I don't see the cause as particularly relevant though. Languages die out, whether stamped out, or naturally. One is as deserving of preservation as another.
I do find it notable that were no less than 78 different languages (they claim languages, not mere dialects) in just the California area alone, which is indicative of how fragmented, tribal, and culturally segregated the native Americans actually were.
Nope. Especially Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon. Not only that, since the last "increase" in Comcast's bandwidth - I'm now at 250Mb/s, up from 200 Mb/s; oddly connections to the Internet from any wifi (sorry, "xFi" now) device is intermittently lousy. It almost seems like throttling but seems to be more application specific. All ethernet connections are fine, and wifi to wifi looks good, but with Wifi to Internet, something is broken. Reboots of the Xfinity/Netgear cable modem/router/AP have not addressed this. Even stranger, Netflix usually actually works okay from my BluRay player which also connects via wifi, but Youtube and Memedroid apps on any of my Android gear barely load. (Yet the Android gear works great using work's wifi so it's not the Android devices). The issue is the same across both 2.4GHz and 5GHz WLANs.
I DREAD the thought of calling them to report this and be forced to deal with one of their helpdesk-script monkeys to try to get this rectified. I suppose I'll just buy my own AP and wire it to the Netgear, (or maybe even just buy the whole package and stop renting) since it seems to be their internal interface between wifi module and router that's wonky. I just worry that Comcast will handwave away any future issues as being the fault of my own router if I do that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro fossil fuel in any sense other than it still gives us the energy we need right this moment. Most vehicles are still ICE. But ultimately, I concede that it's a dead end, it's dirty and will eventually run out at some point. I have nothing whatsoever against solar, wind, geo-thermal, etc. I just believe a complete non economy crippling switch-over will take longer than many would like to see, but also that renewable has the potential to be to this decade what the IT boom was to the '90s: the explosion of a still maturing technology/industry that could ultimately fuel the economy. I would prefer to see Trump invest more in it, but his immediate concerns are the economy and the blue collar workers who voted for him. Hopefully near the end of his term, he's satisfied with the progress made and begins to support renewables more.
You neglect to mention the suit against this merger was presented by a Republican president's DOJ, who continued to bring the lawsuit originally brought by the preceding Democrat's DOJ, rather than dropping it, to paraphrase a better worded post above. It isn't about party, (both had opposition to it), it's about money. And really, I think the judge's statement that insufficient evidence was presented to prevent the merger is laughable. No evidence should be needed to present a case that argues that a merger of this massive, colossal size is a bad idea, that's just obvious. I'll agree this is a shitty judge.
Before Trump, the solar industry was booming. The fastest and largest growing job market was in renewable energy, specifically solar (1). Trump has seriously curtailed this growth with tariffs and elimination of tax credits, while at the same time, Trump has repealed rules and promoted coal, shale oil and fracking. As a result, oil production is up, and it has become much less affordable for business and home owners do go solar (2).
It seems this very article would debunk several of the claims from your links. He's seriously curtailed their growth? Then explain the below. From the very summary itself:
Despite tariffs that President Trump imposed on imported panels, the U.S. installed more solar energy than any other source of electricity in the first quarter. Developers installed 2.5 gigawatts of solar in the first quarter, up 13 percent from a year earlier, according to a report Tuesday from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research. That accounted for 55 percent of all new generation, with solar panels beating new wind and natural gas turbines for a second straight quarter.
The growth came even as tariffs on imported panels threatened to increase costs for developers. Giant fields of solar panels led the growth as community solar projects owned by homeowners and businesses took off. Total installations this year are expected to be 10.8 gigawatts, or about the same as last year, according to GTM
I would say it all boils down to how it's used. If a rich, elite couple specifically wants a daughter, with green eyes, red hair, but say, not too many freckles, that's a designer baby and I think the elite would jump all over that. However I would expect that the public would view using CRISPR to prevent a child from having an abnormal condition like cleft palette or club foot as basically just medicine, in the same way that plastic surgery, when used for a medically unnecessary nose job is viewed as designer, but grafting skin on a burn victim is medicine.
