I think it's just a lack of debunkers in your area. Korea has the same kind of weird phenomenon, but dealing with fan death. In America, we have the constant worry that the other political party is trying to become a dictatorship.
The article (one of them) suggests that the old structure is on the verge of collapse, an event that could spew radiation into the atmosphere and around. Presumably they can rebuild it now inside, if they want.
Not only that, the new structure includes robotic cranes that will be able to continue cleaning up the site internally. This is actually a really good solution (as far as I am capable of judging such solutions).
Promoting the director of a sector that is doing well is just going to wreck that sector, not save the company.
It seemed to work ok for Microsoft......their cloud division is doing extremely well since promoting the head of that sector (the Windows department, on the other hand.......)
Cutting Tim Cook's pay is not enough - Microsoft put a tech guy in charge of the company - it's time for Apple to do the same.
Still though, what area of tech is doing well enough that Apple could say, "they are doing it right, let's promote him to CEO?" They are failing technically in all areas. Amit Singh might be a good candidate, though.
Aperture, Final Cut, even iWork—have either been retired by Apple or hobbled by Apple
It's really sad what's happened to iWork. Had they continued to progressively improve it with each release, they could have a solid MSOffice competitor by now, in every category (Excel being the main weakness).
From what I understand, a lot of Russian civilians are fine with what Putin is doing.
I think it's more like, "things Russians criticize Putin about are completely different than the things Americans criticize Putin about." Americans can't get over that picture of Putin without a shirt.
The GDP decline is mainly a function of oil prices. It's not felt so much by the average person on the street (just like you don't feel anything when Exxon suddenly has a decline in revenue).
That is bad of course, but going out and walking around various cities in Russia there's a lot of new construction and people seem optimistic. Birth rates are moving up again.
You're only seeing the unclassified information. What you're saying about the quality of the evidence is only relevant to the public portion of the report. The intelligence agencies do not like to disclose information that can compromise their methods.
Yeap, but if they say, "trust us, we have classified information that proves it," I don't trust them, because they've lied too many times before.
In this case, they didn't even say that.
That's part of why he was a good president: he was practical instead of ideological. Ideologues mess things up. It was funny watching his gyrations about DOMA later, though.
I want to point out that although the document claims that Russia hired internet trolls to spread propaganda, they did not link or show a single instance of the trolling. Come on, just link to one troll somewhere, one comment or one blog.
Hiring trolls seems like something Russia might do, but to say for sure they did, I want to see the evidence.
Read the whole document (I wish that were a requirement before any reporter could write a news story on the topic, but whatever).
The most entertaining part to me is the part where it says, "it was revenge for the Panama papers." Heh. As if Russia had no other reason to hack US computers.
Another interesting part is where it mentions Assange's ties to the official Russian news channel (RT). I was unaware that he sometimes appeared on TV there.
Another interesting part is where it analyzes Russian television support for Trump as a candidate. For example, as soon as he won, they say that the Russian TV stopped criticizing the election process as "unfair." So their analysis that Russia wanted Trump to win seems reasonable.
Their analysis of the hacking is not good though. They say:
1) Guccifier 2.0 is the Russian government because: he is probably a Russian speaker, not Romanian speaker. That's it? Very not convincing.
2) The leaks to Wikileaks were from the Russian government because Assange appears on the Russian news channel (RT). Again, that's it? Not very convincing.
3) They claim "Russia accessed elements of multiple state or local electoral boards." Of this, they give no evidence. Absolutely nothing to support this claim. Seriously, tell us which electoral board, or arrest the members of the board, or something.
Some things we do know: John Podesta had an extremely insecure password, and that's how his email leaked. We know that Assange claims the email came from a disgruntled DNC operative. That is not unreasonable, if I saw what they were doing in the DNC, I would have been upset about it too.
Enough Americans are good people, that if you have some surveillance program, or are doing things to mess with our free election process, sooner or later someone is going to leak that.
Putin dislikes Clinton for one reason (imo):
No one in the world has more influence in the Balkans and Ukraine than Bill Clinton. Not only did he win a war there, he has deep understanding of the region (even knowing who some of the crime lords are), and has personal relationships with many people there. Apart from Lewinsky, he was an excellent president and he managed to settle a complex region that could have ended up like Iraq is now, if someone less competent had been in charge.
However, Putin has a goal to increase his influence in the exact same region. The biggest impediment to reaching that goal would be Bill/Hillary in power again.
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If anything needs to die it is Java.
If Java dies, it will be replaced by C#. So not much change.
I don't know, have you seen all the new construction in (for example) Kazan? It seems like a decent place to live, much more so than say, in 2005.
I think it's just a lack of debunkers in your area. Korea has the same kind of weird phenomenon, but dealing with fan death. In America, we have the constant worry that the other political party is trying to become a dictatorship.
The article (one of them) suggests that the old structure is on the verge of collapse, an event that could spew radiation into the atmosphere and around. Presumably they can rebuild it now inside, if they want.
