Netflix has been slowly ramping down the DVD-by-mail business. DVDs take longer than it used to to get to you, and I have had some non-obscure titles in my queue that that were given a "very long time" wait period.
So you consider being called a Breitbart reader an insult? You said it, not me.
I'd consider it an insult, sure, unless you're just curious what the fringe end of the alt-right believes. But it's one of the websites with the most obvious hard-political slants; I'd just it about as much as Alex Jones, The Onion, or a total parody site.
Not likely. The campaign was showing some pretty obvious physical effects on her. After another 4 years, I don't think she could physically do it.
She was doing just ok, though there was a flood of fake news "hillary caught coughing up blood!" "Hillary on death's door" bullshit spread from overseas.
OTOH, Team Clinton has been sending out indications of who the anointed successor is. At the moment, it's Kamala Harris.
That's a laugh, Harris is way too new and doesn't have the learning or charisma of Obama to overcome that. She would get munched up, though I guess it's a long way until 2020. She is also from California, and in this day and age, only Republicans from California can gain national respect, not Democrats.
She's still going around complaining about Bernie because he's not a TRUE Democrat like she is.
He never was, you know. Bernie is a Socialist who found it convenient to join the Democratic Party for their support, just like Ron Paul is really a Libertarian, not a Republican.
Then I assume you would be for TERM LIMITS for ALL ELECTED FEDERAL POSITIONS???
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm not for term limits. In my state, we passed an amendment for term limits for elected officials, and what it guaranteed were a bunch of people who were clueless how government worked, never knew who to contact or what they should be doing, and when it seemed like they had finally gotten out of the growing pains phase, they were termed out. Term limits are great if you think all elected officials are assholes and you want them all gone, all the time, but not so great if you like good governance.
The problem is, of course, that our domestic birth rate is so low that we risk an economic implosion
No we don't. We are at absolutely no danger from running out of people. There is no worse problem than you can have than never-ending population growth, so the birth rate is fine.
Considering reelection rates for incumbents... but beyond that. It was never intended to be accountable to the people just as the federal judiciary isn't. When you have Montana senators with the same power as Californian Senators, popular opinion is rather... Irrelevant. Besides, that is what the House is for.
I suppose I should clarify -- in ye olden days, when the federal government was much more limited and the State was the thing you were supposed to pay attention to, Federal Senators were elected by State legislatures -- legislatures elected by the people. Nowadays, no one even knows who his state representatives are, nor do they care. People have stopped paying attention to the states, and they see the federal level as being the only one which matters. Because of that, there's more of a separation between the people and the officials, at least more of one than I think the founders intended.
Frankly, I hope this can be changed back to how it was in the past.
Take all the $$ out of electing senators, and keep them more answerable to the states they come from....
People would actually have to pay attention to their state legislatures, then. Good luck with that. The Senators are far more accountable to the people of the state with the current system than if they were elected by the legislature. The days when people paid attention to any non-federal electoral office besides governor are long gone.
Trump represents the insurgence of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses of all races and backgrounds that are tired of inept government controlling everything, to ill ends for the people as the aristocrats on top get ever weather and more powerful.
So they elect an aristocrat at the top who is helping the aristocrats at the top instead of the poor huddled masses. Smart move, folks. They just got swindled.
If an American citizen goes to a foreign country and joins enemy forces against which there is an active military campaign, you don't need need some trial to decide to bomb. The war doesn't stop just because a citizen has joined the enemy.
In that case, there should be no problem whatsoever with Trump reversing the predecessor's executive action with one of his own — he is the President now with the same discretion.
Exactly. This is what you get when you live by the Executive Decision -- it's a very transitory action that can be entirely undone at the whim of the next President.
Article 1 section 1 was violated. Law must first be enacted by the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, not the executive branch. Good job, you just failed middle school civics.
Obama did not create a new law with DACA, he simply refused to enforce an existing law. Or at least, to only enforce it after a certain time period had passed.
How far up your ass is your head? The fucking title notes that Google threatened removing ad revenue if they didn't remove a post. Google did not force them to delete a post, not in the least!
Come on man, that's de-facto forcing. Having firm control over a website's revenue model means you have a lot of leverage over the website. Yeah, they weren't holding a gun to the owners' heads and threatening to shoot if the post wasn't removed, but they can choke off their advertising revenue that is the lifeblood of a website. It's somewhere between "do nothing," and "directly censoring," and it's a lot closer to the latter than the former.
That Google can be in that sort of a position says bad things about their position in the Internet and the advertising models that websites rely on. Forget search monopoly, it's advertising that can, and perhaps should, get Google into trouble.
Sounds like you're confusing Star Trek with the various porn parodies that are floating around.