Gotta disagree for the most part. We're being way too materialistic if we are committing suicide because we're not making as much as we perceived our parents to make, or because we see others with more. As I recall, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" was a hit show in the late '80s. In my case, my parents lived through the depression and WWII, so they deserved an uptick later on in their lives that exceeds what I have now. I grew up with the threat of nuclear annihilation under the cold war, which is nowhere near the level of likelihood today. I can tell you that was depressing. I sometimes wondered if people were wasting their time getting college degrees and all that if the world was gone in the next few years. I don't see animals dying out en masse, and bees are on the comeback (fortunately). I think it's the negativity and doom-saying, and the severely politically divided country that contributes more to depression than anything else. Hope is not gone unless you choose to let yourself be convinced it is. I totally get what you say about being centrist though. Nobody cares when what you say aligns with their beliefs, because they take that for granted. It's the thing you say that they disagree with that they remember and hold against you.
So what what happens to the money that was spent on buying the stocks or artwork? That's still out there, to be spent on something else. What's it cost to house and maintain said artwork? How about the "overpriced" (whatever that means) property, when that was bought, and the property taxes, upkeep, landscaping, repairs, etc..? You think when you buy a house that's the end of your home expenses? Man I wish! The only accurate thing you said is when they spend the money offshore. The 1% still pays the majority of the taxes in the country however. The flaw here is this sounds like anything is that is "owned" is "hoarding" money. Therefore, what..?..seize the means of production, comrade? Let no one own anything, but the government, to disseminate to the people as it sees fit? That's tyranny.
Well, if you mean we're not communist, then that's a good thing. But then your site there thinks a 90% tax rate is a good thing. We only went there temporarily because of WWII, and even then, there were other deductions to offset it that don't apply today. https://mises.org/library/good...
This is possible. I also never give too much weight to a single study. That said, as a musician, I would often "trial" songs/bands not typically aired on the radio (this was before Pandora and Spotify, etc..) by downloading them from Usenet first; if I liked the band, I went and bought all their CDs so as to support them: Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil and Killswitch Engage are a few examples. There is also material however that I felt "meh" about, most I deleted but probably not everything, tbh. I just find it annoying when people espouse the victim mindset to justify their pirating. Nothing says 'entitlement' more than that.
But will the uncertainty diminish enough, using just spectroscopy, to consider the presence of certain gasses or compounds evidence of life? That seems shaky, and subject to confirmation bias. As much as I would love to find some form of extraterrestrial life, I also have to acknowledge that it's possible there is none, at least in this system.
So facts that some moderator doesn't like is now trolling? That's just an abuse of moderation. It's a fact: The article sums up with "Coincidence? Well, probably". It's right in the article, and then followed by speculation. Nothing trollish about my post.
No thanks, I don't buy into the media hype train. The bottom line is still, "probably not". The rest is only speculation, subject to bias and subjectivity, as if the NYT would ever write anything positive about him.
ZTE just got fined a BILLION US dollars. As fines go, that's not small potatoes, plus there'll be additional monitoring by a compliance team. Other US companies are actually helped by this agreement that have nothing to do with the the trumps.
The Dow is always going to have ups and downs, and the 9% pales to the other gains it's seen since November 2016, and those began shooting up the moment trump took office. How can you give Obama credit for that? They should have plummeted, right? Don't forget the Dow also fell by a record amount at the time in January of 2016, under Obama. It happens. It's faltering for now, but even CNN Money isn't worried. The economists say this is a normal correction after a stellar bull market. Read the "Now What" section of the article below.
You are out of touch with reality. The Dow shot up from 19,827.3 to 25,075.1 -- an increase of *26 percent* the day of (or day after) Trump's inauguration. You think that's just coincidence? The Dow had very modest gains over 2016, up until November, and in fact had the worst start of any year. Why would the Dow rocket up the day Obama left office if this is all due to Obama's policies, which were about to be scuttled? It's about market confidence. The Dow now resides in record territory; it's had some losses since 2017 but still resides far higher than it was in 2016 and before. Unemployment is the lowest in years. Even CNN Money recognizes the cause of the uptick. http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/3...
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I don't see the cause as particularly relevant though. Languages die out, whether stamped out, or naturally. One is as deserving of preservation as another.
