Bush had months of daily warnings of an impending attack but chose to do nothing.
The intelligence provided the president is shared with congressional leaders, and as I recall was not what the intelligence community refers to as 'actionable intelligence' - there was nothing specific to act on.
You want to play the blame game, what about Clinton's siloing of the intelligence bureaus that prevented the field reports of the middle-eastern flight school students that had no interest in learning to take off or land, but only in controlling a plane once airborne from ever being investigated?
The Russians interfered in elections before 2016, so why would they stop after 2016, since (according to Democrats) The Russians masterfully caused "Their Candidate" to win the election?
Now granted, I do live in the sticks, but the road I live on does literally have DSL and cable at both ends. Fuck the telcos, and fuck the cable companies too. Fuck them a whole bunch.
You forgot to indicate how far it is from your property to the end of your street, and if there is a municipal boundry between your house and those with DSL and/or Cable service...
Continuing to maintain an entire operating system platform to support software that was written before this year's college grads were even born is just plain insane. That's way too much effort for what should be almost zero benefit.
Ever heard of MVS, VM, VMS, or UNIX? All of them (and many others) were developed 40+ years ago and still support software written 4 decades ago today - and are running in many, many commercial environments on current hardware.
Microsoft gives OEMs free, as in beer, or low-cost 32-bit Windows OS licenses for equipment that falls within certain hardware limits (screen size, RAM,etc.), that is why you can find $89 Win10 Tablets, for example.
At best they could have shamed the government for not doing so. The commitments were non-binding. At no point was the US in any legally obligated point to make good on anything they promised. The Obama administration promised something to the tune of $1B but Trump could have sent all of $0.02 and have felt zero legal challenge on such a move. This is one of the main reasons cited by the Obama administration for using sole-executive agreement power as opposed to a CEA in agreeing to the accords.
Supporters actually used the argument that the accord was vitally important while simultaneously saying pulling out made no sense because the Paris accord was non-binding!
Perhaps men have more spare time for open source projects? Perhaps the women are too busy "bringing home the bacon, frying it up in a pan, and never ever letting you forget you're a man..."
Also, this was a random sampling of several thousand GitHub contributors PLUS a few hundred hand-picked contributors also... to better represent the community, it should have been either all randomly picked or every contributor on github.
In the survey, 95 percent of respondents were men, with the response rate from women at only 3 percent -- a degree of under-representation that's not seen elsewhere in this study.
Seems like 2% of respondents choose to either not answer the gender question, were their responses factored into the calculations when arriving at gender difference conclusions?
The typo eliminates the possibility of discussing the actual facts that support the writer's assertion.
Is it 6x more likely or 15% v. 20%? The author claimed both were true, which logically can't be true, so the reader is left to dismiss the report entirely or choose from the catalog of conflicting statement the one they want to agree with.
The problem is that they are closed source: sentences are being meted out by a set of rules that those being sentenced are not allowed to know. That's not acceptable.
Then we're agreed, sentences should be determined by sentencing guidelines set at the whim of politicians attempting to look 'tough on crime' (like, during the crack cocaine epidemic in the 80s/90s), and then sympathetic when our prisons are over-crowded with victims of 'three strike' regulations?
Frankly, I'd like it to be in the hands of judges, with very limited exceptions, but that will never fly in today's litigious society.
maybe airlines need to offer more options for passengers willing to pay more for tickets? Like, Muslims are banned, but laptops are allowed (the Trump policy) . . . ?
For pete's sake, you're trying to claim Trump wants to allow laptops on planes when the discussion is about a Trump administration ban on laptops on flights?
immediately after 9/11, we were the biggest recipient of world charity
Citation please? Where did the money go? Victim's families were compensated by federal government, buildings were rebuilt by insurance money, not quite understanding where all that "world charity" went? I understand there were many in-kind gifts and offers of assistance from many foreign nations, but wouldn't "the biggest (giving) of world charity" include money?
And, of course, the donations that streamed in made the https://www.trumanlibrary.org/...">Berlin Airlifts seem trivial by comparison, right? ("At the height of the campaign, one plane landed every 45 seconds at Tempelhof Airport." and delivered over 2 million tons of goods in 270,000 flights - the operation lasted almost a year.)
Here, take a look at this chart - it's from the CBO, and all numbers on it are relative to GDP.
The military is 11% of the GDP but 30% of revenue.
See above chart - "Defense" is $582BN, which is 3.3% of GDP, but represents 18% of the $3.2T Revenue the government collects - I'd love to see where you came up with "30% of revenue"...
