Yeah C# gets a bad rap. I spent a decade developing in C++, and Java before switching to C# because of program requirements. Now I never want to go back.

Gimp doesn’t have UI standards. That’s part of the problem.

They are all over the place in Norway.

States don’t pay federal taxes. Residents of the state pay federal taxes.

So it would have to be you underpaying the IRS and taking the legal and financial risk.

Yeah I spent a week in south east France. Best trip I have ever been on. People were so nice. Paris was the only unfriendly place and It wasn’t bad.

My wife was flying into Regan last Monday and they had to abort the first landing because there was still a plane on the runway.

Which version?

Fyi the us marshals are the enforcement arm of the Federal judiciary. There is one marshall and one cheif deputy marshall per us district court.

The marshals are the group that would most likely do the arrest in this hypothetical situation. For example the FBI is mostly investigation and usually when they get enough information for an arrest they pass it off to the marshals if it’s a federal crime.

So on 9/11 the fighters scrambled to intercept United 91 had no weapons installed. There were no orders but one of the two pilots sad the plan was to ram the cockpit bringing down the both their plane and the passenger plane.

I’ll add that very few fighter pilots will ever scramble a plane. There is a large checklist pilots go through before taking off particularly a fighter. When a fighter is scrambled that’s all skipped.

Partially. ACA is mostly based on the compromise plan to appease republicans when Clinton was trying to do health care reform in 1993. It failed and led to the Republicans taking control of the senate for the fist time in 40 years.

It set the stage for the pattern of Dems ignoring the left portion of the party for a compromise proposal with the Republicans. The Republicans bail on the compromise and nothing happens.

Voters are pissed at the Dems for not doing anything and put the Republicans in power the next election. Basically the template for the pattern we still see today.

I’m a US citizen. Please kick us out. The more countries that take concrete action against us that actually hurt us the more likely congress and the voters are to stand up to Trump.

The first book is the best but God Emperor of Dune is really good. Chapter House would make a great movie as well.

Children of Dune is imo the worst of the Frank Herbert Dune books. That’s going to be tough to adapt well.

I was talking about Ross Perot. He was a successful business man. I doubt he would have been a good president.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_1992_presidential_campaign

It wasn’t learned. He was a 3rd party presidential candidate that ran on being a business man not a politician. He came in third.

Getting groups to go along with your stupid minor lies is the first step. That way when you start doing the bigger important lies they are already used to just going along with your lies.

This is straight from the authoritarian play book and Trump is not doing this without purpose.

Your right. I thought the shares had be dissolved but they have not it’s just a privately traded company now.

So Musk owns twitter so there is no stock anymore. He does have loans for the purchase which are probably backed by his twitter ownership and his Tesla stock.

However there is another way to not have majority ownership and still have majority voting power. Google has class A and class B shares. Each class A share gets 10 votes and class B shares get 1 vote.

Only the founders of Google got class A shares and if they are transferred to anyone but another founder they revert to class B shares. So they have a minority ownership and a majority vote.

It’s a govt event that’s invite only so they can kick him out. They can’t prosecute him for what he said or prevent him from saying it elsewhere.

Still a shitty thing to do.

Us is a big country and when we formed it could take days to get from states to the capitol. Legislators and leaders might be away from home for a year or more and needed to get their home situated.

So there is a lot of time between elections and assuming office in national positions. Results had to go from state to national, get certified, return the results, get your house in order, travel to DC, hire staff, and arrange housing (if congress).

It’s also why 200 years ago the electoral college made sense. There wasn’t time to hold runoff elections. These days with fast information and travel it’s a garbage legacy system.

Before I knew any of the horrible stuff about him I still couldn’t get into his books. There is a focus on style and tone at the expense of narrative and plot. That just doesn’t work for me at all.