The GOP chaining the doors? I don't think so. That little squit Lindsay Graham has already sold his soul to Trump. The rest of the southern Senators couldn't even be arsed to sing anything more than "Ain't that a shame" after the report of Trump's slur of Sessions. Mind you, Sessions is not a respectable pol or even a man. This is the same bastard who would plant ringers in his "hearings" on global warming, generally some whack job professors with academic credentials but no qualifying backgrounds. The man reflects Trump's criteria for office: dishonorable, unAmerican, willing to use the federal government to go after enemies, self-centered egotistical bigot. The only thing that saved Sessions from backing Trump on Mueller was that he had been caught lying in Senate hearings and didn't want to hurt himself further.
And this Congress is going to throw out the hobby horse they've been riding to more conservative judges, more pollution all around, more money for their donors? I don't think so.
My suspicion is that the high approval among Republicans of Trump is because many of the normal people have left the Republican Party. Name one policy the Republican Party stands for beside more guns and pollution for everybody?
The term "Deep State" probably arose in Turkey to reference whatever friction the government thought it was experiencing. It is a way of creating a straw man so you can convince your followers of its existence and that only you can save them from the "Deep State". Overblown potentates the world over have since used the term. And now we have one of those all to ourselves in the U.S.
Hint: Believing a lie is never a recipe for success.
Yep, the U.S. is responsible for Russia's problems. Putin is an enlightened civil servant and Russia would be a paradise were it not for the naughty U.S. casting a baleful eye in its direction.
In other news, down is up, Trump is smart, the law of gravity is merely a suggestion.
"...monopolies are the result of executing your capitalistic business plan successfully." No it isn't. It is competing unfairly. Capitalism assumes freedom of entry and exit. A monopoly restricts entry.
Capitalism isn't a Grand Unified Theory of Economics as you would like to construct that straw man just so you can knock him down. The reason for regulations is precisely the recognition that it is not the GUT of E and that more is required to provide a level playing field.
The situation is similar to the Constitution where the strict constitutionalists would have us believe if it isn't authorized in the Constitution, government shouldn't be doing it. Governing is never that simple because the ground it is to govern over is not stable. The U.S. of the 1700s is not the U.S of today and won't be the U.S. of 10 years from now.
Hmmm...I guess we are to give you high marks for your rhetorical style. I'm sure you convinced others of your righteous indignation for your use of the internationally recognized phrase (e.g., F U) indicating seriousness.
"We are forced to vote for people we don't really know. Most people are ignorant about much of what happens around them that affects their lives. ". Yep, if only we could find that magical pool of smart, intelligent common everyday folk who won't mind having their entire life's history exposed.
How about you go first? Post everything you have ever done here on slashdot for us all to see and consider...and no sneaky leaving out details that might appear unflattering. Be sure to include your name and home address, your occupation, your employer, your salary, your relatives, any organizations you may have joined,etc. Think hard, be complete, and don't be shy, lay it on us!!
To get the gun nuts interested in the fourth amendment, you just need to package in language they can understand: The Deep State wants access to your cell phones so they can spy on your use of guns...and Hillary is behind this push so she can cover her tracks in Benghazi, where she'd jet off to for intimate lunches with al Qaeda. And she and Obama are planning for a Muslim America by accessing your phone and planting secret subliminal messages from the Koran.
More to the point, the Democrats have been demonizing the science and technology since the 1960's. Starting with Reagan, the Republicans saw they were being outflanked and decided they could be even dumber. Now both sides are racing towards a new Dark Ages.
There's nothing wrong with hacking your friends and allies for information. It keep everyone honest...the alternative is going on jingoistic crusades against imagined hobgoblins....err...now if we could only keep those nasty hobgoblins off Fox.
Mr. President, there's this guy on Slashdot who has exposed our weakness in cyber. He knows a lot, we don't know how he got the information...although he could be talking out of his ass.
Mr. P.: Hey, don't knock talking out of your ass. I'm very smart, you know.
I think the use case must revolve around trust. When there is no trust that a central entity can keep information, then it might do better to have a distributed ledger which cannot (I suppose...that's the lore anyhow) be manipulated. If your problem doesn't map to a trusted central entity easily, then a distributed version might be better.
