Talk about blind fanatics. So we'll believe she has "indelibly etched in her hippocampus" fantastically detailed, second by second replay memory of events in a closed room, which no one else was privy to, but then cannot remember where it was, when it was, how she got there, who drove her home. If she was in fact so traumatized as to be "afraid he'd kill me", she would definitely remember these details, but she can only remember those things which cannot be verified or debunked. Isn't that convenient. Her own best friends says she has no idea what she's talking about. There are no verifiable facts to work with here, nothing but her heresay. Therefore he has no way to "prove innocence" as many say he must (a disgusting term to begin with, and leftists bitch about Russia??) because there is NO evidence to work with. False accusations happen, but particularly when politics are at stake. Stop watching CNN and their "drunken frat boy" character assassination. Just about every college kid drinks. Obama smoked weed and snorted coke, but he became POTUS. So I guess he wasn't fit for his job either, by this same logic.
while we were distracted by his SCOTUS nominee's scandals
What scandals? You mean the last minute, last resort, out-of-nowhere accusation of events supposedly taking place 36 years ago in high school, that has zero actual corroboration or facts, from a psychology professor who wrote a paper on artificial memories and hypnosis, interestingly enough? From an accuser whose own best friends and family won't corroborate or back her story? Who's too afraid to fly to testify, but flies around anyway, including New Zealand, one of the longest flights you can take from the US. An accuser who ignored their offer to come to her, and lied about getting that message; a delay tactic while they worked out her story and coaching. An accuser who has "indelibly etched" in her "hippocampus" just incredible amounts of second-by-second video replay-like detail and minutia via a seemingly eidetic memory of events 36 years ago, yet can't produce any memory of where, or when this all supposedly happened, not even a ballpark estimate; that is, no actual useful bit of information that could be used to verifiy or debunk these claims. Just her word. Convenient, that. Or do you want to go on about Swetnick, a nutcase who's had a restraining order filed against her, has lied about her education, lied about her employment, who has herself been sued for sexual misconduct by a coworker, who came up with a cockamamie story about him maybe spiking a punchbowl and absurdly, being part of a "rape gang" that terrorized women at roughly 10 parties; yet she continued to go to those parties, never warned anyone else, never went to police? Mmhm.. totally credible. Believe that if you want. The judge has a spotless reputation and career spanning decades, he's admired and respected by everyone he's worked with, including all the women, all of whom vouch for his character and professionalism. None of this fits. It's not his behavioral pattern.
This is a political assassination, it what it is; but more to the point these are truly vile lies to levy against a political opponent for political gain. They don't care what they put this guy or his family through. He must not be nominated at any cost. "Anything it takes". Pretty much what they said. I'll take their word that they meant that. All they need to do is introduce enough doubt to scuttle the confirmation, they don't even have to prove anything, so smear tactics are ideal for getting this done, if you have no ethics or conscience. You think Trump is bad, but the dems have just sunk to the lowest level any political party has sunk to in this country in recent or not so recent memory. I predict they will pay for this next month. It's also ironic to see one point out a "right wing propaganda machine" when the mainstream media has just fully tipped it's hand as being totally complicit with democrats in this absurd smear campaign. What's the latest silly thing to have come out-? "He may or may not have thrown ice at me", and this runs as a big story. lol
It certainly wasn't cost: 1 billion USD to the Saudis should be a drop in the bucket. The ironic (?) thing is, they're well poised to provide energy to the world for the foreseeable future. Even when their oil wells run dry some day, they have all the sand and sun in the world: sand to make the silicon to make solar panels, and sun to power them. They're set.
Perhaps you missed the part that one of the official subjects of the conference was gender in the field. It was relevant to the discussion. See AC's post about 4 or 5 below with the part in bold.
Eventually they'll begin to eat their own more and more as all the various activist groups vie for top dog in victimization status. It should be interesting in a few years as they grow and accumulate power and numbers, and turf begins to overlap more. Right now, for example, the feminist movement targets almost exclusively "old white men"; and yet, south american and middle eastern cultures tend to be more sexist and patriarchal in nature, overall. Those cultures are expanding in the US.
This story actually upsets me. They are cute. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see one when I was in England last month and we stayed with friends who have a nice house and garden too. Which also reminds me, a robot mower might not be such a good option for the US: a lot of backyard properties in the US are much larger than your typical suburban English garden, one might need an army of robo-mowers.
