There are many ideologies competing, and individuals often subscribe to multiple ones which partially conflict - this means there must be some form of compromise or reconciliation to make them fit together.
Or do what most other modern countries do and remove ideology from public policy.
If the only reason you can come up with to block a reasoned and logical policy is that your belief in your chosen fairy tale says not to, then you should be removed from the decision making process.
Amazing how little it takes to scare you. Keystone XL pipeline should have been approved a decade ago and coal burning hasn't been shown to be a big deal, let us note once again! And appointing someone not particularly environmentally friendly who still has to survive passage through the Senate. Oh dear, he'll be gassing six million Jews next.
You do realise Hitler was responsible for a lot more bad shit than gassing Jews right? I suggest you visit the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin and get some perspective on how tyranny manifests itself in a modern democratic country.
Maybe you should learn how to manage your fear rather than justifying bullying behavior on the basis of unreasonable fear.
Side note: abortion rights should go away, but gay rights should stay, for whatever that is worth. I still can't understand how anyone is for child murder, but there are funny people in this world.
Because anyone with an 8th grade education knows that a foetus isn't a child?
That is the really funny part.
So much for the anti establishment candidate. Trump will line the walls with his cronies and financial supports, just like every other politician before him, and the corruption will continue.
Good work rednecks, you got sucked in big time.
Don't think for a minute that the Russians have your best interests at heart -- because they don't. They want to see us beaten and humiliated, just as the neocons beat and humiliated Russia after 1989 -- and YOU'RE enabling it.
Agreed. Why do people lump them together? Snowden and Assange/Manning/Wikileaks are polar opposites; Snowden blew the whistle on illicit spying, Wikileaks *is* illicit spying.
How anyone can support both I have no idea.
It seems a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the reality of Snowden's heroic actions. It will take decades for official recognition, but like a Mandela, MLK Jnr, or Rosa Parks, I think Edward Snowden will be looked back on as a hero by future generations.
A saucer shaped big-ass weight would have lots of cool ways to travel. Logistics on finding it would have probably put it out of reach..
Seems odd to make a bomb out of something that flies so unpredictably though right? Isn't the idea of a bomb to land at a predetermined point from where you drop it?
That's like saying that our attack on Iraq was like our attack on Hiroshima. It's nonsensical. The tools and the means and the objectives are completely different today. This isn't a "there's only one way to do this" issue; it is a very complex one with many subtleties. You need a comprehensive counter-argument, because I am not claiming this is simple on any front.
The original claim was that we simply shouldn't get involved unless we are obviously attacked, but 1939 showed that when you do that it will be too late. If you let you enemy's power grow unmolested, they will eventually overpower you. Prevention is better than cure etc
And you are right that the tools and means today are different, but that only means we need to be more vigilant and more involved not less. The means won't be tanks rolling across the border, they are in the form of currency manipulation and wage controls.
I'm not claiming to be the expert, but the Chinese seem to have a very clever long term strategy that is working. Ultimately war is about cultural dominance, and the Chinese have already begun this war. They are annexing territory without consequences, they are building islands in the Pacific to claim new territory, the have allies which can provoke us without it looking like them directly, they deliberately keep wages and currency low to consume the lion's share of trade, and they are exporting people at great numbers who are immigrating and buying up land everywhere else. These things are complicated to defend against which is why we want people who know what they are doing running the show. Catchphrase politics only makes us weaker and our enemies stronger. In this day of easy global transport and communications we need to be more involved in foreign affairs to ensure our values remain dominant. The US, as the most powerful force of western values is letting the rest of us down, and the vote for Trump has us all extremely concerned.
If some other country attacks us, I advocate wiping them off the face of the earth.
What is your definition of attack? What if that country has an ally that is capable of wiping you off the face of the earth? See it's not so simple...
Our laws and our society end right at our national border.
Except when you engage in trade which results in prosperity for your people, and then those people expect your trade partners to have higher domestic standards. The real world is more complex than you seem to suggest.
If not, why should we have any right to interfere with any other country?
Because that logic was already tried in 1939 and failed. You need a better plan than that.
Go ahead. I'm paying attention.
America isn't perfect, but given the choice I choose them as gang leaders over the Russians or Chinese (I'm neither American, Russian or Chinese). And if America isn't perfect we should fight to improve it, not burn it to the ground. That is what the vote for Trump is, a pile of tinder and a box of matches.
1939 called, they want their national security strategy back
This whole "US is the world's policeman" business is insane. And the claim that we actually have significant national interests in 99% of these venues isn't much better.
