To be fair, I did say "should consider". If they want to flush money down the toilet buying several pairs of airpods only to lose them and buy them again, I don't really care as they are wasting their own money. Similarly if they want to keep buying each new incremental release of the iPhone because they will feel like incomplete human beings if they don't, I don't care. I have other things that I prioritize my own spending on but they can do as they like with theirs.
When I finished my undergrad years ago I paid lab costs and other associated costs for the courses in my major that people who primarily took lecture-only courses did not have to pay.
I don't have any real pity for someone who dishes out that kind of money for headphones and can't keep track of them. They should consider putting their money into something else.
Wishful thinking, there. He has the sacred letter after his name now, forever associated with his name and his brand. What he says is now gospel to the party, he couldn't piss them off if he ordered McConnell and Paul Ryan to walk naked down Pennsylvania Ave for his own amusement.
I'm not so sure about that. Politicians are, first and foremost, adept at defending their own political careers and if Trump goes against what they need to survive they'll turn on him and simply accuse him of being a RINO. Not that will bother him, in fact it may bolster his viewpoint that he alone is always right.
I disagree, and fully expect the GOP to defend him until the bitter end no matter what. I say this because if they were to be complacent in his collapse and/or removal from office that could end up being catastrophically bad for the party. Anything that is that catastrophically bad for the party could well end the careers of most of the politicians with (R) after their name. We all know how little those critters care about what is good for the country when they are faced simultaneously with what is good for their party and/or good for their own career.
Frankly right now if a video turned up of Trump personally shitting on the grave of Ronald Reagan and then subsequently wiping his ass with an American flag (only to set it on fire while singing a Russian war hymn) they wouldn't reject him at that point but rather claim it was their party's new found embrace of free speech.
They can't disown him. They can't afford to. In the 2016 election the GOP will face massive infighting between Trump-publicans and other republicans as they try to pull in votes.
I wouldn't put too much weight behind what he said 10+ years ago, he almost certainly doesn't remember it and would deny ever saying it at this point. He is, after all, the post-truth president - where facts don't matter and reality is only whatever he says it is. On top of that he has changed his opinion on almost every conceivable position in the past 5 years - on some of them multiple times - so saying that back then does not in any way preclude him from saying the opposite now and having the entire GOP believe him when he says it.
I would not be surprised if he pisses off both parties equally.
Wishful thinking, there. He has the sacred letter after his name now, forever associated with his name and his brand. What he says is now gospel to the party, he couldn't piss them off if he ordered McConnell and Paul Ryan to walk naked down Pennsylvania Ave for his own amusement.
Unfortunately we don't know how long it took Camacho to come to realize his intellectual deficit and recruit someone smarter. Our real-life-Camacho has honestly convinced himself that he is of super-genius level of intellect and is highly unlikely to reach the same conclusion any time soon.
That is the icon of the democratic party on the banner for this story. While Trump has been known to have held both sides of most matters lately, I have yet to see him call himself a democrat - and he most certainly did not have their endorsement to run for president.
Early adopters paid the costs of being early adopters on this one. I was starting to ponder the idea of purchasing a 3D TV for my next set but I couldn't really justify buying a new TV of any sort recently. Not everyone has that kind of disposable cash lying around. It wasn't so much that 3D costs that much extra (it generally didn't, especially if you didn't need extra glasses), it was that I just wasn't interested in a new TV beyond my 42" plasma.
This is much the same as when I find myself discussing consumer electronics purchases in general; while some people say they buy a lot more stuff online than in physical stores, I find I'm just not buying that much stuff in general. I used to average $1,000 or so a year at best buy, now I spend closer to $200-300 a year and the difference goes to pay for things that are not consumer electronics at all. In other words, in my case best buy isn't losing my money to amazon they are losing it to nobody.
The "elite" schools, based on their reputation, generally only attract applicants who believe they can afford to go there. I had exceptional ACT/SAT scores but I was not interested in the financial burden of such schools so I went to a large public research university instead. However people who are living lifestyles that can afford such expenses will consider applying. It didn't matter in my case that there tuition assistance and financial aid; the cost gap at the time was still too enormous between podunk state and Yale to even consider bothering with an application.
Even if the gap has reduced on the tuition level, the cost of living at those schools is still very very high and the students know that.
