We're far more likely to be able to detect signs of biological/technological processes in another planet's atmosphere long before we actually hear any radio signals from them. To detect a radio signal things need to happen in just the right way for us to hear it. For atmospheric detection all we need is a spectral analysis. You find CFCs in their atmosphere and it's pretty certain that something a little more advanced than bacteria are on that planet.
You mean you live in the hypocrite belt. There is nothing "blesssed" or "holy" or even "decent" about what Trump has done or wants to do. If anything, Jesus warns us about people like Trump. He warns us about the "ends justify the means" type of thinking and the inherent dangers of doing so. The road to hell is paved with good intentions (not that Trump has ever had a good intention in his life).
If Satan were real, he'd be laughing his ass off right now.
Ashit Pai McFuckface wants to actively make America suck even more when it comes to broadband?
I guess with Trump in power this is just par for the course. Make America Fail Again. Let's sabotage our infrastructure, our education, our science, and technology. Let's redefine broadband to dial-up speeds and pretend that's "good enough" while every other developed country gets 1 Gb fiber. That will certainly put us ahead in the world.
America. We've got the best substandard you can buy.
What good is equal rights when everybody is forced into goodthink?
If people weren't assholes to begin with, people wouldn't need to be "forced" to not be assholes. I know this is a hard concept to understand, but being an asshole does not grant you any special protections. And if, in the companies opinion, you do something that makes you look like an asshole and a lot of other people at said company also think you are an asshole, then it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going to happen to your employment.
But being an asshole is subjective. What may be considered being an asshole at one company (Google) may be perfectly acceptable at another (Chik-Fil-A). You can wrap your sexist/racist/etc. views in whatever science you can sufficiently twist and contort to suit your purposes, but that isn't going to grant you a free pass when you write a company memo on a charged topic.
Here's how the real world works. Companies are not democracies. If you're going to write a lengthy criticism on a politically charged topic and send it out the world, you're a complete fucking idiot if you think there won't be any consequences. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, especially in these days of "alternative facts".
This is very much true. The "American Dream" has been little more than idealistic propaganda for quite some time. The hard work == success mantra is almost complete bullshit. Without luck to get your ass into a place where it is even possible to succeed, you can be holding down three jobs and you still won't go anywhere.
The first rule of dealing with Wells Fargo is: Do not deal with Wells Fargo.
If you have a bank account with them,close and move to someone else. If you have a credit card with them, close it and choose another provider. If you have a mortgage with them, refinance with someone else. If they end up buying your loan, refinance again.
Wells Fargo is the shittiest bank I've ever had the displeasure of doing business with. They will absolutely go out of their way to screw you over. If you haven't been screwed over yet, it will only be a matter of time before they do so. I refinanced my mortgage just to get away from them after the BS they kept trying to pull with my mortgage. The final straw was when the deliberately STOPPED my automatic mortgage payments for absolutely no reason and never sent any notification of any kind, presumably so they could try and snowball late fees (this was years ago).
So all these scandals involving WF don't really come as any surprise to me. In fact, I suspect there will be many more. I wouldn't trust those assholes with a wooden nickel.
Simple. Bad/lazy/desperate programming. Most game houses are sweatshops, especially the so-called "free-to-play" games. Pushing out the next big money maker is much more important than fixing/designing solid code. Something seems to be slowing the server down? Push it on the client. After all, how many people know how to...wait, how did that guy manage to get a gajillion gold?
And it's not just the Asian trash MMO's either. Home grown MMOs have this problem as well. For example, Elder Scrolls Online at one point was hackable using the PC equivalent of a game genie. Talk about trivial.
Correction. An income of $150000 for a family of four is "easy streets" IF:
1. No one has any chronic or unexpected medical problems. 2. None of the kids are in college. 3. There is a limited amount of debt (college loans are paid off, no maxed credit cards from hard times, etc.) 4. You live in an area where the standard cost of living is at par or less with the income. 5. The family doesn't have to deal with care costs for parents.
So on and so forth. That money doesn't go nearly as far as people think it does.
That's 80+ years from now, in other words we have time.
Really? And how, do you plan to deal with the accumulated buildup of 200 years in the span of 80 when a good portion of the populace don't even understand the basic science and refuse to accept reality? Climate change is bringing about a whole host of issues, a number of which need to be dealt with far in advance. We're already 40 years behind the curve.
