Difficulty handling the relentless brute force attempts more likely.
That's what I find to be the biggest farce - the Big Ebil Russians hacked the DNC email server in a matter of weeks to swing the election to Trump, yet they left Hillary's private email server alone for YEARS. Otherwise, it would mean Hillary was an incompetent fool, and we can't have that...
The difference is that at a high level the state department is dealing with a crapload of data and it's not obvious whether it's classified or not.
Did that information come from source X? Well then it's classified. But from Y, well then it's not classified. Only parts A-C are classified, but D is fair game. Someone is calling Z classified but it's in a newspaper article, etc, etc.
Uh huh. Why don't you try getting a classified job (at a far lower level than HRC), send work information over Facebook, and then try the "aww, shucks, who could have known" line at the DOJ when they're threatening you with twenty years in prison for mishandling classified data. Bonus points if you do it in your best Goofy impression.
What if he came from the other end - let's say a member of the 700 Club or Family Research Council or one more of those anti LGBT or anti abortion groups? Would people still be hailing him or Apple?
Do you think being a member of the KKK in the 60's was as commendable as being a member of the NAACP? Just asking since all causes seem to be equivalent in your world....
You know about the scientific method, don't you? If you have one counter example to your theory, the theory is wrong. We have plenty of examples where it's wrong.
Wow, you sound like those guys who, upon hearing about the dangers of smoking, ask why people who don't smoke get cancer, and then nominate themselves for a Nobel prize. We are fortunate to be graced your intellect.
"As the ocean gets warmer, which it is getting, it expands..." is just an example of Bill Nye trying to impress his audience with his knowledge of the physical properties of water, and therefore he should be trusted as part of the Priestly Order of the Science Illuminati.
You're the 101st poster gangbanging that chicken. She's pretty worn out by this point, could you give her a break?
Nye hasn't published any papers on this topic. Let's look at what real scientists have found.
Even as Al Gore was trying to scare everyone into believing that the frequency and intensity of cyclones was in the process of skyrocketing,
So.....Bill Nye is a science denier.....because you drank the hatorade on Al Gore??
Dr. R.N. Maue
Who has a doctorate in meteorology, not climate science, so you might want to ease up with that 'not a real scientist' attack least it hit your appeals-to-authority fallacy in the face in the process.
Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity
Or you're just hand waving. Warmer temperatures means more water vapor in the air. More water vapor in the air makes for....more precipitation, which makes for more severe flooding and blizzards. Which we've had.
Apparently the only officials from Louisiana or the feds that NPR has any interest in hosting are climatologists. No FEMA, no state first responders; just climatologists.
One night I was channel surfing and caught part of an olympic soccer match. I never watched anything else, but I'm sure that means NBC aired nothing but soccer matches over weeks of coverage. Because reasons.
While discussing the floods with the climatologists, both the federal and state climate guys made the mistake of mentioning the fact that the high costs and displacement are as much to do with recent property development as the amount of water. You could clearly detect the host's frustration as he attempted to get these hapless officials back on the rails speculating about climate and saying disparaging things about fossil fuels.
Sounds like confirmation bias. Yours, not the reporter from National Pentagon Radio. Yes, it's a problem when greedy developers are allowed to build in flood plains and sell to unsuspecting homeowners. But so many people are putting on their tunnel vision glasses to stare at that tree, and ignore the forest that is a once-in-a-thousand year flood putting land under water that has been dry since before this country's founding.
This isn't anything close to a normal flood. This is a once-in-a-thousand-years flood. Areas were underwater that had been flood-free for hundreds of years. Would you have 'had it coming' if your house got washed away, in flood waters not seen in your area since Gengis Khan was tromping around Asia?
That's hand waiving. Corporations say they need H1B's because there aren't skilled Americans to do the job. Let them prove it by paying for it.
Let's start with the 90th percentile for the job, then double it.
Let's not. Or did you forget you'd be trusting the same companies that lobby Congress for more H1B's, even while laying off thousands (or even tens of thousands) of American workers? This is all just a game to them, to increase the size of the labor pool and lower their employment costs. Pegging it to 90th percentile is just asking them to drive down wages even further.
When you talk about illegal immigration from Mexico, it's all "no man is illegal", "we are all born equal", "tear down the wall", "just let them in". But the moment some brown person comes to "steal" not some low-income redneck job, but your hipster job, suddenly the song changes completely.
Is the United States Government importing Mexicans, as a matter of public policy, to take jobs that require a low skill level?
