Is there any actual evidence of support outside the major urban centers in California? Up here in Canada there are no lack of "Western Separatist" movements that dream secession from Canada, because you know, all them Libruls and such. Even in the most right wing provinces; Alberta and Saskatchewan, these are just a small band of kooks who every once in a while somehow manage to get a bit of press. Even Quebec secessionism is pretty much on the back foot, and while I'd never say it's dead, it's pretty clear the Quebecois, who have a helluva better case than a bunch of cranky reactionary arch-conservative wingnuts, seem to have moved on from the whole sovereign Quebec issue.
So, unless there's some new data showing widespread support for this, it's just another pack of cranks, the number of which could probably gather in the nearest Burger King with room to spare, plotting that which shall never be achieved.
I love how the Republicans are trying to have it both ways. "OMG, there's FISA abuse and thus Trump is totally innocent of any collusion with the Russians... Oh yeah, and we just extended the whole Bush-era surveillance apparatus!"
King Crimson is pretty much one of my favorite bands. I saw them a couple of years ago, and wow, I mean it was just one of the most amazing two hours of my life. My wife came along, and basically about all she knew about King Crimson was the the album cover to In The Court Of The Crimson King (and she'd heard 21st Century Schizoid Man once long ago), and she walked out of that concert with her jaw on the floor. They've taken just about every influence from chamber music to rock to folk to music concrete, and forged a body of work that's really second to none.
The only other artist I really put on their level, though his sensibility was different in every possible way, was Frank Zappa. The man was a one-of-kind talent, brilliant composer, social commentator, could be as crude as you could imagine, and as a guitarist, was one of the best. He'd touch the mainstream here and there over his career, but he found a way to forge his own path and was insanely uncompromising.
I'd say there's a period between about 1965 and 1975 where popular mainstream music basically exploded in the genres it absorbed. You had The Beatles and The Beach Boys in the mid-60s, along with acts like the Kinks and the Yardbirds and a whole slew of other bands, just putting incredible records out. That was the dawning of the age of the studio. The Stones basically reinvented themselves in 1968 after some pretty unremarkable records and began probably the greatest four record streak in recording history beginning with Beggars Banquet.
You get to the early and mid 70s, you get the high point of Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, and if pure rock and roll is your thing, you've got AC/DC basically taking the original rock model and making it a lot louder, but still bands like AC/DC and Led Zeppelin knew how to make a song swing, even if they were belting it out at 10,000 watts.
I even like some punk, or at least proto-punk like the Ramones. Again, basically pure rock and roll just sped up, but still, there was a good beat that you could tap your foot to.
But after that, with some exceptions (I do like Blondie and the Police) it begans a downhill slide. I think the money men finally replaced all the good old fashioned A&R guys. There wasn't going to be any more Elvises or Ray Charles or Beatles or anything like that. Mainly I attribute it to MTV and the promotional video, which had been around in one form or another since the mid-60s, replaced the single. Video really did kill the radio star.
Between autotune and the loudness wars, most Top 40 music literally sounds like cloned garbage. There really is no soul in much modern music. I pretty much look at the indie and underground scenes. I like progressive rock and progressive metal, and there are a lot of bands in the trenches doing damned good work, and because the cost of making music has actually come done, they're far more able to record and distribute their music. I don't think any of them are making any great fortunes, that's reserved for the Top 40 clone department, but still, get out of the Billboard Bubble, and there's some pretty incredible stuff.
Because modern country music, that staple of conservatives, is an example of high art. Most modern country music is basically pop with a dobro and a guy or gal singing in a fake southern accent.
Well, the copper network that the Internet ended up riding on (and still, in large part rides on) was built up thanks to a lot of taxpayer giveaways in the form of right of ways. The Telcos have also been beneficiaries of taxpayer largess.
