Even if I wanted to watch Steve Harvey I haven't got the time. The little time I spend watching tee vee is completely booked for the foreseeable future with a deluge on new content; we're in some kind of tvpocalypse with so much new stuff being made it's a full time job to watch all of it. I haven't watched a rerun of anything since 2014. I don't care if some "hacker" "leaks" a couple episodes of Orange is The New Black "season" five because I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THE FIRST FOUR SEASONS yet.
I just got through Son's of Anarchy and they quit making those 3 years ago. Next will be another walking dead "season", another GOT, another whatever... Fuck do I care what these people are leaking? Like I'm going to install some creepyware pirating crap and go mess around on a pirate bay server and get my IP added to the list of scoflaws..... why would I do that?
Honestly... what is being accomplished here? Is anything of value being lost by anyone?
That ratio wasn't very different back when India called the Paris accord "carbon imperialism" and got their terms renegotiated. They fought for a far more lenient CO2 ceiling such that they aren't obligated to do anything real about their emissions for years.
It was a bad deal. Trump axed it. That's exactly what we elected him to do.
Next up; NAFTA. Whatever doubt Canada and Mexico might have had about Trump's temerity should have evaporated yesterday. He'll stuff that one right down the shitter behind "Paris accord" and TPP if they fail to appear at the table.
Your understanding and precise parsing of one sentence is correct and I agree with it. It clearly states that all renewables are supported. It does not follow that non-renewables are not also supported by "all manner of subsidy." It simply doesn't. You misunderstood a straightforward sentence and then spouted off based on that misunderstanding. Your belief that something I wrote implies that ONLY renewables ("Not just the renewables") are subsidized is false. I wrote no such thing at any point. I wouldn't because I know that is false.
That has been a sincere attempt to address your confusion. Go ahead and get your last word in if it makes you feel better, but I'm done with this.
jaw-dropping import tax of 180 percent that Denmark applies on vehicles fueled by a traditional combustion engine
When someone makes the mistake of suggesting the US apply any sort of import tariff/tax the establishment and their muppets bleat OMG TRADE WAR WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!!11!.
Meanwhile sovereign countries in Europe have truly confiscatory import taxes (180%?) protecting economies that are celebrated around the world as models of good governance.
Taxpayer subsidies are bad? Every significant form of renewable energy has been and/or is being supported by all manner of subsidy. Somehow it's only a problem for nuclear/fossil fuels...
And you're badly wrong about the cost of nuclear power. France, for instance, pays less for electricity than every other major European economy because of it's large and well operated nuclear energy system [1]. France also emits far less carbon than its neighbors; have a look at the live map: https://www.electricitymap.org...
The US runs an epic trade deficit with most of the planet. If you think Asia and Europe is going to start a trade war with it's biggest customer you're delusional.
How would this 'admission' make anyone more comfortable about this business?
The business doesn't have to worry about that. It's safe regardless; too-big-to-fail public+private yada yada. This is BA we're talking about.
These "stories" are just the public narrative writing process, guided to affix/deflect blame to/from the appropriate parties as the scapegoats are singled out. The BA execs know they have maybe 72 hours or so before this story falls out of the news cycle so they're using that window to make the headlines they need to muddy the waters. Until now the only narrative that has had any play is the "outsourcing did it" one, and that hits too close to management, so they're making this stuff up and putting it out through their MSM channels.
There is nothing "odd" about it. It's what emerges when you take an otherwise well designed facility with one room each for male and female and retrofit it for political correctness.
Had my first experience with the consequences of this culture war over the weekend; a fast food place with two unisex restrooms. After a brief befuddlement I picked one, walked in and instantly felt sorry for all females. It's basically a typical piss-on-the-floor men's restroom with a toilet in a stall for the women.
Now, I don't imagine that women's restrooms in a fast food place were ever that great, but I'm willing to bet they were generally better than what men dealt with, if only because their "aim" is inherently better and because women would certainly complain if they found it that bad. Now it's all been reduced to the lowest common denominator.
As I said, my first instinct was concern for the plight of women. Then I remembered that the only large demographic in US politics that provides the fucking democrats and their grievance mongering culture war crap with a more reliable plurality than women are blacks — it's their own damn fault.
It's the kind of arrogance Trump spoke of routinely while campaigning. Our elites have their heads so far up foreign asses that other nations feel entitled to receiving every deference for their concerns, and they can't help but publicly melt down if those concerns ever meet any resistance. Not since Reagan pushed back on Japan (limiting motorcycle imports and establishing content requirements in auto manufacturing) has there been any resistance to the destruction of the US industrial base or the displacement of the US worker.
A whole generation of foreign leaders and captains of industry have emerged that is utterly unable to imagine there being any friction with the US. It doesn't even occur to them that someone in the US might be offended by their reactions to it.
