With respect, it didn't stick long enough to make it into history as we are seeing now where any gains he may possibly have made have all been undone if they happened at all. I honestly cannot understand your perspective so perhaps it would help if you could tell me what achievements led you to think that he is a "great man". The only two conflicts that he took part in over a very long career (he was chosen for political connections and the many with actual experience were ignored) seem to me to involve going home without taking care that things will not fall apart the moment he left. Your opinion is obviously very different and I'm curious as to why - what have I missed here?
With gravity wave detection happening now it may be possible to find something like this in a few decades with a really long baseline on the gravity detector/s. There's already suggestions to network three at points very widely separated around the world (effectively providing a baseline the size of Earth plus an indication of a direction) and offworld detectors on the moon or far beyond may lead to being able to detect something like a Pluto sized planet from it's gravity.
Yes, but North Korea and East Germany had "democratic republic" in their names but are (and were) nothing of the sort. Hitler lied like that too? He'd never have done that would he?
I've heard about the decline of US education, but seriously kid, there's no excuse for getting so mixed up on this one.
Ask grandpa to tell you about how it was dealt with before - "infrastructure" is one of many words he may use. Besides, you are already dependant on the government yourself unless you live in a hole in the ground. If you can get a lot of people to the point where they put more in to society than they take out it's a win.
One where the inhouse developers demand admin access for all users of their almighty VB application because they have admin access and don't have the patience to test it on a machine that does not. It used to be a very common problem and it still lurks in a few places. It took about two years to convince a developer in my workplace that it was a really bad idea despite it being part of the cause of a pile of virus incidents.
From what I can tell, you can simply unplug your computer to stop the process of encrypting your files... the earlier you stop, the fewer files are affected.
I looked at the timestamps of the files of a cryptolocker attack victim once - it's worth remembering that computers are very fast these days and it did quite a few GB per minute.
Great? That vet from Afganistan had very different ideas and Iraq is pretty damned fucked up is it not? In Iraq, what did he really solve apart from a lot of PR? He left the place with a horrible power imbalance of minority rule and Daash took advantage of weak government and pissed off majority to create a nightmare.
Enough ranting - all it took was for an officer who served under him to call him a clown and I looked for myself at what Petraeus had actually done to see that the PR didn't match what really happened. Why do you call him "great". Is it mostly from what he, Bush and the PR said about him and not actual actions with long term positive consequrnces? That's all the "greatness" I could find, and he looks pretty fucking small now spilling secrets for the sake of his penis.
Powell on the other hand I can respect but he fell on his sword for Bush with deliberate lies to the UN and has zero chance at getting into a position of major responsibility again.
says you can be (or rather, you are, or must be) a part of the militia, and it does not mention anything about being expected to fight when needed
The word "militia" states that you are expected to fight on it's own does it not? This whole weasel bullshit of pretending to be a soldier to justify military weapons (instead of what you can have as a useful tool for whatever task you need it for) and then running in horror from any responsibility to serve really makes me laugh a great deal at the 2nd amendment weenies that don't even know how to store a gun safely.
Then how do you explain the hundreds of millions of people who don't act like the losers that pretend that their God told them to kill? Also trying on a different strawman for size ("You're making the common multicultural error, that deep down everyone is a tolerant liberal like you") is fucking offensive. The world is not binary.
He's a criminal and is only not doing more time than Manning (less extenuating circumstances) due to having well connected friends that can tell the concept of "nobody is above or below the law" to fuck off.
"Hey, I know a guy who can do this!" Right.
Then you end up with a country run no better than a University tennis club or similar. Do you remember the person Baby Bush tired to put up for the Supreme Court - that should give you an idea of how shallow the pool was.
Let's turn that around though. Do you think you can somehow solve racisim by getting rid of poverty?
No. The two are in tangled up in a loop and trying to deal with one but not the other is a doomed to failure. I thought I made that clear in the above post.
He couldn't do it himself, so he tried to hire really good people to get the job done
And he did a "heck of a job" didn't he. I really can't tell if you are joking or not since he was mostly hiring from a small group of friends and cronies that he went to school with or knew in Texas.
good people (Petraeus)
The guy that leaked national secrets to a journalist? The same crime Manning is in jail for, Snowden is stuck in Moscow for and Assange is hiding in what used to be a women's toilet in London? Is there a joke going over my head or are you trying to be serious? A vet from Afganistan I know has referred to Petraeus as "the clown" repeatedly for some reason but was unwilling to say why, however just the leak of classified material to the journalist he was having sex with is reason enough to call him a total failure and not "good people".
