Al Gore recently (well, a few years ago...) purchased a fairly large beachfront home here in California. That's ONE of the reasons why I discount claims that the sea level will rise more than a few inches per century.
The Hugo Awards are chosen not by the fans, but by the "Secret Masters of Fandom", and selected exclusively from left-wing sources. Larry Correia's "Sad Puppies" campaigns of the last few years has revealed this much, if nothing else.
The week doesn't go by without news about another 'Amazon Web Services "bucket" left open and unsecured. I'm terrified at the thought of Defense Department secrets left exposed. I'm not sure that Amazon is capable of keeping secrets, like GoDaddy's business plans.
Not that Hillary's private server was any better, or the CIA's record in hiring leakers like Snowden or "Reality Winner". We need to bury a few spies and traitors in the sub-basements of Fort Leavenworth, and pipe 10 minutes of sunlight down to them on alternate Tuesdays.
I was an early adopter of the little pigtail compact fluorescent bulbs. THey were supposed to last way longer while saving electricity, and so were WORTH the higher cost per bulb. Except that they did NOT last longer. And if they saved pennies for electricity, they cost many dollars for expensive bulbs. Now we're dealing with the same issue with LEDs; LED bulbs cost $5 each (AFTER the considerable decrease in the last year) and still save a few pennies on the power bill.
I'm not sure that we're ahead in the long run. 75 watt incandescent bulbs used to be a buck or so for a 4-pack. Now I can get 10 LED bulbs for ONLY $50! And both LED and CFL bulbs were extraordinarily sensitive to heat buildup in enclosed fixtures. An incandescent bulb in the hallway lasts for a year and provides a lot of light. An LED bulb was a lot dimmer ( 6 watts, with an "effective illumination" of 60 watts) and lasted only a few weeks. Heat buildup, you see.
It's actually Hillary who is in thrall to the Russians, especially after she sold a substantial fraction of the uranium in the US to... Russia.
I do believe that Russia hacked her hideously insecure mail server on which she conducted top secret business. I'm equally sure that virtually every OTHER nation in the world including China, North Korea and Iran hacked into her server.
Please go back to 5th grade and re-take your Civics class. There is no chance at all that Hillary will become President. There are no provisions for "do-overs" or mulligans in Federal law.
Did they do this in a calm, still pool, or did they do this in the noisy, wavy ocean? If it was in a pool, get a dozen kids playing "Marco Polo" and see if it still works.
But tampering with paper ballots has to be done one at a time, while modifying electronic totals in a database can be done in bulk if the security isn't excellent - and it's never excellent.
Also, with paper ballots, there is something that can be re-counted. Electronically, all you can do is re-run the report.
How is any carrier able to claim that their data plan is "unlimited", when it's throttled to dialup speeds after only 25GB? And why did ANY public service agency buy such a plan? Penny-wise and pound-foolish on CalFire's side, and nearly criminal negligence from Verizon. Of course, from Verizon I would not have expected any better. I had a cell plan from them for two very long and frustrating years, and switched long ago. Now I'm in T-Mobile, and love it.
It would be SUBSTANTIALLY harder to tamper with paper ballots. With paper ballots, the easiest way to muck things up would be to steal absentee or vote by mail ballots, and then send them back. Curiously, in 2016, there were several reports of nursing homes and assisted living centers where none of the residents received their vote by mail ballots - but many of them had been voted and mailed back.
No, we'd like to ACHIEVE the REALITY of free and fair elections. It isn't real now, and has not been the reality for probably 50 years, But it CAN BECOME the reality.
Agreed. The only thing Russians were trying to do is spread hate and discontent by using Fakebook advertising, and my God, how far they succeeded!
But there's a lot of other kinds of election fraud besides hacking voting machines. And I suspect that EVERY possible way of manipulating the elections has been attempted.
It's about time that we got serious about security our voting systems. Too many elections have been decided by "discovered" boxes of ballots, or where 200% of the registered voters in a precinct all voted the same way. Or precincts where the election monitors were kicked out by gang members, and 100% of the votes were for the gang's preferred candidate.
