Conservatives were vocal about constitutional transgressions of Obama but wow. They did not have the former president and former failed candidate backing them with playbook on how to be disruptive. The likely hood Trip will be impeached is nil. The democratic leadership doesn't want Pence as POTUS for one. The other is there is no proof of Russian collusion. Expending the efforts of many US government workers and investigating vigorously the best they have come up with is his son met with a Russian attorney who wanted to discuss getting rid of the sanctions on some Russian citizens. While you may think some Trump staffer's actions, even if family, can bring down Trump, it just isn't so. It has to be Trump's actions. And has to meet the "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard or Trump has to be proven incompetent... And sadly for you, enacting policy against what you personally believe is appropriate is not incompetence. Trump can declare war on Russia (extremely unlikely scenario) and that is not incompetence. Trump can invade North Korea and wipe it from the face of the earth, still not incompetence. Trump can play water polo and request bills be presented on waterproof paper and sign them in a pool with a space pen. Still not rising to the level of impeachment. Obama wrote EOs that changed legislative intent, circumventing the separation of powers, also wrote EOs that downright created new law effectively, also unconstitutional. The constitution really doesn't allow a Presidential edict to circumvent Congress. No impeachment for Obama. Clinton had sex in the oval office with a staffer, constituting gross misconduct and definitely a violation of the laws against using a position of power to entice sex from a subordinate. And it doesn't matter if she was participatory, he violated the law. He lied to congress. He asked what the definition of "is" is. Clinton was impeached but not found to have risen to the standards for actually being removed from office.
Good luck trying to get Trump impeached because you don't like the way he's going about doing his job.
That's not how confirmation works. Have the job, then get reappointed? New confirmation hearing. Confirmed as a Federal Judge but appointed to be on the USSC? That means a new confirmation hearing! If the senate adjourns (breaks for longer than 3 days) POTUS can make a recess appointment which allows the office holder until the end of the next session of congress to hold the office without Senate confirmation. Of course if the Senate confirms them they stay in the position.
Really only about 300 million years. The surface temperature (not due to global warming, just normal earth rotation slowing and other factors) will not support liquid water. So humans if they stick to this dirt ball will live underground. but that habitable layer will shrink too. Other scientists say nearly 1 billion years. Even so long before that the surface won't support humans. We'll be capturing comets and living in domed cities long before the oceans are gone. If we are still around.
It isn't like the Intel McAfee division works with the CIA, NSA, and FBI amongst others on analysis of network traffic and features in their product... Which has been publicly discussed quite a bit. This is a Russian cybersecurity firm dealing with a Russian nation-state-level governmental security organization.
Find an exploit put into their products to spy on the users that can be traced to the FSB, then its news.
Umm did you forget all the Clinton dead bodies (all rationalized though the sum total is nigh unto impossible to have been as the were explained away). Hillary's healthcare bill that would have brought 10,000 Hong Kong police to the US under accelerated naturalization (where an estimate 34% are Chinese Tong/gang members facilitating crime instead of stopping it), or for that matter She and Bill didn't put their assets into a blind trust until more than six months into his term, and she shorted big pharma just before the healthcare bill announcement (that if passed would gut big pharma profits)... Or dozens of real estate deals with improprieties. Like Whitewater...
Those were actual investigations under way (when husband Bill fired FBI director Sessions, while they were actually investigating). They weren't imaginary we thing Donald Trump is being investigated ones.
Hillary cut a sweetheart deal for US uranium for Russia. There was an outcry but no repercussions. I could keep going, as there are dozens more. Don't get me started on the pay for play where the Clinton Foundation donor list looks suspiciously like Hillary's State Department meeting log.
Did you miss these items regards Hillary? Do you just hate Trumps presidency that much truth doesn't matter?
Returning, as you say, to the matter at hand, POTUS is allowed personal opinions and to express them as Donald Trump. His job is President, he can have private opinions, and he can have opinions related to his work, and he can express in public his personal feelings. Otherwise every comment would be filtered by the Office of Protocol. Heaven forbid (or spaghetti colander forbid, or blank spaces forbid, etc.) that you think the President should have no personal opinions, only official ones. And if you think the Democrats don't wield any power in Washington D.C. at the moment, you really don't understand how congress works, particularly the Senate. When there are 75 Republican Senators then you might say Democrats have no power in that chamber. (and some times 60, sometimes 67, the rules are insidious and mainly created by Democrats when they controlled the chambers)
Does his communications officer have the authority to declare it is an official communications channel? I think not. When Congress or the POTUS sounds off on it with either legislation or an EO, then it has some weight.
