I'm sorry that I could be easily replaced by a foreign CEO at who would do the job at 1/20th of my salary but only you are getting screwed. But see me and my rich buddies on the board protect each other.
I'm sorry that I'm going to increase my prices and profits as I pump wealth out of your local economy straight into foreign economies even tho I have lower labor costs. I'm sorry that none of the income tax (and none of the corporate tax) will go to pay for the local roads, court systems, and police forces that I depend on to extract my money from you.
I'll be REALLY sorry when one of you guys robs me, or kidnaps and kills my children, or burns down my local sales points of presence as has happened in other countries around the world. I'm just hoping I can move to monico and keep my wealth while having you suckers pay for my military defense.
I'm really sorry to be part of a democracy where you guys can make it illegal to do what I'm doing so I'm trying to do it quickly before it becomes illegal.
dailymail monday to saturday is like the national enquirer.
dailymail sunday edition is a little more reliable.
Second contemporaneous analysis of the leaked documents showed russian language user names and hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic. The supposed romanian hacker couldn't speak romainian as a native. More details below along with hyperlink.
All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.
Then there is the language issue. âoeI hate being attributed to Russia,â the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboard's Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0â(TM)s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical mattersâ"an indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.
Other features are also suspicious. One is timing, as ThreatConnect, another security company, has pointed out in a useful analysis: various timestamps indicate that the Guccifer-branded leaking operation was prompted by the DNCâ(TM)s initial publicity, with preparation starting around 24 hours after CrowdStrikeâ(TM)s report came out. Both APT 28 and Guccifer were using French infrastructure for communications. ThreatConnect then pointed out that both the self-proclaimed hackerâ(TM)s technical statements on the use of 0-day exploits as well as the alleged timeline of the DNC breach are most likely false. Another odd circumstantial finding: sock-puppet social media accounts may have been created specifically to amplify and extend Gucciferâ(TM)s reach, as UK intelligence startup Ripjar told me.
Perhaps most curiously, the Guccifer 2.0 account, from the beginning, was not simply claiming to have breached the DNC networkâ"but claiming that two Russian actors actually were not on the DNC network at the same time. It is common to find multiple intruders in tempting yet badly defended networks. Nevertheless the Guccifer 2.0 account claimed confidently, and with no supporting evidence, that the breach was simply a âoelone hackerââ"a phrasing that seems designed to deflect blame from Russia. Guccifer 2.0â(TM)s availability to the journalists was also surprising, and something new altogether.
The combative yet error-prone handling of the Guccifer account is in line with the GRUâ(TM)s aggressive and risk-taking organizational culture and a wartime mindset prevalent in the Russian intelligence community. Russiaâ(TM)s agencies see themselves as instruments of direct action, working in support of a fragile Russia under siege by the West, especially the United States.
It's clear Jarvis as an A.I. assistant predates Zuckenberg's use of it and that he is poaching on the value of the name.
I'm sure Marvel's lawyers will contact him for an appropriate licensing fee. But they might wait to see if it succeeds under that name and then go for bigger bucks.
And actually, because of grandfather clauses written into the pollution laws older Coal plants didn't have to start complying with the law until late 2015. Some of them have huge mercury pollution plumes extending miles from the plant which may come back to haunt us.as supersites in the future.
Basically texas gets a 2.3 c per kwh subsidy for 10 years for new private wind construction. It incents selling "free" wind power during periods of excess supply.
Reliant charges 15.5 c per kwh in Houston (they still have nuclear in the mix). Many other power companies charge between 8c/kwh and 12c/kwh with contracts ranging from 8 to 36 months.
When you consider the country has spent well over 2 trillion dollars to protect oil interests, every dime spent on wind power is money well spent. So far only construction workers have died buildilng wind. We haven't had to spend 4,000 lives (and another 2.9 MILLION young men and women permanently disabled to some degree) to protect wind power like we did to protect oil wells.
Likewise, as we go to electric vehicles, ever penny put into wind power (and conservation and solar power) directly takes money out of terrorist pockets by suppressing demand and hence the price for oil. We only need to suppress demand by about 2% to collapse prices.
In absolute numbers wind subsidies are still very small because "big wind" is tiny compared to "big oil". If you do a casual google, you'll find a lot of anti-wind propaganda. As you dig into the various "institutes" you'll find they are funded by big oil.
