You seem to be responding to a number of assertions that I did not make.
I didn't say anything about "personal peccadilloes." I said that he made some poor ("dumb") choices. I can make the case for that but I don't want to get into it here.
I asserted that he contributed a lot but could have done more. Perhaps you believe he could not have done more. Then we just disagree there.
Also you seem to think that I discount Greenwald's probity on the issue. In fact I don't.
Right. No assault claims had been filed. Therefore they did not happen.
If you are a big fan of doing a "little research" why don't you look up the reasons and the statistics of how assault victims delay, often indefinitely, the reporting of their respective incidents?
But don't worry. Your beer-drinking paladin of virtue will have his shady financial dealings and his possible perjury looked into anyway thanks to the last election, and all that has nothing to do with his appealing seduction technique. Personally I doubt he will get unseated but it would be nice to have the record documented. You know, since filing things is all important.
I second this. However I'll wait until Glenn Greenwald checks in on this. If anyone can find a way to excuse Julian Assange he can.
Personally I have become disenchanted with Assange in various ways. He could have contributed so much more than he did but he persisted in making dumb choices, making it hard for the right people to take him seriously.
NONE of the witnesses provided ANY corroboration of the event whatsoever.
You really aren't very hard to refute. You should probably pick up the practice of reading yourself before you admonish others to do so.
Here is a list that includes a list of witness the FBI did NOT contact either because they did not have the time or they were instructed not to. Lawyers for both Ramirez and Ford provided lists of corroborating witnesses which were never contacted.
It was clear from the very start that the only purpose of the FBI "investigation" was not to vet the SCOTUS candidate, but instead to provide a fig leaf that would be eagerly accepted by persons such as yourself.
Well, the DOJ did find Clinton and Kavanaugh innocent of wrong doing.
Clinton: 20+ years of nonstop partisan driven investigations originating from congress and an FBI field office that is widely known for hating Hillary. From the present House minority leader: "We are doing a great job driving her poll numbers down."
Kavanaugh: 4 days including the weekend to make a determination and here is a long list of things you cannot look into.
Yep. The investigations into these two individuals was exactly the same.
"The corporate tax cut implemented as 2018 began also didn't stop job cuts at Comcast and AT&T, despite promises that the tax cut would create new jobs."
Are there still idiots around that believe corporations hire people because they have more cash on hand?
PS. I live in a rural area and my local medical clinic runs a separate skin clinic aimed at diagnosing skin cancers. I see a lot of the "bushman" types, and farmers in there.
That is interesting. Proximity to the ozone hole is of course a variable to be considered.
I agree this is the right way to be thinking about this. You need to look at the evolutionary background of homo sapiens and consider that whenever you are evaluating what is healthy and what is not.
The problem I see is that it is a system with many complex inputs. Controlled experiments are impossible in most cases. But you can tease out usable conclusions nonetheless.
In the case of sunlight/UV it is pretty clear you need it within some range. Both zero exposure and high exposure (say naked in Death Valley in July with no shade) can be pretty easily be shown to be unhealthy.
But the real problem are variables that are often totally ignored in reports like this. Is the body's Vitamin A store/supply important? What about K2? What about many other micro nutrients or for that matter the condition of the immune system that suppresses cancer cells being generated all the time in the body?
There is a big difference (besides genetics) between a bushman who eats wild game to survive (including most of the animal) and other high-nutrient sources and the surfer dude that scarfs down fast-food burgers and fries and HFCS sodas before heading to the beach.
So when I read something like "THE ADVICE IS CLEAR: DON'T" without considering what a thousand generations of humans survived and flourished on what I actually see is an "authority" with very incomplete view of things and whose advice on anything but the obvious can be disregarded.
I have been repeatedly assured with great Reason and Authority on this very web site that Elon Musk is a fake. Delusional. His engineering is crap. His books are cooked. There is no way he will ever make a profit. His quality control is just shit. The cards burn and the wheels fall off. He will never be able to scale his manufacturing. He lied to investors. The employees are all in open revolt. Every other car manufacturer in the world is going to eat his lunch. Out of cash in 6 months you watch. He smoked pot.
So now he is in China which apparently likes what he does. Of course they are going to steal all the technology which according to the above is worthless, so proving Musk is Delusional and a Fool once again. I guess.
Meanwhile I read that China -- a huge growing market -- projects 2019 they will buy fewer ICE cars but more cards overall for the first time in history.
So I came here to find out how this latest news proves once again what a charlatan Musk is. Waiting.
I wasn't really trolling regardless of what the moderator tally is. I was just remarking that this topic really is a hot button for a lot of people and are willing to write flames about it. And that it hadn't happened for a while.
