Exhibit one of that conflict: In the two weeks after his meeting with Japan's leader while still PEOTUS some legislation was drafted and passed to allow casinos to operate on Japanese soil for the first time. Co-incidence? Are people willing to lay bets that the first casino in Japan will not be sending money in Trump's direction? I thought it would take him longer but he's already been up to that game.
I imagine he fought Meryl Streep because she was given so much prime time
He did it because he's incredibly petty and didn't ignore something so trivial and get on with any of a million other things that should be more important to him. It's this aspect of his personality that means that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and just about everyone else will be able to play him like a flute. Take a look at how he's reacted to Putin's comments about Trump for an example. Putin's flattery had already got Trump doing some things that a level headed President would avoid doing if only to show that they can not be so easily played.
Losing a major war to an invading force is about the only way a country can "end" in that short a time period
You forgot about going from a Republic to a Dictatorship. A lot of countries as people know them have ended that way. Chile was a good example of that. Last year a SF editor would throw out any suggestion of that as being way too unrealistic for the USA in even fiction, but now all bets are off.
I mean he still didn't say anything super brilliant that I can recall
"Mission Accomplished" “Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.” Brilliant entertainment we can laugh about for years if we forget that dead people resulted from the connected fuckups.
You expected a constitutional lawyer to be a radical? He was never going to do anything more than a few minor changes to the system that was already there - hence an extension to a fucked up insurance system instead of an actual health care system. A lot of people say that having to start by digging America out of a hole in 2008 took the wind out of his sails and he could have done more, but that's irrelevant since it was obvious that there was going to have to be a lot of repair after perpetual vacation boy Bush.
Mostly because it's irrelevant. Actions are what matters. The results of an IQ test are not going to get you into a University for a good reason - it's a very rough test that doesn't indicate much at all and is probably going to give different results on the same person two days in a row.
If Taiwan wasn't capable of defending itself, the mainland would have invaded _decades_ ago
Against China? Seriously? The Chinese leadership still think they'll get it back eventually just like they did with Hong Kong. One of the reasons they think that is all of those pro-unification politicians they have been paying for in Taiwan.
Reality is a lot of sheep and a few wolves. The wolves fare better in every system other than a democracy. Where "might makes right" you get wolves in charge. Was that dumbed down enough to match the really dumb quote you lifted from a rabid wolf who falsely attributed it to Franklin? Franklin spent a big chunk of his life pushing damned hard for a pure democracy.
So what would that make rocket attacks, firing mortars at a apartment complexes and playgrounds ?
Pretty fucking ineffective but it makes the Saudis and Iranians who paid for those old inaccurate Shah era rockets to be shipped over feel warm inside for contributing to the "struggle". It is fucked up on many levels with not just a few utter pieces of shit on both sides but also outsiders egging things on.
Palestinians are functionally incapably of peace at this time.
The extreme right wingers infesting parts of Israel's government at this time would use that excuse if they see a Palestinian breathing. Not dead thus incapable of peace. That's the sort of really fucked up people you are defending, the ones where it's OK to break every deal offered with an air strike - preferably just in time for an election.
I was amazed that the "Deeply Held Religious Beliefs" Crowd voted as a block for this being.:)
The "prosperity gosphel" merchants in the temple keep on telling themselves that they have "Deeply Held Religious Beliefs" and they'd see someone as rich as Trump says he is as virtually the Messiah (when he's really just a very naughty boy that never grew up).
However the "God wants you to vote Republican" shit is just as sick and twisted as if it was the opposite. The founding fathers took a lot of care to make sure there wasn't a state religion - if you want that shit go to fucking Iran and see how it works out there.
We've crossed that bridge already. He has spooks under his command that will carry out such orders even if the military will not. You do not appear to know much about him but I think you'll be learning quite a lot in the next few years and especially why the USA is a Republic and not a Kingdom which is the way Trump wants to run things.
However it's not what is normally called A.I. - but then again "nanotech" started off being Drexler's tiny machine ideas but now it includes toothpaste.
