You are half right. An American citizen speaking to a Russian is NOT a big deal. BUT, when we are listening to CERTAIN RUSSIAN POLITICAL FIGURES, and Americans from a single party is calling them and trying to cut deals in which our politics are to be manipulated, then yes, the intelligence world NOTIFIED O and he had others looking into it.
This was NOT just random conversations. This was T and the GOP talking and dealing with top Russian political figures, and most likely, most of this occurred in Europe, NOT AMERICA. And BTW, if it did occur in Europe, then it was correct to unmask.
Exactly right. The GOP is a fascists group that is doing their best to pin all of their issues on Obama and/or the Dems. Sadly, this is the same BS that we saw under Nixon, reagan, and W, only now, it is taken to an extreme.
In this case, T/GOP are borrowing pages straight out of tyhe NAZI playbook in just about everything that they do. Where we have REAL issues here is that T/GOP will likely deflect further by causing more war around the world. I worry that they will start a war with North Korea or Iran, both of whom are backed by Russia and China.
I suspect that when this is all said and done, we will find that the GOP are again, lying about all of this, to try and cover for T and the GOP.
There is little doubt that T/GOP were not only working with Russia, but that the intelligence world has it well documented.
First, it is near certain that gas/diesel will be nearly, if not fully, done being used for transportation. By 2040, if not closer to 2035, the majority of vehicles will be electric, though it is possible that later on, something like H2 could take over for some vehicles.
Secondly, Farming is undergoing MASSIVE changes. by 2050, if not sooner, most of it will not only be automated, but possible green-housed. Regardless, we will no longer see the massive spraying of fields that we see today. Instead, it will be DIRECTLY applied to the plant. That will include fertilizers as well as pesticides. The nice thing is that it will be a FRACTION of the amount that we currently use.
Miss. is the ONLY state that requires vaccination for ALL kids attending school, EXCEPT for true medical exceptions.
So, one of the most backwards states, is actually the most forward thinking when it comes to that.
Sad that ANY of the states allows otherwise,
actually, the nazis starting with Hitler were VERY adamant about what they supported and did not. They did not change positions at all, though they added stances. Hitler was NEVER a left winger, and never supported the BS that you and others claim.
And as the GOP/Republican party has proven, names mean NOTHING.What matters is WHO controls. Any great republican would look at W and Trump and basically say that both should have been removed from the party, as well as America since they were/are disasters and had nothing in common with the Republican ideals.
wanting a smaller, less gov does not translate into actually happening.
For example, the GOP have for decades said that they wanted a balanced budget.
Yet, under every year of reagan, 3 years of poppa bush, every year of W, and now, Trump, the spending went UP, NOT DOWN.
A great example is that ACA/OBAMAcare is to cost us 3/4 T over 10 years. Of course, O/dems funded this and it was doing fine until 2 insurance companies threw a fit about not being allowed to merge, combined with GOP taking over.
BUT, the real constrast was in 2004, under W and a GOP-controlled CONgress, they passed medicare part D (or drugs), which because of the way that the GOP set it up, will cost 1T over 10 years. How much was funded? ZERO. NADA. ZIP. ZILCH.
The GOP give tax breaks, do massive spending hikes and leave us with massive DEFICITS.
OTOH, when CLinton got into office, the deficit went down every year because clinton cut spending every year. 2 of those were with dems in control.
In his first year, O increased spending from 1T deficit (that W/GOP left) up to 1.4T. Then he brought the spending down EVERY YEAR, except his last year, where O and GOP CONtrolled CONgress acted like fucking drunk sailors (1 trillion deficit; assholes ).
In addition, under the GOP, they really have done little of what the original republican party stood for. At this time, the current GOP has more in common with 1937 Germany, than they do with Lincoln, Teddy, Ike, etc.
fascism
faSHizm/
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
synonyms:
authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy;
how the fuck did you get modded up at all, with your rewriting of history and not a single thing to back it up? This is why we get so much fake news from you far righties.
