if the 'Heavenly Palace' crashes into Jerusalem, whelp: G_D is quite Irate.
USSTRATCOM's predictions for the reentry have tightened up enough that it looks like Jerusalem is going to escape. Washington DC remains a possibility, so there's that.
]]>BMW
Yes, here in this part of the US BMWs also stand out for dominance-game behavior. Not all or even most of them, but when a car is being driven in such a way, it's likely to be a Beemer.
]]>The world's top 1% earned 82% of all wealth generated in 2017
OT:
If I may indulge a personal hate for a moment, I hate the use of "earn" in such contexts.
The original reference put it in a more neutral way:
"82% of all wealth created in the last year went to the top 1%"
But back to the topic at hand.
]]>century storm comes along every ten years
We've had three century floods here in seventeen years, so you do have to wonder about those estimates.
]]>Cortana
Yes, Cortana has been on the edges of the nonacoustic submarine detection world for decades and has come up with many such ideas. Maybe this one will work out.
It is true that Cortana's founder, KJ Moore, is quite knowledgeable about such things, both domestic and foreign: https://tinyurl.com/krmzxgo
]]>You can literally detect submarines via displacement / gravity differences from Space these days
Do you mean detection by gravimeters or gradiometers in space? If so, nope:
http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=AD1012150 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2377.pdf
Or do you mean some other effect, like gravity-induced distortion of the sea surface?
]]>Stealing from Vinge,
Fire Upon The Deep
Hexapodia Is The Key Insight
Not stealing from Vinge,
Democritus Was Right
There Is Naught But Atoms And the Void
Except All the Rest
]]>For such folk as I who, after a while, have decided that it isn't worth putting up with the odious crap to try to dig out the alleged good stuff, a tutorial would be helpful. I.e., take a few of CD's past posts and deconstruct them to show what worthwhile material was there and how it was extracted. Obviously I'd like to be able to benefit from the alleged good stuff if it's really there.
2.
As for that, of course group-think is a persistent problem and I basically agree with Tim up at 219.
]]>Question: If word of the discussions leak to Trump/Bannon, what preemptive actions could they take to head off impeachment and removal? What if the process is actually underway in the House and then Senate? Could he declare a state of emergency and martial law?
Oh, wait, I realize you've already provided the answer. Reichstag fire. Operation Northwoods. Easy peasy.
I speculate that, in such an event, The Orange One would be heroically martyred and, grief-stricken but resolute, Pence/Bannon would pick up his banner and exercise emergency executive powers to restore order. Permanently.
]]>Is it hopelessly optimistic to want to believe that a bunch more of them are meeting in private to discuss impeachment proceedings, but aren't going public until they've got enough folks on their team to make a credible play?
That's the kind of discussion it's dangerous to have in any very explicit form, at least until things are far gone and there's little to lose. (Like next week or so.)
Question: If word of the discussions leak to Trump/Bannon, what preemptive actions could they take to head off impeachment and removal? What if the process is actually underway in the House and then Senate? Could he declare a state of emergency and martial law? Get the FBI to arrest the plotters for tax evasion?
]]>On the practical side, one thing that business and local governments pay attention to is actions that might cut into revenue. The push-back on right-wing bathroom bills that is coming from such interests is a current example. Let us hope that this latest outrage has a similar effect.
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/super-bowl-glare-fixes-attention-texas-bathroom-bill-n713101
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-bathroom-bill-sb6-transgender-rights-2017-1
]]>https://twitter.com/TheNardvark/status/822473456977608704
BREAKING: The Secret Service has shot and killed another time traveler, bringing today's total to 873. #InaugurationDay
7:58 AM 20 Jan 2017
]]>Try asking a real question, that doesn't have to do with your cultural insecurities.
Did we ask a question somewhere up there? Well, maybe a meta-meta one, you can hardly help that.
Doubtless you and we have a lot of cultural insecurities, how could we not? Best to identify them and deal with them as best we can.
OH, and I'd ditch that ID. Poster R and Poster U just got interested.
R and U are invited for a beer to talk about stuff.
]]>Next? I need to spread our Wings a little.
Please do, it could be worth seeing.
https://www.zazzle.com/winged_guitar_cheese_board-256671630490209374
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