I will state that I do hope for greater separation of YouTube and G+. Not long ago I moderated a YouTube video shared to the community that was decent but was off topic to the community. Suddenly I'm getting slammed by the subscribers of that YouTube channel for daring to say a video posted by the channel owner was off topic to the channel. I had to repeatedly clarify to the idiot Youtubers that my comments were applied strictly to the non-related community on G+ where the video was shared. I never even visited the channel until after the outrage started.
My comment had been the moderation comment made on the G+ community feed. But the YouTube channel feed just showed it as another comment. And G+ nicely notified me of every thumb down and comment (all negative) made to my comment on the YouTube feed, by viewers who had no idea that it was made on G+. And of course the outraged YouTubers immediately went to my Youtube channel (to which I've never posted a single video) and started flaming me for daring to criticize a video when I obviously had no idea how to use YouTube or how to even make videos. (I'm not a big YouTube user and what I do post goes to my personal account to share with my family.)
That is by far one of the biggest flaws in the current system and one that I hope is fixed, and soon.
The problem with this metric is how G+ activity is tracked versus other social networks. In G+ a person makes a post, and say twenty people reply. It is only counted as a single post. In FB and twitter such an act is counted as twenty actions. And all the accounts are counted. On G+ for some reason they only tracked those who actually make original posts. Which quite often is quite the minority.
I moderate a rather active community on G+ it's not the largest but it's decent sized at over 17k members. Of that maybe 100 post once a month or more, a couple thousand regularly comment and the rest mostly just read.
But I can promise that even back in Jan we had more than 24 active profiles posting to the community. Only a few are primarily Youtube profiles, and that is just one community.
Amen. On FB it's so hard to keep a community on a specific topic. Either the community host/alias does all the posting, or it quickly wanders off topic and is soon little more than a page of spam posts because people have left it.
On G+ a community stays as on topic as the moderators keep it.. Some communities allow more variation in discussion and some keep a stricter line.
But funnies thing about this discussion here and all the Hate here, is that G+ is not dead, it's a vibrant forum with many communities and far greater control in what you see than FB allows.
G+ has not failed. It isn't FB, it is it's own variant on social networking and it's doing quite well. I hope this move by Google doesn't damage the current system too much.
The f-117 shootdown was pure dumb luck, it was hit by a ZSU firing blindly into the air. The ZSU works because it puts so much metal in the air that if you fly over-it at low altitude as that plane did, you are going to get hit. Shooting it down had nothing to do with countering the stealth capabilities. The Iraqi's had much more capable systems and didn't get a hit on any of our stealth birds.
He wasn't hanging out with a different buddy when we first went into Afghanistan. By the time he fled to Pakistan the Taliban had already been removed from power and the new government needed time to become established and capable of standing on it's own.
Because not all can be vaccinated. How many times does this need to be explained. Your choice not to vaccinate put's others at risk. It is not just a choice for your family, but for the immuno-compromised and the very young in our society as well. We all rely on the herd immunity and if you compromise it your choice then affects others and your rights end when they start harming others.
Amen, and forget choosing to keep the old UI as a preference. It forgets it every time. Seriously dislike the new UI it is less user friendly and less intuitive than the old one.
No, the President, submits a budget proposal. The House can enact that budget, parts of it, or toss it out the window entirely. The only real say the president gets on the budget is a chance to veto it after both the House and the Senate have had their say on the process.
Most who qualify as veteran achieved that status before President Obama was elected. It has nothing to do with serving HIM but rather serving the country. Veterans have a higher unemployment rate than the general public, mostly because most employers don't recognize the skills they bring and that their military training doesn't always translate clearly into civilian HR job listings.
Also this isn't a jobs program but a training program. If the economy doesn't create 75k jobs for those trained through this program it won't help them. But if the market is there then they will have the training to work in the field.
And of course there is the fact that such events are most commonly set to all go off together so by the time the Feds react to the first boom, and issue the order to shut down the cell networks, all the other bombs have also detonated. And now mass panic ensues because family members can't reach out and confirm safety to one another.
Real life attacks are rarely if ever as scripted out as in the movies, which is the only place you find an evil mastermind who sets a series of timed bombs being set off at different times for maximum evil doing.
We were fighting these beetle infestations back in the 70's when we were worried about global cooling. The beetles are not new, their presence is not a result of global warming but rather of our meddling with natural burn patterns for so many years.