Knock it off. You know damn well I never typed that they'd "been handed" over, I clearly said they were deleted -via Bleach Bit. And don't act like you don't know what Bleach Bit is. It was all over the news, even your beloved CNN. The emails were subpoenaed and *supposed* to have been handed over but somehow this wiping "accidentally " happened first, about the most thorough way you can destroy data other than smashing the hard drives to bits. You know, just accidentally. No skin off Comey's nose though, he happily ignored it.
What are salespeople supposed to sell without the engineers designing and building product in the first place? They pay their own salaries as well; they form the core of the company; the salespeople are the interface to the public.
And those 30,000 deleted emails? The ones that were bit bleached, like, "you mean like with a cloth", even after they were subpoenaed ? You actually buy that line? You want to talk about bullshit artistry? Grandma my ass, she had hired professionals, she didn't actually system-administrate the server herself, but she gave the orders and made the executive decisions. Comey had no business suggesting a prosecutor shouldn't pursue this case. He found plenty of evidence, but made the subjective decision that there was nothing to see here anyway. That was an underlying message that they would not help out the DoJ if the DoJ pursued this anyway.
You're seriously comparing someone sitting in their comfy office moderating videos and pictures to someone who is 5 thousand miles from home and family, half blinded and deafened by war while witnessing first hand their own friends literally getting blown apart while their own life is in peril? Because that what it essentially reads like.
I'd lean toward saying it's the new phone model then; I have a 6s with iOS12 and no issues; also it's been rock stable ever since I bought it, through several OS upgrades. I might just stick with it a while longer, though I would like a bigger screen.
This is it in a nutshell. In the old model, (some) developers would write a decent piece of software that would be outright purchased and the user could continue to get use out of it for the next 10 to 15 years or more; in this scenario, the developer will have practically coded their way out of a job; few new features are ever necessary or even used by 90% of the population (random stat created for poetic emphasis). With the subscription model, you get locked in and they can justify rewriting the same stuff over and over again while generating a steady and secure income.
I don't think admitting that you don't have the willpower to combat it alone (or that you have "genetic" alcoholism) is the same thing as claiming "you're not responsible". They're not blaming the alcohol itself for existing. It all does sound rather defeatist, granted, but at least it encourages people to get help, commiserate, and support each other, which is probably a more realistic fix for many people than just buckling down and beating it on their own. The worst is the guy that tells himself and others, "I can beat this anytime I want" when they really can't and continues to beat his wife and kids and let his life slip into a hell hole.
You sir must learn to subscribe to the proper victimhood mentality, this is 2108 after all. We can't have people thinking and taking responsibility for themselves. Your vote entitles you to be absolved from such burdensome things. Indeed, many inanimate objects are to blame for your actions. And if that doesn't quite fly, then try blaming society as a failed collective system.
Unless you're in retail. Retail sucks. But not every job is retail. Retail is for people who are just getting into the job market (kids) and/or learning to deal with job responsibilities, or maybe people who lack more specific skills to be a tradesmen or professional, or often, older people who just want to work part time for some extra money, sometimes it's retirees. Most professionals and tradesmen have the holidays off, though there may be exceptions for small businesses (plumbers, HVAC, etc)
I've never worked anywhere that didn't give provide some vacation time, though that varies wildly from company to company. I get 23 days vacation where I am, and in another year I'll get 28 - over a month if you don't count weekends. It took about 20 years to get there though.
Same here. My 6s is as snappy as the day I bought it. That's the main attraction to iOS for me, it's responsive like a device should be. I can count on it.
It does what I want a smartphone to do: handle calls and texts, maybe run the odd game when I'm at the doctor's waiting room, and provide away-from-home Internet access once in a while; I don't need a toy pocket computer, I have a desktop and a laptop for serious computing at home. That said, I hate iTunes, and I think the iPhone is, ironically, a lousy music player (the music player interface is awful, Android's is better) but at least it doesn't freeze, hang, or reboot on me like my two Android tablets do.
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Talk about blind fanatics.
So we'll believe she has "indelibly etched in her hippocampus" fantastically detailed, second by second replay memory of events in a closed room, which no one else was privy to, but then cannot remember where it was, when it was, how she got there, who drove her home. If she was in fact so traumatized as to be "afraid he'd kill me", she would definitely remember these details, but she can only remember those things which cannot be verified or debunked. Isn't that convenient. Her own best friends says she has no idea what she's talking about. There are no verifiable facts to work with here, nothing but her heresay.
