Monopolies are not a libertarian topic. Monopolies rarely occur without assistance from congress and any government intervention inherently means its not a libertarian concept. Granting patents on vague language such as verizons alleged patent against vonage is a perfect example. They were allowed to get a patent in 1998 that literally, and I do mean literally, described how DNS works. They then used that patent to win a lawsuit against vonage. It’s a little known secret that the biggest pushers for “red tape”, aka regulation, are companies already established within the industry. By the way, if you read the ninth amendment you will see that the federal government does not have the power to pass laws that supersede a states right. The only thing they can supersede a states right is a constitutional amendment. If a state wants to have these laws they can challenge the federal government on their ninth amendment right.
Im a bit concerned over the most recent whistle blown about them hiding studies that linked it to lukemia and a few other cancers. The odds of getting some form of cancer are now 1 in 3. I believe it was rarer than 1 in 25 back in the 80s. I would much prefer fiber than saturate the airwaves with even higher powered EM radiation. Do you know how much more space junk we are going to have floating around to support 5g? Eventually we are going to have to cruise to the arctic circle just to get a good view of the night sky. There will be no mechanixal navigation backup to sattelite for ships. Dead reckoning will be impossible.
I really dont understand opposition to voter id. We have to provide ID to open a bank account, get a drivers license, travel on public transportation, and even load cash on prepaid credit cards in some venues. As long as the ID system is universal and taxpayer funded, I don’t see a problem. Voting in more than one district or voting as someone else is just as much fraud as any other form of identity theft. The power of the vote is just as big of a deal as the power to buy a pistol. Nobody would dare suggest requiring ID to buy a firearm was a deliberate ploy to ensure impoverished from self defense. We expect people to show ID to buy various goods. I have to produce ID to buy damn 1 box of sudafed for gods sake. At this point opposing an ID system to vote makes it look like someone knows something shady keeps going on. How do you know mega corporations arent stacking the deck to continue to screw us, the people, over if there is no cross reference? Thats just as likely as illegals voting for some form of socialism.
Nothing in the article prevents ISPs, who typically use throttling as a means of cost control, from having to charge the consumer MORE for their service. If the average colorado resident is paying $65/mo for 100mbps service; my prediction is that within two years of this legislation passing, they will be paying at least $120/mo for the same service and you will have fewer options. The same shit happened when they started forcing insurances to cover stuff. First rates went up, and then companies started pulling out. I predict both will happen. You’ll get exactly what you regulated, a wide open faucet. The ones that stick around will charge the shit out of you and it will probably get maintained poorly and suffer packet loss. This is what happens when people think they can force a company to pay for shit. Remember the TRS fund? The Universal Services fund? Subscriber line charges? We sure made the telcos pay for all that shit disnt we? We sure showed them. Seen your bill lately? The taxes, fees, and regulatory costs exceed the service portion.
I like my TVs to be dumb HDMI inputs redirected from a receiver where my other devices output video. I dont need a camera on my streaming devices and my ps4 VR only gets plugged in when I want to do some vr shit. I might be paranoid, but its probably because way back in the day my teachers made me read Animal Farm and 1984.
Not only no, but fuck no. Have you people not learned exactly how deep that fucking rabit hole will go? They OWN you when they give you free shit in exchange for being their whore!! Didnt Facefuck tesch you anything?!?!?!
Sometimes the best engineering, the best design, or the best science, still feels to make market share because of marketing, financials, and deliberate partnerships. Betamax vs VHS. Or HD-DVD vs BluRay or even X2 vs 56KFlex. It’s not always the best design that wins. There are patents which result in recurring revenue from licensing at stake. This usually results in a whole lot of finagling and cutting deals in board rooms regardless of which technology was superior.
It’s really not a needed legislation. Maybe with CFL‘s because they had a lot of downsides. In the day of CFL‘s it was harder to adopt because they did not instantly come on. Even the “instant on“ CFL’s still had a warm-up period, and the instant on aspect diminished after six months and reverted back to a full minute before the full intensity. The minute LEDs fell to the same price I replaced all those CFL‘s. At first heat was still an issue. The heat sinks they stuck in the bases were rather heavy.
