Yeah, well grain farmers in Nebraska enjoyed a several years drought that only now just ended. All it takes is one really good long drought in fly-over country to get them to see G-d. They'll be praying and holding services and imploring the G-d to deliver rain. However, G-d is more interested in the eternal verities of life, not whether they get rain or not. And he's taking a rest from burying all those dinosaur bones. It was hard work, they have to be aged properly and stuck in just about every continent. And the proto humans, just figuring out what parts to bury and what parts to hold back so the record is obscure isn't easy, ya'know.
Surely it will be Big Oil or his followers would suffer even more intestinal blockage than they do currently. Rush Limbaugh's head would explode. FOX "news" would experience total existence failure. Republicans would have to figure out what all this science business is about.
So...if New Orleans were to sink beneath the waves or, more likely, be washed out due to another hurricane with higher sea levels, then you will have been proud to not pay any additional taxes.
And if other nations sink beneath the waves, then that's okay with you as long as you stay cool. And if other nations lose the ability to feed themselves or enough land mass to support their populations, then you'd be more than happy to accept them graciously into your home as refugees. But you won't be paying more in taxes.
And if your seafood prices go up because we've raised the water temperature enough to kill off the seafood you eat, you'll be happy because you didn't pay additional taxes. And if your land-based food prices go up because the climate change whacked the breadbaskets of the U.S., you'll be happy because you didn't pay any additional taxes.
The FCC doesn't have many investigatory powers. I am not sure the FBI is the right agency to do an investigation. It strikes me that the U.S. doesn't yet have the right cyber-security agencies set up, but there are congressional hearings on the subject.
Right now, the FBI must be held suspect. Before this administration, I wouldn't have worried. In my opinion, it needs to be severed from the Executive Branch, maybe it belongs in the Judiciary Branch. It also needs better funding and abilities for cyber-crime as that seems to be a growth segment.
Oh, and el Presidente Tweetie should not be allowed to appoint the next FBI director, even if Congress has to sit on it like they did for Obama's last Supreme Court nominee. Tweetie will be sure to extract ill-founded promises of sycophantic behavior from a new FBI head that he appoints. He won't be able to stop himself regardless of what his lawyers advise.
BS: Pence is a lying sack of shit. He'd sell the country to the Christian dolts who think that museum in Kentucky is a science museum. And his beliefs about what the government should do is not very different from what el Presidentie Tweetie has allowed. I say allowed because he doesn't have the wit to construct any policies of his own.
Yeah, the U.S. should cut cancer research because it has been what, several decades and they STILL haven't solved the problem. All those billions wasted when they could be better spent on other things. You should tell them this, I'm sure they'll listen to you.
" I wonder how high the total is today after 30 years of graft... and nothing still to show other than increased corruption and a pile of old junk."
Maybe if you ask politely, they'll put you on their routing list for memos. Then you wouldn't have to talk out of your ass so much.
Wimp? Gee, what gave it away, that he weenied out to the Saudis or is ceding the Pacific basin to the Chinese?
Hi modus operandi (to put lipstick on a pig) is to loudly proclaim just about any good thing is about to happen through his auspices. When one or two of them do (out of sheer happenstance) he takes credit. All the rest of his waffle is forgotten because when you shovel as much as he does, no one can be arsed to keep track of it all.
I like the report in the Wash. Post where they say he likes his security briefings with large glossy photos so he need not read any time consuming complicated features of an issue. He doesn't have an attention span or the brains to grok it. He's just an ignorant git with an out-sized ego.
Yep, before 9/11, we didn't have to worry about planes being used as missiles because terrorists have never done that before. I use the same argument for not getting that huge branch limb overhanging my house not taken down. It's never fallen before, saves me all kinds of money.
The EPA has been taken over by anti-science, Christian dolts. The Earth only exists because the Creator gave it to them for a good fucking, and they intend to get on with the job. Don't count on the EPA doing anything sensible until Agent Orange is out of the White House.
Pro-American? So, he goes to Saudi Arabia and bends over for them. This is the same Saudi Arabia which funds the most virulent forms of militant Islam aimed at taking down the West. Then that twat goes to Europe and offends NATO claiming that the treaty saying the U.S. would defend NATO countries didn't mean what it says it means.
Pro-American means taking from the poor and giving to the rich through yet more tax giveaways. It means fucking the U.S. raw environmentally. It means ceding the Pacific basin to China. It means cutting the State Dept. so that it cannot wield U.S. soft power. It means giving the Christian nutjobs their very own political political party. It means taking the concept of America to the rest of the world and dragging it into the mud where that asshole feels comfortable.
