Netflix and Alphabet will need to get involved with political campaigns fast!
Seriously, it's not a complex equation: promote the people that benefit you and bad mouth the ones that don't. While it may benefit me in this particular case, corporate involvement in politics still something that needs to be stopped.
You know.. I have one question.... What is Muller looking for? What was the reason for his appointment?
To investigate any contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign and any crimes that are uncovered in the process of investigating.
This was supposed to be a slam dunk, 6 moths at most.
Whoever told you that is an idiot.
we still don't have any evidence that implicates anybody in Trump's campaign with anything approaching a crime during the campaign....
Paul Manifort wasn't part of the Trump campaign? Also, we have no idea what treasures have been uncovered from the documents from Michael Cohen.
Muller will retire after this.
Mueller is retired, you idiot. He was pulled out of retirement specifically for this.
We will get a report, but it's going to say Trump's campaign didn't do anything wrong, even though individuals involved in the campaign got caught in unrelated crimes.
That might be the case but current indications are that it's not. I mean, Trump acts like the guiltiest man on the planet.
How long will it take was the question, not how fast you think Muller is going. How long do we give him? One year, two? Eight?
We give him all the time he needs. We don't let criminals off the hook just because you think it takes too long to route them out.
Muller's been busy, but for all the looking we have what? Nothing that has any direct relation to crimes by the president's campaign has been disclosed yet....
What we have is an ongoing investigation. The details aren't public just like all other FBI investigations. Why do you think that's a bad thing?
Again, guilty pleas for crimes that happened when? AFTER the election and for what? Lying to the FBI? Give me a break...
* What happened to being the party of "law and order"? * Lying to the FBI is no small thing. * Rick Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States.
No wrongdoing found?
Correct.
Well.. I know you don't like it, but the Hillary E-mail thing was found (and that was evidence of a crime) though
Seems like you didn't pay attention because they charge criminals with crimes when they find them.
and a whole bunch of lying to the US public was proven too.
Oh man... if that was a crime then Trump would already be behind bars!
That is a convenient excuse and nothing more. If Muller has the goods, he doesn't need to interview Trump, just write the report and be done. If he doesn't, then why would Trump talk to Muller?
Mueller already stated that Trump isn't the target of the investigation.
There is zero upside for talking to Muller.
We cannot know that for certain until he is interviewed.
How about this? Why doesn't Muller put his questions in writing and send them over the Whitehouse for answers? Yea, not going to happen. Hard to set a trap that way.
If Trump did nothing wrong then there is no trap to be had. All he has to do is answer some questions truthfully. Hillary Clinton was deposed for 11 hours and was never "trapped" because she told the truth and had committed no crimes.
Twenty charges?
Actually, there are 100+ charges but there are 20+ indictments.
Oh yea, foreign nationals and companies who never where directly involved in either campaign.
Paul Manifort and Michael Cohen are not foreign nationals.
Folks who will never stand trial unless they are stupid enough to travel though the USA and get arrested because they are Russians who are not on US soil anyway.
They need only leave Russia and they will be scooped up.
How long do you suppose it would take to find out?
Couldn't say for certain but given the results thus far, Mueller and his team have been moving at lightning speed.
Muller has pretty much a blank check and authorization to investigate pretty much any leads he finds into pretty much anything.
Well if you haven't noticed, there are a bunch of guilty pleas and a boatload of indictments. It's not like the investigation isn't going anywhere.
He's been going over a year now and the FBI 9 months before that.
The Watergate investigation took longer. Also, I think "conservatives" have lost the right to complain after screaming about Benghazi in 17 investigations that found no wrongdoing over the span of four years.
Are you sure we don't already know enough to be reasonably sure?
Mueller isn't one to waste time or resources. The president is refusing to be interviewed which is holding up the process.
You cannot prove a negative, but if you cannot come up with some kind of prove of the positive after a year, it's starting to look like nothing happened.
The 20 people and three companies that have indicted prove that something happened.
Mandatory recycling for everything. I'm not talking, you recycle 80% of stuff and the rest gets shoved in a hole in the ground, I'm talking 100% is transformed into material for a product or becomes fertilizer.
This isn't some absurd idea either because it's either this or we destroy the ecosystem and hope we engineer a way to survive.
If they were real hackers then they wouldn't have wiped the drive MBRs but merely replaced the HDD/SSD firmwares with hacked ones that gave them a nearly undetectable backdoor to the bank. Seriously, if you are going to steal millions then you should at least make an effort to do it properly. -_-
Wrong. Most precious metals are actually useful, so they have real value. Gold and silver are great conductors which copper can be used for a magnitude of things. Even platinum is useful because it's biocompatible. Matter is a real thing but numbers are conceptual.
