Hes delayed the trial so many times over so many petty reasons and cost the taxpayer millions in the process.
If getting a continuance on a court date costs millions of dollars for the taxpayers, I'd say the problem is with your judicial process, not with Kim Dot Com.
The two dimensions fighting over the Trump presidency may originate and stem from the touchy-feely late 1960’s continuing through the 1970’s. This included the influence of the book “I’m OK – You’re OK” which was released in 1967 and sold over 15 million copies. More importantly it may be the true genesis of the self-esteem movement which began to flourish in the 1970’s. This, in turn, led to the idea of the participation trophy and the concept that everyone is a winner.
Eventually the self-esteem movement was introduced into the classroom in such a big way – especially on the West coast – that it eventually led to today’s “snowflakes”, “safe-spaces” and pretty much everything happening in the Universities.
You can look deeply in to the I’m OK and you are OK notions combined with the self-esteem movement and you begin to realize you are uncovering Donald Trump as a genotype.
First of all, he extols his own virtues to an extreme. He a braggart by old standards. But by self-esteem standards he is doing what he is supposed to do. Only he verbalizes more than most would. And if he’s read any of the concurrent books about having a positive attitude, he’s just doing the right thing by, well, having a positive attitude.
He’s also exhibiting the “you’re OK” factors by exuding outrageous positive compliments on anyone he’s around. People who he picks are fabulous by any and all standards and they are all going to do an “amazing” job. This reflects the positive attitude high self-esteem concepts promoted in the mid 1960’s until this day
It’s ironic that he is condemned for his huge self-esteem created ego and his overly positive attitude by a liberal media that has promoted all this crunchy hokum in the first place. It’s no coincidence that Trump was always a Democrat until just recently when opportunism presented itself.
Much of his apparent adoption of New Age malarkey is what accounts for many in the Republican party being so uncomfortable with him. The religious right has never liked New Age anything likening it to a competitive religion and associating it with liberalism. Despite this he does draw a large crowd of evangelicals to listen to his speeches.
The level of confused raw hatred towards Trump by the same people who might embrace the positive attitude and self-esteem philosophies might actually represent self-rejection. Trump is like the anti-Christ of New Age philosophies which show that perhaps these ideas can create a monster who must be rejected. Their internal justification can be rationalized by his ludicrous grab them by the pussy remarks which also trace back to extreme self-esteem issues.
At this late date it is probably impossible for Trump to develop self-doubt or any sort of humility, even fake humility seems impossible to achieve. So what you see is what you get.
The positive side to the man has to be his sales acumen. At the time of his life when he was obviously influenced by the New Age ideas he must have also read both the Carnegie book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” as well as Napolean Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” These were common books to read during the same era if you were taking any sort of college level courses in Business. I say this because he had to learn his salesmanship style somewhere.
Both of these books were extremely popular amongst the non-intellectual class out to make a buck. Combined with New Age philosophies of the era and you end up with Donald Trump.
Trump will always be boastful to an extreme, which annoys a lot of people who do not understand it and cannot see him as someone with nothing more than a positive attitude on hyperdrive. The philosophies of the 60’s and 70’s here are actually taken seriously. And, yes, it’s a load of crap, but all the analysis you see and hear trying to explain it are also delivering a load of crap. In fact, insofar as the haters are concerned, when deconstructed, he is, ironically, one of them.
The question is, how much modern Windows software is ABI compatible with the 486, and doesn't assume MMX or SSE support?
Probably not much. In fact, Windows 10 will not run on any x86 processor that doesn't support PAE, NX and SSE2, and that's been the case since Windows 8.
But at least those poor had healthcare that they didn't before.
Maybe. Some of them. Many do not. The entire reason for limiting their hours to 29 is to avoid having to offer those employees health care, which means Obamacare exchange is the only choice. And it can be expensive if you're working 29 hours a week earning $12 an hour. It's enough earnings to mean you're not getting much subsidy, so your premiums are still high. But if you choose that instead of food or rent, you have health insurance, which you can use for a doctor as long as you pay the large deductibles.
