Some hippie tried to claim if the U.S. used the money it spent on the military to educate kids it could do so for a year.
Someone not stoned showed how the billions we spend every year would amount to a few cents per kid per year. A completely doable amount to educate someone for a year.
The same with this nonsense. The amount of money spent on sports, worldwide, is insignificant to the amount of money needed to do what you want.
Also, handing money over to people will not get them out of poverty. It will be a temporary fix because money doesn't grow on trees. All you're doing is conditioning them to expect something for nothing.
The infrastructure part is a different story since that would create jobs as well as reduce costs for people in the long run.
Tell me, what professional level photo editing software runs natively on Linux? Photoshop? Capture One? DxO Optics?
Adobe itself has said they don't make Photoshop for Linux because the market isn't there. People who run Linux don't, and won't, pay for software. Therefore, they don't make a native Linux version. The same can easily be said of any software company.
Further, which version of Linux? There are what, 20 different flavors, potentially running several different kernels on top of numerous configurations? How is a software company supposed to make software to run under those conditions? Simply saying, "Compile your own" doesn't cut it when your job is to produce photos people want to buy.
I'm only using that one example because as a W7 user I will eventually have to move on from Windows, most likely to Apple, since they are the sole remaining company for which such software is available. This will do nothing to move the Linux needle off the staggering 2% threshold it is clinging to.
The A-10 has weapons other than its 30 mm gun. Hellfire and Maverick missiles do wonders against every tank on today's battlefield.
This article from 5 years ago is a long discussion from people who appear to know what they are talking about regarding this subject. The overall consensus: while the A-10 may not be able to destroy a MBT with only its gun, that gun can render a tank inoperable (track hits), sufficiently damage components and cause other havoc which will make any tanker nervous. When combined with its under wing stores, tanks and their supporting vehicles and infantry would be toast.
Further, this article goes into a deeper discussion about penetration capability of the 30 mm gun vs armor, what tank (specifically the T-90) has what armor as well as factual incidents of tanks being hit by such rounds or other tanks.
Again, depending on where you hit a tank, the A-10 can immobilize it, damage it to the point it's essentially useless or, if lucky, can destroy it with only its gun.
The other thing to consider is loiter time. The Warthog can stay over a battle area substantially longer (up to 3 hours) than any other aircraft, especially the F-35. That is great for seeking out targets of opportunity or even acting as a spotter for ground troops/tanks.
IOW it can't be used against an enemy with an air force and it can't fly low enough to use its gun.
A) that is why we achieve air superiority. However, how that is supposed to be done with the F-35 is still unclear since that is the role the F-15 and F-16 are designed and used for. Technically the F-14 as well but its role can vary.
B) the warthog is designed to fly low. Yes, it can dive if necessary but its primary course of attack is at a low, shallow angle. You don't want a slow(er) flying aircraft to be high in the air. You want it to swoop in, lay waste to its target then get out. By flying low you present a very small window of opportunity for opposing troops on the ground to target it as well as make it more difficult for radar to pick it up and track.
Start throwing more scumbags in jail and the scumbags will stop doing it.
Because all those scumbag murderers already in jail has stopped people from committing murders. The same with rapists, child molesters, animal abusers, financial fraud and so on.
It would be much cheaper to simply execute them since it serves two purposes.
1) The criminals would be gotten rid of rather than being coddled by taxpayer money. They wouldn't be able to get out and go back to their criminal ways.
2) It would show, unlike jail time, we're serious about this.
But nope, we'll keep making excuses why we should coddle criminals, pouring more money down the black hole of jails.
And there's the Russian troll. How's St. Petersburg? The weather getting chilly over there?
A commercial flight had flown over the exact same area several hours before without incident. Since the Russians hadn't had the Buk missile system in place at that time the flight flew on its way without incident.
Once the Buk system was in place Russian troops, with the help of their terrorist allies, shot down MH-17. They bragged about shooting down a "Ukrainian" plane, even posted videos of themselves celebrating the act. Their joyous phone calls and postings on social media were also recorded.
Only after they realized they had shot down a commercial airliner did they then frantically try to deny they're the ones who shot it down. They tried to remove their videos and postings but copies had already been made. When the plane fell to the ground the Russians and their terrorist allies then disturbed the crime scene by going through the passengers personal belongings, including taking people's credit cards and cash.
