You apparently didn't notice that Trump was elected by a minority of the voters, the Republicans in the House of Representatives were elected by a minority of the voters, and the Republicans in the Senate were elected by a minority of the voters.
It's not surprising. Authoritarians rarely have much regard for the will of the majority
Dude, the difference between the majority and the minority is about 1.4%. Can you please downshift a couple gears with your authoritarian minority bullshit? You make it sound like it's the apartheid or something.
Or even better. Why don't you move to a small state like New Hampshire or Wyoming, then you could tell us how you'd feel about having all the federal decisions made by California and New York people since they have millions more people.
NASA is doing climate research because 4 decades of political leaders decided NASA should be doing climate research.
NASA should have never existed. The country would have been better served if the military had been left in charge, with the private sector firms competing for the business. That's how spy planes were created and how Chuck Yeager got to Mach-1.
The only reason I can come up with is that it is in the best interest for those in power to keep the voting base divided. So all these "problems" are weaponized and sold to us as the bogey man coming to take our children.
Spot on. For instance:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats have made vilifying the Kochs part of a deliberate political strategy to rile up the party’s base and drive the party’s small-dollar fundraising efforts. Last week, Reid blasted the two brothers in a blistering Senate floor speech, accusing them of trying to hijack the political process with their donations and of meddling in the country’s foreign policy to protect their own interests.
But Reid’s fellow Democrats collected KochPAC money as recently as 2012.
And this is not a unique situation. Here's a quick rundown of companies who contribute to both parties:
- Goldman Sachs: 25 millions each - Citigroup: 17 millions each - JP Morgan: 17 millions each - Microsoft: 16 millions each - GE: 14 millions each
Companies like Wal-mart or Time Warner who split their donation 75/25 could be hedging their bet. But companies who go 50/50 don't make donations to tilt the balance; they are actively investing money to maintain the statu quo. Divide and conquer.
The polls are totally indicative of foul play. It's indicative of how media attempted to skew public opinion in favor of a specific candidate. It's also hilarious that it didn't work.
the whole "fake news" hysteria is a pathetic attempt from the liberal media to try and defend their collapsing monopoly on information. But given the results of this election, even the Democrats will have to leave them behind.
For every single biased story they published in decades, and for every pro-conservative news they buried, I hereby invite the New York Times and other big time liberal media to go fuck themselves. I hope someone will buy their head office when they go bankrupt and transform them into dildo factories.
I know people who never vote but this time they went and voted for Trump because they're disgusted by the impact of Obamacare on their wallet. You can't opt out of the health insurance if your employer is forced by Obama to have one.
Obamacare is not about healthcare. It's about forcing small businesses and their employees to become customers of the insurance companies who fund the Democrats. No wonder people are rejecting it.
No I'm talking about the free tier support from Office365.
As an admin for Office 365 for business, you get free access to our knowledgeable support agents for help resolving technical issues, as well as for pre-sales, account, and billing support. You can also contact us on behalf of Office 365 users in your organization.
My hardware is a Dell Optiplex 9010 - 3rd gen core I7, 16 gig of ram, CoolerMaster 500 watt PSU, GTX750Ti, Mushkin Reactor 1tb SSD. And this motherboard might as well be an engineering prototype from Intel. Every chip is Intel and even the "Dell drivers" downloaded from Dell support are just generic Intel driver packages.
But maybe you're right and this setup is just shitty hardware. But it's shitty hardware where Ubuntu 16.04 stumbles & Win 10 runs a treat. Maybe someday I'll buy some "good hardware" so I can run Ubuntu.
In my experience, here's how distros rank for hardware support:
OpenSuSE > Fedora > Ubuntu.
The fact that kernels on Fedora are usually bleeding edge helps a lot.
This being said, very often there's some weird conflict going on that causes problems. For instance, I have a low-end HP laptop that has a wifi adapter that keeps going off in Ubuntu; I had to blacklist a bluetooth controller to get wifi working properly; meanwhile the thing runs flawlessly on Fedora 24 and Windows 10.
If you want serious abuse, try some phone support from Microsoft.