Who opened up China to the west and ended the Vietnam War, signed the ABM and SALT treaties with Russia, created the EPA, signed Title IX into law (ending discrimination in college athletics against female athletes), oversaw desegregation of southern public schools, lowered the voting age to 18 from 21.
That's a pretty hefty list of accomplishments, IMHO.
Committing sexual assault (AKA "grabbin' pussy" without consent)
You're wrong, re-read the quote - he said that women let you grab their pussy, when you're famous.
How to make casinos go bankrupt
Has any casino in Atlantic City not gone bankrupt? Trump has had what, a half-dozen bankruptcies? So what? He's not the only businessman to go bankrupt - Obama financed and promoted at least as many alternative energy companies that he bankrolled with taxpayer funds, only to watch them go bankrupt - at least Trumps investors chose to invest in his businesses, I never got a chance to choose to invest in Solyndra, etc...
You do understand that Trump, for a year, said he would get us out of the Paris Climate Treaty, and then he did - agree with him or not, it is far from a surprising move.
Maybe Democrats could have brought their A Game to the last election and actually put up a reasonable opponent to Trump? Running the loser of the 2008 Presidential primary was a bad idea, letting her run her own campaign was a worse idea ("MI, WI, PA? What, me worry? I'm going to CA to fundraise!"), and conspiring against Bernie was the fatal final blow that ultimately cost them the election.
in English, if you fail to understand something because it was not communicated properly, it's still proper to say that you misunderstood.
Are you aware of this story, wherein an advisor was asked if an email was legitimate, and instead of saying it wasn't legitimate, as he intended, he instead actually said it WAS legitimate. Was the advisor responsible for the typo, or was Podesta responsible for misunderstanding what the advisor tried to communicate, but failed to?
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He's most pissed that he was being shitcanned while on the other side of the continent. No chance to clean up his office, shred stuff, etc.
I'm OK with him not being able to clean up his office, shred stuff, etc. - when you or I do it it's called 'destroying evidence'.
Bush had months of daily warnings of an impending attack but chose to do nothing.
The intelligence provided the president is shared with congressional leaders, and as I recall was not what the intelligence community refers to as 'actionable intelligence' - there was nothing specific to act on.
You want to play the blame game, what about Clinton's siloing of the intelligence bureaus that prevented the field reports of the middle-eastern flight school students that had no interest in learning to take off or land, but only in controlling a plane once airborne from ever being investigated?
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And the Israeli election also...
The Russians interfered in elections before 2016, so why would they stop after 2016, since (according to Democrats) The Russians masterfully caused "Their Candidate" to win the election?
Now granted, I do live in the sticks, but the road I live on does literally have DSL and cable at both ends. Fuck the telcos, and fuck the cable companies too. Fuck them a whole bunch.
You forgot to indicate how far it is from your property to the end of your street, and if there is a municipal boundry between your house and those with DSL and/or Cable service...
Continuing to maintain an entire operating system platform to support software that was written before this year's college grads were even born is just plain insane. That's way too much effort for what should be almost zero benefit.
Ever heard of MVS, VM, VMS, or UNIX? All of them (and many others) were developed 40+ years ago and still support software written 4 decades ago today - and are running in many, many commercial environments on current hardware.
Microsoft gives OEMs free, as in beer, or low-cost 32-bit Windows OS licenses for equipment that falls within certain hardware limits (screen size, RAM,etc.), that is why you can find $89 Win10 Tablets, for example.
What mobile applications requires client download speeds of either 10.7 OR 26 Mb/sec? I mean we're talking about wireless broadband, right?
At best they could have shamed the government for not doing so. The commitments were non-binding. At no point was the US in any legally obligated point to make good on anything they promised. The Obama administration promised something to the tune of $1B but Trump could have sent all of $0.02 and have felt zero legal challenge on such a move. This is one of the main reasons cited by the Obama administration for using sole-executive agreement power as opposed to a CEA in agreeing to the accords.
Supporters actually used the argument that the accord was vitally important while simultaneously saying pulling out made no sense because the Paris accord was non-binding!
Women can't be sexist, minorities can't be racist - it's the Equality Double-Standard!
Perhaps men have more spare time for open source projects? Perhaps the women are too busy "bringing home the bacon, frying it up in a pan, and never ever letting you forget you're a man..."
Also, this was a random sampling of several thousand GitHub contributors PLUS a few hundred hand-picked contributors also... to better represent the community, it should have been either all randomly picked or every contributor on github.
choose to either not answer the gender question,
Should read "choose to either not answer the gender question or don't feel they fall into either gender category,"
In the survey, 95 percent of respondents were men, with the response rate from women at only 3 percent -- a degree of under-representation that's not seen elsewhere in this study.
