That lawsuit doesn't stand a chance under the "liberal" administration of President Lawnchair. Once the country shifts to the whims of Trump it's all over for the workers.
I know the point of this is that there is a significant cost to not having reliable high speed access. However some of us remember the days when your computer connected by a modem at 300 baud and that was pretty good. I recently found myself trying to explain a modem to a high school student... that is one exercise guaranteed to make you feel old. I could have just as well given up and said we sent everything by certified pterodactyl.
I could see this being a bill that Trump would want his friends in the house and senate to quickly get to work on writing out of existence. They will probably have lawyers preparing a case to bring to trial soon in hopes of getting a court to overturn it.
Why is this modded troll? This was exactly the first thing I thought of too. Trump has repeatedly and rabidly stated how he will persecute anyone that says bad things about him. The first amendment is already going to give him a lot of trouble in that regard.
Are you that new here? Slashdot has had a decidedly conservative majority voice for many years now. I was moderated troll for daring to suggest that Trump is not the greatest leader since the dawn of man kind (minus St. Ronnie, of course).
Trump will work hard at reducing the constitution to something will less value than used toilet paper. Meanwhile the slashdot conservatives will soon champion what a great idea that is.
Once Trump is inaugurated that war will be ended. Does it give the POTUS the option to redirect the remaining funds elsewhere? Somehow I doubt Trump is going to get the people working under this bill all jobs at Carrier though...
Trump is now the leader of the republican party (as happens when one is elected POTUS as the candidate of the party). He also is the most successful troll in the history of trolling. Anyone in Washington who disagrees with him - regardless of their party affiliation - will be openly shamed and abused by the Troll in Chief. When he tells the GOP to jump they will ask only how high. When he says in January that he wants this bill killed they will ask only how quickly.
Being as this type of bill potentially challenges his god-given right to make money, he will want it killed. Just as he wants "new libel laws" that allow him to throw journalists into prison who cover him in unfavorable ways.
My work just bought one for me recently. Installation of Kubuntu 16.04 was a breeze, it's worked nearly flawlessly ever since install. My only regret is that I did a HDD instead of SDD. It's light, good battery life, great display (when I'm on the road) and great docking station (when I'm not).
I could see this being a bill that Trump would want his friends in the house and senate to quickly get to work on writing out of existence. They will probably have lawyers preparing a case to bring to trial soon in hopes of getting a court to overturn it.
The DNC put a baker out of business because they wouldn't bake a gay wedding cake.
Here is an actual event
Really? I've heard various iterations of this story but I have not heard one where the Democratic National Committee actually put a baker out of business as you claim. Do you have a source for that?
If someone chooses to be a bigot, and then the negative publicity of their bigotry causes their business level to drop to zero, that is a long ways from having a political party come in and somehow magically put you out of business. Furthermore, if you sell a product to someone, and then you fail to deliver that product as promised, the person who paid you for that product has a right to seek their money back. And if your timing on denial of said product is such that an important event is now disrupted, the customer has a right to seek additional compensation for that as well.
Had the actual, extant (as opposed to your fantasy) baker just had a sign on his door declaring his bigotry, he could have avoided all this as the customer who wanted a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage never would have bothered going in.
Sure, stop black people from stepping foot into your home or your store. Refuse to buy or sell with them. It's your right!
There are things you can do that I don't think are good ideas. There are things you can do that I think are immoral or even dangerous to yourself. I am not endorsing business owners being bigots, but they do have certain rights to exclude people from their private property and rights of association. I'm willing to meet them half way and say "if you don't want to do business with XYZ type of people, that's fine as long as you post a sign plainly stating that. No surprises after the fact".
Similarly if a technology company wants to exclude certain types of traffic or communication from its services, I'm fine with that as long as it is understood what is and is not allowed. As long as the forbidden content is described, they can go ahead and do it.
You're making an assumption there based on your own assumptions rather than what I wrote. I never said I would force the bakers to not be bigots. If they want to refuse certain types of customers I could care less, as long as they are upfront about it. Let every person who walks in know (say, with a sign near the front door) that you won't bake for people of type X. Then there will be no surprises for anyone, and everyone can make a decision to care about that decision or not.
In other words, the same as when Twitter says they won't propagate hateful speech. They are saying it before hand, so that people who are posting hateful speech will know they might not find their speech propagated through that service. Similarly if Twitter said ahead of time they didn't want to be used to advertise a certain neutral product they could do that as well provided they declare that ahead of time so everyone knows.