This was maybe true in the 90s but things have changed, a lot. Microsoft support, especially on cloud products, is excellent. I have a client who uses Office365 and every time a problem occurred in the last year or two, within minutes after the ticket was open Microsoft called to provide assistance, and they stayed on the line until the problem was resolved.
There are companies out there with even better customer service, especially retailers (like Zappos), but for a tech company Microsoft is top tier in that area. Red Hat also.
I'm happy for you if you had a good time at Amazon but they consistently rank very low in tech companies for work/life balance, employee satisfaction, compensation and work conditions. See what the WSJ has to say:
Amazon ranked 63rd in overall satisfaction among the companies surveyed, compared with 3rd position for Google Inc. and 7th position for Apple Inc. The overall ranking measures employees’ satisfaction with a company’s culture, career opportunities as well as salary and benefits.
Amazon sells food to its employees and rents them parking spots. They're the Walmart of tech companies - and actually there's quite a revolving door between the two companies at the senior management level.
Meanwhile Google offers free food, free haircuts, free laundry, free gyms, and they even offer a bus service for people who don't have a car.
Both companies are immensely successful but you can't deny that there's something low-rent about Amazon.
If they get lasers and team up with the sharks, we're doomed.
Sharks, or orcas. Those have a score to settle with us, thanks to the people at SeaWorld who've been kidnapping them, separating them from their families, and holding them almost constantly in tiny dark pens that make isolation holding cells in Supermax look like luxury (at least prisoners can walk in circle).
Mankind is like a crooked foreman in a sweatshop that's been using his position to extort bribes and sexual favors from helpless workers. Mistreated showbiz animals; lab test subjects; massacred whales and elephants; dogs forced to wear sweaters. There will be a reckoning, and the eagles are apparently the Spartacus of this uprising.
You think your iPhones, Linuxes and Arduinos will protect you? No they won't. Repent, people, and stop bothering eagles with your drones, for the sake of humanity.
do you know what all those arguments you're having with other people have in common? You.
I did a quick search and it appears that more than 80% of what you post is a reply to other people where you call them liars and sockpuppet - and you frequently post in the wrong threads. That makes you a net negative for this community.
Why do you spend so much time and energy spamming the forum with your bitter, confused accusations? Are you one of those people who thrive on misery and anger?
Animals add value to the food chain. Meat and fat are far more complex than a bucket of corn and a bucket of water. There's countless more nutrients; vitamins such as B12 or D3, calcium, selenium, many more.
So if you run again some kind of comparison remember to include all the extra stuff that you lose when you switch from growing meat to growing corn. Those things have to be provided using supplements or additional sources of food.
Our digestive system can't digest corn and soy? That's what cows are fed in industrial agriculture.
Again your are misleading people with your carefully crafted misinformation. For the record, here's what cow eat:
In the beef cattle diet, common roughages include hay, silage and grass. Silage is a crop that has been preserved in a moist, succulent condition by partial fermentation in a tight container (silo) above or below ground. The majority of the food cattle eat comes from this type of feedstuffs.
Much less grain is needed in the cattle’s diet than roughage is. This is because grains fill cattle energy needs more than it fills their stomachs. Cattle are fed more grain the older they get. They gain weight faster when they are on higher amounts of grain. This is how cattle are finished off before they go to market.
Now why don't you go have a feast of those delicious roughages - that's the bulk of that "40 fold" figure you mentioned - with maybe a small side of grain that was for the most part rejected by beer brewers or left over in the process of cleaning grain destined for human consumption; then you can come back here and educate us about the marvels it did for your digestive system.
More devices to join the IoT botnets and take down the interwebs. To anyone expecting to use their new game console on Christmas day this year: it would be wise to have a Plan B that works offline (such as sex or Monopoly).
A pound of beef takes 10 to 40 pounds of feed, an absurd amount of fresh water, a huge expanse of land, countless antibiotics, and the transportation of elements within the system (feed to cows, cows to processing plants, etc). Why not just skip the middlemen and give humans the vastly-more-efficient feed?
The bulk of the food cows are eating is unfit for human consumption. You couldn't feed it to people even if you wanted to. Our digestive system is completely different and can't be "upgraded" to work like that of a cow.