Constantly, historians, have shown that NAZI facism was far right. In fact, it is by definition, consider to be a far right action.:
fascism
faSHizm/
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
synonyms: authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; More
(in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
Liberty university;
The GOP;
USAF is now under a massive attack from the far right esp. at the academy.
Sadly, Plenty of places for far right facism education.
It appears as though u are one of those far right winger that did not go to school. Fascism by definition, is far right wing. Look it up in any dictionary and quit being such an ignorant idiot.
Reads like a good bill. While I back Universities, the fact is that are bad at squelching free speech like it was the 60s again. Only difference is that now includes both left and right, while before it was just the right.
Of course, the real problem is NOT efficiency, but amount of it being burned.
CHina has 1.2TW of coal plants running at 60% load factor, while BOTH America and Europe are at.25 TW running ~90-95% load. Note that this means that Europe and America can NOT increase their emissions from coal without building new plants. OTOH, about 700 GW of electricity for china is coming from its coal, and it can add another.5 GW over night. That is a LOT. IOW, just by running their current plants, they will use more coal than Europe and America COMBINED.
so many idiots here.
Let me ask you something. How exactly will those EVs be powered? By their electrical grid. And what is their main sources of electricity in their grid? Well, it turns out that it is 80-85% COAL.
Now, where exactly do you think that they will get the majority of their electricity from for charging during the nighttime? It will NOT be solar. Yeah. COAL.
China is NOT pushing EVs for cleaning up their air. They are pushing it in hopes of destroying western car makers, along with dropping their oil imports to ZERO. They are perfectly happy to increase all of their coal burning from 60% , to 90%, load. IOW, the grid will go from 80-85% coal based to about 90-95% coal.
while china is a joke on their emissions (80-85% coal for their electricity), most of the west is only around 50-55% fossil fuel. In America, we are at 30% coal for our electricity and it will continue downwards.
So, not 100%, but for the west and most nations (not CHina), it is way way cleaner than ICE.
uh no.
In china, they run all of their coal plants WITHOUT pollution controls. As such, ICE cars in china are LESS polluting than are the coal plants.
In addition, in CHina, the average coal plant is high 40s. It is only those in the last couple of years that are in the mid 50s. In fact, the world's most efficient coal plant is only 61.5% and that just opened last year in Germany.
then,I guess that the western car makers need to get off their ass and start developing REAL EVs.
The fact is, that they have known for nearly a decade that EVs were going to come to the world, butt hey have purposely dragged their feet.
So, you may wish to continue trying to push their BS, but not me.
Seriously, if they do, they are as much an idiot as Trump is.
China's reason for doing EVs is to that they can use coal to power their vehicles, and not depend on imports. In addition, they know that if they are aggressive with regard to EV sales, then western companies will not be able to keep up with CHina.
While they have many objections, their biggest appears to be that of maintaining a partial pressure over say 1000 miles. Yet, they ignore reality. Haldron collider has a 17 mile long tube with a 10^(-13) atm. OTOH, hyperloop will require a pressure of 10^(-4).
So, IOW, haldron is doing a pressure that is a billion times less dense which requires a GREAT DEAL MORE WORK than hyperloop, and yet, the deniers are running around saying that it can not happen.
Amazing.
This reminds of those ppl that ran around screaming that SpaceX would never get their F1 off the ground. Then it because that F9 would never work. Then it was that they could not land a stage. Then it became that SX would never be able to reuse these used stages.
Now, it is that 28 engines will not work, or that dragon 2 will not work or that hyperloop will not work, etc. etc. etc.
Basically, most, if not all, of the deniers are non-engineers and really have no grasp of where issues REALLY are. With all of these projects, none of them are out of physical laws, or our engineering capabilities. IOW, we can build a tunnel with a pressure that is 10^(-13) if we want. Likewise, we can build a rocket with over 100 engines. These are NOT physical or engineering issues.
Where the REAL issue is, ARE THEY ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE?
In every single case, Musk has done the calculations and shown that they are economically feasible. Otherwise, he does not pursue them.
