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  1. The problem, say with some of the rats, is that Trump may know where some of their skeletons are buried. He's trying shut Cohen up over spilling his guts to Congress using vague threats about his family, i.e., Cohen's father's business dealings.

  2. Also, he would be trusting Trump. Bwahahahahahaha!!!

  3. I doubt that he'll do the perp walk out of the White House. I notice a distinct lowering of the invective from Trump against Mueller ever since Barr was passed to be Att. Gen. I think the fix is in, Mueller's report will never see the light of day through that justice dept. And Trump's surpreme court picks seem favorable to an imperial presidency.

    Trump is more like a bumbling Mafia don. He even co-opted one of the men who brought the Mafia down in Guliani. Why does he keep him that bumbling fool around, he's a great distraction and he doesn't have to worry about him taking pot shots at Trump now.

  4. Re:Wait, so can we send Trump on Trump Offered NASA Unlimited Funding To Put People on Mars by 2020, Report Says (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    We'd need a power supply to keep him animated the entire trip since he wouldn't have a wall socket to plug into.

  5. Yes well, Trump's exposure to the business world was through the Mom and Pop operation he was running. No board of directors, no public books. He could be as stupid as he liked because he was always able to shift financing to another group of marks. This shows up in The Grifter's 4-7 bankruptcies, depending upon how you count them.

  6. No, you do not understand TrumpWorld. He isn't really interested about getting a man there and back again. If he gets marooned, Trump would be okay with that. If NASA claims they haven't solved the technological hurdles just yet, Trump will declare that no one knows more about interplanetary travel than he, and outline all the shortcuts (safety, coming back, etc.) that would be made to make it so.

    Of course, most of NASA would leave for the private sector before poor suckers are launched at Mars, thereby dooming the endeavor. Trump would then declare it was diabolical plot by Hillary and Obama to make him look bad. FOX News would declare that it was a victory for the Deep State.

    One of the aspects of having private sector space programs is that NASA employees have somewhere else to go. On the one hand, Republicans would cheer as they hand out the contracts to companies in their districts. On the other hand, they'd lament the fact that they cannot now claim intrepid victories for government under their watch. I think the former would win out since in their view government's job is to hand out contracts to companies in their districts, the people be damned.

  7. Re:They are asking the wrong questions! on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, they should ask, give up 10% of your standard of live, are you willing to spend 10% of your income, downsize everything in your life by 10% in order to Combat Climate change starting...now. The percentage will increase over time.

    Or are you to have your 1/2 of your standard of living cut for you, 1/2 of your income cut for you, and have everything about your life downsized by 1/2 for you, as a result climate change in 10-20 years....probably. If could be less, or it could be more.

    You can choose to help now, or it will be done unto you because the climate will do it...sooner or later.

  8. Re:But toxic chemicals are okay on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Modern nations can do more than one thing at a time, and effectively.

  9. Re:Hmm...I just can't think of an example... on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Yer basic problem is that you do not understand probabilities and statistics.

  10. You aren't reading this correctly. This is IBM saying they want to concentrate on "skills" rather than degrees. First off, IBM wouldn't know any skills were they to walk in naked through the door. Second, what they are really saying is "we really like low pay employees which we get when they cannot point to a degree." Other companies might be different, but we've seen too many of IBM's tactics to believe anything they say at face value.

  11. Re:My 2 year old HP x360 has the same problem on MacBook Pro Stage Light Fault: Apple's Design Turns $6 Fix Into a $600 Nightmare (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Economic slowdown in CHINA where Apple stuff is built. Please do try to keep up.

  12. Yep, there's nothing the U.S. Military might not have a secret program for. I hear they want to put a micro-chip in your brain so that you can be told which fast food joint to frequent. It could happen right? Hell, they can do anything, even create wormholes on demand...and black holes, think of the black hole programs they must have...or...or...Dark Energy, do you think Joe Biden is moving entirely on his own power at his age?

  13. Re:Perfect World on AI is Sending People To Jail -- and Getting it Wrong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whatever, the point of the article was the number the U.S. incarcerates. It is greatly more than many other "civilized" nations.

    My guess is the libretard nature of the U.S. citizenry expects to do stupid shit to a greater proportion than other nations' citizenry, and then the libretard guarantors of that freedom get appalled and decide off to the hoosegow with'em, that'll learn'em. And the hoosegow, they learn even more naughty tricks so when they do get released, they are trained for a greater degree of mayhem.