If Trump uses the @realDonaldTrump account to express his opinions he is not conducting matters of state. And everything POTUS or for some NMP does is of public interest to someone.
The President is not barred from expressing his opinions.
Instead of "trapping" the methane, capture it and use it. Put the proposed development area someplace safe and connect it with high speed, oh say, "hyper" light rail. Still cheaper than what they are planning.
Of course if we did post consumer sorting and recycling we'd have much less for the landfills and extract metals, paper pulp and compost with very little left over. It was profitable in Japan with a lot of human workers (the system was designed by an American who couldn't get buy in stateside). With a lot of automation possible now, it would only be more profitable.
The other possibility is one discussed quite some time ago. If we picked a region that was ecologically and geologically safe in that area we choose a 10 mile by 10 mile section as the US National Landfill. Make space for 4 of these to be used one by one. If we assume no serious changes in trash generation, over one hundred years the landfill would grow to be about 1 mile high. No other landfill needed in the US. And after that 100 years, start mining the landfill for precious materials, and start the landfill next door. After that one is full, mine it and start the next one. by the time the US is on number 4 the first one can be reused as the extraction of raw materials will be complete. The fun part of all this is that it assumes no more recycling effort other than a massive presort facility and assumes no advancement in technology in trash processing. Over 4 centuries. Then it starts again. In the same place.
The Jakarta situation is all or nothing. No non-HOV traffic. In the Seattle area, particularly I-405 North, the enter and exit lanes cause more congestion and dramatic speed changes. They've increased accidents by a significant amount.
They created more accidents on I-405 on the Eastside. The collector / merge lanes cause dramatic speed changes in the high speed "normal" lanes as traffic enters and exits the tolled lanes. Even in periods tolls aren't charged. They have revised the enter and exit lanes twice now. Still not working. They took one carpool lane and made it two tolled lanes expanding the roadway while narrowing the existing lanes. Another safety bad move.
But the worst is that 30 percent of the tolls go to a private firm, out of state, that administers the tolling. The percentage of the fines collected is even greater. I believe 80% of the non-toll amount charged goes to the out of state company. The fees are contractually negotiated and there is no recourse in the conventional court system. The administrative (kangaroo) court is staffed by the employees of the out of state company. There is no appeal. Except suing the out of state company and the state as a party to the suit. So, commuters get more congestion than before, the richer folks get to single passenger trip in the HOV lanes, and because of the poor traffic flow design accidents are more common. And every time they change the flow it increases accident rates as people need to adjust.
The only thing I could think of that is worse would be if they closed lanes on I-90 to make them narrower across the floating, yes floating bridges, in order to accommodate an ill planned light rail system having tracks across a floating bridge! One train sunk in Lake Washington apparently wasn't enough. Now they want to put light rail over it. (in a market that mathematically can't benefit from light rail, has cost overruns due to mismanagement (like a warehouse of Canadian made cars they can't use because they don't meet US safety standards). And outright lies about cost and who they'd serve. For example Snohomish County was to have an endpoint in the light rail system. They don't. In fact every place served now is south from Seattle. Light rail is now scheduled to get to Everett by Phase 4 in 2050. They haven't been so good meeting dates specified. Yet they pay an onerous tax during vehicle registration for light rail. Yeah!
Well, as a dirt poor these last few years motorcyclist who has other dirt poor motorcyclists as friends, I can say categorically that daily commuters on motorcycles in the greater Seattle area do that because its cheaper or gets them to work faster than a car. I work from home just now for a very underfunded startup, but previously I commuted year round (save a few snow days that happen here) by motorcycle. If I had mod points I'd mod you up as humorous. The reason motorcycle use the HOV lanes is justified by their very good gas mileage, safety from fewer vehicles in the lane, and air-cooled motorcycles break down in prolonged stop and go traffic.
Also car drivers need to open their eyes and see motorcyclists. The vast majority of motorcycle accidents are cars hitting a motorcycle. It is as if people would not see a large crib with lights on all the time in the road. Or a pallet of cinder blocks with taillights and headlight(s) on all the time. Car drivers fail to drive defensively. And yes some small number of motorcyclists have apparent death wishes. But not as many as cars driving in and out of traffic at rush hour. I have my little french fry transponder but I'm on my third. heat and 60MPH peel them off the plastic headlight cover. So charging a motorcycle will not go over well with me.
