Cubans need freedom far more than they need investment.
This. Any investment in a Communist dictatorship is a huge gamble that the dictator won't suddenly up and declare that your investment is Property of The People (i.e., him) and confiscate it. Cuba needs investment... but they're not going to get much as long as that Sword of Damocles hangs over anything invested there.
My 2008 Prius has a way to update the maps -- A DVD from Toyota containing one (1) map update, which costs more than two (2) brand-new Garmin GPS systems with included lifetime map update.
... never buying a built-in navigation system ever again. Fool me twice, shame on me... Google Maps lets me download maps for an area I'm going to that might not have service, so I'll just use my phone from now on.
It is my observation that a lot of the "greens" aren't so much opposed to fission in particular as they are opposed in general to any energy source -- ANY energy source -- that threatens to produce enough consistent energy to power industrial civilization. Cheap, clean, abundant energy would be "Nothing short of a disaster", according to Amory Lovins. Back when it looked like Pons and Fleishman had maybe actually discovered something, Paul Ehrlich was quick to cry the alarm that the supposed discovery was "like giving a machine gun to a retarded child" in an editorial printed in the newspapers at the time.
It comes down to, do you want to continue having an industrial civilization, or do you want to starve it to death? You can't power an industrial civilization on just sunny days when the wind is blowing.
"Leftists" celebrate all kinds of diversity of everything except thought. When it comes to thought, only right-think is allowed; wrong-think and thought-crime are severely punished. Look how the left attacks people in otherwise protected groups when they commit thought-crime. Milo, Anne Coulter, Michelle Maulkin, Clarence Thomas, Laura Ingram, Col. Alan West, Herman Caine... etc., etc.
(This should not necessarily be taken as an unqualified endorsement of any of these examples... Coulter, especially, seems to have run right off the rails in the past few years.)
It basically comes off like that old Steve Martin routine, "Well, excUUUUUUuuuUUuuuuse MEEEE".
Like when David Letterman thought it perfectly hilarious to say that Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter ought to be gang-raped. ha. ha. ho. ho. how. hilarious. It took him about a week to finally offer up a very very forced "apology" through gritted teeth.
Ah, the oh so loving and tolerant Left, supporters of women... unless they're the teenage daughter of someone they don't like.
(And replies about how horrible Sarah Palin is, thus, by implication, approving of advocating the gang-rape of her 14 year old daughter, will simply prove my point.)
I've said it before, but feel it appropriate to repeat it here:
Trump is a most unpleasant, vile, human being but I get the feeling that the hysterical over-reaction to his election is going to do far more damage in the USA and globally than anything he is likely to do in his presidency.
And it's making a Trump second term all that more likely. I wouldn't be surprised if the riots trying to block Trump speeches during the campaign turned enough people off to tip the margin of votes.
I'm thinking right now of that exchange between Eros and Trent in "Plan 9 From Outer Space". (After an election that would have made Ed Wood say "Naaahhh, nobody would believe that.")
As someone of a conservative/libertarian/federalist/"#NeverTrump since 1980-something" bent, I have a bit of an inclination be fine with the left continuing to run around, hair on fire, shrieking "HITLER RACIST HITLER BIGOT HITLER HOMOPHOBE HITLER SEXIST HITLER HITLER HITLER"; it isn't exactly the sort of behavior that's going to bring people to their side who weren't already there, and will drive away those with any sense. But it's not good for the country.
I do most of my facebooking on my phone, but I'm thinking of writing a Greasemonkey script or something to run on my PC at home and set it up to be constantly pruning all the crap out of my Facebook feed, since Facebook utterly ignores my constantly expressed preferences about what I want to see.
I also wish that is how Facebook operated. I reflexively hit "REMOVE FROM MY FEED" to any posting whatsoever that mentioned either the "T" person or the "C" person, and my feed was still flooded with almost nothing but crap about them. (I was under no circumstances going to vote for either of them, so their blatherings were utterly irrelevant to me.)
The thing that frosts me most is they saved all the stuff they had on His Orangeness, never mentioning it during the primaries, where it might have done some good, giggling and rubbing their hands together in hopes he'd be the nominee, and they could trot it all out as a series of October Surprises. NBC News sat on that "grab the cat" tape for years, and only trotted it out in the last days of the campaign.
I've seen assertions that in the primaries, there were a lot of registration changes from DEM to REP. And in states with open primaries, an anomalous number of people voting for Trump, with a corresponding low number of Democrat voters.
