The fact that despite all your self-defense you haven't mentioned neither your age nor your height is also revealing.
I'm 5'-10" and 46-years-old. And your point?
[...] quite strange I've not hear about you before.
You must be new around here. This thread got started because some AC made a snide comment about my weight because I've discussed my weight in other posts. Some people are deeply troubled that I'm not ashamed of my weight, I'm willing to talk about it, and I'm unwilling to let other people ruin my life over it.
If you weren't an asshole, you also wouldn't be dragging your personal politics into this discussion.
Where did I drag personal politics into this discussion? TFA was about bitcoins, money laundering and poker chips. I linked to an article that was about money, money and laundering and poker chips. Strong historical similarities between the two cases — except Daddy Trump was never charged for committing a crime.
But as long as you're here, shouldn't you also be utterly ashamed of our current political class, whose incompetence and malfeasance have made Trump look like a credible choice?
Now that you want to bring personal politics into this discussion, I'll follow your lead. I'm so ashamed of the Republican Party that I registered as a Democrat last year. At least Hillary has a proven track record as First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State. Trump has nothing but his ego and bluster.
I haven't used a laptop as a laptop in 15 years. I got a laptop on my desk at home and a laptop on my desk at work. My iPhone is my portable computer between desks.
No, I'm an asshole. I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't. Not sure what my work experience has to do with The Donald's tax policy blowing a hole in the federal budget.
After reading this, I actually went looking to see what he got arrested for...
Daddy Trump got arrested after a 1927 KKK riot in Queens.
On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica.
It's been a few since I've gone to an Apple Store, and had an opportunity to check out the new MacBook. I loved my 2006 MacBook (black, of course) before it died in 2014, and I haven't found a worthy successor to it yet. The new MacBooks are thinner and lighter. I don't like them. Thinner and lighter are fine qualities for a cellphone but not for a laptop.
Can't wait for President Trump to be in charge of getting this country out of debt.
Trump's tax plan would add at least $10T to the debt on top of the $10T expected under existing law. We could go from $19T under Obama to $39T under Trump. As Vice President Dick Cheney once said, "Deficits don't matter."
While his plan limits certain tax preferences and deductions, it does not include any reductions in federal spending. As a result, the Trump plan increases the federal deficit over the next decade by $10 trillion or $12 trillion, according to several estimates that do not include macroeconomic changes in GDP, investment and employment. Of course, these so-called "static" estimates do not reflect the potential tax revenue from the economic growth resulting from lower tax rates. However, even under "dynamic" scoring, which takes into account a broad range of macroeconomic effects of tax proposals, his tax cuts would still expand the federal deficit over the next decade by $10 trillion â" on top of the $10 trillion increase in the federal deficit already projected under current law.
It's all fun and games until an AI realizes that a great way to increase the throughput of its intersection would be to keep the lights green in both directions at the same time.
That was the basis for "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by James P. Hogan, where "dumb" computer networks started making logical shortcuts to increase productivity that put human lives in jeopardy, making the powers to be reluctant to upgrade to the "smart" network that might become a hostile Artificial Intelligence.
"Basically, it's poker chips that people are willing to buy from you."
Daddy Trump bought $3M in poker chips to bail out The Donald when a bond payment was due.
In December 1990, a lawyer for Fred Trump walked into Trump Castle in Atlantic City and, according to reports at the time, deposited a check with the casino for $3.36 million in exchange for chips. Instead of using the chips to play in the casino, the lawyer left.
The result: an interest-free loan to Trump from "Daddy-O."
The same day that Fred Trump made his chip purchase, The Donald stunned the gaming world and his creditors by making a scheduled bond payment.
You walk -not even run, 20 minutes a day and call that sport.
Where in my comments did I walking 20 minutes a day a "sport"? Nowhere. Stop thinking with your head up your ass.
You can fool yourself all you want. Don't think others will also be fooled.
I'm not some 350-pound butterball. I lost my water fat years ago. I'm carrying muscle mass. Muscle is heavier than fat and requires more calories to maintain.
Do they trust traffic signal? You know, that one that shows red to stop and green to drive. It is controlled by AI.
The traffic signal has an algorithm (i.e., a series of instructions). Artificial Intelligence for a single traffic signal would be waste of resources. A network of traffic signals for an entire metropolitan area may one day be controlled by an Artificial Intelligence.
Why do you think people would make more than the minimum required effort if voting was mandatory?
Some people might care more than other people. If enough people care more than those who put in only the minimum required effort, perhaps society will change for the better.
Aw, how cute, creimer seems to think everyone in the tech industry is accepting government contracts that require drug testing.
If you read the article that I've link to, your comment would have been more informed rather than cute and stupid. I had pre-employment drug tests for two PC refresh jobs in the private sector, one at a Fortune 500 company and the other at a local hospital. For my current government IT job, I wasn't even required to take a drug test.
