He's based his opposition to global warming on his religion. If you'd bothered to read the wikipedia page you linked to you'd know it. In science this is what is called "Working backwards from your conclusion". A phrase I learned from this gentleman.
by crooks. Lobby was Open 24 hours. I never did get robbed, but I knew people who had been. The owner of that restaurant? Started closing the lobby only after the police threatened to hold her criminally liable if anyone got hurt. They knew the robberies were happening, but they were sporadic enough that the profits from keeping the lobby open were > what was stolen.
Being cashless is a big plus for the employees at 24 hour restaurants.
but I don't think you're considering the consequences of evangelical belief systems. God punishes the faithful for the sins of the heretic. Famous examples include Sodom & Gomorrah and the Flood, but there are plenty other's in the bible. This is why, for instance, Pat Robinson has literally said gays cause earthquakes
Now let's imagine for a second you honestly believe that, rather than tectonic plates, God's wrath is causing earthquakes. Wouldn't it be reasonable to take measures to prevent God's wrath? And let's imagine God declared Homosexuality a sin that incurred his wrath. We can argue scripture but as mentioned above it's a fact that this is what evangelicals believe. And again, God punishes the faithful for the sins of the heretic. Your "sins".
It stands to reason that your being gay represents an existent threat to their continued well being. In a best case scenario you'll be treated as a sick man and given "treatment". In a worst case you'll be locked up and/or killed to protect society from God's wrath.
You ended your post worried that a progressive would punish you for not towing their "party line". But you don't really know that. If asked a Progressive would say, no, they would not do that. They might lie, but at least some of them wouldn't. A conservative, OTOH, is also likely to be an evangelical (again, we're talking likelihood) and they _will_ punish you for your sexual orientation. Just as they would punish any other dangerous person.
that is used to cloudy the waters and lend legitimacy to an illegitimate campaign. Claims about the degree of warming are similar. It's meant to muddy up the waters and bog the discussion down in pointless details.
There are no scientists who disagree that Global Warming is happening who don't work for global companies trying to get out of paying the taxes needed to address the problem. Whether humans caused global warming or not or whether it's.5 degrees or.3 degrees isn't what matters. What matters is it's happening, it's going to impact the food supply which will lead to global chaos, wars.
We should be doing something about it but we're not because the wealthy don't want to spend a ton of money on it. The global chaos won't impact them. A lot of them will profit from it since as resources get scares they can sell what's left to us for top dollar. Climate Change deniers, the real ones that fund and fuel the movement, just don't want to pay to address the problem. As always, follow the money.
they stepped out of the console market because it wasn't profitable enough (they might have also got tired of being bullied by Microsoft & Sony, I can't imagine them doing well against those companies). The rumor mill was that AMD got better deals from MS & Sony because neither company was ready for nVidia to drop them. So it's been a nice infusion of cash.
I think the Tegra was suppose to be a game console like chip but when it's performance didn't match up with the 360 & PS3 (let alone the xbone & PS4) it floundered. The 30% premium on the app store doesn't help, and while side loading exists it's hard to enforce DRM with it.
they matter lots. You do know we use satellites to monitor climate change, right? You do realize he's in a position to control access to said satellites, right?
That's the trouble with corruption, it's a bit on the subtle side sometimes. I remember a story I read in my local paper about a real estate developer who wanted some land but couldn't get it because there were a bunch of endangered goats on it. So he bought the land near by, put up a short fence, and put some sheep on his land who just happened to have syphilis. Sheep jumped the fence, goats and sheep did what animals do (try not to think too much about it) and goats, who are apparently much more susceptible to the side effects of syphilis died. Goats gone, problem solved and he got his land.
It sounds crazy. It was all documented though since somebody was tracking the goats (they were endangered after all). So yeah, sometimes corruption isn't all that obvious.
like this. People really, really hate the idea of somebody spending their time happy while they toil. And there will still be work to be done even with automation. I just do see us as a people being willing to divvy up the spoils of automation, especially here in America. Too much puritanical "if you don't work you don't eat" stuff.
but the reason I don't buy AMD is I never stop hearing about all the issues their graphics cards have. Every time a new game comes out the Steam forums are filled with folks complaining about AMD with at least a 3 to 1 ratio to the nVidia comments. Moreover I play a lot of old games (I only just got around to playing Fallout NV last year and I fire up older stuff like Psyconauts or NOLF from time to time). nVidia's compatibility with old and/or obscure titles is just better.
