They are still receiving food aid (small island, large population) but nobody would starve without it; it's not like 1994.
How much do you know about Cuba? Have you been there?
I spent about 3 months in Cuba in 1989, it's a great place, a real tropical paradise. Unfortunately, it's the kind of paradise that causes well educated and trained engineers to float on makeshift rafts through 60 miles of shark infested waters for a chance to wash dishes in Fort Lauderdale.
American christians have a far greater percentage of violent fundamentalists than those in other countries.
Oh yeah, I know we all feel a great deal of stress and fear every time we see a Christian walking up to a crowd. They're a real threat, they are. If only they could be more like those nuce muslim boys....
This is why Silicon Valley companies blatantly discriminate against older workers - older meaning anyone over 35. They want only those young, stupid, kids who still idolize the death march coding sessions, mistakenly think meals being catered in is a perk for their benefit, and nerf gun wars between cubes are so cool. I'm so done with any company on the West Coast. Whatever it is they're doing out there, I don't want to be a part of it.
As someone who did time in the military and has held security clearances for 2 different governments, I can 100% confirm this. If I had done what Hillary did, the very least that would happen would be my getting stripped of the security clearance and perp walked to the doors by security personnel with a very clear directive that I never come back and I will never work in a secure environment again. The unvarnished truth is that if I had been actively circumventing security procedures and knowingly exposing classified information, as Hillary very obviously did, my perp walk would have gone from the building's front door to the back of a police cruiser and the indictment would be the following day at the latest. It is a gross miscarriage of justice that she has not been indicted.
It's fascinating to watch you get modded down while, simultaneously on another thread, those very same people modding you down are freaking out (justifiably so) about Obama's DOJ seizing Apple's iOS source code.
According to the Washington Post, Rubio, Clinton, and Sanders are sitting on the fence on this issue.
Translated, they're waiting until after they get their votes before letting everyone know they're going to side with the idea of the FBI having absolute authority over business.
Finding and keeping IT talent is getting increasingly competitive and expensive
There is a ton of talent out there. I would say there is more qualified IT talent available in the USA now than has been in over 20 years. The problem is they filter out anyone over 40 or anyone without 10+ years in the latest 'thing' that was only developed 5 years ago. Then, they want them to work 80+ hour a week or some other work/life imbalance. In short, they want H1B's. They want them for next to nothing and indentured so they can't quit. Screw these assholes.
... according to the Privacy Authority it is impossible to truly give 'free consent' when there is a 'financial dependency.'
Think about that next time Bernie or other socialist/big government types try to give you something for "free" or suddenly discover a new "right" that they will provide for you.
But Trump not "The worsts of the worst", Obama is even worse than him (which is quite an achievement).
e.g. "unemployment at less than five percent under Obama!"...no it's 23 percent, near Depression era levels, but conveniently the BoL changed the way that's counted in the late 80s
Wish I had mod points to mod you up. More people need to realize what's going on. See the fnords!
For days, Trump's followers replied to his posts with demeaning, often sexually charged insults aimed at Jacobus, including several with altered, vulgar photographs of her face.
You mean like the left did to Katherine Harris, Monica Lewniski, and Linda Tripp?
It is not just that Trump has a skill for zeroing in on an individual's soft spot and hammering at it. It is that he sets a tone of aggression against the person, and his supporters echo and amplify it
You mean like how the Clinton's, the democrat party machine and the media targeting all the women Bill Clinton raped?
Seems a little late to get your panties in a twist over these tactics.
This is a computer model. It's, like, science bro. You can't argue with a computer model, that's some ironclad stuff that a consensus of scientists have already ruled on. You must be in the pockets of "Big Life" or something.
If they don't, they'll still vote and they'll vote you support them in all their dreams and endeavors. We might want to begin looking at a way to address that.
I've wondered about law enforcement on events like this. Who would handle it? The local police force is, for the most part, going to be unable to assist. Some larger cities may have computer crimes units with the skill sets to investigate and address these things but jurisdictions are going to be a massive problem - some (most?) of the gangs running these things are international. No way the local PD is going to get any traction there. If it's domestic and a gang that spans multiple states/jurisdictions the local PD will have a similar albeit smaller problem. I can't see many of these getting investigated at all.
It seems only something like the FBI would have the skills and jurisdictional ability to investigate but I can't imagine they have the staffing to do very many cases at a time.
It's being marked down because it's not a true statement either - it's opinion at best. Saying that it would appear true to any reasonable person is the logical fallacy "appeal to belief, expertise, or common practice".
You bomb us, we bomb you, we're hurt but you cease to exist. No two-bit dictator is that crazy.
What you really mean is that you *hope* no two-bit dictator is crazy enough to think we will not retaliate and that you hope there is someone that is believably willing to retaliate. Good luck with that.
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What has the fifty or sixty years of the embargo achieved on that front? The status quo has achieved nothing so far.
Let Cuba have a hit of sweet, sweet capitalism. Once they get hooked, we can refuse to offer more unless they start doing what we want.
I tend to agree. Want to change the world and promote peace and prosperity on a global scale, export capitalism aggressively.
How much do you know about Cuba? Have you been there?
