[IsraelTimes] al-Harumi made history when Ra’am became 1st Arab faction to play integral role in coalition; he abstained in vital vote, to protest home demolitions in Bedouin communities.
Ra’am
...the party of the Islamic Movement - Southern Branch, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel, which is currently allied with Naftali Bennett’s goverment. It’s estimated 10% of Israeli Arabs are affiliated with the Islamic Movement, whether the soft jihad of the political Southern Branch or the hard jihad of the sword wielded by the militant Northern Branch...
MK Said al-Harumi died early Wednesday after being rushed to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba after suffering a heart attack, the party announced. He was 49.
Because it seems a growing number of Scientists today have acquired little real knowledge. An just make up discoveries for their claimed field of expertise as they go along.
Milk it for a Meal Ticket and PC Political Agenda reasons.
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Wanna piss them and their media followers off? Refuse to follow the renaming. Let them "correct" you over and over again, and say "nope" Mock them.
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"Bug whut eats the leaves offn muh treez." "Bird whut crapped in muh convertible while th' top wuz down."
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Let us start with renaming the word Scientists.
Prior to the 1700s the field was called "Natural Philosophy". It is ironic that Science was adopted by researchers in the fields that required numbers (Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy) and repeatable rigor (Medicine, Biology) wanted to distance themselves from ---you know --- Philosophers and Theologians. And now we have fields like "Climate Studies" that depend on unreproducible computer models that depend on "97% Consensus" for their validation.
[Karen's Kitchen Stories] With all the bad news out of Washington this week, do something good for yourself this weekend.
Los Angeles Danger Dogs are wrapped in bacon, and grilled on a baking sheet on top of a metal shopping cart with a can of Sterno to heat the baking sheet.
They are topped with grilled onions and peppers that are cooked on the same baking sheet, and nestled in a grocery store hot dog bun.
If you have ever been to a late night event in Los Angeles, you have likely been greeted by a line of sidewalk vendors repeating "hot dog, hot dog, hot dog" as you walk to your car.
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Anybody else just flummoxed by the number and size of these blazes, huge swathes of California are burning or have burned, and now SoCal. Is this Biblical or have we been the victims of intentional arson on a scale unprecedented? I recall the worry in my Homeland Security days of a Jihadi, a Cessna and a box of railroad flares in August...
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have we been the victims of intentional arson on a scale unprecedented?
My superficial take, NoMoreBS:
1) It’s fire season, same as every year.
2) More invasive Australian eucalyptus trees plus more undergrowth equals bigger, hotter fires. Everybody knows this, but the tree huggers won’t allow either to be dealt with because everything green is sacred.
3) Lots more arsonists: Antifa/BLM/Black Bloc, the mentally ill, teenagers playing with matches, and the occasional jihadi.
4) This is just a guess, but I suspect California has less money for firefighting this year because they have to pay for more social workers to support the growing criminal class, non-teaching teacher benefits, welfare and benefits for illegal immigrants, and all the other world-changing projects they prefer to taking care of the important things.
Holding cell video shows an NYPD officer punching Eugene Blake on April 22
Blake, who was arrested for robbery, robbery using a dangerous instrument, and assault with intent to cause serious physical injury, allegedly flooded the toilet in the cell
The officers handcuff him and appeared annoyed when he slips on the water
After shackling him to a corner, Blake appears to say something, causing the officers to rush back in and pin him against the wall
One of the officers then punched Blake three times in the head as three other officers worked to separate the men and de-escalate the situation
Blake alleges that three of the officers later moved him to another cell and beat him while the fourth officer 'stood by and did nothing'
Blake has filed a civil suit in Manhattan federal court against the officers
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Please - for Daily Mail articles, kindly post a blurb - there's so much bullshit (add-ins, ads, videos, etc.) on there it makes it painful to read, not to mention the CPU usage going through the roof.
#1
I don't like these blanket mandates - they will KILL some people. I actually think the vaccines are a good idea for a great majority of the people and should be encouraged, but there have to be exceptions.
#7
Only somebody with a business degree would think this was a good idea. Oh wait, add education degree, public adim degree, ...
Forget it. They're all trendy idiots.
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"How would you know? You were mental."Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-27 01:05
"...Because they all had badges saying 'Fake Police'!"
