Or maybe they would get mad at Congress because Congress is responsible?
If the President started a staring match with Congress and Congress didn't blink, then people would blame the person who started the staring match. Or, put another way, it would be framed as "the President made the reckless decision to free all these people, imperiling our safety, and Congress scrambled to reduce the damage of his mistake." That would be pretty difficult to defend against.
Why is slashdot covering a story on how a reporter is being treated by the state? There is nothing high technology in that. There is nothing high technology about protesting construction of an oil pipeline, unless some robots were protesting. This story shouldn't be here.
It's Network Decay in action. The same reason why the Sci-Fi Channel started airing professional wrestling. 18-24 year old males like Star Trek, and 18-24 year old males also like professional wrestling. Therefore, in an effort to make the channel appeal to MORE 18-24 year old males, start showing wrestling on your Sci-Fi Channel, even rebrand it to Syfy to show how much you're branching out.
Slashdot is the same way. Newer viewers (and I really noticed this happening when Jon Katz started writing his tangentially-related Columbine Massacre articles here) like to pretend that Slashdot was "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters" as if that comma was big OR. But it wasn't. It was a tech-related website. Then the occasional politics-related story crept in and editors noticed it would get a lot of views and a ton of comments! And the slide began, and it still continues.
James O'Keefe? The same guy who lied about ACORN? The guy who lied about NPR? Who tried to punk Abbie Boudreau?
A guy who wants to be the Michael Moore of the right is not someone we should put our trust in. There's only so many times you can cry wolf before people get skeptical of whatever you say and want corroboration before printing it as the truth. "The Press" was severely embarrassed when they ran with his NPR story without verifying it, and they looked like idiots for doing so. No surprise that they might be gunshy about getting burned a second time.
He's not ignorant? He's entirely ignorant about the powers the President actually has, or he's just another lying politician. He's not bloviating? It's the art of speaking while saying nothing. That's true, Trump usually says -something-. It might be horrible, and you don't know if he's lying or not, but you can't claim there's no substance or commitment in his speeches. He's not petty-minded? Good lord, do I have to even go into this?
The people who crossed the fence to get into the construction are. "No trespassing" signs were not posted, so the criminal trespassing charges were dropped, but... c'mon. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Who owns the land? (Hint: Not the fuckos claiming jurisdiction and charging people.)
Are you saying the protesters owned the land? They didn't. Their land was about a mile away.
The safety record of pipelines is much better than the safety record of oil trains. I'd much rather have the pipeline; my suspicion is that the protesters don't want any oil going anywhere.
Were they even in the position to see what he looked like? They pulled him over because he was black, and they wanted to phish, hoping to get lucky. That's how he "matched the description" this mysterious armed robber.
A few of their products are actually really could. The Razer Deathadder is a really good mouse, one of the few that can approach a Logitech when it comes to proper button sensitivity. But their product line is filled with duds -- the Lachesis has buttons that require too much force to click (a common, unforgivable mouse sin) and break easily, and the Naga also has bad button pressure. And God help you if you want to use the mouse under Linux. On a KVM switch, Fedora takes a good 10 seconds to add the mouse.
For gaming, I need mice that have buttons. The Deathadder has 7 buttons, but I really wish it were nine buttons. It's not easy to find a mouse with good button pressure like Logitech, but has enough buttons that can be rebound.
No only are the keyboards bad, but the software for the mouse REQUIRES you to activate it via the internet for the more advanced functions
And by "advanced functions," we're talking something as simple as swapping the left-and-right mouse buttons for left-handed operation, or binding a keystroke to a mouse button. It stores all its settings in "the cloud" and none of those settings will load until it's able to contact "the cloud."
I actually like my Razer mouse, but the driver is HORRIBLE.
Uh, Bernie was pushing Socialism hard and were it not for the entrenched and dirty DNC and the Clinton Machine, he would now be the candidate of the Democratic party.
God, not this bullshit again. The cry of the Bernie supporter who refuses to believe that the American public is actually not socialist. It's the same mindset that Trump has: "If I lose, the system was rigged, RIGGED I tell you!"
