The few real rapes were normal criminality for a festival in a nation the size of Germany.
Really? So it's ok that over a 1,000 women were sexually assaulted, as long as they weren't "real rapes"? And do you have evidence for that "normal criminality" claim? Because here in the United States, I've never heard of such a thing as being "normal" during New Year's Eve celebrations, let alone packs of thousands of men sexually assaulting women in public.
but few perpetrators were actually refugees
Oh, I'm sure they were just your average German men then, right? Or perhaps not:
"Police reported that the perpetrators were men of "Arab or North African appearance" and said that Germany had never experienced such mass sexual assaults before. [..] Chief Prosecutor Ulrich Bremer stated that "the overwhelming majority" of suspects were asylum seekers and illegal immigrants who had recently arrived in Germany."
The large part of the attention gained was due to the predisposed hatred of Syrian and Iraqi refugees of which Germany receives actually a low percentage.
Yeah, I said disastrous immigration policy, and did not specify Syria or Iraq. The fact that so many immigrants flooded in from other countries under Merkel's policy while supposedly helping war refugees is not a point in your favor.
The immigration policy of welcoming has succeeded in growing the German economy.
*snort* I guess if you consider welfare for poorly educated immigrants "growing the economy", then yes.
I support the ascension of Turkey and the inclusion of Muslims in the modern EU as continuation of the melding that benefits everyone.
Of course, more Trucks of Peace and Aloha Snackbars for Europe. Enjoy your cultural enrichment.
One side tries to get out the vote... The other tries to suppress the vote. I can tell which is evil. Can you?
Oh, so there there was no negative advertising against Romney or McCain? They were telling people what they wanted to hear to get the results they wanted. It's all politics.
Normally I'd agree with you but since you are trying to compare putting Obama in the White House to putting Donald Trump in the White House I'm going to have to disagree here.
So when you don't like the outcome you think being a hypocrite is ok.
Obama, whatever you may think of him, at least had a multi digit IQ that allowed him to answer questions from reporters
Trump answers them too.
skin that was too thick for his soul to be injured by Saturday Night Live skits
I'm not sure that his "soul" is being "injured". Also, Obama had his own personal feud with Fox News.
and had a clear idea of which countries he had bombed
But apparently didn't know how many states were in the country he was the President of.
Let's get real here. As much as I think Trump is prone to buffoonery, he managed to become a billionaire. And after years of political correctness and a President who refused to use the phrase Islamic terrorism, a guy like Trump was needed to call a spade a spade and shake things up.
I'm German and a member of CDU/CSU, my "guy" is a woman named Merkel.
So you're still voting for Merkel after over 1,000 of your women were violated in the Cologne New Year's Eve sexual assaults, which were the result of a disastrous immigration policy?
And yet, you could do a lot worse than informing yourself on an issue by watching someone like John Oliver. You're going to get tons more relevant and factual information from watching one of his segments on a given issue than you ever will watching any one of a number of "opinion" personalities on most cable news networks.
You'd get an incredibly biased view of an issue if all you did was watch John Oliver. I stopped watching him after he 1) perpetuated the debunked wage gap myth, and 2) made the ludicrous claim that the robbery video from the convenience store in the Ferguson case had no relevance to the "hands up, don't shoot" issue.
Trump, meanwhile, has shown zero inclination to any sort of compromises from an absolute hard line position, either on the campaign trail or now that he's in office.
That's bullshit, because he's been all over the map on many issues. Just take immigration as one example. He softened his stance to support "dreamers". He went from an all-out ban on Muslim immigration to a narrow ban based on a list from Obama's administration.
Look at health care. He's not holding to his campaign promises (which were impossible, because he wanted it all without any way to pay for it), and he doesn't really seem to give a shit about the particulars of the Republican plan, as long as something gets passed and he can claim victory on getting rid of Obamacare.
Look at the most recent budget that was passed. By all accounts, Trump got hardly anything of his "hard line" positions that he campaigned on.
That said, she did give press conferences - far moreso than Trump
What the fuck? It was a national story that Hillary was not doing press conferences.
No, no, no, no, no. Party A does not get to blame party B for party A's candidate.
Actually, you do, at least partially. When party B becomes a mix of odious identity politics that vilifies white people, and white males in particular, a reactionary candidate in party A gains traction.
Personally speaking, I only supported Trump because the left had gone insane with political correctness and "progressive" causes, even though I supported Obama for the previous two elections.
A query of the Shodan security search engine found over 8,500 systems with the AMT interface exposed to the Internet, with over 2,000 in the United States alone.
Given the gazillions of computers on the Internet, that number is extremely small.
This bit of code would've been identified as super-important when Intel (or whoever) was writing it, and it's too obvious a bug to have been unintentional. It's made to _look_ like an accident.
