Also, I'm not sure what "misguided reasons" the NYT and others have to exaggerate the consequences of the conflict.
The parroting of NK's exaggerated 'Sea of Fire' propaganda — which is ongoing by the way — supports the argument that nothing provocative or aggressive should be done, and instead we must negotiate. Diplomacy first, last and always. The fact that this policy is misguided should be self evident; decades of negotiation and 'agreed frameworks' where we unfailingly accept NK lies as truth in the name of diplomacy has produced a nuclear armed NK working diligently to perfect delivery.
Perhaps they are misinformed, or ignorant
No, the "misinformed, or ignorant" cop-out doesn't work; the effectiveness of artillery and the order of battle is understood well enough to debunk the 'flattened Seoul' line you've been successfully fed. All one must do is ask a military analyst to analyze. This doesn't happen because the result would not fit the preferred narrative.
Furthermore, while the consequences may not be as severe or immediate as some believe, they are still pretty severe
No one claimed otherwise. Not sure what you think you're correcting here. The difference between reality and NK/NYT propaganda is two orders of magnitude and the term 'exaggerate' is entirely appropriate. The thing that should concern you isn't whether the NK/NYT falsehoods can be salvaged but how and why you and so many others allow yourselves to be misled so badly.
Millions would not die. The death toll of a surprise barrage by NK conventional artillery would be tens of thousands. Long range NK artillery would be neutralized in the first week. Seoul would survive.
You're parroting the claims of the NYT and others that tend to exaggerate the consequences of conflict for their own misguided reasons. Without nuclear or chemical weapons NK cannot destroy Seoul, and with such weapons they face rapid obliteration by the strategic weapons of South Korean allies.
Just amazing. Any other season and the "Ricketts family" are a bunch of filthy 1%'ers exploiting their privilege to steal us all blind. Now suddenly their sympathetic figures we must commiserate with against teh ebil Trump. Any other time a Republican political strategist such as Cheri Jacobus would be pilloried as the enabler of planet wreckers that should be in a gulag with the rest of the racist climate deniers that pay her. Today, however, she is a "victim", because Trump tweeted about her.
Sue him. Give him another target to beat on and another couple points in the polls.
That is highly unlikely. If you're employed by the state and eligible for a state pension it is difficult to imagine the powers-that-be would have forgotten to put you under one of their many umbrellas, and if they have then you're a special snowflake and I'll confine my remarks to the 99.999% of state employees that are union members and are part of the problem.
there is nothing wrong with the pension system as it was created
I'm sure that argument is going to have a big impact with the judge that will have to unwind who knows how many decades of corruption.
Nobody told me to hate Rauner.
No one had to tell Louis Lerner who needed to be targeted. No one had to order the Cologne police to cover up the rapes. The fact that you weren't explicitly instructed where to put your loyalties means exactly nothing to me. You know the score and you don't need to be explicitly told anything.
You're very angry
You are ruining this world and my time in it. My entire family are effectively refugees of governments run by people with your mentality. You destroy things. We are enemies. And if that's news to you then I'm pleased to have that advantage.
I am the original poster, and the post with the Tribune link was me as well. Honestly not sure why that went up as AC; I fully intended to put my name to it.
Rauner tried to vilify the state workers themselves and a LOT of people believed it blindly. That's what I was arguing against
As far as I'm concerned state employees deserve vilification. It's your employee pressure groups — unions and lobbyists — ripping off the system. You elect them. Your dues pay them. You vote for the politicians they need to enable all this. The only way any of this could ever get corrected is if you employees reformed the institutions that represent you, but we all know you won't. You knock back the kool-aid, hating on whom you're told to hate (Rauner, herp derp) until the whole thing lands in a bankruptcy court.
No, you deserve it. 100%.
But there's no point linking me to a paywall. Especially the Tribune.
Chrome+Ghostery hides that simplistic paywall. I never saw it, but hitting the link "incognito" does indeed reveal the paywall.
So as you can see reading comprehension is a rare and precious commodity and most of these people think this is about sales taxes....
Anyhow, I'm ambivalent. If governments could tax internet service they would be more inclined to accommodate providers with right-of-way and other regulatory favors for digital build-outs and upgrades, so service availability might actually improve. On the other hand, I have no trouble imagining states like Illinois just pummeling citizens with stupid high taxes so they can pad their bonuses, benefits and pensions harder. They would drive people off the Internet.
Taking this to the next derivative; I can't tell when my sarcasm is missed. Was this modded +5 because the Berniacs missed the sarcasm or did everyone get it and find the news link I cited informative? Who knows...