Clearly this is because SJW types are blocking Heroic Aryan Ubermensch In Space novels. We all know that if these novels were given their rightful place, that people would be lining up down the street to find out what the hyper-masculine blue-eyed blond haired space hero was up to; like grabbing pussies, beating on brown skinned people, keeping the master race safe from suspicious foreign bodily fluids.
Yes, I'm not clear why MS can't just check the CPU ID and decide functionality based on that. There must be other oddities of X86/64 architecture between different processor families that require MS to turn features on or off, or even alter the nature of functionality.
Well then, you can show your publication history. Clearly you possess the killing critique of climatology, so go on, where have you published? I mean, you wouldn't just be lying and aping some denier site you frequent? You actually can personally demonstrate your capacity to critique and falsify AGW modeling, right?
You actually don't know what a trend is, do you? And of course, despite that you're a super genius who is the first to think "should we enter solar output into our climate model". Despite your obvious lack of knowledge of statistics, my god, you must be so goddamned smart. You'd better right over to your nearest university, go kick in the door in the atmospheric studies department, throw them out and make it clear you expect a Nobel Prize for your brilliant, if utterly unfounded, insights.
I dislike systemd, but how is it any worse, or really any different from Windows daemon system? Part of the problem, in my view, is that systemd is way too much like Windows.
Yeah, so that's why this new innovative version gives Punch the most technically advanced military in the world, so he can threaten weird Asian tyrants with his "bigger button".
Government for the Idiots, by the Idiots, and of the Idiots.
Whether 9/10s of what Wolff writes in his book is invention and exaggeration, the fact a guy with his long-established reputation was walking around the White House just baffles me. What the fuck is wrong with Trump's people? Are they all fucking idiots? At every turn, this is an Administration seemingly hell bent on fucking itself over.
The problem is that you have to know what those negative externalities are. In a lot of historical cases, at least, there was little or no data available to help any lawmaker or regulator assess just how much environmental damage was being done. By the time everyone knew just how dangerous these various kinds of toxic dumps or dumping of waste into waterways and so forth were, the damage had already been done.
Of course, even now, where we know that a certain byproduct is causing significant changes, the industry and its supporters are fighting a full on war to prevent any kind of taxation, or heck even regulation, involved in mitigation. The amount of money the fossil fuel industry has spent denying or undermining research and public awareness into AGW demonstrates just how difficult it can be to impose a tax that factors in the negative effects of an industry. Christ, even talking about a sugar tax or regulating the amount of sugar in foods will get the sugar industry and its defenders wrapping themselves in the flag and going on about how they're defending peoples' freedoms.
The problem, as you say, is that governments have all too happily taken their cut from these industries, and have thus made themselves part of the problem, and by allowing these industries to basically buy government complicity, they now find themselves on the back foot when they have to start reigning these industries in.
Oh Christ, and here goes the nuclear again. Nuclear comes with its own very significant costs. It is not a panacea, and neither, at least with current technologies, is it renewable.
Bureaucracies, private or public, tend to have a level of "unresponsiveness", or rather, they have their own particular momentum. But government, at least at the elected level, is a place where I, as a voter, have some say. And yes, it is to government that the citizens ultimately must go if corporations won't listen. It is the right of the people to petition Congress, after all. There's no such right when it comes to a corporate boardroom. Even most shareholders hardly have any rights in that particular venue, but if you're not a shareholder, you have even less.
And ultimately, if you're going to have regulations, then you're going to have to have regulators, and those regulators are going to be government employees. And they are going to have to be empowered, in one form or another, to impose sanctions of some kind on any private interest that violates the regulations. Whether that's pollution, financial malfeasance or other forms of lawbreaking, it's government's job to hold private interests to account.
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Is there any actual evidence of support outside the major urban centers in California? Up here in Canada there are no lack of "Western Separatist" movements that dream secession from Canada, because you know, all them Libruls and such. Even in the most right wing provinces; Alberta and Saskatchewan, these are just a small band of kooks who every once in a while somehow manage to get a bit of press. Even Quebec secessionism is pretty much on the back foot, and while I'd never say it's dead, it's pretty clear the Quebecois, who have a helluva better case than a bunch of cranky reactionary arch-conservative wingnuts, seem to have moved on from the whole sovereign Quebec issue.
