The whole city is in a floodplain, except 3 suburbs (those with the word 'heights/highlands' in their name). 2 of those are shitholes.
I'm familiar with North Highlands and Citrus Heights. My parents retired up there in the 1990's.I might move up there one of these days, somewhere above the floodplains and below the snow line.
We saw during W's wars that it really did not do much.
George W. and Dick Cheney committed war crimes against humanity. Trump will be hard pressed to find anyone to reinstate those policies.
He has gone over the lines many many times in the last 5 years that USSR NEVER would have done to us.
USSR was behind the Berlin Blockade in 1949-48, the Hungary invasion in 1956, the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Czechoslovakia invasion in 1968. Just to name a few. Most were allowed to happen by the US because nuclear war was the most likely outcome.
Actually the GoP was actually more democratic then the Democrats [...]
More choices doesn't make it better, sometimes it worse. For example, Trump winning by default, expected by everyone to lose the election, and won an electoral victory by being the most unpopular presidential candidate in history. Never mind that 54% of Americans voted against him.
[...] as they didn't prevent people from running in the primary (as the Dems did with L. Lessig).
Never heard of L. Lessig. Looking at his Wikipedia page, he had less name recognition than the 16 candidates who ran for the Republican nomination.
To some extend, it actually makes them all alike the USSR' Central Committee.
Btw, Trump won the primary 1500 delegates to 500, how can you even remotely say that "a majority of Republican voters voted against him during the primaries".
Trump won by default by getting the most votes in a crowded field. He got less than 50% of the vote in most primary elections. He didn't reach 50% until the end.
Now, if you want to discuss how super-delegates allowed HRC to steal the primary to Bernie, I'm all there for you, brother.
Super delegates has been a standard feature of Democratic conventions since 1968. After Super Tuesday, Bernie needed to win every election with 60% of the vote to win the nomination. He repeatedly failed to get those votes. If super delegates weren't considered towards the nomination, he still wouldn't have enough votes to win.
The study's actual conclusion, the author says, is that once every 30 years there may be one six-hour period in which people shouldn't be outside. If they can't go inside, they should get wet (wade in a stream, hose off, whatever).
This is the Trump era. Facts are not permitted to ruin a perfect doomsday scenario. Next thing you will be saying that Trump misrepresented a Pew study about millions of illegals voting for Hillary in California and New York.
He could, for example, put a large tax on remittances.
There are proposals to confiscate all remittances to Mexico. Nobody cares about screwing over illegals. But Mexican-Americans will file lawsuits left and right.
For anyone else, such extreme measures would be unthinkable. But this is Trump: Normal rules do not apply.
Or Mexico could declare war, deliberately lose with minimum causalities, and Trump will have no choice to annex Mexico into the United States of North America. That would take care of the existing border problem.
He was elected as per the US constitution, what's illegitimate ? The US never was a direct democracy.
A majority of American voters voted against him (54%) just like a majority of Republican voters voted against him during the primaries. Winning by default should have made a humbler person. Can you image George W. Bush acting like Trump after the Supreme Court gave him the White House?
But, hey, I can see why you would fear an idiot that speaks during election time, as opposed to somebody that is showing massive actions of what they are capable of doing.
Putin is former KGB agent. Of course, he wants to bring Russia back to its former military glory. All those actions you cited was fairly routine during the Cold War — not surprising that Putin dusted off the Soviet playbook. But Putin is the least likely person to start a nuclear war because he knows its unwinnable. Trump is dangerous because he doesn't know anything and willfully ignorant beyond his immediate needs for self-glorification.
...and that will be Doomsday, how? A terrible event, certainly, but not one that is going to end with the extinction of the human race, now is it?
Do think the rest of the world will look the other way if Trump nuked Mexico City? Even if the other nuclear powers don't strike back at the US for using nukes, it will trigger an nuclear arms race in Central and South Americas as those countries will arm themselves with nukes against the US. The world doesn't need more nukes.
The point is, even if Trump turns out to really be the kind of cartoonish, childish villain that some people seem convinced he is, we are NOT closer to Doomsday when the prospect of global nuclear war was a genuine one.
Looks like Trump is following Nixon on nuclear policies. That was a scary time for my parents. I thought Reagan to be scarier as a teenager.
Well shit, they only have 83 years to build some concrete walls and pumping stations.
This is why developers build housing on flood plains. By the time persistent flooding become an issue for homeowners, the developers will be long gone and taxpayers will bailout the homeowners. Not their fault that they bought a house on a flood plain and real estate prices are under water.
