Obama was wrong to weasel us into the Paris shit without actually putting it to congress. The agreement was a joke and did absolutely nothing for the environment. I'm in favor of doing things for the environment (I live in it), but I'm not in favor of stupid, politically-motivated bullshit that won't actually accomplish anything.
I was eyeing the Note 4 but decided my Note II was fine (and it was). Then the Note 5 came out and it was a step back from the Note 4. SO I said fuck it - I'll stick with the II for another year and wait for the Note 6 - surely they'll respond to the backlash from the 5 and get their shit together.
When the 7 (the 6 was skipped, as you likely know) came out, I was ready to jump on it, even with Knox and all the other horseshit. But thankfully I waited a bit to let the dust settle, and by then the explosions and recalls were happening. Now with Bixby and the direction of the S8 and S8+, I fear Samsung has completely lost the plot on what made their devices good to begin with. At this rate, a Note 8 (if one ever exists, regardless of name) will just be an S8+ with the S Pen. And it'll cost $1200.
Samsung has a terrible record on privacy, security, and safety. From exploding batteries to exploding washing machines to TVs and fridges that spy on you and inject ads into content and are susceptible to ransomware DDoS.
Layer Samsung on top of Android, the world's most insecure, least efficient OS, and you've got a recipe for fucking disaster.
Despite all the lock down (fuck you, Knox), shitty bloatware (S Suggest, Samsung Pay, Samsung Me Too for everything), I still wanted a Note 7 because I thoroughly enjoyed the Note II. But they exploded. And now Samsung has gone so far down the path of shitty apps and services and awful lockdown that I can't follow them. Not even when the device is free (due to work paying for it).
Sorry Samsung, you had your chance. You were on top and all you had to do was iterate to stay on top. Your ever-increasing prices and your insufferable bloatware (such as Bixby) will be the end of you. You're likely too far long the path to reverse course, because you got too big for your bitches.
If you care about security, functionality, and reliability, you get an iPhone. (Check my post history, I fucking hate Apple, but they're the only ones who give half a shit about the quality of their device and the security of their users.) If you care about the freedom to use your device as you want, you get an AOSP device, not an "Android" branded device since Google keeps locking down "Android" more and more tightly.
If you want both, you have a few halfway-decent but critically flawed options from untrustworthy parties (i.e., Google and their Pixel, Samsung and their shiny bombs, LG and their boot loops and broken speakers and lack of security updates, or One Plus and their rootkits/backdoors).
Albert Einstein didn't speak till he was more than 5 years old either. There was nothing wrong with him.
Sure there was. He married his first-cousin. Hell, he left his wife for his first-cousin.
So what? Even fucking a direct sibling and producing offspring isn't bad unless you've already got bad genes. You're just slowing your genetic drift, which is often desired.
Yeah - Fake news for Hillary was alive and well during the election and whether Facebook was manipulated into Trending the shite, or whether they were knowingly disseminating it would be an interesting thing to know...
How is this even a question? We already know they were actively influencing trending headlines for Hillary. The first denied any manipulation of the automated system, then they admitted that they needed better control of and standards for their human team that manipulates the automated system, then they began their "War on Fake News", which has done nothing but disseminate more fake news and label wrongthink as "fake".
They'd have a much easier time of it if they just said "Yes, we influence it. Yes, we're biased just as anyone else is.". What will people do? Leave Facebook? Nope. They'll whine about it for a little bit then continue engaging in mass stupidity.
Only 2 people so far have understood what the fuck this means.
They're ISSUING A BOND. That means someone can GIVE APPLE MONEY and get a BOND which will, in theory, earn interest over time. Someone could then CASH THAT BOND and Apple would have to pay them the face value of the bond plus any accrued interest.
What is the interest rate? When does it fully mature? What is the money going toward? Are there guarantees? (Typically there are with a bond.) What will Apple do with the money? What other little gotchas are there?
Back in the day, the right of a militia to bear arms had a benefit. These days that's no longer the case
Read the second amendment. Here, I'll help you.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The highest ranking legal document of our nation literally states that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state. The second part isn't conditional upon you believing the first. There's no "if" in there. They're 2 statements in a single sentence.
You can disagree, but you'd be legally incorrect unless you change the constitution.
Of course it won't completely solve the problem. But reasonable gun control would solve enough of the problem to be worth it.
1: No it fucking wouldn't. 2: There's no such thing as "reasonable gun control" without amending the constitution. Every "gun control" law is unconstitutional.
Cars are completely irrelevant to the topic of whether everyone who wants a gun should have one.
So are any statistics about injuries and deaths. So are any laws that aren't in the constitution.
Anyone who wants any sort of armament in this country has the right to keep and bear that armament. Any restriction on that right is unconstitutional. If you think some "reasonable" restriction should be in place, or that states should be able to regulate things differently, then fucking change the constitution to make that legal.
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Obama was wrong to weasel us into the Paris shit without actually putting it to congress. The agreement was a joke and did absolutely nothing for the environment. I'm in favor of doing things for the environment (I live in it), but I'm not in favor of stupid, politically-motivated bullshit that won't actually accomplish anything.
CO2 levels may not decline until breakthroughs in nanotech allow CO2 harvesting on a mass scale.
Breakthroughs in nanotech?
How about plants?
Bloomberg. There's your first hint that it's a load of horseshit.
Since when is T-Mobile the largest US carrier
Uh...
T-Mobile, the third largest U.S. national wireless operator
Why the fuck would a sovereign nation extradite someone to the US over something as victimless as hosting a website?
Oh right. The corporations own the US and the US owns the world.
