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Third World problem?

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I think that this is Trump’s latest move to make anti-Trump heads explode.

Let’s see whether it works.

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They ought to be re-naming schools after him, not Obama.

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SOME of us never doubted it.

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SPLC reported in 2003 being worth $152 million, so I suspect this is just a flea-bite to them. Nevertheless, it represents progress.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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As if you didn’t have anything else to do today.

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Now, imaging the Connected Home.

Now, imagine hackers taking control of your Butt Pressure Washer.

Now, be very afraid.

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Did you know that there was an ‘International Seabed Authority’? Whence comes their jurisdiction? Areas outside of the territorial waters of a nation-state are the common heritage of mankind, free for whoever wants to use them.

Basically it’s another U.N. power grab. I’m curious as to what would happen if a private company were to ignore what they had to say and went to work. Nothing good, I suspect.

Ace of Spades has the skinny.

This doesn’t just make economic sense. It makes customer-service sense, too. With the country no longer insisting or even urging a proficiency in English (even among native English speakers), the most frustrating part of any visit to McDonald’s is the lengthy back-and-forth with an order-taker trying to get them to understand the words that have come out of your mouth.

I have had that experience.

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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Heh.

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This online tool purportedly lets you know, for a given zip code, what fruits/veggies are in season and local sources, plus a subscription service that gives you a weekly e-mail telling you what’s in season for the selected area.

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CAROLYN OLSON HAS A ROW-CROP farm in southwest Minnesota. There, she grows organic corn, soybeans, and alfalfa, among other crops. As with most farmers, organic and otherwise, she constantly fights against weeds. In Minnesota, lamb’s quarter, Canada thistle, and water hemp can threaten crops, she says. But for the last 15 years, Olson has had a weapon in her arsenal: a flame weeder, a contraption that combines farm machinery with firepower worthy of a heavy metal show.

We have the technology.

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“Three states will get us better infrastructure, better education and lower taxes,” Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who sponsored the ballot measure, said in an email to The Times last summer when he formally submitted the proposal. “States will be more accountable to us and can cooperate and compete for citizens.”

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Of course, X-ray vision would come with a downside, in that you’d be spraying all your surveillance targets with radiation. So researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, actualizers of all things science fiction, have taken a different tack to seeing through walls: radio waves. By flinging ultra-low-power radio signals, 1,000 times milder than standard Wi-Fi, they can not only detect humans behind a wall, but track their movements in fine detail.

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Ranked-choice voting means that voters rank the candidates based on preference rather than voting for one candidate. If one candidate is the first choice of a majority of voters, that candidate wins the primary. If not, the candidate who receives the least first-choice votes is eliminated. The votes of those who ranked the eliminated candidate first are given to their second choice candidate and the counting resumes until one candidate receives a majority.

This is the system pioneered by Australia. It works as an ‘automatic runoff’ that guarantees that the person eventually elected represents the preference of a majority of those voting. The Yale Political Union used this system when I was an undergraduate and it is very straightforward and easy to administer.

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Trump is right that Canada imposes very high tariffs on dairy products that limit U.S. participation in the Canadian market, though the exact percentages vary depending on the product and when it is imported.

Canada heavily regulates its dairy industry with a supply management system that impacts production and sets target prices for dairy products. As a part of that system, it uses set tariff rate quotas (TRQ) for imports. Dairy products imported before a quota on a product is met are subject low tariffs or no tariffs, while products imported after the quota are subject to tariffs ranging from 201.5 percent to 313.5 percent.

“As a whole, the 270 percent figure though represents a strong ballpark for the various exorbitant tariff rates that limit US dairy access to the Canadian market,” Shawna Morris, trade policy vice president at the U.S. Dairy Export Council, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email.

‘Mommeee! Johnny hit me back!’

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Funny how that works.

No ecological disaster. No ancient gods of the Native Americans taking revenge on a racist capitalist class. Just people, ordinary people, making money that they never made before.

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Raise your hand if you’ve seen this reported in the mainstream news or on TV.

No? Didn’t think so.

Nulli secundus.

Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

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‘Judge, he needed killin’.’

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Well. There it is.

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Plenty of room in Texas, fellas.

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first two years in office.

Bear it in mind.

Absolutely nothing.

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Actually, it would be more correct to say that intelligent people are more likely to need glasse.

But nobody expects ‘journalists’ to think any more. It’s asking too much.

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The usual procedure when a prince marries a non-armigerous commoner is to grant a coat of arms to the father, which she then bears by courtesy. That won’t work in Megan Markle’s case because her father is not a gentleman, even by stretching the rules out beyond the orbit of the Moon. So the arms were give to her instead.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.

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Well, there you go. Prediction: The DemLegHump Media will totally ignore it.

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Long enough to completely flush it down the toilet.

Tea, along with coffee and tobacco, is for people who think that a habit that has to be acquired (i.e. your body rejects it given a chance) is a good thing. Such people ought not to be allowed to reproduce.

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Ask me if I care. ‘Do you care?’ ‘No.’

Somewhere there is somebody, or a group of somebodies, who are panicking about this (women and minorities hardest hit, seas rising, bears dying, etc, etc.) and want to spend large quantities of YOUR money to correct this situation.

In a rightly-ordered society, such people would be terminated and used for compost wherever found.

Just sayin’.

