A sentence commutation just means he/she gets out of jail sooner. Not at all the same as a pardon.
I'm sure Wizzy Assange will use that as an excuse to not give himself up. Did he say what he'd do if it was just a commutation? He'd dedicate a statue? Most likely, of himself?
I'm still trying to figure out what it would have done anyway, given that he's committed no US crime, not being an American citizen or operating on American soil. The US would happily extradite him to Sweden though.
On the PS3, press Square to get to the main menu and play the movie
"This operation is not allowed at this time."
Or something like that, since I don't have my PS3 available at the moment. I can't skip the ads, but I can definitely fast-forward past them. The chapter skip button usually works too.
Some people are rewatchers. I like rewatching series and movies that I liked from time to time. My husband cannot stand the thought of watching something he's already seen again. The argument is usually the same: "Why on earth would I waste my time watching something I've already seen a second time when there's so much good stuff that I want to see but haven't?" Different folks, different strokes.
He didn't say "everything worthwhile revolves around convenience", you condescending dick. He merely said when it comes to movies, it's far more convenient to stream it than keep a physical disc and player.
Flooding my Internet connection (slow DSL, naturally) so I can't use the connection is convenient? Or, if I was using a major broadband ISP, is filling up my download cap with streaming data convenient? (I guess it is, or at least it's orthogonal) Loss of quality is convenient? Signing up to 5 different services to get a good library is convenient? Figuring out which of the different services a particular title is hosted on, that's not terribly convenient. Netflix's app for the Tivo is particularly badly designed -- ridiculously slow, as in there's a multisecond lag for every button press. Oh, it's only available on blu-ray anyway? That's not convenient. I wanted to watch Better Call Saul season 2 the other night. It's been released on dvd. Netflix has season 1 for streaming only. DVD it is!
Many of these problems are the content companies' fault, and their fights with streaming services. Streaming would be a hell of a lot more convenient if the content companies had no say over who could and could not stream.
I just nab the disc out of the binder, put it in the player, and it plays! Now that's convenient.
Blu-rays usually come with a digital copy included. Usually UV or both a UV and Apple copy. Some give you the option to redeem on Amazon or Google as well. Setting up a UV account is a PITA since you need a UV login and a login to VUDU, Flixster, and link your UV account to several studio redemption sites if the codes won't work straight with VUDU or such. But once you navigate that they work pretty well. Wide device support, offline viewing, and at least with VUDU the stream quality is a cut above Netflix and Amazon.
And, for some reason, UV digital codes have an expiration date, so if you don't register it immediately, you're out of luck. Or if you open a blu-ray and the code is already expired, you're similarly out of luck.
Are they really working? I don't think there are many men over 60-ish who get major parts in movies barring Connery, Stallone & Arnie. Even Connery doesn't get major roles now.
Connery decided he hates the acting scene, and swore it off. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will do that to you. I think Arnie is back out of the business, he hasn't had a successful role since his return.
Yes, but not in the direction of the "outskirts". SFO is closer to the center of the SF Bay Area than SF itself. In fact, in the San Francisco Metro Area, San Francisco isn't even the biggest city
It's pretty far from the East Bay, and given the state of Highway 101, it might as well be in another state from the southeast or north bay perspective.
then increase the minimum wage to price uneducated workers out of the job market
Except that we've usually seen the opposite from the Minimum Wage.
Grow some balls and see just how much money teacher's unions give to Democrats - and ONLY Democrats
Yeah, when the other side's honest, open, stated goal is to put you out of business, yeah, you're probably not going to freely give them bundles of cash.
This won't change as long as the voters stop paying attention and instead instinctively vote only for those of the correct red vs blue teams.
The voters elect people who they think they agree with generally, because legislators are generalists, they vote on every topic, not just an area of expertise.
