In a master stroke, Trump has motivated our largest cities, states and some of our biggest corporations to voluntarily provide most of the benefits of the Paris deal, without spending trillions of tax dollars that will not benefit us. And he managed to get the rest of the world pissed enough to refuse to let us try to renegotiate our financial commitments, saving us even more tax dollars.
By pulling out of the Paris deal, Leftists are now screaming for state's rights and corporate rights. If that's not 3D chess, I dunno what is.This folks, is what winning looks like.
The basic problem is that the Left doesn't like the American people. Instead of lifting us up with hope, they crap on us because it makes them feel better about themselves.
You think Americans don't pick up on this? We got the message, loud and clear. We don't think we're bad people and we won't vote for anyone who tells us so, no matter how clearly it is explained on TV.
Liberalism explained: "You think America's good? We've found something that's going to make you not believe that any longer."
Image Capture, which lets Chrome control your web cam. I'm not really sure why this is a good feature. It's not like we already don't have enough problems with our computers being turned into spying devices.
Chrome updated to look like Googleâ(TM)s Material Design. Cosmetic only, yay, I guess?
Navigation Preload API, which starts loading pages faster.
Only 3 requests per web page, after that Chrome will deny further dialog box opening requests. Resets after a week.
The hilarious part is where you think Slashdot is influential enough to waste time on. Spoiler alert: it's not. Even more spoiler alert: everyone who disagrees with you isn't TEH COMMIEZ@#!!
Just amazing the reach of Putin. First, he manages to get the DNC & Hillary Clinton to write thousands of self-incriminating (and on Hillary's side, remarkably foul-mouthed - or is it foul-keyboarded?) emails. Then he suborns the DNC to steal the nomination from Sanders and give it to Clinton, to give Trump an easier opponent. Next he induces a DNC staffer named Seth Rich to steal the compromising emails and give them to Wikileaks, which dutifully publishes them, showing the DNC to be corrupt and Hillary to be venal. Then he manages to get Rich to set himself up for a mugging in which he is shot twice in the back but nothing is stolen. Then he manipulates the Director of the FBI to announce just before the election that many, many thousands of emails potentially involving Hillary have been found and need to be examined. And finally, he finesses the US intelligence community into believing he hacked those DNC computers to influence the election, thereby concealing - and taking off the discussion table - any examination of the DNC's & Hillary's wrongdoing.
I heard that they found the cell-phone-smashing sledge hammer in Putin's basement!
Golden rice is GMO food. GMO kills. In the first long-term study of GMOs, rats fed a lifelong diet of one of genetically modified corn grew tumors and had multiple organ damage, of the liver and kidneys.
Corn is meant to be nutritious. It is not meant to do this
Right now, the left is in the process of rejecting freedom of speech as a reactionary concept. Freedom of speech has been a cherished left-wing virtue for decades, advanced by people like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, and many other radical luminaries. But lately the concept has come to be associated with the right, thanks to the vagaries of our political culture. If we were a smart, we would recognize not only that freedom of speech is consistent with left-wing principles, but also that appearing to be against freedom of speech is a sure-fire way to lose the support of potential adherents. But this kind of strategic thinking serves only to advance the movement itself; it does not advance the interests of the people within the movement. Indeed, the more that we drift into a âoefree speech is conservativeâ frame, the less people will be willing to defend the concept, even if doing so would be in our strategic political self-interest.
Ottmar Edenhofer, then co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, stated: "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy any more.... That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there."
Once again, most Americans claim they are exceptional, and live on the greatest nation in the world, yet most have never travelled outside the US, so their uneducated opinion counts for nothing. But that's a common flaw among the American people, they believe that if they say it, is it true. They don't ever let facts get in the way of a good opinion.
The U.S. is Number 1 in defense spending
The U.S. is Number 1 in the cost of health care
The U.S. is Number 1 in abortions of all the developed countries
The U.S. is Number 1 in medical bankruptcies
The U.S. is Number 1 in prison populations per capita
The U.S. is Number 1 in small arms ownership
[What makes America the greatest country in the world?] It's not the greatest country in the world! We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f*** you're talking about.
Out of all the leaked emails, none of them were about how to help the American citizen. Not a single thought was put forward to improving our lives. Every single one was self serving in some way.
Snapchat copied Wechat. Wechat has been going since 2012 and early on introduced the "Moments" feature which is the same as "Stories". In fact the very name "Stories" sounds like they just wanted a synonym for Wechat Moments. You know you're out of ideas when you're copying the Chinese.