Seems like 2% of respondents choose to either not answer the gender question, were their responses factored into the calculations when arriving at gender difference conclusions?
The typo eliminates the possibility of discussing the actual facts that support the writer's assertion.
Is it 6x more likely or 15% v. 20%? The author claimed both were true, which logically can't be true, so the reader is left to dismiss the report entirely or choose from the catalog of conflicting statement the one they want to agree with.
Women are six times more likely to encounter stereotyping than men (25 versus 15 percent)
That's not even twice as likely, it almost is, but not quite.
The problem is that they are closed source: sentences are being meted out by a set of rules that those being sentenced are not allowed to know. That's not acceptable.
Then we're agreed, sentences should be determined by sentencing guidelines set at the whim of politicians attempting to look 'tough on crime' (like, during the crack cocaine epidemic in the 80s/90s), and then sympathetic when our prisons are over-crowded with victims of 'three strike' regulations?
Frankly, I'd like it to be in the hands of judges, with very limited exceptions, but that will never fly in today's litigious society.
maybe airlines need to offer more options for passengers willing to pay more for tickets? Like, Muslims are banned, but laptops are allowed (the Trump policy) . . . ?
For pete's sake, you're trying to claim Trump wants to allow laptops on planes when the discussion is about a Trump administration ban on laptops on flights?
immediately after 9/11, we were the biggest recipient of world charity
Citation please? Where did the money go? Victim's families were compensated by federal government, buildings were rebuilt by insurance money, not quite understanding where all that "world charity" went? I understand there were many in-kind gifts and offers of assistance from many foreign nations, but wouldn't "the biggest (giving) of world charity" include money?
And, of course, the donations that streamed in made the https://www.trumanlibrary.org/...">Berlin Airlifts seem trivial by comparison, right? ("At the height of the campaign, one plane landed every 45 seconds at Tempelhof Airport." and delivered over 2 million tons of goods in 270,000 flights - the operation lasted almost a year.)
Why openly reject an agreement that just simply not doing it would have sufficed?
Because environmental groups could have sued the federal government for not living up to it's commitments.
Here, take a look at this chart - it's from the CBO, and all numbers on it are relative to GDP.
The military is 11% of the GDP but 30% of revenue.
See above chart - "Defense" is $582BN, which is 3.3% of GDP, but represents 18% of the $3.2T Revenue the government collects - I'd love to see where you came up with "30% of revenue"...
"Defense" accounts for 15% of the federal budget.
When people think "Nixon", they think of a crook.
Who opened up China to the west and ended the Vietnam War, signed the ABM and SALT treaties with Russia, created the EPA, signed Title IX into law (ending discrimination in college athletics against female athletes), oversaw desegregation of southern public schools, lowered the voting age to 18 from 21.
That's a pretty hefty list of accomplishments, IMHO.
I would like to see him ultimately tried by an international court.
For being wrong? Not quite sure what basis you'd have for putting him in front of an international court...
Committing sexual assault (AKA "grabbin' pussy" without consent)
You're wrong, re-read the quote - he said that women let you grab their pussy, when you're famous.
How to make casinos go bankrupt
Has any casino in Atlantic City not gone bankrupt? Trump has had what, a half-dozen bankruptcies? So what? He's not the only businessman to go bankrupt - Obama financed and promoted at least as many alternative energy companies that he bankrolled with taxpayer funds, only to watch them go bankrupt - at least Trumps investors chose to invest in his businesses, I never got a chance to choose to invest in Solyndra, etc...
You do understand that Trump, for a year, said he would get us out of the Paris Climate Treaty, and then he did - agree with him or not, it is far from a surprising move.
Maybe Democrats could have brought their A Game to the last election and actually put up a reasonable opponent to Trump? Running the loser of the 2008 Presidential primary was a bad idea, letting her run her own campaign was a worse idea ("MI, WI, PA? What, me worry? I'm going to CA to fundraise!"), and conspiring against Bernie was the fatal final blow that ultimately cost them the election.
Maybe Obama just misunderstood the TPP.
Hillary was at times proud of her work on TPP, at other times was dismissive of it, and even occasionally forgot she worked on it...
in English, if you fail to understand something because it was not communicated properly, it's still proper to say that you misunderstood.
Are you aware of this story, wherein an advisor was asked if an email was legitimate, and instead of saying it wasn't legitimate, as he intended, he instead actually said it WAS legitimate. Was the advisor responsible for the typo, or was Podesta responsible for misunderstanding what the advisor tried to communicate, but failed to?