So, it is worse than the original study... it provides a disadvantage to mom and pop shops in favor of the stamped in the same mold chain stores. This would seem to be inline with the Seattle concept where coffee shops became like McDonalds via Starbucks, where literally there is one within a block in most cases, and the occasionally they appear across the street from one another. But it means places like the late Hurricane (removal of a landmark late night spot, that fell to Amazon's downtown campus) would have likely been victim to people leaving and going to a slightly higher paying job at a chain. So the local color will fade and the Borg win. Unintended consequences.
Since most bottled water is really minimally filtered if at all tap water, sell reusable insulated water containers (from cheap single wall to nice double wall, with fancy caps or plain) next to a water dispenser. Buy a token, fill your cup. Containers are reusable, no million bottles a minute. Forget your container, buy a new one and get a token with it to fill it. different size containers, different cost tokens. Even the tokens are reusable. in an area with bad water? filter it, UV it, sell it. It's now clean. and easier to clean centrally. Make sure there is some redundancy (multiple machines spare parts, redundant filtration paths). No water locally? Ship water in and store it in bulk. Bulk beats single unit containers.
The best programmers have a basic skillset that is not present in the vast majority of elementary school children. It is learned through other coursework that sets a solid foundation. What they will create through these programs is a vast army of people with a knowledge of being able to program, that can't program to the level needed for quality robust applications.
Far better would be to teach the basics needed to become a good programmer. Logic, breaking large problems into smaller tractable problems, taking generic problem statements and being able to execute them as specific to an environment. The ability to take a set of steps to accomplish a task that doesn't work and identify the problem. All of these can be taught in a more appropriate way based on the frame of reference that young children have. They can be complex later, but start smaller, like given a step stool, a ladder, a dad and a ball that is on top of a roof, tell dad exactly how to retrieve the ball. Then ask what assumptions they made while creating their instructions. It's an identifiable problem and has a realizable solution. Also, teach them the skills of recognizing incomplete or contradictory instructions and to ask questions to resolve absent information or resolve contradictory information. And teach an alternate human language (like Spanish, German, Russian,French, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) to get that embedded ability to think with a different vocabulary.
After they have the base skills then introduce some formal logic (these objects bounce, a ball is one of these objects, do all balls bounce?), and then introduce them to programming. You can't force people to become good programmers, and I still say anyone can program, do you want millions of bad programmers? It is contrary to the goal of having good programs. And I haven't even touched on the marginal quality code is often riddled with security issues. In this day and age you need to teach good versus bad programming techniques early in any curriculum. Teach logic and problem solving, and problem specifying, teach how to recognize defective requirements, teach a second or third human language, then think about teaching programming. Programmers versus coders.
If the NSA report is accurate we owe the hacking to relatively naive and inept election officials... They had to facilitate, unwittingly, the attempts. If they show this naivety on email spear phishing, what other security issues exist that have been exploited???
Manaforts primary connection to the Russian's was as an advisor to the former president of Ukraine. This employment was well disclosed. Considering the politics of the former President of Ukraine it made Manafort a bad choice. Not an illegal one. The liberals are demonizing Trump for behavior they excused in Candidate Obama who personally met with Putin, and said on an open mic that he could be more flexible after the election (on matters with Russia). Just like the invasion of Kuwait where Saddam Hussien took the comments of the US to mean we'd look the other way when he invaded, Putin put in motion a plan he devised at least as far back as 2008. Obama was reelected and GRU Spetznaz started being more active agent provocateurs and when they flipped Ukraine's president Yanakovich away from an agreement that was near term to be signed, and back to Russia, the Ukrainian people started a quiet protest, which the russians pushed into violence both by conscripting dupes on the pro-EU populist side and by pressure on the Ukrainian government to quell the protests, culminating in a massacre at the hands of Russian lead Ukrainian secret police and Berkut, where Yanokovich agreed to terms with the protestors, then overnight fled to Russia. The Russian GRU Spetznaz took the Crimean Parliament at 4:00 AM using explosives to enter, then only allowed pro Russia members in that day, voted in a referendum to leave Ukraine (there was no status quo) and in the referendum vote run up barred dissension that was pro-Ukraine, Russian military caged in place Ukrainian military (using polite green men and military vehicles stripped of identifying markings). The result of the shame referendum was 123%, correction 97% reported voting to rejoin Russia. The actual figures were 15% published accidentally on the President of Russia's human rights site. Then they invaded the Donbas using less than 1000 Ukrainians and filled in with Russian regular troops (without insignia) and russian supplied mercenaries. Now Russia occupies Crimea and in total 9% of Ukraine. Of and Obama's administration before Ukraine took military force to bear in Crimea when the parliament was taken there advised Ukraine that the US would help seek a peaceful diplomatic solution. Obama served Putin well, with documented actions. Trump - Putin connections are pure speculation as to any actual content. Trump publicly has said we should seek peaceful ties with Russia, but also categorically stated Georgia needs their territorial integrity respected. Crimea is part of Ukraine. Russia should leave Ukraine. and Trump's administration has said Russia needs to honor the Minsk II agreement they signed where essentially they agreed to leave Ukraine and have a ceasefire. Putin argues Russia is not in Ukraine, then says some advisors are, BUT CRIMEA IS OCCUPIED BY RUSSIA, openly. and photos show Russian soldiers and even high ranking military personnel in key positions in the Seprussian hierarchy, posing as Ukrainian.
