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  1. No one mainstream called Reagan, Bush Sr, McCain, Bush Jr, or Romney nazi's.

    Romney denigrated his own voters and refused to release his tax returns.

    Reagan was very popular.

    Bush Sr was a seasoned, intelligent president who governed well.

    McCain was a war hero and a good man until he sold his principles for a shot at being president.

    Bush Jr seemed like a party guy who was told what to do by neocons. Neocons were not nazi's and didn't behave like Nazi's.

  2. Representatives of the Alt Right are white nationalists who argue for a white nation after ethnic cleansing.

    They also say "Hail Trump and Hail the White Race" while giving nazi salutes.

    If you don't believe that, you need to line up behind something besides the Alt Right, because it's been taken over by white nationalists.

    Libertarians are softheaded but they are not Alt-Right as a group.

    Libertarians believe in magic which will keep the wealthy and powerful from oppressing everyone despite centuries of evidence to the contrary.

    The weapon shops of isher is FICTION.

  3. You and Trump.

    But Trump cares more. He keeps bringing it up every time he talks to a foreign leader apparently. Trump has a really thin skin.

    They need to let Spicer go. He's a known liar now and nothing he ever says can be trusted.

  4. No, people tossing around Heil Hitler Salutes and talking about ethnic cleansing get called nazi's.

    And anyone can validate that by googling Spencer's speeches. He consciously acts like a national socialist.

    I was saying weeks before Spencer was punched that he needs to be more careful because someone was going to kill him.

    When you start talking like nazi's, there are plenty of people with dead relatives who's skin was turned into lampshadees that might lose emotional control.

    What Spencer is doing is extremely dangerous. They are skirting right along the limits of the fighting words doctrine.

    I'm haven't watched Mili's speeches. The idea of a LGBT working for an organization that hates LGBT's (right this minute they are talking about Trumps executive order to allow businesses to refuse service to LGBT's) was so ludicrous I didn't bother. If he's also saying nazi stuff tho, then he should be careful. I saw he appeared to be wearing a bullet proof vest so that's a start.

  5. Re:It's not about risk... on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about microsoft but our company used infosys and paid they billed at $60 per hour onshore and $30 per hour off shore while U.S. resources making under $100,000 billed at $90 per hour.

    Infosys overpromised and under delivered. Anyone could see converting to all 6 SAP disciplines at the same time was impossible but the company fired two people who pointed that out and everyone shut up. 5 years later, the conversion was cancelled and is being rolled back. Over 1.5 billion dollars lost.

  6. Re:Let's hope it's true! on Scientists Marvel At 'Increasingly Non-Natural' Arctic Warmth (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Tropical diseases. Bloom of tropical insects and parasites.

    The rush of people from the equatorial reqions.

    The lack of 10,000 years of buffalo crap to sustain heavy crop growth.

    A few billion people won't die easily. It's going to be ugly.

  7. I see a lot of fitbits. I've never seen watch on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously... I've never seen anyone wearing an apple watch. I've probably seen a dozen fitbits.

    So I wonder where and to whom they are selling so many watches?

  8. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  9. Exclusively openoffice, libreoffice for years on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I converted all my documents over to open office until the great calamity.. .then I converted them over to libreoffice (bunch of minor issues).

    I have microsoft office full corporate on a dvd which I got for $20. I don't even install it. I don't need it.

    Powerpoint is more robust. I've hated word since it went to ribbons. I eventually relearned everything (tho some features literally took close to a year) but it was a toxic experience.

    Before that, I had some complex long word documents which were crashing on print or crashing on load. I fixed them by loading them into Open office and then resaving them as word. It was pretty clear from the ghost outlines around areas that word had areas overlapping in a funky way that was causing the print crashes. Never knew why other crashed on load but was able to 'recover'/fix them with open office and then reload back in word. They looked unchanged but no longer crashed.

  10. Re: Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    AC wrote: You have the most clearly written and factual explanation to the matter. Yet Trump supporter will still say you're wrong. They just can't seem to see any of his flaws.

