Foreign policy is broadly an executive function, but none of it is binding on us until the senate ratifies a treaty.
TPP is just a group attempting to write a treaty. Eventually, the completed treaty would be presented to the member governments to ratify. They aren't at that stage yet, so the president is free to tell the working group that we aren't going to participate any more. In theory, they could continue working on the treaty and present it to us anyway, but I think everyone understands the futility of that.
If there was a treaty, and there isn't, then yes, the senate could ratify it while Obama is still in office. But even if there was a treaty, the Democrats don't have enough votes. It takes 67 votes, and they have less than 50.
No one ever said it wasn't legal for him to release those documents (which are neither his taxes nor his tax returns). They said it was unwise to do so.
Yup, this. Virtually all commercially available IOT crap is spyware. It opens a port on your firewall with UPNP, then phones home to the device's owner (aka not you). The device's owner also gives you an app for your phone that snoops on you and connects to their device that you've installed in your home.
Building a botnet can be as easy as port-scanning the UPNP-assignable ranges of a few popular home routers on a few big ISPs and exploiting any vulnerable devices that respond.
Oh, and if you already have a botnet, the port scan SYNs will come from everywhere, and probably be spread over many hours or days, which makes it impossible to block. I was going to say it is hard to detect too, but detecting attacks is easy - if the power is on and the network is connected, it is under attack.
How many times have you spoken to your congressmen about your ideas regarding nuclear power? Has he ever sponsored bills promoting research into addressing whatever deficiencies you perceive to exist with the nuclear power program?
What? You don't know your congressman's name, much less how to reach him?
I don't know you at all. Maybe you are the exception. Maybe you actually are deeply involved. But for 99% of the people reading this, for 99% of the people who "care about global warming", they've done nothing. They'll never do anything. Because they don't actually care enough to pick up the phone or send an email.
If anyone believed that global warming was real, they would've been screaming to get a nuclear reactor installed on every street corner.* It never happened. Thus, I conclude that no one of any importance believes in global warming, however much they claim to believe in it to justify their claims to money and power.
* I observe that supporters of "more nuclear power" is approximately 99% people who want cheaper power, a few kooks, and 2 or 3 guys who have seen the light after 25+ years of preaching anti-industrialization, coincidentally now of an age where they may face prompt mortality should modern medicine depart.
Mammals are unable to relocate the double bond in fatty acids that we eat. (If you aren't up on this stuff, that is the omega number.) To make a long story short, the essential fatty acids in our bodies are the essential fatty acids in the feed that we raise our food with. Switching most of our beef and milk from grass to corn changed the balance that they eat and thus the balance that we eat. And it was probably unwise to do that without any understanding of what that would do (is doing) to us.
I don't care about methane one way or the other, but the long running chemistry experiment that is our food supply bothers me a little bit.
LOL. I call you out for projection and for accusing your opponents of everything that you are guilty of - and your response is "With the right, it's always projection."
ZERO. SELF. AWARENESS. You literally can't stop yourself from acting on your obsolete and counterproductive world view.
Your understanding of Trump suffers from bubble disease. Since you understand neither yourself nor us, the best you can do is invent Just So Stories to explain things. In your imagination we are all ignorant racists, so Trump must be a xenophobic clown. You can't possibly imagine that we've been calling for someone like him for years, or that he's been planning this since at least 2012.
Police have a compliance model that goes "Ask, Tell, Make." We asked the Republican Party to fight for us with the dawn of the Tea Party movement. They didn't. We told them to by sacking House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker of the House John Boehner. And we've finally arrived at make.
I keep forgetting that there are places in the world that aren't California. Out there, "traditional roofing materials" are asphalt shingles, or sometimes cedar shakes, neither of which is bulky or brittle.
Rule 3. SJW's always project. In Alinsky terms, the best defense is to have already accused your opponent of what you are guilty of, ideally before anyone catches on.
This is so common that accusations from certain people and groups can be interpreted as if they were signed confessions.
After watching a 16-month election cycle where the media was caught red handed acting as agents of the Clinton campaign, and where damn near all of the media polls were fiction, you are seriously dumb enough to accuse Trump of gaslighting?