But, hey, feel good about helping the indigent and making sure people with "pre-existing conditions" don't have to pay a higher premium that you do for their type 2 diabetes insulin treatments or whatever.
Yes, regulations and taxes are a bitch, but sometimes needed.
You really can have too much of a good thing. And right now there is way too much. Right now there is an organization in Virginia that is allowed to enter the property of any farm, no matter what size, inspect anything they want, seize whatever they deem appropriate, including purely for "testing", and impose fines on the farmers for a set of rules that they design based on a pretty arbitrary framework. The fines collected go right back into funding the organization. Yea, that's way too much regulation. In fact it feels more like fascism to me.
You can understand that all those little pesky rules are there because the community thought that they would fix an existing issue.
You're conflating some things that are not the same. The "community" didn't set those rules, politicians did. Were some of them well-intentioned? Sure. Is that feedback you're talking about being used to improve the system? No, it's not. It's being ignored because it's coming from people with no power or influence. Besides, the food carts compete with the Wendy's and McDonald's store fronts, and THOSE guys have plenty of money for political campaigns. Money the rule-makers need more than they need anyone in the "community" complaining about all the red tape and costs.
I'll let Thomas Paine speak to this:
"SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.... Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
Sorry about your wife. It's a tragic story, and there are many others. You're better off than most to have a small bill instead of one that would have driven you into bankruptcy. I think Medicare-for-all would work better than what we have right now, but to do that you have to reign in the drug companies. And that's not going to happen because there is too much money to be made by the politicians, the media, and many others that will fight to stop it. What is possible, however, is getting those government bullies out of the way of people wanting to work to make a better world for themselves, their families, and society. They can do that by reversing all the micro-management they are doing now. It's done by paper pushers who have no idea how much their lofty ideals are harming real people and real commerce.
I suspect the finger pointing at "big government regulations" will dramatically increase as right-wing voters lose jobs.
As well it should. Regulations have strangled the ability of anyone without significant capital or venture capitalist backing to just go out and start pursuing an independent vocation. It's hurting the existing small businesses to prosper and expand. The last few years have been bad for small businesses, which is directly related to why the recovery has been the slowest we've seen US history. The top two reasons small business owners site as the things hurting their business is the cost of healthcare and overly burdensome regulations. There's not just one or two you can point to that cause this: It's the huge volume of regulations that are killing prosperity, mostly propagated by bureaucrats based on some new interpretation, not new laws passed by Congress.
Another example of regulations hurting the economy is Obamacare itself. While it has helped some people get healthcare who otherwise would not have, it has also meant less earnings for the working poor. Businesses had to limit part-time work to no more than 29 hours a week. Even the government of Virginia did that to its workforce, and the Governor of the state is a big Democrat and Obama supporter.
The cost of regulations alone are now the world's 10th largest economy, surpassing the entire economy of India. The Federal Register is the document that is used to publish Federal regulations, not including state and local ones. Just keeping up with them is a big task. At the end of 2016, the number of Federal Register pages stood at 95,894, 19.4 percent higher than the previous year’s 80,260 pages (see Figure 9). This count was President Obama’s highest level, as well as the highest level in the history of the Federal Register. Both 2010 and 2011 had been the all-time record years, at 81,405 and 81,247, respectively. The 79,435 count in 2008 under President George W. Bush holds the fifth-highest title.
I looked into what it would take to set up a food cart on the corner in my town. Just to start required applications, many lengthy, to no less than eight different state agencies and three city departments. The fees were all over the place, some monthly, some annual, and collecting the THREE DIFFERENT "sales" taxes (for each item sold) also required paying a fee for the privilege of collecting the tax from customers and sending it off to the two different treasurers.
