It's like those people who say Hillary committed a crime (email server) yet all those lawyers and agents at the FBI said otherwise.
That's not the job of the agents and lawyers and that's why Comey's actions were so wrong.
A friend of mine who is a retired FBI agent explained this to me several years ago. After an investigation is ordered, the job of the agents involved is to investigate and then provide their report to a grand jury that subsequently determines whether or not an actual crime has been committed.
The agents don't decide anything. If the grand jury decides a crime was committed, they pass that along to the prosecutor in the appropriate jurisdiction to determine if a prosecution can reasonably be expected to succeed. Federal prosecutors simply will not proceed if they don't think they will win regardless if a crime was actually committed. They will never willingly take on a case they aren't confident of winning.
Comey clearly interfered in the process for political reasons. Twice. If the standard process had been followed and had the grand jury determined that no crime had been committed, it would have ended there. Legally and according to the constitution. The only reason for the Obama administration to get involved twice was the fear of an unfavorable grand jury decision.
Some years ago my wife was at a seminar and sat next to the guy in charge of recycling for a good sized city. Hi explained to her that except for aluminum, the rest was a net loss after all the pollution from the trucks, energy expenditure, etc. was accounted for. It was a feel good measure forced by the city so they had something "environmental" to point to.
Recycling paper in particular takes so much water and chemicals that it makes no sense. All you're saving is trash pines, etc., that might be better just buried thereby sequestering some of the carbon.
A friend of mine worked on the Oak Ridge Summit super computer that brought online last year. The power requirements for running the thing are astonishing in and of themselves. More or less a small city's worth of electricity.
The correct response to this is to end tuition and just let anyone who passes their exams go to college. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace.
I wonder if commercial kitchens have any air quality standards. Those people are in there all day.
Indeed they do. Not just hoods but active replacement air expressly rated for the hoods.
A friend of mine recently opened a restaurant and the inspector determined that the HVAC contractor had insufficiently sized the replacement air system for the range hoods. He wouldn't allow the restaurant to open until that was fixed.
Actually, with healthcare, the patient has virtually no way to know the cost of the services they receive. There were recent articles about how, when hospitals released the fees, the obtuse wording and jargon in the price lists made it almost impossible to know what a visit was going to cost.
Before ObamaCrap made an even bigger hash of the already government infected healthcare system, I went to an all cash doctor group. Every common procedure the did was posted right in the waiting room and online. They explained how ObamaCrap forced them out of business.
They could still charge cash for their services but the forced buy in of the medical records system along with the increase in costs of their auxiliary services such as lab work, etc., got much more expensive because of the consolidation of the industry that resulted from ObamaCrap. The primary intent of the legislation had nothing AT ALL to do with actual healthcare but rather the elimination of independent small practices by consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. I had three separate primary care practices go out of business in a couple of years.
I've seen multiple reviewers say that this movie would be worth watching in 3D. It is unusual that a movie is enhanced by 3D in reality, and not the opposite.
Foster's Law states "If 3D makes your movie better, your movie sucks". Except surfing movies. A 3D surfing movie would be cool!
We'll have robots replacing long haul truck drivers and lumberjacks well before we get rid of all the elementary school teachers. (In no small part because groups of kids will always require constant hands-on supervision)
Pff, a T-800 Model 101 can handle the kids easily.
By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.
This all starts from the "every zygote is sacred" mentality -- when you prevent abortion, someone has to pay for all the costs of supporting the resulting child. The more children, the more jobs are needed. That pushes more people to the bottom wages and increases living costs as more have to share.
These decisions are causing future problems -- and guess what? The future is now. It has been for many years.
Who is preventing abortions in America? Sure there are heated debates, but where is abortion banned in America? And for many years?
To summarize, I predict that this technology will only be affordable by the wealthiest peoples and that it will have very little effect on the rest of the population (except for the noise). geantvert 2018
Just like computers.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
Well, they can be but it depends on a several factors such as distance, yield and number of hits.
