Care to defend your assertion? Please make a point to consider the rising illiteracy rate among high school GRADUATES, the inability of vast swaths of our population that are baffled by the prospect of having to make change for a cash purchase, and so on.
Anecdotal evidence is against your position, so please defend your position.
He holds several U.S. patents, including one for ballet pointe shoes and another for an educational magnifying glass created by filling a clear plastic bag with water.
It is also on record where Hillary was having trouble receiving classified information via secure methods.
Do you know what was the cause of her 'trouble receiving classified information'? Her decision to never access the classified email system ever during her entire tenure as Secretary of State, see it is impossible to send an email from the secure email system to an insecure email address - there are no gateways between the two for security reasons.
This is a self-inflicted 'trouble', she was a victim of her own decision, and that she actually instructed an underling on how to violate the law and send her classified information via insecure email is quite literally a 'smoking gun'.
For example, Valerie Plame was an operative whose name was leaked by Scooty Libby, for which he was thrown in jail. (Not exactly, he got thrown in jail for lying about it later, but then Bush bailed him out.)
Classified describes an I them that has gone through the classification process.
State department has two email systems, one public, one secure - material that has gone through the classification process and is now classified ('confidential', 'secret' or 'top secret') can only me shared via secured means.
Hillary Clinton *never* touched the secure email system in her four years at State, she exclusively used her own private, insecure email server. At various times she received emails that contained emails from her staff that contained previously classified material her staff had 'cut and pasted' from the secure email system to the insecure one so they could send the classified material to Secretary Clinton - this happened over 1,000 times.
At least one time that we know of, because Secretary Clinton turned over an email with this exchange in it, Secretary Clinton directed her subordinate to print out information from the secure email system then scan it into an insecure email system to send it to her.
There is material which by it's very nature is 'classified' without ever going through a classification process - for example, spy satellite imagery, as I recall there were a couple instances of spy satellite imagery in her insecure email account which she turned over to State department for review.
Hillary Clinton, first as a Senator, later as Secretary of State had training in the proper handling of classified information, and she agreed to protect all classified material she came in contact with, marked or not.
Finally, out of her interest in simplifying her daily routines, Hillary chose to hire an individual, pay him a monthly stipend out of her own pocket, AND secure for him a full-time political appointment job in the IT department at State, rather than simply use the government email system... An interesting choice, since the guy she choose to run her email server was even on the payroll in the State IT department!
This is the same administration that classified 18" wide creeks as 'navigable waterways' subject to federal regulations and oversight...
Ever since the Democrats 'popped their cherry' by challenging the the definition of 'is' they have been busy redefining words when the facts were against them. (My personal favorite was when they argued that a man putting his penis in a woman's mouth was not a sexual act - apparently it's how some Arkansas natives greet each other.)
Closest Republicans came to dramatic re-interpretation was 'ketchup as a vegetable' in the eighties as I recall.
Ever seen what happens when a trans-women walks into the bathroom "equipped for people with dicks" ?
They tend to end up bleeding... or dead.
What?!
If I'm at a sporting event in the men's room and someone walks in that "presents" as a male, no one need know or care what they actually have between their legs - it's a non-issue. Same for the women's room - if someone walks in and "presents" as a female, no one cares.
However, if someone that "presents" as a male walks into the ladies room, the women will flee, complain, perhaps physically assault the man as a defensive measure - same in the men's room if someone that "presents" as a female walks in.
I don't know what deranged fantasy-world where you live in where the men's bathrooms are littered with the rotting corpses of dead transgendered people, but here in the real-world people don't get killed for entering the 'wrong' bathroom.
It makes no sense to change gender/sex on birth certificate - the birth certificate is a record of you at birth - do people go back and amend their birth certificates to reflect their new weight or height?
I think this birth certificate issue is a non-issue - are ther bathroom attendants that are requiring people using a bathroom to prove their sex/gender with a birth certificate?
The fear that drives this is utterly unfounded as well - there has literally never, ever been a single case of a man raping a woman who dressed as woman - it is borderline impossible for it to happen.
Right, a man has never raped a woman dressed as a woman...
Bill Gates father was a lawyer, not a millionaire or billionaire... Was Bill Gates the beneficiary of many benefits having been born to a reasonably wealthy family? Sure, but he also was an entrepreneur in high school as I recall, having started a Traf-o-counter business before his semester at Harvard.
