It's an interesting development. IBM started an IDE to compete with SUN development products (Eclipse, get it?). Oracle buys SUN. Now what's left of SUN (Java EE, at least) gets handed over to IBM.
The city of Richmond replaced all their touch-screen voting machines 3 years ago. The replacement? Paper ballots and scanners.
As an election officer, I prefer the paper ballots. Easy to track and easy to recount when necessary. I trust the system a lot more than the old touch screens. What's wrong with paper ballots? It's just as fast getting voters through and counting is actually easier.
I've been using the Alcatel One Touch Idol 3 for a couple of years. Very nice phone, and at an excellent price. I like the 4.7", but others in the family prefer the 5.5" version. The 5.5 does have slightly better specs (cpu and/or memory), so it's a little faster. The 5.5" is just to big for me.
The latest is the Idol 5S, which seems to only come in a 5.2" form factor, and it's a bit pricier. Still a nice phone for the money, and I'm sold on Alcatel's quality.
Sure, it was ALL just a big coincidence. It's a much longer story than that, the demands for money, the locked bank accounts, etc., etc. The timing was instructive, as was the switching and dead ends I was lead to during phone calls.
You would have certainly looked for an explanation yourself, if it happened to you. Of course the orchestrated it to ensure they had plausible deniability.
This is badly worded or deliberately misleading. The IRS did discriminate against certain political groups by performing deeper audits. But, to the best of my knowledge, they didn't target individual citizens.
They targeted me, personally. Because my wife was involved in politics (Campaign for Liberty State Director), but already had her 501c before the targeting started. So they went after me personally.
Of course there was no "proof", just a lot of audits and requests and demand for information. Somehow EVERY response I sent them was "lost" or "not received," even when I sent by mail AND fax.
Exactly one week after the "investigation" was concluded and the IRS was deemed to have done "nothing wrong," I got a call from an agent that said she "just received my case on her desk." She gave me a fax number, I sent my documents, and the whole thing went away.
I'm not buying into the idea that they were not targeting people. There is no way all that happened by accident.
At the same time, there are co-workers who are questioning whether they can safely express their views in the workplace (especially those with a minority viewpoint). They too feel under threat, and that is also not OK. People must feel free to express dissent.
So, we decided people can go express that dissent elsewhere. Dissent within our ranks will not be tolerated.
It's disheartening that people are so deeply indoctrinated in the climate change mantra, that they will defend any statement that supports regardless of how factually wrong it is, and irrationally react in this way.
The GP is correct in that the vast majority of scientists attribute the recent increase to CO2 levels. If you can explain the slope of the curve in recent times by some other mechanism then I suspect there's a Nobel prize waiting for you.
If you claim that the vast majority are scientists are wrong, but cannot offer another explanation then you're either a troll, or a...eh... non-rationale, reality-challenged individual (plenty of those about).
There are lots of other theories around, including one that did get a Nobel in 1972, for a formula to calculate the global average temperature at the Earth's surface at sea level. The composition of the atmosphere was a tiny factor - the big factor was the density.
Cartoons aside, 22,000 years is the blink of an eye in the history of the earth, and it certainly has been MUCH warmer in the past. To say it's currently at "record highs" without qualification is simply factually incorrect. Some folks also have made the assertion that the speed of change is unprecedented in the historical record, but that has also been shown to be false.
I don't dispute that human activity is having an affect on the climate, but it's going to change regardless. I have no faith in the ability of mankind to be able to effectively control the without creating even worse consequences, either.
Have patience, the investigations into the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia, Russian hacking and attempts to influence the election all continue.
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
"Justice" has nothing to do with it. It's a witch hunt, based on faked assertions.
It was to be a short stay, but she illegally remained in the country for months.
Wow, talk about burying the lede. The Trump campaign was colluding with illegal immigrants! Who, I have been told, are all criminals and rapists. Or is that just the brown skinned ones? I don't follow the latest racist rantings.
I know because the full power of the deep state, Congress, and Clinton Machine has been looking for evidence for 8 months, and they have found NOTHING!
Duh.
The "three agencies" did not come up with that opinion autonomously, either. James Clapper, who has already been caught lying to Congress, hand-picked the agents that worked on it, and even then, the NSA opinion was only "moderate" confidence.
Research the real evidence yourself, dude. There's no there there.
Yeah. Possible collusion like speaking to a lawyer that just happens to be a Russian national. Not every Russian is a KGB agent.
The Russian in question seemed to have more ties to the DNC than to the Kremlin.
It was an interesting sequence of events. That lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskya, was denied a visa to the US twice, as she wanted to lobby to have the Maginsky act overturned. Some time in 2016, the Obama administration (Lynch) granted her a special "probation" visa. It was an "extraordinary circumstances" waiver. It was to be a short stay, but she illegally remained in the country for months.