About 7 months ago I began using Linux on a headless workstation via VNC as my primary interface for development work. On my gigabit LAN the performance is amazing; certainly at least as good as remote X, but without all the font and window manager glitches inherent to remote X, and I don't need an X server on my desktop. The server software is TightVNC and the viewer is TigerVNC. It's actually far better than RDP from a new Windows 10 laptop on the same network. All Wayland would have to do is match that and I'm good with it. At least on fast local network.
I was told, in no uncertain terms, that 3D printing...
No, you weren't told that. At least not by anyone credible. That's just your feverish little mind making stuff up to fit your 3D-printing-is-hype narrative.
If the Venezuelan government says a Llama is equal to one Bolivar than a Llama is equal to one Bolivar.
Sure it does. And if that means the one Bolivar Llama is entirely theoretical because all the real Llamas are elsewhere being traded at market prices, then that's just greedy speculators undermining the revolution.
That's a great idea. Not surprisingly your plan is shared by other brilliant folks, such as Venezuela's new economy czar Luis Salas. He has pointed out that "inflation does not exist." Specifically, the traditional Western economic model that claims printing money devalues currency is bogus and all price increases are merely the result of the parasitic businesses seeking excessive profits. Therefore government should do as you say and print whatever funds they require while diligently preventing greedy speculators from raising prices.
And it's a good thing, too. Prior do Luis Salas's incredible insights Venezuela's fortunes were looking pretty bleak. Doubtless his printing presses will be able to turn all of that around and the rest of the world will be thrilled to restock PDVAL's shelves in exchange for beautiful new bolivars. Why, only yesterday we learned that Luis is importing newly printed cash by the planeload to implement this strategy.
So thankfully your thinking has been adopted in the nick of time and saved Venezuela from collapse. Good work.
The history of "Quality Journalism" is filled with well compensated hucksters like Walter Duranty, polluting the world with fictions and lies. When you pay journalists celebrity wages you get celebrity journalists promulgating the views of their powerful allies.
Do not want. We're no worse off with our contemporary "journalism" and we may indeed be better.
I watched AJ America a few times. I found it indistinguishable from the other cable news stuff except the advertisers were more obscure. It was available free for years on all the streaming platforms; if it mattered it would have had an audience.
I think it comes down to demographics. Old people watch cable news and they've picked their poison from among CNNMSNBCFOXNEWSBBCMURICAETAL. AJ America offered nothing compelling to them. The young have almost lost the ability to find a cable news network on a traditional teevee. So no one cared and no one will notice.
half of our military spending... would pay for universal healthcare
cms.gov total US healthcare spending for 2014: $3 trillion.
DOD budget for 2014: $520 billion.
Our half of our military spending would pay for less than 9% of universal healthcare. And no, you don't get to assert that your "universal healthcare" would be cheaper and make up the difference; you're no more willing to tell all the healthcare providers, researchers and educational institutions that they're in for a huge pay cut than are the libtard politicians you vote for.
That "hour" will get abused to be anything, anytime, plus confiscate and search.
No thanks. Life sucks. Cops can't fix that. Stop adding cops to every "problem." It doesn't help.
The people I live among have the good taste not to do this to others. Foster decency and honor and leave the cops out of it. For that you'll need discipline, respect and a degree of prosperity. The exact opposite of what our leaders give us with their welfare state, grievance mongering and controlled decline.
You don't have that kind of longevity by being completely incompetent.
Indeed. But that doesn't mean you must be competent in your market. GM has merely been very competent at marshaling the political power necessary to protect itself from the market.
It's a government operation now, regardless of whether or not the Treasury actually holds shares or loans any longer, because all pretense that GM is subject to the consequences of its failures is gone; the government will be there to keep it all propped up whatever happens. Another GSE just like fannie and freddy.
So effectively you now have government undermining the government; an quasi-government GSE investing in an un-taxi outfit, displacing government granted monopoly taxi systems.
And, naturally, when the gears finally strip and this half-billion vanishes into money heaven by whatever inevitable disaster is bound to befall it, you can come back here and watch one anti-business malcontent after another attribute all of this incestuous bullshit to "capitalism".
Slashdot Mirror
how about the rest of you
Sorry, no. The messenger has using Slashdot to push anti-nook FUD for years. The well is poisoned. Fuck him and his agenda.
Also, I'm not sure what "misguided reasons" the NYT and others have to exaggerate the consequences of the conflict.
The parroting of NK's exaggerated 'Sea of Fire' propaganda — which is ongoing by the way — supports the argument that nothing provocative or aggressive should be done, and instead we must negotiate. Diplomacy first, last and always. The fact that this policy is misguided should be self evident; decades of negotiation and 'agreed frameworks' where we unfailingly accept NK lies as truth in the name of diplomacy has produced a nuclear armed NK working diligently to perfect delivery.