So, unless there's some new data showing widespread support for this, it's just another pack of cranks, the number of which could probably gather in the nearest Burger King with room to spare, plotting that which shall never be achieved.
I love how the Republicans are trying to have it both ways. "OMG, there's FISA abuse and thus Trump is totally innocent of any collusion with the Russians... Oh yeah, and we just extended the whole Bush-era surveillance apparatus!"
So they didn't hire you, huh? Well, I'd say that's one plus if I every apply there. I won't have to work beside some alt-right goon.
This sounds like an episode of Seinfeld.
King Crimson is pretty much one of my favorite bands. I saw them a couple of years ago, and wow, I mean it was just one of the most amazing two hours of my life. My wife came along, and basically about all she knew about King Crimson was the the album cover to In The Court Of The Crimson King (and she'd heard 21st Century Schizoid Man once long ago), and she walked out of that concert with her jaw on the floor. They've taken just about every influence from chamber music to rock to folk to music concrete, and forged a body of work that's really second to none.
The only other artist I really put on their level, though his sensibility was different in every possible way, was Frank Zappa. The man was a one-of-kind talent, brilliant composer, social commentator, could be as crude as you could imagine, and as a guitarist, was one of the best. He'd touch the mainstream here and there over his career, but he found a way to forge his own path and was insanely uncompromising.
They were up until about For Those About To Rock, and at that point they most certainly hopped genres a bit.
I'd say there's a period between about 1965 and 1975 where popular mainstream music basically exploded in the genres it absorbed. You had The Beatles and The Beach Boys in the mid-60s, along with acts like the Kinks and the Yardbirds and a whole slew of other bands, just putting incredible records out. That was the dawning of the age of the studio. The Stones basically reinvented themselves in 1968 after some pretty unremarkable records and began probably the greatest four record streak in recording history beginning with Beggars Banquet.
You get to the early and mid 70s, you get the high point of Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis, and if pure rock and roll is your thing, you've got AC/DC basically taking the original rock model and making it a lot louder, but still bands like AC/DC and Led Zeppelin knew how to make a song swing, even if they were belting it out at 10,000 watts.
I even like some punk, or at least proto-punk like the Ramones. Again, basically pure rock and roll just sped up, but still, there was a good beat that you could tap your foot to.
But after that, with some exceptions (I do like Blondie and the Police) it begans a downhill slide. I think the money men finally replaced all the good old fashioned A&R guys. There wasn't going to be any more Elvises or Ray Charles or Beatles or anything like that. Mainly I attribute it to MTV and the promotional video, which had been around in one form or another since the mid-60s, replaced the single. Video really did kill the radio star.
Between autotune and the loudness wars, most Top 40 music literally sounds like cloned garbage. There really is no soul in much modern music. I pretty much look at the indie and underground scenes. I like progressive rock and progressive metal, and there are a lot of bands in the trenches doing damned good work, and because the cost of making music has actually come done, they're far more able to record and distribute their music. I don't think any of them are making any great fortunes, that's reserved for the Top 40 clone department, but still, get out of the Billboard Bubble, and there's some pretty incredible stuff.
Because modern country music, that staple of conservatives, is an example of high art. Most modern country music is basically pop with a dobro and a guy or gal singing in a fake southern accent.
Well, the copper network that the Internet ended up riding on (and still, in large part rides on) was built up thanks to a lot of taxpayer giveaways in the form of right of ways. The Telcos have also been beneficiaries of taxpayer largess.
You could say this about a lot of technologies. The Internet wouldn't have existed without the American taxpayer.
Clearly this is because SJW types are blocking Heroic Aryan Ubermensch In Space novels. We all know that if these novels were given their rightful place, that people would be lining up down the street to find out what the hyper-masculine blue-eyed blond haired space hero was up to; like grabbing pussies, beating on brown skinned people, keeping the master race safe from suspicious foreign bodily fluids.
