Sucks to be you - I buy from Amazon and Newegg all the time, somehow I don't have these same experiences, and judging from the comments on the products I buy, neither do other people who bother to comment. I'm sure it happens, but if it's happening to you all the time, maybe you're doing it wrong?
And, I think that is key - the spooks need accountability, more than they've got, but definitely more than none - none leads to the fictionalized version of the KGB. (I'm sure the actual KGB has accountability to whatever their funding source is.)
All news is fake, or distorted, or selectively reported.
Whine all you want about who controls the media, it's just as effective as whining about who controls the tax laws and their enforcement, or whining about unjust military action in half the world. You don't even know 10% of the "real story," and neither do I.
See, what hasn't come out yet is the massive tax evasion and fraud of Trump's friends/allies in business, all of which will get quietly pardoned next year... whether by official act, or simple stop-orders on their audits.
If you prosecute everyone who breaks the rules, they'll get more creative at writing loopholes into their rules for them to wiggle through.
Rules and policies are for the masses, when you rise to a certain level, you're at the level of the rule makers. Should they follow their own rules? Absolutely. Will they? Never. Force them to and they'll just re-write the rules to make it easier to re-write the rules as needed.
If the Pentagon's internet connection is anything like the one at my "big corporate" office, you can get better connection through your phone's 4G, much better. The General's office might not have had 4G service, so he just ordered a hardline.
Not sure if anybody actually gets this, but the job description for Secretary of State basically starts and finishes with: "Must be able to conceal truths, make lies believable, and deceive other heads of state, repeatedly."
Doesn't matter who's filling the role, that's the job. Maybe it should change, but changing the job isn't part of the job description.
There's a lot of trust out there. See recent stories about VW emissions testing, WalMart Aloe labeling... so much of this country runs on a "if nobody is complaining, it must be allright" basis, if all the ugly truths came out at once, people would bury their heads in denial.
W wasn't Republican, W represented East Texas Oil - they may look Republican, but they are actually a whole other thing. I had to move to East Texas during the W years, there weren't any jobs available in the rest of the country at the time, and I'm not wealthy enough to take 8 years off from earning income.
But, yes, the Reagan crew waffled quite a bit - except for StarWars and trickle down, they pushed those through pretty consistently. We're still in trickle down (Clinton/Obama did little to reverse it), and all it does as far as I can tell is dry up the middle.
When I was in London (early 1990s) out in the 'burbs like Golders Green and such, there were restaurants with placards clearly posted on them notifying of the fact that the place hadn't passed food safety standards... these were often ethnic restaurants, but could be of any type.
I was only there for a week, didn't really dig into the issue, but when I asked people I was staying with what it was about, that's what they told me.
There's a reason why the induction says "execute the office" and people refer to it as "serving as". The role is bigger than any one man.
Certainly the man can make some adjustments, but his power largely flows from the people who vote for him, and the congresscritters, moreso today than 200 years ago when communication was so much slower.
I think anyone who hasn't actually been in the facility for an extended time, in the active areas, should STFO about what they know does and doesn't go on there. Even if they've been there from 2006-2012, that doesn't really tell what happened in 2005 or 2013. Nations have secrets, Gitmo is the kind of place where they are kept.
Well, for the crimes they're accused of, seems like most of them could just be executed.
I think there's something much more Hollywood at work there, potential for future intelligence gathering and prisoner exchange - otherwise they could all be tried in military court and executed, then close the place. Consider also that there's a stream of new inmates that have to be processed somewhere...
I'd go more with: Trump is an idiot when he thinks on his feet - a popular, resonates with middle American sentiments and frustrations idiot. Give him time to sit back and reflect and he's a conman who knows how to shift out of his idiot statements and still keep enough popular support to win 49% of the vote, in all the right places to get elected President.