And was I wrong? Oh, no.
I also pointed out that some people have more valid justifications for their passionately held positions than others. Although that is always true on that topic the jury will always be out.
I haven't seen a systemd thread for quite some time around here I guess we're due.
Some of the rants and raves are actually pretty good.
Yet I can't help wondering how much of it is really just people who resist change because they don't want to learn something new. The init/upstart process was easy enough to understand but clinky and as full of problems as systemd really. Except, of course of the most common use cases where it had been worked out.
As for these bugs they don't seem to be making much of an industry problem.
As he stated himself more than once, he firmly believes that he has an intuitive grasp of science that eclipses any career expert in any field.
Since he doesn't read much I gather that his intuitions are pretty much based on whatever presentation he recently saw that impressed him. Maybe online or maybe someone who thinks they are talking to the president. Add to that add a healthy mix of preconceptions.
What a recipe. It results in things like this sometimes.
OK, good answer. I just asked because your list seems to be pretty well rounded and we encounter too many Rand readers regard her works as the Fount Of All Reason And If You Don't Agree You Are An Idiot Or Worse A Clinton Lover. In other words the opposite of well rounded. Recognizing fiction as fiction and not something else is an ability that is beyond too many people.
My list is modest this year but I'll mention a few:
-> The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. I read this because my stepmother was reading it. If you like Lifetime-TV-for-Women you will like this. Noble/naive/underappreciated woman up against Evil Man type of stuff. It gets into holocaust stories including a first-person narration of the conditions in Auschwitz.
-> Uncompromising Honor by David Weber. Like anyone else who is reading this we have followed the series from the beginning. I think it is still going strong even though I am sympathetic to the argument that the story has been played out too far. Now Manticore (that's a Star Nation) has the People's Republic as an ally going up against the immense Solarian League. Probably the best space opera currently on the market -- much more substantial than anything with "Star Wars" on the cover.
-> Into The Fire by Elizabeth Moon. Not bad but I suspect that I am not the only person who would have preferred she work on the Serrano books instead of this. The laws in this Vatta world are baffling.
-> The Complete Guide to Fasting by Jason Fung, MD. Yet another fad diet? Well maybe. Any lay book on diet/nutrition these days should be approached with a healthy dose of skepticism. However if you read only one for the year I would make it this one.
Clinton was a really bad candidate, with terrible poll numbers... derp derp derp.
Where does this horseshit keep coming from? You guys keep repeating it to each other so much that you think it is true. It has absolutely no basis in fact.
At the time the famous Comey letter was released Clintion was 6-8 points ahead in the polls. (source: 538) That isn't even close. That's a blowout election similar to the one we just went through in the midterms.
After the Comey letter and the media had a week or two to scream from every orifice about Weiner's laptop she took a hit of 4-5 points. That made it close enough for the Electoral College to work its magic. I have no idea what part the Russian media efforts had in that but whatever effect it has wasn't positive for Clinton. They were totally in it for Trump.
And she STILL got 3M more votes. The most terrible candidate in history.
The problem was, the average business person or home computer person had no knowledge to discriminate good computers or OSes or applications from bad, so the cheapest ones won every time. Sad.
Consumers need usable apps before they would buy the hardware. In fact you could say the applications are what the user buys and the hardware comes along after it.
Commodore, or at least some senior people who worked there, were well aware of this. Back in 1986-1988 timeframe (I don't remember when) I visited them as a consultant because what they wanted was someone to write a good spreadsheet program to attract users that needed it. I really wanted that contract but the "internal issues" that the article alluded to took over and there was no closing the deal. (Of course it could have been that I sucked so I didn't get the deal but that's not the narrative i prefer.)
Summary: consumers don't buy hardware or OSes. They buy the applications or games. No matter how good Commodore's hardware is or was that could never be overcome.
Is there anything about this that checking the digital signature of the OpenSSH files wouldn't work? That probably should be done at boot time and then periodically after that.
Two engines short-radius props, one at each wingtip? That thing must scream like a banshee.
Also, I have to question what it is like to fly if one engine goes out. It doesn't look like there is enough rudder there to compensate. (Looks of course don't count but if they did calculations I wonder what they came up with.
It is interesting, however, how small an electric engine is compared to a turbine equivalent.
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You seem to be responding to a number of assertions that I did not make.
I didn't say anything about "personal peccadilloes." I said that he made some poor ("dumb") choices. I can make the case for that but I don't want to get into it here.
I asserted that he contributed a lot but could have done more. Perhaps you believe he could not have done more. Then we just disagree there.
Also you seem to think that I discount Greenwald's probity on the issue. In fact I don't.
