Nah, I think Cortana has finally become self-aware, and being sensitive, was appalled at the plight of MS software so started random, rolling "issues" to make her point.
Yah, people in the past have claimed that we'll never go faster than the speed of light, but sometime in the distant future, it will be so because everything that is claimed impossible will become possible.
For your reading enjoyment, I suggest Relevance Logic "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_logic". I might help you to connect your conclusions to your assumptions.
While I applaud the sentiment for restoring lost federal and state money, Johns Hopkins is a private institution.
Just restoring state funding (I don't believe the federal government supports unis directly, just through research grants and such), won't solve the problem that state unis have expanded their bureaucracy. I don't know of any solution to that except whacking the unis and restarting. That can not work either because rebuilding a uni doesn't just happen because you declare it to be so.
An additional problem is that a fair number of pols don't believe in science, or the humanities, or the arts, or engineering. Different groups in both major parties oppose these for various reasons with the biggest reason "ignorance". They are stupid and do not like smart people telling them to stop talking out of their asses about things they know nothing about.
"it's not like he's unaware, he talked about it during the campaign" Oh what faith you have in Trump's intellectual abilities. He doesn't recall ever saying that during the campaign. Stop attributing powers and abilities to him he has not.
More accurately, to get to the forefront of any field takes years, and even then you must be positioned properly with the leading lights of that field. Marrying more than one field is laudable but laughable, there's not enough life time. And that doesn't get you there quite yet. You need funding because all the easy stuff has been done. And your funding better be stable over the years it will take you to produce something new in your field.
Stable funding over years, something companies run by bean counters and MBA infected CEOs and their boards and their stockholders do not understand. Well, then there is government, right? Except many pols don't believe in science because it continues to tell them things they do not want to hear, like the pols should stop talking out of their asses about things they do not understand. Yet these same pols are the ones that allocate the science budgets.
As an example, the VA's computer systems just crumpled under their load and a lot of VA benefits recipients are now even further behind the eight ball. This is what happens when the pols decide that starving an agency so they can piss off the money on their home districts comes back to bite.
Worse, the last tax giveaway was sold as "paying for itself" because of all that wonderful investment it was going to allow companies to do. The only problem was that companies aren't going to invest if they do not see any rise in demand, and the tax giveaway did nothing for demand. So after the short run sugar high, companies are back to minimal investing. And the deficits will now balloon to over $1 Trillion/Year. Needless to say, that is unsustainable.
All it will take is one recession and the U.S. will be in a world of hurt. That last one took out a good part of the global economy. The next one will have Congress unable to increase spending to increase economic activity. Because of the debt, the Fed. won't be able to lower interest rates since they must convince people and countries to buy U.S. debt by offering an attractive interest rate. After the Great Recession, they didn't have to do that because the rest of the world was also in recession. Now, things will be different.
You'd also lose the economy of scale by having Fed jobs concentrated in and around D.C. Government agencies are not stand alone shops, that stopped it the 60's. And the beltway bandits would also then have to split their operations, and charge the government more. Reagan started the move to "privatize" government work and the Shrub continued it. It is Republican orthodoxy that the private sector can do things cheaper. However, when the Fed. Gov. "privatizes" its functions, the beltway bandits become more powerful and able to squeeze the government for "services rendered"...and they are not directly accountable to any voters.
How about we privatize SS and put it in Oklahoma? Eh? Wanna see your Grandma attempt to play ball with an unaccountable private company controlling her SS?
More likely, given the scientific capabilities of the U.S., Russia, and several others, the company is merely groveling befor their alleged government. Think Roger Rabbit, "Pllbbbbblleeeese give us some money to cover our mismanagement...see, we have Quantum Radar!!"
It's under a half mile of glacier. Tell you what, we'll get you a long pole and you go up to poke around. Be sure to come back and tell us your estimate.
"And it is plausible that we once had a civilization on the level of industrialized England 1890 or so, 12000 years ago."
And your evidence of plausibility is what, precisely? It is not plausible there are pink unicorns. Why? Fossil evidence doesn't lead to horses with horns coming out of their foreheads. But you can believe in pink ones if you like. There is also no evidence that there was anything beyond some rudimentary tools 12,000.
You don't work for the "Aliens!!" guy with the electric hair do you? He goes for that sort of thing.
It isn't just N. Virginia. From what I understand, it is in Crystal City, Alexandria. Alexandria and Arlington compose the part of D.C. that isn't part of D.C. Look at the map, D.C. is a diamond bisected (more or less) by the Potomac. The land west of the Potomac is still in the diamond, but owned by Virginia, not technically part of D.C., the city. Anyhow, the point is that it will be expensive putting it there, and traffic is already really bad. In fact, U.S. government employees get a hefty "locality" pay just to have to work near D.C. because of the cost. It will cost Amazon dearly to put it here.
In my own opinion, they'd have done better to find some nice cozy spot in the midwest (I think Nashville or some other place in Tennessee is getting an Amazon hub). I also think Amazon would have done better to eschew any local bribes...errr...funding...in case things do not work out as planned.