That's a lot of horse shit right there. You snowflakes have no trouble indulging the notion of a "hostile work environment" when some nancy-boy gets a frown while prancing around in his skirt trying to figure out which bathroom to use. Double standard much?
Did that actually happen? I know they basically badgered Eich out of the company for his failure to adopt Valley Values(tm) in is political activity, but he voluntarily stepped down. Were any employees actually fired?
Most of that telemetry has been backported; you're not protecting yourself by avoiding Windows 10. All of Microsoft's supported operating systems are spyware and what distinctions exist between versions are trivial; if you care about keeping clear of Microsoft's collection system you're not running any contemporary Microsoft operating system. If you're clinging to Win7/Vista/whatever because you think you're saving your privacy then you're an idiot.
This is hard to argue with. I personally prepared for this by preventing the Win 10 upgrade (even using third party software to stop the constant, malware like badgering complete with deliberately misleading prompts) until I was good and ready to deal with it, then I did a full clean install and manually migrated stuff over because I knew there was no way my complex, roughly used installation could possibly upgrade well automatically. One simply cannot, however, expect a planet full of Windows users to take this conservative approach; even if they were inclined to, which they aren't; most of them simply aren't competent to deal with this stuff and would do more damage than what the upgrade inflicted.
So they all got put through the upgrade ringer creating bad outcomes for millions and leading to widespread "anti-vaxxer" behavior. Since then the "anti-vaxxers" have had their behavior affirmed by disruptive updates doing unwelcome stuff. The glacial slowness of the Windows 10 update process alone is a huge failure in my mind; this has badly regressed from earlier releases; I have a laptop I boot maybe once a month and I've come to expect the Windows 10 updates to take a hour or more. Ridiculous.
After putting the whole world through all this shit one simply can't point a finger at millions of beleaguered users and blame them for their negligence. I'm sure they'd be happy to have they're system automatically updated, as long as it wasn't the computing equivalent of getting a SOA style beat down every few months.
Hillary didn't lose because Russia. The Russians didn't make Hillary take the rust belt for granted. Hillary wasn't operating an illegal mail system to hide her actively from the Russians. The Russians didn't make Hillary's staff destroy government documents during an investigation. The Russians didn't make Hillary sick. The Russians had nothing to do with wrapping the US around the transgender bathroom axle for a year. The Russians didn't coin "irredeemable deplorables" and alienate millions of the Democrats traditional working class base. The Russians didn't tell lies about the slaughter of US ambassadors. The Russians had nothing to do with the DNC fucking over Bernie Sanders and obviating many of his supporters. The Russians weren't responsible for shit polling or naive candidates making bad decisions based on it. The Russians had nothing to do with Huma and her perv husbands antics. The Russians did not pay Hillary for her speeches to the banker establishment or tell her to withhold the transcripts. None of the small constellation of women Bill Clinton made famous with his cock were Russians. Nothing the Russians ever said in support of TPP was attributed to Hillary; those were her own words, and the Russians weren't the reason no one believed Hillary when she flip-flopped on it.
But yeah, "Russia did it we was robbed!111."
Keep believing it. The more deluded you are the better.
It's not bad enough yet. The French indulge their delusions more thoroughly than you may appreciate. They're not going to shift gears until some mufti is mounting the heads of infidels on the Arc De Triomphe.
Le Pen had the best line of the campaign so far; France will be led by a woman — either me or Merkel.
Like what? Beat humans at chess? Recognize speech? Translate language? Land a rocket backwards?
The thing you are missing is that whatever you mean when you say "something intelligent" ceases to represent "intelligent" the moment we automate it. Any task or capability you can think up for your "something intelligent" will be relegated to just another automation success.
None of what you hear about... are actual 'artificial intelligence'
And none of it ever will be either. That's because we relegate any task or capability we can build a machine to perform or have to the "Not AI" side of the ledger. It won't be AI until the other side of the ledger is empty, and that condition will always be in dispute.
Maybe Maduro can get some of his better fed Chavistas to make a Bolivarian wikipedia and spare us all our misguided views about the fabulous success of the revolution.
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Even if I wanted to watch Steve Harvey I haven't got the time. The little time I spend watching tee vee is completely booked for the foreseeable future with a deluge on new content; we're in some kind of tvpocalypse with so much new stuff being made it's a full time job to watch all of it. I haven't watched a rerun of anything since 2014. I don't care if some "hacker" "leaks" a couple episodes of Orange is The New Black "season" five because I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED THE FIRST FOUR SEASONS yet.
I just got through Son's of Anarchy and they quit making those 3 years ago. Next will be another walking dead "season", another GOT, another whatever... Fuck do I care what these people are leaking? Like I'm going to install some creepyware pirating crap and go mess around on a pirate bay server and get my IP added to the list of scoflaws..... why would I do that?