The flooding in Miami actually has nothing to do with sea level. It's because the limestone it sits on is so porous, and ocean water pools in the pores of Floridian limestone. Beachside condos lie perilously close to the edge of the sea, with little land reaching over six feet above sea level. The majority of U.S. citizens who live at an elevation of four feet or less reside in south Florida.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study of the causes of flooding in the Miami area found that surface wind stress, rather than temperature or melting glaciers, is “the most important force that affects ocean water levels in a coastal flood situation along the west-central coast of Florida.” Tides overflow into the low land of Miami Beach because it’s really, really windy on the ocean there.
While not specifically aimed at luxury vehicles, the Environmental Protection Agency applies a gas guzzler tax to vehicles that fail to meet minimum fuel efficiency standards. The tax is only applied to cars, not trucks or sport utility vehicles and goes up based on how far below the EPA's minimum mileage standard the car falls. In the 2013 model year, the only vehicles subject to the tax are large-engine luxury vehicles, performance cars and sports cars.
"Sponsored Links". That box is annoying AF. Dammit! Shrink the whole comments area or something! There's only a tiny vertical space where the comments are visible, because that box covers the whole right side of the comment content.
Where did the money come from for this useless "study"? Everybody knows this. I only CC the boss when either I know he's watching the project, or the person I'm email needs prompting to get their shit done.
Not according to the history I have read about Rockefeller and Standard Oil. There are government-regulated monopolies, for sure, such as the old telephone company or utilities companies. But monopolies such as Standard Oil occur through aggressive business practices.
Maybe you've been reading some biased history. Here is a detailed and well-sourced document that counters the "big-government-is-needed-to-solve-every-problem" standard view that you've always read.
Well considering the extra money that women get for harassment lawsuits, alimony and child support, pensions and property tax breaks when their military or first responder husbands are killed, free drinks and dinners while out and on dates, and other miscellaneous perks and giveaways, I'd say women are still FAR ahead even if they are making less for specific jobs.
That doesn't even take into account that women are now earning far more college degrees, and at an accelerated rate.
Well considering the extra money that women get for harassment lawsuits, alimony and child support, pensions and property tax breaks when their military or first responder husbands are killed, free drinks and dinners while out and on dates, and other miscellaneous perks and giveaways, I'd say women are still FAR ahead even if they are making less for specific jobs.
That doesn't even take into account that women are now earning far more college degrees, and at an accelerated rate.
“I have documents showing that the CIA invented the whole thing,” claims Edward Snowden. “Global Warming was invented to both scare people, and divert their attention from other human-made dangers like nuclear weapons. The CIA gave millions of dollars to any scientist who would confirm the theory, so many unscrupulous scientists did what they were told in order to get the money. Now, there is so much fake data to confirm that Global Warming “exists”, that they actually convinced everyone that it was real.”
I mean, even if you're trying to play scare quotes, putting quotes around "multiple"? Really?
Because there were only 2, but Mann said it was "multiple". 2 is a multiple, isn't it?
Cuccinelli asked to see the measurements, but when he asked Mann just said "sue me". UVA students held a midnight vigil to honor the vaginally scanned.
Slashdot Mirror
Could be Amazon
Highly doubtful. They have a $600 million contract with the CIA. Awarded just a few months before Bezos bought the Washington Post.
Hes delayed the trial so many times over so many petty reasons and cost the taxpayer millions in the process.
If getting a continuance on a court date costs millions of dollars for the taxpayers, I'd say the problem is with your judicial process, not with Kim Dot Com.
Donald Trump. New Age Maven?
by John C. Dvorak
The two dimensions fighting over the Trump presidency may originate and stem from the touchy-feely late 1960’s continuing through the 1970’s. This included the influence of the book “I’m OK – You’re OK” which was released in 1967 and sold over 15 million copies. More importantly it may be the true genesis of the self-esteem movement which began to flourish in the 1970’s. This, in turn, led to the idea of the participation trophy and the concept that everyone is a winner.