I suspect he was motivated by notoriety as much as anything. He knew what his options were and what the consequences would be; I don't for a moment think he is or was stupid. He chose this path on purpose but I am not convinced it was solely altruistic. After all, if he really wanted to ensure that the people were talking about the program and its wrongs that he shone light upon, what better way would there be for him to do that than to come back to the states and face a public trial? The longer he stays abroad the less the American public will be discussing the matter - especially now that we have elected a professional internet troll for POTUS who will be serving up a new controversy to the American people at least twice a day.
This sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me.
I think those people have already proven their masochistic side by signing up for Verizon.
I'll play devil's advocate on this part and say that I have lived in places where there were dead spots that were only penetrated by Verizon. T-mobile, AT&T, and Sprint all failed where Verizon did not. You pay for that additional coverage, but it is available.
If his actions were purely altruistic then why would he not be willing to go for full martyrdom and come back and face trial?
the US government who want revenge
That would assure him martyrdom if indeed his actions were all about doing what is right for the nation.
I see his reluctance to do this as another sign that his "altruistic" actions were indeed more self-serving than you are willing to consider. There were other ways that he could have shed light on this problem that would not have put him in a position where he could be fearing criminal conviction - or at least conviction on this magnitude.
It would also stop him leaking yet more stuff for the benefit of all (except the corrupt crazies).
If he has more material to leak, coming back to the country would not prevent it from being leaked. He could share it with someone in another country and give them instructions on when to release it if things don't go according to plan.
What Snowden did was altruistic and for the good of the people.
You are entitled to your opinion on the matter. Being as he has been unwilling to defend his actions in a court of law or give an official statement on it, we cannot say for sure what his motivations were. We have just as much support for the notion that he did it for the notoriety as anything. If his actions were purely altruistic then why would he not be willing to go for full martyrdom and come back and face trial?
After all, there were other avenues he could have chosen to expose the program. I don't for a moment disagree that the program was wrong, but he could have brought it to the attention of the public in other ways.
I disagree, based on the fact that Snowden is still at this moment a fugitive. He has never faced trial. Manning faced trial, plead guilty, and served time. While it is not without precedent to pardon someone who has not been tried (ie, Nixon), it is not easy to make an argument for it.
Big projects done by government, bad. No further information needed! You need to fly or drive yourself instead, because that is what St. Ronnie and his new top disciple The Donald want you to do.
Pensioner in name only. If he was in his 40s in 1971 and lost his job at that time, he likely didn't have enough work history to have accrued much pension. Likelihood of him having taken a job with a pension after this would likely be pretty slim.
No, he's Jimmy Jam. What better alias could one come up with to evade detection as a famous skyjacker than being a 12-year-old in Minneapolis at the time?
Considering how many Trump cabinet appointees are openly opposed to the missions - or even existence - of the departments he is aiming to appoint them to head, why would it be a surprise that a "cyber security advisor" is running an atrociously insecure site?
They are targeting gamers here (and gamers with too much money, at that). Gamers don't care about battery life as they are going to be plugged in all the time anyways. Gamers that can afford such an absurd setup are probably followed around by butlers who are willing to carry car battery powered UPS units for them if they really want to be "portable". This has very nearly no practical use.
They had a ThinkPad with a second physical screen before, it didn't exactly set the world's collective hearts aflutter. Granted the second one was much smaller than the primary, but they tried it and found it wasn't what the consumers wanted. I don't see why someone would want to commit to a laptop form factor with 3 screens. There are plenty of good reasons to use a laptop - I do the vast overwhelming majority of my own work on a laptop - but this seems like a solution in search of an answer.
It is a pretty insignificant part of Windows in terms of the size of the executable. We're already up to distributing Windows on DVD as it is too large for a CD, dropping Cmd isn't going to magically change that. Even for the customers who never use it in their lives, having it around doesn't hurt them.
It had been a while since slashdot reminded us to worship Zuckerberg. I can't say I was missing the call to prayer or anything, but I had noticed its absence.
The current Ford CEO is nothing like Henry Ford and looks forward to trying to further his interests without union labor. He sees this as Trump giving him the green light to attempt to do so. After all the big three can now look at the American (located) plants for Asian (headquartered) companies that are mostly staffed by non-union workers and whine that they can't "compete" unless they can reduce wages, skirt pension, and provide reduced benefits. Considering the goon that Trump wants to place in charge of the Department of Labor, it's game on.