Calories are not all equals, otherwise we could just feast on corn sugar all day and be healthy.
If you want to be a vegan because you feel sad thinking about animals being slaughtered or because you have a craving for foliage, knock yourself out, but stop peddling that bullshit that's been around since the hippies.
"Ruminant animals are responsible for roughly 20% of greenhouse gas emissions globally". Not really. The *responsibility* is on the humans who are growing cows for food (and other industrial uses). Eating less meat would help GHG reductions.
The problem is not growing cows for food, the problem is how it's done. If people stop eating meat, whatever they eat instead will be grown as irresponsibly because it's human nature to chase profit and cut corners.
You may have this romantic vision of a few hippies tending to a garden with rain water (greener pastures and all that), but look at where the GMO started - it's the people who invented that who will feed you if meat is gone.
Seaweed tastes so bad that it makes them puke when the farmer is not looking. That's why they're no longer farting. The guy will come back in 6 months saying all his cows died of hunger and he doesn't understand why.
implying that the eagles are attacking due to the mining interests possible future actions is ludicrous.
Eagles are apex predators, they never eat dead meat and they're also the most advanced teachers in the animal world, dropping their kids from high in the sky and catching them over and over on their open wings until they figure out how to fly. They're as badass as it gets, more than many people I know.
If they're against mining, I'm selling all my shares in those mines because they're fucked.
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You apparently didn't notice that Trump was elected by a minority of the voters, the Republicans in the House of Representatives were elected by a minority of the voters, and the Republicans in the Senate were elected by a minority of the voters.
It's not surprising. Authoritarians rarely have much regard for the will of the majority
Dude, the difference between the majority and the minority is about 1.4%. Can you please downshift a couple gears with your authoritarian minority bullshit? You make it sound like it's the apartheid or something.
Or even better. Why don't you move to a small state like New Hampshire or Wyoming, then you could tell us how you'd feel about having all the federal decisions made by California and New York people since they have millions more people.
NASA is doing climate research because 4 decades of political leaders decided NASA should be doing climate research.
NASA should have never existed. The country would have been better served if the military had been left in charge, with the private sector firms competing for the business. That's how spy planes were created and how Chuck Yeager got to Mach-1.
NASA is just burning money.
The only reason I can come up with is that it is in the best interest for those in power to keep the voting base divided. So all these "problems" are weaponized and sold to us as the bogey man coming to take our children.
Spot on. For instance:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats have made vilifying the Kochs part of a deliberate political strategy to rile up the party’s base and drive the party’s small-dollar fundraising efforts. Last week, Reid blasted the two brothers in a blistering Senate floor speech, accusing them of trying to hijack the political process with their donations and of meddling in the country’s foreign policy to protect their own interests.
But Reid’s fellow Democrats collected KochPAC money as recently as 2012.
And this is not a unique situation. Here's a quick rundown of companies who contribute to both parties:
- Goldman Sachs: 25 millions each
- Citigroup: 17 millions each
- JP Morgan: 17 millions each
- Microsoft: 16 millions each
- GE: 14 millions each
Companies like Wal-mart or Time Warner who split their donation 75/25 could be hedging their bet. But companies who go 50/50 don't make donations to tilt the balance; they are actively investing money to maintain the statu quo. Divide and conquer.
So what you're saying is if there's a hint of voting fraud we should as a nation just say 'fuck it' and not take a look?
Cause that's pants on head stupid.
Somehow I suspect that if Trump had lost and was the one hinting at voting fraud, your stance on this matter would be different.
The polls are totally indicative of foul play. It's indicative of how media attempted to skew public opinion in favor of a specific candidate. It's also hilarious that it didn't work.
the whole "fake news" hysteria is a pathetic attempt from the liberal media to try and defend their collapsing monopoly on information. But given the results of this election, even the Democrats will have to leave them behind.
For every single biased story they published in decades, and for every pro-conservative news they buried, I hereby invite the New York Times and other big time liberal media to go fuck themselves. I hope someone will buy their head office when they go bankrupt and transform them into dildo factories.