A bunch of lookup tables is not what we would normally call intelligence but it could get the job done with a mobile land mine or whatever.
I find your comment very amusing because when Google worked on their initial page ranking algorithm they were inspired by a thing on microfilm called the "Science Citation Index". We're now at a point where the thing that inspired something is being described as being like the thing it inspired.
I for one am a bit sick of Star Trek fan films anyway. There was one where the Enterprise was parked underwater just to hide from a pre-industrial civilization - can you believe that? Another where a belt buckle made all of Star Fleet obsolete. There is some utter crap out there.
Grids were brought up because of the "Wind power only works when the wind blows" comment above and that's why they were discussed before you jumped in. The obvious assumption would be that you would read comments in the thread you jumped into. Your complaint about it being cold everywhere is available capacity thing and not really related to what is being discussed, so I assumed you were bringing out the old "the weather is the same everywhere" bullshit that would be related to what is being discussed. So sorry about that. It appears I mistook you for one of those types.
one reason why they won't have a problem with having to save face to their countrymen
It is other people in the top of the Party that he has to worry about and they have the same access to outside information.
The situation the Japanese faced was more than a matter of saber rattling
Yes, like all analogies one thing is only similar but not identical to the other thing, and I didn't want to stir up an argument about US foreign policy of the time by going into detail (especially since years ago I talked to an old Korean who grew up during the time of Imperial Japanese occupation). I used it as an analogy because the USA was not prepared for the consequences of what Imperial Japan saw as provocation - hand in an ants nest without wearing gloves territory. I'm not questioning the validity of the actions just referring to the surprise when a response happened.
No - read stuff by Christopher Hitchens for a bit of a rundown on Bill Clinton's failings. Hitchens liked Democrats but saw that as no reason to go easy on Clinton Why the fuck do things degenerate into naive shouting for teams whenever something related to politics is mentioned here?
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Exhibit one of that conflict: In the two weeks after his meeting with Japan's leader while still PEOTUS some legislation was drafted and passed to allow casinos to operate on Japanese soil for the first time. Co-incidence? Are people willing to lay bets that the first casino in Japan will not be sending money in Trump's direction?
I thought it would take him longer but he's already been up to that game.
He did it because he's incredibly petty and didn't ignore something so trivial and get on with any of a million other things that should be more important to him. It's this aspect of his personality that means that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and just about everyone else will be able to play him like a flute. Take a look at how he's reacted to Putin's comments about Trump for an example. Putin's flattery had already got Trump doing some things that a level headed President would avoid doing if only to show that they can not be so easily played.
Damn - should have read your post instead of posting something almost identical.
So you decided to cut out the person in the middle and go directly to the living personification of everything negative about the mega wealthy?
Don't you know - she uses email! Lock her up!
Sadly that's seen as enough for these partisan pricks who would not even care if Trump was outed as a kiddie fucker.
You forgot about going from a Republic to a Dictatorship. A lot of countries as people know them have ended that way. Chile was a good example of that. Last year a SF editor would throw out any suggestion of that as being way too unrealistic for the USA in even fiction, but now all bets are off.
"Mission Accomplished"
“Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.”
Brilliant entertainment we can laugh about for years if we forget that dead people resulted from the connected fuckups.
You expected a constitutional lawyer to be a radical? He was never going to do anything more than a few minor changes to the system that was already there - hence an extension to a fucked up insurance system instead of an actual health care system.
A lot of people say that having to start by digging America out of a hole in 2008 took the wind out of his sails and he could have done more, but that's irrelevant since it was obvious that there was going to have to be a lot of repair after perpetual vacation boy Bush.
Mostly because it's irrelevant.
Actions are what matters.
The results of an IQ test are not going to get you into a University for a good reason - it's a very rough test that doesn't indicate much at all and is probably going to give different results on the same person two days in a row.
Against China? Seriously?
The Chinese leadership still think they'll get it back eventually just like they did with Hong Kong. One of the reasons they think that is all of those pro-unification politicians they have been paying for in Taiwan.