The GOP wants bakeries to be able to reject potential customers based on their religious beliefs, yet they want twitter to be forced to broadcast the angry ramblings of Trump just because he's Trump? The double standard is staggering. I haven't seen anyone preventing Trump from hiring someone two come up with their own site similar to Twitter; if he's as wealthy as he wants everyone to believe he should have no difficulty hiring brilliant programmers to write something that people would want to use even more than Twitter.
This election was more about the educated vs the blue collar workforce.
I rather doubt it. Trump offered nothing valuable to the blue collar workforce.
Much more likely is that this was a battle between "Not Trump" and "Not Clinton", it came down to who could get more people to the polls to stop the other party's candidate. At the end of the day, the GOP hatred for Clinton won out over the democrat's concern over Trump.
Just look at this year's numbers. Between 2012 and 2016, our country's population increased by over 10 million, yet 6 million fewer votes were cast. The bulk of those votes that were cast in 2012 but not in 2016 were people who voted Obama in 2012 and stayed home in 2016. There are very few states where Trump (in 2016) received more votes than Romney (in 2012), but there were many where Clinton (in 2016) received notably fewer than Obama (in 2012).
Hence the real question is whether the democratic voters sat out because they didn't care (or didn't like Hillary) or sat out because they believed all the polling before election day that said she was going to win easily.
That is about as meaningful of a statement as one in support of intelligent design. It cannot be disproven, only because the criteria for proof or disproof are too vague. Even if the year 2080 came and went and she never ran, you could still say that she might run "some time in the future". If the year 2300 came and went, and she had been deceased for some time without ever running, you still could say "she was going to run, but.... XYZ". Even if she said this afternoon that she is not interested in running, you could still tease apart her statement to claim that she wants to run some other time.
"The Obamas" obviously refers to Obama and his wife just as "The Clintons" always mean Hillary and Bill
There is a huge difference between the two, though. Hillary was involved in politics well before she and Bill moved to 1600 Pennsylvania, he even said that before inauguration. Michelle Obama has never been anywhere near as involved politically as Hillary was while she was first lady. Any speculation that Michelle is going to get into national politics is, at best, only that - speculation. She isn't any more involved than either first lady Bush, or Nancy Reagan, or any other first lady of recent times.
If that was your entry into a contest to see who could achieve the highest ratio of conspiracies per words typed today, you have a solid shot at the top prize.
the Obamas don't like the Clintons
Who, exactly, are the "Obamas"? Only one Obama has ever run for office. Who else with the last name of Obama are you fantasizing a run at office from?
and particular Hillary.
The Secretary of State is selected to present the president's agenda to foreign diplomats and dignitaries. If Obama didn't like Hillary, why on earth would he pick her as SoS? If he wanted to exert some kind of control over her, there were much better options than that.
Obama's legacies are for the most part going to be washed away.
Really? Let's see what you have to say...
Obamacare
Trump has already been backpedaling hard on that one, as have all the elected GOP congress-critters. Trump has been listing off all his favorite parts of the bill that he no longer wants to end, and is quickly approaching or passing the 50% mark in terms of actual acts within the law. Similarly the GOP congress is telling us how much they like large sections of it as well (now that people are actually expecting them to propose something that isn't a carbon copy of what they made such a big deal - and wasted many millions of dollars - of "repealing").
TPP
Being as it won't pass before inauguration day, you might as well add "SCOTUS justice Merrit Garland" to the list.
and other policy initiatives
I'd love to know what that means to you. Obamaphone maybe? That would be killed except he didn't have anything to do with it and it existed before his presidency. Drone killings? Same. Taxes? Same.
undone the second Trump comes into office
You might want to spend a little time listening to what Trump has publicly said since winning the election. His promises from a few weeks ago are quickly going away. Being as he is famously known for having up to this point already had pretty much every position on every issues, it shouldn't be a surprise that he is changing his positions again.
It would be an insult to Obama's memory for him to pardon Hillary
Only in so much as it would be seen as validating the conspiracies that have been levelled against her. Can you name one thing she has been indicted on? No, of course not. There is no reason to pardon her, as each additional round of this endless witch hunt just adds to the tally of time and money wasted by the GOP. The democrats will cash in on that in 2018 and Trump's party at 1600 Pennsylvania will soon end after that.
And don't forget, more than one GOP politician in congress was trying to argue a few weeks ago that the SCOTUS doesn't need to fill Scalia's seat on the bench...
That ship has sailed. ICANN realized a long time ago that the registrars make more money with a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to selling domains. Then on top of that the registrars all offer various registration obfuscation services, which makes them even more money. ICANN isn't willing to lift a finger to expose law breakers with domains, why would they do it for anything else?
