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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 20, 2018 - 08:51am PT
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healyj: Trump is getting played.
According to you, but at least he is playing, and well enough that substantive talks appear imminent. No president in 60 years has done this. And if he achieves de-nuking Lil Phatty you would be so churlish as to decry it because he gave something in return? How far thinking of you.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Apr 20, 2018 - 08:56am PT
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He's not going to de-nuke'em - doesn't have enough time left in his presidency.
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10b4me
Social climber
Lida Junction
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Apr 20, 2018 - 09:00am PT
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The problem is that the odds of TrumpCo giving them all that is slim to none, so I don't have high expectations beyond Kim stalling while holding out the appearance of willing acquiescence as he always does. And the result of not cutting a deal is TrumpCo will look like idiots for engaging over a protracted period and getting nothing to show for it. Nothing but the status quo that is (and it will only be that if those first five things on the list are on-site verified).
Trump is getting played.
Kim is going to make a fool out of trump.
Not hard to do.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2018 - 04:25pm PT
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Floppy Don apparently hasn't treated his fixer very well. Over the years, they've had a dysfunctional codependent relationship, with Trump abusing Cohen for his own amusement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/trump-michael-cohen.html
Trump's continual mistreatment of Michael Cohen was partly because he isn't Roy Cohn, Trump's notoriously corrupt dirty trickster from the 1980s.
When grandma breaks wind, we beat the dog.
 Floppy Don, explaining how it's done in the Trump household
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Apr 20, 2018 - 04:48pm PT
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That KC Fireman story is waaaay f*cked up
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 20, 2018 - 05:15pm PT
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It's a known fact here that brainwashed Tom and Fried Craig are the sheeple trying to recruit more sheeple.
The more sheeple the better for these guys so they can masquerade their bullsh!t as doing something intelligent.
This is why these clowns focus exclusively on their puppet leader TRump.
These loons know nothing beyond except more brainwashed horsesh!t from their brainwashed main loon media .....
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WBraun
climber
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Apr 20, 2018 - 06:11pm PT
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LMAO ..... ha ha ha good one ...
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Apr 20, 2018 - 06:16pm PT
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pick a target and attack them personally
call em out by name and tell them how stupid they are
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2018 - 06:17pm PT
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WVB, if the topic of the forum is Trump, shouldn't he be the primary focus?
Anyway, here's a story from The Failing With Only Three Pulitzers New York Times.
It's a great story that's mostly about the DNC, Trump's campaign staff, Russian officials, and Wikileaks. The best part is that the lawsuit is based only on what has been publicly revealed about Russian interference in the election. It's concussive enough, right now, to spin Trump around on his axis a few times.
The DNC lawyers will be able to amend their complaint later, to present additional information, such as any Mueller and the Southern District Court reveal to the public as those situations proceed.
“Rather than report these repeated messages that Russia intended to interfere with U.S. elections, the Trump campaign and its agents gleefully welcomed Russia’s help,” the lawsuit said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/dnc-russia-trump-lawsuit.html
REMEMBER: OJ was acquitted in a criminal trial, but Ron Goldman's family prevailed in a civil trial based predominantly on the same evidence.
Trump's national energy policy came from a Steam Punk comic book he found in Baron's room.
Energy dominance, rather than independence, does seem to be an unusual policy shift. Maybe he believes Americans should be the Warriors of the Wasteland.
Energy dominance, by the way, is what thermonuclear weaponry is all about: maximum energy release capability.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Apr 20, 2018 - 06:29pm PT
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TDS? Total Dissolved Solids?
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2018 - 06:58pm PT
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WVB,
Here's proof you had a good point before:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/technology/att-verizon-investigate-esim.html
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into potential coordination by AT&T, Verizon and a telecommunications standards organization to hinder consumers from easily switching wireless carriers.
Politards shouldn't just be concerned about DT Jr. "gleefully welcoming" foreign interference in a presidential election.
Politards should also be concerned that the two biggest wireless phone carriers are trying a new tactic of illegal vendor lock-in. AT&T and Verizon are attempting, again, to lock customers' phones so they can't switch carriers.
Politards are video gamers playing Whack-A-Mole against all manner of rapacious sordidians. It's an age-old game, and it's not going to end any time soon.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2018 - 07:15pm PT
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Here's a Total Dissolved Solids diversion . . . . .