Do you wait until the whole 99% is annexed by an malevolent state then act? That doesn't seem very clever
Our job is making sure no one annexes us. Other countries can posture all they want. We can squash them like bugs if they try anything. And we should. Other than that, there's an awful lot of stuff we need to be paying attention to within our borders that we are not.
Yeah it's a bit more complicated than that, which is why you want experts in policy and diplomacy running the show instead of Ronald McDonald.
Yes, I voted for Trump. I had the choice between a double-decker shit sandwich, and a regular shit sandwich. I chose less shit.
But either way, I knew I was getting a shit sandwich. ..
No you chose more shit. I can understand if you are hardcore Republican and vote for someone like Romney or Bush who at least knows Politics 101, but you chose someone who not only has zero experience, but has the temperament most unsuited to a political role. This is not your local mayor who's worst consequence is a few broken footpaths or potholes in the street. You are gambling with the fate of the free world.
Hillary was a regular shit sandwich. Trump is a bucket of shit floating inside swimming pool of vomit and piss.
Bush's was 9/11, unsolved Anthrax attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan, ISIS, and the GFC. He was the worst President ever, but that title may be handed down soon.
Trump probably won't attack another country, but probably will get hoodwinked by Russia or China into doing something stupid.
Trump is so mentally immature he is likely to get screwed over by any number of smarter leaders that will goad him into a predictable outcome.
America's friends are all worried right now, but its enemies are cracking open the champagne.
In the same way, that betting on black 10 times in a row *COULD* make you rich? Gambling with the future of your country like this seems extremely irresponsible to me, but hey I'm not American...
You don't. If you watch the video (click on the "here" link at the end of the summary) he makes it clear that he's comparing time to get to an end result
TFA is about an unspecified spec MBP running better than an unspecified spec Win Laptop. TFA is a pure opinion piece which has no place in this forum.
I'd be interested if it had hard numbers, and also did a comparison on performance vs cost, which is ultimately what counts most.
Apple sells almost everything direct. What's your point?
Through their website which I assume Slice Intelligence has a hook into to get this data. These types of companies are less likely to have hooks into B2B systems eg When I email my account manager and order 100 laptops, that is invisible to webpage analytic companies.
The point is that the numbers are flakey at best. I'm not denying the MBP is popular, heaps of people here have them. But companies buy HP, Lenovo, Dell by the thousand, and just because Dell don't simply label all their machines Dell Book Pro, doesn't mean they aren't selling a ton of them
Can it be spoofed? Sure. But they'll have to know which finger or body part I used to set up,
Security 101. Any security system is only as strong as the likelihood of volunteering the password when an attacker jams a screwdriver in your ear.
You wouldn't be the first person to refuse to co-operate with the cops. I'm pretty sure they have well worn methods for extracting information from uncooperative suspects.
Not working full time is the underemployed stat. I am very sure about these issues with BLS stats. My research professor for my grad degree did work in econometrics and always commented that the BLS unemployment series was manipulated to hell and back.
The good thing with science as compare to say opinion, is that the data published and independently verifiable.
Here's some data I googled from BLS:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries...
I await your comparison data that contradicts this.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but your claim will need need more evidence than 'I said so'.
BTW, the last link you supplied supports my argument not yours (ie why U3 is preferred over U6).
They'll be made in America and they'll all have Donald Trump's fingerprints preprinted on them. And it won't be an offence to grab women by the pussy as long as you use these gloves.
The problem is how the numbers are measured. CNN etc. say the unemployment rate is 4.9%. Absolutely true. However if you include people who have *given up* looking for work, the unemployment rate is 6%. If you include people stuck in a part-time job for 20 or 25 hours a week, the real unemployment rate is a dreadful 9.8%.
What about rich spouses who choose not to work? Cash workers who don't disclose their income? People who choose to work part time for work-life balance? People who choose to retire before 65? These people exist.
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For two costs: 1) doubled their electricity prices,
They stopped externalizing their cost of energy production, the cost accurately reflects the actual cost.
and 2) having to import major power when solar and wind didn't supply their needs.
Germany exports more electricity than they import for profit. Tell me how this is bad?
There are many ideologies competing, and individuals often subscribe to multiple ones which partially conflict - this means there must be some form of compromise or reconciliation to make them fit together.
Or do what most other modern countries do and remove ideology from public policy.
If the only reason you can come up with to block a reasoned and logical policy is that your belief in your chosen fairy tale says not to, then you should be removed from the decision making process.