Mike
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So because you were hassled by the ???, you screw over 50M people who were may have also been screwed by the same ??? at some point. The clarity of your logic argues against the "fake" part of the whole mental hospital thing.
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Glitch = The customers messed around with the settings (Without telling the Supplier) and gave un-authorized access to individuals by mistake.
Customer Malfeasance.
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Grinding my teeth here. Worked for a very short time for a consultancy whose owner routinely closed deals with the assertion that the software would work "out of the box" as in no setup, training, maintenance, etc.
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Oh, this wasn't a glitch. It was 100% intended.
[FoxBusiness] The world’s largest contract chipmaker is raising prices by as much as 20%, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could result in consumers paying more for electronics.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to increase the prices of its most advanced chips by roughly 10%, while less advanced chips used by customers like automakers will cost about 20% more, these people said. The higher prices will generally take effect late this year or next year, the people said.
The price increases come in the wake of a global semiconductor shortage that has affected Apple and most car makers, including General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. In August, GM said it had to idle three factories in North America that make large pickup trucks, the company’s biggest moneymaker. Last week, Toyota said it would curb production by 40% in September.
The price increases have a twofold purpose for TSMC as it addresses the shortage. In the short term, higher prices push down demand and preserve supply for customers who have no other choice. Over the longer term, the higher income will help TSMC invest aggressively in new capacity, according to analysts.
The company has said it plans to spend a total of $100 billion over the next three years on new factories and equipment as well as research and development. It is expanding its production capacity in Nanjing, China, and has started construction on a $12 billion facility in Arizona.
The company’s market dominance gives it more pricing power than suppliers usually enjoy. TSMC accounts for more than half of the global semiconductor foundry market by revenue, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce, and it makes more than 90% of the world’s most advanced chips.
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everything else is going up, why wouldn't they?
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Taiwan should not be the world's largest chipmaker. We put ourselves at far too great a risk, especially obvious now. Pay the higher prices and make the chips here.
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There really aren't that many chip makers out there. Something like 6 (Global Foundries, TSMC, Samsung, IBM, Intel, and one in Japan) now that China is out (more or less). Other companies design chips but send the designs to one of those 6 to have them made. That makes it look like more companies are creating chips than that but nope.
Once China was pushed out of buying the newest equipment, shortages and increased prices were seem inevitable at least for a short time.
Samsung is building a new fab in Austin Texas, I think someone was building in Arizona or New Mexico so hopefully a year from now the shortage will be over.
#4
Unions are looking at how they can get a cut, and expect some sort of "robot FICA tax," similar to the mileage taxes being discussed for electric cars.
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Last time I heard the government overhead (workmen's comp, unemployment insurance, etc.) was a 27% "hidden tax" on laborer's salary. It adds up fast.
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Yeah, but wait'll they guy who maintains the robot wants a raise.
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Industrial Maintenance Mechanic.
12-18 month course
Starts around $20/hour
School, of course, is pushing College hard at daughter, who may be more interested in a more hands-on career. I suggested this as an alternative.
With an increase in demand, and never hearing a student say, "When I grow up I want to maintain robots!" could make a good trade out of it.
Court documents filed this month state that the FBI paid a known well known white supremacist over $140,000 as a confidential informant over 16 years
The parallels between the description of the FBI informant and Joseph Caleb Sutter, 40, are strong enough to assume a connection
Sutter is a convicted felon who 'currently owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings' as listed in the filing
Sutter has lead several extremist groups including the Aryan Nations, the Rural People's Party (RPP), and the Church of the Sons of Yaweh
He was arrested for purchasing illegal automatic pistols scrubbed of their serial numbers with silencers in a foiled plot to launch domestic terror attacks in 2003
The 40-year-old runs the Martinet Press, a book publisher known to endorse and be endorsed by neo-Nazi groups
Sutter's intel appears to be the basis of the FBI's case against Kaleb Cole, the leader of the well-known terroristic neo-Nazi organization- Atomwaffen Division
Cole is attempting to fight the charges against him claiming that they are largely based on information from a paid information, which is controversial
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It's at the point where, it's not if there's an informant, but who the informant is.
Kinda like East Germany.
(I idly wonder how many we got around here...)
(Actually, they don't need any, because they can just compile internet logs. My happy thought for the day.)