They both make oil and electricity prices lower. Most wind subsidies are TINY (under half a billion). Most Oil and Coal subsidies are embedded in the system so deep they seem like government functions but we wouldn't NEED to invade iraq or supersite pollution sites if we had more wind and solar.
(As wind and especially Solar get bigger, we'll probably start seeing some new kinds of pollution associated with them however. No free lunch).
'"Only two of the variables I looked at were statistically significant: [b]authoritarianism, followed by fear of terrorism,[/b] though the former was far more significant than the latter."
I've talked with people at work who seem to be stereo typical typical "good Christians" and they will bend over backwards to find a way to support pretty much anyone that they think might advance their values, particularly on abortion. It is interesting that abortions have tended to fall more, lately at least, under democratic administrations. snopes. The article mentions that the trend hasn't held forever, but it does seem to have held during the last several presidents.
I don't know I suppose I can understand they find it to be an important issue, but I just can't accept the letting rome burn to get it attitude as rational. You don't buy a car from a known con man just because you liked the color of the seats.'
And mixed with them are republican women who are shocked that republicans are passing laws like the new ohio law which essentially makes abortion illegal before most women know they are pregnant (at 6-7 weeks).
That's the crazy thing is that Mr. Trump said women should be punished and abortion should be illegal. Republican state legislatures have passed law after law to make abortion illegal and yet republican women didn't believe the men meant what they were saying.
I'm not talking about Mr. Trump here. I'm talking about trump voters. A survey of trump voters found many of them held pro authoritarian points of view that were found to be common among nazi era germans..
We are talking "Stanford Prison Experiment" on a national scale here. Those are the experiments which have repeatedly shown given an authority figure (who they just met), normal people will escalate amazingly quickly to torturing (even to the point of apparently killing) other human beings with minimal prompting.
While Mr. Trump shows a strong admiration for authoritarians and has self styled himself as "the dictator" in music videos, he is closer to mussolini than hitler. Mr. Trump has no explicit racial purity stances for example and his racism is more venal, "the jews" are good with money while "the blacks" are lazy and it's fair to deny them housing when they are equally (or even more) qualified to candidates of other races.
The most likely bad outcomes from Mr. Trump are a right wing (not "conservative") supreme court at odds with a majority of the citizens for the rest of my life, a loss of workers rights, an dramatic increase in open racism, Mr. Trump and his family plundering the Country for 1 to 3 billion dollars ("trump change"), a possible hot war with china (which multiple senior members of Mr. Trump's administration are pushing for and think would be a good thing), the weakening of NATO and possible transfer of many european countries to Russia's sphere of influence, an acceleration of human caused global warming combined with local severe increases in pollution (a return to 'super sites' like we used to get all the time which are basically poisoned for multiple generations), an increase in police beatings and executions of minorities, and potentially corruption of the line between military and civilian power in the country which has prevented military coups in the past. While qualified this '3 year" exception for the marine general is extremely disturbing. I'm certain there were many other qualified ex military who had been out of the military for 7 or more years for example.
But it's the voters that scare me. They show a lot of racist tendencies and some of the idiots are openly throwing Hiel Hitler salutes at richard spencer talks and spencer is only 2 steps removed from Mr. Trump. It's disturbing that so many skinheads and ex and current Klan members endorsed and campaigned for Mr Trump.
Look, I'm a reagan republican who voted for George Bush Sr as well. The administration Mr. Trump is putting together is exactly what he campaigned against on steroids. His narcissistic and sociopathic lying is unprecedented in my experience with political candidates. It's like people just don't care. They want a strong man and anything he does is okay. Normal standards dont' apply.. Evangelicals vote for a multiple adulterer and sexual abuser by a large majority.. They don't care. They want a god on earth who will ban abortion and anything else he does is okay.
Yes you are correct. It's frightening. Silence equals consent.
Key thing for me was the instant flip on views towards russia by "conservatives".
We have a huge block of pro-authoritarian voters. I think they want a "human god on earth" and it's literally "ukase rex".. i.e. whatever he says is good by definition. So if he says to fire people in violation of federal law, it's good. If he says to kill people, it's good.
But it's not good- it's actually 1938 germany damn scary...