About the only place I have left using incandescent are those utility bulbs in places like my oven. Oh and the light in the hood portion of my microwave those are halogen.
I don’t see this as a reversal in efficiencies. I see it more like striking those old ice cream cone in your back pocket loss off the book because they’re no longer relevant. Why would you assume that people are going to immediately run right back to lightbulbs you have to change every other fucking week? We are inherently lazy. I would rather not have to do the same mindless task repeatedly if I can just do it once every couple years. The lightbulbs in the chandelier in my foyer or 15 feet in the air. Only a moron would replace those with incandescent. It is a real pain in the ass if you don’t happen to have a 14 foot A-frame ladder. Which I don’t.
Its all about color temperature. I find 2600/2700K (esp for CFL) unpleasant and almost nausiating. Harder to find, I much preferr 3000K lighting. For utility spaces like workshops, laundry rooms, etc, to be much more useful if my color temp is around 4500K or greater. But that much blue is not good for prolonged exposure so limiting it to work spaces is essential. Bedroom lighting I preferr around 2800K as its enough red to have the calming effect without the full effect of mild discomfort that 2600K does to me. 2700K tends to vary by manufacturer, whicj tells me that its not that exact of a measurement.
A lot of tablets have started shifting off the blue in the evening in hopes to reduce restless sleep. I beleive the two are related. Too much blue at night seems to keep your mind from resting. I’m sure that’s from thousands of years of evolution where the bluest colors are mid day, while the evening colors are much more red.
While I agree completely in your assessment of the 2A; What makes you so sure that if neither of us, in a hypothetical fight, would both be alive? If you attack me I play for keeps. I gouge eyes, I can crush your trake with my index finger and middle finger, I shatter elbows, and if tour down I will stomp your cervical vertibrae with combat boots. The fight isnt over until I am certain the threat is neutralized. Which means your not getting up. A gurney or body bag, either will suffice. This is how Ive been trained for more than 30yrs. The nearest object becomes a weapon. I can generate enough snapping force from the end of a child size aluminum bat to shatter a skull with one strike to the temple. Why does everyone think nobody ever killed eachother before firearms came around? Never put all your eggs in one basket. This includes personal defense.
there should be a study about how the stress of reading studies increases risk of heart attack. Ever read the details of these 'increased risks'? A lot of times its like one more person had an issue than those that didnt.
I think he says a lot of shit, but if he REALLY wanted to do it, he could seriously do the espionage shit that 44 did. I think that his staff intervenes and kills half these ideas before they leave the oval office, which I wish happened under 44. Sometimes I find the timing of his shit to be clever misdirection. While everyone is getting spun up on what he is tweeting, what people should be doing is looking to see what is going on elsewhere. I think he enjoys hearing himself talk. If he actually silenced the media who would mention his name every day? He loves the attention, regardless of what he writes.
whats sad is that we have just two sides of a political spectrum. I dont really agree with either 'side' on a majority of topics. I am a libertarian. So on social issues I tend to be more liberal, as long as it passes the logic test. On fiscal issues I definitely tend to be more conservative, If I am expected to cut expenses and tighten my belt when new costs arise, why cant my government. I am all for letting people fuck their own lives up if it doesn't cause excessive harm to others in the process. I dont think dependence on government is a good thing, it makes you weak and subject to abuses which flies in the face of the liberal idea of standing up to abusers and demanding your rights. Truth itself can be highly subjective, if you ask 100 people what the truth is, your likely to get at least 60 different answers. Flat out silencing people solves nothing. Hell the dark history of mother goose rhymes should have taught people that. What you can do is require people to stop making up 'anonymous' sources. Either go on record or don't quote it. Anonymous sources needs to be replaced with the phrase 'it has been rumored' because that is all it really is. They need to stop teaching our kids to be spoon-fed information and go back to teaching them how to weed through the bullshit, and not in some propaganda sort of way. There are ways to teach this without specifically using news articles as examples. You could do mock simulations of some mystery to unravel based on contradicting testomonies, etc.
