It isn't a question of building more damn houses, it is a question of where to build more damn houses. If you can build them just south of East Where-Am-I and it takes two hours to commute to a job, that sort of puts a damper on your plan to build more damn houses.
Sure he does. He claims that nuclear power is so advanced you need to be Einstein to understand it. Hence he wanted the Navy to jettison the new electric catapults for launching planes off air craft carriers and replace them with the old steam powered catapults. That's some fancy intelligence right there. I just hope some advisor doesn't get a woodie for sails.
For a mere Executive Order, he doesn't stress his orange brain over new buzzwords. This order has all the effect declaring that from now on, the Sun shall rise in the East and set in the West...just as long as the alt-right is okay with that.
In Washington, Alexandria to be exact, Amazon is going to plunk down another HQ. Washington has the worst traffic in the nation and they decided to put right in the middle to attract even more traffic via roads that simply cannot handle what they already have. There's no reason it needs to be there and lot of reasons why it is a stupid idea.
You are dreaming. The reason the U.S. (read Trump) is supporting a coup in Venezuela is because of fears of hordes of more Latin Americans deciding they'd like a piece of the American Dream. Venezuela is destabilizing its neighborhood with refugees. That causes more refugees and the Administration to cower in their boots...the refugees aren't white, you see.
The reason for Iraq was merely because Bush had already done Afghanistan and they (dimly) thought Iraq would be just like Afghanistan...well it is if you ignore the oil, the tribes, the geo-position, that Arabs are not Afghanis, that Saddam's government was already being infiltrated by Islamists who really, really wanted to have a go at the U.S. to burnish their nutjob credentials, and a host of other things.
Qaddafi had to go because he was causing problems for Europe with refugees. Also, the promise of the West would have rang hollow if it allowed Qaddafi to slaughter his own people, which he had promised to do and was well on the way towards accomplishing. The problem was kicking that can over and no ability to replace it with anything reasonable. No sizable Arab country is governable except by a dictatorship because as soon as freedom raises its head, the religious nutjobs see their opportunity to grab control and praise Allah...a bit weird since by their own theology Allah is so other that he does not communicate directly. So they have a god who doesn't speak, does apparently nothing, yet they feel worshiping him is a good idea.
Your wet dreams about Iran and Russia I'll leave you to.
Not a fan of numbers are you. The size of the hole is dwarfed by the size of the glacier. If what causes the hole also causes the glacier to slide into the ocean, then your win win looks silly.
And they are also building coal fired power plants and have no plans to get off petrol. If anything, they are doing everything they can to ensure their access to petrol.
There's no China government in a sense. There is a bunch of guys measuring the size of their egos by how they can take over Taiwan and do unto it what they did unto Tibet and currently the Uighers. There are a lot of centrally owned companies mindlessly thrashing around in their economy and polluting the country. There is a state control apparatus that wants to control every Chinese so that independent thought it eliminated. There is also no good reason for what passes for that government, i.e. Chinese Communist Party to exist. They are illegitimate and can never be properly elected, the thought scares them. Their "government" is merely a hodge-podge of disconnected interests sucking the life out of China because that's what they've always done and cannot think of anything productive to do.
So your argument is that it will get fixed by Fucking Magic, so no need to worry. If the world continues to be run by ignorant gits by the likes of Trump, Putin, and Jinping, then only the latter has a vested interest in the environment, mainly because China's becoming too polluted to support people. People like Trump will never believe in human caused global warming because it interferes with his pile of loot. Putin would like a warmer Siberia and because he thinks it will screw the U.S. harder than Russia.
The U.S. 2019 budget: $4.407 trillion $2.73 trillion is mandatory spending (SS, Medicare, etc.) $363 Billion is interest on the federal debt (which is rising precipitously) $1.203 trillion is discretionary (including military) $892.7 billion is $616.9 billion for the DoD base budget, $69 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations, and $21.9 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration within the Department of Energy.
The mandatory spending is increasing also precipitously due to demographics. The deficit is also rising because Congress + President passed a tax cut which will add approx $1.3 over the next 10 years to the deficit. No, the tax plan did not pay for itself. The Congressional Budget Office attests to this fact.
While I have no use for the assistants, and would rather shoot the computer that wants me to speak to it, I realize that this is a time related issue. That is, I'm still young enough to get by with knowing tech, can walk, and have most of my mental faculties. However, for the elderly, a good assistant could be of real use.
Not sure what happens when the mental faculties go...
Schmoe: Alexa, I'd like to order 50 gallons of ice cream this week.
Alexa: Sure thing, boss, I've your credit card on file, would you like to make this a recurring order every week? You'll save $10 per week.