Furthermore, the climate system lags inputs by a good 30 years. In other words, if you think you have a problem now, it will be worse 30 years later.
I hear that the sea levels are rising.... at about a foot per century. We can adjust to that without getting all in a panic.
You "hear" incorrectly. Assuming no runaway feedbacks kick off, the expected increase by the end of the century is between 1 and 2 meters. As far as dealing with it, we're already FAILING. Places like Miami flood during high tide now. Salt water intrusion is already a problem. Even a 1 meter rise would present significant challenges, and shoring up thousands of miles of coast to deal with that (not to mention hurricanes) is neither trivial nor quick.
I've been told that the corn belt is moving north. Unless this happens in the span of a single growing season then I find it hard to get worked up about this. Farmers already rotate crops for reasons of keeping soil in good shape. If over a few decades the rotation of crops needs adjusting then they'll figure it out.
This is why ignorance is dangerous. You do not simply "move" the agricultural infrastructure that's been developed over the past century north. Such an effort would take decades, even if were feasible. There's are REASONS why the corn belt is where it is. Arable land, ideal climate, etc. allows for very productive farming. But what's north of that? Are there aquifers to support such operations? Will the sail be able to handle the stress? Will the climate actually be conducive? Can the crops handle the new conditions?
It takes more than warm weather to grow crops at scale. You have to have the right mix of conditions. There are very few places on our planet where mass agriculture can be done consistently and productively. Sure, you can move to a new area if prices get high enough to make it feasible to turn someplace like, say, the Canadian Shield into farmland, but I don't think paying $30 for a loaf of bread is "dealing" with the problem.
Rain this, droughts that, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, blah, blah blah. We got this figured out.
No, we really don't. If you've been paying attention over the past decade, there are several prominent examples of exactly how NOT figured out things are. First to mind is the record heat/drought in Russia a few years back that caused them to cease exports. And that's just a taste. If a similar event caused the US to cease exports there would be significant global repercussions. If you think we're immune to such things, you're extremely naive.
We've all been hearing this panic for decades now. All we are doing is getting the next generation stressed out over nothing. They are getting bombarded with climate change disasters in movies, cartoons, in the news, and on and on. Kids can't get away from this but when they grow up and have to deal with this on their own they will realize like I did that this is a big nothing.
The only reason you think it's a "big nothing" is because it hasn't impacted you personally (it actually has, you just aren't paying attention). Climate change happens over decades. It's slow boiling a frog. You and people like you expect an immediate cause and effect. The climate system doesn't work that way short of major catastrophes.
A quick read of the comments on this article so far tells me that I'm not alone in how I feel on this. The climate change alarmists have been pushing the panic button
I second the Baader Solar Film. You can get sheets relatively inexpensively and as the OP said, an A4 sheet is enough to make several lens adapters as well as multiple pairs of sunglasses/viewers. It's used and has been used extensively in the amateur astronomy community for quite some time so is very well regarded and safe.
C++ employers will be employable in the videogame industry for the foreseeable future, at least.
Not particularly. Fewer and fewer games are using their own hand built game engines. They rely on third party engines, then customize using whatever scripting/managed language they provide. Yes, you till need C/C++ programmers to write those engines but every game house no longer requires those programmers to be on staff.
C/C++ aren't going away anytime soon, but they aren't going to be the primary choice for new development either outside of a couple of domains. Over the past couple of decades it's been pretty obvious. When I see new projects roll in, they're pretty much have.NET/Java as a requirement with Python sprinkled in every so often. The only time I see C/C++/Fortran anymore is for maintenance related projects.
The thing to remember is that this is pretty much all a reaction to the BREXIT vote...
The BREXIT vote made Putin do a happy dance. It was yet another success for his global disinformation campaign that's been running for the past couple of decades. It's been wildly successful throughout Europe and even the US.
The big unknown and one that is still a hot topic of research is how strong the feedbacks become in a warming world.
The "low end" of the range assumes no significant feedback cycle takes hold. It's the "simple" projection and not all the different than the ones Arrhenius did back in the 1890's. However, the paleoclimate research has indicated that historically there appear to be tipping points during climate transitions that cause much more rapid changes to take place once they're crossed.
