"..The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back..becausethe Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”
This is why the leaders of the West should never get complacent, it's one step away from cocky and negligent. It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
Well, there's that at least. Also keeping something like Cold-eeze handy (zinc lozenge) to lessen some symptoms if they manifest. Saline nasal spray and/or nettie pot can help with the sinuses and by extension, that horrible drip and sore throat. I certainly didn't get sick from the vaccine (some people claim they do), and so far, no colds or flu this season, but it's not over yet.
But I'd heard that this year's vaccines had mostly missed the mark. It'd probably be more effective this year to wash your hands often, don't shake hands (I know, it's antisocial), and keep your hands away from your face.. or my face.
Finally someone has said it, thank you. The tribal mindset over smartphones is idiotic and second only to the tribal mindset of politics. The both copy from each other, they both have pros and cons, but far more pros. I happen to use both (one personal, one issued by work) and frankly, as an old fart, the whole idea of a small pocket sized slab of a computer with a killer color display that can play HD movies, take quality digital pictures, make phone calls, play music, and connect to a world wide network through the air is pretty damn impressive; certainly the stuff of dreams and science fiction when I was a kid. I remember having a dream when I was a young kid, somewhere around the late '60s or early '70s, where I was walking though a dept store and I had a Magic 8 ball in my hand except where the round prediction window was it was a little round television screen. That was so cool, that as I woke up my hands were groping underneath my pillow searching for it. When I fully woke up and realized it was just a dream, I was crushed. Today we have something far better, for real. The hate just isn't justified.
Well, they can make layers of this dense wood and laminate them so the grains run perpendicular, I suppose, like a super plywood. Still, according to TFA, not all researchers are that impressed (hah, pun!) and there's also no mention of how flexible this material might be. A little give and sway goes a long way toward robustness in most building applications.
I don't care about the "final judgement of their meter". I care about the fact that they cite sources that I can check myself.
Well good for you. Atta boy. But most people look at that meter as the final word. They use it in their arguments and to form their opinion.
OK. And, how do you happen to know that? Oh: you know it because you read the article! (which says exactly what you just said-- you are quoting them.)
So, you're really telling me you yourself personally use politifact as an unbiased source of facts. That's ironic. You don't want other people to use it, but you use it yourself.
This is your argument? Gee, let's see how this would've gone if I hadn't actually read something before I criticized it.. probably something like " Did you even read it? OMG stop listening to Faux News! You don't know what you're talking about!".
Originally yes, I did read what they had to say. This is how I came to gradually realize they're not exactly as objective as they claim to be. If I did not read them, how could I possibly justify a criticism of them? And they can spin their justification anyway they want, they're just doubling down on their subjectivity. Perhaps they're not even aware of it.
While it's true not everything is black and white, the problem with sites like politifact is, after reviewing the facts, the final judgment of their meter is still subjective. I've seen evidence of bias in their final judgments before, but the coffin nail for their objective credibility was, for me, when they rated Michele Obama's statement "slaves built the White House", as a very positive "Mostly True". Their own research concluded that slaves were used to quarry the raw stone that was used to form the bricks of the building, which were further cut, refined, and placed by skilled masons. Slaves also did much of the white washing at the end. However, the rest of the labor were freemen, white and black, as well as European contractors: Architects designed the building. Masons carved and fitted the bricks (probably the bulk of the building aspect). Carpenters built much of the structure as well. Glass, marble, and tile workers did their thing. Skilled labor collectively did most of the building, yet her statement excludes them in totality. Equating the quarrying of stone to "building the white house" is like claiming that Home Depot built your house, because that's where you got your building supplies from. Or claiming the people who painted your house built it. Her declaration was also slightly misleading in that the White House did not force anyone to directly work for free, the gov't paid for everything - the question is whether slave owners who got paid bothered to share it with the slaves or not. From what I can gather, some did, though I doubt their slaves had any say in whether they wanted to do the job or not! In any case, the picture comes across as the country forcing slaves to build the White House, and without compensation, much like how we used to believe the pyramids were built. This is simply inaccurate and should have rated a Mostly False or maybe a Partly True at best. So my judgment is, no, they do not do a good enough job when it comes to the bottom line, they let their bias affect their final score.
First thing I thought too. It conjures up nightmares of security and compatibility issues. Java should just die already, as well as Flash. And any variant of ActiveX.
Not to mention 90% of the "Trending" political feed I see on FB is anti-Trump rhetoric from HuffPost, The Hill, Alternet , and other clearly biased media. Yahoo is the same way if not worse, every fourth news article of theirs is from Huffpost. This senator's accusation is so delusional it's really laughable. Google being pro Trump, okay, sure, whatever.
- each state is deciding for itself how it wants to handle this. That's kinda the whole point of having states instead of a single Federal government deciding everything like in most other countries. We can try multiple solutions in different states, and get a better idea which ones work and which ones don't. Then we can pick the best solution and implement it at the Federal level. That's a far better process than some Federal official deciding all by himself, without evidence nor data to back him up, based solely on philosophical or ideological grounds, that net neutrality is the way to go, and forcing the entire country to go along with his decision.