At the same time, the Obama administration (Rice) had been denied twice by the FISA court permission to implement surveillance of Trump's campaign members and Trump tower. Shortly after this lawyer met with Manafort and others, viola, the FISA court granted the request.
The meeting was arranged by the smear experts Fusion GPS, who were also responsible for the discredited "Pee pee dossier" on Trump. Looks like a set-up.
So what. It is illegal for Trump to collide with Russians. Just speaking to them, as proven by Rice's spying on Trump's campaign, is illegal. He broke he law by talking to them. Talking to, for example, someone from Brazil is not illegal.
And putting Russian dressing on your salad! Illegal! Lock them up!
There is no "Russian collaboration," there never was. It's all a made-up conspiracy theory worthy of as much derision as "pizzagate."
Look how much people buy into these lies. Even Al Franken was bamboozled the "17 agencies" falsehood because the media kept repeating the lie as fact, and Clapper had to correct him twice during testimony that, no, it was actually only three. Russiagate is the same thing.
Evidence and analysis from Intelligence Community veterans clearly lays out the case that the DNC emails were much more likely a leak than a hack. It's possible that the only source of evidence that Russians were involved, Crowdstrike, a partisan group, simply made it look that way.
Why do people always assert the universe gives a flying fuck about political ideology?
As far as AGW is concerned, while the universe is telling us what is happening, what to do about it falls squarely in the political realm. That's because all the solutions harm one group instead of another. Urban dwellers are fine with solutions like eliminating fossil fuels but rural folks don't have electric tractors and long-haul trucks. Poor people in northern climates want to keep their natural gas furnaces, and well-off elites want to keep their commercial air flights.
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It's an interesting development. IBM started an IDE to compete with SUN development products (Eclipse, get it?). Oracle buys SUN. Now what's left of SUN (Java EE, at least) gets handed over to IBM.
Eclipse, indeed!
"The only good phone is a land line and the phone should be made out of Bakelite!"
The city of Richmond replaced all their touch-screen voting machines 3 years ago. The replacement? Paper ballots and scanners.
As an election officer, I prefer the paper ballots. Easy to track and easy to recount when necessary. I trust the system a lot more than the old touch screens. What's wrong with paper ballots? It's just as fast getting voters through and counting is actually easier.
You're not using credit enough.
I've been using the Alcatel One Touch Idol 3 for a couple of years. Very nice phone, and at an excellent price. I like the 4.7", but others in the family prefer the 5.5" version. The 5.5 does have slightly better specs (cpu and/or memory), so it's a little faster. The 5.5" is just to big for me.
The latest is the Idol 5S, which seems to only come in a 5.2" form factor, and it's a bit pricier. Still a nice phone for the money, and I'm sold on Alcatel's quality.
Sure. Right. Things have been SOOOO much better since 1972! gold-backed dollars?? Bah! Unnecessary.
We're obviously much better off with a dollar based on its ability to buy oil. What could possibly go wrong??
Sure, it was ALL just a big coincidence. It's a much longer story than that, the demands for money, the locked bank accounts, etc., etc. The timing was instructive, as was the switching and dead ends I was lead to during phone calls.
You would have certainly looked for an explanation yourself, if it happened to you. Of course the orchestrated it to ensure they had plausible deniability.
Oh, and fuck you for defending them.
This is badly worded or deliberately misleading. The IRS did discriminate against certain political groups by performing deeper audits. But, to the best of my knowledge, they didn't target individual citizens.
They targeted me, personally. Because my wife was involved in politics (Campaign for Liberty State Director), but already had her 501c before the targeting started. So they went after me personally.
Of course there was no "proof", just a lot of audits and requests and demand for information. Somehow EVERY response I sent them was "lost" or "not received," even when I sent by mail AND fax.
Exactly one week after the "investigation" was concluded and the IRS was deemed to have done "nothing wrong," I got a call from an agent that said she "just received my case on her desk." She gave me a fax number, I sent my documents, and the whole thing went away.
I'm not buying into the idea that they were not targeting people. There is no way all that happened by accident.
At the same time, there are co-workers who are questioning whether they can safely express their views in the workplace (especially those with a minority viewpoint). They too feel under threat, and that is also not OK. People must feel free to express dissent.
So, we decided people can go express that dissent elsewhere. Dissent within our ranks will not be tolerated.
My point was that there WAS NO context to the statement. It was left completely unqualified.
If you're talking about science, which the OP was attempting to do, some level of precision is needed. Otherwise it's worthless.
Wow! Troll, really?
It's disheartening that people are so deeply indoctrinated in the climate change mantra, that they will defend any statement that supports regardless of how factually wrong it is, and irrationally react in this way.
average global temperature is at record highs
LOL! Nope.