There are number of potential events that could trigger a tipping point and bring about more rapid changes. But trying to determine when they'll happen, if they trigger additional feedbacks, etc. is not exactly easy. That's why projections of long term climate are given in ranges with details on what went into the projection. Someone stating a number without referencing the projection that generated it (and thus, the conditions) is pretty useless.
Why not just come straight out and say chinese/hippy conspiracy? Why bother with the pretense?
I am sorry, he is citing predictions that didn't happen. What do you call a theory that makes wrong predictions ?
I call people who misapply scientific terminology idiots. There were no scientifically valid theories predicting the end of the world. Oh I'm sure you'll find a lot of hyperbolic articles and other nonsense, but there isn't a single peer reviewed paper from the 70's, 80's, or 90's making any claims of an apocalypse (other than the obvious ones, like asteroid impacts, the sun going red giant in a few billion years, etc.).
What do you call someone who pushes theories that don't make accurate predictions ?
Misinformed? Ignorant? Stupid? What do call people who continually use the word "theory" to describe idle speculation and other crap that has not been peer reviewed or otherwise substantiated?
Because an alarming ecological story comes up, and without evidence or even a rational hypothetical cause, it's immediately blamed on climate change.
Most insects are herbivorous, so rely on plants for food. Global warming (increasing global temperatures, higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations, shorter winters) are conducive to plant growth. So you'd actually expect temperatures increasing by a few degrees to lead to more insects, not fewer.
WRONG!
Plant growth depends on the climate, of which temperature is just ONE SINGULAR FACET. If that increase in temperature is accompanied by a decrease in precipitation, the encroachment of an invasive species, the temps exceed the temperature range for the plants or any plants they may depend on, etc. then plants will NOT grow.
It is a completely false assumption that warmer temperatures are universally good for plants. Just like it's completely false to say that we can simply move all are farms north in a warmer world. It doesn't work that way.
It's like Watergate-on-steroids, or more like Watergate-on-methamphetamine. If the record of impeachment is any indicator, Washington will literally grind to a halt for many months.
WOOOHOOO! Yipppeeee! Yahoooooooo! Yeeee......erm....*cough* I mean that's too bad.
And with a history like Trump's (even before he became president), the last thing you want is someone like Mueller digging through the closets where you keep all your skeletons.
Waiting to see your perfect code from a multi-million line code base you wrote.
This IS the governments fault. They KNEW there was an exploit. They KNEW about it for YEARS. Yet they never revealed it. How the hell was MS supposed to fix something they didn't know was broken?
The gov didn't WANT them to fix it. It was their pet exploit. They were hoping nobody else would find out about it so they could keep using it. THAT is the problem.
You're also ignoring the huge elephant in the room - that Microsoft probably knew about that vulnerability or even better, created it in conjunction with the NSA et al. By the way - WINDOWS 10 ALSO REQUIRED A "FIX". This is not a "zero day vulnerability", it's a back-door plain and simple.
No, it isn't a backdoor you moron. It's defect in the old SMBv1 that goes back to XP. No one sane uses it anymore, but the the old code is still there. The worm takes advantage of that fact.
As to if Russia is behind the nationalistic bug that's going around? Don't know.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Russia has been running a (quite effective) cyber campaign since at least 2005. Our European allies have been warning us about it for years. But typical US arrogance brushed it off: "Yeah, like that would ever work here!".
Propaganda works. All you need is a willing populace and the right mix sentiment and plausible (not necessarily factual or true) information and you have people by the balls. Backfire and Duning-Kruger are strong psychological phenomena, and it can be almost trivially easy to manipulate people by taking advantage of them.
So how do you do that? Before the internet mass disinformation campaigns simply weren't feasible. With the internet, it's trivial for any well funded state agency to do so. In some cases, you can get an amazing amount of traction overnight. For example, using major economic downturns to foment anger and resentment.
Limbaugh, Jones, and all the other fascist/neo-nazi opiod addicted freaks have said much more offensive crap about whoever the liberal flavor-of-the-month was, and not a word was said by the neo-fascist currently foaming at the mouth over a cock joke.
It's harder to enter the country illegally, so it's harder to hire people illegally, so you buy robots cuz people on welfare won't do the job. I fail to see the problem, outside of the "people on welfare" part.