it wasnt the Trump administation that suggested in 2015/2016 that sites like Drudge Report and Infowars be shut down as 'fake news organizations'. When will you guys ever learn that ever sort of 'cheat' you can come up with can be used against you. Everything your complaining about (and im not saying its invalid) has at one time also been used by the other side. Manipulating people with facebook ads? 2012. War on journalism? 2009/2010 by imprisoning journalist who would not reveal their sources. He literally charged them with espionage and treason. In fact the 44th presidential administration has charged more people with treason than every other president combined. I tried to warn you back then, when they were coming up with 'clever' ways to shut down sites like drudge report and infowars, that any bullshit you pull when in power can be used against you later when you aren't. The responsible thing to do would be to prevent _anyone_ from being able to do this shit, but instead we get new ways to weaponize this instead. Those in power just cant resist the opportunity to abuse it instead of killing it outright so that no one can use it again. So next time, before you assume this is new, do a little checking. This POTUS isnt really clever enough to invent this stuff, they just use what has been done before. Its like those commercials for Georgia Pacific "we dont make many of the things you use everyday. We make many of the things you use everyday better". Only in this case, more weaponized. Take the moral high ground and abandon this practice entirely, for the betterment of everyone, not just one party.
Actually, about Fox News, Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times in 2009, “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”
And in 2013, Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, wrote “the administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration.”
In 2015, James Risen, then a reporter at The New York Times, called the Obama administration “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.”
In 2017, in Obama’s last days, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board echoed the criticism from Downie and Risen and called Obama’s administration “the least transparent and the most antagonistic toward the media since the Nixon administration.” In a nuanced analysis of his eight years, we wrote, “So much for Obama’s promise to lead ‘the most transparent administration in history.’”
Some specifics? Obama’s administration prosecuted three times as many cases targeting whistle-blowers and leakers than all previous administrations combined. It said there was probable cause that a Fox News reporter was a “co-conspirator” in a plot against the U.S. government because of his attempts to gather information about North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. It secretly scoured the phone records of nearly 100 Associated Press reporters and editors for two months, which an editorial in The New York Times characterized as “a fishing expedition for sources and an effort to frighten off whistle-blowers.” And in 2014, according to AP, the Obama administration broke its own record for censoring government files or refusing to provide files sought under the Freedom of Information Act.
yea my wife works at a cancer center like mayo and many of the doctors stop listening the minute they hear fibro mialgia. Now if your a male there are a couple things I would check into..
1) get your testosterone levels checked. DO NOT accept the result as *normal* they give you back. Normal is 200 - 1200. Do you have any idea how big a range that is? On average a 50yr old male is going to score a 400. What you need to find out is what is *normal* for your age, not normal based on an extremely wide band of range. Low levels of T can have more impact than just sex drive. It can make your whole body feel like you are suffering arthritis.
2) get a genertic test for the MTHFR gene mutation. Thats a condition that 30% of the people in the US suffer that keeps you from converting Folic Acid into Methylfolate. There are a lot of side effects from this mutation. The good news is you can take Methyfolate directly which will eventually counteract this. Taking Activated folate and activated b-12 will have a profound improvement in your energy level if you are one of the sufferers.
my wife has it, she describes it as arthritis but in your muscles. For all anyone knows, it could be a very mild form of scleroderma. Often the medicines for arthritis came with serious side effects including heart attack. However, exercise has always been a form of non-invasive therapy for arthritis. Psychological? It amazes me how hospitals took a while to realize that outpatient, when possible, had much faster recovery times. Your state of mind is _critical_ to your ability to heal and repair. The power of positive thinking has some merits. No, you wont cure cancer just by thinking positive. However, your chances of having an effective treatment regimen increases drastically when you have a positive attitude. It could be diet related like celiacs, another auto-immune disorder. The whole point of research is to find what things help, and then figure out why. We dont treat infections with bread mold anymore because we researched the why after we observed the effect.