I was with you except for the last part; for the vast majority of things, they should stay set at the state level. Different geography, demographics, climate, resources, history, and culture dictate different needs and approaches from state to state. Nothing drastic, but it is after all how the country was established, sort of a modular approach. Large monolithic governments tend to be inefficient and easily grow corrupt. We're the only nation in the world that comprises separate states: states, not provinces, counties or municipalities, the latter being nothing more than small organizational constructs to serve the overall hierarchy of the state. The States however do not or should not relate to the Federal gov't that way.
That said, there are some things that are best regulated at the Fed level (such as national defense and currency), and NN is one I'd be okay with, because I'm of the opinion that the Internet should be treated like a public utility, and, because it's a nationwide and even global system, the federal government has justification for ensuring fair operation.
Well, it's a WaPo story anyway, so take it with a salt shaker full of salt. They'll cherry pick their citations and massage the statistics to come up with the most " ZOMG the sky is falling" scenario they can because their candidate did not win the election and they hate Trump 110%. Trump's a businessman, he would see more benefit to renewables than this is suggesting. What they're finding more likely than not is a crapton of waste and bloat in the departments set up under Obama, and they're trimming the fat of oversized federal government.
I can relate to that. If they simply said "no recording", that'd be great except that people won't honor that request. But having grown up way before the advent of cell phones, I can appreciate that they facilitate easy communication in an emergency, a major component of their original purpose before they became "smart" with all the extra functions. If my son was out somewhere, I'd feel better knowing he could quickly call home for whatever reason. After all, payphones pretty much don't exist anymore, cellular killed them off.
And there it is...they even listed cheese. Vegan power to Earth's rescue! This hits so many lefty points with one swipe: If you ask your wife to make you a sandwich while you're busting your knuckles working on her non-electric car, you're not only a sexist pig, you're also contributing to animal cruelty and poisoning the planet in two different ways at once.
OMG, stop the presses, I've never heard of supercontinent "Nuna" before, like 95% of the rest of the human population....so that makes me a fool. It must be nice to be among the elite. If you admitted to something I knew that you didn't, I wouldn't be such a dickwad about it, but then I'm a decent human being.
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"..The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back..becausethe Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”
This is why the leaders of the West should never get complacent, it's one step away from cocky and negligent.
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
Now it's there. Didn't show up before.
No link to TFA? Then again, this is modern day slashdot.
Umm... thank you?
Well, there's that at least. Also keeping something like Cold-eeze handy (zinc lozenge) to lessen some symptoms if they manifest. Saline nasal spray and/or nettie pot can help with the sinuses and by extension, that horrible drip and sore throat.
I certainly didn't get sick from the vaccine (some people claim they do), and so far, no colds or flu this season, but it's not over yet.
But I'd heard that this year's vaccines had mostly missed the mark.
It'd probably be more effective this year to wash your hands often, don't shake hands (I know, it's antisocial), and keep your hands away from your face.. or my face.
Finally someone has said it, thank you. The tribal mindset over smartphones is idiotic and second only to the tribal mindset of politics.
The both copy from each other, they both have pros and cons, but far more pros.
I happen to use both (one personal, one issued by work) and frankly, as an old fart, the whole idea of a small pocket sized slab of a computer with a killer color display that can play HD movies, take quality digital pictures, make phone calls, play music, and connect to a world wide network through the air is pretty damn impressive; certainly the stuff of dreams and science fiction when I was a kid.
I remember having a dream when I was a young kid, somewhere around the late '60s or early '70s, where I was walking though a dept store and I had a Magic 8 ball in my hand except where the round prediction window was it was a little round television screen. That was so cool, that as I woke up my hands were groping underneath my pillow searching for it. When I fully woke up and realized it was just a dream, I was crushed. Today we have something far better, for real. The hate just isn't justified.
Well, they can make layers of this dense wood and laminate them so the grains run perpendicular, I suppose, like a super plywood.
Still, according to TFA, not all researchers are that impressed (hah, pun!) and there's also no mention of how flexible this material might be. A little give and sway goes a long way toward robustness in most building applications.
This sounds like a free ad for Google more than anything else. Slow news day?
I don't care about the "final judgement of their meter". I care about the fact that they cite sources that I can check myself.
Well good for you. Atta boy. But most people look at that meter as the final word. They use it in their arguments and to form their opinion.
OK. And, how do you happen to know that? Oh: you know it because you read the article! (which says exactly what you just said-- you are quoting them.)
So, you're really telling me you yourself personally use politifact as an unbiased source of facts. That's ironic. You don't want other people to use it, but you use it yourself.
This is your argument? Gee, let's see how this would've gone if I hadn't actually read something before I criticized it.. probably something like " Did you even read it? OMG stop listening to Faux News! You don't know what you're talking about!".
Originally yes, I did read what they had to say. This is how I came to gradually realize they're not exactly as objective as they claim to be. If I did not read them, how could I possibly justify a criticism of them?
And they can spin their justification anyway they want, they're just doubling down on their subjectivity. Perhaps they're not even aware of it.