    You are correct.

    http://www.politico.com/magazi...
    "
    The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether Youâ(TM)re a Trump Supporter

    And itâ(TM)s not gender, age, income, race or religion.
    ----
    Trumpâ(TM)s electoral strengthâ"and his staying powerâ"have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations
    "
    A primary trait of authoritarians is that when their chosen leader says something, they want to believe it is true. So they do believe it is true. Even when it makes no sense.

    http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11...

    Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order â" diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order â" are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

    Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order â" diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order â" are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

    There's more. it's worth reading.

  11. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    So when faced with the truth, you attack people and tell them to commit suicide.

    Lovely.

  12. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Other people left and/or were told to leave before this. The 4 are no the only people to leave.
    At this rate, they won't be the last.

    But it's okay, I'm sure he can find another person with 12 years of consular affairs experience by going to an employment agency- they are very common.

  13. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    He started off with a lot more than "a few million" and you must know that fact.
    He's gone bankrupt many times.
    He's regularly cheated people who did business with him.

    You don't get bankruptcy "do overs" when you are the president of the united states.

    He's knowledgeable about real estate. He showed over and over in the debates that he is ignorant about foreign policy, domestic policy, and running a large federal government. Despite massive efforts by the Obama team to transition to the Trump team, they failed to even nominate unvetted candidates for close to 1,000 positions so far. And have made no progress on the 2950 positions you don't need approval for. The cabinet secretaries doing the hiring have none of the experience needed to hire qualified peope for those 2950 positions.

    Now he's talking about bringing back torture which isn't effective and is illegal and which the army and the cia say are ineffective and illegal.

    He's going to get a lot of young people killed unless he gets his head screwed on straight really quickly.

  14. Re: Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That works when you have a few nuclear powers. The more nuclear powers we have the more likely we are to have nuclear war break out and/or to lose control of a nuclear weapon into the hands of non-state actors who can't be targeted by nuclear weapons.

  15. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree there is a problem with my assessment. When I heard a third of senior management left, I thought it was the poeple managing state, not the senior people on the "management" group which is below senior management..

    I.e. the term "management:" is over loaded here.

    I finally got hold of an org chart and it is like

    executive leader
    about a half dozen assistants to the executive and sub executives.
    --the text ABOVE is what I normally think of as "management"--

    Several groups--- one of which was called the management team.
    In that group, a third of the senior positions and the top person left.

  16. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think that's the cause.

    First, let me agree that The Doomsday clock is just the opinion of one group of people. They are reasonably intelligent but they have their own bias.

    But...

    Mr Trump displayed a very casual attitude towards nuclear weapons ... that *is* a reason to adjust the clock.

    He displayed a very casual attitude towards nuclear proliferation... another reason to adjust the clock.

    He has an incredibly thin skin and is also extremely vindictive. Having a president with those traits raises the risks of a nuclear war by any standard.

    Mr. Trump showed incredible ignorance in the debates. This will lead him into embarrassing situations. And for embarassing situations-- see the thin skin point.

    Mr. Trump has shown incredible incompetence as president elect. He has 4,000 employees to hire. He didn't even do basic vetting on his nominees. He sent his nominee's late. He is way behind and likely to hire unqualified candidates. Based on his cabinet picks-- probably about 3/4 of the people he hires for the minor positions won't be competent.

    He's a real estate guy who thinks running a government for 330 million citizen's is easy.

    Mr Trump is a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. And since he's picking wildly unqualified cabinet nominees for about 75% of his cabinet, they ALSO suffer from Dunning-Kruger. He is so ignorant, he doesn't realize how ignorant he is. I'm not saying he's stupid. Ignorant means you don't know- not that you can't know. But he's not applying himself.

    And he's about to set off a trade war with the country that guards our southern border who we sell 236 $billion dollars a year of product too and who we buy many prebuilt parts for our major industries from (because labor is cheaper in mexico). You know a major cause of world wars? Financial crisis and economic depression. You could trace a direct line from Smoot-Hawley to world war 2- our only nuclear war so far.

