No, I don't remember Palin using her Yahoo account for government business.
I remember that it is a felony to use the government email for campaigning and other non-government uses. I also remember scores of times in her hacked and published Yahoo mail where she said, "...this is government business, please reply to my.gov account..."
But no, I don't remember her executing gubernatorial duties through her Yahoo account. I'm pretty sure the Democrats would have seized on such a thing, but if you have something they missed, please, share it.
We don't have an effective velocity relative to the CMB. So therefore, your question, in and of itself, exposes some sort of flaw in our current understanding of the Big Bang.
Man, don't even defend that strawman. The ratio of actual Christian fundamentalists espousing young Earth, to those that use their existence to justify their modern progressive liberalism, is at least one in a thousand.
Here's what I notice: Generally, those fundie Christians (you have to go find them) will keep their ideas to themselves, unless pressed. They've had a persecution complex forever, and now in my old age, I'm having doubts that it is totally unfounded.
On the other hand, the people that seem to have in in for them, 'progressives' I guess, will take every opportunity to loudly proclaim the fundies' ignorance, and stupidity, and mean-spiritedness, and so on. Can't even have a thread on science without the big pile-on.
If I'm forced to take a side, which in itself seems weird to me in a modern society; well, the choice seems clear.
He's right; it's never going to happen in a 4 dimensional space-time manifold. Or perhaps more accurately; attempting to use mass (photon, electron, what have you) bound within the confines of said manifold to somehow trick its own existence... you see how one gets out into the weeds there?
You have to think bigger. If these dimensions don't allow something, then you'll have to go around them; under, over, bypass somehow.
How to get outside this manifold we seem to be bound to? Well, it will be tricky. How would you even know, if you somehow pulled it off? In any case, it might start with a singularity. Punch right out of these 4 dimensions. It happens in nature at the center of supermassive black holes. We see hints of dimensional permeability in virtual particles that arise out of nowhere and instantly annihilate themselves. We theorize about it as stings.
However, conservation of mass will always be obeyed, even outside of relativity and quantum mechanics. Call it a faith in science that still allows for change. The mass that you are able to put into a singularity goes somewhere, and it will not be bound by any speed of light or anything like that. Things like location and velocity are irrelevant here.
Now I'm not saying you could drive into it. But what if you built this singularity machine, and turned it on, and then built another, and turned that on, and then grazed it with an electron beam aimed at a loudspeaker. You might be able to hear background noise the singularity is picking up from beyond our 4 dimensions. I bet the Milky Ways' center is pretty loud. There is still probably some distance factor, but that factor is galactic. And remember, you really can't aim this device. But you might be able to hear Morse code tapped into the first one, while listening to galactic background noise on the second one...
Hey, you wanted to solve the problem. I'm just trying to give you a bit of an idea what you're in for. At least I didn't tell you that it can't be done.:)
You're right about AlGore. The fact that he got in early and made a fortune from AGW related government programs that he supported, does not in and of itself detract from the arguments supporting AGW.
I just wish you'd apply the same standards to your opposition, as in; Romney is automatically disqualified from having an opinion on the poor; Trump is a hypocrite on trade because his shirts were made in Mexico, etc.
In fact, given the way you just ran your opposition down, my guess is that you never mean to try to find a middle ground.
Well, if you're right, why don't you (and your rich investors) do it for half the price? Still get rich as hell, and you're doing us all a favor at the same time. I like win-wins.
See how I turned your communism around into good old American can-do.. um, do-ness?
You're right, it is not in the Constitution, it's up to the states.
In Mississippi, anybody can vote for anybody in the primaries. That's a dozen or two people to choose from, on either side of the isle. That's at least as much choice as Europeans get with their multiple parties and coalitions.
In Florida, you have to register as a Republican or Democrat to vote in that one's primary. And only that one. As a registered independent, I can vote for dogcatcher and some obscure judge in the primary. (Assuming the dogcatcher doesn't have a party)
I would not only argue that your 'watering down' is a good thing, it's irrelevant, in that everybody should get a vote, even if they waste it trying to damage the other party.
