I have to disagree with at least a couple of things you said:
5) The whole "Nixon's Southern Strategy" is a Democrat propaganda lie. Out of all the Southern Dixie-crats only *two* switched Party from Democrat to Republican, Strom Thurmond and one other I don't recall ATM.
Of course it's hard for a politician to switch parties, but the Nixon strategy was about voters switching. Nixon was documented talking about the strategy; and to a large extent, it worked.
7) There were actually far more Irish slaves than African slaves . . .
Indentured servitude is not another word for slavery.
BTW, who would have thought a Climate Change post on Slashdot would devolve into argumentative threads about slavery?
You missed the parts where he said the voters switched after the civil rights acts were passed. And he left out the part where Nixon made that part of his strategy.
If she wasn't a federal employee at the time, what was she doing with an office inside the white house working for the executive branch of the government?
She was working at the White House, for the President, so all records needed to be preserved.
If she wasn't a government employee, she had no business working at the White House for the President.
. . . no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no emails were ever deleted," Mirijanian said.
They say that they preserved all government related e-mails and handed them over for records and only kept or deleted private e-mails, and that none of them were classified. But we don't know, since we have only their word, so we should lock her up. (see how that goes?)
Facebook is now a publicly traded corporation and board members of publicly traded corporations are required to do whatever it takes to increase the value of stocks or be voted out.
First of all, plenty of companies lose money without requiring their board members to be voted out. Secondly, according to Investopedia, Zuckerberg has shares with the majority of voting rights in the company, so that wouldn't really hold true, anyway.
That is not what "free will" was about. You have free will if you can do what you want and others can't force you to do something else, even if the others are gods. Well, technically gods could make you do it, but they don't, because religious reasons to convince you that the gods are omnipotent, anyway.
You know, fire trucks have pumps in them that might need to operate for hours while putting out fires. And many kinds of fire trucks have hydraulics running off the engines for things like ladders. Operating in rural areas away from easy sources of sufficient electrical power is not that unusual. Also the considerable work that would be required to convert field-proven diesel designs to all electric likely makes the proposed change unappealing to those in the business. So I'm not sure that they're the best example of what can easily be converted to batteries.
A natural gas car can fill up at home with the low pressure lines common in many houses by using a pump.
Having designed plans and specs for gas piping systems including gas booster pumps to take the utility's low pressure service (6"WC) to an HVAC system's "medium pressure" distribution (2 psig), I can tell you that a small booster pump can cost around $20,000 to buy and as much as double that including installation. Natural gas pumps for a car would be lower capacity, so smaller, but would need much higher pressure (around 3,000 psig), and would require even more specialized installation, maintenance, and safety requirements. And you'd still might have some range issues, as you can't really store that much compressed gas in a reasonably sized tank.
And then, to refine kerosene from oil, they had to remove the volatile, explosive components, like gasoline, which they dumped into the river, killing plants, fish, amphibians, and the animals that fed on them.
No, you weren't just stating facts. You were stating your opinion that "the rats deserve to die".
If you're talking about criminals willing to kill each other, then you should consider that maybe both the rats and the ratted-on deserve to die.
Not to mention the irony of you complaining that " . . . using words to express my thoughts means I'm a criminal because of the words contained in my thought." and also complaining that the rats expressing, in words, what they know just because of who they told it to.
If you want to truly keep your communications secret, "trust authority (usually a central CA)" is what's wrong with many encryption schemes. There's no absolutely secure way for two parties to communicate without them first getting together privately to agree on the particulars, like sharing keys (and hoping no one is eavesdropping at the time).
They're not. They're using the gravitational constant in the measurements and calculations that are necessary to make the new and old definitions match.
That "cost" is money that the state never received, and would never receive since Foxconn would not build there without a deal.
You are mistaken. Part of the costs are actual expenditures that the governments make, such as purchasing land through eminent domain. (I thought conservatives were supposed to dislike eminent domain, but I guess not if it feathers their beds.) Also, you are assuming that the people getting the promised jobs would not do anything else if it weren't for Foxconn, and that the state therefore would not get anything if it were not for Foxconn. Plus, $23,000 a year for 12 years is an awful high price to create a job, even if the job pays well, which it probably won't.
. . . government has no business regulating how The People interact among themselves; if there are individuals who believe Tesla has breached some contract (e.g., by lying), then let them sue for breach of contract.
You contradicted yourself there, suggesting the government has no business asserting power over individuals, and then suggesting using the government's power over individuals to settle disputes.
I mean "thou shalt not kill" is pretty specific and hard to find loopholes in but in other places it's all about stoning the Greeks (I.e. Homosexuality), smiting the Philistines and generally massacring the Canaanites.
