I wish I could say that these political prosecutions won’t increase. But they likely will. Authoritarians on the left are becoming even more brazen in their efforts to use the criminal justice system against political opponents.
The objective is clear: They seek to cow the public into abiding by their political views. With the threat of government force, they want to compel people to either embrace their political philosophy, or at least shut up about it. Dissent will increasingly become less tolerated if these officials are allowed to continue weaponizing the government.
The agriculture committee (AGRI) in the most recent European Parliament was known for leaning conservative, especially compared to the environment committee (ENVI), with the two clashing over the EU's green farming agenda, the Farm to Fork strategy. AGRI was also strongly pro-farmer — due in large part to the number of farmers who served on it.
Next month’s European election could return a more right-wing assembly to oversee the EU’s €387 billion farm budget, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. At the same time, Green Party lawmakers — the most vocal supporters of the Green Deal — could lose up to a third of their seats, while the number of Socialist and Liberal MEPs could also shrink.
What does this mean for European agriculture?
In practice this means there’s unlikely to be a viable coalition of the center-left, liberal, Green and left that can secure deals such as the nature restorationlaw that sparked controversy in this past term. Meanwhile, the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) will find it easier to build majorities with groups further to the right.
This might make less of a difference in AGRI as groups from the far right to the center left often vote together. However, a further rightward shift will confirm an existing trend: Out with the Green Deal, and in with the “Farm Deal.”
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Constitutional law expert Hans von Spakovsky says the conviction isn’t likely to stick, for an array of reasons. Chief among them: Merchan’s convoluted jury instructions, in which the Biden campaign-donor judge framed the jury’s deliberations in a way that, according to legal expert Jonathan Turley, “seemed less like a jury deliberation than a canned hunt.” Merchan told the jurors they didn’t have to agree on the three possible “unlawful means” prosecutors vaguely alleged Trump had employed to “influence” the 2016 election.
“The jurors were told that they could split on what occurred, with four jurors accepting each of the three possible crimes in a 4-4-4 split. The court would still consider that a unanimous verdict so long as they agree that it was in furtherance of some crime,” Turley wrote in the Hill before the verdict was handed down. //
Von Spakovsky said Merchan’s instructions point to reversible error — “an error in trial proceedings that affects a party’s rights so significantly that it is grounds for reversal if the affected party properly objected at trial,” according to the Legal Information Institute. //
“That is one of the craziest things I have ever heard and it is a complete violation of President Trump’s substantive due process rights.”
Von Spakovsky said the standard in like cases is that jurors come to a unanimous agreement on each of the charges they are deliberating. He said Merchan added an absurd twist to the proceedings after handicapping Trump’s defense throughout the trial. //
As for Merchan, von Spakovsky said the judge is either one of the most incompetent judges he has ever seen or his curious instructions to the jury was “a sign of intentional misfeasance.”
“In fact, I think it’s the latter because throughout this entire case he has acted as if he is an alternate member of the prosecution team,” the legal expert said.
How to play Flipple?
You are shown two words. You goal is to transform the starting word to the target word by changing one letter at a time.
You can only change one letter at a time. Each intermediate word must be a valid English word.
You have unlimited guesses and can clear the game as many times as you like.
Every Flipple puzzle can be solved in four guesses. However, there are typically multiple ways to get to the correct target word.
While the Biden administration is attempting to look like it’s getting tough on the border, behind the scenes it’s operating a program of a “mass amnesty” for migrants, The Post can reveal.
Data shows that since 2022, more than 350,000 asylum cases filed by migrants have been closed by the US government if the applicants don’t have a criminal record or are otherwise not deemed a threat to the country.
This means that while the migrants are not granted or denied asylum — their cases are “terminated without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim” — they are removed from the legal system and no longer required to check in with authorities.
The move allows them to legally, indefinitely roam about the US without fear of deportation, effectively letting them slip through the cracks. //
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This goes beyond simply ignoring the influx, beyond refusing--inexplicably--to control the border. This is active facilitation. //
ICE officers add that they have seen an increase in cases of such migrants committing crimes after their asylum cases have been dismissed, forcing agents to restart removal proceedings — which typically take years.
