I realize there have been some adverse reactions. That exists with all vaccines. However, w/ the numbers that have been administered the negative reactions are miniscule.
I'm not suggesting anyone take it if they do not want to do so. However, there is more than enough voluntary participation to reach the statistical goals.
No vaccine is perfect. It serves to reduce the probability of serious effects of a disease and over time virtually, no completely, eliminate the threat of a disease.
At the current rate of around 1.3 million doses per day, in the next 60 days well over 10% of the population will have been vaccinated. This assumes that 2 doses required for complete vaccination course and that it started today at 0. It will likely end up being over 15%. Further, w/ the vaccines aimed at the most vulnerable for the most part, this will have a huge beneficial effect in the effort to eliminate the major threats posed by CV.
Republicans control 29 State Houses and 25 Governorships. Nebraska is neither but is a red state.
In 23 States Repubs hold the Gov, Senate, and Legislature(House).
https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_governors
Every state w/ a Repub AG should be suing the Biden Admin for each exec order, AS THEY DID TO TRUMP. Texas has already won, one such suit.
Even if they do not win it ties it up in court. Again, that is the DEM tactic when not in power.
Repub states must band together and resist FED election laws, pass mandatory voter id if not in place in a state, return to reasonable restrictions on absentee balloting and get control of polling places.
Every vote counting facility should be CASINO level secure. Employees should not have cell phones or even land lines in the counting area. It needs to be a secure area. Furthermore, there has to be a legislated and enforced "air gap" between equipment and network. Counting machines cannot have print capability. No device should be able to have wireless connectivity. No device should have any open port, serial (rs232), usb, parallel, ps/2, 5-pin din, hdmi, lightning, thunderbolt, etc. No external ports whatsoever. Every electronic device should be certified and sealed. Every device should be randomly checked at multiple points during count. Must be a log of every person certifying a device. This is just basic security.
The point is the states need to assert themselves. 10th amendment states that powers not granted to the federal govt by the constitution remain with the states.
President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 air traffic controllers who ignored his order to return to work.
In carrying out his threat, Reagan also imposed a lifetime ban on rehiring the strikers. In October 1981, the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified PATCO.
Switch to Independent and announce they will caucus w/ the Republicans, for now...
And make it clear they can go back and forth w/ their caucus as is necessary.
They would own the place.
This is actually a non partisan statement. Also, should apply to all elected officials not just appointed Judges. Hard to forecast which party would benefit most in the short run. But long term this has to happen.
e.g.
Feinstein is 87
Ginsburg was ??? (not looking up but way old and unhealthy)
Strom Thurmond (served into his 90's)
Judges need to be of a mental and physical condition to read a ton of material and make highly important decisions. W/ certain Judges it may be the law clerks behind the scenes that make the calls.
There are examples both ways on this. Right of hand, McConnell, Pelosi, Schumer, maybe Grassley should all be done. Oh and Biden also.
Perhaps there should be a maximum age to qualify. There is minimum age for all public offices. Some of these limits are set by the Constitution. If there can be a minimum age there should certainly be a maximum age.
Will not claim to be an expert on it. But essentially a large number of individual investors took a position that was opposite of a hedge fund and the hedge fund lost. It faced a margin call and required a huge infusion of capital.
To be very clear, those investors that took on the hedge fund will ultimately loose also since they apparently artificially bid up the price of a stock.
But don't believe this effect is new. LARGE INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THE MARKET.
Its common for large mutual funds to have 20 billion or more in a fund. That can easily move a market.
Seems the problem here is that common folk moved the market. That said, probably an imprudent decision for the common folk that get left holding overvalued stock.
Collins always been a moderate. As Maine Repubs go she is a Repub. Murkowski was beaten in the primary then ran as an Independent in the general and won. She is barely a Repub. But that was known before she was elected.
MR, of Mass then Utah is yet another story. He ran against O w/ a great chance to win. Recall Scott Walker was elected as a Repub Senator from MASS promising to the be the last vote necessary to prevent OCare overcoming Senate filibuster. They eventually completed it w/ budget reconciliation. But Romney did not fight against O. Had Romney fought against O as hard as he has against Trump, there never would have been a President Trump. Romney allowed CNN Debate Host Candy Crowley to roll him in the debate when he was right on the facts.
During that campaign he solicited Trump's endorsement. Trump gave it. Romney had a press conference bragging on Trump and the Endorsement.
Yet when DJT ran, Romney organized a group to sign on to a letter disparaging Trump's character. After essentially begging an endorsement in the previous cycle he set out to sabotage.
Then when DJT was elected Romney gladly campaigned for the SOS position. Trump chose Tillorson. Then Romney moves to UTAH to fill Orin Hatch's seat. See, he would not likely win anywhere else. And right on cue he seeks Trump's endorsement. Trump did support him.
