Screw that! It's not a college dorm room. It's a prison! "Oh, but their rights"...screw that too! Make prisons a place YOU DO NOT want to be, more like the 60's movie "Cool Hand Luke" and maybe they will think twice about breaking the law!
Now that Republicans are going to prison in record numbers, I assume you'll soon be advocating for prison reform.
Trump's not going to do shit about China. They're laughing at him and they know all they've got to do is wait now. It won't be long.
Plus, any further tariffs will be written on one of those pieces of paper his staff has been snatching off his desk to keep him from fucking up completely.
It's no problem. We can afford it by borrowing the $2billion from China, as part of the $700billion defense budget, piling it on the budget deficit and adding it to the national debt so we can blame the next Democratic president for the debt being too high. You don't need an AI to see where this is going.
Deficits don't matter when a Republican is president, but like night follows day, they will become a huge issue as soon as a Democrat takes office.
It's called the "Two Santa Claus Theory" and was created by a Republican "strategist" and pundit named Jude Wanninski in 1976.
Today, we have issues like 3,700 votes not being counted and ballots being apparently cast but somehow missing; or a ballot box being "found"; or all kinds of mucking with the error rate to intentionally miscount; or people invalidating ballots because they have a stray mark that could be a signal to a third party that the vote they purchased was cast faithfully.
The reason you know this has happened is...because we know this has happened. With black box voting machine elections, you don't know what's happened at any step of the way, and anyone who tells you that they do is simply lying.
The thing that makes paper ballots more secure than any and all electronic methods is that lots and lots of people can watch the entire process unfold in real time. And not just on some number incrementing on a screen, but on actual physical ballots that exist in the real world. There is still potential for abuse, but not anywhere near the potential in electronic elections.
You have a choice, right now:. I can give you $10,000 in hundred dollar bills in a briefcase right now, or I can show you a video monitor that shows I just deposited $10,000 in a bank account that I might or might not give you access to at a later date. Which do you take?
This is just crazy. You don't know what kind of bacteria is in this food. And most bacteria in our food are killed by the acids in our stomach.
You're absolutely right. So the worst thing that can happen from ingesting this food is that you've just eaten something delicious that people have been eating for centuries. I'm not sure I get what part of it that is "crazy".
I don't know if probiotics are good or bogus or simply neutral. But I knew that fermented food is good food. I buy this habanero hot sauce that is fermented in barrels and it will make you weep and praise the lord. Get you some of that whole milk yogurt and put a big spoon on some blueberries and a drop of honey, it's like dipping your snout in Aphrodite's lady parts.
Don't pay attention to the labels. Eat what you like and don't overdo it and you'll live a nice long life and you won't need all those antibiotics because you'll be healthy.
I've spent a fair amount of time in Australia. Yes, I've heard you guys do a good job with elections, but I'm not coming back until you get rid of those spiders that jump up and bite you on the eye. Oh, and drop bears and yowgwai. I don't need that kind of stress, thanks.
Why would you advise people on natural sources of probiotics - in response to an article which said that they're either ineffectual or actually bad?
Because on the high probability that this new "study" actually gets overturned by future research, I want people to know they can eat delicious healthy food.
Remember when fats were bad? And coffee? And wine was good for you? And eggs were bad for you? And low-fat diets were good for losing weight? And chocolate was bad for you? Do you need me to go on? When a "study" comes out saying something is either good for you or not, you can almost set your clock another study coming around the corner saying the opposite. So eat what's good. If your grandparents ate something and lived to be 90, it probably won't be bad for you. Just don't waste money on some gelatin capsule with "live bacteria" in it when there are delicious alternatives.
Remember the Nutrition Pyramid? The Four Food Groups? Member? Huh?
Don't waste your money on probiotic capsules. If you want to try to increase the amount or variety of bacteria in your guts, there are tons of delicious foods that are chock full of probiotics. Olives, pickles, fermented meats like the Italian delicacy soprasetta (which might be the tastiest thing ever invented by humans). Kimchi is also good, but it will make you smell bad, so if you're single, you might want to go easy on the kimchi.
Also, if you use vinegar on salads, try getting some of that good cider vinegar that still has the "mother" in it. Shake the bottle and use like any other vinegar. And of course, yogurt, kefir, that kind of stuff is delicious too.