The spoon in Gates mouth when he was born wasn't silver or gold, nor was it plastic - it was stainless steel.
...is not a crime. The logical reaction to our current 'hot mess' of tax regulation is to simplify the tax code, not heap another layer of regulations on top of it.
You forgot to factor in competition - having multiple dealers competing for business DOES lower prices in most cases.
Eliminating the middle-man does not necessarily mean the markup the middle-man would have added disappears, it could simply be claimed by the manufacturer.
On the plus side, some people on that list will be waiting 4 or 5 years so perhaps they'll get a better, more mature car than those who take delivery sooner.
I think pre-orders are being collected to secure funding to take a Tesla to the next level with regard to production volume. I doubt it will take tesla 4 or 5 years to build a quarter million Model 3s.
So Tesla has about 150K pre-orders for their latest model, ford sells as many as 500K F-150 pickup trucks per year, and recalls by the 'big three' typically involve several years which could involve millions of vehicles.
This is the cost of doing business at this level...
If the mind and the body are in conflict about one's gender, rarely does altering the body the suit the mental image one has rarely resolves the issue.
Post-op trans, as I understand it, are much, much more likely to commit suicide, while a significant percentage seek reversing the operation.
The Jeffersons represented 3/7ths of the primary cast on All in the Family in the early 70s, and they put George Jefferson in condescending role of successful small business man with a college-educated son and stay-at-home wife. Then when George 'hit the big time' he moved on 'up to the east side' and 'got himself a piece of the pie' - and his own show.
And of course, let's not forget 'Good Times' - another shuck-and-jive blacksoitation tv series.
Wasn't Garret Morris one of the Original 'Not Ready For Prime Time Players' on SNL? That show started in the mid 70s also.
And of course, Sanford and Son was nothing but black vaudeville actors and the top comedian of his day, Fred Foxx.
Gawd, blacks were so under-represented on TV in the 70s.
It worked to get drugs out of the inner-city - they locked up a couple generations of young minorities from the inner-cities and I'm happy to report drug-related crime is almost non-existent!/sarcasm
And howzabout a guaranteed minimum download speed?
Sure, you just have to get Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and others to also commit to feeding your ISP every response, every packet destined for your ISP at a speed no less than the ISP's promised minimum download speed.
This is great and all, but in most people's lives their internet access bill is a small part of their monthly expenses - let's apply the same logic to something that has a greater impact on a person's financial future: student loans.
Imagine a one-page document that students must sign each school year that itemizes their borrowing like so:
Name:
Total amount borrowed to date:
New amount to be borrowed this school year:
Total amount owed at end of current school year:
Grace period before loan repayment starts:
Grace period if student chooses to leave school before matriculation:
Estimated monthly payment amount (based on previous debt level):
Estimated NEW monthly payment (based on new debt taken on):
Number of monthly payments until loan(s) paid off:
Total of all estimated loan payments (principle and interest), assuming no pre-payments made, for old loan balance):
Total of all estimated loan payments (principle and interest), assuming no pre-payments made, for NEW loan balance:
Kids signing up for student loans have no idea what their payments will be, that is a much, much bigger problem than over-paying for Internet access.
...and it's wealth of social programs to any and all Americans that choose to cross the border and start taking high-tech jobs from Canadians? So I guess I can just cross the border, rent an apartment, and go out and apply for a job & get free health care? How long after I cross the border will I be able to vote in Canadian elections, become a Canadian citizen, and start reaping all those wonderful social programs?
I'm positive Canada wouldn't discriminate against foreigners that simply start showing up and drive down the pay scales for low-skill jobs, right?
Remember how former Gov of Massachusetts and former candidate for the US Presidency was 'discovered' to have 'secret, overseas bank accounts' to 'avoid paying taxes'?
Funny thing was, no one noticed that the accounts were 'discovered' from his tax forms - he reported the income on his US tax forms! (Funny how his detractors forgot to mention that...)
"Perhaps then you can link to the 55k emails released by other Secretary of state office holders? The ones who were more transparent?"
Seriously?
Previous Secretaries of State didn't have to 'release' their work emails, they used gov't email accounts - their emails were 'released' the moment they were sent or received, only Hillary felt the need Toledo 100% of her emails private until she had a chance to personally review them and hand-pick which she would allow to be available for gov't archives, FOIA requests.