To further try and cover up their crime they refused access to the Dutch investigators for several days.
Unfortunately for the Russians, all the evidence pointed to them shooting the plane down, including pictures of the Buk system which came into Ukraine with all its tubes filled, then leaving immediately after the shoot down with at least one empty tube.
This video shows MH-17 falling to the ground after the shooting, being filmed by either a terrorist or Russian troop. Also, near the end of the video, at the 6:25 mark, a recording of a Russian newscaster reporting on the shoot down and stating the terrorists had shot the plane down. Since you speak Russian you will be able to understand her words and may even recognize her from your daily propaganda newscasts.
Of course you'll deny what she's saying but it doesn't matter. The world knows the truth. Russia is supporting the terrorists in Ukraine and Russia was involved with, if not responsible for, the shooting down a civilian airliner.
the aircraft would be used to shorten commute times in busy cities
Obviously the person who thought up this idea has no idea how traffic in cities work, let alone the other issue of how to navigate between tall, narrowly-spaced buildings.
And no, the chase scene in Phantom Menace or the sky paths of Bladerunner are not how it's done.
But the Euromaidan protests were sponsored by western governments and NGOs.
Hello Russian troll! How's the weather in St. Petersburg? Getting your daily vodka allotment?
No one in the West, especially NGOs, sponsored the Ukrainian protests over Yanukovych's refusal to listen to the people. Your repeated lies about supposed billions of dollars used in this endeavor are nothing but fantasy and delusional rantings of drunk, paid trolls such as yourself.
Ukraine wanted to go their own way and have closer trade relations with Russia rather than the crumbling EU
Once again, more delusional rantings. The people of Ukraine made it very clear they wanted closer ties with the EU and the West in general. They saw the prosperity, and freedoms, which exist in an open society compared to the oppression and repression which exists in Russia under Putin's regime and wanted to experience the same.
When Yanukovych ignored the will of the people he then ordered his Berkut security forces to murder the protestors, then fled into the arms of Putin for protection, taking with him hundreds of millions of dollars he had stolen from the Ukrainian people.
but you can't act like Russia started it.
False once again. Russia started it when it first tried to bribe Yanukovych then, when the people made it known they didn't want anything to do with the oppression of Russia, Putin then made up the excuse of people who spoke Russian in Ukraine needing his protection.
It was at that point Putin sent his troops into Crimea to steal it, and also sent in Russian troops to prop up the terrorists who were on the verge of defeat in the spring of 2014. We know for an absolute fact Russian troops attacked Ukraine because a) there was a sudden increase of hundreds of dead Russian soldiers being buried, all with their date of death within the span of a few days, b) the terrorists have stated several different times the Russian soldiers saved them from defeat and c) Russian soldiers continue to be killed and captured in Ukraine.
What makes Putin's lie about supposedly defending Russian speakers in Ukraine so laughable is he is persecuting the Tartars in Crimea who want to speak their own language, who want to have their own schools, who want to have their own radio stations. Putin continues to indiscriminately arrest Crimean Tartars and put them in jail for no reason other than they want to speak their own language.
Russia lost. Get over it. The thousands of dead Russian soldiers, the billions Putin has spent invading and now supporting the terrorists, the sanctions, all are taking a toll on Russia. Putin is at a turning point. He has until, roughly, June before Russia will run out of money. Unless he can steal more, Russia will go bankrupt. Even your own Finance Minister says Russia will suffer for twenty years because of the invasion, support of the terrorists and sanctions. Or are you saying your own minister is lying?
Because they want to remain a sovereign nation going their own way
Which is why Russia is invading Ukraine and supporting terrorists when Ukraine wanted to go their own way and have closer trade relations with the West, right? Because the sovereign nation of Ukraine didn't want to live under the thumb of Russia any longer.
Why the fuck the rest of the European leaders don't go the same way as Russia I have no fucking clue.
Because people don't want to live under a dictatorship where the guy at the top can steal your business on a whim and hand it over to one of his oligarch friends.
Nor do they want to live in a place where the dictator decides who can and cannot run for political office and where, if you become too popular with the people or reveal the corruption endemic in his rule, he'll have you killed.