  14. Re:Trump owns it on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't matter why he said it, it matters that he said he'd take the blame for shutting down the government because holding his breath wasn't working.

    Trump also didn't give the Democrats anything near what they wanted. He only promised to kick the DACA can down the road for 3 years, and this after he's trying to cancel the program outright. Last we hear, the Supreme Court was indicating it won't take the appeal from a lower court going against Trump. The Democrats want to make the DACAs citizens.

    And building some goddamn Great White Wall while lying about how it will stop illegal immigration ignores the fact that most of the people crossing the southern border are coming the legal entry points and requesting asylum to escape the drug gangs who help fill America's illegal drug appetite. It also won't stop the drugs which don't come across barren stretches of border, they come though on the usual trade routes...that is the ones that are not manufactured by Americans.

    What's that moron going to do, govern by fake National Emergency and threat budget bills because he got that morning and discovered a fly in his McMuffin? If the Congress doesn't want to fund the Great White Wall, then it shouldn't get funded. They have the power of the purse strings as provided by the Constitution.

    The only reason he wants that wall is because he promised he'd get one. That promise was pitched to him by his campaign advisors who admitted they needed something simple he could understand and pitch. But Trump never just pitches anything. He decorates his pitch so much so that it cannot possibly do whatever the core underlying idea would have done. He just makes shit up because it crosses his mind while his mouth is open.

  15. Re:THis is stupid on The Economics of Streaming is Making Songs Shorter (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop complaining, given the current state of popular music it is moving in the right direction. My hope is that it falls below 1 minute.

  16. Re:It's a trick to get your papers published on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Scientists Constantly Surprised By What They Discover? · · Score: 1

    In an addendum to that, if scientists never tested stuff they didn't already know the answer, there would be no surprises. This doesn't quite get to the point however. In doing science, we work from existing theories most of the time. If the theories were complete, there would be no surprises. We know they aren't complete, but they do indicate somethings should be so. Scientists are looking at the things that should be so. They are pleasantly surprised if it turns out not to be so, but at a mild level of surprise because most science isn't wrestling with some mind-altering problem. The problems are small, but without solving the small ones, the big ones are out of reach.

  17. Re:Goodbye Warehouse Picker on Berkeley's Two-Armed Robot Hints at a New Future For Warehouses (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    In addition, Americans aren't doing the nasty like they used to. Now, we are below replacement rate. So if Americans want to retire with some social security, medicare, and a host of other services, they'd better learn to welcome some non-native born new Americans.

  18. Re:Anonymous Just Uploaded An "Expose" As Well on Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Now now, Spaceboy. If your scientific information is coming from Anonymous, then you have bigger problems than "mysterious stuff".

  19. Nope, won't work. If it goes lightspeed it will have a length of zero and disappear into a cloud of photons. It happens to me all the time.

  20. Maybe it IS a port-o-potty and they are just unloading a bit of offal.

  21. I think we should start broadcasting messages asking in pictographs whether anyone out there is missing a probe.

  22. Re:Wow he figured it out! on Huawei CEO Says Company Doesn't Spy For China and Praises Trump in Rare Appearance (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    A story about China and you bring up Iran? Obama didn't give billions of dollars to Iran, he merely allowed them to reclaim their money the U.S. had a hold upon.

    I wouldn't have signed that deal either with Iran, but there are plenty of foreign policy experts both within and without the U.S. Military who supported it. You must think of them as secret Obama supporters. And what is it Trump supporters still campaigning against Obama, he's not been president for 2 years. It leads me to think you want to deflect any blame for the current situation from Trump.

    Oh, and before you want argue that the Trump wants a militarily strong U.S., he was considering pulling out of NATO....just a little present for his main squeeze, Putin.

  23. Re:Why is it always MongoDB? on 200 Million Chinese Resumes Leak In Huge Database Breach (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I second GillBates0 below, that made my entire day.

  24. Re:In the long run i'm not too worried on Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits (techtarget.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, want to quiz the rest of the country about that. It had your 60 days warning but the horror stories about the fallout are now coming out and they are not pretty. During Reagan's tenure, the government was forced to privatize many functions. Many of those functions are not getting done, and the people working in those private companies are getting hurt. The farmers are also taking it in the neck, but that's what they get for supporting a bozo.

  25. Re:Taking polls way too seriously here on Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits (techtarget.com) · · Score: 2

    These surveys are not like private industry surveys. They are not used to root out malcontents and the people responding are well protected.