The attacks you say were brought on by "patriotic russians" crestfallen by the disappointed democrats who lost the election, disregards the actual timeline. The hacking occurred prior to the election. Unless more is ongoing of course. And the Democrats though Hillary was going to win by a landslide.
Even though I am a strong fiscal conservative and voted against Hillary, Russian interference in the US election process is the same as any other hacking efforts aimed with malicious intent, and is clearly illegal. You assassinate your political rivals. Neither that nor the hacking are acceptable. Open bad mouthing in the press, sure, but that's political discourse. Informed voters can evaluate the source as well as the content. The current sourceless allegations against Trump, they could just as easily be attributed to "patriotic russians" who might be disappointed about the Presidents support of Ukrainian interests. The acceptance you show for the hackers within the russia just shows that, along with your other actions, in Ukraine for example, that under Putin the russia is a rogue state that needs to be marginalized.
I third this. Some studies of highways built to Interstate Highway standards in the US show cars can't wear out the main road and would take over a century to wear out bridges and other connectors. Trucks are what break roads. And in this amazing fact based world, we subsidize long haul trucking, and we are systematically dismantling over a century of right-of-way building destroying critical infrastructure. Even the military mothballs vehicles just in case... In the Seattle area, by way of example, on the east side of Lake Washington, the right-of-way for rails owned by various regional agencies have systematically, deliberately, and with no thought to the future dismantled the railbed that could be used by the current light rail effort. This will increase the cost of light rail dramatically. (not to mention that light rail is not a good economic fit for the region, they spend billions and more billions of a project doomed to eternal subsidy.) The rail system could also act as a "backup" for the tracks through Seattle to allow for needed reformation there.
No planning just money grubbing and empire building. Can't very well build an empire if someone else owns the infrastructure!
Maybe a first step in terraforming Mars. And does this "shield" keep particles in as well as out? If it works both ways it could help prevent atmospheric depletion and allow bulking up the atmosphere on celestial bodies that have lost their magnetic fields. Lake Armstrong here we come! And maybe even generation ships crossing interstellar distances.
Well, we will miss you, 'cuz the rest of us 6.5 billion souls aren't leaving to make room for just you. Usually grammar and spelling mistakes are supposed to be, by Netiquette, not the focus of responses unless ironically used by a poster. Like when one states, "you mismelled that", or "you're grammar is bad to" and the like. But to the matter at hand, how do you expect Jesus to take you? And could you kindly not be in a position where when you are suddenly taken put others in danger. I suggest the safest course to lessen your impact on society be to just stay calm, remain home, with the power turned off and the stove off (as it may be gas). Then you can wait quietly for your personal rapture and the world avoids messy things like car accidents where the driver was vanished from the car in rush hour traffic. Best of luck.
Hey China, your truck was stolen and then driven into a crowd. You should share some of the terrorists blame. It might have been OK as they tried the vehicle gates and they were blocked, so they rammed a pedestrian gate. Where you, China, provided a target rich environment.
Sorry Austria. You have no standing outside your own borders or to a limited extent the EU. There may indeed be jurisdictions where Facebook is required to non delete postings (perhaps in an effort to aid police in tracking criminals? who can say)... But Austria doesn't get a voice outside its own jurisdiction.