But if, say, ISIS nukes New York... what target is there to hit back at?
Trump will probably order an immediate nuclear strike on the Middle East for the destruction of Trump Tower. As my Jewish friends reassured me, God will protect Israel from any radiation fallout.
Mexico has repeatedly said it won't pay for THE WALL that Trump wants to build for $20B. If a push comes to a shove, Trump could always nuke Mexico City. That would fix immigration issues on the border for a long time.
One study predicts that the Persian Gulf will be uninhabitable due to increase temperatures by 2100. The people living there will have to move to cooler areas, wear environmental suits or die off.
Silicon Valley will be under four feet of water by 2100, as it was built on a flood plain. No one yet is talking about building miles of levees to keep the water at bay.
If these EEs were as smart as they like to believe, they'd have done some checking first:
The EE's I know graduated 20+ years ago. Ironically, I stopped taking electronic courses in college about the same time. That's when it became obvious that consumer electronics went from being repairable to disposable.
Everything you said seems to reinforce my argument that we should be talking about computer jobs.
Or skilled trade jobs like carpenters, electricians and plumbers. With the current workforce retiring and foreign workers have gone home, future job openings will go unfulfilled.
Look at the number of CS people the US brings in from India in order to meet demand.
That will change when foreign workers discover that they don't have to leave their country to have a middle class lifestyle. A recent study predicts 1.5M+ unfilled jobs in IT.
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The whole city is in a floodplain, except 3 suburbs (those with the word 'heights/highlands' in their name). 2 of those are shitholes.
I'm familiar with North Highlands and Citrus Heights. My parents retired up there in the 1990's.I might move up there one of these days, somewhere above the floodplains and below the snow line.
You wouldn't be familiar with "The Mouse that Roared" by any chance?
One of my favorite Cold War movies.
And with any luck, Republicans will get rid of the rest of the RINOs and closet-Libs [...]
Won't be long before the Republican Party is a southern white nationalist regional party.
[...] turning the US into an authoritarian banana-republic-like hellhole.
I didn't vote for Trump.
sadly that still makes it too expensive to live there
If you live a modest lifestyle, it's not bad. If you want the American Dream of having it all, it gets very expensive in Silicon Valley.
We saw during W's wars that it really did not do much.
George W. and Dick Cheney committed war crimes against humanity. Trump will be hard pressed to find anyone to reinstate those policies.
He has gone over the lines many many times in the last 5 years that USSR NEVER would have done to us.
USSR was behind the Berlin Blockade in 1949-48, the Hungary invasion in 1956, the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, and the Czechoslovakia invasion in 1968. Just to name a few. Most were allowed to happen by the US because nuclear war was the most likely outcome.
Actually the GoP was actually more democratic then the Democrats [...]
More choices doesn't make it better, sometimes it worse. For example, Trump winning by default, expected by everyone to lose the election, and won an electoral victory by being the most unpopular presidential candidate in history. Never mind that 54% of Americans voted against him.
[...] as they didn't prevent people from running in the primary (as the Dems did with L. Lessig).
Never heard of L. Lessig. Looking at his Wikipedia page, he had less name recognition than the 16 candidates who ran for the Republican nomination.
To some extend, it actually makes them all alike the USSR' Central Committee.
If that was so, why did Putin endorse Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNK430YOiT4
That's still just losing, get over it, cuckservative !
People like you is why I stopped being a Republican after 20 years.
Get over it. It's just losing.
As a moderate conservative, I'm opposed to Trump and his Russian cabal in the White House.
Btw, Trump won the primary 1500 delegates to 500, how can you even remotely say that "a majority of Republican voters voted against him during the primaries".
Trump won by default by getting the most votes in a crowded field. He got less than 50% of the vote in most primary elections. He didn't reach 50% until the end.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-trump-reaches-50-percent-support-nationally-first-time-n562061
Now, if you want to discuss how super-delegates allowed HRC to steal the primary to Bernie, I'm all there for you, brother.
Super delegates has been a standard feature of Democratic conventions since 1968. After Super Tuesday, Bernie needed to win every election with 60% of the vote to win the nomination. He repeatedly failed to get those votes. If super delegates weren't considered towards the nomination, he still wouldn't have enough votes to win.
The study's actual conclusion, the author says, is that once every 30 years there may be one six-hour period in which people shouldn't be outside. If they can't go inside, they should get wet (wade in a stream, hose off, whatever).