This isn't (some countries in) Western Europe. The US is far more conservative than you're willing to give it credit for. This is still the country that elected George W. Bush twice (or least, came 'close enough' in 2000). There are still a lot of holdouts who voted for Reagan and are going to see socialism as the way to tyranny.
Ever hear of the saying "don't make promises you can't keep"?
I'm pretty sure that I've never seen a politician follow that. Making promises that you have no power to keep is the essence of campaigning in the 21st century.
And why couldn't he just release them all and let Congress sort out their shit? It's not like keeping Gitmo open is doing anything except making more converts to terrorism.
If Obama had done that, we would have President Romney right now. People don't like Gitmo, but their rage at that would pale compared to the sheer anger of the American public if we just.. you know, did a mass release of a ton of terrorism suspects.
If the dems will fabricate a narrative that a US embassy was attacked and the occupants murdered because of a YouTube video
The thing is that BOTH narratives were true. People keep posting "because of a YouTube video" as if it was absolutely laughable that the video could incite large groups in the Middle East. Most of the people at the US Embassy were there to protest the Innocence of Muslims, and a small number of terrorists used them as cover to storm the compound and kill US diplomats. In the initial attack and aftermath, the state department did not know which was which, which is a little damning in itself, but it's a bit of a far cry from "fabricate a narrative."
They wouldn't bomb London, they would bomb Equador. Yes, it is confusing, but Westminster will probably be okay with it if they actually went ahead and did it.
He's not located in Ecuador, he's located in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London which, contrary to popular believe, is not Ecuadorian soil.
I'm a little curious how he was supposed to do this, given he had no support from either Democrats or Republicans in Congress, which controls the purse-strings for any gitmo-related action. Given the opposition that the states had to relocating detainees in US states, the only way I could see this happening is if Obama played an extreme game of chicken, ordering all detainees released entirely (to Cuba? Just leave them on the beach?) and all staff returned to the US, letting Congress scramble to 'fix' the situation which is under their power. Man, Obama's 'legacy' would be far more tattered then than it is now if he tried that.
Obama isn't the sort to play Chicken, though. He's more the guy who blinks first.
Bernie got bought off after the election was stolen, no doubt. But to pretend that the democrat primary was fair and balanced, in any way shape or form, is ret-conning of the highest degree.
Bernie is a Democratic Socialist, emphasis on the socialist part. He's a Democrat by convenience, just like Trump is a Republican In Name Only.
The majority of Americans do not hold socialist leanings. It might lean left of whatever political center we have in this country, but Bernie didn't have a chance because, like Trump, he didn't have a lot of appeal outside of the "white guys" demographic, and the US does not lean as far to the left as the Western European countries.
Did the DNC not support him like they should? Yes. Did it make a difference? Nope. Once Clinton reached the Southern primaries, states where Bernie's appeal is almost non-existent, it was over.
But there are a lot of Bernie supporters who detest Clinton and love Bernie and refuse to believe that Bernie could have lost a fair election, so they do the 'the system was rigged' dance to try to explain it away. It's ok, I hate Clinton and Trump too. But you know, the voters really did pick Clinton.
Maybe you just don't understand the similarities in your haste to point out the differences.
But the differences are key. You can't just point out the similarities while disregarding the differences. Well, you CAN, but you won't have a valid point to make.
Ever see Star Trek? When Picard went to a replicator and said 'Earl Grey Tea, hot' and poof, tea came out?
That has always really annoyed me. Who ever asked for a cold cup of tea?
From the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale:
PICARD: I know how it sounds but it happened. It was real. I was there, back on board the Enterprise. JESSEL: (cod English housekeeper) How do you like your tea? PICARD: Tea? Earl Grey. Hot. JESSEL: (annoyed) Course it's hot. What do you want in it? PICARD: Nothing.