I miss the better image quality AMD had (to this day nVidia cuts corners on rendering to get better framerates, it's especially noticable in Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing Transformed) but I'm 40 and I just don't have the time or patience to screw around with drivers and tweaks to get a game working. I know a lot of that isn't AMD's fault, but that doesn't make my games run.
they're all over blockchain and their executives sit on the board of directors of major Wallstreet companies that live by High Frequency Trading (which, rather annoyingly, is a modern marvel of engineering). They've long since learned that tech good. They don't understand it (they're really just members of the ruling class like kings of old) but that doesn't mean they don't know it's valuable. Just like kings knew metal weapons & armor were valuable.
shifting nearly all tech work overseas in less than 10 years. I watched it happen overnight. I lived through it (and the constant layoffs). Banking executives are only "conservative" in the sense they don't like paying taxes. They're plenty progressive when it comes to saving money. Remember, we've structured their pay around stock price, and the best way to raise stock price is to have fewer employees. That's why everytime the economy tanks there's mass layoffs to bump the stock. This'll be the same thing, only this time the jobs aren't going overseas, they're just gone.
We're about to head into another industrial revolution. The last few had decades of unemployment, wars and social strife before tech (and the New Deal) caught up and people were employed again. If you're going to do something to avert the next upheaval now's the time to start voting people into office that'll address the problem with something other than more "conservative" tax cuts for bank executives.
Or don't. I'm getting up there in the years and won't make it past 55 with my health problems (and I'm a/.er posting on a Friday night, so you can bet I don't have kids). So what do I care?
why doesn't your company invest in training? Maybe lobby for more vocational schools and better funding for public universities. Most of what I'm seeing from companies is lobbying for lower taxes which in turn means fewer educational services. If you want good workers, pay for them.
Trump has acknowledged Kim's government. The reason Trump meeting with Kim was such a big deal is that we just acknowledged yet another military dictatorship as "legitimate". To be fair we did the same thing with China, but there was a _little_ gray area there (very little). OTOH the US supports 70% of the world's dictatorships so I don't much see the point of singling NK out just because they happen to use Karl Marx's books as rhetoric instead of somebody else's.
like to complain about their cell carriers. If I suggest we regulate they don't like that because regulation's bad, m'kay. If I suggest we break them up they don't like that because they don't want to pay roaming charges. If I suggest we leave them alone they complain about stuff like this.
Well, we either do something or we do nothing, but the cell phone companies are going to do stuff whether we like it or not.
Saddam & Gaddafi both did the same and look where it got them. Kim Jun is smart enough to know that (he survived North Korean court politics, the whole thing is basically a monarchy). He'll keep doing it on the sly. Meanwhile Trump will look for excuses to escalate the conflict since it'll be good for business and good for his presidency.
I've read multiple times that the H1-B program allows 85,000 applicants a year, but I've also read the half a million figure. Are they just not going home when their Visas are up? Are the Visas being issued for decades at a time so that they build up in the system? Or are they saying that most H1-B Visas are converted to permanent residency?
One thing I can say: Companies stopped training once they could rely on the H1-B visa program. One more thing, I know two or three people who were laid off and replaced by H1-Bs, which is supposed to be illegal.
if she didn't campaign. She lost because she didn't campaign in the Rust belt. She took them for granted and they punished her for it. That said, if she'd have had a more traditional challenger she probably would have taken them seriously and campaigned. She had a billion dollars and by all accounts 5 firms with close ties to her took $700 million to do basically nothing. She got Romney'd and like Romney everybody thought it wouldn't matter because they'd cruise to an easy victory...
because that's what the Democratic voters overwhelmingly want. Hilary is a right winger on everything but a few social issues. She can't take responsibility without changing her politics. And she's so wealthy at this point that she's completely out of touch with working class Americans. It's like that old Mitt Romney joke: Why can't the Poor Just Buy More Money? She doesn't get it and never will.
so long as she doesn't make it to general. She'd take the heat off real candidates while making those same candidates step up their game. That's exactly why the Republicans have so many challengers. Meanwhile she spent the last 8 years making sure nobody could oppose her in the 2016 primary which has decimated the Democratic party. She basically shut down anyone like Obama who could have opposed her.
because Trump really, really wants a war and NK seems to have backed down as a result (though I don't think they're really going to give up their nukes, they learned the lesson we taught Saddam & Gaddafi).