If you can't see the obvious, you might be a Russian troll.
It seems in the mad rush to monetize everything and everyone developers and designers have been forced to foreswear anything resembling common sense.
As we have seen over the decades, Microsoft slowly but surely hid basic functionality from the user through every iteration of its operating system. I have a W95 machine where I can get to things faster than I can on my W7 machine, and substantially faster than on my dad's W10 machine.
For its part Apple has liked to see itself at the vanguard of elegant computing, specifically the design of a computer. As we are all aware, nothing is let out the door of Apple which hasn't been dissected to the nth degree.
While its operating system works, its flaws and quirks are just as numerous and like Microsoft, with each iteration they further disassociate the person from the OS, thinking they are making things easier. As the decision to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone showed, nothing is simpler when you remove basic functionality.
Now comes their latest foray into the schizzle: no ESC key or power button. Nothing physical at least. Only some vague, wispy area to touch which one hopes will do what they want but will, as time and experience has shown, fail at every given opportunity.
As the last two stalwarts slug it out for eyeballs, Linux plods along, years behind in functionality but always with the same mantra, "This year will be the year of Linux on the desktop!", as if saying the same thing over and over will make it true. Sorry, you are not Dorothy and you do not have a pair of red shoes.
We arrive now at the beginning of the end for computing. Where once people could do what they wanted with what they purchased, where getting something done was held above what shade of font to place against a white background, now we must overcome the need to show how clever we are through our brilliance of design which lacks anything resembling ease of use.
Within the next decade we will see how our vain attempts to design the most perfect machine will thwart the progress we so ruefully wish for. As is always the case, the more complicated a machine the more easily its performance can be degraded through simple acts. As the most recent attacks on high profile web sites have shown, thanks to the very technologies we claim will make our lives easier, we are now progressing to an age where we have made it much easier for those who wish to subvert or destroy that which is built.
All because developers and designers are more interested in eye candy than functionality, reliability and simplicity.
With automated interstate driving, you could send a truck from NYC to LA in about 1 day.
I have no idea how you think a truck can go across the country in 1 day. Sure, some guys recently did the Cannonball Run in just over a day, but that was at high speed and with plenty of tricks to not be stopped by police.
Google maps shows the time as 41 hours, and that assumes no traffic and traveling the posted speed limit. From my recent perspective of having driven large amounts of miles while on vacation (4,100 this month and 3,600 in May), I can guarantee you need to add a few hours to whatever Google says, especially since these trucks will still be limited to the posted speed limit.
The only check we have on corruption in the executive branch is impeachment, and I am afraid that Hillary will be just as unimpeachable as Obama.
Show one reason President Obama should be impeached. Before you answer, just remember, whatever you are going to say George Bush probably did the exact same thing and you didn't say word one about impeaching him.
And speaking of lies, how about the ones George Bush told about not knowing of an impending attack despite having daily warnings for 8 months? Or the lies about the need to invade and occupy Iraq which cost us nearly 5,000 dead soldiers, and over $3 trillion of our tax dollars poured down the drain, and which has led directly to the rise of Daeash?
Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force?
Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.
Or how about police in neighborhoods that regularly target minorities?
You do realize those neighborhoods most likely have a high percentage of minorities (which is odd since they then wouldn't be minorities)? Would you like the police to turn a blind eye to the crimes? Look at what happened in Baltimore when police stopped patrolling.
because there is obviously a middle ground between giving the police 'new toys' and giving them pillows.
This is the middle ground. Police won't be shooting at criminals. They'll be using less lethal means to do their jobs.
Of course all of this wouldn't be necessary if criminals wouldn't be criminals. But lets us blame the police for doing their job, not the criminals for committing the crimes, for putting their lives on the line to protect the whiners, who think nothing of going into the line of fire in domesticdisputes or go out in miserable weather to rescue asshats who drive around signs warning people of flooded roadways, thereby endangering themselves in the process.
It seems they care about the plight of your brothers and sisters more than you imagine in your fantasy world of oppression.
When one considers Russia has an office in St. Petersburg out of which it pays an army of online trolls to spew Russian propaganda or muddy the waters by making false statements and outright lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one person from the U.S., doing this on his own without government backing, doesn't quite rise to the level of nuisance.