I spent about 3 months in Cuba in 1989, it's a great place, a real tropical paradise. Unfortunately, it's the kind of paradise that causes well educated and trained engineers to float on makeshift rafts through 60 miles of shark infested waters for a chance to wash dishes in Fort Lauderdale.
American christians have a far greater percentage of violent fundamentalists than those in other countries.
Oh yeah, I know we all feel a great deal of stress and fear every time we see a Christian walking up to a crowd. They're a real threat, they are. If only they could be more like those nuce muslim boys....
Replacing drivers will displace workers. See here for the feedback on that: https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Together, we will work against commercial whaling and seal hunts, shark finning and ocean pollution.
I'm no environmentalist or anything but some of that stuff is truly barbaric.
This is why Silicon Valley companies blatantly discriminate against older workers - older meaning anyone over 35. They want only those young, stupid, kids who still idolize the death march coding sessions, mistakenly think meals being catered in is a perk for their benefit, and nerf gun wars between cubes are so cool. I'm so done with any company on the West Coast. Whatever it is they're doing out there, I don't want to be a part of it.
As someone who did time in the military and has held security clearances for 2 different governments, I can 100% confirm this. If I had done what Hillary did, the very least that would happen would be my getting stripped of the security clearance and perp walked to the doors by security personnel with a very clear directive that I never come back and I will never work in a secure environment again. The unvarnished truth is that if I had been actively circumventing security procedures and knowingly exposing classified information, as Hillary very obviously did, my perp walk would have gone from the building's front door to the back of a police cruiser and the indictment would be the following day at the latest. It is a gross miscarriage of justice that she has not been indicted.
It's fascinating to watch you get modded down while, simultaneously on another thread, those very same people modding you down are freaking out (justifiably so) about Obama's DOJ seizing Apple's iOS source code.
According to the Washington Post, Rubio, Clinton, and Sanders are sitting on the fence on this issue.
Translated, they're waiting until after they get their votes before letting everyone know they're going to side with the idea of the FBI having absolute authority over business.
Finding and keeping IT talent is getting increasingly competitive and expensive
There is a ton of talent out there. I would say there is more qualified IT talent available in the USA now than has been in over 20 years. The problem is they filter out anyone over 40 or anyone without 10+ years in the latest 'thing' that was only developed 5 years ago. Then, they want them to work 80+ hour a week or some other work/life imbalance. In short, they want H1B's. They want them for next to nothing and indentured so they can't quit. Screw these assholes.
Think about that next time Bernie or other socialist/big government types try to give you something for "free" or suddenly discover a new "right" that they will provide for you.
Our genome is spaghetti code of the worst kind. If God exists, he is horrible coder.
Unless your your god is the flying spaghetti monster.
Oh man, you just blew my mind.
Didn't Zuckerberg cut the deal with Merkel to censor some stuff? I figured this would be pro quo for the quid.
That's it, game over.
Joking, yes.
But Trump not "The worsts of the worst", Obama is even worse than him (which is quite an achievement).
e.g. "unemployment at less than five percent under Obama!"...no it's 23 percent, near Depression era levels, but conveniently the BoL changed the way that's counted in the late 80s
Wish I had mod points to mod you up. More people need to realize what's going on. See the fnords!
Yeah, those people are on internet forums ....
It is every bit as legal as creating your own email server and compromising classified information. We left the law behind a long time ago.
For days, Trump's followers replied to his posts with demeaning, often sexually charged insults aimed at Jacobus, including several with altered, vulgar photographs of her face.
You mean like the left did to Katherine Harris, Monica Lewniski, and Linda Tripp?
It is not just that Trump has a skill for zeroing in on an individual's soft spot and hammering at it. It is that he sets a tone of aggression against the person, and his supporters echo and amplify it
You mean like how the Clinton's, the democrat party machine and the media targeting all the women Bill Clinton raped?
Seems a little late to get your panties in a twist over these tactics.
With Twitter's recent censorship program targeting derived from the SJW sprectrum, I don't care if ISIS disrupts it.
This is a computer model. It's, like, science bro. You can't argue with a computer model, that's some ironclad stuff that a consensus of scientists have already ruled on. You must be in the pockets of "Big Life" or something.
If they don't, they'll still vote and they'll vote you support them in all their dreams and endeavors. We might want to begin looking at a way to address that.
I've wondered about law enforcement on events like this. Who would handle it? The local police force is, for the most part, going to be unable to assist. Some larger cities may have computer crimes units with the skill sets to investigate and address these things but jurisdictions are going to be a massive problem - some (most?) of the gangs running these things are international. No way the local PD is going to get any traction there. If it's domestic and a gang that spans multiple states/jurisdictions the local PD will have a similar albeit smaller problem. I can't see many of these getting investigated at all.
It seems only something like the FBI would have the skills and jurisdictional ability to investigate but I can't imagine they have the staffing to do very many cases at a time.
You mother must be so proud, mate. What an ass.
It's being marked down because it's not a true statement either - it's opinion at best. Saying that it would appear true to any reasonable person is the logical fallacy "appeal to belief, expertise, or common practice".
You bomb us, we bomb you, we're hurt but you cease to exist. No two-bit dictator is that crazy.
What you really mean is that you *hope* no two-bit dictator is crazy enough to think we will not retaliate and that you hope there is someone that is believably willing to retaliate. Good luck with that.