I'm not going to get in to another debate weather Trump was right or wrong about that. All I'm saying is I have more faith in people and local governments than I do in big government to do the right thing.
This is why I'm not worried about the climate accord Trump pulled the US out of. Cities, states, and people are stepping up to take care of the environment on their own. An that is how it should be.
We need to breed a environmental conscious generation and no try to legislate one into existence.
No, I'm firmly grounded in reality. But I do have a fantasy that I like to trot out and walk around. That fantasy is to see HIllary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, and Eric Holder being fitted for orange jump suits that say Federal Department of Corrections on the back. But that is just a fantasy and I know its is one. I know that none of them will do any time for any crimes they have done. But I can dream.
An trotting out the race card only cheapens your argument. I don't hate Obama because he is a democrat or a because he is black. That is just BS and you know it. What I know is that his presidency was a disaster. I know it and you know it. You just don't want to admit it. So who is living in fantasy land?
When you trotted out the race card that shows you have no real argument. Just a lot of BS and a axe to grind because you got spanked in 2016. No, we are done here too.
Yup, your TDS is in full swing. I bet you think that Trump is going to get impeached too. You should remove those blinders, take a step back, and take a good look around.
First fact. Hillary is never going to be president.
Second fact, Trump isn't going to get impeached.
Third fact. Despite the nonsense you just spouted Trump is doing a good job as president. He has some personally short comings that should be worked on but one you look past those you see he seems to have things well at hand.
An that is just a simple fact. You can bleat and wish otherwise but it won't change reality. Well I think we are done here too.
Some changes to the economy did happen during obama term. They happened at the ass end of it after we found out that Hilary lost. So they happened despite Obama, not because of him.
You should really stop trying to put your spin on what I said. Opting out isn't the same as losing insurance. Weather you or obama like it or not, there are some people that don't want to pay for health insurance. It is not the governments job to force them to do so. Once that burden has been lift, I think it already has, you will be free to chose not to have it if you don't want it. Not the same as losing it.
Here is the cold hard facts about Obama. His legacy is done. The only thing really left is Obamacare. The government has seen to leave it in place till it is replaced. It is just a matter of time before it is gone. It was a bad law so good riddance.
I think we are done here. Obama legacy is in the tank, and Trump is doing a pretty good job as president, despite his personality short comings. Yup, we are done here.
Well since the obama legacy for the most part has been scrapped, the truth is we are not running on the obama legacy. Almost all of the economic upturns happened after Trump was elected, with a great deal of them taking place before he was sworn in. Hopefully, soon the obama nightmare will be a few notes in the history book.
Make no mistake about the ACA, its is almost done. Any real incentives to keep it have been done away with. It's only a matter of time before it is replaced with a better healthcare plan. An no, none of the bills put forth so far would have kicked millions off healthcare. What it would allowed is for millions to opt out of healthcare since they would not longer be forced to buy it.
It is easy to say that you added millions to insurance rolls when those millions had no choice in the matter. What ACA proponents love to leave out is most of the time that insurance was substandard to the point of being useless because of high deductibles. You also conventionally leave out that this substandard insurance lowered the bar for everyone, even those with already good insurance. Lowered it to a point that that insurance was useless too because of high deductibles.
Don't knock yourselves out patting yourselves on the back. You won several minor elections in the grand scheme of things. After that spanking democrats took in 2016 it is expected that you would get some of your shit together a year later.
I mean lets be real. Virginia and Washington state where already blue in theory if not practice. Now that its official it just makes you a bigger target in 2018.
But 2018 is where it will matter. If Trump can convince voters to remove both republican and democrat obstacles in 2018 then things will finally be on track. The 2018 elections will probably be the turning point to see if Trump will win or lose in 2020. Those elections are what matters.
Actually, it does no such thing. The over all worse presidents since WWII would be Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. An this is by expert option. Popular option doesn't even enter into the picture yet. With the media that is obviously against Trump you can't count on a unbias option pole. An also these are the same poles and people that predicted Hillary would win by a landslide. An we all know what happened there.
Make no mistake Obama was a charismatic leader. Everybody bought his bullshit line about change. Oh we got change alright. Our healthcare system was destroyed, boarders where left wide open, and the national debit was doubled. Once all the hype surrounding his presidency has died down in a few decades and his legacy is examined Obama will be regarded as one of the worse if not the worse in history.