You fail to see it because your buried in your own bullshit. Companies don't want to pay minimum wage for someone to pick fruits and vegetables. Why the hell do you think these companies employ illegal immigrants in the first place?
And even if they did, only a small segment of the population can even do it. You have to be young, strong, and healthy to carry 100 pounds sacks of apples up and down a ladder 10 hours a day. And to even make minimum wage, you're talking about moving literally tons of produce (you're paid by the pound/bushel/etc. not by the hour). Of course, you don't get benefits or insurance either. You fall off a ladder and now you're under a pile of medical debt as well as losing your job.
It's a transient shit job that pays less than a wal-mart greeter with even less benefits. THAT'S why people don't want to do it.
No, sitting on your ass and eating far more calories than you need to sustain said sedentary lifestyle is a prescription for weight gain and all the other problems that go with it. The calorie (or more precisely, kilocalorie) is a measurement of energy. It doesn't matter if it's coming from carbs, protein, or fat. A calorie is a calorie.
I'm tired of all these idiotic "diets" that tell you to eat this and not eat that and by MAGIC you'll be slim trim and healthy. You can not beat the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy. It doesn't matter where your calories come from. If you aren't burning more calories than you take in, you're going to put on weight. Period. End of fucking story.
That being said, other side effects from what you eat need to be considered. You can get your daily calories from a well balanced diet or by eating a cup of Crisco. From an energy perspective, your body doesn't care. But saturated fats, cholesterol, and all that other crap can and does affect your body. So you can be slim and trim, and still be a cheeseburger away from a heart attack if you've been stuffing yourself with nothing but grease all your life.
BTW, an editorial from a group of rejects funded by big beef probably isn't the best source of unbiased research.
And a single F-35 costs more than the whole energy star program does over the course of two years. And unlike the F-35, the Energy Star program has saved billions of dollars.
Are all of Trump's supporters just plain stupid? You could literally cut the entire EPA and make nary a dent in the national budget. Meanwhile the Mango idiot wants to cut government revenue by 20% and yet INCREASE government spending.
Gee, I can't imagine how the fucking moron managed to bankrupt a casino.
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We're far more likely to be able to detect signs of biological/technological processes in another planet's atmosphere long before we actually hear any radio signals from them. To detect a radio signal things need to happen in just the right way for us to hear it. For atmospheric detection all we need is a spectral analysis. You find CFCs in their atmosphere and it's pretty certain that something a little more advanced than bacteria are on that planet.
You mean you live in the hypocrite belt. There is nothing "blesssed" or "holy" or even "decent" about what Trump has done or wants to do. If anything, Jesus warns us about people like Trump. He warns us about the "ends justify the means" type of thinking and the inherent dangers of doing so. The road to hell is paved with good intentions (not that Trump has ever had a good intention in his life).
If Satan were real, he'd be laughing his ass off right now.
Ashit Pai McFuckface wants to actively make America suck even more when it comes to broadband?
I guess with Trump in power this is just par for the course. Make America Fail Again. Let's sabotage our infrastructure, our education, our science, and technology. Let's redefine broadband to dial-up speeds and pretend that's "good enough" while every other developed country gets 1 Gb fiber. That will certainly put us ahead in the world.
America. We've got the best substandard you can buy.
What good is equal rights when everybody is forced into goodthink?
If people weren't assholes to begin with, people wouldn't need to be "forced" to not be assholes. I know this is a hard concept to understand, but being an asshole does not grant you any special protections. And if, in the companies opinion, you do something that makes you look like an asshole and a lot of other people at said company also think you are an asshole, then it doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going to happen to your employment.
But being an asshole is subjective. What may be considered being an asshole at one company (Google) may be perfectly acceptable at another (Chik-Fil-A). You can wrap your sexist/racist/etc. views in whatever science you can sufficiently twist and contort to suit your purposes, but that isn't going to grant you a free pass when you write a company memo on a charged topic.
Here's how the real world works. Companies are not democracies. If you're going to write a lengthy criticism on a politically charged topic and send it out the world, you're a complete fucking idiot if you think there won't be any consequences. It doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, especially in these days of "alternative facts".
This is very much true. The "American Dream" has been little more than idealistic propaganda for quite some time. The hard work == success mantra is almost complete bullshit. Without luck to get your ass into a place where it is even possible to succeed, you can be holding down three jobs and you still won't go anywhere.