Forget claiming they are like tulips, cryptocurrencies are worse than tulips. You can plant a tulip and it can reproduce with no additional effort. Cryptocurrencies and their network have to be maintained with other resources. Not only that but 51% attacks actually happen so your cryptocurrency may just vanish one day.
All widely traded cryptocurrencies have been trending downward since the crazy peak last December. There have been multiple larger events where values dropped precipitously without definable causes. Bitcoin and it's associated cryptocurrencies are a racket wherein people want to get rich by merely transferring money from others to themselves. There is no investment behind purchasing, it's all just taking.
Tell me when it really crashes and who's left holding the bag. Until then, shut up with this crap.
If I've learned anything about Intel from their past behavior then it's that they will lie, cheat and steal if that's what it takes to suppress AMD. I wouldn't be surprised if they paid off a bunch of companies to have a supply disruption occur, bad firmware updates bricking machines or creating a shell company to make purposefully shitty AMD machines.
Honestly, the FTC should have had their boot on Intel's neck decades ago and kept it their.
People are prostituting them selves for chucky cheese tokens
Oh come on! Who among us hasn't given BJs and handies in the ally behind Chucky Cheese for tokens? You do realize they have pizza and video games, right?;)
Incorrect. Impeachment requires a felony, misdemeanor, or high crimes.
And there lies the problem, "high crimes" isn't a legal term and thus anything can be considered a high crime. Though, I think obstruction of justice is currently the most apparent crime. We'll find out more after the FBI probe is completed. Why isn't your guy willing to talk to Mueller?
go find the people who spent a decade suffering under Obama's shit policies and regulations.
Which policies and regulations were they suffering from? Was it the retaliatory tariffs? Oh wait, that's what they are enjoying from Trump.
You'll find they're quite happy vs the big metropolitan city folk.
Their actual conditions have not improved but they may perceive it as being better.
Yes, it's far more difficult to get things done when both sides are playing for the same team isn't it. That same team? Well it doesn't appear to be the average person in the US.
So, you thing Congress enabling a president that "thinks he is on a mission from god to put gays back in the closet and women back in the kitchen" which would "set our country back 30 years" is what the "average person in the US" would want?
I'm not sure why you think this is a partisan issue but you seem to be blinded by tribalism.
You seem to be under the impression that we would just bottle the CO2 and leave it there. That's a really dumb assumption because both carbon and oxygen are really useful.
The Earth will be fine, regardless of whether we, as a species, manage to solve the slow-motion environmental catastrophe we accidentally created. What's at risk is the current ecosystem to which we're accustomed, including most of the extant species of multi-cellular life.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. I realized this exact thing after I posted and thought, "well fuck..." and moved on with life.
You missed the "and products" part. I specifically mention corporations because many power companies generate and sell electricity by burning fossil fuels at varying levels of efficiency. They should be taxed based on the CO2 they put out, not the amount electricity they sell.
Charging $100-$200 for a ton of CO2 would double the price of gasoline, for instance.
Well that would certainly make electric cars a more attractive option.
Proof is a problem, in that there is none. There is a lot of hearsay, but no proof.
If that is true then why is the president always upset about the probe into election tampering? Why won't he release his tax returns? Why has he tried to fire Mueller? He literally cannot go 24 hours without tweeting about it.
Can't impeach without proof.
Incorrect. Impeachment does not have any prerequisites.
You progressives so worried about what Trump might do, you never think about what removing him will do. Trump is a political outsider. He spends most of his time fighting his own congress. Pence will not have that problem. He is a political animal, and knows how to get things done. He has the contacts and clout to pull it off.
That would be an improvement over the current situation. You seem to misunderstand people's grievances about the current president.
Plus he is thinks he is on a mission from god to put gays back in the closet and women back in the kitchen. He will set our country back 30 years.
Much as the current president is finding out, things in government are easier said than done. Should the need arise, he too could be impeached.
Now that we know how much it should cost to remove CO2 from the sky, we should begin taxing corporations and products that release CO2 in the atmosphere. The money would then be used to pay other corporations to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.
There has been a long history of using environmental capital without consequence and that needs to come to an end if we're going to save this planet.
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Netflix and Alphabet will need to get involved with political campaigns fast!
Seriously, it's not a complex equation: promote the people that benefit you and bad mouth the ones that don't. While it may benefit me in this particular case, corporate involvement in politics still something that needs to be stopped.
You know.. I have one question.... What is Muller looking for? What was the reason for his appointment?
To investigate any contacts between Russia and the Trump campaign and any crimes that are uncovered in the process of investigating.
This was supposed to be a slam dunk, 6 moths at most.
Whoever told you that is an idiot.
we still don't have any evidence that implicates anybody in Trump's campaign with anything approaching a crime during the campaign....