We studied WHY the "good " germans went along with hitler and it's the same thing. They wanted a strong leader and were willing to go along with anything he wanted as long as he was a strong leader. Many of Trumps supporters show the same reason for liking trump. He's strong. Not that he tells the truth. Not that he follows the law.
"In a recent column for Politico, MacWilliams reported that in December he did a national poll of 1,800 voters to explain the support for Trump.
"Running a standard statistical analysis, I found that education, income, gender, age, ideology, and religiosity [b]had no significant bearing[/b] on a Republican voter's preferred candidate," wrote MacWilliams.
"Only two of the variables I looked at were statistically significant: [b]authoritarianism, followed by fear of terrorism,[/b] though the former was far more significant than the latter."
Mark Leary, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, told The Christian Post that traits which define authoritarian personality include "rigid adherence to traditional values; the tendency to condemn, reject, and punish people who violate those values; and having a submissive, uncritical attitude toward powerful authorities who support and defend one's values and views." [b] A Certain Set of Characteristics[/b]
[b]Authoritarian Personality Theory came from a project to better understand how the Nazis came to power during the 1930s and were able to commit mass atrocity.[/b]
Theodore Adorno et. al. published the first major work in 1950, titled The Authoritarian Personality, and championed the survey known as the California F-Scale, the letter f standing for Fascist.
The F-Scale was a series of questions that determined how authoritarian a person's thinking was, with an interviewee answering how much they agreed or disagreed with certain value statements.
According to one online version of the test*, statements posed to interviewees included, "Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn", "If people would talk less and work more, everybody would be better off", "Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question", and "An insult to our honor should always be punished."
Thousands of peer-reviewed articles and studies on the Authoritarian Personality have been published over the past six decades. "
Part of the reason it wasn't obscenely expensive was that it was relying on artificially low labor cost.
It's like buying shoes or clothing made by 11 year old sweat shop labor locked into buildings like slaves.
Sure... the shoes or clothing are cheaper.
And sorry, but being "on the clock" includes time waiting available to be scheduled for a fare and time driving to the customer to pick them up. I'm not sure how you could see otherwise really.
Taxi monopolies are egregious and do need to be addressed. But in many locations, after safety, insurance, and other regulations individual taxi drivers don't make a ton of money.
As far as I can tell the Price Anderson Act has only cost the taxpayers 65 million dollars.
Personally, I don't think nuclear power + humans is a safe deal. Humans show significant risk to start cutting corners and ignoring procedures within a decade or two.
Also, the subsidy for oil should include the entire cost of the Gulf Wars. So well over 2 trillion dollars.
Plus every penny spent on oil puts money in the pockets of people who want to kill us directly or indirectly.
Plus, we don't have to eliminate oil- we only need to destroy about 2% of oil demand to crush prices.
Solar and wind costs are dropping like a stone and will have low decommissioning costs.
LED saves huge amounts of energy and is cheap to implement on a personal basis and the quality of light is as good as old fashioned incandescent. LED pay for themselves in hot climates within 6 months and in cooler climates in under a year with electriciity at 10c/kwh or higher. Still good but longer payoffs if you have cheap hyrdro power.
If humans are denied a share of societies productivity resulting from automation, then we could see a rapid decline in the total number of humans like horses saw from 1890 to 1920. About 52 million to about 3 million. That would only buy us an extra 100 years.
And there's a limited amount the earth can radiate out to space.
Energy always becomes heat.
As far back as the late 1990s, people were projecting that if the energy increase per human being continued at the rate it had been increasing since the 1600s, the surface temperature of earth would pass the boiling point of water within 500 years.
My use of Netflix is down to about 20% of what it was 4 years ago. Multiple days will pass between using the service.
For now, the TV shows are okay but once BBC sets up is own private service I may start dropping netflix for 6 months a year.
And the only other service I get is Amazon Prime but I rarely use it for shows because their interface leads me to pay per view shows half the time and that pisses me off. So I use them for the cheap shipping.
Actually, most of the "lost" netflix hours go to original Youtube now.
What you are saying and I am saying are not contradictory.
Netflix was $10 and included DVD's.