The amusing part of this is where people pretend that citizens - or the government - of the US have any meaningful influence on ICANN.
Why do the X1? The question was for a MacBook Pro, not a MacBook Air. The ThinkPad X260 can get over 12 hours of battery life and costs even less, it also is much easier to upgrade or repair without voiding the warranty.
You can have a more reliable laptop that costs less, and has a vastly superior pointing device as well. To top it off, you can repair / upgrade it yourself without voiding the warranty.
There are more homes in this country that are poorly positioned for solar power than you might expect. Their roofs might be aligned poorly for their latitude to maximize solar power generation, they may have cover from other sources (trees, other buildings, etc), they may be in a place that is generally too cloudy or has too few daylight hours, or other factors as well. If you sell these roof tiles as being less expensive and more durable, people will buy them even if they (buyers) cannot expect to generate a useful amount of power from them.
There simply aren't many people connecting to BBS any more. Back in the day I used to dial up (first on a 2400 baud modem) to local numbers in my area, I kinda felt like Matthew Broderick in War Games. Much more recently I used to use telnet to play on x-bit, but that closed. I've found a game of Usurper on convolution.us, but there are generally only about 4 players on there total (and almost never more than one online at any given time). It's cool that synchronet is free and makes it easy to run a board, but if you can't get people to come check out your board then it doesn't much matter.
Some installs I've seen of newer versions are odd, too. Only a helmet for armor (amongst other odd things)? At least the steroids, drugs, alcohol, and poisons are all still there, though...
Wow, some people really will post a video of anything they can think of online. I enjoy playing Usurper, but watching someone else play it - especially while watching them narrate it - is about as enjoyable as watching someone do math homework (and similarly, I usually know what I want them to do next well before they do it).
Every so often I find a BBS still in operation over telnet, and log in to play Usurper. For those who didn't play it, Usurper was a D&D-style RPG that had a little more in it to do than the better known Legend Of the Red Dragon (LORD). A while back the source code for Usurper was released under GNU by the original author.
Between 2012 and 2015, the US population went up ~10 million. Yet the total number of ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election is about 6 million fewer than the total cast in 2012. Where did these voters go? Why didn't they vote? The margin between Trump and Clinton was around 200,000 votes nationally, or about 1/30th of the difference between 2012 and 2016.
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That lawsuit doesn't stand a chance under the "liberal" administration of President Lawnchair. Once the country shifts to the whims of Trump it's all over for the workers.
I know the point of this is that there is a significant cost to not having reliable high speed access. However some of us remember the days when your computer connected by a modem at 300 baud and that was pretty good. I recently found myself trying to explain a modem to a high school student... that is one exercise guaranteed to make you feel old. I could have just as well given up and said we sent everything by certified pterodactyl.
I could see this being a bill that Trump would want his friends in the house and senate to quickly get to work on writing out of existence. They will probably have lawyers preparing a case to bring to trial soon in hopes of getting a court to overturn it.
Why is this modded troll? This was exactly the first thing I thought of too. Trump has repeatedly and rabidly stated how he will persecute anyone that says bad things about him. The first amendment is already going to give him a lot of trouble in that regard.
Are you that new here? Slashdot has had a decidedly conservative majority voice for many years now. I was moderated troll for daring to suggest that Trump is not the greatest leader since the dawn of man kind (minus St. Ronnie, of course).
Trump will work hard at reducing the constitution to something will less value than used toilet paper. Meanwhile the slashdot conservatives will soon champion what a great idea that is.
Once Trump is inaugurated that war will be ended. Does it give the POTUS the option to redirect the remaining funds elsewhere? Somehow I doubt Trump is going to get the people working under this bill all jobs at Carrier though...
Trump is now the leader of the republican party (as happens when one is elected POTUS as the candidate of the party). He also is the most successful troll in the history of trolling. Anyone in Washington who disagrees with him - regardless of their party affiliation - will be openly shamed and abused by the Troll in Chief. When he tells the GOP to jump they will ask only how high. When he says in January that he wants this bill killed they will ask only how quickly.
Being as this type of bill potentially challenges his god-given right to make money, he will want it killed. Just as he wants "new libel laws" that allow him to throw journalists into prison who cover him in unfavorable ways.
My work just bought one for me recently. Installation of Kubuntu 16.04 was a breeze, it's worked nearly flawlessly ever since install. My only regret is that I did a HDD instead of SDD. It's light, good battery life, great display (when I'm on the road) and great docking station (when I'm not).
I could see this being a bill that Trump would want his friends in the house and senate to quickly get to work on writing out of existence. They will probably have lawyers preparing a case to bring to trial soon in hopes of getting a court to overturn it.