I'm not crazy about kombucha. It's a big fad now and there are places here in California that have kombucha on tap, but it's not really to my taste. Some people swear by it. I notice that now when you buy it in the store, they ask for an ID since there's a small amount of alcohol in it.
Also, alcohol is not really good for your gut bacteria, but there are more important things in life than gut bacteria, you know? Just eat a lot of different kinds of food and you'll end up with good gut bacteria without even trying.
Paper votes aren't any better, just look at Russia's vote stuffing. Literately. Someone comes up to the booth and stuffs fake/coerced votes into the box.
That's right, because Russia doesn't have the same safeguards built into their elections that we have. You don't have election judges from both sides watching every vote from the time it's cast to the time it's counted to the time it's sent for storage. In the US, there have to be two election judges on hand when absentee ballots are opened.
People can still be corrupted, but the more people are involved in the election process, the safer it is. And since US elections are structured to be de-centralized, there is almost no chance for widespread fraud.
To say blockchain is inherently unsafe is like saying software is inherently unsafe
Oh, you are so close to a breakthrough.
When it comes to voting, blockchain, like software, IS inherently unsafe. If the main goal for voting security is maintaining the people's confidence in an election, the only system that will meet that standard is a system where people are actually keeping an eye on one another. And I mean physically watching one another. And that's the system we had in place before the advent of voting machines and election software. You had a room full of election judges from both sides, and they sat side-by-side checking in voters as they approached the voting booth and physically watched them put the ballot in the box. When the votes were counted, there was a whole bunch of people from both parties standing around keeping a close eye. When the ballots were sent for storage, one person from each party rode in the truck to drop them off after sealing the container - together - and signing off.
It was trust, but verify. Was it possible to jigger with an election like that? Of course. But you had a list of names of people you could hold accountable at every step in the process. Electronic voting will never, ever be trusted. That is the effect of transparency.
I was thinking "What competition". There is none. The social media giants are either buying or squashing any that they think might threaten them.
You could say this about any large industry. It's not just "social media giants" who are "buying or squashing" competition, it's an end condition of late-stage capitalism. It shouldn't surprise anyone.
"We" neither hire nor fire senior officials in the white house. I've never seen their names on a federal election ballot. They are hired by the executive branch being _White House_ officials and all.
Do you work for the company you work for or do you work for your dopey mmediate supervisor (who hires and fires)? The executive branch can't decide who makes what, and they can't give bonuses. In the case of cabinet secretaries and heads of certain agencies, all they can do is nominate, and it's up to Congress to confirm or reject. It's also up to Congress to set the pay scale and in the case of a degenerate who should rise to the level of Chief Executive, throw his flabby ass out into the street.
That is not true. Not generally and not specifically. President Trump does not sign the checks of his senior officials. Since the Carter Administration, White House senior officials, including cabinet secretaries are paid under a system separate from the GS system, because the pay of a GS-15 was considered insufficient for someone of the stature of a cabinet secretary who had been a CEO. And later, the "Senior Executive Staff" designation was also considered insufficient, so exemptions were created. But the pay structure and the way they get paid is the same, as is their employer, the United States Government. And their pay is set by the same civil service laws and under the same US code as senate staffers and Supreme Court Justices and postal employees.
And by the way, no cabinet secretary or head of an armed or intelligence agency can make more than the Vice-President, by law.
In case your interested, here are the salaries of non-cabinet staff from 2017. It is amazing how few of these people are still there.
. Scratch a member of the DC establishment, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.
Be careful, when you scratch them, you might come away with a lot of orange fake tan under your fingernails:
"Trump said to a White House staff secretary, about the Attorney General, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner.... He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”
Working for an employer you constantly seek to undermine is straight up bullshit.
Donald Trump is not the "employer" of the senior officials in the White House. We are.
And the anonymous senior official who wrote this op-ed (hint: his initials are "Mike Pence") believes that by circumventing this degenerate president, he is protecting our interests. It's exactly the kind of self-serving bullshit that you would expect from someone Trump hired. What you're seeing is the beginning stages of the GOP's exit strategy from the Trump Situation. Expect to see it reach fruition once Kavanaugh is sworn in. They can see the writing on the wall and it's in orange crayon mixed with feces.