Therefore he has no way to "prove innocence" as many say he must (a disgusting term to begin with, and leftists bitch about Russia??) because there is NO evidence to work with.
False accusations happen, but particularly when politics are at stake.
Stop watching CNN and their "drunken frat boy" character assassination. Just about every college kid drinks. Obama smoked weed and snorted coke, but he became POTUS. So I guess he wasn't fit for his job either, by this same logic.
while we were distracted by his SCOTUS nominee's scandals
What scandals?
You mean the last minute, last resort, out-of-nowhere accusation of events supposedly taking place 36 years ago in high school, that has zero actual corroboration or facts, from a psychology professor who wrote a paper on artificial memories and hypnosis, interestingly enough?
From an accuser whose own best friends and family won't corroborate or back her story?
Who's too afraid to fly to testify, but flies around anyway, including New Zealand, one of the longest flights you can take from the US.
An accuser who ignored their offer to come to her, and lied about getting that message; a delay tactic while they worked out her story and coaching.
An accuser who has "indelibly etched" in her "hippocampus" just incredible amounts of second-by-second video replay-like detail and minutia via a seemingly eidetic memory of events 36 years ago, yet can't produce any memory of where, or when this all supposedly happened, not even a ballpark estimate; that is, no actual useful bit of information that could be used to verifiy or debunk these claims. Just her word. Convenient, that.
Or do you want to go on about Swetnick, a nutcase who's had a restraining order filed against her, has lied about her education, lied about her employment, who has herself been sued for sexual misconduct by a coworker, who came up with a cockamamie story about him maybe spiking a punchbowl and absurdly, being part of a "rape gang" that terrorized women at roughly 10 parties; yet she continued to go to those parties, never warned anyone else, never went to police? Mmhm.. totally credible. Believe that if you want.
The judge has a spotless reputation and career spanning decades, he's admired and respected by everyone he's worked with, including all the women, all of whom vouch for his character and professionalism. None of this fits. It's not his behavioral pattern.
This is a political assassination, it what it is; but more to the point these are truly vile lies to levy against a political opponent for political gain. They don't care what they put this guy or his family through. He must not be nominated at any cost. "Anything it takes". Pretty much what they said. I'll take their word that they meant that. All they need to do is introduce enough doubt to scuttle the confirmation, they don't even have to prove anything, so smear tactics are ideal for getting this done, if you have no ethics or conscience.
You think Trump is bad, but the dems have just sunk to the lowest level any political party has sunk to in this country in recent or not so recent memory. I predict they will pay for this next month.
It's also ironic to see one point out a "right wing propaganda machine" when the mainstream media has just fully tipped it's hand as being totally complicit with democrats in this absurd smear campaign.
What's the latest silly thing to have come out-? "He may or may not have thrown ice at me", and this runs as a big story. lol
That would make my day.
It certainly wasn't cost: 1 billion USD to the Saudis should be a drop in the bucket.
The ironic (?) thing is, they're well poised to provide energy to the world for the foreseeable future. Even when their oil wells run dry some day, they have all the sand and sun in the world: sand to make the silicon to make solar panels, and sun to power them. They're set.
Perhaps you missed the part that one of the official subjects of the conference was gender in the field. It was relevant to the discussion. See AC's post about 4 or 5 below with the part in bold.
It's William Shatner, obviously.
Eventually they'll begin to eat their own more and more as all the various activist groups vie for top dog in victimization status.
It should be interesting in a few years as they grow and accumulate power and numbers, and turf begins to overlap more.
Right now, for example, the feminist movement targets almost exclusively "old white men"; and yet, south american and middle eastern cultures tend to be more sexist and patriarchal in nature, overall. Those cultures are expanding in the US.
Facts are facts, and these facts are germane to the discussion.
I'm busted!
This story actually upsets me. They are cute. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see one when I was in England last month and we stayed with friends who have a nice house and garden too.
Which also reminds me, a robot mower might not be such a good option for the US: a lot of backyard properties in the US are much larger than your typical suburban English garden, one might need an army of robo-mowers.