Netflix (from $7.99 per month)... Amazon Instant Video (from $8.99 per month)... Hulu (from $7.99 per month)... Showtime (from $10.99 per month)... HBO Now (from $14.99 per month)... Starz (from $8.99 per month)... CBS All Access (from $5.99 per month) Warner Movie Service (From $10.00 a month) Sling TV (for Disney) is $20+ a month
For people with less money (college students?) the difference between $10 a month and $50 a month is sufficient to spur piracy. It feels silly to pirate for $10 a month and take the legal risks. But $100 for the content now fenced off in the services above (and more- some things not streamed or even legally available for purchase) is more tempting for people of limited means.
"Hereâ(TM)s what the New York Times Manual* states at the entry president:
â âoeIt is President Lamm(without a given name) in a first reference to the current president of the United States. In later references President Lamm; the president; Mrâ¦.Lammâ
This style is seen in todayâ(TM)s New York Times, as in the example in this article:
The order of mention is this: âoeBarrack Obama, President Obama, Mr. Obamaââ¦..âPresident George Bush, Mr. Bushâ
As you see, though, the Times sometimes goes against its own rules, citing the first name, too, as in this example.
â President Barack Obama moved quickly on Wednesday to lay some touchstones for the âoemore responsible, more accountable governmentâ he has promised, ordering a salary freeze for senior White House staff, tightening rules on lobbyists and establishing what he said was a new standard of greater government openness. âoeHowever long we are keepers of the public trust, we should never forget that we are here as public servants,â Mr. Obama said at a swearing-in ceremony for staff members in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. _______
So, in answer to your question, I think it is correct for the first mention of the president to be President (Barack) Obama, and for subsequent mention to be Mr. Obama. The style may be different in different publications or in different situations. I like this particular style.
There is something else to be considered: you could leave out the honorific President or Mr., as well as the first name, and use only Obama. Some newspapers use this style. I find it jarring and rude in a newspaper, but in a personal letter, it would be acceptable. "
Actually, many people did stop pirating when it was easy to legally get the content for a reasonable price. I stopped pirating music years ago for example.
They descend on it like wolves, divide the content, and raise the prices by 1000%.
To get what you got on netflix just a few years ago, you'd need to subscribe to a half dozen services which are really overpriced for the content they provide.
There is room in the market for Netflix vs Amazon but not netflix vs a dozen other services.
actually, most conservatives strongly resist a national id card... which is what you are saying.
But yes, a national biometric database would be the most effective way (combined with workplace inspection, stiff fines, and jail time for repeat offenders to remove incentives that bring non-citizens to work in the U.S. illegally. .
I agree with your point that more expensive items are more likely to be repaired but an SLA swap out business model would be more appropriate to an automated model. It's been used for very expensive computers for over a decade. I.e. the machines are designed for human maintenance now because that's cheaper. But human maintenance is expensive and so it's a point of attack.
First with better diagnostics, the combine could tell the SLA service provider what part is broken before they leave the office. Also, the combine could detect and request service before things actually failed (computers have been doing that for a couple decades). Second with better design, the major components would be modular and easy to maintain by a robot.
But I'll grant you automated repair and maintenance might be closer to 20 years away than to 10 years away but a leasing model where they pulled up and swapped out your combine with another and took it back to the factory for maintenance would be better than extended downtime.
The bigger hit is without a cold winter, pests survive and are ready to hit the plants immediately. We are already seeing this with tomotoes in the southern USA where we used to get 3-12 days of 20 degree temperatures every year. We haven't had freezing temperatures for more than a couple days in a decade where i live. The last good snow was almost 20 years ago now (used to snow once every 8-10 years).
Several fruits and vegetables have market ready robotic solutions now.
They are cheaper than 3rd world labor so even if willing a human literally couldn't make enough to eat for a month's labor much less house and cloth themselves.
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Yes and since the CEO is on the board of directors for their companies, they all cover each others backs.
Many of the CEO's and board members went to private school together since they were toddlers.
How on earth do you think they are going to be impartial when it's in their self interest to protect each other before the corporation?
I'm sorry that I could be easily replaced by a foreign CEO at who would do the job at 1/20th of my salary but only you are getting screwed. But see me and my rich buddies on the board protect each other.
I'm sorry that I'm going to increase my prices and profits as I pump wealth out of your local economy straight into foreign economies even tho I have lower labor costs. I'm sorry that none of the income tax (and none of the corporate tax) will go to pay for the local roads, court systems, and police forces that I depend on to extract my money from you.
