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@Kirwan said in US Politics:
In decades of observation, the most egregious management fuckups are done by people who can't do the simplest shit right. They're the same arsebandits who try to use Excel as a database.
The things I have seen built in Excel over the past 20years...
But, I wanna talk about Windows 8.1. I mean that was terrible. So terrible. Really bad. An affliction on the American people. And everyone else. And I was the only person to tell the truth about how bad that was. So bad. And so-called experts here tried to tell me it was good. Sad. Very sad. I mean Bill Gates. And by the way Bill Gates is a great friend of mine. And a great American. He's done so well. But even Bill Gates said how bad Windows 8.1 was. It was so bad Bill Gates gave everyone a free upgrade to Windows 10. So just listen to me in future. No-one knows more about IT than me. And halfbacks. Even Nepia will tell you that.
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@Frank said in US Politics:
Trump and Miners Speak As POTUS Signs Bill Undoing Obama's Coal Mining Rule
Going to be interesting how that pans out - its basically undoing an environmental regulation regarding waterways protection.
What it looks like is another jobs-over-everything move, but I wonder if there is any wholistic approach to this. The reason coal mines are suffering is a general downturn in demand for coal. Economically, allowing mines to be a bit less careful about waterways protection could have long-term effects on communities. And that thing we all pretty much require: clean water.
Oil and coal are fairly big employers, but the number of jobs has historically declined due to mechanisation and automation. The number of jobs in renewables has climbed steadily.
As someone interested in renewables though, I wonder at what point automation starts to bite? Certainly on an industrial scale, there is potential for solar and wind to eventually be done by robots. Domestic installs, not so much due to lack of uniformity in housing structures.
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@NTA said in US Politics:
Reserve Bank of Australia used Macros for a lot of its shit in the 90s, because it was cheap and reliable AND could be backed up easily.
Donkeys. I've built proof of concepts using Excel that government departments have used going forward. At one point I had emails asking me to support it because some arsehole had made changes to it and couldn't re-engineer it to work.
Treasury still uses Excel to model the economy ffs. All based on returning back to the long-term mean...
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WTF?
Anti trump protest in Chicago... parents getting small children to bash a pinata of trump as the adults tell kids to 'tear him apart'
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this is yet more trump trolling....
and a survey of non citizen hispanics in the usa registered to vote, based on 2010 census, done i 2013...so obviously much to low in raw numbers, and additionally due to policy changes making voting registration easier...
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There is such a thing as fake news and here is the primary source. Take it away Don Don
And the supporters lap that shit up like it really happened
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@canefan said in US Politics:
There is such a thing as fake news and here is the primary source. Take it away Don Don
And the supporters lap that shit up like it really happened
He didn't say a large terror attack had happened in Sweden though.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
There is such a thing as fake news and here is the primary source. Take it away Don Don
And the supporters lap that shit up like it really happened
He didn't say a large terror attack had happened in Sweden though.
Sweden is screwed, what he said was quite correct.Did u watch the clip? He said "You look at what happened last night in Sweden ". I thought what he was trying to say was pretty clear, that an incident involving immigrants happened in Sweden yesterday
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@canefan said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
There is such a thing as fake news and here is the primary source. Take it away Don Don
And the supporters lap that shit up like it really happened
He didn't say a large terror attack had happened in Sweden though.
Sweden is screwed, what he said was quite correct.Did u watch the clip? He said "You look at what happened last night in Sweden ". I thought what he was trying to say was pretty clear, that an incident involving immigrants happened in Sweden yesterday
Maybe something did happen with migrants last night? One thing for sure you cannot trust the Swedish govt and police to report serious incidents with migrants.
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I find the Swedish situation quite fascinating, they are in effect a petri dish for how mass Islamic immigration works out. The only problem being other countries are not waiting to see how the petri dish experiment finishes.
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I think Wallaces attack on Trump is fair
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Kevin Williamson makes some good points about the quality of the press, the Presidents reaction and the simplistic white hat/black hat bullshit that accompanies it:
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
I find the Swedish situation quite fascinating, they are in effect a petri dish for how mass Islamic immigration works out. The only problem being other countries are not waiting to see how the petri dish experiment finishes.