High taxes, business-strangling regulations, insane housing prices driven by land-use laws that strangle supply [battleswarmblog.com], and the future is further imperiled by unsustainable public pension debt [pensiontsunami.com] and rising labor costs due to the minimum wage hike.
Meh... I've been hearing that for years. Most of these criticisms come from the fact that California is a solid blue state with 54 electoral votes go to Hillary. If California was a solid red state with 54 electoral votes going to Trump, everyone in the right-wing echo chamber would be singing a different tune.
The only negatives I've heard of so far are more impaired driving.
Or finding employees who can pass a pre-employment drug test.
That hurdle partly stems from the growing ubiquity of drug testing, at corporations with big human resources departments, in industries like trucking where testing is mandated by federal law for safety reasons, and increasingly at smaller companies. But data suggest employers' difficulties also reflect an increase in the use of drugs, especially marijuana — employers' main gripe — and also heroin and other opioid drugs much in the news.
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The Feds are planning to raise interest rates at their next meeting in June.
"I'm not some 350-pound butterball."
Yes, you most probably are.
Here's my current picture at 350 pounds. Please note the broad shoulders and narrow waist. That's not the shape of a butterball.
http://www.cdreimer.com/images/cdreimer_350.jpg
The fact that despite all your self-defense you haven't mentioned neither your age nor your height is also revealing.
I'm 5'-10" and 46-years-old. And your point?
[...] quite strange I've not hear about you before.
You must be new around here. This thread got started because some AC made a snide comment about my weight because I've discussed my weight in other posts. Some people are deeply troubled that I'm not ashamed of my weight, I'm willing to talk about it, and I'm unwilling to let other people ruin my life over it.
That you're not reporting that he was convicted.
You need to learn how to read. The previous poster asked what Daddy Trump got arrested for. I provided a link to an article.
What else you got?
You don't know how to Google? I'm not your personal research assistant.
If you weren't an asshole, you also wouldn't be dragging your personal politics into this discussion.
Where did I drag personal politics into this discussion? TFA was about bitcoins, money laundering and poker chips. I linked to an article that was about money, money and laundering and poker chips. Strong historical similarities between the two cases — except Daddy Trump was never charged for committing a crime.
But as long as you're here, shouldn't you also be utterly ashamed of our current political class, whose incompetence and malfeasance have made Trump look like a credible choice?
Now that you want to bring personal politics into this discussion, I'll follow your lead. I'm so ashamed of the Republican Party that I registered as a Democrat last year. At least Hillary has a proven track record as First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State. Trump has nothing but his ego and bluster.
My shoulder disagrees.
I haven't used a laptop as a laptop in 15 years. I got a laptop on my desk at home and a laptop on my desk at work. My iPhone is my portable computer between desks.
You're an idiot.
No, I'm an asshole. I wouldn't be working in IT if I wasn't. Not sure what my work experience has to do with The Donald's tax policy blowing a hole in the federal budget.
You have absolutely no sense of style.
I would rather be correct than clever in the eye of the law.
Or plausible deniability for that matter.
You don't need plausible deniability if you maintain accurate records in your business.
In what way is it his business what anyone does with the money order after he sells it?
Selling a money order to a third-party could be construed as money laundering.
After reading this, I actually went looking to see what he got arrested for...
Daddy Trump got arrested after a 1927 KKK riot in Queens.
On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested.
One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/
It's been a few since I've gone to an Apple Store, and had an opportunity to check out the new MacBook. I loved my 2006 MacBook (black, of course) before it died in 2014, and I haven't found a worthy successor to it yet. The new MacBooks are thinner and lighter. I don't like them. Thinner and lighter are fine qualities for a cellphone but not for a laptop.
Guy's dad gives guy a loan when he hits hard times.
If that was the case, why didn't Daddy Trump hand The Donald a cashier check for $3M? Why risk going to jail for money laundering?
Can't wait for President Trump to be in charge of getting this country out of debt.
Trump's tax plan would add at least $10T to the debt on top of the $10T expected under existing law. We could go from $19T under Obama to $39T under Trump. As Vice President Dick Cheney once said, "Deficits don't matter."
While his plan limits certain tax preferences and deductions, it does not include any reductions in federal spending. As a result, the Trump plan increases the federal deficit over the next decade by $10 trillion or $12 trillion, according to several estimates that do not include macroeconomic changes in GDP, investment and employment. Of course, these so-called "static" estimates do not reflect the potential tax revenue from the economic growth resulting from lower tax rates. However, even under "dynamic" scoring, which takes into account a broad range of macroeconomic effects of tax proposals, his tax cuts would still expand the federal deficit over the next decade by $10 trillion â" on top of the $10 trillion increase in the federal deficit already projected under current law.
http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/donald-trumps-tax-plan-primary/
It's all fun and games until an AI realizes that a great way to increase the throughput of its intersection would be to keep the lights green in both directions at the same time.