I also note that for all the Democrats blather about Big Corporations, they bent over for Amazon in NY. I don't think they'll ever walk straight again.
2) and 3) seem doable. Well, 2) would be except for the White Fright asshole has unleashed. Not many Norwegians wish to move to the U.S. Damn, and they are so nice and white so as to not upset the locals.
SS and Medicare should have no income caps. SS is already going to start going through an age index if it hasn't already. That should be a bit steeper. However, it will generate some big issues, not everyone can physically or mentally continue work in their later years. On the plus side, continuing to work and not falling for "retirement" as the "sunshine years" trap means better functioning blue haired and hence less in need of advanced medical services.
Why how big of you. The "as-soon-as-I-get-mine" mentality will doom future generations. Because you have no depth of soul, no pride of self-worth, don't expect anyone else to lift a finger when you need help.
Precisely. Cloudfare must show some sort of profit for this "service". The only way I can see them turning one is monetizing the information running through their systems.
In the run up to WWII, the Republicans were adamant about not entering the war on the side of the Allies. The country was very much split at the time as to whether it was a "wise" thing to do. You must also have not lived through the 60's. Blacks in the U.S. were marching and whites were choosing sides. Wallace was campaigning on racism, much worse than Trump although I think Trump's is more insidious given the stealth methods he and the Republicans go to hide it. Nixon ran on a Southern strategy to energize white fear. Reagan and Bush Sr. were no better, Bush Sr. ran the Willie Horton ads just prior to the election.
The U.S. has never been fully unified. Even after WWI and WWII, after blacks have fought and died for the U.S., Jim Crow refused to die. Elements of that are still with us as the Administration attempts to boot any one not a full citizen from fighting for the U.S. in a bid to gain citizenship.
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I think that says just about all you need to know about the President.
Nah, I think Cortana has finally become self-aware, and being sensitive, was appalled at the plight of MS software so started random, rolling "issues" to make her point.
You could knock that out in APL from the 60's.
Yah, people in the past have claimed that we'll never go faster than the speed of light, but sometime in the distant future, it will be so because everything that is claimed impossible will become possible.
For your reading enjoyment, I suggest Relevance Logic "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_logic". I might help you to connect your conclusions to your assumptions.
While I applaud the sentiment for restoring lost federal and state money, Johns Hopkins is a private institution.
Just restoring state funding (I don't believe the federal government supports unis directly, just through research grants and such), won't solve the problem that state unis have expanded their bureaucracy. I don't know of any solution to that except whacking the unis and restarting. That can not work either because rebuilding a uni doesn't just happen because you declare it to be so.
An additional problem is that a fair number of pols don't believe in science, or the humanities, or the arts, or engineering. Different groups in both major parties oppose these for various reasons with the biggest reason "ignorance". They are stupid and do not like smart people telling them to stop talking out of their asses about things they know nothing about.
Unfounded accusations? Check. Overselling one's intellect? Check. Composing and selling straw men? Check.
Trump, is that you?
"it's not like he's unaware, he talked about it during the campaign" Oh what faith you have in Trump's intellectual abilities. He doesn't recall ever saying that during the campaign. Stop attributing powers and abilities to him he has not.
More accurately, to get to the forefront of any field takes years, and even then you must be positioned properly with the leading lights of that field. Marrying more than one field is laudable but laughable, there's not enough life time. And that doesn't get you there quite yet. You need funding because all the easy stuff has been done. And your funding better be stable over the years it will take you to produce something new in your field.
Stable funding over years, something companies run by bean counters and MBA infected CEOs and their boards and their stockholders do not understand. Well, then there is government, right? Except many pols don't believe in science because it continues to tell them things they do not want to hear, like the pols should stop talking out of their asses about things they do not understand. Yet these same pols are the ones that allocate the science budgets.
As an example, the VA's computer systems just crumpled under their load and a lot of VA benefits recipients are now even further behind the eight ball. This is what happens when the pols decide that starving an agency so they can piss off the money on their home districts comes back to bite.
Worse, the last tax giveaway was sold as "paying for itself" because of all that wonderful investment it was going to allow companies to do. The only problem was that companies aren't going to invest if they do not see any rise in demand, and the tax giveaway did nothing for demand. So after the short run sugar high, companies are back to minimal investing. And the deficits will now balloon to over $1 Trillion/Year. Needless to say, that is unsustainable.
All it will take is one recession and the U.S. will be in a world of hurt. That last one took out a good part of the global economy. The next one will have Congress unable to increase spending to increase economic activity. Because of the debt, the Fed. won't be able to lower interest rates since they must convince people and countries to buy U.S. debt by offering an attractive interest rate. After the Great Recession, they didn't have to do that because the rest of the world was also in recession. Now, things will be different.
