How much evidence do people need? How thin do Venezuelans have to get? I'm sick of you people trotting out the no true Scotsman defense every time (and it is ever time) socialism fails. The USSR failed. Every socialist economy in Eastern Europe failed. Cuba failed. North Korea failed. Venezuela failed. Socialism has resulted in starvation and misery every place it's been tried without exception. The only reason China is what it is today is Deng jettisoned the ideology along with Mao's little book.

And a bank crash is not the same thing as a failed economy. The crash is a correction, and a necessary one. When it's over much of the overcapacity is gone.

I suppose it's easier to ignore your neighbors as they try to get rich flipping houses and blame everything on the "banksters".

The difference is socialism always ruins economies, without exception.

Before Chavez took over, Venezuela's economy wasn't entirely dependent on oil. The reason it's now almost entirely dependent on oil is Chavez and Maduro destroyed the rest of the economy, either though outright theft or through price fixing schemes.

This, though I would suggest the big market is probably AR. I can imagine a mechanic using AR to "ghost" the next item that needs to be installed, or being able to point at something and get part information with an option to immediately order a replacement. Warehouse AR that highlight the next item that needs to be picked and verify all the right items went into the box for shipment. The opportunities are endless.

The "literal pages" that don't exist?

If Trump turns out to be compromised by Putin, which is highly likely let's face it...

This is just something Democrats are telling each other. There's no actual evidence. None. If it existed we'd have seen it by now.

... unlike Uranium One's payments to Hillary Clinton, for which there is ample evidence.

It's pretty funny watching someone whose hatred for Trump is all-consuming try to paint other people as Captain Ahab.

It costs a lot of money to decommission large military ships, nuclear or no. They're filled with all sorts of toxic stuff like asbestos and volatile organic chemicals, and many of the valuable metals are tied up in composites which make them not worth recycling. For awhile the navy was paying breakers to dismantle them, but that became so expensive they went back to using old ships as targets and sinking them. If I had to bet I'd guess with the fuel rods removed that's how Enterprise will end up as well.

The problem with this idea is jail really, really sucks. People who've never been there don't know the rules, are terrified, and will do anything to get out when court opens in the morning.

Holder also temporarily ended Federal co-operation with civil forfeiture (aka asset theft without trial)....

He changed the rules such that you could only do a civil asset forfeiture if the feds were involved, which sounds a lot more like beak wetting than anything principled. And the scandal with Fast and Furious was that the feds lost the guns they were supposed to be using as bait, something that never happened under Bush. One of those guns was later used to kill a US Border Patrol agent.

... and you can't spell. Why am I not surprised?

I'm amazed you say my post was unpersuasive and then vomit this garbage onto my screen.

Do you not realize you're so comfortably ensconced in your own bubble you can't even see the bubble and think everyone else is projecting. It's sad. It's really sad.

Still anecdotal, but I miss the rational Republicans. Long time since I've spoken to one.

I feel the same way about Democrats. Democrats around me seem to believe a president who was a tiny bit left of center his entire political life, who donated to Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2008, who put women in powerful positions in his corporate empire, is somehow the next coming of Hitler. Literally. Like, they literally believe Trump is poised to disband Congress and rule by diktat.

So cry me a river.

That's my guess. At $10.99 you can do all you Chrismas shopping through Amazon, come out far ahead on shipping, then drop it in January.

All they have to show is they believed, at the time, this is the best price they could get. That could be minutes of a meeting.