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Joementum posted:The keynote speaker for the Prescott S. Bush Dinner in Stamford Connecticut this year: Marco Rubio It's good practice for him to start speaking under a Bush banner
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FAUXTON posted:Is it a function of exposed conductive unshielded area? Like telegraph wires weren't exactly EM shielded back then, so their length resulted in that kind of effect? We don't shield high voltage long range power lines because it'd be so thick and heavy that you couldn't suspend them and the shielding on the ones in your back yard or whatever is nowhere near thick enough to make any difference in this case.
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:Atlas Scowled I kind of figured it was a reference to this 
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Joementum posted:Coming this summer from the publishers of the Rand Paul comic book. He's being crushed by his family name. Accurate.
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Fried Chicken posted:If you want to know why an EMP is pitched as this huge pants making GBS threads terror that ignores the realities of their creation or effect, consider the framework of the messaging that paints it as the huge pants making GBS threads terror Or you know, the people with the guns like it has always been. Did everyone just watch Goldeneye or something?
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Ralepozozaxe posted:He's being crushed by his family name. Accurate.
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Munkeymon posted:We don't shield high voltage long range power lines because it'd be so thick and heavy that you couldn't suspend them and the shielding on the ones in your back yard or whatever is nowhere near thick enough to make any difference in this case. We don't shield high voltage short range transmission lines either - the only thing better than air as an insulator is a vacuum.
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Solar doom? Better do something about it. This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGU Better not mention that in my gubermint 
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hobbesmaster posted:We don't shield high voltage short range transmission lines either - the only thing better than air as an insulator is a vacuum. Copper thieves make pretty good insulators.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Copper thieves make pretty good insulators. That is in fact empirically proven false, but since this isn't the OSHA.mov thread, I'll let you search live leak for yourself.
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tsa posted:Or you know, the people with the guns like it has always been. Turns out a hoarder shack full of guns is useless when your dumbass SUV don't drive anymore from 50 miles outside the city.
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Is Martin O'Malley going to primary Hillary from the left??? http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/20/400447308/omalley-americas-economy-needs-sensible-rebalancing-not-pitchforks That would be neato.
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JT Jag posted:I'm going to wager this is what the comic is actually about. Poor Jeb Bush, held back by his family legacy, but he's totally different you see because 
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Munkeymon posted:We don't shield high voltage long range power lines because it'd be so thick and heavy that you couldn't suspend them and the shielding on the ones in your back yard or whatever is nowhere near thick enough to make any difference in this case. Good to know. I guess the best protection against something like that is just being able to keep that current from wrecking generation facilities? Is that one of the things huge circuit breakers like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIkNY5xjy5k are for?
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Stereotype posted:Is Martin O'Malley going to primary Hillary from the left??? We will have a woman president, and no sexists will take that away.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Turns out a hoarder shack full of guns is useless when your dumbass Do solar chargers work off the borealis? So if it was bright at night you could use one of those little portable jobbies to juice up batteries?
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SubponticatePoster posted:Fixed. Photovoltaics work off any old light source but Borealis light isn't going to be charging anything anytime soon, and it isn't going to just be stuck on bright forever.
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Apr 20, 2015 23:25
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SedanChair posted:I kind of figured it was a reference to this Close. 
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Venusian Weasel posted:A modern repeat would gently caress up our transmission infrastructure pretty badly, just because it would require hard shutdowns of generation plants, and in places where we can't isolate the grid from generation the induced current will flow back in and mess with the generation hardware. So it would be kind of like Jurassic Park, except global and without dinosaurs?
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Deep Hurting posted:So it would be kind of like Jurassic Park, except global and without dinosaurs? No we have the dinosaurs, we just elect them to office here. 
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vseslav.botkin posted:Close. No, it's definitely the other one, because whenever a scientists yells at him about how stupid he is it gives him strength.
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I don't know if its been posted but the Atlantic did a good longform article on ISIS. http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants/384980/ Worth a read if you don't know much about their motivations or how they fit into the dynamic of Al-Qaeda and other jihadists
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Joementum posted:Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C..... Pretty sweet kicks you got there, Bill 
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So, you remember two months back when Jeb's CTO got fired for his history of being a jackass on Twitter? He's now rolling out an app, called Clear, that lets you see your history of being a jackass on Twitter.
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Boon posted:Solar doom? Better do something about it. Something about those deep sounds from that glacier calving caused like a primordial dread feeling in me. I guess that's what it's like to know you're going to die.
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Stereotype posted:Is Martin O'Malley going to primary Hillary from the left??? Interesting. It'd be an uphill battle, but he'd have a better shot than Bernie.
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zoux posted:Whenever your worst arzy tendencies begin to surface, I want you to remember this. Wow I just looked over this, pretty impressive numbers. Basically evenish numbers among men, and gaps among women in the 20-30 percent range, and greater crossover in her direction than the other way for pretty much all the candidates. Let's see more "if she can't satisfy her man how can she satisfy America" image macros!  Edit: I'd love to see what the splits are among GOP women voters.