The way it is now, a candidate has to satisfy the most extreme elements in the party before standing in the general election, and that's a big part of the intractable gridlock we have today.
You wouldn't need to dismantle the 2 party system if the primaries were open. A two party system with robust primaries would be far better than a multi party system.
Doesn't matter how mean he is or anything like that. And it takes somebody as arrogant as he to believe that he can make things better. And make no mistake, he totally believes it.
The establishment will find a way to burn him down though...
Solar and wind won't even cut it for our baseline. And that assumes that 4 billion brown people are going to be content to stay poor forever.
You believe in global warming, do you? It's really too late even now, isn't it? Well, there is one thing that could be done, that would surely fix things.
Actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Yes, I mean enough to matter. Essentially, unburn the oil and coal that we used for 200 years to get where we are today.
That's the *only* answer to man-made global warming, if the alarmists are correct. It could be done, given enough carbon free power.
It would need to be a lot, wouldn't it? You got anything that comes close to that? Or just maybe screw the brown people. The one real answer to global warming, and you'll throw it away out of political spite.
Too bad for you they are wrong. There is no heat death.
The same heat that was there before will still be there, for all time. Just more spread out. They call that entropy. Fancy pants with their fancy words..
It will never be zero, unless and until the size of the universe is infinity.
It's just a long heat slowdown. Put a coat on, and you'll be fine.
"By the time that WotLK came out, the initial starting regions were ghost towns. The only level 1 players to be found were alts for existing players who were typically running through dungeons as fast as they could by having a friend escort them with a level XX character who would blow away everything letting the low level character level up quickly."
But that was okay. That was the game simply maturing. It's better to have a zone to yourself. It fits with the quests better. You zen into the zone, and you're the hero on a quest. Only you can save the people from the furblog and so on... It's not helping when there are 65 people clicking the same shiny.
Happening upon a fellow compatriot, perhaps saving her, all alone in the wilderness; well that's good stuff man. I met some good people, lost somewhere in Azeroth, just like that.
Now they're forcing it with combined realms and such. Everything wrong with WoW, almost everything since Wrath really, is Activision buying them, doing that good corporate thing, maximizing revenue, increasing accessibility; done by people that don't play the game.
"the game was never a good PvP combat system"
Did you do Wintergrasp? Tol-Barad? Rated BGs in Cata? That was epic shit dude. It was as close as they had gotten, and it was pretty darned good. Any class could play and compete. Hell, I was a PvP bear, when bears "weren't viable" in PvP. It was probably Blizz watching me that made them take the damn feral spec away.
They were there. Almost there. Still some shit left to do, and tweak, and hone; but they were darned close to a good balance between grinding, and casuals getting in easily, and all that. I thought one thing was obvious: Given that PvP is the true end game, you balance PVP, and then design your PvE accordingly. I'd have done away with resilience and kept the 71 talent points.
Carbon Capture is yet another argument for nuclear. If the alarmists are right, it's already too late for us. Well, too late if we assume only natural processes to capture existing atmospheric CO2.
Real carbon capture, as in, mining the atmosphere for CO2, is the answer, but will take a whole lot of power. Perhaps close to the amount of power generated when it was released in the first place.
So, the only way to actually reverse AGW would be to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere faster than we put it in. Think of the amount of non-carbon electricity that would be required for that. A lot.
Nuclear is the only thing we have that could possibly do that.
I don't get the outside firm part. Everything else you said is spot on. How is an outside firm any more trustworthy than a Federal agent? One who has actually taken an oath to discharge his duties faithfully, makes good money and can't easily be fired? Those outside employees are going to be ripe pickings for spying and corruption.
If the NSA was still secret then this issue would be irrelevant. They should eavesdrop on everyone; know everything; and none of it matters because of that very big firewall you spoke of. They go to their FISA court when it's bad enough, a real matter of national security, that the FBI is going to find a beginner's nuke kit or something. Otherwise what is seen in the NSA basement is best left there.