“Please let everyone know what’s really going on,” an ICE officer told The Post.
This gentleman is no less than Mad Jack Churchill, a man who went into battle with a sword, a revolver, a longbow, and bagpipes. He was one of the bravest men to ever draw breath, and thus richly deserving of our admiration. //
Determined to pursue his education in the most masculine setting possible, Jack Churchill decided he would attend university at King William’s College on the Isle of Man.
That’s right – the Isle of Man. //
After letting the Krauts get in good and close, Churchill gave the order to attack by brandishing his claymore, chucking a grenade, and bellowing, “CHARGE!” The Brits charged, led by the possibly mad Churchill and his broadsword, and routed the German patrol. When asked later by a higher-ranking officer why he insisted on carrying the Scottish sword, Churchill replied by exclaiming that any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed. //
He went on going into battle properly dressed, leading his men on a series of rear-guard and guerilla actions against the Germans until the BEF was evacuated at Dunkirk. He was wounded in the neck by a machine-gun bullet but refused evacuation and went on fighting. //
That unit landed and fought in Sicily and Salerno. In that second action, Churchill was ordered to silence a mortar position and eliminate a German observation post that controlled a pass overlooking the Salerno beachhead. Most officers would have assembled a patrol and moved on the positions with fire and maneuver in a traditional infantry operation, but not Jack Churchill. He led No. 2 Commando to encircle the German observation post, then drew his sword, brandished it, bellowed “COMMANDO!” and charged the post, easily taking it and killing or capturing the German troops. He then went on to take out the mortar post by capturing one guard, then moving on to the others in turn, shoving his Scottish sword in their faces and demanding their surrender. He later commented:
I maintain that, as long as you tell a German loudly and clearly what to do, if you are senior to him he will cry 'jawohl' (yes sir) and get on with it enthusiastically and efficiently whatever the situation. //
In May of 1944, he was ordered to raid the German-held island of Brač.
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On the second morning of the mission, Churchill led a flanking attack on the German positions while the Partisans remained behind. By the time the Commandos reached the objective, only six were left alive, of which Churchill, still toting a rifle along with his sword and bagpipes, was one. Mortar fire swept their positions, killing all remaining members but Churchill. Out of grenades and ammo. As the Germans closed in, he stood and began playing Will Ye No Come Again on his bagpipes until a grenade knocked him unconscious.
The Germans, noting the name on this identity disk and incorrectly assuming a family connection to the British Prime Minister, sent him to Berlin. There he was interrogated until, in frustration of having learned nothing from the stalwart officer, the Germans sent him to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Oranienburg, Germany.
By September 1944, Mad Jack had enough of a prisoner’s life. Enlisting a Royal Air Force officer, Bertram James, to help in the attempt, he and James crawled under the wire around the camp and into an abandoned drainpipe. //
Probably because of his predilection for escaping and also probably because he intimidated the bejeebers out of his Wehrmacht guards, in April of 1945 Churchill was sent to an SS-run concentration camp near Tyrol.
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one Captain Wichard von Alvenslaben, that they were worried about being murdered by the SS, the German captain (perhaps looking ahead to the consequences of Germany’s looming defeat) surrounded the camp and “advised” the SS to get the hell out. They did so, and soon after the German regulars did as well. Churchill and some others promptly decamped and walked 90 miles to Verona, Italy, where they found an American armor unit. On rejoining Allied forces in this manner, Churchill was disappointed to find the Germans had surrendered, and so wasted no time demanding reassignment to Burma, where the Japanese were still kicking up their heels.
The assignment was granted, but by the time Churchill made his triumphant return to Burma, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had both been wiped off the map. The Japanese Emperor, realizing that the tide of battle had irreversibly turned against Japan now that Mad Jack Churchill was in the theater of operations, surrendered. //
He went on bagpiping and longbowing his way through life. Even in retirement, he maintained an office and, in the afternoons on his return home, startled train passengers by hurling his briefcase out of the train window some ways before his stop. When someone finally worked up the nerve to ask why, he calmly explained that he was chucking the thing into his back garden so he wouldn’t have to carry it home from the station.