I read this article a few days ago. This is the biggest problem with these whole social-justice social media warriors. They bully and bully and bully to get their way. These idiots draw conclusions, or more accurately, they _jump_ to conclusions. In this case the researcher did some research that suggested that exercise therapy can bring some relief. So they jump to conclusion that they think its all in their head and start bullying the researcher till he quits. Its fucking idiotic. These asshats have no clue how research works. for starters telling people that research is showing that exercise can bring some relief implies, in no way, that they are done and thats the best you can hope for. Why wouldn't you share this non-invasive and multi-theraputic finding with the world? The benefits of exercise are very pervasive. Furthermore, once you find a link, that's where the interesting part happens, WHY does it provide relief? Is it a dopamine response? A serotonin one? Perhaps there is something going on with exercise and the lymphatic system... Research starts at a 5000ft overview and starts zooming on on things that help until they find the 1 or more, most effective responses. THEN they figure out how to increase this to provide greater relief.
These social bullies dont deserve treatment, and thats exactly what they are doing with their behavior. REAL science is about following the research REGARDLESS of whether you _like_ the results or not. Its not about what you like. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? There is no room in science for prejudices. Leave that shit at the door and follow the research empirically. The idea that you can make science conform to your expectations is such an abortion of logic, these idiots should be forced to take a 12 week course on nothing but the scientific method. Revoke their driving privilege till they pass a course. The only reason they are not called out for this is because they happen to also be easily made to agree with any other policy issue. In other words they are free votes / allies on any topic they dont understand. It reminds me of that guy on youtube that goes around asking people at college stuff and listen to them give the most ridiculous answers based on prejudices.
are you really this stupid? If a tornado hits your house and Wells fargo is the mortage company they dont have a single responsibility to fix it. If you wreck your car its not the bank that is responsible. Giving someone a loan does NOT require you to micro-manage what they do with the money. The loan is based exclusively on the ability to pay it back and the collateral you put up to cover the load. Thats it. If you expect more than NOBODY could get a home loan. There would be interview as to what sort of jobs you plan to hold the rest of your life how many kids your plan to have, what are the risk factors of your sexual orientation vs being killed before you can pay it back. None of that shit is relevant.
IMO a UBI will fail on its face for the same reason raising minimum wage fails. The net result is the cost just gets passed right back onto the consumer. So you get $12k a year of UBI, but at the same time, all those businesses getting taxed to cover it start raising costs. Suddenly your yearly expenses go up, after a few years your increases add right back up to that $12k. The net result is you aren't any better off because that $12k you were given suddenly gets paid right back out in increases in expenses. Its no different than when people demand we tax or fee the shit out of cable or telecom "let those rich phone companies pay for it!! stop taxing the working class!"... next thing you know there is a new recovery fee on your bill. USF, FCC Access fee, Federal subscriber line. I really cannot thing of a single scenario where it wont come back to us in the end, either directly or indirectly.
she clearly doesnt understand you cant just print 100 trillion in currency to pay for stuff. The more you just print, the less its worth. If you print an extra 100 trillion a weeks worth of groceries are going to cost you 10,000 in devalued dollars.
your talking about the same idiot that said "the three branches of government are The House, The Senate, and The Executive branch". She apparently failed basic civics. She also has no concept about economics since she said the solution to the 100 trillion estimate for a green new deal is just to print more money. Apparently she doesnt understand how currency is valued. You print 100 trillion and it will be worth 30 billion at best, now your green new deal suddenly cost 999 trillion.
If I was an authoritarian regime looking for a cover story to replace everyones software on their device with something I could control in greatee detail, this would be a good one. In fact why not just roll that social media credit system into the payment apps as well. Surcharges for lower social credit scores, etc. Best of all we made it look like someone elses fault so our people flock to this change.