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Knock it off. You know damn well I never typed that they'd "been handed" over, I clearly said they were deleted -via Bleach Bit. And don't act like you don't know what Bleach Bit is. It was all over the news, even your beloved CNN. The emails were subpoenaed and *supposed* to have been handed over but somehow this wiping "accidentally " happened first, about the most thorough way you can destroy data other than smashing the hard drives to bits. You know, just accidentally.
No skin off Comey's nose though, he happily ignored it.
What are salespeople supposed to sell without the engineers designing and building product in the first place? They pay their own salaries as well; they form the core of the company; the salespeople are the interface to the public.
And those 30,000 deleted emails? The ones that were bit bleached, like, "you mean like with a cloth", even after they were subpoenaed ? You actually buy that line? You want to talk about bullshit artistry? Grandma my ass, she had hired professionals, she didn't actually system-administrate the server herself, but she gave the orders and made the executive decisions.
Comey had no business suggesting a prosecutor shouldn't pursue this case. He found plenty of evidence, but made the subjective decision that there was nothing to see here anyway. That was an underlying message that they would not help out the DoJ if the DoJ pursued this anyway.
The FBI doesn't declare guilt or innocence, they run investigations. Comey overstepped his bounds.
Because impoverished white people simply don't exist, do they? You're wearing out your race card. It's about culture and behavior, not race.
You're seriously comparing someone sitting in their comfy office moderating videos and pictures to someone who is 5 thousand miles from home and family, half blinded and deafened by war while witnessing first hand their own friends literally getting blown apart while their own life is in peril? Because that what it essentially reads like.
I'd lean toward saying it's the new phone model then; I have a 6s with iOS12 and no issues; also it's been rock stable ever since I bought it, through several OS upgrades. I might just stick with it a while longer, though I would like a bigger screen.
Uhh... they perfected suspended animation in 2037 ..? whoops!
This is it in a nutshell.
In the old model, (some) developers would write a decent piece of software that would be outright purchased and the user could continue to get use out of it for the next 10 to 15 years or more; in this scenario, the developer will have practically coded their way out of a job; few new features are ever necessary or even used by 90% of the population (random stat created for poetic emphasis).
With the subscription model, you get locked in and they can justify rewriting the same stuff over and over again while generating a steady and secure income.
I don't think admitting that you don't have the willpower to combat it alone (or that you have "genetic" alcoholism) is the same thing as claiming "you're not responsible". They're not blaming the alcohol itself for existing. It all does sound rather defeatist, granted, but at least it encourages people to get help, commiserate, and support each other, which is probably a more realistic fix for many people than just buckling down and beating it on their own.
The worst is the guy that tells himself and others, "I can beat this anytime I want" when they really can't and continues to beat his wife and kids and let his life slip into a hell hole.
You sir must learn to subscribe to the proper victimhood mentality, this is 2108 after all. We can't have people thinking and taking responsibility for themselves. Your vote entitles you to be absolved from such burdensome things. Indeed, many inanimate objects are to blame for your actions. And if that doesn't quite fly, then try blaming society as a failed collective system.
Why is this news?
Because it sounds so progressive, especially when exaggerated like it was.
The US absolutely has federal holidays, there are 8 of them:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-dat...
Unless you're in retail. Retail sucks. But not every job is retail. Retail is for people who are just getting into the job market (kids) and/or learning to deal with job responsibilities, or maybe people who lack more specific skills to be a tradesmen or professional, or often, older people who just want to work part time for some extra money, sometimes it's retirees.
Most professionals and tradesmen have the holidays off, though there may be exceptions for small businesses (plumbers, HVAC, etc)
I've never worked anywhere that didn't give provide some vacation time, though that varies wildly from company to company. I get 23 days vacation where I am, and in another year I'll get 28 - over a month if you don't count weekends. It took about 20 years to get there though.
Same here. My 6s is as snappy as the day I bought it. That's the main attraction to iOS for me, it's responsive like a device should be. I can count on it.
It does what I want a smartphone to do: handle calls and texts, maybe run the odd game when I'm at the doctor's waiting room, and provide away-from-home Internet access once in a while; I don't need a toy pocket computer, I have a desktop and a laptop for serious computing at home.
That said, I hate iTunes, and I think the iPhone is, ironically, a lousy music player (the music player interface is awful, Android's is better) but at least it doesn't freeze, hang, or reboot on me like my two Android tablets do.