I'm feeling really good about 2020 and 2024. You people have no self awareness at all. We are inside your OODA loop. We've defeated your tactics. We've spiked your big guns. Thousands of normies are waking up every day and you haven't figured out that we aren't waking them up, you are.
So please carry on. Shriek the word far and wide that Trump is taking credit for things that he didn't do while he is working to take the White House over from a man that brags about the fantastic recovery (that never happened) and who claims to have improved race relations (they're worse)
The difference is that when someone thinks, "Hey, I can build a component factory here, down the road from a big customer." that someone will be here instead of there - and so will be the factory and the jobs. And later, someone else will think "Since I've got all of these components being built right here, I should build my widget here too."
That's how Detroit grew, and how it died. When it was growing, the answer to "where?" was Detroit (and Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Eerie, Buffalo, etc). When it was dying, the answer was China.
America is, for the most part, a very safe place to live. If you can avoid visiting a few specific zip codes, your chances of dying violently are very, very low. My understanding is that England is pretty much the same, except that they use post codes instead of zip codes.
In those parts of those countries, there is pretty much no need or desire to spy on or restrict anyone. The few exceptions seem mostly to be people that don't want their government to push diversity on them by force.
Without diversity, you get security for free. With diversity, the best you can do is to sell your Liberty for a veneer of security.
Given the set {Diversity, Security, Liberty}, you can pick at most 2. Britain chose Diversity, and as surely as the sun rises in the east, Security evaporated. To restore Security, they are throwing out Liberty.
If Brexit was the harbinger of a rising tide, I expect that the country will complete the cycle by using Security to drive out Diversity so that they can restore Liberty.
It helps to remember that the history of Britain for the last 1000 years or so has been the rise of Liberty. The people will have to decide if we are seeing the end and reversal of that trend, or just an 80 year detour.
The ideal outcome for a student visa is to come here, get educated, spend a few years working, then go home. Well, ideal for the US, and the home country. Not usually the best outcome for the student.
A big part of Africa's current condition can be traced to decades of the best and brightest Africans coming here (and England), and then staying forever. We should have been sending them home, where they would have had the ability and drive to improve conditions in their home countries.
I don't see any racism in any of those quotes. Even if I pretend that "Mexican" or "Mexican Government" is a race, I still don't see it. Many illegals are criminals. Is that even controversial? Are people claiming that only angels are crossing our southern border?
Please explain.
I've seen it said that the most racist thing that Donald Trump ever said was:
So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.
You younger folks might not remember this, but the segway hype was a weak echo compared to the ATM hype. ATM was going to transform the way we built our networks. Nothing was ever going to be the same after ATM. ATM was going to make all previous data and voice networking obsolete. People would kill to get ATM to the desktop.
If I'm reading this article right, someone went through the ATM specs and came up with a brand new set of names for the same old crap. It must be hell working in telecom. Their elegant circuit-switched networks are slowly being purged from the earth, replaced by vulgar packet-switched networks.
No one gives a fuck what viewpoint he is "having". Lots of us care very much about what viewpoint he is abusing his position as editor to spread.
Do you remember the 2 or 3 days last week when every 3rd or 4th story here was about how we were all going to die because Trump won? Guess who posted a big chunk of that...
"Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition" "How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality" "Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook" "Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College?" "Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win "
Is this what you want? Yet another site posting Democrat propaganda 24/7 with a sprinkling of technology news on slow politics-news days?
Many of us have been asking (for close to a year and a half now!) for a verbatim racist quote and a video of the words coming out of his mouth. No takers so far.
Are you up to the challenge? Should be easy, since you claim that he is "on record making racists [sic] remarks".
Go find a cash-only doctor. You'll be astonished how cheap things are when there is a functioning market. Or just ask your provider to negotiate a cash price in advance.
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Foreign policy is broadly an executive function, but none of it is binding on us until the senate ratifies a treaty.
TPP is just a group attempting to write a treaty. Eventually, the completed treaty would be presented to the member governments to ratify. They aren't at that stage yet, so the president is free to tell the working group that we aren't going to participate any more. In theory, they could continue working on the treaty and present it to us anyway, but I think everyone understands the futility of that.