We haven't had many True Republicans (or Democrats) at the national level in the last 30 years. The Reagan gang was the last bunch that took a hard-line position and stuck with long enough to make something happen. Today, I'm glad they did, but at the time I was pretty well convinced they were going to start a war, reinstate the draft, and send my generation into the next Vietnam. On the face of it, it was techno-nuclear brinksmanship, but those things have a way of cracking up and manifesting in smaller scale conflicts. The part of the calculus that I wasn't factoring in was that Russia had just finished embarrassing themselves in Afghanistan, so they were too spent to prop up an effective opposing force anywhere, and China wasn't a real player yet.
If he goes there, we'll be seeing just how resilient the bureaucracy is. Four years generally isn't enough time to drive change from the top all the way down to the people who get things done, unless you're installing 2nd, 3rd and 4th level people who already know their jobs. When you appoint a neophyte to a 2nd or even 3rd level post, they don't know how to select and manipulate their underlings very effectively. You'll get screams of "do it my way or YOU'RE FIRED!" but there are plenty of alternatives to immediate compliance - the bureaucratic stall, the appearance of compliance without actually doing anything, or - most obstructive of all - simply walking off the job without training any replacements.
In the extreme, if an order comes down from the top to nuke Monterrey and Chihuahua, the launch technicians just might lose the keys.
There's a fair amount of truth to this, until you skewer the bull with a fighter's flag. Leaders of foreign powers have plenty of fighting flags they can skewer Trump with, the question is: do they want him to smash China or not?
I'm expecting a lot more "reality checks" as he approaches the White House - like Obama's promise to shut down Gitmo, it sounds simple enough, until you learn all the facts.
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Sucks to be you - I buy from Amazon and Newegg all the time, somehow I don't have these same experiences, and judging from the comments on the products I buy, neither do other people who bother to comment. I'm sure it happens, but if it's happening to you all the time, maybe you're doing it wrong?
Dollars or Yuan?
A Miami news station tailed a patrol car at shift change using a news helo. They clocked him doing 100+mph on his way home to dinner.
Nobody takes the job to enforce THE LAW, they take the job to enforce laws of their choosing on others.
>regardless of what the spooks think of you.
And, I think that is key - the spooks need accountability, more than they've got, but definitely more than none - none leads to the fictionalized version of the KGB. (I'm sure the actual KGB has accountability to whatever their funding source is.)
All news is fake, or distorted, or selectively reported.
Whine all you want about who controls the media, it's just as effective as whining about who controls the tax laws and their enforcement, or whining about unjust military action in half the world. You don't even know 10% of the "real story," and neither do I.
See, what hasn't come out yet is the massive tax evasion and fraud of Trump's friends/allies in business, all of which will get quietly pardoned next year... whether by official act, or simple stop-orders on their audits.
If you prosecute everyone who breaks the rules, they'll get more creative at writing loopholes into their rules for them to wiggle through.
Rules and policies are for the masses, when you rise to a certain level, you're at the level of the rule makers. Should they follow their own rules? Absolutely. Will they? Never. Force them to and they'll just re-write the rules to make it easier to re-write the rules as needed.
If the Pentagon's internet connection is anything like the one at my "big corporate" office, you can get better connection through your phone's 4G, much better. The General's office might not have had 4G service, so he just ordered a hardline.
Not sure if anybody actually gets this, but the job description for Secretary of State basically starts and finishes with: "Must be able to conceal truths, make lies believable, and deceive other heads of state, repeatedly."
Doesn't matter who's filling the role, that's the job. Maybe it should change, but changing the job isn't part of the job description.
I wonder how many Presidential candidates get "candidate's remorse" before the election, wishing they never signed up for the job in the first place.
There's a lot of trust out there. See recent stories about VW emissions testing, WalMart Aloe labeling... so much of this country runs on a "if nobody is complaining, it must be allright" basis, if all the ugly truths came out at once, people would bury their heads in denial.