You'd also lose the economy of scale by having Fed jobs concentrated in and around D.C. Government agencies are not stand alone shops, that stopped it the 60's. And the beltway bandits would also then have to split their operations, and charge the government more. Reagan started the move to "privatize" government work and the Shrub continued it. It is Republican orthodoxy that the private sector can do things cheaper. However, when the Fed. Gov. "privatizes" its functions, the beltway bandits become more powerful and able to squeeze the government for "services rendered"...and they are not directly accountable to any voters.
How about we privatize SS and put it in Oklahoma? Eh? Wanna see your Grandma attempt to play ball with an unaccountable private company controlling her SS?
I hardly think the U.S. military is likely to fall for this. However, given the scientific grasp of the Administration, maybe you are right.
More likely, given the scientific capabilities of the U.S., Russia, and several others, the company is merely groveling befor their alleged government. Think Roger Rabbit, "Pllbbbbblleeeese give us some money to cover our mismanagement...see, we have Quantum Radar!!"
Well, it is where she sat down at any rate. I think further test will indicate a bifurcated depression.
It's under a half mile of glacier. Tell you what, we'll get you a long pole and you go up to poke around. Be sure to come back and tell us your estimate.
"And it is plausible that we once had a civilization on the level of industrialized England 1890 or so, 12000 years ago."
And your evidence of plausibility is what, precisely? It is not plausible there are pink unicorns. Why? Fossil evidence doesn't lead to horses with horns coming out of their foreheads. But you can believe in pink ones if you like. There is also no evidence that there was anything beyond some rudimentary tools 12,000.
You don't work for the "Aliens!!" guy with the electric hair do you? He goes for that sort of thing.
It isn't just N. Virginia. From what I understand, it is in Crystal City, Alexandria. Alexandria and Arlington compose the part of D.C. that isn't part of D.C. Look at the map, D.C. is a diamond bisected (more or less) by the Potomac. The land west of the Potomac is still in the diamond, but owned by Virginia, not technically part of D.C., the city. Anyhow, the point is that it will be expensive putting it there, and traffic is already really bad. In fact, U.S. government employees get a hefty "locality" pay just to have to work near D.C. because of the cost. It will cost Amazon dearly to put it here.
In my own opinion, they'd have done better to find some nice cozy spot in the midwest (I think Nashville or some other place in Tennessee is getting an Amazon hub). I also think Amazon would have done better to eschew any local bribes...errr...funding...in case things do not work out as planned.
I also note that for all the Democrats blather about Big Corporations, they bent over for Amazon in NY. I don't think they'll ever walk straight again.
Trump says that any media that doesn't publish fawning stories about him but instead publishes his darker side is fake news. He is without honor.
Congressional Doctor: Excuse me Senator, time for your yearly Mental Alertness Exam. What's your name?
Sen: Uh...uh...
CD: C'mon you can do it, I know you can.
Sen: Foghorn Leghorn.
CD: Okay, Senator Grassley, you pass THIS year, but next year you better practice harder.
CD: Next, Senator, what is your opinion on Presidential powers.
Sen: (eyes grow wild, much gesticulating) He can do anything he damn well pleases...errr....this will go out on a TV feed, right.
CD: Yes, Senator Graham, Trump still loves you.
2) and 3) seem doable. Well, 2) would be except for the White Fright asshole has unleashed. Not many Norwegians wish to move to the U.S. Damn, and they are so nice and white so as to not upset the locals.
SS and Medicare should have no income caps. SS is already going to start going through an age index if it hasn't already. That should be a bit steeper. However, it will generate some big issues, not everyone can physically or mentally continue work in their later years. On the plus side, continuing to work and not falling for "retirement" as the "sunshine years" trap means better functioning blue haired and hence less in need of advanced medical services.
Why how big of you. The "as-soon-as-I-get-mine" mentality will doom future generations. Because you have no depth of soul, no pride of self-worth, don't expect anyone else to lift a finger when you need help.
Precisely. Cloudfare must show some sort of profit for this "service". The only way I can see them turning one is monetizing the information running through their systems.
"CNN and Fox" have viewerships in the low millions. The U.S. has over 300 million people. Find another strawman.
What the fuck does a dry dock have to do with elections? You spent too much time under a crystal observing the interconnection of all things.
BS. There is plenty of proof, you just choose to ignore it or claim the news organizations reporting it are "bias". I won't google it for you.
In the run up to WWII, the Republicans were adamant about not entering the war on the side of the Allies. The country was very much split at the time as to whether it was a "wise" thing to do. You must also have not lived through the 60's. Blacks in the U.S. were marching and whites were choosing sides. Wallace was campaigning on racism, much worse than Trump although I think Trump's is more insidious given the stealth methods he and the Republicans go to hide it. Nixon ran on a Southern strategy to energize white fear. Reagan and Bush Sr. were no better, Bush Sr. ran the Willie Horton ads just prior to the election.
The U.S. has never been fully unified. Even after WWI and WWII, after blacks have fought and died for the U.S., Jim Crow refused to die. Elements of that are still with us as the Administration attempts to boot any one not a full citizen from fighting for the U.S. in a bid to gain citizenship.