Oh no, not you for yourself (or your kids). I mean employers. For employers to hold it against you, that you put your career on hold.
And here I go a little sexist: If you're a woman; for them to even ask why there is a multi-year hole in your resume should be off limits. The thing is; it's women that have babies, not men. And we need for them to do that, and not have it impact their career in any way.
You shouldn't have put the NOT in caps, because you're wrong there. You are absolutely 'paying your dues' by raising children. Raising children isn't some priority; it's the whole reason there are such things as jobs in the first place. Try this mental exercise; do the jobs thing with no children for just one generation, and then tell me how important jobs are.
You're going to tell me that XYZ Corporation isn't responsible for all that. I'm still working on my answer there.
Also, there are people that seem to do both; raise children and advance their careers. I never want to work that hard myself (again). Plus I was never a woman or a mother, so it's difficult for me to judge 3 young kids hanging off me, with one stuck to my tit. I see no way I could work a job while doing that.
You skip the main reason a woman might have a 20 year gap - being a mother.
I understand that wasn't where you were going, but I think it's important. It's the number one main reason we try to do away with gender and age discrimination.
Those people carried the main task that humans have in society; making babies; and didn't even get paid for it. To then hold that against them later on; well, that's practically on the level of crimes against humanity.
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No, I don't remember Palin using her Yahoo account for government business.
I remember that it is a felony to use the government email for campaigning and other non-government uses. .gov account..."
I also remember scores of times in her hacked and published Yahoo mail where she said, "...this is government business, please reply to my
But no, I don't remember her executing gubernatorial duties through her Yahoo account. I'm pretty sure the Democrats would have seized on such a thing, but if you have something they missed, please, share it.
Nobody cares about all that crap.
What about Desktop Tower Defense, N Game, Bubble Tanks, and all that?
Maybe Nintendo will make us a little handheld flash player. And then you can manage your VMs and take it to the bathroom with you...
Back then you could call Netscape and get a refund.
Huh. News to me. Thanks, I guess...
We don't have an effective velocity relative to the CMB. So therefore, your question, in and of itself, exposes some sort of flaw in our current understanding of the Big Bang.
I'm just not sure what it is.
Man, don't even defend that strawman. The ratio of actual Christian fundamentalists espousing young Earth, to those that use their existence to justify their modern progressive liberalism, is at least one in a thousand.
Here's what I notice: Generally, those fundie Christians (you have to go find them) will keep their ideas to themselves, unless pressed. They've had a persecution complex forever, and now in my old age, I'm having doubts that it is totally unfounded.
On the other hand, the people that seem to have in in for them, 'progressives' I guess, will take every opportunity to loudly proclaim the fundies' ignorance, and stupidity, and mean-spiritedness, and so on. Can't even have a thread on science without the big pile-on.
If I'm forced to take a side, which in itself seems weird to me in a modern society; well, the choice seems clear.
Here, I'll help you out.
He's right; it's never going to happen in a 4 dimensional space-time manifold. Or perhaps more accurately; attempting to use mass (photon, electron, what have you) bound within the confines of said manifold to somehow trick its own existence... you see how one gets out into the weeds there?
You have to think bigger. If these dimensions don't allow something, then you'll have to go around them; under, over, bypass somehow.
How to get outside this manifold we seem to be bound to? Well, it will be tricky. How would you even know, if you somehow pulled it off? In any case, it might start with a singularity. Punch right out of these 4 dimensions. It happens in nature at the center of supermassive black holes. We see hints of dimensional permeability in virtual particles that arise out of nowhere and instantly annihilate themselves. We theorize about it as stings.
However, conservation of mass will always be obeyed, even outside of relativity and quantum mechanics. Call it a faith in science that still allows for change. The mass that you are able to put into a singularity goes somewhere, and it will not be bound by any speed of light or anything like that. Things like location and velocity are irrelevant here.