Sure, Putin is probably miffed this has been done and is looking for payback, but when one is spending millions of dollars every year to pay people (not to mention their vodka allotment) to do your bidding, and providing them the equipment to do so, one person isn't going to make a difference.
Had he instead posted pictures of the unmarked graves of Russian soldiers who have died during the invasion of Ukraine, that would have been different and had a greater impact. Not that Putin cares about the over 2,000 soldiers who have so far died during the invasion, including colonels within the Russian military who are working to support the invasion, but it would have been a nice touch to rub Putin's nose into how badly Russia miscalculated and is suffering because of Putin's ego.
This doesn't include those gun owners who don't bother to report their guns have been stolen. Which is odd because if they're responsible they wouldn't leave their guns intheir cars.
And yet time and again Clinton is used to point out this or that even though he hasn't been president for well over a decade.
Make your mind up. If the lies and criminal acts of Bush and Cheney can't be used in a discussion than neither can Bill Clinton.
And no, crimes of past president's are not irrelevant. They are very relevant since they show the hypocrisy of people who will excuse those crimes but suddenly become appalled when someone else does the exact same thing. If you didn't consider it a crime then you can't consider it a crime now.
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It would be a drop in the bucket.
Some hippie tried to claim if the U.S. used the money it spent on the military to educate kids it could do so for a year.
Someone not stoned showed how the billions we spend every year would amount to a few cents per kid per year. A completely doable amount to educate someone for a year.
The same with this nonsense. The amount of money spent on sports, worldwide, is insignificant to the amount of money needed to do what you want.
Also, handing money over to people will not get them out of poverty. It will be a temporary fix because money doesn't grow on trees. All you're doing is conditioning them to expect something for nothing.
The infrastructure part is a different story since that would create jobs as well as reduce costs for people in the long run.
That was 2% against Win7. And growing.
Tell me, what professional level photo editing software runs natively on Linux? Photoshop? Capture One? DxO Optics?
Adobe itself has said they don't make Photoshop for Linux because the market isn't there. People who run Linux don't, and won't, pay for software. Therefore, they don't make a native Linux version. The same can easily be said of any software company.
Further, which version of Linux? There are what, 20 different flavors, potentially running several different kernels on top of numerous configurations? How is a software company supposed to make software to run under those conditions? Simply saying, "Compile your own" doesn't cut it when your job is to produce photos people want to buy.
I'm only using that one example because as a W7 user I will eventually have to move on from Windows, most likely to Apple, since they are the sole remaining company for which such software is available. This will do nothing to move the Linux needle off the staggering 2% threshold it is clinging to.
Most drivers don't want to go 15 miles out of their way
What do you mean, "Out of their way"? They're ride sharing! Someone has to be going that way.
Or did you mean the Uber and Lyft cab company drivers don't want to go pick up a ride in exchange for money?
but modern tanks will survive its shitty popgun,
The A-10 has weapons other than its 30 mm gun. Hellfire and Maverick missiles do wonders against every tank on today's battlefield.
This article from 5 years ago is a long discussion from people who appear to know what they are talking about regarding this subject. The overall consensus: while the A-10 may not be able to destroy a MBT with only its gun, that gun can render a tank inoperable (track hits), sufficiently damage components and cause other havoc which will make any tanker nervous. When combined with its under wing stores, tanks and their supporting vehicles and infantry would be toast.
Further, this article goes into a deeper discussion about penetration capability of the 30 mm gun vs armor, what tank (specifically the T-90) has what armor as well as factual incidents of tanks being hit by such rounds or other tanks.
Again, depending on where you hit a tank, the A-10 can immobilize it, damage it to the point it's essentially useless or, if lucky, can destroy it with only its gun.
The other thing to consider is loiter time. The Warthog can stay over a battle area substantially longer (up to 3 hours) than any other aircraft, especially the F-35. That is great for seeking out targets of opportunity or even acting as a spotter for ground troops/tanks.
IOW it can't be used against an enemy with an air force and it can't fly low enough to use its gun.
A) that is why we achieve air superiority. However, how that is supposed to be done with the F-35 is still unclear since that is the role the F-15 and F-16 are designed and used for. Technically the F-14 as well but its role can vary.