I was just kidding about #Anonymous being Mike Pence, by the way. the op-ed didn't mention God or the fact that single women's vaginas have sharp teeth and are capable of swallowing a Christian man whole. But don't worry, we're going to find out who the anonymous official is within the next few days. Oh, these are fun times to be an American. And mark this down: Donald J. Trump will never stand for re-election. His roof is on fire and the GOP is chaining all the doors shut from the outside.
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If it's good enough for the White House, it's good enough for prison.
Now that Republicans are going to prison in record numbers, I assume you'll soon be advocating for prison reform.
So, then is Santa Craws the Asian guy who gives presents to children at Christmas time?
Remember?
Obama's gonna take all our guns
Obama will crash the economy
Obama will invade Texas with Jade Helm
Obama will build FEMA camps for white people.
As St Augustine famously said, "You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind's blowing."
Trump's not going to do shit about China. They're laughing at him and they know all they've got to do is wait now. It won't be long.
Plus, any further tariffs will be written on one of those pieces of paper his staff has been snatching off his desk to keep him from fucking up completely.
https://youtu.be/01HO5PIQ7BA
It's no problem. We can afford it by borrowing the $2billion from China, as part of the $700billion defense budget, piling it on the budget deficit and adding it to the national debt so we can blame the next Democratic president for the debt being too high. You don't need an AI to see where this is going.
Deficits don't matter when a Republican is president, but like night follows day, they will become a huge issue as soon as a Democrat takes office.
It's called the "Two Santa Claus Theory" and was created by a Republican "strategist" and pundit named Jude Wanninski in 1976.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view...
The reason you know this has happened is...because we know this has happened. With black box voting machine elections, you don't know what's happened at any step of the way, and anyone who tells you that they do is simply lying.
The thing that makes paper ballots more secure than any and all electronic methods is that lots and lots of people can watch the entire process unfold in real time. And not just on some number incrementing on a screen, but on actual physical ballots that exist in the real world. There is still potential for abuse, but not anywhere near the potential in electronic elections.
You have a choice, right now:. I can give you $10,000 in hundred dollar bills in a briefcase right now, or I can show you a video monitor that shows I just deposited $10,000 in a bank account that I might or might not give you access to at a later date. Which do you take?
You're absolutely right. So the worst thing that can happen from ingesting this food is that you've just eaten something delicious that people have been eating for centuries. I'm not sure I get what part of it that is "crazy".
I don't know if probiotics are good or bogus or simply neutral. But I knew that fermented food is good food. I buy this habanero hot sauce that is fermented in barrels and it will make you weep and praise the lord. Get you some of that whole milk yogurt and put a big spoon on some blueberries and a drop of honey, it's like dipping your snout in Aphrodite's lady parts.
Don't pay attention to the labels. Eat what you like and don't overdo it and you'll live a nice long life and you won't need all those antibiotics because you'll be healthy.
You call it what you want. I call it delicious.
I've spent a fair amount of time in Australia. Yes, I've heard you guys do a good job with elections, but I'm not coming back until you get rid of those spiders that jump up and bite you on the eye. Oh, and drop bears and yowgwai. I don't need that kind of stress, thanks.
Because on the high probability that this new "study" actually gets overturned by future research, I want people to know they can eat delicious healthy food.
Remember when fats were bad? And coffee? And wine was good for you? And eggs were bad for you? And low-fat diets were good for losing weight?
And chocolate was bad for you? Do you need me to go on? When a "study" comes out saying something is either good for you or not, you can almost set your clock another study coming around the corner saying the opposite. So eat what's good. If your grandparents ate something and lived to be 90, it probably won't be bad for you. Just don't waste money on some gelatin capsule with "live bacteria" in it when there are delicious alternatives.
Remember the Nutrition Pyramid? The Four Food Groups? Member? Huh?
Don't waste your money on probiotic capsules. If you want to try to increase the amount or variety of bacteria in your guts, there are tons of delicious foods that are chock full of probiotics. Olives, pickles, fermented meats like the Italian delicacy soprasetta (which might be the tastiest thing ever invented by humans). Kimchi is also good, but it will make you smell bad, so if you're single, you might want to go easy on the kimchi.
Also, if you use vinegar on salads, try getting some of that good cider vinegar that still has the "mother" in it. Shake the bottle and use like any other vinegar. And of course, yogurt, kefir, that kind of stuff is delicious too.
