Quote the emoluments clause you claim Trump is in violation of.
I dare you. It doesn't apply, and even if it did Congress could grant an exception. No one gives a shit about foreign business interests, the clause is put in place to prevent total puppets being installed by foreign states or foreign states buying policy. Notice how the democrats accuse Trump of being Putin's puppet but provide zero evidence. Also notice how Clinton was caught red handed in a pay-to-play scandal yet they don't want to talk about that.
Trump's business interests and the money they generate are not emoluments, they are business interests. Until foreign states start handing him or his businesses bags of cash, it's not an issue. Even if that happens, Congress has the power to grant exceptions.
Normally, the standard approach to this is that gifts to the President stay with the office. If you hand Trump a desk toy he can't take it when it leaves office. Truly personal gifts (e.g., in congratulation/condolence for something in their family/personal life) stay with the person. If you want to talk about violating the emolument clause, look no further than Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded in anticipation of all that "Hope and Change".
Samsung phones are quaint, but they can hardly be considered a rival
In addition, Samsung already provides much of the flash memory for Apple devices
Apple copied the size that Samsung made popular (the Note was phone that created the "phablet" movement and eventually Samsung drive the industry to making every phone jumbo size), and now is copying the curved glass, and the embedded fingerprint thing, and...
Sorry duder. You got my name wrong and you're accusing the wrong person. I'm not the apps!/LUDDITE guy (though I do respect his work).
In fact, I don't post as AC to troll/spam at all. I've also been falsely accused of being the moo! guy because I posted it on some stories that hadn't been hit by it yet, and people assumed I was the original troll and had forgotten to post as AC. Nope.
Definition is one thing, but grammar is also important. A "verb-noun" compound like "watch-tower" means a tower for watching. A "motive for altering" is not what you're looking for.
Uh, "watch-tower" is "noun-verb". It's when a watch is really big and towers over something, duh.
My Win 7 box will run until no more security updates come in 2020.
By then you should be pretty good at reinstalling your system from a clean image and having your data backed up, for that odd time when your box DOES get pwned. Which you really have to try hard to do nowadays - gone are the days of some random worm taking over your box just because you hooked it up to the internet.
And besides, hopefully Flash will be totally dead by 2020 and a major security threat will be gone.
My main Windows 7 box has been going strong on its original install since I built it about 6 years ago. Meanwhile, every big Windows 10 update results in my receiving a hilarious text message from a friend, complete with a picture of some fuck up or the installation screen.
No one expects MS to provide support for new processor or platform features.
We do expect the exact same files for OS security patches to be made available to all since the files don't care what the underlying processor is. In the very rare case that some bug pops up on new processors but not old processors, then it's errata time, along with a BIOS/UEFI/microcode patch to fix it without Windows even knowing about it.
A gunman with an apparent dislike of white people and government killed three people in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, before he was taken into custody while shouting "Allahu Akhbar," police said.
The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, was also wanted in connection with the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6 in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters at a press conference.
Dyer said Muhammad fired at least 16 rounds in less than a minute at four downtown Fresno locations at about 10:45 a.m. local time before he was spotted running through the streets by a police officer.
"Immediately upon the individual seeing the officer he literally dove onto the ground and was taken into custody and as he was taken into custody he yelled out 'Allahu Akhbar,'" Dyer said. The term means "God is great" in Arabic.
"He does not like white people," Dyer said, citing the black suspect's statements after being arrested and his Facebook postings. At least two of his victims were white.
Odds are any company with young people running it will be gone in a decade. Not worth anyone's time.
Like Facebook (Mark was 19), Google (Larry was 25), and Microsoft (Bill was 20)?
I'd wager that all 3 of those will be gone or not exist as we know them in one more decade.
MS is already circling the drain, Google^W Alphabet is chasing after them as fast as they can, and all Facebook can do is copy/buy everyone else in desperation. Their purchase of Instagram and wholesale copying of Snapchat likely bought them a 2 or 3 year extension.
For Facebook and Google, you can pick any 2 points in time a decade apart and compare. You'll see a vastly different service and business. With MS, you at least see that they're still the same MS even decades apart. You can repeat this exercise with other companies, such as IBM and Oracle, and laugh/cry.
Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein thinks Burger King should be prosecuted for successfully running an alternate version of its advertisement to trigger Google Home devices again Wednesday:
No it isn't, sorry. It means large, and you're just more familiar with shortened or truncated common phrases. A "whopper of a lie" or a "whopper of a story" became so common place that "a whopper" can be used in contest without the rest of the phrase. It refers to a big lie or a tall tale or whatever else. The meaning has nothing to do with the lie, but the size of the claim.
