Why not get mad at both? With the current system nobody with much honesty or integrity is going to make it that far. How else do you think you ended up with a pit bull from dozens of illegal dog fights versus a rabid poodle?
Meanwhile Liberals are more concerned with Trump asking the russians for help finding Hillary's Missing Emails, than they are about Hillary's Missing Emails.
Take a step back, try it with a different name for the person who "lost" the emails and you'll see why. If Trump was serious instead of it being a silly joke it would be condoning espionage versus something trivial. Give up on the emails. They are never going to be found it's a distraction from what looks like real crimes like taking a bribe from Pfizer. The only reason Republicans haven't gone after that is that a crackdown on bribery may bring up some historical dirt that will also make some Republicans look bad (eg. Cheney).
In the land where the handgun is a common combined penis and flag substitute the "assassin" didn't even bring a gun. Not much of an attempt. File him with the thousands of other crazies who "would have done something" but were dragged off from events like that. The real thing, a guy who shot Reagan, is being released today. He didn't just turn up with some stupid "plan" to steal a gun from a cop.
No so simple. The way he behaved at Yalta showed that he did not know. His shock that his conversations were being bugged for one example. His reactions to some of Stalin's comments as if they were jokes another. Churchill's efforts to explain to him just who he was dealing with a third.
but the entire intelligence service couldn't have been entirely ignoring what had been happening in Russia for decades
See the other post - he wasn't listening to them and it's also very likely that intelligence on Russia was a very low priority. Of course the US had a lot of Russian immigrants at the time who could have told him.
They not only have but they tried one with Nokia right at the very dawn of smartphones. It didn't sell well. I think this thing will work since the first question someone asked me about a Nintendo DS around a decade ago was "does it also plug into the TV?"
Still, its their billions to burn
It's Nintendo, they don't tend to spend a fortune on development and hardware so if it bombs it's not "billions to burn".
With the greatest possible respect, the sort of failing CEOs we are discussing do not go through a screening process remotely similar to yours in any way so your experience and the salary you are proud of is not relevant at all. If you were utter crap at your job and did some deals with some board members to get employed elsewhere with close to zero screening it would be relevant. You are not an Elop, going from a nobody, to a CEO of a huge company, to a top level exec at MS, to a nobody in an Australian Telco. Your employment depends on your competence and experience and does not shuffle up and down compared with what backdoor deals you've done and what friends you have.
Geography is seen as a mere inconvenience when applying laws. Hosting it in Panama is a very insignificant speed bump compared with Switzerland, especially that since to the USA Panama is very much what the Romans called a "client state".
then why the hell did they nominate the candidate who's untrusted and corrupt and is going to have a serious uphill battle to beat Trump
You are getting it backwards. Hillary has been spending years doing deals behind the scenes and nomination is just a rubber stamp on that. It was settled years ago so there is no way to change it to react to Trump.
That's the benefit of hindsight and also generally having a clue about Russia/USSR. If you read about the Yalta conference it becomes very clear that FDR had no clue about Russia/USSR and had utterly no idea that Stalin was evil despite a lot of advice from his own experts and plenty of warnings from Churchill. One of the triggers for the cold war was clueless people in high places suddenly discovering with shock and feelings of betrayal that Stalin really was as bad as Churchill said he was.
So it seems that FDR and others were not doing a "lesser of two evils" thing due to not paying attention to advice about Stalin and just going by Stalin's personality. FDR really did think he was "good old Uncle Joe" who was hated just for being a communist by some eggheads who wouldn't know a great man if they shook his hand. That's what a focus on national issues and being surrounded by a group of like-minded folk you trust while keeping real experts at a distance gets you. He was the sort of guy that thought you could judge a man by his handshake and Stalin was very good at manipulating such people. Trump is likely to be a hundred times more clueless.
That's if he doesn't decide to do a Reagan and go around congress, the joint chiefs and anyone else that doesn't like his pet projects. It will be a good time to be running Iran, Russia, China or anyone else who can convince a weak President that they have a wonderful deal for him.
Except Trump will have less of a chance of getting stupidity done
A vast amount of stupidity has been done to get him this far so I'd say you are being a bit overconfident that normal services will be resumed so easily.
Any objections, no matter how valid, will be described as the rantings of right-wing lunatics
So? If they have enough numbers (which is likely) those rantings will still block someone who respects the Republic, Democracy and the rule of law.
I don't know which is worse: having an isolationist like Trump or a warmonger like HRC...
The isolationists did so well in the 1930s didn't they? The current bunch even have the same slogan of "America First". It's pretty obvious really. Even tollbooth Christie would have been a better choice.
Let's consider a more recent isolationist, the UK's (well England's really, the rest were left to rot) Maggie Thatcher. She started downsizing the military, scrapped a carrier and sold the others since she didn't need them due to her isolationist policies. Argentina took advantage of that and seized the UK territory of the Falkland Islands. She had to cancel the sale of the remaining carriers and send the navy in guns blazing. Being an isolationist doesn't always stop wars, sometimes it results in them.