As such, they usually vote on what someone's positions on affordable housing, public transportation, jobs, taxes are. The "will you open up broadband access to city municipalities" is pretty far down on most peoples' priority list. And any candidate who runs on that issue is rarely credible -- they'd be seen as a niche candidate for a job position that absolutely requires a generalist.
No, ignorance is not truth and freedom is not slavery. This isn't 1984, and my city government is not Big Brother.
Don't you understand?? Government is BAD. It's BAD BAD BAD BAD. Didn't they teach you this in your Objectivism course? If there's a solution that involves government, it has to be bad, no matter what the actual outcomes. If Comcast is the private-sector solution, well then it's the better solution, because government is bad. Think how much worse things would be in the rest of the country if people had more choice than the regional telco/cable duopolies! I shudder to think of the horrors that would unleash! People would be able to choose their own private-sector ISPs, even, which might be good, except it's choice mandated by the government which is always bad, so this choice is bad too.
People governing their own affairs are good. Except when they decide to combat a national ISP which wants to impose its outside rules on a region, that's bad. An outside entity imposing rules that residents don't like is bad, except when a big business is involved, in which case it's somehow good. But that sets up monopoly, which is bad! Except if it's a telco/cable monopoly, which is good! Oh fuck it. Fine, I'll just go TOTAL cognitive dissonance and say there ARE no regional monopoly/duopolies, a position no sane conservative or liberal believes in, not to mention anyone outside of Slashdot or the John Birch Society. That should do it.
Yes, how dare a city have a HEALTH department which enforces standards for serving food and apply that to everyone fair and square.
Yeah, maybe that should be out of the purview of that health department.
If the end result is that people feeding each other without authorization is criminalized, then something has gone horribly wrong along the way and needs to be scrapped.
does it ever make you curious why americans are the only ones preoccupied with owning pickup trucks and SUVs the size of pickup trucks, despite having 2 kids and carrying at most 6 or 7 bags of groceries, or perhaps luggage?
Not too much curiosity necessary, the answer is suburban moms. There are two factors at play there. First, the moms who shuttle a whole team of kids to sports/whatever practice, the mom involved depending on the day. Second, in the last 20 years, "moms" (mostly them) have gotten into a safety arms race. They feel "safer" in a huge armored truck or SUV, so that's what they want to drive. They're not wrong about the safety aspect, the hatchback going against an SUV is going to be flattened, while mom is at very little risk, even given the propensity for rollovers. This arms race has resulted in roadways that aren't terribly safe for the smaller cars.
There's also the Chevy Spark, which is neither hybrid nor EV. Unless you buy the Chevy Spark EV, which is all electric.
Chevrolet might have a few too many vehicle lines. This is probably due to the Spark being a rebranded and slightly-souped-up Daewoo Matiz from GM Korea.
At least in the US, that doubles the travel time for trips of that distance.
Trains here are not fast, you're required to sit in the airport for at least an hour for every flight, and neither tend to be where you need to go or where you live, and the transfer, transfer, transfer time adds up.
Correct, you cannot recharge an electric car the same way you fill up a gas-powered car. The time / minute ratio for recharging an electric vehicle is nowhere near the refueling time for a gas car. When you can recharge in about the same time it takes to refuel a gas car, then we'll be talking.
Also, those stations where you recharge are few and far apart, even for Tesla owners.
And it was still merely nostalgic -- the whole point of Quill's still listening to his Awesome Mix tape was it was the last remaining thing he had from his mother. Still, I'd think that the tape would eventually have gotten ruined from repeated listening.:-)
Most people aren't doing THAT badly. The economy isn't exactly gangbusters, but it's not in the shitter like many who wanted "change" have recently tried to convince you.
If you think that only the guilty need to fear a moral panic, you should read up on the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic [wikipedia.org] that gripped American in the 1980s.
Some asshole brandishing a firewarm recently walked into the pizzaria implicated in that #PizzaGate nonsense. He went there determined to "free the children" that he was certain were being held there as sex slaves. None of that would have happened if some dipshits didn't go through Podesta's emails and jump to the conclusion "this guy really likes cheese pizza. Wait, Cheese Pizza. C.P. Child Porn!!!!!"