I built a a high end bomb shelter (decontamination showers, weapon lockers, air handling, etc.) when I was a contractor in the 80's. If you're far enough away from a single blast, you can survive the flash burn in almost any building. Even then, the serious problem comes from multiple hits, e.g., a sporadic exchange. Very difficult to deal with that. The fallout is actually the easiest to deal with. The over pressure is the problem from a construction standpoint.
>>Basically, and I am no expert, a few minutes could give you enough time to go into a bunker which would protect you from the initial explosion and irradiation, and from there, you might be able to plot an escape from the fallout zone.
Step 1: Build a serious bunker. Oops, don't have one and your very cooperative neighbors don't either? Screwed, you are..
Guns don't make you safer. They only make you a bigger jackoff.
Guns don't make anyone anything. I've been around guns all my life and have yet to hear one whisper to me, much less try and compel me to do something. This is another example of where animism fails as a religion.
This is so dumb. A tracker would show me as terribly inactive because I can't wear one when I work out. I train and compete in judo and bjj. Hard training, fantastic exercise but you can't wear a damn bracelet or sensor while doing this.
A fitness tracker, like the stupid BMI calculation, would show me as layabout. Every actual measure of my health shows me to be in great health. I'm 65 and compete successfully at a world level in judo and bjj for my age. This is the classic case of how vs what. Look at the actual thing to be measured, not a poorly defined process that tries to look at how something MIGHT be measured.
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We don't hang people anymore. And doing your absolute best for the country regardless of competency is the furthest thing from treason. You have to prove intent to try someone for treason. The FBI proved that when they dismissed Hillary from wrong doing.
Hillary was never accused of treason. She was investigated for criminal behavior and exonerated by a corrupt administration.
Comey deciding that a crime hadn't been committed and therefore avoiding the grand jury was criminal in itself.
Grand juries determine whether a crime was committed based on an investigation and either refer it for prosecution or not. It wasn't Comey's job to subvert the standard process. And he did it twice. Clumsily.
right now the display standards are being locked in and you want something 8K:
Hybrid Log-Gamma
HDR10+ (supported by apple TV and Samsung/LG)
for audio its about the number of speakers and position... both DTSX and Atmos are BROKEN for home setups they do not enforce the placement or provide guidance strictly so its pretty much pointless...
can someone please just release an open standard for meta data with 22.2 audio which prescribes exactly what to do when downmixing ?
thanks then we will be without the marketing BULL
As far as sound goes I'd argue, and I have built several home theaters, that acoustic design of the room is the most important single thing. I've seen people with $30k of stereo equipment in a living room and it was pretty crappy. I've built theaters with much more modest equipment with the room properly treated acoustically and it just sounded a lot better than the much, much more expensive setup.
Part of this is that no amount of treatment and equipment can completely "fix" a really bad room. Better, certainly, but you can't make a small crappy basement sound like Carnegie Hall.
China emits twice the CO2 as the US. I'm not sure how that translates into the US being worse. Supposedly, the climate doesn't care about how much CO2 each person emits individually, it's the entire total that matters. And right now - that is China. Unless you want to create CO2 rations for everyone? How about wealth rations? Food rations? Time rations?
Isn't that specifically the "progressive" holy grail? To have an authority of some sort dictate what people can and cannot have?
Climate change is less a problem to solved, than an opportunity to be taken advantage of to make progress towards a totalitarian State.
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It's like those people who say Hillary committed a crime (email server) yet all those lawyers and agents at the FBI said otherwise.
That's not the job of the agents and lawyers and that's why Comey's actions were so wrong.
A friend of mine who is a retired FBI agent explained this to me several years ago. After an investigation is ordered, the job of the agents involved is to investigate and then provide their report to a grand jury that subsequently determines whether or not an actual crime has been committed.
The agents don't decide anything. If the grand jury decides a crime was committed, they pass that along to the prosecutor in the appropriate jurisdiction to determine if a prosecution can reasonably be expected to succeed. Federal prosecutors simply will not proceed if they don't think they will win regardless if a crime was actually committed. They will never willingly take on a case they aren't confident of winning.