Besides "warmonger" being used as an insult and not a compliment post-Reagan is a bit strange in the USA:)
I was about to say it would make a great conspiracy story that it's being thrown but it's all far too ridiculous to have made it past an editor even for SF. Trump is stranger than fiction.
Since everyone seems to have forgotten what was in the Manning leak on Wikileaks about Hillary Clinton this probably won't make make difference either despite what is in it.
It's not in a stormy sea it's a fjord a long way from anywhere with waves. Of course the government could fake a plane crash into it or set it on fire like with your other posts where you used your "engineer" title to pretend you knew about civil engineering.
So, all they have to do is take a sub up a very long fjord with a very narrow entrance and then spend hours getting out again during a time of war. There were anti-submarine measures like booms and nets at narrow inlets a century ago during World War One FFS!
You may want to remove your "missing an idiot" sig for utterly stupid posts to avoid a truly epic failure.
It's sort of obvious because if a board is so easily manipulated to pump up the amount of money gifted to the CEO then they are not likely to be ensuring that the CEO, or they themselves, are doing an adequate job.
There are many examples. Find almost any truly spectacular failure of a large company and you'll find a CEO in the middle of it being rewarded far more for failure than most places of the same size reward success.
I used the word "gifted" deliberately, as in money and benefits well above and beyond what is normally considered deserved elsewhere. There's a Telco near me that had a 10x jump between CEOs despite increasingly poor performance by every measure (subscribers, income, share price etc etc).
And besides which, the H-4 was a one-off prototype that made one mile long flight at an altitude of just 20m. It's not clear if it would operate well higher up where there was no ground effect
Some of the Ekranoplan ground effect vehicles can fly that high and they are probably larger. Not exactly aircraft though.
I'm 90% convinced that the spruce goose was mostly war profiteering like a few other useless things at the time that we like to forget. Hughes was a "sharp businessman" after all.
was old enough to know that their degree in Religious Studies and Art History was not going to pay the bills
To a lot of employers a degree was proof that you would be able to get up in the morning, turn up for work and be able to figure out what to do with simple paperwork. The actual content didn't matter a lot for non-technical jobs until there were so many unemployed around that recent graduates had a lot of competition. Some people who did those degrees you are contemptuous of some years ago see those of us who completed degrees based on science and technology as "the little people" who were "not taught people skills" and are working as management. So while it may seem a stupid idea to do such courses now it was not in the past, may not be in the future and possibly isn't really that much of a stupid idea now. What was stupid in hindsight was what I did - an engineering degree with a tight focus on manufacturing inspired by an approaching obvious manufacturing boom. It was stupid because the boom happened in China while engineers were laid off elsewhere.
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Indeed - Rice, Powell, Clinton and many others were doing what the lowly private was trained not to do.
Why not get mad at both?
With the current system nobody with much honesty or integrity is going to make it that far. How else do you think you ended up with a pit bull from dozens of illegal dog fights versus a rabid poodle?
Because it came from a full time clown. He can backtrack on anything when things get too hot and pretend it was part of the clown act.
That's the excuse, just like the "I'm not saying" trick that was a popular weasel method to push offensive opinions a while back.
Take a step back, try it with a different name for the person who "lost" the emails and you'll see why. If Trump was serious instead of it being a silly joke it would be condoning espionage versus something trivial.
Give up on the emails. They are never going to be found it's a distraction from what looks like real crimes like taking a bribe from Pfizer. The only reason Republicans haven't gone after that is that a crackdown on bribery may bring up some historical dirt that will also make some Republicans look bad (eg. Cheney).
In the land where the handgun is a common combined penis and flag substitute the "assassin" didn't even bring a gun. Not much of an attempt. File him with the thousands of other crazies who "would have done something" but were dragged off from events like that.
The real thing, a guy who shot Reagan, is being released today. He didn't just turn up with some stupid "plan" to steal a gun from a cop.
No so simple. The way he behaved at Yalta showed that he did not know. His shock that his conversations were being bugged for one example. His reactions to some of Stalin's comments as if they were jokes another. Churchill's efforts to explain to him just who he was dealing with a third.
See the other post - he wasn't listening to them and it's also very likely that intelligence on Russia was a very low priority. Of course the US had a lot of Russian immigrants at the time who could have told him.
They not only have but they tried one with Nokia right at the very dawn of smartphones. It didn't sell well.
I think this thing will work since the first question someone asked me about a Nintendo DS around a decade ago was "does it also plug into the TV?"
It's Nintendo, they don't tend to spend a fortune on development and hardware so if it bombs it's not "billions to burn".
With the greatest possible respect, the sort of failing CEOs we are discussing do not go through a screening process remotely similar to yours in any way so your experience and the salary you are proud of is not relevant at all.
If you were utter crap at your job and did some deals with some board members to get employed elsewhere with close to zero screening it would be relevant. You are not an Elop, going from a nobody, to a CEO of a huge company, to a top level exec at MS, to a nobody in an Australian Telco. Your employment depends on your competence and experience and does not shuffle up and down compared with what backdoor deals you've done and what friends you have.