I don't want to subscribe to a damned streaming service. I don't want to subscribe to Amazon Prime. I don't want to subscribe to Netflix. I don't want to subscribe to HBO. I want to subscribe to specific shows. Everyone has always been interested in shows, not channels, not networks. If I want to watch Game of Thrones, Orange is the New Black, and Mozart in the Jungle, I have to pay expensive monthly subscriptions to HBO, Amazon, and Netflix. Just for those three shows. Or I can pirate.
This has always been a "networks vs consumers" thing -- because the network controls the show, they force a bundling that the customer does NOT want. Maybe the article was off on its Sling comparisons (Sling is not what most people think of with "internet show streaming"), but TV streaming really does look like cable: you subscribe to get a ton of content that you don't want, just so you can get the small amount of content you do.
Just HOW does this law violate the US constitution? This may be news to you, but the first amendment says (on this topic) only "CONGRESS shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press".
Yes, but the 1st is modified by the 14th, specifically the clause "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Equal protection is probably the most quoted part, but the first clause is usually interpreted as extending US Constitutional and Amendment protections to state laws as well as federal laws. That is, states cannot pass laws abridging freedom of speech for the same reason they cannot pass laws to instate slavery within the state.
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A sentence commutation just means he/she gets out of jail sooner. Not at all the same as a pardon.
I'm sure Wizzy Assange will use that as an excuse to not give himself up. Did he say what he'd do if it was just a commutation? He'd dedicate a statue? Most likely, of himself?
I'm still trying to figure out what it would have done anyway, given that he's committed no US crime, not being an American citizen or operating on American soil. The US would happily extradite him to Sweden though.
Now this generation's cultural conservatives (ie the you and the SJW type)
SJWs are cultural conservatives? Now I've heard everything.
On the PS3, press Square to get to the main menu and play the movie
"This operation is not allowed at this time."
Or something like that, since I don't have my PS3 available at the moment.
I can't skip the ads, but I can definitely fast-forward past them. The chapter skip button usually works too.
Some people are rewatchers. I like rewatching series and movies that I liked from time to time. My husband cannot stand the thought of watching something he's already seen again. The argument is usually the same: "Why on earth would I waste my time watching something I've already seen a second time when there's so much good stuff that I want to see but haven't?" Different folks, different strokes.
He didn't say "everything worthwhile revolves around convenience", you condescending dick. He merely said when it comes to movies, it's far more convenient to stream it than keep a physical disc and player.
Flooding my Internet connection (slow DSL, naturally) so I can't use the connection is convenient?
Or, if I was using a major broadband ISP, is filling up my download cap with streaming data convenient? (I guess it is, or at least it's orthogonal)
Loss of quality is convenient?
Signing up to 5 different services to get a good library is convenient?
Figuring out which of the different services a particular title is hosted on, that's not terribly convenient.
Netflix's app for the Tivo is particularly badly designed -- ridiculously slow, as in there's a multisecond lag for every button press.
Oh, it's only available on blu-ray anyway? That's not convenient. I wanted to watch Better Call Saul season 2 the other night. It's been released on dvd. Netflix has season 1 for streaming only. DVD it is!
Many of these problems are the content companies' fault, and their fights with streaming services. Streaming would be a hell of a lot more convenient if the content companies had no say over who could and could not stream.
I just nab the disc out of the binder, put it in the player, and it plays! Now that's convenient.
Blu-rays usually come with a digital copy included. Usually UV or both a UV and Apple copy. Some give you the option to redeem on Amazon or Google as well. Setting up a UV account is a PITA since you need a UV login and a login to VUDU, Flixster, and link your UV account to several studio redemption sites if the codes won't work straight with VUDU or such. But once you navigate that they work pretty well. Wide device support, offline viewing, and at least with VUDU the stream quality is a cut above Netflix and Amazon.