And when it comes to issues about physical vs engineering capabilities vs economical, a good one that he is working on, would be electric flight.
It is PHYSICALLY possible. Our drones indicate that there is no physical issues with that.
Now, it is down to engineering and economical issues. He and others are working on it, but at this time, it is not known if the engineering is possible for it.
exactly right.
They STILL could survive, but they will not. To survive they need to get rid of the MBA's they keep hiring and focus on getting new customers and new products. The best way for them to do that, is go after Small American start-ups.
But, they will not.
Seriously, the smart move would be for bezo to create 3-5 VERTICAL companies from amazon. Give them all the same equipment, robotics, etc, and then let them compete against each other.
With that, trump/GOP could do nothing, except get mad that Amazon 1-5 are slowly throttling companies like walmart, target, etc all who bought GOP politicians have been throttling America.
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You are half right. An American citizen speaking to a Russian is NOT a big deal. BUT, when we are listening to CERTAIN RUSSIAN POLITICAL FIGURES, and Americans from a single party is calling them and trying to cut deals in which our politics are to be manipulated, then yes, the intelligence world NOTIFIED O and he had others looking into it.
This was NOT just random conversations. This was T and the GOP talking and dealing with top Russian political figures, and most likely, most of this occurred in Europe, NOT AMERICA. And BTW, if it did occur in Europe, then it was correct to unmask.
Exactly right. The GOP is a fascists group that is doing their best to pin all of their issues on Obama and/or the Dems. Sadly, this is the same BS that we saw under Nixon, reagan, and W, only now, it is taken to an extreme.
In this case, T/GOP are borrowing pages straight out of tyhe NAZI playbook in just about everything that they do. Where we have REAL issues here is that T/GOP will likely deflect further by causing more war around the world. I worry that they will start a war with North Korea or Iran, both of whom are backed by Russia and China.
I suspect that when this is all said and done, we will find that the GOP are again, lying about all of this, to try and cover for T and the GOP.
There is little doubt that T/GOP were not only working with Russia, but that the intelligence world has it well documented.
First, it is near certain that gas/diesel will be nearly, if not fully, done being used for transportation. By 2040, if not closer to 2035, the majority of vehicles will be electric, though it is possible that later on, something like H2 could take over for some vehicles.
Secondly, Farming is undergoing MASSIVE changes. by 2050, if not sooner, most of it will not only be automated, but possible green-housed. Regardless, we will no longer see the massive spraying of fields that we see today. Instead, it will be DIRECTLY applied to the plant. That will include fertilizers as well as pesticides. The nice thing is that it will be a FRACTION of the amount that we currently use.
thanx.
Though both of them are fairly recent.
In fact, up until just recent times, West Virginia was one of the worst for vaccination rate.
Miss. is the ONLY state that requires vaccination for ALL kids attending school, EXCEPT for true medical exceptions.
So, one of the most backwards states, is actually the most forward thinking when it comes to that.
Sad that ANY of the states allows otherwise,
Uh, it is the liberals backing private space and the gop that is working hard to destroy them.
actually, the nazis starting with Hitler were VERY adamant about what they supported and did not. They did not change positions at all, though they added stances. Hitler was NEVER a left winger, and never supported the BS that you and others claim.
And as the GOP/Republican party has proven, names mean NOTHING.What matters is WHO controls. Any great republican would look at W and Trump and basically say that both should have been removed from the party, as well as America since they were/are disasters and had nothing in common with the Republican ideals.
wanting a smaller, less gov does not translate into actually happening.
For example, the GOP have for decades said that they wanted a balanced budget.
Yet, under every year of reagan, 3 years of poppa bush, every year of W, and now, Trump, the spending went UP, NOT DOWN.
A great example is that ACA/OBAMAcare is to cost us 3/4 T over 10 years. Of course, O/dems funded this and it was doing fine until 2 insurance companies threw a fit about not being allowed to merge, combined with GOP taking over.