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Conservatives were vocal about constitutional transgressions of Obama but wow. They did not have the former president and former failed candidate backing them with playbook on how to be disruptive. The likely hood Trip will be impeached is nil. The democratic leadership doesn't want Pence as POTUS for one. The other is there is no proof of Russian collusion. Expending the efforts of many US government workers and investigating vigorously the best they have come up with is his son met with a Russian attorney who wanted to discuss getting rid of the sanctions on some Russian citizens. While you may think some Trump staffer's actions, even if family, can bring down Trump, it just isn't so. It has to be Trump's actions. And has to meet the "high crimes and misdemeanors" standard or Trump has to be proven incompetent ... And sadly for you, enacting policy against what you personally believe is appropriate is not incompetence. Trump can declare war on Russia (extremely unlikely scenario) and that is not incompetence. Trump can invade North Korea and wipe it from the face of the earth, still not incompetence. Trump can play water polo and request bills be presented on waterproof paper and sign them in a pool with a space pen. Still not rising to the level of impeachment. Obama wrote EOs that changed legislative intent, circumventing the separation of powers, also wrote EOs that downright created new law effectively, also unconstitutional. The constitution really doesn't allow a Presidential edict to circumvent Congress. No impeachment for Obama. Clinton had sex in the oval office with a staffer, constituting gross misconduct and definitely a violation of the laws against using a position of power to entice sex from a subordinate. And it doesn't matter if she was participatory, he violated the law. He lied to congress. He asked what the definition of "is" is. Clinton was impeached but not found to have risen to the standards for actually being removed from office.
Good luck trying to get Trump impeached because you don't like the way he's going about doing his job.
That's not how confirmation works. Have the job, then get reappointed? New confirmation hearing. Confirmed as a Federal Judge but appointed to be on the USSC? That means a new confirmation hearing! If the senate adjourns (breaks for longer than 3 days) POTUS can make a recess appointment which allows the office holder until the end of the next session of congress to hold the office without Senate confirmation. Of course if the Senate confirms them they stay in the position.
Really only about 300 million years. The surface temperature (not due to global warming, just normal earth rotation slowing and other factors) will not support liquid water. So humans if they stick to this dirt ball will live underground. but that habitable layer will shrink too. Other scientists say nearly 1 billion years. Even so long before that the surface won't support humans. We'll be capturing comets and living in domed cities long before the oceans are gone. If we are still around.
It isn't like the Intel McAfee division works with the CIA, NSA, and FBI amongst others on analysis of network traffic and features in their product... Which has been publicly discussed quite a bit. This is a Russian cybersecurity firm dealing with a Russian nation-state-level governmental security organization.
Find an exploit put into their products to spy on the users that can be traced to the FSB, then its news.
So no dealings with McAfee products either then?
Umm did you forget all the Clinton dead bodies (all rationalized though the sum total is nigh unto impossible to have been as the were explained away). Hillary's healthcare bill that would have brought 10,000 Hong Kong police to the US under accelerated naturalization (where an estimate 34% are Chinese Tong/gang members facilitating crime instead of stopping it), or for that matter She and Bill didn't put their assets into a blind trust until more than six months into his term, and she shorted big pharma just before the healthcare bill announcement (that if passed would gut big pharma profits) ... Or dozens of real estate deals with improprieties. Like Whitewater ...
Those were actual investigations under way (when husband Bill fired FBI director Sessions, while they were actually investigating). They weren't imaginary we thing Donald Trump is being investigated ones.
Hillary cut a sweetheart deal for US uranium for Russia. There was an outcry but no repercussions. I could keep going, as there are dozens more. Don't get me started on the pay for play where the Clinton Foundation donor list looks suspiciously like Hillary's State Department meeting log.
Did you miss these items regards Hillary? Do you just hate Trumps presidency that much truth doesn't matter?
Returning, as you say, to the matter at hand, POTUS is allowed personal opinions and to express them as Donald Trump. His job is President, he can have private opinions, and he can have opinions related to his work, and he can express in public his personal feelings. Otherwise every comment would be filtered by the Office of Protocol. Heaven forbid (or spaghetti colander forbid, or blank spaces forbid, etc.) that you think the President should have no personal opinions, only official ones. And if you think the Democrats don't wield any power in Washington D.C. at the moment, you really don't understand how congress works, particularly the Senate. When there are 75 Republican Senators then you might say Democrats have no power in that chamber. (and some times 60, sometimes 67, the rules are insidious and mainly created by Democrats when they controlled the chambers)
Does his communications officer have the authority to declare it is an official communications channel? I think not. When Congress or the POTUS sounds off on it with either legislation or an EO, then it has some weight.