I do find it notable that were no less than 78 different languages (they claim languages, not mere dialects) in just the California area alone, which is indicative of how fragmented, tribal, and culturally segregated the native Americans actually were.
Nope. Especially Comcast/Xfinity and Verizon.
Not only that, since the last "increase" in Comcast's bandwidth - I'm now at 250Mb/s, up from 200 Mb/s; oddly connections to the Internet from any wifi (sorry, "xFi" now) device is intermittently lousy. It almost seems like throttling but seems to be more application specific.
All ethernet connections are fine, and wifi to wifi looks good, but with Wifi to Internet, something is broken. Reboots of the Xfinity/Netgear cable modem/router/AP have not addressed this. Even stranger, Netflix usually actually works okay from my BluRay player which also connects via wifi, but Youtube and Memedroid apps on any of my Android gear barely load. (Yet the Android gear works great using work's wifi so it's not the Android devices). The issue is the same across both 2.4GHz and 5GHz WLANs.
I DREAD the thought of calling them to report this and be forced to deal with one of their helpdesk-script monkeys to try to get this rectified. I suppose I'll just buy my own AP and wire it to the Netgear, (or maybe even just buy the whole package and stop renting) since it seems to be their internal interface between wifi module and router that's wonky. I just worry that Comcast will handwave away any future issues as being the fault of my own router if I do that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro fossil fuel in any sense other than it still gives us the energy we need right this moment. Most vehicles are still ICE. But ultimately, I concede that it's a dead end, it's dirty and will eventually run out at some point.
I have nothing whatsoever against solar, wind, geo-thermal, etc. I just believe a complete non economy crippling switch-over will take longer than many would like to see, but also that renewable has the potential to be to this decade what the IT boom was to the '90s: the explosion of a still maturing technology/industry that could ultimately fuel the economy. I would prefer to see Trump invest more in it, but his immediate concerns are the economy and the blue collar workers who voted for him. Hopefully near the end of his term, he's satisfied with the progress made and begins to support renewables more.
You neglect to mention the suit against this merger was presented by a Republican president's DOJ, who continued to bring the lawsuit originally brought by the preceding Democrat's DOJ, rather than dropping it, to paraphrase a better worded post above.
It isn't about party, (both had opposition to it), it's about money.
And really, I think the judge's statement that insufficient evidence was presented to prevent the merger is laughable. No evidence should be needed to present a case that argues that a merger of this massive, colossal size is a bad idea, that's just obvious. I'll agree this is a shitty judge.
Before Trump, the solar industry was booming. The fastest and largest growing job market was in renewable energy, specifically solar (1). Trump has seriously curtailed this growth with tariffs and elimination of tax credits, while at the same time, Trump has repealed rules and promoted coal, shale oil and fracking. As a result, oil production is up, and it has become much less affordable for business and home owners do go solar (2).
It seems this very article would debunk several of the claims from your links. He's seriously curtailed their growth? Then explain the below.
From the very summary itself:
Despite it's fall from quality years ago, apparently slashdot has not yet reached it.
Thanks, that was pretty enlightening.
I would say it all boils down to how it's used. If a rich, elite couple specifically wants a daughter, with green eyes, red hair, but say, not too many freckles, that's a designer baby and I think the elite would jump all over that.
However I would expect that the public would view using CRISPR to prevent a child from having an abnormal condition like cleft palette or club foot as basically just medicine, in the same way that plastic surgery, when used for a medically unnecessary nose job is viewed as designer, but grafting skin on a burn victim is medicine.
If you give the cancer cancer, it kills itself off! ;)
Win-win.
(Yes I'm joking.)
Gotta disagree for the most part. We're being way too materialistic if we are committing suicide because we're not making as much as we perceived our parents to make, or because we see others with more. As I recall, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" was a hit show in the late '80s. In my case, my parents lived through the depression and WWII, so they deserved an uptick later on in their lives that exceeds what I have now.
I grew up with the threat of nuclear annihilation under the cold war, which is nowhere near the level of likelihood today. I can tell you that was depressing. I sometimes wondered if people were wasting their time getting college degrees and all that if the world was gone in the next few years.