B) the warthog is designed to fly low. Yes, it can dive if necessary but its primary course of attack is at a low, shallow angle. You don't want a slow(er) flying aircraft to be high in the air. You want it to swoop in, lay waste to its target then get out. By flying low you present a very small window of opportunity for opposing troops on the ground to target it as well as make it more difficult for radar to pick it up and track.
Will this be the year of Linux on the desktop?
Start throwing more scumbags in jail and the scumbags will stop doing it.
Because all those scumbag murderers already in jail has stopped people from committing murders. The same with rapists, child molesters, animal abusers, financial fraud and so on.
It would be much cheaper to simply execute them since it serves two purposes.
1) The criminals would be gotten rid of rather than being coddled by taxpayer money. They wouldn't be able to get out and go back to their criminal ways.
2) It would show, unlike jail time, we're serious about this.
But nope, we'll keep making excuses why we should coddle criminals, pouring more money down the black hole of jails.
And there's the Russian troll. How's St. Petersburg? The weather getting chilly over there?
A commercial flight had flown over the exact same area several hours before without incident. Since the Russians hadn't had the Buk missile system in place at that time the flight flew on its way without incident.
Once the Buk system was in place Russian troops, with the help of their terrorist allies, shot down MH-17. They bragged about shooting down a "Ukrainian" plane, even posted videos of themselves celebrating the act. Their joyous phone calls and postings on social media were also recorded.
Only after they realized they had shot down a commercial airliner did they then frantically try to deny they're the ones who shot it down. They tried to remove their videos and postings but copies had already been made. When the plane fell to the ground the Russians and their terrorist allies then disturbed the crime scene by going through the passengers personal belongings, including taking people's credit cards and cash.
To further try and cover up their crime they refused access to the Dutch investigators for several days.
Unfortunately for the Russians, all the evidence pointed to them shooting the plane down, including pictures of the Buk system which came into Ukraine with all its tubes filled, then leaving immediately after the shoot down with at least one empty tube.
This video shows MH-17 falling to the ground after the shooting, being filmed by either a terrorist or Russian troop. Also, near the end of the video, at the 6:25 mark, a recording of a Russian newscaster reporting on the shoot down and stating the terrorists had shot the plane down. Since you speak Russian you will be able to understand her words and may even recognize her from your daily propaganda newscasts.
Of course you'll deny what she's saying but it doesn't matter. The world knows the truth. Russia is supporting the terrorists in Ukraine and Russia was involved with, if not responsible for, the shooting down a civilian airliner.
Breaking news!
Vladislav Surkov has been found murdered in front of the Kremlin. At 12 noon. While giving a live interview on tv to state these emails are fake.
No witnesses have yet been found.
I would have preferred Trump to have picked Santorum as his running mate.
Because what the Republicans needed was TWO people who have no idea what they're talking about running on the same ballot.
Santorum doesn't even know the 9th Amendment exists and Trump thinks freedom of the press doesn't apply to anything he says.
the aircraft would be used to shorten commute times in busy cities
Obviously the person who thought up this idea has no idea how traffic in cities work, let alone the other issue of how to navigate between tall, narrowly-spaced buildings.
And no, the chase scene in Phantom Menace or the sky paths of Bladerunner are not how it's done.
But the Euromaidan protests were sponsored by western governments and NGOs.
Hello Russian troll! How's the weather in St. Petersburg? Getting your daily vodka allotment?
No one in the West, especially NGOs, sponsored the Ukrainian protests over Yanukovych's refusal to listen to the people. Your repeated lies about supposed billions of dollars used in this endeavor are nothing but fantasy and delusional rantings of drunk, paid trolls such as yourself.
Ukraine wanted to go their own way and have closer trade relations with Russia rather than the crumbling EU
Once again, more delusional rantings. The people of Ukraine made it very clear they wanted closer ties with the EU and the West in general. They saw the prosperity, and freedoms, which exist in an open society compared to the oppression and repression which exists in Russia under Putin's regime and wanted to experience the same.
When Yanukovych ignored the will of the people he then ordered his Berkut security forces to murder the protestors, then fled into the arms of Putin for protection, taking with him hundreds of millions of dollars he had stolen from the Ukrainian people.
but you can't act like Russia started it.