    Stop cheering simply because you are on Mr. Trump's "team" and reengage your brains. He won. You can think again. Please start.

  17. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Senior heads always submit letters of resignation as a matter of courtesy.

    Normally, they are let go before the inauguration if they are not going to be retained.

    It's clear at least one of them had intended to stay as of the inauguration and chose to take retirement.

    The most likely case is that Tillerson sent a secret email they couldn't tolerate as is happening in the other cabinet departments.

  18. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yea you know.. people who served under bush, clinton, bush, bush, obama, obama.. let's get rid of them. They know nothing... Nothing!

  19. Re:Meaningless on The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Russia disliked Clinton but she was competent and her presidency would not have resulted in a u.s./russia nuclear war.

    On the other hand President Trump just lost all the senior state department officials.
    President Trump is a huge narcissist and most of his cabinet choices are not chosen for competency.

    President Trump is emotionally erratic, rash and impulsive.

  20. PCS Metro is T-Mobile and less expensive for the same bandwidth.

    I've been on it for five months now and no problems.

  21. Re:Wind and Solar are Environmental Disasters on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    You misunderstood my point. It's still radioactive and could be used as a terrorist weapon even tho the fatality rate is low (I think under 100 since 1950). It doesn't have to be at instant death levels to pollute areas so throughly that they are considered uninhabitable. So you have to protect storage well.

  22. Re:Wind and Solar are Environmental Disasters on New Wyoming Bill Penalizes Utilities Using Renewable Energy (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand that plutonium oxide from a breeder isn't as dangerous (one reason a breeder reactor would be a good thing) but don't you agree that it's still dangerous enough that you need to protect it well?

    Are you advocating no or low security (like "Joe the unarmed security guard"?)

  23. Nope. I treated hundreds of people who were (and are) messed up from typing and mousing for a living. And I've also fixed them when they had tablet neck (from hanging their head over the tablet), and messed up shoulders, and messed up thumbs and fingers (from texting.)

    There are entire manuals for my practice that have techniques to fix specific problems from specific activities and I train regularly to find new methods.

    If you over use a tiny muscle- it will go into spasm. And in many cases, guarding will cause a cascade across related muscles.

    Another poster said it was age and that is partially true. But I've had clients who were in their young 20's who were in severe pain from overuse. If it's bad enough that I can't fix it- then they go to the doctor and it takes a shot to fix it (and each subsequent shot is less effective so you have a lifetime limit on how many times that will work).

    When we are young we have excess capacity, we haven't calcified yet, and we heal quickly when we do damage ourselves.

    In the rare case that it really is carpal tunnel, you really need to back off or get surgery (tho if you keep abusing it, it will come back in a year or two). But in many cases, it's simply that part of a muscle seized up. our muscles are meant to be contracted and released. They are not meant to be held contracted for long periods of time. One of the crazy injuries i encounter is cell phone arm. Just from holding a cell phone up to your ear for too long. Can cause a knot in your lower bicep that won't let go.

  24. And as others say, for obvious things it's useful.

    I use it a lot for weather, stocks, and so on.

    My bud uses it a lot for controlling lights.

    99% accuracy isn't good enough tho. it needs to be 99.99%.

    99% is just accurate enough to get you trusting it before it backstabs you.

  25. It's lost a lot of ground on Dragon Dictate (which I could use to play everquest for long periods).

    The inability to put in paragraph marks, delete words, and the loss of my profile as I change to a new device (why???) plus a complete lack of documentation are all factors.

    I had things working pretty well on my last phone and now on my new phone my voice typing has gone all to hell.

    Voice typing saves a TON of wear on your thumbs, hands, wrists, and shoulders.

    You may not realize it when you are younger but when your fingers turn numb or you are in so much pain that you are reduced to tears, you'll come to appreciate voice.