If Trump uses the @realDonaldTrump account to express his opinions he is not conducting matters of state. And everything POTUS or for some NMP does is of public interest to someone.
The President is not barred from expressing his opinions.
Instead of "trapping" the methane, capture it and use it. Put the proposed development area someplace safe and connect it with high speed, oh say, "hyper" light rail.
Still cheaper than what they are planning.
Of course if we did post consumer sorting and recycling we'd have much less for the landfills and extract metals, paper pulp and compost with very little left over. It was profitable in Japan with a lot of human workers (the system was designed by an American who couldn't get buy in stateside). With a lot of automation possible now, it would only be more profitable.
The other possibility is one discussed quite some time ago. If we picked a region that was ecologically and geologically safe in that area we choose a 10 mile by 10 mile section as the US National Landfill. Make space for 4 of these to be used one by one. If we assume no serious changes in trash generation, over one hundred years the landfill would grow to be about 1 mile high. No other landfill needed in the US. And after that 100 years, start mining the landfill for precious materials, and start the landfill next door. After that one is full, mine it and start the next one. by the time the US is on number 4 the first one can be reused as the extraction of raw materials will be complete. The fun part of all this is that it assumes no more recycling effort other than a massive presort facility and assumes no advancement in technology in trash processing. Over 4 centuries. Then it starts again. In the same place.
The Jakarta situation is all or nothing. No non-HOV traffic. In the Seattle area, particularly I-405 North, the enter and exit lanes cause more congestion and dramatic speed changes. They've increased accidents by a significant amount.
They created more accidents on I-405 on the Eastside. The collector / merge lanes cause dramatic speed changes in the high speed "normal" lanes as traffic enters and exits the tolled lanes. Even in periods tolls aren't charged. They have revised the enter and exit lanes twice now. Still not working. They took one carpool lane and made it two tolled lanes expanding the roadway while narrowing the existing lanes. Another safety bad move.
But the worst is that 30 percent of the tolls go to a private firm, out of state, that administers the tolling. The percentage of the fines collected is even greater. I believe 80% of the non-toll amount charged goes to the out of state company. The fees are contractually negotiated and there is no recourse in the conventional court system. The administrative (kangaroo) court is staffed by the employees of the out of state company. There is no appeal. Except suing the out of state company and the state as a party to the suit. So, commuters get more congestion than before, the richer folks get to single passenger trip in the HOV lanes, and because of the poor traffic flow design accidents are more common. And every time they change the flow it increases accident rates as people need to adjust.
The only thing I could think of that is worse would be if they closed lanes on I-90 to make them narrower across the floating, yes floating bridges, in order to accommodate an ill planned light rail system having tracks across a floating bridge! One train sunk in Lake Washington apparently wasn't enough. Now they want to put light rail over it. (in a market that mathematically can't benefit from light rail, has cost overruns due to mismanagement (like a warehouse of Canadian made cars they can't use because they don't meet US safety standards). And outright lies about cost and who they'd serve. For example Snohomish County was to have an endpoint in the light rail system. They don't. In fact every place served now is south from Seattle. Light rail is now scheduled to get to Everett by Phase 4 in 2050. They haven't been so good meeting dates specified. Yet they pay an onerous tax during vehicle registration for light rail. Yeah!
That's why State Route 167 has HOT lanes not HOV lanes.
Well, as a dirt poor these last few years motorcyclist who has other dirt poor motorcyclists as friends, I can say categorically that daily commuters on motorcycles in the greater Seattle area do that because its cheaper or gets them to work faster than a car. I work from home just now for a very underfunded startup, but previously I commuted year round (save a few snow days that happen here) by motorcycle. If I had mod points I'd mod you up as humorous. The reason motorcycle use the HOV lanes is justified by their very good gas mileage, safety from fewer vehicles in the lane, and air-cooled motorcycles break down in prolonged stop and go traffic.
Also car drivers need to open their eyes and see motorcyclists. The vast majority of motorcycle accidents are cars hitting a motorcycle. It is as if people would not see a large crib with lights on all the time in the road. Or a pallet of cinder blocks with taillights and headlight(s) on all the time. Car drivers fail to drive defensively. And yes some small number of motorcyclists have apparent death wishes. But not as many as cars driving in and out of traffic at rush hour. I have my little french fry transponder but I'm on my third. heat and 60MPH peel them off the plastic headlight cover. So charging a motorcycle will not go over well with me.