Now I'm not saying you could drive into it. But what if you built this singularity machine, and turned it on, and then built another, and turned that on, and then grazed it with an electron beam aimed at a loudspeaker. You might be able to hear background noise the singularity is picking up from beyond our 4 dimensions. I bet the Milky Ways' center is pretty loud. There is still probably some distance factor, but that factor is galactic. And remember, you really can't aim this device. But you might be able to hear Morse code tapped into the first one, while listening to galactic background noise on the second one...
Hey, you wanted to solve the problem. I'm just trying to give you a bit of an idea what you're in for. At least I didn't tell you that it can't be done. :)
You need to forget about our carriers in this little exercise. They won't matter. They really haven't for a couple of decades at least.
In an exercise where we invade Iraq or Grenada, they are still quite handy. Against Russia or China, they are going to be worth very little.
Heh.
You may have won the internet today.
That's an awfully high horse you're on there.
You're right about AlGore. The fact that he got in early and made a fortune from AGW related government programs that he supported, does not in and of itself detract from the arguments supporting AGW.
I just wish you'd apply the same standards to your opposition, as in; Romney is automatically disqualified from having an opinion on the poor; Trump is a hypocrite on trade because his shirts were made in Mexico, etc.
In fact, given the way you just ran your opposition down, my guess is that you never mean to try to find a middle ground.
Well, if you're right, why don't you (and your rich investors) do it for half the price? Still get rich as hell, and you're doing us all a favor at the same time. I like win-wins.
See how I turned your communism around into good old American can-do.. um, do-ness?
You're right, it is not in the Constitution, it's up to the states.
In Mississippi, anybody can vote for anybody in the primaries. That's a dozen or two people to choose from, on either side of the isle. That's at least as much choice as Europeans get with their multiple parties and coalitions.
In Florida, you have to register as a Republican or Democrat to vote in that one's primary. And only that one. As a registered independent, I can vote for dogcatcher and some obscure judge in the primary. (Assuming the dogcatcher doesn't have a party)
I would not only argue that your 'watering down' is a good thing, it's irrelevant, in that everybody should get a vote, even if they waste it trying to damage the other party.
The way it is now, a candidate has to satisfy the most extreme elements in the party before standing in the general election, and that's a big part of the intractable gridlock we have today.
You wouldn't need to dismantle the 2 party system if the primaries were open. A two party system with robust primaries would be far better than a multi party system.
That is Trump's support in a nutshell.
Doesn't matter how mean he is or anything like that. And it takes somebody as arrogant as he to believe that he can make things better. And make no mistake, he totally believes it.
The establishment will find a way to burn him down though...
You lost me at reduced consumption.
Solar and wind won't even cut it for our baseline. And that assumes that 4 billion brown people are going to be content to stay poor forever.
You believe in global warming, do you? It's really too late even now, isn't it? Well, there is one thing that could be done, that would surely fix things.
Actually remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Yes, I mean enough to matter. Essentially, unburn the oil and coal that we used for 200 years to get where we are today.
That's the *only* answer to man-made global warming, if the alarmists are correct. It could be done, given enough carbon free power.
It would need to be a lot, wouldn't it? You got anything that comes close to that? Or just maybe screw the brown people. The one real answer to global warming, and you'll throw it away out of political spite.
Heh.
Too bad for you they are wrong. There is no heat death.
The same heat that was there before will still be there, for all time. Just more spread out. They call that entropy. Fancy pants with their fancy words..
It will never be zero, unless and until the size of the universe is infinity.
It's just a long heat slowdown. Put a coat on, and you'll be fine.
You're slightly wrong in a couple of places.
"By the time that WotLK came out, the initial starting regions were ghost towns. The only level 1 players to be found were alts for existing players who were typically running through dungeons as fast as they could by having a friend escort them with a level XX character who would blow away everything letting the low level character level up quickly."
But that was okay. That was the game simply maturing. It's better to have a zone to yourself. It fits with the quests better. You zen into the zone, and you're the hero on a quest. Only you can save the people from the furblog and so on... It's not helping when there are 65 people clicking the same shiny.
Happening upon a fellow compatriot, perhaps saving her, all alone in the wilderness; well that's good stuff man. I met some good people, lost somewhere in Azeroth, just like that.
