I'm really getting pretty good at sniffing this bullshit out.
1) "Sources" : non-named.
2) "With links" : vague association.
3) "Intelligence community". CIA? FBI? NSA? Some dude on a ham radio in Temecula?
4) "say it is believed that". So there are these people. They seriously said. That it is believed. It might not even be them that believe
Case in point: our current president. Zero years experience. He's doing fine, by many accounts, and I suspect he'll end up being one of the more effective presidents in recent history despite what the media will have you believe.
There are and have been many successful congressmen/women with no prior political experience.
In fact, it might sound a little crazy, but I'm almo
I'm curious to know what about being an elected official you think would take 5 years to get a basic grasp of? Rules and regulations? Knowing whom to speak with to get something accomplished?
I don't think there are many occupations in this world that should take five years to get a basic understanding of, outside of some very technical fields, high-end engineers, doctors and lawyer
I'm with Sam on this one, I'll take someone with zero experience who's smart, enthusiastic, with good ideas, and ready to serve over literally any of our 20+ years officials.
Too much comfort and corruption seeps in after that long in office to outweigh any sort of experience garnered, it's inevitable.
Edit: for Sam, I'll use the analogy of: This is the same reason
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The fact that me and Murphy can speak some English shouldn't deceive you, we don't get half of your reasoning, and you don't get half of ours.
I don't know, I think you generally present your point pretty logically, and I can usually follow your reasoning fairly well. That doesn't mean that I always agree, but usually I do understand.
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The U.S. would do the same thing (publicly at least), fwiw.
Edit: I'm saying taking things to the UN like this is pointless, when there's this many interested parties.
Like Isildur said a VPN typically will slow down your connection. Really the only time a VPN may speed up your connection is if your ISP is throttling your traffic for certain types of data (like movie streaming, etc), where the VPN masks the data types and can prevent this throttling in some cases.
However, be aware of a couple thing wrt speed: 1) If throttling is your issue-- it's possi
The common consensus is that 2018 is the real year the Angels starts rebuilding, since the Hamilton money comes off the books. That 's $26 million freed up for 2018. Also, remember Jered Weaver and CJ Wilson money just came off the books after 2016, which is an additional 40 million combined. So you're looking at more than $66 million to throw around for 2018, and there's word that
He says he wants to steal 40 bases this year. Also look for his OBP to continue to be insane-- I wouldn't be surprised of .450+ OBP this year, while his plate discipline continues to improve (which is just silly). Going into age 25 season and seems healthy, so should see increasing power numbers as well. What else is there to say, really?
Now, pretty much everyone is aware that the U.S. govt has the ability to pull anyone's communications records, at any time, and the media is finally admitting this at large.
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Quotedon't care about human rights and slave-wage labor and pollution
Like U.S.? :)
We only care about these things in the U.S. Apparently we have absolutely no problem with China or India or whomever else doing these things.
In fact, we encourage it! So long as we get our cheap widgets.
Unless something else is done to put pressure on nations who don't care about human rights and slave-wage labor and pollution.
Furthermore, you can't even begin to talk about any of these solutions until your own nation's best interests are protected against the current sort of corrupt globalism.
Edit: See where we're coming from now, in the U.S.? You'll thank us la
At least your way, you keep people in the workforce, so that they can be "activated" if the demand arises (war, new techniques invented requiring more labor, etc). There's an analogical occurance in software, where there may not always be work at any given time for every employee (due to software cycles, releases, etc), but you will need them surely when the software cycle falls ba
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I think some degree of "pretend-work" needs to be created, because discipline and routine are essential parts of the human experience for many people. We could have most of the population basically do useless things but get paid a decent wage for them: e.g. they could work in factories and stuff alongside robots even though robots would be far superior to them. They coul
But, I'm talking about 15 years from now. It's a trajectory thing. If you read what I wrote, I was talking about the future.
Now, if you're smart, you'll always get a job somewhere. But the opportunities now for a fresh college grad although certainly not terrible, are not as lucrative as they were 15 years ago, and I predict it will get exponentially worse in this regard i
I've been predicting for a while now that in 10-15 years the software programmer job in the U.S. will head the way that manufacturing jobs are today. You'll have to have top-tier knowledge to be successful (I'm talking 1%-er knowledge), and anyone else will be competing against others who are willing to work for 1/10th of your wage, so you sure as hell better be useful (good luck c
When you look at it through this prism, you may start to understand the Trump doesn't have a hard on for seeing the rest of the world fall into chaos, he just realizes -- as do many Americans-- that we cannot continue to be a hegemonic power while our own infrastructure crumbles. That sort of thing destroys nations (most recently, see: U.S.S.R).
I do agree that what Trump is likely attemp
If it benefits other countries, they will trade with us. I'm sure there's a whole list of consumer countries who would love to get a piece of good ol' U.S. economy, once it gets rolling.
So many nations are dependent on the U.S., regardless of how much they "like" us, or not. Do you really think NATO is going to kick us out, or the UN?
Look out now for the loosening up of marijuana laws federally to be extended by republicans as an olive branch to democrats to work together in congress. Which is sort of the only way it gets done (i.e., "We have to give them this one, to get something in return").
I just don't see any scenario where Trump all the sudden goes marijuana-nazi.
First thing he does is, he announces they're going to "enforce the federal laws on marijuana". Which makes his far-right zealots happy.
Then, he relaxes said laws, rescheduling marijuana to a lower-class drug later on (essentially quasi-decriminalizing it, on a federal level). This way, he's technically not contradicting himself, and he can in a way make both sides happy.
Also, Pence is a super-hedge toward impeachment. Believe it or not, Trump's picks of the SCOTUS would pale in conservative-ness compared to anything Pence would do. For this reason alone, I don't think anyone on the left (in congress) wants him impeached. Add to that what Isildur said about the majority it will take and it just isn't likely.
That said, I have heard a compelling