Amazing how little it takes to scare you. Keystone XL pipeline should have been approved a decade ago and coal burning hasn't been shown to be a big deal, let us note once again! And appointing someone not particularly environmentally friendly who still has to survive passage through the Senate. Oh dear, he'll be gassing six million Jews next.
You do realise Hitler was responsible for a lot more bad shit than gassing Jews right? I suggest you visit the Topography of Terror museum in Berlin and get some perspective on how tyranny manifests itself in a modern democratic country. Maybe you should learn how to manage your fear rather than justifying bullying behavior on the basis of unreasonable fear.
Side note: abortion rights should go away, but gay rights should stay, for whatever that is worth. I still can't understand how anyone is for child murder, but there are funny people in this world.
Because anyone with an 8th grade education knows that a foetus isn't a child? That is the really funny part.
So much for the anti establishment candidate. Trump will line the walls with his cronies and financial supports, just like every other politician before him, and the corruption will continue.
Good work rednecks, you got sucked in big time.
The three men need to be pardoned. They are American heroes...
One is a woman, and one is Australian...
Don't think for a minute that the Russians have your best interests at heart -- because they don't. They want to see us beaten and humiliated, just as the neocons beat and humiliated Russia after 1989 -- and YOU'RE enabling it.
Is this addressed to Donald Trump?
Agreed. Why do people lump them together? Snowden and Assange/Manning/Wikileaks are polar opposites; Snowden blew the whistle on illicit spying, Wikileaks *is* illicit spying.
How anyone can support both I have no idea.
It seems a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the reality of Snowden's heroic actions. It will take decades for official recognition, but like a Mandela, MLK Jnr, or Rosa Parks, I think Edward Snowden will be looked back on as a hero by future generations.
Let me explain Clinton got a plurality of votes not a majority.
No-one said she got a majority. She got more votes than Trump, that is a fact.
A saucer shaped big-ass weight would have lots of cool ways to travel. Logistics on finding it would have probably put it out of reach..
Seems odd to make a bomb out of something that flies so unpredictably though right? Isn't the idea of a bomb to land at a predetermined point from where you drop it?
so keeping the core on board but separate would still result in an accurate test flight.
So this highly radioactive core is still at the bottom of the ocean somewhere?
That's like saying that our attack on Iraq was like our attack on Hiroshima. It's nonsensical. The tools and the means and the objectives are completely different today. This isn't a "there's only one way to do this" issue; it is a very complex one with many subtleties. You need a comprehensive counter-argument, because I am not claiming this is simple on any front.
The original claim was that we simply shouldn't get involved unless we are obviously attacked, but 1939 showed that when you do that it will be too late. If you let you enemy's power grow unmolested, they will eventually overpower you. Prevention is better than cure etc
And you are right that the tools and means today are different, but that only means we need to be more vigilant and more involved not less. The means won't be tanks rolling across the border, they are in the form of currency manipulation and wage controls.
I'm not claiming to be the expert, but the Chinese seem to have a very clever long term strategy that is working. Ultimately war is about cultural dominance, and the Chinese have already begun this war. They are annexing territory without consequences, they are building islands in the Pacific to claim new territory, the have allies which can provoke us without it looking like them directly, they deliberately keep wages and currency low to consume the lion's share of trade, and they are exporting people at great numbers who are immigrating and buying up land everywhere else. These things are complicated to defend against which is why we want people who know what they are doing running the show. Catchphrase politics only makes us weaker and our enemies stronger. In this day of easy global transport and communications we need to be more involved in foreign affairs to ensure our values remain dominant. The US, as the most powerful force of western values is letting the rest of us down, and the vote for Trump has us all extremely concerned.
Clinton Emails 101. And if she were anyone else, she'd be looking at charges for evidence tampering and obstruction of justice
You're too late, Donald won and will now appoint a special prosecutor to put her in jail. I wonder if Obama will pardon her in advance?
If some other country attacks us, I advocate wiping them off the face of the earth.
What is your definition of attack? What if that country has an ally that is capable of wiping you off the face of the earth? See it's not so simple...
Our laws and our society end right at our national border.
Except when you engage in trade which results in prosperity for your people, and then those people expect your trade partners to have higher domestic standards. The real world is more complex than you seem to suggest.
If not, why should we have any right to interfere with any other country?
Because that logic was already tried in 1939 and failed. You need a better plan than that.
Go ahead. I'm paying attention.