To use the language the left is so fond of, she only released a 'highly-edited selection'of her email history, and she somehow never kept a backup of her 'raw' email archive.
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Care to defend your assertion? Please make a point to consider the rising illiteracy rate among high school GRADUATES, the inability of vast swaths of our population that are baffled by the prospect of having to make change for a cash purchase, and so on. Anecdotal evidence is against your position, so please defend your position.
He holds a patent on filling a bag with water?
Do you know what was the cause of her 'trouble receiving classified information'? Her decision to never access the classified email system ever during her entire tenure as Secretary of State, see it is impossible to send an email from the secure email system to an insecure email address - there are no gateways between the two for security reasons. This is a self-inflicted 'trouble', she was a victim of her own decision, and that she actually instructed an underling on how to violate the law and send her classified information via insecure email is quite literally a 'smoking gun'.
Wrong, Scooter had his prison sentence commuted, but the conviction stands... He was not pardoned by Bush'43, he paid a quarter-million dollars in fines and penalties, and had two years of supervised release.
Classified describes an I them that has gone through the classification process. State department has two email systems, one public, one secure - material that has gone through the classification process and is now classified ('confidential', 'secret' or 'top secret') can only me shared via secured means. Hillary Clinton *never* touched the secure email system in her four years at State, she exclusively used her own private, insecure email server. At various times she received emails that contained emails from her staff that contained previously classified material her staff had 'cut and pasted' from the secure email system to the insecure one so they could send the classified material to Secretary Clinton - this happened over 1,000 times. At least one time that we know of, because Secretary Clinton turned over an email with this exchange in it, Secretary Clinton directed her subordinate to print out information from the secure email system then scan it into an insecure email system to send it to her. There is material which by it's very nature is 'classified' without ever going through a classification process - for example, spy satellite imagery, as I recall there were a couple instances of spy satellite imagery in her insecure email account which she turned over to State department for review. Hillary Clinton, first as a Senator, later as Secretary of State had training in the proper handling of classified information, and she agreed to protect all classified material she came in contact with, marked or not. Finally, out of her interest in simplifying her daily routines, Hillary chose to hire an individual, pay him a monthly stipend out of her own pocket, AND secure for him a full-time political appointment job in the IT department at State, rather than simply use the government email system... An interesting choice, since the guy she choose to run her email server was even on the payroll in the State IT department!
This is the same administration that classified 18" wide creeks as 'navigable waterways' subject to federal regulations and oversight... Ever since the Democrats 'popped their cherry' by challenging the the definition of 'is' they have been busy redefining words when the facts were against them. (My personal favorite was when they argued that a man putting his penis in a woman's mouth was not a sexual act - apparently it's how some Arkansas natives greet each other.) Closest Republicans came to dramatic re-interpretation was 'ketchup as a vegetable' in the eighties as I recall.
What?! If I'm at a sporting event in the men's room and someone walks in that "presents" as a male, no one need know or care what they actually have between their legs - it's a non-issue. Same for the women's room - if someone walks in and "presents" as a female, no one cares. However, if someone that "presents" as a male walks into the ladies room, the women will flee, complain, perhaps physically assault the man as a defensive measure - same in the men's room if someone that "presents" as a female walks in. I don't know what deranged fantasy-world where you live in where the men's bathrooms are littered with the rotting corpses of dead transgendered people, but here in the real-world people don't get killed for entering the 'wrong' bathroom.
It makes no sense to change gender/sex on birth certificate - the birth certificate is a record of you at birth - do people go back and amend their birth certificates to reflect their new weight or height? I think this birth certificate issue is a non-issue - are ther bathroom attendants that are requiring people using a bathroom to prove their sex/gender with a birth certificate?
Right, a man has never raped a woman dressed as a woman...
Bill Gates father was a lawyer, not a millionaire or billionaire... Was Bill Gates the beneficiary of many benefits having been born to a reasonably wealthy family? Sure, but he also was an entrepreneur in high school as I recall, having started a Traf-o-counter business before his semester at Harvard. The spoon in Gates mouth when he was born wasn't silver or gold, nor was it plastic - it was stainless steel.