Then Sham Impeachment V. 1 rolls around and Romney votes to convict.
Romney Care was the Model for Obamacare. Romney goes where its good for Romney or wherever the wind blows.
He is what he is. His personal vendetta against DJT is disgusting.
Neither of you will win a National election. Blue Collar Americans will not turn out for you as they did for Reagan and Trump.
The pre Trump Repub base does not have the reach to win.
For quite some time there have been very active communities supporting open source alternatives in: office suites; browser; email; engineering apps; op systems, etc.
Open Source has never been as alive and well as an objective as now. Realize the Internet was largely built on FREE BSD and APACHE. Both well supported and in constant development today.
Search:
-Facebook Alternatives
-Twitter Alternatives
-Open Source Smart Phone
-Open Source Op System
-Lite Unix for Old Computer
There are also apps that will allow post to multiple social media networks and some even organize responses.
Furthermore, for companies competing in this space it is imperative to own multiple domains registered through different registrars. Own their own hardware and host at carrier neutral facilities. Purchase bandwidth from providers on different backbones. (Search Backbone Providers). Run protocols such as BGP. Mirror site. Own your DNS.
The big players seem to be giving away market share. Best investment opportunity since the early Internet IPO days of Ebay, Network Solutions, Paypal, etc....
Understand the PGA of America is a different entity than the PGA Tour.
PGA of America host the PGA Championship. Its technically not a Tour Event just as the US Open is not a Tour Event. The latter is hosted by the USGA.
As an avid golfer, my preference is for the PGA Tour and all Sports League's for that matter stay out of politics. Obviously will not happen.
Best way to combat this is MAKE VIRTUE SIGNALING EXPENSIVE!
I can't imagine Trump Org's contract does not have remedy sections. Hopefully there will be a significant financial penalty over the cancellation of this contract.
Don't go the parler route and host on someone else's cloud. Also, when you use the cloud, anyone's "cloud" you are simply storing your data on a network server controlled by another party.
I tell people this and they respond but its encrypted. They read your data. Maybe not, but they delete it. They can null route it.
An old expression was "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". Its been revised to, "he who has the root password rules the world"!
So, how? These are just few high points. There are many many experts who can assist with even greater detail.
-Internet numbers or IP addresses are distributed by upstream providers. ARIN provides the number to ISPs in America. There are multiple organizations world wide that perform the same function internationally.
-Never go w/ just one domain. Register domain1, domain2, domain3, or .com, .biz, .net, .video, etc. Register each domain w/ a different Registrar. Register a .to domain (island of Tonga). Perhaps register one overseas. Each domain can list the same name servers.
-Build your name servers
-Collocate at carrier neutral sites. Obtain bandwidth from ISPs that are connected on different backbones. Utilize multiple locations and mirror all servers.
-Choose providers based on who their backbone provider is. Perhaps choose one that is less in tune with politics. eg. Verio is a great backbone and is part of NTT a Japenese company. Not making a recommendation but do some research on this.
-Redunancy. BGP. Other commonly available network tools for dynamic routing and optimization.
-Open Source. The Internet enjoyed massive growth in the mid 90's as a result of savvy entrepreneurs who mostly utilized Free BSD as their op system and Apache as the open source web server. Both of those are still around. Every single thing needed to build a servers for a resilient network is available open source.
This is not a blue print for network design. Just throwing out some widely known concepts. There are highly people that design fail safe and resilient networks. Rather than complaining about deplatforming, its time for other market players to step up and utilize currently available technology to eliminate the need for services from those that deplatform.
DEPLATFORMING is the greatest gift given to conservatives in quite some time.
This market void will be filled. The "Elon Musk's" of this space will emerge. It may be Elon Musk.
The demand is there. Before the responses of "they will shut you down", the key to this network diversification and mission critical architecture. Don't use someone else's cloud.
The opportunity is there and its going to be huge.
Realize, the monopolies of Twitter, Amazon, and Face Book are willingly giving away market share. They are effectively breaking themselves up.
I differ from those seeing crisis in recent deplatforming actions. THIS IS OPPORTUNITY BEYOND ANYTHING AN ANTITRUST COURT COULD GRANT.
Never has there been a time for greater opportunity to gain market share. These guys are giving it away. VERY STUPID BUSINESS MOVES.
There are tons of open source competitors beginning at the BIOS level. Op systems, social platforms, business suites, engineering and design, all have open source alternatives now.
Simple steps for the Parlers of the world:
-Register multiple domains, all with different registrars
-Locate your hardware at carrier neutral collocation facilities
-Mirror to another facility.
-Purchase bandwidth from providers on different backbones
-BGP and other protocols that make dynamic switching possible
See:
https://thedonald.win/p/11S0WyEc5R/2014--donald-sterling-forced-by-/
https://thedonald.win/p/11S0SRo1Mv/with-deplatforming-comes-huge-op/
The NBA forced Sterling to sell the Clippers after accusations of racist comments??? Can't remember all the details.