Pivoting to the next sprint, eh? How pray tell are you to figure out the next sprint when you have done no system architecture. Where's roadmap of how to get from here to there. All I've have ever seen Agile do is claim a sprint's success and then the group decides on the next sprint. It is as though you had a chess match where you only looked at one or maybe two steps ahead. You get beaten by a large dirty snowball of a system which has no good internal architecture.
These are not the problems with Agile. The main problem with Agile is that it doesn't scale and when large projects are attempted, it tends to produce dirty snowballs. Those snowballs become too large for any agile project and then the size makes them essentially unguided. They crash, burn, and then the team realizes they should have done a real design first, and then filled it in making accommodations as necessary.
In my own experience, Agile reduces engineers to cogs whose only mission is to add some extra pieces of chewing gum to an unruly wad.
Ermmm...you are familiar with U.S. healthcare costs, yes? According to the numbers in 2017, the U.S. spent a bit over $3 trillion on healthcare.
The U.S. GDP for 2017 was about $18.5 Trillion. The Defense bill for that year was roughly $600 Billion. Of that $600, about half goes for military salaries and healthcare, another $150 for overhead on facilities (bases, etc.). That left about $150 - $200 Billion for procurement. But that procurement covers everything, not just new weapons. There is no swinging a $18.5 Trillion economy on $200 Billion defense procurement.
BTW: The military-industrial complex died during Reagan years. Companies found that the U.S. military was small potatoes compared to the civilian economy and it shifted to it. Now, the Pentagon has to beg companies to produce for it since DoD's market is so small in comparison to the rest of the economy.
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"is unprofessional, cowardly, and unconstitutional." So what you are saying is that he's well-qualified to be in this alleged administration.
The GOP chaining the doors? I don't think so. That little squit Lindsay Graham has already sold his soul to Trump. The rest of the southern Senators couldn't even be arsed to sing anything more than "Ain't that a shame" after the report of Trump's slur of Sessions. Mind you, Sessions is not a respectable pol or even a man. This is the same bastard who would plant ringers in his "hearings" on global warming, generally some whack job professors with academic credentials but no qualifying backgrounds. The man reflects Trump's criteria for office: dishonorable, unAmerican, willing to use the federal government to go after enemies, self-centered egotistical bigot. The only thing that saved Sessions from backing Trump on Mueller was that he had been caught lying in Senate hearings and didn't want to hurt himself further.
And this Congress is going to throw out the hobby horse they've been riding to more conservative judges, more pollution all around, more money for their donors? I don't think so.
Kissinger sold his soul long ago, Satan is merely waiting to collect.
My suspicion is that the high approval among Republicans of Trump is because many of the normal people have left the Republican Party. Name one policy the Republican Party stands for beside more guns and pollution for everybody?
The term "Deep State" probably arose in Turkey to reference whatever friction the government thought it was experiencing. It is a way of creating a straw man so you can convince your followers of its existence and that only you can save them from the "Deep State". Overblown potentates the world over have since used the term. And now we have one of those all to ourselves in the U.S.
Hint: Believing a lie is never a recipe for success.
Yep, the U.S. is responsible for Russia's problems. Putin is an enlightened civil servant and Russia would be a paradise were it not for the naughty U.S. casting a baleful eye in its direction.
In other news, down is up, Trump is smart, the law of gravity is merely a suggestion.
Really? And just where did Putin and his cronies come from?
Yep, all them people around Trump and himself benefiting from Russian money...nope, nothing to see here, move on.
I thought it was wrestle with caviar and vodka...shirtless.
Now, let's not bring Putin into this...
"...monopolies are the result of executing your capitalistic business plan successfully." No it isn't. It is competing unfairly. Capitalism assumes freedom of entry and exit. A monopoly restricts entry.
Capitalism isn't a Grand Unified Theory of Economics as you would like to construct that straw man just so you can knock him down. The reason for regulations is precisely the recognition that it is not the GUT of E and that more is required to provide a level playing field.