Who said it was a sane country?
It looks to me like a cry for help, a failed (hopefully) suicide attempt of a Republic asking for a King.
Reality is a lot of sheep and a few wolves. The wolves fare better in every system other than a democracy. Where "might makes right" you get wolves in charge.
Was that dumbed down enough to match the really dumb quote you lifted from a rabid wolf who falsely attributed it to Franklin? Franklin spent a big chunk of his life pushing damned hard for a pure democracy.
Pretty fucking ineffective but it makes the Saudis and Iranians who paid for those old inaccurate Shah era rockets to be shipped over feel warm inside for contributing to the "struggle".
It is fucked up on many levels with not just a few utter pieces of shit on both sides but also outsiders egging things on.
The extreme right wingers infesting parts of Israel's government at this time would use that excuse if they see a Palestinian breathing. Not dead thus incapable of peace. That's the sort of really fucked up people you are defending, the ones where it's OK to break every deal offered with an air strike - preferably just in time for an election.
The "prosperity gosphel" merchants in the temple keep on telling themselves that they have "Deeply Held Religious Beliefs" and they'd see someone as rich as Trump says he is as virtually the Messiah (when he's really just a very naughty boy that never grew up).
However the "God wants you to vote Republican" shit is just as sick and twisted as if it was the opposite. The founding fathers took a lot of care to make sure there wasn't a state religion - if you want that shit go to fucking Iran and see how it works out there.
We've crossed that bridge already. He has spooks under his command that will carry out such orders even if the military will not.
You do not appear to know much about him but I think you'll be learning quite a lot in the next few years and especially why the USA is a Republic and not a Kingdom which is the way Trump wants to run things.
That's because you've only seen the ones where a black man is running or a creature like Trump.
However it's not what is normally called A.I. - but then again "nanotech" started off being Drexler's tiny machine ideas but now it includes toothpaste.
A bunch of lookup tables is not what we would normally call intelligence but it could get the job done with a mobile land mine or whatever.
I find your comment very amusing because when Google worked on their initial page ranking algorithm they were inspired by a thing on microfilm called the "Science Citation Index".
We're now at a point where the thing that inspired something is being described as being like the thing it inspired.
I for one am a bit sick of Star Trek fan films anyway. There was one where the Enterprise was parked underwater just to hide from a pre-industrial civilization - can you believe that? Another where a belt buckle made all of Star Fleet obsolete. There is some utter crap out there.
Grids were brought up because of the "Wind power only works when the wind blows" comment above and that's why they were discussed before you jumped in.
The obvious assumption would be that you would read comments in the thread you jumped into.
Your complaint about it being cold everywhere is available capacity thing and not really related to what is being discussed, so I assumed you were bringing out the old "the weather is the same everywhere" bullshit that would be related to what is being discussed.
So sorry about that. It appears I mistook you for one of those types.
If you think available generating capacity to be used at peak load is theoretical I do not understand why you are participating in this discussion.
It's kind of sad that you used the words "real generation " to try to justify a guess based on nothing but appalling ignorance.
There must be something that you are good at. Perhaps apply yourself to that instead.
It is other people in the top of the Party that he has to worry about and they have the same access to outside information.
Yes, like all analogies one thing is only similar but not identical to the other thing, and I didn't want to stir up an argument about US foreign policy of the time by going into detail (especially since years ago I talked to an old Korean who grew up during the time of Imperial Japanese occupation). I used it as an analogy because the USA was not prepared for the consequences of what Imperial Japan saw as provocation - hand in an ants nest without wearing gloves territory. I'm not questioning the validity of the actions just referring to the surprise when a response happened.
No - read stuff by Christopher Hitchens for a bit of a rundown on Bill Clinton's failings. Hitchens liked Democrats but saw that as no reason to go easy on Clinton
Why the fuck do things degenerate into naive shouting for teams whenever something related to politics is mentioned here?
Down from number two or three.
Calling it such is known as "revisionism", the sort of thing Soviet Russia got up to.