I haven no idea if this is true, to what extent, or if it made a difference. I would like to see the numbers, but haven't obtained a round tuit to look them up myself.
It is clear that the news media could have ended Trump's campaign early in the primaries, but chose not to, in order to grease the skids for their preferred candidate by giving her an "unelectable" opponent. NBC had that infamous "locker room" tape all through the primaries, but saved it for an October Surprise.
Chaotic rotation... G. David Nordley's "Calendar of Chaos". The scientists had a betting pool on the exact time of the next sunrise. (This wasn't a planet, though, I believe I recall it was Saturn's moon Hyperion.)
A guy I did some consulting for a number of years ago would refuse to talk to any off-shore support. He would insist on talking to an American. He usually managed to get transferred to someone who could at least convincingly pretend to be U.S. based.
The problem is that trade unionism is basically founded on the principle that everyone is an indistinguishable, interchangeable worker-unit. Promotion is a rigid matter of seniority, and rigid "job descriptions" so you have to call a Union Electrician to move your desk lamp and plug it on on the other side of your desk. Anyone excelling is bashed for "making the rest of us look bad", very much like the despot showing how he ruled the peasants by knocking off the heads of any stalks of wheat which stuck up higher than the others, only in trade unionism, it'd be the other stalks of wheat doing the head-knocking-off.
Make membership in the... call it a professional association, rather than a union... entirely voluntary, and I'm fine with it. It's the "Nice job you have there... it'd be a shame if we signed a contract with the company requiring you pay us money or be fired" thing that gives me my profoundly negative view of unions.
I would love to be able to update the maps in my car's navigation system (2008 vintage) but not at Toyota's price: More than the price of two (2) brand new Garmins with included lifetime map updates. For a single DVD with one (1) map update.
Mostly, I just use my phone these days; Google Maps is always up to date, and I can download maps so I don't need to worry about cell coverage in the middle of nowhere.
When I was young, it was the Birchers going on and on (and on and on and on) about how candidate (x) was a Godless Rooski Agent (tm). Now, it's the Left that's doing this. What a world, what a world.
(Me, there's no way I'd ever vote for either of the [deleted]s. I think I'm going to write in Cthulhu as the lesser evil. Calling IT "the lesser evil" seriously risks annoying IT enough to wake IT up, but at least I won't have to contemplate the prospect of either of those [deleted]s in the White House.)
I get email and phone calls all the time "From" the FBI, the IRS, and the U.S. Marshall's Office telling me I have not paid my taxes or I've been otherwise behaving badly, there is a bench warrant for my arrest, and that I must pay the taxes and/or fines immediately or I will be carted off to jail. "Go to the nearest 7-11 and buy a Moneygram card in the amount of $$$$ and email the card number to our offices at..."
I'd be happy to help actual law enforcement in an investigation, but I'm afraid I will need some authentication. Like, I will look up the phone number of the law enforcement agency who sent the email in the Yellow Pages, and call that number. Number in the email/text/phone call? Yeah, right.
But first, that message would have to get past my "*sigh* yet another spammer/scammer" filter, which is, frankly, set at a high paranoia level.
If actual law enforcement starts doing this sort of thing regularly, the bad guys are going to join the party in a big way. Guaranteed.
Japan was already working with Russia on a more favorable (for Japan) peace treaty.
Which doubtless would have resulted in a North Japan (totalitarian Communist Hell-hole like North Korea) and a South Japan (much like today's Japan, but half the size.)
I can think of a few possibilities. More possibilities are easily obtained at Derek Lowe's marvelous web page, "Things I Won't Work With", including one chemical that not much is known about, because when the reaction takes place "that's when people start diving out windows and vomiting into wastebaskets, and the quality of the data tends to deteriorate."
This. I ding all TLDs that aren't on the list of known good ones, myself. I've had to whitelist... one. (1) That's the spam-to-legit ratio I have observed.
The only time I was in a vehicle with built in navigation it was a rental and the system would lock the GPS system while it was in drive - and I was the passenger, not the driver, trying to punch stuff in. Truly annoying, and indeed, caused me to just use my phone.
This. The built-in navigation on many cars locks the whole dang thing into read-only mode whenever the car is moving. My phone doesn't have this nonsense limitation. Yet another reason I will never by a built-in navigation system ever again. (That $300 map update thing is another.)
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Cubans need freedom far more than they need investment.