Except it didn't. The day after they came out, enterprising coffee drinkers figured out this nonsense and simply taped an old Keurig label onto the detector, and continued using their third party pods. Some third party pod makers provided a free clip-on reflector printed with the invisible ink that fit over the detector. And all the blogs were atwitter with the Evil that Keurig had wrought with Keurig 2.0. The demise of the company was predicted, buckets of tar and feathers were gathered, and the peasants grabbed their pitchforks and torches.
You're skipping one step there: Keurig customers complained about the DRM that came with the Keurig 2.0 and Keurig's sales fell (Keurig acknowledged in an earnings call that consumer disappointment over no longer being able to brew their favorite non-Keurig brands or their existing stock of Keurig pods was a prime reason for the 23% sales drop in Keurig coffeemakers). They were also sued by alternate single-serving coffee pod makers for anti-competitive actions. They released a rare "this was a mistake" statement and they brought back the "My K-cup" feature a year later to allow consumers to use their own coffee.
It's an interesting case because it's an example of a company shifting IP strategies when one form of IP protection fades. The DRM came about because Keurig's patents expired, so they moved from patent protection to DRM and circumvention law.
At least according to the summary, he was trying to build functionality that it didn't come with to integrate it with his Amazon Echo voice-control. That's probably why it took so long.
That's brilliant, if you're somehow inhuman enough to roll out of bed at exactly the same time every morning. I want my coffee maker connected to my snooze button.
The snooze button is what encourages me to get up too late to be on-time to work. The coffee maker, not be located in the bedroom gets me up at the right time regardless of what ill-advised actions I might make when groggy at 7am.
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Or maybe they would get mad at Congress because Congress is responsible?
If the President started a staring match with Congress and Congress didn't blink, then people would blame the person who started the staring match. Or, put another way, it would be framed as "the President made the reckless decision to free all these people, imperiling our safety, and Congress scrambled to reduce the damage of his mistake." That would be pretty difficult to defend against.
Why is slashdot covering a story on how a reporter is being treated by the state? There is nothing high technology in that. There is nothing high technology about protesting construction of an oil pipeline, unless some robots were protesting. This story shouldn't be here.
It's Network Decay in action. The same reason why the Sci-Fi Channel started airing professional wrestling. 18-24 year old males like Star Trek, and 18-24 year old males also like professional wrestling. Therefore, in an effort to make the channel appeal to MORE 18-24 year old males, start showing wrestling on your Sci-Fi Channel, even rebrand it to Syfy to show how much you're branching out.
Slashdot is the same way. Newer viewers (and I really noticed this happening when Jon Katz started writing his tangentially-related Columbine Massacre articles here) like to pretend that Slashdot was "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters" as if that comma was big OR. But it wasn't. It was a tech-related website. Then the occasional politics-related story crept in and editors noticed it would get a lot of views and a ton of comments! And the slide began, and it still continues.
James O'Keefe
James O'Keefe? The same guy who lied about ACORN? The guy who lied about NPR? Who tried to punk Abbie Boudreau?
A guy who wants to be the Michael Moore of the right is not someone we should put our trust in.
There's only so many times you can cry wolf before people get skeptical of whatever you say and want corroboration before printing it as the truth. "The Press" was severely embarrassed when they ran with his NPR story without verifying it, and they looked like idiots for doing so. No surprise that they might be gunshy about getting burned a second time.
None of that stuff is true of Trump.
He's not ignorant? He's entirely ignorant about the powers the President actually has, or he's just another lying politician.
He's not bloviating? It's the art of speaking while saying nothing. That's true, Trump usually says -something-. It might be horrible, and you don't know if he's lying or not, but you can't claim there's no substance or commitment in his speeches.
He's not petty-minded? Good lord, do I have to even go into this?
That's right! The media is super-biased when your guy looks bad.
You don't remember when Hillary's "email scandal" was all that the MSM could talk about? Trump had to up his game to get attention at that point.
Who was doing the trespassing?
The people who crossed the fence to get into the construction are. "No trespassing" signs were not posted, so the criminal trespassing charges were dropped, but... c'mon. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Who owns the land? (Hint: Not the fuckos claiming jurisdiction and charging people.)