In un managed forests a fire sweeps through every couple decades killing off the beetle killed trees and most the beetles in an area, the healthy trees are singed but not really harmed and are thus protected by the killing of most the beetles. In managed forests where we basically stopped all fires as soon as they started, the beetles killed a few trees, then a few more then a lot more and so on. After several years a dead tree might finally fall over allowing new growth to come up in it's place but mostly they just stood as forests of reddish grey dead trees. Now we try to allow some burns, manage others and intentionally set many management fires each year. But thanks to the decades of mismanagement managed and natural fires are frequently getting out of control due to the massive swaths of beetle killed trees.
Once burned those forests will at last begin to naturally regenerate. Not right back to the forests of standing conifers, but through the natural stages often first of grasses and shrubs then deciduous trees like quaking aspens and scub oak and then over decades back to conifers. Depending on the water cycle in the area. Other areas with more moisture will get back to the conifers more quickly.
Agreed, Looking at the map around where I live. Almost all the pink is the result of fires the last few years. And it takes a while but those trees are growing back. Intentional, accidental or natural wildland fires, they are all recovering nicely, the new growth thriving on the ash enriched soils. It will be decades before the end stage forests that burned return to that point but the natural process is proceeding nicely.
The "OMG Ponies!" day was the best, but I'm liking the posts so far and found this amusing. If you don't like it, go read something else. It's not an easy task to build a full day's stream of funny.
But with the exception of the very first generation of recipients that is NOT what it was meant to be. It was supposed to be a forced investment towards retirement with a little extra to aid the first generation of recipients. But then congress repeatedly raided that huge stockpile of money leaving it now little more than a vault full of IOU's and turning it into how you described it. But it was not supposed to be the way it is.
Yet the implementation of this aspect of the 1st has very little relation to the wording in the amendment. "Congress shall make no laws regarding the establishment of religion." Absolutely nothing about the separation of church and state. Simply that congress shall not try to establish a state religion. or prohibit a religion.
Whereas some try to justify rules and regulations and out right bans on various firearms based on the Well regulated militia clause but there is not much ambiguity to the "The right of the people to keep and bear arms." is pretty straightforward and clear.
McCarthy investigated mostly people outside congress, and a law (I don't recall the act name) was passed in response to his witch hunt. Congress critters cannot be prosecuted for performing normal legislative actions. i.e. proposing bills to repeal other bills.
Despite media claims (mostly left wing media at that) about the crowning of Jeb, he has not been nominated and is actually very unlikely to get the final nod. While he's a good leader many conservatives recognize that the left and middle will be very hesitant about yet another Bush, and we ourselves are leery of a Dynasty.
There is a pretty big difference between performing espionage and doing a false flag operation. A false flag operation actively tries to destabilize the relationship between other nations. </quote> No a false flag operation plays on the friendship of two nations to allow a third to collect information. A and B are friends, A does not like C. C sends an agent claiming to be from B. The agent is thus able to collect the information on/from A because A thinks he is from B. That is a false flag op. It can destabilize relationships but that is not the active goal or target.
Actually it is hypocrisy, Because everybody spies on everybody. if not for military threats then for political and economic espionage reasons. The Germans complaining about it is very hypocritical because in the world of intelligence and espionage there are no perfect allies.
The American intelligence community assumes that the BND, MI6 and everybody else we work with every day is trying their darndest to wiretap the Oval Office. And for all we know they do have a successful tap running. Amused, not really because it means our counterintel efforts failed. But not surprised or really upset either.
Those schlubs do require a current DOT card and fall under DOT driving regulations and limits and have to maintain a clean driving record. (i.e. 60 hours per week max, no more than 14 hours in a single day etc.) And they are monitored like crazy. Seatbelt buckled when moving, back and interior bulkhead doors closed, backing too much, total distance driven during the route (and compared with the computer estimated route and times). And let's see that drone deliver 60" flat screen TV's.
I drove for UPS this last holiday season, and I really doubt UPS is at all worried. The amount of volume a single schlub driving a package car can deliver and pickup in a single day is quite surprising. The swarms of drones that would be required just for smaller packages would be overwhelming, let alone being able to handle large and odd shaped packages, envelopes and large volume deliveries and pickups.
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I will state that I do hope for greater separation of YouTube and G+. Not long ago I moderated a YouTube video shared to the community that was decent but was off topic to the community. Suddenly I'm getting slammed by the subscribers of that YouTube channel for daring to say a video posted by the channel owner was off topic to the channel. I had to repeatedly clarify to the idiot Youtubers that my comments were applied strictly to the non-related community on G+ where the video was shared. I never even visited the channel until after the outrage started.