Trump had nothing to do with the economy or Isis. That was Obama, and if he'd had a left wing Congress (and no, I don't mean a bunch of right wing Dems) he could have done more. Trump has deregulated Wallstreet (with the help of those right wing Dems). That's going to blow up in our faces just in time for a Democrat to take charge, clean up the mess and get blamed for it. Like it always happens. Please, please pick up on this pattern and don't fall for it again. I'm tired of rebuilding my life every 10 years when right wing politicians tank the world economy, aren't you?
from the right wing Corporate Dems. They don't have any issues to run on for the Mid Terms so they're doing this. Seriously, besides maybe doing smaller tax cuts for the rich and not gutting Obamacare they've agreed on Trump on almost everything. This is to distract from actual left wing economic policies that people want, to wit:
1. Medicare for all.
2. End the Wars (8 and counting).
3. Fix out crumbling infrastructure and dangerous bridges.
4. A New New Deal.
5. College for All.
6. Legalize Marijuana.
Those are the issues 60%-80% of Americans want (depending on how you ask the question, e.g. if you ask "Do you think the government should guarantee every American healthcare" you get 80% if you ask "Would you support a Government takeover of the Healthcare industry" you get 60%).
But the Corporate Dems masters, the ones who buy them off with the legalized bribery of campaign contributions, don't want to pay for all of that. So we keep hearing about Russia and Stormy Daniels.
Meanwhile Trump's on track to cruise into a second term...
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He's based his opposition to global warming on his religion. If you'd bothered to read the wikipedia page you linked to you'd know it. In science this is what is called "Working backwards from your conclusion". A phrase I learned from this gentleman.
we get droughts followed by floods that kill crops. Global warming makes weather more extreme. You know this, you're just being flippant.
by crooks. Lobby was Open 24 hours. I never did get robbed, but I knew people who had been. The owner of that restaurant? Started closing the lobby only after the police threatened to hold her criminally liable if anyone got hurt. They knew the robberies were happening, but they were sporadic enough that the profits from keeping the lobby open were > what was stolen.
Being cashless is a big plus for the employees at 24 hour restaurants.
but I don't think you're considering the consequences of evangelical belief systems. God punishes the faithful for the sins of the heretic. Famous examples include Sodom & Gomorrah and the Flood, but there are plenty other's in the bible. This is why, for instance, Pat Robinson has literally said gays cause earthquakes
Now let's imagine for a second you honestly believe that, rather than tectonic plates, God's wrath is causing earthquakes. Wouldn't it be reasonable to take measures to prevent God's wrath? And let's imagine God declared Homosexuality a sin that incurred his wrath. We can argue scripture but as mentioned above it's a fact that this is what evangelicals believe. And again, God punishes the faithful for the sins of the heretic. Your "sins".
It stands to reason that your being gay represents an existent threat to their continued well being. In a best case scenario you'll be treated as a sick man and given "treatment". In a worst case you'll be locked up and/or killed to protect society from God's wrath.
You ended your post worried that a progressive would punish you for not towing their "party line". But you don't really know that. If asked a Progressive would say, no, they would not do that. They might lie, but at least some of them wouldn't. A conservative, OTOH, is also likely to be an evangelical (again, we're talking likelihood) and they _will_ punish you for your sexual orientation. Just as they would punish any other dangerous person.
that is used to cloudy the waters and lend legitimacy to an illegitimate campaign. Claims about the degree of warming are similar. It's meant to muddy up the waters and bog the discussion down in pointless details.
.5 degrees or .3 degrees isn't what matters. What matters is it's happening, it's going to impact the food supply which will lead to global chaos, wars.
