As an elected federal official, exactly what gives him the authority/ability/responsibility to clean up state issues? In the eyes of the State, he is just another citizen.
Soooo the cops take over the program, they use police resources to extract the info from DMV. Is this a budgetary issue or a rights issue, because it's starting to sound like a budgetary issue - "prohibits using DMV resources to do the police's job."
The issue is the law specifically forbids it, not that the search "harms" anyone.
This caught my eye:
Since 2012, the agency has run at least 126 such searches on behalf of local police, the State Department, FBI, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Why, that's just over 2 a month! It's an epidemic! These mad men must be stopped!
How many commenters here think Trump had a hands-on role in crafting this budget... as if he sat down, like Kevin Kline and Charles Grodin did in the movie 'Dave', reviewing the federal budget line-by-line looking for waste, and holding him personally responsible for every calculation.
I guess that's a hold-over from the previous administration where every accomplishment was credited to the President personally, and every mistake to an unnamed career bureaucrat.
Why did the melted permafrost freeze over if the world keeps getting warmer? The permafrost melted, seeped into the rooms around the seed vault, then froze solid - how did that happen after 'incredible temperature increases'?
What's glossed over in the story is how the 'melted permafrost' magically seeped into the vault facility (not the actual vault) and then, despite lower global temperatures caused by cow farts, Asian coal-powered generators, and cars, froze solid again.
I can just imagine the thoughts of the workers as they attempted to enter the vault, built deep inside a mountain in the attic circle, chipping away ice inside the seed vault facility removing ice caused by 'global warming'...
Seems to me the issue is not the vault, which was not breached, nor the temperature fluctuations that caused permafrost to 'melt' only to freeze in the vault's ante room, but instead was the pin-headed decision to build the vault facility to NOT be water-tight.
The temperature drop was temporary, since the melted permafrost soon froze again, hence the ice workers had to remove...
There will be a "mass stranding of existing vehicles." The value of second-hard cars will plunge. You will have to pay to dispose of your old vehicle. It is a twin "death spiral" for big oil and big autos,...
How will current car owners handle the effective elimination of one of their greatest assets, their automobile? They typically owe thousands of dollars on them, and once rendered value-less, will lead to massive disruptions in the financial lives of countless millions of working-class, living paycheck-to-paycheck, people, not to mention the banks that hold the paper on those now worthless vehicles, and the retirees whose pensions are tied into the stock price of those car manufacturers, oil companies, etc?
Stanford University economist Tony Seba forecasts in his new report that petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will no longer be sold anywhere in the world within the next eight years. As a result, the transportation market will transition and switch entirely to electrification, "leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we have known it for a century,"
First off, the secession of sales of "petrol or diesel cars, busses, or trucks" will not immediately eliminate those previously sold off the road - come on, think about it, cars, buses and trucks have useful lifetimes that stretch in to decades.
Second, the market won't "transition and switch to electrification" - the infrastructure doesn't exist, and the required number of electric vehicles won't exist in any reasonable timeframe, let alone 8 years.
Third, the only reason the electric vehicle market is as large as it is because of government research grants that subsidize the design of the vehicles, government tax incentives to subsidize the construction of battery and vehicle plants, government incentives to subsidize the purchase of the electric vehicles, and the lack of government taxes on electric vehicles that lowers operating costs (since electric vehicles don't contribute to the infrastructure they rely on - highways, bridges, roadways, etc.)... These government programs do not scale to the entire transportation market - the government can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for EVERY vehicle sold and continue to maintain our transportation infrastructure without tax revenue. The elimination of these subsidies render electric vehicles more expensive and less practical than fossil-fuel powered vehicles.
If you are talking about just electricity , why does renewables have to provide 50% of every day's electricity when non-renewables don't do that today?
I'm confused, there are, AFAIK, only two forms of energy, renewables and non-renewables, so are you saying renewables already supply greater than 50% of electricity needs every day of the year?
