I was kind of confused by the various reported poll numbers, but when you actually got to see the number of poll participants to population, then when I compared it to what I had learned was necessary polling wise to get a valid result, there were vast differences. Now I'm not a statistician and I went to College a few decades ago, so I suppose the numbers have changed over the years, but not by a factor of 2! So It's easy to see how most of the pollsters got trapped in their own echo chambers.
It's one thing to take a statistically valid poll and add some secret sauce to tweek the results a bit with historical knowledge,but most of the pollsters were just shaking beads and chanting incantations.
Nobody should be surprised that Putin reached out to Trump, Putin has put out an international arrest warrant on George Soros, and Clinton was basically a Soros sock-puppet. Russia has a huge financial interest in the sale of natural gas to European nations, it undoubtedly a matter of great national security, bordering on an existential matter for them. the Qatarris want to build a natural gas pipeline the Qatar-Turkey pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria, which Syria's president al-Assad opposed "to protect the interests of [its] Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas." Which brings us back around to al-Assad, to get him out of the way to install the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, you need the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria to over throw him. Clinton is up to her eyeballs in Muslim Brotherhood through her longtime assistant and Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin.
Her mother, Saleha Abedin, sits on the Presidency Staff Council of the International Islamic Council for Da wa and Relief, a group that is chaired by the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Huma Abedin's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
Under Clinton-Obama we've ended up in a all-but shooting war with Russia in Syria, and Candidate Clinton has been pretty shrill about accusing Russia of undermining her campaign, I'm surprised that Putin hasn't been more blatant about things.
The point still remains, as we hadn't had any significant invasion since 1812, our military and the spending on it spending has been remarkably successful for the last century. As far as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the biggest surprise was how successful it was, not that it happened, the powers that were wanted an excuse to enter the war.
The plant My wife worked for all but closed and sent everything to Mexico, everything that didn't have IP value. If your outsourcing to third world countries, you have to take extreme measures to eliminate the sub-contractors form using the machines and molds to make your products, from making counterfeit goods that you'll have to compete with. To keep secure you have to ship parts and sub-assemblies in and out of several countries, making scheduling a nightmare.
It reminded me of the old joke about the Soviet army saying that the Americans are dangerous in war because their troops can't be trusted to follow their own doctrines.
That was not a joke, We even added the "Commander’s Intent" paragraph to our operations order format so we'd have a better idea of what to do when we were winging it.
"No plan survives contact with the enemy" just like "No Politician’s promise survives election"
Having studied Trump as a businessman, I strongly suspect he doesn't know which policies he'll propose - that will depend on what he hears from the experts he hires. In his long business career, he hired really smart people and trusted their judgement, rather than micro-managing, thinking he knew everything betterv than everyone else. His role was threefold a) the public face, drumming up publicity, b) negotiating major deals and c) overall leadership. He largely left the operational details to the very competent people he hired.
That works well in Business, but it's sure going to be a paradigm shift in Government
HRC is too self-centered to be anything, in that respect she reminds me of a less domesticated Nixon, with a generous dose of Bushes Big-Bank/Big-Oil cronyism mixed in.
That's not an unfair assessment, predominately they elevate stories to the front page, but a lot of that is assisted or done automatically by the Firehose now and deal with the more obnoxious trolls.
We spend 1/3 of our revenue on defense.. yet we haven't been invaded since 1812? I'll give ya 1941 since the japs did fly into our airspace... But.. now we have nukes. We can't be invaded.. No, what we do is spend 1/3 of our money invading OTHER countries.
Go fuck yourself.
So other than Pearl Harbor and some insignificant aleutian islands, it worked for 200 years.
It's because our government is not only wasting trillions of dollars on the DoD, but also the fact that the engineers working on this shit aren't working on things that provide any benefit to civilians.
-jcr
So you don't think that if the DoD can build a Projo that can survive the tremendous G forces involved in shooting at a target 100 miles away, you wouldn't get a smartphone that doesn't break when you drop it out of it?
Even 16" guns can be negated with as little as 18" of reinforced concrete that the battleship could unload every shell in their arsenal into without penetrating making the big guns essentially worthless for land bombardment.
Dude stop yourself, if your inside 18" of reinforced concrete, and it get hit with a ton of comp B from a 16 inch navel gun, your shit and you brains get mixed together period. It doesn't matter if it penetrates, you get homogenized by the concussion.
That's not too shabby over a 6 times more range. I suspect that most of their shooting will be with Army munition in the 155mm caliber; I seem to recall that their is a nuclear round in that caliber, W48 that was retired in 1992, what ever retired means.