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Monopolies are not a libertarian topic. Monopolies rarely occur without assistance from congress and any government intervention inherently means its not a libertarian concept. Granting patents on vague language such as verizons alleged patent against vonage is a perfect example. They were allowed to get a patent in 1998 that literally, and I do mean literally, described how DNS works. They then used that patent to win a lawsuit against vonage. It’s a little known secret that the biggest pushers for “red tape”, aka regulation, are companies already established within the industry. By the way, if you read the ninth amendment you will see that the federal government does not have the power to pass laws that supersede a states right. The only thing they can supersede a states right is a constitutional amendment. If a state wants to have these laws they can challenge the federal government on their ninth amendment right.
Im a bit concerned over the most recent whistle blown about them hiding studies that linked it to lukemia and a few other cancers. The odds of getting some form of cancer are now 1 in 3. I believe it was rarer than 1 in 25 back in the 80s. I would much prefer fiber than saturate the airwaves with even higher powered EM radiation. Do you know how much more space junk we are going to have floating around to support 5g? Eventually we are going to have to cruise to the arctic circle just to get a good view of the night sky. There will be no mechanixal navigation backup to sattelite for ships. Dead reckoning will be impossible.
I really dont understand opposition to voter id. We have to provide ID to open a bank account, get a drivers license, travel on public transportation, and even load cash on prepaid credit cards in some venues. As long as the ID system is universal and taxpayer funded, I don’t see a problem. Voting in more than one district or voting as someone else is just as much fraud as any other form of identity theft. The power of the vote is just as big of a deal as the power to buy a pistol. Nobody would dare suggest requiring ID to buy a firearm was a deliberate ploy to ensure impoverished from self defense. We expect people to show ID to buy various goods. I have to produce ID to buy damn 1 box of sudafed for gods sake. At this point opposing an ID system to vote makes it look like someone knows something shady keeps going on. How do you know mega corporations arent stacking the deck to continue to screw us, the people, over if there is no cross reference? Thats just as likely as illegals voting for some form of socialism.
Nothing in the article prevents ISPs, who typically use throttling as a means of cost control, from having to charge the consumer MORE for their service. If the average colorado resident is paying $65/mo for 100mbps service; my prediction is that within two years of this legislation passing, they will be paying at least $120/mo for the same service and you will have fewer options. The same shit happened when they started forcing insurances to cover stuff. First rates went up, and then companies started pulling out. I predict both will happen. You’ll get exactly what you regulated, a wide open faucet. The ones that stick around will charge the shit out of you and it will probably get maintained poorly and suffer packet loss. This is what happens when people think they can force a company to pay for shit. Remember the TRS fund? The Universal Services fund? Subscriber line charges? We sure made the telcos pay for all that shit disnt we? We sure showed them. Seen your bill lately? The taxes, fees, and regulatory costs exceed the service portion.
I like my TVs to be dumb HDMI inputs redirected from a receiver where my other devices output video. I dont need a camera on my streaming devices and my ps4 VR only gets plugged in when I want to do some vr shit. I might be paranoid, but its probably because way back in the day my teachers made me read Animal Farm and 1984.
Not only no, but fuck no. Have you people not learned exactly how deep that fucking rabit hole will go? They OWN you when they give you free shit in exchange for being their whore!! Didnt Facefuck tesch you anything?!?!?!
Sometimes the best engineering, the best design, or the best science, still feels to make market share because of marketing, financials, and deliberate partnerships. Betamax vs VHS. Or HD-DVD vs BluRay or even X2 vs 56KFlex. It’s not always the best design that wins. There are patents which result in recurring revenue from licensing at stake. This usually results in a whole lot of finagling and cutting deals in board rooms regardless of which technology was superior.
Hey its in datacenters. I bet those smart temperature/environmental monitoring units are running ARM processors. ;-)
Possibly even the wireless APs.
It’s really not a needed legislation. Maybe with CFL‘s because they had a lot of downsides. In the day of CFL‘s it was harder to adopt because they did not instantly come on. Even the “instant on“ CFL’s still had a warm-up period, and the instant on aspect diminished after six months and reverted back to a full minute before the full intensity. The minute LEDs fell to the same price I replaced all those CFL‘s. At first heat was still an issue. The heat sinks they stuck in the bases were rather heavy.