(current annual figure by the way are 31.6% electricity and 12.5 power according to wikipedia)
Again, confused - 31.6% of electricity generated by renewables or non-renewables? 12.5% of power generated by renewables or non-renewables?
My point was that supply the majority of Germany's needs two days out of 365, when offices, factories are closed (weekend) and when most households in country are running neither heaters nor a/c (spring) isn't by itself meaningful... the Germans themselves called it an aberration, not expecting it to be the norm for 13 more years - what exactly are we celebrating?
However, while the end-of-April weekend was an aberration, the hope is that it won't be for too much longer. According to Patrick Graichen of the country's sustainability-focused Agora Energiewende Initiative, German renewable energy percentages in the mid-80s should be "completely normal" by the year 2030.
This weekend is at the intersection "not hot enough to run air conditioning" and "not cold enough to run heat" (both of which are largely electric in Germany, I believe), and being on the weekend countless offices and businesses were closed, driving demand way down.
This interesting report will be the year-long daily percentage of Germany's power needs that are supplied by local (generated within Germany's borders, not imported). Once renewables are able to provide, consistently, every day for 12 months, a minimum of 50% of Germany's power needs, this is nothing more than a mildly interesting milestone.
In 13 years it is hoped this self-described 'aberration' will become the norm, which makes this story premature, and as I often say, "Premature is rarely a good thing!"
OK, so why not just share every Trump campaign email now?
As if we've seen "every" Clinton email... She kept every work-related email safely protected from any FOIA requests during her tenure as Secretary of State, and then spent two years deleting half the emails that she, or her hired helpers, determined all on their own what was and was not "work-related" and deleted about half of her emails, handing them over to the government just before being subpoenaed...
Or how about that private server that only sends email to Russia?
When everyone says "Hacked the election", no one is saying that the Russians changed ballot counts. Think of it like the blog posts like "Hack your life, to get more job interviews".
And of course, when they say "The Election" what they mean is the private computers of a private group, the non-governmental group the DNC and John Podesta's super-secure gmail account.
Russia intentionally disseminated false information to change how US registered voters would vote. That's the hacking.
Neither the DNC nor John Podesta ever claimed a single email was "false", their refusal to do so was a serious miscalculation on their part.
No, the "hackers" involved sent the same phishing emails to the GOP as they did to the Dems. The difference was that GOP tech support blocked the emails, while Dem tech support literally told Podesta it was legitimate, so he went ahead and put in "p@ssword" for them so they could dump the contents of his email account.
The fellow that advised Podesta to enter his password into the phishing email claims his email to Podesta had a typo (a missing word) that completely altered it's meaning - he never meant to tell Podesta to respond to the email.
The only link to Russians is that there is suspicion based on some of the tools used that a Russian-speaker is involved, and since everyone knows there aren't any non-governmental Russian-speaking hackers (sarcasm), an assumption has been made.
The line I heard early on in this story line was "if every piece of evidence points to the Russians, the one thing you can be sure of is that the Russians weren't involved."
What do the words "nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goo-ood bye" suggest to you?
That Democrats put politics ahead of the healthcare of working Americans - they literally sat on the sidelines complaining about AHCA, inventing imaginary pre-existing conditions, fantasizing about the resulting body count once the law passes, and sang songs rather than citing specific issues with the bill or putting forth any amendments to either improve PPACA or AHCA...
Swear to god, don't you ever get tired of repeating this "complaint"? So what, who cares? What do you hope to learn...
topicquote>The reason you want those isn't to see how rich he really is, it's so you know where all his money comes from and who could buy him off.
"Who could buy him off"? How exactly do you learn that from his tax returns?
You understand that right now there are a team of IRS auditors reviewing his tax returns, right? That they haven't leaked any *explosive* details despite public interest in the topic tells me one of two things, either there's nothing to reveal OR they are consummate professionals and would never entertain the idea of leaking his returns.