That was the basis for "The Two Faces of Tomorrow" by James P. Hogan, where "dumb" computer networks started making logical shortcuts to increase productivity that put human lives in jeopardy, making the powers to be reluctant to upgrade to the "smart" network that might become a hostile Artificial Intelligence.
"Basically, it's poker chips that people are willing to buy from you."
Daddy Trump bought $3M in poker chips to bail out The Donald when a bond payment was due.
In December 1990, a lawyer for Fred Trump walked into Trump Castle in Atlantic City and, according to reports at the time, deposited a check with the casino for $3.36 million in exchange for chips. Instead of using the chips to play in the casino, the lawyer left.
The result: an interest-free loan to Trump from "Daddy-O."
The same day that Fred Trump made his chip purchase, The Donald stunned the gaming world and his creditors by making a scheduled bond payment.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/you-can-rely-on-the-old-mans-money
Here's a list with 49 football players who weighed 300+ pounds.
http://www.sportingcharts.com/articles/nfl/top-5-heaviest-players-in-the-nfl.aspx
Here's a list of the top five heaviest rugby players of all time who weighed 300+ pounds.
http://www.rugbyonslaught.com/2013/06/top-5-heaviest-rugby-players-of-all-time.html
Here's a list for the top ten heaviest basketball players who weighed 300+ pounds.
http://www.biggiesboxers.com/10-heaviest-players-in-nba-history/
I've never seen a football lineman, a rugby forward, boxer, any other strength athlete with that weight.
Funny that you should mention that. I'm always asked if I played football in high school or college.
Bullshit.
The BMI numbers don't lie. Schwarzenegger has always been obese.
http://www.docshop.com/2008/04/08/arnold-schwarzenegger-is-obese-problems-with-body-mass-index-bmi-calculations
Here's another example where the BMI numbers don't lie. School district sent letter home with skinny little girl because she's obese.
http://www.inquisitr.com/1266298/school-sends-girl-home-with-fat-letter-skinny-third-grader-considered-overweight/
You walk -not even run, 20 minutes a day and call that sport.
Where in my comments did I walking 20 minutes a day a "sport"? Nowhere. Stop thinking with your head up your ass.
You can fool yourself all you want. Don't think others will also be fooled.
I'm not some 350-pound butterball. I lost my water fat years ago. I'm carrying muscle mass. Muscle is heavier than fat and requires more calories to maintain.
But Trump just promised CA voters that the drought is over once he's elected.
I like to see him pull that one out of his ass.
I suppose most US inhabitants only know of the kill-all-humans AI from the movies, being Skynet the first thing thing people think of.
Don't forget the nuclear bomb controlled by a suicidal AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk
Do they trust traffic signal? You know, that one that shows red to stop and green to drive. It is controlled by AI.
The traffic signal has an algorithm (i.e., a series of instructions). Artificial Intelligence for a single traffic signal would be waste of resources. A network of traffic signals for an entire metropolitan area may one day be controlled by an Artificial Intelligence.
Why do you think people would make more than the minimum required effort if voting was mandatory?
Some people might care more than other people. If enough people care more than those who put in only the minimum required effort, perhaps society will change for the better.
Aw, how cute, creimer seems to think everyone in the tech industry is accepting government contracts that require drug testing.
If you read the article that I've link to, your comment would have been more informed rather than cute and stupid. I had pre-employment drug tests for two PC refresh jobs in the private sector, one at a Fortune 500 company and the other at a local hospital. For my current government IT job, I wasn't even required to take a drug test.
But Scott's a visionary now?
He put a motherboard inside a pizza box that sits underneath the monitor. That was pretty visionary in the days of beige boxes that sat on the floor.
High taxes, business-strangling regulations, insane housing prices driven by land-use laws that strangle supply [battleswarmblog.com], and the future is further imperiled by unsustainable public pension debt [pensiontsunami.com] and rising labor costs due to the minimum wage hike.
Meh... I've been hearing that for years. Most of these criticisms come from the fact that California is a solid blue state with 54 electoral votes go to Hillary. If California was a solid red state with 54 electoral votes going to Trump, everyone in the right-wing echo chamber would be singing a different tune.
The only negatives I've heard of so far are more impaired driving.
Or finding employees who can pass a pre-employment drug test.
That hurdle partly stems from the growing ubiquity of drug testing, at corporations with big human resources departments, in industries like trucking where testing is mandated by federal law for safety reasons, and increasingly at smaller companies. But data suggest employers' difficulties also reflect an increase in the use of drugs, especially marijuana — employers' main gripe — and also heroin and other opioid drugs much in the news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/business/hiring-hurdle-finding-workers-who-can-pass-a-drug-test.html