No it isn't an obvious definition of unintelligent. As someone above mentioned, it could easily result from the affluent thinking the proles need the vaccines so they can surf the herd-immunity. If anything, it is self-absorbed selfish behavior.
"A lot of people have religious objections to man-made vaccines." What might those be, precisely? I do not recall Christ, or Moses, or Muhammed saying squat about medicine. I do recall a lot of pseudo-religious nutjobs running around claiming that they needed to live as in those ancient times as ancient times, a bit like the people ascribing miraculous powers to crystals. Putting your children at risk just because you have a bone-headed belief is not freedom to practice religion. It is religious indoctrination by the parent thinking that their sprogs are their property. This is the sort of thinking that gives us slavery, womens' servitude, and racism.
Trump didn't get dragged into it again, he ran toward it. He realized another soundbite could be had by "talking" to Foxconn and getting some magic beans promised in return. He's happy.
"Death to the regulatory state." I see. So airlines should compete on how few of their passengers they kill per year? Or drug companies like Ma and Pa Kettle's Beans and Cancer Drugs should be able to hawk anything they like, competition will stop them if enough of their customers die. Those nice food companies should compete on how few salmonella cases they have per year. Need I go on?
Trump Derangement Syndrome: the ability to justify whatever idiot thing Trump did last as part of some greater "3-D chess" scheme when in fact it was merely the meanderings of flaccid, over-the-hill mind.
C'mon, Trump use a NSA standard device? He'd think they were trying listen in or poison him. He's using a bog standard iPhone and no one the federal intelligence agencies are stupid enough to trust him with anything valuable.
Well Grasshopper, when the Republicans threw their Hail Mary pass to Foxconn, they fully expect it would help them win re-election. Foxconn had nothing to lose, and they could pull out again as they are doing now. The State on the other hand was stuck with an agreement. They couldn't arbitrarily pull out on their own without a locust swarm of lawyers descending on their state.
Now that the election is over, Foxconn realizes it was a silly idea and is pulling back. I'm willing to guess the State is readying their lawyers to break up the agreement. Governments move much slower than companies, which is another reason for States not to get into these silly agreements with companies.
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It isn't a question of building more damn houses, it is a question of where to build more damn houses. If you can build them just south of East Where-Am-I and it takes two hours to commute to a job, that sort of puts a damper on your plan to build more damn houses.
Sure he does. He claims that nuclear power is so advanced you need to be Einstein to understand it. Hence he wanted the Navy to jettison the new electric catapults for launching planes off air craft carriers and replace them with the old steam powered catapults. That's some fancy intelligence right there. I just hope some advisor doesn't get a woodie for sails.
For a mere Executive Order, he doesn't stress his orange brain over new buzzwords. This order has all the effect declaring that from now on, the Sun shall rise in the East and set in the West...just as long as the alt-right is okay with that.
In Washington, Alexandria to be exact, Amazon is going to plunk down another HQ. Washington has the worst traffic in the nation and they decided to put right in the middle to attract even more traffic via roads that simply cannot handle what they already have. There's no reason it needs to be there and lot of reasons why it is a stupid idea.
How do you tax the fact that some kid died because the anti-vaxxers got a burr up their butt over vaccines?
You are dreaming. The reason the U.S. (read Trump) is supporting a coup in Venezuela is because of fears of hordes of more Latin Americans deciding they'd like a piece of the American Dream. Venezuela is destabilizing its neighborhood with refugees. That causes more refugees and the Administration to cower in their boots...the refugees aren't white, you see.
The reason for Iraq was merely because Bush had already done Afghanistan and they (dimly) thought Iraq would be just like Afghanistan...well it is if you ignore the oil, the tribes, the geo-position, that Arabs are not Afghanis, that Saddam's government was already being infiltrated by Islamists who really, really wanted to have a go at the U.S. to burnish their nutjob credentials, and a host of other things.
Qaddafi had to go because he was causing problems for Europe with refugees. Also, the promise of the West would have rang hollow if it allowed Qaddafi to slaughter his own people, which he had promised to do and was well on the way towards accomplishing. The problem was kicking that can over and no ability to replace it with anything reasonable. No sizable Arab country is governable except by a dictatorship because as soon as freedom raises its head, the religious nutjobs see their opportunity to grab control and praise Allah...a bit weird since by their own theology Allah is so other that he does not communicate directly. So they have a god who doesn't speak, does apparently nothing, yet they feel worshiping him is a good idea.
Your wet dreams about Iran and Russia I'll leave you to.
Not a fan of numbers are you. The size of the hole is dwarfed by the size of the glacier. If what causes the hole also causes the glacier to slide into the ocean, then your win win looks silly.
"where we should focus our attention" I would start by resolving never to buy property in Florida.
Yeah, you're right. The researchers who have spent years studying this would NEVER think of that.