Honestly... what is being accomplished here? Is anything of value being lost by anyone?
That ratio wasn't very different back when India called the Paris accord "carbon imperialism" and got their terms renegotiated. They fought for a far more lenient CO2 ceiling such that they aren't obligated to do anything real about their emissions for years.
It was a bad deal. Trump axed it. That's exactly what we elected him to do.
Next up; NAFTA. Whatever doubt Canada and Mexico might have had about Trump's temerity should have evaporated yesterday. He'll stuff that one right down the shitter behind "Paris accord" and TPP if they fail to appear at the table.
Your understanding and precise parsing of one sentence is correct and I agree with it. It clearly states that all renewables are supported. It does not follow that non-renewables are not also supported by "all manner of subsidy." It simply doesn't. You misunderstood a straightforward sentence and then spouted off based on that misunderstanding. Your belief that something I wrote implies that ONLY renewables ("Not just the renewables") are subsidized is false. I wrote no such thing at any point. I wouldn't because I know that is false.
That has been a sincere attempt to address your confusion. Go ahead and get your last word in if it makes you feel better, but I'm done with this.
jaw-dropping import tax of 180 percent that Denmark applies on vehicles fueled by a traditional combustion engine
When someone makes the mistake of suggesting the US apply any sort of import tariff/tax the establishment and their muppets bleat OMG TRADE WAR WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!!11!.
Meanwhile sovereign countries in Europe have truly confiscatory import taxes (180%?) protecting economies that are celebrated around the world as models of good governance.
Hmm.
Every significant form of energy has been and or is being supported by all manner of subsidy.
The part where I claimed subsidy is unique to renewables is confusion inside your head; you're having reading comprehension problems.
Now how are you guys going to go about that money transfers
I checked the list for the usual suspects. Sure enough: Mayor Rahm Emanuel, City of Chicago, IL. Meanwhile, we learn today that S&P and Moody's have downgraded Illinois to "Near Junk, Lowest Ever for a U.S. State," because these people have been spending themselves into an epic hole for decades.
massive amounts of taxpayer subsidy
Taxpayer subsidies are bad? Every significant form of renewable energy has been and/or is being supported by all manner of subsidy. Somehow it's only a problem for nuclear/fossil fuels...
And you're badly wrong about the cost of nuclear power. France, for instance, pays less for electricity than every other major European economy because of it's large and well operated nuclear energy system [1]. France also emits far less carbon than its neighbors; have a look at the live map: https://www.electricitymap.org...
[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/s... c/KWh 2016: France: 0.089 Germany: 0.149 UK: 0.128
The US runs an epic trade deficit with most of the planet. If you think Asia and Europe is going to start a trade war with it's biggest customer you're delusional.
How would this 'admission' make anyone more comfortable about this business?
The business doesn't have to worry about that. It's safe regardless; too-big-to-fail public+private yada yada. This is BA we're talking about.
These "stories" are just the public narrative writing process, guided to affix/deflect blame to/from the appropriate parties as the scapegoats are singled out. The BA execs know they have maybe 72 hours or so before this story falls out of the news cycle so they're using that window to make the headlines they need to muddy the waters. Until now the only narrative that has had any play is the "outsourcing did it" one, and that hits too close to management, so they're making this stuff up and putting it out through their MSM channels.
Two unisex restrooms is an odd thing.
There is nothing "odd" about it. It's what emerges when you take an otherwise well designed facility with one room each for male and female and retrofit it for political correctness.
Not to mention fail over to alternative sites.
These are transparent lies. The real issue is well known now, but it's unconformable for all involved so they're making stuff up.
Had my first experience with the consequences of this culture war over the weekend; a fast food place with two unisex restrooms. After a brief befuddlement I picked one, walked in and instantly felt sorry for all females. It's basically a typical piss-on-the-floor men's restroom with a toilet in a stall for the women.
Now, I don't imagine that women's restrooms in a fast food place were ever that great, but I'm willing to bet they were generally better than what men dealt with, if only because their "aim" is inherently better and because women would certainly complain if they found it that bad. Now it's all been reduced to the lowest common denominator.
As I said, my first instinct was concern for the plight of women. Then I remembered that the only large demographic in US politics that provides the fucking democrats and their grievance mongering culture war crap with a more reliable plurality than women are blacks — it's their own damn fault.
So, enjoy girls. Hope you're happy.
What kind of arrogance is this?
It's the kind of arrogance Trump spoke of routinely while campaigning. Our elites have their heads so far up foreign asses that other nations feel entitled to receiving every deference for their concerns, and they can't help but publicly melt down if those concerns ever meet any resistance. Not since Reagan pushed back on Japan (limiting motorcycle imports and establishing content requirements in auto manufacturing) has there been any resistance to the destruction of the US industrial base or the displacement of the US worker.