A few details:
-1981, Sterling buys Clippers for 12 million
-2014, as punishment by the NBA, Sterling accepts offer of $2 billion for the Clippers.
Ideology can be both very expensive and financially rewarding. Sterling, was the bad guy according to all pundits, press, league, etc. But in the end Sterling walked away w/ the W.
Realize that things are not always as they seem. The old addage, "be careful what you wish for..." applies.
Deplatforming by monopolies is voluntarily surrendering market share. They may actually break themselves up. I can't believe they would be this short sighted. Apparently for some ideology is more important than enriching your shareholders.
What if Edison Electric suddenly said, we are suspending power services to 10 million homes? Would create some hardship, but a provider or a series of providers would jump into the market place and provide services. Edison would never get those homes back.
Youtube
Youtube is a massively successful video sharing enterprise and will continue to be so. 99% or more of the content on youtube is innocuous to the masses. They essentially have a monopoly. By pushing a tiny fraction of content off the platform opportunity is there for other platforms. Then the other 99% of youtube content begins to find new homes.
Alternatives to Youtube:
-ugetube.com -d.tube -rumble.com -banned.video
Many platforms have emerged to fill voids in this space that twitter is voluntarily surrendering. This is a huge favor for all other players in this market.
Emerging: -parler, gab, clouthub, and many others.
Yes I know they have to scale up and make other hosting arrangements but it is relatively easy and cheap to do so. They need to set up multiple server sites at carrier neutral collocation sites. Set up more than one domain. BGP, Mirror and dynamically transfer if necessary. Diversification is the key to network resiliency.
Facebook:
Tons of opensource platforms emerging. Check MEWE.
Open Source:
Realize now, you can purchase a computer or cell phone, and run completely free software from the op system forward! That is correct. There is not application or operating system, including Windows, IOS, or Android that cannot be replaced with free alternative. Why do you think Microsoft is moving to a subscription based model of distribution?
Proposed amendments must be approved by 2/3 of house and senate, then it must be RATIFIED BY 3/4'S OF THE STATES.
ie, 38 State Legislatures have to approve.
So, when you hear about making DC a state and ending the electoral college realize it is virtually impossible.
But also believe no should post anything online they are not willing to say in person. Furthermore, resorting to profanity and name calling simply indicates an inability to effectively argue a point of view.
Having been part of the mid 90's ISP explosion would consider myself an Internet purist. The Internet proliferated due to small entrepreneurs taking risk and providing what became an essential service. All those companies are gone now. BTW, most of them were built w/ FREE BSD, not Microsoft or Apple/McIntosh
Many of you are likely not aware of the telecommunications explosion that occurred in the mid 90's forward. To understand this you have to go back several years further.
At one time what is now AT&T was known as MA Bell. As a result of antitrust litigation MA Bell was broken up in 1982. Several Baby bell's were born. Southwestern Bell, and others. But AT&T would go on to continue to control most of the long distance market for years to come. Then in 96 the telecommunications act was updated.
It was about that time that several LD carriers emerged. Anyone could obtain a T-1 form a local exchange carrier to an AT&T exchange. That carrier could then sell long distance services. As they sold services they built out their own networks. e.g. MCI, WorldCom, Sprint.
Also at that time CLECS (competitive local exchange carriers came on board). Realize the baby bells still owned the infrastructure that went into each entity, either a home or a business. At that time it was all copper and this infrastructure was known as the last mile.
While working in the ISP business back when dial up was a thing, we moved from a baby bell for Primary Rate Interfaces over to a CLEC which brought fiber directly to us and cut our cost in half. Was a fun time to be in TECH. The bells and cable companies were not yet acting as ISPs.
The courts decided (in layman's terms, not a lawyer) that the last mile had been constructed with monopoly protection that was necessary to build the initial system. The court found it was not in anyone's interest to force a new company to acquire right of ways and build their own last mile. The infrastructure was assigned "common carrier status". This essentially means that any company will have equal access to the last mile. CLECS began as last mile customers but led the way in building fiber based networks and bringing fiber into high bandwidth demand commercial establishments.
Now you AMAZON emerge. Amazon is by no means a monopoly given that WalMart and Barnes and Noble provide similar services. However, AMAZON has vertically integrated to include a distribution system which has become quite vast. It has also sold its network as collocation or virtual server to others.
My prediction is that Amazon will be broken up into multiple entities and that it will forced to pay for its distribution service just as if it were using FEDEX or UPS or USPS. Further others may gain access to its distribution service.
Innovation: this is what developed the Internet. It grew unregulated exponentially because it was unregulated. Everyday more products and ideas come from the truly innovative.