The situation is similar to the Constitution where the strict constitutionalists would have us believe if it isn't authorized in the Constitution, government shouldn't be doing it. Governing is never that simple because the ground it is to govern over is not stable. The U.S. of the 1700s is not the U.S of today and won't be the U.S. of 10 years from now.
Grain too contains water. Drying is necessary to prevent spoilage but it cannot drive out all water and then there is humidity to consider.
Hmmm...I guess we are to give you high marks for your rhetorical style. I'm sure you convinced others of your righteous indignation for your use of the internationally recognized phrase (e.g., F U) indicating seriousness.
"We are forced to vote for people we don't really know. Most people are ignorant about much of what happens around them that affects their lives. ". Yep, if only we could find that magical pool of smart, intelligent common everyday folk who won't mind having their entire life's history exposed.
How about you go first? Post everything you have ever done here on slashdot for us all to see and consider...and no sneaky leaving out details that might appear unflattering. Be sure to include your name and home address, your occupation, your employer, your salary, your relatives, any organizations you may have joined,etc. Think hard, be complete, and don't be shy, lay it on us!!
To get the gun nuts interested in the fourth amendment, you just need to package in language they can understand: The Deep State wants access to your cell phones so they can spy on your use of guns...and Hillary is behind this push so she can cover her tracks in Benghazi, where she'd jet off to for intimate lunches with al Qaeda. And she and Obama are planning for a Muslim America by accessing your phone and planting secret subliminal messages from the Koran.
More to the point, the Democrats have been demonizing the science and technology since the 1960's. Starting with Reagan, the Republicans saw they were being outflanked and decided they could be even dumber. Now both sides are racing towards a new Dark Ages.
There's nothing wrong with hacking your friends and allies for information. It keep everyone honest...the alternative is going on jingoistic crusades against imagined hobgoblins....err...now if we could only keep those nasty hobgoblins off Fox.
Mr. President, there's this guy on Slashdot who has exposed our weakness in cyber. He knows a lot, we don't know how he got the information...although he could be talking out of his ass.
Mr. P.: Hey, don't knock talking out of your ass. I'm very smart, you know.
I think the use case must revolve around trust. When there is no trust that a central entity can keep information, then it might do better to have a distributed ledger which cannot (I suppose...that's the lore anyhow) be manipulated. If your problem doesn't map to a trusted central entity easily, then a distributed version might be better.
Pivoting to the next sprint, eh? How pray tell are you to figure out the next sprint when you have done no system architecture. Where's roadmap of how to get from here to there. All I've have ever seen Agile do is claim a sprint's success and then the group decides on the next sprint. It is as though you had a chess match where you only looked at one or maybe two steps ahead. You get beaten by a large dirty snowball of a system which has no good internal architecture.
These are not the problems with Agile. The main problem with Agile is that it doesn't scale and when large projects are attempted, it tends to produce dirty snowballs. Those snowballs become too large for any agile project and then the size makes them essentially unguided. They crash, burn, and then the team realizes they should have done a real design first, and then filled it in making accommodations as necessary.
In my own experience, Agile reduces engineers to cogs whose only mission is to add some extra pieces of chewing gum to an unruly wad.
"Exacerbating many of the people"...errrmmm...people are become worse as problems?
Ermmm...you are familiar with U.S. healthcare costs, yes? According to the numbers in 2017, the U.S. spent a bit over $3 trillion on healthcare.
The U.S. GDP for 2017 was about $18.5 Trillion. The Defense bill for that year was roughly $600 Billion. Of that $600, about half goes for military salaries and healthcare, another $150 for overhead on facilities (bases, etc.). That left about $150 - $200 Billion for procurement. But that procurement covers everything, not just new weapons. There is no swinging a $18.5 Trillion economy on $200 Billion defense procurement.
BTW: The military-industrial complex died during Reagan years. Companies found that the U.S. military was small potatoes compared to the civilian economy and it shifted to it. Now, the Pentagon has to beg companies to produce for it since DoD's market is so small in comparison to the rest of the economy.
Do try to keep up, eh?
I don't know, I was rather looking forward to world with lots of muppets.