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To be fair, I did say "should consider". If they want to flush money down the toilet buying several pairs of airpods only to lose them and buy them again, I don't really care as they are wasting their own money. Similarly if they want to keep buying each new incremental release of the iPhone because they will feel like incomplete human beings if they don't, I don't care. I have other things that I prioritize my own spending on but they can do as they like with theirs.
When I finished my undergrad years ago I paid lab costs and other associated costs for the courses in my major that people who primarily took lecture-only courses did not have to pay.
I don't have any real pity for someone who dishes out that kind of money for headphones and can't keep track of them. They should consider putting their money into something else.
Wishful thinking, there. He has the sacred letter after his name now, forever associated with his name and his brand. What he says is now gospel to the party, he couldn't piss them off if he ordered McConnell and Paul Ryan to walk naked down Pennsylvania Ave for his own amusement.
I'm not so sure about that. Politicians are, first and foremost, adept at defending their own political careers and if Trump goes against what they need to survive they'll turn on him and simply accuse him of being a RINO. Not that will bother him, in fact it may bolster his viewpoint that he alone is always right.
I disagree, and fully expect the GOP to defend him until the bitter end no matter what. I say this because if they were to be complacent in his collapse and/or removal from office that could end up being catastrophically bad for the party. Anything that is that catastrophically bad for the party could well end the careers of most of the politicians with (R) after their name. We all know how little those critters care about what is good for the country when they are faced simultaneously with what is good for their party and/or good for their own career.
Frankly right now if a video turned up of Trump personally shitting on the grave of Ronald Reagan and then subsequently wiping his ass with an American flag (only to set it on fire while singing a Russian war hymn) they wouldn't reject him at that point but rather claim it was their party's new found embrace of free speech.
They can't disown him. They can't afford to. In the 2016 election the GOP will face massive infighting between Trump-publicans and other republicans as they try to pull in votes.
I would not be surprised if he pisses off both parties equally.
Wishful thinking, there. He has the sacred letter after his name now, forever associated with his name and his brand. What he says is now gospel to the party, he couldn't piss them off if he ordered McConnell and Paul Ryan to walk naked down Pennsylvania Ave for his own amusement.
Unfortunately we don't know how long it took Camacho to come to realize his intellectual deficit and recruit someone smarter. Our real-life-Camacho has honestly convinced himself that he is of super-genius level of intellect and is highly unlikely to reach the same conclusion any time soon.
Just remember, electrolytes are good.
That is the icon of the democratic party on the banner for this story. While Trump has been known to have held both sides of most matters lately, I have yet to see him call himself a democrat - and he most certainly did not have their endorsement to run for president.
Early adopters paid the costs of being early adopters on this one. I was starting to ponder the idea of purchasing a 3D TV for my next set but I couldn't really justify buying a new TV of any sort recently. Not everyone has that kind of disposable cash lying around. It wasn't so much that 3D costs that much extra (it generally didn't, especially if you didn't need extra glasses), it was that I just wasn't interested in a new TV beyond my 42" plasma.
This is much the same as when I find myself discussing consumer electronics purchases in general; while some people say they buy a lot more stuff online than in physical stores, I find I'm just not buying that much stuff in general. I used to average $1,000 or so a year at best buy, now I spend closer to $200-300 a year and the difference goes to pay for things that are not consumer electronics at all. In other words, in my case best buy isn't losing my money to amazon they are losing it to nobody.
The "elite" schools, based on their reputation, generally only attract applicants who believe they can afford to go there. I had exceptional ACT/SAT scores but I was not interested in the financial burden of such schools so I went to a large public research university instead. However people who are living lifestyles that can afford such expenses will consider applying. It didn't matter in my case that there tuition assistance and financial aid; the cost gap at the time was still too enormous between podunk state and Yale to even consider bothering with an application.
Even if the gap has reduced on the tuition level, the cost of living at those schools is still very very high and the students know that.