Perhaps they are misinformed, or ignorant
No, the "misinformed, or ignorant" cop-out doesn't work; the effectiveness of artillery and the order of battle is understood well enough to debunk the 'flattened Seoul' line you've been successfully fed. All one must do is ask a military analyst to analyze. This doesn't happen because the result would not fit the preferred narrative.
Furthermore, while the consequences may not be as severe or immediate as some believe, they are still pretty severe
No one claimed otherwise. Not sure what you think you're correcting here. The difference between reality and NK/NYT propaganda is two orders of magnitude and the term 'exaggerate' is entirely appropriate. The thing that should concern you isn't whether the NK/NYT falsehoods can be salvaged but how and why you and so many others allow yourselves to be misled so badly.
millions of civilians die
Millions would not die. The death toll of a surprise barrage by NK conventional artillery would be tens of thousands. Long range NK artillery would be neutralized in the first week. Seoul would survive.
You're parroting the claims of the NYT and others that tend to exaggerate the consequences of conflict for their own misguided reasons. Without nuclear or chemical weapons NK cannot destroy Seoul, and with such weapons they face rapid obliteration by the strategic weapons of South Korean allies.
Just amazing. Any other season and the "Ricketts family" are a bunch of filthy 1%'ers exploiting their privilege to steal us all blind. Now suddenly their sympathetic figures we must commiserate with against teh ebil Trump. Any other time a Republican political strategist such as Cheri Jacobus would be pilloried as the enabler of planet wreckers that should be in a gulag with the rest of the racist climate deniers that pay her. Today, however, she is a "victim", because Trump tweeted about her.
Sue him. Give him another target to beat on and another couple points in the polls.
"He may be right, but I've been trained to hate him, so movealongnothingtoseehere"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
While ISIS is threatening Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg is threatening to `investigate' his employees for failing to indulge BLM grievance mongering.
I'm not represented by a union.
That is highly unlikely. If you're employed by the state and eligible for a state pension it is difficult to imagine the powers-that-be would have forgotten to put you under one of their many umbrellas, and if they have then you're a special snowflake and I'll confine my remarks to the 99.999% of state employees that are union members and are part of the problem.
there is nothing wrong with the pension system as it was created
I'm sure that argument is going to have a big impact with the judge that will have to unwind who knows how many decades of corruption.
Nobody told me to hate Rauner.
No one had to tell Louis Lerner who needed to be targeted. No one had to order the Cologne police to cover up the rapes. The fact that you weren't explicitly instructed where to put your loyalties means exactly nothing to me. You know the score and you don't need to be explicitly told anything.
You're very angry
You are ruining this world and my time in it. My entire family are effectively refugees of governments run by people with your mentality. You destroy things. We are enemies. And if that's news to you then I'm pleased to have that advantage.
I am the original poster, and the post with the Tribune link was me as well. Honestly not sure why that went up as AC; I fully intended to put my name to it.
Rauner tried to vilify the state workers themselves and a LOT of people believed it blindly. That's what I was arguing against
As far as I'm concerned state employees deserve vilification. It's your employee pressure groups — unions and lobbyists — ripping off the system. You elect them. Your dues pay them. You vote for the politicians they need to enable all this. The only way any of this could ever get corrected is if you employees reformed the institutions that represent you, but we all know you won't. You knock back the kool-aid, hating on whom you're told to hate (Rauner, herp derp) until the whole thing lands in a bankruptcy court.
No, you deserve it. 100%.
But there's no point linking me to a paywall. Especially the Tribune.
Chrome+Ghostery hides that simplistic paywall. I never saw it, but hitting the link "incognito" does indeed reveal the paywall.
So as you can see reading comprehension is a rare and precious commodity and most of these people think this is about sales taxes....
Anyhow, I'm ambivalent. If governments could tax internet service they would be more inclined to accommodate providers with right-of-way and other regulatory favors for digital build-outs and upgrades, so service availability might actually improve. On the other hand, I have no trouble imagining states like Illinois just pummeling citizens with stupid high taxes so they can pad their bonuses, benefits and pensions harder. They would drive people off the Internet.
Taking this to the next derivative; I can't tell when my sarcasm is missed. Was this modded +5 because the Berniacs missed the sarcasm or did everyone get it and find the news link I cited informative? Who knows...
Lets analyse how long this time is. The initial wayland release was on 09 February 2012...