Now they're forcing it with combined realms and such. Everything wrong with WoW, almost everything since Wrath really, is Activision buying them, doing that good corporate thing, maximizing revenue, increasing accessibility; done by people that don't play the game.
"the game was never a good PvP combat system"
Did you do Wintergrasp? Tol-Barad? Rated BGs in Cata? That was epic shit dude. It was as close as they had gotten, and it was pretty darned good. Any class could play and compete. Hell, I was a PvP bear, when bears "weren't viable" in PvP. It was probably Blizz watching me that made them take the damn feral spec away.
They were there. Almost there. Still some shit left to do, and tweak, and hone; but they were darned close to a good balance between grinding, and casuals getting in easily, and all that. I thought one thing was obvious: Given that PvP is the true end game, you balance PVP, and then design your PvE accordingly. I'd have done away with resilience and kept the 71 talent points.
Sigh. That's why we don't play anymore.
Carbon Capture is yet another argument for nuclear. If the alarmists are right, it's already too late for us. Well, too late if we assume only natural processes to capture existing atmospheric CO2.
Real carbon capture, as in, mining the atmosphere for CO2, is the answer, but will take a whole lot of power. Perhaps close to the amount of power generated when it was released in the first place.
So, the only way to actually reverse AGW would be to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere faster than we put it in. Think of the amount of non-carbon electricity that would be required for that. A lot.
Nuclear is the only thing we have that could possibly do that.
I don't think you would have felt it.
Maybe. But it's not even close to being able to hurt you.
I don't get the outside firm part. Everything else you said is spot on. How is an outside firm any more trustworthy than a Federal agent? One who has actually taken an oath to discharge his duties faithfully, makes good money and can't easily be fired? Those outside employees are going to be ripe pickings for spying and corruption.
If the NSA was still secret then this issue would be irrelevant. They should eavesdrop on everyone; know everything; and none of it matters because of that very big firewall you spoke of. They go to their FISA court when it's bad enough, a real matter of national security, that the FBI is going to find a beginner's nuke kit or something. Otherwise what is seen in the NSA basement is best left there.
Oh no, not you for yourself (or your kids). I mean employers. For employers to hold it against you, that you put your career on hold.
And here I go a little sexist: If you're a woman; for them to even ask why there is a multi-year hole in your resume should be off limits. The thing is; it's women that have babies, not men. And we need for them to do that, and not have it impact their career in any way.
You shouldn't have put the NOT in caps, because you're wrong there. You are absolutely 'paying your dues' by raising children. Raising children isn't some priority; it's the whole reason there are such things as jobs in the first place. Try this mental exercise; do the jobs thing with no children for just one generation, and then tell me how important jobs are.
You're going to tell me that XYZ Corporation isn't responsible for all that. I'm still working on my answer there.
Also, there are people that seem to do both; raise children and advance their careers. I never want to work that hard myself (again). Plus I was never a woman or a mother, so it's difficult for me to judge 3 young kids hanging off me, with one stuck to my tit. I see no way I could work a job while doing that.
You skip the main reason a woman might have a 20 year gap - being a mother.
I understand that wasn't where you were going, but I think it's important. It's the number one main reason we try to do away with gender and age discrimination.
Those people carried the main task that humans have in society; making babies; and didn't even get paid for it. To then hold that against them later on; well, that's practically on the level of crimes against humanity.
All drones are pre-programmed, even if you are redirecting the thing in mid flight.
If you are directly flying the thing, then it isn't a drone; it's an RC craft. Which have been around longer than any of us have been alive.
This is actually a good point. I was wondering how much the drones were actually interfering.
I'm betting there is a little grandstanding going on by someone who already had a strong opinion on private drone ownership.
Yes. Both items are already law.
But given the activist courts that CA has seeded, it is possible a firefighter could get sued successfully after the fact.
I would say, irony; but probably just unfortunate. For us.
That is what I dislike most about liberalism: Equality under the law has to be done away with. And that is irony.