So nuclear power can't compete without government handouts? Perhaps the REAL problem is so many "progressive" lawyers on the government teat who are erecting roadblocks and barriers to building nuke power plants. It doesn't take many lawyers filing nonsense writs and injunctions FULL TIME to make it almost impossible for a nuclear power plant to be built.
"Employee is given a task, then doesn't do it, because cannot."
Looking something up is simple enough that ANYBODY can learn to do it. She should have received a little TRAINING on how to do it, and she should have ASKED QUESTIONS if she didn't understand the process. At some point, if the employee isn't doing the job and REFUSES TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS when she realizes that she isn't accomplishing the task..... That sort of aggressive, determined ignorance is discouraging.
" to the point of including false claims about treaties negotiated by the prior government"
President Obama didn't even ATTEMPT to have any of his "informal administrative agreements" ratified as "treaties", because the U.S. Senate, which must ratify all treaties, would never have approved them. So the climate "agreement" was never a treaty binding on the United States; it was Barack Obama's PERSONAL promise. Ditto the Iran deal, which was never submitted to the Senate for ratification.
"Antifa" got its name because the fascists running it couldn't stop laughing for long enough to type out the whole phrase "anti-fascist".
Related; virtually every political movement that includes the word "anti-" in their names is actually "pro-" whatever it is, and is trying to maintain the masquerade that that's not REALLY what they're trying to accomplish. Simple deflection strategy.
How could people as tech-savvy as the Wired staff have failed to record - and BACK UP - their bitcoin key? "The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory."
"In 2012, two E-2C Hawkeye aircraft were involved in an incident where one unfolded it's wings into the spinning propellers of the other."
But that isn't a safety issue with the folding wings, any more than last week's Asiana/TurkAir ground mishap (the Asiana airliner broke off the vertical stabilizer of the TurkAir jet while taxiing) was.
Not quite; the brain-wiped criminal who originally had that body had had several different "corpcicle" memories uploaded into that body to get one that was... "suitable" for the mission. J.B. Corbell (Corbett in the original short story) was the mind/memories extracted from the frozen corpse ("corpcicles") which extracted the RNA but didn't leave anything of the body.
And after that, Corbell was in that body for several hundred thousand years, but with near-lightspeed time dilation effects, only "experienced" 300 of them in his trip around the Milky Way's central black hole and then slingshot back to Earth.
I'm unaware of any accidents involving the folding wings on US Navy aircraft, or at least, not in the last 3 decades. The airlines primarily get their pilots from the military, so having some airline pilots who are already familiar with the checklist step of making sure that the wings are unfolded and locked won't be an enormous training issue.
I believe that something similar was a plot device used by Larry Niven in his short story "Rammer", and the longer novel "World Out Of Time". Amazing how that seems to happen over and over again.
Oh, great, Another Mickey Mouseshit law. Just as the copyright on the original "Steamboat Willie" cartoon from Disney is about to expire, Disney gets everybody spun up about extending the copyright YET AGAIN. The Constitution (remember the Constitution? Our fundament law?) says that patents and copyrights are for "limited" times, and I don't think 144 years qualifies as "limited".
There isn't anything even remotely close to "artificial intelligence" in development; all computers do is run programs that OTHER HUMANS have written, for better or for worse. The problems will come up when one subroutine written by Programmer #1 conflicts with a separate subroutine written by Programmer #2, when they aren't aware of each others' contributions.
The solution is simple enough; don't install the Facebook app. And don't use Facebook. Facebook's entire business model depends on making money by giving advertisers your personal information. They're selling access to your eyes.
The last GOOD mail client was Eudora, until Qualcomm abandoned it. Outlook 2010 is OK, but nothing else has come close. Thunderbird was always glitchy. and I've looked at two or three others that weren't TOO bad. Webmail is OK.
You presume that the basic laws of physics that we experience here, in this gravity well, exist uniformly everywhere. We cannot (yet) know this. It's entirely possible that there are other cosmic laws that we cannot notice here on Earth, but which may become significant in deep space.
The United States has not, traditionally, begun wars in absence of an external threat. Vietnam is perhaps the most egregious violation of this, in that the "threat" was more hypothetical and imagined than real. For example, in 1821 John Quincy Adams wrote:
"If the wise and learned philosophers of the older world, the first observers of mutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to inquire, what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
Let our answer be this–America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama, the European World, will be contests between inveterate power, and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example."