Yeah, don't start partying yet. From what I see all that is happening is democrats are ether getting reelected or more democrats are just replacing democrats. Not really a big win for democrats as the status quo doesn't change.
This seems to have been Obama's normal mode of operation. This is just a number of programs that Obama didn't have the power to implement, so he would just change what its called and move on. 50 years from now once all the dirt has been found I believe history will judge Obama as one of he worse presidents in history.
Because it isn't fair. It will transfer at least $100B from our economy to third world economies for no other reason than it can. Once you look it this treaty is nothing more than an attempt to redistribute wealth from western nations to non western nations. All under the disguise of helping the climate.
I would be interested in where you got this information from? Probably from the same place that predicted Hillary would win in a landslide.
I would also like to see the data that you have that says Trump is an ineffective leader. Every indicator that isn't filtered through a anti Trump filter seems to show that we are doing just fine. The GPA is up, illegal immigration is down, and for millions haven't lost health insurance.
So despite the doom and gloom predictions it seems Trump is a effective leader and we are doing just fine.
No company should ever be allowed to take the law in to is own hands. Their response to any such issue should be to close the holes and repair the damage. Let law enforcement handle the rest.
That is unless we want a ShadowRun type society where corporations can field their own private police forces and armies. But if this came to pass I doubt we would get the magic that came with it.
OMG, this is absolutely hilarious. Let's unpack this, one mistake at a time.
Like OMG, so much ignorance and arrogance bound up in one post. How efficient of you. Oh look, you even used a number list that I can use to correct you. Aren't you smart? Let us begin.
1) Facebook and Twitter are private companies because they work in the private sector, as opposed to a public company that works in the public sector. A private company is owned by private individuals, be it one person or many through stocks. Where as a public company is owned by a government entity. An example of a public company is the Postal Service or many municipal services such as police and fire. What you are confusing is publicly traded companies, where they are traded on a stock market. They are still private companies.
Owning the pipes and wires, as you put it, is irrelevant. What matters is they own the social media that people post and use to communicate on. If government decides that regulating them would be in the best interest of the country they can and will do it. The government in the past has regulated many private companies in the public interest. These include at one point the banking and airline industry.
2) Feel free to call bullshit on anything you want, doesn't make it any less true. I suggest you check out Tucker Carlson on Foxnews. He has been calling for government regulations on facebook, google, and twitter for several weeks. I believe Sean Hannity at some point has called for it too. Tucker Carlson, I know, has had congress critters on that agree with his option that they should be regulated. So yes, there are calls in some conservative sides to regulate facebook, twitter, and google.
3) Facebook, Twitter, and Google most certainly do control information and speech. Almost everything you do now on the internet has some connection to google in it. Searches, advertisement, and even many times the phone you even use. How many people have facebook accounts? Billions. We now live in a world where is considered strange not to have one. Twitter is so big that matters of state are being express over it now.
All of these companies have shown they will manipulate data to fit their cooperate policy. Many times these policies conflict with conservative views. These three companies control so much information now they can actively affect polices and even elections. The world drops a collective brick in it's pants when NK responds to one of Trumps less presidential tweets. Since so much speech goes through these companies it is very easy to see where people are worried their polices might be a threat to free speech. Which leads to calls to regulate them.
As far as Twitter is concerned? Yes. [And BTW, it's @realDonaldTrump.]
We'll Twitters very actions prove that they don't consider @realDonaldTrump just another user. The fact they shit all over themselves restoring the account in 30 minutes and then issuing press statements distancing themselves from the event prove that. I promise that if I had a twitter account and something happened to it, it wouldn't be head line news when it got disabled.
There is another reason that twatter, and faceboo, would be acting like this and treating the president with such gloves. While they are a private company there are calls on conservative sides for them to be treated as a public utility. Precisely because they control so much information and speech. The last thing they want is the government telling them how they can run their business.
If they where to start censoring public officials speech then public officials might fix that issue for them.
While I'm pretty sure you are being funny, so the following rant isn't directed at you.
This is really one of the things that pushes all the wrong buttons I have. Attributing something like the pyramids or Stonehenge to aliens because they think early man was to stupid to figure out how to do it, or some such bullshit. The Egyptians where primitive, not stupid. They where just as intelligent as anyone alive today.