Which is difficult, because its not a short experiment. You really need a generation to see how its going to bed in properly.
A friend of mine who is Swedish by birth, lived out here for part of his upbringing. Upon his return to Sweden worked on settlement of immigrants coming into the nation. I asked him his thoughts on a video that was posted up some time ago about Sweden being the "rape capital of Europe" among other things to blame on immigrants, and this was his take on the video and the topics addressed:
How does one analyse this... If I were to start with the politics. It is true that calling a spade a spade has been nigh on impossible in Swedish politics. No-one outside of the Sweden Democrats want to fuel their fire. The result: The Sweden Democrats are now the third largest party.
For the same reason nobody wanted to acknowledge that there was a limit to the number of asylum seekers we could accept per year until all of a sudden we had almost 160,000 last year and it became a fact. Again the Sweden Democrats grow because the other politicsl parties have had to finally do something (albeit less radical) that the Sweden Democrats have said all along.
Sweden's resource problem is a pile of shit. We DO have a massive housing shortage due to incredibly complex building regulations but Sweden's work force is decreasing by 65,000 persons per year due to pensions and lower birth rates so we actually need to import labour.
This massive wave of immigrants also cost the Swedish tax payer billions. But where did the money go? To wages for the thousands of people who have gotten jobs taking care of immigrants and asylum seekers. Whereas the rest if Europe is stagnating Sweden's GDP is growing with leaps and bounds. Are there loads of arses among the asylum seekers? Yep. Are there doctors, engineers and future nobel prize winners? Yep. Basically people in other words.
Do I think that shaking hands and respecting equality among the sexes is more important than religious and cultural beliefs? Hell yeah. I'm looking forward to the case where the immigrant's plea of religious and ethnic discrimination is put up against gender discrimination.
Oh... And the rape thing? Bullshit. Sexual harrasment by foreign male youth against young girls appears to be all too true though.
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@NTA said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
I find the Swedish situation quite fascinating, they are in effect a petri dish for how mass Islamic immigration works out. The only problem being other countries are not waiting to see how the petri dish experiment finishes.
Which is difficult, because its not a short experiment. You really need a generation to see how its going to bed in properly.
A friend of mine who is Swedish by birth, lived out here for part of his upbringing. Upon his return to Sweden worked on settlement of immigrants coming into the nation. I asked him his thoughts on a video that was posted up some time ago about Sweden being the "rape capital of Europe" among other things to blame on immigrants, and this was his take on the video and the topics addressed:
How does one analyse this... If I were to start with the politics. It is true that calling a spade a spade has been nigh on impossible in Swedish politics. No-one outside of the Sweden Democrats want to fuel their fire. The result: The Sweden Democrats are now the third largest party.
For the same reason nobody wanted to acknowledge that there was a limit to the number of asylum seekers we could accept per year until all of a sudden we had almost 160,000 last year and it became a fact. Again the Sweden Democrats grow because the other politicsl parties have had to finally do something (albeit less radical) that the Sweden Democrats have said all along.
Sweden's resource problem is a pile of shit. We DO have a massive housing shortage due to incredibly complex building regulations but Sweden's work force is decreasing by 65,000 persons per year due to pensions and lower birth rates so we actually need to import labour.
This massive wave of immigrants also cost the Swedish tax payer billions. But where did the money go? To wages for the thousands of people who have gotten jobs taking care of immigrants and asylum seekers. Whereas the rest if Europe is stagnating Sweden's GDP is growing with leaps and bounds. Are there loads of arses among the asylum seekers? Yep. Are there doctors, engineers and future nobel prize winners? Yep. Basically people in other words.
Do I think that shaking hands and respecting equality among the sexes is more important than religious and cultural beliefs? Hell yeah. I'm looking forward to the case where the immigrant's plea of religious and ethnic discrimination is put up against gender discrimination.
Oh... And the rape thing? Bullshit. Sexual harrasment by foreign male youth against young girls appears to be all too true though.
Also interesting is that although Sweden is growing and growing the number of murders remain steady around 90 since the 90s.Interesting. I do think with completely uncontrolled migration from the middle east though, you end up with a very bad proportion of Doctors to unskilled labourers though.
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