The media fucks up a lot of shit. Scientists can publish in-progress or speculative results and the media, whose business model is to attract eyeballs, pumps that up to solid, verified fact with a whole bag of consequences.
I remember early on reading that brontosaurs could have possibly communicated with loud grunts.
The Enquirer came out with the following headline:
China is expanding but as a major country it is generous but as a major country to let America to peek at it but as a major country doing what the second place country could have done, but NO, because but as a major country China is replacing the US, not as anti-globalism but as a major country.
So, scientists and professors, abandon the anti-science former major country and embrace the new but as a major country .
... to take the lead over the US and America is helping by doing nothing of significance.
We've read of other countries deferring to China and making remarks that America no longer in the apex position.
Nationalism, isolationism, anti-immigration, climate denial, science denial, poor educational systems, deregulation of air pollution, coal mine support and "drill baby drill," all demote the US as a world leader and more toward third-world status.
While your story is interesting, the rioters were not the cause of your ills. They were the cure. The cause of the Baltimore riots was dirty cops and crooked politicians.
Slaves did not rebel and free themselves. Whites and Blacks worked together to do the right fucking thing. Blacks could not do it by themselves. America has a built-in sense of decency and unity when the chips are down.
Women did not get the vote by themselves. Women and men, working together, did the right thing.
The Civil Rights violence brought awareness (I saw Providence burn) and people both Black and White did the right goddam thing, working together.
The Vietnam riots got really ugly and put an end to the war.
Again, the process:
1. Ask nicely 2. Rally 3. Peaceful protest 4. Sit ins and disruptions 5. Riots 6. Burn the goddam house down 7. Change
We're beginning to see that now, and it'll get worse before it gets better.
Go back and look at all the Baltimore police scandals that surfaced only after physical violence. There wasn't a goddam thing done to stop those asshole until people, fed up, burned the goddam city. There's still trials docketed for police corruption.
I agree with you and there's even more to consider.
$5bn isn't enough to fund the proposal and project planning stage of a wall. Estimates run from 21.5bn to 70bn to impossible to do.
There's a lot of up-front work to be done.
Some owners along the border have converted parts of their properties to places of worship. Others have donated land parcels to conservationist organizations with deep pockets.
Some owners are not on the border, but have denied permission for roads needed to get to the properties along the border.
Many towns almost seamlessly straddle the border (especially in Texas) and each side depends upon the other.
So, 5bn won't even pay for enumerating the problems of building a wall.
I endorse your last paragraph and see immigration, even illegal, as a net positive for the US.
Our best strategy going forward is to just don't fuck with the status quo.
I got laid off from Texaco, Port Arthur, after 7 tears as an journeyman instrument man back in the early 80s.
I worked at Mobil Oil for 10 years and got laid off. As I was leaving, they said, "Oh, wait. You're 50, so you're retired." I get retirement from them.
I worked 18 years at a law firm. half of that with another law firm. The second tried to poach me and I was headed that way when the two managing partners worked out a deal where I worked a half day at each.
My two nightmares were lack of backup and intruders.
I enjoyed the law firms. I retired about 3 years ago and don't miss one goddam minute of it.
I do find that I'm losing traction keeping up with the latest enterprise-level technology because I'm not up to my neck in it.
I wasn't impressed by the science fiction possibilities because the practicalities were boring to me at a young age.
I bought my first computer in 1978 (TRS-80) and THEN I started predicting and wishing and hoping. I particularly saw the Internet as a way to bring the world closer as plebes ignored asshole leaders and started communicating directly.
I was naive. I didn't know about marketing and the power of the crowds.
I should have picked up on that. It was the business model for radio, movies, and TV: Where there's a lot of people, flash advertisements in their faces.
That happened with the Internet, but a totally unpredictable thing happened: Data was the new gold.
I was working at a law firm as the IT guy. They decided to go paperless by scanning in all of the boxes of case material and all of the mail received.
I took a deep dive (this was mid-90s) and advised against it, with reasons. As was my custom, I made sure the discussion was documented via email.