It's really a poverty problem and US politics is about the top end of town. Trying to fix racism issues without fixing poverty issues does not get a lot done.
Populism - speak about the obvious problems to distract from having no plan to actually do something about it. It's a nice trick and more effective than the people that state the reality that it's going to take years to climb out of the hole and there may be another bubble about to burst.
I think the last President or potential President to tell the people the unpolished truth was Jimmy Carter, and after what happened to him nobody running is going to dare to suggest that time, hard work and a shitload of tax money is going to be needed to fix some things.
Trump IS the establishment and has been in it since birth so I really don't get why people think he's an "outsider". He used his party connections four times to escape from consequences of bankruptcy. Also this is not his first tilt at President so he's got a very firm grip on the party machinery.
Because I didn't say something about Trump being a saint I'm sure some loser will irrelevantly bring up Hillary. Personally I think Trump is about the only choice from the last fifty years of Republican history that would make Hillary look good in comparison (even Nixon and Ford look better, and I'm still pissed off with Ford taking a bribe from Indonesia in 1975).
The loser AC above put Hitler on the left so has no idea. I'd be tempted to put Stalin on the right, he was pretty well a Tsar in all but name, but he did get his start as one of Lenin's killers.
He's not actually a fascist. He's far more shallow that that for better and worse. No real ideology - Trump is for whatever is best for Trump, will do whatever is best for Trump and will say that he'll do a lot of things he never intends to do if that's what will convince people to do things he wants them to do. Look at the sort of unaccountable nobility that George Washington fought against for a bit of a closer idea than fascism but that isn't the full story either.
If this was a movie there would be shadowy sinister figures in a smoky room pondering who they could possibly run against Hillary if they wanted to make her look like the best choice - and then in a moment of inspiration one of them says "Trump".
To speak plainly Islam is not the problem here but the pig fucking evil pieces of shit that are using it as an excuse. In no way am I an apologist for them and I find it incredibly insulting that you wish to pretend that I am. I also pity you for falling for the excuse from those pig fucking pieces of shit that their God told them to do it. How can you swallow that shit? When Manson said that shit we didn't fall for it - why should we fall for it with this bunch of killers instead?
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With respect, it didn't stick long enough to make it into history as we are seeing now where any gains he may possibly have made have all been undone if they happened at all.
I honestly cannot understand your perspective so perhaps it would help if you could tell me what achievements led you to think that he is a "great man". The only two conflicts that he took part in over a very long career (he was chosen for political connections and the many with actual experience were ignored) seem to me to involve going home without taking care that things will not fall apart the moment he left. Your opinion is obviously very different and I'm curious as to why - what have I missed here?
With gravity wave detection happening now it may be possible to find something like this in a few decades with a really long baseline on the gravity detector/s. There's already suggestions to network three at points very widely separated around the world (effectively providing a baseline the size of Earth plus an indication of a direction) and offworld detectors on the moon or far beyond may lead to being able to detect something like a Pluto sized planet from it's gravity.
So does that mean that Red Shift is going away?
Eink FTW.
Yes, but North Korea and East Germany had "democratic republic" in their names but are (and were) nothing of the sort.
Hitler lied like that too? He'd never have done that would he?
I've heard about the decline of US education, but seriously kid, there's no excuse for getting so mixed up on this one.
Ask grandpa to tell you about how it was dealt with before - "infrastructure" is one of many words he may use. Besides, you are already dependant on the government yourself unless you live in a hole in the ground. If you can get a lot of people to the point where they put more in to society than they take out it's a win.
I really do not know where you got that from unless it was from PR.
One where the inhouse developers demand admin access for all users of their almighty VB application because they have admin access and don't have the patience to test it on a machine that does not. It used to be a very common problem and it still lurks in a few places. It took about two years to convince a developer in my workplace that it was a really bad idea despite it being part of the cause of a pile of virus incidents.
I looked at the timestamps of the files of a cryptolocker attack victim once - it's worth remembering that computers are very fast these days and it did quite a few GB per minute.
This software patent shit is WHY nvidia doesn't have open drivers.
Great? That vet from Afganistan had very different ideas and Iraq is pretty damned fucked up is it not? In Iraq, what did he really solve apart from a lot of PR? He left the place with a horrible power imbalance of minority rule and Daash took advantage of weak government and pissed off majority to create a nightmare.