*snort* Shit like this happens all the time, in companies big and small. There's no guardian angel sitting over people's shoulders making sure code is identified as "super-important" and knowledgeable about all the ways C can fuck you over.
If you wanted to put a back door in, making it so trivial to activate would be just as incompetent.
Sorry, but this is programmer idiocy not the fault of the language.
The problem is the language. It's very low-level and full of easy to make errors. In any reasonably sane language that doesn't treat every CPU cycle as precious shit like this does not happen.
KNOWN AND DOCUMENTED BEHAVIOR
That C's error-prone functions have been documented and can be used correctly given enough care and experience doesn't excuse the language or prevent these kinds of errors from happening in the real world. Yes, in your mythical world where only perfect and experienced C programmers write code this isn't a problem.
6) For unknown reasons, the contractor's management reversed itself the night before and recommended launch despite the temps and ice.
Umm, you listed the reason in step 4: "I am appalled, appalled by your recommendation [to scrub the launch]. My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch, next April?"
That was heavy pressure from NASA management on the conference call to scrub the launch. Thiokol management immediately reconvened and then changed their recommendation. Also, at the time, Thiokol's contract was coming up for renegotiation and competition with other firms.
The details matter. I have a libertarian bent, so what I responded to was when you said this: "That's what needs fixed, not putting businesses in charge of the markets."
That's a Big Government idea. Also, Republicans, traditionally, have not been very libertarian. Neither have Democrats. It's just that now the "progressive" left has won so many battles that they've gone batshit crazy with their authoritarian identity politics that they make Republicans look libertarian even on social issues.
We it comes to externalities like pollution, I believe in government agencies like the EPA serve a useful role. I believe in limited government, not no government.
Your pessimism is overblown. If you actually look at the business landscape, they are always changing and serving different needs, usually because the needs and wants of people change.
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The few real rapes were normal criminality for a festival in a nation the size of Germany.
Really? So it's ok that over a 1,000 women were sexually assaulted, as long as they weren't "real rapes"? And do you have evidence for that "normal criminality" claim? Because here in the United States, I've never heard of such a thing as being "normal" during New Year's Eve celebrations, let alone packs of thousands of men sexually assaulting women in public.
but few perpetrators were actually refugees
Oh, I'm sure they were just your average German men then, right? Or perhaps not:
"Police reported that the perpetrators were men of "Arab or North African appearance" and said that Germany had never experienced such mass sexual assaults before. [..] Chief Prosecutor Ulrich Bremer stated that "the overwhelming majority" of suspects were asylum seekers and illegal immigrants who had recently arrived in Germany."
The large part of the attention gained was due to the predisposed hatred of Syrian and Iraqi refugees of which Germany receives actually a low percentage.
Yeah, I said disastrous immigration policy, and did not specify Syria or Iraq. The fact that so many immigrants flooded in from other countries under Merkel's policy while supposedly helping war refugees is not a point in your favor.
The immigration policy of welcoming has succeeded in growing the German economy.
*snort* I guess if you consider welfare for poorly educated immigrants "growing the economy", then yes.
I support the ascension of Turkey and the inclusion of Muslims in the modern EU as continuation of the melding that benefits everyone.
Of course, more Trucks of Peace and Aloha Snackbars for Europe. Enjoy your cultural enrichment.
One side tries to get out the vote... The other tries to suppress the vote. I can tell which is evil. Can you?
Oh, so there there was no negative advertising against Romney or McCain? They were telling people what they wanted to hear to get the results they wanted. It's all politics.
Normally I'd agree with you but since you are trying to compare putting Obama in the White House to putting Donald Trump in the White House I'm going to have to disagree here.
So when you don't like the outcome you think being a hypocrite is ok.
Obama, whatever you may think of him, at least had a multi digit IQ that allowed him to answer questions from reporters
Trump answers them too.
skin that was too thick for his soul to be injured by Saturday Night Live skits
I'm not sure that his "soul" is being "injured". Also, Obama had his own personal feud with Fox News.
and had a clear idea of which countries he had bombed
But apparently didn't know how many states were in the country he was the President of.
Let's get real here. As much as I think Trump is prone to buffoonery, he managed to become a billionaire. And after years of political correctness and a President who refused to use the phrase Islamic terrorism, a guy like Trump was needed to call a spade a spade and shake things up.
I'm German and a member of CDU/CSU, my "guy" is a woman named Merkel.
So you're still voting for Merkel after over 1,000 of your women were violated in the Cologne New Year's Eve sexual assaults, which were the result of a disastrous immigration policy?
And yet, you could do a lot worse than informing yourself on an issue by watching someone like John Oliver. You're going to get tons more relevant and factual information from watching one of his segments on a given issue than you ever will watching any one of a number of "opinion" personalities on most cable news networks.