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill died on March 8th, 1996, at 89 years of age, in Sussex. The Royal Norwegian Explorers Club named him “one of the finest explorers and adventurers of all time,” and to this day, he has yet to be outmatched in that regard. //
Randy Larson
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I would question why a man’s proficiency with the bagpipes would serve him on the silver screen in 1924, when movies were still silent… but then I think I’ve answered my own question.
As I’ve heard them them say in the UK a gentleman is a man who knows how to play the bagpipes… but doesn’t.
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Fauci confesses he made it all up
He literally made it all up
Many of us knew this at the time
We shouted it from the rooftops too
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Speaking to counsel on behalf of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic earlier this year, Fauci told Republicans that the six foot social distancing rule 'sort of just appeared' and that he did not recall how it came about.
'You know, I don't recall. It sort of just appeared,' he said according to committee transcripts when pressed on how the rule came about.
He added he 'was not aware of studies' that supported the social distancing, conceding that such studies 'would be very difficult' to do.
In addition to not recalling any evidence supporting social distancing, Fauci also told the committee's counsel that he didn't remember reading anything to support that masking kids would prevent COVID. //
And, despite his repeated denials and Big Tech’s censorship campaign against anyone who dared suggest that the Wuhan virus might have come out of the—ahem—Wuhan Institute of Virology, the dishonest doctor admitted that perhaps we were right all along:
Further, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) told the counsel that he believes the lab leak theory—the idea that COVID began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—is a real 'possibility.'
Someone should interview the head of "Queers for Palestine" and find out what they think about all this. These groups were supposed to be "allies," but as always happens, when you get a bunch of aggrieved leftwingers together, they end up fighting over who's the bigger victim.
For their part, Hamas supporters (and most Muslims) see themselves at the very top of the intersectional hierarchy. It's an extremely odd dynamic given that Muslim culture is largely antithetical to far-left orthodoxy on essentially all cultural issues. That's left many scrambling to figure out how to make the pieces all fit together. They might as well be trying to fit a car into a dog house.
The left is one giant contradiction. Nothing has to make sense because, as I've explained before, the cause isn't the point. The shiny object of "justice" continually changes, but the goal of cultural and political domination always remains. What happens when those pursuing that singular goal end up in conflict? //
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Gays for Palestine = chickens for Col. Sanders. //
SDL701
2 hours ago
It recall's Henry Kissinger's response when someone asked him which side we favored during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s: "It would be in our best interest if they would both lose."
Go Queers! Go Jihadists! Destroy each other!
The communications between Plaintiff and the Government Attorney took place, not on personal devices, but on Department-issued mobile devices, which contained clear banner warnings that inform users of the lack of any reasonable expectation of privacy. Id. //
(I've often wondered about that — Strzok and Page had to know their carrying-on was on department-issued devices. Perhaps they were so confident in their righteousness that they assumed they'd never be questioned or called to account — which is troubling in its own right.) //
jtt888
6 hours ago
I can't imagine using my company device and believe I had privacy. This was a payoff. They did their job and now they get paid.
anon-td49
8 hours ago
And the deal includes a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Perfect.
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COMPLETELY UNHINGED: As Biden tries to JAIL his leading opponent, junior Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler says President Trump is a "threat" that Biden will "end ... once and for all."
4:34 PM · Jun 2, 2024
This is not a normal election. Donald Trump has already demonstrated that he is not a normal candidate. He is a fundamental, persistent, and growing threat to our democracy. And Joe Biden is running to make sure we end that threat, once and for all. //
This, as Democrats are also trying to end Trump's Secret Service protection. //
Trump isn't a threat to "democracy," he's a threat to their power. That's the real problem here and the "threat" is growing because he keeps beating Biden in the polls. The lawfare appears to have backfired so far. //
Brytek
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When a democrat says rule of law and they see themselves as the law, it’s really their rule as everyone else has already stated.
Did the massive scale of death in the Americas following colonial contact in the 1500s affect atmospheric CO2 levels? That’s a question scientists have debated over the last 30 years, ever since they noticed a sharp drop in CO2 around the year 1610 in air preserved in Antarctic ice.