The DNC put a baker out of business because they wouldn't bake a gay wedding cake.
Here is an actual event
Really? I've heard various iterations of this story but I have not heard one where the Democratic National Committee actually put a baker out of business as you claim. Do you have a source for that?
If someone chooses to be a bigot, and then the negative publicity of their bigotry causes their business level to drop to zero, that is a long ways from having a political party come in and somehow magically put you out of business. Furthermore, if you sell a product to someone, and then you fail to deliver that product as promised, the person who paid you for that product has a right to seek their money back. And if your timing on denial of said product is such that an important event is now disrupted, the customer has a right to seek additional compensation for that as well.
Had the actual, extant (as opposed to your fantasy) baker just had a sign on his door declaring his bigotry, he could have avoided all this as the customer who wanted a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage never would have bothered going in.
Sure, stop black people from stepping foot into your home or your store. Refuse to buy or sell with them. It's your right!
There are things you can do that I don't think are good ideas. There are things you can do that I think are immoral or even dangerous to yourself. I am not endorsing business owners being bigots, but they do have certain rights to exclude people from their private property and rights of association. I'm willing to meet them half way and say "if you don't want to do business with XYZ type of people, that's fine as long as you post a sign plainly stating that. No surprises after the fact".
Similarly if a technology company wants to exclude certain types of traffic or communication from its services, I'm fine with that as long as it is understood what is and is not allowed. As long as the forbidden content is described, they can go ahead and do it.
you trying to force them to support yours.
Is not in any way supported by what I wrote. You made an incorrect assumption.
You're making an assumption there based on your own assumptions rather than what I wrote. I never said I would force the bakers to not be bigots. If they want to refuse certain types of customers I could care less, as long as they are upfront about it. Let every person who walks in know (say, with a sign near the front door) that you won't bake for people of type X. Then there will be no surprises for anyone, and everyone can make a decision to care about that decision or not.
In other words, the same as when Twitter says they won't propagate hateful speech. They are saying it before hand, so that people who are posting hateful speech will know they might not find their speech propagated through that service. Similarly if Twitter said ahead of time they didn't want to be used to advertise a certain neutral product they could do that as well provided they declare that ahead of time so everyone knows.
The GOP wants bakeries to be able to reject potential customers based on their religious beliefs, yet they want twitter to be forced to broadcast the angry ramblings of Trump just because he's Trump? The double standard is staggering. I haven't seen anyone preventing Trump from hiring someone two come up with their own site similar to Twitter; if he's as wealthy as he wants everyone to believe he should have no difficulty hiring brilliant programmers to write something that people would want to use even more than Twitter.
This election was more about the educated vs the blue collar workforce.
I rather doubt it. Trump offered nothing valuable to the blue collar workforce.
Much more likely is that this was a battle between "Not Trump" and "Not Clinton", it came down to who could get more people to the polls to stop the other party's candidate. At the end of the day, the GOP hatred for Clinton won out over the democrat's concern over Trump.
Just look at this year's numbers. Between 2012 and 2016, our country's population increased by over 10 million, yet 6 million fewer votes were cast. The bulk of those votes that were cast in 2012 but not in 2016 were people who voted Obama in 2012 and stayed home in 2016. There are very few states where Trump (in 2016) received more votes than Romney (in 2012), but there were many where Clinton (in 2016) received notably fewer than Obama (in 2012).
Hence the real question is whether the democratic voters sat out because they didn't care (or didn't like Hillary) or sat out because they believed all the polling before election day that said she was going to win easily.
I wish I had that kind of frenemy...
That is about as meaningful of a statement as one in support of intelligent design. It cannot be disproven, only because the criteria for proof or disproof are too vague. Even if the year 2080 came and went and she never ran, you could still say that she might run "some time in the future". If the year 2300 came and went, and she had been deceased for some time without ever running, you still could say "she was going to run, but .... XYZ". Even if she said this afternoon that she is not interested in running, you could still tease apart her statement to claim that she wants to run some other time.
"The Obamas" obviously refers to Obama and his wife just as "The Clintons" always mean Hillary and Bill
There is a huge difference between the two, though. Hillary was involved in politics well before she and Bill moved to 1600 Pennsylvania, he even said that before inauguration. Michelle Obama has never been anywhere near as involved politically as Hillary was while she was first lady. Any speculation that Michelle is going to get into national politics is, at best, only that - speculation. She isn't any more involved than either first lady Bush, or Nancy Reagan, or any other first lady of recent times.
the Obamas don't like the Clintons
Who, exactly, are the "Obamas"? Only one Obama has ever run for office. Who else with the last name of Obama are you fantasizing a run at office from?
and particular Hillary.