You apparently think the IRS is staffed with principled professionals.
Didn't trump just make America great again? How can we still have homeless people?
As noted, this won't be available until 2020, just as President Trump is up for re-election, two years after Democrats "take back the congress" in the 2018 mid-term.
Amazon is partnering with local nonprofit Mary's Place to create 65 rooms, which will house more than 200 homeless people every night. The new Mary's Place shelter will open in early 2020.
But this will have no effect on the homeless population until 2020, how does this help the homeless community today?
Perhaps the fact that a great majority of Democrats choose to get their news from comedians pretending to be journalists in front of studio audience on a cable channel rather than, you know, an actual news broadcast has some impact. Colbert, Oliver, Trevor, Maher, et all are NOT news shows, they are entertainment, as witnessed by the "laugh" signs in their studios.
Perhaps you need to change and get in touch with the American people.
Maybe if Hillary ran a third "Listening Tour" she could finally get a sense of the American people and their wants and needs?
Her greatest message this past campaign was "I'm Not Trump", while his was "I'm not Hillary", with the easily predictable outcome after some 20+ years of Clinton Scandals, Hillary lost to an unproven leader, because she has proven herself to be a poor leader. Remember when her first stated campaign accomplishment was having "travelled over 1 million miles as Secretary of State"? Remember how quickly Carly Fiorina destroyed it by pointing out that that is an "activity, not an accomplishment"?
She was a lousy candidate with an incredible number of issues and the world learned through email leaks that she was hand-picked by democrat leadership before the primaries even started.
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As an elected federal official, exactly what gives him the authority/ability/responsibility to clean up state issues? In the eyes of the State, he is just another citizen.
Soooo the cops take over the program, they use police resources to extract the info from DMV. Is this a budgetary issue or a rights issue, because it's starting to sound like a budgetary issue - "prohibits using DMV resources to do the police's job."
Yeah, two dozen times a year - wow. And that number is spread across Federal, state, and local queries...
The issue is the law specifically forbids it, not that the search "harms" anyone.
This caught my eye:
Since 2012, the agency has run at least 126 such searches on behalf of local police, the State Department, FBI, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Why, that's just over 2 a month! It's an epidemic! These mad men must be stopped!
How many commenters here think Trump had a hands-on role in crafting this budget... as if he sat down, like Kevin Kline and Charles Grodin did in the movie 'Dave', reviewing the federal budget line-by-line looking for waste, and holding him personally responsible for every calculation.
I guess that's a hold-over from the previous administration where every accomplishment was credited to the President personally, and every mistake to an unnamed career bureaucrat.
And then it froze again...
Why did the melted permafrost freeze over if the world keeps getting warmer? The permafrost melted, seeped into the rooms around the seed vault, then froze solid - how did that happen after 'incredible temperature increases'?
What's glossed over in the story is how the 'melted permafrost' magically seeped into the vault facility (not the actual vault) and then, despite lower global temperatures caused by cow farts, Asian coal-powered generators, and cars, froze solid again.
I can just imagine the thoughts of the workers as they attempted to enter the vault, built deep inside a mountain in the attic circle, chipping away ice inside the seed vault facility removing ice caused by 'global warming'...
Seems to me the issue is not the vault, which was not breached, nor the temperature fluctuations that caused permafrost to 'melt' only to freeze in the vault's ante room, but instead was the pin-headed decision to build the vault facility to NOT be water-tight.
The temperature drop was temporary, since the melted permafrost soon froze again, hence the ice workers had to remove...
There will be a "mass stranding of existing vehicles." The value of second-hard cars will plunge. You will have to pay to dispose of your old vehicle. It is a twin "death spiral" for big oil and big autos, ...