That drop in atmospheric CO2 levels is the only significant decline in recent millennia, and scientists suggested that it was caused by reforestation in the Americas, which resulted from their depopulation via pandemics unleashed by early European contact. It is so distinct that it was proposed as a candidate for the marker of the beginning of a new geological epoch—the “Anthropocene.”
But the record from that ice core, taken at Law Dome in East Antarctica, shows that CO2 starts declining a bit late to match European contact, and it plummets over just 90 years, which is too drastic for feasible rates of vegetation regrowth. A different ice core, drilled in the West Antarctic, showed a more gradual decline starting earlier, but lacked the fine detail of the Law Dome ice.
Which one was right? Beyond the historical interest, it matters because it is a real-world, continent-scale test of reforestation’s effectiveness at removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
In a recent study, Amy King of the British Antarctic Survey and colleagues set out to test if the Law Dome data is a true reflection of atmospheric CO2 decline, using a new ice core drilled on the “Skytrain Ice Rise” in West Antarctica. //
Scientists estimate that about 60 million people inhabited the Americas before European contact. There’s archaeological evidence for numerous cities and settlements, such as miles of now-overgrown urban sprawl that was recently mapped in Amazonian Ecuador, or the city of Cahokia in Illinois, which is estimated to have been larger than London was at that time, or Llanos de Mojos in Bolivia. The Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana also described seeing cities in the Amazon in 1542.
Even today in overgrown parts of the Amazon, vegetation carries the imprint of past occupation in an overabundance of cultivated species such as Brazil Nut trees.
A century after the first European contact, some 56 million people had died according to one widely cited estimate. “What we're looking at here is first contact, and [then] 100 years when 90 percent of the population, basically, dies,” said Professor Mark Maslin of University College London, who was not involved in King’s study. They succumbed to wave after wave of pandemics, as smallpox, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, malaria, diphtheria, typhus, and cholera spread through populations with no natural immunity. People who survived one disease outbreak died in the next. With too few people to work them, cities and farms were abandoned and overgrown. //
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Magog14 said:
A strong argument for limiting the human population to under one billion.
We're talking a drop of ~10ppm CO2.
If it happened today it would get us roughly back to where we were in the year 2010.
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I have a modest proposal in regards to the population…
Then we must act Swiftly! //
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Felix K said:
I can’t believe how much death and destruction my ancestors unleashed on the natives of the Americas. It must be the greatest genocide in history.
Not really sure what to do with the feelings it brings up except that none of this land is ours. It is all stolen.
Was it a genocide when it was accidental? The first people from Europe to land in the America's didn't set out to genocide anyone. Yes conquering and killing but when it was done in Asia and Africa there wasn't genocide.
Genocide's seem to be more a 19th century onwards thing with Native Americans and Aboriginals getting the worst of it long after the USA, Australia and New Zealand had been fully formed. //
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Egad <Racist Rant Lacking evidence or merit and doesn't bear repeating>
Could you be any more trollish or racist?
Native Americans were humans, and none of them were these 'heathen savages' that Eurocentric arrogance saw them as. They engaged in warfare just like the rest of the world. But what you're going off on is demonstrably untrue while the rest is bigoted unsupportable opinion. Spiritually inferior? Seriously this is BS I'd hear spouted in some throwback fundamentalist Christian church (and why I became an atheist because I unfortunately grew up in such).
The fact of the matter is that Native Americans taught the European immigrants how to grow native crops in this land because many of their European techniques, plants, and livestock wouldn't work or grow here without changes. It's to the world's detriment that Europeans weren't more receptive to what they had to teach because slash and burn along with hunting species to extinction is mainly a European thing. Most of the modern agricultural advances used today are NOT from the colonial era. They are innovations that came out of America's Dust Bowl during the Great Depression (arguably caused by colonial era practices) while some are revivals of tenants of Native American or Aboriginal practices - don't screw with the natural order. (Who knew predators improves the general ecology of an area? Native Americans. Who knew beavers improved the soil and water quality on farm lands? Native Americans. And on and on...) //
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Mad Klingon said:
Besides reforestation, having 10s of millions of people die and stop using firewood and coal for cooking and heating probably had something to do with the CO2 drop.Also, several of the groups practiced planned burns as part of their crop and living space management. When they died off, no more planed burns.