If Lil' Kim manages to sound sincere and un-crazy (remember, this is the man who has had his relatives executed by anti-aircraft cannon and poison gas, so "uncrazy" is something of a stretch) he's likely to get his "no invasion" guarantee.
A similar promise made to Muammar Gaddafi didn't work out so well when Obama and Hillary decided to depose him anyway - collapsing the Libyan "government", such as it was, and turning Libya over to terrorists. I am frankly astonished that Kim Jong Un would trust the United States enough for him to disarm.
One of the factors in play has to be that his testing facility in Mount Mantap is totally unusable now, due to the fracturing in the mountain caused by the last thermonuclear test. And China has certainly expressed an attitude of "If your radiation drifts into China, YOUR ashes will also drift over China."
I know that carbohydrates are, in general, bad for your health; the correlation of high carb consumption with obesity is quite high. Dietary fats and protein are much better for you. Meat, cheese, dairy.....
But pasta is _ALMOST_ worth it. That, and pizza. The foods of the gods themselves.
Which begs the question, "Why do bank and financial sites still use questions like 'Mother's Maiden Name' when Ancestry.com probably knows that, even if YOU never filled in an online genealogy?"
Suggestion: Answer all such questions with the same answer, one irrelevant to the question. "Mother's Maideb Name"? "Blue" First car"? Blue. first pet? "Blue".
Don't say you're GOING to delete Facebook; just DO IT.
I don't need to "delete" Facebook. I use Facebook for only one purpose; some of the blogs I follow use Facebook for their comments. I logged into Facebook a few days ago (I had to look up my password to do that....) and followed the "Download Everything from Facebook" procedure. Seriously, there's almost nothing there. An empty Profile, no games, no pictures, and the only messages were the ones I posted to the various blogs. Nothing that I wouldn't post openly.
Part of that is that I've never opened the Facebook apps on my phones or tablets.
If you're a big Facebook user, go back to email, or start a blog, or do something more constructive with your life.
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So nuclear power can't compete without government handouts? Perhaps the REAL problem is so many "progressive" lawyers on the government teat who are erecting roadblocks and barriers to building nuke power plants. It doesn't take many lawyers filing nonsense writs and injunctions FULL TIME to make it almost impossible for a nuclear power plant to be built.
"Employee is given a task, then doesn't do it, because cannot."
Looking something up is simple enough that ANYBODY can learn to do it. She should have received a little TRAINING on how to do it, and she should have ASKED QUESTIONS if she didn't understand the process. At some point, if the employee isn't doing the job and REFUSES TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS when she realizes that she isn't accomplishing the task ..... That sort of aggressive, determined ignorance is discouraging.
It works for me.
Reading Reddit for too long can cause otherwise normal people to become insane. That isn't anything new; we've known that for years.
PaleMoon is good; Vivaldi is better. IMHO.
" to the point of including false claims about treaties negotiated by the prior government"
President Obama didn't even ATTEMPT to have any of his "informal administrative agreements" ratified as "treaties", because the U.S. Senate, which must ratify all treaties, would never have approved them. So the climate "agreement" was never a treaty binding on the United States; it was Barack Obama's PERSONAL promise. Ditto the Iran deal, which was never submitted to the Senate for ratification.
"Antifa" got its name because the fascists running it couldn't stop laughing for long enough to type out the whole phrase "anti-fascist".
Related; virtually every political movement that includes the word "anti-" in their names is actually "pro-" whatever it is, and is trying to maintain the masquerade that that's not REALLY what they're trying to accomplish. Simple deflection strategy.
Sounds like Hillary Clinton - or Lois Lerner. They seem to have the WORST luck with computers....
How could people as tech-savvy as the Wired staff have failed to record - and BACK UP - their bitcoin key? "The palest ink is better than the most retentive memory."
"In 2012, two E-2C Hawkeye aircraft were involved in an incident where one unfolded it's wings into the spinning propellers of the other."
But that isn't a safety issue with the folding wings, any more than last week's Asiana/TurkAir ground mishap (the Asiana airliner broke off the vertical stabilizer of the TurkAir jet while taxiing) was.
Not quite; the brain-wiped criminal who originally had that body had had several different "corpcicle" memories uploaded into that body to get one that was ... "suitable" for the mission. J.B. Corbell (Corbett in the original short story) was the mind/memories extracted from the frozen corpse ("corpcicles") which extracted the RNA but didn't leave anything of the body.
And after that, Corbell was in that body for several hundred thousand years, but with near-lightspeed time dilation effects, only "experienced" 300 of them in his trip around the Milky Way's central black hole and then slingshot back to Earth.