I know people who never vote but this time they went and voted for Trump because they're disgusted by the impact of Obamacare on their wallet. You can't opt out of the health insurance if your employer is forced by Obama to have one.
Obamacare is not about healthcare. It's about forcing small businesses and their employees to become customers of the insurance companies who fund the Democrats. No wonder people are rejecting it.
No I'm talking about the free tier support from Office365.
As an admin for Office 365 for business, you get free access to our knowledgeable support agents for help resolving technical issues, as well as for pre-sales, account, and billing support. You can also contact us on behalf of Office 365 users in your organization.
https://support.office.com/en-...
My hardware is a Dell Optiplex 9010 - 3rd gen core I7, 16 gig of ram, CoolerMaster 500 watt PSU, GTX750Ti, Mushkin Reactor 1tb SSD. And this motherboard might as well be an engineering prototype from Intel. Every chip is Intel and even the "Dell drivers" downloaded from Dell support are just generic Intel driver packages.
But maybe you're right and this setup is just shitty hardware. But it's shitty hardware where Ubuntu 16.04 stumbles & Win 10 runs a treat. Maybe someday I'll buy some "good hardware" so I can run Ubuntu.
In my experience, here's how distros rank for hardware support:
OpenSuSE > Fedora > Ubuntu.
The fact that kernels on Fedora are usually bleeding edge helps a lot.
This being said, very often there's some weird conflict going on that causes problems. For instance, I have a low-end HP laptop that has a wifi adapter that keeps going off in Ubuntu; I had to blacklist a bluetooth controller to get wifi working properly; meanwhile the thing runs flawlessly on Fedora 24 and Windows 10.
If you want serious abuse, try some phone support from Microsoft.
This was maybe true in the 90s but things have changed, a lot. Microsoft support, especially on cloud products, is excellent. I have a client who uses Office365 and every time a problem occurred in the last year or two, within minutes after the ticket was open Microsoft called to provide assistance, and they stayed on the line until the problem was resolved.
There are companies out there with even better customer service, especially retailers (like Zappos), but for a tech company Microsoft is top tier in that area. Red Hat also.
I'm happy for you if you had a good time at Amazon but they consistently rank very low in tech companies for work/life balance, employee satisfaction, compensation and work conditions. See what the WSJ has to say:
Amazon ranked 63rd in overall satisfaction among the companies surveyed, compared with 3rd position for Google Inc. and 7th position for Apple Inc. The overall ranking measures employees’ satisfaction with a company’s culture, career opportunities as well as salary and benefits.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/20...
Amazon sells food to its employees and rents them parking spots. They're the Walmart of tech companies - and actually there's quite a revolving door between the two companies at the senior management level.
Meanwhile Google offers free food, free haircuts, free laundry, free gyms, and they even offer a bus service for people who don't have a car.
Both companies are immensely successful but you can't deny that there's something low-rent about Amazon.
The guy went from Google to Amazon? That's like trading a fully loaded Honda Accord for a Honda Civic with no A/C.
If they get lasers and team up with the sharks, we're doomed.
Sharks, or orcas. Those have a score to settle with us, thanks to the people at SeaWorld who've been kidnapping them, separating them from their families, and holding them almost constantly in tiny dark pens that make isolation holding cells in Supermax look like luxury (at least prisoners can walk in circle).
Mankind is like a crooked foreman in a sweatshop that's been using his position to extort bribes and sexual favors from helpless workers. Mistreated showbiz animals; lab test subjects; massacred whales and elephants; dogs forced to wear sweaters. There will be a reckoning, and the eagles are apparently the Spartacus of this uprising.
You think your iPhones, Linuxes and Arduinos will protect you? No they won't. Repent, people, and stop bothering eagles with your drones, for the sake of humanity.
APK,
do you know what all those arguments you're having with other people have in common? You.
I did a quick search and it appears that more than 80% of what you post is a reply to other people where you call them liars and sockpuppet - and you frequently post in the wrong threads. That makes you a net negative for this community.
Why do you spend so much time and energy spamming the forum with your bitter, confused accusations? Are you one of those people who thrive on misery and anger?
You're not a victim, APK. You're a nuisance.