Paul Manifort wasn't part of the Trump campaign? Also, we have no idea what treasures have been uncovered from the documents from Michael Cohen.
Muller will retire after this.
Mueller is retired, you idiot. He was pulled out of retirement specifically for this.
We will get a report, but it's going to say Trump's campaign didn't do anything wrong, even though individuals involved in the campaign got caught in unrelated crimes.
That might be the case but current indications are that it's not. I mean, Trump acts like the guiltiest man on the planet.
How long will it take was the question, not how fast you think Muller is going. How long do we give him? One year, two? Eight?
We give him all the time he needs. We don't let criminals off the hook just because you think it takes too long to route them out.
Muller's been busy, but for all the looking we have what? Nothing that has any direct relation to crimes by the president's campaign has been disclosed yet....
What we have is an ongoing investigation. The details aren't public just like all other FBI investigations. Why do you think that's a bad thing?
Again, guilty pleas for crimes that happened when? AFTER the election and for what? Lying to the FBI? Give me a break...
* What happened to being the party of "law and order"?
* Lying to the FBI is no small thing.
* Rick Gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States.
No wrongdoing found?
Correct.
Well.. I know you don't like it, but the Hillary E-mail thing was found (and that was evidence of a crime) though
Seems like you didn't pay attention because they charge criminals with crimes when they find them.
and a whole bunch of lying to the US public was proven too.
Oh man... if that was a crime then Trump would already be behind bars!
That is a convenient excuse and nothing more. If Muller has the goods, he doesn't need to interview Trump, just write the report and be done. If he doesn't, then why would Trump talk to Muller?
Mueller already stated that Trump isn't the target of the investigation.
There is zero upside for talking to Muller.
We cannot know that for certain until he is interviewed.
How about this? Why doesn't Muller put his questions in writing and send them over the Whitehouse for answers? Yea, not going to happen. Hard to set a trap that way.
If Trump did nothing wrong then there is no trap to be had. All he has to do is answer some questions truthfully. Hillary Clinton was deposed for 11 hours and was never "trapped" because she told the truth and had committed no crimes.
Twenty charges?
Actually, there are 100+ charges but there are 20+ indictments.
Oh yea, foreign nationals and companies who never where directly involved in either campaign.
Paul Manifort and Michael Cohen are not foreign nationals.
Folks who will never stand trial unless they are stupid enough to travel though the USA and get arrested because they are Russians who are not on US soil anyway.
They need only leave Russia and they will be scooped up.
How long do you suppose it would take to find out?
Couldn't say for certain but given the results thus far, Mueller and his team have been moving at lightning speed.
Muller has pretty much a blank check and authorization to investigate pretty much any leads he finds into pretty much anything.
Well if you haven't noticed, there are a bunch of guilty pleas and a boatload of indictments. It's not like the investigation isn't going anywhere.
He's been going over a year now and the FBI 9 months before that.
The Watergate investigation took longer. Also, I think "conservatives" have lost the right to complain after screaming about Benghazi in 17 investigations that found no wrongdoing over the span of four years.
Are you sure we don't already know enough to be reasonably sure?
Mueller isn't one to waste time or resources. The president is refusing to be interviewed which is holding up the process.
You cannot prove a negative, but if you cannot come up with some kind of prove of the positive after a year, it's starting to look like nothing happened.
The 20 people and three companies that have indicted prove that something happened.
But isn't Trump working for Putin?
Honestly, we don't know for sure but he's "working overtime" to try and shut down the investigation that would allow us to find out.
Mandatory recycling for everything. I'm not talking, you recycle 80% of stuff and the rest gets shoved in a hole in the ground, I'm talking 100% is transformed into material for a product or becomes fertilizer.
This isn't some absurd idea either because it's either this or we destroy the ecosystem and hope we engineer a way to survive.
Hvalfjörður, Morsárjökull, Vatnajökull, Morsárfossar?
I think people would take Iceland seriously if you guys stopped naming things after what you find in your Alphabet Soup. ;)
If they were real hackers then they wouldn't have wiped the drive MBRs but merely replaced the HDD/SSD firmwares with hacked ones that gave them a nearly undetectable backdoor to the bank. Seriously, if you are going to steal millions then you should at least make an effort to do it properly. -_-
Replace Bitcoin with "Precious Metals (Bullion)".
Wrong. Most precious metals are actually useful, so they have real value. Gold and silver are great conductors which copper can be used for a magnitude of things. Even platinum is useful because it's biocompatible. Matter is a real thing but numbers are conceptual.
Forget claiming they are like tulips, cryptocurrencies are worse than tulips. You can plant a tulip and it can reproduce with no additional effort. Cryptocurrencies and their network have to be maintained with other resources. Not only that but 51% attacks actually happen so your cryptocurrency may just vanish one day.