Reverse osmosis purification produces waste brine, that for inland areas (not seawater input) mostly contains metal oxides like calcium carbonate as excessive dissolved solids in a super-saturated solution.
What if waste brine, like that, was used in a concrete mix? Would that improve the concrete?
Maybe the Ancient Roman knew to boil off their mineral-rich water before mixing it into their concrete. Roman concrete has proven to be very durable, and better than most of the sidewalks I've seen.
Yes. Their basic mix was to burn limestone to obtain calcium oxide, and then mix it with magic volcanic sand (reactive silica) and water. Their magic sand originally came from Pozzuoli, on the Bay of Naples, downhill from Mount Vesuvius, and right down now the road from Pompeii.
Empirically (as in Empire?) they learned over time to refine their concrete to a very high quality.
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Yeah, chloride attack on concrete is no joke. Roads that have not been sealed from road salt get destroyed rapidly.
Mimicing the Roman Mix by adding fly ash from coal-fired powerplants has been shown to greatly improve durability of portland cement concrete, and improve chloride resistance. The downside is it typically takes longer to cure, which can increase costs, especially for something like a skyscraper whose lower layers must take extra time to cure, in order to support a next layer.
Somewhere, in one of my hard drives, is a story about a company who moved their slip-forms too quickly, week-to-week, and a lower layer failed, bringing down the tower.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Apr 20, 2018 - 07:21pm PT
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Maybe.
Apparently the Romans used volcanic ash and lime instead of portland cement. The seawater did some unique crystallizing thingy over time.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2018 - 07:45pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Steel didn't become cheap enough for building construction until the invention of the Besemer Furnace. Bronze is still too expensive, except as decorative trim.
One big difference of the Roman Concrete, compared to today's OPC, is that it had a lower PH. In other words, it was not as alkaline. This is true, today, of concrete mixes that substitute some of the OPC for fly-ash, activated kaolin clay, or similar pozzolans additives.
Alkalinity in OPC is so aggressive, it can destroy fiberglass, bamboo, or other intended reinforcements. Zirconia fiberglass apparently will work, but that is not the same thing as what they make surfboards and Corvettes from. Steel is protected from corrosion, and as a bonus, the thermal expansion coefficient of concrete and steel is very similar, to minimize thermal stresses.
The Romans might have been able to get away with, say, horsehair, to at least get some early high strength.
For a civilization that didn't have access to algebra, or even the concept of a mathematical zero, they were pretty good sometimes.
By about 65 A.D., urine was a valuable industrial chemical in Rome. The Emperor Vespasian taxed it, to ensure it wouldn't just be discarded. Today, in Florence, an outdoor urinal very close to the Museo Uzzizi is called a Vespasiano.
Urine, back then, was used for retting wool. And, I would not be surprised to learn they also put it in their concrete. Have you ever seen a pee bottle that developed crystalline deposits?
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Lituya
Mountain climber
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Apr 20, 2018 - 07:54pm PT
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LMAO! Does he need less beer? or more grammar crackers?
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Apr 20, 2018 - 08:50pm PT
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oh thanks anyway but I will keep repeating it
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 20, 2018 - 09:25pm PT
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"This prosecutor can come after me with everything she's got, but as all faithful people know: in time comes the truth. And the time for truth is coming,"
Not dj Trump
He be spinnin' anuther tune
But who is this unmasked man
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2018 - 09:43pm PT
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OKAY. I think I now understand . . . .
Trump, when he did the Trump Tower, he was a genius. That the the first all-concrete skyscraper in NYC, and maybe elsewhere. A steel frame, with non-bearing infill walls seems kinda stupid. A concrete structure - walls and all - has its weight beneficially supporting itself. There is almost no lazy material in the Trump Tower. The recent fire in Trump Tower didn't spread, because the structure itself is inherently fire-resistant. Trump was a genius about how to build that tower. He's followed that idea with his other buildings. I think most, if not all, have been all-concrete.
Trump knows buildings.
And, Bo knows baseball. But, Michael Jordan? Not so much.
Trump says he wants more coal-fired power plants. Maybe, he wants the fly-ash waste from those power plants. He knows that fly-ash is cheaper than silica fume, but almost as good for producing very strong concrete.
Trump's big picture is not wrong, in that respect.
But, maybe he's fixated on another great tower, and he's not thinking about the other, deleterious aspects of coal.
#MixedBag
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