Yes, because the entire point of begging is not "deserve". The beggar is selling a product, just like any salesman: the approval of your own conscience. Are you the kind of person who can pass by a needy person in the street without giving? If not, that beggar is going to score some cash. It's been going on for millennia and isn't going to stop any time soon.
I'd like to point out I predicted this in one of the previous threads. Much like what happened in Chess, they're going to avoid humans learning, analyzing its games, and coming back for a rematch. Nope, dismantling it and not going to play any more, and it's for the environment. You some kind of monster that wants the environment to die?
So much for humanity's great comeback. It's not like Kasparov committed suicide when he won the world chess championship to prevent himself from being dethroned. But that's pretty much what they did when IBM beat him at chess - he was clamoring for a rematch now that he knew how the computer played, and the scientists smugly grinned and dismantled their computer.
So it's basically the same as human slavery, they get room and board provided while the slave owner makes all the profit? Of course they get parasite treatments, wouldn't want those wonderful slaves to get sick and stop working.
None of that matters. All that matters is that the name is recognizable. When people see a name they know, they'll buy tickets to the movie. That's the only thing that makes a difference. They see some name they don't know, it means the studio has to buy ads and the movie is a roll of the dice. With a known name, the movie will make money. Sad but true.
Remember when Deep Thought beat Kasparov in chess? The obvious sequel was a grudge rematch - humanity's redemption! Kasparov studies all of Deep Thought's games and comes roaring back. Or not...only time will tell!
Yeah that didn't happen. Deep Thought - I'm sorry Deep Blue because IBM was a thing back then - was immediately disassembled to keep IBM from ever possibly losing again. So looking for Google to do the same, it's the right thing to do for corporate branding purposes.
The KGB were the real professionals in culture destruction. The idea was to hollow out your enemy from the inside by fanning the flames of dissent and division in their own people. They would then turn themselves over or be weakened internally so much the Red Army could kick in the door. Defector Yuri Berezmov explains in this eye-opening video. This is not some James Bond weirdness, they really did this crap. The American propaganda at the same period was largely ineffectual. The Polish workers were helped by Pope John Paul the Great more than anything. In the West, anyone could spread information but in the Eastern Bloc copy machines were under lock and key.
There is a faction on the US government that is super enthusiastic for a war with Russia. I have no idea what they think they're going to accomplish but this is just the latest development. They keep painting Russia as this malevolent force that's behind every rock and tree. It's like the Simpsons' Maude Flanders: "Won't someone think of the children!" I think part of it is trying to distract from the obvious issues that Western elites are corrupt and do NOT have our best interests at heart.
Just think: if they weren't engaged in skullduggery, the Russians would have nothing. The screeching over Hillary was excruciating. Instead of addressing the issues, the solution was to make accusations. A Clinton win would have been pretty disastrous for the world, and I believe we would have probably seen a war between Russia and the US during her term. The US and Russia are already fighting a proxy war in Syria, and you only have to look at Clinton's rhetoric in the lead up to the election (no-fly zones over Syria, Russians are hacking US infrastructure, cyber attacks on infrastructure are grounds for going to war etc), and look at the fact that she was receiving public and financial support from various war-mongering neocons to realize that things were not looking good. I don't know how Trump will end up, but at least the people and companies who stood to make the most money from war were not supporting him - and in fact were actively opposed to him.
Russia has a terrible position. They are outnumbered 3:1 by the Europeans alone, without any help from the US. They are ringed by US bases. They have a huge border to defend. Russia is a paper tiger. Think about who's telling you they're a huge threat: what do they have to gain? Remember the mainstream media can't be trusted, they have an agenda and during the election they abandoned their role as truth-tellers. We all saw it.That's a bigger threat to our democracy than any foreign enemy. And what do you do when you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar? Blame the foreigners. It's a solution as old as the hills.
Why so nativist bro? Things can only get better when created outside the warmongering USA's patent system. Moreover the world will celebrate as the Americans are humiliated on the world stage. It's win win.
Remember a few short years ago when Wikileaks were heroes for helping to expose America's corruption? And then they exposed Hillary's corruption and became public enemy number 1 overnight. And yet Julian did what he's done his entire adult life - oppose America with every breath. When it benefits the Left, it's good, when it doesn't, it's evil. Food for thought.
That's why American carriers don't allow only one pilot in the cockpit. Two pilots at all times. European airlines had no problem with a single pilot, which resulted in this tragedy. Something glossed over in the media coverage because it ran the risk of Americans feeling superior about themselves.
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In a master stroke, Trump has motivated our largest cities, states and some of our biggest corporations to voluntarily provide most of the benefits of the Paris deal, without spending trillions of tax dollars that will not benefit us. And he managed to get the rest of the world pissed enough to refuse to let us try to renegotiate our financial commitments, saving us even more tax dollars.