This is part of the argument in favour of drones: they a lot cheaper than fighters and a lot more likely to be reusable than missiles.
Except the drones are firing the same AGM-114 Hellfire missile as the fighter, the A10 or the Apache. We've gotten too carried away with the guided surgical strike, war is always messy and should be, lest we become complacent about it.
Thinking that war is a clean surgical operation, causes us to under-value avoiding it.
Slashdot doesn't edit posts, or at least very rarely edits posts, that's why it's not for the faint of heart, if some butt-wipe butchers the spelling, grammar and context of a post, that's what you get. Not everybody here is native English speakers either, but when you come across one, you can usually tell by the lack of spelling, grammar and logic mistakes.
Rush is a big-time Republican supporter, even the liberal Republicans like both Bush's; He's not associated with Fox. Once you factor out a couple people Fox reports the same as everyone else, they just don't spin it as hard in commentary.
No worries, once you've shared it a "People also shared" windows pops up showing you 3 sites refuting what you just posted, so you can go back and delete it from your timeline after you've made an idiot of yourself.
The problem is a leftist asshole, Julian Assange, stuck in an Ecuadorian Embassy for the rest of his life is telling us more about a Presidential Candidate than the entity of the US Main Stream Media is, even Fox is toeing the line, just a little bit looser.
I've been seriously entertaining the notion that Both Democratic and Republican minions have been planting false stories. It seems that if one party can bait the other parties followers into buying a false story, then they easily disprove the false story it hurts the opponents credibility. The hard part is to figure out if it's just a bunch of independent agents who happen to find a false story that fits their preconceived notion of the Evil(tm) other guys and throw out the bait or if there is some kind of hive-mind in the background.
It's worst than that, While a federal standard in the US, the States can opt out, currently Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are opted out, except in Arizona on The Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations which observe DST (Daylight Savings Time); Indian Reservations technically aren't in the US politically and have their own sovereignty to varying degrees.
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I was kind of confused by the various reported poll numbers, but when you actually got to see the number of poll participants to population, then when I compared it to what I had learned was necessary polling wise to get a valid result, there were vast differences. Now I'm not a statistician and I went to College a few decades ago, so I suppose the numbers have changed over the years, but not by a factor of 2! So It's easy to see how most of the pollsters got trapped in their own echo chambers.
It's one thing to take a statistically valid poll and add some secret sauce to tweek the results a bit with historical knowledge ,but most of the pollsters were just shaking beads and chanting incantations.
You mean the one who is a member of La Raza?
Nobody should be surprised that Putin reached out to Trump, Putin has put out an international arrest warrant on George Soros, and Clinton was basically a Soros sock-puppet.
Russia has a huge financial interest in the sale of natural gas to European nations, it undoubtedly a matter of great national security, bordering on an existential matter for them. the Qatarris want to build a natural gas pipeline the
Qatar-Turkey pipeline through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria, which Syria's president al-Assad opposed "to protect the interests of [its] Russian ally, which is Europe's top supplier of natural gas." Which brings us back around to al-Assad, to get him out of the way to install the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, you need the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria to over throw him. Clinton is up to her eyeballs in Muslim Brotherhood through her longtime assistant and Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin.
Under Clinton-Obama we've ended up in a all-but shooting war with Russia in Syria, and Candidate Clinton has been pretty shrill about accusing Russia of undermining her campaign, I'm surprised that Putin hasn't been more blatant about things.
The point still remains, as we hadn't had any significant invasion since 1812, our military and the spending on it spending has been remarkably successful for the last century. As far as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the biggest surprise was how successful it was, not that it happened, the powers that were wanted an excuse to enter the war.
The plant My wife worked for all but closed and sent everything to Mexico, everything that didn't have IP value. If your outsourcing to third world countries, you have to take extreme measures to eliminate the sub-contractors form using the machines and molds to make your products, from making counterfeit goods that you'll have to compete with. To keep secure you have to ship parts and sub-assemblies in and out of several countries, making scheduling a nightmare.
It reminded me of the old joke about the Soviet army saying that the Americans are dangerous in war because their troops can't be trusted to follow their own doctrines.
That was not a joke, We even added the "Commander’s Intent" paragraph to our operations order format so we'd have a better idea of what to do when we were winging it.
"No plan survives contact with the enemy" just like "No Politician’s promise survives election"
Candidate Trump often would say that he knew better than the experts and that only he could solve the problems.
