TigerHornII

Demographics for the county in 2000:

No amount of editing will fix the formatting. 1st column is total population, 2nd column is incarcerated population, third column is non-incarcerated population.

Reported in
Census 2000 Incarcerated
Total 217,955 1,506 216,449
White 160,128 521 159,607
Black 42,062 943 41,119
Latino 12,493 57 12,436

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Here’s the reality: The parasites have to take less.


That is Israel, Egypt, MIC, and every large corporation receiving corporate welfare, right? And reduce the Pentagon budget by the annual amount they can't account for. Must not have been important if they don't know where it went. And stop all foreign conflicts on behalf of the mult-national firms, creating the refugee crisis in Latin America and the Middle East.

Will save 1000x more than Jose getting to go to the hospital.

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Demonstrably dead wrong, but the fact that you made the statement means you're too ignorant of facts to argue with.

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Interesting facts.

Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5th 1977

on Sept. 5th 2026, Voyager 1 will have traveled 0.0027 light years distance from Earth.

Some time on November 2026 Voyager 1 will reach 1 light days distance from Earth .

Roughly around the year 19,026 Voyager 1 will reach 1 light years distance from Earth. (incidentally, the nearest neighbor outside our solar system in Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf approx. 4.25 light-years away)

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What year do the friggin' Klingon thugs take target practice on it - and only wound it like a typical gangsta - before it gets repaired and sent back to us? I seent the documentaries on that...... :nana:

Fish oil - capsules from Costco, no enteric coating - did wonders for our similarly aged Aussie. We gave it in conjunction with Closequin, worked much better than Closequin alone. She would groan and struggle a bit when standing up or laying down. After fish oil, she stopped groaning altogether.

First few times, prick the capsule and squeeze a little oil out, doggo will start to think of it as a chew treat after that.

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so it's a road tire restriction....any performance, off road, or specialty tires are excluded....what a complete waste of time

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Read it more carefully. It affects 70-80% of the tires sold in the state, forces all mainstream tires to low rolling resistance, which hurts braking distance and cornering grip in favor of fuel economy. The only UHP street tire you can get will be a winter all season one.

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we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country

Worse than what almost the entire planet does to North Korea?

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NORKs have two things going for them that Iran doesn't:

1. A land umbilical from China that can supply 100% of the country's needs. The land umbilical to Iran is long, restrictive, and can't supply anything like 100% of their needs.

2. The NORKs had been eating grass to survive with no outside world connections for nearly half a century when the main global sanctions kicked in to try to stop their nuke program. Iran had internet, and a semi-function civilization before all this. Their population will not submit so easily.

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You weren’t the only one by a lot. Many here didn’t like him from the start.

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I think the point of the OP was "Who else could we have gotten at that point in time?" Did any contemporary hire work out? Was that the year that Cristobal was in play? Not that he's proven to be the 2nd coming of Saban himself with a 35-19 record against a softer schedule.

So yeah, you can say "I told you so" all you want, but do you really have a realistic alternative to offer up? If not, pretty empty "I told you so".

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refusing to read or listen to AI entertainment now is the equivalent of refusing to read a book written on a word processor instead of a typewriter in 1988.
That isn’t even a good comparison at all.

The word processor doesn’t write the story for you.

Pretty much all of humanity can come up with a “general” outline of a story, like your long form AI prompts.

The difference is that a writer can expand that idea.

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Sorry Scruffy, you're way off here. The creativity comes in writing the prompt and then editing/massaging the output. If you don't have the spark of creativity or the domain knowledge to start with, then you won't get good output. Garbage In, Garbage Out, just like any other computer tool.

AIs are NOT creative. They only know what they know. Their training datasets are so large though that humans have the illusion that they are being creative because the AI is pulling from sources you've never seen before, and combining sources as well.

To greatly oversimplify this, if you tell an AI "Write me a fiction book on X", it will do two things:

1. Search for internet sources on X
2. Use its mathematical relationships from its training dataset that may well have included a book on X, but NOT the actual book on X.

The output is then the mashup of what it found on X (and you can tell it not to search the internet too) plus the output of its equations related to X. Your first round of output is going to be hot garbage unless you put a lot of work into the prompt and know what you are doing.

Try it yourself sometime. See how much effort it takes to get AI to write a good short story, say 2k words.

Look at a nighttime satellite photo of S vs N Korea today. N Korea was originally the more industrialized portion of the country.

Scoreboard.

Put yourself in the context of the time. Between 1945 and 1959:

1. The Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe. In every case, the NKVD or its successor KGB aided communists in being "elected" via assassinations, imprisonments, and just plain taking charge of counting the votes.

2. China, N Korea, Cuba, N Vietnam, and several other nations have fallen to communism. The Norks and then the Chinese attempted to forcibly add S Korea to the tally. Japan, Germany, and many other countries had very active communist parties.

3. Greece and Italy nearly fell to majority communist "elected" governments, again with the help of the KGB. Many historians think the presence of American carrier battle groups in the major harbors of both countries during the critical elections are all that saved them from far bolder KGB and insurgent actions.

The Domino theory was real, and there were legitimate concerns that we needed to take a stand. Nevertheless, Ike told JFK that Vietnam was the wrong place and time. Even so, had we let the military off the leash and stopped micromanagement of the war from DC, it would have ended very differently. Heck, if we had just not axed S Vietnam's military aid after we pulled out (D Congress broke our word there) S Vietnam, who was giving a pretty good account of itself, might have survived.

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Really want to get pissed off. See what $20k buys you in China. It's obvious why we ban Chinese cars.
US manufacturers wouldn't sell a car.
The chicken tax keeps us from the cheap small trucks you can get worldwide. Even American brands like the little Ram truck that's all over Mexico. The Ram 700. $19k south of the border not sold in the US.

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Extremely ignorant take.

There are presently 129 EV car makers in China, with an estimated 8 million units/year overcapacity on 23M total capacity. They are in a brutal price war for literal company survival because the CCP, for the first time in 15 years, did not include "New Energy Vehicles" in their five year plan this year.

They are dumping cars overseas at losses even by CCP accounting with ZERO cost of capital for development and production just to stay afloat. All but 3-4 of them will be gone - and so will their customer support - within five years.