A whole generation of foreign leaders and captains of industry have emerged that is utterly unable to imagine there being any friction with the US. It doesn't even occur to them that someone in the US might be offended by their reactions to it.
nobody would have given a rat's ass
That's a lot of horse shit right there. You snowflakes have no trouble indulging the notion of a "hostile work environment" when some nancy-boy gets a frown while prancing around in his skirt trying to figure out which bathroom to use. Double standard much?
by firing their employees for not being PC enough
Did that actually happen? I know they basically badgered Eich out of the company for his failure to adopt Valley Values(tm) in is political activity, but he voluntarily stepped down. Were any employees actually fired?
unwanted telemetry
Most of that telemetry has been backported; you're not protecting yourself by avoiding Windows 10. All of Microsoft's supported operating systems are spyware and what distinctions exist between versions are trivial; if you care about keeping clear of Microsoft's collection system you're not running any contemporary Microsoft operating system. If you're clinging to Win7/Vista/whatever because you think you're saving your privacy then you're an idiot.
This is hard to argue with. I personally prepared for this by preventing the Win 10 upgrade (even using third party software to stop the constant, malware like badgering complete with deliberately misleading prompts) until I was good and ready to deal with it, then I did a full clean install and manually migrated stuff over because I knew there was no way my complex, roughly used installation could possibly upgrade well automatically. One simply cannot, however, expect a planet full of Windows users to take this conservative approach; even if they were inclined to, which they aren't; most of them simply aren't competent to deal with this stuff and would do more damage than what the upgrade inflicted.
So they all got put through the upgrade ringer creating bad outcomes for millions and leading to widespread "anti-vaxxer" behavior. Since then the "anti-vaxxers" have had their behavior affirmed by disruptive updates doing unwelcome stuff. The glacial slowness of the Windows 10 update process alone is a huge failure in my mind; this has badly regressed from earlier releases; I have a laptop I boot maybe once a month and I've come to expect the Windows 10 updates to take a hour or more. Ridiculous.
After putting the whole world through all this shit one simply can't point a finger at millions of beleaguered users and blame them for their negligence. I'm sure they'd be happy to have they're system automatically updated, as long as it wasn't the computing equivalent of getting a SOA style beat down every few months.
You have to be a real 'tard to think it matters.
Hillary didn't lose because Russia. The Russians didn't make Hillary take the rust belt for granted. Hillary wasn't operating an illegal mail system to hide her actively from the Russians. The Russians didn't make Hillary's staff destroy government documents during an investigation. The Russians didn't make Hillary sick. The Russians had nothing to do with wrapping the US around the transgender bathroom axle for a year. The Russians didn't coin "irredeemable deplorables" and alienate millions of the Democrats traditional working class base. The Russians didn't tell lies about the slaughter of US ambassadors. The Russians had nothing to do with the DNC fucking over Bernie Sanders and obviating many of his supporters. The Russians weren't responsible for shit polling or naive candidates making bad decisions based on it. The Russians had nothing to do with Huma and her perv husbands antics. The Russians did not pay Hillary for her speeches to the banker establishment or tell her to withhold the transcripts. None of the small constellation of women Bill Clinton made famous with his cock were Russians. Nothing the Russians ever said in support of TPP was attributed to Hillary; those were her own words, and the Russians weren't the reason no one believed Hillary when she flip-flopped on it.
But yeah, "Russia did it we was robbed!111."
Keep believing it. The more deluded you are the better.
It's not bad enough yet. The French indulge their delusions more thoroughly than you may appreciate. They're not going to shift gears until some mufti is mounting the heads of infidels on the Arc De Triomphe.
Le Pen had the best line of the campaign so far; France will be led by a woman — either me or Merkel.
Nope, states have jurisdiction over themselves not the federal government.
This is an FCC matter. Right or wrong this will probably get killed in court.
Each new day yields another affirmation of the wisdom of UK deplorables.
does something intelligent
Like what? Beat humans at chess? Recognize speech? Translate language? Land a rocket backwards?
The thing you are missing is that whatever you mean when you say "something intelligent" ceases to represent "intelligent" the moment we automate it. Any task or capability you can think up for your "something intelligent" will be relegated to just another automation success.
None of what you hear about ... are actual 'artificial intelligence'
And none of it ever will be either. That's because we relegate any task or capability we can build a machine to perform or have to the "Not AI" side of the ledger. It won't be AI until the other side of the ledger is empty, and that condition will always be in dispute.
Gamers are predominantly male. Won't catering to yet another male dominated activity create a hostile and exclusionary environment on campus?
What else is there to say?
Maybe Maduro can get some of his better fed Chavistas to make a Bolivarian wikipedia and spare us all our misguided views about the fabulous success of the revolution.