So, foreign names sound shady to you? There's a word for that, but it seems to have slipped my mind...
it hasn't slipped my mind how many Right-thinking people lost their ****ing minds over the name of Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
and they still haven't recovered
I think what he meant to say, is that if Lewinsky had been a decade younger (12 instead of 22), then nothing would have happened.
There's zero chance the GOP would have let that slide.
But i wonder how many knew or suspected of Hastert's unsavory predilections when they were happening
Cuba is being targeted because it's what the expats in Miami & families like Marco Rubio's have wanted for a very long time. And they don't really care if Cuba becomes more "free" or not, they want payment for what they lost.
"Afghanistan don't want freedom. We know. We already tried"
Most of y'all never gave a sh** about "freedom" for Afghanistan.
It started as retribution against bin Laden and al-Qaeda and then America found itself waging war against the Taliban insurgency.
Pakistan protected bin Laden for years and then appears to have made a backchannel bargain with Obama to have bin Laden killed. I'm surprised they weren't punished further but likely because they too have nukes.
I think what will eventually come of the clusterfuck brewing because of that idiot Trump is that every nation will try to have their own nukes to obtain "peace through strength".
At this point I would NOT put any faith in any promise or guarantee from America.
If you need to know why, ask the Kurds.
The only thing stopping you from calling the water pipes in your house "copper-phosphorus pipes" is laziness and poor attention to detail.
A truly non-lazy person, then, would have to conduct a detailed spectrographic assay of all of the pipes (or at least sufficient samples from each lot) to accurately determine the precise composition of each, because all of them contain impurities and aren't merely copper and phosphorous.
In general, getting a truly pure sample of almost any element is incredibly-hard, and outside of laboratories (and even in laboratories, most of the time) it just doesn't matter. In the case of transporting anti-protons, standard "pure" copper is apparently inadequate, because it's not pure enough.
After decades of decreasing water supplies coupled with irresponsible explosive growth in the Great Basin, Front Range, and SW in particular.its just asking for trouble.
Even with the reduced precipitation there's still plenty of water for residential and commercial use. The problem, at least where I live (Utah), is agriculture. 80% of our water goes to agriculture. It would be one thing if we were growing regionally-appropriate crops for local consumption, but nearly all of that agriculture is to grow alfalfa (a water-hungry crop that isn't appropriate for the high desert climate), and nearly all of that alfalfa is shipped out of state, much of it out of the country, to feed cattle elsewhere. China is one of the biggest buyers. Essentially, our farmers are selling the contents of our aquifers to the world.
If we had plenty of water, letting our farmers buy it at a deep discount and sell it to willing buyers elsewhere would be fine, just another commercial use of a local resource, which is what trade is all about. But we definitely don't have plenty of water.
The solution is simple and straightforward (though legally complicated): Don't discounts. Set the same price for water across the board, residential, commercial and agricultural. There can and should be minor differences in delivery cost, and surcharges for purification, but the base cost of the water should be set through a single government-managed market, probably at the state level, probably divided up by drainages (drainages with more abundant water will have cheaper water; if this creates an arbitrage opportunity for someone to pipe water between drainages, great!).
Yes, this would probably put the alfalfa farmers out of business, but that's good because growing alfalfa in the desert is a bad idea. It might also raise the price of local produce, but that's as it should be, putting agricultural water use directly in competition with other water use. If prices go up, people will find ways to be more efficient. Farmers may switch to drip irrigation. If you build too many houses for the available water supply, well, those houses are going to have very expensive water and residents are going to want to find ways to conserve -- and maybe the high cost of water will disincentivize new move-ins.
The bottom line is that efficiently allocating scarce resources is what markets are good at. The problem with water isn't that there are too many people or not enough water, the problem is that we don't properly allocate the water or encourage conservation in the right places. Trying to fix this through regulation rather than market pricing will always be subject to regulatory capture and will never be as efficient or as effective as just enabling a competitive market and letting it work.
Final assembly is inadequate for the law as written. You'd have to manufacture the PCBs in the U.S., which is likely to be completely infeasible for at least a decade.
And how will requiring the PCBs be manufactured in the US prevent backdoors from being designed in the system. The backdoors are at the firmware level not during assembly.
Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.
Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).
They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.
I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.
I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.
The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.
It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.
And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.
"I don't need the oil. So you know I'm not there to plunder it"
Funny that every place so far that Trump has "set free" is a significant oil producer - Venezuela, Iran and Nigeria.
Why not freedom for, for example, North Korea?
Or...Afghanistan?
To stay youthful, stay useful.