Further evidence is the BK Whopper itself. It's called the Whopper because it's their big burger.
There's Hey Pikmin on the 3DS soon. We'll have to wait for E3 to see if there's anything planned for the Switch. But how will the squeeze that in with all the time they'll spend on the Switch's F-Zero, Metroid, and 3D mainline Pokemon reveals???
(Harsh truth: At E3, Nintendo will focus on the Switch's success, Zelda's upcoming DLC, Arms, Splatoon 2, and Fire Emblem Warriors. Mario Odyssey will be shown behind closed doors only and delayed at least 2 times. The big "surprise" will be a port of Smash Bros for Wii U with all/most of the DLC unlocked at the start. No Metroid, no Pikmin on Switch, no Pokemon on Switch, and no F-Zero.)
BotW is certainly head and shoulders and torso and legs and a ladder above everything else out there (Switch or otherwise), but there are a handful of worthwhile games on the Switch.
Snipperclips (download only) is great for 2 players. I believe there's a demo. It's also got some levels for 4 players, but I think there's only 12 or so. I had a group that went through it recently and it was great, but I was disappointed there were so few levels for 4 players. (There's some third mode for up to 4 players, called Party Blitz or something, but I think it's just a time-trial type thing. I haven't tried it.)
Bomberman is Bomberman. It sucked ass when it launched because it had horrendous delay on the controls, but they've since patched that and added more stages and shit (for free). If you have a group who likes to play Bomberman, it's probably worth it if you have the Best Buy or Amazon Prime 20% discount.
Has Been Heroes is an interesting single player title. I think it's only $20. It's pretty challenging, but it can get repetitive.
Puyo Puyo Tetris has a demo out, and it may interest some people. I may pick this one up. I think this has a budget price as well.
There's Blaster Master Zero, which I've heard good things about. Though it's reportedly easy (or at least compared to the original) and short.
2 weeks until Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is basically a rerelease of Mario Kart 8. It'll be hard to fuck this up, and they've included proper battle stages now.
Arms and Splatoon 2 are coming in a couple of months as well.
And there's plenty of indie / retro stuff on the eShop available now and coming soon, some with free demos.
And the Switch is region free (unless devs explicitly lock a particular title, I guess), so you can create a Japanese Nintendo account and browse the Japanese eShop on your Switch, buy stuff there, and play it under your regular US/whatever account. You may need to buy eShop gift cards from amazon.co.jp or something.
How would you do that, exactly? The sound it hears will be different for every household due to the type and placement of speakers in relation to the Google Home device, the room tone, any ambient sounds from the people watching the TV, etc., etc.
These devices work by filtering and sampling audio into tiny chunks before doing some onboard processing then sending them off to the mothership. It's got to be very broad to and allow for very fuzy matching to get the basic functionality in place. At best, Google could update the devices themselves to locally filter queries for the Whopper so they don't ever hit the server. But then you're playing whack-a-mole. And you'll lose when your TV asks what a Whopper Jr. is. Or what a Big Mac is.
You can't win this war anymore than you can train your own ears to filter out someone calling your name.
Whopper does not mean lie. Whopper just means large. You're thinking of the common phrase "a whopper of a lie". You can catch a whopper (a large fish), tell a whopper (a big fat lie), eat a whopper (a Burger King Whopper), etc.
Nobody has dine it intentionally in a large ad campaign. Other ads have triggered shit before, often the Xbox ads. And Xbox Live kiddos of course loved to shout "Xbox, off!" in voice or on streams to harass people with Kinect.
I'm glad is doing this. Anything that gets people to realize how dumb this shit is is a good thing.
No, they're not bad if you pay for the good shit. But Samsung provides the best, and they really aren't gouging on prices as much as they could. Apple avoiding Samsung for memory is cutting their nose off to spite their face. It's the same with them passing over Samsung for displays.
Apple's doing this to ensure they have access to memory for their iPhones and other products. Want to bet the goal is to tie up the entire production of the types of memory that Apple uses?
No, Apple's doing this because otherwise they're stuck between a rock and hard place - either buy substandard memory or give money to Samsung.
Even if this monitored blood sugar and delivered insulin via SMS and fairy farts, it wouldn't bee the holy grail. The holy grail would be fewer people with diabetes.
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Heads of state meeting with heads of state is an issue? Are you retarded? How do you think diplomacy is done?
Quote the emoluments clause you claim Trump is in violation of.
I dare you. It doesn't apply, and even if it did Congress could grant an exception. No one gives a shit about foreign business interests, the clause is put in place to prevent total puppets being installed by foreign states or foreign states buying policy. Notice how the democrats accuse Trump of being Putin's puppet but provide zero evidence. Also notice how Clinton was caught red handed in a pay-to-play scandal yet they don't want to talk about that.