The planned burns were more to keep nature from doing it for them when the underbrush collected to the point where it could begin with any random dry lightning strike. Native peoples weren't stupid. People died from uncontrolled wildfires then as now. Planned burns minimizes the loss of life in the short and long term. That way they could plan to move their village if needed. Wildfires could come up unannounced. That could cause panic and panicky people die in fires.
Edit to add: I don't think the planned burns were a major factor in CO2. They would have occurred naturally regardless and in greater range and intensity. Rather it's probably somewhat (although how much I wouldn't guess) CO2 from cooking, midden, and perhaps to a lesser extent religious rites fires.
That said, what bothers me is that the researchers seem to be assuming the CO2 content in the atmosphere is uniform, and it's not. It would have varied even in Antarctica in different areas simply due to atmospheric movements and what those areas are downwind from even if it's 10,000 mi downwind. (Example Dust from the Sahara regularly blows all the way to North America. Or the Deccan traps would have spewed megatons of sulfur into the air millions of years ago, but particularly any areas directly downwind on the jet streams would have had high sulfur oxides, carbon oxides, etc in any sediment layers.) It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that CO2 levels varies in ice cores. What matters is having enough point data to form valid statistical analysis rather than relying on the data from a handful of point sources as if they are broad indicators. //
To most people, pulling into a highway rest stop is a profoundly mundane experience. But not to neuroscientist Rita Valentino, who has studied how the brain senses, interprets, and acts on the bladder’s signals. She’s fascinated by the brain’s ability to take in sensations from the bladder, combine them with signals from outside of the body, like the sights and sounds of the road, then use that information to act—in this scenario, to find a safe, socially appropriate place to pee. “To me, it’s really an example of one of the beautiful things that the brain does,” she says.
Scientists used to think that our bladders were ruled by a relatively straightforward reflex—an “on-off” switch between storing urine and letting it go. “Now we realize it’s much more complex than that,” says Valentino, now director of the division of neuroscience and behavior at the National Institute of Drug Abuse. An intricate network of brain regions that contribute to functions like decision-making, social interactions, and awareness of our body’s internal state, also called interoception, participates in making the call.
In addition to being mind-bogglingly complex, the system is also delicate. //
The human bladder is, at the most basic level, a stretchy bag. To fill to capacity—a volume of 400 to 500 milliliters (about 2 cups) of urine in most healthy adults—it must undergo one of the most extreme expansions of any organ in the human body, expanding roughly sixfold from its wrinkled, empty state.
To stretch that far, the smooth muscle wall that wraps around the bladder, called the detrusor, must relax. Simultaneously, sphincter muscles that surround the bladder’s lower opening, or urethra, must contract, in what scientists call the guarding reflex. //
Filling or full, the bladder spends more than 95 percent of its time in storage mode, allowing us to carry out our daily activities without leaks. At some point—ideally, when we decide it’s time to pee—the organ switches from storage to release mode. For this, the detrusor muscle must contract forcefully to expel urine, while the sphincter muscles surrounding the urethra simultaneously relax to let urine flow out.
For a century, physiologists have puzzled over how the body coordinates the switch between storage and release.
The ground launch sequencer computer called a hold at T-minus 3 minutes, 50 seconds. //
Saturday's aborted countdown was the latest in a string of delays for Boeing's Starliner program. The spacecraft's first crew test flight is running seven years behind the schedule Boeing announced when NASA awarded the company a $4.2 billion contract for the crew capsule in 2014. Put another way, Boeing has arrived at this moment nine years after the company originally said the spacecraft could be operational, when the program was first announced in 2010. //
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Matthew J. said:
The Boeing Curse...
The McDonnell Douglas Curse.
[Edit to correct]: Actually, it's just McDonnell. Douglas was once a proud airplane maker that sadly became an earlier victim of McD. Boeing is Victim 2.0. //
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OccasionallyLeftHanded said:
The term “kludge” comes to mind.
Or more like: “something that was originally designed back in the early days of the Delta program and kept going with bubble gum and baling wire for forty years.”