Actually, now that I stew on it, calling them primitive is bullshit too. They Egyptians at the time had and extremely complex society. They had a complex social order, economic system, and production capacity. What they didn't have was technological advancement.
I always thought that the Pyramids had all the architectural genius of a pile of dirt.
And that is where you would be wrong. To a lot of laymen looking at the pyramid as nothing more than a stack for block stacked on top of each other. Then they give it no more thought.
There was a lot of thought that went into the shape of the pyramids before they build the 3 big ones. It took a lot of trial and error before they could get the 45 degee slope in the those. All around Egypt there are actually dozens of pyramids where the Egyptians where trying to figure that out. Lots of the attempts failed.
The first step would be getting the blocks there, most of them weighing several tons, from far away locations by barge. Then there is the moving of those stones across land, up ramps and positioning them in place. Did you know that each stone was shaped for the position that it was being placed in. Think about that for a moment. The stones themselves had complex coding systems that said where they went. The even have markings on them that say "this end up."
Then there is the grand gallery itself. The load bearing stones around that that keep the gallery open are holding up thousands of tons of stone. The shape and fitting of the support stones has to be nothing short of perfect or the whole thing would come down.
We should talk about the moving parts of the pyramids. Yes, the pyramids have or had moving parts. Once the pyramids where closed up they did this by sliding 100+ ton blocks into place. Blocks, as in more than one. You know those scenes in the Indiana Jones movies where they would break the rock, sand pours out, and the big door comes down? That is probably how they did it.
I could go on and on but I think you see what I mean. There was the aligning of the pyramids with he stars. Did you know the pyramids had a outer limestone coating? When they where built the pyramids where coated in limestone and the sides where smooth and bright white. The case stones where fitted with such perfection that you couldn't get a playing card between the seems.
The building of the pyramids for the Egyptians was a task that was on par with the moonshot of the '60's.
This probably doesn't apply to google docs or any other online office systems. But it certainly applies to online storage like dropbox or whatever the fuck microsoft is calling theirs this week. If you are going to use such services encrypt your damn documents. They can't remove if they can't read it, unless they just decide to remove all encrypted documents.
And for god sakes keep recent, local backups. Since dropbox stores shit in a folder on your computer just have that folder get backuped up in your normal back up routine.
When asked about the budget, healthcare reform, tax reform, etc Democrats say they'll vote against it all because they don't like Trump, despite agreeing that all are in need of serious reform. They put party ahead of country, and proudly say so at every press conference and sunday morning show appearance, in terms even the slowest liberal can understand, and the think this is how they'll win over undecided voters in 2018/2020?
This exactly. There may be a few democrats that are willing to put the country ahead of the party but those are always shouted down by the democratic party leadership. It's ether that loon Maxine Waters up there frothing "Impeach Impeach", or Nancy Pelosi doing every thing she can to block all cooperation.
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I'm not going to get in to another debate weather Trump was right or wrong about that. All I'm saying is I have more faith in people and local governments than I do in big government to do the right thing.
This is why I'm not worried about the climate accord Trump pulled the US out of. Cities, states, and people are stepping up to take care of the environment on their own. An that is how it should be.
We need to breed a environmental conscious generation and no try to legislate one into existence.
No, I'm firmly grounded in reality. But I do have a fantasy that I like to trot out and walk around. That fantasy is to see HIllary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, and Eric Holder being fitted for orange jump suits that say Federal Department of Corrections on the back. But that is just a fantasy and I know its is one. I know that none of them will do any time for any crimes they have done. But I can dream.
An trotting out the race card only cheapens your argument. I don't hate Obama because he is a democrat or a because he is black. That is just BS and you know it. What I know is that his presidency was a disaster. I know it and you know it. You just don't want to admit it. So who is living in fantasy land?
When you trotted out the race card that shows you have no real argument. Just a lot of BS and a axe to grind because you got spanked in 2016. No, we are done here too.
Yup, your TDS is in full swing. I bet you think that Trump is going to get impeached too. You should remove those blinders, take a step back, and take a good look around.
First fact. Hillary is never going to be president.
Second fact, Trump isn't going to get impeached.
Third fact. Despite the nonsense you just spouted Trump is doing a good job as president. He has some personally short comings that should be worked on but one you look past those you see he seems to have things well at hand.
An that is just a simple fact. You can bleat and wish otherwise but it won't change reality. Well I think we are done here too.