America isn't perfect, but given the choice I choose them as gang leaders over the Russians or Chinese (I'm neither American, Russian or Chinese). And if America isn't perfect we should fight to improve it, not burn it to the ground. That is what the vote for Trump is, a pile of tinder and a box of matches.
No, it really doesn't. It's none of our business.
1939 called, they want their national security strategy back
This whole "US is the world's policeman" business is insane. And the claim that we actually have significant national interests in 99% of these venues isn't much better.
Do you wait until the whole 99% is annexed by an malevolent state then act? That doesn't seem very clever
Our job is making sure no one annexes us. Other countries can posture all they want. We can squash them like bugs if they try anything. And we should. Other than that, there's an awful lot of stuff we need to be paying attention to within our borders that we are not.
Yeah it's a bit more complicated than that, which is why you want experts in policy and diplomacy running the show instead of Ronald McDonald.
Yes, I voted for Trump. I had the choice between a double-decker shit sandwich, and a regular shit sandwich. I chose less shit.
But either way, I knew I was getting a shit sandwich. . .
No you chose more shit. I can understand if you are hardcore Republican and vote for someone like Romney or Bush who at least knows Politics 101, but you chose someone who not only has zero experience, but has the temperament most unsuited to a political role. This is not your local mayor who's worst consequence is a few broken footpaths or potholes in the street. You are gambling with the fate of the free world.
Hillary was a regular shit sandwich. Trump is a bucket of shit floating inside swimming pool of vomit and piss.
Bush's was Iraq,
Bush's was 9/11, unsolved Anthrax attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan, ISIS, and the GFC. He was the worst President ever, but that title may be handed down soon.
Trump probably won't attack another country, but probably will get hoodwinked by Russia or China into doing something stupid.
Trump is so mentally immature he is likely to get screwed over by any number of smarter leaders that will goad him into a predictable outcome.
America's friends are all worried right now, but its enemies are cracking open the champagne.
but is unknown enough that he *COULD* be better.
In the same way, that betting on black 10 times in a row *COULD* make you rich? Gambling with the future of your country like this seems extremely irresponsible to me, but hey I'm not American...
You don't. If you watch the video (click on the "here" link at the end of the summary) he makes it clear that he's comparing time to get to an end result
TFA is about an unspecified spec MBP running better than an unspecified spec Win Laptop. TFA is a pure opinion piece which has no place in this forum. I'd be interested if it had hard numbers, and also did a comparison on performance vs cost, which is ultimately what counts most.
Exactly. Also Microsoft sells Surface direct.
Apple sells almost everything direct. What's your point?
Through their website which I assume Slice Intelligence has a hook into to get this data. These types of companies are less likely to have hooks into B2B systems eg When I email my account manager and order 100 laptops, that is invisible to webpage analytic companies.
The point is that the numbers are flakey at best. I'm not denying the MBP is popular, heaps of people here have them. But companies buy HP, Lenovo, Dell by the thousand, and just because Dell don't simply label all their machines Dell Book Pro, doesn't mean they aren't selling a ton of them
Can it be spoofed? Sure. But they'll have to know which finger or body part I used to set up,
Security 101. Any security system is only as strong as the likelihood of volunteering the password when an attacker jams a screwdriver in your ear.
You wouldn't be the first person to refuse to co-operate with the cops. I'm pretty sure they have well worn methods for extracting information from uncooperative suspects.
Not working full time is the underemployed stat. I am very sure about these issues with BLS stats. My research professor for my grad degree did work in econometrics and always commented that the BLS unemployment series was manipulated to hell and back.
The good thing with science as compare to say opinion, is that the data published and independently verifiable.
Here's some data I googled from BLS: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries... I await your comparison data that contradicts this.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but your claim will need need more evidence than 'I said so'.
BTW, the last link you supplied supports my argument not yours (ie why U3 is preferred over U6).
Seems a bit OTT. Why not just have a passcode or swipe pattern as the standard lock?
They'll be made in America and they'll all have Donald Trump's fingerprints preprinted on them. And it won't be an offence to grab women by the pussy as long as you use these gloves.
The problem is how the numbers are measured. CNN etc. say the unemployment rate is 4.9%. Absolutely true. However if you include people who have *given up* looking for work, the unemployment rate is 6%. If you include people stuck in a part-time job for 20 or 25 hours a week, the real unemployment rate is a dreadful 9.8%.
What about rich spouses who choose not to work? Cash workers who don't disclose their income? People who choose to work part time for work-life balance? People who choose to retire before 65? These people exist.