We need paper ballots, ink on fingers, and 100% voter ID.
The "Republican Party" is somewhat fractured, and isn't a single entity. There are the real conservatives, who are not the same as the "Tea Party Republicans", although they share many values. Then there are the "Rockefeller Republicans" who are not QUITE the same people as the "Country Club Republicans", sometimes called RINOs; "Republicans in Name Only". President Trump ran as a Republican, although he was a Democrat most of his career and is governing more as a Libertarian/Populist. Please note that the "Country Club Republicans" detest Trump, and always have. There is currently NO consistent theme or goal of the Republican Party, other than "Re-elect Me!".
Similarly, there is no longer a "Democrat Party", having been fractionalized into "Democratic Socialists", genuine Socialists, and a myriad of splinter interest group parties who don't agree on either goals nor methods. Finally, there is the rump core of the original Democrat party based on labor unions. Currently, the only consistent theme of the Democrat Party has been "Gimme Free Stuff!", such as free college, free health care, free everything else. Since there isn't any way to pay for free stuff, they're not making much progress.
This is why neither party has a coherent message or strategy, and elements of the various factions and temporary coalitions are constantly fighting each other.
"Unhappy investors"? I'm not at all sure that short-sellers qualify as "investors".
"Pump and dump" tactics - buying a cheap stock, talking it up with false positive news stories and then selling it at a profit - are illegal. The reverse - selling a stock short and then making up lies about the company - should be equally illegal.
When I started using that analogy, doughnuts were about 15 cents. Now, of course, they're OVER a buck here in California, and fancy ones are closer to $1.50.
Actually, this makes perfect sense, as a threat toward the short-sellers of Tesla stock. There are LOTS of short-sellers for Tesla; they borrow Tesla shares from the broker, sell them, bad-mouth the stock in hopes that the stock price will fall dramatically. Then they can re-purchase the Tesla stock at a lower price to cover their short-sale, and still make a profit.
Musk's gimmicky tricks like the "NOT A Flamethrower!" and the Tesla surfboards were designed to create a pop UP in the stock price, perhaps in the hopes of scaring the short-sellers into liquidating their positions NOW, rather than take bigger losses as Tesla shares went UP. If he actually took Tesla public at $420/share, the short-sellers would take it in the shorts, so to speak, and Musk could laugh all the way to the bank.
And ten, Dell-like, go public again and get even MORE money.
I'll wager dollars to doughnuts that this is a hoax, staged to make Maduro into a sympathetic figure. The rate of inflation is approaching a million percent a year; they've just lopped five zeroes off the value of the currency. The Venezuelan people are fleeing across the border as fast as they can.
Anybody who could afford a drone has already left, and the first world nations don't care enough about South America to bother to assassinate him. Therefore: Probable hoax. He'll use this as a pretext to consolidate power and steal all the rest of the money.
It'll be EASY to terraform Mars - once space travel is easy enough that we don't NEED to terraform a planet. There are lots of mostly-icy asteroids and comets, and when we're able to push them into Mars-impacting orbits, it'll almost terraform itself. But we'll need lots of comets and asteroids.
And frankly, when we have cheap and reliable space travel, we may find that it's easier to create our own space habitats than it is to re-design a planet in a deep gravity well. It'll happen - but it'll be a LONG time happening.
About 14 years ago, the company I worked for had a major upheaval; the owner of the company (who wasn't very tech-savvy) had a falling out with his senior programmers, and they all left. I was in tech training. When the owner started bringing in dozens of Indian and Chinese programmers who were trying to figure out how the company worked, it became clear that the company was no longer viable, and I started looking for something more stable.
I'm sure my departure had nothing to do with the fact that the company collapsed, and was purchased by a larger tech services company about 8 months later.
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Al Gore recently (well, a few years ago...) purchased a fairly large beachfront home here in California. That's ONE of the reasons why I discount claims that the sea level will rise more than a few inches per century.
The Hugo Awards are chosen not by the fans, but by the "Secret Masters of Fandom", and selected exclusively from left-wing sources. Larry Correia's "Sad Puppies" campaigns of the last few years has revealed this much, if nothing else.