I don't see animals dying out en masse, and bees are on the comeback (fortunately).
I think it's the negativity and doom-saying, and the severely politically divided country that contributes more to depression than anything else. Hope is not gone unless you choose to let yourself be convinced it is.
I totally get what you say about being centrist though. Nobody cares when what you say aligns with their beliefs, because they take that for granted. It's the thing you say that they disagree with that they remember and hold against you.
So what what happens to the money that was spent on buying the stocks or artwork? That's still out there, to be spent on something else. What's it cost to house and maintain said artwork? How about the "overpriced" (whatever that means) property, when that was bought, and the property taxes, upkeep, landscaping, repairs, etc..? You think when you buy a house that's the end of your home expenses? Man I wish! ..?..seize the means of production, comrade? Let no one own anything, but the government, to disseminate to the people as it sees fit? That's tyranny.
The only accurate thing you said is when they spend the money offshore.
The 1% still pays the majority of the taxes in the country however.
The flaw here is this sounds like anything is that is "owned" is "hoarding" money. Therefore, what
Well, if you mean we're not communist, then that's a good thing.
But then your site there thinks a 90% tax rate is a good thing. We only went there temporarily because of WWII, and even then, there were other deductions to offset it that don't apply today.
https://mises.org/library/good...
This is possible. I also never give too much weight to a single study.
That said, as a musician, I would often "trial" songs/bands not typically aired on the radio (this was before Pandora and Spotify, etc..) by downloading them from Usenet first; if I liked the band, I went and bought all their CDs so as to support them: Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil and Killswitch Engage are a few examples. There is also material however that I felt "meh" about, most I deleted but probably not everything, tbh.
I just find it annoying when people espouse the victim mindset to justify their pirating. Nothing says 'entitlement' more than that.
But will the uncertainty diminish enough, using just spectroscopy, to consider the presence of certain gasses or compounds evidence of life? That seems shaky, and subject to confirmation bias. As much as I would love to find some form of extraterrestrial life, I also have to acknowledge that it's possible there is none, at least in this system.
So facts that some moderator doesn't like is now trolling? That's just an abuse of moderation. It's a fact: The article sums up with "Coincidence? Well, probably". It's right in the article, and then followed by speculation.
Nothing trollish about my post.
No thanks, I don't buy into the media hype train. The bottom line is still, "probably not". The rest is only speculation, subject to bias and subjectivity, as if the NYT would ever write anything positive about him.
ZTE just got fined a BILLION US dollars. As fines go, that's not small potatoes, plus there'll be additional monitoring by a compliance team.
Other US companies are actually helped by this agreement that have nothing to do with the the trumps.
From your own link. "Coincidence? Well, probably".
What would alleged trademarks (clothing I assume, since you provided no citation or evidence) have to do with a telecom company?
Spin for spin's sake, I guess.
They're called "fines".. what a novel idea. The fact that he got ZTE to admit any wrongdoing at all is pretty remarkable.
All their reassurances remind me of, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
The Dow is always going to have ups and downs, and the 9% pales to the other gains it's seen since November 2016, and those began shooting up the moment trump took office. How can you give Obama credit for that? They should have plummeted, right?
Don't forget the Dow also fell by a record amount at the time in January of 2016, under Obama. It happens. It's faltering for now, but even CNN Money isn't worried.
The economists say this is a normal correction after a stellar bull market. Read the "Now What" section of the article below.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/2...
You are out of touch with reality. The Dow shot up from 19,827.3 to 25,075.1 -- an increase of *26 percent* the day of (or day after) Trump's inauguration. You think that's just coincidence? The Dow had very modest gains over 2016, up until November, and in fact had the worst start of any year. Why would the Dow rocket up the day Obama left office if this is all due to Obama's policies, which were about to be scuttled?
It's about market confidence. The Dow now resides in record territory; it's had some losses since 2017 but still resides far higher than it was in 2016 and before. Unemployment is the lowest in years.
Even CNN Money recognizes the cause of the uptick. http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/3...
What could possibly go wrong?
Lawyers are gonna lawyer.
It could save others from overheating, but not itself ..
(I read too many memes these days.)