I can't decide if Brennan is stupid, or if he thinks everyone else is stupid.
I readily admit this is not an uncommon reaction of mine when I read of the things presented by elected and appointed officials. The US government is a madhouse.
This kind of hubris is really really common among 'Murcans.
One of my coworkers told me how he killed three women in Vietnam, walked off a plane three days later in the US, and threatened a woman peace protester who wanted to throw a can of paint at him. The woman was too shocked to respond. He spent the next year in the service painting and rearranging rocks to readjust after the war. Nice guy. Still doing his IT job despite undergoing chemo therapy.
You are jeopardizing my well being with your violent refusal to agree.
Its like admitting you work for an organized crime syndicate.
Tell that to my coworkers who are ex-military. I don't think you would like the response.
Yeah I expect they are brutalized psycho's who enjoyed their time as hit men but wouldn't like to acknowledge, even to themselves, that this is what they really were. They probably hate themselves and take that self-hate out on others. Close to the mark? You can tell by how violently they respond.
So, it's basically a down-scaled diesel-electric locomotive, but with a battery buffer and diesel replaced with CNG?
Pretty much, without the rails off course. Diesel-Electric vehicles don't quite exist yet for general roadway use most likely because space, cost and power would trade off and the resulting savings negligible. (Natural) gas engines can be much smaller and operate at much higher efficiencies and thus less affected by stringent exhaust and other regulations.
Once batteries exist that can supply the surges required of a rail train (currently Diesel-Electric locomotives use capacitors) we will see the switch happen quickly there as well.
It always did make me wonder why companies like Tesla or even GM don't go for the commercial market first. Savings on a vehicle used 1/24h are minimal, a vehicle used 12-24h/day is much more attractive to save even 10% in TCO.
Well at least its an actual TRUCK not an oversized car with a huge, open-air trunk!
How about respect in the international community. Oh, sorry. The US doesn't care about that kind of thing.
No...we really don't care what the rest of the world thinks about us....why should we?
Of course, you have the worlds 'best' military, you don't need to care what they think any more than the school bully needs to care what other kids think of them.
TFA mentions that Mateen was interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014, but not deemed dangerous. This reinforces my doubts that background checks will ever be very effective in general, whether for terrorism or any other type of bad behavior.
I wonder, how do Mormons view homosexuals? Because thats most of the FBI right there...
Can I recommend you actually learn about "assault weapons"?
This may come as a complete shock to you, but did you know that the M16/AR15 was adopted by the US military in part because it's less deadly than its predecessors? Yeah, sit down for this but the thinking is if you shoot and kill a soldier, you remove him from battle, if you shoot and wound a soldier, you remove him and the 4 guys who have to evac him from battle.
Yes, thats a quaint idea from a culture that themselves would actually incapacitate their fighting units in this way.
Not all militaries of the world would operate like that in actual combat. In a Soviet military unit its likely the KGB commissar would just put a bullet through the head of the wounded guy and tell the rest of the unit to carry on. And they would. ISIS probably has a similar doctrine.
People were unable to protect themselves here because the bar was a "Gun Free" zone. Many people died because the police were unable to respond in time. The myth that police can be there to protect you gets people killed.
If they'd all had assault weapons then the death toll would have been double.
At a high level, sure, money shouldn't give you the ability to completely shut down voices you don't like.
My GOD MAN thats UNAMERICAN!
But at the trial, Gawker seemed to both not take the trial seriously (the infamous 4 year old line) and simply treated it like another story they'd post to get clicks. Denton and Daulerio seemed to think they were above the entire fray until the judgment, at which point they turned the entire other way and started trying to rouse sympathy from their readership. They mishandled their own defense to the point of comedy and made the jury entirely unsympathetic. It's hard for me to think they didn't bring this on themselves.
They probably didn't pay their lawyers enough either, thats a surefire way to make the American courts come down like a ton of bricks on your head! Lawyers gotta get their cash.
As a landlord, I'd welcome any service that lets me vet renters before I enter into a contract with them. I've had my share of idiots and deadbeats in my property
Protip; stay off of your property. That way there'll be one less idiot on it!:P
If you want people who are prepared to break their contract with the social media site (by handing their login details over) then more fool you; someone who is happy to break one contract will be happy to break another!