Not only that, the new structure includes robotic cranes that will be able to continue cleaning up the site internally. This is actually a really good solution (as far as I am capable of judging such solutions).
Good question. Looks like it's been going down.
Promoting the director of a sector that is doing well is just going to wreck that sector, not save the company.
It seemed to work ok for Microsoft......their cloud division is doing extremely well since promoting the head of that sector (the Windows department, on the other hand.......)
Cutting Tim Cook's pay is not enough - Microsoft put a tech guy in charge of the company - it's time for Apple to do the same.
Still though, what area of tech is doing well enough that Apple could say, "they are doing it right, let's promote him to CEO?" They are failing technically in all areas. Amit Singh might be a good candidate, though.
Aperture, Final Cut, even iWork—have either been retired by Apple or hobbled by Apple
It's really sad what's happened to iWork. Had they continued to progressively improve it with each release, they could have a solid MSOffice competitor by now, in every category (Excel being the main weakness).
From what I understand, a lot of Russian civilians are fine with what Putin is doing.
I think it's more like, "things Russians criticize Putin about are completely different than the things Americans criticize Putin about." Americans can't get over that picture of Putin without a shirt.
The GDP decline is mainly a function of oil prices. It's not felt so much by the average person on the street (just like you don't feel anything when Exxon suddenly has a decline in revenue).
oh, ok.
Trump isn't going to waste money (his or anyone else's) on the idiocy that Obama has.
Like building a wall? Of all the good qualities Trump might possibly have, "avoid wasting money" isn't in the realm of possibility.
The real question is, "how are they affording to pay the rest of their employees?"
That is bad of course, but going out and walking around various cities in Russia there's a lot of new construction and people seem optimistic. Birth rates are moving up again.
Every point but 3 is utterly false. You made it up.
I quoted it from the document. Learn to read.
Internally their country is rotting
Russia seems fine to me, on an upward trajectory overall.
That's fine, Russia seems like a better country now than in the late 90s.
I'm not sure your comment makes much sense. You want people to be ideological?
You're only seeing the unclassified information. What you're saying about the quality of the evidence is only relevant to the public portion of the report. The intelligence agencies do not like to disclose information that can compromise their methods.
Yeap, but if they say, "trust us, we have classified information that proves it," I don't trust them, because they've lied too many times before.
In this case, they didn't even say that.
Fuck you! I'm from the Balkans and US involvement only made things worse.
Clearly you're not Albanian.
You mean the DINO (Democrat In Name Only)
That's part of why he was a good president: he was practical instead of ideological. Ideologues mess things up. It was funny watching his gyrations about DOMA later, though.
I want to point out that although the document claims that Russia hired internet trolls to spread propaganda, they did not link or show a single instance of the trolling. Come on, just link to one troll somewhere, one comment or one blog.
Hiring trolls seems like something Russia might do, but to say for sure they did, I want to see the evidence.
Read the whole document (I wish that were a requirement before any reporter could write a news story on the topic, but whatever).
The most entertaining part to me is the part where it says, "it was revenge for the Panama papers." Heh. As if Russia had no other reason to hack US computers.
Another interesting part is where it mentions Assange's ties to the official Russian news channel (RT). I was unaware that he sometimes appeared on TV there.
Another interesting part is where it analyzes Russian television support for Trump as a candidate. For example, as soon as he won, they say that the Russian TV stopped criticizing the election process as "unfair." So their analysis that Russia wanted Trump to win seems reasonable.
Their analysis of the hacking is not good though. They say:
1) Guccifier 2.0 is the Russian government because: he is probably a Russian speaker, not Romanian speaker. That's it? Very not convincing.
2) The leaks to Wikileaks were from the Russian government because Assange appears on the Russian news channel (RT). Again, that's it? Not very convincing.
3) They claim "Russia accessed elements of multiple state or local electoral boards." Of this, they give no evidence. Absolutely nothing to support this claim. Seriously, tell us which electoral board, or arrest the members of the board, or something.
Some things we do know: John Podesta had an extremely insecure password, and that's how his email leaked. We know that Assange claims the email came from a disgruntled DNC operative. That is not unreasonable, if I saw what they were doing in the DNC, I would have been upset about it too.
Enough Americans are good people, that if you have some surveillance program, or are doing things to mess with our free election process, sooner or later someone is going to leak that.
Putin dislikes Clinton for one reason (imo):
No one in the world has more influence in the Balkans and Ukraine than Bill Clinton. Not only did he win a war there, he has deep understanding of the region (even knowing who some of the crime lords are), and has personal relationships with many people there. Apart from Lewinsky, he was an excellent president and he managed to settle a complex region that could have ended up like Iraq is now, if someone less competent had been in charge.
However, Putin has a goal to increase his influence in the exact same region. The biggest impediment to reaching that goal would be Bill/Hillary in power again.