Open Source:
This began well before social media. Back w/ Corel, Microsoft, Borland and others were competing for the end user software market, open source was sitting there in the background. The first browsers came from Mozilla which was and still is open source. Eventually Microsoft squeezed most players out except for Apple.
Today you can obtain for free opensource programs, programming environments, office suites, smart phone operating systems, web servers, operating systems, etc.
BTW, most fledgling ISP's began and many are still with FREE BSD as their server platform of choice.
eg. Libre Office rather than Microsoft Office, Ubuntu rather than Windows, Graphene rather than Google Android or IOS, MEWE rather than Facebook, and a ton of twitter alternatives.
Graphene is a smart phone op system that is essentially Android w/ no Google. It will likely run on most android devices but has been specifically tested with a few different devices. You have complete control of the data side of the phone. There app support that does not utilize Google at all. Android itself is open source. Google Android is just packaged Android.
There are hundreds of open source alternatives in everything digital. There user communities for each. If you are a coder you can even develop modules or updates to submit to the project.
Microsoft has recognized that open source can eventually erode its business which is why is pushing subscription based service.
Perhaps an app will come along that would post to multiple twitter like apps simultaneously and manage the replies. In fact it probably already has.
Ownership:
Its pretty simple and cheap to buy a few servers and lease space in a collocation center. These centers offer large bandwidth pipes. Many services Now ownership comes with responsibility. There are always nefarious entities that engage in unspeakable and obviously illegal activities that attempt to locate on network available.
Redundancy:
Very popular platforms should have mirror sites on different backbones in different locations. Also, a popular platform could have multiple domains such as using yahoo as an example: yahoo1, yahoo2, yahoo3. The domains would be at different registrars and have the same dns records. If one was down try the other.
BTW, it is my sincere belief that no one should post anything online that they are not willing to say in person. Discourse is great. Analysis is great. Criticism is great. But don't cross the line.
I posted multiple times that Perdue only needed to pick up a few votes to avoid the runoff. He willingly coasted into a runoff. Dumb decision.
There are the statutory rules set out by the US Constitution and obviously those are the rules that should govern. Then there are on the ground actual rules. Those rules dictate how its going to play out.
e.g. The strike zone is well defined in baseball. But every umpire has their own strike zone. When was the last time a fast ball slightly above the waste was called by a major league umpire.
I think it was Bear Bryant that once said, "if you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin."
Dems utilized ism's, Covid, and crisis hysteria, to rewrite rules in an unconstitutional fashion to create the only playing field upon which they could win. The utilized the media, BLM, antifa, as pressure mechanisms against judges and public officials. They dictated the rules.
Abrams even has tv time purchased in advance to advertise ballot curing. Has any repub strategist even thought about this? DEMS have lawsuits printed and ready to file well in advance. They generally start filing mid morning of election day.
In Golf Terms, Repubs are working on their games relentlessly to shoot 65 at Augusta. DEMS are working on keeping the golf records.
Virtually every polling precinct that matters is run by not just DEMS but DEM operatives.
Repubs can win again, but it will take TWO Major Awakenings!
First: The only Viable Winning Republican Party is Trump's Republican Party!
Second: Form the most local of local levels up, Repubs MUST be involved and MUST eliminate the DEM advantage in Controlling the Counting Infrasture!
Note that 13.1 million doses have been distributed. Only 4.3 have been given.
Of course this weekend, Fauci right on cue slams the roll out effort.
According to the link below, the administration is right on target for vaccine supply. However, states have been so busy elevating their importance as an allocator of a scarce resource that they have created a far below expected participation rate. Its time to tell anyone who wants it to come and get it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Its not that hard to trace a poster. No one should post anything they would not post if you were using your Real Name, address, an phone number.
Furthermore, the goal of this site is to be an advocate for President Trump and his policies. The site does a fantastic job at that purpose.
However, there are those who seek to be in the Trump orbit by posting wild accusations. Those individuals are not helping the President.
Edit: Based on initial responses this friendly advice is being taken exactly as I expected.
Since I'm being corrected on the legality question, I removed the sentence.
The donald.win is a great resource for supporters of this President and to support this President. But "CRAZY" posts are not beneficial to the President.
You only fight against republicans. You were a pro choice governor who provide the blueprint in MASS on which Ocare was based.
You voted to impeach a President w/ ZERO evidence. Every claim during impeachment was refuted. Witnesses even admitted that Trump was asked what do you want and he firmly stated I want nothing. On the other hand there was a mountain of evidence that the Biden's engaged in the exact same activity for which Trump was impeached. But YOU VOTED TO REMOVE THE PRESIDENT FROM OFFICE.
You will never win another election and even had to go to UTAH to have a chance to win one.
Your services will no longer be needed as soon as there is another vote. You will face a primary challenge from a Trump Republican.
To bad no recall procedure in UTAH.