If there was a treaty, and there isn't, then yes, the senate could ratify it while Obama is still in office. But even if there was a treaty, the Democrats don't have enough votes. It takes 67 votes, and they have less than 50.
No one ever said it wasn't legal for him to release those documents (which are neither his taxes nor his tax returns). They said it was unwise to do so.
Yup, this. Virtually all commercially available IOT crap is spyware. It opens a port on your firewall with UPNP, then phones home to the device's owner (aka not you). The device's owner also gives you an app for your phone that snoops on you and connects to their device that you've installed in your home.
Building a botnet can be as easy as port-scanning the UPNP-assignable ranges of a few popular home routers on a few big ISPs and exploiting any vulnerable devices that respond.
Oh, and if you already have a botnet, the port scan SYNs will come from everywhere, and probably be spread over many hours or days, which makes it impossible to block. I was going to say it is hard to detect too, but detecting attacks is easy - if the power is on and the network is connected, it is under attack.
How many times have you spoken to your congressmen about your ideas regarding nuclear power? Has he ever sponsored bills promoting research into addressing whatever deficiencies you perceive to exist with the nuclear power program?
What? You don't know your congressman's name, much less how to reach him?
I don't know you at all. Maybe you are the exception. Maybe you actually are deeply involved. But for 99% of the people reading this, for 99% of the people who "care about global warming", they've done nothing. They'll never do anything. Because they don't actually care enough to pick up the phone or send an email.
If anyone believed that global warming was real, they would've been screaming to get a nuclear reactor installed on every street corner.* It never happened. Thus, I conclude that no one of any importance believes in global warming, however much they claim to believe in it to justify their claims to money and power.
* I observe that supporters of "more nuclear power" is approximately 99% people who want cheaper power, a few kooks, and 2 or 3 guys who have seen the light after 25+ years of preaching anti-industrialization, coincidentally now of an age where they may face prompt mortality should modern medicine depart.
What does it do to the fatty acids in the beef?
Mammals are unable to relocate the double bond in fatty acids that we eat. (If you aren't up on this stuff, that is the omega number.) To make a long story short, the essential fatty acids in our bodies are the essential fatty acids in the feed that we raise our food with. Switching most of our beef and milk from grass to corn changed the balance that they eat and thus the balance that we eat. And it was probably unwise to do that without any understanding of what that would do (is doing) to us.
I don't care about methane one way or the other, but the long running chemistry experiment that is our food supply bothers me a little bit.
That is a very short term view. It may be better for us today, but it leaves the world in worse shape tomorrow.
As long as we are still part of the world, we must be careful not to allow short term greed to lead us into decisions that are bad for the long term.
LOL. I call you out for projection and for accusing your opponents of everything that you are guilty of - and your response is "With the right, it's always projection."
ZERO. SELF. AWARENESS. You literally can't stop yourself from acting on your obsolete and counterproductive world view.
Your understanding of Trump suffers from bubble disease. Since you understand neither yourself nor us, the best you can do is invent Just So Stories to explain things. In your imagination we are all ignorant racists, so Trump must be a xenophobic clown. You can't possibly imagine that we've been calling for someone like him for years, or that he's been planning this since at least 2012.
Police have a compliance model that goes "Ask, Tell, Make." We asked the Republican Party to fight for us with the dawn of the Tea Party movement. They didn't. We told them to by sacking House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker of the House John Boehner. And we've finally arrived at make.
I'll say it again: they have zero self awareness
They should be reading articles like this one and pondering the meaning of it all.
I keep forgetting that there are places in the world that aren't California. Out there, "traditional roofing materials" are asphalt shingles, or sometimes cedar shakes, neither of which is bulky or brittle.
Rule 3. SJW's always project. In Alinsky terms, the best defense is to have already accused your opponent of what you are guilty of, ideally before anyone catches on.
This is so common that accusations from certain people and groups can be interpreted as if they were signed confessions.
After watching a 16-month election cycle where the media was caught red handed acting as agents of the Clinton campaign, and where damn near all of the media polls were fiction, you are seriously dumb enough to accuse Trump of gaslighting?
I'm feeling really good about 2020 and 2024. You people have no self awareness at all. We are inside your OODA loop. We've defeated your tactics. We've spiked your big guns. Thousands of normies are waking up every day and you haven't figured out that we aren't waking them up, you are.