Animals add value to the food chain. Meat and fat are far more complex than a bucket of corn and a bucket of water. There's countless more nutrients; vitamins such as B12 or D3, calcium, selenium, many more.
So if you run again some kind of comparison remember to include all the extra stuff that you lose when you switch from growing meat to growing corn. Those things have to be provided using supplements or additional sources of food.
Our digestive system can't digest corn and soy? That's what cows are fed in industrial agriculture.
Again your are misleading people with your carefully crafted misinformation. For the record, here's what cow eat:
In the beef cattle diet, common roughages include hay, silage and grass. Silage is a crop that has been preserved in a moist, succulent condition by partial fermentation in a tight container (silo) above or below ground. The majority of the food cattle eat comes from this type of feedstuffs.
Much less grain is needed in the cattle’s diet than roughage is. This is because grains fill cattle energy needs more than it fills their stomachs. Cattle are fed more grain the older they get. They gain weight faster when they are on higher amounts of grain. This is how cattle are finished off before they go to market.
http://animalsmart.org/species...
Now why don't you go have a feast of those delicious roughages - that's the bulk of that "40 fold" figure you mentioned - with maybe a small side of grain that was for the most part rejected by beer brewers or left over in the process of cleaning grain destined for human consumption; then you can come back here and educate us about the marvels it did for your digestive system.
More devices to join the IoT botnets and take down the interwebs. To anyone expecting to use their new game console on Christmas day this year: it would be wise to have a Plan B that works offline (such as sex or Monopoly).
Damn right. Why have a Chinese backdoor when you can have an American backdoor instead?
The iPhone is not American. It's designed by Indian rental employees and manufactured by Chinese slaves.
I haven't noticed this kind of problem with my iPhone 5S...
What, you can't afford a more recent iPhone?
The article you linked is terrifying.
The purpose of this very high flight is unknown.
They're up to something and we don't know what that is. Remember last time something like that happened? Pearl Harbor.
I'm telling you, if the eagles disapprove of mining, we should stop mining. Before it's too late.
A pound of beef takes 10 to 40 pounds of feed, an absurd amount of fresh water, a huge expanse of land, countless antibiotics, and the transportation of elements within the system (feed to cows, cows to processing plants, etc). Why not just skip the middlemen and give humans the vastly-more-efficient feed?
The bulk of the food cows are eating is unfit for human consumption. You couldn't feed it to people even if you wanted to. Our digestive system is completely different and can't be "upgraded" to work like that of a cow.
Calories are not all equals, otherwise we could just feast on corn sugar all day and be healthy.
If you want to be a vegan because you feel sad thinking about animals being slaughtered or because you have a craving for foliage, knock yourself out, but stop peddling that bullshit that's been around since the hippies.
"Ruminant animals are responsible for roughly 20% of greenhouse gas emissions globally". Not really. The *responsibility* is on the humans who are growing cows for food (and other industrial uses). Eating less meat would help GHG reductions.
The problem is not growing cows for food, the problem is how it's done. If people stop eating meat, whatever they eat instead will be grown as irresponsibly because it's human nature to chase profit and cut corners.
You may have this romantic vision of a few hippies tending to a garden with rain water (greener pastures and all that), but look at where the GMO started - it's the people who invented that who will feed you if meat is gone.
Wrong.
You must convince them that eagle eggs make bigger dicks.
Dude you need to work on your cultural sensitivity. That kind of stuff is for the Japanese (the ones killing the whales). Keep up with things.
Seaweed tastes so bad that it makes them puke when the farmer is not looking. That's why they're no longer farting. The guy will come back in 6 months saying all his cows died of hunger and he doesn't understand why.
implying that the eagles are attacking due to the mining interests possible future actions is ludicrous.
Eagles are apex predators, they never eat dead meat and they're also the most advanced teachers in the animal world, dropping their kids from high in the sky and catching them over and over on their open wings until they figure out how to fly. They're as badass as it gets, more than many people I know.
If they're against mining, I'm selling all my shares in those mines because they're fucked.
Your mining drones just have to be protected. If you want to use scout drones, Hobgoblins are generally regarded as the best.
There's a reason Eve Online is now free. The reason is that it's not worth money.