The Secretary of State is selected to present the president's agenda to foreign diplomats and dignitaries. If Obama didn't like Hillary, why on earth would he pick her as SoS? If he wanted to exert some kind of control over her, there were much better options than that.
Obama's legacies are for the most part going to be washed away.
Really? Let's see what you have to say...
Obamacare
Trump has already been backpedaling hard on that one, as have all the elected GOP congress-critters. Trump has been listing off all his favorite parts of the bill that he no longer wants to end, and is quickly approaching or passing the 50% mark in terms of actual acts within the law. Similarly the GOP congress is telling us how much they like large sections of it as well (now that people are actually expecting them to propose something that isn't a carbon copy of what they made such a big deal - and wasted many millions of dollars - of "repealing").
TPP
Being as it won't pass before inauguration day, you might as well add "SCOTUS justice Merrit Garland" to the list.
and other policy initiatives
I'd love to know what that means to you. Obamaphone maybe? That would be killed except he didn't have anything to do with it and it existed before his presidency. Drone killings? Same. Taxes? Same.
undone the second Trump comes into office
You might want to spend a little time listening to what Trump has publicly said since winning the election. His promises from a few weeks ago are quickly going away. Being as he is famously known for having up to this point already had pretty much every position on every issues, it shouldn't be a surprise that he is changing his positions again.
It would be an insult to Obama's memory for him to pardon Hillary
Only in so much as it would be seen as validating the conspiracies that have been levelled against her. Can you name one thing she has been indicted on? No, of course not. There is no reason to pardon her, as each additional round of this endless witch hunt just adds to the tally of time and money wasted by the GOP. The democrats will cash in on that in 2018 and Trump's party at 1600 Pennsylvania will soon end after that.
And don't forget, more than one GOP politician in congress was trying to argue a few weeks ago that the SCOTUS doesn't need to fill Scalia's seat on the bench...
That ship has sailed. ICANN realized a long time ago that the registrars make more money with a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to selling domains. Then on top of that the registrars all offer various registration obfuscation services, which makes them even more money. ICANN isn't willing to lift a finger to expose law breakers with domains, why would they do it for anything else?
The amusing part of this is where people pretend that citizens - or the government - of the US have any meaningful influence on ICANN.
Why do the X1? The question was for a MacBook Pro, not a MacBook Air. The ThinkPad X260 can get over 12 hours of battery life and costs even less, it also is much easier to upgrade or repair without voiding the warranty.
You can have a more reliable laptop that costs less, and has a vastly superior pointing device as well. To top it off, you can repair / upgrade it yourself without voiding the warranty.
There are more homes in this country that are poorly positioned for solar power than you might expect. Their roofs might be aligned poorly for their latitude to maximize solar power generation, they may have cover from other sources (trees, other buildings, etc), they may be in a place that is generally too cloudy or has too few daylight hours, or other factors as well. If you sell these roof tiles as being less expensive and more durable, people will buy them even if they (buyers) cannot expect to generate a useful amount of power from them.
There simply aren't many people connecting to BBS any more. Back in the day I used to dial up (first on a 2400 baud modem) to local numbers in my area, I kinda felt like Matthew Broderick in War Games. Much more recently I used to use telnet to play on x-bit, but that closed. I've found a game of Usurper on convolution.us, but there are generally only about 4 players on there total (and almost never more than one online at any given time). It's cool that synchronet is free and makes it easy to run a board, but if you can't get people to come check out your board then it doesn't much matter.
Some installs I've seen of newer versions are odd, too. Only a helmet for armor (amongst other odd things)? At least the steroids, drugs, alcohol, and poisons are all still there, though...
Wow, some people really will post a video of anything they can think of online. I enjoy playing Usurper, but watching someone else play it - especially while watching them narrate it - is about as enjoyable as watching someone do math homework (and similarly, I usually know what I want them to do next well before they do it).
Every so often I find a BBS still in operation over telnet, and log in to play Usurper. For those who didn't play it, Usurper was a D&D-style RPG that had a little more in it to do than the better known Legend Of the Red Dragon (LORD). A while back the source code for Usurper was released under GNU by the original author.
This also reminded me of an even more complicated game called Exitilus. According to at least one group, the code for this is lost to history, as it the original author of the game.
Between 2012 and 2015, the US population went up ~10 million. Yet the total number of ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election is about 6 million fewer than the total cast in 2012. Where did these voters go? Why didn't they vote? The margin between Trump and Clinton was around 200,000 votes nationally, or about 1/30th of the difference between 2012 and 2016.