The startup described in TFA sounds, to be blunt, illegal. I cannot possibly see how what they are doing complies with the data protection act and the degree of coverage they're getting makes me suspect that they will be flipped from start-up to close-down quite quickly. That said, somebody will probably tweak the model to comply with the relevant laws and come back with it in a few months time.
Well obviously the landlords who want to use this service only want tenants who are prepared to break the law and break contracts!
NO business would "chew their arm off" to use this if the end result was no new customers
When your potential customers like to set up meth labs or are just generally scummy assholes that will have no regard for your property or other residents, yeah, they would.
Yeah or gay, or muslims. I think you can see where this is going.
What does that mean? A landlord can't turn someone down without having to give a legal and adequate reason? Could a landlord have to defend a rejection of a tenant, in court?
What if they rejected someone because they were black? Or gay? Or muslim?
Has to be a legal and adequate reason because you can't just trust people to be reasonable. They have to be bullied into being reasonable by the state, according to state-defined legal definitions of 'reasonable'. Right.
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I can't decide if Brennan is stupid, or if he thinks everyone else is stupid.
I readily admit this is not an uncommon reaction of mine when I read of the things presented by elected and appointed officials. The US government is a madhouse.
This kind of hubris is really really common among 'Murcans.
Yeah, I think you must have just pranked the wrong guy.
If I give you a box of crayons, I'm not pranking you.
Still not seeing crayons. Oh wait, do you mean this box of chalk?
oooh you work in IT? Wasn't that a 1990's movie about a shape-changing alien?
I do work in IT. I'm also the guy who replaced your computer with box of crayons. ;)
Yeah, I think you must have just pranked the wrong guy...
You are jeopardizing my well being with your asshole refusal to agree.
FTFY - Remember that I work in IT.
oooh you work in IT? Wasn't that a 1990's movie about a shape-changing alien?
You can tell by how violently they respond.
One of my coworkers told me how he killed three women in Vietnam, walked off a plane three days later in the US, and threatened a woman peace protester who wanted to throw a can of paint at him. The woman was too shocked to respond. He spent the next year in the service painting and rearranging rocks to readjust after the war. Nice guy. Still doing his IT job despite undergoing chemo therapy.
You are jeopardizing my well being with your violent refusal to agree.
Its like admitting you work for an organized crime syndicate.
Tell that to my coworkers who are ex-military. I don't think you would like the response.
Yeah I expect they are brutalized psycho's who enjoyed their time as hit men but wouldn't like to acknowledge, even to themselves, that this is what they really were. They probably hate themselves and take that self-hate out on others. Close to the mark? You can tell by how violently they respond.
And corporations are any better?
Governments are organized crime syndicates, corporations are psychopaths.
Like the old carnie saying goes "You pays your money and you takes your choice."
Wow, I would not admit to that in a million years.
Again, what's the point?
Its like admitting you work for an organized crime syndicate.
AMD provides better processors for actual work, Intel relies on the kiddie gamer market.
Not servers or anything like that. Almost all servers in data centers are running on AMD chips.
So, it's basically a down-scaled diesel-electric locomotive, but with a battery buffer and diesel replaced with CNG?
Pretty much, without the rails off course. Diesel-Electric vehicles don't quite exist yet for general roadway use most likely because space, cost and power would trade off and the resulting savings negligible. (Natural) gas engines can be much smaller and operate at much higher efficiencies and thus less affected by stringent exhaust and other regulations.
Once batteries exist that can supply the surges required of a rail train (currently Diesel-Electric locomotives use capacitors) we will see the switch happen quickly there as well.
It always did make me wonder why companies like Tesla or even GM don't go for the commercial market first. Savings on a vehicle used 1/24h are minimal, a vehicle used 12-24h/day is much more attractive to save even 10% in TCO.
Well at least its an actual TRUCK not an oversized car with a huge, open-air trunk!
No...we really don't care what the rest of the world thinks about us....why should we?
Of course, you have the worlds 'best' military, you don't need to care what they think any more than the school bully needs to care what other kids think of them.