About the only place I have left using incandescent are those utility bulbs in places like my oven. Oh and the light in the hood portion of my microwave those are halogen.
I don’t see this as a reversal in efficiencies. I see it more like striking those old ice cream cone in your back pocket loss off the book because they’re no longer relevant. Why would you assume that people are going to immediately run right back to lightbulbs you have to change every other fucking week? We are inherently lazy. I would rather not have to do the same mindless task repeatedly if I can just do it once every couple years. The lightbulbs in the chandelier in my foyer or 15 feet in the air. Only a moron would replace those with incandescent. It is a real pain in the ass if you don’t happen to have a 14 foot A-frame ladder. Which I don’t.
Its all about color temperature. I find 2600/2700K (esp for CFL) unpleasant and almost nausiating. Harder to find, I much preferr 3000K lighting. For utility spaces like workshops, laundry rooms, etc, to be much more useful if my color temp is around 4500K or greater. But that much blue is not good for prolonged exposure so limiting it to work spaces is essential. Bedroom lighting I preferr around 2800K as its enough red to have the calming effect without the full effect of mild discomfort that 2600K does to me. 2700K tends to vary by manufacturer, whicj tells me that its not that exact of a measurement.
A lot of tablets have started shifting off the blue in the evening in hopes to reduce restless sleep. I beleive the two are related. Too much blue at night seems to keep your mind from resting. I’m sure that’s from thousands of years of evolution where the bluest colors are mid day, while the evening colors are much more red.
While I agree completely in your assessment of the 2A; What makes you so sure that if neither of us, in a hypothetical fight, would both be alive? If you attack me I play for keeps. I gouge eyes, I can crush your trake with my index finger and middle finger, I shatter elbows, and if tour down I will stomp your cervical vertibrae with combat boots. The fight isnt over until I am certain the threat is neutralized. Which means your not getting up. A gurney or body bag, either will suffice. This is how Ive been trained for more than 30yrs. The nearest object becomes a weapon. I can generate enough snapping force from the end of a child size aluminum bat to shatter a skull with one strike to the temple. Why does everyone think nobody ever killed eachother before firearms came around? Never put all your eggs in one basket. This includes personal defense.
they DO make eggs that are from chickens fed a diet of Flax, so they are high in omega3
there should be a study about how the stress of reading studies increases risk of heart attack. Ever read the details of these 'increased risks'? A lot of times its like one more person had an issue than those that didnt.
I think he says a lot of shit, but if he REALLY wanted to do it, he could seriously do the espionage shit that 44 did. I think that his staff intervenes and kills half these ideas before they leave the oval office, which I wish happened under 44. Sometimes I find the timing of his shit to be clever misdirection. While everyone is getting spun up on what he is tweeting, what people should be doing is looking to see what is going on elsewhere. I think he enjoys hearing himself talk. If he actually silenced the media who would mention his name every day? He loves the attention, regardless of what he writes.
whats sad is that we have just two sides of a political spectrum. I dont really agree with either 'side' on a majority of topics. I am a libertarian. So on social issues I tend to be more liberal, as long as it passes the logic test. On fiscal issues I definitely tend to be more conservative, If I am expected to cut expenses and tighten my belt when new costs arise, why cant my government. I am all for letting people fuck their own lives up if it doesn't cause excessive harm to others in the process. I dont think dependence on government is a good thing, it makes you weak and subject to abuses which flies in the face of the liberal idea of standing up to abusers and demanding your rights. Truth itself can be highly subjective, if you ask 100 people what the truth is, your likely to get at least 60 different answers. Flat out silencing people solves nothing. Hell the dark history of mother goose rhymes should have taught people that. What you can do is require people to stop making up 'anonymous' sources. Either go on record or don't quote it. Anonymous sources needs to be replaced with the phrase 'it has been rumored' because that is all it really is. They need to stop teaching our kids to be spoon-fed information and go back to teaching them how to weed through the bullshit, and not in some propaganda sort of way. There are ways to teach this without specifically using news articles as examples. You could do mock simulations of some mystery to unravel based on contradicting testomonies, etc.