I'll be REALLY sorry when one of you guys robs me, or kidnaps and kills my children, or burns down my local sales points of presence as has happened in other countries around the world. I'm just hoping I can move to monico and keep my wealth while having you suckers pay for my military defense.
I'm really sorry to be part of a democracy where you guys can make it illegal to do what I'm doing so I'm trying to do it quickly before it becomes illegal.
Oh heck.. I'm not sorry! Screw you suckers!
okay... first
dailymail monday to saturday is like the national enquirer.
dailymail sunday edition is a little more reliable.
Second contemporaneous analysis of the leaked documents showed russian language user names and hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic. The supposed romanian hacker couldn't speak romainian as a native. More details below along with hyperlink.
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
July 25, 2016 // 08:55 AM EST
All Signs Point to Russia Being Behind the DNC Hack
The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.
Then there is the language issue. âoeI hate being attributed to Russia,â the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboard's Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0â(TM)s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical mattersâ"an indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.
Other features are also suspicious. One is timing, as ThreatConnect, another security company, has pointed out in a useful analysis: various timestamps indicate that the Guccifer-branded leaking operation was prompted by the DNCâ(TM)s initial publicity, with preparation starting around 24 hours after CrowdStrikeâ(TM)s report came out. Both APT 28 and Guccifer were using French infrastructure for communications. ThreatConnect then pointed out that both the self-proclaimed hackerâ(TM)s technical statements on the use of 0-day exploits as well as the alleged timeline of the DNC breach are most likely false. Another odd circumstantial finding: sock-puppet social media accounts may have been created specifically to amplify and extend Gucciferâ(TM)s reach, as UK intelligence startup Ripjar told me.
Perhaps most curiously, the Guccifer 2.0 account, from the beginning, was not simply claiming to have breached the DNC networkâ"but claiming that two Russian actors actually were not on the DNC network at the same time. It is common to find multiple intruders in tempting yet badly defended networks. Nevertheless the Guccifer 2.0 account claimed confidently, and with no supporting evidence, that the breach was simply a âoelone hackerââ"a phrasing that seems designed to deflect blame from Russia. Guccifer 2.0â(TM)s availability to the journalists was also surprising, and something new altogether.
The combative yet error-prone handling of the Guccifer account is in line with the GRUâ(TM)s aggressive and risk-taking organizational culture and a wartime mindset prevalent in the Russian intelligence community. Russiaâ(TM)s agencies see themselves as instruments of direct action, working in support of a fragile Russia under siege by the West, especially the United States.
It's clear Jarvis as an A.I. assistant predates Zuckenberg's use of it and that he is poaching on the value of the name.
I'm sure Marvel's lawyers will contact him for an appropriate licensing fee. But they might wait to see if it succeeds under that name and then go for bigger bucks.
And actually, because of grandfather clauses written into the pollution laws older Coal plants didn't have to start complying with the law until late 2015. Some of them have huge mercury pollution plumes extending miles from the plant which may come back to haunt us.as supersites in the future.
Basically texas gets a 2.3 c per kwh subsidy for 10 years for new private wind construction. It incents selling "free" wind power during periods of excess supply.
Reliant charges 15.5 c per kwh in Houston (they still have nuclear in the mix). Many other power companies charge between 8c/kwh and 12c/kwh with contracts ranging from 8 to 36 months.
When you consider the country has spent well over 2 trillion dollars to protect oil interests, every dime spent on wind power is money well spent. So far only construction workers have died buildilng wind. We haven't had to spend 4,000 lives (and another 2.9 MILLION young men and women permanently disabled to some degree) to protect wind power like we did to protect oil wells.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nu...
Likewise, as we go to electric vehicles, ever penny put into wind power (and conservation and solar power) directly takes money out of terrorist pockets by suppressing demand and hence the price for oil. We only need to suppress demand by about 2% to collapse prices.
In absolute numbers wind subsidies are still very small because "big wind" is tiny compared to "big oil". If you do a casual google, you'll find a lot of anti-wind propaganda. As you dig into the various "institutes" you'll find they are funded by big oil.
For example.. the "Institute for Energy Reseach" is a front for Koch and Enron.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...
Wind is GOOD for us.
Solar is GOOD for us.
They both make oil and electricity prices lower.
Most wind subsidies are TINY (under half a billion).