You'd get an incredibly biased view of an issue if all you did was watch John Oliver. I stopped watching him after he 1) perpetuated the debunked wage gap myth, and 2) made the ludicrous claim that the robbery video from the convenience store in the Ferguson case had no relevance to the "hands up, don't shoot" issue.
Trump, meanwhile, has shown zero inclination to any sort of compromises from an absolute hard line position, either on the campaign trail or now that he's in office.
That's bullshit, because he's been all over the map on many issues. Just take immigration as one example. He softened his stance to support "dreamers". He went from an all-out ban on Muslim immigration to a narrow ban based on a list from Obama's administration.
Look at health care. He's not holding to his campaign promises (which were impossible, because he wanted it all without any way to pay for it), and he doesn't really seem to give a shit about the particulars of the Republican plan, as long as something gets passed and he can claim victory on getting rid of Obamacare.
Look at the most recent budget that was passed. By all accounts, Trump got hardly anything of his "hard line" positions that he campaigned on.
That said, she did give press conferences - far moreso than Trump
What the fuck? It was a national story that Hillary was not doing press conferences.
all of the message boards I participate in have been swarmed with right-wing trolls
"Correct" the Record was part of the Hillary campaign.
No, no, no, no, no. Party A does not get to blame party B for party A's candidate.
Actually, you do, at least partially. When party B becomes a mix of odious identity politics that vilifies white people, and white males in particular, a reactionary candidate in party A gains traction.
Personally speaking, I only supported Trump because the left had gone insane with political correctness and "progressive" causes, even though I supported Obama for the previous two elections.
A query of the Shodan security search engine found over 8,500 systems with the AMT interface exposed to the Internet, with over 2,000 in the United States alone.
Given the gazillions of computers on the Internet, that number is extremely small.
I agree ooloorie, this couldn't be an accident.
This bit of code would've been identified as super-important when Intel (or whoever) was writing it, and it's too obvious a bug to have been unintentional. It's made to _look_ like an accident.
*snort* Shit like this happens all the time, in companies big and small. There's no guardian angel sitting over people's shoulders making sure code is identified as "super-important" and knowledgeable about all the ways C can fuck you over.
If you wanted to put a back door in, making it so trivial to activate would be just as incompetent.
Sorry, but this is programmer idiocy not the fault of the language.
The problem is the language. It's very low-level and full of easy to make errors. In any reasonably sane language that doesn't treat every CPU cycle as precious shit like this does not happen.
KNOWN AND DOCUMENTED BEHAVIOR
That C's error-prone functions have been documented and can be used correctly given enough care and experience doesn't excuse the language or prevent these kinds of errors from happening in the real world. Yes, in your mythical world where only perfect and experienced C programmers write code this isn't a problem.
6) For unknown reasons, the contractor's management reversed itself the night before and recommended launch despite the temps and ice.
Umm, you listed the reason in step 4: "I am appalled, appalled by your recommendation [to scrub the launch]. My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch, next April?"
That was heavy pressure from NASA management on the conference call to scrub the launch. Thiokol management immediately reconvened and then changed their recommendation. Also, at the time, Thiokol's contract was coming up for renegotiation and competition with other firms.
it seems awfully likely that human/hominid hunting was an important factor in the eventual extinction of mastodons and other North American megafauna
I think the comet impact theory is more likely than nomadic tribes of ancient humans causing mass extinctions.
Politics start to get involved because so-called "Native Americans" receive preferential treatment
Why are you disparaging Elizabeth Warren?
Multiply that 5 megs with every windows user and it's a shit ton of space wasted for absolutely nothing.
So? How many gigs of unused hard drive space is sitting around the average user device?
Trump. Trumpety trump trump. Trump! Thank you, news media.
I think you're agreeing with my main premise.
The details matter. I have a libertarian bent, so what I responded to was when you said this: "That's what needs fixed, not putting businesses in charge of the markets."
That's a Big Government idea. Also, Republicans, traditionally, have not been very libertarian. Neither have Democrats. It's just that now the "progressive" left has won so many battles that they've gone batshit crazy with their authoritarian identity politics that they make Republicans look libertarian even on social issues.
We it comes to externalities like pollution, I believe in government agencies like the EPA serve a useful role. I believe in limited government, not no government.
Your pessimism is overblown. If you actually look at the business landscape, they are always changing and serving different needs, usually because the needs and wants of people change.
Companies rise and fall all the time. Do you think the two party system is somehow better at meeting the needs of the people?
It really does.
Competition tends to win out in the end.
Businesses have to respond to the needs of people or they go out of business.
Most everyone kept working or didn't start working as early but stayed in school longer.
Because they knew it was a pilot and the gravy train would end.
Let's see the wealthy progressives literally put their money where their mouths are.
They could do that already without government taking out taxes. They could even get a tax deduction while doing it. It's called charity.