People should stop beating around the bush and call this what it is: a government run program to subsidize labor costs for businesses and shareholders, to the detriment of American workers and taxpayers. "Fair market rates" only apply when they are to shareholder's benefit. When they actually give the worker a leg up for a change - fuck you, we're going to bring in some grads from India to do your job. Grads who can compete without five figures of student loan debt hanging over their heads.
It's amazing how much tech folk can sound like auto workers in the 80's bitching about Americans buying foreign cars.
Were those workers being replaced in a government-run program to import foreign workers to labor in Ford and GM plants to lower wages? No. Are those objecting to H1B basing their complaints on having to compete with software companies located in other countries? No.
Does that mean you have the lamest analogy in the story thus far? Yes.
Then you know the company is going H1B because there really is a shortage of workers, and not simply because they're greedy sons of bitches looking to lower their labor costs rather than paying what it takes to get the employee they want.
Corporation don't pay taxes really anyways, because
Because they've bought off politicians to give them enough exemptions and loopholes so that, on top of low tax rates, they effectively pay nothing.
2. Costs get passed down into first-order (consumer) goods for the most part anyways
All prices area always set to maximize revenues. If companies could arbitrarily charge more money without losing more customers than they made in new profits, they wouldn't wait for new taxes or wage increases to do so. They would just do it and pocket the profits.
Additionally the. U.S has an absurdly high top corporate rate
Zombie talking point. No, it's not high to begin with, and there are enough loopholes and write-offs that the richest corporations in the world pay little to no taxes.
Public sector compensation is already quite generous
"Citizens against government waste". Why not go all-out and cite Grover Norquist and Ayn Rand?
Most of what you mention is just sort of normal compensation and can be negotiated individually as appropriate
Individually you are irrelevant and completely expendable. As part of a collective labor force, you are not. You know this.
as it makes it difficult of impossible to remove low-performers and inappropriate behaviors
Another zombie talking point. You guys really think that once you'd join a union, you'd really stand around and think "boy, I wish Bob would start slacking off so I can do my job plus his!" And there is nothing about unions that prevents people from being fired with cause.
This due process thing is precisely what a lot of the best and brightest in the public sector object to
Now you're just putting on the clown shoes. The employer having to actually give a reason for termination is objectionable to no one but employers.
Why should someone be forced to support a group that advocates for policies they think are harmful or unnecessary in order to keep their job?
Zombie talking point #3. Union members are free to vote on what policies their union supports. Employees that work for a Koch Industries subsidiary have no say whatsoever over what Charles and David do with the wealth generated from their labor. Why do you hate democracy while loving aristocracy?
What you call freeloading, is just a pejorative term applied to a positive externality.
Hand waving. Why, exactly, should workers enjoy benefits won by a union that they did nothing to earn? Why don't you try stopping by your local chamber of commerce, and tell them you want all the benefits of membership without paying a cent in dues.
Unions pushed for the eight hour workday and made it the norm, but does every worker with a 8-hour day ow the Wobblies a union due?
If the company had previously been demanding 14 hour workdays and paying employees in company script? Then yes, they did owe the union. Any more questions?
Krugman supports right-wing neoliberal corporate trade laws, which....wait for it....makes him a right-wing neoliberal. His support of Democratic poltiicans does nothing to change that - particularly when those politicians are neoliberals themselves, like Hillary and Obama. Same as the Clinton's support of banking & telecom deregulation, gutting welfare, and getting "tougher on crime" than Republicans makes them right-wing neoliberals. Or the legions of Obamabots who defend their Dear Leader on everything from drone strikes to cutting Social Security.
It's the actions that matter, not the party label.
from conservative Gregory Mankiw at Harvard University to liberal Paul Krugman at Princeton â" support free trade.
Yeah, like I said, right-wing neoliberal economists. Krugman is a LMIAL type, which is just a conservative who likes to lie to themselves a lot. This was on display this spring, as he made rat-and-chicken-fucking Sanders his day job.
WTF does that have to do with the FACT that Bernie is a red?
Because you're a deranged monkey throwing his crap at a wall. You might as well call Sanders a fat one legged lesbian, it would have as much basis as calling a capitalist like him a communist.
Also, if you think Hillary is going to put dirt in an email you severely underestimate the woman.
The same woman who went on camera, multiple times, to tell a completely bullshit story that her plane had taken sniper fire? The same woman who excoriated the Bush Administration for using private email servers, only to do the same for herself when she became SOS? Hillary is both brazen and incompetent.