How will current car owners handle the effective elimination of one of their greatest assets, their automobile? They typically owe thousands of dollars on them, and once rendered value-less, will lead to massive disruptions in the financial lives of countless millions of working-class, living paycheck-to-paycheck, people, not to mention the banks that hold the paper on those now worthless vehicles, and the retirees whose pensions are tied into the stock price of those car manufacturers, oil companies, etc?
Stanford University economist Tony Seba forecasts in his new report that petrol or diesel cars, buses, or trucks will no longer be sold anywhere in the world within the next eight years. As a result, the transportation market will transition and switch entirely to electrification, "leading to a collapse of oil prices and the demise of the petroleum industry as we have known it for a century,"
First off, the secession of sales of "petrol or diesel cars, busses, or trucks" will not immediately eliminate those previously sold off the road - come on, think about it, cars, buses and trucks have useful lifetimes that stretch in to decades.
Second, the market won't "transition and switch to electrification" - the infrastructure doesn't exist, and the required number of electric vehicles won't exist in any reasonable timeframe, let alone 8 years.
Third, the only reason the electric vehicle market is as large as it is because of government research grants that subsidize the design of the vehicles, government tax incentives to subsidize the construction of battery and vehicle plants, government incentives to subsidize the purchase of the electric vehicles, and the lack of government taxes on electric vehicles that lowers operating costs (since electric vehicles don't contribute to the infrastructure they rely on - highways, bridges, roadways, etc.)... These government programs do not scale to the entire transportation market - the government can't afford to pay thousands of dollars for EVERY vehicle sold and continue to maintain our transportation infrastructure without tax revenue. The elimination of these subsidies render electric vehicles more expensive and less practical than fossil-fuel powered vehicles.
I find it depressing to think of the massive financial damage likely wrought by this ransom campaign in exchange for such a comparatively small reward
Yeah, as clever as they were they deserved more money?!
Just think, because it made so little money, this may be the last time we see such a wide scale attack, how sad... /sarcasm
Are you talking about power or electricity?
Power.
If you are talking about just electricity , why does renewables have to provide 50% of every day's electricity when non-renewables don't do that today?
I'm confused, there are, AFAIK, only two forms of energy, renewables and non-renewables, so are you saying renewables already supply greater than 50% of electricity needs every day of the year?
(current annual figure by the way are 31.6% electricity and 12.5 power according to wikipedia)
Again, confused - 31.6% of electricity generated by renewables or non-renewables? 12.5% of power generated by renewables or non-renewables?
My point was that supply the majority of Germany's needs two days out of 365, when offices, factories are closed (weekend) and when most households in country are running neither heaters nor a/c (spring) isn't by itself meaningful... the Germans themselves called it an aberration, not expecting it to be the norm for 13 more years - what exactly are we celebrating?
However, while the end-of-April weekend was an aberration, the hope is that it won't be for too much longer. According to Patrick Graichen of the country's sustainability-focused Agora Energiewende Initiative, German renewable energy percentages in the mid-80s should be "completely normal" by the year 2030.
This weekend is at the intersection "not hot enough to run air conditioning" and "not cold enough to run heat" (both of which are largely electric in Germany, I believe), and being on the weekend countless offices and businesses were closed, driving demand way down.
This interesting report will be the year-long daily percentage of Germany's power needs that are supplied by local (generated within Germany's borders, not imported). Once renewables are able to provide, consistently, every day for 12 months, a minimum of 50% of Germany's power needs, this is nothing more than a mildly interesting milestone.
In 13 years it is hoped this self-described 'aberration' will become the norm, which makes this story premature, and as I often say, "Premature is rarely a good thing!"
OK, so why not just share every Trump campaign email now?
As if we've seen "every" Clinton email... She kept every work-related email safely protected from any FOIA requests during her tenure as Secretary of State, and then spent two years deleting half the emails that she, or her hired helpers, determined all on their own what was and was not "work-related" and deleted about half of her emails, handing them over to the government just before being subpoenaed...
Or how about that private server that only sends email to Russia?
You mean the server that had malware that pinged a Russian IP address occasionally?