Are you saying the protesters owned the land? They didn't. Their land was about a mile away.
The safety record of pipelines is much better than the safety record of oil trains.
I'd much rather have the pipeline; my suspicion is that the protesters don't want any oil going anywhere.
Were they even in the position to see what he looked like?
They pulled him over because he was black, and they wanted to phish, hoping to get lucky. That's how he "matched the description" this mysterious armed robber.
They are the Bose of computer/gamer hardware.
A few of their products are actually really could. The Razer Deathadder is a really good mouse, one of the few that can approach a Logitech when it comes to proper button sensitivity. But their product line is filled with duds -- the Lachesis has buttons that require too much force to click (a common, unforgivable mouse sin) and break easily, and the Naga also has bad button pressure. And God help you if you want to use the mouse under Linux. On a KVM switch, Fedora takes a good 10 seconds to add the mouse.
For gaming, I need mice that have buttons. The Deathadder has 7 buttons, but I really wish it were nine buttons. It's not easy to find a mouse with good button pressure like Logitech, but has enough buttons that can be rebound.
No only are the keyboards bad, but the software for the mouse REQUIRES you to activate it via the internet for the more advanced functions
And by "advanced functions," we're talking something as simple as swapping the left-and-right mouse buttons for left-handed operation, or binding a keystroke to a mouse button. It stores all its settings in "the cloud" and none of those settings will load until it's able to contact "the cloud."
I actually like my Razer mouse, but the driver is HORRIBLE.
Uh, Bernie was pushing Socialism hard and were it not for the entrenched and dirty DNC and the Clinton Machine, he would now be the candidate of the Democratic party.
God, not this bullshit again. The cry of the Bernie supporter who refuses to believe that the American public is actually not socialist. It's the same mindset that Trump has: "If I lose, the system was rigged, RIGGED I tell you!"
This isn't (some countries in) Western Europe. The US is far more conservative than you're willing to give it credit for. This is still the country that elected George W. Bush twice (or least, came 'close enough' in 2000). There are still a lot of holdouts who voted for Reagan and are going to see socialism as the way to tyranny.
Ever hear of the saying "don't make promises you can't keep"?
I'm pretty sure that I've never seen a politician follow that. Making promises that you have no power to keep is the essence of campaigning in the 21st century.
And why couldn't he just release them all and let Congress sort out their shit? It's not like keeping Gitmo open is doing anything except making more converts to terrorism.
If Obama had done that, we would have President Romney right now. People don't like Gitmo, but their rage at that would pale compared to the sheer anger of the American public if we just.. you know, did a mass release of a ton of terrorism suspects.
If the dems will fabricate a narrative that a US embassy was attacked and the occupants murdered because of a YouTube video
The thing is that BOTH narratives were true. People keep posting "because of a YouTube video" as if it was absolutely laughable that the video could incite large groups in the Middle East. Most of the people at the US Embassy were there to protest the Innocence of Muslims, and a small number of terrorists used them as cover to storm the compound and kill US diplomats. In the initial attack and aftermath, the state department did not know which was which, which is a little damning in itself, but it's a bit of a far cry from "fabricate a narrative."
Just as likely that Hillary will have another "medical problem" and someone else will have to step in to the presidency.
OhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPlease.
Please let it be true! Don't bring down my day by telling me it's just a dream!
They wouldn't bomb London, they would bomb Equador. Yes, it is confusing, but Westminster will probably be okay with it if they actually went ahead and did it.
He's not located in Ecuador, he's located in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London which, contrary to popular believe, is not Ecuadorian soil.
This is the guy who hasn't closed Gitmo
I'm a little curious how he was supposed to do this, given he had no support from either Democrats or Republicans in Congress, which controls the purse-strings for any gitmo-related action. Given the opposition that the states had to relocating detainees in US states, the only way I could see this happening is if Obama played an extreme game of chicken, ordering all detainees released entirely (to Cuba? Just leave them on the beach?) and all staff returned to the US, letting Congress scramble to 'fix' the situation which is under their power. Man, Obama's 'legacy' would be far more tattered then than it is now if he tried that.