it wasnt the Trump administation that suggested in 2015/2016 that sites like Drudge Report and Infowars be shut down as 'fake news organizations'. When will you guys ever learn that ever sort of 'cheat' you can come up with can be used against you. Everything your complaining about (and im not saying its invalid) has at one time also been used by the other side. Manipulating people with facebook ads? 2012. War on journalism? 2009/2010 by imprisoning journalist who would not reveal their sources. He literally charged them with espionage and treason. In fact the 44th presidential administration has charged more people with treason than every other president combined. I tried to warn you back then, when they were coming up with 'clever' ways to shut down sites like drudge report and infowars, that any bullshit you pull when in power can be used against you later when you aren't. The responsible thing to do would be to prevent _anyone_ from being able to do this shit, but instead we get new ways to weaponize this instead. Those in power just cant resist the opportunity to abuse it instead of killing it outright so that no one can use it again. So next time, before you assume this is new, do a little checking. This POTUS isnt really clever enough to invent this stuff, they just use what has been done before. Its like those commercials for Georgia Pacific "we dont make many of the things you use everyday. We make many of the things you use everyday better". Only in this case, more weaponized. Take the moral high ground and abandon this practice entirely, for the betterment of everyone, not just one party.
Quoting The San Diego Union-Tribune https://www.sandiegouniontribu...
Actually, about Fox News, Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times in 2009, “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”
And in 2013, Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, wrote “the administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration.”
In 2015, James Risen, then a reporter at The New York Times, called the Obama administration “the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.”
In 2017, in Obama’s last days, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board echoed the criticism from Downie and Risen and called Obama’s administration “the least transparent and the most antagonistic toward the media since the Nixon administration.” In a nuanced analysis of his eight years, we wrote, “So much for Obama’s promise to lead ‘the most transparent administration in history.’”
Some specifics? Obama’s administration prosecuted three times as many cases targeting whistle-blowers and leakers than all previous administrations combined. It said there was probable cause that a Fox News reporter was a “co-conspirator” in a plot against the U.S. government because of his attempts to gather information about North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. It secretly scoured the phone records of nearly 100 Associated Press reporters and editors for two months, which an editorial in The New York Times characterized as “a fishing expedition for sources and an effort to frighten off whistle-blowers.” And in 2014, according to AP, the Obama administration broke its own record for censoring government files or refusing to provide files sought under the Freedom of Information Act.
yea my wife works at a cancer center like mayo and many of the doctors stop listening the minute they hear fibro mialgia. Now if your a male there are a couple things I would check into..
1) get your testosterone levels checked. DO NOT accept the result as *normal* they give you back. Normal is 200 - 1200. Do you have any idea how big a range that is? On average a 50yr old male is going to score a 400. What you need to find out is what is *normal* for your age, not normal based on an extremely wide band of range. Low levels of T can have more impact than just sex drive. It can make your whole body feel like you are suffering arthritis.
2) get a genertic test for the MTHFR gene mutation. Thats a condition that 30% of the people in the US suffer that keeps you from converting Folic Acid into Methylfolate. There are a lot of side effects from this mutation. The good news is you can take Methyfolate directly which will eventually counteract this. Taking Activated folate and activated b-12 will have a profound improvement in your energy level if you are one of the sufferers.
my wife has it, she describes it as arthritis but in your muscles. For all anyone knows, it could be a very mild form of scleroderma. Often the medicines for arthritis came with serious side effects including heart attack. However, exercise has always been a form of non-invasive therapy for arthritis. Psychological? It amazes me how hospitals took a while to realize that outpatient, when possible, had much faster recovery times. Your state of mind is _critical_ to your ability to heal and repair. The power of positive thinking has some merits. No, you wont cure cancer just by thinking positive. However, your chances of having an effective treatment regimen increases drastically when you have a positive attitude. It could be diet related like celiacs, another auto-immune disorder. The whole point of research is to find what things help, and then figure out why. We dont treat infections with bread mold anymore because we researched the why after we observed the effect.