And I can understand this! The software’s been fully debugged and is well proven. Why change it if you don’t have to? //
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There’s definitely something to be said for the general plan of, “get the system working while shipping cargo, and then add life support”. If these delays happened with a boring payload, it wouldn’t get nearly the attention. //
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All three computers must be fully functioning in the final phase of the countdown to ensure triple redundancy.
This sentence does not make sense. If all three must be functioning, then there is zero redundancy.
Triplex redundant systems are usually set up to enable majority (2 out of 3) voting to allow mission success while being robust to any single operational fault.
If this was actually a triple redundant system then fault of one computer would be detected by the other two and that unit would have been "voted out" and the launch would have proceeded. ///
But they have to be operational first. If all three aren't operational to begin with, then you don't have a triplex system, you've already lost one to a failure. //
The computers have to provide functionality in the event of a failure after launch commit. That is mission critical, and thats why they need fault tolerance.
Before that, a failure results in a hold/scrub, because it means the necessary failt tolerance wont be present after commit.
Holding/scrubbing isn't an option after commit. At that point the vehicle must go, and the GSE must work. //
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galahad05 said:
Wait, this is a joke right? Like a de-motivational poster or something?
He said it in 2004 and it resurfaced everywhere in 2020. The guy's still alive but likely has too much of a psychopathic ego to feel it bite him in the ass.
Ctrl-F "culture" in the Fortune article below and you'll spot it in action
https://fortune.com/longform/boeing-737-max-crisis-shareholder-first-culture/. //
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"When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it's run like a business rather than a great engineering firm."
-- Harry Stonecipher
I couldn't believe he would have said so. But sure he did!
Hopefully other business will learn of these mistakes. Many articles (e.g.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/02/07/boeings-tragedy-the-fall-of-an-american-icon ) about what went wrong but so far those I have read have all in common that they slashed the R&D for short term gains and then they believed they could easily restart again. This happens when you have bean counters to run the company.
I am sitting in a company of 40.000 people, here we see the same going on. EBIT and cashflow before everything else. No training of new young talent, no visions, just reaction to the competition and not what the customer wants. //
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I haven't been to this particular facility, but I've crawled around under computer flooring and installed racks at several NASA facilities, and the idea that anything about them is jury-rigged is laughable. You don't truly understand the meaning of the word "nitpicky" until you've been through a NASA QC audit. I spent more time on documentation than I did installing the equipment!
These are stupendously complex systems, and shit happens. I had a timing system that had behaved perfectly during burn-in testing go nuts, and the automatic fail over, didn't. Even though we had tested fail over and fail back. It took the site down for an hour. So you learn from your mistakes, build in redundancy, and when only two of the three voting computers are online at T-4:00, you abort the launch.
Oh, and I wouldn't read too much into the phrase "boot up" when used by a manager, even one who used to be an engineer. Something wasn't ready when it was supposed to be. They'll figure it out. If it was a "network glitch", it will be in the Wireshark archiver. //
Is Boeing having an unusually high number of scrubbed launches? A normal amount? A low amount?
Compared to the Shuttle? Not so unusual. Compared to what we’ve become used to with SpaceX? A lot.
It is an unprecedented perversion of justice by a baldly partisan alliance of people figure-headed by an immoral president corrupted by fear of losing the power to abuse power and weaken the country he vowed to protect.
“Lawfare” is an insufficiently evil word to describe this strategy.
Back when he was funny, Woody Allen once said, “Mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” //
As the astute Ben Domenech points out:
It’s been branded a hush-money trial, but it isn’t — it’s a business expense categorization trial, claimed as a campaign finance matter. This just doesn’t fly. It sounds like a rinky-dink case to the average voter. //
The judge’s rulings and jury instructions, and the prosecution’s opportunity to deliver a non-rebuttable closing argument, basically stacked the deck for Manhattan jurors to obey. //
He was on criminal trial for falsifying corporate documents to disguise hush payments to a porn star. That is a misdemeanor charge, which the feds declined to prosecute.
However, Bragg compounded the charges into 34 state counts and elevated them to felonies, which enabled him to exceed the statute of limitations and potentially involve prison time.