All widely traded cryptocurrencies have been trending downward since the crazy peak last December. There have been multiple larger events where values dropped precipitously without definable causes. Bitcoin and it's associated cryptocurrencies are a racket wherein people want to get rich by merely transferring money from others to themselves. There is no investment behind purchasing, it's all just taking.
Tell me when it really crashes and who's left holding the bag. Until then, shut up with this crap.
If I've learned anything about Intel from their past behavior then it's that they will lie, cheat and steal if that's what it takes to suppress AMD. I wouldn't be surprised if they paid off a bunch of companies to have a supply disruption occur, bad firmware updates bricking machines or creating a shell company to make purposefully shitty AMD machines.
Honestly, the FTC should have had their boot on Intel's neck decades ago and kept it their.
People are prostituting them selves for chucky cheese tokens
Oh come on! Who among us hasn't given BJs and handies in the ally behind Chucky Cheese for tokens? You do realize they have pizza and video games, right? ;)
Are there many things to be fixed in society? Yes. Is this intended to fix everyone's problems all at once? No.
You have to start fixing things somewhere or you'll never fix anything at all. Perfect is the enemy of good.
I thought bricklaying was a done deal, a fully solved problem. Seriously, robots build it faster!
Non-burning applications of C and O are merely a fraction of what we use C and O for.
And those will be the ones that aren't taxed.
How does this business model work?
It doesn't.
Incorrect. Impeachment requires a felony, misdemeanor, or high crimes.
And there lies the problem, "high crimes" isn't a legal term and thus anything can be considered a high crime. Though, I think obstruction of justice is currently the most apparent crime. We'll find out more after the FBI probe is completed. Why isn't your guy willing to talk to Mueller?
go find the people who spent a decade suffering under Obama's shit policies and regulations.
Which policies and regulations were they suffering from? Was it the retaliatory tariffs? Oh wait, that's what they are enjoying from Trump.
You'll find they're quite happy vs the big metropolitan city folk.
Their actual conditions have not improved but they may perceive it as being better.
Yes, it's far more difficult to get things done when both sides are playing for the same team isn't it. That same team? Well it doesn't appear to be the average person in the US.
So, you thing Congress enabling a president that "thinks he is on a mission from god to put gays back in the closet and women back in the kitchen" which would "set our country back 30 years" is what the "average person in the US" would want?
I'm not sure why you think this is a partisan issue but you seem to be blinded by tribalism.
You seem to be under the impression that we would just bottle the CO2 and leave it there. That's a really dumb assumption because both carbon and oxygen are really useful.
Mr. Novelist wrote:
The Earth will be fine, regardless of whether we, as a species, manage to solve the slow-motion environmental catastrophe we accidentally created. What's at risk is the current ecosystem to which we're accustomed, including most of the extant species of multi-cellular life.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct. I realized this exact thing after I posted and thought, "well fuck..." and moved on with life.
The main source of CO2 is not "corporations", but personal transportation and residential power. It is YOU, not "them".
I'm ok with this.
we should begin taxing corporations
Using 'corporations' is a weasel word
You missed the "and products" part. I specifically mention corporations because many power companies generate and sell electricity by burning fossil fuels at varying levels of efficiency. They should be taxed based on the CO2 they put out, not the amount electricity they sell.
Charging $100-$200 for a ton of CO2 would double the price of gasoline, for instance.
Well that would certainly make electric cars a more attractive option.
Proof is a problem, in that there is none. There is a lot of hearsay, but no proof.
If that is true then why is the president always upset about the probe into election tampering? Why won't he release his tax returns? Why has he tried to fire Mueller? He literally cannot go 24 hours without tweeting about it.
Can't impeach without proof.
Incorrect. Impeachment does not have any prerequisites.
You progressives so worried about what Trump might do, you never think about what removing him will do. Trump is a political outsider. He spends most of his time fighting his own congress. Pence will not have that problem. He is a political animal, and knows how to get things done. He has the contacts and clout to pull it off.
That would be an improvement over the current situation. You seem to misunderstand people's grievances about the current president.
Plus he is thinks he is on a mission from god to put gays back in the closet and women back in the kitchen. He will set our country back 30 years.
Much as the current president is finding out, things in government are easier said than done. Should the need arise, he too could be impeached.
Now that we know how much it should cost to remove CO2 from the sky, we should begin taxing corporations and products that release CO2 in the atmosphere. The money would then be used to pay other corporations to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.
There has been a long history of using environmental capital without consequence and that needs to come to an end if we're going to save this planet.
If humans AREN'T causing warming AND you don't claim to know the real cause, then Wth are the courts even expecting?
Evidence of a significant discrepancy in the existing math. E.g. 58% of CO2 is coming from an unknown source.