The math presented here is obviously not to be trusted, but it's an argument worth sincere exploration: Whether on a per-transaction basis, BitCoin is intolerably expensive by environmental considerations.

(Even if BitCoin were environmentally costly, it might be worthwhile for providing civilization with a settlement venue beyond the reach of government.)

Love when this happens.

Earlier.

Nowadays they do WiFi hotspots.

Bitcoin vs. gold.

Interesting-if-too-long article on blockchain forgiveness.

Otters chasing a butterfly, now with a soundtrack

https://twitter.com/tompeck/status/891601275418234880

Hi Raddy! Hi Snoopy!—

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money. He fixates on certain words (“negotiator”) and certain classes of words (mainly adjectives and adverbs, “bigly,” “major,” “world-class,” “top,” and superlatives), but he isn’t much of a negotiator, manager, or leader. He cannot negotiate a health-care deal among members of a party desperate for one, can’t manage his own factionalized and leak-ridden White House, and cannot lead a political movement that aspires to anything greater than the service of his own pathetic vanity.

That last line has profound intimacy: You love the man, not any principles he represents.

He doesn't represent any.

You chant "He's winning!" because his personal identity (vacuous though it may be) is all you're interested in considering.

Hero worship. The child-like kind.

Also, it's gosh-darn interesting that Alec Baldwin was written into 'GGGR.' I had no idea there was a seam between his character and the inherent personalities of the piece.

That movie and 'Red October' are all you'll ever ask of Alec Baldwin.

They're cute. Admit it. Admit it!

Did you know, corporations like General Electric Co. (GE) spend more money on lobbyists than they pay in taxes?

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/weekly-fix-double-standard

A clever way of solving the dick pic problem:

http://nypost.com/2017/07/28/woman-sends-unsolicited-d-k-pics-to-mans-mom/

Huckabee calls for repeal of 17th Amendment after healthcare failure

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/344275-huckabee-calls-for-repeal-of-17th-amendment-after-healthcare-failure

So much for permissive drug policy...

Well, it's all about you, not the Administration, so Hi, Crid!

...and here's the link from that article, featuring many other links for verification, to accomplishments in the White House.

But, to ease your pain, here's a third-grader joke:
"What coffee did they serve on the Titanic? Sanka!"
Modernized:
"What coffee do they serve in the White House? Yuban!"

Tee. Hee. Hee.

> here's the link

Trump's "promises" were and are not of interest, but it's worth noting that the link to the first is broken.... Almost as if the promise were withdrawn, or irrelevant. As the highest law enforcement officer in the land, the Idiot Trump glibly but sincerely encourages police to rough criminals up, while his attorney general accelerates the most grotesquely authoritarian trends in American civic life.

This guy's not about the rule of law, as you might expect for a man listed in 4,096 lawsuits: nytimes com/2017/07/05/magazine/all-the-presidents-lawyers.html

More later, so very much more

[2.] "Trump has successfully enacted a Travel Ban that is 100% CONSTITUTIONAL...."

I would describe that as bullshit, but not even the useful fertilizer kind. The portentous/incorrect capitalization reminds us, needlessly, that we're dealing with ninnies here.

CNN: Trump has called his second executive order "watered down," and "politically correct." It was the Supreme Court of the United States that vacated the order for so many travellers, and their opinion about what's "CONSTITUTIONAL" counts for more than yours. They'll be revisiting the matter in the fall term.

That you, Raddy's author, would describe any failure as a "success" is one of the reasons we didn't want this drooling goofball put in the White House: He's a bad example for impressionable minds, whether they're young or merely weak.

[3.] To defund and crack down on sanctuary cities[.] Trump has implemented a YUGE crackdown on sanctuary cities, threatening to defund them

I presume you see the problem there.

[4.] To revive the Keystone Pipeline and Dakota Access Pipeline; The revival of the Dakota and Keystone XL Pipelines creating American jobs

Tied up in Dakota courts. Furthermore, Trump dropped the requirement for steel from United States sources, which probably heartens the Canadian owners of the thing. Jobs! Jobs!

[5.] To pull the US out of the TPP, an Obama-era trade deal detrimental to the US

Robert D. Kaplan:

"Withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from TPP, which Trump did, was in my mind the greatest single self-inflicted wound America committed on itself in Asia in decades."

"This was the greatest geopolitical gift to China that any American president could deliver."

[6.} Women

Etc. This is, essentially, an Obama or Sanders program.

[7.] Nafta

As seen above, wherever he gets his neckties stitched, Trump has no interest in representing other Americans' interests in matters of trade.

[8.] Federal regulations

Raddy, these links are just qualified bullshit. Basically, none of these "He did that!" initiatives are going anywhere. For instance:

[12.] Campaign Promise 12: To crackdown on illegal immigration and to BUILD A WALL

Trump has implemented a YUGE crackdown on illegal immigration and he has started the WALL initiative

So, he hasn't built a wall. He's "started an initiative."





It remains the case that your enchantment is inexplicable, personal and unwarranted. MAGAballs.

As if capitalizing the word "WALL," twice, is the same as building one.

In seperate posts, I have noted that a) I'm not following news about Trump one way or another, and b) the justification for this can be found right here: few of the horrors described as a certainty due to the action of the last three Administrations ever came to pass - not so you'd notice.

But: jackpot! One link yields three posts of trivia about how it couldn't possibly be so - and a signal/noise ratio which should be embarrassing to our notable regular.

See what I mean? Panic! Trump is mean! He's... {not us!}

Crid. You've been on this blog since it started. You've DEMANDED poise and meaning from others.
Now, you don't have it.

Get well soon. Really.

So except for having these goofy, defensive lists on hand, current of events are not of interest....

Riiiiiight.

Rereading your response: For all the airy bluster and spittle-flecked condescension, you're obviously in rhetorical retreat... As is your team.

Only took a year, or maybe 20 months.

This humiliating defeat, while unambiguous and categorical, will probably not be as costly as you imagine.

Re "The Wall"

Where were all you liberals claiming the wall is racist when Obama as a senator voted for the largest expansion of the border wall ever?

Where were you as when as President, Obama oversaw the largest physical expansion of the border wall in history, a financial obligation that dwarfed every prior presidential admin contributions COMBINED.

Conservatives who support the wall, why dont you ever give Obama credit for it?