This. Any investment in a Communist dictatorship is a huge gamble that the dictator won't suddenly up and declare that your investment is Property of The People (i.e., him) and confiscate it. Cuba needs investment... but they're not going to get much as long as that Sword of Damocles hangs over anything invested there.
My 2008 Prius has a way to update the maps -- A DVD from Toyota containing one (1) map update, which costs more than two (2) brand-new Garmin GPS systems with included lifetime map update.
... never buying a built-in navigation system ever again. Fool me twice, shame on me... Google Maps lets me download maps for an area I'm going to that might not have service, so I'll just use my phone from now on.
It is my observation that a lot of the "greens" aren't so much opposed to fission in particular as they are opposed in general to any energy source -- ANY energy source -- that threatens to produce enough consistent energy to power industrial civilization. Cheap, clean, abundant energy would be "Nothing short of a disaster", according to Amory Lovins. Back when it looked like Pons and Fleishman had maybe actually discovered something, Paul Ehrlich was quick to cry the alarm that the supposed discovery was "like giving a machine gun to a retarded child" in an editorial printed in the newspapers at the time.
It comes down to, do you want to continue having an industrial civilization, or do you want to starve it to death? You can't power an industrial civilization on just sunny days when the wind is blowing.
If leftist means being open to diversity, ...
If only.
"Leftists" celebrate all kinds of diversity of everything except thought. When it comes to thought, only right-think is allowed; wrong-think and thought-crime are severely punished. Look how the left attacks people in otherwise protected groups when they commit thought-crime. Milo, Anne Coulter, Michelle Maulkin, Clarence Thomas, Laura Ingram, Col. Alan West, Herman Caine... etc., etc.
(This should not necessarily be taken as an unqualified endorsement of any of these examples... Coulter, especially, seems to have run right off the rails in the past few years.)
It basically comes off like that old Steve Martin routine, "Well, excUUUUUUuuuUUuuuuse MEEEE".
Like when David Letterman thought it perfectly hilarious to say that Sarah Palin's 14 year old daughter ought to be gang-raped. ha. ha. ho. ho. how. hilarious. It took him about a week to finally offer up a very very forced "apology" through gritted teeth.
Ah, the oh so loving and tolerant Left, supporters of women... unless they're the teenage daughter of someone they don't like.
(And replies about how horrible Sarah Palin is, thus, by implication, approving of advocating the gang-rape of her 14 year old daughter, will simply prove my point.)
I've said it before, but feel it appropriate to repeat it here:
Trump is a most unpleasant, vile, human being but I get the feeling that the hysterical over-reaction to his election is going to do far more damage in the USA and globally than anything he is likely to do in his presidency.
And it's making a Trump second term all that more likely. I wouldn't be surprised if the riots trying to block Trump speeches during the campaign turned enough people off to tip the margin of votes.
I'm thinking right now of that exchange between Eros and Trent in "Plan 9 From Outer Space". (After an election that would have made Ed Wood say "Naaahhh, nobody would believe that.")
As someone of a conservative/libertarian/federalist/"#NeverTrump since 1980-something" bent, I have a bit of an inclination be fine with the left continuing to run around, hair on fire, shrieking "HITLER RACIST HITLER BIGOT HITLER HOMOPHOBE HITLER SEXIST HITLER HITLER HITLER"; it isn't exactly the sort of behavior that's going to bring people to their side who weren't already there, and will drive away those with any sense. But it's not good for the country.
I do most of my facebooking on my phone, but I'm thinking of writing a Greasemonkey script or something to run on my PC at home and set it up to be constantly pruning all the crap out of my Facebook feed, since Facebook utterly ignores my constantly expressed preferences about what I want to see.
I also wish that is how Facebook operated. I reflexively hit "REMOVE FROM MY FEED" to any posting whatsoever that mentioned either the "T" person or the "C" person, and my feed was still flooded with almost nothing but crap about them. (I was under no circumstances going to vote for either of them, so their blatherings were utterly irrelevant to me.)
The thing that frosts me most is they saved all the stuff they had on His Orangeness, never mentioning it during the primaries, where it might have done some good, giggling and rubbing their hands together in hopes he'd be the nominee, and they could trot it all out as a series of October Surprises. NBC News sat on that "grab the cat" tape for years, and only trotted it out in the last days of the campaign.
Carson was the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
I've seen assertions that in the primaries, there were a lot of registration changes from DEM to REP. And in states with open primaries, an anomalous number of people voting for Trump, with a corresponding low number of Democrat voters.