Yes, but it is not common for senior advisors to be paid by Russia nor become an agent of Turkey. And why would they need a secret backdoor to Russia? One could argue their conspiracy theorist bullshit got the better of them. I would argue they would do anything to win and selling America out to Russia was okay, just as long as they won.
Yeah, well el Presidente Tweetie's sprog mentioned in the 2000's that their Ma and Pa Kettle organization wasn't worried about money because they had plenty of Russian money. Putin owns el Presidente Tweetie's ass.
Yes, and I hope you are including the environmental degradation in that calculation on the wonders of the large U.S. coal supply. And if the environment really decides to shit on us for all pollutants we've dumped in it and life isn't worth living, then we can at least have our coal.
No No NO!!! You are not looking at it correctly. It is a slight against el Presidente Tweetie's Coal Initiative by those naughty Chinese. What is the Coal Initiative? That's where the U.S. takes off environmental restrictions so Big Coal can get on with the business of fouling America's air, water, and soil. If these workers start making a living in the wind industry, they they won't be available for coal's resurgence. To make things worse, it means less wind coming out of el Presidente Tweetie's mouth.
In their calculation, a Chinese national got beat by an American AI machine. Now drop out "national" and "AI machine", that's all the Chinese censors needed to know.
Just for the record, that speech was in Sun City, South Carolina, on July 21. It resembles Groucho Marx on acid.
Just think Europe, he's coming there after Israel. That'll learn ya to inflict all this global warming on the planet. Please...puuleeaase have a head of state tell him the trick is to bang the rocks together. He won't get the joke but you'll be treated to another incoherent monologue on how no one, no one can bang rocks together like he can, he's that smart.
Many fields require significant domain knowledge. Care to try your hand at astronomy applications? Or chemistry, or biology? Those are not fields where someone without extensive training in the field and with a mere programmer background can do well in.
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Yeah, well grain farmers in Nebraska enjoyed a several years drought that only now just ended. All it takes is one really good long drought in fly-over country to get them to see G-d. They'll be praying and holding services and imploring the G-d to deliver rain. However, G-d is more interested in the eternal verities of life, not whether they get rain or not. And he's taking a rest from burying all those dinosaur bones. It was hard work, they have to be aged properly and stuck in just about every continent. And the proto humans, just figuring out what parts to bury and what parts to hold back so the record is obscure isn't easy, ya'know.
Yup, now that we have that established, could you please state your science credentials? The ones that would help us take you seriously?
Surely it will be Big Oil or his followers would suffer even more intestinal blockage than they do currently. Rush Limbaugh's head would explode. FOX "news" would experience total existence failure. Republicans would have to figure out what all this science business is about.
So...if New Orleans were to sink beneath the waves or, more likely, be washed out due to another hurricane with higher sea levels, then you will have been proud to not pay any additional taxes.
And if other nations sink beneath the waves, then that's okay with you as long as you stay cool. And if other nations lose the ability to feed themselves or enough land mass to support their populations, then you'd be more than happy to accept them graciously into your home as refugees. But you won't be paying more in taxes.
And if your seafood prices go up because we've raised the water temperature enough to kill off the seafood you eat, you'll be happy because you didn't pay additional taxes. And if your land-based food prices go up because the climate change whacked the breadbaskets of the U.S., you'll be happy because you didn't pay any additional taxes.
The FCC doesn't have many investigatory powers. I am not sure the FBI is the right agency to do an investigation. It strikes me that the U.S. doesn't yet have the right cyber-security agencies set up, but there are congressional hearings on the subject.
Right now, the FBI must be held suspect. Before this administration, I wouldn't have worried. In my opinion, it needs to be severed from the Executive Branch, maybe it belongs in the Judiciary Branch. It also needs better funding and abilities for cyber-crime as that seems to be a growth segment.
Oh, and el Presidente Tweetie should not be allowed to appoint the next FBI director, even if Congress has to sit on it like they did for Obama's last Supreme Court nominee. Tweetie will be sure to extract ill-founded promises of sycophantic behavior from a new FBI head that he appoints. He won't be able to stop himself regardless of what his lawyers advise.
BS: Pence is a lying sack of shit. He'd sell the country to the Christian dolts who think that museum in Kentucky is a science museum. And his beliefs about what the government should do is not very different from what el Presidentie Tweetie has allowed. I say allowed because he doesn't have the wit to construct any policies of his own.
Wrong calculus. Should that little twerp manage to take out Los Angeles, it won't matter THAT much to the U.S. that it was able to pound him back.
