What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Watching the live stream from the House of Reps.
the 3rd Impeachment by the House of Reps. in American History was recorded last night.
Safe to say we are witnessing history being made right in front of us.Meh... this was totally expected.. and it's expected to completely fail in the senate.
at least that's the last I've heard when I cared enough to listen.It's around 99% certain or more that it will fail in the senate. The question posed to the senate is not "did the president do X wrong", but "does the senate feel that what the president might have done wrong is worth removing him from the role". So even if the senate believes all of the charges, even if it proves them, that's not what they are voting on.
It's going to be really interesting what kind of precedent that vote will set. Like you said... this is the first really urgent and serious offense.
It's going to be more codification of corruption in the US. Not Trump corruption, ignore that, but corruption endemic to how the constitution was written that was intentionally moving power to rural white farmers. The senate is not democratic and isn't meant to reflect the will of the people or the nation, unlike the house which is at least representative. Washington DC gets zero influence in this critical vote, Wyoming gets a huge voice. This process highlights how terrible the government design is and how screwed up the founding fathers were.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Watching the live stream from the House of Reps.
the 3rd Impeachment by the House of Reps. in American History was recorded last night.
Safe to say we are witnessing history being made right in front of us.Meh... this was totally expected.. and it's expected to completely fail in the senate.
at least that's the last I've heard when I cared enough to listen.It's around 99% certain or more that it will fail in the senate. The question posed to the senate is not "did the president do X wrong", but "does the senate feel that what the president might have done wrong is worth removing him from the role". So even if the senate believes all of the charges, even if it proves them, that's not what they are voting on.
It's going to be really interesting what kind of precedent that vote will set. Like you said... this is the first really urgent and serious offense.
It's going to be more codification of corruption in the US. Not Trump corruption, ignore that, but corruption endemic to how the constitution was written that was intentionally moving power to rural white farmers. The senate is not democratic and isn't meant to reflect the will of the people or the nation, unlike the house which is at least representative. Washington DC gets zero influence in this critical vote, Wyoming gets a huge voice. This process highlights how terrible the government design is and how screwed up the founding fathers were.
Yep. No argument from me here.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
he'd be stupid to run for office again.
You mean he'd be stupid not to. The impeachment process is only to his benefit. And even the Democrats know that and are public about it. The move to impeach makes it even harder for Trump to lose in 2020. He has nothing to lose in this process.
The way media is painting it is if he runs again he will have tarnished his name with that impeachment.
His name is tarnished, obviously. But it was tarnished before he ran the first time. The more tarnished it is, the more the world sees him as evil and an embarrassment, the better he does. Don't be naive, he won based on that "everyone is against us" feeling in 2016, and the impeachment just strengthens it.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If the Senate does find him guilty he will not be able to run for or hold public office.
They can do that, but they don't automatically.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Pelosi losing her shit when Democrats tried to celebrate. That was a look of fury and I've never seen politicians go silent so fast.
Total Mom look. It was hilarious and sets the mood for the rest of the proceedings.
They already made a meme about it. LOL
It's the best I've ever seen Pelosi. I'm not a fan by any stretch, but that was a good moment for her.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If the Senate does find him guilty he will not be able to run for or hold public office.
They can do that, but they don't automatically.
I quoted the constitution. It's pretty clear that he can't "hold and enjoy any Office of honor". If he's found guilty.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
he'd be stupid to run for office again.
You mean he'd be stupid not to. The impeachment process is only to his benefit. And even the Democrats know that and are public about it. The move to impeach makes it even harder for Trump to lose in 2020. He has nothing to lose in this process.
The way media is painting it is if he runs again he will have tarnished his name with that impeachment.
His name is tarnished, obviously. But it was tarnished before he ran the first time. The more tarnished it is, the more the world sees him as evil and an embarrassment, the better he does. Don't be naive, he won based on that "everyone is against us" feeling in 2016, and the impeachment just strengthens it.
Fair enough
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If the Senate does find him guilty he will not be able to run for or hold public office.
They can do that, but they don't automatically.
I quoted the constitution. It's pretty clear that he can't "hold and enjoy any Office of honor". If he's found guilty.
It's not, it says the limits that they can do, that's all. That that is their ultimate limit doesn't imply that they must even consider going to that limit. If you read the stuff from the constitutional lawyers and historical stuff, it's universal that everyone agrees that that's not the automatic vote and not something that will be considered.
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Building more domain controllers.
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Heading out to my daughter's arcade birthday party!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Heading out to my daughter's arcade birthday party!
Sounds like fun!
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Heading home
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The Rise of Skywalker is getting hammered, especially for a Star Wars movie.
Doesn't being part of such an epic.. um... epic make it more likely to get hammered if it isn't exactly what fans wanted?
There is a narrative out there that criticizes those who dislike TLJ as those who wanted to get something specific. Most of the people that I talk to just wanted a good Star Wars story. It wasn't about not having fan service, or nods, or callbacks. It was because we wanted a coherent story set in our favorite universe. No one is upset because of the subversion that Rian Johnson did. Except for the fact that it appears that that was primary motivation for making the movie instead of telling a good space magic movie.
that's why I didn't like the others... the story was just... well it wasn't.
The last two were 1 part lip service to fans and three parts “gimme yo money”.
‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Actually Makes ‘The Last Jedi’ and ‘The Force Awakens’ Worse
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Good night everyone.
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I'm reviewing SCA's right now, yay!
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Enduring a power outage on the last day before vacation.... IT and the admin area are on the generators but manufacturing, design and PM are in the dark until power's restored... The shop is trying to do year end inventory in the dark
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@notverypunny said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Enduring a power outage on the last day before vacation.... IT and the admin area are on the generators but manufacturing, design and PM are in the dark until power's restored... The shop is trying to do year end inventory in the dark
Ugh, that's no fun. Been there, done that.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The Rise of Skywalker is getting hammered, especially for a Star Wars movie.
Doesn't being part of such an epic.. um... epic make it more likely to get hammered if it isn't exactly what fans wanted?
There is a narrative out there that criticizes those who dislike TLJ as those who wanted to get something specific. Most of the people that I talk to just wanted a good Star Wars story. It wasn't about not having fan service, or nods, or callbacks. It was because we wanted a coherent story set in our favorite universe. No one is upset because of the subversion that Rian Johnson did. Except for the fact that it appears that that was primary motivation for making the movie instead of telling a good space magic movie.
that's why I didn't like the others... the story was just... well it wasn't.
The last two were 1 part lip service to fans and three parts “gimme yo money”.
‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Actually Makes ‘The Last Jedi’ and ‘The Force Awakens’ Worse
I'm not reading that review - that said - this was was some lip service (which i thought was awesome!) and several parts of making up for shit show Rian Johnson left us with in TLJ, back pedaling as it were
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Bracing for "Your (name of saas withheld) account has been updated with new improvements."
Its our flagship business software provider.Already received one phone system related call. Oh, joy.....
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I just noticed that WD make a Red NAS SSD.
Maybe it’s my fading attention span but I don’t actually notice much difference to their other SSDs
