Perhaps your disconnect is that it is not true. It's simply not. The American culture is, if anything, enormously compassionate. Giving is a virtue embraced at all levels whether it's social, economic, religious, age, whatever. This 'every man for himself' culture is a fantasy, probably from someone that feels guilty about being American and the standard of living Americans enjoy (believe me, there's a lot of that going on here). Nobody goes hungry here without significant personal effort, food kitchens abound, WIC, food stamps, and half a dozen other programs at state and federal levels exist. Medical care is free if you just go to the ER and wait for treatment, you only pay what you can afford and if that amount is nothing then you pay nothing (been that way for decades).
Where we may be slipping is mental treatment. In a nation of 300 million, you got some crazies that need help and no amount of handouts, whether it's money, food. or housing, is going to get them off the street.
I once worked with a manager that dreamed of hiring a female, minority, with a physical disability. He could have checked off a lot of diversity points with that one. I don't think he'd have cared at all about the quality of work. Just getting HR and the SJW's off his back would have been worth it.
"The U.S.'s most popular third-party presidential candidate..."
In other words, some irrelevant guy (and irrelevant girl) are saying they'd do something if elected president. So what? This is America, we can elect anyone we want president as long as we pick from 2 choices that were at least partly pre-determined quite some time ago. If you're going to vote Green or Libertarian as a way to protest, you're making the mistake that it will have any impact and anyone will listen.
Split hairs all you want. It's clear that there was collusion between Clinton and the DNC - that is indisputable. It's also just as clear that money was routed in pretty sketchy ways to get around campaign finance laws. Perhaps they didn't break the exact wording of the law and it comes down to things like the meaning of the word "is" (a classic Clinton stratagem). If such things are OK with you, that's fine, enjoy the results that brings.
What crimes would those be? Seriously, I'm curious. What crimes have been revealed by the DNC emails that were released? Staffers at the DNC didn't much like a number of members of Sanders's staff. Some of them preferred Clinton. Good policy? Maybe, maybe not, but not a crime by any definition of the term.
The crime exposed by the DNC emails is money laundering. In those, they discuss how to move money from very wealthy donors making big deposits through a DNC fund for "down ticket" candidates (like state and local races). Huge donors with money, adhering to campaign finance laws, make deposits into the Clinton campaign (HFA). But they want more money to go to her so they direct the majority of it into something called the Hillary Victory Fund which is operated by the DNC. From there it's split again between state level party operations and the DNC, also to avoid limits. However, it's not at the state party accounts long, in fact, it's often there so briefly that the state level treasurers managing don't even have time to see it hit the account before it's gone and it's "donated" back to the DNC, essentially having been 'washed' through the sate accounts. The DNC then used the money to support the Clinton campaign.
tl:dr - the DNC laundered money to circumvent campaign finance law and support Hillary.
HALO jumps are not done that often anymore. In fact, I suspect almost never. They do HAHO now. Modern parachute design allows you to glide into the target area from up to 40 miles away rather than the aircraft flying over a target country. It takes a while to travel that distance so plenty of time to whip out a iPhone and get anything from GPS, current LZ/target data, keep in contact with your team, etc.
I have not had a nexus phone and I've heard from friends and business peers that's the only reliable one - if I were to ever go back android, it's the only one I'd consider. I can't recall all the android models I've had, at least half a dozen different ones over a multi-year period (at least 8 years). Some were better than others but for the most part they all exhibited similar behavior.
I doubt it. I had android phones most of my career and only switched to iPhone about 18 months ago. The android phones tend to suck, it's that simple. They freeze, they lose performance (frequent reboots often fix that) and occasional exhibit unexpected and inconsistent behaviors (icon/button clicks don't work until app/phone restart, a button that did one thing sometimes does something else, etc). Android battery life sucks so bad there are apps you need to use to help manage it - not because the battery is a problem but it seems something is always running that drains it.
With my iPhone, it just works. In 18 months I can count the number of reboots on one hand. I can go the entire weekend without recharging. Occasionally there is an app crash but nothing like I saw on android.