Comey clearly interfered in the process for political reasons. Twice. If the standard process had been followed and had the grand jury determined that no crime had been committed, it would have ended there. Legally and according to the constitution. The only reason for the Obama administration to get involved twice was the fear of an unfavorable grand jury decision.
Recycling paper in particular takes so much water and chemicals that it makes no sense. All you're saving is trash pines, etc., that might be better just buried thereby sequestering some of the carbon.
A friend of mine worked on the Oak Ridge Summit super computer that brought online last year. The power requirements for running the thing are astonishing in and of themselves. More or less a small city's worth of electricity.
The correct response to this is to end tuition and just let anyone who passes their exams go to college. It would cost $80 billion a year. That's not even a drop in the bucket compared to the value of a well educated populace.
Yeah, OPM is always just a drop in the bucket.
I wonder if commercial kitchens have any air quality standards. Those people are in there all day.
Indeed they do. Not just hoods but active replacement air expressly rated for the hoods.
A friend of mine recently opened a restaurant and the inspector determined that the HVAC contractor had insufficiently sized the replacement air system for the range hoods. He wouldn't allow the restaurant to open until that was fixed.
I see places all the time offer a ~2% cash discount but what you can't do is add on a 2% credit card fee.
Several restaurants in my area offer a 10% cash discount. They aren't chains and all happen to be Oriental but the discount is common.
Actually, with healthcare, the patient has virtually no way to know the cost of the services they receive. There were recent articles about how, when hospitals released the fees, the obtuse wording and jargon in the price lists made it almost impossible to know what a visit was going to cost.
Before ObamaCrap made an even bigger hash of the already government infected healthcare system, I went to an all cash doctor group. Every common procedure the did was posted right in the waiting room and online. They explained how ObamaCrap forced them out of business.
They could still charge cash for their services but the forced buy in of the medical records system along with the increase in costs of their auxiliary services such as lab work, etc., got much more expensive because of the consolidation of the industry that resulted from ObamaCrap. The primary intent of the legislation had nothing AT ALL to do with actual healthcare but rather the elimination of independent small practices by consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. I had three separate primary care practices go out of business in a couple of years.
I've seen multiple reviewers say that this movie would be worth watching in 3D. It is unusual that a movie is enhanced by 3D in reality, and not the opposite.
Foster's Law states "If 3D makes your movie better, your movie sucks". Except surfing movies. A 3D surfing movie would be cool!
We'll have robots replacing long haul truck drivers and lumberjacks well before we get rid of all the elementary school teachers. (In no small part because groups of kids will always require constant hands-on supervision)
Pff, a T-800 Model 101 can handle the kids easily.
Maybe this civilization takes a long view.
So they have not invented Quarterly Results and Agile? That IS advanced.
A truly advanced race if they have outgrown or avoided inventing MBA's.
I wish to subscribe to their newsletter. (As long as it's not focused on dinner prep)
What makes intestines any more disgusting than muscles?
Um, the contents?
By the way, if you go and search Twitter for #Qanon, you'll find that there are already NYC blue light truthers who are saying this is a message to patriots that the "hot war" is coming and that the acting attorney general (aka "117") is about to unleash holy hell on unbelievers and other liberals. Or, that it's a false flag. I'm not shitting you.
https://twitter.com/travis_vie...
And the "progressive" nut jobs on CommonDreams.org are blaming fossil fuel use for the explosion, because, you know, fossil fuel is evil.
I'm not saying that squirrels did it but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is very strange that the USA has the best constitution concerning rights and the worst record of actually providing them.
Really? The worst? In the world?
What are you smoking?
This all starts from the "every zygote is sacred" mentality -- when you prevent abortion, someone has to pay for all the costs of supporting the resulting child. The more children, the more jobs are needed. That pushes more people to the bottom wages and increases living costs as more have to share. These decisions are causing future problems -- and guess what? The future is now. It has been for many years.