Right. No assault claims had been filed. Therefore they did not happen.
If you are a big fan of doing a "little research" why don't you look up the reasons and the statistics of how assault victims delay, often indefinitely, the reporting of their respective incidents?
But don't worry. Your beer-drinking paladin of virtue will have his shady financial dealings and his possible perjury looked into anyway thanks to the last election, and all that has nothing to do with his appealing seduction technique. Personally I doubt he will get unseated but it would be nice to have the record documented. You know, since filing things is all important.
The heck? Citation needed, EditorDavid...
I second this. However I'll wait until Glenn Greenwald checks in on this. If anyone can find a way to excuse Julian Assange he can.
Personally I have become disenchanted with Assange in various ways. He could have contributed so much more than he did but he persisted in making dumb choices, making it hard for the right people to take him seriously.
NONE of the witnesses provided ANY corroboration of the event whatsoever.
You really aren't very hard to refute. You should probably pick up the practice of reading yourself before you admonish others to do so.
Here is a list that includes a list of witness the FBI did NOT contact either because they did not have the time or they were instructed not to. Lawyers for both Ramirez and Ford provided lists of corroborating witnesses which were never contacted.
It was clear from the very start that the only purpose of the FBI "investigation" was not to vet the SCOTUS candidate, but instead to provide a fig leaf that would be eagerly accepted by persons such as yourself.
Well, the DOJ did find Clinton and Kavanaugh innocent of wrong doing.
Clinton: 20+ years of nonstop partisan driven investigations originating from congress and an FBI field office that is widely known for hating Hillary. From the present House minority leader: "We are doing a great job driving her poll numbers down."
Kavanaugh: 4 days including the weekend to make a determination and here is a long list of things you cannot look into.
Yep. The investigations into these two individuals was exactly the same.
"The corporate tax cut implemented as 2018 began also didn't stop job cuts at Comcast and AT&T, despite promises that the tax cut would create new jobs."
Are there still idiots around that believe corporations hire people because they have more cash on hand?
Man, those Chinese climate hoaxers just don't know when to quit do they?
It is a problem when you can't boycott the "do no evil" company because there is no competition.
PS. I live in a rural area and my local medical clinic runs a separate skin clinic aimed at diagnosing skin cancers. I see a lot of the "bushman" types, and farmers in there.
That is interesting. Proximity to the ozone hole is of course a variable to be considered.
I agree this is the right way to be thinking about this. You need to look at the evolutionary background of homo sapiens and consider that whenever you are evaluating what is healthy and what is not.
The problem I see is that it is a system with many complex inputs. Controlled experiments are impossible in most cases. But you can tease out usable conclusions nonetheless.
In the case of sunlight/UV it is pretty clear you need it within some range. Both zero exposure and high exposure (say naked in Death Valley in July with no shade) can be pretty easily be shown to be unhealthy.
But the real problem are variables that are often totally ignored in reports like this. Is the body's Vitamin A store/supply important? What about K2? What about many other micro nutrients or for that matter the condition of the immune system that suppresses cancer cells being generated all the time in the body?
There is a big difference (besides genetics) between a bushman who eats wild game to survive (including most of the animal) and other high-nutrient sources and the surfer dude that scarfs down fast-food burgers and fries and HFCS sodas before heading to the beach.
So when I read something like "THE ADVICE IS CLEAR: DON'T" without considering what a thousand generations of humans survived and flourished on what I actually see is an "authority" with very incomplete view of things and whose advice on anything but the obvious can be disregarded.
Now an Elon Musk thread. I suppose we were due.
I have been repeatedly assured with great Reason and Authority on this very web site that Elon Musk is a fake. Delusional. His engineering is crap. His books are cooked. There is no way he will ever make a profit. His quality control is just shit. The cards burn and the wheels fall off. He will never be able to scale his manufacturing. He lied to investors. The employees are all in open revolt. Every other car manufacturer in the world is going to eat his lunch. Out of cash in 6 months you watch. He smoked pot.
So now he is in China which apparently likes what he does. Of course they are going to steal all the technology which according to the above is worthless, so proving Musk is Delusional and a Fool once again. I guess.
Meanwhile I read that China -- a huge growing market -- projects 2019 they will buy fewer ICE cars but more cards overall for the first time in history.
So I came here to find out how this latest news proves once again what a charlatan Musk is. Waiting.
I wasn't really trolling regardless of what the moderator tally is. I was just remarking that this topic really is a hot button for a lot of people and are willing to write flames about it. And that it hadn't happened for a while.
And was I wrong? Oh, no.
I also pointed out that some people have more valid justifications for their passionately held positions than others. Although that is always true on that topic the jury will always be out.