When you're out on the sharp tip of the spear and your life may depend on information being reliably available, android is not the best bet. I'm not saying iPhone is something I'd want to bet my life on either but if I was in their position and wanted the best available, it's the iPhone.
I've done more than a few projects with offshore development. Yeah, there are some crappy western developers - it was particularly bad during the dotcom era when every excel macro developer thought he was a programmer and was trying to get into the game. But we're talking the averages.
On average, the non-western developers write code that is poor for all the reasons mentioned above. They are difficult to work with due to cultural issues (e.g. Indian developers *always* tell you they understand, even when they don't) and that makes for some really crazy code that even if it works does not do what you really wanted done so you spend considerable time and effort trying to fix the code and the understanding of requirements. And time zone offsets, don't get me started, it's a hassle when meetings can generally only happen at 6 AM and 6 PM.
You must think they're pretty stupid if they're missing the natural changes that are changing the climate now at a rate that is practically unprecedented compared to historical climate changes. You'd have a good chance of winning a Nobel Prize if you can show them the error of their ways.
I don't think they're stupid at all. They're simply doing what they get paid to do. Finding more reason to pin climate change on human activity pays well, gets you fame and fortune. I think they're being honest about it too but that's the thing with incentive programs, you get what you pay for out of people. That's why we had things like ClimateGate 1 & 2 where it was shown how they manipulate data, skew research and publishing, and intimidate people with contradictory conclusions.
And the Nobel Prize, it ain't what it used to be....
Yes, relying on Facebook as a news outlet is not the best idea. But you know, people are doing it. They're also relying on outlets like The Daily Show - essentially a comedy that's also got a strong liberal bias. It seems anyone under 30 is relying on pretty bogus media for their news and dismissing this development as "nobody to blame but yourself" is missing the point. It's happening, it's strongly biased propaganda and if it was conservative biased the pundits and media would be going apeshit (remember the fairness doctrine and Air America?). The question is, should anything be done about it and if it should, what? Right now, about the best that can be done is to expose it and hope that people are willing to see the truth that's in front of them. If they're not, well, then let it burn.
I mean, it could very easily be this was the result of some dumbass flying around the airport and accidentally hitting a 747. But could it also have been the result of a terrorist attack? Seems like it would be one hell of an easy and cheap way to take down a airliner if it's actually a viable way to do such - and we are seemingly convinced of that somehow based on the posts thus far. Is a drone you can buy at the local store or from Amazon really capable of such? I don't know, I really don't. But if I was the type that wanted to take down a large passenger plane, I'd invest a few hundred in finding out in a "live" test.
The stat is true, it's just calculate the same way it was always calculated prior to 1994. Anytime government tries to tell you good news about unemployment with pre-1994 comparisons, your bullshit detector should go off as that's not a straight comparison. Current unemployment for March 2016 is 22.9% if you include long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994.
Asking the long term unemployed, who are almost certainly deeply financially distressed, to move to another state is a tough demand. How can they afford to move, get a place to live, place deposits, etc, etc. much less even interview in those faraway locations? I have a relevant skill - engineering degree with deep technical background in a industry that has (allegedly) very high demand for new employees and it took me 9 months to get a new job after getting laid off. I can only imagine what it's like in low skill/low demand areas.
Climate science has a harder problem to address, but is as rigorous as is reasonable in the circumstances.
Yeah, that's why the justice department looking at prosecuting deniers. Because the science is so good that anything less than 100% acceptance of it should be a crime. Certainly voicing skepticism should be illegal, right? All part of the scientific method.
But, but, but... It must've at some point... The benevolent and omniscient government officials kept telling us, that butter is evil. They could not ban it outright for the adults, insisting on their silly "liberties" and "freedoms, but they did ban it for children. As recently as in 2013!
Oh yeah, the science was settled. Only deniers would ever believe anything but the evils of butter. The. Science. Was. Settled. Anyone not accepting that is in the pocket of "big butter" and should be sent to jail.
