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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @mlnews
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      @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Houston is under a state of emergency from flooding. One part of the city has broken its all time high water mark by at additional forty feet!!

      I'm a bit surprised there is more than 40 ft of relief inside Houston.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Major volcanic eruption in Mexico...

        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/19/watch-volcanic-ash-cloud-sweeps-over-mexican-city-of-puebla/?cid=sf24620100&sf24620100=1

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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

          Major volcanic eruption in Mexico...

          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/19/watch-volcanic-ash-cloud-sweeps-over-mexican-city-of-puebla/?cid=sf24620100&sf24620100=1

          I guess I will not be reading anymore Telegraph articles.

          0_1461073201832_upload-ecee889f-b383-49bf-9bc7-90f511dc29a8

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            Weird, I use one and they didn't say that.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender
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              they use flash video too. yep.. a non starter.

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              • NattNattN
                NattNatt @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller same 😕

                @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                they use flash video too. yep.. a non starter.

                yeah...Auto-play videos are annoying...autoplay where you can't stop it is infuriating.

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                • coliverC
                  coliver
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                  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                  So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @coliver
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                    @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                    So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                    Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                    And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

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                    • DashrenderD
                      Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                      So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                      Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                      And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                      LOL - not likely. More likely to go the other way, Texas will invade Mexico and take it over. Hell, maybe we'd end up with out own mini China right to the south.

                      And if that happens, and you think we have a border problem today... you ain't seen nothin' yet!

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                        So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                        Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                        And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                        Do you like hate Mexico or something 😉

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @coliver
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                          @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                          So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                          Eleven counties want a vote. The problem is... if they vote to do it, they still don't have any right to do it. Not that a vote isn't useful to see what people think but given that Texas is going to be a primarily hispanic state before any separation could take place, they should think carefully about what this means. Texas will be a Spanish speaking, "Little Mexico" very different from where it is today leveraging the northerns living there to buoy the votes.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                            So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                            Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                            And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                            Do you like hate Mexico or something 😉

                            No I hate stupid people. Wooh let's leave the US.

                            At least Mexico has their shit together, government and drug cartels run everything.... so there is a single unifying factor.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                              @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                              So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                              Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                              And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                              Do you like hate Mexico or something 😉

                              No I hate stupid people. Wooh let's leave the US.

                              At least Mexico has their shit together, government and drug cartels run everything.... so there is a single unifying factor.

                              the drug cartels are an American problem. Separate Texas and they will all move to Texas instead of being in Mexico.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Friend of my wife's was the pilot... http://www.uticaod.com/news/20160419/names-released-in-westmoreland-plane-crash

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  @coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/19/the-texas-secession-movement-is-getting-kind-of-serious/

                                  So... this is a thing. Apparently the Texas Nationalist Movement has jumped their membership 400% since 2012.

                                  Good let Texas deal with the their own issues without my support, I live in NY, I've never even seen Texas.

                                  And you know what once they do leave, I hope that Mexico takes over it.

                                  Do you like hate Mexico or something 😉

                                  No I hate stupid people. Wooh let's leave the US.

                                  At least Mexico has their shit together, government and drug cartels run everything.... so there is a single unifying factor.

                                  the drug cartels are an American problem. Separate Texas and they will all move to Texas instead of being in Mexico.

                                  Drug cartels aren't an American problem, or even a Mexico problem, they are a Human problem. The need for money and or the addiction created by the drugs is cause for the state of Mexico and Texas (and everywhere else where there is constant murder etc).

                                  Murder for money to try and sell an addictive drug.

                                  The only way to fix that is to make it so much more expensive for the drug cartels to operate that they just stop. (would they no) so you also have to create an equitable job market in these area, as well as you have to exterminate the hatred from the community as whole, bloods crypts (whatever it is in Mexico).

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                    @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    Drug cartels aren't an American problem, or even a Mexico problem, they are a Human problem. The need for money and or the addiction created by the drugs is cause for the state of Mexico and Texas (and everywhere else where there is constant murder etc).

                                    Not really. they were created by the American legal system. The war on drugs created the drug cartels. Just as the prohibition era created the organized crime syndicates. There is a reason that drug cartels only exist where they can ship to the US... it's part of the US government's artificially created drug ecosystem. Most of the world has drugs but not cartels and the drugs are not nearly as lucrative. The American legal system has created an inflated market and a need for powerful, dangerous cartels that most of the world has not created. It's a byproduct of the US, not of humanity, drugs or business.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                      The only way to fix that is to make it so much more expensive for the drug cartels to operate that they just stop. (would they no) so you also have to create an equitable job market in these area, as well as you have to exterminate the hatred from the community as whole, bloods crypts (whatever it is in Mexico).

                                      Stop making drugs so hard to get and worth so much money and their power evaporates. It's trivial to destroy the cartels. But there is a huge political power in pretending to fight them.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
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                                        Easy to get seems very counter-intuitive.

                                        Most people would say they want the yacht and super-sports car.

                                        While they might like the Honda and the dingy, they'd much prefer the more flashy item.

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                                        • coliverC
                                          coliver @DustinB3403
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                                          @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                          Easy to get seems very counter-intuitive.

                                          Why? That's how the market works. Flood the market with easy to get product and the price will plummet making it unlikely and unprofitable for a cartel or other entity to bring them into the US.

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                                          • coliverC
                                            coliver
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                                            More US fun: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/18/health/utah-governor-porn-resolution-health-hazard/index.html

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