You give Trump too much credit, there was no clarity because there can be no clarity from someone of such limited intellectual prowess. You can see that in his nominees for cabinet positions. They are not the A-Team, they are a reflection of Trump's idea of how to run an organization. There is no consistent ethos among the lot of them except hating the very agencies they are to lead. And Trump doesn't even trust them, he's got minders for each of the agency heads and those minders report to Trump and Bannon.
You can also see the effect of his lack of intellectual depth when he's admitted signing orders that he never read. Bannon shoved them in front of him and he signed because Bannon told him to. When the shit hit the fan on the immigration order, he went nuts trying assign blame to everyone but himself. He is without honor.
I don't agree. A good language keeps you from shooting your foot off even if you are inadvertently aiming at it. How many of PHP arcane rules must a programmer keep in mind? Must s/he constantly use PHP to keep the rules in the head so as not to trip over them. A good example of how to do it right is Haskell. The typing system is a bitch but you won't get away with any inadvertent type casts.
No, the plan is to tell Americans they are safe by banning people who have no record of doing naughty things in America, and that do not have Trump properties in their homelands.
One thing you have to consider when observing this Administration, nothing is connected. One policy might yang the yin out of some issue, another might yin the yang out of the same issue.
Also, knock-on effects are not considered because there's no way the head guys can keep two ideas in their heads at the same time. Case in point, the last Yemen raid by American Special Forces. The previous administration tried to think through the effects if something went wrong. The current administration would rather shoot first and aim later. The result: Yemen said no more of those.
Another case in point: American ban on Iraqis coming to the U.S. Iraq's Parliament is considering legislation banning Americans, and the Iraqis fighting and dying to attack Daesh are looking at the Americans and wondering why they should bother. Trumpets blaring about taking Iraqi oil tell them that the American administration has no respect for Iraqis. End result, decreased cooperation against Daesh, and possibly support for aggression against the U.S. after Daesh goes down the rat hole.
And the Administration rhetoric has given that little twit Ayatollah running Iran a gift claiming the Administration is showing America's true face.
Wanting to put China in its place, they did the opposite of rally Asian nations against China hegemony by pulling out of TPP thus pushing those countries closer to China. And whining about cheap Mexican labor and labor standards, they decided pulling out of the TPP would be a good idea, however it would have increased wages and standards for Mexicans.
Claiming the Mexican hordes are climbing over the borders (they aren't), they give every indication of starting a trade war with Mexico thus lowering the Mexican economy and making it likely to increase the pressure on Mexicans to squirrel under the new stupid wall to get into the U.S.
Here, I don't think it is old money, there isn't that much money in coal. It is more they figure banging the drum on coal jobs will get them re-elected. They don't think farther than their own re-election. The country can be completely wasted but as long as the get re-elected and their life style preserved, that's just find with them. They are no better than Trump and his Extreme Wetting for new executive actions.
No, that isn't what Trump is saying he's going to do. He wants to privatize government expenditures. Take his alleged infrastructure program, it won't pay for government employment, it is a sop to his contractor friends. It probably won't result in an increase in jobs. However, taking credit where no credit is due isn't a problem for him. He is without honor.
What you left unsaid was the cost of coal that tends to get left by the wayside. As others have mentioned, the degradation of the environment, the pollution, the lost lives to emphysema and other lung conditions, carbon pollution raising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, etc.
Actually, it is probably a response to getting swamped with email requests for FOIAs. And there's nothing stopping the Chinese, Norks, of Vladimir and his thugs from misusing the service.
But, but, but....Trump insists we must have Extreme Vetting. I gather by that he intends for prospective immigrants to undergo torture to see if they'll admit to wanting to come here to kill Americans. If they admit it, then America will be Great again by denying them entry. If they do not, then they are lying and America will still be Great again by denying them entry. One has a vision of Trump acting like the Wizard of Oz with the green flame jets and the magnified voice. Sooner or later Toto will show up and pull his curtain aside.
It isn't that they care about these countries. It is that they figure this is only the tip of the iceberg that Trump will send their way. And it isn't just visas, it is the general Soviet style economy he wants to impose.
A bunch of them (including Apple) screwed up by meeting the fellow a few weeks back. If Trump calls, treat him like telemarketer and hand up. He'll only twist anything you say and you will forever be beholden to his antics.
The Wall Street Journal had an article (either this weekend edition or last friday's) wondering if jobs in large companies will exist in the future. Not automation but rather outsourcing; they don't care whether it is domestic or foreign, they simply do not want people on their payrolls. Automation will be like pouring gasoline on that fire.
Your notion of value is highly subjective and individual. Value in an economy is different kind of thing. Communist countries tried very much to attach non-economic value to people. That failed and spawned a lot of dead Russians and Chinese. It also left the moral fiber of those countries in ruins to the point that their leaders are now relying on nationalism to give a sense of purpose. Pray that doesn't happen in the U.S.