My comment had been the moderation comment made on the G+ community feed. But the YouTube channel feed just showed it as another comment. And G+ nicely notified me of every thumb down and comment (all negative) made to my comment on the YouTube feed, by viewers who had no idea that it was made on G+. And of course the outraged YouTubers immediately went to my Youtube channel (to which I've never posted a single video) and started flaming me for daring to criticize a video when I obviously had no idea how to use YouTube or how to even make videos. (I'm not a big YouTube user and what I do post goes to my personal account to share with my family.)
That is by far one of the biggest flaws in the current system and one that I hope is fixed, and soon.
The problem with this metric is how G+ activity is tracked versus other social networks. In G+ a person makes a post, and say twenty people reply. It is only counted as a single post. In FB and twitter such an act is counted as twenty actions. And all the accounts are counted. On G+ for some reason they only tracked those who actually make original posts. Which quite often is quite the minority.
I moderate a rather active community on G+ it's not the largest but it's decent sized at over 17k members. Of that maybe 100 post once a month or more, a couple thousand regularly comment and the rest mostly just read.
But I can promise that even back in Jan we had more than 24 active profiles posting to the community. Only a few are primarily Youtube profiles, and that is just one community.
Amen. On FB it's so hard to keep a community on a specific topic. Either the community host/alias does all the posting, or it quickly wanders off topic and is soon little more than a page of spam posts because people have left it.
On G+ a community stays as on topic as the moderators keep it.. Some communities allow more variation in discussion and some keep a stricter line.
But funnies thing about this discussion here and all the Hate here, is that G+ is not dead, it's a vibrant forum with many communities and far greater control in what you see than FB allows.
G+ has not failed. It isn't FB, it is it's own variant on social networking and it's doing quite well. I hope this move by Google doesn't damage the current system too much.
It still will be when it goes into production. The cost per bird will drop greatly once we've fielded over 2500 of them.
The f-117 shootdown was pure dumb luck, it was hit by a ZSU firing blindly into the air. The ZSU works because it puts so much metal in the air that if you fly over-it at low altitude as that plane did, you are going to get hit. Shooting it down had nothing to do with countering the stealth capabilities. The Iraqi's had much more capable systems and didn't get a hit on any of our stealth birds.
He wasn't hanging out with a different buddy when we first went into Afghanistan. By the time he fled to Pakistan the Taliban had already been removed from power and the new government needed time to become established and capable of standing on it's own.
Because not all can be vaccinated. How many times does this need to be explained. Your choice not to vaccinate put's others at risk. It is not just a choice for your family, but for the immuno-compromised and the very young in our society as well. We all rely on the herd immunity and if you compromise it your choice then affects others and your rights end when they start harming others.
Amen, and forget choosing to keep the old UI as a preference. It forgets it every time. Seriously dislike the new UI it is less user friendly and less intuitive than the old one.
No, the President, submits a budget proposal. The House can enact that budget, parts of it, or toss it out the window entirely. The only real say the president gets on the budget is a chance to veto it after both the House and the Senate have had their say on the process.
Perhaps this is why Nigel Powers Hates the Dutch. Simply short mans syndrome.
Most who qualify as veteran achieved that status before President Obama was elected. It has nothing to do with serving HIM but rather serving the country. Veterans have a higher unemployment rate than the general public, mostly because most employers don't recognize the skills they bring and that their military training doesn't always translate clearly into civilian HR job listings.
Also this isn't a jobs program but a training program. If the economy doesn't create 75k jobs for those trained through this program it won't help them. But if the market is there then they will have the training to work in the field.
And of course there is the fact that such events are most commonly set to all go off together so by the time the Feds react to the first boom, and issue the order to shut down the cell networks, all the other bombs have also detonated. And now mass panic ensues because family members can't reach out and confirm safety to one another.
Real life attacks are rarely if ever as scripted out as in the movies, which is the only place you find an evil mastermind who sets a series of timed bombs being set off at different times for maximum evil doing.
We were fighting these beetle infestations back in the 70's when we were worried about global cooling. The beetles are not new, their presence is not a result of global warming but rather of our meddling with natural burn patterns for so many years.