So please carry on. Shriek the word far and wide that Trump is taking credit for things that he didn't do while he is working to take the White House over from a man that brags about the fantastic recovery (that never happened) and who claims to have improved race relations (they're worse)
Trump's victory must have the CTR guys really demoralized if this is the best they can come up with.
We already know "how" to deal with the waste. We just don't have the political will to actually do it.
"Very few" = zero, if we are talking about radiation deaths at/around Fukushima.
Amusingly enough, Trump has tossed around the idea of a 35% tarrif, which works out to $227.15 on a $649 phone.
The difference is that when someone thinks, "Hey, I can build a component factory here, down the road from a big customer." that someone will be here instead of there - and so will be the factory and the jobs. And later, someone else will think "Since I've got all of these components being built right here, I should build my widget here too."
That's how Detroit grew, and how it died. When it was growing, the answer to "where?" was Detroit (and Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Cleveland, Eerie, Buffalo, etc). When it was dying, the answer was China.
America is, for the most part, a very safe place to live. If you can avoid visiting a few specific zip codes, your chances of dying violently are very, very low. My understanding is that England is pretty much the same, except that they use post codes instead of zip codes.
In those parts of those countries, there is pretty much no need or desire to spy on or restrict anyone. The few exceptions seem mostly to be people that don't want their government to push diversity on them by force.
Without diversity, you get security for free. With diversity, the best you can do is to sell your Liberty for a veneer of security.
Given the set {Diversity, Security, Liberty}, you can pick at most 2. Britain chose Diversity, and as surely as the sun rises in the east, Security evaporated. To restore Security, they are throwing out Liberty.
If Brexit was the harbinger of a rising tide, I expect that the country will complete the cycle by using Security to drive out Diversity so that they can restore Liberty.
It helps to remember that the history of Britain for the last 1000 years or so has been the rise of Liberty. The people will have to decide if we are seeing the end and reversal of that trend, or just an 80 year detour.
The ideal outcome for a student visa is to come here, get educated, spend a few years working, then go home. Well, ideal for the US, and the home country. Not usually the best outcome for the student.
A big part of Africa's current condition can be traced to decades of the best and brightest Africans coming here (and England), and then staying forever. We should have been sending them home, where they would have had the ability and drive to improve conditions in their home countries.
I don't see any racism in any of those quotes. Even if I pretend that "Mexican" or "Mexican Government" is a race, I still don't see it. Many illegals are criminals. Is that even controversial? Are people claiming that only angels are crossing our southern border?
Please explain.
I've seen it said that the most racist thing that Donald Trump ever said was:
I'm seriously having ATM flashbacks from the 90s.
You younger folks might not remember this, but the segway hype was a weak echo compared to the ATM hype. ATM was going to transform the way we built our networks. Nothing was ever going to be the same after ATM. ATM was going to make all previous data and voice networking obsolete. People would kill to get ATM to the desktop.
If I'm reading this article right, someone went through the ATM specs and came up with a brand new set of names for the same old crap. It must be hell working in telecom. Their elegant circuit-switched networks are slowly being purged from the earth, replaced by vulgar packet-switched networks.
No one gives a fuck what viewpoint he is "having". Lots of us care very much about what viewpoint he is abusing his position as editor to spread.
Do you remember the 2 or 3 days last week when every 3rd or 4th story here was about how we were all going to die because Trump won? Guess who posted a big chunk of that...
"Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition"
"How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality"
"Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook"
"Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College?"
"Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win "
Is this what you want? Yet another site posting Democrat propaganda 24/7 with a sprinkling of technology news on slow politics-news days?
Many of us have been asking (for close to a year and a half now!) for a verbatim racist quote and a video of the words coming out of his mouth. No takers so far.
Are you up to the challenge? Should be easy, since you claim that he is "on record making racists [sic] remarks".
Go find a cash-only doctor. You'll be astonished how cheap things are when there is a functioning market. Or just ask your provider to negotiate a cash price in advance.
Translation: We tried it your way for 30+ years, and it almost killed us. Your theory is wrong, and it is time for you to hang it up.