Let's eliminate airline regulations. If enough people die, then they'll stop flying or the planes will be made safer. It'll a be a bit late for the dead people, but then Ayn Rand followers can wax poetical on the magic of the markets.
"But try and point to someone who died or was taken ill as a result and you'd be hard pressed to come up with anything at all."
What matters are statistics. Point to someone who died from a chemical spill, hard to do. Point to a community with elevated cancer rates, not so hard.
You forget the intent of the Trump Ban. It was merely a sop to his supporters. He let his chief bonehead, Bannon, write it up. It never occurred to Bannon there were interpreters, or any others that would get whacked by the order. It doesn't matter to Trump whether the order stands or falls, what matters to him is that he can be seen to being doing something against the Terrorist Threat, no matter how much it is just masturbation.
Betsy is interested in turning education into a for-profit enterprise. That's worked so well for medical care, let's fuck up American schools with the same bullshit.
Why cannot the CEO's understand this? They are Business School graduates. People in their organizations are merely cogs devoted to inflating their egos, and if they really fuck up, providing their golden parachutes.
Yes, let's turn the education over to a bunch of science deniers who believe they can create their own scientific facts to dovetail with their Bible thumping reverends. They've changed the religion into:
The Lord is my Shepherd,
I shall not think.
When we vanquish the Liberals,
Then our souls will not stink.
Remember, Christianity stops at the water's edge, screw the Infidels. Now let's all bow our heads for Jesus.
"mocking Christianity". And could you please point to the outrage from Christian Fundamentalists? Seems to me their Christianity stops at the water's edge. I do not believe the CFs are Christians.
On the other hand, were Greenland's ice sheet to totally melt, we get roughly 24 ft of sea level rise. So if only 10 % of it melts, we get 2.4 ft rise. There goes Miami and most of southern Florida, Louisiana is...reduced. Virginia can kiss Norfolk goodbye. And if that rise also causes a shift in ocean currents, we can expect more effects.
So please, let's gamble with the future. What do we have to lose, eh?
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Hmmm...so keeping your valuables in MS clutches will not automatically make them available to any authoritarian state that asks for them?
That's very tidy. How...Putin-Trump-Erodgan of you. You do realize they are the same person, yes?
You give Trump too much credit, there was no clarity because there can be no clarity from someone of such limited intellectual prowess. You can see that in his nominees for cabinet positions. They are not the A-Team, they are a reflection of Trump's idea of how to run an organization. There is no consistent ethos among the lot of them except hating the very agencies they are to lead. And Trump doesn't even trust them, he's got minders for each of the agency heads and those minders report to Trump and Bannon.
You can also see the effect of his lack of intellectual depth when he's admitted signing orders that he never read. Bannon shoved them in front of him and he signed because Bannon told him to. When the shit hit the fan on the immigration order, he went nuts trying assign blame to everyone but himself. He is without honor.
I don't agree. A good language keeps you from shooting your foot off even if you are inadvertently aiming at it. How many of PHP arcane rules must a programmer keep in mind? Must s/he constantly use PHP to keep the rules in the head so as not to trip over them. A good example of how to do it right is Haskell. The typing system is a bitch but you won't get away with any inadvertent type casts.
No, the plan is to tell Americans they are safe by banning people who have no record of doing naughty things in America, and that do not have Trump properties in their homelands.
One thing you have to consider when observing this Administration, nothing is connected. One policy might yang the yin out of some issue, another might yin the yang out of the same issue.
Also, knock-on effects are not considered because there's no way the head guys can keep two ideas in their heads at the same time. Case in point, the last Yemen raid by American Special Forces. The previous administration tried to think through the effects if something went wrong. The current administration would rather shoot first and aim later. The result: Yemen said no more of those.
Another case in point: American ban on Iraqis coming to the U.S. Iraq's Parliament is considering legislation banning Americans, and the Iraqis fighting and dying to attack Daesh are looking at the Americans and wondering why they should bother. Trumpets blaring about taking Iraqi oil tell them that the American administration has no respect for Iraqis. End result, decreased cooperation against Daesh, and possibly support for aggression against the U.S. after Daesh goes down the rat hole.
And the Administration rhetoric has given that little twit Ayatollah running Iran a gift claiming the Administration is showing America's true face.
Wanting to put China in its place, they did the opposite of rally Asian nations against China hegemony by pulling out of TPP thus pushing those countries closer to China. And whining about cheap Mexican labor and labor standards, they decided pulling out of the TPP would be a good idea, however it would have increased wages and standards for Mexicans.
Claiming the Mexican hordes are climbing over the borders (they aren't), they give every indication of starting a trade war with Mexico thus lowering the Mexican economy and making it likely to increase the pressure on Mexicans to squirrel under the new stupid wall to get into the U.S.