TFA mentions that Mateen was interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014, but not deemed dangerous. This reinforces my doubts that background checks will ever be very effective in general, whether for terrorism or any other type of bad behavior.
I wonder, how do Mormons view homosexuals? Because thats most of the FBI right there...
Can I recommend you actually learn about "assault weapons"?
This may come as a complete shock to you, but did you know that the M16/AR15 was adopted by the US military in part because it's less deadly than its predecessors? Yeah, sit down for this but the thinking is if you shoot and kill a soldier, you remove him from battle, if you shoot and wound a soldier, you remove him and the 4 guys who have to evac him from battle.
Yes, thats a quaint idea from a culture that themselves would actually incapacitate their fighting units in this way.
Not all militaries of the world would operate like that in actual combat. In a Soviet military unit its likely the KGB commissar would just put a bullet through the head of the wounded guy and tell the rest of the unit to carry on. And they would. ISIS probably has a similar doctrine.
People were unable to protect themselves here because the bar was a "Gun Free" zone. Many people died because the police were unable to respond in time. The myth that police can be there to protect you gets people killed.
If they'd all had assault weapons then the death toll would have been double.
Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel are true American heroes.
Hogan for President! And Thiel for his running mate! Couldn't be worse than Clinton/Trump...
At a high level, sure, money shouldn't give you the ability to completely shut down voices you don't like.
My GOD MAN thats UNAMERICAN!
But at the trial, Gawker seemed to both not take the trial seriously (the infamous 4 year old line) and simply treated it like another story they'd post to get clicks. Denton and Daulerio seemed to think they were above the entire fray until the judgment, at which point they turned the entire other way and started trying to rouse sympathy from their readership. They mishandled their own defense to the point of comedy and made the jury entirely unsympathetic. It's hard for me to think they didn't bring this on themselves.
They probably didn't pay their lawyers enough either, thats a surefire way to make the American courts come down like a ton of bricks on your head! Lawyers gotta get their cash.
I forgot, is it Google or Oracle? Which multi-billion dollar corporation needs our sympathy, cheers, and support today?
Who ever roots for Oracle? Oh, that'd be that One Rich Asshole CEO Larry Ellison.
Having ICANN't run itself?
Wait what??
A can of can't??? A can of can't???
This is a local shop, for local people. Theres nothing for you here.
My thought is....
What does the US possibly stand to GAIN by relinquishing control over this?
If there is no net gain for us, they why give it up?
How about respect in the international community. Oh, sorry. The US doesn't care about that kind of thing.
"registerd[sic] address 66 Allport Road, Cannock, WS11 1DY."
Look like a total bunch of geniuses.
This Genius, maybe?
Maybe this genius:
https://www.facebook.com/steph...
As a landlord, I'd welcome any service that lets me vet renters before I enter into a contract with them. I've had my share of idiots and deadbeats in my property
Protip; stay off of your property. That way there'll be one less idiot on it! :P
If you want people who are prepared to break their contract with the social media site (by handing their login details over) then more fool you; someone who is happy to break one contract will be happy to break another!
The startup described in TFA sounds, to be blunt, illegal. I cannot possibly see how what they are doing complies with the data protection act and the degree of coverage they're getting makes me suspect that they will be flipped from start-up to close-down quite quickly. That said, somebody will probably tweak the model to comply with the relevant laws and come back with it in a few months time.
Well obviously the landlords who want to use this service only want tenants who are prepared to break the law and break contracts!
Use of the website without charge is the consideration.
Simple, if you aren't prepared to break the law then you can't rent these apartments!
Clearly the landlords only want people who are willing to break a contract.
NO business would "chew their arm off" to use this if the end result was no new customers
When your potential customers like to set up meth labs or are just generally scummy assholes that will have no regard for your property or other residents, yeah, they would.
Yeah or gay, or muslims. I think you can see where this is going.
What does that mean? A landlord can't turn someone down without having to give a legal and adequate reason? Could a landlord have to defend a rejection of a tenant, in court?
What if they rejected someone because they were black? Or gay? Or muslim?
Has to be a legal and adequate reason because you can't just trust people to be reasonable. They have to be bullied into being reasonable by the state, according to state-defined legal definitions of 'reasonable'. Right.