Well, no change other than borrowers "won't have to go through the typical application process for receiving a disability discharge, which requires sending in documented proof of their disability. Instead, the borrower will simply have to sign and return the completed application enclosed in the letter." So it looks like the change is not having to send in that proof, just sign and return the application.
I mean, sure, they got jobs related to their field of study but it would sure be nice to get them forgiven. Get a letter, sing and return and, like magic, debt gone. Don't start with me about fraud or any of that other bullshit. I pay more in taxes now than all my other expenses combined (I've just done my taxes so I can tell you this is 100% accurate). If my kids can get their debt forgiven, then we'll do it. I don't care what anyone else says. If Obama decrees it's cool for them to do it, who are any of us to argue?
Sure, your list alone may not be much but intelligence works by bringing together a large number of pieces of data to create a full picture.
A marketing intern could do that job better. After all, the source information is not classified.
It does not matter that the source material is not classified. Once it's classified, that's it. I realize you're being intentionally obtuse, I think defenders of this are pretty much left with nothing more than that. Let me give you another example that a marketing intern may not do as well at... suppose your grocery list includes a pregnancy test. I happen to know from a ObamaCare hack that your wife had a hysterectomy and has zero need for a pregnancy test. That's interesting. Now I look at you a little closer and discover that your 15 year old daughter has a 18 year old boyfriend in a state where age of consent laws apply that could make for statutory rape. Is that something? Could she be the reason for the test?
We all know about Area 51, does not mean emails about it are not classified? Of course not.
In Hillary's case, the State Department staffers sent emails discussing the situation in Afghanistan based on published news articles. The CIA saw the words "Afghanistan" and "drone" in the emails, and retroactively classified them as classified. That's a knee-jerk reaction to non-classified information. Nothing new for the CIA.
So what? If you're saying the emails only had those 2 words in them, then maybe it means something but it's likely there was a discussion around it and those discussions are certainly classified.
You hit rock bottom with Bush. Hillary might be more dangerous but that'd be because she's smarter than him, not dumber. Bush could barely fucking speak.
So you say, but I bet he can figure out how to get through a subway turnstile. Even the dumbest New Yorker can use them, it was like rocket surgery to her, completely dumbfounded. She may be brain damaged.
If I create a grocery list from the weekly flyer, and the CIA comes along to classify my grocery list, does my grocery list contain classified information?
Yes, it does. The products you selected or did not select from the flyer, the order of items in your list, if you plan to buy one of a particular item or several, the very fact that you relied on that particular flier (and any other information it contained) all tells us something about you and what you're doing. Sure, your list alone may not be much but intelligence works by bringing together a large number of pieces of data to create a full picture. Maybe comparing your list to the list of others that I showed the same flyer, for example.
This was what the CIA did when they classified several Hillary emails about the not-so-secret drone program in Afghanistan that was based on public information in the media.
That it's an "open secret" does not mean it's not classified and anyone with a child's understanding of how the classification system works knows this. We all know about Area 51, does not mean emails about it are not classified? Of course not.
Creating yet another outlet for the drivel that passes for journalism today is not the answer. He's just putting that "junk food" in paper wrappers instead of styrofoam boxes. Take some of that $57 million in VC funding and create a news agency that does it old school with outdated ideas like "just the facts" and devoid of spin. Fund it so that investigative journalists spend the months it takes to really pull it all together on the complex stories that face us today - and let them do it without a bunch of bureaucratic bullshit getting in their way. There are great reporters out there (Sharyl Atkisson comes to mind) that don't need ever more half baked outlets for their journalism, they need a organization that will fund their efforts.
See, that's how it always goes. When the faked data is exposed, you get some childish name calling - no wonder the millennials are the best hope, it seems that's their forte. Hey, are you thinking the earth is encased in glass, you know, like a green house? Sure, it could have been a better experiment - by not being faked and actually doing some real science. Do you even science, bro?
Of course the easiest way to argue science is with better science. Or you could try the crying baby routine/conspiracy theory routine and see where that takes you.
Ummm, looks like that will take you to jail. But, that's science for you though. Either agree with the consensus or off to prison. http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...