This is the Trump era. Facts are not permitted to ruin a perfect doomsday scenario. Next thing you will be saying that Trump misrepresented a Pew study about millions of illegals voting for Hillary in California and New York.
He could, for example, put a large tax on remittances.
There are proposals to confiscate all remittances to Mexico. Nobody cares about screwing over illegals. But Mexican-Americans will file lawsuits left and right.
For anyone else, such extreme measures would be unthinkable. But this is Trump: Normal rules do not apply.
Or Mexico could declare war, deliberately lose with minimum causalities, and Trump will have no choice to annex Mexico into the United States of North America. That would take care of the existing border problem.
He was elected as per the US constitution, what's illegitimate ? The US never was a direct democracy.
A majority of American voters voted against him (54%) just like a majority of Republican voters voted against him during the primaries. Winning by default should have made a humbler person. Can you image George W. Bush acting like Trump after the Supreme Court gave him the White House?
But, hey, I can see why you would fear an idiot that speaks during election time, as opposed to somebody that is showing massive actions of what they are capable of doing.
Putin is former KGB agent. Of course, he wants to bring Russia back to its former military glory. All those actions you cited was fairly routine during the Cold War — not surprising that Putin dusted off the Soviet playbook. But Putin is the least likely person to start a nuclear war because he knows its unwinnable. Trump is dangerous because he doesn't know anything and willfully ignorant beyond his immediate needs for self-glorification.
...and that will be Doomsday, how? A terrible event, certainly, but not one that is going to end with the extinction of the human race, now is it?
Do think the rest of the world will look the other way if Trump nuked Mexico City? Even if the other nuclear powers don't strike back at the US for using nukes, it will trigger an nuclear arms race in Central and South Americas as those countries will arm themselves with nukes against the US. The world doesn't need more nukes.
The point is, even if Trump turns out to really be the kind of cartoonish, childish villain that some people seem convinced he is, we are NOT closer to Doomsday when the prospect of global nuclear war was a genuine one.
Looks like Trump is following Nixon on nuclear policies. That was a scary time for my parents. I thought Reagan to be scarier as a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
yes, but why did Putin's actions for the last 5 years do nothing?
Putin haven't talked about using nuclear weapons in public. Trump has — repeatedly.
http://time.com/4437089/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-nukes/
Well shit, they only have 83 years to build some concrete walls and pumping stations.
This is why developers build housing on flood plains. By the time persistent flooding become an issue for homeowners, the developers will be long gone and taxpayers will bailout the homeowners. Not their fault that they bought a house on a flood plain and real estate prices are under water.
But if, say, ISIS nukes New York... what target is there to hit back at?
Trump will probably order an immediate nuclear strike on the Middle East for the destruction of Trump Tower. As my Jewish friends reassured me, God will protect Israel from any radiation fallout.
So you're saying there's a silver lining.
Yes, Silicon Valley real estate prices will be under water.
Mexico has repeatedly said it won't pay for THE WALL that Trump wants to build for $20B. If a push comes to a shove, Trump could always nuke Mexico City. That would fix immigration issues on the border for a long time.
That the words of an illegitimate POTUS in his first week of office was enough to move the clock forward is unprecedented.
One study predicts that the Persian Gulf will be uninhabitable due to increase temperatures by 2100. The people living there will have to move to cooler areas, wear environmental suits or die off.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/world/persian-gulf-heat-climate-change/index.html
Silicon Valley will be under four feet of water by 2100, as it was built on a flood plain. No one yet is talking about building miles of levees to keep the water at bay.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/22/silicon-valley-sea-level-rise-google-facebook-flood-risk
More zombie sheep on the Internet.
No wonder I'm the only sane person in my family. Everyone else smokes.
If these EEs were as smart as they like to believe, they'd have done some checking first:
The EE's I know graduated 20+ years ago. Ironically, I stopped taking electronic courses in college about the same time. That's when it became obvious that consumer electronics went from being repairable to disposable.
Everything you said seems to reinforce my argument that we should be talking about computer jobs.
Or skilled trade jobs like carpenters, electricians and plumbers. With the current workforce retiring and foreign workers have gone home, future job openings will go unfulfilled.
Look at the number of CS people the US brings in from India in order to meet demand.
That will change when foreign workers discover that they don't have to leave their country to have a middle class lifestyle. A recent study predicts 1.5M+ unfilled jobs in IT.