It's tough there aren't more Heroic Aryan Ubermensch In Space novels for you alt right types to masturbate to.
Yes, I'm not clear why MS can't just check the CPU ID and decide functionality based on that. There must be other oddities of X86/64 architecture between different processor families that require MS to turn features on or off, or even alter the nature of functionality.
Well then, you can show your publication history. Clearly you possess the killing critique of climatology, so go on, where have you published? I mean, you wouldn't just be lying and aping some denier site you frequent? You actually can personally demonstrate your capacity to critique and falsify AGW modeling, right?
You actually don't know what a trend is, do you? And of course, despite that you're a super genius who is the first to think "should we enter solar output into our climate model". Despite your obvious lack of knowledge of statistics, my god, you must be so goddamned smart. You'd better right over to your nearest university, go kick in the door in the atmospheric studies department, throw them out and make it clear you expect a Nobel Prize for your brilliant, if utterly unfounded, insights.
I dislike systemd, but how is it any worse, or really any different from Windows daemon system? Part of the problem, in my view, is that systemd is way too much like Windows.
Yeah, so that's why this new innovative version gives Punch the most technically advanced military in the world, so he can threaten weird Asian tyrants with his "bigger button".
Government for the Idiots, by the Idiots, and of the Idiots.
Whether 9/10s of what Wolff writes in his book is invention and exaggeration, the fact a guy with his long-established reputation was walking around the White House just baffles me. What the fuck is wrong with Trump's people? Are they all fucking idiots? At every turn, this is an Administration seemingly hell bent on fucking itself over.
I do, but with every creator update, all of sudden it tries to push Edge back on me.
The problem is that you have to know what those negative externalities are. In a lot of historical cases, at least, there was little or no data available to help any lawmaker or regulator assess just how much environmental damage was being done. By the time everyone knew just how dangerous these various kinds of toxic dumps or dumping of waste into waterways and so forth were, the damage had already been done.
Of course, even now, where we know that a certain byproduct is causing significant changes, the industry and its supporters are fighting a full on war to prevent any kind of taxation, or heck even regulation, involved in mitigation. The amount of money the fossil fuel industry has spent denying or undermining research and public awareness into AGW demonstrates just how difficult it can be to impose a tax that factors in the negative effects of an industry. Christ, even talking about a sugar tax or regulating the amount of sugar in foods will get the sugar industry and its defenders wrapping themselves in the flag and going on about how they're defending peoples' freedoms.
The problem, as you say, is that governments have all too happily taken their cut from these industries, and have thus made themselves part of the problem, and by allowing these industries to basically buy government complicity, they now find themselves on the back foot when they have to start reigning these industries in.
Not to mention the fact that Microsoft continually finds new ways to harass or trick me into using Edge. Microsoft is in no position to complain.
Oh Christ, and here goes the nuclear again. Nuclear comes with its own very significant costs. It is not a panacea, and neither, at least with current technologies, is it renewable.
Yes, Edge is just about good enough to be the first stage in a Chrome installation. I certainly don't use it for anything else.
Bureaucracies, private or public, tend to have a level of "unresponsiveness", or rather, they have their own particular momentum. But government, at least at the elected level, is a place where I, as a voter, have some say. And yes, it is to government that the citizens ultimately must go if corporations won't listen. It is the right of the people to petition Congress, after all. There's no such right when it comes to a corporate boardroom. Even most shareholders hardly have any rights in that particular venue, but if you're not a shareholder, you have even less.
And ultimately, if you're going to have regulations, then you're going to have to have regulators, and those regulators are going to be government employees. And they are going to have to be empowered, in one form or another, to impose sanctions of some kind on any private interest that violates the regulations. Whether that's pollution, financial malfeasance or other forms of lawbreaking, it's government's job to hold private interests to account.