I'm not crazy about kombucha. It's a big fad now and there are places here in California that have kombucha on tap, but it's not really to my taste. Some people swear by it. I notice that now when you buy it in the store, they ask for an ID since there's a small amount of alcohol in it.
Also, alcohol is not really good for your gut bacteria, but there are more important things in life than gut bacteria, you know? Just eat a lot of different kinds of food and you'll end up with good gut bacteria without even trying.
Some of us make a smacking sound as we move our lips when we read. I don't want to point any fingers, but they wear red baseball caps made in China.
That's right, because Russia doesn't have the same safeguards built into their elections that we have. You don't have election judges from both sides watching every vote from the time it's cast to the time it's counted to the time it's sent for storage. In the US, there have to be two election judges on hand when absentee ballots are opened.
People can still be corrupted, but the more people are involved in the election process, the safer it is. And since US elections are structured to be de-centralized, there is almost no chance for widespread fraud.
Oh, you are so close to a breakthrough.
When it comes to voting, blockchain, like software, IS inherently unsafe. If the main goal for voting security is maintaining the people's confidence in an election, the only system that will meet that standard is a system where people are actually keeping an eye on one another. And I mean physically watching one another. And that's the system we had in place before the advent of voting machines and election software. You had a room full of election judges from both sides, and they sat side-by-side checking in voters as they approached the voting booth and physically watched them put the ballot in the box. When the votes were counted, there was a whole bunch of people from both parties standing around keeping a close eye. When the ballots were sent for storage, one person from each party rode in the truck to drop them off after sealing the container - together - and signing off.
It was trust, but verify. Was it possible to jigger with an election like that? Of course. But you had a list of names of people you could hold accountable at every step in the process. Electronic voting will never, ever be trusted. That is the effect of transparency.
We must have different definitions of the word "silent".
You could say this about any large industry. It's not just "social media giants" who are "buying or squashing" competition, it's an end condition of late-stage capitalism. It shouldn't surprise anyone.
I can't tell you, but his initials are "APK".
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @08:46PM (#57261402)
Do you work for the company you work for or do you work for your dopey mmediate supervisor (who hires and fires)? The executive branch can't decide who makes what, and they can't give bonuses. In the case of cabinet secretaries and heads of certain agencies, all they can do is nominate, and it's up to Congress to confirm or reject. It's also up to Congress to set the pay scale and in the case of a degenerate who should rise to the level of Chief Executive, throw his flabby ass out into the street.
That is not true. Not generally and not specifically. President Trump does not sign the checks of his senior officials. Since the Carter Administration, White House senior officials, including cabinet secretaries are paid under a system separate from the GS system, because the pay of a GS-15 was considered insufficient for someone of the stature of a cabinet secretary who had been a CEO. And later, the "Senior Executive Staff" designation was also considered insufficient, so exemptions were created. But the pay structure and the way they get paid is the same, as is their employer, the United States Government. And their pay is set by the same civil service laws and under the same US code as senate staffers and Supreme Court Justices and postal employees.
And by the way, no cabinet secretary or head of an armed or intelligence agency can make more than the Vice-President, by law.
In case your interested, here are the salaries of non-cabinet staff from 2017. It is amazing how few of these people are still there.
https://www.washingtonexaminer...
And here are salaries of cabinet secretaries on down.
https://work.chron.com/much-mo...
Be careful, when you scratch them, you might come away with a lot of orange fake tan under your fingernails:
https://www.newyorker.com/news...
Donald Trump is not the "employer" of the senior officials in the White House. We are.
And the anonymous senior official who wrote this op-ed (hint: his initials are "Mike Pence") believes that by circumventing this degenerate president, he is protecting our interests. It's exactly the kind of self-serving bullshit that you would expect from someone Trump hired. What you're seeing is the beginning stages of the GOP's exit strategy from the Trump Situation. Expect to see it reach fruition once Kavanaugh is sworn in. They can see the writing on the wall and it's in orange crayon mixed with feces.
I was just kidding about #Anonymous being Mike Pence, by the way. the op-ed didn't mention God or the fact that single women's vaginas have sharp teeth and are capable of swallowing a Christian man whole. But don't worry, we're going to find out who the anonymous official is within the next few days. Oh, these are fun times to be an American. And mark this down: Donald J. Trump will never stand for re-election. His roof is on fire and the GOP is chaining all the doors shut from the outside.