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Perhaps your disconnect is that it is not true. It's simply not. The American culture is, if anything, enormously compassionate. Giving is a virtue embraced at all levels whether it's social, economic, religious, age, whatever. This 'every man for himself' culture is a fantasy, probably from someone that feels guilty about being American and the standard of living Americans enjoy (believe me, there's a lot of that going on here). Nobody goes hungry here without significant personal effort, food kitchens abound, WIC, food stamps, and half a dozen other programs at state and federal levels exist. Medical care is free if you just go to the ER and wait for treatment, you only pay what you can afford and if that amount is nothing then you pay nothing (been that way for decades).
Where we may be slipping is mental treatment. In a nation of 300 million, you got some crazies that need help and no amount of handouts, whether it's money, food. or housing, is going to get them off the street.
I once worked with a manager that dreamed of hiring a female, minority, with a physical disability. He could have checked off a lot of diversity points with that one. I don't think he'd have cared at all about the quality of work. Just getting HR and the SJW's off his back would have been worth it.
"The U.S.'s most popular third-party presidential candidate ..."
In other words, some irrelevant guy (and irrelevant girl) are saying they'd do something if elected president. So what? This is America, we can elect anyone we want president as long as we pick from 2 choices that were at least partly pre-determined quite some time ago. If you're going to vote Green or Libertarian as a way to protest, you're making the mistake that it will have any impact and anyone will listen.
Split hairs all you want. It's clear that there was collusion between Clinton and the DNC - that is indisputable. It's also just as clear that money was routed in pretty sketchy ways to get around campaign finance laws. Perhaps they didn't break the exact wording of the law and it comes down to things like the meaning of the word "is" (a classic Clinton stratagem). If such things are OK with you, that's fine, enjoy the results that brings.
What crimes would those be? Seriously, I'm curious. What crimes have been revealed by the DNC emails that were released? Staffers at the DNC didn't much like a number of members of Sanders's staff. Some of them preferred Clinton. Good policy? Maybe, maybe not, but not a crime by any definition of the term.
The crime exposed by the DNC emails is money laundering. In those, they discuss how to move money from very wealthy donors making big deposits through a DNC fund for "down ticket" candidates (like state and local races). Huge donors with money, adhering to campaign finance laws, make deposits into the Clinton campaign (HFA). But they want more money to go to her so they direct the majority of it into something called the Hillary Victory Fund which is operated by the DNC. From there it's split again between state level party operations and the DNC, also to avoid limits. However, it's not at the state party accounts long, in fact, it's often there so briefly that the state level treasurers managing don't even have time to see it hit the account before it's gone and it's "donated" back to the DNC, essentially having been 'washed' through the sate accounts. The DNC then used the money to support the Clinton campaign.
tl:dr - the DNC laundered money to circumvent campaign finance law and support Hillary.
HALO jumps are not done that often anymore. In fact, I suspect almost never. They do HAHO now. Modern parachute design allows you to glide into the target area from up to 40 miles away rather than the aircraft flying over a target country. It takes a while to travel that distance so plenty of time to whip out a iPhone and get anything from GPS, current LZ/target data, keep in contact with your team, etc.
I have not had a nexus phone and I've heard from friends and business peers that's the only reliable one - if I were to ever go back android, it's the only one I'd consider. I can't recall all the android models I've had, at least half a dozen different ones over a multi-year period (at least 8 years). Some were better than others but for the most part they all exhibited similar behavior.
I doubt it. I had android phones most of my career and only switched to iPhone about 18 months ago. The android phones tend to suck, it's that simple. They freeze, they lose performance (frequent reboots often fix that) and occasional exhibit unexpected and inconsistent behaviors (icon/button clicks don't work until app/phone restart, a button that did one thing sometimes does something else, etc). Android battery life sucks so bad there are apps you need to use to help manage it - not because the battery is a problem but it seems something is always running that drains it. With my iPhone, it just works. In 18 months I can count the number of reboots on one hand. I can go the entire weekend without recharging. Occasionally there is an app crash but nothing like I saw on android. When you're out on the sharp tip of the spear and your life may depend on information being reliably available, android is not the best bet. I'm not saying iPhone is something I'd want to bet my life on either but if I was in their position and wanted the best available, it's the iPhone.