Who is preventing abortions in America? Sure there are heated debates, but where is abortion banned in America? And for many years?
Just asking for a friend.
“Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn’t turn out so well.”
You mean we'd become the casino planet?
Maybe you shouldn't live in a state that deliberately sabotaged the ACA.
How can one sabotage the ACA? That's like saying that someone did something to make kim-chi go bad.
Of course you want more benefits than you are willing to pay for. Someone else will pay. Fuck them.
That is the exact definition of "preexisting condition" , i.e., A chronic health problem that someone has and wants someone else to pay for.
A solution looking for a problem. How many people have been shot with a printed gun?
To summarize, I predict that this technology will only be affordable by the wealthiest peoples and that it will have very little effect on the rest of the population (except for the noise). geantvert 2018
Just like computers.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
Well, they can be but it depends on a several factors such as distance, yield and number of hits.
I built a a high end bomb shelter (decontamination showers, weapon lockers, air handling, etc.) when I was a contractor in the 80's. If you're far enough away from a single blast, you can survive the flash burn in almost any building. Even then, the serious problem comes from multiple hits, e.g., a sporadic exchange. Very difficult to deal with that. The fallout is actually the easiest to deal with. The over pressure is the problem from a construction standpoint.
>>Basically, and I am no expert, a few minutes could give you enough time to go into a bunker which would protect you from the initial explosion and irradiation, and from there, you might be able to plot an escape from the fallout zone.
Step 1: Build a serious bunker. Oops, don't have one and your very cooperative neighbors don't either? Screwed, you are..
Guns don't make you safer. They only make you a bigger jackoff.
Guns don't make anyone anything. I've been around guns all my life and have yet to hear one whisper to me, much less try and compel me to do something. This is another example of where animism fails as a religion.
A fitness tracker, like the stupid BMI calculation, would show me as layabout. Every actual measure of my health shows me to be in great health. I'm 65 and compete successfully at a world level in judo and bjj for my age. This is the classic case of how vs what. Look at the actual thing to be measured, not a poorly defined process that tries to look at how something MIGHT be measured. .
We don't hang people anymore. And doing your absolute best for the country regardless of competency is the furthest thing from treason. You have to prove intent to try someone for treason. The FBI proved that when they dismissed Hillary from wrong doing.
Hillary was never accused of treason. She was investigated for criminal behavior and exonerated by a corrupt administration. Comey deciding that a crime hadn't been committed and therefore avoiding the grand jury was criminal in itself.
Grand juries determine whether a crime was committed based on an investigation and either refer it for prosecution or not. It wasn't Comey's job to subvert the standard process. And he did it twice. Clumsily.
So what are the open equivalents
right now the display standards are being locked in and you want something 8K :
Hybrid Log-Gamma HDR10+ (supported by apple TV and Samsung/LG)
for audio its about the number of speakers and position... both DTSX and Atmos are BROKEN for home setups they do not enforce the placement or provide guidance strictly so its pretty much pointless...
can someone please just release an open standard for meta data with 22.2 audio which prescribes exactly what to do when downmixing ?
thanks then we will be without the marketing BULL
As far as sound goes I'd argue, and I have built several home theaters, that acoustic design of the room is the most important single thing. I've seen people with $30k of stereo equipment in a living room and it was pretty crappy. I've built theaters with much more modest equipment with the room properly treated acoustically and it just sounded a lot better than the much, much more expensive setup.
Part of this is that no amount of treatment and equipment can completely "fix" a really bad room. Better, certainly, but you can't make a small crappy basement sound like Carnegie Hall.
China emits twice the CO2 as the US. I'm not sure how that translates into the US being worse. Supposedly, the climate doesn't care about how much CO2 each person emits individually, it's the entire total that matters. And right now - that is China. Unless you want to create CO2 rations for everyone? How about wealth rations? Food rations? Time rations?
Isn't that specifically the "progressive" holy grail? To have an authority of some sort dictate what people can and cannot have?
Climate change is less a problem to solved, than an opportunity to be taken advantage of to make progress towards a totalitarian State.