There are no scientists who disagree that Global Warming is happening who don't work for global companies trying to get out of paying the taxes needed to address the problem. Whether humans caused global warming or not or whether it's
We should be doing something about it but we're not because the wealthy don't want to spend a ton of money on it. The global chaos won't impact them. A lot of them will profit from it since as resources get scares they can sell what's left to us for top dollar. Climate Change deniers, the real ones that fund and fuel the movement, just don't want to pay to address the problem. As always, follow the money.
they stepped out of the console market because it wasn't profitable enough (they might have also got tired of being bullied by Microsoft & Sony, I can't imagine them doing well against those companies). The rumor mill was that AMD got better deals from MS & Sony because neither company was ready for nVidia to drop them. So it's been a nice infusion of cash.
I think the Tegra was suppose to be a game console like chip but when it's performance didn't match up with the 360 & PS3 (let alone the xbone & PS4) it floundered. The 30% premium on the app store doesn't help, and while side loading exists it's hard to enforce DRM with it.
they matter lots. You do know we use satellites to monitor climate change, right? You do realize he's in a position to control access to said satellites, right?
That's the trouble with corruption, it's a bit on the subtle side sometimes. I remember a story I read in my local paper about a real estate developer who wanted some land but couldn't get it because there were a bunch of endangered goats on it. So he bought the land near by, put up a short fence, and put some sheep on his land who just happened to have syphilis. Sheep jumped the fence, goats and sheep did what animals do (try not to think too much about it) and goats, who are apparently much more susceptible to the side effects of syphilis died. Goats gone, problem solved and he got his land.
It sounds crazy. It was all documented though since somebody was tracking the goats (they were endangered after all). So yeah, sometimes corruption isn't all that obvious.
and judging by your +5 post it worked. Hell, got me here too...
like this. People really, really hate the idea of somebody spending their time happy while they toil. And there will still be work to be done even with automation. I just do see us as a people being willing to divvy up the spoils of automation, especially here in America. Too much puritanical "if you don't work you don't eat" stuff.
but the reason I don't buy AMD is I never stop hearing about all the issues their graphics cards have. Every time a new game comes out the Steam forums are filled with folks complaining about AMD with at least a 3 to 1 ratio to the nVidia comments. Moreover I play a lot of old games (I only just got around to playing Fallout NV last year and I fire up older stuff like Psyconauts or NOLF from time to time). nVidia's compatibility with old and/or obscure titles is just better.
I miss the better image quality AMD had (to this day nVidia cuts corners on rendering to get better framerates, it's especially noticable in Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing Transformed) but I'm 40 and I just don't have the time or patience to screw around with drivers and tweaks to get a game working. I know a lot of that isn't AMD's fault, but that doesn't make my games run.
they're all over blockchain and their executives sit on the board of directors of major Wallstreet companies that live by High Frequency Trading (which, rather annoyingly, is a modern marvel of engineering). They've long since learned that tech good. They don't understand it (they're really just members of the ruling class like kings of old) but that doesn't mean they don't know it's valuable. Just like kings knew metal weapons & armor were valuable.
shifting nearly all tech work overseas in less than 10 years. I watched it happen overnight. I lived through it (and the constant layoffs). Banking executives are only "conservative" in the sense they don't like paying taxes. They're plenty progressive when it comes to saving money. Remember, we've structured their pay around stock price, and the best way to raise stock price is to have fewer employees. That's why everytime the economy tanks there's mass layoffs to bump the stock. This'll be the same thing, only this time the jobs aren't going overseas, they're just gone.
/.er posting on a Friday night, so you can bet I don't have kids). So what do I care?
We're about to head into another industrial revolution. The last few had decades of unemployment, wars and social strife before tech (and the New Deal) caught up and people were employed again. If you're going to do something to avert the next upheaval now's the time to start voting people into office that'll address the problem with something other than more "conservative" tax cuts for bank executives.
Or don't. I'm getting up there in the years and won't make it past 55 with my health problems (and I'm a
why doesn't your company invest in training? Maybe lobby for more vocational schools and better funding for public universities. Most of what I'm seeing from companies is lobbying for lower taxes which in turn means fewer educational services. If you want good workers, pay for them.