I've done more than a few projects with offshore development. Yeah, there are some crappy western developers - it was particularly bad during the dotcom era when every excel macro developer thought he was a programmer and was trying to get into the game. But we're talking the averages. On average, the non-western developers write code that is poor for all the reasons mentioned above. They are difficult to work with due to cultural issues (e.g. Indian developers *always* tell you they understand, even when they don't) and that makes for some really crazy code that even if it works does not do what you really wanted done so you spend considerable time and effort trying to fix the code and the understanding of requirements. And time zone offsets, don't get me started, it's a hassle when meetings can generally only happen at 6 AM and 6 PM.
You must think they're pretty stupid if they're missing the natural changes that are changing the climate now at a rate that is practically unprecedented compared to historical climate changes. You'd have a good chance of winning a Nobel Prize if you can show them the error of their ways.
I don't think they're stupid at all. They're simply doing what they get paid to do. Finding more reason to pin climate change on human activity pays well, gets you fame and fortune. I think they're being honest about it too but that's the thing with incentive programs, you get what you pay for out of people. That's why we had things like ClimateGate 1 & 2 where it was shown how they manipulate data, skew research and publishing, and intimidate people with contradictory conclusions.
And the Nobel Prize, it ain't what it used to be....
Yes, relying on Facebook as a news outlet is not the best idea. But you know, people are doing it. They're also relying on outlets like The Daily Show - essentially a comedy that's also got a strong liberal bias. It seems anyone under 30 is relying on pretty bogus media for their news and dismissing this development as "nobody to blame but yourself" is missing the point. It's happening, it's strongly biased propaganda and if it was conservative biased the pundits and media would be going apeshit (remember the fairness doctrine and Air America?). The question is, should anything be done about it and if it should, what? Right now, about the best that can be done is to expose it and hope that people are willing to see the truth that's in front of them. If they're not, well, then let it burn.
I mean, it could very easily be this was the result of some dumbass flying around the airport and accidentally hitting a 747. But could it also have been the result of a terrorist attack? Seems like it would be one hell of an easy and cheap way to take down a airliner if it's actually a viable way to do such - and we are seemingly convinced of that somehow based on the posts thus far. Is a drone you can buy at the local store or from Amazon really capable of such? I don't know, I really don't. But if I was the type that wanted to take down a large passenger plane, I'd invest a few hundred in finding out in a "live" test.
The stat is true, it's just calculate the same way it was always calculated prior to 1994. Anytime government tries to tell you good news about unemployment with pre-1994 comparisons, your bullshit detector should go off as that's not a straight comparison. Current unemployment for March 2016 is 22.9% if you include long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994.
Asking the long term unemployed, who are almost certainly deeply financially distressed, to move to another state is a tough demand. How can they afford to move, get a place to live, place deposits, etc, etc. much less even interview in those faraway locations? I have a relevant skill - engineering degree with deep technical background in a industry that has (allegedly) very high demand for new employees and it took me 9 months to get a new job after getting laid off. I can only imagine what it's like in low skill/low demand areas.
Climate science has a harder problem to address, but is as rigorous as is reasonable in the circumstances.
Yeah, that's why the justice department looking at prosecuting deniers. Because the science is so good that anything less than 100% acceptance of it should be a crime. Certainly voicing skepticism should be illegal, right? All part of the scientific method.
But, but, but... It must've at some point... The benevolent and omniscient government officials kept telling us, that butter is evil. They could not ban it outright for the adults, insisting on their silly "liberties" and "freedoms, but they did ban it for children. As recently as in 2013!
Oh yeah, the science was settled. Only deniers would ever believe anything but the evils of butter. The. Science. Was. Settled. Anyone not accepting that is in the pocket of "big butter" and should be sent to jail.
Well, no change other than borrowers "won't have to go through the typical application process for receiving a disability discharge, which requires sending in documented proof of their disability. Instead, the borrower will simply have to sign and return the completed application enclosed in the letter." So it looks like the change is not having to send in that proof, just sign and return the application.