Most Oil and Coal subsidies are embedded in the system so deep they seem like government functions but we wouldn't NEED to invade iraq or supersite pollution sites if we had more wind and solar.
(As wind and especially Solar get bigger, we'll probably start seeing some new kinds of pollution associated with them however. No free lunch).
Anonymous Coward said...
'"Only two of the variables I looked at were statistically significant: [b]authoritarianism, followed by fear of terrorism,[/b] though the former was far more significant than the latter."
I've talked with people at work who seem to be stereo typical typical "good Christians" and they will bend over backwards to find a way to support pretty much anyone that they think might advance their values, particularly on abortion. It is interesting that abortions have tended to fall more, lately at least, under democratic administrations. snopes. The article mentions that the trend hasn't held forever, but it does seem to have held during the last several presidents.
I don't know I suppose I can understand they find it to be an important issue, but I just can't accept the letting rome burn to get it attitude as rational. You don't buy a car from a known con man just because you liked the color of the seats.'
And mixed with them are republican women who are shocked that republicans are passing laws like the new ohio law which essentially makes abortion illegal before most women know they are pregnant (at 6-7 weeks).
That's the crazy thing is that Mr. Trump said women should be punished and abortion should be illegal. Republican state legislatures have passed law after law to make abortion illegal and yet republican women didn't believe the men meant what they were saying.
I'm not talking about Mr. Trump here. I'm talking about trump voters. A survey of trump voters found many of them held pro authoritarian points of view that were found to be common among nazi era germans..
We are talking "Stanford Prison Experiment" on a national scale here. Those are the experiments which have repeatedly shown given an authority figure (who they just met), normal people will escalate amazingly quickly to torturing (even to the point of apparently killing) other human beings with minimal prompting.
While Mr. Trump shows a strong admiration for authoritarians and has self styled himself as "the dictator" in music videos, he is closer to mussolini than hitler. Mr. Trump has no explicit racial purity stances for example and his racism is more venal, "the jews" are good with money while "the blacks" are lazy and it's fair to deny them housing when they are equally (or even more) qualified to candidates of other races.
The most likely bad outcomes from Mr. Trump are
a right wing (not "conservative") supreme court at odds with a majority of the citizens for the rest of my life,
a loss of workers rights,
an dramatic increase in open racism,
Mr. Trump and his family plundering the Country for 1 to 3 billion dollars ("trump change"), a possible hot war with china (which multiple senior members of Mr. Trump's administration are pushing for and think would be a good thing),
the weakening of NATO and possible transfer of many european countries to Russia's sphere of influence,
an acceleration of human caused global warming combined with local severe increases in pollution (a return to 'super sites' like we used to get all the time which are basically poisoned for multiple generations),
an increase in police beatings and executions of minorities,
and potentially corruption of the line between military and civilian power in the country which has prevented military coups in the past. While qualified this '3 year" exception for the marine general is extremely disturbing. I'm certain there were many other qualified ex military who had been out of the military for 7 or more years for example.
But it's the voters that scare me. They show a lot of racist tendencies and some of the idiots are openly throwing Hiel Hitler salutes at richard spencer talks and spencer is only 2 steps removed from Mr. Trump. It's disturbing that so many skinheads and ex and current Klan members endorsed and campaigned for Mr Trump.
Look, I'm a reagan republican who voted for George Bush Sr as well. The administration Mr. Trump is putting together is exactly what he campaigned against on steroids. His narcissistic and sociopathic lying is unprecedented in my experience with political candidates. It's like people just don't care. They want a strong man and anything he does is okay. Normal standards dont' apply.. Evangelicals vote for a multiple adulterer and sexual abuser by a large majority.. They don't care. They want a god on earth who will ban abortion and anything else he does is okay.
Yes you are correct. It's frightening. Silence equals consent.
Key thing for me was the instant flip on views towards russia by "conservatives".
We have a huge block of pro-authoritarian voters. I think they want a "human god on earth" and it's literally "ukase rex" .. i.e. whatever he says is good by definition. So if he says to fire people in violation of federal law, it's good. If he says to kill people, it's good.
But it's not good- it's actually 1938 germany damn scary...
We studied WHY the "good " germans went along with hitler and it's the same thing. They wanted a strong leader and were willing to go along with anything he wanted as long as he was a strong leader. Many of Trumps supporters show the same reason for liking trump. He's strong. Not that he tells the truth. Not that he follows the law.
http://www.christianpost.com/n...