-jcr
It was strongly implied in the Original Series that women were not allowed to be command officers. The last episode of the admittedly crappier third season (Turnabout Intruder) featured a whole host of cringeworthy female problems: *) A woman who rankles that she's not allowed to command because she's a woman. "Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women." *) She's described as "hysterical," a common allusion at the time that women are unable to control their emotions like men can. Those who don't realize it's Janice in the body of captain Kirk still describe him/her as "red faced with hysteria." While no one smacked Janice in this episode, there were certainly episodes where women were slapped to break them out of their hysteria. *) "Believe me, it's better to be dead than live alone in the body of a woman." *) And as the Den of Geek put it: Kirk finishes the series by lamenting that “her life could have been as rich as any woman’s" but not, apparently, as rich as a man’s. This was pretty much all ret-conned by Enterprise
and making him black only distracts the viewer by breaking the stereotype. "Why did they make him black?" becomes the focus of the character.
I hated the way the character was written in the movie. You have a meeting with the head of NASA and not only don't know his name, but have to explain a slingshot maneuver to him with a stapler?? He was much better in the book.
Weird. Maybe it's because I came in without any expectations of the character (or anything else), but I never saw him being black as being a distraction or feeling weird. I literally did not notice it, and his race didn't phase me.
Choreographed.:-) Then again, I've only seen it while channel-flipping --- and continued flipping REALLY fast:-)
Ha, well, of course it is choreographed.:-) I do like that the show hires professional choreographers, then the bumper promo shown before each dance routine shows the contestants training with the choreographers that week and their struggles in learning the routine they're about to perform.
Sure, "retargeting" and unwanted video ads have happened to me. As a Firefox user. [... ] there are blocker plugins for the latter.
Yeah, and they all work like shit. They still download the videos, they just don't show them, ever since the web switched mostly to HTML5 video instead of Flash. I hated flash, but boy was it easy to block.
Even my trusty HTML5 don't autoplay plugin only works half the time. Or else I use plugins like noscript and it takes a dozen clicks and a dozen reloads of the page to figure out which sites are mandatory to show the actual website. Then again, just about every site uses googleapis now, and when you enable that, now all your web-pages are cross-site tracking you again.
Slashdot Mirror
Netflix has been slowly ramping down the DVD-by-mail business. DVDs take longer than it used to to get to you, and I have had some non-obscure titles in my queue that that were given a "very long time" wait period.
Hillary Lost is good news, but Trump winning is horrible news.
So you consider being called a Breitbart reader an insult? You said it, not me.
I'd consider it an insult, sure, unless you're just curious what the fringe end of the alt-right believes. But it's one of the websites with the most obvious hard-political slants; I'd just it about as much as Alex Jones, The Onion, or a total parody site.
Not likely. The campaign was showing some pretty obvious physical effects on her. After another 4 years, I don't think she could physically do it.
She was doing just ok, though there was a flood of fake news "hillary caught coughing up blood!" "Hillary on death's door" bullshit spread from overseas.
OTOH, Team Clinton has been sending out indications of who the anointed successor is. At the moment, it's Kamala Harris.
That's a laugh, Harris is way too new and doesn't have the learning or charisma of Obama to overcome that. She would get munched up, though I guess it's a long way until 2020. She is also from California, and in this day and age, only Republicans from California can gain national respect, not Democrats.
She's still going around complaining about Bernie because he's not a TRUE Democrat like she is.
He never was, you know. Bernie is a Socialist who found it convenient to join the Democratic Party for their support, just like Ron Paul is really a Libertarian, not a Republican.
Then I assume you would be for TERM LIMITS for ALL ELECTED FEDERAL POSITIONS???
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm not for term limits. In my state, we passed an amendment for term limits for elected officials, and what it guaranteed were a bunch of people who were clueless how government worked, never knew who to contact or what they should be doing, and when it seemed like they had finally gotten out of the growing pains phase, they were termed out. Term limits are great if you think all elected officials are assholes and you want them all gone, all the time, but not so great if you like good governance.
The problem is, of course, that our domestic birth rate is so low that we risk an economic implosion
No we don't. We are at absolutely no danger from running out of people.
There is no worse problem than you can have than never-ending population growth, so the birth rate is fine.
They'll leave on their own. Many already have since he was elected.
How many have left? Where's the data? Or is that just another Trump talking point?
It happens long before Trump was elected; it was a consequence of the depressed job and housing markets during the Great Recession.
During peace time you dont blow up people and innocent bystanders because you THINK they are 'bad guys'.
Only Congress can "declare war," but it's not a war against a country, it's a war against a movement that Congress authorized over a decade ago.
Considering reelection rates for incumbents... but beyond that. It was never intended to be accountable to the people just as the federal judiciary isn't. When you have Montana senators with the same power as Californian Senators, popular opinion is rather... Irrelevant. Besides, that is what the House is for.
I suppose I should clarify -- in ye olden days, when the federal government was much more limited and the State was the thing you were supposed to pay attention to, Federal Senators were elected by State legislatures -- legislatures elected by the people. Nowadays, no one even knows who his state representatives are, nor do they care. People have stopped paying attention to the states, and they see the federal level as being the only one which matters. Because of that, there's more of a separation between the people and the officials, at least more of one than I think the founders intended.
