A lot of laws and rulings impact states also. For example, making abortion a felony will impact a blue state also. As will taxing states to have a big military.
And make them Yuuuuge! Have the best exclamation points ever! And lots of really terrific superlatives! I and I alone invented superlatives; the BEST superlatives, believe me! Giant crowds come to see my fantastically bigly superlatives; everyone knows it. Even lyin' CNN claps. 200% TV audience share. Math people had to create new numbers to fit my ratings. Make Superlatives Great Again!
Barring some yuuuge change, we are headed for a civil war or split-up. When too much political energy is wasted on nasty red/blue fights, it may be time to go separate ways. Otherwise, nothing of use will get done on the Federal level.
Why have a Federal gov't if all they do is bicker and redo/undo each others' laws and spending every cycle? Politics is rarely smooth, but this is shifting into destruction. It's watching sausages being destroyed, not made.
I'd receive my first bill and it would be almost double what they said. I would call customer support, and they would tell me that the sales group was a different department and they shouldn't be making promises like that and it couldn't be changed.
Indeed! We've heard similar kinds of excuses in our dealings with AT&T. It's as if they have a database of excuses and recycle them and track what they used on who, and when.
Wifi calling doesn't work very well because our ISP is also spotty. Even when not slow, it goes in spurts/bursts, which creates delays long enough to affect it for phone use. Our only other practical ISP choice is... AT&T.
They kept adding random services to our bill without asking, such as "phone insurance". We tried to stay with them because they were the only carrier that worked well in our area. For some unknown reason the other 2 carriers' cellular signals don't come in clear.
But my otherwise patient wife got so fed up correcting bills that she cancelled AT&T, and adamantly refuses to go back. We now live with crappy reception from one of the other 2 carriers. I have to walk outside and go 2 blocks to use my cell-phone. We tried various gizmos to boost the in-house signal without success. We also have to keep our land-line.
I curse AT&T and then tell myself at least I get exercise from this "exercise".
Their telemarketers also call about once a week. I either hang up on them or do Trump impressions about what losers they are.
TFA: and yet the probability that we are alone in the galaxy is 30%
Where does this come from. And civilizations can spread across galaxies in "reasonable" time-frames.
One possible clue is that we are on a galactic island, relatively speaking. The Copernican principle would statistically put us in a denser cluster of galaxies. Our galactic neighborhood is sparse. Our isolation may suggest some kind of filter is active. There may be a reason we are in the boondocks such that we are alive pondering why we are in the boondocks because being in the boondocks either helped bring us about or protected us from a danger.
For example, perhaps beings in most dense galactic clusters have been dominated by a single force, self-annihilated by some run-away inevitable technology, or there is some kind of "dark radiation" we don't know about that's too high in big clusters.
It will be large, orange, wearing yellow Tribbles on top, have small hands that move frequently, an O-shaped mouth that makes a lot of continuous and intense sounds, and rides over grass in a little vehicle containing lots of metallic sticks in a bag.
It will prefer to communicate with Earth dictators and Earth supermodels, and will spend a good deal of energy probing the limits of Earth's social media infrastructure while consuming organic materials high in lipids. It will prefer to surround itself with large solid structures to avoid contact with beings of low albedo.
Slashdot Mirror
PHB: "So let's claim we invented the flying car!"
and the "solution" is to put lots of lotion on, which gets grease and grime all over everything, creating germ risk elsewhere.
Their is insufficient evidence it was politically motivated.
Biden had a similar experience from conservatives about a decade earlier.
Trump has advocated similar. You are cherry-picking.
"Major Tom did it."
Astronaut: "Okay, who made that thing call me 'Dave'? Not funny, guys."
If they had enough power in 2 or 3 branches, the evangelical-controlled GOP would make it so.
It's not mandated to be bloated. If my job is to mow the grass that doesn't mean I should shave it bald.
I've been diagnosed with Trump Tourettes. Only surgery can fix it, believe me!
A lot of laws and rulings impact states also. For example, making abortion a felony will impact a blue state also. As will taxing states to have a big military.
He did campaign as the high-energy candidate, per Jeb Bush insults.
And make them Yuuuuge! Have the best exclamation points ever! And lots of really terrific superlatives! I and I alone invented superlatives; the BEST superlatives, believe me! Giant crowds come to see my fantastically bigly superlatives; everyone knows it. Even lyin' CNN claps. 200% TV audience share. Math people had to create new numbers to fit my ratings. Make Superlatives Great Again!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Barring some yuuuge change, we are headed for a civil war or split-up. When too much political energy is wasted on nasty red/blue fights, it may be time to go separate ways. Otherwise, nothing of use will get done on the Federal level.
Why have a Federal gov't if all they do is bicker and redo/undo each others' laws and spending every cycle? Politics is rarely smooth, but this is shifting into destruction. It's watching sausages being destroyed, not made.
Indeed! We've heard similar kinds of excuses in our dealings with AT&T. It's as if they have a database of excuses and recycle them and track what they used on who, and when.
Excuse-A-Tron 9000 [TM]
Maybe they purchased it from Wells Fargo.
No, it's to get rid of #@*!&^ oligopolies so we have choice and they have actual competition.
Still open to debate, but their leader does spray organics.
"Use context? Sorry Dave, I don't know how."
Wifi calling doesn't work very well because our ISP is also spotty. Even when not slow, it goes in spurts/bursts, which creates delays long enough to affect it for phone use. Our only other practical ISP choice is ... AT&T.
They kept adding random services to our bill without asking, such as "phone insurance". We tried to stay with them because they were the only carrier that worked well in our area. For some unknown reason the other 2 carriers' cellular signals don't come in clear.
But my otherwise patient wife got so fed up correcting bills that she cancelled AT&T, and adamantly refuses to go back. We now live with crappy reception from one of the other 2 carriers. I have to walk outside and go 2 blocks to use my cell-phone. We tried various gizmos to boost the in-house signal without success. We also have to keep our land-line.
I curse AT&T and then tell myself at least I get exercise from this "exercise".
Their telemarketers also call about once a week. I either hang up on them or do Trump impressions about what losers they are.
What about using a combination of AI and spectrum analysis?
Just wait for the Big Rip.
(It got truncated, supposed to be "planets", not "plane")
Send out the Space Force to clean up the disgusting mess; and build a Dyson Wall around them.
Where does this come from. And civilizations can spread across galaxies in "reasonable" time-frames.
One possible clue is that we are on a galactic island, relatively speaking. The Copernican principle would statistically put us in a denser cluster of galaxies. Our galactic neighborhood is sparse. Our isolation may suggest some kind of filter is active. There may be a reason we are in the boondocks such that we are alive pondering why we are in the boondocks because being in the boondocks either helped bring us about or protected us from a danger.
For example, perhaps beings in most dense galactic clusters have been dominated by a single force, self-annihilated by some run-away inevitable technology, or there is some kind of "dark radiation" we don't know about that's too high in big clusters.
Wreck a Nation
McCoy was talking about Spock.
It will be large, orange, wearing yellow Tribbles on top, have small hands that move frequently, an O-shaped mouth that makes a lot of continuous and intense sounds, and rides over grass in a little vehicle containing lots of metallic sticks in a bag.
It will prefer to communicate with Earth dictators and Earth supermodels, and will spend a good deal of energy probing the limits of Earth's social media infrastructure while consuming organic materials high in lipids. It will prefer to surround itself with large solid structures to avoid contact with beings of low albedo.