Wow! a +5 insightful for a person who just said every single conspiracy theory is 100 percent true.
Straw man. And all you wankers that try to shut down conversation by crying "CT! CT!" should get a room to fully jerk that circle. When a government lies to you, spends billions to spy on you, and is willing to kidnap and torture people to death from around the world.....that government has lost any benefit of the doubt.
Have you looked at the pictures? Same build, similar long hair, same little scraggly chin beard. There's a little more there than skin color, don't you think?
No. There isn't. Cops aren't going to have a clue what his "build" in a.05 second glance through the window of a car. And if you listened to yourself for two seconds:
Castile was pulled over because he matched the description of an armed robber [kare11.com] from a convenience store heist a few days before.
A few days before? There's 3.5 million people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. As has been pointed out to you before, there's a huge gulf between being a suspect and "resembling" one. Combine those two things, and the result is you are making pathetic excuses for pathetic trigger happy cops.
As opposed to now, where they are unfriendly? Is that on some alternate planet where Russia has surrounded the United States with Warsaw Pact countries (after promising not to, decades ago), overthrew the government of Canada after it wouldn't vote for pro-east leaders, and try to crash the U.S. economy with bullshit sanctions?
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Your ignorance on the subject is not our problem.
That's what I find to be the biggest farce - the Big Ebil Russians hacked the DNC email server in a matter of weeks to swing the election to Trump, yet they left Hillary's private email server alone for YEARS. Otherwise, it would mean Hillary was an incompetent fool, and we can't have that...
Uh huh. Why don't you try getting a classified job (at a far lower level than HRC), send work information over Facebook, and then try the "aww, shucks, who could have known" line at the DOJ when they're threatening you with twenty years in prison for mishandling classified data. Bonus points if you do it in your best Goofy impression.
Go light up a cigarette for a job well done.
Do you think being a member of the KKK in the 60's was as commendable as being a member of the NAACP? Just asking since all causes seem to be equivalent in your world....
Wow, you sound like those guys who, upon hearing about the dangers of smoking, ask why people who don't smoke get cancer, and then nominate themselves for a Nobel prize. We are fortunate to be graced your intellect.
You're the 101st poster gangbanging that chicken. She's pretty worn out by this point, could you give her a break?
So.....Bill Nye is a science denier.....because you drank the hatorade on Al Gore??
Who has a doctorate in meteorology, not climate science, so you might want to ease up with that 'not a real scientist' attack least it hit your appeals-to-authority fallacy in the face in the process.
Annnnnd now from actual climate scientists: It is unclear whether global warming is increasing hurricane frequency but there is increasing evidence that warming increases hurricane intensity. You look at a list of the most powerful hurricanes/cyclones and it's going to be heavy with storms in the last 20 years. Looking at the 8 most powerful to make landfall, six of them have been since 1998.
Or you're just hand waving. Warmer temperatures means more water vapor in the air. More water vapor in the air makes for....more precipitation, which makes for more severe flooding and blizzards. Which we've had.
Why would you subject yourself to that right wing rag?
One night I was channel surfing and caught part of an olympic soccer match. I never watched anything else, but I'm sure that means NBC aired nothing but soccer matches over weeks of coverage. Because reasons.
Sounds like confirmation bias. Yours, not the reporter from National Pentagon Radio. Yes, it's a problem when greedy developers are allowed to build in flood plains and sell to unsuspecting homeowners. But so many people are putting on their tunnel vision glasses to stare at that tree, and ignore the forest that is a once-in-a-thousand year flood putting land under water that has been dry since before this country's founding.
This isn't anything close to a normal flood. This is a once-in-a-thousand-years flood. Areas were underwater that had been flood-free for hundreds of years. Would you have 'had it coming' if your house got washed away, in flood waters not seen in your area since Gengis Khan was tromping around Asia?
That's hand waiving. Corporations say they need H1B's because there aren't skilled Americans to do the job. Let them prove it by paying for it.
Let's not. Or did you forget you'd be trusting the same companies that lobby Congress for more H1B's, even while laying off thousands (or even tens of thousands) of American workers? This is all just a game to them, to increase the size of the labor pool and lower their employment costs. Pegging it to 90th percentile is just asking them to drive down wages even further.
Is the United States Government importing Mexicans, as a matter of public policy, to take jobs that require a low skill level?