Enough ranting - all it took was for an officer who served under him to call him a clown and I looked for myself at what Petraeus had actually done to see that the PR didn't match what really happened. Why do you call him "great". Is it mostly from what he, Bush and the PR said about him and not actual actions with long term positive consequrnces? That's all the "greatness" I could find, and he looks pretty fucking small now spilling secrets for the sake of his penis.
Powell on the other hand I can respect but he fell on his sword for Bush with deliberate lies to the UN and has zero chance at getting into a position of major responsibility again.
The word "militia" states that you are expected to fight on it's own does it not?
This whole weasel bullshit of pretending to be a soldier to justify military weapons (instead of what you can have as a useful tool for whatever task you need it for) and then running in horror from any responsibility to serve really makes me laugh a great deal at the 2nd amendment weenies that don't even know how to store a gun safely.
Energy stock bubble bursting in 3 .. 2 .. 1. :(
Damn - the GP is now right about China having a larger economy
Tell me where it says you can be part of the militia and not be expected to fight when needed.
Then how do you explain the hundreds of millions of people who don't act like the losers that pretend that their God told them to kill?
Also trying on a different strawman for size ("You're making the common multicultural error, that deep down everyone is a tolerant liberal like you") is fucking offensive. The world is not binary.
He's a criminal and is only not doing more time than Manning (less extenuating circumstances) due to having well connected friends that can tell the concept of "nobody is above or below the law" to fuck off.
Then you end up with a country run no better than a University tennis club or similar. Do you remember the person Baby Bush tired to put up for the Supreme Court - that should give you an idea of how shallow the pool was.
No. The two are in tangled up in a loop and trying to deal with one but not the other is a doomed to failure. I thought I made that clear in the above post.
And he did a "heck of a job" didn't he. I really can't tell if you are joking or not since he was mostly hiring from a small group of friends and cronies that he went to school with or knew in Texas.
The guy that leaked national secrets to a journalist? The same crime Manning is in jail for, Snowden is stuck in Moscow for and Assange is hiding in what used to be a women's toilet in London? Is there a joke going over my head or are you trying to be serious? A vet from Afganistan I know has referred to Petraeus as "the clown" repeatedly for some reason but was unwilling to say why, however just the leak of classified material to the journalist he was having sex with is reason enough to call him a total failure and not "good people".
But Trump with his confidence tricks and obvious lies is?
A pox on both of them.
It's really a poverty problem and US politics is about the top end of town. Trying to fix racism issues without fixing poverty issues does not get a lot done.
Populism - speak about the obvious problems to distract from having no plan to actually do something about it. It's a nice trick and more effective than the people that state the reality that it's going to take years to climb out of the hole and there may be another bubble about to burst.
I think the last President or potential President to tell the people the unpolished truth was Jimmy Carter, and after what happened to him nobody running is going to dare to suggest that time, hard work and a shitload of tax money is going to be needed to fix some things.
Trump IS the establishment and has been in it since birth so I really don't get why people think he's an "outsider". He used his party connections four times to escape from consequences of bankruptcy. Also this is not his first tilt at President so he's got a very firm grip on the party machinery.
Because I didn't say something about Trump being a saint I'm sure some loser will irrelevantly bring up Hillary. Personally I think Trump is about the only choice from the last fifty years of Republican history that would make Hillary look good in comparison (even Nixon and Ford look better, and I'm still pissed off with Ford taking a bribe from Indonesia in 1975).
The loser AC above put Hitler on the left so has no idea. I'd be tempted to put Stalin on the right, he was pretty well a Tsar in all but name, but he did get his start as one of Lenin's killers.
He's not actually a fascist. He's far more shallow that that for better and worse. No real ideology - Trump is for whatever is best for Trump, will do whatever is best for Trump and will say that he'll do a lot of things he never intends to do if that's what will convince people to do things he wants them to do.
Look at the sort of unaccountable nobility that George Washington fought against for a bit of a closer idea than fascism but that isn't the full story either.
If this was a movie there would be shadowy sinister figures in a smoky room pondering who they could possibly run against Hillary if they wanted to make her look like the best choice - and then in a moment of inspiration one of them says "Trump".
To speak plainly Islam is not the problem here but the pig fucking evil pieces of shit that are using it as an excuse. In no way am I an apologist for them and I find it incredibly insulting that you wish to pretend that I am. I also pity you for falling for the excuse from those pig fucking pieces of shit that their God told them to do it. How can you swallow that shit? When Manson said that shit we didn't fall for it - why should we fall for it with this bunch of killers instead?