BUT, the real constrast was in 2004, under W and a GOP-controlled CONgress, they passed medicare part D (or drugs), which because of the way that the GOP set it up, will cost 1T over 10 years. How much was funded? ZERO. NADA. ZIP. ZILCH.
The GOP give tax breaks, do massive spending hikes and leave us with massive DEFICITS.
OTOH, when CLinton got into office, the deficit went down every year because clinton cut spending every year. 2 of those were with dems in control.
In his first year, O increased spending from 1T deficit (that W/GOP left) up to 1.4T. Then he brought the spending down EVERY YEAR, except his last year, where O and GOP CONtrolled CONgress acted like fucking drunk sailors (1 trillion deficit; assholes ).
In addition, under the GOP, they really have done little of what the original republican party stood for. At this time, the current GOP has more in common with 1937 Germany, than they do with Lincoln, Teddy, Ike, etc.
fascism
faSHizm/
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
synonyms:
authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy;
Hmmm
This is why we get so much fake news from you far righties.
Constantly, historians, have shown that NAZI facism was far right. In fact, it is by definition, consider to be a far right action.:
fascism
faSHizm/
noun
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. synonyms: authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy; More (in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.
Here are more links: /fæzm/ is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism,[1][2] characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and control of industry and commerce,[3] that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before it spread to other European countries. Opposed to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism, fascism is usually placed on the far-right within the traditional left–right spectrum.[4][5]
Fascism
Then we have the implication of your posting that NAZIs were left-wing, which is as far from the truth as your calling W or trump liberals.
National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism (/ntszm, næ-/[1]), is the ideology and set of practices associated with the 20th-century German Nazi Party, Nazi Germany, and other far-right groups. Usually characterised as a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and antisemitism, Nazism's development was influenced by German nationalism, Pan-Germanism, the Völkisch movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged during the Weimar Republic after Germany's defeat in World War I.
Nazis were strongly opposed to the far left, but added minor elements of it, to appease ppl. The real fist in the nazis was PURE RIGHT WING, just like Trump today is. NAZIs HATED the far left which is why they invaded USSR as soon as they thought they could. Perhaps the ONLY element of the left that they accepted was the lefts love of science. Sadly, the NAZIs perverted science, just like today's GOP does
Here is how the ORIGINAL socialist party was perveted in under a year, by hitler and his far right cronies.
The small number of party members were quickly won over to Hitler's political beliefs. He organized their biggest meeting yet of 2,000 people, for February 24, 1920 in the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München. Further in an attempt to make the party more broadly appealing to larger segments of the population, the DAP was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) on February 24.[12][13] Such was the significance of Hitler's particular move in publicity that Karl Harrer resigned from the party in disagreement.[14] The new name was borrowed from a different Austrian party active at the time (Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, German National Socialist Workers' Party), although Hitler earlier suggested the party to be renamed the "Social Revolutionary Party"; it was Rudolf Jung who persuaded Hitler to follow the NSDAP naming.[15]
That is history. What you are writing is nothing more than a total re-writing of history in hopes that the idiots will follow your line of thinking .
Liberty university;
The GOP;
USAF is now under a massive attack from the far right esp. at the academy.
Sadly, Plenty of places for far right facism education.
It appears as though u are one of those far right winger that did not go to school. Fascism by definition, is far right wing. Look it up in any dictionary and quit being such an ignorant idiot.
Yeah, only right wing fascist indoctrination camps should be funded. Sheesh.
Reads like a good bill. While I back Universities, the fact is that are bad at squelching free speech like it was the 60s again. Only difference is that now includes both left and right, while before it was just the right.
BTW, the CHinese coal fleet is pretty low at around 38.6% efficiency.
.25 TW running ~90-95% load. Note that this means that Europe and America can NOT increase their emissions from coal without building new plants. OTOH, about 700 GW of electricity for china is coming from its coal, and it can add another .5 GW over night. That is a LOT. IOW, just by running their current plants, they will use more coal than Europe and America COMBINED.
Of course, that is better efficiency than Europe's (38) and Americas (37.4).
Of course, the real problem is NOT efficiency, but amount of it being burned.