They hired a college student to do the legacy scanning and she worked on it for 6 months before rotating out. Remember PHB pointing out that temporary employees weren't loyal to the company? She twiddled her thunbs and mostly studied for exams back there.
They started over and created a marginally less chaotic batch of scans for beta and told me to buy the software.
$60,000 for a database that did OCR, producing a text duplicate of the scanned documents.
Those of you who were around at that time feel the pain: OCR was 68% accurate and especially overwhelmed by noise introduced by copying. Signatures and stamps often overlay the text. Some of the "originals," were copies. It was, in total, about as useless as tits on a boar.
Also recall that storage was at premium prices back then. Also recall that the standard box was a Pentium running at 1ghz with 1gb memory. The database was not SQL, so the desktop did the heavy lifting.
I retired from that p;ace about 3 years ago and the goddam paperwork is costing a shit load of money by way of storage space on and offsite and people still have to find and open boxes and sift through the paperwork to find stuff.
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Bullshit.
I'm a member of the NRA and I know goddam well that the NRA has stepped away from its mission statement from back when I was a kid.
I was 10 years old in 1955 and Moby Dick was a minnow.
The NRA was THE organization for teaching gun safety, promoting hunting, and supervising sanctioned gun sports.
Now those motherfuckers are headed by multi-millionaires, so fuck American kids, go after the money.
Anyone who maintains that the NRA isn't a goddam PAC for the gun and prison industries is lying out their goddam teeth.
I'm licensed to carry and the only decent outdoor range around here is NRA-sanctioned, so I have to be a member to get in.
Otherwise, those bastards (and bitches) wouldn't get one goddam dime from me.
The reason I carry is because other people carry. Texas is not civilized.
This is what I came to post.
I grab my fucking wallet and stick the card in. My goddam Fitbit gives me a one step credit.
Throw those numbers around. Comments at social media sites are as randomly made up as your shit.
To be fair (and I'll up you one to "impartial"), while 350 a day leave CA, 3,500 pregnant squirrels eat banana sandwiches in CA.
I'm a Democrat and want no such thing.
Your captured data of every detail of every Democrat is flawed.
... online reviews are as accurate as online polls.
Well, another important takeaway is that users should, by now, be too sophisticated to pay attention to either.
I swear that showed up after I read TFA. Thanks.
... is the list?
... surprised are not learning a goddam thing.
This is one solid reason.
The media fucks up a lot of shit. Scientists can publish in-progress or speculative results and the media, whose business model is to attract eyeballs, pumps that up to solid, verified fact with a whole bag of consequences.
I remember early on reading that brontosaurs could have possibly communicated with loud grunts.
The Enquirer came out with the following headline:
BRONTOSAURS HONKED LIKE BUICKS!!
... a little drunk walk?
China is expanding but as a major country it is generous but as a major country to let America to peek at it but as a major country doing what the second place country could have done, but NO, because but as a major country China is replacing the US, not as anti-globalism but as a major country .
So, scientists and professors, abandon the anti-science former major country and embrace the new but as a major country .
... to take the lead over the US and America is helping by doing nothing of significance.
We've read of other countries deferring to China and making remarks that America no longer in the apex position.
Nationalism, isolationism, anti-immigration, climate denial, science denial, poor educational systems, deregulation of air pollution, coal mine support and "drill baby drill," all demote the US as a world leader and more toward third-world status.
... and the short of it is that Verizon wants more money.
yvw
They have some Richards, as well.
While your story is interesting, the rioters were not the cause of your ills. They were the cure. The cause of the Baltimore riots was dirty cops and crooked politicians.
You're 100% wrong.
Slaves did not rebel and free themselves. Whites and Blacks worked together to do the right fucking thing. Blacks could not do it by themselves. America has a built-in sense of decency and unity when the chips are down.
Women did not get the vote by themselves. Women and men, working together, did the right thing.
The Civil Rights violence brought awareness (I saw Providence burn) and people both Black and White did the right goddam thing, working together.
The Vietnam riots got really ugly and put an end to the war.
Again, the process:
1. Ask nicely
2. Rally
3. Peaceful protest
4. Sit ins and disruptions
5. Riots
6. Burn the goddam house down
7. Change
We're beginning to see that now, and it'll get worse before it gets better.