And, for some reason, UV digital codes have an expiration date, so if you don't register it immediately, you're out of luck. Or if you open a blu-ray and the code is already expired, you're similarly out of luck.
ability to stream whenever I like on an ongoing basis
Assuming you mean "rent the ability to stream, so long as the company doesn't go under and limited to my own lifetime - and loses all value at death."
My husband learned a valuable lesson long ago when Yahoo Music shut down and all that copy-protected content he'd purchased went up in smoke.
Are they really working? I don't think there are many men over 60-ish who get major parts in movies barring Connery, Stallone & Arnie. Even Connery doesn't get major roles now.
Connery decided he hates the acting scene, and swore it off. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen will do that to you.
I think Arnie is back out of the business, he hasn't had a successful role since his return.
Yes, but not in the direction of the "outskirts". SFO is closer to the center of the SF Bay Area than SF itself. In fact, in the San Francisco Metro Area, San Francisco isn't even the biggest city
It's pretty far from the East Bay, and given the state of Highway 101, it might as well be in another state from the southeast or north bay perspective.
then increase the minimum wage to price uneducated workers out of the job market
Except that we've usually seen the opposite from the Minimum Wage.
Grow some balls and see just how much money teacher's unions give to Democrats - and ONLY Democrats
Yeah, when the other side's honest, open, stated goal is to put you out of business, yeah, you're probably not going to freely give them bundles of cash.
This won't change as long as the voters stop paying attention and instead instinctively vote only for those of the correct red vs blue teams.
The voters elect people who they think they agree with generally, because legislators are generalists, they vote on every topic, not just an area of expertise.
As such, they usually vote on what someone's positions on affordable housing, public transportation, jobs, taxes are. The "will you open up broadband access to city municipalities" is pretty far down on most peoples' priority list. And any candidate who runs on that issue is rarely credible -- they'd be seen as a niche candidate for a job position that absolutely requires a generalist.
No, ignorance is not truth and freedom is not slavery. This isn't 1984, and my city government is not Big Brother.
Don't you understand?? Government is BAD. It's BAD BAD BAD BAD. Didn't they teach you this in your Objectivism course? If there's a solution that involves government, it has to be bad, no matter what the actual outcomes. If Comcast is the private-sector solution, well then it's the better solution, because government is bad. Think how much worse things would be in the rest of the country if people had more choice than the regional telco/cable duopolies! I shudder to think of the horrors that would unleash! People would be able to choose their own private-sector ISPs, even, which might be good, except it's choice mandated by the government which is always bad, so this choice is bad too.
People governing their own affairs are good. Except when they decide to combat a national ISP which wants to impose its outside rules on a region, that's bad. An outside entity imposing rules that residents don't like is bad, except when a big business is involved, in which case it's somehow good. But that sets up monopoly, which is bad! Except if it's a telco/cable monopoly, which is good! Oh fuck it. Fine, I'll just go TOTAL cognitive dissonance and say there ARE no regional monopoly/duopolies, a position no sane conservative or liberal believes in, not to mention anyone outside of Slashdot or the John Birch Society. That should do it.
2) Two words: Flint, Michigan.
Oh, well, if one city screwed it up (and it's a vigorous debate who is at fault here), then the whole system across the board is screwed.
No system is going to be 100% perfect in every municipality. The question is will we have reasonable expectations of high-quality service?
Yes, how dare a city have a HEALTH department which enforces standards for serving food and apply that to everyone fair and square.
Yeah, maybe that should be out of the purview of that health department.
If the end result is that people feeding each other without authorization is criminalized, then something has gone horribly wrong along the way and needs to be scrapped.
does it ever make you curious why americans are the only ones preoccupied with owning pickup trucks and SUVs the size of pickup trucks, despite having 2 kids and carrying at most 6 or 7 bags of groceries, or perhaps luggage?