The 'what about network transparency?!' concern was appearing long before the initial release. Here is the usual huge thread about it from 2008: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1017147&cid=25619591
About 7 months ago I began using Linux on a headless workstation via VNC as my primary interface for development work. On my gigabit LAN the performance is amazing; certainly at least as good as remote X, but without all the font and window manager glitches inherent to remote X, and I don't need an X server on my desktop. The server software is TightVNC and the viewer is TigerVNC. It's actually far better than RDP from a new Windows 10 laptop on the same network. All Wayland would have to do is match that and I'm good with it. At least on fast local network.
What science/technology website? This is a place for cubicle trolls to air their political and cultural grievances.
One for the reeducation camps.
I was told, in no uncertain terms, that 3D printing...
No, you weren't told that. At least not by anyone credible. That's just your feverish little mind making stuff up to fit your 3D-printing-is-hype narrative.
If the Venezuelan government says a Llama is equal to one Bolivar than a Llama is equal to one Bolivar.
Sure it does. And if that means the one Bolivar Llama is entirely theoretical because all the real Llamas are elsewhere being traded at market prices, then that's just greedy speculators undermining the revolution.
That's a great idea. Not surprisingly your plan is shared by other brilliant folks, such as Venezuela's new economy czar Luis Salas. He has pointed out that "inflation does not exist." Specifically, the traditional Western economic model that claims printing money devalues currency is bogus and all price increases are merely the result of the parasitic businesses seeking excessive profits. Therefore government should do as you say and print whatever funds they require while diligently preventing greedy speculators from raising prices.
And it's a good thing, too. Prior do Luis Salas's incredible insights Venezuela's fortunes were looking pretty bleak. Doubtless his printing presses will be able to turn all of that around and the rest of the world will be thrilled to restock PDVAL's shelves in exchange for beautiful new bolivars. Why, only yesterday we learned that Luis is importing newly printed cash by the planeload to implement this strategy.
So thankfully your thinking has been adopted in the nick of time and saved Venezuela from collapse. Good work.
So, how does this whole SJW thing work ...
Ask the women of Cologne. They may have some insight about the workings of social justice.
The history of "Quality Journalism" is filled with well compensated hucksters like Walter Duranty, polluting the world with fictions and lies. When you pay journalists celebrity wages you get celebrity journalists promulgating the views of their powerful allies.
Do not want. We're no worse off with our contemporary "journalism" and we may indeed be better.
I watched AJ America a few times. I found it indistinguishable from the other cable news stuff except the advertisers were more obscure. It was available free for years on all the streaming platforms; if it mattered it would have had an audience.
I think it comes down to demographics. Old people watch cable news and they've picked their poison from among CNNMSNBCFOXNEWSBBCMURICAETAL. AJ America offered nothing compelling to them. The young have almost lost the ability to find a cable news network on a traditional teevee. So no one cared and no one will notice.
half of our military spending ... would pay for universal healthcare
cms.gov total US healthcare spending for 2014: $3 trillion.
DOD budget for 2014: $520 billion.
Our half of our military spending would pay for less than 9% of universal healthcare. And no, you don't get to assert that your "universal healthcare" would be cheaper and make up the difference; you're no more willing to tell all the healthcare providers, researchers and educational institutions that they're in for a huge pay cut than are the libtard politicians you vote for.
The US has precision nukes! Quick; nudge the the Doomsday Clock to 23:58 and call a press conference!
Meanwhile Putin has scheduled a fusillade of Topol-M test launches for 2016. Chirp, chirp, chirp.... nothing said.
It's no mystery to me why Trump is a thing.
That "hour" will get abused to be anything, anytime, plus confiscate and search.
No thanks. Life sucks. Cops can't fix that. Stop adding cops to every "problem." It doesn't help.
The people I live among have the good taste not to do this to others. Foster decency and honor and leave the cops out of it. For that you'll need discipline, respect and a degree of prosperity. The exact opposite of what our leaders give us with their welfare state, grievance mongering and controlled decline.
ISIS is beheading a sufficient quantity of infidels.
[ ] Strongly disagree
[ ] Disagree
[ ] Neither agree nor disagree
[ ] Agree
[ ] Strongly agree
You don't have that kind of longevity by being completely incompetent.
Indeed. But that doesn't mean you must be competent in your market. GM has merely been very competent at marshaling the political power necessary to protect itself from the market.
It's a government operation now, regardless of whether or not the Treasury actually holds shares or loans any longer, because all pretense that GM is subject to the consequences of its failures is gone; the government will be there to keep it all propped up whatever happens. Another GSE just like fannie and freddy.
So effectively you now have government undermining the government; an quasi-government GSE investing in an un-taxi outfit, displacing government granted monopoly taxi systems.
And, naturally, when the gears finally strip and this half-billion vanishes into money heaven by whatever inevitable disaster is bound to befall it, you can come back here and watch one anti-business malcontent after another attribute all of this incestuous bullshit to "capitalism".