Trump's business interests and the money they generate are not emoluments, they are business interests. Until foreign states start handing him or his businesses bags of cash, it's not an issue. Even if that happens, Congress has the power to grant exceptions.
Normally, the standard approach to this is that gifts to the President stay with the office. If you hand Trump a desk toy he can't take it when it leaves office. Truly personal gifts (e.g., in congratulation/condolence for something in their family/personal life) stay with the person. If you want to talk about violating the emolument clause, look no further than Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded in anticipation of all that "Hope and Change".
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There, that should do it.
Samsung phones are quaint, but they can hardly be considered a rival
In addition, Samsung already provides much of the flash memory for Apple devices
Apple copied the size that Samsung made popular (the Note was phone that created the "phablet" movement and eventually Samsung drive the industry to making every phone jumbo size), and now is copying the curved glass, and the embedded fingerprint thing, and...
Apple ran out of ideas the day Steve Jobs died.
Sorry duder. You got my name wrong and you're accusing the wrong person. I'm not the apps!/ LUDDITE guy (though I do respect his work).
In fact, I don't post as AC to troll/spam at all. I've also been falsely accused of being the moo! guy because I posted it on some stories that hadn't been hit by it yet, and people assumed I was the original troll and had forgotten to post as AC. Nope.
In closing: Happy Tuesday from the Golden Girls!
Definition is one thing, but grammar is also important. A "verb-noun" compound like "watch-tower" means a tower for watching. A "motive for altering" is not what you're looking for.
Uh, "watch-tower" is "noun-verb". It's when a watch is really big and towers over something, duh.
My Win 7 box will run until no more security updates come in 2020.
By then you should be pretty good at reinstalling your system from a clean image and having your data backed up, for that odd time when your box DOES get pwned. Which you really have to try hard to do nowadays - gone are the days of some random worm taking over your box just because you hooked it up to the internet.
And besides, hopefully Flash will be totally dead by 2020 and a major security threat will be gone.
My main Windows 7 box has been going strong on its original install since I built it about 6 years ago.
Meanwhile, every big Windows 10 update results in my receiving a hilarious text message from a friend, complete with a picture of some fuck up or the installation screen.
No one expects MS to provide support for new processor or platform features.
We do expect the exact same files for OS security patches to be made available to all since the files don't care what the underlying processor is.
In the very rare case that some bug pops up on new processors but not old processors, then it's errata time, along with a BIOS/UEFI/microcode patch to fix it without Windows even knowing about it.
I'm glad someone posts this offtopic shit, because I wouldn't have otherwise known about it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thr...
A gunman with an apparent dislike of white people and government killed three people in downtown Fresno, California, on Tuesday, before he was taken into custody while shouting "Allahu Akhbar," police said.
The suspect, identified as 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, was also wanted in connection with the fatal shooting last week of an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6 in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters at a press conference.
Dyer said Muhammad fired at least 16 rounds in less than a minute at four downtown Fresno locations at about 10:45 a.m. local time before he was spotted running through the streets by a police officer.
"Immediately upon the individual seeing the officer he literally dove onto the ground and was taken into custody and as he was taken into custody he yelled out 'Allahu Akhbar,'" Dyer said. The term means "God is great" in Arabic.
"He does not like white people," Dyer said, citing the black suspect's statements after being arrested and his Facebook postings. At least two of his victims were white.
Odds are any company with young people running it will be gone in a decade. Not worth anyone's time.
Like Facebook (Mark was 19), Google (Larry was 25), and Microsoft (Bill was 20)?
I'd wager that all 3 of those will be gone or not exist as we know them in one more decade.
MS is already circling the drain, Google^W Alphabet is chasing after them as fast as they can, and all Facebook can do is copy/buy everyone else in desperation. Their purchase of Instagram and wholesale copying of Snapchat likely bought them a 2 or 3 year extension.
For Facebook and Google, you can pick any 2 points in time a decade apart and compare. You'll see a vastly different service and business. With MS, you at least see that they're still the same MS even decades apart. You can repeat this exercise with other companies, such as IBM and Oracle, and laugh/cry.
You're an idiot. A diagnosis is nothing like a variable naming convention.
Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein thinks Burger King should be prosecuted for successfully running an alternate version of its advertisement to trigger Google Home devices again Wednesday:
Lauren Weinstein is a retard. Good to know.
No it isn't, sorry. It means large, and you're just more familiar with shortened or truncated common phrases. A "whopper of a lie" or a "whopper of a story" became so common place that "a whopper" can be used in contest without the rest of the phrase. It refers to a big lie or a tall tale or whatever else. The meaning has nothing to do with the lie, but the size of the claim.