Not too much curiosity necessary, the answer is suburban moms. There are two factors at play there. First, the moms who shuttle a whole team of kids to sports/whatever practice, the mom involved depending on the day. Second, in the last 20 years, "moms" (mostly them) have gotten into a safety arms race. They feel "safer" in a huge armored truck or SUV, so that's what they want to drive. They're not wrong about the safety aspect, the hatchback going against an SUV is going to be flattened, while mom is at very little risk, even given the propensity for rollovers. This arms race has resulted in roadways that aren't terribly safe for the smaller cars.
There's also the Chevy Spark, which is neither hybrid nor EV.
Unless you buy the Chevy Spark EV, which is all electric.
Chevrolet might have a few too many vehicle lines.
This is probably due to the Spark being a rebranded and slightly-souped-up Daewoo Matiz from GM Korea.
Sounds like a use-case for a train or a plane.
At least in the US, that doubles the travel time for trips of that distance.
Trains here are not fast, you're required to sit in the airport for at least an hour for every flight, and neither tend to be where you need to go or where you live, and the transfer, transfer, transfer time adds up.
Because you can't recharge an electric car?
Correct, you cannot recharge an electric car the same way you fill up a gas-powered car.
The time / minute ratio for recharging an electric vehicle is nowhere near the refueling time for a gas car. When you can recharge in about the same time it takes to refuel a gas car, then we'll be talking.
Also, those stations where you recharge are few and far apart, even for Tesla owners.
.....started this craze. lol :)
And it was still merely nostalgic -- the whole point of Quill's still listening to his Awesome Mix tape was it was the last remaining thing he had from his mother. Still, I'd think that the tape would eventually have gotten ruined from repeated listening. :-)
With thick black glasses and a Muslim-style beard.
Hipsters go for a much more shaped and trimmed beard than most Muslims do.
Who has disposable income?
Most people aren't doing THAT badly.
The economy isn't exactly gangbusters, but it's not in the shitter like many who wanted "change" have recently tried to convince you.
If you think that only the guilty need to fear a moral panic, you should read up on the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic [wikipedia.org] that gripped American in the 1980s.
Some asshole brandishing a firewarm recently walked into the pizzaria implicated in that #PizzaGate nonsense. He went there determined to "free the children" that he was certain were being held there as sex slaves. None of that would have happened if some dipshits didn't go through Podesta's emails and jump to the conclusion "this guy really likes cheese pizza. Wait, Cheese Pizza. C.P. Child Porn!!!!!"
I've never seen any statements by Trump that were negative or derogatory towards LGBT.
I thought that for awhile too, but the selection of Mike Pence to run all domestic policy is about as big a 'fuck you' as you can get to LGBT.
I don't want to subscribe to a damned streaming service. I don't want to subscribe to Amazon Prime. I don't want to subscribe to Netflix. I don't want to subscribe to HBO. I want to subscribe to specific shows. Everyone has always been interested in shows, not channels, not networks. If I want to watch Game of Thrones, Orange is the New Black, and Mozart in the Jungle, I have to pay expensive monthly subscriptions to HBO, Amazon, and Netflix. Just for those three shows. Or I can pirate.
This has always been a "networks vs consumers" thing -- because the network controls the show, they force a bundling that the customer does NOT want. Maybe the article was off on its Sling comparisons (Sling is not what most people think of with "internet show streaming"), but TV streaming really does look like cable: you subscribe to get a ton of content that you don't want, just so you can get the small amount of content you do.
Just HOW does this law violate the US constitution? This may be news to you, but the first amendment says (on this topic) only "CONGRESS shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press".
Yes, but the 1st is modified by the 14th, specifically the clause "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Equal protection is probably the most quoted part, but the first clause is usually interpreted as extending US Constitutional and Amendment protections to state laws as well as federal laws. That is, states cannot pass laws abridging freedom of speech for the same reason they cannot pass laws to instate slavery within the state.