Trump has acknowledged Kim's government. The reason Trump meeting with Kim was such a big deal is that we just acknowledged yet another military dictatorship as "legitimate". To be fair we did the same thing with China, but there was a _little_ gray area there (very little). OTOH the US supports 70% of the world's dictatorships so I don't much see the point of singling NK out just because they happen to use Karl Marx's books as rhetoric instead of somebody else's.
like to complain about their cell carriers. If I suggest we regulate they don't like that because regulation's bad, m'kay. If I suggest we break them up they don't like that because they don't want to pay roaming charges. If I suggest we leave them alone they complain about stuff like this.
Well, we either do something or we do nothing, but the cell phone companies are going to do stuff whether we like it or not.
Saddam & Gaddafi both did the same and look where it got them. Kim Jun is smart enough to know that (he survived North Korean court politics, the whole thing is basically a monarchy). He'll keep doing it on the sly. Meanwhile Trump will look for excuses to escalate the conflict since it'll be good for business and good for his presidency.
I've read multiple times that the H1-B program allows 85,000 applicants a year, but I've also read the half a million figure. Are they just not going home when their Visas are up? Are the Visas being issued for decades at a time so that they build up in the system? Or are they saying that most H1-B Visas are converted to permanent residency?
One thing I can say: Companies stopped training once they could rely on the H1-B visa program. One more thing, I know two or three people who were laid off and replaced by H1-Bs, which is supposed to be illegal.
if she didn't campaign. She lost because she didn't campaign in the Rust belt. She took them for granted and they punished her for it. That said, if she'd have had a more traditional challenger she probably would have taken them seriously and campaigned. She had a billion dollars and by all accounts 5 firms with close ties to her took $700 million to do basically nothing. She got Romney'd and like Romney everybody thought it wouldn't matter because they'd cruise to an easy victory...
Mueller is. And Mueller doesn't strike me as the type to leak.
because that's what the Democratic voters overwhelmingly want. Hilary is a right winger on everything but a few social issues. She can't take responsibility without changing her politics. And she's so wealthy at this point that she's completely out of touch with working class Americans. It's like that old Mitt Romney joke: Why can't the Poor Just Buy More Money? She doesn't get it and never will.
so long as she doesn't make it to general. She'd take the heat off real candidates while making those same candidates step up their game. That's exactly why the Republicans have so many challengers. Meanwhile she spent the last 8 years making sure nobody could oppose her in the 2016 primary which has decimated the Democratic party. She basically shut down anyone like Obama who could have opposed her.
because Trump really, really wants a war and NK seems to have backed down as a result (though I don't think they're really going to give up their nukes, they learned the lesson we taught Saddam & Gaddafi).
Trump had nothing to do with the economy or Isis. That was Obama, and if he'd had a left wing Congress (and no, I don't mean a bunch of right wing Dems) he could have done more. Trump has deregulated Wallstreet (with the help of those right wing Dems). That's going to blow up in our faces just in time for a Democrat to take charge, clean up the mess and get blamed for it. Like it always happens. Please, please pick up on this pattern and don't fall for it again. I'm tired of rebuilding my life every 10 years when right wing politicians tank the world economy, aren't you?
from the right wing Corporate Dems. They don't have any issues to run on for the Mid Terms so they're doing this. Seriously, besides maybe doing smaller tax cuts for the rich and not gutting Obamacare they've agreed on Trump on almost everything. This is to distract from actual left wing economic policies that people want, to wit: 1. Medicare for all.
2. End the Wars (8 and counting).
3. Fix out crumbling infrastructure and dangerous bridges.
4. A New New Deal.
5. College for All.
6. Legalize Marijuana.
Those are the issues 60%-80% of Americans want (depending on how you ask the question, e.g. if you ask "Do you think the government should guarantee every American healthcare" you get 80% if you ask "Would you support a Government takeover of the Healthcare industry" you get 60%).
But the Corporate Dems masters, the ones who buy them off with the legalized bribery of campaign contributions, don't want to pay for all of that. So we keep hearing about Russia and Stormy Daniels.
Meanwhile Trump's on track to cruise into a second term...
but in America poor rural areas might be a couple weeks without power following a major disaster. Heck, parts of Puerto Rico still don't have power...
Landlines work in a lot of cases where the power's down, at least in the States. Not sure about UK.