Eventually the self-esteem movement was introduced into the classroom in such a big way – especially on the West coast – that it eventually led to today’s “snowflakes”, “safe-spaces” and pretty much everything happening in the Universities.
You can look deeply in to the I’m OK and you are OK notions combined with the self-esteem movement and you begin to realize you are uncovering Donald Trump as a genotype.
First of all, he extols his own virtues to an extreme. He a braggart by old standards. But by self-esteem standards he is doing what he is supposed to do. Only he verbalizes more than most would. And if he’s read any of the concurrent books about having a positive attitude, he’s just doing the right thing by, well, having a positive attitude.
He’s also exhibiting the “you’re OK” factors by exuding outrageous positive compliments on anyone he’s around. People who he picks are fabulous by any and all standards and they are all going to do an “amazing” job. This reflects the positive attitude high self-esteem concepts promoted in the mid 1960’s until this day
It’s ironic that he is condemned for his huge self-esteem created ego and his overly positive attitude by a liberal media that has promoted all this crunchy hokum in the first place. It’s no coincidence that Trump was always a Democrat until just recently when opportunism presented itself.
Much of his apparent adoption of New Age malarkey is what accounts for many in the Republican party being so uncomfortable with him. The religious right has never liked New Age anything likening it to a competitive religion and associating it with liberalism. Despite this he does draw a large crowd of evangelicals to listen to his speeches.
The level of confused raw hatred towards Trump by the same people who might embrace the positive attitude and self-esteem philosophies might actually represent self-rejection. Trump is like the anti-Christ of New Age philosophies which show that perhaps these ideas can create a monster who must be rejected. Their internal justification can be rationalized by his ludicrous grab them by the pussy remarks which also trace back to extreme self-esteem issues.
At this late date it is probably impossible for Trump to develop self-doubt or any sort of humility, even fake humility seems impossible to achieve. So what you see is what you get.
The positive side to the man has to be his sales acumen. At the time of his life when he was obviously influenced by the New Age ideas he must have also read both the Carnegie book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” as well as Napolean Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” These were common books to read during the same era if you were taking any sort of college level courses in Business. I say this because he had to learn his salesmanship style somewhere.
Both of these books were extremely popular amongst the non-intellectual class out to make a buck. Combined with New Age philosophies of the era and you end up with Donald Trump.
Trump will always be boastful to an extreme, which annoys a lot of people who do not understand it and cannot see him as someone with nothing more than a positive attitude on hyperdrive. The philosophies of the 60’s and 70’s here are actually taken seriously. And, yes, it’s a load of crap, but all the analysis you see and hear trying to explain it are also delivering a load of crap. In fact, insofar as the haters are concerned, when deconstructed, he is, ironically, one of them.
But the issue now is: does anyone who chooses to have a gun automatically part of a militia?
At the time of the writing, the militia was understood to mean every able-bodied adult male. ALL of them were members of the militia.
No. No, they won't. If I have to port software that old to ARM, I might as well port it to Linux or Android.
The question is, how much modern Windows software is ABI compatible with the 486, and doesn't assume MMX or SSE support?
Probably not much. In fact, Windows 10 will not run on any x86 processor that doesn't support PAE, NX and SSE2, and that's been the case since Windows 8.
Of course, the beer industry wants OSHA to set much more lenient standards.
That's fine with me. As a beer brewer myself I support anything the beer industry wants, including total elimination of all regulations of beer.
Again, it's a choice / part of the culture. There is no reason why people in the USA can't make different choices.
And no reason someone can't make different choices FOR them!
I think we should subsidize solar and wind by three times the amount per MWH as we do other sources. Agree?
Agreed. I support this reduction in solar and wind subsidies.
Go take a few breaths of carbon dioxide and tell us whether you consider it a pollutant.
As usual, "The poison is in the dose." CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. CO2 becomes toxic at 6%, or about 150 TIMES the current level.
