AlanD2

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  As with "climate deniers" (there is no climate, only weather!)... I have to disagree. Weather is what's happening in the short term - today (103° F here in Portland, Oregon - broke the old record high for the day by...
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  The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles can certainly pardon Trump in Georgia. But only 5 years after the person has completed his/her sentence, which I doubt will help Trump very much. I saw this recently on MSNBC....
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  he's being fucking slow with the payments, i can tell u It's still better than working for Donald Trump! 😂...
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  Are you terminally stupid, or a putin-troll? I vote putin-troll......
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  how do you bring a country with a massive festering border dispute with a neighbor it's just lost a huge chunk of territory to into nato tho? isn't that just asking to be drawn in as soon as the aggrieved...
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  In my not so informed never served in the military opinion, cluster munitions are very much anti personnel and anti light vehicle. Agreed. Since a lot of the fighting in Ukraine now involves attacking Russians in trenches, cluster munitions are...
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  It IS in the U.S. interest to curtail Russian imperialism, but I don't think we want to repeat the punitive mistakes made with Germany at the end of the "Great War" ... better to do what was done with (West)...
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  "Russia doesn't seem to have many replacement tubes. Russia also has shell shortages" A problem with both sides. Usages have been at daily rates at or above monthly production rates Shells and tubes. Ukraine's artillery shell shortage is about to...
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  i dunno, the recent ukrainian offensive seems to have been comprehensively wafflestomped.a Not according to the Daily Kos. They say Ukraine is now fighting a war of attrition, since the Russians are stupidly fighting in front of their own defensive...
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  i think with drones everything's sitting ducks for artillery For this to be true, you have to have artillery. Russia's artillery tubes are wearing out (shoot ~ 2,000 shells, then the tube needs to be replaced). Russia doesn't seem to...
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  there's room for debate about whether keeping the war going is good for nato and the us in the long term as well, it doesn't seem to be bringing russia to its knees despite all the fond hopes of peter...
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  Yes. Trump's stated desire to get out of NATO would certainly weaken the U.S. It wouldn't help Ukraine, either. Have you heard all the Russians gnashing their their teeth over Trump's legal woes? They definitely want him elected President in...
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  They have a delightful maximum security place called the Clinton Correctional Facility. I think we can safely say that maximum security prisons are out if Trump does indeed spend time in the slammer. I don't doubt he will find a...
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  And it's NOT really clear which of these is the PRIMARY motive. I think we can safely say that his PRIMARY motive now is to not die in prison......
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  In fact, "winning" the election thwarted his [DJT] plans because he couldn't raise and pocket massive amounts of money while he was in office ... the way he's doing in his current campaign. Nobody should worry that Trump went broke...
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  Related to this, I'm wondering how this would apply to the fire monitoring/reporting drones I mentioned -- I have no idea how this stuff scales. Reduced lift in hot air applies to everything that flies - airplanes, helicopters, drones, birds,...
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  Don't just blame Comey, ... I give Comey the bulk of the blame for Clinton's loss. When he told Americans about the FBI's investigation of Clinton just days before the election, he neglected to mention that Trump was also under...
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  It wouldn't have happened at all if not for James Comey's last minute intervention in the election about "her emails". Obama should have fired his ass FOR CAUSE! right then and there ... since the law would not allow Comey...
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  "Unfortunately, the "Diesels are DEATH!" fanatics will press on" I don't understand who it is that makes money out of this. There must be someone, because it's so obviously an artificially induced panic, but I can't see how any of...
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  It was, of course, five 80 column lines of ))))))))))) Sounds like piss-poor programming to me. With a good editor (so as to not go crazy trying to match parenthesis), Lisp is a decent language. I did some Lisp programming...
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  The assorted flow control commands in other languages do not exist, but the functionality is provided - obviously - by sending messages. So much easier than C++ etc. So true. I'm a Smalltalk programmer (almost 40 years now), and I...
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  On one side, you have Physics, which can't tell you what 96% of the universe is... And on the other side you have evolutionary biology, which allowed us to predict Covid-19. I think you're overly optimistic about how much biologists...
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  Meanwhile, changing subject, & reverting to a point made by Charlie in the recent past, more than once Covid has NOT gone away... Absolutely right. Here in the U.S., politicians and average Americans have decided the epidemic is over. The...
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  The failure is USA's still quite idiotic response to greenhouse gasses. Completely agree. However, most other countries are just as bad when it comes to ameliorating the causes of global warming. 😕...
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  The insurance industry is just doing the prudent thing: They will loose money if they continue business as usual in a world of climate change. Totally agree. But what about the economic impact of their decision to stop insuring certain...
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  Pass or Fail: It's looking like the U.S. is heading for a fail in our insurance industry. State Farm and Allstate have bailed out of California (fires, floods, mudslides, earthquakes, etc.), and now Farmers Insurance is abandoning Florida (hurricanes, floods,...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Folks who build their own PCs are mostly like petrol-heads who insist on building their own custom car, only unlike the car enthusiasts they can't raid the scrap heaps for components because anything that's been scrapped is too low performance...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  The huge difference in parliamentary majority is therefore evidence only that we do not have a usably functional mechanism for mapping votes to representation. I guess the U.S. isn't the only country that gerrymanders its elective districts... 😄...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Meanwhile your airports for the most part have no railway stations. Portland, Oregon, is one of the exceptions. You can catch light-rail MAX trains at Portland's PDX airport, which connect to many parts of the tri-county metropolitan area, as well...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Looks like we get to blame our climate crisis on Moz... 😂 https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/wildfire-smoke-from-australia-fueled-three-year-super-la-nina/...