The first rule of dealing with Wells Fargo is: Do not deal with Wells Fargo.
If you have a bank account with them,close and move to someone else. If you have a credit card with them, close it and choose another provider. If you have a mortgage with them, refinance with someone else. If they end up buying your loan, refinance again.
Wells Fargo is the shittiest bank I've ever had the displeasure of doing business with. They will absolutely go out of their way to screw you over. If you haven't been screwed over yet, it will only be a matter of time before they do so. I refinanced my mortgage just to get away from them after the BS they kept trying to pull with my mortgage. The final straw was when the deliberately STOPPED my automatic mortgage payments for absolutely no reason and never sent any notification of any kind, presumably so they could try and snowball late fees (this was years ago).
So all these scandals involving WF don't really come as any surprise to me. In fact, I suspect there will be many more. I wouldn't trust those assholes with a wooden nickel.
Simple. Bad/lazy/desperate programming. Most game houses are sweatshops, especially the so-called "free-to-play" games. Pushing out the next big money maker is much more important than fixing/designing solid code. Something seems to be slowing the server down? Push it on the client. After all, how many people know how to...wait, how did that guy manage to get a gajillion gold?
And it's not just the Asian trash MMO's either. Home grown MMOs have this problem as well. For example, Elder Scrolls Online at one point was hackable using the PC equivalent of a game genie. Talk about trivial.
Correction. An income of $150000 for a family of four is "easy streets" IF:
1. No one has any chronic or unexpected medical problems.
2. None of the kids are in college.
3. There is a limited amount of debt (college loans are paid off, no maxed credit cards from hard times, etc.)
4. You live in an area where the standard cost of living is at par or less with the income.
5. The family doesn't have to deal with care costs for parents.
So on and so forth. That money doesn't go nearly as far as people think it does.
That's 80+ years from now, in other words we have time.
Really? And how, do you plan to deal with the accumulated buildup of 200 years in the span of 80 when a good portion of the populace don't even understand the basic science and refuse to accept reality? Climate change is bringing about a whole host of issues, a number of which need to be dealt with far in advance. We're already 40 years behind the curve.
Furthermore, the climate system lags inputs by a good 30 years. In other words, if you think you have a problem now, it will be worse 30 years later.
I hear that the sea levels are rising.... at about a foot per century. We can adjust to that without getting all in a panic.
You "hear" incorrectly. Assuming no runaway feedbacks kick off, the expected increase by the end of the century is between 1 and 2 meters. As far as dealing with it, we're already FAILING. Places like Miami flood during high tide now. Salt water intrusion is already a problem. Even a 1 meter rise would present significant challenges, and shoring up thousands of miles of coast to deal with that (not to mention hurricanes) is neither trivial nor quick.
I've been told that the corn belt is moving north. Unless this happens in the span of a single growing season then I find it hard to get worked up about this. Farmers already rotate crops for reasons of keeping soil in good shape. If over a few decades the rotation of crops needs adjusting then they'll figure it out.
This is why ignorance is dangerous. You do not simply "move" the agricultural infrastructure that's been developed over the past century north. Such an effort would take decades, even if were feasible. There's are REASONS why the corn belt is where it is. Arable land, ideal climate, etc. allows for very productive farming. But what's north of that? Are there aquifers to support such operations? Will the sail be able to handle the stress? Will the climate actually be conducive? Can the crops handle the new conditions?
It takes more than warm weather to grow crops at scale. You have to have the right mix of conditions. There are very few places on our planet where mass agriculture can be done consistently and productively. Sure, you can move to a new area if prices get high enough to make it feasible to turn someplace like, say, the Canadian Shield into farmland, but I don't think paying $30 for a loaf of bread is "dealing" with the problem.
Rain this, droughts that, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, blah, blah blah. We got this figured out.
No, we really don't. If you've been paying attention over the past decade, there are several prominent examples of exactly how NOT figured out things are. First to mind is the record heat/drought in Russia a few years back that caused them to cease exports. And that's just a taste. If a similar event caused the US to cease exports there would be significant global repercussions. If you think we're immune to such things, you're extremely naive.
We've all been hearing this panic for decades now. All we are doing is getting the next generation stressed out over nothing. They are getting bombarded with climate change disasters in movies, cartoons, in the news, and on and on. Kids can't get away from this but when they grow up and have to deal with this on their own they will realize like I did that this is a big nothing.