True, but take a look at this https://xkcd.com/1732/
The GP is correct in that the vast majority of scientists attribute the recent increase to CO2 levels. If you can explain the slope of the curve in recent times by some other mechanism then I suspect there's a Nobel prize waiting for you.
If you claim that the vast majority are scientists are wrong, but cannot offer another explanation then you're either a troll, or a ...eh ... non-rationale, reality-challenged individual (plenty of those about).
There are lots of other theories around, including one that did get a Nobel in 1972, for a formula to calculate the global average temperature at the Earth's surface at sea level. The composition of the atmosphere was a tiny factor - the big factor was the density.
Cartoons aside, 22,000 years is the blink of an eye in the history of the earth, and it certainly has been MUCH warmer in the past. To say it's currently at "record highs" without qualification is simply factually incorrect. Some folks also have made the assertion that the speed of change is unprecedented in the historical record, but that has also been shown to be false.
I don't dispute that human activity is having an affect on the climate, but it's going to change regardless. I have no faith in the ability of mankind to be able to effectively control the without creating even worse consequences, either.
average global temperature is at record highs
LOL! Nope.
Have patience, the investigations into the Trump campaign's collusion with Russia, Russian hacking and attempts to influence the election all continue.
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
"Justice" has nothing to do with it. It's a witch hunt, based on faked assertions.
It was to be a short stay, but she illegally remained in the country for months.
Wow, talk about burying the lede. The Trump campaign was colluding with illegal immigrants! Who, I have been told, are all criminals and rapists. Or is that just the brown skinned ones? I don't follow the latest racist rantings.
LOL! Touche
Ignoring your ad hominem
I know because the full power of the deep state, Congress, and Clinton Machine has been looking for evidence for 8 months, and they have found NOTHING!
Duh.
The "three agencies" did not come up with that opinion autonomously, either. James Clapper, who has already been caught lying to Congress, hand-picked the agents that worked on it, and even then, the NSA opinion was only "moderate" confidence.
Research the real evidence yourself, dude. There's no there there.
Yeah. Possible collusion like speaking to a lawyer that just happens to be a Russian national. Not every Russian is a KGB agent.
The Russian in question seemed to have more ties to the DNC than to the Kremlin.
It was an interesting sequence of events. That lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskya, was denied a visa to the US twice, as she wanted to lobby to have the Maginsky act overturned. Some time in 2016, the Obama administration (Lynch) granted her a special "probation" visa. It was an "extraordinary circumstances" waiver. It was to be a short stay, but she illegally remained in the country for months.
At the same time, the Obama administration (Rice) had been denied twice by the FISA court permission to implement surveillance of Trump's campaign members and Trump tower. Shortly after this lawyer met with Manafort and others, viola, the FISA court granted the request.
The meeting was arranged by the smear experts Fusion GPS, who were also responsible for the discredited "Pee pee dossier" on Trump. Looks like a set-up.
So what. It is illegal for Trump to collide with Russians. Just speaking to them, as proven by Rice's spying on Trump's campaign, is illegal. He broke he law by talking to them. Talking to, for example, someone from Brazil is not illegal.
And putting Russian dressing on your salad! Illegal! Lock them up!
I hate to break this to you, but Russia and China are not "left." They are capitalists working on building empires, run by dictators.
Russiagate fake news.
There is no "Russian collaboration," there never was. It's all a made-up conspiracy theory worthy of as much derision as "pizzagate."
Look how much people buy into these lies. Even Al Franken was bamboozled the "17 agencies" falsehood because the media kept repeating the lie as fact, and Clapper had to correct him twice during testimony that, no, it was actually only three. Russiagate is the same thing.
Evidence and analysis from Intelligence Community veterans clearly lays out the case that the DNC emails were much more likely a leak than a hack. It's possible that the only source of evidence that Russians were involved, Crowdstrike, a partisan group, simply made it look that way.
and when whatever they try fails BLAME SOMEONE ELSE for their lack of understanding.
It's not that bad. In fact, it's downright presidential.
Or presidential wanna-be.
Nice gaslighting! Kudos to you sir!
Why do people always assert the universe gives a flying fuck about political ideology?
As far as AGW is concerned, while the universe is telling us what is happening, what to do about it falls squarely in the political realm. That's because all the solutions harm one group instead of another. Urban dwellers are fine with solutions like eliminating fossil fuels but rural folks don't have electric tractors and long-haul trucks. Poor people in northern climates want to keep their natural gas furnaces, and well-off elites want to keep their commercial air flights.
I wouldn't really describe masturbating five times a day, using your bulbous gut as a potato chip tray, and slurping Red Bull all night as "quirky."
They should do like the US, and just put everyone under surveillance regardless of whether any suspicion of any activity exists.