False once again. Russia started it when it first tried to bribe Yanukovych then, when the people made it known they didn't want anything to do with the oppression of Russia, Putin then made up the excuse of people who spoke Russian in Ukraine needing his protection.
It was at that point Putin sent his troops into Crimea to steal it, and also sent in Russian troops to prop up the terrorists who were on the verge of defeat in the spring of 2014. We know for an absolute fact Russian troops attacked Ukraine because a) there was a sudden increase of hundreds of dead Russian soldiers being buried, all with their date of death within the span of a few days, b) the terrorists have stated several different times the Russian soldiers saved them from defeat and c) Russian soldiers continue to be killed and captured in Ukraine.
What makes Putin's lie about supposedly defending Russian speakers in Ukraine so laughable is he is persecuting the Tartars in Crimea who want to speak their own language, who want to have their own schools, who want to have their own radio stations. Putin continues to indiscriminately arrest Crimean Tartars and put them in jail for no reason other than they want to speak their own language.
Russia lost. Get over it. The thousands of dead Russian soldiers, the billions Putin has spent invading and now supporting the terrorists, the sanctions, all are taking a toll on Russia. Putin is at a turning point. He has until, roughly, June before Russia will run out of money. Unless he can steal more, Russia will go bankrupt. Even your own Finance Minister says Russia will suffer for twenty years because of the invasion, support of the terrorists and sanctions. Or are you saying your own minister is lying?
Because they want to remain a sovereign nation going their own way
Which is why Russia is invading Ukraine and supporting terrorists when Ukraine wanted to go their own way and have closer trade relations with the West, right? Because the sovereign nation of Ukraine didn't want to live under the thumb of Russia any longer.
Why the fuck the rest of the European leaders don't go the same way as Russia I have no fucking clue.
Because people don't want to live under a dictatorship where the guy at the top can steal your business on a whim and hand it over to one of his oligarch friends.
Nor do they want to live in a place where the dictator decides who can and cannot run for political office and where, if you become too popular with the people or reveal the corruption endemic in his rule, he'll have you killed.
If you can't see the obvious, you might be a Russian troll.
It seems in the mad rush to monetize everything and everyone developers and designers have been forced to foreswear anything resembling common sense.
As we have seen over the decades, Microsoft slowly but surely hid basic functionality from the user through every iteration of its operating system. I have a W95 machine where I can get to things faster than I can on my W7 machine, and substantially faster than on my dad's W10 machine.
For its part Apple has liked to see itself at the vanguard of elegant computing, specifically the design of a computer. As we are all aware, nothing is let out the door of Apple which hasn't been dissected to the nth degree.
While its operating system works, its flaws and quirks are just as numerous and like Microsoft, with each iteration they further disassociate the person from the OS, thinking they are making things easier. As the decision to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone showed, nothing is simpler when you remove basic functionality.
Now comes their latest foray into the schizzle: no ESC key or power button. Nothing physical at least. Only some vague, wispy area to touch which one hopes will do what they want but will, as time and experience has shown, fail at every given opportunity.
As the last two stalwarts slug it out for eyeballs, Linux plods along, years behind in functionality but always with the same mantra, "This year will be the year of Linux on the desktop!", as if saying the same thing over and over will make it true. Sorry, you are not Dorothy and you do not have a pair of red shoes.
We arrive now at the beginning of the end for computing. Where once people could do what they wanted with what they purchased, where getting something done was held above what shade of font to place against a white background, now we must overcome the need to show how clever we are through our brilliance of design which lacks anything resembling ease of use.
Within the next decade we will see how our vain attempts to design the most perfect machine will thwart the progress we so ruefully wish for. As is always the case, the more complicated a machine the more easily its performance can be degraded through simple acts. As the most recent attacks on high profile web sites have shown, thanks to the very technologies we claim will make our lives easier, we are now progressing to an age where we have made it much easier for those who wish to subvert or destroy that which is built.
All because developers and designers are more interested in eye candy than functionality, reliability and simplicity.
With automated interstate driving, you could send a truck from NYC to LA in about 1 day.
I have no idea how you think a truck can go across the country in 1 day. Sure, some guys recently did the Cannonball Run in just over a day, but that was at high speed and with plenty of tricks to not be stopped by police.