By pulling out of the Paris deal, Leftists are now screaming for state's rights and corporate rights. If that's not 3D chess, I dunno what is.This folks, is what winning looks like.
The basic problem is that the Left doesn't like the American people. Instead of lifting us up with hope, they crap on us because it makes them feel better about themselves.
You think Americans don't pick up on this? We got the message, loud and clear. We don't think we're bad people and we won't vote for anyone who tells us so, no matter how clearly it is explained on TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDb3sTwD_vA&t=9m15s
It was a thing at the time to blame the riots on secret right-wingers who came to campus to make Berkeley look bad. LOL no. It as another thing to say that the students didn't support the riots. LOL no. Here's a bunch of op eds in the school newspaper from students condoning the Berkeley violence. They call it "self-defense". A direct quote: "Your free speech is raping and killing us."
Video summary here.
The hilarious part is where you think Slashdot is influential enough to waste time on. Spoiler alert: it's not. Even more spoiler alert: everyone who disagrees with you isn't TEH COMMIEZ@#!!
Just amazing the reach of Putin. First, he manages to get the DNC & Hillary Clinton to write thousands of self-incriminating (and on Hillary's side, remarkably foul-mouthed - or is it foul-keyboarded?) emails. Then he suborns the DNC to steal the nomination from Sanders and give it to Clinton, to give Trump an easier opponent. Next he induces a DNC staffer named Seth Rich to steal the compromising emails and give them to Wikileaks, which dutifully publishes them, showing the DNC to be corrupt and Hillary to be venal. Then he manages to get Rich to set himself up for a mugging in which he is shot twice in the back but nothing is stolen. Then he manipulates the Director of the FBI to announce just before the election that many, many thousands of emails potentially involving Hillary have been found and need to be examined. And finally, he finesses the US intelligence community into believing he hacked those DNC computers to influence the election, thereby concealing - and taking off the discussion table - any examination of the DNC's & Hillary's wrongdoing.
I heard that they found the cell-phone-smashing sledge hammer in Putin's basement!
Golden rice is GMO food. GMO kills. In the first long-term study of GMOs, rats fed a lifelong diet of one of genetically modified corn grew tumors and had multiple organ damage, of the liver and kidneys. Corn is meant to be nutritious. It is not meant to do this
Right now, the left is in the process of rejecting freedom of speech as a reactionary concept. Freedom of speech has been a cherished left-wing virtue for decades, advanced by people like Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, and many other radical luminaries. But lately the concept has come to be associated with the right, thanks to the vagaries of our political culture. If we were a smart, we would recognize not only that freedom of speech is consistent with left-wing principles, but also that appearing to be against freedom of speech is a sure-fire way to lose the support of potential adherents. But this kind of strategic thinking serves only to advance the movement itself; it does not advance the interests of the people within the movement. Indeed, the more that we drift into a âoefree speech is conservativeâ frame, the less people will be willing to defend the concept, even if doing so would be in our strategic political self-interest.
Ottmar Edenhofer, then co-chair of the IPCC Working Group III, stated: "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy ... One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy any more. ... That will change immediately if global emission rights are distributed. If this happens, on a per capita basis, then Africa will be the big winner, and huge amounts of money will flow there."
I notice the interests of the American people aren't anywhere on your list. Next time you wonder why we elected Trump: that's why.
Once again, most Americans claim they are exceptional, and live on the greatest nation in the world, yet most have never travelled outside the US, so their uneducated opinion counts for nothing. But that's a common flaw among the American people, they believe that if they say it, is it true. They don't ever let facts get in the way of a good opinion.
[What makes America the greatest country in the world?] It's not the greatest country in the world! We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f*** you're talking about.
-- Aaron Sorkin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/03/21-maps-and-charts-that-prove-america-is-number-one/
Out of all the leaked emails, none of them were about how to help the American citizen. Not a single thought was put forward to improving our lives. Every single one was self serving in some way.
Snapchat copied Wechat. Wechat has been going since 2012 and early on introduced the "Moments" feature which is the same as "Stories". In fact the very name "Stories" sounds like they just wanted a synonym for Wechat Moments. You know you're out of ideas when you're copying the Chinese.
You know what they call "Chinese medicine" that actually works? Medicine.
Yes, because the entire point of begging is not "deserve". The beggar is selling a product, just like any salesman: the approval of your own conscience. Are you the kind of person who can pass by a needy person in the street without giving? If not, that beggar is going to score some cash. It's been going on for millennia and isn't going to stop any time soon.