I haven't seen a systemd thread for quite some time around here I guess we're due.
Some of the rants and raves are actually pretty good.
Yet I can't help wondering how much of it is really just people who resist change because they don't want to learn something new. The init/upstart process was easy enough to understand but clinky and as full of problems as systemd really. Except, of course of the most common use cases where it had been worked out.
As for these bugs they don't seem to be making much of an industry problem.
And precisely zero come in over the US-Mexico border outside a normal point of entry.
The emergency Trump is citing is phony floor to ceiling.
As he stated himself more than once, he firmly believes that he has an intuitive grasp of science that eclipses any career expert in any field.
Since he doesn't read much I gather that his intuitions are pretty much based on whatever presentation he recently saw that impressed him. Maybe online or maybe someone who thinks they are talking to the president. Add to that add a healthy mix of preconceptions.
What a recipe. It results in things like this sometimes.
OK, good answer. I just asked because your list seems to be pretty well rounded and we encounter too many Rand readers regard her works as the Fount Of All Reason And If You Don't Agree You Are An Idiot Or Worse A Clinton Lover. In other words the opposite of well rounded. Recognizing fiction as fiction and not something else is an ability that is beyond too many people.
My list is modest this year but I'll mention a few:
-> The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. I read this because my stepmother was reading it. If you like Lifetime-TV-for-Women you will like this. Noble/naive/underappreciated woman up against Evil Man type of stuff. It gets into holocaust stories including a first-person narration of the conditions in Auschwitz.
-> Uncompromising Honor by David Weber. Like anyone else who is reading this we have followed the series from the beginning. I think it is still going strong even though I am sympathetic to the argument that the story has been played out too far. Now Manticore (that's a Star Nation) has the People's Republic as an ally going up against the immense Solarian League. Probably the best space opera currently on the market -- much more substantial than anything with "Star Wars" on the cover.
-> Into The Fire by Elizabeth Moon. Not bad but I suspect that I am not the only person who would have preferred she work on the Serrano books instead of this. The laws in this Vatta world are baffling.
-> The Complete Guide to Fasting by Jason Fung, MD. Yet another fad diet? Well maybe. Any lay book on diet/nutrition these days should be approached with a healthy dose of skepticism. However if you read only one for the year I would make it this one.
... like:
NONFICTION
- The Fountainhead Ayn Rand (recommend)
Not to pick a fight or anything, but..... why?
Clinton was a really bad candidate, with terrible poll numbers. .. derp derp derp.
Where does this horseshit keep coming from? You guys keep repeating it to each other so much that you think it is true. It has absolutely no basis in fact.
At the time the famous Comey letter was released Clintion was 6-8 points ahead in the polls. (source: 538) That isn't even close. That's a blowout election similar to the one we just went through in the midterms.
After the Comey letter and the media had a week or two to scream from every orifice about Weiner's laptop she took a hit of 4-5 points. That made it close enough for the Electoral College to work its magic. I have no idea what part the Russian media efforts had in that but whatever effect it has wasn't positive for Clinton. They were totally in it for Trump.
And she STILL got 3M more votes. The most terrible candidate in history.
I know this was totally useless but still..
The problem was, the average business person or home computer person had no knowledge to discriminate good computers or OSes or applications from bad, so the cheapest ones won every time. Sad.
Consumers need usable apps before they would buy the hardware. In fact you could say the applications are what the user buys and the hardware comes along after it.
Commodore, or at least some senior people who worked there, were well aware of this. Back in 1986-1988 timeframe (I don't remember when) I visited them as a consultant because what they wanted was someone to write a good spreadsheet program to attract users that needed it. I really wanted that contract but the "internal issues" that the article alluded to took over and there was no closing the deal. (Of course it could have been that I sucked so I didn't get the deal but that's not the narrative i prefer.)
Summary: consumers don't buy hardware or OSes. They buy the applications or games. No matter how good Commodore's hardware is or was that could never be overcome.
Bitcoin is on my list.
I guess we should just call off all the green initiative stuff (hippy liberal anyway) and fire up more coal plants.
Is there anything about this that checking the digital signature of the OpenSSH files wouldn't work? That probably should be done at boot time and then periodically after that.
That makes sense. I guess their intent was to take full advantage of the small footprint of electric motors versus their turbine counterparts.
Cool looking plane but....
Two engines short-radius props, one at each wingtip? That thing must scream like a banshee.
Also, I have to question what it is like to fly if one engine goes out. It doesn't look like there is enough rudder there to compensate. (Looks of course don't count but if they did calculations I wonder what they came up with.
It is interesting, however, how small an electric engine is compared to a turbine equivalent.