Hold on to your hat.
Go back and look at all the Baltimore police scandals that surfaced only after physical violence. There wasn't a goddam thing done to stop those asshole until people, fed up, burned the goddam city. There's still trials docketed for police corruption.
I'm not saying it's nice.
I'm saying it's necessary.
And effective.
I agree with you and there's even more to consider.
$5bn isn't enough to fund the proposal and project planning stage of a wall. Estimates run from 21.5bn to 70bn to impossible to do.
There's a lot of up-front work to be done.
Some owners along the border have converted parts of their properties to places of worship. Others have donated land parcels to conservationist organizations with deep pockets.
Some owners are not on the border, but have denied permission for roads needed to get to the properties along the border.
Many towns almost seamlessly straddle the border (especially in Texas) and each side depends upon the other.
So, 5bn won't even pay for enumerating the problems of building a wall.
I endorse your last paragraph and see immigration, even illegal, as a net positive for the US.
Our best strategy going forward is to just don't fuck with the status quo.
Hillary didn't expedite Trump's green card. Melania's husband did that.
I spent 9 years in the Navy starting at 19.
I got laid off from Texaco, Port Arthur, after 7 tears as an journeyman instrument man back in the early 80s.
I worked at Mobil Oil for 10 years and got laid off. As I was leaving, they said, "Oh, wait. You're 50, so you're retired." I get retirement from them.
I worked 18 years at a law firm. half of that with another law firm. The second tried to poach me and I was headed that way when the two managing partners worked out a deal where I worked a half day at each.
My two nightmares were lack of backup and intruders.
I enjoyed the law firms. I retired about 3 years ago and don't miss one goddam minute of it.
I do find that I'm losing traction keeping up with the latest enterprise-level technology because I'm not up to my neck in it.
... and it's a beautiful thing. Much better than Musk's failing green card. Sad. Melania got an expedited green card.
You know there's no problem. SCOTUS is going to rule in favour of capitalism. That's Citizens United.
Bots and cars will be communicating with people. There's money in that. For that reason, all will be protected by the 1st amendment.
So it is written, so let it be done.
... at the technological progress.
I wasn't impressed by the science fiction possibilities because the practicalities were boring to me at a young age.
I bought my first computer in 1978 (TRS-80) and THEN I started predicting and wishing and hoping. I particularly saw the Internet as a way to bring the world closer as plebes ignored asshole leaders and started communicating directly.
I was naive. I didn't know about marketing and the power of the crowds.
I should have picked up on that. It was the business model for radio, movies, and TV: Where there's a lot of people, flash advertisements in their faces.
That happened with the Internet, but a totally unpredictable thing happened: Data was the new gold.
That's the reason we can't have nice things.
I can relate.
I was working at a law firm as the IT guy. They decided to go paperless by scanning in all of the boxes of case material and all of the mail received.
I took a deep dive (this was mid-90s) and advised against it, with reasons. As was my custom, I made sure the discussion was documented via email.
They hired a college student to do the legacy scanning and she worked on it for 6 months before rotating out. Remember PHB pointing out that temporary employees weren't loyal to the company? She twiddled her thunbs and mostly studied for exams back there.
They started over and created a marginally less chaotic batch of scans for beta and told me to buy the software.
$60,000 for a database that did OCR, producing a text duplicate of the scanned documents.
Those of you who were around at that time feel the pain: OCR was 68% accurate and especially overwhelmed by noise introduced by copying. Signatures and stamps often overlay the text. Some of the "originals," were copies. It was, in total, about as useless as tits on a boar.
Also recall that storage was at premium prices back then. Also recall that the standard box was a Pentium running at 1ghz with 1gb memory. The database was not SQL, so the desktop did the heavy lifting.
I retired from that p;ace about 3 years ago and the goddam paperwork is costing a shit load of money by way of storage space on and offsite and people still have to find and open boxes and sift through the paperwork to find stuff.
Bots are people, as are cars.
Both are sources of revenue and will be able to produce protected text.