This is assuming that carbon is a "pollutant".
How dare you question the the church, you heretic! TROLL!
But at least those poor had healthcare that they didn't before.
Maybe. Some of them. Many do not. The entire reason for limiting their hours to 29 is to avoid having to offer those employees health care, which means Obamacare exchange is the only choice. And it can be expensive if you're working 29 hours a week earning $12 an hour. It's enough earnings to mean you're not getting much subsidy, so your premiums are still high. But if you choose that instead of food or rent, you have health insurance, which you can use for a doctor as long as you pay the large deductibles.
But, hey, feel good about helping the indigent and making sure people with "pre-existing conditions" don't have to pay a higher premium that you do for their type 2 diabetes insulin treatments or whatever.
Yes, regulations and taxes are a bitch, but sometimes needed.
You really can have too much of a good thing. And right now there is way too much. Right now there is an organization in Virginia that is allowed to enter the property of any farm, no matter what size, inspect anything they want, seize whatever they deem appropriate, including purely for "testing", and impose fines on the farmers for a set of rules that they design based on a pretty arbitrary framework. The fines collected go right back into funding the organization. Yea, that's way too much regulation. In fact it feels more like fascism to me.
You can understand that all those little pesky rules are there because the community thought that they would fix an existing issue.
You're conflating some things that are not the same. The "community" didn't set those rules, politicians did. Were some of them well-intentioned? Sure. Is that feedback you're talking about being used to improve the system? No, it's not. It's being ignored because it's coming from people with no power or influence. Besides, the food carts compete with the Wendy's and McDonald's store fronts, and THOSE guys have plenty of money for political campaigns. Money the rule-makers need more than they need anyone in the "community" complaining about all the red tape and costs.
I'll let Thomas Paine speak to this:
Sorry about your wife. It's a tragic story, and there are many others. You're better off than most to have a small bill instead of one that would have driven you into bankruptcy. I think Medicare-for-all would work better than what we have right now, but to do that you have to reign in the drug companies. And that's not going to happen because there is too much money to be made by the politicians, the media, and many others that will fight to stop it. What is possible, however, is getting those government bullies out of the way of people wanting to work to make a better world for themselves, their families, and society. They can do that by reversing all the micro-management they are doing now. It's done by paper pushers who have no idea how much their lofty ideals are harming real people and real commerce.
I suspect the finger pointing at "big government regulations" will dramatically increase as right-wing voters lose jobs.
As well it should. Regulations have strangled the ability of anyone without significant capital or venture capitalist backing to just go out and start pursuing an independent vocation. It's hurting the existing small businesses to prosper and expand. The last few years have been bad for small businesses, which is directly related to why the recovery has been the slowest we've seen US history. The top two reasons small business owners site as the things hurting their business is the cost of healthcare and overly burdensome regulations. There's not just one or two you can point to that cause this: It's the huge volume of regulations that are killing prosperity, mostly propagated by bureaucrats based on some new interpretation, not new laws passed by Congress.
Another example of regulations hurting the economy is Obamacare itself. While it has helped some people get healthcare who otherwise would not have, it has also meant less earnings for the working poor. Businesses had to limit part-time work to no more than 29 hours a week. Even the government of Virginia did that to its workforce, and the Governor of the state is a big Democrat and Obama supporter.
The cost of regulations alone are now the world's 10th largest economy, surpassing the entire economy of India. The Federal Register is the document that is used to publish Federal regulations, not including state and local ones. Just keeping up with them is a big task. At the end of 2016, the number of Federal Register pages stood at 95,894, 19.4 percent higher than the previous year’s 80,260 pages (see Figure 9). This count was President Obama’s highest level, as well as the highest level in the history of the Federal Register. Both 2010 and 2011 had been the all-time record years, at 81,405 and 81,247, respectively. The 79,435 count in 2008 under President George W. Bush holds the fifth-highest title.