I suspect he was motivated by notoriety as much as anything. He knew what his options were and what the consequences would be; I don't for a moment think he is or was stupid. He chose this path on purpose but I am not convinced it was solely altruistic. After all, if he really wanted to ensure that the people were talking about the program and its wrongs that he shone light upon, what better way would there be for him to do that than to come back to the states and face a public trial? The longer he stays abroad the less the American public will be discussing the matter - especially now that we have elected a professional internet troll for POTUS who will be serving up a new controversy to the American people at least twice a day.
This sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me.
I think those people have already proven their masochistic side by signing up for Verizon.
I'll play devil's advocate on this part and say that I have lived in places where there were dead spots that were only penetrated by Verizon. T-mobile, AT&T, and Sprint all failed where Verizon did not. You pay for that additional coverage, but it is available.
This sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me.
If his actions were purely altruistic then why would he not be willing to go for full martyrdom and come back and face trial?
the US government who want revenge
That would assure him martyrdom if indeed his actions were all about doing what is right for the nation.
I see his reluctance to do this as another sign that his "altruistic" actions were indeed more self-serving than you are willing to consider. There were other ways that he could have shed light on this problem that would not have put him in a position where he could be fearing criminal conviction - or at least conviction on this magnitude.
It would also stop him leaking yet more stuff for the benefit of all (except the corrupt crazies).
If he has more material to leak, coming back to the country would not prevent it from being leaked. He could share it with someone in another country and give them instructions on when to release it if things don't go according to plan.
What Snowden did was altruistic and for the good of the people.
You are entitled to your opinion on the matter. Being as he has been unwilling to defend his actions in a court of law or give an official statement on it, we cannot say for sure what his motivations were. We have just as much support for the notion that he did it for the notoriety as anything. If his actions were purely altruistic then why would he not be willing to go for full martyrdom and come back and face trial?
After all, there were other avenues he could have chosen to expose the program. I don't for a moment disagree that the program was wrong, but he could have brought it to the attention of the public in other ways.
Snowdon seems the logical "other pardon".
I disagree, based on the fact that Snowden is still at this moment a fugitive. He has never faced trial. Manning faced trial, plead guilty, and served time. While it is not without precedent to pardon someone who has not been tried (ie, Nixon), it is not easy to make an argument for it.
Big projects done by government, bad. No further information needed! You need to fly or drive yourself instead, because that is what St. Ronnie and his new top disciple The Donald want you to do.
and he's assuredly a pensioner
Pensioner in name only. If he was in his 40s in 1971 and lost his job at that time, he likely didn't have enough work history to have accrued much pension. Likelihood of him having taken a job with a pension after this would likely be pretty slim.
No, he's Jimmy Jam . What better alias could one come up with to evade detection as a famous skyjacker than being a 12-year-old in Minneapolis at the time?
Considering how many Trump cabinet appointees are openly opposed to the missions - or even existence - of the departments he is aiming to appoint them to head, why would it be a surprise that a "cyber security advisor" is running an atrociously insecure site?
3 minute battery life.
They are targeting gamers here (and gamers with too much money, at that). Gamers don't care about battery life as they are going to be plugged in all the time anyways. Gamers that can afford such an absurd setup are probably followed around by butlers who are willing to carry car battery powered UPS units for them if they really want to be "portable". This has very nearly no practical use.
They had a ThinkPad with a second physical screen before, it didn't exactly set the world's collective hearts aflutter. Granted the second one was much smaller than the primary, but they tried it and found it wasn't what the consumers wanted. I don't see why someone would want to commit to a laptop form factor with 3 screens. There are plenty of good reasons to use a laptop - I do the vast overwhelming majority of my own work on a laptop - but this seems like a solution in search of an answer.
It is a pretty insignificant part of Windows in terms of the size of the executable. We're already up to distributing Windows on DVD as it is too large for a CD, dropping Cmd isn't going to magically change that. Even for the customers who never use it in their lives, having it around doesn't hurt them.
It had been a while since slashdot reminded us to worship Zuckerberg. I can't say I was missing the call to prayer or anything, but I had noticed its absence.
The current Ford CEO is nothing like Henry Ford and looks forward to trying to further his interests without union labor. He sees this as Trump giving him the green light to attempt to do so. After all the big three can now look at the American (located) plants for Asian (headquartered) companies that are mostly staffed by non-union workers and whine that they can't "compete" unless they can reduce wages, skirt pension, and provide reduced benefits. Considering the goon that Trump wants to place in charge of the Department of Labor, it's game on.