Yep, it is well known that the U.S. government is a monolithic entity where every part is aware of what the other parts are doing.
Yeah, the U.S. should cut cancer research because it has been what, several decades and they STILL haven't solved the problem. All those billions wasted when they could be better spent on other things. You should tell them this, I'm sure they'll listen to you.
" I wonder how high the total is today after 30 years of graft... and nothing still to show other than increased corruption and a pile of old junk."
Maybe if you ask politely, they'll put you on their routing list for memos. Then you wouldn't have to talk out of your ass so much.
Wimp? Gee, what gave it away, that he weenied out to the Saudis or is ceding the Pacific basin to the Chinese?
Hi modus operandi (to put lipstick on a pig) is to loudly proclaim just about any good thing is about to happen through his auspices. When one or two of them do (out of sheer happenstance) he takes credit. All the rest of his waffle is forgotten because when you shovel as much as he does, no one can be arsed to keep track of it all.
I like the report in the Wash. Post where they say he likes his security briefings with large glossy photos so he need not read any time consuming complicated features of an issue. He doesn't have an attention span or the brains to grok it. He's just an ignorant git with an out-sized ego.
Yep, before 9/11, we didn't have to worry about planes being used as missiles because terrorists have never done that before. I use the same argument for not getting that huge branch limb overhanging my house not taken down. It's never fallen before, saves me all kinds of money.
The EPA has been taken over by anti-science, Christian dolts. The Earth only exists because the Creator gave it to them for a good fucking, and they intend to get on with the job. Don't count on the EPA doing anything sensible until Agent Orange is out of the White House.
Pro-American? So, he goes to Saudi Arabia and bends over for them. This is the same Saudi Arabia which funds the most virulent forms of militant Islam aimed at taking down the West. Then that twat goes to Europe and offends NATO claiming that the treaty saying the U.S. would defend NATO countries didn't mean what it says it means.
Pro-American means taking from the poor and giving to the rich through yet more tax giveaways. It means fucking the U.S. raw environmentally. It means ceding the Pacific basin to China. It means cutting the State Dept. so that it cannot wield U.S. soft power. It means giving the Christian nutjobs their very own political political party. It means taking the concept of America to the rest of the world and dragging it into the mud where that asshole feels comfortable.
Some pro-American leader.
Yes, but it is not common for senior advisors to be paid by Russia nor become an agent of Turkey. And why would they need a secret backdoor to Russia? One could argue their conspiracy theorist bullshit got the better of them. I would argue they would do anything to win and selling America out to Russia was okay, just as long as they won.
Yeah, well el Presidente Tweetie's sprog mentioned in the 2000's that their Ma and Pa Kettle organization wasn't worried about money because they had plenty of Russian money. Putin owns el Presidente Tweetie's ass.
I think the big news here is that some people actually like Comcast. Who knew?
Yes, but you have to pay a lot of people to run around with matchbooks.
Yes, and I hope you are including the environmental degradation in that calculation on the wonders of the large U.S. coal supply. And if the environment really decides to shit on us for all pollutants we've dumped in it and life isn't worth living, then we can at least have our coal.
No No NO!!! You are not looking at it correctly. It is a slight against el Presidente Tweetie's Coal Initiative by those naughty Chinese. What is the Coal Initiative? That's where the U.S. takes off environmental restrictions so Big Coal can get on with the business of fouling America's air, water, and soil. If these workers start making a living in the wind industry, they they won't be available for coal's resurgence. To make things worse, it means less wind coming out of el Presidente Tweetie's mouth.
In their calculation, a Chinese national got beat by an American AI machine. Now drop out "national" and "AI machine", that's all the Chinese censors needed to know.
Ya, and what did el Presidente Tweetie do it for? Yucks? Payoff the Russians for services rendered? Stupidity?
We cannot investigate, the science budgets are being cut.
Just for the record, that speech was in Sun City, South Carolina, on July 21. It resembles Groucho Marx on acid.
Just think Europe, he's coming there after Israel. That'll learn ya to inflict all this global warming on the planet. Please...puuleeaase have a head of state tell him the trick is to bang the rocks together. He won't get the joke but you'll be treated to another incoherent monologue on how no one, no one can bang rocks together like he can, he's that smart.
Many fields require significant domain knowledge. Care to try your hand at astronomy applications? Or chemistry, or biology? Those are not fields where someone without extensive training in the field and with a mere programmer background can do well in.
Yep, all you need to learn is programming in order program robots. Next, knowing how to carve a turkey will teach you enough to be surgeon.