Maybe other countries will demand the same thing. I can see el Presidente Tweety giving up his password in the name of security.
Here, I don't think it is old money, there isn't that much money in coal. It is more they figure banging the drum on coal jobs will get them re-elected. They don't think farther than their own re-election. The country can be completely wasted but as long as the get re-elected and their life style preserved, that's just find with them. They are no better than Trump and his Extreme Wetting for new executive actions.
No, that isn't what Trump is saying he's going to do. He wants to privatize government expenditures. Take his alleged infrastructure program, it won't pay for government employment, it is a sop to his contractor friends. It probably won't result in an increase in jobs. However, taking credit where no credit is due isn't a problem for him. He is without honor.
What you left unsaid was the cost of coal that tends to get left by the wayside. As others have mentioned, the degradation of the environment, the pollution, the lost lives to emphysema and other lung conditions, carbon pollution raising sea levels, acidification of the oceans, etc.
Yeah, solar never wears out, and electricity demand will be constant in the years to come, no new uses for solar will ever arise.
Now once you have bought your car, you'll never need another one. Hey, this is great, we've discovered infinity.
Actually, it is probably a response to getting swamped with email requests for FOIAs. And there's nothing stopping the Chinese, Norks, of Vladimir and his thugs from misusing the service.
But, but, but....Trump insists we must have Extreme Vetting. I gather by that he intends for prospective immigrants to undergo torture to see if they'll admit to wanting to come here to kill Americans. If they admit it, then America will be Great again by denying them entry. If they do not, then they are lying and America will still be Great again by denying them entry. One has a vision of Trump acting like the Wizard of Oz with the green flame jets and the magnified voice. Sooner or later Toto will show up and pull his curtain aside.
It isn't that they care about these countries. It is that they figure this is only the tip of the iceberg that Trump will send their way. And it isn't just visas, it is the general Soviet style economy he wants to impose.
A bunch of them (including Apple) screwed up by meeting the fellow a few weeks back. If Trump calls, treat him like telemarketer and hand up. He'll only twist anything you say and you will forever be beholden to his antics.
The Wall Street Journal had an article (either this weekend edition or last friday's) wondering if jobs in large companies will exist in the future. Not automation but rather outsourcing; they don't care whether it is domestic or foreign, they simply do not want people on their payrolls. Automation will be like pouring gasoline on that fire.
Your notion of value is highly subjective and individual. Value in an economy is different kind of thing. Communist countries tried very much to attach non-economic value to people. That failed and spawned a lot of dead Russians and Chinese. It also left the moral fiber of those countries in ruins to the point that their leaders are now relying on nationalism to give a sense of purpose. Pray that doesn't happen in the U.S.
Let's eliminate airline regulations. If enough people die, then they'll stop flying or the planes will be made safer. It'll a be a bit late for the dead people, but then Ayn Rand followers can wax poetical on the magic of the markets.
"But try and point to someone who died or was taken ill as a result and you'd be hard pressed to come up with anything at all."
What matters are statistics. Point to someone who died from a chemical spill, hard to do. Point to a community with elevated cancer rates, not so hard.
You forget the intent of the Trump Ban. It was merely a sop to his supporters. He let his chief bonehead, Bannon, write it up. It never occurred to Bannon there were interpreters, or any others that would get whacked by the order. It doesn't matter to Trump whether the order stands or falls, what matters to him is that he can be seen to being doing something against the Terrorist Threat, no matter how much it is just masturbation.
Betsy is interested in turning education into a for-profit enterprise. That's worked so well for medical care, let's fuck up American schools with the same bullshit.
Why cannot the CEO's understand this? They are Business School graduates. People in their organizations are merely cogs devoted to inflating their egos, and if they really fuck up, providing their golden parachutes.
Yes, let's turn the education over to a bunch of science deniers who believe they can create their own scientific facts to dovetail with their Bible thumping reverends.
They've changed the religion into:
The Lord is my Shepherd,
I shall not think.
When we vanquish the Liberals,
Then our souls will not stink.
Remember, Christianity stops at the water's edge, screw the Infidels. Now let's all bow our heads for Jesus.
Arithmetic is less than .01% of math.
MS? Doing a nice GUI? Bwahahahahahaha...
"mocking Christianity". And could you please point to the outrage from Christian Fundamentalists? Seems to me their Christianity stops at the water's edge. I do not believe the CFs are Christians.
On the other hand, were Greenland's ice sheet to totally melt, we get roughly 24 ft of sea level rise. So if only 10 % of it melts, we get 2.4 ft rise. There goes Miami and most of southern Florida, Louisiana is...reduced. Virginia can kiss Norfolk goodbye. And if that rise also causes a shift in ocean currents, we can expect more effects.
So please, let's gamble with the future. What do we have to lose, eh?
ARM is owned by SoftBank, they are not a standalone company any longer. Softbank can afford to take the long view. I was sorry to see them bought out.