The week doesn't go by without news about another 'Amazon Web Services "bucket" left open and unsecured. I'm terrified at the thought of Defense Department secrets left exposed. I'm not sure that Amazon is capable of keeping secrets, like GoDaddy's business plans.
Not that Hillary's private server was any better, or the CIA's record in hiring leakers like Snowden or "Reality Winner". We need to bury a few spies and traitors in the sub-basements of Fort Leavenworth, and pipe 10 minutes of sunlight down to them on alternate Tuesdays.
I was an early adopter of the little pigtail compact fluorescent bulbs. THey were supposed to last way longer while saving electricity, and so were WORTH the higher cost per bulb. Except that they did NOT last longer. And if they saved pennies for electricity, they cost many dollars for expensive bulbs. Now we're dealing with the same issue with LEDs; LED bulbs cost $5 each (AFTER the considerable decrease in the last year) and still save a few pennies on the power bill.
I'm not sure that we're ahead in the long run. 75 watt incandescent bulbs used to be a buck or so for a 4-pack. Now I can get 10 LED bulbs for ONLY $50! And both LED and CFL bulbs were extraordinarily sensitive to heat buildup in enclosed fixtures. An incandescent bulb in the hallway lasts for a year and provides a lot of light. An LED bulb was a lot dimmer ( 6 watts, with an "effective illumination" of 60 watts) and lasted only a few weeks. Heat buildup, you see.
So let's clean up the mess in Chicago, rather than making the Chicago Way the national standard.
If I had mod points, I'd mod this up. It's precisely on target. Useless, insulting, and WAY more work to do than it was worth.
But clearly the drugs he took were not in vain!
It's actually Hillary who is in thrall to the Russians, especially after she sold a substantial fraction of the uranium in the US to ... Russia.
I do believe that Russia hacked her hideously insecure mail server on which she conducted top secret business. I'm equally sure that virtually every OTHER nation in the world including China, North Korea and Iran hacked into her server.
Please go back to 5th grade and re-take your Civics class. There is no chance at all that Hillary will become President. There are no provisions for "do-overs" or mulligans in Federal law.
Did they do this in a calm, still pool, or did they do this in the noisy, wavy ocean? If it was in a pool, get a dozen kids playing "Marco Polo" and see if it still works.
But tampering with paper ballots has to be done one at a time, while modifying electronic totals in a database can be done in bulk if the security isn't excellent - and it's never excellent.
Also, with paper ballots, there is something that can be re-counted. Electronically, all you can do is re-run the report.
How is any carrier able to claim that their data plan is "unlimited", when it's throttled to dialup speeds after only 25GB? And why did ANY public service agency buy such a plan? Penny-wise and pound-foolish on CalFire's side, and nearly criminal negligence from Verizon. Of course, from Verizon I would not have expected any better. I had a cell plan from them for two very long and frustrating years, and switched long ago. Now I'm in T-Mobile, and love it.
It would be SUBSTANTIALLY harder to tamper with paper ballots. With paper ballots, the easiest way to muck things up would be to steal absentee or vote by mail ballots, and then send them back. Curiously, in 2016, there were several reports of nursing homes and assisted living centers where none of the residents received their vote by mail ballots - but many of them had been voted and mailed back.
Completely agree. I'd mod you up if I had mod points today.
No, we'd like to ACHIEVE the REALITY of free and fair elections. It isn't real now, and has not been the reality for probably 50 years, But it CAN BECOME the reality.
Agreed. The only thing Russians were trying to do is spread hate and discontent by using Fakebook advertising, and my God, how far they succeeded!
But there's a lot of other kinds of election fraud besides hacking voting machines. And I suspect that EVERY possible way of manipulating the elections has been attempted.
It's about time that we got serious about security our voting systems. Too many elections have been decided by "discovered" boxes of ballots, or where 200% of the registered voters in a precinct all voted the same way. Or precincts where the election monitors were kicked out by gang members, and 100% of the votes were for the gang's preferred candidate.