I'm unaware of any accidents involving the folding wings on US Navy aircraft, or at least, not in the last 3 decades. The airlines primarily get their pilots from the military, so having some airline pilots who are already familiar with the checklist step of making sure that the wings are unfolded and locked won't be an enormous training issue.
I believe that something similar was a plot device used by Larry Niven in his short story "Rammer", and the longer novel "World Out Of Time". Amazing how that seems to happen over and over again.
Oh, great, Another Mickey Mouseshit law. Just as the copyright on the original "Steamboat Willie" cartoon from Disney is about to expire, Disney gets everybody spun up about extending the copyright YET AGAIN. The Constitution (remember the Constitution? Our fundament law?) says that patents and copyrights are for "limited" times, and I don't think 144 years qualifies as "limited".
There isn't anything even remotely close to "artificial intelligence" in development; all computers do is run programs that OTHER HUMANS have written, for better or for worse. The problems will come up when one subroutine written by Programmer #1 conflicts with a separate subroutine written by Programmer #2, when they aren't aware of each others' contributions.
The solution is simple enough; don't install the Facebook app. And don't use Facebook. Facebook's entire business model depends on making money by giving advertisers your personal information. They're selling access to your eyes.
The last GOOD mail client was Eudora, until Qualcomm abandoned it. Outlook 2010 is OK, but nothing else has come close. Thunderbird was always glitchy. and I've looked at two or three others that weren't TOO bad. Webmail is OK.
You presume that the basic laws of physics that we experience here, in this gravity well, exist uniformly everywhere. We cannot (yet) know this. It's entirely possible that there are other cosmic laws that we cannot notice here on Earth, but which may become significant in deep space.
The United States has not, traditionally, begun wars in absence of an external threat. Vietnam is perhaps the most egregious violation of this, in that the "threat" was more hypothetical and imagined than real. For example, in 1821 John Quincy Adams wrote:
"If the wise and learned philosophers of the older world, the first observers of mutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to inquire, what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
Let our answer be this–America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama, the European World, will be contests between inveterate power, and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example."
If Lil' Kim manages to sound sincere and un-crazy (remember, this is the man who has had his relatives executed by anti-aircraft cannon and poison gas, so "uncrazy" is something of a stretch) he's likely to get his "no invasion" guarantee.
A similar promise made to Muammar Gaddafi didn't work out so well when Obama and Hillary decided to depose him anyway - collapsing the Libyan "government", such as it was, and turning Libya over to terrorists. I am frankly astonished that Kim Jong Un would trust the United States enough for him to disarm.
One of the factors in play has to be that his testing facility in Mount Mantap is totally unusable now, due to the fracturing in the mountain caused by the last thermonuclear test. And China has certainly expressed an attitude of "If your radiation drifts into China, YOUR ashes will also drift over China."
I know that carbohydrates are, in general, bad for your health; the correlation of high carb consumption with obesity is quite high. Dietary fats and protein are much better for you. Meat, cheese, dairy.....
But pasta is _ALMOST_ worth it. That, and pizza. The foods of the gods themselves.
Insert Morpheus meme picture.....
What if I were to tell you that it's possible to be anti-Trump, but even more anti-Hillary?
I didn't like Trump, and didn't vote for him. But President Hillary would have been immeasurably worse.
I have a political button with a cartoon of Cthulhu, tentacles raised in a "V"; "Vote for Cthulhu! Why Support the LESSER Evil?"
A dog named Blue? Somebody wrote a song about that!
Which begs the question, "Why do bank and financial sites still use questions like 'Mother's Maiden Name' when Ancestry.com probably knows that, even if YOU never filled in an online genealogy?"
Suggestion: Answer all such questions with the same answer, one irrelevant to the question. "Mother's Maideb Name"? "Blue" First car"? Blue. first pet? "Blue".
Don't say you're GOING to delete Facebook; just DO IT.
I don't need to "delete" Facebook. I use Facebook for only one purpose; some of the blogs I follow use Facebook for their comments. I logged into Facebook a few days ago (I had to look up my password to do that....) and followed the "Download Everything from Facebook" procedure. Seriously, there's almost nothing there. An empty Profile, no games, no pictures, and the only messages were the ones I posted to the various blogs. Nothing that I wouldn't post openly.
Part of that is that I've never opened the Facebook apps on my phones or tablets.
If you're a big Facebook user, go back to email, or start a blog, or do something more constructive with your life.