I read this article a few days ago. This is the biggest problem with these whole social-justice social media warriors. They bully and bully and bully to get their way. These idiots draw conclusions, or more accurately, they _jump_ to conclusions. In this case the researcher did some research that suggested that exercise therapy can bring some relief. So they jump to conclusion that they think its all in their head and start bullying the researcher till he quits. Its fucking idiotic. These asshats have no clue how research works. for starters telling people that research is showing that exercise can bring some relief implies, in no way, that they are done and thats the best you can hope for. Why wouldn't you share this non-invasive and multi-theraputic finding with the world? The benefits of exercise are very pervasive. Furthermore, once you find a link, that's where the interesting part happens, WHY does it provide relief? Is it a dopamine response? A serotonin one? Perhaps there is something going on with exercise and the lymphatic system... Research starts at a 5000ft overview and starts zooming on on things that help until they find the 1 or more, most effective responses. THEN they figure out how to increase this to provide greater relief.
These social bullies dont deserve treatment, and thats exactly what they are doing with their behavior. REAL science is about following the research REGARDLESS of whether you _like_ the results or not. Its not about what you like. Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy? There is no room in science for prejudices. Leave that shit at the door and follow the research empirically. The idea that you can make science conform to your expectations is such an abortion of logic, these idiots should be forced to take a 12 week course on nothing but the scientific method. Revoke their driving privilege till they pass a course. The only reason they are not called out for this is because they happen to also be easily made to agree with any other policy issue. In other words they are free votes / allies on any topic they dont understand. It reminds me of that guy on youtube that goes around asking people at college stuff and listen to them give the most ridiculous answers based on prejudices.
are you really this stupid? If a tornado hits your house and Wells fargo is the mortage company they dont have a single responsibility to fix it. If you wreck your car its not the bank that is responsible. Giving someone a loan does NOT require you to micro-manage what they do with the money. The loan is based exclusively on the ability to pay it back and the collateral you put up to cover the load. Thats it. If you expect more than NOBODY could get a home loan. There would be interview as to what sort of jobs you plan to hold the rest of your life how many kids your plan to have, what are the risk factors of your sexual orientation vs being killed before you can pay it back. None of that shit is relevant.
IMO a UBI will fail on its face for the same reason raising minimum wage fails. The net result is the cost just gets passed right back onto the consumer. So you get $12k a year of UBI, but at the same time, all those businesses getting taxed to cover it start raising costs. Suddenly your yearly expenses go up, after a few years your increases add right back up to that $12k. The net result is you aren't any better off because that $12k you were given suddenly gets paid right back out in increases in expenses. Its no different than when people demand we tax or fee the shit out of cable or telecom "let those rich phone companies pay for it!! stop taxing the working class!"... next thing you know there is a new recovery fee on your bill. USF, FCC Access fee, Federal subscriber line. I really cannot thing of a single scenario where it wont come back to us in the end, either directly or indirectly.
she clearly doesnt understand you cant just print 100 trillion in currency to pay for stuff. The more you just print, the less its worth. If you print an extra 100 trillion a weeks worth of groceries are going to cost you 10,000 in devalued dollars.
your talking about the same idiot that said "the three branches of government are The House, The Senate, and The Executive branch". She apparently failed basic civics. She also has no concept about economics since she said the solution to the 100 trillion estimate for a green new deal is just to print more money. Apparently she doesnt understand how currency is valued. You print 100 trillion and it will be worth 30 billion at best, now your green new deal suddenly cost 999 trillion.
If I was an authoritarian regime looking for a cover story to replace everyones software on their device with something I could control in greatee detail, this would be a good one. In fact why not just roll that social media credit system into the payment apps as well. Surcharges for lower social credit scores, etc. Best of all we made it look like someone elses fault so our people flock to this change.
The problem isn't the base OS. It's the giant blob for service that Google only provides to licensed partner: the Google Play Services.
I guess they really do have to ‘Pay to Play’
ba-dump-dump-ching!
Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week.