I looked into what it would take to set up a food cart on the corner in my town. Just to start required applications, many lengthy, to no less than eight different state agencies and three city departments. The fees were all over the place, some monthly, some annual, and collecting the THREE DIFFERENT "sales" taxes (for each item sold) also required paying a fee for the privilege of collecting the tax from customers and sending it off to the two different treasurers.
The flooding in Miami actually has nothing to do with sea level. It's because the limestone it sits on is so porous, and ocean water pools in the pores of Floridian limestone. Beachside condos lie perilously close to the edge of the sea, with little land reaching over six feet above sea level. The majority of U.S. citizens who live at an elevation of four feet or less reside in south Florida.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study of the causes of flooding in the Miami area found that surface wind stress, rather than temperature or melting glaciers, is “the most important force that affects ocean water levels in a coastal flood situation along the west-central coast of Florida.” Tides overflow into the low land of Miami Beach because it’s really, really windy on the ocean there.
While not specifically aimed at luxury vehicles, the Environmental Protection Agency applies a gas guzzler tax to vehicles that fail to meet minimum fuel efficiency standards. The tax is only applied to cars, not trucks or sport utility vehicles and goes up based on how far below the EPA's minimum mileage standard the car falls. In the 2013 model year, the only vehicles subject to the tax are large-engine luxury vehicles, performance cars and sports cars.
About 10-15 micrograms. Every 4 days.
"Sponsored Links". That box is annoying AF. Dammit! Shrink the whole comments area or something! There's only a tiny vertical space where the comments are visible, because that box covers the whole right side of the comment content.
Where did the money come from for this useless "study"? Everybody knows this. I only CC the boss when either I know he's watching the project, or the person I'm email needs prompting to get their shit done.
Wow. I'm a little surprised the hive mind here is promoting these kinds of wild conspiracy theories.
Not according to the history I have read about Rockefeller and Standard Oil. There are government-regulated monopolies, for sure, such as the old telephone company or utilities companies. But monopolies such as Standard Oil occur through aggressive business practices.
Maybe you've been reading some biased history. Here is a detailed and well-sourced document that counters the "big-government-is-needed-to-solve-every-problem" standard view that you've always read.
but a completely "free" market has no anti-trust protections
The free market is a natural anti-trust protection. Monopolies rely on government regulation to maintain monopoly status.
There is no wage gap.
Economists have debunked this time and again.
Well considering the extra money that women get for harassment lawsuits, alimony and child support, pensions and property tax breaks when their military or first responder husbands are killed, free drinks and dinners while out and on dates, and other miscellaneous perks and giveaways, I'd say women are still FAR ahead even if they are making less for specific jobs.
That doesn't even take into account that women are now earning far more college degrees, and at an accelerated rate.
There is no wage gap.
Economists have debunked this time and again.
Well considering the extra money that women get for harassment lawsuits, alimony and child support, pensions and property tax breaks when their military or first responder husbands are killed, free drinks and dinners while out and on dates, and other miscellaneous perks and giveaways, I'd say women are still FAR ahead even if they are making less for specific jobs.
That doesn't even take into account that women are now earning far more college degrees, and at an accelerated rate.
“I have documents showing that the CIA invented the whole thing,” claims Edward Snowden. “Global Warming was invented to both scare people, and divert their attention from other human-made dangers like nuclear weapons. The CIA gave millions of dollars to any scientist who would confirm the theory, so many unscrupulous scientists did what they were told in order to get the money. Now, there is so much fake data to confirm that Global Warming “exists”, that they actually convinced everyone that it was real.”
I mean, even if you're trying to play scare quotes, putting quotes around "multiple"? Really?
Because there were only 2, but Mann said it was "multiple". 2 is a multiple, isn't it?
Cuccinelli asked to see the measurements, but when he asked Mann just said "sue me". UVA students held a midnight vigil to honor the vaginally scanned.