You're just reading a bad translation - the better translation is "You shall not murder." (And we all know that smiting Philistines is not murder . . . unless, of course, you're the Philistine being smited.)
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Of course it's hard for a politician to switch parties, but the Nixon strategy was about voters switching. Nixon was documented talking about the strategy; and to a large extent, it worked.
Indentured servitude is not another word for slavery.
BTW, who would have thought a Climate Change post on Slashdot would devolve into argumentative threads about slavery?
You missed the parts where he said the voters switched after the civil rights acts were passed. And he left out the part where Nixon made that part of his strategy.
No, Archtech did not respond to the wrong comment. They just went farther back in history than you were talking about in your comment.
If she wasn't a federal employee at the time, what was she doing with an office inside the white house working for the executive branch of the government?
She was working at the White House, for the President, so all records needed to be preserved.
If she wasn't a government employee, she had no business working at the White House for the President.
Bullshit
They say that they preserved all government related e-mails and handed them over for records and only kept or deleted private e-mails, and that none of them were classified. But we don't know, since we have only their word, so we should lock her up. (see how that goes?)
It is an issue because of the Federal Records Act.
And you know this because Ivanka said so?
First of all, plenty of companies lose money without requiring their board members to be voted out. Secondly, according to Investopedia, Zuckerberg has shares with the majority of voting rights in the company, so that wouldn't really hold true, anyway.
That is not what "free will" was about. You have free will if you can do what you want and others can't force you to do something else, even if the others are gods. Well, technically gods could make you do it, but they don't, because religious reasons to convince you that the gods are omnipotent, anyway.
You know, fire trucks have pumps in them that might need to operate for hours while putting out fires. And many kinds of fire trucks have hydraulics running off the engines for things like ladders. Operating in rural areas away from easy sources of sufficient electrical power is not that unusual. Also the considerable work that would be required to convert field-proven diesel designs to all electric likely makes the proposed change unappealing to those in the business. So I'm not sure that they're the best example of what can easily be converted to batteries.
Having designed plans and specs for gas piping systems including gas booster pumps to take the utility's low pressure service (6"WC) to an HVAC system's "medium pressure" distribution (2 psig), I can tell you that a small booster pump can cost around $20,000 to buy and as much as double that including installation. Natural gas pumps for a car would be lower capacity, so smaller, but would need much higher pressure (around 3,000 psig), and would require even more specialized installation, maintenance, and safety requirements. And you'd still might have some range issues, as you can't really store that much compressed gas in a reasonably sized tank.
According to TFA, last quarter saw better than that: 28% renewables and 40% fossil fuels (apparently leaving 32% for nuclear).
And then, to refine kerosene from oil, they had to remove the volatile, explosive components, like gasoline, which they dumped into the river, killing plants, fish, amphibians, and the animals that fed on them.
No, you weren't just stating facts. You were stating your opinion that "the rats deserve to die".
If you're talking about criminals willing to kill each other, then you should consider that maybe both the rats and the ratted-on deserve to die.
Not to mention the irony of you complaining that " . . . using words to express my thoughts means I'm a criminal because of the words contained in my thought." and also complaining that the rats expressing, in words, what they know just because of who they told it to.
If you want to truly keep your communications secret, "trust authority (usually a central CA)" is what's wrong with many encryption schemes. There's no absolutely secure way for two parties to communicate without them first getting together privately to agree on the particulars, like sharing keys (and hoping no one is eavesdropping at the time).
They're not. They're using the gravitational constant in the measurements and calculations that are necessary to make the new and old definitions match.
Inaccuracy.
In parts of American, they eat their fries with fry sauce - which is essentially mayonnaise and ketchup mixed together.
You are mistaken. Part of the costs are actual expenditures that the governments make, such as purchasing land through eminent domain. (I thought conservatives were supposed to dislike eminent domain, but I guess not if it feathers their beds.) Also, you are assuming that the people getting the promised jobs would not do anything else if it weren't for Foxconn, and that the state therefore would not get anything if it were not for Foxconn. Plus, $23,000 a year for 12 years is an awful high price to create a job, even if the job pays well, which it probably won't.
If I'm a business that doesn't get the same tax breaks, you bet I'm going to view that as if the government was writing a check to my competitor.
You contradicted yourself there, suggesting the government has no business asserting power over individuals, and then suggesting using the government's power over individuals to settle disputes.
You're just reading a bad translation - the better translation is "You shall not murder."
(And we all know that smiting Philistines is not murder . . . unless, of course, you're the Philistine being smited.)
Really. My old cars get around 20 to 26 mpg, and got 30 when brand new only in ideal conditions.