W wasn't Republican, W represented East Texas Oil - they may look Republican, but they are actually a whole other thing. I had to move to East Texas during the W years, there weren't any jobs available in the rest of the country at the time, and I'm not wealthy enough to take 8 years off from earning income.
But, yes, the Reagan crew waffled quite a bit - except for StarWars and trickle down, they pushed those through pretty consistently. We're still in trickle down (Clinton/Obama did little to reverse it), and all it does as far as I can tell is dry up the middle.
That's why Bush had a crack(ed in the head) legal team to advise him of what was and was not legal in GWII... W knew how to C his A.
When I was in London (early 1990s) out in the 'burbs like Golders Green and such, there were restaurants with placards clearly posted on them notifying of the fact that the place hadn't passed food safety standards... these were often ethnic restaurants, but could be of any type.
I was only there for a week, didn't really dig into the issue, but when I asked people I was staying with what it was about, that's what they told me.
There's a reason why the induction says "execute the office" and people refer to it as "serving as". The role is bigger than any one man.
Certainly the man can make some adjustments, but his power largely flows from the people who vote for him, and the congresscritters, moreso today than 200 years ago when communication was so much slower.
I think anyone who hasn't actually been in the facility for an extended time, in the active areas, should STFO about what they know does and doesn't go on there. Even if they've been there from 2006-2012, that doesn't really tell what happened in 2005 or 2013. Nations have secrets, Gitmo is the kind of place where they are kept.
Nothing is unlawful when you get to write and interpret the laws yourself.
Well, for the crimes they're accused of, seems like most of them could just be executed.
I think there's something much more Hollywood at work there, potential for future intelligence gathering and prisoner exchange - otherwise they could all be tried in military court and executed, then close the place. Consider also that there's a stream of new inmates that have to be processed somewhere...
I'd go more with: Trump is an idiot when he thinks on his feet - a popular, resonates with middle American sentiments and frustrations idiot. Give him time to sit back and reflect and he's a conman who knows how to shift out of his idiot statements and still keep enough popular support to win 49% of the vote, in all the right places to get elected President.
We haven't had many True Republicans (or Democrats) at the national level in the last 30 years. The Reagan gang was the last bunch that took a hard-line position and stuck with long enough to make something happen. Today, I'm glad they did, but at the time I was pretty well convinced they were going to start a war, reinstate the draft, and send my generation into the next Vietnam. On the face of it, it was techno-nuclear brinksmanship, but those things have a way of cracking up and manifesting in smaller scale conflicts. The part of the calculus that I wasn't factoring in was that Russia had just finished embarrassing themselves in Afghanistan, so they were too spent to prop up an effective opposing force anywhere, and China wasn't a real player yet.
That's the way the laws are written, the President literally has the power of the pardon. Whatever he decides is permissible, is permissible.
If he goes there, we'll be seeing just how resilient the bureaucracy is. Four years generally isn't enough time to drive change from the top all the way down to the people who get things done, unless you're installing 2nd, 3rd and 4th level people who already know their jobs. When you appoint a neophyte to a 2nd or even 3rd level post, they don't know how to select and manipulate their underlings very effectively. You'll get screams of "do it my way or YOU'RE FIRED!" but there are plenty of alternatives to immediate compliance - the bureaucratic stall, the appearance of compliance without actually doing anything, or - most obstructive of all - simply walking off the job without training any replacements.
In the extreme, if an order comes down from the top to nuke Monterrey and Chihuahua, the launch technicians just might lose the keys.
There's a fair amount of truth to this, until you skewer the bull with a fighter's flag. Leaders of foreign powers have plenty of fighting flags they can skewer Trump with, the question is: do they want him to smash China or not?
Not so worried about him making crazy decisions.
Am still worried about him filling cabinet posts with dyed in the wool crazy career politicians - that's where some real damage can be done.
I'm expecting a lot more "reality checks" as he approaches the White House - like Obama's promise to shut down Gitmo, it sounds simple enough, until you learn all the facts.