The only reason you think it's a "big nothing" is because it hasn't impacted you personally (it actually has, you just aren't paying attention). Climate change happens over decades. It's slow boiling a frog. You and people like you expect an immediate cause and effect. The climate system doesn't work that way short of major catastrophes.
A quick read of the comments on this article so far tells me that I'm not alone in how I feel on this. The climate change alarmists have been pushing the panic button
I second the Baader Solar Film. You can get sheets relatively inexpensively and as the OP said, an A4 sheet is enough to make several lens adapters as well as multiple pairs of sunglasses/viewers. It's used and has been used extensively in the amateur astronomy community for quite some time so is very well regarded and safe.
C++ employers will be employable in the videogame industry for the foreseeable future, at least.
Not particularly. Fewer and fewer games are using their own hand built game engines. They rely on third party engines, then customize using whatever scripting/managed language they provide. Yes, you till need C/C++ programmers to write those engines but every game house no longer requires those programmers to be on staff.
C/C++ aren't going away anytime soon, but they aren't going to be the primary choice for new development either outside of a couple of domains. Over the past couple of decades it's been pretty obvious. When I see new projects roll in, they're pretty much have .NET/Java as a requirement with Python sprinkled in every so often. The only time I see C/C++/Fortran anymore is for maintenance related projects.
The thing to remember is that this is pretty much all a reaction to the BREXIT vote...
The BREXIT vote made Putin do a happy dance. It was yet another success for his global disinformation campaign that's been running for the past couple of decades. It's been wildly successful throughout Europe and even the US.
The big unknown and one that is still a hot topic of research is how strong the feedbacks become in a warming world.
The "low end" of the range assumes no significant feedback cycle takes hold. It's the "simple" projection and not all the different than the ones Arrhenius did back in the 1890's. However, the paleoclimate research has indicated that historically there appear to be tipping points during climate transitions that cause much more rapid changes to take place once they're crossed.
There are number of potential events that could trigger a tipping point and bring about more rapid changes. But trying to determine when they'll happen, if they trigger additional feedbacks, etc. is not exactly easy. That's why projections of long term climate are given in ranges with details on what went into the projection. Someone stating a number without referencing the projection that generated it (and thus, the conditions) is pretty useless.
Why not just come straight out and say chinese/hippy conspiracy? Why bother with the pretense?
I am sorry, he is citing predictions that didn't happen. What do you call a theory that makes wrong predictions ?
I call people who misapply scientific terminology idiots. There were no scientifically valid theories predicting the end of the world. Oh I'm sure you'll find a lot of hyperbolic articles and other nonsense, but there isn't a single peer reviewed paper from the 70's, 80's, or 90's making any claims of an apocalypse (other than the obvious ones, like asteroid impacts, the sun going red giant in a few billion years, etc.).
What do you call someone who pushes theories that don't make accurate predictions ?
Misinformed? Ignorant? Stupid? What do call people who continually use the word "theory" to describe idle speculation and other crap that has not been peer reviewed or otherwise substantiated?
Because an alarming ecological story comes up, and without evidence or even a rational hypothetical cause, it's immediately blamed on climate change.
Most insects are herbivorous, so rely on plants for food. Global warming (increasing global temperatures, higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations, shorter winters) are conducive to plant growth. So you'd actually expect temperatures increasing by a few degrees to lead to more insects, not fewer.
WRONG!
Plant growth depends on the climate, of which temperature is just ONE SINGULAR FACET. If that increase in temperature is accompanied by a decrease in precipitation, the encroachment of an invasive species, the temps exceed the temperature range for the plants or any plants they may depend on, etc. then plants will NOT grow.
It is a completely false assumption that warmer temperatures are universally good for plants. Just like it's completely false to say that we can simply move all are farms north in a warmer world. It doesn't work that way.
It's like Watergate-on-steroids, or more like Watergate-on-methamphetamine. If the record of impeachment is any indicator, Washington will literally grind to a halt for many months.
WOOOHOOO! Yipppeeee! Yahoooooooo! Yeeee......erm....*cough* I mean that's too bad.
And with a history like Trump's (even before he became president), the last thing you want is someone like Mueller digging through the closets where you keep all your skeletons.
Waiting to see your perfect code from a multi-million line code base you wrote.