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[TheVerge] ULA stops selling its centerpiece Atlas V, setting path for the rocket’s retirement
The Boeing-Lockheed joint venture will retire its stalwart rocket after 29 more missions.
United Launch Alliance won’t be selling any more of its workhorse Atlas V rockets, and it has stopped buying the launch vehicle’s Russian-made rocket engines for good, the company’s chief executive told The Verge. ULA’s decision sets up the retirement of one of the US government’s most trusted launch vehicles and is expected to mark the end for Russia’s iconic — but controversial — RD-180 engine, an engineering marvel and a core source of revenue for Russia’s space program.
“We’re done. They’re all sold,” CEO Tory Bruno said of ULA’s Atlas V rockets in an interview. ULA, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has 29 Atlas V missions left before it retires sometime in the mid-2020s and transitions to its upcoming Vulcan rocket, Bruno said. The remaining Atlas V missions include a mix of undisclosed commercial customers and some for the Space Force, NASA, and Amazon’s budding broadband satellite constellation, Project Kuiper.
Interesting that Project Kuiper -a Bezos project- is using Atlas and not Blue Origin or Vulcan(with BO engines).
#1
Well, ULA is in a spot. If the BE-4 engines aren't as good or better than the RD-180s, they will be out of the rocket business. All because of a snit dead Johnny McStain initiated.
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ULA could ask to buy the Raptor engine from SpaceX. The sooner the better, judging from the non-progress of the BE-4.
Background: Texas has a public beach access law. Only one road currently goes to the Boca Chica Beach. You can see the location of the proposed tunnel at the Google maps coordinates below. Both North Padre, South Padre and Boca Chica beaches are normally driven upon after entering the beach from a road. This will just keep the beach accessible for use while moving big stuff like rockets down Hwy 4.
26.064878288335837, -97.1521177586713 - location.
The Boring Company (TBC) met with Cameron County officials to discuss the possibility of a tunnel project running from South Padre Island (SPI) to Boca Chica Beach.
The Boring Company pitched the idea of an SPI-Boca Chica tunnel to Cameron County administrator Pete Sepulveda Jr. and county engineer Benjamin Worsham early this summer. Cameron County officials have been thinking of giving people access to part of Boca Chica Beach even during closures.
SpaceX activity has been steadily increasing as it continues to develop the Starship program. In August alone, Cameron County issued at least 13 public notices ordering temporary and intermittent closures due to SpaceX’s activities.
To give people access to the beach during closures, The Boring Company proposed digging a tunnel from the south end of SPI to the north end of Boca Chica Beach.
“From what we understand from SpaceX is there is a good portion of the beach that can remain open if there was access to it, even though the road is closed and even though a portion of the beach is closed,” Sepulveda told The Brownsville Herald.
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^ Like self-driving cars, they'll figure it out. Eventually...
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SpaceX has been trying for some time to Kelo the few remaining residents. I guess that's just not as easy in Texas as in the deep blue northeast.
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The beach in question is WAY south of South Padre and the main tourist areas. It strikes me of more of a local's beach than a place the spring break crowd will go.
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[SpaceNews] Amazon is urging the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss SpaceX’s revised plans for its second-generation Starlink constellation, saying they are too broad and speculative.
SpaceX proposed two potential configurations for nearly 30,000 follow-on satellites Aug. 18, which Amazon said breaks FCC rules that require details of a proposed amendment to be settled before filing such an application.
SpaceX intends to proceed with just one of the options, but Amazon said filing for two also doubles the technical effort that operators face to review interference and orbital debris concerns.
Amazon'sProject Kuiper has yet to deploy any of its planned broadband satellites.
SpaceX said in a July presentation that it had launched 1,740 satellites for its first-generation Starlink constellation so far, serving around 90,000 customers in 12 countries.
Turns out Besos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX …
#3
Starlink is pretty well entrenched. Don't really see why Bezos would see it as a viable market to carve. OTOH, it will be fun to watch the same people who wanted spontaneously ejaculated over the idea of Microsoft broken up start whining about court involvement now.
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Lawfare at it's finest. (But where's our cut?)
Posted by: ed in texas ||
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We will know the fight heats up when a StarShip crashes into the Washington Post.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] A 20-year-old tourist from Wisconsin was randomly attacked by a lunatic in 
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