Further evidence is the BK Whopper itself. It's called the Whopper because it's their big burger.
Learn something.
There's Hey Pikmin on the 3DS soon. We'll have to wait for E3 to see if there's anything planned for the Switch.
But how will the squeeze that in with all the time they'll spend on the Switch's F-Zero, Metroid, and 3D mainline Pokemon reveals???
(Harsh truth: At E3, Nintendo will focus on the Switch's success, Zelda's upcoming DLC, Arms, Splatoon 2, and Fire Emblem Warriors. Mario Odyssey will be shown behind closed doors only and delayed at least 2 times. The big "surprise" will be a port of Smash Bros for Wii U with all/most of the DLC unlocked at the start. No Metroid, no Pikmin on Switch, no Pokemon on Switch, and no F-Zero.)
BotW is certainly head and shoulders and torso and legs and a ladder above everything else out there (Switch or otherwise), but there are a handful of worthwhile games on the Switch.
Snipperclips (download only) is great for 2 players. I believe there's a demo. It's also got some levels for 4 players, but I think there's only 12 or so. I had a group that went through it recently and it was great, but I was disappointed there were so few levels for 4 players. (There's some third mode for up to 4 players, called Party Blitz or something, but I think it's just a time-trial type thing. I haven't tried it.)
Bomberman is Bomberman. It sucked ass when it launched because it had horrendous delay on the controls, but they've since patched that and added more stages and shit (for free). If you have a group who likes to play Bomberman, it's probably worth it if you have the Best Buy or Amazon Prime 20% discount.
Has Been Heroes is an interesting single player title. I think it's only $20. It's pretty challenging, but it can get repetitive.
Puyo Puyo Tetris has a demo out, and it may interest some people. I may pick this one up. I think this has a budget price as well.
There's Blaster Master Zero, which I've heard good things about. Though it's reportedly easy (or at least compared to the original) and short.
2 weeks until Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is basically a rerelease of Mario Kart 8. It'll be hard to fuck this up, and they've included proper battle stages now.
Arms and Splatoon 2 are coming in a couple of months as well.
And there's plenty of indie / retro stuff on the eShop available now and coming soon, some with free demos.
And the Switch is region free (unless devs explicitly lock a particular title, I guess), so you can create a Japanese Nintendo account and browse the Japanese eShop on your Switch, buy stuff there, and play it under your regular US/whatever account. You may need to buy eShop gift cards from amazon.co.jp or something.
How would you do that, exactly? The sound it hears will be different for every household due to the type and placement of speakers in relation to the Google Home device, the room tone, any ambient sounds from the people watching the TV, etc., etc.
These devices work by filtering and sampling audio into tiny chunks before doing some onboard processing then sending them off to the mothership. It's got to be very broad to and allow for very fuzy matching to get the basic functionality in place. At best, Google could update the devices themselves to locally filter queries for the Whopper so they don't ever hit the server. But then you're playing whack-a-mole. And you'll lose when your TV asks what a Whopper Jr. is. Or what a Big Mac is.
You can't win this war anymore than you can train your own ears to filter out someone calling your name.
So you want to get the SEC involved? They put Martha Stuart in jail just because they could.
And BK would get the FCC on their ass as they'd be deliberately interfering with their communications.
It's not a hack if it's simply using the advertised, designed, configured, and enabled core functionality as intended.
Whopper does not mean lie. Whopper just means large. You're thinking of the common phrase "a whopper of a lie". You can catch a whopper (a large fish), tell a whopper (a big fat lie), eat a whopper (a Burger King Whopper), etc.
Nobody has dine it intentionally in a large ad campaign.
Other ads have triggered shit before, often the Xbox ads. And Xbox Live kiddos of course loved to shout "Xbox, off!" in voice or on streams to harass people with Kinect.
I'm glad is doing this. Anything that gets people to realize how dumb this shit is is a good thing.
No, they're not bad if you pay for the good shit. But Samsung provides the best, and they really aren't gouging on prices as much as they could.
Apple avoiding Samsung for memory is cutting their nose off to spite their face. It's the same with them passing over Samsung for displays.
Just go to www.worldstarhiphop.com .
Apple's doing this to ensure they have access to memory for their iPhones and other products. Want to bet the goal is to tie up the entire production of the types of memory that Apple uses?
No, Apple's doing this because otherwise they're stuck between a rock and hard place - either buy substandard memory or give money to Samsung.
Even if this monitored blood sugar and delivered insulin via SMS and fairy farts, it wouldn't bee the holy grail.
The holy grail would be fewer people with diabetes.