This IS the governments fault. They KNEW there was an exploit. They KNEW about it for YEARS. Yet they never revealed it. How the hell was MS supposed to fix something they didn't know was broken?
The gov didn't WANT them to fix it. It was their pet exploit. They were hoping nobody else would find out about it so they could keep using it. THAT is the problem.
secure Win10
+1 Funny
You're also ignoring the huge elephant in the room - that Microsoft probably knew about that vulnerability or even better, created it in conjunction with the NSA et al. By the way - WINDOWS 10 ALSO REQUIRED A "FIX". This is not a "zero day vulnerability", it's a back-door plain and simple.
No, it isn't a backdoor you moron. It's defect in the old SMBv1 that goes back to XP. No one sane uses it anymore, but the the old code is still there. The worm takes advantage of that fact.
As to if Russia is behind the nationalistic bug that's going around? Don't know.
Then you haven't been paying attention. Russia has been running a (quite effective) cyber campaign since at least 2005. Our European allies have been warning us about it for years. But typical US arrogance brushed it off: "Yeah, like that would ever work here!".
Propaganda works. All you need is a willing populace and the right mix sentiment and plausible (not necessarily factual or true) information and you have people by the balls. Backfire and Duning-Kruger are strong psychological phenomena, and it can be almost trivially easy to manipulate people by taking advantage of them.
So how do you do that? Before the internet mass disinformation campaigns simply weren't feasible. With the internet, it's trivial for any well funded state agency to do so. In some cases, you can get an amazing amount of traction overnight. For example, using major economic downturns to foment anger and resentment.
Limbaugh, Jones, and all the other fascist/neo-nazi opiod addicted freaks have said much more offensive crap about whoever the liberal flavor-of-the-month was, and not a word was said by the neo-fascist currently foaming at the mouth over a cock joke.
Whiny hypocritical assholes.
It's harder to enter the country illegally, so it's harder to hire people illegally, so you buy robots cuz people on welfare won't do the job. I fail to see the problem, outside of the "people on welfare" part.
You fail to see it because your buried in your own bullshit. Companies don't want to pay minimum wage for someone to pick fruits and vegetables. Why the hell do you think these companies employ illegal immigrants in the first place?
And even if they did, only a small segment of the population can even do it. You have to be young, strong, and healthy to carry 100 pounds sacks of apples up and down a ladder 10 hours a day. And to even make minimum wage, you're talking about moving literally tons of produce (you're paid by the pound/bushel/etc. not by the hour). Of course, you don't get benefits or insurance either. You fall off a ladder and now you're under a pile of medical debt as well as losing your job.
It's a transient shit job that pays less than a wal-mart greeter with even less benefits. THAT'S why people don't want to do it.
No, sitting on your ass and eating far more calories than you need to sustain said sedentary lifestyle is a prescription for weight gain and all the other problems that go with it. The calorie (or more precisely, kilocalorie) is a measurement of energy. It doesn't matter if it's coming from carbs, protein, or fat. A calorie is a calorie.
I'm tired of all these idiotic "diets" that tell you to eat this and not eat that and by MAGIC you'll be slim trim and healthy. You can not beat the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy. It doesn't matter where your calories come from. If you aren't burning more calories than you take in, you're going to put on weight. Period. End of fucking story.
That being said, other side effects from what you eat need to be considered. You can get your daily calories from a well balanced diet or by eating a cup of Crisco. From an energy perspective, your body doesn't care. But saturated fats, cholesterol, and all that other crap can and does affect your body. So you can be slim and trim, and still be a cheeseburger away from a heart attack if you've been stuffing yourself with nothing but grease all your life.
BTW, an editorial from a group of rejects funded by big beef probably isn't the best source of unbiased research.
And a single F-35 costs more than the whole energy star program does over the course of two years. And unlike the F-35, the Energy Star program has saved billions of dollars.
Are all of Trump's supporters just plain stupid? You could literally cut the entire EPA and make nary a dent in the national budget. Meanwhile the Mango idiot wants to cut government revenue by 20% and yet INCREASE government spending.
Gee, I can't imagine how the fucking moron managed to bankrupt a casino.
Since money is speech now, can I pay my ISP with "fuck yous"?
Can't wait for the mint to print dollars in the "Eat shit and die" denomination.