We need paper ballots, ink on fingers, and 100% voter ID.
The "Republican Party" is somewhat fractured, and isn't a single entity. There are the real conservatives, who are not the same as the "Tea Party Republicans", although they share many values. Then there are the "Rockefeller Republicans" who are not QUITE the same people as the "Country Club Republicans", sometimes called RINOs; "Republicans in Name Only". President Trump ran as a Republican, although he was a Democrat most of his career and is governing more as a Libertarian/Populist. Please note that the "Country Club Republicans" detest Trump, and always have. There is currently NO consistent theme or goal of the Republican Party, other than "Re-elect Me!".
Similarly, there is no longer a "Democrat Party", having been fractionalized into "Democratic Socialists", genuine Socialists, and a myriad of splinter interest group parties who don't agree on either goals nor methods. Finally, there is the rump core of the original Democrat party based on labor unions. Currently, the only consistent theme of the Democrat Party has been "Gimme Free Stuff!", such as free college, free health care, free everything else. Since there isn't any way to pay for free stuff, they're not making much progress.
This is why neither party has a coherent message or strategy, and elements of the various factions and temporary coalitions are constantly fighting each other.
"Unhappy investors"? I'm not at all sure that short-sellers qualify as "investors".
"Pump and dump" tactics - buying a cheap stock, talking it up with false positive news stories and then selling it at a profit - are illegal. The reverse - selling a stock short and then making up lies about the company - should be equally illegal.
I'm old.....
When I started using that analogy, doughnuts were about 15 cents. Now, of course, they're OVER a buck here in California, and fancy ones are closer to $1.50.
Ah, one of the short-sellers, I see!
Actually, this makes perfect sense, as a threat toward the short-sellers of Tesla stock. There are LOTS of short-sellers for Tesla; they borrow Tesla shares from the broker, sell them, bad-mouth the stock in hopes that the stock price will fall dramatically. Then they can re-purchase the Tesla stock at a lower price to cover their short-sale, and still make a profit.
Musk's gimmicky tricks like the "NOT A Flamethrower!" and the Tesla surfboards were designed to create a pop UP in the stock price, perhaps in the hopes of scaring the short-sellers into liquidating their positions NOW, rather than take bigger losses as Tesla shares went UP. If he actually took Tesla public at $420/share, the short-sellers would take it in the shorts, so to speak, and Musk could laugh all the way to the bank.
And ten, Dell-like, go public again and get even MORE money.
Elon Musk is crazy, all right; crazy like a fox!
I'll wager dollars to doughnuts that this is a hoax, staged to make Maduro into a sympathetic figure. The rate of inflation is approaching a million percent a year; they've just lopped five zeroes off the value of the currency. The Venezuelan people are fleeing across the border as fast as they can.
Anybody who could afford a drone has already left, and the first world nations don't care enough about South America to bother to assassinate him. Therefore: Probable hoax. He'll use this as a pretext to consolidate power and steal all the rest of the money.
"if ever theres a armageddon, " .... it'll already be far too late to copy/preserve anything.
Sorry. Do your copying NOW, so that you have several copies of what might be handy.
It'll be EASY to terraform Mars - once space travel is easy enough that we don't NEED to terraform a planet. There are lots of mostly-icy asteroids and comets, and when we're able to push them into Mars-impacting orbits, it'll almost terraform itself. But we'll need lots of comets and asteroids.
And frankly, when we have cheap and reliable space travel, we may find that it's easier to create our own space habitats than it is to re-design a planet in a deep gravity well. It'll happen - but it'll be a LONG time happening.
About 14 years ago, the company I worked for had a major upheaval; the owner of the company (who wasn't very tech-savvy) had a falling out with his senior programmers, and they all left. I was in tech training. When the owner started bringing in dozens of Indian and Chinese programmers who were trying to figure out how the company worked, it became clear that the company was no longer viable, and I started looking for something more stable.
I'm sure my departure had nothing to do with the fact that the company collapsed, and was purchased by a larger tech services company about 8 months later.