"In a recent column for Politico, MacWilliams reported that in December he did a national poll of 1,800 voters to explain the support for Trump.
"Running a standard statistical analysis, I found that education, income, gender, age, ideology, and religiosity [b]had no significant bearing[/b] on a Republican voter's preferred candidate," wrote MacWilliams.
"Only two of the variables I looked at were statistically significant: [b]authoritarianism, followed by fear of terrorism,[/b] though the former was far more significant than the latter."
Mark Leary, professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, told The Christian Post that traits which define authoritarian personality include "rigid adherence to traditional values; the tendency to condemn, reject, and punish people who violate those values; and having a submissive, uncritical attitude toward powerful authorities who support and defend one's values and views."
[b]
A Certain Set of Characteristics[/b]
[b]Authoritarian Personality Theory came from a project to better understand how the Nazis came to power during the 1930s and were able to commit mass atrocity.[/b]
Theodore Adorno et. al. published the first major work in 1950, titled The Authoritarian Personality, and championed the survey known as the California F-Scale, the letter f standing for Fascist.
The F-Scale was a series of questions that determined how authoritarian a person's thinking was, with an interviewee answering how much they agreed or disagreed with certain value statements.
According to one online version of the test*, statements posed to interviewees included, "Obedience and respect for authority are the most important virtues children should learn", "If people would talk less and work more, everybody would be better off", "Every person should have complete faith in some supernatural power whose decisions he obeys without question", and "An insult to our honor should always be punished."
Thousands of peer-reviewed articles and studies on the Authoritarian Personality have been published over the past six decades.
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Part of the reason it wasn't obscenely expensive was that it was relying on artificially low labor cost.
It's like buying shoes or clothing made by 11 year old sweat shop labor locked into buildings like slaves.
Sure... the shoes or clothing are cheaper.
And sorry, but being "on the clock" includes time waiting available to be scheduled for a fare and time driving to the customer to pick them up. I'm not sure how you could see otherwise really.
Taxi monopolies are egregious and do need to be addressed. But in many locations, after safety, insurance, and other regulations individual taxi drivers don't make a ton of money.
As far as I can tell the Price Anderson Act has only cost the taxpayers 65 million dollars.
Personally, I don't think nuclear power + humans is a safe deal. Humans show significant risk to start cutting corners and ignoring procedures within a decade or two.
Also, the subsidy for oil should include the entire cost of the Gulf Wars. So well over 2 trillion dollars.
Plus every penny spent on oil puts money in the pockets of people who want to kill us directly or indirectly.
Plus, we don't have to eliminate oil- we only need to destroy about 2% of oil demand to crush prices.
Solar and wind costs are dropping like a stone and will have low decommissioning costs.
LED saves huge amounts of energy and is cheap to implement on a personal basis and the quality of light is as good as old fashioned incandescent. LED pay for themselves in hot climates within 6 months and in cooler climates in under a year with electriciity at 10c/kwh or higher. Still good but longer payoffs if you have cheap hyrdro power.
Awesome! So awesome I've bookmarked it.
If humans are denied a share of societies productivity resulting from automation, then we could see a rapid decline in the total number of humans like horses saw from 1890 to 1920. About 52 million to about 3 million. That would only buy us an extra 100 years.
Heat is waste.
And there's a limited amount the earth can radiate out to space.
Energy always becomes heat.
As far back as the late 1990s, people were projecting that if the energy increase per human being continued at the rate it had been increasing since the 1600s, the surface temperature of earth would pass the boiling point of water within 500 years.
My use of Netflix is down to about 20% of what it was 4 years ago. Multiple days will pass between using the service.
For now, the TV shows are okay but once BBC sets up is own private service I may start dropping netflix for 6 months a year.
And the only other service I get is Amazon Prime but I rarely use it for shows because their interface leads me to pay per view shows half the time and that pisses me off. So I use them for the cheap shipping.
Actually, most of the "lost" netflix hours go to original Youtube now.
"Attorney's fees" ... not a dime will go to her.
She should have been paid at least prevailing wages for time spent on the case.
That would be really dumb to do since a web of cameras and recordings can track you all the way back to entering the terminal.
What you are saying and I am saying are not contradictory.
