Look, the dirty secret of both TV and newspaper media is that they exist only to sell words wrapped around the comics pages (newspaper) or the cartoons (TV).
Whenever they go away from that model, they die.
Was true when I worked as a teen in advertising at newspapers in the 70s.
Still is true.
People rarely read editorial pages - when I read the WSJ print edition, I skip past those two pages, suitable only for fishwrap.
Every step away from that model results in fewer readers or viewers.
It's 2016 not 2015. We ended our coal contract with Idaho.
Not that it matters. I get 100 percent green energy at all college and university campus locations in Seattle, and at home via both Green Up 100 percent and the fact I OWN SIX solar panels. Heck, just out the window you can see solar panels on all our new Platinum LEEDS buildings. We don't "buy" that power. We sell it.
Try again, grandpa. The world is changing, and coal and other fossil fuels are fast becoming stranded assets.
If you don't mind massive increases in infectious diseases in the Southern half of the US and temperature increases and variability that makes the pre-WWII storms of the Caribbean look like baby storms, then, yes, the extra CO2 helps crop yields.
But the increase in pests and weather events and drought mean less crops.
Adapt. Or die. There are no other options, because you listened to the fossil fuel pushers. Time's up!
Because if it was a commercial test of drone delivery and it strayed in and hit a small jet, they'll never admit that it's really really stupid to fly drones anywhere.
Except for the ones I helped build for Boeing. Those are supposed to kill people. That's their job.
All of the current personal networks are dystopian, designed to monetize personal information about you, and sell it to the highest bidder, while pretending to be your bestest bud and on your side.
But spying on Americans is unconstitutional as they have done it.
It's sad that SCOTUS won't allow Americans to sue for unconstitutional actions to collect their data, but will allow American companies (in the loosest sense of the term) to do so.
I used to declassify about 2/3 of all the documents that subordinates had over-classified, back in the day.
It's all a moving target. Your allies of one year (Saudi Arabia) may be your prime sponsors of global terrorism and instability the next (Saudi Arabia).
It has many names. It actually has had different parts ratified by both countries over many years.
"Under the Treaty, information will not be shared on Canadian or U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Any information shared on travellers and asylum seekers will be handled responsibly and, as with other information sharing agreements, exchanged in accordance with relevant Canadian laws including the Privacy Act to ensure individuals’ privacy rights are considered and protected."
full information on certain aspects at the usual Canadian Government websites. The fact that you're so clueless you have no ideas you signed away your rights to be pervy to Canadians and EU citizens while they are in the US is not my problem. Try paying attention sometime.
Look, I know Americans don't get it, but you signed two treaties: one with Canada, which grants Canadian citizens in the US the same rights of privacy and data access they have in Canada, stronger rights than Americans.
And another one with the EU, which does the same thing.
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As Adam Smith warned us about in his seven books, the chief enemy of Capitalism is Mercantalism, which is the system we live in today.
Try reading all of his Wealth of Nations books, not just snippets on a far right website.
And the other 10 percent are questionable.
But that's just an objective measure from someone who was part of the first IPO wave of investors in China last century.
Still true today.
Look, the dirty secret of both TV and newspaper media is that they exist only to sell words wrapped around the comics pages (newspaper) or the cartoons (TV).
Whenever they go away from that model, they die.
Was true when I worked as a teen in advertising at newspapers in the 70s.
Still is true.
People rarely read editorial pages - when I read the WSJ print edition, I skip past those two pages, suitable only for fishwrap.
Every step away from that model results in fewer readers or viewers.
Adapt.
It's 2016 not 2015. We ended our coal contract with Idaho.
Not that it matters. I get 100 percent green energy at all college and university campus locations in Seattle, and at home via both Green Up 100 percent and the fact I OWN SIX solar panels. Heck, just out the window you can see solar panels on all our new Platinum LEEDS buildings. We don't "buy" that power. We sell it.
Try again, grandpa. The world is changing, and coal and other fossil fuels are fast becoming stranded assets.
Zero emissions horse shit! If in North America, you're powering that electric car with coal.
Wrong. 12 US states produce electricity with hydroelectric, solar, and wind.
Just Seattle alone has 100 percent green electricity.
Wake up and smell the 2016 calendar, grandpa, it's not 1976 anymore.
It's fairly easy to test an electric car, just drive it with a fixed amount of energy charge and see how efficient it is.
Zero emissions.
Just saying.
If you don't mind massive increases in infectious diseases in the Southern half of the US and temperature increases and variability that makes the pre-WWII storms of the Caribbean look like baby storms, then, yes, the extra CO2 helps crop yields.
But the increase in pests and weather events and drought mean less crops.
Adapt. Or die. There are no other options, because you listened to the fossil fuel pushers. Time's up!
Don't shame people for texting while driving.
Take away their driver's license for one year, sell their car at auction (with no proceeds back to them), and confiscate their cellphone.
Problem solved.
And it precedes the 1990s. Or it least it did when we routinely did this in the 1980s.
However, the scope drastically increased since then. And the retention of data.
But we'll never know.
Because if it was a commercial test of drone delivery and it strayed in and hit a small jet, they'll never admit that it's really really stupid to fly drones anywhere.
Except for the ones I helped build for Boeing. Those are supposed to kill people. That's their job.
In the past. Already impacting two states.
Keep up, the past is not the present.
"Better weather".
Um, no.
It has extended the range the mosquito which carries the Zika virus can infect people.
Like half of California and almost all of the South.
Better?
I don't think so.
All of the current personal networks are dystopian, designed to monetize personal information about you, and sell it to the highest bidder, while pretending to be your bestest bud and on your side.
That's why I keep my original DARPA accounts.
So that's fine by me.
Two can play at this game.
That argument worked well in Nazi Germany.
Not.
But spying on Americans is unconstitutional as they have done it.
It's sad that SCOTUS won't allow Americans to sue for unconstitutional actions to collect their data, but will allow American companies (in the loosest sense of the term) to do so.
I used to declassify about 2/3 of all the documents that subordinates had over-classified, back in the day.
It's all a moving target. Your allies of one year (Saudi Arabia) may be your prime sponsors of global terrorism and instability the next (Saudi Arabia).
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that all treaties may not sign away and rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Which exist no matter where you reside, in or out of Canada.
You are a bigoted, nationalist asshole. Are you sure you are Canadian?
I'm also an American and from Texas.
Unlike Cruz.
It has many names. It actually has had different parts ratified by both countries over many years.
"Under the Treaty, information will not be shared on Canadian or U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Any information shared on travellers and asylum seekers will be handled responsibly and, as with other information sharing agreements, exchanged in accordance with relevant Canadian laws including the Privacy Act to ensure individuals’ privacy rights are considered and protected."
full information on certain aspects at the usual Canadian Government websites. The fact that you're so clueless you have no ideas you signed away your rights to be pervy to Canadians and EU citizens while they are in the US is not my problem. Try paying attention sometime.
Not my job. Try looking at the Canadian government web site.
Again, not my problem if you don't understand the consequences of the existence of treaties you sign.
Wrong. Don't sign treaties if you don't understand what they mean.
It was news in Canada.
I'm sorry you don't read "international" news, but it's been a major topic for many years now.
Just like Free Trade and NAFTA were.
Look, I know Americans don't get it, but you signed two treaties: one with Canada, which grants Canadian citizens in the US the same rights of privacy and data access they have in Canada, stronger rights than Americans.
And another one with the EU, which does the same thing.
I for one welcome our FB neo-nazi chatbot overlords.
Oh, wait, no, I don't.