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Tobermory posted:So, you remember two months back when Jeb's CTO got fired for his history of being a jackass on Twitter? quote:“The most challenging part of this is determining which tweets are actually offensive, and that’s something that will take a while to get really good at,” Czahor said. 
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quote:“Most people don’t know that halloween is German for ‘night that girls with low self-esteem dress like sluts,'” one, now-deleted tweet read. “When I burp in the gym I feel like it’s my way of saying, ‘sorry guys, but I’m not gay,'” said another. In what context do these look good? At least to anyone except the GOP?
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I'm sure Czahor will have as promising a career in stand up comedy as he did as a political consultant.
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Tobermory posted:So, you remember two months back when Jeb's CTO got fired for his history of being a jackass on Twitter? What are the chances that the app also phones home with a log of everything that you discover and delete this way? This guy may end up de facto head of the Republican Party if he can concentrate dirt this easily.
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ReidRansom posted:Interesting. It'd be an uphill battle, but he'd have a better shot than Bernie. Well, the point isn't to win, which he can't. I read through Michael Lewis' Trail Fever yesterday (fun, short read about the 1996 campaign) in which he makes the point that the winner of the campaign steals the best ideas from the losers. By the end of '96, Dole was running on the protectionism of the Buchanan campaign, the tax plan of the Forbes campaign, and the militarism of the Dornan campaign. Clinton, of course, stole from everybody. O'Malley's goal would be to advance some concrete legislative goal(s) and get Hillary to adopt it, maybe making himself a credible future candidate in the process, or getting him on the list for HUD Secretary. That said, he might think he can win, but his only real impact will be getting Hillary to buy into part of his agenda.
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By the way, the funniest part of Trail Fever was when one of the candidates (businessman Morry Taylor) was informed by his staffer that Alan Keyes had checked out of the hotel and told the front desk to charge his stay to the Taylor campaign. Staffer: "He said, 'Taylor's paying for this'". Staffer 2: "Jesus...." Taylor: "That's right. Jesus told Alan it was OK."
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Joementum posted:Well, the point isn't to win, which he can't. I read through Michael Lewis' Trail Fever yesterday (fun, short read about the 1996 campaign) in which he makes the point that the winner of the campaign steals the best ideas from the losers. By the end of '96, Dole was running on the protectionism of the Buchanan campaign, the tax plan of the Forbes campaign, and the militarism of the Dornan campaign. Clinton, of course, stole from everybody. Yeah, part of me already knew that to be the case, but optimism and such gets in the way. If Hillary steals from Bernie and O'Malley and Warren though, great. I just don't trust she'd actually do any of those things.
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Fried Chicken posted:Going back to talking Iraq, our complete lack of a grand strategy for ensuring hegemony, our complete lack of any strategic objective in Iraq, our ignoring tactical goals for the occupation like securing weapons, and out being really good at taking down a conventional enemy but not handling an unconventional one, I really recommend Thomas P Barnett's 2005 TED talk on it. 24 minutes, well worth your time; even if you disagree with the goal of a grand strategy of international hegemony or his proposal for ensuring it, he does a great job outlining the series of failures going back decades that made the problems we are having all but inevitable. This didn't get enough love. Barnett had a very unique way of looking at things. If you can track it down, he gives a speech on CSPAN at one of the service academies as well in about the same time frame, a more extensive version of the TED talk. I don't know that I buy his solutions, but he identifies a number of the factors that have led the US to its current state of international affairs. It does make me wonder what Iraq would have looked like if the Green Zone was staffed by someone other than the Liberty U Alumni Network.
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Zwabu posted:Wow I just looked over this, pretty impressive numbers. Basically evenish numbers among men, and gaps among women in the 20-30 percent range, and greater crossover in her direction than the other way for pretty much all the candidates. I fully expect those gaps to close significantly as campaign season moves forward. There seems to be a fearful narrative among Democrats/liberals (especially around here) that Hillary is going to lose to whichever jerkoff announces this week. I posted that as a response to current hand wringing about these early "scandals": she's still polling great and while we can argue about the predictive value of such early polling, there are no indicators that show she's in any kind of danger, outside of serious entrail divinations.
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zoux posted:I fully expect those gaps to close significantly as campaign season moves forward. There seems to be a fearful narrative among Democrats/liberals (especially around here) that Hillary is going to lose to whichever jerkoff announces this week. I posted that as a response to current hand wringing about these early "scandals": she's still polling great and while we can argue about the predictive value of such early polling, there are no indicators that show she's in any kind of danger, outside of serious entrail divinations. Oh, yeah. I don't think a Hillary win is guaranteed, nor do I expect her to win in a double digit laugher necessarily, America just isn't wired that way anymore with the built in polarization of the electorate. I fully expect the gaps to narrow especially as one candidate is chosen and promoted by the GOP. But this kind of data has a fair amount to say about the baseline electorate we are starting with. The GOP should be really concerned about that gender gap, it's absolutely ridiculous.
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Quote of the night, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cphNpqKpKc4 ~ Tim Miller, spokesman for Jeb Bush on whether Jeb has ever attended the Bilderberg conference.
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