...is not a crime. The logical reaction to our current 'hot mess' of tax regulation is to simplify the tax code, not heap another layer of regulations on top of it.
Is almost $700 US?! Wow, when did the euro become so cheap?
You forgot to factor in competition - having multiple dealers competing for business DOES lower prices in most cases. Eliminating the middle-man does not necessarily mean the markup the middle-man would have added disappears, it could simply be claimed by the manufacturer.
I think pre-orders are being collected to secure funding to take a Tesla to the next level with regard to production volume. I doubt it will take tesla 4 or 5 years to build a quarter million Model 3s.
So Tesla has about 150K pre-orders for their latest model, ford sells as many as 500K F-150 pickup trucks per year, and recalls by the 'big three' typically involve several years which could involve millions of vehicles. This is the cost of doing business at this level...
If the mind and the body are in conflict about one's gender, rarely does altering the body the suit the mental image one has rarely resolves the issue. Post-op trans, as I understand it, are much, much more likely to commit suicide, while a significant percentage seek reversing the operation.
Then minority passengers will find it much harder to hail a taxi.
The Jeffersons represented 3/7ths of the primary cast on All in the Family in the early 70s, and they put George Jefferson in condescending role of successful small business man with a college-educated son and stay-at-home wife. Then when George 'hit the big time' he moved on 'up to the east side' and 'got himself a piece of the pie' - and his own show. And of course, let's not forget 'Good Times' - another shuck-and-jive blacksoitation tv series. Wasn't Garret Morris one of the Original 'Not Ready For Prime Time Players' on SNL? That show started in the mid 70s also. And of course, Sanford and Son was nothing but black vaudeville actors and the top comedian of his day, Fred Foxx. Gawd, blacks were so under-represented on TV in the 70s.
It worked to get drugs out of the inner-city - they locked up a couple generations of young minorities from the inner-cities and I'm happy to report drug-related crime is almost non-existent! /sarcasm
Sure, you just have to get Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and others to also commit to feeding your ISP every response, every packet destined for your ISP at a speed no less than the ISP's promised minimum download speed.
Those are state and local government agreements - they are outside the domain of the FCC.
This is great and all, but in most people's lives their internet access bill is a small part of their monthly expenses - let's apply the same logic to something that has a greater impact on a person's financial future: student loans. Imagine a one-page document that students must sign each school year that itemizes their borrowing like so: Name: Total amount borrowed to date: New amount to be borrowed this school year: Total amount owed at end of current school year: Grace period before loan repayment starts: Grace period if student chooses to leave school before matriculation: Estimated monthly payment amount (based on previous debt level): Estimated NEW monthly payment (based on new debt taken on): Number of monthly payments until loan(s) paid off: Total of all estimated loan payments (principle and interest), assuming no pre-payments made, for old loan balance): Total of all estimated loan payments (principle and interest), assuming no pre-payments made, for NEW loan balance: Kids signing up for student loans have no idea what their payments will be, that is a much, much bigger problem than over-paying for Internet access.
...and it's wealth of social programs to any and all Americans that choose to cross the border and start taking high-tech jobs from Canadians? So I guess I can just cross the border, rent an apartment, and go out and apply for a job & get free health care? How long after I cross the border will I be able to vote in Canadian elections, become a Canadian citizen, and start reaping all those wonderful social programs? I'm positive Canada wouldn't discriminate against foreigners that simply start showing up and drive down the pay scales for low-skill jobs, right?
Remember how former Gov of Massachusetts and former candidate for the US Presidency was 'discovered' to have 'secret, overseas bank accounts' to 'avoid paying taxes'? Funny thing was, no one noticed that the accounts were 'discovered' from his tax forms - he reported the income on his US tax forms! (Funny how his detractors forgot to mention that...)
"Perhaps then you can link to the 55k emails released by other Secretary of state office holders? The ones who were more transparent?" Seriously? Previous Secretaries of State didn't have to 'release' their work emails, they used gov't email accounts - their emails were 'released' the moment they were sent or received, only Hillary felt the need Toledo 100% of her emails private until she had a chance to personally review them and hand-pick which she would allow to be available for gov't archives, FOIA requests. To use the language the left is so fond of, she only released a 'highly-edited selection'of her email history, and she somehow never kept a backup of her 'raw' email archive.