Google maps shows the time as 41 hours, and that assumes no traffic and traveling the posted speed limit. From my recent perspective of having driven large amounts of miles while on vacation (4,100 this month and 3,600 in May), I can guarantee you need to add a few hours to whatever Google says, especially since these trucks will still be limited to the posted speed limit.
The only check we have on corruption in the executive branch is impeachment, and I am afraid that Hillary will be just as unimpeachable as Obama.
Show one reason President Obama should be impeached. Before you answer, just remember, whatever you are going to say George Bush probably did the exact same thing and you didn't say word one about impeaching him.
And speaking of lies, how about the ones George Bush told about not knowing of an impending attack despite having daily warnings for 8 months? Or the lies about the need to invade and occupy Iraq which cost us nearly 5,000 dead soldiers, and over $3 trillion of our tax dollars poured down the drain, and which has led directly to the rise of Daeash?
Talk about impeachable!
to open next time you get near, for when you are carrying that 50" TV.
I wouldn't be carrying a 50" tv. I would have it on/in a cart so I didn't accidentally drop it.
Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force?
Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.
Or how about police in neighborhoods that regularly target minorities?
You do realize those neighborhoods most likely have a high percentage of minorities (which is odd since they then wouldn't be minorities)? Would you like the police to turn a blind eye to the crimes? Look at what happened in Baltimore when police stopped patrolling.
because there is obviously a middle ground between giving the police 'new toys' and giving them pillows.
This is the middle ground. Police won't be shooting at criminals. They'll be using less lethal means to do their jobs.
Of course all of this wouldn't be necessary if criminals wouldn't be criminals. But lets us blame the police for doing their job, not the criminals for committing the crimes, for putting their lives on the line to protect the whiners, who think nothing of going into the line of fire in domestic disputes or go out in miserable weather to rescue asshats who drive around signs warning people of flooded roadways, thereby endangering themselves in the process.
It seems they care about the plight of your brothers and sisters more than you imagine in your fantasy world of oppression.
First people whine when police shoot criminals, now they're whining when police want to use less lethal methods to stop criminals.
Maybe we should give the police pillows. Or would they be too hard on the criminals?
When one considers Russia has an office in St. Petersburg out of which it pays an army of online trolls to spew Russian propaganda or muddy the waters by making false statements and outright lies about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one person from the U.S., doing this on his own without government backing, doesn't quite rise to the level of nuisance.
Sure, Putin is probably miffed this has been done and is looking for payback, but when one is spending millions of dollars every year to pay people (not to mention their vodka allotment) to do your bidding, and providing them the equipment to do so, one person isn't going to make a difference.
Had he instead posted pictures of the unmarked graves of Russian soldiers who have died during the invasion of Ukraine, that would have been different and had a greater impact. Not that Putin cares about the over 2,000 soldiers who have so far died during the invasion, including colonels within the Russian military who are working to support the invasion, but it would have been a nice touch to rub Putin's nose into how badly Russia miscalculated and is suffering because of Putin's ego.
Just because you know people who are responsible gun owners does not mean everyone is and the statistics prove it out, particularly when it comes to children either killing themselves or others with guns they found lying around.
Then there are those who think Russian roulette is a game.
This doesn't include those gun owners who don't bother to report their guns have been stolen. Which is odd because if they're responsible they wouldn't leave their guns in their cars.
If you can't get this trivial thing right, what kinds of trivial mistakes are you making in your programming?
If you make it easy for a criminal to walk into your home then it's your fault.
And yet time and again Clinton is used to point out this or that even though he hasn't been president for well over a decade.
Make your mind up. If the lies and criminal acts of Bush and Cheney can't be used in a discussion than neither can Bill Clinton.
And no, crimes of past president's are not irrelevant. They are very relevant since they show the hypocrisy of people who will excuse those crimes but suddenly become appalled when someone else does the exact same thing. If you didn't consider it a crime then you can't consider it a crime now.
You can't have it both ways hypocrite.
So she was following the example of Bush who didn't preserve millions of emails as the law requires so he could hide his illegal activities from FOIA requests.
Got it.
If his team can't do the job now, why would we expect them to do any better if they get elected? His track record should be of concern to everyone.