In un managed forests a fire sweeps through every couple decades killing off the beetle killed trees and most the beetles in an area, the healthy trees are singed but not really harmed and are thus protected by the killing of most the beetles. In managed forests where we basically stopped all fires as soon as they started, the beetles killed a few trees, then a few more then a lot more and so on. After several years a dead tree might finally fall over allowing new growth to come up in it's place but mostly they just stood as forests of reddish grey dead trees.
Now we try to allow some burns, manage others and intentionally set many management fires each year. But thanks to the decades of mismanagement managed and natural fires are frequently getting out of control due to the massive swaths of beetle killed trees.
Once burned those forests will at last begin to naturally regenerate. Not right back to the forests of standing conifers, but through the natural stages often first of grasses and shrubs then deciduous trees like quaking aspens and scub oak and then over decades back to conifers. Depending on the water cycle in the area. Other areas with more moisture will get back to the conifers more quickly.
Agreed, Looking at the map around where I live. Almost all the pink is the result of fires the last few years. And it takes a while but those trees are growing back. Intentional, accidental or natural wildland fires, they are all recovering nicely, the new growth thriving on the ash enriched soils. It will be decades before the end stage forests that burned return to that point but the natural process is proceeding nicely.
And I for one, welcome our new Lame Aprils Fools day joke overlords!
The "OMG Ponies!" day was the best, but I'm liking the posts so far and found this amusing. If you don't like it, go read something else. It's not an easy task to build a full day's stream of funny.
But with the exception of the very first generation of recipients that is NOT what it was meant to be. It was supposed to be a forced investment towards retirement with a little extra to aid the first generation of recipients. But then congress repeatedly raided that huge stockpile of money leaving it now little more than a vault full of IOU's and turning it into how you described it. But it was not supposed to be the way it is.
Yet the implementation of this aspect of the 1st has very little relation to the wording in the amendment. "Congress shall make no laws regarding the establishment of religion." Absolutely nothing about the separation of church and state. Simply that congress shall not try to establish a state religion. or prohibit a religion.
Whereas some try to justify rules and regulations and out right bans on various firearms based on the Well regulated militia clause but there is not much ambiguity to the "The right of the people to keep and bear arms." is pretty straightforward and clear.
He is, he has his own network TheBlaze. He is not on Fox anymore. He's as credible as any other talking head. More so in some ways, less so in others.
McCarthy investigated mostly people outside congress, and a law (I don't recall the act name) was passed in response to his witch hunt. Congress critters cannot be prosecuted for performing normal legislative actions. i.e. proposing bills to repeal other bills.
It doesn't work that way. A congressman cannot be investigated for doing his job as a legislator.
Despite media claims (mostly left wing media at that) about the crowning of Jeb, he has not been nominated and is actually very unlikely to get the final nod. While he's a good leader many conservatives recognize that the left and middle will be very hesitant about yet another Bush, and we ourselves are leery of a Dynasty.
I doubt he'll get the Nomination.
There is a pretty big difference between performing espionage and doing a false flag operation.
A false flag operation actively tries to destabilize the relationship between other nations. </quote>
No a false flag operation plays on the friendship of two nations to allow a third to collect information. A and B are friends, A does not like C. C sends an agent claiming to be from B. The agent is thus able to collect the information on/from A because A thinks he is from B. That is a false flag op. It can destabilize relationships but that is not the active goal or target.
Actually it is hypocrisy, Because everybody spies on everybody. if not for military threats then for political and economic espionage reasons. The Germans complaining about it is very hypocritical because in the world of intelligence and espionage there are no perfect allies.
The American intelligence community assumes that the BND, MI6 and everybody else we work with every day is trying their darndest to wiretap the Oval Office. And for all we know they do have a successful tap running. Amused, not really because it means our counterintel efforts failed. But not surprised or really upset either.
Those schlubs do require a current DOT card and fall under DOT driving regulations and limits and have to maintain a clean driving record. (i.e. 60 hours per week max, no more than 14 hours in a single day etc.) And they are monitored like crazy. Seatbelt buckled when moving, back and interior bulkhead doors closed, backing too much, total distance driven during the route (and compared with the computer estimated route and times). And let's see that drone deliver 60" flat screen TV's.
I drove for UPS this last holiday season, and I really doubt UPS is at all worried. The amount of volume a single schlub driving a package car can deliver and pickup in a single day is quite surprising. The swarms of drones that would be required just for smaller packages would be overwhelming, let alone being able to handle large and odd shaped packages, envelopes and large volume deliveries and pickups.