I mean, sure, they got jobs related to their field of study but it would sure be nice to get them forgiven. Get a letter, sing and return and, like magic, debt gone. Don't start with me about fraud or any of that other bullshit. I pay more in taxes now than all my other expenses combined (I've just done my taxes so I can tell you this is 100% accurate). If my kids can get their debt forgiven, then we'll do it. I don't care what anyone else says. If Obama decrees it's cool for them to do it, who are any of us to argue?
Sure, your list alone may not be much but intelligence works by bringing together a large number of pieces of data to create a full picture.
A marketing intern could do that job better. After all, the source information is not classified.
It does not matter that the source material is not classified. Once it's classified, that's it. I realize you're being intentionally obtuse, I think defenders of this are pretty much left with nothing more than that. Let me give you another example that a marketing intern may not do as well at ... suppose your grocery list includes a pregnancy test. I happen to know from a ObamaCare hack that your wife had a hysterectomy and has zero need for a pregnancy test. That's interesting. Now I look at you a little closer and discover that your 15 year old daughter has a 18 year old boyfriend in a state where age of consent laws apply that could make for statutory rape. Is that something? Could she be the reason for the test?
We all know about Area 51, does not mean emails about it are not classified? Of course not.
In Hillary's case, the State Department staffers sent emails discussing the situation in Afghanistan based on published news articles. The CIA saw the words "Afghanistan" and "drone" in the emails, and retroactively classified them as classified. That's a knee-jerk reaction to non-classified information. Nothing new for the CIA.
So what? If you're saying the emails only had those 2 words in them, then maybe it means something but it's likely there was a discussion around it and those discussions are certainly classified.
You hit rock bottom with Bush. Hillary might be more dangerous but that'd be because she's smarter than him, not dumber. Bush could barely fucking speak.
So you say, but I bet he can figure out how to get through a subway turnstile. Even the dumbest New Yorker can use them, it was like rocket surgery to her, completely dumbfounded. She may be brain damaged.
If I create a grocery list from the weekly flyer, and the CIA comes along to classify my grocery list, does my grocery list contain classified information?
Yes, it does. The products you selected or did not select from the flyer, the order of items in your list, if you plan to buy one of a particular item or several, the very fact that you relied on that particular flier (and any other information it contained) all tells us something about you and what you're doing. Sure, your list alone may not be much but intelligence works by bringing together a large number of pieces of data to create a full picture. Maybe comparing your list to the list of others that I showed the same flyer, for example.
This was what the CIA did when they classified several Hillary emails about the not-so-secret drone program in Afghanistan that was based on public information in the media.
That it's an "open secret" does not mean it's not classified and anyone with a child's understanding of how the classification system works knows this. We all know about Area 51, does not mean emails about it are not classified? Of course not.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'
Creating yet another outlet for the drivel that passes for journalism today is not the answer. He's just putting that "junk food" in paper wrappers instead of styrofoam boxes. Take some of that $57 million in VC funding and create a news agency that does it old school with outdated ideas like "just the facts" and devoid of spin. Fund it so that investigative journalists spend the months it takes to really pull it all together on the complex stories that face us today - and let them do it without a bunch of bureaucratic bullshit getting in their way. There are great reporters out there (Sharyl Atkisson comes to mind) that don't need ever more half baked outlets for their journalism, they need a organization that will fund their efforts.
See, that's how it always goes. When the faked data is exposed, you get some childish name calling - no wonder the millennials are the best hope, it seems that's their forte. Hey, are you thinking the earth is encased in glass, you know, like a green house? Sure, it could have been a better experiment - by not being faked and actually doing some real science. Do you even science, bro?
I kind of doubt you googled it: https://www.google.com/search?...
Of course the easiest way to argue science is with better science. Or you could try the crying baby routine/conspiracy theory routine and see where that takes you.
Ummm, looks like that will take you to jail. But, that's science for you though. Either agree with the consensus or off to prison. http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...