue collar jobs.
And not the BS trope but forth by the high-almighty that we're going to train you to become code monkeys (and then triple the approved H1-B visas) .
The Dems used to be the party of labor. Not anymore. The Dems abandoned labor in favor of identity politics and other progressive Shibboleths.
??? There was a short recession 1989-1990. Then it slowly recovered. Staggering a bit in 1992 and then took off.
The media was calling Bush 41 out of touch; that the economy was staggering. Bush was saying that the economy was getting stronger. As soon as Clinton won (see link in earlier post) the media started calling it the Clinton Recovery.
Whatever happened after has nothing to do with the 1992 election.
Re the claim: there wasn't a recession in the late 90s. It was a boom time.
See chart: http://www.multpl.com/us-gdp-g...
Prices are low because we're drilling and fraking. A few years ago it was $4.00 and politicians were famously saying it would never be under $2.00 again.
We need to continue this. Bring the pipeline down to the refineries and stop sending money to fanatics.
We can tax the revenue and to bring about alt energies.
Re global warming - bad economy leads to unrest the world over. Gas is better than oil and coal. We need to come up with solutions that work in India, Nigeria, Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia - the world over to we can move to alt-energy.
Simply reducing supply, such as your proposing, is not good idea. (IMHO)
We have 20 years or so until alt energy becomes the dominant source. We need to get there without war; without mass upheaval; and as quickly as possible arrive at alternatives. Taxing cheap oil and using the revenue to promote alternatives is a good idea.
Short sighted re immigration and the belief that Trump wants "nasty smoggy pollutants" because he and the Russians agree on one thing. Money should not go to the Saudis as they spend billions in spreading their religious zeal to mosques around the world.
Again. The issue isn't the work done. It's the fact that it is a Cabinet Level position. There will always need to be an HR staff for the military. It needn't be a cabinet level position. It's the hallmark of a bloated bureaucracy. The work needs to be done. The title and the perks with the title can go.
Again. Re the Postmaster General. The work needs to be done. The cabinet level position can go.
As you pointed out there isn't a "true" patron-client relationship in place, but they still exist. New positions that act as "stepping stones" for higher office are created all the time. NYC has borough presidents and the Public Advocate.These positions have no purpose except to act as resume enhancers and helps people jockey for political power. These positions need to go. Bureaucracies throughout the ages are famous for this, whether in government or in large corporations.
When do we start to phase them out? Again - it's not the work involved - it's the position. The work, obviously, still needs to be done.
Yeah. I get it. You're being foolish and shortsighted.
Renewable energy is the way of the near future. But that is no reason to oppose the Keystone Pipeline. We need carbon based fuel in the now. Let's produce it here. Make jobs here. Don't send money to the Saudi religious nuts. And use the tax revenue from said production to fund alternative solutions.
Re immigration? When do you say no? When we have a 500 million people (in 30 yrs) or 1 billion people (in 70 years)?
Who gets to decide? The people living here? Or do they have no say?
It's foolishness to say that the people here have no say.
Are you sure that the Curie point was named after Marie?
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Just checked. It's named after Pierre Curie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ambassadorships are, in large part, patronage jobs.
The Department of Education does not need, should not be an Executive Branch responsibility.
Another example would be the VA. It's the Armed Forces HR. It made sense in 1946 when 13+ million people (out of a population of less than 150 million) were being discharged. It doesn't make sense today.
Get rid of it.
Another one is the Postmaster General. This made sense in 1788. It doesn't make sense today.
These roles are necessary. The Cabinet level position for the role is not. Time for them to go.
We're not talking about the work - we're talking about the position.
Climate Change was invented by Luntz? Then why has been so enthusiastically embraced? It's a effed-up stupid phrase.
If you think it's stupid; if you think it was created by Luntz to embarrass the Global Warming then you need to start explaining to the Chicken Littles that they sound ridiculous chanting the phrase "No More Climate Change."
Sorry disagree with every point. National policy on education should be in CONGRESS. Not the president. And the actual implementation needs to be done on the local (with oversight on the state level).
It's time for this patronage BS position (The Department of Education ) to go.
By the way the Board of Ed was formed under Carter. It would be more advantageous for the monies put into the agency to be spent on actual education.
Here's an idea - use the money to maintain a digital public library with downloadable PDFs (and all digital formats) so that no one has a barrier to education material. This should include college level textbooks.
Truly. Honestly. The Dept of Education needs to go. If this, and this only, happens the Trump Presidency would be success.
I'm willfully ignorant. I see nothing that counts as a scandal. The closest is the NSA guy having to resign for lying.
You think there were scandals good for you.
I want to see the end of Imperial Washington. Get rid of the Department of Education. So DeVos is not a scandal. I hope she pares down, if not eliminates the cabinet position.
Why would anyone want the Dept of Ed? We have local level school boards, principals, superintendent of school systems, mayors and counties; state legislatures, governors' boards; the federal legislature. Why the f00k do we need a cabinet level position. It should be a no-brainer that this is irrelevant patron-client, feed-the-beast B$.
DeVos is not a scandal. It's a feature. I was a neverTrump and this made me cautiously optimistic. Now if only we can get rid of the Dept of Veteran's Affairs (useful in 1946 when 15 million people were being discharged from the armed forces). It's not useful now. It's the HR dept of the armed forces. Get rid of it as a cabinet level position.
You're a fraud and a fool to compare the deliberate murder by Stalin, Mao and Hitler with this. EVEN if true,
You're fu(king sad.
No. People are saying focus on pollution. Dioxins and the like, and not on the global warming. (No, strike that. It's now climate change.)
Hmm. You mean the party opposed to abortion on the moral ground that killing babies because it inconveniences the mom is going to promote this?
If it wasn't for so many knuckleheads out there believing that T is the second-coming of Hit!er I would think that you were trolling.
Because at the time the Obama administration said it was not a tax.
Judge Roberts disagreed. For Obamacare to exist it must exist as a tax. THEREFORE it does not require cloture. As a tax provision it can be amended or overturned with a majority vote.
Expect more controversies, scandals and indictments than the Nixon and Reagan administrations combined. For the news media, this is better than having a Clinton in the White House. After the election, The Washington Post announced they were hiring 60 investigative reporters.
We'll see so far there are no scandals. NSA lied to Pence and Trump. He's out. Controversies? Define controversy? Something the opposition disagrees with? You mean like Obamacare? Or invading Iraq?
So far nothing of note. There may be. There not.
A "pathetic world joke" compared to which other countries? Nigeria? Egypt? Brazil? Indonesia? Pakistan?