CHina has 1.2TW of coal plants running at 60% load factor, while BOTH America and Europe are at
no, they dominate CHINA's MARKET. Not the same thing. In addition, most of their sales are HYBRIDS, not EVs.
so many idiots here.
Let me ask you something. How exactly will those EVs be powered? By their electrical grid. And what is their main sources of electricity in their grid? Well, it turns out that it is 80-85% COAL.
Now, where exactly do you think that they will get the majority of their electricity from for charging during the nighttime? It will NOT be solar. Yeah. COAL.
China is NOT pushing EVs for cleaning up their air. They are pushing it in hopes of destroying western car makers, along with dropping their oil imports to ZERO. They are perfectly happy to increase all of their coal burning from 60% , to 90%, load. IOW, the grid will go from 80-85% coal based to about 90-95% coal.
while china is a joke on their emissions (80-85% coal for their electricity), most of the west is only around 50-55% fossil fuel. In America, we are at 30% coal for our electricity and it will continue downwards.
So, not 100%, but for the west and most nations (not CHina), it is way way cleaner than ICE.
uh no.
In china, they run all of their coal plants WITHOUT pollution controls. As such, ICE cars in china are LESS polluting than are the coal plants.
In addition, in CHina, the average coal plant is high 40s. It is only those in the last couple of years that are in the mid 50s. In fact, the world's most efficient coal plant is only 61.5% and that just opened last year in Germany.
then,I guess that the western car makers need to get off their ass and start developing REAL EVs.
The fact is, that they have known for nearly a decade that EVs were going to come to the world, butt hey have purposely dragged their feet. So, you may wish to continue trying to push their BS, but not me.
Seriously, if they do, they are as much an idiot as Trump is.
China's reason for doing EVs is to that they can use coal to power their vehicles, and not depend on imports. In addition, they know that if they are aggressive with regard to EV sales, then western companies will not be able to keep up with CHina.
While they have many objections, their biggest appears to be that of maintaining a partial pressure over say 1000 miles. Yet, they ignore reality. Haldron collider has a 17 mile long tube with a 10^(-13) atm. OTOH, hyperloop will require a pressure of 10^(-4).
So, IOW, haldron is doing a pressure that is a billion times less dense which requires a GREAT DEAL MORE WORK than hyperloop, and yet, the deniers are running around saying that it can not happen.
Amazing.
This reminds of those ppl that ran around screaming that SpaceX would never get their F1 off the ground. Then it because that F9 would never work. Then it was that they could not land a stage. Then it became that SX would never be able to reuse these used stages.
Now, it is that 28 engines will not work, or that dragon 2 will not work or that hyperloop will not work, etc. etc. etc.
Basically, most, if not all, of the deniers are non-engineers and really have no grasp of where issues REALLY are. With all of these projects, none of them are out of physical laws, or our engineering capabilities. IOW, we can build a tunnel with a pressure that is 10^(-13) if we want. Likewise, we can build a rocket with over 100 engines. These are NOT physical or engineering issues.
Where the REAL issue is, ARE THEY ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE?
In every single case, Musk has done the calculations and shown that they are economically feasible. Otherwise, he does not pursue them.
And when it comes to issues about physical vs engineering capabilities vs economical, a good one that he is working on, would be electric flight.
It is PHYSICALLY possible. Our drones indicate that there is no physical issues with that.
Now, it is down to engineering and economical issues. He and others are working on it, but at this time, it is not known if the engineering is possible for it.
exactly right.
They STILL could survive, but they will not. To survive they need to get rid of the MBA's they keep hiring and focus on getting new customers and new products. The best way for them to do that, is go after Small American start-ups.
But, they will not.
Seriously, the smart move would be for bezo to create 3-5 VERTICAL companies from amazon. Give them all the same equipment, robotics, etc, and then let them compete against each other.
With that, trump/GOP could do nothing, except get mad that Amazon 1-5 are slowly throttling companies like walmart, target, etc all who bought GOP politicians have been throttling America.