I looked at those comments in the context of "In the current environment" or "Among the people who survived the purges", time will tell
Having studied Trump as a businessman, I strongly suspect he doesn't know which policies he'll propose - that will depend on what he hears from the experts he hires. In his long business career, he hired really smart people and trusted their judgement, rather than micro-managing, thinking he knew everything betterv than everyone else. His role was threefold a) the public face, drumming up publicity, b) negotiating major deals and c) overall leadership. He largely left the operational details to the very competent people he hired.
That works well in Business, but it's sure going to be a paradigm shift in Government
Pity that the insane conspiracy stories always have a right-wing slant
G.W. lied about WMD? Fact
Yes he did, They lied about not finding them, Golf War syndrome was really sub-acute nerve agent damage.
HRC is too self-centered to be anything, in that respect she reminds me of a less domesticated Nixon, with a generous dose of Bushes Big-Bank/Big-Oil cronyism mixed in.
That's not an unfair assessment, predominately they elevate stories to the front page, but a lot of that is assisted or done automatically by the Firehose now and deal with the more obnoxious trolls.
We spend 1/3 of our revenue on defense.. yet we haven't been invaded since 1812? I'll give ya 1941 since the japs did fly into our airspace... But.. now we have nukes. We can't be invaded.. No, what we do is spend 1/3 of our money invading OTHER countries.
Go fuck yourself.
So other than Pearl Harbor and some insignificant aleutian islands, it worked for 200 years.
Going to the Moon was really showing the Soviets we could drop an inherently very massive nuclear warhead anywhere we wanted.
It's because our government is not only wasting trillions of dollars on the DoD, but also the fact that the engineers working on this shit aren't working on things that provide any benefit to civilians.
-jcr
So you don't think that if the DoD can build a Projo that can survive the tremendous G forces involved in shooting at a target 100 miles away, you wouldn't get a smartphone that doesn't break when you drop it out of it?
Even 16" guns can be negated with as little as 18" of reinforced concrete that the battleship could unload every shell in their arsenal into without penetrating making the big guns essentially worthless for land bombardment.
Dude stop yourself, if your inside 18" of reinforced concrete, and it get hit with a ton of comp B from a 16 inch navel gun, your shit and you brains get mixed together period. It doesn't matter if it penetrates, you get homogenized by the concussion.
That's not too shabby over a 6 times more range. I suspect that most of their shooting will be with Army munition in the 155mm caliber; I seem to recall that their is a nuclear round in that caliber, W48 that was retired in 1992, what ever retired means.
This is part of the argument in favour of drones: they a lot cheaper than fighters and a lot more likely to be reusable than missiles.
Except the drones are firing the same AGM-114 Hellfire missile as the fighter, the A10 or the Apache. We've gotten too carried away with the guided surgical strike, war is always messy and should be, lest we become complacent about it.
Thinking that war is a clean surgical operation, causes us to under-value avoiding it.
Slashdot doesn't edit posts, or at least very rarely edits posts, that's why it's not for the faint of heart, if some butt-wipe butchers the spelling, grammar and context of a post, that's what you get. Not everybody here is native English speakers either, but when you come across one, you can usually tell by the lack of spelling, grammar and logic mistakes.
Rush is a big-time Republican supporter, even the liberal Republicans like both Bush's; He's not associated with Fox. Once you factor out a couple people Fox reports the same as everyone else, they just don't spin it as hard in commentary.
That's not what he said when he was running against her!
No worries, once you've shared it a "People also shared" windows pops up showing you 3 sites refuting what you just posted, so you can go back and delete it from your timeline after you've made an idiot of yourself.
I've been involved in a couple events that have had TV News coverage, and I've come to the conclusion, if it's in the News, it's wrong.
The problem is a leftist asshole, Julian Assange, stuck in an Ecuadorian Embassy for the rest of his life is telling us more about a Presidential Candidate than the entity of the US Main Stream Media is, even Fox is toeing the line, just a little bit looser.
I've been seriously entertaining the notion that Both Democratic and Republican minions have been planting false stories. It seems that if one party can bait the other parties followers into buying a false story, then they easily disprove the false story it hurts the opponents credibility. The hard part is to figure out if it's just a bunch of independent agents who happen to find a false story that fits their preconceived notion of the Evil(tm) other guys and throw out the bait or if there is some kind of hive-mind in the background.
It's worst than that, While a federal standard in the US, the States can opt out, currently Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are opted out, except in Arizona on The Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations which observe DST (Daylight Savings Time); Indian Reservations technically aren't in the US politically and have their own sovereignty to varying degrees.