Netflix was $10 and included DVD's.
Netflix (from $7.99 per month) ... ... ... ... ... ...
Amazon Instant Video (from $8.99 per month)
Hulu (from $7.99 per month)
Showtime (from $10.99 per month)
HBO Now (from $14.99 per month)
Starz (from $8.99 per month)
CBS All Access (from $5.99 per month)
Warner Movie Service (From $10.00 a month)
Sling TV (for Disney) is $20+ a month
For people with less money (college students?) the difference between $10 a month and $50 a month is sufficient to spur piracy. It feels silly to pirate for $10 a month and take the legal risks. But $100 for the content now fenced off in the services above (and more- some things not streamed or even legally available for purchase) is more tempting for people of limited means.
Interesting article on that here
http://www.mediaite.com/online...
Looks like the shift is occuring during the last few years.
It's still not correct according to the major manuals of style.
http://thegrammarexchange.info...
"Hereâ(TM)s what the New York Times Manual* states at the entry president:
â âoeIt is President Lamm(without a given name) in a first reference to the current president of the United States. In later references President Lamm; the president; Mrâ¦.Lammâ
This style is seen in todayâ(TM)s New York Times, as in the example in this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01...
The order of mention is this: âoeBarrack Obama, President Obama, Mr. Obamaââ¦..âPresident George Bush, Mr. Bushâ
As you see, though, the Times sometimes goes against its own rules, citing the first name, too, as in this example.
â President Barack Obama moved quickly on Wednesday to lay some touchstones for the âoemore responsible, more accountable governmentâ he has promised, ordering a salary freeze for senior White House staff, tightening rules on lobbyists and establishing what he said was a new standard of greater government openness. âoeHowever long we are keepers of the public trust, we should never forget that we are here as public servants,â Mr. Obama said at a swearing-in ceremony for staff members in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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So, in answer to your question, I think it is correct for the first mention of the president to be President (Barack) Obama, and for subsequent mention to be Mr. Obama.
The style may be different in different publications or in different situations. I like this particular style.
There is something else to be considered: you could leave out the honorific President or Mr., as well as the first name, and use only Obama. Some newspapers use this style. I find it jarring and rude in a newspaper, but in a personal letter, it would be acceptable.
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But I'm not going to loose my cool over it.
Actually, many people did stop pirating when it was easy to legally get the content for a reasonable price. I stopped pirating music years ago for example.
People are as ethical as they can afford to be.
They descend on it like wolves, divide the content, and raise the prices by 1000%.
To get what you got on netflix just a few years ago, you'd need to subscribe to a half dozen services which are really overpriced for the content they provide.
There is room in the market for Netflix vs Amazon but not netflix vs a dozen other services.
Should really be "President Elect Trump" or "Mr. Trump" at this point.
I'm a liberal who voted against Trump but respect the office.
actually, most conservatives strongly resist a national id card... which is what you are saying.
But yes, a national biometric database would be the most effective way (combined with workplace inspection, stiff fines, and jail time for repeat offenders to remove incentives that bring non-citizens to work in the U.S. illegally.
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I agree with your point that more expensive items are more likely to be repaired but an SLA swap out business model would be more appropriate to an automated model. It's been used for very expensive computers for over a decade. I.e. the machines are designed for human maintenance now because that's cheaper. But human maintenance is expensive and so it's a point of attack.
First with better diagnostics, the combine could tell the SLA service provider what part is broken before they leave the office. Also, the combine could detect and request service before things actually failed (computers have been doing that for a couple decades).
Second with better design, the major components would be modular and easy to maintain by a robot.
But I'll grant you automated repair and maintenance might be closer to 20 years away than to 10 years away but a leasing model where they pulled up and swapped out your combine with another and took it back to the factory for maintenance would be better than extended downtime.
The bigger hit is without a cold winter, pests survive and are ready to hit the plants immediately. We are already seeing this with tomotoes in the southern USA where we used to get 3-12 days of 20 degree temperatures every year. We haven't had freezing temperatures for more than a couple days in a decade where i live. The last good snow was almost 20 years ago now (used to snow once every 8-10 years).
Several fruits and vegetables have market ready robotic solutions now.
They are cheaper than 3rd world labor so even if willing a human literally couldn't make enough to eat for a month's labor much less house and cloth themselves.