I haven no idea if this is true, to what extent, or if it made a difference. I would like to see the numbers, but haven't obtained a round tuit to look them up myself.
It is clear that the news media could have ended Trump's campaign early in the primaries, but chose not to, in order to grease the skids for their preferred candidate by giving her an "unelectable" opponent. NBC had that infamous "locker room" tape all through the primaries, but saved it for an October Surprise.
Chaotic rotation... G. David Nordley's "Calendar of Chaos". The scientists had a betting pool on the exact time of the next sunrise. (This wasn't a planet, though, I believe I recall it was Saturn's moon Hyperion.)
A guy I did some consulting for a number of years ago would refuse to talk to any off-shore support. He would insist on talking to an American. He usually managed to get transferred to someone who could at least convincingly pretend to be U.S. based.
The problem is that trade unionism is basically founded on the principle that everyone is an indistinguishable, interchangeable worker-unit. Promotion is a rigid matter of seniority, and rigid "job descriptions" so you have to call a Union Electrician to move your desk lamp and plug it on on the other side of your desk. Anyone excelling is bashed for "making the rest of us look bad", very much like the despot showing how he ruled the peasants by knocking off the heads of any stalks of wheat which stuck up higher than the others, only in trade unionism, it'd be the other stalks of wheat doing the head-knocking-off.
Make membership in the ... call it a professional association, rather than a union ... entirely voluntary, and I'm fine with it. It's the "Nice job you have there... it'd be a shame if we signed a contract with the company requiring you pay us money or be fired" thing that gives me my profoundly negative view of unions.
There's supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom.
Mostly, I just use my phone these days; Google Maps is always up to date, and I can download maps so I don't need to worry about cell coverage in the middle of nowhere.
When I was young, it was the Birchers going on and on (and on and on and on) about how candidate (x) was a Godless Rooski Agent (tm). Now, it's the Left that's doing this. What a world, what a world.
(Me, there's no way I'd ever vote for either of the [deleted]s. I think I'm going to write in Cthulhu as the lesser evil. Calling IT "the lesser evil" seriously risks annoying IT enough to wake IT up, but at least I won't have to contemplate the prospect of either of those [deleted]s in the White House.)
I get email and phone calls all the time "From" the FBI, the IRS, and the U.S. Marshall's Office telling me I have not paid my taxes or I've been otherwise behaving badly, there is a bench warrant for my arrest, and that I must pay the taxes and/or fines immediately or I will be carted off to jail. "Go to the nearest 7-11 and buy a Moneygram card in the amount of $$$$ and email the card number to our offices at..."
I'd be happy to help actual law enforcement in an investigation, but I'm afraid I will need some authentication. Like, I will look up the phone number of the law enforcement agency who sent the email in the Yellow Pages, and call that number. Number in the email/text/phone call? Yeah, right.
But first, that message would have to get past my "*sigh* yet another spammer/scammer" filter, which is, frankly, set at a high paranoia level.
If actual law enforcement starts doing this sort of thing regularly, the bad guys are going to join the party in a big way. Guaranteed.
Which doubtless would have resulted in a North Japan (totalitarian Communist Hell-hole like North Korea) and a South Japan (much like today's Japan, but half the size.)
I can think of a few possibilities. More possibilities are easily obtained at Derek Lowe's marvelous web page, "Things I Won't Work With", including one chemical that not much is known about, because when the reaction takes place "that's when people start diving out windows and vomiting into wastebaskets, and the quality of the data tends to deteriorate."
This. I ding all TLDs that aren't on the list of known good ones, myself. I've had to whitelist ... one. (1) That's the spam-to-legit ratio I have observed.
This statement equally applies to Hillary Clinton.
Both are absolutely unacceptable, and I can not in good conscience vote for either of them, and won't.
I'm currently wavering between voting for Johnson, or writing in Cthulhu.
But this witch-hunt going after anyone who expresses support for Trump is outright fascism.
The only time I was in a vehicle with built in navigation it was a rental and the system would lock the GPS system while it was in drive - and I was the passenger, not the driver, trying to punch stuff in. Truly annoying, and indeed, caused me to just use my phone.
This. The built-in navigation on many cars locks the whole dang thing into read-only mode whenever the car is moving. My phone doesn't have this nonsense limitation. Yet another reason I will never by a built-in navigation system ever again. (That $300 map update thing is another.)
Google allows you to download maps for an area for offline use. I did this just a couple of weeks ago on vacation, and it worked fine.