Some changes to the economy did happen during obama term. They happened at the ass end of it after we found out that Hilary lost. So they happened despite Obama, not because of him.
You should really stop trying to put your spin on what I said. Opting out isn't the same as losing insurance. Weather you or obama like it or not, there are some people that don't want to pay for health insurance. It is not the governments job to force them to do so. Once that burden has been lift, I think it already has, you will be free to chose not to have it if you don't want it. Not the same as losing it.
Here is the cold hard facts about Obama. His legacy is done. The only thing really left is Obamacare. The government has seen to leave it in place till it is replaced. It is just a matter of time before it is gone. It was a bad law so good riddance.
I think we are done here. Obama legacy is in the tank, and Trump is doing a pretty good job as president, despite his personality short comings. Yup, we are done here.
I for one, am glad its news. I would like to get back to "news for nerds" with stories like this.
Well since the obama legacy for the most part has been scrapped, the truth is we are not running on the obama legacy. Almost all of the economic upturns happened after Trump was elected, with a great deal of them taking place before he was sworn in. Hopefully, soon the obama nightmare will be a few notes in the history book.
Make no mistake about the ACA, its is almost done. Any real incentives to keep it have been done away with. It's only a matter of time before it is replaced with a better healthcare plan. An no, none of the bills put forth so far would have kicked millions off healthcare. What it would allowed is for millions to opt out of healthcare since they would not longer be forced to buy it.
It is easy to say that you added millions to insurance rolls when those millions had no choice in the matter. What ACA proponents love to leave out is most of the time that insurance was substandard to the point of being useless because of high deductibles. You also conventionally leave out that this substandard insurance lowered the bar for everyone, even those with already good insurance. Lowered it to a point that that insurance was useless too because of high deductibles.
Don't knock yourselves out patting yourselves on the back. You won several minor elections in the grand scheme of things. After that spanking democrats took in 2016 it is expected that you would get some of your shit together a year later.
I mean lets be real. Virginia and Washington state where already blue in theory if not practice. Now that its official it just makes you a bigger target in 2018.
But 2018 is where it will matter. If Trump can convince voters to remove both republican and democrat obstacles in 2018 then things will finally be on track. The 2018 elections will probably be the turning point to see if Trump will win or lose in 2020. Those elections are what matters.
Actually, it does no such thing. The over all worse presidents since WWII would be Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter. An this is by expert option. Popular option doesn't even enter into the picture yet. With the media that is obviously against Trump you can't count on a unbias option pole. An also these are the same poles and people that predicted Hillary would win by a landslide. An we all know what happened there.
Make no mistake Obama was a charismatic leader. Everybody bought his bullshit line about change. Oh we got change alright. Our healthcare system was destroyed, boarders where left wide open, and the national debit was doubled. Once all the hype surrounding his presidency has died down in a few decades and his legacy is examined Obama will be regarded as one of the worse if not the worse in history.
Yeah, don't start partying yet. From what I see all that is happening is democrats are ether getting reelected or more democrats are just replacing democrats. Not really a big win for democrats as the status quo doesn't change.
Well when you start off with a 98% approval rating it is hard to go up.
This seems to have been Obama's normal mode of operation. This is just a number of programs that Obama didn't have the power to implement, so he would just change what its called and move on. 50 years from now once all the dirt has been found I believe history will judge Obama as one of he worse presidents in history.
Because it isn't fair. It will transfer at least $100B from our economy to third world economies for no other reason than it can. Once you look it this treaty is nothing more than an attempt to redistribute wealth from western nations to non western nations. All under the disguise of helping the climate.
I would be interested in where you got this information from? Probably from the same place that predicted Hillary would win in a landslide.
I would also like to see the data that you have that says Trump is an ineffective leader. Every indicator that isn't filtered through a anti Trump filter seems to show that we are doing just fine. The GPA is up, illegal immigration is down, and for millions haven't lost health insurance.
So despite the doom and gloom predictions it seems Trump is a effective leader and we are doing just fine.
Yes I do, and yes I did. Deal with it.
No company should ever be allowed to take the law in to is own hands. Their response to any such issue should be to close the holes and repair the damage. Let law enforcement handle the rest.
That is unless we want a ShadowRun type society where corporations can field their own private police forces and armies. But if this came to pass I doubt we would get the magic that came with it.