While it's true not everything is black and white, the problem with sites like politifact is, after reviewing the facts, the final judgment of their meter is still subjective.
I've seen evidence of bias in their final judgments before, but the coffin nail for their objective credibility was, for me, when they rated Michele Obama's statement "slaves built the White House", as a very positive "Mostly True". Their own research concluded that slaves were used to quarry the raw stone that was used to form the bricks of the building, which were further cut, refined, and placed by skilled masons. Slaves also did much of the white washing at the end. However, the rest of the labor were freemen, white and black, as well as European contractors: Architects designed the building. Masons carved and fitted the bricks (probably the bulk of the building aspect). Carpenters built much of the structure as well. Glass, marble, and tile workers did their thing. Skilled labor collectively did most of the building, yet her statement excludes them in totality.
Equating the quarrying of stone to "building the white house" is like claiming that Home Depot built your house, because that's where you got your building supplies from. Or claiming the people who painted your house built it. Her declaration was also slightly misleading in that the White House did not force anyone to directly work for free, the gov't paid for everything - the question is whether slave owners who got paid bothered to share it with the slaves or not. From what I can gather, some did, though I doubt their slaves had any say in whether they wanted to do the job or not!
In any case, the picture comes across as the country forcing slaves to build the White House, and without compensation, much like how we used to believe the pyramids were built. This is simply inaccurate and should have rated a Mostly False or maybe a Partly True at best.
So my judgment is, no, they do not do a good enough job when it comes to the bottom line, they let their bias affect their final score.
First thing I thought too. It conjures up nightmares of security and compatibility issues. Java should just die already, as well as Flash. And any variant of ActiveX.
It is if it has a good gin in it too.
The corvid family (Crows, Ravens, Magpies) are extremely intelligent, more so than most mammals. Most likely they did.
Sayz a Mac Nac Feegle.
Fire Comey! He screwed up Hillary's election! OMG he fired Comey! Traitor!
Not to mention 90% of the "Trending" political feed I see on FB is anti-Trump rhetoric from HuffPost, The Hill, Alternet , and other clearly biased media. Yahoo is the same way if not worse, every fourth news article of theirs is from Huffpost.
This senator's accusation is so delusional it's really laughable. Google being pro Trump, okay, sure, whatever.
- each state is deciding for itself how it wants to handle this. That's kinda the whole point of having states instead of a single Federal government deciding everything like in most other countries. We can try multiple solutions in different states, and get a better idea which ones work and which ones don't. Then we can pick the best solution and implement it at the Federal level. That's a far better process than some Federal official deciding all by himself, without evidence nor data to back him up, based solely on philosophical or ideological grounds, that net neutrality is the way to go, and forcing the entire country to go along with his decision.
I was with you except for the last part; for the vast majority of things, they should stay set at the state level. Different geography, demographics, climate, resources, history, and culture dictate different needs and approaches from state to state. Nothing drastic, but it is after all how the country was established, sort of a modular approach. Large monolithic governments tend to be inefficient and easily grow corrupt. We're the only nation in the world that comprises separate states: states, not provinces, counties or municipalities, the latter being nothing more than small organizational constructs to serve the overall hierarchy of the state. The States however do not or should not relate to the Federal gov't that way.
That said, there are some things that are best regulated at the Fed level (such as national defense and currency), and NN is one I'd be okay with, because I'm of the opinion that the Internet should be treated like a public utility, and, because it's a nationwide and even global system, the federal government has justification for ensuring fair operation.
And that joke was Urine.
Well, it's a WaPo story anyway, so take it with a salt shaker full of salt. They'll cherry pick their citations and massage the statistics to come up with the most " ZOMG the sky is falling" scenario they can because their candidate did not win the election and they hate Trump 110%.
Trump's a businessman, he would see more benefit to renewables than this is suggesting. What they're finding more likely than not is a crapton of waste and bloat in the departments set up under Obama, and they're trimming the fat of oversized federal government.
He's basically parroting George Soros. Now it makes sense.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news...
I can relate to that. If they simply said "no recording", that'd be great except that people won't honor that request. But having grown up way before the advent of cell phones, I can appreciate that they facilitate easy communication in an emergency, a major component of their original purpose before they became "smart" with all the extra functions. If my son was out somewhere, I'd feel better knowing he could quickly call home for whatever reason. After all, payphones pretty much don't exist anymore, cellular killed them off.
And there it is...they even listed cheese. Vegan power to Earth's rescue!
This hits so many lefty points with one swipe:
If you ask your wife to make you a sandwich while you're busting your knuckles working on her non-electric car, you're not only a sexist pig, you're also contributing to animal cruelty and poisoning the planet in two different ways at once.
OMG, stop the presses, I've never heard of supercontinent "Nuna" before, like 95% of the rest of the human population.. ..so that makes me a fool.
It must be nice to be among the elite. If you admitted to something I knew that you didn't, I wouldn't be such a dickwad about it, but then I'm a decent human being.
How did that come across as a "point of pride", tough guy? Maybe the word you're looking for is honesty.. What a concept.