I was eyeing the Note 4 but decided my Note II was fine (and it was). Then the Note 5 came out and it was a step back from the Note 4. SO I said fuck it - I'll stick with the II for another year and wait for the Note 6 - surely they'll respond to the backlash from the 5 and get their shit together.
When the 7 (the 6 was skipped, as you likely know) came out, I was ready to jump on it, even with Knox and all the other horseshit. But thankfully I waited a bit to let the dust settle, and by then the explosions and recalls were happening. Now with Bixby and the direction of the S8 and S8+, I fear Samsung has completely lost the plot on what made their devices good to begin with. At this rate, a Note 8 (if one ever exists, regardless of name) will just be an S8+ with the S Pen. And it'll cost $1200.
This is neat, but if you scroll through the comments you can see precisely why they want to ban all laptops, tablets, etc. on flights.
It's LUDDITES , you fool.
I would recommend you avoid all LG devices. They pretty much all overheat and bootloop.
Samsung has a terrible record on privacy, security, and safety. From exploding batteries to exploding washing machines to TVs and fridges that spy on you and inject ads into content and are susceptible to ransomware DDoS.
Layer Samsung on top of Android, the world's most insecure, least efficient OS, and you've got a recipe for fucking disaster.
Despite all the lock down (fuck you, Knox), shitty bloatware (S Suggest, Samsung Pay, Samsung Me Too for everything), I still wanted a Note 7 because I thoroughly enjoyed the Note II. But they exploded. And now Samsung has gone so far down the path of shitty apps and services and awful lockdown that I can't follow them. Not even when the device is free (due to work paying for it).
Sorry Samsung, you had your chance. You were on top and all you had to do was iterate to stay on top. Your ever-increasing prices and your insufferable bloatware (such as Bixby) will be the end of you. You're likely too far long the path to reverse course, because you got too big for your bitches.
If you care about security, functionality, and reliability, you get an iPhone. (Check my post history, I fucking hate Apple, but they're the only ones who give half a shit about the quality of their device and the security of their users.)
If you care about the freedom to use your device as you want, you get an AOSP device, not an "Android" branded device since Google keeps locking down "Android" more and more tightly.
If you want both, you have a few halfway-decent but critically flawed options from untrustworthy parties (i.e., Google and their Pixel, Samsung and their shiny bombs, LG and their boot loops and broken speakers and lack of security updates, or One Plus and their rootkits/backdoors).
Elon Musk only got media attention after Steve Jobs died. It's a Highlander scenario.
Why else do you think all the billionaires are pursuing stuff like life extension and rocketry? They want to live forever and not with you, peasants.
This is exactly correct. It's been true throughout all of human history.
Applying is one thing. Strapping in during the countdown is another.
Albert Einstein didn't speak till he was more than 5 years old either. There was nothing wrong with him.
Sure there was. He married his first-cousin. Hell, he left his wife for his first-cousin.
So what? Even fucking a direct sibling and producing offspring isn't bad unless you've already got bad genes.
You're just slowing your genetic drift, which is often desired.
Truthful answer: Google has money, and can be leveraged by media whores to make them more money.
Why would anyone use 4 spaces?
If you're using spaces, you use 2. If you want more whitespace than 2 spaces, you're a tabs man, not a spaces man.
Yeah - Fake news for Hillary was alive and well during the election and whether Facebook was manipulated into Trending the shite, or whether they were knowingly disseminating it would be an interesting thing to know...
How is this even a question? We already know they were actively influencing trending headlines for Hillary. The first denied any manipulation of the automated system, then they admitted that they needed better control of and standards for their human team that manipulates the automated system, then they began their "War on Fake News", which has done nothing but disseminate more fake news and label wrongthink as "fake".
They'd have a much easier time of it if they just said "Yes, we influence it. Yes, we're biased just as anyone else is.". What will people do? Leave Facebook? Nope. They'll whine about it for a little bit then continue engaging in mass stupidity.
FYI, you don't need a comma after "Religious Reich".
Just sayin'
You don't need one after "FYI", either. Yet it was helpful, wasn't it? Also, have a few of these - ............. - you seem to be without.
Congrats! Enjoy the younger man.
Only 2 people so far have understood what the fuck this means.
They're ISSUING A BOND. That means someone can GIVE APPLE MONEY and get a BOND which will, in theory, earn interest over time.
Someone could then CASH THAT BOND and Apple would have to pay them the face value of the bond plus any accrued interest.
What is the interest rate?
When does it fully mature?
What is the money going toward?
Are there guarantees? (Typically there are with a bond.)
What will Apple do with the money?
What other little gotchas are there?
It was.
Back in the day, the right of a militia to bear arms had a benefit. These days that's no longer the case
Read the second amendment. Here, I'll help you.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The highest ranking legal document of our nation literally states that a well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.
The second part isn't conditional upon you believing the first. There's no "if" in there. They're 2 statements in a single sentence.
You can disagree, but you'd be legally incorrect unless you change the constitution.
Of course it won't completely solve the problem. But reasonable gun control would solve enough of the problem to be worth it.
1: No it fucking wouldn't.
2: There's no such thing as "reasonable gun control" without amending the constitution. Every "gun control" law is unconstitutional.
We need cop control more than we need gun control.
Cars are completely irrelevant to the topic of whether everyone who wants a gun should have one.
So are any statistics about injuries and deaths. So are any laws that aren't in the constitution.
Anyone who wants any sort of armament in this country has the right to keep and bear that armament. Any restriction on that right is unconstitutional.
If you think some "reasonable" restriction should be in place, or that states should be able to regulate things differently, then fucking change the constitution to make that legal.