Obama isn't the sort to play Chicken, though. He's more the guy who blinks first.
Bernie got bought off after the election was stolen, no doubt. But to pretend that the democrat primary was fair and balanced, in any way shape or form, is ret-conning of the highest degree.
Bernie is a Democratic Socialist, emphasis on the socialist part. He's a Democrat by convenience, just like Trump is a Republican In Name Only.
The majority of Americans do not hold socialist leanings. It might lean left of whatever political center we have in this country, but Bernie didn't have a chance because, like Trump, he didn't have a lot of appeal outside of the "white guys" demographic, and the US does not lean as far to the left as the Western European countries.
Did the DNC not support him like they should? Yes. Did it make a difference? Nope. Once Clinton reached the Southern primaries, states where Bernie's appeal is almost non-existent, it was over.
But there are a lot of Bernie supporters who detest Clinton and love Bernie and refuse to believe that Bernie could have lost a fair election, so they do the 'the system was rigged' dance to try to explain it away. It's ok, I hate Clinton and Trump too. But you know, the voters really did pick Clinton.
Maybe you just don't understand the similarities in your haste to point out the differences.
But the differences are key. You can't just point out the similarities while disregarding the differences.
Well, you CAN, but you won't have a valid point to make.
Ever see Star Trek? When Picard went to a replicator and said 'Earl Grey Tea, hot' and poof, tea came out?
That has always really annoyed me. Who ever asked for a cold cup of tea?
From the Star Trek: The Next Generation series finale:
PICARD: I know how it sounds but it happened. It was real. I was there, back on board the Enterprise.
JESSEL: (cod English housekeeper) How do you like your tea?
PICARD: Tea? Earl Grey. Hot.
JESSEL: (annoyed) Course it's hot. What do you want in it?
PICARD: Nothing.
How often do I get to troll a 4 digit UID? :)
*Obligatory rant about the old days of quality slashdot full of petrified Natalie Portman hot grits and penis birds*
I miss Ogg the open-source caveman. There was usually something informative hidden inside the troll posts.
Except it didn't. The day after they came out, enterprising coffee drinkers figured out this nonsense and simply taped an old Keurig label onto the detector, and continued using their third party pods. Some third party pod makers provided a free clip-on reflector printed with the invisible ink that fit over the detector. And all the blogs were atwitter with the Evil that Keurig had wrought with Keurig 2.0. The demise of the company was predicted, buckets of tar and feathers were gathered, and the peasants grabbed their pitchforks and torches.
You're skipping one step there: Keurig customers complained about the DRM that came with the Keurig 2.0 and Keurig's sales fell (Keurig acknowledged in an earnings call that consumer disappointment over no longer being able to brew their favorite non-Keurig brands or their existing stock of Keurig pods was a prime reason for the 23% sales drop in Keurig coffeemakers). They were also sued by alternate single-serving coffee pod makers for anti-competitive actions. They released a rare "this was a mistake" statement and they brought back the "My K-cup" feature a year later to allow consumers to use their own coffee.
It's an interesting case because it's an example of a company shifting IP strategies when one form of IP protection fades. The DRM came about because Keurig's patents expired, so they moved from patent protection to DRM and circumvention law.
At least according to the summary, he was trying to build functionality that it didn't come with to integrate it with his Amazon Echo voice-control. That's probably why it took so long.
A normal kettle takes 45 seconds to boil a liter of water
45 seconds??? What sort of super-kettle are you using?
That's brilliant, if you're somehow inhuman enough to roll out of bed at exactly the same time every morning. I want my coffee maker connected to my snooze button.
The snooze button is what encourages me to get up too late to be on-time to work. The coffee maker, not be located in the bedroom gets me up at the right time regardless of what ill-advised actions I might make when groggy at 7am.
No one wants to read links that lead to propaganda organizations ...
So...you're only News is Faux?
Or was that Newsmucks?
Or perhaps something from AEI?
He probably puts his trust in RT.