As long as Antifa remains the public face of 'the left',
But they aren't. I haven't been able to find much of any support for Antifa other than Antifa itself.
Frankly, I hope this can be changed back to how it was in the past.
Take all the $$ out of electing senators, and keep them more answerable to the states they come from....
People would actually have to pay attention to their state legislatures, then. Good luck with that. The Senators are far more accountable to the people of the state with the current system than if they were elected by the legislature. The days when people paid attention to any non-federal electoral office besides governor are long gone.
Trump represents the insurgence of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses of all races and backgrounds that are tired of inept government controlling everything, to ill ends for the people as the aristocrats on top get ever weather and more powerful.
So they elect an aristocrat at the top who is helping the aristocrats at the top instead of the poor huddled masses. Smart move, folks. They just got swindled.
He bombed american citizens without trial.
If an American citizen goes to a foreign country and joins enemy forces against which there is an active military campaign, you don't need need some trial to decide to bomb. The war doesn't stop just because a citizen has joined the enemy.
In that case, there should be no problem whatsoever with Trump reversing the predecessor's executive action with one of his own — he is the President now with the same discretion.
Exactly. This is what you get when you live by the Executive Decision -- it's a very transitory action that can be entirely undone at the whim of the next President.
Article 1 section 1 was violated. Law must first be enacted by the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH, not the executive branch. Good job, you just failed middle school civics.
Obama did not create a new law with DACA, he simply refused to enforce an existing law. Or at least, to only enforce it after a certain time period had passed.
How far up your ass is your head? The fucking title notes that Google threatened removing ad revenue if they didn't remove a post. Google did not force them to delete a post, not in the least!
Come on man, that's de-facto forcing. Having firm control over a website's revenue model means you have a lot of leverage over the website. Yeah, they weren't holding a gun to the owners' heads and threatening to shoot if the post wasn't removed, but they can choke off their advertising revenue that is the lifeblood of a website. It's somewhere between "do nothing," and "directly censoring," and it's a lot closer to the latter than the former.
That Google can be in that sort of a position says bad things about their position in the Internet and the advertising models that websites rely on. Forget search monopoly, it's advertising that can, and perhaps should, get Google into trouble.
Wrong. The hoodie-wearing white guys have been complaining about the UX crowd since they showed up. But no one listens.
Ummm... everyone not in the UX field complains about UX?
Sounds like you're confusing Star Trek with the various porn parodies that are floating around.
-jcr
It was strongly implied in the Original Series that women were not allowed to be command officers. The last episode of the admittedly crappier third season (Turnabout Intruder) featured a whole host of cringeworthy female problems:
*) A woman who rankles that she's not allowed to command because she's a woman. "Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women."
*) She's described as "hysterical," a common allusion at the time that women are unable to control their emotions like men can. Those who don't realize it's Janice in the body of captain Kirk still describe him/her as "red faced with hysteria." While no one smacked Janice in this episode, there were certainly episodes where women were slapped to break them out of their hysteria.
*) "Believe me, it's better to be dead than live alone in the body of a woman."
*) And as the Den of Geek put it: Kirk finishes the series by lamenting that “her life could have been as rich as any woman’s" but not, apparently, as rich as a man’s.
This was pretty much all ret-conned by Enterprise
and making him black only distracts the viewer by breaking the stereotype. "Why did they make him black?" becomes the focus of the character.
I hated the way the character was written in the movie. You have a meeting with the head of NASA and not only don't know his name, but have to explain a slingshot maneuver to him with a stapler?? He was much better in the book.
Weird. Maybe it's because I came in without any expectations of the character (or anything else), but I never saw him being black as being a distraction or feeling weird. I literally did not notice it, and his race didn't phase me.
Choreographed. :-) Then again, I've only seen it while channel-flipping --- and continued flipping REALLY fast :-)
Ha, well, of course it is choreographed. :-) I do like that the show hires professional choreographers, then the bumper promo shown before each dance routine shows the contestants training with the choreographers that week and their struggles in learning the routine they're about to perform.
Two Scoops
Two Genders
Two Terms
Trump 2020!
I hope to God that that will be his actual reelection slogan.
Sure, "retargeting" and unwanted video ads have happened to me. As a Firefox user. [... ] there are blocker plugins for the latter.
Yeah, and they all work like shit. They still download the videos, they just don't show them, ever since the web switched mostly to HTML5 video instead of Flash. I hated flash, but boy was it easy to block.
Even my trusty HTML5 don't autoplay plugin only works half the time. Or else I use plugins like noscript and it takes a dozen clicks and a dozen reloads of the page to figure out which sites are mandatory to show the actual website. Then again, just about every site uses googleapis now, and when you enable that, now all your web-pages are cross-site tracking you again.
Ugh. God, the transition from Netscape Navigator 3 to Netscape Communicator 4.. what a disaster. Netscape never recovered from that.
Don't be evil translates 'I can do anything I want as long as I feel guilty about it'.
Well it used to be, at least among those who believed it, "if I feel guilty about this, then I shouldn't do it."