So, it is worse than the original study ... it provides a disadvantage to mom and pop shops in favor of the stamped in the same mold chain stores. This would seem to be inline with the Seattle concept where coffee shops became like McDonalds via Starbucks, where literally there is one within a block in most cases, and the occasionally they appear across the street from one another. But it means places like the late Hurricane (removal of a landmark late night spot, that fell to Amazon's downtown campus) would have likely been victim to people leaving and going to a slightly higher paying job at a chain. So the local color will fade and the Borg win. Unintended consequences.
Since most bottled water is really minimally filtered if at all tap water, sell reusable insulated water containers (from cheap single wall to nice double wall, with fancy caps or plain) next to a water dispenser. Buy a token, fill your cup. Containers are reusable, no million bottles a minute. Forget your container, buy a new one and get a token with it to fill it. different size containers, different cost tokens. Even the tokens are reusable. in an area with bad water? filter it, UV it, sell it. It's now clean. and easier to clean centrally. Make sure there is some redundancy (multiple machines spare parts, redundant filtration paths). No water locally? Ship water in and store it in bulk. Bulk beats single unit containers.
The best programmers have a basic skillset that is not present in the vast majority of elementary school children. It is learned through other coursework that sets a solid foundation. What they will create through these programs is a vast army of people with a knowledge of being able to program, that can't program to the level needed for quality robust applications.
Far better would be to teach the basics needed to become a good programmer. Logic, breaking large problems into smaller tractable problems, taking generic problem statements and being able to execute them as specific to an environment. The ability to take a set of steps to accomplish a task that doesn't work and identify the problem. All of these can be taught in a more appropriate way based on the frame of reference that young children have. They can be complex later, but start smaller, like given a step stool, a ladder, a dad and a ball that is on top of a roof, tell dad exactly how to retrieve the ball. Then ask what assumptions they made while creating their instructions. It's an identifiable problem and has a realizable solution. Also, teach them the skills of recognizing incomplete or contradictory instructions and to ask questions to resolve absent information or resolve contradictory information. And teach an alternate human language (like Spanish, German, Russian,French, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) to get that embedded ability to think with a different vocabulary.
After they have the base skills then introduce some formal logic (these objects bounce, a ball is one of these objects, do all balls bounce?), and then introduce them to programming. You can't force people to become good programmers, and I still say anyone can program, do you want millions of bad programmers? It is contrary to the goal of having good programs. And I haven't even touched on the marginal quality code is often riddled with security issues. In this day and age you need to teach good versus bad programming techniques early in any curriculum. Teach logic and problem solving, and problem specifying, teach how to recognize defective requirements, teach a second or third human language, then think about teaching programming. Programmers versus coders.
If the NSA report is accurate we owe the hacking to relatively naive and inept election officials ... They had to facilitate, unwittingly, the attempts. If they show this naivety on email spear phishing, what other security issues exist that have been exploited???
Your attempt to distance yourself and pose as an outsider conclusively proves you are the one at the heart of the deception.
Manaforts primary connection to the Russian's was as an advisor to the former president of Ukraine. This employment was well disclosed. Considering the politics of the former President of Ukraine it made Manafort a bad choice. Not an illegal one. The liberals are demonizing Trump for behavior they excused in Candidate Obama who personally met with Putin, and said on an open mic that he could be more flexible after the election (on matters with Russia). Just like the invasion of Kuwait where Saddam Hussien took the comments of the US to mean we'd look the other way when he invaded, Putin put in motion a plan he devised at least as far back as 2008. Obama was reelected and GRU Spetznaz started being more active agent provocateurs and when they flipped Ukraine's president Yanakovich away from an agreement that was near term to be signed, and back to Russia, the Ukrainian people started a quiet protest, which the russians pushed into violence both by conscripting dupes on the pro-EU populist side and by pressure on the Ukrainian government to quell the protests, culminating in a massacre at the hands of Russian lead Ukrainian secret police and Berkut, where Yanokovich agreed to terms with the protestors, then overnight fled to Russia. The Russian GRU Spetznaz took the Crimean Parliament at 4:00 AM using explosives to enter, then only allowed pro Russia members in that day, voted in a referendum to leave Ukraine (there was no status quo) and in the referendum vote run up barred dissension that was pro-Ukraine, Russian military caged in place Ukrainian military (using polite green men and military vehicles stripped of identifying markings). The result of the shame referendum was 123%, correction 97% reported voting to rejoin Russia. The actual figures were 15% published accidentally on the President of Russia's human rights site. Then they invaded the Donbas using less than 1000 Ukrainians and filled in with Russian regular troops (without insignia) and russian supplied mercenaries. Now Russia occupies Crimea and in total 9% of Ukraine. Of and Obama's administration before Ukraine took military force to bear in Crimea when the parliament was taken there advised Ukraine that the US would help seek a peaceful diplomatic solution. Obama served Putin well, with documented actions. Trump - Putin connections are pure speculation as to any actual content. Trump publicly has said we should seek peaceful ties with Russia, but also categorically stated Georgia needs their territorial integrity respected. Crimea is part of Ukraine. Russia should leave Ukraine. and Trump's administration has said Russia needs to honor the Minsk II agreement they signed where essentially they agreed to leave Ukraine and have a ceasefire. Putin argues Russia is not in Ukraine, then says some advisors are, BUT CRIMEA IS OCCUPIED BY RUSSIA, openly. and photos show Russian soldiers and even high ranking military personnel in key positions in the Seprussian hierarchy, posing as Ukrainian.