"control like solar maximums" BS, read the proper science articles and stop spouting right-wingnut "theories".
And they are also building coal fired power plants and have no plans to get off petrol. If anything, they are doing everything they can to ensure their access to petrol.
There's no China government in a sense. There is a bunch of guys measuring the size of their egos by how they can take over Taiwan and do unto it what they did unto Tibet and currently the Uighers. There are a lot of centrally owned companies mindlessly thrashing around in their economy and polluting the country. There is a state control apparatus that wants to control every Chinese so that independent thought it eliminated. There is also no good reason for what passes for that government, i.e. Chinese Communist Party to exist. They are illegitimate and can never be properly elected, the thought scares them. Their "government" is merely a hodge-podge of disconnected interests sucking the life out of China because that's what they've always done and cannot think of anything productive to do.
While I agree the GP is in denial, I hardly think homosexuality enters the picture...unless....you do seem to be excited about it a lot.
So your argument is that it will get fixed by Fucking Magic, so no need to worry. If the world continues to be run by ignorant gits by the likes of Trump, Putin, and Jinping, then only the latter has a vested interest in the environment, mainly because China's becoming too polluted to support people. People like Trump will never believe in human caused global warming because it interferes with his pile of loot. Putin would like a warmer Siberia and because he thinks it will screw the U.S. harder than Russia.
That would be " $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years"
The U.S. 2019 budget: $4.407 trillion
$2.73 trillion is mandatory spending (SS, Medicare, etc.)
$363 Billion is interest on the federal debt (which is rising precipitously)
$1.203 trillion is discretionary (including military)
$892.7 billion is $616.9 billion for the DoD base budget, $69 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations, and $21.9 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration within the Department of Energy.
The mandatory spending is increasing also precipitously due to demographics. The deficit is also rising because Congress + President passed a tax cut which will add approx $1.3 over the next 10 years to the deficit. No, the tax plan did not pay for itself. The Congressional Budget Office attests to this fact.
While I have no use for the assistants, and would rather shoot the computer that wants me to speak to it, I realize that this is a time related issue. That is, I'm still young enough to get by with knowing tech, can walk, and have most of my mental faculties. However, for the elderly, a good assistant could be of real use.
Not sure what happens when the mental faculties go...
Schmoe: Alexa, I'd like to order 50 gallons of ice cream this week.
Alexa: Sure thing, boss, I've your credit card on file, would you like to make this a recurring order every week? You'll save $10 per week.
Schmoe: Wow! $10 per week? Sure!!
We'd only get another industry Gumby in place of Ajit from this administration.
No it isn't an obvious definition of unintelligent. As someone above mentioned, it could easily result from the affluent thinking the proles need the vaccines so they can surf the herd-immunity. If anything, it is self-absorbed selfish behavior.
"A lot of people have religious objections to man-made vaccines." What might those be, precisely? I do not recall Christ, or Moses, or Muhammed saying squat about medicine. I do recall a lot of pseudo-religious nutjobs running around claiming that they needed to live as in those ancient times as ancient times, a bit like the people ascribing miraculous powers to crystals. Putting your children at risk just because you have a bone-headed belief is not freedom to practice religion. It is religious indoctrination by the parent thinking that their sprogs are their property. This is the sort of thinking that gives us slavery, womens' servitude, and racism.
Trump didn't get dragged into it again, he ran toward it. He realized another soundbite could be had by "talking" to Foxconn and getting some magic beans promised in return. He's happy.
Trump's win is merely the headlines. He's easily satisfied.
"Death to the regulatory state." I see. So airlines should compete on how few of their passengers they kill per year? Or drug companies like Ma and Pa Kettle's Beans and Cancer Drugs should be able to hawk anything they like, competition will stop them if enough of their customers die. Those nice food companies should compete on how few salmonella cases they have per year. Need I go on?
Trump Derangement Syndrome: the ability to justify whatever idiot thing Trump did last as part of some greater "3-D chess" scheme when in fact it was merely the meanderings of flaccid, over-the-hill mind.
C'mon, Trump use a NSA standard device? He'd think they were trying listen in or poison him. He's using a bog standard iPhone and no one the federal intelligence agencies are stupid enough to trust him with anything valuable.
Well Grasshopper, when the Republicans threw their Hail Mary pass to Foxconn, they fully expect it would help them win re-election. Foxconn had nothing to lose, and they could pull out again as they are doing now. The State on the other hand was stuck with an agreement. They couldn't arbitrarily pull out on their own without a locust swarm of lawyers descending on their state.
Now that the election is over, Foxconn realizes it was a silly idea and is pulling back. I'm willing to guess the State is readying their lawyers to break up the agreement. Governments move much slower than companies, which is another reason for States not to get into these silly agreements with companies.