But wait! What about this?
After Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat, she and her campaign got caught falsifying financial reports to disguise payments to others to create the Steele Dossier and Russiagate hoax.
The Federal Elections Commission fined her campaign $113,000. No charges. No felony. No trial.
So, for an offense similar to Trump’s, she got off nothing.
Just as that same Democrat did in 2016 when FBI Director James Comey declined to recommend prosecution of her for illegally using a private email server to hide (and sometimes destroy) thousands of national security emails from Freedom of Information requests.
- The A380 failed in the US partly due to a lack of a central hub structure.
- Fuel inefficiency and high maintenance costs deterred US airlines.
- US carriers prioritized frequent flights over higher capacity. //
The Airbus A380 promised to do what no commercial passenger aircraft had ever been able to do, drastically increasing capacity capabilities and per-seat performance metrics. Introduced into service in 2007 by launch customer Singapore Airlines, the double-decker jumbo was set to be the plane of the future, offering unparalleled passenger comfort and providing airlines with game-changing capacity.
Today, however, the plane's story reads differently. Only around 250 Airbus A380s ever rolled off the manufacturer's assembly lines, and even fewer remain in service today, with production halted back in 2021. The aircraft has undeniably served as a case study of manufacturer sales failure, as the jet was made for a time that no longer existed. //
The most glaring failure of the Airbus A380 was undeniably its inability to impact the American aviation market. No airline from the United States ever placed an order. The aircraft had been unable to perform in the sales department in the world's largest aviation market, a major blemish on its record.
But, as the late Paul Harvey pointed out, we shouldn't be able to imagine this kind of thing; as he said, "If you could understand this, we'd have to worry about you."
should Trump be reelected (Alvin Bragg may well have just sealed the deal on that), he would be a head of state, and would therefore have diplomatic immunity under the UN Convention on Special Missions of 1969. //
anon-x8p1
4 hours ago
I stand with George Washington, a felon if ever one existed.
anon-x8p1
4 hours ago
Which Founder of our entire country could not be branded as a treasonous felon against the Crown.
Happens from time to time. Go Team Trump.
GBenton anon-x8p1
4 hours ago
When the government is corrupt and the rule of law is persecution, conviction becomes a badge of honor.
Romney issued a statement on Saturday morning in which he said Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg committed "political malpractice" in his pursuance of former President Donald Trump:
Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision. Bragg may have won the battle, for now, but he may have lost the political war. //
You may disagree with this, but had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him.
I'd have pardoned President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, 'President Biden,' the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy. //
GBenton
4 hours ago
Totally agree on the significance but I think Romney is "right" for the wrong reasons, which is not surprising.
He didn't say the conviction was wrong or unjust, which is the correct answer.
He said it was malpractice and he bemoans winning the battle and losing the war.
He said how Biden could be the Big Guy (lol) and Trump the little guy with a pardon.
All Romney is mad about here is that the Dems have made Trump stronger in November, IMO.
He has no moral qualms with the demonizing of Trump, just the means that achieve that end.
So pigs aren't flying, Romney didn't suddenly get a clue. He's just mad that his nemesis Trump is getting an advantage from this "political malpractice". //
anon-x8p1
5 hours ago
The Biden crime family committed no crimes, regardless of evidence.
The Clinton crime network committed no crimes, regardless of evidence.
Trump now faces 139 years in prison because the court claims they knew what Trump was thinking so he is guilty as charged.
This is what's so stupid about Democrats running around on Thursday shouting how "no one is above the law." People are clearly above the law, which seems largely dictated by one's political beliefs. If you're a Republican, you can bet the full force of the state will come down on your head if you so much as jaywalk.
If you're a Democrat, you can set things on fire, break down doors, discriminate, and "occupy" public spaces, and you're good to go. Be sure to collect your free meal on the way out of processing if you do happen to get temporarily detained.
That's not "law and order." It's not the justice system being blind. It's one of America's most important institutions being made a mockery of, and the left is happy to do its part. //
Fishin'withFredo
8 hours ago
Bring enough of there here, and here becomes there. NYC deserves every bit of it.