OMG, this is absolutely hilarious. Let's unpack this, one mistake at a time.
Like OMG, so much ignorance and arrogance bound up in one post. How efficient of you. Oh look, you even used a number list that I can use to correct you. Aren't you smart? Let us begin.
There we go. You have been illuminated.
An yes, I know only the government can truly "censor" someone. I'm just using as a figure of speech.
As far as Twitter is concerned? Yes. [And BTW, it's @realDonaldTrump.]
We'll Twitters very actions prove that they don't consider @realDonaldTrump just another user. The fact they shit all over themselves restoring the account in 30 minutes and then issuing press statements distancing themselves from the event prove that. I promise that if I had a twitter account and something happened to it, it wouldn't be head line news when it got disabled.
There is another reason that twatter, and faceboo, would be acting like this and treating the president with such gloves. While they are a private company there are calls on conservative sides for them to be treated as a public utility. Precisely because they control so much information and speech. The last thing they want is the government telling them how they can run their business.
If they where to start censoring public officials speech then public officials might fix that issue for them.
I don't know. I think that plot would seem to far out there. But yet is some how seems familiar.....
For the love of god please go find some original ideals.
While I'm pretty sure you are being funny, so the following rant isn't directed at you.
This is really one of the things that pushes all the wrong buttons I have. Attributing something like the pyramids or Stonehenge to aliens because they think early man was to stupid to figure out how to do it, or some such bullshit. The Egyptians where primitive, not stupid. They where just as intelligent as anyone alive today.
Actually, now that I stew on it, calling them primitive is bullshit too. They Egyptians at the time had and extremely complex society. They had a complex social order, economic system, and production capacity. What they didn't have was technological advancement.
I always thought that the Pyramids had all the architectural genius of a pile of dirt.
And that is where you would be wrong. To a lot of laymen looking at the pyramid as nothing more than a stack for block stacked on top of each other. Then they give it no more thought.
There was a lot of thought that went into the shape of the pyramids before they build the 3 big ones. It took a lot of trial and error before they could get the 45 degee slope in the those. All around Egypt there are actually dozens of pyramids where the Egyptians where trying to figure that out. Lots of the attempts failed.
The first step would be getting the blocks there, most of them weighing several tons, from far away locations by barge. Then there is the moving of those stones across land, up ramps and positioning them in place. Did you know that each stone was shaped for the position that it was being placed in. Think about that for a moment. The stones themselves had complex coding systems that said where they went. The even have markings on them that say "this end up."
Then there is the grand gallery itself. The load bearing stones around that that keep the gallery open are holding up thousands of tons of stone. The shape and fitting of the support stones has to be nothing short of perfect or the whole thing would come down.
We should talk about the moving parts of the pyramids. Yes, the pyramids have or had moving parts. Once the pyramids where closed up they did this by sliding 100+ ton blocks into place. Blocks, as in more than one. You know those scenes in the Indiana Jones movies where they would break the rock, sand pours out, and the big door comes down? That is probably how they did it.
I could go on and on but I think you see what I mean. There was the aligning of the pyramids with he stars. Did you know the pyramids had a outer limestone coating? When they where built the pyramids where coated in limestone and the sides where smooth and bright white. The case stones where fitted with such perfection that you couldn't get a playing card between the seems.
The building of the pyramids for the Egyptians was a task that was on par with the moonshot of the '60's.
This probably doesn't apply to google docs or any other online office systems. But it certainly applies to online storage like dropbox or whatever the fuck microsoft is calling theirs this week. If you are going to use such services encrypt your damn documents. They can't remove if they can't read it, unless they just decide to remove all encrypted documents.
And for god sakes keep recent, local backups. Since dropbox stores shit in a folder on your computer just have that folder get backuped up in your normal back up routine.
When asked about the budget, healthcare reform, tax reform, etc Democrats say they'll vote against it all because they don't like Trump, despite agreeing that all are in need of serious reform. They put party ahead of country, and proudly say so at every press conference and sunday morning show appearance, in terms even the slowest liberal can understand, and the think this is how they'll win over undecided voters in 2018/2020?
This exactly. There may be a few democrats that are willing to put the country ahead of the party but those are always shouted down by the democratic party leadership. It's ether that loon Maxine Waters up there frothing "Impeach Impeach", or Nancy Pelosi doing every thing she can to block all cooperation.