People should stop beating around the bush and call this what it is: a government run program to subsidize labor costs for businesses and shareholders, to the detriment of American workers and taxpayers. "Fair market rates" only apply when they are to shareholder's benefit. When they actually give the worker a leg up for a change - fuck you, we're going to bring in some grads from India to do your job. Grads who can compete without five figures of student loan debt hanging over their heads.
Were those workers being replaced in a government-run program to import foreign workers to labor in Ford and GM plants to lower wages? No. Are those objecting to H1B basing their complaints on having to compete with software companies located in other countries? No.
Does that mean you have the lamest analogy in the story thus far? Yes.
Then you know the company is going H1B because there really is a shortage of workers, and not simply because they're greedy sons of bitches looking to lower their labor costs rather than paying what it takes to get the employee they want.
Because they've bought off politicians to give them enough exemptions and loopholes so that, on top of low tax rates, they effectively pay nothing.
All prices area always set to maximize revenues. If companies could arbitrarily charge more money without losing more customers than they made in new profits, they wouldn't wait for new taxes or wage increases to do so. They would just do it and pocket the profits.
Zombie talking point. No, it's not high to begin with, and there are enough loopholes and write-offs that the richest corporations in the world pay little to no taxes.
"Citizens against government waste". Why not go all-out and cite Grover Norquist and Ayn Rand?
Individually you are irrelevant and completely expendable. As part of a collective labor force, you are not. You know this.
Another zombie talking point. You guys really think that once you'd join a union, you'd really stand around and think "boy, I wish Bob would start slacking off so I can do my job plus his!" And there is nothing about unions that prevents people from being fired with cause.
Now you're just putting on the clown shoes. The employer having to actually give a reason for termination is objectionable to no one but employers.
Zombie talking point #3. Union members are free to vote on what policies their union supports. Employees that work for a Koch Industries subsidiary have no say whatsoever over what Charles and David do with the wealth generated from their labor. Why do you hate democracy while loving aristocracy?
Hand waving. Why, exactly, should workers enjoy benefits won by a union that they did nothing to earn? Why don't you try stopping by your local chamber of commerce, and tell them you want all the benefits of membership without paying a cent in dues.
If the company had previously been demanding 14 hour workdays and paying employees in company script? Then yes, they did owe the union. Any more questions?
Hand waving. Got it.
Look, this isn't hard. If Trump suddenly called for the U.S. government to seize control of all industry, labor, and national resources, would that be a conservative position just because Trump is a Republican? Of course not.
Krugman supports right-wing neoliberal corporate trade laws, which....wait for it....makes him a right-wing neoliberal. His support of Democratic poltiicans does nothing to change that - particularly when those politicians are neoliberals themselves, like Hillary and Obama. Same as the Clinton's support of banking & telecom deregulation, gutting welfare, and getting "tougher on crime" than Republicans makes them right-wing neoliberals. Or the legions of Obamabots who defend their Dear Leader on everything from drone strikes to cutting Social Security.
It's the actions that matter, not the party label.
Yeah, like I said, right-wing neoliberal economists. Krugman is a LMIAL type, which is just a conservative who likes to lie to themselves a lot. This was on display this spring, as he made rat-and-chicken-fucking Sanders his day job.
Because you're a deranged monkey throwing his crap at a wall. You might as well call Sanders a fat one legged lesbian, it would have as much basis as calling a capitalist like him a communist.
The same woman who went on camera, multiple times, to tell a completely bullshit story that her plane had taken sniper fire? The same woman who excoriated the Bush Administration for using private email servers, only to do the same for herself when she became SOS? Hillary is both brazen and incompetent.
Straw man. And all you wankers that try to shut down conversation by crying "CT! CT!" should get a room to fully jerk that circle. When a government lies to you, spends billions to spy on you, and is willing to kidnap and torture people to death from around the world.....that government has lost any benefit of the doubt.
No. There isn't. Cops aren't going to have a clue what his "build" in a .05 second glance through the window of a car. And if you listened to yourself for two seconds:
A few days before? There's 3.5 million people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. As has been pointed out to you before, there's a huge gulf between being a suspect and "resembling" one. Combine those two things, and the result is you are making pathetic excuses for pathetic trigger happy cops.
As opposed to now, where they are unfriendly? Is that on some alternate planet where Russia has surrounded the United States with Warsaw Pact countries (after promising not to, decades ago), overthrew the government of Canada after it wouldn't vote for pro-east leaders, and try to crash the U.S. economy with bullshit sanctions?
How does it feel to be as stupid as a Hillbot?