The attacks you say were brought on by "patriotic russians" crestfallen by the disappointed democrats who lost the election, disregards the actual timeline. The hacking occurred prior to the election. Unless more is ongoing of course. And the Democrats though Hillary was going to win by a landslide.
Even though I am a strong fiscal conservative and voted against Hillary, Russian interference in the US election process is the same as any other hacking efforts aimed with malicious intent, and is clearly illegal. You assassinate your political rivals. Neither that nor the hacking are acceptable. Open bad mouthing in the press, sure, but that's political discourse. Informed voters can evaluate the source as well as the content. The current sourceless allegations against Trump, they could just as easily be attributed to "patriotic russians" who might be disappointed about the Presidents support of Ukrainian interests. The acceptance you show for the hackers within the russia just shows that, along with your other actions, in Ukraine for example, that under Putin the russia is a rogue state that needs to be marginalized.
I third this. Some studies of highways built to Interstate Highway standards in the US show cars can't wear out the main road and would take over a century to wear out bridges and other connectors. Trucks are what break roads. And in this amazing fact based world, we subsidize long haul trucking, and we are systematically dismantling over a century of right-of-way building destroying critical infrastructure. Even the military mothballs vehicles just in case... In the Seattle area, by way of example, on the east side of Lake Washington, the right-of-way for rails owned by various regional agencies have systematically, deliberately, and with no thought to the future dismantled the railbed that could be used by the current light rail effort. This will increase the cost of light rail dramatically. (not to mention that light rail is not a good economic fit for the region, they spend billions and more billions of a project doomed to eternal subsidy.) The rail system could also act as a "backup" for the tracks through Seattle to allow for needed reformation there.
No planning just money grubbing and empire building. Can't very well build an empire if someone else owns the infrastructure!
Maybe a first step in terraforming Mars. And does this "shield" keep particles in as well as out? If it works both ways it could help prevent atmospheric depletion and allow bulking up the atmosphere on celestial bodies that have lost their magnetic fields. Lake Armstrong here we come! And maybe even generation ships crossing interstellar distances.
Well, we will miss you, 'cuz the rest of us 6.5 billion souls aren't leaving to make room for just you. Usually grammar and spelling mistakes are supposed to be, by Netiquette, not the focus of responses unless ironically used by a poster. Like when one states, "you mismelled that", or "you're grammar is bad to" and the like. But to the matter at hand, how do you expect Jesus to take you? And could you kindly not be in a position where when you are suddenly taken put others in danger. I suggest the safest course to lessen your impact on society be to just stay calm, remain home, with the power turned off and the stove off (as it may be gas). Then you can wait quietly for your personal rapture and the world avoids messy things like car accidents where the driver was vanished from the car in rush hour traffic. Best of luck.
Hey China, your truck was stolen and then driven into a crowd. You should share some of the terrorists blame. It might have been OK as they tried the vehicle gates and they were blocked, so they rammed a pedestrian gate. Where you, China, provided a target rich environment.
Sorry Austria. You have no standing outside your own borders or to a limited extent the EU. There may indeed be jurisdictions where Facebook is required to non delete postings (perhaps in an effort to aid police in tracking criminals? who can say) ... But Austria doesn't get a voice outside its own jurisdiction.