And of course, by "email" you mean "DNS Ping"...
When everyone says "Hacked the election", no one is saying that the Russians changed ballot counts. Think of it like the blog posts like "Hack your life, to get more job interviews".
And of course, when they say "The Election" what they mean is the private computers of a private group, the non-governmental group the DNC and John Podesta's super-secure gmail account.
Russia intentionally disseminated false information to change how US registered voters would vote. That's the hacking.
Neither the DNC nor John Podesta ever claimed a single email was "false", their refusal to do so was a serious miscalculation on their part.
No, the "hackers" involved sent the same phishing emails to the GOP as they did to the Dems. The difference was that GOP tech support blocked the emails, while Dem tech support literally told Podesta it was legitimate, so he went ahead and put in "p@ssword" for them so they could dump the contents of his email account.
The fellow that advised Podesta to enter his password into the phishing email claims his email to Podesta had a typo (a missing word) that completely altered it's meaning - he never meant to tell Podesta to respond to the email.
The only link to Russians is that there is suspicion based on some of the tools used that a Russian-speaker is involved, and since everyone knows there aren't any non-governmental Russian-speaking hackers (sarcasm), an assumption has been made.
The line I heard early on in this story line was "if every piece of evidence points to the Russians, the one thing you can be sure of is that the Russians weren't involved."
What do the words "nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goo-ood bye" suggest to you?
That Democrats put politics ahead of the healthcare of working Americans - they literally sat on the sidelines complaining about AHCA, inventing imaginary pre-existing conditions, fantasizing about the resulting body count once the law passes, and sang songs rather than citing specific issues with the bill or putting forth any amendments to either improve PPACA or AHCA...
Trump to this day won't release his tax returns.
Swear to god, don't you ever get tired of repeating this "complaint"? So what, who cares? What do you hope to learn...
topicquote>The reason you want those isn't to see how rich he really is, it's so you know where all his money comes from and who could buy him off.
"Who could buy him off"? How exactly do you learn that from his tax returns?
You understand that right now there are a team of IRS auditors reviewing his tax returns, right? That they haven't leaked any *explosive* details despite public interest in the topic tells me one of two things, either there's nothing to reveal OR they are consummate professionals and would never entertain the idea of leaking his returns.
You apparently think the IRS is staffed with principled professionals.
Didn't trump just make America great again? How can we still have homeless people?
As noted, this won't be available until 2020, just as President Trump is up for re-election, two years after Democrats "take back the congress" in the 2018 mid-term.
This is going to be great, in 2020 - too bad it's 2017.
Amazon is partnering with local nonprofit Mary's Place to create 65 rooms, which will house more than 200 homeless people every night. The new Mary's Place shelter will open in early 2020.
But this will have no effect on the homeless population until 2020, how does this help the homeless community today?
Most, if not all states only allow one price change per 24 hour period.
Perhaps the fact that a great majority of Democrats choose to get their news from comedians pretending to be journalists in front of studio audience on a cable channel rather than, you know, an actual news broadcast has some impact. Colbert, Oliver, Trevor, Maher, et all are NOT news shows, they are entertainment, as witnessed by the "laugh" signs in their studios.
Perhaps you need to change and get in touch with the American people.
Maybe if Hillary ran a third "Listening Tour" she could finally get a sense of the American people and their wants and needs?
Her greatest message this past campaign was "I'm Not Trump", while his was "I'm not Hillary", with the easily predictable outcome after some 20+ years of Clinton Scandals, Hillary lost to an unproven leader, because she has proven herself to be a poor leader. Remember when her first stated campaign accomplishment was having "travelled over 1 million miles as Secretary of State"? Remember how quickly Carly Fiorina destroyed it by pointing out that that is an "activity, not an accomplishment"?
She was a lousy candidate with an incredible number of issues and the world learned through email leaks that she was hand-picked by democrat leadership before the primaries even started.