I'd like to point out I predicted this in one of the previous threads. Much like what happened in Chess, they're going to avoid humans learning, analyzing its games, and coming back for a rematch. Nope, dismantling it and not going to play any more, and it's for the environment. You some kind of monster that wants the environment to die?
So much for humanity's great comeback. It's not like Kasparov committed suicide when he won the world chess championship to prevent himself from being dethroned. But that's pretty much what they did when IBM beat him at chess - he was clamoring for a rematch now that he knew how the computer played, and the scientists smugly grinned and dismantled their computer.
So it's basically the same as human slavery, they get room and board provided while the slave owner makes all the profit? Of course they get parasite treatments, wouldn't want those wonderful slaves to get sick and stop working.
None of that matters. All that matters is that the name is recognizable. When people see a name they know, they'll buy tickets to the movie. That's the only thing that makes a difference. They see some name they don't know, it means the studio has to buy ads and the movie is a roll of the dice. With a known name, the movie will make money. Sad but true.
Remember when Deep Thought beat Kasparov in chess? The obvious sequel was a grudge rematch - humanity's redemption! Kasparov studies all of Deep Thought's games and comes roaring back. Or not...only time will tell!
Yeah that didn't happen. Deep Thought - I'm sorry Deep Blue because IBM was a thing back then - was immediately disassembled to keep IBM from ever possibly losing again. So looking for Google to do the same, it's the right thing to do for corporate branding purposes.
The best propaganda is simply telling the truth. The Soviet Union totally sucked. Even the people at the top had shitty lives. If we need to see what socialism does, look no further than Cuba or Venezuela for proof. I know, the No True Scotsman fallacy to the rescue...but guess what Venezuela is in fact socialist. I think a man like Bill Ayers knows what is and is not socialism much better than random internet commenters.
The KGB were the real professionals in culture destruction. The idea was to hollow out your enemy from the inside by fanning the flames of dissent and division in their own people. They would then turn themselves over or be weakened internally so much the Red Army could kick in the door. Defector Yuri Berezmov explains in this eye-opening video. This is not some James Bond weirdness, they really did this crap. The American propaganda at the same period was largely ineffectual. The Polish workers were helped by Pope John Paul the Great more than anything. In the West, anyone could spread information but in the Eastern Bloc copy machines were under lock and key.
There is a faction on the US government that is super enthusiastic for a war with Russia. I have no idea what they think they're going to accomplish but this is just the latest development. They keep painting Russia as this malevolent force that's behind every rock and tree. It's like the Simpsons' Maude Flanders: "Won't someone think of the children!" I think part of it is trying to distract from the obvious issues that Western elites are corrupt and do NOT have our best interests at heart.
Just think: if they weren't engaged in skullduggery, the Russians would have nothing. The screeching over Hillary was excruciating. Instead of addressing the issues, the solution was to make accusations. A Clinton win would have been pretty disastrous for the world, and I believe we would have probably seen a war between Russia and the US during her term. The US and Russia are already fighting a proxy war in Syria, and you only have to look at Clinton's rhetoric in the lead up to the election (no-fly zones over Syria, Russians are hacking US infrastructure, cyber attacks on infrastructure are grounds for going to war etc), and look at the fact that she was receiving public and financial support from various war-mongering neocons to realize that things were not looking good. I don't know how Trump will end up, but at least the people and companies who stood to make the most money from war were not supporting him - and in fact were actively opposed to him.
Russia has a terrible position. They are outnumbered 3:1 by the Europeans alone, without any help from the US. They are ringed by US bases. They have a huge border to defend. Russia is a paper tiger. Think about who's telling you they're a huge threat: what do they have to gain? Remember the mainstream media can't be trusted, they have an agenda and during the election they abandoned their role as truth-tellers. We all saw it. That's a bigger threat to our democracy than any foreign enemy. And what do you do when you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar? Blame the foreigners. It's a solution as old as the hills.
Why so nativist bro? Things can only get better when created outside the warmongering USA's patent system. Moreover the world will celebrate as the Americans are humiliated on the world stage. It's win win.
That's no way to talk about Hillary Clinton.
Remember a few short years ago when Wikileaks were heroes for helping to expose America's corruption? And then they exposed Hillary's corruption and became public enemy number 1 overnight. And yet Julian did what he's done his entire adult life - oppose America with every breath. When it benefits the Left, it's good, when it doesn't, it's evil. Food for thought.
That's why American carriers don't allow only one pilot in the cockpit. Two pilots at all times. European airlines had no problem with a single pilot, which resulted in this tragedy. Something glossed over in the media coverage because it ran the risk of Americans feeling superior about themselves.