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“I am Lord Vishnu’s 10th incarnation as Kalki,” he responded in writing. “I am doing penance at home by entering into the fifth dimension to change the global conscience.

“This work I cannot do in the office. Thus I don’t remain physically present in the office.”

Oh, well, that’s all right, then.

The engineer repeated his claim that he is an avatar of the Hindu god, usually depicted as having four arms and blue skin, when questioned on Indian TV on Saturday.

(Funny, he doesn’t look etc….)

I’m just jealous that I didn’t think of it first.

John Derbyshire does the numbers.

One of the perennial errors that sky-is-falling alarmists almost always stumble into is thinking that the way things are right now will not change as time moves forward. Like the ‘climate change’ people, last century’s Malthusians (such as, famously, Paul Erlich) didn’t realize that as industrialization spread having children (outside of the Underclass) would change from being an asset to being a luxury. Mostly, what we have learned from history about ‘if this goes on…’ scenarios is that it won’t.

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The inspiration for the Burger King plan, a CMCBD official commented, came from the London Underground. In 2005, the metro system started playing orchestral soundtracks in 65 tube stations as part of a scheme to deter “anti-social” behavior, after the surprising success of a 2003 pilot program. The pilot’s remarkable results — seeing train robberies fall 33 percent, verbal assaults on staff drop 25 percent, and vandalism decrease 37 percent after just 18 months of classical music — caught the eye of the global law-enforcement community. Thus, an international phenomenon was born. Since then, weaponized classical music has spread throughout England and the world: police units across the planet now deploy the string quartet as the latest addition to their crime-fighting arsenal, recruiting Officer Johann Sebastian as the newest member of the force.

Experts trace the practice’s origins back to a drowsy 7-Eleven in British Columbia in 1985, where some clever Canadian manager played Mozart outside the store to repel parking-lot loiterers. Mozart-in-the-Parking-Lot was so successful at discouraging teenage reprobates that 7-Eleven implemented the program at over 150 stores, becoming the first company to battle vandalism with the viola. Then the idea spread to West Palm Beach, Florida, where in 2001 the police confronted a drug-ridden street corner by installing a loudspeaker booming Beethoven and Mozart. “The officers were amazed when at 10 o’clock at night there was not a soul on the corner,” remarked Detective Dena Kimberlin. Soon other police departments “started calling.” From that point, the tactic — now codified as an official maneuver in the Polite Policeman’s Handbook — exploded in popularity for both private companies and public institutions. Over the last decade, symphonic security has swept across the globe as a standard procedure from Australia to Alaska

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I guess the Patriarchy must have been sleeping at the switch during the Middle Ages.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Personally, I prefer Chik-Fil-A. But that’s me.

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Just in case you were  bored. I know I was.

For extra credit, or just to say you did, blazon these puppies. Betcha can’t.

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Hah!

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Thus confirming that it’s all a put-up job, ‘street theater’ designed to generate victims and sympathetic coverage from the Proglodyte Press.

UPDATE: Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Decries Biased Media For Emboldening Terrorism [VIDEO]

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Tracy Lockwood, a registered dietitian based in New York City, detailed how the MGL (methylglyoxal) that’s found in manuka honey can prove extremely beneficial for those experiencing a runny nose as a result of hay fever.

“The active ingredient, MGL methylglyoxal, has been shown to be effective for treatments against nasal mucus – which is [one of the symptoms] you experience when you have allergies,” she told Well+Good.

We have the technology biology.

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Pretty sad when you have to go to a Third World country like Mexico to find good sense in politics.

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What were they expecting it to do?

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You can almost hear the sighs of relief from the readers of the Daily Mail, which publication has no real equivalent in the U.S. — think of the bastard child of People magazine and the National Enquirer.

Interestingly enough, I learned recently that the heirs of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha have neglected to get the British monarch’s permission to marry since the last child of Duke Carl Eduard died, which makes their marriages invalid under British law, and so there is nobody now qualified to apply for reinstatement of the Dukedom of Albany (of which they were deprived under the Titles Deprivation Act for fighting for Germany against Britain in World War I). So that title is technically extinct under British law and would be available for Prince Harry and his squeeze when they get married, if they don’t do the expected thing and get made Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

Oddly enough, the heirs to the crown of Hannover have been very conscientious about getting British royal permission to marry, most recently for the marriage of the current pretender Prince Ernest Augustus to a princess of Monaco (although he loses his right to the British throne for marrying a Roman Catholic).

In any event, it’s a very spiff-looking document; the British are always good about that sort of thing.

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The Chinese Navy — officially the People’s Liberation Army Navy — already has one operational carrier, the Liaoning, which it bought unfinished from Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. That ship joined the Chinese fleet in 2012 and began its first operations four years later, putting China in the small group of seafaring powers that maintain aircraft carriers, led by the United States, which has 10 Nimitz-class carriers alone.

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If you have to wonder who your ancestors were, they probably weren’t anything special.

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Imagine explosive charges so precise they can cut apart an incoming warhead milliseconds before it hits your vehicle. That’s the operating principle for Iron Curtain, an Active Protection System whose computer brain makes 50,000 calculations in the time you take to blink.

Installed on a frame around the vehicle that looks like a militarized shower rod, the Iron Curtain’s charges propel tiny projectiles straight down like a guillotine. They slice the warhead so precisely that, in 80 percent of tests, it doesn’t even detonate.