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Geography is seen as a mere inconvenience when applying laws. Hosting it in Panama is a very insignificant speed bump compared with Switzerland, especially that since to the USA Panama is very much what the Romans called a "client state".
You are getting it backwards. Hillary has been spending years doing deals behind the scenes and nomination is just a rubber stamp on that. It was settled years ago so there is no way to change it to react to Trump.
See my other post - FDR as late as the Yalta conference had no idea that Stalin was evil despite a lot of people telling him so.
That's the benefit of hindsight and also generally having a clue about Russia/USSR. If you read about the Yalta conference it becomes very clear that FDR had no clue about Russia/USSR and had utterly no idea that Stalin was evil despite a lot of advice from his own experts and plenty of warnings from Churchill.
One of the triggers for the cold war was clueless people in high places suddenly discovering with shock and feelings of betrayal that Stalin really was as bad as Churchill said he was.
So it seems that FDR and others were not doing a "lesser of two evils" thing due to not paying attention to advice about Stalin and just going by Stalin's personality. FDR really did think he was "good old Uncle Joe" who was hated just for being a communist by some eggheads who wouldn't know a great man if they shook his hand. That's what a focus on national issues and being surrounded by a group of like-minded folk you trust while keeping real experts at a distance gets you. He was the sort of guy that thought you could judge a man by his handshake and Stalin was very good at manipulating such people.
Trump is likely to be a hundred times more clueless.
That's if he doesn't decide to do a Reagan and go around congress, the joint chiefs and anyone else that doesn't like his pet projects.
It will be a good time to be running Iran, Russia, China or anyone else who can convince a weak President that they have a wonderful deal for him.
A vast amount of stupidity has been done to get him this far so I'd say you are being a bit overconfident that normal services will be resumed so easily.
So? If they have enough numbers (which is likely) those rantings will still block someone who respects the Republic, Democracy and the rule of law.
The isolationists did so well in the 1930s didn't they? The current bunch even have the same slogan of "America First".
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It's pretty obvious really. Even tollbooth Christie would have been a better choice.
Let's consider a more recent isolationist, the UK's (well England's really, the rest were left to rot) Maggie Thatcher. She started downsizing the military, scrapped a carrier and sold the others since she didn't need them due to her isolationist policies. Argentina took advantage of that and seized the UK territory of the Falkland Islands. She had to cancel the sale of the remaining carriers and send the navy in guns blazing. Being an isolationist doesn't always stop wars, sometimes it results in them.
Besides "warmonger" being used as an insult and not a compliment post-Reagan is a bit strange in the USA
I was about to say it would make a great conspiracy story that it's being thrown but it's all far too ridiculous to have made it past an editor even for SF.
Trump is stranger than fiction.
Since everyone seems to have forgotten what was in the Manning leak on Wikileaks about Hillary Clinton this probably won't make make difference either despite what is in it.
It's not in a stormy sea it's a fjord a long way from anywhere with waves.
Of course the government could fake a plane crash into it or set it on fire like with your other posts where you used your "engineer" title to pretend you knew about civil engineering.
Which means it would be a bad idea in the open sea. In a fjord it may as well be in a shallow pond as far as the stresses go.
So, all they have to do is take a sub up a very long fjord with a very narrow entrance and then spend hours getting out again during a time of war.
There were anti-submarine measures like booms and nets at narrow inlets a century ago during World War One FFS!
You may want to remove your "missing an idiot" sig for utterly stupid posts to avoid a truly epic failure.
It's sort of obvious because if a board is so easily manipulated to pump up the amount of money gifted to the CEO then they are not likely to be ensuring that the CEO, or they themselves, are doing an adequate job.
There are many examples. Find almost any truly spectacular failure of a large company and you'll find a CEO in the middle of it being rewarded far more for failure than most places of the same size reward success.
I used the word "gifted" deliberately, as in money and benefits well above and beyond what is normally considered deserved elsewhere. There's a Telco near me that had a 10x jump between CEOs despite increasingly poor performance by every measure (subscribers, income, share price etc etc).
Some of the Ekranoplan ground effect vehicles can fly that high and they are probably larger. Not exactly aircraft though.
I'm 90% convinced that the spruce goose was mostly war profiteering like a few other useless things at the time that we like to forget. Hughes was a "sharp businessman" after all.
To a lot of employers a degree was proof that you would be able to get up in the morning, turn up for work and be able to figure out what to do with simple paperwork. The actual content didn't matter a lot for non-technical jobs until there were so many unemployed around that recent graduates had a lot of competition.
Some people who did those degrees you are contemptuous of some years ago see those of us who completed degrees based on science and technology as "the little people" who were "not taught people skills" and are working as management. So while it may seem a stupid idea to do such courses now it was not in the past, may not be in the future and possibly isn't really that much of a stupid idea now. What was stupid in hindsight was what I did - an engineering degree with a tight focus on manufacturing inspired by an approaching obvious manufacturing boom. It was stupid because the boom happened in China while engineers were laid off elsewhere.